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- Date Submitted: 12/24/2010 01:07 PM
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Policy Process (Part 1)
There are too many holes in the health care system to narrow any one of them down. Each of them connect to one another and either benefit or leave someone out. Health care professionals have become somewhat of an advocacy on behalf of their patients to help influence changes in the current policies. Doctors and nurses alike have to step out of their comfort zone of practicing medicine and step into policy and politics. When headed to Washington to change or add new policies it takes pure dedication, determination, time, and energy to keep going even when it seems bleak. This paper will discuss the formulation stage, legislative stage, and implementation stage of introducing or changing policies. The main goal that everyone has to have better health care for everyone young, old, rich or poor.
The current health care system is inedited with polices, regulations, and laws set by the federal government, private agencies, insurance companies, and institutions. Access to health care at times is very difficult and accord to the United States Census Bureau data collected 254 million Americans were without health insurance in 2009 (English, 2010). That figure has more than triple in the last five years. These findings are very disappointing and only show the desperate need for health care reform in the U.S. today. Health care professionals are on the front lines each and every day giving them the edge to take action and bring about some serious changes that will benefit everyone and not compromise the quality of care for the patients. There are many stages to turning an idea in to a law and many steps must be taken in proper order (English, 2010).
Policy and Process
The policy process refers all decisions and events that are required before a policy can be proposed. In short there are three phases of policy making: the formulation stage, implementation stage, and the evaluation stage. The formulation stage may possibly be...
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Collaboration in Civil Cases
As a result of the partnership efforts listed below, ENRD has brought joint civil enforcement cases with nearly every state. We have found that these joint cases are particularly effective in achieving record-setting results for the environment as well as obtaining record-setting financial awards.
Collaboration in Criminal Cases
ENRD routinely cooperates with state and local law enforcement officials in prosecuting pollution and wildlife crimes cases. ENRD regularly provides faculty for state environmental criminal enforcement training, frequently working with the four regional environmental enforcement associations: the Northeast Environmental Project, the Southeast Environmental Enforcement Network, the Midwest Environmental Enforcement Association, and the Western States Project. Working with U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and state and local law enforcement agencies, ENRD has promoted the formation of regional environmental crimes task forces. There are now more than 50 such task forces.
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ENRD’s Indian Resources Section represents the United States in its trust capacity for Indian tribes and their members, and routinely files and defends cases for the benefit of tribes. ENRD commonly collaborates with particular tribes as part of this work.
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Nehru Science Centre,(NSC) Mumbai is India’s largest interactive science center, located in Worli. The centre is named after India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The centre started with the ‘Light and Sight’ exhibition in 1977 and then a Science Park was built in 1979. It was opened to public on November 11, 1985 by late Rajiv Gandhi at that time the Prime Minister of India.Nehru Science Centre, first conceived as a Science & Technology Museum in late sixties, took final shape as India’s largest interactive science centre in 1977 to match the world trends in such public institutions. The centre opened its first semi-permanent exhibition `Light & Sight’ in 1977 followed by the world’s first ever Science Park in 1979, during the International Year of the child. The full- fledged science centre was finally opened to public on November 11, 1985 by late Shri Rajiv Gandhi the then Prime Minister of India. Nehru Science Centre, the largest Science Centre in the country has a sprawling 8 acres (32,000 m2) of science park with varieties of plants, trees and shrubs. More than 50 hands-on and interactive science exhibits on energy,sound, kinematics, mechanics, transport, etc. are installed in the science park. The NSC building with its unique architecture houses several permanent science expositions on various theme.Nehru Science Centre is visited by over 600,000 people every year who experience and enjoy the basic principles and marvels of science & technology. Situated on Dr. E. Moses Road, Mumbai – 400018, in between Worli Naka and Mahalaxmi Railway Station and spread over 14 acres (57,000 m2) of land, the Centre provides a natural and free environment for students to learn, familiarize and spend creative holidays and for professionals in the field of science education to have a glimpse of innovations in science education. Close to 1,20,000 school children alone participate in the activities of the Centre.
Nehru Science Centre incorporates innovative ways to communicate science to enthuse, entertain, initiate, excite and bring the developments of science & technology to the doorstep of common people for prosperity, awareness, and improving the quality of life. The centre attempts to enhance public understanding of science and spread scientific literacy.
More than 50 hands-on and interactive science exhibits are based on various aspects of science and technology, and there is a collection of some historical artifacts of science and technology. The 3D Science Show is also organized at the centre.
NSC is famous for its Distinct shape
Hall of Computing
Human & machine
Light & Sight
Our Technology Heritage
Pre-historic Animal Life
Science for Children
Sound & Hearing
How to Reach
The Centre can be reached by public transport i.e. train, bus, taxi or private vehicles. It is situated on Dr. E. Moses Road between Mahalaxmi Rly. Station on the South and Worli Naka on the North at a distance of about 1 km from either end. The nearest bus stop is Jijamata Nagar. The nearest railway station – Mahalaxmi (Western Rly.), Byculla (Central Rly.); Bus Routes – 50, 80 (Ltd.), 91(Ltd.), 124, 154, 164, 165, 168, 172, 351.
The Science Centre is open to the public every day including Sundays and public holidays throughout the year except two: the next day after Holi and on the day of Diwali.
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- 3/4 oz dry vermouth
- 3/4 oz sweet vermouth
- 3/4 oz applejack or apple brandy
- dash of apricot brandy or peach bitters
- Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes.
- Stir well.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
What's in a name?
According to the 1935 A.S. Crockett book The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book, the Coronation was created in anticipation of the "ten minutes' rest the late King Edward got when they sat him on the Stone of Scone." Sometimes called the Stone of Destiny or the Coronation Scone, it was used for centuries during the coronation of Scottish and English royalty and was supposedly housed at an abbey in Scone, Scotland.
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In a split vote, the South Eastern School Board has decided to increase taxes as the district is facing a $3 million budget deficit.
Seven of the nine school board members voted to increase taxes by 1.7 percent to 21.2055 mills for the 2012-2013 school year.
That means an increase of about $35 on a home worth $100,000. The current tax rate is 20.8510 mills.
The board previously decided to stay under its 2.2 percent property tax cap set by the state rather than seek exceptions, which limits the tax increase.
Board members Brett Barry and Robert Taylor voted against the increase. "I'm not for an increase," Taylor said. "Never have, never will."
He said the district needs to find a "happy balance" in overcoming its financial woes without overwhelming its residents with tax increases.
Taylor said residents include people living on limited incomes and homeowners facing foreclosure. He said the district needs to figure out how to make do without raising taxes.
The tax vote came after the board voted 8-1 to eliminate 17 teaching positions - at the elementary, middle and high school levels - to save about $900,000 for the next school year.
The board also voted 6-3 to implement a full-day kindergarten program at the district's elementary schools for the 2012-2013 school year. One half-day class - to be filled on a first-come, first-served basis - will be available at Fawn Elementary School.
The full-day program will eliminate the majority of the half-day bus runs for kindergarten students, resulting in saved transportation funds being used for the full-day classes.
Three teachers' positions would be added for the full-time classes as well.
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Whether someone is an Apple customer or an Apple stockholder cannot help but be saddened by the resignation of the legendary founder of the company.
The question that comes to everyone’s mind, however, is whether the company can continue to thrive without Steve Jobs’ leadership whether Apple can continue to churn revolutionary products that make a difference in the lives of the consumers and in the company’s bottom line.
While only time and markets can provide a definite answer to this question, arguments can go in both directions. On the one side, it will be difficult for Apple to thrive without Steve Jobs, as he was a leader with a strong vision, a man who knew the technology, the market and the art and he could marry altogether in blockbuster products; and he had the charisma to develop and spread the message to Apple followers, creating efficient and effective WOM and buzz campaigns.
On the other side, Apple can thrive without Steve jobs, as it isn’t a conventional company.
It is a form of collective entrepreneurship, an association of thousands of entrepreneurships that share the risks and the rewards from the discovery and exploitation of new products—which makes it more likely that a new leader will emerge to lead the company.
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Introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA101) - 19/20 February 2011 COURSE NOW FULL - NEXT DATE 21/22 May
Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 9:30 AM - Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 4:30 PM (GMT)
Newick, United Kingdom
Human behaviour and communication can be very complex and can easily be misread. This course helps students understand their own and others' motivation.
Transactional Analysis is a model for understanding relationships, communication and human behaviour. Created by Eric Berne in the 1950s (author of the best-selling bookGames People Play), TA is now widely used in education, psychotherapy, management and many other areas.
This course will introduce some of the main concepts of TA including: life script, psychological games, ego states and transactions. We will look at how to relate these concepts to others and ourselves and identify alternative options for our behaviour and communication.
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When thinking about my next Trendy Twine Design Team project, I thought what is the craziest way you could use twine? Probably as a suncatcher, right? I mean, it's not the most see through material on the planet. But could it be done? After a little research I found a cool way to get more use out of my stockpile of twine. Let's take a look at how to make a suncatcher with my favorite twine.
First, gather your materials - fabric stiffener, twine, pattern, foam brush, glue, and wax paper. I forgot to add the glue bottle and stamp to the above picture, so pretend they are there. I used the big background mitten stamp from Unity Stamp Co. for the suncatcher's shape. You want to use the twine as the outline for your catcher and to hold all the glue in. Start by putting the pattern under the wax paper (shiny side up) and lay down a very thin line of glue tracing the pattern. This is just to keep the twine down on the paper and keep it's shape till you coat it with the stiffener. Let dry for about 10 minutes. Then using a foam brush, sponge on the stiffener. Soaking the twine but making sure you don't let it leak out around it.
I made two of the mittens for a set. I should have reversed the pattern on the mitten to look like left and right, but I am lazy. I will just flip one over. Once you are sure the twine is stuck, fill in the entire mitten with glue. I used just your run of the mill cheap school glue. I don't know if it is glue specific but expect some shrinkage and Mod Podge doesn't work so well. You may want to take a pin and pop any bubbles you see now. I forgot to pop them and they show up. Let these dry till they are totally clear. I left them alone for three days. They may have been done earlier but didn't check only because I got busy.
Once they are dry, gently peel them off the wax paper. Because of the shrinkage, they might curl a bit. I kind of liked it. It gave my mittens a little style. If it was a different shape, you may not want any curl. So just be careful when peeling it from the paper. Peeling the paper away instead may prevent that. I wanted to give a little color to my mittens, so I used a pink marker. I colored in a criss cross pattern to mimic knit for extra interest.
If you want a string to connect the mittens for hanging or just looks, take the stiffener to extra twine. As you see here I also made cute little pom-poms. I tried for weeks to get a nice bright picture of these hanging on my kitchen window with the sun shining through, but as my luck would have it, no sunny days. My pictures were coming out terrible. These look like they are laying down. They are not. I rigged up my light box and hung them on a background and placed a light behind it. It doesn't give the full suncatcher effect, but I hope you can still see the nice transparency to them. I hung them here and on my window with glue dots, they are very secure.
Here is a closer look. They really look quite pretty in the kitchen even though we haven't see the sun in weeks. They make me happy just looking at them.
Hope you enjoyed today's project and my tutorial made sense. If you have any questions, hit me up in the comments and I will get back as soon as possible. Have a great day and happy crafting!
Watermelon Taffy Trendy Twine
Big Background Mitten by Unity Stamp Co.
Kuretake ZIG Art & Graphic Twin marker in pink
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LEGO Mindstorms NXT is a programmable robotics kit released by LEGO in late July 2006. It replaced the first-generation Lego Mindstorms rcx (Robotics Invention System).
The base kit ships in two versions: the Retail Version (set #8527) and the Education Base Set (set #9797). It comes with the NXT-G programming software, but a variety of unofficial languages exist, such as NXC, NBC, leJOS NXJ, and RobotC. A new version of the set, the new Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0, was released on August 1, 2009, featuring a color sensor and other upgraded capabilities.
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Alternative Energy Design Competition
January 28, 2011 — The Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) student organization is sponsoring a student design competition for an alternative energy sculpture. The competition is open to all UW students in an effort to solicit a larger number and variety of entries and the registration deadline is March 4 with entries due by April 4. The purpose of a local student design competition is to give students the experience of designing and building a “real” project. The alternative energy element will serve as a demonstration to the community of the creative possibilities inherent with green technologies. Those who have done much traveling recently might have noticed an emergence of digital or electronic sculptures in public spaces. The intent is to have the digital or mechanical elements powered by the sun, directly linking electricity use to solar availability (you can imagine the potential for creativity).
Per Jon Gardzelewski, Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, “we currently have donated solar panels along with a promised inverter, and will solicit material donations after the winning design(s) has been chosen.”
Judging of designs will be done by a team of local and regional architects, engineers, and building professionals. Entries will be judged equally on creativity, public enjoyment, and constructability and cost. Top awards will be given in these three categories including an overall winner and two runners up. The competition will also provide for both AEI students and the general public to vote for additional awards. Any students who might be interested should contact Jon at (307) 766-4224 or by e-mail at email@example.com. In addition, if you are a faculty member and are interested in being a juror, please contact Jon.
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October 25, 2012
June 17, 2010
Contact: Joey McCool Ryan, Public Relations, 267-426-6070
Signaling a new frontier in the treatment of congenital heart disease (CHD), The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is the first hospital in our region to implant transcatheter pulmonary heart valves in children with heart defects. This minimally invasive procedure gives patients a non-surgical option in their ongoing treatment.
Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve benefits patients with congenital heart defects who have a previously placed surgical conduit between their right ventricle and pulmonary artery. It is needed when the valve function fails.
There has been a long-standing need to identify a non-surgical option for patients with failed right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduits,” said Jonathan Rome, MD, director of cardiac catheterization at Children’s Hospital. “These patients require several surgical interventions during their lifetime and the new procedure allows them to delay open-heart surgery for several years.
Delivered through a catheter requiring only a small incision, the valve will benefit children who are born with a malformation of their pulmonary valve, the valve between the heart and lungs. The majority of these children receive an RV to PA conduit early in their life (often within the first month of life). As patients outgrow their initial conduit, replacement is necessary.
These patients often require open-heart surgery to restore effective blood flow to their lungs. Previously, the only way to repair or replace a failed pulmonary valve conduit was through traditional valve replacement surgery, involving opening the chest and stopping the heart.
School-aged children, adolescents, and adults are the candidates for this procedure. A normal hospital stay is about one to two days after the procedure and children are able to resume normal activities within a week.
The Cardiac Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is a world leader in reconstructive heart surgery, heart catheterization, specialized anesthesia and nursing for children and young adults with heart disease. As one of the largest and most comprehensive programs in the nation, Children’s Hospital’s pediatric cardiologists provide a complete range of services to more than 24,000 outpatients each year in eight locations in Philadelphia and the region.
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Dodging U.N. Bullet
by Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin
Issue 208 – July 25, 2012
The Future We Want outlined a “common vision” for planetary “sustainable development,” as proclaimed by the Rio+20 summit that ended recently in disarray and acrimony.
The activist organizations that cobbled the document together filled it with hundreds of platitudes and pseudo-solutions to global warming cataclysms, newly reconstituted as threats to resource depletion and biodiversity – and presented as standards and mandates for countries, communities and corporations.
The terms “sustainable development,” “sustainable” and “sustainability” appeared in the original text an astounding 390 times. Like “abracadabra,” these nebulous concepts were supposed to transform the world into a Garden of Eden global community, under United Nations auspices, that will use less, pollute less, and save species and planet from their worst enemy: humans.
To glean the document essence, however, readers only needed to understand two concepts: control and money – to impose the future the activists wanted.
The NGOs and UN called for “donations” from formerly rich European Union and Annex II (Kyoto Protocol) countries, at 0.7% of their gross national product per year. With the combined GNP of the contributing nations totaling about $45 trillion in 2010, the transfers would total $315 billion per year, or $3.2 trillion per decade.
President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton had previously committed the United States to provide up to $105 billion annually, based on our $15 trillion GNP (and stressed-out line of credit). With US per capita GNP pegged at $47,340 – each American family of four would pay $1,325 a year. That may seem like chump change compared to TARP, Obamacare or the Obama Stimulus. But over a decade US citizens would involuntarily shell out well over a trillion dollars to UN sustainability schemes.
The UN claims it has already received more than $500 billion in pledges from governments and companies, to reduce fossil fuel use, increase renewable energy generation in poor countries, promote bicycle use in Holland, teach sustainability in universities, conserve water – and in passing reduce global poverty. Time will tell how many pledges are worth the paper they were printed on
To oversee this unprecedented wealth transfer to UN bureaucrats and NGO activists, The Future We Want architects sought to establish “an intergovernmental process” to assess financial needs, consider the effectiveness, consistency and “synergies” of existing instruments and frameworks, evaluate additional initiatives, and prepare reports on financing strategies. This grand scheme would be implemented by an intergovernmental committee of 30 “experts,” who will be accountable to – no one, actually, except perhaps the Secretary General of the esteemed United Nations.
In essence, the Rio+20 message was, “You got a problem? The UN team has an app for that!”
From poverty eradication to food security, nutrition and “sustainable agriculture,” to water and sanitation, to energy, sustainable tourism and transport, and sustainable cities and “human settlements,” the Future We Want “framework for action and follow-up” had it covered! Of course, there were caveats.
Thankfully – despite attendance by 45,000 delegates from 180 nations – the Rio+20 summit became just another gabfest, the mandates became even more ill-defined “goals” and “recommendations,” and the world dodged another Kyoto-style bullet.
The activists and bureaucrats will doubtless be back, in a couple more years, in an exotic new locale, with new plans for saving the planet from scary new catastrophes.
However, poor countries are slowly catching on that these UN events are little more than neo-colonialist, eco-imperialist schemes to control and restrict economic development – and poor families are beginning to realize they won’t get a dime from these sustainability pledges or derive any tangible benefits from the green schemes.
Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org and www.CFACT.tv) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power – Black death. Duggan Flanakin is director of research and international programs for CFACT.
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Stain Removal Recipes
( Originally Published Early 1900's )
Paint, Tar, Pitch, Ink, Grease Spots, etc., To Remove from Clothing.-Take a little of the renovating soap, above, without water, and rub it into the soiled spots; let it remain a few minutes, then scrape off and cleanse with the ammonia water, also given for pressing clothing, under the head of renovation, If this does not fully accomplish it, use the renovating soap with the ammonia water. The drying, coloring, if needed, pressing, etc. to be the same. Tailors, it is claimed, use equal parts of ammonia and alcohol for cleaning coat collars, grease spots on pants, etc., and that nothing is better; but for very nice articles chloroform is better than anything else, removes grease of all kinds, also paints, varnish, etc.
Paint, Pitch, Oil, and Grease, To Remove from Silk, Linen,, etc.—Benzine (purified), also called benzole, 2 ozs. oil of lemon, 1/4 oz. Mix and keep corked. Directions—Apply with a cloth or sponge to any spots upon any of the above named kind of goods, rubbing with the fingers until removed. The colors will not be injured.—Indian Domestic Ecomomy.
Remarks.—For sake of safety in using benzine, or benzole, as one kind is called, see note after Kid Glove Cleaning. The lemon is only for flavor, or to hide the odor of the benzine.
Fruit Stains, To Remove from Clothing, etc.—To remove fruit stains, hold them so you can pour boiling water through them; and if this fails in any case to remove the stain, then dip the table-cloth or other article into hot water, and place it over burning brimstone, as for bleaching flannels, below.
Bleaching Flannels.—Wet them and place upon a stick over the top of a barrel, in the bottom of which is an old pan with some burning coals, and sprinkle on the fire a little, broken bits of brimstone and cover over with a piece of carpet to retain the smoke. Particularly applicable to children's flannels which have become yellowish, and which you do not like to wash for fear of shrinkage.
Silks, To Remove Spots, etc.—Fuller's earth, 1 oz.; saleratus, 1 even tea-spoonful, (if saleratus is not obtainable, get bi-carbonate of potash of a drug-gist, the same amount); lemon juice. Directions—Dry the earth thoroughly, and mix in the saleratus evenly; then moisten with the lemon juice sufficiently to form it into a roll or stick; dry in the sun. Wet the spots with hot water and rub it with the prepared earth. Dry in the sun; then cleanse with clear water.
Ink Spots, To Remove From Clothing: Wet the spots with milk —sour milk is best—if you have no milk, wet with water, and rub a piece of lemon on some salt, then upon the spot, a few times will always remove it. If you have no lemon, a little oxalic acid in water, rinsed out with clear water, will do it—except the cheap school inks made with chromates of potash, even oxalic acid will. not dissolve them; but the better inks, which are set with iron, the above will dissolve out.
Remarks.—Remember, if oxalic acid is used, to keep it away from children, as it is poisonous, or corrosive upon the flesh, so upon clothing if left without rinsing. A drachm will be enough for any ordinary spot, the size of the hand. If rinsed out as soon as the spot disappears it will hurt no clothing.
Ink—Printer's, To Remove From Clothing.-Saturate with turpentine, let alone for 2 or 3 hours; then rub well with the bands and dust out. Saturate means to wet thoroughly. It may be necessary to use some of the renovating soap, or erasive compound, or some of the soap for the machine shop men to wash away the discoloration.
Tar Spots, To Remove.-Tar spots may be removed by putting butter upon them for a few hours; then cleanse with soap and water to remove the grease, using the renovating soap if needed.
1. Kid Gloves, To Clean. Take purified benzine, in a bowl or suit-able dish, sufficient to cover the gloves. Put the gloves into the benzine and saturate or soak to wet thoroughly; then having placed one upon a clean, smooth board, with a soft brush or soft sponge rub one way only, from the wrist towards the fingers, wherever there is any dirt, or all over is best, to make all look alike-clean, dipping them or the brush into the benzine as often as necessary to get out all the dirt; and if this can not be done with the first lot, throw it away and pour in fresh, and rinse and squeeze out in the benzine till perfectly clean. White gloves you will suppose, while cleaning, to be spoiled, as it gives them a dingy appearance. Tinted or light shades will not look quite so dingy; but, never mind, partially dry them in the sun. Now, having previously pre-pared a stick, a foot or more in length, carefully tapered, and rounded at one end to resemble a finger, insert it into each finger, carefully pulling the glove on by the wrist until smooth, then rubbing dry with fine soft muslin. When all is dry, polish with French powder (white), using soft white flannel in polishing. Use care on the stick, and in all the processes, to keep the gloves smooth, for if wrinkled the surface would be broken. Keep them from shrinking by putting upon the hands occasionlly when nearly dry; but if you are cleaning a smaller glove, for others, than will go upon your own hand, carefully pull them as needed to prevent shrinkage.
Benzine, Benzols, Rose Oil, Naptha, etc.—Explanation.—Naptha, which is a preparation made by the destructive distillation of wood, but now better known as "wood alcohol," was formerly used for this purpose; but as this is now worth 50 cents a quart, at least, and as the purified benzine, which is made from coal oil or petroleum, does this work just as nicely, and cost not more than 10 or 15 cents a quart, it is now almost wholly used for these purposes. This purified benzine is also known as "rose oil." Druggists understand all these names. Gasoline, even, will do the same work, but it has more of the odor, not being so thoroughly purified. Remember, it is the purified benzine that should be obtained; and, remember, too, all these articles are not only inflammable, but also explosive, if fire gets to them or the vapor arising from them. So do not use them near a fire, lamp, or gaslight, to insure safety.
Remarks.—The gentleman from whom I obtained this recipe—using naptha —told me he paid $15 for it, after he had carried on clothes cleaning for eight years, and he considered it a good investment at that price. It will do the work nicely, but the benzine is now the cheapest.
2. Or if the gloves are not much soiled, set a saucer of sweet milk, and a piece of white soap upon the table. Fold a clean towel, 3 or 4 thicknesses, upon the table, or upon your lap, and spread the glove smoothly upon it. Take a piece of clean white flannel and dip it in the milk; then rub it upon the soap, then upon the glove, from wrist to fingers, continuing the process until the dirt is removed, when, if a white glove it will have a yellowish tint, dark shades of gloves will be darker still. Be careful to clean every part of the glove thoroughly, , else there will be spots when done. Let dry, or nearly so, then put on your hands and work soft, and polish as in No. 1 above, and the result will be very satisfactory.
3. Or, take a pan of white corn meal, sifted; put on the gloves and make believe washing hands in the meal, carefully, for 10 or 15 minutes, according to the extent of soiling. Fold in a clean towel, and put a weight upon them for a time. (See also white furs to clean, for the propriety of using corn meal in removing dirt.)
Kid Gloves, Black, Worn Spots, to Restore.-When black kid , gloves are soiled, or turned white, in spots, from wear; wet the spots with black ink—a little poured into a sauce-plate, and apply by means of a bit of. flannel, upon the end of a small stick, is a good way—then, leaving a few drops of the ink in the plate, pour in a tea-spoonful of salad oil or sweet oil, and with the flannel rub the mixture over the whole gloves, and dry in the sun—polish on the hand with soft flannel.
Ladies Kid Boots—Black, to Re-Color Soiled, or Worn Spots. —First brush off all dirt, then color the spots with ink, or with the renovating dye, then with a little of the ink, or dye, in a little oil, as with black gloves, polish the whole uppers, so all will look alike.
Remarks—Jettine or liquid blacking, is much used, of late years, instead of ink and oil; suit yourself.
Woolen Hoods (White), Nubias, etc., to Cleanse, or Renovate, Without Washing.-Dry nice wheat flour in a clean pan in the oven and rub ii thoroughly into the hood, or nubia, until thoroughly cleaned, adding a very little bluing powder, if you have it, to the last rubbing—cleans them nicely and saves the shrinkage from washing; although our plans of washing woolens are excellent, and may be followed with these articles, if preferred.
Paint Spots Upon Windows, to Remove.—Dissolve sal soda, 1 oz., in soft water, 1 pt.—in this proportion for as much as needed. Use it hot, with a piece of flannel, or sponge, on a stick, not to affect the fingers. Wash off with hot water, as soon as the paint spots are softened.
Kid Boots, or Shoes, White and Light Shades, to Clean.—Use the purified benzine and sponge as for gloves, drying and polishing the same. If they are too small to admit the hand, stuff them to keep them full size.
White kid boots, or shoes, can be cleaned by dipping a perfectly clean piece of white flannel in a little ammonia, and rubbing the cloth over a cake of white soap: after which gently rub the kid diligently, until the soiled places are white again. As the flannel becomes soiled change for a clean one, or a clean place.
White Furs, to Clean or Renovate.—Half fill a stone jar with white corn meal (for a child's muff and tippet, a 2 gallon jar will be suitable), place it on the stove and heat the meal as hot as the hand can be borne in it, stirring to prevent the meal from scorching. Put one piece, at a time, in this, and rub until thoroughly clean, then beat out the meal with a stick. Heat: further, if needed, for other pieces—the meal must be hot.
Finger Marks Upon Doors—To Remove.—Dissolve sal-soda, 1 oz.; In Soft water, 1 pt., and go over the soiled doors or other painted wood-work with it, using a sponge or cloth, following with a wiping cloth, slightly wrung -out of hot, clean water.
Erasive Compound, or, Soap for Cleaning Clothes.-Sal-soda, 1/4 Ib. ; castile soap, 2 ozs. ; starch 1 oz.; borax, 1/2 oz.; soft water, 1 qt. Directions.—Boil the soap in the water till dissolved, then add the other ingredients, all pulverized, and stir till all is dissolved, and pour into a square pan or box, to cool, when it can be cut into bars, of suitable pieces to wrap up for sale, if that is the purpose. Used for removing grease spots, paint, tar, etc., apply with a wet sponge by rubbing on the soap first, then on the spot till clean.
Remarks.—The friend who sent me this for insertion in my Third and Last Receipt Book," says: " It is equal to the "Lightning Eradicators," which are generally sold for 25 cents a cake, and as you will know, is much cheaper."
These cakes of soap sold on the street corners for 25 cents, are only about 1 or 1 1/4 inches long by 3/4 wide and 1/2 inch thick. The same friend also sent me the following ink, and the remarks connected with it are his also, but they can be depended upon, except the one I have modified, as to its not being equal to the best writing fluids.
Ink—Black for School Purposes—A Quart for a Dime.—Extract of logwood, 1/2 oz.; bi-chromate of potash, 10 grs. ; dissolve in a quart of hot rain water. When cold, put into a bottle and leave uncorked for one week, when it is ready for use. At first it is a steel-blue, but becomes quite black. I used this ink for a long time while in an office, and considered it equal to the best writing fluid. [This last remark, is all) in which I disagree with. him. It does, however, make a good school ink.] Moderate freezing does not hurt it.
Brocade or Broche Shawls—To Clean the White Center—Also Applicable to Fine, White Lace.—Spread a clean, white cloth upon the table and sift over it, dry, white corn-meal, as large a spot as the -shawl center, and lay the shawl upon it, and cover the center also, with the meal; then roll it up closely and put it away for a week, when, by dusting out -the meal, the shawl will be nice and clean," so says " Valentia," of Brookwood, Ill., in the Blade, or, she says:
2. Another and Quicker Way.—Is to take the same kind of corn meal, pt. and coarse salt, 1/2 pt.; mixing well, then with a brush, all being -dry, scour, or rather rub well, both sides, this does the work quicker, but the first is the best because it saves the rubbing, which frets out the texture. Of course the lace would not stand the rubbing of this last plan. Understand no water is to be used, it is all done by the dry process.
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More Fresh Produce Being Served in Michigan School Meals
March 6, 2012
LANSING - The demand has grown and Michigan school districts are using more fresh produce in their school meals, the Michigan Department of Education reported today.
Michigan is utilizing $2.55 million in federal funds this school year to purchase fresh produce, of which nearly 50 percent is grown here in Michigan, compared to $1.85 million allocated in previous years.
The Fresh Produce program, funded through the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in coordination with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foods program, offers schools a wider variety of fresh produce than would normally be available through USDA purchases. There currently are 869 public and private school districts in Michigan participating in the DoD Fresh Produce program.
"Schools are clamoring for fresh produce to serve to their students," said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan. "This program helps provide the means to bring fresh food into our school breakfast and lunch programs."
Flanagan explained that the greater demand is indicative that schools are serving more fruits and vegetables to their students, even though the federally-required improvements to school meal menus don't take effect until the 2012-13 school year.
"I am very proud of our local food service directors leading the way in directing our students to healthier eating," he said.
USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon said the USDA is pleased to partner with the Department of Defense to enable Michigan schools to have greater access to fresh produce.
"That so much of the produce was sourced locally in Michigan is a win for everyone ? students, local farmers, and rural economies," Concannon said. "Improving the health and nutrition of our kids is a national imperative and by providing schools with fresh fruits and vegetables that expand their healthy options, we are helping our kids to have a brighter, healthier future. Every time our kids eat a piece of fruit or a vegetable, they are learning healthy eating habits that can last a lifetime."
Schools obtain fresh fruits and vegetables through this program to offer to students with their school breakfast and lunch meals. The most popular fresh produce used through this program include: apples, carrots, oranges, celery, and broccoli. If a product was purchased outside of Michigan, it was not available from a Michigan producer due to regional or seasonal reasons, the Michigan Department of Education noted.
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Obama: Americans Aren't 'Paying Close Attention' to Debt Ceiling Details
2:14 PM, Jul 11, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN
At a solo press conference this morning, the fifteenth of his presidency, Barack Obama was asked why a sizable part of the public does not seem convinced that the debt ceiling ought to be raised. "The public is not paying close attention to the ins and outs of how a Treasury option goes," Obama said. "They shouldn’t. They're worrying about their family, they're worrying about their jobs, they're worrying about their neighborhood. They've got a lot of other things on their plate. We're paid to worry about it."
Obama continued: "Now, I will say that some of the professional politicians know better. And for them to say that we shouldn’t be raising the debt ceiling is irresponsible. They know better."
An Associated Press poll conducted at the end of June found that 41 percent of Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling, compared with 38 percent who support it. That’s slightly lower than a Gallup poll conducted in May, which found that 47 percent were opposed to a debt ceiling increase, with only 19 percent supporting it.
The AP poll discovered that 61 percent believe either the debt ceiling shouldn’t be raised at all or should be raised only with “significant spending cuts” attached. But as the president reiterated several times this morning, he believes the government faces “debt and deficits” problem—not a federal spending problem. Nevertheless, Obama said he thinks the American people could be persuaded.
