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Top Stories - Posted by Andy Henion-Michigan State on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:29 - 2 Comments
3-second distraction doubles work errors
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Even tiny interruptions can derail your train of thought and increase mistakes, new research shows.
Short interruptions—such as the few seconds it takes to silence that buzzing smartphone—have a surprisingly large effect on one’s ability to accurately complete a task, according to new research.
The study, in which 300 people performed a sequence-based procedure on a computer, found that interruptions of about three seconds doubled the error rate.
Straight from the Source
Brief interruptions are ubiquitous in today’s society, from text messages to a work colleague poking his head in the door and interrupting an important conversation. But the ensuing errors can be disastrous for professionals such as airplane mechanics and emergency room doctors, says Erik Altmann, lead researcher on the study and associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University.
“What this means is that our health and safety is, on some level, contingent on whether the people looking after it have been interrupted,” says Altmann.
The study, published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, is one of the first to examine brief interruptions of relatively difficult tasks.
Study participants were asked to perform a series of tasks in order, such as identifying with a keystroke whether a letter was closer to the start or the end of the alphabet. Even without interruptions a small number of errors in sequence were made.
Sometimes participants were interrupted and told to type two letters—which took 2.8 seconds—before returning to the task. When this happened, they were twice as likely to mess up the sequence.
Altmann says he was surprised that such short interruptions had a large effect. The interruptions lasted no longer than each step of the main task, he noted, so the time factor likely wasn’t the cause of the errors.
“So why did the error rate go up?” Altmann asks. “The answer is that the participants had to shift their attention from one task to another. Even momentary interruptions can seem jarring when they occur during a process that takes considerable thought.”
One potential solution, particularly when errors would be costly, is to design an environment that protects against interruptions. “So before you enter this critical phase: All cell phones off at the very least,” Altmann says.
Gregory Trafton of the Naval Research Laboratory and Zach Hambrick of Michigan State are co-authors of the study, which was funded by the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research.
Source: Michigan State University
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In response to:
Star from the June 20, 1996 issue
To the Editor:
While I enjoyed reading Fiona MacCarthy’s perceptive review of my biography of Lola Montez [NYR, June 20], I must protest her statement that my “attempts at imagined dialogue are particularly jarring.” So much of my research was directed toward separating the inventions of Lola’s fertile imagination from the facts that I feel compelled to make it completely clear that my own imagination contributed nothing to the content of her story.
As I explain in my preface to the book, I made a very scrupulous effort to invent nothing in my biography (other than a bit of extrapolation in the opening four paragraphs) and to base it as much as possible on primary source materials. Dialogue appears very rarely simply because parties to a conversation seldom leave verbatim accounts. Nevertheless, in a few instances I did have firsthand accounts of conversations, written not long after they took place and purporting to reproduce the actual words spoken.
It was a coincidence that three of these sources for dialogue concerned events recounted at the beginning of Chapter 14 of my book, which is, I suspect, where Ms. MacCarthy found the dialogue so jarring. One source was a memorandum left by Baron von Pechmann, the Munich police commissioner, quoted at length in Karl Müller’s Am Rand der Geschichte; another was a letter of King Ludwig himself recounting his conversation with the police spy Frau Ganser, quoted in Egon Corti’s biography of the King; and the third was a memorandum written by Baron von Heideck, the King’s friend and Lola’s reluctant adviser, quoted extensively in Wilhelm Kristl’s Lola, Ludwig und der General. Each of these items is cited in the source notes for these pages.
The conversation between the king and Baron von Pechmann is indeed jarring because I believe the Baron was very conscientious about accurately reproducing the King’s language and his own. King Ludwig was notorious for being not merely colloquial and disjointed in conversation but frequently scurrilous as well. Baron von Pechmann’s extremely formal language to the King, as he himself reported it, contrasts almost too vividly with the informal, rambling ripostes of King Ludwig, but I believe the Baron, who subsequently became a highly regarded Bavarian cabinet minister, probably did an exemplary job of recording his audience with the King. The few other instances of dialogue in the book come from newspaper reports of testimony in the Dujarier murder trial and of Lola’s appearance as a witness in a New York case.
Even if I had been tempted to fictionalize details in Lola’s story, I doubt I could have matched her own uninhibited inventiveness. The facts, I discovered, make the best story of all, and that is what I have tried to tell in my book.
Fiona MacCarthy replies:
I was not accusing Bruce Seymour of fabrication but of artistic misjudgment in interpolating these creaky passages of dialogue when a paraphrase would have been much more effective. I think I make this clear in my review.
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ATTACK ON OJINAGA BEGUN.; Part of the Garrison Flees Across Border -- El Paso Cannon Used.
PRESIDIO, Texas, Saturday, April 29, (via Marfa, Texas, April 30.) -- The insurgent forces under Col. Villareal, who have long besieged the town of Ojinaga, opposite this place, began their long-anticipated attack early to-day. They opened the fighting on the north and south positions of the Federal forces, intrenched in the villages of San Francisco and Lagarita.
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This past holiday weekend, one Sonsi team member completed the first task in Sonsi’s Summer To Do List: catch fireflies.
As promised we would include info on how you can complete the activity in Sonsi’s Live Your Best Life Summer Series. Catching fireflies can be a great way to spend summer nights with your family or a unique romantic evening, so sit back, relax and get ready to catch lightning bugs!
As a child were you transfixed by the mysterious glow of a firefly’s tail? Did you want to capture them and keep them forever? Well you’re in luck this summer! Associate professor at the University of Missouri, Richard Houseman, explains to Mary Delach Leonard from the St. Louis Beacon that the wet and rainy weather over the last year may have helped to increase firefly populations. Follow these simple steps to catch some of these abundant beetles and make your childhood dream come true!
What you’ll need:
- a jar with holes punched in the top
- flashlight (LED flashlights are said to work better than battery powered)
- net (optional)
- wet paper towel
Setting the Stage: Fireflies are usually found in a marshy area or underneath tall trees. Try and find a place near you that’s highly populated with fireflies. Once you find this space, make it as dark as possible—you don’t want any light around except for a flashlight in hand.
Catching the Fireflies: In order to get closer to the fireflies, you should imitate them by shining your flashlight up and down (point it towards the sky and then down to the ground). Once you are close enough to catch the fireflies, do so using either a net or your hands. If you choose to use your hands, make sure that you cup them around the firefly without crushing it—fireflies are very fragile!
Taking Care of the Fireflies: Place the fireflies in a jar and puncture holes in the lid. If you want, put a wet paper towel in the jar to keep it humid and similar to the fireflies’ natural environment. Let the fireflies go after no more than a day or they will begin to die.
We want to know: as a kid, what did you call these glowing insects? Fireflies or Lightning bugs?
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-My CPU current temp is 116C (loading), 46C normal
-My Motherboards, 38-43C
1. Can I overclock my PC?, to what extent? (max overclock to ?)
2. What is the best Heatsink for PII450?
3. If my PII450 overclocked, will my motherboard be OK?
4.What is the "Normal range" temperature for PII450 and MB ASUS P3CE? (overclocked and non-verclocked)?
Please advise me.
[This message has been edited by Icabola (edited 02-15-2000).]
You really don't know how high you can go til you try. I had a PII 400 and when I decased it, the holes lined up with the holes on a PIII so I first used a generic dual fan/hs and later an Alpha (in my opinion still the best fan/hs). With typical cooling you can expect temps around the high 30's (C). With an Alpha you can expect temps around the high 20's to low 30's. If your temperature at max load is 116c, then I am surprise you haven't damaged your CPU yet (you sure you don't mean 116 f? That sounds more reasonalbe). I wouldn't ever have my CPU go over 45 C. Your mobo should be okay, and it's temps should be in the low to mid 20's, but that really depends on your ambient and case temperature. But I have heard the P3CE isn't the most stable mobo in the world. Another thing with your mobo is when your FSB is at 133 Mhz, your SDRAM is only running at 100 Mhz, so I am not sure why you got PC 133 RAM (for the future, I guess). BTW, my PII 400 went upto 560 Mhz.
the RAM riser is for convertion from SRAM to DRDRAM so you can use your old SDRAM in a mobo that only supports DRDRAM. The P3CE only has DRDRAM slot, right? And the P3C2000 only has SDRAM slot, right? The RAM riser won't improve performance at all. DRDRAM is like at least 5 times more expensive than SDRAM. You do the math.
1. yes but It depends on a lot of things check out my basics mail.
A: I will! ASAP
2. Best is a difficult thing to say as it can be system dependant as to what you can use. have a look here www.3dfxcool.com for some ideas
A: I got my first experince in TX97E, MMX166, SDRAM PC66 Visipro, PCI TNT 16Mb, Waterfall and Rain and o-Clocked to MMX210, but within 6mts my motherboard get sucked and wrecked! But my other parts still fine, Can you tell me the simple relationship and how?
4. 116C are you sure that is above the boiling point of water, I think it would crash long before getting that high and start to melt. what are you using to get that reading.
I am using ASUS Probe Utility + Rain 1.0 loaded.It is true, while I play QuakeIII
5. Go here and get Motherboard Monitor
& Rainhttp://get.to/octools they are both freeware
A: Can I get freeware for Waterfall Pro?
Motherboard monitor tells you well, just about everything and rain will cool your Cpu like magic. put it in the start up folder or a shortcut to it.
You can get a lot out of overclocking if you do it right and have a little luck as well:-
PIII 700Mhz @ 988Mhz (7x140fsb @ 1.75v)
256mb PC133 Mushkin 5ns
Geforce 256 Annihilator Pro DDR (345/145)
Wyn Doze 98 SE
Alpha 3125 with Tom Lufkins 50 watt peltier @ 18 volts with a **** load of large fans,(I've lost count) ....CPU -10C to -3C....Sys 24C to 26C....Geforce 42C to 56C
A: What is peltier use for?
Thank you for your kind assistance to me, anyway I am new and just know little bit about 0-clocking.
Hey, you don't trust me? My system isn't too shabby either ... 650e @ 910 Mhz (on P3BF) and 949 Mhz (on BF6) with an Alpha, 65 watt peltier and idles at 5 c. I am hurt ... I think I will go and stand in a corner now.
Peltier's are an electronic device that when induced by a current will make one side cold the other damn hot. a Peltier's, (also known as a TEC), performance will increase in proportion to the voltage and current you supply, up to it's max limits. It's efficiency will increase if you can effectively remove the heat it creates.
Water cooling is best for doing this and that is next for my setup , Don't
consider a peltier yet you need to understand more about the whole overclocking subject first.
Condensation has to be managed or you will damage the CPU & or Mobo.
[This message has been edited by BladeRunner (edited 02-15-2000).]
hey bladerunner- what is the best way to manage condensation on a socket370 celeron? my 466@582 is cooled by an alpha/50watt TEC, and when running rain v2.0 at idle the cpu temp is in the mid teens...
normally my cpu is constantly being heavily used(either SETI or 3d games) but during the recent server problem with SETI my computer sat unused for a while with rain going and no cpu usage. The temps dropped into the low teens, and BLAM! I walked into the room and I saw the BSOD! I tried rebooting, but i got no video and lots of mobo error beeps, after I took the cpu off the board, I saw that there was water droplets on the cpu, and water IN the socket!, I dried everything off and luckily it is working fine...I know, I lucked out.
now i am scared to run rain because of potential server problems from seti, incase I'm not home to catch it in time.
I have installed a foam gasket that seals the cpu socket/cpu/cold plate/peltier, but evidently that wasn't enough. Any suggestions from you guys? thanks
What you need to do, as I'm sure you know is keep any air away from the area that gets cold. It needs to be sealed air tight. Quite how you do this with the socket design is trial and error unfortunally.
I've always prefered the slot 1 design, and I use a high density foam and fish tank silicon. Appears to work but a bit of a pain to remove.
i guess that any silicone will work, I cant think of any that would be electrically conductive...hmm, I read somewhere that one guy installed his cpu in front of a hot oven in order to fill the cavity with dry air...hmm...thanks for the help and the link
LOL millenko when I said I installed my PC in the oven I was taking the piss. Actually I used one of those penis extension vacuum pumps to suck every last molecule of water of of my cpu. I then stuck it in the oven to burn it in, whilst cooking my dinner .
[This message has been edited by -Psyduck- (edited 02-16-2000).]
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Sustainability 3.0: Money, Justice, Environment
The greener, granola-ier images of “sustainability” have been around awhile. Why, as far back as 1990, yours truly wrote a recycling column called “Talkin’ Trash.” So clever.
Time has mercifully moved on.
Now leading the sustainability charge at Davidson is Jeff Mittelstadt ’99, who returns to alma mater as the college’s first, full-time director of sustainability. A triple threat with masters’ degrees in environmental management (Duke), in business administration (UNC Chapel Hill) and in journalism and mass communications (UNC Chapel Hill), Mittelstadt likewise takes a three-pronged view of sustainability circa 2013.
“It’s a triple bottom line,” he says, “of economic prosperity, social justice, environmental integrity. It’s about not just how they conflict but how they can drive each other.”
He’s calendared a trifecta of events to begin drawing out for students, faculty and staff the finer points of sustainability and vital place of those points in the life of the campus—and far beyond into the world of careers and life in general.
• Tuesday, Jan. 22—Bullish on Sustainability, Sprinkle Room 3:30-5:00 p.m. “Are you interested in making money? Are you interested in business? Have you thought about sustainability as a strategy for investment and profit? Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend this event to learn about financial profitability/economic prosperity as one of the three pillars of sustainability. Sustainability is often described as the Triple Bottom Line, which refers to financial profitability/economic prosperity, environmental integrity and social equity. This workshop will begin with discussion of a few case studies about making money through sustainability and the role financial profitability can play in sustainability. Investment, entrepreneurship and business strategy will be summarized with respect to their roles in sustainability. Then attendees will create strategies for a case study based on economic, environmental and social conditions in Mecklenburg County. The workshop will end with discussion of opportunities for financial profitability/economic prosperity within the sustainability context of the case study. Then, there will be a summary of unique opportunities for business and sustainability in the Charlotte area and throughout North Carolina.”
• Wednesday, Jan. 23—Social Equity: Pillar of Sustainability, Multicultural House, 3:30–5:00 p.m. “This is an interactive workshop for students, faculty and staff to learn about the social pillar of sustainability through active engagement in case studies and connection to local opportunities. Are you interested in social equity? Did you know it is one of the three pillars of sustainability? Come to this event to learn more about how sustainability provides a framework to address social equity issues. You will also learn about how social equity is a pillar and a driver for sustainability. This workshop will include case studies that provide a glimpse of this component of sustainability, will provide an overview of ways to measure social impact and sustainability, discuss the transdisciplinary nature of these topics (how policy, culture, economics, government, policy, education, health, environment, non-profits, for-profits come together), and present opportunities for students, faculty and staff to get involved in the social aspects of sustainability through multiple centers, departments and divisions at Davidson College and with our community.”
Contact Jeff for more info at jemittelstadt[at]davidson.edu.
“I’m staying extremely busy,” he says, clearly happy to be home. Mittelstadt counts Davidson as the first place he truly felt was his own home, after moving around a lot growing up. He’s helping flesh out his new job description as he goes along, and is grateful for the skills he gained in his degree work. He remains most grateful for the solid foundation of his Davidson education, and the chance to put that to use with the current and continuously refreshing crop of students. “How you communicate and analyze information is really important, and I know how Davidson students develop their critical thinking and communication skills in all the liberal arts disciplines.”
Finally, for the third event, come meet Jeff:
• Wednesday, Feb. 06—Sustainability 2013 Launch Event, C. Shaw Smith 900 Room, 3:00–6:00 p.m. “This is an open house for students, faculty and staff to learn about how sustainability relates to your interests. FREE FOOD AND BEVERAGES. Are you interested in social equity? Economics or business? The environment? Did you know these are the three pillars of sustainability? Come to this event to learn more about how sustainability is related to your interests and can be a helpful tool for reaching your goals on campus, in the classroom and in the community. Find out what is happening in sustainability at Davidson College and how you can become involved. Many campus organizations and interests will have displays and tables illustrating opportunities and current projects. See you there! [FREE FOOD AND BEVERAGES.] If you would like to have a table/display at this event or if you want more information, please e-mail the organizer at the address above.”
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Easter is a time of love, of family, and of peace. It is a time when we say a quiet thanks for all that we have and for all that the future holds.
Easter is a feeling in our hearts of hope and faith and trust. It is a day of miracles; a day when our dreams seem a little closer; a time of retrospection for what has been and anticipation of all that will be.
And it is a time for remembering with love and appreciation the people in our lives who make a difference... people like you.
Do not undermine your worth by Comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different That each of us is special.
Do not set your goals by what Other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.
Do not take for granted the things Closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
Do not let your life slip through your fingers By living in the past nor for the future.
By living your life one day at a time, You live all the days of your life.
Do not give up when you Still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the Moment you stop trying. It is a fragile thread that Binds us to each other.
Do not be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances That we learn how to be brave.
Do not shut love out of your life by Saying it is impossible to find. The quickest way to receive Love is to give love; The fastest way to lose love Is to hold it too tightly; In addition, the best way to keep Love is to give it wings.
Do not dismiss your dreams. To be without dreams Is to be without hope; To be without hope Is to be without purpose.
Do not run through life So fast that you forget Not only where you have been, But also where you are going. Life is not a race, But a journey to be savored Each step of the way.
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East Cranmore is a village in the civil parish of Cranmore in the Mendip district of Somerset, England.
1822 - Somersetshire delineated by Christopher & John Greenwood
A small parish in the liberty of Cranmore, and locally in the hundred of Frome, 5 miles E. from Shepton Mallet, and 6 miles S. W. from Frome; containing 10 inhabited houses, and 11 families, the whole of whom are employed in agriculture. It is a chapelry to Doulting, but the inhabitants generally have their burials at West Cranmore. The chapel is a small structure, dedicated to St. James. Population, 1801, 53 — 1811, 47 — 1821, 68.
1929 - Somerset by George Woosung Wade & Joseph Henry Wade
Cranmore, East, 1 m. E. from Cranmore Station (G.W.R.), has a small modern church in close proximity to Cranmore House (Sir R. Paget). On the summit of the neighbouring hill is a tower, one of the most conspicuous objects on the E. Mendip range. It is a square structure, with projecting balconies, built in 1862. Though of no artistic merit, it is worth a visit on account of the extensive panorama which it commands.
Family History Library
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2008 : Australian skiing doomed!
Global warming to shorten ski season: CSIRO Updated May 28, 2008 09:02:00
Australia Scientists say Australian skiers should prepare for shorter ski seasons because of global warming. A report published in the New Scientist magazine has found the average number of days of snow in the Swiss Alps is lower than ever before. CSIRO climate change expert Dr Penny Whetton says Australia’s mountain snow cover could be reduced by up to 54 per cent by 2020. ”The probability of any precipitation falling as snow rather than rain is going to decrease, and any snow lying on the ground is going to melt more quickly,” she said. ”So the outcome of that is, there’s going to be shorter snow seasons, not as much depth of snow on the ground
Australian skiers rejoice in 70cm of snow by: By Angela Saurine From: news.com.au June 25, 2012 1:21pm
SKIERS and snowboarder were basking in deep powder snow over the weekend after a huge storm hit Australian ski resorts. Mt Hotham in Victoria received 70cm of fresh snow since Thursday – the most of any resort in the country. “It was a busy weekend after news broke that Heavenly Valley would open two weeks earlier than last year,’‘ spokeswoman Gina Woodward said. “The snow conditions were outstanding. ”It certainly was a case of ‘pinch me is it June?”
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The northeast is still in the thick of Hurricane Sandy relief and damage remediation, even though the disaster itself took place in fall 2012. Local authorities used modern tools like social media and GIS technology to assist relief efforts during the event and its aftermath. But technology still has a role to play in the recovery efforts for this disaster, and future emergencies.
GIS mapping technology plays a crucial role in helping public-sector employees identify hard-hit areas. Russ Johnson, Esri’s director of global public safety, answered questions about how GIS technology affects disaster relief in crises like Sandy, and how it may evolve in the future.
How are organizations using Esri technology in disasters?
The most powerful thing they can use it for is understanding where they have vulnerabilities based on historical events and raising the level of preparedness. But with that said, when something like Sandy hits, they often use it for identifying, first of all, what’s the impact or the parameter, and what is the damage associated with it.
One of the biggest problems that organizations have, particularly public safety, is, when we have this massive event, how do we allocate a finite amount of resources for rescue and recovery? What’s the protocol for doing that, how do we do it, where do we do it? One of the important roles GIS plays right up front is taking that damage perimeter, or information about where the impact is, and then bringing up layers of data regarding critical infrastructure. They can begin to see, in terms of priorities for life, property and natural resources, where are the key search and rescue areas, what are the key things we need to do to the infrastructure to get things back up and running again, and what natural resources do we need to preserve or protect or take action on?
Then as the event unfolds, typically you start getting imagery, and imagery is very important because it begins to give you a full picture of what has happened. Imagery can be infused, imported into GIS technology and used as another data layer. You begin to combine several layers, imagery, critical infrastructure, demographics, the event data, maybe even some dynamic information such as real-time weather or real-time stream gauges, and you get this virtual picture of what has happened.
How much longer do you think Esri technology will be used for damage control and remediation efforts on recent disasters like Sandy?
In large events, the recovery sometimes takes decades. GIS, when used appropriately, is used across all jurisdictions within their departments — public works, parks and recreation, economic development, fire [and] police. You have a disruption, and that event requires you to manage it just like you manage other kinds of government operations, so it will be pervasive for many years as recovery efforts are made.
The real power of GIS in recovery is in the idea of geo-design. If I know, based on current and historical events, my risk of these events occurring every year or 10 years, I really ought to think about identifying where they impact and determining if what we built there can withstand it so that we have resilience. The whole rebuilding and recovery process, that’s where GIS can play a very important role. It’ll be used for probably the next several years throughout the recovery, the complete recovery phase.
What about using it to handle damage from older disasters like Katrina?
Maybe every 100 years, you’re going to get that Category 5 hurricane coming through. Are we going to relive the same event again, or do we make some intelligent decisions about how we rebuild, how we design, where people live [and] where we don’t rebuild?
You have to put a plan together to say, “Well, let’s separate the rubble out into things we can burn, things that need to be hauled, and let’s identify, for each area, a route and a location where this is going to go.” GIS gives you a tool to be able to figure that out, and that’s still going on in Katrina today.
How has GIS technology changed in disaster management over the years?
GIS was, let’s say, 10, 15 years ago, primarily a desktop tool, and a trained GIS professional would use it because it is complex. As the Internet has evolved, we see it in the hands of just about everybody, and it has become so configurable that it can be put together in an application that supports, specifically, what someone does. Let’s say my job in emergency management is logistics, finding the right resources and getting them to the right places, making sure that the transportation corridor can accommodate that, or that we have new routes. We can build a tool with GIS that simply does one job for that person.
What will GIS in disaster aid look like in the future?
I think it’s going to get easier, I think it’s going to get more accessible, and I think it’s going to push as much as it requires you to pull. What do I mean by that? I mean, if I’m anybody on the street, and I have access through my smartphone to whatever we want to call it — maybe it’s a disaster alert, and all of a sudden a wildfire breaks out. I might get notified that a wildfire’s broken out and they need to evacuate in a certain direction. I think, even though it may not be really visible for some people in these cases, it’s going to become very, very intelligent, and it’s going to notify and alert some emails just based on location interval.
This article was originally published by Government Technology.
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"Perhaps, you suspect that I am afraid of anything happening to me, personally. No, I shall never be agitated by anything that might happen to me, for, this body is a bubble upon the waters, it is a composite of the five elements waiting to be dissolved back into its components. The dissolution must happen some day; it is bound to fail, to fall, to fester, to be reduced to ash or mud. I do not pay heed to its fate."
"My only worry is about one particular matter. I shall disclose it to you, without any attempt to conceal the seriousness. Listen. It is now more or less seven months since our brother Arjuna left for Dwaraka. Yet, we have not heard anything about the welfare and well-being of the Lord of Dwaraka. He has not sent any messenger or message regarding, at least, his reaching Dwaraka. Of course I am not worried in the least about Arjuna and his reaching or not reaching Dwaraka. I know that no foe can stand up against him. Moreover, if anything untoward had happened to him, certainly, Sri Krishna would have sent the information to us; of this there is no doubt. So, I am confident that there is no reason to be nervous about him."
"Let me confess that it is about the Lord Himself that I am feeling worried; with every passing minute, anxiety is increasing. My heart is suffering unbearable agony. I am overwhelmed by the fear that He may leave this world, and resume His permanent abode. What greater reason can there be for sorrow?"
"If this catastrophe has actually come about, I shall not continue to rule over this land, widowed by the disappearance of the master. For us Pandavas, this Vaasudeva was all our five vital airs put together; when He departs, we are but corpses, devoid of vitality. If the Lord is upon the earth, such ominous signs dare not reveal themselves. Injustice and iniquity can have free play only when He is absent; I have no doubt about this. My conscience is clear about it; something tells me that is the truth."
When Dharmaraja asserted thus, the brothers fell into the depth of grief. They lost all trace of courage. Bhima was the first who recovered sufficiently to speak! He mustered some courage, in spite of the wave of sadness that smothered him. He said, "For the reason that Arjuna has not returned or that we have not heard from him, you should not picture such a dire calamity and start imagining catastrophe. There must be some other reason for Arjuna's silence; or else, Krishna Himself might have neglected to inform us. Let us wait, seek further light; let us not yield to the fantasies that a nervous mind might weave. Let us not clothe them with the vesture of truth. I am encouraged to speak like this, for, one's nervousness is often capable of shaping such fears."
But, Dharmaraja was in no mood to accept this. He replied: "Whatever you say, however skilfully you argue, I feel that my interpretation is correct. Or else, how can such an idea arise in my mind? My left shoulder is registering a shiver, see! This is a sign confirming my fear that this has actually happened. You know it is a bad omen, if the left shoulder shivers for men and the right, for women. Now, this thing has taken place in my body, and it is a bad omen. Not merely the shoulder, my entire being - mind, body, intelligence - all are in a shiver. My eyes grow dim and I am fast losing vision. I see the world as an orphan, having been deprived of its guardian and Lord. I have lost the faculty of hearing. My legs are shaking helplessly. My limbs have been petrified. They have no life in them."
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Ask TheStreet: Secondaries
Editor's Note: Ask TheStreet is designed to answer questions about the market, strategies and investment methods. Please email us to ask a question, but keep in mind that we cannot offer specific investment advice.
Are secondary offerings good or bad for stocks? Best Regards, J.P.
Gregg Greenberg: Strip away all the fancy ratios used to value stocks -- the price/earnings, price/sales, price/book, etc. -- and ultimately you will find the price of a stock is determined by good old supply and demand. If more people want to buy shares of a stock than sell them, then the price will rise. If more people want to sell than buy, then the price will fall.Keeping those immutable economic laws firmly in mind, it stands to reason that by raising the supply of stock via a secondary offering, then the price should go down if demand remains unchanged. And on the flip side, if a secondary offering spurs additional demand, then the price should remain unchanged or rise. Confused? Don't be. Here's a recent real world example using -- what else? -- everybody's favorite stock, Google (GOOG). Google went public in August 2004 at $85 per share. In the initial public offering, a total of 19.6 million Google shares were sold for $1.67 billion. At the time, demand outstripped supply, and the IPO finished above $100 on its first day of trading. A year later, Google raised $4.2 billion through the sale of another 14.2 million shares, called a secondary offering. By this time, however, Google-mania was in full effect, and the highly anticipated secondary offering was priced at $295 a share. Why did Google decide to add more shares to the market when the price was rising so well on its own? In general, secondary offerings are made by companies looking to refinance, or raise capital, which is positive for a growing company. At the time, there was speculation that Google was building up a war chest to enter new markets. And since the price for its stock was high, Google's management realized it was a good time to sell more stock.
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If Romney wanted to be more accurate, he should have cited the share of households receiving goodies from the government. That number also is approaching 50 percent and it probably is much more correlated with the group of people in the country who see the state as a means of living off their fellow citizens. But even that correlation is likely to be very imprecise since some government beneficiaries – such as Social Security recipients – spent their lives in the private sector and are taking benefits simply because they had no choice but to participate in the system. Moreover, there are some people who pay tax and don’t receive programmatic benefits, yet are part of the proverbial moocher class. Many government bureaucrats obviously would be on that list, as would some union members, trial lawyers, etc. However, even though Romney picked the wrong statistic and overstated the implications, he indirectly stumbled on a key issue. As seen in both BIS and OECD data, the U.S. is at risk of Greek-style fiscal chaos at some point in the not-too-distant future because of a rising burden of government spending. I have no idea what share of the population today actually is part of the dependency class that Mitt Romney inarticulately described, but I don’t think I’m going out on limb to say that it has grown during the Bush-Obama years and it will continue to expand.Link.
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Pins & Brooches
Pins and brooches are yet another facinating category of jewelry with an interesting history. They became more decorative and less utilitarian thanks to the Byzantines. The Byzantines produced brightly enameled brooches worn strictly for decoration. Up until then, the brooch was more of a necessity as a dress or cloak fastener. During the 1940's and 1950's, brooches and pins were all the rage...not only for women, but men as well. Between hats and lapels, everyone was adorned with this fabulous piece of jewelry. Brooches and pins have once again become extremely popular. Whether worn on a lapel, or several worn in a group fastening a pashmina on a chilly evening, these beautiful pieces of jewelry will truly show your sense of style!
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Warmongers gloat after killing Osama Bin Laden, but they killed hundreds of thousands, their wars spread terror and they destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan
Around the world newspaper front pages screamed with celebration at the announcement that US forces had killed Osama Bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan.
Barack Obama, David Cameron and their Western allies are cheering the death of the man they claim was the source of terror attacks worldwide.
But they are hypocrites.
Look at the death toll, the suffering and the destruction caused by Western warmongering over the last decade.
Hundreds of thousands have died and millions have been made homeless and forced to flee the devastating wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And more are dying in Libya—this week’s attempted assassination of Colonel Gaddafi resulted in the death of three of his grandchildren, all under 12 years of age.
The US has no right to be in Afghanistan or to set up military bases across the globe. Yet it believes no one should question its right to invade and bomb anywhere it pleases.
In what amounts to kidnap, the US captures people and sends them from one secret prison to another using rendition flights. Many prisoners suffer horrific torture at the hands of US agents. There are still 172 such prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp who have never faced any trial.
The killing of Bin Laden involved flying into a foreign airspace with no permission or warning to carry out the assassination.
Imagine the response if another country flew helicopters into the US and landed in George Bush’s Texas ranch on a murder mission? We are told that the US’s actions are justified because they are in response to the “evil” of terrorism and attacks like 9/11. But in reality these acts are a response to oppression, not an expression of “evil”.
