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Author Ben Hewitt writes on everything from how local foods can revitalize working-class communities, to the relationship between humans and the bacteria they consume, to the power of questioning what we’re often told is not up for discussion. I recently had an opportunity to connect with Ben (Making Supper Safe, The Town That Food Saved and, upcoming, A Conscious Economy). My interview with him here touches on a number of thought-provoking subjects. I had heard him speak at the PASA Annual Meeting earlier this year and it was at this event the subject of Restorative Agriculture came up. I found this to be a very intriguing framework for thinking about agriculture and was so pleased when Ben agreed to speak to me on this and other topics relevant to creating sustainable communities.
Ben, when I’ve heard you speak about your first book, The Town That Food Saved, you often refer to your intrigue about a local foods movement that was stirring in the small town of Hardwick, Vermont. Prior to that town’s revitalization, you had been of the thinking that the “locavore” movement was for more affluent communities. As this is an assumption many of us have, can you talk more about this?
I like to say that the locavore movement suffers from “Al Gore-ism.” Which is to say, it is perceived by many as something for the Prius-driving, liberal elite. This is mostly because of cost, but also I think because of the language that is often attached to local foods, with words like “artisanal,” “terroir,” and sometimes, even “organic.” I don’t think this sort of language helps the cause at all. For instance, we make home-smoked bacon from our organic, artisanal, free-range, pastured pigs. I smoke it in a hole in the ground covered up with some rusty tin, and I call it “Ben and Penny’s White Trash Bacon.” And our working class neighbors love it and want more, more, more. If I called it “Ben and Penny’s Organic, Artisanal, Free Range Bacon,” would they like it as much? Maybe… but I sort of doubt it.
That didn’t really answer your question, but it gets to one of the roots of the problem, which is the misperception that this food is expensive, because of course the true cost of the so-called food provided by the dominant food industry is far greater than the price tag attached to it. Still, the reality is that most folks are not inclined or simply don’t care to consider these externalized costs such as health care, environmental degradation, and subsidies.
The tragic irony is, of course, that if there’s any posturing or presumption in the realm of food, it’s primarily in the dominant food industry and the cultural lie that we can truly nourish our population on so-called “cheap food,” while using tremendous quantities of heavily-subsidized non-renewable resources to do so. Never mind what we’re doing to the environment.
One concept many people have been interested to hear about is your promotion of the agricultural framework: Restorative Agriculture. How does this differ from Sustainable Agriculture, if it does?
I was introduced to the concept of restorative agriculture by a friend, who talked about it in relation to forestry practices. I liked it immediately, because I think the term sustainable agriculture is flawed in a number of ways. First, the root of sustain is “maintain,” and frankly, I think we can do much, much better. Second, I think it fails to adequately address all the potential benefits that can come of small-scale, regionalized agriculture, which has the unique capacity to restore health, restore the environment, restore community vitality, and restore local economies. Among other things.
It’s a reality we subsidize industrial agriculture, do you have strategies for how can we start to decentralize our food systems?
I really believe it needs to happen at a grassroots level. That’s not to say there’s no role for State and even Federal government and agencies, only that we shouldn’t wait around for them to come to their senses. I also think that we need to insist that we be granted the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, none of which we can have in full if we can’t nourish ourselves with the food of our choosing. If it means breaking the law to codify this right, so be it.
I know you agree, as a nation, we waste a lot of food as well. How can we change this?
Part of the problem is that we simply don’t revere food for what it is: the very nourishment that allows us to live. Think about that for a second; that’s pretty serious. I like to say that unless you’re paying for sex, it’s the most intimate form of commerce you’ll ever engage in. I mean, you’re putting it into your body. So, for starters, simply acknowledging how important it is and what a gift it is would go a long way. Second, we need to produce less food, not more. We produce so much food, and have such a glut of calories in this country, it’s no wonder we don’t value it. Here’s a sad piece of commentary on the current state of affairs in America, not solely relating to food: In 1970, we produced somewhere in the range of 3100 calories per person, per day, and about 2% of the population was on food stamps. Today, we produce nearly 3900 calories per person, per day, and about 15% of the population is on food stamps.
In this culture, we receive many messages about measuring prosperity through GDP growth. Tell me how this form of measurement compares with the prosperity that can come with growing or locally sourcing your own food.
The problem is, if I answer this you’ll have no reason to buy my next book! It’s called A Conscious Economy: Reclaiming true wealth in an era of False Abundance. It’ll be out June 2013. But in short, the idea that we can and should somehow define our well being via money-related statistics is incredibly myopic and ultimately damaging to us individually and collectively.
OK, then. We’ll wait to read about it in your next book. Very exciting. Please keep us posted. In your most recent book, Making Supper Safe, you talk about food rights and food safety. Does a person have to live outside the system to be safe?
Not necessarily. But there’s no question that attempts to make the dominant food system more “safe” generally only lead to greater consolidation and stifling of regional food production. We need to understand that food safety is about more than the 3,000 or so Americans that die every year from acute food borne illness (salmonella, e coli, etc), and should include the more than 1,000,000 Americans that die every year from diet-related disease.
Even people who care deeply about making change, can be paralyzed with confusion about where to start. In getting started, what questions can we ask ourselves in our journey toward eating more healthfully?
I’m loath to delve into specific nutritional advice, since that’s such a can of worms. However, almost no matter what your beliefs are, if you can simply manage to shun anything that comes in a box or a can, you’ll be 3/4 of the way there. Wait… that wasn’t a question. Here you go: Should I really be eating this crap that comes in boxes and cans?
What actions can we take to create change in our own corner of the world? Or, what are a few ways we can vote for change with our dollars?
I tend to think about it in a way that’s at once a bit broader, and more simple: By my course of action – whether it’s choosing to buy one thing or another or nothing at all, or choosing to help someone or not, or choosing to spend my days in pursuit of financial recompense or in pursuit of my passions – what am I saying “yes” to? It’s a really simple litmus test, and in truth, sometimes I make the choice to say “yes” to something I’d rather not, like when I drive my car, or fly. But when I’m on the fence about something, it really helps clear my head and make a sound decision.
How can we best build strong communities around us?
I think I might have mentioned my next book…
In all seriousness, building strong communities is something many of us are reflecting on these days. There is a great deal of discussion about this just about anywhere I go. There are also some really great minds focusing attention on creating new paradigms for understanding the importance of our connections with each other. If you haven’t read Charles Eisenstein’s Sacred Economics, I can’t recommend it enough.
Speaking of community, you live on a 40 acre farm with your wife and sons. Do you have extended family around you? Are they involved in your farm?
My parents live about 15 miles away. They’re not really involved, although they often come over and hang out with the boys while Penny and I “git r dun” as we say here in Vermont. I do work trades with friends and we do a lot of informal exchange/gifting/bartering with farming neighbors that keeps us all involved in each others’ operations.
Can you talk a little more about the role of bartering and trading in your life? What are the benefits of such practices, versus simply paying for services and goods?
Again, you are touching on some key areas I’ll be addressing in my book. This is intimately connected with your question about building strong communities. We need to recognize that monetizing and commodifying so many aspects of our lives is making it increasingly difficult to experience the sort of interdependence that builds strong communities. We need to need each other, and we need to allow ourselves to feel obligated to others and gracious enough to allow them to feel obligated to us.
We do a ton of barter and simple gift exchange; indeed, most of the products that come off our farm are traded for other goods and services. But I must acknowledge that I have the luxury of having other income that allows us to do this. It’s a bit more difficult when the farm is the sole source of income. More difficult, but no less important.
What brings you the most joy when it comes to raising your sons on a farm?
We’ve chosen to raise our boys in a way that’s increasingly uncommon in 21st century America. We homeschool, we don’t have a TV or other digital media, and they have enormous freedom to explore the surrounding fields and forests. The other day, they took off first thing in the morning, walked 1/2 mile through the woods with their fishing poles, and came home two hours later with a bucket full of brook trout and a bunch of morel mushrooms they’d found. I am so, so happy they have these opportunities.
Of course, the ungrateful little buggers don’t even realize how lucky they are. But then, I’m not sure that’s a child’s obligation. I’m just happy to see them so engaged with nature and living in the moment.
If there were one message you hope people take away from all your writings and talks, what would that be?
Question the status quo. Whether it’s food, or wealth, or whatever, don’t assume the way it is is the way that’s best for us.
Thank you so much Ben for taking the time to connect and for enticing us with the subject of your next book. We look forward to hearing more about that as well!
For more information on Ben and his writings, visit www.benhewitt.net.
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We’re in the middle of a set of usability tests as part of our work on the new library website and my colleague who is running this work suddenly came out with the comment ‘the user is not broken’. It wasn’t a phrase I’d come across but it seemed to perfectly sum up what was the right attitude to why we do usability testing.
The user is not broken.
Your system is broken until proven otherwise.
That vendor who just sold you the million-dollar system because “librarians need to help people” doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about, and his system is broken, too.
It seems to me to have exactly the right attitude to bear in mind when you are testing your website. You have to build your website so it can be used by your users and you shouldn’t have to provide them with training to use it. So if usability testing identifies features that users cannot easily use then those features are broken. And that is a tough thing to accept. The standard library approach (and I’m not sure if it is peculiar to libraries and librarians) is that we will provide helpsheets, guidance, training sessions and signs to help users, i.e. we try to ‘fix the user’ as if they were broken. But if you look at the commercial web world (Apple with their iOS 5 upgrade for example) then they launch their website or software, provide some information about the features, but don’t ever really offer lots of training on how to use it. Maybe that is a product of extensive testing and confidence in their product but I’m not so sure that that is it.
In part, at least I think there is a matter of scale at play. If you run a physical library and your users visit your library building then you do have day to day contact with your users, but even so, you don’t talk to every single person who comes into your library, or provide them with individual guidance. They might see a helpsheet or leaflet, but they are more likely to use your services by trial and error or following what other people do. With a virtual library you actually talk to a tiny fraction of your user community and can only realistically be able to provide training to a handful of users. So your systems, websites etc have to work, with a minimum of on-screen guidance. Have you ever seen a user guide to a cash machine? No?, thought not.
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In the USA, mustard is usually in a yellow plastic squeeze bottle because it is yellow; ketchup is in the red squeeze bottle because it is red. In France where the city of Dijon is a famous place of production, mustard is usually sold in glass containers.
Mustard in the Bible
Mustard can be found in several places in the Bible:
|“||He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches." He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough." Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. Matthew 13:31-34||”|
|“||The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you. "Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, 'Come along now and sit down to eat'? Luke 17:5-7||”|
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In an interview with CNBC, Kashkari tells everyone to calm down because the Fed won't be tightening anytime soon:
"Every time the Fed tries to back away from their massive, easing policy, the risk markets react. We saw that last week with the FOMC minutes. This is ...like a morphine drip. You give morphine to the patient, it makes the patient feel better, it doesn't cure the underlying disease. The moment you try to take the morphine away the patient wakes up horrified in a lot of pain.
And so I think risk markets are getting addicted to this easy money policy, and I think as the Fed tries to back away risk markets are going to respond, that's going to put more pressure on the Fed to act. So our central forecast is the Fed will stay easing, maybe even QE3 through the end of 2014 as they forecast, could be even longer."
Many have also attributed the stock market's run to soaring profits. In his latest note, Kashkari warns there are five key catalysts that could cause profits to plummet.
- Increase in labor costs - Labor costs account for 70 percent of the total cost of production and if competition for labor pool increases this would hurt profits. For now though this doesn't seem to be a real risk.
- Economic slowdown or recession - If the U.S. or global economy were to enter another recession corporate profits and stock prices would take a hit. But Kashkari's base case is for a "muddle-through scenario".
- Dollar strengthening - A strong dollar would hurt the profit margins of U.S. exporters but would be positive for companies that produce goods for sale in the U.S. His base case is for a "long-term secular decline of the dollar".
- Cost of capital increase - If borrowing costs or costs of raising equity capital increase then profit margins could be vulnerable. That could in turn slow the company's growth or see it contract. But the Fed is likely to keep interest rates low till 2014 and the ECB will likely have to continue its aggressive monetary stimulus.
- Increased corporate taxes - Higher taxes could hurt profits but this is highly unlikely.
Having said that, Kashkari said he does not think profits are at risk of collapsing. While many risks remain, Kashkari said for the equity market as a whole, corporate margins are expected to stay strong in the near-term.
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I wasn’t planning on writing a blog today but this piece in my favorite newspaper, The Guardian (yes, I am the typical lefty reader), made me roll my eyes. The piece is very well intended and generally pretty good advice for charities – Charity funding: How to approach business for help.
I agree that charities or NGOs should be more strategic in their approach to businesses for help. But when I read about the need for NGOs to have more “business realism” in their approach I couldn’t but help think of the need for business to have some “activist realism” in their thinking. It’s easy to ask the other side to be more like you but how about you being a little bit more like the other side too? Like any relationship, it’s about give and take – not just take.
Too often business think that charities should support them more and be more of their “voice”. Sorry, that’s not how it works. It’s a partnership. If you want NGOs to be more of a voice then you need to be more of a voice as well. No more hiding behind industry associations to do your dirty work or hide you from criticism on key challenges. If you want Greenpeace to slap you on the back instead of on the head then you need to speak up against other businesses who don’t act responsibly. You can’t expect a progressive NGO to support you if you also back regressive policies via another NGO or a business association or lobby group. Or if you keep quiet while other businesses lobby and push for, and argue against, positions held dearly by NGOs - climate change, clean energy, waste, pollution, labour conditions, conflict etc. NGOs expect you to share their world view and not only on one specific issue. This is the “activist realism” they live and work in. This is their “business”.
And how about business in general showing more social conscious? It’s fine to ask NGOs to be more business like but for some reason too many businesses argue that their focus is on the “business bottom line” only and that their only responsibility is towards shareholders. Bah to other stakeholders and society in general. Sounds like double standards to me.
Business needs “activist realism” to realise that their responsibility lies not only with shareholder but to this world they live and operate in. If you see your value as purely making more money for shareholders then you should expect flack from those who are not shareholders. They receive no benefit in their relationship with you except for some products they might or might not really need – so why should they care about your “realism”? Your “realism” might be in direct conflict with their real world. You pollute and they breathe it in. You accelerate climate change and they fry or freeze. You waste and they drown in the plastic bags. You pay peanuts to farmers and they get products that are second rated. You get the picture.
Some “activist realism” will hopefully make companies realize that they have a role to play as citizens of this world. That they have a responsibility towards others through their actions and words. That this responsibility is directly tied to their own long-term sustainability. You kill this world and you kill your business. Easy economics. “Activism realism” will make you sit up and say “no more”. Say it and do it because it is good for your business. Be an “activist” because your company needs to stand up for its own future – one that is tied to the well-being of society. Don’t huddle with those businesses and associations who do not share your world view. Do not care about shareholders who do not care about your business. Shareholder who only care about the next quarter and maximum profits come hell or high water do not care about your business. Only about how your business can line their pockets. They’ll drop you like a hot potato if a better offer comes up.
They are like a bad relationship. They promise you the world but they’ll drop you if someone with more money shows them some shiny object and promise them a better date. Would you take that from a date? Sucker if you will…
Show some “activist realism” by caring about your company’s future. Show some “activist realism” by speaking out against those who threaten your business in hard and soft ways. Show some “activism realist” by being serious about serious investors. Show some “activism realist” when you engage with your stakeholders. Show some “activist realism” when you give us a reason to believe in your worth to society.
Until then – you really don’t have much of a leg to stand on by asking NGOs to show more “business realism”. As my mom used to say, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
That’s my “activist realism”. A world where business care about business as part of society and contributing to society. That’s the “business realism” I want to live in.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – By examining the brain activity of moths, researchers have found that the behavior of these insects isn't ruled entirely by instinct. Rather, they can learn which odors mean food.
The findings are more than academic: The researchers hope to develop methods for using trained moths to detect odors of interest for defense industry and law enforcement – such as odors given off by biological and chemical weapons.
Animal behaviorists have historically argued that most insects have a programmed response to a variety of situations, such as knowing which odors signal the presence of food and mates.
But scientists are discovering that animals don't always instinctively know what to do. In these cases, they have to learn, said Kevin Daly, the study's lead author and a research scientist in entomology at Ohio State University.
He and his colleagues used tiny electrodes implanted in the heads of sphinx moths to continuously monitor the insect's neuronal activity and feeding behavior before, during and after training the animal that one odor meant food – sugar water – was on the way and another odor did not.
"We saw a dramatic restructuring of the neural networks that convert scent into a code that the rest of the brain can understand," Daly said. "The changes in this coding suggest that the moths learned to differentiate between an odor that meant food and an odor that didn't."
Understanding how moths detect and discriminate between scents could have wide-reaching applications. In related work, Daly and his colleagues are training moths and bees to detect odors from manufactured explosives.
"In principle, if we can understand how insects learn and distinguish between odors, we could 'train' these animals to recognize any detectable odor of interest," he said.
The findings currently appear online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The electrodes placed in the moths' brains registered the activity of neurons. Electrodes were also placed on feeding muscles to monitor the activity of the proboscis – a long tube that a moth uses for feeding – when the insects were exposed to different odors and to sugar. The researchers wanted to see how a moth's nervous system changed its response to an odor that was associated with food and how the moth responded behaviorally to that odor.
The moths were restrained in plastic tubes, leaving the antennae and proboscis accessible. Electrodes were inserted into each insect's head; Daly said that brain recordings could be made for up to 48 hours in these conditions. These moths normally live for a few days as adults.
The investigators put the bound moths through different odor conditioning trials: one created a clear relationship between an odor and food. In this case, the researchers wanted to see what happened in the brain and proboscis before, during and after the moths were exposed to the food-associated odor. In the second trial, moths were exposed to two odors, but only one predicted food. Both trials exposed moths to a series of 20 millisecond-long puffs of odor.
When odor predicted food, the researchers saw a significant and progressive increase – by about 60 percent – in the number of neurons responding to the odor. This increase in the neural network response indicated that the moths learned to associate the odor with food.
The researchers also saw striking differences in neuronal activity between the odor that predicted food and the odor that had nothing to do with food.
"More neurons were recruited into action when a moth smelled the odor connected to food," Daly said. "After a few exposures to this odor, moths automatically started sucking for the food, even when they weren't rewarded with food. They also learned to not respond to the odor that was unrelated to food.
"After learning, the way their nervous system responded to odor changed," he said.
Now that he and his colleagues have documented these nervous system changes, their next step is to take a deeper look into the neural networks and figure out what causes them to respond to changes.
"This study is a first pass at trying to understand how sensory neural networks code information, and how that coding process changes as an animal gains experience," Daly said.
"Ultimately, if we really want to understand how an animal changes its behavior, we have to go into the brain," he continued.
Source: Eurekalert & othersLast reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
-- Sigmund Freud
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February 29, 2012 By Tanya Roscorla
In the early 1990s, Florida Trend magazine described the Sunshine State as a cow pasture on the information highway. When Gov. Lawton Chiles saw that unfavorable description, he asked Bill Lindner to do something about it.
As the secretary of the Department of Management Services, Lindner led a team in the ’90s that moved Florida state government into the fast lane. Through conversations with the Netscape browser creators, video teleconferencing pioneers and Internet working groups, he realized how the Internet would change the way government relates to and serves its citizens. With control over IT services and back-end government processes, Lindner’s agency created a website that connected government services to Florida’s citizens and earned a hat tip from Bill Gates.
After he left state government in 1998, Lindner started his third career at Florida State University (his first career was in architecture). He headed up the university’s distance learning efforts, founded the Center for Professional Development and started online learning certificate programs to help professionals improve their skills. Through a partnership with the Florida League of Cities, Lindner developed a program designed to create certified tech managers for state, city and county government.
Recently he oversaw the building of the $15 million, 30,000-square-foot Florida State Conference Center. This high-tech building boasts one of the largest video walls in the country, simultaneous webcasts from six rooms and video servers that capture and store this information.
“I’m really having as much fun today as I had 20 years ago,” he said. “The media pieces are dramatically different, people are moving much faster, things have to be done more quickly, but it’s all about how do you change the way government works by changing the way government thinks. And part of that is this technology.”
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Reports show that kids these days don’t get outdoors enough and explore nature. So when we were asked recently to take two boys on a hike in the remote desert, we were glad to oblige.
Terry and Diane Moilanen, whom we met through our Wednesday interpretive hikes at Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, host their grandsons each year in Yuma, Arizona, during spring break. Last year, we led Spencer, now 13, Trevor, now 9, and their grandparents on a personalized hike over the trail we normally take winter visitors on. This season, we introduced them to our special place that few others know about. We call it the Vista Trail for the wonderful views of the Colorado River as we hike up a remote wash and climb the steep slope at the end that leads to a high narrow ridge overlooking what appears to be a mini Grand Canyon.
Focused on Snakes
Our hikes by ourselves are generally focused on searching for snakes. Even though Spencer and Trevor are not snake enthusiasts, they listened as Chuck instructed them to be careful where they put their hands and feet, as well as what to do if they come across a rattlesnake. “Just stop,” he said. “Snakes have poor eyesight, and you can make yourself go invisible if you just stop. Then take a few steps back.”
As we hiked, Trevor took interest in the multitude of rocks, fingering and examining as many as he could. He even poked into holes with Chuck’s snake hook in the hopes of rousting a critter or two.
Spencer appeared more interested in the vistas and terrain. It was obvious that both boys had acquired an appreciation of nature from their grandparents, and despite accounts that kids these days are lazy, out-of-shape techies, these boys proved up to the challenge of the hike. Neither grumbled during the three hours we traipsed up and over desert terrain, enduring increasing late March heat and blazing sun.
And perhaps because of the heat, we saw no wildlife. “Let’s go back to the visitor center and feed the snakes,” Chuck said, leading the way back to the cars. We drove the six miles back down the dirt road to the visitor center where we led the boys to the video corner to show them a video we made several years ago while volunteering at the Denver Zoo. The video shows four different snakes being fed a rat, rabbit, or mouse.
Still not enamored over snakes, Spencer declined the opportunity to feed one of our snakes after watching the video. But Trevor overcame his revulsion and gave it a try after observing Chuck offer a mouse on the end of hemostats to our hognose, Roggen. Roggen always takes his mouse sideways or backwards, unlike most snakes who prefer eating their rodent head first to help it slide down more easily.
Chuck attached another mouse to the hemostats and handed it to Trevor. Handling it like a pro, Trevor offered the rodent to our gartersnake, Karma, who gently (even lady-like) latched on and began devouring. Trevor then decided to feed Hatch, the bullsnake.
In the Feeding Mode
“She hits it like a freight train!” we warned him. But Trevor casually accepted the challenge and extended a large mouse on the end of hemostats through a narrow opening that Chuck had created by sliding the glass front of the cage aside an inch. A five-foot long, thick-bodied bullsnake (also called gophersnake) like Hatch can be quite aggressive when in a feeding mode, and the less striking room she has, the safer it is for us.
Trevor wiggled the mouse as instructed to lure Hatch into thinking it was alive. Tongue flicking, eyes riveted, Hatch pounced on the mouse and whipped her body around it to “kill” it before consuming it by stretching the ligaments in the corners of her mouth and separating her lower jaw all in an effort to extend her mouth around a piece of food larger than her normal gape.
Mouse for Lunch
We hope to see Spencer and Trevor again for a hike. It’s exciting for us to share our love of nature with them, but it’s also exhilarating to be in the company of bright, active youngsters and their caring grandparents.
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Is That Detached Structure Really Insured?
A homeowners policy usually provides coverage for detached structures, such as a garage or shop building, equal to 10% percent of the value of the home. But if that detached building is used for business in any way, there is no coverage; even incidental use like storing business equipment or inventory. Business use is some activity where you make money or make a trade in value for your service, even if there are no customers visiting the premises. The same exclusion applies to a detached structure which is rented for residential purposes, like a guest house or apartment. That small business requires special insurance to cover the building, equipment, inventory and liability exposures. So if you are painting cars, building birdhouses, a contractor, or have an apartment, office studio, school, day care, etc. You need special insurance. Give us a call to get a quote today.
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In the US, it's very common to add a comma for numbers of more than 3 digits (ex: 1,000 for one thousand ; 1,000,000 for one million ; etc.).
In France though, we don't use this at all and commas are used for decimal numbers only (ex: 2,46).
Do you know which countries are following the US rule, and which countries are not? Where can I find resources on this?
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a 3-course meal...from garbage.
Why buy groceries, when you can get your weekly shop for free? Many people do it, but there is a catch. Instead of going in to your supermarket through the front door, you have to go to a different department. The dumpster.
It's estimated that the US alone throws away roughly $100 billion in food every year. And most of it is perfectly edible. It's a crying shame, and it's the reason Freeganism is becoming more and more popular in the US and western Europe.
In the more indepth follow-up to this article, I'll cover the many factors involved in Freeganism and what it means to live life the Freegan way. But to whet your appetite, here's some quick footage from CBC following a few people who take food from the dumpster and make great food from it. What a society we live in when people are starving on one street corner and they're throwing food away on the next.
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Cellphone obsession leads Japanese children into a 'scary world'
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 11, 2008
Young Japanese people are evolving a new lifestyle for the 21st century based on the cellphones that few are now able to live without.
While about one-third of Japanese primary school students aged 7-12 years old use cellphones, by the time they get to high school that figure has shot up to 96 percent, according to a government survey released last month.
They are using their phones to read books, listen to music, chat with friends and surf the Internet -- an average of 124 minutes a day for high school girls and 92 minutes for boys.
While the wired world they now inhabit holds enormous advantages for learning and communicating, it also brings a downside, say experts who point to a rise in cyberbullying and a growing inability among teenagers to deal with other people face to face.
"Kids say what's most important to them, next to their own lives, is their cellphone," said Masashi Yasukawa, head of the private National Web Counselling Council.
"They are moving their thumbs while eating or watching television," he said.
The passion in 20-year-old Ayumi Chiba's voice backs up this assertion.
"My life is impossible without it," she says of her cellphone. "I used to pretend I was sick and leave school early when I forgot to take it with me."
Hideki Nakagawa, a sociology professor at Nihon University in Tokyo, said cellphones have become "an obsession" for youngsters.
"They feel insecure without cellphones, just the way sales people do without their name cards," he said.
As the multi-faceted cellphone takes centre stage in teen life, it plays a number of roles -- including a weapon that children can wield against each other with no thought for the consequences.
Yasukawa recalls the case of a 15-year-old girl who regularly received messages telling her: "Die," "You're a nuisance" and "You smell".
They turned out to have been sent by a friend in whom she had confided and who told her not to take the messages too seriously.
"The girl who was doing the bullying confessed it made her feel good to see the unease spreading on her friend's face," Yasukawa said.
"Some children send nasty messages to a 'friend' while in her company, pretending to be looking at her profile page on the cellphone.
"It's a very scary world," he said. "Parents don't know there's a very scary world behind cellphone screens."
As they reveal personal information about themselves, children can become prey for fraudsters and paedophiles, as only about one percent have blocks on potentially harmful material.
But on protected sites such as school bulletin boards that do block adults, bullies are free to anonymously post comments without any teacher oversight or intervention.
"Bully-to-bullied relations can be easily reversed with a targeted kid pointing the finger at somebody else for some trivial thing," Yasukawa said, adding that this potentially created "a survival game among children".
Japan's largest mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. in December launched a line of cellphones for small children, with software ranging from picture books to school scheduling pads aimed at helping them to learn.
The cellphones will eventually become their main means of communication.
Education professor Tetsuro Saito said a survey of 1,600 middle school students aged around 14 found about 60 percent carried cellphones and nearly half used them to send 20 or more emails a day.
Most middle school cellphone users rarely used their phone to talk, the survey found. Saito, of Kawamura Gakuen Women's University near Tokyo, said children seemed to want the security of communicating with someone, without the bother of dealing with a real person.
"Communication ability is bound to decline as cellphones and other devices are now getting between people," he said.
Tomomi, 18, who would not give her full name, said: "I send some 20 emails a day. There are people I don't talk with -- even if I see them at school, I just exchange mail with them. I guess we're connected only by a machine."
Saito's survey found that students can also use their cellphones as an emotional crutch, and the more problems they have at home, the more dependent they seem to become on their phones.
More than 60 percent of students who said they do not enjoy being with their families send 20 or more emails a day, compared with 35 percent of those happy with their families.
And even if cellphones can bring solace, it can come at a terrible cost.
Kanae Yokoyama, 36, is facing trial for beating and spraining the neck of her 15-year-old daughter after catching her secretly using her cellphone in November.
The girl had been prohibited from using her phone as the bill had hit 120,000 yen (1,060 dollars) in October, mostly wracked up by downloading music and playing games, according to local police.
They said the mother had a history of abusing her daughter.
"Considering she was often absent from school, the mobile phone may have been her sole 'friend' to spend her days with," a police official said.
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All About Human Beings and How We Got To Be Here
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 10, 2008
Paleontologist Neil Shubin unites the discoveries of fossils and the sciences of paleontology and genetics with his experience of teaching human anatomy into a written voyage of evolution, titled Your Inner Fish: A Journey Through the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.
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The Mayor of London is “doing an awful lot to try to encourage people to cycle”: telling us that there is a cycling revolution going on and all he needs us to do is get on out on the lovely London streets to be a part of it.
Meanwhile, York is challenging its residents to take to the bicycle: their city needs them to put in the effort and hard work of cycling in its battle against Cambridge.
Skyride urges people to cycle, cycling organisations and officers spend what little money cycling is given on devising new ways to persuade us that we can cycle, yet apparently we’re still not doing enough to promote cycling.
Jan Gehl describes the cities where people ride bikes. They all invite the bicycle user: they make the bicycle journey an inviting prospect.
They’re just words. But the difference between the approaches that they represent is that Gehl’s works.
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This Athens optical store presents a design-savvy way to display eyewear. Located in Neo Psyhiko, Athens, the boutique was designed by architect Simos Vamvakidis, who infused the interior with sharp, geometric displays and an overall minimalistic aesthetic.
As FrameWeb.com points out, this Athens optical store offers a "lesson in organization." Its various eyewear products for different age groups are strategically displayed on either plywood or black iron surfaces, with separate spaces dedicated to vision glasses, sunglasses and other types of eyewear products.