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new town, a form of urban planning designed to relocate populations away from large cities by grouping homes, hospitals, industry and cultural, recreational, and shopping centres to form entirely new, relatively autonomous communities. The first new towns were proposed in Great Britain in the New Towns Act of 1946; between 1947 and 1950, 12 were designated in England and Wales and 2 in Scotland, each with its own development corporation financed by the government. The new towns were located in relatively undeveloped sites. Each was to have an admixture of population so as to give it a balanced social life. Proposed ultimate population figures of this first group of new towns ranged from 29,000 to 140,000. After 1961, target population figures for proposed new towns rose to 70,000 to 250,000.
The idea of new towns found favour in many other countries, notably in the United States, various countries of western Europe, and Soviet Siberia.
The chief criticism of new towns has been that they may be too static in conception. In Sweden, for example, a master plan prepared in 1952 envisaged establishing around the periphery of Stockholm some 18 communities, each with its own residences, places of employment, and shopping and cultural facilities. What was not satisfactorily anticipated in the plans, however, was the dramatic increase in commuting and other forms of personal mobility that obviated the need for the new towns to be so self-contained. Of the 27,000 wage earners in the suburb of Vallingby, for instance, 25,000 were found to be commuting out, half of them to the centre of Stockholm; in fact, Vallingby’s own industries were drawing in commuters from outside.
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Why People Might Use Anxiety to Avoid Depression: Part 2
This post is a continuation of Why People Might Use Anxiety to Avoid Depression: What We Can Learn from a Wartime Experience
When we left off, it was with Donovan Campbell, in Joker One, trying to establish measures to deal with the stress faced by 150 Marines trying to gain control over an Iraqi city of 350,000.
As a refresher, he was trying to act as a calm leader. As he phrases it: "Frantic-sounding lieutenants lose everyone's confidence immediately...Calm-sounding lieutenants make everyone believe that the situation is well under control..." At the same time, he attempted to establish activities to bolster esprit de corps and rituals for the unit so that they formed a cohesive identity.
A golden rule in dealing with anxiety of unknown dangers is to turn it into a fear of a specific threat. Once that is accomplished, plans can be made to deal with the threat. Campbell spent a lot of time planning his missions and identifying specific goals and means to reach those goals. He did this despite the full knowledge that conditions could quickly change and make his plans and goals irrelevant. As Campbell writes of a detailed plan he made in early April: "Like most of my plans, this one didn't survive very long."
Nonetheless, a key part of his strategy was to continue identifying concrete goals and clear-cut plans.
Another helpful stress and anxiety management tactic is to simply take stock of the changing conditions and the results of earlier efforts. Do this with a neutral eye. It is decidedly unhelpful to harshly criticize oneself for plans made with the best of intentions and efforts. That leads to self-doubt, which in turn brings back anxiety of unknown and uncontrollable bad outcomes. Instead, no matter what the outcome, it's good to recall that you made the best decision possible available at the time.
For instance, Campbell, with very limited information, had to make a decision on whether or not to have a sniper shoot a man. He considered the situation for about thirty seconds and then ordered the sniper to fire. Months later, he learned that the dead man was in fact an insurgent and so the decision to have him killed was correct. However, Campbell did not revisit that earlier decision. As he puts it: "on the front lines, there are no great options, just bad ones and worse ones, so you do what you can...Then you live with the results..."
Sometimes, chronic exposure to severely stressful conditions will outmatch well-made, rational plans and stress management techniques. Let's recall the conditions these soldiers lived with. The temperature was often in the 130's. There was insufficient water for regular showering and toileting. Sleep was often interrupted and too brief. Meals were mainly prepackaged rations. Fun activities, while highly prized, were in short supply. They were strangers to the culture. Mortars and small arms were routinely fired into their base. Their families and friends were continents away. 150 soldiers were tasked with winning an urban war fought on foot in a city of 350,000. Fellow soldiers were being killed and wounded in other units. "For many members of Joker One, death took on a very real persona..."
It should come as no surprise, then, that a weak spot in Campbell's thoughts developed. It can be most clearly seen in his intensified beliefs in the powers of the pre-mission prayer ritual. At one point, his platoon was the only one not to have suffered a single wound. Some magical thinking crept into to his beliefs. He began to believe that due to the prayers, the lack of injuries to his platoon was a "clear sign that...God would certainly bring all of us home safely." As explained in a Psychology Today article, "Emotional stress and events of personal significance push us strongly toward magical meaning-making."
In a phone call to his wife, Campbell told her that the prayers were keeping his soldiers safe and that prayers would bring them back alive. His wife tried to inject some clear thinking. "She was glad that no one was hurt, she said, but she reminded me that God wasn't a cosmic slot machine that came up sevens every time for the pious believer....All He guarantees you is your relationship with Him in the next. They were hard words of truth...And I completely ignored them."
In retrospect, Campbell has good insight into his overemphasis on the power of his religious beliefs. "I didn't recognize yet that my steadfast dismissal of the idea of casualties in my platoon stemmed not so much from a belief about God's grace but from a refusal to consider the very real possibility that someday I might be responsible for the death and wounding of the men I loved so much."
There are many reasons for avoiding the idea that he might have to order his men into situations that could lead to their and his death or injury. As he says, he loves his men. It is rational to want people you love to remain safe. Yet beyond that, Campbell has mistakenly tied his relationship to God, his idea of himself and the safety of himself and his men to events and circumstances that are clearly beyond his control. This is a formula for anxiety. To protect against the full, crippling nature of anxiety and panic, he forms unrealistic beliefs.
At the time, this symptom of anxiety, magical thinking, guarded him against both the overwhelming reality of his situation and feelings of futility and depression. "I thought that if I was just good enough, that if we just prayed hard enough," then God would intervene and protect them and allow for victory.
The symptom of magical thinking kept a distorted form of hope alive. Hope that God would love him enough to keep him safe. Hope that he could prevent his men from being killed.
Hope that he, as a man, was just simply good enough.
The contrary of those thoughts are extremely painful. God does not love him. He cannot keep his men safe. Campbell is simply neither a good man nor a good soldier. If these statements proved to be true, basic trust in one's surroundings, beliefs and one's self crash. The result can be anhedonic depression.
So, with the apparent choice being between the alluring hope and belief that one is good and deserving enough for God's love and protection, on the one hand, and despair, desolation and damning self-blame, on the other hand, which would you choose? However, because this alternative is based on magical premises, it is a false dilemma.
Anxiety and its varied symptoms can, temporarily, protect against depression. That is why, in some cases, the successful treatment of anxiety leads to a depressive state. We have taken away the shield against depression and not treated the underlying problem. And, if we just treat the depressive symptoms and not the underlying defense against the reality of one's situation and the accompanying distortions in thought, then anxiety can rekindle.
This is an insidious problem. The anxiety or depression in these cases is a defense against the full truth of one's situation. The person may not consciously be aware of the root of the problem. So, even taking a careful history and assessment of a patient may not reveal the psychosocial stresses that are being guarded against. For example, if I ask an anxious woman how her marriage is, she may adamantly present a picture of a warm relationship and loving husband. Ruling out real stressors, I might view the condition as a biologically-based anxiety or depression. I start to treat the symptoms and try to extinguish them.
Only later do I discover that the anxiety covers a depression, which in turn covers an abusive husband.
But let's go back to the book and see what happens to Campbell and his Marines.
Anxiety, even with Campbell's stress management skills and magical thoughts, still managed to poke through intermittently. And anxiety struck him particularly hard on the morning of one very tragic day. He writes: "I woke up to a horrible feeling of dread. I can't really properly put that heavy sense of impending doom into words...I had been scared before other missions, of course, but never before had I felt such a deep certainty that something bad would happen to my men if they left the Outpost that day."
The Ox, which is the nickname for Campbell's commanding officer, was to be in charge of a mission that day. The Ox had proven to have flawed judgment on a number of previous occasions and this was a particularly difficult mission. On most missions, Campbell was in direct control of his men. That was not the case on this day. The Ox would lead them and one more element of control was taken from Campbell. The balance tipped and he was acutely anxious.
Part of the mission involved having the Ox inspect repairs that were made to a local school. This would subject the men to a relatively long period of remaining in one place with little or no cover from the enemy. Campbell objected to the plan on the grounds of it being unsafe for his men. He was overruled.
As Campbell feared, his men became sitting ducks and came under fire by insurgents' guns and rocket-propelled grenades. In the first round of the battle, "the rocket had missed us. Instead it had impacted squarely in the middle of the crowd of small children. Dead and wounded little ones were draped limply all over the sidewalk..."
Campbell then had to make a quick decision. He could leave the area and get his men to relative safety. Or he could stay and tend to the wounded children until ambulances arrived. But this latter alternative came with the certainty that the Marines would continue to be at risk from enemy attack.
"I wish," Campbell writes, "I could say that I stepped back and coolly and dispassionately evaluated the situation, but if I said that, I would be lying. The fact of the matter is...we were United States Marines and a bunch of dying children needed our help. It was just that simple."
Tragically, there was an unduly long delay in getting ambulances to evacuate the children. In the meantime, there were more attacks by the insurgents. During the firefights, one of the Marines was horribly, severely wounded. The soldier died a few days later at a hospital in Germany.
The immediate emotional consequence for Campbell was depression.
"I found that my hope, built so painstakingly over the past eight months, had been ruthlessly extinguished in one terrible moment...I fell into a deep depression. For a week, I didn't want to eat, and I didn't want to leave my bed, even though I found no respite in sleep. Instead of sleeping, I spent my time endlessly replaying the scene...wondering where I had gone wrong..."
The defense against anxiety through planning and strategy and a prayer ritual had failed. Anxiety led to some magical thoughts. Those thoughts took Campbell beyond mourning and into a hopeless state of depression.
Our initial question of how anxiety protects against depression and how resurrecting hope might lead back to anxiety is now mainly answered. And with that we will leave Campbell and the rest of the Marines of Joker One except for some brief references in future posts.
I wish them well.
This topic will be continued in a future essay that will examine more examples about how this occurs in real life. Click here for Part 3.
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The Hachette Book Group has published it’s ‘It Gets Better’ video from LGBT staff members. They share their experiences to give LGBT teens hope to the ‘write their own future’.
The company said it is “proud to be a company that embraces the diversity of our employees, and supports the causes that are important to them.”
Hachette Book Group CEO, David Young said: “What a privilege it is to be part of an industry that is, by and large, free of prejudice. Our industry is based on the telling of stories. These stories should help and inspire people, and I believe they will.”
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D.C. is broken into four different quadrants, Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, and Southeast.
Streets and addresses are labeled, NW, SW, NE, SE to indicate the quadrant it's located in.
Numbered streets run north-south.
Lettered streets run east-west alphabetically becoming two syllable names, then three syllable names as you travel out farther from the center.
Avenues named for U.S. states run diagonally and often meet at traffic circles and squares.
The U.S. Capitol building
marks the center where the
There are five rail lines that are named for colors: Red, yellow, blue, green, and orange.
Metro stations are marked by brown pylons capped with the letter "M" and colored stripes to indicate which lines are available.
For Metrobus and Metrorail fares, schedules, and maps visit www.wmata.com.
For those that prefer cabs over the metro, D.C. cabs have moved to a metered system from the long used zone system. Cabs now charge a $3.00 drop fare with a charge of 25 cents per 1/5 mile. Some cabs now take credit cards, which makes it easier to keep track of expenses.
If you need a quick ride and there's no cabs in sight here's some numbers to call:
Yellow Cab Co. of D.C.: 202-544-1212
Atlantic Cab Co.: 202-488-0609
Capitol Cab: 202-636-1600
Dupont Cab Association: 202-398-0527
Five Star Cab Association: 202-484-2222
If you're not in a rush take the D.C. Pedicab: 202-345-8065
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(CNN) -- Thirty to 40 ships -- including several passenger ships -- were stuck Thursday in ice off the coast of Sweden, said a spokesman for the Maritime Search and Rescue Center in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The area of the Baltic Sea worst hit by the ice were the waters bounded by mainland Sweden, the Stockholm archipelago and the Finnish island of Aland, said Tommy Gardebring, press officer with the Swedish Maritime Administration.
The center identified one of the passenger ships as the Amorella, with 753 passengers and 190 crew members.
Several passenger vessels from Viking Line were stuck, he said. One of them had been freed.
"It has been a lot colder than normal in the southern parts of the Baltic sea, but in the north all is normal with normal levels of ice," Gardebring said. "However, in the worst-affected areas, the ice breakers that normally operate haven't been able to cope with the ice, which is why we are sending additional ice breakers."
The extra help was expected to arrive around midnight (6 p.m. ET), he said.
"There was never any danger for the safety of the vessels, but we have increased our preparedness, just in case, since the ice puts a lot of pressure on the sides of the ships," Gardebring said.
He predicted that most of the ships would be freed by Friday.
CNN's Per Nyberg and Claudia Rebaza contributed to this story from London, England
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Skot Wilson trying to collect items needed to rebuild town and help homeowners
200 homes damaged and more than 50 destroyed in Union Beach, New Jersy on the bay shore.
ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- An Orange Park man who grew up in New Jersey has seen from afar the destruction of Hurricane Sandy in the town where he grew up, and where his mother lives. Now he is trying to do something to help the town rebuild.
Skot Wilson of Orange Park spent the first 17 years of his life growing up in Union Beach, New Jersey. He's kept a close eye on the devastating damage to his home town and now he wants to lend a helping hand.
Looking at a photo of a house half gone, he said, "This house is a hundred and fifty years old. I went trick or treating there as a kid."
RELATED: Operation Sandy Relief's success & how you can still help
Wilson sees first hand the damage on a Facebook page created by the Union Beach community, population 6,200. He communicates with them daily, offering support from many miles away.
"I can't tell you how many times I have cried. It's my home you know, it's where I played little league, I marched in parades in my little league uniform," said Wilson.
Now those streets are underwater and strewn with parts of 200 damaged homes. Fifty homes were completely destroyed. They have plenty of food, water and clothes. Wilson is working on staging a trailer in Orange Park to collect items like washers, dryers, microwaves and furniture. Police chief Scott Willy is a childhood friend, so Wilson is asking local law enforcement agencies to donate older police cars to replace the four they lost.
"The bigger items are what I am focusing on, the things that can't easily be replaced. That and building supplies. Old tools, hammers, tape measure, drywall. Items they can use to rebuild. It will help give them a semblance of normalcy."
Wilson has his own Facebook page Unite for Union Beach, New Jersey where he will have information on his efforts to collect donations to rebuild his home town. Wilson said the people there are Jersey strong. Many who have lost all are helping others. It's the least he can do.
"I'm amazed, I am proud of my town, I am proud of what made me."
Skot is looking for volunteers who might provide a truck, people who can sit and take donations. He needs the extra help as he works full time and goes to Florida State College at Jacksonville. He can be reached at 592-7482
First Coast News
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Open-Minded Modern Art
New Harvard museum along the river should help mend town-gown relations, in style
It is certainly true, as the residents assert, that Harvard has made serious development mistakes in the past. Mather House and Peabody Terrace spring immediately to mind. But Riverside residents must remember that an art museum, unlike a towering concrete dormitory, could also provide benefits to the community. If properly designed and implemented, a new museum should be a tasteful, unobtrusive, low-rise building that provides for increased traffic—possibly including an underground parking garage.
Harvard should also work with the city of Cambridge to ensure that the museum is a resource for those who live near it; whether by granting Cambridge residents free access, by operating educational programs in partnership with Cambridge schools or by building a public sculpture garden to complement the works displayed inside, the museum could become a neighborhood asset rather than an eyesore.
Harvard has made a good-faith effort to talk to Cantabrigians about their concerns, and it should continue to include residents in the consultative process about development. But to hold up their side of the bargain, Cambridge residents must be open-minded to Harvard’s ideas. They cannot dismiss development proposals out of hand because Harvard has made errors in the past. Suggestions to give away the land to Cambridge for affordable housing or recommendations to move the museum to Allston do not contribute anything to the collaborative process. Harvard owns the property, and the residents should not prevent its beneficial development simply because they do not want to live near a Harvard building.
Cambridge residents should work with the University to influence the museum’s design instead of denying Harvard’s request outright. We sincerely hope that the Riverside committee will be able to reach a solution that serves both Cambridge and Harvard well.
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The vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2011-0654, has been rated "critical" and confirmed on Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Microsoft Windows XP SP3.
The flaw was originally discovered by a researcher known as Cupidon-3005, who prefaced his notification to seclists.org with the sly comment: "Apologies if this puts a downer on the MSRC Valentine's Day sausage fest."
The vulnerability has been analysed by researchers at VUPEN Security S.A. in Montpellier France who say the problem is caused by a heap overflow error in the "BrowserWriteErrorLogEntry()" function within the Windows NT SMB Minirdr "mrxsmb.sys" driver when processing malformed Browser Election requests.
VUPEN Security, headquartered in France, said remote unauthenticated attackers or local unprivileged users could exploit the flaw by sending malformed Browser Election requests, which would cause the heap overflow within the mrxsmb.dll driver. This would allow them to crash an affected system or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
With no current patch available, VUPEN recommends those affected should block or filter UDP and TCP ports 138, 139 and 445.
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Q: How do I know if the person I love has an alcohol or other drug problem?
A: Ask yourself, “Is my relative or friend experiencing repeated negative consequences due to alcohol or other drug use, and continues to drink or drug anyway?” If you answer yes, it is likely the person you’re concerned about has a problem, and it may be alcoholism or drug addiction. Click here to take a quiz to further assess your situation.
Q: Isn’t it true that you can’t help someone until they want help?
A: This is not true. Alcoholics and addicts don’t spontaneously decide to get help for their addiction. Something happens in their life that causes them to want help.
Ask yourself this question: “If an alcoholic won’t get help until she wants help, what will get her to want help?” It can be years of personal tragedy or the loving intervention of family and friends.
Q: Don’t addicts have to “hit bottom” before they can recover?
A: An addict’s bottom can be divorce, arrest, health problems, financial ruin, child neglect, loss of friends, domestic abuse, jail, insanity, death. Typically, an addict can suffer several or all of these consequences. When the addict hits bottom, the family does too.
We can “raise the bottom.” Families do not have to endure years or decades of personal heartbreak and suffering over a loved one’s addiction. Family intervention is a loving and honest way to raise the bottom.
Q: I’ve been told that treatment doesn’t work when someone is forced to accept help.
A: It is not how someone gets into treatment, but what happens once they are in treatment. Hazelden conducted a 25 year study which shows that the success rate in treatment is the same for people ordered into treatment by the courts and those who entered treatment on their own.
William Bennett, former Drug Czar, writes in the Washington Post: “One clear fact about drug treatment is that success in treatment is a function of time in treatment. And time in treatment is often a function of coercion — being forced into treatment by a loved one, an employer or, as is often the case, the legal system. People who are forced to enter treatment under legal sanctions are more likely to complete treatment programs and thus more likely to get well…”
In intervention, however, we do not force someone into treatment. We ask them to go. They make the final decision for themselves. We do, however, makes decisions to no longer do things that make it easy for the alcoholic to stay sick, and this often convinces reluctant alcoholics to get help.
Q: Is it possible to intervene on an older adult or senior?
A: There are special techniques for intervening on an aging parent or a grandparent. A loving approach works very well when helping an older person. The language used with an older adult is different, and we look for age-specific signs and symptoms of addiction. Older people benefit from treatment programs designed for their age group. While recovery is slower, success is greater among elders.
If the person you are concerned about is over age 55, get special education on older adults before intervening. For more information, please see Aging and Addiction.
Q: How many people do I need to do an intervention?
A: We suggest three to eight people. These are people the alcoholic loves and respects. They may be family members, friends, co-workers, employers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, clergy. People significant in the alcoholic’s life.
If you don’t have a minimum of three people for your team, consult a professional clinical interventionist.
Q: Do I need to hire a professional interventionist?
A: Each family should examine their needs and make a decision based on their specific situation. Many families, after thorough education and preparation, successfully intervene without using a professional interventionist. Other families prefer to have a professional present.
There are circumstances when a professional clinical interventionist is required. If the person you are intervening on has a history of mental illness or violent behavior, for instance. Or has had several previous treatments followed by relapse. Books on intervention will give you complete guidelines for determining if you need to hire a professional. Meet our interventionists here.
If you cannot afford to hire a professional interventionist and feel you need one, ask your minister or rabbi to learn about intervention with the family so he or she can facilitate the intervention. The book Love First is written to give you a complete roadmap for planning and carrying out a structured family intervention. You can also learn how to do an intervention by purchasing a membership to the Intervention Workshop videos.
Q: Will my health insurance pay for intervention services?
A: No, insurance does not cover professional intervention services.
Q: What if other family members are opposed to doing an intervention?
A: When people are opposed to intervention, it often means they need more information. Rather than asking people to commit to doing an intervention, ask if they’d be willing to learn about intervention. Suggest they start with this website. Most people are willing take this first, small step. Next, they can read the book Love First. After everyone is educated, the family is ready to make a well-informed decision about intervention.
Q: I’m afraid the alcoholic in my family will walk out of the intervention. What do we do then?
A: This is one of the most common fears families planning interventions have. This happens infrequently, but we prepare for it anyway. Select one or two people from your intervention team who are highly respected by the alcoholic to follow him outside. They can gently and lovingly assure him everything is all right, and ask him to come back in. A professional interventionist can do this, too.
Q: Won’t the addict get angry during the intervention and begin an argument?
A: Anger is rarely seen during an intervention using a love first approach. It is more likely that the alcoholic will become tearful. While families often believe the alcoholic will react with anger, this almost never happens.
If the alcoholic you want to intervene on has a history of violence toward others, you are advised to consult with a professional before proceeding. If family members are concerned that they will not be able to contain their own anger during the intervention, hire a professional interventionist
Q: What do we tell our children when mom (dad) is in treatment?
A: Be honest with your children. Tell them that mom has a disease and she is working to get better. Ask the treatment center if they have an education and support program for children. Buy books written for children of alcoholics. Go to National Association for Children of Alcoholics for resources. Click here to see the page on children in our web site.
Q: Can children participate in an intervention?
A: Yes, but each child should be evaluated individually. We prefer not to involve children under the age of 12 in an intervention, except in special circumstances. It should always be the child’s choice; never something imposed upon him or her. Rather than directly participating, some children choose to write a letter an adult reads for them during the intervention.
If a child does participate in an intervention, provide good support for the child before, during, and after the intervention. Allow the child to talk about his or her feelings. If the alcoholic declines treatment after the intervention, explain to the child that it is not because the alcoholic does not love him or her. It is because the addiction blocks the sick person’s ability to make healthy decisions. Assure the child that he or she did a good job during the intervention.
Q: Our family members are scattered across the country. How do we do an intervention when we live so far apart?
A: Most people are able to arrange their schedules and make travel plans for something this important. People who are unable to attend can participate from home, and write a letter for someone on the intervention team to read for them during the intervention.
Q: What if our addicted loved one relapses after treatment?
A: If this happens, a family who has done an intervention is better prepared to handle the crisis than most families. You can do another intervention to address the relapse. This often doesn’t require all family members to attend some live a distance away. Consult with the counselor from the treatment center, and the professional interventionist, if you used one. They can help you decide what the alcoholic needs to do to get back on track.
We also offer comprehensive Recovery Mentoring services that will make relapse far less likely. If one of our Recovery Mentors accompanies your loved one home from treatment, takes them to AA and follows through with all of the clinical aftercare plan for an intensive two week period, relapse is highly unlikely.
Q: What’s the difference between Al-Anon and Alcoholics Anonymous?
A: Al-Anon is a 12-Step support group for the families and friends of alcoholics. Also, Naranon is available for families of people addicted to other drugs. Families Anonymous is a 12-Step group for families of people addicted to alcohol or other drugs. Families Anonymous is particularly helpful to parents of an addicted child of any age. Alateen is for the teenage children of alcoholics.
Alcoholics Anonymous is for alcoholics with a desire to get sober. Narcotics Anonymous serves the same purpose for people addicted to other drugs. Both are 12-Step support groups.
12-Step groups are non-religious, non-professional, and are not part of any government agency. There are no dues. They offer the best help for long term recovery in the family. Regular attendance is necessary to begin getting the full benefit from these programs. When the entire family participates in the recovery process, the addicted loved one has a greater chance of long-term success in recovery.
There are religious groups that utilize the 12 Step model, such as Christians in Recovery and Jewish Alcoholic, Chemically Dependent Persons, and Significant Others (JACS).
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This is the part where a 5-person majority upholds the individual mandate. Chief Justice Roberts writes, joined by Justice Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. The 4 liberal Justices did not agree with him in the Commerce Clause part of his opinion, III-A, so they also don't join III-B, which is the transition from the Commerce Clause to the taxing power discussion. In III-B, Roberts tells us that we need to shift from thinking about the individual mandate "as ordering individuals to buy insurance, but rather as imposing a tax on those who do not buy that product." The government argued for reading the statute one way — as a requirement — but that led to viewing it as unsupported by the only enumerated power that might have supported it, the commerce power. So we shift to the other alternative — the mandate as a device for identifying who owes a tax. He's choosing to read the mandate in the way that allows it to be supported by another enumerated power, the taxing power.
Now, on to part III-C, with Roberts writing for the majority.
The exaction the Affordable Care Act imposes on those without health insurance looks like a tax in many respects. The “[s]hared responsibility payment,” as the statute entitles it, is paid into the Treasury by “taxpayer[s]” when they file their tax returns. 26 U. S. C. §5000A(b). It does not apply to individuals who do not pay federal income taxes because their household income is less than the filing threshold in the Internal Revenue Code. §5000A(e)(2). For taxpayers who do owe the payment, its amount is determined by such familiar factors as taxable income, number of dependents, and joint filing status. §§5000A(b)(3), (c)(2), (c)(4). The requirement to pay is found in the Internal Revenue Code and enforced by the IRS, which—as we previously explained—must assess and collect it “in the same manner as taxes.” Supra, at 13–14. This process yields the essential feature of any tax: it produces at least some revenue for the Government. United States v. Kahriger, 345 U. S. 22, n. 4 (1953). Indeed, the payment is expected to raise about $4 billion per year by 2017....The fact that Congress labeled it a "penalty" rather than a "tax" isn't crucial. (Nor does it matter that the Court doesn't view it as a tax within the meaning of the Anti-Injunction Act.) Roberts also distinguishes cases that say when an exaction is a "penalty," it is not a tax. So the label "tax" won't turn what is really a penalty into a tax (within the taxing power), and here, the label "penalty" won't turn what is really a tax into a penalty. The question is what is it really, and this "penalty" is really a tax for 3 reasons:
First, for most Americans the amount due will be far less than the price of insurance, and, by statute, it can never be more. It may often be a reasonable financial decision to make the payment rather than purchase insurance, unlike the “prohibitory” financial punishment in Drexel Furniture [the case that found something labeled "tax" to be a penalty]. 259 U. S., at 37. Second, the individual mandate contains no scienter requirement [unlike Drexel]. Third, the payment is collected solely by the IRS through the normal means of taxation—except that the Service is not allowed to use those means most suggestive of a punitive sanction, such as criminal prosecution [unlike Drexel, where the "tax" was enforced by the Labor Department].It doesn't matter that this tax is supposed to get people to do something else. Taxes are often structured to motivate people to do something the government would like you to do. There are endless taxes shaping behavior, but they still get to count as taxes under the taxing power since they raise revenue. Roberts notes the obvious example of a cigarette tax. It's an incentive not to smoke, and it raises revenue. It's a tax.
In distinguishing penalties from taxes, this Court has explained that “if the concept of penalty means anything, it means punishment for an unlawful act or omission.”In this case, what's called a "penalty" isn't really a penalty because it's not a punishment for failing to buy insurance.
While the individual mandate clearly aims to induce the purchase of health insurance, it need not be read to declare that failing to do so is unlawful. Neither the Act nor any other law attaches negative legal consequences to not buying health insurance, beyond requiring a payment to the IRS. The Government agrees with that reading, confirming that if someone chooses to pay rather than obtain health insurance, they have fully complied with the law.So it's just an option. You can opt not to buy the insurance and to pay the "penalty." Whichever you want. The government said exactly that to the Court. You won't have done anything wrong, so pay whichever is less. And if you are one of those healthy people whom the insurance companies need to bulk up their funds so they can pay the expenses of their unhealthy, you should hand your money to the government. Screw the insurance companies! That is the plan. The government said so. If and when you have health-care expenses that outweigh the cost of insurance, then go ahead and buy insurance. Again: screw the insurance companies. That is the plan.
Indeed, it is estimated that four million people each year will choose to pay the IRS rather than buy insurance. See Congressional Budget Office, supra, at 71. We would expect Congress to be troubled by that prospect if such conduct were unlawful. That Congress apparently regards such extensive failure to comply with the mandate as tolerable suggests that Congress did not think it was creating four million outlaws. It suggests instead that the shared responsibility payment merely imposes a tax citizens may lawfully choose to pay in lieu of buying health insurance.It's the plan. Can you see the ultimate plan?
Now, this is awfully tricky. What about democratic theory? Shouldn't Congress have to reveal such a devious scheme to the people so they can react and pressure Congress about what they want and don't want? As I said back during the oral argument:
[W]hen Congress was passing the bill, the people never understood [it as a tax]. It was utterly hidden under an incomprehensible mass of text and propaganda. There was no transparency. It rankles to think that Congress could acquire this dramatic power by a monumental political deception. But will this shake the Court out of its usual position of comfy restraint?And here I find the place in the oral argument transcript where Justice Breyer pinned down the Solicitor General Verrilli, getting him to say "If they pay the tax penalty, they're in compliance with the law." Breyer said "Thank you." That was a big "thank you," and Verrilli responded "Thank you, Justice Breyer." Indeed! It was on that point that the case was won. Breyer later returns to the subject, and Roberts gets involved, asking the Solicitor General whether "one of the purposes of the provision is to raise revenue," which was the key issue under the taxing power. I said at the time:
Get it? Something needs to be specifically called a tax for the Anti-Injunction Act to apply, but when it comes to assessing Congress's enumerated power to tax, specific textual reference to "tax" isn't needed.And Roberts was too, in the end.
I think Justice Breyer was buying that argument.
So, Congress was raising revenue, but they really didn't want to talk about that at the time, and that's enough for the taxing power. Too bad if the people didn't notice. Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito — says it matters that Congress called this a "penalty" — expressing that to fail to buy insurance is wrongdoing that is being punished. And here's where Scalia-Kennedy-Thomas-Alito talk about democratic theory and accountability:
Taxes have never been popular, see, e.g., Stamp Act of 1765, and in part for that reason, the Constitution requires tax increases to originate in the House of Representatives. See Art. I, §7, cl. 1. That is to say, they must originate in the legislative body most accountable to the people, where legislators must weigh the need for the tax against the terrible price they might pay at their next election, which is never more than two years off. The Federalist No. 58 “defend[ed] the decision to give the origination power to the House on the ground that the Chamber that is more accountable to the people should have the primary role in raising revenue.” United States v. Munoz-Flores, 495 U. S. 385, 395 (1990) . We have no doubt that Congress knew precisely what it was doing when it rejected an earlier version of this legislation that imposed a tax instead of a requirement-with-penalty. See Affordable Health Care for America Act, H. R. 3962, 111th Cong., 1st Sess., §501 (2009); America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009, S. 1796, 111th Cong., 1st Sess., §1301. Imposing a tax through judicial legislation inverts the constitutional scheme, and places the power to tax in the branch of government least accountable to the citizenry.Roberts' only response is that congressional power doesn't depend on labeling. He offers no answer to the discussion of legislative accountability. Interestingly, he did talk about accountability in connection with the spending power issue, as noted in this earlier post. He said:
Permitting the Federal Government to force the States to implement a federal program would threaten the political accountability key to our federal system.In that context, the idea is that people need to know whether the state or federal government is responsible for a given matter so they can know who deserves blame or credit for a given policy. I think it's a real omission for Roberts not to address the accountability theory with respect to the mandate as a tax. Justices Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito were explicit about it, and it was obvious anyway. Maybe Roberts could have said that these 2 accountability situations are different. If Congress uses deceptive labeling to keep people from getting stirred up in time to stop the legislation, that's between Congress and the electorate, and we can get mad later and vote the bums out. But if Congress employs the states to do its work and the people don't like it, the people will be confused about who's really responsible. Congress will have blurred the lines of accountability. The people will have trouble knowing who are the bums. Roberts might have said something like that. These are 2 different ways of tricking people and one matters and one didn't.
