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Hatching your start-up through business incubation
Sometimes a little bit of help goes a long way when you are beginning your entrepreneurial voyage. You may have a great business plan, but need a little help with finding a location or financing your start-up costs.
Business incubators are a great way for entrepreneurs to get the support they need through proven mentoring and management expertise. With a success rate of 87%, as stated by Marie Lussier, President of Canadian Association of Business Incubation, business incubation is certainly a tried and true method that works!
Business incubator programs usually select businesses that are at the beginning of their life cycle. The chosen business start-ups are given ongoing managerial and financial support for two or three years, until they can survive on their own.
Many business incubators are located in rural communities, as they benefit the community with jobs, growth and increased revenue. Many businesses then decide to stay and help with the growth in a rural setting, after their incubation period has ended.
For more resources on business incubation, contact the Canadian Association of Business Incubation. For start-up information, access our Starting a business and Business planning sections to help you plan a successful start for your business.
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"A lot of us out here are fighting for our lives,” said Feliciano, 51. “A lot of people are desperate. They don't know where they are getting their next meal.
After traveling six miles by foot and by bus to bring food home to her five children in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood, Cherry Barnett broke down in tears.
"I've had it,” she said. “I don't want to live here anymore. We can't live like this."
Gas rationing begins in New York City
When I called Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office to ask why so much of the relief effort had been left to volunteers, I got immense pushback.
Before the storm hit, Mayor Bloomberg said that New York City didn’t need FEMA’s help because the city had “everything under control.” You don’t have to spend much time in Queens to realize that New York City needs all the help it can get. It is extremely fortunate that it is getting so much help from volunteers.
When I asked one FEMA official what his workers were doing, he said they were mainly trying to make sure that residents applied for assistance. That is not insignificant, of course, but it’s not exactly leading the charge.
What do we know about how older adults fare, emotionally, in a disaster like that devastating storm, which destroyed homes and businesses and isolated older adults in darkened apartment buildings, walk-ups and houses?
“They’re afraid of being alone,” she said in a telephone interview a few days after the storm. “They’re worried that if anything happens to them, no one is going to know. They feel that they’ve lost their connection with the world.”
“In geriatrics, we have this idea of the ‘geriatric cascade’ that refers to how a seemingly minor thing can set in motion a functional, cognitive and psychological downward spiral” in vulnerable older adults, said Dr. Mark Lachs, chief of the division of geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College. “Well, the storm was a major thing — a very large disequilibrating event — and its impact is an enormous concern.”
Be mindful of worrisome signs like unusual listlessness, apathy, unresponsiveness, agitation or confusion. These may signal that an older adult has developed delirium, which can be extremely dangerous if not addressed quickly, Dr. Nathanson said.
The damage was so severe and so universal there can be little doubt plans for scores of weddings scheduled for the first weekend in November unraveled including Amanda and Michael’s.
On Nov. 1, Amanda and her mom, Stephanie, turned to their pastor, Msgr. Sam A. Sirianni, telling him that even though the wedding reception was cancelled by the venue because of the hurricane, the couple very much wanted their Church wedding. Despite the fact that the church was without light or heat, Msgr. Sirianni quickly agreed.
And, when Mrs. Santoro asked Msgr. Sirianni if it would be alright to bring in a sheet cake for a very small reception after the wedding, it set off a chain of events that soon escalated into a full-scale parish effort to give the young couple the closest thing they could to the reception of their dreams.
Walter Russell Mead, Hurricane Sandy and the Perils of Nanny State Governance
Here in New York we have a very busy government. It’s worried about the kinds of fats we eat and the size of the soft drinks we buy, and there is no shortage of regulations affecting businesses, street vendors, and individuals. But in all this exciting fine tuning, nobody seems to have bothered to think about the much greater task of keeping floodwaters out of the subway system. Admittedly, getting public support and finding the money for flood protection would be hard, but it is exactly that kind of hard job that governments are supposed to do. Leadership is getting the important things done, not looking busy on secondary tasks while the real needs of the city go quietly unmet.
William McGurn, Sandy and the Failures of Blue-Statism
The irony is that modern American liberalism has become a movement grounded less in practical politics than a sort of religious fervor—and often requiring the same strong faith in the face of disappointment and failure. The difference, of course, is that while religions often promise to deliver in the next world, government is supposed to do it in this one.
Human nature doesn't change; people need other people. Bonding with a friend is not the same as connecting on Facebook and more and more teenagers don't know how to do it.
Mark Tapson explores the phenomenon and several new books about it in Alone, together
She relates to her friends through the network, while practically ignoring whomever she is with at the moment. She relates to the places and people she is actually with only insofar as they are suitable for transmission to others in remote locations. The most social girl in her class doesn’t really socialize in the real world at all.
In this era of easy worldwide connectedness, our youth are suffering an unprecedented degree of emotional detachment, depression and loneliness. “The more connected we become, the lonelier we are,” argues Atlantic writer Stephen Marche.
These kids have grown up barely experiencing friendship without an online component, and that element actually detracts from rather than supplements their real human interaction. “It’s hard to know how to act around people now,” says Phil Gibson, a sophomore at University of San Francisco, “because the only thing kids know is how to act on Facebook.”
A surprising percentage of teenagers are beginning to get this and want out. A study by Common Sense Media found that 43 percent of teens wished they could unplug from their technology. Nearly half of teens say they get frustrated with friends for texting, surfing the net, or checking their Facebook when they hang out together.
Already without power for more than a week in the wake of Sandy, hard-hit residents of the borough's South Shore braved a winter storm Wednesday night, with many -- perhaps hundreds -- huddling in condemned homes and ignoring orders to evacuate out of fear looters would take what little Mother Nature has left them.
"FEMA packed up everything yesterday and left the area," said MaryLou Wong, whose home in the Midland Beach neighborhood was destroyed. "They haven't come back."
One group of residents, calling themselves the "Brown Cross," is patrolling the devastated streets, armed with walkie-talkies, and helping residents clear debris and pump water from their flooded homes.
“We’ve done more for our community than FEMA, the Red Cross and the National Guard combined, directly hitting houses and people in need,” Frank Recce, the 24-year-old longshoreman and Iraq Army veteran who organized the group, told FoxNews.com.
Green and yellow placards signify the home is safe to re-enter, but for homes with red placards, the city advises residents to “hire a New York State-licensed professional (Registered Architect or Professional Engineer) to file plans with the department and a hire a contractor to make the necessary repairs.
Hiring an architect was not on the immediate horizon for residents who were simply trying to survive.
On Friday LIPA reported 163,029 customers in Nassau and Suffolk Counties and the Rockaway Peninsula were still without power. That figure includes thousands who had lost power in this week's nor'easter, many of whom have had service restored. Families, the elderly and the disabled have no heat or electricity.
"It's a nightmare, and I'm just living each minute. We don't know what's gonna happen the next minute," Schwartz said.
Homeowner Richard Feldman called the recovery effort a failure. "There are tens of thousands of people out there, like me, with no home," Feldman said.
Brian Sotelo is a man who finally has reached his breaking point.
Anger drips from every word as he peers at the tops of white tents rising over the trees in the distance. The depth of despair in his eyes is difficult to fathom.
The Seaside Heights, N.J., resident was at a Toms River, N.J., arena with his wife and three kids a half hour before the shelter opened as superstore Sandy approached last week. On Wednesday, Sotelo was part of a contingent shifted to this makeshift tent city in a parking lot across the road from a racetrack about 30 miles north.
"Sitting there last night you could see your breath," Sotelo said. Outside temperatures hovered below freezing, in the upper 20s and low 30s. "At (the arena) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletive).
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What Is It?
Testicular cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in one or both testicles (testes). The testicles are the male sex glands. They are located in the scrotum, behind the penis. They produce testosterone and other male hormones. The testicles also produce and store sperm, the male cells needed for reproduction.
Once testicular cancer develops, it can remain within the testicle, or it can spread to lymph nodes in the abdomen or pelvis. If it is not detected and treated, testicular cancer eventually can spread to the lungs, brain, liver, and other parts of the body. Certain types of testicular cancer are more likely to spread than others.
Most testicular cancer patients are between the ages of 20 and 40. Though testicular cancer accounts for a very small percentage of all cancer cases in men, it is the most common cancer in younger men.
Testicular cancer is more common in white men than in black men. Men who had an undescended testicle as infants have an increased risk for testicular cancer. (An undescended testicle is one that remains in the abdomen or groin instead of moving normally into the scrotum before or soon after birth.) Men who have cancer in one testicle have a small lifetime risk of developing it in the other one, whether or not they had an undescended testicle.
Other men also are at increased risk for testicular cancer, including men who have:
Close relatives who have had testicular cancer
An undeveloped testicle
Been diagnosed as HIV positive
Certain genetic conditions, such as Down syndrome or Klinefelter syndrome.
Some experts think that these conditions also increase risk:
Mumps infection of the testicle
Maternal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES)
Exposure to Agent Orange.
Sometimes, testicular cancer is found when a man is being evaluated for infertility.
The two main types of testicular tumors are germ cell tumors and tumors of supportive tissues, or stromal tumors. Nearly all testicular cancers start in germ cells. These are the cells that make sperm.
There are two types of germ cell tumors: seminomas and non-seminomas. Seminomas tend to grow slowly. These cancers usually stay within the testicles for a long time without spreading. Non-seminomas form in more mature germ cells. They are more likely to spread, especially to lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are bean-shaped structures throughout the body that produce and store infection-fighting cells.
A small percentage of testicular cancers are tumors of supportive tissues. They begin in the tissues that support the testicles. These stromal cancers are called Sertoli cell tumors and Leydig cell tumors.
Most often, men notice a painless swelling or hardening of a testicle. It may be hard on one side, but not the other. Sometimes, men notice a painful lump in the scrotum.
Men also may notice breast enlargement. Rarely, a milky fluid may come out of the nipple. These two symptoms occur when the tumor affects the secretion of male hormones.
Less common symptoms include:
These less common symptoms tend to appear after the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.
Your doctor will ask when you first noticed symptoms and whether they have worsened over time. He or she will examine the testicle and feel for swollen lymph nodes. Tell your doctor if you had an undescended testicle when you were born.
Your doctor may suspect that you have testicular cancer based on your symptoms or findings during the physical exam, such as a hard lump or area of tenderness. To determine whether a soft lump is solid or fluid filled, your doctor may shine a small flashlight on the lump to see if light travels through it.
The physical exam may be followed by:
An ultrasound, which can be used to check for a mass or excess fluid inside the testicle.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scans, which use magnetic fields or X-rays to create images of the abdomen. Your doctor will check the images for abnormal masses and enlarged lymph nodes.
A chest X-ray, to seewhether the cancer has spread to the lungs.
If your doctor suspects that the testicle has turned and twisted off its blood supply, a special type of imaging scan may be done.
The best way to confirm the diagnosis of testicular cancer is to remove the testicle. This procedure is called an orchiectomy. The testicle will then be examined in a laboratory to determine whether cancer is present, and if so, what type. Blood tests also will be done to measure levels of tumor-marker proteins. These include:
In many men, testicular cancer develops slowly and may remain undetected for years. More often, testicular cancer grows rapidly and needs treatment right away.
Like all cancers, testicular cancer will continue to grow and possibly spread until it is treated.
There is no way to prevent most cases of testicular cancer.
Men who had an undescended testicle at birth should be monitored regularly for early signs of cancer. Most pediatricians recommend surgery to lower an undescended testicle into the scrotum at a very early age. If the testicle did not even begin its descent into the scrotum, some pediatricians recommend removing it. These "abdominal testes" are more likely to become cancerous over time.
Treatment depends on the patient's overall health, the type of testicular cancer, and its stage, a measure of how far the cancer has spread. The stages of testicular cancer are
Stage I. Cancer is found only in the testicle.
Stage II. Cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes in the abdomen or pelvis.
Stage III. Cancer has spread to the lungs, brain, liver, or other parts of the body. Or, cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes and levels of tumor-marker proteins in the blood are quite high.
Recurrent. Cancer has returned after treatment.
The treatment for most types and stages of testicular cancer is to remove the testicle. During this procedure, the surgeon removes the testicle through an incision in the groin. Both before the surgery and a few weeks afterward, blood tests will be done to measure levels of tumor markers. Some men will need additional surgery to see whether the cancer has spread to lymph nodes in the abdomen or pelvis.
After surgery, the treatment of testicular cancer depends on the cancer's stage. Some men will need only regular monitoring. However, most men will need additional treatment, such as radiation or chemotherapy. Radiation can be directed at the lymph nodes to destroy any bits of cancer that can't be seen. Chemotherapy is used when cancer has spread beyond the testicle. It can also help keep the cancer from coming back.
In general, patients with seminomas often receive radiation therapy. Radiation therapy doesn't work as well in patients with non-seminomas. Instead, they tend to undergo surgery and chemotherapy.
After treatment, regular follow-up exams are critical to make certain that the cancer is gone. For the first two years, a man is examined every one to two months. Blood tests, X-rays and CT scans are also done. After that, physical exams and blood tests are done a little less often, with X-rays happening only once or twice a year.
Review your treatment options with an expert in the treatment of testicular cancer. Make sure you understand all of the choices before making a treatment decision.
When to Call a Professional
Contact your doctor if you discover a lump on one or both testicles or in the scrotum. You should also call your doctor if you develop persistent pain or swelling of either testicle.
Because testicular cancer is so rare, many doctors may never treat a patient with the disease. That's why patients who have been diagnosed with testicular cancer should be treated at a large cancer center where the staff is expert in evaluating and caring for men with this condition. Doctors who use chemotherapy and/or radiation to treat testicular cancer need special skills and knowledge to treat the disease safely and effectively. Experience counts.
Testicular cancer usually can be cured if it is detected and treated early. However, this cancer can spread silently and quickly. This means that some men will not be diagnosed until the disease is in an advanced stage.
At one time, testicular cancer could not be cured if it had spread beyond the testicles. Now, testicular cancer is one of the most curable cancers.
Most men with testicular cancer have an excellent prognosis. Men with Stage I disease are very likely to be cured with surgery and radiation therapy. Men with Stage II disease have a very good prognosis following surgery and radiation or chemotherapy. Even men with the most advanced cases have a fair prognosis: More than half of them will be alive five years later.
People who have been cured of testicular cancer involving one testicle have a small risk of developing cancer in the other testicle at some point in their lives.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Public Inquiries Office
6116 Executive Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20892-8322
American Cancer Society (ACS)
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According to Dragusin, on Sept. 18, he first discovered a log with usernames and passwords in plaintext, publicly available via IEEE's FTP server for at least a month. He informed them of his find yesterday, and evidently the organization is addressing the issue.Among the users who's information was exposed are researchers at NASA, Stanford, IBM, Google, Apple, Oracle and Samsung. IEEE's membership of over 340,000 is roughly half American (49.8 percent as of 2011). Other members reside in India, China and the Pacific Rim (23.4 percent) and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (18.3 percent). Some 8 percent of IEEE's membership constitute government employees, including the military. Most work in the private sector and academia.
While it's too early to fully assess the severity of the data breach, which impacts both ieee.org and spectrum.ieee.org, Dragusin states that the available information exposes these users' activity on these sites. Malicious parties interested in identifying users could conceivably be assisted in mounting spear phishing attacks on these users, and potentially come up with social engineering exploits.
Since Dragusin's announcement via his blog, which includes a thorough breakdown of the information he accessed (though he has stated he will not provide the data log to third parties), Infosec professionals such as Dave Lewis of LiquidMatrix.org have sought to verify the breach. It is sure to spread like wildfire as it has just been posted via SlashDot.org.
Leandro Oliva is a freelance writer who currently covers technology and defense issues for Business Insider and Motherboard, among others.
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Actually, I never called my father “Papà.” I know he would have preferred it, but at some point after “Giulia” was changed to “Julia,” unofficially but permanently at the insistence of an elementary school teacher, he became “Daddy.” His name had also been anglicized, much earlier, at Ellis Island, from Giovanni della Croce to John Dellacroce. Still, he was more Giovanni than John when it came to most things. Born in Toritto, Provincia di Bari, Regione di Puglia, Italy, on April 13, 1908, he died a couple of months shy of 100, on my birthday.
My father had an extraordinary life that spanned nearly a century, from the times of Theodore Roosevelt to the present day. The threads that ran through it were pluck and courage, heart and loyalty, earnestness and honesty, vigor and passion. From immigrant to student, cowboy and stone mason to journalist and entrepreneur, he lived his life to the fullest. I like to remember him the way he looks in a photograph taken c. 1926 in the “Wild West”—by his accounts, it was still wild in those days—where he rambled as a young man to nurse a broken heart. He was handsome and vibrant, wearing a cowboy hat and riding a mule, a keg and rifle slung across his saddle. The setting was a sheep ranch in Montana, one of his many gigs as he bummed across America, riding the trains as a stowaway along with the hoboes he loved to tell me about when I sat on his lap for a good story.
He loved the Apulian food he grew up on, the sweets especially. These traditional cookies from Puglia, taralli dolci, or sweet taralli (there are savory versions) were an obsession. The recipe originated with his mother, but my aunt, Nettie Messina, a talented baker, fiddled with it until her sweet taralli were even better than my grandmother’s. They’re the best and lightest I’ve ever had. She would send big boxes filled with them on his birthday and for Christmas, and if my mother didn’t ration out the cookies and then hide the box, I think he would have eaten them all at once.
Here’s to you, Daddy, wherever you are in the Great Beyond, a sweet remembrance.
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Aunt Nettie’s Sweet Love Knots (taralli dolci)
Makes 8 to 9 dozen cookies
From Italian Home Cooking: 125 Recipes to Comfort Your Soul, by Julia della Croce (Kyle Books, 2010)
5 cups unsifted flour, plus additional
1½ cups sugar (1¼ if you like it less sweet)
6 teaspoons of baking powder
16 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
8 extra-large eggs
3 tablespoons pure vanilla
For the glaze:
1½ cups confectioners’ sugar
½ cup water or milk
Equipment needed: as many baking sheets as your oven will accommodate, bakers’ parchment
1. Preheat an oven to 350°F. Line the baking sheets with parchment.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, and baking powder. Cut the butter in the flour mixture as if making pie crust. If mixing by hand, make a “well” in the center of the mixture.
3. Beat the eggs with the vanilla and pour them into the well. Gradually add the flour into the eggs until it is all incorporated. Wash hands well and mix and knead the dough until smooth. You may have to add more flour until the dough is soft but workable. Turn the dough out onto a clean, lightly floured work surface. Keep adding a little flour to the surface, as necessary, as you are shaping the dough if it sticks.
4. To form the cookies, take a piece of dough the size of a walnut and roll it with your hands on the work surface to form a log about the size of your middle finger. Then take one end of the log and place it over the opposite end so that a small hole remains in the center. Place the “love knots” on the lined cookie sheets about 1 inch apart. Bake until lightly browned, about 18 minutes. Transfer them to racks.
5. While the cookies are baking, make the glaze. In a medium bowl, whisk the confectioners’ sugar with the water until smooth. While the cookies are cooling, brush the tops with the glaze—it should have a thick consistency, as it will melt on the surface and form a thick glaze as the taralli cool.
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Every kid loves bouncy balls. No matter how advanced, electronic, or "ahead of their time" a toy may be, kids still love the classic toys - like balls! Balls are not just for kickball anymore, however. A fitball, or balance ball, is a great tool to have around. One emerging trend is to use a balance ball as seating. Some teachers are now using these in their classrooms instead of chairs. Several studies have shown that as many as 90% of students do not fit their classroom furniture properly. A balance ball, like the Gymnic Maxafe ball is a great replacement for traditional chairs.
These balls are fantastic for fidgety kids, because the kids focus their extra energy into staying balanced. These balance balls offer lots of other benefits as well. Balance balls promote proper posture, balance, trunk control, and more. Balls like the FitBall are a big hit with music teachers as well. Proper posture is imperative when playing a musical instrument, so this type of ball is a perfect choice for music classes. Balls can also promote group play with children.
If safety is a concern for some people, there's no need to worry with the Fitball. This FitBall is the only burst resistant ball with dynamic elasticity. It is made from a special material that resists bursting, because it stops a cut from expanding. Rather than bursting, the ball will deflate slowly if punctured. The FitBall is also weight tested for over six hundred pounds, so it is a perfect choice for anyone. Not only is the FitBall a great choice for the physical benefits, but it's also a fun, colorful, and funky choice for furniture.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A liberal national advocacy group is criticizing the solution proposed by Illinois' Democratic governor to the state's Medicaid crisis, a sign of the conflict ahead for state lawmakers on the issue.
Families USA issued a new report Wednesday that estimates job losses of more than 25,000 if Illinois cuts Medicaid spending by $2.7 billion.
That amount of cuts was proposed by Gov. Pat Quinn in February as he called for the Legislature to stop pushing unpaid Medicaid bills into future budget years. Quinn last week proposed cutting Medicaid projected spending by $2 billion and raising cigarette taxes to close the rest of the Medicaid budget gap.
A Medicaid budget cut of $2 billion in Illinois would place more than 19,000 jobs at risk and cost the state an estimated $2.45 billion in business activity, Kathleen Stoll of Families USA said.
Medicaid is the primary payer of care for more than 60 percent of Illinois nursing home residents, or 47,000 elderly and disabled Illinoisans, according to the new report. Medicaid also pays for more than one in five hospital stays. And Medicaid services allow family caregivers to keep working, rather than quit their jobs to care for elderly and disabled family members.
The Illinois-based Campaign for Better Health Care joined Families USA in issuing the report. Both groups work for affordable health care for all Americans and are traditional allies of Democrats.
It's not the first time Families USA has criticized Medicaid cuts in a state led by a Democratic governor, but the report is unusual because it features Quinn's name prominently and frequently.
"Governor Quinn has proposed a cut of nearly 18 percent to Medicaid. If he succeeds, more than 25,600 Illinois jobs will be put at risk and business activity will be reduced by an estimated $3.3 billion," the report states. The report was prepared before Quinn announced his plan for $2 billion in cuts and a cigarette tax increase.
The Families USA report offered no alternative plan for balancing the Illinois Medicaid budget. Representatives of the groups said by phone they agree with the cigarette tax plan. Jim Duffett of the Campaign for Better Health Care suggested closing "corporate tax loopholes." He acknowledged that Illinois can't continue to let late Medicaid payments pile up year after year.
The Families USA job loss estimates are based on a model created by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Families USA worked with a University of Baltimore economics researcher to develop its calculations of how Medicaid cuts affect jobs, Stoll said.
Jobs lost after Medicaid cuts would be largely in the health care sector, but also in other businesses as lost federal funding ripples through the economy, Stoll said.
The Illinois Hospital Association has used the Families USA calculations in its public statements against Quinn's cuts.
But others aren't convinced of the jobs impact. Matt Salo, executive director of the Washington-based National Association of Medicaid Directors, said although he's not familiar with the Families USA methodology, "it's a very, very difficult game to try to correlate budget cuts to job losses in any field. It's way too speculative."
Last week, Quinn's plan got an endorsement from the Chicago-based Civic Federation, which called it a reasonable response to the crisis situation.
AP Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/CarlaKJohnson
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Front covers of 'Das Andere', 1903
Loos's polemical writings brought his views to a wider public and were to have a lasting impact. They showed Loos's admiration for the culture of Britain and America and the influence of his time in the United States between 1893 and 1896. It was upon his return from America when Loos began to write many articles, bringing together the modern elements of Anglo-Saxon way of life he so admired and rallying against the fashions and cultural backwardness of Austria. As well as his own writings, Loos was part of an intellectual circle in Vienna that included writers Peter Altenberg and Karl Kraus amongst others.
His magazine, Das Andere, which ran for just two issues, came out in 1903 and featured advertisements for 'typically' English clothing. The articles in this short-lived publication reflected Loos's concern to bring the Anglo-Saxon culture to Vienna.
His writings were sometimes thinly veiled attacks on others with whom he disagreed with, such as members of the Vienna Secession through his essay 'The Poor Little Rich Man'. This was an imagined story of a man's life made miserable and his house rendered unliveable by the excess of applied art created for him by his architect. As the Secession gained acceptance and influence, Loos published this essay as part of an anthology called 'Spoken into the Void' in 1900.
Loos's argument develops further in his most famous article, 'Ornament and Crime', which appeared in 1908 along with other articles where he comments on the state of contemporary culture. He attacks superficial ornamentation as wasteful and a sign of primitiveness that was holding back the development of humanity. His belief that excess decoration could be replaced by the use of fine materials and craftsmanship is evidenced in his built work which was to bring him more public attention.
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More on MRSA: Online Resources
Folks seem to be having difficulty accessing information and others who have had similar problems with infections. I have been unable to get information about rehabilitation post-infection so I will be looking for some clinicians to interview next week - volunteers? MRSA has killed more people in the US than AIDS... 18,650 deaths in the US were attributed to MRSA in 2005. That number exceeds the number of deaths due to emphysema or homicide.
Here are some other online resources for people who want to look, read or chat with others with MRSA experiences:
- MRSA Resources: a survivor of a near-fatal MRSA septicemia and his wife started this website to encourage others and provide information. This is another case of misdiagnosis with spider bite.
- CDC Strategies for Clinical Management of MRSA in the Community : 24 pages of expert advice available on line from the experts
- MRSA and the Workplace from NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
- Surveillance - Data Collection & Statistical Analysis
- Epidemiologic and Laboratory Research
- Outbreak and Laboratory Support
- Extramural funding
Recent Blog Posts
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Too New for GNU: Development Not Always Smooth as Cilk
Subject: General Tech, Processors | December 28, 2012 - 04:25 PM | Scott Michaud
Due to Phoronix being particularly interesting lately, how would you like a little more open-source news?
GCC is one of the most important compilers for C/C++-based software due to its ubiquity both in where it can run as well as where it can compile to. Intel has a lot of experience developing for compilers, to say the least. Creating a competing product does not stop Intel from contributing to the project, however.
Aww, looks like he wants a hug.
Intel created C/C++ language extensions known as “Cilk Plus” designed to help developers parallelize their code on multithreaded processors. Both the compiler and run-time portions of Cilk Plus has been made open source and were submitted to be included into GCC. Unfortunately, for reasons which are currently unclear, GCC completed development of version 4.8 of their software without the inclusion of Cilk Plus.
Patches developed by Intel have been available since the summer awaiting approval from the official maintainers of GCC. Because the deadline passed without inclusion of the completed code, we will allegedly need to wait until at least 2014 -- maybe longer -- before Cilk Plus has another chance to be included in the GCC.
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1. Practical Teaching Ideas with Multisim
Practical Teaching Ideas is a collection of laboratories that implement elements of the NI Electronics Education platform (described below) such as Multisim and the NI ELVIS prototyping platform. The course was originally developed by Tracy Shields, an electrical engineer and experienced instructor from Toronto, Canada. Practical Teaching Ideas provides instructors with ready-made labs that can be used in their courses immediately. The labs cover common introductory and advanced concepts in electrical engineering from basic DC circuit analysis using Multimeters to sophisticated measurements with network analyzers.
The Practical Teaching Ideas may be used free of charge without restriction in an educational setting. These exercises, complete with lab procedures and questions, will reinforce important concepts, build student confidence and make the most of valuable lab time. These experiments can be given directly to students as lab exercises and also include suggestions as to other areas of possible use.
Practical Teaching Ideas is organized into 12 separate sections covering discrete topics. You may download individual sections along with their corresponding NI Multisim circuit schematics, or you can download the entire Practical Teaching Ideas manual as a single set.
3. Download Full Manual
You can download the entire Practical Teaching Ideas manual in a single compressed .ZIP archive. The archive also contains the Multisim circuits for each chapter.
4. Download by Section
Section 1 - Circuits and Thevenin’s Theorem
Section 2 - Oscilloscope and Filters Introduced with the Bode Plotter
Section 3 - Diodes
Section 4 - Transistors
Section 5 - Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
Section 6 - Operational Amplifiers
Section 7 - Thyristors and Switches
Section 8 - Digital Circuits
Section 9 - Analog and Digital Combinations
Section 10 - Radio Frequency Communication
Section 11 - Waveguides and the Network Analyzer
Section 12 - Student Evaluation and Pre-Labs
5. The NI Electronics Education Platform
The NI Electronics Education Platform is an end-to-end tool chain designed to meet the needs of students and educators. It is an ideal mix of integrated hardware and software that guides students through the engineering and design process from understanding circuit theory to developing and simulating designs, and then on to prototyping and validation.
The platform consists of NI Multisim, the NI ELVIS prototyping workstation, and NI LabVIEW and SignalExpress. NI Multisim provides intuitive schematic capture and SPICE simulation to help students explore circuit theory and investigate behavior. Multisim also includes a 3D prototyping environment which can help students to bridge from a software environment to real-world designs. The NI ELVIS is a prototyping platform that allows students to quickly and easily develop their circuits and take measurements interactively using 12 built-in virtual instruments such as an oscilloscope, multimeter, variable power supply, and function generator. NI LabVIEW and SignalExpress are ideal environments which offer intuitive interfaces to measurements, and allow students to compare their measurements and simulations on the same display.
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Yes, Florida's unemployment rate dropped to 9.6 percent in January — its lowest point since March 2009.
But the news isn't so great for Gov. Rick Scott, who made creating 700,000 jobs in seven years his top campaign promise.
Even though the state's unemployment rate is down, actual job numbers are down, too — 38,600 jobs lost in January, economists reported Tuesday. The good-news, bad-news numbers are largely because the two statistics measure different things.
For Scott, the bottom line is this: The state created 77,100 jobs from January 2011 through January 2012. The number's even lower — 54,200 jobs — if you exclude the month Scott was sworn into office. Either measure is far short of the deal Scott made with voters who elected him in 2010, when he said he would create 700,000 jobs in seven years. PolitiFact Florida continues to rate his promise Stalled.
Scott, who celebrated a rosy December jobs report with a conference call, did not take reporters' questions Tuesday. Instead, his office issued a statement that focused on the unemployment drop but not the job creation numbers:
"It's great to see Florida's economy is trending in the right direction and our unemployment rate is the lowest in three years," Scott said in the statement.
During the campaign, Scott proposed a seven-step plan that he said would lead to the creation of 700,000 jobs. When asked by reporters, Scott said those jobs would be in addition to the jobs economists predicted would be created naturally — by either population growth or growth in the overall economy.
But Scott flip-flopped months into office, announcing in October that he would rely "on actual job growth each month."
Now even that modified promise is looking shaky.
Originally, employment data measured by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics helped Scott claim that he added 130,000 jobs in 2011.
That outlook was different after economists crunched the data again. The 2011 net jobs created was really 115,700, according to revised data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And in January 2012, the state lost 38,600 nonfarm jobs — the largest drop in the country.
We should note that January 2012 numbers are preliminary and that previous job losses reported for January 2010 and January 2011 were later reported as job gains. Economists revisit the monthly jobs data, which is initially based on a survey, and compare the survey with tax forms. Fixes are often necessary.
Still, economists say that since Scott took office, the state has added 77,100 jobs — or 54,200 jobs — depending on when you start counting. That's miles short of the pace he needs to keep his original promise. It's also now shy of even the revised promise he made in October.
Either way, this promise remains Stalled.
Times/Herald staff writer Toluse Olorunnipa contributed to this report.
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Sustainable Energy Pathways
Important Notice to Proposers
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), NSF 13-1, was issued on October 4, 2012 and is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 14, 2013. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 13-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
Please be aware that significant changes have been made to the PAPPG to implement revised merit review criteria based on the National Science Board (NSB) report, National Science Foundation's Merit Review Criteria: Review and Revisions. While the two merit review criteria remain unchanged (Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts), guidance has been provided to clarify and improve the function of the criteria. Changes will affect the project summary and project description sections of proposals. Annual and final reports also will be affected.
A by-chapter summary of this and other significant changes is provided at the beginning of both the Grant Proposal Guide and the Award & Administration Guide.
A sustainable world is one in which human needs are met equitably without harm to the environment, and without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Growing evidence for the role of energy use in global change and awareness of limitations in our energy choices are motivating a search for pathways that are technologically innovative as well as environmentally and economically sustainable at all scales of energy usage. This is a grand challenge to the scientific community that cuts across disciplinary boundaries.
