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The Thin Man
If you're a Philistine and have somehow not seen this delightful classic, this 1934 film directed by W.S. Van Dyke (and based on Dashiell Hammett's novel) gave the world its introduction to the greatest of all screen couples, William Powell and Myrna Loy as the intrepid and clever detective duo, Nick and Nora Charles. Nick is retired from his line of work at the beginning of the film, but when a friend disappears, he's pulled back into being a private eye.
A murder mystery may be the set up for the film, but it's hardly a dark or dour film, quite the opposite in fact. This is a snappy, sassy film that revels in its love of playful banter paddled back and forth between Loy and Powell like a game of verbal ping pong.
It's a bit of a bold statement, perhaps, calling Loy and Powell the greatest of screen couples considering how many truly great pairings exist, but no other couple has the same spark, the same energy, the same sense of history that these two project.
What really stood out to me on my most recent revisit of the film is something that you don't really see very often in screen couples. Nick and Nora really seem to love each other. Nick is simply madly in love with his wife and Nora is just crazy about him. Such love and affection is what makes the playfulness and energy feel that much more impactful.
This is a perfect movie. You simply can't ask for a better couple or dialogue or…anything, really. Plus, Asta. I defy you to find a better dog in any movie ever made. You can't do it.
— Stewart Smith
Or in the dinner scene when Nora says, “Waiter, will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?”
Then Nick says, “The murderer is right in this room, sitting at this table. You may now serve the fish.”
It's difficult to see what they eat in the movie but one thing is sure there are lots of martinis and you most definitely need to serve the nuts.
Christmas Martini Punch
- 15 clementine oranges
- 2 cups orange-flavored vodka or plain vodka
- 3 cups cranberry juice
- 8 strips or curls of orange peel
Peel three of the oranges and set the sections on a plate lined with wax paper. Place in the freezer. Cut some of the orange peel into thin strips or curls to use as garnish. With the remaining clementines cut them in half and juice them. Strain the juice into a large pitcher. Pour in the vodka and cranberry juice. Stir to combine. Store in the refrigerator until ready to serve. When the clementine sections are frozen and you are ready to serve add ice to a cocktail shaker and add some of the martini mixture to the shaker. Shake until the shaker is frosty on the outside. Strain into martini glasses. Garnish with a strip of orange peel and a couple of frozen clementine sections. Note: Instead of clementines you can use a 15 ounce can of Mandarin oranges. Use the liquid from the can as your juice and freeze the mandarin sections as your garnish.
Recipe by Christine Gardner
Warm Mixed Nuts
- 5 cups mixed nuts, such as walnuts, cashews, almonds, pecans, and hazelnuts t tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 small shallots, thinly sliced crosswise into rings to yield about 1/4 cup
- 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced lengthwise
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh rosemary
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon firmly packed dark-brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon coarse salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place the nuts in a single layer on 2 rimmed baking sheets. Toast until the nuts are golden and fragrant, 8 to 12 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through cooking. Transfer the nuts to a large bowl, and set aside. Heat the olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the shallots and garlic; fry until golden, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer the shallots and garlic to paper towels. Set aside. Melt the butter and pour it over the nuts. Add the rosemary, cayenne, brown sugar, and salt, and stir well to combine. Toss in the crispy garlic and shallots. Serve warm. The nuts may be reheated in a 300-degree oven for 10 minutes.
Recipe from Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook
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Posted by: David Scott
1 year plan, 5 year plan, business and IT change, business change, change management, five year plan, individual action plan, IT and business change, IT change, one year plan
I was speaking about plans and projects with someone the other day. As far as challenges go – next to people – change and the associated planning is the most difficult element of The Weave.
Change is a continuum. For the organization, something is continuously changing that affects it: Change is happening within, and it is happening in the surrounding environment. All change must be weighed and assessed for impact, and there must be a ready posture for doing this. Too many organizations think of change as something mounted in a burst; “now we can rest.” This is why so many organizations seem to take action at the back edge of the envelope: change for them is constituted as an addressal of problems under pressure-filled and even desperate circumstances.
When change is mounted under pressure, there is usually a failure to fully survey where you are. It may seem obvious, but in planning a destination (that is, a project’s destination), with appropriate directions, you must know your point of origin: the organization’s true station and status. You must survey business process, your technical enablements, and your people. If you don’t know where you are, the route to destination is a broken one – reaching the destination is painful, inefficient, and sometimes not even achieved.
The smart organization doesn’t disengage from change – nothing around the org stands still if it does. Therefore, the management of change isn’t just some reaction to what is happening internally, or some engagement that is “forced” by outside change. You must present a position of readiness, so that you have the “muscle” in place to exercise change. You must be able to forecast, develop, and schedule. This requirement for readiness presents itself to the individual, to groups, and to the organization in equal measure, as we’ll see.
Today, we need to realize and acknowledge that even change changes. How does change change? Consider: While we’re busy implementing a documented, sanctioned change, some of our assumptions, support products, fiscal supports, regulatory requirements, business practices, etc., haven’t done us the courtesy of standing still. Further, various projects and their change can compete for common resources; they can shift in schedule and crash into one another; they can have interlocking dependencies and impacts that must be carefully coordinated. Any time you make a course correction, an accommodation, an expansion in scope, etc., you are making a change to change.
Circumstances such as these, and the quality of planning in your organization, yields one of two things:
1) A house of cards, or
2) A solid structure of mutually reinforcing initiatives and projects.
Because things are shifting and evolving around us all the time, we need plans that have enough structure to guide us effectively, but that are not so rigid as to “straightjacket” us. We don’t want to be implementing so-so or broken solutions today that looked great yesterday. We don’t want the organization to be thrashing as it attempts to mount major changes without regard to prudent sequence, or that are even in direct competition with each other.
High Level Plans in Support to Detailed Plans
From a high level view, we need to plan support to the Business-Technology Weave. High-level plans should identify, guide, assist, and facilitate that which you wish to accomplish. They provide the general documentation and a calendar position for a collective of projects and initiatives, the sum total of which represent the organization’s forward thrust, and each of which have their own detailed, operational plans as separate documentation.
Aligning an organization’s detailed plans, projects, and initiatives is similar to tuning a car: you want all of your cylinders firing in proper sequence and timing. When properly tuned, your car not only has maximum power in ‘getting to where you’re going,’ it is making the best possible use of resources (in the form of highest gas mileage, and with minimal wear to the engine). Your organization’s individual operational plans are like cylinders – each contributing to the organization’s forward movement relative to time and circumstances. You must ensure that each of these plans “fires” in proper sequence, so as to assist the next plan – or at the very least not impinge upon its “firing.” You must get the collective of projects and initiatives making a concerted best-use of resources.
At the same time, any higher-level plan must have some flexibility in order to make allowance for an adjustment in schedule or direction. Yet, they can’t be so ill defined as to provide no structure at all. And, we have to preserve order: an order in change, and the order of the organization. How do we effectively manage this trick?
If you’ve followed The Weave over time, you know that we’ve discussed the importance of communication between Business and IT. And we know that it’s wise today for Business to make known its planning and direction for early participation and contribution by the organization’s technical investment. Certainly Business must facilitate IT’s understanding of required support to business initiatives, evolving technology needs, and changing environmental factors (such as security, expansion, new regulatory requirement, etc.). But realize that whether this happens effectively or not, IT still exists for, and at the pleasure of, Business. The onus is on IT to support, align with, and enhance Business’ plans for business. IT must dig where and as necessary.
There is plenty of chance to do that, so recognize your opportunities: There will be the obvious occasion for plans’ creation and adjustment within specific, formal, plan meetings – but also formally and informally in the course of budget meetings, staff meetings, board meetings, etc. The exercise of snapping them into focus happens largely in the BIT forum (The Business Implementation Team), and in specific IT plan meetings: but anywhere that there’s a discussion of futures planning contributes to the overall opportunity to assess change, and to effect the “gel” of a plan.
Further, in a changing world, there is the onus on IT to “hear” and garner everything, as a weigh on a scale of possible change requirements.
Coming: Part II – Three Plan Types.
NP: Bessie Smith, on original 78rpm.
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Written by PETA
You've no doubt seen the commercials with "happy" California dairy cows who chat and gossip in lush green fields. Obviously, the part in which the cows talk is fiction, but many viewers don't realize that the rolling green fields are also figments of a marketing team's vivid imagination. Cows in California are commonly raised ankle-deep in manure on crowded factory farms, and a lawsuit filed by PETA this week is attempting to set the record straight.
PETA is suing the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the California Milk Advisory Board for making false and misleading advertising claims after we filed a public-records request for all documents to substantiate the claims made in the “happy cows” ads, but the CDFA failed to produce a single document supporting the commercials. We’re also asking the court to order the agencies to stop running the ads and to turn over thousands of pages of other documents that we believe will expose the extent of their false claims, but which the CDFA is illegally withholding on spurious “trade secret” grounds.
This isn’t the first time that PETA has tried to force the Milk Advisory Board to stop lying to consumers. We sued the board in 2002, but the court ruled that, as a state agency, the board could not be sued under California’s unfair competition law. We then filed two complaints with the Federal Trade Commission, one in 2002 and the other in 2009, but it refused to take action.
You can help by refusing to buy any dairy products. The only truly happy cows are the ones whose babies aren’t torn away from them so that humans can drink the milk nature intended for calves.
Written by Alisa Mullins
to whoever thinks cows and other animals have no feelings and free will, of course they do! we are all animals just like them..
you have a general question for PETA and would like a response, please e-mail Info@peta.org. If you need to report cruelty to
an animal, please click
here. If you are reporting an animal in imminent danger and know where to find the
animal and if the abuse is taking place right now, please call your local
police department. If the police are unresponsive, please call PETA
immediately at 757-622-7382 and press 2.
Follow PETA on Twitter!
Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights? Read more.
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Traveling By Land in Biblical Times
Have you ever thought about how comfortable it is to travel in the 21stcentury? While riding in a minivan to your grandparents’ house on a hot summer afternoon, you likely will sit on a covered, cushioned seat, and have the air conditioner blowing on you in order to keep cool. All the while, you might listen to your favorite songs, or watch a movie on the little TV that comes with many vans today. If you happen to feel a bump in the road that is not absorbed by the van’s shocks, you might become a little annoyed, be-cause you are not used to being “disturbed” while riding down the road. In just 31/2hours youare able to journey a little more than 200 miles to your grandparents’ house on only half a tank of gas. Best of all, you get there just in time for supper—grandma’s specialty of fried chicken, fresh vegetables, and apple pie. The biggest frustration for you during your journey was that it just seemed to take too long.
Now, compare your normal traveling experience in the 21stcentury with someone from Bible times. If you were like the average person back then, you would have walked almost everywhere you went—to work, to worship, and even sometimes to your relatives’ (who might live thirty miles away). When God gave Abraham the land of Canaan to inhabit, He instructed him saying, “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever…. Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you” (Genesis 13:14-15,17). About 2,000 years later, when Jesus was on Earth, it seems that He walked nearly everywhere He went. Although animals such as mules, donkeys, horses, and camels often were used when traveling really long distances, walking was still the most common method of travel.
Whether walking or riding on an animal, traveling in Bible times was uncomfortable, tiresome, and dangerous. The Bible describes Jesus as “being wearied” after traveling from Judea to a city in Samaria known as Sychar (John 4:5-6). When writing to the church at Corinth concerning the trials that he had endured as a servant of Christ, the apostle Paul wrote that he had been “on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers,…dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness,…through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure” (2 Corin-thians11:26-27).
To avoid the extreme heat of the Sun, travelers would often journey by night, and get their direction from the stars. People also traveled at nighttime in order to help escape detection from thieves, who (like in the parable of the Good Samaritan—Luke 10:29-37) would hide beside the road (perhaps behind large rocks or bushes), waiting for someone to rob. And if that was not enough, a journeyman in Bible times also had to beware of wild animals along the way. Lions, leopards, and bears were just a few of the animals that used to lurk about the land of Palestine, especially in the wilderness of Judea. (Do you remember how “a young lion came roaring against” Samson as he traveled through the vineyards of Timnah—Judges 14:5-6?)
Truly, traveling in ancient times was much different than it is today. It was both wearisome and scary for people to leave the comforts and safety of their village to journey elsewhere. In view of the many dangers that travelers encountered along their journeys, we should be even more thankful for the godly men of history who traveled great distances to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ.
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What makes APTR distinct is the interprofessional make-up of our members who are public health, medical and health professions faculty and their institutions. Membership is open to faculty, students, and residents from all health professions, as well as their institutions. By uniting health professions educators, APTR is strengthening medicine and population health.
Online Membership Directory—The membership directory makes it easy to find colleagues. Members can search all APTR association members or view a listing of members.
APTR Career Source—List and access faculty or academic positions available at graduate public health programs, medical school departments of preventive and community medicine, medical school departments with a population health focus, health professions schools, and various health agencies.
Collaboratives, Forums and Blogs—These provide an easy way to connect and communicate with fellow members.
Teaching Prevention—This annual conference provides an opportunity for networking and education across health professions with a population health focus.
Council Meetings—Fall meetings of the Council of Graduate Programs in Public Health.
Public Policy Initiatives
APTR represents academic population health and preventive medicine before the executive and legislative branches of the US government. Through coalitions and working closely with other health professions organizations, APTR generates policy, tracks legislative and regulatory developments, and advocates for issues of importance to academic population health and prevention.
APTR advances the work and scholarship of its members and prevention and population health education through member representation on federal and national groups.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine—APTR official journal publishes articles in the areas of prevention research, teaching, practice and policy. Original research is published on interventions aimed at the prevention of chronic and acute disease and the promotion of individual and community health. Of particular emphasis are papers that address the primary and secondary prevention of important clinical, behavioral and public health issues such as injury and violence, infectious disease, women's health, smoking, sedentary behaviors and physical activity, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, and alcohol and drug abuse.
APTR News Now—E-newsletter of the association, APTR News Now highlights current activities and initiatives and provides updates for members on how policy affects academic population health and prevention, as well as funding opportunities, and member updates.
The APTR Library offers resources, curriculum, teaching materials, and self-study courses to support the teaching of clinical prevention and population health.
Fellowships and Training
APTR-CDC Preventive Medicine and Public Health Fellowships—Fellowship opportunities are available to members and their students in public health and preventive medicine interest areas with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fellows will gain leadership experience in public health practice and policy, access to state-of-the-art technology and national databases, and will train with leading experts in the field of preventive medicine and public health.
APTR-ODPHP Prevention Health Policy Residency Rotations—APTR members have access to continuing field placements for Preventive Medicine and Primary Care residents based at the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health within the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Through the APTR Cooperative Agreements with CDC and ODPHP, APTR members have access to federal funding for academic preventive medicine and public health programs to carry out activities that support workforce developement.
APTR members have the opportunity to nationally recognize colleagues,organizations, and programs that have pushed the field to a higher degree of excellence. Each year, APTR honors the most distinguished individuals and programs in the field of prevention and public health education. Through their dedication, the awardees exemplify the goal of advancing education and serving the community.
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The APTR Council of Graduate Programs in Public Health supports emerging and accredited graduate programs across the U.S. that grant public health degrees and therefore prepare students for professional careers in public health.
Assistance with implementing new public health education recommendations, including undergraduate education. Knowledge base of the most current resources on public health graduate programs including data reports, directories and curriculum materials. Access to CDC, ODPHP and other federal agency education and training opportunities for you and your students.
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Shingles strikes young and old alike
By Lara Krupicka For Sun-Times Media January 14, 2013 2:50PM
Michele Smith, of Bolingbrook, and her daughter, Hannah, 13, who developed shingles after a visit to Kenya where she worked with children in an orphanage. | Submitted
Doctors urge those who develop the rash to see a doctor within 72 hours of onset:
Starts as a painful rash on one side of the face or body.
Rash forms blisters that typically scab over in seven to 10 days.
Rash clears up within two to four weeks.
Most commonly occurs in a single stripe around either the left or the right side of the body.
Other symptoms can include:
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov
Updated: January 15, 2013 12:58PM
According to the Centers for Disease Control, almost one in every three people will experience shingles in their lifetime. And because about half of all cases occur in people older than 60, it is frequently thought of as an older person’s illness. But younger people often get it, too. Just ask Hannah Smith.
The Bolingbrook middle-schooler developed shingles after a visit to Kenya where she worked with children in an orphanage. The orphanage had suffered an outbreak of chickenpox before Smith’s family arrived, but Hannah’s mother, Michele, thought nothing of it.
“All of my kids already had chickenpox,” she says.
Given their immunity to the disease, she had no problem with her children playing with the young orphans. And Hannah particularly enjoyed holding one 2-year-old boy who’d most recently had chickenpox.
Then on the plane ride home, Hannah complained of pain under her arm. When Michele looked at the area, she noticed a red patch of small bumps. During the next few days, the bumps grew and became pus-filled. That’s when Michele became suspicious and took her daughter to the doctor for a diagnosis. His conclusion: shingles.
Shingles, or herpes zoster, results from the same virus that causes chickenpox. It only occurs in people who previously contracted chickenpox (even those whose exposure didn’t result in the chickenpox rash). This is because the virus can remain in the body in a dormant state until a new exposure to chickenpox, or extreme conditions of stress or heat, or other unknown reasons, cause the virus to become active again.
Dr. Elizabeth Pector, a family practice physician with Edward Medical Group, points out a major difference between shingles and chickenpox.
“Chickenpox is spread by coughing,” she says. “But in shingles, if the rash is covered, people can’t get it from you.”
And in theory, one person can’t contract shingles from another — an exposure to shingles can only cause chickenpox in those who haven’t had the disease or gotten a vaccine. Plus once you’ve had shingles, you typically won’t have another episode of the rash. Rarely do people develop shingles more than once in their lifetime.
How can you tell if you have shingles?
“It can start as pain,” Pector explains. “Sharp shooting pain. Then two to three days later, a rash breaks out. It looks like chickenpox on one side of the body. Then it turns blistery.”
Typical outbreaks occur in strips across the chest and abdomen and along arms and legs. In a small percentage of cases, the virus will affect the eyes, necessitating immediate treatment to prevent long-term damage to eyesight.
Pector emphasizes the importance of seeking treatment immediately no matter where the rash appears or how sharp the pain.
“Get into the doctor or urgent care within 72 hours of the rash. They can start you on an antiviral medication to shorten the course and prevent chronic nerve pain,” Pector says.
And she knows the urgency of this. Pector contracted shingles last summer and dealt with nerve pain from the virus for several months after the rash.
Postherpetic neuralgia or PHN involves random skin sensitivity and shooting pain in places where the shingles rash occurred. It can last for weeks or months and can sometimes be debilitating.
While Hannah’s case was mild, with slight itching and pain that responded to Advil and Neosporin, doctors can prescribe stronger pain relievers, such as Vicodin, for more severe cases.
And for those older than 60 (and sometimes as young as 50), a vaccine is available.
“It wasn’t that big of a deal,” says Michele of her daughter’s bout with shingles. “It wasn’t as bad as it could have been.”
That might have been because of her age or her high tolerance for pain. The rest of us would do well do use caution and not think we’re immune to getting shingles, no matter what our age.
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An Orchard Invisible
A Natural History of Seeds
The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. From the tiny sesame that we sprinkle on our bagels to the forty-five-pound double coconut borne by the coco de mer tree, seeds are a perpetual reminder of the complexity and diversity of life on earth. With An Orchard Invisible, Jonathan Silvertown presents the oft-ignored seed with the natural history it deserves, one nearly as varied and surprising as the earth’s flora itself.
Beginning with the evolution of the first seed plant from fernlike ancestors more than 360 million years ago, Silvertown carries his tale through epochs and around the globe. In a clear and engaging style, he delves into the science of seeds: How and why do some lie dormant for years on end? How did seeds evolve? The wide variety of uses that humans have developed for seeds of all sorts also receives a fascinating look, studded with examples, including foods, oils, perfumes, and pharmaceuticals. An able guide with an eye for the unusual, Silvertown is happy to take readers on unexpected—but always interesting—tangents, from Lyme disease to human color vision to the Salem witch trials. But he never lets us forget that the driving force behind the story of seeds—its theme, even—is evolution, with its irrepressible habit of stumbling upon new solutions to the challenges of life.
"I have great faith in a seed," Thoreau wrote. "Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." Written with a scientist’s knowledge and a gardener’s delight, An Orchard Invisible offers those wonders in a package that will be irresistible to science buffs and green thumbs alike.
“Entertaining and charmingly illustrated. . . . For all its erudition, however, this is not an encyclopedia of botanical lore, nor a definitive text, but rather a little gem of science writing that deserves a spot on any natural history lover's bedside bookstand. . . . It is simply a delight to read.”
“Just as a seed contains the ability to create a whole plant, the evolution of seeds can serve as a microcosm for plant evolution. British ecology professor Silvertown begins with a discussion of how seeds evolved to adapt plants to a fully terrestrial life when they emerged from the sea. In the process, he covers many relevant topics, including sexual and asexual reproduction, plant genetics, plant self-defense and seed dispersal, plant poisons, and seeds as food. The author also explains the coevolution of plants and animals, as in using and perceiving color. He covers some plant products humans use, such as sunflower oil, grain for beer, and coffee. Like Michale Pollan in The Botany of Desire, Silvertown cites historical attitudes and quotations about particular plants. But he focuses primarily on the science of plant evolution rather than human history or anecdote. . . . Silvertown writes both elegantly and clearly, and the book is as pleasurable to read as it is informative.”
“A fabulous book. . . . Silvertown’s skills are in telling stories. Expect wonders, too. . . . In this book, Silvertown has produced a gem. . . . Read it as a gardener, scientist, food aficionado, historian, botanist, or naturalist, and you’ll not be disappointed.”
“Focusing on seeds, Jonathan Silvertown has written a witty and charming introduction to the evolutionary wiles of the plant kingdom. . . . Do read this eye-opening book.”
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AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #221, April 21, 1995
The drug thalidomide has lately become the object of wide-
ranging research for its proposed value in treating a number
of AIDS-related conditions, including aphthous ulcers,
wasting, and tuberculosis, as well as for treating HIV
infection itself. If its promise holds true, thalidomide will
become pharmaceutical medicine's most famous come-back story.
The word thalidomide provokes alarm in those who remember it
as the notorious cause of birth defects in thousands of
European babies born in the 1950s and 60s. It had been widely
prescribed as a sedative under the trade name Contergan until
its teratogenic effects became apparent. It was never
marketed in the U.S., and in fact has been used, often
irrelevantly, as a defense of stringent U.S. drug
Most people think that after the thalidomide disaster the
drug was shelved forever, but actually it has been studied
extensively in auto-immune disease research, and it happens
to be very useful for managing a consequence of the
medications used to treat Hansen's disease (leprosy). It is
now routinely and safely administered to people with Hansen's
around the world.
The rationale behind the use of this drug in HIV disease is
somewhat involved. Rather paradoxically, it appears to work
by pacifying part of the immune response, a property which
would not at first seem to benefit a disease described as an
However, HIV causes not simply a deficiency, but an
"autoaggressive" reaction. In the protracted war against the
virus, the immune system begins OVERproducing certain
chemical messengers called cytokines which immune cells use
to communicate. Cytokines are potent and their pathways are
extremely complex, and, depending on the situation, some can
serve more than one function. All considered, it is not
surprising that the chaos fostered by too many messengers and
messages could cause more harm than good. Excessive levels of
one cytokine in particular, tumor necrosis factor, or TNF,
have been associated with the development of aphthous ulcers,
dementia, fevers, fatigue and wasting.
Not only does HIV stimulate TNF production, but TNF in turn
can enhance HIV replication.
A number of agents are reported to inhibit the production of
TNF, including pentoxifylline, sulfasalazine, cyclosporine,
N-acetyl cysteine, ketotifen, corticosteroids and
thalidomide. Currently, the most prominent TNF inhibitor
under study is thalidomide, perhaps because it is relatively
strong and selective in this regard. Some of the other drugs
have effects which are not completely understood or desired.
(Some are also in use in HIV treatment for other rationales.)
The capacity of thalidomide to inhibit TNF was demonstrated
by researchers at The Rockefeller University with funding by
Celgene Corporation. Consequently, development rights to this
use of thalidomide are owned by Celgene, which calls the drug
Synovir. Sol Barer, Ph.D., president of the company, spoke to
us at length about the drug's status.
Interest in thalidomide has blossomed in the past year, given
its multiple possibilities and the expanding research into
TNF. The drug is under study in a number of HIV-related
clinical trials in Europe and North America, and in some
countries it is also available on a compassionate-use basis.
In the U.S., a few HIV buyers' clubs are planning to carry
thalidomide, a choice which may turn confrontational with the
Food and Drug Administration.
Celgene is currently developing several new TNF inhibitors
which are chemically analogous to thalidomide but which might
be safer or more effective.
Thalidomide also inhibits angiogenesis, the development of
new blood vessels. This property which unfortunately
inhibited the normal growth of fetal limbs has garnered it
research interest in diseases characterized by uncontrolled
angiogenesis, such as cancer and Kaposi's sarcoma. Dr. Barer
noted that TNF stimulates the growth of new blood vessels, so
that the inhibition of TNF may still be the operative
mechanism in angiogenesis research.
Many people with HIV are bothered by recurring, painful oral
ulcers that are frustratingly difficult to treat. The ulcers
are apparently not caused by an opportunistic agent, like
herpes, and so they are generically described as aphthous,
meaning simply that they occur on a mucous membrane. A biopsy
can determine if an ulcer is not indeed herpes, which would
make a difference in the choice of treatment. The common
treatment for aphthous ulcers has been to suppress, broadly,
the immune response, which includes TNF production. This is
easily accomplished with corticosteroids like prednisone. A
topical oral elixir of prednisone may work well enough for
some people. But many others need a stronger, systemic
formulation, and since long-term use of these steroids has
serious side effects, it is not a tenable permanent solution.
A better solution, theoretically, would be to inhibit TNF
production more specifically, such as with thalidomide, and
leave other immune responses alone. There are at least 38
sites around the country testing thalidomide for HIV-related
Wasting is an even more serious problem for many people. It
has been well documented as a cause of death even in the
absence of opportunistic illnesses. The origins of wasting
are complex and variable, and include loss of appetite, poor
intestinal absorption, low testosterone production and high
Wasting now has quite a few possible treatments, including
endocrine modifiers like human growth hormone, testosterone,
nandrolone or oxandrolone, and appetite/nutritional enhancers
like megestrol acetate, marijuana or dronabinol, and total
parenteral nutrition (TPN). None of these, however, work by
decreasing TNF levels. Based on some promising earlier
research, there are now six trial sites around the country
testing thalidomide in people with wasting syndrome.
Thalidomide has developed a somewhat contradictory
relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
and MAC. It is being studied as a adjunctive treatment to the
standard therapies because it relieves some of the symptoms
associated with TB. But for the same reason it may mask an
undiagnosed TB or MAC infection and thus delay timely
treatment. Consequently, physicians who have patients using
thalidomide, whether through a trial or not, should monitor
them for mycobacterial infections and consider prophylaxis
for those at risk.
Finally, thalidomide may be useful for treating primary HIV
infection, and is in trials for that purpose at five sites.
It is unclear, however, if the drug has any activity on HIV
beyond inhibiting TNF. Dr. Barer feels that it might make a
very good complement to a combination antiretroviral regimen.
He also is optimistic that second or third generation TNF
inhibitors will surpass thalidomide's efficacy and diminish
some of the toxicity.
Persons interested in any of these studies should call
800/TRIALS-A for more specific contact information.
One of the possible side effects of thalidomide, and a
potentially irreversible one, is peripheral neuropathy.
Individuals with a history of neuropathy may be disqualified
from thalidomide trials.
Importantly, persons who for reasons other than neuropathy do
not meet the entry criteria of the oral ulcer trials may
qualify for a little-known compassionate-use program, managed
somewhat guardedly by the FDA. For information about that
program, physicians only should call Brenda Atkins or Matthew
Tarosky at 301-443-9553. In some instances the drug has been
released for vaginal or anal ulcers as well.
Several investigators told us that the thalidomide trials
have been slow to recruit, in spite of the apparent community
interest in this treatment. One problem was articulated by
Kathleen Mulligan, Ph.D., who is a co-investigator for the
wasting trials at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr.
Mulligan has encountered disbelief from many people,
including physicians, that the drug thalidomide would ever be
offered to anyone for anything. She hopes that as accurate
information becomes more available, thalidomide's
catastrophic history, and its real promise, will be
understood in a broader context.
Another reason for the slow recruitment may be a very old
problem: both the wasting and ulcer protocols involve a
placebo arm, a contingency which many people in ill health
find very unattractive. As has been the case before, the HIV
treatment community will soon pave its own road, as the drug
becomes available through the Thalidomide Underground
Compassionate Use Program, offered by the PWA Health Group in
New York and the Healing Alternatives Foundation in San
Francisco, the largest HIV buyers' clubs in the country.
The clubs had planned to carry it earlier, but were
approached by the FDA last November and encouraged not to do
so, because of the seriousness of thalidomide's potential
side effects, and presumably the attendant emotional and
political charge that surrounds the drug as well.
Both Sally Cooper, Director of the PWA Health Group, and
Matthew Sharp, Director of Healing Alternatives, had strong
rebuttals to the FDA concern. They say that the clinical
trials of thalidomide cannot enroll everyone who needs the
drug, and that many people do not wish to and should not have
to endure the risk of a placebo in this situation. (And the
small compassionate use program is only for ulcers, not for
persons with wasting syndrome.) They also point out that a
number of seriously teratogenic drugs are already approved
for marketing by the FDA, including megace, and including an
acne drug used by teenagers.
[Comment: ANYONE TAKING THALIDOMIDE MUST UNDERSTAND THE
GRAVITY OF ITS DANGER TO DEVELOPING FETUSES AND ABSOLUTELY
AVOID STARTING A PREGNANCY. Given that, why would thalidomide
be withheld from responsible people, including women, who
desperately need it and who do not qualify for or choose to
participate in clinical trials? People facing serious health
concerns deserve to make their own informed treatment
decisions. Also, the trials have not been uniformly open to
women. Celgene has agreed to change that, with the
stipulation that pre-menopausal women agree to pregnancy
testing and reliable contraception.]
In this context, the buyers' clubs are proceeding with what
they consider the only ethical course. They will test the
product they carry to ensure its quality, and will offer
thorough counseling about the use and cautions of the drug.
Moreover, they will require a prescription for its release,
and a consent form that must be signed by the patient and
The PWA Health Group can be reached at 212-255-0520, and
Healing Alternatives at 415-626-4053.
The wasting trials are still new, so data is not available.
But for aphthous ulcers, a number of researchers and people
who have themselves used the drug have told us that it has
been very effective. Since the thalidomide causes drowsiness,
it is best taken before sleep.