Bin Laden and his followers talked about the bitterness people feel at the impact of US imperialism—the anger at Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians and the role of the US military in holy sites in Saudi Arabia.
George Bush claimed after the 9/11 attacks that he was going to prosecute a “war on terror”. But this was always a smokescreen for the US ruling class to extend its global power.
George Bush named the countries he claimed were a threat to democracy “the axis of evil”—Iran, Iraq and North Korea.
He made no mention of the brutal tyrants of Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Egypt or Bahrain because those men were valuable US allies.
When Barack Obama was elected he stopped using the term “war on terror”—but he carried on the war.
He will want to use Bin Laden’s death to send a message to the rest of the world—that only the US can guarantee global security.
But Bin Laden’s death will not make the world a safer place. Instead, a newly confident US may feel emboldened to wage more wars and reassert its power on the international stage.
The world’s greatest superpower has been shaken by the global economic crisis. But it has also been terrified by the revolutions sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East.
Millions have taken to the streets in protests and mass strikes, and soldiers have mutinied—in the face of extraordinary state repression.
In Tunisia and Egypt such struggles brought down the Ben Ali and Mubarak dictatorships.
The process of these revolutions is ongoing and deepening. They have shown what can happen when people take their lives into their own hands.
This is the force that can really challenge US imperialism in the region. Generations have suffered war, poverty and oppression at the hands of local despots backed by successive US presidents.
But times are changing. People are rising up, and they offer hope of a very different future, shaped by the needs of those who have been at the bottom of the pile for too long.
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University of Central Florida graduate student Renée DeRouin accepted the 2005 APAGS/APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution by a Graduate Student at APA's 2005 Annual Convention in Washington, D.C.
The award honors students who work with underserved populations, either in an applied setting or delivering health services. DeRouin, a fifth-year student in industrial and organizational psychology, earned the award for her work with two underserved populations--elderly adults and unemployed adults.
As part of a four-month internship project, she helped Workforce Central Florida, a nonprofit job training and search service, design its launch plan for a mobile employment center that brings job services to unemployed adults in rural Florida. To reach people without cars or other means of transportation, the group bought a large RV outfitted with computer workstations and linked to the Internet via satellite.
"It's absolutely an amazing unit," DeRouin says. "It was especially useful after the four hurricanes last year, when power was out everywhere else."
She helped the group plan how the mobile unit would be used, devised its staffing plan and developed job descriptions and training materials for the unit's operators.
In a separate project, DeRouin developed a training program to help older adults learn to use the computerized database at the University of Central Florida's library system. She combined this with a research project that investigated factors that help older adults learn new information, and she found that self-paced learning improved the learners' satisfaction with the training.
DeRouin says that she hopes to continue working with older adults in the future.
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For the past two months I’ve been running a large project for the world’s largest provider of higher education and have not really had a lot of time to post.
During that time I kept seeing signs of what I call the start of the human-machine convergence. Yes, I know there are precedents for this and these are not the “true first signs”.
I’m interested for another reason, the way it is being marketed. For some reason it’s being commercialize this holiday season. Several “toys” are being promoted to consumers that allow brain reading to control objects in front of you.
Mattel and StarWars Science are both offering these toys at your local Walmart or Target. But good luck finding them, even with a $100+ price tag they appear to have sold out.
I don’t have the time to post all of my thoughts, and came across this article below that sums up what I was missing above. Have fun and enjoy the read, let me know your thoughts too!
Thought Translator Knows Vowels from Consonants
Brain scanners can tell what you’re thinking about
Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications
Toyota Unveils Wheelchair Propelled by Thoughts Alone
A series of cataclysmic volcanic eruptions gave the planet its polar ice caps, and kicked the ancient climate into a freeze-thaw cycle of ice ages that persists to this day, according to a new theory….
….Steven Cather of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a team of researchers now think they know why. They argue that a series of massive volcanic eruptions spanning nearly all of present-day Mexico, as well as parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Idaho launched vast amounts of ash into the atmosphere.
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“Once the student can successfully control his maai, the ability to then apply appropriate kuzushi, tsukuri and kake, are greatly enhanced.”
Ma, in Japanese, refers to a “space, or an interval” between objects. As a principle commonly used in martial arts, it refers to the “physical spacing” between individuals, and can also determine the outcome of any martial encounter. The term used to describe this phenomenon is called “Ma-ai”.
No one should have the right to invade the personal space of another without permission. This basic truth lies at the very heart of any valid claim to preserving one’s security, and the natural right to act resolutely in one’s own defense. No fully trained or accomplished martial artist, would willingly abdicate this right without justifiable cause or reason. Being vulnerable at any one time is understandable. To exist while being defenseless is not.
One aspect of proper maai may refer to an “inner space”, within one’s consciousness, that an individual requires for solitude, privacy, peace of mind, and the ultimate freedom to think and act independently for him/herself. This right is inviolate, and must be defended with every ounce of vigor and practiced preparation, whenever challenged or attacked.
The other aspect of proper maai refers to the “outer, or physical space” that is required by the individual to move in or out of, and to efficiently deal with any real or perceived threats to his welfare. This is the more troublesome of the two examples, as reasonable notions of proper boundaries are quite often blurred, and ill defined. Being social animals, we may be naively duped into relying on the agendas and decisions of others, in foolishly determining what really is in our own best interests.
In aikido training, this regard for personal (inner) , and for interpersonal (outer) “maai”, involves ongoing thought and interactive training. Throughout this lifelong process, each person must resolve to remain individually accountable for personal safety, and mutually responsible for respecting the rights, welfare, and boundaries of the others we train with.
Quite often, It is the head instructor who must set and monitor the correct parameters of such training, and coordinate harmoniously with assistant instructors, seniors, and the very students themselves, to successfully and safely practice the principles and applications of appropriate maai.
A key factor to remember for each student working with the confrontation scenario, is to recognize separately the maai for himself, as opposed to that of his opponent. The goal of the exercise is to maintain one’s own maai, while disrupting that of the opponent. Once the student can successfully control his maai, the ability to then apply appropriate kuzushi, tsukuri and kake, are greatly enhanced. This refers to balance taking, creating the opening for entering, and the successful follow through with proper technique, and of zanshin, or proper finishing of the movements.
I often recall stories from my past, which serve to remind and guide me in my understanding for, and the proper pursuit of my training goals. Some such stories involve the great “Kensei”, or “sword saint”, Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi was reputed to have fought over 60 battles, or actual contests of skill and survival, on his path of Musha Shugyo.
Shishido Baiken was an expert with Kusarigama, a combination of a ball and chain, attached to a reaping sickle of lethal purpose. Its design was to trap the sword with the ball and chain, and then dispatch the opponent with the sickle. Musashi recognized the problem of proper maai, immediately drawing not one, but both swords as he approached his enemy. Baiken successfully trapped Musashi’s long sword, but was himself dispatched when Musashi entered Baiken’s maai, using his short sword.
Another anecdote of interest was Musashi’s supposed encounter with the great and legendary Yagyu Munenori, referred to in Japanese history as “Tajima no Kami”. Lord Yagyu was indeed a minor daimyo, but also the official sword instructor to the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
As Yagyu was tending to his garden, he was interrupted by a servant, announcing that a shugyosha was at the gate, requesting a match. The great master sighed, and gave a cut flower to the servant to present to this individual, with his regrets that he was now retired, and accepted no more matches as before. Of course, this shugyosha was Miyamoto Musashi, who humbly accepted both the gesture, and the gift of the flower. Yet, upon examining how amazingly fine the cut on the stem was, he remarked, ” I could not seriously hope to defeat the one who cut this flower anyway, so I will best be on my way.”.
Both of these serve as examples of how the concept of proper maai may be understood and applied. One involved action; the other forestalled it.
In our ongoing training in Aikido, or of any other art form of choice, the imperative need to recognize, apply and to learn from proper maai is clear. Such understanding can lead to both wise withdrawal and defense, as well as towards entering, and taking the initiative to accomplish our goals.
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This calculator is an adaptation of projects by the Maine State Library and Library Research Service, a unit of the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Department of Education that is operated in partnership with the Library and Information Science (LIS) Program, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver.
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Time to Revive Home Economics
HELEN ZOE VEIT | IHT-NYT SYNDICATE
NOBODY likes home economics. For most people, the phrase evokes bland food, bad sewing and self-righteous fussiness.
But home economics is more than a 1950s teacher in cat’s-eye glasses showing her female students how to make a white sauce. Reviving the programme, and its original premises — that producing good, nutritious food is profoundly important, that it takes study and practice, and that it can and should be taught through the public school system — could help us in the fight against obesity and chronic disease today.
The home economics movement was founded on the belief that housework and food preparation were important subjects that should be studied scientifically.
The first classes occurred in the agricultural and technical colleges that were built from the proceeds of federal land grants in the 1860s. By the early 20th century, and increasingly after the passage of federal legislation like the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act, which provided support for the training of teachers in home economics, there were classes in elementary, middle and high schools across the country. When universities excluded women from most departments, home economics was a back door into higher education. Once there, women worked hard to make the case that “domestic science” was in fact a scientific discipline, linked to chemistry, biology and bacteriology.
Indeed, in the early 20th century, home economics was a serious subject.
When few understood germ theory and almost no one had heard of vitamins, home economics classes offered vital information about washing hands regularly, eating fruits and vegetables and not feeding coffee to babies, among other lessons.
Eventually, however, the discipline’s basic tenets about health and hygiene became so thoroughly popularised that they came to seem like common sense.
As a result, their early proponents came to look like old maids stating the obvious instead of the innovators and scientists that many of them really were.
Increasingly, home economists’ eagerness to dispense advice on everything from eating to sleeping to posture galled.
Today we remember only the stereotypes about home economics, while forgetting the movement’s crucial lessons on healthy eating and cooking.
Too many Americans simply don’t know how to cook. Our diets, consisting of highly processed foods made cheaply outside the home thanks to subsidised corn and soy, have contributed to an enormous health crisis.
More than half of all adults and more than a third of all children are overweight or obese. Chronic diseases associated with weight gain, like heart disease and diabetes, are hobbling more and more Americans.
In the last decade, many cities and states have tried — and generally failed — to tax junk food or to ban the use of food stamps to buy soda. Clearly, many people are leery of any governmental steps to promote healthy eating; Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity has inspired rightwing panic about a secret food police.
But what if the government put the tools of obesity prevention in the hands of children themselves, by teaching them how to cook? My first brush with home economics, as a seventh grader in a North Carolina public school two decades ago, was grim. The most sophisticated cooking we did was opening a can of pre-made biscuit dough, sticking our thumbs in the centre of each raw biscuit to make a hole, and then handing them over to the teacher, who dipped them in hot grease to make doughnuts. Cooking classes for public school students need not be so utterly stripped of content, or so cynical about students’ abilities to cook and enjoy high-quality food.
A year later, my father’s job took our family to Wales, where I attended, for a few months, a large school in a midsize industrial city. There, students brought ingredients from home and learned to follow recipes, some simple and some not-so-simple, eventually making vegetable soups and meat and potato pies from scratch. It was the first time I had ever really cooked anything.
I remember that it was fun, and with an instructor standing by, it wasn’t hard.
Those were deeply empowering lessons, ones that stuck with me when I first started cooking for myself in earnest after college.
In the midst of contracting school budgets and test-oriented curricula, the idea of reviving home economics as part of a broad offensive against obesity might sound outlandish. But teaching cooking — real cooking — in public schools could help address a host of problems facing Americans today. The history of home economics shows it’s possible.
(Helen Zoe Veit, an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University, is the author of the forthcoming Victory Over Ourselves: American Food in the Era of the Great War)
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Zaitcev's and kroah's comments on my efforts to get into embedded systems programming certainly made me wonder if I'm doing the right thing. (Thanks kroah for letting me know who you were!)
I think I'm still doing the right thing, but hopefully I could go into embedded work somewhat less naively than I might otherwise have.
I'm well aware that the nature of the work makes it harder to make one's code free. But I don't think it's hopeless.
There have been some setbacks, though. The Embedded Linux Journal used to be a print publication, but its existence as a separate dead-tree magazine ceased not too long ago, I think a victim of bad economic times. But it's still on the web and I think it now exists as a section within the Linux Journal.
Of course, since Linux was originally developed for desktop and server PC's, it has some limitations that prevent it from being used in some embedded applications. Lots of embedded chips don't have enough memory to run a Linux kernel, let alone any userspace applications. For this one can use eCos. eCos can run in much less memory that Linux, and is architected to make it easy to remove features you don't need from the build so they don't take up space in the ROM image.
There also appear to be some open source Forth implementations.
There are a couple problems with free software being used for embedded systems. One is that one often cannot look at the binary running on an embedded chip, so it is hard to tell that it is running software which should be Free. Likely there are a lot of GPL violations out in the market, running on embedded chips with no one but the manufacturer knowing about it. The best we can hope for is that whistleblowers will leak the secrets, and I expect that will happen from time to time.
The other is that many embedded products don't provide a way for the user to reload the software. They might not be using flash rom, and there may be no I/O ports on the device to load new software onto it. So even if the manufacturer publishes the source, you may not be able to use it.
(I asked RMS about this specifically a while back and he said that the GPL did not require one to be able to load new software on a device that runs a GPL'ed binary. I think this is a real problem. While one could manufacture new compatible hardware, there may not be enough of the hardware spec made public to be able to reproduce it.)
One more problem is that the manufacturer might publish the source but not the hardware specs, so you might be able to write software that does the same thing, but not be able to figure out how to alter it.
Another problem is that a lot of the commercial offerrings in the embedded linux market include proprietary parts. So some firmware may only contain free software, but the tools required to build it may be proprietary. There are also some packages to give Linux real-time support, that don't actually link into the Linux kernel, and some of these packages are proprietary. Both of these are a real problem.
But I don't think it's hopeless. After all, the server software market used to be a completely closed-source proprietary world. Even BSD used to be closed-source because it contained a lot of AT&T Unix code. At some point, U.C. Berkeley started publishing all the parts of BSD that weren't AT&T derived, and then the AT&T parts were rewritten from scratch, so we did eventually end up with an Open Source BSD. (I understand AT&T threatened UCB with a lawsuit over this, which could have been a huge disaster for the University if AT&T won. But AT&T backed down when Berkeley asked AT&T about all the BSD code it was using in Unix.)
In my early career, when I was a sysadmin for the BSD-based SunOS, I was unable to get the source code to SunOS. If I wanted to rebuild the kernel, I had to link together a bunch of .o files that came from Sun - I didn't even have the kernel source. Now, although the license is restrictive, one can at least obtain the Solaris source code. Even the source to the Mac OS X kernel is available (but under a license that the Open Source Initiative has certified but the Free Software Foundation says is incompatible with the GPL.
I think most embedded work is still mostly closed source. I just signed an NDA to get the manufacturer's source code to the chip I'm about to program, and my modifications to it will also be a secret.
But Free Software is not yet at the point where every programmer can make their living writing or even using it.
I think most paid involvement with Free Software still consists of either integrating Free applications or writing extensions to it that are never released either because the license doesn't require it (like BSD) or because the GPL'ed code is only used on a server without actually distributing the binary. (Some have proposed adding a "performance" clause to the GPL which would address this. I brought this up too with RMS, and he said he wanted to address it in the next revision to the GPL, but said "it can't be soon".)
I have heard that RMS feels that if one cannot write Free Software, then one should not write software at all - that is, one should not even take employment as a programmer unless the source one creates is Free. (I don't know for sure that he feels that way, so I won't claim that he really feels this way.)
I don't agree with that. I think that most people with the talent to program well do not have the ability to do as well for themselves and their families in some other occupation. If I could have changed careers these last couple years into some saner job that would still have kept all my bills paid, I certainly would have done it, but even after the dot-com crash, programming is the only work I could find that would pay enough that I can keep me and Bonita housed and fed and our creditors at bay.
I think RMS would likely say one should take a job flipping burgers rather than write closed source, but I don't feel it's right to ask people to be so self-sacrificing. Many advocates of Free Software do not feel as strongly about their principles as RMS does, and even if they do, I think the movement would be better off if we were all in a position of economic advantage.
Finally, I don't think it helps our cause if people aren't allowed to write closed-source software. While the software we write as employees and consultants may not be Free, the skills we sharpen while we write it can be, and usually are, brought to bear on Free Software problems.
I'm certified as a Master here but the fact is that I haven't written that much Free Software at all. I guess I could claim that my skill qualifies me for that certification but I got that skill writing proprietary software - and reading and debugging the proprietary source other employees had written.
Quite often new technologies, techniques and algorithms are developed in a proprietary fashion but openly published so they can be reproduced by Free Software authors. And even patents eventually expire. The RSA patent used to be so onerous but it is expired now, so it benefits all.
I'm not saying that I feel very good about making a living writing proprietary software, but it is not all bad. What gets me down more is when I have difficult clients or clients who don't pay me on time or don't pay me at all. I've yet to have either an employer or a client tell me I can't write Free Software on my own time, and a couple clients have been enthusiastic about me contributing work I've done for them - with pay - back to the community.
kroah comments on the unpleasant nature of embedded programming, like whacky undocumented hardware and size restrictions, and also says:
Typically you are working at a hardware based company, and have to live with design decisions made by people focused on the bottom line of product cost (remember, in production the firmware is free, and no one will recall the 6 months that it took you to get a beeper not to warble, even though they could have solved it with a 5 cent part in the design up front.)
Personally, I would be really thrilled if I could get paid for six months in order to get a beeper not to warble. I've been in that position before, and I loved it. I miss it terribly.
I invented a graphics compression algorithm once that needed to have a fast decompressor because it would be used interactively to browse CDROMs on the old 68020 Macintoshes. I used to lie awake nights thinking of how I could cram a few more bits out of certain file structures, because those structures would grow if I tried to shrink others - it was a balancing act. I would also be unable to sleep because I was thinking about how I could write the decompressor in assembly code. In the end I got the two innermost loops to fit into the 64 BYTE code cache of the 68020, with the result that my overall decompressor was twice as fast as the C version. I'd do anything to go back to those days.
But instead what I have is constant pressure to get feature after feature implemented. Almost always the client doesn't particularly care if the code is error free, easy to understand, maintainable or fast - they want it NOW, and they don't want to pay very much money to have it developed.
Throughout my career I've devoted a great deal of energy to learning new things. Whether I could learn a new skill has almost always been a top consideration when considering a new job. In the last four years in particular I have devoted a tremendous amount of work to improving the quality of my code. By quality I mean the reliability, comprehensibility, maintainability and performance all together. I never agreed with the position that fast code cannot be maintainable and I feel I've proven that in the products I've written.
And the end result is that I have found I've gotten extremely good at delivering something that the clients would rather I not give them. I've never cared to work fast and cheap - it takes time to write the kind of code I do.
For a long time I've struggled to convince clients that they really need and should want quality code. The best I've been able to do is convince individual programmers at my client companies that this is the case - look at my homepage where I quote the Director of Research at the client I've had for a year saying "Your code is by far the best in our codebase".
The problem is that I can't convince the people who write my paychecks of the need for quality.
I think the only answer is to program for a different market. A market where there can be no arguing that poor quality leads to business failure. I have the theory that in such a market the clients will be happy to pay me for the kind of work I like to do.
My ultimate goal is to be working on the kind of software where poor quality would lead to injury or loss of human life. I personally don't agree that software should be employed at all in life-critical applications, but people use it no matter what I say, and sometimes there really is no choice, like in spacecraft. So I think it would be best for that software to be written by someone with an attitude like mine. (I don't pretend that I have the expertise yet to write mission-critical software, but I think if I learned how I would be good at it.)
A number of people have suggested to me that I would do well to go into writing console video games. I don't know that reliability is prized so highly in gaming but performance certainly is. Console games often have pretty severe constraints so it is important to have both compact and fast code.
I think I would do well at writing video games if I learned how to. I'm particularly interested in learning more about 3-D graphics. (I just bought Edward S. Angel's OpenGL: A Primer.) So in the short term I'm going to at least study games programming, and maybe I'll eventually do some work in it. It's a hard field to break into also.
But in the long run I don't think I want to do games. It's important to me that the code I write be socially useful, at least in some small way.
My very first commercial product was Last Resort for the Mac from Working Software. It's a keystroke logger, but it's not the spyware people (like the FBI) try to plant on your computers these days - it's meant to help people recover the text they've typed in the event of a crash or a power failure.
I've had several authors tell me that Last Resort saved the books or papers they were writing. One of the editors of Mac User magazine told me he caught his girlfriend cheating on him because of Last Resort, and he later featured it prominently in a computer novel he wrote. I have mixed feelings about that but I think it's probably best that he found out about it - he seemed happy that he found out. (He changed the names of all the software he mentioned in his book, but it was pretty obvious what the real products were meant to be. Last Resort more or less saved the world because it recovered some really important text.)
I've gotten comments like that for a lot of the code that I've written - from users. I imagine I could write games that lots of people would enjoy playing, but I don't think I could get that kind of gratification from their feedback because I don't think I would feel that I had actually made their lives any better.
At least not until there is some kind of significant change in what video games do. I don't want to write violent video games. Maybe if I could write Sim games. I was a big fan of the original SimCity.
Of course the real answer is for me to write nothing but high-quality Free Software. That's what I really want to do. My strategy to get there is to write enough products that I will either license for royalties or publish myself that I can stop doing regular work. If I didn't have to write code for a living I would write code for Free.
I feel that software must not just be Free, it must be Good.
Well, I have more I'd like to say but this is getting way too long for a diary entry, and it's late. I would enjoy staying up all night but my wife hates to sleep alone.
I value any comments anyone may have.
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Jennifer Lee Plyler
Master's Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Tech in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Robert M. Shaffer, Chair
Harry L. Haney
Richard C. Rich
April 24, 1997
Fifty-four community leaders from Anderson, Campbell, Cocke, and Scott Counties, Tennessee, participated in two in-depth interviews and a mail questionnaire over a 17-month period aimed at assessing the communication efforts of Champion International Corporationıs East Tennessee Expansion Project. The East Tennesse Expansion Project was centered around CICıs purchasing 85,000 acres of forestland and building a chipmill in east Tennessee. The coorientational variables of accuracy and agreement were measured, and the channels most likely to increase scores on these variables were identified. The results indicated that CIC failed to accurately measure the coorientational variables prior to the East Tennessee Expansion Project to determine if the campaign was necessary. In fact, the land purchase and chipmill may have been non-issues. Instead, it appeared that the East Tennessee Expansion Project should have focused communication efforts on the Canton, North Carolina, papermill and Pigeon River issues. The channel type most likely to increase accuracy for community leaders was a combination of interpersonal and mass media channels, while agreement was more likely to occur with an interpersonal channel. While a general level of accuracy and agreement was achieved, a more precise measure of these coorientational variables indicated that agreement and accuracy were generally low.
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October 17, 2001
LOTTERY SENDS $9.9 MILLION TO EDUCATION
The Missouri Lottery today transferred $9.9 million to the Lottery Proceeds Fund to benefit public education programs. Today’s transfer of $9,941,029 is based on September sales.
The monthly transfer brings the total revenues to education during fiscal year 2002 to more than $55 million, and the total proceeds to the state, including education, since the Lottery began in 1986 to more than $1.7 billion.
Approximately 29.5 cents of every dollar spent playing the Lottery goes to education. The Missouri Lottery’s contribution to public education is about 3 percent of education’s total annual funding.
Each year, the Legislature appropriates Lottery proceeds to various education programs. For a complete list of education programs funded in fiscal year 2002, visit the Lottery’s Web site at www.molottery.com.
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“We’re kind of like the invisible people. He doesn’t realize, you know, the service we provide,” says sanitation worker Richard Hayes, who has picked up the trash at Mitt Romney’s Californian house.
Hayes and fellow sanitation worker Joan Raymond appear in an online ad campaign by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The campaign suggests that Republican presidential candidate Romney is benefiting from government services while threatening to cut them back. Representing 1.6 million public service workers, AFSCME is supporting President Barack Obama in the 2012 US election.
On their website, AFSCME quotes from a speech by Martin Luther King at rally of striking sanitation workers
So often we overlook the work and the significance of those who are not in professional jobs, of those who are not in the so-called big jobs. But let me say to you tonight that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth. All labor has dignity.
Related website: AFSCME – Politics
Source: Eric W. Dolan, Romney’s sanitation workers bash his ‘hypocritical’ views, Raw Stpry, 01 Oct 2012 ; Meet Richard Hayes. He Picks Up Mitt Romney’s Trash, AFSCME, 01 Oct 2012
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By GreatSchools Staff
live in the city, suburb, or countryside, your child has always been in tune with the natural world. Your nature lover is intuitive, thoughtful, and unafraid of flora, fauna, beasts, or bugs. Dirt, leaves, and rain cast their spell over your child and encourage intense observation and focus. The question is how do you bring your ego-kid's powers of observation to new realms and realities? Our gifts list allows your child to tap into this innate understanding and learn new ways to connect her sense of natural wonder to new ideas, skills, and projects.
Waverly, the water drop, is a huggable stuffie made of eco-friendly recycled materials. The starter kit includes a storybook, a sustainability guide, and an organic canvas bag for storage. The idBids, so named because of their "itty-bitty" size, include Waverly, Scout the cloud, and Lola the flower, and can be ordered using Amazon's "frustration-free" packaging (i.e., no wire ties or plastic casings or bindings), cutting down on waste even further.
Bottom line: A stuffed toy that deserves accolades for encouraging environmental awareness and sustainability.
Ages 4 and up
How many toys come with a mail-in voucher for larvae? Not enough, in our opinion. The award-winning Live Butterfly Garden kit includes an easily assembled mesh habitat and feeding supplies (bring your own sugar and water). Once the larvae arrive in the mail, your child will have a front-row seat over the next three weeks as they grow, form chrysalides, and finally become beautiful painted lady butterflies — which should then be released. An excellent and memorable intro to biology.
Bottom line: Raising butterflies encourages curiosity and wonder.
by G. Brian Karas, Putnam (2008)
With minimal text and colorful pictures, On Earth offers children "a giant ride in space/spinning like a merry-go-round" as it explains the earth's daily and yearly cycles. Kids get a rudimentary explanation of the planet's orbit, rotation, and tilt; gravity; why we have seasons; and what happens as day turns into night. Vocabulary is simple for early readers, but some adult explanation of complex scientific concepts may be necessary.
Bottom line: Kids will get a first glimpse of how their everyday observations are connected to the larger life of the planet.
Catch the geocaching wave with Geomate Jr! This global phenomenon is a terrific way to bring out the explorer in young kids. Whether you live in the city or suburbs, you can take your kids on an adventure, while getting them outside and on the move. Not too shabby.
Turning the entire country into a giant Cracker Jack box, the device comes preloaded with 250,000 "treasure" locations nationwide. When you turn it on, Geomate finds your location and instantly locates the closest "geocache," sending you on your way to find a small treasure — coins, toy jewelry, plastic jewels, a note — that are hidden in, say, the crook of a tree, under a rock, or behind a brick in a wall. Worth noting: This easy-to-use handheld is better for younger than older kids who (as with one of our 10-year-old, tech-savvy testers) don't find it high-tech or sophisticated enough. (For older kids and adults, you can use a smartphone and an app to Geocache.)
Bottom line: These cool devices not only get the whole family out-of-doors; kids about navigation and using a compass, while taking a modern treasure hunt in search pirate booty. Argh.
Everything Kids' Environment Book
by Sheri Amsel
Adams Media (2007)
The books in Adams Media's Everything Kids' series provide encyclopedic yet entertaining introductions to their topics, and this volume on the environment is no exception. Perfect for curious children, this guide — filled with eco-friendly activities and puzzles — shows them how to reduce waste, recycle materials, and protect plants and animals.
by Lizann Flatt, Maple Tree Press (2005)
ages 6 and up
Answering your youngster's questions about plants, animals, water, and just about anything else having to do with nature is easy with this reference book in hand. Broken up into 22 sections, The Nature Treasury covers topics like "How animals grow", "Soil up close," and "What animals eat." With double-page spreads depicting ecosystems ranging from savannas to tundras, this book will have kids searching the panoramas for the animals that live there. Large labeled ovals with the animals superimposed on them act as guides, so children can scan the scenes to find where the sea stars are hiding in the coral reef or the sidewinder in the desert. Children will be enchanted by the lush illustrations.
Bottom line: A great go-to book for curious kids — and parents who don't know all the answers!
Compost by Gosh! An Adventure With Vermicomposting
by Michelle Eva Portman
Flower Press (2002)
Never heard of vermicomposting? It's a system for turning food waste into planting soil with the help of worms. Michelle Eva Portman provides an entertaining primer on the process by introducing readers to a young girl and her mom as they convert a storage box into a house for their new "pets," a bunch of wriggly red worms. Accompanied by adorable illustrations, Compost by Gosh! includes a how-to section for children to try vermicomposting at home.
A science toy that requires kids to design and build an ecosystem for an ant colony, then trap several dozen live ants and their pupa, isn’t for faint-of-heart, hands-off parents. But if you are willing to invest the time, this is no ordinary toy.
Designed by former entomologist Peter Smith, Ant-o-Sphere from Wild Science offers a flexible kit of multiple pods in transparent red and clear plastic, connected by tubes that mimic ant colonies in nature. This toy encourages real scientific learning. Kids can test, observe, and draw conclusions — all important skills typically absent in many project-oriented science toys, where the outcome is a foregone conclusion. For instance, the kit encourages kids to create their own pod design and see how it changes ant behavior. By the same token, children can learn about the eating habits of ants by offering them different kinds of food.
Bottom line: Bring science to life with this interactive and engaging kit.
Ages: 6 and up
Unleash your child's inner tree-hugger with this highly inventive puzzle. The durable yet biodegradable cardboard kit provides a base for kids to design their own tree, using the leaves provided or attaching their own creations — pictures, drawings, names from a family tree, etc. Essentially, Kids On Roof Totem Tree offers a blank canvas in the shape of a maple. In theory, there's a nature lesson in this half puzzle, half art project, but what impresses us most is its open-endedness. Given the level of prescription that comes with so many toys these days, an invitation to explore freely is particularly welcome — and provides an important lesson in creative problem solving.
Bottom line: A high-quality art project that's also eco-friendly.
Ages: Elementary through middle school
Gather the kids, make some popcorn, and throw a game night! National Geographic Challenge's puzzle and quiz party game will take your family around the world — using stunning images from National Geographic — as you race against each other for world domination. The quizzes are delivered in an inspired multiple-choice format that instructs as it takes you from the desert to the Antarctic and through all the continents through the ages. Even when it’s not party night, kids can play solo for a visual tour of the world.
Bottom line: Family fun that takes parents and kids on a visually breathtaking and educationally rich worldwide tour.