The creation of a secure and prosperous future for humanity depends on the contributions that science, engineering, and education will make towards building sustainable pathways to meet the energy needs of future generations. The dual roles of NSF - to support basic research and education - are ideally suited to stimulate vibrant science and engineering discovery and innovation efforts that will be needed to meet the challenge of building a sustainable energy future.
Sustainable Energy Pathways is part of the NSF-wide initiative on Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES). The Sustainable Energy Pathways solicitation calls for innovative, interdisciplinary basic research in science, engineering, and education by teams of researchers for developing systems approaches to sustainable energy pathways based on a comprehensive understanding of the scientific, technical, environmental, economic, and societal issues.
The SEP solicitation considers scalable approaches for sustainable energy conversion to useful forms, as well as its storage, transmission, distribution, and use. The following Topic Areas illustrate the broad scope of sustainable energy interest areas of this solicitation: Energy Harvesting & Conversion from Renewable Resources; Sustainable Energy Storage Solutions; Critical Elements & Materials for Sustainable Energy; Nature-Inspired Processes for Sustainable Energy Solutions; Reducing Carbon Intensity from Energy Conversion & Use; Sustainable Energy Transmission & Distribution; Energy Efficiency & Management.
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It serves the purposes of both sides to portray the recent departure from the American Legislative Exchange Council of several of its corporate sponsors as a “War on ALEC,” in which left-wing groups pressured Coca-Cola and other corporations into defecting from the organization. A war, for both the left and the right, makes for great fundraising.
In a sense this story line is accurate. The campaign led by the African American group Color of Change was the catalyst for the corporation’s break with ALEC over its promotion of “stand your ground” gun laws like the one involved in the Trayvon Martin case. Much the same can be said about the Media Matters for America drive against Rush Limbaugh in the wake of his comments about Sandra Fluke earlier this year. If you want to elevate these interest-group scrimmages up to the status of full-scale armed conflict, fine, we can call it a “war.”
But the alacrity with which so many companies followed Coca-Cola’s lead, like the rush away from Rush, makes it seem as if they were just waiting for the chance to close the checkbook on ALEC. Which makes sense, when you consider how much the contemporary corporate mindset is geared to the ruthless elimination of the extraneous.
The purchasing of influence can be a very sloppy business, a fact which can’t be a revelation to the executives of the corporations footing the bill. Coke bought in to ALEC, as it indicated in its statement breaking ties with the group, because it was concerned about a soda pop tax. When it found it was also buying trouble over another issue, it cut its losses.
“We have a long-standing policy of only taking positions on issues that impact our Company and industry,” Coca-Cola’s statement said. Given the company’s global reach, you might take that with a grain of salt, but the point remains: Coke is not an ideological organization.
If this really has been a war, surrender came very quickly. ALEC announced last week it’s ditching its Public Safety and Elections Task Force, which was responsible for the “stand your ground” and voter ID laws which have become the most controversial aspects of ALEC’s agenda. Just as Limbaugh continued to rail at the feminazis after his apology to Fluke, ALEC is calling on conservative bloggers to defend it against liberal attacks, but in effect it has already conceded the issue at hand.
Viewed from this perspective, the “war” starts to look more like a corporate reshuffling – and a warning from corporate offices that their interest groups should stay as targeted as they are. They might, come to think of it, also take a look at the budgets of the national associations representing them in Washington.
Although it isn’t good for ALEC to have Common Cause joining in to question its tax-exempt status, one spate of bad press seems no more likely to topple the organization than anything but a coronary is likely to knock Limbaugh off the air (according to one recent report, his advertisers are already beginning to drift back). But the story does expose ALEC, and the mostly Republican legislators who rely on it, to some unaccustomed sunlight.
Generally, state legislatures don’t get the attention they deserve, and the rise of ALEC as a major force in state legislatures is one of the big stories missed by the national media over the past few years. In Georgia and elsewhere, conservative legislators have lept to its defense.
“Why shouldn’t the private sector be able to sit at a table and discuss legislation that affects the country and them and people?” Sen. Mike Rose, a South Carolina Republican, told the Charleston Post and Courier. “The legislators that I know who are conscientiously trying to figure out what’s the best thing are using these organizations to obtain information. They’re certainly not a rubber stamp.”
Despite his protests, the South Carolina legislator puts his finger on the touchiest part of the ALEC story. Businesses sit across the table from lawmakers to work out legislation all over the country, and ALEC isn’t the only national organization which produces model legislation. But ALEC has become so proficient in churning out model legislation – the liberal Center for Media and Democracy has published more than 800 template-style bills and resolutions it says ALEC authored – that the rubber stamp question becomes relevant.
According to the Post-Courier story, when Rose was questioned on one of his bills recently in Columbia, he asked for a delay so he could consult with ALEC. Georgia not being a state as notable for its candor as its neighbor, you don’t hear that sort of thing referred to as openly under the Golden Dome. But when you begin to compare the similarity of legislation from state to state, you can’t escape the conclusion that a lot of lawmakers around the country have not only been following ALEC’s line, they’ve been phoning it in.
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BERLIN (AP) -- Germany and France recognize that their cooperation is key to overcoming Europe's persistent economic crisis, but comments Thursday by the leaders of the continent's No. 1 and 2 economies suggested they still have diverging priorities.
French President Francois Hollande argued that the 17-nation eurozone should integrate more, calling for greater pooling in the long run of political and financial resources. He favors easing back on debt reduction measures to help the economy grow.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has rejected the idea of pooling European debt, says governments must first work on getting their finances in order and making their economies more competitive through reforms. She stressed Thursday the importance of reforms in France.
"What we need above all is a common understanding in Europe - and there unfortunately isn't one yet - of what actually makes us strong and where growth comes from," Merkel said at a European policy forum in Berlin.
Merkel and Hollande spoke a day after new figures showed that the eurozone contracted for the sixth straight quarter in the January-March period, its longest-ever recession, with nine of 17 member countries in recession. France was the latest addition to that list; Germany barely grew.
Merkel's center-right government has faced persistent criticism for favoring a crisis response that focuses on debt reduction.
Officials in Berlin insist that budget austerity has to be part of the answer, and that doing so doesn't conflict with growth in the longer-term. They also stress that structural reforms, for example to make labor markets more flexible, are just as important.
Hollande, a Socialist, said eurozone countries should combine their political and financial resources to eventually create a common government with a budget and even the capacity to borrow. Germany has so far dismissed pooling public finances for fear that it would end up paying for financially weaker countries' mistakes.
"If Europe doesn't move it falls over, or rather, it disappears from the map of the world," Hollande said at a press conference in Paris marking his first year in office.
Some officials in Hollande's party have criticized Merkel, arguing she is unwilling to consider faster integration because she faces an election in September - the idea is not popular with Germans.
Hollande took pains to say that the dispute with Merkel was political, not personal.
"We have to find a balance between budgetary rigor and support for growth," Hollande said, adding that the debate with Germany "is a respectful dialogue."
"We don't have the same convictions but we have the same responsibilities," he said.
Merkel said that France is of "existential significance" to Europe and the eurozone. "So it is the wish of every responsible German politician, and of course mine too, that France approves the things that are necessary to achieve French competitiveness so that France can be successful," she said.
At the same conference earlier Thursday, Merkel's finance minister said there were limits to what the world's central banks could do to solve economic problems and warned there was too much money flooding global financial markets.
U.S. and Japanese authorities have already cut their interest rates to near zero. The European Central Bank this month cut its main rate to a record-low 0.5 percent, but companies in parts of Europe are still struggling to borrow at reasonable rates.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble argued that medium-sized companies' financing difficulties are a result of a wider crisis of confidence and said that even zero interest rates ultimately wouldn't help.
"Monetary policy can't solve the problems that have to be solved by financial and economic policy, structural policy," he said, adding that the ECB is doing its job well but can't be expected to do politicians' work.
More broadly, Schaeuble said, "we have much too much liquidity from the world's central banks." He insisted that "when we have so much liquidity ... this is a placebo, we do not solve the problems."
Greg Keller and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.
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Boys, girls equally likely to be employees by age 17
December 21, 2001
Female youths were less likely than male youths to hold an employee job while age 15. About 35 percent of young women held an "employee" job when they were 15; about 43 percent of young men held an employee job at that age.
By age 17, this gender gap disappeared. Nearly 80 percent of youths, male or female, held an employee job while age 17.
These data are from the National Longitudinal Survey. The survey respondents were ages 12 to 17 when first interviewed in 1997, and the oldest were age 20 when interviewed a third time in 1999-2000. Those with "employee" jobs have an formal relationship with a particular employer, such as a restaurant or supermarket. Those with "freelance" jobs perform tasks such as babysitting or yard work, but have no formal job arrangement. For more see news release USDL 01-479, "Employment Experience Of Youths: Results From The First Three Years Of A Longitudinal Survey".
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Boys, girls equally likely to be employees by age 17 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2001/dec/wk3/art05.htm (visited May 19, 2013).
Spotlight on Statistics: Productivity
This edition of Spotlight on Statistics examines labor productivity trends from 2000 through 2010 for selected industries and sectors within the nonfarm business sector of the U.S. economy. Read more »
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Treasuries are often considered the safest investment in the world, but they could ultimately be one of the more dangerous places to put a large chunk of your portfolio.
Bond fund manager Bill Gurtin is worried about what he calls Fed-induced complacency that is causing investors around the world to pile into Treasuries. These moves have driven up prices in U.S. government bonds and sent yields near all-time lows.
"We've been in a 30-year uninterrupted bull market in bonds," said Gurtin, the CEO of Gurtin Fixed Income, which manages $6.5 billion. "Returns like that are unsustainable."
Yields on 10-year Treasuries have dropped to under 2% from 16% in 1981. There's a limit to how much higher prices can move and how much lower yields will fall, Gurtin said to an audience at the Stocktoberfest investing conference in San Diego last week hosted by social investing site StockTwits.
"We're all complacent about what the Fed is doing," said Gurtin. "People have jumped aboard QE3 feeling like it's a pretty smooth trip, but there's no port ... for this huge boat to land on."
Gurtin stopped short of calling the U.S. government bond market a bubble. But he said Treasuries are trading at levels that are not based on fundamentals. Excessive bond buying by the Federal Reserve and China are fueling ultra low interest rates, and they ultimately will turn the other way.
For that reason, there's a danger lurking in nearly everyone's portfolio, because bond prices can drop precipitously when the Fed curtails its buying of bonds, said Gurtin. "People don't understand what they own."
Still, Gurtin admitted that he doesn't know exactly when interest rates will turn higher. "I only know that we're closer than we've ever been," he said.
A better bet for investors: municipal bonds. Gurtin calls it a "highly misunderstood industry," yet one that's broadly safe.
Investors have been spooked by a small number of bankruptcies that have caused cities to default on their bonds. But Gurtin said Meredith Whitney's 2011 prediction of an imminent crisis in munis is a bit alarmist. He still thinks investors can get much more for their money in munis, adding that state-backed municipal bonds are nearly as safe as Treasuries but offer significantly more yield. Unlike cities, states are nearly immune from the possibility of defaulting.
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In the Garden:
Coastal and Tropical South
The Peggy Martin rose represents our regions' ability to tolerate adversity and come back strong.
Reinventing our Gardens
Think globally, act locally may be cliché by now, but our regions need to do just that. Recent events may give us pause, but our actions at home can have positive impact on the overall situation.
Our regions are defined by and depend on our proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Some will be greatly affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, but the complete extent of the impact may not be known for months. In terms of vulnerability, barrier islands are always at risk and those off the Louisiana coast are first in line for oil intrusion. Marshes, mangrove swamp, sheltered flats and shallows are the most difficult to clean up because no heavy equipment can be used in those environments. Sandy beaches are easier to clean, but the plant life there is often just as fragile.
Those of us not directly involved in clean-up efforts yet can still play an important role in remediation. As suggested on the website of Mobile Baykeepers (www.mobilebaykeepers.org), the wisest way to prepare for the arrival of oil on our shores is to do something we should do anyway. Everywhere that the shore is accessible, take a walk and pick up the garbage. The cleaner the shoreline is when oil hits it, the simpler it will be to clean it up afterwards. Many such efforts are underway in coastal communities such as Ocean Springs, Mississippi and Navarre Beach, Florida, where 250 volunteers gathered 155 pounds of man-made garbage recently.
Should the worst happen and attempts to stop the oil flow from reaching the Jet Stream fail, beaches along our Atlantic coast will need to step up their efforts too. Wear gloves and use a pointed stick or grabbing tool to avoid touching the trash. Take along a bucket or bag to collect non-organic debris. You are advised to move drift wood and other organic materials to higher ground but not to remove them.
Most gardeners are, by nature, "outdoorsy" people, and the lifestyles of our regions take full advantage of that. While we are motivated to get out and DO something, please heed this advice. Even if dispersants at the well head and burning on the surface stem the flow of oil, some of it will reach our shores. This oil is described as a pasty emulsion forming brown tar balls gathered into patchy strands of sticky mess. Some of the tar balls are as small as peas and will be able to penetrate grassy stands easily. The masses of strands will stick to water and land-based vegetation, to reptiles, birds and fur-bearing mammals. Your first instinct upon finding a creature in such distress would likely be to try and help it. But you are advised not to touch anything contaminated by the oil, and to immediately wash well with soap and water if you do. Indeed, it is strongly suggested that you leave the area if you can even smell it, unless you have the know-how to deal with it. Cleaning animals, for example, is a delicate task that many can perform well after proper training. However if you are pregnant or have a compromised immune or respiratory system, you are advised not to volunteer in such toxic circumstances.
Act at home
Everyone in our regions knows someone whose livelihood depends on offshore resources, ranging from fishermen and restaurateurs to tour operators and oil businesses. At the end of the day, our sense of place depends on our bodies of water, and their health is ours. No matter the politics of our energy future, conservation is an old idea whose time is now. In the garden, that can mean changing to a drip system with a cistern that feeds it by gravity instead of an electric pump. Or perhaps it's time to set up that solar panel system to supply outdoor power needs much of the year. No-till gardens grow great plants and do not require power tillers to build. Passive solar heat for greenhouses and outdoor vegetable beds are as near as a pallet of bricks. In a column to come, I will delve further into energy conservation in the garden.
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The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) says that its investigation has uncovered evidence of a legalised domestic trade in captive-bred tiger products – sold as luxury home decor – which it claims stimulates the poaching of wildcats.
The report also presented evidence that suggests traders are using 'secret' government notifications to legitimise the manufacture of 'tonic' wines made using captive-bred tiger bones, contravening a 1993 Chinese State Council order.
China is signed up to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which forbids international commercial trade in tiger parts and derivatives.
The accord also calls for domestic trade prohibitions, the consolidation and destruction of stockpiles of tiger parts and products and assurances that tigers are not bred for trade in their parts and derivatives.
Debbie Banks, Head of EIA's Tiger Campaign, said: "The stark contradiction between China's international posture supporting efforts to save the wild tiger and its inward-facing domestic policies which stimulate demand and ultimately drive the poaching of wild tigers represents one of the biggest cons ever perpetrated in the history of tiger conservation.
"Pro-tiger trade policies are championed by only a handful of officials in a couple of Government departments and it behooves China to vigorously address and terminate this intolerable disconnect between words and deeds which so undermines international efforts to save the tiger."
There are around 5,000 captive tigers in China, 1,500 more than in the wild, according to EIA figures.
"The international community should show support for this national movement calling for an end to policies which stimulate demand, and China must make good on its pledges to the international community and stop cynically stimulating and aiding a trade it has vowed to end," added Ms Banks.
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Over 225 are dead in what was a widely telegraphed Israeli bombardment of Gaza. "Still," the New York Times reports, "there was a shocking quality to Saturday’s attacks, which began in broad daylight as police cadets were graduating, women were shopping at the outdoor market, and children were emerging from school."
J Street strikes precisely the right tone. This is from executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami’s statement:
Even in the heat of battle, as friends and supporters of Israel, we need to remember that only diplomacy and negotiations can end the rockets and terror and bring Israel long-term security and peace.
Why? Gideon Levy explains in a scathing Haaretz piece. I’d urge you to read the whole thing. The "previous" war he’s talking about is the Lebanon debacle.
Israel also proves that it has not internalized the lessons of the previous war. Once again, this war was preceded by a frighteningly uniform public dialogue in which only one voice was heard – that which called for striking, destroying, starving and killing, that which incited and prodded for the commission of war crimes.
Once again the commentators sat in television studios yesterday and hailed the combat jets that bombed police stations, where officers responsible for maintaining order on the streets work. Once again, they urged against letting up and in favor of continuing the assault. Once again, the journalists described the pictures of the damaged house in Netivot as "a difficult scene." Once again, we had the nerve to complain about how the world was transmitting images from Gaza. And once again we need to wait a few more days until an alternative voice finally rises from the darkness, the voice of wisdom and morality.
In another week or two, those same pundits who called for blows and more blows will compete among themselves in leveling criticism at this war. And once again this will be gravely late.
But Levy won’t be heeded. The Jewish writers who consider Palestinian life to be worth a fraction of an Israeli life will start braying about antisemitism, because when Palestinian bodies are charred in the streets, the real victim is a sensitive Jew’s sense of collective guilt. (That doesn’t mean there isn’t actual antisemitism in this world. Do not test me in the comment section.) Fellow lit’ry tribesman: do you believe for a moment that leveling Gaza will stop the rockets? Well, then you’ve lost your right to call the peaceniks naive. You want the cycle broken? Then you can start by breaking your own.
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How to Be Happy
Almost everybody in the world wants to be happy. But many
people do not know what to do in order to be happy. Some
people think that if they become very rich, then they will be happy. Other people think that fancy cars and big houses will make them happy. Many think that fame and popularity will make them happy, or being good at sports. But the truth is, none of those things has the ability to make a person happy. What can make people happy?
Since God created humans, He knows exactly what they need to do in order to be happy. In Matthew 5:3-11, Jesus gave us God’s way for humans to be happy. These statements by Jesus are often called the “beatitudes” (bee-AT-ih-toods). The word beatitude means “supreme blessedness or happiness.” These words by Jesus are called the beatitudes, because they tell us how to be supremely blessed and happy.
When we look at the beatitudes, we see that Jesus does not tell people that money will make them happy. Nor does He say that fame or popularity will make a person happy. In fact, the things Jesus says make people happy are not the things that the world thinks make people happy.
For instance, Jesus said that people who cry in this life are blessed, because one day they will be comforted. He also said that those people who show mercy to others are happy, because God will show mercy to them. Jesus said that those people who “hunger and thirst for righteousness” will be blessed. What does that mean? It means that those people who look for good things to do to help others will be happy, because they will always have plenty of work to do.
In one of the most interesting beatitudes, Jesus said that you are blessed and happy when other people “revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you” (Matthew 5:11-12). It sounds odd to hear Jesus say that you are happy even though people say bad things about you. But Jesus knew that when a person is obeying Him and doing right, other people who are not doing right will sometimes be mean to those righteous people. When those who are not obeying God speak evil of you for doing right, then you are in good company, because they did the same thing to Jesus and the apostles.
Instead of listening to the world tell us all the wrong ways to find happiness, let’s look at the beatitudes to find God’s recipe for happiness.
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Beyond the Sun
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is seeking $26 million in emergency funds from Congress to help deal with the hepatitis C crisis in Southern Nevada, but the request will likely run into political resistance from President Bush and congressional Republicans who oppose tacking any extra spending onto a bill for the Iraq war.
Even Nevada’s other senator, Republican John Ensign, is against it.
The money Reid is requesting would go toward ensuring the estimated 40,000 patients who have been potentially exposed to hepatitis C, hepatitis B and HIV during routine procedures at a private Las Vegas clinic can be tested — even if they have no insurance or ability to pay for the screenings.
Money would also go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prevent the procedures that caused the outbreak in Nevada from happening elsewhere. The CDC’s director has feared the practice at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, where medical staff reused syringes and dipped multiple times into single-dose medicine vials, could be the “tip of the iceberg” of poor practices nationwide. Several other states in recent years have had similar crises.
Michael Walsh, director of administration for the Southern Nevada Health District, which would receive $5.25 million, said if the money comes through, “we could be sure the vast majority of people could get tested.”
Although notices have been sent to 40,000 patients of the Endoscopy Center, the district says the number of patients potentially exposed to the virus at that site could be as high as 60,000. Of those, an estimated 15,000 have no insurance or ability to pay for the screening, which costs $200 on average. Some labs are offering free screenings.
The district has also incurred unexpected expenses in its $72 million budget, including the $16 being charged each time a patient calls a help line and talks to an operator. The tally for that service so far is $300,000.
Rep. Shelley Berkley, a Democrat, said partisan politics should not delay getting money to help those in need.
“No one planned for this crisis to strike Southern Nevada and it is more than appropriate to make this request,” Berkley said in a statement.
“While others may want to sit on their hands, I am not willing to wait another nine months or longer for these funds, which are desperately needed,” she said. “Those affected by this exposure incident are not being treated according to political party, so why is partisanship being used as an excuse to fail these patients and their families?”
The best chance Reid has for swiftly securing funds for Nevada is on the emergency war spending bill now moving through Congress. That bill would allocate $108 billion Bush has requested to continue the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. War funding has been routinely allocated as emergency spending rather than through traditional budget channels.
Though Democrats have proved unwilling to withhold war funding, as some in the party would like, they are using these bills to carry spending requests. On one of last year’s war spending bills, Reid tried to get funding for various items for Nevada, including to fight the devastating Mormon cricket infestation.
But Bush and other Republicans are agitating against a repeat performance on this bill. During a speech last week, Bush warned Congress against fattening the bill with extras.
“This bill must also be fiscally responsible,” Bush railed from the White House. “It must not exceed the reasonable $108 billion request I sent to Congress months ago.”
If it does, Bush added, “I’ll veto it.”
Republicans in both chambers have started making similar assertions, insisting the bill that comes forward in the next several weeks be free of extras.
Ensign opposes Reid’s legislation because of concern that it “opens the door for 100 senators and 435 congressmen to add home state spending that will put our troops’ funding in danger,” spokesman Tory Mazzola said.
“The question is not if the CDC has an obligation to help Nevadans recover from the hepatitis C scare. It does,” Mazzola said. “The question here is whether we try to add to the CDC’s
$6 billion budget on an emergency bill that is critical to fund our men and women in uniform.”
Republican Rep. Jon Porter supports channeling extra funds to the Health District and the CDC, but is withholding his decision on the Senate request until he sees “how, and if, the additional funding will be presented in the House,” his spokesman said.
Republican Rep. Dean Heller, whose district includes most of the northern part of the state but dips into the Las Vegas area, did not return calls and messages seeking comment.
But the party has been clear. “The emergency funding for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is for Iraq and Afghanistan,” said a spokesman for Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader in the Senate.
Reid stands by the request, especially as Nevada faces its own budget problems.
“If ever there was an emergency, this is it,” Reid spokesman Jon Summers said. “We’ve got to first stop the bleeding that is at hand, then prevent it from happening again. I don’t think anyone who’s aware and informed of this situation considers this an extra.”
Meanwhile, the House committee this week heard testimony on a related issue — hospital-acquired illnesses, which officials say are among the 10 leading causes of death in this nation, accounting for 100,000 deaths annually.
A report from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has called on the federal Health and Human Services Department to play a greater role in overseeing best practices among health care practitioners. The GAO is likely to next investigate practices at outpatient clinics such as the one in Nevada, where the hepatitis C outbreak occurred.
“Improvements in quality of care over the last decade have been disappointing: Patients continue to suffer harm that is preventable and costly,” testified Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, medical director of the Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care at Johns Hopkins University, in a statement submitted to the committee. “To alter this reality, we must invest in research which will identify and reliably deliver effective therapies. There is no shortcut.”
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The Rise of Private Education in India
Private education is booming in modern India, the greatest experiment in private education since 19th century Great Britain. Why? What are the results?
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Alex - the last two graphs really raise some questions. Could you explain them more? The "cannot [read]" and "[can read a story]" bars are highlighted as showing the difference between the private and public schools. What do the "letter," "word," and "paragraph" bars mean? The public schools have higher percentages in these categories. Similarly, in the last graph we seem to have public schools that are better at division than they are at subtraction?
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The test results are in increasing order of skill so letter is recognize letters, word is recognize words, paragraph is ability to read a paragraph and story is read and answer questions about a simple story. Thus for the public schools to have higher percentages than the private schools in categories like Letter and Word indicates that they are performing worse.
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Vice President Nicolas Maduro's voice broke and tears ran down his face as he appeared on national television to announce that Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time (3:55 p.m. EST, 1755 GMT) "after battling hard against an illness over nearly two years."
He did not say what exactly killed Chavez, although the government had announced the previous night that a severe new respiratory infection had severely weakened him.
A few hours later, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua affirmed one of Chavez's final wishes: Maduro would be interim president and then be the ruling party's candidate to carry on Chavez's populist "revolution" in elections to be called within 30 days.
It was a day fraught with mixed signals, some foreboding and some violent. Just a few hours before announcing Chavez's death, Maduro made a virulent speech against enemies he claimed were trying to undermine Venezuelan democracy.
And he said two U.S. military attaches had been expelled for trying to destabilize the nation.
In announcing the death of the former army paratrooper who wielded Venezuela's oil wealth to benefit the poor and win friends regionally, Maduro shifted tone.
He called on Venezuelans to be "dignified heirs of the giant man" Chavez was.
"Let there be no weakness, no violence. Let there be no hate. In our hearts there should only be one sentiment: Love. Love, peace and discipline."
The government declared 7 days of mourning and closed all schools and universities until next Monday.
All across downtown Caracas, shops and restaurants began to close and Venezuelans hustled for home, some even breaking into a run.
Many people looked incredulous or anguished.
"I feel a sorrow so big I can't speak," said Yamilina Barrios, a 39-year-old clerk who works in the Industry Ministry, her face covered in tears. "He was the best this country had."
"I hope the country calms down and continues the work that he left us, continues in unity and the progress continues," Barrios said.
Among the nervous was Maria Elena Lovera, a 45-year-old housewife. "I want to go home. People are crazy and are way too upset."
There were several incidents of political violence.
In one, a group of masked, helmeted men on motorcycles, some brandishing revolvers, attacked about 40 students who had been protesting for more than a week near the Supreme Court building to demand the government give more information about Chavez's health.
The attackers, who didn't wear clothing identifying any political allegiance, burned the students' tents and scattered their food just minutes after the death was announced.
"They burned everything we had," said student leader Gaby Arellano. She said she saw four of the attackers with pistols but none fired a shot.
Outside the military hospital where Chavez's remains were visited by loved ones and confederates, an angry crowd attacked a Colombian TV reporter.
"They beat us with helmets, with sticks, men, women, adults," Carmen Andrea Rengifo said on RCN TV. Video images showed her bleeding above the forehead but she was not seriously injured.
Maduro and other government officials have recently railed against international media for allegedly reporting rumors about Chavez's health, though RCN was not among those stations criticized.
After nightfall, several hundred people gathered at Bolivar Square, a symbolic place for Chavistas because it has a huge nine-meter-tall (30-foot-tall) statue of Simon Bolivar, the 19th century independence hero who Chavez claimed as his inspiration.
Some arrived singing Venezuela's national anthem and holding up posters of Chavez. Many chanted "I am Chavez," which had been a campaign slogan of the president.
One man began shouting through a megaphone a warning to the opposition: "They won't return." The crowd then joined in, chanting: "They won't return."
Maduro, who had urged people to meet at the square, called on the opposition to respect "the people's pain."
"Those who never supported the comandante Hugo Chavez, respect the pain of the people. This is the moment to think of our families, of our country."
Chavez leaves behind a political movement firmly in control of the nation, but with some doubt about how a new leadership will be formed.
Chavez's illness prevented him from taking the oath of office after he was re-elected to a new term on Oct. 7 and the constitution says the speaker of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, should take over as interim president under such circumstances.
But Jaua said Maduro would assume the rule as that was Chavez's will.
The man Chavez defeated in October, the youthful Miranda state Gov. Henrique Capriles, is widely expected to represent the opposition.
Venezuela's defense minister appeared on television to announce that the military will remain loyal to the constitution in the wake of Chavez's death.
Adm. Diego Molero appealed for "unity, tranquility and understanding" among Venezuelans.
The announcement of Chavez's death stunned Venezuelans, if it did not surprise them.
Earlier in the day, Maduro was more belligerent in tone as he announced the government had expelled two U.S. diplomats from the country and said "we have no doubt" that Chavez's cancer, which was first diagnosed in June 2011, was induced by "the historical enemies of our homeland."
He compared the situation to the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, claiming Arafat was "inoculated with an illness."
Chavez's inner circle has long claimed the United States was behind a failed 2002 attempt to overthrow him, and he has frequently played the anti-American card to stir up support. Venezuela has been without a U.S. ambassador since July 2010 and expelled another U.S. military officer in 2006.
U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell rejected the assertion that the U.S. was trying to destabilize Venezuela and said it "leads us to conclude that, unfortunately, the current Venezuelan government is not interested in and improved relationship."
Maduro has been taking on a larger role since Chavez urged Venezuelans to choose him as president before disappearing in early December to undergo a fourth round of cancer surgery in Cuba.
He accused U.S. Embassy Air Force attache Col. David Delmonaco of spying on Venezuela's military and seeking to involve officers in "destabilizing projects." Maduro gave Delmonaco 24 hours to leave, and U.S. officials said he had already left the country.
Maduro said Tuesday that the government was "on the trail of other elements that figure in this entire venomous scenario and are seeking to stir up trouble."
"Let's remember that active participation of the United States in the fascist coup of 2002," Jaua said.
Chavez has run Venezuela for more than 14 years as a virtual one-man show, gradually placing all state institutions under his personal control. But the former army paratroop commander, who rose to fame by launching a failed 1992 coup, never groomed a successor with his same kind of force of personality.
The campaign for the upcoming election to replace him, though undeclared, has nevertheless already begun. Maduro has frequently commandeered all broadcast channels, Chavez-style, to tout the "revolution" and vilify the opposition.
Maduro on Tuesday repeated government claims that Capriles met in the United States over the weekend with right-wing U.S. conspirators and was planning to meet over the weekend with Roberta Jacobsen, assistant U.S. secretary of state for the hemisphere.
One personality on state TV also accused the Capriles family of buying a New York City apartment with stolen funds.
Capriles responded via Twitter Tuesday by calling Maduro a liar.
"Lie after lie in every speech," he said.
Chavez had neither been seen nor heard from, except for photos released in mid-February, since submitting to a fourth round of surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11 for an unspecified cancer in the pelvic area. It was first diagnosed in June 2011.
The government said Chavez returned home on Feb. 18 and was confined to the military hospital since.
Maduro said last week that the president had begun receiving chemotherapy around the end of January.
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- Something you might say to someone before you go to bed, or before you leave for the night.
- I had a good time, but I need to go. Good night.
- A greeting you might say to someone at night.
- Hey, good night, haven't seen you all day.
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» Breakthrough Infant Cooling Research
| WSU/DMC physician publishes breakthrough study on benefits over time of “Cooling Blanket” Treatment on oxygen-deprived newborns
“Significant” findings, document how use of “whole-body hypothermia” technique at birth protected oxygen-deprived newborns from death and mental disability during first 6-7 years of life.
After more than 10 years of study, investigators in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Neonatal Research Network lead by a pediatric researcher at Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center (DMC) have proven an effective way to significantly reduce death and physical and mental disability caused by reduction in oxygen and blood flow to the brain at birth. Scheduled to publish May 31 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study findings will have a “major impact” on the treatment of brain injury among infants born at term with this condition, according to the investigators who conducted the study.
The breakthrough study documented the effectiveness of reducing the “whole-body temperature” of brain-injured newborns during the hours immediately after birth. The initial study published when the infants were 18 months of age and funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), found that the cooling process was successful in significantly lowering the risk of death and physical and mental disability by more than 15 percent among the cooled newborns. The current study shows that the protection of the brain-injured newborns continued without any significant fall-off during the first 6 to 7 years of their lives.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt that these findings will have a significant impact on the medical treatment of newborns who experience oxygen deprivation at birth,” said Seetha Shankaran, M.D., Wayne State University professor of pediatrics and division director of neonatal/perinatal medicine for the DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan and DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital. The study was assembled by Dr. Shankaran, the lead investigator, along with senior study author Rosemary D. Higgins, M.D., program scientist for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network (NRN) and 25 other researchers in the NICHD NRN. “This is a very hopeful breakthrough for all of us who work in the field of neonatal medicine,” added Dr. Shankaran, who has led the wide-ranging study since its start in 2000.
