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Why chocolate is good for you
Eat up (the good stuff, that is): A National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart study showed that people who ate chocolate five times per week were 49 percent less likely to have heart disease than those who ate no chocolate.
Sweethearts needn’t feel guilty about giving, or receiving chocolate this Valentine’s Day. According to University of Scranton chemistry professor Joe Vinson, Ph.D., chocolate’s healthy rep as being antioxidant-rich is growing.
“I keep looking for the bad,” says Vinson, who was among the first researchers to report that chocolate, especially dark chocolate, was good for your heart. “But I still can’t find any negatives to chocolate. Polyphenols are good for you and chocolate has lots of them.”
Polyphenols, a class of compounds present in plant foods that have antioxidant properties, reputedly scavenge free radicals that damage cells and make them more vulnerable to diseases like cancer.
But not all chocolate is created equal. It’s important to select pure chocolate and not candy bars, and make sure it has a high amount of cocoa solids. The higher the cocoa solids, the higher the antioxidant effect. In his research, Vinson found chocolate containing 70 percent cocoa solids had twice the polyphenols as 35 percent. Vinson advises choosing 70 percent or higher for health.
The consensus is that moderate dark chocolate consumption has health benefits. But how much is moderate?
“I can’t confirm an amount for health,” Vinson says. “In studies comparing low dose and high dose, there was no noticeable benefit from the higher dose. One study found that blood pressure benefited after one dark chocolate Hershey Kiss. It happened over a four-month period. So, possibly, a low dose of chocolate over time has the most beneficial effect.”
What about white?
White chocolate, made of cocoa butter and sugar, has no detectable polyphenols and no known health benefit — in fact, Vinson says it can make things worse: “Fat and sugar cause oxidative stress in the body.”
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A Short History of the War of 1812
Northwestern Ohio and Southwestern Michigan were the locations of some of the most significant battles fought in what is sometimes referred to as "The Second American Revolution."
The War of 1812 was primarily fought between the British, along with their Native American allies, and the Americans and their allies. The war pitted the relatively new 36 year old nation against another some 800 years old historically recognized as a potent world power.
There were multiple causes behind the War of 1812. Some historians claim that Jefferson's acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 planted the seed of westward expansionism in settlers bringing them into direct conflict with Indian tribes residing there. The Battle of Tippecanoe occurred in November 1811 and though the American forces were able to defeat the Indians, Tecumseh and his followers made their way to Fort Malden in Canada enthusiastically welcomed by the British.
Impressment was the British practice of stopping ships on the "high seas" and taking American sailors, who the British still recognized as British subjects, from their vessels and forcing them into the British Navy.
This pirating of Americans led to the passage of the Embargo Act that prevented the United States from trading with any foreign countries.
The president's attempt of early isolationism was not enthusiastically accepted by merchants, thus leading to the passage of the Non-Intercourse Act allowing U.S. trade with any nation other than Great Britain and France .
War was declared in June 1812 and it within two months the American forces were reeling from stunning defeats. Fort Michilimackinac surrendered to British forces in July, but August would be even worse for the Americans.
Fort Dearborn , located on the Chicago River, was ordered evacuated and its residents transferred to Fort Wayne in August 1812. Despite the fact the fort was surrounded by Potawatamis, loyal to Tecumseh, and protest voiced, the unsuccessful escape cost the lives of 54 Americans, including 12 children.
Two days later, the Americans were shocked when news came of the surrender of Fort Detroit . Though militarily superior in numbers, General William Hull was duped into believing his forces were greatly outnumbered and that conflict was futile. Without consultation and the defenders firing a single shot in defense, Hull capitulated and gave up Fort Detroit .
January 1813 would prove disastrous to the Americans as well. With the fall of Detroit , the invasion of Canada was supplanted with the new task of winning back the Michigan Territory . Word reached Brigadier General James Winchester at the Maumee River Rapids, currently Perrysburg , Ohio , that the village of Frenchtown was being ransacked and held by the British and Indians. The general and troops, mostly Kentucky volunteers, set off in bitter cold and were able to dislodge a small British force, however fighting the elements and the enemy led to fatigue which would cost the soldiers and civilians dearly.
British forces and their Indian allies, under the command of Colonel Henry Proctor, attacked the American forces on January 22, 1813. Outmatched numerically and in weapons, Winchester reluctantly surrendered his entire command hoping to avoid unnecessary killing. Little did he know that early the following day the Massacre of the River Raisin would occur, etching it forever in the annals of military history.
Back to the War of 1812 Main Page
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Do you know what your computer is doing when you're not using it?
Your computer can be working for good when you aren't using it! Whether you're on the phone or have stepped away from your desk or you just have a whole lot more computer than you'll ever use, World Community Grid would love to use the extra processing power for good.
World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Public and non-profit organizations are able to use the grid for humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid.
The projects World Community Grid are currently supporting include The Clean Energy Project, Nutritious Rice for the World, Help Conquer Cancer, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Human Proteome Folding, and FightAIDS@Home.
Adding your computer to the grid is easy. Go to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org and register. You will be prompted to download and install a small program on your computer. You'll be on the grid after your next restart.
The program does include a screensaver that is pretty neat looking if you like screensavers. I don't. It was easily turned off.
I've been running the software for three days or so and haven't noticed any deterioration in speed or performance with my computer.
Join now and put the power of your computer to work for good.
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Here is another very simple submission coming your way and this time you will learn a very basic way to "draw a tree for kids", step by step. There really isn’t too much more I can say about trees because I’ve said so much already. Over time I have submitted all kinds of tutorials on all sorts of different trees. Even though there are a wide variety of tree lessons submitted on Dragoart, some of you young and novice artists still have complications when it comes to drawing a very simple tree. I think this tutorial will help you overcome your hurdles which will enable you to draw a tree perfectly. You can add some really pretty spring or summer flowers to the grounds bedding area, or you can choose to color some white stuff in and make the background a winter wonderland. Whatever you chose I’m sure it will be great. Have fun people, and remember to try out this submission that will show you "how to draw a tree for kids". I guarantee you won't regret that you did!
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Coffee & Greenwell Family Heritage
The Greenwell Farms legacy began in 1850 when Henry Nicholas Greenwell left England and first set foot on the fertile soil of rural Kona.
Together with his wife, Elizabeth Caroline, Henry spent the next forty years farming, ranching and perfecting his Kona Coffee, soon exporting it to Europe and the Americas. In 1873, the President of the Kaiser’s Exposition awarded the Greenwells a “Recognition Diploma” for their Kona Coffee at the World’s Fair in Vienna, Austria.
Modern Coffee Times
Today, Greenwell Farms is situated in the heart of the Kona Coffee growing region (see map) adjacent to the ancestral home of Henry and Elizabeth, which is now occupied by the Kona Historical Society and Museum.
Managed by the descendants of Henry and Elizabeth, Greenwell Farms has evolved into a multi faceted Agribusiness:
The farming operation is located on the same farmland once cultivated by the Greenwell Family in the 1800’s. Today Greenwell Farms employs modern farming practices to ensure consistent supply and the highest quality possible.
In addition to farming, the company purchases coffee cherry (just harvested) from over 300 farmers in the North and South Kona Regions. We operate our own pulping and drying facilities, dry mill and greenbean grading and storage facility.
A roasting plant is located on the farm to roast and package Greenwell Farms Coffee. The company ships green bean to the gourmet coffee industry around the world and over the years has established itself as the premiere source of Kona Coffee.
In Kona, the company provides custom milling, roasting and packaging for the Kona Coffee industry on the Big Island.
Our Farm Tour has become a very popular tourist stop along the Mamalahoa Highway.
From the growing, processing and roasting to the final cup, everything about the excellence that is Kona Coffee can be traced back to the high standards set so many years ago in 1850.
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Today is International Women's Day, a global celebration of the economic, political, and social achievements of women, and part of the greater celebration of Women's History Month. Women's History Month originated as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28, authorizing the President to declare the week beginning March 7, 1982 "Women's History Week." In 1987 Women's History Week was expanded to Women's History Month, and in each ensuing year Congress has passed resolutions authorizing the president to claim March as Women's History Month.
International Women's Day, however, began long before it was formally acknowledged by Congress. In the US, it began in 1908 and was originally known as International Working Women's Day. The inequality experienced by women led them to become more vocal in demanding change, and 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding better pay, shorter hours, and the right to vote (International Women's Day).
In the years since those women took to the streets, International Women's Day has become a global day of recognition and celebration throughout the world: "IWD is now an official holiday in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal (for women only), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia" (International Women's Day).
The UN theme for International Women's Day 2013 is "A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women," while International Women's Day 2013 has declared this year's theme to be "The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum." To find events marking International Women's Day and Women's History Month in your area and around the world, visit the International Women's Day website.
While gains in women's rights have certainly been made worldwide, there is still much work to be done: "The central moral challenge of our time is reaching a tipping point. Just as slavery was the defining struggle of the 19th century and totalitarianism of the 20th, the fight to end the oppression of women and girls worldwide defines our current century. Hidden in the overlapping problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality is the single most vital opportunity of our time — and women are seizing it. From Somaliland to Cambodia to Afghanistan, women's oppression is being confronted head on and real, meaningful solutions are being fashioned. Change is happening, and it’s happening now" (Half the Sky). Be a part of that change.