Unfortunately, some people have experienced a serious
allergic reaction to the drug, especially in the higher dose
range (300 to 400 mg daily). The reaction may appear several
days after starting the drug, and involves a rash, high
fevers and extreme flu-like discomfort; it sometimes warrants
permanent discontinuation of the drug. However, the problem
may be avoided or controlled by starting at 100 mg a day and
increasing the dose if needed (but not to exceed a daily dose
of 400 mg).
Dr. Gilla Kaplan, a key thalidomide researcher at Rockefeller
University, told us that HIV-infected people who are also
being treated for tuberculosis seem curiously to be spared
the allergy to thalidomide. And clinicians at the Hansen's
Disease Center in Louisiana say that the reaction has not
been a problem for patients there. In fact, thalidomide is
used in Hansen's precisely to CONTROL an inflammatory
process, erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), which can be a
sequela--not a true drug reaction--during the treatment of
the disease. (Hansen's disease, like MAC and tuberculosis, is
caused by a mycobacterium, and not coincidentally, ENL is
thought to result from high TNF levels.)
At any rate, the saga of thalidomide's reincarnation will
continue as more clinical research is completed, as patients
and physicians gain more experience with empirical use, and
particularly as the HIV community pushes for reasonable
access to valuable treatments.
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Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Kraków ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. The sisters wrote the poems on worksheets stolen from the factories where they worked by day and hid them in their clothing. During what she thought were the last days of her life, Henia entrusted the poems to a cousin who happened to pass her in the forced march at the end of the war. The cousin gave them to Henia's husband in Kraków, who would not locate and reunite with his wife for another six months.
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Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel were born to an affluent and distinguished family in Kraków. After the war, they both eventually emigrated to the United States, where they continued to write. Henia Karmel is author of Marek and Lisa. Ilona Karmel is author of An Estate of Memory. Fanny Howe is the author of, among other books, On the Ground, Gone (UC Press), and Selected Poems (UC Press), winner of the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal for poetry and The Lemore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Selected Poems was also one of the Village Voice’s Best Books of the Year.
"Ilona Karmel once wrote of the work of turning 'the cold, old-fashioned, iron key of memory.' These recovered poems of Ilona and her elder sister Henia open the space behind memory's door, and it is on fire with defiant passion -with longing, with terror, and the raw drive to bear witness in the one way possible to the life-in-death of the camps. Henia writes, 'These poems came about when I was still creating myself.' The two sisters here are speaking themselves and each other into existence; and this essential work of claiming our humanity has rarely been so costly, and so moving."—Allen Grossman
"The book is a riveting read. The subject, of course, is very compelling and the poems move with great plainness, vividness, and force. The girls survived, though barely, because they were young and strong and because the German war machine needed their bodies. The book is artfully designed to convey the arc of their story from capture to freedom in 1946, and there is, as far as I know, nothing quite like it in the vast literature of the Holocaust. A unique and moving book, of historical significance, rendered into English by one of our most gifted American poets."—Robert Hass
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This double-blind experiment examined the effects of a caffeinated sports drink during prolonged cycling in a warm environment. Sixteen highly trained cyclists completed 3 trials: placebo, carbohydrate-electrolyte sports drink (CES), and caffeinated sports drink (CES+CAF). Subjects cycled for 135 min, alternating between 60% and 75% VO2max every 15 min for the first 120 min, followed by a 15-min performance ride. Maximal voluntary (MVC) and electrically evoked contractile properties of the knee extensors were measured before and after cycling. Work completed during the performance ride was 15–23% greater for CES+CAF than for the other beverages. Ratings of perceived exertion were lower with CES+CAF than with placebo and CES. After cycling, the MVC strength loss was two-thirds less for CES+CAF than for the other beverages (5% vs. 15%). Data from the interpolated-twitch technique indicated that attenuated strength loss with CES+CAF was explained by reduced intrinsic muscle fatigue.
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Today’s Business Report points out that SABMiller is going to invest almost R20 billion in other African countries now representing its fastest growing market for beer.
Mark Bowman SABMiller’s (managing director for Africa) pointed out that people on the continent (excluding South Africa) consume only 8 litres of commercial beer per person per year and he wanted to increase this to 30 litres per person per year over the next 20 years.
Bowman is really saying he wants to take more money from poor people on the poorest continent. SABMiller is the parent company of SAB in South Africa.
South African Breweries (SAB) and its followers in the alcohol industry has a well-oiled lobbying (I mean lying) machine. This lying machine has gone into over-drive because the Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi has dared to the rights put life, health and dignity of people before profit by suggesting a ban on alcohol advertising.
Ironically, the lying spokesperson of former Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is now the spokesperson for advertising the liquor industry. Sibani Mngadi, the public policy and sustainability manager at “brandhouse” whose “extensive range of products include J&B, Amstel and Johnnie Walker said without any basis in fact that “the proposed ban would not reduce alcohol misuse but would have an adverse economic impact”. Sadly, the business press is failing to analyse the real costs to lives, families, households, the economy and public health in their attempt to defend industry.
I support a ban on alcohol advertising because alcohol impacts on personal and public health; road and community safety; as well as, family and community well-being. Alcoholism is the largest substance abuse problem in our country wreaking havoc on our communities.
Banning the advertising of alcohol must be the first step of a comprehensive plan to prevent, treat and mitigate the impact of alcoholism. The industry lying machine suggests that there is “no evidence” that alcohol abuse will be reduced by advertising. They miss the point.
The proposed ban on advertising will stop making alcohol use “look cool” and through it prevent the targeted advertising among the vulnerable (especially children and unemployed) to promote buying beer, wine and spirits.
Evidence is important but policies and programmes are never solely based on evidence. All policy must strive to be evidence informed. There is more than sufficient evidence to show that individual and social harm from alcohol abuse is greater than for instance the use of cigarettes.
Personal health: alcohol is the most common form of substance abuse. The mental health, employment prospects and quality of life of an individual who abuses alcohol is severely compromised. People who abuse alcohol are individually susceptible to a range of illnesses including heart disease, HIV and TB. Their ability to take medicine requires intense support and counselling because their risk of defaulting is very high. Foetal alcohol is one of the most tragic consequences of enslaving people to alcohol.
The scale of alcoholism in South Africa makes it a critical public health question. Taking the population as a whole, adults in South Africa consume less alcohol than their counter-parts in many other regions of the world, (ours range between 10.3 and 12. litres). WHO research has shown that about 70% of women and 40% men in South Africa do not drink.
However, the consumption level of individual people who actually drink (as opposed to the teetotalling majority) alcohol consumption per adult drinker in South Africa among the highest in the world. For instance, Black Label beer sales alone exceed 1.4 billion 340ml bottles per year. Alcohol consumption and alcoholism among real youth as opposed to Julius Malema is also very high.
All the evidence on crime suggests that 73% of violent injuries sustained involve alcohol; brawls related to homicide between people who know each other and involve alcohol account for nearly a quarter of murders. Western Cape alcohol consumption and crime data is much worse than the rest of the country.
It is also argued by the industry lying machine that banning alcohol advertising violates the right to freedom of expression. SAB opposed freedom of speech when satirist Kustin Nurse exposed their slick advertising machine with his t-shirts “Black Labour, White Guilt”. They sued Nurse in what everyone described as a “David against Goliath battle” (See M&G 11 March 2005) .
Unlike in the US, people are the bearers of human rights such as freedom of expression not corporations. Nurse won his case because the right to freedom of expression and to satirise a big company was regarded as fundamental to democracy. Interestingly, SAB told the Courts how advertising increases sales and profits.
In the SAB case against Laugh It Off, the Constitutional Court addressed the question of alcohol consumption and freedom of expression. Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke outlined the facts and included this statement:
SAB tell us that the marks have become well-known and are used extensively across South Africa in relation to beer sales. In fact Black Label beer has been sold in this country through a variety of trade outlets, from shebeens to mega-wholesalers, for over 30 years. The label and get-up of the beer were selected because they have a very strong visual impact; something which, we are told, compliments the beer rather well. The product’s reputation has progressed to become one of the leading beer products in the country.
The volume of sales of Black Label beer for the 2000/2001 financial year is said to have exceeded 1.4 billion 340ml bottles. This, we are assured, translates to 350 bottles of 340ml for every man, woman and child of all 40 million of us in this country.
SAB points out that these excellent beer sales volumes are owed to the Black Label brand whose market popularity derives from costly, concerted and pervasive advertising in the form of sport sponsorships, television, radio, print media, coasters, posters, flags, T-shirts, billboards and advertising on taxis. (Emphasis added)
According to SAB itself, “market popularity derives from costly, concerted and pervasive advertising“. These are some of the issues that we must address. Let me make it clear — the enjoyment of alcohol is good. Its abuse causes enormous social dislocation. However, people who use responsibly and those already “hooked” through alcoholism will not suddenly stop drinking because advertising is banned.
Read the SABMiller 2011 Annual Report here. The power of its money alone quite apart from the wine and spirits industry will show why they resist the ban on advertising.
This post contains two articles from Business Report and the Constitutional Court judgment.
Drinks makers oppose ad ban
April 17 2012 at 05:00am
By Ann Crotty
More than seven out of 10 South Africans over the age of 15 do not drink alcohol. However, over 40 percent of the approximately 30 percent who do drink fall into the category of “heavy episodic drinkers”.
Industry sources say it is because of the damage caused by these “heavy episodic drinkers” that Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is pushing for a total ban on the marketing and promotion of alcohol.
Despite the high rate of abstinence in South Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has given the country a ranking of four out of a possible five in terms of the risks attached to drinking patterns. The UK, which has an abstinence rate of only 35 percent, has a risk ranking of only two.
Motsoaledi has long proposed that the alcohol industry be subjected to the same restrictions on marketing and promotions as the smoking industry. In 2010 he said: “What is being done to smoking is going to be done to alcohol.”
The figures relating to South Africa’s alcohol environment are the latest available from the WHO and date back to 2006. Local industry sources indicate that there has been little change on the 2006 figures.
Yesterday the major players in the alcohol industry were heavily critical of media reports that Motsoaledi was intent on pushing ahead with legislation that would totally prohibit the marketing and promotion of alcohol. SABMiller subsidiary South African Breweries (SAB), which controls an estimated 89 percent of the local beer market, said it was deeply concerned by the news. It also noted that the legislation had been drafted without input from the industry.
“SAB is profoundly disappointed and concerned by the decision taken by the ministers of health and social development to consistently refuse to engage with the alcohol industry, despite the fact that we agree that alcohol abuse is at unacceptable levels… Both the ministries of health and social development appear to be increasingly taking a prohibitionist view on alcohol, which has had disastrous consequences in those parts of the world that have gone this route,” said Benedict Maaga, SAB’s media relations manager.
He added that while it was perfectly legitimate for those who were motivated by religious or moral beliefs to express their views on alcohol “it is inconceivable that government should draft such a bill without input from industry”.
Maaga said that SAB shared the concerns around the abuse of alcohol and believed that it must be tackled by all the interested parties. He said that the proposed draft bill appeared to tamper with an industry’s constitutional right to market products that were legal.
Sibani Mngadi, the public policy and sustainability manager at brandhouse, whose extensive range of products includes J&B, Amstel and Johnnie Walker, said the proposed ban would not reduce alcohol misuse but would have an adverse economic impact.
It was estimated that the industry spent about R2 billion on advertising each year.
Mngadi said brandhouse had engaged with the government and it was not given any reason to believe that a total ban on advertising and promotion was under consideration.
Spirits and wine producer Distell said that it shared the government’s concerns but opposed to a total ban as a means of preventing alcohol abuse. – Ann Crotty
SAB’s awesome marketing machinery and freedom of expression
SAB has deposed graphically to its awesome marketing machinery bolstered by impressive advertising spend on every conceivable medium including artefacts and, not least, T-shirts. … In theory and in live trade there is a direct link between the mark and sales. As it is often said, the mark actually sells the goods …
Booze ad ban: Panic over jobs
April 17 2012 at 09:03am
By Lynette Johns
Billions of rand and thousands of jobs will be lost if the Department of Health goes through with its plan to ban liquor companies from advertising and sponsoring teams, say the liquor industry, analysts and the opposition.
The draft bill has been labelled draconian, short-sighted, misguided and devastating to jobs.
Already an advertising agency has launched a petition opposing the proposed law. Tshepo Matsepe, co-owner of advertising company Kena Media, is spearheading opposition to the ban.
The Department of Health has confirmed that there is a draft bill “being considered” regarding alcohol advertising in the country, but it still has a number of processes to get through.
On Tuesday the DA’s spokesman on health, Denise Robinson, will request a copy of the draft bill so that they can study the document.
According to reports, the department, headed by Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, wants an outright ban on the liquor industry advertising and sponsoring events. The department has been working on the Control of Marketing of Alcoholic Beverages Bill.
Motsoaledi is on record as being “at war” with the liquor industry.
His spokesman, Fidel Hadebe, said the advertising and marketing of alcohol was “just one of the many avenues that are being considered as part of addressing this challenge”.
The DA and the alcohol industry have labelled the proposed draft bill draconian and loaded with unintended consequences.
The consensus, however, is that alcohol plays a huge role in abuse, crime and road accident deaths and injuries, and places a huge burden on state resources.
Banning advertising and sponsorships is not the answer, the DA’s spokesman on Trade and Industry, Wilmot James, said on Monday.
SAB said the bill had been drafted without input from the industry.
“SAB is profoundly disappointed and concerned by the decision taken by both the ministers of Health and Social Development to consistently refuse to engage with the alcohol industry, despite the fact that we agree that alcohol abuse is at unacceptable levels in South Africa.
“Both the ministries of Health and Social Development appear to be increasingly taking a prohibitionist view on alcohol, which has had disastrous consequences in those parts of the world that have gone this route,” SAB said.
The alcohol industry has traditionally been one of the strongest users of sponsorship to market its products and brands globally. It also spends billions on advertising, with R400 million alone going to the SABC.
Local alcohol brands can account for as much as 10 percent of total direct spend in sponsorship, close to R1 billion.
David Sidenberg, a partner at BMI Sports Info, said sponsorship spend in total in SA, including leveraging rights, came to R7bn.
The alcohol industry was one of the biggest sponsors of sporting events and their exit would be noticed and would be difficult to fill, he said.
James said that while alcohol abuse needed to be curbed, it was an “inappropriate and wrong-headed” response to the problem.
Adrian Botha, director of the Industry Association for Responsible Alcohol Use, said it had not been consulted. He said banning advertising and sponsorship would lead to thousands of job losses and freezing of market share. It would be difficult for black entrepreneurs to take on giants like SAB, he said.
At a recent conference called by the Department of Trade and Industry’s National Liquor Authority, banning of advertising and sponsorship had not been discussed, Botha said.
Therefore, the Department of Health’s move had “come out of the blue”. “No one has had any input at all and this could be the department going for broke,” Botha said.
Matsepe’s petition has been sent across the country and thousands have signed it. He was quoted as saying that the advertising industry was not opposed to raising awareness about responsible liquor trading and consumption, but he was concerned that severe restrictions would affect a number of industries, not only advertising companies.
Economist Dawie Roodt said the government was systematically taking away people’s right to be responsible. While he understood the rationale behind sin taxes and laws, he could not understand why the state thought they “can manage me”.
Sibani Mngadi, public policy and sustainability manager at Brandhouse, said they engaged directly with the government to promote responsible drinking, but “the proposed ban will not reduce alcohol misuse and will have an adverse economic impact”.
Brandhouse, in its engagements with the government, had focused on improving the effectiveness of responsible marketing codes.
Brandhouse sponsors the J&B Met, the Drive Dry Campaign, Brandhouse Number 1 Taxi Driver (with the Department of Transport), Responsible Drinking Media Awards, Amstel Class Act and the local broadcast of Uefa Champions League matches.
Vernon de Vries, Distell Ltd director for corporate affairs, said it was opposed to a total ban on liquor advertising.
“An advertising ban will favour those products which are already well established and will prejudice new entrants, thus impeding free market competition,” he said.
“As has been emphasised repeatedly by the president and the National Planning Commission, the creation of jobs remains South Africa’s single biggest challenge.
“Various economic commentators and the advertising industry have made a strong case regarding the job losses and unfavourable economic impact that will inevitably follow a total ban such as the draft bill proposes,” he said. “Distell is constantly engaging with the government about this issue and several others regarding the liquor beverages industry and we remain hopeful of an outcome that will achieve the nine steps set out in the National Planning Commission’s Vision 2030,” De Vries said.
Timeline for a bill not everybody wants:
In December 2010, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini and Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced steps to draw up new legislation to ban alcohol brands from advertising.
Late last year, Dlamini confirmed that severe restrictions on alcohol ads would be tabled before the cabinet within two months, focusing on location, time and space rather than a total ban.
Commentators said potential loss of jobs and income in advertising and sponsorships would run into billions.
In February, Motsoaledi announced that draft legislation for the ban would be released for public comment.
On Monday, Business Day quoted a leaked copy of the draft bill, saying it sought to:
* Totally prohibit advertising of alcoholic products.
* Permit only notices “describing the price, brand name, type, strength, origin and composition of the product” to be displayed inside licensed and registered premises.
* Prohibit the display of names and logos of alcoholic beverages on delivery vehicles.
* Prohibit linking sports sponsorship to alcoholic brands.
* Prohibit the promotion of alcoholic beverages through donations and discounts at events. – Cape ArgusTags: Aaron Motsoaledi, Alcohol advertising ban, alcoholism, Articles, beer sales, Black Labour White Guilt, Constitutional Court, crime, Current Affairs, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, freedom of expression, health, Laugh It Off, News & Analysis, public health, SAB Ltd, SABMiller
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Think you’re a master of local trivia? Try answering the Washingtology question of the day from Cultural Tourism DC. Take your best guess and see what others have answered in our daily quiz.
Scroll down the page to find out the correct answer.
Answer: There was a B Street. It was renamed Constitution Avenue in 1931.
Source: Federal Triangle Heritage Trail, Sign 10. In 1931 Congress renamed B street, NW, the old canal route, Constitution Avenue. Federal Triangle Heritage Trail
Find more Washingtology quizzes here , and check back every weekday for a new Washingtology question of the day.
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DEAR READERS: If you're thinking about giving your favorite new college grad a memorable book as a graduation gift, I recommend the just-published "Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders" by Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger with Douglas Century, published by William Morrow (Harpercollins.com).
Sully is a retired airline pilot and safety expert who has become a source of inspiration and hope for millions after his successful emergency water landing of a disabled airliner on the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers and crew aboard the aircraft survived. Sully's remarkable performance made headlines across the globe.
Sully's selection of leaders ranges from a state governor to a mutual fund founder to a major league baseball manager. Leading off the book is Admiral Thad Allen, former commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard who headed up recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Among Allen's comments:
"My favorite definition of leadership is the ability to reconcile opportunity and competency. It's kind of like: If not now, when? If not you, who?"
DEAR JOYCE: My son is a finalist for an executive position at a local company. He says company managers told him they're ready to make an offer, but there's a catch. Before making the formal offer, my son must first give them a reference from his current employer! By complying, he would, in effect, tell his current employer that he's on the job market and, as a result, probably would be fired. What's his best way to handle this problem? -- A.M.
DEAR A.M. -- You describe a tight spot for your son or anyone. Here are strategy tips from two of the wisest experts in the job search firmament.
James M. Lemke, vice president, human resources at Finca International, a global nonprofit financial services organization, suggests a bird-in-hand easy fix:
"As the applicant, I would ask the prospective employer to send an offer contingent on a positive reference from my current employer. In most cases this is acceptable. Also, the applicant should ask to discuss the offer specifics and, if the offer is acceptable, set the stage with the current employer."
Jack Chapman, a renowned national career coach based in Chicago (LucrativeCareersInc.com) agrees with Lemke, and offers additional advice:
"Hold your ground. Tell your prospective employer that you will have to relinquish your candidacy if they insist that you essentially resign before receiving a written offer. Ask yourself, if the company is this unreasonable at the start, what other unreasonable things will you need to do as an employee?"
Even if you get a written offer first, Chapman adds a cautionary note: "Remember that most states are 'employment at will' states, so when they check references later, you are in jeopardy if they don't like what they hear. After you receive the offer, ask your potential new employers to identify what they want to hear about you, and then prep your current boss by asking if he or she would describe you in this way. Make sure the new employers hear what they want to hear -- or don't supply references at all."
DEAR JOYCE: Every guide I read urges career-minded individuals to network, network, network. I know about using LinkedIn.com and other social media, but is there anything new in networking? -- W.T.W.
DEAR W.T.W. -- Yes. LunchMeet is a new digital tool for professional networking. It's a mobile app (lunchmeetapp.com) that promotes face-to-face networking wherever and whenever you are available. The tool is too new for a track record -- I welcome your feedback.
(E-mail career questions for possible use in this column to Joyce Lain Kennedy at firstname.lastname@example.org; use "Reader Question" for subject line. Or mail her at Box 368, Cardiff, CA 92007.)
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Thorold native Carolyn Acker, who pursued a career in nursing but became an acclaimed poverty fighter in one of Toronto’s poorest public housing communities, was in Ottawa on Nov. 23 to receive her Order of Canada from Gov. David Johnston in an investiture ceremony.
Poverty fighter recognized.
Thorold native Carolyn Acker was presented with the Member of the Order of Canada insignia by Gov. Gen. David Johnston at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Nov. 23, recognizing her work combatting poverty. photo.
Sgts Ronald Duchesne, Rideau Hall © 2012 Office of the Secretary to the Governor General of Canada
His Excellency present the Member of the Order of Canada insigna to Carolyn Acker, C.M.
The Order of Canada was created in 1967, during Canadaís centennial year, to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. Since its creation, more than 5 000 people from all sectors of society have been invested into the Order.
Credit: Sgt Ronald Duchesne, Rideau Hall, OSGG
Acker, who grew up Carolyn Ciancio in Thorold, and attended St. Charles Catholic Elementary School before graduating from Denis Morris Secondary School in St. Catharines, had a passion for nursing. After obtaining her nursing degree, she went to work at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital.
But Acker, who obtained other degrees, found herself working as executive director of the Regent Park Community Health Centre in 1992, serving tens of thousands of people a year — many homeless or disadvantaged — in Canada’s largest public housing community.
High dropout rates, social ills, drugs, crime — Acker saw it all, and saw it getting worse despite investments into a range of health and social programs. Acker told This Week earlier this year, when she found out she was being named a member of the Order of Canada, that she realized at last that for the social problems to be addressed, a totally new approach was needed.
She and colleagues envisioned something called ‘community succession,’ in which today’s young people growing up in the housing projects would become tomorrow’s doctors, nurses, social workers and administrators of the centre.
They started from the bottom up, talking to students and their parents about how to turn the seemingly sinking ship around. Then they contacted the Toronto public school board and inquired about drop-out rates in specific, poor neighbourhoods.
“That was when it all hit home,” recalled Acker: statistics showed that while average high school drop-out rates in Ontario were about 23 per cent, that figure soared to nearly 60 per cent in Regent Park.
Acker said she realized health care and social programs alone couldn’t defeat poverty or address the many health consequences of poverty, from obesity rates and higher smoking rates to chronic conditions leading to earlier deaths.
“The only way to break the cycle of poverty is through education,” she said.
Acker spearheaded a new program called Pathways to Education, working alongside the school system. It involved financial assistance for such things as bus fares, because there are no local high schools in Regent Park and many parents simply couldn’t afford for buses, meaning their kids literally couldn’t get to high school. There is also after-school tutoring and mentoring from student parent support workers — part counsellor, part confidante, part social worker — who work closely with the students.
Students and their parents are required to sign contracts outlining their obligations, giving them a sense of ownership in the program.
Acker admitted she was “terrified” the program would be a complete disaster, with little buy-in from students and families. The exact opposite was true: in Regent Park, more than 90 per cent of students and their parents joined the program.
The result have been astounding. Drop-out rates plummeted by more than 70 per cent, and the number of young people going on to post-secondary education quadrupled. The Pathways to Education model has since been replicated in five other cities across Canada, and has received numerous awards.
Acker said a study by the Boston Consulting Group found the return to society on every single dollar invested in Pathways was a staggering $24. That’s because of instead of dropping out of school and ending up on social assistance or in jail, at-risk youth are graduating, moving on to getting jobs, paying taxes and contributing to society, she said.
She said in an interview on CBC radio’s Metro Morning earlier this year that kids living in poverty simply need a little extra support to reach their potential.
“These kids are no different from you and me,” she said. “All they need is a little support and they bloom and blossom. It’s unbelievable.”
Acker said when she got the call from the Governor General’s office, informing her she’d been selected to receive the Order of Canada, she was left speechless.
“I had to sit down,” she told This Week. “I couldn’t believe it.
“I’m so honoured.”
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this is incorrect. they're doing the parallel of genes and culture incorrectly. cultural genes should be considered as personal thoughts, ideas or otherwise some other kind of social/psychological potential, not the actual expression of those factors. the expressions of those things are traits, just like how the expression of genes are called traits. stories are merely the expression of social/psychological potential, not the actual genetic material. absorbing the cultural variation in stories occurs, in my opinion, just as "readily" as the absorbing of genetic variation in height. the assertion that this article makes is that there is a algebraic difference between the formulas of genetic natural selection and cultural natural selection, which from an ultimate mathematical standpoint there absolutely cannot be. any difference observed is occurring strictly in the bias of human perception and is therefore "true enough," i guess, but still not true.
Illustration from Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy
Published February 6, 2013
Once upon a time, someone in 14th-century Europe told a tale of two girls—a kind one who was rewarded for her manners and willingness to work hard, and an unkind girl who was punished for her greed and selfishness.
This version was part of a long line of variations that eventually spread throughout Europe, finding their way into the Brothers Grimm fairytales as Frau Holle, and even into Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. (Watch a video of the Frau Holle fairytale.)
In a new study, evolutionary psychologist Quentin Atkinson is using the popular tale of the kind and unkind girls to study how human culture differs within and between groups, and how easily the story moved from one group to another.
Atkinson, of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and his co-authors employed tools normally used to study genetic variation within a species, such as people, to look at variations in this folktale throughout Europe.
The researchers found that there were significant differences in the folktale between ethnolinguistic groups—or groups bound together by language and ethnicity. From this, the scientists concluded that it's much harder for cultural information to move between groups than it is for genes.
The study, published February 5 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that about 9 percent of the variation in the tale of the two girls occurred between ethnolinguistic groups. Previous studies looking at the genetic diversity across groups in Europe found levels of variation less than one percent.
For example, there's a part of the story in which the girls meet a witch who asks them to perform some chores. In different renditions of the tale, the meeting took place by a river, at the bottom of a well, or in a cave. Other versions had the girls meeting with three old men or the Virgin Mary, said Atkinson.
Researchers have viewed human culture through the lens of genetics for decades, said Atkinson. "It's a fair comparison in the sense that it's just variation across human groups."
But unlike genes, which move into a population relatively easily and can propagate randomly, it's harder for new ideas to take hold in a group, he said. Even if a tale can bridge the "ethnolinguistic boundary," there are still forces that might work against a new cultural variation that wouldn't necessarily affect genes.
"Humans don't copy the ideas they hear randomly," Atkinson said. "We don't just choose ... the first story we hear and pass it on.
"We show what's called a conformist bias—we'll tend to aggregate across what we think everyone else in the population is doing," he explained. If someone comes along and tells a story a little differently, most likely, people will ignore those differences and tell the story like everyone else is telling it.
"That makes it more difficult for new ideas to come in," Atkinson said.
Atkinson and his colleagues found that if two versions of the folktale were found only six miles (ten kilometers) away from each other but came from different ethnolinguistic groups, such as the French and the Germans, then those versions were as different from each other as two versions taken from within the same group—say just the Germans—located 62 miles (100 kilometers) away from each other.
"To me, the take-home message is that cultural groups strongly constrain the flow of information, and this enables them to develop highly local cultural traditions and norms," said Mark Pagel, of the University of Reading in the U.K., who wasn't involved in the new study.
Pagel, who studies the evolution of human behavior, said by email that he views cultural groups almost like biological species. But these groups, which he calls "cultural survival vehicles," are more powerful in some ways than our genes.
That's because when immigrants from a particular cultural group move into a new one, they bring genetic diversity that, if the immigrants have children, get mixed around, changing the new population's gene pool. But the new population's culture doesn't necessarily change.
Atkinson plans to keep using the tools of the population-genetics trade to see if the patterns he found in the variations of the kind and unkind girls hold true for other folktale variants in Europe and around the world.
Humans do a lot of interesting things, Atkinson said. "[And] the most interesting things aren't coded in our DNA."
This is most interesting.I wonder if one of the reasons is something along these lines.If we agree that culture evolves (and not all of us do, I know) then just to make any analysis of that evolution requires us to divide up thecontinuum of meaning into discrete particles which, somewhat after Dennet, it might be okay to call demons – loci of the smallest possible difference in meaning in the brain, but also distributed about the continuum of the material universe in things, language, behaviour and so on.To be selected and survive, these demons must operate together in organised patterns, analogous to alliances.Alliances ally with other alliances, one demon, or a very similar iteration, can be in many alliances, the situation is complex.
Now fairy, or more particularly folk stories.One can be struck by how often folk stories and myths from other cultures, or a previous time in our own, seem to make little sense, be rather pointless, even formless and illogical.
A folk story has survived through generations of tellers and listeners.It will form part of the natural pedagogy to which each child is subjected, at the same time as they are accumulating millions, billions of other demons, loci of the smallest possible difference in meaning, from the universe.The folk story, a multitudinous alliance of demons, will join up with other alliances in the child’s brain, and will get it’s meanings from that.Though to a sliver of rock struck off by a spear aimed at a kangaroo, which becomes honey (the chip of rock, not the kangaroo), may not mean a lot to me, it clearly might to a Yolngu child (Howard Morphy, Relative Autonomy and the Articulations of Yolngu Art, 2011), and mesh with her universe of meaning, her metaverse, very comprehensively.
At any locus in the story, any alternative micro-alliance or sub-routine of demons (river, bottom of well, cave) would not only lack bonds with its immediate narrative surroundings, but also with the wider meanings to which the whole story related within the child’s ideoverse.So the forces against such substituion are pretty strong.
I realise this begs a lot of questions, particularly the circularity of meaning.But it can be expanded.
yo dats mad fascinating. Its true, people come in ny but dey change their culture to accunmulate with us, and provide genetic diversity
NASA's "eyes in the sky" tracked Monday's tornado as it moved through Moore, Oklahoma.
These six scientists were snubbed for awards or robbed of credit for discoveries … because they were women.
Scientists say they've learned why penguin wings, now used for swimming, no longer get the birds off the ground.