Titled “Childhood Outcomes after Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy,” the landmark study focused on 208 newborns who had experienced hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (oxygen deprivation-related brain injury) at birth. During the first phase of the study, conducted between 2003-2005, the cooling treatment of the brain-injured newborns – achieved via a specially designed “cooling blanket” that lowered their whole-body temperature to 92.3 Fahrenheit for 72 hours immediately after birth – resulted in an 18 percent reduction in death and mental disability among the cooled infants, compared to a similar-sized control group that had not undergone cooling but received “usual care”. Sixteen percent of the newborns studied were born at DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital and cooled there or transferred to DMC Children’s Hospital of Hospital for cooling therapy from other area hospitals. A national multicenter approach was required for the study since many infants with this disorder need to be studied to conclusively demonstrate benefits of a therapy. The NICHD Neonatal Research Network includes 17 academic centers in the United States, who compete every five years for continued participation and funding. The Wayne State University site has been a participant in the Network since its inception in 1985.
Those initial results, based on assessments that were made when the infants were between 18 and 22 months old, was the first study to be performed using the whole-body cooling approach. The study published in 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine, with Dr. Shankaran as lead author, demonstrated the whole-body cooling was an effective therapy for oxygen-deprived newborns, based on outcomes after 18 months. The current study conducted during the past seven years at 17 different U.S. academic research centers in the NICHD Neonatal Research Network (NRN) continue to track outcomes among the injured newborns through age 7 years. “What’s especially relevant about the findings is that there was no significant decline in the rate of improved outcomes among the newborns who received the whole-body cooling,” said Dr. Shankaran.
“The results of this randomized trial show indisputably that whole-body hypothermia is an effective treatment for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy [HIE],” she added. “This is the largest and longest trial of the cooling blanket approach ever performed, and the long-term improvement in outcomes shows that such whole-body cooling is truly a beneficial treatment for this condition.”
Describing how the cooling blanket helps protect infants from the effects of HIE, Dr. Shankaran pointed out that infants born at term may fail to get enough oxygen, either from blood loss or from other birth complications. Oxygen deprivation during the birth process, when severe, can result in death rates of up to 60 percent – and survivors often sustain brain damage that can result in cerebral palsy, cognitive impairment or hearing and vision loss. Even if they do not experience detectable brain damage, children who experience HIE at birth are at higher risk for learning disabilities, language delays and memory deficits. (Severe oxygen deficiency at birth is also known as “birth asphyxia.”)
By providing whole-body cooling to the infants with HIE during the first 72 hours after birth, the deleterious effects of lack of oxygen and lack of blood flow are slowed down and thus reduce the physiological detrimental effects that accompanies oxygen deprivation.
In the wake of the original study, Dr. Shankaran and several of the other members of the NICHD research team pointed out that neonatal units around the world have adopted this cooling technique to reduce the risk of death and disability among full-term infants who show signs of the brain dysfunction indicating oxygen deficiency. Whole-body hypothermia is now the “standardized treatment” for HIE in brain-injured newborns. In addition, the researchers noted that the current hypothermia therapy is being utilized for treating adult patients who experience oxygen deprivation as a result of heart attacks, strokes, spinal cord injuries and other forms of trauma that injure the brain due to lack of oxygen. It should be noted that the use of hypothermia in adults has not been followed by long term studies showing sustained benefits of cooling therapy.
While assessing that potential, Dr. Shankaran pointed out that “what’s especially exciting about our study is that the meticulous long-term follow-up [over seven years] of HIE-affected newborns who received the cooling therapy had never been conducted before. This is the first long-term study of extremely high-risk children who received cooling at birth, and it seems likely that the benefits we documented in newborns may be replicated in adults and pediatric patients undergoing cooling.”
The New England Journal of Medicine study concluded on an equally upbeat and hopeful note. After pointing out that “of the 208 [original] trial participants, primary data were available for 190,” the study went on to note: “Of the 97 children in the hypothermia group and the 93 children in the control group, death or an IQ score below 70 [evidence of mental disability] occurred in 46 (47 percent) and 58 (62 percent), respectively [at 6 to 7 years after birth].”
Based on that finding the study concluded: “…whole-body hypothermia did reduce the rate of death and did not increase the rates of … severe disability among survivors ….”
“These data extend our previous support for the use of hypothermia in term and near-term infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.”
Seetha Shankaran, MD
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Bronze Book Darts
A tin of thirty bronze Book Darts ideal for marking passages in books for later reference. Perfect for Shakespeare, but just as suitable for Stephen King. Comes in a variety of colors. Made in Eugene, Oregon. (more info)
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What’s that passage from Hunger Games that let you achieve momentary transcendence? Didn’t you mark it with a scrap of paper? It must have fallen out. You hunt for the words, but by the time you find them, the urgency, the magic, have faded. If you had used a Book Dart, this wouldn’t have happened.
The dart slips onto the edge of the page, stays in place, doesn’t stain, and won’t ruin your book the way a highlighter or a dog-eared corner will. You can use a bookmark, sure, but this is more discreet, more elegant, and a bookmark won’t point you right to the line you need.
Mark an inspiring sentence with a dart, then lend the book to a friend, or let it sit on your bookshelf, waiting to be discovered by posterity.
Slip the dart onto the edge of the book’s page wherever you need to mark a passage, then close the book and press inward to keep the dart in place. Slip it off and move to another page, if you must.
Over time, the metal will oxidize, but that won’t affect your book. If the dart somehow gets dirty, wipe it clean.
Book Darts began with Bob Williams about twenty years ago. He was an English teacher, and he pressed the darts by hand in his basement from spools of bronze, and then gave them to his students. When he left teaching, he started selling the darts to independent bookstores across the country. Today, the darts are made on an industrial stamping machine in Eugene, Oregon.
Bronze and Mix of Three Metals (Bronze, Steel and Tin)
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The glorious truth is that people think and learn differently. Some people like words, but not pictures, some like movements rather than sounds. Why are people different? Who knows, perhaps because Allah loves wondrous variety.
A funny thing is that we have the tendency to ignore this fact. Perhaps because empathy is difficult, perhaps because learning makes itself invisible. I have a dear friend, Cat, who doesn’t have visual imagery. When she thinks of a dog, for example, she doesn’t see one in her mind’s eye. She doesn’t see anything. When she dreams she rarely has pictures — she just knows what is happening in the dream. People often don’t believe this. They think that everyone must experience their inner world in pictures, the way they do. Sorry. People are just different. Some always see things when they imagine them, some don’t. Some people have a sense of pitch, some don’t. So it goes.
So the idea of learning styles makes a lot of intuitive sense. Surely if we know that people think and learn differently, we should be able to design our teaching to take advantage of different learning styles. Right?
This is where we hit problems. Are learners either primarily visual, auditory, kinesthetic (as claimed in NLP)? Or are they primarily analytic, creative or pragmatic (as proposed by Robert Sternberg). Is the world made of Convergers, Divergers, Assimilators and Accomodators? Maybe instead we should use the Myers-Briggs categories of Sensers, Intuitors, Thinkers and Feelers?
Faced with these possibilities an academic psychologist has a standard set of questions they would like answered: can you really divide people up into a particular set of categories? Are the tests for these categories reliable; if you take the test twice will you come out the same both times? Are the categories you are trying to use related to how people learn? If you use a theory of learning styles, do people learn better? Can you use learning styles to predict who will benefit most from particular styles of instruction? Does using a learning styles system – any system – for teaching have other effects on learners or teachings, such as making them more confident or making them expend more effort?
These questions stem from the way academic psychologists systematically approach topics: we like to establish the truth of psychological claims. If someone comes to us with a theory about learning styles we want to know (a) if learning styles really exist, (b) if they really are associated with better learning and also (c) if, when learning styles are taken into account, learning is better because of something about the specific learing style theory rather than just being a side effect of an increase in teacher confidence, effort or somesuch.
So, what have academic psychologists found out about learning styles? We know that some of the supposed categories of learning styles are actually dimensions that vary continuously across the population. For example visual imagery: it is not that some people are visual thinkers, it is that most people have some visual imagery and a few have very strong imagery and a few, like my friend Cat, have less than average. We also know that people can change their learning styles over time, for different tasks and in different contexts. We also know that it is very difficult to prove that teaching that uses learning styles is better because of the particular theory of learning styles used, rather than merely because a learning style theory, any learning style theory, is being used and this makes people pay more attention to what they are doing.
Learning styles seem intuitively sensible. Having thought about learning styles helps teachers improve their teaching and also helps increase their confidence and motivation. But there is no strong evidence that any one theory of learning styles is the best, or most true, compared to the others. Learning style theories can be useful without being true, and it isn’t clear that knowing the truth about the differences in how people learn will be immediately useful or produce a more useful theory of learning styles. This difference between truth and utility is a typical dilemma of psychology.
Sadly, the headlines for this conclusion aren’t snappy. It is easier to say that “Some people are visual thinkers and others are auditory thinkers” than it is to say that “Thinking about presenting information in different sensory modalities will make your teaching more varied and help those you are teaching who have different preferences to yourself”. Using a learning style theory is great, but you lose a lot of flexibility and potential for change if you start to believe that the theory is based on proven facts about the way the world is, rather than just being a useful set of habits and suggestions which might, sometimes, help guide us through the maze of teaching and learning.
Cross-posted at schoolofeverything.com
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By Myra Guevara, Research Intern
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the past year, the ACA has increased coverage, introduced new consumer protections, and made efforts to improve the quality of care while lowering costs. The law will continue to roll out in phases as pieces of it get implemented through 2014. Here is what has gone into effect so far:
The federal government began matching funds for states to expand coverage for Medicaid recipients covering thousands more low-income individuals. As we know from research and personal experience, Latinas are more likely to live in poverty, leaving health insurance often out of reach. It is also difficult for young women who are recently out of school and do not have a guardian’s insurance to fall back on.
To further aid the uninsured a temporary health insurance plan was put into place: the pre-existing condition insurance plan or temporary “high-risk pool,” which is meant to be a catch-all for those that have a pre-existing condition and who have been without insurance for at least the past six months. If you are an uninsured woman with a pre-existing condition and unable to get affordable coverage through any other means then this insurance plan might work for you.
The government also launched www.healthcare.gov/ a website that gives clear information about health care options that are available in any particular area.
Preventive care services, such as mammograms and colonoscopies, became free in all new private health plans. This is truly exciting and shows that with perseverance reproductive health can take priority under health care reform. It is still being decided whether contraception will be added to the list of preventive care services, and NLIRH is working hard to make sure the answer is yes. In the same month it became illegal for insurance companies to drop patients undergoing treatment based on ‘technicalities’ or misfiled paperwork.
Insurers were prohibited from imposing lifetime limits on essential benefits. Dependents will be able to stay on their parents’ insurance until they are 26 years old. Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage based on a child’s pre-existing medical condition.
The government launched a Spanish version of the new health care website called www.cuidadodesalud.gov/enes/ which will greatly improve Spanish speaker’s ability to gather information about insurance options.
The new websites www.healthcare.gov and www.cuidadodesalud.gov/enes/ began to show price estimates for insurance policies so consumers can compare prices and be better informed about insurance options in their area.
Insurance companies will be required to spend more of the money they make on providing health care to their customers. Depending on the plan, 80-85% of the premiums collected must be spent on health care, or must be returned to customers as a rebate. This limits the unnecessary administrative expenses and focuses on the consumer, us!
There are many benefits for Latina women and their families under the ACA. Health care reform addresses the future of American health care by making sure the focus is on improving health care services for under-served populations.
If you are still unsure about what health care reform can do for you check out this website and NLIRH’s fact sheet. Both have resources in Spanish and English to help compare insurance plans, information on the timeline for the implementation of health care reform, plus recommended preventive care strategies by age.
I still have concerns about our health care system (I myself am still uninsured), but I hope that future generations and my family will benefit from this policy change. That is why I advocate for health care reform. I encourage all Latina women to become educated on the changes and exercise your voices so we don’t get left behind.
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As part of National Poison Prevention Week, health officials are warning
parents to keep their children away from household poisons. That's good
advice, of course, but sadly very little attention is paid to
slow-acting poisons and toxic chemicals found in personal care products
that slowly (but surely) kill both parents and children by the millions.
I'm talking about the toxic chemicals found in everyday household
products that, when absorbed through the skin (as practically all
chemicals are), lead directly to liver toxicity, nervous system
disorders, and cancer. Let's take a look at the list:
is one of the most toxic rooms in the house for most American families.
People use deodorants containing aluminum (Alzheimer's disease),
shampoos containing harsh solvents (liver toxicity), toothpaste
containing non-organic fluoride (osteoporosis), mouthwash with aspartame
(brain tumors) or saccharin (cancer), and to top it off, most people
slap on a dab of perfume or cologne containing highly toxic
cancer-causing chemicals. In a laboratory analysis, one popular perfume
was found to contain more than forty chemicals classified as hazardous
to the liver, and yet the FDA still does not require perfume
manufacturers to warn consumers about the toxic chemicals found in their
And the bathroom is only the beginning: the laundry room
is also highly toxic, containing the same chemical perfumes in both the
laundry detergent and especially the dryer sheets. Dryer sheets coat all
your clothes with a layer of toxic chemicals. When you wear those
clothes, your body moisture causes those chemicals to come into contact
with your skin and be absorbed directly into your bloodstream. It's an
easy way to poison your system with cancer-causing chemicals.
kitchen is also highly toxic: consumers purchase antibacterial soap
products made with a potent nerve chemical similar to agent orange --
that's what kills the bacteria. They also use automatic dishwashing
detergent containing yet more chemicals and toxic fragrance compounds
that coat the plates, glasses and silverware with a thin layer of
cancer-causing chemicals. Subsequently, families then eat off those
dishes and ingest the chemicals.
In the yard, people use horrific
quantities of pesticides and herbicides with seemingly no care
whatsoever about the health consequences of doing so. I had a neighbor
once who couldn't stand the moles tunneling through his back yard, so he
coated his entire yard with a chemical (purchased at a local home & lawn
store) that would poison and kill all the worms. With the worms gone,
the moles had to look for food somewhere else. In the mind of my
neighbor, he solved the problem! Of course, he was oblivious to the fact
that he wiped out the all-important biodiversity of his lawn and would
thereafter be dependent on a long list of chemicals to battle one lawn
disease after another, arising from the fact that all the worms were
dead. (Your lawn needs worms to be healthy.)
Some people just don't
get it. They think chemicals solve these problems, and they have
absolutely no regard for nature. You see the same thing in organized
medicine, of course, where doctors and pharmaceutical companies push
chemicals onto patients in much the same way that my neighbor used
chemicals to kill all the worms in his lawn. Yes, you could say the ploy
"worked" in one sense, but only in a very narrow-minded, short-term way.
Modern medicine operates with much the same mindset. I've always said
that if modern medicine were responsible for treating lawns, they would
diagnose a shortage of water as "yellow grass disease" and prescribe
"green lawn paint" at $100 / gallon to make the lawn look greener.
But getting back to household poisons: the most dangerous poisons are
not the ones labeled as such. Most people aren't even aware that their
perfumes and colognes are poisons. They have no clue that most
deodorants cause Alzheimer's disease. They're not even aware that dryer
sheets coat their clothes in a thin layer of chemicals that promote
liver cancer. So they keep buying and using all these products, day
after day, oblivious to the reality. Product manufacturers, meanwhile,
absolutely deny the health consequences of their products. They
acknowledge that the chemicals are present, but they claim the skin
doesn't absorb them. That's nonsense, of couse: the skin absorbs
practically all chemicals. That's why the "patch" medicines work in the
first place: the medicine is absorbed through the skin.
word. Send a friend this article and let them know to avoid these
products. Here's what to use instead: for deodorant, make your own with
50% baking soda mixed with 50% corn starch. It won't stop the sweating,
but it will stop the odor unless you follow a terrible diet, in which
case you will need to probably stop eating red meat and drinking cow's
milk before the stink will subside. For soap in the shower, use Dr.
Bronner's soaps (find them at health food stores). For laundry detergent
and automatic dishwasher soap, buy Seventh Generation products at a
health food store. Make sure you buy all these as "fragrance free"
products. Fragrance is the source of many toxic chemicals. You'll want
to avoid fragrance at all costs. For perfumes and colognes, you'll have
to buy natural products made exclusively with essential oils, not
artificial chemicals. These can be very, very expensive. So you might
consider just wearing no perfumes at all. I'm sure everyone around you
will greatly appreciate it anyway, since most people put on far too
much fragrance as their senses are dulled to the smell of their
Fragrance actually dulls the mind and the
senses, by the way. That's a completely different topic, but the short
version is that if you wear perfume and use fragrance in your laundry,
your mind is dulled. By using only fragrance-free products, you will
literally become more intelligent. No kidding.
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, and he has published numerous courses on preparedness and survival, including financial preparedness, emergency food supplies, urban survival and tactical self-defense. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.com, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a successful software entrepreneur, having founded a well known email marketing software company whose technology currently powers the NaturalNews email newsletters. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and pursues hobbies such as martial arts, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening.
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MRSA 'Super Bug' Prevalent in Nursing Homes, Study Finds
FRIDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A new study of nursing homes in southern California found a drug-resistant and potentially deadly skin infection in 20 out of 22 facilities tested.
Researchers say the findings point to the need for more attention to the spread of drug-resistant infections, such as community-associated strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Community-associated strains initiate in the general outside world instead of a hospital or other health care setting.
The strain of MRSA in question can lead to bloodstream infections, abscesses and pneumonia, and those in nursing homes are especially susceptible.
"Community-type strains first arose among healthy community members without exposure to the health care system and have steadily infiltrated many hospitals," study author Courtney Murphy said in a news release from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
"We believe these at-risk facilities could benefit from further infection control interventions, such as enhanced environmental cleaning or skin decolonization," Murphy said. Until now, research into the spread of MRSA has focused on hospitals, not nursing homes, the news release added.
Because nursing homes encourage socializing, the measures needed to combat MRSA infection may differ from those used by hospitals.
In the study, published in the March issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, researchers from University of California, Irvine, tested residents of 22 Orange County nursing homes between 2008 and 2011. At each facility, they swabbed the noses of 100 residents and as many as 100 new admissions.
Of those with MRSA, one-quarter had the community-acquired strain. It was more common in nursing homes with a greater number of patients younger than 65. This may be because younger people are more active and more likely to be exposed to MRSA in places like gyms, military facilities and child-care centers.
Also, the super bug was less common at admission than later on, suggesting that residents are transmitting it.
The community-acquired strain of MRSA was also more common in nursing homes with more Hispanic residents. Researchers think Hispanics may be at higher risk because of factors related to their culture or their genetics. It wasn't more common among nursing homes with poorer residents.
For more about MRSA, see the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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There’s Nothing to Fear But…
…loneliness, going broke, career, illness, strangers, the dark, the light, change, people, love, death. Turns out, there is plenty to fear—if we surrender to it. Sadly, too many of us do just that; we let our fears stop us from knocking down the wall and seeing what’s on the other side. The interesting thing is, most of us don’t start off that way.
Indeed, many of our fears are learned as we move through life. It’s not often you meet an adult who you would consider fearless. Children, on the other hand, tend to be quite fearless. As we get older and gain more experiences; acquire the rust and taint of hurt, pain and failure, we feed our fears.
Fear isn’t all that bad; it is a great survival mechanism that can stop us from walking into potentially dangerous or deadly situations. However, most of us are not in imminent threat—but many of us live our lives as if we are. We perceive threats coming at us from all directions and behave in accordance: avoidance, anger, prejudice, judgment and stillness. Fear-born inertia is quite common but not obvious to identify. We camouflage it as many different things.
I remember when I was in my full bloom of youth. I would go swimming with friends all the time, either in the ocean or at the public pool. We would climb cliffs that would set off an attack of vertigo in me now. We would take turns running and jumping off the high diving board at the pool, seeing who could make the biggest splash. We did this filled with laughter and free of fear.
I felt the icicle of fear sear up my legs, through my crotch and into my belly before settling into my galloping heart.
At some point in my life I became afraid of the high board, literally and metaphorically. This came to the forefront of my consciousness a few years ago when I was at my local pool, and thought it would be great fun to get on the high board and relive my youth. I got to the end of the board, looked down at the sparkling water and froze. I felt the icicle of fear sear up my legs, through my crotch and into my belly before settling into my galloping heart. I felt dizzy and panicky. Cowed, I slowly stepped backward on the board to safety, letting the 5-year-old girl in the frilly one-piece bathing suit have my spot on the board. As I slinked down the ladder, I heard her squeal with delight as she launched off the board and into the water.
What brought all of this to mind was an article I recently read in Vanity Fair about the war correspondent, Marie Colvin. She was a woman with a titanium spine and a very soft heart. She felt compelled to put herself into the middle of bloody battle and strife to tell the stories of civilians caught in the crosshairs of vicious war. Colvin was killed earlier this year in Homs, Syria. I am quite sure Colvin felt a lot of fear on her many missions around the world. The thing that made her stand apart was her ability to manage her very real fears to do what she needed to do.
“Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.”
Colvin had an incredible perspective on what she was doing, the danger she was putting herself in and how to manage her fear. She externalized it. She did not make herself the centre of the situation but always remembered she was just a visitor to the catastrophe. As she wrote in 2001, “The next war I cover, I’ll be more awed than ever by the quiet bravery of civilians who endure far more than I ever will.” She knew this was not her life. It wasn’t about her.
Another quote from her that really struck me was: “Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.” That one filled my head. The key to not letting fear get the better of us is to accept that we are afraid. Being afraid is not a flaw; it does not make us lesser as human beings. It is an emotion we all feel at various times in our lives. Letting our fear rule us is the challenge we must overcome.
Closer to home; all of this made me think of my grandfather who died about 15 years ago. He was a very hearty man who was an entrepreneur, built his own house with his own hands and faced life head on. He was a World War II veteran who served in the ships that carried supplies and sailed with the battleships. He crisscrossed the Atlantic many times during his service knowing that each trip could be his last.
Go ahead, get on that airplane, go out for dinner alone, go after that job…After all, it ain’t war; it’s just life.
After returning from war, my grandfather began to suffer panic attacks. Of course, in those days, there was no such thing as post-traumatic stress syndrome or panic disorders. You just walked off the battleground and back into your life and didn’t talk about it. According to my mother, he suffered from these attacks for years. Somehow, he managed to get through it with help from my grandmother.
Fast-forward to the early 1990s. My grandfather was visiting Toronto form his home in Halifax when he had a stroke. It wasn’t a major stroke, but was the precursor to the Alzheimer’s that would eventually take him. I remember being with my mother in the hospital where he was being treated. She was understandably upset and wasn’t doing a good job of hiding it from my grandfather. He lay on the gurney calmly waiting for the doctor to come back with some test results when he finally placated my mother with a simple sentence I’ll never forget: “Hon, it’s okay. You’ve got to expect these things when you get to be my age.”
We will all face things that will challenge our feeling of safety and fill us with fear; some are real and some are constructs of our interiors. The important thing is to recognize the fear; accept the fear then push through it. So, go ahead, get on that airplane, go out for dinner alone, go after that job, step out into the night, make eye contact with that person you’ve been admiring, stick you hand out and grab it. After all, it ain’t war; it’s just life.
photo credit: Glass Creek
, Andrew Vail
, Marie Colvin
, Vanity Fair
, World War Two
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Names of Jesus Week Three, Day Five
A child was always at the heart of the biblical covenant. Already in the garden of Eden God promised that Eve's offspring would crush the head of the serpent, who beguiled her. Later God made a covenant with Abraham, promising that Sarah would bear him a child who would be the first of countless descendents. Then Isaiah spoke of a child who would be born of a virgin and be given the name "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." The New Testament tells of the fulfillment of that promise, and Jesus presents children as the model for his followers to emulate. The only way to enter the kingdom is with the humility and trust of little children.
Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke 2:4 - 7
Promises Associated with His Name
I was forty-six when I adopted my first child — not as old as the biblical Sarah but a far sight older than Mary, the teenage mother of Jesus. But no matter how old you are or how long you've waited, a child can be one of life's greatest blessings, opening you again to wonder, renewing your amazement at God's good plan for the future.
Little wonder that a child was God's first promise to the world.
After Adam and Eve sinned, as they were being forced from their garden paradise, God made the greatest of all his promises, assuring them that Eve's offspring would one day crush the serpent whose temptation had pushed them out of Eden and into so much misery. No wonder Mary has sometimes been called the new Eve, her obedience a striking reversal of Eve's disobedience. And as for the Christ child — he has always been identified as the fulfillment of God's promise to crush Satan, our worst enemy, and to lead us back to paradise.
Promises in Scripture
So the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." Genesis 3:14 - 15
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14
Continued Prayer and Praise
Praise God for promising a child who would reign forever with his justice and righteousness. (Isaiah 9:6 - 7)
Strive to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:2 - 4; Luke 9:48)
For more from Ann Spangler, visit her blogspot on Christianity.com.
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Prior to 1965, Myrtle Beachs Booker T. Washington neighborhood was a bustling area, many who lived there in the 60s said.
There were a number of black-owned businesses in the segregated neighborhood such as restaurants, daycare centers, bars and a barber shop.
Legendary musicians including Jackie Wilson, Percy Sledge and Sam & Dave performed at establishments along Carver Street in the 60s, said Ella M. Thomas, owner of Friendly Barber Shop.
Her husband opened the shop in 1954 and she joined him as the only female barber in 1966. Her husband, Jerome, died in 2007.
Its a lot of history on this street, Thomas said. But you wouldnt know it.
Things have changed since then, said Frank Tucker, who also has worked as a barber at Friendly since 1966.
A lot of the other businesses [on Carver Street] failed because of the integration, he said. Everyone moved to the waterfront. You couldnt go before and do what you wanted to go do, now you could go.
Tucker recalled a point in time when blacks could only go to the beach in Atlantic Beach.
My first job on the beach was one block away but I couldnt go down and put my toe in, he said.
Blacks who worked on the waterfront had to provide identification showing where they were employed in order to go to their jobs, Thomas said. Otherwise, they were not permitted on the beach.
Thomas said the shop may have survived integration since Friendly was the only black-owned barber shop in Myrtle Beach for years.
Friendly Barber Shop has been around as long as Cosandra Minor, 59, can remember. She grew up across the street and said the Carver used to be full of black-owned businesses. She said she wasnt one of the ones who ventured out of the Booker T. Washington neighborhood once the city integrated, though.
We could never go there before, so I didnt know what I was missing. ... We had to have everything in our area so we had our nightclubs and our restaurants because you couldnt do it over there, Minor said, pointing toward the beach. It was against the rules.
Minor attended the segregated Carver School through eighth grade before going to the integrated Myrtle Beach High School in 1967.
There was a lot of hostility, she said of her time at the integrated school. We didnt need cops to protect us [like in Little Rock, Ark.,] but the other students and the teachers would look at you and sneer like youre dirty. ... It was obvious they didnt want you there.
Minor said that made it hard to do well in school. Since black students werent able to take the honors courses, she said she felt like her education was subpar despite attending an integrated school. The fifth of 10 children, she said she felt as though her older siblings got a better education at the black Wittemore High School in Conway.
They prepared them for the future, she said. They could take honors English and learn to write, they could take honors math. ...We never got classes that prepared you for the next level. We just got the basics to get you out of high school. They didnt prepare you for college.
Minor said although deep down she felt she wasnt learning as much as she could, if an adult said it, you didnt question it. Minors mother, Lossie Lewis known as Miss Flossie in the neighborhood, said that was a time when many viewed white people as superior.
At that time we thought white people and some of them did, too that white people were better than other people, Lewis said, who moved her family to Myrtle Beach from Washington, D.C., in the 1950s.
But Lewis, who still lives on Carver Street, said not all white people treated blacks poorly, pointing out that many were raised with black maids in their homes and were taught people are equal.
Minor said she feels the education system is similar to the time she was in high school, but in a different way.
Its that parents are more aware now than my parents were, she said, adding that many parents take an active role to ensure their children are prepared for college.
Lewis said shes happy to see all of the changes since Myrtle Beach integrated and wishes that more people would take advantage of the opportunities they now are able to receive.
Its hurtful to see a young man whose family has sacrificed so he could go to school but he doesnt want to get a decent job and wear decent clothes, she said. They can get a job but theyd rather be in the streets. Lord gave us health and strength and a mind so we could use it.
It doesnt matter how much you have, its what you do with it, she said.
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Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
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I’ve always heard one of the reasons diets don’t work is, because, any time you restrict calorie consumption your body goes into starvation mode and lowers your BMR to conserve energy. Yet, there are very few times in your life, if any, when your body is completely free of breaking down and assimilating nutrients. Whether it’s food in your stomach or your colon, the body is constantly in the process of digestion. So, if this is the case, when is your body ever really starving?
When you don't give it any food for a quite a while - while your digestive "machinery" stays activated, it's not actually digesting anything if you don't give it food.
As I understand it, starvation mode requires a really major drop in consumption - lowering intake, but not drastically, does not set it off.
BMR = basal metabolic rate or base metabolic rate and the rate is controlled by relative hormonal signaling patterns.
Your body does not turn down BMR after only a day or two. You won't see that until well into true starvation at ketone bodies production begins to play a major role in energy supply. This really means that you have depleted all liver glycogen levels, gluconeogenesis is running significantly from glycerol-3-P, and levels of circulating glutamine are low. At this point in starvation, the body begins to signal with cortisol, glucagon, and other intercellular signals to slow down enzymatic activities.
The bodies activities really have to do with mass action and the availability of substrate. If the glycogenolysis released glucose dries up and lipid components like glycerol-3-P start going to blood glucose maintenance, then the body starts to sense those shifts. If amino acids start getting used for fuel and proteins have to be broken down for fuel, then by definition you are losing bodily functions. The loss of functions inside the human body are what cause BMR to decrease.
BMR does not decrease in food restriction diets that are done sensibly. This means that you never drop more than 1000 Calories from the diet at a time and never drop under 1200 Calories per day. I heavily recommend some form of exercise routine, but that is something that is another discussion.
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Just a nitpick, there's a lot of valid criticism of some feminist views and some methods used to achieve certain goals that don't simply boil down to "insensitive asshole/misogynist".
For example, some older feminists have rightly pointed out that the men saying, "Hey, you got X, that's great! We'd like X too!" when it's a basic thing like human dignity and value placed on life for the sake of life is pretty reasonable, for a lot of reasons (many understandable, but nonetheless wrong) these will frequently be ignored.
I.E. We who have a penis need a way to have a dialog about this without the immediate knee jerk response being "OMFG MISOGYNIST!!!!" And that is a fair request.
However, as I've already pointed out, not that I expected much different from the internet, but the abusive behavior was revolting bullshit.
I agree. The problem is that you have jack asses and bitches on both sides who really ruin it for everyone. On the one side you have the actual misogynists who simply don't accept women getting more "freedom" but on the other side you have the hypocritical women who demand MORE rights than men and refuse to give up the preferential treatments women have been getting in other areas.
I've actually had quite a few arguments about that in the past where they seem to take the advantages of being female for granted. To give a few examples:
- choice of birth. The woman gets the final say over ANYTHING involving child birth be it aborting, adoption, etc. and yet the father remains financially responsible to support her decision.
- custody: women regardless of their competence nearly always get custody. You can be a good father with a good job and stable home and you'll still lose your kids to your drunk unemployed ex-wife. It's disgusting, it's sexist and utterly inexcusable. This HAS to change.
- preferential treatment in many office jobs because bosses are often males who like female staff. Females get hired with less experience and less abilities over men who are more capable - I've seen this again and again and again. It took me two years to get hired despite me being top of my class by far - all girls in my class got a job after just a month or two regardless of their abilities.
- general advantages that come from men wanting to help women: replacing tires, giving a lift, helping them move, fixing stuff for free, etc. etc. For tough customers, I always ask my female coworker to make the calls because of this reason.