Ages: 9 and up
Future Farm provides everything your future farmer needs to build her own mini garden: tweezers and pipettes, mask and gloves, sand and water purification supplies — all you need to buy are the seeds. The kit teaches the science of hydroponics – the plants are cultivated without soil — as well as lessons on growing, feeding, watering, and propagating plants.
We have a single caveat: The kit, which smartly conveys lessons about caring for the earth, is made almost entirely of plastic, which sends a confusing message about environmental stewardship.
Bottom line: Your child can grow a cornucopia of miniature crops, right in her bedroom!
The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth
by the EarthWorks Group
Andrews McMeel Publishing (2009)
A practical guide to conserving resources and protecting the environment, 50 Simple Things provides quick facts and tips designed to inspire action. Statistics and measurements are translated into age-appropriate terms, such as comparing children's body weight to the amount of garbage thrown away in a year. The book also explains how everyday items — like a light switch or a toilet — have a huge impact on the rest of the world. Fun ideas for the whole family to discuss and implement!
Having trouble explaining to your child why the world is getting warm and sea levels are rising? Do you know how CO2 affects the atmosphere? It may be daunting, but our children need to know the fundamentals of climate science so that they can be smart stewards of a rapidly changing planet.
Conversations about the dangers of global warming may not really end up teaching kids that much if they don’t understand the science behind the news. Sustainable Earth Lab, a multifaceted science kit, will go a long way toward making your child more knowledgeable about climate science than your average well-educated adult.
Bottom line: A great way for kids to learn climate science principles, laboratory practices, and earth science fundamentals
Microscopes are an awesome tool for scientific discovery – no matter your age – but cheaper versions made for kids can be arduous to use. Little kids often have trouble coordinating the focusing of the lenses and seeing through a tiny aperture. But the Zoomy Handheld Digital Microscope projects its images onto a computer screen, thereby allowing kids to explore micro realities via a large image that’s easy to see, share, and discuss. Want a close-up-and-personal look at fingerprints? Cool. Dust bunnies? Yeah. Housefly wings? The flies the limit.
Bottom line: A tool that offers kids a way to explore an otherwise inaccessible world that’s right under their fingertips.
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Web edition: February 7, 2013
Birds of the world, beware: Living among humans can be dangerous. Fliers often become confused by the near-invisibility of window glass and crash into houses and tall buildings. Some larger birds may be poisoned when they feed on carcasses tainted with lead from shotgun pellets. But the really big killer: Puss.
Cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds every year in the United States alone, a new report concludes.
S. Milius. Cats kill more than one billion birds each year. Science News Online. January 29, 2013. [Go to]
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“No longer fit for purpose”?
Inheritance Tax (IHT) remains unpopular with the general public and has been the subject of a long-running campaign in a national newspaper calling for its abolition. That’s a lot of attention for a tax that was paid by only 3% of estates in 2008/09 and raised just 0.5% of all tax revenue in 2009/10.
The recent Mirrlees Report, published by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, has concluded that “Inheritance Tax is no longer fit for purpose.”
FPC Financial Planner, Paul Welsh has explored the implications for our clients and shares his findings below:
This report attempted to explore and define the characteristics of a good tax system and then went on to recommend various changes that would affect estate planning strategies, including the following:
- Replace IHT with a ‘wealth transfer tax’, whereby any gift made by an individual during their lifetime or upon death is subject to a tax charge.
- As an absolute minimum, the exemption for business property and agricultural property should be restricted. It currently enjoys a 100% relief in most circumstances.
- The capital gains tax exemption that applies on death (where the ‘cost’ value of an asset is rebased to its value at the date of death) should be removed.
Policymakers may well disregard this independent academic study, but given IHT’s unpopularity, it is easy to envisage that politicians may attempt to curry favour with voters by making major changes to the IHT system.
In addition, the recommendations in this report follow an analysis by the Office of Tax Simplification, which states that IHT requires a complete overhaul. The call for change, therefore, appears to be gathering steam!
Anyone who is contemplating estate planning strategies such as gifting programmes, business exit planning and trust planning, may well be wise to take advantage of the current exemptions whilst they still exist.
Estate planning is always on our ongoing review agenda, but do call us for guidance now if you feel you need to understand your position and options in more detail.
Also remember, if you have friends or clients with similar concerns, we can help them too, so encourage them to visit our services
And help children learn the value of money
According to new research produced by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks – almost half of parents believe that teaching children the value of money is one of the most important lessons in life but very little financial education takes place at school.
Teaching a young person to operate and manage their finances with a day to day bank account is a good place to start and from 1st November, millions of children (aged under 18) also became eligible for a Junior ISA, which replaces the Child Trust Fund (CTF).
An overall annual limit of £3,600 per tax year can be invested and this limit will rise annually in line with inflation, starting in the 2013/14 tax year.
The account is opened by the person with parental responsibility for the child and from age 16 they can manage the investment until they assume full ownership from the age of 18.
Anyone starting to twitch yet?!
Letting the head rule the heart
This year’s wedding season began in royal style when William and Kate tied the knot on Friday. We may never know whether a pre-nup is protecting the family jewels, but nowadays many people (and not just celebrities) are entering into Pre-nuptial Agreements. This is particularly true when there are substantial existing assets, an inheritance or a potential inheritance, children from a previous marriage or a requirement to ring fence a particular asset.
Pre-nups…only for the rich and famous?
We have had a steady stream of enquiries from clients and their children in recent months about this issue and also about the role of Co-habitation Agreements for young people moving in together, so we asked leading family lawyer, Elizabeth Hassall of Gateley Solicitors to share her views about pre-nups – what they are and why it’s sometimes important to let the head rule the heart. Read more
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Sample Objective Questions
(1) Which of the following is incorrect regarding "transfer of learning"?
(a) In our highly complex, rapidly changing Information Age, the ability to transfer or generalize from the familiar to the less familiar, from the old to the new, is a necessity for our adaptation to the technological demands of the 21st century.
(b) If the transfer situation is so different that the use of learning encounters some barrier or difficulty, we speak of "problem solving"
(c) When the new situation is greatly different than the original learning, we speak of creativity.
(d) Transfer of learning is most easily seen in situations identical to those in which the original learning occurred.
(e) When someone is called a Renaissance Man/Woman today, it is meant that he/she does not just have broad interests or a superficial knowledge of several fields, but rather that his/her knowledge is profound, and often that he/she also has proficiency or accomplishments in at least some of these fields, and has demonstrated unusual mastery in the transfer of learning.
(2) Which of the following technologies is best suited to promote collaboration between teachers as they work on developing curriculum or between students as they work on class projects?
(3) Consider these following quotes from students:
When I look at a math problem, my mind goes completely blank. I feel stupid, and I can’t remember how to do even the simplest things."
"I've hated math ever since I was nine years old, when my father grounded me for a week because I couldn’t learn my multiplication tables."
"In math there’s always one right answer, and if you can’t find it you've failed. That makes me crazy."
"Math exams terrify me. My palms get sweaty, I breathe too fast, and often I can't even make my eyes focus on the paper. It’s worse if I look around, because I’d see everybody else working, and know that I’m the only one who can’t do it."
"I've never been successful in any math class I've ever taken. I never understand what the teacher is saying, so my mind just wanders."
These statements reflect math anxiety and mathphobia. Which of the following is NOT true with respect to this phenomenon?
(a) In our society it is commonly accepted that math is difficult, obscure, and of interest only to “certain people,” i.e., nerds and geeks – not a flattering
(b) In the United States, the study of math carries with it a stigma, and people who are talented at math or profess enjoyment of it are often treated as though they are not quite normal.
(c) In Russian or German culture, mathematics is viewed as an unessential part of literacy, and an educated person would not be chagrined to confess ignorance of basic mathematics.
(d) For nearly seventy years, teaching methods have relied on a behaviorist model of learning, a paradigm which emphasizes learning-by-rote; that is, memorization and repetition. In mathematics, this meant that a particular type of problem was presented, together with a technique of solution, and these were practiced until sufficiently mastered. The student was then hustled along to the next type of problem, with its technique of solution, and so on. The ideas and concepts which lay behind these techniques were treated as a sideshow, or most often omitted altogether.
(e) A common misconception is that aptitude for mathematics is inborn.
(4) Which of the following describes the effect of Sputnik on education in the 1960s
(a) Sputnik was as a “focusing event” that put a spotlight on education. Congress responded a year later with the National Defense Education Act, which increased funding for education at all levels, including low-interest student loans to college students, with the focus on scientific and technical education.
(b) Though Sputnik was a relatively simple satellite compared with the more complex machines to follow, its beeping signal from space galvanized the United States to enact reforms in science and engineering education so that the nation could regain technological ground it appeared to have lost to its Soviet rival.
(c) Sputnik’s radio signal highlighted not only the fact that the Soviet Union had beaten the United States into space, it also made it clear the Soviets possessed rocket technology strong enough to launch nuclear bombs at the United States. The United State government decided to provide extra incentives to improve science, mathematics and engineering education to bolster national defense.
(d) a & b
(e) a, b, c
(5) Which of the following is NOT true of Science Curriculum in California?
(a) The spiral curriculum (or tycoil curriculum) is promoted as allowing students to revisit a subject matter's content at the different levels of development of the subject matter being studied.
(b) The focus of Integrated Coordinated Science course is student learning through scientific inquiry structured to address the California Content Standards for Earth Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology and will provide building blocks for lifelong learning as well as hands-on laboratory experiences.
(c) The University of California and CSU A-G requirements for science are: D. Laboratory Science - 2 years Required (3+ recommended): Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Integrated Coordinated Science 2 & 3, AP Chemistry, AP Biology
(d) The populartiy of Integrated Coordinated Science is expanding in California High Schools
(e) All of the above are true.
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The NHS is one of the largest and most complex property portfolios in Europe. In England, we own 9,000 hectares of land and 25 million square meters of buildings – this is equivalent to the size of Bristol.
Every year, we invest almost £2 billion in capital build projects. These projects give us the opportunity to display the NHS brand and identity on our building sites to show the public how we are investing in the future of the health services, and how public money is spent.
It is the main contractor who is responsible for providing and maintaining any NHS branding on site – but any design specification must be based on these guidelines. This should be clearly stated in the project contract.
The extent to which the NHS brand is implemented on the building site depends on the size of the project.
Because every project is different and has its own requirements, we suggest using your judgement and common sense when applying these guidelines. It’s important that you implement all the parts of the guidelines that are mandatory and we suggest you consider the advisory and optional branding, and apply the ones that are suitable for your project.
Last updated: 13/11/08
Download Brand Guidelines for Primary care trusts new guidance - PDF (7.49 MB)
WARNING: large file size
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A precise, understated gem of a first novel, Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine
tells one Japanese American family's story of internment in a Utah enemy alien camp during World War II. We never learn the names of the young boy and girl who were forced to leave their Berkeley home in 1942 and spend over three years in a dusty, barren desert camp with their mother. Occasional, heavily censored letters arrive from their father, who had been taken from their house in his slippers by the FBI one night and was being held in New Mexico, his fate uncertain. But even after the war, when they have been reunited and are putting their stripped, vandalized house back together, the family can never regain its pre-war happiness. Broken by circumstance and prejudice, they will continue to pay, in large and small ways, for the shape of their eyes. When the Emperor Was Divine
is written in deceptively tranquil prose, a distillation of injustice, anger, and poetry; a notable debut. --Regina Marler
From Publishers Weekly
This heartbreaking, bracingly unsentimental debut describes in poetic detail the travails of a Japanese family living in an internment camp during World War II, raising the specter of wartime injustice in bone-chilling fashion. After a woman whose husband was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy sees notices posted around her neighborhood in Berkeley instructing Japanese residents to evacuate, she moves with her son and daughter to an internment camp, abruptly severing her ties with her community. The next three years are spent in filthy, cramped and impersonal lodgings as the family is shuttled from one camp to another. They return to Berkeley after the war to a home that has been ravaged by vandals; it takes time for them to adjust to life outside the camps and to come to terms with the hostility they face. When the children's father re-enters the book, he is more of a symbol than a character, reduced to a husk by interrogation and abuse. The novel never strays into melodrama-Otsuka describes the family's everyday life in Berkeley and the pitiful objects that define their world in the camp with admirable restraint and modesty. Events are viewed from numerous characters' points of view, and the different perspectives are defined by distinctive, lyrically simple observations. The novel's honesty and matter-of-fact tone in the face of inconceivable injustice are the source of its power. Anger only comes to the fore during the last segment, when the father is allowed to tell his story-but even here, Otsuka keeps rage neatly bound up, luminous beneath the dazzling surface of her novel.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Kaitlin Flanigan on Abuse of Domestic Workers. The domestic nature of some women's jobs make them "all the more attractive and all the more available" to male employers, writes Kaitlin Flanigan. In the case of both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, both of the women involved were not only domestic help, but immigrants. "Obviously, there is a world of difference between these two events—one a seemingly consensual relationship and the other an alleged assault. But the sense that both women were manageable and somewhat expendable must have emanated, on some level, from their jobs." Both Strauss-Kahn and Shwarzenegger represent ancient story lines: "When it comes to powerful men and poor women, the sorry maxim of ancient warfare still holds true: The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must."
Glenn Greenwald on the Israel Lobby. Obama's call for a peace deal between Israel and Palentine based on the 1967 lines is "not even arguably a change from past American policy," writes Glenn Greenwald, nor does it "remotely constitute a step in an anti-Israel direction." If anything, Greenwald argues, it "unduly rewards Israel for its illegal seizures of land by suggesting they should be able to permanently keep West Bank settlements." Nonetheless, it has produced "shrill and ludicrous backlash from inside-the-U.S. Israel Lobby." Greenwald credits Obama with appearing "to recognize that tongue-wagging subservience to the Israeli Government is a counter-productive policy." While Obama's willingness to jeopardize his political interest in favor of this remains to be seen, his approach is "a prerequisite to any meaningful change in U.S./Israel policy ... and it's why it is incumbent upon anyone who desires real change in this area to defend him from those attacks."
Moises Naim on the IMF's Colonialism. "A stench of colonialism is wafting around" the IMF, writes Moises Naim, and not from the fact that a "wealthy 62-year-old Frenchman" is accused of assaulting "a young and poor African maid," but rather in the colonial legacy in the selection process for Strauss-Kahn's successor. "According to the agreement between Western Europe and the United States, the IMF’s top job always goes to a European, while the presidency of the World Bank is reserved for an American. This has been the case since these institutions were created in the mid-1940s, and while the deal might have reflected the world’s realpolitik at the time, it is now obsolete, unacceptable and counterproductive to the cause of global economic stability."
Margarette Morganroth Gullette on Memory Failure. "Misplacing car keys, once considered mere absent-mindedness, is now a clinical symptom," writes Gullette. Anxiety around memory loss has led adults to seek treatment for what was once considered normal forgetfulness. So how did this new phobia come about? Gullete sources this to the insecure economy, "in which midlife workers are regularly (and illegally) laid off on account of their age." Most forgetfulness is not Alzheimer’s, or dementia, or even necessarily a sign of cognitive impairment. However, "victims of misdiagnosis — or, just as devastating, self-diagnosis — dread being shunned, rejected by their offspring, going into debt, becoming a 'burden,' losing selfhood... It needn’t be this way," argues Gullette. "Much mental and emotional ability can survive mere memory loss, as do other qualities that make us human."
Douglas A. Ollivant on Afghanistan's Inner War. These are the three fights in Afghanistan, according to Ollivant: "First, there is the fight against al-Qaeda and related terrorist groups. Second is the war to protect and support the fledgling Afghan government against the Taliban insurgency. The third war is... the internal social and cultural battle between the urban modernizers of Afghanistan, mostly based in Kabul, and the rural, tribal, anti-modern peoples who live in the country’s inaccessible mountain regions." These wars intermingle, but the U.S. must be careful not to be drawn into different versions of the third war. Let groups stay different, he argues: "These groups are proudly unassimilated into the larger structure of Afghan civilization, such as it is." However, the "U.S. forces set out to assimilate them to the Kabul government, inadvertently aligning themselves with one side in the third war... Perversely, this may have tightened links between terrorist groups and local tribes, which united to repel U.S. forces." This particular failure "does not mean that counterinsurgency is a failed concept. But it shows that it certainly will fail — or be exponentially more difficult — when it is attempted against isolated peoples who have consciously opted out of the state system."
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The drivers never saw death coming — not until too late.
The fog that shrouded Interstate 75 near Calhoun in McMinn County two weeks before Christmas swallowed at least a dozen lives that morning of Dec. 11, 1990. Even the exact cause of the foggy pileup, the worst such crash in Tennessee history, remains unclear more than 20 years later.
125th Anniversary of the Knoxville News Sentinel
Police, drivers and others had warned for years about the dangers of the heavy fog that persistently hung over the five-mile stretch of highway near the Hiwassee River. Witnesses later compared the fog bank that December day to "throwing a blanket over your windshield."
The wreckage that resulted from the 99-car pileup that day made determining who crashed first almost impossible. Drivers who instantly lost visibility instinctively hit their brakes and slammed into each other willy-nilly in a matter of minutes.
That number included tractor-trailers, cars, vans and pickups — some hauling Christmas trees and presents. Gas tanks caught fire. Vehicles crumpled like tin cans.
Survivors and first responders compared the scene to a war zone.
"I started hearing bangs and booms from everywhere," said Ralph Fisher, a traveling salesman who pulled off the road in time to avoid the pileup.
Authorities set up a makeshift morgue along the median to hold the bodies, some burned past recognition. Estimates of the death toll varied.
A review by the National Transportation Safety Board later placed the body count at 12, with 42 injured. The dead included Richard Platt, 60, of Farragut, who never got home for his 12-year-old daughter's Christmas program.
"I knew something was wrong (the day of the crash) when he didn't come home for dinner," said his widow, Marie.
A string of lawsuits followed. Some targeted the state for failing to take stronger measures after a foggy pileup in the 1970s and repeated warnings. Others targeted paper manufacturer Bowater, claiming nearby holding ponds contributed to the fog.
The NTSB's findings pointed no fingers, offered no easy answers and satisfied few critics.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation installed a $4.4 million system of fog detectors, gates and warning signs along the fog zone in 1993. No such wrecks have happened there since.
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Cancer care is a commodity, and patients are also consumers. They should ask doctors about the cost of their treatments, or get a friend or relative to do it if they are uncomfortable asking pointed questions. Either way, experts say these are reasonable questions, especially since treatment costs can be financially challenging:
--Ask your doctor how much a treatment will cost and whether there are more affordable alternatives. If the recommended treatment is expensive, ask how much better a survival advantage it offers.
--Find out what insurance will and will not cover before agreeing to a treatment. If it's near the end of a year, see if moving up or slightly delaying a treatment makes a big difference in your copayments or deductible.
--Consider joining a clinical trial that might help pay for your care.
--Check out programs at hospitals, drug companies and foundations that aid uninsured or underinsured patients. Some are listed in the websites below.
--Ask if your doctors have a financial stake in the treatments they are recommending.
Advice on costs: http://bit.ly/arjDb2
Questions to ask doctors: http://bit.ly/wdzaj3
Financial help: www.needymeds.org and http://bit.ly/nzlqcB
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castaneda/reiman here unite their mutual fascination with found landscapes and their ongoing concern with the relationship between the natural landscape and the desire for its representation in domestic spaces. At first glance, the installation appears to include these traditional landscape paintings. However, upon closer inspection, the installation is revealed as a collection of ersatz replicas constructed from plywood panels, drywall mud and other materials commonly found on construction sites - a methodology that has been consistently associated with castaneda/reiman’s art-making practice throughout their nearly twenty year collaboration.
These replicas use the landscape imagery literally and conceptually as a foundation by printing them directly on the drywall surface. Just as landscape paintings function in domestic spaces as stand-ins or reminders of places or horizons, the representations in the installation serve as stand-ins for the paintings themselves. In the greater installation, oak hardwood details serve as symbols of how elements of the natural world are placed into the service of interior domestic landscapes. Units of stacked drywall are framed in oak, subtly and ambiguously suggesting the fabrication of a home or the framing of a painting.
These most recent sculptures and objects demonstrate a fundamental shift in castaneda/reiman's process. While still considering the architectural environment, their concerns have moved from the rigid structures that support a space to the residuum of materials reflected in those spaces. Through these sculptures, they rebuild and reinterpret the subjects of their collection into awkward and informal depictions of landscape collage.
castaneda/reiman are collaborative artists who live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2004 they were awarded the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and have since been included in group exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California and the Berkeley Art Museum. Their work is included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This is their third solo exhibition with DCKT Contemporary.
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The biggest supporters of Sen. Michele Bachmann's bid for Minnesota's 6th congressional district seat aren't even residents of the 6th congressional district. Nor do they live in her hometown of Stillwater, or even the state senate district she currently represents. Rather, according to an analysis of Bachmann's 2005 first-quarter campaign contributions by DumpBachmann.com, the largest bloc of financiers bankrolling Bachmann's fledgling campaign live out of state or in wealthy Lake Minnetonka enclaves.
In fact, 56 percent of Bachmann's congressional campaign contributions through March 31, 2005, have come from individuals OUTSIDE the 6th Congressional District, the district Bachmann hopes to represent. That's $33,005 out of a total $59,032. Even more revealing, 27 percent of Bachmann's money came from the Minnetonka-Wayzata-Long Lake-Orono-Deephaven area.
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“With respect and admiration, we remember those Colorado law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty.”
Friday, May 6, 2011 -- Governor John Hickenlooper proclaimed today as “Colorado Law Enforcement Day” in honor of seven Colorado law enforcement officers who were killed in the line of duty and whose names were added to the Colorado Law Enforcement Memorial (CLEM) located at the Colorado State Patrol Academy, Golden, Colorado. Additionally, the Governor has ordered flags be lowered to half-staff on all public buildings statewide today in honor of all Colorado law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty
Governor Hickenlooper presented the Colorado Wreath and then spoke at the ceremony which was attended by the families and friends of the officers being honored, as well as the more than 100 law enforcement officers from agencies across Colorado.
Officers added to the Memorial included: Weld County Deputy Samuel K. Brownlee, November 23, 2010; and 6 historical officers: Black Hawk City Marshal Robert A. Clark, July 10, 1869, Las Animas County Sheriff Juan C. Tafoya, February 6, 1872, Trinidad Police Department Officer John Solomon, November 21, 1895, Las Animas County Deputy William Green, April 21, 1896, Las Animas County Deputy William Kelly, April 21, 1896 and Denver Police Department Officer William O. Steam, February 18, 1921. (Note: Black Hawk City Marshal Robert Clark, July 10, 1869 is the oldest name by date to be added to the memorial.)
Ceremonies included an honor guard, placement of wreaths, bagpipe salute, taps, a 21-gun salute and a dove release.
The Colorado Law Enforcement Memorial (CLEM) was created on May 1, 1979. As of May 6, 2011, 243 names have been engraved on the memorial. The Colorado state legislature in 1998 declared the CLEM on the grounds of the training academy at Camp George West as the official memorial recognizing all law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in Colorado.
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Brooklyn teacher, student among storm’s fatalities
Federations launching mailbox for victims of winds, flooding
Like thousands of homes, offices, and businesses in the region, the Aidekman campus in Whippany — which houses the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ and New Jersey Jewish News — remained without power at least through Wednesday of this week.
October 31, 2012
Two young Jews were killed in Brooklyn by a falling tree during superstorm Sandy.
The pair were out walking a dog Monday night in the storm’s high winds.
The dead were identified by The New York Observer as Jessie Streich-Kest, 24, who worked as a high school teacher in the city, and Jacob Vogelman, a student at Brooklyn College. The two had been friends since middle school, according to the Observer.
They were discovered dead Monday, crushed by the fallen tree.
At least 45 people in the United States and 68 outside of the country have been killed in the one-of-a-kind storm, and more than seven million people in 13 states were without power.
Hurricane Sandy, which washed ashore Monday evening just south of Atlantic City, took dead aim at the most populous region of the country, home as well to the majority of the country's Jews. In its wake, it left a trail of devastation that may take weeks to restore, if not longer.
Thousands of Israeli airline passengers and Americans in Israel trying to return home had their flights to the U.S. canceled on Monday and Tuesday. Israelis trying to get home also remained stranded in New York, New Jersey, and the DC area. In all, more than 14,000 flights reportedly were canceled due to Sandy.
Meanwhile, basketball players from Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston were left stranded in Dallas on Sunday night, after the team’s participation in the weekend's Memphis-based Cooper Invitational Tournament.
Assistant coach Rabbi Richard Kirsch and 11 of his players were offered hospitality by students and families at Yavneh Academy in Dallas.
“Yavneh is a community embracing and validating all that is ‘Am Yisroel chai,’ the togetherness we live as Jews,” Rabbi Eliezer Rubin, head of school at Kushner, told The Dallas Morning News. “This is an unconditional and unilateral act of kindness, and it is appreciated by our faculty and our families.”
The Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago set up a relief fund Monday night for victims of the storm, with the Jewish Federations of North America and Union for Reform Judaism following suit the next afternoon. — JTA
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Small Business Loans are generally obtained for most business purposes. Whether you are planning to set up a new business unit or expand your existing business, there are numerous loan options available at http://www.ezunsecured.com/index.php to choose from. Today, loans available in the market are created in such a way that best suits your needs, so being a small business owner; you can also look forward to have a Small Business Loan when needed for an extra growth of your business. However, each and every business is different in its working size, credit histories, and other things but finance is something which is required for every individual to start a business in order to survive in the market.
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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Three Southern children, two black and one white, escape from their homes during the horrors of the Civil War and, after meeting in the woods, gradually come to rely on each other as they make their way slowly north, enduring hunger, fear, sickness, and constant danger, before arriving in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
Seventeen-year-old Antonio and his 16-year-old girlfriend Natashsa have their world turned upside down when Antonio finds himself in jail, accused of a shocking crime. This powerful story is told through letters.
Anticipating the best summer of her life when Ricky and she are accepted into an enrichment program in New York City, Gia is frustrated by her unrequited feelings for Ricky and pursues a relationship with Rashad, with unexpected results.
Fifteen-year-old Amari is branded, beaten, dragged on to a slave ship, and forced to endure humiliations– including being sold to a plantation owner in the Carolinas who gives her to his 15-year-old son as his birthday present.
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.
Follows the Kansas City Central High School's debate squad through its 2002 season, which ended with a top-ten finish at the national championships, in this story of four debaters and their coach at an inner-city school.
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
With the encouragement of one of her teachers, a Chinese American high school senior asserts herself against her demanding, old-school mother and carves out an identity for herself in late 1980s San Francisco.
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by her first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.
Two teens find each other surrounded by the destruction left in the wake of the most devastating tsunami the world has ever seen. Ruslan is a native of Aceh and is in search of his missing father. Sarah is an American girl who has already lost her mother and is now struggling to find medical treatment for her sick brother.
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.
In India in the 1940's, 13-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert in Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family. She must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
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A trapped miner tries to save himself and his co-workers when they are trapped hundreds of feet underground, while the mining company and the government attempt a daring rescue and the workers' families keep a hopeful vigil.
Upholding her family traditions throughout her lifetime, dutiful Indo-American sari maker Lakshmi Sen agrees to marry an upstanding doctor selected for her by her widowed mother, employs her mystical abilities to identify the perfect fabrics for her customers, and finds herself falling in love with a famous actress's bodyguard.
A prize-winning poet's first work of fiction describes the love story between Babo, an Indian man, and Sian, a fair-skinned woman from Wales, who forged a life for themselves and their hybrid family in Madras, India.
This multigenerational story is about the Ganguli family, who arrive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from Calcutta in the 1960s. Over forty years, the reader follows the arranged marriage of Western-oriented Ashoke and his traditional wife, Ashima, and the efforts of their children to live both American and Indian lives.
In 1969, in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.
From the moment of her birth, Parvati seems to be capable of a mystical power that manifests itself in her inspired classical Indian dance. This talented dancer sacrifices family and friends for her art.
American soldier, Sam, falls in love with Mila, the daughter of a local political agent in western India. Thier doomed love affair is told on told on the stage of a country torn between imperialism and nationalism.
Sofi Mendoza lies to her parents and crosses the border into Mexico for a weekend party. She had no idea that she would get stuck in a Mexican village with a family she has never met before, unable to return to the United States.
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
Sixteen-year-old Danny, half Mexican, half white, has conflicts to overcome due to his biracial heritage. He feels he's too brown to fit in at his at his mostly-white prep school, and too pale when he visits the Mexican side of his family.
It’s 1969 and Sammy Santos is a graduating high school senior in the unglamorous town Hollywood, New Mexico. Sammy faces the challenges of “gringo” racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.
Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.
Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York,
17-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by
training with a policeman who is a former boxer. Sequel to The
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March 2, 2012
Good morning. I’d like to thank Professor Cunningham for that kind introduction and George Washington University Law School for inviting me. I’m pleased to be here for a discussion about financial reform and what it means for investors, consumers and businesses in America.
Let me start by saying what the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) means for investors, consumers and businesses in America. At its core, the CFTC’s mission is to ensure the integrity and transparency of derivatives markets – both the futures and swaps markets. Each part of our economy relies on a well-functioning derivatives marketplace. Futures and swaps markets provide a way for farmers, producers, retailers and service companies to lock in a price or a rate and manage their risk. These markets are critical for commercial companies in the real economy – the non-banking or financial services side of the economy that provides 94 percent of private sector jobs. These markets allow companies to focus on what they do best – servicing their customers, producing products, innovating, and investing in our economy and our country.
The benefits of the derivatives markets go beyond companies in the real economy. Americans whose retirement security depends on pension funds or mutual funds, benefit. Americans who depend on community banks for their financial services needs, benefit. The pension funds, mutual funds, and insurance companies, upon which so many Americans rely, benefit from the lower costs and greater pricing information that would result from a more transparent and competitive swaps market.
Combined, the futures and swaps markets help users hedge or transfer nearly $340 trillion – representing $22 of risk for every dollar of goods and services produced in the U.S. economy. Now by any measure, that’s meaningful for investors, consumers and businesses in America.
Futures and swaps markets touch nearly every aspect of our economy from the food we eat, to the price at the pump, to our mortgages and credit cards, and to our retirement savings. Given how important these markets are to the American economy, it is essential that they are transparent, competitive and free of fraud and manipulation.
The CFTC has historically been charged with overseeing the commodity futures markets. But in 2008, the unregulated swaps market helped concentrate risk in the financial system that spilled over to the real economy, affecting businesses and consumers across America. Need I remind anyone of AIG? The crisis led to eight million Americans losing their jobs, millions of families losing their homes, and thousands of small businesses closing their doors. More than three years later, we still face a challenging economy.
In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), which expanded the CFTC’s mission to also oversee the U.S. swaps marketplace, a market nearly eight times the size and far more complex than the futures market.