But Roberts didn't talk about it. You know, there's a such thing as judicial accountability too. That's what these opinions are for.
ADDED: I've corrected the text to reflect that Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito are writing the dissenting opinion jointly.
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New Orleans group helps free innocent men behind bars
New Orleans, La (NBC33) — Emily Maw is at the helm of Innocence Project - New Orleans, an organization of attorneys who fight for people who can't defend themselves against crimes they didn't commit.
Since 1990, Innocence Project - New Orleans has helped 29 men who were serving life sentences get out of jail.
Public opinions of men who've been convicted of violent crimes and are serving life sentences "don't" get much sympathy from many people. Not the case at IPNO, who does the research and determines whether they'll be able to make a case.
“We would eventually like not to have a job,” states Maw. “I don't think that's imminent, but we would like to do ourselves out of a job.”
There's a variety of reasons why convictions could be overturned, from DNA evidence to prosecutor misconduct.
It’s a long process that 29 times over the last 21 years, has worked.
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Watch Heather talk about US healthcare reform. For more of Heather's videos, click here
As had been threatened, North Korea's Kim Jong-Il reportedly conducted an underground nuclear test yesterday, a move which promotes a global nuclear arms race and nullifies non-proliferation agreements.
Take it personally.
News that a U.S. company recently sent vials of a 1957 pandemic flu strain to laboratories across the world by accident is only the latest outrage from the billion-dollar boondoggle called the federal biological weapons program.
As you might recall, the Bush administration started its "biodefense" spending spree following the September 2001 deadly anthrax attacks, and one of its first projects was to genetically engineer a super-resistant, even more deadly version of the anthrax bacteria.
Our leaders are nuts.
As the body count from the tsunami rises, America's international reputation plummets to new depths, thanks to the Bush administration's smugly incompetent response.
While other world leaders immediately put forward action plans and solid donations, Bush has spent most of the past critical week on holiday at his Texas "ranch," riding his mountain bike and avoiding the press. Predictably, only allegations of stinginess increased the White House's initial measly offer of $15 million for the relief effort to a grand total of $35 million.
China was the undisputed star of last week's Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) conference in Vienna, leaving Uncle Sam hiding in the wings.
The US has always been somewhat impatient with international non-proliferation agreements. Despite a 1992 self-imposed moratorium, in the past six years the States has conducted 19 nuclear tests, dismissing them as sub-critical and therefore acceptable.
A lawsuit on behalf of over 100,000 Gulf War veterans has the Bush administration on edge and businesses running for cover.
The class action suit names 11 companies and 33 banks alleged to have helped Iraq with its chemical weapons program in the 1980's, despite knowledge Saddam Hussein was actively using WMD against both Iranians and his own people.
Illegal biological and nuclear weapons production is on the rise - in the United States.
Ignoring the internationally-recognized Biological Weapons Convention, the US Army has patented a new grenade capable of delivering biological and chemical agents. Irony wasn't lost on the watchdog group Sunshine Project which observed, "Hans Blix might have an easier time finding illegal weapons if he were inspecting near Baltimore [site of the Army's Edgewood Arsenal facility, where two of the inventors work] instead of Baghdad."
The UMRC study found "astonishing" levels of uranium in the urine of Afghan civilians living in Nangarhar province, one of many places coalition forces bombarded with a new generation of "cave-busting" and seismic shock warheads. Interestingly, none of the civilians tested at Nangarhar showed traces of depleted uranium (DU), yet hundreds exhibited symptoms resembling those of DU-exposed Gulf War veterans.
The implications are ominous. Independent studies show coalition forces used toxic uranium alloys and hard-target uranium warheads in Afghanistan, but if the "mystery" uranium in Nangahar isn't DU, what is it? What kinds of radioactive ammunition were used elsewhere in Afghanistan? What are the long-term health implications for civilians and service members? And what are the moral, let alone criminal, implications of radiating civilian populations?
Unfortunately, Afghanistan isn't the only country reeling under the Bush administration's idea of "liberation" - Iraq has arguably fared worse. New evidence suggests the US invasion may have killed up to 10,000 Iraqi civilians, many from cluster bombs dropped into densely populated civilian areas. Meanwhile, US and British occupying forces are accused of illegally detaining and torturing Iraqi civilians, and the US military has kicked around the idea of having Iraqi "hooligans ... either captured or killed."
Of course, if Iraq was used as a testing ground for radioactive weaponry, as appears to have been the case in Afghanistan, then the true civilian costs in cancers, birth defects and human suffering could be immeasurable.
As might be expected, the US Department of Defense (DOD) has shown little interest in pinpointing the medical effects of radioactive weaponry. In the 1991 Gulf War, an estimated 320 tons of DU ammunition was dumped on Iraq, and the Pentagon later acknowledged over 900 American soldiers had sustained "moderate to heavy" DU exposure. Few epidemiological studies have been conducted to assess the damage though, and even worse, US government officials have lied to cover up bad results.
For example, a Pentagon spokesperson recently told the NATO press corps, "We have seen no cancers or leukemia" in a group of 60 Gulf War vets involved in a DU-study program, despite that fact that two participants had in fact contracted cancer. And in a press briefing last March, a DOD spokesperson downplayed health risks associated with DU, claiming Iraqis complained about it only "because we kicked the crap out of them."
Fortunately, British researchers have taken the DU issue more seriously. Scientific studies in the UK have shown Gulf veterans can have up to 14 times the normal level of genetic chromosome abnormalities, which means their children are also at increased risk for deformities and genetic diseases. It's also been proven that DU-exposed vets have a greater likelihood of contracting lymphatic or bone marrow cancer.
Findings like these have prompted the European Parliament to call for a moratorium on DU ammunition (and other types of uranium warheads) pending independent investigations into their possible harmful effects. Similarly, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) has announced plans to test the Iraqi environment for DU, and the World Health Organization (WHO) may begin similar testing on the human population.
The ultimate irony, of course, is that America may have used radioactive weaponry to justify invading other countries to search for radioactive weaponry. Bitter irony too that our service members were put at increased risk because of the weapons our government gave them.
One of the legacies of the Vietnam War is the now infamous quote from an American military press officer, "we had to destroy the village in order to save it." Rings some bells these days. In the name of "fighting terror," countries with secret weapons programs are poised to pulverize Iraq because of its secret weapons programs. And Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are being used against civilians in order to prevent WMD from being used against civilians.
So let's see - you're in your last year of school and freaked out about the gloomy job picture? Just heard about those 250,000 laid off last month and wondering how you'll be able to make a decent living? No problem! With the new "War on Terrorism" and billions of war dollars suddenly floating around, a whole world of opportunity has opened up! Ok, so it would be much easier just to own a big airline, make major contributions to Bush's presidential campaign, receive billions in subsidies and then lay off 100,000 workers anyway. You can be sure someone made a nice little profit out of that. But for the rest of us there are some great options too.
As moviegoers throng to Hollywood's politically correct, dumbed-down version of "The Good War," a different kind of Pearl Harbor is being pursued in Bush's "Star Wars" program - and in both, truth is the first casualty. It's easier to focus on good looking actors and grandiose bomb sequences than on painful realities; why risk box office mega-profits by putting Pearl Harbor in its proper context?
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Elimination of backscatter
Posted 28 August 2012 - 08:20 PM
Posted 29 August 2012 - 08:19 AM
Have you tried lighting the subject using the edge of the beam? Strobes pointing straight or slightly outwards and use the innermost egde of the beam, rather than pointing the strobes directly at the subject. Found out about it by reading a book by underwater photographer Martin Edge.
Posted 02 September 2012 - 02:56 PM
... as Caroline says. It's all about angles, not really about long arms and low power at all. Oh: practice, too...
Posted 07 September 2012 - 10:52 PM
Nikon D90 Aquatica housing, nikkor 60mm, ,105VR mm, 18-70mm, 17-55mm, 10.5mm FE, 15mm FE, 10-20mm.
Inon strobes, TLC arms.
Posted 08 September 2012 - 09:25 AM
Here is something that works for me. I try to match the available light in my exposures. One of the reasons that backscatter is so noticeable is that it is brighter than
the surrounding water. The brighter the background, the less noticeable the backscatter. In the photo below, the visibility was at the most 15 feet. You can see that there is backscatter in the photo but it is less noticeable because the available light is as bright as it is. If I had used a smaller fstop or a lower ISO, the background would have been darker and the backscatter would be more noticeable. I agree with other suggestions of edge lighting, etc. but when I am shooting with a wide angle lens in turbid water, employing those techniques with matching available light has worked well for me.
I will usually start by setting a lens opening (f8, f9, f10 or f11) and a shutter speed (1/30th second). I then meter the water towards the surface (not directly at the sun) and adjust my ISO setting to center my in-camera light meter. I will then adjust the power of my dual Ikelite DS-125's to a power setting based on my distance to the subject. Usually, I am using 1/4 power. The shot above was more difficult than most because the area under the stern of this tug was pretty dark. I needed to aim my strobes inward to light the prop. If the background had been one or two stops underexposed, the backscatter would really stand out. The photo was taken with a Tokina 10-17mm lens at 10mm, an ISO of 640, a lens opening of f9 and a shutter speed of 1/30th second.
Here is another shot taken in visibility of around 15 feet or less. This was easier because I was shooting a tugboat on an artificial reef off New Jersey. You can see the backscatter in the lower part of the photo where it is dark but not so in the mid and upper part where I have matched the available light.
This photo was taken with a Tokina 10-17mm lens at 11mm with an ISO of 640, a lens opening of f9 and a shutter speed of 1/30th second. Both photos were shot in Manual mode.
Herb Segars Photography
Nikon D-300, Subal housing, Nikon 12-24, Sigma 28-80, Nikon 60, Tokina 10-17, Ikelite DS-125's and Substrobe 200
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How A Startup Can Change The ElectionBY: Kathryn Hough | November 6, 2012
Today is election day, and a lot has happened since social media played a huge part in the first Obama campaign in 2008. Long before he was the president, Obama leveraged social media to reach young people who identified with someone who would speak to them on their communication platforms. The medium was the message.
Think about that for a second. Twitter was only two years old during the last major election cycle. Now, a startup called Givver is leveraging Twitter to help candidates raise money with just a simple tweet.
Candidates like Jessica Ehrlich, who is the Democratic nominee running for Congress in Pinellas County and Florida’s new 13th district, are using Givver to reach the biggest pool of their potential supporters on social media. A startup like Givver has the potential to change the outcome of an election thanks to the network effects of raising money publicly on social sites. When a person donates, all of their followers see the tweet.
According to Ehrlich’s campaign manager Kiel Brunner, Twitter is an untapped method of contributing to campaigns. “We are excited to see its capabilities and look forward to seeing how Givver will grow in the election cycles to come,” he noted.
Ehrlich’s campaign decided to use Twitter to raise money because Givver expands the reach of Twitter beyond delivering messaging and news to press and supporters. “Twitter was missing a one-click process for contributing to political campaigns that is widely used in email and other platforms,” Brunner said. Once users sign-up to use Givver, their credit card is linked to their account. To give money to a candidate, one tweet is all they need.
Raising money via Twitter is attractive to a candidate rather than other fundraising options because political fundraising is about convincing your friends, family and like minded people to invest in an idea and a person. Twitter is a rapid fire platform for engaging people who have already made the first step in investing by following your feed.
“Beyond the initial investment people make by contributing or volunteering, it gives individuals the opportunity to engage their friends in the political process. Retweeting makes it possible to exponentially increase the reach or your message, it does the same for fundraising prospects,” said Brunner.
Right now, Givver is only used for political contributions, although the team will be opening up the service to other organizations soon. In the meantime, get out there and vote today for your favorite candidates. Let the best men and women win.
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An Exercise on the Eve of Paul Nelson Day 2010
A few years ago, P.Z. Myers -- with his Mencken-like genius for the memorable putdown -- devised "Paul Nelson Day," aka April 7, to record my annual failure to follow up on a promise to elucidate "ontogenetic depth," a notion I floated in 2003. Much as I enjoy having my own day and all, I figured it was time to explain ontogenetic depth (OD). OD is just not that hard an idea to grasp, in one sense. In fact, OD is downright pedestrian, not much more than a fancy way of saying...
Hey, wait a minute. Today is April 6. I still have a few hours to sort it all out. To warm up the audience, here's an exercise. This bears on OD -- really it does -- so I'm not just tweaking your nose.
The figure shows a toy "adult organism" (in the box), with four cells of three types. The ovals and arrows to the left display a starting cell, which divides and differentiates in an ontogeny, or developmental trajectory, giving rise to two daughter cells, which then themselves divide into the four cells of the "adult."
Here's the exercise. How many instructions, or commands, must be present in the starting cell for (a) this ontogeny to unfold once, and (b) for it to happen reliably again, in reproduction?
That is, one or more of the four cells of the "adult" toy organism must give rise to an offspring organism, which repeats the same developmental trajectory: one cell dividing to two cells to four cells, of three differentiated types.
We need to know the minimal instruction (or command) set, which must be present in the starting cell, for this to happen reliably.
For those who want to see the same problem in a real biological system, watch this lecture by Eric Davidson.
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This is a small species. Adult females are 8-10". Males 6-8". With proper care they should out live their owners. There is a lot of conflicting information about the Russian Tortoise. I feel that this is due in part to the fact that they are very adaptable. This allows them to survive in many conditions. However the goal is to provide them with optimal environments. This is somewhat limited in captivity. The following should help.
When you get your tortoise, it is highly recommended that you take your pet for a check up. Most Russians are wild caught. And while yours may appear to be healthy (click here to learn how to select a "healthy" tortoise) the stress of being brought home and placed in strange surrounding may cause a hidden problem to surface. This is true even with long term wild caught and captive born animals. Make sure the Vet measures and weighs your tort. Also request a fecal to check for parasites. To see what may be hidden in your tortoise click here.
Russian Tortoises are grazers and enjoy broad leaf plants. The best diet is a variety of weeds (leaves and flowers). Dandelion is a favorite. For detailed diet information:http://www.russiantortoise.org/russiantortoisediet.htm for a list of edible plants: http://www.russiantortoise.org/edible_plants.htm and http://www.russiantortoise.org/plant_photos.htm
Unfortunately, many believe that tortoises naturally acquire almost all of their fluid requirements from its food and that therefore they do not require additional drinking water. Russians tortoises are indeed adapted to a semi-arid environment and its system of eliminating waste via uric acid rather than via urea is clear evidence of this. Uric acid can be eliminated using substantial lower levels of water wastage than can systems based on urea, such as those of mammals. Therefore, tortoises, such as Russians, eliminate nitrogenous waste products with far greater water conservation. Its behavior is also programmed to reflect this need not to waste precious water. The semi-solid, white deposits are expelled urates. Tortoises are programmed not to use water in the bladder and to eliminate urates only if replenishment is available. Depriving the tortoise of water will result in urates being accumulated and quite often to dangerous levels. During a rain tortoises will often drink and urinate simultaneously. This behavior can be stimulated in hot weather by lightly spraying the tortoise with a garden hose.
In the wild, during hot and rain-free summers, aestivation or semi-aestivation occurs. There are several factors that will lead to aestivation. Lack of food and environmental water are major factors, as is temperature. During aestivation periods tortoises maintain themselves below ground, in burrows which provide a stable microclimate. In these burrows temperatures are much lower than those above ground and the relative humidity is very much higher. Combined with reduced activity, these factors result in a vastly reduced rate of fluid loss via exhalation and little or no need to urinate and prevent dehydration.
In a captive situation, many tortoises are not provided with a microclimate and easily become dehydrated, especially when water is not provided for drinking.
There are many choices. From the simple to the very elaborate. I will review some of the more common cages.
Product Description: Penn-Plax's Reptology Tortoise Palace is a habitat designed with your customers' tortoises in mind. Measuring 48 x 30 x 12 in., the habitat is ideal for Russians, Greeks, other species of tortoise, as well as box turtles, the company reports. It also makes a great nursery for raising and growing out hatchlings of larger species, according to the manufacturer. Constructed of quality, moisture-resistant, medium-density fiberboard, its features include a hide/sleep box, a front glass viewing area, a wire top with locking hinges and an adjustable light stand, the company adds. A designer matching stand is also available and sold separately. You can purchase it at CarolinaPetSupply.com
Aquariums: Aquariums are often recommended by pet shop employees. However, they are unsuitable for tortoises. Because of the shape (too tall and narrow) air circulation is poor. They are also hard to keep at the proper temperatures. They are heavy and hard to clean The clear sides are also stressful to the tortoise. They don't understand the concept of glass and will continually try to go through it. If you must use an aquarium, the minimum size is 75 gallon. It must be fitted with a circulating fan and a visual barrier.
Rubbermaid storage containers: These are an inexpensive indoor pen. The 50 gallon container is an ideal starting point for one tortoise. They are light and easy to clean. They are opaque so the animal can't see out. The best part is....they only cost $15 ! Keep in mind that bigger is better. I use this as a temporary set up for when I have to keep one inside. IMPORTANT: this setup keeps the humidity at around 60%. As the substrate dries out it is critical to add water. Don't let it get dry and dusty !!! Sand alone makes a very poor substrate. Click on the picture to view it full size RubberMaid Start with a 50 gallon storage container.
RubberMaid™: Start with a 50 gallon storage container. I bought this at Target for $12.99
Play sand from Home Depot $1.89
coir brick $3.89
Soak it in a gallon of hot water
until fully expanded.
One "brick" of coir and an equal volume of play sand by weight (about 2" deep)
Basking light: This is a heavy duty clamp light with a ceramic socket. Notice I also use an additional clamp for safety. The bulb is a 100 watt T-Rex Active UVHeat.
The end product.
Reptariums: The 100 gallon and larger reptariums make great pens. I was first introduce to them by Tae on the Russian Tortoise Ya Hoo group. They have great ventilation. Pictures can be seen at Tae's setup click here You can also get a plastic liner that allows you to use a variety of substrates.
Build your own: This is by far the most versatile way to go if you plan on keeping the tortoise indoors. A popular choice is the Tortoise Table
Outdoor pens: Outdoor pens are by far the best option. The tortoises get the benefit of sunshine (for the synthesis of Vit D3) and exercise. A pen can also be planted with a variety of edible weeds and plants (edible landscaping). It is very important to keep in mind that Russians are escape artist. When building a pen a barrier must be dug around the perimeter at least 8" deep...deeper if the soil is easy to dig. They are amazing climbers. The pen should be a foot high with an in facing lip. Pay special attention to corners. Also of concern is predators. Raccoons are particularly notorious for getting into pens and eating turtles.
It is also important to provide a warm dry retreat. I have done this by using a Rubbermaid deck box. I mounted a ceramic heat emitter in the lid (hooked up to a thermostat) and cut a hole in the side. My Russians use this instead of digging a burrow. Deck Box Photos
More ideas can be found at Indoor and Outdoor Enclosures
Substrates: Once again there are many choices. The ideal is considered to be a 50/50 mix of sand and garden loam. Since garden loam is hard to find here, I substitute coconut coir. For me this works well. Others have used peat moss....but it tends to be too dusty.
Keep in mind that the substrate shouldn't be bone dry. In the wild they live in very arid conditions. But their burrows have up to 70% humidity!
Other poor choices are: newspaper (easy to clean); rabbit pellets (tend to dehydrate the tort and are about the worst of the substrates). Also can get moldy fast if wet.); Care Fresh bedding (a recycled newspaper product in a pellet form) Alfalfa hay is too high in protein (torts love to nibble on it).
For more information visit Substrate.
Temperature: Temperature is critical for a healthy tortoise. The pen should have a cool end with the temps in the low 70's and a basking spot at 90-95°F. Night time temperature drops are needed. Mine do well with temps that drop down into the 60's at night. If they are kept too cool they can't digest their food. Too warm and they stop eating and aestivate (sort of like suspended animation).
Invest in a good thermometer with a probe. You can get one at Radio Shack for 20 bucks. Don't take chances by guessing....you could end up with a cooked tortoise! Don't use heat rocks or under the tank heaters.
Humidity: Humidity is an important consideration with Russian tortoises. It is also very misunderstood. There are those that claim that high humidity will cause shell rot and respiratory infection. This is only partially true. High humidity, damp substrate AND cool temperatures cause problems. In the wild they live in fairly arid conditions although I have read some reports that they are often found near streams and small lakes. They cope with low humidity by digging long burrows where the humidity is as high as 70%.
In the typical indoor pen, with basking lights, air conditioning and dry substrates, humidity is often extremely low. Dehydration is a very real risk. When I must keep mine indoors I soak them at least weekly in chin deep....luke warm water. When kept outdoors, I keep clean water in the pens at all times (though I rarely see them drink). I also give them a very dry "house" and water the opposite side of the pen. This way they have a choice of micro-climates.
Lighting: Currently the best lighting is the Zoo Med Powersun . These are used extensively in zoo's. The 100 watt flood is the most commonly used. While they do put out heat you may need to add a ceramic heat emitter to get the right temperature. Also make sure to get a good clamp on light fixture with a ceramic socket that is rated for the wattage bulb you buy. The preferred fixture is the deep dome lamp fixture by Flukers or Zoo Med'
An alternative is the Reptisun 10.0 straight tube. But since it doesn't give off heat you will also need a basking light such as the ESU Reptile Basking Spot BrightLight Incandescent Bulbs. Keep in mind that these bulbs should be replaced every 6 months.
There are many other bulbs out there. There is a basking light that provides UVA. But this doesn't have the UVB. There are colored bulbs...again no UVB. If it doesn't specifically say "UVB" it doesn't have it.
Keep the lights on 12-14 hours a day.
Hibernation: Hibernation is a much debated topic. In the wild Russian tortoises hibernate up to 9 months of the year. In captivity they appear to benefit from as little as 8 weeks in hibernation.
Before considering hibernation, its important that you are absolutely sure its in good health. Have it checked by a vet and be sure to check for parasites. If there are parasites, or the animal is too light.....then don't attempt hibernation. There are many that I have talked to that don't hibernate there animals and haven't observed any negative consequences. I did not hibernate mine for the first 5 years. Its really not worth the risk if you are unsure of what you are doing.
Currently I hibernate mine outdoors. I have a heated "house" .....actually a Rubbermaid deck box with a ceramic heat emitter hooked up to a thermostat to keep the temps between 40-45°F. This works well for me since the temperatures here rarely stay below freezing.
My animals usually slow down on feeding in the fall. I find that in November they will start eating small twigs and dried oak leaves. I suspect this is to clean out their intestinal tracts.
In December they start digging in. They typically come out of hibernation in March.
For those that live in colder (or warmer climates) refrigerator hibernation is a great option. Here is a great article by Shelly Jones. Hibernation Journey , She is a member of the Russian Tortoise YaHoo group.
For more information and to talk to many that are hibernating their tortoises Click to subscribe to Russian Tortoise
For supplies specific to Russian Tortoises visit Carolina Pet Supply http://www.carolinapetsupply.com/catalog/
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A city full of midgets, a tour of Hell, and the Incubator Babies
We always seem to short-change the past. The pyramids? Must have been aliens: those Egyptians couldn't have been smart enough to build them. The Eiffel Tower? Sure it's impressive but it probably should have fallen down decades ago: after all, Gustave Eiffel didn't have computers and modern witchy mixtures of alloys and composites.
Bur our smug superiority is misplaced, our 21st century dismissal of everything created before the integrated circuit and plastic insultingly arrogant. The fact of the matter is that the past was more than grand, more than amazing, more than impressive.
Take, for example, Coney Island, or, as it was called, The City of Fire, around the turn of the previous century.
Originally just a tiny, sandy dot of land full of itchy scrub and wild rabbits -- or "Conies" which is where the place got its name -- the island became first a waypoint and then a tawdry vacation spot for the weary citizens of the Big Apple. But soon Coney began to change, to become a phantasmagorical place: a world of wonders, dreams, and -- tragically as well as mystically -- a City of Fire.
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The Elephant Brothel, Mechanical Ponies and a Clown with a Cattle Prod
Take, for instance, Coney Island's elephant. Created in 1885 by James V. Lafferty -- who also created Atlantic City's famous pachyderm, which still stands today -- it was one of Coney's first amazements. The elephant wasn't just a statue, some cheap tourist novelty. It was an actual, functional, five-storey hotel and, to give you an idea of what kind of world early Coney Island was, a brothel.
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But the elephant, while grand at the time and would have remained grand today like her sister in Atlantic City, was only a tusked taste of what was to come. In 1897, George C. Tilyou created one of the island's lost yet enduring parks: Steeplechase Park.
It's hard to imagine what it must have been like to be a visitor to Steeplechase in those early days. No one had ever seen anything like it: wild and raucous, rude and amazing, Steeplechase was a playground of laughter and thrills. The main attraction were the mechanical ponies. Racing at almost dangerous speeds on a up-and-down and round-and-round iron track, the horses were thrilling, terrifying and, as someone perfectly put it: Gave the boys a chance to hug girls, and girls a chance to be hugged by boys.
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But the fun at Steeplechase didn't end with the ponies. Exiting riders, under the frighteningly cheery face of Tillie, the park's mascot, were assaulted by a clown and a dwarf. The clown would hit the boys with a cattle prod and try to blow the women's skirts up over their heads with a blast of compressed air. The giggling and shrieking boys and girls would then be allowed to sit on bleachers to watch other fun-seekers go through the same treatment.
The Human Roulette Wheel, the Barrel of Love, the Cave of Winds...
In what would be a common theme for the island, Steeplechase burned in 1907 but was rebuilt on a scale that's hard to comprehend for us 21st century folks. In addition to the restored mechanical horses, Tilyou also added an immense steel and glass "Pavilion of Fun" with dozens of other rude rides including the Human Roulette Wheel, the Barrel of Love, the Cave of Winds, and many contraptions guaranteed to make men and women alike shriek and wail with laughter.
Steeplechase was amazing, to be sure. But it was mostly a broad and guttural place, acres and acres of architectural joy buzzers and whoopee cushions.
Then there was Luna Park, and with it Coney Island became a land of dreams. Built by Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy, Luna was a hallucination, a disorienting vision of twisting minarets, undulating arches, and – at night – the brilliant spectacle of hundreds of thousands of then-novel electric lights. At Luna Park visitors were treated to rides – such as the famous soaking Shoot-the-Chutes, and the legendary animals, including the park's own herd of elephants – but, more importantly, they could walk the sprawling promenades of Luna Park and feel like they'd been whisked away from their ordinary lives in 1903 to a world of rapturous imagination: a world of fantasy made real. Albeit in lath and plaster.
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The spectacle of Luna Park's, well, 'spectacles' is staggering, even today: mock naval battles, including an attack on Manhattan by the combined navies of Germany, France Spain and even Great Britain, only to be beaten back by Admiral Dewey's fleet; a trip to the moon that included mischievous 'moon men'; a trip to the north pole by submarine; and too many more for this small space.
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Luna also featured the world of the time, which for most people touring the park might as well have been the north pole or the moon: entire villages, such as Samoan's, were uprooted and placed in the park for the education – and amusement – of the visitors.
Before Disneyland, before Las Vegas - there was Dreamland...
Luna Park is a legend, and with it, unprecedented spectacle came to Coney Island. But then came Dreamland.
Built in 1904 by the very crooked William H. Reynolds, Dreamland was to be the crowning glory of the island, a factor-of-ten grander park than either Steeplechase and Luna.
It's hard to picture imagine the scale and majesty that Reynolds made with Dreamland, the outrageousness as well as the beauty that he created on the island. While Luna had a reported quarter of a million electric lights, Dreamland claimed to have more than one million: all of these lights giving the island its nickname of The City Of Fire.
See the detailed panorama of Dreamland on this page - click here.
Dreamland was an entire dazzling world, a complete universe of dazzling spectacle. Every hour on the hour 2,000 firemen would put on a performance of extinguishing a roaring blaze in a six-storey building. An entire town was built – half scale of course – for the park's resident 350 midgets. A 375-foot-high central tower lit up so bright it was often seen from Manhattan. There were also performances of the Biblical view of creation as well as a tour of Hell. And let's not forget the incubator babies.
Yep, that's right: one of the most famous exhibitions of Dreamland were the baby incubators, compliments of the brilliant Dr. Martin Arthur Couney. Unable to get hospitals to take his inventions seriously, Dr. Couney worked with Reynolds and – through some showmanship – finally got the world to take notice of his technique to save the lives of premature babies.
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Unfortunately, as with that original elephant, Steeplechase, and many other Coney Island amazements, the City of Fire lived up to its name and Dreamland burned to the ground in a hellish blaze that, too ironically, began in the Hell Gate exhibition in 1911. Fortunately there were only a few tragedies, including a lion that had escaped from the fire and had to be shot by police. Unfortunately, the park never recovered and Dreamland became only a memory, the ghost of a dream for those lucky enough to have seen it before it became soggy ashes.
Even more sadly, Luna and Steeplechase's appeal and popularity slipped away in the decades afterward until they collapsed into tawdry ruins, their majesty becoming tainted by the desperation and failures of their autumn years.
These days we have our Disneylands and dozens of other parks around the world and feel like we've managed something amazing – but then you look at the pictures of Coney Island in its heyday and realize that what we consider amazing now is actually small and cheap and easy. For truly wondrous playlands and amazing spectacles, you have to go back at least a hundred years, to Coney Island, to that legendary City of Fire.
Here is a great short comedy video with a glimpse of some of the Luna Park attractions.
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The "Performance Criteria" section of each item prescribes the qualification standards to be used for marking. These criteria assume no unusual circumstances as well as operation of the aeroplane in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications, recommended speeds and configurations in the Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Aircraft Flight Manual (POH/AFM) or other approved data.
Throughout the flight test, the candidate is evaluated on the use of an appropriate checklist. Proper use is dependent on the specific task being evaluated. The situation may be such that the use of the written checklist, while accomplishing the elements of an “Aim”, would be either unsafe or impractical. Certain elements may be executed by memory. In this case, a review of the checklist after the elements have been accomplished would be appropriate.
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VAXen RULE! (Was: Microkernels)
Roy J. Tellason
rtellason at verizon.net
Tue Aug 8 21:36:30 CDT 2006
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 09:11 pm, Scott Quinn wrote:
> > The best processor is going to be different based on the person
> >you are talking to. Everyone has their own idea as to what
> >features are important, and fond old memories of working on
> >an ancient (wasn't then) OS tend to sway their decision.
> That was implied, but I'll reiterate: What platform (includes
> implementation) do you think was really neat and why.
> P.S. The VAX had problems quote was mostly to illustrate that all computers
> can be dissed. Somebody asked why: mostly implementation. The original VAX
> was very instruction-heavy, but DEC did it right and started offloading to
> "heavy microcode" (read emulator). However, some VAXen designed in 1992
> were still using Q-bus for main expansion. 'Nuff said. Implementation.
> There are other little bits like this.
Ok, I'm not at all familiar with this hardware, so maybe I'm a little
unclear when it comes to what you're talking about here -- you like the CPU
but don't like the bus? Or is that something else?
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
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Plan Ahead With a College Search Checklist
It’s important to remember as you enter high school that this is not just a four-year audition for college. Still, for anyone planning to go to college, it will help to know what will be important to colleges three (short!) years from now.
The philosopher Aristotle observed that excellence is not an act but a habit. Your grades reflect what you do day after day and month after month. Take your studies seriously. And remember that colleges like people who are successful, whether as students, athletes, musicians, or community volunteers. Most colleges also like test scores but, by and large, that is not a big deal for another year or so.
- Grades are important in ninth grade, as they will contribute to your overall GPA. So is academic rigor. Seek advice from someone you trust when choosing your classes.
- Writing will be central to nearly every class in high school and college. If you don’t write as well as you think or speak, work at it.