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by Bronwyn Phillips, blog 7
As my Directed Study was drawing to a close I did present for the volunteers, Unley Council and Flinders University. This was a last 10% for my Practicum and I needed to explain how I went about writing two statements of significance for the Unley Museum. This occurred in the Unley Council Chambers in a room upstairs with a projector etc. I did this as a way to tie together the work I did over the last 12 months. I was planning to use Michael Morrison’s fancy new presentation program Prezi.com (well, not his personally) but in the end decided to stick with Powerpoint. Elizabeth Hartnell (Museum Curator) and I thought Powerpoint more suitable to the type of talk I was planning.
It was a bit nerve-wracking leading up to it but I practised on a couple of volunteers the day before. They interrupted with questions and advice which was both good and bad. It is a bit difficult to keep your train of thought when people interrupt you and I planned to tell people the next day to wait until I had finished to ask questions but somehow forgot. One woman corrected me three times during the talk. Well, that threw me for a moment but I quickly recovered. I will never interrupt a lecturer again, promise.
A lively discussion ensued. It was well received, with the volunteers congratulating me and telling me they now know what I have done over the past twelve months. The Council staff was very interested too and have invited me to give the same talk to a wider audience. Other good things came out of it too. When I said I thought the museum need more art works represented in their collection it turns out the Council own a few and they are hanging in the council buildings. Now we need to accession them to the museum. When we said we were a bit short on space it seems we can have access to more. All in all it has been a most rewarding experience.
What’s next? I distributed the statements of significance to the volunteers and then to the Friends of the Unley Museum. After everyone has their say they will go into the Policy and Procedures for the Unley Museum then to the Unley Council and then to History SA and then back to the volunteers. A round trip.
Photographs from the Unley Museum site accessed at: http://www.unley.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=912&c=16929 on 16-6-2011.
Unley Museum’s Donation and Accessioning, published by City of Unley.
Unley Museum’s Emergency Collection Management, published by City of Unley.
Unley Museum’s Mission and Objectives Policy, published by City of Unley.
Unley Museum’s Visitor and Inquiries Procedures published by City of Unley.
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Once you have completed your assessment exercises in the “Wanting” stage you will have a greater self-awareness, a clearer idea of what you want, what is important and what you can offer to a prospective employer. Knowing your values, skills, and interests will help you to focus your job search and help you to explore setting realistic goals.
“Ouching,” the second stage of the three part WOW job search requires an attitude of Acceptance.
This is the stage where you may begin to feel the pain of negative thinking about your job search. It is also the stage where you need to work on realizing how capable you are, learning strategies for accepting the reality of the present situation, overcoming your doubts and moving forward with a positive attitude. It is simply understanding and dealing with the a reality of your job search; knowing where you stand, what are your strong points, weak points and being able to convey what you have to offer to your target employer.
This stage is about learning to accept your situation, dealing with it, and learning strategies to increase your competitiveness.
I like to describe this stage as the ”Ouching” stage because it is here where you may be feeling the pain and need to focus your energy to get beyond it.
The work will consist of learning to deal with your fears, whether real or not, with worry, and with other negative thinking patterns that may interfere with a successful job search campaign.
The ABC / DE Approach
In his book, Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman, explains how negative thinking can be turned around to positive thinking by following his simple ABC / DE approach. Let’s look closer at how this can help you.
An activating event ("A"), like losing a job, creates negative thoughts, like never finding another job. These thoughts become beliefs ("B"), and those beliefs actually prevent positive action. The beliefs create circumstances ("C") that generate the expected, negative outcome - becoming a self fulfilling prophesy. To counter them, Seligman recommends disputing ("D") those beliefs to derail the process by collecting and focusing on the evidence ("E") that the beliefs are wrong.
You may believe you are too old to get another job and, therefore, you may start to exhibit behaviors that are not the best for a positive job search result. Some of these behaviors may be:
- Lack of preparation for the interview.
- Incomplete research of the company you are targeting.
- Not networking properly.
- Responding only to openings on job search boards, and so on - just looking for any job rather than pitching your experience and expertise.
Let’s look at a hypothetical example of how Seligman’s approach can help turn your job search into a positive experience:
- “A” the activating event is being downsized from your job.
- Now you move into “B” your belief that stems from this event. “I will never be hired at a good company because I’m too old and they only want younger employees.”
- “C”, is the circumstance you now create for yourself based on your Belief. “I will not get a job because of my age, so why bother to put too much effort into the search or why bother to look at all, no one will hire me”.
This is the "Ouching" we all do when we give in to our negative thoughts.
Now, here is the important part to turn your thinking from negative to positive.
- “D” is disputing your negative beliefs by gathering evidence,
- “E” - the evidence gathered - shows you are still a viable and desirable candidate and capable of landing a new job.
What evidence do you look for?
- Gather testimonials of people who can speak to your competence.
- Review your skills and accomplishments on your assessments exercise (Step 1).
- Look for real life, everyday mentors, examples of people 50 plus who are still working and others who have landed jobs in their 50’s and 60’s.
Register with Google Alerts and get notified whenever there is an article in the media about successful workers/ job seekers at 50, 60 and yes, even 70 and 80. Look for the positive press. Don’t read the negative press stories.
Move beyond the “Ouching” by creating for yourself a positive action affirmation that you will repeat to yourself and write down and display in prominent places in your home, for example, on your bathroom mirror, your front door, and the refrigerator next to the note that reminds you to eat healthy.
The affirmation needs to be short, 7 words or less, so that you can remember it, and it must be expressed in the present tense.
It needs to be positive and specific, and must be about something you want to achieve. An example might be: “I am a bookkeeper in (name your target employer)”. Or “I ‘m happily employed at a small company as a (job title you want).”
Present tense is important because you fool the mind into believing you are already doing what you want - working.
NEXT: Step 3, Winning
The next article in this series will discuss the third stage in the WOW job search process, “Winning” which requires you to create for yourself a sense of adventure.
Back to Step 1, Wanting.
© Copyright, 2012, Renée Lee Rosenberg. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
About This Author:
With a Master's degree in Vocational Counseling, Boomer Renée Lee Rosenberg, MA, is a specialist in vocational counseling, career management, job search, and retirement. Renée is also a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with over 25 years of experience helping individuals navigate career change, cope with stress, and achieve successful outcomes and a Certified Five O’Clock Club coach for over 20 years. For more information about Renée, visit her websites RetirementTutor.com and PositivityPro.com. You can also find her Profile on LinkedIn, send her an email at email@example.com, or call her office at (212) 924-2117.
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Remember the old joke about “what if they gave a war and nobody came?” It’s not quite as dramatic, but the Pentagon has invested $120 million dollars over the last fifteen years in an “Active Denial System” that nobody wants to use.
The military claims that its so-called “pain ray,” which causes a sharp burning sensation, is completely harmless. The radiation penetrates less than half a millemeter into the skin and is a different wavelength from that used in a microwave oven. They would like to see the device employed in place of guns for crowd control and counter-insurgency.
“You want to win the hearts and minds,” Colonel Tracy Tafolla of the Pentagon’s Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate told al Jazeera. “You don’t want to kill the people that you’re trying to protect.”
Unfortunately — from the military’s point of view — the device has significant limitations. It takes sixteen hours to boot up and loses effectiveness in the rain or snow. But its greatest drawback may be the potential for negative propaganda
“In 2010, it actually was deployed to Afghanistan,” Spencer Ackerman of Wired.com explained. “And then, very, very quickly, General McChrystal, when he was the commander there, sent it back. He was concerned about the propaganda effects, that the Taliban there would be able to say the U.S. is zapping or microwaving Afghans.”
In an attempt to win the hearts and minds of the American media, the Pentagon invited a bunch of journalists to the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia a few weeks ago to feel the effects of the pain ray for themselves. But except for some entertaining jumps and yelps, it is not clear that anything was accomplished by the exercise.
This video was uploaded to YouTube by AlJazeeraEnglish on April 22, 2012.
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I realize that very few people are as fully integrated into the electronic world as I am. This is not necessarily either a negative or positive issue. If you are a genealogist and integrated into electronics, then you likely think this a really good thing. But if you are a genealogist and have little or no knowledge of or contact with electronics, you likely question the sanity and reasonableness of those of us who are so inclined.
Although those who read this blog are likely connected to the electronic world to some extent, I thought it might be helpful if I gave the extreme perspective for each type of device.
Let's start with the basic computer; CPU, monitor, keyboard and mouse or trackpad. A common basic configuration, at the moment, is either an Apple iMac or a Dell, or a Gateway, or an HP Pavilion. The PCs running Windows start around $400 and the iMacs around $1,300. This is one area where you pay for what you get and price differences are generally reflected in the equipment configuration. The differences are in the speed, size of RAM memory, storage memory capacity, resolution of the monitor, and so forth. This is an area where you can walk into a mass merchandising company, such as Walmart, Costco, Sams Club, Best Buy or whatever and buy whatever is on sale and not be far off of a completely usable system.
My opinion: there is a reason Apple is skyrocketing into the top computer sales organization in the world. Generally, people will pay more when they see more value. Apple provides value in ease of use and design. There are a number of genealogy programs that work very well on Apple OS X computers. If you are told that you can't do genealogy on a Macintosh computer, the person talking to you is simply misinformed.
We presently use multiple desktop computers. We are frequently retiring older models and buying new ones. I do 80% of my work on an iMac with a 27 inch monitor. We have two more iMacs and two laptops, an HP and a MacBook Pro. My children use a variety of computers, from PCs to Macs in different configurations. We edit photographs, create documents, publish books, write, edit and compose blogs, watch movies, talk to family, friends and associates, participate in webinars, and on and on. I keep a huge genealogical database of tens of thousands of names and over 100,000 documents and photographs.
Next is the laptop. Laptops have now evolved into powerful full-blown computers. It is possible to use a laptop for both your desktop needs and for portability. The best selling laptops are made by Samsung, Apple, Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Asus. I have a MacBook Pro and would not trade it for anything else except a newer MacBook Pro. Here again, you can walk into any mass merchandiser or go online and buy whatever strikes you as what you need and you will likely be right.
I carry my laptop around with me incessantly. I use it for presentations and I use if for classes and to work when I am not at home. Almost everything I do on a desktop computer, I can do just as easily on a laptop (except for the screen size).
Do you need a laptop? Do you need two cars? Do you need a dish washer? Do you need an electric vacuum? There is always a tradeoff between having a new device and the use to which the device is put. I use my laptop very frequently. You may not. Buying a new device does not mean you will use it.
Down the list, the next type of device has raced to the market in the last couple of years, that is tablet computers. iPads and similar devices are selling at an astounding rate. We have two iPads. I use the iPad to read books from the library and purchased online. I watch movies since we sold all our TVs and I listen to music and a lot of other activities. The question here is whether or not you want or need a smartphone. The tablet computer and the smartphone have almost all the same features, except, of course, the telephone part. I find the two devices to be duplicative. I like the iPad because of the larger screen. With these devices, you just need to go to a couple of stores and have a look. You need to hold them in your hand and decide whether or not you would use one.
Tablets can do nearly all of the functions of a laptop and some of the key functions of a desktop, but I find that I need to go back to my desktop to do serious long term work.
Input devices are the next issue. I use a standard keyboard and a mouse. I have almost entirely moved over to using a trackpad in addition to a mouse. I use the Apple Magic Trackpad. This is another area of personal preference.
I guess I will have to continue this post at some later time and get into the rest of the equipment.
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The DITABIS micron is an Imaging Plate readout system dedicated for TEM use. Unlike other applications where Imaging Plates are used, the TEM requires small pixels, highest image quality and a high dynamic range.
The instrument employs a drum scanner layout. The Imaging Plates are fixed to the surface of a rotating drum and read out by a laser beam that slowly moves alongside the drum and scans the whole plates in a continuos line. Up to 5 plates are scanned simultaneously along one slot around the drum surface. (see figure top)
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- The collecting mirror has a high aperture so it is collecting a great portion of the light emitted. In combination with the sensitive Photo Multiplier detector an enormous sensitivity and DQE (Detection Quantum Efficiency, about 80%) is reached.
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An excerpt from www.HouseOfNames.com archives copyright © 2000 - 2013
Origins Available: Czech, German
Where did the German Toman family come from? What is the German Toman family crest and coat of arms? When did the Toman family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Toman family history?The ancient roots of the Toman family are found in the German state of Bavaria. The Toman surname, was a local name, for someone who lived in Bavaria.
One can encounter great variation in the spelling of surnames: in early times, spelling in general, and thus the spelling of names was not yet standardized; and later, spellings would change with branching and movement of families. Variations of the name Toman include Thoma, Thoman, Thom, Thoms, Toma, Thomas, Tomas, Thomasius, Thoeman, Thome, Thomen, Thomme, Thomm, Demel, Dehmel and many more.
First found in Bavaria, where this surname surfaced in mediaeval times as one of the notable families of the region. From the 13th century onwards the name was associated with the great social and economic evolution which made this territory a landmark contributor to the development of the nation.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Toman research. Another 204 words(15 lines of text) covering the years 1635, 1655, 1669, 1728, 1746, 1775, and 1776 are included under the topic Early Toman History in all our PDF Extended History products.
Another 53 words(4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Toman Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.
German settlers were among the most common to come to North America between the mid-17th and mid-20th centuries. Poverty and religious persecution drove many Bavarians to make this long trek. tenant farmers were also enticed by the prospect of owning land. From east to west, these German immigrants populated the United States, settling in Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, Illinois, and California. Ontario and the prairie provinces of Canada also provided homes to many. Early settlers bearing the Toman surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Toman Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
The Toman Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Toman Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
This page was last modified on 27 October 2010 at 14:01.
houseofnames.com is an internet property owned by Swyrich Corporation.
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Herman Bennett appointed to the Graduate Center
Professor, Ph.D. Program in History
Herman Bennett is a renowned scholar on the history of the African diaspora, with a particular focus on Latin American history. Through his work, he has called for scholars to broaden the critical inquiry of race and ethnicity in the colonial world. He has written extensively on the presence of African slaves and freedmen in Mexican society during the colonial period and on the consequent interaction between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans in colonial Mexico. His books include Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (Indiana University Press, 2009) and Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570–1640 (Indiana University Press, 2003), in which he offers a social historical examination of free Afro-Mexican kinship practices in the mature and late-colonial periods. Bennett has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has lectured widely in Europe and the Americas, and comes to the Graduate Center from Rutgers University after starting his scholarly career at Johns Hopkins University. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in Latin American history from Duke University where he was a Mellon Scholar of the Humanities.
Photo: Keith Yazmir
Submitted on: AUG 1, 2009
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If the field’s too crowded, be unique
MSN Search, Netscape Search, AOL Search, they all stayed in the same category, so you could play it safe and go with Stupendous Search or Super-Duper Search. This works for a time, but as soon as the field gets too crowded, you’ll be lost in the mush of sameness with ever diminishing name recognition. If you’re in it for the long haul, better to break away from the crowd with a name like Google, Yahoo, or even Dogpile (though I’m not a fan of going into the scat category just to be unique). Even Kinkos--the founder's nickname (he had kinky red hair in school)--is different enough to be memorable.
Avoid tongue twisters
There’s a little part in all of us that hates to be embarrassed. When we ask for a product or talk about it with friends, we want to sound literate and not fumble over pronunciations. So be kind to your potential customers and avoid tongue twisters, or any name that’s unusually long or foreign sounding. If you can’t find a single-word name, don’t go over two or three syllables.
Alliteration can help with longer names
Okay, so the president of the company likes all the longer names on your list. You
can make them more memorable and/or easier to pronounce by using alliteration. Consider Circuit City (originally, the incredibly bland, monosyllabic, Wards). Or Downtown Disney, Or the most famous brand in the world, Coca Cola. All four syllables, yet they roll off the tongue with surprising ease.
Abbreviations lack personality and communicate very little in terms of benefit or brand character. Sure, IBM, MCI and ABC have big recognition and identity, but they also spent years and millions in virtually all media to promote their image--using images of people and situations that were warm and fuzzy. Even billionaire Bill Gates chose Microsoft over MS (which has some undesirable connotations).
Convey an implied benefit
If you don’t have a lot of media dollars to spend on name recognition, try for a name that conveys a benefit or describes content. Snapple started out with a name that combined two of its original flavors: Spice N Apple. Silk--the soy-based milk brand--combines soy and milk. Benefit-oriented names include EasyOff oven cleaner, Miracle-Grow plant food, and Hearthwarmer (a fireplace insert).
Lost in Translation…or worse!
Most of us have heard the story of Chevrolet introducing their "Nova" in Spanish- speaking countries. The car tanked because 'nova' means "doesn't go." Fiat found they had to rename their "uno" in Finland, since "Uno" means garbage in Finnish. Canadian products require labeling in both English and French, which is why on some cookie boxes, the English phrase "without preservatives" has been unintentionally translated into the French "sans preservatives," which means "without condoms." ‘Nuff said.
The shelf life of a faddish name is short and sweet. It rises to the stratosphere of recognition then nosedives into obscurity faster than you can say, “radical,” “tubular” or “outta sight.” Another problem with fads is they’re often limited to one demographic or clique. In a market as broad and diverse as the U.S., it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Protect your image
If you’re like most companies, you worked hard and spent some real money creating the image of your company. So it only makes sense to protect your investment with a product name that’s consistent with your existing brands and image. Rolls Royce had to pull the name of its newest addition to the Silver Cloud line, which they tentatively named the "Silver Mist," since in German, "mist" means manure. So build on what you have. A good example: Google’s entry into online shopping with Froogle. Incidentally, if you’re wondering where “Google” came from, it’s a variation on the math term googol, a huge number with endless zeros.
Don’t forget legal
Once you’ve settled on a few ideal prospective names, hire a good lawyer to make sure they’re not already being used and not confusingly similar to someone else’s in your industry.
Hopefully, this brief overview will help guide you through the subtleties of product naming. Remember, try to be unique and benefit oriented without being confusing or offensive. Avoid fads, abbreviations and tongue twisters. And, by all means, protect your image.
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A sliding hiatus hernia may be suspected if you are experiencing the symptoms of heartburn or gastroesophageal reflux. The tests that may be used to investigate a possible sliding hiatus hernia are the same as those used to investigate gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Tests for diagnosing sliding hiatus hernia
- endoscopy (esophagogastroscopy): This test involves passing a small, lighted, flexible tube with a camera through your mouth into your esophagus and stomach. Your doctor will look for any abnormalities and small tissue samples may be taken (biopsy). Usually you will be given a sedative to make you sleepy and help you relax. This is the best test to check for Barrett's Esophagus, cancer of the esophagus, and esophagitis (an inflammation of the esophagus).
- upper GI series (barium swallow): For this test you will be asked to swallow a liquid barium mixture that is sometimes called a barium meal. Using a special type of X-ray, a doctor can watch the barium as it travels down your esophagus into your stomach. You will likely need to move into different positions on the X-ray table so the doctor can see what happens to the barium in your esophagus and stomach in different positions. This test is useful to examine the movement of the esophagus as it pushes food into the stomach and can detect any narrowing of the esophagus.
- Bernstein test: In this test a mild acid will be purposely put into your esophagus through a tube to see if this reproduces the symptoms that you are experiencing. If it does, your symptoms are likely due to reflux of acid from your stomach into your esophagus. If it doesn't cause the pain and symptoms you have been experiencing, your symptoms are not likely due to acid reflux. If your health care professional is uncertain about the cause of your symptoms, this is good test that should help in determining the cause.
- esophageal manometry: For this test a small, flexible tube will be placed in your esophagus and stomach and the different pressures in your esophagus and stomach will be measured over time. This helps to determine how well your esophagus and stomach are working.
- 24-hour pH monitoring: In this test a small, flexible tube is placed in your esophagus and stomach. The acidity (how much acid is present) in your esophagus and stomach is measured over time. This helps to determine the degree of acid refluxed into the esophagus from the stomach. You may be required to keep a diary of your symptoms while the monitoring is taking place so your health care professional can see if your symptoms occur when there is acid in your esophagus.
Another test that may be helpful in diagnosing either a sliding or paraesophageal hiatus hernia is a chest X-ray. An X-ray of the chest may reveal air in the stomach that is not in the normal position indicating that part of the stomach has moved into the chest.
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Combining traditional archaeological methods with the power of technology
Experience the stories in 3D with the Google Earth plugin
Explore stories on the globe
or in the timeline below.
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A thousand-year-old relic is revealed
Around the time the final touches were being added to the Domesday Book and the Norman Conquest was drawing to a close, a community in Wales built an 850-foot V-shaped structure in the Teifi Estuary. Their engineering feat lay forgotten for a millennium, until sharp-eyed observers were able to spot it using Google Earth.
When aerial photographers reported seeing an unusual shape in the murky depths at the mouth of the River Teifi, a bit of a mystery started to unfold. Archaeologists were informed, and Dr. Ziggy Otto of Pembrokeshire College was called in to investigate.
He didn’t have to charter a flight to have a look for himself though; the structure was clearly visible on Google Earth. From the comfort of his computer screen, it was clear to Dr. Otto that an ancient tidal fish trap had been discovered.
"Google Earth is an easy, effective tool for coastal and archaeological research, enabling me to virtually visit potential sites before conducting field work. I look forward to making more extensive use of it with future projects." -- Dr. Ziggy Otto
The enormous stone structure had been designed to ensnare shoals of herring, mackerel and possibly flatfish, which could be hauled up in nets when the tide was out.
The first two steps, aerial observation and virtual investigation, kept researchers high and dry. In order to complete the research, though, Dr. Otto – a scuba diver as well as lecturer on the coastal environment – has undertaken a series of dives to complete a full underwater survey of the fish trap.
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Captain Bluebear is a bear with blue fur, a creature as unique as the fantastic adventures he undergoes. Unlike cats, which have only nine lives, bluebears have twenty-seven. This is fortunate, because our hero is forever avoiding disaster by a paw's breadth. In this remarkable book, Captain Bluebear tells the story of his first thirteen-and-a-half lives spent on the mysterious continent of Zamonia, where intelligence is an infectious disease and water flows uphill, where headless giants roam deserts made of sugar, and where only Captain Bluebear's courage and ingenuity enable him to escape the dangers that lie in wait for him around every corner. In company with our indomitable hero, we enter a realm of the imagination that combines the fantasy of "Lord of the Rings and "The Neverending Story with the humour of Baron Munchausen - a wonderland where anything can exist except boredom.
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GRoink, GRoink - fun with animals sounds!
Fun with animal sounds lets your child explore beautiful animal pictures and learn their sounds.
✪ In the Animal Parade gorgeous full-screen animal pictures come to life through a simple tap.
✪ The guessing game makes your child choose one of three animal pictures to match a given sound.
✪ In the memory game, two or three of the same animal must be found. Alternatively it can be setup to let your child match an animal picture with the sound that animal makes.
This app was designed to look clean and attractive and features compelling game play so that your child remains captivated. It works on all iOS devices (iPhone, iPad (mini) and iPod Touch) and it comes in your language. Because we find it important to allow kids to see the animals names in their language, you can select from 25 different languages. By default the language of your device will be used, but you can switch languages in the app itself for ease of use.
Found a problem in our app? Oh no! We're good at fixing those actually :-) Just let us know at email@example.com and we'll take care of it right away! (Plus we'll send you good karma for helping us!)
Fixed a small problem in the preferences where the active language wasn't selected
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Software Vulnerability could Let Hackers Take Over US Power Grid
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a video describing the destructive results of 'cyber attack' test on the control system of a power plant. It is a sophisticated method, which could possibly become an attack mechanism for terrorists to bring down the power grid serving the United States, experts say.
Some experts worry that intensified, and coordinated computer attacks could result in severe damages to the power infrastructure whose repair could take several months.
The CNN TV channel showed on 27 September 2007 how the execution of a malware program executed on the computer commandeering the power infrastructure reduced a turbine to a horrific, smoke-filled, metal spewing lump.
The Idaho National Laboratory had demonstrated the attack in March for DHS. The attack was done on a well-known software flaw in a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system. The simulated attack was an attempt to show the severe impact a well-planned digital strike could have on the nation by knocking off the country's critical infrastructure.
Though details of the attack launch are not available, the picture it projects and the effects are understandable, said CEO of Network Security Vendor NetWitness Corp, Amit Yoran. PC World reported this on 28 September 2007. Yoran remarked that the picture seemed truer than what academic papers on the topic delineate.
People have discussed how the devastating attack was possible, and now, they have a material simulation, said Yoran who had worked as Director for the National Cyber Security Division of the DHS.
No evidence of damage done by any terrorists or hackers by utilizing this technique existed, according to the US officials. But the officials warned that there was no routine monitoring of the affected systems like that of the modern corporate machines, so there could be little or no forensic evidence following such a security breach.
The video does not provide a realistic view of the working of the electricity system, said Manager, North American Electric Reliability, Stan Johnson. The organization based in Princeton, N.J. supervises the power plant. technewsworld.com reported this on 27 September 2007.
Enterprises are trying hard to prevent such attacks, said Robert Jamison, a top official at DHS, as reported by technewsworld.com on 27 October 2007.
Related article: Software Giant Microsoft Becoming More Spam Affectionate
» SPAMfighter News - 15-10-2007
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Updated 09/19/2012 09:46 PM
Zoning Law Targets Rochester's Convenience Stores
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By a vote of 9 to 0, Rochester's City Council approved changes to the zoning and municipal codes for convenience stores.
The amendments include requiring new corner stores to sell a full line of food products including fresh vegetables, and limits the store's sales to either tobacco, beer and wine or lottery.
"Locally-owned convenience stores are through these zoning changes. They will be placed at a competitive disadvantage to the corporate chain stores through selling restrictions and restricted hours of operation. Again, the rich are getting rich and the poor are staying very poor," said Lisa Jakes, business owner.
"The proposed changes will positively benefit the 19th Ward and other city neighborhoods by curbing the number of stores that are focused on alcohol, lottery and tobacco, as these stores are often plagued with associated nuisances and criminal activity," said Susan Morehouse, 19th Ward Community Association.
Members of City Council say the legislation is focused at bad businesses.
The ordinance takes effect November 1st.
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Brooklyn, NY artist Katerina Lanfranco spoke Thursday Feb. 17 about her artwork at the University of Tennessee's McCarty Auditorium.
"I make art as a way to understand and think about the world that I live in,"Lanfranco said
Lanfranco grew up in several different parts of the world including Toronto and India. She was exposed to art at an early age in her parents' home where a particular Matisse painting sparked a curiosity.
Her parents had conflicting artistic tastes which opened the door for Lanfranco, revealing many different artistic styles.
The first element of her talk focused on her thesis show at Hunter College called "The Creation of Ursus Horribilis." This panoramic creation can be seen at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City.
"This is a piece that came out of a desire to create a life-size diorama and relate it to this idea of genetic engineering and animal mutation and how that mutation came about. Basically the evolution of life," Lanfranco said of her thesis show.
Lanfranco draws most of her inspiration from nature. Her art often uses metaphors of nature and how it translates into culture.
In the second segment of her talk, Lanfranco shared thoughts and pictures about her "Below a Sea of Stars" installation. This creation was inspired by the unknown elements of the deep sea and outer space.
"I am interested in exploring a variety of art materials to explore meta-narratives such as ideas of progress and systems f knowledge, and how they function to reinforce cultural ideaologies and create meaning in regards to the natural world." -Katarina Lanfranco During a stay in Miami, Lanfranco collected several sea sponges. These sea sponges are what launched the inspiration and creation of "Below a Sea of Stars."
"I thought, 'what are these things?' Theyre animals but they look like plants, they're inorganic, but they're organic, they smell like death. Where do they come from?'
"We know more about the moon than we do about the deep sea. And it was fascinating to think what could be out there that we don't know about. So I thought about that for a while and this is what came out of it," Lanfranco said as she showed the audience the end result of her construction.
On her website, Lanfranco references to her use of creative practices such as: "botanical illustrations, flora fabric patterns, curiosity cabinets, scientific field notes, as well as natural history styled dioramas and panoramas."
Her collection of artwork includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, cut outs and installations. Lanfranco delights in pioneering new artistic techniques.
"I am interested in exploring a variety of art materials to explore meta-narratives such as ideas of progress and systems of knowledge, and how they function to reinforce cultural ideologies and create meaning in regards to the natural world," Lanfranco said in her artist statement.
Hand cut paper, flame-worked glass, clay and acrylic paint are just a few of the resources Lanfranco uses for her creations.
Her website, which is also available in Japanese, includes an online portfolio, information about her inspiration, and links to her blog and Twitter where fans can follow her work.
Lanfranco's travels and accomplishments took her around the world and back again
Lanfranco has been cultivating her craft for several years. Most recently, in 2010 she participated in a US-Japan National Endowment for the Arts residency.
There, she was one of the "US-Japan Friendship Commission Arts Fellows" and studied in Kyoto, Japan for six months. Her stay in Kyoto focused on paper cut-outs, flower arranging and woodblock prints.
By allowing artists to stay in a one place and focus, art residencies are designed to help artists such as Lanfranco nurture their creativity.
Lanfranco graduated with a B.A. from The University of California in Santa Cruz, Ca. in 2001 with dual honors. She completed separate degrees in Art and in Visual Theory and Museum Studies.
Her studies at The University of California focused on painting.
In 2004, she traveled to Berlin, Germany where she studied as an exchange scholar at the Universität der Künst.
Two years later in 2006 she continued her education at Hunter College, City University of New York, in New York City, where she was president of the Master of Fine Arts Student Organization. There, she received an M.F.A., Master of Fine Arts, in Studio Art.
That same year she received the Tony Smith Award, the highest award given to a graduating M.F.A. student.
To date Lanfranco has shown several solo art shows and been featured in many group shows.
She has served on as a panel member for several art institutions and organizations. She is also a member of the College Art Association, the Women's art group, and tART.
Lanfranco's final words to the fellow artists in the audience were, "Travel as much as you can."
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It’s a colon blast!
Students tour giant model of human organ
DIXON – Some two dozen eighth-graders crawled on their hands and knees through an oversized model of a colon Tuesday morning at KSB Hospital.
Even the principal and health teacher explored the 40-foot-long, 4-foot-tall model, called Coco the Colossal Colon, on display this week at Commerce Towers, next door to the hospital.
The students took pictures with their cellphones of each other, crawling through the pinkish-reddish tunnel and popping through cutouts in the wall of the model.
The group from Ashton-Franklin Center Middle School in Franklin Grove learned about the colon, colon health and nutrition as part of a health unit on the human body.
They learned that the main function of the colon, which is a muscle, is to extract water and salt from solid waste. They saw examples of healthy colon tissue; diseases of the colon, such as ulcerative colitis and diverticulosis; and various stages of colon cancer. They learned, too, that a healthy diet and exercise are among the best preventive measures against colon problems.
“It’s pretty cool,” said Alanna Thomas, 13. “I didn’t really know that much about it, like all the different things that can go wrong with it.”
Most of the eighth-graders were not squeamish; in fact, many of them were fascinated by the colon.
