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Campus Service Commission
The theme of Concordia's core curriculum is BREW - Becoming Responsibly Engaged in the World. Campus Service Commission has organized a week dedicated to BREW which will engage students in service, leadership and global awareness.
The goal of BREW Week is for faculty, staff, and students to not only gain awareness of issues in today's society, but also transition that awareness into action. Becoming Responsibly Engaged in the campus, greater community, country, and world is done by first learning and then doing. Awareness changes nothing, action does.
BREW Week is November 18-22, 2013.
Check back in September for the 2013 BREW Week schedule. Interested in helping with BREW Week or having your student organization sponsor a BREW Week activity? Email email@example.com.
The themes for each day of BREW Week from 2012 included:
Monday - Intercultural Competence
Sponsored by Intercultural Affairs, Department of Sociology and Campus Entertainment Commission
Tuesday - Sustainability
Sponsored by Student Environmental Alliance
Wednesday - Political Awareness
Sponsored by Student Government Association and Student Association of Social Workers
Thursday - Hunger and Homelessness
Sponsored by Campus Service Commission
Friday - Reflection
Sponsored by Campus Ministry Commission and Better Together
Download the FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS here!
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Day in history for February 11, 2002
- 1852 -- 150 years ago
- The house of Archie Allen, one of the first farmers who came to the Port Byron region, burned Monday morning, Feb. 9, while it was unoccupied. All of Allen's furniture and provisions were lost. The fire is believed to be the work of an incendiary.
- 1877 -- 125 years ago
- The first brick house in Rock Island was built in 1838 by Alderman Sage.
- 1902 -- 100 years ago
- Men of leisure in Edgington have formed a Loafers Club and are having a lot of fun.
- 1927 -- 75 years ago
- Augustana College basketball team defeated Knox, 41-23.
- 1952 -- 50 years ago
- A mid-winter heat wave will descend on the Quad-Cities tomorrow pushing temperatures to near 70, the weather bureau said today. Clouds will accompany the spring-like readings. The low tonight will be near 26. The average yesterday was 43 degrees, some 19 above normal. The high yesterday was 54.
- 1977 -- 25 years ago
- First-place awards in both divisions of the Young Adult Art Talent Contest this year went to two members of the same family. Mari Ann Hannon, took top honors in the high school division and her brother, Tom, won first place in the junior high division. They are son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hannon, RR 5, Geneseo. The winners of first through third places in each division will advance to the district contest, sponsored state-wide by the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.
Back: Available days in February 2002
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Bard and Muse are on a mission to uncover the scarcely-known masterpieces of literature. Each week we will add five books which are not as famous as they should be. Please let us know what you think should be on the list by using the contact form.
Not everything gets its just rewards. If history is written by the victors then literary history is surely written by the commemorated whilst the swathes of the forgotten lurk in the great sea of lost erudition; unseen, unsung, scarcely read.
Literature’s lost heroes, characters, twists and turns number no less than the real-life nearly-men of science, adventure, expedition and war. There are, quite simply, boundless great books which remain practically disclosed to the public forever, barred from ever seeing the light of day, eternally tortured through the punishment of not being read. Nor is this tragedy the work of some unscrupulous publisher keeping such works buried in the vaults of time. Mostly, these lost works appear lost through sheer, nonsensical, unpredictable bad luck- or at least due to a range of reasons nobody really understands. So, are there countless other Macbeth’s and Don Quixote’s surrendered to the cemetary of time, or to coin a phrase from Carlos Ruiz Zafon, the Cemetary of Lost Books? Well, I don’t know, but there are certainly some greats that have been long forgotten.
Ship of Fools by Katherine Ann-Porter may be just one such forlorn castaway. It’s a story of a cruise ship and its eclectic cast of passengers; the voyage becomes a crucible of tension, irrevocably changing each passenger singularly and collectively. Perhaps a director in the future may stumble upon it and turn it into a new Titanic with a mystery twist? And why not, it would surely surpass the countless Agatha Christie mysteries which appear on the box but then again, it not by Agatha Christie. It most ceetainly is however, two things; brilliant and scarcely known. Those same directors might be advised to excavate further, slip upon a stool and crash into another shelf in the Cemetary of Lost Books and topple over Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz, a charming tale of an emigrant Japanese boy who uses his samurai training to extraordinary effect, taking the baseball league by storm.
If they searched even further their lamplight might carry them too an even more lamentable woe. The House of the Spirits by Anabel Allende, should be as famous as A Hundred Years of Solitude, but obviously it isn’t. It is a stunning novel full of the magic realism which brought ….Solitude such acclaim. The tragic tale spans four generations of an aristocratic Chilean family. It is an analogy of Chilean history in the twentieth century- Allende’s own father had
If not in the Cemetery could Waterstone’s be a protectorate of these forgotten books? Well, maybe, but you would have to special order them and to do that you would have to have heard of them in the first place. No mean feat when the title and author has been forgotten. If you are searching though Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson is an essential novel which blurs reality and fiction into a truly stark conclusion- it relates, via strangely scribbled memoirs, the story of a woman battling madness, convinced she is the last creature on earth- the reader never discovers whether this is due to her madness or not.
There are of course many, many, more forgotten and hardly-known books which makes the compiling of a ‘Top Ten Forgotten Books’ list a rather fruitless endeavour. Still, what strikes most personally is that we all surely have a few precious books which we realize we have read and that not many other people have. This, in a strange way, makes us champion these precious books in the same way a small cult film can be championed in the heated conversations of late party’s- ‘you’ve gotta see this film…… well you’ve gotta read this book too..’ perhaps should be our riposte. So, if you have read an obscure, forgotten book you should champion it; resurrect it from its nameless grave.
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The Battle of Balmorra was a major conflict between the Galactic Republic, the Sith Empire, and the people of Balmorra during the Great Galactic War and the period of Cold War that followed. Balmorra was a historically violent, yet ardently independent world that was renowned for its highly developed military manufacturing sector. This reputation, along with the world's strategic positioning, attracted the attention of the Sith upon their return to the known galaxy in 3,681 BBY. Early in their war against the Republic, the Imperials resolved to take control of Balmorra's manufacturing capabilities, and so launched an invasion of the world that killed numerous citizens and displaced hundreds of others as refugees. In response, the Balmorrans organized a resistance group to fight against the invaders and maintain their political independence.
Recognizing the threat posed by a Sith-controlled Balmorra, the Galactic Republic dispatched military and Jedi forces to aid the Balmorran Resistance. Although the relief effort was maintained for a length of time, the continuing war elsewhere in the galaxy forced Republic Military leaders to reassign the units that were fighting on the world. As their allies gradually pulled out of the conflict, the Balmorran freedom fighters were left to battle the Empire largely on their own—a battle that resulted in the Empire gaining control of the planet's industries. Even as the Great Galactic War came to a close with the Treaty of Coruscant, the Resistance continued to fight the Sith, and even did so with the covert aid of an illegally operating Republic contingent. After several years of this guerrilla warfare, the Republic began to once again ramp up its military presence on Balmorra, thereby pushing the limits of the Treaty of Coruscant in an effort to free the world's workers from Sith servitude.
During their invasion of the galaxy the Sith Empire targeted Balmorra for capture due to the planet's reputation as a prolific manufacturer of droids and weaponry. The Galactic Republic committed itself to the defense of Balmorra, as it was a historically loyal world, however the Sith onslaught proved to great to defend against, and Republic forces were gradually withdrawn from the battle. During the initial Sith raid on the planet, a Mirialan droid designer was caught in the cross-fire and killed. Hundreds of Balmorrans were forced from their homes and made into refugees from the war. The Republic unit Havoc Squad and the Jedi KnightAryn Leneer participated in this battle.
Around the time of the Alderaan peace conference, the Republic's Demolitions Squad 419 was captured by Sith forces on the planet. Jedi KnightFortris Gall, who had been formulating their rescue, went ahead with his plan despite the official end of the war with the Treaty of Coruscant. Gall's actions forced the Republic forces under GeneralBuryn to remain on the planet past the deadlines set forth by the Treaty. As a result, the Empire resumed their attack, and the battle was put back into full swing. During the Cold War, the Republic once again built up enough strength to engage the Empire fully on Balmorra, however the people of Balmorra still felt as if they had been abandoned by the Republic during the Great Galactic War.
During the early days of the renewed war, the Republic sent a military force to Balmorra, which had been occupied by the Empire since the first Great Galactic War. Together with the Balmorran Resistance, the Republic was able to force the Empire offworld and reclaim the planet, giving the Republic access to Balmorra's weapons factories. Amongst the Balmorran Resistance members was a Twi'lek named Zenith. When a powerful Jedi Consular that was the third Barsen'thor of the Jedi Order arrived on the planet to assist the Rift Alliance and free the planet from Imperial control to convince the Rift Alliance to join the Republic, Zenith allied with the Barsen'thor and together they journeyed through the planet, slaying Imperial forces everywhere. At last, the duo reached Darth Lachris, the Sith Lord in control of Balmorra. As the governor of Balmorra, Lachris was supported by other Sith and Balmorrans. The Sith Lord Darth Minax, also with Lachris, would suffer the same fate when Lachris was slain by the Barsen'thor. With Lachris, Minax and the Imperial forces destroyed, Balmorra was safe from Imperial power once again.
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The Audubon Center and Sanctuary had such an overwhelming response to its beekeeping workshop last Saturday that it is being offered again Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon.
Bees need to be ordered in January, so the workshop is the time to learn what is needed to start. In the spring, Audubon will offer a beginning beekeeping series to fill in the details
The class will describe the equipment you need to begin a beekeeping operation. It will also present an overview of honeybees and the care they require. The program will lead into a beekeeping series this spring that will walk beekeepers through their first year of beekeeping.
The Audubon Center and Sanctuary is offering its beekeeping workshop again Saturday. Beekeeper Walt Dahlgren is pictured with the Audubon’s bees.
The workshop costs $12 for the public and $10 for Friends of the Nature Center. Class size is limited. Call 569-2345 or email email@example.com for reservations.
Audubon education programs are made possible in part through funding from the Johnson Foundation, the Carnahan Jackson Foundation, the Hultquist Foundation and the Jessie Smith Darrah Fund.
Located at 1600 Riverside Road, one-quarter mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren, the Audubon Center and Sanctuary has more than five miles of maintained trails on a 600-acre wetland preserve. Its three-story building contains a nature store and a collection of live fish, reptiles, and amphibians. One of the most visited exhibits is Liberty, a non-releasable bald eagle.
For more information, call 569-2345 or visit jamestownaudubon.org.
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Are you there? Share your story with CNN iReport.
Medolla, Italy (CNN) -- The death toll from a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in northern Italy rose to 17 after the discovery of another body, officials said Wednesday, as questions were asked about why factory buildings collapsed.
The latest body was found in the rubble of the collapsed factory in the area of Medolla, Italy's civil protection agency said.
The prosecutor's office in the province of Modena, where the quake was centered, opened an investigation Wednesday into the cause of death of the quake victims, many of whom were factory workers.
Investigators will examine how the factories were built and why they couldn't withstand an earthquake of Tuesday's magnitude.
Modena's chief prosecutor, Vito Zincani, told CNN that as modern buildings, they should have remained standing.
Most of the modern structures in the area were not damaged, he said, so the fact that some factories collapsed "shows an anomaly that needs investigation."
The earthquake, which forced thousands of people from their homes, came nine days after a 6.0-magnitude quake struck the same region, killing seven people.
Tuesday's quake, which struck at about 9 a .m. local when many people had begun work, was followed by dozens of aftershocks. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded one of 5.6 magnitude.
Italian ministers met Wednesday morning and decided on several measures to be taken in the aftermath of the quake.
The government declared a state of emergency in the quake area and set June 4 as a national day of mourning, according to a press statement. An extra two-cent tax will also be added to gasoline to help finance the recovery effort, it said.
Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, Prime Minister Mario Monti and the speakers of both Italian houses of parliament on the earthquake met later Wednesday at the presidential palace in Rome to discuss the disaster.
The towns of Mirandola and Cavezzo, northwest of the city of Bologna, were closest to the epicenter, civil protection authorities said.
Witnesses reported on Twitter that Cavezzo was about 70% destroyed. Pictures purportedly from the town, as well as a video stream from Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, show damaged and destroyed buildings.
Churches and historic structures were among the affected buildings.
In the small town of Novi di Modena, a 65-year-old priest died inside his church as he tried to save its statue of the Madonna.
Construction workers who were out surveying the damage in Medolla were emotional as they spoke of their experiences a day earlier.
Mohmammed Mouhalhal told CNN he was at work when the earthquake struck. He and his fellow construction workers now fear for their jobs and their safety, he said.
He said no one could sleep Tuesday night and they stayed outside for fear of further quakes.
Some 50 tremors were felt in the area overnight.
Italian authorities are still assessing the economic impact of the earthquakes on the region, which lies in northern Italy, the heartland of the country's manufacturing industry.
Leaders of agricultural and industrial organizations, speaking to Italian media, have estimated the cost of the disaster at nearly one billion euros.
The Italian daily newspaper Repubblica puts the damage to the biomedical industry in Medolla alone at about €600 million ($751 million).
Many cheese makers are also among those affected.
Stefano Berni, president of the consortium that makes Grana Padano, a hard cheese similar to Parmesan, told CNN that some 350,000 whole cheeses, each weighing 40 kilograms (88 pounds), had been shaken to the ground. No more than 40% of those are likely to be salvageable, he said, leading to estimated losses of €70 million ($88 million).
About 600 cheese producers located in the area north of the earthquake epicenter have suffered damage to their production centers and warehouses, he said. About 50,000 families, including the milk producers and cheese makers, work for the industry.
Other factories and warehouses that have not been damaged by the quake will still suffer losses because they have had to halt production for safety checks.
Geophysicist Antonio Piersanti, of the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, told Corriere della Sera that it was possible more earthquakes could follow in the coming weeks.
The last significant earthquake in this area was in 1571. It was followed by about four years of aftershocks.
CNN's Hada Messia and Ayesha Durgahee contributed to this report.
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What is Recycled Market?
Recycled Market is a unique online venue that encourages buyers and sellers to reduce, reuse, redesign, refashion, rework and recycle as much as possible. We are a global marketplace focused on showcasing stylish handmade and ethically manufactured pieces made from recycled materials. Our aim is to offer a wide range of recycled products, ranging from readjusted clothing, upcycled jewellery, accessories, through to artwork, toys, homewares and gifts, created from recycled or reclaimed material, supplies needed to produce recycled goods, patterns, tutorials, and so much more. Recycled Market showcases independent artisan’s creative, exclusive eco-design.
- Promotes and sells handmade, and ethically manufactured recycled products
- Encourages artisans to utilise recycled materials
- Offers consumers the chance to purchase unique products which are friendly to our planet
“We are constantly bombarded with advertisements encouraging our thirst to spend money on new products, utilising new resources. A consumer can make a difference by choosing to buy environmentally sound products; goods that are created using materials already in circulation” Erica, Recycled Market, 2011
Recycled Market exists to advertise goods made from materials that may otherwise unnecessarily end in landfill. For some facts about consumption and disposal, we would highly recommend watching The Story Of Stuff by Annie Leonard
Who runs Recycled Market?
Recycled Market is run by two people with a passion for recycling and protecting the environment.
Co founders of Recycled Market are Erica and Lester who have both travelled extensively, and have experienced first hand how developing countries and the environment are impacted by our fast-paced consumer driven society.
Lester was raised in a developing country. As a child, he and his friends would entertain themselves through their own imagination and resourcefulness, rather than a constant supply of manufactured toys. Lester's family migrated to Australia just after his 10th birthday. After completing his Australian education, he worked in London, and travelled through Europe, Africa and Asia. He has worked in multi-national organisations, and most recently, a law firm. He has studied photography, and is currently completing a degree in Bachelor of Business Management.
Erica’s working history with a renowned international volunteer organisation ignited her passion and understanding for the environment. In 2010, and 2011 Erica was nominated for an entry into Who’s Who of Australian Women. Who’s Who of Australian Women contains the biographical details and reflections of thousands of notable individuals.
Erica has appeared live on the ABC radio station, discussing a sustainable approach to buying second hand and recycled gifts for Christmas, and appeared on Australian National Television, discussing second-hand fashion and sustainable shopping excursions. Erica has also featured in articles printed in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Erica makes much of her own clothes and gifts from recycled and reclaimed material, and has tapped into an entire community of clever, talented people creating not only beautiful refashioned clothing pieces, but exquisite jewellery, art, homewares, gifts, accessories, and many other objects using materials that are reclaimed, recycled, leftover, discarded, or found.
Erica and Lester could not find an online venue dedicated solely to selling products made from recycled materials, and thus the seed for their online venture was planted
For further information, please contact us via email
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A provocative study this year by Canadian researchers found that women with breast cancer who were deficient in bone-building vitamin D had twice the risk of having their cancer recur or progress over 10 years compared with women who had sufficient levels of the vitamin; the D-deficient patients also had a 73% greater risk of dying from their disease. Current guidelines recommend 200 IU of vitamin D each day for women up to age 50, and progressively more for older women. (Many doctors feel that's too low, however, and say 800 IU daily is better, while the government says taking up to 2,000 IU a day is safe). Still, oncologists are not comfortable prescribing supplements for breast cancer patients. It is unclear how much vitamin D adults really need or whether supplements would have any benefit for women already diagnosed with cancer. Further, most supplements do not contain the vitamin's most potent form, D-3, which is what the body naturally produces when skin is exposed to ultraviolet sunlight. It's also worth noting that women in the Canadian study who had the highest levels of vitamin D also had worse survival rates, which suggests that there may be a limit to the vitamin's value or a dose-specific benefit.
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Starting From Home:
An online retrospective of Dana Claxton
Curated by Tania Willard, Secwepemc Nation
This online retrospective of Dana's work follows the artist's path, weaving together her work, experiences, and ideas. Dana's career spans different mediums, but all her work is rooted in her worldview as a Lakota woman. From installation to performance to single channel video works, her commitment as an artist is to the Aboriginal community. Dana takes her work as an artist into the community through Aboriginal media initiatives like Indigenous Media Arts Group (IMAG), the Independent Aboriginal Screen Producers Association (IASPA), her arts administration, and her curatorial work. Dana's work is as multi-layered as the artist herself-artist, moderator, panelist, arts promoter, supporter, and more. As a curator, I didn't know where to begin so...
I am starting from home.
Starting from grandmothers and ancestors, land and sky, rage and beauty, Dana Claxton weaves images, sounds, and ideas together with a sense of balance, subversion, and hope. Dana's work is situated in place, remembering, and history, bringing these elements together in surreal homages and explorations. Dana's work is part of a journey-the journey of identity of self and Nation (both Indigenous nations and Canadian Nationhood), the journey of history, and the journey of the spirit.
Dana is of Hunkpapa Lakota ancestry; her heritage is linked to an important historical injustice spanning the US and Canadian colonial borders: the migration of Sitting Bull and his people to Canada. The effects of colonization, discrimination, and systemic racism on Aboriginal people and on the artist's own family history fueled her early work. In an early single-channel video work, I Want to Know Why (1994), Dana screams, "I want to know why!" In her cry for answers, the injustice and colonial foundation of Canada and the US is revealed within the personal tragedy of her mother's and maternal grandmother's early deaths and her great grandmother's migration to Canada. Dana frames the suffering of her grandmothers and her mother within the context of Canadian colonialism and the injustice of American history.
Dana's great-great grandmother fled the US, her homeland, during a heightened period of American imperialism and Indian wars. Citing the mass hanging of Dakota men in Minnesota, still one of the largest mass hangings in the US, Dana says, "When the people saw that-if you can imagine seeing 39 men being hung-you just knew it was no longer safe for you and your homeland." In Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, a 2003 four-channel video installation, Dana traces the history of the resulting Lakota and Sioux settlements in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Dana's family reserve in Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan is an area of Lakota settlement; her family traces its roots to the migration of Sitting Bull and Dana's great-great grandmother's journey. In discussing the amount of research needed to create Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, Dana comments on the way many Aboriginal artists become historians in some capacity, uncovering the truths of Aboriginal experience that are buried under layers of colonial histories.
Dana is careful to point out that although this injustice has fueled much of her work, the beauty of Lakota culture and teachings are equally a part of her work, another layer. In Landscape #1 (2004), Dana subverts the Canadian tradition of landscape painting by Indianizing her relationship to it and by bringing a new understanding to the land, creating a decolonized landscape. In Landscape we see the land, home, and place through the artist's eyes in which the plains and the sky have a power in their starkness. This starkness-the minimalism of the plains landscape-is echoed within Dana's aesthetic: the poetically stark sets she uses and the attention to space in her works bear a resemblance to this landscape of home.
In Lakota culture there are sky teachings, and for Dana the plains' sky is an influence in her work. In an interview with the artist, she talks about Lakota teaching: "I have been taught through Lakota teachings and spiritual teachings that it's all about the sky. It's all about how the sky will tell you everything that you need to know. It's about watching and pondering, and about how the sky will show you things." Dana interprets the sky in her works in the sense that the sky shows us the intangible-ideas and inspirations, a sense of the sacred. In her surreal approach, Dana's works act like the clouds in the sky, shifting to show us new things, new layers and images-endlessly.
Dana also talks about the Western influences she grew up with, such as the surrealist black-and-white movies of the 40's that are echoed in her early work. However, Dana's surrealism is also grown from culture and poetry, as in The Red Paper (1996), where an all-Aboriginal cast mimics Elizabethan dialogue. Red Paper is a turning of the tables, and in this cultural shift the barbarity and oppressive legacy of colonialism is revealed. The unique brand of surrealism evident in Dana's work (e.g. 10, The People Dance, and The Heart of Everything That Is) is loaded with cultural signifiers and with the politics of decolonization.
This political focus is apparent as a thread running through Dana's career. Within the works of beauty and the works of rage there is always a passion for justice. In the 2004 four-channel installation Rattle, Dana talks about the subversive nature of the piece in its depiction of beading. Flanking the rattle, the visual prayer, are examples of beadwork. Dana says that this was a subversive act: She took beadwork, relegated to craft and museum, and blew it up to flood the gallery walls with the beauty of beading, reclaiming the gallery space for Aboriginal art expressions. These subversive acts can be seen in the way that Dana breaks down the language of art in Waterspeak (2002). Here Dana has left behind artspeak to explore waterspeak.
A more visceral sense of the political act in Dana's work is seen in her 1997 performance and installation, Buffalo Bone China. In the performance Dana smashes pieces of China and later makes four bundles and places them in a sanctified circle while an experimental video of buffalo plays. Feeling the loss of the buffalo, the backbone of Plains spirituality and sustenance, the artist uses a rubber mallet to destroy plates and bowls. The breaking of the china refers to the use of buffalo bones in the making of bone china during the period of exploitation and decimation of the buffalo. This rage can be seen to ebb and flow in Dana's work. For example, in the 1999 performance Ablakela, Dana explores the sacred, creating a calm before the storm in the wake of millennial anxiety. However, works like Ablakela are still political in the way they subvert dominant Western ideas and art traditions. In Ablakela, Dana projects the images of offerings: a feather, a rock, bear grass, and the calm reflected in the peyote healing songs sung by Native American Church singers Primeaux and Mike. This calm stands in protest to the anxiety, the pace, and the ways of Western society.
In an interview with the artist, Dana states, "Once an angry Indian always an angry Indian!", followed by a hearty laugh shared between the artist and interviewer. Our laughter, our cultures, and our spirituality are our survival and this survival becomes another layer, another part of the journey in Dana's work. Her practice chronicles these histories-the personal and the political-in a way no textbook can ever retell these stories. She tells these stories with heart and spirit, bringing these histories to life, relating them to her own family and journey. "I'm influenced by my own experience as a Lakota woman, a Canadian, a mixed-blood Canadian, and my own relationship to the natural and supernatural world. That whole bundle of experiences goes in to the artwork. I think that's where the multi-layering comes in, because I've had a very multi-layered life."
Tania Willard, Curator
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Why pick one gigantic, ugly fish when you can pick three? First up is the rarely seen oarfish, an eel that is the Guinness Book of World Records holder as the longest bony fish in the world. Oarfish really a family of several species can grow to as long as 56 ft. in length. While they usually live in deep water, they can sometimes float to the surface when dying a habit that's caused them to be mistaken for mythical sea serpents. The Brazilian arapaima is the biggest freshwater fish on the planet they can reach 14 ft. and tip the scales at more than 400 lbs. Unfortunately for their survival, arapaima are also very tasty the species is threatened by overfishing. That's not something the very nasty giant snakehead has to worry about, though. The Southeast Asian river fish is pretty big, but it's also extremely aggressive, attacking anything that might threaten its young including human beings. The snakehead can walk on land with its soft pectoral fins, and even breathe air for a little while. Don't make one mad it will find you.
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Employing technology to fight one of the world’s deadliest diseases, Microsoft Research India has developed a biometric monitoring system that utilizes a fingerprint reader to ensure patients meet with their healthcare workers to receive the medication they need. Addressing a gap in treatment completion, this technology is responding to one of the most pressing problems in tuberculosis (TB) treatment.
Join us for a special viewing of a new documentary that showcases the impact that this award-winning solution has had on the battle against tuberculosis (TB). Hear from the lead Microsoft researcher and MIT alum, Bill Thies, about the technology solutions that he and his team are delivering to help combat TB and other healthcare crises around the world.
Monday, December 3 from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
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Check out the full event details and register here. See you on Monday!
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RUTHERFORD CALHOUN is one of those rapscallions who have enlivened American literature since Huck Finn decided civilization made him itch, and lit out for the territories. Calhoun is a ne'er-do-well who instead of going down a river on a raft stowed away on a ship to escape the twin horrors of debts and marriage. The ship turned out to be bound for Africa to collect cargo: slaves. And Calhoun is black.
So is his creator, Charles Johnson, who teaches at the University of Washington and has written, without setting out to do so, an emancipation proclamation for black writers. It is his novel ''Middle Passage,'' winner of the National Book Award. It is an example of triumphant individualism, on the part of both Calhoun and Mr. Johnson.
Calhoun is a freed slave from southern Illinois whose former master assuaged his guilt by tamping great gobs of learning into Calhoun. Calhoun arrived in New Orleans around 1830 speaking like Spinoza but determined not to be ''a credit to his race,'' a phrase that made him gag. He lived for pleasures, particularly the thrill of theft, until forced to choose either domesticity or punishment by a frightening creditor. Instead, he went to sea, a free black on the crew of a ship bringing slaves to American investors, one of whom was black. Mr. Johnson wants you to know that black experiences have been various.
''Middle Passage'' reflects Mr. Johnson's years of research in the literature of the sea and the hair-raising facts of slavery. The verisimilitude about the smells, sanitation and diseases aboard ship includes details about the captain, who is a ''tight packer'' (of slaves; Mr. Johnson explains how it was done). When a slave died in transit, the captain would cut off the ears to verify to the investor that the victim had been aboard.
In opaque remarks opaquely reported, a National Book Award juror suggested that the politics of ideology and ethnic entitlements, a poison in the teaching of literature nowadays, had seeped into the NBA process. But in felicitous remarks made when accepting the award, Mr. Johnson made clear what his novel itself makes clear: The ''message'' of the book is the absence of the sort of ''message'' that stultifies art.
Mr. Johnson noted that he is the first black male to win the award since Ralph Ellison won in 1953 for ''Invisible Man.'' Mr. Ellison's aim, says Mr. Johnson, was creation of ''a black American personality as complex, as multi-sided and synthetic as the American society that produced it.''
A black literature of protest, stressing victimization, appeared about three decades ago. It was, says Mr. Johnson, inevitable and important -- and limiting. Literature, he says, should be a form of discovery. A writer should not know in advance what, or at least all of what, he is going to say. Literature that is an extension of an ideology, that is didactic to the point of preachiness, lacks the power to change the reader's perceptions as the writer's perceptions change. A serious writer ought to be not only surprising, but himself surprised.
In ''Invisible Man'' (perhaps the finest American novel since ''The Great Gatsby''), Ralph Ellison made vivid how blacks are made ''invisible'' where racial perceptions obliterate perceptions of individuality. That is what white America did to black Americans.
But there is a form of suffocation that blacks can inflict upon themselves. It is to insist on a literature of orthodoxy, a literature of protest which insists on group consciousness. Against this, Mr. Ellison was adamant: ''Our task is that of making ourselves individuals.''
Calhoun learns from his voyage, and especially from his encounter with the dignified but inaccessible (to him) culture of the slaves. He learns that he is a Yankee sailor.
A white crew member tells Calhoun: The slaves, too, are black, but they are not like you. Crew members call him Illinois, and by the end of the novel Calhoun knows that somewhere in America, perhaps Illinois, is home. The novel is about -- quietly about -- patriotism.
''If,'' Calhoun muses, ''this weird, upside-down caricature of a country called America, if this land of refugees and former indentured servants, religious heretics and half-breeds, whoresons and fugitives -- this caldron of mongrels from all points of the compass -- was all I could rightly call home, then aye: I was of it. There, as I lay weakened from bleeding, was where I wanted to be.''
Mr. Johnson anticipates in the 1990s a black fiction ''of increasing intellectual and artistic generosity, one that enables us as a people -- as a culture -- to move from narrow complaint to broad celebration.'' I think he means celebration of the possibilities of American individualism. I know that his novel, and the award, are reasons for celebration.
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Check Efficiency Of Daily Operations
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Today's tip is to look at the day-to-day operations of your facility to find greater energy efficiency. Changes such as improving BAS/EMS programming and aligning operating schedules with need can ensure their buildings are being run in the most efficient manner possible.
Allan Skodowski, senior vice president, LEED and sustainability, Transwestern, says that when Transwestern audited the poor energy use of a suburban Milwaukee school, it didn't take long to find a big problem: more than 250 horsepower worth of fans running after hours due to incorrect programming. "That change alone has taken them from a (Energy Star rating of) 55 to an 83," Skodowski says. "They're going to save about $40,000 this year in energy."
Another good starting point is looking at the use of basic building machinery before trying to dig deep into set points or strict lighting schedules, says Rafael Mendez, building manager, General Services Administration. Mendez's building, the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr., U.S. Courthouse in Miami, has cut more than $1 million in energy costs.
"One of the things I noticed first was we have three escalators from the lobby to the fifth floor," Mendez says. "We had them operating most of the day and they weren't heavily used." The escalator schedule has been revised to run from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Keeping a close eye on usage by examining utility bills can also help spot problems. Brenna Walraven, managing director, USAA Real Estate Co., experienced this when one of USAA's buildings was using a baffling amount of energy, yet the energy management system showed nothing wrong.
"What was happening is there were several faulty relays, so the EMS would send out 'turned off' signals. In actuality the building was running nonstop," she says. "It literally cost about a couple hundred bucks to replace those and saved us about 10 percent." "The building systems will be dumbed down to the level of the least-trained person who works on those systems," says Wayne Robertson, president, Energy Ace. "You need to accompany that building automation system with training."
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Studying Undiagnosed Celiac Disease
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You may have noticed an increased number of grocery stores that offer gluten-free products. But do you know why?
Hi, I’m Dr. Griffin Rodgers, bringing you Healthy Moments from the NIH. I’m the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
About 1% of the U.S. population has celiac disease, and a study that our Institute supported showed that undiagnosed celiac disease has increased dramatically over the last 50 years.
When a person has celiac disease, they cannot tolerate gluten, a protein in wheat, rye, and barley. It can damage their small intestines and interfere with food absorption. Untreated, patients can develop numerous complications including osteoporosis and anemia.
The good news is, celiac disease can be diagnosed and treated by eliminating gluten.
For more information, visit our website at NIDDK or MyMajicDC.com . This is Dr. Griffin Rodgers. Join me next week for more Healthy Moments.
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A drug delivery patch can be time activated, and some of the more complex ones require batteries within to keep them running. Well, things run (pun not intended) a little bit differently with what a couple of Purdue University researchers have come up with – a small pump that is powered by fermentation. This technology could eventually snake its way into transdermal drug patches which are capable of delivering drugs from an internal reservoir in a controlled manner. The pump itself will rely on a combination of sugar and yeast alongside water to generate carbon dioxide, thanks to heat from the patient’s body. Accumulated CO2 will create pressure within, resulting in the required amount of energy for squeezing a drug sack that is located on top of the fermentation chamber.
Well, this certainly sounds like a medical development not to be trifled with. After all, who knows, you might actually be your very own walking beer factory if you have a large scale model of this hanging off your back. I jest here, but who knows the future, really?
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- In a virtual preview of Sunday's AFC Championship game, students from Renee DeRosier's Cumberland High School personal finance class scored a win for the New England Patriots and their financial futures by playing a video game today.
About 30 students joined Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis in the school's Transition Center to play "Financial Football." The free NFL-themed video game lets players score touchdowns for their favorite team by answering questions on topics ranging from understanding debt to saving for college.
Led by Team Captain Steven Towner, the students carried the Pats to a 26-0 win over the Baltimore Ravens, New England's real-life opponent in Sunday evening's match-up.
The demonstration kicked of a campaign from the Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition and Mollis to encourage Rhode Islanders to use the on-line game to become financially savvy. Jump$tart just named Mollis its honorary coach in Rhode Island.
"We're proud to be involved with NFL 'Financial Football.' This is the perfect time to capitalize on Patriots' playoff fever to promote financial literacy. This game turns important lessons about money management into a fun family activity," said Mollis
Every win for the virtual Patriots is recorded on the game's national leader board. New England is currently number one in the nation.
"Play this on-line game to support the Pats and promote financial literacy. Keep the Pats on top in the poll while you learn more about protecting yourself against financial pitfalls," said Mollis.
He told the students that they have a big stake in financial literacy, Recent graduates of Rhode Island colleges carried an average student loan debt of $29,000, fourth highest in the country, according to a report by the Project on Student Debt.
Cumberland High School Principal Alan Tenreiro, who introduced Mollis at the event, took the opportunity to express intentions to further implement personal financial education school-wide; "Renee DeRosier is doing an outstanding job preparing her students for their financial futures. We are currently developing strategies that will allow her lessons to reach more students at Cumberland."
In addition to the web-based game, "Financial Football" is also available as a free iPhone app on iTunes as well as an optimized iPad version.
"Financial Football," also posted at www.rhodeisland.financialfootball.com, is an NFL-themed, educational game created by Visa Inc., in partnership with the NFL and the NFL PLAYERS that rewards players as they compete for their favorite team, with first-downs and touchdowns as rewards for correct answers to personal financial questions.
Rhode Island promotions are headed up by Mollis and the Jump$tart Coalition, which recently launched a "Personal Financial Playoffs" campaign to encourage Patriots fans to keep New England on top of the national rankings, which will remain in flux through the Super Bowl.
