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Events and battles
After Fort Sumter had fallen to the Confederacy, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers for 90 days to put down the rebellion.
Lincoln did this on April 15, 1861, and almost immediately four more states joined the Confederacy: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
The remaining border states: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware decided to stay with the Union. The nation was ready for war.
Fort Sumter to Manassas
Monitor and Merrimac
Battle of Fredericksburg
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To my brother Mario,
Six months have passed since you were kidnapped that night out of bad luck, since you were tortured and threatened, since your family and friends were harassed. For six months they tried everything to break your acratist spirit – they locked your body within four walls and innumerable bars, away from the wild forests where you belong, but could not penetrate your mind at all times that you were close to your comrades in affinity across the world. They made you undergo pain, but your willingness to fight always won.
They tried to hinder your advocates in affinity, in order to stop them from expressing their solidarity with you, not realizing that a couple of male strangers lurking in the shadows at dawn and some empty death threats would not be able to stop those who are willing to fight alongside you. They sent their prisoners-traitors to do you harm, but the solidarity which was sown always proved stronger. During these months you mocked the enemy, enduring the pain, incertitude and torture of the confinement of a savage individual, and each long second you clung tight to your convictions. You used all your bursting energy to propagate freedom in every step, succeeding even in such an infertile place to continue the analysis of our insurrectional struggle, without ever stopping to fight, even for a second, for freedom and anarchy.
Today, when you step out on the street again, you should know that you were never actually deprived of your freedom — all this time you were free, because despite everything they tried, they weren’t and will never be able to take away the freedom that runs through your veins, through our veins. I know very well that this is far from over —we are all aware of the deceptions and vengeance that consist the very essence of the State— but I realize that your comrades stand beside you, and your indomitable spirit for anarchy can only grow even stronger.
Just like you, I wish that all our comrades who are either prisoners or fugitives in Mexico, Italy, Chile, Greece, Bolivia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and all over the world can also walk on the street today, enter their homes and embrace their loved ones. And although they proudly endure incarceration and incertitude, they are also with us at all times.
Forward, comrade; there is still so much to be done…
Your sister in affinity,
[ translated from Spanish ]
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May 10, 2010 Biofuels hold promise as environmentally friendly sources of renewable energy, but which ones should industry and policy leaders focus their efforts on developing? A new study involving researchers from North Carolina State University offers detailed insights into how biofuel chemicals react when burned. Their data and new computer models pave the way for development of new biofuels and technologies to maximize energy efficiency while minimizing environmental and human health risks.
"Biofuels are a sensible choice as a renewable energy source, but of course there are complications," says Dr. Phillip Westmoreland, a co-author of the study, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the Institute for Computational Science and Engineering at NC State. "All of the biofuels have pros and cons, and you can't manage or plan for use and risks unless you understand them enough."
The new paper helps define these risks by finding the network of chemical steps that take place when biofuels are burned. An invited overview for Angewandte Chemie, one of the world's premier chemistry journals, the paper draws on landmark research conducted by Westmoreland and his co-authors from research institutions in the United States, Germany and China.
"By studying individual chemicals that make up biofuels, we were able to explain what emissions result from burning real biofuels," Westmoreland says. "We can measure the individual intermediates and chemical reactions, helping us craft models that reveal what chemicals are emitted, and in what amounts, by various biofuels. These models can be used to design new engines, new fuels and new policies that foster environmentally sustainable and efficient energy solutions.
"This is important for regulation, where policy makers are weighing the environmental and health costs versus the energy benefits of different biofuels, but it is also essential to decision makers in the business community. Industry does not want to invest in developing biofuels and related technologies that can't pass policy muster, and this research will help them make educated investment decisions."
The paper draws on information the researchers have collected about the chemicals produced when biofuels are burned, and how those chemicals change during the combustion process. These insights stem from the use of a novel experimental apparatus the researchers built at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a second system in Hefei, China -- which provide unprecedented detail as to exactly what is happening at a molecular level when biofuels are burned.
The paper, "Biofuel combustion chemistry: from ethanol to biodiesel," is the featured cover article in the May 3 issue of Angewandte Chemie. The paper was co-authored by researchers from NC State, Bielefeld University in Germany, Cornell University, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Science and Technology of China and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Research Office, and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, among others.
NC State's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is part of the university's College of Engineering.
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- Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Patrick Oßwald, Terrill A. Cool, Tina Kasper, Nils Hansen, Fei Qi, Charles K. Westbrook, Phillip R. Westmoreland. Biofuel Combustion Chemistry: From Ethanol to Biodiesel. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2010; DOI: 10.1002/anie.200905335
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Question 3: How much income will you need?
Now you're ready to adjust your plan based on shifting market realities. But what, exactly, are you supposed to adjust? It's not as though you can decide to live longer or choose what your investments will return. There is, however, one big question over which you do have some power, says Alicia Munnell, Ph.D., director of the Boston College Center for Retirement Research: how much income you will need to be comfortable. Obviously, you don't know the precise answer, because you can't forecast wild cards such as future inflation rates, tax rates, or health care costs. (Although you should prepare to spend more than you may think: Fidelity Investments projects that the average married couple will need to set aside $230,000 by age 65 to cover out-of-pocket health care costs in retirement.) Still, you can manage your retirement's price tag by choosing how much you save each month and when you will retire, and by thinking carefully about the retirement lifestyle you envision.
The benefit of saving more each month is obvious. If markets perform well, a dollar saved today could grow to two dollars or five dollars at retirement. Even if the markets produce one lost decade after another between now and your retirement, a dollar saved is still a dollar you wouldn't other wise have in the future. That's why planners who once advised saving 10 percent of your salary now recommend 15 percent. It's all about the margin of safety.
There's a less obvious benefit to regular saving, says Munnell. We are creatures of habit, and if you make a habit of saving, you'll be a more modest spender. It could be as painless as increasing your 401(k) contribution by a percentage point or two every year until you hit 15 percent. However you do it, you're training yourself to get by on less — now and in retirement
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The first Silver Taps ceremony for the new school year at Texas A&M University will be held Tuesday (Sept. 4) at 10:30 p.m. in front of the Academic Building.
Silver Taps will be held in memory of four Texas A&M students who have died since late spring, when the last such observance was held. Silver Taps ceremonies are not conducted during the summer when most Aggies are away from campus.
The ceremony, one of the university’s most solemn traditions, will honor the memories of Blake Matthew Schoenrock, a sophomore petroleum engineering major from Mesquite, who died May 15; Luca Bonasera, a sophomore economics major from College Station, who died June 2; Nigel Hart, a doctoral student in psychology from College Station, who died June 2; and Luke Thomas Urbanovsky, a freshman chemical engineering major from Granbury, who died June 16.
On the day of the ceremony, all campus flags are flown at half-staff and a list of the names of those to be remembered is posted at the base of the flagpole in the Academic Plaza. The family of each student to be honored is notified of the ceremony and sent a floral arrangement by university officials.
In honor of these students, the campus will be darkened at 10:20 p.m. In the darkness, students, family and friends will silently gather in the plaza in front of the Academic Building. At 10:30 p.m., an honor guard from the Ross Volunteer Company will march across campus from the Corps of Cadets area to the plaza, where its members will fire three rifle volleys to honor the memory of these students. Buglers from the Aggie Band, unseen in the darkness, will play a special arrangement of “Taps.” The tolling of the Albritton Tower bells will signal the end of the ceremony.
In case of rain or dangerous lightning, the ceremony will be moved to Duncan Dining Hall. Free parking in the University Center garage will be available between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. For more information, go here.
The first Silver Taps was held in 1898 upon the death of the university’s president, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, and it has changed little from that time.
For more information, contact Student Assistance Services at (979) 845-3113.
Media contact: Tura King at (979) 845-4670.
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[Evasively.] Not quite in the middle. I had unfortunately to move that figure a little back. For the sake of the general effect, you understand. Otherwise it would have dominated the whole too much.
But the joy in the light still transfigures my face?
Yes, it does, Irene—in a way. A little subdued perhaps—as my altered idea required.
[Rising noiselessly.] That design expresses the life you now see, Arnold.
Yes, I suppose it does.
And in that design you have shifted me back, a little toned down—to serve as a background-figure—in a group.
[She draws the knife.
Not a background-figure. Let us say, at most, a figure not quite in the foreground—or something of that sort.
[Whispers hoarsely.] There you uttered your own doom.
[On the point of striking.
[Turns and looks up at her.] Doom?
[Hastily hides the knife, and says as though choked with agony.] My whole soul—you and I—we, we, we and our child were in that solitary figure.
[Eagerly, taking off his hat and drying the drops of sweat upon his brow.] Yes, but let me tell you, too, how I have placed myself in the group. In front, beside a fountain—as it were here—sits a man weighed down with guilt, who cannot quite free himself from the earth -crust. I call him remorse for a forfeited life. He sits there and dips his fingers in the purling stream—to wash them clean—and he is gnawed and tortured by the thought that never, never will he succeed. Never in all eternity will he attain to freedom and the new life. He will remain for ever prisoned in his hell.
[Hardly and coldly.] Poet!
Because you are nerveless and sluggish and full of forgiveness for all the sins of your life, in thought and in act. You have killed my soul —so you model yourself in remorse, and self-accusation, and penance— [Smiling.] —and with that you think your account is cleared.
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TEHRAN - Iranians have found their access to major news websites even more restricted than usual as more foreign sites were blocked by a government filter, Reuters witnesses observed on Monday.
Yahoo News and Reuters.com, both usually accessible in Iran, were unavailable, joining other long-blocked news sites such as the BBC and social networks Facebook and Twitter as beyond the reach of Iranians using a standard Internet connection.
There was no official confirmation of new Internet restrictions. One Iranian government official contacted by Reuters said authorities were "looking into the source of the problem" to remove it.
The move comes as many Iranian politicians, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are portraying anti-government protests in Egypt as being inspired by Iran's Islamic Revolution which overthrew the U.S. backed Shah in 1979.
Many analysts outside Iran have compared the events in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab Middle East to the huge protests which followed the re-election of Ahmadinejad which were eventually stamped out by a government that condemned them as "sedition" inspired by hostile foreign powers.
Google News was still accessible on Monday, but links from there to many foreign news websites were blocked and a list of government-approved sites offered instead. No reason was given for why certain sites are filtered.
Yahoo's home page could be accessed and softer news items, including a CNBC item on American football cheerleaders, were not blocked. Links to harder new stories and the home page of Yahoo News, however, failed to load.
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Fiction has an entrepreneurial element, akin to the inventor’s secret machine, elixir, or formula. Many novelists have had the experience of falling upon the perfect scene or situation or character, the one that will breed meaning and metaphor throughout the book. Gogol surely knew that he had invented a devastating symbolic structure when he came up with the story of a devil figure who travels around Russia buying up the names of dead serfs; he carefully garaged his secret—in a letter, he warned his correspondent not to tell anybody what “Dead Souls” was about. When we read “Herzog,” we think: how brilliant and simple, like the best of inventions, to have turned something we all do (writing letters in our heads to people we have never met) into a new way of representing consciousness. And when we read “Midnight’s Children” we feel that Salman Rushdie has found a powerful controlling image in the impending midnight of Indian partition, the clock’s hands meeting in prayer.
I don’t know whether Joseph O’Neill jumped out of his bath in Manhattan shrieking “Eureka!” when he realized that, of all the possible subjects in the world, he had to write a novel about playing cricket in New York City, but he should have. Despite cricket’s seeming irrelevance to America, the game makes his exquisitely written novel “Netherland” (Pantheon; $23.95) a large fictional achievement, and one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read. Cricket, like every sport, is an activity and the dream of an activity, badged with random ideals, aspirations, and memories. It popularly evokes long English summers, newly mown grass, the causeless boredom of childhood. Its combat is so temperate that, more explicitly than other sports, it encodes an ethics (as in the reproving British expression “It’s not cricket”). But cricket in this novel is much more than these associations: it is an immigrant’s imagined community, a game that unites, in a Brooklyn park, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Indians, West Indians, and so on, even as the game’s un-Americanness accentuates their singularity. Most poignantly, for one of the characters in the novel cricket is an American dream, or perhaps a dream of America; this man is convinced that, as he claims, cricket is not an immigrant sport at all but “the first modern team sport in America . . . a bona fide American pastime,” played in New York since the seventeen-seventies.
The man’s name is Chuck Ramkissoon, and we first hear of him as a corpse. It is 2006, and the novel’s narrator, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek, receives a call in London from a New York Times reporter. The remains of Khamraj Ramkissoon—“It’s Chuck Ramkissoon,” Hans corrects, on the phone—have been found in the Gowanus Canal, and wasn’t Hans a business partner of the victim? No, just a friend, Hans says. Later, to his wife, Rachel, Hans describes Chuck as “a cricket guy I used to know. A guy from Brooklyn.” We don’t realize it yet, but the novel has just unfurled its great theme: this “cricket guy,” an Indian from Trinidad, is an American visionary—Chuck, not Khamraj—and cricket is the macula of that mad vision, and “Netherland” has opened where “The Great Gatsby” ends, with its forlorn dreamer dead in the water.
The unhappy news prompts Hans to recall his years in New York, and the first time he met Chuck, on a cricket field in Randolph Walker Park, on Staten Island, in the summer of 2002. Hans and his wife and son had been living in the Chelsea Hotel, their domicile after the September 11th attacks, “staying on in a kind of paralysis even after we’d received permission from the authorities to return to our loft in Tribeca.” Hans has his own kind of paralysis: large and fair, he is one of nature’s flâneurs, willing to be swept along by powerful events and people, curious but happy to turn a blind eye to human imperfection, fastidious but uncensorious. This reflective sluggishness maddens Rachel, who, already on edge after September 11th, announces that she is leaving him and America. Hans drifts, visiting his wife and son in London twice a month, amiably acquainting himself with some of the eccentrics at the Chelsea Hotel, and eventually taking up cricket, the game of his Dutch childhood.
There are moments when Rachel’s hostility seems a little undeveloped, and one suspects her absence from New York to be merely the necessary fictional trigger for Hans’s hospitable sloth. But, as with “Sentimental Education,” one can forgive a lot of stasis when the verbal rewards, page after page, are so very high. As Hans takes the measure of his newfound city, so the prose finds its own perfect calibrations. O’Neill writes elegant, long sentences, formal but not fussy, pricked with lyrically exact metaphor. Here Hans recalls the days not long after September 11th, when the city was an acoustic sensorium:
Around the clock, ambulances sped eastward on West Twenty-third Street with a sobbing escort of police motorcycles. Sometimes I confused the cries of the sirens with my son’s nighttime cries. I would leap out of bed and go to his bedroom and helplessly kiss him. . . . Afterward I slipped out onto the balcony and stood there like a sentry. The pallor of the so-called hours of darkness was remarkable. Directly to the north of the hotel, a succession of cross streets glowed as if each held a dawn. The taillights, the coarse blaze of deserted office buildings, the lit storefronts, the orange fuzz of the street lanterns: all this garbage of light had been refined into a radiant atmosphere that rested in a low silver heap over Midtown and introduced to my mind the mad thought that the final twilight was upon New York.
This is attentive, rich prose about New York in crisis that, refreshingly, is not also prose in crisis: it’s not overwrought or solipsistic or puerile or sentimental, or otherwise straining to be noticed. A steady hand and a good ear are required to dare the paradox of “all this garbage of light,” in which the noticer is both enraptured and faintly alienated, and which accurately tracks the forked European perspective of the novel’s narrator. The eye that sees the “orange fuzz” of the street lights is the eye that, elsewhere in the novel, alights on the “molten progress of the news tickers” in Times Square, the “train-infested underpants” of Hans’s little boy, “a necklace’s gold drool,” “the roving black blooms of four-dollar umbrellas,” and which sees, in one lovely swipe of a sentence, a sunset like this: “The day, a pink smear above America, had all but disappeared.”
Perhaps Joseph O’Neill is the writer this city has been awaiting: born in Ireland, reared in Holland, educated in England, and resident in Manhattan. If his writing has an English ease and classicism, it also has a world-directed curiosity, an interest in marginal lives which might owe something to O’Neill’s origins. (His mother is Turkish. His Irish and Turkish grandfathers were separately imprisoned by the British, one in Ireland and one in British Palestine, a history that he related in his involving, spacious memoir, “Blood-Dark Track,” which appeared in 2001.) As Hans moves around the city, he sees both natural and human wonders. There is the Hudson, covered with ice:
Ice was spread out over the breadth of the Hudson like a plot of cloud. The whitest and largest fragments were flat polygons, and surrounding these was a mass of slushy, messy ice, as if the remains of a zillion cocktails had been dumped there. By the bank, where the rotting stumps of an old pier projected like a species of mangrove, the ice was shoddy, papery rubble, and immobile; farther out, floes moved quickly towards the bay.
But there is also Coney Island Avenue:
That low-slung, scruffily commercial thoroughfare that stands in almost surreal contrast to the tranquil residential blocks it traverses, a shoddily bustling strip of vehicles double-parked in front of gas stations, synagogues, mosques, beauty salons, bank branches, restaurants, funeral homes, auto body shops, supermarkets, assorted small businesses proclaiming provenances from Pakistan, Tajikistan, Ethiopia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Armenia, Ghana, the Jewry, Christendom, Islam: it was on Coney Island Avenue, on a subsequent occasion, that Chuck and I came upon a bunch of South African Jews, in full sectarian regalia, watching televised cricket with a couple of Rastafarians in the front office of a Pakistani-run lumberyard.
It is Chuck Ramkissoon who tutors the narrator in the marvels of this ethnic “miscellany,” when he decides to help Hans pass his driving test by appointing the Dutchman his unofficial chauffeur, responsible for insuring that Chuck gets to his various appointments in his 1996 Cadillac, “a patriotic automobile aflutter and aglitter with banners and stickers of the Stars and Stripes and yellow ribbons in support of the troops.” Chuck is reminiscent of Dr. Tamkin, in Bellow’s “Seize the Day,” one of the noisy urban braggers, possibly a charlatan but mysteriously seductive. Unlike Tamkin, Chuck has charm, and Hans succumbed to it in the summer of 2002, when he met him on Staten Island, and heard him talk about how cricket is “a lesson in civility,” and how “Benjamin Franklin himself was a cricket man.” Like the reader, Hans wants to know more about this dark-skinned Trinidadian, whose family came originally from southern India, and who wants so deeply to make himself an American.
Chuck bristles with enterprises. He has a kosher sushi restaurant, runs a private lottery (it is probably this activity that gets him killed and thrown in the canal), and has designated himself president of what he grandly calls the New York Cricket Club. O’Neill parentally rations our exposure to Chuck, using the novel’s temporal intricacy—it moves back and forth between 2001, 2002, 2003, when Hans returns to London, and 2006, when he hears of Chuck’s death—to give us suggestive pictures of the man’s flamboyance and yearning. The danger with self-exaggerating characters is exaggerated writing, but O’Neill knows how to sign rather than autograph. We get a quick sense of the man—of both his appeal and his type—when Chuck tells Hans that he needs a permanent wife and a permanent mistress: “Anne and me . . . we’ve known each other since we were babies. She’s been with me through thick and thin. . . . So we’re together for life. But my theory is, I need two women. . . . One to take care of family and home, one to make me feel alive. It’s too much to ask one woman to do both.”
Chuck may not have read C. L. R. James’s classic cricket memoir “Beyond a Boundary,” but he would have agreed with the Trinidadian writer about the sport’s affinities with all forms of authentic drama. One day, in January, 2003, Chuck takes Hans to the field he has leased in Brooklyn. This is where his New York Cricket Club will be—at what Chuck names Bald Eagle Field. (“It’s got scale. It makes it American.”) Hans looks at the frozen, snowy space and is silently skeptical. Now cricket begins to generate its meanings in the novel as easily as lilacs blossom, for O’Neill is alive, as Hans perhaps is not yet, to the larger implications of Chuck’s desire. The immigrant is choosing his plot of ground, and calling it his, as the original colonists did with their America. This is where “Netherland” becomes extremely subtle. Hans tells us that when he joined the cricket club in New York he was “the only white man I saw.” He plays with people from Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and becomes an honorary brown man. But, as a white Dutchman, educated in classics at Leiden and reared in a conservative family in The Hague, Hans is not a “colonial” like his fellow-cricketers but a colonist, part of the history of Dutch imperialism that has marked places as different as Java and America. Chuck talks about how cricket civilizes one; but Hans can talk unself-consciously about how a player is a specialist in “fizzing Chinamen” (a Chinaman being an unorthodox left-arm bowl).
Cricket in America puts all this, quite literally, in play. Hans, the white banker, can be only an honorary immigrant, something that O’Neill acknowledges by teasing out the question of Hans’s American driving test. It takes him the entirety of the novel to pass it, and he succeeds only at the moment when he no longer needs a license—weeks before his departure. The sort of document that would be crucial to a Chuck Ramkissoon is a bit of a joke to a Hans van den Broek. O’Neill beautifully counterposes the different origins and expectations of these two men, united by cricket: the upper-class Hans, who can come and go in America on a banker’s whim, and is paralyzed by the expensive torpor of his marital woes, and the modest Trinidadian, dynamic with designs, ever eager to be grounded in America. Chuck is excited by Hans’s Dutchness, and compliments him, in his usual showy way, on being, after the Native Americans, a member of New York’s “first tribe.” This ideological affection arises partly from Chuck’s determination to argue for cricket’s aboriginal status as the first American sport. The immigrants playing cricket in New York are the real Americans, the true natives, at once colonials and the first colonists. The colonials want to be colonists; Hans, the ancestral colonist, wants to be a colonial. In the summer of 2003, he is gripped by “real cricket madness.”
And all this would be abstract if it were not itself grounded by the novel—again, quite literally. Three times O’Neill takes us to Bald Eagle Field. The first time, it is Chuck’s snowy dream. The second time, sixty pages later, it is the summer of 2003, and Hans is astounded: the field is green and tended. “Jesus,” he says to Chuck, “you did it.” The colonial has successfully colonized his green breast of America. A hundred pages later, in 2006, Hans has left the States, is reunited with his wife in London, and has heard the news about Chuck’s demise. He sits at a computer and uses Google Earth to zoom over the old cricket field, and finds that it has browned:
There’s Chuck’s field. It is brown—the grass has burned—but it is still there. There’s no trace of a batting square. The equipment shed is gone. I’m just seeing a field. I stare at it for a while. I am contending with a variety of reactions, and consequently with a single brush on the touch pad I flee upward into the atmosphere and at once have in my sights the physical planet, submarine wrinkles and all—have the option, if so moved, to go anywhere. From up here, though, a human’s movement is a barely intelligible thing. Where would he move to, and for what? There is no sign of nations, no sense of the work of man. The USA as such is nowhere to be seen.
Reflection on what became of Chuck and his cricket dream causes Hans to recall a recent holiday in India, where he saw a column of poor workers by the side of the road. “They were small and thin and poor and dark-skinned, with thin arms and thin legs. They were men walking in the forest and the darkness.” For some reason, Hans tells us, he keeps on seeing these men. “I do not think of Chuck as one of them, even though, with his very dark skin, he could have been one of them. I think of Chuck as the Chuck I saw. But whenever I see these men I always end up seeing Chuck.”
The simplicity of the writing here and the choosing of a frozen racial emblem echo V. S. Naipaul, that Trinidadian Indian, and, if “Netherland” pays homage to “The Great Gatsby,” it is also in some kind of knowing relationship with “A House for Mr. Biswas.” These are large interlocutors, but “Netherland” has an ideological intricacy, a deep human wisdom, and prose grand enough to dare the comparison. Less desperately than Biswas, less comically, too, Chuck is searching for a house, a home, and so is Hans, adrift in a New York at once fascinating and a little estranging. O’Neill has Naipaul’s gift for creating unforced novelistic connections in a world of forced ideological connections. And he knows perfectly well that when, on the last pages of his novel, he writes about a memory of Manhattan’s skyline and the “extraordinary promise in what we saw” he is hovering, like some novelistic Google Earther, over the sentence grids and prose plateaus of the last page of “The Great Gatsby.” He knows, as some of us had forgotten, that the last page of that novel contains not just a green breast and a blue lawn but an old island that flowered once “for Dutch sailors’ eyes.” ♦
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North Korea hailed its successful long-range rocket launch on Wednesday as a “ground-breaking” event that paid tribute to former leader Kim Jong-Il a year after his death.
“The successful launch... is a ground-breaking event in developing the country's scientific technologies and economy by exercising our rights for the peaceful use of space,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
“Our technicians and scientists successfully sent the... satellite into orbit by holding the teachings of the great leader Kim Jong-Il in high esteem,” it added.
KCNA put the timing of the launch from the Sohae launch centre in the northwest at 9.49am (00.49 GMT) - two minutes earlier than the time provided by the South Korean military.
The satellite entered orbit about nine minutes later, it said.
“Now the satellite is rotating at the orbit, moving between 499.7 and 584.18 kilometres above the Earth,” it said, lauding scientists for helping mark the 100th birth anniversary the North's founding leader Kim Il-Sung.
The nuclear-armed state insisted that the launch was a purely peaceful scientific project.
But the United States and allies South Korea and Japan view it as a disguised ballistic missile test banned under the UN resolutions triggered by its nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
The North's young leader, Kim Jong-Un, was believed to be extremely keen that the launch fell close to the first anniversary of the death of his father Kim Jong-Il on December 17. - AFP
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Hali Charity Profile
HALI is a nongovernmental organization (NGO), based in Switzerland, whose first goal is to develop Culture and Sports in Africa. Our actions target children aged from 5 to 15 years. HALI is a non-profit organization with no political agenda. Any and all kind of physical and moral support is welcome, in the same sense that we work freely with other Swiss or international organizations. Our primary actions concern the country of Chad.
To develop AIDS prevention in the schools of N’djaména., we will give talks about the dangers of AIDS; we will distribute comic strips made by Swiss children, which in turn will enable them to take part in a project for the most deprived people. These comic strips will talk about the danger of AIDS. For the oldest children, educational packages will be distributed, with the same kind of comic strip, but we will additionally include 3 condoms. Diagrams will show how to put on a condom and will explain how important they are to young people in particular. Workshops will be made together with the children at the end of the stay. The goal is for the young participants to show us, through drawings, music or theatrical expression, what learning they have retained about AIDS and its dangers. All this output will be collected, scanned or filmed and put on our Web site www.hali-online.org
The children we will target are: the youngest between 6 and 15 years, who will receive a comic strip teenagers from 15 to 20 years, who will receive educational packages in line with our strategy, we will especially target young girls: we will give them special attention to help them become aware that the development of women in African society needs to be through education and respect. The woman, the mother, is the homemaker. Social development is mainly due to mothers. There is a saying that “Behind each great man there is a great woman”. Let’s put these great women out in front now.
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Some economists and legal scholars have suggested that the “platinum coin option” is one way to defuse a crisis if Congress can’t or won’t lift the debt ceiling soon. At least in theory. The U.S. government is, after all, facing a real problem. The Treasury Department will hit its $16.4 trillion borrowing limit by next February at the latest. Unless Congress reaches an agreement to raise that borrowing limit, the government will no longer be able to borrow enough money to pay all its bills. Last year, Republicans in Congress resisted lifting the debt ceiling until the last minute — and then only in exchange for spending cuts. Panic ensued. So what happens if there’s another showdown this year? Enter the platinum coins. Thanks to an odd loophole in current law, the U.S. Treasury is technically allowed to mint as many coins made of platinum as it wants and can assign them whatever value it pleases. Under this scenario, the U.S. Mint would produce (say) a pair of trillion-dollar platinum coins. The president orders the coins to be deposited at the Federal Reserve. The Fed then moves this money into Treasury’s accounts. And just like that, Treasury suddenly has an extra $2 trillion to pay off its obligations for the next two years — without needing to issue new debt. The ceiling is no longer an issue.
“I like it,” says Joseph Gagnon of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “There’s nothing that’s obviously economically problematic about it.” In theory, this is much like having the central bank print money. But, says Gagnon, the U.S. government would simply be using the money to keep spending at existing levels, so it wouldn’t create any extra inflation. And if it did cause problems, the Fed could always counteract the effects by winding down some of its other programs to inject money into the economy. Is the platinum coin option really legal? Apparently so. It was discussed* during the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis by Jack Balkin, a law professor at Yale Law School. Under law, he noted, there’s a limit to how much paper money the United States can circulate at any one time, and there are rules that limit how many gold, silver and copper coins the Treasury can mint. But there’s no such limit when it comes to platinum coins.
I'm at a loss for words. I mean, you'd think that there's no way on earth the White House would even float anything like this, if only because of the massive political risk and insane optics. But I guess you never know; Obama did just ask Congress to relinquish all of its debt limit-related powers to him, after all. It's difficult to identify the most mind-blowing element of this article, but economist Joseph Gagnon's quote might take the cake. There's "nothing that's obviously economically problematic" about this absurd scheme? Printing, or rather minting, $2 trillion in magic money, overnight, to artificially "pay for" existing federal obligations isn't "economically problematic"? In that case, we should print $87 Trillion in special coins and retire all of our accrued debts and obligations in one fell swoop. I'm sure the massive devaluation of the dollar, inflationary spikes, and total loss of confidence among our creditors would work themselves out somehow. Thank goodness for experts.
Carney: Okay Fine, Senior Officials Knew the IRS Report was Coming, but Nobody Told Obama | Guy Benson
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Countdown to Congress
15 August 2008 | Audio
There are less than two months to go until IUCN holds the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona. On October 5, more than 8,000 of the world’s leading decision makers in sustainable development, from governments, NGOs, business, the UN and academia, will converge in Barcelona for 10 days to debate, share, network, learn, commit, vote and decide. Wild Talk gets the lowdown on this exciting event from Sue Mainka, of IUCN's Global Programme team.
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Dell Adopts Aggressive Export Ban on E-Waste
Dell on Tuesday took a more aggressive stance by broadening its definition of e-waste, effectively banning the export of electronic waste to developing countries. The company claims that the expanded Electronics Disposition Policy exceeds the requirements of the Basel Convention, which bans the export of certain electronic waste based on its material or chemical composition.
In the new policy, Dell defines e-waste as non-working parts or devices, irrespective of material composition. Why "non-working parts"?
Barbara Kyle, the national coordinator for the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, explains it like this: "Too many companies are still exporting used, non-working electronic equipment to developing countries, supposedly for repairs. We applaud Dell for drawing a clear line by saying they will not export non-working electronics to developing countries - not for recycling, and not for repairs. Dell's policy on e-waste export is now the strongest in the industry and demonstrates Dell's leadership as a global environmental citizen."
Dell is the first major computer manufacturer to ban the export of non-working electronics to developing countries as part of its global policy on responsible electronics disposal--and since the company is such a powerhouse, it's possible that this may lead other manufacturers to do the same.Originally posted to GoodCleanTech.com.
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Safety Tips for Millburn Students
The district provides safety tips on how to deal with strangers from experts.
In response to the Friday's stranger alert, the district offers some safety tips.
Some Tips from Safety Experts:
* Never accept rides from or talk to strangers.
* -If a driver pulls to the curb to ask directions, avoid getting too close.
* Teach your child how to use the telephone and how to call for the police, 911 if available.
* Don't approach a motor vehicle for someone asking directions. Adults don't need directions from KIDS!
* If the occupants of a vehicle are stopping you, you should turn and walk in the opposite direction. The driver will have to turn around or backup to follow.
* Kids don't take candy from a stranger and your kids need to know you never approach a stranger to see his nice puppy dog in the car.
* If you think you have been followed home, avoid going to your house, as you don't want the bad guy to know where you live. Go to a neighbor’s house that’s home or nearest business.
* Set up a code word with your children in the event of an emergency. A friend may have to pick up your child/children somewhere other than school and you need a plan.
* Your child should know the code word and understand the importance. Your child should be prepared to respond to anyone who knows the code word. Make the word meaningful to your family so a real stranger would not be able to figure it out.
* If a stranger does approach your child tell them to remember the license plate number of the motor vehicle and to report this information to you immediately.
* Don't assume it was nothing and discount what your child has to tell you. Call your local police and report any suspicious activity.