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WebPaws Online Games for Kids
“Games are Kid Tested and Parent Approved”
Game Overview: Fill in the blanks with the right type of word to make your own story.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain. It is currently published by Quill Pen Classics. Books like Huckleberry Finn are an integral part of language arts curriculum. This story follows a teenager by the name of Huckleberry Finn as he, and an escaped slave named Jim find adventure around every corner.
Although Huckleberry Finn is mischievous, lying and stealing on occasion, he values freedom. Despite the danger, Huckleberry Finn agrees to help Jim, the slave, escape to the North where he can be free.
Fill in the blanks with the right type of word to make your own story.
This Game has been played 906 times to date.
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Upon receiving notification in accordance with any related copyright organization or owner,
WebPaws.com will immediately disable and remove games in question.
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Since the incident in Newtown, Conn., the number of people wanting to become certified to carry handguns has tripled.
According to data, 8,100 people per month are now taking classes in Tennessee, many realizing the need to become more safety conscious.
“There is an old saying ‘It is not the gun, it is the person holding the gun.’ We must not bow to the pressure of the extremist by fearing guns. Our constitution gives us the right to own and use guns in appropriate ways. Proper gun training is important. I am pleased to join in this effort to teach gun safety and therefore make our homes, schools and streets safer,” Watson stated.
“Supporting the Second Amendment of the Constitution that gives an individual the right to possess a firearm is very important. I believe the law abiding citizens of the city of Benton and Polk County have the right to protect themselves and their families. Benton Police Department is now a state of Tennessee Certified Handgun Safety School with three certified handgun instructors, which will provide handgun permit training,” King said.
“I would like to thank the partnership of the Benton Police Department and the Cleveland Hunting Rifle & Pistol Club for providing the citizens with this training.”
The partnership has seen the need for more gun safety instruction and is making the training very affordable.
The only cost will be a range fee of $5. Those funds will go to the Cleveland Hunting Rifle & Pistol Club for maintenance.
For more information, contact 423-338-5733 or 423-339-0939.
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Mariano RajoyArticle Free Pass
Mariano Rajoy, in full Mariano Rajoy Brey (born March 27, 1955, Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Spanish politician who was elected prime minister of Spain in 2011.
Rajoy was raised in the Galicia region of northern Spain. He studied law at the University of Santiago de Compostela, receiving a degree in 1978. After briefly working as a land registrar, he embarked on a career in politics, being elected when 26 years old as a regional deputy for what would become the Popular Party (Partido Popular; PP). He served in local and regional government through most of the 1980s.
From 1996 Rajoy served in the PP government of Prime Minister José María Aznar, holding, successively, the posts of minister of public administration, minister of education and culture, and minister of the interior, and in 2003 Aznar handpicked Rajoy as the party’s new leader. The following year the conservative PP was expected to claim another victory in the general elections, but what was widely perceived as the government’s inadequate response to the Madrid train bombings, which occurred just days before the election, put a dent in the party’s support. Rajoy again failed to lead the PP to victory in 2008. But as the European sovereign debt crisis continued to escalate, the Popular Party ousted the reigning Socialists with a landslide victory in the 2011 election, winning the biggest parliamentary majority in nearly three decades.
A social conservative raised as a Roman Catholic, Rajoy was especially outspoken about curbing abortion rights and in his opposition to same-sex marriages. Nevertheless, during his tenure in the PP, he helped lead the party from the hard right to centre-right. Many hoped that Rajoy and the PP, which had, from the late 1990s, overseen the fiscal preparations necessary for Spain to adopt the euro, would help steer the country out of spiraling recession. He was sworn in as prime minister on December 21, 2011, and he pledged to implement a series of austerity measures that would reduce Spain’s deficit.
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© 2003-2008 www.almissa.com. All rights reserved.
The following are the types of pirates:
Initially hunter’s of cattle and pigs on the Island of what is now known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The Buccaneers got their name from the meaning of the French word "boucan" (which means barbecue), as they were frequently seen barbecuing their meat on grills (they learned this form of cooking from the Arawak Indians).
The buccaneers were driven out by the Spanish, and the persecuted hunters banded with groups of runaway slaves, deserters, and other’s who hated the Spanish and sought vengeance on their vessels. The word buccaneer soon became common, and by the XVII century was used to describe pirates and privateers who had bases in the West Indies.
The term refers to pirates or privateers who operated in the Mediterranean. The most recognized corsairs were from the Barbary Coast of North Africa (European crusaders named their Muslim enemies "Barbary Corsairs"). The "Corsairs of Almissa" operated in the Adriatic Sea (XII and XIII century).
These corsairs were authorized by their governments to prey upon the shipping lanes of Christian countries. The Maltese Corsairs led the fight against the Turks, being led by the Knights of St. John. The Maltese Corsairs initially fought for religion, but after a while the rewards of piracy grew to greater appeal. Soon the Maltese Corsairs were full-fledged pirates, with no interest in religious ideals.
A privateer was a pirate who by commission or letter of marque from the government was authorized to seize or destroy a merchant vessel of another nation. The privateer was used as a cheap means of weakening the enemy by frequenting shipping routes (avoiding the costs related to the maintenance and creation of a navy).
In theory no Privateer with a letter of marque could be charged with piracy, since it was recognized by international law. However, it was not uncommon for privateers to be charged and prosecuted for piracy by hostile nations. All occurrences of vessels captured by privateers had to be brought before an Admiralty Court where they were tried to ensure that their plunder was legal game.
History of Piracy
The history of piracy dates back more than 3000 years, but its accurate account depends on the actual meaning of the word ‘pirate’. In English, the word piracy has many different meanings and its usage is still relatively new. Today, some uses of the word have no particular meaning at all. A meaning was first ascribed to the word piracy sometime before the XVII century. It appears that the word pirate (peirato) was first used in about 140 B.C. by the Roman historian Polybius. The Greek historian Plutarch, writing in about 100 A.D., gave the oldest clear definition of piracy. He described pirates as those who attack without legal authority not only ships, but also maritime cities. Piracy was described for the first time, among others, in Homer's "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". For a great many years there remained no unambiguous definition of piracy. Norse riders of the IX and XI century A.D. were not considered pirates but rather, were called "Danes" or "Vikings". Another popular meaning of the word in medieval England was "sea thieves". The meaning of the word pirate most closely tied to the contemporary was established in the XVIII century. This definition dubbed pirates "outlaws" whom even persons who were not soldiers could kill. The first application of international law actually involved anti-pirate legislation. This is due to the fact that most pirate acts were committed outside the borders of any country.
Sometimes governments gave rights to the pirates to represent them in their wars. The most popular form was to give a license to a private sailor to attack enemy shipping on behalf of a specific king – Privateer. Very often a privateer when caught by the enemy was tried as an outlaw notwithstanding the license. Below we tried to outline a selective history of piracy, selective and arbitrary because there is so much that can be said about piracy and it is impossible to tell all. We hope that even this brief introduction will show the spirit and truth about the piracy the way we see it.
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Steve Benen relates a little story from Massey Energy’s murky past that could stand as the dictionary definition of the word “impunity”:
Ten years ago, the Big Branch Refuse Impoundment, a giant coal-waste reservoir owned by Massey in Inez, Kentucky, sprung a leak that flooded nearby waterways with so much sludge that it was declared the largest environmental catastrophe in the history of the Southeastern United States — bigger, in fact, than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
He quotes from a five-year old investigative report by the Washington Monthly:
On Oct. 11, 2000, in Inez, Ky., a town of 500 in the heart of the state’s coal fields, a coal-waste reservoir the size of 306 Olympic-size swimming pools sprang a leak. Within six hours, 300 million gallons of thick sludge had flooded out of the Big Branch Refuse Impoundment, a hilltop facility owned by Martin County Coal, and into two tributaries of the Big Sandy River, which courses along the Kentucky-West Virginia border before emptying into the Ohio River.
The gooey mixture of black water and coal tailings traveled downstream through Coldwater and Wolf creeks, and later through the river’s main stem, Tug Fork. Ten days later, an inky plume appeared in the Ohio River. On its 75-mile path of destruction, the sludge obliterated wildlife, killed 1.6 million fish, ransacked property, washed away roads and bridges, and contaminated the water systems of 27,623 people. Incredibly, no lives were lost. Even so, the EPA declared the spill the largest environmental catastrophe in the history of the southeastern United States. In fact, the Inez disaster was almost 30 times larger than the infamous Exxon Valdez tanker spill, which dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
The company that owned the waste impoundment, a subsidiary of Massey Energy, the fourth largest coal producer in America, claimed that the flood was caused by an “act of God.” Jack Spadaro, superintendent of the National Mine Health and Safety Academy, a training facility for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) based in Beckley, W. Va., was part of the team assembled by MSHA to investigate. Working with eight colleagues from MSHA, an arm of the Department of Labor that regulates the coal industry, Spadaro began interviewing engineers, miners, and mine company officials to determine what had caused the impoundment to break. The investigation, which began on the eve of the 2000 presidential election, had within a month begun to collect evidence that Spadaro’s team believed could prove negligence on the part of Martin County Coal.