The designer himself refers to the interior of the Athens optical store as "an experiment of space" and goes on to describe it as a merging of "the soaring and the grounded." Vamvakidis was also able to make great use of the long and narrow interior, which measures 65 square meters.
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Originally published on eJewish Philanthropy
In his eJewish Philanthropy post last month, Toward Creativity: A Theological Goal for Jewish Education, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann raises the question of the overarching purpose of Jewish life. He argues, “Judaism calls on the human being, and the Jew in particular, to emulate God’s creative nature and to become a creative being.” He then explains that “if we take this theological proposition as a fundamental goal of Jewish living,” it becomes a “necessary focus of Jewish education.” Meaning, our institutions of Jewish education need to foster and train individuals to achieve the ultimate purpose of Jewish life, in this case, they must help train people to “tap into and unleash individual and communal creativity.”
While we are not convinced that creativity is the ultimate goal of Jewish living, we do agree with Rabbi Lehmann that it is a necessary tool toward achieving the array of potential answers to the questions that face us as a community: What does it mean to live a Jewish life in the 21st century? What does it gift us? What does it demand of us? And we agree that it is critical that we think very deliberately about the concrete links between the relationship the next generation will have with Jewish life, and the environments of growth we foster for them. This is no small challenge, and we could benefit, as Rabbi Lehmann suggests, from increased creativity as we tackle it.
It is in this spirit that UpStart Bay Area and The Jewish Education Project, funded by a generous grant from UJA Federation of New York, are collaborating to bring creativity tools to a group of Jewish day schools in the NY Metropolitan Area. Starting in December, teams within and across schools will explore the methodology of Design Thinking, and use it as an instrument for building school leadership. Through this shared experience, school leadership will become better equipped with creative, innovative tools and mindsets to address and develop solutions to major strategic challenges that confront Jewish day schools today.
This initiative emerged from discussions between The Jewish Education Project and a group of leading day school educators in New York. Given the impactful and often transformative experiences that they received through day school leadership programs, these professionals expressed a need and desire for advanced opportunities for professional collaboration, resources for shaping their school cultures and platforms for sharing and spreading successacross the field.
The Day School Collaboration Network is an experimental response to these needs, designed to complement and leverage experiences already provided to professionals in their day school leadership programs. A distinguishing feature of the Network is the role of participating day school professional leaders, for they serve as partners in establishing its goals and design. This unique collaboration includes four sectors: the leadership in the day schools; a communal agency and networked non-profit, represented by the Jewish Education Project; the Jewish innovation sector, represented by UpStart; and the secular world of leadership and social entrepreneurship, represented by experts such as Marty Linsky from Cambridge Leadership Associates, and UpStart’s design team of Ben Grossman-Kahn at Nordstrom’s Innovation Lab, Ela Ben Ur formerly of IDEO, and Maureen Carroll and Melissa Pelochino of Lime Design.
As we embark on this process, we will seek to embrace the mindsets of the Design Thinking methodology, which align organically with Jewish educational values:
- Action Oriented – the belief that it is in our hands to provide exceptional schools for our children
- Human-centered – the belief that it is the children, their families, and the teachers who are at the center of this process, and who have invaluable wisdom to contribute
- Deeply collaborative – the belief that our diversity of perspectives and opinions strengthens us, and helps us be more effective
- Experimental – the belief that it is better to tackle challenges than not, and that failure is a critical component for learning and growth, and
- Optimistic – the belief that when dedicated, passionate individuals put their minds to something, wonders will ensue
We look forward to sharing our learning, our accomplishments, and our “fail forward” moments with the broader community, and to generating more dialogue and creativity as we seek to answer our shared questions and create new paradigms to address them.
While each of the schools involved in this pilot might have a different answer to the broad question of the purpose of Jewish education, and how it connects to the purpose of Jewish life, we believe that a creative approach – one that listens deeply and truly to the experiences of the students, teachers, and parents connected to the schools, one that challenges us to think differently and expansively, and one that pushes us to align our shared values, and explore our differences – can only benefit our community as a whole.
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Pemba Island, known as "The Green Island" in Arabic (الجزيرة الخضراء), is an island forming part of the Zanzibar Archipelago, lying off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. It is situated about 50 kilometres to the north of the Unguja (the island proper of Zanzibar). In 1964 Zanzibar was united with the former colony of Tanganyika to form Tanzania. It lies 50 kilometres east of mainland Tanzania, across the Pemba Channel. Together with Mafia Island (south of Zanzibar), these three islands form the Spice Islands (not to be confused with the Maluku Islands of Indonesia). In 1988, the estimated population was 265,000, with an area of 980 km².
Most of the island, which is hillier and more fertile than Zanzibar, is dominated by small scale farming. There is also large scale farming of cash crops such as cloves — there are over 3 million clove trees.
In previous years the island was seldom visited due to inaccessibility and a reputation for political violence, with the notable exception of those drawn by its reputation as a center for traditional medicine and witchcraft. There is a quite large Arab community on the island who immigrated from Oman. The population is a mix of Arab and original Waswahili inhabitants of the island. A significant portion of the population also identifies as Shirazi people.
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The Chinese people, Christmas is exotic, but up to now, the image of Santa Claus had a lot of people into the heart, especially children, has long been looking forward to shoulder a large Santa Claus came to their side of the pocket.
this time of year, such occasions, I looked at the hands of children who received gifts from Santa Claus moment, their eyes no secret satisfaction, gratitude and joy, are enviable stage of childhood naive, pure and easy to share the joy to meet.
said there is also the history of Santa Claus figure prototype, which I did not go into details too, cause I think that Santa's bag, the children and why is it obsessed with it? that magic pocket full of what? is what makes the world of innocence cheer, dumping it?
I thought and thought, the fact that kids want more than just a candy , a dream of doll, a telescope hh them from dreaming of Santa Claus is little desire to get into a really meet, is love, warmth, is happy they so happy, because they felt was meticulous love and care, the family felt the heart to give them the most perfect love.
such a thought, the original Santa Claus is not a distant legend, he was in fact carrying the children on the potential of love and desire for a better life, while for those of us adults, although usually busy working, business, entertainment, but as the sun the same innate desire, will never disappear, and light our innermost.
No wonder, the most recent activities are more and more love. There are many media companies are carrying out their charitable activities hh Although there is no Santa Claus outfit to wear，stainless steel coil, but so many people are playing Santa's magic, familiar or unfamiliar to the children, whatever from our pockets in, pulled out a gift, love out, took out a warm, happy out, pulled out a sincere and warm, simple but truly meet children's childhood desire.
I Do Children's Fund and we recently also busy playing with that fat white bearded Santa Claus.
attention I Do Children's Fund of friends all know that the ancient road the village primary school. Not long ago, the mountains teacher called and said the package, due to heavy snow mountain, village and schools without water power, the children in the classroom more than ten degrees below zero keep reading, because the lack of clothing less shoes，stainless steel pipe, hands and feet were nipped. hearing the news, we quickly launched a anchor, film and television actress Miss Zhao Ziqi support, she and her team know the message after the first time through I Do Primary School Children's Fund to the horizon contribute $ 120,000 for the purchase of winter clothing to the children.
donor activities on-site Play the ancient road the village primary school children's learning video: the kids in the classroom reading around a pot of charcoal, it is their only method of heating.
mother committed suicide jumping the smallest of the three siblings Qing Zhi Hu via video, said: Zhao Ziqi and donor activities in the field, many guests as silent and choked several times in his speech after her emotional appeal to the media and friends to act, with each person's love to needy children within its power to bring the warmth.
Looking at the video on this I am very familiar with the children, think of six primary schools and their moment in the horizon that make the game fun afternoon, the mood can only be used Miss Han Jingjin Deputy Secretary-General, to raise the main Miss Ren Wangling vice activities also came to the scene, I Do Children's Fund, every event can always be China Charity Federation and the support of many caring people.
12 月 22 日 happens is the winter solstice, the day will be more cold, but the warmth of love will come together to help children to resist the cold.
addition to the horizon of the children in Beijing, tomorrow，stainless steel plate, December 24，stainless steel sheet, I Do Changping Children's Fund will also provide farmers Public school children to send their children need to live, study materials, and the kids spend a happy and memorable holiday. living in this bustling city, the Santa Claus of pocket for these children，stainless steel bar, the same is true existence, love, warmth, happiness h.. We bring the same love from an endless stream of boxes appear, go to the heart of each child.
the other hand, for the children to create a happy, warm , a sense of security of childhood living environment and dedication to do something, how meaningful is, how pleasant in the process. In this process, is far more than happy to get the gift of children, as well as carrying empty Santa returned pockets.
to children around, take up your pocket, make a return to Santa Claus it!
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Kim Jong Il 's death two days why the delay announcement
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North Carolina's Unfinished Transformation (2006)
Report Date: 2006
By John Quinterno, Research Associate
North Carolina has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past half century. An overwhelmingly rural state dependent upon agriculture and low-wage manufacturing, gripped by poverty and burdened by segregation has emerged as one of America’s most metropolitan, economically competitive and fastest growing places. People across the globe now benefit from goods and services invented at North Carolina colleges and universities, brought to market by North Carolina entrepreneurs and financed by North Carolina capital.
Wise public investments in North Carolina’s physical infrastructure and people helped transform the state into one of America’s most metropolitan, economically competitive, and fastest growing places. Today, this prosperity stands at risk.
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Dental Education in North Carolina
Legislative processes are inherently uncertain. Until the final gavel sounds, there are no guarantees about which bills will pass, what priorities will be funded, who will win or lose.
That said, it is May 8th and the Joint Plan for Dental Education remains on track. The ECU legislative team and our supporters have worked hard, both in Raleigh and in a series of forums throughout the state, to ensure the success of this plan that is so vital to the health and the economy of the entire state. Seventy-nine of 100 counties do not meet federal oral health standards. Twenty five counties have two dentists or fewer in the entire county. ECU’s responsibility in the joint plan for Dental Education (unanimously approved by the statewide Board of Governors) is to address this crisis in the underserved areas of the state.
ECU received approval last fall to offer the doctor of dental surgery degree. What we do not yet have is the funding from the state to build the School of Dentistry, to build 10 clinics throughout the state that will serve the neediest populations, and the funds to operate the School. What is the status of our funding request in the legislature?
First, remember that the joint plan requires significant funding. ECU is requesting $87 million in capital funds as well as operating dollars. Chapel Hill’s request is $96 million. The Governor’s budget included the ECU portion of the Joint Plan in a bond package that would require approval by the citizens. However, we have worked hard to secure enough funding this session to keep the School on track, to complete the architectural work, and to begin the utilities work. In addition, we are working on options for funding that would ensure that there is no delay in our goal of getting the first class of 50 in Greenville for the fall of 2010.
Because we are addressing a critical state need, because ECU has the expertise and the track record to be successful, and because we have strong support from President Bowles and our local legislative delegation as well the leadership of both chambers, I view the Joint Plan to be exactly on track. The preliminary house budget is exactly that... preliminary. It is an important success that both capital and operating dollars are included in the House budget. While some reports have been pessimistic about the house budget, this pessimism is simply a failure to understand how the process works. We fully expect additional funds to be added during the remainder of the session. To use a baseball analogy, the game is in the second inning and we are ahead. We have the Governor’s support, we’re in the House budget, and we have strong friends in the Senate. Stay with us over the next two months and we will be successful.
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Cisco wireless LANs at risk of attack, 'skyjacking'
Cisco wireless LANs at risk of attack, 'skyjacking' | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
Cisco Systems wireless local area network equipment used by many corporations around the world is at risk of being used in denial-of-service attacks and data theft, according to a company that offers protection for WLANs.
Researchers at AirMagnet, which makes intrusion-detection systems for WLANs, discovered the vulnerability, which affects all lightweight Cisco wireless access points, as well as the exploit that could be used against networks that have the Over-the-Air-Provisioning (OTAP) feature turned on
DUN DUN DUN!
Cisco rates the vulnerability as unlikely to be used. It notes that in order to exploit the hole, an attacker would have to be able to deploy a Cisco controller within radio range of a newly installed AP
Good thing the controllers arent cheap!
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preferably at night, with the 'shapeless universe' outside expunged by darkness. Warmed by the pools of light that spill from his lamps, he does not even need to read: the smell of the wooden shelves and 'the musky perfume of the leather bindings' is enough to pacify him and prepare him for sleep....Within his global, multilingual book collection, he can effortlessly travel in both time and space.
This world is fading, however, for "libraries like his are now imperilled by their virtual equivalents on the internet. A book read on a screen has dematerialised; we can neither own nor love it, and if we can't hold it in our hands how can we absorb it into our minds?"
Eric Arnesan has a fine review of Ida: A Sword Among Lions, by Paula J. Giddings (Amistad/HarperCollins), on pathbreaking African American journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, for the Chicago Tribune. He writes:
What emerges clearly from Giddings' account is a portrait of a courageous activist who desperately longed for recognition and credit but found herself instead perpetually frustrated when passed over for office or denied the praise she believed she deserved. One of the many strengths of Giddings's biography is her reluctance to either romanticize or minimize Wells' contributions. She is also appropriately attentive to the broader canvas of black politics, continually situating Wells in a spectrum of black perspectives that can no longer be reduced to Booker T. Washington's accommodationism and W.E.B. DuBois' militancy. If excessively detailed at times, "Ida: A Sword Among Lions" is nevertheless a skillfully constructed and often moving account of a life and a time whose complexity is always central to its story.
Two books on labor history, THE BIG SQUEEZE: Tough Times for the American Worker, by Steven Greenhouse (Knopf), and AMERICAN-MADE: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, by Nick Taylor (Bantam) are reviewed by H.W. Brands for the Washington Post. For Brands, Greenhouse offers "enlightened counterpoints to the dark force of Wal-Mart," even though it is "hard to imagine how government will summon the will to effect the changes" Greenhouse believes are necessary for American workers. Taylor's book is "bigger than its title suggests; he provides a succinct survey of the Great Depression and particularly its consequences for workers." Even though "a warm glow of history enshrouds the WPA," Brand writes, "no one should want to see the WPA experiment repeated, for the reason that it would require reliving the economic circumstances that made it necessary. All the same, the WPA experience demonstrates that democracy can act decisively in a national emergency."
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WhisperCore Beta for Android encrypts your data for free, only works on the Nexus S for now
WhisperCore is a new app for Android that lets you encrypt your system disk and/or SD card. It's free for personal use, and pricing for commercial use varies according to the size of deployment. WhisperCore uses 256 bit AES encryption, a popular choice in the encryption space, also seen in tools such as TrueCrypt and Linux Unified Key Setup.
Once you install the app, you set a passphrase that will be used to generate the key that's then used to encrypt all the data on the disk. The lack of full data encryption on Android is something many companies are basing future products upon, but WhisperCore may have a head start.
The app is in beta stage right now, and it has an important caveat you need to be aware of: it only runs on the Google Nexus S. This will obviously change in the future, but at the moment having one single hardware environment probably makes it a lot easier to track bugs. Also, the ability to encrypt SD cards is pretty much useless at this point, with the Nexus S not having an SD card slot.
If you feel like giving WhisperCore a try, you can download it from the developer's site. Note its beta state though, so expect quite a few bugs and quirks, and as such perhaps refrain from trying it on your main phone just yet, unless you're the adventurous type.
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Interesting study out today that took an in-depth look at 80 insider security cases and developed patterns of behavior that could help private companies, government, and law enforcement more better prevent, deter, detect, investigate, and manage this devious problem.
The study, "Insider Threat Study: Illicit Cyber Activity Involving Fraud in the U.S. Financial Services Sector" funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the CERT Insider Threat Center, part of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute looked at what they called technical and behavioral patterns from 67 insider and 13 external fraud cases that occurred between 2005 and now to develop "insights and risk indicators of malicious insider activity."
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"As long as there are institutions that hold money, internal and external adversaries will make every attempt to subvert control mechanisms to illegally profit. To defeat those who are defrauding financial services companies, security professionals in this sector must master both the technical and behavioral aspects of the problem as well as ensure compliance with external regulators and internal governance initiatives, all while protecting their organizations' profits, shareholders, and customers," the report states.
As part of the 76 page report, the group developed six far-reaching findings. From the report these findings include:
- 1. Criminals who executed a "low and slow" approach accomplished more damage and escaped detection for longer.
- On average, over 5 years elapse between a subject's hiring and the identified start of the fraud, and it takes an average of almost 32 months to be detected by the victim organization.
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- The lower 50% of cases (under 32 months in length) had an average actual monetary impact of approximately $382,750, while the upper 50 percent (at or over 32 months in length) had an average actual monetary impact of approximately $479,000.
- Insiders' means were not very technically sophisticated.
- Very few subjects served in a technical role (e.g., database administrator) or conducted their fraud by using explicitly technical means.
- In more than half of the cases, the insider used some form of authorized access, whether current or authorized at an earlier time but subsequently withdrawn for any number of reasons, including change in job internally or a change in employer, and in a few of the cases, the insider used some non-technical method to bypass authorized processes.
- Fraud by managers differs substantially from fraud by non-managers by damage and duration.
- Fraud committed by managers consistently caused more actual damage ($200,105 on average) than fraud committed by non-managers ($112,188 on average).
- Fraud committed by managers lasted almost twice as long (33 months) as compared to nonmanagers (18 months).
- Of all the non-managers, accountants cause the most damage from insider fraud ($472,096 on average) and evade detection for the longest amount of time (41 months).
- Most cases do not involve collusion.
- Only 16% of the fraud incidents involved some type of collusion, with 69% of those involving collusion exclusively with outsiders.
- Only 1 case involved collusion with other insiders.
- Most incidents were detected through an audit, customer complaint, or coworker suspicion.
- Routine or impromptu auditing was the most common way that an attack was detected (41%). In terms of who detected the attack, internal employees were the most common (54%) followed by customers (30%).
- Only 6% of the cases were known to involve the use of software and systems to detect the fraudulent activity.
- Transaction logs, database logs, and access logs were known to be used in the ensuing incident response for only 20% of the cases.
- Personally identifiable information (PII) is a prominent target of those committing fraud.
- Roughly one-third (34%) of the cases involved PII being the target by the insider or external actor with younger, non-managers stealing PII more often than older employees.
- The average tenure of employees who stole PII was shorter than the tenure of malicious insiders who did not steal PII.
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Wed August 15, 2012
Pine, Featherville Residents Ready For Evacuations
Residents of Pine and Featherville were briefed today on the rapidly moving Trinity Ridge Fire. The fire expanded yesterday and moved about five miles away from Featherville.
David Olson with the Boise National Forest says the residents were told to prepare for an evacuation that could come at any time. "The whole focus right now is to inform the community where the fire is, what it potentially might do and have them ready to leave when or if the order comes.”
Olson says it’s a very challenging fire to fight. “The type of vegetation that it’s burning in has a tendency to through embers and create spot fires which have 90 to 100 percent probability of ignition when they land in unburned fuel, it can move very rapidly in different situations particularly of there’s a wind push that’s moving that fire, the forest is dry at this point and it makes it very tough.”
The Elmore County Sheriff’s office has closed local roads to residents only. Close to 900 firefighters are on the blaze, which has grown to more than 63-thousand acres.
Fleeing a wildfire can be chaotic especially at a moments notice. So officials hope advance warning, and some helpful tips, will have homeowners ready should they need to leave.
There are four basic principles when it comes to being ready to evacuate your home. David Olson with the Boise National Forest calls them the four P's. “That would be personal papers, photos, prescriptions or medications and to keep a close eye if they have pets to be able to transport those out if need be.”
Olson says during evacuations, it’s the pets that often cause the most problems. “Oftentimes people make comments that they had a hard time finding their pets or securing their pets and obviously those are very closely attached to our families so probably one of the more important things is to keep the family pet close at hand.”
Toiletries, a change cloths, cell phones, and chargers are also handy to have ready. Other advice? Keep your car keys on you, move portable propane tanks away from your house, and pack your vehicle with supplies for three to seven days away from home.
Copyright 2012 Boise State Public Radio
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Our calculator will help you to decide whether an IVA is right for you.
The main purpose of the Bailiff is the collection of debt by seizing goods sufficient to sell and pay off the debt.
There are two types of Bailiff:-
The Bailiff cannot force entry to a domestic property, but he can walk through an open door or window or an unlocked door. Once in they will make a list of your assets called a walking possession order. They will state the terms of payment of the debt in return for not removing the goods. Should you not meet the repayment terms, they will return to remove the goods and sell them.
The Walking Possession Agreement is an agreement that you will sign to prevent the Bailiff removing the goods in return for you keeping to a schedule of repayments. If you fail to meet the repayments, the Bailiff may return and force entry to remove the assets.
The Bailiff may seize goods owned solely or jointly by you. He may not take:-
If the Bailiff is enforcing a County Court Judgement or collecting Council Tax, the following goods cannot be seized:-
You should note that you will need to pay the costs of the Bailiff. The fees for visiting you but not gaining entry are £24.50 for the first visit and £18 for the second.
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Where the Bailiff removes and stores the goods, you are liable for reasonable costs and fees.
The fee can be waived if you are on low income and payment of the fee will cause undue hardship. You need to complete a Form EX160 and sent it to the Court with Form N245 which is used to suspend the actions of the Bailiff and vary the instalments originally set by the Court.
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The Lessons From The Depressions Of Ukraine & Latvia
The two have a lot in common as they both used to be part of the Soviet Union, and as a result both have a large ethnic Russian minority. Both are seeing its population shrink due to a low birth rate. Both saw big output declines in the 1990s, followed by very rapid growth throughout most of the 2000s. In both cases, the booms were in part the result of tax cuts, in part the result of inflationary credit. Because of the latter factor, both had huge current account deficits at the peak of their booms.
There are significant differences however, not least in terms of currency policy. Latvia's currency, the lat, has a fixed exchange rate against the euro, while the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia, has a floating exchange rate, or perhaps more accurately a sinking exchange rate, with the hryvnia losing more than a third of its value against the euro and the lat (which in inverted terms means that the the euro and the lat is up more than 50% against the hryvnia).
Both have had really dramatic declines in output. The question of which of these two countries had the biggest drop depends on what measure of GDP change you use.
Using the standard volume measure, it is Latvia. Latvia's volume GDP dropped by 19% in the year to the third quarter, while Ukraine saw its volume GDP drop by 15.9% during the same period.
Using the more accurate terms of trade adjusted measure however, Ukraine has had the biggest drop in output. Adjusted for terms of trade, Latvia's drop in GDP was 20%, while Ukraine's adjusted GDP dropped by 22.5%. The reason for this is that import prices in Ukraine rose as much as 74.5% while export prices rose by "only" 49.8%. In Latvia the difference was much smaller with import prices falling 7.4% while export prices fell 10.3%.
Still, regardless of what gauge you use the difference isn't that dramatic. Both Latvia and Ukraine have clearly been in an economic depression.
The main difference is that Latvia is in a deflationary depression, while Ukraine is in an inflationary depression. The domestic demand deflator fell 2.5% in the third quarter in Latvia, while it rose 13.9% in Ukraine. This difference can be directly attributed to the difference in currency policy, something which is illustrated by the fact that export and import prices fell even more than domestic prices in Latvia, while export and import prices rose far more than domestic prices in Ukraine.
How has this difference in currency policy affected the depth of their depressions? As I noted in my discussion of the pros and cons of a devaluation in Latvia, it can be expected that devaluation in an ideal situation (with no foreign currency debt) would make the slump milder in the short term, while also producing a lower adjustment.
However, given the reality of large foreign currency debts, the above will not necessarily hold true, and the big slump in Ukraine (which like Latvia has large foreign currency debts) confirms that devaluation does little to ease the slump in output.
The main benefit produced by the devaluation/inflation path of Ukraine is that the increase in unemployment has been limited, rising from 6.5% to 9.4% in the latest year. By contrast, unemployment has increased far more in Latvia, from 10.2% to 22.3%.
The reason why the increase in unemployment has been much smaller in Ukraine is that the high level of inflation there has reduced real wages dramatically, by more than 10%. By contrast, real wages have dropped only about 4% in Latvia given the 2.5% deflation rate (and only 1% in the private sector), and the small drop we've seen can mostly be attributed to the consumption tax increase.
This illustrates again how the key to reducing unemployment is wage flexibility-which in this context means that real wages must be reduced.
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A few new ideas have come to mind that I would like to share. The Occipital lobes of your brain are on the back part of your skull. If you take your finger and run it up the back of your neck, you will run into the base of your skull. Under that are the Occipital lobes (right and left) of your Brain. Some of the main functions of the Occipital lobes are to control memory, sight and association.
If you’ve ever hit or been hit in the forehead, you may have pushed your occipital bone down onto your occipital lobe. If you’ve ever stood up and hit the back of your head or been in a car wreck, you may have shifted that occipital shelf. Symptoms could include headaches, vision problems, random memory loss, confusion, abnormal thought patterns, personality change, inability to retain or recall information, pain, discomfort and misery.
Seek a chiropractor who can adjust that part of your skull.
Your muscles are 70% water. Being dehydrated makes muscles constrict. If your trapezius muscle in your upper back starts constricting from dehydration, guess where it attaches as it moves up your spine and around the cervical part of your neck; right at the base of your skull. The pulling force can be more than enough to pull the skull down on top of those occipital lobes. Drink water!
If your medical doctor has told you that your child only has a slight curvature of his or her spine and you should just wait and see. DON’T. That curve is pulling on all of the muscles and ligaments that run all the way up the spine. You do the math (so to speak.)
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History was made in New Hampshire on Tuesday as New Hampshire’s state senate became the first state legislative body in US history with a female majority. Thirteen of the state’s twenty-four senators are now women. [includes rush transcript]
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AMY GOODMAN: Yes, history was made in New Hampshire Tuesday, as New Hampshire’s state senate became the first state legislative body in US history with a female majority. Thirteen of the state’s twenty-four senators are now women. Nationally, less than one in four legislators is female. New Hampshire also has a female US senator for the first time in history, after Democrat Jeanne Shaheen defeated incumbent Republican John Sununu.
I’m joined by Nancy Mosher. She is president of the Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Action Fund. How did you do it?
NANCY MOSHER: Well, I’d love to take all the credit, but we worked really hard layering our political action with local and federal races in collaboration with our national PAC, as well as the America Votes organization in New Hampshire. I can’t tell you how helpful they were in helping us slice and dice the databases.
And what we did was we targeted women under fifty-five who were center or right-of-center, because we had research this year that showed that Planned Parenthood’s name is highly trusted by women in our country, and they really, really took us seriously when we told them about the positions of the candidates. So we were able to go out and expose McCain’s extraordinary, terribly terrible record on women’s health, zero percent rating with Planned Parenthood, as well as highlight the Senate race, the House races, where there were two pro-choice incumbents that we were working to reinstate, and the local senate races. So three-out-of-four of the targeted senate races that we worked on were won, and they were all women.
AMY GOODMAN: And the state senate, was it clear? Did people in New Hampshire realize they could possibly make history with a woman majority?
NANCY MOSHER: You know, I’m not really sure they did. I think there were some pundits who certainly were aware of it, but what we found when we were knocking on doors was that people really were unaware of the senate candidates. So if we could sort of grab their attention talking about McCain’s record, then we could say, “And by the way, you know, here’s what we have to tell you about your local senate candidate and where they stand on women’s health.” So it was very, you know, grassroots from the ground up.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, talking about women taking power, Gretchen Peters is also with us. She is a singer-songwriter. She wrote the song "Independence Day," which became a hit for country singer Martina McBride. We played that, her version of it, in the first segment. Well, Gretchen made headlines recently when she protested the use of the song by Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Explain what happened, Gretchen. The night of the vice-presidential debate?
GRETCHEN PETERS: The night — yeah, the night of the vice-presidential debate, I got a phone call after it was over, and it was actually my booking agent, and she said, “Did you hear?” And I hadn’t heard whatever, you know. She said, “They used your song to bring Sarah Palin on stage.” And it’s not the first time, you know, the song has been sort of taken out of context and misused.
AMY GOODMAN: This was in the post-party of the debate?
GRETCHEN PETERS: The post-party, right. But I just — I think the thing that was different about it for me this time was that she really represented — this is a song about domestic abuse. I mean, this is — she represented the opposite of what this song really is all about. And I just — I knew that I didn’t have any legal recourse, but I also felt like I could have — that there was some way for me to make some kind of a statement.
AMY GOODMAN: So how did you do it?
GRETCHEN PETERS: Well, ultimately, I decided to follow the lead of this viral email that was going around, and I donated the royalties during the election cycle, from the time, you know, Sarah Palin was named as the VP candidate, to Planned Parenthood, in her name.
AMY GOODMAN: All the royalties of the song.
GRETCHEN PETERS: From the song, yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you play a few verses? Let’s see what we’ve got time for, but we’re not just interested in the chorus; we want to hear this song.
GRETCHEN PETERS: OK.
AMY GOODMAN: Ultimately about domestic violence.
GRETCHEN PETERS: OK, alright, you got it. [singing] Well, she seemed all right by dawn’s early light / though she looked a little worried and weak. / She tried to pretend he wasn’t drinking again / but daddy left the proof on her cheek. / I was only eight years old that summer / and I always seemed to be in the way / so I took myself down to the fair in town / on Independence Day. / Well, word gets around in a small, small town. / They said he was a dangerous man. / Mama was proud and she stood her ground / but she knew she was on the losing end. / Some folks whispered, some just talked / but everybody looked the other way. / And when time ran out, there was no one about / on Independence Day. / Let freedom ring. / Let the white dove sing. / Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning. / Let the weak be strong. / Let the right be wrong. / Roll a stone away, let the guilty pay. / It’s Independence Day.
There you go.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Gretchen Peters, I want to thank you very much for being with us.
GRETCHEN PETERS: Thanks for having me.
AMY GOODMAN: And thank you for playing more than a chorus.
GRETCHEN PETERS: Thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: You’re going home to Nashville now?
GRETCHEN PETERS: I am.
AMY GOODMAN: And congratulations on this being a CMA hit, country music star and hit.