* If you think something is out of the ordinary report it to the Police. Don't wait until it’s too late. Information Needed By Police:
* Vehicle license No., Make/Model and Color * Gender and Race of suspect
* Approximate Age, Weight and Height if known of suspect
* Clothing worn by suspect
* Length and Color of suspect's hair
* Any unusual Marks, Scars, Tattoos, Jewelry, Hat worn, Glasses, etc. * Last direction of travel of suspect, either on foot or traveling by motor vehicle.
* Kids need to know that unfortunately strangers sometimes purport to be the police and may have with them identification that could fool an adult. -If a police officer needs to speak with your child, in the majority of these contacts the police officer will be in a fully marked squad car with the name of your local community displayed and the officer will be in uniform.
* The police are aware of these types of encounters and will understand the child may not want to speak with the officer for obvious reasons, especially if the officer is in an unmarked squad and is in civilian dress.
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It's no longer classified a hurricane, but that's doesn't mean much to the folks who are feeling the effects of superstorm Sandy.
The National Hurricane Center now says Sandy is a post-tropical cyclone and while it's losing strength, it still has sustained winds at 85 mph. The center of the enormous storm made landfall at 8 p.m. (Eastern) near Atlantic City. It's merging with Arctic cold and a winter storm from the West.
Forecasters say the storm is still a vast and dangerous hybrid storm. It's already knocked out electricity to more than 1.5 million customers and figures to make life difficult for millions more.
In New York City, the main utility has cut power to parts of downtown Manhattan in a pre-emptive bid to lessen the approaching storm's damage. A spokesman from Consolidated Edison says the utility cut power shortly after 7 p.m. to 6,500 customers. That's when a few inches of water began spilling over the seawall of lower Manhattan. Although weakened, Sandy could bring with her a 13-foot storm surge.
A superstorm that sent water rushing onto city streets has left a large swath of the lower part of Manhattan without power.
Consolidated Edison spokesman Chris Olert said Monday evening that the power was out for most of Manhattan south of 26th Street.
On the east side, the power outage extended from 29th Street south. There were some scattered areas that still had electricity.
Olert said the damage stemmed from flooding and the probable loss of a transmission feeder.
The power outage was separate from a planned power cut that Con Ed did in certain lower Manhattan neighborhoods to protect underwater systems from flood damage.
Olert said there were 250,000 customers without power in Manhattan. A customer represents a single meter, so the number of people actually affected is likely higher.
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Even in his lifetime Dr. Philip Syng Physick was known as the "Father of American Surgery". First in America to hold a Chair of Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital, America's first hospital, Dr. Physick was famous for the compassion and tenderness his patients received, his inventiveness in creating tools and procedures, his speed in performing operations with those instruments, and for the insightful lectures his devoted students enjoyed. With the approach of the Bicentennial of his introduction of artificially carbonated flavored water to American in 2007, a descendent decided to recreate the Doctor's prescription in time to celebrate Dr. Physick's two hundred and thirty-ninth birthday.
To mark this historic first, the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks,' (Landmarks), owners of the Federal period Physick House, established a festival to celebrate "Soda's Pop", and a remarkable number of other historic connections with his house. The first Philly Phyzz Festival was held in the spacious garden of the House Museum where Dr. Physick's delicious Black Cherry Soda was reintroduced to Philadelphia on his birthday, July 7, 2007.
The Philly Phyzz Fest is now an annual event enjoyed by neighbors, friends and those visiting Philadelphia. Along the shady garden path of Physick House young and old have a chance to participate in a unique historic public reenactment, rediscover the fun of old-fashioned wooden toys and games, learn some new old skills, and talk with historic re-enactors. For children of all ages, the hands-on making of fizzy water is always pop-ular.
In honor of Physick's friend and patient Dolly Madison, the making of homemade ice cream is a rare treat visitors can partake in. Eager volunteers enjoy cranking the ice cold churner filled with milk, cream, sugar and vanilla flavoring to make incredibly delicious homemade ice cream. Dr. Physick's friends' at Franklin Fountain supplements what is made at the festival with samples of their own homemade ice cream. Combined with a Dr. Physick, visitors can make a truly historic ice-cream soda.
Along with the opportunity to take a guided tour of historic Physick House, in the garden visitors learn of, and even join in reenacting other historic events connected to the house and its inhabitants.
On July 8, 1776, Colonel John Nixon climbed the steps of the old telescope platform behind the State House to make the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. His home on that day was what is today the kitchen of Physick House. To commemorate Colonel Nixon's reading, each Philly Phyzz Fest features a group of volunteers reading of the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of Physick House.
At the end of the reading of the Declaration, children try their hand at ringing bells to commemorate the legendary cracking of the Liberty Bell while tolling for Dr. Physick's patient Chief Justice John Marshall.
Having come to Philadelphia for two previous successful operations by Dr. Physick, Chief Justice John Marshall returned a third time in 1835. Unable help him this time, the seventy-eight year old Chief Justice died under the doctor's care on the 6th of July. Two days later, after a view of his body at the old State House, Marshall's body was slowly moved down Chestnut Street for return by ship for to Richmond, Virginia.
Legend has long held that it was while ringing for Chief Justice John Marshall's funeral procession that people first noticed the tone of the bell change in the course of the dirge. Inspection later found a vertical hairline crack in the bell and it would rarely be rung after that. Eight years later while ringing to commemorate George Washington's birthday the hairline crack was said to have noticeably widened. Later, this crack would be filed open with two bolts added for an attempted repair. This repair failed and a new, horizontal hairline crack sprang from the older crack. Rendered useless as a bell, as a symbol, The Liberty Bell still rings clear and strong.
At each Philly Phyzz Festival the Bicentennial Liberty Bell of the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania leads the choirs of bells rung following the reading of the Declaration. Headquarted at Physick House, The Cincinnati Society Room on the second floor of the museum is always a popular and appropriate part of the tour during Philadelphia's Freedom Week celebration.
Coincidently on July 8, 1776, Philip Syng Physick, who had turned eight years old just the day before, was let out of school early with his class and told to go to the State House and hear an important announcement. Playing in the woods behind the hall, Physick and friends started playing and never heard a word Colonel Nixon read. Only at the end did they stop to listen when they heard people in the distance cheering, some booing, and someone yell loudly, "You are all going to hang for this".
A well-inscribed copy of the Declaration that was approved By the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 and announced by Colonel Nixon on July 8th was not ready to be signed for almost a month. On August 2, 1776, the brave signers of the Declaration of Independence dipped their quill pens into the Pennsylvania State House inkstand that had been made by Benjamin Franklin's longest-lived friend, and Dr. Phsyick's grandfather, silversmith Philip Syng Jr. Eleven years later Franklin, and another group of signers used this same inkstands to sign the United States Constitution. At the Phyzz Festival participants try their hand at using a reproduction of the Syng inkstand with quill pens to write in the old-fashioned way.
Thomas Jefferson had written the Declaration of Independence on the second floor of the new house Jacob Graff had constructed the year before on the corner of Seventh and Market Street. Coincidently, Dr. Physick's father Edmund Physick held the mortgage on that property until 1805.
Another coincident is that the portable desk that Thomas Jefferson designed and wrote the Declaration of Independence on was made in Philadelphia by cabinet maker Benjamin Randolph, a cousin of Dr. Physick's son-in-law, Dr. Jacob Randolph.
The icing on the cake at the Philly Phyzz festival is the celebration of Dr. Physick's birthday. Born in Philadelphia on July 7, 1768, two large cakes are made and served by college interns at the festival each year to mark Dr. Physick's birthday and his introduction of Soda Pop to America in 1807. With hot dogs, soda, homemade ice cream, and cake, this festival is certainly a tasty experience for visitors.
The Annual Philly Phyzz Festival is made possible with the help of enthusiast college interns participating in Landmarks' Education Program. These young historians gain hands-on experience in planning and putting on this festival at Physick House. Landmarks' is grateful for the help provided by these dedicated students, the Physick House Committee volunteers, and to the visitors who make this a fun, and profitable event that supports Landmarks' preservation efforts and programs at the historic home of Dr. Philip Syng Physick.
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Continuing on from last weeks harvesting theme, there were great celebrations, in the past, when the last sheaf was cut. The last sheaf was called a maiden if the harvest was early and the cailleach if it was late. There was a variety of customs associated with this important sheaf. Often it was dressed like a maiden with ribbons and finery and took pride of place at the Clyach or little winter feast, held to celebrate the completion of the cutting and before the Kirn, and toasts were drunk to her. Part of the sheaf, a fertility symbol, was kept until the first horse was foaled as it was thought to represent new life, and another part might be buried beneath the first furrow ploughed so that the fertility might be transferred. The hairst is a reminder that oatmeal was an essential part of the Scottish diet in days of auld langsyne. Oatmeal was used in a variety of recipes including desserts - cranachan is a lovely way to enjoy oatmeal and
This is a cream crowdie, made from toasting 2 heaped tablespoons oatmeal lightly, then mixing it into 1/2 pint cream which has been whipped until frothy, but not stiff, and sweetened to taste. It can be flavoured with rum, vanilla ( vanilla sugar can be used for sweetening ) or 1 cup fresh raspberries ( or other soft fruit ), and makes an excellent dessert. Vanilla ice-cream can be used instead of cream.
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World Oceans Day
The Oregon Coast Aquarium will celebrate World Oceans Day Saturday, June 8, 2012, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with activities and information about ocean conservation. The 2013 Theme, “Together we have the power to protect the ocean!”, focuses on getting involved with ocean conservation in our personal lives, with our communities, and globally.
On World Oceans Day, people around the planet celebrate and honor the body of water that links all of us, for its beauty and bounty. The Ocean Project and The World Ocean Network have promoted and coordinated the growing global celebration since 2002.
- Big Ocean-Big Creatures: How big is a gray whale or a giant squid? Find out when you meet one of our life-sized inflatable sea animals! Pose for pictures while you size them up! 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00
- Something’s Fishy: Join us for a (fishy!) peek inside during a fish dissection led by a local fish biologist. Time TBD.
- Dive Presentations: Passages of the Deep. 12:00, 1:00, 2:00.
Watch and speak live to our volunteer SCUBA divers as they swim among sharks and rays in this exhibit. The divers will share their experiences and insights about the animals and give you a glimpse into what it takes to maintain a world-class aquarium!
- Dive Presentation: Oregon Kelp Forest. 11:00
a.m. Watch and speak live to our volunteer SCUBA divers as they swim among the rockfish, wolf eels and other fish in this exhibit.
- World Ocean Bookmarks & Pledge Chain: Guests will be invited to make action pledges on behalf of the ocean. They will make a magnet to take home to remind them of their pledge and will add their pledge to a chain of pledges that will grow throughout the event.
- Marine Debris Coral Sculpture: Get into the spirit of World Ocean Day while discovering how you can make a difference. Guests will be invited to create and add their own “coral branch” to our large community sculpture. The end result will be a large, colorful coral reef made from plastic and Styrofoam marine debris.
- Ocean Discovery Stations: Visit hands on stations to discover what a sea otter feels like or how many teeth a shark has.
- Ocean Partners: Visit stations hosted by guests from partner organizations such as NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries, Fishermen’s Wives and more whose work connects us to the World Ocean.
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Ever wanted to be sitting in your home and be able to put on a helmet and be in Jamaica? Researchers are working on just that thing. Telexistence is being in two places at one time (Kinda like God) and at the same time having real-time sensations and being able to interact with your surroundings. Telesar is a prototype robot that brings it closer to reality. Telesar could get groceries for you, and go into the office to get the brief case you left there. You basically just sit back and drive it and it’s like you are there.
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With an overall population of 20,013 and a student population of 11,350, approximately 11,308 of Hays students attend one of Hays's schools that offer teaching programs.
Of the 1 teaching schools in Hays, the largest teaching school, by student population, is Fort Hays State University. In 2010, Fort Hays State University graduated approximately 97 students from its teaching program.
In 2010, 252 students graduated with a teaching degree in Hays. Tuition in 2009 at Hays's teaching schools was $14,674 per year for instate students and $22,827 per year for out of state students.
In addition to tuition costs, plan on spending an average of $840 for teaching related books and supplies each year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $6,560 per year, on average, for room and board at Hays-based teaching schools. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $8,114.
If you decide to work as a teacher in Hays, your job prospects are good. In 2010, 1 out of every 4 teachers in Kansas were working in the greater Hays area. By the year 2018, the number of teachers is expected to increase by 20% in Hays. This anticipated change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for teachers.
As a teacher in Hays, you can expect to make an average salary of $39,890 per year. This is lower than the average salary for teachers in the state.
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VIENNA.- It was in the nineties when Marilyn Manson (born in 1969) became well known as a shock rocker combining brutally hammering industrial sounds with thick theater make-up and controversial texts about serial killers and Satanism to a garish spectacle. His extreme personality, which incited the hatred of parent associations and representatives of the religious right, was soon pushing beyond the boundaries of pop music. Marilyn Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, played numerous minor parts in feature films like David Lynchs Lost Highway and became the unofficial mascot of the MTV serial Celebrity Deathmatch.
It was less well known that Marilyn Manson had been painting pictures for quite some time. I just dont think the world is worth putting music into right now, Manson told the Rolling Stone magazine in 2005, I no longer want to make art that other people particularly record companies are turning into a product. I just want to make art. Marilyn Mansons career as an artist started in 1999 when he produced conceptual five-minute watercolors which he sold to drug dealers. The 21 watercolors of this exhibition seem to be in accord with his image and the themes that made him a famous/notorious figure: horror, pain, blood, tears, mutilated bodies, wounded souls. Yet a frequently delicate pastel coloring and blurred contours subtly subvert his works explicit contents, exposing the dichotomy of emotion and toughness, aggression and sensibility as an unresolved ambivalence. Mansons interest is focused on the analysis of both the extremities and the cavities of the human body, i.e. exactly those parts of it which are most delicate, such as mouth, fingertips, eyes, or genitals, whose injury arouses our primeval fears.
Outside it was raining cats and barking dogs. / Like an egg-born offspring of collective humanity, in / sauntered Marilyn Manson, writes David Lynch (born in 1946) in his introduction to Mansons biography of 2000. The exhibition also comprises four of his short films from between 1967 and 1973 as a counterpart to and historical reference for Mansons aesthetics.
As suggested by the works titles Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee (1973) Lynch is also concerned with the reflection of pain and its aestheticization, as well as with the deformation and vulnerability of the human body. The filmmakers probably most impressive early work is the short The Alphabet (1968), a mixture of real film and animation, which visualizes the creation of the alphabet as a painful and traumatic act of birth: we see the head of a woman made up in white who staggers through a room against a black background and spits out letters that assemble to forms and fleeting shapes of meaning. The Cartesian Cogito ergo sum is translated into the concreteness of letters, the signifying and the signified turned into material for a fantastic filmic experimental arrangement. Absurdity is what I like most in life, and theres humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. (David Lynch)
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Environmental Policy & Planning
Bachelor of Arts: Interdisciplinary Studies, concentration in environmental policy and planning
The Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy and Planning program at the University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) combines geography, mathematics, economics, philosophy, physical sciences, and the social sciences to help you develop a comprehensive understanding of policy and planning issues as they relate to the environment.
The program in Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy and Planning offers you five areas of specific focus from which to choose: development and economics, ecology, environmental health, geosciences, and policy.
Here, you'll gain hands-on experience through work in the field and in the lab. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with your professors to conduct environmental impact assessments and research using sophisticated GPS, GIS and image analysis technology.
In addition, you'll have the opportunity to participate in exciting travel courses and research projects. You'll be given the opportunity to present your research at state, regional, or national public forums. In addition, you'll benefit from our close ties with public environmental agencies and private businesses - providing you with internship experience while developing valuable connections for your after-graduation life.
Our Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy and Planning students have participated in a number of meaningful research projects such as creating disaster mitigation maps for Franklin County, designing a local heritage walking tour, developing a long-term mapping project to determine Farmington land-use patterns, and conducting research on the impact of neo-liberalism on forest industry policies and regulations.
This kind of high level, hands-on experience (at other universities usually offered only to graduate students) will prepare you for careers in planning, policy, and environmental regulation, or for graduate study.
And of course our location at the foothills of the mountains in western Maine makes Farmington an ideal place to study environmental issues such as timber management, recreational development, farmland use, and small-scale urban development.
Note: UMF's Environmental Policy & Planning program qualifies for the New England Regional Program tuition discount - a discount of more than $4,500 per year. Through this Program, students from other New England states and Canada can apply for certain majors at Farmington and pay reduced tuition. The majors that qualify for this vary by state. See the link, New England Regional Program.
"Last semester I took a class in Land Use and one of our class projects had us go to Sugarloaf and to Saddleback ski areas where we did a community sketch mapping survey. We actually got to go out and talk to people from the public about how they'd like to see their communities to develop -- or not develop. It showed me what I can do when I leave UMF because it was really hands-on and working with people. I really, really liked that. It made me realize I picked the right major."
-- Michaela Hitchcock
From Springfield, Vermont
Because the University of Maine at Farmington is a liberal arts college, every student - in every major - will take courses in the Arts, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. In addition, you will also get to choose interesting classes specifically tailored to Envirnmental Planning & Policy, such as:
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For additional information about Environmental Policy and Planning at the University of Maine at Farmington, just contact the Office of Admission:
Office of Admission
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246 Main Street
Farmington, Maine 04938-1994
US tel 207-778-7050
Intl. tel 00-1-207-778-7050
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Cacicazgos... or Village Life
Between 1000BC and 1000AD these tribal settlements, supported by agricultural production and trade grew into more sophisticated societies, consolidating to become small villages, so that at the time of conquest the village was the basis of indigenous civilization, where all religious, artisanal and commercial activity took place.
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As methods of production developed and diversified, social relations and political organization also changed. Specialized roles became necessary, resulting in a more complex division of labor, and the essentially egalitarian nature of the hunter-gatherer band, and the early tribal settlements gave way to a strictly stratified social and political hierarchy and exploitative labor relations.
At the head of this hierarchy was the figure of the ‘cacique’ or warrior chieftain, a position normally inherited through matrilineal succession and enhanced by claims to supernatural and religious powers.
The cacique governed with a Council of Elders, a kind of indigenous nobility, made up of priests, commercial leaders, warriors, and of course the shaman, who fulfilled various functions as the main intermediary between the supernatural realm and that of everyday reality. This nobility held immense power, distributing and disseminating wealth, power and knowledge, consolidating their privileged positions to exploit their inferiors and gain access to riches and slaves. The lower strata of society, the great majority, were made up of artisans and peasants, and below them, slaves and prisoners of war.
Over the years the villages and their populations grew, beginning to subdivide, giving rise to further village units linked by origin and kinship ties. These groups of villages then united to become networks or confederations known as ‘cacicazgos’ or chieftainships. Each cacicazgo marked out a specific territory and was ruled over by one cacique. These early political associations operated primarily as a basis for commerce and warfare, and were part of a hierarchy of regional power organized according to size of population and territory. Beyond this, cacicazgos could integrate themselves into larger political and military units known as señorios. A señorio was a kind of fiefdom, covering a vast territory and population, ruled over by a lord who held an almost mythical and limitless power, while caciques maintained power over each individual cacicazgo.
The system of cacicazgos and señorios flourished in the 750 years prior to conquest. Influenced by the advanced agricultural and architectural techniques and knowledge of astronomy found in both Inca and Mayan (later Aztec) civilizations, farming made significant advances, natural fertilizers were discovered and sophisticated systems of irrigation were employed; while artesian skills were developed to construct bridges, roads and temples in the principal settlements.
While no monumental ceremonial centers, like those found at Tikal or Chichen-Itza, have been found in Costa Rica - probably due to the country’s much smaller population – recent excavations have revealed that Pre-Columbian civilizations in the region were far more advanced than had previously been believed.
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One of the more interesting topics that has me a-giddy is the relation of the overlying rhamphotheca or keratinous horny beak to the underlying bone and the correlates that allow one to infer the former from the latter. Much of this work is in prep, but not by me, and some has been mentioned (again, I invoke the Witmer Lab — purveyors of all things snouty and correlated).
There have been many arguments for inferring the presence and extent and shape of the beak in fossil vertebrates, focusing primarily on dinosaurs but extending to pterosaurs and such, where the presence of a hooked rostrum, or a mandibular beak longer than the upper would be possible, and so forth. In dinosaurs, Greg Paul has asserted that dromaeosaurs like Velociraptor mongoliensis sported a beak on the premaxilla and opposing mandibular region, extensively illustrated such as in Predatory Dinosaurs of the World (1988) and elsewhere, based partially on his argument that they are degenerate forms of “protobirds,” which derived from less-toothed, more-beaked ancestors.
It has been variously argued that a rugose surficial texture (as on the “faces” of tyrannosaurs or abelisaurids) results in facial keratinous sheets, analogous to extensions of the avian rhamphotheca, while in other cases it has been a highly foraminated (or nutriated) bone surface, often resulting in a “hole-y” appearance (pitting and such-like). Additionally, recent work has been used to imply that ceratopsian dinosaurs, much like turtles, had a nearly entire upper cranium encases in forms of keratinous covering, extending to the horns and various features around the frill (Hieronymus et al., 2009), although the types of tissues involved varies based on the surificial texture, degree of foramination, and microstructure and histology. Jack Horner has (in extension to a jointly-presented talk at the 2002 SVP conference) championed the idea that not just features but the entire upper skull was covered in a keratin sheet, largely due to the impression of blood vessels in the frill surface and facial region. These are typically not associated with a rugose surface, or highly-foraminated structure, but are comparable to the form of the supraorbital horns.
Extending this to other facially-keratinous animals such as turtles and in some cases birds and several squamates becomes important for understanding even basic correlates to basic tissue reconstruction. I think, based on much of this, that no dinosaur with a toothed jaw margin has a comparative keratinous region on the same extent; there may be, as in ornithischians, a toothed upper and a beaked lower portion of the jaw, but much of this is speculative on the basis of hypothesis, and hasn’t been rigorously tested.
There are certainly some interesting things to say about the form and extent of keratin when there are no absolute direct analogues to the underlying bone in both turtles and birds, and this has me especially piqued due to my desire to reconstruct the cranial soft anatomy of oviraptorosaurs, oviraptorids in particular. The image at top represents part of a project in which I describe the various shapes of rhamphotheca and compare them to the underlying bone and its features in both turtles and birds. The ultrastructure alone is explored here, but the infra- and microstructure are just as important: the posterior portion of the mandibular symphysis in Caretta caretta above is more highly and deeply invaginated by nutrient foramina than elsewhere on the rostrum, while the arrangement of the foramina increases towards the margins (tomia) and posterior end, which the rhamphotheca overlies and surrounds. Further elements of this illustration include a medial view with rhamphotheca and outline to demonstrate the wrapped beak. Similarly, such features of the foramina exist on the upper skull, where the posterior palate is just as foraminated. When I show the medial view, the correlation of this will be apparent.
The problem of Paul’s illustration, however, goes beyond placing a beak without clear analogues to its presence. Rather, the difficulty lies largely in Paul’s reconstruction (followed above) where the ligamentous “lip” is divided on each side of the rostrum.
The ligament band, a thickened tissue that wraps around the oral margin on both upper and lower jaws, is a loose band attached by small muscles to the skin, not the bone (unlike in mammals, where the lips are formed by a large array of small muscles around the oral cavity and which are anchored both to bone and skin). In snakes, for example, this band is extremely elastic and allows extreme displacement of the mandibular symphysis when the snake swallows food larger than its own head, but otherwise in crocs and lizards it is much thinner and is externally indicated by the ring of lip, or labial scales. In no living reptile that I am familiar with does this band become divided (and for this I seriously have no reference, although I doubt the tissue becomes divided regardless); similarly, when a beak is present, there is neither a gum tissue present (the beak corresponds to a labial and a lingual plate in birds at least, and the lingual, or palatal plate in the upper jaw excludes gum tissue, as it excludes teeth), nor a ligament band. Thus, when placing a beak on the rostrum, this band would become divided, and no longer be loose.
Similarly, it is thus unlikely that it would be loose enough to depress below the jaw margin enough to allow the upper teeth to slide between it and the jawbone itself, when the jaw closes (as above), and even more problematic when dealing with taxa with such long and protrusive teeth as to make such a band impossible (for example, Dilophosaurus wetherilli, here). Such a bizarre improbability would result is a very, very divergent jaw anatomy than experienced so far and — unlike any living animal — permit an animal to have both gummy, lipped jaws and a beak.
I tend to think then that if a beak were to exist, it would need to supplant gum and ligament, and could not do so rostrally; when present, either such a ligament could not be used to “hide” teeth as in lips, or would be modified or lost. In some toothed animals with rostrally edentulous jaws (e.g., many ornithischians, therizinosauroids, some fossil birds), the teeth become fairly small and unlikely to fit over the lower jaw. While this raises the possibility of a “cheek” I will pretend I haven’t heard of this idea so I can have space for a follow-up post or two.
Hieronymus, T. L., Witmer, L. M., Tanke, D. H. & Currie, P. J. 2009. The facial integument of centrosaurine ceratopsids: Morphological and histological correlates of novel skin structures. The Anatomical Record 292:1370-1396.
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Do not carry any unauthorised material into an examination. If you are caught with unauthorised material in an examination room you will be charged with cheating. Unauthorised material would include items such as written notes, crib sheets, annotated textbooks.
Bags or briefcases cannot be brought into the examination room. You should leave your bag at home or put it in a locker at the gym otherwise you will have to leave it outside the room.
Mobile phones are not permitted in the examination room. Turn off your mobile and leave it in your bag. If you take your mobile into the examination, it will be confiscated.
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President Johnson's message to Congress explains strides the U.S. has made in the social, educational and economic conditions of minorities in America. It also discusses areas that need improvement such as infant mortality rates and poverty levels among non-whites. The President calls for legislation to prevent violence against those exercising their civil rights, to strengthen enforcement powers of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, to prevent discrimination on federal and state juries, and to guarantee fair housing.
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Ask Marilyn: A Band Around the Earth
Harry Owen of Bar Harbor, Maine, writes:
Marilyn: Some years ago, your column included a question that is still on my mind. It was about a wire strung tightly around the planet and how much length could be added to allow some kind of animal to crawl under it. Could you please publish the question again?
Sure. Following is the reader's question:
Suppose the Earth were smooth, and you had a 25,000-mile-long metal band that you could wrap snugly around it. Now let's say that you lengthen the band by 10 feet, loosening it just a little. What would be the largest thing that could slither under the new band: an amoeba, a worm, a snake, or an alligator?
Surprisingly, an alligator could crawl under that slightly longer band, which would hover more than a foot and a half off the ground all around the planet.
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Have you reached a turning point?
We tend to see life as linear, that is, in order to reach our full potential, at certain points, we need to have achieved whats required to take the next step.
But life is cyclical, we begin all over again at many points.
New cycles can be triggered by frustrations like a personality clash with a co-worker or a major event like a divorce.
Cycles are life’s turning points, where life as we’ve understood it, no longer applies.
My life had been linear for twenty years.
I had established a routine where work and life fitted neatly into separate compartments.
Until minor frustrations began to impede on my regular routine.
- After running on autopilot for years menopause drew attention to my health.
- I developed a desire to do something completely different.
- And yearned for a deeper connection with life.
Mid life presented me with signs that I was entering a new cycle.
Over the past two decades when problems arose I took the appropriate actions and all fell back into place.
When a new cycle begins small actions don’t work.
Chris Argyris developed the concept of single loop learning and double loop learning.
Single loop learning is when you make a plan to get from A to B. When an obstacle arises preventing you from arriving at B, you make an adjustment to get you there. This works well when life is moving in a linear fashion.
Double loop learning is throwing out all preconceived notions, to the extent that arriving at B may no longer apply. It scrutinizes everything. It is an intuitive rather than analytical way to solve a problem.
The double loop approach is whats needed when life reaches a turning point.
Freewriting as a way to dig deep and gain insight.
Insights are those ‘aha’ moments, that come out of nowhere.
They pop up from within when you remove yourself from regular routine.
Journaling can lead you to insights.
Free writing requires you to write the first thing that pops into your head before your analytical mind kicks in.
Writing is a natural tool we can use to ‘drill down’, question, unravel, discard and reorganize.
- You have to write quickly without judgment.
- And dump whatever pops up onto the page.
- Getting it out on paper (or computer screen) will identify specifics and clarify your confusion.
- Pinpointing areas of concern will detach you from the problem.
- You’ll naturally investigate further.
How to find time when life’s busy.
Wake up 10 minutes earlier.
Early mornings are good, your still in a dream state.
Writing first thing, makes your concerns the most important thing you do each day.
You’ll calm down because your getting the attention you deserve.
10 journaling steps to steer you toward your reinvention.
1. Begin by connecting with your feelings.
- How do you feel this morning?
- Do you feel angry, unappreciated, overlooked?
- Write about one specific feeling for 10 minutes.
Need more prompting.
Write why, where and when you feel this way and how it effects you?
2. You’ll tune to your needs.
Gradually, you’ll obtain a sense of where your at and connect with where your stuck.
Write about it.
3. Become aware of triggers in everyday interactions.
Each time someone angers, offends, lets you down, steps on your toes, write about it.
- How did it make you feel?
- What is the voice in your head telling you?
- Why were you hurt, offended?
Investigate this in your writing.
4. Where have you settled?
Your job, relationship, who you spend time with.
Why are you doing this, to keep the peace, to keep your job?
Write about it.
5. Test your belief system.
As life moves into new cycles, opinions, even your own, require updating.
Some reactions are triggered by past events like a rejection of some sort.
From a parent, spouse, boss, lover, friend, co worker.
Investigate their truth, then trace them back to their roots.
- How do you respond to this belief in everyday life?
- Is it true?
- Do you see a pattern?
6. Have your beliefs kept you stuck?
- What in life have you resisted?
- Where have you sold yourself short?
- How have you contributed to the myths?
- What consequences are you afraid of?
- Are they legitimate?
- How are your beliefs keeping you stuck?
7. Write about all the areas in which you see a trigger present itself.
How it repeats itself in various disguises.
Keep going over your story.
Until you’ve scrutinized it so thoroughly it’s driving you crazy. Your so fed up you take real world action.
Now you know what to move away from, but where do you go?
8. Reflect on cherished moments in life.
Mine in time line order:
- The birth of my daughter.
- Purchasing a couple of acres.
- Meeting the love of my life.
- A long camping adventure.
- A puppy.
- The birth of my grandchildren.
9. Move toward the feelings these moments brought about.
- Why it was important to you?
- How did it fulfill a desire?
- Why did it make you feel alive, like you belong?
- How did you feel valued?
- What yearning did it fulfill?
10. Lean into activities that fulfill this yearning.
I leaned toward feeling more connected.
Take simple steps to get you there.
What next step would you take?
I took the simple step of regular dates with my grandchildren.
Over the coming year I joined a Zen meditation group, took the dog for daily walks, found interesting spots my partner and I could explore on weekends, joined Toastmasters and connected with others via E learning.
Let’s Boom On.
You’ve gained insight and are planting seeds for new beginnings.
Your reinvention is underway ‘Let’s boom on’.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
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Sociology - Luther
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What are Warm Season Pastures?
Warm season pastures are areas comprised of warm season grasses ( Little bluestem, Switchgrass, Indian grass, Big bluestem). These grasses grow most intensely in warm weather (late spring and summer). These grasses are native to Ontario, and are much more adapted to the climate and soil conditions, in comparison with cool season grasses (generally non native species). In addition, these pastures with their grass and flowers provide habitat for native birds, insects and mammals throughout the season.
Using warm season pastures can extend the grazing season, reduce fertilizer requirements and increase drought resistance as typically roots of tallgrass species extent over 7 feet and some as much as 12 feet.
For an example of an Ontario ranch using native warm season grass pastures please visit our friend Brian Gilvesy's YU Ranch near Tillsonburg Ontario. Visit his website at
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At the Cherbourg Quay
Wednesday, April 10, 1912, 3:40 P.M.
The Titanic was going to be late.
To the first-class travelers aboard the Train Transatlantique, now chugging to a stop at Cherbourg's quayside terminus, this would be dismaying news. The six-hour journey from Paris had been quite long enough. How many hours, they wondered, would now have to be spent in this small, smoke-grimed station before White Star's new steamer could arrive to take them to New York?Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
by Hugh Brewster
Broadway Paperbacks, 2013
Even though fiction is my normal reading fare, I also enjoy well-written nonfiction on a variety of subjects. The story of the Titanic is endlessly fascinating, so when a new book focusing on the lives of the first class passengers became available for review, I couldn't resist. Three words from the title/description clinched my decision: Edwardian, Titanic, first-class.