So what happened? Well, what do you think? Very early in the investigation, it became the time of Bush. And that was pretty much the end of the investigation. Back to Steve Benen:
The evidence was never published — the Bush administration, the beneficiary of generous support from Massey CEO Don Blankenship, intervened to quash the investigation.
And, poof, just like that, Massey Energy walked away from what Bush’s own EPA had declared to be “the largest environmental catastrophe in the history of the southeastern United States.” Just walked away from it, without cost or consequence.
Can you imagine Exxon being able to quietly buy its way out of the Exxon Valdez disaster? (And who was president at the time? Daddy-Bush. So toppling Saddam Hussein wasn’t the only time Georgie Porgie showed us that he could pull off what his Daddy couldn’t.)
Is it too much of a stretch to wonder if the 25 people who died in the Upper Big Branch mine near Whitesville, West Virginia on Monday would still be alive if George Bush hadn’t been so eager to sell his political virtue, if Don Blankenship had learned ten years ago that corporate negligence can carry a hefty price tag?
Is it too late for Blankenship to be taught this lesson?
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It should surprise few that most young Americans are either socially liberal or fiscally liberal. Yet it is not clear that a majority is both socially and fiscally liberal. Nevertheless, even fiscally conservative millennials voted Democratic in 2012.
According to a September 2012 poll, 59 percent of young Americans favored legalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use, compared to 45 percent among Americans over 30. A similar percentage of millennials thought “we need a strong government to handle today’s complex economic problems” while 41 percent believe “people would be better able to handle today’s problems within a free market with less government involvement.” One might quickly conclude that nearly two-thirds of the millennial generation are liberal Democrats, at least on these issues. However, the data reveals a more nuanced story.
Instead, only 28 percent of millennials want to both legalize pot and strengthen government. Instead, 30 percent want to legalize pot and prefer free markets to a strong central government. Another 29 percent of young Americans want a strong central government but don’t want to legalize marijuana. Another way to think of this is that 50 percent of young Americans desiring drug reform also prefer free markets, and half of millennials who prefer strong government also oppose marijuana legalization. Only nine percent preferred free markets and wanted to ban drugs, a sample size too small to deeply evaluate.
These millennial groups vary demographically. Those who gave a fiscally conservative and socially liberal response to the aforementioned questions are slightly above average income for their age cohort and have significantly higher expectations of upward income mobility than their peers. They are also far more likely to not identify with a religion and never attend church, and are the least likely to say they planned to “definitely vote” in the 2012 presidential election.
Most strikingly, a plurality (48 percent) of these fiscally conservative socially liberal millennials planned to vote for Obama, compared to 38 percent who planned to vote for Romney. However, including Gary Johnson as a potential third party candidate left Obama’s numbers fairly unchanged, but brought Romney’s numbers to 29% of these young libertarians as 17 percent said they’d vote for Gary Johnson.
Not surprisingly, 73 percent of liberal millennials said they planned to vote for Obama, as did 58 percent of millennials who prefer a strong government but want to keep pot banned. Thus, young libertarians were less likely to vote for Obama than their peers, but still a clear plurality intended to do so.
Liberal millennials differed from their peers in that they are significantly less likely to expect income mobility for themselves, but had about average income compared to other millennials. In fact, even though communitarian-leaning millennials had significantly lower income they had higher income mobility prospects than liberal millennials.
Obama’s capturing of young fiscal conservatives explains in part how Obama obtained 60 percent of the millennial vote on Election Day. Young Americans opted for Obama over Romney by 23 points. Obama’s success among America’s millennial generation is not entirely due to its liberal constituency, but also its growing libertarian counterpart.
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The cemetery includes several Masonic features, including a massive marble mausoleum.
The mausoleum has two levels. At the entrance, on the second level is the Temple meeting room.
The Lodge room contains many symbols and features reprentative of the Shriners, Masons, Scottish Rite, and Eastern Star. The meeting room is topped by a stepped pyramid ceiling with a skylight that is not visible externally from the ground.
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The primary mission of University Health Center is to provide outpatient medical care to all enrolled students so they will remain healthy and succeed academically at Montclair State University. We offer comprehensive, high quality care in the same manner as most outside health care providers and invite you to peruse our website to learn more about our services. It will be quite evident we are not the school nurse anymore!
Below are three commonly asked questions and a list of suggestions of ways in which our department can assist faculty and staff during the academic year. Please feel free to contact us at any time either by calling our office at 973-655-4361 or sending an e-mail to email@example.com.
What do I do if there is a medical emergency?
If there is a medical emergency in your classroom or anywhere on campus, call University Police at 973-655-5222. An ambulance will be dispatched to your location. If you are off campus, always call 911.
What do I do if a student confides that he/she has been sexually assaulted?
The Montclair State University Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) offers comprehensive, victim centered services to our students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. What is important in assisting sexual assault victims is to ensure their safety and assist them in getting help and support. This can be done by contacting University Police at 973-655-5222 or UHC at 973-655-4361. Neither of these actions requires that a police report be filed by the victim. The details of available services offered by MSU SART can be found at www.montclair.edu/sarts.
What do I do during a public health emergency?
The University Health Center has significant expertise in the area of public health and disaster emergencies and continuously monitors potential and current incidents through state and national communication systems. UHC provides ongoing medical advisement to Montclair State University administration during such emergencies and assists in creating procedures that will protect the health and wellbeing of our campus community.
During any type of campus or community outbreak we recommend that all faculty, staff and students:
- Monitor the University and University Health Center Web pages for the most current information and notifications at www.montclair.edu/university-health-center/ and www.montclair.edu,
- Check your Montclair State University e-mail account daily for updates,
- Sign up for the MSU Alert broadcast system at https://www.getrave.com/login/montclair.Adhere to all recommended and required procedures.
There are many opportunities in which UHC can assist faculty and staff: The following are just a few of the possibilities:
- Presentations on health and medical topics including preventive care, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, sexual assault, public health, and disaster medicine,
- Consultation for concerns regarding a student or staff experiencing physical symptoms of an illness,
- Collaboration on health focused special events,
- Infectious disease and public health consultation,
- Provision of yearly influenza vaccinations and other immunizations during public health emergencies.
The University Health Center looks forward to working together with faculty and staff to ensure the success, safety, and wellbeing of our community and we encourage you to contact us whenever there is a need for our services.
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Julia Roberts Goad
WILLIAMSON — “Helping People. Improving Communities. Changing Lives.” The mission statement of Coalfield Community Action Partnership (CCAP) was front and center when the agency dedicated its new central office building in West Williamson Tuesday.
The new location is a former showroom and garage of Moore’s Autogroup.
Coalfield CAP is one of the 16 Community Action Agencies in the state of West Virginia, a private non-profit corporation that serves residents of Southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. They offer a variety of services and programs including Head Start, Community Services Block Grant, weatherization, personal care, assistance to seniors, and other services,
Opened in 1965, the agency provides comprehensive services to economically disadvantaged children, families, and the elderly and to enhance their quality of life by empowering them to become and remain self-sufficient. The agency was created under the administration of Lyndon Johnson as apart of his War on Poverty and has evolved into one of the largest social service organizations in the area. The agency operates five major federal and state grants along with some smaller programs.
Governed by a 12-member Board of Directors, Coalfield CAP employs 244 people. The agency’s Williamson office now provides services for seven West Virginia counties and two Kentucky counties.
CCAP’s Headstart serves children and families in McDowell and Mingo counties, with 46 classrooms. Head Start’s client population is primarily economically disadvantaged children 3-5 years old, with 622 children enrolled, and another 134 on a waiting list.
Some of the programs CCAP operates include Family Alzheimer’s In Home Respite (FAIR), which provides in home respite care for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia, the Lighthouse Program,assists seniors who have functional and medical needs in their homes, personal care services, which provides personal hygiene, physical assistance, feeding, light housekeeping, shopping and other services for those with medical issues, the VA Community Care Program, which provides in home services to disabled veterans and the TBI Waiver Program, which provides services that enable individuals to live at home rather than receiving nursing facility care. Their Weatherization Program, which is an energy saving program, currently serves Boone, Clay, Kanawha and Mingo counties, and is currently projected to weatherize 234 homes.
CCAP also partners with WVU Extension office and the Board of Education to administer Energy Express, is an 8-week summer reading and nutrition program for Mingo County youth entering first through sixth grade. Energy Express currently serves 232 participants.
A Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) has also awarded to CCAP.
The purpose of the CSBG program is to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities and to empower low-income families to become self-sufficient.
CCAP uses these funds to assist some of our separately funded programs as well as developed specifically with CSBG funds, such as providing emergency assistance for clothing and medication. Under the CSBG, staff also provides information and referral services by providing residents with current information about available resources and services provided by other entities throughout our service area.
Coalfield CAP asks anyone with questions about their new location or their programs to call 304 235-1701 or visit coalfieldcap.org.