GRETCHEN PETERS: Thank you very much.
AMY GOODMAN: And thanks so much to Nancy Mosher of Planned Parenthood Action Fund in Northern New England.
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I am about to listen to a tw0-hour webcast on the issue of promotion and retention by the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.
In the meantime, here is the official release on a new Brookings policy brief that suggests retaining struggling students in early grades pays off:
The policy brief by Harvard professor Martin R. West speaks to the ongoing debate over whether retaining students in early grades is self-defeating:
Recent evidence suggests that policies encouraging the retention and remediation of struggling readers in 3rd grade, as compared with similar students who are not retained, help boost their test scores in reading and math and reduce the likelihood of being held back later, according to a new policy brief released today by the Brookings Center on Children and Families at an event featuring policymakers, academics and practitioners. These findings are especially important because students from poor and low-income families are falling further and further behind more advantaged students, in large part because of their low reading skills.
In the brief “Is Retaining Students in the Early Grades Self-Defeating?,” Harvard professor Martin R. West reviews the research on social promotion and grade retention. Looking at high-quality, large-scale studies conducted in Florida, West notes that, as compared with similar students who were not retained, the retained children were 11 percentage points less likely to be retained one year after they were initially held back and roughly 4 percentage points less likely to be retained in each of the following three years. As a result, students retained in 3rd grade after five years are only 0.7 grade levels behind their peers who were immediately promoted to grade 4.
West also examines the long-term impacts of grade retention. He writes that, as is common in many educational interventions, the short-term improvements in reading and math achievement observed for retained students diminish over time and become statistically insignificant by the time the students reach the 7th grade. But he adds that “the retained students continue to perform markedly better than their promoted peers when tested at the same grade level and, assuming they are as likely to graduate high school, stand to benefit from an additional year of instruction. These factors may increase the likelihood of enduring benefits.”
“The keys to good policy to reduce the reading achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students are to have high-quality programs during the preschool and early elementary years featuring highly effective teachers, to provide intensive remedial instruction in reading for students who are not proficient readers by third grade, and to use retention judiciously for students who need additional compensatory instruction,” West said.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
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Luckily for schools in search of inexpensive notebooks for students and staff, the appearance of the netbook has arrived on the scene none to soon. Small, light and – above all – priced several hundred dollars less than even budget systems, netbooks have meant that schools that couldn’t afford computers can now get a system for every student and teacher.
While every week seems to bring out a new design, my favorite netbook at the moment is the Acer Aspire One AOD-150. At $350, it’s a bargain that combines an adequate 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor with 1GB of system memory, a 160GB hard drive and a sharp 10.1-inch wide-screen display. In other words, it should be plenty to satisfy a teacher’s need to create curriculum and tabulate student results. At the same time, it’s more than enough to open the digital world to students.
The good news is that instead of being a bulky and heavy budget computer with disappointing battery life, the D-150 is among the smallest and lightest in its class. The whole thing weighs just 2.3-pounds with the base three-cell battery or 2.9-pounds with the six-cell extended capacity power-pack. It has dimensions of a pad of paper that’s between 1.3- and 1.5-inches thick and easily fits into a kid’s backpack or book bag. On the downside, the system’s extended battery sticks out of the back.
While most adults will find the keys and touchpad to be a little skimpy, they’re perfect for most kids, particularly elementary and middle schoolers. Around its perimeter, the D-150 has a good assortment of ports, including 3 USB, external monitor and audio. Add to that a flash card reader that works with the most recent modules and you have a system that can work with all facets of digital curriculum from creating podcasts or presentations to playing online educational games and doing Web research.
It’s got wired and wireless LAN connections built-in for Web access at home, at libraries and at school plus two things that few other netbooks include. On top of a Web cam, the D-150 has Bluetooth so that it can host a video learning event and works with a wireless keyboard, mouse or headphone.
What’s missing? Well, there isn’t an optical drive for creating and playing CDs and DVDs. I don’t think many schools will miss that, and it’s one fewer thing to break.
The system’s performance won’t set any records but it provides an excellent balance between power and battery life. It rates a 214 on Passmark’s Performance 6.1 benchmark, making it one of the most powerful netbooks available, but also can run on its extended battery pack for more than 5:30. That means that the D-150 is a full school day computer, so kids and teachers can leave the AC adapter at home; expect about 3 hours on the standard battery.
Available in four colors, the D-150 comes with matching battery, a soft case and lots of software, including Microsoft Works, which should be fine for most school projects. The D-150 comes with a 1 year warranty and Acer has a video that describes the unit.
Overall, the Acer Aspire D-150 goes to the head of the class with an inexpensive yet well-made and powerful netbook. And, that’s exactly what schools are looking for these days.
Acer Aspire One AOD-150
+ Excellent price
+ Top battery life
+ Good performance
+ Web cam, Bluetooth and WiFi
- Battery sticks out
- Small keys
- No optical drive
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[This post appeared previously at Red Wine and Apple Sauce.]
Several articles published in Pediatrics today discuss an issue that could affect the protection of children everywhere from vaccine-preventable diseases. The posts center on a controversy that keeps coming up related to vaccines – the use of thimerosal in them.
All three Pediatrics articles deal with the same thing: an international treaty drafted by the United Nation Environmental Program’s Global Mercury Partnership to reduce mercury pollution and environmental mercury exposure across the world. Great! This is an important and valuable initiative – except for one part. As part of the treaty, the UN wants to ban the use of thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, used in vaccines. Not so good. The short version for why? This proposed ban threatens millions of children’s lives across the world, including children in the U.S. and in other developed countries. I’ll get to the long version in a moment.
First, the World Health Organization and American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) have already pushed for the thimerosal ban provision to be removed from the UN treaty. But today’s three AAP articles drive the point home. One of these provides some historical context for why thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines in the U.S. (as recommended by the AAP and the U.S. Public Health Services in 1999) and in other high-income countries. The other two emphasize just how important it is – and how ethically essential it is –that the ban not be included in the UN treaty.
Here’s the back story:
A 1997 US FDA review of the mercury content in products revealed that the amount of thimerosal in childhood vaccines could, possibly theoretically, build up to exceed the EPA’s guidelines (but not the FDA’s guidelines or those of the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry) on safe exposure limits for inorganic mercury, called methylmercury.
Methylmercury is the neurotoxin you hear about when you’re warned not to eat too much fish ( especially while pregnant). Back in 1999, scientists knew a lot about methylmercury, but they didn’t know much about ethylmercury, the type in thimerosal. As Dr. Louis Cooper and Dr. Samuel Katz, both involved with the 1999 recommendations, put it, “the absence of clear data for ethylmercury did not allow any assumption to be made about its safety.”
Meanwhile, debates were raging in Congress about concerns over vaccines and autism, fueled by the now-retracted and thoroughly debunked (pdf) study by Andrew Wakefield linking the MMR vaccine to autism. Parents were scared and confused. Media coverage was exacerbating the impression that public health officials weren’t being forthright about vaccine risks.
So, poof! All thimerosal was pulled from childhood vaccines except the multi-dose flu vaccine, since kids getting that would only get amounts below the EPA guidelines for methylmercury (even though, again, thimerosal is ETHYLmercury).
Now fast forward to today. We know a LOT more about ethylmercury: namely, that it’s not as bad as methylmercury and sails through our bodies a lot more quickly. In fact, methylmercury’s half-life is about seven times that of ethylmercury, which does not build up in the body like methylmercury does.
“There is no credible scientific evidence that the use of thimerosal in vaccines presents any risk to human health,” writes Dr. Katherine King in one of today’s Pediatrics articles. Dozens of studies and a massive review at the Institute of Medicine back this up.
Thimerosal in vaccines is not a problem. But what is a problem is thimerosal’s PR image. Again, from one of today’s AAP articles: “Given the complexity of the science involved in making guidelines, the polarity between vaccine advocates and those believing their children have been harmed, the media’s attraction to controversy, and, in retrospect, inadequate follow-up education about the issues to clinicians and the general public, it is not surprising that the steps taken left misunderstanding and anxiety in the United States and concerns in the global public health community.”
Basically, they’re saying, yea, we kinda screwed up with conveying that thimerosal really IS safe after all. We wanted to be over-cautious before, and we were, and that was good, but now we’ve sorta dropped the ball on following through in letting you know that YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT with the ethylmercury in thimerosal. As Dr. Walter Orenstein today’s AAP articles, “Had the evidence that is available now been available in 1999, the policy reducing thimerosal use would likely have not been implemented. Furthermore, in 2008 the World Health Organization endorsed the use of thimerosal in vaccines.”
But apparently, the WHO’s endorsement can’t overcome thimerosal’s PR image problem in the eyes of the UN. And so the UN is short-sightedly and dangerously trying to ban thimerosal in vaccines.
Well, that just means getting rid of it in flu vaccines (many of which don’t even have thimerosal since they’re single-dose), so what’s the big deal anyway? The big deal is that not all countries got rid of thimerosal in their childhood vaccines. Many high-income countries like the U.S. did – because they could afford to be overly cautious.
But more than 120 middle- and low-income countries – including the developing countries where vaccine-preventable diseases have the highest rates of infection and death – have continued using thimerosal-containing vaccines because the preservative allows them to make cheaper vaccines that withstand less rigorous storage without compromising safety.
Getting rid of thimerosal would mean overhauling vaccine production and storage in those countries, which the WHO estimates would cost more than $300 million for vaccines supplied by UNICEF or the Pan American Health Organization alone. As Dr. King argues, “it is banning thimerosal that would cause an injustice to those living in low- and middle-income countries and relying on these vaccines for effective protection against many harmful infectious diseases.”
Why does this matter to people in the U.S. or in other higher income countries? Because we live in a global world. Vaccines with thimerosal are currently used to immunize about 84 million children across the world every year, saving an estimated 1.4 million lives from vaccine-preventable diseases.That also includes lives saved in developed countries, where a future outbreak could potentially be imported from other countries in which a vaccination program may have ceased following a thimerosal ban.
More simply put: If the UN forces the removal of thimerosal from vaccines, then 84 million children risk not getting vaccinated (and/or vaccinated on time) due to delays in vaccine production or due to a shortage of vaccines because of increasing costs. This, in turn, could (and likely would) mean an increase in vaccine-preventable infections, which will, in turn, kill more children worldwide and risk disease carriage to other countries.
Over and beyond the increases in vaccine-preventable infections and deaths throughout the world, a thimerosal ban in vaccines could also still pose problems for developed countries. In an emergency, as Dr. Orenstein and colleagues argue, not being able to manufacture vaccines with thimerosal could endanger lives during an epidemic if it slows down vaccine production. This proposed UN ban – and the necessity of its removal – matters.
Dr. Cooper and Dr. Katz – again, both pediatricians who were closely involved in the original 1999 decision to pull thimerosal out of vaccines – sum it up best: “The World Health Organization recommendation to delete the ban on thimerosal must be heeded or it will cause tremendous damage to current programs to protect all children from death and disability caused by vaccine-preventable diseases.”
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Miss Yele Olowe
As a female student working to make ends meet in a foreign land, Miss Yele Olowe, a Nigerian doing her Masters in International Finance at the London School of Business and Finance, United Kingdom, says survival in a foreign land is tough. She shares her experience with Charles Ajunwa
As a foreign student studying in United Kingdom, how do you cope with the recently increment in your school fees?
I know that the increase in school fees have affected a lot of students studying in the universities, many foreign students are going back to their countries because it’s very difficult to make money here to sponsor yourself in school and pay other bills. The increment in school fees, is not affecting the existing students but there are other things that are affecting them, like if you go for your student renewal, you are not allowed to work. So that is quite discouraging for a lot of people and I think the economy is just saturated.
It’s a developed economy and the growth is very slow. So because of the school fees increment and the harsh economic condition most of my colleagues preferred to go back home and continue their education online. We experience a lot of constraints here.
One, accommodation is very expensive. Two, it’s very difficult to get a job as unemployment is very high. If you are to get a good job, there is still some bit of favouritism or limited racism if I can put it that way, going on because they prefer to give a British or another European or a white person than to give the job to a black person. When you come here it’s not like what you expect, like the way they make it look so rosy and so beautiful that you don’t have problem when you come and things are sorted out for you.
When you come here you are solely on your own, it’s not like in other African countries like Nigeria where you have people to help you. If you are back home nobody will want you to suffer. Your uncle, aunt or friends will come to help you but here (London) nobody helps you. You are just on your own. So if you don’t have a job, it’s very difficult to survive in London.
For me, assuming I don’t have accommodation and a job I will prefer to go back home where I will be attended to by my parents. Not go back home because you are not able to face the challenges but going back home because you know it’s better to be at home where there are a lot of opportunities so why waste my time here.
What is your advice to students from Nigeria planning to further their education in the UK?
They should be prepared and make sure they have arrangement for accommodation and they should make sure they have some money to keep them going because like I said, nobody in London or in the Western world will give you money. Except the person is sent by God, nobody borrows money and nobody lends money because everybody keeps to him or herself here.
If you find a job, fine. Whatever job you find just hold tight to it to enable you pay your bills. And my advice is that if you finish your school programme just go back home except you get a good job that will make you stay. Even if you get a very good opportunity, you pay like 20 to 50 per cent in tax depending on the type of job you are doing. If you are earning more than 150 thousand pounds, you pay 50 per cent of it in tax.
For new students coming with the hope to get papers to nationalise, all those things should not just distract them. Some people don’t tell their parents back home the pains and difficulties that they go through here. Such parents will think their children abroad are okay while they are not. The children will not like to tell to them about the reality on ground because he does not want them to be sad. So if you are sending your children abroad be prepared for them, let them have enough money.
Why do many Nigerians prefer to study in United Kingdom instead of studying at home?
If the standard of education in Nigeria was good enough people will not be coming to the United Kingdom to study and then and face all the hassles they go through. Some will just have to take the blame for the appalling standard of education in Nigeria. Some people will sell all they got to make sure they bring their children abroad just to make sure they have standard education. A lot of brains were exported from Nigeria coming here to do odd jobs - house helps and very ridiculous things. If government in Nigeria can give us very basic social amenities, a lot of people will be willing to come back home.
Lagos is very close to my heart, it’s nicely developing but other parts of the country as well should have small Scale industries coming up because that is what grows the economy.
If there are small Scale industries a lot of people will consider not going abroad. Some people staying abroad for over seven to 15 years are still doing the same job. When they come to Nigeria they want to paint the picture that everything is right. So elected government officials should instead of just taking money for themselves alone, try to do something in their constituencies. They should go to the schools once in a while and check what they are doing and make them know that they are still under check.
But for you, what was studying in Nigeria like?
When I was in secondary school in Ibadan, we had nice girls and when we were there it was interesting. But after we left my younger sister then was there, the standard of education collapsed and my younger sister had to leave. She left at the junior secondary school level and my dad took her to a private school. That is why a lot of people struggle to send their children to private schools. But how many people have money to take their children to private schools? How many people have money to take their children abroad? They should make Nigeria a place that we can come to and feel at home and not be scared of this or that. If each person in power can just face his own constituency there will be massive development in the country.
I know the youths are really trying because I read a lot about the youths but we need the older ones to at least leave us a legacy, leave us a space to develop up. The youths are really trying because most young people that I know are exposed.
What is your advice to young people aspiring to fulfill their dreams?
My advice to young people is that if they should work hard, they can be who they want to be. They should not be afraid of anything and shouldn’t be afraid to take risk. They should go with their instincts, if your mind tells you to do a thing and your conscience is clear, go for it.
They should not let the voices of too many people distract them from where they are heading. There are a lot of young people who are not really grounded and they are just caught up in too irrelevant things. They should stay focused and should make themselves relevant to their generation. With hard work and prayer, you will make a difference.
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Take the flexible route.
The study of engineering needn’t lead to a career as a practicing engineer in a specific discipline. You can use your engineering knowledge in one of many dynamic career paths. Our program keeps things flexible — simply requiring that you select a minor from another recognized program at UNH. Popular minors include:
- Legal studies — to prepare for law school or a career in patent law
- Biology — to prepare for medical school or a career in medicine or bioengineering
- Management — for those interested in technical management.
- Math or science, followed by an M.S. in Education — for those interested in teaching
- Different engineering disciplines
What if I want to be an engineer, but I’m undecided about which branch to choose, you ask? Then our general engineering program is still right for you. During your first year, you’ll take the same foundation courses as students in specific engineering majors while you make your decision. Then, in your sophomore year, you can make a seamless transition to a specific discipline such as chemical, civil, computer, electrical, or mechanical engineering.
Learn the skills that will bring you success.
You’ll get a comprehensive education that gives you the tools you’ll need for engineering-related careers. We emphasize:
- Analysis and problem solving, with exposure to open-ended problems and design methods
- Acquiring the ability to design and conduct experiments as well as interpret data
- Acquiring the ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
- Teamwork — especially on multidisciplinary teams
- Communication skills
- Ethics and environmental awareness
- The development of character, self-reliance, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills through a high degree of choice, involvement, and responsibility
Your engineering instructors come from our ABET-accredited programs in chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Accessible, engaged, and actively interested in your academic and personal welfare, they will give you guidance and support as you come to a decision on further studies. Once you choose a minor, you will have the advice of faculty in that field as well.
Get the hands-on experience that leads to career opportunities.
As a student at UNH, you’ll be in demand by local companies for part-time and summer jobs as well as internships and co-op positions. Many engineering firms — like Sikorsky and Pratt & Whitney — are within easy commuting distance, as are numerous large corporations and small businesses in a wide spectrum of industries.
After their temporary stints at these companies, many of our students return as permanent, full-time hires after graduation.
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Reverend Martin wrote an interesting piece in the Huffington Post titled “Who Killed Jesus? An Examination of the Evidence“. There are some issues with this article: it doesn’t matter how many scholars write about the Gospels, or what the Catholic Church believes they mean, ultimately those are works of religious teaching and thus are not bound by the rigors of historical scholarship. The writers of the Gospels had a clear agenda, and that was to distance the early Christians from mainstream Jews. Rev. Martin says, “The Gospel accounts are not necessarily eyewitness accounts”. They certainly were not, as people who did not know Jesus personally and were not present during the events wrote these books 35 to 80 years after the events they describe.
Even the title of the piece is problematic, because of his use of the word “evidence”. There is no evidence of the existence of Jesus, let alone of who killed him. Moreover, from a Christian theological perspective one can make the argument that his death was preordained and meant to save everyone, which means that who his killers were is immaterial. I would even venture to say Christians should be grateful to whoever did it.
Rev. Martin makes an interesting point about Bogosian’s supposed Jewish appearance. Indeed, Christianity, from the Gospels onward, taught that Jews were minions of the Devil. Gibson’s film actually portrays a demon, or the Devil himself, moving among the Jews, thus suggesting they were his people.
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Carlos M. Gradil, DVM, PhD, MS, Dipl. ACT
Carlos M. Gradil, DVM, PhD, MS, Dipl. ACT, is a reproductive specialist at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences where he is the equine studies program coordinator and an extension professor. He teaches courses in equine disease and health management, fundamentals of reproduction, and reproductive physiology. Gradil’s research includes fertility in both horses and dogs.
Articles by Carlos Gradil
April 30, 2013
My mare was bred more than 390 days ago and still has not foaled. Is it possible she has grass poisoning? Read More
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In government, the officer who serves as head of state and sometimes also as chief executive. In countries where the president is chief of state but not of government, the role is largely ceremonial, with few or no political powers. Presidents may be elected directly or indirectly, for a limited or unlimited number of terms. In the U.S., the president's chief duty is to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed, which he does through various executive agencies and with the aid of his cabinet. He also serves as commander in chief of the armed forces, nominates judges to the Supreme Court, and makes treaties with foreign governments (contingent on Senate approval). The office of president is used in governments in South and Central America, Africa, and elsewhere. In western Europe executive power is generally vested in a prime minister and his cabinet, and the president, where the office exists, has few responsibilities (though France is a significant exception).
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Later this usage was applied to political leaders, including the leaders of some of the Thirteen Colonies (originally Virginia in 1608); in full, the "President of the Council".. The first President of a country was George Washington, the President of the United States. In America the title was 'upgraded' from its earlier use for the President of the Continental Congress, the "officer in charge of the Continental Congress" since 1774.
As other countries followed the American Revolution, and deposed their monarchies, president was commonly adopted as the title for the new republican heads of state. The first European president was the president of France, a post created in the Second Republic of 1848. (The First Republic had begun with no separate executive, then established five directors, and finally echoed the ancient Roman Republic by appointing three consuls at its head.)
The first president of an internationally recognized African state was the President of Liberia in 1848.
Today, most republics have a President as their head of state.
Presidents in this system are either directly elected by popular vote or indirectly elected by an electoral college.
In the United States of America, the President is indirectly elected by the Electoral College made up of electors chosen by voters in the presidential election. In most U.S. states, each elector is committed to voting for a specified candidate determined by the popular vote in each state, so that the people, in voting for each elector, is in effect voting for the candidate. However, in several close U.S. elections (notably 1876, 1888, 2000), the candidate with the most popular votes still lost the electoral count.
In Mexico, the President is directly elected for a six-year term by popular vote. The candidate who wins the most votes is elected president even if he does not have an absolute majority. In Mexico, every presidential election will always be a non-incumbent election. The 2006 Mexican elections had a fierce competition, the electoral results showed a minimal difference between the two most voted candidates and such difference was just about the 0.58% of the total vote. The Federal Electoral Tribunal declared an elected President after a controversial post-electoral process.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla appointed himself in 82 BC to an entirely new office, dictator rei publicae constituendae causa, which was functionally identical to the dictatorate rei gerendae causa except that it lacked any set time limit, although Sulla held this office for over two years before he voluntarily abdicated and retired from public life. The second well-known incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator Julius Caesar, who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictator-for-life') in 45 BC. His actions would later be mimicked by the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte who was appointed "First Consul for life" in 1802.
Ironically, most leaders who proclaim themselves President for Life do not in fact successfully serve a life term. Even so presidents like Alexandre Sabès dit Pétion, Rafael Carrera, Josip Broz Tito and François Duvalier died in office.
Several presidents have ruled until their death, but they have not officially proclaimed themselves as President for Life. For instance, Nicolae Ceauşescu of Romania, who ruled until his execution (see Romanian revolution). Archbishop President Makarios became president of Cyprus late in his life (in 1960) and ruled until his death in 1977, having successfully won re-election several times.
Furthermore in some nations the Presidency enjoys certain symbols of office, such as an official uniform, decorations, a presidential seal, coat of arms, flag and other visible accessories; military honours such as gun salutes, Ruffles and flourishes, and a presidential guard. A common presidential symbol is the presidential sashes worn by Latin American presidents as a symbol of the presidency's continuity, and presenting the sash to the new president.
However, such an official is explicitly not the president of the country. Rather, he is called a president in an older sense of the word to denote the fact that he heads the cabinet. A separate head of state generally exists in their country that instead serves as the president or monarch of the country.
Thus, such officials are really premiers, and to avoid confusion are often described simply as 'prime minister' when being mentioned internationally.
There are several examples for this kind of presidency:
The head of a university or non-profit corporation, particularly in the United States of America, is often known as president. In university systems with multiple independent campuses, the relationship between the roles of president and chancellor can become quite complicated. President is also a title in many corporations. In some cases the president acts as chief operating officer under the direction of the chief executive officer. Alternatively, in the U.S., the chairperson of the board of directors may be called the president.
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the head of the church is known as the President. Together with his two counselors, they are known as the First Presidency. This pattern is repeated throughout the church in quorums and in other bodies, each of which is led by a president. The Methodist Church in the UK (and also other provinces) is led by the President of the Methodist Council, and assumes the role of leading minister and spokesperson.
Many other organisations, clubs, and committees, both political and non-political are led by Presidents as well. Examples can vary from the President of a political party, to the president of a chamber of commerce, to the President of a students' union and even the president of a high school chess club.
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FARMINGTON — Stonyfield Farm's Sustainability Innovation Project Coordinator Jenna Bourne recently gave a public talk, at the invitation of Farmington Gardeners' Roundtable, on the history of her company and the principles of sustainability that guide it.
Stonyfield, based in Londonderry, is the world's largest producer of organic yoghurt, which means that the cows' milk, and the fruit contained in flavored varieties of yoghurt, must be free of growth hormones, pesticides and all the other chemicals prevalent in much modern day food production. To maintain its “organic” status, Stonyfield is not only audited by an independent agency, but all its upstream suppliers are similarly scrutinized, monitored and tested.
After passing out samples of yoghurt to try, Bourne started out her presentation with a video featuring one of their many milk suppliers, the Teague family, North Carolina farmers who have a dairy herd.
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Stonyfield Farm's Sustainability Innovation Project Coordinator Jenna Bourne, makes a point to her Farmington audience during a talk on sustainable agriculture and organic yoghurt production.
Farmer Teague said that raising his cows the old way, he “used to spray everything” but this did not keep him from going into debt, and, on top of that, from getting sick.
“That was a wake-up call,” he said. “We decided to go organic, or quit. It has had a big impact on our health and out lives. Our vet bills are 10 percent of what they used to be. Our cows are healthy, we feel better, and we could never got back to the old way.”
Although going organic was the right thing to do, said Teague, it was originally an economic decision. The conventional price for a c-weight (cwt) of milk in 2012, said Bourne is $18.44, while Stonyfield pays farmers a guaranteed $26.56 for a cwt of organic milk. A cwt is about 100 pounds.
The reason organic products cost more, explained Bourne, is because there are no chemical shortcuts in their production.
Organic milk comes from small farms, where the cows walk out to their pasture, rather than living all their lives in a factory-type environment, and thus farms are limited by the amount of available grazing land. The cows eat feed that is 100 percent organic and grown in healthy, rich soil that contains no toxic pesticides. The cows, which must graze outdoors at least four months of the year and be treated humanely, cannot be given rBGH. This is a genetically engineered artificial hormone injected into dairy cows to increase milk production.
Stonyfield Farm is active in the fight to have food labelled to reveal the presence of such things as artificial hormones.
“Ninety two percent of Americans want genetically engineered foods labelled. They have a right to know,” Bourne said, noting that such labelling is required by law in many parts of the world, including almost all of Europe, but not in the United States or Canada, where there is a strong lobby opposed to it.
The recent Proposition 37 in California, seeking the labelling of genetically modified foods, was defeated 53 percent to 47 percent, with the pro-labellers being outspent by the anti-labellers by a ratio of 7-1. The label opposers included well-known companies like Monsanto and Hershey, according to campaign finance tracker MapLight.org, as reported on the Huffington Post website. Over $44 million was reportedly spent to defeat Prop. 37 at the ballot box.
“The fight goes on,” Bourne told her Farmington audience. “Customers should vote with their pocket books.” She encouraged everyone to visit the website www.justlabelit.org, the online presence of the pro-label campaign, which is chaired by Gary Hirshberg, who also chairs the board of the Stonyfield Farm company.
Bourne explained that Stonyfield originated from an organic farming school in Wilton in 1983, which started making yoghurt from the milk of seven cows. This sold so well, that the school switched to just being a yoghurt company, and some years later, outgrowing its rural location, built its Londonderry facility. Growth has been steady, even through the recession. In 1989, said Bourne, the company had 42 employees and sold 8,050 cases of yoghurt, valued at $2.5 million. In 2012, the projected figures, with 410 employees, are 800,000 cases valued at $340 million.
Hirshberg, a New Hampshire native, joined the board of the small organic farming school from which Stonyfield was spawned. Previously, he had served as executive director of the New Alchemy Institute, a research and education center dedicated to organic farming, aquaculture and renewable energy.
In 2001, the French company Groupe Danone bought around 40 percent of Stonyfield Farm stock and in 2003 took up 85 percent of Stonyfield Farm, Inc. shares. The remaining 15 percent of shares are owned by Hirshberg and other employees, according to the company's website.
Hirshberg had a long-term arrangement to continue as chairman and president, but on Jan. 12 of the current year, he stepped down from his position as CEO, naming former Ben & Jerry's CEO Walt Freese as his successor. Hirshberg remains chairman of the board of directors at Stonyfield.
The company website notes that there have been and will be no changes to Stonyfield Farm employees, facility and operations resulting from this partnership with Danone. Stonyfield's sales, brand and marketing strategies remain independent from Danone and have been unaltered by the partnership, while milk for their yogurt continues to be supplied by Northeast and Midwest dairy farmers, with Stonyfield continuing its focus on growing the number of organic family farms across the U.S.
Currently, Stonyfield is supplied with its needs, by 200,000 acres of organic farmland.
Bourne noted that Stonyfield's “Profits for the Planet” program, in which 10 percent of prior year's profits are donated to environmental causes, continues as a key example of Stonyfield's environmental mission.
She also revealed that it was Stonyfield that pioneered the foil, peel-off lid, and that each of their 700 million lids carries an environmental message.
One such message, she added, was found to be unacceptable by Congress (a Stonyfield customer.) It read, “In politics, the cream does not always rise to the top.”
The Londonderry facility is a “green” building that has enhanced day lighting through the roof, non-toxic paint, and motion sensor electric lighting. On the roof, is a large array of solar panels, although these only supply a small fraction of the power used in the production process.
The plant's wastewater receives anaerobic hybrid biological treatment and the recovered biogas provides some heat and power.
Bourne said this process lowers their carbon footprint by 30 percent, results in 50 percent lower operating costs and eliminates 98 percent of waste-generated sludge.
“It has paid for itself it less than two years,” she said.
Of Stonyfield's remaining carbon footprint, Bourne said, 43 percent is contributed by cows, which are infamous producers of methane gas, with other notable footprint constituents being packaging (15 percent), manufacturing (11 percent) and distribution (11 percent.)
By working on cost avoidance, $24 million has been saved over the years and this has helped the company to hold onto all its employees during the recession.
Whenever possible, too, Stonyfield chooses to move its products by rail rather than by truck.
“Rail is 11 times better for the environment,” said Bourne.
Stonyfield never seems to rest on its laurels. In 2010, it moved in a big way, to plant-based plastic for package. Made from sugar cane, this reduces carbon emissions by 65 percent, according to Bourne.