The three key goals of the law, put most simply:
• Bring transparency and competition to the swaps market;
• Protect against Wall Street’s risks from again spreading to the real economy; and
• Enhance market integrity to best protect the public.
Bringing greater transparency and competition to the swaps market lowers costs for investors, consumers and businesses in America. At nearly $300 trillion notional size, the U.S. swaps market, though, remains the largest dark pool in our financial markets. The Dodd-Frank Act squarely addresses this by shifting some of the information advantage from Wall Street to the commercial end-user community – to the companies across the country that use these markets.
It does so by providing the public information on the pricing and volume of every transaction upon completion. It does so by providing all market participants the opportunity to come together to transact on transparent and competitive trading platforms. These trading platforms will mean end-users, investors and speculators will benefit from seeing available bids and offers and gaining liquidity.
The law goes further by providing the public the daily valuation over the life of all cleared swaps. In addition, it provides even greater information on swaps transactions to regulators.
The CFTC has completed seven of nine key reforms to bring such transparency to the swaps market. The Commission already has begun to receive position information for large traders in the swaps markets for agricultural, energy and metal products. Starting this summer, light will shine for the first time on these markets with the reporting – in real-time – both to the public and to regulators of nearly every swap transaction.
By contrast, leading up to the 2008 crisis, the public and regulators had very limited swaps market data.
Lowering Risk to the Real Economy
Financial reform also means the lowering of risk that Wall Street poses to investors, consumers and businesses in America. Dodd-Frank reforms do this in three principal ways:
• Bringing transparency to the swaps market, as I just discussed;
• Mandating that standard swaps between financial entities move into central clearing; and
• Regulating swap dealers comprehensively.
Clearinghouses have lowered risk in the futures markets by standing between buyers and sellers of these contracts and guaranteeing each party against the failure of the other. Though clearinghouses must be overseen for comprehensive risk management, they have worked to lower risk to the broader public for over a century. This is in contrast over the same time period to the many bank failures, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Great Depression.
Dodd-Frank financial reforms mandate that standard swaps between financial firms move into central clearing. With approximately 90 percent of the notional value of the swaps market transacted between financial firms, this mandate will significantly lower the risks that come from the highly interconnected financial system.
Swaps entered into by non-financial companies represent approximately 10 percent of the market. It is important to note that consistent with congressional intent, the CFTC is working to finalize a rule ensuring that non-financial companies using swaps to hedge or mitigate commercial risk will not be required to bring swaps into central clearing. The Commission’s proposed rule on margin for swap dealers likewise provides that such non-financial companies will not have to post margin for uncleared swaps.
Investors, consumers and businesses in America also benefit from, for the first time, the comprehensive regulation and oversight of swap dealers. The CFTC has begun finalizing reforms to regulate swap dealers and lower their risk to end-users. First, swap dealers will have to register with the National Futures Association. Second, swap dealers must establish business conduct standards ensuring they deal fairly with customers, provide balanced communications and disclose conflicts of interest before entering into a swap. And third, swap dealers will have to establish policies to manage risk, as well as put in place firewalls between a dealer’s trading and research operations. Modeled after similar protections in the securities markets, this prevents swap dealers from influencing markets by trading ahead of the release of public research reports.
We’re going to further build on this progress later this year by finalizing capital and margin rules, as well as a rule on segregation for uncleared swaps.
Financial reform also means investors, consumers and businesses in America will benefit from enhanced market integrity. These reforms will protect end-users from fraud, manipulation and other abuses in the swaps market, as well as the burdens that may arise from excessive speculation.
The Dodd-Frank Act closed a significant gap in the CFTC’s enforcement authorities, as it 1) extended the authority to swaps, and 2) prohibited the reckless use of fraud-based manipulative schemes. It also enabled the CFTC to reward whistleblowers for their help in catching market misconduct.
The Dodd-Frank Act also directed the CFTC to establish aggregate position limits for both futures and swaps in energy and other physical commodities. In October 2011, the Commission completed final rules that will ensure no single speculator is able to obtain an overly concentrated derivatives position in the futures and swaps markets.
Full and effective implementation and enforcement of financial reform, however, depends on fully funding this agency for its expanded mission. At about 700 people, we are about 10 percent larger than our peak in the 1990s. Since then, the futures market has grown fivefold, and Congress added oversight of the swaps market, which is nearly eight times bigger than the futures market.
The CFTC will continue working hard to effectively oversee the futures market and implement reforms for the unregulated swaps market. This year, we will finish the rules of the road for the swaps market in a thoughtful and balanced way.
But without sufficient funding, the nation cannot be assured that this agency can oversee the futures and swaps markets and that end-users get the benefit of transparent markets, lower risk, and enhanced market integrity.
The financial crisis was devastating for investors, consumers and businesses in America. Dodd-Frank responded to the crisis with reforms that bring transparency and competition to the swaps market and lower its risk to all the end-users who use these markets to manage their businesses. Financial reform benefits companies in the real economy that provide 94 percent of private sector jobs. Financial reform also benefits pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, and small and community banks – and everyone who relies on them.
Some have raised concerns that these reforms will raise costs for end-users. But there are far greater costs – the eight million jobs lost, millions forced out of their homes, retirement savings that disappeared, shuttered businesses and the uncertainty throughout the economy that came from risk, which spilled over from Wall Street.
Thank you for inviting me today, and I’d be happy to take questions.
Last Updated: March 2, 2012
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In a surprise announcement on Saturday, however, Apple and HTC announced a license agreement covering "current and future patents" at both companies. Specific terms are unknown, though analysts have speculated that HTC will pay Apple somewhere between $5 and $10 per phone.
Additionally, Apple and Google are discussing whether to arbitrate some patent claims which would put at least part of its global courtroom battle on hold, according to court documents filed on Thursday.
During the Samsung trial, Apple IP chief Boris Teksler said the company is generally willing to license many of its patents - except for those that cover what he called Apple's "unique user experience" like touchscreen functionality and design.
However, Teksler acknowledged that Apple has, on a few occasions, licensed those holy patents - most notably to Microsoft, which signed an anti-cloning agreement as part of the deal.
In opposing Apple's injunction request last month, Samsung said Apple's willingness to license at all shows money should be sufficient compensation, court documents show.
Apple has already licensed at least one of the prized patents in the Samsung case to both Nokia and IBM . That fact was confidential until late last year, when the court mistakenly released a ruling with details that should have been hidden from public view.
In a court filing last week, Apple argued that its Nokia, IBM and Microsoft deals shouldn't stand in the way of an injunction. Microsoft's license only covers Apple patents filed before 2002, and IBM signed several years before the iPhone launched, according to Apple.
"IBM's agreement is a cross license with a party that does not market smartphones," Apple wrote.
Apple's seeming shift away from Jobs-style war, and toward licensing, may also reflect a realization that injunctions have become harder to obtain for a variety of reasons.
Colleen Chien, a professor at Santa Clara Law in Silicon Valley, said an appellate ruling last month that tossed Apple's pretrial injunction against the Samsung Nexus phone raised the legal standard for everyone.
"The ability of technology companies to get injunctions on big products based on small inventions, unless the inventions drive consumer's demand, has been whittled away significantly," Chien said.
The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, 11-1846.
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Caterpillars threaten maple trees
The Associated Press | May 24,2006
HUNTINGTON — Forest tent caterpillars are threatening Vermont's maple and other trees this spring, and rain has kept sugarbush owners from fighting back with the biological insecticide some would like to use.
Vermont is in the midst of a cycle — expected to last three to seven years — in which the caterpillars are proliferating.
Last year — the bugs, less than a half inch long, blueish in color, with a white, keyhole-shaped spot on their backs — defoliated 230,000 acres of Vermont's forests.
The bugs will feed on the leaves of a variety of deciduous trees, but it's the sugar maples that support Vermont's $225 million maple syrup industry that are the biggest cause for worry.
"We're going to be hit again," said David Mance of Shaftsbury about a sugarbush that lost 40 percent of its leaves by last June due to a forest tent caterpillar infestation.
Mance said that loss was despite his use of Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki, or Btk, a biological insecticide he had sprayed on his trees.
Wind and rain make the insecticide ineffective, so Mance and other sugarmakers have been unable to use it this month, the wettest May on record in Vermont.
And this is time of year to use Btk, before the bugs have a chance to eat the new leaves.
Foresters predict what areas will be hit hardest by caterpillars by examining masses of eggs on trees during the winter.
This year, the Champlain Valley and southern Vermont are expected to see the biggest problems.
Trees can survive when insects eat their leaves, but a complete loss of summer leaves can weaken their ability to resist sometimes fatal diseases.
A key to maintaining the health of trees during an infestation is handling them with care, state foresters say.
Even trees that were to be left standing can be disturbed by logging, so that should wait until the bug cycle declines.
Same goes for excavations near affected trees.
Scaling back or even stopping sugaring during infestations also can help.
Scott Pfister, forest resource protection chief for the state Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, said the situation is not hopeless.
If history is any guide, disease and parasitic flies will attack the caterpillars and their population will decline steeply after a few years.
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Occasionally I'm asked to plot points that relate to sensitive data items. I would quite like to be able to add a varying level of random jitter to points when plotting so that point density is still evident to viewers but without giving away precise locations.
I could do this quite easily by adding/subtracting random values from the co-ordinates in Excel or SQL prior to loading data but this would make it a bit difficult for when I want to do precise analysis based on actual co-ordinates as I would have to swap between real and jittered values (which is just asking for a mistake to happen further down the road).
Is there a way of doing this in QGIS? I've had a look through the documentation and haven't spotted anything so my last hope is that someone knows of a plug-in somewhere.
I know of other techniques to protect sensitive data on maps (binning, assigning to centroid, heatmaps, contours etc.) but none of these are quite right for the data I'm trying to display (individuals who have used a service multiple times, with point size related to number of times they've used that service).
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Scientists Fret over Starving and Missing Whales
Scientists Fret over Starving and Missing Whal
Editor's Note: See video of the whale research in Baja, California.
Finding one 30-ton grey whale [image] in the vast North Pacific might be like looking for a needle in a haystack, but finding 17,000 shouldn't be. But that's the situation researchers faced while searching for the creatures in their traditional summer feeding grounds last season—and the whales' absence has them concerned.
"We've just come off a second summer in Canada in which we've had next to no whales show up," said William Megill of Bath University in the UK. "Not only in our little area, but apparently throughout the traditional feeding areas from Washington on up north. We have no idea where the whales all went this year."
Grey whales usually spend their summers feeding in the waters of the North Pacific, from northern California to the Bering and Chuckchi Seas, because these areas are rich in plankton. But lately these regions haven't seemed to provide enough food for the whales.
"We know that the Bering Sea has taken a beating over the last ten years, and that productivity has plummeted there, forcing the whales into new habitat," Megill said today.
But researchers haven't yet found where these new feeding grounds might be.
"Presumably they found other feeding areas, but they will have had to look hard," Megill said. "This suggests they may be quite lean this winter, particularly as this is now the second summer they've had to deal with this problem."
Megill plans to study the impact of these changed feeding patterns on the whales as they spend the winter in the warm lagoons off Baja California, where they breed and give birth to their calves [video].
The 6,000-mile journey between their summer and winter homes is one of the longest known mammal migrations on the planet.
Generally, the whales rarely feed in their winter breeding grounds in and around Baja [image], but researchers observed them trying to feed from the lagoon bottoms last winter.
"How much they were getting out of the mud they were sifting, I don't know," Megill said. "But there was a lot of it going on, more than I'm used to seeing. We're expecting to see the animals feeding even more in Mexican waters this year."
The research is sponsored by Earthwatch, an organization that supports scientific fieldwork and offers volunteers the chance to participate. Anyone interested in joining the Grey Whale expedition can visit the group's website, www.earthwatch.org, for more information.
- VIDEO: The whale research in Baja, California
- The Perils of Being Huge: Why Large Creatures Go Extinct
- Success Stories: Species on the Rebound
- Whales Set Deep-Diving Record
- All About Whales
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The Faculty of Commerce came into being in 1976 with its two campuses Birla Campus in Srinagar and SRT Campus Badshahithaul, Tehri Garhwal. Since than the faculty has been working effectively with the objective to facilitate and promote quality education for all round development of the students. Besides the graduate and post graduate courses i.e. B.Com, M.Com, PGDBA, PGDCA the faculty also offers certificate course i.e. DASPSM to help students for making professional choices early in life. However, the syllabus of two job oriented programmes namely, Diploma in Entrepreneurship and Master of Finance and Control (MFC) have already been approved by the Board of Studies, Faculty Board and Academic Council. At present in all 58 papers being taught in the faculty under the above courses and the strength of the students in UG classes is about 550 and in PG classes about 100 every year. In Srinagar Campus the department has its own library however, supported by the University Central Library to ensure that the students are provided the best books.
Recently the faculty has restructured its curriculum and incorporated all the current information in the teaching materials. The Computer Lab with Internet facility is available in the faculty for the students/faculties. Seminar and interactive session for the research and PG students are the continuous feature of the faculty to enable their learning capabilities. Class lectures including seminars, workshops, guest lectures by out side experts are the teaching techniques being used in the faculty. The research students are encouraged to participate in the national seminars/conferences to get an exposure in the field of commerce. An internal assessment system has been introduced for the student of Diploma in Advertising, Sales Promotion & Sales Management wherein continuous monitoring of learning ability of students is assessed.
In addition, the faculty has been involved with undertaking basic and applied studies on mountain specific areas like women entrepreneurship, commercial viability and strategy for success of eco-friendly agro based and forest based industries, success and failure of small scale industries, mountain farming, rural marketing, horticulture marketing etc. funded by UGC, ICIMOD, ICSSR, GBPI. For the sustainable development of entrepreneurship in the region, a coordination and networking among the various educational institutions, Government agencies, Non-Government Organisations and Self Help Groups is essential. It is therefore, proposed to established Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in the University Campus Srinagar. Keeping in view the possibility of development of entrepreneurship in Uttarakhand State, the Centre could really be a vibrant tool to carry out the sustainable development of entrepreneurship activities in the Himalayan region.
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Lori Deschene at the Wanderlust Festival SPEAKEASY Lecture Series - Squaw, CA 2011
"Tiny Buddha" founder, Lori Deschene, explores how social media can either help us hinder us or in forming meaningful, authentic connections.
Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha, a community blog that publishes tips and stories about letting go of pain and embracing happiness. In addition to sharing her own struggles and insights and encouraging others to do the same, she also offers daily wisdom quotes through @tinybuddha on Twitter and the Tiny Buddha Facebook page. In an increasingly disconnected, information-overloaded world, Tiny Buddha has emerged as a place for authentic connection—where everyone has the same authority to share what they've learned and how they apply it. With nearly 1 million views per month, Tiny Buddha is quickly growing into one of the most popular inspirational sites on the web.
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On this date in our family history . . . the 7th day of April . . . in the year 1775 . . . Lucy Fenderson becomes the bride of Thomas Thurston . . . this Lucy and Thomas are maternal grandparents of William Thurston Merrill (1816-1898) . . . who is a 3rd great-grandpa of the Keeper of this family history blog . . .
THOMAS THURSTON (Abner, Abner, James, Daniel), son of Abner and Martha (Piper) Thurston of Exeter, N.H.; born there Jan. 19, 1752; married, April 7, 1775, LUCY FENDERSON, born Dec. 17, 1751. He died in 1830, and was buried on his farm; she died in 1832. Mr. Thurston purchased a tract of land in Parsonsfield, Me., improved it a little, sold and went to Scarboro, Me., and bought land, on which he lived and died. He built a little house on what is called the "ash swamp road," about two miles from Dunstan Corner, in which his wife lived while he was in the revolutionary war. The wolves were numerous then, and used to make night hideous with their howling. After the war he built the old homestead on the "broad turn road," about the same distance from Dunstan. This house was replaced by another, and within a few years a more modern one still has been built in its place. He was also an itinerant shoemaker, as was the custom in newly settled placed in those days. . . . Thurston genealogies By Brown Thurston
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A file photo shows a passenger aircraft belonging to Bahrain’s carrier Gulf Air.
Officials in Iraq's Najaf Province have banned the flights operated by Bahrain's carrier in a show of solidarity with anti-regime protesters in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
"The committee formed to oversee the airport decided to ban the Bahraini company Gulf Air from conducting flights to Najaf in solidarity with the Bahraini people who are subjected to repression by authorities there," Najaf provincial council said in a statement on Thursday.
Najaf provincial council made the decision on the day when Gulf Air was resuming flights to various destinations in Iraq after a break of more than a year.
The flights were halted in March 2011 after Bahraini security forces backed by a Saudi troops and mercenaries launched a brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters demanding the downfall of the ruling Al Khalifa family.
Council spokesman Mohammed al-Khuzaie described the decision as a show of support for "the oppressed people of Bahrain.”
Khuzaie said Gulf Air was targeted due to its ties to the state, and that the decision would remain in effect until further notice.
Bahraini protesters have been staging anti-regime demonstrations since February 2011, and they hold King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa responsible for deadly crackdowns that have left scores of demonstrators dead.
The demonstrators say they will continue holding street protests until their demand for the establishment of a democratically-elected government is met.
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Profiles, pictures, and journals. It looks innocent enough and it can be when used safely. But parents need to be aware of the hidden dangers within websites like My Space, Xanga and Tagworld. "Teenagers love to talk. Girls love to talk and if they don't have a healthy outlet in other ways, they may go look for it in a blog and may give information that can come back to harm them," says Sara Wilson.
Wilson is a specialist for Lubbock I.S.D. safe and drug free schools and communities. She's helping to educate school counselors on the dangers of these sites. Think your kid isn't using one of these sites? Think again. We found more than 1,000 Lubbock teens on My Space alone. We found them by searching for the school, they listed on their profiles. Take a look at the numbers of users per high school and that's only the teens ages sixteen and up.
But it's not only who's on online, it's what they're putting online that's making a difference. We found pictures of teens in suggestive poses and clothing, discussions of alcohol and drug use, where they like to socialize and when they're going to be there, places of employment and even cell phone numbers. These are all things Wilson says can make these teens a target for predators. She says, "They're in their room, giving out this information and they think they're really talking to those really cool people who want to get to know them but that information opens doors to uncool people and that and predators that thake their personal information and use it against them."
There are 10,000 computers throughout the Lubbock ISD school district. But you won't be able to log onto My-Space or Xanga on any school computer. "Safety of our children is the number one priority," says Lubbock I.S.D. Executive Director of Information Systems, Terry Driscoll. He says the school is blocking any website that could harm children. "We've got a committee that will review websites and help us determine what we block and won't block."
A new program is helping Driscoll monitor any and all internet activity. He says, "You can see on this particular day, attempts to access Xanga were blocked." NewsChannel 11 was the one to inform Driscoll about Tagworld. He says, "You can see that Tagworld has been accessed at both addresses just today 92 times so we've got some access on that website we were not aware of and this is a great example of how we become aware of that." Both Lubbock Cooper and Frenship I.S.D. have similar blocking tools.
While your children may be safe at school, it's what goes on at home that worries Wilson. The concern is when they leave campuses, what goes on behind closed doors, parents need to knock on that door and leave it open." Since our interview Lubbock I-S-D has decided to block Tagworld as well.
NewsChannel 11 e-mailed My Space, Xanga and Tagworld. So far, My Space is the only site to respond. They assure us, when notified a user under the age of 14 may be using the site, they investigate it and delete the profile. They're also teaming with a parent education website called Wire Safety. Next week, we'll explore that website and find out what parents can do to educate themselves on keeping their children safe.
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MySpace Partners With Wiredsafety.Org To Educate Users & Implement Best Practices Online
Read an article about measures implimented to make MySpace a safer place for users.
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Spin Doctor Tech Tip – Rotating your tires
February 9, 2010 Leave a comment
Our Spin Doctor tech tip team has some advice for those looking to get a little more life out of your tires (and really, who doesn’t):
Rotating your tires front to rear is a great idea to increase the longevity of the pair but…..
If you like to ride on the edge (whether cornering with the pros or shredding technical singletrack), THINK TWICE.
Most steering control, both off-road and on, comes from the front tire while more tire wear happens with the drive forces on the rear. So putting a road tire worn flat or a MTB tire with worn lugs on the front will lessen traction when cornering hard.
To prolong the life of your tires, save some money and keep high performance traction, ride your tires until the rear is worn out, move the front tire to the rear, and put a grippy new tire on the front.
Of course, that’s just our take. What’s your experience with getting the most life out of your tires? Please share your tips in the comments below.
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Q: I have been talking with friends about the cost of nursing home care, and we differ on how these costs can be covered. Can you shed some light?
A: About half of all nursing home residents start out by paying costs out of their personal resources. As these resources decrease, those who have long stays eventually become eligible for Medi-Cal assistance. Medi-Cal, a state and federal program, will pay most nursing home costs for patients with very limited income and assets. Medi-Cal will, however, only cover the costs of nursing home care in a Medi-Cal-certified facility.
Many incorrectly believe Medicare and supplemental insurance will cover the costs of nursing home care. Under certain conditions, Medicare will pay for some costs for beneficiaries who need skilled care or physical or speech therapy. To be covered, they must meet strict qualifications, and even then, coverage is for a limited time. Medicare never covers custodial care.
Long-term-care insurance is a private insurance that can be bought to cover the cost of care. Generally only relatively healthy people qualify. Usually premiums are based on age, Therefore, the younger you are when you buy coverage, the lower the premiums will be.
Some people may have these costs covered or partially covered by managed-care plans or employer benefit packages.
Q: My neighbor receives an SSI check from the federal government each month. Is this the same as Social Security?
A: No. Although SSI, or Supplemental Security Income, is overseen by the Social Security Administration, the money comes from the general fund of the Treasury.
SSI is for people with financial need. Checks are paid to those who are 65 and older, as well as to blind or disabled people of any age if they meet eligibility requirements. Applicants must have very little or no income and very few assets. They must be U.S. citizens or in the country legally and live in the U.S. or Northern Mariana Islands.
Part of the funds in the SSI check may come from the state. For convenience of the recipients, the state and federal governments have agreed to combine their payments into one check that is rendered by the federal government.
Applicants must apply for other benefits, such as Social Security, before eligibility for SSI can be determined. For more detailed information about eligibility and benefits, contact the Social Security Administration.
Applicants found eligible for SSI are usually also eligible for Medi-Cal, and a separate Medi-Cal application is unnecessary. SSI recipients are ineligible for food stamps, as the state provides funds through SSI.
Not all SSI recipients get the same amount of benefits.
Today: "Let's Look At Our Driving Skills" seminar from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at Westlake Village Civic Center, 31200 E. Oak Crest Drive in Westlake Village. No reservations required.
Tuesday: "The Loneliness of a Caregiver" seminar from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Senior Concerns Day Care Center, 401 Hodencamp Road, Thousand Oaks. Call 497-0189 for information and reservations.
Feb. 22: Advocate one-on-one counseling services from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Moorpark Active Adult Center, 799 Moorpark Ave., Moorpark. Call 517-6261 for information or an appointment.
Betty Berry is a senior advocate for Senior Concerns. The advocates are located at the Goebel Senior Adult Center, 1385 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362. Call 495-6250 or email email@example.com. (Please include your telephone number.) You are invited to submit questions on senior issues.
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Charles Plott, of Cal Tech, co-authored a nifty study several years ago in which he installed a betting market inside of Hewlett Packard to do internal forecasting. The nifty part was that the forecasts produced by the betting market were generally more accurate than the official forecasts that HP's official forecasters were producing.
The likely reason is not that the official forecasters were stupid or incompetent, but that they were under considerable pressure by corporate higher-ups to spin the forecasts in a favorable way. In contrast, the participants in the internal betting market remained anonymous, and received higher payoffs, the more accurate their forecasts turned out to have been.
The result was not surprising, once you think it through. But what I did find surprising was that HP didn't keep the betting market going, after the Plott study was finished. (From a long-run perspective, top management should benefit more from accurate forecasts, than from consistently optimistic forecasts.)
In any case, the excerpt from the commentary below indicates that some other companies have gotten the point:
(p. C1) Over the last few years, Intrade -- with headquarters in Dublin, where the gambling laws are loose -- has become the biggest success story among a new crop of prediction markets. The world's largest steel maker, Arcelor Mittal, now runs an internal market allowing its executives to predict the price of steel. Best Buy (p. C6) has started a market for employees to guess which DVDs and video game consoles, among other products, will be popular. Google and Eli Lilly have similar markets. The idea is to let a company's decision-makers benefit from the collective, if often hidden, knowledge of their employees.
But there's a broader point here, too. For a couple of centuries now, long before Intrade or even the Internet existed, financial markets have been making it easier to bet on what the future will bring.
In the mid-1800s, contracts tied to the future price of wheat, pigs and other commodities began to change hands. In 1972, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange introduced futures for foreign exchange rates. Treasury bonds tied to the future rate of inflation came along in the 1990s, and last year, the Merc began selling contracts based on the direction of house prices in 10 big metropolitan areas.
In every case, the market price reflects the sum of the traders' knowledge -- about the extent of the housing bubble in Los Angeles, for instance, or the likely size of next year's wheat crop. . . .
N. Gregory Mankiw, a former adviser to President Bush, who has written about Intrade on his blog, explains it this way: ''Everybody has information from their own little corner of the universe, and they'd like to know the information from every other corner of the universe. What these markets do is provide a vehicle that reflects all that information.''
For the full commentary, see:
DAVID LEONHARDT. "ECONOMIX; Odds Are, They'll Know '08 Winner." The New York Times (Weds., February 14, 2007): C1 & C8.
(Note: ellipsis added.)
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(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
Bearing of the Cross (No. 10)1512
Engraving, 117 x 74 mm
University Art Museum, Princeton
Sheet No. 10 of the Engraved Passion.
St Veronica is shown kneeling in front of Christ. This engraved version cannot compare to the triumphant one of the woodcut. In this instance, Christ is pictured standing, turned toward the women. The rendering of this scene as a nocturne is unprecedented. This print can be called "Schongaueresque" in concept. The guardsman shouting at the people is, in fact, found in Schongauer's version, perhaps based on Passion plays. There is an impression without the hanger of the tablet bearing the monogram at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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One important feature of a qualified childcare provider's facility is cleanliness. When touring daycare centers and family daycare homes, observe whether the floors appear swept and mopped or vacuumed. For uncarpeted surfaces, check corners to see the level of attention to detail the provider gives. Two areas you'll want to pay special attention to are the kitchen and bathrooms. These areas are frequently used, so germs and bacteria can thrive here. Most daycare centers use commercial products to cleanse and sanitize. Family care homes will probably use the same or similar products you use for your home. All surfaces can be disinfected with a mixture of a tablespoon of bleach for every quart of water. Cool water is fine for this procedure, and the brand of bleach isn't important. The solution should be mixed daily, as it will weaken overnight. How often an item should be sanitized varies depending on use. Surfaces can be sprayed or dipped into the bleach mixture, depending on size. After using a bleach solution, objects should be allowed to air dry. Rinsing isn't required, but may be done if caregivers suspect children will place items in their mouths. Some states require childcare centers to sanitize potty chairs, cribs, and cooking surfaces after use.
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Creative Destruction in the Software Industry
Posted by: Steve Hamm on September 21, 2006
It’s fascinating to witness the phenomenon of people who created sizable chunks of the software industry coming back with open source or on-demand companies aimed at disrupting the very market segments they helped build. The latest example I have come across is Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management software company based in the U.K. Its co-founders are John Powell, the CEO, who was formerly COO of Business Objects, and John Newton, the CTO, who was the founder of Documentum, the document-management pioneer. Alfresco’s goal is to offer corporations and governments an open-source alternative to the big, complex, and expensive document and content management systems that are now sold by the likes of IBM and EMC.
Alfreso has built up some momentum. Since posting its application on the SourceForge open source site a year ago, 350,000 people have downloaded it and the 30-person company has 200 paying customers, including the US branch of Japan’s Daiwa bank and Virgin Money. Newton’s technical vision is to provide simplicity and low cost through a content repository and a handful of applications, including document management. Plus, he’s engineering some innovative new features. They include one that enables corporations to get a view of how re-designed Web sites will look and work before they go live, and another that allows them to dial back in history to see what was on their site at a given time on a given day. The business strategy, according to Powell, is to offer a simple best-of-breed alternative to the big system vendors, and pick off business from 200-or-so proprietary content management software companies that are limping along in obscurity. Like with dozens of other open source outfits, we’ll have to see if this one gains traction. I’m betting the pedigree of its two founders will at least get the company’s feet in a lot of doors.
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Carbon, especially carbon dioxide, has received a lot of attention from policy makers and the press lately. But what is carbon and how does crop management affect it?
Carbon doesn't exist alone. It's usually attached to other elements, such as oxygen or hydrogen.
Carbon has a cycle. When carbon is in the atmosphere, it's in the carbon dioxide form. Plants can photosynthesize the carbon dioxide for sugar formation and other plant processes. As this happens, the carbon is transported to the plant roots, stems, leaves and grain. For corn, wheat and soybeans, a small percentage of the carbon leaks out into the soil via the roots. Some carbon is removed by harvesting grain, and the remainder exists in the roots and crop residue. Crop residue is about 40% carbon.
Another important piece of this cycle is soil organic matter. Organic matter is approximately 50% carbon. This carbon can be tied up in the stable fraction called humus, or in the short-term pool called the active fraction.
Humus is dark in color and is the stable building blocks of organic matter. Humus does not release nutrients for plant and microorganism use and can be greater than 400 years old. The carbon in the active fraction feeds soil microbes, releases nutrients for plant use and is essential to the soil life cycle.
In the carbon cycle, the carbon from residue and decaying roots helps build carbon in organic matter. This sounds simple enough, just till the residue into the soil and it will replenish the organic matter, right?
Well, here is where common sense fails us. We are actually feeding the soil microbes, not replenishing the organic matter.
Soil microbes enjoy a meal of carbon and then respire it off as carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide escapes as a gas into the atmosphere and the carbon is no longer available for building organic matter.
This process is accelerated when we till our soils. Substantial research has shown the deeper and more aggressive the tillage, the more carbon dioxide is released from the soil.
Research by Don Reicosky and others with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Morris, MN, has shown that tilling with an 11-in. moldboard plow can release more than 1,600 lbs. of carbon dioxide/acre in a 24-hour period. In comparison, no-till releases 87 lbs./acre in the same time period.
So how do we “feed” the soil and not just the microbes? We need a balance in the soil. It is essential to have a diversity of microbes in the soil and they need carbon as a food source. Microbes may respire off carbon as carbon dioxide. However, they can also incorporate carbon into soil aggregates where it's slowly incorporated into organic matter. Here is where our management affects this balance.