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|When Jesus sensed disbelief on their part, he said, “Who will be my helpers to Allah?” The disciples said, “We are Allah's helpers. We believe in Allah. Bear witness that we are Muslims.” “Our Lord! We believe in what You have revealed, and we follow the Messenger. Then write us down among those who bear witness.” THEY [UNBELIEVERS] PLOTTED AND ALLAH PLOTTED. BUT ALLAH IS THE BEST OF PLOTTERS. (Surah Al 'Imran, 52-54)|
In some people’s opinion, Allah took back the soul of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) before the unbelievers could reach him and the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) died. But in the relevant verses of the Qur’an Allah clearly shows that this claim is untrue.
In addition, this logic is a very false one. We can set the position out with an example: Let us imagine that three people plan to kill an enemy. Let them plan to ambush and kill him. And let us assume that the person they were planning to kill died of a heart attack before he even got to the site of the ambush. In that event, the plotters will think they have achieved their aim and will rejoice accordingly.
Or let us imagine someone who goes to the home of an enemy intending to kill him. Then let us imagine that during the struggle the person intended to be killed falls off the balcony and is killed, rather than dying from a blow from his assailant. The death of that person will mean that his attacker achieved his purpose. One can think of the position of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) in similar terms. The unbelievers set a trap for the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). The aim of the plot was the Prophet’s (pbuh) death. But Allah has revealed that the plot against the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) would be thwarted. Had the death of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) come about in any way, that would mean that events worked out in the way the unbelievers wanted, and that is impossible. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) did not die in any manner, and he was not killed. Had such a thing happened, it would have been revealed in the Qur’an. The fact is that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was raised into the Presence of Allah. By Allah’s command, he will then return to Earth and cause the moral values of the true faith to rule the world. And the death of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will take place after he has returned to Earth and lived on it for a while.
Some people, on the other hand, suggest that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was protected against the unbelievers’ plot but died after living for a while longer. Not only is this claim based on no logic at all, it also raises a number of unanswerable questions. These people cannot provide any logical answers to these questions. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) suddenly disappeared, in the time he was living in and with Allah’s willing, and nobody saw or spoke to him again. This is an extraordinary state of affairs. If, as these people maintain, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) had lived for a while longer, then there would have been witnesses who knew him and who saw and spoke to him. But there is no information to that effect. It is obviously impossible for him to have lived on without mingling with the public and without speaking or preaching to a single person.
One must not forget that the information and statements about the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) in the Qur’an are not revealed in the context of any other prophet. The word “al-tawaffi” is not used to describe the death of any other prophet. Nowhere does Allah say that any other prophet was taught the three Divine books, “... the Book and Wisdom, the Torah and the Gospel...” (Surat al-Mai’da, 110). Nowhere does He say of any other prophet, “He is a Sign of the Hour" (Surat az-Zukhruf, 61). No other prophet is described as being raised up, in the sense of the Prophet Jesus’ (pbuh) ascending. No other prophet is described as making his followers victorious until the Day of Judgment. No other prophet is described in terms of there being no-one left, by the time of his death, who does not believe in him. These are all significant evidence that Allah has ordained a special destiny for the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and that, in line with that destiny, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is alive in His presence and will return to Earth.
In many verses Allah reveals that the unbelievers would never achieve their goal and that their failure is a requirement of His Divine plan. Some of these verses are given below:
They concocted their plots, but their plots were with Allah, even if they were such as to make the mountains vanish. (Surah Ibrahim, 46)
… Allah always confounds the schemes of the unbelievers. (Surat al-Anfal, 18)
Allah will defend those who believe. Allah does not love any thankless traitor. (Surat al-Hajj, 38)
They are hatching a plot. I too am hatching a plot. So bear with the unbelievers—bear with them for a while. (Surat at-Tariq, 15-17)
1. THEY CERTAINLY DID NOT KILL HIM. ALLAH RAISED HIM UP TO HIMSELF
|.... BUT THEY CERTAINLY DID NOT KILL HIM. ON THE CONTRARY [BAL] ALLAH RAISED HIM UP TO HIMSELF. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (Surat an-Nisa’, 157-158)|
"... They certainly did not kill him," "on the contrary [bal] Allah raised him up to Himself…" refer to THE STATE OF BEING ALIVE, THE OPPOSITE OF THE STATE OF BEING DEAD.
Sheikh al-Islam Mustafa Sabri offered the following interpretation:
If the term “bal,” which appears in Surat an–Nisa': 158 and which I have translated as “on the contrary,” comes after a sentence expressing a negativity, then, according to the rules of Arabic linguistics, the sentence following it must mean the exact opposite of the one preceding it. The opposite of death is life. This is a requirement of the rules of linguistics. IF WE SAY THAT “THE PROPHET JESUS (PBUH) DIED IN THE NORMAL SENSE,” THEN WE ARE VIOLATING THAT RULE. In that case, the ascension following the expression “on the contrary” would not represent the opposite to the verbs of “killing” and “crucifying” in the negative sentence preceding it... (Sheikh al-Islam Mustafa Sabri, Mawqif al-'Aql, Beirut: 1992, 233)
Said Ramadan al-Buti interpreted the same subject in the following way:
For example, if an Arab says: “I am not hungry; on the contrary, I am lying on my side,” this is not a correct sentence. In the same way, there is a discrepancy between the components in the sentence: “Khalid did not die; on the contrary, he is a good man.” What would be correct is to say: “Khalid did not die; on the contrary, he is alive.” ... The term “bal” expresses a contradiction between the preceding and the following words. In other words, “bal” cancels out a previous statement. (Said Ramadan al-Buti, Islam Akaidi [Islamic Catechism], Istanbul: Mavde Publishings, 1996, 338)
2. IN VERSE 55 OF SURAH AL ‘IMRAN ALLAH REVEALS THAT HE WILL CLEANSE THE PROPHET JESUS (PBUH) OF THE UNBELIEVERS.
This cleansing came about with the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) being raised into the Presence of Allah, in body and soul, without dying or being killed:
|... I will take you back and raise you up to Me and PURIFY [MUTAHHIRUKA] YOU OF THOSE WHO ARE UNBELIEVERS. And I will place the people who follow you above those who are unbelievers until the Day of Resurrection... (Surah Al 'Imran, 55)|
The root of “mutahhiruka” is “tahara,” meaning “being clean.” According to Islamic scholars, the interpretation of the verse is: “I am taking you, raising you to Me, and REMOVING YOU FROM THIS ENVIRONMENT POLLUTED BY UNBELIEVERS AND SINNERS.” Thus, Allah purified the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) from the unbelievers, the unbelievers' plot to kill him was foiled and they failed to achieve their goal, in other words the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was raised alive to the Presence of Allah.
3. ALLAH IS ALMIGHTY, ALL-WISE
|... But they certainly did not kill him. Allah raised him to Himself. ALLAH IS ALMIGHTY, ALL-WISE. (Surat an-Nisa', 157-158)|
Another point is the expression: “Allah is Almighty, All-Wise” (Surat an-Nisa’, 158).
In their commentaries on this verse, Islamic scholars point out that THESE WORDS ARE STATED IN CASE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON REVEALING ALLAH’S MIGHT AND WISDOM.
For example, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi said:
Allah reveals at the end of the verse that “Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.” The intention behind almightiness here is the perfection and immaculate nature of His might, and that behind wisdom is the perfection and immaculate nature of His knowledge. In this way, Allah has indicated the raising of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and that no matter how impossible this may seem to a person, it is not impossible relative to His might and wisdom. A similar situation can be seen in the verse: “Glory be to Him, Who took His servant on a journey by night from the Sacred Mosque [Masjid al-Haram] to the Further Mosque [Masjid al-Aqsa]…” (Surat al-Isra’, 1). That is because no matter how much such a journey may be impossible relative to the power of the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), it is a most easy matter relative to the might of Allah.
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News.bytes Extra, issue 355
Anniversary of the Archeological Resource Protection Act
October 31, 1979
This week marks the 29th anniversary of the passage of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. The passage of ARPA was applauded by the archaeological community as it expands the protections provided by the Antiquities Act of 1906, by protecting archaeological resources and sites located on public and Indian lands from looting and destruction of archaeological resources.
The Act states that archaeological resources on public and Indian lands are "accessible and irreplaceable part of the Nation’s heritage" but that they are "increasingly endangered because of their commercial attractiveness" and therefore require greater protection than provided by the Antiquities Act.
ARPA was enacted "to secure, for the present and future benefit of the American people, the protection of archaeological resources and sites which are on public lands and Indian lands, and to foster increased cooperation and exchange of information between governmental authorities, the professional archaeological community, and private individuals…"
In the Act, "archaeological resources" are defined as "any material remains of past human life or activities which are of archaeological interest…" such as, pottery basketry, graves, rock paintings, weapons or even structures, or any portion of these items that is at least 100 years old. ARPA also asserts federal ownership of historical objects excavated on federal lands and calls for the preservation of such objects in a "suitable" institution. The Act also includes both a permitting and enforcement component. The enforcement provisions provide for the imposition of both criminal and civil penalties against violators of the act and increases the penalties that can be levied against violators with increased monetary fines and imprisonment.
In compliance with ARPA, the Bureau of Land Management issues Cultural Resource Use Permits and Field Use Authorizations to allow cultural resources studies for research, as well as paleontological research. When specific projects are proposed that involve ground disturbing work at a prehistoric archeological site, an ARPA Permit must be approved before work begins. Any individual or organization wanting to perform specific archeological or paleontological fieldwork, such as survey, excavation or site conservation on BLM land can do so, after obtaining receipt of their approved Cultural Resource Use Permit.