"All Patriots' nation is encouraged to play for the Pats as an educational expression of support for our home team. Please play early and play often," according to Jim Hedemark executive director of the Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition.
On partnering with Mollis to promote "Financial Football" in Rhode Island, Hedemark explains, "Like the longtime Pats fan who wore the old logo, Ralph Mollis was a promoter of personal financial education before it became politically popular to do so. Since 2005, he has been a cheerleader for the Coalition's efforts. We're proud that he's quarterbacking this campaign."
The centerpiece of Visa's nationwide educational initiative with the NFL and NFL PLAYERS, "Financial Football" helps students and adults tackle their financial futures. The game is part of Practical Money Skills for Life, a free, award-winning financial education program that reaches millions of people around the world each year.
The Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition first kicked off the Ocean State's Financial Football campaign in 2007 with Visa, Wes Welker and Dan Koppen of the New England Patriots at a special press conference in the Patriots' locker room at Gillette Stadium.
According to Hedemark, "This free financial literacy educational tool has been received with equal enthusiasm in sixth-grade classrooms and CPA conferences for over five years in Rhode Island." He continues, "'Financial Football' doesn't profess to 'solve' or 'cure' financial education goals. Instead, it does what we at the Coalition hope for. It motivates people in a fun way to pursue further exploration of personal finance."
The Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition is a nonprofit organization comprised of academic, business, civic and labor leaders founded in May 2004 with the purpose of increasing the personal financial capabilities of the people of the Ocean State. For more information, visit www.rijumpstart.org.
Secretary of State Mollis is committed to making it easier to vote, making it easier to do business in Rhode Island and making government more open and accessible. For more information about the programs and services the Secretary of State offers Rhode Islanders, visit sos.ri.gov.
MEDIA CONTACT: Chris Barnett at 222-4294 # # #
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“I was nursed and fed with a love of glory,” Mary Shelley wrote of her childhood. She was positive about the beginning of her life, unlike the end of it. She was born on August 30th 1797, in the eighth year of the French Revolution. She had remarkable parents and her father treated her as an individual and very special. Mary’s mother was a famous feminist named Mary Wollstonecraft. Tragically, Mary Wollstonecraft passed away when Shelley was only 11 days old. Her father, William Godwin, was a philosopher and novelist as well. Almost every day she would go on a walk with her father to her mother’s grave in St. Pancras churchyard. There, she was taught to spell her name by tracing her mother’s inscription on stone.
From infancy, Mary was treated as a unique individual with remarkable parents, although, she was faced with conflicts between her parents. She protected her mother from her father’s drunken abuse and was offended by her oldest brother’s favored position. She was a passionate, demanding, generous girl with beautiful auburn hair. She seized every opportunity to enlarge her limited formal education. High expectations were placed on her potential and she was treated as if she were born beneath a lucky star. Godwin was convinced that babies are born with a potential waiting to be developed. From an early age famous philosophers, writers, and poets surrounded her:
Mary Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever, or childbirth fever, 10 days after giving birth to Mary Shelley on... [continues]
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While "partying" can mean just hangin' with your crew, it often includes drinking. Here are some sobering stats—and stories—about teens and alcohol.
When Rochelle L. was 13, she'd never felt so much pressure on her—pressure to keep a straight-A average, pressure to look cool, pressure to fit in. So one afternoon, when Rochelle watched her older sister and a friend having a blast getting bombed on vodka, she joined in. From that day on, Rochelle drank every weekend—even by herself. After numerous visits to rehab and seven visits to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, she is now, at age 16, a recovering alcoholic.
Rochelle is far from alone. In fact, for the first time in history, teen girls drink more than boys. Almost 40 percent of ninth-grade girls have had a drink in the past month vs. only 34 percent of boys. And a whopping 45 percent of high-school girls drink alcohol. Even more frightening is the fact that girls are binge drinking (drinking till they drop) more than boys—21 percent of girls vs. 18.8 percent of boys.
And they're doing it without realizing the dangers. More than 40 percent of teens who drink before age 15 will become alcohol-dependent at some point in their lives. Add to that the super-high risk of unprotected sex, brain damage and drunk driving, and you wonder: Why are girls doing this?
WHY GIRLS DRINK
There's no one reason teen girls drink, but the most common is to be accepted by peers. "Most girls feel they don't fit in—they're too tall, too small, too skinny, too fat. Their self-esteem plummets in junior high, more so than boys," says Janice Styer, therapist at the Caron Foundation, an alcohol treatment clinic in Wernersville, Pa.
Fitting in was the main reason Julie T., now 19, started drinking. "At 14, I was drinking with friends on the weekends. I found, with alcohol, I could communicate better and feel at ease with other kids. I made tons of friends since everyone thought I was this cool “party girl.'"
But Julie went from drinking every weekend until she passed out to ditching school every day so she could drink at home all afternoon. As a result, she went from being a gifted student to failing every class in 11th grade. Julie is currently in a halfway house after going through rehab three times.
So aside from wanting to fit in, what are the main reasons girls are choosing to drink like there's no tomorrow?
* They want equality. "Girls have always felt like the weaker sex so now they want to show guys that they aren't—even if it's by drinking them under the table!" Explains Styer.
* They're stressed out. When the going gets rough, some people run away instead of facing up. Teen girls have a ton of pressure on them, so they often turn to alcohol to "feel good."
* They want to be accepted. If other kids are drinking, they'll do it just to be part of the group.
* They're bored. "Their parents are working harder and are often divorced, so kids have a lot of time alone at home. But since they're used to constant stimulation, alcohol is another way to fill up that time," says Styer.
* Their parents do it. Teens think, 'It couldn't be that bad if they're doing it.’ But kids from families with addictive behavior have a genetic predisposition to very quickly become alcoholics.
* They're rebelling. The teen years are usually the time when kids really want to break loose from their parents and make it known that they can be independent.
Believe it or not, teen girls are far more likely to drink than to smoke cigarettes or marijuana (only 11 percent of teens have smoked pot by ninth grade)—and not just because it's easier to get.
Dr. Elaine Leader, executive director of Teen Line (a 24/7 help hotline for teens) says kids seem to think alcohol is no biggie compared to other drugs. "It's legal—although, not to them. And, to make matters worse, they see rock stars and actors who come through their drinking problems and remain big stars."
But it is. Just how dangerous? Here are the main reasons, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, drinking is a major risk—especially to teens:
* It's more likely to kill than all illegal drugs combined.
* The likelihood off unprotected sex is extremely high. That increases the chances of getting pregnant or getting a sexually transmitted disease, including AIDS.
* Alcohol greatly increases the chance of suicide when it is used by an already stressed-out or depressed teen.
* Drinking kills brain cells permanently, so it can lead to memory loss or even severe brain damage.
Statistics are one thing, but real experience can be a wakeup call.
Rochelle has her own horror stories about binge drinking. "When I was 15, I ditched school with my friend, and we went to this rock star's house in a nearby beach town. I ended up blacking out—for six days. I barely remember anything I did, except that my friend and I almost got killed while she was driving drunk! When my parents finally found me, they immediately sent me to a treatment center for 47 days. Now, I go to Visions Adolescent Treatment Center in Malibu, Calif., for weekly meetings, and they totally saved my life. I've been sober for 120 days now."
But the consequences of drinking can be even worse—if that's possible—as they were for Julie when she hit bottom at 16. "I blacked out at a stranger's house and, two days later, I woke up to my mom's voice. She took me home, where I tore apart the house looking for alcohol. When I couldn't find anything to drink, I totally freaked out and slit my wrists. While the blood was pouring out of me, I cried out for my mom because I really didn't want to die. My mom immediately took me to the emergency room for stitches and gave me two choices: I had to go to rehab or to a mental institution. I chose rehab."
KICK THE PARTY-HARDY TRAP
To Rochelle and Julie, kicking the habit seemed a near impossibility. But they did it. And the best start, explains Dr. Leader, is to "talk to anyone you trust—a parent, a sibling, a minister, a coach. Or call Teen Line. If the situation is serious, you may have to go to a rehab for chemical dependency. But there are also free and totally anonymous programs, like Alcoholics Anonymous, and you can attend their meetings anytime without having to tell anyone."
THE BOTTOM LINE
Sure, your teen years are for having fun and partying with friends—once you've finished the homework and chores, of course. But who says "partying" is drinking? It's really about spending time with friends, laughing, swapping stories and being your totally crazy, beautiful self. Alcohol not included.
HOW TO SAY 'NO' WITHOUT LOOKING LIKE A DORK
The surest way to avoid drinking is to stay away from situations where you know people will be partying. But, sometimes, despite your best intentions, alcohol shows up where you least expect it. Here's how to deal....
If someone pressures you to drink, keep repeating, "No, thanks" over and over. Usually, they'll get so bored, they'll stop asking.
If they do keep pounding away, cut off the conversation by saying something like, "Hey, look who's here!" while pointing across the room, and then just walk away.
Often, people will put on the heat by trying to get you to answer questions just to get you to cave in, like, "What are you afraid of?" or "What's the matter—Mommy won't let you drink?" Just laugh and ignore them. If you defend yourself—which you don't need to do when you believe what you're doing is right—you'll get nowhere.
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The Billion-Dollar Domain Babies
A plan by ICANN to open op the domain name system to new suffixes creates opportunities for companies to build and strengthen their brand identities. While the cost to create a domain would be as much as half a million, it's a drop in the marketing bucket, writes branding expert Naseem Javed.
The latest ICANN plan to allow the global populace to assemble an entire domain name like www.yourname.yourname as their free choice is a revolutionary and timely decision. This now opens doors to cyber-brands like "my.ibm," "hotel.chicago," "it.jobs," "play.poker," "fly.usa" or "go.dell." Applicants will submit a non-refundable fee of US$100,000 to $500,000 for each name idea, and businesses are already jumping to get started.
A new study estimates that this new registration process would create $33 billion in fees in the first three years. The prime beneficiary will be ICANN, which operates as a not-for-profit organization, but it still would have to deliver a highly structured, high-speed service and meet global needs.
Other big recipients will be the worldwide domain registrars and highly specialized experts and lawyers, while the cascading revenues will go to IT and Web support organizations. The public at large will become the real beneficiaries, as a billion new users will come online, millions of new interactive gateways will open and thousands of new global brands will emerge.
This will have a global impact and bring a new face to global e-commerce. The study also points out how in countries around the world, new national clubs of overnight billion-dollar domain name owners will emerge, all fueling the new global race.
In contrast to the nickel-and-dime registration fees and fighting over domain names, this mature approach will alter the domain name perceptions for the global business community, as by and large, domain names have been the most grossly overlooked aspect of a name identity, assumed to be only handled by junior programmers and Web designers. The new registration process has built-in controls -- gone will be the days when billion-dollar businesses were on their hands and knees when some kid squatted on their domain names for peanuts and had the capability to pull the corporate strings. In those earlier days, at $70 per domain name, up to a million names per day were being registered. The success was so huge that VeriSign ended up being sold for $22 billion.
This latest approach allows great ideas to catapult into overnight global-cyber-name-brands of extraordinary proportions, yet the game must be played fairly and with proper registration while accommodating all the trademark issues. However, the businesses will have to deploy smart and professional strategies with a commanding knowledge of global corporate nomenclature and cyber name identity ownership.
The logo design-driven methods of the previous century are rapidly being replaced by name identity-driven cyberspace. Names like the ultimate flag carriers of the brand will skate around the world and tap the right customers, using the latest online multimedia-searching and cyber-branding tools, and this rule of owning a perfect name with a perfect suffix will propel a brand to new heights overnight.
After years of research, a study by ABC Namebank, titled "The New-Name-Economy & 2010 Cyber Branding Strategies" finds there are already some 18,700 companies in the world today that will apply under this new policy, either by choice or forced by competitive elements to secure layers around their existing brand name identity. Based on their huge budgets, the suggested fee of $100,000 to $500,000 is easily affordable.
Already, most big companies are either spending millions pushing poorly crafted names or spending millions on defending hit-and-run squatters.
The Second Layer
According to this study, there is also a huge second layer of applicants, where some 1.1 million businesses representing the big commercial interests from all the countries of the world that will enter this arena. These organizations basically have no choice but to fully embrace the new model, as the performance of their current and existing name identities are already seriously questionable. There are also the government and municipal bodies all over the world and thousands of trade associations who would like to form exclusive consortia to create cyber-umbrella-identities.
The study further refers to the last layers of entrepreneurial players from all over the world who will enter this arena to quickly become the next eBay, Google, YouTube or Dell, using the mix of multimedia forces and online visibility. The study confirms the role of the dot-com suffix as still being the king, and will remain so until the new system is fully entrenched over the next five to 10 years.
All told, the new registration formula brings a serious high-class tone to the process; the sophistication of creating, building and playing on this new name economy will be awesome. Only the best-designed and properly crafted, highly logical identities that will pass the stringent test of the Five Star Standard will have the chance to join the real race, while the others will merely be the spectators. Business naming is a very tactical, black-and-white exercise and is not to be confused with a typical, logo-driven agency project.
Give Them a Break
The study also challenges the high non-refundable costs as being out of reach for nonprofits, public organizations, developing countries, educational services and religious and community organizations and suggests that the huge economies of scale should bring it to a moderate fee, comparable to a regular highly automated and streamlined current global trademark filing fee structure.
The approval system should be based on globally recognized intellectual property and trademark guidelines, making the process highly transparent and easy to decipher with efficient, quick and cost-effective outcomes. The entire program must quickly reach critical mass to make its global impact and benefit the global users online. The study offers configurations of various national consortium registration models and corporate and public bidding routines.
With launch scheduled for early 2009, the window of opportunity is already very tight. It requires tactical game planning for businesses to fully sort out preplanned and desired identities and the posture to go after them against a global competition. Corporations have already started serious discussions on how to capture the most creative and powerful solutions. Initially, the early domain names took a decade to spread around the globe, but today they are entrenched in every walk of life.
Like a tsunami, they will all descend at once from all over the globe in this new race. The global businesses and the public both are gathering fast at the starting lines, getting set and ready to sprint.
The shot has been fired.
Naseem Javed is recognized as a world authority on corporate image and global cyber-branding. Author of Naming for Power, he introduced the Laws of Corporate Naming in the 1980s and also founded ABC Namebank, a consultancy established in New York and Toronto a quarter century ago. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The Problem with Problematic Habits
posted to the public
at 12:21 AM on Sunday Aug 12, 2012
Remember when you first started playing Smash with your friend? You just received the game for your birthday and you couldn't wait to show it off to them. "Dude! I did not know I could pop up Snorlax from a pokeball! Hilarious! Oh-- watch out for the tornado!"
There were almost no preconceived notions of how to play. You didn't sandbag out of some misguided sense of sportsmanship or boredom. You didn't stick to a particular character out of pride or "loyalty". You may have identified with one character but you didn't feel tethered down with "have-tos". All that existed was enjoying the game and playing, and everything was built on top of that. The Psychological Shuffle
Our Smash Habits begin to form from when first pick up the game, even if it was just for fun. Unfortunately, not all of our starts were truly high-level competition, so we have picked up some things that were not useful along the way. Rolling may have cut the chase when we were playing with our neighbors, but now it may be a horrible habit for us, and our goal is to drop it.
Yet, even though we know it's "wrong" we still do it. As children, when we were told that something was wrong, we sometimes still did it anyways. Somewhere in our brains, we were hardwired to believe that eating crayons was a damn good idea because the pay-off (whatever that pay-off was) was worth being scolded for. You can't just say no to the gooey taste of Burnt Sienna Brown.
The solution is not beating yourself up over making a mistake; the solution is to look for a solution. By gently suggesting to yourself that there may be a better alternative, you take off on the right path. Self-realization is the key to moving on, and that's where you'll need your strength. Smash is Project Management for Nerds
It's not about over-thinking a problem, or dropping it all together, but rather examining what put you in that position to execute a bad habit in the first place. Why do you like to roll to the left? Did you notice that he likes to run past you? Why not try hitting him out-of-shield instead? That seems nicer, right? Yum... damage.
The process that "drops" habits is actually the process of adding more habits so that you'll have more to choose from. Making better choices comes from having better ideas of what your options are. Better ideas come from avoiding the things that cloud your judgment in the first place. And well, once it all falls into place? Maybe, just maybe, you'll be a better player.
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Fanya Vasilevsky came to the United States from the Ukraine more than 30 years ago, after her son returned from kindergarten one day and said he didn’t want to go back to school unless he could become a Ukrainian instead of a Jew. Her friend Eugenia Leibovich survived four years in Ukraine’s Zhmerinka ghetto during World War II, and Jana Korotkin said her grandfather was buried alive by Nazis in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk.
The three women eventually settled among thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union in the enclave of Brighton Beach, where they sit in Vasilevsky’s home at a table laid with china tea cups, brown bread and jam. From their painful family histories to their staunchly conservative politics, they say they speak with a united voice – except when it comes time to elect their representatives.
The community in southern Brooklyn with origins in Russia and the former Soviet republics is divided between multiple districts in the New York State Senate and Assembly, its conservative voters diluted amid the liberal ocean of Brooklyn. Its frustration grows out of a loophole in the laws that looms large in the battle over redrawing New York’s legislative districts: While the federal Voting Rights Act ensures that racial minorities get grouped together in strong enough numbers to have critical mass as a voting bloc, communities defined by religion and national origin do not.
The proposed lines from the state legislative task force on redistricting show one result: politicians have sliced Brooklyn’s Russians into multiple districts that make it impossible for members of that community to determine the outcome in any of them.
“We do come from the same background,” Vasilevsky says. “We do have the same mentality. And we want to be able to vote together with one voice.”
Nearly 125,000 Russian-speaking Jews live in Brooklyn, according the United Jewish Appeal’s 2002 Jewish Community Survey of New York, most of them in southern Brooklyn. History and culture have armed them to react to perceived incursions on freedom and democracy with unusual fervor.
Vasilevsky and her friend Raisa Rovinsky say the Obama administration is expanding the federal government so broadly that they are experiencing “déjà vu,” and consider the division of their community to be a deliberate effort to dilute their voting power.
A retired federal employee, Vasilevsky testified twice before the state task force in charge of redistricting. She presented its leaders with a petition in English and Russian with more than 100 signatures urging the unification of Russian voters in Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay and Midwood – the most heavily Russian neighborhoods in southern Brooklyn – into a single district in the Senate and another in the Assembly.
“We survived the Soviet regime, Holocaust and WWII Leningrad Blockade,” reads the petition. “We are asking you to keep our community together and not to deprive us of meaningful political voice!!!”
But so far to little avail. Both the current districts and the redistricting commission’s proposed maps divide the Russian-heavy neighborhoods of southern Brooklyn between two Senate districts — one of which is based in Staten Island — and four separate Assembly districts. Much of the community has been assigned to Republican Martin Golden’s proposed Senate district, which stitches together several conservative neighborhoods but leaves Russians in the minority.
“What’s primarily bothering a lot of Russian-speaking Americans is that the Republican Party has decided that the priority in terms of creating a Senate district should be given to the Jewish orthodox community,” said Alec Brook-Krasny (D-Coney Island), in reference to the “Super Jewish” Senate district proposed for Borough Park and Midwood as a seat likely to go to a GOP candidate. “I think its an underestimation of a powerful community on the Republican leadership’s part.”
In 2006, Brook-Krasny became the first Soviet-born politician to be elected to New York’s State Assembly, winning a district that combines heavily Russian and African-American neighborhoods.
But conservatives in the community argue that the district’s diversity disenfranchises them because the its mixed population protects Brook-Krasny, a Democrat, from a Russian GOP challenger.
“He’s not representing the Russian community, because he votes Democratic down the line and the Russian community wants a smaller government,” said Joseph Hayon, the president of the Brooklyn Tea Party and a Republican candidate for state Assembly in 2010. “You should try the best that each community is represented by their own.”
The three-judge panel overseeing redistricting in New York has asked its special master, Magistrate Judge Roanne Mann, to keep so-called communities of interest united where possible. In doing so, Judge Mann can consider religion and national origin. But a principle is much different from a law – and the provisions of the Voting Rights Act that encourage grouping blocs of voters apply only to racial groups who have faced historical discrimination.
“The problem is you can’t say Jews have to be protected because we don’t have a history of Jews getting discriminated against for elected office for quite a while,” said David Pollock, Director of Government Relations at the Jewish Community Relations Council.
As a result, political calculations by Republican and Democratic leaders determine which groups stay united, and community unification takes a back seat to the needs of incumbents.
Despite the divided districts that frustrate Vasilevsky’s efforts, she continues to work tirelessly on behalf of her favored candidates. The table in her foyer is covered with flyers for David Storobin, the Soviet-born Republican candidate vying against Democrat Lewis Fidler to fill the Senate seat vacated by the disgraced Carl Kruger. She and her friends denounce the taxes and regulations they say are stifling the community’s small businesses.
Said Vasilevsky, “When the Democrats come to power they reach into our pockets, and that’s what happened in the Soviet Union.”
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Yona Zeldis McDonough. Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela. New York: Walker and Company, 2002. 40 pp. Ages 4-8. $16.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8027-8823-8.
Reviewed by Amma A. B. Oduro (Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
Published on H-AfrTeach (August, 2003)
Clear Portrayal of a Great Man, but Ill-Researched Images of Africa
Clear Portrayal of a Great Man, but Ill-Researched Images of Africa
The text of Yona Zeldis McDonough's book, clearly tailored to a younger audience, provides a solid introduction to the life struggles and accomplishments of Nelson Mandela. The book explores issues of family, injustice, the importance of education as well as how crucial it is to stand up for one's beliefs and to pursue one's dreams despite opposition.
McDonough begins her forty-page story in Mandela's birthplace of Mvezo and ends with his inaugural address as the first black president of South Africa. She includes a helpful chronology, pronunciation guide and a bibliography. The text describes Mandela's fond memories of a simple childhood herding cattle, followed by the death of his father at a young age. The book tells of Mandela's education, from primary school to his acceptance at the University of Fort Hare--a prestigious college that has educated some of the brightest minds from the continent of Africa. McDonough recounts Mandela's rite of passage into manhood. We meet his first wife Evelyn Mase and his second wife Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela. The text depicts Mandela's increased commitment and activism with the political party of the African National Congress (ANC). McDonough explains how the horror of the Sharpeville incident unfolded as well as Mandela's eventual arrest and imprisonment for life on Robben Island. The author then details the hardships that Mandela faced during his twenty-seven years in prison, showing how the world's call for divestment from South Africa fueled Mandela's eventual release.
This book does a good job of condensing Mandela's autobiography for young readers and would definitely add to the curriculum of any unit on South Africa. Some of Zeldis' illustrations clearly show the inequality that still exists in South Africa today, e.g., fancy shopping areas built adjacent to townships. Her landscapes provide a good sense of spatial depth.
That being said, there are crucial details of Mandela's life that are glossed over or westernized. For example, McDonough made no mention of circumcision as key to a young man's rite of passage into adulthood. I know this is a text for young children, so perhaps including this particular detail would be inappropriate. However, circumcision is paramount to a young man achieving an increased role in his society. You will never be considered a man unless this is performed. Another simplification, that I found unfortunate, was the mention of Mandela's father having four wives as was the "African custom." Perhaps if this is routinely common for the Thembu or Xhosa people, then this should have been specifically stated, in order to quell the notion that all African men have multiple wives. McDonough also mentions that Mandela would play with his "half-brothers and half-sisters." In his autobiography Mandela clearly states that for him the differentiation between half-brothers and half-sisters is a western distinction. For Mandela they were simply his brothers and sisters. On a logistical level, it would have been quite helpful if in the bibliography McDonough provided, she had indicated which books were intended for children versus adults.
At first glance, I found the color illustrations of this book absolutely delightful and engaging. But on closer examination, the illustrations make the book difficult to recommend to young readers. On the one hand, the genre of folk art makes it inviting to young children. The bright colors and the chunky depictions would be fascinating to kids. However, images of Africa, especially for young children, must be handled delicately. Having seen other work by Zeldis, I feel these illustrations were rushed and show only a neophyte's ability to depict black characters. The characters seem gender-less and emotionless, and at times her illustrations either reinforce stereotypes or provide misinformation. Here are a few examples. First, the village of Qunu, where Mandela spent part of his childhood, is mostly treeless, yet is drawn with trees everywhere. Second, the traditional Thembu blankets dyed in ochre that were worn by women and children, have been painted to look like Superman capes--when in fact they were intended to be worn wrapped around one shoulder and pinned at the waist. Also, black Africans do wear shoes, even if it is only flip-flops. This is especially true in urban areas such as Johannesburg. Zeldis failed to shoe most of the black characters in this book.
Third the illustration of Nelson's first day at school is an important one as it conveys to the reader the absolute seriousness of attending school. However, Zeldis portrays the students in this illustration as bare-chested. Those students in the background, who are partially hidden by their desks, look naked. Based on Mandela's autobiography, we know that Nelson wore a pair of cutoffs with a rope belt to school. McDonough stressed in the text of the book that British ways were seen as superior. Thus it is unlikely that a teacher would allow children to attend school barely clothed. Fourth, the depiction of Nelson as a young activist holding African National Congress meetings does an excellent job of showing the efforts of the ANC to cut across color lines. However, everyone but Nelson seems to be emotionless, and had they not been clothed in skirts or dresses, it would be difficult to determine the men from the women. Fifth, Zeldis' rendition of Mandela on Robben Island, working in the lime quarry, is disheartening. Based on the autobiography, we know that each prisoner was issued "a pair of short trousers, a rough khaki shirt, a canvas jacket, socks, sandals and a cloth cap." Zeldis depicts prisoners wearing only short blue shorts without shoes.
Sixth, the front cover begins well, with Nelson Mandela welcoming a black South African woman and a pinkish South African man to the ballot box. However, the rest of the cover, alas, crowds numerous generic African icons into one illustration. There are all the animals one might find in Kruger National Park (giraffes, zebras, lions and furry pink things) with the dove of peace, complete with olive sprig, flying over an Egyptian Pyramid. This choice of cover image begs the question what is more important, realism or folk-art expression. Lastly, when young children pick up a picture book that is focused on a single character, they attempt to identify that character in the illustrations throughout the book. Most of the scenes in this publication showed nondescript groupings of black men, which made it difficult to pinpoint Mandela, unless he was figured prominently.
In summary, McDonough's book provides a good overview of Nelson Mandela's life, and I would recommend this book on a textual level. However, because of the poorly researched nature of the illustrations, I would give it an "Advisory" rating. In order for this book not to fuel stereotypes or provide misinformation about Africa, a teacher, librarian or a family member would need to discuss with children what they think of the African continent and its people. This may be a pretty heavy discussion for a child of four to eight years of age.
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Amma A. B. Oduro. Review of McDonough, Yona Zeldis, Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela.
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diffdir recursively compares the contents of two directory trees. Files are compared by reading the files and comparing them byte-for-byte. All files, including hidden and system files, are compared.
diffdir switches... dir1 dir2
The output of the program will list files that are different from dir1 to dir2, prefixed by a character:
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It's useful for:
- Verifying that a backup actually does contain exactly the same files with the same content.
- Determining what files in a release package have changed from one version to the next.
- Determining what files on a disk were modified by an installation program (by comparing with a backup).
- Detecting if files on a disk were tampered with by comparing with a known good backup.
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I would like to know if acceleration is an absolute quantity, and if so why?
In standard Newtonian mechanics, acceleration is indeed considered to be an absolute quantity, in that it is not determined relative to any inertial frame of reference (constant velocity). This fact follows directly from the principal that forces are the same everywhere, independent of observer.
Of course, if you're doing classical mechanics in an accelerating reference frame, then you introduce a fictitious force, and accelerations are not absolute with respect to an "inertial frame" or other accelerating reference frames - though this is less often considered, perhaps.
Note also that the same statement applies to Einstein's Special Relativity. (I don't really understand enough General Relativity to comment, but I suspect it says no, and instead considers other more fundamental things, such as space-time geodesics.)
Absolutely not. An observer in free fall and an observer in zero gravity both experience and observe no acceleration in their frame of relevance. One, however, is actually in an accelerating frame of reference.
I've finally figured it out.
First, let's define precisely what it means for some quantity to be absolute or relative. In the context in question, it has to do with whether a quantity is absolute (that is, has the same value) or relative (that is, has different values) when measured by two inertial observers moving with respect to one another.
Of course, first we need to define what an inertial observer is: it's an observer for which Newton's laws are applicable without having to resort to adding fictitious forces.
Ok, so now we have two observers, Alice and Bob, both of which are inertial. They both observe the motion of some object. Let the index 1 correspond to quantities measured in A's reference frame and the index 2 correspond to quantities measured in B's reference frame. The position of the object is clearly a relative concept, since
r₂ = r₁ + u t
(where u is the velocity of Bob with respect to Alice, and is constant since they're both inertial observers). Note that the time, t, is the same for both observers, as it must be according to Newtonian Mechanics. The object position is a relative concept because r₂ ≠ r₁.
Now, take the time-derivative of both sides and we get
v₂ = v₁ + u
that is, the velocity of the object with respect to one observer is different than the velocity of the same object with respect to the other observer. Hence, velocity is a relative quantity in Newtonian Mechanics.
Next, take the time-derivative of both sides once again, and we obtain
a₂ = a₁
(since u is constant). Thus, the acceleration of the object is the same in both reference frames. Acceleration, therefore, is absolute in Newtonian Mechanics.
When we take into account the theory of relativity, then time flows at different rates for different inertial observers and the result above for the acceleration is no longer true.
Acceleration will be the same in any two frames that are moving with constant speed with respect to each other (and may also be rotated and translated).
However, if you consider two frames that have relative rotation or acceleration, the acceleration of an object will be different in the two frames.
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Clinical Guidelines Portal
Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection
What's New in the Guidelines
(Last updated:11/5/2012; last reviewed:11/1/2012)
What’s New in the Pediatric Guidelines?
Key changes made to update the August 11, 2011, Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection are summarized below. Minor revisions have been made in toxicity tables and other sections of the document; all changes are highlighted throughout the guidelines. Throughout the document, references have been updated to include new publications where relevant.
Diagnosis of HIV infection
- New section on diagnostic testing in children with perinatal HIV exposure in exceptional situations: late seroreversion up to 24 months of age, postnatal exposure in children with prior negative virologic tests for whom there are additional HIV transmission risks (e.g., breastfeeding, feeding premasticated food), and non-subtype B HIV-1 infection and HIV-2 infection.
- New section on diagnostic testing in children with non-perinatal exposure.
When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy
- CD4 T lymphocyte (CD4 cell) count and CD4 percentage thresholds for initiation of treatment are now offered for children aged >12 months, but in the case of discordance between CD4 cell counts and percentages, decisions should be based on the lower value.
- Although CD4 percentage had been preferentially used to monitor immunologic status in children aged <5 years, recent analyses show that CD4 cell counts provide greater prognostic value than CD4 percentage for short-term disease progression in children aged <5 years as well as in older children.
- CD4 thresholds for treatment have been further subdivided into age groups 1 to <3, 3 to <5, and ≥5 years to more precisely link them to age-related changes in absolute CD4 cell count.
- The Panel continues to recommend treatment of all HIV-infected infants aged <12 months, regardless of clinical status, CD4 percentage, or viral load (AI for infants aged <12 weeks and AII for infants aged ≥12 weeks to 12 months).
- The Panel discusses current adult antiretroviral (ARV) guidelines and similarities and differences between children and adults. Adult guidelines have been modified to recommend treatment for all HIV-infected individuals, with the strength of the recommendation based on the pre-treatment CD4 cell count.
- In addition to recommending treatment for all children with AIDS or significant HIV-related symptoms (AI*), the Panel also generally recommends treatment for all children aged ≥1 year with minimal or no symptoms (Clinical Categories N and A, or Clinical Category B disease due to a single episode of bacterial infection), with the strength of recommendation based on age and CD4 cell count/percentage. However, on a case-by-case basis, providers may elect to defer therapy based on clinical and/or psychosocial factors.
- ART should be initiated in HIV-infected children aged ≥1 year with minimal or no symptoms with the following CD4 values:
- Aged 1 to <3 years:
- With CD4 cell count <1000 cells/mm3 or CD4 percentage <25% (AII)
- Aged 3 to <5 years:
- With CD4 cell count <750 cells/mm3 or CD4 percentage <25% (AII)
- Aged ≥5 years:
- With CD4 cell count ≤500 cells/mm3 (AI* for CD4 cell count <350 cells/mm3, BII* for CD4 cell count 350–500 cells/mm3)
- ART should be considered for HIV-infected children aged ≥1 year with minimal or no symptoms with the following CD4 values:
- Aged 1 to <3 years:
- With CD4 cell count ≥1000 cells/mm3 or CD4 percentage ≥25% (BIII)
- Aged 3 to <5 years:
- With CD4 cell count ≥750 cells/mm3 or CD4 percentage ≥25% (BIII)
- Aged ≥5 years:
- With CD4 cell count >500 cells/mm3 (BIII)
- In children with lower-strength (B level) recommendations for treatment, plasma HIV RNA levels >100,000 copies/mL provide stronger evidence for initiation of treatment (BII).
What Drugs to Start: Initial Combination Therapy for Antiretroviral Treatment-Naive Children
- Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (tenofovir) has recently been FDA-approved for children as young as age 2 years. The Panel has modified its recommendations for use of tenofovir in children based on Tanner staging. Tenofovir, in combination with lamivudine or emtricitabine, is part of a Recommended nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) combination for adolescents who are Tanner stage 4 or 5 (AI*), an Alternative choice for those who are Tanner stage 3, and reserved for Special Circumstances for those aged ≥2 years and Tanner stage 1 or 2.
- Etravirine and rilpivirine are also FDA-approved but are not recommended as initial therapy at this time because of lack of experience and dosing information in children.
- Boosted fosamprenavir is now FDA-approved for infants as young as age 4 weeks, provided that they were born at ≥38 weeks’ gestation. However, because of palatability and lower drug exposure in young infants, boosted fosamprenavir, when used in combination with 2 NRTIs, is an Alternative option only in infants and children aged 6 months and older.
- Darunavir with low-dose ritonavir is now FDA-approved and, when used in combination with 2 NRTIs, an Alternative regimen in children aged ≥3 years. Once-daily dosing of boosted darunavir in children aged <12 years is not recommended.
- Raltegravir is now FDA-approved for children aged ≥2 years, but are not recommended for initial therapy at this time because of insufficient data. Elvitegravir, another integrase inhibitor, is only available as a fixed-dose combination tablet containing elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir, and is FDA-approved for HIV-1-infected ARV treatment-naive adults, but not children aged <18 years. Given the lack of data in individuals aged <18 years, it cannot be considered for use as initial therapy in children at this time.