Colon health is a serious matter, but discussion about that part of the body is taboo – and often nonexistent among young people. Coco the Colossal Colon is so large, so funny-looking and so unusual that people won’t be able to resist talking about it, said Christine Scheffler, community wellness coordinator for KSB Hospital.
“It’s a dynamic way to raise awareness of colon cancer and how easy it is to prevent colon cancer,” she said.
Students likely won’t forget their experience with the oversized model, said Kelly Snyder, the health and physical education teacher at AFC Middle School.
“This will have the biggest impact on them, because they’re interacting with it,” she said. “They’re up, they’re moving, and they’re seeing everything with their own eyes.”
The eighth-graders even took what they learned about colon health and nutrition – like that chocolate milk is a better post-exercise recovery beverage than Gatorade, with its high sodium content – and within minutes applied it: They immediately asked Principal Trina Dillon to put chocolate milk in the vending machines. They promised they would drink it after sports practices and games.
Coco the Colossal Colon, a traveling display, was created by Molly McMaster, who was diagnosed with colon cancer on her 23rd birthday, and built in memory of her friend, Amanda Sherwood Roberts, who died from colon cancer at 27. The women shared a passion for educating young people about colon cancer.
The model will be on display for all to see from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily through Friday, the start of Colon Cancer Awareness Month.
To take tour
School groups and community organizations are invited to see Coco the Colossal Colon while it is on display at Commerce Towers, 215 E. First St., Dixon.
Call Christine Scheffle, 815-285-5932, to arrange a free tour.
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In addition to the hills of Taiwan, the building also takes inspiration from the birds of the region. Incorporating far more hues than just green, the planted roof’s color palette echoes the bright feathers of the native birds that could very well stop to perch there. Besides lookin’ pretty, the vegetative carpet would insulate the inside of the center, cutting energy usage. The building was also oriented in a way that would make it easy for the area’s dominant north wind to pass over it with the least resistance.
“In essence, the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Centre symbolizes the urgent need of balancing economical and environmental interests globally, as well as locally in the port of Kaohsiung,” explains Kubota & Bachmann about the proposal. The architects envision the green building as a way to raise public awareness about Taiwan‘s hopes and goals to protect its environment.
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Planted roofs insulate buildings allowing them to cut down on energy usage. They also minimize storm water runoff and clean the surrounding air.
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The next scheduled election in San Francisco is the Municipal Election that will be held on November 5, 2013. This page will be updated as more information is available.
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For the first three months I was in Africa, Liberians told me, "Save Johnny!" everywhere I went, usually as I was saying good-bye to them. Sometimes it was a group of men sharing a cup of palm wine, other times it was families gathered around a small cooking fire. I never quite knew how to respond.
I thought to myself, if I can't figure this out, how can I ever become a good Peace Corps Volunteer? How will I survive in a village by myself when I'm telling people I'll be happy to save Johnny even though I don't have a clue who Johnny is?
I thought up elaborate scenarios about how, years ago, a Peace Corps Volunteer named Johnny must have died. Or maybe Johnny was a Liberian who was desperately ill. Or maybe, as an American, I was "Johnny."
A day before training was over, and I would take the oath to move from a trainee to a full-fledged Peace Corps Volunteer, I walked past a group of Liberians working on a rice farm. I waved and they all shouted, "Save Johnny!" Soon to be out on my own, I decided I had to know what the phrase meant. I approached them as they stared, puzzled. "What does this mean, save Johnny?" I asked. They laughed and said, "Save Johnny" again. I asked again and again. They simply said, "Take-time-o" and "To be a man is not easy." Finally it clicked: They were saying, "Safe Journey!" I was elated. The next day, when I took the oath, I thought that maybe I could make it as a Peace Corps Volunteer after all.
Now I knew what the term meant. But it would be a few months later, on my first real "journey," when I would truly come to understand this term.
It was a simple trip, about 200 miles. It was Christmas and my girlfriend, Jill, and our mutual friend, Mary, and I were going to take public transport to the Southern tip of Liberia to a town called Harper. The place held the promise of white, sandy beaches, a cool, clear ocean, and fresh seafood - a far cry from the 100 degree days in the Liberian jungle. The town also boasted a national museum and theaters with generator-driven televisions that showed movies like Die Hard and The Godfather. The only way to reach this paradise, however, was by public transport.
We met in a dusty parking lot filled with people and vans. It was Grand Central Station in the middle of the jungle. Drivers ran around, hustling people into their vans. Children cried and wailed as dust swirled in circles around the pungent smells of animals, oils, meats, and palm wine. And it was hot -- hot as only a tropical rainforest can be at the peak of the dry season. The air was so thick that when smokers exhaled, their smoke could not rise or fall in the damp air; it just hung, suspended in mid-air.
In the late morning, we bought our tickets and found the van that was to take us south. We knew that the van could not leave until all the seats were filled, and since we were the first three people to buy tickets, we prepared for a long wait. Drivers and carboys ran around the packed lot, begging people to choose their van. We sat with the sun burning our foreheads.
By early evening, the van was finally full. Four large barrels of cane juice were shoved in up front, and we were jammed four to a seat in the back. Children sat on adults' laps and our luggage, live animals, and bags of rice were strapped down with rubber cords on the roof.
It was dark when we finally rattled away on the dusty dirt road, stopping to fill up with gas and attend to minor repairs on the van as we all sat patiently, crammed in our seats. The driver informed us that we would make one last stop, then would be on our way. He stopped at a cement house on a hill and went inside. We heard intense arguing in Mandingo, a tribal language. Then a woman holding a baby came running out of the house, chasing the driver. "What's going on?" I asked the man jammed against me on the left. "She is telling him that it is his baby and that he has to help pay for it. He is saying he has no money." Without warning, she reached inside the van and pulled the keys out of the ignition, then disappeared inside the house.
The tired people in the van let out a collective groan. A baby started wailing. Now soaked with sweat, I tried to picture an air-conditioned home and a cool, icy drink. For about an hour we watched the man banging on the door and the woman looking out to yell at him. Finally, an official from a makeshift courthouse in town managed to calm things down. We were finally on our way.
Once on the journey, people started falling asleep. The man sitting next to me had huge open sores on his face. I tried not to stare at him and nodded off. I woke up and found his head on my shoulder. When he woke and tried to lift his head, he couldn't. The sores had stuck to my shirt.
The cane juice began leaking and the entire van was filled with its powerful alcoholic aroma. I felt drunk from the fumes and began to get nauseous. A tethered pig urinated from the roof and two of us ended up getting soaked. The dirt road got bumpier as we traveled farther from the big town, and the potholes were so huge that many times the driver had to come to a complete stop to study them before trying to go on.
At 2:00 A.M., the van died. We were surrounded by absolute darkness, with only the sounds of the bush to let us know we were not alone. Most of the passengers got out to stretch while the driver tried to figure out what was wrong. It took me a minute to realize that, since he had no tools or flashlight, his chances of fixing the van were slim.
Just as the trip began to feel unbearable, a few of the older women, called "Old Mas," stepped off the van. So did some of the kids. The air had a chill to it, so we lit a small fire in the road and gathered around it. Some of the teenage boys began a strange dance, keeping their feet still but shaking their hips and singing. The Old Mas joined in. Then we all started laughing. We were hungry, tired, and a little cold, but we couldn't stop laughing. These rugged people had taken an impossible situation and still managed to have a good time. And then Jill, Mary, and I looked at each other and realized that the laughter washed the dust off the day. We forgot all about our bumpy, troubled transport and stopped worrying about where we would end up next.
Later a pickup came along and our driver negotiated a deal that would take all of us to Harper. So we transferred our bags and animals to the truck and climbed in. As we were leaving, the driver shouted to all of us, "Save Johnny!"
For the first time, I understood the term. It was really about the difficulties and frustrations that people suffer in the developing world dealing with things that I took for granted. It was about coping with the absurd, such as a simple day trip that ended up being a two day endeavor that left you stranded in the bush, with no food or water, stinking of alcohol, open sores stuck to your shirt, and being so tired you could hardly stand. But most of all, it was a revelation of the indomitable spirit of people who live life with joy, no matter what the situation. I smiled, and knowing that I had earned the right to use the term, for the first time shouted back: "Save Johnny!"
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Nuclear Cardiology and Stress Testing
Nuclear cardiology studies use noninvasive techniques to assess myocardial blood flow, evaluate the pumping function of the heart as well as visualize the size and location of a heart attack. Among the techniques of nuclear cardiology, myocardial perfusion imaging is the most widely used.
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
Myocardial perfusion images are combined with exercise to assess the blood flow to the heart muscle. Exercise is most often in the form of walking on the treadmill. A "chemical" of "pharmacological" stress test using the drug dipyridamole, adenosine or dobutamine is performed in patients who are not able to exercise maximally, providing similar information about the heart's blood flow.
A small amount of an imaging agent sestamibi (Cardiolite), tetrofosmin (Myoview) or Thallium, is injected into the blood stream during rest and during exercise or chemical stress. A scanning device (gamma camera) is used to measure the uptake by the heart of the imaging material during stress) and at rest. If there is significant blockage of a coronary artery, the heart muscle may not get enough of a blood supply in the setting of exercise or during chemical stress. This decrease in blood flow will be detected by the images.
Myocardial perfusion studies can thus identify areas of the heart muscle that have an inadequate blood supply as well as the areas of heart muscle that are scarred from a heart attack. In addition to the localization of the coronary artery with atherosclerosis, myocardial perfusion studies quantify the extent of the heart muscle with a limited blood flow and can also provide information about the pumping function of the heart. Thus, it is superior to routine exercise stress testing and provides the necessary information to help identify which patients are at an increased risk and may be candidates for invasive procedures such as coronary angiography, angioplasty or heart surgery.
Evaluation of Cardiac Function with Radionuclide Ventriculography
Radionuclide ventriculography (gated blood pool study) is a noninvasive study, which provides information about the pumping function of the heart. In patients with coronary artery disease, and in those who have had a heart attack, the assessment of the pumping function of the heart (also known as the ejection fraction) is essential in the prediction of both long term and short-term survival. A small dose of an imaging agent is injected into the blood stream and pictures of the four chambers of the heart are taken using a special camera (gamma camera).
Assessment of Myocardial Injury, Infarction and Infection
The basic cellular component of the heart muscle may be irreversibly affected in the setting of a limited blood supply and or inflammation. Nuclear cardiology techniques can be used to determine which areas of the heart muscle have been damaged by infection or by a heart attack. These techniques can also be used to monitor the status of the heart muscle in the patient after cardiac transplantation.
For a more detailed description of the different Nuclear Cardiology tests, please go to www.asnc.org and click PATIENTS.
The Mount Sinai Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory was opened in 1991 and currently performs close to 5,000 tests a year. Imaging studies are performed on dual head SPECT cameras, all equipped with attenuation correction hardware. The Laboratory is ICANL certified. All Attendings in Nuclear Cardiology are Board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Nuclear Cardiology. Technical personnel include experienced Registered Nurses and Certified Nuclear Technologists. All Laboratory employees are BLS (Basic Life Support) or ALS (Advanced Life Support) certified.
We perform all forms of cardiovascular stressing: Exercise, pharmacological stress (IV adenosine, IV dipyridamole, IV dobutamine). Perfusion tracers (Tc99m sestamibi, Tc99m tetrofosmine and Tl-201) are utilize according to the appropriate indication for individual patients. Gated blood pool studies (MUGA), both at rest and during bicycle exercise are offered to patients who need evaluation of land and/or right ventricular function.
Recently, we started performing cardiopulmonary stress testing (with measurement of oxygen consumption and cardiac output during exercise using inert gas rebreathing method). This testing is most appropriate for patients with advanced congestive heart failure.
The Laboratory also offers microvolt T- wave alternans testing. The method is used to assess risk of sudden death. For more information, please go to www.cambridgeheart.com and click PATIENTS.
For the past decade, the Laboratory has participated in numerous multicenter Clinical Trials. The most recent trials have evaluated new indications for SPECT imaging (INSPIRE, VGEF), new types of pharmacological stressors (CVT) and new tracers for cardiac neuroimaging in patients with end stage heart failure (MIBG) and ischemia imaging in patients presenting to the Emergency Department with new onset of chest pain (MIP – BP 22 and MIP – BP 23).
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Fishing camps of primitive design were maintained by crews of commercial fishermen at isolated spots along the North Carolina coast during the last half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth. Some of the camps were built by shore fishermen who set their nets from the ocean beach at different times of the year to take advantage of the seasonal runs of various species of fish. Others, especially in the vicinity of Core Sound, were the temporary habitations of mullet fishermen who operated in teams. Most men involved in the mullet fishery lived on the mainland and were farmers by occupation, but like many of their descendants still residing in soundside communities, these old-timers probably were drawn to fishing as much by the knowledge that some fishermen make a pile of money in a hurry as they were by a desire to work and live on or near the water.
In 1880 R. Edward Earll described the annual migration of the mullet fishermen, stating that "when the fishing season arrives, they leave their homes and proceed in gangs of four to thirty men to the seashore under the leadership of a 'captain' who controls their movements." The first job when reaching shore was "to build rude huts or cabins in which they eat and sleep until the close of the season." They started out by making a framework of saplings with the butts embedded in the sand and the tops bent over and tied to the ridge pole. These served as studding, to which sticks were attached in horizontal rows a foot and a half to two feet apart. Small piles of rushes, tied together with bear grass, were then laid side by side around the bottom of the structure, with a second tier overlapping the first, in the same manner used when a roof is being shingled. The only openings in the hut, Earll said, were "a small hole at the rear of the gable, to allow the smoke from the campfire to escape, and a square aperture two or three feet in height at the front, which serves as a door."
University of North Carolina geology professor Collier Cobb, in a 1908 National Geographic magazine article, provided photographs and descriptions of some of the fishing huts. He said one large hut on Shackleford Banks had been in use for more than 12 years and described it as being 12 feet in diameter and six feet in height, "round at the bottom, with vertical walls" and a roof that was conical in design. On Cedar Island, Cobb said, he had seen a much larger fishing camp consisting of a cluster, or kraal, of conical huts made of woven rush.
Sometimes more permanent fishing camps were built on the western shore of Pamlico Sound or its estuaries, where families would spend the summer months on vacation while the men attended to their fishing. One of these, located on a bluff at the mouth of a Neuse River tributary, was built by a Wanchese resident, "Uncle Lou" Midgett, who returned to the same spot with his family each summer. In 1862, a Federal transport, the Oriental, was sunk near Bodie Island across Roanoke Sound from Wanchese. Later, the Oriental nameplate was found by Rebecca Midgett, Uncle Lou's wife, who took it to the camp that summer and had it mounted on a tree on the bluff where it could be seen by anyone passing by. The modern-day town of Oriental was established on that site.
R. Edward Earll, "The Mullet Fishery," in George Brown Goode, ed., The Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States (1887).
Gillikin Island, Onslow County, NC, ca. 1939. The fish camp at Brown's Inlet (Onslow County) can be reached by power boat or an arduous struggle with oars. Yet most Sundays the girls arrive. Every fisherman on the island wanted his picture made with this charming lass. Caption and photograph by Charles A. Farrell. From the Charles A. Farrell Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives, call #: PhC9_2_3_15, Raleigh, NC. Available from http://www.flickr.com/photos/north-carolina-state-archives/3002968752/ (accessed September 26, 2012).
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Ultra low-power (ULP) microcontrollers (MCUs) have been around for at least 20 years, when Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) first introduced the 16-bit MSP430 microcontroller. Since then, the proliferation of ultra-low-power solutions in sensors, metering and a large variety of battery-powered devices like blood glucose meters, thermometers, watches, etc., has proven that the ULP system approach is the best strategy for the future.
Ultra-low-power technology has been extended to RF transceivers, sensors, MCUs and to all types of silicon products for battery-powered applications. Similarly, the widespread adoption of wireless technologies in many consumer applications like tablets and smartphones was only made possible because of significant reductions in semiconductors power consumption.
The next worldwide opportunity for growth is commonly recognized in the smart grid market, which comprises gas, heat, water and electrical meters and heat cost allocators, as are metering and sub-metering devices. There are also smart grid home gateways, data concentrators and data collectors that collect information from the metering units. The combination of smart grids with home area networks (HAN) is expected to enable utilities to ease peak power demand, which in turn helps reduce the need for new power plants. It is also expected to bring cost savings and increased comfort thru home automation for consumers.
This article shows how combining the best ultra-low-power MCUs, the highest performance RF transceivers for Sub-1GHz communication and advanced power system solutions will enable the next generation of smart utility meters in Europe and beyond. The maturity and latest developments of the European wM-Bus protocol stack opens new opportunities for large-scale deployment of battery-operated gas, water and heat meters.
This article will explain the building blocks of a smart meter (gas, water and heat) for the European market, using the popular wM-Bus RF communication in the 868MHz and 169MHz band. Practical advice on implementing and optimizing wM-Bus solutions for gas, water and heat meters will be provided.
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The Dominance Lemma
We will have use of the following technical result about the dominance order:
Let and be Young tableaux of shape and , respectively. If for each row, all the entries on that row of are in different columns of , then . Essentially, the idea is that since all the entries on a row in fit into different columns of , the shape of must be wide enough to handle that row. Not only that, but it’s wide enough to handle all of the rows of that width at once.
More explicitly, we can rearrange the columns of so that all the entries in the first rows of fit into the first rows of . This is actually an application of the pigeonhole principle: if we have a column in that contains elements from the first rows of , then look at which row each one came from. Since , we must have two entries in the column coming from the same row, which we assumed doesn’t happen.
Yes, this does change the tableau , but our conclusion is about the shape of , which remains the same.
So now we can figure as the number of entries in the first rows of . Since these contain all the entries from the first rows of , it must be greater than or equal to that number. But that number is just as clearly . Since this holds for all , we conclude that dominates .
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And then there is the husky.
Sure, huskies like to play in snow. And many relish the opportunity to tie into a team of yowling brethren and race across a frozen lake. This is not, however their raison d'etre. No, as any human living with a husky will tell you, this breed has one--and only one--true reason for being: rampant destruction.
Now, as many of you know, Ari is only half husky. The rest of her DNA is Korean jindo, a dog known for being both serious and sensitive. Think of it as the angel on her right shoulder, the voice of reason in an otherwise devious mind. So Ari had to work extra hard--and extra long--before she was final able to embrace her full husky self. That's why our fellow dog bloggers were so thrilled with our recent soup incident. And why she has finally earned the highest possible honor for any husky: membership into HULA.
Needless to say, we were overjoyed when we received our notification. Here's what Queen Meeshka wrote:
HULA membership requires a lot of dedication, evil plotting and planning, and finally; devious deeds to drive your humans insane. I had to say that when I read the tale of the soup... I piddled in the human woman's chair. It is so fiendish and clever that it would be an injustice not to welcome you into the HULA Hoop.
Display your certificate with pride... or rip it to shreds, whatever makes you happy, and welcome to the HULA Hoop.
Knowing Ari, the certificate will probably be shredded eventually. But for now, we are honored to display it here, along with our pride in a breed fully realized.
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I was asked to explain how I make fringed paper flowers. You can find a lot of examples and tutorials on the Web, but since I was asked... Here's a detailed explanation.
1. Cut a paper strip 1 cm (3/8 inches) wide and about 28 cm (11 inches) long, which is the length of a standard paper sheet for A4 or Letter. Make small cuts at every 1-1.5 mm (1/16 inch) across the long edge of the strip. The cuts should be about 8 mm (a bit more than 1/4 inch) deep, you get a fringe with a narrow base. Cut gently to avoid cutting through the strip.
Some people use an office clip to limit the cuts. Try cutting this way, you may find it more convenient.
2. Roll the fringe into a tight coil using a quilling tool.
3. Apply a small amount of glue on the end and let it dry. You've got a sort of paper cylinder.
4. Fold the fringe outwards with your fingers. This is only one type of fringed flowers. Let me tell you about another one.
5. For the second type we also make a fringe, and then attach a narrow paper quilling strip (3 mm or 1/8 inch) to its end. The colour of the narrow strip will be the colour of the flower centre.
6. Roll up, starting from the tip of the narrow strip.
7. The narrow strip makes up the centre and the fringe makes up petals. Glue the end and let dry.
8. Peel the petals outwards. The flower is ready.
Try varying the width and length of strips, using different colour combinations, find new uses for your flowers. Be creative, good luck!
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Constant criticism, nit-picking, threats, refuses to value, control freak, aggressive, denies everything? Read this
"Basically, Doom is a (violent) 3D arcade game where you run around in a maze and kill things with shotguns and chainsaws.... After you get tired of killing things, you can run it over a network and kill things together with your friends. After you get tired of that, you can kill your friends."
(Frequently Asked Questions: Doom)
According to new Home Office research, there are more than a million violent incidents at work each year in England and Wales. About a quarter of these involved physical assault resulting in injury. High risk professions are the police, social workers, probation officers, security guards and bar staff. Nurses also face increasing violence, as do teachers. Violence in the workplace costs about £0.25 billion each year when compensation is included.
On average there are seven incidents of violence per month in each NHS Trust in England, adding up to around 65,000 incidents each year. Around two thirds of attacks are on nurses.
School violence has also had a higher profile, especially after recent incidents including the fatal stabbing of headmaster Philip Lawrence and the shootings at Columbine High School in America. Domestic violence also continues unabated, although incidents rarely make the headlines unless they involve murder, usually of the female partner. Spree killings always make the headlines.
The five main areas of health and safety law relevant to violence at work are:
For further information see the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publication Violence at work: a guide for employers. For information on HSE publications call tel 0541 545500 or write to HSE Information Centre, Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ. Other HSE publications include:
Preventing violence to retail staff, HS(G)133, 1995, HSE Books, ISBN
Prevention of violence to staff in banks and building societies, HS(G)100, 1993, HSE Books, ISBN 071760683X
Violence to staff in the education sector, HSC Education Services Advisory Committee, 1990, HSE Books, ISBN 0118855581
Violence to staff in the health services, HSC Health Service Advisory Committee, 1987, HSE books, ISBN 0118839179
Whilst we can all recognise physical violence, recognising psychological violence has until recently presented more of a challenge. Physical violence can result in horrific physical injuries which are obvious even to the untrained eye. What's not so well recognised is that psychological violence, can, over the long term, cause just as severe injury to health. This web site is about the psychological violence we call bullying.
Bully OnLine is a gold mine of insight and information on the underlying behaviours of violence and exposes the serial bully. Everyone knows at least one person in their life with this profile. See who this reminds you of.
Browse this web site to recognize the bullies in your life ... start with Am I being bullied? then move on to What is bullying? Find an answer to the question, "Why me?" To find out what you can do about bullying, click Action to tackle bullying. Have a look at the profile of the serial bully which is common to violent people, abusive partners, abusers, pedophiles, harassers, stalkers, rapists, even some serial killers.
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, 14 East Sheen Avenue, London SW14 8AS. The national charity for personal safety. Information on personal safety, violence, school bullying, stalking, etc. Publications available. Telephone 020 8876 0305, Fax 020 8392 1830.
Recommended reading on bullying, harassment, victimisation and psychological violence
Bully Online is funded by the sale of these books
Bully in sight, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bullycide: death at playtime
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Last week, the Obama administration proposed a .15 percent tax on financial institutions with more than $50 billion in assets, to be assessed on liabilities, minus deposits. Since the announcement, the banking lobby — along with Republicans in Congress — have been bemoaning the supposed burden of the fee. Yesterday, Steve Bartlett, President and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable (which represents the 100 largest financial firms in the country), appeared on C-Span to complain about the “bizarre, punitive” tax. He said that, in his view, the tax constitutes a illegal bill of attainder for singling out companies for taxation:
It is one of the more bizarre, punitive taxes I’ve ever seen. It’s sort of portrayed as a tax, and also as a way to pay back the TARP and also as a way to punish people who are expressing their views in Congress…This fee or tax is kind of a tax in search of a purpose…It singles out fifty specific companies, and those fifty companies would pay this tax.
Bartlett is not the only one playing the “unconstitutional” card. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has reportedly hired a lawyer to look into challenging the tax on constitutional grounds. But as the New York Times reported, “legal experts have called those claims dubious.” And Bartlett is just flat-out wrong that the proposal singles out fifty specific companies. In fact, it lays out a clear criteria for which firms will be affected, not naming any one in particular. This makes the case for a bill of attainder tenuous at best.
On a more substantive note, the banks are continuing to moan and groan about a proposed tax that is really quite tame. Its aim is to collect $90 billion over ten years, which amounts to $9 billion a year, from all the covered institutions collectively. JP Morgan, which just announced quarterly profits of $3.3 billion — while upping its 2009 compensation pool to $26.9 billion — would be responsible for paying just $1.5 billion annually, which is the most of any institution.
Dean Baker did some back-of-the-envelope calculating and found that “the tax will be equal to roughly 5 percent of the combined profits and bonuses at the large banks.” So it clearly could have been higher, for a longer period of time, and been allocated to continued deficit reduction even after all of TARP has been repaid.
As Paul Krugman wrote, the banks are acting like “a drunk driver who, after killing a number of pedestrians, received life-saving treatment at a nearby hospital — and responds by suing the doctor.” And it really seems that they are ready to call as out of bounds any step aimed at fully compensating taxpayers for their role in salvaging the financial system.
Kevin Drum asks “why bother fighting such a minuscule levy anyway? They should be celebrating for getting off so easily.”
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About $400,000 in coins forgotten at TSA checkpoints in 2010
WASHINGTON – Change is coming. Just check the plastic tubs at airport security checkpoints.
Airline passengers leave about $400,000 a year in coins they forget to — or choose not to — take with them as they scramble to catch flights, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
In 2010, that loose change amounted to $409,085.56. That's $376,480.39 in dollar coins, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies, plus foreign currency worth $32,605.17.
People who leave money behind may be rushing through a checkpoint for a variety of reasons, and travelers heading to foreign countries may simply feel they have no use for U.S. change, said David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association.
Then there's the jingle factor: Coins just aren't that appealing in an increasingly cashless society.
"Many people aren't carrying change these days anyway," Stempler said. "It just weighs down in their pockets and purses. I know in the city I see a lot of people giving it to homeless people just to get rid of the change."
Passengers at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York left the most change in 2010 ($46,918.06), followed by Los Angeles International ($19,110.83), Hartsfield Atlanta International ($16,523.83), San Francisco International ($15,908.02), and Miami International ($15,844.83), according to the TSA.
The TSA "makes every effort to reunite passengers with items left at the checkpoint," agency spokesman Greg Soule said. Money that can't be returned to its owner is used to finance agency operations.
Republican Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida wants to change that.
Legislation he's proposing would give the money to the United Service Organizations to help operate their welcome centers for U.S. military personnel around the globe.
"Allowing TSA to keep unclaimed taxpayer money for any and all purposes is an egregious breach of its duty to the public that it serves," Miller wrote in a recent letter to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R-N.Y. "This money should be put to good use, and there is no better organization to use this money wisely than the USO."
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 30, 2012) - Due to the exceptional success of the GAIA Photography Exhibition in Toronto, ONE DROP and its partners are proud to announce that it is being extended until October 1 at The Distillery Historic District and the Thompson Landry Gallery. This creative project designed by Cirque du Soleil™ Founder, Guy Laliberté for ONE DROP and presented by Fondation Desjardins consists of a selection of large-scale photographs taken by Laliberté while on board the International Space Station (ISS). Tens of thousands of individuals have already visited GAIA and with summer coming to a close, Torontonians will still have a chance to see this spectacular exhibition. The free public exhibit will also span Toronto's Nuit Blanche, the seventh annual sunset-to-sunrise celebration of contemporary art happening on September 29.
In 2009, Guy Laliberté became the first Canadian private space explorer. During his 11-day stay in orbit, Laliberté carried out his Poetic Social Mission and chose to use this unique opportunity to raise individual and community awareness of water-related issues and to help achieve sustainable change in terms of universal water access and protection. Through the lens of his camera, Laliberté was able to witness the beauty of the planet, as well as the utter fragility of Earth with regards to the universe.
GAIA is presented in Toronto thanks to a partnership with The Distillery Historic District and the Thompson Landry Gallery, as well as a contribution made by Fondation Desjardins. After the Toronto run, the photography exhibition will tour the US and Europe.
The GAIA book, which contains dozens of never-before seen photographs, will still be available for purchase in three distinct editions at the Thompson Landry Gallery, official custodian of the GAIA photographic prints and books in Toronto. Proceeds raised by the sale of GAIA works of art will go to ONE DROP, allowing it to continue in its efforts to make safe water accessible to all, today and tomorrow. To learn more, visit www.ONEDROP.org/GAIA.
For the duration of this exhibition, Fondation Desjardins will be offering students a chance to win one of two bursaries. The first, of $1,500, will be awarded to a student in environmental studies. The second, $1,000, will be awarded to a student in any other field of interest. For contest details and inscription, visit www.fondation-desjardins.com/gaia.
ABOUT ONE DROP
ONE DROP-an initiative of Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil-is an international non-governmental organization created in Canada, in 2007. ONE DROP fights poverty by supporting access to water and raising individual and community awareness of the need to mobilize so that safe water is accessible to all, in sufficient quantity, today and tomorrow. With its uniquely artistic approach, ONE DROP educates and implements site-specific safe water solutions while allocating microfinance loans to help ensure sustainable development. Worldwide, ONE DROP's ongoing creative projects also raise awareness about water-related issues and encourage smarter water practices. To learn more, visit www.ONEDROP.org, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and YouTube.
ABOUT FONDATION DESJARDINS
Fondation Desjardins aims to set the standard for financial, cooperative and economic education in the Canadian philanthropic sector. It is a leading partner in helping young members of the next generation achieve their dreams and ambitions. Fondation Desjardins also gives many young people access to technical, vocational or post-secondary studies. It rewards excellence and encourages students to persevere until they receive their diploma. Well known for its leadership in granting university scholarships in Quebec, Fondation Desjardins encourages research, training, acquisition of skills and employability. The foundation rewards cooperative spirit, volunteerism and entrepreneurship. Since its creation, it has granted a total of 14 million dollars to over 10,000 people. To learn more, visit http://www.desjardins.com/en/coopmoi/difference-desjardins/prix-fondation-desjardins.jsp.
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Arizona's New Booster Seat Law
Effective August 2, 2012
Arizona's new booster seat law requires that children under 8 years of age and not taller than 4 feet 9 inches be properly secured in a child restraint system. The majority of U.S. states have similar booster seat laws, based on the same criteria.
Original Version of the Law:
Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S.) § 28-907 required that children ages 0 - 5 years old be properly restrained in a child passenger restraint system.
House Bill 2154 added the provision to require children who meet the following specifications be restrained in a child restraint system:
- under 8 years of age; and
- not more than 4 feet 9 inches tall.