BLM Protection & Preservation Laws Site:
Text of the Archeological Resource Protection Act, October 31, 1979 (PDF file):
National Park Service site regarding ARPA
- K. Hoggan, 10/28/08
BLM-California News.bytes, issue 355
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About the Society of Antiquaries
The Society of Antiquaries of London is charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with ‘the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries’. It celebrated its Tercentenary in 2007.
The Society’s 2,900 Fellows include many distinguished archaeologists and art and architectural historians holding positions of responsibility across the cultural heritage. The Fellowship is international in its reach and its interests are inclusive of all aspects of the material past.
As a registered charity, the Society’s principal objectives are to foster public understanding of that heritage, to support research and communicate the results and to engage in the formulation of public policy on the care of our historic environment and cultural property. The Society of Antiquaries receives no direct support from public funds.
The Society’s library is the leading archaeological library in the UK and we encourage its use by researchers and students. The online catalogue is internationally available via the internet.
The Society operates a number of annual grant programmes for established researchers and for young archaeologists and art historians.
The Society’s publications - the Antiquaries Journal and Archaeologia - are international journals of record, used by students and scholars everywhere, as are the Society’s Research Reports, Occasional Papers and other publications. Our policy is to publish works of reference that will be in use for decades.
The Society runs an annual programme of weekly lectures – at which new research is presented to Fellows and other researchers and students – as well as conferences and seminars.
The Society’s premises are a national and international centre for antiquarian activity, made available for lectures, conferences, seminars and meetings to a wide range of allied bodies, including numerous voluntary bodies for whom Burlington House functions as their London base. The Society shares Burlington House with the Royal Academy of Arts and four other national Learned Societies – the Chemists, Geologists, Astronomers and Linnean - collectively forming a cultural campus in the heart of London. Together we organize a joint programme of events to promote public understanding of the heritage, the arts and the sciences and to explore the links between them.
The Society’s Registered Museum is one of the oldest in the world and our collections of antiquities, paintings, prints and manuscripts provide a resource for researchers around the world. The Society operates an active external loans programme, ensuring that the finest objects from our collections are accessible to museum and gallery visitors around the UK and abroad.
The country home of William Morris, Fellow and leader of the English Arts and Crafts movement, belongs to the Society, along with its contents and its estate. This historic Thames-side manor house welcomes a large number of visitors each year.
Through the William and Jane Morris Fund the Society makes small grants to churches for conservation purposes.
The Society uses the expertise of its Fellows to influence public opinion and to engage in the formulation of public policy on the preservation, management and wider understanding of the cultural heritage. It encourages informed debate and hosts regular public meetings on topical issues.
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Shipley takes its name from a Saxon word meaning 'the place of pasture'. It is the second largest parish in Sussex with an area just under 8000 acres and is mentioned in the Domesday book of 1087. William de Braose, a powerful supporter of William the Conqueror, was given the manor of Shipley and 40 other manors, including Knepp where he built the original castle, soon after the Battle of Hastings. He and his son participated in the Crusades and were great benefactors of the church. The son passed the estates at Shipley to his nephew, whose brother, Dean of Lincoln, gave them to the Knights Templar.
Shipley church is on of the oldest Norman churches in Sussex. It dates from the 12th century, contemporary with Chichester Cathedral, and was built by the Knights Templar on the site of a much earlier church.
Church details, together with baptism, marriage, monumental inscription & burial records can be accessed by clicking on the church name.
The OPC Database has no census returns for people residing in this parish yet.
1 individual in the OPC Database for the 1841 census.
7 individuals in the OPC Database for the 1851 census.
10 individuals in the OPC Database for the 1861 census.
13 individuals in the OPC Database for the 1871 census.
9 individuals in the OPC Database for the 1881 census.
21 individuals in the OPC Database for the 1891 census.
1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 census returns - look up service offered
The OPC has photocopies of parish inventories and tax returns (1807, 1826) and offers a look up service
The OPC database contains 66 poll register entries for people entitled to vote in this parish.
There are 169 protestation returns for this parish in the OPC database.
The OPC database contains 76 entries for people associated with this parish mentioned in Gazettes.
There are 44 images depicting this parish in the OPC database.
Roughwood Mill Album has images of Shipley Windmill (the fictional home of the hero of the BBC television series, Jonathan Creek)
The OPC database contains no postal directory entries for this parish.
1851, 1861, 1867 Post Office Directory - look up service offered
1882, 1911, 1930, 1938 Kelly's Directory - look up service offered
There is 1 book about this parish in the Sussex OPC Bibliography.
There are 8 articles about this parish in the OPC Sussex Archeaological Collections Index.
There is 1 person from this parish in the OPC Sussex Archeaological Society Members Index.
The OPC database contains no wills of people who lived in this parish.
The OPC database contains 1 will which mention this parish.
The OPC has various photocopies and transcripts of Shipley wills and offers a look up service
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Touched By Their Tears - A Kinnos Companion - Elman Edition
The soul of Tishah B'Av through stories and reflections
By Rabbi Yechiel Spero (Author)
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Our Sages tell us that those who sincerely mourn the Destruction will merit seeing the Temple rebuilt. How can we ensure that we are part of that special group?
During the Three Weeks and, especially, on Tishah B'Av, we mourn the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. Yet how many of us do this by rote, without truly feeling the pain? How can we tap into a true well of emotion for an event that took place thousands of years ago? And how can we use that mourning as an impetus to becoming better Jews?
In this fascinating and much-needed book, bestselling author Rabbi Yechiel Spero helps us understand the Temple's Destruction, and the proper Jewish response to it. Most of the Kinnos, the Lamentations traditionally said on Tishah B'Av, are explained and their message is illustrated by powerful true stories that bring them to vivid life. In Touched by Their Tears we learn how to mourn - and we learn how to hope.
In his bestselling Touched by a Story series, Rabbi Spero taught us the power of a great story. In Touched by a Prayer, he taught us the power of our tefillos. Now, in this unique book, he teaches us the power of our own tears. It is a lesson that will change the way we live, on Tishah B'Av and throughout the year.
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Jenn McNary, a mother of six from Saxtons River, Vt., is desperate.
Both her boys have Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but only her 10-year-old Max has access to a wonder drug that appears to be reversing the symptoms of this deadly disease.
His 13-year-old brother Austin is languishing in a wheelchair while Max has been able to take the drug eteplirsen through a highly successful clinical trial.
After 60 weeks on an IV infusion, Max was able to participate in a three-mile Halloween walk.
"It's the first time ever -- he's never been able to walk that far. He's always gone with a wheelchair, even as a toddler," said McNary, 32. "He actually doesn't look like a Duchenne kid at all. And his balance is great."
"People all over the world are calling it a miracle," she said of the drug.
Now, McNary has written petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to give accelerated approval of the medication, the fastest way to help Austin and other boys with the disease.
Both boys, whose last name is Leclair, have the same gene mutation that the drug targets and will eventually kill them. Austin was diagnosed at 3 and Max at 3 months.
McNary and her husband Craig are also raising four other healthy children in a second marriage.
There is no cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Until now, doctors have only been able to use steroids, which just temporarily delay the inevitable loss of muscle strength.
"My brother says he's doing it for me, that he's trying really hard," Austin told ABCNews.com in August. "That's why he wanted to do it."
Austin was not allowed to participate in the clinical trial because one of the inclusion criteria was that he be able to complete a six-minute walk.
"This has been a bitter-sweet journey for us," McNary wrote in a letter to the FDA this week. "As we watch Max get better, we also watch his older brother, Austin, 13, get worse. He suffers, silently, as his disease progresses."
Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects one in 3,500 male births, about 20,000 children in the United States and 300,000 worldwide, according to Cure Duchenne, one of three organizations that have funded the clinical trial.
The muscular disease strikes between the ages of 3 and 5 as boys progressively lose their ability to walk. Eventually, they are wheelchair bound, their upper body strength fails, and, like Austin, they eventually cannot raise their arms to feed themselves.
Later, their breathing is affected and they require tracheotomies and breathing assistance. Eventually, the heart and lungs fail.
Parents of children who were in the clinical trial of eteplirsen at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus are calling it a "wonder drug."
According to McNary, all 12 children in the double-blind study received "some benefit" from the drug. It has no known side effects.
"Even two boys who stopped walking before taking it have stronger upper bodies and their hearts are strong," she said. "They have progressed to stable."
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The Radical Republicans in Congress, headed by Thaddeus Stevens and Benjamin Wade, insisted on black suffrage and federal protection of the civil rights of blacks. They gained control of Reconstruction in 1867 and required the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of readmission for former Confederate states.
This federal agency operated and modernized the nation's railways to improve transportation related to the World War I war effort.
Raleigh was an English courtier who attempted an English settlement on Roanoke Island in 1587. The colony failed for lack of supplies.
Randolph, A. Philip
Randolph was an African American leader and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. In 1941 he threatened a march on Washington if black workers where not guaranteed equal employment opportunities. President Roosevelt responded with Executive Order 8802, prohibiting discrimination in hiring for plants with defense contracts.