- Although emerging information about the use of efavirenz in pregnancy is reassuring, the Panel awaits additional safety information and recommends that alternative regimens that do not include efavirenz be strongly considered in adolescent females who are trying to conceive or who are not using effective and consistent contraception because of the potential for teratogenicity with first trimester efavirenz exposure, assuming these alternative regimens are acceptable to the provider and will not compromise a woman’s health (BIII).
Management of Treatment-Experienced Infants, Children, and Adolescents
- Management of treatment failure has been more clearly limited to management of virologic treatment failure. There is no consensus on how to manage immunologic or clinical treatment failure in the absence of virologic treatment failure.
- Newer individual drugs and classes of ARV drugs have been incorporated into both the discussion and the table of new regimen options for children with treatment failure (Table 20).
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- An update was provided regarding pregnancy outcomes in adolescent girls.
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Updates with new pediatric data are provided when relevant for specific drugs.
- Emtricitabine: The Panel provides neonatal pharmacokinetic (PK) data at a dose of 3mg/kg/day, and PK data in children indicating that the oral solution has 20% lower plasma exposure than the capsule formulation. Information is provided on Complera (fixed-dose combination of tenofovir, emtricitabine, and rilpivirine) for adolescents aged >18 years and adults.
- Lamivudine: The Panel provides information on generic tablet formulations and weight band dosing for children who weigh ≥14 kg, using 150-mg scored tablets. The Panel discusses switching from twice-daily to once-daily dosing at 8 to10 mg/kg, based on review of data from the PENTA 13 and 15 and ARROW trials.
- Stavudine: The Panel recommends a maximum dose of 30 mg of stavudine.
- Tenofovir: The Panel provides information on the newly available pediatric oral powder and tablets of lower milligram amounts (150, 200, and 250 mg), and dosing by weight band starting at age 2 years and 10 kg, with a discussion of the recommended pediatric dose of 8 mg/kg/dose once daily and results of the studies that led to registration of the drug. The Panel notes Truvada (emtricitabine/tenofovir) is now FDA-approved for use in adolescents aged ≥12 years and who weigh ≥35 kg; and Atripla (emtricitabine/tenofovir/efavirenz) is now FDA-approved for use in adolescents aged ≥12 years and who weigh ≥40 kg.
- Zidovudine: Dosing recommendations for zidovudine used as prophylaxis for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and in infants have been updated.
- Efavirenz: Additional detail has been added involving the precaution against using efavirenz in women of childbearing potential.
- Etravirine: Pediatric dosing recommendations have been updated to reflect FDA approval for treatment-experienced children aged 6 to <18 years.
- Nevirapine: The Panel notes data showing a three-fold increased risk of rash and hepatotoxicity in children with CD4 percentage >15% when initiating nevirapine.
- Rilpivirine: The Panel notes the availability of Complera (fixed-dose combination of tenofovir, emtricitabine, and rilpivirine) for adolescents aged >18 years and adults. A pediatric trial is under way in treatment-naive adolescents aged 12 to 18 years. The Panel recommends that rilpivirine should be administered with a meal that contains at least 500 calories, and notes that rilpivirine should not be used with proton pump inhibitors.
- Atazanavir: Modifications have been made in the dosing table and new dosing recommendations are discussed.
- Darunavir: Additional dosing down to a weight of 10 kg and PK of this dosing by weight band are described. The caveat against darunavir use in children aged <3 years was strengthened and explained more fully: Do not use darunavir in children aged <3 years because of concerns related to seizures and death in infant rats due to immaturity of the blood-brain barrier and liver metabolic pathways.
- Fosamprenavir: The Panel added information on FDA approval in infants as young as 4 weeks but notes that the Panel does not recommend use in infants aged <6 months, given concerns about palatability and low drug level exposures. Details about PK have also been added and a dosing table was added for children aged 6 months to 18 years.
- Lopinavir/ritonavir: The Panel discusses a preference for dosing in children at 300 mg lopinavir/m2 twice daily rather than 230 mg/m2 twice daily, particularly for ARV-experienced patients.
- Raltegravir: Information has been added on the newly available pediatric chewable tablets (25 and 100 mg), dosing by weight band starting at age 2 years, and results from the trials that led to FDA approval in children are summarized.
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aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Thursday, June 09, 2005
The Tyranny of Choice II
He says we’ve got too much choice and that’s bad, and he has a book full of data to demonstrate it.
Last time around, I disagreed with her take on Social Security privatization (and promised to return one day to income redistribution). This time I’m pleased to report that I’m with her on gay marriage:
Schwartz treats commitment as the opposite of choice rather than its complement. By this logic, a market without contracts is freer than one in which contracts are enforced. After all, what if I sell you my car and then change my mind and want it back?
“Social ties actually decrease freedom, choice, and autonomy,” he writes. “Marriage, for example, is a commitment to a particular other person that curtails freedom of choice in sexual and even emotional partners.” So gays who cannot legally marry their partners are somehow freer than heterosexuals who can? There’s something deeply wrong with this understanding of choice. Freedom to choose must include the freedom to commit.
Ultimately, the debate about choice is not about markets but about character. Liberty and responsibility really do go together; it’s not just a platitude. The more freedom we have to control our lives, the more responsibility we have for how they turn out. In a world of constraints, learning to be happy with what you’re given is a virtue. In a world of choices, virtue comes from learning to make commitments without regrets. And commitment, in turn, requires self-confidence and self-knowledge.
Bill & Diane
I’m not looking for politically pristine, but I am looking for an allegiance to journalism over politics. That’s what I don’t see in Tomlinson. Rather, there is a disdain for journalism that he thinks can be remedied by adding a little politics: Rightward politics to “balance” the perceived tilt.
Joe brought up Bill Moyers in his post. In discussing partisanship he writes:
We can just hear the talk show hosts says “But PBS had Bill Moyers.” Yes. But the talk show hosts and many conservatives have blasted Moyers for many years not just for his liberal beliefs but precisely because he had worked in a Democratic administration.
If Joe is right and conservative critics have blasted Moyers “becuase he had worked in a Democratic administration,” what of Diane Sawyer, who I posted on earlier today? She worked in the Nixon administration and later assisted him with the preparation of his memoirs.
I’m not against government, administration, or electoral experience for a journalist, or even a de facto critic of the revolving door. But I do believe in applying and abiding by established journalistic practices and a respect for the institution. Which is not to say they can’t be critical. I consided myself a fan of the Mainstream Media and I’m certainly critical.
But back to Moyers. The guy gets a bad rap! Setting aside that I don’t hear a lot of liberals harping about (or trying to dismantle public broadcasting because of) William F. Buckley‘s nearly 30 year run on Firing Line, here’s Moyers on picking guests for his show:
First, we wanted to do our part to keep the conversation of democracy going. That meant talking to a wide range of people across the spectrum—left, right and center.
It meant poets, philosophers, politicians, scientists, sages and scribblers. It meant Isabel Allende, the novelist, and Amity Shlaes, the columnist for the Financial Times. It meant the former nun and best-selling author Karen Armstrong, and it meant the right-wing evangelical columnist Cal Thomas. It meant Arundhati Roy from India, Doris Lessing from London, David Suzuki from Canada, and Bernard Henry-Levi from Paris. It also meant two successive editors of the Wall Street Journal, Robert Bartley and Paul Gigot [who was invited to become a regular contributor], the editor of The Economist, Bill Emmott, The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and the L.A. Weekly’s John Powers.
It means liberals like Frank Wu, Ossie Davis and Gregory Nava, and conservatives like Frank Gaffney, Grover Norquist, and Richard Viguerie. It meant Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Bishop Wilton Gregory of the Catholic Bishops conference in this country. It meant the conservative Christian activist and lobbyist, Ralph Reed, and the dissident Catholic Sister Joan Chittister. We threw the conversation of democracy open to all comers.
Most of those who came responded the same way that Ron Paul, the Republican and Libertarian congressman from Texas, did when he wrote me after his appearance, “I have received hundreds of positive e-mails from your viewers. I appreciate the format of your program, which allows time for a full discussion of ideas. ... I’m tired of political shows featuring two guests shouting over each other and offering the same arguments. ... NOW was truly refreshing.”
I don’t want balance, which has become a codeword through which the right both affirms its notion of a left leaning media, and tries to muscle right leaning perspectives onto all programs. Balance is “two guests shouting over each other and offering the same arguments.” Who wants that?
I want diverse views from a broad spectrum. You find that on the Internet. You don’t find that on television; not on the broadcast networks, not on the cable networks. And they no longer want to allow it even in that single one hour program (since reduced to 30 minutes), NOW on PBS. This they want to eliminate in the name of balance. Give me a break!
More GOP potential for CPB
Joe Gandelman points to this article in the Washington Post about the leading candidate for the top job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Patricia de Stacy Harrison. She’s a high-ranking official at the State Department and former co-chairman of the Republican National Committee. Joe’s comment:
Once again this administration has a huge pool of talent out there from which they could choose. They could pick any number of extremely well qualified Republicans, including staunchly conservative ones, to fill that slot. But they instead are getting ready to essentially throw down the gauntlet and pick the most partisan, divisive choice they can - someone who was actually a co-chair of the Republican party. You can’t get much plainer than that.
The larger issue is that this is yet another example of a troubling take-no-prisoners style of this administration. By picking a former RNC co-chair - no matter how skillful, qualified or thoughtful she may be - they are putting out there something that in Hollywood is called “high concept”: an immediately defineable, recognizable “hook” that explains it all. This will be a RED FLAG for Democrats who will likely battle it. The wise course that would help national unity would be to pick someone who was not clearly tied to not only the party or the Bush campaign.
It’s one more example of a style that seems to put a premium on divisiveness and political combat - perhaps stemming from a perception that doing something in a way that could accomplish the same political goal without inflaming those who may oppose you is somehow wimpish.
Morning in America
Couric and Sawyer are professional rivals, who may loathe or respect each other, but go to work each day, as many of us do, for companies that are in business competition. None of the stories I’ve read about them have mentioned that Couric, currently the highest paid journalist on television, is about to begin a new round of contract negotiations and that NBC might have some investment in seeing her devalued in the press. Even when acknowledging that each franchise has scores of producers who rework segments and formats, the “New York” story nudges readers to ignore the men behind the curtain and concentrate instead on the image that’s been created—literally, with PhotoShop—of two women staring daggers at one another.
Stories about male power rivalries have abounded since time began, but often in contexts where there were no attractive women to focus on instead (like, for example, for most of business history). When we have the option of zeroing in on glossy Sawyer and feisty Couric, who wants to read about ABC chief David Westin and NBC head Jeff Zucker duking it out with Blackberries and ratings spreadsheets? Stories about ex-"Today" producers Jonathan Wald and Tom Touchet or “GMA” producer Ben Sherwood’s temper tantrums aren’t likely to sell too many magazines, though former “GMA” producer Shelley Ross’s outbursts generated plenty of ink. No one even wants to write about Matt Lauer vs. Charles Gibson. What would the headlines be? Showdown of the Stoics? War of the Whipped? The Battle of the Balding?
No. Better go with nice girl vs. mean girl, black girl vs. white girl, good girl vs. bad girl, blond girl vs. brunette girl, smart girl vs. pretty girl, rich girl vs. poor girl, stay-at-home-mom girl vs. working-mom girl.
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My view: Great teacher evaluation shouldn't be good luck
I'm a lucky teacher.
In the nine years I've been in the classroom --- at three different urban schools --- I've consistently experienced evaluations that have allowed me to grow as an educator. I'm a better teacher because of that, and my students have benefited.
All teachers should be so lucky as to experience high-quality evaluation. But unfortunately, they're not. According to a 2012 national survey of teachers conducted by the nonprofit Teach Plus, Great Expectations: Teachers' Views on Elevating the Teaching Profession, nearly half of all teachers say they either had not received an evaluation in the past year or did not find their evaluation feedback useful.
Recently I was able to address these survey results in front of policymakers on Capitol Hill. I told them that, according to the Teach Plus report, teachers who have been in the classroom for less than 10 years support a range of reforms.
The report shows that a majority of teachers across experience levels think clear standards of effectiveness are critical for teaching to be recognized as a true profession. Many teachers, including nearly three-quarters of the New Majority, the 52% of teachers with less than 10 years experience, want student growth data to be a component of their evaluations.
It's not that educators don't want to be held accountable for our work. In fact, it's quite the opposite. I cannot think of a single colleague, past or present, who disagreed with the idea that teachers should be evaluated.
In my experience, the angst around evaluations does not exist primarily because an evaluation system is in place, but because of concerns around how that system is implemented.
I've heard anxiety over being evaluated by administrators who know little or nothing about the content areas they are evaluating. There are concerns around consistency in terms of how standards of accountability are assessed in each classroom.
Many educators are jaded by experiences of failed evaluation systems, such as being praised for writing an agenda on the board rather than on the delivery and ultimate success of the lesson. Some teachers are worried that those marked as ineffective will not receive adequate support to improve. Because of these factors, it's easy to see why educators would feel apprehensive about evaluation.
My experience with evaluation has been positive because the schools in which I've worked have done a good job supporting my growth.
Evaluations that work for teachers aren't just about creating clear rubrics, although that's important. It's also about creating structures in schools that support ongoing growth so that a formal evaluation feels less like a random, high-pressure event and more like one piece of a system of consistent support and professional development.
These aren't strategies that require huge amounts of time or money. In two of my schools, collaboration time is built into the schedule so teachers who teach the same subject can easily meet with one another to plan and reflect on lessons. This mandated collaboration has made me more thoughtful about my practice.
Because my lessons are planned with other teachers, we cover more ground and are more likely to anticipate and address issues students may face in a particular lesson or unit. As such, when I'm observed, I'm already confident that I've thought thoroughly about what is going on in my classroom, and I've experienced the added benefit of getting feedback from my peers.
It's also important that trained instructional leaders run teacher evaluation systems.
My principal comes into my classroom multiple times a month. While those visits are not always formal and are rarely long, they serve as a reminder that it's important that school leadership have a strong idea of what's happening in my classroom.
I usually receive immediate feedback after these informal observations, instead of having to wait for a formal evaluation. These evaluations also enhance my administrator's credibility when she talks to me about my progress as an educator.
One day last year, my principal popped into my classroom and noticed that I wasn't getting as much student engagement as possible during an activity. I had asked students to raise their hands in response to complex multiple-choice questions. My principal suggested having the students use their school-issued netbooks to access a website that would allow them to vote anonymously on their selected answer. I implemented that technique the next day, and student engagement increased immediately.
My students and I benefit from my principal's dedication to learning about new instructional strategies, as well as her commitment to being in multiple classrooms daily to pass on key knowledge. Because of her efforts, I see my principal more as a collaborator than an evaluator, and this has resulted in a more productive working relationship.
These high-quality evaluations have led to success for both my students and me. Last year, I helped more than 50% of my English language learners progress out of that system into mainstream instruction. I've been teaching long enough that every fall I get multiple emails from former students newly enrolled in college, often the first in their families to have that experience.
It is disappointing that I've had a drastically different experience with evaluation than many fellow educators.
The strategies that have made my evaluation experiences successful are not groundbreaking ideas. I've bought into the evaluation process because there are structures in place that allow me to feel supported and respected.
The importance of creating overall collaborative cultures at schools cannot be underestimated. It can let everyone feel ownership over a strong, effective learning environment. It will encourage more teachers to feel that evaluation is a supportive tool rather than a punitive one. With that, my experience with evaluation could become the rule, not the exception.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Marisol Castillo.
Copyright 2012 by CNN NewSource. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Gawd, it must be humiliating to try to be grammatically correct to the point of sounding pretentious, only to find out you’ve committed a grammatical goof. You silly goose! The tennis player could feel badly if he had oven mitts on his hands.
The good editors who work on the Yahoo! front page could use a little lesson on linking verbs. Those are verbs that express emotion or a state of being, and not an action. Some verbs like feel and smell can function as either a linking verb or an action verb. You don’t use an adverb (like badly) to modify a verb like feel when it’s used as a linking verb.
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Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. The programme features devastating new video evidence of war crimes - some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.
Captured on mobile phones, both by Tamils under attack and government soldiers as war trophies, the disturbing footage shows: the extra-judicial executions of prisoners; the aftermath of targeted shelling of civilian camps; and dead female Tamil fighters who appear to have been raped or sexually assaulted, abused and murdered.
The film is made and broadcast as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon faces growing criticism for refusing to launch an investigation into 'credible allegations' that Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes during the closing weeks of the bloody conflict with the Tamil Tigers.
In April 2011, Ban Ki-moon published a report by a UN-appointed panel of experts, which concluded that as many as 40,000 people were killed in the final weeks of the war between the Tamil Tigers and government forces.
It called for the creation of an international mechanism to investigate alleged violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law committed by government forces and the Tamil Tigers during that time.
This film provides powerful evidence that will lend new urgency to the panel's call for an international inquiry to be mounted, including harrowing interviews with eye-witnesses, new photographic stills, official Sri Lankan army video footage, and satellite imagery.
Also examined in the film are some of the horrific atrocities carried out by the Tamil Tigers, who used civilians as human shields.
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THE world, and all within it, is man’s conditioned consciousness objectified. Consciousness is the cause as well as the substance of the entire world. So it is to consciousness that we must turn if we would discover the secret of creation.
Knowledge of the law of consciousness and the method of operating this law will enable you to accomplish all you desire in life. Armed with a working knowledge of this law, you can build and maintain an ideal world.
Consciousness is the one and only reality, not figuratively but actually. This reality may for the sake of clarity be likened unto a stream which is divided into two parts, the conscious and the subconscious. In order to intelligently operate the law of consciousness it is necessary to understand the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious is personal and selective; the subconscious is impersonal and non-selective. The conscious is the realm of effect; the subconscious is the realm of cause. These two aspects are the male and female divisions of consciousness. The conscious is male; the subconscious is female. The conscious generates ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious; the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them.
By this law—first conceiving an idea and then impressing the idea conceived on the subconscious—all things evolve out of consciousness; and without this sequence there is not anything made that is made. The conscious impresses the subconscious while the subconscious expresses all that is impressed upon it.
The subconscious does not originate ideas but accepts as true those which the conscious mind feels to be true and in a way known only to itself objectifies the accepted ideas. Therefore, through his power to imagine and feel and his freedom to choose the idea he will entertain, man has control over creation. Control of the subconscious is accomplished through control of your ideas and feelings.
The mechanism of creation is hidden in the very depth of the subconscious, the female aspect or womb of creation. The subconscious transcends reason and is independent of induction. It contemplates a feeling as a fact existing within itself and on this assumption proceeds to give expression to it. The creative process begins with an idea and its cycle runs its course as a feeling and ends in a volition to act.
Ideas are impressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling. No idea can be impressed on the subconscious until it is felt, but once felt—be it good, bad or indifferent—it must be expressed. Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious. Therefore, the man who does not control his feeling may easily impress the subconscious with undesirable states. By control of feeling is not meant restraint or suppression of your feeling, but rather the disciplining of self to imagine and entertain only such feeling as contributes to your happiness. Control of your feeling is all important to a full and happy life. Never entertain an undesirable feeling nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form. Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others. To do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you or another. This is the whole law of a full and happy life. Everything else is commentary.
Every feeling makes a subconscious impression and unless it is counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature must be expressed. The dominant of two feelings is the one expressed. I am healthy is a stronger feeling than I will be healthy. To feel I will be is to confess I am not; I am is stronger than I am not. What you feel you are always dominates what you feel you would like to be; therefore, to be realized the wish must be felt as a state that is rather than a state that is not.
Sensation precedes manifestation and is the foundation upon which all manifestation rests. Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world. Your body is an emotional filter and bears the unmistakable marks of your prevalent emotions. Emotional disturbances, especially suppressed emotions, are the causes of all disease. To feel intensely about a wrong without voicing or expressing that feeling, is the beginning of disease—dis-ease—in both body and environment. Do not entertain the feeling of regret or failure for frustration or detachment from your objective results in disease.
Think feelingly only of the state you desire to realize. Feeling the reality of the state sought and living and acting on that conviction is the way of all seeming miracles. All changes of expression are brought about through a change of feeling. A change of feeling is a change of destiny. All creation occurs in the domain of the subconscious. What you must acquire, then, is a reflective control of the operation of the subconscious, that is, control of your ideas and feelings.
Chance or accident is not responsible for the things that happen to you, nor is predestined fate the author of your fortune or misfortune. Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world. The subconscious is not selective; it is impersonal and no respecter of persons. The subconscious is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your feeling. It always accepts as true that which you feel to be true. Feeling is the assent of the subconscious to the truth of that which is declared to be true. Because of this quality of the subconscious there is nothing impossible to man. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and feel as true, the subconscious can and must objectify. Your feelings create the pattern from which your world is fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern.
The subconscious never fails to express that which has been impressed upon it. The moment it receives an impression it begins to work out the ways of its expression. It accepts the feeling impressed upon it, your feeling, as a fact existing within itself and immediately sets about to produce in the outer or objective world the exact likeness of that feeling. The subconscious never alters the accepted beliefs of man. It out-pictures them to the last detail whether or not they are beneficial.
To impress the subconscious with the desirable state you must assume the feeling that would be yours had you already realized your wish. In defining your objective you must be concerned only with the objective itself. The manner of expression or the difficulties involved are not to be considered by you. To think feelingly on any state impresses it on the subconscious. Therefore, if you dwell on difficulties, barriers or delay, the subconscious, by its very non-selective nature, accepts the feeling of difficulties and obstacles as your request and proceeds to produce them in your outer world.
The subconscious is the womb of creation. It receives the idea unto itself through the feelings of man. It never changes the idea received, but always gives it form. Hence the subconscious out-pictures the idea in the image and likeness of the feeling received. To feel a state as hopeless or impossible is to impress the subconscious with the idea of failure.
Although the subconscious faithfully serves man it must not be inferred that the relation is that of a servant to a master as was anciently conceived. The ancient prophets called it the slave and servant of man. St. Paul personified it as a “woman” and said: “The woman should be subject to man in everything.” The subconscious does serve man and faithfully gives form to his feelings. However, the subconscious has a distinct distaste for compulsion and responds to persuasion rather than to command; consequently, it resembles the beloved wife more than the
“The husband is head of the wife,” Eph. 5, may not be true of man and woman in their earthly relationship but it is true of the conscious and the subconscious, or the male and female aspects of consciousness. The mystery to which Paul referred when he wrote, “This is a great mystery. . . . He that loveth his wife loveth himself. . . . And they two shall be one flesh,” is simply the mystery of consciousness. Consciousness is really one and undivided but for creation’s sake it appears to be divided into two.
The conscious (objective) or male aspect truly is the head and dominates the subconscious (subjective) or female aspect. However, this leadership is not that of the tyrant but of the lover. So by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your objective, the subconscious is moved to build the exact likeness of your assumption. Your desires are not subconsciously accepted until you assume the feeling of their reality, for only through feeling is an idea subconsciously accepted and only through this subconscious acceptance is it ever expressed.
It is easier to ascribe your feeling to events in the world than to admit that the conditions of the world reflect your feeling. However, it is eternally true that the outside mirrors the inside. “As within so without.” “A man can receive nothing unless it is given him from heaven,” and “The kingdom of heaven is within you.” Nothing comes from without; all things come from within — from the subconscious. It is impossible for you to see other than the contents of your consciousness. Your world in its every detail is your consciousness objectified. Objective states bear witness of subconscious impressions. A change of impression results in a change of expression.
The subconscious accepts as true that which you feel as true, and because creation is the result of subconscious impressions, you, by your feeling, determine creation. You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it. To seek on the outside for that which you do not feel you are is to seek in vain, for we never find that which we want; we find only that which we are. In short, you express and have only that which you are conscious of being or possessing. “To him that hath it is given.” Denying the evidence of the senses and appropriating the feeling of the wish fulfilled is the way to the realization of your
Mastery of self—control of your thoughts and feelings—is your highest achievement. However, until perfect self-control is attained so that in spite of appearances you feel all that you want to feel, use sleep and prayer to aid you in realizing your desired states. These are the two gateways into the subconscious.
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A trip to Mars could take years and cost billions of dollars. If NASA and the European Space Agency are going to commit to such an ambitious endeavor, they should try to get the most out of their investment. That's why, according to astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the first Mars pioneers should stay there permanently.
US astronaut Edwin "Buzz" AldrinAldrin, who in 1969 became the second person to walk on the moon, told the AFP that Mars, with its "near terrestrial conditions," would be a much better place to start a colony than the moon or any other space-based location.
Aldrin's 238,000-mile trip to the moon on Apollo 11 took eight days roundtrip. In contrast, a flight to Mars would be anywhere between 34 million miles and 400 million miles, depending on the orbits of Earth and Mars. Even at the shorter distance, that means it would take a year and a half to travel roundtrip.
Just to get humans to Mars and ensure their safety with advanced life-support systems will take decades of research. NASA and the European Space Agency tentatively hope to launch a manned Mars mission around 2030 or 2040 with about a half dozen astronauts.
"If we are going to put a few people down there and ensure their appropriate safety, would you then go through all that trouble and then bring them back immediately, after a year, a year and a half?" said Aldrin.
Some scientists argue that a manned mission to Mars would be a waste of money compared with robotic missions that could uncover more scientific findings without having to risk human life. Others are worried about the risks from psychological stress and DNA damage due to cosmic rays.
But Aldrin believes that a manned Mars mission would be worthwhile because it is innovative and pioneering - and building a permanent colony on Mars would be even moreso.
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Date of Award
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dr. A.N. Hrymak
Dr. J. Vlachopolous
3-D numerical analysis of a viscoelastic flow is a necessity for better understanding of viscoelastic fluids and viscoelastic flow. It is important both from the scientific and technological points of view. Analysis of viscoelastic flow is a difficult task as it is associated with the problems arising from intrinsic complexity of the fluid. Progress in the area of 3-D analysis of viscoelastic flow has been further hindered by the increase in the size of the problem and number of variables. The outlet boundary condition for 3-D flow of a viscoelastic fluid is another problem. Segregated methods were used to solve the creeping flow formulation of the duct flow to save computer time and memory. A pressure correction method was selected and compared with the fully coupled method. A 3-D and 2.5-D segregated algorithm were proposed using the modified Phan-Thien Tanner constitutive equation and the EVSS method to decouple the calculation of stresses from the flow kinematics. Results from the 2.5-D algorithm were verified by comparison with the reported results from literature. Results for cases of high Wi were obtained and it was shown that for MPTT fluid, the intensity of the secondary flows becomes independent of Wi at high Wi. The effects of Re on the secondary flows were also studied and new patterns of secondary flows involving up to eight vortices in each quarter were reported. Results from the 2.5-D analysis were compared with the results of a 3-D algorithm in the analysis of the viscoelastic flow in straight ducts. Different cases of boundary conditions were studied and observations are reported. It is reported for the first time that a deviation from a fully developed solution occurs near the outlet. The problem of the destruction of the vortex pattern and the consequent increase in the primary flow velocity component were then analysed. It was established that the fully developed flow solution is a valid solution for the 3-D formulation of the problem and the problem arises from a combination of the decoupling of the stresses and imposing outlet boundary conditions. The 3-D algorithm was further evaluated for the cases of flow in complex geometries, using two test cases from the literature. One of the cases involved a converging duct and the other involved a 4:1 abrupt contraction. Results from 3-D and 2-D planar analysis were compared with the reported experimental results.
Sharif, Farhad, "Three-dimensional finite element analysis of viscoelastic flow" (1999). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1804.
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I think that, apart from a conclusion, I'll make this group of posts the last cluster in the series I've been doing on weekends giving somewhat of my hermeneutical autobiography. The previous clusters have been (I'm linking to the last of each group of posts):
1. Learning to Read in Context
2. The Text of the New Testament
3. The NT Use of the OT
This last cluster will deal with how I came to view the diversity of the biblical stories and the idea that various narratives of the Bible have combined sources.
For this last group of posts, I return to Dr. Marling Elliott's Synoptic Gospels class (Matthew-Mark-Luke) in college at Southern Wesleyan University. My earliest exposure to issues of "higher criticism" were in high school under the shadow of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Dr. D. James Kennedy. I'm not 100% where or when, but I was exposed to Josh McDowell's More Evidence that Demands a Verdict and Harold Lindsell's Battle for the Bible.
Inspired by this breed of zealous apologists, I decided to write my final paper for Dr. Elliott's class on the parallel accounts between the gospels on the three denials of Peter. We used, by the way, a great textbook for that class, Kurt Aland's Greek-English Synopsis of the Four Gospels. No one who knew me back then will be surprised to know that, despite good intentions and probably more than one start, I had very little of the paper written as the day before the due date rolled by. Yes, it would be yet another all nighter I would regret.
So I started by comparing Matthew with Mark. I was simply going in order. (I wasn't convinced at that time that I should start with Mark--that would come in my second or third year at Asbury.) It seemed fairly easy. For example, Mark mentions that they were warming themselves for the first denial, which Matthew doesn't say. But Matthew doesn't say they weren't warming themselves. No problem.
There was the minor variation in Mark about the cock crowing twice but that was easy enough to harmonize. Matthew just doesn't mention the crowing in the middle that Mark mentions.
It does say in Matthew that it is a different servant girl with the second denial, while it is the same servant girl in Mark. I don't remember what I did with that one. I think I might have suggested that two girls were part of the second denial. Mark mentions the new girl. Matthew the old one. I moved on to Luke.
Luke was pretty easy to fit with Matthew and Mark. Luke has the fire that Mark has. Luke has someone else for the second denial, like Matthew. For the third denial, Luke has only one person making a point of Peter's Galilean accent. But that's no problem, many people includes several single individuals within it.
It must have been around 4am in the morning when I got to this point of the paper. This is easy, thought I. I can figure any problem those faithless scholars throw at me, thinks I. Then I started John.
It is interesting that the King James version of John gave me greater issues than the NIV or another version might have. In the KJV, you get the impression that it is at the door that a servant girl questions Peter (18:16-17). But there is the fire nearby as well (18:18), so perhaps the fire was near the doorway.
No biggie, except that John seems to have the movement the opposite of the Synoptics. In Matthew and Mark, Peter's first denial is by the fire and his second is by the doorway. In John, the first denial seems to be at the doorway and the second at the fire. But again, perhaps the two were very close to each other.
There is the added dimension of the beloved disciple. But in such cases harmonizing simply says this is another layer, something we didn't know from the other gospels. I think I was struck, however, by this whole new layer of the beloved disciple, completely absent from Matthew-Mark-and Luke.
So now in the second denial, they ask him if he was one of Jesus' followers. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, one or another servant girl asks this. But the "they" of John are "slaves and officers" (18:18). But this is doable. A "they" can include any number of people, from male slaves to servant girls. Of course, are we still at three denials then?
The third one is a bit more difficult. In the Synoptics, some people notice Peter's Galilean accent and ask him about it. But the person who asks Peter in John is someone who had been in the Garden of Gethsemane and seen Peter, a relative of the person whose ear Peter had cut off. It's a different question and a different person. Again, it could be a group of people I suppose, some of whom asked one thing, some of whom asked another.
I was out of time. I wasn't really happy with the paper. I suspect it had the character of some papers I've since read, where you get the distinct impression that the person wrote it in one sitting and never went back to edit earlier parts of the paper as their thinking developed. I printed the paper off on my dot matrix printer and turned it in exactly on time.
For more than one reason, I've come to view what I did in this paper as deeply problematic...
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(Prologue: I’ve got first-hand experience that a real understanding of the laws of karma can substantially change our lives for the better. I created this weblog to share information and personal experience with others. May it be of benefit!)
Two young Canadian women were brutally murdered on or about November 24-25, 2009, and January 28, 2010 respectively. On February 07, 2010 Canadian Col. Russell Williams was arrested for the torture, rape and murder of the women.
The colonel pleaded guilty and avoided a trial. But that wasn’t the end of the drama. In October, 2010, the colonel went to court to hear the prosecution’s evidence against him. It was chilling.
We follow the timeline of events that starts in 2007 and ends in 2010 – two young women murdered, and 82 houses broken into and lingerie stolen and meticulously stored in the colone’s home in military duffel bags.
Among all the events, I couldn’t help noticing the shattering juxtaposition of two
We wonder “what kind of person could murder a woman under his command on a military base on Nov 24-25, 2009 and then write a letter of condolence to her parents on December 01, 2009?”
We wonder “what kind of person would rape, kill and even take pictures of the entire sadistic event, including pictures of himself in the murdered women’s lingerie? How do people come to this point?”
This is where the 12 factors that create and maintain our karma may help us gain some insight.
In previous posts we have looked at the 12 factors in terms of past lives and how they influence our present one.
In this post, we’ll look at the factors in terms of one particular action. Killing.
- Ignorance — Killer doesn’t realize how bad this type of action is, or understand the karmic results that flow from such a negative action.
- Karmic creation — Because of this ignorance, the killer performs the actual act of killing.
- Consciouness — This factor includes the killer’s motivation, how strongly he feels about what he wants to do, his vizualization of the act step-by-step. His feelings, and imagining the act, “nourish” the mind of the killer. Seeds of negative karma are now sown in killer’s mind and they will come to fruition at some point in the future.
- Name and Form— The act of killing confirms the killer’s (ego) identity.
- Six Senses — During the act of killing the killer’s senses are active – seeing, hearing, touching etc.
- Contact — takes place when victim is actually killed by the weapon.
- Feeling — how the killer feels – upset, pleased, neutral etc.
- Craving or Adoption — Emotional indulgence is now full-blown. Mind is fixated on the act and killer carries it out to the end.
- Grasping or involvement — Killer becomes involved in the act because he wants something, or wants to avoid something. In other words, a self-indulgent reaction to his feelings takes place.
- Becoming — Now that the killing has been committed, karma has been created.
- Birth — Killer has given birth to consequences that will affect his future in a negative way.
- Aging and Death — End of the act of killing.