A police officer can stop a vehicle if a child is not secured correctly in a child safety seat. Violating the law is a primary offense, meaning officers do not need a secondary offense such as speeding to pull someone over if they believe a child is not properly restrained. The penalty is a $50 fine that could be waived if drivers show proof they have subsequently acquired a booster seat.
Why Use Booster Seats?
- Medical experts say adult seat belts sit too high on a child's abdomen and can cause internal damage and even snap the spine during a crash.
- Booster seats for children (4 to 8 years old) are 59% more effective than vehicle safety belts (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
- According to statistics from the Arizona Department of Health Services, seven of the nine children ages 5 to 8 who died in a 2009 vehicle crash were not properly restrained in a booster seat.
"These booster positioning seats are very effective in preventing injury and decreasing deaths," Dr. David Notrica, Phoenix Children's Hospital's Trauma Medical Director, said during a committee hearing on the bill. Phoenix Children's Dr. Sara Bode testified that booster seats reduce injuries by 60 percent. "Even as a mother myself, I think it's hard to tell they can make a difference," Bode said. "You have to look at the statistics to prove this really does save lives."
American Academy of Pediatrics Recommendations:
A booster will make sure the vehicle's lap-and-shoulder belt fits properly. Most children will need a booster seat until they have reached 4 feet 9 inches tall and are between 8 and 12 years old. Children should ride in the rear of a vehicle until they are 13 years old. Read all of the recommendations from the AAP.
Remember, in the back, in a booster, every time.
Download the Handouts
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A radiation detector indicates 0.6 microsieverts, on March 15, 2011, near Shibuya train station in Tokyo, four days after a strong earthquake damaged a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
PICTURES: Devastation in Japan
PICTURES: Tsunami reactions around the world
PICTURES: Search and rescue in JapanPICTURES: World's biggest tsunamis
PICTURES: How earthquakes are measured
PICTURES: Deadliest earthquakes
PICTURES: Quake, tsunami slam Japan
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But simply restricting your diet to watercress and celery won't get you to your personal centennial. There are no magic potions or simple regimens that automatically bestow longevity. It's the total package that counts: diet, exercise, mental attitude, family and societal supportand, of course, your genetic makeup. Some of the longest-lived Asians appear to have an extended shelf life hardwired into their anatomy by their progenitors. "My parents and grandparents lived until they were in their late 80s and early 90s," says Hide Nakamatsu, a 1.47-meter-tall, 91-year-old bundle of life force wrapped in a white cotton frock, cotton gloves and a bright blue-and-white bonnet. The headgear is necessary to shade her darting eyes during her daily game of gateball, a fiercely competitive Okinawan version of croquet that, in Nakamatsu's case, involves lots of running from one hoop to the next. Once she's dispatched her opponent's ball from the field with a sharp crack, Nakamatsu returns to the shade of palm trees sheltering the gateball court. None of her three children, 10 grandchildren or nine great-grandchildren has ever suffered a major disease, she says; they rarely go to the doctor. "I suppose it's something I gave them in my blood."
Nakamatsu is almost certainly right. Scientists are only just beginning to unravel how genetic makeup affects aging. But research published in recent months suggests that a single gene or group of genes appear to control the aging process. Scientists at Harvard University and the University of California say a gene related to insulin production seems to control the onset of aging in experiments on yeasts and worms. Although the research is in its early stages, the scientists say there is a high likelihood a similar system for control of the aging process exists in humans.
The most important genetic factor in longevity is no mystery. Women live longer than men all over the world, usually between five and seven years longer in industrialized nations. In Okinawa, as many as 86% of the centenarians are female, according to scientist Craig Willcox, one of three authorsincluding his brother Bradleyof the 2001 best-selling book The Okinawa Program. Researchers think women might have a not-yet-understood genetic advantage. But DNA isn't entirely destinymen can improve their chances for a long life by avoiding destructive behaviors, such as heavy drinking, that most women tend to avoid. "From our studies, genetics accounts for about a third and lifestyle kicks in for the rest," says Willcox. "Of course, if you want to make it to 100, you need a very nice set of genes. But these days, making it to 90 isn't so hard, with a bit of luck and a good lifestyle."
Included in a "good lifestyle" is the avoidance of proven killers. Few of Asia's ancients smoke; if they once did, they kicked the vice long ago. Most will happily admit to taking a drink now and then, though, a habit whose benefits in moderation are well enough established that they are acknowledged even by such cautious institutions as the American Heart Association. The Hunza's are partial to "Hunza water"potent wines made from the area's fruits such as grapes, mulberry and the ubiquitous apricot. Residents of Sunchang county in South Korea swear by their soju and makgoli, fiery rice spirits. Park Bok Dong, who is 101, attributes a major part of her continuing health (until a few years ago she was still working in her family's rice fields) to her practice of downing several daily shots of 50-proof soju. Okinawa, meanwhile, has awamori, a distilled rice spirit that has a whiff of kerosene in its bouquet but is much beloved on the island. "I used to like to drink a lot of awamori when I was young," smiles Asanori Takemura, a beaming Okinawan baker who recently turned 93. "I still like to, but these days I only take one glass a nightno more."
Indeed, dietary moderation is a consistent feature of the lives of the superwrinklies. Protein and animal fat typically play a minimal role in their menus. In Sunchang, for example, rice and boiled vegetables are a staple. "The white-rice-and-vegetables-dominated diet consists primarily of carbohydrate, while remaining low in fat," says Dr. Park Sang Chul, who heads the World Health Organization's aging-research center in Seoul and has spent three years studying the residents of Sunchang. "Low fat content is one of the more crucial keys toward longevity." The story is similar for the locals of Hunza Valley, says Khwaja Khan, a physician in the Hunza town of Karimabad who has treated many of the valley's eldest residents. The Hunza, Khan says, were cut off from the outside world for centuries by the 7,000-meter Himalayan peaks ringing the valley, and until recently were forced to subsist on a spartan menu of apricots, walnuts, buckwheat cakes and fresh vegetables. Many cross the century mark, and a few motor on for another 10 years or longer.
Living in relatively poor conditions in a village free of the industrialized world's dietary sludgeand miles from a fast-food restaurantisn't required for long life. But eating habits influenced by scarcity appear to contribute to health. Says Chinese longevity expert Chen, the residents of Bama "are not starving, but for many years they weren't often full, either." In Okinawa, researchers found their subjects ate about 20% fewer calories than the Japanese averagewhich in turn is about 20% lower than the average in the U.S. According to Dr. Makoto Suzuki, leader of the study of Okinawan elders and one of Willcox's co-authors, a restricted-calorie diet might reduce the harmful effects of free radicalsmolecules that occur naturally in the body during biochemical reactions but that can damage cells and are implicated in most of the deleterious effects associated with aging, including cancers and cardiovascular diseases.
Happily, living to an advanced age doesn't depend entirely on self-denial. Researchers are also trying to pinpoint particular foods consumed in each of the regions that can help avert the diseases and disabilities associated with aging. The people of Bama, for example, cook with oils derived from hemp and the fruit of tea bushes. These oils are rich in unsaturated fat, vitamin E and vitamin B1antioxidant nutrients believed to contribute to a healthy cardiovascular system, says Chen, as well as helping prevent certain types of cancers. Suzuki says Okinawans do most of their stir-frying with canola oil, which has been widely shown to protect the body against free radicals.
The Okinawan elders who were part of Suzuki's study got most of their protein from fish, which provides another so-called good fat: omega-3. This oil is particularly prevalent in fish such as salmon, tuna and mackerel, whose established heart-protecting properties are considered by researchers to be an important reason that Japan's incidence of heart disease is one-third that of the U.S.'s. Okinawans have about one-fifth as many heart attacks as North Americans, Suzuki says, and when they do, they are twice as likely to survive.
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An experimental pill from Pfizer Inc. shrank tumors in patients with a rare form of lung cancer that is caused by a defective gene and occurs mostly in nonsmokers, a study showed.
The medicine, crizotinib, reduced tumor size in 57 percent of patients and stopped the progression of the disease in 87 percent of those in a study released today at the meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. Most of the trial’s participants never smoked or were former smokers.
Pfizer’s drug is the only compound in human testing to target a defect in a gene called ALK, which can turn deadly when a piece of it breaks away and fuses with a neighboring gene, causing cells to grow out of control, said Alice Shaw, a thoracic cancer specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The gene flaw occurs in about 5 percent of lung cancer patients. If effective in larger studies, the drug could be available in 2013 and generate annual sales of $800 million, said Barclays Capital analyst Tony Butler, in a note to clients.
“The drug has shown remarkable activity against tumors,” said Shaw, one of the study’s researchers. “As a lung cancer doctor, you just don’t see changes like this in patients.”
Crizotinib is among 24 new tumor-fighting medicines that New York-based Pfizer is developing to help offset the $11 billion in revenue it will start losing next year when generic copies of its cholesterol pill Lipitor enter the market.
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ah for the days before digital. control strategy was really digital back then (except analog timer) , it was just 120V digital 1 or 0. that kind of voltage didin't give you so much trouble over how you attached your thermal sensors - other than that you insulated them well.
i've always hated butt connectors other than solder and heat shrinking so I always used wire nuts carefully taped. get the RTV silicone approach.
but this sounds really frustrating that you are getting wrong voltages off new board and old board. still don't know if it is really fixed.
a lot of stuff can be electrical but with all this circutry crap being add to these new units, couldn't somebody come up with a reliable pressure indicator for the high and low side for a quick indication of cooling system operation.
the one thing that occurs to me is whether the odd frost pattern on the evaporator actually indicates a coolant problem rather than a defrost cycle problem.
how old is this fridge? the one downside of pressure indicators or other service access to the refrigerant circuit is that these are usually pretty bombproof for maybe a 20 year life and adding complexity and access can actually be the source of the leak. although as the master appliantologist has pointed out, you might not get the right pressures not because of a loss of refrigerant but because of dirt/dust clog on condensor, blockage of flow or intermittant or unreliable operation of fans etc. My inquiring mind wishes that every refrigerating appliance in the world had onboard gauges. and in the IC age, there would be nothing to stop them charting the operating pressures and saving snapshots every ,month or so so you could track operation before and after cleaning and over a period that might quickly indicate problems, coolant loss, etc. -- all of this balanced by the problem that coolant control and measurement is unfortunately one of the most likely sources of coolant leaking. when you come up with a refrigerant that has the pressure and physical characteristics to reduce that phenomenon, then you've really got something. because refrigeration is civilization - thus refrigeration repairmen are the centurions of the day -- albeit given our nature we might more -- as I often do -- claim the mantle of archibald tuttle. i.e. the DeNiro character from the movie Brazil.
appreciate being a fly on the wall for this headache because it helps me know I'm not the only one who faces seemingly insurmountable diagnostic issues with these IC refrigerators.
one issue I have is that the GE I last had a part, there was no test facility that I could find for the defrost cycle, so you just had to infer it was busted from symptoms, rather than test it, and you pretty much just replaced all the parts. Maybe this is the wave of the future but my clincal mind gets clincally depressed contemplating it.
time to go off and crack an IPA before noon when I run into this stuff. let us know if you need to bailed out of the drunk tank.
Edited by occidental tourist, 18 March 2013 - 10:53 AM.
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Lately, there has been some discussion about how innovation is slowing down for the consumer market, and it's Semico's opinion that that pessimistic perspective just isn't true. One of the more interesting innovations hitting the consumer market is the natural user interface that started with the Kinect but is only now being used in mobile devices.
Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) is launching the world's first E-field-based 3D gesture controller that is small enough to fit in any type of mobile device. An E-field controller is similar to MEMS sensors, but instead uses electrodes to sense the user's actions, and similar to a sensor hub, the MGC3130 chip processes those signals. The chip includes a 32-bit DSP and integrated Flash memory for easy upgrades in the field.
When it comes to gesture recognition, there are preset and pre-recognized gestures that most people do naturally, which means the device's programmer doesn't have to worry about gesture capture. They're pre-programmed along the x, y, and z grids. The on-chip library, called the Colibri Suite, detects these intuitive and natural human gestures.
Microchip's solution works by detecting a range up to 15cm away from the surface of the device and boasts 100 percent surface coverage with no blind spots, which you might find with a camera-oriented solution. The company claims this product is also 90 percent more efficient than camera systems currently on the market today -- so efficient that designers can leave the E-field controller in a low-power, always-on mode. Being always on means our mobile devices can recognize when we approach and "wake-up" while also recognizing particular gestures that can open applications, zoom, click, etc., all without the user ever having to touch the device.
The electrodes can be any conductive material, such as PCB traces or a touch sensor's indium tin oxide (ITO) coating. Up to 5 electrodes can be used to detect motion. These can fit under a standard notebook PC keyboard. A single zone covers up to a 10-inch diagonal. The cost of these electrodes, including mounting, is well under $1. For a more cost effective solution, if the device has a touch screen, this can be used as the sensor for gesture recognition.
Thus, no electrodes need to be added. One can gesture over the screen and not touch it. This is advantageous when you do not want to touch a screen with dirty fingers or use depth of field for an application; or to avoid reaching out to constantly touch it, in a desktop-PC scenario. For larger areas, such as full-size keyboards, more than one MGC3130 can be used together, each IC controlling its own zone.
An evaluation kit is available now for $169. The MGC3130 is priced at $2.26 in high volume. Production starts December 2012, with mass production slated for April 2013.
Semico Research Corp. expects to see these types of gesture controllers on gaming handhelds, tablets, remote controls, and smartphones. Later, we expect to see this type of power savings built into the ultrabook market as well. In the meantime, existing systems can use this technology. External peripherals, such as a pad, can be connected via USB. Microchip is offering a cost-effective and low-power solution that opens up the portable market. As the MGC3130 and its evaluation kit get into the hands of developers, Semico expects to see greater innovation in human interface.
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Birthday to one of my favourite High Renaissance painters, who - although very important indeed - often gets overlooked; such is the fate of artists that lived in time of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.
Andrea del Sarto was born in Florence in 1486, which means that he was younger even than Raphael, 3 years his senior, while Leonardo was 34 years older than him; roughly at the time that Andrea was born, Leonardo was finishing The Virgin of the Rocks while Michelangelo was soon to become an apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio. In other words, Andrea del Sarto belongs to Raphael’s generation of Renaissance artists.
Andrea’s real name was too long to mention; del Sarto is a nickname he got, because of his father’s trade : he was known as tailor’s son, del Sarto, and this nickname from youth stuck with him until his death and then further on into art history. Other than being called the tailor’s son, Andrea had another nickname acquired by his talent alone : they called him Andrea senza errori - Andrea without errors, an estimate to which one of his pupils that also wrote his biography and whom we know well as Giorgio Vasari - was partly critical of. However, Vasari’s greatest role model Michelangelo thought very highly of Andrea’s abilities. This should speak volumes since Il divino was not that keen to praise many of his colleagues ;)
Andrea unfortunately lived only 43 years; in 1530 he died of plague. He is considered to be the best painter of his generation living in Florence, where he spent most of his life. A High Renaissance painter he is at the same time the harbinger of Mannerism, of which his pupil Jacopo Carucci, known as Pontormo, will be one of main exponents.
Self-portrait, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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U.S. Has Nearly 12 Million Cancer Survivors
Rising Number of Survivors Attributed to Improvements in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-up Care
Open Discussion of the Cancer Experience
Mary McCabe, RN, director of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Survivorship Program in New York City, says “no one wants to hear the word cancer in terms of them or anyone that they love, but many public figures have demonstrated that not only can you live past diagnosis and treatment period, but you can live well and successfully. We all know people who have been treated for cancer and they are more open about discussing their own experience.”
“We certainly need more work in diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, pancreas, and head and neck cancers,” she says. “These are areas where research is extremely important in improving diagnosis, survival, and the quality of that survival.”
“There has been an increasing focus on research on quality of care during treatment and afterward,” McCabe says.
Many of today’s cancer treatments are more palatable, she says. “We have so many more supportive care interventions including relaxation modalities and other types of therapies to help people through treatment.”
Better Understanding of Cancer Survival
“We need a formal plan about how to follow cancer survivors and not just for risk of recurrence and surveillance,” McCabe says. “We need to make sure we understand the late or long-term effects of their treatments so we can intervene and improve health.”
“There will be even greater numbers of survivors in the future and we need a better understanding of cancer survivorship, and what it entails for patients, their families, and caregivers,” says J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, MD, deputy chief medical officer for the national office of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta. “We need to intensify and provide more focus on our efforts to understand the issues associated with cancer survival.”
These may include research on some of the long-term effects of cancer therapy such as “chemo brain,” which is how many survivors refer to the mental fuzziness after chemotherapy, or how therapies affect the bones and heart in the long term. “We can’t say ‘you beat cancer’ and forget about it,” Lichtenfeld says.
“We also need to redouble the financial issues, insurance issues, psychosocial issues, and pain management issues,” he says.
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Over the last few weeks, there has been a vigorous debate surrounding the truthfulness of the coriolis effect in context of bathtubs and sinks.
It is a widely held belief that water always flows clockwise down a drain in the southern hemisphere, and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, with a load of YouTube videos, and sly scammers preying on tourists “proving” this.
The real truth of the matter is that, while the coriolis effect is real, it is far too weak to affect the fow patterns of a sink of water. It requires vast ocean-sized areas in which to work. The shape of the container, and how the water is moving has far greater effect than the coriolis effect.
Now, you would think that sound reasoning, as well as being backed up by scientific literature, it amazes me that people are far more willing to believe the lie, than accept that what they believed is false.
In my experience, it is very easy to get someone to believe something that they hear for the first time, but after this first encounter, it is excrutiatingly difficult to get them to change their world view, if the first explanation proves to be invalid.
This goes for other things too. Take the story about the PowerBalance bracelet that claimed to give you more strength and healthier body because of a small holographic device. It turned out to be a completely bogus scam, but I still heard people claiming it worked even after the scam broke!
There are so many pseudoscientific claims out there – such as ESP, UFOs, Velikovsky, astrology – that you could write many thick books discussing, and debunking them, but sometimes, I just wish people would wake up and think for themselves a bit.
That may sound a bit idealistic – the realist in me knows that people will be people, and that pseudoscientific nonsense will never go away. The claims will change but there will always be willing people to fall for them.
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A year has passed since the death of Alicia Showalter
Showalter Reynolds, a 25-year-old fourth-year pharmacology doctoral student, disappeared on U.S. Route 29 in Virginia while driving home in March 1996. That May, her body was found in a shallow grave in a wooded area near Culpeper, Va. While her case received extensive media attention, authorities have not yet tracked down her killer.
By all accounts, Showalter Reynolds was an exceptional student as well as an exceptional person. For those whose lives she touched, memories of her are very much alive. But so, too, are the wounds created by her untimely death and absence. As the year since her death draws to a close, some healing is expected this week when the Alicia Showalter Reynolds Research Prize, established in her memory by the Dean's Office of the School of Medicine, is awarded for the first time. The prize will be presented April 10 on the School of Medicine's 20th Annual Young Investigator's Day, an event established in 1978 to recognize student investigators in the School of Medicine and provide them with a forum for presenting their work.
Doctoral candidate Laura Rusche, whose work in the purification and characterization of a trypanosome RNA editing complex won the award, was a friend and classmate of Showalter Reynolds'. According to Peter Agre, chairman of the Young Investigator's Day Awards Committee, Rusche is an especially fitting winner because her dedication and scholarship reflect characteristics exhibited by Showalter Reynolds. That Rusche and Showalter Reynolds were friends and classmates did not influence the awarding of the first prize, however. The winner is the student judged to be the most outstanding Ph.D. student based on scientific accomplishment.
Committee members expressed the hope that the first awarding of this prize might be a step in the healing process for those who were touched by Showalter Reynolds in life and who, through the award in her memory, will continue to be touched following her death.
"Alicia hoped to become a role model for women in science," Agre said. "A Young Investigator's Award in her name means that her spirit of scholarship has survived. As the first recipient of the Alicia Showalter Reynolds Award, Laura Rusche demonstrates how Alicia's intellectual spirit and scholarship will continue to inspire all young investigators at Johns Hopkins."
Showalter Reynolds and Rusche entered the pharmacology doctoral program in 1992. Both were interested in studying the biology of parasitic organisms. They often shared study and social time during the first demanding years.
"Laura and Alicia were good friends," recalls Barbara Sollner-Webb, professor of biological chemistry in the School of Medicine and Rusche's adviser. "Like Alicia, Laura is very serious, committed and industrious. However, Laura's work was selected for the award solely on the basis of her outstanding research."
The Alicia Showalter Reynolds prize was awarded to Rusche for her work on the mechanism of RNA editing, a form of nucleic acid maturation, in parasitic trypanosomes. Rusche's research provided evidence that trypanosome RNA editing occurs enzymatically, not by a previously popular model of RNA-based catalysis. "Laura purified the basic editing enzymes," Sollner-Webb said. "Her analysis has provided a much greater understanding of RNA editing and has initiated the cloning and characterization of component activities."
After the first years of the doctoral program, Showalter Reynolds' and Rusche's interests in parasites diverged in their lab work, and their contact became less frequent.
"Alicia hoped her work would lead to the development of a vaccine against bilharzia, a disease prevalent in tropical regions caused by schistosomes," recalls Rusche. "I remember clearly the last time I spoke with her. I recall being struck by her unusual enthusiasm for her work. She was in the middle of a vaccine trial and eagerly awaiting the results. I came to appreciate her positive attitude. I think this award will help us to remember her as a student and a scientist," Rusche adds. "It will also remind us of her dedication, tenacity, optimistic spirit and intelligence. Alicia had a desire to help others through science. I am very honored to receive the award, I just hope that my work does justice to the award and to Alicia."
A List of Awardees
David M. Sabatini
Todd A. Waldman
Stephen M. Soisson
Douglas E. Bassett Jr.
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There are six basic gun safety rules for gun owners to understand and practice at all times:
The six basic safety rules are the foundational rules for gun safety. However, there are additional safety points that much not be overlooked.
You may be guilty of a misdemeanor or a felony if you keep a loaded firearm within any premises that are under your custody or control and a child under 18 years of age obtains and uses it, resulting in injury or death, or carries it to a public place, unless you stored the firearm in a locked container or locked the firearm with a locking device to temporarily keep it from functioning.
There is no such thing as being too careful with children and guns. Never assume that simply because a toddler may lack finger strength, they can't pull the trigger. A child's thumb has twice the strength of the other fingers. When a toddler's thumb "pushes" against a trigger, invariably the barrel of the gun is pointing directly at the child's face. NEVER leave a firearm lying around the house.
Child safety precautions still apply even if you have no children or if your children have grown to adulthood and left home. A nephew, niece, neighbor's child or a grandchild may come to visit. Practice gun safety at all times.
To prevent injury or death caused by improper storage of guns in a home where children are likely to be present, you should store all guns unloaded, lock them with a firearms safety device and store them in a locked container. Ammunition should be stored in a location separate from the gun.
Children are naturally curious about things they don't know about or think are "forbidden." When a child asks questions or begins to act out "gun play," you may want to address his or her curiosity by answering the questions as honestly and openly as possible. This will remove the mystery and reduce the natural curiosity. Also, it is important to remember to talk to children in a manner they can relate to and understand. This is very important, especially when teaching children about the difference between "real" and "make-believe." Let children know that, even though they may look the same, real guns are very different than toy guns. A real gun will hurt or kill someone who is shot.
The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that adolescence is a highly vulnerable stage in life for teenagers struggling to develop traits of identity, independence and autonomy. Children, of course, are both naturally curious and innocently unaware of many dangers around them. Thus, adolescents as well as children may not be sufficiently safeguarded by cautionary words, however frequent. Contrary actions can completely undermine good advice. A "Do as I say and not as I do" approach to gun safety is both irresponsible and dangerous.
Remember that actions speak louder than words. Children learn most by observing the adults around them. By practicing safe conduct you will also be teaching safe conduct.
If you decide to keep a firearm in your home you must consider the issue of how to store the firearm in a safe and secure manner. California recognizes the importance of safe storage by requiring that all firearms sold in California be accompanied by a DOJ-approved firearms safety device or proof that the purchaser owns a gun safe that meets regulatory standards established by the Department. The current list of DOJ-approved firearms safety devices and the gun safe standards can be viewed at the DOJ website.
There are a variety of safety and storage devices currently available to the public in a wide range of prices. Some devices are locking mechanisms designed to keep the firearm from being loaded or fired, but don't prevent the firearm from being handled or stolen. There are also locking storage containers that hold the firearm out of sight. For maximum safety you should use both a firearm safety device and a locking storage container to store your unloaded firearm.
Two of the most common locking mechanisms are trigger locks and cable locks. Trigger locks are typically two-piece devices that fit around the trigger and trigger guard to prevent access to the trigger. One side has a post that fits into a hole in the other side. They are locked by a key or combination locking mechanism. Cable locks typically work by looping a strong steel cable through the action of the firearm to block the firearm's operation and prevent accidental firing. However, neither trigger locks nor cable locks are designed to prevent access to the firearm.
Smaller lock boxes and larger gun safes are two of the most common types of locking storage containers. One advantage of lock boxes and gun safes is that they are designed to completely prevent unintended handling and removal of a firearm. Lock boxes are generally constructed of sturdy, high-grade metal opened by either a key or combination lock. Gun safes are quite heavy, usually weighing at least 50 pounds. While gun safes are typically the most expensive firearm storage devices, they are generally more reliable and secure.
Remember: Safety and storage devices are only as secure as the precautions you take to protect the key or combination to the lock.
Adults should be aware that a child could discover a gun when a parent or another adult is not present. This could happen in the child's own home; the home of a neighbor, friend or relative; or in a public place such as a school or park. If this should happen, a child should know the following rules and be taught to practice them.
As a responsible handgun owner, you must recognize the need and be aware of the methods of childproofing your handgun, whether or not you have children.
Whenever children could be around, whether your own, or a friend's, relative's or neighbor's, additional safety steps should be taken when storing firearms and ammunition in your home.
Always storing your firearm securely is the best method of childproofing your firearm; however, your choice of a storage place can add another element of safety. Carefully choose the storage place in your home especially if children may be around.
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Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson knows he is inviting death threats by entering into a civil union with his gay partner on the eve of his church’s biggest ecclesiastical conference. And he says it is worth it, because he is doing what God asks of him.
“When your life is at stake, you learn that there are things in life that are much worse than death,” Bishop Robinson told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Thursday in New York. “That’s the great reward of being a Christian. Not living your life — that’s worse than death. And if something were to happen to me, I would know that I am doing what I discern God is calling me to do.”
In 2003, Robinson became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church when he was elected by the congregations of New Hampshire. Dubbed “the most controversial Christian in the world,” he faced death threats then and wore a bulletproof vest during his consecration. Now, he has announced that he will “marry” Mark Andrew, his partner of some 20 years, a move sure to outrage conservatives in his religion.
He said he is entering the civil union because he wants his partner as well as his two daughters from a previous marriage to have the same legal protections afforded heterosexual couples.
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“I am simply not going to put my life in jeopardy without putting into place the protections for my beloved partner and my children and my grandchildren that are offered to me in a civil union,” Robinson said. “I think any husband or wife would want to do that.”
Banned from conference
The Episcopal Church is the American branch of the Church of England, or Anglican Church. Once every 10 years, Anglican bishops from around the world gather in England to pray and discuss church policy and doctrine at what is known as the Lambeth Conference. Robinson has been told he cannot attend the conference this July as a full participant because of protests from conservative congregations, mainly in Africa and Latin America. But he is going anyway, to stand outside the meetings and testify for others like him.
“The table that God invites us to includes everyone, and the church is going to get it wrong sometimes,” Robinson said. “I think the Archbishop of Canterbury has gotten this wrong by not inviting everyone. I’m going to go and offer myself and talk with anyone who wants to talk to someone who is unashamedly gay and unashamedly Christian.”
He knows that some people will not accept that.
“My life is under threat again for my attending the Lambeth Conference this summer, but we’re told in Scripture that it will always be costly to follow in God’s way,” Robinson said, his tone full of calm conviction. “When you try to love the world the way God loves the world, you’re going to get in trouble. The prophets of Judaism got in trouble. Jesus got in trouble.”
Conflict within the church
When he became a bishop in June 2003, he had appeared on TODAY and told Lauer that he would consider stepping down if his presence created a rift in the church. Since then, about 100 of the 8,000 Episcopal parishes in the United States have split with the American church and aligned themselves with the conservative Anglicans in Africa. Robinson pointed out that it is a very small number as a percentage of all congregations.
“It’s important to keep that in proportion,” he said. “But conflict is no surprise to the church; it’s been there from the very beginning.”
In any event, he no longer sees that he has a choice in whether to remain as bishop or not. “I’ve come to understand that this is a particular historic role that God is calling me to play at this moment,” Robinson told Lauer. “God has seemed so palpably close in this, there’s no way I could regret this. My job as a bishop of the church is to exhibit God’s love for all of God’s people, especially my enemies.”
He has written a book, “In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God,” published Thursday. In it, he writes, “It's time that progressive Christians rescue the Bible from the Religious Right, which has held it hostage and claimed it as its own private territory for too long.”
Robinson feels that people who use the Bible to condemn homosexuals fail to understand Scripture. It is called an abomination for a man to lie with another man as with a woman, but, he writes, the Bible also says it is an abomination to eat pork or shellfish, to wear clothing made of two different fibers, or to sow two different types of seed in the same field.
“We’ve often misinterpreted Scripture,” Robinson told Lauer. “We’ve used Scripture to justify slavery; the subjugation of women. And now we’re realizing that what the Bible initially seems to say about same-sex relationships is not actually what we’re talking about today — faithful, monogamous, lifelong-intentioned relationships between people of the same sex.”
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High-interest Checking Accounts Online
The top banks in the United States have many financial products. Some financial products are as follows:
* Savings Accounts
* Control Accounts
* Certificates of Deposit
* Internet Account
* Money Market Account
Checking account is a product widely used among investors in the United States.
How to open a high interest checking accounts online?
* As a first step, your offer must close the accounts of the banks control.
* Once you spotted the banks, the banks and the interest generated by the other terms and conditions together with the presence of a tray has the same list.
* Once you saw the same bank, a private bank, then go to the web site and search the online application form.
* The Bank will seek to process your request and, if necessary explanation. In addition, the bank can go to the bank as a comment.
* Considered during this opening must be a minimum account deposit.
* After the account is opened, you will receive a kit to open an account.
If you want to try check you accounts, you should use the services of imprest system advantages.
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When people think of nature, too often the only images that come to mind are distant, expansive places like Yellowstone Park and the Grand Canyon, or even more remote wilderness like Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is a grave mistake. Viewed through the wildlands lens, nature is something you might visit at best a couple of times a year while on vacation. Yet nature is everywhere—in our backyards, schoolyards, and gardens, thrusting skyward through sidewalk cracks and chirping in the neighbor’s tree. Indeed nature is quite literally everything, from stars and galaxies to planet Earth and the stuff in you. As Henry David Thoreau once said:
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.”