The Titanic has often been called "an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,” but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, historian Hugh Brewster seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner’s most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rarely seen photographs, he accurately depicts the ship’s brief life and tragic denouement and presents compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers: millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim; President Taft's closest aide, Major Archibald Butt; writer Helen Churchill Candee; the artist Frank Millet; movie actress Dorothy Gibson; the celebrated couturiere Lady Duff Gordon; aristocrat Noelle, the Countess of Rothes; and a host of other travelers. Through them, we gain insight into the arts, politics, culture, and sexual mores of a world both distant and near to our own. And with them, we gather on the Titanic’s sloping deck on that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions as the disaster unfolds. More than ever, we ask ourselves, “What would we have done?”After a couple of chapters, I'm enjoying this quite a bit. Are you interested in the Titanic? What do you think of the opening?
Every Tuesday, Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posts the opening paragraph (sometime two) of a book she decided to read based on the opening. Feel free to grab the banner and play along.
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[HALIFAX, NS] — The 2008-2009 recession prompted many baby boomer entrepreneurs to delay their retirement plans and stay in business longer than they had anticipated. That’s according to a new report, Passing on the Business to the Next Generation based on survey data from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).
“The recession clearly had an impact on succession planning,” said CFIB’s vice president of research, Doug Bruce. “Instead of passing the business on to the next generation, some small businesses decided to hold onto their business until its value returned to pre-recession values.”
In Nova Scotia, nearly one-quarter (23 per cent) of business owners said they have delayed the timing of their exit date between one and four years.
The report found that almost half of small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) currently have a succession plan in place. Out of these small business owners, one half will exit their businesses in the next five years.
“Small business is the backbone of the Nova Scotia economy, and succession planning is critical to the long-term future of small business,” said Leanne Hachey, vice-president for Atlantic Canada. “Governments have the ability to hurt or help entrepreneurs successfully pass on their businesses to the next generation. We are counting on the Harper Government to live up to its 2008 election commitment to index the lifetime capital gains exemption (LCGE) to inflation. Very few small business owners have a pension and instead rely on the value of their business to help fund their retirement.”
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The Torah paints a scenario of an aged Abraham, sitting at the door of his
tent, after just recently having performed his own circumcision. G-d appears
to Abraham to "visit the sick". Three "men" whom we find out are really not
men at all, but divine messengers of G-d, come to visit Abraham. "Guests!
Please excuse me, G-d, while I attend to my guests. Please wait for me until I
return." Abraham runs and welcomes the strangers and offers them some bread,
water, and a place to rest for a while.
As soon as they accept, Abraham gets to work. Sarah bakes the bread;
the lad (Yishmael) prepares the meat, and before you know it Abraham is
personally standing over the guests serving them a sumptuous meal. Here is a
99 year old man who just performed a minor operation on himself running
around at the hottest point of the day to serve guests who are perfect
strangers! To top it all off he has the unmitigated audacity to walk away
from the presence of the Creator and ask Him to wait until he returns!
It seems that Abraham understood that this is simply what G-d wanted
him to do. There seems to be a prevailing concept of spirituality which
depicts the "seeker" contemplating existence atop a Himalayan mountain.
Separation from mundane day to day existence is prerequisite to living a
spiritual life. This is far from the Jewish concept of spirituality. Abraham
gave up spending private time with the Creator to perform kindness. These
travellers may have been hungry, thirsty, or tired from their travels.
Abraham's sole concern was their physical needs even to the exclusion of
concerning for his own physical comfort. Physical existence is meant to use
as a vehicle for spirituality. It was not meant to completely avoid. This
"seeker" is selfish and self-centered in Jewish terms.
For example, relationships are the supreme opportunity to attain
heights in spirituality. How often we are placed in family situations where
a kind word can break the tension that sometimes hangs densely in the air.
How often a day can be started on the right foot by a parent's or a spouse's
kind word or gesture. Friendly words create an atmosphere which bonds. How
far does a compliment go? People remember the compliments they were given
even years ago! It's a very inexpensive way to elevate oneself, but very
profound and effective. Small things matter. This is what we understand from
Abraham's actions. There is nothing audacious about Abraham excusing himself
from G-d's presence to go and do G-d's will. This is what we are here for.
There will be plenty of time later to spend in G-d's presence.
Rabbi Paysach Krohn is an author, and a speaker, as well as a mohel,
a ritual circumciser. He tells the following story of himself. Rabbi Krohn
was in his early twenties when his father, a well-known mohel, passed on. It
is understandably quite difficult to break into the field of circumcision,
and Rabbi Krohn fell upon hard times, as he was the eldest supporting his
large family. A friend of his family asked him to his office one day. At the
appointment, the man handed him an envelope filled with a sizable sum of
cash. Rabbi Krohn thankfully refused, saying that was was not interested in
charity. "This is a loan" replied the man. "When you're able you'll repay
it." On that condition he accepted the loan. The day came when Rabbi Krohn
was indeed able to repay the loan, and he returned to the office of the kind
man. "No I won't accept repayment," came the reply. "I told you at first I
didn't want charity," said Rabbi Krohn. "When I was young," began the man,
"I also found myself in a similar situation. A good friend offered me a
similar loan. When I came to pay him he also refused. He told me that I
should hold the money until I find someone in my situation and I should
"repay" the money to them. Now I must refuse to accept the money in return,
but the day will come when you'll repay the money to someone who needs it."
That is just what Rabbi Krohn did.
G-d loved and singled out the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the
Jewish religion. They were of the most exceptional people. We are blessed
with the opportunity to know of them and emulate their deeds and attitudes.
We connect ourselves to them by emulating them, and we thereby connect
ourselves to the relationship they had with G-d. Kindness is the way of
Abraham. It is the path to true spirituality. The Torah student understands
that spirituality is not a result
of transcending the physical world, but rather living as part of the world
in an elevated fashion. What a privilege it is to be able to have a share
in the heritage of such people.
Text Copyright © 1996 Rabbi Dovid Green and
Project Genesis, Inc.
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There are many ways to evaluate investment returns when you purchase an income property. But you are the only one who can choose which evaluation and analysis method is appropriate for you and satisfies your personal decision on the best investment. Let’s cover a few of the well-known ways to evaluate investment returns to hopefully provide some additional guidance for your decision making.
Appreciation in value
Many people buy a property, and their main criteria or investment analysis is that it will go up in value over time. This is probably the most common way that buyers evaluate real estate. The problem with this method is that it doesn’t take into account the cash flows the property can generate. And you need to beware of those negative cash flows, as noted below.
Cash-on-cash return is calculated by taking your estimated, or proforma, cash flows and dividing them by the amount of cash equity you invest to purchase the property. For example, if I invested $40,000 into a property and earned $4,000 per year in free cash flow, that’s a 10 percent cash-on-cash return — and a very good deal if those numbers come true.
You can also buy properties that have negative cash flows, typically fancy prize downtown condos or properties in the most expensive areas of town. I don’t recommend buying these because it could be several decades before they truly turn positive, and all those years you will be covering that negative cash flow via investing additional equity. Note that positive cash flow properties pay you, while negative ones keep taking additional money out of your bank account.
Cash-on-cash return, with conservative estimates of rent and expenses, is by far the best way to help you make better long-term wealth building decisions.
Internal rate of return and net present value
Two other common methods for evaluating real estate investments are internal rate of return and net present value. Both take into account the time value of money theory, and both are more complicated than I can explain here. However, although these are well-known and heavily used in the commercial arena, in my opinion they have one fatal flaw: Both of these calculate a rate of return based heavily on a future sale of the property and an estimated price that the property sale will generate. There’s the problem, the “estimation” factor. So someone can estimate whatever outrageous sale amount they project for 7-10 years down the road, and it will make either of these two measures show the property to be a great deal! The question is: Will those projections come true? Often they do not.
Gross rents multiplier
There is also gross rents multiplier (GRM), which takes the property price and divides it by the gross rents the property can generate. So if the price is $100,000 and the annual rental income is $10,000, the GRM is 10. You would compare this to other properties in the area to see how they fare against those. While these may be a good rule of thumb, they don’t show a true picture. Different properties can have different expenses, and GRM does not account for those differences. So you may end up making a decision based on an incomplete analysis.
As noted above, you are the only one who can truly determine how good an investment deal you will get when you buy property. Always be conservative in your estimates of rents and expenses because rarely does a property financially perform as well as the original investors estimated or penciled out.
I’d opine that cash-on-cash return is your best bet. If the near-term financials look good, and you manage the property well and do the proper due diligence before and during your ownership, the future will hopefully be bright. And hopefully filled with more and more future positive cash flows that you can take to the bank!
Read More From Zillow:
- What Is a Good Real Estate Investment
- Smart Investing: A Tale of Two Townhomes
- Buying? Use this Checklist to Avoid Surprises
Leonard Baron, MBA, CPA, is a San Diego State University Lecturer, a guest blogger on Zillow.com, the author of several books including “Real Estate Ownership, Investment and Due Diligence 101”, and loves kicking the tires of a good piece of dirt! See more at ProfessorBaron.com.
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Help us change lives
Every year we help hundreds of children, young people and adults disadvantaged by their physical disability to experience the life-changing benefits that participating in sport can provide. All this is only possible because of the kindness of people like you.
You can make a difference in a number of ways. For example you can make a donation, run a marathon, organise a quiz night or hold a coffee morning. However you choose to help we are here to assist you every step of the way.
Every penny you raise will help people with cerebral palsy fulfil their potential through sport.
£10 will pay for a set of gold, silver and bronze medals giving children with cerebral palsy the chance to celebrate sporting success and achievement.
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Find out about our fundraising events you can take part in.
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Proposed Canon
It is not uncommon for an Heir to also serve as Chief Warlord, but it is not necessary for one unit to serve both functions, and both titles can be redistributed by the Ruler.
Known Heirs
- Goodminton - Side destroyed
It may be the case that all Heirs must be Commanders; every Heir seen thus far was either popped as a Warlord-Heir, or was named Heir Designate while serving as a Warlord or Caster. (Stanley was promoted to Warlord, and then named Heir Designate.) Naming an Heir Designate may require promoting the unit to Warlord first.
It may be that Heirs, while capable of claiming sacked and razed Capitals, may not be able to claim neutral cities. No one has spoken of claiming Unaroyal and restarting that side. Of course, this might be due to other issues. Stanley has no Heirs to claim Unaroyal. And the RCC II, while they have heirs, may not feel that the limited benefits of gaining one new unmanned city outweigh the expense of seizing and fortifying it.
Since a Warlord in production may be popped as an Heir (at the cost of additional turns), and since there is a small chance of a Warlord in production instead popping as a Caster, then it is possible that a Warlord-Heir may instead pop as a Caster-Heir.
Multiple Heirs and Line of Succession
It is unclear if Transylvito's heirs existed concurrently or consecutively. Each was Heir for a time but later croaked. Don King then named non-Royal Warlord Caesar Borgata as Heir Designate. Later, with Borgata still serving as Heir (and Chief Warlord), Transylvito began popping a new Royal Heir.
In the case of Jetstone, it is known that three Princes (Ansom, Ossomer, and Tramennis) existed at the same time. It is clear that Ansom served Jetstone as Chief Warlord, was replaced by Ossomer after his croaking, who was replaced by Tramennis after his croaking. However, the line of succession as Heir is less clear. After the capture of Ossomer by Gobwin Knob, Parson comments that they "have [Jetstone's] heir," which could refer to either Ansom or Ossamer. After Ossamer was croaked and decrypted, Slately expends a great deal of effort and Schmuckers to name Trammenis Heir Designate, which means Trammenis did not become an Heir automatically. It is unclear if Ossamer was ever Heir, and if so, whether he inherited that position because he was popped as a "backup" Heir as part of a line of succession, or if he was named Heir Designate after Ansom was croaked and decrypted.
Slately does have thoughts on Transylvito not having a royal "line of succession," but this could be referring to Transylvito having no Royal Heir at all at the time, and thus it does not rule out the possibility that a side can have only one Heir at a time. That would mean, in the event of losing an Heir, a side must then spend a great deal of production to pop a new Heir, or spend a great deal of Schmuckers to name an Heir Designate, instead of taking either (or both) of those steps beforehand. Considering that an Heir would likely only die in a time- and money-consuming conflict, and that the primary function of an Heir is to preserve the side in the event of the Ruler croaking, this would make losing an Heir extremely problematic.
If a side can have multiple Heirs concurrently, and any Heir can claim a Capital site, it's possible that sides have Heirs not only for security, but as a threat to rivals. It lets a Side credibly threaten to destroy their Capital and start a new side. However, again assuming a side can have multiple concurrent Heirs, it may be the case that only the first in the line of succession may capture a Capital site.
Normally a Ruler can disband units immediately, with just a thought. However, Heirs can apparently "make a play for the throne". This may mean that an Heir cannot be disbanded like a normal unit, or simply that they must manipulate other Sides and Natural Allies (as Stanley may have) to gain the throne.
Banhammer and Faq
An Heir, if it escapes the destruction of its Side, becomes a Barbarian, as happened to Jillian. If it then recaptures its original Capital, the Side may be restored (as suggested by Ansom). King Banhammer popped an Heir in response to a prediction, but this would not change the Predictamancer's claim that his Kingdom will fall. With Jillian away at the time of the Fall of Faq, she was not present to commit a suicidal attack against overwhelming forces (as her demeanor would have demanded), and so she survived the event by not being present. This leaves her free to return later with adequate forces to recapture Faq and restore her Side. This may have been Banhammer's plan all along: knowing his daughter could not flee from an overwhelming force (where a philosopher Prince would have seen the wisdom of escape and so could have been kept close), she could not be kept near him in Faq. This demanded that Banhammer create friction between himself and his daughter, allowing him to send her away to do as she would willingly while ensuring her survival; whereas, had she known he was trying to protect her, she would have resisted.
Heirs may have some protection against being disbanded by the Ruler. Even though King Banhammer doesn't seem to like Jillian, he doesn't disband her. This could be due to Jillian misunderstanding his opinion of her, or perhaps, Natural Thinkamancy imparts something like parental love. It may also have been purely an expense issue, or possibly a moral one (just because he doesn't like her doesn't mean he should disband her.)
Popping an Heir
Designating a Heir should take just as much worth or more but in actual money, instead of production time. The price to designate Prince Tramennis as Jetstone's heir during the Assault on Jetstone would be roughly 165,000 Shmuckers. (5K*28 archons=140K + 25K bonus, assuming Gobwin Knob had not lost or gained any archons in between the Battle for Gobwin Knob and the Battle of Expository Bridge.)
These may be the only means of acquiring an Heir. However, it is possible that a popped Warlord, which has a certain percentage chance of being Noble, or Royal, and/or a caster, also has a chance of being an Heir.
Puppet States
Heirs may claim sacked cities as their own. However, heirs also have inherent loyalty to the side that popped them. Therefore, it is possible that establishing an heir in a city may allow a side to create a puppet side, similar to what Transylvito did to Faq.
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Welcome to the Research Journal of Ne-Do-Ba. I will be exploring a number of potential Wabanaki (Native American) families found in Northeastern North America. I would like to share my journey with others. - - - - -
Wlipunkini - Travel Well
Each report evaluates the town’s existing historic properties inventory, highlights significant historic buildings and settlement patterns, and presents threats to these resources. A bibliography lists key secondary resources.
We tell them that those stories are not fact until we have the records to back them up.
It's only natural that we believe what our mother, father, or any other family elder for that matter, tells us about our family history. Unfortunately some of their stories get distorted over time.
Now imagine that game of telephone is happening, not over an hour but, over decades. Oh, and someone in the "telephone" line was 8 years old when it was their turn and they only heard the story the one time. Your Nana may have had the best of intentions in passing the story along to you. She probably believed every word of it but if you base your research on that and toss aside any records that don't fit the family legend your real family history will never be found.
Your ancestor had "high cheek bones" or "long, straight black hair", fact. Saying that the trait denotes a certain ethnicity or race is conjecture, speculation, or wishful thinking, not fact.
A grandparent could have told a fictional story to their grandchild at an impressionable age. That child then tells it to his own children and so on. Somewhere along the way it becomes, not a bedtime story but a family story. When did the story change from fiction to non-fiction?
Once you start researching you may find that a small part of the story IS true. Over the years it's just been embellished a little.
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Many people write me saying that they cannot do squats because of pain in the knees and I felt I needed to address this problem more costly.
Sharp pain in your knee (or any area in your body) should never be ignored. If you feel pain anywhere during any exercise move, like squats, don’t work through the pain. You want to stop, make a note of it, and see your doctor if the pain does not go away. This pain could be minor but it could also be very major and mean that you have a knee injury or strain that needs special attention. A closer look at your knee by a medical professional might tell you whether squats (or whatever exercise) just is not for you or if you should just proceed with caution.
If you have healthy knees that are weak or you are avoiding squats because of other reasons you might be harming yourself rather than helping yourself. Squats are one of the best exercises that you can do when strengthen your knees if you are doing them safely and correctly. They work the areas around you knee like your quads, hamstrings, calves which all directly effect the knees.
If you can’t quite do a full squat yet or you feel pain when doing squats (and you have ruled out chronic knee injury. Try the things list below (in the video) to help build your knees and your legs to help you better perform this amazing exercise move.
First Check Your Form: Always perform squats with your knees behind your toes. Your thighs parallel to the ground. Your hips back and your spine neutral.
Alternative Ways to do Squats
- wall sit
- Ball sit
- Chair sit
- Decrease Range Of Motion
CHECK OUT THIS OTHER POST ON BUILDING STRONGER KNEE MUSCLES
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1. A word sometimes uttered by young children before they know proper speech.
2. A human male that is short and makes average sized to tall people wish they were short due to the immense magnitude of his coolness.
- Also can be applied to an irregularly thin guy that makes others wish they were as thin due to his overwhelming appeal.
" Man, I wish I was as short as that kid, what a zaim."
"He is such a zaim that it makes me want to diet, and I'm already 15lbs. underweight!"
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Elegies for the Brokenhearted
"We were a family of bad citizens," Mary Murphy, narrator of Elegies for the Brokenhearted explains early on in the compulsively readable novel. "Drunk drivers and tax evaders, people who parked in handicapped spaces and failed to return shopping carts to their collection stands." Told in the second person as a series of elegies to five people who pass through Mary's life, Christie Hodgen deftly sketches characters who are trying (and, more often, failing) to escape the worlds they were born into: dying cities and small towns populated by petty criminals and bitter parents. Mary, it is revealed, becomes so lost in these worlds that she barely speaks aloud, and she remains somewhat mysterious throughout the book. But as she remembers her affectionate uncle, malcontent neighbor, hilarious roommate, informal mentor, and wild, beautiful mother, her voice—caring, respectful, rarely sentimental and occasionally angry—is so consistently engaging that you barely miss her. After all, the most salient lesson from Mary's recollections is that, for better or worse, other people often play as much a role as we do in shaping our own identities.
— Ruth Baron
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Throughout the last one hundred and forty plus years, peacekeeping for the city of Waverly has undertaken a great many changes. Different station houses, different technology, different faces wearing different uniforms. One aspect hasn’t changed, however, the service and protection of Waverly’s citizens by the members who don the shield of the Waverly Police Department.
The occupation of law enforcement began in Waverly in the year 1868 when the city forefathers saw fit to keep the peace by hiring H.S. Halbent as the Town Marshall. Since then, the occupation of Waverly Town Marshall has changed to Waverly Police Officer. The numbers of officers have changed too. Halbent’s “one man show” style of law enforcement has increased as Waverly grew to a force of sixteen officers and one reserve officer led by Waverly’s 35th Chief of Police, Richard Pursell.
Stability is very important for citizens. The stability begins with a place to call home. Waverly Police Department’s home has projected that stability by staying put in the few locations it has called “home”. As always, the Police Department was visible to the public and open every moment for those who sought help. Citizens always knew where to find the Police Department. Whether it was located out of the city hall offices like the one located at the corner of 1st Street NE and 1st Avenue NE (1911-1956); in the downstairs portion of the Last National Bank building (1956-1976); or the present location from 1976, citizens always knew where to find them.
Events in history are always influential on how law enforcement is accomplished. In order to effectively keep up with the changes, technology had to advance as well to better suit the officers charged with the protection of the community. In other areas, policies and procedures evolved to better handle specific incidents or provide more effective methods to deal with calls for service. Some noteworthy examples in Waverly’s history:
In the 1930’s and 40’s, organized crime was readily apparent and the potential for violence against citizens elevated. Organized crime had the reputation to be particularly vicious when forced to deal with law enforcement agencies. Police Departments, including Waverly, attempted to update their own equipment with modernized weapons in order to keep up. The Waverly Police Department as well as others around the country purchased Thompson sub-machine guns (or Tommy-Guns) to deal with situations that could arise from the threat of organized crime. At the time, no other issue was greater than the influence of organized crime. Thus, officers spent more time training to combat the threat of such.
Then and now, communication between officers and the dispatchers has always been crucial to daily operations. However, during the early years, portable radios did not exist. This meant that officers on foot patrol would not receive messages if there were calls for service. Side-stepping this, a red light was posted on the corner by the now big-six buildings located at East Bremer and 1st Street NE. After receiving emergency calls, dispatchers would activate the light, alerting all foot patrols that there was a call to answer. In the new era, each officer isequipped with a portable radio to maintain constant contact with dispatch.
As times change, so did the business of enforcing the laws that protect the citizens. Traffic enforcement became another aspect of law enforcement as technology changed from “horse and buggy” times to the age of automobiles. Early squad cars were nothing more than vehicles with high-output engines and equipped with a police radio and top lights. Today’s squad cars are specifically built and designed to withstand the “round the clock” pounding of constant stop- and-go driving, pursuit capabilities, and equipped with radar, video recorders, computers, and weapons at the fingertips of the driver.
Over the decades, varieties of crimes against people evolved as did the laws that protect them. Although crimes against people grew at a geometric rate during those early years, the right of individuals changed very little. One instance, in particular, impacted law enforcement and the way policing was done. In 1966, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down the “Miranda decision”. This did not change the law but was significant to law enforcement in how the job was accomplished procedurally. The ruling protected the rights of defendants from custodial interrogation without first being read their basic rights protected under the constitution.
The aforementioned examples and technology changes still resonate today, affecting each person who serves the community as a police officer. As mentioned in the opening paragraph, one detail has remained constant, which is that the Waverly Police Department is devoted to community service. This has been evident by Waverly Police Department’s efforts over the decades to play active roles as a community member. Whether by the Special Police Unit, Waverly Police Reserve, Law Enforcement Explores, Neighborhood Watch, Blue Star, D.A.R.E., or simply reading to elementary school children, bicycle rodeos, public safety presentations, Lunch with the Law, Citizen’s Police Academy, and National Night Out, the Waverly Police Department is dedicated to the safety of the community people call “home”.
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1833 Virtue is a habitual and firm disposition to do good.
1834 The human virtues are stable dispositions of the intellect and the will that govern our acts, order our passions, and guide our conduct in accordance with reason and faith. They can be grouped around the four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
1835 Prudence disposes the practical reason to discern, in every circumstance, our true good and to choose the right means for achieving it.
1836 Justice consists in the firm and constant will to give God and neighbor their due.
1837 Fortitude ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good.
1838 Temperance moderates the attraction of the pleasures of the senses and provides balance in the use of created goods.
1839 The moral virtues grow through education, deliberate acts, and perseverance in struggle. Divine grace purifies and elevates them.
1840 The theological virtues dispose Christians to live in a relationship with the Holy Trinity. They have God for their origin, their motive, and their object - God known by faith, God hoped in and loved for his own sake.
1841 There are three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity. They inform all the moral virtues and give life to them.
1842 By faith, we believe in God and believe all that he has revealed to us and that Holy Church proposes for our belief.
1843 By hope we desire, and with steadfast trust await from God, eternal life and the graces to merit it.
1844 By charity, we love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for love of God. Charity, the form of all the virtues, "binds everything together in perfect harmony" (⇒ Col 3:14).
1845 The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit bestowed upon Christians are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord.
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MIT professor’s book digs into the eclectic, textually linked reading choices of people in medieval London.
Research by MIT scientists and colleagues has graced the cover of Nature four times over the last month and a half.
On Sept. 29 the weekly, one of the world's premier science journals, featured work led by Professor John Bush of mathematics on how certain insects navigate the surface of water. The Oct. 6 cover focused on the origin of short gamma-ray bursts, violent cosmic events marking the collision of two compact stars. George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, led the MIT team involved in that work.
On Oct. 20, the journal ran an image of Z-DNA, an unexpected left-handed form of DNA discovered by Alexander Rich, William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics, and colleagues more than 20 years ago. Now Rich and his team have determined the crystal structure of the junction between Z-DNA and "normal," right-handed DNA (B-DNA).
The following week, Nature focused on the completion of the HapMap project, a comprehensive catalog of the genetic diversity in the human genome sequence across human populations. Several researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard were co-authors of a paper on the work.
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ThinkProgress reporter Stephen Lacey is on the ground at the COP17 climate talks in Durban, South Africa. Read all ThinkProgress Durban coverage here.Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga says failure at U.N. climate talks in Durban is a “moral apartheid” that cannot be allowed to happen. Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga is the president of Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic global humanitarian organization. The cardinal mentioned the deadly Durban floods as a sign for action:
Barely a week ago, torrential downpours caused a great deal of suffering and death in Durban. Don’t we realize that the climate is out of control? How long will countless people have to go on dying before adequate decisions are taken?
During the special Mass at Emmanuel Cathedral in Durban, Cardinal Rodriguez also noted, “Just as South Africa’s Apartheid era policies sought divisions along race lines, today the world’s environment and energy policies divide man from nature.”
Rodriguez has said that “the first-hand experience of Caritas staff in emergencies shows the poor will suffer the greatest.” Below is the full text of Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga’s homily:
“Prepare a way for the Lord, make his paths straight ” (Mark 1:1-8)
The liturgy of this Second Sunday of Advent seems to have been designed for this COP17 we are attending. The first Reading already called on us to “Console my people, console them”. Barely a week ago, torrential downpours caused a great deal of suffering and death in Durban. Don’t we realise that the climate is out of control? How long will countless people have to go on dying before adequate decisions are taken?
It’s true that in faith we wait “for the new heavens and the new earth” as the second Reading told us, but this does not mean indifference or complicity with those who destroy this land where we live. “Living holy and saintly lives” means living in justice with creation and the environment, and especially with the poor people who are the primary victims of this serious problem.
In the desert John “cried out” the need to prepare a way for the Lord. Today, in the desert of our planet Earth, and in the desert of our hearts, the same voice is ringing out. This conference of delegates from so many countries cannot remain as a voice silenced by economic power.
It’s a voice that cries out and calls on us to: “Prepare a way for the Lord, make his paths straight.” At least for the moment, we should set aside our lists of pending tasks to listen to this voice that is clamouring within us: “Console my people, console them.” Powerful nations of the world, we are expecting from you the courageous decisions the world needs to live in peace and solidarity.
We need to listen to this voice crying out to all of us: “Prepare a way for the Lord.” This means getting rid of the obstacles that hinder God’s arrival in our lives, so that we may keep the gates of our hearts open to His presence. Most important is to open up new paths to God, who always comes to us.
Currently, many men and women don’t know which path to follow in order to meet Him. For many, life has turned into a convoluted maze. Others live in the froth of outward show, focusing on their image, appearance, social success and the quest for power.
As John told us: the Lord is coming, and we need to prepare a way for Him. It’s very easy to carry on living without paths to God. We don’t have to consciously reject God. All we need to do is follow the current general trend and ensconce ourselves in superficiality.
Little by little God disappears from the horizon of our lives, and interests us less and less. Today, can we prepare a way to God, who comes towards us?
We’re filling up our lives with things, but remain empty inside. We’re informed about everything, but we have no idea where to direct our lives. Today, how can we prepare a way to the Lord, who comes to us? When we focus our lives on outward things, distracted by the countless forms of escape and enjoyment our society offers us, can we really confront ourselves and mull over the meaning of our lives? Are we capable of questioning ourselves about the senseless development that is destroying the environment?
“Prepare a way for the Lord.” John’s cry hasn’t lost its relevance. Whether we are aware of it or not, God is coming to us, but first of all we need to encounter ourselves deeply before being able to open ourselves up to Him.
“John wore a garment of camel skin, and he lived on locusts and wild honey.” John seems to be man who isn’t integrated within society and far removed from social conventions. This is borne out by the place where he is (the desert) and how he feeds and clothes himself.
Today’s Gospel reminds us of John’s food and clothing so that we may eliminate all the superfluous things our excessive consumer society offers us and encounter the only necessity, which suffices for us for life.
Then John, referring to Jesus, says some beautiful words: “Someone is following me, someone who is more powerful than I… I have baptised you with water, but He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.” John wants to say that his baptism is only with water, namely a symbol of rebirth, a new start, which leaves behind fatalism and injustice.
It isn’t possible to be pessimistic and say that COP17 will end in failure.
“He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit,” meaning that Jesus comes to baptise us with the force of life and the Love of God. Jesus will not immerse humanity in the waters of the river Jordan, but rather in the depths of God’s Love, which is symbolised by the Holy Spirit.
No one can quash the force of the Holy Spirit. This is Jesus, God’s Messiah, who comes to save all peoples. Blessed are we if we open ourselves to His presence.
In these times of crisis we’re living through, today’s Gospel reminds us in a special way of the need to be supported and guided by the Holy Spirit. We should be more like Jesus, and let ourselves be imbued by His Spirit of Love; this Spirit is Fire.
At this dark and desolate time for our culture, God Himself is preparing the way in our hearts to enter into our homes. He is the key that opens what no one may lock, the shepherd who watches over our lives, the hand that cures our wounds, the love that is always awake and dispels our fears and makes us glimpse the clarity of hope.
Today, we only have to open our hearts to Him and say to Him: Lord, transform our lives and lead us along the path of Peace and Love. May we learn from John to zero in on the only essential element of our lives. May this conference be a success for global solidarity, and embody a desire to make a better world for future generations.
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The commissioners of the U.S. International Trade Commission determined Nov. 7, in a 6-0 vote, that the U.S. market is negatively impacted by crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules imported from China.
As a result, the Department of Commerce wiill issue anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imports of these Chinese products. However, the commission ruled that “critical circumstances,” which would cause these duties to be enforced retroactively, do not apply.
Solar modules assembled in China containing solar cells originating from a third country continue to be tariff-free.
Suntech Power Holdings, the world’s largest producer of solar panels, opposed the ITC’s decision, remarking that it presents a serious challenge to the U.S. solar industry and for American jobs and energy consumers worldwide.
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If you want to retire rich, you only need to do three things. The first is to keep debt to an absolute minimum, because paying interest simply increases the cost of whatever you’re financing. The second thing you need to do is to live below your means: to always spend less than you make and set money aside.
Thousands of tips and suggestions to spend less and pay off debt appear on hundreds of websites, including this one, and in dozens of books, including my latest, Life or Debt 2010.
Less often discussed but just as important, however, is the third thing you’ll need to become financially independent: knowledge about investing. Because while cutting up your credit cards and skipping $4 lattes is smart, how you invest those savings can determine success or failure in reaching your goals.
Let’s say you’re determined to save extra money by reading stories like 28 Tasty Tips to Save on Food, 18 Tips to Dress for Less or 26 Ways to Save on Entertainment. And as a result of all this sage advice, you find yourself with an extra 10 bucks a day, or $300 a month. If you have any sense, the first thing you’ll do is use that new-found money to pay down debt. But what then? If the only thing you do is put your savings in 1% money market account, after 20 years you’ll compound your way to a balance of $80,000. Nice. But if you earn 10% instead of 1%, your nest egg will increase to about $228,000. Way nicer.
So learning to invest your spare money wisely, including the money you’re (hopefully) putting aside in your retirement plan, is nearly as important as learning to find it. And if you approach it properly, it’s really not that hard.
When it comes to investing, while it may seem there are dozens of options, there are really only two. You can either be a loaner or an owner. A loaner is someone who allows others to borrow their money in exchange for interest. An owner, on the other hand, invests in somebody else’s business with the hope that their ownership interest grows in value.