Since being hired five years ago, she has encouraged recycling at the factory and this has now risen from 27 percent to over 90 percent.
“I have almost put myself out of a job,” she joked.
The savings from this reduce-reuse-recycle initiative are around $150,000 annually.
To further help the planet, Stonyfield has an commuting incentive policy in place for employees. Those who walk or bike to work are paid an additional $3 a day, while for carpoolers, the driver gets an extra $2 and the passenger a $1 each day.
“I am really proud to work there,” said Bourne, who, at the conclusion of her talk and visual presentation, rewarded the audience with even more cartons of Stonyfield Organic Yoghurt.
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Yesterday I wrote a post on the virtues of shooting film and tips on getting started with black and white film development. Today I stumbled on a very nice Screencast and post on FeelingNegative giving you a general primer on chemicals. If you’re tempted to dive into the process I advice you check it out.
I would still like to add another developer to their Rodinal advise, Kodak HC-110. Like Rodinal it’s a very efficient developer with a very long shelf life when kept in its concentrated sirup form.
The standard dilution for HC-110 is dilution B which is 1+31. 1 part developer on 32 parts of water, which we can easy calculate. Lets say you have a Paterson Universal tank and you want to develop you 35mm film. I use 300ml for doing that (the Paterson Univeral tank says 290ml on the bottom but its a pain to calculate with that number). So all we need to do is dived 300ml in to 32 parts (literally 31+1) which is 9,3ml. Which leads me to my next suggestion, buy a syringe!
To close a link to even more details on HC-110
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While 2011 was the year of the incumbent, 2012 and 2013 may see sweeping change in three of Canada's largest provinces.
As expected, popular incumbents coasted to re-election in P.E.I., Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador last year. Manitobans re-elected the NDP government that first took power in 1999, and in Ontario the Liberals won an election they were on track to lose.
Stephen Harper's Conservatives, holding a minority government for five years, were finally given a majority mandate in May 2011.
The incumbents were on a roll, but it appears that over the next 14 months three incumbent governments could be defeated.
The first to fall could be in Alberta, where the Progressive Conservatives have ruled the roost for 41 years. Though the party has a new leader in Alison Redford, Albertans are turning to the right-wing Wildrose Party, and its leader Danielle Smith, in droves. Polls taken since the election was called last Monday give Wildrose a double-digit lead, an incredible change of fortune for the Tories who, as recently as February, had a double-digit lead of their own.
Albertans elect dynasties. The Progressive Conservatives have become so used to winning that it would appear they have forgotten how to campaign. Though there is potential that Wildrose has peaked too soon, the first week of the campaign has been so disastrous for the Tories that it seems likely that Wildrose will be able to keep the momentum going through the second week of the campaign at the very least. If Alison Redford cannot turn things around in time, the dynastic change will take place on April 23.
The next incumbent government to meet its end could be that of Jean Charest and his Quebec Liberals. The party has governed the province since 2003 and has been re-elected twice since then, despite Charest being one of the most unpopular premiers in the country. A few months ago, it appeared that François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec would sweep the Liberals from power, but Legault's star has since dulled. Instead, the Parti Québécois has taken the lead in the polls and looks poised to become the government after the next election, likely to be held next spring at the latest.
But if the PQ's Pauline Marois is unable to deliver in the next campaign, that does not mean that Jean Charest can expect re-election. His Liberals have remained stagnant in the polls despite the major shift in support between the CAQ and the PQ. Support has almost entirely switched between those two parties, and if Quebecers decide they are not ready to put the PQ back in power, they may turn to François Legault once again.
The third government teetering on the edge is in British Columbia, where Christy Clark's Liberals have trailed the New Democrats in the polls for almost a year. The source of her troubles is primarily the upstart B.C. Conservative Party, which recently gained a floor-crossing Liberal MLA. As right-of-centre British Columbians tire of the Liberals, the consequence of their desire for change could be an NDP government.
Last year demonstrated the advantage enjoyed by incumbents. This advantage will undoubtedly make Alison Redford, Jean Charest and Christy Clark difficult to beat. But last year's federal election results in Quebec also demonstrated that the desire for change is a powerful force -- one these three premiers may not be able to resist.
Éric Grenier taps The Pulse of federal and regional politics for Huffington Post Canada readers on most Tuesdays and Fridays. Grenier is the author of ThreeHundredEight.com, covering Canadian politics, polls, and electoral projections.
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The U.S. president walks past an honor guard after arriving in Ottawa in 2009. (Jim Young / Courtesy Reuters)
Permitting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline should have been an easy diplomatic and economic decision for U.S. President Barack Obama. The completed project would have shipped more than 700,000 barrels a day of Albertan oil to refineries in the Gulf Coast, generated tens of thousands of jobs for U.S. workers, and met the needs of refineries in Texas that are desperately seeking oil from Canada, a more reliable supplier than Venezuela or countries in the Middle East. The project posed little risk to the landscape it traversed. But instead of acting on economic logic, the Obama administration caved to environmental activists in November 2011, postponing until 2013 the decision on whether to allow the pipeline.
Obama’s choice marked a triumph of campaign posturing over pragmatism and diplomacy, and it brought U.S.-Canadian relations to their lowest point in decades. It was hardly the first time that the administration has fumbled issues with Ottawa. Although relations have been civil, they have rarely been productive. Whether on trade, the environment, or Canada’s shared contribution in places such as Afghanistan, time and again the United States has jilted its northern neighbor. If the pattern of neglect continues, Ottawa will get less interested in cooperating with Washington. Already, Canada has reacted by turning elsewhere -- namely, toward Asia -- for more reliable economic partners.
Economically, Canada and the United States are joined at the hip. Each country is the other’s number-one trading partner -- in 2011, the two-way trade in goods and services totaled $681 billion, more than U.S. trade with Mexico or China -- and trade with Canada supports more than eight million U.S. jobs. Yet the Obama administration has recently jeopardized this important relationship. It failed to combat the Buy American provision in Congress’ stimulus bill, which inefficiently excluded Canadian participation in infrastructure spending...
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cold air intakes and pod filters
03-23-2004, 07:43 AM
I have a few questions:
Does a cold air intake or ram pod damage the engine in any way by letting in more road debris like dust and other crap, as opposed to a stock airbox with a panel filter.
Also, is the following a really stupid idea?:
Is it possible to increase torque and throttle response just by adding additional plastic moulds to the sides of the the air intake (from a stock airbox) thereby catching and directing more air into the airbox - basically just directing more air into the intake? Is this a viable and safer alernative to a cold air intake? :screwy:
03-23-2004, 08:16 AM
No, installing an air intake will not damage your car..... lol..... it will give you better performance and run the engine more efficiently as its giving the engine more air than a stock air box.
Don't worry about putting sides or whatever on the stock air box. Get a cold air intake, they're not too expensive and they are worth the cash for the added performance. Once you have a cold air intake, then you can fit sides around it to block off the ehat from the rest of the engine and direct the air straight into the filter which will also give you better performance. Don't bother doing anything with the stock box is what i'm saying basically.
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I'm a little bamboozled over amps with multiple gain settings as described to accomodate a wider variety of headphones.
I googled and read a "gain" article and from that understand high gain increases the amps input sensitivity (decreasing voltage reqd to achieve full rated power) therefore creating a danger of clipping if the source is delivering more voltage than what the corresponding gain setting has done to the input sensitivity voltage.
Conversely, a low gain setting will decrease the sensitivity (increasing the voltage necessary to achieve full rated power) and you might never get the amp to deliver full power.
Is this the same thing as the multiple gain settings on portable headphone amps? I'm getting confused because all the disscussion seems to be on the amp output and how it relates to driving the load vs. how incoming voltage can effect amplifier performance (and thus output load)
Let's say we have a DAC that can output 2.0V and two headphones with equal sensitivity, Headphone A has a flat 40 ohm load and B has a 600 ohm load. Would the A work best with low gain and B with high? Lower impedance wants more current, higher impedance wants more voltage....right?
I'm losing it trying to get my head around this
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THE QUEENS’S LACE HANDKERCHIEF
Operetta by Johann Strauss
In 1879, Johann Strauss was looking for a new libretto, and in a roundabout way he found one. Heinrich Bohrmann, theater director in Pressburg, had an idea for a musical comedy called “Cervantes.” He had asked Franz von Suppé to set it to music, but the latter declined. Through the agency of publisher Gustav Lewy, Bohrmann’s script eventually reached Johann Strauss, who immediately agreed to compose the music, albeit in an adapted form. The operetta premiered under the title “The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief” on October 1, 1880, at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, with a lavish set and prominent cast. By 1900 a hundred performances had taken place in Vienna alone and the piece was working its way into the repertoires of German theatres.
The operetta was inspired by the life and work of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, who turns out to be the real hero of the story. With a couple of intrigues and a brilliant speech, the poet manages not only to save the marriage of the Portuguese king, but also to rescue him from the clutches of scheming advisors. For the young king doesn’t really feel like governing at all, and the country’s prime minister uses the situation to his advantage. By having him brought up as a womanizer and epicurean under the royal tutor Sancho, he effectively keeps the king from his business of running the state and estranges him from the queen in the process.
Thus, Cervantes’ role is to help the queen and reawaken the king’s interest in his wife. This turns out to be a formidable task - especially since the king is convinced the queen is having an affair with the poet. The evidence: one of the queen’s lace handkerchiefs on which she’s supposedly inscribed a declaration of love to the poet. Yet with words well spoken, Cervantes promptly puts a new spin on the romantic message and persuades the king of his wife’s fidelity. To the dismay of his ministers, the poet succeeds in bringing the king to his senses, and the latter realizes it’s time he take responsibility for his country. The king’s initial weariness fades away - his country and marriage are saved…
The audience at the premiere was enthralled by the story’s situation comedy and imaginative power. The press praised the seemingly inexhaustible musical inventiveness of Johann Strauss, and leading Viennese cultural critic Eduard Hanslick prophesied a bright future for the operetta’s waltz motifs. And so it was - the waltz medley “Roses from the South” composed shortly thereafter, with musical themes drawn from “The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief,” is to this day one of Johann Strauss’ most popular compositions.
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For many, a house is not a home without a pet. Designing living spaces with pets' needs in mind doesn't mean sacrificing comfort or style. Julia Szabo, author of Pretty Pet-Friendly, says an animal-friendly house is more comfortable and efficient for humans.
"When you make your home pet-friendly, you're really making it more functional," she says.
Here are some things to keep in mind when designing and decorating around pets.
"Leave the 18th-century French silk textiles in the museums," says Szabo. Swap velvet (also known as the pet hair magnet) and other delicate fabrics for washable slipcovers made of cotton, denim or microfibre fabrics that will stand up against stains and pet hair. "Microfibre is made of millions of microscopic fibres scrunched together so this creates a barrier against pet hair," says Szabo.
Swap leather for faux suede. Leather furniture is seen as a giant rawhide toy in the eyes of your pet. "They smell the leather is made of an animal so they start to chew it," says Szabo. Faux suede gives you the sophisticated look of leather without the inviting aroma and bite marks.
Furniture faux pas
Opt for clean lines, avoiding upholstery with fringes that pets can bat around or buttons they can rip off. Matching colours to your pet's coat can help camouflage pet hair. A white sofa in a home with a black Lab will have you constantly vacuuming, while a honey microfibre that matches your golden retriever will always appear clean even when covered in hair.
Some furniture companies are jumping on the pet-friendly trend and incorporating pet behaviour into their designs. Korean furniture designer Seungji Mun has created the cat tunnel sofa. Combining modern design with ingenuity, the sofa contains a bent tube running from the floor in one corner to the arm rest in the other with a slot cut out in the back for cats to poke their heads through.
"It's fun and it becomes a conversation piece in the room," says Szabo.
Out with the carpet
Carpet absorbs odours, traps pet hair and soaks up "accident" stains. Hardwood floors are simple to clean and add warmth to the room, although dogs' nails can scratch wood. Szabo recommends bamboo flooring. "It's very durable and resistant to scratching," she says.
Ceramic or stone tile are best in a home with pets as they're easy to clean and provide furry friends with a cool place to nap during hot weather. If you must have carpet, Szabo recommends carpet tiles. "It's like a post-it note for the floor," she says. Swapping stained tiles can cost as little as $10, versus the cost of replacing wall-to-wall carpet or regularly renting a carpet cleaner.
"Having pets helps you cut down on clutter," says Szabo. Relocate breakable knick-knacks from coffee tables to higher shelves or behind cabinet doors. "One wag of the tail and all of those things are going to be brushed away," says Szabo.
"Just as you do with a child, you want to get on the floor and view things from the pet's point of view and see where they could get themselves into trouble," says Szabo. Mandy Chepeka of the Ottawa Humane Society recommends pet owners do a pet-friendly sweep - taping loose cords to baseboards and locking hazardous chemicals such as cleaners, fertilizers and insecticides behind cabinet doors.
"Keep garbage cans behind cabinet doors, outdoors or in a garage," says Chepeka. When planning your garden, make sure your yard is fenced in with no holes that pets can escape from and avoid plants such as azalea, rhododendron, sago palm and lilies as these can be harmful to pets.
A design trend
David Beart, who runs the online magazine www.professorshouse. com, is designing The Pet-Friendly House to prove that a home can be both stylish and functional for pets. "This house will be beautiful, elegant and built for a family of 100 - a real mother, father, sister, brother, dog, cat, bird and at least 93 fish," says Beart. The Calgary home will feature pet-accessible entrances and moderate-grade stairs that are easy for Beart's 14-year-old dog Shreddy to climb.
Beart hopes to break ground in 2013 and thinks the project will shed light on the many positive attributes pets can bring to a home.
"It's about making people think of pets with importance rather than as possessions," he says. Designing your home with the needs of furry friends in mind will improve your satisfaction as a pet owner and be more practical in day-to-day life.
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It seems that Russia's defence ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.
Russia's very first smart prototype was presented on the sidelines of a Berlin electronics show this week to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin -- an avowed nationalist who oversees the military's technological innovation.
A slimmed down version of the operating system in computer tablet form is actually meant to go public by the end of the year at a cost of 15,000 rubles ($460) a pop.
But it would hardly be a defence gadget with consumer appeal. Developers at the ministry's Central Scientific Research Institute said their main client is -- and will probably always be -- the state and its top brass.
"The military version will be shock- and water-proof," Russian media quoted production unit director Andrei Starikovsky as telling Rogozin at the presentation.
"The operating system has all the functional capabilities of an Android operating system but none of its hidden features that send users' private data to Google headquarters," the researcher stressed.
Russia's top officials have been unnerved by the idea that data collected and stored for years in Google databases could slip into the hands of the US government and expose some of their most secret and sensitive communications.
Similar fears have already driven other expensive military projects with rewards for the masses that come primarily as an afterthought.
One such invention is GLONASS -- a rival of the Global Position System (GPS) meant to help generals train their missiles on targets without relying on a US system that could be shut down as a precaution at any point.
GLONASS suffered through initial delays and some satellite crashes but was eventually included in the software of Apple's latest iPhone.
But the latest defence project is not entirely an echo of the Cold War.
It is run out of a military research facility but privately funded.
And its developers say that the operating system has been in the works for five whole years for the simple reason that Russians -- mostly those who run ministries and firms such as the state energy behemoth Gazprom -- have little trust in Google's security.
"They are not afraid of Google or the US government stealing things per se. They are afraid of leaks in general," the operating system's project manager Dmitry Mikhailov told AFP.
"There is nothing like this operating system on the market. It is hack-proof," Mikhailov claimed. "There are people who are clamouring for this."
Analysts question whether Russia has enough super-wealthy clients that treasure their records so much they are willing to pay premium prices for a services that in some cases are available elsewhere for free.
"The devil is in the details. If this is purely a defence ministry project, it is doomed," said Russian parliament member and professional IT specialist Ilya Ponomaryov.
"But if this is a completely new operating system made by and for the market, its prospects are as good as anyone else's," Ponomaryov told AFP.
Dmitry Konovalov of the Institute of Strategic Assessment said simply that he thought the tablet "only makes military sense. It makes no commercial sense at all."
But project manager Mikhailov said his company had plenty of pre-orders ahead of the system's release date that promised profits down the line.
"It can go on smartphones as well," he added.
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King Quotes on Social Issues
Our quote section is still under construction-- we will be adding more quotes/sections to it momentarily. Thank you for your patience.
And we are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. (Well) If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. (Yes sir) [applause] If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. (Yes) [applause] If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. (That’s right) [applause] If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to earth. (Yes) [applause] If we are wrong, justice is a lie. (Yes) Love has no meaning. [applause] And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water (Yes) [applause], and righteousness like a mighty stream.
But America, as I look at you from afar, I wonder whether your moral and spiritual progress has been commensurate with your scientific progress. It seems to me that your moral progress lags behind your scientific progress. Your poet Thoreau used to talk about "improved means to an unimproved end." How often this is true. You have allowed the material means by which you live to outdistance the spiritual ends for which you live. You have allowed your mentality to outrun your morality. You have allowed your civilization to outdistance your culture. Through your scientific genius you have made of the world a neighborhood, but through your moral and spiritual genius you have failed to make of it a brotherhood. So America, I would urge you to keep your moral advances abreast with your scientific advances.
Now, I realize that there will be difficulties. Whenever you have a transition, whenever you are moving from one system to another there will be definite difficulties, but I think there is enough brainpower, and I think there is enough determination, enough courage and faith to meet the difficulties as they develop. I often feel like saying, when I hear the question “People aren’t ready,” that it’s like telling a person who is trying to swim, “Don’t jump in that water until you learn how to swim.” When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.
A generation of young people has come out of decades of shadows to face naked state power; it has lost its fears, and experienced the majestic dignity of a direct struggle for its own liberation. These young people have connected up with their own history–the slave revolts, the incomplete revolution of the Civil War, the brotherhood of colonial colored men in Africa and Asia. They are an integral part of the history which is reshaping the world, replacing a dying order with modern democracy.
In sitting down at the lunch counters, [the students] are in reality standing up for the best in the American dream. They courageously go to the jails of the South in order to get America out of the dilemma in which she finds herself as a result of the continued existence of segregation. One day historians will record this student movement as one of the most significant epics of our heritage.
—"The Time For Freedom Has Come," 11 September 1961.
...the past has presented a bill to the present. It will cost society far more than it has ever before expended to educate properly the whole population... we will have to be prepared to pay teachers as professionals. The average income of lawyers is over $12,000 and that of doctors over $18,000 per year. The average of teachers should be no less because their social contribution is certainly no less.
—“Field of Education a Battleground,” 14 March 1964.
Nonviolence is a powerful demand for reason and justice. If it is rudely rebuked, it is not transformed into resignation and passivity. Southern segregationists in many places yielded to it because they realized that the alternatives could be intolerable. Northern white leadership has relied too much on tokens and substitutes, and on Negro patience.
—"Where Do We Go From Here"
Mammoth productive facilities with computer minds, cities that engulf the landscape and pierce the clouds, planes that almost outrace time—these are awesome but they cannot be spiritually inspiring. Nothing in our glittering technology can raise man to new heights, because material growth has been made an end in itself, and in the absence of moral purpose, man himself becomes smaller as the works of man become bigger.
—The Trumpet of Conscience, "Youth and Social Action."
And so the first question that the priest asked, the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by, and he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" That's the question before you tonight.
Was security for some being purchased at the price of degradation for others? Everything in our traditions said this kind of injustice was the system of the past or of other nations. And yet there it was, abroad in our own land. Thus was born—particularly in the young generation—a spirit of dissent that ranged from superficial disavowal of the old values… to wholesale, drastic and immediate social reform.
—"A Testament of Hope," January 1969.
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FAIRMONT - Fairmont Area High School vocations teacher Bob Bonin is a varsity coach, but you won't find him on the field, pitch, court or mat.
You will find him and his team in a classroom, working with computers, soldering irons and wrenches.
Bonin heads up the FIRST Robotics team, a group of boys and girls tasked with designing, building, marketing and competing with a robot designed to complete specific tasks.
RIGHT?IDEA? — Payton Schlomann and Marcus Wiebe work on a prototype robot for their robotics team at Fairmont Area High School.
This year, the bot needs to throw as many flying discs into its team's goal in two minutes and 15 seconds as possible.
It is not a simple task.
The team has met every night for the past four weeks since the challenge was announced, writing code, building prototypes and raising financial support. It runs something like a small company, with each "department" working on a portion of the task.
"This is more than a robot competition," said Bonin, noting that students also can compete in website design, safety animation, ingenuity and more. "There are a lot of different ways to get into robotics."
The team is part of FIRST Robotics, an organization begun in the early 1990s to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people. The program is designed to build self-confidence, knowledge and life skills while motivating young people to pursue opportunities in science, technology and engineering.
And it has been successful locally since Fairmont's team got started five years ago. Bonin said five students who have been involved in the program have gone on to study mechanical engineering at the college level, a few of whom had no expectation of pursuing the field before joining the team.
"We are putting grads out that are using these complicated skills," Bonin said.
Statewide, schools are having similar results since starting their own robotics teams.
According to Bonin, the number of students enrolled in the University of Minnesota's college of science and technology that have participated on robotics teams is six times higher than it was in 2008.
And the U isn't the only school looking for robotics students. College recruiters are commonplace at robotics competitions, as schools seek those students showing promise in science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called STEM careers.
Fairmont senior Marcus Wiebe is one of those students. He plans to attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology next year to study mechanical engineering, a path he chose after participating on the robotics team.
"This definitely helped push me to know, 'Yes, this is what I want to do.'" he said.
But the program isn't just for those wanting to dedicate their lives to building complicated machinery.
Senior Payton Schlomann, involved with the team for three years and currently serving as an overseer, has no plans to pursue a STEM degree next year. He is planning to major in music.
"I do this because it is really fun," he said. "It is a hobby."
Schlomann said moving up the ranks on the team has been something he has really enjoyed. The robotics season ensures students new to the program are ushered in with the mentoring of veterans.
The robotics year begins in January, with its biggest competition soon after. By the end of the school year, the state and national qualifying rounds are complete. Over the summer, students compete at the state fair, and when the new students arrive in the fall, the season is winding down, allowing older kids to teach the newbies what they have done and how they did it. When January rolls around with the announcement of a new task, everyone on the team has had a least a little experience.
Lucas Jedlicka was one of those newbies this fall. Jedlicka enjoys the programming aspect of robotics. With the exit of the previous programming guru - former teacher Mike Plucinski - Jedlicka was tasked with learning a new programming language quickly and proficiently.
He joined the team because a friend was going to the first meeting and he tagged along. His friend didn't join, but Jedlicka did. Now he is writing code in Java, a real-world programming language he will be able to use in the years ahead.
Former Fairmont grad Brian Sokoloski, an employee at Kahler Automation, has been helping Jedlicka a couple times per week. Sokoloski graduated in 2006, before the robotics program began, but also before the school discontinued its computer programming classes. He decided to volunteer because he believes in the program, and he thinks it is fun.
"I love it," he said. "I love the unknown of trying to solve a problem."
Robotics programs across the state, but especially in the Twin Cities, are known for having community mentors - it is something highly valued by FIRST - but it has been slow in coming locally. Sokoloski is the first community mentor locally, but the team is actively recruiting.
Mentors don't do the work for students, Bonin said. They are just there to help the students talk through a problem. In fact, Fairmont's team has a reputation for having students work out their machine's problems. Bonin and the other teacher-mentors try to stay out of their way.
The experience of problem-solving is another way the program has helped students gain real-world skills.
"The first three years it was heavily mentor-driven - now it is kid-led, the way it is supposed to be," Bonin said.
But all this does come at a cost. Fairmont's team receives no funding from the school, and a bare-bones program costs about $16,000. The solution has been financial support from local businesses.
3M provides more than half of the funding, at $9,000 per year.
The robotics marketing team has been tasked with writing support letters and maintaining a presence with local companies.
"We are bringing in our own sponsors," Bonin said.
Over the past five years, the program has seen success at regional and metro competitions, and Bonin said the program is changing students for the better.
"We are such a different program than when we started," he said. "We've grown, we've matured. ... It makes the school stronger. Kids start saying, 'I want to learn math; I want to learn science.'"
But the team isn't resting on its success. Bonin hopes to see an increase in girls joining. He is making plans to bring the robot to Girl Scouts and the elementary school to show kids it is fun and accessible. He also hopes to increase the number of community mentors and bring the team to local companies for tours.
"A lot of our kids don't know what happens in the buildings they drive by," he said. "The more we can connect these kids to real world situations, the more they can come back and say, 'Yes, this is what I want to do.'"
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August 6th, 2012
Just A Drop – Haiti Project Update
Article 25 C.E.O. Robin Cross has recently returned from Haiti, following a feasibility study of four locations on the island for school sanitation improvements. This project aims to provide desperately needed clean water to combat Cholera and save the lives of some of the most vulnerable children by providing an affordable and sustainable clean water supply.
The team in Haiti visited four sites located in Malte Peralte, Thomassique, Hinche and Petionville. Of these four sites, three are located in the Central Plateau region of the country, an area with a long standing history of Cholera resulting from poor sanitation and clean water supply; the other site is a larger school closer to the capital of Port au Prince.
Inspections of the Central Plateau sites revealed that 2 out of 3 were suitable for sanitation improvement works. Plans to use rain water collection at the sites of Malte Peralte and Hinche will feature hygienic latrines and hand washing facilities. The water will be filtered into storage tanks where it will be pumped to above ground header tanks; gravity pressurised piping will then provide a much needed alternative to the current turbid water supply from local rivers and truck delivery.
Unfortunately after closer inspection a site in Thomassique has shown structural defects requiring further technical attention before sanitation works can be carried out.
However the final site in Petionville is viable for building works to commence. Supporting a larger number of students and staff than sites in the Central Plateau, Petionville requires improvements to toilet and clean water supplies to ensure the good health of students and staff alike.
Previous Article 25 projects were revisited, including “De Michel School” and “Croix Des Missions” with both schools delivering a clean and sustainable water supply. Improvements are modest but have made a dramatic difference to the quality of life of the children and greatly reduced the risk of water borne disease such as Cholera.
Article 25 was represented in Haiti by C.E.O. Robin Cross who unfortunately, along with other team members, succumbed to Dengue fever. Although some members continue to suffer from symptoms Robin has made a full recovery and is hard at work back at Article 25 HQ!
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Most exercise-related injuries have the same basic cause - the overstressing of muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and other tissue. With sufficient precautions and care, risks can be minimized. Warming up slowly and cooling down properly can help prevent many stress injuries. To be effective, your warm-up and cool-down exercises should use the same muscles as your main exercise. For example, if you jog, begin by walking for several minutes, then jog slowly, before breaking into a full stride. Do this before and after your regular exercise. Every athlete should include a 15-minute warm up and cool down program as part of the workout. This will increase flexibility, reduce muscle soreness, and improve overall performance. Other good principles to follow during exercise are: know your body's limitations and warning signals; drink plenty of water; and never combine heavy eating with heavy exercising. For more information on the benefits of warming up and cooling down, consult a physician.
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”I dumb down for my audience/ double my dollars…” – “Moment of Clarity”, Jay-Z
Recently, students at Garvey University sponsored a debate between noted historian Dr. T. Asante Shakur and Professor Darwin J. Watson, author of the best selling book, Blacks Are Dumb…Get Over It! While Dr. Shakur feverishly went through an hour long, high powered PowerPoint presentation, highlighting indisputable evidence of Black contributions to civilization over the last 5,000 years, Watson just listened quietly with a confident grin on his face. When it was his turn to speak, he just walked over to the podium, told the sound man to pump up the local Hip-Hop station, and yelled “Booyah!!!” before leaving the stage, confident that he had proven his point…
Since this country was founded, the myth of Black intellectual inferiority has been a controversial topic. However, in 2012, it is imperative that we ask the question, “does the commercial Hip-Hop that is constantly pumped on the radio refute the myth or help to perpetuate it?”
According to John S. Haller, in his book, Outcasts from Evolution, the “scientific” basis for the Black intellectual inferiority myth was started around 1735 by Carl Von Linnaeus, who used skin color to describe , “racial character, personality traits, behavior, intelligence” etc. Linnaeus’s work set the stage for the theories of scientists such as Charles Darwin, William Shockley, Nobel Prize winner James Watson, and many others.
What is most disturbing about the myth is that it does not match up with historical facts.
As an example, George GM James wrote in his classic book, Stolen Legacy, that “the true authors of Greek philosophy were not the Greeks but the people of North Africa, commonly known as the Egyptians.” Also, although many people are familiar with Dr. WEB Du Bois’s book, Souls of Black Folk, relatively few are hip to his essay “Souls of White Folk,” where he wrote “Europe has never produced and never will in our day, bring forth a single human soul who cannot be matched and over matched in every human endeavor by Asia and Africa.”
Unfortunately, these facts have been rarely taught in history classes. Historically, the American educational system (as well as religious and political institutions) has been used to advance the idea that African Americans are less intelligent than Whites. Hip-Hop is not exempt.
Back in the day, groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and Boogie Down Productions used “edutainment” to inspire a whole generation to read books like The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and They Came Before Columbus by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima.” However, this was skillfully replaced by the mythological “street knowledge” popularized by NWA on their song “Straight Outta Compton” in 1988.
In his essay, “The Black Child,” Dr. Bobby Wright defined the “street mentality” as the myth that “Whites do not control the streets in the Black community nor the behavior of Blacks on those streets.” He argued that “Whites have more control, or at least as much control over brothers and sisters in the streets than over those in universities.”
Gradually, dumb became the new smart and reading became something for suckers.
Also, during this period Hollywood became “Holly’hood,” as the intellectual Spike Lee movies were replaced by gangsta flicks. Perhaps the biggest turning point is a result of what Enisoto Adika Ekunsirinde coined the “O Dog Theory.” He argues that before the 1993 ‘hood classic, Menace II Society, the audience would identify with the “positive brother” in a movie, but after “Menace” they began to celebrate the thugged-out, “O Dog” characters rather than the “smart brothers” like “Sharif.”
Things have not changed much in almost 20 years.