- How many times have you groaned over a bad essay grade, then stuffed it into a binder without another thought? Stop! Accept that C as constructive criticism, really read your teacher’s comments, and seek advice on doing better.
- If your school offers an ERB (a skills and knowledge test) or the PSAT in the ninth grade, use these scores to identify academic strengths and weaknesses. Don’t worry about preparing for these tests, but do talk with a parent or guidance counselor to better understand any under performance and get extra academic support in areas where you were weaker.
- Read voraciously (look that word up if you don’t know it) – books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, whatever. As with any skill, you can’t improve without practice, and strength with words is key to success.
- Get involved. Not only are you developing talents and interests that will catch a college’s eye, but school is more fun when you have activities to look forward to.
- When planning for summer, don’t think “no more pencils, no more books ...” Find programs that build on favorite subjects, extracurricular activities or hobbies.
- Establish good sleeping habits and stick with them. Studies show that well-rested students complete academic tasks better and in less time than those who are tired, meaning you’ll have more time for the things you enjoy doing – like sleeping!
- Talk to your parents about the family budget. Is there a plan for college?
- It’s not too soon to look into requirements for honors or scholarship programs at colleges. Your freshman year could affect your candidacy.
- Are you a good athlete? If so, learn about the NCAA Clearinghouse requirements if you plan to pursue athletics in college.
Now that the dust has settled, begin thinking about scores and continue to focus on grades. While you might not be required to take the PSAT or PLAN this year, any test taken seriously can help you gauge strengths and weaknesses.
- While registering for 10th-grade courses, also check out your options for 11th grade. Take note of classes you are very likely to excel at or are interested in and whether they have prerequisites. If so, sign up for them now.
- Watch out for academic overload. You want the best grades you can get, but you also want to stay sane.
- Work on study skills and writing. You are still exploring how you learn best.
- You will get info in September from your counselor about the PSAT. You don’t have to take the test in 10th grade, but it’s not a bad idea as a diagnostic tool.
- Consider taking an SAT subject test at the end of 10th grade. You don’t have to take one at this point, but if you are enrolled in an AP or honors course now and have the information fresh in your mind, the timing may be good. The College Board, the firm behind the test, also makes practice versions. Take one.
While lounging by the pool or TV can be relaxing, neither makes for the most compelling college essay. Work, volunteer, play sports or take a college course over the summer.
Use the Web for something other than Facebook. Explore college websites and resources like U.S. News’s Best Colleges site. Jot down appealing things about this college or that, and save your notes.
Essays and testing and APs, oh my! OK, let’s be serious. Junior-year grades, test scores, and activities constitute a big chunk of the data colleges use for admission. Do your best in class and prepare for the tests you take. But it’s not all toil and trouble. This can be a time of leadership in the world outside academics. Explore activities that interest you so you can flourish – not just because they look good on an application.
- These will be the most recent grades a college will have when you apply next year. So study hard, and do not hesitate to ask a teacher for extra help. Again, pay attention to sleep. Well-rested brains work better.
-It’s important to show you can handle rigorous courses, but choose wisely. If you struggled for a C in an honors science class, don’t sign up for the AP class. Challenge yourself, but know your limits.
- Speak up in class. You will need to ask two junior-year teachers to write a recommendation. They can’t know you without hearing your thoughts.
- Standardized testing intensifies. Keep in mind, though, that grades remain the key part of college apps.
- You will take the PSAT in the fall. If you think you have a shot at a National Merit Scholarship based on your 10th-grade scores, consider preparing for the test.
- Talk over SAT or ACT test prep – timing, budget, and options – with your parents. Ask seniors about their test prep experience.
- Discuss testing plans with parents and a guidance counselor. Use a practice ACT and SAT to help you determine which test you should take in the winter. And don’t worry if you don’t get your ideal score on the first try. You can try again in the spring.
- If needed, take SAT subject tests in the spring (May or June) in those areas where you will shine, or in subjects you have covered in junior year. Practice!
- Being a leader shows you’ve worked hard, are dedicated to an activity, and play well with others. Start a new after-school club, run for team captain or head a community service project.
- Make a résumé (really!) of activities, academic experiences outside the classroom, hobbies, etc. It helps you take inventory of all you’ve done.
- Once you have your PSAT scores or an initial SAT or ACT score, talk to a counselor to begin building a college list with a balance of safeties, targets, and reaches.
- Make plans for college visits over spring or summer break. Enjoy these visits and take notes. Remember, you’re the one shopping for a college.
- Attend college fairs, but know that there is much more to a college than its fun handouts. Talk with the folks behind the tables, who can give you a better feel for a school and might be good future contacts.
- Procrastination doesn’t make for a good college essay. Aim to have first drafts done by Labor Day. Get feedback on drafts from an English teacher or counselor, but remember that colleges want your words, not your mom’s!
You made it. Let’s party! Well, not quite yet. This is also a year of hard work and continued preparation. Colleges can and will rescind offers to students who slack off. Retake the ACT or SAT if you need or can get better scores.
- Make sure you’re completing your graduation requirements and meeting course requirements of the colleges on your list (these are often outlined on their websites). Watch out for foreign language, science and math requirements.
- Your admission is contingent upon a consistent academic performance on the final transcript. Keep up the good work!
This is the final chance to retake the SAT, ACT, or subject tests, if needed. September or October test dates are often the last chance before early action or early decision deadlines.
- September: Learn your high school’s procedure for obtaining teacher recommendations and requesting that your transcript be sent to colleges. Complete appropriate forms and secure two teacher recommendations.
- September/October: Review your college list with a counselor and your parents. Decide whether to apply early decision or early action if these options are offered.
- October/November/December: Keep track of admissions deadlines and fill out each application carefully. Edit essays one more time. Officially send your SAT or ACT scores with each submitted application, and check that each college received records and recs from your high school.
- By February: A month from the date you submitted your application, call colleges and confirm that it is complete.
- February 1: Many colleges require FAFSA and CSS (financial aid) forms to be turned in by February. Again, earlier is better.
- March/April: Decisions arrive. Stay calm. Breathe.
- April: Explore colleges where you’ve been accepted. Visit the campuses again, talk with alumni, or attend an accepted-student reception.
- May 1: Make your college decision official by sending in your deposit. Finally!
Double-check with your guidance counselor that your final transcript will be sent to the college.
Originally published at USNews.com on September 21,2011
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Perhaps the debate is, to some degree, semantical. I think most everyone would agree that vehicles of communication deliver messages, and those messages are certainly not limited to the words. Messages may be communicated in images, as well. I'm not sure it can be proven that any image certainly communicates a moral act. Some certainly may communicate morality or immorality, depending on the context. I'm convinced it's true that some images certainly depict immorality.
In other words, human hearts are the center of morality, not the things that human hearts produce. Powers puts it this way: "You cannot attach a label of 'moral' or 'immoral' to anything other than the heart of a man or woman."
That doesn't mean anything goes in our choices, even our musical choices. It does mean that the object that deserves the real scrutiny is the human heart and its lusts, motivations, and deceitfulness. As Powers says, music is a tool, and . . .
Tools are created by mankind as an expression of either the righteous or evil intentions in his heart. The tools are used by the individual for carrying out the designs of the heart. The man will be judged by God not the tool.
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Letters to the Editor: Drug-free programs the only fix
Daily Telegraph, 6 October 1997
THE Naltroxene detoxification program (Daily Telegraph, September 24) for heroin addicts is just another crazy solution to a longstanding problem.
It amazes me the Government hasn't adopted a program based on a drug-free solution instead of turning every way for things that only introduce a new set of addicts.
First there was methadone, then the ridiculous idea of the Government legalising heroin for users, under some pretence of trying to cure them.
Now this latest rubbish.
Surely you must have heard of the Narconon Program - a drug-free solution that seems to have escaped the attention of the powers that be.
It astounds me a program exists with an incredibly high success rate and yet our government fails to support and implement it.
I strongly urge you to find out about Narconon - a drugfree solution.
MRS E. LAWSON
MR Carr is to be applauded for not rushing into illicit drug-maintenance programs and not just because they need taxpayer dollars.
Whether he is aware or not, there are drug-free solutions to heroin addiction and other drug problems, operating around the world.
Narconon programs in a number of countries, in particular the US, Mexico, Sweden and Spain are achieving success rates in excess of 75 per cent.
We must surely look at drug-free solutions to this problem. Australia is viewed by much of the world as a clean, decent country - we started the "clean up the world campaign". Let's try to do the same thing on drugs.
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This thesis project ate my life for several months - and I am extremely glad I did it. I became interested in building a Zeeman slower for JETLab because I was considering graduate work in atomic physics, and this let me explore that field on a deeper and more practical level. It also combined interesting physical principles with a chance to play with some very cool toys (usually referred to as "hands-on problem solving"). Lastly, it allowed me to make a real and tangible contribution to the group; it's nice to know that something I did at Duke will be useful to people there long after I've graduated.
ABSTRACT: This document describes the design and construction of a Zeeman slower, a device which takes thermal 6Li atoms with an average velocity of around 1500 m/s and, over a distance of roughly 30 cm, reduces their velocity to a few tens of meters per second in a continuous manner via laser cooling and the Zeeman effect. The lithium atoms can then be confined in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) and used for experiments involving ultracold fermions. The design in this document represents a significant improvement over previous Zeeman slowers. In particular, it is simpler to build, more compact, and should prove much easier to maintain. Although more tests need to be performed before we can draw final conclusions on the new design?s efficacy, the results of extensive computer modeling and preliminary testing described in this document indicate a high probability of success.
Here is the thesis in PDF: Thesis.pdf (about 400 KBytes)
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Stephen Beardsley wants to out-convenience the c-store industry. Beardsley is president of AutoCart LLC (Las Cruces, NM), a company that plans on building a $13 million to $18 million “Drive-Thru Supercenter” that will enable Bubba to shop for groceries, rent movies, get keys made, buy a cake and grab flowers for the wife all in about 25 minuteswithout ever leaving his car. The first AutoCart is planned to open in New Mexico in late 2006 or early 2007.
“At first, we called it the ‘The World’s First Drive-Thru Mall,’ but the name brought about confusion because people thought it was like a JC Penney and it’s not that at all,” Beardsley says. “So we went with the Drive-Thru Supercenter.”
Beardsley hopes his Supercenter will offer products in 17 retail categories, including grocery, pharmacy, banking, DVD rentals, a QSR, office supplies, a copy center, lotter y ticket sales, liquor and a bakery. He intends to “rent” warehouse space to traditional retailers, or rather, their products, such as, hypothetically, Staples office supplies, Albertsons groceries and Blockbuster DVDs.
“For the last three years, we’ve invested a serious amount of time and money in consumer research and we’ve identified the categories that we feel represent the best mix,” Beardsley says. “Groceries are No. 1 because when we asked people, ‘What’s the No. 1 errand you run,’ grocery shopping came out on top. For young people, video and game rental is No. 1.”
Beardsley, an entrepreneur who ran his family’s office supply store for more than a decade, believes the Drive-Thru Supercenter is a natural descendant of the convenience store.
“People have two consumables that, once they spend them, they never get them back: time and money. AutoCart is going to save both,” he says. “The vendors coming in know that the prices in an AutoCart will be lower than prices offered at a traditional location. The average errand takes 13 to 18 minutes to run. So if someone could go to AutoCart and run multiple errands in the same amount of time, they’re going to do it.”
Here’s how it works: A driver enters the AutoCart distribution center and receives a wireless touchscreen that hooks onto the steering wheel. On that screen, the consumer orders product. A $4 million software system then communicates to laborers who pick items off shelves and place them onto a conveyor belt.
“When you hit the button that says, ‘My order is complete,’” Beardsley says, “you’re directed to a pickup lane.”
The products are routed to an accumulation area and packed into a fiber box. The consumer pays with cash, check, credit card or with a Speedpass-type card.
“According to the Wall Street Journal,” Beardsley says, “the average grocery purchase is 21 items (it varies by region). If I’ve ordered my 21 items, and it ranged from various vendors, the wait is 18 minutes or less once I’m at the pickup window. A large screen comes down while I’m waiting so I can watch CNN, FOX or MTV.”
If someone doesn’t want to wait, AutoCart will offer the customer another option.
“If you order ahead from your office before you leave for work, you make the same decisions and go through the same process,” Beardsley says. “You also tell us what time you’re going to be there. We pick your order and store it in an appropriate climate. When you come in, we’ll release the order. You will go to the appropriate lane and your order will be waiting for you. If we get everybody to pre-order, we could handle 7,000 to 12,000 cars per day (not that he expects all his customers to pre-order).”
If AutoCart comes to fruition the way Beardsley envisions it, one of the huge advantages it will offer tenants is savings on overhead and labor. There are no store-fronts and no tenant-hired employees.
“Our warehouse is set up by size, not vendor,” Beardsley says. “We’re trying to get the maximum number of SKUs in the minimum amount of space. Green beans can be next to Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils. We have our people trained to pick extremely fast, and our testing shows a 98% accuracy rate.”
Tenants will pay a monthly fee based on how much space their SKUs take up. Additionally, they pay a fee for labor.
“Rent for a vendor is going to be far less,” Beardsley says. “The grocery store is only charged the labor that it takes to pull items. Here’s the beauty: Right now, when you walk into, say, the bakery, there are three guys standing around who are being paid. In our process, the labor is only paid when they work for you.”
Beardsley thinks a grocery store offering the same products in an AutoCart that it does in a traditional store will save about 95% on labor.
“In a small grocery store, they employ 65 to 70 people,” he says. “But in an AutoCart store, they can use three to five people.”
And because retailers won’t be paying for signage, equipment and labor, Beardsley thinks AutoCart can create an enormous margin increase.
“In the grocery industry, it’s safe to say they’re making a 3% margin,” he says. “We hope to get that to the 16% range.”
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Being able to produce material on a consistent basis is one of the keys to succeeding in comedy. Whether you are a writer, or want to be a standup comic, you must be able to write material that has structure.
I’ve been asked time and time again to give a demo on how to write comedy. Since joke writing is the building block of comedy writing, as a whole, I am going to demonstrate it here.
The total video is around 47 minutes. It shows the recommended prep necessary to take on the task of writing and some background information to get you ready. Also be warned, this is NOT for kids. There is some NC-17 stuff here.
When you are writing comedy you never, and I mean NEVER edit yourself in the first draft. You always save that for the second or third pass on the the material. So if you are sensitive to language (most of it written) and you are limited on time… then DON’T WATCH THE VIDEO!
If you want to REALLY see the joke writing process and learn one of the fundamental steps in learning how to write comedy, then grab your notebook, a cup of coffee and enjoy!
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NOTE: THIS IS ONLY ONE METHOD ON HOW TO WRITE COMEDY…
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Do You Eat a Lot of Rice?
September 26, 2012
I love rice. Don’t you? With gluten off the table and off the plate, most people with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity enjoy rice and rice flours as their favorite go-to alternative grain. Now that the FDA confirms reports of arsenic in rice and rice-based products and Consumer Reports is urging consumers to cut back on eating rice for that reason, are you wondering what to do?
What exactly does this mean to you and your special diet? The American Celiac Disease Alliance (ACDA) released this statement as background explanation and with advice for gluten-free consumers:
Earlier this year, Consumer Reports tested rice and rice based products and found measurable amounts of both inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, as well as organic arsenic, less toxic but still of concern, in those samples. This information led the FDA to undertake its own study sampling significantly more products and to share the early findings.
While arsenic is found in foods throughout the food chain, in their natural state or when processed into other products, it’s not known where the threshold of safety ends and harm begins. The FDA indicates it is moving to gather and analyze the data necessary to make sound scientific judgments regarding the levels, which may cause potential health risks.
The ACDA recommends that individuals following a gluten-free diet consume a diverse diet that incorporates a broad range of whole grains, such as corn, quinoa, amaranth, sorghum and buckwheat, into their diet in an effort to maximize nutrition.
The ACDA urges the FDA to act expeditiously, as Americans with celiac disease and gluten-intolerance may be at greater risk of danger as a result of following a gluten-free diet.
The FDA recommends that people eat “a balanced diet containing a wide variety of grains” but the agency doesn’t recommend that consumers change their rice consumption “at this time.” Note that this recommendation is not specifically targeted at gluten-free consumers, who often eat higher quantities of rice than the rest of the population.
Meanwhile, several Democrats in the U.S. Congress say they’re planning to introduce legislation to require the Food and Drug Administration to set a maximum for the amount of arsenic in foods that contain rice.
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Tuesday June 17, 2008 9:12 am
d.light Lamps are Inexpensive Alternatives
A new start up company from Stanford Business School, d.light, is working to help those who don’t have access to electricity to light up their lives. Based in New Delhi, India, they have designed lamps for those who live on only about $1.00 a day. The Nova comes in both solar and AC chargeable models, and is 30 to 50% more efficient than fluorescent light for up to 40 hours. The company is hoping that the high-powered LED displays will replace dangerous and costly kerosene lanterns. They come at a price of $15.00 to $30.00, if the buyer wants both chargers.
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Today in 1776, a group of visionary entrepreneurs declared their disagreement with their existing nation’s rules for distributing wealth. They set out on their own, founding the world’s greatest startup nation.
With a flurry of disruptive innovation, the founders wrote their own new rules, creating a framework within which the nation has generated unprecedented growth.
Over time, the nation has settled into a sustaining comfort zone, reinforced by vehement debate over local optimizations at a cost of blinding ourselves from potential larger opportunities.
Let’s infuse a little more startup culture into our government and go after some big ideas.
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India may grow by 6.75% this fiscal: PMEAC
"(It is) unlikely that growth will be lower than 6.25 per cent, but may reach 6.75 per cent", PMEAC said in its Economic Outlook for 2009-10 submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by its chairman C Rangarajan.
On an average, PMEAC said economic growth could be around 6.5 per cent.
India's economic growth slowed down to 6.7 per cent during 2008-09, from over 9 per cent recorded in the previous three years, on account of global financial meltdown.
The PMEAC further said inflation, which is hovering around one per cent, may firm up to 6 per cent by the end of the current fiscal.
As regards farm sector, the report said agriculture output will shrink by two per cent on account of adverse impact of monsoon. Farm sector recorded a growth rate of 1.6 per cent in the previous fiscal.
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Henri Barkey - The European Union has never been about borders or geographical limits. Through each expansion cycle, the European Union enlarged the circle of stability and prosperity. The EU's founders always conceived of Europe as a community of solidarity and common destiny, not just a common market.
Turkey, it is true, occupies only a sliver of European territory. At first glance, it is also a country that does not share the old continent's cultural roots. Yet, from the Ottoman times onward it has historically been part of the European international system. Moreover, the Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish state have both oriented themselves towards Europe.
The Pope has changed his mind about Turkey's accession to Europe and he is right in doing so. If Europe is a community of values, it ought not reject a prospective member who not only aspires to share in this quest but also has the weight of history behind it.
Where Europe is right is in insisting that Turkey fully adheres to all of its criteria for membership. There can be no shortcuts to membership and Turkey is saddled with numerous problems, including one of minorities, that are extremely hard to tackle and will require time and patience.
The Turkish accession process will be long, perhaps as long as twenty years. It is then that Europe will have to make the decision as to whether it should admit Turkey and not now. Twenty years from now Turkey will be a very different society. Europe has to give Turkey a chance to show that it can live up to these ideals.
Henri J. Barkey is the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor in International Relations and International Relations Department Chair at Lehigh University. He served as a member of the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff (1998-2000) working primarily on issues related to the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean and intelligence.
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John C. Campbell
John Charles Campbell (1868-1919 1) never saw the school that today bears his name. The John C. Campbell Folk School was founded in 1925 by his widow, Olive Dame Campbell. Earlier in the 20th century, both Campbells traveled the Southern mountains creating a chronicle of mountain life. John collected facts and figures; Olive collected ballads and poetic lyrics. Through personal magnetism and strong organizational skills, each made significant contributions to the movement known as “Mountain Work."
An educator whose teaching was focused in the South, early in his career, John Campbell was principal of Pleasant Hill Academy in Tennessee. At the time, no one could have predicted that Pleasant Hill would later play a significant role in the Craft Revival. In the 1920s and 1930s, Pleasant Hill Academy became known for an educational program in woodcarving that taught hand-eye coordination through hands-on activity. More ironic is the fact that the woodcarving program was supervised by a teacher named Margaret Campbell. While there is no evidence that Margaret Campbell ever met John Campbell—they are certainly no blood relation—much later Margaret Campbell was invited to the John C. Campbell Folk School to teach the school’s first course in woodcarving. 2
John Campbell was a self-confessed “wanderer in the mountain section of the South.” After teaching at several Southern schools, he was appointed president of Piedmont College in Demorest Georgia. Campbell wrote about his fondness for Demorest, but claimed he “broke down from over work in an effort to secure an endowment” for the college. 3 In this same period his wife, Grace H. Buckingham Campbell, died a premature death, leaving him depressed and unstable. Leaving Demorest, Campbell set sail for Europe. On board ship, he met Olive Arnold Dame of West Medford, Massachusetts. Their marriage in 1907 began a lifetime of collaboration.
Olive Dame Campbell
pictured with baby Jane
In the fall of 1908 John Campbell began a study of mountain life with support from the Russell Sage Foundation, a philanthropic social service foundation. Accompanied always by his wife and collaborator, the two traveled into remote sections of the upland South by rail, wagon, horseback, and sometimes on foot, collecting data about rural life. Olive Campbell wrote about one such journey, “[W]e had to walk over Pine Mountain, for the trail was too slippery for horseback. It was a long hard trip for John, climbing up the steep trail in the snow and ice. We took it slowly, with frequent stops to admire the beauty of the woods, and to catch our breath. Even after we reached the top, the down trip was not easy. We slipped and slid over the uncertain footing.” 4
Through his study of mountain life, by 1910 John Campbell reached the conclusion that the “dominant strain in the mountain section of the Southern Appalachians is Scotch-Irish,” 5 a claim that would later contribute to the idea that mountain people were of “pure” Anglo stock. He is also credited with drawing the first map of the region 6 and with popularizing the term “Southern Highlands,” conjoining the term American South with Scottish Highlands. After John died in 1919, Olive Dame gathered his notes together and organized them into the book, Our Southern Highlander and His Homeland published posthumously in 1921 under his name.
During the twenty years of their travels through the region, John and Olive Campbell met many people and became a kind of hub around which a number of conversations evolved. Foremost among these ideas were notions about rural education, uplift, and religion, woven together by the popularity of the Social Gospel. Unlike the isolationist philosophy of many religions today, the Social Gospel challenged religious congregations to actively demonstrate their faith through works of charity and service. Joining the voices of other like-minded progressives, John Campbell was a critic of child labor, cotton mills, and the exploitation and profanity of life in lowland mill towns and mountain coalfields. While not overtly denominational themselves, John and Olive worked among others whose support came directly from church mission boards. At a conference in Atlanta in 1909, they met Bishop Junius Horner, who would establish the Appalachian Industrial School at the site of today’s Penland School of Crafts.
But in those earliest days of John Campbell’s study, crafts were not a part of the discussion. Craftwork would evolve later as a strategic means toward economic self-sufficiency. Still, along the way, John and Olive met many key figures who played a role in the Craft Revival. Among their colleagues were Katherine Pettit, May Stone, Helen Dingman, and William Frost of Kentucky; Martha Berry of Georgia; and Warren Wilson and Frances Goodrich of western North Carolina. Through their association with the Russell Sage Foundation, the Campbells also met a number of national figures including Philander P. Claxton, US Commissioner of Education; social science pioneer Jane Addams; Martha Gielow of the Southern Industrial Education Association, and leaders of the American Red Cross, Peabody Education Fund, and the African-American-based Jeanes and Rosenwald Foundations.
Neither John nor Olive appeared to have been slowed down by the birth—and tragic death in 1912—of their infant daughter Jane, who did not live to see her first birthday. Instead, they appear to have thrown themselves more deeply into their work. Over the next few years, the Campbells were instrumental in bringing mountain workers together at an annual conference. Immediately afterward, they moved into a home in Asheville, North Carolina where they remained for the next seven years.
The formation of the Council of Southern Mountain Workers made a dramatic change in the way mountain work was done. Under the Russell Sage funding umbrella, the Campbells planned conference programs held each April in Knoxville, Tennessee. By 1914, the conference appears to be wholly under the direction of John Campbell, who outlined its purpose “to promote the acquaintance among those engaged in the work of the Southern Highland region and, through an exchange of ideas, to further the best methods of work.” 7 After John’s death in 1919, Olive continued to direct the conference until 1928.
In 1926, at Olive Campbell’s invitation, Allen Eaton delivered a guest lecture on Mountain Handicrafts: What They Mean to our Home Life and to the Life of our Country, a presentation illustrated with lantern slides borrowed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration that focused on hand craft. The annual conference allowed for the planning and implementation of long-term projects involving numerous partnerships and produced, among other things, a cooperative marketing guild (1930); a Department of Labor study (1933); a nationally touring exhibition (1933); a commercial marketing arm (1935); and a privately funded survey (1937).
Even though John Campbell died many years before the founding of the school that bore his name, his philosophy is said to be the basis for many of its ideas. In a letter to his supervisor, John Glenn of the Russell Sage Foundation, Campbell wrote of his desire to support the “out-of-door life,” rather than the “artificial life of labor indoors.” True to his egalitarian nature and spirit of cooperation, he criticized mountain work done “for the mountaineer,” claiming “all work must be done with the mountaineer.” 8 In a biographical sketch written at the time of his death, John C. Campbell’s “work in the mountain field” was credited with inspiring “closer co-operation, the elimination of many obsolete methods in school work, [and a] better adaptation of school and church programs to meet real needs.” 9
- M. Anna Fariello, 2006
1. According to Olive Dame Campbell, John’s widow, John Campbell’s birth date is September 15, 1868. The University of North Carolina, which owns Campbell’s papers, has his date as September 14, 1867.
2. John C. Campbell Folk School No. 10 (annual bulletin), Oct. 1930, in the John C. Campbell Folk School Archives.
3. John C. Campbell to James C. Rogerson, November 11, 1908, reprinted in Olive Dame Campbell, The Life and Work of John Charles Campbell (Madison, Wisconsin: private printing, 1968) 128.
4. Campbell, The Life, 559.
5. John C. Campbell letter to John Glenn, April 19, 1910, in Campbell, The Life, 220.
6. Erik G. Lovik, Campbell, “John C. and Olive Dame,” Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 2006) 1528-1529.
7. Conference of Southern Mountain Workers call for participation, 1914, in Campbell, The Life,
8. John C. Campbell to John Glenn, March 9, 1910, in Campbell, The Life, 581; John C. Campbell to Charles Lyman, March 15, 1918 in Campbell, The Life, 215.
9. John F. Smith, John C. Campbell Dies, May 15, 1919, located in the Berea College Archives.
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Economist cover a "disaster for anti-independence"
The SNP has condemned The Economist magazine’s front cover which mocks-up a map of Scotland as Skintland as “patronising, metropolitan claptrap”.
It re-names every community in Scotland in puerile, patronising terms even though its own copy reports that Scotland generates 10% of UK GDP with just 8.4% of the population.
Westminster SNP Group Leader Angus Robertson MP outlined how the cover was not only offensive to the people of Scotland but was out of sync with the article itself.
Mr Robertson said the negative imagery was a major setback for the anti-independence parties, as it destroys their claims that the anti-independence campaign is a positive one.
Mr Robertson said:
"This puerile and offensive front page is insulting to literally every single community in Scotland.
"It is patronising, metropolitan claptrap - the Bullingdon Club attitude to Scotland- which lays bare the true nature of Unionism: utterly negative.
"For a pro-Union, London-based magazine to portray Scotland and our communities in this patronising way is a disaster for the anti-independence parties.
"I trust that they too will disassociate themselves from it.
"The Economist's own inside article doesn't even reflect its ridiculous front page.
"As it says, Scotland is not subsidised from Westminster, the Scottish economy erforms better' than any other nation or region in the UK outside South-East England, and we account for 10% of the UK's GDP with just 8.4% of the population.
"The reality of Scotland is that with independence we would be the sixth-wealthiest nation in the developed world in terms of GDP per head, compared to the UK's sixteenth place; we subsidised the rest of the UK by £510 for every man, women and child in Scotland in the last year; and the oil and gas asset base in the North Sea is worth £1.5 trillion, with more tax revenues to come than have already been generated.
"How dare our community and our nation be decried in such an insulting manner - it tells us nothing about economics and everything about the insular, metropolitan bias of the anti-independence campaign."
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Social Psychology of Web Architecture
Note: Before you proceed, please check the instructions for your generations.html file and your newsgroups.html file on how to format the various sections of this report. The instructions there also apply here.
1) Introduction: xxx
Tell readers what they're going to find in your report and talk about yourself a little in relation to web design: what did you know about it before you started; what was your initial reaction; what is your current attitude towards it, especially whether or not it has become part of your life, part of something you're going to think about from now on, or not.
_____ 2) **Take a look at earlier generations for student reports on this topic. Describe what the students are talking about by making a list of topics with a brief annotation for each. Be sure to link to each one you discuss. Analyze the level of the topics. Make sure you have a paragraph on each of these:
3) Web Designer Principles As I See It: xxx
(a) Go to this address and poke around for awhile (lots to explore...).
Be sure to have your word processor open at the same time and type in things when the thoughts actually occur to you. Don't wait for later or rely on memory and impression, if you want a valid, objective report!! Remember: Truth in advertising -- "What I write is what I think and feel." ((But please: write in a style that is comprehensible and pleasing to the general others!!))
(b) What is the purpose of this Site, as you see it? Describe its links and what you think they mean.
(c) Explore each link and summarize whatever you can understand, using copy/paste techniques and links and your descriptions or interpretations in your own words. You can number the points sequentially as "Principles I Understand". You don't have to discuss things you don't understand. Remember: you're writing for future students and visitors and you want to accomplish two purposes:
(I) Give them useful information to browse through as processed by your unique mind. Don't just paraphrase because then the reports of everyone in this class will sound the same!!
(II) Give them a happy time while learning about the information -- so you can use your own flavor of humor (in good taste) or whatever...to accomplish this purpose.
4) Psychological Aspects to Web Design: xxx
(a) Go to the instructor's article on the social psychology of home page architecture and pick three favorite ideas from it. Explain each in your own words and why they are your favorites. Use copy/paste and links to illustrate from the article.
(b) Now compare the principles you elaborated above to these psychological principles. Make a connection for an overall picture.
5) What It's Like to Become a Web Designer: xxx
Give your biography as a web designer:
(a) where you started from
(b) what you went through
(c) where you are now
(d) what's ahead for you
(e) what advice you have for future generations?
(f) what advice you have for the instructor with regard to his attempt to build the online generational community classroom.?
6. Annotated Index to Web Design: xxx
Search the Internet for articles that discuss the psychological forces in web design and navigation. Describe how you found them and what each says in relation to the topics you discussed in your report.
_____ 7) Add a centered h1 or h2 heading, calling the document:
Social Psychology of Web Architecture:
Note: the XXX means you have to make up your own sub-title--something that reflects your approach, style, and theme. Do this after you finish your report and you know how it turned out! But don't forget to do it--don't leave the XXX there!!
_____ 8) Put this in your HTML [title] field (or use Page Properties command): Gender Differences in Driving by FN/ LN, Gxx/ Year, University of Hawaii
_____ 9) Place a Table of Contents at the top of the document with links to all the sub-sections.
_____ Note: Students often forget this item--but it is required: The first item in the Table of Contents MUST be called Instructions for this Report and it must be a live link to this document. Points will be deducted if you forget this requrement! Do it now.
_____ 10) Be sure you add a Navigation Table and e-mail button at the bottom of the document. This is a requirment for all your documents. Check now now to see if you have on in all your documents. Do it now!
_____ 11) Using your web browser, check your document screen by screen: no screen should be made of just one paragraph (i.e., no paragraph should exceed one screen full--it's too hard to read that way!) Just look at every screen: it should not be made up of all text--separate using paragraph breaks.