If you put money in the bank, or in any kind of bonds, you’re a loaner. You’re investing in debt. If you invest in the stock market or real estate you’re an owner. You’re investing in equity. Over decades, loaner investments like government bonds have paid a little less than the inflation rate: about 4%. Owner investments, like stocks, have paid a lot more, beating inflation by a few percentage points: about 8%. This is as it should be: after all, ownership investing carries additional risk. If it didn’t pay more, nobody would do it.
But that doesn’t mean owner investments are better than loaner. Both are necessary. Loans offer relative safety, depending, of course, upon who you lend your money to. And ownership investments offer the opportunity for growth, depending on whose business or what real estate you invest in. If you try to play it too safe and put all your money into super-safe loan investments, you’re practically guaranteed to lose to inflation over time. But if you put all your eggs in a risky ownership basket, you’re likely to lose both sleep and your savings. So you need both. The trick is how to determine how much of each, then to learn about both.
With that in mind, check out this recent story I shot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange that describes some things beginning investors should consider. Then meet me on the other side for more.
To recap those tips:
- Don’t ever put any money into stocks that you could possibly need within five years. The longer your time horizon, the lower your risk. This is also true of real estate investments.
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If you can’t afford to buy more than one stock, use a mutual fund or Exchange Traded Fund. That way you own a sliver of lots of different companies rather than just one or two. (I’ll be explaining those in more detail in future stories.)
- Don’t invest in stocks all at once: invest small amounts monthly. That way, should the market fall, you’ll have money on the sidelines to buy at lower prices.
- To decide how much to put in loaner investments (the bank) and how much to put in owner investments (stocks or real estate) here’s your rule of thumb: Subtract your age from 100 and that’s the percentage you might want to put in stocks. So if you’re 25 years old, you’d take 25 from 100 and put that amount, 75%, of your long-term savings into stocks. If you’re 75 years old, you’d only take that kind of risk with 25% of your savings.
Sound overly simplistic? Maybe, but as I turned on the news during the 2008-2009 market decline, the airwaves were full of retirees who were being forced back to work by the 50% thrashing their retirement funds had suffered at the hand of stocks: a sure sign they were over-invested. And for a little salt in the wound, many of these same people, unable to tolerate the risk of ownership investments, left the market just in time to miss a 65% one-year rally: one of the biggest bull market runs in history.
I spent 10 years as a stockbroker and have been investing in stocks and real estate for nearly 30. I know how to make money in both of these areas, but not because I’m a genius. I learned this stuff the hard way; by losing many thousands of dollars. In fact, I paid a lot more to learn proper investing than I did to attend college. But that’s not going to happen to you. You’re not going to be a sad story on the evening news. You’re going to use the above tools to make sure you don’t take too much risk, and in other stories I’m going to give you more specific information so you won’t make the same stupid and expensive mistakes I did.
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GETTING STARTED IN RACING
Everybody wants to feel like a Formula One or Indy 500 pilot, and this is the way to live that dream. A great place to get started is by working with a school. You can use their cars and get some very good instruction on the basics and there are formula car racing schools within a days drive from almost anywhere in the country. Once you are comfortable it is time to consider where you really want to compete. Some drivers stay at the school racing level as it is usually a much smaller budget than moving into a upper level racing series. Serious career minded racers will look to a series that offers TV coverage and big year end career enhancement bonuses such as the Star Mazda Series. For drivers looking to have an enjoyable yet professional level weekend a series like the Formula Car Challenge presented by Goodyear is more appropriate.
“We have taken drivers who have spent a half dozen days with a racing school and we work with them for a few events and helped them get on the podium in a very short period of time,” stated Standing Start Manager Scott Bradley. “Like anything else you need to practice to get good at it, and the benefit of a personal coach cannot be underestimated.”
BECOMING A CHAMPION
At World Speed Motorsports we have many stories of hobbyist drivers winning a championship early in their racing careers. Two that come immediately to mind are drivers Stan Kohls and Chris Cumming. Both of these drivers came directly out of racing school before joining World Speed.
Stan came to World Speed in 2005 and purchased a Pro Formula Mazda. He went on to win the 2005 Formula Mazda Challenge Series. In 2006 the competition increased and 20 drivers competed in the series. Stan took the top slot for the second season in a row with 5 wins. Stan realized early in the season that with all the new drivers joining the series he would have to step up his game. Part of his plan was to retain a professional coach. Standing Start coaches were hired to assist Stan in reaching his goal of back to back championships. "Stan is a pleasure to coach, as he takes the input that you offer him and turns it immediately into improved output," stated one of his coaches. "He also takes notes, and reviews them in addition to his coaching plans. All around Stan has been an excellent student of racing, and is an excellent example of how coaching can enhance the learning process."
Chris Cumming who got started in the same series in 2006 showed signs of brilliance early on, and started working harder and he also secured a Standing Start coach. By the end of 2007 Chris won the Star Mazda West Coast Series Championship, and then he went to all of the Star Mazda Championship races and won the 2008 Experts title. In 2009 he became the first driver to win back-to-back Star Mazda Expert Championships, and has moved up into the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge where he is a race win contender every weekend.
“There are championships available for every level of driver, and at most of the events we compete in you will have someone to race with,” added Telo Stewart President of World Speed. “It has been really great for us to have career minded racers who want to make it to the top, but also to get the opportunity to work with the Walter Mitty’s who really have a long deep love of our sport.”
Contact World Speed Motorsports for help in setting your goals.
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|1.||James Clerk. 1831--79, Scottish physicist. He made major contributions to the electromagnetic theory, developing the equations (Maxwell equations) upon which classical theory is based. He also contributed to the kinetic theory of gases, and colour vision|
|2.||(Ian) Robert, original name Robert Hoch. 1923--91, British publisher, born in Slovakia: founder (1949) of Pergamon Press; chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd. (1984--91); theft from his employees' pension funds and other frauds discovered after his death led to the collapse of his business|
|maxwell (māks'wěl', -wəl) Pronunciation Key
The unit of magnetic flux in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to the flux perpendicularly intersecting an area of one square centimeter in a region where the magnetic intensity is one gauss.
|Maxwell (māks'wěl') Pronunciation Key
Scottish physicist who developed four laws of electromagnetism showing that light is composed of electromagnetic waves. He also investigated heat and the kinetic theory of gases, and he experimented with color vision, producing the first color photograph in 1861.
Our Living Language : James Clerk Maxwell was only fourteen years old when he published his first paper—an accomplishment for anyone, but especially for one who was thought by his first tutor to be slow-witted. His precocious talents, especially in mathematics, did not go unrecognized by others, however, and he started making lasting contributions to science while still very young. In his 20s, he wrote a prize-winning essay in which he showed, based on laws of classical physics, that Saturn's rings were not a single object, but a collection of small objects—a finding not confirmed until over 120 years later, when the Voyager space probe reached the planet. His most famous work was his demonstration, done while he was in his 30s, of the existence of electromagnetic waves and his conclusion that light was also part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This set of discoveries was of fundamental importance for 20th-century physics, as it paved the road for Einstein's theories of relativity and for quantum theory. Other novel ideas of Maxwell's led to the establishment of such diverse fields as information theory and cybernetics. Little wonder, then, that Einstein said, on the centenary of Maxwell's birth in 1931, that his work had been "the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton."
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Though once dominated by British culinary tastes, Australian cuisine is now influenced by a variety of Mediterranean and Asian foods introduced by immigrant cultures. Many people living outside of Australia think of native Bush Tucker when they contemplate Australian food, but Southeast Asian, Greek, Lebanese and Italian influences are now more common.
Australian cuisine is the next outpost on the culinary frontier. And one of the restaurants that stands out on this island continent is The Bather's Pavilion, where, according to the New York Times the "menu and wine list are as outstanding as the view."
Built in 1928, The Bather's Pavilion is a sun-drenched spot that was once a swimmer's changing shed. In 1988, former fashion designer and stylist Victoria Alexander and her husband bought the abandoned building. With Chef Genevieve Harris, they created the Bather's Pavilion Restaurant, located smack on Balmoral Beach (in Sydney). The restaurant and its cuisine has been universally praised by the local and international press.
Included in A Taste of Australia are seventy of the restaurant's more popular recipes divided into seven chapters. The Asian, Mediterranean, and Indian influences in Australian cuisine are delightfully incorporated in the restaurant's menu and in the book.
Sumptuous color photography and illustrations of the Bather's Pavilion, its environs, and food not only capture the flavors of Australia but also the ambience of this magical locale.
Before joining the Bather's Pavilion in 1993, Genevieve Harris cooked at a number of acclaimed restaurants in Australia as well as at the luxurious Amankila Resort in Bali. She has been lauded as a "perfectionist" and as a chef of "incredible finesse and refinement" by the food media.
Victoria Alexander has a background in photographic styling and fashion design, and spent her early years as a fashion editor at Vogue Australia and Cosmopolitan magazine. She purchased The Bather's pavilion with her husband in 1988, realizing a life-long love of food.
A Taste of Australia: The Bather's Pavilion
By Victoria Alexander and Genevieve Harris
Photographs by Rodney Weidland
Ten Speed Press
122 pages, full-color photography throughout
Reprinted with permission
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Two new reports detail economic ranking of Michigan, U.S.
Two new studies show just how much work needs to be done to improve economic performance in Michigan and across the country.
An analysis from Northwood University commissioned by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce looked at the state's economic competitiveness. While the state has improved in the past few years, particularly in state debt and taxation, Michigan has had a steady, decade-long decline in other economic areas compared to the rest of the country.
The study looked at 200 variables including Gross State Product growth, tax policy, regulatory policy and the cost of doing business. While the past few years have brought tax reform and some good regulatory proposals, the state ranks 48th in "general macroeconomic environment" and has lost more than 500,000 people in the past decade. Job growth declined 16.9 percent, while the rest of the country grew 2 percent. Overall, the Great Lake State is ranked 47th out of the 50 states.
The study suggests that becoming a right-to-work state would improve Michigan’s future: "From 2000-2010, the study shows Michigan saw personal income grow by 20.3 percent. This compared to 36.4 percent for the United States as a whole and 39.2 percent for right-to-work states." This matches the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Mackinac Center numbers.
In the meantime, the Fraser Institute in Canada released its "Economic Freedom of the World" report for 2012. This uses 42 variables to rank 144 countries based on their level of economic freedom using the World Bank and other independent statistics. Some of the variables include tax rates, degree of juridical independence, inflation rates, costs of importing and regulated prices.
The five "most-free" countries for 2012 are Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland and Australia/Canada (tie). The five "least-free" are Venezuela, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Congo and Angola.
After ranking 2nd in the year 2000, the United States has fallen to 18th in this year's report.
Over the years the report has shown a strong correlation between smaller government and a higher standard of living. For example, countries among the "most free" are richer (both high and low-income citizens), healthier, have higher growth, higher literacy, a longer life expectancy and more access to primary good likes water and are less corrupt.
It has been said that "poverty is the natural state of man." Thus, the question is not "why are some people so poor?" but rather "why are some people so rich?" Economic freedom is not just better for people because it is just; it brings real tangible results. Smaller government, free markets and a strong rule of law that enforces private property rights is essential for people to make economic and social advancements.
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Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters. Arriving at his destination, the boy is immediately accosted by a bright-eyed old man with a mysterious message: “The wolves are running.” Soon danger is everywhere, as a gang of criminals headed by the notorious wizard Abner Brown and his witch wife Sylvia Daisy Pouncer gets to work. What does Abner Brown want? The magic box that the old man has entrusted to Kay, which allows him to travel freely not only in space but in time, too. The gang will stop at nothing to carry out their plan, even kidnapping Kay’s friend, the tough little Maria Jones, and threatening to cancel Christmas celebrations altogether. But with the help of his allies, including an intrepid mouse, a squadron of Roman soldiers, the legendary Herne the Hunter, and the inventor of the Box of Delights himself, Kay just may be able rescue his friend, foil Abner Brown’s plot, and save Christmas, too.
At once a thriller, a romp, and a spellbinding fantasy, The Box of Delights is a great English children’s book and a perfect Christmas treat.
About the Author
John Masefield (1878—1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, two novels Captain Margaret and Multitude and Solitude and a great deal of poetry, including his anthology Saltwater Ballads.
Praise for The Box of Delights…
“The book that always had the magic of a snowy English Christmas…. It’s still a lovely book, magical and funny, to be read by anybody of any age.” —The Horn Book
"This classic of English children's literature, sadly overlooked by most on this side of the Atlantic, has just been reissued in a beautiful edition by the New York Review Children's Collection...Although "The Box of Delights" was first published in 1935, Masefield's intoxicating prose has lost none of its pull...in this wonderful tale of bravery and intrigue that deserves to become another staple of the holidays." --The San Francisco Chronicle
"First published in 1935, The Box of Delights by John Masefield is newly available. In the adventure-laden Christmas story, Kay Harker (also the protagonist of Masefield's The Midnight Folk) returns from boarding school for the holidays and becomes involved in a struggle with a wizard and witch who wish to possess the eponymous box." --Publishers Weekly
"This uniquely imaginative tale would be a delight for fans of old-fashioned, English Literature and could be compared to the likes of A Christmas Carol and the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe." --CLEAR Reviews
“[Masefield’s] most popular children’s book…Original and remarkable.” –The New York Review of Books
“Masefield's novel, a plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling, should be more widely appreciated” –The Washington Post
“The Box of Delights' is based on a 1935 story by famous English poet John Masefield, and it's crammed full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures, adventures, adventures.” –The Seattle Times
“Every chapter in this book is marvelous, but the real delight derives from Masefield’s style and the idiosyncratic, colorful speech of his various characters…Lovely stuff.” –The Washington Post
“This book is a writer’s oft-raided treasure trove…the world’s best ‘crossover book’…It does time-travel better than Narnia…The story floats on brilliant, eccentric dialogue and…never loses its snowy-Christmas, Nutcracker enchantment…” –The Independent (UK)
“Masefield the children’s writers is unbeatable.” –The Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Exploring the state's natural world, exhibits allow visitors to view and sometimes feel everything from the cosmos to fossils..
Everything you loved as a kid is at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Walk through a volcano, or examine life-size dinosaur bones. Create your own little earthquake on the Richter scale. Ride along on Virtual Voyages, a 12-seat mission to thwart deadly comets. The Dynatheater, with its enormous screen, takes visitors to exotic locals and brings them face to face with wildlife. Traveling exhibits and scheduled lectures ensure that there's always something new to explore.
The Lodestar Astronomy Center's planetarium is the only one in the world to project high-definition digital imaging over an entire domed screen. A second imaging system, Digistar II, creates a sense of motion through space and is capable of responding to audience interaction.
Great for kids. This museum is on a much smaller scale than the one in New York City. It is really geared towards kids, but will keep adults interested, too. There's a nice rocks and minerals exhibit. You can walk through a simulted volcano. I had visited here 11 years ago and revisited two weeks ago. Some of the interactive displays were not well maintained and were not functioning properly. Otherwise, it was good and there were some new exhibits.
My oldest grandson really likes to go and see the Dinosaur eggs. I am now a grandparent member!
Annette M. Smith
The BEST Museum in the WEST. A great museum, with great dinosaurs, big screen theater, high-tech planetarium. You can easily spend a whole day there!
NMMNH Rocks!. This is the type of museum that has it all. Everything from movies, interactive diplays, food, and of course, dinosaurs.
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Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management 5th Edition, by Louis C. Gapenski provides best answers and solutions for various issues by including complete basic concepts of health care finance, including both financial management and accounting.
The book includes expanded protection of: municipal bond pools, cost of capital for not-for-profit and small firms, modified inside price of return, supply chain management, well being savings accounts, health-related coding, simulation, form 990, fund accounting and current details on reimbursement, in addition to updated real-world examples.
Healthcare Finance book introduces the standard concepts of health care finance, including accounting and financial management. Recent details on healthcare reform includes coverage of accounting treatment organizations (ACOs) and medical houses with updated real-world examples and monetary accounting protection conforms to the most recent AICPA formats.
Author also supplies obvious discussion on influence of cost construction on risk, a revised strategy to variance analysis, and a discussion from the income cycle. This book offers very clear and easy-to-grasp spreadsheet illustrations with the calculations for understanding aids, like a glossary; self-test concerns; and end-of-chapter important concepts, concerns, and challenges.
The Healthcare Finance book was created to be utilized in medical and health companies administration programs, by which college students are primarily trained to get a career in a supplier organization. By reading this valuable reference, you might know ways to measure economic overall performance and use the details to make much better monetary choices.
Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management
Louis C. Gapenski
Health Administration Press; Fifth edition
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Seconds after patients are scanned by Allentown Osteopathic Medical Center's new MRI, images of their brains, knees and other body parts appear on computer screens some 60 miles away in Philadelphia.
There, radiologists from the University of Pennsylvania see and interpret the X-ray-like images while Osteopathic's patients are still on the table at the 19th Street Health Center.
Osteopathic officials sought a contract with Penn because the university's radiology department is considered one of the best in the country. Billboards posted by the 150-bed hospital tout the service as "World-class MRI" with "hometown access."
Such affiliations are the wave of the future, offering patients a greater level of expertise than a small community hospital or independent center could afford, according to officials from Osteopathic, Penn and one owner of a chain of independent MRI centers.
Penn employs sub-specialists in radiology who concentrate on interpreting MRIs of just the nerves, muscles or bones, heart, urinary tract and abdomens.
"For an institution in Allentown to duplicate what we have, it would have to hire five different people," said Dr. Stanley Baum, chairman of Penn's radiology department.
But other area radiologists caution against long-distance interpretation of MRI images without a radiologist on site to examine the patients and explain the images to them and their physicians.
"In the hands of qualified and expert people it can be very good," said Dr. Mark Osborne, an MRI-trained radiologist at Lehigh Valley Hospital. "The drawback is you don't have local consultation ... It's harder to get good communication."
The first discussion that should take place, according to Dr. Michael Polise, a neuroradiologist at St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill, is whether MRI, which costs $800 to $1,000 per scan, is needed to diagnose the patient's problem.
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, allows physicians to obtain multiple, cross-sectional images of internal organs and tissue without harmful radiation. But for some conditions, Polise said, MRI is not always better than traditional X-rays, CAT scans or other tests.
The main role of an MRI radiologist on site, said Easton Hospital's Dr. Matthew Pollack, is to explain the MRI images to patients and their referring physicians.
By example, Pollack said he recently spent two hours reviewing ankle studies with a podiatrist.
"Such rapport is obviously lacking when interpretations are made by some distant, virtually anonymous doctor, who is unknown to the clinician," he said.
Osteopathic employs two technologists who received training at Penn to run the MRI. In addition, the hospital's radiologists work in the same building or across the street at the hospital. They are available when needed, officials said, to physically examine a patient or to inject contrast material.
Dr. Asad Shohadai, chairman of radiology at Osteopathic, said he would have preferred having a hospital radiologist on site, supervising MRI service, but when the contract was signed, the staff did not have a radiologist trained in MRI.
He said he hopes to remedy that in the future, now that one of the hospital's four radiologists is fully trained in MRI. Hospital officials add that discussions are under way with a physician who would be on site in case of emergencies.
Pollack, who trained at Penn, said the expertise of major research centers should be reserved for difficult cases that need a second opinion. Even then, he said, Penn's experts should do it as a professional courtesy.
Osborne and Pollack said Penn appears to be motivated more by money than the improvement of science or patient care.
Senior Vice President Evon Midei said Osteopathic pays Penn nothing for the "teleradiology" equipment, similar to a fax machine, that uses phone lines to send images 60 miles away in seconds. Also, Midei said, Penn radiologists bill as they would to interpret MRI scans for Philadelphia patients, but accept Allentown's payment rates.
Osteopathic officials learned about the service from equipment manufacturers in spring, when officials replaced a five-year-old MRI magnet with a new, more powerful version.
Allentown attorney Peter Karoly, whose Physician Imaging Centers in Bethlehem, Wilkes-Barre and Camp Hill, Cumberland County, hire doctors to be on site but also use teleradiology, said links between universities and community medical centers improve care and save money.
He said it's important to have a physician available if a patient reacts badly to sedation medication or an injection of contrast material. Also, a radiologist should train technicians and monitor the quality of MRI images, Karoly said.
But thanks to technology, he said, radiologists do not need to be on site all hours of operation.
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Whose Fault Is It Anyway? part of Games:Examples
This game has students simulate the propagation of P and S waves after an earthquake and to use the lag between these to determine where in the simulation the earthquake occurred. -
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Rock/Mineral Scavenger Hunt part of Games:Examples
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This strategy game has players prospect for oil using seismic profiles on limited budgets. -
Fossil Identification Board Game part of Games:Examples
The instructor uses a series of games to help students identify and answer questions about fossils. The game grows more complex over time as the instructors add rules and phyla to identify. -
Allosaur Survival Game part of Games:Examples
In this online computer game, players must figure out how to keep an Allosaurus from starving or being eaten until it grows to adulthood. -
GPS Treasure Hunt part of Games:Examples
Students are divided into teams, each of which is given a list of instructions and a GPS unit, and sent to find certain locations. At each stop, they identify a particular building stone or a plant. -
Wheel of Geology part of Games:Examples
This quiz game is intended to help students review for an upcoming exam. Topics of questions are randomly determined by spinning a wheel. Teams answer questions using electronic CPS handhelds. -
Correlation Guessing Game part of Games:Examples
In this game activity, students match correlation values with plots generated by the applet. Competition in this game setting encourages students to become more involved in the classroom and attainment of learning ...
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This group learning activity involves students in an engaging review of concepts of microbiology. The review is set up as a power point presentation in the style of the "Jeopardy" gameshow where students ...
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Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) Rail Link, Norway
Through a combination of overcrowding, a lack of expansion options and no rail links, all in the context of forecasted long-term rising demand, the Norwegian government decided to replace Oslo Fornebu as the capital's principal airport.
Out of several candidates, Gardermoen near Ullensaker to the north east of Oslo was chosen for the development in 1992. Although near an existing railway, it would not meet the requirement for the new airport to have a high proportion of travellers and workers going to or from the location by rail.
Accordingly, a new high-capacity link to Oslo Sentralstasjon (Oslo S) became an integral part of the project, and given the near-50km (31 mile) distance from Oslo, it would be a high-speed line, the first in Norway.
The airport construction cost of NOK11.5bn (€1.48bn), its distant site and the need for an elaborate rail infrastructure to service it attracted criticism on cost and environmental grounds.
Operator NSB Gardermobanen AS was formed in 1992 by the state-owned rail operator Norges Statsbaner (NSB) specifically to deliver the airport rail link plan.
With construction in hand, parliament also designated the operation of the line to NSB Gardermobanen AS. Flytoget – Airport Express Train – eventually became the brand of the dedicated service, which became independent of NSB at the start of 2003, albeit within the public sector under the Norwegian Trading and Business Commerce department.
By 2006, Flytoget was claiming an 83% overall customer satisfaction and reporting punctuality within three minutes of 96%. By 2006 it was claimed to have one of the highest market shares for a dedicated commercial airport rail link in the world, with profitability of Flytoget increasing over the previous year by just over 48%.
Electrified to the Norwegian 15kV ac standard, the 66km double-track route would go beyond the airport to Eidsvoll on the Oslo-Lillehammer/Trondheim line. Much of the alignment was completely new, including the main engineering feature of the project, the Romeriksporten between Lillestrøm and Oslo.
Norway's longest railway tunnel at 14,580m (9.1 miles), the Romeriksporten project suffered a chain reaction of construction and organisational misfortunes up to its opening in August 1999. A year behind schedule and the rest of the new line, as an interim measure to supply the now-open airport, the rail service had to use part of the old route until works were completed. The airport station is beneath the terminal, and in addition to Flytoget, has regional and intercity services.
Forming Norway's most intensively worked mainline railway, the Oslo-Lillestøm section also carries intercity, suburban and regional services. The route is under the jurisdiction of the national rail infrastructure organisation, Jernbaneverket.
Dedicated stock for Gardermoen services was built by Adtranz (later Bombardier) at Strømmen, close to the alignment of the new high-speed line. Classified BM71 are three-car, 170-seat multiple units that can operate in multiple.
They are air-conditioned and pressure-sealed to prevent passenger discomfort in tunnels and fitted with luggage facilities appropriate to their role. Operating at up to 210km/h (130mph) the units are similar to the tilt-equipped four-car BM73 class operated by NSB.
With a ten-minute peak interval, non-stop between Oslo and Gardermoen takes 19 minutes, with alternative services calling at the busy interchange at Lillestrøm. To broaden the catchment of Flytoget and avoid changing modes in the central area, the stopping services, which also serve the western end of Oslo city centre at the sub-surface Nationaltheatret station, extend to Asker, 27km to the south west.
BM71 trains are maintained under a contract with NSB. It includes clauses governing their availability at agreed times, and to set specifications. The first train was delivered on schedule in September 1997, with others following at three-weekly intervals from the following January. Squadron service began in October 1998.
Because of the intensity of line use immediately west of Oslo, alongside the airport line project, the rail administration took the opportunity to replace all the old signal interlockings as the first phase of a project to carry out such work throughout the country's rail system.
This was done to simplify maintenance and with the aim of achieving greater reliability and flexibility to cope with increased traffic demands in future. Onboard monitoring of passengers boarding and alighting is made possible by television screens in each train's cab, linked to external video cameras.
The Jernbaneverket project to cover the entire Norwegian rail network by GMS-R communication is scheduled for a 2007 completion. Although both part of the state and sharing a common infrastructure, as far as the customer is concerned Flytoget operates independently of NSB, with no interchangeability of tickets.
The two organisations compete between Oslo S and Gardermoen, with Flytoget priced as a premium service for the dedicated stock and a time saving of around ten minutes over intercity trains.
Flytoget operates e-ticketing, a pre-paid multi-trip Express Card and, for use with prior registration, card readers as elements of its promotion of cash-free travel. To further encourage this, a premium is levied on tickets bought 'over the counter'. The company website carries real-time information on Gardermoen flights and rail journey times.
Subject to completion of infrastructure upgrade, Flytoget may extend west of Asker to Drammen. Promotion of Flytoget includes its environmental policies that comprise waste treatment, energy saving and transportation of its own staff.
Oslo Gardermoen has already exceeded its original design capacity of 17 million passengers per year and expansion plans including a second terminal or a third runway have been advanced. In response to the success of their rail service, in 2007 Flytoget announced an order with Bombardier Transportation to supply an extra coach for each of the BM71 units, scheduled for delivery from 2008.
On a broader front, high-speed rail in Norway beyond its sole representation on the Oslo Gardermoen rail link is under consideration.
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TIOGA COUNTY, N.Y. -- Sixth graders from Tioga County rocketed out of the classroom and into space Thursday. The students attended Lockheed Martin's annual Space Day at the Kopernik Observatory and Science Education Center.
The students took part in numerous hands-on activities like a model rocket launch, a 3D space tour and a telescope tour in the observatory.
The ultimate goal of the field trip is to foster the student's interest in math and science education.
"It's important for us as Lockheed to really encourage kids in the area of science and technology and what we've learned is that you can't mandate that, you really have to inspire it, so we do events like this to get them exposure, to get them hands on and see that space is a big scary place but you can learn about it and find some things you might want to do in the future," said Ron Crawford, Lockheed Martin manager.
Lockheed Martin has sponsored Space Day since 1997.
Time Warner Cable is the parent company of YNN and we are committed to the Connect a Million Minds program, inspiring youth to develop science, technology, engineering and math skills. For more information on the initiative, go to connectamillionminds.com.
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This information is produced and provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The information in this topic may have changed since it was written. For the most current information, contact the National Cancer Institute via the Internet web site at http://cancer.gov or call 1-800-4-CANCER.
Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer in a group or population is lowered. Hopefully, this will lower the number of deaths caused by cancer.
To prevent new cancers from starting, scientists look at risk factors and protective factors. Anything that increases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer risk factor; anything that decreases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer protective factor.
Some risk factors for cancer can be avoided, but many cannot. For example, both smoking and inheriting certain genes are risk factors for some types of cancer, but only smoking can be avoided. Regular exercise and a healthy diet may be protective factors for some types of cancer. Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may lower your risk but it does not mean that you will not get cancer.
Different ways to prevent cancer are being studied, including:
Breast cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the breast.
The breast is made up of lobes and ducts . Each breast has 15 to 20 sections called lobes, which have many smaller sections called lobules. Lobules end in dozens of tiny bulbs that can produce milk. The lobes, lobules, and bulbs are linked by thin tubes called ducts.
Anatomy of the female breast. The nipple and areola are shown on the outside of the breast. The lymph nodes, lobes, lobules, ducts, and other parts of the inside of the breast are also shown.
Each breast also has blood vessels and lymph vessels . The lymph vessels carry an almost colorless fluid called lymph . Lymph vessels lead to organs called lymph nodes . Lymph nodes are small bean-shaped structures that are found throughout the body. They filter lymph and store white blood cells that help fight infection and disease. Clusters of lymph nodes are found near the breast in the axilla (under the arm), above the collarbone, and in the chest.
See the following PDQ summaries for more information about breast cancer:
Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer in American women.
Women in the United States get breast cancer more than any other type of cancer except skin cancer . The number of new cases of breast cancer has stayed about the same since 2003. Breast cancer is second to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in American women. However, deaths from breast cancer have decreased a little bit every year for the past several years. Breast cancer also occurs in men, but the number of new cases is small.
Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may help prevent cancer.
Avoiding cancer risk factors such as smoking, being overweight , and lack of exercise may help prevent certain cancers. Increasing protective factors such as quitting smoking, eating a healthy diet, and exercising may also help prevent some cancers. Talk to your doctor or other health care professional about how you might lower your risk of cancer.
NCI's Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool uses a woman's risk factors to estimate her risk for breast cancer during the next five years and up to age 90. This online tool is meant to be used by a health care provider. For more information on breast cancer risk, call 1-800-4-CANCER.
The following risk factors may increase the risk of breast cancer:
Endogenous estrogen is a hormone made by the body. It helps the body develop and maintain female sex characteristics. Being exposed to estrogen over a long time may increase the risk of breast cancer . Estrogen levels are highest during the years a woman is menstruating. A woman's exposure to estrogen is increased in the following ways:
Hormone replacement therapy/Hormone therapy
Hormones that are made outside the body, in a laboratory, are called exogenous hormones. Estrogen, progestin , or both may be given to replace the estrogen no longer produced by the ovaries in postmenopausal women or women who have had their ovaries removed. This is called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or hormone therapy (HT) and may be given in one of the following ways:
Exposure to Radiation
Radiation therapy to the chest for the treatment of cancers increases the risk of breast cancer, starting 10 years after treatment and lasting for a lifetime. The risk of developing breast cancer depends on the dose of radiation and the age at which it is given. The risk is highest if radiation treatment was used during puberty . For example, radiation therapy used to treat Hodgkin disease by age 16, especially radiation to the chest and neck, increases the risk of breast cancer.
Radiation therapy to treat cancer in one breast does not appear to increase the risk of developing cancer in the other breast.
For women who are at risk of breast cancer due to inherited changes in the BRCA1 andBRCA2genes , exposure to radiation, such as that from chest x-rays , may further increase the risk of breast cancer, especially in women who were x-rayed before 20 years of age.
Obesity increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have not used hormone replacement therapy.
Drinking alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer. The level of risk rises as the amount of alcohol consumed rises.
Women who have inherited certain changes in the BRCA1 and BRCA2genes have a higher risk of breast cancer, and the breast cancer may develop at a younger age.
The following protective factors may decrease the risk of breast cancer:
Exercising four or more hours a week may decrease hormone levels and help lower breast cancer risk. The effect of exercise on breast cancer risk may be greatest in premenopausal women of normal or low weight. Care should be taken to exercise safely, because exercise carries the risk of injury to bones and muscles.
Estrogen (decreased exposure)
Decreasing the length of time a woman's breast tissue is exposed to estrogen may help prevent breast cancer. Exposure to estrogen is reduced in the following ways:
Selective estrogen receptor modulators
Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) are drugs that act like estrogen on some tissues in the body, but block the effect of estrogen on other tissues. Tamoxifen is a SERM that belongs to the family of drugs called antiestrogens. Antiestrogens block the effects of the hormone estrogen in the body. Tamoxifen lowers the risk of breast cancer in women who are at high risk for the disease. This effect lasts for several years after drug treatment is stopped.