Rappites, followers of George Rapp, were a communal group that settled in Pennsylvania in 1804. They were millennialists, they renounced marriage and sex, and they took every word of the Bible literally.
In the aftermath of the War of 1812, the United States and Britain negotiated several friendly agreements regarding the U.S.-Canadian border. This rapprochement (coming together) meant that for years no serious trouble would mar Anglo-American relations.
The process by which members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 submitted their proposed national constitution to specially elected state conventions for approval. This process bypassed existing state legislatures, many of which seemed reluctant to grant power to a new national government above them, yet avoided a direct popular referendum, which some members of the Constitutional Convention feared. This mechanism allowed those in favor of the new national constitution first to influence the voters, then to influence delegates to the special conventions. (2) The process by which amendments to the United States Constitution are accepted or rejected. Ratification of any amendment to the national constitution requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress and approval by three-fourths of the existing state legislatures. (3) The process by which individual states constitutions were approved or are amended. This process almost always involves direct public referenda.
Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "The Raven" (1845) was an enormously popular work that reflected the author's preoccupation with mystery, fright, and the occult.
Ray, James Earl
Ray pleaded guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. He was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison.
Reagan, a former governor of California, was elected president in 1980 and 1984. His administration was devoted to reducing the scope of federal activity, particularly in social welfare areas. It was also committed to lowering taxes and increasing the strength of America's armed forces.
"Reaganomics" was the label pinned on President Reagan's policies of tax cuts, reduced federal spending and regulation, and a tight-money policy.
Realism was a literary genre that emerged in the late nineteenth century. It was the product of industrialism, Darwinian evolution, and scientific empiricism. Realist novelists undertook the examination of complex social problems and were painstaking in their fashioning of multidimensional characters in real life situations.
In the cutthroat competition of late nineteenth-century railroading, some railroads increased the volume of freight they carried by giving shippers rebates--reduced rates for large shipments. It was a policy open to abuse.
The term recall refers to the process of removing an official from office by popular vote, usually after using petitions to call for such a vote.
When Spanish General Valeriano Weyler became governor of Cuba in 1896, he herded the rural population into "reconcentration" camps to prevent them from giving aid or recruits to the rebels fighting for Cuban independence from Spain.
During this long struggle (ending in 1492), the Spanish Christians reconquered the Iberian peninsula from Muslim occupiers, who first invaded in the eighth century.
During the Reconstruction era (1865-1877), the resolution of two major issues--the status of the former slaves and the terms of the Confederate states' readmission into the Union--dominated political debate.
The 1867 Reconstruction Acts divided the South into five military districts, each governed by a general. It required southern states to guarantee black suffrage, and it disfranchised many former Confederates. Southern states were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of their readmission to the Union.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
In 1932 President Hoover agreed to the creation of the RFC, a federal agency which would loan money to banks, railroads, and insurance companies in an effort to stimulate the depressed economy and save the entities from bankruptcy. These were loans, not gifts or grants, and they offered no direct relief to individuals.
This post-World War I public hysteria over Bolshevik influence in the United States was directed against labor activism, radical dissenters, and some ethnic groups.
The term Red-baiting refers to accusing a political opponent of sympathizing with or being "soft on" Communism.
Redeemers were Southern Democrats who wrested control of govenrments in the former Confederacy, often through electoral fraud and violence, from Republicans beginning in 1870.
Redemptioners were similar to indentured servants, except that redemptioners signed labor contracts in America rather than in Europe, as indentured servants did. Shipmasters sold redemptioners into servitude to recoup the cost of their passage if they could not pay the fare upon their arrival.
Redlining refers to refusing mortgage loans and insurance to properties in designated inner-city neighborhoods.
Ultra-conservative Thomas "Czar" Reed was a long-time Speaker of the House in the late nineteenth century. He ruled the House with an iron hand.
In the "Essex" case (1805) a British judge declared that U.S. ships could not circumvent the Rule of 1756 by using the reexport trade. To get around the Rule of 1756, U.S. merchants had been first shipping foreign goods to a U.S. port, then reexporting them to England and Europe as "neutral" goods.
A referendum is the submission of a law, proposed or already in effect, to a direct popular vote for approval or rejection.
The Reformation was the sixteenth-century movement to reform the Catholic Church that began with Martin Luther's critique of church practices in 1517. The Reformation ultimately led to the founding of a number of new Protestant Christian religious groups.
Regulators were vigilante groups active in the 1760s and 1770s in the western parts of North and South Carolina. The South Carolina Regulators attempted to rid the area of outlaws; the North Carolina Regulators sought to protect themselves against excessively high taxes and court costs. In both cases, westerners lacked sufficient representation in the legislature to obtain immediate redress of their grievances. The South Carolina government eventually made concessions; the North Carolina government suppressed its Regulator movement by force.
President Reagan appointed Rehnquist Chief Justice of the United States in 1986.
President Jackson viewed Indians as savages who were incapable of self-government. He pursued a policy of removing Indians from the path of westward settlement. By 1840 most eastern tribes had been relocated to lands west of the Mississippi River.
The Renaissance was the major cultural movement in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that began in the city-states of Italy and spread to other parts of the continent. Sharing a "rebirth" of interest in the classical civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, many artists of the period produced notable works in painting, sculpture, architecture, writing, and music.
In the Spanish colonies, repartimiento referred to the assignment of Indian workers to labor on public works projects.
Report on Manufacturers
In 1791 Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton issued a bold call for economic planning. His Report on Manufacturers called for tariffs and subsidies to encourage investment in American manufacturing. Congress rejected this proposal.
Report on Public Credit
n 1791 Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton recommended that Congress fund the national debt at par and assume the states' debts. He was trying to establish the financial credit of the new national government.
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 agreed that the United States should have a republican form of government drawing its authority from the people and remaining responsible to them. They agreed that ordinary citizens should share in the process of selecting those who were to make and execute the laws.
Republicanism was a complex, changing body of ideas, values, and assumptions, closely related to country ideology, that influenced American political behavior during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Derived from the political ideas of classical antiquity, Renaissance Europe, and early modern England, republicanism held that self-government by the citizens of a country, or their representatives, provided a more reliable foundation for the good society and individual freedom than rule by kings. The benefits of monarchy depended on the variable abilities of monarchs; the character of republican government depended on the virtue of the people. Republicanism therefore helped give the American Revolution a moral dimension. But the nature of republican virtue and the conditions favorable to it became sources of debate that influenced the writing of the state and federal constitutions as well as the development of political parties.
1) (Jeffersonian) One of the original two political parties, the Republican party was organized by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and generally stood for states' rights, an agrarian economy and the interests of farmers and planters over those of financial and commercial groups, strict construction, and friendship with France and support for the cause of the French Revolution.
2)The Republican Party organized in 1855 in response to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a party composed of northerners who opposed the territorial expansion of slavery. It also adopted most of the Whig's economic program. The party nominated John C. Fremont for president in 1856 and Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
Republican party (Jeffersonian)
One of the original two political parties, the Republican party was organized by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and generally stood for states' rights, an agrarian economy and the interests of farmers and planters over those of financial and commercial groups, strict construction, and friendship with France and support for the cause of the French Revolution.
The "Requerimiento" was a lengthy document read to New World Indians by conquistadors. It demanded that the Indians recognize the sovereignty of the Spanish monarch or face utter destruction.
Pope Leo's encyclical, "Rerum novarum," criticized the greedy excesses of capitalism, defended the right of labor to form unions, and stated the government's duty to care for the poor. The statement made the inner-city Catholic churches more conscious of their social mission.
Rescate referred to the procedure by which Spanish colonists would pay ransom to free Indians captured by rival natives. The rescued Indians then became workers in Spanish households.
Many senators had reservations about the wisdom of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. They wanted to modify the treaty to protect their own political interests and to assure American sovereignty in world affairs. They were particularly suspicious of the treaty's creation of a League of Nations.
This federal agency was established in 1935 to provide financial assistance and social services to displaced tenants and farm workers.
Revenue Act of 1935
This law established a more progressive tax system by setting graduated taxes on corporate income and increasing the top tax rates on personal income.
Rhode Island system
During the industrialization of the early nineteenth century, the Rhode Island system referred to the recruitment of entire families for employment in a factory.
right of deposit
The right of deposit--storing goods in Spanish New Orleans while awaiting ocean-going transportation to eastern and European markets--was vital to western settlers. Spain conceded the right in the Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney's Treaty) in 1795.
right of privacy
In 1965, the Supreme Court affirmed a personal right of privacy (freedom from certain public or governmental intrusion into one's affairs) in "Griswold v. Connecticut." The Court struck down a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives by married couples.
right of revolution
The Declaration of Independence justified the colonists' revolt against Britain by an appeal to the abstract right of a people to revolt against a tyrannical government.
Rockefeller, John D.
Rockefeller was an unusually skillful business organizer. He founded Standard Oil Company and the Standard Oil Trust, which dominated American oil refining. Like others of his ilk, he sought to stabilize his industry, reduce competition, and maximize profits.
Roe v. Wade
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in "Roe v. Wade" that women had a constitutional right to have an abortion during the first three months (trimester) of pregnancy and established guidelines for abortion in the second and third trimesters. The decision provoked a vigorous "right-to-life" movement that opposed abortion.