_____ 12) Spell check your document before uploading!!
_____ 13) Check the visibility of your text: patterned backgrounds are not allowed. Darker colors are not allowed. White bgcolor is always excellent, especially if you vary the font face, color, and size to enhance visibility and emphasis (no blinking text allowed). Remember: your text looks different in different browsers and computers, so you need to experiment and ask others. You may also use graphic enhancers such as color bars, color dots, icons. However, animated icons are a problem if they distract attention from the text. Using the Table tag in html allows easy control over the color of each column and the placement of text on the screen. See this example for how to change the color of fonts. See this student's effective use of varied font faces, colors, and sizes.
_____ 14) Check the way your document loads after it contains everything. How long does it take? Does text appear on the screen while one waits, or is it blank? Slow loads and blank screens are not allowed, so you must choose graphics that are low in memory size!
All Prior Student Generations
To Instructor's Home Page
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Chinese state media reported that six miners have been rescued from a flooded mine in Shanxi province.
Jiaonan Coal Mine flooded on Thursday, when 75 workers were underground. 64 escaped safely, two died, and three are still unaccounted for. Efforts to find those miners are still ongoing, said Xinhua.
The Chinese government estimates that 2,600 mineworkers died in accidents in China last year.
Earlier this year 115 miners were rescued from a mine in Shanxi after it flooded, an accident that was dubbed a 'miracle' by the Chinese media.
That incident, in which 38 people died, is to be made into a film by the Shanxi Film Studio. It is expected to be released around 1 October, China's National Day, when patriotic films are traditionally shown.
The mining industry is crucial to the China's economy, with 70 percent of the country's electricity coming from coal-fired power stations.
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Scanning the genes of children with inherited brain disorders pinpoints the precise cause more than a quarter of the time, often changing the diagnosis, according to one of the largest studies of child DNA sequencing.
The study published today in Science Translational Medicine examined the genes in 118 people with child-onset brain development disorders where obvious causes had been excluded. Researchers found new disease-causing mutations in 22 patients. In 10 more people, the scans found rare genetic diseases that had been misdiagnosed because symptoms were atypical. In two cases, the new diagnosis led to changes in treatment.
The study “is a remarkable demonstration of the power of sequencing in the clinic -- precise, molecular, root cause diagnosis,” said Eric Topol, a professor of genomics at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego in an e-mail. “Virtually all diseases” will be more precisely defined through gene sequencing in the not-too-distant future, he wrote.
The research shows how often DNA scans can improve diagnosis in kids with brain disorders such as autism, severe epilepsy, or intellectual disability, said Joseph Gleeson, a child neurologist and study author. Brain development disorders afflict as much as 4 percent of children and are often genetic, yet the precise causes can be elusive, he said. Sequencing lets researchers examine all genes for abnormalities, instead of testing for one genetic disorder at a time as done now.
The biggest surprise is that some children with genetic brain disorders have diseases that have been known for a long time, said Gleeson, of the University of California, San Diego. The kids weren’t diagnosed correctly because “frequently their symptoms don’t match those in the textbook.”
As a consequence, doctors may not have thought of ordering gene tests for those rare diseases, Gleeson said.
“This is taking the whole medical field by surprise,” Gleeson said. “It used to be that the gray-haired professor was the gold standard, and if patient didn’t respond to treatment then patient was an anomaly.”
Gene sequencing eliminates the problem of misleading or vague symptoms by testing all genes, Gleeson said. “It will change the way we practice medicine,” he said.
The study follows research published in the June issue of the Journal of Medical Genetics, where scientists at Duke University used sequencing to diagnose six of 12 kids with genetic disease of unknown origin. In five of the cases, the children had had mutations in genes known to cause disease, said David Goldstein, the study leader and director of the Center for Human Genome Variation at Duke’s School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. One child had been diagnosed with autism, yet turned out to actually have Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome.
For diagnosing pediatric genetic disease, sequencing “is an absolutely transformational technology,” Goldstein said in a telephone interview.
“It is a much larger, more important application than people were anticipating,” Goldstein said. Today’s study confirms that sequencing can revise the diagnosis in many cases, he said.
Gene sequencing produces huge volumes of data that can be hard to interpret, UCSD’s Gleeson said. In the Science Translational Medicine study released today, Gleeson and colleagues simplified the analysis by studying sick children of married cousins in countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, where such relationships are common. The families had multiple relatives afflicted by genetic disease, making it easier to find inherited mutations, he said.
The California researchers worked with scientists at Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to scan the genes in the 118 patients. This technology is called exome sequencing and looks at the 1 percent of the DNA that contains genes that create proteins. The researchers used equipment from San Diego- based Illumina Inc. (ILMN) and elsewhere to perform the sequencing.
Translating the sequencing technology into everyday medical practice will be a challenge, Gleeson said, as doctors are “sorely prepared” for the data onslaught. “We don’t have computational algorithms that can manage the analysis and we don’t have doctors that can interpret the data,” he said.
Duke’s Goldstein said the technology can be applied rapidly. ‘There is nothing that prohibits this from being done on scale,’’ he said.
The technology may save money because the raw cost of sequencing the 1 to 2 percent of the genome that contains genes now cost less than $1,000, not including cost of interpreting the data, Goldstein said.
For some patients “it is clearly less than has been spent on gene-by-gene tests” that cost several thousand dollars per gene, Goldstein said.
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To Vent or not to Vent, that is the question
Hi There. I was wondering if anyone could help me? I need some advice.
We have a big detached two-story garage that needs new shingles for the roof. There is not an attic, per se. The second floor is only a half-open loft-type studio, very rough, that we use mostly for storage. So far the ceiling is just open framing on the inside. There is insulation installed under the roof which is attached directly to the ceiling. There is no gap between ceiling and insulation to allow for any airflow. Then there is plastic sheeting over the insulation to provide, I assume, a vapor barrier (stapled to the ceiling beams) just as it was done on the walls. The ceiling was insulated exactly the same way as the walls and i have never seen ceilings done this way before now.
My questions are concerning the insulation and the need to vent when we reroof. We only use the garage to store vehicles, tools and lawn furniture. There is plenty of air circulation below but it does get awfully hot upstairs. (However, we aren't storing Monets, if you know what I mean so that is not a huge concern.)
These are my questions and concerns:
1. Is there any danger leaving the insulation the way it is? Assuming there is no danger, then, when I leave the insulation where it is do I not vent it?
Or when i leave the insulation where it is should I do some creative venting? (i.e. bring down/extend vent tubing below the insulation)? Without a gap, would that not defeat the purpose of an airvent? Might let out hot air but not help with moisture. I am not sure.
2. Or, if i should i move the insulation (yellow fiberglass kind), can I create a 4-6" airflow gap between it and the ceiling or does it need to be an attic-like set-up of three feet or whatever?
I am so confused. I know there is also some debate on whether to vent or not to vent but i was assuming that was for houses and structures with attics and attached garages. I know venting is said to extend the life of the roof/shingles and regulate heat and moisture inside the structure. i don't want to go through the time and expense reroofing only to have to do it over again in a short time. I also do not want to create extra expense if work not necessary.I have two conflicting points of views with two different handy men I'm considering contracting.
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The Webber Photo Cards Story Starters contains 134 extra large (4" x 6") cards that are ideal for prompting students of all ages to tell or write a story. With photo scenes ranging from A Princess Kissing a Frog to Walking Home in the Rain, everyone will find something to talk or write about. The 67 vertical and 67 horizontal photos are even color-coded for easy sorting.
Story Starters is perfect for improving writing, story telling, describing, questioning, inferencing, and thinking skills. To play, shuffle the cards, have your students choose, and have them write or tell a story about the card. Also includes a content card in six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese.
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Congo: Fighting over Goma's Natural Resources
Perhaps it is because of the civil war, reported to have caused the deaths of more than 3 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 1998 and 2003, that something has changed in global politics. Maybe this is why the French government suddenly cares about the plight of ordinary Congolese people. And it would seem that the mainstream media finds the DRC conflict newsworthy.
I do not mean to be cynical, but the swiftness with which the mainstream media and the serious manner in which international political leaders responded to the recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) leaves me thinking that there is more to their response than meets the eye.
A historical context is in order. The 1998 - 2003 civil war was fuelled by sophisticated networks of high-level political, military and business persons in cahoots with various rebel groups, according to the U.N. For five years, millions of innocent people died in the DRC without the media making half as much noise as it is making at the moment.
During those five years, the EU did not consider sending in an 'EU battle group of up to 1500 troops to restore peace' as Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, would like the EU to do in the wake of the recent conflict in the DRC.
So, one has to wonder: what has changed this time around?
Laurent Nkunda, the rebel leader who is behind the renewed conflict in the DRC, has been engaged in a low-level conflict with the DRC government since 2004. According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report (2004), ever since the establishment of the government of National Unity in the DRC in June 2003, peace has eluded eastern parts of the DRC.
Referring to the 2004 fighting, the HRW report points out that the fighting "in Bukavu is only the latest event in a pattern of deteriorating security and massive violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. ...for millions of Congolese citizens who live in the highly populated eastern region and face daily struggles for survival, there is no peace."
The recent fighting that started last month is part of the ongoing low-level conflict between Laurent Nkunda and the DRC government; and it began four years ago. In the four year period since the start of the conflict, Laurent Nkunda and his men have committed untold atrocities against the innocent people of the DRC .
Sadly, the international community is only starting to pay attention to the conflict now. And my feeling is that the only reason people like Kouchner want to send in EU troops to 'restore peace' in the DRC is because of the current global economic crisis. The latest fighting in the DRC happened just as the Indonesian tin producers announced that they were cutting back on production due to falling tin prices.
It is reported that the cutback on tin production, which has forced tin buyers to rely on the metal from the DRC, is likely to remain in effect until the rest of the year. According to Reuters, the renewed fighting in the DRC has had a 'disproportionately large effect on tin prices as international buyers increasing rely on the relatively small producer' - the DRC as major producer Indonesia cuts output. "Benchmark tin prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) <MSN3> closed at $15,225 per tonne on Wednesday, up 31 percent since Oct. 27, the day after heavily-armed rebel troops began marching toward major eastern city and tin trading centre Goma" says Reuters.
AFP reports that what prevented Laurent Nkunda and his men from completely taking over Goma was the UN peacekeeping forces, which used helicopter gunships to stall the rebel advance. The idea of Laurent Nkunda capturing the city of Goma makes global capitalists anxious to say the least.
Jendayi Frazer, the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, is quoted as saying that Laurent Nkunda and his men " ...should not go into Goma, they will be held accountable for actions taking place (there)." Bernard Kouchner has made it clear that the EU ought to replace the UN peacekeepers in the DRC with 'different soldiers'. "... in any case we need different soldiers and different rules of engagement ....We need to change things...We need to be a bit more offensive."
To understand what Kouchner has in mind, one only needs to take a look at the history of the French in the Central African Republic (CAR). For over 40 years, the French government involved itself in the CAR's political affairs. The French army helped install dictator after dictator in that country since CAR's independence from France in 1960 (Hari, 2007). CAR has strong ties with its former coloniser, France and for many years it was reported that France had a 1 200-strong garrison based in CAR. The same garrison engineered changes of government over the years and supported the governments of the day, which kow-towed to France's agenda, to quell dissent.
Surprisingly, Kouchner was one of twelve people who founded Medecines Sans Frontieres (MSF). You would think that a person who helped establish an organisation such as the MSF would advocate for peaceful and not military solutions in the DRC. It is no wonder then that MSF does not want to be associated with the Kouchners of this world.
A few days after Kouchner was appointed as France's minister of foreign affairs, MSF released a press statement pointing out that: "For nearly 30 years, MSF and Dr. Kouchner have had public disagreements on such issues as the right to intervene and the use of armed force for humanitarian reasons. Indeed, Dr. Kouchner is in favor of the latter, whereas MSF stands up for an impartial humanitarian action, independent from all political, economic and religious powers...."
In the final analysis, Kouchner and Laurent Nkunda care about one thing, and that is control of the natural resources of the DRC. Kouchner uses the humanitarian intervention argument to disguise his motives for calling for a military solution of the problem. Laurent Nkunda, on the other hand, claims to be fighting on behalf of the Tutsis who he says are being persecuted. The HRW cautions that "in the ongoing struggle for power in eastern DRC, ethnicity frequently serves to cover other motives for action."
In its investigation of the 1998/2003 DRC civil war, the UN found that big battles during the civil war were fought in areas of major economic importance; for example, towards the cobalt and copper-rich area of Katanga and the diamond area of Mbuji Mayi. These areas made millions of dollars for whoever had control over them.
This time around the area of major economic importance is the city of Goma. Next year it will be another area - and things will continue like that until the source of conflict, that is the economic dimension of the conflict is addressed.
i In his e-book 'Laurent Nkundabatware. His Rwandan Allies, and the ex ANC mutiny: Chronic barriers to lasting peace in the DRC', David Barouski subjects Laurent Kunda and his followers to a detailed analysis.
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under 65? visit the
An extensive guide to caregiving issues affecting seniors and their families, presented by Barbara E. Friesner, a recognized author, educator and consultant on senior care issues.
Links to ADRC’s, which provide information on Medicare-funded programs, their benefits, assistance determining eligibility and enrolling. Includes Medicare Savings Programs and extra help with Medicare Part D costs. Also connection to other aging services in West Virginia.
Site provides information on applying for Medicare benefits in Vermont and a link to a tool to apply.
This flyer from the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups (CWAG) offers a free benefits checkup to Wisconsin residents and referral to benefit and financial assistance information.
A free health benefits counseling service for Medicare beneficiaries, families or caregivers. For more information, you can contact the statewide hotline 24 hours a day at 1-800-432-4040. Leave a message and a SHIP Volunteer will call you back.
An on-line tool to determine what Medicare benefits and Medicare wrap-around benefits you are eligible for in West Virginia.
Benefits.gov was launched in an effort to provide citizens with easy, online access to government benefit and assistance programs. The program’s mission is to reduce the expense and difficulty of interacting with the government while increasing citizen access to government benefit information. The site’s core function is the eligibility prescreening questionnaire or “Benefit Finder.” Answers to the questionnaire are used to evaluate a visitor’s situation and compare it with the eligibility criteria for more than 1,000 Federally-funded benefit and assistance programs. Each program description provides citizens with the next steps to apply for any benefit program of interest.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services Disability Benefit Specialist Program answers questions and solves problems related to Medicare, Social Security, health insurance and other public and private benefits for people with disabilities.
A list of important health care phone numbers, including the Medicare main number, Medicare counseling, state assistance, Social Security, benefits information, fraud inquiries and more
This guide, from Rhode Island’s Department of Human Services, helps consumers decide what health coverage fits them best, and provides an overview of Medicare plans, benefits, out-of-pocket costs, etc.
Details on the Insurance Counseling Assistance and Referrals for Elders program, a government health insurance counseling service for individuals seeking information about South Carolina health insurance programs.
Educates and assists South Carolina Medicare beneficiaries, those eligible for Medicare, and caregivers about Medicare, Medicaid, Medigap, pharmacy assistance programs, and other issues related to health insurance benefits.
The official U.S. government Medicare consumer handbook.
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) is a nonprofit service and advocacy organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Our mission is to improve the lives of older Americans.
seniorresource.com is a comprehensive source of housing information and services for seniors and their caregivers.
This site links to programs providing information about Medicare benefits, Medicare supplement insurance companies, supplement plans and monthly rate comparisons, long-term care insurance plans, and help with Medicare costs.
Directory of SHIBA advisors throughout Washington State who provide information about Medicare health care coverage and access. Access to Insurance Consumer Hotline to assist with questions or complaints, locate health insurance polices, and refer the uninsured and underinsured to other options.
To find a benefits specialist in your area to help older adults with disabilities to understand and access Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, FoodShare, low-income housing and health insurance.
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A noted scientist taking part in a charity bicycle ride to raise funds for troubled children was killed when he crashed his bike into a car stopped at an intersection in northern New Jersey.
Doug McCune, 55, of Princeton Township was pronounced dead at the scene of Saturday's crash in Clinton Township. Authorities said he was wearing a helmet, but further details on his injuries were not disclosed.
McCune was an award-winning scientist who developed sophisticated software used around the world to understand the physics of fusion experiments. He was taking part in the annual "Ride for Runaways" event that benefits Anchor House, a Trenton-based shelter for abused and neglected children.
His death occurred on the final day of the 500-mile, 7-day ride.
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In modern Japanese slang, otaku refers to an overly obsessed fan of any one particular theme, topic, or hobby. The term is used most commonly with anime or manga otaku, but by itself just means “fanatic.” Thus, there are many varieties of otaku in Japan, such as paso-kon otaku (personal computer geeks), game otaku, idol otaku, tetsudou otaku (metrophiles), or gunji otaku (military geeks), etc. Furthermore, while in Japanese the term otaku possesses a fairly derogatory air about it, internationally, the term has evolved to mean, simply, an obsessed fan of Japanese manga or anime (or more broadly, Japanese popular culture). Thus, outside of Japan, serious devotees of anime and/or manga proudly refer to themselves as otaku. Train Man: Densha Otoko is the allegedly true story of one otaku who posted his story on the famous internet bulletin board 2ch (http://www.2ch.net/). 2ch is the largest internet forum in the world. With over ten million visitors a day, 2ch is gaining a significant profile in Japanese society, competing for influence with traditional mass media such as television, radio, and magazines. 4-ch (http://4-ch.net/) is an English-language website, with discussion boards for English speakers, presented in the style of 2ch. It also contains a board where Japanese 2ch users can talk to each other in Japanese.
Read More about Otaku Subcultures!
Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo
By Patrick Macias and Tomohiro Machiyama
(Stone Bridge Press, 2004, ISBN 1-880656-88-4)
If you’re into anime and manga, there’s no place like Neo Tokyo. Here, otaku dress-up cosplay-style for real, more than 100,000 fans attend cons to buy and trade their favorite wares, and anime soundtracks are performed in concert halls. Neo Tokyo is where anime has become both urban fashion and cultural zeitgeist, and this is its first street-smart guide in English. Featuring interviews with tastemakers, it covers studios, toys, museums, games, film “locations,” music, plus where to hang and how to cruise. Four-color, with maps and index. www.patrickmacias.blogs.com
By Satoru Fujii, Carl Gustav Horn, Mason Jones,
Patrick Macias, and Yuji Oniki
(Cadence Books, 1999, ISBN: 1569313458)
This lively, idiosyncratic survey of Japanese film, music, animation, and comics showcases the experiences of five avid American fans: journalist Carl Gustav Horn, who writes about anime; critic and musician Mason Jones, who releases Japanese alternative music on his Charnel Music record label; Patrick Macias, a writer on Asian film for the San Francisco Bay Guardian; Matt Thorn, a translator and expert on shojo (girls’) manga; and Yuji Oniki, a student of Japanese mass media.
The opening of Train Man: Densha Otoko takes place in the central Tokyo neighborhood of Akihabara. Filled with urban noise and neon lights, this “Electric Town” provides the setting for a true love story. Akihabara (referred to by locals as akiba) is known as one of the largest shopping areas on Earth for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods. It’s known around the world as the mecca of otaku culture. Akiba otaku lead a unique lifestyle, based around technological interests and love for anime and manga. It’s a lifestyle that’s made them outsiders in Japanese society. However, recently, with the rapid growth of the anime and manga market in Japan, otaku culture has gained a higher profile and generated greater interest in the Japanese media. The film Train Man: Densha Otoko is based on a bestselling book, Densha Otoko, released in 2005, that generated a mass-media craze over all things otaku. >> go to Akihabara Links
Rental Showcase and Gacha Gacha
The first appearance of “Train_Man” in the movie has him shopping at a “rental showcase” shop in Akihabara. In these shops, you can rent display cases for action figures, miniatures, promotional tie-in prizes, premium trading cards, vintage gacha gacha toys, etc. Gacha gacha is a coin-driven toy dispensing machine, somewhat like what you at the entrance of supermarkets in America. In the movie, a gacha gacha machine appears in a street scene in Akihabara, where an otaku guy gets excited over his gacha gacha toy. Originally, gacha gacha were meant for children, but recently a great deal of excitement has been generated over toys for grown-ups (as distinguished from “adult toys”). These “toys for grown-ups” are usually well-crafted figurines, sold for 100-200 yen, depending on the complexity of the item. All gacha gacha toys come in a spherical plastic capsule, something that Train_Man happens to drop on the subway, though in this case the capsule doesn’t come directly from a gacha gacha, but from the rental showcase shop. >> go to Rental Showcases Links
A manga café (or manga kissa in Japanese) is a kind of café in Japan where customers can read manga. Customers pay for the time they stay in the café. They may also be offered internet access, video games, television, magazines, and beverages as part of the fee. They can order snacks for extra, and more luxurious and newer cafés may even offer massage chairs or spa rooms. The history of manga cafés is a long one. The first manga cafés opened in Nagoya in the late 1970′s. These tended to be ordinary coffee shops offering a large collection of manga available for customers to read on the premises. Nowadays the cost for a manga café is around $4-5 an hour. Some manga cafes even offer a service where customers can stay the night for only about $13, which is nice for people who missed the last subway. In April 2006, a man was arrested for living in a manga cafe for 34 days without paying. >> go to Manga Café Links
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Mobile VoIP gaining headway, despite operator reluctance
The CleverConnect application is focused on deciding the best way for friends and family to stay in touch using mobile VoIP calls via Wi-Fi or 3G. The clever part is that the app supposedly chooses the cheapest routing to make the call. (T-Mobile USA has a similar service, called Bobsled, which has more than one million users.)
Note that T-Mobile doesn't say the calls are free, and the trial could be more about testing whether CleverConnect attracts users to adopt T-Mobile as its service provider.
Other UK operators have trialled mobile VoIP services, although little seems to have happened since--with the exception of 3 UK.
Elsewhere in Europe, the technology seems to be gaining ground. O2 Germany with its Global Friends service, and separately Vodafone Netherlands and Orange Spain having signed agreements with VoIP developer Truphone.
But mobile operators have been less than enthusiastic about supporting VoIP given the ongoing decline in their traditional voice revenues, and have instigated a number of tactics--such as throttling--to restrict the appeal of mobile VoIP services.
This Canute-like resistance to mobile VoIP is understandable, but will ultimately fail as handsets supporting Wi-Fi and 3G become evermore commonplace, and consumers become aware of how VoIP can lower their monthly charges.
The market research firm Visiongain recently forecast that mobile VoIP users will exceed 180 million by 2016 generating $36 billion (€28.1 billion) in revenue. This growth will be spurred by innovations in smartphone design ranging from advanced user interface, acoustics to ergonomic design, the research firm said.
However, the Visiongain study is not shy in highlighting that mobile VoIP remains a regulated service and the operator's positioning around the service is far from being standardised. The report notes that regulation and security are two major milestones of a successful technology.
What might also worry VoIP advocates is the question of its survival in the face of increasing price competitiveness amongst operators and what any financial advantage VoIP might offer over existing tariffs.
To further illustrate the issue, data recently published by Strand Consult claimed that Skype's 124 million active users generated less than $1 billion in revenue. A mobile operator with a similar number of customers would, by comparison, be generating many billions of dollars in revenue--which provides some clue to the weird VoIP business model.
Two factors that seem likely to sway the arguments towards the success of VoIP are the ongoing deployment of LTE and the involvement of over-the-top players keen to take a further bite out of mobile operators' revenues.--Paul
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Ancient Mariners: Did Neanderthals Sail to Mediterranean?
Neanderthals and other extinct human lineages might have been ancient mariners, venturing to the Mediterranean islands thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
This prehistoric seafaring could shed light on the mental capabilities of these lost relatives of modern humans, researchers say.
Scientists had thought the Mediterranean islands were first settled about 9,000 years ago by Neolithic or New Stone Age farmers and shepherds.
"On a lot of Mediterranean islands, you have these amazing remains from classical antiquity to study, so for many years people didn't even look for older sites," said archaeologist Alan Simmons at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
However, in the last 20 years or so, some evidence has surfaced for a human presence on these islands dating back immediately before the Neolithic. [Image Gallery: Our Closest Human Ancestor]
"There's still a lot to find in archaeology — you have to keep pushing the envelope in terms of conventional wisdom," Simmons said.
For instance, obsidian from the Aegean island of Melos was uncovered at the mainland Greek coastal site of Franchthi cave in layers that were about 11,000 years old, while excavations on the southern coast of Cyprus revealed stone artifacts about 12,000 years old.
"We found evidence that human hunters may have helped drive pygmy hippos to extinction on Cyprus about 12,000 years ago," Simmons said. "This suggests that seafarers didn't need to have already domesticated plants and animals to go to these islands, which is a pretty complex set of tricks — they could have been hunter-gatherers."
Recently, research has hinted that seafarers may have made their way out to the Mediterranean islands even earlier, long before the Neolithic, and not only to isles close to the mainland, but to more distant ones as well, such as Crete.
For instance, stone artifacts on the southern Ionian Islands hint at human sites there as early as 110,000 years ago. Investigators have also recovered quartz hand-axs, three-sided picks and stone cleavers from Crete that may date back about 170,000 years ago. The distance of Crete about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the mainland would have made such a sea voyage no small feat.
The exceedingly old age of these artifacts suggests the seafarers who made them might not even been modern humans, who originated between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. Instead, they might have been Neanderthals or perhaps even Homo erectus.
"The whole idea of seafaring makes these extinct groups seem more human — they were going out to sea to explore places that were uninhabited," Simmons told LiveScience.
The problem with these ancient finds is determining their exact age. "They're well beyond the range of radiocarbon dating," Simmons said. Although researchers can also deduce the ages of artifacts based on the ages of surrounding materials, these artifacts weren't found in reliable contexts that could indisputably attest to their age, he added.
Although the idea that extinct human lineages possessed such advanced mental capabilities might be controversial, ancient seafaring has been seen elsewhere in the world. For instance, Australia was colonized at least 50,000 years ago, while fossils in Indonesia suggest that an extinct lineage of humans was seafaring as long ago as 1.1 million years.
"If the ancient finds in the Mediterranean can be verified, they will show that Homo erectus or Neanderthals or both had the skills and cognitive ability to build boats and navigate them," Simmons said.
Simmons detailed this research in the Nov. 16 issue of the journal Science.
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To have both of your hands rank higher than both hands of the designated "Banker". Hands are played and ranked as traditional poker hands.
PAI GOW POKER is played with one deck consisting of 52 cards plus one Joker. The Joker is wild. Aces can be used either high or low (would be used as low only in a small straight).
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Each player, including the Banker, places his or her wager before the cards are dealt. The Banker (player bank or house bank) wagers against all other players.
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After many years of lugging a laptop around with me at conferences, I decided to leave it in the room this time. It helps immensely with my focus during talks, and even helps during the breaks, when I can either talk to people or read the proceedings, rather than check email ... and the web ... and some blogs ... and oops ! one session's blown away.
One of the more notable talks I heard on Tuesday was by Rina Panigrahy on a new lower bound for locality-sensitive hashing by Rajeev Motwani, Assaf Naor and himself.
Locality-sensitive hashing is a suprisingly effective "geometric" analogue of hashing first developed by Piotr Indyk and Rajeev Motwani. In standard hashing, the goal is to maintain a set of elements S drawn from a large universe U so that you can answer the question "is i in S" really quickly. Because U is typically much larger than S, what you'd like is a storage structure that uses space proportional to the size of S, rather than the size of U (which would be easy to do).
Hashing is one of the most elegant, profound and practical ideas to come out of the study of algorithms and data structures. It's almost impossible to find any serious program that doesn't need some kind of hash data structure. A detailed post on hashing will have to wait for another day though..
Locality-sensitive hashing is a way to take hashing to a geometric arena (you knew geometry had to show up sooner or later). Suppose that instead of merely having a set of elements from a universe, I had a set of points in a metric space. For example, maybe I have points situated in 1o-dimensional space with the normal Euclidean distance.
My goal is the same: I want to store points from the space in a data structure so I can ask the question: "is i in S ?". But now that points have distances between them, I can ask the related question, "is i near some point of S ?". Locality-sensitive hashing gives you a data structure that answers such questions approximately. More precisely, given parameters c, r, p, q, the structure guarantees that if two elements are within distance r of each other, then they are hashed to the same bucket with probability p, and if they are further than c * r, then this happens with probability q. In general, you want p to be much larger than q of course, and you'd like c to be as close to 1 as possible.
The actual construction is quite simple (you create a collection of hash functions and map each point to a vector of hash values), and has had numerous applications. What controls the efficacy of the scheme is the parameter r = log(1/p)/log(1/q), which affects both the space and time bounds of the algorithm; the smaller r is, the better. Roughly speaking, the space required by an algorithm is n^(1+r) and the query time is n^r.
Since c controls the quality of the hash, and r controls its efficiency, these two parameters vary inversely. In fact, for l1, it was shown earlier that r <= 1/c. What this paper shows is that for any lp norm, r >= 0.462/cp. Specifically, this means that the bound for l1 is almost tight. Together with new work by Andoni and Indyk showing that LSH for l2 can be done with r <= 1/c2, this gives almost matching upper and lower bounds for LSH for a range of norms.
It's a very nice result, and quite simple. In fact, for those who grumble that papers with few pages are not viewed kindly by PCs, this paper is only 4 pages long.
Update (6/11/06): As Piotr points out in the comments, the bounds are not quite matched. There is a constant factor gap between the upper and lower bounds, and thus some more work to do. Damn you, big-O notation !!!
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Front Page Titles (by Subject) chapter 1: Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions - Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 4
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chapter 1: Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 4
Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique, ed. Eduardo Nolla, translated from the French by James T. Schleifer. A Bilingual French-English editions, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010). Vol. 4.
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Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions
Equality, which makes men independent of each other, makes them contract the habit and the taste to follow only their will in their personal actions. This complete independence, which they enjoy continually vis-à-vis their equals and in the practice of private life, disposes them to consider all authority with a discontented eye, and soon suggests to them the idea and the love of political liberty. So men who live in these times march on a natural slope that leads them toward free institutions. Take one of them at random; go back, if possible, to his primitive instincts; you will discover that, among the different governments, the one that he conceives first and that he prizes most, is the government whose leader he has elected and whose actions he controls.a
Of all the political effects that equality of conditions produces, it is this love of independence that first strikes our attention and that timid spirits fear even more; and we cannot say that they are absolutely wrong to be afraid, for anarchy has more frightening features in democratic countries than elsewhere.b Since citizens have no effect on each other, at the instant when the national power that keeps them all in their place becomes absent, it seems that disorder must immediately be at its height and that, with each citizen on his own, the social body is suddenly going to find itself reduced to dust.
I am convinced nevertheless that anarchy is not the principal evil that democratic centuries must fear, but the least.
Equality produces, in fact, two tendencies: one leads men directly to independence and can push them suddenly as far as anarchy; the other leads them by a longer, more secret, but surer road toward servitude.
Peoples easily see the first and resist it; they allow themselves to be carried along by the other without seeing it; it is particularly important to show it.
As for me,c far from reproaching equality for the unruliness that it inspires, I praise it principally for that. I admire equality when I see it deposit deep within the mind and heart of each man this obscure notion of and this instinctive propensity for political independence. In this way equality prepares the remedy for the evil to which it gives birth. It is from this side that I am attached to it.
[a. ] In the manuscript: “. . . government based on the principle of sovereignty of the people.”
[b. ] What to do to combine the spirit of equality and the spirit of liberty and make liberty reign amid a leveled society.
This part is the most important for me./
The hydra of anarchy is the sacramental phrase of all the enemies of liberty. The cowardly, the corrupt, the servile try to outdo each other in repeating it. The weak and the honest say it also.
It is a monster that I must look in the face. For it is after all the great enemy of my ideas. What I want to bring along and to convince are honest souls. Well! The latter, at the point we have reached, are not afraid of despotism. They tremble before the hydra of anarchy. The fact is that there exists today a singular phenomenon for which we must account.
[To the side: It is honest men led by rogues who have always enslaved the world.
They do not see that in this way they are preparing habits, ideas, laws for all types of despotism, that of all or of one man. These men who today ask of power only to save them from anarchy resemble those drowning men who cling to a dead body and drag it away with them. By violent and reactionary laws, by the violation of existing laws, by the absence of laws, they destroy the ideas of the just and the unjust, of the permissible and the forbidden, of the legal and the illegal, and they thus open the door to all anarchical tyrannies. They are the pioneers of anarchy.]