If we’re going to connect children (and ourselves) with nature, we must learn, as Thoreau did, to experience the natural world often, and with our full suite of senses. But what kind of nature do we need?
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Results of the Battelle Institute Study on the benefits of water softeners—and how the results can be used in marketing materials—will be offered at WQA Aquatech USA 2010.
An overview of the study was offered on Wednesday, March 10 at 9 am. It was conducted by Joe Harrison, P.E., CWS-VI, WQA technical director and Vincent M. Kent, MP, CWS-I, CI Abendroth Water Conditioning, Inc.
One of the keynote speeches is titled “How to Effectively Market the Softened Water Energy Efficiency Study (a.k.a. The Battelle Study).” The marketing presentation will take place on Thursday, March 11, from 9 to 9:50 am. A panel presentation, it will feature Robert A. Hague, CWS-VI, Hague Quality Water Intl.; Douglas S. “Sam” Karge, Pentair Water; Vincent M. Kent, MP, CWS-I, CI, Abendroth Water Conditioning, Inc.; and Eric B. Rosenthal, Culligan Intl.
The Battelle Memorial Institute, a non-profit international science and technology enterprise, recently completed its testing. Battelle was retained by the Water Quality Research Foundation to develop and run the tests. Battelle engineers evaluated the energy and costs in heating water versus the savings with softened water. They also examined effects on washing machines, faucet fixtures, showerheads, and dishwashers using hard water versus softened water.
The U.S. Department of Energy says, “water heating can account for 14% to 25% of the energy consumed in your home.” It is the second highest energy consuming area of a home, next to heating and cooling. Battelle conducted tests to determine how much energy savings household water softeners can provide homeowners.
Results of the study have shown that untreated hard water can cause significant efficiency losses and added costs in water heating – up to 48% in some cases. Battelle also found hard water to rapidly lead to clogged showerheads, in some cases possibly as soon as a year and a half of regular use. After just one week of constant testing with hard water, more than three-fourths of showerhead nozzles became clogged, according to laboratory results. Showerheads using softened water, meanwhile, performed nearly as well as on the day they were installed.
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January 16, 2012
As goes Ohio, so could the nation. The Ohio Health Department is putting up a strong fight to lower the federal poverty limit from its height of 500% in July 2010, lowered to 300% at that time, to now have the ability to implement a potential income eligibility change to as low as 100% FPL at anytime with no notice to anyone with a stroke of pen. If that rule had gone into effect, it would mean in order to qualify for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program a single individual cannot make more than $10,890 a year. Further, ODH could implement medical criteria one must also meet. Those given the highest priority will be PLWHA with CD4 counts lower than 201. The medical criteria make no mention of an important aspect of HIV care: viral load.
Back in December 2011, three Ohio HIV-positive advocates with the assistance of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation won an injunction to these proposed rule changes in the Franklin County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas, resetting the FPL to 300%. ODH had proposed one set of rules, had a hearing, and then changed the rules to the above without telling anyone. The judge had ordered ODH to go back to the drawing board ... and they did. The end result is the terrible rules listed above.
If the Ohio Health Department gets their way and decides to lower the income limit to 100% FPL, nearly 2,600 of Ohio's PLWHA will be forced off of ADAP (half of the program), and countless others who will become newly infected will have no access to the medicine they need. PLWHA no matter what their socioeconomic background should be privy to medicine that will keep them alive and healthy.
Is this not the reason behind these medications? With today's medicine PLWHA can lead long, productive lives; they are at less risk of developing an opportunistic infection, and in 2011 a ground-breaking study came out that stated those on antiretroviral therapy are 96 percent less likely to pass the virus to their partner.
We must not let Ohio implement these rules on the backs of the poor and vulnerable, especially those living with a potentially life-threatening disease such as HIV/AIDS. After 30 years of this epidemic, we must continue in our efforts to fight for all PLWHA!
How you can help:
Anyone from around the United States can send an email to HCS@odh.ohio.gov emphasizing your concern of these proposed changes. In the subject line use: Rule 3701-44-03.
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OUR VIEW: Prison not always the best optionState Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson said alternatives to prison, such as drug courts, alcohol courts and more intensive probations, should be considered as a way to slow the rise in South Dakota’s prison population. We like his thinking.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson said something recently that caught our attention.
In an Associated Press report about rising prison numbers in South Dakota, Gilbertson said there may need to be more good reform alternatives when punishing criminals.
“When I was a trial judge you had two choices: either put somebody on probation or send them to the pen. In many of those instances, neither option is what I would liked to have seen,” he said. Gilbertson said other alternatives, such as drug courts, alcohol courts and more intensive probations, should be considered as a way to slow the rise in South Dakota’s prison population. We like his thinking.
Consider that the state’s prison population has grown by more than 500 percent since 1980, to more than 3,600 inmates. Those prisoners cost more than $100 million per year. A statewide study team has been assembled to discuss and investigate the problem.
We do agree that prison may not always be the best option for some offenders. And basic, traditional probation doesn’t seem to be doing much to keep prison numbers down.
Obviously, new avenues need to be considered, so we view the formation of the new task force as a good thing. Hopefully, it will find some answers.
We hope the task force members use the state 24/7 program as an example.
The idea was born as a test program in 2004 under then-Attorney General Larry Long. In 2007, the Legislature approved the 24/7 Sobriety program, expanding it statewide. Courts now have the discretion to assign DUI offenders to the program, which requires offenders to submit to twice-daily alcohol tests to prove their sobriety.
In an in-depth report last year, The Daily Republic noted that between February and October 2010, approximately 16,800 people were placed in the program. Of the 3.42 million tests administered during that span, there was a 99.3 percent pass rate.
Is getting problem drinkers clean and sober better than simply sending them to prison?
We think so (although we still passionately believe that multiple DUI offenders should face stiffer penalties, including prison).
The 24/7 program is a success, and hopefully can be used as a shining example of how intensive, state-backed programs can aid in keeping offenders out from behind bars.More from around the web
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Saturday, December 23, 2006
Sipke Fockes at the Three Days Battle
What we think we know is that Sipke Fockes commanded some 28 gun Amsterdam Directors' ship at the Three Days Battle other than the Sint Maria, which he had commanded since about March 1652. The Sint Maria fought in the Three Days Battle and was damaged severely. The ship survived and was listed as being repaired, after the battle. We also believe that we know that Sipke Fockes was killed in the battle and his ship was captured by the English and taken into Portsmouth. What we don't know, for sure, is the name of Sipke Fockes' ship and also who commanded the Sint Maria in the battle. The Sint Maria might have been discarded after March 1653, as the list of ships to be repaired is the last place that I have seen the Sint Maria mentioned.
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I hear it all the time. “I would never put my critical data in the cloud.” It’s a prevailing point of view. The idea being that putting your personal data, documents, or music on a computer other than your own means that you are somehow more vulnerable to privacy invasions, hacking, and other problems.
There can be no argument that you are taking a risk by trusting someone else with your data. However, I think it’s worth pausing for a moment and asking yourself a question that few ever think about: Is your data really safer if you manage it yourself? Here are a few things you may want to consider.
1) You probably don’t have a good, always-current backup of your data.
Sure, you run your backup program every so often (maybe even nightly). Perhaps it backs everything up directly to your trusty external hard drive that’s constantly plugged into your computer. Maybe the IT guy comes into the office every so often to swap backup tapes on the server.
Now consider – what happens if your house burns down, your office floods, or someone breaks in and steals your laptop and backup drive? What happens if your computer gets a virus which decides to delete all of the files on your local hard drive as well as any external drives it happens to be connected to? What happens if there’s a nearby lightning strike that results in a power surge destroying your laptop and your backup drive? Taking it a step further, how often do you actually test your ability to restore from the backups you create? Are you sure the tapes created by your IT guy actually contain your critical data?
The reality is that there’s no cost-effective backup strategy the typical home-user or SMB can implement that provides a truly secure, always-accessible solution to protecting against all of the scenarios mentioned above unless you leverage the cloud in some way to create off-site backups.
Cloud-based backup solutions give you a simple, cheap way to keep your important data backed up in a location other than your home or office (the key here being that your backups must reside in a location separate from your computer, so that if one is stolen, damaged, or lost, the other remains intact).
Plenty of online backup solutions today offer fully encrypted backups (the kind that can’t even be decrypted by employees of the company) – so you should obviously do your homework before choosing one. Any (minimal) risk associated with your backups possibly being stolen and decrypted by a (very ambitious) hacker should be mitigated by the fact that your data is actually backed up properly, and not vulnerable to every-day threats.
2) Your most sensitive personal information is probably already in the cloud.
Most people don’t understand that their personal data exists in the cloud today, even if you didn’t put it there. Your bank account details exist on the bank’s website. Your credit scores are on the servers of the 3 credit bureaus (regardless of whether you’ve ever logged in to pull up the data, it’s sitting there). Your travel reservations are on the airline’s web-site, and hundreds of other pieces of important information about you are out there, waiting for you to view it.
Obviously, these companies go to great lengths to keep your data private, but there have been cases where something happens and criminals are able to retrieve the data. Remember, in many cases, this is data you didn’t even put there, but it’s sensitive information about you, nonetheless.
The point is – you’re not going to avoid this risk by not participating. In many cases, you may be making yourself –more- vulnerable to particular forms of identity theft (see the case where folks were caught creating fake Facebook profiles for people who had not yet joined Facebook). You’re likely safer taking an active role in knowing who has your personal information, and managing those accounts carefully.
3) Your computer is probably full of spyware, viruses, and other forms of malware.
Unless we’re talking about the true computer-geeks of the world, statistically speaking, nearly every Windows home and SMB computer out there has some sort of spyware, virus, adware, or other form of malware installed and running. I’m sure you faithfully run your favorite anti-virus software in the background, but remember, virus creators test their stuff against the latest and greatest as well (to make sure it’s not detectable).
This stuff poses a massive risk to the typical home and SMB user. Typical spyware will take screen-shots of your activities, scan your hard drive for personal information, or even use your computer as the middle-man in hacking attacks. If you’ve got spyware on your computer, nothing you do or store on that computer can be considered safe or secure.
The typical business computer user is really not professionally qualified to be the system-administrator of their own computer, and yet that’s precisely the role they’re asked to assume. This leaves the door wide open for hackers.
In a cloud-storage scenario, you mitigate this risk by trusting your data to people who are security experts and make their living by providing clean, secure, and hacker-resistant storage solutions. Do they always get it right? Definitely not. Is your data safer with them, than in your spyware, virus-infected laptop? Absolutely.
4) Your laptop is at risk of being lost or stolen
One of the most common arguments people make for not storing their data in the cloud is that they don’t want their documents and data to be stolen. I can certainly respect this, and I understand why someone might feel safer if they keep their data in a place where they see and touch it.
Why, then, does the typical laptop owner leave their computer sitting on the front-seat of their car while they stop in for their morning cup of coffee?
If you don’t want your data to be stolen, you’re far better off keeping it in a location where it’s not vulnerable to being lost, damaged, or stolen with one of your devices. Keep it in the cloud where it’s being stored in a military-grade data-center, behind bullet-proof glass, biometrically secured, and watched 24×7. This way, at least you’ll have the peace of mind knowing that, even if someone steals your laptop, they’ve gained access to nothing.
The cloud isn’t perfect, but it provides an opportunity for the average SMB employee to step up their game in terms of providing better security, backups, and overall protection in what is otherwise a very dangerous technical landscape. Unless you plan to become an expert in computer systems administration and data security, your best option to keep yourself as safe as possible is to put your trust in someone with expertise in these areas. It’s the same reason you use a bank to store your cash instead of handling it yourself– the bank is simply better equipped to keep your money safe than you are.
Brian Shellabarger, VP of Product Innovation
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We live in a world that’s too often obsessed with fixing weaknesses. If you’re not good with numbers, you need to study harder. If you struggle in group settings, you need to hone your social skills. Yet, what if you just focused on improving your strengths? Would you achieve more by enhancing your strengths or addressing your weaknesses?
The evidence certainly suggests that most are better off focusing on their strengths. According to Gallup, which has studied human strengths for over 40 years, the key is to building on who you already are. In a nutshell, Michael Jordan should never have tried his hand at baseball and instead stuck to basketball.
The Path of Most Resistance
By focusing on your weaknesses, you’re taking the path of most resistance and it’s an approach that’s more common than you might think.
For instance, consider the computer science student who’s extremely gifted in developing software code. The norm would dictate that this person should move to a manager role, perhaps as a project manager or team lead. Yet, these roles require a whole new set of skills. It assumes that the same person who’s gifted in software programming also has great people skills, project management skills and can manage time effectively. Even in the event they do, much of their time and energy are now being diverted away from what they’re best at (programming) and instead are being invested in other areas (like managing).
Focus on Strengths
When you focus on your strengths, the research shows that people are more engaged, treat customers better, have more creative moments and have more positive interactions with colleagues. Sounds simple right?
The Gallup study has shown that when managers are focused on the strengths of their individual team members, the chances of them being disengaged are only 1%, compared to 40% when they’re focused on their weaknesses.
The onus is on both the individual and the company to ensure teams are focusing on their strengths. There needs to be less attention placed on “areas of improvement” (which is a nice way of saying weaknesses) during review time and instead the focus should be on identifying streghts and encouraging them to flourish. When this happens, everyone wins.
Take the time to identify where your strengths lie and build on them, focus less on your weaknesses. Michael Jordan may not have been good at baseball, but you just might be.
Adapted from Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tim Roth.
Photo: Above photograph used under CC license
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The main aim of the Chronic condition management strategies in Aboriginal communities project was to evaluate the effectiveness of tailoring mainstream chronic care management strategies to suit Indigenous clients and settings. This was achieved through assessing the health outcomes and impacts, and the sustainability of the strategies. The strategies included:
Data collection involved the analysis of health service records of 36 clients involved in chronic care management over 1-10 years, and semi-structured interviews with 18 clients and 12 staff.
The research was conducted by a team from Flinders University and the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia, in collaboration with Aboriginal clients and community members from Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service, Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia Inc. and Riverland Commuity Health Service.
The authors conclude that people involved in structured chronic condition management strategies (eg care plans) improve their health and wellbeing over time. A range of barriers and enablers of chronic condition management strategies were identified and the authors highlight the importance of tailoring new initiatives to suit individual needs and local circumstances.
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Six people have been killed and about 50 injured in a blast at a market in the city of Juliaca in southern Peru.
A backpack containing dynamite exploded at the market, which was crowded with people marking its 40-year anniversary.
Police said that they were trying to determine whether the blast was an attack or an accident.
One official put it down to fireworks intended for the celebrations but another said terrorism could not be ruled out.
"What the police have to determine is the motive, the aim and what kind of criminal did it," Police Col Romeo Delgado told the Associated Press news agency.
The Andean city of Juliaca is about 830km (520 miles) south of the capital, Lima. The blast happened at about 2200 local time on Friday (0300 GMT Saturday).
This week marks 27 years since Peru's Maoist rebel group Shining Path carried out its first armed attack, beginning a wave of violence that lasted through the 1980s and early 1990s.
But in recent years the group's influence has been greatly reduced. Its leader, Abimael Guzman, was captured in 1992 and is currently serving a life sentence in prison.
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Does your company use social media? And if so, who’s in charge? Chances are high your answer’ll be: the marketing team. True, someone has to give social media integration a little push, but the marketing department shouldn’t be the only ones involved in this venture.
The entire company should be involved in social media
Social media, and the internet as a whole, are becoming a “second reality” and that’s why all company departments should be consulted when setting up the social media strategy. In the ideal situation companies work with a cross-functional social media team. Representatives from several departments working together, is the best way to use social media to its full potential.
What business units can use social media?
You can often find new sales leads online. People who are looking for a service or product like the one your company offers, people who are displeased with your competitors’ service or products… By setting up a smart keyword search in a monitoring tool, you can easily discover these new leads.
In a B2C environment your customers sometimes need to get in touch with your company. In the past this communication was restricted to letters, emails or telephone. Now there’s also Twitter and Facebook and let there be no doubt: people will try to get in touch. It’s best to be prepared, develop a clear strategy, set up guidelines and make sure you have a good social media management tool to deal with this challenge.
Marketing and Communication
Marketing campaigns are no longer restricted to traditional media. Sometimes there’s a combination, sometimes campaigns are purely focused on social media. The big advantage with social media is that you can easily track people’s opinions about the campaign, as well as the results it has on your sales and reputation. All you have to do: monitor the campaign!
Apart from following up on campaigns, marketers can also do their preparatory work on social media. Use a monitoring tool for market research. Through keyword searches you can define exactly those topics you want to examine.
Follow up on your online reputation. What are people saying about you on social media, on blogs and forums, in comments on news articles about your company?
Many larger companies have a Purchasing Department in charge of buying products or services from other companies. Since this often concerns large sums, some research can be advisable. Use the world wide web to check on the companies you plan on buying from.
As you can see, there are so many different departments that benefit from the use of social media. No doubt there are many more business goals you can fulfill, besides the ones already listed. So join forces with your colleagues from other departments and think about social media as an enrichment for your company. Using social media is just something you have to get used to. Don’t think of it as extra work. Think of it as another way of working.
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Perhaps nothing distills more starkly just how this dynamic of mutual effacement works than the researchers’ findings regarding each side’s textbook maps.
According to the study, 58% of the post-1967 maps in the Palestinian schoolbooks show the polity “Palestine,” with its area incorporating everything between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, including present-day Israel. There is no mention of Israel.
The Israeli books examined came off even worse. Seventy-six percent of the post-1967 maps in them show Israel as the area between the river and the sea, with no mention of the P.A. and no notation of the so-called Green Line that separates Israel from the West Bank and Gaza — the territories Israel conquered in the 1967 Six Day War and continues to occupy, but that it has never annexed.
“This type of education can create a lasting obstacle to peace,” Wexler said. “If you grow up seeing maps that seem to imply that the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is your homeland… and you are asked to give up some of that land to make two states, you would feel you are losing something that you never had to begin with.”
Many of the critics’ substantive arguments against the study have to do with the way that Wexler and his team categorized their findings. The study stressed the fact that Palestinian and Israeli schoolbooks contain very few “extreme negative characterizations” that dehumanize or demonize the other.
One rare instance, in an Israeli book used in the state religious sector, refers in toto to the residents of a decimated Arab village — now the site of an Israeli settlement — as a “nest of murderers.” Another such example, from a Palestinian book, describes an Israeli interrogation room as a “slaughterhouse.”
But critics say that the narrative threaded throughout the P.A.’s books describes the Zionist movement and Israel’s founding as a central source of Palestinian problems — and argue that this itself is a form of dehumanization.
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The CORDEL Working Group has launched a Pilot Project on harmonisation of mechanical codes and standards in two areas of priority:
- The stress allowables and analysis methods used in the design of pressure equipment
- Qualifications of welding and NDE/T operators.
The pilot project is to be run in agreement with the Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) and Regulators (MDEP CSWG members).
WNA member companies wishing to support this initiative are invited to nominate experts to help with delivering the scope of the Pilot Project.
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A recent study by the Cleantech Group revealed the much lower envrionmental impact of e-readers - specifically the Kindle - compared to traditional publishing, but the devices still require charging from the grid. LG's new e-reader takes care of that: it's outfitted with its own integrated solar panel, allowing it to run on clean, renewable, solar power.
The thin-film panel is 10 cm wide and just .7mm thick, adding only 20 grams to the product. The panel is 9.6 percent efficient and needs 4.5 hours of sunlight to juice the device for an entire day.
Last year, LG introduced a display that can be illuminated by sunlight instead of the backlight when used outdoors, increasing visibility and cutting energy use by 75 percent. Press for the new e-reader doesn't indicate what kind of display it uses, but this product would be even more impressive if it included the sunlight-illuminated one. That way you could read easily outdoors while charging the device at the same time.
via Greentech Media
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Gunning for the big screenAdam Jackaway is a man who likes to make big statements with small tools. Last winter, with war looming in Iraq, he shouldered his snow shovel and tromped out into a Boulder, Colo., park. There, he sculpted a massive peace sign in a blank field, recruiting others to help, and eventually landed a spot on national TV news.
Now, the 35-year-old sustainable design consultant has a message that he wants to take to movie theaters across the country. Inspired by Michael Moore’s documentary about guns, Bowling for Columbine — and by High Country News — and armed with a pair of small digital cameras, he has set out to make a movie about energy, where it comes from, where it goes, and why we should learn to live with less of it.
Adam was in Paonia in late February, interviewing HCN staffers. His film crew included Deborah Fryer, Justin Smith and Robert Paul Aulgur. For more information about the project, check out their Web site: www.energyaware nessproductions.com.
Duke it out at hcn.orgWe’ve been so swamped with great letters to the editor lately that we haven’t been able to squeeze all — or even half — of them into the paper. For example, we printed two full pages of letters in response to our cover story, "Riding the middle path" about Idaho’s Owyhee country (HCN, 12/8/03: Riding the middle path). But we still have a stack of important letters. So now, we’re turning to our Web site, where we’ll post letters in a "discussion board." To read the letters about the Owyhee story, and to toss in your two cents, go to www.hcn.org and click on "Discussion."
Climbing highBeth Casper, an HCN intern in the summer of 2000 (that was back before she got married, when her last name was Wohlberg), tells us she’s landed a job as the environmental reporter for the Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore. Beth’s husband, Michael, will be attending law school at Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
This summer, Beth and Michael plan to climb Mount Shasta in Northern California, as a fund-raiser for The Breast Cancer Fund, an organization working to identify and eliminate the environmental causes of breast cancer. Both Beth and her mother, Barbara Warren Chinitz, were diagnosed with breast cancer just before Beth and Michael’s wedding in 2002, when Beth was 28 and her mother was 53.
"Now I’m doing fine," writes Beth, "but I’m committed to doing stuff for The Breast Cancer Fund, and becoming an environmental reporter." If you’re interested in helping, check out Beth’s Web site: http://caspers.chariteam.com.
CondolencesOur hearts go out to Brian Maffly, who wrote our Aug. 18, 2003, cover story, "Where the antelope (and the oil companies) play." Brian’s wife, Karen Sclafani, died unexpectedly in February, due to complications of childbirth. Brian is left with one gift — a new daughter, Aryana Karen Sclafani-Maffly. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Aryana Karen Sclafani-Maffly Educational Fund, Mountain West Bank, 1960 N. 19th Ave., Bozeman, MT 59715.
Corrections In our cover story about federal judges, we mistakenly identified Laird Lucas by his former position, senior counsel to Western Resource Advocates (HCN, 2/16/04: Dear friends). Lucas is now executive director of a nonprofit called Advocates for the West, based in Boise. Also, Judge Cassell’s first name is Paul, not Sam.
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I have been critical of Republicans and Democrats in Washington for avoiding the bold steps needed to stop the out-of-control borrowing and spending that has led our nation to the brink of a debt crisis.
How does Washington's vicious debt cycle happen? Think back to the last debt ceiling debate in July 2011 when President Barack Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling by more than $2 trillion. He wanted the additional borrowing authority with no strings attached because America has to borrow money to "pay its bills."
That sounded to me like an excuse to keep spending money we don't have, so I proposed a plan called "Cut, Cap and Balance" to cut current spending, cap future spending and send a Balanced Budget Amendment to the states before the debt ceiling was raised. A CNN poll showed that two-thirds of Americans supported this as a plan to stop the out-of-control borrowing and spending once and for all, but Sen. Harry Reid, D-NV, rejected it and instead cut an eleventh-hour deal with Congressional leaders and the White House.
The "deal" increased the debt ceiling by more than $2 trillion, created a super committee and scheduled automatic across-the-board spending cuts if the super committee failed. This deal was a big hit inside the beltway, but Standard & Poor's downgraded the federal government's credit rating a few days after the deal was signed into law and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 1,300 points over the next week as well.
Today, 18 months later, we have reached the debt ceiling again but the promised cuts still have not happened. The super committee failed to reach an agreement, the subsequent "automatic" cuts were postponed by Congress, America is another $2 trillion in debt and Obama is asking for another increase in the debt ceiling with no strings attached because America has to borrow more money to pay its bills.
For too long, Washington politicians in both parties have acted like irresponsible teenagers, maxing out the nation's credit cards in this vicious cycle with no plan on how to pay the bill.
In FY 2012, Washington took in $2.5 trillion and spent $3.8 trillion. That is the same as a family making $50,000 and spending $77,000, putting the remaining $27,000 on their credit card. How long could your family sustain that reckless plan?
I have been working with my colleague Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI, and a handful of others over the past few months to build support for a plan that would once again try to end the madness. Step one in this plan would require the House and Senate to pass a budget. If they don't pass a budget, they don't get paid.
"No Budget, No Pay" is a common sense idea with bipartisan support. Congress already is required by federal law to pass a budget, but the current law has no teeth, allowing the Senate to go the past four years without passing a budget. Back to the household analogy, if a family made $50,000 and spent $77,000 this year, and had no plan for what to spend next year, how will they ever get their spending problem under control? We must see Washington's spending plans before we can tackle its spending problem.
Step two requires immediate spending cuts to put us on a path to balance the budget in a few years. Washington has a bad habit of promising spending cuts but never following through. Those of us fighting for fiscal responsibility often feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. We get "promises" of spending cuts in exchange for tax increases, and "promises" of cuts in exchange for debt ceiling increases, but the promised cuts never happen. Lucy always pulls the football away.
This agreement would be different. Cuts must happen first before a long-term increase in the debt ceiling. Not 10 years from now, but this year.
In exchange for those two steps toward fiscal responsibility, we conservatives will agree to raise the debt ceiling for a few months to give the Senate one last chance to pass a budget.
Had we adopted the Cut, Cap and Balance plan in August 2011, we would be on track to balance the budget in a year or two. But we missed that opportunity and instead, we have $2 trillion more in debt and zero spending cuts to boot.
We cannot continue down the same road that got us in this mess. We cannot continue allowing Washington to make excuses for not tightening its belt and ending its irresponsible spending policies.
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan serves on the House Judiciary and House Oversight and
Government Reform Committees.
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DIOCESE OF OSIMO (AUXIMANA).
Diocese in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy. Osimo was contained in the territory of the Donation of Pepin. In the conflicts between the popes and the Swabian emperors, it was Ghibelline; but remained faithful when in 1375, at the instigation of the Florentines, nearly all the cities of the Pontifical States rebelled against the Holy See. Among other rulers it had Pandolfo Malatesta (1416); Francesco Sforza (1435); and finally, Buccolino, who surrendered the city to the Holy See in 1494. Remnants of the Roman walls and baths still exist; the cathedral is of the eighth century, restored and enlarged by Bishop Gentilis (1205); the baptistery of the church of St. John the Baptist is notable; the communal palace possesses a collection of inscriptions; the Collegio Campana had among its students Leo XII and Pius VIII. Saints Florentius, Sisinnius, and Diocletius were martyrs of Osimo; the city venerates as its first bishop St. Leopardus, of unknown era; the first bishop of certain date is Fortunatus (649). Among its prelates were Vitalianus (743), and Gentilis (1177). Gregory IX transferred the see to Ricanati in 1240 to punish Osimo for its felony, but Bishop Rinaldo persuaded Urban IV to restore the see to Osimo, and the first bishop thereafter was St. Benvenuto Scotivoli (d. 1283), who was succeeded by Berardo Berardi, afterwards cardinal; C. Giovanni Uguccione (1320), who died in prison, for which reason the see was again suppressed, the bishops residing at Cingoli; Urban VI restored the diocese, and among its subsequent bishops were Antonino Ugolino Sinibaldi (1498); Cardinal Antonio M. Galli (1591); and the Dominican Cardinal Galamini (1620). Under Bishop Agostino Pipia, Benedict XIII re-established the Diocese of Cingoli, uniting it to that of Osimo.
Cingoli, an ancient city of Piceno, is frequently named in connexion with the war between Cæsar and Pompey; its cathedral of Santa Maria is of the seventeenth century; the Gothic church of Sant'Esuperanzio is a notable temple. The first known bishop of this see was Theodosius (495) succeeded by Julianus, who accompanied Pope Vigilius to Constantinople in 544; between the dates of Theodosius and Julianus is placed the incumbency of St. Esuperantius, whose history is legendary. No other bishops of Cingoli are known. The Diocese of Osimo is subject directly to the Holy See; it has 34 parishes, with 49,200 inhabitants, 2 religious houses of men, and 4 of women, 2 schools for boys and 2 for girls.
CAPPELLETTI, Le Chiese d'Italia, VII; MARTORELLI, Memorie storiche della città di Osimo (Venice, 1705); COMPAGNONI, Memorie della Chiesa e dei vescovi di Osimo (Rome, 1782).
APA citation. (1911). Osimo. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11338a.htm
MLA citation. "Osimo." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11338a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Richard Hemphill.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Contact information. The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. My email address is feedback732 at newadvent.org. (To help fight spam, this address might change occasionally.) Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads.
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Value of a Kindergarten through 8 Catholic Education
Saint Mary Catholic School teachers are dedicated to offering the highest level of academic excellence possible to each student in their care.
In addition, they are role models as the students develop in all aspects, academically, spiritually, and physically. Students are encouraged to excel in all areas and to enhance their love of God, own self-image, respect for others, environmental awareness, self-motivation, self-discipline, and critical thinking skills.
Multiple studies and reports have concluded that there are many benefits to a Kindergarten through Eighth Grade educational setting. Saint Mary Catholic School offers learning opportunities in a faith-based setting that has proven to be one of the most valuable learning institutes available. Accredited by Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools, Saint Mary Catholic School has met standards for defining appropriate educational goals and providing educational programs to achieve them; maintaining a qualified faculty and an effective school organization; and providing for the continuity of its programs and planning for the future.
- Our students show academic excellence in the Standardized Testing
- Our students continually excel in extracurricular activities, such as Washington County Spelling Bee, Catholic Daughters Essay/Poetry/Art Contests, American Legion Essay Contests, Theater, Sports, etc.
- Our students are taught by teachers strong in their religious faith and who, through their actions and deeds, instill this faith in the students
- Most of our students remain in the familiar setting that is Saint Mary Catholic School from kindergarten through eighth grade, surrounded by classmates who become their friends, and a loving, caring faculty and staff who become their educators. We are a school family who care about and work diligently with the students and guide them to be the best they can be, working hand-in-hand with our parents.
- Saint Mary Catholic School exists due, in part, to all the volunteer parents, grandparents, and friends who do not hesitate to step up and do whatever is necessary to assist the faculty and staff and students. They can be seen in the hallways changing bulletin boards, in the cafeteria serving food or helping the students open milk cartons, on the playground at recess keeping watch over the children, accompanying the students on field trips, assisting in the computer lab or library, heading up the home school association and all that is involved with that parent/teacher organization, and the list goes on and on.