Unfortunately, there are still Black men trying to live up to the stereotype of being “real n*ggas” by perpetuating ignorance through Hip-Hop. No matter how you feel about the use of the N-word, it’s origin is rooted in racial inferiority. Strangely, the concept of taking “ownership of the word” and changing the perception did not originate in Hip-Hop. According to Dr. Randall Kennedy in his book, nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, it was a White comedian, Lenny Bruce, who in 1963, popularized the erroneous concept that overusing the word would take the sting out of it.
As we get ready for another Black History Month, I suggest that instead of discussing the “plantation work songs” and “Negro spirituals” like we usually do, we focus on an issue that this generation is facing today.
How do we take our music and our minds back?
While it may be true that the proverbial “they” control the air waves, that doesn’t mean that “they” should control our brain waves. So much so that we don’t even question the “menticide” that is being waged against the youth. When the radio DJ says that he is just “playing what the people want to hear,” we just accept it as fact and keep it movin’. We have bought into the stereotype that the only music we want to hear is about Maybachs, murder and misogyny.
Where is it written in the Hip-Hop rule book that we can’t hear a classic Rakim or Intelligent Hoodlum joint on the radio? Not to mention the work of underground artists in ‘hoods across the country who are hungry to speak Truth to power.
We need a Black History Month Radio Rebellion to demand change, and there is no better time than right now! We need to use our cells, Twitter, e-mail, etc. to tell radio station programmers that we want to hear something other than what they are currently force feeding us.
Sadly, like the Jim Brown character told Ving Rhames in the underground movie, Animal, “being stupid is a choice, too.” Some people actually like sitting in the back of the short school bus and will entirely miss the point.
But as A Tribe Called Quest said on “Jazz:”
“I don’t really mind if it’s over your head/ ‘Cuz the job of resurrectors is to wake up the dead.”
TRUTH Minista Paul Scott’s weekly column is “This Ain’t Hip Hop,” a column for intelligent Hip Hop headz. He can be reached at email@example.com, on his website at www.nowarningshotsfired.com, or on Twitter (@truthminista).
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Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
reviewed by Dr. Alison Kafer
Feminist Studies Program
As an academic, reading is something I do without thinking much about it. I might plot out where I’m going to read (the sofa? the coffee shop?) or what I’m going to read when (novels on airplanes, newspapers with breakfast), but the act of reading itself is something I rarely contemplate. Such inattention is one of reading’s pleasures: getting lost in a book means getting so caught up in its ideas that the rest of the world falls away. Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran is a love letter to reading (and, of sorts, to Tehran, but we’ll get to that later), but the reading she encourages is a more self-conscious one. Although Nafisi writes about her own moments of such captivated reading, reading to have the world drop away, her aim is pedagogical: she wants her readers to think about what it means to read, how we read, and what such reading gives us.
Reading Lolita tells the story of a small group of women, seven of Nafisi’s favorite students, who hold a private class on western literature in Nafisi’s home in the Islamic Republic of Iran. For two years, the group met every Thursday morning to discuss works of fiction, but as Nafisi demonstrates, talking about Nabokov’s Lolita requires talking about Tehran, and the group’s discussions stretched accordingly. Nafisi’s passion is to explore the interplay between text and reader, and throughout her memoir, she lets her experiences of Tehran instruct and inform the books under discussion.
Nafisi structures Reading Lolita around four literary giants—Nabokov, Fitzgerald, James, and Austen—and she uses each author to explore a facet of life in Tehran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Her first chapter, “Lolita,” serves as an overview of Nafisi’s reading group, introducing us to each of her students and describing the circumstances of their meeting. Although she warns against casting her and her students as Lolita, it’s clear that her reading of the novel colors her reading of Iran. Nafisi explains that what makes Humbert the villain of Lolita is his lack of curiosity, his insistence on “his own vision of other people.” She indicts the Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers for similar crimes, for trying “to shape others according to their own dreams and desires” (48, 33). Women in Iran, she writes, “had become the figment of someone else’s dreams,” and Nabokov excelled at “expos[ing] all solipsists who take over other people’s dreams” (28, 33).
In “Gatsby,” her second chapter, Nafisi gives a brief history of the Islamic Revolution, its motivations, its dreams, its schisms. She writes about the narrowing of revolutionary visions, the sacrifice of personal liberties in the name of “the cause,” and the silencing of dissent. She uses this chapter, then, to continue her ruminations on dreams, on the ways in which people get caught up in other people’s dreams as well as their own. Gatsby is destroyed, she argues, by trying to impose his perfect dreams on an imperfect reality, an act similar to those of Iran’s revolutionaries: “Was this not similar to our revolution, which had come in the name of our collective past and had wrecked our lives in the name of a dream?” (144). In the face of such repression, Nafisi celebrates the power of fiction to unsettle us, to make us “consider the world…through different eyes” (94).
“James” begins in 1980 at the dawn of the Iran/Iraq War. Nafisi intertwines excerpts from Henry James’ writings about WWI with her own descriptions of the Iran/Iraq War and its impact on her students, her classrooms, herself. She sets both of these war stories alongside her battles with the university. Early in “James,” Nafisi is expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil in the classroom, and she describes both her expulsion and the institution of compulsory veiling as a process of “becoming irrelevant.” If Nabokov provides Nafisi with stories to understand the villain in the novel, James offers her a glimpse of the hero, “one who safeguards his or her individual integrity at almost any cost” (224).
In “Austen,” Nafisi’s own struggle for personal integrity, a theme that runs throughout the book, reaches its climax. As she debates whether to leave Iran for the United States, Nafisi uses Austen’s treatment of social expectations and mores, and their effects on personal relationships, as the backdrop for her reflections on the toll of living in the Islamic Republic. We read extended conversations among her students about the strict codes of conduct placed on her students’ relationships to each other, to their beloveds, to their faith.
One of the greatest crimes of the regime, in Nafisi’s eyes, is its failure to distinguish reality from imagination, a failure that leads to the condemnation of all works of fiction not deemed “revolutionary” enough; Lolita, The Great Gatsby,andDaisy Miller were all faulted by the regime’s supporters for spreading moral corruption. Nafisi counters such claims partly by suggesting they result from misreading the novels’ own critiques, but mostly she insists that novels are not reality and the imagination is not to be patrolled. The power and beauty of the novel—and its transgressive potential—stems from its democratic nature, its ability to convey multiple opinions and perspectives.
Indeed, throughout her memoir, Nafisi reminds us of the power of fiction; novels not only help us cope with stressful experiences (as when she loses herself in novels during the long nights of the war) but they also serve as potent resources for resistance. Fiction cultivates our imaginations, gives us a way to understand the worlds we live in, the worlds we remember, the worlds we hope for (282). Quoting from James, she argues that when we find ourselves being made into the figments of others’ imaginations, “[w]e must for dear life make our own counter-realities” (216).
This assertion takes on another hue in light of the criticism Nafisi has received from scholars such as Fatemeh Keshavarz, author of Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran. Keshavarz faults Nafisi for crafting an orientalist narrative, one that perpetuates western stereotypes of Iran as barbaric, Islam as populated only by militant extremists, and Muslim women (or women living in predominately Muslim countries) as hopelessly oppressed. It’s hard to dispel Keshavarz’s fears that the book will be taken up in exactly those ways. As even a cursory search of news headlines reveals, media outlets in the United States tend to present the experiences of Muslim women as beginning and ending with the veil, a practice typically presented as inherently oppressive. Nafisi’s own focus on the veil does little to counter such assumptions, and she barely addresses the problem of western misperceptions of Iran and Islam.
But here it might be useful to return to this notion of Reading Lolita as a love letter to Tehran. Love letters are often written to absent or missing loves, even lost loves, and thus carry a yearning for what is no longer present. Nafisi’s memoir is imbued with a longing for a city, a country, that has largely disappeared. But the longing remains, and its persistence makes clear that Nafisi’s departure was not easy or simple, that Iran maintains a presence in her imagination, and that she continues to draw inspiration from Iran’s artists, dissidents, and intellectuals. We are left with Nafisi’s hope that things will again be otherwise.
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Hungary's Orban says crisis may overstretch Europe's democracies
BERLIN (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Europe's democracies might not be up to coping with the crisis they face, making the case in an interview for the "presidential" form of leadership that has let him drive through tough reforms at home.
A fiercely independent leader whose economic and social policies have drawn protests from foreign investors, governments and international bodies, Orban told German business daily Handelsblatt he was "a passionate supporter of democracy".
"But the question has to be asked if the leadership structures in democratic systems are still up to the times," he said, citing the challenges of dealing with sovereign debt crises and reforming social welfare states.
That could not become a taboo in the event of a weakness of leadership, Orban said in an interview published hours ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"Our current democratic systems have built-in weaknesses," he said, referring to Europe. "A presidential system is probably more suitable than a parliamentary system in times when difficult reforms need to be pushed through."
Since winning an election in 2010, Orban has drawn heavy criticism from among others the European Union and the International Monetary Fund for pushing through reforms that opponents say threaten the independence of the country's media, judiciary and central bank.
He has yielded ground on some of these issues.
Orban said U.S. presidents had the power to push through tough decisions "against the will of the people if they are important for the country's future".
Within five years, Europe would be debating whether it needed stronger presidents based on that model.
"The longer the (debt) crisis lasts, the louder the calls will be for strong political leadership," he said. "We've got to find democratic answers to that as soon as possible."
The government, dominated by Orban's Fidesz party, has a two-thirds majority in parliament. It is among the most stable in the EU even though public support for the party has crumbled to around 16-18 percent, according to opinion polls that also showed half the electorate undecided.
In the interview, Orban also said it would be irresponsible for Hungary to join the euro now as the key lesson to be learned from the debt crisis was that southern states had joined the currency zone before they were ready.
"We are not going to repeat that mistake," he said.
(Additional reporting by Gergely Szakacs in Budapest; Editing by John Stonestreet)
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Jesus of Nazareth
- 30 CE
). Born, most likely out of wedlock, to Joseph
, a carpenter, and Mary
, a teenager. Despite what Catholics
might try to make you believe, the Bible strongly implies
he was the eldest of several children born to the couple1
. Little is known about Jesus' life until he was about 30 years old, at which point he stopped being a carpenter
and started being a prophet
. Having been an adherent of the Pharisee
sect since his teens, he preached a more radical version of their creed
, expanding on the traditional Pharisaical
notions of resurrection
of the law
. His opposition to the practices of the Temple
leaders of his day made him unpopular, and the Sadducee
s loathed him still more. (His brother James
was subsequently assassinated by them by stoning2
In about the year 784 AUC
, during the governorship of Pontius Pilate
, Jesus went to Jerusalem
, feeling that he had to make his message more widely heard, even if it were to cost him his life. In the short period that followed, Jesus started a riot
in the outer court of the temple in protest against the mercenary acts of the authorities. Caiaphas
the High Priest bribed Judas Iscariot
, one of Jesus' close friends, to track down the prophet. Jesus was arrested and tried for blasphemy
. Pilate was unhappy about the verdict, but being a weak
man did not attempt to overturn it. He tried to get a popular pardon for Jesus in honour of the approaching Passover
, but at the instigation of Caiaphas, the crowd demanded the terrorist Jesus Barabbas
be released instead. Jesus bar-Joseph was taken and executed by crucifixion
at a place called Golgotha
. He died fairly rapidly by the standards of crucifixion victims, and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea
The above is, if not indisputable, at least fairly widely accepted.
Were he working today, Jesus would very likely be preaching against the church authorities who persist in maintaining sexist employment policies, televangelists
who make money at a rate the temple moneychangers would have envied, and all the bigots who 'confess and call themselves Christians
' but screw the world up for everyone.
Jesus is also seen spelled 'Jesu', 'Iesu', 'Yeshua', 'Y'Shua' and 'Joshua'.
I love the non-subjective nature of Webster's definition.
1: There's no word for cousin in Hebrew, and although the gospels were not written in Hebrew, it is possible that the 'brothers and sisters' references mean cousins, as the speakers (where the expression appears in reported speech) would have been speaking Aramaic. I don't personally believe so, but it's fair to note that this is another reading. Thanks to lordsibn for the pointer.
2: According to Josephus, James was 'delivered up to be stoned'. Hegesippus claims they tried defenestration first, and then stoned and clubbed him to finish the job.
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By Frédéric Chopin / ed. Willard A. Palmer / perf. Valery Lloyd-Watts
Alfred Masterwork CD Edition
Book & CD
The 10 pieces in this book are arranged in approximate order of difficulty and include "Album Leaf," the easiest mazurkas, preludes and more. Each are in their original form and retain the sensitive, expressive character that earned Chopin the title "Poet of the Piano." Derived from "Chopin-An Introduction to His Piano Works," this edition is intended for students in the early grades. Willard Palmer has provided notes on ornamentation, pedaling and fingering. Valery Lloyd-Watts has beautifully recorded all the pieces in the book, included on Compact Disc.
Valery Lloyd-Watts studied at the Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Royal College of Music in London. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied with Paul Badura-Skoda.
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59. But when two brethren were coming to him, the water failed on the way, and one died and the other was at the point of death, for he had no strength to go on, but lay upon the ground expecting to die. But Antony sitting in the mountain called two monks, who chanced to be there, and urged them saying, Take a pitcher of water and run on the road towards Egypt. For of two men who were coming, one is already dead and the other will die unless you hasten. For this has been revealed to me as I was praying. The monks therefore went, and found one lying dead, whom they buried, and the other they restored with water and led him to the old man. For it was a days journey 1104 . But if any one asks, why he did not speak before the other died, the question ought not to be asked. For the punishment of death was not Antonys but Gods, who also judged the one and revealed the condition of the other. But the marvel here was only in the case of Antony: that he sitting in the mountain had his heart watchful, and had the Lord to show him things afar off.
For similar cases, cf. Phantasms of the Living, vol. 2, p. 368, &c.
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SUGGESTED CHECKLIST FOR THOSE BEGINNING TO HOMESCHOOL
Wyoming Home Education Law
Wyoming Home Education law requires the teaching of a "basic educational program" by the child's parent or legal guardian or by a person designated by the parent or legal guardian. "Basic educational program" is one that provides a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science. These curriculum requirements do not require any private school or home-based educational program to include in its curriculum any concept, topic or practice in conflict with its religious doctrines or to
exclude from its curriculum any concept, topic or practice consistent with its religious doctrines.
Attendance is required for children whose seventh birthday falls on or before Sept. 15 and
through their sixteenth birthday or completion of the 10th grade.
Homeschool families are required to submit a curriculum to the local board of trustees each year showing that the program complies with the educational requirements of the state. Most Wyoming homeschool families meet this requirement by sending a form supplied to HSLDA members or a letter with the required information at the beginning of each school year. A sample letter of intent can be found here. A minimum of 175 days of attendance is required yearly.
This summary is intended as a guide and not legal advice.
Back-to-School — Notifying Your School District
by Laurie Poch
Once again Wyoming school districts are sending out a packet to homeschooling families insisting we must sign and return several different forms.
Do we really have to do all that stuff?? NO!! What the district is asking for is NOT required by state law!
According to the Home School Legal Defense Association (from a letter previously sent by them to a school district), "Neither state nor federal law requires a home school family to return the 'Non-public School Participation Form' or the 'Verification of Home School Participation' form you sent them.
While we appreciate your informing families of their opportunity to participate, it would be more helpful if you would be clearer about their legal obligations.
In the future, I suggest you revise your form letter to state, 'If you wish to participate in any public school services, please return these forms.
If you have any questions about the forms, please feel free to contact us.'
"...Some families may choose to use your 'Intent to Home School' form, whereas others may use HSLDA's 'Wyoming Submission of Curriculum' form which is available for our members on our website.
I am advising our member families that they are under no obligation to send in the 'Non-public School Participation Form' unless they wish to receive federal flow-through funds under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
I am furthermore advising our member families that they are under no obligation to return your 'Verification of Home School Participation' form.
I assume that families that do wish to participate will choose to send in this form, however."
All we need to turn in is a simple letter of intent-a letter stating that we are homeschooling this year-and a "curriculum."
A curriculum can be a scope and sequence, or a list of textbooks and publishers you are using. Your letter of intent can be very simple.
You can use the form the school district sends, you can use the one provided by HSLDA on their website, www.HSLDA.org, or you can write your own.
Below is an example of a simple letter of intent.
It's important to know what the Wyoming homeschool law says so you can't be "railroaded" into doing something you don't have to do.
HSLDA recommends that you never provide more information than necessary. Remember you only need to report compulsory school age students.
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Sun Sheds Light on Telework Savings
Sun is an old hand when it comes to telework. The technology company has been expanding its telecommuting ranks through its Open Work program for a decade, and today nearly 19,000 employees (56% of Sun's opulation) work from home or in a flexible office.
With that experience comes plenty of knowledge -- about which jobs are best suited for teleworking, which technologies make it work, and how to train home-based employees and their managers, for example. But there was one question Sun couldn't answer until now: Does teleworking really save energy, or does it just transfer energy consumption and costs to employees?
"We sell servers that are improving the carbon footprint. Can we really say the same thing about how our employees are working? Are we really reducing the carbon footprint of our employees and saving money, or are we merely transferring costs from the company to the employees who work from home?" asks Kristi McGee, senior director for Sun's Open Work services group. "That's really the question we were trying to answer."
The company launched a study to measure how much energy is consumed while working in a Sun office, while working at home, and while commuting to and from a Sun office. It outfitted study participants with P3 International's Kill A Watt meter, a kilowatt-hour monitor that taps into a power supply and measures electricity consumption at a workstation.
By comparing home and work energy use, the company found that office equipment in a Sun office consumed energy at a rate twice that of home office equipment. Study participants averaged approximately 64 watts per hour at home compared with 130 watts per hour at a Sun office.
Employees who eliminated the commute to a Sun office also slashed their carbon footprints, McGee says. Sun found that commuting accounted for more than 98% of each employee's work-related carbon footprint, while powering office equipment made up less than 1.7% of a person's total work-related carbon emissions.
By eliminating commuting 2.5 days per week, an employee reduces the energy used for work by the equivalent of 5,400 kilowatt hours each year.
"Not only did we find that the energy used by working in the office was about twice as much as what was used when working from home, which was a significant difference; but what we found also had a huge impact was the energy consumption used in the commute," McGee says.
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First graders continue to explore and investigate their world on a personal level through a monthly thematic science curriculum. Solids, Liquids, & Gases are creatively presented through cooking and are further developed by literature, reading, writing, social studies, and mathematics. Your child will make connections to the real world by experiencing a walking field trip to the local bakery.
In the science module, Weather, wonderful literature and poetry abounds! Your child will engage in setting up a classroom weather station, monitoring daily changes, and responding with authentic writing activities and connections to mathematics.
In Plants and Animals, students study the growth process of plants and discover ways to propagate new plants, focusing on scientific observations, journaling, and describing. Your child will help create a classroom garden, visit several gardens in his/her community and explore other gardens in the country through literature. The study of different plant and animal habitats will culminate with a visit to the Santa Barbara Zoo.
Throughout the school year, the focus will be on hands-on activities, allowing your child to discover the world around him/her and to develop vocabulary and reading comprehension skills necessary to support learning.
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Local law enforcement agencies crack down on distracted driving
Tickets issued for texting, handheld cell phone use and other distractions
It’s a habit many drivers simply just can’t break: texting or holding the cell phone to talk while driving.
Starting Monday, it’ll be even more likely that drivers breaking the law will get caught.
The California Office of Traffic Safety, the California Highway Patrol and Sacramento Police, along with dozens of other law enforcement agencies, will be cracking down on all types of distracted driving, as part of a two-week, federally-funded pilot program that could go national.
They’ll focus on four areas: south Sacramento, Stockton, Yuba City and Auburn.
“People putting on makeup, individuals shaving, reading newspapers, people messing with their iPads or iTouches ... if it’s affecting your ability to operate a vehicle safely, it’s a concern for us and you’re going to get cited for that,” CHP spokesperson Officer Adrian Quintero told KCRA 3.
According to the California Office of Traffic Safety, 3,092 people were killed, and an estimated 416,000 others were injured, in car crashes involving a distracted driver in 2010.
Despite repeated warnings from law enforcement, many drivers are still using their cell phone, according to data from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
The department reported 460,487 handheld cell phone convictions in 2011, about 100,000 more than the year before.
“When an emergency happens, or somebody stops right in front of you, or there’s debris in the road, (distracted driving) will affect your ability to respond to that hazard,” Quintero said.
Quintero said officers will have zero tolerance and will cite all offending drivers.
A first-time ticket will cost a minimum of $159, while the second fine will be $279.
Copyright 2013 by KCRA.com All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Using water more than once helps save energy
Saving energy through the use of an innovative filter technology in Vienna's public swimming pools
The water in Vienna's public swimming pools has to be changed frequently, a process that consumes great quantities of water and energy. Novel filter technology is being used to reduce the water changing intervals, thereby saving 50% of water and energy input while ensuring compliance with rigorous sanitary standards. Installation of the filters and supplementary energy-saving measures are carried out by private contracting partners who also guarantee that the equipment functions reliably and both water and energy consumption are reduced.
Contracting for energy-saving measures most frequently involves evaluating technologies used in building installations, such as ventilation, heating and the provision of hot water. Vienna's public swimming pools require huge quantities of heated and chemically treated water. To cover this need, the City Administration uses what it calls an "energy-saving contracting model". The first step in implementing this model was to invite a group of selected companies to participate in an ideas competition for a new technology that would effectively reduce water consumption. After the technology with the maximum reduction potential (a new filter system) had been identified, the contract was awarded and the new system installed in cooperation with the contracting partners.
The new filter technology meets Vienna's rigorous sanitary standards. Although the water remains within the pool-filter cycle for a longer period than previously, the filter performance remains undiminished. As impurities and combined chlorine are effectively removed in each cycle, the water needs to be changed less frequently. The central element of the filter equipment is a sand filter with an activated carbon layer. In this filter, impurities that are dissolved in the water attach themselves to the surface of the sand grains and are thus removed from the swimming pool water. Combined chlorine is eliminated by the activated carbon layer, and most of the water can be fed back into the cycle after this process. The speed of the filter process is regulated through pressure control (overpressure/negative pressure). The filters are automatically cleaned by backwashing at night. The backwash water is subsequently cleaned, and heat is withdrawn from it by a heat exchanger before it is used for lawn sprinkling or discharged to the sewer system.
The advantage of the new filter technology for Vienna's public swimming pools is that it reduces the need for water, energy and chemicals, so that both operating cost and the environmental footprint of the swimming pool are reduced.
Installation and maintenance of the necessary equipment are financed by the contractor, and repayments are made by the City Administration (Municipal Department 44, Municipal Swimming Pools) strictly in line with plant performance, i.e. the amount saved on energy and water. After the repayment period - approximately ten years - the savings become effective in the Municipal Swimming Pools budget.
Facts & Figures
- 38 public swimming pools
- 11 of which apply the "energy-saving contracting model"
- Total number of visitors per year: more than 4 million
- Capital investment of EUR 33 million in 2001-2011
- Annual savings: approx. EUR 3,36 million; energy saved: 25,240 MWh; water saved:
- Reduction of water consumption: approx. 55%
- Reduction of energy required for heating: approx. 50%
- Reduction of CO2 generation: 3,733 t/year
- Ideas competition (two-stage process, pre-selected group)
- Jury decision (preset evaluation criteria)
- 1-2 rounds of negotiations
- Assessment by the committee awarding the contract
Prizes and awards:
- 2001 "Energieprofi" Award of ÖGUT (Austrian Society for Environment and Technology) for the Simmering public swimming pool
- 2007 EU Energy Award (for the Floridsdorf swimming pool)
- 2007 Best European Energy Project of the EU (for the Brigittenau swimming pool)
- 2008 "Green Building Partner Award 2008" of the EU Commission (for the Floridsdorf swimming pool)
- Gesellschaft für Wassertechnik (GWT)
DI (FH) Volker Schaffler
Tel. +43 1 4000 84269
Fax +43 1 4000 7997
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Aerodynamics – How does the shape of a vehicle affect the speed it will travel?
A laboratory workshop looking at the effect of aerodynamics on vehicle design. Pupils will constructmodels, and conduct tests in the physics laboratory to identify the designs with the best aerodynamic features. This workshop can also be combined with the college’s planetarium presentation. Age P7 – S4 Up to 36 pupils (18 if lab only). One hour for lab only, two hours for planetarium/laboratory. All groups must be accompanied by a member of school staff.
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Ashmolean Museum exhibition utilises smartphone technology
IT has taken 335 years, but the Ashmolean is holding its first major contemporary art exhibition with a technological twist.
Selected works from Chinese artist Xu Bing are on display until May 19 and feature a range of landscape paintings constructed from Chinese characters.
But for the first time, visitors can find out more about the themes and people behind the works by scanning QR codes next to the artwork with their smartphones.
These codes will take visitors to a website full of exclusive interviews, images and narration.
Curator of the Xu Bing Landscape Landscript exhibition, Shelagh Vainker, said: “The QR codes are very appropriate for artists like him who are so effective at communicating.”
Staff at the museum say the exhibition has encouraged younger audiences to attend since its launch last month.
Oxford and London-based interpretative planning company, City-Insights Ltd, developed the exhibition codes and believe that interactive media platforms are both attractive to younger audiences and sensible in a recession.
Company director Tim Gardom said: “It is expensive for museums to install traditional hand-held guide systems. “People are walking into a free wi-fi zone in the Ashmolean with their hi-tech phones at the ready. It makes sense to use what is already there.
“I really think QR codes are the future for museums. They have the ability to make works valid and interesting for different users.”
Mr Gardom reports that the average amount of pages read by each visitor to the QR-linked website is 10.
Oxford University student Lily Green, 20, said: “I’m personally more interested in the art itself than the multimedia content, but I can definitely see how it interests other people.
“I think the Ashmolean is awesome for younger crowds.”
Xu Bing is one of China’s most critically acclaimed artists, who has focused on the pictorial quality of the Chinese language. Four new pieces in Landscape Landscript exhibit more of his technique of using characters as brushwork.
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BY ROGER MOORE | MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
ORLANDO, Fla. — When his "Sopranos" boss David Chase asked James Gandolfini to play another New Jersey Italian for his movie, a working class dad unhappy with his musician-son's career choice in the swinging '60s, the big man didn't hesitate.
"I knew this guy," Gandolfini says. "There's a lot of my dad in him."
Pasquale, his character in "Not Fade Away," is a gruff mechanic who runs a local Pep Boys auto repair shop. He's pushing his son (John Magaro) to go to college. He doesn't approve of the kid's music, his long hair, his crazy clothes.
"You look like you just got off-a the boat," Pasquale — he goes by the assimilated name "Pat" — bellows.
"I heard that from my parents," Gandolfini says, as the child of first-generation Italian immigrants. When he grew up in the 1960s and '70s, "My mother used to say, in her thick Italian accent, 'You look like Professor COR-ey!' Remember (TV comic) Professor Irwin Corey? With the wild hair all over the place, and the long baggy coat? I got a LOT of that."
That upbringing informs his father figure in "Not Fade Away," combative scenes that highlight the generation gap between Depression survivors and kids indulging in the leisure of "finding myself." But Gandolfini truly paid tribute to his dad with the film's "You're a man, now" moment that has critics praising the "affecting, subtle strokes" (The Hollywood Reporter) of his performance.
"I remember when I realized my dad was a man, like other men," Gandolfini says. "He had dreams. He had a life that was completely separate from his family. As a son, if you see and feel that, your relationship with your father gets better. You realize that he's not just stopping you from some dream of yours. He's showing you that you have responsibilities .
"So this guy, like my dad, was saying, 'Get as much of the other stuff in as you can, but life isn't always going to be that way.' That makes you appreciate that this guy gave up stuff for you. It's a pretty big moment in a son's life, I think."
Gandolfini pauses thoughtfully, remembering James Joseph Gandolfini Sr., a brick mason from Borgotaro, Italy. "He talked about 'The War' late in life ... There was so much I didn't know. You can have a vision of your father, but it can never be complete. He's not just the guy who drove me around when I was a kid, and yelled at me for not doing yard work.
"That's something I owed to my father, and it was my way of playing him."
James Gandolfini Jr. is making his mark as a stellar character actor these days, taking on one last mob hit man in the critically acclaimed "Killing Them Softly" - " You put all the mob guys I've played together, that's who this guy is. At the end, the arc of his life is finished."
And in the hunt-for-Bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty," Gandolfini is a testy, results-oriented CIA chief (presumably Leon Panetta).
"It wasn't a big part, but I wanted to be a part of an important movie. I liked the way it portrayed the military."
But "Not Fade Away," a Jersey tale with music, is closest to this Jersey guy's heart. Well, except for the music part.
"I remember when I was a kid my friend Ira Berman playing Bruce Springsteen for me, and I said 'That sucks. I can't understand a word he's saying!'
"Lo and behold, after listening to the album a few times, I got it. But boy, good thing I didn't work for Rolling Stone."
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The first Nicholas Helfenstein (later Helverson) in this country was the first undertaker in the family. His two sons, William and Horatio, continued together in the undertaking business until Horatio started his own establishment.
The funeral records were given to The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania by descendants of the family. They have been organized into 9 volumes of burial records beginning in 1841, 3 volumes of Lot Books, (some for the Union Harmony Cemetery 1828-1915 and Hanover Burial Ground 1840-1900) and 3 volumes of Account Books of miscellaneous dates.
The Helversons also owned a coffin warehouse at 93 Coates Street, next to their residence and business at 91 Coates Street. These street numbers changed to 227 and 225 Coates Street in 1857. There is more information about the Helverson business and the records at the beginning of volume 1 of the Burial Records.
If you find an entry in the indexes for anyone whom you think may have been an ancestor and would like a copy of the record, please contact GSP through the Research Services page, with the request as "Copy of Helverson Record" within the form.
GSP Members can receive copies of the original records for free. The record will be scanned and a PDF file of the image will be sent to you by email.
Non-GSP Members may also request scanned images of the original Helverson records for a fee of $10.00 per record image.
At left - Image of Helverson Funeral Home Record page.
To view a scanned PDF example of Helverson Funeral Home Record click HERE
(Above right - Image of Helverson Coffin Warehouse courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Wainwright Lithograph Collection.)