Early nineteenth-century literary romantics believed that change and growth were the essence of life, for individuals and for institutions. They valued feeling and intuition over reason and pure thought, and they stressed the differences between individuals, rather than their similarities.
Romer v. Evans
This U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1996 overturned an antigay measured adopted in Colorado.
German General Erwin Rommel commanded the elite Afrika Korps in North Africa in World War II. He had great expertise in armored warfare (tanks) and was nicknamed "the desert fox."
I n 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt announced as a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, that the United States had a right to intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American nations should those nations become unstable. Through it, the United States assumed the role of a hemispheric policeman.
This label identifies the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the transformation they effected on government. His New Deal vastly expanded the power and responsibility of the federal government such that the widespread suffering of another Great Depression is not likely to be repeated.
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president, was a force for civil rights and a spokeswoman for better treatment and equal employment opportunities for African Americans and women in the depression years of the 1930s.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Former New York's governor Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. He organized the New Deal's broadening of government authority to deal with the Great Depression and lead the nation throughout World War II.
President Theodore Roosevelt was the leader of national progressivism at the turn of the twentieth century. He supported regulation of big business, conservation of natural resources, and a "square deal" for ordinary people. He greatly expanded the role and authority of the presidency in the national government.
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
In the early 1950s, the Rosenbergs were accused of espionage and supplying atomic-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. They were tried, convicted, and executed.
The Jacksonian principle of rotation-in-office rationalized the dismissal of experienced government employees from their jobs by arguing that no one had any intrinsic right to hold an appointed office; that, if left in office too long, they would become indifferent toward public interests and tend toward incompetence and corruption.
The Rough Riders were Colonel Teddy Roosevelt's volunteer unit in the Cuban theater of the Spanish-American War. They charged up the San Juan heights near Santiago to help capture that city.
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company was an English joint-stock company founded in 1672 and devoted to the slave trade. It made slaves more readily available to English colonists in America.
Rule of 1756
The Rule of 1756 was a British maritime regulation stating that neutral nations could not trade in wartime with ports normally closed to them by mercantilistic restriction in time of peace. John Jay accepted this British definition of America's neutral rights in the Jay Treaty of 1795.
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
This federal agency transformed American rural life by making electricity available in areas that private companies had refused to service.
Rural free delivery
RFD refers to the government delivery of mail directly to farmsteads rather than merely to village post offices to which rural residents would than have to travel to retrieve their mail.
In the 1817 Rush-Bagot Agreement the United States and Britain agreed to limit naval forces on the Great Lakes. Eventually, as an outgrowth of this decision, the entire border was demilitarized, a remarkable achievement.
The term rustbelt referred to the states of the Midwest and Northeast affected adversely by the decline of manufacturing in the 1970s and 1980s; named for the image of machinery rusting in abandoned factories.
Ruth was baseball's most outstanding star in the 1920s. He changed the game from a pitcher's duel to a hitter's game. He set a record for home runs in a season that stood for thirty-five years.
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Yesterday I discussed whether we’re being drawn toward or away from others. I know that my diagram wasn’t exactly theologically correct by placing God (and faith) at one end (opposite from work and from others). The exercise was meant to help us reflect on where we were being drawn, nothing more. The exercise helps us identify our direction – because we don’t naturally drift toward better behavior … unless we’re intentional. I don’t stay in physical shape unless I exercise. I don’t grow spiritually without spending time at it. My love for Kelly doesn’t grow unless we spend time together – and when we’re together we make it quality time. So, if we want to improve relationally, we need to do better at connecting.
So, after recognizing a new love for work and productivity that drew me away from others, I’ve worked to take five intentional steps toward others. Sounds bad, doesn’t it? But, it’s part of the “drift” that can push us if we’re not attentive. read more…
American culture champions the ‘rugged individual,’ a frontier-induced image of the one who can pull himself/herself up by the bootstraps and effect his/her future. In essence, these folks can “make it happen.” The old cowboy movies reinforced this ideal and we see this philosophy enacted in our culture. I see it in my life. I see it in others. I’m not trying to be a critic, just reflecting on my life and looking at which direction I’m gravitating. I’m not even sure how to measure it, but I think the exercise may be worth doing. Try this:
- Get a sheet of paper and draw a large triangle on it.
- Write “WORK” at one corner, “OTHERS” at another, and “GOD” at the final corner. read more…
Most Americans want to write a book, about 80% of them in fact, a stat offset by the fact that over half of Americans never read a book in a given year. Why the interest in writing a book? Do we all have a story to tell? Advice to give? We must. Ask any literary agent what it’s like when someone (even taxi cab drivers) find out their work – they get bombarded with pitches, attempts to sell and idea for publication.
Ever since I wrote “Bicycle Cops” in my Senior English Honors class, I always thought it’d be great to be a paperback writer. I still walk in bookstores in airports and wonder what it’d be like to have a paperback on the shelves. So, to all of you (us) who have aspirations of being a published author of a paperback story, and are actually spending part of this day editing or writing, and to commemorate the “debut” of Beatles music on iTunes, I offer this rare promo video of the old Beatles song.
We Americans celebrate Thanksgiving this week, a holiday that has become more meaningful to me each year. This week I fought discontentedness by listing the many people (mostly ) and elements for which I’m thankful. The process was moving, and I was a bit choked up as I looked over the people to whom I feel I owe so much and would love to regale you with stories regarding their graciousness and kindness. So, on this day of Thanksgiving and prayer, I’m thankful for:
- The constant grace and presence of Jesus Christ in my life. In the midst of a part of the world that seems increasingly angry with those who profess a Christian faith, my hope and prayer is that they could see Christ’s love and grace. And see it in my life.
- Kelly, who remains the love of my life in fresh ways every year. Few will ever know how remarkable she is every day, but our three teenagers do. Her character is exemplary and she is my best friend.
- For the three amazing people Kel and I get to call our “teens” – Lauren, Jayson, and Sean. We marvel at the wonderfully mature steps we see each of them take.
- For my family. I am grateful for the close relationship I have with my parents and sister. I know it’s not common and I’m thankful for a family heritage of faith, education, and nurture.
- I’m thankful for an “in-law” family that has become dear to me/us as well. What a blessing family is!
- Our small group that of the last nine years – Kip and Tanya, Chad and Tammi, Don and Christal, and Derek and Deb – each are so dear to us and have become a “family of families” for us.
- The Bethel College (Indiana) faculty and staff, especially my colleagues in the department of Religion and Philosophy. There are good people at Bethel and I’m thankful to be a small part of that vibrant community.
- Jay Howver and Holly Root. I’m awestruck at the generosity of these two. They have separately chosen to invest in me and my ideas/words, helping them become books that can make a difference.
- My friends and colleagues around the world who share a passion for Christian leadership and/or youth ministry. What a rich journey it is, full of its share of difficulties, but the joyful moments are without equal – and last into eternity.
Yesterday I reflected on our [American] culture’s fascination with conferences. There seems to be more conferences for Christian youth groups to attend than ever before. Research I’ve done with youth groups show that these are not as significant for youth when compared to a more “rustic” retreat or a short-term service project/mission trip. Some conferences are more like “camps” in that they are held at a Christian colleges (no fear of hotel security or inappropriate movies in the rooms), have lower costs, and are usually driven by a denomination or group of youth pastors.
It’s rare that a camp or conference can reinvent itself, but that’s what’s going on with one of the most innovative conferences I’ve seen in a long time (since we revamped DCLA in the early 1990s) – CONVERGE 2011. The conference won’t get more than 500 students in attendance this year, but it’s format may send ripple waves throughout “conferencedom” due to its innovative multimedia and interactive approach. I will be serving as one of the four facilitator/speakers for the event and as I’ve shared the format with other leaders of major conferences, they’re more than a little intrigued. We’re all trying to innovate and reinvigorate tired formats (more on this another day).
I just completed a three-week series with the good folks at Nappanee Missionary Church. It was a great format – a roundtable discussion with the pastors on the various topics. We had so much good stuff to discuss that the challenge was getting it all done in the one hour time slot.
For the first session, we touched on “Engaging Culture” and started with the fundamental ways that people view culture. We then moved in week two to a specific focus on youth, and then finished the series looking at ten fundamental shifts in our society today. The latter was the most touchy, but my favorite, because we looked past behavioral and temporal issues (e.g. teen risk behavior) and exposed the underlying changes taking place – from globalization to 24/7 technology to dietary issues.
Would you say we have a plethora of conferences? Seems like everywhere I turn I run into another conference and every weekend has a conference that applies to one of the fields in which I work. I am not sure why there are so many, nor do I have it figured what the rise indicates about current culture. Maybe it’s just the rise of social media and its inexpensive promotion of regional conferences. I do know that once the conferences begin, Twitter hashtags provide a play-by-play stream of content, notable speakers, and significant events from these conferences. And, yes, I would say it seems like we do have a plethora of them.
I work in four different fields and each have a long list of conferences available year ‘round. In the Christian leadership world it seems that every weekend boasts a conference with a cool name – Catalyst, And, or Innovate. The social media world has and conferences and conferences for youth (e.g. Converge, Merge) seem more numerous than the stars. Writers can attend regional genre conferences (Music City Romance Writers of America is meeting nearby as I write this) as well as national genre conferences (e.g. Thrillerfest, American Christian Fiction Writers) and conferences to help aspiring writers (e.g. Backspace Conference).