Basically, don't just look at all the negatives - there's plenty of positives there as well which rarely seem to get mentioned! Yes, there's tons of negatives as well (there's tons of negatives for being male as well, to be honest) but those get mentioned often enough. If you're a father in a divorce, you'll discover all too quickly how unfair the world is when it comes to your kids and then you won't give a damn about all the other advantages you're supposed to have as a man - you'd trade them all in a heartbeat.
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Digital communications and online activities are so prevalent today that they’re essential to business success. Unfortunately, digital opportunities also bring the potential for digital information threats. CPAs – as business owners, employers and employees, advisers and planners – are in a position to help protect businesses and clients. Make sure you are thoroughly versed in the latest developments on cyber security and industry best practices for deterring and combatting the viruses and scams that can confuse clients and customers and, in some extreme situations, ruin IT systems.
Everyone is susceptible to cyber attacks. In the past several months, “phishing” scams have been aimed at the Internal Revenue Service, the Vatican, the Better Business Bureau, Fox Broadcasting Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment and the AICPA. In the recent email scam using the AICPA logo, please note our systems were not compromised and we are working with law enforcement to investigate the source of the fraudulent email. Below are several resources to educate you on securing your systems and personal information.
Through its Information Technology member community, the AICPA has long been developing resources to guide members and others on cybersecurity measures. Here are a few of them:
The federal government and its agencies have gotten involved in cyber threats as well. Following are related articles:
In addition, you may find these articles, websites and videos of interest and helpful:
According to a January 2012 report by EMC Corporation/RSA:
- 1 out of every 300 emails contains phishing elements
- Phishing attacks were up 37% in 2011
- The U.S. is the second most-targeted country for phishing (U.K. is first)
- Throughout 2011, financial institutions comprised more than half of the entities targeted for phishing
Best Practices to Stay Safe
Symantec Corporation is one of the leading providers of cyber security products and services. Below are some of its recommendations to help avoid cyber attacks, ranging from malware to phishing:
- Regularly update antivirus, firewall, intrusion detection and intrusion protection solutions.
- Keep software patches up to date, especially on systems that host public services and are accessible through your firewall.
- Configure mail servers to block or remove email that contains attachments that are commonly used to spread viruses.
- Train employees to not open attachments unless they are expected and come from a trusted source, and to not execute software that is downloaded from the Internet unless it has been scanned for viruses.
- Do not provide personal information such as user IDs, account numbers or passwords in response to an email, even if the e-mail looks legitimate.
- Do not click a site link from within an email. It is best to open a new Internet browser and type the address directly.
- Consider the possibility of restricting Internet use by employees, specifically shopping, as they are opportunities to compromise the network.
- Have emergency response procedures in place, including back-up and restore capabilities in order to restore lost or compromised data.
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Woodland Opera House State Historic Park [CA]
Built in 1885, the original Opera House burned down in the 1892 fire that destroyed much of downtown Woodland. It was rebuilt on the same site, using some of the remaining foundations and bricks from the walls, reopening in 1896. Today, the interior of the Opera House has been painstakingly restored to the grandeur it enjoyed at the turn if the century. Careful attention was paid to reproduction of the wallpaper friezes, paint colors, and carpeting. The main floor carpet was manufactured in England and shipped to the Opera House for installation. Comfortable main floor theater seating was built on the East Coast for installation and the historic pew-like benches in the balcony area were repaired or carefully replaced.
A second, individual website for the Opera House can be found here.
The park offers tours and year-round performances, productions, classes, and workshops.
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International Tennis Federation
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The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 210 national tennis associations or corresponding organizations of independent countries or territories.
It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913, and discussions on rules and policy continued through 1923. It was at this time that two compromises were reached: the title "world championships" would be abolished and wording would be "for ever in the English language." In 1924 it became the officially recognised organisation with authority to control lawn tennis throughout the world, with official 'ILTF Rules of Tennis'. In 1977 it dropped the word 'lawn' from its title, recognising that most tennis was no longer played on grass.
Originally based in Paris, its funds were moved to London, England during World War II; From that time onwards the ILTF/ITF has been run from London. Until 1987, the ITF was based at Wimbledon, it then moved to Barons Court, near Queens Club, and then moved again in 1998 to the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton.
The ITF operates the three major national team competitions in the sport, the Davis Cup for men, the Fed Cup for women and the Hopman Cup, mixed teams. The ITF sanctions the four Grand Slams: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open.
While the ATP Tour and WTA Tour control most other high-level professional tournaments, the ITF runs developmental professional tours for men and women. The ITF Men's Circuit, consists of Futures tournaments with prize funds of USD 10,000 or USD 15,000. Medium level men's tournaments are run by the ATP through the ATP Challenger Tour. The ITF previously also ran four-week satellite tournaments of roughly the same quality level as Futures tournaments, but they were discontinued after the 2006 season. The ITF Women's Circuit incorporates both lower and mid-level tournaments, with prize funds ranging from USD 10,000 to USD 100,000. Virtually every ATP and WTA player started by playing on the ITF circuits.
The ITF is responsible for maintaining an international under-18 junior circuit for boys and girls, as well as a wheelchair tennis circuit.
The ITN (International Tennis Number) is an international tennis rating system that gives tennis players a number that represents their general level of play. Players are rated from ITN 1 (ATP or WTA standard or equivalent) to 10 (starter players).
Conversion charts have been developed linking the ITN to other existing rating systems in ITF tennis nations and in time it is hoped that every tennis player worldwide will have a rating. Below ITN 10 there are 3 further categories linked to the slower balls:
• 10.1 for players using green balls on the full size court
• 10.2 for players using orange balls on the 18 metre court
• 10.3 for players using red balls on the 11 metre court
Once players can ‘Serve, rally and score’ they should have a rating to help them find players to play with of a similar level.
In late 2004 the ITF initiated a new player registration process, IPIN (International Player Identification Number). This is online based and was implemented to handle the large numbers of players around the world. A player's IPIN, which is 3 letters followed by 7 numbers, is assigned upon registration and is required for all ITF events. A player's IPIN will not change during the course of his or her career. Once registered, players can use the website to access items such as tournament information and their code of conduct. Fees vary depending on the ITF circuit chosen by the player.
ITF World Champions
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See also
- "Member National Associations" (PDF). ITF. January 1, 2012.
- Max Robertson (1974). The Encyclopedia of Tennis: 100 Years of Great Players and Events. The Viking Press. p. 87.
- History of the ITF
- International Tennis Number site
- "ITF Launches Player Pin". Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- "What is an IPIN". Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- "IPIN Introduction". Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- "IPIN Registration". Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- International Tennis Federation (ITF) site
- International Tennis Federation (ITF) Constitution - English (PDF)
- Tennis Play and Stay site
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Here on Democracy Now! we’ve been taking a look at just who the new U.S. allies are. We’ve looked at Uzbekistan,Russia, China, and now the Philippines. There has been very little coverage of the Philippines in the U.S. media.Since September 11, the little coverage there has been has focused on the Muslim insurgency in the southern islands.
But there are other stories to tell. Recently, a coalition of indigenous people on the island of Mindanao began toorganize to reclaim their land, which was taken over first in the 1960s by cattle ranchers and is now occupied bysugar plantations which supply to multinational corporations.
On September 6, one of the leaders of the indigenous people’s coalition was murdered. According to his relatives, hewas targeted because of his pursuit of land claims. Later that month, the house of another prominent leader was firedon, and two weeks later, two others were killed. Most recently, on October 19th, an entire village was burned to theground. Many of the people involved in the land claims lived in the village.
After the attacks, the local police did nothing. But Witness, a team of Canadian filmmakers, and Filipino journalistJoey Lozano joined forces and pressured the national government by writing letters, articles, and petitions, andusing Witness video footage to publicize the attacks and the government inaction.
The National Bureau of Investigation is now looking into the attacks.
- Joey Lozano, an award-winning journalist from the Philippines who focuses on human rights andenvironmental issues. He is currently a correspondent with the Philippine Daily Inquirer and has worked withWitness since 1996.
- Sam Gregory, Witness program coordinator.
- Dan Wilson, protest organizer from the Network in Support of the People of the Philippines.
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If you like social media data and science like this, my latest book “Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness” is now only $1.99 in Kindle Edition (which will work on any computer or device). Buy it now!
One of the questions that I’ve been asked the most in the years I’ve been doing Twitter data analysis is where in a Tweet is the best position (beginning, middle or end) to include a link to get the most clicks. I had always assumed the end was the best, so I never thought much about the question.
But about a month ago, I decided to actually look at the data about it and test my assumption. Over the course of the next few weeks I gathered 200,000, random, bit.ly-link-containing Tweets. I used the bit.ly API to calculate a click through rate (clicks on a link divided by number of followers of tweeter). And then I analyzed the relationship of the link’s position inside the Tweet and it’s CTR. I figured the best way to visualize this would be through a heat map.
The entire heat map symbolizes a Tweet, with areas to the left in the beginning of the Tweet and areas to the right at the end. Dark red bars represent a position with a high CTR and light-red or white bars show a position with a very low CTR.
It turns out that the best area for clicks is about 25% of the way through the Tweet. Do these findings match your experience? Will you be experimenting with this placement?
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Here’s a good example of irony and hypocrisy in action, assuming of course it’s true: Apple is reportedly off-loading a lot of the heavy lifting for its upcoming iCloud cloud computing service to two companies that actually understand cloud computing, Amazon and Microsoft. According to InfiniteApple, iCloud could be routing some traffic through Amazon’s S3 service and Microsoft’s Windows Azure, two established cloud computing solutions for storage and computing, respectively.
We’ve received an interesting tip today from someone who set a WiFi proxy on their iPad to get a glimpse at the HTTP traffic which occurs when an image is sent through iMessage. Interestingly enough, it seems that iCloud somehow utilizes Amazon’s AWS cloud services as well as Microsoft Azure.
GigaOm provides a bit more relevant information, and a possible explanation:
We ran the screenshots by three networking and cloud experts at major companies. All three said that the screenshots did not conclusively show how iCloud was utilizing the Amazon and Microsoft technologies, if at all.
Two sources said that the log could simply show that the image sent over iMessage was itself initially hosted on Azure or Amazon. A third source said Apple may be using Azure and AWS for content delivery network (CDN) purposes. That would mean that the files are ultimately hosted on Apple servers, but Apple is caching copies of some data on strategically placed CDN servers run by Azure and Amazon’s CloudFront to help speed up delivery. In other words, Apple could be leveraging cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft for short-term iCloud caching to boost speed and reliability — not because its own servers are incapable of handling the content.
So is iCloud leaning on more mature and established competitors to get the job done? I’m not sure it matters, and even if it is true, iCloud isn’t publicly available yet, so it’s possible that this is simply a pre-release configuration.
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Unesco delegation says skyscraper proposal will result in ‘serious loss of historic authenticity’
Winners include Brighton, Birmingham, Oxford and Cambridge. Losers include Sheffield which warns of job losses and a fall in exhibition standards
Expert archaeologist helped drama producers make exact model of underground network
Archaeological treasures including the Acropolis and the temple of Delphi will be available as backdrops for filming and photographic shoots for as little as €1,600 (£1,339) a day
Construction work forces return of remains of Roman temple to the god Mithras to original London home after 58 years
Italy’s most visited monument, the Roman Colosseum, is suffering from “about 3,000 lesions”, a government minister said last year. Sometimes, bits fall off, as did a chunk dislodged by a pigeon on Christmas Eve.
HMS Olympus struck a mine off the coast of Malta as it tried to evade German and Italian warships on 8 May 1942 – Archaeology News Press Release
National Trust appeals for people to get in touch and discuss ideas, after DIY plaque leaves resin on the 2000-year-old stones
Bronze discs depicting sex acts, like the one discovered in London, were used to hire prostitutes – and directly led to the birth of pornography during the Renaissance HeritageDaily Archaeology News Press Release – News for Archeology by Archaeologists
Supreme court says international law does not fit the ‘reality on the ground’ of long-term Israeli occupation – HeritageDaily Archaeology News Press Release – News for Archeology by Archaeologists
A celebration of the horse – from newly excavated Saudi Arabian rock carvings to Victorian London’s dung dilemma
Bulldozers and dynamite used to strip priceless artefacts from remote sites, with booty sold on to wealthy collectors
Kate Ravilious looks at the invention of shoes that helped people cross the snow
The recent destruction of an historic document in Cairo offers a stark warning that Egypt’s art and history is under threat
Museum collection can now be sold to meet deficit of Wedgwood Potteries, even though the two separated half a century ago
Architect behind latest failed redesign for London’s Battersea power station hired as creative brain behind developer Mike Hussey’s plan for stadium for Chelsea football club at the site
Heritage minister’s decision puts Richard Rogers’s hi-tech design in the top 2.5% of all listed buildings
Lavishly carved 16th-century oak cup was given to Arundells of Wardour for safekeeping during dissolution of monasteries
Lack of funds and public money leave institutions unable to stop exodus of works and artefacts worth £65m, including Turner masterpiece
Jacobean era’s infamous witchcraft trials recalled after reservoir repairs at Pendle Hill dig out cottage with bricked-up feline
Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of his Principia Mathematica is among his notebooks and manuscripts being made available online by Cambridge University Library.
Staff in Wessex Archaeology’s Salisbury office are taking part in a pilot project entitled ‘Operation Nightingale’ to explore the potential of using archaeology as a tool in the rehabilitation of injured servicemen and women.
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MA in History
The history master’s degree program stresses broad understandings of the past, the development of the capacity for specialized research, and the cultivation of collegial relationships. History MA students may concentrate on American history, modern European history, or public history and develop minor fields of study (outside fields), as well as (major or minor) cross national and cross disciplinary fields.
Department of History faculty offer course work and guidance in political history, social and cultural history, diplomatic history, history of gender and sexuality, comparative history, history of imperialism and post-colonialism, intellectual history, history of medicine, African American culture and history, ethnic history, and public history. The Department of History is flexible in its approach to graduate work. Students are encouraged to take initiative and responsibility for shaping their programs and fulfilling program requirements. The department emphasizes close consultation between student and adviser in defining fields of study, tools of research, and other features of a particular program. Graduate students are encouraged to take advantage of Washington, D.C., resources to complement course work.
Faculty and alumni connections lead students to internships and employment. Alumni hold positions in The George Washington University Archives; Historic House Trust of New York City; Arlington House, NPS; Department of Heritage Education Services, The National Register, NPS; Eastern State Penitentiary Museum, PA; Design Minds, DC; History Associates; the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Institution; the Smithsonian Institution Archives; Mount Vernon; and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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It is hoped the screens will provide a "lasting legacy" from the games
Up to 28 giant TV screens are to be erected in towns and cities across the UK to televise live action from the Beijing and London 2012 Olympics.
Eight permanent screens and a number of temporary screens are being planned to show this year's event in China.
The aim is to involve the whole of the UK in celebrating the games, the London organisers said.
Critics say the screens will turn towns into versions of an electrical retailer or "outdoor Currys".
Sarah Gaventa, director of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) said: "Just when we're starting to create well-designed, civilised public space in many English towns, along comes a rash of intrusive neon screens.
"Having a fun, relaxed time in our streets and squares should come from the character and design of a place, not something that feels more like an outdoor Currys."
But a spokeswoman for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) said they were in consultation with government, English Heritage and CABE to ensure that "any new live sites work in the best way possible for all involved".
Planning permission for all the screens would be subject to local consultation.
LOCOG said the permanent screens would provide a "lasting legacy" of the Olympics for towns and cities across the UK.
The committee is to supply the screens and the BBC will provide content.
They will be funded by £2.6m from the National Lottery with more funding from Lloyds TSB and BT.
Permanent screens will be put up in Cardiff, Middlesbrough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Swansea and Waltham Forest in London.
There will be further sites in Bristol and Norwich, subject to planning permission.
The 20 temporary screens, in locations including Belfast, Glasgow, Herne Bay and Weymouth, will initially be erected to televise the handover ceremony from Beijing on 25 August to London.
The 2012 Party, marking the moment when London becomes the official Olympic city, will be broadcast live on TV and on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2.
It will feature performances from The Feeling, Il Divo, Katherine Jenkins, Russell Watson and McFly.
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HSLDA’s @home e•vents program showcases speakers who are experts in their fields and often leaders in the homeschool community. They’ve been in your shoes and want to come alongside you in your journey to enhance your family’s homeschooling experience! Our speakers possess the breadth of experience, talent, and enthusiasm suited for encouraging you and equipping you with relevant tools.
Past e•vents have included presentations by well-known authors and speakers, such as Andrew Pudewa, Lou Priolo, Dr. Jay Wile, Jeff Myers, and Hal and Melanie Young, as well as experienced homeschooling parents and homeschool graduates. HSLDA staff speakers have included President J. Michael Smith, Chairman Michael P. Farris, many other attorneys, and some of our Special Needs, High School, and Early Years coordinators, such as Dianne Craft, Vicki Bentley, Becky Cooke, and Diane Kummer.
Pioneers of the home education movement, Rick and Marilyn Boyer are began teaching the eldest of their 14 children at home in 1980 and are still homeschooling their three youngest children today.
Known for his humorous, folksy style, Rick has been called &rlquo;the Will Rogers of the homeschooling movement.” Marilyn is appreciated for her keen, warmhearted insights into parenting.
The Boyers have authored several books on homeschooling and Christian parenthood and have spoken at conferences across the United States and in several foreign countries. Their books have been translated into a number of foreign languages and circulated around the world. The couple cofounded The Learning Parent, a ministry that seeks to encourage parents through resources, the Boyers' speaking ministry, their website, a monthly newsletter, and articles, which have been published in several leading homeschooling magazines.
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Two centuries later, America and her leaders seem to have strayed from the Biblical principles on which our nation was founded. Come and listen as historical writer Marilyn Boyer, author of For You They Signed, points the way back to the principles that made America great. Teach your children to put God first in their lives and reclaim our country's future by embracing the glory of her past!
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Eye Tests and Exams
Here's a brief guide to the special eye tests your eye doctor may perform during an eye exam. In addition to a complete examination of your eye, your doctor may want to order one of the following eye tests.
This eye test helps doctors diagnose glaucoma by measuring the amount of pressure needed to flatten a portion of the cornea. This is done by taking a thin strip of paper stained with the dye flourescein. This dye stains the front of the eye and enables a better eye exam by the doctor. The patient is then given a local anesthesia in the form of drops and the pressure is measured using a tonometer.
During this eye test, a computer is used create a "map" of the curvature of the cornea. The computer analysis will show any distortions of the cornea such as scarring, as well as conditions such as astigmatism . This eye test is used to screen patients before they undergo any refractive surgery , as well as for fitting contact lenses and corneal transplants.
This is an eye test used to evaluate the blood circulation in the retina. It is useful in helping diagnose diabetic retinopathy and retinal detachment . During this eye test, a special dye, called fluorescein, is injected into a vein in the arm. The dye quickly travels to the blood vessels inside the eye. Once it reaches the eye, a specialized camera equipped is used to photograph the fluorescein as it circulates though the blood vessels in the back of the eye. This will enable the doctor to diagnose any circulation problems, swelling, leaking or abnormal blood vessels.
Pupillary Dilation Test
During this eye test, the eye doctor places special drops in the eye that cause the pupil to dilate (expand). By dilating the pupils, your doctor can examine your retina for any signs of disease.
This eye test measures your ability to see objects at specific distances. Often doctors will ask the patient to look at a chart, usually 20 feet away, and try to read it while looking through a special instrument known as a phoropter. The phoropter moves lenses of different strengths into place for the patient to look through. This eye test is useful in helping to diagnose presbyopia, hyperopia, myopia, and astigmatism.
This eye test looks at the front of the eye by shining a beam of light shaped like a small slit on the eye. The eye doctor may also dilate your pupils while you are undergoing this eye exam. The eye test can be used to help diagnose cataracts, retinal detachment, macular degeneration, injuries to the cornea and presbyopia.
An eye test used to help diagnose glaucoma in which a small, smooth instrument known as a tonometer s lowered onto the surface of the eye in order to measure the pressure in the eye.
An ultrasound eye test uses sound waves to provide a picture of the eye's internal structure. It is useful in evaluating ocular tumors as well as the retina when it is being obscured by cataracts or a hemmorhage. This eye test will be given as part of preoperative evaluation for cataract surgery.
Visual Acuity Testing
A test of your visual acuity, or ability to see sharply and clearly at near and far distances, will be performed. Various eye tests can be used to determine the visual acuity of infants, children, and adults. These are fairly simple and can be performed by an ophthalmologist, optometrist, technician, nurse, or optician. They do not, however, test for important functions of sight, like depth perception or color blindness. One common type of eye test used for children who cannot yet read is the Random E's Visual Acuity Test. The patient is asked to identify the direction that the letter "E" opens to by holding out 4 fingers to mimic the letter "E." This eye test is safe, there are no risks involved, and it works just as well as most other eye tests.
Visual Field Test
A test used to measure peripheral (side) vision. When given this test, you will be asked to stare at on object in the center of your line of vision (either the doctor's eyes, on a screen or using a computer program). As you are looking at the object, you will be asked to note when you see an object moving into your peripheral vision. This test is done to diagnose glaucoma or possible damage caused by a stroke.
Reviewed by the doctors at The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute.
Edited by Charlotte E. Grayson, MD, WebMD, October 2004.
Portions of this page © The Cleveland Clinic 2000-2005
Last Editorial Review: 6/29/2005
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Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. A hallucenogenic drug
that is really in class by itself. First synthesized in the
late 30's and investigated by the U.S. Army in the 50's
as a possible mind control agent, it found great popularity
with the 60's hippies and celebrities. Still around today
and relatively cheap on the street.
LSD ("Acid"), taken in a sufficient dose, is mood altering
and can produce gross perceptual and sensory distortion.
More importantly, it seems to unlock the barriers between
the subconcious and concious mind. One researcher
compared it to producing an artificial psychotic break,
almost like seeing what it's like to be schizophrenic.
Most experienced users agree that the mood of the user
and the company or surroundings will cause a good or
bad experience. The drug's use can also be compared
to playing Russian Roulette. Five fun trips and The
Worst Experience Of Your Life. It also can cause chromo-
some damage and trigger real mental illness. Some users
report seeing after-effects years after they have stopped.
Fun fact: Vincent Price can be seen reading up on using
LSD to help frighten a victim to death in the 50's
schlock horror flick "The Tingler"...
Are the high you get and/or the insights you think you're
getting on LSD worth the risk? Depends on who you ask,
like say the late Tim Leary or the late Syd Barrett.
D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Synthetic chemical which, when taken orally or, less commonly, in the lining of an eyelid or nostril, is the most potent hallucinogen known to the common public.
One of the cheapest drugs available, it is neither addictive nor physically dangerous. Taken by an intelligent, open-minded person, it can create fantastic revelations and experiences.
It is not a good party drug, and, in a hostile environment such as a party, it can lead to what is known as a 'bad trip', where the person under the influence of the substance in question has an experience which is totally frightening. Fear, depression and anger are accentuated to fill the entire body to a point where entire thought patterns are controlled by these emotions.
The same accentuation goes for happiness and relaxation, often leading to a state of artificial nirvana, the only difference being that the person is absolutely suggestible and can lose the ability to reason.
It's funny how there are actually quite a few serious definitions of LSD on UrbanDictionary. The ignorant and uneducated fear LSD, but the intelligent, after reading about its effects, are the ones who try it, taking special care about risks and so on.
It is only when one becomes cocky and stupid that LSD causes bad effects.
LSD (D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) is a synthetic hallucigenic drug, although it doesn't produce hallucinations but more severe distortions of the senses and thinking.more...
It was synthized By Albert Hoffman from Ergotamine which is found in the deadly poisonous Ergot Fungus that used to grow on crops. it gives hallucinations and gangreen.
LSD's treshhold dose is 25 micrograms. Common taken doses are about 100 micrograms. It is usually taken in the form of paper blotters; small pieces of absorbant paper with some liquid LSD sprayed on them.
The effects are mood-changes, a lot of them, visual tracers, colors, synthesia, and other 'distortions' of the senses. With higher doses everything seems to melt, move and change around you. Your thoughts become bizarre and often confused.
Very low doses give the feeling of being stoned.
The effects last 8 to 12 hours, depending on the dose and the indifidual.
There have been accidents on LSD, even suicides, but compared to other drugs not many at all.
It was used mostly in the 60th's, untill it got made illigal and people started speading nonsense about it.
It can cause schitzophrenia in sensitive people; and post-traumatic stress after a bad trip (which means nothing more then that you fought of the effect too mch) and in some cazes flashbacks (random comming back of the effect).
Lsd is not very dangerous, its not poisionous and its LD50 is far above the user dose. The psychological effects are more dangerous in th...
Best drug in the entire world. Can be very therapeutic and completely changes your view of things. Fucking Awesome, and make you trip. If you one do one drug in your entire life time, make it acid.
Makes you trip, very very hard at times and i recommend it for anyone sound enough of mind to take the journey. Really, everyone should try this at least once in their life, see if they like it, and let it go from there. Everyone. Do acid. I love acid. I want to marry it. Yay LSD.
"This is the best part of the trip; this is the trip. This is the part that i really like, the trip."
"I love LSD"
An extremely potent hallucinogen, capable of creating intense visual, and aural distortions. Seeing colors and smelling sounds.
Highly intensifies musical and personal experiences. Recommend use with a sitter who has experienced the drug to maintain a comfortable atmosphere.
The most important part of taking LSD is set and setting. Make sure you are in a calm, friendly environment. Also have a goal for the trip in mind, allowing you to focus on one thing and gain new understanding of the matter by being open to suggestions normally not introduced to your brain.
I ate lsd laced with mescalin and tripped for a solid 36 hours.
LSD is the raw truth thrown in your face, an oppurtunity for profound realization. Possibly the best thing since glass bongs.
"Boy that LSD is great"
"Sure hits the spot"
"its been proven to increase your risk of psychotic illnesses and depression, and organisations like the armed forces will not take anyone who has ever done LSD in their lives."
nobody listen to this fucktard. it's been proven to increase ANY feeling. euphoria, depression, etc.
and the armed forces don't reject lsd users, it's the other goddamned way around. it's pretty funny how consistently the media will spin the truth 180 degrees. the army tested it on soldiers and the very first thing they wanted to do was get the hell out of the armed forces. so if you take lsd, don't worry about joining the army, because you won't want to anyway.
dock ellis pitched a no hitter on lsd.
francis crick discovered the double helix on lsd.
eminem thought of the slim shady alias on lsd.
the lsd fueled 60's was musically, the best decade.
"Kyle: Well… maybe I'll take just half a hit of acid."
"Ike: I want three. ..."
I became the universe, had deep conversations with my friends cats of whom I was absolutly convinved were gods. I turned to liquid energy and encompassed an entire swimming pool. I flew so fast I became nothing but a vibration. The sun became my man and we fell in love. An entire garden danced collectively to the beat of Electric Avenue for me. The sun became the sky and swirled into an exotic painting then back to the most perfect combination of senery, and back again until it swirled together into infinite. Then I returned to Earth, where I will stay forever a changed person.
My LSD story :]
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LCD backpacks reduce the number of pins needed to connect to an LCD. LCDs are a fun and easy way to have your microcontroller project talk back to you. Character LCDs are common, and easy to get, available in tons of colors and sizes. We've written tutorials on using character LCDs with an Arduino (or similar microcontroller) but find that the number of pins necessary to control the LCD can be restrictive, especially with ambitious projects. We wanted to make a 'backpack' (add-on circuit) that would reduce the number of pins without a lot of expense.
By using simple i2c and SPI input/output expanders we have reduced the number of pins (only 2 pins are needed for i2c) while still making it easy to interface with the LCD. For Arduino users, we provide a easy-to-use library that is backwards compatible with projects using the '6 pin' wiring. The breakout comes with a 2-pin and 3-pin terminal block as shown (you can snap it together to make a 5-pin terminal and then solder it to the backpack for easy wiring)
This backpack will work with any 'standard' character LCD, from 8x1 to 40x4 sizes! As long as they have a 16-pin single-line connection header at the top. We carry a few LCDs that work great. We suggest using our blue & white 20x4 or 16x2 LCDs. It does not work with the 16x2 OLED displays. You can try to connect our RGB 16x2 or 20x4 LCDs up but this backpack will not control the RGB backlight so you'll have to use the backpack only for the 14 digital IO pins (pins #1-14) and connect the backlight pins (#15-#18) directly to your microcontroller with 4 extra wires for color/PWM control as if they were just an RGB LED.
For advanced users, this project can be used for general purpose I/O expansion, the MCP23008 has 8 i/o pins (7 are connected) with optional pull-ups, the SPI 74HC595 has 7 connected outputs.
For a detailed tutorial on usage, including an Arduino library, wiring diagrams, and files, please visit the product page
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A fantastic piece in the WSJ by Daniel Henninger.
If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death for those men? Short answer: the Center Rock drill bit. This is the miracle bit that drilled down to the trapped miners. Center Rock Inc. is a private company in Berlin, Pa. It has 74 employees. The drill’s rig came from Schramm Inc. in West Chester, Pa. Seeing the disaster, Center Rock’s president, Brandon Fisher, called the Chileans to offer his drill. Chile accepted. The miners are alive.
And there were other contributions: cell phones, socks, cables, and much more, from all over the world – innovations from the private sector. Meanwhile, Henniger writes, the US President is running around denouncing people’s “blind faith in the market.”
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This is an anamorphic representation of our Long and Winding Road afghan.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines anamorphosis as:
A distorted projection or drawing of anything, which appears normal when viewed from a particular point or by means of a suitable mirror.
When a cylinder is placed on this afghan the original rectangular spiral can be seen in the cylinder.
When the cylinder is not there, the afghan becomes a twisting labyrinth.
The afghan in the photo was made in DK yarn and measures approximately 135 cm (53”) in diameter. It can be made in any yarn and the pattern contains information for changing the size.
This is a very detailed pattern. It is not difficult but the instructions must be followed systematically and carefully. Only one yarn is used at a time. Much of it is knitted in narrow pieces with no more than 40 stitches on the needle. Other parts are knitted in one piece with up to 700 stitches on the needles. You will probably need two circular needles to hold the number of stitches.
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Duncan Riley> Nearly as long as there has been a blogosphere there has been debate on blogging ethics, from disclosure through to fact checking, and lots of bits in between. Whether there is a right or wrong on many of these questions is subjective, but blogging ethically is not as difficult as it may seem. Today I’m going to start a series of short ethics tips that I hope most will enjoy.
Tip 1: Attribution where due.
In the beginning there was a handful of blogs, and they linked to each other. This linking meant that those with similar views or interests could discover new blogs, and from this a community developed.
Yes, its sounds somewhat biblical, but the development of the blogosphere as we know it today came about in large part due to the practice of linking, that whilst not unique to blogging, was fined tuned and developed to new extents by it.
Linking in blogging comes in two forms, inline and blogroll. Inline refers to within a post, whilst blogroll means within the side or navigation bars. Most bloggers have a blog roll of some type, and given that a link in a blogroll to another site is simply a matter of like or relationship, the content is not bound by any major ethical consideration. Linking inline is.
There is nothing more that annoys me when parts of my posts or breaking stories are stolen by another blog, or website without attribution. Aside from the legalities of breaching my creative commons license, its simply unethical.
A question of ethics you may well ask? If you were writing a College or University paper and quoted without attribution another’s work, it would be plagiarism, and in most tertiary institutions this would result in instant dismissal from the course. We accept that plagiarism is unethical, then so is stealing the content, or a report or idea, in part or whole, from another blog without attribution.
The solution is simple: provide attribution.
If you are going to quote part of a post from another blog directly, provide direct attribution with inline link, for example, for a direct quote:
Threadwatch reports that “At the start of the week Danny Sullivan exposed Google’s underwear” or
Darren Rowse at Problogger stated “I would also add that it helps with the search engine optimization of your post”
for an indirect quote go this way
Robert Scoble asks a good question as to how much Yahoo! paid for Flickr
I’d note of the inline link that the link can be either on the name of the author, or on the short reference “a good question” or the long part “how much Yahoo! paid for Flickr”. There are no strict rules on where to base your link on an indirect reference.