<source: Thrangu Rinpoche>
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Sure, having your teeth cleaned is just that – cleaning your teeth – but do you know how it can benefit your life and health even further? If fresh breath and squeaky clean teeth isn’t motivation enough for you to regularly see the dentist and hygienist, here are a few more reasons to pull out your schedule and call us up:
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Tension headaches. Migraine headaches. Aching jaw. Sore teeth. Morning headaches. Do any of these afflictions sound familiar? If so, you may be experiencing temporomandibular disorders (TMD) which indicate that there are problems with your jaw or facial muscles. Continue reading
The #1 cause of tooth loss in the United States is gum disease, with over 75 percent of American adults exhibiting some form of periodontal disease. In fact, it’s one of the most common diseases worldwide. Continue reading
Missing teeth are bothersome for many reasons – their absence alters your appearance, of course, but missing teeth also impact a person’s ability to speak and chew well, and they can affect your oral health and overall well-being. So what’s the best solution? There’s something secure and natural-looking that can fill those empty spaces in your smile: dental implants. Continue reading
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Yesterday, we told you about the Massachusetts man who withdrew $1,800 from Sovereign Bank, then took it over to pay his mortgage at Citizens Bank, only to have $1,400 of it confiscated for allegedly being counterfeit cash. Except it wasn’t. [More]
Mobile apps that can pay for things are pretty neat, but lead to a huge headache if your phone is lost or stolen. Especially if you don’t have a credit card, and use your debit card number instead. When Megan’s iPhone was stolen, she was ready to deal with the annoyance of getting a new debit card and changing her information on each app. She didn’t expect a cascade of incompetence and obnoxiousness from Citizens Bank. [More]
In March the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched a complaint portal for people with unresolved issues tied to their checking and savings accounts. Now we’re hearing the first of what we hope are numerous success stories from Consumerist readers who have tried the CFPB portal. [More]
Lynne writes, “Citizens Bank is now charging customers an annual overdraft protection fee. This is a charge for linking your savings account to your checking account. Customers can be removed from the program and can get the fee back.” We don’t know when this started—they just say there might be fees involved and call for details on their website—but if you’re a customer of the bank you might want to make sure you haven’t been enrolled without knowing it.
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- CK-12 Textbooks Accepted by State of California — kudos to open textbook non-profit CK-12 for having many of their textbooks okayed for use in classrooms. Their books did better than those from commercial publishers! (via Slashdot)
- Diagrammr — web app to diagram simple sentences. (via brian on delicious)
- Noticings — Noticings is a game of noticing things in cities. Snap a photo of something interesting you happen upon, upload it to Flickr, tag it with ‘noticings’ and geotag it with where it was taken. (via migurski on delicious)
- White Castle Microwavable Frozen Hamburgers — Cal Henderson and Joshua Schachter can be bribed with these after midnight. (via direct observation)
ENTRIES TAGGED "foo camp"
A portrait of a design contest and what it says about the future of co-creation.
William Gibson's apt predictions, why C matters, and a vote against lightweight DRM.
This week on O'Reilly: James Turner noted that the corporate dystopia predicted in "Neuromancer" has come to pass, author David Griffith discussed C's continued popularity, and Joe Wikert explained why lightweight ebook DRM isn't viable.
The book business is under assault. Book sales have been stagnating for some time, Amazon is the industry's boogeyman, and more terrifying, book publishers have no idea how to market books in a world (largely) devoid of bookstores. Moreover, in the age of the always on, it's fair to ask, do people even still read anymore? Just as it re-envisioned the Media Player, the Mobile Phone and Mobile Computing, Apple is well positioned to reboot the Book with its forthcoming iPad Tablet.
Digital Textbooks Rock, Diagrammed Sentences, Urban Games, Quirky Food
As I read this fascinating NYTimes piece on a Florida teacher covering evolution, I was reminded of an interesting email exchange I had recently with Kevin Padian, a UC Berkeley professor in the Dept of Integrative Biology, and curator of the UC Museum of Paleontology. He was at Science Foo Camp, and afterward wrote in email: My area is evolution,…
Mark Jacobsen from O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures asked me to post this announcement about Startup Camp: We received an overwhelming response to our call for participants in the first annual OATV Startup Camp which will be held prior to this year's Foo Camp. There were so many great submissions that cutting the list to seven startups was extremely difficult. The companies…
The Thursday and Friday (July 10-11) before this year's Foo Camp in Sebastopol July 11-13, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures will be hosting OATV Startup Camp. This startup boot camp will consist of sessions led by startup veterans and other experts in a roundtable discussion format on various topics important to founders. The sessions will be more of a conversation on each…
Theo Schlossnagle wrote a brilliant summary of one of the biggest challenges we discussed at the Velocity Summit in January:What is this Velocity Summit thing? It was a bunch of web architects from highly trafficked sites sitting around talkin' smack. It was operated in Foo style. However, one thing that made me really appreciate this meet-up was the lack of…
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African viewpoint: Less is more
In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Elizabeth Ohene in Accra, Ghana, complains that people are too verbose when seeking a job.
It is a tricky thing, this business of CVs, or curriculum vitae or resumes as the Americans call them.
What are you really supposed to say about yourself that tells the truth and manages to present you in the best possible light?
The original meaning of CVs was restricted to the short written description of a university teacher's career which they send out when looking for a new job.
The meaning of the term has now stretched to cover the rest of us, that is, a short written document that lists your education and previous jobs which you send to employers when you are looking for a job.
There has been some excitement in Ghana about politicians being accused of massaging their CVs”
I know a gentleman whose CV runs to 32 pages the last time I checked and even though he has led a distinguished public life and is also a traditional leader, I have always thought it is an overkill to list every committee you have served on in your CV.
But then I also know another person who has led what could certainly be described as an even more distinguished life and his CV covers one side of an A4 sheet of paper.
There are companies that have made fortunes selling CV writing skills. They put together the same information in a much more appealing way to better project your image and convince a prospective employer that you have something special.Flowery and elaborate
It is a skill that is much in demand even when you are not looking directly for a job but you are in the public eye and even more so if you are in politics.
Take the simple business of having to introduce someone at a public function. What do you keep in and what do you keep out?
These past few days there has been some excitement in Ghana about politicians being accused of massaging their CVs.
Top tips for a strong CV
- Keep it short (no more than 90 seconds to read)
- Present it in an appealing way
- Show that you have something special
- Don't embellish it
Some were accused of leaving out what some thought were important details about their lives and others were accused of adding details that did not really belong.
The usual practice in these parts is a preference for elaborate introductions.
It does not matter how modest the occasion or indeed, how modest the person selected to chair an occasion, the chairman must have an introduction that is full of irrelevant details and is as flowery and elaborate as possible.
It will not do to simply state that Mrs Mensah, headmistress of the local secondary school is chairman of the church harvest committee.
You will have to state that Mrs Mensah went to school at the kindergarten that a famous High Court judge also attended; Mrs Mensah was dormitory prefect in her secondary school and she was a participant at a seminar that discussed the advantages of onions in the diet of teenagers.
Maybe it is our love of titles, a subject on which I have had something to say in these columns; but when it comes to saying something about somebody or about ourselves, we will not settle for two words if we can get away with 10.
Does it really add something to our understanding of somebody who is running for parliament that we know which kindergarten he attended 50 years ago?
Is somebody a much better candidate for president because he got a first class degree at university 30-odd years ago when he has not done much with his life since then and there is another candidate who only finished secondary school and has led a much more interesting and challenging life?
I do not advocate that people embellish their CVs with degrees they do not have or accolades they have not received.
But my perfect CV covers a third of a page and takes a minute and a half or less to read, anything more makes me distinctly uneasy.
If you would like to comment on Elizabeth Ohene's column, please do so below.
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Energy and Animals: A History of Conflict
Alexandra B. Klass
University of Minnesota Law School
April 7, 2012
San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law, Vol. 3, p. 159, 2012
Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-15
Environmental groups, federal and state agencies, and others who support the development of renewable energy have struggled in recent years with the adverse impacts of such development on animals and animal habitat. Although renewable energy development has the benefit of creating energy without the greenhouse gas emissions associated with traditional energy development, it does so through an intensive use of land, including federal public lands, thus competing with animals and their habitat. Conflicts between energy and animals, of course, are nothing new. Congress, agencies, and courts have attempted for decades to balance the public interest in domestic energy development with the public interest in protecting animal species and habitat. This essay considers this history of conflict in an effort to determine whether these past disputes contain lessons for today’s efforts to balance renewable energy development and protection of animals. In doing so, this essay focuses on judicial decisions where courts have had to balance competing statutory and regulatory mandates to both develop domestic energy supplies, including coal, oil, natural gas, and hydropower, and to protect animal species and habitat. These cases illustrate that courts often are forced to strike a balance between energy development and environmental protection in the absence of clear statutory or regulatory guidance, leading courts to understandably defer to agency discretion when it appears that a careful consideration of the competing interests has occurred or when no statutory counterweight favoring animal species is in play. This essay concludes with some observations regarding current disputes over wind and solar development, and considers the benefits and drawbacks of various Congressional and agency approaches to reconciling this conflict.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 47
Keywords: renewable energy, energy, hydropower, coal, oil and gas, endangered species, animals, animal protection
JEL Classification: Q2, Q3, Q4, L7, K11, K32Accepted Paper Series
Date posted: April 8, 2012
© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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London, Aug 29 (ANI): Researchers have developed a new tool that would help predict a patient’s risk of dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
What’s more, it would also help determine the effective level of treatment.
Boffins have come up with an ADO index that can help physicians assess the severity of the illness.
Presently, the BODE index is used by chest physicians to estimate a patient’s risk of death from COPD. It assesses body-mass index, airflow obstruction, dyspnea and exercise capacity.
However, the BODE index is rarely used in primary care settings where most patient treatment options are managed, because exercise capacity cannot be easily measured in the typical doctor’s office.
“The burden from COPD is so enormous that we need to reach out to any doctors who care for COPD patients,” The Lancet quoted Dr Milo A. Puhan, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and lead author of the study.
“The ADO index can be used in any setting and we hope that it will serve as a basis for more individualized treatment selection in the near future,” Puhan added.
For the study, Puhan and colleagues developed a simplified BODE index and the ADO index, which included age, dyspnea and airflow obstruction.
The research team compared the predictions of the BODE index with the 3-year risk of all-cause mortality from 232 COPD patients from Switzerland.
The updated BODE index and the new ADO index were then validated with a cohort of 342 COPD patients from Spain.
The findings showed that updated BODE and ADO indices accurately predicted 3-year mortality compared to the original BODE index, which performed poorly at predicting 3-year risk of mortality. (ANI)
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Please don't fall into this trap of fear and negativity. This isn't about health care reform. Don't be fooled. This goes much deeper and will only tear us apart.
Let's talk. Let's listen.
“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.”
The tenor of this "discussion" is disturbing on a number of levels. It provides a classic example of the difference between motion and action. Lots of motion - accusations, anger, blaming, fear; no action.
Productive action can only occur when we open our minds to information and understanding - this is where solutions are born.
If we would be willing to put down our shields and weapons long enough to actually listen and communicate, we might get somewhere.
Leila22 - I guess my question is "Why do we need to condemn anyone?"
I believe this is a mutual problem that can best be approached collaboratively and by focusing on our shared interests.
It was certainly not my intent to try to give you a guilt trip. My apologies.
My only intent was to suggest that the problem is much more complex -and, the solutions may be just as complex.
Thank you, headphones81, for your thoughtful post.
You pointed to "a good solution" as being to develop Mexico. Yes, that is one possible solution - and, there may be many more.
You say: "Ask a Mexican." I believe that is exactly what we need to do. We need open dialogue to understand all our needs and interests. It's my belief that when we have this understanding will we find integrative, collaborative solutions.
Durable, long-term solutions are not found in vilifying and villainizing.
Is there anyone out there who truly wants to productively address the substantive issues?
No one's hands are clean. It must start with all of us taking responsibility for the problem and for the solution - without getting bogged down in some inane blame game.
These comments are beginning to look/sound like out-of-shape, heavyweight fighters staggering in the final rounds. . .at least I hope we're getting to the final rounds. :)
What if we were to state the issue as a mutual problem to be mutually addressed by focusing on the underlying interests, such as:
How to deal with immigration in a way that honors the sovereignty of the United States and the interests of its citizens and addresses the human rights issues/interests associated with immigration?
Open dialogue in a safe forum would provide an opportunity to better understand each other's needs and interests. From my experience, when viewed from this perspective, we would find that our needs and interests are not mutually exclusive.
I strongly believe this is the point at which mutually satisfying, durable solutions become possible.
I read the Ms. Wozniacka's article yesterday morning. . .and felt incredibly sad the rest of the day.
If we insist on taking positions, there is little hope for a durable solution. Instead, we must focus on the issues and address the common interests underlying these issues. Interests cannot be heard unless people engage. We must provide a safe forum, under the guidance of impartial facilitators/mediators, to get to the root of the issues/interests.
The key here is that the varying interests are very likely not distributive and/or mutually exclusive, but instead are integrative. When see from this perspective, we will be able to solve such problems together - as a team, rather than continue to wage battle as perceived enemies.
YES!! I definitely see this as a step in the right direction. My car was towed on Valentines evening after being parked less than 10 minutes. Had the tow truck operator been required to contact the landlord, my car would not have been towed, I would still have the $237 it cost me to get my car back 20 minutes later, and I would have fewer gray hairs. I'm sorry the tow truck drivers will lose this opportunity to earn commissions. . .!!
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The Ponzi scheme of Bernard Madoff bilked investors out of $50 billion. Many of his victims thought so highly of his investment skills they pulled rank to become his clients. The man with the magic portfolio model reported 10-12 percent annual returns on capital invested through the highs and lows of Wall Street. The naive believed Madoff had a wealth-producing Ouija board; the street-smart suspected insider information. In the end, all lost their money whether earmarked for retirement or life’s comforts.
I suspect most people invested with Madoff for security or happiness. Preoccupation with our economic lives in terms of finances and possessions causes us to salivate at sky-high returns while hungering for basement-low prices. The system makes us economic actors seeking more for less and haggling for the best deal from the marketplace.
Yet, with all our fixation on wealth-status and acquisitions, few of us ask about the morality of the marketplace. How do our economic investments affect society and ultimately our own personal spirituality?
Economist Bob Goudzwaard in Sojourners (June 2009) discusses investments in writing about “A Paper God.” His point: Global investors have enormously increased the amount of money invested in the highly speculative markets in the financial economy rather than in the “real” economy.
Investing in the real economy promotes making, selling and buying goods and services, like shoes, groceries, storm windows and doctors’ visits. Conversely, the financial sector, i.e. the world of liquid assets, deals with the buying and selling of money-products in their own right, like trading in bonds and loans, or buying and selling foreign currencies or shares of stock. While a strong financial sector occupies an essential place in a healthy economy, over the past decade the volume of paper exchanged for paper has increased four times faster than the amount of paper exchanged for real commodities. This speculative bubble feeds on itself, pushing the expectations for returns higher and higher.
Two clear consequences affecting people flow from speculators’ quest for maximum short-term financial gains. Developing countries — so dependent on loans and investments from abroad — lower taxes on capital to attract and keep capital, and then cut spending on social programs like health care and education to meet their debt obligations. The world’s poorest go without, while investors amass fortunes.
Second, financial behemoths such as hedge funds frequently using borrowed money gain control of companies in the real economy, then merge, sell out, split and restructure to increase short-term profits. Here workers lose jobs, while investors grow rich.
For the global common good Goudzwaard counsels: “The growth in the financial economy must serve the growth of the real economy, not the other way around, and heavy restrictions must be placed on speculation.”
On a personal level, people of faith recognize the seduction of wealth: “For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains” (1 Tim 6:10). Yet, each hour of each working day the news summary reports the Dow Jones Average, subliminally reminding listeners to think about their economic status — i.e. be preoccupied with money and wealth.
People of faith know money is a servant, not a master. Spiritual growth depends on an attitude shift from simply pursuing the greatest rate of return to considering the social context of the investment. We don’t need Bernard Madoff’s wealth-producing Ouiji Board. We need our wealth to build our security while working in the service of others.
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Rawson Road #1
In California, United States
How Geocaching Works
We were traveling down this bumpy half asphalted road last week. It turned out to be the old road to Hemet. There are several signs posted in the area. Private Property signs on one side and Riverside County Preserve Boundry Line signs on the other. PLEASE RESPECT ALL WILDLIFE AND PRIVATE LAND AT ALL TIMES. There are several points of interest along the road. There's an old house made of stone, and several old workable ranches dated back to 1868. A MUST DRIVE!! We loved it. Please post your own experience to share.
You are looking for a 2" "clean-out" container. The cache started with a sticker, a log sheet, and a TRACKABLE GEO NUT coin!!
BRING YOUR OWN WRITING INSTRUMENT.
Please replace the cache how you found it. Thanks and remember to have fun.
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. "6 Treatment of Depression in Parents." Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children: Opportunities to Improve Identification, Treatment, and Prevention. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009.
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improvements, an enhanced sense of well-being, and observed increases in plasma serotonin concentrations.
A 2007 review of the literature identified a total of two small, randomized controlled trials of pram (baby carriage) walking in postnatal mothers, both of which reported significant benefit (Armstrong and Edwards, 2003, 2004; Daley, Macarthur, and Winter, 2007). However, the authors were not able to control for the confounding influence of concurrent medications. A variety of other uncontrolled or observational studies for postpartum depression have reported similar positive preliminary findings.
Yoga consists of a complex system of spiritual, moral, and physical practices aimed at raising self-awareness (Pilkington, Rampes, and Richardson, 2006). It has been studied for the treatment of depression. Five randomized controlled trials evaluating the efficacy of yoga in the treatment of depression were identified in a systematic review (Pilkington et al., 2005). Different forms of yoga were used. All trials reported positive findings, but poor study quality limited the usefulness of their results. Yoga is a particularly interesting therapy during pregnancy and the postpartum period, given the other physical and emotional symptoms women experience (such as back pain, anxiety) at this time. Yoga programs for perinatal women are widely available throughout the country, and further research of this intervention appears warranted.
Acupuncture has been used in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years. Acupuncture is generally safe, and studies suggest that it may be an effective treatment for psychological problems, including depression (Weier and Beal, 2004). A Cochrane review that examined the efficacy of acupuncture for depression included seven trials: five trials compared acupuncture with medication, and two trials compared acupuncture with a wait-list control of sham acupuncture (Smith and Hay, 2005). There was no evidence that medication was better than acupuncture in reducing the severity of depression or in improving depression. Given the small sample sizes and poor quality of the studies, the authors concluded that there was insufficient evidence to determine the efficacy of acupuncture compared with medication for depression. There are no randomized trials evaluating the use of acupuncture for depression during pregnancy or for postpartum depression.
Other therapies, such as aromatherapy, massage therapy, and reflexol-
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“Arts Unite Us” is a special initiative at Youth in Arts that brings students from Special Day classrooms and their General Ed peers to learn and create art together. ”Arts Unite Us” was first envisioned in 2008 by VSA Director Nydia Gonzalez, as a way to bridge gaps in understanding and interaction between students of different abilities and combat the isolation that many of them feel on their school campuses. Youth in Arts has been developing the idea ever since, creating pilot projects that provide amazing opportunities for young people to learn about each other and work together like never before!
This year, “Arts Unite Us” classes are in full gear at Tam High, Terra Linda High, Redwood High and San Ramon Elementary. Students from Special Day Classrooms are working together with their peers from General Education classrooms, learning art and performing together. The first culminating event from this year’s classes will be held at Tam High School, where students from Mr. Lovejoy’s Special Day Class and Ben Cleaveland’s Conservatory Theater Ensemble have been working with YIA Mentor Artist Melissa Briggs in Theater. They will be performing their original play “Camping Out in Nature with Friends and Family and Animals” on Friday, May 17th and Saturday, May 18th as part of the Spring One Act Festival.
Students at Terra Linda High have been learning Samba Reggae with Mentor Artists Stephanie Bastos and Nydia Gonzalez and will hold a celebratory presentation dance/party during lunch time on June 4th. At Redwood High School, students working with YIA Mentor Artist William Rossell will perform their original percussive composition, opening for the Advanced Performance Workshop Concert on May 29th at 7PM. At San Ramon Elementary, students from Gen Ed and SDC classrooms have been working together with YIA Mentor Artist Suraya Keating, working on their interpretation of a folktale, “The Laughing River”, focusing on Community and Inclusion.
Youth in Arts has raised the funds to provide these programs in our community from a mix of institutional and individual donors. We thank the Green Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Kenneth A. Lester Family Foundation, Macy’s and Target for their generous support of this program, as well as our many individual community supporters. If you have any questions about this program, or would would like to support programs such as this one, please contact Nydia Gonzalez at firstname.lastname@example.org
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Driving an Iron Road Through the Hills
By G. F. GABB, M.A.
By 1858, the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company, with its lease of the Vale of Towy line, had penetrated inland as far as Llandovery, and over the next ten years it opened branches to Carmarthen and Swansea. Meanwhile, by faltering steps, a sequence of small companies, latterly under the aegis of the London and North Western Railway, pushed a snake-like track south-westwards, from Craven Arms in Shrophshire towards the railhead at Llandovery. By June, 1867, the gap had been reduced to the twelve miles between Llandovery and Llanwrtyd Wells, but this last section presented severe engineering difficulties.
newspaper for 6th March, 1868, outlined the first problem. North of the station it referred to as "Cynhoryd" (Cynghordy) was "a valley so deep that it would not be practicable to fill it up level. Over this a magnificent viaduct is being built, the total length of which is nearly 700 feet, and its height to the top of the metals 109 feet. . . ." Cynghordy Viaduct cannot be appreciated from the train, but, viewed from near the chapel and cottages which nestle below it, its splendour is quite apparent. Sandstone for the pillars came from a quarry at Dunvant on the L.R.D.C.'s Swansea Extension. Construction began on March 22nd, 1867, and, by 12th May, 1868, a train of eight trucks, loaded with stone to build a turntable at Llandovery, passed safely over it. The other main obstacle lay three miles further north, on the Carmarthenshire-Brecknock border. This was the Sugar Loaf. The L.N.W.R. authorities favoured a gradual ascent but Robertson, the engineer of the Central Wales Extension Railway, persisted with a thousand yard tunnel, despite its mounting expense. (Perhaps, in retrospect, an open cutting would have been easier to maintain and modify). By March, waggons could pass through the tunnel and, in May, the stone laden train emerged safely into the Vale of Llandovery. Its arrival at Llandovery Station was "greeted by a display of flags" and application was made immediately to the Board of Trade for inspection. Once Colonel Rich had pronounced himself satisfied, the opening of the line was celebrated with a sumptuous luncheon at Llandovery, on Whit Monday, 8th June, 1868.
sent a reporter to the festivities, and the isues of 26th June and 3rd July, contained a detailed account of those present, their meal and their oratory. Among the hundred were Campbell Davys of Noyadd, Chairman for the day, Gwyn Vaughan of Cynhordy (sic), Sir Charles Boughton, Sir John Mansell, Green Price, M.P., and the engineers, Messrs. Robertson and Mackintosh — all representing the three small companies which had actually built the railway. The L.N.W.R. had financed much of the later construction, and their big guns arrived in force: apart from Richard Moon, the Chairman and three other directors, all the chief officials of the company were present, including William Cawkwell, the general manager, and also Joseph Bishop, the first district manager of the new line. The Great Western and the Llanelly Company sent representatives, and there were four important visitors from Swansea — Starling Benson, Chairman of the Harbour Trust, J. W. James, the harbour manager, George Burden Strick of the Brynamman Works, and J. E. Morris, Secretary of the Swansea Vale Railway. The gentry and the railway magnates made sure they dined well on these occasions, the Raven Hotel Company of (significantly) Shrewsbury being responsible for the catering. They consumed: "Mayonnaise of Salmon, Roast Fowls, Galantine of Fowls, Tongues, Turkey-a-la-Royal, Fore Quarters of lamb, Veal aspic, Hare pies, Pigeon Pies, Lobster Aspic, Lobster salads, Charlotte-a-la-Russe, Savoy Cakes, Jellies, Blancmanges, Pastry (and) Ices . . .", all washed down with fine wines. Then the waiters cleared the tables, and glasses were recharged for the usual toasts, and the exchange of congratulations all round on the completion of the line.
A Town is Reborn
Mr. Rees of Tonn, Mayor of Llandovery, made a long speech which naturally outlined the advantages the town would enjoy as a railway centre. He traced Llandovery's history, attributing its continuing prosperity to its situation "at the confluence of four river valleys". However, when the long distance coach routes declined, and the early railways were not attracted to the town, commerce dwindled, and "grass grew upon some of the streets". In 1858, the Vale of Towy line arrived from the south, and the mayor claimed that he himself had first suggested the route for its northward extension, "through the supposed impassable range of Kerry Hills and Radnor Forest". In concluding that he hoped the L.N.W.R. would make Llandovery its headquarters for Southern Wales, Mr. Rees was only reflecting his civic office, but a Cambrian advertisement on 10th July, seemed to suggest that Llandovery was the hub of the whole Central Wales route. It offered for sale farmland in the parishes of Llandingat and Llanfairarybryn "some portion . . . within two, the remainder within three miles of the market town of Llandovery, where there is a first class station on the Central Wales Extension and Vale of Towy Railways. By the former . . . easy access is afforded from Llandovery and its neighbourhood to Liverpool and Manchester, and the Northern and Midland Counties of England, while the latter forms a direct communication with the Port of Swansea, and the mineral districts of Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire, hence coal and lime are easily available . . ." Such were the magnificent facilities available to farmers in this corner of Dyfed.
In his speech, Richard Moon said that, "As directors of the railway, they liked to look at tall chimneys, and large factories . . .
dirty hands and large numbers of mechanics and artizans. . .", but such scenes did not exist between Craven Arms and Llandovery. The London and North Western had hesitated long before committing itself in Central Wales; Moon's tone was cautious, and he warned that this "was certainly not the end of their labours. . . . Whether the London and North Western Company could make a living out of the country . . . depended on a number of circumstances." To the south, on the L.R.D.C., were rich coalfields. Central Wales could attract sportsmen and tourists, while the spas of Llandrindod and Llanwrtyd were developing apace. Every item of local produce could be transported to market. "But all these things wanted to be developed — they must not leave the line alone by itself". Only the greatest exertions of Mr. Bishop and the local inhabitants would produce a dividend. The Cambrian
of May 29th, 1868, summed it up brutally: "The country which it (the C.W.R.)traverses is not thickly populated, nor is its produce of much consequence. There is no considerable town on the route, and the junction of other lines is of very little moment. Indeed, the local traffic for a long period, could hardly pay the cost of working".
For the L.N.W.R., the value of Central Wales lay in its potential as a through route. By July, 1868, the narrow gauge Pembroke and Tenby Railway had linked those two places to Whitland on the G.W.R., and had also forced that company to convert the up line between Whitland and Carmarthen from broad to narrow gauge. By means of running powers over the Llanelly Railway and its branches, the L.N.W.R. could run trains through to Carmarthen and on to West Wales. Tenby was a growing holiday resort, while the deep water port of Milford Haven was considered capable of limitless development, once the Great Western's broad gauge monopoly there was ended.
In the event, the G.W.R. was able to largely checkmate these schemes, but the notion of the Central Wales as a trunk route between Swansea and Llanelly on the one hand, and the whole of Midland and Northern England on the other, was to be proved most practical. It was this possibility which led the Cambrian
to declare: "Whit Monday, 1868, will stand noted for years in the history of the narrow Gauge system of Railways in South Wales". The L.R.D.C. immediately re-timed its whole passenger service, and invested £1,380 in three new locomotives to cope with the through traffic. From the opening day, there were through coaches from Swansea, Llanelly and Carmarthen to the North of England, the distance between Carmarthen and Manchester being 55 miles shorter than over the Great Western system. Passengers fares were considered very reasonable, and the G.W.R. was forced to make immediate reductions. The L.N.W.R., and after grouping in 1922, the L.M.S., even ran through coaches from South Wales to Euston, a much longer, but more scenic route to London than by the South Wales main line, and at the same fare. In 1868, a substantial potential trade already existed between the metal refineries and collieries of Swansea and Llanelly, and the factories of the Midlands and the North. Through goods traffic probably reached its height in the twenties and thirties, if one excludes the two wars.
In the 1860s, the local communities in Central Wales wanted a railway, but could not raise the capital to pay for it. The L.N.W.R, correctly discerned that through traffic would make the line viable, and supplied the cash. Nowadays, through traffic has declined immensely on the Central Wales. Capital has not been made available, over the years, to keep the line up to scratch; for example, in substantially rennovating Cynghordy Viaduct and the Sugar Loaf Tunnel; furthermore, Central Wales has been omitted from the Inter-City Network. So the line ekes out a precarious existence based on the local and tourist traffic (which was considered of dubious value in 1868) and a large government subsidy.
Battle of the Gauges
To return to the luncheon at Llandovery. Speaker after speaker praised the liberality of the London and North Western Company, and expressed gratitude to the directors for saving the Central Wales scheme, almost as if that action were a piece of disinterested idealism. Elsewhere, they acknowledged that the company would doubtless make substantial profits on long distance traffic, and this muddled thinking did owe something to the great relief that the struggle to finish the Iine was over, so feelingly expressed by Boughton. At the same time, this partiallity for the L.N.W.R. had other roots. Since 1850, the Great Western Railway had enjoyed a near monopoly in South Wales. The local ruling classes were shocked by the insensitivity of the company — with its large interests in the Midlands and the West Country — to their wishes in local matters. First and foremost, only the G.W.R. used the broad (7 foot) gauge, which remained in South Wales until 1872, despite its manifest inconveniences. The answer to the tyranny of the G.W.R. was conceived to be competition from a major company using the narrow gauge, and when Campbell Davys mentioned the L.N.W.R. in this light at Llandovery, he was answered by cheers. The fact that the London and North Western was also very widely spread geographically, and was naturally, first and foremost concerned with profits and dividends was ignored in the identification of a saviour.
The small Central Wales Companies were quite content to be bought out by L.N.W.R. in June, 1868. In South Wales itself, the smaller railway companies had an ambiguous attitude to their giant competitors. On one hand, the density of industry and the prosperous example of the Taff Vale line led them to hope to remain independent; but, in bad years, the shareholders yearned to he bought out, perhaps at a profit. In February, 1868, the Swansea Vale Railway had struck a lean patch, declaring a half-yearly dividend of only one per cent. The Cambrian
speculated in April that the L.N.W.R. and the Midland Railway might join in leasing the S.V.R. to give them access to the port of Swansea. (L.N.W.R. trains would presumably have proceeded from Central Wales via the projected link from Llangamarch to Defynnog on the Neath and Brecon which was never built, and then by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction line, completed in 1873, into the Swansea Valley, or via the junction of the Llanelly Railway and the Swansea Vale at Brynamman). It may have been significant that of the four Swansea men at Llandovery in 1868, three were intimately connected with the S.V.R. — Strick, a director, Benson, chairman, and Morris, secretary. In the event, the Midland alone absorbed the S.V.R. in 1877.
By then the London and North Western had secured a more direct route to Swansea. At the Swansea Vale general meeting of 28th February, casting around for examples of small companies which "would never pay", J. Glasbrook commented: "The Llanelly Company struggled for about twenty years before they were taken in hand by another company. . ." The L.R.D.C. did not consider itself "taken in hand". When in August, the Cambrian
reported an excursion from Carmarthen, Llandilo and Llanelly to Swansea "over the recently opened L.N.W.R.", the newspaper was rebuked by a Llanelly railway official, who stated that while his company was "working in amity with the London and North Western Company [they] yet hold their integrity entirely independent of the aforesaid Company".
Yet, by the end of 1868, the L.R.D.C.'s independence was gravely compromised. At the general meeting of 13th February, it was reported that "they had entered into arrangements with the L.N.W.R. to bring their traffic over their lines, which could not fail to increase the receipts, especially as it would involve only a trifling outlay for increased station accommodation. . . ." This was a fatal step. It was predicted that the completion of the Central Wales system would give the L.R.D.C., with its newly finished branch lines, its first taste of real prosperity. At the August general meeting, it was stated that since 1st April, 1868, (perhaps a significant date) the L.R.D.C. had conceded half its lease of the Vale of Towy line to the L.N.W.R., but there was still no sense of foreboding. These two innocent concessions were the bases of the London and North Western's legal victory over the Llanelly Company in 1871, by which the latter's prized extensions to Swansea and Carmarthen were filched.
The guests who departed from Llandovery rather precipitately to catch their special train had seen more than the completion of an important line; they had witnessed the advent of a second major power in the railway world of South-west Wales.
Shrewsbury to Swansea, the story of the Railway through Central Wales,
by D. J. Smith, (Town and Country Press, 1971).
The Central Wales,
published by the Swansea Railway Circle, 1964.
History of the Great Western Railway,
Volume II, by E. T. Macdermot and C. R. Clinker. (Ian Allan, 1964).
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Ben Law Interview: how to get involved in sustainable woodland management
We asked Ben Law, woodsman, author and award winning Grand Designs home builder, about his favourite build, woodland management and working in forestry. We even found out what kind of woodland animal Ben is!
We asked Permaculture online readers what they would ask Ben Law and selected the best six questions.
ThePOOSH.org: "What is your favourite memory of building a sustainable structure and why?"
Ben Law: It was the whole process of creating Lodsworth Larder, when the local community came together to build a focal village asset. Virtually all the timber for the shop came out of my woods only one mile away. The highlight for me was that the area of woodland we harvested the timber from was a derelict mixed coppice. After restoring the coppice, there was a flush of violet helleborine orchids which had been dormant for fifty years.
Emily Ingham of Permaculture magazine: "What recommendations do you have for young people who want to get involved in woodland management? How important is it that we have a new generation of woodlanders?
Ben Law: It can be difficult to find a way in to woodland management. There are colleges and courses and the National Coppice Apprenticeship as well as a new apprenticeship scheme run through the Forestry Commission. If you are keen and truly committed you will find a route in. There is no substitute for spending time working in the woods to gain knowledge.
A new generation of woodlanders is always needed: as with the trees, the old have to give way to enable the young to reach the light and flourish.
Daryl Ross: "Was Grand Designs the best thing that ever happened to you?"
Ben Law: No, the birth of my children was.
John Earnshaw of Earnshaw's Herbal Dispensary: "What medicinal herbs do you grow and use?"
Ben Law: I grow a little echinacea in the garden but the wild woodland herbs that grow on the rides are of most interest. I use self heal for cuts and there is an abundance of skullcap and centaury.
Loli: "We just bought a farm with a forest, and want to take care of the forest using principles of permaculture, but will have to learn from scratch. As well as reading your The Woodland Way, please tell us which other sources of knowledge we should give priority to now. We feel lost but optimistic!"
Ben Law: Take your time, a forest is patient. Spend time visiting the forest, make notes, get to know it through observing for a year before you do anything physical. Get help to identify trees and plants and begin the process of woodland assessment. My "I bought a woodland, what do I do now?" course may help.
Sebastian von Holstein of Permaculture magazine: "If you had to be a woodland animal, what would you be?"
Ben Law: I am a woodland animal! Coppice woodlands are dependent on the cyclical cutting of trees, without humans in coppice woodlands biodiversity would dramatically decrease. At Prickly Nut Wood, where I live and work, I am a woodland animal.