- Middle School students begin to take on an expectation and knowledge that they are nearing the end of their educational journey at Saint Mary Catholic School and are preparing to take that big step into the next phase of their education. Many of the current students have parents and grandparents who have taken this journey before them with many fond memories. They are aware that the knowledge and guidance they received at Saint Mary Catholic School shaped their life-long learning process, and in many cases, made it a little easier. Now, even if it means big sacrifices, they want the same for their own children.
- Saint Mary Catholic School is ever growing and enriching the educational environment. The best example of this is the technology department. A brand new enlarged computer lab with new computers and totally updated wiring and access is soon to be in place. Our students will be able to research materials and enhance their learning capacity like never before.
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Japan conquered the Northern Mariana Islands from Imperial Germany during World War I, and expelled all German Capuchin priests and missionaries in the archipelago. However, there were no initial attempts to inhibit freedom of religion. Japan negotiated with the Vatican and Spanish Jesuits quickly replaced the German priests. At the same time Japan was also sending Buddhist and Shinto missions into the Northern Mariana Islands and the rest of Micronesia. The earliest Buddhist temple was established in Saipan in 1919. However, Shinto was particularly favored by the Japanese government as a means to acculturate the indigenous and immigrant Okinawan populations into more Japanese patterns. Shinto was the Japanese state-sponsored religion until 1945, and is believed to have been founded around 660 BC in Japan. The religious climate of Japan’s mandated islands in the Pacific changed in the 1930s in conjunction with ideological changes in the home islands. Shinto, today referred to as “State Shinto,”was increasingly forced on the Northern Marianas in order to further assimilate the population. The timing of the construction of Hachiman Jinja places it solidly within this framework. Additionally, the selection of Hachiman, the spirit/god of war, as the chief Kami honored at the shrine further illustrates the militant aspects of “State Shinto” that was conducted at the site.
The results of state indoctrination became very evident during the battle for Saipan starting July 9, 1944. With American victory imminent, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of civilians committed suicide by throwing themselves off “Suicide Cliff” and “Banzai Cliff” at the northern tip of the island. This self-sacrifice was totally in character with the expectations generated by the Japanese nationalistic ideology of the 1930s and 1940s. Although no longer used as a place of worship, Hachiman Jinga is an important testimony to Japan’s 30-year presence in the Northern Marianas.
The entranceway to the Jinga is an impressive concrete stairway that is flanked by large limestone walls. Two large concrete lanterns are located on either side of the staircase and a large concrete plynth is located west of the stairs. The staircase is plain poured concrete, measuring 6.3 meters by 3.7 meters, and is currently in a deteriorated condition. The visitor climbs the staircase to the entrance of the shrine proper. To either side of the southern end of the staircase are two short pillars. Directly to the south of the staircase is a fallen Tori gate. To the west of the gate is a basin. A well-kept lawn stretches south from this entrance until the visitor reaches a raised courtyard terrace. Originally the pillars would have supported a pair of carved stone dogs, which served as guardians of the sacred site. Beyond this area lies the haiden, an outdoor space (approximately 14 x 8 meters) that is clearly defined by rock and cliff face and by being a raised terrace that is surrounded by a stone and concrete retaining wall.
The haiden at Hachiman Jinga is only accessible from two staircases. The honden, or inner sanctuary, is the most sacred area of the shrine. This portion of the jinja is only approached by the most senior Shinto priests. The entrance is marked by a cedar wood Tori gate. The two bases of the Tori columns as well as the two cross bars are bound in copper. Through the Tori gate visitors pass a concrete sill and transverse a slightly upward sloping natural limestone fissure toward the inner sanctuary. Two meters past the concrete step one encounters a concrete sill and the remnants of concrete gate posts or possibly a support for a former Tori gate. The concrete gates are deteriorated and reveal that they were constructed of mortared limestone rubble with a smooth concrete face in the standard Japanese Period manner. The innermost shrine is found at the end of the corridor. Four concrete steps rise a meter to a 2 x 1.5 meter concrete platform that stands before the shrine. The inner shrine is constructed of concrete and measures 1.43 by 1.62 meters and takes the form of a miniature building.
The architectural style of the current roof is in the style of nagare zukuri, though the limited space within the fissure constrains more elaborately projected eaves. The original structural elements were almost certainly damaged or destroyed in World War II during fierce combat at the shrine—bullet pockmarks are present throughout the site and artillery shell duds and shrapnel were once common before they were collected. The doors and roof style are consistent with other Shinto shrines and it is likely that the former practitioners and their priest attempted to reconstruct the honden to its original form. The concrete base and walls of the inner shrine are all original. The reason that the honden is considered the most sacred area of the jinga is that the objects associated with the Kami are stored in the inner shrine. These objects, typically mirrors, are called shintai. Shintai are considered sacred because the Kami invest the shintai with their presence during the rituals.
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The fabulous fading Mr. Prost
QUADRUPLE World Champion Alain Prost seemed to be well-placed to put together a deal to start his own Formula 1 team in 1996 - with Renault engines and backing from French sponsors Elf and Gitanes Blondes - but the word on the street in France is that Alain has failed to convince Renault to give him engines and is now losing interest in the project.
French papers have recently reported that Prost has had talks with Peugeot Sport about an engine supply, but a deal needs to be done soon if he is going to have a serious team for 1996. It is probably already too late.
Without an engine deal Prost cannot attract the big sponsors and it seems that Renault is not interested in supplying three teams and has no intention of giving up either Williams or Benetton. It remains to be seen whether or not the current fragile balance can be maintained without conflict.
Prost may yet put a deal together, using his friendship with new French president Jacques Chirac as a lever to force Renault to give him engines.
Gitanes Blondes and Elf have to decide fairly soon if they intend to continue to support Ligier next year. Renault does not appear to mind who it has for drivers so long as they are successful but Elf is desperate to place its young drivers: Olivier Panis, Franck Lagorce, Emmanuel Collard and Jean-Christophe Boullion.
The suggestion is that Elf might back the DAMS team if the Prost project fails to materialize, although Ligier boss Tom Walkinshaw is still desperately trying to convince the team's sponsors to stay.
Although the team is trying to avoid discussing the issue, there is little doubt that Walkinshaw intends to take the team to England as soon as possible - if the French money supply dries up.
Walkinshaw, incidentally, has signed up former Cosworth engine designer Geoff Goddard and current F1 opinion is that Goddard will design an F1 engine for Walkinshaw, who has the engineering capability to produce such a unit without too much difficulty. Speculation suggests that this could be badged as a Volvo V8, increasing Walkinshaw's involvement with the Swedish car-making firm.
If this is the case, the deal between Ligier and Mugen Honda - which is believed to be for 1995 and 1996 - will tide Walkinshaw over until his own engine is ready for action in 1997. The future of Honda in F1 remains unclear, although the Japanese have broken up with McLaren and Williams in the past and cannot supply Ferrari. The choice, therefore, if the team wants to win, would seem to be between Benetton (which is tied to Renault at the moment), a Honda F1 team or withdrawal from the sport.
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Musings of the Spheres
Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson preaches a galactic gospel meant to awaken our humanity. Will we listen?by Paul Hond Published Summer 2010
It’s the size of the Rose Bowl,” says Neil deGrasse Tyson in his blunt, personable way. “It’s going to be the biggest, closest object to pass by Earth in our recorded history.”
Tyson ’92GSAS is seated in his exuberantly cluttered office at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, where he is director. Behind his desk hangs Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The shelves are crammed with globes, books, awards. The desk holds a collection of long, luxuriant quill pens of ostrich and vulture. On a chair rests a pillow adorned with suns and moons, and Tyson’s vest is similarly emblazoned.
“If it hits, it’ll create a tsunami that’ll wipe clean the West Coast of the United States.”
Tyson is talking about an asteroid that astronomers named Apophis. In Egyptian mythology, he notes, Apophis is the god of death.
“This asteroid could do a trillion dollars’ worth of damage to the West Coast,” Tyson says, with a missionary spark. “People want to know about it, and I’m happy to tell them.” Frequently, Tyson tells them through the medium of late-night TV, where he performs the important, often funny, occasionally awkward, always fascinating service of conveying the high concepts of astrophysics in terms intelligible to Jay Leno. As he recently explained on The Tonight Show — and maybe a comedic atmosphere is the best place for material this heavy — Apophis will, on April 13, 2029 (“a Friday,” Tyson adds with twinkling portent), give our planet a “buzz cut,” dipping below our communication satellites. At that point, should the asteroid’s orbit thread the center of a 600-meter-wide zone called a keyhole, we’ll have to fund a project to deflect the thing — or else seven years later, when Apophis returns, it’s sayonara, Santa Monica.
“These are little facts that anyone is going to be interested in, even if you’ve never cared about science in your life,” Tyson says. “If you’re not interested, you don’t have a pulse. So talking about things like asteroids becomes a very effective means of getting a person to think about the universe, and to understand that Earth is not some island, isolated from cosmic forces.”
Tyson wants us to look up. He wants to empower us by communicating ideas about the machinery of the universe — not the names of the stars, or the order of the planets, but truths about the natural world as revealed by the laws of physics. To that end, he has published nine books (including a memoir, The Sky Is Not the Limit, and the best-selling Death by Black Hole) and written scores of essays on science and culture for the museum’s journal Natural History. He hosts the PBS program NOVA science NOW, and often materializes in less-rarefied sectors of the tube, from CNN to Comedy Central. There he is on CBS’s The Early Show, explaining Jupiter’s knack for attracting comets (it has more gravity than all the planets combined), or there, on The Daily Show, comforting Jon Stewart, who was shaken by Tyson’s matter-of-fact report that the expanding universe will scatter the galaxies so far apart into the cold depths of space that all processes will eventually “come to a rest.” And then, before you can say Copernicus, he’s off to an academic lecture on black holes, or to serve on a presidential commission on space, as he did in 2001 and in 2004. Since last year, he’s hosted a weekly radio show called StarTalk, aimed at an audience outside of the orbit of NPR: His sidekick is Lynne Koplitz, a salty comedienne who did not major in physics, and StarTalk is one of the few programs where you’re liable to hear the words “quasar” and “breasts” in the same conversation. Which is to say, Tyson is taking astrophysics further into the public sphere than anyone since Carl Sagan — all while leading one of New York’s most cherished institutions.
Oh, and then there’s that little matter of Pluto. But we’ll get to Pluto.
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There is an old notion that men want sex more than women. Does this still apply today?
In one study, men and women strangers were asked to interact with one another, while another cross-gender pair observed. Compared to women, men who were either interacting or observing rated those who were interacting as being more sexually oriented (Abbey, 1982). What men thought was sexual intent, women thought was friendly. Repeated findings like these led researchers to believe that men were more interested and motivated by sex compared to women.
In a recent issue of PSPB, however, Alison Lenton and colleagues found that both men and women projected their own sexual feelings onto others. Those who were highly sexually motivated, both men and women, saw others as being highly sexually motivated; while those who were low in sexual motivation saw others as being similarly low in sexual motivation (Lenton et al., 2007). In other words, if I was interested in sex, I assumed you were interested too. These findings were especially true when others were similar to themselves or when there was little information to go on.
Instead of rating in line with the sexual stereotype of men wanting sex more, the current findings show that men and women project their own feelings onto both men and women equally. Although the researchers suggest complexity of similarity may explain these findings, another explanation may be that stereotypical differences in sexual desire are not as prevalent as they once were, especially among younger adults as assessed in this sample. If we weren’t given enough information and didn’t believe in old stereotypes, then we might have relied on what we thought when making decisions about others.
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Foxlease provides an ideal setting for school groups to get away
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When Democrats regained control of Congress after the 2006 election, they promised to pursue fiscal discipline and bring the curtain down on “business as usual” and the “culture of corruption” in Washington. Apparently U.S. agricultural programs were exempted from any of those promises.
In a perfectly bipartisan vote yesterday, the Senate rejected a modest reform amendment to the 2007 farm bill. Sponsored by Sens. Richard Lugar, R-IN, and Frank Lautenburg, D-NJ, the amendment would have repealed Depression-era farm programs that deliver huge subsidies to a relatively small number of farmers who grow so-called program crops—corn, cotton, rice, wheat and soybeans—and import protection for sugar and dairy.
The amendment would have replaced those programs with a generously subsidized system of insurance. While still far removed from the free market, the proposed alternative would have been less costly and market-distorting than the current system.
Yet even such an incremental step away from our current command-and-control farm policies went down in flames by a 37 to 58 margin (Senate roll call vote no. 417). Voting against the reform were exactly 29 Democrats and 29 Republicans. When it comes to farm programs, neither party represents the majority of Americans who must pay the high cost of U.S. farm programs. [The Center for Trade Policy Studies has documented the cost and proposed a plan to bring U.S. farm programs into the 21st century.]
Not surprisingly, with the Iowa presidential caucuses less than three weeks away, the five senators who were absent from the vote are all busy running for president!
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Google Print is the topic that may single-handedly keep the copyright-related blog world in business for the next few years.
Last week, Google added the full text of 10,000 public domain books into the Google Print database. The NY Times reports: Google Adds LIbrary Texts to Search Database: "The additions, from the university libraries at Michigan, Harvard and Stanford and from the New York Public Library, represent the first large group of material to be made available electronically from those libraries, which along with Oxford University contracted with Google last year to let the company scan and make searchable the contents of much or all of their collections."
On Google's corporate blog, Adam Mathes writes: Preserving public domain books: "The world's libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which has never been available online. One of our goals for Google Print is to change that, and today we've taken an exciting step toward meeting it: making available a number of public domain books that were never subject to copyright or whose copyright has expired."
The following day, Amazon.com announced a program that will sell online access to "any page, section or chapter of a book." These commercial programs will convert the full-text databases used for searching into a way to offer access to full text works as well as a way compensate rightsholders-- like iTunes. Again, from the NY Times: Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time?: "The idea is to do for books what Apple has done for music, allowing readers to buy and download parts of individual books for their own use through their computers rather than trek to a store or receive them by mail. Consumers could purchase a single recipe from a cookbook, for example, or a chapter on rebuilding a car engine from a repair manual."
This week, the debate even spilled over into my favorite football-related column, Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback, where Easterbrook writes:
Copyright law gives authors and performers the exclusive right to make or authorize copies of their works; the exclusive right to make or authorize copies is, at heart, what a copyright represents.…
[Google] says it will not scan books whose authors send a letter of objection. But if you want to use a copyrighted work, the legal onus is on you to get permission, not on the copyright holder to lodge a protest. Google's position is like saying that if you do not want your house broken in to, it is your responsibility to send a notification to thieves. In this analogy, Google is the thief -- just like in the real world! Remember when Google maintained it would never be the next Microsoft? It's not; Microsoft obeys the law. Remember when Google was going to be a corporate good-guy? Google is fast becoming the next Enron; maybe this is the kind of thing that happens when your founders decide they need an entire Boeing 767 to themselves. Contrast Google's corporate kleptomania to Amazon's decision to offer online books only if authors grant permission. As we enter the digital age, it becomes ever-more important society resists the idea that unaccountable corporations have an unlimited right to seize whatever exists in electronic form. And Google, now that you have declared it is fine to copy intellectual property without permission, surely you won't object if anyone steals your proprietary software and corporate data?
In order to understand the legal implications of the Google Print case, we have to look at what Google is doing-- scanning books into an electronic database for the purpose of indexing.
In Kelly v. Arriba Soft, The 9th Circuit ruled that creating thumbnails of images in a search engine is fair use.
The search engine at issue in this case is unconventional in
that it displays the results of a user’s query as “thumbnail”
images. When a user wants to search the internet for informa-
tion on a certain topic, he or she types a search term into a
search engine, which then produces a list of web sites that
contain information relating to the search term. Normally, the
list of results is in text format. The Arriba search engine, how-
ever, produces its list of results as small pictures.
To provide this service, Arriba developed a computer pro-
gram that “crawls” the web looking for images to index. This
crawler downloads full-sized copies of the images onto Arri-
ba’s server. The program then uses these copies to generate
smaller, lower-resolution thumbnails of the images. Once the
thumbnails are created, the program deletes the full-sized
originals from the server. Although a user could copy these
thumbnails to his computer or disk, he cannot increase the
resolution of the thumbnail; any enlargement would result in
a loss of clarity of the image.
The Google Print service provides essentially the same service as the Arriba Soft image search engine, except that it searches print books instead of digital images.
We must determine if Arri-
ba’s use of the images merely superseded the object of the
originals or instead added a further purpose or different charac-
ter…Although Arriba made exact replications of Kelly’s
images, the thumbnails were much smaller, lower-resolution
images that served an entirely different function than Kelly’s
The court ruled that create a search engine index is a transformative use that does not supersede the purpose of the original work. The character of a copy used in a search engine index is different than the character of a copy used to read. The search engine use helps to find the book. The intrinsic purposes of the use are different.
The court found that creating a complete copy is necessary to create a service that adds value to the images:
It was necessary for Arriba to copy the entire
image to allow users to recognize the image and decide
whether to pursue more information about the image or the
originating web site. If Arriba only copied part of the image,
it would be more difficult to identify it, thereby reducing the
usefulness of the visual search engine
Google's book scans are used only for the purpose of creating a full-text index for searching and not for offering text to users. Google is not distributing copies of copyrighted books without permission. For books submitted to the index by publishers, Google provides acess to a couple of pages (with permission of the copyright owner.) For books scanned in under the partnership with university libraries, Google provides access to ~30 word excerpts that contain the user's search term. Google's Screenshots page explains this well.
In UMG Recordings v. MP3.com, the court found that a digital locker service, which created medium-shifted full copies of recorded music, was an infringing use. The defendant's service not only created but distributed complete copies. Like the Arriba Soft thumbnail images, these copies were at a lower resolution/fidelity than the original works. Unlike the Arriba Soft thumbnails, these copies were used to supplant the original use of the works-- for listening.
The key difference between Google and Arriba Soft is that Arriba searches images already on the web in digital form. Google is digitizing the books made available only in print, possibly superseding the market for electronic versions of those same books. Images placed on the web may be thought to be made available with an implied consent to be indexed.
Google Print does not provide access to the complete work and its full copies are used to add value by creating an index, rather than to merely replace the traditional use.
If Google, like Amazon, was providing access to a complete copyrighted work, Google would clearly need permission.
The authors and publishers complaint is based on the fact that Google is copying the entire book without permission in order to create this index. And this question shows why this case is important. Does Copyright law regulate the act of copying or the act of distribution? If making a copy of a complete work in order to create a searchable index, then Google's entire business is threatened. In indexing the web, Google creates complete copies of web pages, unless the web publisher explicitly opts out using the robots.txt protocol. In addition, Google not only creates, but also distributes medium-shifted cache copies of .PDF and .DOC files.
If Copyright law is concerned with regulating the act of copying, then Google may be in trouble, but then so might culture. As a matter of public policy, copyright law might be better served by regulating distribution rather than regulating copying per se. If it is impossible to search the entire web, we lose this wonderful resource. As a matter of public policy, prohibiting intermediate copying will harm public access to information. Just because Google would have the ability to disseminate infringing copies might not mean that it should be prohibited from using infringing copies.
The NY Public Library will hold a live panel discussion, The Battle Over Books: Authors & Publishers Take on the Google Print Library Project, with Allan Adler (Association of American Publishers), Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine), David Drummond (Google), Paul LeClerc & David Ferriero (The New York Public Library), Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law School), and Nick Taylor (The Authors Guild.) I will liveblog this, if possible.
Pat Schroeder and Bob Barr wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Times stressing the rights of authors: Reining in Google: "Not only is Google trying to rewrite copyright law, it is also crushing creativity. "
In Forbes, Nick Schultz defends Google: Don't Fear Google: "The way the current copyright law works, I can take a book out from any library, read it and write a review of it for publication on the Web site I edit or in the pages of Forbes.com or anywhere else. This “fair use” of material involves no copyright violation. Readers benefit from learning a bit about the book, authors and publishers benefit from increased exposure. "
Copyright treatise author Raymond Nimmer thinks that the Google project is very different from the Arriba Soft case and that Google's use is not fair use, based mainly on the fact that it is a commercial enterprise: Google Lawsuit Begins; Fair Use On the one hand, this large company desires to make a massive number of copies of other persons’ property for its own profit. On the other hand, the authors and publishers that own the property rights have been given exclusive rights to copy or distribute copies of their works as part of a statutory scheme that intends to provide authors with incentive to create new works."
Another treatise author, William Patry, prefers to apply a market substitute test for fair use: Google Revisited: "So in the Google project, why should we care if there are server copies? The purposes for the copies in connection with the Print Library project is to give people access to knowledge about the existence of the book as well as a tiny amount of text. That is of great help to researchers and hopefully to authors and publishers of the books too. It in no way harms copyright owners unless the project becomes something else, namely a full-text service which then is a market substitute."
I tend to think that this is the core analysis of fair use-- if the use is a market substitute for the original work, it is probably not a fair use.
Jason Schultz was quoted in a segment on NPR's California Report on Google Lawsuits over Images, Books
In Salon.com, Farhad Manjoo has an excellent piece that summarizes the implications of these cases: Throwing Google at the book: "A year later, Google's grand plan to digitize the world's books still seems as fantastical as it did when it was first proposed. Earlier this year, the company started scanning books at libraries, and on Nov. 3 launched an elegant beta version of its book search engine -- but the project faces an uncertain future."
On a tangentially related note, Eric Goldman discusses a different search engine indexing case: Newborn v. Yahoo: "In this case, a web publisher sued Google and Yahoo for contributory copyright and contributory trademark infringement based (apparently) on their indexing the publisher's press releases. I say "apparently" because the plaintiff was unable to articulate a legal complaint or a statement of facts that the judge could understand. Because of the defects in the complaint, the judge granted a motion to dismiss with prejudice, ending the case before it started."
More links and commentary follow in the extended entry.
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I’ve put together an extensive guide to pumpkin carving aimed at the novice to beginning pumpkin carver. These tips and tricks will help you to select your pumpkin, equip yourself with the right tools, carve the jack o’ lantern and keep it preserved once it has been finished. When you are finished, be sure to check out my pumpkin carving patterns as well as my guide to pumpkin painting.
Pumpkin Carving Tools
An Ice Cream Scoop – Use it for scooping out the seeds from the pumpkin. A large spoon will also work. Other tools that were recommended included a wet/dry Shop-Vac, the lid of a margarine container and a tuna can (empty of course). To clean the walls, there is also a spinner powered by batteries that will do the scraping for you.
Cookie Cutters – They are perfect for cutting a hole in the bottom of the pumpkin for the candle. They can also be used to add designs to the pumpkin.
Push Pins – While there are other methods for transferring your template to the pumpkin, this is one of the best.
Knives – Pumpkin carving kits are the best source for a knife or pumpkin saw. They are built to get the job done while minimizing injury to your hand should the two accidentally meet. You can pick one up from Pumpkin Masters. If you must use something from the kitchen, use a small, paring knife.
Pumpkin Carver – Pumpkin Master and Dremel make a battery operated pumpkin carver that is quicker and easier to use than a knife
Surface Carver – Remove the top layer of skin on the pumpkin using a surface carver for a unique twist on the classic carving process.
Linoleum Cutters – I still don’t understand exactly what this is used for but pretty much every article about pumpkin tools mentions the linoleum cutter. So I will as well.
Power Tools – You can also carve pumpkins with a cordless drill and jigsaw. Use a pumpkin gutter on the inner wall of the pumpkin to extract the guts and make carving easier. Don’t try this at home unless you have some prior skill with the tools. This video will show you how it is done:
Selecting Your Pumpkin
Here are four tips for selecting your pumpkin from the pumpkin patch.
Find a pumpkin that is the size and shape of your design. It should also be smooth and evenly colored. Blemishes are more likely to rot and attract pests. The outside skin should be firm but not soft or tough. If it is soft, it will be rotten soon.
Match your pumpkin to your design. The pumpkin should sound hollow if you are going to cut through the walls. The pumpkins for cooking have thicker walls which are more difficult to carve through. If you pick up three pumpkins of the same size, discard the heaviest one. But if you want to do extreme pumpkin sculpting on the surface of the pumpkin, keep the heaviest one as you will want a thicker wall. If you are going to carve a face in a pumpkin, go for an oblong pumpkin instead of a round one.
Be sure that there is a flat bottom so that the pumpkin sits upright.
Avoid mold. Be sure to look around the stem as it is an indicator that the pumpkin may be rotten.
Clean the Inside
Start by washing and drying the outside of your pumpkin. Then remove a section of the pumpkin from the top or bottom so that you can remove the pumpkin seed and insides. This will also allow you to put the candle in the jack o’lantern. Many people recommend cutting the bottom as it is easier to place the candle on the surface and then place the pumpkin around it. However, if you decide to cut the top as is traditional, you should cut at a 45 degree angle so that the lid sits nicely on the top of the pumpkin and doesn’t fall right through.
Use a Template
There are thousands of printable pumpkin carving patterns on the internet. Pick one that you like and is within your skill set and follow these instructions to make a jack o’ lantern out of your pumpkin.
Advanced Carving Techniques
One advanced technique that you should learn to advance your pumpkin carving is shading. Here is a video that shows you how to do it.
I also like Walt’s pumpkin carving secrets. I don’t know who Walt is but he has at least one technique there that I haven’t seen on any other website, which I think is pretty cool. You can also use these tips from Sunset to carve yourself a more elegant pumpkin.
Cut a chimney in your pumpkin and preserve it so that it last longer. I’ve already talked about pumpkin preservation, but you will also find the Lifehacker article on preserving your masterpiece valuable. As you will also need a chimney in your pumpkin, get the process for cutting a chimney via Epicurious.
I don’t want you to injure yourself while you are carving a pumpkin. So here are a few safety tips for pumpkin carving that I discovered while doing the above research.
Don’t let your kids carve pumpkins. Most accidents on Halloween happen to children from 10 to 14 years old. And the most common injury is a laceration to the fingers or hand. Even with adult supervision, there is a decent chance of injury. Let them help with cleaning out the pumpkin seeds and drawing the pattern. But don’t give them the knife. Let them participate by painting pumpkins instead.
Use a pumpkin carving kit. A sharp knife can become stuck in the pumpkin and cut your finger when it is dislodged. If the saw from a pumpkin kit is jammed, it is not sharp enough to cause a deep cut when it is freed. The equipment is also smaller than a kitchen knife, so it is easier to control and cut intricate patterns.
Dry everything. It decreases the odds that your hand will slip because of moisture. So make sure your hands, the tools and the pumpkin have been thoroughly washed and dried. As you cut, pumpkin pulp can cause the handle to be slippery. Take the time to dry it and your hands before continuing.
Hold carefully. Don’t stick your hand inside the pumpkin. Some experts go so far as to recommend that you cut the pumpkin before removing the top so that you won’t be tempted to do so. The knife is likely to slide easily through the pumpkin at some point and could cut your hand. Professional carvers put both hands on the knife – one for power and one for control. You should as well. Also, cut away from yourself. You will inevitable hit a soft spot in the pumpkin and you don’t want to go into your hand, if it is holding the pumpkin, or your body.
Be careful with the candles. Just because you are done pumpkin carving, the danger is not over. Fire is also a risk from Jack o’ Lanterns.
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In issuing the NCAA’s unprecedented fines and other penalties against Penn State University on Monday, NCAA president Mark Emmert spelled out clearly the message being sent to the school – and to other universities: “Football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people,” he said.
It’s a shame those words had to be uttered. More shameful is the horrific events that led to them. Penn State turned a blind eye to a serial rapist for more than a decade, allowing him to sexually abuse at least 10 young boys while he was employed by Penn State or had access to its facilities. That man, former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, was convicted in June on 45 counts of molesting children.
The swiftness of the NCAA action commendably stands in stark contrast to long years of inaction by Penn State leaders. A 267-page report, released July 12, indicts the culture surrounding the storied football program, and the failings of the school’s leaders – particularly its former president Graham Spanier and revered coach, Joe Paterno, who died this year.
Former FBI director Louis Freeh, who prepared the report, was blunt in his assessment: “Our most saddening finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State,” he said. “[They] failed to take any steps to protect the children who Sandusky victimized.”
On Sunday, the bronze statue of Paterno at the school’s football stadium was removed. New Penn State President Rodney Erickson rightly ordered it taken down, saying it had “become a source of division and an obstacle to healing.” And given Paterno’s role in the scandal, as laid out by Freeh, the statue had become an inappropriate homage despite Paterno’s contributions to the school.
It was that role that Emmert pointed to, as well as the ethical and legal lapses that emanated from the football program’s dominating influence at the school. In announcing that Penn State will be banned from the postseason for four years, he said the school “can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it’s going to a bowl game.” The school also will lose football scholarships and must pay $60 million in fines, which will go toward a child abuse victims fund. And all of Penn State’s victories from 1998 through 2011 will be vacated.
Some who urged the NCAA to shut down the Penn State football program say the punishment isn’t enough. But NCAA rules shut down a program only for teams that commit an NCAA violation while already being sanctioned. Penn State did not fit those criteria.
By contrast, others say the NCAA is overstepping its bounds with any punishment because they say Penn State’s violations were criminal and civil and not athletic. We think Emmert has it right. This egregious situation is about athletics and more. The NCAA looked at a lack of “institutional control” within the athletic department as well as violations of ethics rules by “deceitful and dishonest behavior.” The Freeh report also pointed to a lack of oversight of compliance issues as required by the NCAA.
Still, no punishment will restore what has been lost by the young men who were victimized by Sandusky. Such victimization was enabled by a lack of leadership at Penn State and a football program that was worshipped and revered at the expense of their welfare. Penn State’s football program isn’t alone in having a culture that is inappropriately deferential to athletics. The NCAA’s action is an apt warning that others should heed.
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Though the war had ended and automobile production resumed, it would be several years before most automakers introduced a new product. Most just made a few changes to their pre-War line and tried to quickly settle the publics demand for vehicles.
For Mercury, post-War production resumed on November 1st of 1945. This was ten days after Lincoln-Mercury had become a separate division. The face-lifted Mercury was given a new 'high-style' grille design which the public approved. A total of 86,608 examples were sold making them the tenth-highest volume for 1946.
The Mercury's cost around $190 more than the Super DeLuxe Ford V8, and came with a four-inch longer wheelbase, upgraded upholstery, interior trimmings, and exterior trim. The 'flathead' V8 engine provided a hefty 100-horsepower which was controlled by four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes.
Both the Fords and Mercury's rode on a unique front-and-rear transverse leaf spring suspension. They made have been not as modern as some other setups on the road, but they worked really well and provided superior handling.
This 1946 Mercury Convertible is one of the few that has avoided a conversion into a hot rod or drag racer. Instead, it has been recently restored and painted in Moonstone Grey with a deep maroon leather interior, and black power convertible top.