All Documents in this Collection
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Without their knowing, a superstitious religion has brought the great majority of people under its sway. This hidden religion never openly reveals itself. It has no written commandments, but it controls people's behavior, attitudes and thoughts. People unconsciously implement this religion's rules throughout their lives, and live by its structures and prohibitions. This superstitious religion is not Islam, Christianity or Judaism. When asked, many people who abide by this false religion may well describe themselves as Muslims or Christians or Jews. They may even be atheists. But nevertheless, all are actually members of this secret belief system.
This false religion never presents itself to people as a unified whole. People adopt it as the result of the steady propaganda they are subjected to from birth. Therefore, they're unaware that their behavior, thoughts, and even body language derive from this religion.
To its adherents, this superstitious religion portrays its goal as becoming a respected person. To do so means adopting the value judgments of this religion, implementing its laws, prohibitions and forms of behavior, and assuming its character traits. To be respected is essential to achieve a specific accepted station in society, and not regarded as an eccentric, not out of the ordinary.
This religion is therefore an ignorant one, which is how we'll refer to it for short. Ignorant religion propels people towards insincerity, toward artificial and affected behavior. Adherents of this false religion do not generally behave naturally and spontaneously. They employ modes of behavior, speech and facial expressions in a way they think will be appropriate, and engage in constant role-playing. Yet they imagine that they are living exceedingly natural and normal lives.
This false system produces insincere, artificial human models with false identities. Why does such an evil religion, bringing with it all kinds of trouble and suffering, hold large sections of society under its sway? The most important reason is, as already mentioned, that it lacks any formal name. Adherents of this wicked religion never even think to question, abandon or change it, because they are unaware that the system they live under is actually a religion, and regard it as "the facts, "or" the immutable laws of life."
As long as people fail to remedy this situation and turn away from the religion of the ignorant, they cannot properly comprehend and live by Islam, because sincerity and naturalness are among the fundamental tenets of Islam. A person can live by Islam, and thus achieve true happiness and salvation, only by being uncompromisingly sincere towards Allah, himself and others. Faith can only be built on a foundation of sincerity. In order to free yourself of the effect of the Religion of the Ignorant, that satanic religion must first be identified and defined. That is the aim of this book. The following chapters shall examine the characteristics of Ignorantism in some detail.
The reader's task is to personally weigh and review the characteristics of this false religion. One may be reluctant to admit it, but the Religion of the Ignorant can exert a definite effect on anyone. Ridding yourself of this dark religion that impacts on every moment of people's lives calls, first and foremost, for close attention and sincerity.
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These generators serve a small data center giving the data center back-up emergency power in the event of a loss of utility. Most data centers have redundant power from the utility and back-up generators. In other words, the utility will provide two sources of utility power from two different power stations or sub-stations so if one source station loses power for whatever reason the system automatically transfers to the back-up source of power or the other power or sub station. The transfer typically takes place through large switch gear systems that will switch from one source to the other source. Automatic transfer switches will offer a delayed transfer so there will be a small amount of time when there will not be any main power supply when the transfer takes place from one utility to the other utility. This where UPS systems fill in the temporary loss of power from one utility to another or from utility to generator power. A data center equipped with a static transfer switch (as opposed to an automatic transfer switch) will not have a temporary loss in power from utility to utility. The static transfer switch has a switchover time in microseconds so the transition is very fast. So fast that a computer cannot read the loss in power so the core load – the computers in the data center – never even blink and keep on working almost as if nothing happened without the UPS back system. The key is to keep the servers running at all times unless the EPO switch is pushed. Power through a UPS system (batteries) and back-up power systems including back-up utility and/or back generators along with the correct switch gear or switching systems will keep the power running all the time – again unless the EPO switch is pressed. The power will continue with the emergency generators when a loss of utility is experienced as long as the emergency generators have a fuel source that is filled up as needed and that the generators are in good mechanical order.
Generators Serving a small Data Center
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Two 4X4s for posts
Sheet of lattice (cut to fit the size you need)
Hook and eye set
Vines that climb by twining (honeysuckle, clematis, jasmine, etc.)
Post hole digger
A trellis is a great way to add climbing vines to your landscape. But sometimes it isn't feasible to have a permanently installed trellis where you are trying to grow vines. A hinged trellis allows you to have all the benefits of vines, but with the added benefit of being able to move the trellis so that you can access what is behind it without damaging your delicate plants.
Instructions for building a hinged trellis
Set your posts. Dig the holes for the posts. Set the 4X4s in the holes. It's very important that the front faces of the posts are parallel. You can check this by running a string across the faces and using it as a guide line to make sure the faces are where they should be. In addition, the tops of the posts should be at the same height. You can check this by using a string level. Run the string across the tops of the two posts, with the string level hanging between them. Then read it as you would a regular level.
Build the trellis border. Miter the ends of the 1X2s so that they form a frame around the trellis. This will be used not only for decoration, but also as support for the hinges.
Attach the border to the trellis. You should always pre-drill your holes when working with lattice. Also, be sure and drive the screws in from the back of the trellis, so that the heads won't show. Firm the trellis up by installing the corner brackets.
Mount the hinges. Measure the distance between the centers of the two posts. Subtract that number from the overall length of the trellis. Divide this number by 2. The answer tells you how many inches from each end you should mount the hinges to the trellis. Center the hinges at this point.
Install the hook and eye. Doing this now will provide support for the trellis when you are attaching it to the posts.
Mount the trellis on the posts. Make sure that you center the hinges on the posts, then screw them into place.
Plant the vines. Make sure you use vines that climb by twining, and that do not have "woody" stems. This will allow you to lay the trellis down without damaging the stems of the plants. Go ahead and weave the plants through the lattice work to get them started.
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The Bronze Age has maintained a hold on my imagination since childhood. Early influences included a really good quality hard cover children’s Iliad and Odyssey book and countless Italian made sword and sandal movies, like the Sons of Hercules series. The book was written back when adults respected the intelligence of children. Its like is not to be found among the books offered for sale to children today. I have no excuse for the movies, except I enjoyed the action and the costumes. I also found the obligatory dancing girl scene that was included in each movie strangely interesting. Later on, Mary Renault’s ‘Theseus’ novels and the grown up version of the Iliad reinforced my interest. It was inevitable that Homeric warriors would show up in my wargaming.
So it was that last week war came to the dusty plains of Mycenaean Greece. Betty, the slightly less attractive younger sister of Helen, has dumped her husband in favor of Favio Polybiceps, son of Mysoxargon, the Achaean king of Baklava. Her husband, Cucoldius, Heraclid king of Monopylae, ignores the restraining order she has against him and marches on Baklava. Heroes supported by bands of lesser men will fight it out under the watchful eye of (occasionally meddlesome) gods. Plus Polythemus the cyclops has joined Mysoxargon with the understanding that he gets to eat any prisoners.
The gods look down from Olympus on the field of battle
Mysoxargon marshals his forces on the level ground before his town. His chariot and two others are on his left while his other four chariots and the 10 foot tall Cyclops anchor his right. His spearmen and skirmishing warriors form up behind the chariots. The Heraclid forces line up with 2 chariots on their right supported by skirmishers. The center is held by their spearmen. The left is led by King Cucoldius himself with 5 chariots.
The hero Mysoxargon prepares for battle
As the armies close on each other the Kings and their chariot borne Heroes beseech the support of the gods. Zeus opposes any divine intervention in this human feud but the rest of the gods are sharply divided into factions supporting the contending armies.
The Heraclid chariots roll forward while the goddess Aphrodite looks on
As the armies advance toward each other Aphrodite manages to slip out of Olympus undetected and joins Cucoldius forces. She prevents the advance of Mysoxargon and his supporting Heroes, who were poised to ride down a mass of Heraclid skirmishers. Seeing his opportunity, Cucoldius strikes home with his main chariot force against a lesser number of Achaean chariots supported by the Cyclops. Hero faces off against Hero in a life or death struggle for victory and everlasting fame. Two of the Achaean Heroes fall, but the Cyclops wades into the Heraclid chariots smashing them to kindling and sending their bronze clad Heroes to the underworld.
Polythemus the Cyclops wreaks havoc among the Heraclid warriors
Just as the mayhem reaches its peak the godess Hera slips out of Olympus to support her favorite, Mysoxargon. Zeus notices his wife and Aphrodite are missing and forces them to cease their meddling and return to Olympus. Mysoxargon, no longer held in check by Aphrodite, charges into the Heraclid skirmishers smiting them like there is no tomorrow. Seeing the Linear A writing on the wall, Cucoldius and what remains of his army flee the field. The battle is over. Betty, the face that launched 7 ships, marries Favio Polybiceps. In the course of time she puts on a lot of weight and he loses his hair. They are both soon forgotten.
Postscript: The rules used for the game were DBA, with additional rules for the intervention of the gods. If anyone would like a copy of the divine intervention rules, let me know at firstname.lastname@example.org and I'll send them along via email. Several of the Sons of Hercules movies complete with the cheesey theme song are on Youtube.
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Marche - Introduction
Pas d'action: Con moto
Theme varie: Lento
Variation I: Allegretto
Variation II: Scherzando
Variation III: Andantino
Variation IV: Tempo giusto
Pas de deux
Igor Stravinsky was the son of a distinguished bass soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, creator of important rôles in new operas by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. He was born, the third of four sons, at Oranienbaum on the Gulf of Finland in the summer of 1882. In childhood his ability in music did not seem exceptional, but he was able to study music privately with Rimsky-Korsakov, who became a particularly important influence after the death of the composer's imperious father in 1902. He completed a degree in law in 1905, married in the following year and increasingly devoted himself to music. His first significant success came when the impresario Dyagilev, a distant relative on his mother' s side of the family, commissioned from him the ballet The Firebird, first performed in Paris in 1910. This was followed by the very Russian Petrushka in 1911 for the Dyagilev Ballets rosses, with which he was now closely associated, leading in 1913 to the notorious first performance of The Rite of Spring, first staged, like the preceding ballets, in Paris. Although collaboration with Dyagilev was limited during the war, when Stravinsky lived principally in Switzerland, it was resumed with the ballet Pulcinella, based on music attributed to Pergolesi, and marking Stravinsky's association with neo-classicism. The end of the collaboration with Dyagilev was marked by what the impresario considered a macabre present, the Cocteau collaboration Oedipus Rex.
Stravinsky has been compared to his near contemporary Picasso, the painter who provided décor for Pulcinella and who through a long career was to show mastery of a number of contrasting styles. Stravinsky's earlier music was essentially Russian in inspiration, followed by a style of composition derived largely from the eighteenth century, interspersed with musical excursions in other directions. His so-called neo-classicism coincided with the beginning of a career that was now international. The initial enthusiasm for the Russian revolution of 1917 that had led even Dyagilev to replace crown and sceptre in The Firebird with a red flag, was soon succeeded by distaste for the new régime and the decision not to return to Russia.
In 1939, with war imminent in Europe, Stravinsky moved to the United States, where he had already enjoyed considerable success. The death of his first wife allowed him to marry a woman with whom he had enjoyed a long earlier association and the couple settled in Hollywood, where the climate seemed congenial. Income from his compositions was at last safeguarded by his association with the publishers Boosey and Hawkes in 1945, the year of his naturalisation as an American citizen. The year 1951 saw the completion and first performance of the English opera The Rake's Progress, based on Hogarth engravings with a libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, a work that came at the final height of the composer's neo-classicism. The last period of his life brought a change to serialism, the technique of composition developed by Arnold Schoenberg, a fellow-exile in California, with whom he had never chosen to associate. In 1962 he made a triumphant return to Russia for a series of concerts in celebration of his 80th birthday. Among his final compositions are the Requiem Canticles of 1965-6 which follow his Requiem Introitus for the death of the poet T.S. Eliot, but prefigure his own death, which took place in New York in April 1971. He was buried in the cemetery on the island of San Michele in Venice, his grave near that of Dyagilev, whose percipience had launched his career sixty years before.
Dyagilev had not been happy at Stravinsky's apparent desertion of the Ballets russes during the war, but, according to the composer, attempted to lure him back by the suggestion of a ballet based on music attributed to Pergolesi. This followed the success of The Good-Humoured Ladies, based on Scarlatti. The choreographer and dancer Léonide Massine, during a visit in 1917 to Naples, when he was able to do research into the techniques of the commedia dell'arte, had found a play that might form a suitable basis for the new ballet, The Four Pulcinellas. Dyagilev arranged a collaboration between Stravinsky , Massine and Pablo Picasso, all very much under his own supervision. The work was eventually staged at the Paris Opéra on 15thMay 1920, conducted by Ernest Ansermet, and won a very considerable success among the more discerning. Picasso's final design made use of panels suggesting the portable scenery of Italian travelling theatre-companies, with buildings of cubist inspiration, a quay, the moonlit bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the background. The colours used were black, blue and white, with a white ground-cloth, suggesting moonlight. The dancers wore brightly coloured costumes in eighteenth century style, while Pulcinella, danced by Massine himself, wore the traditional commedia dell'arte mask. The music itself, based on excerpts from operas by Pergolesi and movements of instrumental works more properly to be attributed to contemporaries or imitators of Pergolesi, Domenico Gallo, Fortunato Chelleri, Carlo Monza and the nineteenth century Alessandro Parisotti, was scored for chamber orchestra and three singers and is, as Stravinsky pointed out, very much more than mere pastiche. The piquant harmonies and instrumental timbres make this very characteristic of neo-classical Stravinsky. Many of the dances are familiar from the Suite italienne derived from the score for concert use and from the orchestral ballet suite Pulcinella. The episode taken from the story of the four Pulcinella look-alikes concerns the real Pulcinella or Polichinelle of the title, who meets the girls Rosetta and Prudenza, rebuffing one and dancing with the other. His inamorata Pimpinella is angry at this, but they are reconciled in a duet. All the girls love Pulcinella, and this has naturally excited the jealousy of their lovers, notably Caviello and Florindo, who plan to kill him. It seems that they have succeeded, when Pulcinella falls beneath their blows, apparently dead and mourned by four little Pulcinellas. A magician appears and revives the corpse, not Pulcinella at all, but his friend Fourbo, who had impersonated him and feigned death. The magician now revea1s himself as Pulcinella, happily settling the marriages of the lovers for them, while he himself marries Pimpinella, and Fourbo assumes the guise of the magician.
Stravinsky wrote his Danses concertantes in Hollywood in 1941 and early 1942, in response to a commission from the Wemer Janssens Orchestra, which gave the first performance in Los Angeles on 8th February under the direction of the composer. Although originally intended for concert use, the Danses concertantes were planned in balletic sequence, with an introductory and concluding march to bring the dancers on and off the stage and the necessary variety, not only in the Pas d' action and Pas de deux but also in the theme and variations, three of the latter based on an ascending semitone step. In 1944 the dances were choreographed by Balanchine for the Ballet russe of Monte Carlo. The style of writing reflects that of the earlier ballet Jeu de cartes.
Born in Sydney, Fiona Janes won a number of major competitions in Australia before continuing her studies in London and
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General Business: 832-3527
Our Mission is to gain, and the ability to maintain the trust and the support of this community and maintain a great working relationship by building communication and trust between the citizens of Lake Park, and the Police Department.
We work closely with the Harris-Lake Park School District to assist in providing a safe atmosphere for our kids to go to school without additional concerns for their safety. We provide walk-through patrol as well as vehicle patrol during school hours and also for special events that occur at the school or school grounds. At the schools request, we can also provide presentations to both the staff and students on a variety of topics to help educate our community.
We also periodically attend the Seniors Dinner Date to keep our older citizens in the loop of what is going on in our community and be able to address any concerns or needs that they have. If requested we can provide education on a variety of topics to assist the protection of our citizens and their property.
This department will now utilize the vast resources of other law enforcement agencies personnel, databases, and equipment to assist our citizens to provide the best protection as possible for our citizens.
Chief of Police
The Lake Park Police Department participates in Iowa's Special Traffic Enforcement Program (sTEP). sTEP is a cooperative law enforcement effort coordinated around a holiday and in conjunction with a national safety campaign. sTEP is a program funded by the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau. These events call for heightened traffic enforcement for all traffic violations with special attention Drunk/Drugged Driving, Speeding, and Seatbelt usage. The main focus to raise awareness in safety belt use as the best means of protection in the case of a motor vehicle collision. These enforcement projects are conducted as a proactive approach to enhance safety for all motorists who use our roads in the State of Iowa.
From November 19-25, 2012, a sTEP traffic enforcement program was conducted by the L.P.P.D. Part of the program involved conducting a seatbelt survey before and after the project. The survey showed 92% of motorists wore seat belts prior to the campaign. Afterward, that number had risen to 93%.
For information on Dickinson County Crime Stoppers, visit the Dickinson County Sheriff's Crime Stoppers page.
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One of the most significant lessons I have learned is that
“submission” is NOT the same thing as “obedience”.
Walking in “obedience” was death to me.
Walking in godly submission is LIFE!
“The aged women
teach the young women
to be obedient
to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
Titus 2:3-5 excerpts
I am confident that none of us wants to be guilty of blaspheming God’s Word!
As a disciple of Christ, a woman, and a wife, I cannot overemphasize the importance to me of accurately understanding exactly what the passage teaches so that I may properly obey the teaching!
to be obedient
In order to accurately teach others “to be _____”, one must first establish exactly what ____ means. In this case, it is necessary to look back into the Greek words of the original autographs of scriptures, lest one be led astray by a fatal misunderstanding of the meaning of this passage (as I was for many years).
The word translated “obedient” is the Greek Word “hupotasso” < 5293> which means “submission”. There is another Greek word which means “obedient”. That is the word <5219> ” hupakouo” ( the linked Strong’s numbers go to the BLB concordance which contains the definition and all the occurances of the word in the Bible)
One of the most significant lessons I have learned is that “submission” is NOT the same thing as “obedience”. Walking in “obedience” was death to me. Walking in godly submission is LIFE!
When I believed that my husband was “in charge” of me and I attempted to walk in obedience to him, I was committing the sin of idolatry.
I was rendering lordship and masterhood to my husband instead of God.
I confused obedience and submission. I thought obedience to my husband = submission. So I obeyed my husband and in so doing
-sinned against God
-enabled husband’s sin
-lied to the Holy Spirit
-could NOT maintain a good attitude,
ie despite my obedience in every matter, I was resentful and bitter.
Ultimately, in my attempt to “serve two masters” I came to despise my husband.
Lu 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
I find that genuine submission “as unto the Lord” is incredibly freeing and powerful! Because I am looking to the LORD for my guidance and instructions, not to my husband. The Lord has entrusted me with gifts, talents, abilities, and responsibilities and HE has given me wisdom, a conscience, and HIS Holy Spirit as counselor. Allowing myself to be run like an appliance from the outside was an affront to the God who made me and gave me good gifts. Not only that, I really know far more about running the household than my husband does and his micromanagement wasted many many hours of my and my children’s time on less efficient routes.
Woman can never be matured as a useful instrument in God’s hands, or an efficient servant of His Church, until she comes to understand that “she is not her own; she is bought with a price,” and it is neither her duty nor her privilege to give herself away to any human being,¾in marriage or in any other way….There is no social redemption for woman until…she maintains the inviolability of free will, as her sustained attitude towards every human being, including her husband. There is no method of moral improvement remaining, after the loss of a free will” from link
In giving myself away to be treated
as a child or a slave (who MUST OBEY),
I gave up my free will,
and I remained immature.
It took me quite awhile-years- to untangle my mind from the idea that “husband is master”. When I believed that way, and confused the concept of “submission” and “obedience”, I would “obey” my husband’s every whim, but I was very unhappy about it! I was resentful and bitter. Which it turns out, is not submission at all! None of the teaching in God’s Word on a wife’s submission robs her of the right and freedom to say “no” (or “yes”).
Abigail in 1 Sam 25 is a submissive wife who disobeys.
Esther is a submissive wife who disobeys.
Sapphira (Acts 5) is a wife who should have told her husband “no” but instead goes along with him agreeing to “lie to the Holy Spirit”.
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We made the sky a preserved and protected roof yet still they turn away from Our Signs. (Qur'an, 21:32)
The magnetosphere layer, formed by the magnetic field of the Earth, serves as a shield protecting the Earth from celestial bodies, harmful cosmic rays and particles. In the above picture, this magnetosphere layer, which is also named Van Allen Belts, is seen. These belts at thousands of kilometres above the Earth protect the living things on the Earth from the fatal energy that would otherwise reach it from space.
All these scientific findings prove that the world is protected in a very particular way. The important thing is that this protection was made known in the Qur'an in the verse "We made the sky a preserved and protected roof" fourteen centuries ago.
On the importance of the Van Allen Belt, Dr. Hugh Ross says:
In fact, the Earth has the highest density of any of the planets in our Solar System. This large nickel-iron core is responsible for our large magnetic field. This magnetic field produces the Van-Allen radiation shield, which protects the Earth from radiation bombardment. If this shield were not present, life would not be possible on the Earth. The only other rocky planet to have any magnetic field is Mercury-but its field strength is 100 times less than the Earth's. Even Venus, our sister planet, has no magnetic field. The Van-Allen radiation shield is a design unique to the Earth.21
The energy transmitted in just one of these bursts detected in recent years was calculated to be equivalent to 100 billion atomic bombs, each akin to one dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Fifty-eight hours after the burst, it was observed that the magnetic needles of compasses displayed unusual movement and 250 kilometres above the Earth's atmosphere, the temperature suddenly increased to 2,500oC.
Most people looking at the sky do not think about the protective aspect of the atmosphere. They almost never think what kind of a place the world would be like if this structure did not exist. The above photo belongs to a giant crater caused by a meteor that fell in Arizona, in the USA. If the atmosphere did not exist, millions of meteoroids would fall to the Earth and the Earth would become an inhabitable place. Yet, the protective aspect of the atmosphere allows living things to survive in safety. This is certainly Allah's protection of people and a miracle proclaimed in the Qur'an.
In short, a perfect system is at work high above the Earth. It surrounds our world and protects it against external threats. Centuries ago, Allah informed us in the Qur'an of the world's atmosphere functioning as a protective shield.
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Cyber Reserve to tackle computer crime
The UK government is setting up a cyber-version of the Home Guard, which was popularised in a British comedy Dad’s Army. In the iconic 1970s television series, a group of mis-fits who were too old or sick to join the army formed a Home Guard to see off the Germans during the Second World War.
The UK’s "Cyber Reserve" force is supposed to deal with security threats posed by computer crime and it will be run by the Ministry of Defence. Minister Francis Maude said help was needed with "critical" work in combating online crime. Maude said 93 per cent of large corporations and 76 per cent of small businesses had reported a cyber breach in the past year.
The government was looking to "move towards the establishment of a UK National CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)" similar to that which operates in the US. Maude said that working with the private sector to improve awareness of the need for better cyber security continues to be a priority.
And they “don’t like it up em,” he did not say.
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To make sure that at least 20 percent of Black males have a college degree by 2020, we need to move beyond merely getting Black males into college. We need proactive strategies to prepare them to compete at a university that has a record of retaining and graduating Black males.
In Challenging the Status Quo, Toldson and Lewis reveal how states, districts and schools conspire to educationally malnourish some of the nation’s schoolchildren. Their PREPS framework shifts attention away from measuring students to measuring the commitment of policymakers and K-12 practitioners to expand public school students’ access to a certified and experienced teaching force, college-preparatory courses in math and science, and a fair shot at opportunity.
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Angry. Violent. Irresponsible. Thug. Gangster. Baby Daddy. Tired of seeing the same negative stereotypes of Black men in the media? We all are.
"No Place for the Sons"
They are here. They look much like you. Their families are broken. Their families are not. They're in the clefts of our neighborhoods squatting in blight and under bridges. Their fathers are homeless and jobless. Their fathers can't live with them. Their fathers are also incarcerated. Their mothers are sometimes more than present, but yet in the environments they dwell, they also excavate for nurture. Their fathers exist in a composite of memories, imaginings and lamentation over the wait of the ever constant... I'm coming.READ
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By Catherine Winter
Thalia Navarrete's family and friends just don't get why she's going to college.
"The only people that are positive in my life are my parents," Thalia says. "They're pushing me. But other family, they're not."
Thalia says it's a cultural thing.
"My culture is that the woman, she has to do everything for the man," she says. "She has to cook, clean, everything."
Thalia is from Nicaragua, but she's lived here since she was 8, "so now I see the difference between like back in my country that the woman has to do everything. And over here, like you have a choice."
Thalia chose to enroll in Montgomery College, a community college in Maryland. But she faces a lot of challenges between here and graduation day.
Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the United States population, but they are the least likely to have college degrees. Thirteen percent of Hispanics in the United States have a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 53 percent of Asians, 33 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 20 percent of African-Americans.
It's not that Latinos don't go to college. These days, most of those who graduate from high school do go to college - usually community college.
But most of them don't graduate.
One reason is that, like Thalia, many students didn't learn enough in high school to prepare them for college. Thalia is angry about that.
"They don't teach you anything," she says. "The teachers don't care. They just, like, let you sleep in class in high school….
"Then when you come to college, it's like, damn, you know, I didn't learn anything in high school, and now I have to pay for it."
Most community college students have to take remedial classes before they can enroll in college-level classes for credit. Experts say that's one reason so few make it to graduation. They use up too much time and money taking remedial classes. A so-called two-year degree takes the typical student three and a half years to complete.
"You get your hopes up, saying, 'Wow, in two years, I'm out. I can move on to another college,'" says Thalia. "But it's all a lie."
Thalia never applied for financial aid. Many students who qualify for aid don't realize they do, and pay out of pocket. Thalia says her parents are paying for her schooling.
"I see the struggle they have, and sometimes I want to get a job to help them, but my mom, she doesn't want me to work," Thalia says.
She says she had a job for a couple of weeks, but when her mom saw how tired she was, she urged her to quit. "She even cried 'cause she said she doesn't want me to work like she does. She wants me to get an education and then work."
Thalia's mother didn't finish middle school, but Thalia's clearly proud of her. She says her mom worked her way up from being a dishwasher to being the head chef at a catering company. "She runs like everything," she says.
Her dad's a mechanic and owns a towing company. He wanted to go to college when he arrived in the United States, but he couldn't afford it. "So now that I have the opportunity, he's always telling me, like, 'Go to school, do your work, because I don't want you to be like me.'"
Thalia says her parents worked two jobs at a time to save money to buy a house. She remembers seeing her mother come home from work with feet so swollen she couldn't stand. She hopes that going to college will mean she can support herself with just one job - and even take care of her parents when they get older.
"That's what I want for me," she says. "I see myself working and being like a professional woman and independent and helping my parents out. I don't really see myself getting married."
Thalia wants children someday, but she's not so sure about the husband thing. She says Latino men want their wives to do all the housework. Her best friend, Katy Sorto, shares her skepticism about marriage - although Katy is already engaged. Katy's family comes from El Salvador.
"All men are the same," Katy says. "Just the same. The same, the same, the same."
Katy and Thalia say a lot of the girls they know get pregnant while they're still in high school.
"If you [make] it, you know, past high school, it's a big deal," Thalia says.
"It is a big deal," Katy says. "If you go to college or anything. And you don't have kids. You made it. You made it."
Katy is taking classes at Montgomery College, too. Both young women say they see college as a ticket out of a life in a little apartment with a demanding man and babies.
"We want something better," says Thalia. "Even though people may say that we're not gonna make it and all this stuff-"
"They're jealous," Katy puts in.
Thalia says she thinks about giving up on college nearly every day.
But she also says a year of college has been good for her. She's learned to write better and express herself more clearly.
"Because here, I'm around people that actually want to be successful and be independent," she says. "And I'm surrounding myself with people that have bigger vocabularies and stuff. And it's helping me."
She says she's gotten interested in politics for the first time, "because I feel like if my classmates, they know, why shouldn't I know? Like, we're in the same position, so I want to be up to their level or more."
Thalia says she used to be shy, but now she speaks up in class. She feels like she's come a long way from the days when she couldn't speak English and was afraid to talk.
"I raise my hand, and I say stuff," she says, "and it feels good to have people look at you and say, 'Wow, you know stuff.'"
Back to Rising by Degrees.
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The scoop: several pictures have been emerging across the Internet, revealing a Japanese girl who can allegedly levitate. Sightings of this phenomenon have been confirmed by tens of thousands of gawk-eyed spectators whose awe knows no boundaries, at the sight of such prodigy. Details will follow by the end of the post.
But first let’s show you the facts. Let’s have you disbelieve your own eyes, and shudder in amazement. Like so:
Confirmed sightings of the Girl who Floats:
How is it possible! Does she really levitate?
I honestly hope you didn’t take the opening scoop for this post without the mandatory grain of salt. Otherwise, let’s proceed by setting the facts straight… after all, this is not some kind of tabloid blog (shame on you for thinking otherwise). And for the facts: People do not levitate. Natsumi Hayashi does not levitate. She just takes photographs, and beautiful photographs at that.
Is there a back story to these pictures, though? Quite certainly so; this cute girl is a Japanese photographer who lives with her two cats. One day she happened to take a picture of a man leaping, and she was intrigued with how it looked as though he was suspended in mid-air. She named the picture “today’s levitation”, and thereby the seeds of inspiration were planted.
Soon, Miss Natsumi Hayashi started posting self-portraits at her personal photoblog, in which she followed suit with the levitation theme. And as you probably realized earlier in this post… the results are amazing and speak for themselves.
Miss Natsumi has amassed a good measure of popularity and recognition from these photos, and was featured in many relevant and authoritative websites from which yours truly drew all this information, by the way.
The creative process of the Levitating girl
In case you’re wondering how these pictures were shot, it’s nothing to do with invisible wires or intricate digital manipulations. It’s a much simpler and graceful process: she leaps. She takes out her tripod out on the Tokyo streets looking for inspiration… and when she finds it, she literally jumps at it! And for some of these pictures, she claims to have jumped hundreds of times until having found the perfect timing for the picture.
What makes these self-photographs so unique and interesting is exactly the natural pose she adopts in each picture, looking just as natural as though she was casually drifting through the urban landscapes. By doing so, she manages to convey a sense of mysterious wonder that made her work much appreciated throughout the world.