Emily Ingham is a former environmental consultant, and now writes for Permaculture magazine on issues relating to environmental legislation and policy.
Ben Law has published four books with Permanent Publications, the book publishing arm of Permaculture magazine.
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Before your speakers take the stage, there are a few things you want to
cover off to ensure you set them up for success. Ideally you have
several hours before the show to prep your speakers, but sometimes it
just doesn’t work out that way.
One conference I was producing was set to start in three hours when I
got a call from the car service that the company president, our second
speaker on the printed agenda, was no where to be found at the
airport. I called his cell to hear, “Oh yeah, I’m catching a ride on a
friend’s jet. Oh and I invited Jeff to join me. " Ah, yes Jeff, our third
speaker. I say, “You know you’re on at 1pm?” “Yes, we’re taking off in a few minutes, it's a fast plane."
wouldn’t you know, they arrived two minutes before the host
took the stage. Long enough for me to give her the thumbs up, call the
first sequence of the show and pull them backstage for a quick
briefing. Even if you have three minutes, you’ll do your speakers and
show a great service by covering these important details:
- Monitor: Show the speaker where the down monitor is located.
- Clock: Review how much time the speaker has allocated and where the countdown clock will be placed.
- Mics: Test the wireless microphones and emphasize you do not want
the speaker to turn “off” the switch while they wait to go on stage –
very common habit.
- Position: Ask if the speaker plans to walk or stay in one place (important for the camera and lighting operators).
- Entry: Remind the speaker who is introducing them, who the host is and the music they will hear as they enter the stage.
- Closing: Explain the closing sequence such as, “You will introduce James, shake his hand, then exit to the right.”
- Remotes: Show the speaker the remote slide advancer – best to keep an extra backstage for this purpose.
- Q&A: Confirm that there will not be a Q&A section (or will be).
- Name Tag: Remove the speaker’s name tag before they enter stage.
Hopefully your speakers arrive early enough to be fully briefed.
Ideally all speakers are in the hotel the night before. If not, think
about the poor
planners behind the presidential debate that was on/off/on and be glad
that wasn't you. I wonder
how early McCain actually arrived.
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1. Answer your cell phone. If you forget to turn it off and it rings, turn it off immediately, apologize profusely and look mortified.
2. Ask questions about the company that could have easily been answered with a modicum of research. I've had candidates say, "So what exactly do you guys do?"
3. Badmouth an old boss. I'll assume that'll be me you're talking about some day.
4. Pretend you have no weaknesses. Or tell me that your biggest weakness is perfectionism and you work too hard. You might as well wear a sign saying: "I'm BS'ing you." Candidates who can't or won't come up with a realistic assessment of areas where they could improve make me think they're lacking in insight and self-awareness or, at a minimum, just making it impossible to have a real discussion of their potential fitness for the job.
5. Share too much personal info. I once had a candidate tell me way too much about the sex column she wrote for her campus newspaper. If I had been talking to her at a party, I would have been fascinated, but it was inappropriate for a job interview.
6. Lie. It doesn't matter how great the rest of your interview is, if you and lie and it's discovered, you're no longer a candidate.
7. Ramble on endlessly. Rambling raises doubts about your ability to organize your thoughts and convey needed information quickly and signals that you're not good at picking up on conversational cues about where your interviewer wants to take the conversation. Instead, give direct, concise (two minutes at the most) answers. You can always ask: "Does that give you what you're looking for, or would you like me to go more in depth about this?"
8. Be as quiet as possible. It shouldn't be like pulling teeth for me to get information out of you. If you're shy, I empathize, but you've got to help me get a sense of who you are.
9. Don't ask any questions. I want to know that you're interested in the details of the job, the department you'll be working in, your prospective supervisor's management style, and the culture of the organization. Otherwise, you're signaling that you're either not that interested or just haven't thought very much about it.
Alison Green is chief of staff for a medium-size nonprofit where she oversees day-to-day management of the staff as well as hiring, firing, and staff development. She is working with the Management Center to coauthor a book on nonprofit management. Her writings have been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Maxim, and dozens of other newspapers. She blogs at Ask a Manager.
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Pope Benedict XVI's unprecedented announcement today that he will resign Feb. 28 brings to a close one of the shortest papacies in history, for which the pontiff will leave a legacy as a leader with views in line with church tradition, but also as one who worked during a controversial reign to advance religious links cross the globe.
The pope's decision, which he announced in Latin today during a meeting of Vatican cardinals, makes him the first pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years. It was perhaps the most shocking moment of his nearly eight years as leader of the world's roughly 1 billion Catholics, years in which he worked on religious outreach.
"I think he deserves a lot of credit for advancing inter-religious links the world over between Judaism, Christianity and Islam," Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger's spokesman said today. "During his period, there were the best relations ever between the church and the chief rabbinate and we hope that this trend will continue."
Horst Seehofer, minister-president of the German state of Bavaria, where Benedict was born as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger 85 years ago, echoed the sentiments about his work for the greater good, adding that Benedict had a global reach.
"With his charisma and his tireless work for the good of the Church, the Pope from Bavaria has inspired people all over the world," he said.
Such global reach and efforts to reach the masses resulted recently in a new Twitter account, which the Vatican launched in late-2012. But true to his traditional worldview, he cautioned the world's Catholics at his Christmas 2012 Mass about the risk of technology's pushing God out of their lives.
"The faster we can move, the more efficient our time-saving appliances become, the less time we have. And God? The question of God never seems urgent. Our time is already completely full," he said.
Benedict XVI was the oldest pope to be elected at age 78 on April 19, 2005. He was the first German pope since the 11th century and his reign will rank as one of the shortest in history at seven years, 10 months and three days.
The last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415.
Vatican officials said they've noticed that he has been getting weaker, while Benedict said he is aware of the significance of his decision and made it freely.
He was widely seen as a Catholic conservative who was in line with the politics of his predecessor, Pope John Paul, and Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Dimitriy Sizonenko pointed out today that the Vatican is unlikely to move away from that tradition.
"There are no grounds to expect that there will be any drastic changes in the Vatican's policies," he said. "In its relations with Orthodox Churches, the Roman Catholic Church has always ensured continuity between Popes."
Benedict did court controversy, memorably with his speech in September 2006 at the University of Regensburg, in which he quoted a remark about Islam by Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos that some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad are "evil and inhuman."
A number of Islamic leaders around the world saw the remarks as an insult and mischaracterization of the religion. Mass protests ensued, notably in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Benedict soon apologized.
John Thavis, former Rome bureau chief for the Catholic News Service and author of an upcoming book about the Vatican called "Vatican Diaries," said Catholics will remember him as a gentle and very deep teacher.
"I think the outside world will probably have a different impression of this pope," he said. "I think they will remember him as someone who probably found it hard to govern the church in the face of the scandals that the church has experienced over the last several years."
During his papacy, Benedict was forced to address accusations that priests had sexually abused boys, a scandal that hit in the United States more than a decade ago and soon spread across Europe.
As the Catholic church was rattled by such allegations, the Vatican published "Criteria for the Discernment of Vocation for Persons with Homosexual Tendencies."
It was widely viewed as the church's response to the worldwide scandal, but was also criticized for drawing a connection between pedophilia and homosexuality.
In 2008, the pope said the clergy sex abuse scandal in the United States made him feel "deeply ashamed." In 2010, Benedict apologized directly to victims and their families in Ireland.
"You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry," he wrote to victims of child sex abuse by clergy in Ireland. Benedict had plenty of critics during his papacy over what was perceived as archaic views on contraception. In March 2009, he commented that condoms are not the solution to the AIDS crisis, and can make the problem worse. He revised the comments in 2010, saying that male prostitutes who use condoms might be taking a first step toward a more responsible sexuality.
More controversy came in 2010, when, in what is seen as a gesture to traditional Catholics, Benedict removed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass. The old rites include a Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Jews.
The year 2012 brought the "Vatileaks" scandal in which Benedict's former butler Paolo Gabriele was convicted of stealing the pope's private papers from his apartments and leaking them to a journalist, who published them in a best-selling book. Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in an Italian prison.
Speaking today, Cardinal Donald Wuerl Archbishop of Washington said the pope's willingness to step aside is a sign of character
"I think it's a sign of the great humility of this pope and his love of the church and his courage," he said.
The role Benedict will play in retirement, as well as any enduring legacy of his brief but busy papacy, might be his love for the church, his humility or his courage. Or, perhaps, it has yet to be clearly understood.
The Pope's Life
As for his road to the Vatican, Ratzinger started seminary studies in 1939 at the age of 12. In his memoirs, he wrote of being enrolled in Hitler's Nazi youth movement against his will when he was 14 in 1941, when membership was compulsory. In 1943, he was drafted into a Nazi anti-aircraft unit in Munich. He says he was soon let out because he was a priest in training. He returned home only to find an army draft notice waiting for him in the fall of 1944.
As World War II came to an end, the 18-year-old Ratzinger deserted the army. In May 1945, U.S. troops arrived in his town and he was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
In his memoir, he says that he became convinced God "wanted something from me, something which could only be accomplished by becoming a priest."
"I was shy and unpractical, had no talent for sports or organization or administration," he wrote. "I had to ask myself if I would ever be able to connect with people."
Ratzinger later recalled that during this dark time the church served as "a citadel of truth and righteousness against the realm of atheism and deceit."
After the war, Ratzinger returned to the seminary where he was known to play Mozart on the piano. He and his older brother, Georg, were ordained priests June 29, 1951. Three years later, he received his doctorate in theology from the University of Munich and began teaching in Bonn, the first of several appointments in German universities.
Chosen as an adviser to the Second Vatican Council in 1962, when the church became more open under Pope John XXIII, Ratzinger was a progressive voice in updating church laws on heresy.
Hans Kung, the Swiss theologian, was so impressed by Ratzinger's intellect that in 1966 he brought him on as staff at the University of Tubingen, without interviewing other candidates, a practice unheard of in German universities.
But the radicalism he encountered there bothered him. He opposed the 1968 Marxist student demonstrations and left the university for his native Bavaria to teach at a more conservative university.
"I had the feeling that to be faithful to my faith I must also be in opposition to interpretations of the faith that are not interpretations but oppositions," he later said.
It was during the 1970s that Ratzinger explored his deepest theological thoughts.
In 1977, Ratzinger was appointed bishop of Munich and elevated to cardinal three months later by Pope Paul VI. He was one of only two cardinals in the latest conclave who were not chosen by John Paul II.
That same year he was appointed to the Synod of Bishops, an advisory council to the pope, and met the archbishop of Krakow, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II.
They found they were both intellectual, multilingual church men despite their different styles: a soft-spoken, polite Bavarian vs. the athletic, media loving anti-Communist Pole.
When Wojtyla was elected pope in 1978, he invited Ratzinger to Rome.
After overcoming Ratzinger's objections, John Paul named him to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as guardian of church dogma.
A Vatican spokesman acknowledged that some papal appointments were influenced by politics but Ratzinger was "one of the most personal choices" of John Paul's pontificate.
Ratzinger later became the Vatican official responsible for reigning in dissident clergymen like his old mentor Kung, whose license to teach theology was revoked by the Vatican in 1979.
He explained that during Vatican II he began to have second thoughts about the new direction the clergy was taking.
"I found the mood in the church and among theologians to be agitated," he wrote. "More and more there was the impression that nothing stood fast in the church, that everything was up for revision."
A conservative on issues such as homosexuality and the ordination of women, Benedict also denounced rock music, dismissed anyone who tried to find "feminist" meanings in the Bible, and denied Communion to those who supported abortion and euthanasia.
As his stances hardened, the nicknames piled on from "God's Rottweiler," to "the German Shepherd" to "Cardinal No."
As John Paul II's health declined, Ratzinger took over more and more responsibility at the Vatican. In 2002, he became dean of the College of Cardinals, which didn't seem to slow down his prolific writing.
The pontiff authored more than 30 titles including: "Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith: The Church as Communion," "Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religion," "The Spirit of the Liturgy" and "Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977."
In the days after Pope John Paul II's death April 2, 2005, the shy and humble Ratzinger stepped into the spotlight. He delivered a heartfelt homily at John Paul's funeral followed by a fiery speech to the cardinals.
Before the cardinals started the secret process of choosing a successor, he warned them about tendencies that he considered dangers to the faith: sects, ideologies like Marxism, liberalism, atheism, agnosticism and relativism -- the ideology that there are no absolute truths.
"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as a fundamentalism," he said. "Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards."
Despite thoughts that his conservative penchant would keep him out of the running, Ratzinger's election to St. Peter's throne was swift.
His election in four ballots in two days was one of the shortest in 100 years. He is also the oldest pope elected since Clement XII in 1730.
If Ratzinger was paying tribute to the last pontiff named Benedict, it could be interpreted as a bid to soften his image as "God's Rottweiler." Benedict XV reigned during World War I and was credited with settling animosity between traditionalists and modernists, and dreamed of reunion with Orthodox Christians.
The name he took draws a connection to Benedict XV, the Italian pontiff from 1914 to 1922 who had the difficult task of providing leadership for Catholic countries on opposite sides of World War I. His declared neutrality and humanitarianism was demonstrated in his untiring efforts to relieve the sufferings of the war.
He founded a bureau for the exchange of wounded prisoners and a missing-persons bureau and established relief agencies.
Benedict was also known for his outreach to Muslims and efforts to close the nearly 1,000-year estrangement with Christian Orthodox churches.
Taking on the Papal Role
In his homily after assuming the role of pope, Pope Benedict XVI told the faithful, "The Church is young." As a cardinal known for his strict orthodoxy, Benedict struck a softer note. He said he did not need to lay out a governing program.
Immediately after the Mass, a white Jeep pulled up to the steps of the basilica, and Pope Benedict XVI climbed in. There was no bulletproof glass as he drove around for what was described as a victory lap.
In his first weeks as Pope, Benedict pledged to work for reconciliation and peace among peoples.
He also referred to the Christian roots of Europe, in what was a major theme of his papacy.
In his only visit to the United States as pope, Benedict was welcomed for an elaborate state visit arrival at the White House in 2008. President Obama was granted an audience at the Vatican just months after taking office, although the Obama administration and the church have clashed on important issues, including abortion, contraceptive services, and stem cell research.Also Read
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The Birmingham Church Bombing: Bombingham
The trial of Thomas Blanton opened in April 2001. Anticipation was high for a conviction, but the evidence gathered against Blanton was circumstantial. There was no eyewitness and no single conclusive fact that pointed to Blanton as one of the bombers. In addition, the crime scene at the church produced very little hard evidence. An FBI report stated that, after a careful examination of the debris at the scene, "the laboratory failed to identify the type of explosive due to a lack of residue. No fragments of a mechanical timing device, fuse or blasting caps were found." The prosecution could also not say positively how the dynamite was acquired, how it was brought to the Sixteenth Street Church or even who planted the bomb. Memories were less than accurate after 38 long years and other witnesses had simply passed away.
But back in 1964, the FBI had planted a bug in Blanton's apartment. Though Blanton, Chambliss and Cherry were not charged with the church bombing, they were considered suspects almost immediately after the crime. The FBI succeeded in taping dozens of conversations with fellow Klan members that implicated Blanton in the bombing. On these tapes, he made several incriminating statements.
"I like to go shooting. I like to go fishing. I like to go bombing," he once said to a friend. At one point Blanton blurted out, "I am going to stick to bombing churches." On another tape, he could be heard telling his wife, "We planned the bomb." When another Klansman talks about the rash of bombings in the city, Blanton blurted out, "They ain't gonna catch me when I bomb my next church!" Prosecutors contended that these statements were tantamount to a confession. Defense attorney Robbins dismissed Blanton's statements as just "two rednecks driving around, drinking, running their mouths." But it was hard for the jury to disregard Blanton's statements about bombing churches.
In order to establish Blanton's racist views, prosecutors put several character witnesses on the stand who testified to the defendant's pathological hatred of blacks. "He said 'All I want is a chance to kill one of those black bastards!'" one witness told the court.
In closing arguments, U.S. Attorney Robert Posey said Blanton killed because he was a man of hate. "The defendant didn't care who he killed as long as he killed someone and as long as that person was black," he said, "These children must not have died in vain. Don't let the deafening blast of his bomb be what's left ringing our ears." Defense attorney Robbins countered by reminding the jury that "a courtroom is not a popularity contest. There's people around the world looking down on the city of Birmingham, don't get caught up in it." The jury deliberated for just two hours. They returned with a verdict of guilty on four counts of first-degree murder. Blanton was stunned. When he returned to the court for sentencing, he was asked if he had anything to say.
"No," he said quietly, "I guess the good Lord will settle on Judgment Day." Thomas Blanton was sentenced to life in prison times four, one for each of the lives lost on September 15, 1963. He was immediately handcuffed and taken away. Outside the courthouse, reporters interviewed U.S. Attorney Doug Jones.
"They say that justice delayed is justice denied and folks," he said, "I don't believe that for a minute." The mother of Carole Robertson, Alpha Robertson, then 82, and one of the last two surviving parents of the girls killed in the explosion, watched the scene from a hallway nearby. She spoke to reporters from her wheelchair.
"I'm very happy that justice came down today," she said softly, "I didn't know if it would come in my lifetime."
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What is a principle? I’m so glad you asked! It is best to start at the beginning, after all. Webster’s 1828 defines it generally as:
PRIN’CIPLE, n. [L. principium, beginning.] 1. In a general sense, the cause, source or origin of any thing; that from which a thing proceeds; as the principle of motion; the principles of action.
In the Biblical Principle Approach, a principle is that from which a subject springs. Principles are the foundation of the subject. It is the seed from which the subject grows. Like a seed, it contains the life and everything needed to grow in the subject.
Where do they come from? In a word, the Bible. All subjects find their origin in God as Creator. He is the source of everything.
What’s the big deal about using Biblical Principles? Well, the point is that you get to the source of the subject, the origin. Also the principles apply to the whole of the subject, helping you form a deeper understanding to (hopefully) master it. It also helps you develop a deeper appreciation of God’s way of doing things when you see how a subject is constructed. You can discover all sorts of things that apply to other areas of life and it can actually make teaching FUN because you are learning as well. It also makes teaching easier on one way. Because your lessons always point to a principle, your learning has a point beyond just filling in a worksheet. It has a greater focus which can help you do more than just get through another consumable book. It has a goal beyond finishing, and to me that helps make teaching easier.
It’s the way Jesus taught.The Pharisees didn’t like his approach much. They wanted facts, rules. He got to the heart of the matter. He was able to sum up the 10 commandments in two principles. His approach frustrates the flesh but gives life to the spirit. There are more examples of His teaching methods than I can list here but I recommend the book Teaching Techniques of Jesus by Herman Horne.
You can teach multiple levels because you are teaching the seeds of the subjects , so you can easily adjust it for different ages. More seed for older children, little bites of kernels for younger ones.
There is proven success teaching from Biblical principles. America’s founding fathers were educated by principles and were able to reason from God’s word. Their excellent reasoning and ability to form our constitution were a result of their Biblical education.
The subjects are alive in His word and it makes each subject exciting and important when you see how it fits into His Story.
You learn how to learn by beginning with the foundation of a subject. The steps to discovering Biblical principles apply to any subject at any time and carry across the curriculum.
“I know my own principles to be pure and therefore am not ashamed of them. On the contrary, I wish them known and therefore willingly express them to everyone. They are the same I have acted on from the year 1775 to this day, and are the same, I am sure, with those of the great body of the American people.”
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Samuel Smith, 1798
1. Separation of powers
The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election… They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.
2. Dual form of government
Seldom today do we hear mentioned one of the most unique aspects of our Constitution—our dual form of government—the state and the nation. This refers to the national-federal structure of our Constitution. There is not a country today on the face of the globe that embodies this Christian principle of government—and we ourselves have allowed it to deteriorate.
Slater, R. J., & Hall, V. M. (1975). Teaching and learning America’s Christian history (American Revolution Bicentennial ed.) (242). San Francisco: Foundation for American Christian Education.
3. Negative rights Wikipedia
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
— Patrick Henry
4. Religious liberty
It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
5. Representative Republic
Modern times have discovered the only device by which the equal rights of man can be secured to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, But by representatives chosen by themselves…
A representative government, responsible at short intervals of election, produces the greatest sum of happiness to mankind.
Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof. Leviticus 25:10
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” Thomas Jefferson
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry
“The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.” John Adams
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” James Madison
Even though I really enjoy it, sometimes I think I can get by without planning. For some moms, loose plans or [gasp!] no plans aren’t a big deal. I am not one of those moms.
Lesson plans are the way the big picture gets done. They are a map to get you to your destination. Mrs. Smith says that goals are the lighthouse and lesson plans are the lantern. I love that! They are what enables you to move along the path without getting distracted and without losing sight of the big picture. They keep you moving along toward your destination.
This summer I am trying to be more diligent about evaluating (more details to come) and planning for the year. I sleep better at night knowing not just where we are headed, but how we are going to get there.
I look to my lighthouse and get my bearings. Then I take my children by the hand. The lantern helps us avoid the rocks and other obstacles on our particular home educating path. I can’t see very far ahead but I don’t need to. I trust the Keeper of the Lighthouse has it all under control.
With all the trappings of Biblical Principle Approach–word studies, 4-Ring, notebooks, the Red Books, Rudiments, etc., you can easily get overwhelmed and frustrated. Your idea of home education is not caught up in books and all that research, but in being with your children, learning alongside them. There is a way to do both.
What challenges do you encounter with the Biblical Principle Approach? If you are new to this methodology, what questions do you have?
BPA is so exciting, so life changing, so excellent that those new to this approach can, in their zeal, overdo things and burnout quickly. It can leave you feeling like you have failed or that BPA is not a fit for you. Because it requires more on the part of the parent-teacher, it takes more time to make the changes you desire to see in your homeschool.
It is not a matter of simply tossing out the old and starting fresh Monday morning. There is a process that will keep you growing, learning, and on track. I cannot stress strongly enough the word transition. It is a process, not a box you open and use right away.
First you must renew your own mind. You cannot teach it until it has been made light to you. Take time to internalize scripture, principles and the ideas of America’s Christian history before you even begin to add it to your lessons.
Then you choose one subject and 4-R that. Leave all your other materials as they are and teach only that one subject BPA. Introduce this new way of learning in history, literature or whatever subject you feel led to choose.
Add one subject each year that you teach from a BPA perspective. Baby steps will prevent burnout. Jumping in and trying to teach every subject this way from the start will leave you exhausted and frustrated.
Keep your standards high and your expectations low. Your children may struggle with ideas and producing their own work. Present one idea per lesson per day. Don’t overfeed and be patient. Let them sit with ideas and wrestle for their own education. They will own it and real learning will happen.
Making small changes over the years will get you where you want to go. Displacing ideas, Biblical reasoning and producing your own work all take time, effort and patience. As long as you understand it’s not a race but a journey, your transition can be a happy and painless one (but not without struggle!).
Word studies are hard. And dry. And time-consuming. At least that’s how some people see it. Even the title makes me chortle. Who ever heard of such a thing as actually being fun? Well, everything we do for our kids’ education can be something we enjoy. If not all of it, then at least some part.
You may not know what a word study is. Or you may avoid them. Or you may do them and not know them by that name. Whatever category you fit in, I think you can see word studies not as a necessary evil, but as an important tool in your home educating process. Any home educator can implement word studies, no matter what approach or curriculum is in use. It’s a powerful way to bring a subject alive for teacher and student.
…Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach… Daniel 1:4 KJV
A word study is simple and straightforward. One way to do one is as follows:
When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, O LORD God Almighty. Jer. 15:16 NIV
Now who wouldn’t like to do that? Seriously, there is something really exciting about learning something new about a word you assumed you knew the definition of. And it’s even more exciting to see what God has to say about that word. Or with that word. Why do I want to do a word study?
Some tips to enjoy your word study more:
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Astronauts stranded for two extra months aboard the International Space Station after the shuttle Columbia accident showed that humans are strong enough to make the long trip to Mars, one of the expedition's members said today.
Donald Pettit, one of three members of the station's Expedition Six, said he and his two crew-mates, who spent 161 days on the space station, inadvertently demonstrated humans' fitness for interplanetary travel.
"The whole experience had an uncanny resemblance to a trip to and landing on Mars," Pettit said at a briefing at NASA headquarters, referring to the extended stay in orbit and the return to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz space taxi, which landed in Kazakhstan on May 3.
"We were on orbit in a reduced-gravity environment for 5-1/2 months, about as long as a one-way trip to Mars," Pettit said. "We got in our own vehicle, piloted it down to earth through an air-brake manoeuvre ... Without any help from the ground, we secured the spacecraft, we opened the hatch, we crawled out ...
"All of this demonstrates human beings have enough physical strength and integrity to go on these long missions, pilot vehicles through operational paths, secure equipment and operate immediately," he said.
The Expedition Six crew was picked up more than four hours after they landed.
Pettit said the demonstration was not planned, but said Expedition Six demonstrated "that there are no barriers for human physical performance to a trip to and a landing on Mars."
Pettit, along with the expedition's commander, Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian cosmonaut Nicolai Budarin, began their tour on November 23 and were to return to earth in early March.
However, when the shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry on February 1, killing all seven people aboard, the shuttle fleet was grounded, meaning no shuttle would bring Expedition Six home and replace them with a new crew. The Soyuz brought them down instead, and brought a two-person crew to the station.
While aboard the station, Pettit said he and the other crew members performed "Saturday morning science" beyond their prescribed research.
Just as happens in earth-bound laboratories, he said, scientists aboard the space station can now do programmatic science as required, but also what he called the "science of opportunity" -- those scientific inquiries prompted by circumstance and curiosity.
Bowersox dubbed such experiments "Saturday morning science" because Pettit did them on Saturdays, when those aboard the station had some free time.
One such experiment was the investigation of how water moved when drawn into a thin film by a loop of wire, Pettit said. He watched how the water in the low-gravity environment of the station behaved when warmed and lighted by a flashlight or the light from a video camera.
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As MDC partners with communities to advance equity and opportunity, philanthropic capital is always a needed revitalizing force. Because philanthropy is largely immune to the political pressures of government and the bottom-line pressures of business, it is uniquely suited to provide long-term vision and change in our communities. Yet in many cases, charitable assets are deployed without intentional focus on equity and opportunity for all. It is imperative, then, that foundations develop the insight and tools necessary for long-lasting change.
In 2003, MDC began to work deeply with boards of directors and senior staff of foundations to examine how they could refocus their activities and deploy themselves to address the issues of fairness and opportunity in their communities. We call the resulting process Passing Gear Philanthropy. Inspired by Paul Ylvisaker’s notion of philanthropy as society’s “passing gear” and informed by the concept of “reflective practice” as developed by Donald A. Schön, Passing Gear Philanthropy is grounded in the belief that to move wisely into the future requires deep understanding of our past and present.
The Passing Gear process includes:
- A unique approach to looking at community and regional history for lessons about leadership, change, and the role of philanthropy
- Intensive data analysis to fully understand demographic realities, as well as emerging issues and trends
- New philanthropic frameworks that will deepen understanding of the distinctive levers and limits of private philanthropy as a catalyst for community and systems change, and the tools that private philanthropy has at its disposal
- Development of strategic priorities focused on lasting change in order to achieve each organization’s mission
- To partner with foundations and other philanthropic organizations to develop Passing Gear Philanthropy “habits of mind” and skills that will enable them to create long-lasting change in their communities
- To unleash and inform the philanthropic impulse in all citizens and communities
- To remind trustees of private donor groups that they are custodians of values as well as resources
- To empower those whose voices often are missing from public and philanthropic policy
- We have partnered with community foundations, hospital legacy foundations, family foundations, independent foundations, both urban and rural, as well as United Way organizations, to make strategic resource choices grounded in the history and needs of their communities.
- We have guided grantmakers to redirect more than $1 billion in assets to address the “upstream” causes of persistent challenges. The Otto Bremer Foundation, serving Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, is completing its implementation plan for strategic investment using MDC’s framework. Karl N. Stauber, president and CEO of the Danville Regional Foundation, a hospital-conversion foundation, credits MDC for prompting the foundation’s transition from giving small grants to its $5.4 million focus on early childhood education. “It’s the largest per capita commitment to early childhood education that’s ever been made by a public or private agency in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” he says. “That grew directly out of the work that MDC started doing here five years ago.”
- Our work with individual foundations begins to marshal the huge potential of Southern philanthropies focused on closing the gaps that limit the region’s competitiveness and civic cohesion. We extend the impact of Passing Gear Philanthropy through writing and presentations in the field of philanthropy. For example, our 2007 State of the South Report on Philanthropy as the South’s "Passing Gear” remains a seminal document today. And David Dodson, MDC’s president, is a regular speaker at the Southeastern Council of Foundations and other philanthropic convenings.
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The Halton entrepreneurs competing in the inaugural edition of Pythons’ Pit have been finalized.
In their submissions, finalists tackled issues such as bacterial contamination in the food chain, medical instrument sterilization, dietary restrictions faced by a growing percentage of the population, mobile communications technology, finding new uses for cast off materials, and personalizing the well-known Coleman product line.
Contestants in the high school division show a lot of promise for the future of entrepreneurship in Halton region with their innovative business ideas.
Pythons’ Pit is a partnership between the Rotary Clubs of Halton and McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business to give creative, entrepreneurial residents and high school students of Halton an opportunity to pitch their innovative business ideas or products.
For the finalists, an investment pool of more than $150,000 has been furnished by local business moguls—pythons—who will also serve as the judges:
• Randy Pilon, founder and president and chief executive officer of Virox Technologies Inc.
• John Romano, owner of Nickle Brook brewery
• Susanne Mikler, co-founder and owner of LC Liaison College | Culinary Arts in Oakville
• George Minakakis, a retail leader formerly with the Luxottica Group, parent company for LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sunglass Hut and Licensed Brands
• Nadir Ansari owner and CEO of Isherwood Associates a successful boutique engineering firm,
• Don Dalicandro is Chief Executive Officer of ASI
Competitors will receive investment capital from the pythons in return for an equity stake.
In the high school division, eight local students will have a chance to pitch their business ideas in order to win cash prizes.
All of the entrepreneurs will make their pitches to the pythons on March 23, 2013 at DeGroote’s Ron Joyce Centre.
Entrepreneurial evangelist, lawyer, professor and business mentor, Sean Wise will emcee the event.
Wise has been dubbed the Dragons’ Keeper, for his recurring role as online host and industry advisor for CBC’s Dragons’ Den.
Community support for the first season of Pythons’ Pit has been strong, with more than 37 entrepreneurs applying for the inaugural competition.
For more information or to purchase tickets for the shows, visit www.PythonsPit.ca.
Pythons’ Pit Finalists
• OverAir Proximity Technologies Ltd. Ethan Quoc-Nam Do develops devices and tags that can be added to business cards, posters, signs or even medical wristbands that can transfer data directly to people’s smart phones. Imagine seeing a poster and automatically receiving coupons or being directed to the web site—no typing required.
• AbCelex Technologies develops products to prevent of bacterial infections in food animals. McMaster medical school student Salva Sadeghi and Dr. Saeid Babaei produce feed additives for poultry, beef and dairy cattle and other food-producing animals that are aimed at improving the animals’ health, and, in turn, human’s.
• You Won’t Believe It’s Gluten Free produces muffins and cakes specifically tailored for people with gluten or food intolerances, with a special focus on not compromising on taste. Entrepreneurs Hailey DeSantis-Patry’s and Jeremy Patry’s products can be purchased fresh, frozen, or in batter tubs to bake at home.
• Totem Bags by Melissa Richardson designs, manufactures and markets unique, high quality, practical bags and other useful goods made from locally sourced upcycled materials, including truck tarps, promotional banners, seatbelts, and bicycle inner tubes. Totem has both a corporate and retail line.
• DeVis Technologies principals George Botos, Manfred Vormbaum and Radu Elias devised a technology that helps dental offices clean and disinfect instruments at less than half the cost in equipment, materials and energy, and about half the time without involving any toxic chemicals.
• Custom Cooler Bros. allows individual consumers to customize Coleman cooler products—to date an option that has been available only to companies or teams which place large bulk orders. Brothers Kyle and Blair Cunningham also sell specialty customizable-ready Coleman products that are new to Canada.
Pythons’ Pit Finalists
High School Category
• CreoSearch.ca is a unique online resource for students seeking job opportunities. The site will have jobs that cater to the skill level of students—specifically high school students—from major corporations, to smaller family run businesses in the Peel and Halton region.
Emily Chen, Simren Rai and Jessy Kang, Abbey Park High School
• iTrain is a product that allows athletes to train for multiple sports using the same product. This innovative idea of creating a multi-sport trainer is ideal for anyone looking to improve their athletic skills. The attachable balls and puck make it possible to practise more than one sport instantly, simply by clipping each one onto the end of the rugged portable device.
Garret DeOre and Patrick Choi, Corpus Christi Catholic Secondary School
• Namaste is an Indian food-to-go company based in Milton that brings the traditional taste of Indian food right to everyone’s table. The food is pre-packaged into a microwave- and dishwasher-safe so that food can be re-heated and the container can be reused.
Ann Mathulla, Bishop P.F Reding Catholic Secondary School
• SmartScan Online Solutions allows students to scan library books and have their scanned items sent directly to an online Student Information System (SIS), which they can access from any internet location.
Meagan Dunn, Kevin Kim, Juliana Badovinac and Amy Meeusen, Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School
• Build-A-Bra supplies women the opportunity to design and create a customized bra. The bra will represent who the person is and the company offers an amazing experience for the consumer in designing their own bra.
Lindsay Christopher and Karoline Fontanna, Acton High School
• Muil-E's Hot Sauce is a homemade recipe with a unique texture and unforgettable taste that leaves consumers wanting more. Muil-E's has become more than just a family business, as what began as an educational experiment has transformed into a viable business that has continued to grow.
Ryan Muil, Christ the King Catholic Secondary School
• Heels with New Heights produces shoes that allow wearers to adjust the height for the occasion and comfort they desire.
Pamela Kitching and Salina Jackson, Acton High School
• Mobilization of Restaurants is a computer system that will connect mobile devices and allow restaurants to provide a better experience for their clients.
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Mei Juecheng was the grandson of Mei Wending. He learnt mathematics at Baoding, a city near Beijing which was a provincial capital and also a centre of culture. The Emperor Kangxi had came to power in 1661 when only seven years of age. Once he had become old enough to rule on his own he worked hard to promote learning. He was keen on both Chinese learning and the new European learning brought to China by the Jesuit missionaries. Two key players in the development of mathematics in China around this time are Yunzhi, the Emperor Kangxi's third son, and Li Guangdi who was a minister and mathematical scholar who the Emperor Kangxi had appointed to teach his sons. Mei Juecheng and Li Guangdi's son had both been taught mathematics at Baoding by Mei Wending and so Mei Juecheng's mathematical skills were known to the highest officials in the land.