Taking tamoxifen increases the risk of developing other serious conditions, including endometrial cancer , stroke , cataracts , and blood clots , especially in the lungs and legs. The risk of developing these conditions increases with age. Women younger than 50 years who have a high risk of breast cancer may benefit the most from taking tamoxifen. Talk with your doctor about the risks and benefits of taking this drug.
Raloxifene is another SERM that helps prevent breast cancer. In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (decreased bone density), raloxifene lowers the risk of breast cancer for women at both high risk and low risk of developing the disease. It is not known if raloxifene would have the same effect in women who do not have osteoporosis. Like tamoxifen, raloxifene may increase the risk of blood clots, especially in the lungs and legs, but does not appear to increase the risk of endometrial cancer.
Other SERMs are being studied in clinical trials.
Aromatase inhibitors lower the risk of new breast cancers in postmenopausal women with a history of breast cancer. In postmenopausal women, taking aromatase inhibitors decreases the amount of estrogen made by the body. Before menopause, estrogen is made by the ovaries and other tissues in a woman's body, including the brain, fat tissue, and skin. After menopause, the ovaries stop making estrogen, but the other tissues do not. Aromatase inhibitors block the action of an enzyme called aromatase, which is used to make all of the body's estrogen. Possible harms from taking aromatase inhibitors include osteoporosis and effects on brain function (such as talking, learning, and memory).
Some women who have a high risk of breast cancer may choose to have a prophylactic mastectomy (the removal of both breasts when there are no signs of cancer). The risk of breast cancer is lowered in these women. However, it is very important to have a cancer risk assessment and counseling about all options for possible prevention before making this decision. In some women, prophylactic mastectomy may cause anxiety , depression , and concerns about body image.
Some women who have a high risk of breast cancer may choose to have a prophylactic oophorectomy (the removal of both ovaries when there are no signs of cancer). This decreases the amount of estrogen made by the body and lowers the risk of breast cancer. However, it is very important to have a cancer risk assessment and counseling before making this decision. The sudden drop in estrogen levels may cause the onset of symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes , trouble sleeping, anxiety, and depression. Long-term effects include decreased sex drive, vaginal dryness, and decreased bone density. These symptoms vary greatly among women.
Fenretinide is a type of vitamin A called a retinoid . When given to premenopausal women who have a history of breast cancer, fenretinide may lower the risk of forming a new breast cancer. Taken over time, fenretinide may cause night blindness and skin disorders . Women must avoid pregnancy while taking this drug because it could harm a developing fetus.
The following have been proven not to be risk factors for breast cancer or their effects on breast cancer risk are not known:
There does not appear to be a link between abortion and breast cancer.
Taking oral contraceptives ("the pill") may slightly increase the risk of breast cancer in current users. This risk decreases over time. The most commonly used oral contraceptive contains estrogen.
Progestin-only contraceptives that are injected or implanted do not appear to increase the risk of breast cancer.
Studies have not proven that being exposed to certain substances in the environment (such as chemicals, metals, dust, and pollution) increases the risk of breast cancer.
Diet is being studied as a risk factor for breast cancer. It is not proven that a diet low in fat or high in fruits and vegetables will prevent breast cancer. For more information on diet and health, see the Fruits and Veggies website.
Active and passive cigarette smoking
It has not been proven that either active cigarette smoking or passive smoking (inhaling secondhand smoke) increases the risk of developing breast cancer.
Studies have not found that taking statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) affects the risk of breast cancer.
Cancer prevention clinical trials are used to study ways to prevent cancer.
Cancer prevention clinical trials are used to study ways to lower the risk of developing certain types of cancer. Some cancer prevention trials are conducted with healthy people who have not had cancer but who have an increased risk for cancer. Other prevention trials are conducted with people who have had cancer and are trying to prevent another cancer of the same type or to lower their chance of developing a new type of cancer. Other trials are done with healthy volunteers who are not known to have any risk factors for cancer.
The purpose of some cancer prevention clinical trials is to find out whether actions people take can prevent cancer. These may include exercising more or quitting smoking or taking certain medicines , vitamins , minerals , or food supplements.
New ways to prevent breast cancer are being studied in clinical trials.
Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. Information about clinical trials can be found in the Clinical Trials section of the NCI Web site. Check NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry for breast cancer prevention trials that are now accepting patients.
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First, I want to be very clear about something: I have no idea whether the Los Angeles region in the future will want to bid on hosting the Olympic Games. It’s a big decision involving a lot of money and many cities across the globe have wrestled with the question — which I don’t think has been definitively answered — of whether the Games are worth pursuing, although London seems pretty happy with its Games right now.
That said, it’s hard to ignore Los Angeles’ rich history with the Olympics and the appeal of the Games. The region hosted the Summer Games in 1932 and 1984 and pursued the 2016 games, although Chicago was eventually chosen to represent the United States in the bidding process (and lost out badly to Rio de Janeiro). UPDATE: Los Angeles has been chosen as the host for the 2015 Special Olympics Summer games, the first time in 16 years the event will be held in the United States.
What I think is interesting is that with or without a future Olympics, the transit landscape in Los Angeles County will be noticeably different the next time the Games may land here. The earliest possible date would be 2024, given that the United States Olympic Committee, citing financial reasons, has said it won’t bid for the 2020 Summer Games or 2022 Winter Games. (The finalists for 2020 are Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo).
The 1984 Games here were widely considered successful; please see this excellent post on the Metro Library’s Primary Resources blog. At that time, there was no Metro Rail nor was there Metrolink. Traffic was a major, major worry in the run-up to the games although regional gridlock did not come to pass. Buses successfully ferried people to and from events and many residents and businesses altered their commuting hours to avoid traffic. It was a team win similar, I think, to last year’s non-Carmageddon.
Consider everything that has changed since 1984.
We have four big sports venues now that didn’t exist in 1984 — Staples Center, the Galen Center at USC, the Honda Center in Anaheim and the Home Depot Center in Carson. Staples Center is adjacent to the Blue and Expo lines and near the Red/Purple lines, the Galen Center is next to the Expo Line and the Honda Center is a short walk from the Metrolink and Amtrak station in Anaheim. The Home Depot Center is along some bus lines.
And while I have no idea if the same venues used in 1984 would be used in the future, some of those are now better situated transit-wise than they were in 1984 — most notably the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the swimming stadium and the Sports Arena, all located in Expo Park and a short walk to three Expo Line stations. The Rose Bowl is a short shuttle bus ride away from the Gold Line in Pasadena. The Long Beach Convention Center (fencing) and marina (sailing) are near the Blue Line. Weingart Stadium at East Los Angeles College, used for field hockey in 1984, is about a mile walk or drive from the Gold Line’s Atlantic Station.
Other 1984 venues will be near future transit lines. Santa Anita Park — which hosted some equestrian events — will be a short ride from the Gold Line’s future Arcadia station, scheduled to open in 2015. The Forum is about a mile walk from the future Florence/La Brea station on the Crenshaw/LAX Line, which is scheduled for a 2018 opening. Pauley Paviion and the tennis center at UCLA are about a mile from the Rapid Bus on Wilshire Boulevard, which should have new peak hour bus lanes by 2015. If funding is found to accelerate subway construction, the Westside Subway Extension could reach Westwood by 2024. The LAX Metro Connector project proposes to build a transit connection to LAX — the type of transit (bus, light rail or people mover) and year of completion likely depends on funding and whether Measure R is accelerated.
Let’s be real. The International Olympic Committee is a political beast — as should be expected. No one really knows exactly what makes a winning bid, but based on the past it seems the IOC values (in no particular order) photogenic places, novelty, climate, infrastructure improvements (read: spectacular and/or gaudy architecture) and, undeniably most important, the prospect for a safe and secure Olympic Games.
Los Angeles is hardly the only American city that has pursued an Olympic Games or made noise about doing it in recent years. There has been talk from Dallas, New York, Chicago and Denver (for the Winter Olympics). Dallas and Denver are both in transit expansion mode, New York is adding to its largest-in-America subway system and Chicago, of course, has one of the largest rail networks in the U.S. It’s also worth noting that many cities throughout the world and here in the U.S. have leveraged the Olympic Games for infrastructure purposes. In 1984, for example, the Tom Bradley International Terminal was opened at LAX as a part of the preparation for the Games. Certainly that’s not a reason to pursue an Olympic bid but something to consider if the bid is successful.
The transit improvements being made in Los Angeles will pay off in a lot of ways — mostly for everyday people living here who need to travel throughout the region. The side benefit is that it will allow the region to confidently bid for the big events along with the world’s other major cities, including the biggest event of them all, the Olympic Games.
What do you think, Source readers? You want the Olympics back? Do you think the region could pull it off? Or would you rather see the Games land elsewhere in the U.S. or world? In keeping with Olympic spirit, please sprint in orderly fashion to the comment board.
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Marching also encourages and promotes physical fitness. "Because it's an exaggerated movement, it uses more of the child's own weight than does walking, which means it promotes muscular strength, one of the five health-related fitness factors," Pica says. "And if it's a lively bout of marching (lasting for several minutes), it can also promote cardiovascular endurance, another of the fitness factors."
Pica suggests practicing marching in place, then challenging your child to see how high he can lift his knees and swing his arms. "While marching, turn in one direction and then the other," she says. "Pretend to play a musical instrument typically found in a marching band, like a slide trombone, or cymbals. And, of course, you can put on a recording of a march, or break out the pots and pans and hold a parade around the house or yard. It doesn't matter if it's only a two-person parade!"
Clark offers these five activities:
- Make your own marching streamers. Let your child help you glue two paper plates together so they are sturdy. Cut a hole out of the center, creating a doughnut shape. Let your child glue or tape ribbon, crepe paper, or strips of paper to the paper plate. Your toddler can wave the streamer as he or she marches.
- Play some Sousa marches or other loud music. Have your child march around the room. When the music stops, your child "freezes" in place. When the music begins again, your child continues marching.
- Here's a great way for parents to relax while toddlers march. Simply sit in a chair and tell your toddler, "Can you march to the refrigerator?" After they reach the refrigerator say, "Now I'd like to see you march to the TV room and touch the green chair." Your child marches all over the house while you get a few minutes to rest your feet!
- Try going outside and marching around the neighborhood. Your toddler exerts extra effort and might just take a nap. While you're outside, incorporate some learning activities. Say something like, "Let's walk to the mailbox." "Now let's march to the blue car." "Time to walk to the street light." Continue to alternate walking and marching, which helps your child develop listening skills.
- Find an area that has some space to move. Play a game of follow-the-leader, where you march and your child follows you. Try marching with your hands on your head, march while crouching down low and march sideways. Then let your child be the leader.
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The Get Tested campaign is, in a way, the carrot to the stick that was DA leader Helen Zille wanting to charge men who knowingly have unprotected sex with multiple partners with attempted murder – a suggestion that even the sole researcher whose work Zille relied on described as “human rights abuses that and must be totally off the menu.”
As with Zille’s stick, the carrot comes from a valid place. HIV testing targets are not being reached and far too few people know their HIV status or are getting tested at least twice a year as recommended. Because of this, President Jacob Zuma and health minister Aaron Motsoaledi last year launched the HIV and counselling and testing (HCT) campaign, billed as the world’s most ambitious HIV testing campaign. If you recall, it was at the campaign’s launch on 26 April where Zuma announced to the nation his HIV status after he’d undergone a public test a couple of weeks earlier.
The HCT campaign aimed to counsel and test 15 million South Africans for HIV and other chronic diseases by June 2011. At its conclusion, just over 14 million people had undergone counselling, but only 12 million of those were tested. By March, Western Cape had tested 770,000 of the targeted 1 million.
The target was always over-ambitious so 80% isn’t that bad. Sindisiwe van Zyl, a doctor in the project, knows words could never explain the seriousness of the HIV pandemic in our country. “People are dying needlessly. We need people to test for HIV. Once you know your status, you can make decisions about your life,” she said, vouching for the efficacy of anti-retroviral treatment, but says the only way for people to access it is to get tested.
In a statement linking her Get Tested campaign to the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children, Zille set out the impact of HIV and Aids on women and children. This included StatsSA’s 2008 general household survey that estimated that there were around 100,000 children living in approximately 56,000 child-headed households. The inclusion of this statistic suggests Zille is presenting HIV as a primary cause of child-headed households when, according to research by the UCT Children’s Institute, the vast majority of child-headed households have at least one living parent, indicating some other primary cause for the statistic. But it would be nitpicking to harp on this.
“Often women and young girls become infected as a result of being coerced into having unprotected sex with men who are ignorant of their HIV-positive status and who believe it is their right to have inter-generational sex with multiple concurrent partners. This is violence against women and young girls,” she said.
Echoing Van Zyl’s argument, Zille said the starting point to ending this violence is for everyone to get tested, know their HIV status and take necessary steps to prevent the spread of the virus. Any person who receives counselling and gets tested at any of the Western Cape provincial government testing stations between 25 November and 10 December will be entered into the draw to win a R50,000 prize or one of five R10,000 prizes. The prize money comes from the premier’s budget for the 16 Days campaign.
Constitutional law professor Pierre de Vos asked, in his reply to Zille’s idea to criminalise intentional HIV transmission, “It is unclear whether Premier Helen Zille relied on advisors before making truly astonishing statements about the criminalisation of sex or whether she came up with her hare-brained scheme all by herself.”
As was the case then, so the case is now. Zille did indeed rely on advisors. Massachusetts-based consultancy firm Ideas42 – which draws its name from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s answer to the “great question of life” – held workshops with the Western Cape provincial government where they presented some new, novel approaches to healthcare.
This isn’t the first time a provincial department has gone this route. Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, a Chicago-based firm, working for the Gauteng provincial department, used a combination of education, clinics, online services and mobile phone reminders to get diabetic patients to follow their doctors’ advice. According to Diamond, this immediately reduced missed appointments from 70% to 30%.
So to be fair, this may not be as much of a misstep on Zille’s part as it is a stumble into a nascent, fast-changing world of behavioural economics and its application to health and healthcare. And Zille recognises this. Her spokesman, Zak Mbhele, said, “We want to fully accept and appreciate that there are things that are unknown and unpredictable, and comparisons [given that this is the application principles learnt elsewhere to the healthcare sector] are difficult to make.”
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania perhaps summed it up best, “The idea is that many people are irrational in predictable ways, and that this both contributes to unhealthy behaviours, like smoking, and holds one of the keys to changing those behaviours. Because healthcare costs continue to increase and a substantial portion of costs are incurred because of unhealthy behaviours, employers and insurers have great interest in using financial incentives to change behaviours.”
A Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa paper on how social and behavioural interventions are integral to fight Aids argues that, while clinical methods (male circumcision, post-exposure prophylaxis and prevention of mother-to-child transmission) are important, HIV communication programmes in South Africa have had measurable results despite working from smaller budgets.
HIV (and other social and behavioural) communication programmes, by changing behaviour and pre-determinants to behaviour, aim to tackle specific aspects of knowledge, motivation, attitudes, norms or behaviours in a way that will have a knock-on effect by reducing new infections, argues the paper.
The Get Tested campaign, which at this stage is a pilot, deals mainly with the motivation aspect. It takes the view, as the Leonard Davis Institute put it, that financial incentives will change behaviours.
But the problem is that the science on which this is based, namely behavioural economics, is engaged in an internal war of sorts over what actually motivates people to change behaviour.
“If you look at the science of how we motivate people, it is built entirely around these extrinsic motivators, around carrots and sticks,” said author Daniel Pink during his presentation at TED on the science of motivation.
Carrots and sticks were fine for many 20th century tasks, but for 21st century ones, the mechanistic reward-and-punishment approach often doesn’t work, says Pink.
He says – expressing what is viewed as “radical” in the field – contingent “if-then” motivators work well for tasks where there is a clear set of rules and a clear destination. But for complex problems where tasks and the destination are unclear – Pink uses Dunker’s candle problem to illustrate – “if-then” rewards can even do harm.
So what harm could come of a campaign like Get Tested’s tacking a complex problem like HIV testing? For one thing, it sends the unintentional message that HIV testing, something which is an incentive in itself, is so abnormal and exceptional a behaviour that those who get tested are entitled to a reward. It may be true in South Africa that the behaviour is not the norm, but this approach switches the emphasis of the importance of getting tested from health to monetary benefits.
Mbhele says this was considered, but given the proportions of the crisis faced, greater importance was placed on getting people into clinics and getting them there now. He argued there exists a gulf between people’s health desires (being fit, quitting smoking, etc.) and where they are currently. The incentive, which is more about its immediacy rather than the size or amount, helps bridge that gulf.
Which leads to another problem. Get Tested is likely neither sustainable nor will it get to the root of behaviour.
Pink again, using the example of a study into the motivational effect of cash bonuses, says the incentive might achieve the desired result, but “all these lovely results disappeared when the incentive programme was taken away. Or, as the researchers put it: these effects did not survive after the intervention was stopped at the end of our experiment.”
Get Tested might instantly increase the number of people getting tested, but as soon as the financial incentive falls away, the numbers will fall. Without understating the effects of the counselling that comes with the testing, the individuals who participated likely did not internalise the importance of HIV screening, which meant that as soon as the incentive was taken away, they stopped getting tested regularly and, worse, the behaviour and pre-determinants of behaviour that spread HIV remained unaddressed, especially for those who tested negative.
But Get Tested is part of the provincial government's longer-term strategy to reduce the burden of disease in Western Cape through increasing wellness and disease prevention, Zille said. The longer-term strategy will be contained in the provincial department of health’s “Vision 2020” plan, which is under development.
Could Get Tested be repeated twice yearly indefinitely? Could the same approach be applied to other social issues with behavioural underpinnings, like drunk driving, gangsterism and teen pregnancies? Maybe, says Mbhele. It depends on the results of the pilot.
“We need to inculcate a mindset of personal responsibility when it comes to HIV/Aids and, in particular, the spread of the virus. There is nothing ‘uncompassionate’ about society requiring individuals to take personal responsibility for their health,” Zille said.
So given this sentiment, her ready appetite for extrinsic motivators – cold, hard cash, jail time, carrots and sticks – perhaps illustrates again the conundrum the party of liberals she leads faces. Core to the philosophy, whether in the classical or the newer social form, is individuals thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for their own actions. With Get Tested, compulsory HIV testing and criminalising sex, Zille is trying to achieve individual thought and responsibility by taking away thought and usurping responsibility.
Said another way, one which she might better understand, you can lead an entitlement horse to water and it may drink alright. But you’ll have to lead that entitlement horse right back to water again the next time it is thirsty. DM
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On a July night in 1979, a small group of men opened the doors to a room at the Plummer Park Community Center in Los Angeles (now West Hollywood) and waited and wondered if anybody would show up. They had posted flyers around the neighborhood announcing the formation of a new gay chorus and this night was to be its first rehearsal. To their great surprise, 99 men appeared and a chorus was born. Within three months of that rehearsal, founding director Harold Kjellberg led the group through its first major event: the March on Washington, D.C. and the first national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) concert at the Washington Memorial.
While public understanding of gay life has evolved much since 1979, there is still fierce resistance to lasting change by opponents to LGBT equality. And the road to today has not always been easy. Through the height of the AIDS crisis, the Chorus lost over 150 members. Only 12 original members remain. As a result, GMCLA has a deep history of service within the LGBT community, singing at countless memorials, making and commissioning music that helps the community to mourn, to celebrate, to dream, and to prepare for victory.
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TERMINATION OF LEASE AGREEMENT & GUIDE
Dos and Don’ts Checklist
Termination of Lease Agreement Instructions
Sample Termination of Lease Agreement
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The end of a lease is as important as its beginning. A change in business climate or in the parties’ goals
may signal that it’s time to terminate the arrangement and release the parties from their duties. A clean
break will provide peace of mind, discharge obligations, and lead to an amicable conclusion.
A termination is the definitive end of the parties’ commitments under the lease. If well-drafted, it can
help prevent future misunderstandings and disputes. Although no document can insulate you from later
lawsuits or claims, a clear termination and release can strengthen your defense if these claims arise.
The termination of a lease is not the end of a relationship: it may open avenues of discussion with the
other party that might otherwise have been closed. You can review the successes and failures of the
arrangement, and lay the groundwork for future agreements and interactions. Your evaluation of each
party’s performance gives a better understanding of what will be required on termination and can help
both of you in your future dealings.
2. Dos & Don’ts Checklist
A landlord and tenant can agree to end a lease arrangement at any time. If you have a written lease,
you must also have a written termination of that lease. Even if you don’t have a written lease,
putting the termination in writing protects both parties. The document should specify the date on
which all of the lease obligations will end and the date on which the tenant will leave the premises.
To be valid, it must also be signed by both parties.
A tenant can almost always break its lease, even if the landlord states otherwise. An old tenant
may be required to pay rent until a new tenant is found, but it will not remain responsible for the
If you are a landlord, make sure your procedures for early lease termination are clear and consistent.
Consider drafting a procedures manual to use on your properties, and apply its terms equally among
your tenants. Failure to do so could result in charges of discrimination and later lawsuits.
Your lease may require the tenant to pay for early termination of the lease. However, this amount
can’t be more than the “actual and reasonable loss” that a landlord would experience because of
the termination (e.g., lost rent, advertising costs, etc.). If the tenant pays a fee to terminate the
lease and the property is rented immediately after at no cost to the landlord, the tenant is entitled to
have that entire fee refunded.
Be clear in your agreement about when and how money is being transferred. There are several
options provided in the enclosed document, and you and the other party should discuss which
best applies to your arrangement. To make sure there is a clean break with no misunderstanding,
address issues of the security deposit, last month’s rent, and other monetary sums before signing
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Make sure you and the other party have both performed all of your contractual duties before signing
a termination: once the termination is signed, your original lease is void. Review the lease and make
a list of each party’s obligations and rights under it. Take a moment to ensure that both of you have
done everything you were supposed to do.
Allow each party to spend time reviewing both the lease and the termination. This will reduce the
likelihood, or at least the efficacy, of a claim that a party did not understand any terms or how those
might affect their rights and obligations.
Both parties should review the termination carefully to ensure that all relevant deal points have
been included. It is better to be over-inclusive than under-inclusive. Do not assume that certain
expectations or terms are agreed to if they are not stated expressly on the document.
The terms of your original lease are still in effect, so make sure both parties continue to perform
their obligations under that agreement until the termination is completed and signed.
Sign at least two copies of the termination, one for you and one for the other party.
Keep your copy of the signed termination with the lease. Once the termination has been drafted
and signed, it is the concluding part of that agreement and should be treated accordingly.
Depending on the nature of its terms, you may decide to have your termination witnessed or
notarized. This will limit later challenges to the validity of a party’s signature.
If the lease or the conditions of your termination are complicated, do not use the enclosed form.
Contact an attorney to help you draft a document that will meet your specific needs.
3. Termination of Lease Agreement Instructions
The following provision-by-provision instructions will help you understand the terms of your termination.
The numbers below (e.g., Section 1, Section 2, etc.) correspond to the provisions in the agreement.
Please review the entire document before starting the step-by-step process.
• Introduction. Identifies the document as the termination of an existing lease. Write in the Parties
and the date on which you want the termination to be effective. The Parties must be the same as
those who signed the original Lease (unless one of the new signers is a representative of the same
company that signed originally) and should have the same designations as well (i.e., the Landlord is
still the Landlord, the Tenant is still the Tenant).
• Recitals. Identifies the document as the termination of an existing Lease and explains where your
right to terminate the Lease comes from. Put in the effective date of the Lease and the section (or
paragraph) number of the Lease that gives you the right to terminate it. The title of this section is
usually “Termination” or “Term and Termination.” Note that the recitals require you to attach a signed
copy of the Lease as an exhibit.
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There is a bracketed phrase in the sentence that begins “Now, therefore….” Include this phrase if
you and the other Party have agreed that the Tenant will pay money to the Landlord as part of the
termination process. There will be additional information about this possibility below.
• Section 1: Termination. Explains that both Parties want to end the Lease. This section also
states that if there are ongoing obligations under the Lease (e.g., a duty to protect the other Party’s
confidential information), those obligations will not stop because of the termination.
• Section 2: Compliance with Obligations or Termination Fee. There are two options
provided here, and you should select the one that best suits your arrangement. Delete the paragraph
you do not choose. Note that you will need to change the title of this section depending on which
option you pick.
The first (titled “Compliance with Obligations”) states that even after the Termination is signed, the
Tenant will be responsible for rent or other obligations that arose before the Termination Date. If there
are charges against the Premises that date back to before the Termination Date, the Tenant will be
responsible for those as well.
The second option (titled “Termination Fee”) provides for a one-time payment of a specific amount
to pay off all of the Tenant’s remaining (and future) obligations relating to the Lease or the Premises.
Enter the amount of the payment that will be made by the Tenant. The last bracketed part of this
paragraph is optional, and states that if the Tenant stays on the Premises after the Termination Date,
it will be responsible for additional rent for that time period. In other words, the one-time payment
would not be enough to cover this extra tenancy. Delete this phrase if it does not suit your agreement.
• Section 3: Yield Up. The Tenant’s promise to be off of the Premises by the Termination Date
and to leave the Premises in the condition required by the Lease. The last phrase of the section
is bracketed, and may need to be changed depending on the your Lease. Review your Lease’s
provisions: do they say anything about how the property must be returned (e.g., “broom clean
condition,” etc.)? If so, you can copy that language into this section to reiterate the Tenant’s obligation.
• Section 4: Security Deposit. Describes what will be done with the Tenant’s security deposit.
There are two options provided. The first should only be selected if you chose the second option in
Section 2 (i.e., “Termination Fee”). This provides that the amount of the original security deposit under
the Lease will be subtracted from the total amount the Tenant owes as a termination fee. In other
words, the Tenant will have to pay a lesser fee based on the money it already paid.
The second option is more general, and indicates that the security deposit will be returned as set out
in the Lease and the law generally. Review the terms of your Lease for additional information about
what procedures apply.
• Section 5: Mutual Release of Liability. Discharges each Party’s legal responsibility for
obligations in the original Lease. In other words, both Parties agree not to sue each other for any
incomplete duties or money owed. This section has a big impact: you are eliminating your ability
to claim that you are still owed something under the original Lease (and the other Party makes the
equivalent promise). Unfortunately, the inclusion of this provision will not prevent a Party from arguing
that enforceable promises still exist, but it may provide you some protection from these claims.
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There are some optional exceptions in brackets at the end of this section. The Landlord keeps the
right to sue for damages to the Premises that are not immediately visible when the Tenant moves out
and for third party lawsuits brought against the Landlord for the Tenant’s use of the Premises. You can
delete this sentence if you do not want to include these exceptions to the general release.
• Section 6: Knowing Release. Indicates that each Party had the ability to seek attorneys to advise
them about the Termination, and that each is entering into the Termination of its own free will. This
does not mean that either Party has to go see a lawyer before entering the agreement, only that they
had the opportunity to do this.
• (Optional) Section 7: Return of Property. Although it may seem obvious to you that the
Tenant should return the Landlord’s property after the Lease ends, it’s a good idea to spell it out
in the document. This section requires the Tenant to return the Landlord’s property, and makes it
responsible for the condition of that property. Space is provided for you to designate a time frame
within which the property must be sent back. If you remove this section, correct the section numbers
and references in the document.
• Section 8: Tenant’s Representations and Warranties. To make sure there are no
misunderstandings, this section lists the Tenant’s “representations.” In other words, the Tenant is
giving promises to the Landlord and the Landlord is agreeing to the terms of the Termination based on
those promises. More specifically, the Tenant is swearing that it still holds its entire interest under the
Lease. In other words, it swears that it has not assigned or subleased the Premises, or entered into
contracts with third parties that relate to the Premises.
• (Optional) Section 9: Confidential Information. This serves largely as a reminder to the
Parties that confidential information must remain confidential, even after the Termination Date.
Review this section closely to make sure it provides sufficient security for you or your company and
its proprietary information. If you remove this section, correct the section numbers and references in
• (Optional) Section 10: Non-Disparagement. The Parties’ agreement that neither will do or say
anything to damage the other’s commercial reputation. This section is usually relevant only if the lease
being terminated is commercial and not residential. If you remove this section, correct the section
numbers and references in the agreement.
• (Optional) Section 11: Additional Conditions. An optional provision that lets you and the
other Party place conditions on the termination. In other words, either of you can require the other
to complete certain tasks or reach certain goals before the Termination will become effective (e.g.,
professional cleaning of the space, locating a new tenant, etc.). If you remove this section, correct the
section numbers and references in the agreement.
• Section 12: Covenant Not To Sue. Promises that neither Party will bring a lawsuit against the
other for claims specifically released by this Termination. Again, the inclusion of this provision will not
prevent all such lawsuits, but it will provide you some protection from those filings.
• Section 13: Governing Law. Your Lease probably includes a provision that explains what laws will
be used to interpret it (also called a “choice-of-law” provision). However, if it does not, this section 13
lets you choose the law that will control. Note that this is not a venue provision: the included language
will not impact where a potential claim can be brought. Write the applicable state in the blank provided.
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• Section 14: Counterparts/Electronic Signatures. The title of this provision sounds
complicated, but it is simple to explain: it says that even if the Parties sign the Termination in different
locations, or use electronic devices to transmit signatures (e.g., fax machines or computers), all
of the separate pieces will be considered part of the same document. In a modern world where
signing parties are often not in the same city - much less the same room - this provision ensures that
business can be transacted efficiently, without sacrificing the validity of the agreement.
• Section 15: Severability. Protects the terms of the Termination as a whole, even if one part is
later invalidated. For example, if a state law is passed prohibiting choice-of-law provisions, it will not
undo the entire document. Instead, only the section dealing with choice of law would be invalidated,
leaving the remainder of the Termination enforceable.
• Section 16: Entire Agreement. The Parties’ agreement that the Termination they’re signing
(when taken together with the Lease) is “the agreement” about the issues involved. Unfortunately,
the inclusion of this provision will not prevent a Party from arguing that other enforceable promises
exist, but it will provide you some protection from these claims.
• Section 17: Authority. A promise that the Parties signing the Termination have the right and
power to do so.
• Section 18: Headings. Notes that the headings at the beginning of each section are meant to
organize the document, and should not be considered operational parts of the agreement.
• Exhibit A: Lease. Attach a copy of the original Lease to the Termination as Exhibit A.
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With public opinion polls showing the American public fairly evenly split on the issue of same-sex marriage, many social media users last week voiced strong support for those unions. On Twitter and blogs last week, statements backing the right of gay couples to marry outnumbered those opposed by more than 2-to-1-continuing a trend that has surfaced before in social media.
For the week of May 7-11, Obama's comment on May 9 in favor of same-sex marriage was the No. 1 topic on blogs and the No. 3 subject on Twitter, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. An examination of the social media conversation reveals that while the president's pronouncement increased the amount of discussion online, it did not appear to alter the overall level of support.
To gauge the views of those on social media, PEJ used computer technology from the media monitoring firm Crimson Hexagon to identify the tone of the conversation on both Twitter and blogs. The examination included the period from May 6-the day that Vice President Joseph Biden voiced his support on Meet the Press-to May 13, five days after North Carolina voted down gay marriage and four days after Obama's statement. The study was not focused solely on Obama's interview, but rather the views related to gay marriage overall.
On blogs, 40% of the conversation featured positive views of same-sex marriage, compared to 14% that was opposed and 45% that was neutral. The Twitter numbers were very similar-41% was positive, 16% was negative and 43% was neutral.
The conversation in the blogosphere about same sex marriage grew by more than 60% following Obama's statement. In the three days prior to the interview, there was an average of around 2,500 statements a day regarding the issue. From May 9-13, that number jumped to more than 4,200 statements a day.
However, the levels of support did not change much at all. Prior to Obama's interview, 40% of the statements were in favor compared to 16% opposed and 44% neutral. In the later period, those numbers were virtually identical-40% in favor, 14% opposed, and 46% neutral.
On Twitter, the increase in discussion was far greater after Obama's statement, although the tone also remained constant. From May 6-8, there was an average of roughly 120,000 statements on Twitter compared to more than 315,000 from May 9 to 13. In both periods, however, the breakdown of that conversation was identical-41% in favor, 16% opposed and 43% neutral.