Liberty and power gradually become weaker and each one in its own way. They are two exhausted and stiff old men who struggle with each other without either one winning, because their weaknesses, not their strengths, are equal; and grappling with each other, they roll together in the same dust.
Thus, those who say that liberty is weak are right. Those who maintain that power is weak are also right. What to conclude from that? Fix all the force of my mind on that.
[To the side: I believe, moreover, that the same symptoms presented themselves before the temporary or definitive enslavement of all peoples.]
To show that arbitrary and anti-liberal measures will not save us from the hydra of anarchy and to demonstrate that legal and liberal measures will not lead there, that is what we must above all work hard to do.
What modern nation (three illegible words) despotism, and how to break despotism without anarchy. Despotism is party to anarchy.
[To the side] What to think of the future of an unfortunate country in which there is an honest and pure man who says that he is not concerned about its posterity, but about himself; who says that country in the general sense is a word, that he very much wants the country to be and to remain free, provided that his fortune and his life remain sure, but that rather than putting these things in dogma [danger (ed.)], tyranny seems better to him; who says that he prefers a permanent, meddlesome, civilizing despotism to a temporary anarchy? And what to hope for his century when the other honest and pure men who surround the former approve his language? This is [illegible word] the sad spectacle that I had today, 7 February 1837 (YTC, CVd, pp. 16-18).
[c. ] “As for me, I consider this taste for natural independence as the most precious present that equality has given to men” (YTC, CVk, 2, pp. 45-46).
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4. OPEN THE WINDOW AND USE THE VENTS, NOT THE AIR CONDITIONING
Even with how much common sense this seems to be, I've had people tell me, "I never even thought of that..." Really, it's not that hot out there, is it? The reason most people won't use the window is because they "can't hear their radio". Boo-hoo. It's either turn the radio up and deal with a bit of street noise, or spend more money on gasoline.
Speaking as someone who lives in an area where it IS, in fact, THAT HOT: It gets up to and over 120 degrees (F) around here in the summer. The AC sometimes just takes the edge off of feeling like you're cooking. The rest of the year, though, I agree- 90 degrees or lower, just to ease the tax on your tank, try lowering the window and sticking it out. :D
Tips for saving money/gas:
Like what a lot of people here have said, WALK. This gets a little tougher in the summer for people who are in hotter areas, or winter for those in colder areas, but generally speaking, humans can do a lot of walking! It takes a little longer to get around to where you're going, but it saves on gas and will help you feel better. So! It means spacing out your time a little differently- if you know it'll take you half an hour to walk somewhere, leave half an hour earlier than you would've in a car. If it's a quick run to the convenience store just a mile away(Yeah, I know that's a daunting walk for many people), try hoofing it. It gets easier the more you do it, and you'll save money.
For those who are not able to be on their feet for that long, bikes are also useful.
I wanna point out, though, that I'm aware not everyone has the luxury of being withing walking distance of everything, or even walking distance of a bus. That of course is subjective- I live a mile from the bus but still take it when I can, including walking TO it- but the advice I'm offering applies to those who ARE within the walking distance of these things.
If you're in the age bracket/money bracket where this applies, getting a hybrid vehicle helps A LOT at the pump. My father owns a hybrid prius, and he regularly gets a minimum of 45 MPG in that thing. He can often get 50-55 MPG, if he drives smoothly(slow acceleration, so on). It costs a lot in the short term, but if you're planning for the long-term it WILL make a difference.
And just in general- if you're comfortable at 65 degrees, try pushing the envelope on your comfort by kicking it up to 70 degrees on your AC. Or even 75. Or higher. If you can tolerate it, it will save you a BUNCH on bills. Use fans, or ice from the fridge- I make makeshift ice-packs with a towel and some ice, myself- or take a cold shower, or dunk your head in cold water. Try to get used to the heat rather than the cold- remember, you can always put something on if you're cold, but there's only so much you can take off if you're hot!
Also! Close blinds/curtains on windows, that will cut down on energy usage for the AC. The darker you can afford to keep your house, the cooler it will be.
Turn it off when you leave. The computer, the fan, the light, the TV. Every small thing you turn off saves you on energy bills. Use sunlight for lighting if you need it, instead of the desk lamp. Maybe even, instead of watching TV, read a book. Write. Draw. Have at non-electrical activities. It's surprising how much we've forgotten we can do to entertain ourselves/each other without being wired into some electrical device.
Buy a water purifier for your faucet, to cut out all the yucky stuff that comes from the tap. Then, buy one (Or more!) bottles of water, drink them whenever, and just refill them from the tap. That saves on spending a lot on bottled water, and it recycles instead of just dumping.
Short showers, or take baths. Conserve your water, AND how much water your waterheater has to, uh, heat. :3
I know that some of what I say isn't applicable to everyone, and I am sort of talking about "here in the US", because that's where I am. I can't speak for other countries because, well, I don't live there.
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I’ve been thinking about the concept and technology of instant replay this afternoon. Because of my interest in media and time, I’ve thought about replay in passing from time to time, but while I was reading an essay about video this morning, I began thinking about how instant replay might represent a fairly significant shift in television’s temporal flows. Most of the sources I’ve encountered identify ABC’s Wide World of Sports (“the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat“) broadcast of the 1963 Army-Navy fooball game as the original use of instant replay, at least as we understand it from sports broadcasts. The technology was invented by Tony Verna,* who has also been very active in video preservation efforts. The concept apparently gained some degree of cultural awareness fairly quickly. By 1967, Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Jerry Kramer titled his diary of the Packers’ Super Bowl season, Instant Replay.
But digging around the web, I noticed that the technology had other early uses, including some military applications (surprise!), allowing the Navy to add stop-action to jets’ on-board cameras in order to avoid bumpy landings (Dennis Dodd’s CBS Sportsline story implies that instant replay wasn’t used for sporting events until 1964). Dodd speculates that instant replay has changed our viewing habits forever, and on the level of sports scrutiny, our ability to view and review any and every possible play, where every play is now a potential highlight, he’s clearly right.
But, on another level, instant replay has a secondary significance that has, perhaps, been overshadowed by the Sports-Centrification of American life (“He…could…go…all…the…way!“). Specifically instant replay, as a concept, invokes what Wolfgang Ernst describes as “that oxymoronic relation between presence and its storage.” Ernst pushse the boundaries of what is normally called instant replay, dating it back to the CBS Eevening News broadcast on November 30, 1956, in which, for the first time, a network news program was recorded on videotape for rebroadcast on the west coast.
The archivability of television is now widely accepted of course, whether via videotape, DVD collections of favorite shows, or TiVo (or even through the re-run). But the narrower definition of instant replay seems significant precisely because the manipulation of the temporality (replay/slow motion) of the image becomes the subject of the shot, rather than the technological possibility represented in the news broadcast Ernst describes. It also inaugurates the (illusory?) control over time that had more commonly been associated with the cinema. Ernst even argues, following Samuel Weber, that TV watchers can no longer tell whether a broadcast is “live,” unless it is “interactive digital TV,” allowing the viewer to participate in the narrative (voting contestants off the show, perhaps), a claim that I’m not quite willing to accept (in fact, some of ESPN’s humor derives from our conscious recogniion of the play between live and “pre-recorded” images).
But there are aspects of Ernst’s argument about instant replay that I find frustrating, particularly the way that he unpacks the concept of “liveness,” which he associates with “amnesia.” Ernst argues that “early TV, like radio, is characterized by its lack of storage abilities — it shows a tendency to amnesia” (632). He later reiterates this perception of televisual amnesia, arguing that “we are made oblivious to the amnesia of TV in the enduring flow of transmission.” (633). I don’t doubt that countless early TV shows/episodes are “lost,” in the sense that no physical recording exists. But the equation of “liveness” with “amnesia” seems imprecise, in part because the programs themselves, particulalry using repetition (of characters, mise-en-scene, or plot elements) to mitigate against amnesia in order to ensure that audiences would be motivated to return, but even the serialization associated with soap operas would seem to work against this notion of amnesia.
* Corrected to address some faulty research on my part.
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Heno-heno 変じゃないのぉ？？ What’s all this heno-heno business then? We take a brief look at this classic idea known by all Japanese people.
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A while ago we went over how to arrange re-delivery of post that you weren’t in the house to accept. This time though, the focus is on delivery companies, particularly Sagawa Express. Let’s get stuck into some listening and reading!
The Te-Form Song. What now?? A good question. This is a handy little mnemonic taught to me by my own teacher way back when I was still a beginning student of Japanese. It helped me immensely, so now I’m passing it on to you!
In the previous lessons (1, 2) we looked at foreign words, as well as onomatopoeic and mimetic expressions. This time, we’ll be examining some really interesting terms that splice two or more words together!
Last time we looked at foreign expressions that make up a portion of Curious Katakana Words. Today we explore some useful onomatopoeic words you can use to really express yourself!
The Japanese language has a smattering of quirky expressions. At first glance, their meanings can often elude us. This is especially so with Katakana words, as they often contain elements from foreign languages, as well as mixtures of slang and even current, trending terms.
I figured it was probably a good idea to have an outline of the Japanese alphabets here on Gakuu for easy access. There are loads of good resources out there that talk about the basics, so this post will be brief, with a sprinkling of advice on how to learn the alphabets.
Ahh Konyoku, the delicate topic of mixed bathing. While not widespread around Japan, it’s certainly not uncommon to find onsen that allow both men and women to bathe together, and increasingly it would seem, young couples are enjoying breaks together to share a private bath at a relaxing ryokan.
A while ago we looked at notice you might receive in the mail. In contrast, this time we’ll actually examine the cards issued when you have an undelivered item.
A bit of Engrish found at Nagoya station. Can you guess what ‘Party Travellers Only’ was the translation for?
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Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita
Mother cell research mapping: Terra Incognita puts a human face on this controversial subject. When the daughter of Dr. Jack
Kessler neurologist injured his spine in a skiing accident, who directed their energies toward finding a method to repair damaged spinal cords, re-focusing his research on the development of cell therapy embryonic stem cells to regenerate damaged parts of the nervous system of the system. His research has led to a very politically sensitive area in which views of Catholic and fundamentalist Christian about the beginning of life exert a powerful influence.
Kessler uses his position to educate the public about the benefits of stem cell research through public lectures and newspaper articles. In working with two graduate students, Vicki and Vibhu, guides them through a careful experiment in mice with spinal damage. Also, during a weekly meeting with students laboratory, Kessler discusses religious objections and misunderstandings about stem cell research.
His colleague, Dr. Laurie Zoloth, who participates in public education activities Kessler, also delves into the moral and ethical issues surrounding research in their classes on bioethics. The questions are more difficult, involving different religious beliefs and sense of human suffering.
In response to the views of most Americans, Congress passed the Stem Cell Research and Enhancement Act of 2005, which was vetoed by President Bush. Another bill supporting stem cell research made its way though Congress in 2007 and also received a presidential veto. Discussion and debate will continue in individual states pass laws that affect stem cell research, while other countries make progress in this field.
Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita,
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GUESTVIEW: Canada and the niqab: How to go public in the public square
The following is a guest contribution. Reuters is not responsible for the content and the views expressed are the authors’ alone. Sarah Sayeed is Program Associate and Matthew Weiner is Program Director at the Interfaith Center of New York.
By Sarah Sayeed and Matthew Weiner
A Canadian judge recently ruled that a Toronto Muslim woman must take off her face veil while giving testimony in a sexual assault trial. This tension between public space and private religion comes up repeatedly in western urban centers where Muslim women increasingly occupy the pubic square. This time it happened in Toronto, but the issue arises regularly in western countries in the schools, workplaces and courtrooms that Muslims increasingly share with the majority population. At stake is whether a Muslim woman’s choice to dress in accordance with her religious beliefs infringes upon “our way of life.”
(Photo: Sultaana Freeman testifies in court for right to wear a niqab on her Florida driver’s license, 27 May 2003/pool)
While all can agree that identity, tolerance and religious freedom are important, advocates for the face veil emphasize the upholding of freedom while opponents focus on the face veil, or niqab, as a challenge to collective identity. Such tension between public expression of religion and collective identity is not new. It has even gone on for centuries in Muslim countries, where religious minorities feel the tension between acceptance and their need to adapt, in varying degrees, to a Muslim majority worldview. There is also a debate within Muslim communities about whether wearing the niqab is a religious requirement.
What seems problematic in the current debate, whether in Toronto or Milan, is the implication that Europeans and North Americans are willing to tolerate differences, but only up to a limit. Some differences seem too threatening for them to consider seriously. They seem to think some differences should be made invisible. Thus, and perhaps inadvertently, the opponents of the niqab – who see themselves as the defenders of collective identity – call into question another value and practice that is central to Western democracy: open dialogue in the public sphere.
Ever since the Enlightenment, Westerners have agreed that tolerance and open discussion in a public space helps prevent violence and fosters community. It is a proud tradition. The great moral effect of creating a public space was that people from different traditions, with different views and different styles of conversing, could join in a shared process. Tolerance – putting up with something you do not agree with – is understood here as an uncomfortable but necessary virtue.
(Photo: Female Saudi pharmacist in Jeddah, 4 June 2007/Susan Baaghil)
In deliberative democracy, each side or point of view must be given a chance to express itself and be subject to deliberation. No side of the debate should be suppressed or dismissed without due consideration. However the niqab, when allowed into the public square, is a message that by itself questions the very boundaries of what is public versus private. It is a mode of dress that suggests a different social order, a different public square.
Should people who cover their faces (and their mouths) speak and deliberate in the public square with those who do not? There seem to be several good reasons for saying yes.
While it may be genuinely strange for us to encounter people with their heads and faces covered, it need not violate the principles of public space or democratic discourse. Orthodox Jews are not supposed to shake hands or interact too closely with the opposite sex. This is accepted. Advocates of public space need to recognize that if the public is genuinely democratic, every minority voice needs an opportunity to participate on their terms. While this necessarily changes how discourse takes place, it is possible that the change will strengthen rather than threaten the collective.
Secondly, if women wearing a niqab are not permitted to engage in the public square in Western societies, the ripple effects may even impede the democratization of Muslim societies and keep Muslim women out of public life. People who hold their religious values dear may choose — or worse, be forced — to remain out of the public square if they are not permitted to enter on their own terms.
(Photo: University graduate in Sanaa, Yemen, 30 July 2008/Khaled Abdullah)
If a community cannot express itself publicly in a way true to their own identity, what will this lead to? Who will it exclude? What effect will such exclusion have, not only on the community at large, but on minorities’ ability to integrate in a way that maintains their identity? And what will the impact of slow democratization in Muslim nations have for women’s rights and the larger global fabric?
There does not seem to be an easy answer, either to these questions or to the debate at hand. But deciding what makes the public square public and how people participate in public deliberation goes beyond the simple debate of religious freedom and national identity. What is important for now is that someone spearhead a healthy discussion that seeks to think through these nuances, as opposed to the current polarized debate that simply compounds a growing divide between communities. Sadly, some who call for a dialogue with Muslims start with the proviso that Muslim women follow their standards for what is properly public. This is not a partnership-based beginning. Rather it will be the communities who move in the direction of real conversation, with openness to change, that will deserve to be called defenders of the pubic sphere.
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No rejoicing for Caribbean travellers
Sir Ronald Sanders
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday, March 23, 2012 - Air transportation in the Caribbean has always been difficult. The news that a privately-owned, low-cost carrier, REDjet, has been forced to suspend its operations has made Caribbean air transportation even more problematic.
Over the last 15 years or so, carriers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany have only maintained a regular schedule of flights into certain countries in the region if the governments of those countries guarantee payment for a quantity of seats. When the airlines don’t sell those seats, the governments pay.
But, if air transportation into and out of the region from the US, the UK and Germany have been problematic, it has been a lot worse within the Caribbean where governments do not extend the same facility of paying regional airlines for an agreed number of unused seats.
"REDjet’s suspension of its operations is an occasion for regret not rejoicing". --Sir Ronald SandersPersons travelling by air within the Caribbean have a choice only between Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL), owned wholly by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, or LIAT, a smaller airline mostly-owned by the Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines. That limitation of choice has led to high fares.
Therefore, the introduction of a low-cost airline, REDjet, into the Caribbean last year was a welcome relief for Caribbean travelers who took to the airline like a duck to water, and cocked a snook at both LIAT and CAL, so delighted were they to travel at lower prices.
The travellers’ vote for REDJet by using its services rather than CAL’s or LIAT’s was directed particularly at CAL because they know that CAL flies on a huge fuel subsidy from the Trinidad and Tobago government, paying less than half the price for a gallon of fuel than is paid by LIAT, and indeed, was paid by REDjet.
In the view of most travellers – but especially those from Trinidad and Tobago – if taxpayers’ money is being used to subsidize the cost of CAL’s fights, the subsidy should be reflected in a lower cost of airfares. It was particularly galling for passengers to pay CAL’s high fares when its Chairman announced huge profits (on the basis of the fuel subsidy).
As it turns out CAL’s profits are a mirage. Once the fuel subsidy is subtracted from the declared profits, CAL is just another losing airline. The news that emerged that it has also not paid in recent months for the fuel it gets at a reduced price from the state-owned company, National Petroleum, shows that even with subsidized fuel, its operations are not efficient enough to pay its way.
In the case of LIAT, it has been the workhorse of the region for decades, and while its service has been less than exemplary, earning ridicule of its acronym as “Luggage in air Terminal” because passengers’ bags were often left behind, and “Leave Island Any Time” because of constant break-downs of its aging fleet of planes, Caribbean people retained loyalty to it. They appreciated that LIAT flew to destinations other airlines ignored because of the unprofitability of the routes, and that without LIAT movement around the region would be difficult if not impossible.
Despite that loyalty, Caribbean passengers were still upset at LIAT’s rising prices, particularly when the cost of travel between some Caribbean destinations became higher that the fares between the Caribbean and foreign destinations such as Miami, New York and Toronto. Adding to this displeasure is the awareness that, in the past, Caribbean governments have put up taxpayers’ money to keep the airline going and the three main shareholder governments are in debt to the Caribbean Development Bank for a loan they used to pump money into LIAT.
In fairness to LIAT, it has to be pointed out that no subsidy has been paid to the airline by any government in recent years. It also has to deal with almost a dozen trade unions with whom a genuine and empathetic working partnership has never been developed, and whose demands are a drain on the airline’s income.
But, LIAT incurred losses in 2010 and 2011, and unless there is a dramatic turn-around in its performance, it will need more money again. The first place it will turn is its shareholder governments which, at this time of severe austerity, have no money to put into it and cannot again borrow to do so.
So, no doubt, there is both a sigh of relief in the Boardrooms of CAL and LIAT that REDjet has suspended its operations, and a hope that the ‘suspension’ is permanent. For during its period of operation, it caused both LIAT and CAL to drop the cost of their airfares.
Undoubtedly, those fares will now rise again. And, they will rise to the level that CAL sets with its subsidized fuel. LIAT will be able to do no more than match CAL as best it can. But, since LIAT has no subsidized fuel, it will only be a question of time, until CAL’s fares and its incursion into LIAT’s only lucrative routes cripple LIAT.
So, Caribbean travellers in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean will again have to endure high costs of travel.
It has always been necessary for governments of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) to address seriously and comprehensively an Air Transportation policy, including an open-skies policy, that best serves the interest of all their member-states and their peoples. They have not done so, but the moment should no longer be deferred. The government of Trinidad and Tobago, in particular, should manifest its regional commitment, not by shelling-out money, but by abandoning the protection and promotion of CAL at the expense of the Caribbean people including their own citizens.
REDjet’s suspension of its operations is an occasion for regret not rejoicing.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sir Ronald Sanders. Sir Ronald Sanders is a Consultant and former Caribbean diplomat.
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The beauty of the Australian Technology Park (ATP) is that it allows researchers working on tomorrow’s technologies proximity to companies with the capital and expertise to commercialize them today. Located at Everleigh, an inner-city suburb of Sydney in the state of South Wales, ATP is a dynamic business and technology community composed of more than 100 diverse tenant partners. Some are one-man operations while others are multi-national in scope, including local residents and businesses as well as State and Federal government organizations. Their mantra, if there is one, concerns sharing a common commitment to promoting technological innovation that will benefit all locally, nationally and globally.
The ATP occupies the site of the former Everleigh railway yards, which date back to the late 19th century. At the time of their construction by the New South Wales government in 1887, these Locomotive Workshops were considered the largest and most technologically advanced in the southern hemisphere. These workshops were able to meet the many diverse and complicated needs of the steam locomotive, including assembly, disassembly, repair and maintenance. As new tools, machines, power sources and techniques came into being, they were introduced into the Locomotive Workshops, and were tested as they are today for the benefit of the general population.
The ATP denotes five distinct periods of technological innovation. The early 1900s and the advent of electric power tools marks the first. The period between 1914 and the late 1920s is the second, noted for the acquisition of operating machinery such as the Davy press. Electric motors also enabled conversion from steam to electric haulage. The third period, which saw the introduction of diesel technology, lasted between the 1930s and the 1960s. The fourth came during the final decade of Eveleigh's operation as a workshop when numerically controlled technologies were introduced. The fifth period is a work in progress, as today ATP’s focus is on becoming an information /communication technology and biotechnology hub, operating at the forefront of nanotechnologies and bioinformatics and other associated new technology industries.
The workshop has a formidable history. It could manufacture all its own components, from tiny springs to 20-tonne boilers and at its operating peak in the 1930s, the workshop’s 3,000 skilled workers overhauled around 540 locomotives and made more than 200 individual steam locomotives. Everleigh also maintains the Wrought Artworks, which houses an enormous assortment of blacksmithing equipment. The Smithsonian is quoted as referring to this collection as “the largest and most integral collection of Victorian blacksmithing equipment, in terms of integrity and extent known in the western world.”
The Everleigh Locomotive Workshop became a landmark for those who fought to improve the rights of Australian workers in the early part of the last century. The first affirmative action taken by workers in 1917 for Australia’s General Strike occurred here before spreading through the rest of the country. Many Labour politicians began their careers at these workshops, including William Mackell, who was a boilermaker at Everleigh, and later became Premier of New South Wales in 1941 and Governor General of Australia in 1947.
With the onset of the age of diesel, the workshop began to decline, and the last steam engine passenger service was made in 1963. The workshop eventually closed in 1989. In its heyday it employed approximately 3,000 skilled workers who included tinsmiths, coppersmiths, blacksmiths, boilermakers, fitters, turners, grinders, machinists and toolmakers, among others. In a unique work environment for its time, everyone worked side-by-side in the largest industrial complex in Australia, providing a valuable insight into how ordinary Australians of different ethno-cultural backgrounds pulled together to shape the burgeoning Australian nation.
Australian Technology Park is in the business of transforming the future, no small task. The noble past in the form of locomotive workshops and surrounding heritage buildings have been carefully and magnificently restored. The ATP community works with all levels of education to develop new interfaces between industry and education. Currently, seven premier Australian universities are represented at ATP and with a team of workers now numbering approximately 1,200, ATP is consolidating its position as Australia’s leading technology precinct.
ATP, long may you live and prosper!
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Reading these makes me so sad.
I'm a parenting coach for parents who want to learn effective, positive discipline, and learn to help their children be productive, resilient, self contained, polite, caring, and cooperative.
I've never used a time out or any other kind of punishment. I'm not permissive or my kids' buddy, either. When they make a mistake, we work on recognizing the problem, fixing it if possible, making amends if necessary, and finding ways to cope with emotions (teaching them methods to calm down when they're angry, recognize their own triggers, etc.). It is not 1-2-3 straightforward like a timeout, but these are human beings, not little programmable robots.
I hated the way I was raised, so I decided I could do a lot better and make a difference for other parents, and demonstrate that it is more than possible to raise awesome kids that are enjoyable to be around without any punishment at all. I went back to school after I got my MA in an unrelated field and got a degree in Early Childhood Education. I didn't learn much about effective discipline there, though, or my five years working with young children professionally--it was in reading positive discipline books and raising my own kids while talking to and coaching other parents that I learned the most. Anyone can do this! Join a positive discipline group to get some support and start reading. It can make such a wonderful difference for your kids, and for you, too.
Some books I like: Kids Are Worth It! : Giving Your Child The Gift Of Inner Discipline by Barbara Coloroso
Raising our children, Raising Ourselves, by Naomi Aldort
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk
If "time out" really appeals, try reading:
Positive Time-Out: And Over 50 Ways to Avoid Power Struggles in the Home and the Classroom, by Jane Nelsen
We expect punishment to be effective with kids when it isn't with adults. We expect kids to learn by standing in a corner when we aren't relly teaching them anything except "don't get caught" and "parents are the enemy." If we teach our children to obey simply because we say to, then they will take those lessons into their teen years and adulthood, and obey the strongest influence--and it certainly will no longer be their parents.
Teaching them to develop a strong and healthy inner moral compass that is dependent on no outside source CAN be done.
PM me... I'm happy to help or suggest more resources.
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According to the Insurance Information Institute, “homeowners insurance provides financial protection against disasters. A standard policy insures the home itself and the things you keep in it”.
The winter of 2007-2008 has been excellent for winter adventurers with one of the best snow packs in recent years. The amount of snow accumulated was felt state wide with the week long storms that deliver heavy snow falls. Washington residents noticed the snow fall with the multiple temporary pass closures scattered throughout the winter months. But as the winter season comes to a close and snow equipment is packed up until next year, Snohomish County home owners are preparing for the much anticipated warmer temperatures ahead.
Warmer temperatures usually means taking care of household chores, playing sports and family camping trips but it also means the increase risk of potential damages due to fire and flood, depending where you live in the State. In Snohomish County the risk is higher for floods and home owners need to be prepared with a homeowners insurance policy that covers them in case there are damages.
The Snohomish River Basin (Skykomish, the Snoqualmie and Snohomish Rivers) and the Stillaguamish River Basin (North and South Fork of the Stillaguamish River and Pilchuck Creek) comprise the majority of fresh water delivered to the Puget Sound.
Ever year, residents living near these rivers get a close up view of rising river levels and if you do not have a flood insurance policy in place it can be a very stressful time of the year. Unfortunately flood insurance is not bundled with a normal homeowners policy and must be added separately. But if you live near one of these major rivers it would be wise to look into adding flood insurance in addition to your normal policy while keeping a close watch on river levels.
Snohomish County has a flood watch program on their website which gives up-to-date river levels across the county, view flood map. The warning system shows the “100 year flood plain” and the various Phases of both the Stillaguamish and Snohomish River Basins.
Make sure to review your homeowners policy before it is too late and get the coverage that meets all your needs, even if “it can not happen to me” crosses your mind.
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Pelham Bay Park
Hunter Island Marine Sanctuary
Habitat Type: Forest, Salt Marsh
Located north of Orchard Beach, the Hunter Island Marine Zoology and Geology Sanctuary takes in all of Twin Islands, Cat Briar Island, Two Trees Island, and the northeastern shoreline of Hunter Island. It contains many noteworthy geological features including glacial erratics, large boulders that were deposited during the last ice age nearly 15,000 years ago. The rocky coast of Twin Islands, reminiscent of the New England shorefront, is the southernmost outcropping of Hartland Schist, the major bedrock component of such coastlines. The sanctuary supports a unique intertidal marine ecosystem that is rare in New York State.
In 1963, the City began landfill operations near this area on Tallapoosa Point in Pelham Bay Park. In 1966, plans were made to expand this landfill, which would have created the City’s second-largest refuse disposal site next to Fresh Kills in Staten Island. These plans were met with widespread community opposition led by Councilmember Mario Merola, later Bronx District Attorney. The struggle resulted in the creation of the sanctuaries by a local law, signed by Mayor John V. Lindsay on October 11, 1967.
By Car: From 95 take exit 8B toward Orchard Beach/City Island. Stay straight to go onto Shore Drive. Cross the bridge and pass one intersection and then at the traffic circle, go ¼ around to make a right turn. At the end of the road, make a left onto Park Drive and the Orchard Beach parking lot is on the right.
From the Hutchinson River Parkway, take Exit 5 for Pelham Bay Park. Go straight through the first traffic circle and at the end of the road make a left onto Park Drive. Parking for Orchard Beach is located on the right.
From the parking lot, the Hunter Island Marine Sanctuary is located at the north end of the Orchard Beach Boardwalk, past the Orchard Beach Nature Center.
Public Transit: Take the 6 train, Bx5, Bx12, Bx29, Bx14 or Westchester No. 45 bus to Pelham Bay Park. Transfer to (or stay on) the Bx12 (summers only) and Bx5 (summer weekends only) which stop at the Orchard Beach parking lot. Follow above directions from the parking lot.
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Since its founding in 1985, with the consolidation of the Alabama Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Industries of Alabama, the Business Council of Alabama has worked hard to improve Alabama’s business climate.
With the help of the Alabama legislature, which in 2011 -- for the first time -- was truly committed to addressing the concerns of business, the BCA was instrumental in securing passage of a number of real reforms in the areas of:
- Tax credits for small business
- Job creation
- Incentives for economic development
- Ethics reform
- Positive changes in our public education system
That's why Alabama businesses and industries of all shapes and sizes have come to depend on the BCA as the state's most powerful and effective advocate for business at the Alabama Legislature and in the U.S. Congress. BCA is proud to be the exclusive affiliate in Alabama of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
In 2003, an historic agreement was signed linking BCA with more than 60,000 members of local chambers of commerce across the state, forming an organization known as The Partnership. Together, the two groups have found common ground on business issues affecting men and women who make up Alabama’s business community.
Working on behalf of nearly three-quarters of million working Alabamians through its member companies and local chambers of commerce, the BCA is the voice for Alabama business.
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Unique Collaboration Cuts Across City and County Lines to Provide Needed Services
TUALATIN, OR. – A partnership between the Washington County Juvenile Department, the Tualatin and Tigard Police Departments and the Tigard-Tualatin School District is making a difference in the lives of troubled youth.
For the past four years, these organizations have worked together to lead the implementation of the Tigard-Tualatin Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative. This initiative, which is part of a federal grant program, provided funding to hire Juvenile Counselor Susan Winterbourne to help middle and high school students who are involved in the legal system or at risk of being involved. She works to get them back on track, both in and out of school.
In addition to her regular caseload, Winterbourne works closely with School Resource Officers from the Tigard and Tualatin Police Departments and other school staff to identify students who might be at risk, such as those with frequent absences or declining grades. She provides counseling and links students with programs and support. When needed, she connects families to mental health services through Mental Health Care Coordination, which is another Safe Schools/Healthy Students program.
Winterbourne’s students have shown an increase in attendance and graduation rates, a decrease in disciplinary incidents and an improvement in schoolwork. Her interventions have been so successful that when the original grant funding for her position ended in Spring 2012, the Washington County Juvenile Department decided to fund her position and dedicate additional staff time to the Tigard-Tualatin area.
To make Juvenile staff more accessible, the Department looked for a site in the Tigard-Tualatin area. The Tualatin Police Department offered office space in their building. And when cars were needed to transport youth to services in Hillsboro, the Tigard Police Department created an agreement allowing Juvenile staff to use their police vehicles.
Juvenile Department Manager Milt Ewing said the collaboration directly benefits the community.
“This partnership allows us to serve youth and their families where they live,” Ewing said. “Working in their home communities and across organization boundaries helps us to help Tigard and Tualatin youth get their lives back on track and keep them from falling further into the system.”
And because of the new partnership, Juvenile staff will spend less time traveling back and forth to Department offices in Hillsboro, saving money and providing more time to work directly with youth.
“We have always worked well with each other, so we were ahead of the game,” said Larry Braaksma, Support Services Captain of the Tualatin Police Department. “Safe Schools/Healthy Students gave us a chance to get really creative about how we could share resources so that everyone benefits.”
Bob Rogers, Services Commander at the Tigard Police Department, said that the initiative has improved communication between organizations, resulting in better collaboration.
“Now I routinely pick up the phone and call the Juvenile Department Manager, and he calls me,” Rogers said. “This support between organizations helps us all handle cases better.”