In 2008 it was brought to the Automobiles of Amelia presented by RM Auctions where it was estimated to sell for $50,000-$60,000. It was offered without reserve and sold for the sum of $44,000 including buyer's premium.
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CME Providers Talk a lot about collaborating effectively with commercial supporters. But how often do you hear about the “other” partner, the medical meeting planner? Of course, content quality and an unbiased presentation go a long way toward improving physician behavior and, ultimately one hopes, patient outcomes. But who has to make sure the patients attending a conference on Prader-Willi Syndrome, which causes insatiable hunger, won't find food they shouldn't? What if the frozen body parts aren't thawed in time for the wet lab training session? Who deals with keeping 300 pigs' feet stored properly for a surgical workshop?
That would be the meeting planner whipping out the blow-dryer to warm up the parts, working with the hotel to store the pigs' feet in their industrial refrigerators, and dealing with hotel operations to get those minibars out of Prader-Willi patients' guest rooms.
And who has to ensure that the site selected is attractive enough to keep participants happy, but not so lavish as to trigger scrutiny from the Office of Inspector General? Who's the one scrambling to help exhibitors stay in line with Food & Drug Administration regs? Who's soothing docs who are disgruntled to find their spouses can't come to a dinner meeting gratis? Again, I'd say that would most likely be the medical meeting planner.
Medical meeting planners have a largely unheralded, yet vital, role in affecting the outcome of a live event — and it's not a job just any meeting planner can handle. It takes a specialized knowledge of the rules, regulations, and the particular, often peculiar, needs of the medical meeting market. Which is why I believe that, in addition to site selection andskills, medical meeting planners should also have at least a passing knowledge of CME and pharma regulations and requirements. The more they know about CME, pharma, and governmental rules, the better they can do their part of the job, which helps CME providers do their part of the job, which in turn helps participants do their part of the job — learn, and apply what they learn in practice. But no one's going to learn anything if those pigs' feet go bad, the site isn't conducive to learning, or participants pitch a fit over a lack of shrimp on the buffet. Planners who know the rules can help.
To have a successful educational outcome, both the logistics and the content sides have to share the same goals, understand the limitations, comply with the regulations, and work together to provide both the most learning-conducive physical setting and all that great content. The two go together, and, like any good partnership, the more each side knows about what makes the other one tick, the better the outcome for everyone.
— Sue Pelletier,
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The Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award is for undergraduate or graduate students, of any nationality, working in any country, in the disciplines of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, astronomy, or biology. The award, which will include $2500, is to be applied for the study of impact craters, either on Earth or on the other solid bodies in the solar system, which areas of study may include but shall not necessarily be limited to impact cratering processes, the bodies (asteroidal or cometary) that make the impacts, or the geological, chemical or biological results of impact cratering. Faculty are urged to post flyers about the opportunity in their institutions. Students interested in pursuing impact crater studies are encouraged to review the application process and deadlines.
History of the Endowment
The Eugene M. Shoemaker Memorial Fund for Crater Studies was established by Dr. Carolyn Shoemaker in memory of her husband in 1998. She established the endowment so that students will have an opportunity to pursue studies of impact craters, which was the focus of her husband's graduate student studies and a large part of his professional career. Friends, scientific colleagues, and companies have contributed to (and continue to contribute to) the fund to ensure its success.
Helping the Endowment Grow
Because of the tremendous generosity of Dr. Carolyn Shoemaker, the endowment fund was large enough for the Planetary Geology Division to make the first student award in 1999. However, the division continues to solicit donations to the fund so that it will remain healthy and, ideally, grow so that it can be used to support additional student activities. If you would like to make a gift in Gene Shoemaker's memory and to support students, then please make a check out to
The GSA Foundation - Shoemaker Fund
and mail it to
P.O. Box 9140
Boulder, CO 80301.
If you have any questions about gifts for this fund, please feel free to contact the GSA Foundation or any of the officers of the Planetary Geology Division of GSA.
Send questions about the award to David Kring, email@example.com
Last updated June 17, 2013
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For anyone who worried about the comfort and well-being of our public officials during the worst of Sandy, here’s some consolation: Apparently, a few of them were quite capable of looking after themselves.
In the face of disaster, they kept their own lights and refrigerators running — with emergency generators paid for by you, the taxpayers.
Such as Mayor Randy George of North Haledon. While most of his town was left shivering in the dark, he was concerned about his supply of ice cream. So he took a spare borough generator to keep the fridge running in the ice cream parlor he owns and his frozen desserts out of danger. Meanwhile, others on the block were dumping spoiled food.
When George awoke the next morning, he says, he realized his mistake and brought the generator back. But the mayor still allowed Police Chief Robert Bracco to keep a second borough generator at his home because of his hard work during the hurricane.
"He needed to go home and get some sleep, and get something to drink," the mayor said. "He needed some down time."
Perhaps what he really needs is a long vacation. Like George DeOld, who was an undersheriff in the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office — until a neighbor spotted an emergency generator being unloaded at his home and contacted authorities.
It was one of only two generators that the county sheriff’s office owns. But DeOld, who was receiving $163,000 per year from his salary and state pension, hadn’t bothered to buy a generator of his own.
Neither did Geoffrey Zoeller, who earns $218,982 annually as the superintendent of the Westwood Regional School District. He’s being investigated for taking a district generator and car during the storm. He says both pieces of equipment helped him coordinate efforts to get students back to school.
Yet if they were so crucial, why did he leave them sitting on his property, miles away from the district, even after he left for a weeklong vacation to Florida?
Amazing how, in the midst of one of New Jersey’s most destructive storms, some officials still maintained a strong sense of entitlement. They jumped in line ahead of all the people they serve. They thought they had avoided the wrath of Sandy, but just wait.
We’ll remember them now, as we pick up the pieces: We don’t just have homes to rebuild. We’ve got jobs to refill.
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Information and Opportunities
NSBA’s Office of Federal Advocacy and Public Policy keeps you abreast of current and proposed federal legislation and regulations that affect education. As an FRN member, you will have access to the resources you need to be a highly effective advocate, including:
Issue & Action Information
- Calls-to-Action: These timely summaries on pressing issues provide suggested FRN actions tailored for maximum impact. The backbone of FRN advocacy, calls-to-action give the background to raise the collective voice of the FRN.
- Action Updates: These easy-to-digest briefings and voting records keep you abreast of current legislation and alert to the impact of your actions.
- Legislative Hotline: Legislative updates are just a phone call away with prerecorded weekly updates on NSBA’s key legislative priorities and important action items. Just call 1-800-609-NSBA
- School Board News: NSBA’s award-winning newspaper provides a thorough look at education news from around the country and gives regular, in-depth updates on NSBA’s top advocacy prioritiesAdvocacy Tools
- Advocacy Toolkit: This primer, with its practical, easy-to-follow instructions, brings you advocacy guidelines for every action, from letter writing and district visits to media campaigns and coalition building.
Conferences, Workshops, and Meetings
- Annual FRN Legislative Conference: Each January or February you and your FRN colleagues are invited to attend this high-profile, intensive, three-day conference in Washington, D.C. You will hear addresses by prominent members of Congress and the Administration, be briefed by NSBA’s top lobbyists, and meet with FRN colleagues from across the nation. The conference culminates in a lobbying blitz on Capitol Hill where you will take the school board message directly to your members of Congress.
- NSBA Annual Conference and Exposition: This special session for FRN members includes a mid-year briefing and lobbying tips from NSBA’s legislative staff on the progress and action needed on FRN federal legislative issues.
For additional information, contact Kathleen Branch, Director, National Advocacy Services, at 703-838-6735, or e-mail email@example.com.
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Hot answers tagged wheel
The largest wheels I know are these (I measured 110x63 mm, including tyres), but they are quite rare (only available in one single set): Weels: 22969 "Wheel Technic Racing" Tyres: 32298 "Tyre Power Puller" The wheels itself are not that big, but if you include the tyres, they are really huge: They would probably work really well for an RC car.
The largest wheels I've seen are "Wheel 81.6x15" 2903 To show scale: There are larger ones on the Hailfire Droid but these probably aren't good for your needs:
Here's what found after playing with all kinds of combinations. With this the three rovers will be at the same scale (about 1:5.8). This scale is small enough that the big rover (MSL) would not be a monster to build. The ratio is almost spot on and the only main problem is that the MSL wheels (the big ones) will have those big cleats. On the positive ...
It would probably be easiest to work out the which piece should be used for the biggest wheel. The largest wheel I could find came in the 8420 Technic model. Two of which can be used in tandem to increase the surface area of the wheel: Wheel Technic Street Bike (8420) The medium wheel could be a rather blocky Wheel 20 x 30 Technic, the 68.8 x 24 or the ...
An alternative is the 94.8x44 balloon tires. While they are not as big as the ones elusive suggested, I imagine they are easier to get as they have been in some recent sets. Comparison: Left: 81.6x15 Middle: 94.8x44 balloon Right: 81.6x38 balloon
There is also the Technic Gear Mobile Devastator Wheel, but it's not really suited if you want a realistic car. If you want to build a funny-looking vehicle, however... You could even build a complete vehicle which fits completely inside the radius of two such wheels, so that it can turn on itself when you reverse the polarity. Again, not a car, but super ...
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Growing Grapes in South Carolina
South Carolina’s varying climatic conditions are the biggest difficulties that the region’s grape growing industry has to overcome. This part of America has a hot and sub-tropical climate and hurricanes often occur during growing season. Snow and sleet also occur as often as three times every year and more heavily at elevated sites. Presently, there are only six wineries and vineyards in the state. Vintners in this area are very diligent in taking care of their grapes, pruning their vines to protect them from the direct heat and sunlight bearing down on them. Muscadine grapes are the best variety to grow in South Carolina since this type of grapes flourish in hot climates and need less time to cool.
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Special thanks to Techspert Trevor who posted this on HAL’s Digital Workshop blog.
Van Gogh used “Paint as Paint”, meaning he not only expressed the way he saw things in his art but he was very topographical with his medium! With globs of paint straight from the tube on the canvas, he created thick layered textures, peaks and valleys, crumbling dry and smearing wet, rich colors together. This amazing App will turn your Windows 8 computer screen into a realistic, caked-up oil canvas. From finger painting with a touch screen to unique brush strokes with your pointer, YOU can be the new “Digital” Van Gogh with Windows 8 “Fresh Paint”! The timing for a new age of digital art couldn’t be better with the introduction of Microsoft’s Windows 8 touch screen interfaces for tablets, laptops and desktop computers.
Fresh Paint is an easy to use, free app that includes oil paint and all the tools you need to paint. Whether you are an aspiring artist, parent, or kid (or kid at heart), Fresh Paint will help you unleash your inner creativity. Windows 8 believes that brilliant, creative ideas can come from anyone, anytime. It’s time to set your creativity free.
With your fancy palette, dab into the infinite amount of high quality colors, shades and patterns with four different brush styles. Create you own colors!
Choose what kind of textured paper, canvas or background you want to use.
To read the full post, click HERE.
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I am amazed at how unworldly many people are. Those of us who have grown up in countries other than the one we live in, or have had a chance to be in many cultures around the world, seem to have a different perspective on world events compared to someone who just drinks from one fire hose. A recent discussion with a friend brought this to light in a very stark way, and although I will not get into the details of it, it made me realize just how much propaganda we are all exposed to.
We tend to think that things like ethics and morals are, or should be global. But this is far from the truth. Many of these doctrines of society were originally put in place as the early form of law and order, established to enable large numbers of people to live together in a harmonious way. Today they are propagated throughout society by the news, religion, Hollywood and many other avenues. We don’t see it as propaganda because it is what we expect. It is aligned with the prevalent views of the society that made them. It is in a way, a cyclic reinforcement of the societal views and a way to slow down the rate of change of cultural migration.
Let me give you one example. Please do not take this as a statement of support for a particular cause; it is merely used to show the point. One thing that the U.S. believes in is freedom. But what is freedom? It is only the ability to do what that society has said is right, proper, legal and moral. But what happens when freedom and morals come into conflict? For example, pro-choice people believe they should have the freedom to decide what happens to their bodies. Pro-lifers exclaim that this is not a freedom issue but a moral issue. In other countries, abortion and contraception are completely open and legal and so they would look at us and proclaim that the women of this country are not free if they cannot make the choice for themselves. In the opposite direction, the U.S. is often quick to scorn or chastise others for restrictions that come from their religious views. To them, just like in the U.S., morals rank higher than freedoms.
There are many times when we look at other countries and say that they do not have the same freedoms as those in the US. That is a totally true statement, but to decree one set of freedoms to be better than another is to be closed minded. In the high-tech industry, we are part of a global workforce and we must work with people who have different ideas, religious views and ideas about what is right and wrong. To attempt to always enforce our views on them is not right. We must be open to differences, we must be more accepting, we must be ready to understand.
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One Week to Go to Age Group Nationals
By Barb Lindquist
By the time you are reading this you most likely have two days until you depart for Nationals! Isn’t it a good thing you have been diligent with your preparation over the past few weeks? With three weeks to go, the focus was on learning about the course, adjusting the training toward that course, finalizing anything new in the gear department, and addressing logistics with travel. With two weeks to go, our focus was on the mental and strategic aspects of racing on the day – developing a game plan and getting it down on paper. This week’s focus is packing and traveling.
Start your pack piles now
Some gear and clothes you can’t pack until the last minute, but some you can start to put in your pack pile early in the week. Things that take time, like counting out your vitamins and measuring drink mix into baggies, you can do now. Do all the laundry you will need for the trip by Tuesday night. Leaving packing to the last minute wastes energy and usually leads to over-packing or forgetting things. While you are visualizing your trip, and packing from that visualization, create a list of the things you can’t pack yet, but will need. It may sound silly to put “helmet” on a list, but I know of some who have forgotten necessary items like this! Making a list will alleviate stress the day before you leave when packing those last minute items.
Check your race gear
- Check over your bike – either bring it to a bike shop or examine everything closely yourself. Check things you normally wouldn’t like cable housing; check ALL bolts you won’t be unscrewing (DON’T OVERTIGHTEN- just put an effort that a 10-year-old would have); look at your tires on race wheels and training wheels; pump up race tires and make sure they don’t leak overnight.
- Clean the bike, including cogs (get an old t-shirt between cogs) and especially the chain. A clean bike automatically makes you feel faster.
- Check racing flats and elastic laces. Clean with a toothbrush if they are dirty.
- Check race goggles. Are the straps healthy?
- Check bike helmet. Straps and clip OK? If dirty with old race numbers, clean with some rubbing alcohol or baby oil. I also hope you don’t need white salt stains on your straps to show your competition you are have been training. You gotta look good!
- Clean 4 water bottles (2 for bike, 1 for pre-race, 1 for recovery drink post-race).
Check your feet
Do you need to cut your toenails now or in a few days? Any hang nails that need to be clipped? Rubs/blisters that need attending? Thank the “dogs” in advance for carrying you to a great race!
If you don’t have these yet, go buy some now! Put them on when you get to the airport or in the car and don’t take them off until you arrive. It is amazing how much better you will feel upon arrival.
No “Roller Skating in Traffic”
In the week prior to a big race, you are tapering. Hurray! This added energy might tempt you to go do something “fun” and outside of your usual athletic routine. Don’t do anything silly this week that would make you sore for the race, or even put you in danger of injury, like roller skating in traffic. Even something seemingly innocuous, like a yoga class or extra stretching, could make you sore for the race.
Packing a Carry-on
Here is a suggestion of how I have packed my carry-on bag. I have a wheelie bag that fits in the overhead compartment. Carrying only a backpack for a trip will be a strain on your shoulders. In that wheelie I have two bags. Bag one I will never open until arrival. It contains: racing flats, cycling shoes, pedals, race suit, race goggles, favorite cap, running shorts, running socks, jog bra (optional for guys). If for some reason your suitcase is lost for a day in luggage-land, at least you can swim and run. I wear my training shoes on the plane to encourage me to walk between flights and to have for a run if my bag doesn’t arrive. The second bag in my wheelie, a mini-backpack, is the small bag I will put under the seat in front of me during the flight. And lastly, in the wheelie I would suggest bringing anything that would encourage you to be on the floor during layovers. I bring a muscle roller and sometimes a light cloth to put on the carpet at the airport. If you have a long layover you can lay on that cloth with your legs up on the bag.
When checking in, see if you can get a “Priority” tag for your bike, even if you aren’t an elite member of your airline. This doesn’t ensure that your bike will arrive with you, but if the bike gorillas have a choice between two bikes that will make it on a flight, they might put yours on first. Also, on your luggage/bike, have your home address tag, but also put another ID tag with “DESTINATION” written on it, travel date, hotel address and phone number. If you have time, always wait by the check in until the bike handler takes your bike below. Thank him in advance for taking care of your baby. Sounds silly, but not only is it nice to thank those guys who cart our big boxes around, but it also puts a face to the bike box.
Best of luck to you all! I look forward to seeing YOU, the fittest athletes on the planet, race later this week. Most importantly, remember on race day to put on the smile, enjoy the celebration of your bodies and your journey, and revel in the fellowship of your triathlon family.
2004 Olympic Triathlete Barb Lindquist is the USAT Collegiate Recruitment Coordinator. She will have 10 recruited collegiate runners and swimmers competing at Age Group Nationals in Tuscaloosa for their first time after having done an average of 1-3 triathlons in their life. Barb can be reached at email@example.com, or through her own personal coaching business at www.barblindquist.com.
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Criticism of Constitution could have appeal
In “A More Perfect Constitution,” author Larry J. Sabato proposes a series of far-reaching amendments to the nation’s founding document, covering political process issues such as amending (but not abolishing) the Electoral College, enlarging the House and Senate, and setting a 15-year service cap for all federal judges.
Some of the ideas are likely to be embraced by conservatives (his call for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution). Others are likely to be embraced more favorably by liberals (two years of mandatory universal national service).
Sabato, professor of political science at the University of Virginia and a frequent commentator in the media on politics and current events, said he hopes readers will use his book as a starting point for debate on government structures and policies, even if they don’t agree with each of his ideas.
In fact, even the closest observers of Congress and politics may not recognize his preferred method for amending the nation’s founding document: a Constitutional Convention initiated by states, rather than the more familiar method of adaptation by two-thirds of both the House and the Senate, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states.
“What I was trying to do is what academics are supposed to do — stir the pot,” Sabato said in an interview. “Congress is a burial ground for constitutional amendments. More than 9,000 have been proposed, just a few dozen have been sent to the states and just a few have been approved.”
Sitting lawmakers are not likely to formally consider, let alone pass, the proposed amendments his book discusses at length.
“The amendments affect Congress, and the one thing congressmen know is that for all its faults, the system elected them,” Sabato said. “That’s precisely why the Founders put in place the first method [Constitutional Convention]. In fact, it was the Founders’ preferred method.
In addition, a Constitutional Convention can consider ideas as a whole — structural change of House, Senate, courts, presidency and politics, all 23 at one time, or however many they choose to take up.”
Some of the ideas Sabato presents have been kicked around before. Nevertheless, he adds some new twists. He recites familiar arguments against the Electoral College, including the possibility of the national popular vote winner still losing the presidential election, as Al Gore did in 2000, and as happened three previous times in American history.
Sabato contends the Electoral College keeps in place the spirit of federalism enshrined in the Constitution. Rather than end it, he would increase it to correspond to vastly expanded House and Senate memberships, sharply diminishing the chances of an electoral/popular vote split.
Many of Sabato’s proposals are novel. For example, he calls for tapping the unique experience and expertise of former presidents and vice presidents to make them “national senators” who could serve in Congress with full voting rights after their White House tenure ends. Sabato dismisses concerns that such elongated service would lead to a monarchy of sorts.
He suggests many former chief executives and understudies would only be around for the great debates of their time, when they would likely act like nonpartisan statesmen rather than ambitious political climbers.
“We pay dearly to educate them in office” and should use that knowledge for more than their four or eight years in national office, Sabato concluded.
Sabato also tackles a cause dear to the heart of many liberal do-gooders: mandatory national service. The service need not be in the military but could be in the Peace Corps, City Year, TeacherCorps or similar programs. Sabato said Americans’ yearning to serve something larger than themselves would overcome their libertarian instincts against government compulsion of private behavior.
“Service will never be very broad without being mandatory,” he said. “I think we’ve lost a lot with the end of the draft. It’s something akin to jury duty.”
Sabato said he has been kicking around many of the ideas since the early days of his academic career in the 1970s. And he changed his mind over the years on some proposals that once seemed like a good idea, like abolishing the Electoral College outright and moving to a national popular vote.
The author acknowledges that for every argument in favor of the constitutional amendments proposed in his book, there are almost equally valid counterarguments. In fact, he said, even he isn’t 100 percent sure about the efficacy of each proposed change, which, if adopted en masse, would lead to the most sweeping constitutional reordering in the nation’s history.
“It’s designed to get people to think and to get people to start the discussion,” he said.
David Mark is a Politico senior editor.
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NORFOLK - Six people attended a community forum Tuesday night at Norwood-Norfolk Central School to share their thoughts on what officials could do to prevent the district from reaching educational insolvency.
Among their suggestions were to have district employees pay more for their benefits; discuss mergers with neighboring districts; eliminate the middle school; consider partnering with the Northern New York Community Foundation to allow individuals to provide financial gifts to the district; and lobby legislators to allow the local Board of Cooperative Educational Services to teach electives that some schools might not be able to offer because of financial constraints.
My understanding is the state is pushing BOCES to provide high school electives, Tracy Haggett-Sloan said.
George Smith suggested merging with another district to save on the cost of education, which he said had increased 7 percent over the years decide a 50 percent loss in the number of students.
If this was a business it would have been bankrupt 20 or 30 years ago, Mr. Smith said.
Schools are not businesses, Superintendent Elizabeth A. Kirnie responded, noting that their finances were impacted by hundreds of state mandates.
Mr. Haggett-Sloan suggested that merging upper level grades could be financially beneficial.
Focus on the younger kids. Keep that in place for their formative years, she said.
Board of Education member Thomas W. Scott noted that informal talks had already taken place between districts regarding mergers, but had gotten nowhere.
The people dont want it, George, he said, responding to Mr. Smiths suggestion.
Were wasting our money on things that are emotional decisions, Ms. Haggett-Sloan said.
District officials had also prepared a list of 10 items they wanted the participants to consider in order to save money. They included increasing the class size in all grades, eliminating the middle school, cutting all sports programs, increasing school taxes beyond the 2 percent property tax cap, cutting all clubs and keeping the buildings less clean.
They also asked them how they felt about getting rid of most high school electives such as business, forensics, art and yearbook, charging the community for use of school facilities, merging with an adjoining district or using more fund balance to close the financial gap.
Eliminating the middle school just means getting rid of the administrator. We still need teachers in all those grades, Mrs. Kirnie said.
Without some measures, Mrs. Kirnie and Business Manager Lisa M. Mitras said the district could face educational insolvency even if it had not yet reached financial insolvency.
When we cut, we cut people and when we cut people, we cut programs. We are probably 18 people away from educational insolvency. Before we run out of money, we will run out of the ability to educate children. I dont know what happens then. Nobody knows, Mrs. Kirnie said.
That would mean the loss of programs such as Pre-Kindergarten, art and music, according to the superintendent.
We would only be able to offer the bare minimum of courses required for a diploma. The valedictorian of that class would not even be able to get into Canton, she said.
Mrs. Kirnie said they wanted to provide community members with a look at where they currently stood financially.
Our goal is to give you the information we have. It goes under the heading of how bad is it, she said.
There are still a lot of unknowns. At this point we have more questions than we have answers, Ms. Mitras said.
Among the issues they face in crafting the spending plan are rising contributions for the employees and teachers retirement system, as well as increased health care costs. Contributions to the teachers retirement system alone have increased more than 105 percent over a five-year period, according to Ms. Mitras.
The first draft of the districts 2013-14 budget proposal, which used no reserves or appropriated fund balance, showed a projected revenue budget of $18,572,832 and a projected expenditure budget of $20,654,515, leaving a gap of $2,081,683.
This is a starting point for us. Some information we know, some information we dont know at this point. We want everybody to understand the true gap of where we are between revenue and expenses, Ms. Mitras said.
The revised first draft shows a gap of $637,202 between projected revenues and expenditures, Ms. Mitras said. She projected a revenue budget of $18,572,832, a 2 percent tax levy increase to generate $118,802, and state aid increase of $344,016. The first draft also uses $476,663 in reserves and $505,000 in appropriated fund balance for a total projected expenditures budget of $20,654,515.
Were allocating enough (reserves and fund balance) to close about 50 percent of the gap, she said.
Crafting a budget after 2013-14 could be painful, as the gap between expenses and revenues continues to grow under a five-year scenario, Mrs. Kirnie said.
Their projections show expenses of more than $24 million in the 2016-17 budget, but just over $21 million in revenues. At the same time, their supply of fund balance and reserves would continue to decline until there was nothing left, Ms. Mitras said.
Cuts could help ease some of the burden, but not all of it. Mrs. Kirnie said they project that cutting a full-time equivalent teaching position would save $65,000, while cutting a full-time equivalent administrator would save $89,000, cutting all athletics would save $180,000 and cutting all extracurricular activities would save $55,000.
If they looked at increasing the tax levy, Ms. Mitras said the average teaching salary with benefits is approximately $65,000, and a 1 percent increase in the tax levy would generate $59,401, not enough to cover one position.
District officials will be continuing work on the budget, and they hope to get more community input at a second forum scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 27 in the elementary cafeteria.
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We have a team. Just that it is not a ‘winning’ team. The challenge is to have a ‘winning’ team. A team wanting to win at any cost. That is what we need. People who do not base their decisions on money. Who are not saleable items to be bought at a high price. Kahan milte hain? Every feeling,every emotion, every person today has a price tag. And that is the poverty. The worst kind of poverty. The poverty of thought.
Groupism, Unionbazi galore. Even in a small team such as ours. kar lo yaar. Kaam important nahin hai. Non issue ko issue bana lo. And let us keep fighting. Till we all die and persih. And then we can blame it on me or the country or the lack of opportunity or the weather or the food or the timing. What a waste of talent and intelligence. Just when we need to stand together and face the crisis the company is in, we are choosing to fight. Good work. let us keep it up. Let us use our fists and legs and punch each other. Why just prepare a demand charter. Let us go all out and show the stuff we are made of.
Will Gandhigiri work in such an environment? Simple living and high thinking. You bet.
‘Hamen bade log nahin chhahiye. hamen chhote log chahiye jinki soch badi ho’. Give us men and women who are alive. Give us men and women are are trained to do a job well to perfection. Who do not need to be trained to perform effortlessly and gracefully. Whose life and work is a perfect dance in harmony. Who do not need to be told to do an errorfree quality job. We can then talk about the package. We could then perhaps talk about the timings.
The problem is that we are all looking for an wasy way out. The shortest route to success. And a job. Just a job. We are not really committed to being successful or in winning the match. Just being on the field is enough for us. But it should not be enough. We have to be hungry and passionate about the match.
Hungry and passionate.
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John Quincy Adams
The sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams fought for George Washington, served with Abraham Lincoln in Congress, witnessed Bunker Hill, and as a staunch opponent of slavery, foresaw that slavery would lead to civil war between the North and South. He is, in fact, the only major figure in American history who knew both the founding fathers and Abraham Lincoln. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president. His opposition to slavery inspired John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Yet he remains one of the least-known presidents in our nation's history. We'll talk with biographer Harlow Giles Unger about John Qunicy Adams.
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The public may visit federal recreation sites for free on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11.
The fee-free day honors U.S. veterans, members of the U.S. armed forces and their families.
The administrative fee waiver of recreation-use fees applies annually on Veterans Day at public recreation lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, as well as by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation.
"Honoring veterans by waiving day-use fees is one way to recognize the contributions of those Americans who have served their country,” said U.S. Forest Service Fee Coordinator Jocelyn Biro. “We hope veterans will take this opportunity to visit the lands they helped protect.”
Federal agencies are authorized to charge standard amenity fees, commonly known as day-use fees, at recreation sites in the Northwest.
This fee waiver applies to day-use fees at Forest Service recreation sites across Oregon and Washington. This includes many picnic areas, boat launches, trailheads and visitor centers. Concession operations will continue to charge fees unless the permit holder wishes to participate. Fees for camping, cabin rentals, heritage expeditions, or other permits will not be waived.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — This white alligator has it made in the shade. Without an alligator's normal dark camouflaging color, the new inhabitant at the Knoxville Zoo would not live long while exposed to predators or the sun.
In an exhibit made to look like the Louisiana bayou with tree stumps and hanging moss, the 12-year-old American alligator spent one recent afternoon basking under a heat lamp beside a warm pool with one claw lazily dipped in the water. If outside, her skin would burn in the sun.
An albino gene makes the alligator's skin white and her eyes pinkish, and the rare find creates a popular exhibit at zoos around the country.
The exhibit at the Knoxville Zoo — marketed with the slogan "Look in Dem Eyes" in reference to a legend that good luck will follow those who see the animal — will last through Labor Day.
Zoo visitors paused in a dark lobby and peered through the glass window at her. Occasionally, one eyelid would open and reveal an inner membrane that makes the eye look milky, but otherwise the alabaster-tinted body was still.
"Is she real?" is the most common question from visitors, says Phil Colclough, assistant curator of herpetology at the zoo.
"Nobody believes she's real. They stare until she takes a breath or moves her eyes or jumps in the pool."
Other zoos and tourist attractions have white alligators in the United States, totaling around 50.
A whiter shade of pale
Some white alligators are albino, meaning they lack a dark pigment called melanin, and their eyes appear reddish because of the blood vessels underneath.
Another kind of white alligators are leucistic, meaning they have white pigment and blue eyes. The Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans has leucistic alligators found in a Louisiana swamp in 1987.
Why do coins smell?Three leucistic gators were found in 2003 on Hilton Head Island, S.C., and later seized by state officials, who also arrested the men who discovered them.
Knoxville's alligator is on loan from the Alligator Farm Zoological Park in St. Augustine, Fla., which has about 30 animals that have been acquired over the last 15 years from a commercial farmer in Cut Off, La.
The albinos are found in the same nest every year and are believed to be produced from the same male and female who both carry the recessive gene for albinism, said David Kledzik, curator of reptiles in St. Augustine.
‘Come get your albinos’
The Florida park made a deal with the farmer to get the albinos. He hatches and raises them until he is ready to give them up, he said.
"Every few years we get a call, 'Come get your albinos.' We go out there and get the albinos. We may get six or eight a trip," Kledzik said.
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio also has an albino on exhibit from the Florida zoo.
The Knoxville Zoo exhibited a different albino alligator named Lily in 1997. The current alligator's name was decided by a contest and will be announced Monday.
"The public likes them a whole lot," Colclough said. "I've been here 12 years, and hardly a week goes by that someone doesn't ask where the white alligator is that was here 10 years ago."
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