Same-sex marriage is a hot-button cultural topic that has sparked conversations on social media numerous times over the past few years. Since PEJ began monitoring social media at the beginning of 2009, there have been nine previous weeks when the subject was among the most discussed on blogs or Twitter.
In the past, the online debate has generally been fueled by an event or court ruling, such as the August 2010 decision by a California judge that Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriages in California, was unconstitutional. For the most part, supporters of same-sex marriage have outnumbered foes, although there was an exception in April 2009, when Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean received significant support for her public statements against same-sex marriage.
One likely reason for the level of online support is the younger demographics of social media users. For example, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 60% of adults using Twitter are 35 years old or younger. At the same time, an April 2012 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows that younger people are more likely than any other age group to support gay marriage. Millennials, people born in 1981 or later, are the generation most likely to support same-sex marriage as 63% are in favor.
Before Obama's Announcement
Several events brought same-sex marriage to the fore in social media even before Obama's announcement. One was the May 6 statement by Biden that he was "comfortable" with the idea of people of the same gender marrying each other. That was followed the next day by a television appearance by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who indicated he also favored legalization of same-sex marriage.
Another was a May 8 vote in North Carolina on Amendment One, a law to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage, civil unions and partnerships. (The measure passed by a 61%-39% margin.)
Supporters of same-sex marriage were cheered by Biden's remarks and voiced their opposition to the North Carolina amendment.
"Vice President supports gay marriage? Good for him for making that statement and backing it up, I am very proud of him!" tweeted Jason Evans.
"I also disagree with the notion that recognizing or legalizing same-sex marriages takes away from the validity of my marriage or threatens it in anyway," shared Emily, a North Carolinian blogger at Beware the Kudzu. "I will be voting against Amendment One this Tuesday."*
A few supporters were hoping that Obama would soon announce that he, too, would support same-sex marriage even though he had publicly opposed the concept.
"Thank you Arne Duncan for your support of Gay Marriage. Please President Obama we need your support," tweeted Chef Art Smith.
"How refreshing would it be to see President Obama set aside political calculation and support gay marriage?" wondered Harvey Freedenberg. "I'm not holding my breath."
But while marriage supporters were in the majority, the opponents spoke out as well.
"I support the [North Carolina] amendment," pronounced Sam Nnadi. "God's definition of marriage in very clear. Any attempt to redefine marriage is a sin."
"In a world where seeking marriage is seeking a community-endorsed way to have sex and bear children, the idea of same-sex marriage is like the idea of a square circle," explained Stephen J. Heaney at The Witherspoon Institute.
A number of Obama's critics focused more on his political positions than the issue itself, and claimed that his stance on the issue was a sign of weakness.
Some highlighted a May 7 article from the Daily Caller, reprinted on the Fox News site, entitled "Obama campaign hits Romney on gay marriage-even though both are against it." Others pointed to an editorial by Philip Klein in The Washington Examiner, also from May 7, called "Obama's marriage cowardice hurts case against Mitt."
After Obama's May 9 Announcement
Although the levels of support for gay marriage did not change after Obama's endorsement of it, the volume of the conversation grew significantly.
Most in the online community cheered the news.
"I'm for gay marriage. If you love somebody you should be allowed to marry them straight, gay whatever :)" tweeted Ayy Dayzers.
"The President made a bold-and I think brilliant move-in coming out in support of gay marriage today," added Lenora Houseworth.
"I have to say I'm really proud of how far my parents & other relatives have come in their tolerance of same-sex marriage," admitted @kissmydaisy.
"For the life of me, I'll never understand why people are so adamantly against Gay marriage. Or why they care. Or why people are so threatened by the very idea of it," declared The World's Beefiest Blog. "The laws of the United States are adjustable exactly because our founders had the foresight to know that times change. They knew that the people writing the laws were human, and could not possibly be expected to be exactly just at all times. They created avenues for course correction."
"So I support gay marriage," wrote a blogger at MoonScape. "And if one 60+ year old woman, brought up in a conservative small town, in a traditional marriage for 40+ years, can come to the conclusion that gay marriage poses no threat to her or to any other straight people who are married, or want to get married....how then can some still be foaming at the mouth?"
Many of those opposing same-sex marriage focused on Obama's motives in changing his position.
"Obama campaigns on gay marriage change, because of there is no hope left for his failed economic change," tweeted Dan Spencer.
"The bottom line on #Obama's flipflop? 1 in every 6 top donors to his campaign ($500K+) are #gay," read the Twitter feed from the National Organization for Marriage.
"Do you really believe his ‘evolving opinion' on the subject was changed because he sat down and thought about it?" asked American Glob. "If you do, I have a bridge to sell you. Obama changed his mind and spoke about it publicly because his base was losing patience with him on the issue and campaign contributions from gay donors were drying up."
Others reasserted their reasons for their opposition.
"I refuse to buck 4000 years of civilization that says marriage is between a man and woman. And now I'm the one who's arrogant?" tweeted Trevin Wax.
"In the Bible homosexuality is unquestionably called sin," noted GuitarWarp. "Seven passages in both the Old and New Testaments label it so and forbid it in any form...Homosexuality is something a loving God forbids. How can this be? He sees the danger even when we can't."
The Rest of the Week's News on Blogs
Elsewhere on blogs last week, two tech stories, an academic controversy and an actor in trouble were the most popular subjects.
The second-biggest story involved new products from Google, a very popular theme on blogs. Last week, Google announced Hangouts on Air for Google+, a way for friends to broadcast their group online conversations. Google also announced improvements for Google+ on mobile devices, and Business Insider reported that Google will clone a key feature of the iPhone for their Android devices that will allow users to connect with others while playing games.
At No. 4 was a blog post by Naomi Schaefer Riley appearing in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The piece included criticisms of dissertations from various black studies programs, saying they were "a collection of left-wing victimization claptrap." Following a strong backlash to the post, Riley was fired because The Chronicle determined the post did not meet their journalistic standards.
And sexual harassment allegations leveled against actor John Travolta were the No. 5 story.
The Rest of the Week's News on Twitter
On Twitter, the week's news was led by pop stars and a lapse of Twitter security.
Two all-male singing groups, Super Junior and One Direction, tied for first last week as videos and tweets from each band drew significant interest.
News that that 55,000 Twitter usernames and passwords were stolen by anonymous hackers was the fourth topic.
And a video promo for the season finale of the television show The Simpsons featuring an appearance by singer Lady Gaga was No. 5.
International political news dominated YouTube last week with the 2012 Mexican presidential election drawing the most attention. Unfortunately for the candidates, it was a former Playboy model working as a production assistant who stole the show during Mexico's first televised presidential debate on May 6.
At the beginning of the debate, Julia Orayen, who posed for a 2008 Mexican edition of Playboy, appeared on stage in a revealing white dress to hand out cards to the four candidates which determined their order of speaking. Her appearance lasted less than 20 seconds, yet ignited social media interest. The conversation grew so rapidly that the word "Orayen" became a trending topic on Twitter.
The Associated Press reported that her name "jockeyed for third and fourth place throughout the day under Twitter's Mexico City trends."
Alfredo Figueroa, director of the Federal Electoral Institute, which was responsible for organizing the debate, issued an apology to the citizens of Mexico and the candidates.
To see the new methodology for how PEJ arrives at the list of most discussed stories in social media, click here.
This special edition of PEJ's New Media Index utilizes computer technology from the media monitoring firm Crimson Hexagon. Based on an examination of more than 61,000 blog posts and 3.9 million tweets, this report goes beyond the normal methodology of PEJ's index to look at the tone of conversation related to same-sex marriage.
Crimson Hexagon is a software platform that identifies statistical patterns in words used in online texts. Researchers enter key terms using Boolean search logic so the software can identify relevant material to analyze. PEJ draws its analysis samples from several million blogs. Then a researcher trains the software to classify documents using examples from those collected posts. Finally, the software classifies the rest of the online content according to the patterns derived during the training.
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Today, more and more Americans are finding value in going green. Not long ago, Christians disregarded the idea of environmental responsibility, thinking it was incompatible with their faith. Today, however, more and more believers are recognizing that environmental stewardship has been part of God's plan since the dawn of Creation. Green, American Style is a guide to going green that proposes a unique perspective taking into account your values, our country's democratic and capitalistic history, and our ingrained resistance to reining in. Offering more than a simple list of ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, Anna Clark explores the green movement from the diverse perspectives of business, faith and lifestyle, while showing you the economic, physical and spiritual benefits of sustainable living.
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The Rev. H.H. Singleton II, former longtime president of the Conway branch of the NAACP and civil rights activist, died Monday morning at Agape Senior assisted living center. He was 80 years old.
Singleton believed in the liberation of humanity, said his son Hank Singleton III.
“He gave a voice to the voiceless,” he said. “His life was his calling and his calling was his life.”
During his lifetime H.H. Singleton argued with officials, sued them, demonstrated against them and challenged public policies throughout Horry County. He faced off against the Horry County School Board, and addressed problems with the Atlantic Beach Bikefest and other issues in the name of equal rights.
Hank Singleton, who is a professor of religion at Benedict College in Columbia, said he knew his father took some unpopular stands during his 80 years, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Part of his calling would be that some people would absolutely love him and some people would absolutely loathe him. But that was his ministerial calling,” he said.
For more than 32 years, H.H. Singleton served as pastor at Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church before he retired in 1997. Palmetto Missionary Baptist Church pastor the Rev. Cheryl Adamson said she remembers when H.H. Singleton joined her church in 1964.
“He was my pastor when I was a little girl,” she said.
Adamson said shortly after H.H. Singleton became senior pastor at Cherry Hill she made the decision to join the church.
“I joined the church on my 13th birthday and he baptized me two weeks later,” she said. “He certainly made an impact on me spiritually and socially. He was a very strong preacher and a very strong advocate of equal rights for all persons.”
The Rev. Dr. James H. Cokley, who has served as pastor at Cherry Hill since April 1998, said it was important to him to continue the work that H.H. Singleton did in and around the church.
“He knew I would continue the effort that he had begun to improve the Conway community,” Cokley said.
H.H. Singleton was a voice for the underprivileged and disenfranchised, said Mickey James, president of the Myrtle Beach branch of the NAACP.
“He is a man beyond measure who is irreplaceable,” James said. “He was a champion for human and civil rights for more than 40 years in Horry County.”
He may be most known for serving as a spokesman for black football players at Conway High School when they decided to boycott the team in 1989 for what they said was racial intolerance.
As a result, H.H. Singleton lost his teaching job at Conway Middle School. He sued the school district over his firing and protesters took to the streets to support both him and the players’ boycott. H.H. Singleton won his case and got his job back.
James said that fight was something he admired most about H.H. Singleton.
“I remember his audacity and courage to stand up in front of the school district when he got terminated,” he said. “It was a very remarkable achievement.”
He said the decision to fight his termination from Horry County Schools spoke to H.H. Singleton’s character.
“It shows a man of high intelligence who is very determined to advocate justice for himself,” James said.
His intellect is something James Dunn said he remembers most about H.H. Singleton. Dunn served on the Horry County School Board when H.H. Singleton was removed from Conway Middle.
“He was probably the most intelligent man I met in Horry County, South Carolina, and I’ve been here almost 30 years,” he said.
In 2003, H.H. Singleton had again received national attention when he initiated two NAACP lawsuits alleging that those who attended the mostly black Atlantic Beach Bikefest were treated differently by governments and businesses than those who attend the mostly white Harley-Davidson rallies.
By 2006, the NAACP had reached settlements with all of the businesses and the city of Myrtle Beach.
Dunn also said he admired H.H. Singleton’s courage, but noted that his friendship – which continued to the present – was with Harry, “not Rev. Singleton.”
“He was compassionate but he’d been pushed around and pushed around and pushed around and he wasn’t going to take it anymore, and he knew how to give it back,” Dunn said. “But I didn’t talk to Rev. Singleton. I talked to Harry. Rev. Singleton didn’t take any crap from anybody. Harry was soft and gentle. He was a very nice person. I loved him.”
Dunn said he visited him as recently as July.
“I’m sad to hear he’s gone. It’s better he’s gone, though, because he was suffering,” he said.
Hank Singleton said his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in summer 2004, shortly after he resigned from the Conway branch of the NAACP. He had been receiving care at Agape since 2009.
H.H. Singleton came to Horry County in 1964 from Marion County to become pastor of Cherry Hill. Two years later he was elected the second president of he Conway branch of the NAACP. He resigned his presidency around 2004, said current Conway branch President Ann Anderson.
H.H. Singleton was born Jan. 29, 1932, in Edgefield County.
His parents and seven siblings lived about a mile from the home of Strom Thurmond, whom his father knew.
His father was a farm foreman and his mother a domestic in the homes of white people. Both were deeply religions and fundamental in their beliefs.
H.H. Singleton was raised in a time when laws were written to keep whites in one place and blacks someplace else, and when there were separate bathrooms and separate drinking fountains for whites and blacks.
In a 2003 interview with The Sun News, he said he began very early in life to
formulate the philosophy that guided him: Mankind cannot move forward until all people deal with each other without the film of race.
He told The Sun News then that most people would be surprised to learn that he thinks all human beings, regardless of their views on race, deserve God’s grace.
“I love everybody irrespectively, even the racist,” he said.
Hank Singleton said he had not yet had time to work on funeral arrangements for his father.
Contact MAYA T. PRABHU at 444-1722 or follow her at Twitter.com/TSN_MPrabhu.
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The Workshop Presentation that Never Was
The BBC African temperature exaggeration is worse that we thought. It also has an IPCC connection.
The BBC now has egg on its face. As Leo Hickman at the Guardian explains, a television show narrated by David Attenborough recently claimed that:
Some parts of the [African] continent have become 3.5C hotter in the past 20 years.
Hickman is no climate skeptic, but even his radar went off. After some investigation he discovered that, in 2006, a collection of pressure groups had published a report titled Africa – Up in smoke 2. It relied on another, 48-page document, titled Climate of Poverty produced by the UK charity, Christian Aid.
This charity believes that the poor “are already suffering disproportionately from the effects of global warming” and that “No other single issue presents such a clear and present danger to the future welfare of the world’s poor.” (See Ben Pile’s brilliant rebuttal of those sorts of arguments here.)
Page 32 of the PDF version of Climate of Poverty contains the following statements:
Kenya is getting warmer. This is confirmed by measurements on the ground. For example, the maximum temperature in Kericho, a highland area in the Rift Valley province where most of Kenya’s tea exports are grown, has increased by 3.5C during the past 20 years.
Readers interested in the source of that claim are directed to endnote #3 of the Kenya chapter. Appearing on page 45 of the PDF, it reads:
S Wandiga, ‘Assessment of the Impact and Adaptation to Climate Change’, AIACC Regional Workshop, Dakar, 23 March 2004.
In other words, the alarming info about temperatures in Kericho came from a presentation made at a workshop. Except that it didn’t.
For starters, the webpage devoted to that 4-day workshop says it hadn’t yet begun on March 23. It says that Shem Wandiga, a professor of chemistry, chaired a session on March 24th, during which other people made presentations. It says the talk he himself delivered three days later had a different title: Community stakeholders’ discussions and workshops in the Lake Victoria Region.
You can read the abstract here and the PowerPoint presentation here. Neither mentions temperatures in Kericho. Instead, this is a discussion about what people in focus groups said about “climate-induced malaria and cholera.”
In other words, the Christian Aid citation is utterly bogus. No presentation by that name was delivered by that person at that workshop.
On page 16 of Wandiga’s CV, under the heading Research Accomplishments, we learn that he was involved in an “Assessment of Impact and Adaptation to Climate Change.” He says he was the
Principal investigator in [a] project called “Capacity building to evaluate and adapt to climate-change-induced vulnerability to malaria and cholera in the Lake Victoria Region.”
That sounds more like social work than chemistry, but never mind.
Yesterday, Christian Aid issued a statement that Hickman has added to the bottom of his account. The charity has now changed its story. It says it got its information about the Kericho temperature rise not from a 2004 workshop but from interviews it conducted with experts who were interpreting research published in 2006. Here’s a direct quote:
The statistic suggesting the maximum temperature in Kericho, Kenya had risen by more than 3 degrees from the year 1978 – 2001 was included in good faith in Christian Aid’s 2006 report The Climate of Poverty.
It was based on interviews with Kenya academics who in turn based their remarks on a peer reviewed report Vulnerability to climate induced highland malaria in East Africa (P7,11 and 41) by Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC), which put the temperature rise at 3.6 degrees.”
Even charities these days won’t acknowledge when they’ve made a mistake. Instead, they blithely substitute a 2006 citation for a fake 2004 citation as if that sort of thing happens every day. No big deal. All in good faith, don’t you know.
Christian Aid now wants us to take the word of unnamed “Kenyan academics” that they’ve interpreted a 2006 “peer reviewed report” correctly. Except that this research has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal. It is a Working Paper. Its publisher, as Christian Aid tells us, is an organization called Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change project (AIACC).
The AIACC is the brainchild of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). One of its stated purposes is to encourage research in developing countries that might eventually be published in peer-reviewed journals.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the AIACC’s About Page, you’ll find a steering committee that includes IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri, the former IPCC chairman Robert Watson, and many other familiar names.
So after citing an imaginary source, Christian Aid now rests its case on research that came into the world via the IPCC.
To recap, then, in 2006 Christian Aid released a report that contained a startling claim about a temperature spike in Kenya. The source it cited was entirely bogus. Nevertheless, the claim got repeated. The Church of Sweden, for example, released a climate change report in 2007 that told us about this temperature spike and directly cited the non-existent 2004 source (see page 12).
Another report, titled Africa – Up in smoke 2, also repeated the claim (see page five). Its lead author, John Magrath of Oxfam, didn’t independently verify the info. He simply assumed that the Christian Aid authors knew what they were talking about.
Later, the temperature claim made it onto page two of a 2009 brochure under the subheading Evidence of climate change in Africa. Those authors didn’t check the facts, either. They used the Africa – Up in Smoke 2 report as their source.
And then the BBC got in on the act. Like the brochure authors, the BBC relied on the Africa – Up in Smoke 2 report even though that document is miles away from being peer-reviewed science.
The fact that Africa – Up in Smoke 2 was written by Oxfam and funded by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the World Wildlife Fund and other pressure groups should have been a warning to BBC personnel.
But it wasn’t. Some lessons, it seems, need to be learned the hard way.
Entry filed under: Greenpeace, IPCC, media, NGOs, peer-review, Rajendra Pachauri, World Wildlife Fund. Tags: AIACC, BBC, Ben Pile, Christian Aid, Climate of Poverty, David Attenborough, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, John Magrath, Leo Hickman, media, Oxfam, Rajendra Pachauri, Robert Watson, Shem Wandiga, World Wildlife Fund, WWF.
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ASEAN, promising market for Chinese firms
"The trade volume between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) increases by 25 percent on average annually, and it means a huge commercial opportunity for enterprises of both sides,” the secretary-general of the China-ASEAN Center Ma Mingqiang said, “As long as Chinese enterprises find their orientations and bring their advantages into effect, they will be able to accomplish much in ASEAN markets.”
"Since the friendly dialogue mechanism was established more than 20 years ago, the trade volume between China and the ASEAN countries has been growing by 25 percent annually, indicating that the products of China and the ASEAN complement each other very much." Ma said that this complementarity is the major force promoting the growth of the bilateral trade.
According to data from the Ministry of Commerce of China, the trade volume between China and the ASEAN reached 362.33 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, setting a new high record and up 24 percent compared to that of 2010. In January of 2012, the ASEAN exceeded Japan for the first time to be the third largest trade partner of China.
Ma said that the force that drives the trade boom between China and the ASEAN comes from four aspects.
First, both China and the ASEAN are having rapid economic developments, and both of them are demanding more from external markets.
Second, the establishment of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area has further released the economic complementarity between China and the ASEAN, and it is a major force driving the bilateral trade to increase.
China needs to import mechanical and electrical products, electronic components, palm oil, rubber and oil and gas from the ASEAN, and the bloc needs to import huge amounts of mechanical and electrical products, daily commodities and textile raw materials. Currently, both sides are important links of the international economic integration and international industrial chain and have found their orientations.
Third, the good political relations and cooperative mechanisms of various levels between China and the ASEAN are reliable political and systemic guarantees for the bilateral trade between the two sides and can make sure the smooth development of the trade.
Fourth, China and the ASEAN connected by both the water way and land way, and the geo-political advantage is a great convenience for the trade between the two sides.
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One week after Superstorm Sandy beat up the Northeast, tearing apart homes and lives in New Jersey, New York and other areas, there's another worry on the horizon: A nor'easter is coming.
Rain is forecast to move in early Wednesday and will gradually become heavier, according to CNN meteorologists. As the day goes on, the weather will get worse, with daytime temperatures hovering in the 40s. At night it could get down to the 20s -- bad news for the 127,000 customers who are still without power, according to Con Edison. Working round the clock, the company said Tuesday that more than 846,000 customers who lost power -- 87% -- have it again.
A nor'easter is a strong low pressure system with powerful northeasterly winds coming from the ocean ahead of a storm. Predicted 60-mph gusts could hurt the already ravaged Jersey Shore. Coastal flooding and beach erosion are possible.
Of course there's a strong concern for everyone's safety, too. Sandy left 110 people dead in the United States, and on its way to the country, it took the lives of 69 people.
"When it rains, it pours. When it storms, you get more storms, I guess," said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Under normal conditions, the nor'easter wouldn't be problematic, he said, but because many areas are still picking up the pieces from last week, it could cause fresh havoc.
On Monday, authorities in Brick, New Jersey, ordered residents in the low-lying waterfront areas of town to leave.
The storm is not another Sandy, and its path and severity could change, according to CNN meteorologists.
"I haven't even really thought about the nor'easter," said Ryan Hanley.
The 27-year-old's chief worry is the home she had to abandon in Wantagh, on New York's Long Island. It's 4 feet deep in water. All her belongings are on the curb.
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MAT1008 Building Professional Nursing Attributes B
Pre-Requisite: Students must be enrolled in the following program: BNUR Co-Requisite: CMS1008
This course provides nursing students with a sound understanding of numeracy and its diverse use in the health profession, including the use of numbers for measuring medications and rates of delivery. The students are also expected: to understand the concepts of ratio and proportion and the use of units; to be able to reliably carry out calculations for medical purposes; and to interpret charts, graphs and tables. Students will also be expected to understand the university learning management system, computer-based communication, management and storage of information, to have good word processing skills and how to create presentations. The course will be closely linked to other courses in the first year nursing program.
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a common problem that bad news travels faster than good news,
and gets treated as more important by us media types. So,
having devoted a number of columns to the mind- bending ways
in which the bankers who trashed the country have been rescued
more quickly and more dramatically than anyone else suffering
the consequences of our collective delusions about the benefits
of unfettered predatory capitalism (yes, that’s right), I
figure it’s only fair to share some small news of just deserts
in the same vein.
To wit: Increasingly, courts are canceling foreclosures because
the banks can’t prove that they own the loans. Bless the gutsy
Legal Aid lawyers who have been spearheading this technique.
The Kansas Supreme Court even upheld a case like this recently.
Sounds like the kind of hellish Kafkaesque thing that usually
happens to individuals up against an implacable bureaucracy,
but in this case the tables are turned.
It can work in a few ways, mostly related to the madcap environment
of slicing and dicing loans into various securities and operating
them through other entities. Sometimes lenders initiate foreclosure
on something they haven’t bought yet. Or just can’t figure
out their own byzantine paper trail.
Also, it appears that to increase profits in the housing bubble’s
sky’s-the-limit frenzy, lenders created an electronic registry
for tracking property transfers.
Now that’s all well and good—I’m for using the power of technology
for better, faster, more transparent record keeping. In fact,
if the philanthropic arms of these companies, back when they
were flush, had embarked on a campaign to help local governments
upgrade and digitize their record- keeping, that would’ve
helped everyone: the lenders who would’ve saved a ton of money
in recording liens and the governments themselves, not to
mention all the communities served by advocates and neighborhood
leaders who could have more accurate information about where
foreclosures were rising and which mortgages might be in trouble
in time to act faster and in a more targeted fashion with
prevention and recovery work.
But of course that’s not what happened. The too-big-to-care
financial institutions merely decided that as long as they
could keep track they didn’t have to, oh, register property
sales at the local level at all. They decided they could supersede
local law because it was annoying.
Given the attitude behind this, I suppose it’s not surprising
that I find it satisfying that some of these lenders are getting
told, “Nope. You didn’t file the paperwork. We have no record
that you own that loan/lien. Get lost.”
Now, I recognize that this satisfaction is only marginally
productive. I recognize that this legal strategy does not
distinguish between helping homeowners who were hoodwinked
and speculators who lied on their paperwork (though hopefully
the latter could be prosecuted for that, along with the brokers
who set them up to do so and the appraisers who collaborated,
And it’s true that I have, in this very space, cautioned against
letting vengeance drive policymaking. I wouldn’t advocate
for every mortgage in the country to just vaporize. But I
am human, and if leveling the legal playing field comes with
a garnish of barbecued chicken-come-home-to-roost, I admit
to finding it tasty.
There is a larger takeaway lesson though to this legal turn
of events. As a former Ayn Rand supporter I know and love
once said: The arguments made against utopian forms of communism
are that they rely on people to be selfless and not game the
system, which is an unreasonable expectation. However, unregulated
capitalism relies on businesspeople/corporate organizations
to do the same thing—an even less likely proposition, given
the larger profits involved and the way large organizations
can distance individuals from the consequences of their actions.
Since I view one of the most difficult fights before us (amazingly,
given the events of the past few years) to be establishing
the principle that unfettered corporate-welfare capitalism
doesn’t actually make for a good, or even efficient and advanced,
society, symbolic acts might actually be fairly useful. Anything
that reminds not only those “businesspeople” who prefer to
pilfer the government rather than conduct their business in
a competitive, customer-driven fashion, but the rest of us,
that businesses of all sizes can and should be subject to
the same kinds of laws and for-the-common-good restrictions
as the rest of us, is a good thing in my book.
Scramble to register those deeds folks. Hey—that even ought
to create a few jobs.
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In honor of Earth Day (tomorrow!) we thought that we would highlight a green company that – to us – exemplifies what an environmentally-friendly consumer product manufacturing company should be.
That would be Full Circle, a company that produces green lifestyle tools that are stylishly designed, functional and made from sustainable, recycled and renewable resources (bamboo, cellulose, organic cotton….). Full Circle lives up to its name, operating under the premise that a product’s lifecycle should be cyclical: “products make from materials that come from the earth can have long, functional lives, and then return from where they come, rather than collection in a landfill.”
To that point, Full Circle estimates, as an example, that there are about 120 million scrub brushes – made of non-degradable plastic materials – that end up in our landfills every year. Yes, that’s just for scrub brushes. Now, let’s scale that to the rest of our everyday cleaning tools and we quickly see that cumulatively, we can start helping our environment by making these little imperceptible switches in our household lifestyle. Yes, let’s replace our everyday mass-manufactured cleaning supplies and tools with something more eco-conscious. It’s so easy and inexpensive and in the end will have great cumulative impact.
Here are some of the Full Circle items that we have particularly fallen for…
|Come Clean Natural Cleaning Set – The eco-friendly kit includes everything you need to make your own NATURAL cleaning solutions so that you can eliminate toxic chemicals from your cleaning routine. The guide book includes recipes to create cleaning products based on kitchen ingredients, to clean every area of your home, even your car. The spray bottles incorporate a lemon juicer, lemon juice being a magnificent provider of fresh scent and disinfecting cleaning power. Available on Alice.com and Amazon.|
|Fresh Air Odor-Free Compost Collector – Why fill our landfills with “wet garbage” (food scraps & yard trimmings) when we could actually be easily transforming this trash to our own benefit: the best and most natural fertilizer for own gardens and yards. That’s a literal “return to the earth”. The countertop Fresh Air Compost Collector, as the name implies, is not an actual composter (you have to do that outdoors), but provides an easy, convenient way to collect compost-worthy scraps. The Fresh Air’s compost collector’s unique design prevents the build-up of liquids and hence the creates less mess, less odor and no flies. We have not found it on sale anywhere, but encourage you to contact the company to motivate them let us all know when & where this will become available.|
|Reach Bottle Brush – We know that using a reusable water bottle is one of the easiest ways for us to behave a little more eco-responsibly. But washing some of those bottles is a pain. Unless you get this super smart brush which reaches deep inside the bottle and will clean both the inside and the outside of the bottle at the same time. A great tool to help us maintain the reusable water bottle habit. Available on Alice.com or Amazon.|
Be green AND clean on Earth Day! Woot!
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Saturday, April 21, 8:00 PM
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
NEW YORK – Miller Theatre’s Early Music series, which regularly presents concerts at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in midtown Manhattan, concluded its season with a concert by the English vocal ensemble Stile Antico. It was the group’s last concert of their Spring American tour, and featured a program that was described from the stage as a “whistle stop tour through the music of the Renaissance.” Indeed, in a single evening the group covered a wide range of repertoire that encompassed the entire chronology of Renaissance polyphony. The program included a number of works that choral music aficionados would consider its chestnuts. These were complemented by less famous, yet still musical engaging, pieces and several works by lesser known composers who seem undeservedly underrepresented on concert programs and recordings.
Two of the latter were Spanish composers Rodrigo de Ceballos and Sebastian de Vivanco, whose Hortus Conclusus and Veni, dilecte mi, stood toe to toe with fellow countryman Tomas Luis de Victoria, despite his representation on the program being the superlative – and superlatively sung – O Magnum Mysterium. Two other Continental standouts were Nicolas Gombert’s Magnificat primi toni and Clemens non Papa’s Egos flos campi. The latter was particularly sumptuous (below, I’ve included a YouTube video of the group performing it in 2008).
Stile Antico excels in their presentation of English Renaissance repertoire, which was abundantly present on the program. Often, composers were represented by two contrasting works, demonstrating their responses to different texts and, during the Tudor era, their differing responses to Catholic and Anglican liturgical settings. Thus, William Byrd’s affirmative Laetentur coeli contrasted with Vigilate, a work that would seem to be a covert nod towards the suffering and tribulations of recusant Catholics during the Elizabethan era. Likewise, Thomas Tallis’ O Sacrum Convivium (another gorgeously blended performance) was later contrasted with Why Fum’th in Fight, one of Eight Tunes from Archbishop Parker’s Psalter (probably best known for its reincarnation in Vaughan Williams’ Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - or, as some of my less astute students recently said, “The theme from Master and Commander). John Sheppard was represented by a single work, but his Lord’s Prayer (with an earlier version of the wording that was quite moving) was another work performed with particular clarity and beauty of tone.
Commissioned for the ensemble, John McCabe’s Woefully Arrayed, a visceral and rhythmically charged Passion motet, was the program’s sole representation of non-Renaissance music, but it indicated theatStile Antico is more than up to the task of assaying challenging and chromatic repertoire. Generally speaking, here and elsewhere, the group’s intonation and diction were superlative. Their approach is faithful to current performance practice research, while embodying an immediacy and effulgent expressivity that is quite stirring. For example, the crisp consonants and tightly interwoven phrases they lent to Byrd’s Vigilate, when compared to the sensuous luxuriance of Stile Antico’s performance of Lassus’ Veni, dilecte mi demonstrated a broad range of approaches that were both imaginative and stylistically faithful. One area in which the ensemble might endeavor to improve is their diction in works with many divisi: some of the texts were difficult to decipher in their performances of Thomas Tomkins’ O Praise the Lord and the concert’s closer Tota pulchra es by Hieronymus Praetorius. But to dwell overlong on these minor infelicities would be hairsplitting: Stile Antico provided a wonderful evening of rousing singing.
They even shared an encore by Thomas Campion – a teaser from their latest CD on Harmonia Mundi, Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart. A collaboration with early music consort Fretwork, the disc is a collection of Tudor and Jacobean music for private devotion. This less formal, and more intimate, repertoire is approached by the groups with refinement, delicacy, and characteristic musicality. Both the CD, and Stile Antico’s next visit to a venue in your area, are wholeheartedly recommended.
Stile Antico performs Clemens:
Here they are on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts series:
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- What is Occupational Therapy?
- How is an Occupational Therapist trained?
- Who pays for services?
- Where does therapy take place?
- What kind of activities does an OT perform?
- How Do I Get Started?