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative is a federally funded program that supports healthy child development, increases school safety and expands access to effective programs and services. The initiative is lead by partner organizations Tigard-Tualatin School District, Tualatin and Tigard Police Departments and the Washington County Juvenile Department, Mental Health Services and Commission on Children and Families.
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The first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul singer Aretha Franklin, is getting just a little more R-E-S-P-E-C-T. She’s the honoree for the Rock Hall’s 16th annual American Music Masters Series, which runs Oct. 31-Nov. 5.
“Her story seems like it was made for the American Music Master Series,” says Lauren Onkey, vice president of education and public programs for the Rock Hall. “Here’s someone who started recording in the 1950s, is still active and has mastered almost every genre she’s worked in.”
This year’s program features a week of interviews, panels, films and educational programs, including a keynote lecture at Case Western Reserve University. The festivities culminate with a tribute concert Nov. 5 at the State Theatre. Franklin will be on hand for the concert but isn’t slated to perform.
“You could argue that she’s maybe America’s greatest singer ever,” Onkey says. “What’s great about her is that you can’t isolate her contribution to one particular era. The goal is to give people a look at so much of what she’s done.”
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Barbara Armstrong, the President of Ice Halo Ltd., was made aware of breast cancer at an early age when her mother was diagnosed in the early 80's. Since then she has seen friends both young and old battle breast cancer and win and unfortunately, lose. She is also too aware of the fact that because her mother had cancer, she and her daughter are now predisposed to a much higher risk of getting breast cancer - very frightening thought!
Ice Halo Ltd. has elected to donate a quarter of all money raised from the sale of Pink Ice Halos from their website, to the Canadian Cancer Society for October Breast Cancer Research and Awareness.
Ice Halo - the perfect answer for head protection on the ice, for children in playgrounds, for seniors as well as Figure Skaters, curlers, and gymnasts. The Ice Halo has been tested and proven to reduce impact force by over 250G.
Help Raise the Money Needed to Cure Breast Cancer for good! Visit http://www.icehalo.com
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Mathematics: Year In Review 1994Article Free Pass
A year of ups and downs for mathematics, 1994 began with the awareness of a serious gap in Andrew Wiles’s proof of Fermat’s last theorem. In June 1993 Wiles, a Princeton University mathematician, had claimed a proof, by relating the problem to a deep conjecture in algebraic number theory, of Pierre de Fermat’s famous 350-year-old assertion that xn + yn = zn has no solutions for which x, y, and z are whole numbers if n is three or more. The gap emerged in late 1993 in a review of the proof and lingered until October 1994, when Wiles sent colleagues a revised proof that he hoped would finally lay the problem to rest. At year’s end the jury remained out on the validity of the new proof.
More encouraging news was the solution, by Krystyna Kuperberg of Auburn (Ala.) University, of the Seifert conjecture, a problem about the topology of dynamic systems. According to the celebrated hairy ball theorem, it is impossible to comb a hairy ball smoothly; somewhere at least one hair must stand up on end. The theorem is one of dynamics because such an arrangement of "hairs" is a description of the way the states of a system, represented by points on the sphere, change with time, or flow along the directions of the hairs. The hairy ball theorem was proved long ago, but its higher-dimensional cousins have been more elusive. The most notorious is a question asked in 1950 by Herbert Seifert of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, about a three-dimensional analogue of the surface of a sphere--a kind of curved space called a 3-sphere. If one defines a "flow" by filling the 3-sphere with curved lines that fit smoothly together like the flow lines of a fluid, most of the flow lines will wander around in a complicated way. Occasionally, however, one of them may close up into a loop. It is easy to find a flow with only two closed loops but, as Seifert asked, can one be found with no closed loops at all?
Kuperberg’s surprising answer is "yes." All earlier approaches to the problem had used the same basic idea, that of inserting a "plug" into a given flow to change it and eradicate a selected closed loop. The plug is a small region of flow lines in which some of the lines that enter the region never exit but get trapped inside. Specifically, one starts with a known flow that has only two closed loops and then removes them both by inserting two plugs that trap the lines of the loops and render them no longer closed. The central difficulty is to ensure that no new loops are created inside the plugs themselves. Kuperberg succeeded with a seemingly outrageous idea; she made each plug "eat its own tail" like a snake so that closed loops get trapped in a kind of infinite regress. The solution is a geometric gem, and it changes forever mathematicians’ most basic ideas about dynamics in three dimensions.
On the borderline with mathematical physics but clearly on the mathematical side came a fundamental breakthrough in the quantum mechanics of many-particle systems. According to quantum mechanics, the electrons of an atom can occupy only a discrete sequence of energy levels. In particular, there is a minimum energy level, the ground state, below which an atom cannot go. In effect, the ground state is a barrier that prevents atoms from evaporating. In 1981 the U.S. physicist Julian Schwinger (see OBITUARIES) devised an accurate approximation for the way in which the ground-state energy of an atom varies with atomic charge; i.e., with the number of protons in the nucleus. His conjectured formula for the ground-state energy of an atom having charge Z is approximately -aZ7/3+ 1/8 Z2-bZ5/3, in which a and b are particular constants. In the past year Schwinger’s conjecture was given a rigorous proof by Charles Fefferman of Princeton University and L.A. Seco of the University of Toronto. Their achievement represented an important step toward a more nearly complete understanding of the way in which chemistry derives from the laws of quantum mechanics. The next step would be to extend the work from atoms to molecules.
New mathematics does not have to be complicated and technical; it can also be based on very simple ideas. Near the end of the year, Charles Radin of the University of Texas at Austin published a very strange tiling of the plane: a finite set of tiles that can be assembled only in a highly complex way. Most simple tilings are periodic, repeating the same basic unit over again at regular intervals. In 1961, while investigating questions about decidability in mathematical logic, the philosopher Hao Wang introduced the idea of aperiodic tiles, which can cover the plane but not in any periodic way. Radin’s tiles, which are based on an idea of John Horton Conway of Princeton, are aperiodic. In fact--and this is the great novelty--the tiles must appear in infinitely many orientations. Lying at the heart of this exotic tiling is a simple right triangle, formed from a domino cut in half along a diagonal.
What made you want to look up "Mathematics: Year In Review 1994"? Please share what surprised you most...
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In August of 2008, UC Berkeley Professor Khalid Mosalam presented a paper coauthored by FAS’s Joe Hagerman and Henry Kelly at the 5th International Engineering and Construction Conference. The paper presents Mosalam’s findings from research into the seismic performance of structural insulated panels. There is a considerable lack of information available about the behavior of SIPs when subjected to seismic loads. The paper focuses on the characterization of the mechanical properties and seismic performance of SIPs using experimental techniques. Specimens studied include both OSB faced and cementitious SIPs, where panels were tested without panel-to-panel connections.
The full text pdf copy of the paper can be found here.
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ballet for children
Please note: These classes will not run in 2013
A wonderful introduction to the magical world of ballet for boys and girls aged 18 months - 4 years (with their parents or carers). This creative dance class is great for developing your child’s co-ordination, musicality and confidence as well as being lots of fun!
Children will learn simple ballet steps and positions of the feet in a fun way with lots of singing, clapping and imaginative scenarios. Musicality is encouraged through jumping and clapping as well as progressing from walking and marching to skipping and galloping. At the end of each class there is always a special element such as dancing with a sparkling scarf to classical music, listening to a ballet story or receiving a sticker.
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SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) — Marriage is one of the most highly recommended acts in Islam. The Holy Prophet of Islam (blessings of Allah be upon him and his progeny) says The person who marries, safeguards half of his religion. Let’s look at some factors relating to marriage.
Criteria for Selecting a Marriage Partner
In modern times, the criteria for selecting a marriage partner tends to focus mainly on materialistic traits such as: wealth, beauty, social rank, character, etc. The Holy Quran, however, enjoins Muslims to select partners who are good and pure. Allah (swt) states, Women of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of purity" [24:26]
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) recommended Muslims to select those partners who are best in religion and morality. The Prophet (pbuh)said "Do not choose a wife for her wealth or beauty. Her wealth will cause her rebellion, and her beauty will cause her corruption. You must consider her faith and religiousness for marriage" [Mustadrak al-Vasa'il, On Marriage Ch. 13]
Freedom to Choose a Marriage Partner
Islam has given freedom of choice to those who wish to get married. The mutual choice of the bride and groom to be is given the highest consideration. Islam does not allow anyone to be forced into a marriage.
The process of spouse selection should be a function of a healthy balance between the freedom of choice of the would-be-spouses and consideration of the influence and consent of their parents. The freedom of choice of those who wish to get married should not rule out the influence and consent of the parents/guardians nor should the parents/guardians ignore the wishes and consent of the spouses to be. After the age of puberty, a male who is baligh and sane has full rights to decide about his own marriage. However, according to the majority of the mujtahids, a baligh and sane girl needs her father or grandfather’s permission. If, however, the father or grandfather refuse the proposal of a suitable man for no valid reason, then the religious judge can over-ride this decision. Since a marriage is a union between two people and their families, it is important for parents to understand the needs of their children and allow them to be with suitable spouses of their choice.
Our 6th Imam, Jafar as-Sadiq states Do not marry the one you love, love the one you marry. This is an example of the fact that true love grows after marriage and thus falling in love is not a pre-condition for marriage in Islam. However, for the purpose of selecting an appropriate spouse, the two people involved are allowed to see and/or talk to each other within Islamic boundaries.
How to Help Muslims Get Married:
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said: "The best mediations is it that you intercede between two persons for lawful marriage so that they both marry under the law of Allah.
AI-Tahthib, vol.7, p. 415 & Al-Kafi, vol. 5, p. 331
Below, are some tips and advice to what parents can do you:
HOW PARENTS CAN HELP:
If you as a parent want to play an effective role in helping your children seek a suitable spouse, things have to be done differently.
1. Understand your role
Your role as a mother or father is to give support to your child. Understand your child’s needs and expectations of their spouse. Remember, it is your child who has to get married, not you. Do not put your personal preferences in the spouse selection process but rather your child’s preferences. The parents therefore have a tremendous responsibility in the process. They should:
A. Suggest individuals as prospective spouses
B. Thoroughly screen and check proposals; call for references
C. Act as the third party between the two candidates
D. Talk to your children about what you both want.
You may live in the same household as your children and think you know them inside out, but often there are many differences between your thinking and your child’s thinking. There is also a generation gap and therefore do not over impose your ideas of a suitable spouse on your child’s.
Open-mindedness and clear communication may reveal a side of your child that may be hard for you to accept. However, you must remember that marriage affects the two people involved in the relationship. They must like the person they are marrying.
2. Clearly outline the rules of meeting a potential spouse
Setting the boundaries of meeting a prospective spouse is your responsibility as a Muslim parent. Allow the two people to talk to one another and see one another in the presence of other people. It is always safer to have these meetings at home where both the children and the parents are comfortable.
3. Investigate thoroughly
One of the reasons for many divorces are the lack of proper investigation of a prospective marriage partner before marriage. Parents have this heavy responsibility of finding out as much as possible about the individual who will possibly spend the rest of their life with their son or daughter.
Investigation does not mean just asking two or three family friends or community members. Deeper digging is necessary.
4. Be honest
Parents as well as individuals looking for a spouse must be honest with regards to their background and other details about their personal lives. Dishonesty in the long run only causes harm to the marriage and thus affects the lives of both the bride and groom and their families. Be honest about your child, their achievements, their strengths and weaknesses and allow both the bride and groom to be to communicate with honesty.
5. Take your time
It’s very important to not rush your son or daughter into marriage. If you find someone for your son or daughter who you think is suitable, take the time and check the facts about that person. Get to know their family and allow their family to get to know you. Ideally, references should always be checked out and investigation about the potential spouse should be done before taking further actions. This goes for both boys and girls.
6. Never Be pushy
Avoid applying unnecessary pressure on your children to get married. Often, this is their reason for marriage, which later becomes a point to use in an argument between the two spouses. Also, do not put pressure of marrying the right one. Often a proposal may not be what the young man or woman is looking for and yet the pressure of the family is such that the person unwillingly accepts the marriage.
Another form of pressure is put on those who are given a proposal. It is not uncommon to see girls or their parents pursued by the parents of those who are interested in their daughter. This can even reach a level of harassment at times and only results in bad relationships between the two families.
Forced marriages are against islam and they pose a danger to your children's future, as well as any children that may come out of the marriage. Would you want your grandchildren to experience the pain and emotional turmoil of a divorce which could have been avoided if both parties had more say in the choice of a partner?
Overall I conclude by saying that I feel the parents do play a major role in selecting the right spouse for their daughter and son but at the same time seeking the right husband or wife is something to be commended for. It is also the responsibility of the Muslim community to help those who are seeking marriage in fulfilling half of their faith. To all those who are single and are finding it hard to select the right spouse, seek help from Allah SWT to get married. Make du`aa’ to Allah for a pious husband or wife who is a blessing for your faith, family, future and hereafter, inshaAllah. Allah SWT always knows best.
Come to terms with what Allah Most High has in store for you. Let Allah’s plan unfold. Insha’Allah, with your du’a, Allah Most High will grant you all for whom you may wish! As Allah SWT says in the quran;
And We created you in pairs (Quran 78:8) — www.shafaqna.com
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Resistance Exercise Helps Older Adults Conquer Everyday Activities
Picture yourself getting into the driver’s seat of a car or out of an armchair. How about walking down a flight of stairs or simply holding your head up off your chest? For most individuals, visualizing these simple tasks requires more conscious thought than actually completing them. But for others, namely many older adults, such everyday functions are only dreamed about.
As the senior population in the United States continues to explode right along with the country’s fascination with fitness, an abundance of research conducted within the past few years has shown that people of advanced ages and those with chronic ailments can benefit greatly from a regular regimen seemingly reserved for the young and the buff: strength training. In fact, strength training has allowed many older Americans to regain use of muscles left atrophied by years, even decades, of neglect. The result is fuller lifestyles, and perhaps years of extended life.
"We’re on the right track," says Wayne Westcott, director of fitness research for South Shore YMCA in Quincy, Mass., who has studied the positive effects of strength training on wheelchair-using nursing home residents in Florida. "I don’t think there’s anything else that comes close to strength training. The average doctor says people should walk. I’m not against walking, but these people couldn’t walk. That’s why they were in wheelchairs. What they needed was basic, functional muscle strength." And that can come from any number of exercises using a broad range of equipment—or no equipment at all. Older adults can work out in the privacy of their own homes or under close supervision in health-club settings. The key is convincing them that it’s never too late to start strength training, even if they’ve never exercised before.
"The biggest thing is getting them to do it," says Tom Laviano, director of the New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Oxygym, a 2,200-square-foot fitness center that caters exclusively to seniors, particularly those with chronic conditions such as emphysema, asthma, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. "You can’t let them say, ‘I can’t do it,’ or, ‘I don’t want to do that exercise.’ I respond with, ‘Well, you are going to try.’ You’ve got to give them that little push, but at the same time, you have to gain their respect so that they trust you. Once they trust you, they’ll try just about anything."
Oxygym opened in January with the goal of providing an independent facility where seniors—removed from the intimidating atmosphere of a health club or the sterile surroundings of a hospital — could work out more comfortably.
Membership has grown from only a few at the outset to nearly 50, all of whom pay $500 for three months of access to two 10-piece circuits of strength-training machines, as well as cardiovascular equipment. A dozen members at a time complete both strength training and cardiovascular circuits during hour-long classes, guided from one exercise to the next by an instructional CD. "They all start together. They all stop together. They all move to the next machine together," says Laviano, one of two exercise physiologists on the Oxygym staff. "There’s a certain period of time when they’re on each machine, and they do as many repetitions in a slow, controlled manner that they can do in that time, and then they move on to the next piece of equipment." All the while, Laviano is adjusting the machines, correcting technique and closely monitoring members’ blood pressure and bloodoxygen levels. "We’re always there with the group," he says.
Oxygym appears to be tapping into a niche market at an ideal time. According to 1999 figures compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, roughly one in eight Americans, or 34.6 million people, are age 65 or older. Projections indicate that by 2020 the number of individuals age 65 to 74 will have grown 74 percent over the previous three decades. An estimated 72,000 people who have lived at least 100 years currently reside in the United States, and by 2050, the number of centenarians is expected to hit 834,000.
So what? People that old can’t strength-train, right? Tell that to Westcott, who targeted extreme examples of sedentary seniors when he introduced a strength-training program to residents of John Knox Village, a retirement community in Orange City, Fla. When the 14-week study began in November 1998, many of the 19 participants (average age: 89) exhibited such poor posture due to muscle atrophy that their ribs were touching their hips, according to Westcott. "Most of these women and men were in their wheelchairs only because they were too weak to get out of their wheelchairs," he says. "We felt that if we could do a very basic strength-training program for them that we had a fighting chance to improve their lifestyle."
The program included six exercises, two of which focused on the functional muscle strength required of a person rising from a seated position. The quadriceps and hamstring muscles, which both facilitiate standing upright, were strengthened using a leg-press machine. The triceps press worked the arms, chest, front shoulders and upper back, with the goal to provide enough strength for the seniors to push themselves up from the arms of their chairs. The remaining four exercises were incorporated to enhance muscle balance and improve posture.
They included a seated row (shoulders), trunk extension (lower back), and two exercises using the type of fourway neck machine common in football training rooms. "We did it each way for muscle balance, but the important way was the neck extension, lifting their chin off their chest, where it was almost permanently embedded because they had no neck strength. They couldn’t hold up their 12- or 14-pound heads anymore," Westcott says, adding that no exercise proved more functional. "They can’t breathe very well in that position. They can’t speak well. They can’t look up to see. So even if they were able to walk, they couldn’t see where they’re going. It certainly makes it very difficult to swallow, to drink water or other fluids, or to eat their food. So, to me, for these people in a nursing home, that was the most important exercise—to get them to hold their head up."
Excluding the time it took to transport the participants out of their wheelchairs and into the various exercise machines, the semiweekly six-minute workouts totaled less than three hours of actual targeted muscle exertion over the course of the study. And the gains made in that short time were staggering. The participants’ leg strength increased by an average of 80 percent; upper-body strength, 40 percent. "Their flexibility increased 30 percent just from doing the strength training, just from getting those muscles active and using them once again," Westcott says.
By the study’s conclusion in mid-February 1999, participants had gained an average of four pounds of muscle and lost an average of three pounds of fat. "That’s typical of people who start strength training, but it’s not typical when you’re doing 12 minutes a week," says Westcott. "It was because they had so little muscle left that they were able to add it fairly quickly—and I don’t want to say easily, because they put in the effort."
Strength training can also be worth the effort for facilities like John Knox Village. The study there took into account participants’ functional independence measure (FIM), a seven-point scale used to quantify a person’s ability to handle tasks in each of 18 different categories. A person’s ability to brush his or her own teeth, for example, would help boost that individual’s FIM score in the grooming category toward a 7. Someone who needs to have the toothpaste put on the brush and the brush maneuvered in his or her mouth would pull the score down toward 1. The cumulative FIM score for study participants improved by an average of 11 points, translating to potential annual cost-of-care savings for John Knox Village of $40,000.
The bottom line for participants, meanwhile, was a renewed sense of function. All but one participant (a double amputee) spent less time in their wheelchairs. One resident hung a "For Sale" sign on her wheelchair after she discovered she no longer needed it. Others discarded their back braces. One woman rejoined her husband in an independentliving setting elsewhere on the John Knox campus.
Westcott’s only regret is that, in his mind, the study concluded prematurely. "If we had gone just two to four more weeks, I think all of them, except for the double amputee, would have been able to get out of their wheelchairs. They might still need their wheelchairs once in a while, because they still tire out. We didn’t get a great cardiovascular effect on 12 minutes a week. What they needed was strength, and strength training certainly improved that in every category we tested."
People’s understanding of the aging process has come a long way since the 16th century, when Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon searched for the Fountain of Youth and its age-restorative waters. But not enough people living today realize the role muscle plays in how we grow old, or stay young, according to Miriam Nelson, director of the Center for Physical Fitness at the School of Nutrition, Science and Policy at Tufts University in Medford, Mass.
"Muscle is a very important tissue within our bodies, and most of us don’t understand how important it is," Nelson says. "Around our mid-30s, we start to lose up to a half pound of muscle each year, and we gain that much body fat, if not more. This body composition shift has a profound effect on our metabolic rate and our health. It makes us more resistant to insulin. We assume a greater risk for type-2 diabetes. Lipid profiles are not as good. We become weaker, frailer, the sort of things we think of as typical aging."
While cardiovascular health is important, and attainable through aerobic exercise, it does little to preserve muscle, according to Nelson. "Strength training does that," she says. "Our research at Tufts involves progressive-resistance exercise on people ages 45 to 98, and what it has shown is that at any age you can gain back muscle. You can get stronger. Biologically, in terms of age, you can become 20 to 25 years younger than you are now. We’ve seen people in their 60s become as strong as people in their mid-30s. We see people in their 90s getting as strong as people in their 60s."
These individuals don’t turn into Jack LaLanne clones overnight, of course—if at all. The strength-training goals of most are more about overcoming fears of falling down than they are about pumping up. The older the individual, the more the focus turns to the lower body and the leg muscles essential in maintaining balance. At Tufts, training begins with squats using the back of a chair and the exerciser’s own body weight to work the quadriceps, hamstrings and gluteals. Another exercise might entail repeatedly stepping on and off of a single stair to target those same muscles. "I’ve designed programs that one can do easily at home," Nelson says.
Consider the case of Bernice, a 92-year-old Medford resident. Five years ago, she suffered a bone fracture resulting from a fall in her home. Consequently, Bernice became so overcome A feeling of vulnerability that she was afraid to go outside. "We went into her home and showed her how to do some simple strength-training exercises," Nelson says. "She got so strong that she started bowling again and caring for her great-grandchildren. She helps out at the church on Sundays now. It’s just totally changed her life, and being physically strong is what did it."
Eventually, elders under Nelson’s watch may graduate to progressive-resistance exercises using strength-training machines, but the machines aren’t for everybody. They’re not even the first choice of Michael Rogers, director of the Center for Physical Activity and Aging at Wichita State University. While the center offers traditional means of strength training with weights, Rogers prefers the versatility and safety offered by elastic bands, and he’s adapted 25 different exercises to them. "Those who are trying to regain functional capacity can do every exercise in a chair. Then the goal is to have them eventually be able to stand up and perform those same exercises," says Rogers, who works with 200 adults at the center, ages 60 to 94, from the physically fit to the frail. He also takes the bands out into the community, where his oldest program participant is 101.
According to Rogers, balance is the most important factor in helping seniors regain functionality. "It’s something the young take for granted, but come 70 or 75, all of a sudden it becomes one of the most limiting factors—not just loss of balance, but a fear of falling," he says. "So those individuals tend to sit in a chair more and their fitness declines, and it becomes this downward cycle."
The Center for Physical Activity and Aging offers two classes that specifically address balance training, and participants fill out a 16-point questionnaire called The Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale. It asks class members to rank on a scale of zero to 10 their level of confidence when performing activities such as bending over to pick up a slipper from the floor, standing on a chair to reach a can on a shelf or walking through a crowded shopping mall.
One class is for relatively fit older adults and involves such balanceenhancing techniques as sitting on exercise balls while engaging in upper-body workouts using the elastic bands. The other class is for people ages 85 to 97 and involves a basic but effective approach to improving balance—standing and walking on 2- and 4-inch-thick sheets of foam rubber purchased from an upholstery dealer. "You can imagine that it’s not easy to remain perfectly still while trying to stand on your couch," Rogers says. "What we do is measure their ability to remain as still as possible. And we also look at their dynamic balance — their ability to walk on the foam and the amount of time it takes to walk through an obstacle course."
Though a departure from the use of strength-training machines to improve functional mobility, the foam works. "It’s been successful," says Rogers. "In the first two months of this class, we’ve had two people who have been able to discontinue use of their walking aids. It could be a function both of improved balance and certainly the effects of improved confidence for these people."
Whether helping transform fear into confidence or simply weak muscles into strong ones, strength training has proved to be a fountain of youth of sorts for a growing number of older Americans — individuals who are again conquering the life functions they once took for granted.
A statistic indicating just how many U.S. seniors regularly strength-train is hard to come by, but it’s a safe bet the number is not large. But as life expectancies in this country rise and the population of older adults continues to exponentially increase, fitness professionals will have to do their part to keep the booming elderly population active and functionally able.
"The ones who have come to our program on campus have already overcome the biggest hurdle, and that’s to initiate some type of action," says Rogers. "But there are about 500,000 people total in the metropolitan Wichita area, and we have only 200 in our program. Given that 14 percent of those 500,000—about 70,000 people—are older adults, there are obviously a lot of people we haven’t convinced to join our program. That doesn’t mean they’re not exercising somewhere else, but certainly nowhere near enough of them are participating in programs in the city."
To date, Oxygym has done little in the way of marketing or member recruitment, relying instead on an increasing number of referrals from area physicians, according to Laviano. Often, curious individuals come through the door and are turned away for being too young. "We don’t want to bring that regular-gym atmosphere in here," he says. "We want to keep this a monitored program." For nearly a year now, Laviano has been monitoring changes in both body and spirit. "You see people’s attitudes changing," he says. "I have people coming in who, in the beginning, are very anxious and nervous. They look at all this equipment and they feel overwhelmed.
Then we get them believing that they can do this, and the next thing you know they’re a different person. They’re happy-go-lucky." Tufts University’s Nelson is confident that the concept of senior strength training is coming of age.
"A lot of older people have gotten over dwelling on things they should have done 20 or 30 years ago," she says. "Once they are shown how easy it is and that it’s safe and fun, they love it, because they feel themselves getting stronger so fast." Which is a strong argument for getting seniors started on strength training at any age. "The question I get asked a lot of times is, ‘What age is the best age to start?’ " Nelson says, before providing the answer. "Whatever age you’re at."
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A fresh look at common skin problems
By Pure Matters
"You may be able to treat all of these conditions at home," says Marsha Lynn Gordon, M.D., coauthor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beautiful Skin.
Here's her advice on how to solve common skin problems using home remedies.
Cleanse and tone away acne
If you're prone to acne, rest assured it has nothing to with a dirty face. It's caused by the cells that line your pores. "In some people, these cells stick together and clog," says Dr. Gordon. "The oil in your skin aggravates that stickiness."
Strategy: To prevent acne, "cleanse regularly with a mild pH-balanced liquid cleanser to lift up oil, dead skin cells and makeup," Dr. Gordon advises.
If your skin is oily but not sensitive, consider following up with a freshener or clarifying lotion to clean more thoroughly. For dry skin, finish with an oil-free moisturizer.
To prevent acne flare-ups, "your complete skin-care regimen -- your makeup, sunscreen and powders -- should all be oil-free," says Dr. Gordon.
Get rid of blackheads
Blackheads, which also are caused by sticky, oil-clogged pore cells, are the first step in acne production. To avoid scarring, "don't squeeze them; instead, get rid of them in a non-traumatic way," says Dr. Gordon.
Strategy: For blackheads on the nose, try over-the-counter pads that lift oil and dead skin cells from pores. But to avoid damaging your skin with these products, don't use them if you use facial products that exfoliate. "You could lift off a layer of skin," says Dr. Gordon.
If blackheads persist or are located on other areas on your face, you may need to see your dermatologist.
To prevent rashes caused by contact with substances that touch your skin, "isolate the culprit and avoid it," says Dr. Gordon.
Strategy: Change your deodorant if you develop a rash under your arms. Stop using perfume if a rash occurs on your neck. "Consider eliminating anything new you may have added one or two weeks before the rash appeared," says Dr. Gordon.
Experiment with moisturizers
For dry skin, "I generally recommend moisturizers that have minimal fragrance and lots of emollients, such as petrolatum, mineral oil and dimethicone," says Dr. Gordon.
Strategy: Check the ingredient list, then experiment with different brands. If wool makes your skin itch, avoid moisturizers that contain lanolin, a moisturizer ingredient derived from wool.
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By **Luc Sante**
Just about as rare as if it had never been published at all, this may be the only extant copy of Dave Carluccio’s only book—typed, photocopied, folded, and stapled by its author in 1980 in an edition of fewer than a hundred, maybe fewer than twenty. The title and the cover image both refer to Aleksei Kruchenykh’s Against Hooliganism in Literature (1926), cover by Gustav Klutsis. That work in turn, which has never been translated, is to the best of my knowledge a polemic by the veteran cubo-futurist directed against some rival Soviet avant-garde gang. But that didn’t matter much to Carluccio, who most likely just saw the cover reproduced in some book and ran with it. “Hooliganism”—a word strangely omnipresent in Russian and ultimately derived from a slur against the Irish—was to him something desirable, especially in literature, which he persisted in seeing in early-modernist terms, as a genteel tea party much in need of being forcibly invaded and broken up.
I knew Carluccio’s brother slightly in high school. We weren’t friends, and I didn’t even know of Dave’s existence until half a decade later, when he showed up at my apartment one day with a group of people who were looking for a party. I wasn’t giving a party and wasn’t in a hospitable mood, which is probably what impelled them to hang out somewhat longer than necessary, opening the beers they had brought, lighting joints, and putting records on the turntable. While most of the five or six of them were having a high old time and I was calling around trying to find the party, or any party, to get them out of my hair, Carluccio was looking through my books. Finally, when their beers were drained and before they could go for seconds, I pretended someone had given me an address on the other side of town and sent them on their way. A week later I received an envelope from Carluccio containing a sheaf of tiny stories typed on the backs of pink “While You Were Out” notes. It was the first of more than a dozen such envelopes.
Maybe Dave Carluccio was onto something, however long it would take him to get there.
As it turned out, I was to meet Carluccio only twice more. The first time was about a year later. I was coming out of a party in Tribeca, one of those huge, brawling things where maybe ten percent of the guests had actually been invited. I had no idea who the hosts were and didn’t know anybody there, but on my way down the stairs some guy I didn’t recognize rushed to catch up and immediately started talking at me. He had sent me the stories because I had Bataille and Artaud and Mayakovsky on my shelves and he knew I’d understand. He talked from Franklin Street up to Canal, east to the Bowery, north to St. Mark’s Place, and would have talked me all the way home if I hadn’t suddenly ducked into a tenement behind somebody who had just been buzzed in. His talk was all very much checklist literature—you know, the kind of thing young guys do, like throwing names of bands at each other in lieu of conversation. He was very excited about Lautréamont and Cendrars and Traven and Burroughs and Ballard and Iceberg Slim. He wanted to celebrate murder and burn down churches and throw up barricades and liberate the zoos. He wanted to invent a new language, a new literature, make the future happen today. He was talking as fast as a sports announcer in a foreign language, sweating even though it was February. But I already knew the song by heart. I had been there.
His writings were not the unpunctuated breathless screedlike verses you might expect, but on the other hand they weren’t much better. He had apparently decided that the crime novel was the essential building block of literature, the constituent unit of its DNA, and he had set about reducing and recombining it—I could just about see the wheels turning in his head—much the way punk rockers had cloned and distilled and chopped up the standard Chuck Berry guitar riff. Each story, if that’s what those things could be called, was a paragraph long, titled and signed, and each resembled a page of a crime novel if you were trying to read it while it whipped by on a conveyor belt.
It wasn’t much, I thought. Oh, he had a good ear and all—maybe he should have been writing song lyrics. And maybe the French would appreciate it. But it hardly amounted to any kind of revolution, literary or otherwise. I can’t say that I was really disappointed. What more could you expect from the typical punk-rock overgrown juvenile, too hopped up to sit still long enough to write more than 150 words? On the other hand, he was writing something, which was considerably more than I was doing at the time, for all my knowingness and jadedness and the seniority of my 25 years. Maybe Dave Carluccio was onto something, however long it would take him to get there.
As the envelopes kept coming, their contents changed. The stories grew in length, formed series, were incorporated into collages. And Carluccio, who always wrote in the first person, became a character of his own devising, the hero of his stories, addressed by name by the other characters. One envelope consisted entirely of a sheaf of author’s bios: he was variously a rogue CIA agent, a Vietnam War deserter, a drug trafficker operating out of the Golden Triangle, a con artist masquerading as a movie producer, a public-relations expert simultaneously working for and working to undermine every unsavory public figure in the world, a chameleonic and indiscriminate traitor to all sides.