Ideas or seeds are the most often ignored form of attribution. Simply, if you’ve read a post about a topic on one blog, then are inspired to write in a similar vain, provide attribution at the end. For example
(via Radio Free Blogistan)
(in part via Scripting News)
There’s no hard and fast rule as to the methodology either, “via” is the most common term used, although “ref” for reference can be substituted, or even “from” or “link”.
The core idea here for the use of direct, indirect and ideas is the giving of attribution, and the examples simply demonstrate ways this can be done. Perhaps you provide it in a slightly different format? As long as its inline there is nothing wrong with this at all, its the thought as opposed to the exact detail that counts.
I’d note though that there is 1 exception to the attribution rule, and that’s media releases. This would only really affect news blogs, but I often receive media releases directly from firms which include direct quotes from the CEO and others: these releases are designed to be used in full or part without attribution as they are about getting a story out. The only time attribution is required for a media release is if the media release has been taken directly or in part from a blog.
Providing attribution is an ethical consideration all bloggers should consider. Many of you reading this already will, but you may be surprised how many don’t, and the higher up the blogosphere you go, the worse it gets. Think of it this way: you put your heart and soul into a post and half a day later, somebody posts nearly exactly the same thing, you cant prove the link but its more than coincidence, and you’re either heartbroken or angry. You don’t like it happening to you, so be ethical and don’t do it to others, you might be surprised: many bloggers like to see who is linking to their posts, they may well see yours and then all of a sudden you’ve got a link back…see the picture: do the right thing and good things may come from it.
Giving attribution is ethical, not giving it is unethical.
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We’ve been reminded this last week, thanks to LinkedIn and eHarmony, of how important site security is. Hopefully the reminder will do us, the eCommerce community, some good and keep fresh in our minds how easy it is to let things slip and make ourselves a target. Luckily, for an eCommerce merchant, security is an issue that can be taken care of easily. When shopping for the eCommerce solution software that will help you run your online store and check-out process, simply make sure you go with a hosted cart that is PCI-compliant! If you’re looking to host your store on your own server, only use a cart that is certified PA-DSS compliant by the PCI Security Council. They keep an up-to-date list of these applications at pcisecuritystandards.org.
Online business security is one of the most undervalued features of eCommerce solution softwares. Though PCI-compliance is a mandatory global requirement, surveys report that online business owners are often more concerned about store design and marketing features than they are about security. While design and marketing are very important parts of an online shop, security should be on top of your priorities, as well. You should always remember that as a store owner, you are completely responsible for your store’s security… that means you are completely financially responsible for any breaches in security that might occur. This includes the costs associated with reissuing any credit card information that may have been compromised. Fortunately, when you partner your storefront with a shopping cart solution that is PCI-compliant, you can rest at ease because the company behind the software has already gone through a great deal of effort and done all of the security work for you.
What is PCI-Compliance?
PCI-compliance is a set of stringent standards that strictly regulates any business that deals with credit / debit / atm / etc card information. The goal of PCI-compliance is to protect online merchants, businesses and shoppers by protecting the card holder’s sensitive information and reducing credit card fraud. PCI-compliance is a mandatory global security standard that is set by the 5 major credit card brands (VISA, MC, AMEX, DISCOVER, and JCB). If your online store is not PCI-compliant, you will face fines and be held responsible for any breaches of security.
So… the bottom line is.
In order to protect your customers, your business, and yourself, only choose a shopping cart solution that meets the current PCI-Compliance regulations. Check their certification to make sure it is valid and up-to-date as compliance renews annually. Also, to be especially careful and use the highest levels of protection, look into PCI-DSS compliance for your business. Your customers will feel more secure knowing that you’re protecting them. It’s the right thing to do!
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Helping HandBy CIOinsight | Posted 04-05-2005
By Eric von Hippel
The MIT Press, April 2005
208 pages, $29.95
Here's a simple example of what MIT professor von Hippel is talking about in this short but dense book: Windows has a perfectly fineslow, but finestartup process that takes you to a home screen prepopulated with options Microsoft thinks you might want.
Odds are you also have added your own "shortcut" iconsMicrosoft Word, perhaps, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, whateverto that same home page. You may even have added a specific program to the startup menu so you are automatically taken to your Internet browser, for example, once you log on.
What you have done with Windowscustomized it so it works the way you want it tois becoming increasingly commonplace, especially in technology. (Think free and open-source software and wiki Web sites.) Users are tailoring existing products so they better suit their needs.
While people have always tried to customize products, a "user's ability to innovate is improving radically and rapidly as a result of the steadily improving quality of computer software and hardware, improved access to easy-to-use tools and components for innovation," writes von Hippel, who is head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
What does all this mean for you? Potentially, a great deal, he contends. Von Hippel offers two ideas worth paying attention to.
First, you should seek out and identify what he calls "lead users"customers who discover your product early and who spend the most time customizing it to meet their needs. Once you have found them, you not only want to learn what they did, but also determine a way you could benefit from it.
How? Von Hippel suggests three ways:
Take users' ideas and produce them for sale;
Sell kits so others can make changes to your product, just like the lead users have; and
Sell products or services that complement what these lead users have come up with.
The overarching theme behind all three moves is simple: If a few customers find benefit in tweaking your product to fit their needs, then the odds are other customers could benefitand be willing to pay forthose same improvements.
Von Hippel's second big point isn't new, but it is important. He urges you to bring potential users into the development process early on. If you let them actually help design the prototypesinstead of waiting for their reactions in beta versionsit is easier and less expensive to incorporate their ideas.
This is not beach reading. Footnotes, academic-ese and passive sentences abound: "This approach involves portioning product-development and service-development projects into solution-information intensive subtasks." And his suggestion that the government make it easier for users to modify existing products raises troubling intellectual property and copyright issues.
Still, von Hippel has brought an important issue to the fore. Users of your products are going to make modifications to them to suit their needs. Shouldn't there be a way for you to benefit from that?
Paul B. Brown is the author of numerous business books, including Publishing Confidential: The Insider's Guide to What It Really Takes to Land a Nonfiction Book Deal, published by Amacom. Please send comments on this review to
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Shots - Health News
Tue December 18, 2012
Easing Of Marijuana Laws Complicates Parents' Advice To Kids
Parents drill certain warnings into their children: don't drink, don't smoke and don't do drugs. But those conversations have gotten tougher now that two states, Colorado and Washington, have decriminalized some recreational marijuana use.
"Trying to explain this to my 9-year-old is hard," said Tami deBellis of Olympia, Wash. She's a mother who shared her thoughts with NPR's Tell Me More on Facebook. "I explained the benefits for some critically ill patients and adults if used legally. [It was] probably way above his grade level."
But whether your child is 9 or 19, conversations about drugs are even more important to have now, says Dr. Leslie Walker, a pediatrician and chief of adolescent Medicine at Seattle Children's Hospital. She says marijuana is the No. 1 drug that sends teenagers to her substance abuse clinic.
Dr. Walker that the drug potentially poses more risks to kids and teens because their brains are still developing. That could also leave them more vulnerable to addiction. "You put something like marijuana into the mix of a developing brain and, for some kids, it's going to be the first time they've had a drug that's going to cause lifelong addiction for them," says Dr. Walker.
The smoke alone can have be harmful to young children. "If you wouldn't smoke cigarettes at home in front of your kids because you know of the dangers, you shouldn't think marijuana's going to be better," she says.
If parents use marijuana themselves, they should be careful about the example they're setting for their children. Dr. Walker says that using marijuana — even legally — in front of children can send a dangerous signal that drugs are the answer to stress. "'Mom's at home smoking some marijuana; it helps mellow her out.' Kids learn those messages, and those are very powerful messages."
As more states discuss the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana, Dr. Walker hopes that young people don't get a distorted image about drug use.
"It may seem like it, but the vast majority of kids are not using marijuana at this time. It'll be a natural experiment to see what happens over the next few years," she says.
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Inexpensive safety or security measures that could immediately be implemented can include putting a darkening shade on the windows of stations so outsiders are unable to look in and keeping all doors closed and secured. I would recommend window tinting of emergency vehicles such as police cars and fire apparatuses. I also suggest requiring a second key to vehicles that have a key operated ignition. That would allow the vehicles to remain running and be locked at the same time. I would recommend that a device be placed on apparatus with a keyless ignition, so it could not be placed in gear without activation of the device.
Where specialized teams are regional, agencies may want to look at establishing a more advanced or equipped team of their own or at least improving training. It may be a good idea to place specialized teams at multiple locations throughout the community to minimize a threat.
I would suggest that on a regional basis, someone is placed in a fusion center and there is a contact person with the Joint Terrorism Task Force or other task force if possible. If personnel are not invited, then I would suggest a liaison of some sort so necessary information can be obtained. I would also suggest that some sort of tactical training involving all first responders, such as firefighters, police, emergency medical services, public utilities, etc., be taught. This should occur in settings less formal and outside of typical exercises. On a local level, I would recommend a threat assessment and risk analysis be conducted as it pertains to the agency.
First responders cannot protect civilians if they, themselves, are not secure in their surroundings. It is important to be prepared for terrorists both foreign and domestic to manage terrorism impact and ensure first responders’ ability to serve and protect.
Thomas Harrison retired in 2009 with 23 years experience at the Virginia State Police, with experience in a variety of law enforcement training in national terrorism preparedness and counterterrorism. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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I'm sitting at a sidewalk cafe table on Myrtle Avenue. It's at the center of the Old Town district, a four-block-long section of turn-of-the-century brick buildings in the heart of Monrovia. Sun sparkles through the old ficus trees that line the street. The scene resembles something out of New England or the Midwest, and in fact is often used by Hollywood production companies as a set representing such locales.
Pam Fitzpatrick ― co-owner of the Dollmakers, a store on Myrtle ― is seated across from me, a big smile spread across her face. She's trying to explain just what's so great about Monrovia. Trouble is, passersby have interrupted her three times, stopping to ask about her shop, her family, her dolls.
Finally she gets a break and responds, "It's the community. It's not a place for hermits. It's way too friendly."
A place where the past is preserved
The history of this friendly place dates back to the late 1800s. William Monroe, a Los Angeles city councilman who made his fortune building railroads, moved to the area with his family in the spring of 1884, attracted by its lovely setting at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. In short order Monroe rounded up a small group to establish a 120-acre town site. Lots went up for sale on May 17, 1886, the official birthday of Monrovia, which makes it one of the oldest cities in Los Angeles County.
Harking back to those early days are the buildings on Myrtle Avenue. Outside Boxx Jewelers stands a fine old jeweler's street clock that's been keeping time at this spot since 1921. Here and there you can see an old sign for a livery stable or gas station, now painted over but indelibly imprinted into the brick façade. Fitzpatrick tells me that the upstairs of her former building was once a house of ill repute.
According to John Veenstra, executive director of the chamber of commerce, "In Monrovia, everybody has an interest in preserving the town's history." The town has not one but two historical preservation groups, one dedicated to restoring old commercial buildings and landmarks, the other more focused on important homes.
In such a history-conscious town, even the newer buildings are made to look older. The front of the Kirkorian Movie Cinema 12 on Myrtle Avenue, which opened in November 2000, has a 1930s art deco design, with turrets, stained glass, and a wraparound marquee. Downtown shop owners heralded their new neighbor by fixing up many other historic buildings. The effect is a little like Old Pasadena, with shops and restaurants centered around redeveloped classic structures--only the rents haven't gone up and mom-and-pop shops still prevail.
Frills Vintage Tea Parlour is one such homespun establishment. Frills invites "dear ladies, fine gentlemen, and young heirs" to take tea or lunch in an authentic Victorian English atmosphere: Patrons can even borrow a boa or hat from a trunk to complete the mood.
You could easily spend half a day visiting Old Town's antiques stores, art galleries, and cafes, and then venture out into the surrounding streets ― Alta Vista, Melrose, and Magnolia Avenues ― to gaze at all the beautiful old homes. Styles range from Craftsman to Spanish colonial revival, but almost all have fresh coats of paint and well-tended gardens.
And don't forget the beautiful outdoors that first attracted William Monroe. In Monrovia Canyon Park you can hike through 80 acres of lush streamside forest and see a 30-foot waterfall that flows year-round from the San Gabriel Mountains. Then head back into Old Town for more of that small-town, friendly charm.
Monrovia is in the western San Gabriel Valley, 8 miles east of Pasadena. Old Town is on Myrtle Ave. between Olive Ave. and Foothill Blvd. Take the Myrtle Ave. exit off I-210 and go north about 1/2 mile. Area code is 626.
Monrovia Canyon Park. The Nature Center has interpretive displays and maps. 8-5 Mon, Wed-Sun; $2 per car. 1200 North Canyon Blvd.; 256-8282.
Old Town Monrovia Farmers' Market. Friday evenings from 4 to 8. S. Myrtle Ave.; 357-7442.
Boxx Jewelers. Handcrafted jewelry. 518 S. Myrtle; 358-6171.
Dollmakers. Every kind of doll you can imagine. 505 S. Myrtle; 357-1091.
Historic Lighting. Arts and Crafts-style lighting, furniture, and accessories. 114 E. Lemon Ave.; 303-4899.
Kaleidoscope Antiques. Two floors, about 30 antique dealers. 306 S. Myrtle; 303-4042.
Mystic Sisters. Eclectic books, cards, incense, and unusual gifts. 417 S. Myrtle; 256-1212.
Frills Vintage Tea Parlour. Sandwiches, pastries, and 68 kinds of tea. 504 S. Myrtle; 303-3201.
Monrovia Bakery. A gathering spot for locals, with great pies and pastries. 506 S. Myrtle; 357-1895.
Monrovia Coffee Company. Coffee, ice cream, and a quiet place to sit, inside or out. 425 S. Myrtle; 305-1377.
Monrovian Family Restaurant. Local favorite with sidewalk tables and good American food. 534 S. Myrtle; 359-8364.
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Recalling communism through its black jokes
I remember the jokes. They were usually about one of two things: hardship or fear.
It’s been strange, this week, to reflect that most people will never know, as I did (albeit as a visitor) what it was really like in the old Soviet Bloc. But the jokes used to tell the story.
An American dog, a Polish dog and a Russian dog are talking. The American dog says “Where I live it’s good. You bark loudly enough, and they give you meat”. The Polish dog says” What’s meat?” The Russian dog says “What’s bark?”
Why have they brought in this new law in Moscow that the bread shops have to be separated by two kilometres? To keep the queues apart.
I was in Poland, in the autumn of 1981. Lech Walesa had founded the national Trade Union, Solidarity, the year before, and with the tacit support of the Polish Pope, had reached unprecedented heights of popularity. The rectangular red and white ‘Solidarnosc’ badges were on every second lapel. But people feared (rightly as it turned out) that the crackdown would come soon. Hence the joke I was told:
“You’ve heard they’re making round Solidarnosc badges now? Easier to swallow.”
In much-invaded Poland there was also bitterness about the neighbours – on both sides.
“If the Russians and the East Germans invaded tonight, which would you shoot first? The Germans. Why? Duty before pleasure.”
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, silenced by the tanks, they came out and painted the jokes on the walls:
“Why is Czechoslovakia the most neutral country in the world? Because it doesn’t even interfere in its own internal affairs”.
Were these jokes a form of samizdat – the underground literature of communism, but in oral form – or were they actually a sort of safety-valve, tacitly allowed by the regimes, and even used by them as an early warning system for public disaffection?
There’s academic disagreement about that, but one thing is clear: that at one time in Communist history, jokes were very dangerous indeed. As Ben Lewis points out here archival research by the dissident Soviet historian Roy Medvedev on political prisoners, indicated that 200,000 people went to jail in Stalin’s time for the sole ‘crime’ of telling a joke. Many of them were not released until after the dictator’s death.
Sending people to the gulag for a one-liner, of course, was small beer to Stalin. The Oxford historian Professor Archie Brown estimates that 10 to 20 million people died – directly or indirectly – because of Stalin’s orders or his policies. You can hear an extended interview with him here.
Note that the figure – 10 to 20 million – does not include the 25 million who died in the Second World War. Professor Brown says several million of those died because Stalin had purged the Army, meaning that he had had many of its most competent officers killed, so the first part of the Soviet campaign against Hitler was profoundly wasteful.
My own first encounter with Soviet bloc communism in action was in Mongolia in 1971. I was, as I’ve written here before, a student, on vacation, visiting my father, the British Ambassador in Ulan Bator. It was strange living in the Embassy: you always had to be careful what you said.
The Embassy had one phone line, but there were no less than six telephone cables coming out of the building – and for no apparent reason, they were all routed via the sentry-box outside.
British Foreign Office ‘sweepers’ would come out periodically from London to de-bug the building. Then, in a ritual dance, ‘heating technicians’ would arrive from the Mongolian Interior Ministry, (the city ran on a centralised heating system) and re-bug it.
On one celebrated occasion my father used this fact to his advantage. The low-security, but sealed, diplomatic bags that came in via Moscow, had been opened at some point – either by the Russians or by the Mongolians themselves. Dad had lodged a protest, but met a brick wall. So that night, during dinner, he motioned us for silence, sat back in his chair, and delivered a loud, clear monologue at the ceiling.
The import of his lengthy remarks was that, not only was Her Majesty’s Government angry at what had happened, it was absolutely livid. Indeed, he had received a highly secret cable from London that very afternoon saying that, unless a full apology was forthcoming within 24 hours, he was to break off diplomatic relations, pack up the Embassy and go home.
Promptly at 8 the next morning, an emissary of the Foreign Minister was at the front door in a car, ready to transport him to the Ministry to receive the grovelling apology he had asked for.
Of course, with diplomatic privilege, being bugged had few real consequences: but for ordinary people all over the Communist world, the possibility of microphones in the walls was a daily fear.
Hence the sense that you always had, even in the flats of dissidents, that it was not quite safe to talk freely. It might be all right for you – a tourist in other people’s oppression.
Whether I working was in Warsaw, Budapest or Moscow, the need to go for walks, or conduct interviews in cars, and even then, always to wonder whether I was endangering my interviewees’ safety or even their life.
The jokes were all part of the doubleness of life under totalitarian or authoritarian regimes, and it was a doubleness that was everywhere; always there was that sense of the overground and the underground, separated by what people really thought but could seldom actually say out loud.
My father and I used to go fishing on long summer afternoons in Mongolia, a country where religion was banned, apart from a single (licensed and closely-observed) monastery in Ulan Bator.
In the wild, after long drives across the steppes, miles from the nearest town, we would always find them: prayer flags, tied to branches, flying over springs and rivulets, in homage to the gods and spirits of wood and water.
We never saw anyone leaving them or praying at them, but half a century after the religion (closely related to Tibetan Buddhism) had been ‘eliminated’, the resistance remained.
That was how it was, in different ways, in all the Soviet satellite countries, always the silent resistance and the jokes: and that’s why, when the Wall came down, the whole system collapsed: the domino theory the Americans feared in Vietnam actually worked in reverse, so the dominos fell all the way back to Moscow. There was just no will any longer to keep up the pretence.
Is there a danger it could come back, if we allow what happened to fade in memory?
It seems incredibly unlikely in many of the former East European client-states: they’re mostly either in the European Union already, or on their way in, and even the global financial crisis has done little to revive the cold Communist Parties.
As for Russia, the habits of totalitarianism have certainly died hard: a poll recently showed Stalin was still the third most popular historical figure of all time, and the Medvedev/Putin Government has been busy trying to stop people from “besmirching” his memory, or writing too much about the Gulags.
But even in Russia, Marxism-Leninism itself – redistribution of property and the means of production, driven always by the Central Role Of The Party – is probably gone for good.
All that remain are the memories - and the jokes, dark and pungent like the bread.
Brezhnev is being driven through the countryside when his limousine hits a pig. An angry crowd approaches from the nearest village. He sends the chauffeur to pacify them. Cowering behind darkened windows, he sees the chauffeur approach the mob and start to talk. Suddenly they start to cheer, and carry him back, shoulder-high in triumph. He gets back in the car and they drive away. Brezhnev, astonished, asks “How did you manage that?”
“I don’t know”, says the driver. I just said “I’m Brezhnev’s driver: I killed the pig”
“Here in the Soviet Union we have a pretend economy. We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”
And finally, the one that, with hindsight on the events of 1989, you could interpret as prophetic:
“Capitalism is teetering on a precipice. Soon Communism will overtake it”.
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Seattle's ban on #6 polystyrene trays (commonly known as Styrofoam) at restaurants and grocery stores went into effect on July 1. As a result there have been a number of changes to packaging in the city. One of the most obvious - grocery stores were forced to come up with packaging alternatives to the commonly used Styrofoam meat tray.
Made by Illinois-based Pactiv, the tan trays can be used for meat, fish
and poultry and then tossed into the compost pile along with other food
waste, the radio station reported.
Pactiv also makes Hefty products. The company launched its EarthChoice brand of nearly 80 sustainable packaging products including cups, hinged-lid containers, plates, and straws in May.
The area's Cedargrove composting facilities can break down the corn resin into soil in six months, KPLU reported.
The city told KPLU the move will prevent six thousand tons of plastic and plastic-tainted waste from being sent to landfills in Oregon every year.
As more and more cities create restrictions on the use of polystyrene we'll continue to see further development in packaging alternatives. We've reported heavily on the use of new fresh meat pouch style packaging that has appeared at stores like Whole Foods. The pouch packaging also eliminates the need for the polystyrene tray.
Other companies like Murray's Chicken are using similar packaging.
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The LFDA presents this list of other organizations in New Hampshire related to public policy and civic engagement as a service to our members.
Please note that the views, policy recommendations and positions expressed by each of the groups are not endorsed by the Live Free or Die Alliance. The LFDA remains non-partisan, and as such, strives to present resources for all sides of important issues.
New Hampshire Listens works at the local and state level to facilitate and support civil, public deliberation of complex, polarizing issues. We share resources on dialogue design, train facilitators, and work with local and state leaders to create opportunities for informed conversation on social, economic, and policy matters.
Free Exchange on Campus
“Free Exchange on Campus is committed to advocating for the rights of students and faculty to hear and express a full range of ideas unencumbered by political or ideological interference.”
Leadership New Hampshire
“The mission of Leadership New Hampshire is to increase civic engagement and strengthen communities through connecting and educating a diverse pool of engaged or emerging leaders about the state of New Hampshire.”
NH Institute of Politics
“The NH Institute on Politics is founded on the premise that an informed and involved citizenry is an essential element of a well-functioning democracy. The Institute sponsors educational programs and scholarly research designed to educate citizens about the contemporary political problems and challenges facing New Hampshire, the United States and the larger world.”
NH Political Library
“The mission of the New Hampshire Political Library is to increase civic engagement in the democratic process by promoting and preserving our unique political tradition and ensuring these traditions are passed on to future generations.”
Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers
“We are a 100% New Hampshire-only grassroots taxpayer advocacy group that strives to keep taxes low, government small and honest, protect individual rights and freedoms, and preserve the "New Hampshire Advantage". We strongly believe that good government that serves the people should be limited and fiscally prudent.”
Granite State Priorities
“The Coalition is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational organization comprised of organizations and individuals working to educate NH residents on the causes and effects of rising property taxes.”
Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
“The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan, independent think tank focused on state and local public policy issues that affect the quality of life for New Hampshire's citizens.”
New Hampshire Business & Industry Association
“Our mission is to promote a healthy business climate and robust economic future for New Hampshire. Through advocacy with state legislators and regulators, we shape business-friendly public policy and provide counterbalance to legislation and regulations that threaten the growth and prosperity of New Hampshire business.”
NH Center for Public Policy Studies
“The New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies is an independent, nonpartisan organization that pursues data-based research on public policy matters, develops options, informs policy makers and advises them about choices for action.”
NH Citizens Alliance
“NHCA is the only organization in the state that consistently is a voice for NH residents on all policy issues and continues to make gains towards achieving our mission of social, economic and political justice for all. We work on issues of campaign finance reform, economic security, health care and an end to the war in Iraq.”
NH Forum on the Future
“The New Hampshire Forum on the Future -- comprised of business, education and public policy leaders - is committed to ensuring a workforce of highly educated and well-trained citizens to sustain New Hampshire's economic prosperity.”
Cornerstone Policy Research
“Cornerstone Policy Research is a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)3 research and education organization dedicated to the preservation of strong families, limited government and free markets. We believe that the traditional family is the fundamental building block of any healthy society, and as such, deserves to be protected and strengthened.”
Granite State Progress
"Granite State Progress is a multi-issue progressive advocacy organization that combines cutting edge online organizing and communications with rapid and hard-hitting earned media strategies."
"LogicBloc is a Political Action Group designed to get candidates that support legislation based on logic, reason, and sound scientific principles elected to office. This is a NH-Based group, focusing primarily on NH issues. If we are successful, we will take the organization national."
NH Liberty Alliance
“The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance is a non-partisan coalition working to increase individual freedom in New Hampshire. We do this by monitoring bills in the legislative sessions and encouraging private charity, a civil society, and citizen involvement.”
NH Women’s Initiative
“The New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women, the Women’s Lobby and Alliance, and the Women’s Policy Institute merged together to form the NH Women's Initiative. The Initiative's mission is to advance social, economic and political opportunity and equality for women in New Hampshire.”
“Victory NH is a network of activists and activist groups, focused on two goals: Seeing to it that political dialogues and debates are about issues and ideas rather than polls and politics. And demonstrating, once and for all, to the candidates, opinion makers, media, and the country at large why New Hampshire is uniquely qualified to begin the process by which we pick our Presidents.”
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A car auction company says it will put President John F. Kennedy’s white hearse on the block during an event in Scottsdale, Arizona, this week, Consumer Reports wrote.
According to auctioneers Barrett-Jackson, the 1964 Cadillac Hearse transported the assassinated president from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field Airport in Dallas. Its authenticity has been verified by members of the Professional Car Society and its owners at Dallas’ O’Neal Funeral Home.
From the story:
Don McElroy was a new employee at O’Neal Funeral Home that fateful Friday, November 22, 1963, when the call came in to bring a casket and hearse to the hospital. Just 24 years old, McElroy helped move President Kennedy’s body to the vehicle and pulled down a rear seat for Jacqueline Kennedy so she could sit near her husband.
“The Secret Service drove the president to Love Field,” McElroy said, explaining that the O’Neal staff was not allowed to be in the hearse en route to Air Force One. “After they got the president and first lady onto the plane, they just left the hearse at Love Field. It took Vernon O’Neal four hours to find the Cadillac at the airport.”
The hearse was the first 1964 model built by Miller-Meteor Company of Ohio, body number 64001. It was the show car of the National Funeral Directors Association convention, where funeral home director Vernon O’Neal purchased it in October, 1963, just one month before the assassination.
Steve Lichtman of the Professional Car Society (PCS) says that he and other members of PCS are almost 100 percent convinced that the hearse is authentic.
This is a strong endorsement from the participants of the international club dedicated to car preservation and restoration. Last year, Lichtman and others in PCS debunked the Barrett-Jackson auction claim that the company had the ambulance that carried President Kennedy from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. As counter evidence, they presented a 1986 photograph of the ambulance in a Boston junkyard crusher, provided by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum.
Tens of thousands of dollars of historic JFK pieces were sold over the last few months, including the rocking chair he sat in at Houston’s Rice Hotel, family photographs, boxer shorts and a cigarette case.
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Citizens celebrate closing of institutions 0
Yesterday marked the end of an antiquated way of thinking in Ontario.
The three remaining institutions in Ontario for people with developmental disabilities closed their doors. Their previous tenants, about 1,000 people, have been integrated into communities.
The institutions were first built in belief they would shelter the intellectually disabled from the stress of life and judgment of society.
"Back then, there was no other choice," said Tricia Morris, executive director of Community Living Access Support Centre. "Here, there is a network of services and resources available. We know they have a better quality of life when they are part of a community."
It was a celebration for citizens across the province and Norfolk residents celebrated in a special way at the Strand Theatre yesterday afternoon.
The Norfolk Association for Community Living and the Community Living Access Support Centre invited the public, board members and clients to view a film called The Freedom Tour.
"Thank God my daughter is not in an institution," said Dave Callaghan, a NACL board member. "The film was a very stark reality, very disturbing but good to have here. The community needs to see this."
The documentary, made by the People First group, highlighted mistreatment and physical abuse that the intellectually challenged experienced at institutions across Canada. To easily deal with self-abuse like biting, doctors would pull all the person's teeth. There were also recollections of solitary confinement as punishment.
The film highlighted extreme cases and not all institutions were bad, said Stella Galloway, executive director for the Norfolk Association for Community Living.
"But in 25 years, we have grown as a society and maybe (an institution) was not in their best interest," said Galloway. "What's key is that we now have the support and resources that they can live in their home community. They're citizens like you and me, living on their own, working in the community, shopping at the same grocery stores you and I shop at, having an economic contribution to society."
Albert Cooper, 81, was in the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia for 27 years.
He didn't suffer abuse, but is happy the institutes are now closed in Ontario and has enjoyed living in a family home here in Simcoe for the last 11 years. The family has four children who call him "Papa."
"I like it here," he said.Though the day was one for celebration -- some enjoyed a '50s/'60s dance at the St. Williams gym -- there is also still so much work to do in ensuring equality for the disabled.
"Hopefully in another 25 years, we won't even use the word integration," Galloway said. "It will just be supporting people."
Callaghan and Morris would also like to see increased funding for more resources.
"It would be interesting to know if the amount of money that went into these institutions is going into resources and supports," Callaghan said.
There are still seven other provinces operating institutions and looking to invest money in updating their facilities.
"It's very sad that as a country, we haven't learned to make the positive steps forward," Galloway said.
She calls on the public to help free those with intellectual disabilities from these existing segregating institutes by signing an online petition at http://www.institutionwatch.ca/petition-app.
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Kindred Men presents a succession of three veterans, two of them Medal of Honor winners, who address an unseen audience about their specific war experiences. Shot against a black background, with only the veterans' heads and shoulders in view, the video forces us to focus on their faces and their words.
Visually, the only relief consists of occasional amateur photographs of
Vietnam jungles and sky, usually showing helicopters arriving or departing. Sophisticated war machines hovering over a primitive, hostile landscape, these images become a virtual symbol of that disastrous war.
Other photographs show the men - Sammy L. Davis, Allen J. Lynch and David H. Moran - as they were then, grim-faced at 19 or 20.
In a scrolling written introduction, producer-director Dustin Teel frames the question that seems to lie at the heart of the matter: "What prompts a man to jeopardize his own life to save another man?" The three war heroes, each in his own words, identify that reason as love.
As facile as that might sound, Davis gives it extraordinary weight with his testimony on the special bond that men form when in the constant company of death. He explains that in Vietnam, "you knew the person from the soul out, so every time you lost a friend it was like losing a part of yourself."
Davis, the first to speak, could have supported a half-hour program by
himself. His Medal of Honor was awarded for rescuing three wounded men whom he ferried across a river on an air mattress after he was seriously wounded. All this was carried out under heavy fire.
Davis' gift for self-expression is one of the most memorable aspects of Kindred Men. In commenting on how he was able to push on through a hail of gunfire, he recalls, "I was already scared to the maximum anyway. How much scareder can you get?"
Davis also remembers the keen reflex that the survivors developed in
Vietnam, the sense that danger was always at one's side. One of the scars of war is that the edginess persists to this day, he says with sadness. Then he surprises himself - and us - with a wry observation on the persistence of the survival instinct: "My wife always thought I was funny, until we went to the
Vietnam War memorial in Washington, and she met all those other guys. Have you ever seen 10,000 guys all trying to get their backs to the wall?"
Lynch and Moran lack Davis' flair for phrases, but they're just as thoughtful in their comments. From Lynch, who also rescued wounded comrades under fire, we hear the kind of statement that unassuming heroes often voice: ''You can't think about it. You just do it."
And Moran, who at 19 was leading men into combat, says with understandable pride, "I never ordered anybody into a situation where I thought they would be hurt or killed." He pauses, then adds a chilling afterthought: "I always
The tape closes with a separate short made at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. It's the video equivalent of the photo-essay style made famous by magazines such as Life and Look, with lots of close-ups of small, telling details as hands reach out to touch engraved names.
Compared with the stark photographs and word pictures that precede it, this epilogue has a manipulative quality, despite the beauty of its images. A tear emerging from behind a pair of sunglasses is just a little too much in the vein of how Hollywood might imagine a veteran's grief.