What makes Natsumi Hayashi want to levitate?
The author maintains that she was always told to “keep her feet on the ground”, and this series of pictures aims to illustrate her true feelings… which are obviously rather floaty. She was always put down by social pressures and demands, and thus she found a fascinating way to take this weight off her:
“I wanted to express myself in the picture as someone free from Earth’s gravitational pull. In being free of gravity in the pictures, I am also not bound to societal conventions. I feel as though I am not tied to many things and able to be my true self.”
There are much worse ways to express one’s inner angst, wouldn’t you agree? These levitating pictures (which became a regular feature at her blog during the first semester of 2001) not only allowed her to express how she felt in a creative fashion, but also proved to be a trampoline towards international recognition.
You cannot help but wonder which further surprises she has in store, and we certainly hope she has much fulfillment and happiness, soarings the skies of her own creativeness. Let’s wait and see if she can surprise us again, and in the meanwhile… remember to take your feet off the ground, every once in a while!
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Aug 15 (BBC) Human rights activists in Sri Lanka say the government must seek UN help in investigating serious violence in jails which has resulted in the deaths of two Tamil prisoners.
The second inmate died last week after more than a month in a coma. Activists blame the deaths on the government.
But officials deny responsibility.
The violence in late June started when about 30 prisoners suspected of links with Tamil Tiger rebels took three guards hostage.
The ensuing siege lasted for 19 hours before it was broken.
Civil rights activists say the inmates were then assaulted by prison authorities both before and after their transfers to other jails.
One prisoner, Ganesan Nimalaruban, died a few days later while another, Mariadas Dilrukshan, succumbed to his injuries after several weeks in a coma.
A group of 28 human rights activists have now issued a statement blaming the government for his death, which they say was caused by torture.
"We, the civil society, have lost confidence in domestic mechanisms in being able to deal with such situations," they write.
They call on the government to appoint an inquiry commission under the control of the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The BBC was unable to reach the head of Sri Lanka's prison service for comment. A police spokesman declined to react, saying a post-mortem on Mr Dilrukshan was pending.
The government said earlier that Mr Nimalaruban died from a heart attack.
Opposition activists have demonstrated in the northern city of Jaffna, where Mr Dilrukshan's funeral took place on Saturday.
They shouted slogans such as "Don't kill Tamils!" and "Arrest the killers of political prisoners!"
Reports say that until Mr Dilrukshan was seriously injured in June, his parents had had no clue as to his whereabouts since his arrest several years earlier.
Tamil lawmaker V Anandasangaree described the treatment of the prisoners as "very brutal and far beyond justification".
Media coverage of the episodes has highlighted Sri Lanka's ethnic faultlines.
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AGRICULTURE DEPUTY SECRETARY MERRIGAN ANNOUNCES $8.6 MILLION IN PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS TO HELP SMALL AND UNDERSERVED PRODUCERS
Producers Can Learn New Risk Management Strategies Through 'Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food' Initiative
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2009 – Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced that the Risk Management Agency (RMA) has awarded $8.6 million in partnership agreements to provide producers with opportunities to learn more about managing risk in their businesses, which provides an important educational opportunity for limited-resource and underserved farmers and ranchers. This announcement comes as part of the 'Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food' initiative, a USDA-wide collaboration that will connect people more closely with the farmers who supply their food.
"The partnerships we are announcing today will provide opportunities for underserved, small and limited-resource producers to become better risk managers," said Merrigan. "For these small farmers in particular, risk management often means understanding direct marketing and for this they need legal, financial, and food safety tools and information appropriate for the scale of their operation and the markets that they serve."
Many of the partnerships that RMA is offering can help farmers diversify production and marketing practices, or to provide planning tools to help farmers obtain the insurance and credit that are often critical to their ability to stay in business or to diversify their existing business.
Federal Crop Insurance and Risk Management Education programs together provide a safety net to ensure that farmers and ranchers will survive the perils of nature and the marketplace and continue in business, thus ensuring the food supply. RMA administers these projects as well as the federal crop insurance program, with funding and authority from the Federal Crop Insurance Act.
The new partnership agreements announced today include:
Crop Insurance Education in Targeted States: $4,470,075 is being awarded to deliver crop insurance education and information to agricultural producers in 16 states designated as historically underserved with respect to crop insurance. These targeted states include: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Commodity Partnerships for Small Agricultural Risk Management Education Sessions: $697,875 is being warded to fund 70 commodity partnership agreements across the country, delivering training to U.S. agricultural producers in managing production, marketing, and financial risk. The program gives priority to educating producers of crops currently not insured under Federal crop insurance, specialty crops, and underserved commodities, including livestock and forage.
Community Outreach and Assistance Partnerships: Up to $3.4 million is being awarded for collaborative outreach and assistance programs for limited resource, socially disadvantaged and other traditionally under-served farmers and ranchers, who produce priority commodities.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).
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A friend asked me about these two verses, and I don’t believe that we’ve looked at them before:
Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes (Psalm 8:2a, ESV)
And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?” (Matthew 21:16b, ESV)
Now as your Bible’s footnotes probably tell you, this is another example where the New Testament has followed the Greek Septuagint rather than the Hebrew text.
Why though did the authors of the Septuagint translate this verse as they did? I don’t know, but maybe you do, and can help explain these strange verses.
It is also worth noting that our many English translations vary quite widely on these verses. Which do you think conveys the meaning best?
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Bird Flu Research Illustrates Dual-Use Issues
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
And in other news, a scientific journal has finally published the details of how to make mutant forms of bird flu. These viruses were created last year by a lab that's trying to stay one step ahead of a possible flu pandemic, so that the world can get ready. The work, though, is highly controversial. Critics say the man-made viruses pose serious risks: the germs could escape, or be used as a bio weapon.
NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports that the government is now grappling with a challenge: how to manage the risks of this kind of research without blocking scientific progress.
NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: The controversy over mutant bird flu has raged for months. Some of the headlines have been scary: Doomsday Virus, Super-flu. Of course, scientists did the work in an effort to protect the public. This is an extreme example of something called the dual-use dilemma.
CARRIE WOLINETZ: Dual use research in the life sciences really refers to biological research which is intended for good and beneficial use, but could be potentially misused for harm.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Carrie Wolinetz is with the Association of American Universities. She says the dual-use problem isn't new - it's been discussed for over a decade. But all that talk didn't produce much action until this March. Mutant bird flu was big news, and the U. S. government issued a new policy to try to prevent this kind of panic in the future.
WOLINETZ: It does represent a knee jerk policy response to a situation that was playing out in a very high profile way.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: The policy covers only government-funded research with 15 high-risk germs and toxins. It says before certain kinds of experiments are done, there has to be a risk-benefit analysis, and steps have to be taken to minimize risks. But Wolinetz says the four-page policy is vague, plus its limited list of pathogens means it wouldn't have caught some past experiments that raised concerns like one that made polio virus from scratch, and a mousepox study that showed how to make smallpox even more deadly.
WOLINETZ: Which to me raises the question of whether or not this policy really addresses the problem that we're trying to solve.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Plus the policy says some work might be classified or just not funded. Wolinetz says that could stifle important beneficial research. Anthony Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. It funded the controversial bird flu research.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: The government policy on dual use research concern, which will become the official policy, is still somewhat of a work in progress, though much progress has been made over the past few months.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Meanwhile, flu researchers like Ron Fouchier don't know how to move forward. He's a scientist at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands. His bird flu study is the one that's just been published. He says one thing the new policy requires is quote "a risk mitigation plan."
DR. RON FOUCHIER: How far do we have to reduce hypothetical or real risks? Do we have to reduce that to zero, because zero is impossible. Then you might as well just kill all this research all together.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: He says he thinks the government is struggling to find the right balance.
FOUCHIER: Whatever concerns there are in the U.S., they are for real and we need to handle that appropriately, but we are not having enough guidance as to what appropriate means, here.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: He and other top flu experts around the world hope to get that kind of guidance soon. They've been waiting since January when they voluntarily agreed to hold off on certain bird flu experiments. All of these issues are sure to be high on the agenda next month when government-funded influenza researchers meet in New York. Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR News.
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I know this is an oldish question, but I think there is something that has been missed in the answers given so far. In the original question, the missile (or whatever) was told to accelerate towards the position of the target. Several answers pointed out that this was wrong, and you should accelerate towards where you think the target will be at some later time. This is better but still wrong.
What you really want to do is not accelerate towards the target but move towards the target. The way to think about this is to set your desired velocity pointed at the target (or a projection of the targets location) and then figure out what acceleration you could best apply (given whatever restrictions you have, i.e. a missile probably can't accelerated directly in reverse) to achieve your desired velocity (remembering that velocity is a vector).
Here is a worked example I implemented this morning, in my case for a player AI in a sports simulation game, where the player is trying to chase their opponent. The movement is governed by a standard 'kick-drift' model where accelerations are applied at the start of a timestep to update velocities and then objects drift at that velocity for the duration of the timestep.
I would post the derivation of this, but I've found there is no math markup supported on this site. Boo! You will just have to trust that this is the optimal solution, bearing in my that I have no restrictions on the acceleration direction, which is not the case for a missile type object, so that would require some extra constraints.
Code is in python, but should be readable with any language background. For simplicity, I assume each time step has a length of 1 and express the velocity and acceleration in appropriate units to reflect that.
self.x = # current x co-ordinate
self.y = # current y co-ordinate
self.angle = # current angle of motion
self.current_speed = # current magnitude of the velocity
self.acc # Maximum acceleration player can exert on themselves
target_x = # x co-ordinate of target position or projection of it
target_y = # y co-ordinate of target position or projection of it
vx = self.current_speed * math.cos(self.angle) # current velocity x component
vy = self.current_speed * math.sin(self.angle) # current velocity y component
# Find best direction to accelerate
acc_angle = math.atan2(self.x + vx - target_x,self.y + vy - target_y)
Note that the atan2(a,b) function computes the inverse tan of a/b, but ensures the angles sits in the correct quadrant of a circle, which requires knowing the sign of both a and b.
In my case, once I have the acceleration I apply that to update the velocity by
vx_new = vx + self.acc * math.cos(acc_angle)
vy_new = vy + self.acc * math.sin(acc_angle)
self.current_speed = math.sqrt( vx_new**2 + vy_new**2)
self.angle = math.atan2(vy_new,vx_new)
I also check the new speed against a player dependent max speed and cap it at that. In the case of a missile, car or something with a maximum turning rate (in degrees per tick) you could simply look at the current angle of motion versus the calculated ideal and if this change is greater than allowed, just change the angle by as much as possible towards the ideal.
For anyone interested in the derivation of this, I wrote down the distance between the player and target after the timstep, in terms of the initial position, velocity, acceleration rate and acceleration angle, then took the derivative with respect to the acceleration angle. Setting that to zero finds the minima of the player-target distance after the timestep as a function of the acceleration angle, which is exactly what we want to know. Interestingly, even though the acceleration rate was originally in the equations, it cancels out making the optimal direction independent of how much you are actually able to accelerate.
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Independent research looks for cancer cure, policy solutions
Whether investigating human diseases or running races, 2009 graduate Nicole Clarke pushed herself to the next level.
With a major in chemical engineering and a certificate in engineering biology, Clarke devoted much of her Princeton career to researching some of the biggest medical issues facing society, including malaria, cancer and genetic testing. Whenever she could, she took the research out of the lab and into the world.
Inspired by an advanced genetics taught by biologist Lee Silver, Clarke and fellow chemical engineering major Sharon Goswami applied for funding from the Eugene Wong ’55 Fund for Engineering and Policy to sequence their own DNA as well as the DNA of the four additional students enrolled in the class. Since genetic testing has significant ramifications for insurance companies, they identified particular traits among themselves and their classmates that might affect their eligibility for different types of insurance. The ultimate goal was to determine how particular policies might protect consumers and insurance companies alike from the adverse effects of genetic testing.
Despite the potential for upsetting implications, Clarke wasn’t worried about the results of her genetic analysis. Instead, she sees it as a blueprint for future research.
“Ultimately, we will get to a point when knowing your personal genome will help you determine what to do now so you don’t get disease X in 20 years, or how to treat it if you do,” she said. “It’s the most intimate way you can know yourself.”
Clarke also searched for new ways to treat cancer. Advised by James Link, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, Clarke worked to engineer proteins to be used as anti-cancer therapeutics.
“I’ve had the opportunity to see and touch cancer—real tumors from real patients who are undergoing treatment for a very real disease that is so much more than a vial of purified protein sitting on my lab bench,” she said. “That’s the kind of perspective I was looking for. It helps keep me focused and aware of the work that still needs to be done in the cancer research field.” Clarke now plans to pursue a doctorate at Stanford University, where she has been accepted into the Cancer Biology Program.
Her focus and drive pervades all aspects of her life. Born in Trinidad, Clarke was raised in the United States and attended high school in Baltimore, Md., where she was a member of the track team. After taking time off from running when she first arrived at Princeton, Clarke found she missed it and designed a rigorous training program, which included a summer spent in Boulder, Colo., to train at high altitude. Her hard work paid off when she completed the Philadelphia marathon last year in 4:33:15.
“I run because it clears my head,” she said. “It also just makes me happy. Even with a long, hard run, I feel so much better afterward, ready to tackle homework, research, life in general … anything.”
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Rodney Graham and Vera Lutter
Rodney Graham and Vera Lutter: Time Traced
November 17, 1999 - June 18, 2000
Like the camera obscura, the pinhole camera was an influential precursor to that most sophisticated of mechanical tools, the modern multilens camera. At a time when it, in turn, is being challenged by newer reproductive technologies, such rudimentary modes of image making are, paradoxically, proving unexpectedly vital. In their recent works, both Canadian artist Rodney Graham and German Vera Lutter draw on these pioneering techniques and historical models to construct vividly arresting representations.
Past Events and Public Programs
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Articles tagged with: prevent hair loss
Belize Hotels, Belize Photos »
Today’s Belize Photo of the Day is the Aloe Vera which is commonly known as The Medicinal Plant. Aloe Vera is a very short-stemmed plant that can grow up to 60-100 cm tall spreading by offsets. The Aloe Vera’s leaf is thick and fleshy to touch and has tiny prickles or spines around the perimeter. The Aloe Vera plant can be frequently seen tropical areas of the world, including Belize where it can be seen very commonly at Chaa Creek’s 365-acre private nature preserve. The plant can be easily spotted while on the Rainforest Medicine Trail Tour with our naturalist guides.
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Consumers are willing, but divorce divides the movement
by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor
Poverty has historically been the lot of small-holding farmers in developing countries. The fair trade movement seeks to change that by appealing to global consumers to pay a premium for some products with the promise that the extra money will go to the workers at the bottom of the supply chain. Generally, this means better wages and working conditions and/or funding for development projects in the producers’ communities.
“Fair trade at its core is about using trade to help people lift themselves out of poverty in ways that are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable,” says Mary Jo Cook, chief impact officer for Fair Trade USA.
The fair trade movement began in Europe in the late 1980s. The US organization began in 1999. Premium payments by US companies were a piddling $102,612 that year. In 2011, they totaled $21.9 million, with coffee beans accounting for $17 million, or 78%, followed by produce, cocoa, sugar, and tea. These figures and more are in the Fair Trade USA 2011 Almanac.
The five countries with the greatest number of fair trade producer organizations are Peru, Colombia, India, Kenya, and Mexico.
Companies that buy fair trade certified products pay community development premiums on top of a fair trade minimum price (or, if higher, the market price). The premium for coffee is set at 20 cents per pound, for instance, with an extra 30 cents for organic coffee. The premiums provide producer organizations – usually farm cooperatives – with funds that they invest as they see fit in such projects such as schools, healthcare facilities, and clean drinking water.
Fair Trade USA’s Cook acknowledges that anybody can use the words “fair trade” together. However, Fair Trade USA and its international counterparts can sue companies that claim to be fair trade but are not selling products that have been certified. Its website lists scores of companies that use certified products, from tiny brand holders to giant retailers.
Alas, the fair trade movement is now coping with a messy divorce: Fair Trade USA withdrew from Fairtrade International last December 31, due in part to the US organization’s decision to offer licenses to large coffee plantations. The international organization works only with small farms.
Also at issue is Fair Trade USA’s decision to lower the threshold to products with just 10% certified ingredients, compared with the international group’s 20% minimum.
Fairtrade International uses a third-party group called Flo-Cert to certify that farms meet its standards. Fair Trade USA still accepts Flo-Cert, but has a new partnership with Scientific Certification Systems. The international group is creating its own legal entity in the US that will begin operating later this year. Meanwhile a North American fair trade stakeholder council has formed to clarify the movement’s common vision.
Theoretically, companies could register with both organizations, although they would have to pay two licensing fees.
Starbucks, which last year purchased 34.3 million pounds of fair trade certified coffee, 8% of its total, says it is in active conversation with the leadership at both groups “to better understand the implications of the split and evaluate any potential impact on our business relationships in order to best support our goals.”
Sean Greenwood, spokesman for fair trade booster Ben & Jerry’s, considers both sides: “FTUSA is looking to bring more businesses into the fold. The criticism is that if you open to a broader audience, do you weaken the model?” he says. But, he adds, “lowering the threshold so you can triple the amount of businesses that can be involved … isn’t that better for farmers?”
Bill Armbruster, the anchor for the Datamyne Blog has covered shipping and trade for 30 years as a reporter and editor with The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Digest. “I’ll be blogging on headline news and current issues in oceangoing commerce, trying to shed some light on the backstories and, wherever I can, supply some sound advice for shippers.” Write Bill care of email@example.com.
Date posted: May 3, 2012
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The Aims of Economic Revolution
The primary aim of a just economic system should be to produce the necessities of life in enough quantity that none are deprived. The rightful recipients of these necessities include every living being, every kind of organism, from simple plants to complex animals. Generally, each living being should receive an adequate, or if possible, a generous supply of nutritious food & drink, healthcare, transportation, living quarters, and for humans at least, clothing.
The secondary aim of a just economy is to empower its participants to sustain an adequate or, preferably, a generous standard of living, without harmful over-consumption. Education is the primary method of such empowerment for humankind. This education should not be directed to the fulfillment of the profit motive, but towards a general equality of living standards.
The tertiary aim of a just economy is the advancement of the living standard of the entire ecosystem, human and non-human. While minimal living standards are the initial goal, a mere subsistence is not a life of freedom. The improvement of living and working conditions in harmony with the natural world towards a generous future is the authentic and just motivation for economic innovation.
The achievement of equality and liberty with maximal natural and social harmony is a revolutionary goal, even though it hardly seems extreme. It only appears radical in contrast to the massive poverty, oppression, and degradation of humankind and nature that are rampant upon our planet. However, the right-wing conviction that oppression, poverty, and environmental disruption are natural and even desirable is bluntly barbaric.
Our modern economic system demands from each ordinary participant at least 40 hours of labor devoted to profit-making chiefly for others. The average amount of sleep a person needs in a week is 56 hours. The necessary act of eating takes up an average of 21 hours per week. For most of our world’s living adult population, at least 5 or more hours per week are devoted to “overtime” for the profit of others. This leaves each worker at most 46 hours per week to pursue their freely chosen ends.
The labor we devote to the profit of others is not freely chosen by most of humankind. The threat of poverty or starvation coerce most of us into underpaid, unpleasant jobs. If each of us could have at least 8 more hours a week to pursue a freely chosen passion or leisure without fear of deprivation, our contentment and pleasure with life would increase noticeably. If we could achieve even greater levels of freedom from involuntary work for more hours per week, the personal and social benefits would be enormous.
Achieving a shorter work-week is the key to revolutionary economic goals. Our modern system aims at profit and so it pressures most of us to work for many more hours than would be required to produce our needs apart from profit and excess luxury. Production of things is valued in terms of their marketability and profit-margin, not whether they genuinely contribute to social and natural well-being.
The productive advances discovered by science, invention, and education are not turned towards the satisfaction of all needs equally, but first of all to the profit of the wealthy. It seems so plainly reasonable that humankind should turn its powers towards cooperative production, if only the means of production were in the hands of the many equally, not the few who pursue mere individual wealth.
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Most people take for granted that what comes from Prague’s taps is drinking water. In spite of that, recycling containers are full of plastic bottles that are not only old lemonade bottles but also various types of spring, mineral and other type of waters. Advertising has certainly played its part – the majority of people consider purchased water healthier, cleaner, simply of better quality.
South Prague drinks water from Želivka, North from Káraný
Some Praguers wrongly think that the water pouring from their taps is in fact cleaned and processed water form the Vltava River, which passes through Prague. Of course, this urban myth is far from true. Although it must be said, even the quality of the Vltava River water has rapidly improved in Prague in the course of recent years - this is proven by the welcome increase in mussels and other water animals that are sensitive to any kind of water pollution.
Prague’s water-supply network is fed from two water treatment plants. The first one is called Želivka and supplies Prague with up to 75 % of its drinking water requirements. The plant is located 65 kilometres south of the city and treats water from the water-supply reservoir Švihov, the biggest reservoir not only in the Czech Republic but also in the whole of Central Europe. It is located above the junction of the Želivka and Sázava rivers, in a designated zone with strict environmental protection rules. Water quality is checked by the state enterprise Povodí Vltavy and by Pražské vodovody a kanalizace (Prague Water Supply and Sewage Collection). In principle, the process involves drawing the water up from very deep parts and in particular from the place with the best current water quality.
The remaining 25 % is supplied from the Káraný source. The local water treatment plant supplies households with underground water taken from artesian wells and water filtered by the Jizera River’s sand. Due to the geology of the area, this water is harder than the one from Želivka, however, this is more of a concern for your washing-machine than for you.
Broadly speaking, the south part of Prague is supplied by the water from Želivka and the North, e.g. around Ládví and Horní Počernice, by the water from Káraný. However, a substantial part of the city gets a mixture from both sources.
Two hundred and twenty daily tests monitor the quality
Detailed research shows that considerable attention is paid to maintaining the water quality in Prague. In the case of tap water, we monitor about 100 separate quality indicators; some of them go even beyond the scope of compulsory indicators set by current regulations. Quality checks are carried out in accredited laboratories, which are located adjacent to the Želivka and Kárané water treatment plants and also in Prague, Dykova Street. Some water tests take place directly in consumer’s homes, and then there is the Prague Hygiene Station that plays the part of a sort of supervision. All this activity results in about 80,000 tests carried out on 9,000 samples of water! No wonder it is said that tap water is among the most monitored types of nourishment.
Experts are of the opinion that due to on-going monitoring of drinking water quality, Prague’s water quality fully complies with European standards in all respects – physical, chemical, microbiological as well as biological.
Every consumer has the right to be informed about tap water quality. They are entitled to access information on all aspects set by the current legislation. Water analyses can be found at www.pvk.cz/pitna-voda/, in the customer centre in Dykova Street n. 3 in Prague 10, and in PVK’s information documentation.
What about bottled water?
According to MUDr. František Kožíšek from the National Institute of Public Health, the requirements for bottled water are the same as for tap water. In the case of infants, and spring or natural mineral water, stricter limits apply for some parameters, such as the nitrate content and some other organic substances. On the other hand, bottled natural mineral and spring water have less strict microbiological requirements.
Have you made up your mind yet? If not, here are a few more facts speaking in favour of tap water. Tap water is environmentally friendly as it doesn’t need bottles, ware-houses, or lorries for transportation. It is always fresh and well ‘stored’ in the cool and dark environment of water pipelines. Oh, and additionally, it’s about hundred times cheaper than battled water.
Frequently asked questions
So is drinking water better in some parts of Prague than others?
It can’t be said that there are certain parts of Prague where the drinking water is cleaner or better. However, because Prague is currently supplied from two sources, consumers may notice a slight difference in taste in individual areas. Prague is supplied mainly from the water treatment plants Želivka and Káraný. In some instances, an area has to change its source, which is when consumers may notice a change in taste. Drinking water from the Káraný water treatment plant which supplies Prague North appears to have the most favoured taste. In the Želivka treatment plant, the water is treated by adding ozone, which improves the taste and appearance of drinking water.
Changes in water quality are also influenced by the quality of the inner lining of the water piping system and its susceptibility to failure and related repairs. Water treatment plants also monitor how home water pipes influence the quality of supplied water. If an influence is detected, in the majority of cases it concerns iron, which is not harmful. Following break-downs and repairs, the water-supply network has to be sufficiently flushed. Only drinking water that complies with the regulation of the Ministry of Health no 252/2004 Coll. is allowed into the water-supply network.
What can influence how water tastes?
A funny taste to the water can be caused by the quality of water pipelines in individual households. Sometimes the water is kept in pipes too long and other times the material suffers from corrosion or when the cold and hot water pipes are right next too each other (which they shouldn’t be), the taste can be negatively influenced by temperature. It is therefore advisable to let water run for a bit and wait for cold water, especially in the morning and after holidays. Sensitive individuals may smell chlorine, which has to be added to ensure that water is safe and doesn’t contain any germs. The milky colour is caused by dissolved oxygen and it’s harmless.
What about lead in tap water?
Lead used to be use for the inner linings of water pipes and connectors more than 20 years ago. These days the pipes have either been already replaced by other materials or they are coated by layers of lime, and water doesn’t come into direct contact with lead. The long-term average lead parameters in Prague are as low as 0.0005 mg for one litre, with the accepted health limit being 0.025 mg/l. All in all, lead is not something residents need worry about.
How is it with other substances in tap water?
Additional water analyses are carried out should there be any test indicators suggesting that some kind of harmful substance could be present in the water. For example, there has been some analysis detecting the presence of vinyl chloride; however, the detected amount didn’t even reach the point when it could be defined and expressed in numbers.
Regarding the risk of residues of hormones and pharmaceuticals in water, there is currently no legal obligation to monitor these substances in either the tap water or bottled water. The World Health Organisation hasn’t initiated compulsory monitoring of this group of substances in drinking water because their presence in water is not currently regarded by them as a health risk factor.
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Glenn Wolff, LCSW maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Stamford, CT.
I have been treating a 37 year old woman for about six months. She is married with three young children. She came to me for treatment of depression and anxiety precipitated by her husband’s layoff from his lucrative job in the financial industry. She and her husband were facing significant financial difficulties which have contributed to her depressed mood, difficulty sleeping, overeating, and feelings of hopelessness. They had been arguing in front of the kids and she was concerned how all this tension was affecting them.
After referring her to a psychiatrist for an evaluation, she had responded quite well to her prescription for Zoloft, a medication to treat depression. Things had been improving with her husband after he secured another banking job and they were barely arguing with each other.
However, about a month ago, my patient began to slip back into even a worse depression, not being to get out of bed in the morning and having frequent crying spells. She told me that she has suffered from this “different” type of depression for the past two years, usually coming on during the month of December. Her psychiatrist increased her dose of Zoloft and surmised that this “different” type of depression was Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD.
What is SAD?
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a kind of depression that occurs at a certain time of the year, usually in the winter.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
SAD may begin during the teen years or in adulthood. Like other forms of depression, it occurs more often in women than in men.
People who live in places with long winter nights are at greater risk for SAD. A less common form of the disorder involves depression during the summer months.
Symptoms usually build up slowly in the late autumn and winter months. Symptoms are usually the same as with other forms of depression:
- Increased appetite with weight gain (weight loss is more common with other forms of depression)
- Increased sleep (too little sleep is more common with other forms of depression)
- Less energy and ability to concentrate
- Loss of interest in work or other activities
- Sluggish movements
- Social withdrawal
- Unhappiness and irritability
SAD can sometimes become long-term depression. Bipolar disorder or thoughts of suicide are also possible.
Signs and tests
There is no test for SAD. Your health care provider can make a diagnosis by asking about your history of symptoms.
As with other types of depression, antidepressant medications and talk therapy can be effective.
Managing Your Depression At Home
To manage your symptoms at home:
- Get enough sleep.
- Eat a healthy diet.
- Take medicines the right way.
- Learn how to manage side effects.
- Learn to watch for early signs that your depression is getting worse.
- Have a plan if it does get worse.
- Try to exercise more often.
- Look for activities that make you happy.
- Practice good sleep habits.
- Avoid alcohol and illegal drugs. These can make depression worse over time. They may also affect your judgment about suicide.
It is important to consume a lot of foods and/or supplements with B Vitamins. These vitamins found in chicken, meat, and eggs are improve mood symptoms and energy. Vitamin D is often very important because it too effects mood and energy. People in the Northeast are often very low in this necessary vitamin because of limited sun exposure during the winter months. Vitamin D can be found in yogurts, milk, and liver oil. Tryptophan is also important because it is a building block of serotonin, a brain chemical implicated in depression.
Light therapy using a special lamp with a very bright light (10,000 lux) that mimics light from the sun may also be helpful.
Start treatment during the fall or early winter, before the symptoms of SAD begin. Follow your health care provider’s instructions about how to use light therapy. A common practice is to sit a couple of feet away from the light box for about 30 minutes every day. This is usually done in the early morning, to mimic sunrise.Keep your eyes open, but do not look straight into the light source.Symptoms of depression should improve within 3 – 4 weeks if light therapy is going to help.
Side effects of light therapy include:
- Eye strain and headache
- Mania, less often (see: Bipolar disorder)
- People who take drugs that make them more sensitive to light, such as certain psoriasis drugs, antibiotics, or antipsychotics, should avoid light therapy.
A check-up with your eye doctor is recommended before starting treatment.
With no treatment, symptoms usually get better on their own with the change of seasons. However, symptoms can improve more quickly with treatment.
The outcome is usually good with treatment. However, some people have SAD throughout their lives.
Get help right away if you have thoughts of hurting yourself or anyone else.
My patient has greatly improved since taking her increased dose of Zoloft, working out at the gym four times a week, and continuing to see me on a weekly basis. Moreover, she reports that using a light box every day for thirty minutes has really helped as well.
American Psychiatric Asosciation. Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder. 3rd ed. October 2010.Tesar GE. Psychiatry and psychology. In: Carey WD, ed. Cleveland Clinic: Current Clinical Medicine 2010. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:section 11.