When we till soil, residue is broken into smaller pieces, the soil is oxygenated and the bacterial populations explode. They devour the carbon out of the residue. If we reduce our tillage and keep as much residue on the soil surface as possible, fewer microbes can live in that environment. Fungi will come onto the scene, slowly breaking down the residue. Their hyphae — long threadlike filaments — bind the soil together into aggregates, protecting the carbon inside from predation or use. This process sequesters atmospheric carbon into the soil and ultimately into soil organic matter.
To maintain the levels of organic matter we have today, we need to leave approximately 2.5 tons of residue/acre on the soil surface with minimum tillage. Some crops do not produce this amount of dry matter. In that case, producers need to look at growing a crop rotation that maintains 25 tons over a 10-year period.
This is why to qualify for carbon sequestration credits, a producer must reduce or eliminate tillage. It's also how producers can increase their soil organic matter, which has many benefits for the soil, the crop and the producer.
Editor's Note: Jodi DeJong-Hughes is an Extension educator at the University of Minnesota, based in Marshall, MN.
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Corporate governance regulations aimed at increasing fiscal transparency within public, private, and nonprofit organizations, and the growth in ultramodern fields like forensic and international accounting, finance professionals have been able to shed their “bean counter” image in place of a new prominent role as a business partner and even thrill-seeker.
Today, accounting and finance workers are tasked with such key initiatives as driving the direction of their company’s business procedures, seeking out cost-saving opportunities within the organization and advising management on decisions impacting profits and losses. As a result, more accountants and finance professionals need master’s degrees and specialized certifications, and demand to be diverse and well-trained in all things financial.
Employees want growth opportunities, employers falling short
Accounting and finance professionals are seeking career growth, according to the latest Emerging Workforce Study by The Mergis Group. Nearly 80 percent of accounting and finance professionals prefer work that provides an opportunity for growth or advancement, even if it means a more stressful work day. Nearly half of workers (47 percent) say being successful at work and moving up the career ladder is their top priority – more so than any other profession.
Unfortunately, despite accounting and finance workers’ desire for growth and expanding their career, only 27 percent of workers are satisfied with their growth potential at their current employer. Perhaps more alarming is the finding that a greater number of accounting and finance workers (32 percent) feel they could increase their growth potential if they were to leave their current organization.
These findings, according to the study’s authors, serve as a wake-up call to many companies to improve the career development options within their organization. The alternative is to continue to struggle with talented professionals leaving for companies that will offer them another rung on the career ladder.
Key retention factors
Despite current economic conditions, companies still need to have star talent in place to rebound successfully. In addition, a high demand continues for specialized accounting and finance skills sets, making it even more important for employers to remain steadfast in their retention of these workers.
Many organizations are foregoing retention efforts in favor of cost containment, which might come back to haunt them in the long term. The Emerging Workforce Study found that more than one-quarter (28 percent) of accounting and finance workers feel their employer is doing less to retain them now compared to previous years.
What are the factors that will keep accounting and finance workers on the job? Financial compensation, benefits, and time and flexibility are the three most important drivers of retention for accounting and finance employees, the study states.
Because accounting and finance professionals are focused on career growth, they also are interested in working for companies that provide work/life balance. And, according to the latest Emerging Workforce Study data, most organizations are faring well when it comes to providing the programs these workers demand. Seventy-eight percent of those workers surveyed are satisfied with their ability to maintain balance, and one-third are very satisfied with their current employer’s options.
The message is clear – for companies not currently providing work/life balance programs, such as telecommuting, flex-time, and job sharing, now is the time to do so. For those organizations with established work/life balance programs, the lesson is to keep these offerings in place or, as these workers have indicated, without time and flexibility, they will very likely leave.
Recruiting today’s accounting/finance professionals
Knowing what accounting and finance professionals want from an employer is half the battle. Armed with this insight, human resources executives can begin to tailor recruitment and sourcing efforts to better attract these workers. The study also uncovered the primary ways in which accounting and finance workers find their jobs and how companies can best reach them. These driven and career-minded individuals typically seek out real-world experiences through internships for potential employers. Developing an internship program is a surefire way to work with potential candidates and gauge whether they are a fit for your organization.
Actively recruiting on- and off-site at college campuses and universities is an excellent opportunity to network with, and seek out, these professionals, as well. Thirty-five percent of accounting and finance workers have completed certification, and another 10 percent are pursuing certification. So consider distance learning and certification institutions as venues for career events to connect with candidates.
Referrals are top resources for professionals in the accounting and finance field. Networking events that include a bring a friend element or developing employee referral programs also is recommended to connect with candidates, and ensure that corporate culture is preserved through hiring like-minded professionals.
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From Joliet, Illinois, USA:
My son is on NovoLog 70/30, two shots per day, 10 units in the morning and five to seven units in the evening. Sometimes I switch from the 70/30 to straight NovoLog at dinner if I am not sure how many grams of carbohydrates he will eat. The NovoLog is usually given halfway through dinner. How does this affect his nighttime blood sugars? He is still honeymooning. Do I need to be concerned about giving him a long acting insulin at night or will the morning 70/30 dose cover 24 hours?
He runs out of injected insulin by the next morning if he gets only one shot of the 70/30. Most doctors would suggest NPH at bedtime. Indeed, you likely could give three shots, with NovoLog at dinner and NPH at bedtime. I've treated lots of kids that way.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Photo Number 250
I happened along this photo this past weekend in a shop that I will call Dorset 3 as it is the third Antique Shop we have visited in Dorset, Minnesota. The Graf Waldersee was built by Blohm and Voss of Hamburg in 1898 for the Hamburg Amerika Line. In later years it was taken over from Germany in WWI as a troop transport service.
This must be part of the crew, perhaps there is someone that can translate the German?? written at the bottom of the photo. This must be part of the crew, and the photo was probably taken in 1906. If they are not crew perhaps they are a group of immigrants??
Thanks for stopping by do come again:) Click on the photo to see it larger!
Update from Ena! Thanks!!
the german at the bottom is hard to read.. I think, it means in german: "Zum Andenk. Neujar in New York." translation: in memory of new year's day in new york.
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Like many, I learned of Steve Jobs’ passing last night on an Apple device. While absentmindedly looking through my Twitter feed on my iPhone, I saw that every single tweet mourned the loss of one of the world’s great visionaries. And while Jobs changed the way we look at technology, his life’s journey has also inspired us to strive for greatness, to be happy and more than anything to really just be true to ourselves.
Jobs had quite a way with words and through the years his frequently quoted speeches and quips have caused Apple fans, journalists, business executives, politicians and more to smile. Many of these bon mots come from his famed commencement address at Stanford University in June 2005:
We've collected a few of Jobs' most inspiring quotes (including a few from the Stanford graduation) to share on this sad morning:
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” [Mac Stories]
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish." [2005 Stanford commencement address]
“I want to put a ding in the universe.” [Mac Stories]
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful that’s what matters to me.” [The Wall Street Journal]
"I was in the parking lot [after the lecture], with the key in the car," Jobs said of meeting his wife Laurene Powell. "I thought to myself, If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town and we've been together ever since." [Wired]
Do you have a favorite Steve Jobs quote? How has he inspired you?
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The Great Lakes--Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario--form the largest surface freshwater system in the world. Together, they hold nearly one-fifth of the earth's surface freshwater. The Great Lakes have over 10,000 miles of shoreline and serve as a drain more than 200,000 square miles of land ranging from forested areas to agricultural lands, cities and suburbs.
The Great Lakes watershed includes some of North America's more fascinating wildlife such as the gray wolf, Canada lynx, moose and bald eagle. The lakes themselves are home to numerous fish, including lake whitefish, walleye, muskellunge and trout. Millions of migratory birds pass through the region during their spring and fall migrations.
People Depend on the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes region has been home to Native Americans for nearly 10,000 years. The first Europeans arrived in the 1600s and began to utilize the region for animal furs. It wasn't long before more settlers were drawn to the region seeking farmland.
Today, over 35 million people live in the Great Lakes basin in Canada and the United States. The Great Lakes are important sources of drinking water, irrigation, transportation and recreation opportunities such as fishing, hunting, boating, and wildlife watching. The Great Lakes are a critical component of the regional economy on both sides of the border.
Wildlife in the Great Lakes
The land surrounding the Great Lakes was once dominated by forests and grasslands interspersed with wetlands. Many of the wildlife that still call the region home exist in the remnants of those habitats, such as the gray wolf, moose, beaver and many bird species. The Great Lakes region is important for many species of migratory and resident birds, particularly waterfowl, birds that nest in colonies, and neotropical migrants.
Fish: The Great Lakes are actually quite different from each other. Lake Superior, the largest of the lakes, is cold and deep. Lake Erie is one of the smallest of the Great Lakes and is relatively shallow and warm. Because of this variation, different numbers and varieties of fish and other aquatic wildlife can be found in each lake. Walleye, yellow perch, lake sturgeon, brook trout, lake whitefish, muskellunge, and introduced salmon species are among the many kinds of fish in the Great Lakes. Some fish are undergoing restoration efforts, such as lake sturgeon and lake trout.
Mammals: Many mammals, large and small, live in the Great Lakes region, including the gray wolf, Canada lynx, little brown bat, beaver, moose, river otter, and coyote.
Birds: The Great Lakes region provides important breeding, feeding, and resting areas for many birds including the bald eagle, northern harrier, common loon, double-crested cormorant, common tern, bobolink, least bittern, common merganser, and the endangered Kirtland's warbler.
Threats to the Great Lakes
Despite their great size, the Great Lakes are actually very vulnerable to pollution. The amount of water entering and leaving the lakes each year is less than one percent of the total in the lakes. Persistent chemicals that enter the lakes can remain for many years, with many building up in the food web. The source of toxic pollutants includes decades of industrial waste, raw sewage overflows, runoff from cities, and mining operations. Excess nutrients that throw the ecosystem out of balance enter the lakes from agricultural runoff and untreated sewage.
The impacts of global warming are already being observed in the Great Lakes. Increasing air and water temperatures mean increased evaporation from the lakes, declining lake levels and worsened water quality. The Great Lakes are already highly stressed, and climate change will worsen existing threats to the Great Lakes, including making the lakes more suitable for invasive species, drying coastal wetlands that filter pollution, exposing toxic sediment pollution, and increasing the number of intense storms leading to sewage overflows.
For information on the Great Lakes and Global Warming see the fact sheet "Overview of Recent Research: Effects of Global Warming on the Great Lakes" or the report "Great Lakes Restoration and the Threat of Global Warming"
Invasive species have significantly changed the Great Lakes by competing with native species for food and habitat. They foul beaches, harm fisheries, clog water infrastructure and lead to the regional extinction of species. More than 180 non-native species have entered the Great Lakes, and a new species is discovered every 28 weeks on average.
Most invasive species were transported in the ballast water of ocean-going ships. However, Asian carp are threatening to take hold in the Great Lakes by swimming up artificial channels that connect Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system.
A proposal to mine sulfide metals in public forests only miles from Lake Superior threatens wildlife and water in the Great Lakes basin. Sulfide mining has a terrible record of destroying streams and endangering public health. This dangerous form of mining threatens to destroy pristine fish habitat, poison drinking water sources and pollute the Great Lakes.
National Wildlife Magazine:
Alien Invasion: A Great Lakes Dilemma
Great Lakes Primer
New Hope for Great Lakes Recovery
Greatest Lakes in the World
The Great Lakes Atlas (EPA)
Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition
The Great Lakes Atlas (EPA)
Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team (USFWS)
USGS Great Lakes Science Center
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Pagan UnderWorld is for Pagans as the name states, we welcome all beliefs but our basis is all Earth. We do not have the beliefs of Alien, Starseed, etc....I do feel there are many communities out there for these beliefs but we want to go a different direction. While all these followings have interesting beliefs we ourselves want to bring you as much information as possible on what the human has right in front of them, learn to bring out the magic we carry within us and trusting our own instincts.
Teach our children about being responsible for themselves and trusting their instincts, allowing them to feel the Earth with their hands, honing into their intuition. As you learn, they learn, we have so much about Earth based beliefs here and many quality individuals to bring you reality and truth within these.
Please come and enjoy the quality of words and study along with a healthy debate, but also understand we are not here to have a existential discussion, we are here to bring information on Paganism in all forms.
Thank you and Blessings to you all,
Fire is used symbolically throughout summer solstice celebrations in praise of the sun, to bring luck and to ward off evil spirits.
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For the first time, each of Metro's five regional Service Councils is conducting a “Corridor Study” to evaluate within a heavily used transit corridor in their area. Each of the corridors being studied include multiple routes, which could consist of local service, limited service and/or rapid service. The routes selected for each council are listed below.
Overviews of each of the chosen corridors were presented at the July Service Council meetings and the studies will continue through July 2013. Council member regularly ride buses operating in their region. They have been asked to increase their trips on the lines being studied in their region. In addition to observing the line in operation, they have also been asked to speak with customers and bus operators on the lines. Council members will also be invited to participate in scheduled line rides for the routes in their areas accompanied by Jon Hillmer, Director of the Regional Service Councils.
Throughout the year, councils will share their observations and discuss ideas to improve service in their corridors every other month. Discussion will include:
Evaluation of the days and hours of service.
Frequency of service (peak and off peak hours).
Possible route modifications.
Possible schedule changes to improve connections to other bus lines and rail services.
Any proposed ideas for service changes will be considered with the understanding that overall service hours cannot be increased. So, if the Council wants to recommend additional hours in one area – like adding new or additional weekend service, extending the operating hours of a line, increasing service frequency – those would have to be offset with hours from somewhere else. Of course, any recommended modifications would be planned in concert with Metro's Transit Service Planning department. Any changes that are ultimately recommended would receive thorough public review, including public hearings if the proposed changes are major.
The five corridors being studied this year in each Service Council region are:
Florence Avenue in the Gateway Cities region. This will include Lines 111 and 311. The study will look at whether the limited stop service should be converted to local, if short line terminals should be extended, if the owl route should be modified, opportunities to improve on-time performance, conditions of bus stops, and if there are adequate service levels by time of day and direction.
Crenshaw Avenue in the South Bay Cities region. This will involve Lines 210 and 710. This study will review issues such as possibly converting rapid service to local service when the rapid bus operates with less than every 15 minutes, opportunities to improve on-time performance, adequacy of service levels by time of day and direction, and evaluating opportunities to improve late night connections with Green Line and/or Expo Line,
Van Nuys Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley region. This evaluation will focus on Lines 233 and 761. The review will look at the adequacy of service levels by time of day and direction, possible conversion of rapid service to local service when the rapid bus runs less frequently than every 15 minutes, opportunities to improve on-time performance, possibilities for an express line thru the Sepulveda Pass, and opportunities to improve late night connections with the Orange Line.
Garvey Avenue & Valley Boulevard in the San Gabriel Valley region. The review will focus on Lines 70, 76 and 770. The study will evaluate schedule connections to the Foothill Silver Streak, the adequacy of service levels by time of day and direction, opportunities to improve on-time performance, conversion of rapid trips to local when rapid service is less frequent than 15 minutes, possibilities for a route though downtown LA, and considering combining Line 71 into the Line 70 schedule.
Santa Monica Boulevard in the Westside/Central region. The review of this corridor will involve Lines 4 and 704. The review will focus issues such as the adequacy of service levels by time of day and direction, the downtown LA routes of both lines, evaluating opportunities to improve connections of the rapid bus meets with Big Blue Bus, consider converting rapid trips to local service when rapid service is less frequent than every 15 minutes, studying opportunities to improve late night meets connections with the Metro Red Line at Santa Monica/Vermont
The public is invited and encouraged to provide input on bus service in the corridors selected for each council to assist each Service Council in meeting the demands and desires of our riders. You can voice your opinions at a Service Council meeting (click here to view meeting schedules) or, if you are not able to attend a meeting, submit your comments in writing by e-mailing to email@example.com. If you would like more information on Service Councils, click here to read an overview article published in The Source.
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The ideological spectrum is not really a horizontal line neatly demarcating liberals and conservatives, leftists and rightists, radicals and reactionaries. Rather, it is something like an arc, bending and sloping at either end, until the extremes finally touch.
Just consider Sen. Barack Obama’s recent declamation that US troops should not stay in Iraq to prevent genocide. The AP reported it this way: “Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.”
“If that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of US forces,” Obama explained, “then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now—where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife—which we haven't done.” He continued: “We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven't done.” (In 2006, Obama did raise the prospect of NATO intervention in Sudan. “I don't think that the issue right now is US troops,” he said in a PBS interview. “Having NATO forces there that could be supplied by some of the middle powers, Canada, Australia, others that have experience in peacekeeping, would be absolutely crucial.” There are only three problems with those two sentences: NATO doesn’t do anything without US help; NATO’s under-strength, under-funded European militaries have been straining to muster the forces necessary for the mission in Afghanistan; and Australia is not a member of NATO.)
In any event, Obama’s “if we deploy here, then we would have to deploy there” stance sounds surprisingly, jarringly, similar to isolationists on the far right, who have been using this line of reasoning to oppose American intervention and justify inaction for decades. In the 1990s, for instance, they employed it to oppose President George H.W. Bush’s Middle East intervention and President Bill Clinton’s Balkans interventions, echoing what an earlier generation of isolationists said of other “faraway places.”
The Coming Cataclysm
Sounding more isolationist than internationalist, more nationalist than humanitarian, more realistic than idealistic, Obama said of Iraq in late 2006, “There have been too many flag-draped coffins…too many heartbroken families.”
It’s a defensible, albeit cold and calculating, position. The implication of it, of course, is that American lives are more important, more valuable, than Iraqi lives in 2007—or Bosnian Muslim lives in 1992, or Tutsi lives in 1994, or Shiite lives in 1991, or South Vietnamese lives in 1975, or Czechs in 1968, or Hungarians in 1956, or Poles and East Germans in 1945, or European Jewry in 1942, or Nanking in 1938.
To be sure, presidents should never waste the lives of those who defend us. But sometimes great nations have a special responsibility to look beyond their own narrow interests, to hear the cries for help, to fight the good fight. From time to time, America has done just that. And uncounted millions in every corner of the earth are better for it. Indeed, no other country in history has so often or so feely used its military power to help others. The counterpoint to the previous paragraph is just as long—thankless and sometimes bloody peacekeeping missions in Kosovo and Bosnia, Haiti and Lebanon; humanitarian efforts to save West Berliners and Indonesians, Somalis and Kurds; daring invasions that freed Frenchmen and Filipinos, Kuwaitis and Koreans, Afghanis and Iraqis.
Fighting the good fight has its costs—to date, 4,046 Americans have died in Iraq and Afghanistan; another 28,581 have been wounded—but so does washing your hands and averting your gaze. Just ask the survivors of last century’s genocides and tyrannies.
Indeed, realpolitik is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. And even if a president wants to avert his gaze from the horrors, the unblinking, all-seeing eye of the global media makes that virtually impossible in this information-saturated age.
But it seems that’s what Obama and other opponents of the Iraq War are willing to do. And if they have their way, that’s what all Americans will want to do.
John Burns of the New York Times—who is anything but a puppet of the White House—says “the most likely outcome of an American withdrawal any time soon would be cataclysmic violence.” He adds that a high-ranking Sunni political leader believes US withdrawal means “we will all be slaughtered.”
What Burns is saying, without saying it, is that no mater how awful the news reports seem today—15 Sunnis murdered by car bombings here, 12 Shiites executed in revenge killings there, three US troops killed by an IED elsewhere—it will be much, much worse if America heeds the realists and reverts to its isolationist inclinations.
How much worse? No one knows for sure. But imagine a Balkan-style ethno-religious war without the geographic, diplomatic or material constraints that prevented the Bosnian Muslims and Croat Catholics from achieving a bloody parity with the Orthodox Serbs; or a Rwanda with arsenals of modern weaponry instead of machetes; or a California-sized Gaza; or a Vietnam in which both sides are willing to fight to the death; or a decade of Darfurs, a generation of Gettysburgs.
And as the cataclysm rages inside Iraq, imagine what an American retreat will do to America’s standing outside Iraq. No matter how Washington spins it, if America leaves Iraq in chaos, history will consign Operation Iraqi Freedom to a place alongside the fall of Saigon, Desert One, and the Beirut and Mogadishu pullouts.
Trying to address such worries, Obama assures us that “Nobody is proposing we leave precipitously.” But actually, somebody is proposing that—and that somebody is Sen. Obama. In January 2007, according to his own press office, he outlined a plan to begin “redeployment of US forces no later than May 1, 2007” and “remove all combat brigades from Iraq by March 31, 2008.”
That is the definition of precipitous.
Given the nature of the enemy, such a policy would have cataclysmic consequences for Iraqis and Americans.
Revealing new intelligence on al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), President George W. Bush recently detailed how Osama bin Laden dispatched his top Afghanistan commander to Iraq. “The fact that bin Laden risked sending one of his most valued commanders to Iraq shows the importance he places on success of al Qaeda's Iraqi operations,” Bush observed.
AQI's other senior leaders include a Syrian, a Saudi, an Egyptian, a Tunisian and a Turk. They are commanding what bin Laden has called the “Third World War.” It will end in “victory and glory, or misery and humiliation,” according to bin Laden.
In other words, no matter why America went to Iraq, no matter what the war critics think about the Bush Doctrine or its architect, Iraq is a central front in the wider War on Terror—because the enemy says it is. On this we should take the terror mastermind at his word.
More than a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt argued that there are times when America should listen to its conscience, times when humanitarian concerns trump the cold calculations of national interest. “There are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror as to make us doubt whether it is not our manifest duty to endeavor at least to show our disapproval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have suffered by it,” he explained. “What form the action shall take must depend upon the circumstances of the case; that is, upon the degree of the atrocity and upon our power to remedy it.”
At mid-century, pointing to the fragile nations of postwar Europe, President Harry Truman warned, “It would be an unspeakable tragedy if these countries, which have struggled so long against overwhelming odds, should lose that victory for which they sacrificed so much. Collapse of free institutions and loss of independence would be disastrous not only for them but for the world…The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world—and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own nation.” He could just as well have been speaking about America’s obligation to Iraq in 2007.
A decade ago, Clinton echoed Truman and TR by concluding, “There are times and places where our leadership can mean the difference between peace and war and where we can defend our fundamental values as a people and serve our most basic strategic interests.”
Indeed, there are places when America’s national interests and moral responsibility intersect. Iraq is such a place.
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BURLINGTON More than a quarter million children each year are injured while participating in winter sports in the United States. Safe Kids Vermont offers a few simple precautions: kids need to be dressed appropriately, take lessons, be actively supervised and stick to safe terrain. For many winter activities, protective headgear is also recommended. Kids should wear helmets when they ski, says Susan Victory, program manager, Vermont Childrens Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care and Safe Kids Vermont Coalition coordinator. Buy or rent a ski helmet thats certified by the Snell Memorial Foundation or ASTM International, and have an expert make sure it fits correctly so it wont come loose at a critical moment. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, ski helmets could prevent or reduce the effects of 53 percent of the head injuries suffered by children under 15 while skiing or snowboarding. Caregivers should wear ski helmets too -- remember, your children learn safety habits by watching you, says Susan Victory. Each year, children ages 0-14 years sustain nearly 52,000 injuries involving snowmobiles, sleds, snow skis or snowboards. Kids under 12 should wear a helmet while sledding, says Susan Victory, citing a position statement by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Dont go down a hill headfirst -- sit up and face forward. Make sure theres adult supervision and a clear, safe path. A good sledding hill does not lead to a street, a body of water or a crowded gathering place. In addition, the CPSC reminds parents and kids to inspect sleds regularly for worn, damaged or loose parts that could break or snag at high speed. Children under 6 should not be riding a snowmobile, period, and nobody under 16 should be driving one, says Victory. All snowmobile drivers and passengers should be wearing helmets designed for high-speed motor sports -- a bike helmet isnt sufficient for a four-wheeled motorcycle that can go up to 90 miles per hour. There is no consensus among experts about the need for helmets while ice skating, but parents should keep in mind that beginners are likely to fall down a lot. Helmets are a must for ice hockey, along with mouth guards, knee pads and elbow, shoulder and shin protection. Skate only on ice thats approved for skating, says Victory Teach kids how to protect themselves if they do fall through the ice: stretch their arms out wide and kick as if swimming, shout for help and try to crawl backward onto solid ice. Basic health and comfort precautions can go a long way in preventing injury, says Victory Dress in layers. Wear sunscreen. Stay hydrated. Children -- or caregivers -- who become distracted or irritable, or begin to hyperventilate, may be suffering from hypothermia or altitude sickness, or they may be too tired to participate safely in winter sports. They need to go indoors, rest and warm up. In 2005, more than 49,000 children ages 5 to 14 were taken to emergency rooms for injuries resulting from winter sports, including approximately 29,000 from skiing and snowboarding, 20,000 from sledding, and 660 from snowmobile accidents. For more information about sports safety, call 802-847-7055 or visit
. Safe Kids Vermont works to prevent accidental childhood injury, the leading killer of children 14 and under. Safe Kids Vermont is a member of Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of organizations dedicated to preventing accidental injury. Safe Kids Vermont was founded in 1990 and Vermont Childrens Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care is the lead organization.
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Local artist and arts advocate Jim Draper, has recently undertaken a new project via Kickstarter, which will be showcased at The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in the Spring of 2013. The final project will be a digital publication that acts as a virtual counterpart to an exhibition here at the museum called Feast of Flowers, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first European contact with Florida. The exhibit will include large format paintings and prints, a lecture series, museum classes and programs, and the digital publication. The inclusion of the digital publication not only allows for a more dynamic experience within the Museum, but allows audiences worldwide – including educators and students – to have access to and enjoy the rich culture and history related through the exhibition.
The digital publication will include images, narrative-style writing, philosophy, and critique by artist Jim Draper, as well as essays by artists, ecologists, biologists, philosophers, historians, writers and others who will contribute to Draper’s unanswered, dynamic questions of this fragile state.
“My goal is to alert as many users/viewers as possible to the tenuous relationship between man and his finite environment, and to suggest the need for stewardship of it.” –Jim Draper
Embracing this new era of publishing and presenting this in digital form bolsters one of the fundamental elements of this project— sustainability.
Call to Action
Please support this project through Kickstarter.
Kickstarter, as you may or may not know, is an all-or-nothing funding source. There is a s a set number of days to raise all the funds for their project, or else it is cancelled from the site. In this case, the fundraising window is February, 1st to the 29th. However, if this goal of $10,000 is not funded by the deadline, no money changes hands and the book will not be funded.
If we exceed the goal (and we really hope we do!), there will be more opportunities to explore this digital framework and experiment with the narrative capabilities of tablet computing, such as the iPad. Exceeding the goal may also allow us to print editions of this book for those who would like them!
If you have any questions about this project, or trouble with donating, please don’t hesitate to e-mail my assistant Staci at firstname.lastname@example.org
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Perugino had a monumental impact on the development of the Renaissance. His contemporaries called him a Divine Painter, and Raphael’s father called Perugino and Leonardo da Vinci the masters of the age. The artist obtained commissions from the most elite patrons of the day, including several popes, the doge in Venice, Lorenzo de’ Medici, Ludovico Sforza, and Isabella d’Este. Today, Perugino is famously recognized as the teacher of Raphael; however, his legacy is certainly not limited to this achievement alone. Despite his incredible success, Perugino is often brushed past today, but I believe he deserves more attention.
Pietro Vannucci, later to be known as Perugino, was born in a small town called Città della Pieve, located near Perugia, Italy, around 1450. It is surmised that at a young age he went to study in Perugia, the cultural capital of the region. After this initial training, he went to Florence to study alongside Leonardo da Vinci in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. Within a few years, Perugino acquired several important commissions in Perugia, followed by some work for the Pope in Old Saint Peter’s in Rome. These works must have been impressive, because he was soon called back to lead a group of top artists in decorating the walls of the Sistine Chapel. From that moment on, Perugino’s career was a brilliant success; he used a style that appealed to both the wealthiest, most decadent patrons and the most pious clergy. He set up workshops in both Florence and Perugia, and traveled all over Italy, taking on a vast number of commissions. Around 1500, Perugino was at the peak of his success, having completed an astonishing fresco cycle in the Collegio del Cambio in Perugia (most likely with the help of his apprentice, the young Raphael). He was simultaneously completing many important altarpieces, portraits, and private devotional images. It was during this time that the popularity of his style permeated artistic taste, especially in the region of Umbria.
While living in Perugia, I drove throughout the hilly region, visiting remote chapels and palaces filled with frescoes and altarpieces, where Peruginesque figures immediately jumped out at me. The artist’s style was emulated to such a high degree that I wondered how it was possible that all my art history courses of the past had simply jumped over him. Perugino continued to provide inspiration to other Umbrian artists, as evidenced by the work of subsequent masters in and around Perugia for decades to come. One theme that was particularly successful for Perugino was that of the Madonna and Child. Small, devotional images (as opposed to large altarpieces) of the Madonna and Child were made for private worship. He placed his subjects in front of an idyllic landscape of greens receding into misty, atmospheric blue, a setting not too different from the view still seen from Perugia. The viewer is not distracted by superfluous ornamentation, and is instead transfixed by the purity of the subject.
Perugino’s subjects never overtly recall the physical traits of a particular person; they feature a classic harmony and beauty. This trademark of Perugino’s style relies on the suggestions mapped out by Leon Battista Alberti in his On Painting:
“... he should be attentive not only to the likeness of things but also and especially to beauty, for in painting beauty is as pleasing as it is necessary. The early painter Demetrius failed to obtain the highest praise because he was more devoted to representing the likeness of things than to beauty. Therefore, excellent parts should all be selected from the most beautiful bodies, and every effort should be made to perceive, understand and express beauty. Although this is the most difficult thing of all, because the merits of beauty are not all to be found in one place but are dispersed here and there in many, every endeavor should none the less be made to investigate and understand it thoroughly1.”
This ideal beauty is coupled with traditional medieval representations of divinity in Perugino’s work. In the middle ages, and continuing into the early Renaissance, artists adhered to the traditional iconography of the Madonna, which depicted the figure as dressed in red with a blue cloak decorated with a star. Following this tradition, Perugino painted an instantly recognizable Madonna united with contemporary ideal beauty. He notoriously repeated these same types of idealized figures in his work; he chose to do so not out of ease and the reuse of cartoons, but because society called for a specific quality of images to be used in worship.
Madonna and Child paintings dating from the height of Perugino’s success can be found in museum and private collections around the world, a few of which have entered American collections, including a Madonna and Child piece at the Detroit Institute of Art, one in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, and another at the Morgan Library. These exquisite works are examples of compositions that were copied by contemporaries and future admirers of Perugino. In a Renaissance workshop, pupils were taught to mimic the style of their master. Perugino was incredibly effective in this method of teaching.