I published some of Carluccio’s work in an occasional zine I put out then, but I never managed to run into him again. My friends, who never met him at all, became convinced that I had invented him and was using the name as a pseudonym. I laughed along at first—if I had wanted a pen name, wouldn’t I have come up with something more clever? But it started to grate a bit. I wouldn’t have admitted it then, but my condescension toward Carluccio began shading into a feeling of rivalry, gradually deepening into jealousy. Meanwhile, the envelopes, which at first had all been posted in Manhattan, started appearing with more far-flung and even unlikely postmarks: Lincoln, Nebraska; Guelph, Ontario; Truckee, California; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Merida, Yucatan; Punta Gorda, Belize; Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Was he attempting to enact the character he wrote about? Or was it that his writing in some way reflected what his life had become?
Carluccio’s slim volume is both exceedingly rare and exceedingly obscure.
1980 was an insane time, at least for me: drugs were spiraling up, romance was spiraling down, and melodrama was abundant. I had gotten a job in the mailroom of a prominent literary journal, a job that permitted me to arrive at noon—since my co-worker had to leave early to attend music lessons—and then not return after taking the mailbag to the post office, which I usually contrived to do before four o’clock. I was not serious. I was fucking around heavily, not writing, pretending to be a musician but not managing to practice. I walked around in a daze of self-kidding. Late one night in early summer I was perhaps on my way to or from a party, probably high, when I happened to pass the 24-hour copy shop on Mercer Street just south of Eighth. I glanced in briefly—it was the place where I had put together my zine, and I knew most of the employees. A few doors south I felt a hand on my shoulder. Once again I didn’t recognize him. I’ve never been good with faces, but this time there was an additional reason. Carluccio had grown, broadened, darkened—he was very nearly a different person altogether. He led me back to the copy shop, where he was collating and folding stacks of sheets laid out in a row. He finished assembling one, stapled it, signed it, and handed it to me. We must have made some sort of conversation, but I remember none of it. I didn’t even remember the chapbook until days later, when I picked my jacket up off the floor next to the bed and discovered it sticking out of the side pocket.
The book collects all the contents of all those envelopes, along with a sampling of other matter— letters, pronouncements, manifestos, poems, all of it strung together apparently in chronological order. It is hasty, confused, random, jejune—and it is bursting with every kind of world-beating youthful energy. It would have made a fine first effort for anybody, the sort of thing that sits unsold on the consignment shelves of bookstores for months and even years, and then suddenly is changing hands for four figures, and eventually cannot be obtained at all unless some major collector dies. But Carluccio’s slim volume is both exceedingly rare and exceedingly obscure. For all intents and purposes it doesn’t exist. He will never produce a follow-up. It was my friend G., then working for the AP, who spotted the item on the teletype in 1983. I’ve managed to lose the printout he sent me, but the gist was that a corpse of foreign appearance, found at a border station near Antombran, Guatemala, just across from El Salvador, had been identified as a certain David Carluccio, 24 years old, of Scotch Plains, New Jersey. He had been killed with a machete. Local police were investigating the matter.
Copyright 2008 Luc Sante
This entry originally appeared on Luc Sante’s blog Pinakothek.
Read an interview with Luc Sante at Guernica here.
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Photograph courtesy SSI/NASA
Titan, as seen by the Cassini orbiter. Image courtesy SSI/NASA.
Published May 9, 2012
Saturn's moon Titan may have only recently turned hazy, according to two new studies that could spell trouble for the chances of life on the mysterious world.
The only moon in the solar system with a substantial atmosphere, Titan has long intrigued astronomers searching for hints of life beyond our planet.
"When we look at places that we think might host exotic life-forms, we tend to look for three things: liquid water, organic molecules, and an energy source," said Sarah Hörst, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado who wasn't involved in either study.
At -289 degrees Fahrenheit (-178 degrees Celsius), Titan's surface is far too cold for liquid water, but it does have lakes of liquid hydrocarbons, which could play similar biological roles to what water does on Earth.
For an energy source, heat from sunlight trapped by the atmosphere could fill that role on Titan, as on our planet.
But it's Hörst's third factor that really sets Titan apart: organic molecules, carbon-based substances associated with life as we know it.
"As far as organic molecules are concerned, Titan is the most interesting place in the solar system," Hörst said in an email.
The moon's smoggy shroud contains a complex brew of organics churned out by methane, the main component of natural gas on Earth—and the key indicator of Titan's atmospheric age in both new studies.
Although the reports took different approaches toward analyzing the methane's history, they reached almost the same conclusion: Titan's organic haze has been around for only a billion years or so—not quite a third of the moon's total lifetime.
And "if Titan hasn't always had this organic molecule factory in its atmosphere," Hörst said, "this could potentially affect the possibility of life on Titan."
Weighing In on Titan's Carbon
The two new studies, published April 20 in the Astrophysical Journal, were based on different scenarios for how methane entered Titan's atmosphere. The papers also used different data sets from the NASA/European Space Agency Cassini-Huygens mission.
The Huygens probe landed on Titan in 2005, and the Cassini orbiter has been touring Saturn and its moons since 2004. (See pictures from the Cassini mission in National Geographic magazine.)
Both study teams combed through the data for signs of a relatively rare, "heavy" form of carbon that occasionally gets incorporated into methane molecules.
Sunlight readily breaks down Titan's atmospheric methane, so that the molecule gets converted into more complex organic substances, some of which rain onto the surface. (See "Methane Rain Formed New Lake on Saturn Moon.")
Methane with the lighter, more common form of carbon gets converted a bit faster than the heavy version, so over time the relative concentration of heavy methane slowly increases.
Tracing how the ratios of light to heavy methane change, therefore, allows the scientists to model how long the molecule has been breaking down in Titan's atmosphere—and therefore how old the atmosphere itself might be.
For his work, researcher Conor Nixon, of the University of Maryland, College Park, examined the infrared signatures of methane detected by the Cassini orbiter and the Huygens lander, as well as direct sampling of Titan's lower atmosphere from Huygens.
Assuming methane had initially entered the atmosphere in a single, sudden release of interior gas—possibly triggered by a large impact—Nixon's study suggests that the moon has had its hazy atmosphere for no more than 1.6 billion years.
In the second, separate study, Kathy Mandt, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, used models based on Cassini's direct sampling of Titan's upper atmosphere.
Like Nixon's, her models assumed that the atmospheric methane originated underground. But Mandt's simulations looked at both a single outgassing event and at the possibility that the gas is constantly seeping out from subsurface pockets of methane-containing ices.
According to Mandt's data, even if Titan's methane is being constantly replenished, the moon couldn't have been producing complex organics for more than 940 million years—and possibly a lot less.
"If methane itself is escaping from the top of Titan's atmosphere"—a possibility suggested by previous studies—"then we both find that will actually change the relative amounts of methane very quickly," the University of Maryland's Nixon said.
"In that case, we found a time scale of ten million years [for the age of the organic haze]. I'm not sure how believable that is, but it is a case we have to consider."
Early Titan Too Cold for Life?
Ultimately, the origin of Titan's organic atmosphere "is really the million-dollar question," the University of Colorado's Hörst said.
"Unless we are really fundamentally missing something, Titan's atmosphere just hasn't existed in the form we see it now for the entire age of the solar system"—about 4.6 billion years. "For the reasons discussed in [Mandt and Nixon's] papers, it just isn't possible."
And without methane, early Titan most likely had no atmosphere to speak of, Hörst said.
"Methane is a greenhouse gas and therefore, much like Earth, the surface and atmosphere of Titan are warmer than they would be if methane wasn't there," she said.
Without the warming effect from methane, the moon's mostly nitrogen atmosphere would freeze and collapse. (Related: "Pluto's 'Twin' Has Frozen Atmosphere.")
This newly constrained atmospheric time frame, in turn, puts limits on how long Titan might have been friendly to even extreme forms of life.
"When we talk about the possibility of life on other planets, there is maybe a fourth thing to add to my earlier list, which is time," Hörst said.
"It took life on Earth quite a while to get going, and Earth was apparently the most favorable place for it to happen in the solar system. If [Titan] hasn't had as long, then it is maybe less likely that it has happened or could happen."
(Related: "Space Poison Helped Start Life on Earth?")
Still, SwRI's Mandt added in an email, "what makes Titan such an amazing place from an astrobiology perspective is that any life that may exist on Titan would be different from any life-forms with which we are familiar on Earth.
"It would be speculation beyond my area of expertise to say how long any potential life-forms would take to evolve. But Titan remains one of the most important places to explore, because of its unique environment and the potential for discovering life-forms, if they exist, that are so different from anything we know."
The Ring Nebula shines, a volcano erupts, and Germans see the bat signal in this week's best new space pictures.
As extreme weather seems to accelerate globally, scientists believe events Down Under can help explain what to look for-and guard against.
Cicadas bugging you? See our recipe ideas for the low-fat critters, including the new candied cicada cocktail.
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In recent days, an anniversary was observed in Rhode Island of a type and nature most people would just as soon forget.
It was a decade ago that 100 people died in a fire in a West Warwick night club. A subsequent fire marshal investigation determined that a pyrotechnics demonstration used by the performing rock band caused the killer blaze.
The people in Santa Maria, Brazil understand only too well. In late January, when another rock act's pyrotechnics caused a fire in a nightclub there, 235 people died.
And the list of deadly nightclub fires caused by indoor fireworks goes on: In Russia in 2009, 112 killed; in Thailand in 2008, 61 dead; in Argentina in 2004, 174 killed.
It's time state legislatures, including the one here in Michigan, seriously consider banning outright the use of pyrotechnics indoors.
Tragically, it has been demonstrated that when fires do happen, scores of lives are lost.
At the end of the day, it just isn't worth it.
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Information about extra-curricular activities that are available to young people in Dorset.
Dorset Music Service
Find out about music in Dorset: Dorset Music Service is the main provider of musical tuition within Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth Schools and also runs county groups, ensembles and music centres.
A wide range of social, leisure and sporting activities is available in Dorset.
A wide range of sport and leisure activities is available at Dorset leisure centres including swimming, exercise classes, football, golf, tennis and squash.
Youth Clubs and projects in Dorset
Find out where youth centres and projects are located, how to contact them and who works where.
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Educational resources available to teachers, families and individuals.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Chávez: Inside the Coup
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup) is a 2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.A television crew from Ireland’s Radio Telifís Éireann happened to be recording a documentary about Chávez during the events of April 11, 2002.
Shifting focus, they followed the events as they occurred. During their filming, the crew recorded images of the events that contradict explanations given by Chávez opposition, the private media, the US State Department, and then White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.
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The sport of boxing has often been associated with the greed of promoters to the adversity that its combatants endure only to fall into the abyss of its slimy mitts.
However, there is one figure in sports that personified everything that is good about a sport whose American and foreign subjects offer a glimpse into a forgotten society. He is Emanuel Steward.
Steward was born on July 7, 1944 in Bottom Creek, West Virginia, and at the age of 12, he moved with his mother to Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Brewster Recreation Center, where the famous boxers Joe Louis and Eddie Futch trained.
Steward began his amateur boxing career at the Brewster Recreation Center. His amateur record included; 94 wins and 3 losses. He also won the 1963 national Golden Gloves tournament in the bantamweight division.
He wanted to become a trainer for amateur boxers however due to the needs of his family, he needed steady income so he became an electrician. He went on to train several amateur boxers at the nearby Kronk Gym.
Steward was always most comfortable in a steamy Detroit recreation center, training Blacks, not to excel in the sport that ultimately brought them fame and fortune, but to merely keep them alive.
They were young men who had no options, so like the father figure he became to them, he nurtured them in a sport that engulfed his life until he died at the age of 68 near Chicago, a distance, from the now iconic Kronk Gym.
The cause of his death was not reported although it was learned during his final weeks that he was battling colon cancer.
His death came as a tremendous shock to the boxing community because most didn’t even know that he was ill.
He died on Oct. 25th and with so much going on in America with the heated Presidential election and the Detroit baseball team contending for a World Series title, to most it was an afterthought.
Only a raging storm named Sandy could put a halt to the campaigns and the San Francisco Giants sweep of the hometown Tigers brought those title aspirations to a screeching halt.
The campaigns will resume and there will always be next season for the Tigers, but when Emanuel Steward died so too did the heart, passion, voice of boxing’s best ambassador.
Some of you might just remember him from his analytical work on the HBO telecast, always the voice of reason and the one who could only speak from the perspective of both fighter and trainer.
Stewart produced 40 world champions from the Kronk Gym, most notably Thomas ‘Hit Man’ Hearns who won multiple championships during the 1980s and considered him as a father.
He also managed most of the fighters he developed much to the chagrin of money- grubbing promoters who ultimately afforded Steward the utmost respect.
Several years ago, I remember being in Mexico City with Steward where a purse bid for his heavyweight Lennox Lewis was being conducted for a fight with Tony Tucker.
Steward spent most of his time cooking up some of the most delicious barbeque and delivered some to promoter Don King who could never refuse a good meal.
I am sure that King would have much rather that Steward deliver Lewis to his promotional stable, but Stewart was much too loyal a man for that regardless of the temptations.
There are many trainers and managers in the sport who sell out their fighters to their own selfish benefit, but not the man who affectionately became known to his HBO family as Manny.
A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame as a trainer and a man of great integrity he was never really comfortable in the limelight and was humbled by all of the accolades bestowed upon him.
Only Manny could take an Oliver McCall and knockout Lewis in two rounds for the heavyweight title and then switch corners to train Lewis to destroy McCall in the rematch.
Emanuel Steward will return to Detroit this week for the final time. A memorial will be held in his honor on Nov. 13th at Greater Grace Temple.
Steward meant as much to Detroit as the General Motors and its assembly lines, but in a sport that is as maligned as boxing, he meant everything. Almost too good to be true.
A sign on the recreation center that identified it as Kronk was removed when Stewart died, obviously realizing that without Emanuel Stewart there can be no Kronk Gym, and for the sport of boxing, its chef who created the ingredients for greatness is also gone…
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When it comes to food economy, sometimes it’s easier said than done to keep food fresh at home. It’d be nice if we could all afford a high tech commercial standard fridge from Corr Chilled for home use, but sometimes we need to find immediate solutions to the problem of how to keep food fresh at home for longer.
Proper Fridge Storage
The first thing to remember is that if you leave food out of the fridge, it will go off! It sounds like such a sensible thing to do, but it’s surprising how many people choose to store food in cupboards when it would last so much longer in a chilled environment.
Bread is a good example of this. If you find that your bread always ends up going stale or mouldy, it’s a good idea to keep it in a fridge instead of in your breadbin.
Organise Your Fridge Properly
The placement of your foodstuffs in your fridge will affect the longevity of each different type of food. Fish and poultry should always be kept in the coldest part of your refrigerator, at the bottom. And for added economy, keep your fish on a layer of ice as would be done in the supermarket.
Some vegetables should not be stored in the fridge, whilst others absolutely should. Potatoes should never be kept in the fridge as they will turn sweet, and the same applies to onions and garlic.
Freeze Wherever Possible
Almost any type of foodstuff can be frozen, as long as you thaw it properly before eating it and make sure it’s safe to refreeze, should you so desire. Even cheese can be frozen, providing it’s wrapped tightly in plastic before it’s stored, and bread can be frozen almost indefinitely.
Freezing is a great way to keep food fresh for longer but the freezing and thawing process can potentially drain your food of flavour. Always wrap food thoroughly before putting it into the freezer.
Storing Other Foodstuffs
To get more shelf life out of your dry and canned goods, you can use vacuum sealed food systems to prolong the life of your food and keep it fresh for longer. However the best policy, when it comes to keeping food fresh, is always to only buy what you need. But sometimes this isn’t possible, especially when it’s cheaper to buy in bulk.
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ABC's Farnham: 2008 Was Last Time U.S. 'Saw' $4-a-Gallon Gas
Everybody, including yours truly, makes mistakes. But a major news organization should be able to catch whoppers like the ones readers will see shortly, or at least fix them in short order if they get posted.
A Google search on the title of an ABC report on gas prices ("Bumpy Ride Ahead: Gas Prices May Soon Hit $4 a Gallon") at about 8:10 a.m. ET indicates that the story went up at about 6 p.m. last night, so the pathetic verbiage readers will see after the jump has gone unrepaired for 15 hours, and counting:
Lord have mercy.
Obviously, the gas price changes cited should be expressed as cents per gallon. They are listed in dollars per gallon at the original source. ABC's Alan Farnham didn't have the math sense to express the changes in cents, and instead ignorantly expressed them as percentages.
More egregiously, Farnham acts as if last year's gas price spike to over $4 a gallon in many parts of the country never happened (i.e., that no one "saw" it), thereby (how convenient) giving readers the impression that prices haven't been "seen" at that level anywhere in the U.S. since the eeeeevil George W. Bush occupied the White House.
Earth to Alan: I "saw" them last spring, less than a year ago, and millions of others all over the Midwest and in many other parts of the country "saw" them too. Prices more than "flirted" with $4; they went all the way, and then some. Some examples obtained from the charts section at cincygasprices.com (graphic here) include the following: Chicago - $4.52; New York - $4.29; Los Angeles - $4.29; Cincinnati - $4.18. There are enough examples showing prices hitting well over $4 a gallon to make one wonder if the U.S. Energy Information Administration is appropriately weighting its reported averages. (There's a story for you, Alan; but please, for everyone's sake, make sure someone checks your work.)
If he wanted to be accurate while protecting the administration, Farnham should have written that "average U.S. gas prices haven't hit $4 a gallon since 2008" (the related gasprices.com chart shows a peak of $3.97 on about May 11). But he didn't. Instead he wrote a woefully sloppy and inaccurate story -- and the ABC reporter and his editors don't seem to care enough to want to fix it.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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Volcanic or extrusive igneous rocks
Click on map to enlarge
Volcanic rocks have cooled from molten material that either flowed out onto the surface of the earth or were blasted up into the air and settled back onto the surface of the earth.
Volcanic igneous rocks are widespread throughout Colorado. At one time, about 2/3 of Colorado was covered by volcanic rocks.
The map to the right shows in red the remnants of the volcanic strata that were erupted during an intense time of violent volcanic activity ranging from about 37 million years ago to about 25 million years ago. Although most of these volcanic rocks in red are from the mid-Tertiary caldera/ashflow event, a smaller number of basaltic volcanic rocks from the late-Tertiary extensional event are also included in the red.
Volcanic rocks come in a variety of different forms, depending on the type of eruption from which it originated. For example, in a violent eruption, ash fall, ash flow, and lava flow may occur, all of which produce different types of volcanic igneous rock.
Many of these rocks originated in the San Juan volcanic field, which is in the southwestern region of the state. There, many large caldera eruptions generated phenomenal amounts of pyroclastic debris (hundreds of cubic miles). These calderas are shown in the map above as tan areas
Below: The Castles, consisting of volcanic rock, in the West Elk Mountains.
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On April 11, 2008, the New York State Legislature announced that the Enacted Budget includes $15 million for the Greater Catskills Flood Remediation Program. Under the program, eligible counties in the Southern Tier and Catskill regions would apply to purchase one- or two-family homes damaged by floods since April 1, 2004 and determined to be at future risk.
In April of 2011, the New York State Legislature enacted a new bill to amend and extend the Program for Ulster County. As amended, the Program now gives preference to the purchase and demolition of homes located within two miles of the New York City Aqueducts, which are subject to water seepage. Any remaining funds may be utilized to purchase other flood-prone homes located in Ulster County. There are approximately $3.8 million dollars available for this purpose.
The initiative will allow homeowners to relocate from areas vulnerable to flooding. In order to qualify for the program, the home must be the primary residence of the owner, with a family income up to 150% of the Area Median Income, as defined by HUD. Homes purchased will be condemned and property will be dedicated for open space, recreational, wetlands, or flood mitigation purposes. The program will help to remove people and possessions from harm's way in areas that have been hit particularly hard by flooding in recent years.
Funding is being administered through the NYS Housing Trust Fund Corporation / NYS Homes and Community Renewal.
FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Last updated on 03/15/12
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Initial experience of teaching robot-assisted radical prostatectomy to surgeons-in-training: can training be evaluated and standardized?
Article first published online: 28 OCT 2009
© 2009 THE AUTHORS. JOURNAL COMPILATION © 2009 BJU INTERNATIONAL
Volume 105, Issue 8, pages 1148–1154, April 2010
How to Cite
Davis, J. W., Kamat, A., Munsell, M., Pettaway, C., Pisters, L. and Matin, S. (2010), Initial experience of teaching robot-assisted radical prostatectomy to surgeons-in-training: can training be evaluated and standardized?. BJU International, 105: 1148–1154. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08997.x
- Issue published online: 25 MAR 2010
- Article first published online: 28 OCT 2009
- Accepted for publication 14 July 2009
- laparoscopic surgery;
- training programmes
Study Type – Therapy (case series) Level of Evidence 4
To measure the time and subjective quality of individual steps of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), as RARP performed by trainees has recently become the most common technique of RP in the USA, and although outcomes from expert surgeons are reported, limited data are available to document training experiences.
PATIENTS AND METHODS
The patients studied were from a prospective cohort of 178 participants (124 with training data). Transperitoneal RARP was performed by one faculty surgeon and one assistant from a rotation of four urological oncology fellows and three residents. RARP was divided into 11 steps, and staff times were recorded for each step. Trainee times and quality scores were recorded for each step, the later defined as grade A equal to staff (A+, no verbal coaching); B, minor corrections; and C, major corrections. Short-term outcomes were recorded to assess the safety of the training.
The mean (range) console time/case of trainees was 40 (10–123) min. The median console time for a complete case by faculty and by trainees (pooled group) was 128 and 231 min, respectively, an increase in 81%. Individual trainee-performed steps increased in time (compared to staff) by a median range of 50–177%, and the incidence of quality grades < A of 9–100%. Trainee quality grades for basic tissue-dissection steps were higher than for advanced tissue dissection and suturing. There was no downgrading for a major correction. Analysis of short-term outcomes suggested acceptable results in a training environment. The study is limited by no available validated training measurement tools, and a low frequency of beginner trainees advancing to more difficult steps during the rotation.
During the initial exposure of trainees to RARP of <40 cases, we measured time and subjective quality grading of basic steps, and introduction to advanced steps. Training requires more procedure time, but does not appear to diminish expected outcomes.
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ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT (Chapters 1 through 182)
JURISDICTION AND EMBLEMS OF THE COMMONWEALTH, THE GENERAL COURT, STATUTES AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
Special legislative commissions
Section 2A. Unless otherwise provided, the provisions of this section shall apply to each special commission established to make an investigation and study of any matter.
If it is provided that members of the senate and house of representatives shall be members of such commission, such members shall be designated by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, respectively.
Such commission (1) shall be provided with quarters in the state house or elsewhere; (2) may expend for expenses and for expert, legal, clerical and other assistance such sums as may be appropriated therefor; (3) may travel within the commonwealth; (4) may hold hearings; (5) shall report to the general court the results of its investigation and study and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry its recommendations into effect by filing the same with the clerk of either branch; and (6) may report from time to time but shall file its final report not later than the last Wednesday in January in the following year, if it is established, continued, or revived and continued, in an odd-numbered year, or not later than the last Wednesday in December in the same year, if it is established, continued, or revived and continued in an even-numbered year.
Private or executive meetings of each special commission shall be open to the public unless a majority of the members of such commission shall vote otherwise. A notice of each such meeting shall be filed with the clerk of either branch, and the notice or a copy thereof shall be publicly posted in the office of such clerk at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.
If such commission is continued, or revived and continued, it shall continue to exercise and perform all the rights, powers and duties previously conferred or imposed on it.
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US President Barack Obama on Wednesday promised a "swift and aggressive" government response to the tsunami in the Pacific that hit Samoa, Tonga and their US-owned neighbour American Samoa, claiming at least 113 lives. "I am closely monitoring these tragic events, and have declared a major disaster for American Samoa, which will provide the tools necessary for a full, swift and aggressive response," Mr Obama said in a statement. The declaration of a major disaster allows the federal government to stump up money for temporary housing, clean up, repairs, unemployment aid and a range of temporary loans.
Mr Obama also pledged help for countries other than the US territory of American Samoa that have also been pummeled by the massive 8.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. "We also stand ready to help our friends in Samoa and the region," he said. The Federal Emergency Management Agency earlier said it was dispatching two disaster recovery teams to affected areas, to assess the extend of the damage.
The agency, along with former president George W Bush, was lambasted for its tardy response to Hurricane Katrina which inundated New Orleans in August 2005. Mr Obama said the US Coast Guard would also help deploy "resources to those areas in need of immediate assistance." "Going forward, we will continue to provide the resources necessary to respond to this catastrophe, and we will keep those who have lost so much in our thoughts and prayers."
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How to Choose the Best Editor for Your Needs
The right editor can bring out the best in a book or manuscript, but in order for this to happen, you must choose the right editor for the job. Although there is some overlap in the specialties, the best editors have a specific focus. As you search the database, you'll want to look for an specialist whose experience matches your needs. For example:
- If you want an editor to help you develop a non-fiction book and coach you through the writing process, you will need to look for a writing coach with experience in non-fiction.
- If you are a graduate student looking for an editor to fact-check a master's thesis in physics, you need an academic evaluator with an advanced degree in physics.
- If you have written a how-to book, and you're not sure if it's organized well enough for a lay reader, you may need a developmental editor with experience in non-fiction editing.
- If you are a fiction writer, it's very important to choose an editor, often a writing coach, with extensive experience and credentials in editing the kind of fiction--literary, genre, juvenile--you are writing.
- If you have a completed manuscript and you just need to have it edited for clarity and conventions (mechanics), you probably need a copyeditor.
- If you and your writing coach or instructor are happy with the content of your book, and you just need to double-check the mechanics, a proofreader will help to ensure that your copy is error-free.
- If you're a homeschool parent looking for a writing mentor for your student, you'll want to start with academic evaluators and coaches who specialize in your student's grade level.
- If you're a self-publisher, consider using a project editor to guide your project from start to finish, or assemble a team of editors as suggested in the Self-Publisher's Checklist.
Here are a few things to consider as you search for the editor that will meet your needs.
What type of editorial professional do you need?
No matter what type of project you are working on, there is an editorthat can help you. The primary specialties include:
- Academic evaluator
- Developmental editor
- Fiction editor
- Multimedia editor
- Newsletter editor
- Non-fiction editor
- Project editor
- Writing coach
- Writing tutor
Many experienced editors specialize in one type of service, or a single genre, such as:
- Fact Checking
- Multimedia editing
- Newsletter editing
- Non-fiction-biography / memoir
- Non-fiction-scientific / technical
- Project editing
- Structural editing
- Stylistic editing
- Substantive editing
- Website text editing
Be sure to pay attention to the experience and specialties of any editor you are considering. To be included in the NAIWE searchable database, each member posts a profile and a portfolio of samples on his or her NAIWE website, so that you can review his or her specialty and level of experience. This makes it easy to select the editor that is right for you!
Janice Campbell, Director of the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors , has worked as a freelance writer, editor, coach, and speaker since the late 1980's.
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This is an issue not only of the Oregon Historical Society’s financial health, but also of the public good, for the Society exists not just for its own benefit, but to serve a public purpose. A wide range of projects with social and economic impact hinge on access to library collections. For example, a diverse public uses the library for researching property history, for projects that include historic register nominations, environmental assessment and superfund cleanup, and restoration of structures such as Portland’s bridges. If you want to talk about numbers, tally up the wider economic impact of the projects done by library users.
Please give us the numbers, including an honest accounting of the cost of exhibits compared to the cost of running the library, and the wider impact of both museum exhibits and the use of library collections. I'm not advocating for an either/or approach to the library or museum, but for a full accounting of the value of the Society's assets and its contribution to the greater good .
Shawna Gandy, former OHS library staff member
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Low copy number (LCN) has been a commonly used term in forensic DNA testing for much of the past decade(1)
. “LCN” associated with other words (such as DNA, testing, low template DNA) has been used in different contexts with different meanings amongst different practitioners. But what does the term “LCN” really mean? Historically, the term referred to small amounts of recovered DNA and often the augmented amplification cycles used to increase the sensitivity of short tandem repeat (STR) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA-testing assays as used by some laboratories in Europe and elsewhere. During the same period of time, laboratories experimented with various procedures that increased the sensitivity of the PCR testing processes as examination and testing of evidence expanded to a wider variety of samples with limiting amounts of DNA. The addition of some of these processes alone or in combination may cause a particular sample to fall into the realm of “LCN testing” by some definitions. The existence of multiple definitions and multiple modifying words within the forensic DNA-testing community has created some confusion regarding the definition of LCN in both the forensic science and legal communities.
LCN DNA (also now termed low template DNA or LT DNA) may refer to any situation where a small amount of DNA is present in a sample based on the sample type (e.g., an item that has been handled) and/or the estimated quantity of DNA determined using routine quantification assays. Samples containing <100–200 pg of total DNA available for amplification fall into the range generally considered to be LCN DNA by most practitioners. Consequently, these samples may undergo LCN DNA-testing procedures developed to increase assay sensitivity; commonly this includes increased PCR cycles (e.g., 28 cycles increased to 31 or 34 cycles) but may include other sensitivity-enhancing techniques such as desalting or concentrating products prior to electrophoresis, reducing amplification volumes, increasing injection times during electrophoresis, using high-purity formamide, etc. More recently, LCN has been used to refer to any DNA sample or DNA profile where stochastic effects (e.g., allele and locus drop-out, heterozygous peak height imbalance and elevated stutter peaks) are likely present and/or where the alleles detected are below a laboratory-defined stochastic threshold (see accompanying article by Dr. John Butler for further discussion). Regardless of whether a quantitative-, technological- and/or qualitative profile-based definition is used, the term LCN or LT DNA generally refers to any situation where: 1) the amount of DNA available for amplification is limited due to small sample size or other factors (e.g., DNA degradation, PCR inhibition), and 2) interpreting the resulting DNA profile may require more considerations than interpreting single-source or mixed DNA profiles generated using higher amounts of DNA due to the potential for incomplete DNA profiles. Other rarely recognized definitions have arisen in court documentation (e.g., quantity of DNA on a slot blot quantitation assay, any amount of DNA below the manufacturer’s recommendation).
The courts in the United States have seen minimal challenges to DNA testing in criminal cases over the past decade, as laboratories have established routine testing procedures with few or inconsequential modifications. As a result, Frye and Daubert admissibility hearings have become a thing of the past, with attorneys and DNA analysts settling into fairly routine presentations of DNA test results and conclusions to juries and the court. However, several recent challenges to DNA testing have arisen in the United States with a focus on the definition of LCN, the procedures used and the validity of the DNA-testing results obtained. A few courts in the United States and an appellate court in the United Kingdom have ruled on the various definitions and issues of LCN DNA testing(3)
. Due to the variety of definitions being used, it is imperative that scientists carefully define the terms or use more descriptive language. This would avoid the perception that there is a lack of consensus in the scientific community and a subsequent lack of reliability, which may be a concern for the courts. In anticipation of possible future challenges it is advised that laboratories and attorneys prepare to address the scientific and legal issues regarding admissibility of evidence in criminal courts as more laboratories are testing smaller amounts of DNA from a wide variety of evidence samples.
Recommendations for the laboratory are: 1) conduct comprehensive validation studies of all techniques used in the laboratory, with particular focus on sensitivity, mixture and nonprobative-sample studies, to develop stochastic thresholds and interpretation policies that accurately reflect the data obtained and the limitations of the test system; 2) develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) very closely aligned with the procedures used in the validation studies; 3) report what can be defended scientifically using report wording and statistical calculations that accurately reflect the data obtained without bias; 4) make SOP, validation studies and electronic data (where printed profiles are inadequate for profile quality assessment) available in discovery; 5) provide ample training to analysts regarding validation studies, procedures and policies, and interpretation of DNA profiles with limitations prior to beginning DNA casework; and 6) use caution to not "overinterpret" the data by recognizing that some samples may have insufficient data to definitively include or exclude an individual as a possible contributor, resulting in an “inconclusive” statement.
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