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"The Artist's Garden"
Michael Petrie is an artist who uses plants like paint. You’ve seen his work at the Philadelphia Flower Show: tumbling terracotta pots, cascades of tools, Jurassic Park dinosaurs, pathways of pussy willows, giant timepieces. He recently left the post of vice president at J. Franklin Styer’s Nursery and has opened Handmade Gardens, his own retail plant and landscape design business. Michael will share his design thought process in this lecture jointly sponsored with the Hardy Plant Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter and the Henry Foundation for Botanical Research.
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- About Us
- DORA Home
Insurance companies are required to include a minimum amount of medical payment coverage on all automobile insurance policies issued in the state. The purpose of this coverage is to provide insurance for the first $5,000 of medical expenses following an automobile accident, including significant costs associated with emergency services, such as ambulances, doctors, and trauma care.
Often called “med-pay” for short, Medical Payment Coverage is a type of insurance which provides at least $5,000 coverage for the insured driver and passengers to pay for injuries sustained in a car accident, regardless of who is at fault. Although the coverage is mandatory, there is a provision for consumers who do not want med-pay coverage to opt-out in writing. Consumers also have the option of purchasing higher limits of med-pay coverage if offered by their insurer.
Med-pay coverage is designed to provide a resource to help cover the immediate medical costs, up to the limit purchased by the consumer, including first responder and emergency room costs, to an insured driver and passengers, regardless of responsibility for the accident. Without med-pay benefits, auto insurance policies may not cover medical costs for insured parties when injured in an automobile accident.
Med-pay coverage allows immediate medical payments for the automobile accident related expenses. If you are hurt in an auto accident and have med-pay benefits included on the policy, your auto insurance company pays for the medical treatment up to the limit purchased. The additional coverage can help protect consumers at a time when they need it most.
All insurance companies must include the med-pay coverage with new and renewal policies, but consumers will have the option of rejecting this coverage in writing. Since insurance companies are providing additional coverage, it is possible that premiums will increase accordingly. There is no provision in the law restricting companies from increasing a premium when providing med-pay coverage. Drivers and passengers with med-pay coverage will have an additional layer of financial protection against medical bills incurred in an auto accident. But a consumer who does not want to pay the additional premium has the option of rejecting the coverage or may consider shopping around for a better premium.
Your insurance company should tell you what the premium amount is at the time you contract for insurance or renew your insurance policy. Consumers may reject the med-pay coverage in writing (or in the manner in which the policy application was taken.) If the coverage is rejected, the insurer must maintain proof that the insured party rejected the coverage for at least three years following the rejection.
However, all drivers in Colorado are required to carry car insurance. Colorado requires minimum coverage limits of $25,000 per person for bodily injury, $50,000 per accident for bodily injury, and a minimum of $15,000 of property damage liability.
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Minister warns prosecutions possible over horse meat scandal
A government minister has said there could be prosecutions following the discovery of horse meat in some supermarket beefburgers.
Environment Minister David Heath was responding to an urgent question from Labour's shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh on 17 January 2013.
Earlier this week it emerged Irish food inspectors had found almost 30% horsemeat in one brand of beefburgers sold by Tesco.
Smaller amounts were also found in beefburgers sold by Iceland, Lidl and Aldi and Dunnes.
Mr Heath acknowledged the seriousness of the discovery but told MPs not to "talk down" the British food industry at a time when standards "are of a very high level".
He said: "Because something has been discovered in Ireland, which is serious, which may lead to criminal proceedings, does not undermine the very serious efforts which are taken by retailers, by processors and by producers in this country to ensure traceability and ensure standards of food that are available to consumers."
Raising her urgent question, Ms Creagh said there was "understandable" public anger about supermarkets selling food which was not properly labelled.
She told MPs: "Customers must have the confidence the food they buy is correctly labelled, legal and safe. The UK is part of a global food supply chain."
Ms Creagh also urged the government to consider introducing DNA testing of meat products, the system which detected the problem in Ireland.
Liberal Democrat Roger Williams warned that high commodity prices could result in more food adulteration in the future.
"When you have got high-priced beef and, as I understand it, low-priced horse meat, some unscrupulous food processors are likely to take advantage of that."
Labour's Kevan Jones asked whether adulterated meat may have been used in other outlets, including fast food restaurants.
Mr Heath replied: "Those investigations are under way to make sure that if this scandal is replicated in other low-cost beefburgers it is picked up and we take the appropriate action."
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Geographical Index > United States > Kentucky > Hopkins County > Report # 2384|
Submitted by witness J. T. Oglesby on Tuesday, February 10, 1998.
Deer hunters have frightening nightime encounter near White Plains
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COUNTY: Hopkins County
LOCATION DETAILS: Hopkins County, Kentucky an area called Lonesome Woods Highway 800 nearest town would be White Plains .
NEAREST TOWN: White Plains
NEAREST ROAD: Lonesome Woods Highway 800
OBSERVED: Three friends and myself were camping out the night before the opening morning of deer season Nov.7 to be exact. We had set up camp in an area known as Lonesome Woods which covers about three counties. It was really cold and we had a really big fire going and we were all sitting around it to stay warm, when all of a sudden this weird moaning sound filled the woods. It sounded kind of like a siren except it was very loud. It let off a series of three moans starting low building and then dropping, pitch as well as volume, in three bursts.
This scared us because we all grew up in this area and have hunted and camped out here all of our lives and have never heard such a cry. Not wanting to act scared we tried to laugh it off but an uneasy feeling lingered throughout the camp for quite a while. That happened about 9:00.
About 10:30 T., one of my friends who was camping with us, stepped out into the woods to relieve himself. He wasn't gone for about 10 minutes when he came running back to camp saying "I'm gone and if you all have any sense you'd leave to". We asked him what was wrong and he told us he had seen something down by the creek located on the other side of the hill. It stood about 8 feet tall and appeared to be drinking from the stream as he came across the hill. Once on top of the hill it took notice of him stood up and watch him, or as T. said "watched me run." T. hadn't much more than got the words out of his mouth when we heard a something running through the brush on top of a hill. My brother had a mining light (plus it was very bright from the moon that night, the sky was spotless)shined up on the hill to see a silhouette of a very large creature running on top of the hill.
We couldn't make out a color but it was human shaped with long arms and ran kind of hunched over. It looked to be about 8 feet tall. The sound it produced while running was amazingly loud it sounded as though a truck was being driven over a road of branches and twigs. This was enough for us, scared out of our wits we packed up what little we had and left. we have heard a lot of stories about this area and now we believe them there is something in those woods without a doubt.
OTHER WITNESSES: The yell came while we were sitting around a fire talking and staying warm. The first sighting T. was just walking over the hill. The third we were talking about what T. had just witnessed.
ENVIRONMENT: Hardwood forest mixed with swamp/bottom land. The forest part is very hilly but quickly gives way to swamp/bottom land
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Strangers On A Train - Queer Film Classic
With a sudden re-interest in the films of suspense director Alfred Hitchcock, now seems to be the perfect time to reexamine one of his most homoerotic thrillers. Strangers on a Train: A Queer Film Classic offers the true tale of why the gay subplot was removed from the final film product, along with a look at Hitchcock’s homophobia when dealing with male sexuality.
It’s been a mere two months since the film’s Blu-ray release and here is its somewhat companion piece. Jonathan Goldberg delves into many of the film’s queer scenes, from Farley Granger and Robert Walker’s infamous racy dialogue, to the scenes featuring the fey character of Bruno and his relationship with his mother.
The casting of Pat Hitchcock in a small role as Barbara (a character that doesn’t appear in the book) is looked at here and Goldberg shows how she became a gay icon. The topic of misogyny, always a common theme in any Hitchcock film, is examined in "Strangers on a Train: A Queer Film Classic." Bruno coldheartedly kills the character of Miriam perhaps out of his hatred for women.
A look at the vast differences between the book "Strangers on a Train" and the final movie version show that Hollywood just wasn’t ready for an all-out queer film in 1951. Part of that blame rests on Hitchcock’s shoulders and his unwillingness to take on the Hollywood censors. Goldberg finds many essays and citations supporting the claim of Hitchcock’s homophobia.
Goldberg wisely discusses the correlation of male homosexuality and murder in one of the first films to do so. Does Bruno murder because he is gay, or because he wants Guy (Granger) so badly? "Strangers on a Train" the film could have unintentionally influenced later gay murderer movies such as "Cruising" and "Basic Instinct".
"Strangers on a Train: A Queer Film Classic" is part of Arsenal Pulp Press’ book series "Queer Film Classics", a look at LGBTQ films that so far covers 21 of them. If you’re a fan of Hitchcock’s classic film, this book is an intelligent must-have.
"Strangers on a Train: A Queer Film Classic"
Arsenal Pulp Press
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Midlands Authority on Conventions, Sports and Tourism, Associated Press
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Military museums allow visitors to experience the rough and tumble jerk of a parachute jump, the barked orders of an Army drill sergeant or the segregated training endured by the first African-Americans to enter the Marine Corps.
Whether you are a hardened military veteran or one who's never worn a uniform, several military museums in the Carolinas offer extensive lessons in military service as the Nov. 11 Veterans Day draws near.
In Fayetteville, N.C., the soaring Airborne and Special Operations Museum attracts between 120,000 to 175,000 visitors every year and tells the story of how America's military developed the strategy of dropping fully-armed soldiers into battle from the skies. A 15-foot sculpture of the paratrooper dubbed "Iron Mike" stands guard at its glass-and-girder front entry, which evokes both the 250-foot "jump towers" that paratroopers use to train and the wingspan of the C-47 aircraft that dropped soldiers onto battlefields in World War II.
Located just minutes off Interstate 95 in downtown Fayetteville, N.C., the museum is holding a weeklong celebration in advance of Veterans Day, says Paul Galloway, executive director of the foundation that supported construction of the $25 million building.
"We'll be hopping and popping. We do a salute to veterans every year," Galloway said. A week of films about the Army and paratroopers will be held the week prior to the holiday, as well as other events to honor military men and women, Galloway said.
As soon as you enter the museum, you spot a World War II-era paratrooper in combat gear floating out of the sky under a yellow 28-foot-wide parachute. Behind him, another model drops from the heavens, a modern Army Ranger buoyed by a light green, honeycombed parachute used by U.S. Special Forces.
A wild ride can be had in the museum's 24-seat platform motion simulator, recreating the bumps and jumps of parachute drops and rides in military vehicles.
To highlight some of the major events of wartime paratroopers, visitors first stroll through a recreated village in Normandy. Recordings from the June 1944 Allied invasion to liberate France from Nazi Germany put visitors in the heat of the battle, with rockets and bullets screeching by. Overhead, a C-47 "Skytrain" aircraft hovers with a U.S. Army paratrooper poised to jump out an open door.
Walkways are papered with still photos, videos and murals that show the history behind U.S. forces that evolved into the famed Special Operations units, designated to take on unconventional warfare and special missions in foreign lands.
Displays from the war in the Pacific, the Korean War and Cold War are shown. In one display, soldiers jump from a UH-1 "Huey" helicopter into a jungle battle raging in Vietnam. Other displays detail the history of U.S. involvement in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Grenada.
America's conflicts in the Middle East are recalled with models of camouflaged soldiers crouching in desert hideouts in Iraq. Others depict U.S. Special Operations forces meeting for tea with Afghan villagers or medical centers where military medics tend to local children.
The latest addition to the Army's military museums is the Army's Basic Training Combat Museum located on Fort Jackson, in Columbia, S.C., which reopened in July after a two-year renovation.
More than 60,000 male and female soldiers graduate every year from basic training at Fort Jackson, which is the Army's largest training site. The museum offers guests and family members a taste of their grueling 10 weeks of indoctrination and combat training.
"The museum boasts a number of high-speed exhibits that zoom in directly on how civilians are turned into soldiers, interwoven with Fort Jackson's past," said the two-star general in charge of the post, Maj. Gen. James Milano.
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It’s inevitable during the holiday season: Kids get bored. But the doldrums are just the thing for unleashing children’s creativity.
Give them a few ideas and supplies, and step out of the way.
Here, three crafts authors offer ideas for turning the blahs into hurrahs.
Brenna Maloney, a mother of two, is the author of three sock-project books, including the new Sock It To Me (Stash Books).
She turned to sewing with stretchy socks five years ago to offset job stress. Replicating a favorite sock bunny that her mother had made her when she was a girl, Maloney then turned to crafting snakes, mice, sea creatures – and, more recently, evil clowns and snowman assassins.
Some of her biggest fans are pre-teens, who pose new project ideas and ask for help.
“I work with them and bring them in on it,” says Maloney, an editor at National Geographic Explorer magazine.
For kids who know how to use a sewing machine or would like to learn, Maloney suggests starting with a snake, turtle or starfish; the snake project is posted at her website, brennamaloney.com.
“Think about the sock and how it’s shaped. Turn it and twist it,” she says. She uses a sock’s pattern, plus stuffing and embellishments to turn it into a creature.
Emily K. Neuburger’s crafting projects evolve around storytelling.
The projects in the former teacher’s new book, Show Me a Story (Storey Publishing), and at her website, redbirdcrafts.com, encourage kids to play and experiment. She advises parents to leave out interesting, new supplies, such as pinecones and paint, for children to explore.
Help them “begin that process of imagining new worlds and telling stories,” she says.
For winter break, Neuburger suggests that kids can share a personal memory or retell a holiday story using memory cards or story stones. Pictures from the story are glued to cardboard surfaces or small stones. Neuburger uses colored paper and fabric scraps to make simple images.
“Learning to know what to include in a story and what to leave out is an important storytelling skill,” she says in her book.
She also recommends making a story grab bag: Allow kids to search through magazines, maps and catalogs, and cut out interesting words, numbers and pictures. Find other images online. Also, kids can draw, paint or stamp their own images.
Glue these story-telling prompts to cardstock (or cereal-box cardboard). Neuburger follows with Mod Podge to seal the images, but this step can be skipped.
After the images dry, place them in a bag. From there, children can pull cards to build a story together. It can feel like a game, she says.
“That element of the unknown and the randomness – kids love it,” says Neuburger. “They have to work with it. There’s humor.”
If they can wield a pair of scissors, children can make the cute characters in Sarah Goldschadt’s new book, Craft-A-Day (Quirk Books). It provides a crafting motif for each week of the year, and a simple paper cut-out or small felt object each day. There’s an iPad app for downloading templates and instructions.
The animal patterns, including a penguin, dog and raccoon, are most likely to grab a child’s imagination. After tracing a template, kids can use it to make ornaments, cards, magnets, gift tags, mobiles and cake toppers.
Goldschadt, a graphic designer, recently shared some of her crafts with teenagers in an after-school program at a library, and was impressed by the kids’ dedication to finishing their owl and bird ornaments.
“It was the most quiet they’d ever been,” she says, “and they stayed longer to get it done.”
Goldschadt’s website is sah-rah.com.
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By Eliot Weinberger
In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get ‘bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq’. I heard him say: ‘The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is: not that damned many.’
In February 2001, I heard Colin Powell say that Saddam Hussein ‘has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.’
That same month, I heard that a CIA report stated: ‘We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programmes.’
In July 2001, I heard Condoleezza Rice say: ‘We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.’
On 11 September 2001, six hours after the attacks, I heard that Donald Rumsfeld said that it might be an opportunity to ‘hit’ Iraq. I heard that he said: ‘Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.’
I heard that Condoleezza Rice asked: ‘How do you capitalise on these opportunities?’
I heard that on 17 September the president signed a document marked top secret that directed the Pentagon to begin planning for the invasion and that, some months later, he secretly and illegally diverted $700 million approved by Congress for operations in Afghanistan into preparing for the new battle front.
In February 2002, I heard that an unnamed ‘senior military commander’ said: ‘We are moving military and intelligence personnel and resources out of Afghanistan to get ready for a future war in Iraq.’
I heard the president say that Iraq is ‘a threat of unique urgency’, and that there is ‘no doubt the Iraqi regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised’.
I heard the vice president say: ‘Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.’
I heard the president tell Congress: ‘The danger to our country is grave. The danger to our country is growing. The regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one within a year.’
I heard him say: ‘The dangers we face will only worsen from month to month and from year to year. To ignore these threats is to encourage them. Each passing day could be the one on which the Iraqi regime gives anthrax or VX nerve gas or, some day, a nuclear weapon to a terrorist ally.’
I heard the president, in the State of the Union address, say that Iraq was hiding materials sufficient to produce 25,000 litres of anthrax, 38,000 litres of botulinum toxin, and 500 tons of sarin, mustard and nerve gas.
I heard the president say that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium – later specified as ‘yellowcake’ uranium oxide from Niger – and thousands of aluminium tubes ‘suitable for nuclear weapons production’.
I heard the vice president say: ‘We know that he’s been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.’
I heard the president say: ‘Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.’
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: ‘Some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent. I would not be so certain.’
I heard the president say: ‘America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof – the smoking gun – that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.’
I heard Condoleezza Rice say: ‘We don’t want the “smoking gun
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Sunday, January 16, 2005
When Men Are Victims
Reprinted by Permission © (1996) by Eric
Fraidy cat. Wussy. Cry baby. Don't be such a baby. You're acting like a girl. What are you afraid of? Don't be afraid. You have no right to be afraid. There is nothing to be afraid of. You shouldn't be afraid. What are you crying about. Big boys don't cry. Quit your crying. That doesn't hurt. Grow up and act your age. What's the matter? Can't you take care of yourself?
Ever hear comments like that? If you're like me you've probably heard them all your life, ever since you were a little boy. It was very early in childhood that we were taught to deal with our pain. Our mothers told us to stop crying, our teachers told us to be quiet, and our mentors told us to deal with it and buck up and be a Man. So we learned to say, I can handle it. I'm fine. It wasn't shameful to admit we were hurt, but admitting we couldn't handle it, oh boy that was a one way ticket to being a Loser. And being a victim, well geez, you might as well hang a note on your back that says, Kick Me. So what do you as a man when you've been victimized? There's not much help available, unless you're rich, well insured, and surrounded by a loving fully functioning family and an incredible support group. How many of us have that? What little help that is available for victims is usually directed towards women that have been victimized, and the staff often has a biased view of men and are ignorant of men's emotional needs. So what's a fella to do?
First of all, I would like to say to anyone who has suffered through some kind of trauma (whether that's a car accident or a sexual assault or a history of childhood abuse) and is experiencing extreme emotional reactions:
You are not sick. You are not crazy. You are not "mentally ill." There is nothing "wrong" with you. What is happening to you are normal, natural reactions to an extraordinary experience that you have survived. It was an experience that was beyond the capacity of any human being to handle, and it is going to take some time for your system to process it and integrate it. You are going to encounter a tremendous number of people who don't understand that, who are uncomfortable with that, and will want you to control yourself. Ignore them, and stay away from them. Find a safe place to attend to your own healing. Surround yourself with people who will let you process the experience at your own pace, in your own unique way, and will help you move forward with dignity, grace, and compassion. You are a survivor.
Having said that, I think the first thing you need to do as a man is to tell yourself, I need help. Asking for help is not something we have been socially conditioned to do. Not only is it often seen as a sign of weakness, but most of the social support systems in this country are geared towards taking care of women who have been victimized. There are no crisis hot lines or shelters for battered men, there are no hot lines for male victims of sexual assault, there are no halfway houses for men recovering from a life of prostitution, and there are very few resources for men or boys who are victims of childhood sexual abuse. The few resources that are dedicated to men are things like soup kitchens or shelters for men who have fallen so far they are homeless. They may be good places to start if you have an addiction problem and need help getting back on your feet, but they often times don't have a clue about the depth of pain and anguish that a trauma survivor has. And you will probably need a lot of help healing that.
One of the main sources of help I have found in my own healing has been the support I have gotten within 12-step recovery community. The 12 step movement began when Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935. Dr. Bob and Bill W. put together a program that addressed the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the disease called alcoholism. For perhaps the first time in the history of the western world there was an organization with a mechanism to heal wounds of the spirit. That program gave birth to hundreds of different 12-step programs, which in my mind are all dedicated to healing wounds to the spirit. Through these programs thousands of people have found the courage, strength, and hope to heal from the insanity of what they have lived through. In my experience Alcoholics Anonymous is not just a bunch of people who have problems with alcohol. Most of the people I have met through AA have survived one or more horrendous traumas, and they were abandoned or neglected or abused by their family of origin. You don't know how powerful it is to walk into a room filled with people who have lived through the insanity that you have faced, and have them tell you that you are welcome, and that your story is real, and that you are not making everything up, and that what you did in order to survive was normal. Unfortunately that's not something our medical -- psychotherapeutic community understands. Each group is different, and it is helpful to remember that everyone is in a different stage of healing and recovery, and that some people haven't been able to escape the painful reality of their own situation. AA and other 12-step groups are designed to help people help themselves, and to provide a structure for personal growth. Part of the healing process involves telling your story, and hearing other people's stories as well, and I know of few forums that are better than a 12 step meeting. By the way, most of the people I've met in 12-step groups were abused in some way, shape, or form in their family of origin.
There are many ways to ask for help: private and group therapy, workshops, 12-step recovery programs, books, and even videos. I suggest you experiment with different approaches and find what works for you. Some approaches can be confronting, others warm and gentle. You may need different approaches and techniques at different phases of your healing. Sometimes what may seem most confronting is actually a lesson needing to be learned. Don't concern yourself with being efficient and timely. Time may not heal all wounds, but all wounds heal at their own pace. But no matter what route you take, I think the most important step is finding people who can provide you support as you work through the emotional repercussions. There will be plenty of people who will simply not understand what you are going through. You may want to change them, to make them understand, or to act differently than the way they do. You may want people to act compassionate, or to be outraged, or to get excited, or to cry with you. Give it up. You can't control how other people will respond, and you can't change them. All you can change is yourself. Let people respond to you as they will, and seek out those people who respond positively and can support you. But be aware of the charlatans who talk about providing support, but don't walk the walk. There may be times when you feel alone and isolated and that nobody understands or cares. That is the most important time to reach out. Call suicide hot lines. Go to 12-step meetings. Find support groups. But get support.
I've also found a great deal of healing in the men's movement, although just like the feminist movement, there are many different factions and interests. Check out some publications and groups and keep your eyes and ears open and you can find some kindred spirits. One great thing I have found in the men's movement is the freedom to do things in my own way, to not have to do something in a way that is Nice, or Gentle, or Quiet, or Feminine and Pretty. I can be as ugly and as loud and as unexplainable as I need to be. I can let it all hang out so to speak. But beware, when you let it all hang out, things might happen to and within your body that can only be described as . . . unusual. Normal body functions may seize up and fail, strange tremors or numbness might happen in certain areas, unexplainable aches and pains might appear. Most "trained" medical professionals will look at those symptoms and dismiss them as psychosomatic (and tell you to get over it because it's all in your head), or they may want treat it as a physical disorder and medicate or operate or who knows what. But sometimes all that is really happening is that your system is trying to process an overwhelming experience and your body is reacting. So take care of your body. Get good nutrition. Get plenty of rest. Drink LOTS of water. Take long baths. Do healthy things that make you feel good. Get a massage. Get plenty of hugs. Play with puppies and kittens and teddy bears. And lastly, find a safe place to let whatever is happening in your body run its course. Find a place where you can cry and let your body tremble. Shake your head and mutter, "bugga, bugga, bugga, bugga, bugga." Hit pillows and rage. Throw rocks. Spit into the wind. Swear out loud. Walk. Dance. Do jumping jacks. Rock yourself to sleep. Move your body in whatever way you can. And remember to BREATHE.
P.S. Give yourself some credit. After all, you're a survivor. And one hell of a man to boot.
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Reagan Waskom named director of Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
Reagan Waskom, a 20-year veteran of Colorado State University and longtime member of the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, has been named the director of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute.
The institute, a fixture at Colorado State since 1965, provides a critical link between water researchers and water users and managers in Colorado. Waskom, previously associate director of the institute, has served as interim director since December.
"Colorado State plays a critical role in the economic growth, advancement and health of Colorado's communities. Reagan's expertise and skills working with public agencies will greatly benefit the institute and Colorado residents," said Lou Swanson, vice provost for Outreach and Strategic Partnerships, who oversees the water resources institute. "He is extremely knowledgeable about the challenges and priorities facing Colorado's water future."
Connecting CSU water expertise with Colorado water education and research needs
Congress and the state Legislature created the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute in 1964 to connect the water expertise of Colorado's higher education system with the water education and research needs of Colorado's water users and managers. The program is funded by Congress, Colorado State University and Colorado water management organizations.
Waskom is only the fifth director during the Institute's 41-year existence. Robert Ward, who retired in December of 2005, had been director for 14 years.
Experience working on water quality programs
Waskom is the Cooperative Extension Water Resource Specialist at Colorado State. He has worked in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences within the College of Agricultural Sciences since 1991 when he joined the department as the Extension Water Quality Coordinator. In this role, he worked closely with the Colorado Department of Agriculture and other state and federal agencies on water quality programs. Prior to that, he served as the research coordinator on the Tissue Culture for Crops Project at Colorado State University. Before joining Colorado State, he worked in private industry as a consultant and as a research scientist.
Waskom is the author of numerous articles on Colorado's water resources and a regular contributor to Colorado Water, a newsletter on water-related issues published by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute. His broad research interests have included irrigation water optimization in water limited environments, evaluation of municipal water conservation programs, development of best management practices for crop production and evaluation of groundwater vulnerability and sensitivity to contamination.
"Colorado is at a critical juncture with its water resources, especially considering issues such as drought and meeting future water needs," Waskom said. "I look forward to working with state residents and agencies on the many challenges and opportunities ahead."
He obtained both his bachelor's in agronomy and master's in crop sciences from Texas A&M University and his doctoral degree in environmental sciences from Colorado State.
Each state and several territories have a Water Resources Research Institute. Each water institute is funded by Congress and located on a land-grant university campus.
Colorado's institute is located in Room E-102 of the Engineering Building on Colorado State's Fort Collins campus. Students are employed part-time in the office, often to prepare for careers as Colorado water managers.
Contact: Emily N Wilmsen
Phone Number: (970) 491-2336
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6 CANDIDATES SEEK 2 OPEN SCHOOL BOARD SEATS.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer
BURBANK - Six Burbank parents are running for two open seats on the Burbank Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. board in the Feb. 22 mail-in primary, with restoration of arts and music programs emerging as a top campaign issue.
The candidates are vying vy·ing
Present participle of vie.
vying vie to succeed incumbents Trish Burnett and Connie Lackey, who are not seeking re-election.
Here are brief profiles of the candidates:
--Larry Applebaum, 45, is a home remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure.
bone remodeling contractor who also owns a music business. Applebaum said he wants to put music instructors back in the elementary schools elementary school: see school. , even if finding the money poses a challenge. ``First and foremost you have to have someone saying, 'this is a goal that we want to achieve.' And once you articulate the goal, you can bring people together and start thinking about how to fund it.''
Applebaum also said he wants to improve vocational education vocational education, training designed to advance individuals' general proficiency, especially in relation to their present or future occupations. The term does not normally include training for the professions. and create a long-range plan for the maintenance and upkeep of school facilities. Applebaum ran unsuccessfully for the school board in 2003.
--Roland Armstorff, 48, works in film and television production and postproduction post·pro·duc·tion
A final stage in the production of a film or a television program, occurring after the action has been filmed or videotaped and typically involving editing and the addition of soundtracks. . He said the district should improve its arts education, hire music teachers and seek alternative funding sources for programs. Armstorff is also concerned about childhood obesity childhood obesity Public health Overweight in a child, an average BMI of ≥ 85% for age and sex; ≥ 95% for age and sex is very obese. See Body-mass index, Obesity. Cf Adult obesity. , and said unhealthy food unhealthy food Any food that is not regarded as being conducive to maintaining health; UFs include fats, in particular of animal origin, 'fast' foods–low in fiber and vitamins; 'junk food'–eg, potato and corn chips, pretzels, crackers–high in salt offered at school cafeterias contributes to the problem.
``I would like to revamp re·vamp
tr.v. re·vamped, re·vamp·ing, re·vamps
1. To patch up or restore; renovate.
2. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example).
3. To vamp (a shoe) anew.
n. the cafeteria menu so the children are able to make the right choices at school and carry that through the rest of their lives,'' said Armstorff, who also ran unsuccessfully for the board in 2003.
He would also like to give students who struggle in kindergarten the ``gift of time,'' allowing them to go through a two-year catch-up program.
--Susan Bowers Bowers is a surname, and may refer to
``There are thousands of businesses in Burbank, many of whom would like to help with education. They just want to know how they can help.''
Bowers added that, because she is semiretired sem·i·re·tired
Working only on a part-time basis, as for reasons of ill health or advanced age.
sem , she would have time to spend visiting schools.
``It's one thing to make a policy decision from a certain level, but you really need to know how that ripples through the whole system,'' she said.
--Nikki Capshaw, 41, is a homemaker who volunteers at her children's elementary schools.
``School board members are responsible for policy and I think that we need some parent perspectives in that department, as opposed to what's best for the business community, what's best for the teacher community,'' she said.
Capshaw, who formerly worked for Warner Music Group Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the four major record labels.
Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. , said the district needs to restore music, fine arts and performing arts programs in the elementary schools.
``You don't have a whole child if that's missing. Life is not all reading, writing and arithmetic,'' Capshaw said.
--Debbie Kukta, 47, owns a rivet-manufacturing company. She would like to bring enrichment programs, such as music and art, back to the school district when funding becomes available. One way to get more funds is to continue working with the city to pool resources, she said.
``Educating our kids is just very important to me. I think they're an asset we need to develop,'' said Kukta, who served on the school district's Budget Advisory Committee from 2001 until her term expired in November.
``We just looked at so many areas in depth that I feel like I have a very good insight inside the district operations,'' she said.
--Ira Lippman, 53, owns two stores in Burbank. He believes the district should lease sports fields to the city to bring in more revenue.
``We have lots of success in our district; it functions pretty good but there's always room for improvement,'' Lippman said. ``Recently they've diverted lots of funds to the district offices. I think we need to make sure more of those funds go to the school sites.''
And Lippman said while other candidates talk about improving arts education, he has been involved in bringing music programs back to middle and high schools. Lippman also ran for the school board in 2003.
Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304
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