Another type of Madonna and Child image that was greatly admired is that of the Madonna del Sacco (Madonna with the Sack), similar to the Perugino work in the Morgan Library. This variation shows the Madonna kneeling next to a Christ child propped up on a pillow, or a sack. She is sometimes joined by an angel, an infant John the Baptist, or other saints. This composition was used for an important altarpiece commissioned by the Duke of Milan, and for the Nativity fresco in the Collegio del Cambio. In addition, Perugino repeated this imagery in a much-admired work, which can be found today in the Galleria Palatina in Florence. I have noticed that copies of this popular Madonna del Sacco composition frequently arise at auction.
As the leading artist of his day, it comes as no surprise that many artists imitated Perugino’s style in their own quest for success. Evidence of this is not only found in museum collections or the rural churches I explored, but in treasures that surface in auction from time to time, a thrilling testament to Perugino’s glory and talent. I was delighted to discover that two recent Sotheby’s Auctions in New York, which took place from January 29 through 30, included both a Madonna and Child painting from the circle of Perugino as well as a Madonna del Sacco drawing by a follower of Perugino.
1 Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting (London: Penguin Books, 2004), 90.
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Our household did it online and I have to say it was a smooth and easy process. The questions we didn’t have to answer were grayed out and we were all done and dusted in no time. Hopefully this means that finally we can hold referendums and vote online in future.
However, to me it was a major missed opportunity to learn more about who Kiwis are, what they do and where. This seemed to be to be simply a modern version of the feudal system where nobility tried to establish how much tax they could claim from their citizens. I love the Census system, always used to use copies of the books the Statistics Department used to put out and have been a keen user of the tables and tool builders on the website over more recent years. This Big Data has a huge impact on where to do business, where to build shops and factories, schools etc and the potential to not require costly double ups of data collection as will remain necessary for many Government organisations.
Here are a few thoughts from me of things that I would have liked to know and would have been easy to include and a few comments on what was included:
Ethnicity. For a country that is so multi-ethnic there were only 8 ethnicities offered and one of them was New Zealand European. That effectively makes it a political question and one that does not allow qualitative or quantitative research. As anyone who has studied statistics knows, most European Caucasians will select the first option, leaving us with skewed data. How about culture. I know people who will register as Chinese because they look like their ancestors, but were born and raised in New Zealand and in most things they do other than appearance are indistinguishable from any other NZ born person. On the other hand there are people who totally live the culture of their family and do not integrate much with our everyday society.
The question on what languages you can have a conversation in, was easy for people who really don’t speak English, to say they do. This to me is important because we know there are now large numbers of people who will struggle to answer a question like “where is the nearest dairy?” in English.
What is your religion? This to me is very old school. You either belong to a sect or you have no religion. What if you are agnostic, spiritual but don’t belong to a particular church? This would effectively assume that if you have no religion, you do not believe in a higher spirit, God if you will.
I would have liked to know what people’s jobs are. As a futurist, I’m aware that many of today’s roles or job titles didn’t exist 20 years ago and it would be very interesting to be able to identify shifts in trends in employment. Yes, this information is available to IRD, but I want to know these answers and you could argue the same about the table which asks about personal annual income.
The employment questions also didn’t support all options. For example, I am a founder in a couple of start-ups. I am not an employee and I do not draw any money from the companies. I work very long hours in them. But I couldn’t answer the how many hours do you work in your job, because I’m not employed by the companies. These are not family businesses or family farms, although we do have a project creating virtual pets. Because I don’t have a ‘job’ all the options below these questions were grayed out. I was left with the questions of did I apply for a job and if so, how. BTW I also do not get any sort of benefit from the Government.
The only questions on health focused on disabilities that stop you from earning money or require a benefit. Wouldn’t it have been interesting to get more information on conditions such as asthma, diabetes, ADHD, Autism, Cancer etc. where people continue to work or study. Not so much from a single point in time but from a trend perspective. Tie this into geospatial mesh blocks and area units and some very interesting information might have emerged. What about depression and mental health? If we were able to see statistics based on location, what discoveries might that lead to? Perhaps ones that Government doesn’t want to reveal?
They asked how many cars were available to the household, not how old they were, how often they were used, how big the engines were, whether they were NZ new? Yes, again I know this information is collected by other Government agencies, but it is not made available to the public and business in the same way.
Question 32 would have appealed to teachers. In the last 7 days did you work for pay, profit or income for an hour or more. Novopay anyone? How many people worked but haven’t been paid? Many have waited much more than a week, I’ve heard of people who still have pay overdue for months! (No I am not a teacher).
What else would I like to know?
- Do you have a land-line (that has dial tone)? Because in the event of power outages like earthquakes, they often still work.
- Do you have a broadband connection? VOIP?
- How many computers do you have at home that can access the internet?
- How many mobiles do you have in the household that are connected? How many of those are Smartphones?
- How many hours a week do you spend: Playing Sport or other outdoor activities? In club or organised activities? Watching TV? Playing computer games? On social media?
- Do you BYOD to work and use it for work purposes?
- How often do you buy fast food or eat out?
- What about savings? What do people do with their money? Are they part of a super scheme like Kiwi Saver? Do they buy stocks (Mighty River Power would like to know)? What was the last big purchase in the last 12 months?
- How about leisure, do they go away for a holiday? In NZ or overseas? Can they afford one at all? How long for?
There are many more questions that could have been asked like, how easy was it to complete this online? Would you be happy to vote in the next elections online?
So in summing up, its great to finally have a Census again and I’m looking forward to finding out what has changed in New Zealand, particularly as a result of the Canterbury earthquakes, but also information like how many NZ born people have left the country permanently, what is the make up of this country today compared to the last Census.
Congratulations on what appeared to be a smooth online operation, but what a missed opportunity to get some more learning. I think there has been so much focus on finally getting the job done, that there was insufficient focus on getting some highly important and valuable new data. The world has changed so much in 5 years. It appears like Novopay, that not much else has when it comes to taking advantage of 21st Century technology.
What do you think?
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Restoring and joining up habitat will prevent the UK’s threatened butterflies and moths from becoming extinct in the future.
Our latest report provides concrete evidence that projects aimed at conserving butterflies and moths at a landscape-scale have enabled threatened species to flourish after decades of decline. A landscape-scale approach works by improving and connecting land for wildlife by the coordinated conservation management of numerous sites for a range of species across a large natural area.
The report, Landscape-scale conservation for butterflies and moths: lessons from the UK, also shows that measures to conserve rare butterflies and moths have helped other threatened species as well as the habitats in which they live.
Butterflies are the most threatened wildlife group; more than three-quarters of Britain’s 57 resident species are declining and over 40% are listed as Priorities for Conservation. More than 80 moth species are also at risk.Most threatened species are now confined to small patches of habitat that have been left isolated within the modern intensively managed countryside.
For over a decade, Butterfly Conservation has adopted a landscape-scale approach to conserving these areas in order to manage existing habitats more effectively and link them with newly restored habitats.This combination of targeted management and restoration has allowed many species to flourish in each of the 12 landscapes covered in the report.
- The Small Blue in Warwickshire which has increased from a low of three to eight colonies in just three years.
- The numbers of Marsh Fritillary in one Dartmoor valley have increased by more than 1000% in five years and the number of Pearl-bordered Fritillary colonies in the Wyre Forest in the West Midlands doubled in ten years.
The report lends weight to the Government paper by ecologist Professor Sir John Lawton Making Space for Nature which states that we must make habitats far bigger, better managed and more connected if species are to survive in the future.
The Butterfly Conservation report shows what can be achieved through a highly focused species-led approach.Very simply ‘more, bigger, better and joined’ works, and needs to be rolled out far more widely. Recreating, restoring and joining up habitats benefits not just butterflies and moths, but a host of other creatures with which they share their habitat. - Professor Sir John Lawton
We are calling on the government to provide more funding for landscape-scale initiatives and targeted species conservation in order to reverse the decline in biodiversity and achieve the government’s 2020 targets on biodiversity.
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Computer viruses are deadly. They often spread without any apparent contact and can be a nuisance, or even worse, fatal to your computer. Individuals who create these viruses, estimated at 10-15 new ones a day, are the electronic version of terrorists. There are many simple things that you can do to protect your computer from viruses.
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Never open e-mail from an unknown source.
Do not respond to unsolicited e-mail.
Always include a relevant subject line on e-mail that you send out.
Set-up your e-mail to Auto-Archive older mail messages. read more →
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Published: Apr. 1, 2009
Updated: Oct. 28, 2010
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By Duke Medicine News and Communications
A compound that naturally occurs in the brain and other areas of the body may be a promising new treatment for the most severe and disruptive symptoms of schizophrenia, according to researchers from Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center.
Researchers conducted a pilot study at the Durham VAMC that suggests the neurosteroid pregnenolone targets symptoms of schizophrenia for which no treatment options are available. The findings are published online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.
While antipsychotic medications can help reduce hallucinations and delusions associated with schizophrenia for some patients, the other two categories of symptoms often continue to significantly disable patients -- negative symptoms, such as apathy, lack of emotion and poor social functioning, and cognitive symptoms, which include memory impairment and difficulty concentrating and completing tasks.
"If replicated through further research, pregnenolone could provide a novel treatment for the cognitive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia, which severely impact the daily lives of patients," says Christine Marx, MD, MA, lead author of the study and associate professor of psychiatry.
"Antipsychotic medications are the only FDA approved treatments for schizophrenia but the effects are typically modest and do not address the fundamental core of the disorder," says Richard Keefe, PhD, study co-author and professor of medical psychology.
Prior research had found that pregnenolone enhanced learning and memory in rodents while also influencing the function of brain receptors associated with schizophrenia. Pregnenolone is present in varying levels in humans but not much was known about how it was regulated.
The new study included 21 people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who took a placebo for two weeks and were then randomly assigned to take pregnenolone or placebo for eight weeks in conjunction with a newer antipsychotic medication (aripiprazole, olanzapine, quetiapine or risperidone).
Compared to patients taking placebo, the pregnenolone group reported a significant reduction in negative symptoms. Increases in this neurosteroid also predicted improvement in cognitive symptoms in the group receiving pregnenolone.
Patients taking pregnenolone had more than 20 percent improvement on a test used to calculate negative symptoms compared to the placebo group. Tests used to assess cognitive impairment point to improvements in the pregnenolone group. Patients with the lowest natural levels of the neurosteroid reported the most significant improvements on memory and concentration tasks.
"While pregnenolone is available as a dietary supplement, there have been extremely few studies of this compound in the last 50 years," Marx explains. The researchers caution that the pregnenolone used in the study was carefully monitored and met FDA standards for purity, unlike supplements available over the counter.
"Further research is needed among a larger cohort of patients to confirm the findings we observed, but we are encouraged because pregnenolone was well tolerated and improved symptoms that we have not traditionally been able to treat," Keefe adds.
"Drug development for mental health disorders has been moving at a glacial pace and we are in desperate need of new and novel treatments," said Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, study co-author and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. "This small, proof of concept study represents a potentially major advance."
Researchers said that larger studies are planned to further investigate pregnenolone's effects on schizophrenia, in addition to pilot studies in other conditions such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Study co-authors include Jason Kilts, Daniel Bradford, Jennifer Naylor, Victoria Payne, Lawrence Dunn and Lawrence Shampine of Duke and the Durham VAMC, Linda Leimone of the Durham VAMC, Robert Buchanan with the University of Maryland, Robert Hamer, Patrizia Porcu and A Leslie Morrow with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Adam Savitz of Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
This work was supported by the VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, and NIH and VA Career Development Awards.
Marx is a co-applicant and Keefe is a contributor to a pending US patent application on the use of neurosteroids for the treatment of central nervous system disorders. Marx is an unpaid scientific advisor/board member of NeuroScience Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Keefe receives royalties for two of the cognitive test batteries used in this study, the BACS and the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery.
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The passing of Cater’s Furniture magnate John Cater struck close to home. We already had asked our colleague, business reporter Susan Salisbury, to do a guest column just before her dad’s death on Feb. 7. She generously submitted this:
In the 1950s and 1960s, before the Palm Beach Mall opened, downtown West Palm Beach was booming. It was the area’s primary shopping destination for the average person who wasn’t wealthy enough to go to Worth Avenue in Palm Beach.
Many of the businesses were family-owned, rather than the more typical chain stores we know today, and their owners worked on the premises, not in a distant corporate office.
Among those was Cater’s Furniture at 333 Datura St. My grandfather started the company in 1925, farther north at 711 N. Dixie, and in 1935, moved to a two-story building on Datura Street next to a fire station.
The company’s main office was at the store, and that’s where my father, John Cater, worked.
Back then, change was not as rapid as it is now. Customers could count on getting waited on and having questions answered by a salesman who knew the merchandise, and probably knew them by name also.
Everything was very low-key. People knew they would see the same familiar faces when they walked through the door and might run into their neighbors there, too. People stayed in the same job for years, and the company had loyal people who spent their careers there.
There was a gigantic, ancient cash register that sat in the office, which was open to the showroom and surrounded by a wooden railing, later replaced by a counter. Nearby was a red and white, waist-high Coca-Cola machine which dispensed “ice cold” glass bottles from the top. I think they were 10 cents, but I was rarely allowed to drink one. As a child, my visits to the store were exciting; my sister and I zoomed around trying out the recliners and popping out the footrests. Sometimes, we ran up the wide staircase to the second floor, and tried to run across all the mattresses that were lined up in a long row before someone caught us. What fun, and what a great thing the security of life in a small city was.
Cater’s Furniture, founded in 1925, was first on North Dixie Highway, then moved to this Datura Street building downtown West Palm Beach. The owning family worked on the premises and many employees spent their entire working lives there. (Palm Beach Post file photo)
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Lightning Can Strike Twice
Cloud-to-ground lightning bolts are a common phenomenon—about 100 strike Earth’s surface every single second—yet their power is extraordinary. Each bolt can contain up to one billion volts of electricity.
This enormous electrical discharge is caused by an imbalance between positive and negative charges. During a storm, colliding particles of rain, ice, or snow increase this imbalance and often negatively charge the lower reaches of storm clouds. Objects on the ground, like steeples, trees, and the Earth itself, become positively charged—creating an imbalance that nature seeks to remedy by passing current between the two charges.
A step-like series of negative charges, called a stepped leader, works its way incrementally downward from the bottom of a storm cloud toward the Earth. Each of these segments is about 150 feet (46 meters) long. When the lowermost step comes within 150 feet (46 meters) of a positively charged object it is met by a climbing surge of positive electricity, called a streamer, which can rise up through a building, a tree, or even a person. The process forms a channel through which electricity is transferred as lightning.
Some types of lightning, including the most common types, never leave the clouds but travel between differently charged areas within or between clouds. Other rare forms can be sparked by extreme forest fires, volcanic eruptions, and snowstorms. Ball lightning, a small, charged sphere that floats, glows, and bounces along oblivious to the laws of gravity or physics, still puzzles scientists.
Lightning is extremely hot—a flash can heat the air around it to temperatures five times hotter than the sun’s surface. This heat causes surrounding air to rapidly expand and vibrate, which creates the pealing thunder we hear a short time after seeing a lightning flash.
Lightning is not only spectacular, it’s dangerous. About 2,000 people are killed worldwide by lightning each year. Hundreds more survive strikes but suffer from a variety of lasting symptoms, including memory loss, dizziness, weakness, numbness, and other life-altering ailments.
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on the original turn-based strategy game
* which is, apparently, actually played in various circles. From what I can gather of it, it follows the regular rules of chess
, with the following additions:
- Each player must be wearing no more than ten pieces of clothing at the start of the match.
- The capture of a knight, bishop, or rook results in the captured piece's player removing one article of clothing. If the piece is taken by a pawn, two articles.
- The capture of the queen always results in losing two pieces of clothing.
- A player can 'win' clothing back if their queen or king takes any of the opponent's pieces. He or she gains as many articles as the opponent loses- see above bullets.
- If a player castles their king (in either direction), they can put an extra piece of clothing back on.
- Checkmate results in the loss of three pieces of clothing by the defeated player.
- Play continues until one of the two players is fully nude upon the end of a game. You cannot go into 'negative articles of clothing'; that is, no penalty comes from losing your knight whilst in your birthday suit.
The sources from where I have obtained this information from also suggest team play
, in which two teams of two or more alternate players between each move. This might be an especially good setup for large groups, chess novice
s, and/or prude
There are also various other ways which I have found and (frighteningly) thought up where one could play this game. Since I doubt highly the existence of a World Strip Chess Federation, I suppose these variants would be equally viable:
- One could forget the long-winded rules above and simply have the opponent remove an article of clothing for each captured piece. If you included the pawns, this could get rather interesting very quickly.
- For tournaments or parties, one could alter the rules so that a piece of clothing must be removed only after the loss of a game. As a variant to this, the winning player may be allowed to decide, depending on his/her shrewdness in bribery and the gender of his opponent, whether the defeated chessplayer is allowed to take off an article or put one back on. In either case, draws would obviously have no net result. (But if you were really impatient, the rules could be altered to result in a clothing loss for both.)
Surprisingly, strip chess has actually been a documented phenomenon
in the mass culture. A series of (PG-13
) strip chess games were played in a London
shop window for a week or so in April 2002
. They were apparently carried out to promote a commercial
series for Gordon's Gin
in which the characters played strip chess under the one-piece-per-capture variant. The second source should still have a picture of the spectacle
Strip chess has also reared its head in the Sandra Bullock-Hugh Grant film Two Weeks' Notice. Though I can't say I've seen the movie, I know that the game is played between Grant's character and the person played by Alicia Witt, although its rules are never disclosed. Feel free to /msg me if you have any more detail on this scene.
There are also, unsurprisingly, plenty of naughty games available for free online. Though I can't vouch for their quality--I don't plan on playing either the real or virtual versions of the game any time in the near future--I suppose that they, as well, would be quite enjoyable to the person with the perfect combination of libido, intellect, and delayed gratification that would push him or her to play the game of strip chess.
*Alright, so chess does not
technically deserve this title. When creating this description, I was thinking more of Civilization
and less of chaturanga
, since people who would participate in the events described above, I imagine, would be more acquainted with the former than the latter. Thanks to fellow pedant (note lower case) gitm
for reminding me that the truth still holds.
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This is Week 8 of a 12-Week series of blog posts reviewing new young adult books. Check back each Monday for a new review.
The morning of her wedding day, seventeen-year-old Pell mounts her horse, Jack, scoops up her mute little brother Bean, who insists on joining her, and gallops away from her small English village into a new life. So begins Meg Rosoff's latest book, "The Bride's Farewell."
Pell has left behind her childhood sweetheart and her fear of ending up like her mother, worn out and drained of joy from giving birth to nine children. She’s making for the great Salisbury Fair. There she hopes to use her unerring ability to discern a horse’s temperament with just one look to make enough money to pay for food and lodging. Things look up when she and Bean are taken in by a gypsy family at the fair, and Pell is hired to help a horse dealer identify good buys. But within a day, Pell has lost her money, her horse and, worst of all, her brother.
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|Other names||Tinúviel (S)|
|Titles||Princess of Doriath|
|Location||Doriath; Tol Galen|
|Affiliation||Quest for the Silmaril|
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Lúthien was born during the Second Age of the Chaining of Melkor, and niphredil first grew at the moment of her birth. She would often dance in the woods, while her friend Daeron, the minstrel of Thingol, would play his flute. Daeron came to love her, and while she enjoyed his company, she did not return his love.
Quest for the Silmaril
During such an occasion she was discovered by Beren as he wandered the woods of her father's kingdom, and instantly fell in love with her. Daeron chirped out a warning, and she hid. While he searched for her, he accidentally laid his hand on her arm. He caught her alone some months later, and they grew to love one another. When Lúthien took Beren before her father, he was appalled that his royal daughter should wish to wed a mortal, and as is recounted in the Lay of Leithian so set Beren what he thought was an unachievable task, to recover a Silmaril from the Iron Crown of Morgoth himself. So Beren left Doriath in pursuit of his hopeless quest.
After a time, a darkness fell on Lúthien's heart, and she learned from her mother Melian what this meant; Beren had been captured by Sauron, and was held in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth. Though Thingol sought to stop her, Lúthien set out from Doriath to rescue Beren, if she could. Passing through many adventures, she gained the help of Huan the Hound, and together they came to Sauron's Isle. Through Lúthien's magic and Huan's strength they defeated Sauron and rescued Beren. Eventually Beren set out for Angband once again, but this time Lúthien accompanied him.
Through Lúthien's powers, they passed the gates of Angband, and the great wolf Carcharoth that guarded them. Coming before the Dark Throne itself, she wove a spell that put Morgoth and his court into a deep sleep, and Beren cut a Silmaril from the Iron Crown. Returning to the gates, they found that Carcharoth barred their escape. Beren held up the hallowed jewel to protect them, but the monstrous wolf bit off his hand and, with it, consumed the Silmaril. But the Silmarils were blessed by Varda herself, so that any unclean flesh that touched them would be withered and burnt. The wolf's innards were consumed with that burning, and it ran howling into the south.
Lúthien healed Beren, and they came at last back to her father's halls at Menegroth. There they heard tidings that the maddened wolf had entered Thingol's realm, and Beren set out with the King to the Hunting of the Wolf. After nightfall they returned; the wolf was slain and the Silmaril recovered, but Beren was wounded mortally. So he passed away, and soon after Lúthien too wasted of grief.
Aftermath and death
Their spirits were gathered in the Halls of Mandos in the Uttermost West, and there Lúthien sang a song of such extraordinary power and beauty that it moved even the implacable heart of Mandos himself. So she was granted a unique fate, to become mortal and return to Middle-earth with Beren, where they dwelt for a time in happiness on the green island of Tol Galen in the River Adurant.
After the destruction of Doriath Beren participated in battle for the last time. He ambushed the routed dwarves, and in the process also acquired the Silmaril he once took from Morgoth's crown. He brought the Silmaril, which was inside the Nauglamir, to Lúthien, and she wore it until the day she and Beren died of old age. It is said that their deaths came quicker than expected because of the Silmaril. After their death, the Silmaril was passed to their son Dior, which caused in the Second Kinslaying.
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Lúthien was largely inspired from Edith Bratt and Tolkien often referred to Edith as "my Lúthien." It is mentioned that around 1917, while Tolkien and Bratt went walking in the woods at Roos, Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock. This incident inspired the account of the meeting of Beren and Lúthien.
The tale also shares the common element of folktales with the disapproving parent who sets a seemingly impossible task for the suitor, which is then fulfilled. The Welsh tale of Culhwch and Olwen is one such story.
The travel of Lúthien to Mandos and softening Námo with her song, in order to release her beloved, is a usual theme in mythology and religion: the Greek tale (as told by Virgil) of Orpheus and Eurydice, the Japanese myth of Izanagi and Izanami, the Akkadian/Sumerian myth of Inanna's descent to the Underworld, the Mayan myth of Ix Chel and Itzamna, the Indian legend of Savitri, and the Nez Perce legends of the trickster Coyote.
Other versions of the legendarium
The name Lúthien appears since the earliest conceptions (although Melilot was used as a tentative name in the Lay of Leithian). The name was connected with "Luthany", the Elfin name for England. In several drafts, Lúthien would be the Elfin name of Ælfwine, which would be translated as "traveler" and later as "friend".
See Also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Beren and Lúthien"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 15
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", p. 370
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 340, (dated 11 July 1972)
- ↑ Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall & Edmund Weiner The Ring of Words
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lays of Beleriand, "III. The Lay of Leithian", p. 159
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We recently wrote about the many existing venues, activities, and materials designed to encourage public dialogue and informed discussion about animal research. Many individuals, institutions, and organizations contribute to public outreach and education efforts, and also take active roles in dialogue about continuing changes in practice and policy concerning animal welfare and the conduct of animal research. This post is the fourth in a series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) hosted by Speaking of Research to highlight a wide range of individuals and groups devoted to consideration of animal research.
The National Primate Research Centers Outreach Network
The eight National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) are riding a wave of unprecedented communication, thanks to a new National Institutes of Health/Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (NIH/ORIP) outreach consortium. This consortium helps our members work together more effectively to educate the public on our many and varied educational programs.
Reaching thousands at the USA Science and Engineering Festival
One exciting result of the new consortium occurred April 27 to April 29 this year in Washington, D.C. Representatives from the National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) spoke to an estimated 4,000 people who visited the NPRCs’ booth at the 2nd annual USA Science and Engineering Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Billed as “the largest celebration of science in the U.S.,” the festival featured more than 3,000 interactive exhibits, more than 100 stage shows and 33 author presentations. More than 150,000 people attended. President Barack Obama promoted the festival in keynotes and public service announcements. Special visitors to the festival included The Myth Busters and Bill Nye the Science Guy, plus Nobel Prize winners, best-selling authors, astronauts, and even a rock guitar performance by NIH Director Francis Collins.
The NPRCs’ booth featured a set of touchable and inflatable real pig lungs representing healthy and cigarette smoke-riddled lungs. Our activity not only demonstrated how smoking harms the smoker, but also helped us convey how the Primate Centers have discovered that second hand smoke can stunt infant lung development. Our interactive display also included a flip board with questions and answers about animal research and care.
– The California NPRC outreach team spearheaded the NPRCs’ participation at the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Some of the consortium’s other recent activities have included the following:
– Jordana Lenon (Wisconsin NPRC) represented the consortium at a PR/Media Forum sponsored by the New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research last October in Newark, N.J.
– Consortium participants plan to meet for the first time as a group this fall.
To share updates, materials and communicate effectively with one another — whether we’re planning for large events such as the USA Science and Engineering Festival, or sharing news releases and other announcements — center outreach specialists, supported by the NPRC directors and consortium facilitators, use a variety of websites and other e-media tools. We heartily contribute our share to the 188 billion emails still sent every day… and we still talk on the phone. So, although we’re working in three different time zones, from one coast to the other, we feel closer than ever in our working relationships. We plan to meet for the first time as a group this fall, and we all look forward to building new partnerships when we meet.
Students, lifelong learners benefit from many engaging programs
What are some of the many other outreach activities we plan and share? For one, we are fortunate to have developed thriving visitors programs at our centers. We host year-round K-12+ programs such as afterschool programs, campus science fairs, family science nights, science Saturdays, science teachers days, and many more activities, both on site as well as at schools and community venues. A few examples follow:
The Oregon NPRC’s tour program welcomes more than 3,000 people each year. The center also provides opportunities for young scientists to experience authentic research by supporting high school students and undergraduates in labs for summer apprenticeships.
At the California NPRC, many classroom outreach activities and lectures introduce K-12 students to nonhuman primates, biomedical research programs and careers. The center offers a large curriculum and classroom resources for teachers.
The Wisconsin NPRC provides lab demos and hands on activities for middle school and high school students participating in the annual State Science Olympiad, as well in the National Science Olympiad hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison last summer.
The Yerkes NPRC promotes an active speakers bureaus and tours of its large indoor/outdoor facility. Yerkes also sponsors an eight-week summer internship program for high school students. The center received more than 130 applications this year for 10 spots.
In addition to tours and community outreach programs, the Tulane NPRC hosts programs for college honor societies, summer scholars, biomedical students and career tech students. Every summer, the TNPRC mentors students who work with research technicians.
The Washington NPRC recently participated in a three-day science education event at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. In July, WaNPRC will again host science teachers participating in the annual CURE (Collaborations to Understand Research and Ethics) tour and seminar, a program funded by an NIH Science Education Partnership Award.
Southwest NPRC is hosting “Science Teachers Day at Texas BioMed” this summer, with bus and walking tours, demonstrations, and an “Ethics of Animal Research” panel.
Specific programs for life-long learners are also growing, such as Oregon’s Road Scholar Week, and Wisconsin’s Grandparents University and College Days participation, and Yerkes’ coordination of eight-week series for two university-based life-long learning programs. In addition to coordinating active speakers bureaus that reach business, patient advocacy and other civic groups, the NPRCs’ outreach specialists themselves are also sought after as invited educational speakers at national and international conferences.
As far as outreach and higher education, most of the NPRCs are located at major research and teaching universities. They have active veterinary care training programs, in addition to offering undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral research training programs. The New England NPRC’s commitment to education is reflected in its summer programs for pre-baccalaureate and veterinary students. The Oregon, California, and Washington NPRCs host two to three dozen veterinary and vet tech students throughout the year in two-week externships.
Learn more about the National Primate Centers and other National Institutes of Health nonhuman primate resources for research starting here.
Jordana Lenon is the Public Information Officer and Outreach Specialist for the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Gorbachev Asks Bill Gates To Save Russian Teacher From Siberia After Students Use Unauthorized Copies Of Windows
from the and-what-would-you-do? dept
Just days after having to stand idly by while the Romanian president talked up how unauthorized copies of Microsoft software helped build that country's IT industry, Bill Gates has another critical issue to decide concerning such "piracy." Over in Russia, Microsoft has apparently been pressing charges against a Russian school headteacher, Alexander Ponosov, who Microsoft accuses of running "pirated" software on school computers. According to current Russian law, if Ponosov is found guilty, he can be shipped off to Siberian prison camps -- just for helping some students get a leg up in learning to use one of the most commonly used pieces of software out there. Even worse, Ponosov says the computers came with the Microsoft software pre-loaded, so he had no idea they were unauthorized copies. Even former Soviet boss Mikhail Gorbachev is now begging Microsoft to drop the lawsuit. Apparently, current Russian leader Vladimir Putin has also asked that Microsoft reconsider. Of course, it's not entirely clear why Russian politicians don't change the law -- but it seems likely that it has something to do with the US government demanding stricter "intellectual property protections" to allow Russia into the WTO. Update: Microsoft has responded to the plea, saying they don't plan on changing a thing, and expect the lawsuit to continue.
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My friend Chris Matthews from MSNBC is in trouble for saying that he forgot President Obama was black. What he was saying, consciously or not, was that when the president does everything right, he’s perceived to be white, and when things go wrong, people remember that he’s black.
I think Chris got caught up. Remember, it was just last week that he and I co-hosted the town hall meeting, “Obama’s America: 2010 and Beyond,” on an HBCU campus, at Texas Southern University. We all have white friends who, after being around us a lot, can sometimes get too comfortable and say something crazy. I think he had one of those moments where he thought he just say anything that came to mind and would get a pass. That’s never a good idea.
One of my favorite bits on the TJMS is the “Pull-Up Pal.” It’s a friend every player should have to remind him that he’s about to do something stupid. Well, our white friends sometimes need a black pull-up pal to tell them to pull up before they say something that will be perceived as wrong and racist, even if we know they probably aren’t. If Chris Matthews had run it by me, I would have told him, “Don’t say that, man. Sure, I know what you were saying – that during the State of the Union Speech, Obama was so presidential and commanding and had done so well that you didn’t see his color, that you just saw him as the president of the United States.”