The Emperor Kangxi himself had studied mathematics from 1689 to 1692 and realised that there was a lack of talented Chinese mathematicians at this time. He asked Li Guangdi to find the best mathematics books and in 1703 Li gave the Emperor Kangxi a copy of Lixue yiwen (Inquiry on Mathematical Astronomy) written by Mei Wending in 1701. Emperor Kangxi was greatly interested and summoned Mei Wending to an audience in 1703. By this time Mei Wending was seventy years old and he went to Baoding to meet Emperor Kangxi taking his grandson Mei Juecheng with him. From this time on Mei Juecheng played a major role in the compilation of mathematical and astronomical works. This became an important project under the Emperor Kangxi who had been advised that both Chinese and European mathematics texts should be compiled into a major encyclopaedia. Li Guangdi and the Emperor's son Yunzhi were both part of an editorial team comprising largely of men trained by either Li Guangdi or Mei Wending.
Of course there was much resistance to the new European learning brought by the Jesuits and the Chinese looked to be able to accept this material without making China feel inferior to Europe in learning. The acceptance of European learning was eased by the hypothesis that it was all of Chinese origin. This was set out by Mei Juecheng in 1710 when he wrote :-
Lately I served at the Imperial Court, receiving from His Majesty the Emperor Kangxi, a work on the 'Jie-fang-gen' [algebra], together with an Imperial Edict, saying that "the people from the Western Ocean name this method as 'A-er-re-ba-da' which can be translated into Chinese as 'Tong-lai-fa' (Method from the East)." Respectfully I read it and found its method extraordinary, capable of serving as a guide to mathematics. However, realizing its method to be very similar to that of 'Tian-yuan-i', I reexamined the 'Shou-shi-li-cao' ... and found out that although the terminology is different, actually the two systems are the same. During the Yuan dynasty, scholars, whether they were composing books on mathematics, or whether they were regulating mathematics, were all dealing with this subject of algebra. Somehow, for reasons unknown, its trace has been lost. Fortunately, from the distant people [the Jesuits], we have re-discovered the old subjects. Still, they have not forgotten where the term 'Tong-lai-fa' comes from.
Mei Juecheng was appointed as Court Mathematician in 1712. In the following year the Emperor Kangxi established the Mengyangzhai (the Academy of Mathematics) and Mei Juecheng joined the team of people working on the compilation Yuzhi shuli jingyun (Treasury of Mathematics) which was published in 1723. Unlike earlier efforts in compiling encyclopaedias of mathematical knowledge, no Jesuits were involved in this work. Mei Juecheng and Chen Houyao (1648-1722) were the chief editors and they were assisted by He Guozong, Ming Antu and, in the early stages of the project, by Mei Wending. Qi Han writes that this work:-
... reapportioned credit to Chinese scholars for many discoveries that earlier Jesuit-Chinese compendiums had credited to Europeans. In particular, studying Western algebra enabled Mei Juecheng to decipher older Chinese mathematical treatises from the Song (920-1279) and Yuan (1206-1368) dynasties whose methods had been lost. This led him to expound a theory of the Chinese origin of Western knowledge. While now acknowledged as grossly overstated, his views helped to revive interest in traditional Chinese mathematics and remained highly influential for many decades.
Benjamin Elman writes :-
Altogether the emperor recruited more than one hundred scholars ... to join the Academy of Mathematics. ... In addition to those in the Academy of Mathematics, who studied mathematics, astronomy, and music, a large number of instrument makers were hired for the technical needs of the new academy. A team of fifteen calculators verified the computations based on the theoretical notions, mathematical techniques and applications, and numerical tables in the first part of the Treasury. Patterned after mathematical textbooks used in Jesuit Colleges, the Treasury introduced European algebra. The last part had a section on logarithms to base 10 and drew on the methods used in Briggs's 1624 'Arithmetica Logarithmica' to compute decimal logarithms. Although Briggs's work had been introduced in 1653, the 'Treasury' explained the use of logarithms in greater detail, and it also included tables for sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, secants, and cosecants for every ten seconds up to ninety degrees, as well as a list of prime numbers and a log table of integers from 1 to 100,000 calculated to 10 decimal places.
In fact the Treasury of Mathematics was part of a larger project, the Luli yuanyuan (Sources of Musical Harmonics and Mathematical Astronomy). Also included in the Sources was the Compendium of Observational and Computational Astronomy. Again Mei Juecheng was the leading academic in this project which, like the Treasury, followed the style of European works. The first part was a general introduction to mathematical astronomy but then Mei Juecheng was able to make use of his grandfather Mei Wending's study of the motion of the moon to provide improved predictions of eclipses of the moon. By accepting the best of European and Chinese astronomical data, the Sources surpassed both.
In 1759 Mei Juecheng published Chishui yizhen (Pearls recovered from the Red River). This contained the infinite series expansion for sin(x) which was discovered by James Gregory and Isaac Newton. In fact the Jesuit missionary Pierre Jartoux (1669-1720) (known in China as Du Demei) introduced the infinite series for the sine into China in 1701 and it was known there by the name 'formula of Master Du'. In fact Pearls recovered from the Red River was one of two chapters that Mei Juecheng appended to the works of Mei Wending that he was editing and republishing. In this chapter, Jean-Claude Martzloff writes :-
[Mei Juecheng] reflects on various subjects (units of length in the classics, a formula of spherical trigonometry, comparison between the algebra of the 'jiegenfang' and the Chinese medieval algebra of the 'tianyuan', geometrical construction of the golden ratio, etc.). He also shows how to calculate:
(a) the length of the circumference given its diameter
(b) the sine of an arc (zhengxian )
(c) the versed sine of an arc (zhengshi )
using infinite series which he does not prove and refers to as "formulas from the Western scholar Du Demei."
Mei Juecheng compiled and edited Mei Wending's written commentaries publishing them as Mei shi congshu jiyao (Collected Works of the Mei Family) in 1761. Important work of Mei Wending on mathematics published in this collection included: Bisuan (Pen Calculations), Chou suan (Napier's bones), Du suan shi li (Proportional Dividers), Shao guang shi yi (Supplement to 'What Width'), Fang cheng lun (Theory of Rectangular Arrays), Gougu ju yu (Right-angled Triangles), Jihe tong jie (Explanations in Geometry), Ping san jiao ju yao (Elements of Plane Trigonometry), Fang yuan mi ji (Squares and Circles, Cubes and Spheres), Jihe bu bian (Supplement to Geometry), Hu san jiao ju yao (Elements of Spherical Trigonometry), Huan zhong shu chi (Geodesy), and Qiandu celiang (Surveying Solids).
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi advised the Egyptian people to vote “yes” this week to the constitutional referendum so they won’t lose out on $20 billion that Qatar has vowed to invest in Egypt.
Logically, it is irrational to vote on the country’s constitution that oppositional figurehead Mohammed al-Baradei described as a social link between the Egyptians, in exchange for financial support from any side.
However Qaradawi’s advice is one of the verbal tricks that were popularly used for terror or intimidation, in order to win the referendum, since there is no longer in Egypt a President that imposes what he sees as appropriate on the Egyptians, as was the case during Hosni Mubarak’s reign.
The ballots are now the referee. Qaradawi wants to intimidate Egyptians by telling them they will lose Qatari donations; others went much further than that; many Islamists have said those who vote for the new constitution will to go to heaven, and threatened those who vote against it that they will burn in hell. And similarly, other parties were afraid that those voting for the constitution will cause strife that could lead to a civil war.
Of course, the $20 billion and the civil war threats are means of mobilization and incitement that reflect the emotions and the importance of this referendum as a contract between the regime and the people. It also reflects the hopes of each party. But, what is the value of a constitution that does not believe in the stability of the country?
What is the value of a constitution that splits the Egyptians? And also, who will save Egypt if the constitution causes instability in the country? It is neither possible for Qatar to grant one dollar of the vowed $20 billion as investments and aid, nor the International Monetary fund (IMF) or the donor countries if Egypt loses its stability.
Therefore, voting for or against the constitution will not be important if the referendum fails to persuade the losers to accept the outcome with approval and genuine faith in the results. The draft constitution and its controversy have ruined the political climate, shot the Egyptian pound dead, and caused serious problems in the stock exchange.
No one in Egypt has the ability to dodge this disaster whether the majority voted for or against the constitution, except President Mursi; his mission will be difficult because each side has considered this situation as a decisive one. Some extremists have joined this controversy; for instance, Salafi Jihadi groups in Sinai have threatened they will resort to the use of weapons to impose the constitution by force.
Even if everyone is against this transgression, the challenge is that each party has reached to a point where there is no more room for maneuvers or retreat later on.
However the constitution is a civilian project that can be endorsed or rejected even after the referendum. Mursi is the key to a solution then; he is the only one who is required to show true leadership through reassuring those who are afraid, and he is the one who is required to gather all the parties at the conference room’s table in his palace to reorganize what was ruined by the constitution’s controversy.
This will oblige him to turn down his loyalty to the Muslim Brotherhood, and act as a President of the republic. If he cannot also be a president of the Copts and liberals, it will be useless for him to remain the leader of some Islamic groups that will overwhelm him in many issues, asking him to do the impossible.
Mursi should appreciate the civilized political position of the opposition leaders, who unanimously said they do not distrust his legitimacy as president and do not agree with those asking for his resignation. The opposition leaders have admitted his right to see through his current presidency term. Nevertheless, the opposition’s legal and moral position will not remain as it is now, if the president will always be with the Brotherhood and marginalize all other parties in the first democratically-elected government.
(Abdelrahman al-Rashed is the General Manager of Al Arabiya. This piece was published in Asharq Al-Awsat on Dec. 16, 2012)
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Two weeks ago in Vienna, delegates at the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the United Nations’ central drug policy-making body, unanimously adopted a resolution promoting measures to prevent drug overdose. Introduced by the Czech Republic and co-sponsored by Israel and Denmark (the latter on behalf of the European Union), the resolution calls on United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), World Health Organization (WHO), and other international organizations to work with member-states to address the global overdose epidemic.
The resolution urges countries to take action by incorporating overdose prevention into their national drug strategies. In collaboration with WHO, UNODC will identify medical standards and gather successful examples of implementation of such efforts from experts around the world. In addition, they will provide guidance and support to countries committed to establishing overdose prevention initiatives.
At the opening of the week-long meeting the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) affirmed its support for overdose prevention. In his opening statement, ONDCP Director Kerlikowske endorsed training for public health and safety personnel in recognizing overdose and administering life-saving techniques and overdose reversal medications such as naloxone.
Although CND resolutions such as this one are not legally binding on member states, they set the tone for international standards and expectations for national activities directed at addressing drug-related harms. Being the first top-level international resolution to recognize the role of naloxone in addressing the opioid overdose epidemic, the resolution is being applauded by many public health advocates working to advance overdose prevention programming and education around the world. United Nations programs, such as UNODC and WHO are mandated to use such resolutions to set institutional strategies and priorities.
Full text of the approved resolution is provided below. The key points for action are contained in the six points at the end of the resolution.
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Eight Egyptians Face Trial for Insulting Islam
The case of eight Egyptians accused of having formed a sect "insulting the Muslim religion" was referred Saturday to the country's correctional high court for state security, a court source told AFP.
An official from the Cairo governorate, Amin Yussef Ali Hassan, is accused of being the head of the sect.
According to the prosecutor's office, those involved tried to "spread extremist ideas contrary to the principles of Islam."
The members of the sect are accused of ignoring the "Sunna" - or sayings and practices of the prophet Mohammed - which, along with the Quran, are the two reference points for Islam, the source added.
The Cairo-based Al Ahram Arabic daily added that the accused allegedly spread ideas like denying that Muslims should peform the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, or fast during Ramadan.
Particularly worrisome to authorities is the group's alleged assertion that Muslims should not face in the direction of Mecca during prayers.
Hajj, fasting during Ramadan and properly performed prayers are three of the five pillars of Islam.
The correctional high court of state security, a special court whose verdicts cannot be appealed, must later fix a date for the start of the trial, said AFP.
The accused could earn sentences of up to five years of hard labor - Albawaba.com
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School Year Programs
The School of Russian Ballet presents age-appropriate programs that safely build strength and flexibility through a progression of Russian Ballet Techniques with emphasis on arm movement, jumps, and turns.
The benefits of the School of Russian Ballet Programs:
Internationally renowned faculty and guest artists.
State of the art studios.
Performance opportunities on a professional level including “The Nutcracker”, one other full length ballet performed with guest artists, and an end-of-the year recital that features variations from classical ballets.
Elective classes including character, repertoire, variation, pas de deux, jazz, modern, and stretch-Pilates.
Children’s Program (Beginners, Pre-Ballet, Levels 1 and 2)
The Children’s Program offers an introduction to the art of dance by exposing the child to expression and creativity through movement. Students learn discipline, coordination, movement to music, and begin to learn how to express feelings through dance. There is a concentration on stretching and developing flexibility. Classes at this level are fun, educational, and inspirational.
The Intermediate Level offers a more structured class environment. The student receives increased formal training at the barre and in centre work. Students at this level improve their ballet technique, and begin executing pirouettes and jumps. They begin learning Character and Repertoire. They also develop a stronger understanding of the body’s movement and when they are ready, they begin pointe work.
Advanced students attend class five times a week and are able to refine their technique. They receive a higher level of training in pointe, variation, repertoire, pas de deux, and enhance their versatility as dancers. They also receive training in stretch-Pilates.
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OKAY.. so i have a question about PC fans... when you take them out of ur computer, they have 3 wires. usually red black and yellow.
what is the 3rd wire for?? is it a temperature indicator? or a fan speed monitor?? what can i use this third wire to do??
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The Computer History Museum, SRI International, and BBN Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of First ARPANET Transmission, Precursor to Today's Internet
MOUNTAIN VIEW and MENLO PARK, Calif., CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —October 27, 2009—Forty years ago this week, two programmers sat in front of computer terminals four hundred miles apart. Unknowingly, they were about to make history. At the University of California, Los Angeles, Charley Kline typed the word "LOGIN" at around nine p.m. on October 29, 1969. The command went through interface computers built by Cambridge's BBN Technologies (formerly Bolt, Beranek, and Newman) on its way to Kline's counterpart Bill Duvall, at SRI International (then known as Stanford Research Institute) in Menlo Park, California. The first letters, "LO", came through to the SRI machine before the system crashed. The minor setback would be fixed quickly, and the connection was fully in place by 10:30 p.m. The very first data had been sent between two nodes of the ARPANET, a key precursor to the Internet.
New interviews with pioneers Duvall and Kline will be made available on October 29 on www.computerhistory.org, along with links to other resources. This will kick off a series of Computer History Museum activities on the history of the Internet and the Web.
"The 1969 connection was not just a symbolic milestone in the project that led to the Internet, but in the whole idea of connecting computers—and eventually billions of people—to each other," said Marc Weber, founding curator of the Museum's Internet History Program. "In the 1960s, as many as a few hundred users could have accounts on a single large computer using terminals, and exchange messages and files between them. But each of those little communities was an island, isolated from others. By reliably connecting different kinds of computers to each other, the ARPANET took a crucial step toward the online world that links nearly a third of the world's population today."
"The development of the ARPANET, which had no commercial application at the time, underscores the power of coordinated basic research and the importance of that research to our society," said Bill Duvall. "In the 1960s, computers were not interconnected and most were not even interactive. A few research groups were looking at the potential of networked computing and how distributed systems might be used as information repositories and collaboration tools, but they were hampered by a huge obstacle: they lacked a network to weave their projects together. Bob Taylor and Larry Roberts at ARPA understood not only the potential of computer networking, but also the challenge of networking during an era when computers were generally not standardized, and did not use a common language or alphabet."
"The ARPANET was built to permit ARPA-supported computer researchers to share common interests without geographical limits," said Bob Taylor, who helped conceive and fund the ARPANET in the mid 1960s as head of computing research at ARPA (U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Taylor and his Program Manager Larry Roberts chose the people and places to build the network, assigning unique roles to three institutions: Cambridge-based BBN built the special Interface Message Processors (IMPs) that connected the main computers to the net and served as the system's administrator; SRI was the Network Information Center, which besides acting as a central library kept track of all the computers on the net and ran the Domain Name System until 1991; and UCLA was the Network Measurement Center, researching and improving how data moved across the network. An original BBN Interface Message Processor (IMP) computer is in the Computer History Museum's collection.
By early 1970, those three Centers were all connected, along with the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. By 1972, the network had 37 nodes. A few years later, the ARPANET would begin the process of connecting itself to other networks that had sprung up—a process known as internetworking—leading to the Internet on which the World Wide Web and email run today. Both SRI and BBN played key roles in internetworking, and SRI's mobile radio van was used in several watershed experiments. The van is now a part of the Computer History Museum's collection.
Note to editors:
-See addendum for more historical detail.
-Visit the Computer History Museum's website throughout the year for news on commemorative networking and Web history activities organized by the CHM Internet History Program.
-Some of the information included in this press release references A Heritage of Innovation: SRI's First Half Century, by Donald L. Nielson.
About the Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM), in Mountain View, Calif. is a nonprofit organization with a four-decade history. The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computer history, and is home to the largest international collection of computing artifacts in the world, encompassing computer hardware, software, documentation, ephemera, photographs and moving images.
CHM brings computer history to life through an acclaimed speaker series, dynamic website, onsite tours, as well as physical and online exhibits. Current exhibits include "The Silicon Engine," "Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2," "Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess," "Innovation in the Valley"—a look at Silicon Valley startups—and the unique "Visible Storage Gallery," featuring over 600 key objects from the collection.
The signature "Computer History: The First 2,000 Years" exhibition will open in late 2010.
For more information, visit www.computerhistory.org or call (650) 810-1010.
About BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies is a legendary R&D organization that leverages its substantial intellectual property portfolio to produce advanced, repeatable solutions such as the Boomerang shooter detection system. With expertise spanning information security, speech and language processing, networking, distributed systems, and sensing and control systems, BBN scientists and engineers have amassed a substantial collection of innovations and patented solutions. BBN now employs approximately 700 people in seven locations in the US: Cambridge, Massachusetts (headquarters); Arlington, Virginia; Columbia, Maryland; Middletown, Rhode Island; San Diego, California; St. Louis Park, Minnesota; and O'Fallon, Illinois. For more information, visit www.bbn.com.
Addendum—Detailed Historical Information
By the end of 1969, the ARPANET had added the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Utah as the third and fourth nodes. BBN itself was connected in March 1970, meaning it could begin live system administration over the new network. By 1972, the ARPANET included 37 networked computers. In the ensuing years it was opened to other research and development organizations including universities, research contractors, and government labs.
But the ARPANET itself had now become an island, with no links to the other networks that had sprung up. By the early1970s, researchers in France, the UK, and the U.S. began developing ways of connecting networks to each other, a process known as internetworking.
In 1977, SRI was a key player in an experiment connecting the ARPANET to two other networks, using the SRI packet radio van now in the Computer History Museum's collection. By 1983, the ARPANET and other networks had switched over to the internetworking protocols still used today and the Internet was rapidly growing. We now run the World Wide Web, email, telephony, and countless other applications over this network of networks as part of our daily lives.
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dcurtis at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Thu Jul 6 04:48:39 EST 1995
swest at imt.net wrote:
>My daughter-in-law has AB Pos blood - my son has AB Neg. She has suffered
>three near fatal miscarriages and has recently found out she is pregnant. The
>Doctor in the town through which she had the last miscarriage told them it
>could be a genetic chromosone problem...like on the "leg" was missing from the
> X or Y. Her mother is B neg and her father was O Pos. I am A Neg and
>took all the Rhogam shots many years ago. Could anyone offer some information
>to this problem? It would be most appreciated. Please understand it needs to
>be in layman's language. What genetic information from either side would be
>useful to us?
It's hard to tell from your posting, but the blood group issue may be
irrelevant. If the question is why she has had recurrent miscarriages,
then the doctor may be suggesting that this could be because she or
her husband has some chromosomal rearrangement that causes them no
harm but which means that often the foetus conceived ends up with a
very abnormal set of chromosomes which means that it cannot survive.
If this has been the situation then subsequent pregnancies may be
normal, but there may be a risk of another abnormal foetus and
miscarriage. To diagnose this, a simple first step would be to examine
the chromosomes of the parents (i.e. your son and daughter-in-law). If
one of them does have such an abnormality (for example a "balanced
translocation") then obtain a sample of cells from the foetus or
placenta may then be indicated, to see if the foetus has ended up with
a normal set of chomosomes or not.
All this is very speculative. The real advice is: discuss the
situation with the obstetrician and if indicated get appropriate
genetic counselling and/or testing from a medical geneticist.
Dave Curtis (dcurtis at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk)
Institute of Psychiatry, London
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Hathout died of natural causes Saturday at his Pasadena home, said a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council, of which he was a prominent member.
He was also a leader of the Islamic Center of Southern California, where he coordinated outreach efforts for two decades. A well-regarded scholar, he wrote several books, including "Reading the Muslim Mind."
"He was one of our giants in the history of Islam in America," who urged Muslims to be "organically integrated in American society and not act as visitors" in it, Salam al Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said Sunday.
In 1998 Hathout delivered a sermon at the first White House celebration of Eid al-Fitr, the day marking the end of the Muslim holy month Ramadan. Along with Rabbi Leonard Beerman of Bel-Air's Leo Baeck Temple and the Rev. George Regas of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Hathout also helped organize the Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race, one of the first major inter-religious efforts in Los Angeles.
"As a physician he was so committed to life, he wanted to stand against anything that was going to obliterate life. He did that as a deeply religious person," Regas said Sunday.
Hathout was born in Cairo on Dec. 23, 1924. The son of a schoolteacher, he was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he earned degrees from the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He also had a doctorate of philosophy in reproductive genetics.
He taught obstetrics and gynecology in Kuwait, where he lived for 26 years before immigrating to the United States in the late 1980s.
He quickly became involved in interfaith work in Los Angeles. With Beerman and Regas, he organized weekly prayer services for Muslims, Christians and Jews during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. The first service at All Saints in Pasadena drew more than 1,500 worshipers.
"We've lived together for centuries with mutual reserve and hatred," he told the Daily News in 1991. "One of the positive things of the whole gulf crisis is that the three communities came together and discovered each other's faith and scriptures are so similar."
After 9/11, Hathout stepped up his efforts at bridge-building and called on Muslims to tone down anti-American rhetoric. He also spoke at Open Mosque Day, a program launched in 2002 in which more than two dozen mosques in Southern California invited non-Muslims to join in Islamic prayers, food and literature.
At one such event a few years ago, he told visitors that instead of classifying humanity by religion, he sought to view people in more basic terms: "those with a loving heart and those with a hating heart."
"He had a wonderful heart," said Dr. Omar Alfi, a physician and former chairman of the Islamic Center of Southern California, who knew Hathout for 60 years. "His main point was that religion is love . . . that humans are either loving or hating people irrespective of their religion.
"That was always a very important point for him."
Hathout is survived by his wife of 56 years, Salonas; a daughter, Eba; a brother, Maher; and two grandchildren.
Burial will take place at 3 p.m. today at Rose Hills Memorial Park, 3888 Workman Mill Road, Whittier 90601. Visitation with the family is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Islamic Center of Southern California, 434 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles 90020.
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Architect, educator and writer Alexander Caragonne, who died Wednesday at 77, left indelible marks on San Antonio's landscape:
The Brackenridge Park master plan, Gardendale and Loma Park elementary schools, Collins Garden Library, an urban design concept for Broadway.
But Caragonne's most seminal work, even in his own mind, was Plaza Guadalupe, an urban space on the West Side that was the site of Pope John Paul II's visit 25 years ago and this weekend's Mexican Independence Day festivities.
“It was his design and his great public space,” retired architect Lee Reyna of Reyna/Caragonne Architects said. “It got published in Architectural Record, then in Architecture magazine. It won a state design award from the Texas Society of Architects in 1985.”
“It was a seminal project,” he said.
Caragonne's career was highly influenced by his education at the University of Texas' School of Architecture, where he graduated in 1960. He was there during a renaissance period led by a young, ground-breaking faculty that developed new approaches not only to architecture but its teaching.
A lot of the nation's future deans and professors of architecture came through UT, said Andrew Perez, who went to school with Caragonne. “The impact of UT-Austin was tremendous. It changed the way people taught, the way architecture was conveyed to students, and today a lot of what you see in architecture education is a direct outgrowth of that. This is what Alex wrote about, so he had a tremendous impact nationally.”
Caragonne's book “The Texas Rangers: Notes from an Architectural Underground” documented it, and his mentor Colin Rowe was among them. Caragonne edited Rowe's collected works in three volumes titled, “As I Was Saying.”
Caragonne taught at several universities including Columbia, Yale and Cornell, where he earned a master's degree. He taught at his alma mater, San Antonio College and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
He was described as intense and generous and as an avid collector of Mexican folk art.
His last book, “Teaching Architecture,” will be published by the Austin-based Charles Moore Foundation next year.
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“Managers” are exempt from the overtime provisions of the Employment Standards Act (British Columbia). But, beware of the narrow definition, and the potential for overtime claims at straight time.
Not everyone called or considered a manager in the workplace is exempt. Only those who are employed in an executive capacity, or whose principal responsibilities are to supervise or direct human or other resources, are “managers” under the Act.
Even then, a manager may still qualify for overtime at straight time. If the manager’s contract links salary to a certain number of hours worked, or links time off in lieu to extra hours worked, the Employment Standards Branch will consider the manager to be entitled to straight time for additional hours.
To avoid the risk of such liability, offers of employment and employment contracts for managers should explicitly state that salary is paid as full compensation for all hours worked, including any hours in excess of those normally worked.
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Jewish World Review Nov. 3, 2004 / 19 Mar-Cheshvan, 5765
Is politics the way?
Black politicians and the civil rights establishment take it as an act of faith that progress for black people requires racial politics and government programs. How about examining this vision with a few simple, common-sense questions?
Whether you're black, white or polka dot, in order to take advantage of opportunities, you must be prepared. A large part of that preparation is to get a decent K-12 education. In order for children to do well in school, there are some minimum requirements that must be met. Someone must make them do their homework, see to it that they get a good night's rest, fix a breakfast, and make sure they get to school on time and obey school authorities. This is not rocket science, but here's my question. Can those requirements be satisfied by a president, congressman or mayor?
If those requirements aren't met, there's little hope that a child will get the academic preparation necessary to take advantage of opportunities. Spending more money on education cannot replace poor parenting. If it could, black academic achievement would be much higher than it is.
Numerous studies show that children raised in stable two-parent households do far better than those raised in single-parent households. They are less likely to have out-of-wedlock births, less likely to engage in criminal behavior and more likely to complete high school. Historically, black families have been relatively stable. From 1880 to 1960, the proportion of black children raised in two-parent families held steady at around 70 percent; in 1925 Harlem, it was 85 percent. Today, only 38 percent of black children are raised in two-parent families. In 1940, black illegitimacy was 16 percent; today, it's 70 percent. Stable two-parent families are vital for a child's development. The solution to the problem of unstable families won't be found in the political arena. There's nothing a president, congressman or mayor can do.
In many black neighborhoods, businessmen must install bars and roll-down gates for their storefronts, hire security guards and pay high insurance rates. Security precautions add significantly to the cost of business, and who do you think pays these extra costs? The businessman pays in the form of a lower return, and his customers pay in the form of higher prices and less convenience.
A tiny percentage of the black community is allowed to impose high costs on its overwhelmingly law-abiding residents. Criminals, vandals and thugs have turned once economically viable shopping areas into economic wastelands. Ensuring public safety is a job of politicians, and they fail miserably. The police, courts and jails allow thugs to prey on the black community with near impunity.
Solutions to the most serious problems that black Americans face will not be found in the political arena. Otherwise, the problems would have been long solved with the civil rights legislation, litigation and the more than $8 trillion spent on poverty programs since 1965. Or the problems would have been solved by the two terms of President Clinton, whom some blacks have called the first black president.
Perhaps the biggest roadblock to finding solutions is the widely held vision of the problem black people face, namely racial discrimination. That vision calls for civil rights strategies. The truth of the matter is that the black civil rights struggle is over and it's won. At one time, black Americans did not enjoy the constitutional protections enjoyed by others. Today, there are no constitutional protections not enjoyed by blacks. That's not to say that every vestige of discrimination has been eliminated. It is to say that the devastating problems facing a large proportion of the black community are not civil rights problems and the solution won't be found in the political arena.
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© 2004, Creators Syndicate
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Back in the early 90's a car builder/adventurer named Rick Dobbertin and his wife, Karen, set about building the ultimate RV. The Dobbertin Surface Orbiter. It would travel over land and water on a planned circumnavigation of the world.
Rick started with a 1959 Heil milk tanker of all things, and went from there.
He hand-built a frame into which he installed a 6.5L GM Turbodiesel (marine converted) engine with a 4sp automatic and 4WD.
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For the interior, a full RV type interior was constructed. The dual controls look more at home in an aircraft than an RV. The detail work on this vehicle is brilliant. The build took over 4 years and 14,000 hours of work.
|In the Panama Canal|
All images and information are from the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter website. There is tons more photos and information there. Check out the rest of his site as well. Lots of cool and off-the-wall projects he's working on. My kind of guy.
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Earlier this month I had a fascinating interview with Dr. Naweed Syed, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, head of University of Calgary Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy. Dr. Syed is one of the lead researchers behind neurochip − “a microchip with the ability to monitor several functions of the brain.“Neurochip is “a novel lab-on-a-chip technology that, through an ultra-sensitive component built directly on the microchip, also enables direct imaging of activity in brain cells.”
In one fascinating part of the interview, Dr. Syed talked about Parkinson’s patients who have really bad tremors and don’t respond to drugs anymore. Currently, surgeons insert a deep brain stimulation electrode to allow the patients to stimulate the electrode themselves which release dopamine to stop the tremors. Unfortunately, the electrode can continue to stimulate the brain cells beyond the limit. Resulting in what is known as excitotoxicity. (Too much dopamine constantly being produced and brain cells being over excited.) In essence, nobody is there to tell the electrode when the stimulation is enough and can be stopped to avoid damage because there is no loop going back to tell it. Dr. Syed suggests implanting a two-way link where machines (capacitors and transistors) and the brain cells can talk to each other to better control the stimulation loop and avoid/reduce the problem of excitotoxicity.
As an alumnus of University of Calgary, it makes me really proud to see cool research done in Calgary, Alberta. At the same time, near the end of the interview, I asked Dr. Syed about the challenges of getting the required funding for the research program to succeed and to keep doing cutting edge researches right here in Calgary. Given the achievements his team has made so far, I would hate to see any of these world class scientists leaving Canada to go to United States/China, etc because our three level of governments and private industry partners are not putting in the needed funding to keep doing these ground-breaking researches that can lead to better medical devices, better drugs, etc right in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
On a personal note, a very close friend has Parkinson’s and I hope the device Dr. Syed talked about can be developed, tested, and approved soon so that my friend and other Parkinson’s patients can benefit.
University of Calgary, UToday “New advances for neurochip“
CTV News (with video), “U of C researchers achieve major milestone“
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Wood Veneering Misunderstood
What do you think of when you hear the word “veneer?” If the term calls to mind furniture masterpieces with complicated marquetry designs or criss-crossing patterns of inlay, then you may think of wood veneering as an exalted technique reserved for only the most skilled woodworkers. On the other hand, if you were educated in the solid wood construction school of woodworking, you might think of veneering as low grade substitute for the “real thing.”
The truth is, neither view gives a very accurate picture of the craft. Veneering is simply a method for decorating the surface of one material with another more attractive material. In the hands of an expert, it can produce some of the most remarkable effects in woodworking, but there’s also plenty of room for beginners. Most veneering techniques, in fact, aren’t all that complicated, and with just a few hand tools and with a little know-how you can have perfect results right from the beginning.
The idea that no self-respecting woodworker would stoop to the “deceptive” practice of veneering is another unfortunate misconception. Veneered surfaces made with modern techniques and materials are every bit as durable and attractive as solid wood, and in many situations veneering offers considerable advantages over solid wood construction. Substrates for veneer, for example, can be chosen for their dimensional stability and other construction properties rather than their appearance. And once they actually know a little about veneering, most woodworkers come to see it as a respectable and extremely useful technique.
Copyright © 2009, Rockler Companies, Inc.
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Seventh- and eighth-grade classes are working on two community service projects called “Tiny Tim’s Kitchen” and “Anne’s Toy Chest.” The efforts are part of a shift toward project-based learning in the Talladega County School System, language arts teacher Emeka Barclay said.
“The job with these projects is for kids to interact with people and get a better understanding of what community is,” Barclay said. “We want to get them thinking outside of just B.B. Comer and make their education more global.”
For their projects, students will be reading literature that focuses on the benevolent nature of mankind. Eighth-grade will read “A Christmas Carol” and will collect canned food donations for the Care House with its “Tiny Tim’s Kitchen” project, while seventh-grade will read “Anne of Green Gables” and will focus on collecting toys for SAFE through “Anne’s Toy Chest.”
Barclay said the Care House and SAFE are outstanding service programs in Sylacauga and supporting them through these projects is meant to “provide students with life-long learning skills that will foster responsible and caring individuals.”
The school has a goal of collecting about 800-900 canned goods and 200-300 toys.
Students are hoping to gather donations from the community by personally contacting different businesses, organizations and community leaders.
“This is our first year doing this, and the students are a little shy, but this is something we’re hoping to build on in the future,” she said.
The projects will culminate with two events, the first being Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. with a showcase presentation called “The Season of Giving” at the concert band’s Christmas concert. Guests are encouraged to bring canned goods or toys as admission to the concert.
Donations will then be presented to SAFE and the Care House on Dec. 14 at 9:30 a.m.
For more information, contact B.B. Comer at 256-315-5400.
Contact Emily Adams at email@example.com.
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By David Espo
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Democrats have 'earned the mantle of fiscal responsibility' since taking control of Congress in January by paying for their priorities.
'One hundred percent of the bills' have been paid for, she told a conference of the Associated Press Managing Editors. She estimated that 80 percent of the costs have been covered by spending reductions elsewhere in the budget.
Pelosi, D-Calif., contrasted the Democrats' performance with what she said was Republican abandonment of the pay-as-you-go principle while they and President Bush shared power.
'A projected surplus of $5.6 trillion became a budget deficit of more than $2 trillion' between the time Bush took office and the present, she said.