But this is a quibble. Kindred Men of a Dark War is a superb example of how a simple personal vision, not elaborate enough for a movie or commercial enough for a TV program, can still find an audience through the medium of home video.
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On Sep 9, 2008, I sent an FOI request to the University of East Anglia, requesting a copy of the MXD data set as provided to Mann et al. Today (Oct 2, 2008), I was notified that they would provide this data and, sure enough the data is now posted (Oct 2, 2008) at http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/datapages/mxdtrw.htm under the heading Rutherford et al 2008.
There are some puzzles.
The website reports the use of 341 sites, in Rutherford et al 2005, while the text of Rutherford et al reports the use of 387 sites. So one or the other is incorrect. An earlier article (Briffa et al, Holocene, 2002a) used 387 sites, listed here. I presume that the website is correct and the article is wrong and that a small corrigendum on this matter should be issued. All 341 sites said to have been used in Rutherford et al 2005 are included in the list of 387. Why were 46 sites removed from the network? Surely some sort of explanation should be provided.
The website (as of Oct 2, 2008) states:
The values after 1960 are a combination of information from high-frequency MXD variations and low-frequency instrumental temperature variations. We recommend, therefore, that the post-1960 values be deleted or ignored in any analysis that might be biased by the inclusion of this observed temperature information, such as the calibration of these data to form a climate reconstruction, or comparision of these data with instrumental climate observations for the purpose of assessing the ability of these data to represent temperature variability.
This is also a very puzzling comment as Rutherford et al 2005 nowhere mentions the blending of instrumental temperature variations back into proxy data after 1960. And if this was done, it is rather troubling. The explanation in Rutherford et al 2005 (Briffa, Osborn being coauthors with the Mann crowd) said:
Because the age-banding method requires large numbers of samples throughout the time period being studied, it has been applied only at a regional scale for the MXD network used here, rather than at the level of the 387 original site chronologies.
OSB therefore worked first with the traditionally standardized data at the individual chronology scale and gridded them to provide values in 115 5° by 5° grid boxes (26 available back to A.D. 1400) in the extratropical NH (Fig. 1b). They then developed temperature reconstructions by the local calibration of the MXD grid-box data against the corresponding instrumental grid-box temperatures.
The “missing” low-frequency temperature variability was then identified as the difference between the 30-yr smoothed regional reconstructions of Briffa et al. (2001) and the corresponding 30-yr smoothed regional averages of the gridded reconstructions. OSB add this missing low-frequency variability to each grid box in a region. After roughly 1960, the trends in the MXD data deviate from those of the collocated instrumental grid-box SAT data for reasons that are not yet understood (Briffa et al. 1998b, 2003; Vaganov et al. 1999). To circumvent this complication, we use only the pre-1960 instrumental record for calibration/cross validation of this dataset in the CFR experiments.
As I read the above, it describes a sort of coercion of the individual gridded series at “low frequency” to the corresponding “low frequency” shape of the regional ABD data (which is available at WDCP by the way). However it’s hard to be sure right now.
Here is a plot of average of the Briffa-Osborn gridded data, with dotted red line showing the part deleted in Mann et al 2008 (where Osborn and Briffa are coauthors).
Note that Briffa and Osborn also archived today various data used in IPCC AR4 graphics – previously unavailable in these versions.
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This is the strangest blog post that I've written in at least a month:
In the context of the Holy Father’s visit to Scotland, it was recently announced that an actor had been hired by the Catholic Church to portray the bearded John Knox who would then parade before the Popemobile.
Just in case you nodded off in class while your history teacher covered the Scottish Reformation, John Knox was a 16th century Catholic priest who became the chief Protestant ‘reformer’ in Scotland and fomented the abolition of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in 1560. Subsequently, stained glass windows were smashed out and churches were white-washed so as to avoid any other forms of "idolatry." Knox is considered the father and founder of Scottish, English, and American Presbyterianism.
Ex-Priest John Knox
Knox, a great polemicist against the papacy, is rolling in his grave, I'm sure. Knox’s well-known hatred for the papacy and this recent "Knox actor" announcement raises a question: Is this a misguided attempt at saccharine ecumenism on the part of Rome or is it a tongue-in-cheek mockery of the Protestantism of Scotland in the person of Knox? Maybe it’s a little of both. Let me explain:
A) Either, Catholics in Scotland are trying to be "inclusive" in a predominately Protestant nation and so they're giving John Knox (er...an actor dressed like John Knox) a place in the show.
B) Or, this is making a mockery of John Knox. Remember, John Knox had been a duly ordained Roman Catholic priest before he became a Protestant. Hence, Knox is a disgraced child of the Church of Rome.Any theologically informed Catholic knows that Knox is a priest-turned-Protestant who banned the Catholic Mass from Scotland. Having a likeness of him march before the Popemobile reminds one of how vanquished enemies of the Roman Caesars were required to march in humility in front of the chariot of the emperor. It’s like the Pope comes to Scotland and rides victorious over the enemy. At last, Knox’s Protestantism is vanquished and the nation once again receives the Bishop of Rome.
Surely, none of the planners of the event are aware of the irony or they would not let it go on. However, I wonder if Benedict will be grinning as watches Knox skip before him as he rides victorious in the popemobile…
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Intel is pioneering 3-D interfaces with smartphone maker Nokia which will probably use the mobile Atom processor. Look for Nokia/Intel to carve out a unique genre of personal communications devices. RColinJohnson @NextGenLog
Nokia's concept designs for wearable personal electronic devices.
Here is what EETimes says about the new 3D design center: Intel and Nokia are jointly investing in a small academic research lab to study future 3-D user interfaces and experiences for mobile devices. The Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center will be based at the University of Oulu in Finland which will hire about two dozen undergraduate and graduate students to staff it.
Intel and Nokia are each contributing an undisclosed sum to fund the center. They also hope to get support from the European Union's Framework R&D program. The idea of the new center is to imagine what a 3-D graphical user interface might look and act like if you could create it from a clean sheet of paper, said Vida Ilderem, an Intel labs researcher who oversees Intel's participation in the effort. The labs work will include investigations into areas such as stereo 3-D and holographic interfaces.
Full Text: http://bit.ly/Uptown3D-c033
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Gen 4:6-7 6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
The question asked by the writer is: Why did God say to Cain that ‚Äúif he did what was right he would be accepted, if there were no chance of his ever being accepted at all anyhow?‚ÄĚ "Why is it that you believe that God was being so deceptive with him? I don't think there can possibly be an explanation to this.‚ÄĚ
The answer is: Because it was true: IF Cain obeyed, God would accept him. And IF pigs had wings, they could fly. That is not a snide remark‚ÄĒit is true---IF the qualifications are fulfilled. Moreover, it is the nature of language to have multiple meanings for a word or a combination of words. What readers seek is the meaning. This particular questioner takes the ‚Äúif‚ÄĚ as an ‚Äėif‚Äô of actuality, the indicative of what Cain can do. I, however, agreeing with Luther, take it to mean an ‚Äėif‚Äô of possibility, the imperative of what Cain should do:
‚ÄúHere is the matter in a nutshell: As I said, by statements of this sort, man is shown, not what he can do, but what he ought to do. Cain is therefore told that he ought to rule over his sin‚ĶBut this he neither did nor could do, for the rule of another, Satan, already bore heavily upon him. It is well known that the Hebrews often use the future indicative [the imperfect, ed.] for the imperative, as in Exodus 20: ‚ÄėThou shalt not commit adultery,‚Äô‚Ķand there are countless such cases. If these words were taken indicatively [as stating that the listeners can & will not commit adultery], as they stand, they would be promises of God; and, since He cannot lie, the result would be that no man would sin‚Ķ‚ÄĚ
[Luther, Bondage of the Will, p. 157]
Or to speak more plainly: taking the understanding of ‚Äėif‚Äô as implying the ability of the person in question, then the questioner is actually endorsing the ability of man to obey God. In this case, it would be Cain who could obey God. In the case of the Ten Commandments, if ought (or should) implies ability, then Israel could obey God. Then grace is meaningless & Christ did not need to come. The same holds for the New Testament: Christ calls men to obedience to His Law: if you love Him you will keep His commandments. But from the Biblical doctrine of the depravity of man and the salvific necessity of grace, such verses do no imply ability at all. They only tell the duty not the ability.
From a grammatical point of view, the imperative or subjunctive is not the same as the indicative (the present actual state of things). Thus, again, Luther aptly points out: ‚Äú‚Ķnothing more is signified by verbs in the imperative [commands] mood than what ought to be done, and that what is done or can be done should be expressed by verbs in the indicative.‚ÄĚ [ibid, p.159]
Then why does God use such language? Again, I will let the spiritual forefather of Protestantism speak:
‚ÄúAs for its being absurd that (according to the analogy introduced by Erasmus) a man whose right arm was bound should be ordered to stretch forth his hand to the right, when he could only reach out to his left‚ÄĒis it absurd, pray, that a man who has both arms bound, but who proudly maintains or ignorantly assumes that he is wholly competent in either direction, should be commanded to stretch forth his hand in one direction or the other, not in order to make fun of his captivity, but to disprove his false assumption of freedom and power, and to make him realize his ignorance of his own captivity and miser?‚ÄĚ [ibid, p. 161]
Biblically, one of the functions of the law is to condemn man and show his spiritual inability to do any good: ‚Äúby the law is knowledge of sin‚ÄĚ (Rom. 3:20). Thus, what one understands about sin and ability is intimately tied with this question of Cain, sin & the will of God.
Why did God say this to Cain? 1) To show his guilt; 2) To show his inability. From God’s ultimate perspective, He spoke to Cain for His own glory (Rom. 9:23). There is no deception on God’s part (see especially the next posting) only on man’s: he hears a command of God and assumes that man himself can obey. There is no problem if one understands how language works and what is God’s purpose of the Law.
The real question that all Christians (who believe in God’s foreknowledge) should ask is: Why would God say anything given that the events will occur anyway?
But I suspect this will not fully answer the question behind the question. There are deeper questions of sovereignty & free-will inexorably bound with this surface question. The question of God’s will and intention are also bound up in this. These will be answered in the next installment.
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World demand for green packaging to reach $212 billion in 2015
Above-average demand growth expected in reusable and degradable packaging, although recycled-content packaging will remain the largest product type.
World demand for green packaging—including recycled-content, reusable, and degradable packaging—is projected to rise 5.7% per year to $212 billion in 2015. That’s according to a new study, “World Green Packaging,” from The Freedonia Group. The study notes that while recycled-content packaging will remain by far the largest product type through the forecast period and beyond, this segment will see the slowest increases due to the maturity of products such as metal cans and glass containers. On the other hand, above-average demand growth is expected in reusable and degradable packaging. In particular, the demand for degradable packaging will continue to see double-digit annual growth rates.
Gains in recycled-content packaging will be supported by increased collection activity and processing capacity, coupled with greater use of recycled-content packaging by firms seeking to demonstrate environmental responsibility and differentiate their products. Demand for reusable packaging will be boosted by an acceleration in global manufacturing activity. Degradable packaging will continue to see the fastest advances in demand, but will only account for approximately 1% of the overall green packaging market through 2015.
The Asia/Pacific region will see above-average gains (7.2% from 2010 to 2015, to approximately $79.1 billion) and will remain the largest regional market in the world, due to its large food and beverage industries (which represent the main green packaging applications). Central and South America, Eastern Europe, and the Africa/Mideast region will also experience above-average growth, though advances in these areas will stem from smaller bases (collectively, these three regions only accounted for 12% of global green packaging demand in 2010). Overall, some of the fastest growth will be seen in Asia, specifically in India, China, and Indonesia. Other developing countries such as Russia, Turkey, Brazil, and Mexico are also expected to see healthy gains.
The U.S., which accounted for 23% of global sales in 2010, is the largest national green packaging market in the world by a wide margin. Other large, generally mature markets include Japan and Germany. While Japan will remain one of the largest markets in the world, the country is forecast to see the slowest growth rate through 2015. Nonetheless, good opportunities will still be found in developed countries, especially for degradable packaging products.
“World Green Packaging” is available for $6,100 from The Freedonia Group, Inc. For further details, contact Corinne Gangloff by phone 440/684-9600, fax 440/646-0484 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Totally useful graph explaining the difference between NTFS and ReFS
A widely rumored file system makeover called ReFS, for Resilient File System, is indeed coming to Windows 8. But it won't appear in the client OS that will be purchased by hundreds of millions of people each year. Instead, it will be relegated to the Windows Server 8 OS for servers only.
This feature is completely irrelevant to Window 8 and its users.
Microsoft admitted the long-rumored existence of ReFS in a curiously timed, Sunday Monday (federal holiday) night post to its Building Windows 8 Blog. Which is further curious, since Microsoft has a separate blog, the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog, which would have been more appropriate.
In keeping with the most recent B8 blog posts, a Q&A appears at the end. This seems aimed at heading off the most common questions that enthusiasts will have and thus framing the debate.
OK, but what did Microsoft say about this new file system?
First of all, it's not new. ReFS is an evolution of the durable and well-understood NTFS file system. It retains a "high degree of compatibility with a subset of NTFS features," which translates in simple English to "only some compatibility with NTFS". It's highly scalable, which explains why it's a server-only file system, and features "end-to-end resiliency" when used in combination with the previously-revealed Storage Spaces feature
From a developer perspective, ReFS is identical/very similar to NTFS. That is, its uses the exact same file access APIs, though I'd imagine some new features require new APIs.
From a user perspective, ReFS can access the same "features and semantics" as NTFS, which Microsoft describes as BitLocker encryption, access-control lists for security, USN journal, change notifications, symbolic links, junction points, mount points, reparse points, volume snapshots, file IDs, and oplocks.
No longer supported, however, are NTFS features like named streams, object IDs, short names, compression, file level encryption (EFS), user data transactions, sparse, hard-links, extended attributes, and quotas. There's no deduplication feature either.
"ReFS forms the foundation of storage on Windows for the next decade or more," Microsoft's Surendra Verma writes in the post. "We believe this significantly advances our state of the art for storage. Together, Storage Spaces and ReFS have been architected with headroom to innovate further, and we expect that we will see ReFS as the next massively deployed file system."
Put simply, ReFS is exactly what it sounds like: An evolved and improved version of NTFS that is more scalable and more resilient and, in the current guise, relegated to Server only. You cannot boot a PC with this file system and it cannot be used on removable storage. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict those features are coming in Windows 9.
Why the name change? Because as part of Microsoft's "reimagining of Windows," it must thus also "introduce a newly engineered file system." I'm surprised it's not just called NTFS vNext, frankly. And I'm surprised that Microsoft's capacity limits table didn't also include NTFS data for comparison.
Be sure to read the original blog post
, which is as dense as it sounds. It's also completely irrelevant to the Windows 8 client.
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The yule log cake is an ancient tradition, probably pagan, but now associated with the Christmas holiday season.
The Daring Bakers' challenge comprised three main components: a genoise cake, buttercream frosting, and meringue or marzipan mushroom decorations. None of these elements are easy on their own and in combination I have to confess that this recipe was a bit daunting, especially right before Christmas.
I decided to try this recipe with my brother, who is an accomplished cake baker, with assistance from his two little girls ages three and five. We made the cake at my mother's house. That added another layer of complexity because neither of us were cooking in our own kitchen.
We experienced two major yule log disasters: the genoise didn't quite roll up and the buttercream tasted awful! We realized the pound of butter in my mom's fridge was SALTED! (Salted butter is only good melted and for dipping lobster in). So we had to start that over, but that wasn't a bad thing because we decided to make a frosting without butter so lactose intolerant among us could eat it. Neither the genoise nor the mushroom decorations contain dairy.
First I made meringue mushrooms dusted with cocoa powder. They look adorable and exactly like real mushrooms complete with dirt.
The next day we made the genoise. It is made without dairy or a leavener. It relies solely on eggs to make it light. We poured it into a jelly roll pan so it was very thin and only cooked for 10 minutes. When we rolled it up we ran into trouble. The cake didn't quite want to roll up, but we easily remedied that with a liberal use of frosting.
We made the buttercream while the cake was cooking but next time we will make the buttercream before making the cake. It takes longer than 10 minutes to make buttercream. Our first batch of buttercream was an umitigated disaster. We decided to do a non-dairy buttercream for the second batch. It turned out great, though not as great as real buttercream would have been, and it was very easy to spread.
Before rolling up the cake, we drizzled it with sugar water, a treatment for genoise that my brother learned in The Cake Bible. Then frosted the flat cake, rolled it up, and frosted the outside. We used the tines of a fork to give the log a bit of rustic texture. Then we dusted it with powdered sugar for a bit of snow effect and garnished it with the meringue mushrooms. We will eat it on Christmas Eve.
3 large egg whites, at room temperature
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
½ cup (3-1/2 ounces/105 g.) granulated sugar
1/3 cup (1-1/3 ounces/40 g.) icing sugar
Unsweetened cocoa powder for dusting
1.Preheat the oven to 225 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment. Have ready a pastry bag fitted with a small (no. 6) plain tip. In a bowl, using a mixer on medium-low speed, beat together the egg whites and cream of tartar until very foamy. Slowly add the granulated sugar while beating. Increase the speed to high and beat until soft peaks form when the beaters are lifted. Continue until the whites hold stiff, shiny peaks. Sift the icing sugar over the whites and, using a rubber spatula, fold in until well blended.
2.Scoop the mixture into the bag. On one baking sheet, pipe 48 stems, each ½ inch (12 mm.) wide at the base and tapering off to a point at the top, ¾ inch (2 cm.) tall, and spaced about ½ inch (12 mm.) apart. On the other sheet, pipe 48 mounds for the tops, each about 1-1/4 inches (3 cm.) wide and ¾ inch (2 cm.) high, also spaced ½ inch (12 mm.) apart. With a damp fingertip, gently smooth any pointy tips. Dust with cocoa. Reserve the remaining meringue.
3.Bake until dry and firm enough to lift off the paper, 50-55 minutes. Set the pans on the counter and turn the mounds flat side up. With the tip of a knife, carefully make a small hole in the flat side of each mound. Pipe small dabs of the remaining meringue into the holes and insert the stems tip first. Return to the oven until completely dry, about 15 minutes longer. Let cool completely on the sheets.
3 large eggs
3 large egg yolks
pinch of salt
¾ cup of sugar
½ cup cake flour - spoon flour into dry-measure cup and level off (also known as cake & pastry flour)
¼ cup cornstarch
1 t vanilla extract
1/2 t almond extract
one (1) 10 x 15 inch jelly-roll pan that has been buttered and lined with parchment paper and then buttered again
1.Set a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F.
2.Half-fill a medium saucepan with water and bring it to a boil over high heat. Lower the heat so the water is simmering.
3.Whisk the eggs, egg yolks, salt and sugar together in the bowl of a heavy-duty mixer. Place over the pan of simmering water and whisk gently until the mixture is just lukewarm, about 100 degrees if you have a thermometer (or test with your finger - it should be warm to the touch).
4.Attach the bowl to the mixer and, with the whisk attachment, whip on medium-high speed until the egg mixture is cooled (touch the outside of the bowl to tell) and tripled in volume. The egg foam will be thick and will form a slowly dissolving ribbon falling back onto the bowl of whipped eggs when the whisk is lifted.
5.While the eggs are whipping, stir together the flour and cornstarch.
6.Sift one-third of the flour mixture over the beaten eggs. Use a rubber spatula to fold in the flour mixture, making sure to scrape all the way to the bottom of the bowl on every pass through the batter to prevent the flour mixture from accumulating there and making lumps. Repeat with another third of the flour mixture and finally with the remainder. Stir in vanilla and almond (or other flavorings).
7.Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
8.Bake the genoise for about 10 to 12 minutes. Make sure the cake doesn’t overbake and become too dry or it will not roll properly.
9.Once the cake is done (a tester will come out clean and if you press the cake lightly it will spring back), remove it from the oven and let it cool on a rack.
6 T sugar
2/3 c water
optional 3 T of liqueur
In a saucepan combine sugar and water. Bring to a rolling boil, stirring constantly. Cover and remove from heat. Cool completely. Transfer to a measuring cup and add liqueur. Use this sauce to pour over cake before frosting it.
4 cups confectioners' sugar
1 cup shortening
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon clear imitation vanilla extract
1/2 cup cocoa powder
In a large bowl, combine sugar, shortening, water and vanilla. Beat on low speed to combine, then beat on medium speed for a full five minutes. It won't look like Icing at first, but keep the mixer going for a full five minutes. Stir in the cocoa. Add additional water if the frosting becomes too thick.
Assembling the yule log:
While the cake is still warm, turn it out of the pan onto a towl sprinkled with powdered sugar. Roll up the cake with the towl. Then unroll, remove towel, and drizzle with some sugar water. Frost it with a layer of chocolate frosting. Next, gently roll up the cake. If it breaks a little, don't worry, you can gently press them back into place. Put the cake in the fridge to rest for an hour or so.
Take the cake out of the fridge. Drizzle with more sugar water. Frost the exterior of the roll being careful to cover the entire cake. You can cover a multitude of sins with frosting. We dip our knives into hot water to make spreading easier. Once the cake is frosted, dip the tines of a fork into hot water and rake gently across the frosting to make a bark pattern on the log.
Dust with powdered sugar and garnish with the mushroom.
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Exchange is always great (massively enjoy it myself) - and extremely important if we want to move forward as singers and teachers. This includes, for me personally, to be sceptic about everything: One method that gets everything right doesn't exist, just methods that work better for individuals, and we need to choose the one that works best for us individually.
It's important though that we don't take things out of context and interpret them in a way that wasn't implied, so I'd prefer if we really kept to what the other one actually said, instead of interpreting it freely and reading into it what we want to read:
I nowhere said that SLS teaches to belt. What I actually said was that if you want to belt, SLS is not right for you, and that shows its limitations. What I also said is that students who are SLS trained and still wish to create a belt-like sound (there is no such thing as "one Belt" - it means very different thing to different people and singing methods) will run into problems. I also said that's not SLS's fault, but again: it shows its limitations.
It is completely okay if you personally don't want/need to belt and don't feel it is necessary for you, or not required for the type of music you sing.
There are lots of people though who DO want to belt (and indeed need to for professional reasons), and it is important that we, as singing teachers, respect these wishes. A technique that doesn't enable the singer to sing healthily in ANY style is not a complete technique. It is not up to us as teachers to decide for the student what and how they can, cannot, should or shouldn't sing. We are there to enable them to sing healthily in ANY style and vocal set-up they want to, without being judgemental. Or to be honest enough to send them to another teacher if we can't teach them what they want to learn. That's the only reason why I bang on about Belting in this context, not because it is the most important thing in the world to me.
SLS alone e.g. won't cut it if someone requires a Broadway Belt. I can say this with 100% certainty, because I worked in Musical Theatre for many years. SLS works on the very principle that we thin the vocal folds as we ascend through our range. This is very close to the way we teach classical singing, and completely fine. If you sing like that in Musical Theatre though, you will be very limited with regards to the roles you will be able to play. Personal choice.
What I personally don't deem right, is that we, as teachers, try to convince a student that there is only one way to sing, and that e.g. "Belting is unhealthy". You can have a personal opinion that you don't like or don't need it, but you can't say it's not an option. However, Seth himself says that Belting is unhealthy and dangerous because of using excessive airflow and tension - that is his personal opinion about what Belting supposedly is, and I would certainly agree that a long closed phase coupled with too much airflow is potentially damaging.
Everyone who ever learned to belt properly however knows that exactly the opposite is the case - healthy Belt requires extremely little airflow, because the subglottic pressure is very high to start with, due to the long closed phase of the folds. So instead of telling people that Belting is unsound (which is a judgement, not a fact), it would be preferable to say: "A certain, ill-advised and badly produced way of Belting is unhealthy". No one who knows anything about healthy Belting would ever teach it the way he defines it. It creates much confusion and insecurity amongst singers who will then start to believe Belting is generally unhealthy. WRONG Belting is unhealthy.
Sorry I had to go on about that one for ages, but I hope it is now clearer.
Support: What I said was actually "not enough focus on", not "ignored". It is true that it isn't completely ignored, but Seth himself mentioned more than once that support is a by-product, and that it shouldn't be controlled directly. I completely disagree with this view. I will leave it up to anyone to do their own research into it though and then make up their minds whether singing is really a "relaxed process".
As for the zip: Great if you don't teach it and if it's not been taught to you (gives me hope), but it WAS actually part of SLS: Zipping refers to the very phenomenon that Seth used to describe as "thinning and shortening". His idea behind it was that at some point of ascending through our range, a shortening process starts instead of further thinning, making less of the folds vibrate in our higher range. This is simply physiologically not true. The bit he refers to is actually not vibrating in the first place because it's part of the arytenoids, but I'll again leave it to everyone to do their own research on the matter. At the time he constructed this theory, he certainly had the best intentions, but at some point, people just need to admit that their theories don't hold up. I can understand why someone is passionate about their own brand, but I think this should never lead to ignoring current vocal research. There's still a lot about vocal production/singing we probably don't understand, but some things ARE clear these days. Vocal science has done massive leaps through the last one or two decades, and we should adjust our teaching accordingly.
About myself (so you understand my background): In my work as a teacher, I think it is my duty to cater for the individual needs of each and every student. Since I teach both classical and contemporary styles, there is simply not one method that caters for all - only common sense. I studied classical singing to postgraduate level, I did extensive formal training in Musical Theatre (which included a lot of Estill and SLS, and all teachers were certified practitioners), and I studied different singing methods (again EVT, SLS, CVT and a few other, more obscure ones) in quite some detail over the years. Above all, I try to stay informed on vocal research and physiology as best as I possibly can. This is, for me, not possible through subscribing to any one method, because they all have their flaws. Some more, some less, but none of them work for every voice in any given stylistic context.
I can sing classically, "mixed", and I can also "belt" (including a few substyles), but if I have a choice, I actually prefer "mixing" (I really don't like using these terminologies, because they mean something different to everyone). I am not a particularly "tense" singer, and I am used to very fine muscle control, especially from my time as a classical singer, so it's not a question of building up subtle use over shouting or forcing in my case.
I just have a very inquisitive mind. I am always sceptic if something is hailed as the holy grail. It is quite interesting that over the years, even amongst certified practitioners of different singing methods, I came across two kinds: The ones who get defensive if you question parts of their methodology (and those ones ironically very often won't/can't explain the scientific reasoning behind it), and the ones who are open and accept that there is no such thing as one method that knows it all, and who are even able to admit that their method has flaws - it is just the one they personally feel closest to because it provides them with the best individual results.
Whoa, that was long, but I love these discussions
Edit: Oh, I forgot Amy Lee.
Yes, but that's exactly the problem (the sound example you picked is alright-ish, but one performance doesn't mean there's no problem, and "Bring me to life" is generally not one of her riskier songs). She normally uses a more "mixed" sound, which I really like btw. Every so often, she will attempt a thicker sound though, and that's where it goes to pot. That's, as I tried to explain, not an indication for SLS generally being bad (because she clearly does something they wouldn't subscribe to), that's an indication for it having its limitations
, and not serving the singer for everything they want to do. If she wants to create a thicker sound without pitch problems and strain, she needs to resort to a different technique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1kTcfzyHAohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-TQ-Fs6ykI
I left the one titled "Amy Lee Screwups" out, because I think that's mean.
As an aside, which I mentioned earlier: Hardly anybody belts through an entire song, and "Belting" alone means as much as "Chocolate" - that's why I called it "belt-style", because there are many different set-ups people will refer to as Belt, and they have little in common apart from being called "Belt". Amy often uses something people refer to as "Pop-Belt". CVT for instance would call it Curbing, and in EVT terms, it is not a regular Belt either - more a Speech/Cry Mix, or very occasionally a Howl Belt, if you want to use the modifications Gillyanne Kayes made. She is doing better where she sings thinner, you can hear it in both songs. As soon as she tries to sing thicker in her higher range, she simply doesn't know how to approach it - that's where SLS can't really help her, because it's against their philosophy so to speak. So the question is: Should she choose to not sing like that, or should she find someone who can teach her how in a voice-preserving way?
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Ronda Ary cheers on second-graders as they run at Sneed Elementary School, which built a track so students won't have to run at a neighboring park. / Dave Einsel for USA TODAY
Sometimes the students run circles around their teacher, and in Ronda Ary's case, that's a good thing.
When Ary runs with her students, she feels on top of the world, knowing she's making an impact on their lives.
"Running is good for everything,'' says Ary, a physical-education teacher at Sneed Elementary School in Houston. "It really gets the endorphins going. It keeps you strong mentally and physically, and you can do it your entire life. I see people running in their 80s and 90s."
She enrolled the school last year in Mighty Milers, a nationwide running program that teaches children in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade how to set realistic goals and find success. Those opportunities, she says, aren't always readily available in the underprivileged neighborhoods where her students live.
The New York Road Runners, the club that founded the New York City Marathon in 1970 (this year's marathon is Nov. 4), started the Mighty Milers program seven years ago. It now involves 125,000 children in 620 schools in 50 states. By raising money from New York City Marathon proceeds, the NYRR offers free programs to the schools.
Fitness level doesn't matter, Ary says. Students are encouraged to run or walk briskly up to a half-mile in supervised sessions two to five times a week. She tracks their mileage on the NYRR website. When the kids "complete" a marathon, NYRR provides them with a medal. That's when Ary cranks up the music from Rocky or the Olympics and stages award ceremonies.
"When I was able to put a medal around one girl's neck last year, she said it was the happiest day of her life,'' Ary says. "The kids stand up taller. For many of them, this is the only sports program they can be involved in because their families don't have very much money. Mighty Milers is their team."
A primary reason for establishing the program is to tackle childhood obesity, says Cliff Sperber, NYRR's vice president of youth and community services.
"We think that physical activity should be a core element of a child's education and not something that is eliminated during a budget crisis - especially during the obesity crisis this country is facing,'' Sperber says.
About 32% of kids and adolescents ages 2 to 19 are obese or overweight, according to the government.
Ary says some students are already overweight by the time they are in kindergarten: "They weigh more than 100 pounds, are fighting asthma and diabetes and are tired all the time."
She wants to get as many students moving as possible. Last year, more than 1,150 kids signed up for Mighty Milers; they logged 63,530 miles. They did most of their running in a park next to the school because the school didn't have a track. "But it really isn't a safe neighborhood where the park is,'' she says, "so our school built an asphalt track for the kids."
A dedication of the track is planned for Nov. 12. That's cause for a victory lap, Sperber says.
"We measure the success of Mighty Milers by how it affects the culture at the school,'' he says.
Ary, 50, is picking up speed. She wants to recruit other teachers at Sneed to take part in Mighty Milers. She's also cranking out plans for the second annual family Fun Run, an event Citgo sponsored last year. Recent findings from the Copenhagen City Heart study showed that regular jogging can increase life expectancy by 6.2 years for men and 5.6 years for women.
In her spare time, she'll fine tune her own running. She completed her first marathon last year. "I'm not sure why I waited so long in life,'' she says, "but I decided marathons will be a big part of my next 50 years.''
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
Read the original story: School running program starts good habits early
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I.the wife of Olĕnus, who, on account of her pride, was turned into stone, Ov. M. 10, 70.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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If you’re interested in such films as “Hotel Rwanda” and the new drama about Ungandan dictator Idi Amin, “The Last King of Scotland,” you’ll want to check out the documentary “King Leopold’s Ghost.” Now at the Chinese 6 at Hollywood and Highland, the film offers a detailed, mostly appalling trove of information about Central Africa’s agonized colonial past, and puts the horrors that have plagued the region to this day in clear context.
Based on the best-selling book by Adam Hochschild, “Ghost” charts the devious efforts of Belgium’s King Leopold II to turn the vast, resources-laden Congo into his own personal slave state in the late 19th Century. Locals were forced to harvest everything from rubber to coffee to gold for little or no pay. Reluctance to do the job was met with whippings or worse; a particularly popular punishment was hand amputation, and the film presents a horrific gallery of victims’ photos.
Upon Leopold’s death, the Belgian government took over and exploited Congo in prety much the same manner up to its 1960 independence. But things didn’t change much then, either; kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko, who called the nation Zaire, exploited his people and resources for decades until he was chased out, and the country has been in chaos ever since – with overflow from fighting in neighboring nations like Rwanda and Uganda not helping matters any.