In a white person’s mind, saying they forgot a person was black or didn’t see color – or want to live in color blind society – is a very high compliment. What our white friends need to understand, though, is that it really isn’t that complimentary to most black people. It implies that we think that in order to be accepted, approved of and perceived as excellent, we have to shed our “blackness.” We can or should be able to be all that and be as black as we ever were.
People seem to think deep down inside we want to be white, and that isn’t true … at least not for most of us. The Impressions asked this question back in the late 60s: “If you had a choice of colors, which one would you choose, my brothers? If there was no day or night, which would you prefer to be right?”
What a lot of people miss is yes, we want an end to racism, but even from the beginning, it’s never been about being or acting white and losing who we are. I love everything about being black. I love the way it looks to be black. I love our history. I love our culture, our language, our humor, our swagger. I don’t want a color blind society because I want people to see my blackness.
I don’t want Chris Matthews or anyone to forget that President Obama is a black man. If forgetting he’s a black man is a compliment, then remembering that he’s a black man is an insult, and I’m not with that at all. How about appreciating what this black man has accomplished? How about respecting and being proud of this black man?
Can you respect your brother’s woman friend
And share with black folks not of kin
I said now people must prove to the people
A better day is coming for you and for me
With just a little bit more education
And love for our nation
Would make a better society
And if you had a choice of colors,
Which one would you choose, my brothers?
Our bar is not to be white or colorless. Our bar is to be the best we can be as who we are – proud, black people. What most of us would like is a post-racist society, where racism no longer exists. Forget all this rhetoric about living in a post-racial society. I WANT to live in a racial society where every culture is embraced and respected, and you and I can be as black as we want to be. Say it loud!
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Was born in Hoosic, Rensselaer Co., in 1782. He lived some years at
Ballston Springs, going thence to Smithfield, Madison County, where he
married in 1805 Elizabeth Lucas, who was born in 1786. They moved to
this county in 1810, and settled on the farm now owned by Albert
McIntyre, on lot 35. Subsequently they removed to a farm on the shore of
Keuka Lake, about five miles from Penn Yan, well known as the Thayer
homestead, on lot 45, where both died, he in 1856, and she in 1862.
Their children are Jacob, Joseph, James, Samuel, Sally Ann, Simeon,
David, William, Laura, Emeline, Reuben, Andrew and John. Nine of the
sons now live in the town of Milo, and one sister, and the other brother
at Warsaw in this county. Two of the sisters are living West.
Jacob married Sarah, daughter of Archibald J. McIntyre. They have seven
children, Archibald, Susan, Simeon, Sylvester N., Jacob W., James K. and
Amelia. Archibald married Minerva, daughter of George C. Wheeler. Susan
N. married John B. Bayard, and died in 1869 leaving three children,
Sarah, Jennie Bell and John. Simeon married Elizabeth, daughter of
Joseph Rappelyea. They have two children, Ella and Lilly. Sylvester N.
married Minerva, daughter of John Longwell. Jacob W. married Marieta,
daughter of Joel Wortman. Their children are Annie and Willie. James K.
married Helen, daughter of John Freeman, and Amelia married Worthy
Carroll of Penn Yan.
Joseph married Semantha, daughter of Joshua Bayard of Milo, and is the
present Under Sheriff of Yates county. They have one son, Joseph J .
James married Zencia, daughter of Allen Bassett of Barrington. He is a
substantial farmer on lot 33. They have four surviving children, James
A., Emeline, Laura and Fancelia. James A. married Alice, daughter of
James Lawrence. They have one child, Mary A. Emma married John B. Haas
of Sunbury, Pa.. and has a daughter, Eva P. Mary A. died in 1867.
Samuel married Anna, daughter of James Secor of Torrey, and resides in
Barrington. They have one son, Samuel J .
Sally Ann married Charles A. Wilbur of Penn Yan. They emigrated to
Howell, Mich., and have one child, Lucy. She married William D. Murray
of Detroit. Their children are Willie and Lulu.
Simeon married Martha Youngs of Syracuse. They had six children, David,
Elizabeth, Simeon, George, Octavia and Frank.
David died a young man, and Elizabeth in early womanhood. David Thayer,
is a bachelor and lives on the homestead. William married Harriet E.,
daughter of the late Dr. Levi Perry of Penn Yan. They have two
daughters, Lucy and Susan. Lucy married Delos, son of James Willett and
resides in Milo.
Laura married Judge Ebenezer C.Winslow of Ridgway, Pa., and emigrated to
Whiteside Co., Illinois, where he died leaving a daughter, Ida. She hasa
second husband, James Harra.
Emeline married Ebenezer B. Bunnell of Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y., and
they reside in Penn Yan.
Reuben married Catharine, daughter of Abraham V. Remer of Torrey. They
have two daughters, Minnie Bell and Kitty May. They own and live on the
Andrew married Mary, daughter of Aaron Plympton. They have two children,
Georgianna and Ezra B.
John married Frank, daughter of William Sutherland of Milo.
This family is remarkable from the fact that the children are all
living, thirteen in number. The homestead is still in the family, and
all of the members are respectable citizens.
Simeon Thayer, Sr., came to this town a poor man. He and one Moses
Thompson, owned together a yoke of oxen, with which they moved on a wood
sled. When Mr. Thayer reached the Mc Intyre place, he had but one dollar
in money. Half a dollar paid for a bushel of corn, and the other half
dollar for a gallon of whisky to raise a log house. His children and
grandchildren are now paying taxes on a thousand acres of land in Milo.
Source: History and Directory of Yates County: Containing a Sketch of
Its Original Settlement by the Public Universal Friends ... and a
Narrative of the Universal Friend, Her Society and Doctrine, Volume
1, pp. 704-705.
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Tips for Organizing Important Papers
Keep tax returns and supporting materials for at least three years, the time the IRS has to begin an audit. However, the IRS can begin an audit within six years if there has been substantial income omitted and there is no IRS time limit for fraud.
Information on investments should be kept for as long as you own the investment, plus the three years it is needed to support the tax return on which it is reported.
Safe deposit boxes are the best places to keep items that are valuable. This includes jewelry, cash, stamp and coin collections and negotiable instruments like stock certificates and bonds. They are also good places to keep items that are not replaceable or that have sentimental value. A household inventory (video taped or written), appraisals, listings of insurance policies and credit card numbers should also be kept in a safe deposit box.
Wills should be kept in an easily accessible place. Copies of wills should be kept in your safe deposit box and by your attorney. Note the location of your original will on any copies.
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It has been very nice to read the recent string of people openly talking about depression and trying to work it all out. I am very similar to Logan in that being my own boss can be harder than having a boss. I've found that a good way to cope is to trick yourself into thinking the same way that you have with a retail job. For instance, pick a coffee shop, or restaurant, or library, or even rent a studio space, or go to a friend's house, anywhere but home. Set your alarm clock, and make yourself get up and out, as if you were going to work there. Because you are going to work there. Once you've gotten in the habit of treating it like a job you can get fired from, it becomes easier to do on a day-to-day basis. You have to allow yourself Guilt-Free "sick days" or "mental health days" just like any other job, too. (Reduce the amount of obligations if you can't take the entire day off.) It's incredibly important, and easy to communicate.
You repay your parents, by being around to take care of them when they get too old to take care of themselves (and you). Obviously, that plan works out better for some than for others.
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Before my niece left for her college freshman year, she warned my eighth-grade daughter to start applying “way earlier than senior year.” She said someone at the University of North Carolina gave prospective applicants a speech she wished she’d heard in middle school. Can you track down the advice?
Your niece may have been inspired by Erin Breese, senior assistant director of undergraduate admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She talks with prospective students every day. When she and her colleagues review applications, they look at far more than a student’s record in junior and senior year.
“We understand that students travel many different roads to get to Carolina, and we celebrate the variety of interests, backgrounds and aspirations that they bring with them. The qualities that we seek include intellect, curiosity, creativity, leadership, kindness, courage and diversity,” says Breese.
“At the same time, we seek excellence,” she emphasizes. “We focus first on academic excellence, using a variety of information — courses, grades, test scores, recommendations, essays — to help us assess performance and potential. Successful candidates take at least one course in each of the five core academic disciplines — English, math, social science, lab science and foreign language in each of their four years if they are available at their high school. We pay particular attention to the rigor of each candidate’s course of study. We encourage juniors and seniors, when possible, to take the most difficult programs available at their school. We also encourage them to pursue activities outside the classroom which help them grow as a person.”
Breese advises middle schoolers and high school freshmen and sophomores to stay focused in the classroom. “We tell them to strive for good grades in the most challenging courses available to them — AP, IB, honors, academically gifted courses — in all disciplines. They should also develop good study habits and organizational skills.”
Breese also advises them to invest these years in learning which academic areas and extracurricular activities interest them the most. For example, she encourages teens not to slack off during the summers. “Students should do something to define themselves and their interests. Whether it’s volunteering, summer camps, employment, taking courses, or devoting time to a hobby, they should choose activities that interest them.”
If Breese were to address your daughter’s middle school classmates, she’d tell them:
– Strive for good grades (As and Bs in all courses).
– Take challenging classes (algebra 1, geometry or other advanced math; advanced science; academically gifted courses, etc.) Try taking a few courses over summers, as well.
– Develop good study habits and organizational skills. These will stay with you throughout high school.
– Find your passion. Spend time figuring out which academic areas and extracurricular activities interest you the most. If possible, take advantage of your breaks from school to take classes, trips or go to special-interest camps.
– Improve your reading, writing, and math skills. This will help you do well in high school courses and on your SAT or ACT. “Find your voice as a writer,” suggests Breese. “This effort will show up in that important college essay, which help reviewers understand your thoughts and feelings.”
Breese invites your daughter to go to www.admissions.unc.edu and select the “MyUNC” on the scroll-down menu for “Prospective Students” and create her own personal account. “Visiting MyUNC will help her stay informed about what’s happening at Carolina, keep in touch with us, and even if she doesn’t apply here, give her a concrete way to stay focused on the goal of college of few years from now,” notes Breese.
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The crazy weather the local area has been experiencing over the last several weeks has left many residents sitting in their doctor’s office waiting to see what will make them feel human again. Many local residents are fighting through head colds, respiratory infections, bronchitis and even the dreaded flu.
According to local health officials, patients are being treated for the flu on a daily basis in local doctor’s offices and urgent care centers.
“There are always a lot of flu cases depending on when it happens. There seems to be clusters of them,” stated Dr. Janna Sellmer, Clark Memorial Hospital Medical Center- Charlestown’s newest physician. “Back in 1918 three percent of the world’s population were lost to the flu. That was less than 100 years ago. Three percent of the population vanished.”
Dr. Sellmer stated the office personnel are doing “a fair amount of testing for it (flu).”
“Last week we had four cases, just in one week,” stated Dr. Sellmer.
The flu has kept Clark Memorial Hospital’s Urgent Care at Hunter Station busy for several months. According to Clark Memorial Hospital’s public relations department, Urgent Care is treating six patients a day for the flu.
Dr. Sellmer was quick to answer what symptoms a patient needs to look for when they are battling the flu.
“Fever greater than 100, usually 100 to 103, body aches, body aches are always a sign of a viral illness, head aches, and cough. You can also have cold symptoms, too,” Dr. Sellmer added. “You can suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, but kids get that more than adults. For adults it is more respiratory. And then, it is the suddenness of it. It just hits you so sudden. Most adults can only be up about two hours a day when they are suffering from the flu.”
The actual test to find out if you are suffering from Influenza is quite easy. It is a quick nasopharyngeal swab, according to Dr. Sellmer.
“It is just a swab of the nose. It is inserted in the nasal cavity. There is no pain, and you can even ask to do the swab yourself. The best way is to have the patients do it themselves,” Dr. Sellmer stated.
By the time you leave the doctor’s office, you will have your results of the test. The test results are determined in less than 15 minutes and the patient is checked for Influenza A and B.
The treatment for the flu is also easy on the patient.
“We treat it with an antiviral medicine, usually Tamiflu or Relenza,” Dr. Sellmer stated. “It is a five day treatment. We also can use the old generic drugs to help the patient if they have no medical insurance or if their insurance does not cover the Tamiflu or Relenza.”
Dr. Sellmer can even treat family members who are not suffering from the flu but live in a household where someone has been diagnosed.
“If there is household contact we can treat other members of the household as a preventative,” Dr. Sellmer added. “Insurance will cover the preventative treatment. If they (insurance company) will cover for the flu, they will cover for the preventative treatment.”
Nobody wants to suffer from the flu or does not want to see anyone they love suffer from the nasty flu bug. Dr. Sellmer had a quick solution when she was asked what she recommends to help prevent the spread of the flu virus.
“Flu shot. The flu shot done early in the year. You can get the flu shot as early as October or November. The flu shot is worth more than all the hand washing in the world. Hand washing is good to do, but you can’t never wash enough to make up for the flu shot,” Dr. Sellmer explained. “If everyone would get the flu shot, then there would be a herd immunity. You should get vaccinated every year. Someone who has had 15 vaccinations is better than someone who has had one, as long as the one with 15 vaccinations has received the current year flu shot.”
Dr. Sellmer graduated from Jeffersonville High School before attending Medical School at Indiana University. She spent her residency at St. Francis. Dr. Sellmer then spent 17 years in private practice and five years in Emergency Room and Urgent Care in Indianapolis before returning back home to Southern Indiana.
“I tend to like acute care. I like to help people with their lifestyle changes like their chronic problems such as hypertension and diabetes,” Dr. Sellmer stated.
She continued, “I like peds to geriatrics. I like the broad based range of family practice. I couldn’t just look at warts all day or deliver babies all day.”
Dr. Sellmer, a native of Jeffersonville, is ready to help the local community feel better. She has been practicing at Clark Memorial Medical Center- Charlestown since mid November. She is joined at CMH Medical Center- Charlestown by Carrie Hollkamp, FNP- C, Lois Burnett, FNP, C and Barry Taylor, FNP- C.
Clark Memorial Hospital Medical Center- Charlestown is located at 11500 State Road 62 in Charlestown. Same day appointments are available by calling 812-256-0700.
“We try to work people in. Sick visits are easy to get in on the same day,” Dr. Sellmer explained.
Another convenience for the patient is Clark Memorial Hospital Medical Center- Charlestown has electronic medical records.
“The EMR (electronic medical records) system connects you to your specialist. It is patient friendly and convenient,” Dr. Sellmer concluded.
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Crop forecaster Lanworth on Wednesday said it expects U.S. soybean production to rise to 3.465 billion bushels in the 2013/14 crop year, based on average yield of 43.1 bushels per acre.
"Rotation practices, lack of increase in expected corn profitability, and likely planting pace indicate that soybeans could capture a greater share of total corn and soybean area than last year and could see stronger planted area gains than corn in 2013," Lanworth said in a report.
It was Lanworth's first U.S. soybean forecast for the 2013/14 crop year. In the 2012/13 crop year, USDA reported U.S. soybean production was 3.015 billion bushels with an average yield of 39.6 bushels and plantings of 77.2 million acres.
Lanworth trimmed its outlook for U.S. corn production to 13.7 billion bushels, down from 13.8 billion bushels in a report issued two weeks ago, due to small changes to Lanworth's corn plantings outlook.
The forecaster also cut its forecast of U.S. wheat production to 1.910 billion bushels from 1.932 billion.
In South America, Lanworth reduced its expectations for corn and soybean production in Argentina following extreme dry conditions in January and early February.
The company cut its forecast for Argentine soybean production to 49.6 million tonnes from 51.6 million. It lowered its Argentine corn production estimate to 25.0 million tonnes from 25.1 million.
Lanworth raised its forecast for Brazil corn production to 75.8 million tonnes from 75.6 million and its estimate of Brazil soybean production to 81.0 million tonnes from 80.3 million.
The forecaster's estimates of wheat harvest in Russia and Ukraine were left unchanged, at 49.9 million tonnes and 23.0 million, respectively. Its forecast for Kazakhstan wheat production was lowered to 15.5 million tonnes from 16.5 million.
Lanworth is a brand of Thomson Reuters Commodities Research and Forecasts. A Lanworth spokesman said the reported estimates are the midpoints of confidence ranges and are best understood in the context of Lanworth's full report.
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As UC Merced prepares to send its first full graduating class out into the world to make its mark, the university is making sure the Class of 2009’s legacy is never forgotten.
This year’s class of seniors, most of whom started their academic careers here as freshmen when UC Merced first opened its doors in Fall 2005, is very special.
This inaugural class goes by many names; members have been called “founders,” “pioneers,” and even architects. These are the students who recall a time before classrooms, when classes were held in the library with nothing more than sheets separating students from passers-by.
A group of seniors undertook the task of writing a book on UC Merced’s history. Thanks to grant funding, “The Fairy Shrimp Chronicles” will be gifted to each senior participating in Commencement this May.
In an effort to ensure the experiences of graduating seniors are known far and wide, the Office of Communications has been profiling members of the Class of 2009 every week since December.
Now, a local photographer has launched an exhibit showing a different side of these pioneering students. “Transitions: Portraits of UC Merced Founding Students” is the creation of lecturer Roger Wyan.
Wyan, a longtime local photographer, took photos of 200 freshmen shortly after the university opened in 2005. An exhibit of those photos, titled “Transitions” was displayed in the Merced Multicultural Arts Center and even published into a book by Wyan. Wyan returned once again to photograph those same students this year.
The newest exhibit opened on March 19 in the Leo & Dottie Kolligian Library, where it will remain on display until June 18.
Jane Lawrence, vice chancellor for student affairs, credits Wyan for his creativity and ingenuity.
“Roger Wyan’s photographic exhibit encapsulates a very special, inimitable period, both in the history of UC Merced and of these founding students,” she said.
By contrasting the freshman and senior photographs in Transitions, a clear metaphor for the nation’s first research university of the 21st century is evident, Wyan said.
“These pioneering students, having helped set the tone for the new university, have matured. UC Merced, itself once fledgling, has grown up alongside them.”
According to Wyan, the images and interviews from the Transitions project will be added to the Kolligian Library archives, where they can serve to chronicle both an influential phase in the lives of young adults and that of a new university.
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Rodolfo’s death in 1983 caused a major shakeup in the company when he left his 50% stake in Gucci to his son, Maurizio Gucci. Maurizio sought to bury the fighting that had torn the company and his family apart and turned to talent outside of the company for Gucci’s future.He went on to sell his stock in Gucci in 1993 for $170 million to the Bahrain-based investment group, Investcorp. In 1995, a year and a half after the sale of Gucci, he was gunned down by a hired hit man. His ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani was later convicted of arranging the killing.Poor Maurizio...
30 April 2010
Famous Fueds: Gucci vs. Gucci
Even in Gucci’s fledgling years, the family was notorious for its ferocious infighting. Disputes regarding inheritances, stock holdings, and day-to-day operations of the stores often divided the family and led to alliances. Gucci remained one of the premier luxury goods establishments in the world until the late 1970s, when a series of disastrous business decisions and family quarrels brought the company to the verge of bankruptcy. At the time, brothers Aldo and Rodolfo controlled equal 50% shares of the company.
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is celebrating the landmark anniversary of its yearly effort to chart Santa's travels around the world. Each year, the organization pledges to keep a watchful eye on the beloved holiday figure as he navigates his reindeer-powered aircraft across the globe.
The outfit, which is run jointly by the Canadian and U.S. governments, has again set up a Web site to help interested parties follow Santa's voyage. Since 1998, NORAD has provided the online resource, which offers everything from a Santa Cam that captures digital images of the legend as he makes his rounds, to information on each year's honorary Santa tracker. This year's: The Beatles' Ringo Starr.
On Dec. 24, NORAD will employ its North Warning radar system, which features 47 tracking installations strung across Canada's North and Alaska, to monitor Santa's takeoff from the North Pole and follow his flight thereafter. The group relies on satellites located in a geo-synchronous orbit at 22,300 miles above Earth to keep tabs on Santa's ultra-fast aircraft. NORAD said the infrared signature given off by the nose of Santa's lead reindeer, Rudolph, generates a similar footprint to those created by the rockets and missiles the system is designed to follow.
As a precaution, NORAD said it will also deploy jet fighters to protect Santa as he traverses North American airspace. Canadian NORAD fighter pilots, flying the CF-18, will take off from Newfoundland to intercept and welcome Santa as he approaches the continent. In the United States, American NORAD pilots in F-15s and F-16s will assume those duties.
The traditional tracking was launched in 1954 by NORAD's predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), after a misprinted phone number in an advertisement began diverting children's phone calls meant for Santa to CONAD Commander-in-Chief Col. Harry Shoup. After noting Santa's appearance on the group's instruments, Shoup instituted the practice of officially charting Santa's travels each year.
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As if a severe flu season isn’t enough, Maryland is being hit with a new strain of norovirus, sometimes called “stomach flu.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says this strain is highly contagious. It spreads easily in schools, nursing homes and other enclosed areas. This norovirus strain is called the Sydney strain because it started in Australia and has caused outbreaks around the world.
Despite being referred to as stomach flu, norovirus is not really the flu, which is a respiratory infection. Norovirus inflames the stomach and intestines which causes stomach pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. Some people may also have a low-grade fever, chills, headache, body aches and fatigue. These symptoms can show up suddenly from one to three days after you are exposed to the virus.
To avoid infection:
• Wash your hands frequently to stop the viruses from spreading. Help children wash their hands thoroughly.
• Wash fruits and vegetables carefully and cook shellfish before eating.
• Disinfect areas in the home and at work when someone does become sick.
If you do come down with “stomach flu,” you should drink plenty of liquids to avoid dehydration. You should usually feel better after two or three days. See a doctor if your symptoms are severe.
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The Great Teaching Crisis
News that the Tories are trying to target the votes of teachers reminds me to write about the Great Teaching Crisis.
The Great Teaching Crisis was much discussed (particularly in households with at least one teacher) in the mid 90s. Teachers were being placed under increasing strain with more and more admin to do on top of the time spent in the classroom, and no support to help them manage the workload.
University graduates enjoyed much higher salaries and status working in the private sector, and as a result fewer and fewer people were choosing to train as teachers. And a huge proportion of teachers were baby boomers who had entered the profession in the late 60s and early 70s, who would all retire within about 10-15 years, with no one to replace them.
But like the Millennium Bug, the Great Teaching Crisis never happened. Unlike the Millennium Bug, the reason for this was because the Labour government took action and sorted it out.
A survey from 'High Fliers' identified that teaching and journalism are now the two most popular destinations for recent graduates - teaching is a high status option and much more attractive career option than ten or fifteen years ago, with higher pay, adverts on the telly encouraging people to think about becoming teachers and particular schemes for Fast Track teaching and courses for teaching assistants who want to qualify as teachers. Almost every class now has two adults in it - a teaching assistant as well as a teacher, and quite apart from all the other good that teaching assistants do, this has helped reduce the admin burden on teachers. And while there are ongoing problems in some subjects - particularly sciences, no one now thinks that there is likely to be a shortage of teachers overall in the future. They are also more likely to be teaching in recently refurbished buildings and less likely to have to rely on inadequate facilities or temporary and unsuitable classrooms.
This isn't to say that all is perfect for teachers now, many teachers find that they have to quit because of stress, some face physical abuse, and schools vary considerably in what they are like to work in. But life as a teacher would be very much more difficult and stressful if the Tories had been in charge for the past ten years. No politician ever gets credit for avoiding crises, and the irony is that all the new teachers will never know what it was like to have no admin support and little preparation time. But the Great Teaching Crisis shows how determined efforts by a government can boost the status of the public sector, help the people who work for it, and avert a crisis which seemed almost inevitable. And that is a lesson well worth knowing.
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Dining at the President's House
From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
Although Jefferson went to great lengths to keep his public and private lives separate, the periodic dinners he held at the President's House in Washington illustrate a superb talent for using a contrived domestic setting as a tool to gain political ends.
In a penetrating study of political life in Washington during the Jeffersonian period, The Washington Community, 1800-1828, James S. Young described the dinners as one of Jefferson's "power techniques". The only President to give dinners extensively, he had abolished the aristocratic levees which were a hallmark of the Federalist administrations. Considering political distinctions to be important, Jefferson rarely mixed Federalists with Republicans, nor did he invite Cabinet members along with Congressmen. Just as the guest list was planned, so a great deal of attention was given to physical surroundings. To encourage conviviality and discourage a feeling of inequality, a round table was used; to insure privacy, a dumbwaiter was used in place of servants. A French chef, imported wines and Jefferson's informal wardrobe completed the picture. Politics were subtly removed as a province of conversation, and everyone was invited to participate freely in verbal exchanges.
Another recent historian, Claude Bowers, also found the dinners to be useful instruments for "conciliating political opponents" in Jefferson in Power. But, he noted that when Congress was out of session, Jefferson invited members of the local community to share his hospitality. They were not disappointed, for frugality was never in evidence at the President's House. Etienne Lemaire, Jefferson's head of household, estimated that he spent fifty dollars a day on food and wine.
Among other modern historians, Dumas Malone has emphasized the political nature of the dinners in Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805. He pointed out that Jefferson described them as his "winter campaign," as they made life extremely burdensome for him. Occupying a large part of his day, they were usually served at three-thirty and lasted until between six and eight o'clock in the evening.
These writers, of course, based their interpretations of Jefferson's dinners on contemporary accounts, many of which were written by Federalists. In Life of William Plumer, edited by William Plumer, Jr, is included a letter from the senior Plumer, a Federalist from New Hampshire, to his wife. He wrote that he was in a party of "about ten members of Congress" who "dined with the President." They "sat down to the table at four, rose at six, and walked immediately into another room, and drank coffee." Giving Jefferson a rare compliment, Plumer noted that he "had a very good dinner, with a profusion of fruits and sweetmeats. The wine was the best I ever drank, particularly the champagne, which was indeed delicious." But he could not resist aiming a thrust at the President, stating that "I wish his French politics were as good as his French wines; but to me, at least, they have by no means so exquisite a flavor." By remarking that Jefferson never mixed members of different political parties at his dinners, Plumer made a point which has been taken up by modern historians.
A second Federalist who survived Jefferson's cuisine was the Reverend Manasseh Cutler, one of the Ohio Company's leaders. In a letter which was published in volume two of the Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D., edited by William P. and Julia P Cutler, he described a dinner to which he had been invited along with nine other guests. Giving us a rare glimpse of one of Jefferson's menus, Cutler stated that the main course consisted of "rice soup, round of beef, turkey, mutton, ham, loin of veal, cutlet of mutton or veal, fried eggs, fried beef..." and "a pie called macaroni." For dessert there was "Ice-cream very good, crust wholly dried, crumbled into thin flakes; a dish somewhat like a pudding - inside white as milk or curd, very porous and light, covered with creamsauce - very fine." In addition to all of this, Jefferson served "other jimcracks, a variety of fruit, plenty of wines, and good." Cutler noted that the "President" was "social," but commented that the meal was "not as elegant as when we dined before."
A third Federalist who was a frequent guest at Jefferson's table was John Quincy Adams. In volume one of the Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, edited by Charles Francis Adams and published in twelve volumes, there are eight separate references to dinners at the President's House. In November, 1803 Adams and his wife joined "Mr. Madison, his lady, and her sister," along with "Mr. Eppes and Mr. Randolph, Mr. Jefferson's two sons-in-law and both members of the House of Representatives" and nine other guests. Adams recorded that he "came home at about six." The next month he again dined with Jefferson.
It was in November of 1804 that Jefferson and John Quincy Adams dined together once more. In addition to Adams, the guest list included Robert and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, Miss Jennifer and Miss Mouchette, Mr. Brent, Eppes and Randolph, and Mr. Burwell. The main subjects of conversation were wine and the decline of the French Revolution, Adams commenting that Jefferson's "genius is of the old French school. It conceives better than it combines."
Six weeks later, John Quincy Adams again partook of both Jefferson's wine and his genius in company with his wife, Samuel, Robert and William Smith, a Mr. Williams and his two daughters, a Mrs. Hall, a Mrs. Hewes and Aaron Burr. Delighting in Adams, Jefferson told several outrageous stories. The most amusing one concerned a cold spell in France when the thermometer did not rise above twenty degrees below zero for six weeks.
Almost a year later, Adams dined with Jefferson and the Tunisian ambassador and his two secretaries. Among the guests were: Samuel Smith of the Senate, Dr. Logan, Dr. Mitchell, Randolph, Nicholson, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Coles and Mr. Davis. Although dinner was to be served precisely at sunset in order to observe the strictures of Ramadan, the ambassador arrived late and smoked and took snuff before dining.
After a lapse of another year, Adams dined again with the President and a "company" which "consisted altogether of federal members of Congress." Adams found Jefferson "less cheerful than usual," but stated that he "told some of his customary startling stories." The most memorable of Jefferson's tales concerned preparations for his trip to France. Before he sailed, "he had some ripe pears sewed up in tow bags..." Upon returning "six years afterwards he found them in a perfect state of preservation - self-candied." Later in the same year, Adams dined with the President and "a company consisting chiefly of members of Congress." Included were "Messrs. Mitchill, Van Cortlandt, Verplanck, Van Allen, Johnson, Key, Magruder, Taylor, Calhoun, Butler, Thompson, and Eppes." Conversation revolved around wines, the Epicurean philosophy, inventions and agriculture. Three weeks later, Adams made his final reference to dining at the President's House. The guest list included Adams and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Erskine, Mr. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Blount, Mr. Barlow and Mr. Fulton. Among the topics discussed were Anglo-American relations and the effectiveness of torpedoes.
The lone Republican commentator on Jefferson's dinners was Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill, a Senator from New York. In Dr. Mitchill's Letters from Washington: 1801-1813 is included an observation the the President had "generally a company of eight of ten persons to dine with him everyday." The dinners were "neat and plentiful, and no healths are drunk at the table, nor are any toast or sentiments given after dinner." The rules of the house included a maxim that "You drink as you please, and converse at your ease."
Most of the remaining comments on the dinners were supplied by three ladies, two of whom were contemporaries of Jefferson. In her well-known The First Forty Years of Washington Society, Margaret Bayard Smith noted that Jefferson usually entertained approximately a dozen guests, thus allowing free play for general conversation. In her Social Life in the Early Republic, Anne H. Wharton observed that Jefferson went out of his way to ignore diplomatic etiquette at state dinners and thus outraged the European ambassadors, especially Anthony Merry of England. A more recent commentator, Esther Singleton, remarked on Jefferson's extravagance in buying wines in volume one of The Story of the White House. But in a set of statistics more recently used by James S. Young, she discovered that Jefferson purchased less wine each year that he lived at the President's House after 1803 until he spent almost nothing on his cellar in 1808 and 1809. From this she concluded that he had tired of entertaining on a large scale.