A:Occupational therapy is an allied health profession, working under a medical doctor's orders, in which the therapist is educated to improve a person's occupational performance. A pediatric occupational therapist works with the child and family to improve a child's play, education, or self-care skills, including adaptive equipment and splinting. An occupational therapist will evaluate the child's gross motor, fine motor, sensory integration, visual perceptual and self-care care skills. If the child and family would benefit from occupational therapy, the occupational therapist will recommend treatment and will utilize their knowledge of sensory integration, anatomy, neurology, kinesiology, child development, occupational therapy frames of reference, medical diagnosis and current research to improve the child's occupational performance. Therapy is then provided for the child through their occupation of play.
A: An Occupational Therapist has to have at least a Bachelors Degree in OT from an accredited college. Many OTs have their Master's Degree or PhD in OT. They have to pass the National Certification Exam to be a registered OT. Different states have different laws about being licensed but all must be registered, to use OTR. A COTA, a certified occupational therapy assistant requires a two year associates degree and must work under an OTR at all times.
A: At Prainito Pediatric Therapy, we accept most private insurances, Medicaid, Peachcare for Kids, Amerigroup, Peachstate, Wellcare, Babies Can't Wait and Private Pay. Payment plans are available for private pay clients.
A: All therapy takes place in the child's natural environment, that being home, daycare, preschool or private school setting.
A: All therapy is performed through various mediums of play. Most toys will be familiar to parents but with a therapeutic twist.
A: First call the office and give general information (have ready your insurance information and pediatrician's information). Once an appointment is made for an evaluation, you will be required to fill out paper work (located on the getting started page, that you can download and have ready for when the therapist arrives for the evaluation) and have a copy of the front and back of your insurance card. If a co-pay is required, it will need to be paid at the time of visit. The office will acquire the needed prescription from your doctor and any needed authorization from your insurance.
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Why coal-rich US is seeing record imports: They've jumped from 9 million tons to 30.5 million tons since 1999, as demand grows for low-sulfur coal.
With nearly a quarter of the world's coal supply - enough to last centuries - the United States has been dubbed the 'Saudi Arabia of Coal' by US officials and energy experts.
But thanks to growing global coal markets and clean air regulations, the US is witnessing a latter-day equivalent of 'carrying coals to Newcastle' - a 230 percent leap in coal imports to the US since 1999.
Coal-fired power plants along the Gulf Coast and East Coast have long imported coal by ship in small amounts. But with transportation costs and the price of low-sulfur coal from central Appalachia and Wyoming rising, US demand is soaring for coal from South America and as far away as Indonesia.
Leaping from 9 million tons to 30.5 million tons in the past six years, US coal imports could jump to 40 million tons this year, government analysts say. And that trend is accelerating as demand for low-sulfur coal grows following last year's federal Clean Air Interstate Rule, a mandate for big cuts in sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants in the eastern US.
At the same time, US coal exports are declining sharply. If present trends continue, the US will be a net importer of coal by 2013, according to the Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy. Still, most analysts see little need to worry since vast US reserves mean the US is unlikely to become dependent on overseas coal.
'Its truly an ironic situation with the growth in imports, but in the bigger picture, there's no need to worry' says Richard Bonskowski, a coal analyst at the Energy Information Administration. The US produced more than 1.1 billion tons of coal last year, he says. So the US is importing only 4 percent of US consumption.
The electric power industry consumes more than 90 percent of all coal burned in the United States. Most imported low-sulfur coal comes from Colombia, Venezuela, and even Indonesia. Some US companies like Peabody Energy, of St. Louis, which owns a stake in a Venezuelan mine, and Drummond Coal, of Birmingham, Ala., which operates a Colombian mine are top importers.
Alabama Electric Cooperative, which operates several coal-fired power plants, has long imported some low-sulfur coal from South America. Recently, however, it boosted imports with 220,000 tons from Venezuela.
Tighter air pollution regulations are hiking demand for low-sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. But a spokesman for CPS Energy of San Antonio, says the company imported 150,000 tons of coal from Colombia because of rail delivery problems of the powder-river coal.
South American coal has found its way as far up the East Coast as Salem, Mass., where Dominion Resources, based in Richmond, Va., operates a coal-fired power plant that uses low-sulfur coal to meet emissions goals.
Energy security experts say the rapid rise of coal imports is not a big problem, because many other alternatives exist for power generation. Nuclear energy, natural gas, and domestic coal can all substitute if prices for imported coal rise too high.
That's different from the problem of US oil consumption in which the nation each year consumes about a quarter of the global supply, but has only 3 percent of global reserves, says Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Washington, a think tank focused on energy security issues.
'If we have our back to the wall, we can always fall back on the coal reserves we have here in this country' he email@example.com
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raw "Sunny Delight" squash from our garden.
Why is it so hard for me to stick with what I know is good for me and my family? Quick answer: These are not habits I have followed my entire life.
My point here is not to blame the habits I created in childhood on my parents or grandparents, or school lunches or fast food--it may quite possibly have as much to do with how my brain is programmed--but what I do know is that I need to start creating healthy habits in my children TODAY and EVERY DAY. The more important part of this challenge for me will be sticking with it. I don't want my children thinking it's okay to "give up" on something because it is not easy.
So with renewed conviction, my kids and I will map out a plan this evening that works for our family that includes daily exercise, less convenience food and NO EXCUSES!
I would love to hear how you are working to create life-long healthy habits for your kids. Comment here or visit me at www.facebook.com/foodmommy.
Tools and Resources:
Nourish Interactive - Healthy Habit Goal Tracking Sheets
American Heart Association - Help Children Develop Healthy Habits
Sesame Street - Healthy Habits for Life
Super Healthy Kids - http://blog.superhealthykids.com/
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Reading and Understanding Your Life Insurance Policy
Most people hate the thought of reading a life insurance policy (or any insurance policy, for that matter). However, if you can find the time and muster the patience, it's probably a good idea to read through your policy. If you do, you'll understand your policy better and gain an understanding of your rights and obligations under the contract.
The parts of a life insurance policy
A life insurance policy contains the following parts:
- A cover page that identifies the insurance company and the type of plan, offers your right to return the policy within 21 days if you're not satisfied, and is signed by an insurance company officer.
- A schedule of benefits and specifications page that describes the amount of benefits, the premium and other charges, the insured, the issue date, the policy number, and the premium class (e.g., preferred, standard).
- Tables showing future premium projections or guaranteed cash values, depending on the type of policy.
- A section devoted to definitions of the terms used in the policy.
- A section that explains your rights as an owner. As the owner, you have certain privileges of ownership, including the right to transfer or assign the policy, the right to change the beneficiary, the right to receive the cash value and dividends (if applicable), and the right to borrow against the cash value (again, if applicable).
- A settlement section that includes instructions on how to make a claim and information about the choices your beneficiary has regarding the death benefit.
- Riders (benefits you added to the standard policy) or endorsements (changes to the standard policy), if any, will be attached to the policy along with a copy of your application.
- Policy provisions, which are another important part of your life insurance policy. Despite the lack of a uniform contract, most states have enacted legislation that makes certain policy provisions mandatory, and the commissioner of insurance must approve the final wording adopted by the insurance company. Even if certain provisions are not required by law, competition between companies generally forces them to be very similar. Here are some common provisions to look for when you read your policy.
Most states require that a clause be inserted in your policy stating that the policy and the application attached to it together form the entire contract between you and the insurer. This clause is beneficial to you because if your insurer accuses you of misrepresentation and seeks to void the contract, it's prevented from using other evidence outside of the contract. It can void the contract only if you made false statements on your application.
This provision states that the contract cannot be contested, except for nonpayment of premiums, after the policy has been in force during the insured's lifetime for a period of two years from the date of issue. This provision allows the insured to (eventually) be secure in the fact that the beneficiaries will not have to prove that statements made on the application were true to collect the policy benefits. It also gives the insurance company a period in which it can contest a policy for fraudulent statements made on the application.
Misstatement of age
This is somewhat of an exception to the incontestability provision. The incontestability provision does not apply when you, the insured, misrepresent your age. The reason is simple. Because age is a key factor in determining whether a company offers you life insurance and in setting premiums, some applicants are tempted to understate their age in order to pay a lower premium. Understandably, insurers want to avoid this. The misstatement of age clause provides that if you have misrepresented your age, the insurer will lower the face amount of the policy to the amount of insurance that the premium paid would have purchased at the correct age.
Your policy specifies the due date for premiums (e.g., monthly, quarterly, semiannually, annually). Whatever the due date, you generally must pay your premiums on or before that date. If you fail to do so, however, you may still pay the premium during the grace period. The grace period is required by most state laws and typically lasts for 31 days. For example, if you have a premium due on January 1 and don't pay it by that date, you would have until February 1 to make the payment before the policy would lapse. If you died on January 15, the death benefit proceeds would still be paid, but minus the amount of the premium in default.
Most life insurance contracts contain a clause that allows you to reinstate or reactivate a lapsed policy (i.e., one for which you did not pay the premium due by the end of the grace period). However, reinstatement is not your unconditional right. If available, it will be subject to a number of very specific requirements on your part. First, if you had a cash value policy, reinstatement will be possible only if, at the time of the policy's lapse, you did not withdraw its cash surrender value. Second, reinstatement must be accomplished within a specified time period, normally five years after the lapse. Third, you must resubmit proper evidence of your insurability as if you were applying for the insurance all over again. Finally, an insurer will generally permit reinstatement only if you pay all of the overdue premiums (plus interest) and any indebtedness from loans that may have existed at the time of lapse (plus interest).
Almost all life insurance policies exclude suicide during a specified period after the policy is issued. Under this clause, the typical period during which coverage for suicide will be denied is two years (although some policies limit it to one year). If the insured commits suicide (whether sane or insane) within two years after the issue date of the policy, the insurer will not pay any death benefits to the beneficiary. The insurer would be responsible for refunding only the premiums paid on the policy.
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I am looking for something positive to say about the state of things and the way we look at things past and present.
Today is the traditional Columbus Day Holiday. It celebrates the first big hyped European recognition of something (America) beyond the seas. Before Columbus there was travel to America for centuries and even millennium. It is just that on this day in 1492 the facts about an outside world made it into the Evening News so to speak.
I happened to be trekking around the desert in 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of whatever, around this date in a car and we directly or indirectly came upon three ancient Mission sites in Arizona. Two of those sites are still active. The trip make me realize how in the great expanse of the west, lines on a map in Madrid did not mean anything. The reality of tiny satellite settlements of European culture back then, centuries ago, survived not so much by the grace of God as by pure dumb luck generated by the pro-active curiosity of explorers.
This culture thing changes almost every few years. When I was a school child, Columbus was a hero. In 1992 he was nearly labeled some genocidal maniac by revisionist history. Somewhere in between Hero and Criminal is the probable truth about Christopher Columbus.
When one age tries to impose its own view of the world onto some other time or some other culture there can be conflicts.
A lot of religious wing nuts seem to want the world to end? Why? It says so or supposedly says so in the Bible. The last book of the Bible, Revelations, is a contorted weed driven vision of nasty things, un-Christian things. Still, rather than enjoy the world God has directly or indirectly provided us on spaceship Earth, some would prefer destruction over construction.
One recent thing in the news and shortly in the movies is the concept that the world will end on December 21, 2012 – Pure Unadulterated Horse Manure. Why? The Mayan calendar says so. Well actually it does not say anything. Most Mayan writings were burned by religious wing nuts as satanic centuries ago. The little writing that did survive is a mere scattering of words from that long dead civilization, long dead before the Spanish arrived.
An interesting quote from an Archeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico regarding the 2012 Mayan Calendar hype:
Bernal suggests that apocalypse is "a very Western, Christian" concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are "exhausted."If Western mythology is indeed dead, then it makes sense that lunatics cling to the Bible for some sort of answer – the Bible is full of myths – many tired myths.
God created the human race to improve itself. To build on myth and not to cling to myth.
Myth builders like Columbus pursued the world to change it. Others sit back and reshape the world with words. Imagination and perspiration are two things that once made America great – not myths.
I think that there is a hidden intentional built-in challenge for us in the New Testament. It is to get beyond the roadblock of Revelations, a great boulder for some in the pathway to light. For the others of us that understand the message of Jesus in a much more divinely human sense, roadblocks are there to be overcome.
Myths are fine. Reality is better. Words at the beginning of the Bible are perhaps the best words to remember on the road of life. “Let there be light.” (to illuminate your pathway…)
Have a good day and don’t fuss too much over the Political Correctness of explorers of brave new worlds like C. Columbus etc.
Explore your own new worlds. There are plenty of them to explore. Make your own myths to hand down to the future.
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Learn About Psoriatic Arthritis
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A modern twist on traditional acupuncture may bring some pain relief to people with knee arthritis, at least in the short term, a small study suggests.
The study, published in the journal Pain, looked at the effects of electro-acupuncture among 40 adults with knee osteoarthritis -- the common "wear-and-tear" form of arthritis in which the cartilage cushioning the joints breaks down.
Electro-acupuncture is similar to traditional acupuncture, where fine needles are inserted into specific points in the skin. What's different is that the practitioner fits the needles with clips that are attached to a small device that delivers a continuous electrical impulse to stimulate the acupuncture point.
Among the patients in the current study, those who had a daily electro-acupuncture session for 10 consecutive days reported greater improvement in their pain compared with patients who received a "sham" version of the therapy.
Patients in that latter group received acupuncture, but the needles were inserted at random points on the skin rather than traditional acupuncture sites. And while the needles were attached to the electrical device, it was not actually turned on.
The findings suggest that true electro-acupuncture may offer at least short-term pain relief to knee arthritis sufferers, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Sadia Ahsin of the Army Medical College Rawalpindi in Pakistan.
Acupuncture has been used for more than 2,000 years in Chinese medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments. According to traditional medicine, specific acupuncture points on the skin are connected to internal pathways that conduct energy, or qi ("chee"), and stimulating these points with a fine needle promotes the healthy flow of qi.
Modern research has suggested that acupuncture may help ease pain by altering signals among nerve cells or affecting the release of various chemicals of the central nervous system, such as pain-killing endorphins.
In their study, Ahsin and colleagues found that electro-acupuncture appeared to raise patients' blood levels of endorphins and lower their levels of the hormone cortisol, which tends to rise during physical or mental stress. So it's possible that these changes explain the greater pain relief, according to the researchers.
Larger, longer-term studies are still needed to see whether electro-acupuncture can have lasting benefits -- and to find out how often patients would need treatment to gain those benefits.
For now, Ahsin's team writes, the current findings suggest that, for people who are interested in trying it, electro-acupuncture can be added to conventional treatment for knee arthritis.
Acupuncture and electro-acupuncture are generally regarded as low-risk therapies. Among patients in this study, there were no major side effects apart from bruising at the needle site in three patients, the researchers note.
SOURCE: Pain, online December 15, 2009.
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*inspired by Kevin’s post
This week is a long one….we are in the midst of our spring parent-teacher conferences. We see almost all of our parents during this round, because our students are finishing our their tenure at our intermediate school. Come September, my students will move from the top of the food chain to the bottom, as new 7th graders at our township middle school. Because our students will be mixed in with 2 other intermediate schools from our town, many of their parents come to us with concerns about their placement and social skills.
Each evening, before the first conference, our team comes together to discuss each child we will be meeting with that night. As we switch classes, parents only meet with their child’s homeroom teacher. Meeting as a team allows us to discuss each child’s progress and any concerns we might have. The parents appreciate receiving a well-rounded look at their child, even if they can’t meet with each individual teacher.
This year, most of our students are doing very well. The parents are happy, the students are happy, and the teachers are even happier. Thus, our conferences have focused on the transition to middle school. It’s an amazing feeling to be a part of these conversations, as parents admit their fears and concerns. Usually, the fears and concerns are not related to their child, but instead focus on the parent. This is a big step- their child will be leaving the comfort of the elementary and intermediate schools. With that transition come a lot of trappings and traps of being a teenager. Suddenly, all the rumors and exaggerated stories passed down over the years come flooding back to the parents. Will their child be bullied? Will they have enough friends? Will the parents be able to handle this big step in their child’s life?
We have tears. Many, many times we have tears. But they are tears that fall over proud smiles. Their baby is growing up….middle school leads to high school. High school leads to college. It all seems to happen in a blink of an eye. And our conferences our the leaping point for many of these parents. We are lucky to be a part of such an special part of their lives.
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View Full Version : disappearing quad
I have a very large quad with a weather texture on it to represent my sky. When I move around in my scene the quad disappears when i rotate my camera(most angles). When I say disappear I mean that the quad gradually fades away as I rotate my camera.
One thing I've noticed is that it may be a graphic card specific problem. The quad is visible all the time on my Geforce4 TI4600, but not on Geforce2mx or a ATI card we bought recently. It's seem it's visible on all Geforce4 based cards, but not allways becuse on one machine we have a Geforce4 and a Geforce2 installed(we needed 3 monitors), and the same problem was apparent there(on all monitors).
Does anybody have a clue on this one?
08-07-2003, 06:34 AM
Do you have fog disabled?
08-07-2003, 07:11 AM
what is your far clipping plane?
Fog is enabled and far clip is 10000
08-07-2003, 09:58 AM
Are you billboarding your quad? (Drawing it so that it always faces you).
Do you have anything other than glFrustum/gluPerspective or glOrtho/gluOrtho2d in the PROJECTION matrix? (e.g. you don't do a gluLookAt/glTranslate/glRotate/glScale in the PROJECTION matrix, right? You do them in the MODELVIEW where they belong?)
[This message has been edited by Deiussum (edited 08-07-2003).]
I'm not billboarding my quad. It's positioned right above where I start +500 in y direction. The quad does not move when I move around. It's more like it fades gradually away at most angles. Mostly I only see the background color.
08-07-2003, 11:16 AM
What are your light settings, are your normals being calculated correctly?
08-07-2003, 12:00 PM
...does the problem go away when you turn off fog?
I turned of fog, and then my quad became visible all the time. Why is that? I want the fog on to get smooth transition where my far clip ends(example: far clip 10000, linear fog 8000 to 10000).
08-08-2003, 12:39 AM
Read Deiussum's post again.
You must do your camera work in the modelview matrix or fog will break.
[This message has been edited by Relic (edited 08-08-2003).]
All my camera work is done in the right place. What do you mean by "fog will break"?
08-08-2003, 05:13 AM
You say you put your camera work in the "right place" but the symptoms say otherwise. Perhaps question 8.100 of the Technical FAQ (http://www.opengl.org/developers/faqs/technical/viewing.htm#view0100) can help.
In short, putting anything like gluLookAt, glTranslate, glRotate, or glScale in the PROJECTION matrix will muck up calcualtions for lighting and fog, both of which do calculations based on the MODELVIEW matrix.
[This message has been edited by Deiussum (edited 08-08-2003).]
It seems that the quad is not "fading" away as I first thought. When I moved my camera above my quad, then looking down on my terrain, I saw that the quad did not disappear, but the texture was getting the the same color as my background color(except for where my texture is transparent). At some angles the quad is getting it's correct colors. Maybe this info will tell somebody what is wrong?
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In the Beginning there was Dust
|This is an artist's concept of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the nearby star Epsilon Eridani. Located 10.5 light-years away, it is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system. The planet is in an elliptical orbit that carries it as close to the star as Earth is from the Sun, and as far from the star as Jupiter is from the Sun.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with ground-based observatories, has provided definitive evidence for the existence of the nearest extrasolar planet to our solar system.
The Jupiter-sized world orbits the Sun-like star Epsilon Eridani, which is only 10.5 light-years away (approximately 63 trillion miles). The planet is so close it may be observable by Hubble and large ground-based telescopes in late 2007, when the planet makes its closest approach to Epsilon Eridani during its 6.9-year orbit.
The Hubble observations were achieved by a team led by G. Fritz Benedict and Barbara E. McArthur of the University of Texas at Austin. The observations reveal the the planet's true mass, which the team has calculated to be 1.5 times Jupiter's mass.
Hubble also found that the planet's orbit is tilted 30 degrees to our line of sight, which is the same inclination as a disk of dust and gas that also encircles Epsilon Eridani. This is a particularly exciting result because, although it has long been inferred that planets form from such disks, this is the first time that the two objects have been observed around the same star.
The research team emphasized that the alignment of the planet's orbit with the dust disk provides compelling direct evidence that planets form from disks of gas and dust debris around stars.
The planets in our solar system share a common alignment, evidence that they were created at the same time in the Sun's disk. But the Sun is a middle-aged star - 4.5 billion years old - and its debris disk dissipated long ago. Epsilon Eridani, however, still retains its disk because it is young, only 800 million years old.
|Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
McArthur originally detected the planet in 2000 by measurements that were interpreted as a rhythmic, back-and-forth wobble in Epsilon Eridani caused by the gravitational tug of an unseen planet. Nevertheless, some astronomer wondered if in fact the turbulent motion of the young star's atmosphere was mimicking the effects of the star being nudged by a planet's gravitational pull.
The Hubble observations settle any uncertainty. The Benedict-McArthur team calculated the planet's mass and its orbit by making extremely precise measurements of subtle changes in the star's location in the sky, a technique called astrometry. The slight variations are unmistakably caused by the gravitational tug of the unseen companion object. Benedict's team studied over a thousand astrometric observations from Hubble collected over three years.
"You can't see the wobble induced by the planet with the naked eye," Benedict said. "But Hubble's fine guidance sensors are so precise that they can measure the wobble. We basically watched three years of a nearly seven-year-long dance of the star and its invisible partner, the planet, around their orbits. The fine guidance sensors measured a tiny change in the star's position, equivalent to the width of a quarter 750 miles away."
The astronomers combined these data with other astrometric observations made at the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory. They then added those measurements to hundreds of ground-based radial-velocity measurements made over the past 25 years at McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas, Lick Observatory at the University of California Observatories, the Canada- France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, and the European Southern Observatory in Chile. This combination allowed them to accurately determine the planet's mass by deducing the tilt of its orbit.
Although Hubble and other telescopes cannot image the gas giant planet now, they may be able to snap pictures of it in 2007, when its orbit is closest to Epsilon Eridani. The planet may be bright enough in reflected starlight to be imaged by Hubble, other space-based cameras, and large ground-based telescopes.
The results are being presented today at the 38th Annual Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting in Pasadena, Calif. and will appear in the November issue of the Astronomical Journal.
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A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four children who have no father. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes a story about children who don't want to grow up. Written by
When J.M. Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies family are traveling by buggy to Mary Ansell Barrie's (James's wife) cottage, a flock of sheep stops in front of the buggy and it is forced to stop. This is included in the film because the buggy is an original from the late 1800s and is not able to properly run. To make it go, it is pushed over the hill. To cover for it stopping suddenly at the base of the hill, director Marc Forster decided to have the sheep block the road. See more »
Frohman's dog "changes" between two dogs throughout the film. In the scene where Frohman dances with his dog, the dog he dances with has a tinge of ginger in his hair, whereas before the dog did not. See more »
Now that we're past the hype... don't miss this movie!
Every holiday season Harvey Weinstein and Miramax talk up one of their properties, fully expecting everyone to bow and throw awards at it as soon as it's released. This year it's Finding Neverland, which has produced a lot of buzz in favor of Johnny Depp's sophisticated performance. Although the film deserves all the praise it gets, it is understandable that moviegoers are a little weary with another dramatic period piece, with another "oscar caliber" cast, about yet another take on Peter Pan.
The bottom line is, this movie is phenomenal. Exploring the major theme of Barrie's play (that of a boy who never grows up), Finding Neverland refrains from condemning grown-ups, but exalts the wild magic one can enjoy as a kid. For James, who had to deal with his family's reticence upon the death of his brother, the real tragedy occurs when a child is forced to grow up too fast.
My favorite idea from this film is this: life finds a way to put into our lives the people we're supposed to be living our lives with. James and Sylvia needed each other, and they needed each other at that particular time. Life took care of them.
The film does indeed move at a snail's pace. Consider that part of the set design. Just as the characters go about 1905 London in top hats and buttoned-down gowns, so does the movie develop in a manner which would have been fitting for a time which preceded MTV-generation attention spans by about a hundred years.
As for the acting, it is wonderful. Depp is understated and gallant, Kate Winslet is lovely and tragic, and they're both better than I've ever seen them. Julie Christie is brutally ominous as the matriarch who can gum up everyone's happiness. Dustin Hoffman, although out of place, brings a dry wit as a risk-taking businessman. The boys playing the Davis kids are a lot of fun to watch and play their dramatic parts perfectly.
If you want something where all the pieces of the magic puzzle that is movie-making come together with grace, charm, and humanity, you won't find a more rewarding film than this.
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An Apple patent (number 20120198383) for an user interface for backup management has appeared at the U.S Patent & Trademark Office. It seems to involve a revamped version of Mac OS X's Time Machine feature.
The patent is for methods and a computer program product for providing a user interface including earlier versions of data. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving, while a current view is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting that a backup interface be displayed. In response to the first user input, the transition from displaying the current view in the user interface to displaying the backup interface is animated.
The backup interface is displayed including a display area for presenting at least a first visual representation of an earlier version of the current view, where the earlier version includes a first element. While the backup interface is displayed, a second user input is received requesting that the current view be modified according to the earlier version. In response to the second user input, the current view is modified according to the earlier version.
Here's Apple's background on the invention: "Modern graphical user interfaces allow a large number of graphical objects or items to be displayed on a display screen at the same time. Operating systems, such as Apple Mac OS, provide user interfaces in which a number of windows can be displayed, overlapped, resized, moved, configured, and reformatted according to the needs of a user or a particular application. Taskbars, menus, virtual buttons and other user interface elements provide mechanisms for accessing and activating windows even when they are hidden behind other windows.
"With the sophisticated tools available, users are encouraged not only to create and save a multitude of items in their computers, but also to revise or otherwise improve on them over time. For example, a user can work with a certain file and thereafter save its current version on a storage device. The next day, however, the user could have had second thoughts about the revisions, or could have come up with new ideas, and therefore opens the file again.
"The revision process is usually straightforward if the user wants to add more material to the file or make changes to what is there. However, it is typically more difficult for a user to revert a file back to an earlier state if the user has changed his/her mind about modifications that were previously made. Application programs for word processing typically let the user 'undo' previous edits of a text, at least up to a predefined number of past revisions.
"The undo feature also usually is configured so that the previously made revisions must be undone in reverse chronological order; that is, the user must first undo the most recently made edit, then the second-most recent one, and so on. If the user saves and closes the document and thereafter opens it again, it may not be possible to undo automatically any previous edits."
The inventors are Pavel Cisler, Mike Matas, Marcel van Os, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene, Gene Zyri Ragan and Scott Forstall.
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Am stuck at home feeling “bah humbug.” This season’s cold, the one that makes you ache all over, curse at everyone and cough your brains out, has finally hit.
I don’t use cold medications and never get the flu shot; so I’m trying to remember all the voodoo I do for colds, but my brain is foggy. Echinacea and Vitamin C are my forever standbys, but I need to go to next gear.
Liquids like hot lemon with honey, herbal tea and chicken soup used to be my first line of defense for these annoying winter bugs. Being a health nut who fights taking traditional medicine, (I also fight family members who nag me about it) the natural route always made sense.
But when bronchitis forced me to the doctor last season, I had the great fortune to learn something new.
“What?” I challenged, as the doctor rattled off the usual advice for viruses--plenty of rest and hydration with cold liquids. I had already glazed over, not wanting to be there in the first place, when the words cold liquids caught my attention.
“What do you mean cold” I kind of demanded. “What about chicken soup, hot tea and all the other hot, warming stuff?”
“Too dehydrating” said the doc, and he continued (quite patiently, another surprise) to explain the recent medical view that hot liquids are actually dehydrating, and the wrong thing to do when you have a cold or virus. The importance of liquids still holds, but they should be cold or room temperature.
So, if liquids are the best and only thing I can do for myself (besides ten hours of sleep; miscellaneous naps) I want to make them count with immune boosting ingredients. In addition to drinking water, I continue to make herbal teas with fresh ingredients, preparing them in large quantities to sip all day.
For soups, I cook vegetables as lightly and quickly as possible, and without too much oil. This method has advantages including preservation of vitamin content and water content, and preservation of fresh taste at room temperature. It also absorbs quickly.
Juicing is great on all sides—fresh, cool and alive as long as you use unsprayed, organic fruits and vegetables.
Elderberry has caught my attention this season because of recent studies on its antioxidant properties, which are supposed to better than those of pomegranate or other dark, bright juices. The fact it was used in the past for respiratory illnesses was enough to send me searching, find Elderberry Life online, and order a case of their undiluted, no-sugar elderberry juice. It ain’t cheap, but neither are doctor bills. Over this winter I will drink two tablespoons a day, mixed in juice or water, to boost my immune system.
Below are a few recipes. If you can chop or slice, you can make yourself a potful of potent medicine that tastes good. If the recipes lean to the vegetarian side, it is accidental because I think meat and dairy have a place in health, with proteins and minerals boosting immunity. One of those important minerals is zinc, which I gulped down in tablet form; it occurs naturally in beef, pork, lamb, dark meat poultry, shellfish and dairy products.
Last important thing for me, is ease of preparation. Being a natural medicine freak, I’m somewhat willing to go through the effort of chopping. But when I’m sick, these remedies need to come together quickly with whatever I have in the house. I want those nutrients coursing through my veins as soon as possible. Some favorites:
Ginger tea for colds
- 2 green tea bags
- 2-3 inches of fresh ginger root, washed, peeled and chopped.
- 8-10 whole cloves
Boil water. In quart sized jar or teapot, pour two cups boiled water over tea bags and herbs, and steep for about an hour. Add two cups cold water and drink all day at room temperature. Note: Green tea high in antioxidants; ginger and cloves have antiviral properties.
Lemon and Honey drink for congestion relief
- 2 whole lemons, juiced
- ¼ cup honey (or to taste)
- 2 ½ cups water
To the lemon juice and honey, add ½ cup of boiling water. Stir vigorously to thin and blend the honey. Add additional two cups of room temperature water and drink throughout day. Notes: Citrus from lemons, oranges, grapefruit; and vegetables like peppers and leafy greens, are high in Vitamin C which has antihistamine properties.
Carrot, Apple, Ginger Juice – simple and great tasting
- 5 whole carrots – wash and chop coarsely
- 3 apples – quartered
- 3-inch piece of fresh ginger root, washed, peeled and coarsely chopped
Feed sections into your juicer, alternating between types. Drink throughout day. Notes: All ingredients have antiviral properties. You’ll thank me for this one.
Quick and Easy Shitake Mushroom Soup
- 1 each onion & celery rib; few cloves garlic and 3” piece of peeled ginger root
- 5 oz. fresh shitake mushrooms, wiped clean with damp cloth
- 1 envelope “Better than Bouillon” Chicken base
- 1 quart water
- 2 Tbsp. soy sauce
- Optional: chopped green onions, chopped chives, chopped parsley or cilantro
Chop all vegetables. Sauté onion, garlic, ginger and celery in a bit of oil, for 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and sauté another five. Add envelope of chicken base and water. Cook for no more than 30 minutes. Add soy sauce at end. Serve with optional ingredients if using. Notes: onion, GARLIC, ginger and Shitake mushrooms are antiviral and immune boosting. Fermented soy is antiviral.
Side of Greens or Green and Bean Soup
- 1 or 2 oz. pancetta or salt pork
- 1 onion
- 3-4 cloves garlic
- 1 Cubanel pepper + a hot pepper
- 1 head of greens thoroughly washed in several rinses of cold water. Choose among kale, Swiss chard, escarole etc.
- Salt & pepper
- 1 can kidney, pinto or cannellini beans, drained
Prepare and chop everything ahead, including greens, to cook quickly as in stir-fry.
In large skillet or pot, sauté pancetta in very little oil until browned. Add a bit more oil and sauté onion, garlic and peppers a few minutes. Add chopped greens and cook a short time until wilted. Finish with salt & pepper. For Soup: After adding greens to the pot, simply swirl veggies in pancetta-base mixture for a minute. Add 1-2 quarts of water and cook for twenty minutes. Add canned beans toward end of cooking time.
Meat or Veggie Chili
- 1 pound lean, ground beef or 1 can drained pinto beans
- 1 or 2 large onions
- 2 or 3 ribs celery
- 2 to 4 large bell peppers in assorted colors + 1 or 2 small hot peppers
- 1 large can of peeled tomatoes + equal amount of water
- 1 Tbsp. each cumin and chili powder (add more chili powder if necessary, or other varieties such as chipotle, smoked paprika etc.)