Director Pippa Scott makes a convincing case that Western desire for Congo’s riches is still the main cause of the country’s torment. It seems like whenever demand for one resource waned, a new one was discovered: uranium in the mid-20th Century; now coltan, a vital component of computers, cell phones and other modern communications technologies.
With its wealth or archive and newly shot material, “Ghost” is not a pleasant film, but it is a fascinatingly informative one.
An interesting side note: As a young actress, director-producer Scott appeared in John Ford’s racially charged Western “The Searchers.” I can’t say for certain, but perhaps some things she learned making that controversial classic inform the worthy work she’s doing now.
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I’m often amazed by people who defend CSS as an amazing technology for layout. I get where they’re coming from – I mean it is a pretty reasonable way to handle styles (font stuff, mainly), and it has a laudable goal – namely to separate content from the layout. But as a technology for marking up layout? It’s about the lousiest thing I can think of. It’s painful. it’s a chore.
CSS3.0 is starting to address some of these issues (border layout handling, for example, is something that we should have had since the start – and by start, I mean since Netscape 1.0), but it still needs to be backwards compatible with the older CSS functionality, which sucks.
The CSS system is just too programmer-oriented. And I’m a programmer. (Programmer as in MSCS from Stanford, the Nagle algorithm in TCP, inventor of ragdoll technology, real-time robot vehicle control, not programmer as in “writes some Perl”. And my first web site went up in 1995.) It’s not that CSS is hard; it’s that CSS is bad.
CSS is, simply, a badly designed layout system. Even the rather simple system in Tk which lays out dialog boxes and windows is better. Tk is a nested-box system, but both “pack” (like CSS “float”) and “grid” (like tables) layouts are available in the same system. This is enough to handle most cases. Which “float” and “clear” are not. Page layout is forced to fall back on absolute positioning far too often.
The clever way to do layout would have been with a constraint system. Each box has four edges and four corners, and it would be possible to bind corners and edges to create any desired relationship between boxes. This is something one could express easily in a click and drag graphical tool. Want three columns the same height? Tie their adjacent bottom corners together.
Want to fill the page? Tie the outside corners to a page edge. Ten minutes to explain to an artist. Advanced use would involve priorities on constraints, so if something had to give in “fluid design” as the page size or type size changed, you could pick what gave first. (This could be extended to allow curved boundaries, even splines, but that might be overdoing it.)
The browser would have to have a constraint engine to resolve all the constraints, but there are known solutions to that problem.
Too many people drank the Kool-Aid on CSS. It’s just not that good a technology.
The worst problem with DIV-based layout is that the layout system is too weak. There’s no form of “grid” layout. There’s no way to relate a DIV to anything but its predecessor, its parent, or an absolute position. The system is just too dumb. That’s why people have to stand on their head just to get three columns to work.Tables actually are a better designed layout system. Table layouts allow table cells which span multiple rows and columns. If all tables could do were simple grids of cells, the CSS approach might make sense, but tables are more general than that. And they’re well supported in Dreamweaver.
If CSS had a grid capability, it wouldn’t be so bad. But it doesn’t.
So there you have it. CSS sucks.
I’m thinking about an alternative solution for some of the problems… If I get time I’ll post it up.If you liked this post, leave a tip! The best way you can tip me isn't with money - it's by sharing my writing with your friends using the buttons above. Spread the love!
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PBS must be running out of Miss Marple novels to film so they’ve turned to Miss Marple short stories. “The Blue Geranium” was published in The Tuesday Club Murders (aka, The Thirteen Problems) in 1932. A cranky hypochondriac, Mrs. Pritchard, is told by a fortune-teller that “a blue geranium means death.” And, sure enough, Mr. Pritchard then dies from a gas leak with a blue geranium nearby. Miss Marple investigates and solves the murder. Masterpiece Theater Mystery will be broadcasting “The Blue Geranium” tonight. I’ll be curious to see how a 12-page short story is puffed up to fill 90-minutes of television drama.
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Home Safety Advice & Information
RoSPA's home safety department produces a wide-range of advice and information resources on all aspects of accident prevention in and around the home.
In addition to providing detailed advice and information we also campaign for change and provide a large range of resources such as posters, publications and DVDs all intended to inform, educate and help to prevent accidents in the home and garden. These are available to purchase online in the RoSPA Web Shop.
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If you can't find what you are looking for within our home safety advice and information please submit your enquiry via the Contact form, by telephone on: +44 (0)121 248 2000 or by email: email@example.com
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How Many Have Hiv In The Usa
Here's a taste of what TheBody.com has to offer on this topic:
Ask the Experts
Nevada State Health Division AIDS ProgramThank you for your question. Worldwide, most of the people infected with HIV are heterosexual. In Africa, where the disease is believed to have begun in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this infection began (and continues to be) among the... Read more »
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Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report Summarizes USA Today Editorial, Opinion Piece on CDC HIV Testing RecommendationsUSA Today on Monday published an editorial and an opinion piece on CDC 's new HIV testing recommendations. The recommendations, published in the Sept. 22 edition of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , say that voluntary HIV testing... Read more »
Hospitalizations of Pregnant HIV-Infected Women in the USA Prior to and During the Era of HAART, 1994-2003In noting that "the literature on whether HIV infection and its complex antiretroviral treatments confer a higher risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes is controversial," the authors of the current study set out to compare rates of hospitalization for... Read more »
Estimating Sexual Transmission of HIV From Persons Aware and Unaware That They Are Infected With the Virus in the USANew HIV infections stem from both people who are aware they are HIV-positive (about 75 percent of infected persons in the United States) and HIV-positive people who are unaware they carry the virus (about 25 percent of infected persons in the United... Read more »
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Filmed on the virtually deserted Setonaikai archipelago in south-east Japan, Naked Island was made in the words of its director "as a 'cinematic poem' to try and capture the life of human beings struggling like ants against the forces of nature". Kaneto Shindo, director of Onibaba (MoC #13) and Kuroneko (MoC #14), made the film with his own production company, Kindaï Eiga Kyokai, who were facing financial ruin at the time. Using one-tenth of the average budget, Shindo took one last impassioned risk to make this film. With his small crew, they relocated to an inn on the island of Mihari where, for two months in early 1964, they would make what they considered to be their last film.
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: The titular island in this Japanese domestic drama is an agrarian flyspeck, almost completely cut off from contact with the mainland. Here the island's residents mechanically go through their everyday farming tasks. The film concentrates on a family of five, content with their existence despite its hardships. When the oldest son dies, it is the first of many devastating blows that nearly rip the family asunder. Originally titled Hadaka No Shima, the film was also released as Naked Island. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Moscow International Film Festival, ...Naked Island ( Hadaka no shima )
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You are here: Home » Resources » Magic The Gathering HD Wallpapers
Today’s wallpaper showcase features HD wallpapers from probably the most popular fantasy trading card game Magic the Gathering which is brought to us by Wizards of the Coast.
A little about Magic The Gathering:
Magic: The Gathering (MTG), also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011. Magic can be played by two or more players each using a deck of printed cards or a deck of virtual cards through the Internet-based Magic: The Gathering Online or third-party programs.
Wallpapers are available in the following sizes: 1900 x 1200, 1920 x 1080 and 1600 x 1200 which can be easily re-sized to fit to your own monitors native resolution.
If you are running more than one monitor, we recommend using one of the best wallpaper management tools available for free, DisplayFusion, which allows you to use a different wallpaper on each display.
Fantasy Inspiration, a dedicated digital magazine dedicated purely for fantasy inspired art work. We feature only the best art work from all over the world with also articles talking about whats hot and whats not in the MMORPG scene
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If you've ever gotten a phone call from an annoyed user whose transaction just won't go through, or from a developer who can't understand why her application sessions are blocking each other, you know how useful it can be to identify not just whose lock is doing the blocking, but what object is locked. Even better, you can identify the exact row that a session is waiting to lock.
External Tables let you query data in a flat file as though the file were an Oracle table. In 9i, only read operations were permitted; in 10g, you can also write out data to an external table, although you can't write to an existing table.
10gR1 revamped Oracle clustered database management and features. 10gR2 builds on this success with a long list of improvements and enhancements. Oracle has streamlined the installation process and provided more filesystem options, made some performance and monitoring improvements, and improved manageability with a half-dozen administration enhancements. This article will take a look at the major changes.
This article shows how materialized views can be analyzed and optimized to ensure they can be FAST REFRESHed. As tools, the DBMS_MVIEW.explain_mview procedure and the MV_CAPABILITIES_TABLE are used. In this particular case, refresh time was reduced from more than 14 hours to less than 2!
If there is a task in Oracle for which the wheel has been reinvented many times, it is that of generating database object DDL. There are numerous scripts floating in different forums doing the same thing. Some of them work great, while others work only until a specific version. Sometimes the DBAs prefer to create the scripts themselves. Apart from the testing overhead, these scripts require substantial insight into the data dictionary. As new versions of the database are released, the scripts need to be modified to fit the new requirements.
Starting from Oracle 9i Release 1, the DBMS_METADATA package has put an official end to all such scripting effort. This article provides a tour of the reverse engineering features of the above package, with a focus on generating the creation DDL of existing database objects. The article also has a section covering the issue of finding object dependencies.
Just about every DBA has had to deal with ora-1000 errors, "Maximum open cursors exceeded." This article will discuss initialization parameters that affect open cursors, the difference between open and cached cursors, closing cursors, and monitoring open and cached cursors.
Last month we talked about basic Oracle security, and set out principles for a top notch secure system. These included passwords, the principle of least privilege, and roles.
This month we journey into the fascinating world of Oracle Network Security. The topics covered will not involve the Oracle Advanced Security option: it's too big to cover here, and it is an added expense that many companies do not want. Instead, we will go over basic network security that can be implemented by anyone who uses Oracle. It is built in and so is already part of your system.
This article introduces Oracle XML DB features to the DBAs and Developers who are not actively working with XML. It offers a quick start to those who finds quite a lot of Oracle XML literature around, and who is not sure where to begin.
In the rapidly shifting world of database technology, one fact has always been, and will always remain, true: a great database is no good if it can easily be broken into. A faulty security plan is not just vulnerable to hackers; it opens your company to data theft, corruption, or even legal action.
On our quest to learn about Oracle's Data Pump utility it has often been compared to the old export and import (exp & imp) utilities that we have all grown to love (or hate). This article is where where Data Pump takes a detour from these old utilities and begins to shine. This article will explore some of the export modes available and give examples on how to export selected object types and dependencies those objects have.
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School Education – KGBV - Implementation of the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) Scheme – Release of funds towards State share during 2005-2006 – Administrative sanction orders – Issued.
SCHOOL EDUCATION (CSS-R&E) DEPARTMENT
Read the following:-
From Deputy Secretary, Dept of Elementary Education and Literacy, MHRD,
GOI Lr.No.F.21-1 (AP 01)/2005-EE.8, Dated
G.O.Ms.No.93, School Education (CSS-RE) Department, Dated
From the SPD, DPEP, Letter Rc.No.A3/684/KGBV/2005, Dated
G.O.Rt.No.3045, Finance (Expr.SE) Department,
O R D E R:
1. The Government of India, under Central Sector, introduced a new scheme called Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) for setting-up of residential schools with boarding facilities at elementary level for girl children belonging to SC, ST, OBC communities and Minorities in Educationally backward blocks. The pattern of assistance of the said scheme is in the ratio of 75:25 between Central and State Governments, respectively. The Government of India have released an amount of Rs.18.2377 crores (Rupees Eighteen Crores twenty three lakhs and seventy seven thousands only) towards 75% of Central Share [out of the total Project cost of Rs.24.3170 crores ] for setting up of 88 KGBV Schools as per Model-I and 6 KGBV Schools as per Model II in the 94 blocks in AP to the State Project Director & Chief Executive Officer, State Literacy Mission, AP-DPEP, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Saifabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
2. In the reference 2nd read above, administrative sanction has been accorded to establish 94 KGBV Schools in 94 Mandals in Andhra Pradesh with a Project Cost of Rs.24.3170 crores (Rupees twenty four crores thirty one lakhs and seventy thousands only) as approved by the Government of India during 2005-2006 and directed the State Project Director, DPEP to implement the KGBV new scheme introduced by GOI for opening of 88 KGBV Schools as per Model-I and 6 KGBV Schools as per Model-II under the management of APREI Society during 2005-2006.
3. In the references 3rd read above, the State Project Director, DPEP has submitted proposal to the Government for release of an amount of Rs.607.93 lakhs as State’s share to take up the activities under the Scheme KGBV.
4. Accordingly, the Finance Department in the G.O. 4th read above has issued Budget Released Order for an amount of Rs.6,07,93,000/- (Rupees six crores seven lakhs ninety three thousands only) towards 25% State’s share for implementation of KGBV Scheme in relaxation of treasury control order pending provision of funds by way of obtaining supplementary grants during 2005-2006.
5. In pursuance of the BRO issued by the Finance in the reference 4th read above, permission is hereby accorded to incur expenditure not exceeding the Rs.6,07,93,000/- (Rupees six crores seven lakhs ninety three thousand only) towards 25% States share for implementation of KGBV Scheme in relaxation of treasury control order pending provision of funds by way of obtaining supplementary grants during 2005-2006.
6. The expenditure shall be debited to the following Head of Account:
“2202-01-001-GH-06 -SH (32) -310/312-other GIA (to be opened)”
and shall be met in relaxation of treasury control orders pending provision of funds by way of obtaining supplementary grants during 2005-06.
Director of School Education is authorized to draw and disburse the amount
sanctioned above by preferring claims to the PAO and place at the disposal of the State Project
State Project Director, DPEP and
the Secretary, APRIES,
9. The Director of School Education is requested to obtain supplementary grant at an appropriate time during the Financial year 2005-2006.
order does not require the concurrence of Finance Department in view of the
GO.Rt.No.3045, Finance (ESE.VI) Department, Dated
11. A copy of the orders is also available on www.aponline.gov.in.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)
Dr. P. KRISHNAIAH,
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.
Director of School Education,
The State Project Director, D.P.E.P.,
The Secretary, APRIES,
The Accountant General, AP.,
The Pay and Accounts Officer,
Copy to Finance (EBS-VI) Department.
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Army National Guard to Receive Digital Medical Systems for Disaster ReliefMarch 8, 2011 | Industry News Release
Army National Guard soldiers will have the ability to digitally document patient care and manage medical supplies during disaster relief and homeland security missions in the U.S., according to a new partnership between the Army National Guard Bureau and the Army’s Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) program at Fort Detrick, Md.
In January, MC4 fielded 60 systems and trained two dozen members of the North Carolina Army National Guard. MC4 is the medical information system the Army fields to enable lifelong medical recording, streamlined medical logistics and situational awareness for Army tactical forces.
"Since the Army National Guard is the first military responder to any type of natural disaster or emergency, it is important that our Soldiers know how to use MC4 systems before they deploy to areas of need," said Earl Williams, Army National Guard Bureau logistics management specialist. "Cadres from each state will learn to set up, use and support the MC4 equipment. They will then teach the other Soldiers in their respective states during weekend training sessions. The train-the-trainer sessions offer the best scenario to disseminate the system knowledge to the users."
Army National Guard soldiers from the 54 states and territories will learn to digitally capture patient data and reorder medical supplies with MC4 systems during disaster relief and homeland security missions. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Brad Staggs) (View on Flickr) Moving forward, MC4 and the Army National Guard Bureau will develop a plan to train the remaining 53 states and territories. Units from each state would receive training at MC4 region support office locations at Fort Bragg, N.C., Fort Hood, Texas, or Fort Lewis, Wash. MC4 may field as many as 2,800 systems to the Army National Guard.
“Our partnership with the Army National Guard expands the 'train as you fight' initiative with MC4 systems,” said MC4 Product Manager Lt. Col. William Geesey. "The more familiar users become with MC4 equipment in the U.S., the better prepared they’ll be to meet medical information-sharing needs in the field.”
Since 2003, MC4 has enabled the capture of more than 15 million electronic patient encounters in the combat zone. MC4 has also trained 52,000 medical staff and commanders, and fielded 43,000 systems to 750 units with medical personnel, to include Army National Guard and Reserve units, and active component.
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt within the heart."
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.” ~~ Helen Keller
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I still can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." -- Helen Keller
Please consider making a donation to the ND Vision Services/School for the Blind. Funding assists the foundation in carrying out its mission, which is to help provide services to students and adults who are visually impaired. It furnishes computers, high-tech reading devices, speech improvement, and scholarships for higher education and vocational training. It also funds social, recreational, and athletic events for North Dakota’s students who are visually impaired.
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~~ Mark Twain
To donate by mail:
The ND Vision Services/School for the Blind Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1990 and is exempt from federal taxes under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
To make a cash gift, send a check payable to:
NDVS/SB Centennial Partners
you to all of our Centennial Partners who made the Centennial Celebrations
Grand Forks Lions Club
and Don Neal
Frank M. Schumacker, Jr.
Valley Vision Clinic, Grand Forks
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status of reptiles.
These experts assessed the extinction risk of 1,500 randomly selected reptiles from all over the globe.
Of the estimated 19% of reptiles threatened with extinction, 12% have been classified as critically endangered, 41% endangered and 47% vulnerable, the journal of Biological Conservation reports.
Three critically endangered species were also highlighted as possibly extinct. One of these, a jungle runner lizard Ameiva vittata, has only ever been recorded in one part of Bolivia, according to a ZSL statement.
Levels of threat remain particularly high in tropical regions, mainly as a result of habitat conversion for agriculture and logging.
With the lizard's habitat virtually destroyed, two recent searches for the species have been unsuccessful.
Monika Bohm, from ZSL, who led the study, said, "Reptiles are often associated with extreme habitats and tough environmental conditions, so it is easy to assume that they will be fine in our changing world."
"However, many species are very highly specialised in terms of habitat use and the climatic conditions they require for day-to-day functioning. This makes them particularly sensitive to environmental changes," Bohm added.
Collectively referred to as 'reptiles', snakes, lizards, amphisbaenians (also known as worm lizards), crocodiles, and tuataras have had a long and complex evolutionary history, having first appeared on the planet around 300 million years ago.
They play a number of vital roles in the proper functioning of the world's eco-systems, as predator as well as prey.
Head of ZSL's Indicators and Assessment Unit, Ben Collen said, "These findings provide a shortcut to allow important conservation decisions to be made as soon as possible and firmly place reptiles on the conservation map."
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Dance Exchange is a professional company of dance artists that creates, performs, teaches, and engages people in making art. Since its start in 1976, and in each encounter, the Dance Exchange asks four questions: Who gets to dance? Where is the dance happening? What is it about? Why does it matter? The Dance Exchange answers these questions by pursuing a range of interrelated goals: to create groundbreaking new dance works; to implement innovative educational programming; and to collaborate on effective community engagement projects. The Dance Exchange specializes in non-fiction dancing, and recent work has focused on land use, energy, and even wind power. The organization partners with many groups committed to environmental preservation and community health. The Dance Exchange's management policies are very much in tune with this artistic work. The organization's leadership thinks a lot about current issues like sustainability and energy conservation and wants to be as responsible as possible in its physical space. In addition to purchasing renewable energy certificates, the Dance Exchange also prints on recycled paper and is involved in a comprehensive community recycling program.
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Email confirmation and CAPTCHA solves different problems. The first one should be implemented when you want users to use their real e-mail address in the registration process. Email confirmation also protects us from identity theft. I cannot register by typed the whitehouse.gov emails address and pretend that I am the President ('cos I'm not able to click on the confirmation link sent to whitehouse.gov, because I'm not the owner of this address). So email confirmation allows to link each user to each email address.
However email confirmation doesn't protect us from the bots (as the CAPTCHA does). Honestly, almost every spam-bot I've seen had email confirmation implemented. It's really easy stuff and it's just a few lines of code to force our program to check emails and click on every activation links). The interesting detail is that some of that spam-bots used 123456 as the password to their webmails accounts.
So, let's talk about the CAPTCHA. It was created to distinguish human from the robot. Reading the text from the image, solve maths formulas, etc. The main problem is that online robots are still evolving. Their modules are upgrading, they haven't got problems with solving formulas, their OCR modules are better (so they are able to extract text from the image). All of these means that CAPTCHA is not the 100% protection against non-humans, but it's the first defense-line and it's very recommended.
The best CAPTCHA is the CAPTCHA which was implemented by you. Trust me, a lot of people try their luck with breaking popular CAPTCHA. Why? The answer is very easy here. Popular CAPTCHAS are used by a lot of website. If we can break that CAPTCHA, then we could put a lot of spam content on that websites. So if your website is not very popular and has own CAPTCHA implementation, I am pretty sure, that noone will lose their time and money to break your CAPTCHA. However if you are not sure how to implement it in the proper way, you could try non-obvious CAPTCHAs. Like image-base CAPTCHA (here is the example) or 3D CAPTCHA (another example).
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971
Born: 5 June 1900, Budapest, Hungary
Died: 8 February 1979, London, United Kingdom
Affiliation at the time of the award: Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his invention and development of the holographic method"
Field: Optical physics
I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on June
5, 1900, the oldest son of Bertalan Gabor, director of a mining
company, and his wife Adrienne. My life-long love of physics
started suddenly at the age of 15. I could not wait until I got
to the university, I learned the calculus and worked through the
textbook of Chwolson, the largest at that time, in the next two
years. I remember how fascinated I was by Abbe's theory of the
microscope and by Gabriel Lippmann's method of colour
photography, which played such a great part in my work, 30 years
later. Also, with my late brother George, we built up a little
laboratory in our home, where we could repeat most experiments
which were modern at that time, such as wireless X-rays and
radioactivity. Yet, when I reached university age, I opted for
engineering instead of physics. Physics was not yet a profession
in Hungary, with a total of half-a-dozen university chairs - and
who could have been presumptuous enough to aspire to one of
So I acquired my degrees, (Diploma at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, 1924, Dr-Ing. in 1927), in electrical engineering, though I sneaked over from the TH as often as possible to the University of Berlin, where physics at that time was at its apogee, with Einstein, Planck, Nernst and v. Laue. Though electrical engineering remained my profession, my work was almost always in applied physics. My doctorate work was the development of one of the first high speed cathode ray oscillographs and in the course of this I made the first iron-shrouded magnetic electron lens. In 1927 I joined the Siemens & Halske AG where I made my first of my successful inventions; the high pressure quartz mercury lamp with superheated vapour and the molybdenum tape seal, since used in millions of street lamps. This was also my first exercise in serendipity, (the art of looking for something and finding something else), because I was not after a mercury lamp but after a cadmium lamp, and that was not a success.
In 1933, when Hitler came to power, I left Germany and after a short period in Hungary went to England. At that time, in 1934, England was still in the depths of the depression, and jobs for foreigners were very difficult. I obtained employment with the British Thomson-Houston Co., Rugby, on an inventor's agreement. The invention was a gas discharge tube with a positive characteristic, which could be operated on the mains. Unfortunately, most of its light emission was in the short ultraviolet, so that it failed to give good efficiency with the available fluorescent powders, but at least it gave me a foothold in the BTH Research Laboratory, where I remained until the end of 1948. The years after the war were the most fruitful. I wrote, among many others, my first papers on communication theory, I developed a system of stereoscopic cinematography, and in the last year, 1948 I carried out the basic experiments in holography, at that time called "wavefront reconstruction". This again was an exercise in serendipity. The original objective was an improved electron microscope, capable of resolving atomic lattices and seeing single atoms. Three year's work, 1950-53, carried out in collaboration with the AEI Research Laboratory in Aldermaston, led to some respectable results, but still far from the goal. We had started 20 years too early. Only in recent years have certain auxiliary techniques developed to the point when electron holography could become a success. On the other hand, optical holography has become a world success after the invention and introduction of the laser, and acoustical holography has now also made a promising start.
On January 1, 1949 I joined the Imperial College of Science & Technology in London, first as a Reader in Electronics, later as Professor of Applied Electron Physics, until my retirement in 1967. This was a happy time. With my young doctorands as collaborators I attacked many problems, almost always difficult ones. The first was the elucidation of Langmuir's Paradox, the inexplicably intense apparent electron interaction, in low pressure mercury arcs. The explanation was that the electrons exchanged energy not with one another, by collisions, but by interaction with an oscillating boundary layer at the wall of the discharge vessel. We made also a Wilson cloud chamber, in which the velocity of particles became measurable by impressing on them a high frequency, critical field, which produced time marks on the paths, at the points of maximum ionisation. Other developments were: a holographic microscope, a new electron-velocity spectroscope an analogue computer which was a universal, non-linear "learning" predictor, recognizer and simulator of time series, a flat thin colour television tube, and a new type of thermionic converter. Theoretical work included communication theory, plasma theory, magnetron theory and I spent several years on a scheme of fusion, in which a critical high temperature plasma would have been established by a 1000 ampere space charge-compensated ion beam, fast enough to run over the many unstable modes which arise during its formation. Fortunately the theory showed that at least one unstable mode always remained, so that no money had to be spent on its development.
After my retirement in 1967 I remained connected with the Imperial College as a Senior Research Fellow and I became Staff Scientist of CBS Laboratories, Stamford, Conn. where I have collaborated with the President, my life-long friend, Dr. Peter C. Goldmark in many new schemes of communication and display. This kept me happily occupied as an inventor, but meanwhile, ever since 1958, I have spent much time on a new interest; the future of our industrial civilisation. I became more and more convinced that a serious mismatch has developed between technology and our social institutions, and that inventive minds ought to consider social inventions as their first priority. This conviction has found expression in three books, Inventing the Future, 1963, Innovations, 1970, and The Mature Society, 1972. Though I still have much unfinished technological work on my hands, I consider this as my first priority in my remaining years.
|Fellow of the Royal Society, 1956.|
|Hon. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1964.|
|D.Sc. Univ. of London, 1964, Hon. D.Sc. Univ. of Southampton, 1970, and Technological University Delft, 1971.|
|Thomas Young Medal of Physical Society
Cristoforo Colombo Prize of Int. Inst. Communications, Genoa, 1967.
|Albert Michelson Medal of The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1968. Rumford Medal of the Royal Society, 1968.|
|Medal of Honor of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,1970. Prix Holweck of the French Physical Society, 1971. Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1970.|
|Married since 1936 to Marjorie Louise, daughter of Joseph Kennard Butler and Louise Butler of Rugby.|
From Les Prix Nobel en 1971, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1972
This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate.
Dennis Gabor died on February 8, 1979.
Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1971
MLA style: "Dennis Gabor - Autobiography". Nobelprize.org. 23 May 2013 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1971/gabor.html
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We have detailed information for 10 Neighbourhoods in Kitchener!
Kitchener-Waterloo, known as the twin cities, is located in the southwest part of the province of Ontario. Using the 401 highway as a reference point, it is situated approximately 100 kilometers west of Toronto and approximately 300 kilometers east of Windsor.
Being only a one to one and a half hour drive to Toronto means that many people are willing to commute and real estate is quite reasonable.
The twin cities are only a two hour drive from the US border of Buffalo and three to four hour drive from Detroit, Michigan. Accordingly, many industries can thrive in the area. Such companies such as Toyota Manufacturing, Sun Life Financial and Manu Life have made a home for themselves here in the Region. The area has transformed itself over the past two decades with many old and labour intensive industries being replaced with High Tech jobs.
Surrounding the cities is a great deal of workable, thriving farmland and many smaller towns and villages. This provides another strong economic basis for the area as shown by the presence of Maple Leaf Foods and the ongoing success and durability of the Kitchener and Waterloo and St. Jacobs Farmer's Markets.
The Mennonites form a distinctive part of the local agricultural business. Their unique cultural and religious style adds greatly to the character and charm of the area. The strong German background of the community is reflected in the strong appeal of the world famous OKTOBERFEST celebration.
The whole area is very proud of the Centre-In-The-Square, where the best of North American/Canadian entertainment and culture is showcased on a regular basis.
The high profile and strong presence of two world class universities forms a solid technological basis for research and development and related spin off businesses.
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The Hare With The Amber Eyes
by Edmund de Waal
A British ceramicist inherits a collection of Japanese netsuke from his beloved uncle Iggy, an old man named Ignatz who has lived for many years in Japan. Intrigued, he gradually uncovers the story of their family, the Ephrussi, who emerged from Odessa in the 19th century to become one of the world’s leading banks, rivaling the Rothschilds for wealth, for influence, and for inciting the envy and hatred of the Nazis. A fascinating book that carefully avoids nostalgia and that is always thinking about the role of objects in life, a history that only a singularly thoughtful potter could have written.
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Almost one-third of workers in the UK do not receive any employee benefits at their organisation, with women the least likely to be rewarded.
This is according to new research conducted by Canada Life Group Insurance, which found nine million individuals – 30 per cent of the nation’s workforce – are in this position, despite the fact 31 per cent would like more recognition. In addition, 20 per cent of respondents stated they believe changes like auto-enrolment could increase the importance of any benefits offered by an employer.
Paul Avis, sales and marketing director of Canada Life, said he is disappointed to find that such a high percentage of staff in Britain do not receive workplace benefits.
He remarked: “They may well feel that they are lacking in the support or recognition that they deserve and with upcoming changes such as auto-enrolment putting workplace benefits firmly in the spotlight, they are even more likely to notice the lack [of benefits].”
The report revealed that among the participants who are rewarded at their company, a pension with employer contributions was the most commonly received, as it was found to be in place for 47 per cent of people.
Meanwhile, 39 per cent of workers had been granted more than 28 days holiday and 36 per cent were provided with a life insurance or death-in-service policy. Just five per cent claimed their employer had given them free gym membership and four per cent stated they can receive a lump sum of cash towards critical illness cover.
Mr Avis said now is an ideal time for managers to decide – with the help of an advisor – what benefits and savings plans they could offer their staff and how to make existing schemes stretch further.
He was quoted by HR Magazine as saying: “It won’t just benefit employees, but businesses too, as happy, healthy and secure workers are far more likely to be productive.”
This comes after a recent study published by insurance firm Aviva announced 90 per cent of companies that introduce health benefits experience greater productivity and motivation.
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By Ray Peck
The Republicans have controlled the governor's office in Montana for 13 years, both houses of the Legislature for 10 years and the House of Representatives for 13 years. It seems every thinking Montanan should be prepared to answer the question as to why the voters continue such rule in face of the following facts.
The Republican tax policy has decreased corporation taxes while increasing farm and residential property taxes, much of the corporate decrease going to corporations that are from out of state.
Deregulation of electricity has caused increased consumer rates for some citizens and businesses already, and promises another 33 percent in increases over the next two years.
A declining share of K-12 education is being paid by the state, which further increases property taxes at the local level on residential and ag real property.
Major legislation was concocted by the executive branch leadership, legislative leadership, and corporate representatives in the back rooms of the Capitol and rammed through the Legislature in the final few days of the session.
Republicans replaced a mental health care program with one that was mind-boggling in its failures in both a financial and operational sense, after promises of great improvements.
The administration purchased a main frame computer from a supplier in India that costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $17 million over three years ago and is still not fully functional.
The state government created a declining lower average income for Montana workers that is at or near the bottom of all the 50 states.
Problems in the agriculture area are largely ignored with little effort by the governors of the past 13 years to actively influence ag policy in Washington, D.C.
The administration has tolerated vicious attacks on the Montana Public School System to the point of refusing to accept money allocated to Montana by the federal government.
Major businesses are closing or reducing operations due to escalating cost of electricity, one of the real "economic positives" we had for many years.
The administration has a policy of stonewalling on critical issues such as the environmental cleanup in the Libby area that deserved a quick response due to citizen health issues.
Higher education tuition increases have to be put in place due to underfunding from the Republican governors and legislatures.
Reduction of the use of tobacco funds for prevention and education programs has resulted in national recognition of Montana as being one of the "five worst" in this respect.
Secret information on bids taken by Montana Power Co. on how they arrived at electricity charges that will be charged by them after June 30, 2001, has been allowed to go unquestioned by the Public Service Commission to date.
The administration underestimated the fund balance at the end of the last fiscal year by about $100 million, which should tell us all that all is not good in Helena.
Is it not time voters start asking questions on all these matters?