The only other original sources relating to dinners at the President's House were written by Britons. In "Caviar Along the Potomac: Sir Augustus John Foster's 'Notes on the United States, 1804-1812,'" which appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly and was written by Margaret B. Tinkcom, Foster reminisced about Jefferson's democratic form of hospitality. While seated at the President's table, a Congressman from Philadelphia whose normal occupation was that of a butcher observed "a leg of mutton of a miserable lean description." He "could not help forgetting the legislator for a few moments," and expressed "the feelings of his profession." He exclaimed that "at his stall no such leg of mutton should ever have found a place." Invited to dine on another occasion, "he took his son the young butcher with him who was a great country lout..." He approached Jefferson and "told him he had heard one of his guests had been taken ill and could not come and therefore he had brought his son with him who was very anxious to see him and would not be in the way as there was he knew, a spare plate."
Another of Foster's anecdotes concerned an "eccentric member from the South." A "Printer and Publisher," he wrote an answer to an invitation from the President, stating that "I won't dine with you because you won't dine with me."
Concerning his own experiences, Foster noted that "President Jefferson's Wines were in general very indifferent though he had a great variety of them, including some Native Juice of the Grape from the Ohio, and some Nebioule from Piedmont..." Jefferson told Foster the "he had often had the back Luck to have his Barrels tapped and Water mixed with the Wine, and sometimes even Salt Water..."
A remaining topic which relates to the dinners at the President's House, but which is primarily political and diplomatic orientation, is Jefferson's dispute with Anthony Merry, Britain's ambassador, over proper etiquette at state dinners. Although this subject has been referred to previously in Social Life in the Early Republic, it is perhaps proper to treat it in more detail. In a letter which he wrote to William Short on January 23, 1804 and which was reprinted in the American Historical Review of July 1928, Jefferson stated that Merry and Yrujo, the Spanish ambassador, wished "to be first conducted to dinner and placed at the head of the table above all other persons, citizens or foreigners..." Asserting that he desired to stress the principal of "equal rights for all," he gave only "private dinners (for of public dinners we have none)." The controversy generated by this novel theory of etiquette has been reported extensively in all of the modern histories of Jefferson's Presidency.
- ↑ This article is based on Jackie Wright, Monticello Research Report, July 2007.
- ↑ Young, James S. The Washington Community, 1800-1828. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1966.
- ↑ Ibid, 167.
- ↑ Ibid, 168-169
- ↑ Ibid, 170.
- ↑ Bowers, Claude G. Jefferson in Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.
- ↑ Ibid, 46.
- ↑ Ibid, 47.
- ↑ Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
- ↑ Ibid, 370.
- ↑ William Plumer, Jr., ed. Life of William Plumer Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857.
- ↑ Ibid, 245-246.
- ↑ William P. and Julia P. Cutler. Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1888.
- ↑ Ibid, 71-72.
- ↑ Charles Francis Adams, ed. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874-77.
- ↑ Ibid, 272.
- ↑ Ibid, 281.
- ↑ Ibid, 316-317.
- ↑ Ibid, 330-331.
- ↑ Ibid, 378.
- ↑ Ibid, 457-58.
- ↑ Ibid, 472-473.
- ↑ Ibid, 480-81.
- ↑ Mitchill, Samuel L.. Dr. Mitchill's Letters from Washington: 1801-1813. New York: Harper, 1879.
- ↑ Ibid, 744.
- ↑ Smith, First Forty Years.
- ↑ Ibid, 29.
- ↑ Wharton, Anne H. Social Life in the Early Republic. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1903.
- ↑ Ibid, [need page ref].
- ↑ Singleton, Esther. The Story of the White House. New York: The McClure Company, 1907.
- ↑ Ibid, 42.
- ↑ Tinkcom, Margaret B. "Caviar Along the Potomac: Sir Augustus John Foster's 'Notes on the United States, 1804-1812,'". WMQ January, 1951.
- ↑ Ibid, 80.
- ↑ Ibid, 80.
- ↑ Ibid, 104.
- ↑ American Historical Review, 33(July 1928): 833.
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Horses are extremely receptive to their human companion’s needs and emotions. The Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program uses this knowledge to give children and adults with disabilities a unique opportunity.
The Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program provides equine-assisted activities for children and adults with disabilities, youth-at-risk, veterans, and their families in an inclusive, community setting. Lessons are taught by Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (PATH) Certified Riding Instructors and riders are assisted by up to three volunteers each, which enables riders to participate in a challenging, physically active sport. Lessons are offered seven days a week and most students ride in groups of two to four, for 45 minutes, once a week. The 45-minute lesson includes mounting and dismounting, the riding session, and sometimes grooming and tacking the horse. Riders improve balance, strength, coordination, confidence, concentration, and self-esteem. In addition, students benefit from social interaction with other students, instructors, and volunteers, cultivating decision-making, speech, and communication skills throughout each lesson.
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Kids Halloween Mask
Here is a great, quick Halloween mask pattern for our readers to get in the spirit of All Hallow's Eve before the rush really hits. Your kids are probably already planning their costumes and perhaps can't even decide what they will be. With the ease of this pattern, you can create several masks for them to 'try on' an idea to help the decision making go faster so you can order your patterns and fabric to get started!
Materials for 1 black cat mask:
1 piece of black eco-felt
Eye Mask pattern from Prudent Baby (reduced to fit your child's face. I reduced mine 20% to 6 in. wide)
1 spool of coordinating thread
Ear Pattern (See PDF download below)
After you have cut out your pattern piece, lay your quilting cotton face down and place your felt on top. Cut out 1 of the mask pattern piece and two ear pieces. Cut out two 4 in. by 12 in. from quilting cotton for mask ties.
Pin your mask pieces together and using a medium zig zag stitch, sew around the bottom of the mask, leaving the sides and top open. Set mask aside.
Assemble your ear by pinning them together and zig zagging around the ears. Place your ear between your mask layers (on above each eye) and pin in place. Repeat for 2nd ear. Zig zag across the top of your mask, set aside.
With right sides together, fold your ties in half lengthwise and sew a ½ in. seam across one short side and down the long side. Repeat for other tie. Trim your corners, turn and press. Insert your ties on either side of the mask in the side openings, pin in place. Zig zag your mask sides.
Trace a spool of thread onto your mask for eye holes. You can gently hold your mask on your child's face to mark the eye hole placement. Choose a spool big enough to accommodate your eyes and you know it will be big enough for your child. Cut out each eye hole, pin around the hole and zig zag around each eye hole. Trim any loose threads as needed.
You can add embroidery details or contrasting thread to highlight your ears. With the quilting cotton lining, you know these masks will be comfy enough for hours of play, giving you much needed quality sewing machine time.
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Managing the Nasal Tip
One of the methods of managing the nasal tip is through rhinoplasty. Dr. Sam Rizk is a highly recognized specialist in nasal tip operations, in which rhinoplasty is performed on the nasal tip to improve the overall structure of the nose. Rhinoplasty of the nasal tip is considered to be one of the most difficult procedures. This surgical process makes the nasal tip look more attractive and improves the appearance of the face.
The restructuring of nasal tip may be required to either remove excess skin from the tip or to fix the broken bones and cartilages. Since the surgery of the nasal tip is a challenging process, an experienced and skilled surgeon must be chosen by the patient. The credentials and credibility of the surgeon must be checked beforehand so that the surgery can be performed successfully and effectively.
There are two approaches that are followed for rhinoplasty of the nasal tip. These are closed and open approach. The closed approach of managing the nasal tip is also called endonasal delivery technique. In this method, no incisions are made to the columella. The nasal cartilages are structured in the right position without the surgeon having to make incisions. This process is advantageous in the sense that it shows effective results. Also, it causes less swelling of the nasal tip after the surgery. It best suits patients who have never had rhinoplasty done before and those who have a soft skin but stiff and strong cartilages.
The open approach is one in which an incision is made across the columella of the nose. Once the incision is made, the skin is separated from the nasal tip. This exposes the bones and the cartilages to the surgeon. The bones and cartilages can then be restructured and repositioned to set the structure of the nose right. This method of rhinoplasty is the easiest to perform and produces reliable and effective results. This approach suits those patients the best who have a thick skin, asymmetrical nasal tips and weak cartilages. Open or external rhinoplasty can sometimes be associated with more prolonged swelling than endonasal rhinoplasty. The advantages of open rhinoplasty is specific to certain revision rhinoplasties where there is extensive scar tissue and where the tip cartilages are weak and need cartilage grafts for support of the nasal tip. Dr. Rizk performs both the open (external) and the endonasal (closed) rhinoplasty in 3D, which is a much more precise method of doing rhinoplasty.
Dr. Rizk points out that since both methods have their advantages and disadvantages, it is difficult to say which method is the best. The selection of the rhinoplasty approach depends upon the type of the nose that a patient has. The success of the method used for the surgery also depends upon the experience of the surgeon performing the operation.
The nasal tip can sometimes be long (overprojected) and Dr. Rizk has various ways on dealing with the long or overprojected tip to bring it closer to the face and upper lip. The nasal tip can sometimes be drooping and is sometimes lifted during the procedure with certain stitches and cartilage reduction to achieve the ideal angle between the tip and the upper lip. This angle should be about 90 degrees in men and 95-105 degrees in women. If the angle is less than 90 degrees, it gives an old appearance to the face and nose.
Once the surgery is performed, it is important that the patient takes extra care. This is necessary because the nasal tip is considered to be a delicate area and if proper care is not taken, the tip might get dislocated or the surgical process may fail to show its affects.
Dr. Rizk explains that for managing the nasal tip, the surgical method of rhinoplasty is one of the best options available. If the first surgery does not succeed, the patient can go in for a revision rhinoplasty. However, this surgical process for the structuring of the nasal tip is an expensive process.
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Interrogation techniques banned in Iraq
About 300 detainees are freed from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
Spc. Jeremy Sivits has given U.S. officials a detailed statement describing instances of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.
An Army investigation is focusing on whether the military intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib encouraged abuse.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military will not use certain prisoner interrogation techniques in Iraq following the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Pentagon officials said Friday.
Among the tactics barred are sleep and sensory deprivation and keeping prisoners in stressful positions for periods of time.
According to the military, none of the tactics -- which required the approval of the commanding general before use -- had been requested in Iraq.
Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, completed a review this week of approved interrogation techniques for detainees in Iraq, in the wake of concern and criticism that they violate the Geneva Conventions, two senior defense officials told CNN Friday.
Seven U.S. soldiers have been charged with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. Three of the soldiers face general courts-martial arraignments Thursday, a session used for felony-level offenses. A fourth soldier faces a special court-martial -- the military equivalent of a civilian misdemeanor court -- on Wednesday.
On Capitol Hill on Thursday, top officials acknowledged some of the techniques under review could violate the Geneva Conventions.
Also Friday, the ranking U.S. military leader in Afghanistan announced changes at the main detainee camp at Bagram.
Lt. Gen. David Barno, who leads the Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan, confirmed he is "in the midst of putting out some new policy guidance" to underscore a mandate of "treating all of our detainees with dignity and respect."
Barno, speaking at a policy forum in Washington, said a newspaper's report of mistreatment of an Afghan police colonel in U.S. custody was the "first indication" he had of any problems among detainees.
He said the new policy guidance is intended to "make sure those rules are enforced across all our operations in Afghanistan." He did not describe any shortcomings the new guidance will address.
U.S. authorities released 293 prisoners Friday from the prison near Baghdad, the first mass prisoner release since images of abuse at the hands of the U.S. military surfaced several weeks ago.
Earlier, officials had said 315 prisoners were freed, but Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said the release of 22 prisoners was delayed.
Kimmitt told reporters Friday that the next prisoner release will be next Friday.
"We anticipate 475 prisoners to be released. Twenty-two prisoners delayed today are expected to be released on May 21st," he said.
Hundreds of Iraqis gathered around the prison after hearing about the imminent prisoner release. The first bus, with about 70 released prisoners, left Abu Ghraib around 9:20 a.m. (1:20 a.m. ET) heading toward Baghdad. The other four buses emerged hours later -- one headed to Fallujah and the other three to Ba'qubah, coalition officials said.
About a week ago, there were about 3,800 prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The new U.S. commander of detention operations in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, said he plans to reduce that number to somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000.
Miller took over for Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who was relieved of duty on January 17, a day after the coalition military announced an investigation into abuse in the prison.
Seven soldiers face criminal charges in the abuse case, and four of them have been formally referred for court-martial. (Full story)
Photos of the abuse have prompted outrage -- particularly in the Arab world -- and led to days of hearings on Capitol Hill.
The Army has been investigating the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib since January, but the case erupted last month when CBS broadcast graphic photographs of American troops posing for photographs with naked, hooded prisoners.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been criticized for not alerting the president and Congress sooner about the pictures.
Lawmakers are focusing on how high up the chain of command culpability for the abuse goes.
While Rumsfeld and other Pentagon officials have described the abuse as an aberration, some lawmakers have suggested in their questions that the military police -- who acted as guards for the prisoners -- may have been taking their cues from military intelligence.
The author of a military report on Abu Ghraib, Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, has also questioned the role of military intelligence at the prison. But he told a Senate panel Tuesday that there were no "direct orders" or written policies that sanctioned the abuse of prisoners.
CNN's Ed Henry, Joe Johns, Ted Barrett and Steve Turnham contributed to this report.
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Oil and Gas Training Course | VideoJennifer Joas | 1/9/2013
Oil and gas exploration can be dangerous work. And if a fire breaks out, you can`t just call 911 and expect rural fire departments to respond within minutes. That`s why the oil industry is embracing this hazard training course.
Bill Wuolu, ND Safety Council Training Consultant - (42:02) "With the remote locations like that, we have to from a safety and emergency management standpoint, we have to train our people and educate them on how to be self sufficient out there," said ND Safety Council Training Consultant Bill Wuolu.
Wuolu is a student in the first class, but plans on teaching it in the future. He says the challenge in the Bakken is training people that have never worked in the oil and gas industry before. "It`s not unintelligent people. It`s people that don`t have the experience or the background. I had a gentleman a couple of months ago who was a pharmacist. And now he`s going to be working out on an oil rig. It doesn`t transition. So we need to have a chance to give them the opportunity to be safe out there,"
Another challenge in the Bakken is how quickly oil rigs need to be set up and torn down, or the frack crews moving in and out.
"You`re doing very complex work in a matter of days. So it`s not like the counterparts in refining or the counterparts in heavy industry where you`ve got months and even years to set up the work environment," said Joan Smith with the Rocky Mountain Community Center.
OSHA hopes this new training course will reduce the number of fatalities in North Dakota, as oil production continues rising.
OSHA worked with the oil and gas industry to develop this new program.
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1770 - Ludwig was born on the 17th of December in Bonngasse 515 (today Bonngasse 20).
1801 - Beethoven began to slowly lose his hearing. He suffered a severe form of tinnitus.
1802 - Wrote the "Heiligenstadt Testament" a suicide letter that was supposed to be for his brother but was never given and later was discovered after his death.
Composed "3rd Symphony" (also "Eroica"), "6th Symphony" (also "Pastoral"), "9th Symphony" (also "Choral"),
"Diabelli Variations", "Kreutzer Sonata", opera "Fidelio"
1806 - Regardless of his deafness Beethoven could still conduct his opera Fidelio and be much annoyed at the inattention to his nuances.
1814 - his last appearances as a player.
1822 - Attempt to conduct proved disastrous.
1824 - His fame in England was often a source of great comfort to him, especially in his last illness, when the London Philharmonic Society, for which the 9th symphony was written and a 10th symphony projected, sent him £100 in advance of the proceeds of a benefit concert which he had begged them to give, being in very straitened circumstances, as he would make no use of the money he had deposited in the bank for his nephew.
He received the freedom of the city, an honor much valued by him. After that time his immediate popularity, as far as new works were concerned, became less eminent, as that of his more easy-going contemporaries began to increase. Yet there was, not only in the emotional power of his earlier works, but also in the known cause of his increasing inability to appear in public, something that awakened the best popular sensibilities; and when his two greatest and most difficult works, the 9th symphony and parts of the Missa Solemnis, were produced at a memorable concert in 1824, the storm of applause was overwhelming, and Beethoven, who was on the platform in order to give the time to the conductor, had to be turned around by one of the singers in order to see it.
1827 - Beethoven had projects for a 10th symphony, music to Goethe's Faust, and (under the stimulus of his newly acquired collection of Handel's works) any amount of choral music, compared to which all his previous compositions would have seemed but a prelude. But he was in bad health; his brother Johann, with whom he had been staying, had not allowed him a fire in his bedroom, and had sent him back to Vienna in an open chaise in vile weather; and the chill which resulted ended in a fatal illness. Within a week of his death Beethoven was still full of his projects. Three days before the end he added a codicil to his will, and saw Schubert, whose music had aroused his keen interest, but was not able to speak to him, though he afterwards spoke of the Philharmonic Society and the English, almost his last words being God bless them.
1827 - He died on 26th of March.
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Gender and Poverty
Memorial Hall, Room 110
Professor Elizabeth Higginbotham
This is a senior seminar for Sociology, Criminal Justice, Black American Studies, Women Studies, and other social science majors. It is necessary that students have a background in the social sciences to do the required course work. You will bring knowledge and skills from other courses into this one, where you will do independent and group work. You are expected to be an active participant in the class. Course assignments involve written work and oral presentations.
In the last two decades we have witnessed increasing levels of inequality in the United States. The new century began as a nation divided between those who have and those who do not have. There is a gap between the rich and the poor that leaves those in the middle profoundly challenged both economically and socially. The people facing poverty in this nation are racially diverse, but disproportionately people of color. Women and children currently make up the majority of those living below and near the poverty line. This course will examine contemporary American poverty and focus on race and gender as fundamental dimensions of inequality. It will explore how recent changes in the labor market and national income distribution policies have increased poverty and hardship. The course will address societal responses to poverty and the nature of entitlement for different populations with attention given to gender and race issues. Social science research on the poor present a variety of questions about current polices and practices. This scholarship offers insights into how poor and working class people see the social system, as well as, how key decision makers view the poor. Group assignments will enable students to learn about critical social programs and their impact on individuals.
In addition to learning structural sources of poverty, this course will give you experience writing in the field, and using the sociological skills that you have learned. Group and individual projects are opportunities to use your research skills and to demonstrate your oral and written command of social science material. Your learning is cumulative. You will expand your knowledge base so that critical questions about poverty and social policy can be more thoroughly addressed. There are different types of writing required in the class to give you opportunities to develop writing skills and explore themes. Doing sociology work involves gathering data and successfully analyzing and interpreting it. The final task is to write your findings and analysis in a format for specific audiences.
Most social scientists write for their colleagues in the field, but one can also write for a broad audience of non-social science colleagues. Sociological material, especially on the topic of poverty, will be of interest to service workers, policy makers, students (both graduate and undergraduate) and the general public. As you write, think carefully about the audience for this specific assignment. While you need to understand sociological concepts, it is necessary to avoid jargon that others cannot understand. Most importantly, you need to learn how to evaluate and write about the research findings of others. As you write, you need to reference your sources. Assignments are designed for you to integrate the readings, and often to do independent research. There are clear guidelines for these tasks. You can use the sociological style, Reference Format for Sociologists, or another system, but you need a style manual to aid your work.
Methods of Instruction
Students must be active participants in the course, sharing responsibility to discuss materials and make presentations based on your own learning. I will lecture, but this course should be preparing you for graduate work, where you will be responsible for discussing the material you read. This course includes group projects to help you learn to work together and develop leadership skills. Presentations involve teaching your classmates what you have discovered. There will be lectures, documentary films, and opportunities to enhance your research skills.
Writing Center: This facility can help you with any part of the writing process. Take your assignments to the Writing Center, the ground floor of Memorial Hall, and be sure to give yourself time to write and review your papers for submission.
As a seminar participant you are expected to be prepared by doing the reading and writing assignments, speaking thoughtfully, and listening to other class members. Regular attendance and active participation in class sessions are essential for your learning and the success of the class. We meet one a week, so attendance is mandatory. After two absences, a medical excuse is required; otherwise points will be deducted from your grade. Students will also lose points for assignments that are over one week late. You are expected to adhere to university policy on honesty. When you work with a group, you should be a responsible participant, doing your fair share, meeting group deadlines, and also listening respectfully to other group members.
Required Texts and Readings
Mimi Abramovitz and Sandra Morgen, Taxes Are a Woman's Issues: Reframing the Debate (New York: Feminist Press, 2006)
William DiFazio, Ordinary Poverty: Food and Cold Storage (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2006)
Deirdre Royster, Race and the e Invisible Hand, (Berkeley: University of California Press 2003)
Ruth Sidel, Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream (Berkeley: University of California Press 2006)
All are available in the University Book Store and also in Morris Library in the Reserve Room. There will be links on the course web page to other readings as well as resources for your reports.
Writing: In addition to a take home final examination, you will write two short essays about the media and three other formal pieces that involve research and reading. There are also four reflective pieces in addition to the letter of introduction, because we must understand and explore our own feelings about poverty and social inequality. These reflective pieces will be evaluated for writing and mastery of the assignments, but not graded. You can get a maximum of 15 points for doing these assignments, while the other 85% of your grade will reflect work that is evaluated for form and content.
All written work is due on the date and at the time announced. You must turn in a hard copy, not an e-mail or attachment. If you miss class, papers can be placed in my mailbox in Smith Hall Room, 321. Late papers will lose one half grade for every late day (i.e., a B paper coming in one day late will get a B-, two days late a C+; three days late, a C and so forth). If you have an emergency or an excused absence, please notify the instructor as soon as possible.
You should keep all graded work returned to you until final grades are submitted. It is possible that a grade could be mis-recorded or lost. Saving your work will verify your grade in such an unlikely event. It is recommended that you keep a backup disk for all work done on a computer for this course; last minute lost computer files are not an excuse for late work.
Students should check their University e-mail on a regular basis for class announcements. If you use something other than a University account, you should arrange to forward your mail to your university e-mail or you will miss these e-mail postings. Written assignments, however, must be submitted as hard copies, not as e-mail attachments.
Below is a listing of the assignments, due dates, and their weight in the overall evaluation.
|September 6||Letter of Introduction to the Course (and photograph)||2 points|
|September 13||Comments on " In This Affluent Society"||2 points|
|September 20||Finding a Job||15%|
|September 27||Media Essay 1||5%|
|October 4||Group Presentations on Federal Social Programs||5%|
|October 11||Papers on Federal Social Programs||15%|
|October 25||Comments on " At the River I Stand"||2 points|
|November 1||Take Home Examination||20%|
|November 8||Comments on "Take It From Me"||3 points|
|November 15||Media Essay 2||5%|
|November 29||Review Essay of Unsung Heroines||20%|
|December 8||Rethinking Poverty||6 points|
Citizens, the State and Changing Social Policies.
Deborah Stone, "Making the Poor Count," The American Prospect, (Issue Date 03.21.94). URL: http://www.prospect.org/web/index.ww and then look in Archives by subject, Poverty and Wealth, or by author to find the Deborah Stone article.
Mark Rank, "As American as Apple Pie: Poverty and Welfare," Contexts (Berkeley), Summer 2003, Vol 2, Issue 3, pg. 41-46 (Available on the Ethnic News Watch database on line via the library databases).
Selections from " New York: A Documentary Film," (Morris Library VHS 7942)
"America's War on Poverty: In This Affluent Society?" (Morris Library VHS 3656, # 1)
These documentaries explore the development and expansion of the social welfare programs in the United States and how it affects relationship between government and its citizens. Think about the development of ideas about government over time and the nature of support for the War on Poverty in the 1960s. What are more contemporary attitudes about the poor?
Due: Letter of Introduction to the Course. Each student will read his/her letter of introduction in class and turn in a copy to the instructor along with a photograph that I can keep.
Distribute Writing Assignment 1 (Finding a Job).
Tax Policy and Economic Inequality in the United States.
Reading : Sandra Morgen, Taxes Are a Woman's Issues: Reframing the Debate. Introduction and Chapters 1-4, pp. 11-92 and Alex Gourevitch, " When Low Wages Don't Add Up," American Prospect, (Issue Date: 07.15.02). URL: < http://www.prospect.org/web/index.ww> and then look in Archives by subject, Poverty and Wealth, or author to find the Alex Gourevitch article.
Documentary Film : "Waging a Living" documentary in (Morris Library DVD 1953)
Assign Groups for Federal Social Programs
Due: Reflections on "In This Affluent Society?"
Changing Views on Poverty and Implications for Citizens.
Readings: Mimi Abramovitz and Sandra Morgen, Taxes Are a Woman's Issues: Chapters 5-7 and the Forum, pp. 93-147; Lisa A. Keister, A Repealing the Estate Tax:" Recipe for More Inequality" Contexts (Berkeley), Winter 2003, Vol 2, Issue 1, pp. 42-49 (Find this journal in the Ethnic News Watch database on line via the library databases). Fred Block, Anne Korteweg, Kerry Woodward, with Zach Schiller and Imrul Mazid, “ The Compassion Gap in American Poverty Policy, ” Contexts (Berkeley), Spring 2006, Vol 5, No. 2, pp. 14-20.
Health and Human Services: 2006 HHS Poverty Guidelines.
Think about the changes in the explanations for poverty, even during the 20th century. How might these explanations be linked to characteristics of the poor? Can you identify social programs that target the poor?
Look over the poverty guidelines and think about how a family might live on these incomes. Think about your own spending habits. Think about the ways that social programs you are researching address poverty.
Group Meetings for Federal Social Programs.
Finding a Job Assignment Due.
Micro and Macro Analysis of the Market Economy: Where Does Poverty Begin?
Readings: William DiFazio, Ordinary Poverty, Chapters 1-6, pp. 1-193.
DiFazio combines both field work and a theoretical analysis to look at why we need social movement to really address poverty. Think about the role of non-profit organizations in service delivery and advocacy for the poor.
Group Meetings for Federal Social Programs.
Media Essay 1 Due.
Reports on Federal Social Programs/ Group Presentation of 12-15 minutes
Documentary Film: Selection from " People Like Us" (VHS 8181), " Tammy's Story" and group exercise and class discussion.
Field Trip: Visit to the Food Bank of Delaware at 14 Garfield Way, Newark, DE. The Food Bank is located in the Delaware Industrial Park, which you enter by turning onto Dawson Drive off of Route 72 (Library Road). It is a right if you are going south on Route 72. Once you enter the park, you make a left on Garfield Way, which is about a half mile down Dawson Drive. The Food Bank will be the second facility on your right. Park on the street or in the lot, but do not park where there are signs for pick up or deliveries. We can car pool to this venue, so plan ahead.
See the web site at < www.fbd.org> for information and directions.
We will have an orientation and tour led by Executive Director, Patricia Beebe. We will learn about the operation, watch a short film about identifying appropriate food and you will work at the Food Bank, perhaps sorting donated food. This facility is a huge warehouse, so it can be cool. Wear warm and comfortable clothing because you will work for most of our time at the Food.
William DiFazio in Ordinary Poverty writes about a soup kitchen and other out reach to the poor. Soup kitchens, food pantries and other charities are part of the non-profit response to increasing inequality. Before the visit to the food bank, read their web page to learn more about the organization and its part in the struggle for economic equality.
Written reports on Federal Social Programs Due. You can turn these into me either at the Food Bank or in my mail box by 4:30 p.m.
Challenging Racial Barriers: Workers Efforts and Social Programs.
Readings: Deirdre Royster, Race and the e Invisible Hand, Chapters 1-2, pp. 1-36 and "Wal-Mart Nation," by Harold Meyerson, American Prospect,
Issue Date: 01.01.04 URL: < http://www.prospect.org/web/index.ww> and then look in Archives by subject, Poverty and Wealth, or author to find the Harold eyerson article.
Earning a living wage has been a goal of many groups. We will look at the struggle of African Americans for a union in Memphis in 1968 and explore contemporary issues around work and racial discrimination.
Documentary Film: " At The River I Stand" (VHS 5231).
Racial Inequality: Still Shaping Life Chances and Choices.
Readings: Deirdre Royster, Race and the Invisible Hand, Chapters 3-8, pp. 37-192 and Cedric Herring, " Is Job Discrimination Dead?" Contexts (Berkeley), Summer 2002, Vol 1, Issue 2, pg. 13-18. (Find the journal in the Ethnic News Watch database on line via the library databases).
Distribute Take Home Examination
Gender and Class.
Readings: Ruth Sidel, Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream, Introduction and Chapters 1-5, pp. 1-134. This study covers women in a range of social class positions, but single motherhood puts many at risk for economic marginality.
Comments on A Take It From Me ” Due.
Conflicting Goals of Social Reform.
Readings: Ruth Sidel, Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream, Chapters 6-8 pp. 135-217 and Peggy Kahn and Valerie Polokow, "' That's Not How I Want to Live': Student Mothers Fight to Stay in School Under Michigan's Welfare-to-Work Regime," “ Shut Out: Low Income Mothers and Higher Education in Post-Welfare America,” edited by Valerie Polokow, Sandra Butler, Luisa Stromer Deprez, and Peggy Kahn (State University of New York Press, 2004): pp. 75-96. These stories are important to explore how policies interact with individuals.
Media Essay # 2 Due.
November 22 No class meeting: Enjoy your Thanksgiving
Poverty and the Next Generation: Implications for Young People in the United States and Around the World.
Documentary Films: “ Girl Trouble ” (VHS 9650). Favela Rising (DVD ).
Due :Review Essay on Sidel's Unsung Heroines.
Poverty and Immigration: Race and Gender Dimensions.
Look at media coverage of immigration and poverty, so that you come ready for a discussion.
Documentary Film: TBA
Due: Rethinking Poverty assignment is due in Professor Higginbotham' s office, Smith 316 or her mailbox in Smith 321 by 4:00 p.m.
GROUND RULES FOR THE COURSE
1. Acknowledge that racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and other institutionalized forms of oppression exist.
2. Acknowledge that one mechanism of institutionalized racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and the like is that we are all systematically misinformed about our own group and about members of other groups. This is true for members of privileged and non-privileged groups.
3. We agree not to blame ourselves or others for the misinformation we have learned, but to accept responsibility for not repeating misinformation after we have learned otherwise.
4. Agree not to "blame victims" for the conditions of their lives.
5. Assume that people--both the groups we study and the members of the class--always do the best they can.
6. Actively pursue information about our own groups and those of others.
7. Share information about our groups with other members of the class, and never demean, devalue, or in any way "put down" people for their experiences.
8. Agree to actively combat the myths and stereotypes about our own groups and other groups so that we can break down the walls which prohibit group cooperation and group gain.
9. Create a safe atmosphere for open discussion. If members of the class may wish to make comments that they do not want repeated outside the classroom, they can preface their remarks with a request that the class agree not to repeat the remarks.
NOTES: These guidelines were initially developed by Lynn Weber, currently the Director of Women's Studies and a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. To read more about the guidelines, see Lynn Weber Cannon, "Fostering Positive Race, Class and Gender Dynamics in the Classroom," Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol 18, Spring/Summer, 1990.
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