As a result, she said that in 2007, 'we will spend more on interest payments on our national debt than on any other national priority but defense. We pay in interest four times more than we spend on education and four times what it will cost to cover 10 million children with health insurance for five years.'
House GOP leader John Boehner of
Pelosi's remarks on spending coincided with the release of a report by the Democratic-controlled House Budget Committee saying the new majority had enforced a pay-as-you-go rule 'despite initial skepticism that such discipline could be maintained.'
The report cited spending cut offsets in a farm bill, an increase in college aid and a recently vetoed bill to expand health insurance to millions of lower-income children.
The claims drew a swift rebuttal from House Republicans, who said nearly three-quarters of the Democrats' claimed savings were the result of 'gimmicks, fees or tax increases.'
As an example, they said House Democrats relied on increased fees to cover higher costs in a farm bill, then relied on some of the same measures to pay for a portion of higher spending in energy legislation.
Much of the cost of the insurance measure is paid for by an increase in the tobacco tax.
In her appearance before the editors, Pelosi said Democrats will 'never stop working to end the war' in
'The choice is clear: responsible redeployment of our troops out of
The debate about spending is a perennial one. The Democratic-controlled Congress appears to be on a collision course with Bush and his Republican allies over the cost of routine spending bills needed to fund the government for the budget year that began Oct. 1.
Bush has issued veto threats against most of the 12 measures, saying they exceed his own budget by a combined $22 billion.
Democrats counter that most of the additional money would be used to restore unrealistic cuts sought by the administration to programs such as law enforcement, education and health research.
Pelosi has enforced pay-as-you-go discipline only on legislation affecting mandatory federal programs such as college student loans and children's health and not on the annual spending bills.
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Even as Arizona continues to distinguish itself as America’s undisputed leader in hare-brained xenophobia, the state has stumbled upon a very good idea. Hot on the heels of SB 1070, the controversial Arizona law that hands cops expansive powers to detain anybody who gives off an insufficiently American vibe, Republican lawmakers in the state have set their sights on a new state law to deny citizenship to babies born on American soil whose parents lack proper papers.
Currently, anyone born within U.S. boundaries counts as a U.S. citizen, and it doesn’t matter a bit how mom got in. The proposal to end “birthright citizenship” for the children of unauthorized immigrants springs from less than generous motives, and almost surely runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution. But ending it altogether is a better idea than you might think. (And if you already think it’s a good idea, it’s good for reasons you might find surprising.) For one, it would likely achieve the opposite of its intended result by making America more, rather than less, welcoming to newcomers.
Well-ordered societies are extended networks of peaceful and productive cooperation, and those networks don’t suddenly stop at political borderlines drawn by conquest and colonization. Americans and Mexicans are deeply intertwined by blood, soil, travel, toil and trade. After all, Arizona was Mexico once upon a time, until the U.S. seized Northwest Mexico and pushed the border south. Efforts to arbitrarily segregate people tied by history, culture, and mutual economic interest are bound to fail. The Draconian Arizona model of immigration reform seeks to complete the colonizing work of Manifest Destiny by instituting a more perfect apartheid. It seeks to address the perception of a breakdown in the rule of law by ignoring causes in favor of aggressively treating symptoms. Higher walls. More guards, more guns, more jails. Your papers, please.
The alternative is to secure a peaceful and humane order through policies that acknowledge the cultural, economic, and geographical unity of northern Mexico and the American Southwest. The rule of law demands a clear set of equitable rules that respects and regulates natural patterns of traffic, that sets and sustains long-term expectations, that facilitates and channels the fundamental human inclination to seek out opportunity and the benefits of cooperation. To set up a stop sign every five feet and then to crack down on people who don’t follow the rules misses the point. So does establishing an imaginary line that restricts trade and travel while making a muddle of citizenship.
Fortunately, we already have a model of sensible reform from a frequently insensible place — the European Union. By establishing a common labor market in which Americans and Mexicans (Canadians too!) may range freely, living and working where they please, we can channel the commercial energy of integration while maintaining distinctly separate citizenship. Indeed, the feasibility of this arrangement requires maintaining a clear distinction between the right to live and work in another country’s territory and the right to the benefits enjoyed by its citizens. It is a fact of modern life that the redistributive nation-state offers all manner of goods to citizens. To be a citizen of a wealthy country is a lot like being a member of a private club. Yet even the wealthiest national clubs are straining to deliver the benefits promised to members. If a club’s rules permit visitors, invited or not, to mint new members simply by giving birth, cash-strapped current members are bound to object.
The EU’s shortcomings, from bureaucratic micromanagement to a floundering common currency, have obscured its great practical and moral triumph: the dramatic expansion of European mobility rights and the inspiring integration of the continent’s labor markets. When Britain opened its labor markets to Polish workers in 2004, the gap in average income between the two countries was about as big as that between the United States and Mexico. But per capita GDP in Poland has improved markedly since then, hastening the day when Poland provides a robust market for British goods — and possibly British labor, too. Similarly, by 2012, Romanians and Bulgarians, who are on average poorer than Mexicans, will be able to live and work in rich countries such as France, Germany, and Britain. It’s worth noting, however, that not a single EU country has a birthright citizenship rule like that in the U.S.
Birthright citizenship made sense for a frontier country with open borders, newly freed slaves, and a small, remote bureaucracy. But the time seems ripe to consider alternatives. Ending full birthright citizenship leaves open many intermediate possibilities, such as granting citizenship to children born to foreign citizens who have legally resided in the country for a predetermined number of years. In response to agitation over a growing population of Turkish guest workers, Germany changed its rules to grant citizenship to Germany-born children of Germany-born children of resident foreigners.
There’s ample reason to believe a change in policy could make America a more immigrant-friendly place while simultaneously restricting the costly benefits of citizenship. Though undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most forms of government assistance, their America-born kids do qualify, which is no doubt an attraction to some prospective immigrant parents. The hard-right Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce speaks for many Americans when he says birthright citizenship “rewards lawbreakers.” What’s more, because these children, once grown, can sponsor family members for authorized migration, they function as border-spanning bridges over which a retinue of relatives may trod. These relatives, once naturalized, can in turn sponsor aunts and uncles and cousins without end. Hence the fear of the “anchor baby,” a gurgling demographic landmine set to explode into a multi-headed invasion of Telemundo fans.
This line of thinking may be ugly, but there is no doubt that many Americans subscribe to it. According to Rasmussen Reports, 58 percent of Americans oppose birthright citizenship for kids of undocumented immigrants. However, those who wish to be rid of birthright citizenship — whether to hasten the freedom-enhancing arrival of a pan-American labor market (like me) or to put an end to the imagined scourge of anchor babies (like Sen. Pearce) — face a truly formidable obstacle: the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” states the first sentence of the 1868 amendment. Longstanding precedent has established that the immigration status of the mother is usually irrelevant to the child’s qualification for full membership in Club America. Arizona’s Pearce, who promoted the state’s vile SB 1070, argues that the 14th Amendment “was not intended for illegal aliens.” But his constitutional case is hopeless. There were no “illegal aliens” in 1868. Back then, lawful residence in the U.S. merely required stepping over the border or onto the shore. Pearce’s argument won’t fly in court.
Consequently, any move to thwart birthright citizenship will require a Constitutional amendment. So let’s get to work! It’s a big task, and if it’s going to happen, it’s going to require the cooperation of unlikely allies. Russell Pearce, call me.
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Hi,, Mr Jacob, I dont no anything about XML so what is special on XML that you wrote book on this technology . So that i can purchase some books on XML. Abhijeet SCP J2SE1.4
Joined: Jun 24, 2006
I'm actually female, not male.
You just described what is so special about the book - it is for a raw beginner like yourself. It covers the main things that you need to know and gives you a taste of areas like Ajax and Flash. I'm not aware of any other XML books that include Flash.
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Sorry for that Sas.. that will never happen again. Thanks for your info. Abhijeet
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War in Colombia
Colombia suffers from a decades old civil war that has become increasingly violent. Human rights violations are widespread and civil society is under constant attack. US military aid only increases the levels of violence and reduces the possibility of finding solutions to Colombia’s economic and social problems.
Using the “war on drugs” and the “war on terror” as twin justifications, the US provides billions of dollars of funding and equipment to Colombia’s military. Colombia’s military has the worst human rights record in the hemisphere and is linked to paramilitary organizations operating terrorist death squads.
Herbicide Spraying in Colombia
A core piece of this US aid program has been a militarized drug crop eradication program. The US government actively sponsors and promotes aerial spraying of herbicides over large areas of Colombian countryside. Ostensibly, the spray programs are intended to kill drug crops: coca, which is the raw material for cocaine, and opium poppy, the raw material for heroin. However, the spray campaigns create widespread damage, killing food crops and destroying delicate rainforest ecosystems. The spray sometimes lands on people’s homes and schools, or directly on people. Significant concerns exist about the effects of the spray campaigns on agriculture, biodiversity, and human health.
Las Lianas works with partner organizations to support Colombian colleagues as they fight to stop the spraying, and to educate US policy-makers and the public about the devastating effects of this US-sponsored policy.
Las Lianas Activities
Over the period 1999 to 2005, the Las Lianas Colombia Project worked to collect and publicize information about the impacts of the aerial herbicide spraying, and to help provide scientific documentation of health and environmental effects experienced by the targeted communities.
Las Lianas board member Rachel Massey has been at the forefront of publicizing the negative effects of the drug eradication program. In 2003, one of her articles on the topic was selected for a Project Censored award as a top story of the year.
Las Lianas produced a series of overviews on the impacts of the spray campaigns, and provided these to partner organizations working to promote human rights in Colombia. Our most detailed report, "Health and Environmental Effects of Herbicide Spray Campaigns in Colombia," (March 2002) summarized existing information on the health and environmental effects of the spray campaigns available from a variety of published and unpublished documents. Previously, this material had not been available in a readily accessible form.
We have also provided expert commentary on US government documents relevant to the spray campaigns.
In 2002, Las Lianas prepared a response to a State Department sponsored health report that purports to show the spray campaigns have created no adverse health effects in Colombia. Designed for use by partner organizations in lobbying efforts, the response outlines the principal scientific flaws in the report, including small sample size, lack of explicit or reproducible methodology, and lack of consistency between data presented and conclusions drawn.
Also in 2002, Las Lianas assisted the Amazon Alliance in writing a detailed letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency urging EPA to request detailed information on the spray campaigns from the US State Department. The letter posed questions on issues including the chemicals used in the spray campaigns, the quantities applied per acre, and the availability of health data on the formulations used, and was a principal resource guiding EPA as it evaluated State Department claims about the safety of the spray campaigns.
Las Lianas was one of several organizations submitting expert commentary to the US Senate, responding to an EPA report on State Department activities in Colombia.
Las Lianas submitted letters, and helped other experts to develop letters, supporting the application of the precautionary principle by a Colombian court.
In addition to producing written materials, we have worked to create networks of science and health professionals concerned about the situation in Colombia. We worked to bring a scientific voice into the debate, for example by helping to create an open letter to the US Senate from scientists concerned about the health and environmental effects of the spray campaigns. More than 150 scientists and health professionals across the US signed the letter.
Since 2005, Las Lianas has not maintained an active program in this area. However, we continue to provide information to journalists, advocates, and others based on our past work.
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This is an aerial view of modern day Cuzco. In the center of the picture, the cathedral of Cuzco can be seen.
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Image courtesy of Corel Photography
Cuzco is located in Southern Peru. It is the ancient capital of the Inca Empire. It is the oldest, continuously occupied city in the Americas. In ancient times, Cuzco was the ceremonial capital and hub of the Inca road network which made up of about 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) of roads- that's over 10 times the distance from New York City to Los Angeles, California!
Ancient Incas practiced astronomy. Much of Incan life was linked to the movement of the stars, especially the Sun.
Ancient Cuzco was closely linked to the Sun. In fact, at the heart of the ancient city, there was a Temple of the Sun called Coricancha. It is thought that Coricancha was an observatory for solstices, equinoxes, eclipses and other important time markers. Religious rituals and daily life (such as in the planting of crops) were based on these time markers.
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Today, we make a spectacle. The University of
Houston's College of Engineering presents this
series about the machines that make our
civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity
I saw my first IMAX movie in
Fort Worth. It was a half-hour film called
Speed. The theatre seats were raked at
a 45 degree angle. The enormous screen curved from
nearly overhead down to the floor. My eye couldn't
encompass the whole scene. Instead, it roamed the
picture -- up and down, left and right. I was
encased in a remarkable visual experience.
I've always been troubled by motion sickness. Now I
rode fast cars on winding roads. I flew airplanes
off the edge of cliffs. It was exciting, but I get
sick just remembering it.
Showmen have tried to give that kind of reality for
a long time. Robert Barker invented the true
forbear of the IMAX in London in 1789. He exhibited
a 360-degree view of Edinburgh.
It was a modest beginning, but it held the
potential for a new art form. By 1791 Barker had
expanded to a 10,000-square-foot canvas of the
English fleet at Spithead. Now spectators stood on
a raised platform in the center. Like the IMAX
picture, this one rose from below the line of sight
to above it. Barker added other scenes -- cities,
naval battles, that sort of thing.
He also invented a new name for the experience. It
was "Panorama." That's how the word panorama became
part of our language. Barker made it up from the
Greek for "entire view."
The art form spread. When Barker's patent ran out
in 1801, Robert Fulton -- of all people --
introduced the Panorama to France. People added
colored lights. They created illusions of motion by
unwinding very long pictures from huge spools.
Joshua Reynolds admired the Panoramas. He went back
again and again to see them. Other painters
disagreed. Constable looked at the clever way
Panoramas manipulated perspective. Then he
dismissed them because their "object was
The Panorama rage began dying out by 1820. They
revived during the 1870s and 1880s. But the sad
thing about those marvelous old paintings was that
they were too hard to store. Today we have the
shabby remains of a few. We have the sketches for
others. We have a few loose fragments. We have to
recreate the art before we can see how it touched
So museums are reconstructing the old art. More
important, new and better Panoramas are being
created and displayed today -- chiefly in Europe,
but some in America as well.
IMAX may be the spawn of the old Panoramas, but in
an odd way, it cannot replace a static picture. We
crave the freedom to explore a scene at our own
tempo. Those old Panoramas gave us next best thing
to standing right on the rim of the Grand Canyon --
or in the frozen moment of victory at Trafalgar.
I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston,
where we're interested in the way inventive minds
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What's the controversy?
Two weeks ago a group of current and former Southern Baptist leaders signed and posted a statement which attempts to draw a clear line between Calvinism and what they call the "traditional Southern Baptist" of soteriology. The document has attracted a considerable number of supporters and critics and sparked a vocal debate about the role of Reformed theology within the Southern Baptist Convention.
If I'm not a Southern Baptist, why should I care about this debate?
Because the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the largest Protestant denomination in America, both the controversy and the debates about Calvinism are likely to spill into other non-reformed denominations and parachurch ministries and have an influence on the larger evangelical community.
What is the document and how was it introduced?
On May 30, the original signers of the statement, titled "A Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God's Plan of Salvation," posted the document on the website SBC Today.
As SBC Today notes, the format and subject matter of the statement is similar to that of the Together for the Gospel statement, which was signed or affirmed by some Southern Baptist leaders who embrace Reformed views.
Who signed the statement?
The document was originally endorsed by six former SBC presidents (Morris Chapman, Jimmy Draper, Paige Patterson, Bailey Smith, Bobby Welch, and Jerry Vines), two seminary presidents (Chuck Kelley of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and former SBC president Paige Patterson, who now serves as the president of the denomination's largest seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary), and five state executive directors (Jim Futral of Mississippi, David Hankins of Louisiana, Mike Procter of Alaska, John Sullivan of Florida, and Bob White of Georgia).
To date, over 350 Southern Baptists serving as denominational leaders, pastors, evangelists, church staff members, Baptist seminary and college personnel, and lay leaders have also added their names to the statement.
What is the impetus for the document?
Although interest in Calvinism has been growing within the SBC for almost 30 years, the issue has become more divisive within the denomination over the past decade. In a blog interview last October, Frank Page, President and CEO of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, identified the theological divide of Calvinism and non-Calvinism as one of the greatest challenges facing the SBC. "At some point we are going to see the challenges which are ensuing from this divide become even more problematic for us," said Page. "I regularly receive communications from churches who are struggling over this issue."
(Page told Baptist Press News that he has chosen not to sign this current document.)
Southern Baptist leaders have also hosted two different conferences to address the issue. The first in 2007 was entitled "Building Bridges Conference: Southern Baptists and Calvinism," and was sponsored by Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) and Founders Ministries and hosted at Ridgecrest Conference Center by LifeWay Christian Resources. Approximately 550 attendees participated in the three-day conference.
The second was "The John 3:16 Conference" in 2008, sponsored by Jerry Vines Ministries, and co-sponsored by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS), Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, Luther Rice Seminary, and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. It was hosted by First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Georgia, with about 1,000 attendees at the two-day conference.
What is the SBC's official view on Calvinism?
According to the denomination's website, "The Southern Baptist Convention has not taken an official stance on either Calvinism or Arminianism."
How many Southern Baptists are Calvinists?
Surveys by LifeWay Christian Resources and the North American Mission Board found that about 10 percent of Southern Baptist leaders identify themselves as five-point Calvinists, while about 30 percent of recent seminary graduates identify themselves as such.
If the signers reject Calvinist soteriology, do they embrace Arminianism?
Although the views expressed in the document are largely indistinguishable (see update) from classical Arminianism, many of the signers appear to reject or avoid that label, preferring to simply be classified as "Traditional Southern Baptist soteriology." The document itself does not use the term Arminian.
As Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, says in regards to this document, "Clearly, some Southern Baptists do not want to identify as either Calvinists, non-Calvinists, or Arminians. That is fine by me, but these theological issues have been debated by evangelicals for centuries now, and those labels stick for a reason."
UPDATE: In a question below, I raise the concern some critics have about the document being semi-Pelagian. Changing that line to acknowledge the role of prevenient grace would, I believe, shift the document from a presumably unintentionally semi-Pelagian view to one more in line with standard orthodox Arminianism.
Is the "Traditional Southern Baptist soteriology" the traditional view within the SBC?
The view has only been "traditional" since about 1963. As the preamble of the statement admits, "While some earlier Baptist confessions were shaped by Calvinism, the clear trajectory of the [Baptist Faith and Message] since 1925 is away from Calvinism. "
Many of the documents critics dispute the 1925 date since the document's position is based on a revision to Article III made in 1963. As Tom Ascol of Founders Ministries says,
In 1925 Southern Baptists acknowledged that Adam's sin left humanity with a corrupted nature that is "in bondage to sin" and also "under condemnation." The 1963 statement (which remains virtually unchanged at this point in the 2000 revision), reflecting the doctrinal downgrade of the SBC in that era that ultimately necessitated the conservative resurgence that began in the next decade, reduces the impact of the fall from leaving man's nature enslaved to sin to leaving it, along with his environment, "inclined toward sin" . . . More significant is the removal in 1963 of the idea that people are because of their inherited sinful nature "under condemnation" (1925), though such culpability is acknowledged to be the case after they "become transgressors." This significant change cuts in half the authors' claim in the Preamble that their view of soteriology has been held by Southern Baptists for "almost a century."
[. . .]
T]his document would more accurately be called "A Statement of Modern Southern Baptist Understanding of God's Plan of Salvation." The understanding of salvation that was prevalent throughout the convention at its inception and for many decades afterward was nothing less than historic, evangelical Calvinism.
Historian Thomas Kidd makes a similar point,
[T]he authors [of the document] note that Calvinism has played a role in Southern Baptist life from its "earliest days," although they do not say whether they mean the emergence of English Baptists in the early 1600s, or the founding of the SBC in 1845. In either case, Calvinists have always been a major factor, but especially if you include the first two hundred and fifty years of the movement, Calvinism arguably has been the dominant theology among English and American Baptists.
What are the primary criticisms of the document?
Critics of the documents---including both Calvinists and Arminians---have presented three general criticisms:
1. The document's primary argument relies on an appeal to the masses rather than careful exegesis of Scripture --- The statement's primary contention for rejecting Calvinism appears to be based on the fact that the majority of Southern Baptists have already rejected Calvinism: ". . .we are asserting that the vast majority of Southern Baptists are not Calvinists and that they do not want Calvinism to become the standard view in Southern Baptist life." Like most other evangelicals, members of SBC churches are unlikely to be able to distinguish between Calvinism, Arminianism, or heretical views of soteriology. Basing the claim on what the "majority" view is not an adequate foundation for settling the issue.
2. The document makes erroneous claims about the "traditional" Baptist view of soteriology. --- As noted above, the signers of the document overlook the historical view in favor of one that is less than 50 years old.
3. The document endorses a semi-Pelagian view of soteriology --- The most serious charge made by critics of the statement is that it is semi-Pelagian, a view that claims human beings retain the ability to desire God, to seek God, and to pursue salvation through an act of the free will without God first operating on the human heart.
The passage that raises concerns is the denial in "Article Two: The Sinfulness of Man":
We deny that Adam's sin resulted in the incapacitation of any person's free will or rendered any person guilty before he has personally sinned. While no sinner is remotely capable of achieving salvation through his own effort, we deny that any sinner is saved apart from a free response to the Holy Spirit's drawing through the Gospel.
As the Arminian theologian Roger Olson points out,
Semi-Pelagians such as Philip Limborch and (at least in some of his writings) Charles Finney affirmed the necessity of the gospel and the Holy Spirit's enlightening work through it for salvation. What made them semi-Pelagian was their denial or neglect of the divine initiative in salvation (except the gospel message).
The problem with this Southern Baptist statement is its neglect of emphasis on the necessity of the prevenience of supernatural grace for the exercise of a good will toward God (including acceptance of the gospel by faith). If the authors believe in that cardinal biblical truth, they need to spell it out more clearly. And they need to delete the sentence that denies the incapacitation of free will due to Adam's sin.
Calvinist Chris Roberts, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Panama City, Florida, draws a similar conclusion:
The statement affirms that there is corruption (inclined toward sin), but denies that there is inability. The statement elsewhere affirms that we need salvation through Jesus Christ alone, but repeatedly asserts that salvation is found through a free response of the human will, a will which is here claimed to be inclined toward sin but not incapacitated by sin. If that is not semi-Pelagian, what is?
It should be noted that most of the critics would likely agree that the document's endorsement of semi-Pelagianism is due to sloppiness on the part of the drafters rather than endorsement of heresy by the endorsers. I believe that Albert Mohler expresses the views of many of the statement's critics when he says, "I do not believe that those most problematic statements truly reflect the beliefs of many who signed this document. I know many of these men very well, and I know them to be doctrinally careful and theologically discerning."
I'm still confused by some of these theological terms. What is Calvinism, Arminianism, soteriology, and semi-Pelagianism?
Arminianism --- a set of doctrines, first elucidated by Jacob Arminius but based on exegesis of scripture, that concludes that unaided by the Holy Spirit, no person is able to respond to God's will, yet salvation is conditioned on a person's willingness to freely place their faith in Christ. For Arminians, the offer of grace by the Holy Spirit is resistible.
Calvinism --- a set of doctrines, first elucidated by John Calvin but based on exegesis of scripture, that conclude God alone is responsible for every aspect of salvation, from beginning to end, election to glory, and man contributes nothing to it. For Calvinists, the offer of grace by the Holy Spirit is irresistible.
Soteriology --- the study of the doctrine of salvation, how the Triune God ends the separation people have from God due to sin by reconciling them with God's self.
Semi-Pelagianism --- As defined by Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck in volume III of Reformed Dogmatics:
According to semi-Pelagianism, the consequences of Adam's fall consisted for him and his descendants, aside from death, primarily in the weakening of moral strength. Though there is actually no real original sin in the sense of guilt, there is a hereditary malady: as a result of Adam's fall, humanity has become morally sick; the human will has been weakened and is inclined to evil. There has originated in humans a conflict between "flesh" and "spirit" that makes it impossible for a person to live without sin; but humans can will the good, and when they do, grace comes to their assistance in accomplishing it.
Other Posts in this Series:
Are Mormons Christian?
The Contraceptive-Abortifacient Mandate
Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
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More Opportunities to Protect Yourself and Your Family against H1N1
January 11, 2010
With 60 million U.S. people vaccinated against the H1N1 flu and 136 million doses still available, health organizations are urging U.S. citizens to receive the H1N1 vaccination. On Jan. 9, 2010, President Barack Obama issued a presidential proclamation for National Influenza Vaccination Week, to encourage people to receive their H1N1 vaccinations if they hadn’t done so already. Read breaking news about this week on our H1N1 News page.
Now that there is an abundance of vaccine available for distribution, unexpected venues are now used as alternative vaccination locations. In Kane County, IL, the local health department (LHD) hosted a clinic for the second dose of H1N1 vaccinations at a minor league baseball stadium, which provided plenty of space for people to line up and receive their vaccination. By using a facility accustomed to large crowds, people were able to get vaccinated and leave within 25 minutes.
In Chicago, the University of Illinois-Chicago Medical Center is using the O’Hare and Midway International Airports as alternative vaccination sights. No appointments are necessary at the clinics, and shots are $35 a passenger.
You can read more about what LHDs are doing nationwide to support their communities in response to H1N1 on the CDC Web site.
NACCHO sponsored a webinar today discussing LHDs'' and community agencies'' use of alternative influenza vaccination clinic sites. Speakers included a representative from Vote & Vax, an organization working to provide vaccinations at polling places nationwide and staff from two local health departments, Champaign-Urbana (IL) County Health Department and the Palm Beach County (FL) Health Department. They discussed their innovative work with social service agencies, supermarkets, and pharmacies. Check back here soon for the link to the recorded version.
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Washington, DC – September 7, 2010 – Americans ate 15.8 pounds of seafood per capita in 2009, down slightly from 16 pounds in 2008 and just ten varieties made up more than 88 percent of that consumption.
The National Fisheries Institute’s (NFI) “Top Ten” list for 2009 reveals the top two spots remain occupied by Shrimp and Canned Tuna and that while Salmon, Alaska Pollock and Tilapia each saw an increase in consumption they maintained their spots. The only newcomer on the list was Pangasius. Flatfish dropped out of the top ten.
Total consumption actually increased by 45 million pounds, or about one percent however per capita consumption declined because of population growth.
“From a public health perspective it’s imperative that Americans eat more fish,” said Jennifer McGuire, NFI’s registered dietitian. “This is a message we expect to see front and center when federal health experts release the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans this year—the familiar food pyramid program. While we anticipate hearing a lot about eating less salt and not as much saturated fat, when it comes to seafood more is better.”
For more than 60 years, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and its members have provided American families with the variety of sustainable seafood essential to a healthy diet. For more information visit: www.AboutSeafood.com.###
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The Daily Star
---- — Visitors to the Robert V. Riddell State Park may find quicker access to Schenevus Creek in the town of Milford for fishing, thanks to some trail improvements by a Maryland teenager.
Johnathan David Ashe, 18, also installed registry boxes at entrances to the park as part of his Eagle Scout project. The registry boxes will help park officials keep track of the number of visitors and any comments they share about the park, Ashe said Sunday.
Ashe, a member of Boy Scout Troop 31 in Milford, is among about 4 percent of Boy Scouts who attain the Eagle rank, Scoutmaster Harold Ashe, his father, said in a media release. To earn the designation, a candidate must earn 21 merit badges and complete a community, church or synagogue-related service project.
Johnathan Ashe will be recognized for his Eagle Scout achievement in ceremonies at the Otsego Area Occupational Center in Milford at 2 p.m. March 17.
Riddell State Park, with a gated entrance and marked trails in the town of Milford, has more than 1,000 acres of fields and forested woodlands in the Susquehanna River Valley. The park, which straddles Interstate 88 in Otsego County and extends into Delaware County, offers opportunities to hike, fish, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, bird-watch and other activities, according to the state parks website.
Ashe said registry boxes were installed at two entrances on either side of I-88 and another was installed at the Pine Lake entrance in Delaware County.
The project involved seeking donations for supplies, including wood for registry boxes and posts, he said. Ashe said his grandfather and a couple of Troop 31 Scouts helped him in the improvements, which took an estimated 100 hours. A tree-identification trail also was established, he said.
Ashe, a senior at Milford Central School, is active in the Natural Resources Occupations Program at the Occupational Center. Ashe said he plans to enter the workforce after graduating from high school.
Ashe said he has been involved in scouting most of his life and his father was an Eagle Scout. The younger Ashe has served as troop quartermaster, treasurer and junior assistant scoutmaster and was elected into the Order of the Arrow by fellow scouts, the release said.
He is the son of Harold and Rebecca Ashe of Maryland and grandson of Larry and Carol Kessler of Milford and Pat and the late David Ashe of Oneonta.
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Quadriplegic woman demos advanced mind-control of robot arm
Achieves personal goal: feeds herself chocolate
Scientists from the University of Pittsburg report amazing success with a new kind of brain interface that allows a quadriplegic woman to demonstrate fine motor controls with a robot arm.
Guinea pig Jan Scheuermann, who has been paralyzed for nearly a decade, had two 4mm-by-4mm chips implanted in her brain, one in the area used to control her hands and another connected to neurons that operate her shoulder. The chips are controlled using two 96-channel intracortical microelectrodes plugged directly into the top of Ms. Scheuermann's skull, penetrating the brain by 1/16th of an inch.
"I can't stop smiling, it's so cool," she said at a press conference on Monday. "I'm moving things – I haven't moved things for nearly 10 years."
The team was astonished at how quickly Ms. Scheuermann was able to control the robot arm using the brain-computer interface (BCI). In a paper published in The Lancet, they report that she could grip with the robot hand within two days of the brain surgery and can now successfully move the entire arm through seven different angles of motion over 90 per cent of the time.
Scheuermann said that she has now advanced to the point where she doesn't have to consciously control each movement of the robot hand – which she calls Hector – but she just thinks of the target action and the arm does the rest. She fulfilled a promise to herself by using the robot arm to feed herself a piece of chocolate.
"One small nibble for a woman, one giant bite for BCI," she said.
Chocolate, served by robot and brain power
While the arm itself and the brain interface needed to control it are very bulky, the range of motion and the ease with which it can be achieved has the team excited about the technology's future possibilities. Looking ahead, it may be possible to scale it down so that someone could use it at home or in the office.
"This is a spectacular leap toward greater function and independence for people who are unable to move their own arms,” agreed senior investigator Professor Andrew Schwartz of the department of neurobiology at Pitt School of Medicine, in a statement.
"This technology has enormous potential that we are continuing to explore. Our study has shown us that it is technically feasible to restore ability; the participants have told us that BCI gives them hope for the future." ®
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The Line of Death, Ignoring Theories, and Other Stops in the Hunt for Bursts
|Tweet|The Line of Death, Ignoring Theories,
and Other Stops in the Hunt for Bursts
September 18, 1997
The Line of Death
With all the data that have been collected about gamma ray bursts, understanding of the bursts themselves remains elusive. Bursts are just that, sudden flashes of energy that carry little apparent information about the source. Still, scientists know that something is in there. Wednesday, several scientists here at the 4th Huntsville Gamma Burst Symposium described their efforts to extract clues from flashes - including signs that some have crossed "the line of death."
"It's a limit that's predicted by the synchrotron
shock model that, in principle, cannot be violated," said Dr. Rob Preece
of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Synchrotron radiation is emitted by electrons as they spiral along magnetic field lines. The most common form on Earth comes from synchrotron particle accelerators where accelerated electrons emit radiation at a tangent to their circular paths. This effect is also observed in neutron stars and supernovae.
In the shock wave of material blasting outward from whatever causes gamma ray bursts, electrons will gyrate around the magnetic field lines. To anyone moving with that cloud of material, their behavior and emissions will look quite normal. Because the matter is moving almost at the speed of light, observers on the outside (like satellites orbiting the Earth) will see the radio waves are blue-shifted into gamma rays that must be emitted straight ahead rather than in all directions.
Preece said that the energies carried by the electrons can be plotted on something like a bell curve. Most are in the middle, while some are lower and some are higher in energy.
The "line of death" - which Preece admitted is a fanciful title - is the slope of the curve. In standard models, the slope cannot exceed a certain value. In other words the curve cannot rise and fall too sharply, which would mean that the energy of the burst is clumped in a very narrow band.
Yet about a third of the bursts that Preece has studied do just that.
"I am seeing steeper slopes than you would expect from this model," Preece said. "We should think of another model for those emissions." Preece said it is possible that the second model could describe just the odd third that falls outside the "line of death," or that the second model could explain bursts that obey and exceed it.
While much excitement has been generated by the discoveries of optical and X-ray counterparts to gamma ray bursts this year, no one knows which bursts will be the best candidates for counterparts in other wavelengths.
Dr. David Palmer of the Universities Space Research Association described how he and other scientists studied data on the February 28 (GRB 970228) burst as seen by the Transient Gamma Ray Spectrometer (TGRS) aboard the Wind geoscience satellite. The TGRS can detect greater detail in burst spectra than the Burst and Transient Source Experiment can do, for example.
Looking at the spectrum, Palmer said the first peak in the data did not follow the fireball model, but later peaks in the data might. "They can change their behavior," he said, "so the model is not invalidated."
"The gamma ray spectrum does not tell if [a burst] is worthwhile to look for a counterpart," Palmer said. "So just ignore theory and go out looking."
Other Stops in the Search
Although previous experiments have reported seeing features in the spectrum of gamma ray bursts that look like absorption lines, a search through nearly 2,000 bursts from BATSE has yet to reveal such concrete examples of line-features in BATSE spectra. Still, scientists hope to find some spectral lines that might form a simple link between gamma ray bursts and known physical phenomena.
Dr. Michael S. Briggs of the University of Alabama in Huntsville used a computer to analyze hundreds of bursts in hopes of finding distinctive lines that would match known phenomenon, just as most stars are known by spectral lines, narrowly defined sets of colors unique to atoms at specific energy levels.
Because the data have some noise and uncertainties, scientists have to be meticulous in their effort to find features in the spectra, and to come to an explanation of the feature that other scientists will accept as reasonable. Briggs said that so far that work has not produced any spectral lines.
"The data appear favorable so far," said Michael S. Briggs of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, "but we may not be able to distinguish spectral lines from other features like sharp low-energy breaks."
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How to Become a Seventh Day Adventist Pastor
Join the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Candidates for membership must undergo baptism by water immersion following a period of study to learn fundamental beliefs and practices of the church.
Be a deacon or deaconess. As a lay person you can become involved in a particular ministry of the church such as visiting the sick or teaching a Sabbath School class.
Attend an Adventist college. There are a number of four-year colleges in the U.S. established by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. A person who wants to be a pastor would study religion as an undergraduate.