- 1 or 2 teaspoons salt
- 3 Tbsp. vinegar
Chop all vegetables.
In small amount of oil, cook the meat in a large skillet until browned. Stir often, drain of fat and transfer to large pot. Add bit more oil to skillet and sauté onions, celery and peppers until well browned; transfer to large pot. Add tomatoes, water and spices to large pot, break up tomatoes as well as you can, stir and cook, covered, for one hour. About 15 minutes before finish, add vinegar, stir and recover. Note: if making vegetarian chili, substitute one can pinto beans, drained, for the meat; begin sauté process with onions and continue. Add beans to chili in large pot, at same time as tomatoes. Chili, whether meat or vegetable, absolutely bursts with Vitamin C from the peppers and spices; zinc from the beef.
Okay, there’s such a thing as overkill. To be totally transparent, I ate Fritos along with my chili tonight.
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Redefining success in business and in our society, B Corporations use the power of the market to resolve social and environmental problems. The global community of B Corporations first began in the United States and beginning this year it has expanded throughout South America starting with Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia through Sistema B (as B Corp is known in Latin America). In just a few months there are already 16 certified B Corporations (Empresas B as they’re known in Spanish)
in the region and more than 90 businesses committed to being part of this new paradigm.
The B Corporation is a relatively new enterprise model with the binding mission of creating value for all of its interest groups, and operating with the highest social, environmental and transparency standards. They are innovative organizations that are creating dynamic chains and offering clients the possibility for their ethical values to be reflected in the market, and where financial returns are not their main reason for being, rather an indispensable tool to achieve their social and environmental goals. In this way, the B Corporation differentiates itself in the market more easily from consumers, suppliers, investors and human talent.
In the middle of a global financial, social and environmental crisis, businesses are starting to think about what their role is to improve the state of the planet. Beyond corporate social responsibility, B Corporations fully reconsider their business models to propose new and innovative systems of production and consumption. For those readers who might not have the background, the movement began in the United States in 2007 led by an organization called B Lab, which was created with the explicit purpose of giving visibility to and energizing this new generation of businesses that have broadened their meaning of success in order to be agents of change. To date, there are more than 500 B Corporations constructing new paradigms in 60 industries and generating overall revenues of $3 billion. For example, Patagonia, a multinational company known for the quality of its mountaineering and athletic apparel, has as its mission to “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis,” and the result is more than 50 stores around the world, $414 million in sales in 2011 and average sales growth of 6 percent over the last decade. Patagonia and its founder Yvon Couinard have been pioneers in taking corporate responsibility to the next level, setting standards for Walmart and Levi Strauss, amoung others that followed suit. They emphasize the use of recycling as a source of innovation in the development of clothing materials and one of the leading programs in supply chain transparency called The Footprint Chronicles, where they openly publish their global manufacturing practices and where their clients can support them in constant product innovation to reduce adverse effects on the environment and community. Since 1985, Patagonia designates 1 percent of sales to environmental organizations and causes.
The community of B Corporations has already started to unfold throughout South America with 16 certified B Corporations currently in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
These businesses and the additional 90 that are currently in the process of certification, are a diverse group of businesses, belonging to various sectors, such as construction, agribusiness, recycling and health, among others. The hallmark of these businesses is the capacity to innovate and identify opportunities using the power of the market to give solve the main social and environmental urgencies.
The first business to convert to B Corporation in Latin America is called TriCiclos, a Chilean venture. Through its “clean points” TriCiclos confronts the challenge of waste and encourages citizens, schools and companies to adopt sustainable habits. In its first year of operations, TriCiclos managed to recycle 780 tons of materials (equivalent to a 2.3 ton reduction in carbon emissions) and works with more than 7,000 people each month in five clean points in the city of Santiago. In 2012, managers project to open 30 clean points around Chile and at least one in the cities of Bogota, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. In 2011 they had sales of $635,000 and they hope to reach $1.2 million in 2012.
South America has huge potential to create B Corporations, due to its natural and cultural wealth and the existing entrepreneurial prowess. Additionally, it is distinguished by the growing number of players interested in the dynamics of 'impact business' in the region. The impact investing industry is one of these players and seeks to invest in businesses that make sense for society and the planet. In light of these trends, there is a major opportunity to contribute with scalable solutions toward the reduction of poverty and inequality, the regeneration of ecosystem services, and other goals that contribute to materializing the green and inclusive economy in our region. To take advantage of it, we need to facilitate a business environment that encourages competition and innovation among all the players committed to this development paradigm.
Just thinking of the potential to reactivate the rural sector with B chains would be a quantum leap for South America and an opportunity to transform our invaluable natural capital into the kinds of human capital that the 21st century global market demands.
For more information about B Corporations or to join Sistema B, go to http://www.sistemab.org.
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The research at the Dartmouth Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence consists of 4 projects and is supported by 3 scientific cores.
Initial enthusiasm for antibody-targeted cancer treatment is often dampened by discouraging findings that show the targeting construct is not bound with adequate specificity and/or in therapeutically sufficient amounts. The poor performance of antibody targeting — in terms of nanoparticle-delivered therapeutics — often results from lack of understanding and optimization of the fundamental system characteristics, such as the targeting moiety, which is critical to the mechanism of cellular uptake and therefore is expected to affect significantly the specificity, tumor accumulation, and tissue distribution of the anti-cancer agent that results.
Understanding and optimizing antibody targeting is even more important in the setting of alternating magnetic field-activated magnetic nanoparticles, because the fundamental relationships between the localization, concentration, and distribution of particles and both the amounts and the mechanisms through which a therapeutic response is engendered remain largely unknown.
The central hypothesis underlying Project 1 is that magnetic nanoparticles can be targeted with substantially increased specificity to cancer cells/tissues by understanding and optimizing:
- The avidity of the interaction between targeted magnetic nanoparticles and cell surface receptors
- The type of interaction mediated by the targeting moiety upon engaging its cognate surface receptor
- The overall nanoparticle size
Understanding whether magnetic nanoparticles are actually binding to the target site in vivo is critical preclinically to developing effective methods to maximize their delivery and contrast relative to normal tissues, and is critical clinically to monitoring patients for the actual binding-performance-relative outcomes during early-stage human trials. Many methods exist to assess target-site binding ex vivo or in vitro, but no imaging technologies are available that can be used to reliably obtain this information in vivo.
Several micro-environmental factors are known to resist nanoparticles from getting to their targets, and barriers such as interstitial diffusion time and phagocytic scavenging often limit the targeting potential. The difficulties in permeating cancer tissues with high interstitial pressure and high cellularity have been exacerbated by the fact that much of the binding data are accumulated ex vivo and thus have little relationship to the in vivo situation because most of the nanoparticles do not reach their targets.
The fundamental goal of Project 2 is to provide the capability of imaging the magnetic nanoparticle binding distribution in vivo, which, when combined with the antibody-targeting optimization studies in Project 1, will be used to engineer constructs that overcome physical limitations and translate to better delivery in Project 3 and 4 studies.
Project 2 will develop and validate (through services offered in the TPB and BDAC Cores) the instrumentation associated with a new technology platform, providing a fundamentally unique way to quantify targeted magnetic nanoparticle ligand binding and distribution in vivo. This quantification will provide the data that can lead to mechanistic insight required to interpret why coated nanoparticles collect where they do in the body and how targeted delivery can be optimized and improved substantially.
Shown here at 9900x magnification, tumor cells readily take up magnetic nanoparticles (black objects). When a tumor containing nanoparticles is exposed to an alternating magnetic field, the nanoparticles will heat and kill the tumor cells.
As breast-conserving surgery combined with radiation replaces mastectomy, the need for new strategies to treat tumors recurring within a radiation field has become an area of considerable importance in the management of locally recurring breast cancers.
Project 3 will focus on this clinical need by defining a novel local treatment strategy, i.e., determining the optimal way to use alternating magnetic field-excited magnetic nanoparticle-mediated therapy to treat cancer, either as already confirmed in the breast or as potentially unidentified multi-focal micro-metastases that remain occult after initial re-treatment.
The project has both basic science and translational goals that will enhance the understanding of magnetic nanoparticle-mediated therapy, and also will explore crucial parameters that must be determined in order to design clinical trials.
Studies will be completed in one murine and two human breast tumor models to evaluate and optimize:
- Treatment variables, such as magnetic nanoparticle size, dose, incubation time, coating, targeting moiety and use of chemotherapy and ionizing radiation
- Biophysical factors, such as interstitial pressure
- Alternating magnetic field exposure characteristics, such as field strength
Large-animal models will also be used to ensure that these evaluations account for factors relevant to clinical treatment scale and volume in the breast. The experiments will consider efficacy, toxicology, and targeting and will develop technical parameters that can be directly applied to clinical trials.
Project 3 is focused on breast tumors, but it will also contribute critical new information relevant to the clinical translation of alternating magnetic field-excited magnetic nanoparticle-mediated cancer therapy for other types of solid tumors. In addition to destroying the primary tumor, magnetic nanoparticle excitation could also stimulate an anti-tumor immune response when combined with tumor vaccines and is expected to synergize with radiation and/or chemotherapy.
Epithelial ovarian cancer is responsible for the deaths of >15,000 Americans per year, and five-year-survival rates still remain below 40% for the stages at which most ovarian carcinomas are diagnosed. There is a need for new treatments to target both tumor cells that recur in a chemoresistant form following primary treatment and specific cell types in the tumor microenvironment that are recruited by and support the tumor.
Novel treatments that target chemoresistant tumor cells and other tumor-supporting but currently untargeted stromal cell types are possible through the excitation of magnetic nanoparticles. Specific targeting of magnetic nanoparticles to multiple cell types in the microenvironment of human and mouse ovarian cancers enables alternating magnetic field activation not only to kill tumor cells and tumor-supporting cells but also to elicit anti-tumor immunity and, subsequently, yield significant therapeutic benefits.
The specific aims of Project 4 are to:
- Optimize magnetic nanoparticle-mediated destruction of tumor cells and tumor-associated vascular leukocytes in preclinical (murine) ovarian cancer models
- Determine the interaction of engineered magnetic nanoparticle preparations with freshly dissociated human tumors
- Optimize therapeutic efficacy in chemoresistant human ovarian cancers
These aims will be accomplished first in an immunocompetent mouse model, and then in collaboration with our industrial partner, Adimab, using antibodies cross-reacting against mouse and human targeting.
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Alberta companies are noticing an uprising in the economy, but worry that growth will cause a labour shortage in the province.
Business owners are finding it increasingly difficult to find qualified staff.
Alberta Labour Shortage In 2012?
Alberta’s economic outlook is so promising there is even talk of labour shortages in 2012, according to the Alberta business confidence index report,
conducted by Leger Marketing for PricewaterhouseCoopers and provided to the Calgary Herald.
Is An Alberta Labour Shortage Looming?
Will Alberta be short 77,000 workers by 2019, as a recent report by Alberta Employment and Immigration predicts? It’s a headline figure that certainly
attracts the attention of human resource departments, so it’s worth examining in more detail. more
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Two days after the attacks of September 11, one of the workers helping with the recovery and cleanup efforts discovered an intact steel beam cross amidst the rubble. The cross was left in place for several weeks, and became a spot where people prayed and left messages. A few weeks later on October 4, 2001, it was placed on a pedestal nearby and continued to serve as a shrine. Then, in October 2006, it was relocated to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, which faces the World Trade Center site. I took this picture in front of St. Peter’s on June 12, 2009.
The “Remembering 9/11” site includes obituaries, profiles, Guest Books, Moving Tributes and a National Book of Remembrance. To date, more than 6 million people have visited the site, leaving more than 200,000 Guest Book entries.
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Secretary for Education Michael Suen Ming- yeung has vowed to continue efforts to encourage 16 government secondary schools with five Form One classes to cut one.
That came a day after Lam Chiu-ying, a former director of the Hong Kong Observatory and an alumnus of the government-run King's College, claimed in a blog that the government's proposal will make it harder for students from grassroots families to get into elite schools.
Suen hit back yesterday, saying a drop in the student population is a problem facing the whole territory. "It could lead to social unrest if it can't be handled effectively," he said. "Schools cannot get off the hook."
Suen did not say if government schools will have to cut Form One classes but said that those against the idea should propose ways to deal with the declining student population.
Education Bureau figures show the Form One population will drop from 75,400 in the 2009-2010 year to 53,900 in 2016-2017. And with 34 students in a class, the 30percent drop means 630 fewer classes.
While classes will be cut, Suen said, it will not hurt someone's chances of enrolling at a first-choice school as there will be fewer students.
King's College principal Nancy Chan Woo Mei-hou said the school's management board is undecided on whether to co-operate. STAFF REPORTER
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How to stop being a pseudo-intellectual and start earning respect after your move to India
Neo’s grandma is just the funniest and the most devastatingly logical person you will ever meet. During Neo’s recent vacation, when his uncle was in the middle of an interminably long soliloquy on pranayama, Neo’s grandma stopped him with “Nonsense. Claiming that using alternate nostrils is beneficial to your breathing is like claiming that eating from alternate sides of your mouth is beneficial to your diet.”
Neo laughed so hard he had kheer streaming out of (both) his nostrils. (The other eleven people around the table were silent.)
It should be hard for any self-respecting scientific mind to understand Neo’s uncle’s claim that alternately breathing through your left and right nostrils somehow helps regulate the two halves of your brain – especially after you consider Neo’s grandma’s brilliant point – that air enters the same windpipe, and that oxygen is equally absorbed by both lungs regardless of which nostril it entered from.
Unfortunately, not all of Neo’s older relatives are scientifically-minded. Many have a love-hate relationship with science. They love science when it appears to prove their traditional beliefs (e.g. the health benefits of turmeric). They simultaneously hate science when it challenges traditions (e.g. the health benefits of garlic). (Many in Neo’s family will not hesitate to give you all sorts of mumbo-jumbo reasons to avoid garlic).
Neo has realized (a little too late) that the quickest way to get labeled as a pseudo-intellectual in his family is to unflinchingly champion the cause (and supremacy) of science.
To avoid Neo’s fate, you must appear to be a “moderate believer in science”. You need to demonstrate the capacity to “believe” in the science behind say an automobile or a computer, but refuse to believe in the science (or the YouTube video) that shows that Sathya Sai Baba is a fraud, and cannot generate ash or gold chains out of thin air. That is the sort of “open mind” that will earn you the respect of many in Neo’s extended family.
Speaking of open minds – during the Mumbai terror attacks, Neo wondered aloud why superhuman yogis were not volunteering to storm the Taj hotel instead of the mundane army commandos.
Only his grandma laughed.
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I have to write a 6 page research paper on the purpose of literature. I believe literature is meant to inform us of past experiences in history. I am having a problem finding academic sources for this. Please help! Thank you.
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Handel composed Dixit Dominus during the early stages
of his stay in Rome, in 1707. It is the most brilliant and famous of
the three Vesper psalms (the others being Laudate pueri Dominum
and Nisi Dominus), and in many ways echoes the style of harmonic
interplay favoured by Vivaldi and Corelli. The performance is a triumph
and the recording quality outstanding, given that it is now a quarter
of a century old.
Dixit Dominus is a large scale work, consisting
of eight movements arranged for five solo voices, five part chorus and
orchestra. It opens wonderfully with an incisive introduction played
by strings before solo voices and choir call and answer. One is immediately
struck by the clarity of the vocal parts and the exhilarating instrumental
harmonies. The second movement, Virgam virtuitis tuae is an aria
arranged for counter-tenor and cello continuo. Here I found Charles
Brett a little forced and uncomfortable in the upper registries. Following
this is an absolute jewel of a section, Tecum principium in die virtutis,
where dramatic violin flourishes and serene singing from Felicity Palmer
make a tremendous impression. Gardiner is renowned as a choir master,
and the vocal forces do not disappoint in the central choral sections,
Juravit Dominus and Tu es sacerdos in aeternam . However,
although enjoyable, I found the tempo rather rushed.
The two sopranos are tremendous in the highly demanding
Dominus a dextris tuis, and the impact of these voices interacting
with the tenors, bass and choir is almost terrifying in its intensity,
perfectly suiting the words ("he shall fill the places with dead
bodies and smite in sunder the heads over diverse countries").
The following duet (with chorus) is perhaps the most beautiful of all
(Da torrente in via bibet) and this particular performance justifiably
renowned, Palmer and Marshall serene and expressive throughout. The
final chorus, Gloria Patri et Filio, is tightly controlled but
still very convincing. Overall, this performance of the Dixit Dominus
easily maintains its status as one of the very best recordings.
Handel composed Zadok the Priest precisely twenty
years after Dixit Dominus for the coronation of George II in
Westminster Abbey, London. In fact Zadok was just one of four
anthems written in 1727, but, although the shortest, it is the most
majestic (and has since been played at every coronation since). The
tension of the famous opening crescendo is superbly maintained and the
explosive choral entry highly dramatic, and while the words may seem
rather absurd today ("May the King live forever! Amen, Amen, Allelujah,
Allelujah, Amen!), the message is driven home ecstatically.
These brilliant pieces are perfectly suited to John
Eliot Gardiner’s incisive style of conducting, and they are a very
welcome addition to the Apex super budget label. Gardiner and the Monteverdi
Choir and Orchestra were at an absolute peak during these formative
years and this recording remains one of the great early music releases.
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Solar circulating pumps ensure that residential and commercial water heating systems always have a ready supply of hot water, there is no waiting for hot water to reach the faucet as it circulates continuously around the pipes. An essential component of every solar hot water heating system. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to Contact Us. The products listed below are individual components; why not check out our fully functional Solar Water Heating Kits. Read more below...
In hydronic systems – that use water to transfer heat – most circulator pumps are centrifugal, which means that they the rotation of the axes is transformed into power. In solar circulating systems, the original source of power to turn the axis of a centrifugal pump comes from the sun.
Generally, the material used to manufacture circulating pumps depends on the system; closed loops that don’t receive fresh water regularly are made of cast iron components to protect the pipes from corrosion caused by deoxygenated water. Bronze is typically used to make the pipes in circulating pump systems that receive a fresh supply of oxygenated, potable water.
Solar circulating pumps ensure that residential and commercial water heating systems always have a ready supply of hot water, there is no waiting for hot water to reach the faucet as it circulates continuously around the pipes. This saves energy in that you don’t have to leave the tap running as you wait, it also saves water. However, the fact that the pipes are constantly hot results in energy loss, while the pump itself consumes energy.
As suppliers and distributors of high quality circulating pumps, Sustainable also offers solutions to these latent energy wasters. For instance, manual or automatic thermostats can be used to regulate the temperature on your circulating pump, and also to set operation times – a few hours before you get up in the mornings and before you come from work. We also supply piping insulation from the most reputable manufacturers to lock in heat and prevent energy wastage from all solar circulating pumps and water heating systems.
Contact Sustainable.co.za for a range of energy efficient submersible and centrifugal solar circulating pumps to provide all your household’s hot water needs.
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Children always have a variety of items to carry with them to school and play. This is why choosing high quality kids backpacks are important, because they go with your kids everywhere.
Kids backpacks are used for holding important things in your children’s daily lives, such as a change of clothes, school books, homework, and their personal items can be safely brought with them.
In camping, kids backpacks serve as a storage for your child’s personal belongings. You no longer have to stash everything in your own bag since your child has a bag of his own which is suitable for his age and built. With so many kids backpacks to choose from, it is your responsibility to buy one that is perfect for your child.
Things to consider when buying kids backpacks
- Each activity or occasion will require different type of kids backpacks. For example, you wouldn’t buy the same type of backpack for use at children’s parties for school use or for outdoor activities. A backpack for daily use and for children’s parties wouldn’t need several pockets, while kids backpacks for school would be better off with more pockets for organization. For this reason it is safe to invest in a variety of different types of kids backpacks.
- It’s important to take careful consideration of your child’s height, size, and age. You do not want to overburden your child with a backpack that is too heavy and too big for them to bring around. Let your child try it on for size, making sure it’s easy for him to put on, and that the shoulder straps are adjustable and thick so as not to leave marks on your child’s shoulders or dig into their skin. Bad-fitting kids backpacks would also result in neck and shoulder injuries, so be sure to select ergonomic, durable, and comfortable models.
- If your child wants a trendy design for their backpack and wants to change themes every year for school, there’s no need to invest heavily in nylon or plastic backpacks they can occasionally use, which are imprinted with their favorite cartoon characters. However, if you want a long-lasting bag that they can use summer after summer and will endure demanding weight of school books and outdoor activities, you may want to invest in high-quality kids backpacks.
- If your child lives an extra active lifestyle, you may want to consider extra useful features of backpacks that will complement their needs, and not be a hindrance. Choose kids backpacks with features such as water bottle pockets, side storage, external bungee cords for additional security of storage, and more.
- Two straps are always better than one when it comes to kids backpacks. Sling-type backpacks can pose to be a burden and keep pressure on one shoulder. It will also pull one shoulder down and cause pain in the neck, back, and shoulder.
- You may also want to look into backpacks with wheels, which your child may find would be a big help especially on certain days at school when they have more to bring than usual.
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Pagosa Springs Elementary School will host a Scholastic Book Fair Nov. 5-15 during school hours in the school library.
Families, teachers and the community are invited to attend the Fair, which will feature a special theme: All Star Book Fair–Every Reader is a Star!
Many activities at the school accompany the book fair and the star theme as this is an exciting time for students at the school and an easy way to increase interest in reading for pleasure.
Students visit the book fair with their class once each week that the fair is open. The first week they preview the books for sale, especially the new releases. There are a wide variety of books and price ranges available and there is always a huge supply of bargain items, many as low as $1.99.
The second week, students view the “Author DVD” supplied by Scholastic, which features authors discussing the books they wrote with kids in mind.
The Partners In Education Committee (P.I.E.) will host the Family Night on Wednesday, Nov. 7, from 5-7 p.m. A delicious and nutritious homemade dinner will be served in the cafeteria. This fun evening will include lots of activities celebrating sports idols, playing interactive video sports and music games, and viewing the stars and constelltions in a mobile planetarium that will be set up for this event. All families are invited to the school for an evening full of “star” fun, to shop the book fair and, of course, to enjoy a meal together.
The elementary school has been hosting book fairs since 1982. The two fairs last year netted the school $4,016 in cash and over $1,880 in books for the school library. Proceeds from the fairs are used for reading and educational improvements that are beyond the basic school budget. In the most recent years, several new pieces of playground equipment and SMARTBoards were purchased with book fair proceeds.
Individuals attending the event can also help build individual classroom libraries by purchasing books for teachers through the Classroom Wish List Program that is highlighted within the book fair.
The Book Fair will offer specially priced books and educational products, including newly released titles, award-winning titles, children’s classics, beautiful hardback books, interactive software, and book titles from more than 150 publishers. There are products for all age ranges and many excellent gift ideas.
The community in invited to attend the book fair as a shopper or volunteer during book fair hours as the event is hosted in the school library and staffed by volunteers.
With questions, or to volunteer, contact Lisa Scott at 264-2730 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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June 17th, 2013 Bunker Hill Day June 17th, 2013 World Day to Combat Desertification June 19th, 2013 Juneteenth June 20th, 2013 West Virginia Day June 20th, 2013 World Refugee Day June 21st, 2013 June Solstice June 23rd, 2013 International Widows' Day June 23rd, 2013 Public Service Day June 26th, 2013 World Day to Support Torture Victims June 26th, 2013 World Day against Drug Abuse and Trafficking July 4th, 2013 Independence Day July 6th, 2013 International Day of Cooperatives July 9th, 2013 Ramadan begins July 11th, 2013 World Population Day July 16th, 2013 Tisha B'Av July 18th, 2013 Nelson Mandela Day
This is a PABLO PICASSO (ESTATE COLLECTION DOMAINE) (1881-1973) small giclee titled "MARIE THERESE WALTER".
This piece is pencil signed on the lower right as 'Collection Domaine Picasso' and has an embossed seal stamped by the Picasso Estate.
Pencil numbered from an edition of 500. Paper measures 14.5" x 11". Image measures 12" x 9". Made on thick quality archival paper.
In excellent condition, comes unframed. Comes with a certificate from the Picasso Domaine Collection.
giclée print is the highest quality print available today. Because
there is no visible dot screen pattern the resulting image has all of
the subtle tonalities of the original art. Each dot may have over 4
billion possible colors! Brilliant color and rich texture have made
giclée prints the reproduction of choice for artists, photographers,
museums, galleries, and collectors. Giclée editions are usually smaller
in number than lithography, serigraphy, or offset printing, making them
much more valuable. Unlike traditional printmaking processes, the last
printed image in a giclée edition will be as vibrant and clear as the
first one. This fine art Giclée is as close to a Picasso original as
you will find without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars!
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Pablo Picasso Marie Therese Walter Estate Signed & Numbered Small Giclee : $40
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OK, it sounds like you are asking for a policy, plan, and practices for secure system administration of a data center. I have some suggestions for you:
Start with a policy. Start by thinking out your security policy. Develop a written security policy, and gain approval from management.
Take a look at SANS's resources on security policies. They'll give you some ideas of things that might make sense for you.
Security plan. Develop a security plan. I suggest you start by building up an inventory of the data and systems you store, with some idea of how critical it is to the mission of your business. This will help you, because you should plan to devote the most energy to securing your most mission-critical assets.
Next, you might give a little thought to what are the most important kinds of attacks or threats that should receive the highest priority (either the most likely, given your situation, or the ones that would be most serious). You can brainstorm what threats you are most likely to face (e.g., who will have an incentive to attack you?), and use this to help you develop a plan for securing your organization.
Once you have inventoried your assets and prioritized the top security issues you are likely to face, develop a plan to mitigate the risks and protect your organization from these attacks. Take a look at the SANS list of top 20 security controls; they might form some elements of your plan, or might give you ideas for how you can protect your assets from these threats.
Execute. Next, implement your plan. You don't need to do everything at once; it is fine to pick a piece of your plan, execute on it, and gradually grow your security maturity level.
Security training. It might be helpful to have some training on good security practices for system administrators. I'm not the right person to ask, but others might have some suggestions. I think SANS has a good reputation for professional training in this area.
Resources for additional information. Take a look at Security policy for system administrators on this site.
You might want to take a look at the questions tagged
security on ServerFault. ServerFault is a sister site where many professional system administrators hang out, and they have some good resources on topics related to security oriented for sysadmins.
You should be aware of professional organizations in this area, and consider joining them and making use of their resources. Look at SANS. They have many resources available on their web page.
Also, look into LISA, a Usenix professional association for system administrators. They have excellent conferences, good networking opportunities, and chances to keep up-to-date on the latest technology. Also, they have a booklet series with some information for sysadmins; see, e.g., System Security: A Management Perspective.
What about Microsoft SDL? Microsoft's SDL is fantastic -- but it is really oriented at software development. I don't think it's going to be as useful to system administrators, so it might not be quite the right resource for you.
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Microsatellite STR Analysis
Variable nucleotide tandem repeats (VNTRs) are repeating sequences of multi-base segments of DNA. If the repeat is equal to or less than 6 bases, NTRs are named microsatellites, also known as short tandem repeats (STRs). One common example of a microsatellite is a (CA)n repeat, where n varies between alleles. Because microsatellites are polymorphic DNA loci present throughout the genome, microsatellite genotyping is a widely accepted tool for a variety of research applications such as linkage mapping studies, association studies, and identification of organisms.
Our five-dye chemistry increases the number of microsatellite markers that can be run in a single capillary, substantially improving the throughput.
Step-by-Step Guide to Microsatellite STR Analysis
DNA extraction is a critical first step in the experimental workflow of DNA Sequencing and Fragment analysis. The overall quality, accuracy and length of the DNA sequence read can be significantly affected by characteristics of the sample itself, and the method chosen for nucleic acid extraction. Ideal methods will vary depending on the source or tissue type, how it was obtained from its source, and how the sample was handled or stored prior to extraction.
Recommended Products: DNA Isolation
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Varieties of ketch
To assist going to windward, a ketch may carry one or more jibs or foresails. If a ketch has no jibs, it is called a cat ketch or a periauger. On older, larger ketches the main mast may in addition carry one or more square rigged topsails.
The large fore-and-aft sail on the mainmast is the mainsail, while the sail on the mizzen mast is the mizzen. These sails may be any type of fore-and-aft sail, in any combination. Most modern ketches are Bermuda rigged, but other possible rigs on a ketch include gunter rigs and gaff rigs. The Scots Zulu, for example, had a dipping lug main with a standing lug mizzen.
The ketch is popular in northern Europe and among long distance cruisers as, compared to a sloop, the additional sail allows for a better balance, and a smaller more easily-handled mainsail. An advantage of the ketch is when sudden increases in wind strength require a rapid reefing: the mainsail can be dropped, reducing sail and leaving a balanced sail-plan with jib and mizzen set. The ketch rig also allows sailing on mizzen and jib only without introducing excessive lee helm, and in an emergency can be quite well steered without use of the rudder. When running before the wind or reaching across the wind, a ketch may set extra sails such as a spinnaker on the main mast, and a spinnaker or mizzen staysail on the mizzen mast.
Similar rigs
Both the ketch and the yawl have two masts, with the main mast foremost; the distinction being that a ketch has the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post, whereas on a yawl, it is aft of the rudder post. Compared to a ketch, a similar size yawl's mizzen sail is much smaller than the main, because of the limitations of the mizzen sheet. So on a ketch, the principal purpose of the mizzen sail is to help propel the vessel, while on a yawl, the smaller mizzen mainly serves the purposes of trim and balance. Yawls tend to have mainsails almost as large as those of comparable sloops..
Both the ketch and the yawl differ from the two-masted schooner, whose aft mainmast is taller than the foremast. (It follows that a schooner does not have a mizzen mast). If a vessel has two masts of approximately the same height, the rig with the larger sail forward is called a ketch, while the rig with the larger sail aft is a schooner. The American two-masted schooner is rare in Europe, where the ketch rig is preferred.
Derivation of "ketch"
Ketch was a "catch" or fishing boat (ketch from Middle English cache, from cacchen, "to catch"). The mizzen is bigger than seen on a yawl in order to hold the bow (front) of a boat toward the wind and oncoming waves. The mainsail at the front of the boat would have been dropped and the mizzen trimmed tight on the centreline. Set up this way most boats will point directly into the wind in a reliable way. It is also possible to ease the mizzen slightly to allow the boat to move slowly forward.
In a fishing boat this attitude allows the nets to be handled without the boat becoming "broadsides" to the waves allowing them to break over the sides of the boat. Fishnets can then be handled without putting the boat at risk.
For enough sail area to propel a fishing boat the mizzen mast has to move forward toward the middle of the boat which allows its sail to be bigger without upsetting the sail balance or distribution.
A "Ketch Rig" is simply the rig that matches the function of a "Ketch" or "Catch" or fishing boat.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, ketches were commonly used as small warships, until superseded in this role by brigs during the latter part of the 18th century.
The original Atlantis, the seagoing research vessel of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute commissioned in 1931, was a steel-hulled ketch. In 1989 Bruce Farr designed the Maxi ketch Steinlager 2, the first maxi yacht built of composite carbon construction. This revolutionary lightweight design went on to win the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989/90.
Popular culture
In 1947 a radio program called Voyage of the Scarlet Queen was set on a ketch. The Scarlet Queen was a 78-foot ketch with a white hull, teak decking, brass bright-work, and sporting the 'Scarlet Queen' herself, on the bowsprit, naked as the day she was born, "a fresh, young body . . . looking forward, . . bold, teasing . . . dressed in only a crown, and painted brilliant red."
A William Garden designed Formosa 51 ketch named "Wanderer" was the main setting in the 1992 cult classic "Captain Ron". Three Formosa 51s were used in filming.
See also
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- Maloney, Elbert S. (2006) Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 65th Edition, page 30. Hearst Communications. ISBN 978-1-58816-232-8.
- Rule F.1.2 of [Sailing Federation] (ed.), Equipment Rules of sailing (edition valid from 2009 to 2012 ed.), retrieved 2009-06-13
- "ketch – definition of ketch by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia". Thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- "History of WHOI Ships : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution". Whoi.edu. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
- amazon.com, Jones, Gregory O. The American Sailboat.
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