Ray Peck is a former state representative from Havre and is treasurer of the Montana Democratic Party.
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City says 12 Detroit homes accidentally demolished
DETROIT (AP) — A dozen homes in Detroit have been mistakenly demolished, a city official says.
One of the residences had been purchased by a pair of artists who bought it for $500 at a tax auction in October.
Kristine Diven and Micho McAdow planned to fix up the empty two-story home and move in by the spring. But when they drove by one evening in December, their new house was gone.
“Instead of taking measurements for the boards we needed, we found our house in a pile,” Diven told The Detroit News for a story (http://bit.ly/UrsrHy ) published Saturday.
The structure had been demolished by the state’s Land Bank Fast Track Authority as part of a program to eliminate blight near schools. At least 11 other properties, all bought by an area investor, also were razed in error, said Karla Henderson, director of Detroit’s planning and facilities department.
Mistakes such as these are rare, city and state officials said. Before being sold at auction, all of the homes had been scheduled for demolition, said state government spokesman Kurt Weiss.
The other 11 properties mistakenly taken down were purchased by Sameer Beydoun, a Dearborn real estate agent. Beydoun declined to comment to the News, but a spokeswoman for his company, Metro Property Group, said he bought the properties with the idea of rehabbing them to help restore Detroit neighborhoods.
“MPG is working with the state and county to resolve this matter, in terms of reimbursement,” said spokeswoman Darci McConnell.
After it was discovered that Diven and McAdow’s home had been wrecked, Henderson gave Diven a list of empty, city-owned properties with an offer that she could take one, and Weiss said the Wayne County treasurer’s office refunded the $500 paid for the house.
Weiss said the state remains committed to tearing down blighted structures near schools and is confident that similar errors will be avoided. Continued...
Last summer, Gov. Rick Snyder launched a pilot project among the city, state and Wayne County to use $10 million to demolish about 1,200 abandoned buildings surrounding schools in three Detroit neighborhoods.
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Frustrations and Lessons Learned
Trip Start Jan 06, 2010
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To begin with the philosophy of the Peace Corps is to work and live alongside local people to 1. Learn about their culture. 2. Teach them about American culture and 3. Train them to do what they want to do. If you notice 2/3 of that is about cultural exchange. 1/3 is about work. And I think that I have succeeded much more in the cultural exchange part.
- supporting the environmental office of the municipality
- supporting the park guards in developing trails in hills and volcanoes nearby
- supporting the local tourism bureau to incorporate more people in the decision making process of developing tourism
- supporting 5 community groups to become more involved in tourism: mat makers, painters, guides, wood sculptors, and a women's coop
- teaching English to 60 kids
- supporting a women's weaving cooperative on a stove building project
- supporting a group of painters to raise art awareness in children
- giving talks on protecting the environment to kids
- learning to weave in traditional mayan style
- planting trees with school groups
- learning about mayan cultural traditions
The first frustration I have had has been to work in the local municipal government. It is a boys network by definition. There is only one female who works in the municipal office who is not a secretary or a maid. She runs the woman’s office. She nicknamed the snake in Tz’utujil. She was the first women to be on the town council and has aspirations to be the first female mayor starting in 2016. She has funding for her office from the Norwegians because they like that she is a woman and working in a man’s world.
I don’t have any funding and am an American who is still learning about this culture and how to work in it. She has a slight advantage. The other women in the municipality are obviously not consulted on any projects. They are secretaries. And there is a pretty strong rumor around town that any woman who works in the municipality has, to put it bluntly, slept with the mayor. This rumor has persisted through many mayors – and I dearly hope that it is a rumor without basis because the woman that work in the municipality are all young, single, and pretty.
I was assigned to work in the environmental office to support new tourism projects including cultural and ecological tourism. I have attended many four hour long meetings in mixed Tz’utujil and Spanish. I have presented many ideas on different paths we could take to the mayor and the councilmen. I have gone hiking with the council members in the municipal park and discussed ideas. Nothing has moved forward with any idea. I have never been given a desk or even a chair to work there. Since February they have been remodeling the building. Squatting someone’s desk while listening to the sounds of cement blocks being cut with electric saws is obviously not the best working environment.
I learned that some NGO told them that they could get free labor for two years if they just signed a paper, so they did. And then I showed up asking them about what we were going to do. They had no idea what to do with me. They have still yet to have asked me to do anything besides attend meetings and do the odd translating job. I still try to make contact with the municipality and inform them on my work and invite them to workshops, but I don’t think I have made a lasting impact there.
Lesson learned is to not waste time going to meetings with people who don’t have the desire to work with me.
2. The NGOs
Another frustration has been to distinguish myself from the other NGOs. There are too many NGOs in this town, in my opinion. It is a perfect place for short term NGOs to come: it is relatively close to the capital, it has a picture perfect Mayan culture, the physical setting is beautiful and there is a lot of work to be done here in terms of development.
I come with the Peace Corps without any money – only a lot of time and ideals to offer. A lot of other NGOs can come in, do a short term project that succeeds in accomplishing X goal, and then leave. They don’t see how the project pans out in a couple of years. And they don’t have to understand the complicated network that is this community (and I presume all communities).
For example: There is a stove project that I have recently been supporting as a secondary project. The project is more than 5 years old. The goal is to have local people pay a small percentage (Q. 350) of the cost of an improved wood-burning stove. They benefit in improved health, saving the environment, and increasing savings. There is no longer smoke in the kitchen so the women’s and children’s respiratory health are immediately improved. And they use less wood, so the impact of deforestation is immediately lowered. And lastly the amount of money they spend on buying wood – or time hauling wood is cut in half. It is perfect on paper for donors. The project builds the stoves and walks away.
I have returned to do some interviews with the recipients of the stoves. The preliminary results show that half of them were no longer being used as they were destined less than 5 years later. They have taken then apart when they moved houses, they have broken and could not find replacement parts, or they had to sell the stove because they were in debt. All of the women interviewed agreed that it helped them save money on the cost of wood every month – a difference for most families of 100 quetzales or more a month. Since the project did not include repairs or follow-up the women were forced to take the stoves apart, which basically made them serve as high consumption wood burning stoves again.
The frustration I have had has been to find a way to work without money in a town that has a lot of people throwing around money. There was actually an NGO that stood up at one meeting and said we have 1 million Euros to give to this community in two years – and then went on to promise a lot. To date they still have only donated 15% of that. Another project has 4 million over 3 years. There is not a lack of money – but there is a lack of efficiency.
There is a lot of distrust of people that manage NGO projects in town because everyone sees the managers get fatter and the people (who should be receiving the help) get skinnier. The people think that they should receive more benefits for free and have become accustomed to waiting for someone to give them stuff – because if this NGO doesn’t then the next one will. (As a reminder the idea of the Peace Corps is the raise the capacity of the local people to be able to do what they want and not to rely on these handouts. Because handouts create laziness and a dependency on waiting for someone to give you something without finding a way to get it yourself.)
The lesson I have learned is that it does not help to have money because money attracts people who only want to take advantage of it.
3. The community
The next frustration has been trying to find my place personally and to find meaningful work in a community of 50,000 people. Since I could not find my place in the municipality, I had to find new people to work with. When I joined the Peace Corps I did not want to do office work. I wanted to work with people and learn about their desires and help them to achieve them. It took almost a year to get some people and ideas together.
Basically what I ended up doing was observing a project from another NGO working on tourism here – the funding for that project ran out and I stepped in and kept it going (they to this date haven’t found funding to come back). This NGO came and did a survey of the different groups working on tourism or interested in being more involved in tourism in some capacity. They then selected 7 groups. These 7 groups received 4 months of twice a month trainings on how to strengthen the formation of their group. This included how to create a board of directors, how to apply for legalization as an NGO and how to prioritize their goals. The very last meeting they brought all the groups together to tell them now that they were empowered and strengthened they could start working together.
I was a little shocked that they had told the donors they were running a "tourism networking" project without ever once telling the groups that that was the goal. They also left promising that they would return with more funding and would legalize all of the groups to be associations. After four months of no news, the groups started asking me what was happening. So I got each group together and did a visioning workshop to find out what they wanted. I asked them flat out if they actually wanted to be involved in tourism and how they imagined they could do that. Through this we started putting together a project.
With their ideas we developed and completed a project the involved developing 15 new tours, establishing fair prices for the tours, designing logos for 7 groups, designing a brochure describing all of this work, and printing 4000 copies of it. The funding from this came from a fund for Peace Corps Volunteers from USAID called Small Project Assistance (SPA).
The plan is to start promoting these new tours and bring tourism dollars to the people who need it most. If people do purchase the tours their money will produce a supplementary income for 120 people in the community who are keeping alive the culture and arts of the people from a Tz’utujil community.
Even though the goal was to take a step forward in designing new tourism offers here, a major part of the project was to get these groups to run their own project and decide on how they wanted to be involved in tourism in their own community. We had team building workshops and discussions on the value of working as a team or as individuals. The ideas behind designing a logo for each group was to have the groups see that they were united under an image that represented their ideas of themselves. Did this team unity really happen? How can one measure that? That is hard. What we did measure is that they all have a logo. Done, measurable.
It was frustrating to run this project, because even though the ideas came from the community there was no leadership in the community that was managing it. I was pulling them along to get to the destination of simply printing paper.
The project lasted 5 months and every week there was another crisis that I thought would make the project fail. For example one group decided they couldn’t meet with the designer, even though they had chosen the date and time. After much discussion it turned out they were scared and didn’t understand. They ended up meeting the designer and were happy to have been apart of something they thought they were incapable of doing.
Another time the President of one group decided that he hadn’t achieved enough so he wanted to quit. We (me and my new project manager friend who translated) talked to him and the group separately and it turned out they need to have more clear, short term, achievable goals. So after much discussion he didn’t quit, they have a work plan, and they were part of the project.
The lesson for me has been that community organizing is not easy – and that is ok. I don’t have to expect clear success and acceptance quickly.
My personal frustrations have been dealing with all these preconceived notions of what life would be like here and my capabilities. I thought I would be able to learn the language (I still struggle with Tz’utujil), I thought I would instantly love living in a town with stunning scenery (it is great but doesn’t make everything paradise), I thought I would be in physical discomfort (I have wifi, good food, and hot showers), etc. As usual not everything we expect comes true.
The best lesson I have learned in my time here is patience. I have learned to take things as they come and work with that instead of trying to force my expectations on something.
I have also learned that I also need short-term tangible goals to go along with the long term goals. I have started teaching a lot of English classes to have interaction with kids who are always receptive and excited. I have started weaving because I can see the results of my time in the form of cloth. And with the language – a couple of well selected words here and there are still better than none.
As a final note, my views expressed here are just that, my views. They come from a perspective of a female Peace Corps Volunteer working in this town on this one project. There are many other perspectives of this town. Even another person here would have a completely different experience and perspective. I would never say that this experience has not been worthwhile. I have learned heaps and hope to be able to continue learning in the rest of my time here so that I can continue trying to play a small role in improving this task we call development.
The last six months I am focusing on another SPA (small project assistance) project. This will be working with a group of painters and kids to paint environmentally themed murals. Kids, raising environmental awareness, teaching art, beautifying the community walls, all of this will be fun and tangible. I am sure with this there will be frustrations and lessons learned.
But through all of this the biggest lesson has been to continually find a way to smile and laugh at the sometimes painful process of learning.
The contents of this website are mine personally and do not refelct any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.
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Spookley, the star of The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano, illustrated by Susan Banta (Holiday Hill Farm; Barnes & Noble), is now in his second year as official spokes-pumpkin for National Bullying Prevention Month, sponsored by the Minneapolis-based family support organization PACER (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights).
This year, PACER is providing a free “Stop Bullying Before It Starts” digital toolkit that allows educators to bring Spookley’s message of tolerance and acceptance into the classroom. Tools included in the kit are: an audio recording of the book by Bobby “Boris” Pickett (writer and performer of “The Monster Mash”), lesson plans and activities that teach bullying prevention, a Spookley classroom play by Troiano, access to classroom streaming of the animated Spookley movie, and links to a variety of other anti-bullying resources. Scholastic Book Clubs, which promotes the Spookley picture book through its programs, has organized an awareness campaign to get word of the toolkit to teachers via social media and other outreach methods. Teachers can register online for the toolkit.
The animated movie Spookley the Square Pumpkin is being screened on Thursday, October 25, at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J.; Troiano will read and sign at the event. The movie will also be shown at pumpkin patches and corn mazes across the country, and is airing on the Disney Channel throughout the month of October. It is being offered as a digital download and rental for the first time, and Spookley’s story is available as an app for the iPad/iPhone, Android, and Nook platforms as well.
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Microsoft has patched 15 vulnerabilities in Windows, Windows Server, Excel and Word, including one that will probably be exploited quickly by hackers. None affect Windows 7, the company's newest operating system.
The 15 flaws fixed in this month's six security updates were less than half the record 34 Microsoft patched last month in 13 separate bulletins. Of today's 15 bugs, three were tagged "critical" by Microsoft, while the remaining 12 were labeled as "important," the next-lowest rating in the company's four-step severity scoring system.
Experts agreed that users should focus on MS09-065 first. That update, which was ranked critical, affects all still-supported editions of Windows with the exception of Windows 7 and its server sibling, Windows Server 2008 R2.
"The Windows kernel vulnerability is going to take the cake," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security. "The attack vector can be driven through Internet Explorer, and this is one of those instances where the user won't be notified or prompted. This is absolutely a drive-by attack scenario."
Richie Lai, the director of vulnerability research at security company Qualys, agreed. "Anyone running IE is at risk here, even though the flaw is not in the browser, but in the Win32k kernel mode driver."
Both Storms and Lai were referring to the one bug marked critical in MS09-065, which actually patched a trio of vulnerabilities. According to Microsoft, the Windows kernel improperly parses Embedded OpenType (EOT) fonts, which are a compact form of fonts designed for use on Web pages. EOT fonts, however, can also be used in Word and PowerPoint documents.
Hackers could also launch attacks by attaching Word or PowerPoint documents to e-mail messages, then duping users into opening those documents.
In lieu of patching the problem, users can easily block the most likely attacks by disabling IE's support for embedded fonts. "That's a low-impact mitigation," Lai said. "The worst that could happen is that some sites might look ugly." His advice would still leave PCs open to attack via malicious Word or PowerPoint documents, a point Microsoft also made in the vulnerability's write-up.
Because Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were not affected by the MS09-065 update, Storms and Lai assumed that Microsoft caught the bug before it wrapped up the final code, or release to manufacturing (RTM) build, of the operating system, and is only now getting around to plugging the holes in Windows 2000, XP and Vista, as well as Server 2003 and Server 2008.
"Windows 7 Release Candidate [RC] is probably vulnerable," said Storms, citing Microsoft's policy of not providing security updates for preview versions of an operating system when the final has been released. "That's why you don't see Microsoft patching Windows 7 RC or Beta," said Storms. "For anyone still running RC, they should take heed and upgrade to the RTM."
But while Storms speculated that Microsoft knew the EOT font flaw was a security issue - and waited until now to patch older Windows - Lai thought that Microsoft didn't realise until recently that it was also a security vulnerability in editions prior to Windows 7. "I think they fixed this bug as part of the code sanitisation during [Windows 7's] development cycle. It was actually only publicly disclosed recently, and then they patched it in other Windows."
Microsoft acknowledged that information about the EOT vulnerability had gone public before today's patch. "While the initial report was provided through responsible disclosure, the vulnerability was later disclosed publicly by a separate party," stated the accompanying advisory.
Storms expects to see attackers jump on the EOT vulnerability. "This is the one to watch in the coming weeks, not only because of its novelty, but also because it can be exploited through IE, which is the easy route, as well as through Word and PowerPoint documents," he said.
Microsoft also issued critical updates for Vista and Server 2008, as well as for Windows 2000 Server. On the latter, which harbors a bug in its implementation of the License Logging Server , a tool originally designed to help customers manage Server Client Access Licenses (CAL), Storms urged users of that aged operating system to apply the patch pronto, even though the machines are probably well-protected.
"Windows 2000 Server has the logging server enabled by default, but those systems are likely behind multiple firewalls, and people running [Windows 2000 Server] are pretty cognizant of the fact that it's an older version and will act accordingly."
Excel and Word also received patches today. Eight vulnerabilities were addressed in Excel in MS09-067 and one in Word with MS09-068. Both updates also affected the Mac editions, Office 2004 and Office 2008.
"These are the kind of file format vulnerabilities we've seen many times before," said Storms, noting in a follow-up instant message that the bugs are in the older, binary file formats, not in the newer XML-based formats that Microsoft debuted in Office 2007 for Windows and Office 2008 for Mac.
This month's security updates can be downloaded and installed via the Microsoft Update and Windows Update services, as well as through Windows Server Update Services.
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Search engine optimisation is not a silver bullet. SEO is not even a specific product. Rather, search engine optimisation is a process, ideally based on marketing methodology, and that process will be unique to each specific application. Here’s my top-list of the biggest and most common mistakes that are made regarding SEO.
1. Commoditization of Search Engine Optimization
This is certainly the top-most mistake regarding SEO. It is a mistake that is often made by both customers and suppliers of search engine optimisation. Customers mistakenly think that they can buy SEO as a fixed product or commodity, and far too many suppliers attempt to offer search engine optimization as a package, an off the shelf solution that is not tailored to the specific needs, situation or the market conditions of each individual client.
Why treating SEO as a commodity is a mistake
All search engine optimization companies are not alike. In fact, not even all SEO practitioners within a single company can provide the same quality, experience, or standard to their work. There is no regulation, or universal standard to SEO or its services. In fact, even among the biggest and most successful and renowned search engine optimization companies there are considerable disparities in practices and capabilities.
On the flip-side, where some SEO companies themselves try to ‘package’ SEO as a commodity, this really does not serve the customer well. One size never fits all. In fact, a package often fits nobody but the company selling it. Sometimes a package forms a compromise of mismatched features to attempt mass-market appeal.
The fact is that search engine optimization is a Marketing activity. In Marketing you cannot just run exactly the same campaign for two different clients. It would be like trying to sell the Coke TV ad campaign to Pepsi, just with the name changed, but with the exact same shots, actors, etc.
2. Treating SEO as ‘a code thing’
Treating search engine optimisation as a technical discipline – all about the code and mark-up – is a common mistake. It is like deciding to run an international advertising campaign on billboards and deciding to put the photocopier guy in charge of the entire billboard campaign – because it is printing and on paper. The code and technical part of SEO is the medium, not the message.
Why treating SEO as a purely technical matter is a mistake
SEO is a method and procedure for marketing. Every single decision in a campaign must tie back to the marketing objectives, which means each line of code, each technical choice, has to be chosen by someone who understands marketing, at least in a basic sense. Where this fundamental is ignored, you get poor SEO choices, resulting in massive inefficiencies, and even practices that run counter to the basic goals.
Specific issues of this mentality are where changes are made to gain high rankings for keywords that fail to convert, or where the changes themselves lower conversion rates. There are still SEOs who believe that if a page ranks #1, their job is perfect, and that its utter failure to convert or serve any business purpose is irrelevant, and someone else’s problem.
You don’t put the photocopier guy in charge of all your print advertising because he knows about print. You don’t put a telephone engineer in charge of your call centres because she knows how to install phones. You don’t put your IT guy in charge of all your Internet marketing because he knows about computers.
3. Losing sight of the objective of SEO
All too often people on all sides of SEO forget what the objective is. They start thinking that the steps that an SEO campaign takes along the way to the objective are actual end objectives in their own right. Indeed, that leads to people going for a particular SEO step they didn’t need at all.
Why confusing SEO methods with the end objective is a mistake.
The simplest illustration is whenever someone comes to an SEO and says “We need to rank number one for [keyword]“. There are very few cases in which a company actually needs to rank number one for a particular search to meet a genuine objective, and the only one I can easily think of that is anywhere near common is when a company can use the “I rank #1 on Google for [keyword]” to leverage a better deal from their suppliers, or otherwise use it purely for branding of some kind.
A common failure of SEO is where a company spends significant resources to gain a top ranking for a high-volume, highly competitive search term in order to gain more sales. Without considering that often an even higher volume of sales could have been attained far more economically by increasing long-tail keyword reach.
Specific SEO methods and tactics are just that – tactics to achieve an objective, and not an objective in themselves.
4. Using SEO tactics without a strategy
I already touched on this in regard to treating search engine optimization as a ‘code thing’, but even people who know that SEO is not just about the media of HTML tags often fail to understand strategic considerations for SEO.
Why having no overall SEO strategy to tactics is a mistake.
To illustrate this point, I will use the analogy of a chef catering for a dinner party.
Okay, so the chef is a professional chef, hired to cater for a dinner party.
In this analogy, the diner party is the marketing method chosen to meet the overall objective of gathering a group of people to have a fine meal and connect with the hosts of the dinner.
The chef is told how many people he needs to cater for, and what sort of budget is available, and may often be given further suggestions about particular ingredients or things to cook. These all help form the strategy, and in this analogy, the strategy is the menu. As the chef plans out what dishes he will provide for each course, he is building the strategy.
His menu is based on the objective to provide a fine dining experience appropriate to the guests, in accordance with the venue, atmosphere, season, etc. His choice of ingredients in the menu may be based on the budget available, the season, and the preferences if any stated by the employer. This allows him to decide what each course of the meal, each dish, should be.
Each dish on the menu, each recipe, is a tactic in the strategy. The dishes must work individually, of course, each of high enough quality, but they must also work together and build to that overall objective of a fine dining experience.
The steps to prepare each dish/course of the meal are the techniques. Whether it is chopping onions, or whipping up cream, the techniques are only really effective uses of time if they are necessary to the recipe, and a part of the overall meal.
In the same way, posting on a blog is a technique that is only effective within a tactic of social engagement and public relations, within a strategy of being able to leverage asserting expertise, seeding viral marketing, or rapid and frequent content marketing.
Just posting to a blog is not SEO, even if the blog post is packed with keywords. It doesn’t tie into a tactic or a strategy.
Adding a tactical reason for blog posting, to have the ability to quickly publish topical, less formal content, is still not good SEO. It doesn’t tie in to an SEO strategy.
The strategy is the part where you have decided that the client has the resources and ability to leverage a strength in ‘thought leadership’ to produce great blog posts. Alternatively, the Strategy might be to humanize a somewhat faceless and impersonal business, building trust and credibility as being run by ‘real people’ that customers can better identify with.
The strategy part is where one has decided to use blogging as a tactic because it is an efficient and effective means to achieve the objective, using resources that the client has or can easily gain. Lack of strategy would be putting up a blog because ‘its what everyone else is doing’ or ‘because that way we can sell you blogging services’.
5. Unrealistic Expectations for SEO
This certainly fits the bill of a common SEO mistake, and it is a big mistake to make. Some of the elements of having unrealistic expectations for search engine optimization are covered in the earlier 4 mistakes. Such as:
- thinking you can buy a cheap offshore SEO package for $99 and it will compete with the full-time, in-house SEO work of top companies in your market.
- thinking your IT guy can do it all, in his spare time, because ‘he knows about computer stuff’.
- thinking that if you just get 1,000 links, that is everything you ever need to worry about, and your site is sure to be a huge success.
What is really upsetting, however, is that it is not only clients that have unrealistic expectations for SEO. Lots of those awful companies that think they can be a professional SEO service because they have read the (often outdated) basic tips on blogs and forums are just as misguided and unrealistic.
Search engine optimization is not a new idea, and nor is it a ‘secret’ that hardly anyone has heard of. The days when just by using SEO you’d have an advantage against everyone else in your market are long gone. There simply is not a single market that I haven’t personally worked in, and I am just one of thousands of professional SEOs. I have worked with every kind of company from national banks to local jewellers, from global logistics companies to price comparison sites, and from markets with as much traffic and search volume as pornography, down to an independant inventor selling his own electronic fly swatter.
Whatever your market, you can be sure that you will be competing against other companies with an investment in SEO, and often with an ongoing investment.
Why having unrealistic expectations are a mistake.
Firstly, you are highly likely to waste your resources by investing in the wrong areas of SEO. No matter how good a guest-house offering bed and breakfast in London may be, it is never going to realistically hold a top position on Google for searches on “London accommodation”. The only truly good result for a broad and generalised search like that is an equally broad property guide that has everything from houses for sale through to hotels.
Any other result is always going to leave all those hundreds of scientists at Google working away at perfecting Google’s methods until it does rank such a broad guide for such a broad search, and not a small business guest-house. It is just as well, because obviously, of all the people who could search for ‘London accommodation’, only a very small fraction would be interested in just one guest-house The bounce rates would be high and the conversion rates would be pathetic.
Next, realise that everyone from the big hotel chains, through to the London newspapers, down to every estate agent, is competing for that market. And a lot of those will be either using SEO agencies, or will have a dedicated in-house SEO team working on their positions and placements.
Those people currently ranked top for such searches? They were not just lucky. They invested considerable time and resources to getting there.
To beat them, you have to beat them. To do more and better things to earn those placements than everything they did. And if the competition have a dedicated in-house team who spend their whole working week on improving the SEO performance of their sites, you hiring an SEO for one day a month is probably not going to cut it.
This does not mean that the big players with more resources win, of course. It simply means you have to be realistic in expecting to work harder and smarter. The smaller company has to apply its fewer resources to a smaller area, a focus, allowing them have more strength on a single point of focus. This is why SEO companies talk about niche marketing. However, that is taking us back into the Strategy point that I discussed above.
David can slay Goliath, but not in a straight wrestling match. David needs to accept the realities that he is smaller and can’t just punch Goliath’s lights out. David has to be smarter and more tactical. David needs a slingshot, and to focus all his power into firing his little stone to a critical point while Goliath is thinking himself at no risk.
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Author Nassim Taleb and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman discuss the intricacies of the financial crisis and its far-reaching influence.
Looking forward, they offer proposals to remedy the situation and prevent it from ever recurring.
John Brockman's career has encompassed the avant-garde art world, science, books, software, and the Internet. In the 1960s, he coined the word "Intermedia" and pioneered "Intermedia kinetic environments" in art, theatre, and commerce, while also consulting for clients, such as General Electric, Columbia Pictures, Scott Paper, The Pentagon, and the White House.
In 1973, he formed Brockman, Inc., the international literary and software agency specializing in serious nonfiction. He is the founder of the nonprofit Edge Foundation, Inc. and editor of Edge, the highly acclaimed website devoted to discussions of cutting edge science by many of the world's brilliant thinkers, the leaders of what he has termed "the third culture."
Daniel Kahneman pioneered the field of heuristics and biases with Amos Tversky. He won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on human decision-making.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an essayist, belletrist, and researcher.
Taleb is currently a researcher at London Business School. He the Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Fellow in Mathematics in Finance, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (since 1999), and research fellow, Wharton School Financial Institutions Center, and Chairman, Empirica LLC.
Taleb held senior trading positions with trading houses in New York and London and operated as a floor trader before founding Empirica LLC. His degrees include an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris. He is the author of Dynamic Hedging, Fooled by Randomness, and The Black Swan.
Taleb is spot on, but what i find strange is his complete dicarding of his past, he assumes this morale ground, without accepting his past follies, he was an exponent ov VAR himself, should at least say that it can work, in the absence rare events.
Taleb specialized in natural science and Kahneman in psychology are almost better expert for financial crisis than third one - economist. For me only these three aspects (human,physical, and financial capital) can solve this complexity. I do not see synthesis. How will synergy emerge without better understanding of wrong allocation in resources, too much in physical, and to little in human capital.
It appears to me that Taleb is analyzing an event that already had happened, kind of crying over spilled milk. Anyone can make the "should have" kind of comments for after the fact events. Funny thing is that he did not make a thundering loud announcement of what may happened to the world before. To me he is using fancy terms to explain a more simpler situation. First, I believe the models that the Phd's that wall street hired years ago are valid only and if only the financial instituations use due deligence to manage their money which is to only loan money to folks/companies who are qualified for the loan and can truly able to pay back, not just loan money to folks/companies who are just breathing which is what I saw a couple of years ago. These financial institutions are taking on excessive risk by themselves, not because of the models. The fact that the banks were loaning money without regard to the ability of folks/companies to pay back was what prevented me from investing more into real estate a few years back. The models that these smart guys put together I believe will put more financial resources into the world market and push everyone to a higher standard of living. It will allow the underdeveloped countries to have the option to have an easier method to draw the resources available to develop their country. Interesting point from Taleb but the bottom line is that I do not agree with his after the fact analysis.
Our economic power dive looks hopeless if we stay the course. Read Web of Debt (2008) by Ellen Hodgson Brown for insights into the money supply/banking fraud that has bankrupted the US and other economies around the world. We must nationalize the Federal Reserve Banks (private), begin to print our own debt free money (not Federal Reserve Notes loaned from the Federal Reserve System), require 100% reserve banking, recapitalized by United States Notes). Business cycles are manipulated by the Federal Reserve through interest rate, reserve and money supply manipulation. We could have a stable economy if we get the private banking system out of the control of our money supply. Similar discussions in the documentaries viewable on-line at www.themoneymasters.com .
Taleb is quite correct about how utterly anti-intellectual business programs are (other than schmoozing venues). I must however defend the minority of economist (20%+ from left & right) who have been fighting the very idiocies of neoclassical economics for several decades explicitly. We are considered 2nd rate, don't get good positions, & are nor even admitted into the "clubs."
Most of the points made here are intimately known to those of us who attend alternative/heterodox conferences & read each others' work. Bringing the philosophy & rhetoric of economics to the public's attention is a very important thing indeed & I applaud Taleb for his efforts.
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Annual Poison Prevention Poster Contest (2013 winning entry above)
The above billboard will beposted 85TH & BLONDO SSFE-SDIGITAL and 118TH & "I" SSFW-S -DIGITAL March 17th - March 23rd 2013
Each year the National Safety Council, Nebraska and the Nebraska Regional Poison Center provide a poster contest to educate, raise poison prevention awareness and increase knowledge of the poison center. If you ever suspect a poisoning call the poison center and they can inform you of the next best steps for you to take. They are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week at 1-800-222-1222 or in Omaha at 402-955-5555 . The winner above will be entered in the national contest, have their artwork displayed on billboards, as well as receive a pizza party for their home room class. Watch for the rules and entry forms on our web site each January-February.
The Overdose Epidemic
Poisoning – particularly from overdoses of over-the-counter, prescription and illicit drugs – has surpassed falls to become the nation’s second-leading cause of unintentional death, after motor-vehicle collisions. With an 80 percent increase from 2001 to 2006, poisoning is the fastest-rising cause of accidental death in the United States.
Unintentional Poisoning from Overdoses
While most people think of poisoning as a childhood issue, adults are overwhelmingly to blame for the steep recent increase in unintentional poisoning deaths.
Between 1993 and 2003, there was a 107 percent increase in the unintentional poisoning death rate from overdoses among Americans ages 20 to 64. In Washington state and the District of Columbia, overdoses have surpassed motor vehicle crashes to become the leading cause of unintentional death.
Drug-related poisonings are often due to overdose or misuse of opioid analgesics initially prescribed to treat chronic pain, such as oxycodone, methadone, hydrocodone, fentanyl and buprenorphine. While the greatest number of these deaths is occurring among white men ages 45 to 54 – up nearly 6,000 in a decade – poisoning death rates are increasing fastest among white women – up more than 300 percent.
The National Safety Council has issued a report on “Trends in Unintentional Poisoning Deaths and Death Rates” that details the steep increase in these deaths. Click here for the 2008 summary.
Call to Educate
A survey conducted in fall 2007 by the National Safety Council revealed that most Americans (81 percent) still believe that children are at greatest risk for poisoning. Less than 4 percent said adults, though data shows that less than one percent of fatal poisoning deaths in 2004 affected children (ages 0-5) and more than 96 percent involved adults (19 years and older).
The need for public education is clear. When asked to rank potential causes of poisoning in the Council’s fall 2007 survey, 53 percent of people surveyed said household chemicals were most commonly associated with fatal poisoning while just 34 percent named drugs and medicine.
Poisoning and Children
While children rarely die today from unintentional poisoning, non-fatal poisonings remain a childhood concern. About 50,000 children under the age of 4 are injured by unintentional poisonings every year.
This is testament to the success of national awareness efforts, such as poison prevention campaigns and child-resistant packaging.
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