Become a church elder. An interest in evangelism is key in becoming a local church elder. Elders are ordained in a church ceremony.
Receive a master of divinity degree. Andrews University in Michigan is the primary theological institution for candidates who will become ordained ministers of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. This period of study lasts two or three years.
Be a pastoral intern. Upon graduation from seminary, a pastoral intern is hired by a local conference and given a ministerial license. Pastoral interns work under close supervision of a ordained pastor for a year or more, after which the intern may be given the responsibility of pastoring at a smaller church.
Become a pastor. Adventists believe that pastors are divinely called to ministry and they are ordained by the church for their ministry. The local conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church selects and appoints a pastor to the ministry of a church. Following ordination, a minister may serve at any Seventh Day Adventist Church anywhere in the world
Tips & Warnings
•Women may be ordained to serve as pastors in the local Seventh Day Adventist Church, but at this time are not eligible to be ordained to serve in the worldwide church. If a woman is an ordained local elder, and has been hired as a ministerial intern and issued a ministerial license she has the rights and privileges of an ordained minister.
•Though there is no distinction between a pastor and a minister in the Seventh Day Adventist Church, only the term "pastor" is used as a title.
May we be one so that the world may be won.
Christian from the cradle to the grave
I believe in Hematology.
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Transmission of material in this release is embargoed USDL-13-0785
until 8:30 a.m. (EDT) Friday, May 3, 2013
Household data: (202) 691-6378 * firstname.lastname@example.org * www.bls.gov/cps
Establishment data: (202) 691-6555 * email@example.com * www.bls.gov/ces
Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- APRIL 2013
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in April, and the unemployment
rate was little changed at 7.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services,
food services and drinking places, retail trade, and health care.
Household Survey Data
The unemployment rate, at 7.5 percent, changed little in April but has
declined by 0.4 percentage point since January. The number of unemployed
persons, at 11.7 million, was also little changed over the month; however,
unemployment has decreased by 673,000 since January. (See table A-1.)
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult women
(6.7 percent) declined in April, while the rates for adult men (7.1
percent), teenagers (24.1 percent), whites (6.7 percent), blacks (13.2
percent), and Hispanics (9.0 percent) showed little or no change. The
jobless rate for Asians was 5.1 percent (not seasonally adjusted),
little changed from a year earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
In April, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27
weeks or more) declined by 258,000 to 4.4 million; their share of the
unemployed declined by 2.2 percentage points to 37.4 percent. Over the
past 12 months, the number of long-term unemployed has decreased by
687,000, and their share has declined by 3.1 percentage points. (See
The civilian labor force participation rate was 63.3 percent in April,
unchanged over the month but down from 63.6 percent in January. The
employment-population ratio, 58.6 percent, was about unchanged over
the month and has shown little movement, on net, over the past year.
(See table A-1.)
In April, the number of persons employed part time for economic
reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers)
increased by 278,000 to 7.9 million, largely offsetting a decrease in
March. These individuals were working part time because their hours
had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.
(See table A-8.)
In April, 2.3 million persons were marginally attached to the labor
force, essentially unchanged from a year earlier. (The data are not
seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force,
wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime
in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because
they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
(See table A-16.)
Among the marginally attached, there were 835,000 discouraged workers
in April, down by 133,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not
seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently
looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them.
The remaining 1.5 million persons marginally attached to the labor
force in April had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the
survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.
(See table A-16.)
Establishment Survey Data
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 165,000 in April, with
job gains in professional and business services, food services and
drinking places, retail trade, and health care. Over the prior 12
months, employment growth averaged 169,000 per month. (See table B-1.)
Professional and business services added 73,000 jobs in April and has
added 587,000 jobs over the past year. In April, employment rose in
temporary help services (+31,000), professional and technical services
(+23,000), and management of companies (+7,000).
Within leisure and hospitality, employment in food services and
drinking places rose by 38,000 over the month. Job growth in the food
services industry averaged 25,000 per month over the prior 12 months.
Retail trade employment increased by 29,000 in April. The industry
added an average of 21,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months. In
April, job growth occurred in general merchandise stores (+15,000) and
in health and personal care stores (+5,000).
Health care added 19,000 jobs in April. Within the industry, employment
rose in ambulatory health care services (+14,000). Over the prior 12
months, job growth in health care averaged 24,000 per month. In April,
employment also continued its upward trend in social assistance (+7,000).
Employment changed little over the month in construction, with small
offsetting movements in the residential and nonresidential components.
Construction gained an average of 27,000 jobs per month over the prior
6 months. Manufacturing employment was unchanged in April.
Employment in other major industries, including mining and logging,
wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, financial activities,
and government, showed little change over the month.
The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls
decreased by 0.2 hour in April to 34.4 hours. Within manufacturing,
the workweek decreased by 0.1 hour to 40.7 hours, and overtime declined
by 0.1 hour to 3.3 hours. The average workweek for production and
nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.1
hour to 33.7 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.)
In April, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm
payrolls rose by 4 cents to $23.87. Over the year, average hourly
earnings have risen by 45 cents, or 1.9 percent. In April, average
hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory
employees edged up by 2 cents to $20.06. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for February was
revised from +268,000 to +332,000, and the change for March was
revised from +88,000 to +138,000. With these revisions, employment
gains in February and March combined were 114,000 higher than
The Employment Situation for May is scheduled to be released on
Friday, June 7, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. (EDT).
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Cross-posted from Strong Towns blog.
Today we spend money on infrastructure in the hopes of creating growth. That’s backwards. Infrastructure should not be a catalyst for growth but something that emerges in support of productive patterns of development. There has to be a relationship between the infrastructure we build and the value that is created.
Late last month I wrote about the return on investment of our highway projects (Paved with good intentions, April 30). I pointed out what is obvious to anyone who thinks it through: Even if modern transportation improvements really did create a lot of wealth, we capture too little of it to be able to continue this system as we have built it.
The example I used was a diverging diamond in Colorado, a high return investment by today’s standards. The official numbers were that this $7.2 million investment would generate $157 million in wealth and prosperity. Instead of debating that — demonstrating the fiction of such numbers is old hat for us – we simply pointed out that $157 million in GDP growth would only return $260,000 to the federal coffers for highway projects. Since $260,000 is substantially less than $7.2 million, repeating this great wealth generation trick, not to mention maintaining this diverging diamond, is going to be difficult.
I was really disappointed that nobody took me up on my challenge to defend the value of the overall system. I did receive a second hand rebuttal that essentially argued that my analysis was too simplistic, that I’m overlooking all of the (unidentified) second order and third order growth effects. This is what I call the “it’s the system, dude” argument. Sure, we may lose money on each project that you measure, but the overall effect of the system generates more than enough wealth to keep it all going.
This is what I call the Infrastructure Cult. We have no proof for our belief that highway spending creates prosperity, we just believe it to be true. We believe it so strongly that we can easily dismiss evidence to the contrary.
I’m going to repeat my challenge: Someone demonstrate how highway funding, and American post WW II development in general, is not simply a large Ponzi scheme, where spending generates the near term illusion of wealth in exchange for massive, unfunded, long term obligations. Show us how it is making the country financially stronger. I’m dying for someone to make this case as opposed to simply spout the belief.
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I enjoy discussing public affairs issues, but I increasingly avoid the subject with many of my friends. Too often, conversations dead-end when conflict averse friends make assertions of false equivalence, or what has been termed “Fake Equivalence Conflict Ending Strategies (FECES).”
For instance, on the subject of Republicans abusing the U.S. Senate fillibuster rules, conservative and centrist friends will shut down the conversation by saying that “both parties have done that through history.” On the subject of Democrats loading the budget with uncontrolled entitlement programs, liberal and centrist friends will stop the exhange by saying “the Medicare prescription drug benefit shows Republicans are just as guilty.”
Complete and utter FECES.
Yes, both Republicans and Democrats have filibustered. But the record shows that Republicans have recently taken the practice to dramatic depths.
Yes, Republicans also have passed entitlements financed by deficit spending, such as the Medicare prescription drug benefit. But that pales in comparison to the body of entitlement work parented by Democrats over the years.
These kinds of differences are very relevant if we are to have an accountable political system. How we debate and how we think through issues matters. Before accepting A=B and B=C therefore A=C, we MUST apply facts and logic to prove or disprove those equal signs! Because when research or logic uncovers a “≠,” the logic of the assertion collapses.
In Minnesota, the Independence Party particularly seems to be built on a foundation of FECES. Their core rationale essentially is that “both major parties are equally dumb/immoral/unethical/corrupt/inept” and therefore the only choice for non- dumb/immoral/unethical/corrupt/inept people is to vote for us.”
That’s a copout. The differences between the parties are real and easily discernible. The major parties are similar in some ways, such as a shared addiction to power retention. But there are big policy and performance differences, and it is our job as voters to dig deep to understand those differences, rather than buying into the myth of sameness.
I confess that I’ve voted for Independent Party candidates for Governor, and may do it again this year. But sooner or later the Indendence Party has to have a foundation that is more substantive than their stale “we’re not them!” cheer.
Maybe this year will be different. A leading candidate for the Independence Party nomination for Governor in 2010 is a fellow named Tom Horner. Despite being a PR guy, Horner is a bright, decent and thoughtful Republican refugee. He is the kind of guy who has the potential to lead the Independents to being something more than a None-of-the-Above Party launching yet another tiresome FECES fight. It will be interesting to see if he does.
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4 September 2012
Over 2000 years ago, philosopher Aristotle observed that individual honeybees tend to forage from the same type of flowers. Today, the relationship between bees and flowers will be explored in an upcoming lecture.
Dr Adrian Dyer will discuss how this observation by Aristotle has turned out to be one of the most important insights into understanding the evolution of flower colours at his upcoming lecture ‘The philosopher and the bees: Aristotle and flower consistency in bees’.
Dr Dyer, an Associate Professor in the RMIT University Media and Communication Department and an adjunct in Monash University’s Department of Physiology, said flowering plants required a mechanism to transport pollen between flowers of the same species.
“While this can be achieved through wind pollination, or the distribution of pollen by birds, butterflies and other animals, bees have an especially important role because individually they tend to seek out flowers of the same species, thus enabling very reliable pollen distribution,” Dr Dyer said.
This phenomenon has been well observed over subsequent centuries and initially troubled naturalist Charles Darwin as it appeared too altruistic, and therefore not in line with general principles of evolution theory.
“However, Darwin proposed that individual bees may benefit themselves in being flower constant by reducing requirements on memorising how to handle different flower types at the same time, much like how a person in a workshop will tend to complete each type of job sequentially rather than switching between tasks,” Dr Dyer said.
Dr Dyer’s lecture will show how these important early observations led other researchers to look at the interactions between bees and plants.
His talk is the third of the ‘History of Science, Mathematics, Philosophy and Technology’ lecture series, organised by Dr Alan Dorin from the Monash Faculty of Information Technology.
“Recent research shows that flowers indeed do have evolved colour signals that are best noticed by important pollinators like bees, because their flower constant behaviour has been a major driving force in evolution,” Dr Dyer said.
“Thus, the link between classical observations by the philosopher Aristotle and modern science are teaching us a lot about evolution theory in the 21st century.”
‘The philosopher and the bees: Aristotle and flower consistency in bees’ will be held from 2-3pm on Wednesday, 5 September 2012 in Seminar Room 135, Building 26, at Monash University’s Clayton campus.
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Survey of Energy Resources 2007
Solar Country Notes
United States of America
Raw solar resources are far in excess of all projected energy demand in the mid-term. Solar insolation levels in the US vary from less than 400 W/m2 to over 700 W/m2, depending on latitude, climate (primarily average cloud cover), terrain, and application (that is, using a fixed-angle collector compared to a collector that tracks the sun). However, the USA has approximately 9 million square kilometres of land area.
The United States Energy Association (the WEC Member Committee for the USA) reports that, according to the EIA, central station photovoltaic capacity was 11 000 kW at the end of 2005 and that, on the basis of the stock of equipment in place, there was an estimated 485 000 kW of dispersed PV capacity in operation. Output of electricity from the centralised PV capacity was 15 593 MWh, implying an average capacity factor of approximately 0.16.
Solar thermo-electric capacity at end-2005 is reported as 400.4 MW, producing 534 701 MWh during the year, at a capacity factor of 0.15.
Direct solar heating panels produced a total of 51 652 TJ in 2005.
The aim of the Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Program (Solar Program) is, through public-private partnerships, to 'bring reliable and affordable solar energy technologies to the marketplace'. The Solar Program currently carries out research and development in the fields of PV and CSP systems for electricity generation, and into solar heating systems for producing hot water (or hot air) for domestic, commercial or industrial purposes. The Program is also investigating a form of solar lighting that uses small solar concentrators and fibre optics in combination to provide daylight illumination inside buildings.
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I realise that it is not strictly Linux related - more Open Source -
but I'm hopeful Linux people are just as much concerned about open
As you probably know, there's talk of a postcode for Ireland; however
it's a bit of a worry that the main proposals are proprietary,
closed-source, randomised, license-fee based codes.
I've proposed an open source postcode (well actually, calling these
postcodes is just shorthand - they are all more precisely compressed
positioning coordinates) at http://tinyurl.com/openpostcode and have
put together the maths and proof of concept tests. However, I lack the
really open up the concept. I hope for advice from those that know
about how to get such an open source project to build a community and
to grow in awareness.
It will be an awful shame if the government opt for a closed-source
proprietary code that open source programmers and database people
can't freely handle themselves to generate their own location data.
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
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STEAM ACADEMY is an innovative, progressive, online k-12 school of creativity, ingenuity and global awareness. Through our model curriculum of integrated fine arts and technology, project-based, collaborative learning, international student collaboration and unique focus on service oriented living, institutions of learning, educators, parents, and all who implement STEAM ACADEMY methods and resources will in effect, foster student creativity, expression, cultural perspective and global competence.
STEAM students will grow tremendously as their teachers deliver enriched, individualized and engaging instruction while paying special attention to the skills students will need to become successful and fulfilled adults of the 21st century. STEAM ACADEMY gives teachers and schools the tools necessary to create a place of learning that is a reflection of the world at large – a microcosm of the world at large – preparing students not only for what life will bring but more importantly, preparing them to be resourceful, proactive leaders and global “solutionaries.”
Breadth of Courses
At the heart of STEAM ACADEMY is the full infusion of the visual and performing arts, innovative technology integration and a strategic focus on STEM learning. Of equal significance to our model is the skill development and facilitation of knowledge and perspective in the social studies, language arts and humanities. We are dedicated to offering a wealth of choices and opportunities for students to cultivate their talents and to creatively express their passions. All genres of music, dance, drama and visual arts augment the instructional methods of both required and supplemental curricular studies.
A wide variety of elective classes are suggested and encouraged at the elementary, middle and high school levels, along with KID STEAM, our multifaceted before and after school enrichment program. STEAM ACADEMY offers specialized courses of study to elementary, middle and high school students that can be implemented in any school, anywhere.
Of particular interest is our focus on personal health, environmental consciousness and global responsibility. Courses, instructional methods, required projects and expectations of staff and student behaviors encourage and lead students to develop livestyles that promote their physical, social and emotional well-being. Such facets of STEAM ACADEMY education also promote philosophies and practices necessary to ensure the revitilization and preservation of our earth and its inhabitants. Integrated learning experiences propel understanding and ignite innovation in areas including multiple branches of the Social Sciences, Natural Resource Conservation, Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuels, Clean Technology, Earth-Friendly Practices and more.
Proven pedagogical practices are employed by teachers using STEAM ACADEMY’S global education model. These instructional approaches provide students with opportunities to learn curricular material with the depth and breadth that is vital to student’s ability to apply new understanding. Students have heightened engagement and motivation to learn, as evidenced by the students who have attended educational institutions that implement our approaches. Such strategies include, but are not limited to, project-based, collaborative learning and experiential learning, implemented “through and by” the fine arts and with the strategic, integral use of advanced digital and environmental technologies.
Ecologically Responsible – Clean Technology
In efforts to further prepare STEAM students for success in the 21st century, THE STEAM ACADEMY is dedicated to the advancement of ecologically responsible practices and the development of related, cost-effective, innovative systems and clean technologies. When possible, schools having partnered with solar power companies will benefit from their facilitation and augmentation of student learning in solar energy through resident workshops and sponsored courses. SSI is to facilitate student studies in the advancement of biotechnology and will utilize available alternative fuels for any related needs. We will take another position on clean technology via water quality, as we encourage patron schools to incorporate the Keystone Flow water purification system into their campus water treatment facilities. Keystone Flow technology improves water quality while consuming an unprecedented minimum of energy, enabled by its unique DNA-helix-shaped flow. The life-symbolizing shape of DNA captivates people of all ages and sets the stage for further engagement in learning, research and responsibility, while also opening the door to preparatory study in mining, energy, and aerospace.
Learning is in the Way You Live
When possible, STEAM ACADEMY encourages schools, educators and other entities implementing our model to create an ambiance conducive to an environment of creativity and innovation. Higher order thinking, creativity, ingenuity – the energy involved in a place of such cultural and societal advancement – will be essential attributes to the integrity of STEAM ACADEMY. Advanced research teams have shown that aesthetics and ambiance actually serve to cultivate creativity and inventiveness, and this represents the values of THE STEAM TEAM.
Encouraging healthy lifestyle is also core to our philosophy. Along with learning and implementing earth-friendly practices, we encourage schools to offer comprehensive meal options based on relevant cultural traditions and dietary values. Students are required to engage in daily exercise. For any learning to be sustained, it must be taught with relevance, whereby students come to understand the personal value and importance of their studies, practices and expectations. STEAM educators must have a thorough understanding of this concept and reflect this in their instructional practices.
Not Just a School – A Hub
STEAM schools will work in partnership with local, national and international industry, willing university sectors and the local community. These partnerships will foster project and inquiry-based learning activities that promote social and emotional growth, in programs ranging from fine arts to advanced technology. Such inquiry / problem-based learning strategically facilitates mathematical thinking, and develops in students core engineering concepts and skills.
By design, our model requires that students are taught with balance of pedagogy- collaborative problem solving and inquiry must be equally balanced with direct instruction of core concepts, skills and basal knowledge. Such balance is necessary for efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy in other learning activities and is also required for the solidification of student understanding and academic concept mastery. Still highly relevant and beneficial to direct instruction approaches is our commitment to the full infusion of the fine arts and technology.
Facilitating a culture of creative expression, innovation and invention results in students having strength of character who achieve academically, thrive socially, and who possess the very skills pursued by the 21st century professional arena. Collaborative and creative pursuits lead to social health, strong leadership, integrity, compassion, motivation, dedication, responsibility, intuitive interpersonal perception and perspective… the list literally perpetuates. Furthermore, students will gain confidence, pride, encouragement, and continual motivation as they are given avenues to express, to create, to invent, and to succeed.
STEAM ACADEMY provides teachers with the tools to endow students with a tremendously enriched educational and personal development experience. Students graduate having immovable, strong moral character, unparalleled social strength, leadership skills based upon both humility and confidence, highly valuable, intuitive interpersonal perception and global awareness bringing the perspective necessary to contribute to the progress and advancement of the world which we share with now over seven billion individuals. STEAM students leave their K-12 experience enlightened, enriched and genuinely motivated for lifetime learning. They enter the world having achieved excellence in academics, entrepreneurial thinking, problem solving, critical thinking and engaged social responsibility. Their personally developed attributes – confidence, motivation, optimism, problem-solving, service orientation, mutual respect, compassion, moral integrity, social responsibility, global consciousness, environmental awareness – along with related, instilled habits for personal, community and globally healthy living – effectively prepare young people for a life of success and fulfillment in the 21st century.
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This week's Parsha presents a lengthy, detailed description of animal offerings in the Holy Temple – burning of limbs, sprinkling of blood, flaying of flesh. Modern man may at first find this notion pagan and primitive. It sure sounds quite different from the warm spirituality we imagine our ancestors practicing!
The question becomes increasingly difficult as one considers Judaism's position on care and concern toward animals. Besides the general Biblical prohibition against causing pain to animals ("Tzar Baalei Chaim"), there is also a whole list of separate mitzvot designed for the protection of animals, including: to unload a donkey whose load is too heavy, to give your animal a day off of work on Shabbat, not to muzzle an animal when working in the field (i.e. don't prevent it from eating what it sees), and many, many others.
So why animal offerings? Let's address some basic misconceptions.
Misconception #1: Isn't it cruel to kill an animal?
Why should this bother us? We eat hamburgers and wear leather shoes. We throw footballs and eat Kentucky Fried Chicken (you can even get it kosher in Jerusalem).
So if using animals is justified for physical benefit, then all the more so for spiritual benefit!
(For the record, all offerings had a practical, physical benefit as well. The vast majority were eaten by human beings – e.g. the Passover offering was roasted and eaten at every Seder table! Even with the "all burned offering," the animal's leather was used by the Kohanim.)
Misconception #2: These offerings are a "sacrifice."
The Hebrew word korbon, which the Torah uses to describe animal offerings, is not a sacrifice (as in, giving something up), and it is not an offering (as in, bringing a gift to the gods). Rather, korbon means "to come near." These help a person get closer to God.
In the Temple, we take the animal parts and elevate them onto the altar of God. This is a personal declaration of intent to elevate our material resources to a higher level – to direct it toward the service of God.
For Whose Benefit?
Which leads us to:
Misconception #3: We think, "What kind of god needs offerings from us? Is this some kind of bribe so he won't be angry with us?"
We have to differentiate between Greek mythology and Judaism. The pagan sacrifices were to appease finite gods who had control over a limited aspect of existence. Every god needed something else and the humans could avoid the wrath of the gods by giving them what they needed.
Jewish offerings are not for God. He doesn't need them. God is All Powerful and has everything already. Rather, the offerings are for us. They teach us to take the physical – the body – and sanctify it.
One of the 613 mitzvot is that the Kohen Gadol must keep the Ephod (breastplate) constantly attached. Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch points out that in idolatry, the ceremonial breastplate was typically tied onto the idol. The philosophy was to control the idol and "get it on your side." But in Judaism, the Kohen Gadol ties the breastplate to himself – because it is ourselves that we want to control.
Every human being is comprised of two components – the physical body and the spiritual soul. Each part wants to be nourished and sustained, yet each achieves this in very different ways. The body seeks comfort and immediate gratification: food, sleep, power, wealth. The soul seeks longer-lasting, eternal pleasures: meaning, love, good deeds, connection to God.
The mitzvot of the Torah are designed to guide us toward "soul pleasures." However, when the body exerts dominance, the consequence is a transgression of these mitzvot.
The way to repair that mistake is to bring an offering. The transgressor steps forward and declares: "I have made a mistake and regret the damage it caused my soul. My animal side got the best of me. I don't want to repeat that mistake again. I hereby pledge to slaughter animalism as the dominant force in my life."
Why the Blood and Guts?
When a person sees the animal slaughtered before his eyes, he thinks, "Really I deserve this, but God is merciful and sparing." That's a powerful spiritual experience. Blood is real. It shakes a person. You see the heaviness of life.
Kirk Douglas, the legendary film star, was involved in a serious helicopter crash in 1991. The pilot and co-pilot were killed, but Kirk got out alive.
The event shook him as much spiritually as it did physically. Lying in the hospital bed, he asked himself over and over again: Why was I the one who survived?
Kirk eventually answered his question thusly: I survived because there is something important I have yet to accomplish in this world, a crucial contribution to make. Up until now I have been playing games. Now I see that life is more serious.
Kirk embarked on a program of regular Torah study and began to re-institute the Jewish traditions he'd remembered from his youth. And he began a search for ways to utilize his material wealth to impact the world. It was a transformation back to himself – despite the peer pressure of secular Hollywood fighting against him.
Today, he's more committed than ever. He recently took on the responsibility of building a multi-media theater across from the Western Wall – in order to give tourists an authentic, inspiring Jewish experience. Kirk is driven to make up for lost time.
Just as in the Temple ... the scene of blood, the proximity to death ... thinking "this could have been me." It changes one's life forever.
Will the Parsha inspire us to change, too?
Rabbi Shraga Simmons
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A mother of two disabled children from Moor Row in west Cumbria has spent 48 hours kayaking around 13 lakes in the Lake District. Dawn Raynor is hoping to raise thousands of pounds towards building a respite centre for families like hers.
– Dawn Raynor, as she entered her 12th lake, Wastwater
"'I am determined to do this, I have to do this. There needs to be more support for families who have children with disabilities. For us the nearest respite centre is in Workington and it isn't open seven days a week. I will get this centre built. If I can do this challenge when I'm cold, hungry and shattered then that centre will be built. It will be too late to help my family but hopefully it will help others like us.'
Dawn's charity 'Give us a break' needs to raise £1m to get the project going.
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Special Report | March 2012 | By Carolyn Surh
Staying Ahead of Copy Cats
Even companies with no plans to expand into China may find the world’s most populated country hard to ignore.
Take, for instance, In-N-Out Burger Inc., the Irvine, California-based burger enterprise with 277 locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas. The privately owned hamburger chain boasts a cult-like following of its limited menu, featuring the trademarked Double-Double (two patties, two slices of cheese), Animal Style (mustard-cooked patty with extra sauce, pickle, and grilled onions), and Protein Style burgers (burgers wrapped in lettuce, without the bun).
New store openings have been known to attract long lines of customers willing to wait overnight for In-N-Out’s freshly made burgers and fries cut from fresh potatoes within view of the cash registers. Despite its long-standing popularity, In-N-Out Burger, founded in 1948 in Baldwin Park, California, has carefully controlled expansion and only recently opened its Texas locations.
Then, last September, sharp-eyed residents of Shanghai, China, began spotting a mammoth sign covering a storefront in the Jing An Temple district featuring blown-up images of burgers and fries and announcing the pending arrival of Double-Double, Animal Style, and Protein Style burgers and fries. In-N-Out fans in the city began excitedly spreading the news, only to learn that In-N-Out Burger was not behind this new venture.
A completely independent enterprise, CaliBurger LLC, had trademarked a selection of In-N-Out’s menu items in countries throughout eastern Asia and Europe, including China, and was planning to open its first location in Shanghai. In addition to its menu similarities, CaliBurger’s logo was strongly reminiscent of the palm tree pattern that lines drink cups and french fry trays at In-N-Out Burger.
Like In-N-Out, CaliBurger’s brand identity is based on serving quality ingredients, including hamburger patties made of imported Australian beef and hand-sliced fries. In an interesting twist, all four of CaliBurger’s founding investors hold degrees from law schools in California, and two have experience in intellectual property (IP) law, according to the company’s website.
Even large, multinational companies operating in China have found imitators hard to shake. International Dairy Queen Inc., with 500 locations in China and more than 20 years of experience operating in the region, remains vigilant about imitators.
“Infringement is common and often at the hands of sophisticated counterfeiters,” says Dairy Queen company spokesman Dean Peters in an email to QSR. “It is critical, particularly in China, for Dairy Queen to have an IP protection strategy that encompasses both offensive and defensive elements.”
The undisputed fast food leader in China is KFC Corp. of Yum! Brands Inc. KFC is dogged by lookalike restaurants featuring three-letter names, prominent red signage, and even a Colonel Sanders lookalike with Asian features. Coffee drinkers in search of a Starbucks in China might be duped into sipping a drink at SPR Coffee, a local coffee chain with green signage and a similar logo font.
In-N-Out Burger responded swiftly by filing a complaint in a U.S. District Court against CaliBurger in September for trademark infringement, a legal move enabled by one major detail: CaliBurger was an American company, registered to an address in Diamond Bar, California.
After months of local press rumblings and speculation, it appeared the legal battle had been resolved with the opening of CaliBurger’s first Shanghai restaurant in early January. The menu was replete with conspicuous changes: no longer the Double-Double, the double-patty cheeseburger was now the Cali Double. A lettuce-wrapped burger was now LC Style, and Wild Style fries covered in cheese and grilled onions replaced Animal Style fries.
CaliBurger’s menu also included bourbon-laced milkshakes, beer, and red wine hailing from California. The company also promised that CaliBurger girls—young, fresh-faced brand ambassadors—would be present at company events.
In-N-Out and CaliBurger reached a confidential settlement, according to court documents filed January 20. Neither side could be reached for comment.
While In-N-Out Burger continues to stand by its strategy of controlled growth, many other companies, when placed in a similar position by aggressive competitors in China, feel compelled to investigate opening in China, the world’s second-largest economy. The decision can be daunting, but some companies decide that damage to a brand name by an imposter outweigh the risks and force market entry.
“There are companies that accelerate their entry strategy into China,” says Geoffrey Lin, a partner that practices IP law at Ropes & Gray LLC in Shanghai. “It’s one thing to use lawyers and legal recourse to deal with it, but [companies] think that ‘I need to get in there and start shaping people’s impression of my products,’ creating an impression of a brand before someone else does.”
The best approach to protecting valuable proprietary rights when entering the Chinese market is to thoroughly research the IP landscape first, says Horace Lam, a Beijing-based partner at Jones Day LLC with 16 years of experience in IP law. Lam recommends four steps when considering the move into China.
Step One: Become familiar with the Chinese legal system
One mistake Lam sees frequently is the assumption that the Chinese legal system functions in the same way as it does in the U.S. It doesn’t, and it pays to know this. You may never need to enforce your IP rights in China, but in the case that you might, Lam strongly recommends first getting a grasp of the playing field.
A fundamental difference is the system of law. While the U.S. is a common law country, China’s legal system is based on civil law, like many countries in Europe.
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Physical wellness is the ability to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. It is comprised of the understanding and recognition that our behaviors have a significant influence on our quality of life. Healthy habits like regular exercise and a balanced diet should be reinforced, while destructive habits such as abusing food, tobacco, drugs, and alcohol should be avoided.
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This past September, I was able to arrange a quick preview tour of Gettysburg's newest attraction: the Seminary Ridge Museum. Located in the original Lutheran Theological Seminary near the Chambersburg Pike, the structure has undergone a $15 million renovation for the upcoming 2013 sesquicentennial of the battle. Previously serving as the home of the Adams County Historical Society, this new museum will be dedicated to multiple layers of Civil War and local history. These facets will include the July 1, 1863 battle, the building's role as a field hospital, and also the conflict as a theological and moral crisis in regard to religion and freedom. As of the moment, construction workers are and have been working rapidly in order to complete the building by this summer. The last I heard, a "light" opening will be taking place in the spring and the grand opening will be occurring on the battle anniversary itself. From April through June, special group tours can be arranged. The new attraction will surely add yet another useful dimension to comprehending Gettysburg's rich story. Now, let's go on a hardhat tour....
We first met with Barbara Franco, the founding executive director of the museum, in the Wentz Library. Barbara was the former director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum in Commission and is helping to spearhead this new endeavor. Here, she discussed fundraising, restoration news, and museum goals as the project quickly moves forward. In addition to numerous multi-media exhibits and period-furnished rooms, the museum will feature several large murals with the artwork of Dale Gallon. The large canvas painting seen in the background will be reproduced and enlarged at high resolution, covering an entire wall upon completion. This one in particular shows the seminary building at the end of the first day's battle as it became a mass field hospital. Over 600 soldiers were treated there.
whole treasure trove of items have been discovered in the various nooks and crannies of the site, featuring letters, shoes, plates, bottles and various nicknacks of the past.
I am very much anticipating the opening of this museum. I have been pleased to see the civilian role in the battle taking on an increasingly prominent part in the larger saga of the fight. In one interview, Barbara Franco stated, “People talk about walls talking. In this case the walls have been chattering to us. . . .The building itself is our major artifact. It’s a great place to start any visit to Gettysburg because it focuses on the battle’s first day.” Given its prime location near the Lincoln Highway, I'm sure that will be just the case. Be sure to visit the museum's website and Facebook page to receive further updates as we near the grand opening on July 1.
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TSL230R is a programmable light frequency integrated circuit(IC) that gives you pulses which are related to light intensity. You can program its sensitivity and scaling. They are very easy to use and very sensitive. Especially for applications that needs high sensitivity like IR light pulse sensing, they are really useful. You can easily get it from sparkfun.com, and they are $5.95
Pins and what they means and their functions:
You can use pin number 1&2 for calibrating the sensitivity by turning them on and off, 7&8 are for scaling and you can program them by turning on and off again, pin 4&3 will be connected to ground and pin number 5 will be connected to power, pin number 6 will give you sensor values, and you need to plug it in to one of the digital pins in your Arduino.
Here are the settings for sensitivity and scalling:
Also, for power connection, datasheet says this: "Power-supply lines must be decoupled by a 0.01-μF to 0.1-μF capacitor with short leads placed close to the device package. A low-noise power supply is required to minimize jitter on output pulses." So, I put a 0.1-μF capacitor in pin number 5 (VDD).
Here is a picture from my breadboard.
Then you can connect ground and power from your Arduino. You will be receiving data digitally, by looking at the time intervals between pulses(pulseIn()). If you need more information about pulseIn() function of Arduino you can read documentation on Arduino page(pulseIn()).
Now, connect pin number 6 of the sensor to any digital pin of the Arduino. In my case, I used digital pin number 9 on my Arduino Board.
And here is the code for Arduino:
unsigned long duration;
duration = pulseIn(pin, HIGH);
Values that you will be receiving will be different then most of the sensors that you have tried. Since it is giving values according to time intervals(millis) it can be really low like "0" or it can be high like "3000". These values are changing according to light intensity. High intensity of light means low values and less intensity of lights means high values.
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A Cabin Skiff Builder Shares His Story…
Stitch and glue boat building is touted by many as the preferred method of building for the first timer. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, this type of boat building is done by forming plywood panels around forms and then stitching them together.
Stitch and glue doesn’t require the fairing needed for plywood frame constructed boats. All of the pieces are patterned, including the planking, which makes it practically fool-proof.
Another reason that stitch and glue building is suited to first time builders is because the boat actually looks like a boat quicker than with other methods. This arouses a certain amount of confidence and encouragement that helps with the motivation end of building a boat.
Ray Macke built our Cabin Skiff, a 16′ Cabin Cruiser built using the stitch & glue method. Ray has taken his skiff, aptly named “Therapy”, down various intercoastal waterways totalling over 27,000 miles! Our WebLetter has chronicled Ray’s adventures through his delightful stories describing his travels.
Ray’s website has been a tremendous help over the years to many a builder. He has detailed his building process making it the go-to site for many.
We were privileged to be able to talk to Ray at the 2009 Gathering of boatbuilders in Alabama and get a first hand view of his perspective of building a boat and what it has meant to him. Ray is an excellent craftsman and a genuinely kind man. Enjoy this short video and be sure and let us know what you think by posting a comment in the space below.
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