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Nonfiction Monday: Wheels of Change: How women rode the bicycle to freedom by Sue Macy
The book includes excerpts from newspapers and magazines of the day, photographs, advertising, maps, quotes, and more. There is also a timeline, resources, and index, and sources of quotes and illustrations.
ISBN: 9781426307621; Published January 2011 by National Geographic; Borrowed from the library
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[TAG] Debian Installation
thomas.adam22 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 22:56:48 MSD 2006
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:49:09 +0100 Neil Youngman <ny at youngman.org.uk>
> The default install hung, so I went for the "expert" install and got
> an installation on the SATA disk. It's definitely there, I can see
> it, but I can't boot from it.
Yes -- you'd need a 2.6 kernel at least, I'd have said. This is what
the "expert" install allows for.
> It's on /dev/sda5, and grub loads the kernel up, but the kernel
> panics because as far as it's concerned /dev/sda5 doesn't exist. I
> can only assume that the kernel it has installed doesn't have the
> right module (SiI3112) installed for the SATA controller.
That's an initrd issue then -- since this *must* have the SATA
controller in it.
> Is there a way to check what modules are built into this kernel?
Yes -- have a look at the config file for the kernel in /boot
> Is there a simple way around this?
> Is it best just to build my own kernel to replace the one that has
> been installed?
I would have said it was, yes.
-- Thomas Adam
"If I were a witch's hat, sitting on her head like a paraffin stove, I'd
fly away and be a bat." -- Incredible String Band.
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Ruby Vs Python infographic: Find out which high level programming language is more popular on twitter, Ruby or Python, through this infographic.
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A new childhood story, from NA. Dear readers, please send more!
I do not whether the short story I am going to tell you fits the requirements of a story about math education, since it takes place in the family. I was about eight-nine years old (Italian third-fourth grade) and I was learning about continents. “Is Australia a continent or an island?” I asked my father. He answered it was BOTH a continent and an island; an answer I found deeply unsatisfactory. I thought for a while about islands and what makes them different from continents, until -weeks later- I reached the conclusion that, by stretching and contracting, Eurasia could be an island of the Oceans as well as an island of the Como lake (“all its shores are on the Como lake”).
A sunny day right after rain I was walking with my mother, I pointed to a puddle and I said: “we are on the island of that puddle”.
She shrugged and replied “why do you always say such stupid things”. (Only many years afterwards I learned that was part of something called topology).
Please send me more stories like that!
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Chief Architect Help Database - Article Number: 574
How Chief Architect Interprets Terrain LinesThe information in this article applies to:
- All Chief Architect programs
I have noticed that sometimes when I place terrain elevation lines on my terrain that I get unexpected hills or valleys.
In the following images you will see how changing the placement of a few terrain lines changes the terrain.
In the first image below, you see a cross section view showing evenly spaced terrain lines. Note that the curve created is gentle, but past the ends where the terrain lines are at 0, the slope continues to drop until it reaches the terrain perimeter.
In the second image below, you see what happens as you move one of the outer terrain lines closer to the middle. Notice now how the terrain really dives down past the line 0 and continues down at an increasing rate. Also note that the high point in the terrain is not the 10' line as you might expect. What happens here is that Chief is trying to fit a smooth curve through the three points in the terrain.
As we look at the next picture, notice that we have added a third 0 line out near the edge. Notice now how the terrain dips and comes back up to meet this line.
Suppose we want to create even slopes from the 10' mark, and make the terrain flat between the two 0 level terrain lines. We can do this by adding two more lines. One will be at 10' and one at 0. We will place them in close proximity to the two middle lines. Note the effect below on the terrain.
So by using careful placement of a few terrain lines, you can achieve various terrain situations.
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Following the recent U.S. Presidential elections, where Hispanics played an important role in the outcome, the Barna Group have announced the launch of its new Hispanic research division.
"Today, Latinos represent nearly one out of every six adults in the U.S. and projections show this number continuing to grow," the group said in a release.
Barna: Hispanics has launched with the help of three partners: American Bible Society, OneHope, and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
The new research division will provide ongoing snapshots of today's U.S. Hispanics and the real-life issues they are facing.
"Perhaps more than ever, the values, beliefs, behaviors and worldviews of Hispanics affect the contours of American life. Understanding Latinos and their impact is important for anyone interested in thoughtfully engaging with cultural, social and spiritual trends."
The launching coincides with the release of its first report, "Hispanic-Americans: faith, values and priorities."
The study reveals the attitudes of Latinos about faith, family and social issues and ideas about how their opinions affect the social, economic and spiritual environment in the United States.
According to the study, 54 percent identify themselves first as Hispanic or Latino before American, Catholic or Christian. It also found that 42 percent say the Bible influences their views of political and social issues.
The fastest-growing minority group has drawn the attention of the public eye after becoming a pivotal part of the recent elections, where President Barack Obama was re-elected, winning 71 percent of the Latino vote.
Hispanics represent nearly 50 million people in the country, and are now said to be the second-most important demographic voting group in America, behind women.
Barna predicts that by 2050, the largest minority group in the U.S. will makeup up 25 to 30 percent of the population.
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IEC 61850 is the most promising standard for design of substation communication and automation systems. Recent revisions of the standard include support for modeling, and control of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). This paper presents an application of the IEC 61850-7-420 data model for DER in the implementation of a control and energy management system for a Hybrid Renewable Energy System (HRES). These systems are beginning to prove their usefulness in providing deployable electrical supply in locations where no such supply exists as well as for backup power or power quality related support functions. The motivation for applying the standard to the design process is twofold; to modularize the design according to an accepted international standard and to design for interoperability with other IEC 61850 enabled devices and SCADA systems.
PowerTech, 2011 IEEE Trondheim
Date of Conference: 19-23 June 2011
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Throughout his career, James Turrell has been fascinated by the phenomenon of light, particularly the ways in which it can be exploited in order to alter our perception of the natural world. Since the mid-1970s, Turrell has been creating Skyspaces, structures that are both enclosed and open to the sky, allowing visitors to contemplate atmospheric changes through apertures in the ceilings of the structures. The viewer must linger to experience the variances in light, which change according to the season, day, hour and the weather.
Commissioned in 2001 and completed in 2007, Stone Sky, 2005 includes a pavilion and an infinity pool that stretches out toward the valley floor and the volcanic pinnacles beyond. Turrell’s installation within the open pavilion brings a square of sky through an overhead plane. By swimming underwater at the end of the pool, one surfaces within a cube-like Skyspace, whose interior is finished in teak.
All property photographs © Florian Holzherr
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An independent report has found that the US has often over-estimated the capability of local Afghan military and police units to provide security in the country.
Tuesday's findings seem to contradict recent upbeat assessments provided by foreign military commanders in Afghanistan.
Transferring power to local government is one of the crucial components of the US strategy in Afghanistan. However, the report is now likely to cast doubt on that.
There is no way to tell how ready Afghan forces are to take over security from US-led troops because the system used until recently to assess the Afghans is unreliable, US auditors said on Monday.
President Obama's strategy for the war against Taliban fighters centres on transferring responsibility for security to Afghan forces.
He is sending 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan this year, but wants to start withdrawing them in mid-2011.
The US report on Afghanistan comes as the June toll of foreign soldiers in the country touched the 100 mark.
The report by the Special Inspector-General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found big failings in the methods US and multinational forces have used since 2005 to assess the readiness of Afghan army and police who will be left behind.
"We don't really know at this point in time what the capability of the Afghanistan security forces really is," Arnold Fields, the chief inspector, said.
The rankings used to grade Afghan forces varied greatly from one region to another, the report said.
Personnel numbers for the Afghan army were overstated and did not take absenteeism into account.
Afghan forces often backslid even if they did get high marks from their mentors.
"The ANP (Afghan police) will simply stop doing what we asked them to do as soon as we leave the area," one team mentoring Afghan police complained to auditors.
Recently US officials have focused on the need for more trainers to bolster the Afghan security forces.
The long term goals for the army are 134,000 by October 2010 and 171,000 by
Goals for the police are 109,000 by October 2010 and 134,000 by October 2011.
But the auditors focused on deficiencies in the way progress toward these goals was being monitored.
Fields said coalition commanders recently scrapped their system for ranking Afghan forces and replaced it with a new one after auditors pointed out problems.
The auditors visited 18 Afghan army and police units between October 2009 and May.
"I would be hard pressed to be able to convey to the senior leaders of this country exactly where we are in terms of the training and equipping and the capability of the Afghanistan security forces," Fields said when asked what he would tell Obama's new nominee to command US and international forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus.
So far $27bn has been spent training and equipping Afghan security forces, including the army and police.
Widespread corruption and drug abuse among Afghan security forces as well as logistics nightmares plagued the effort to develop independent Afghan forces, the auditors said.
Trainers were overstretched and sometimes ill-trained themselves.
|Report said trainers are 'overstretched and sometimes ill-trained themselves' [AFP]
Reporting from Kabul, Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr said the report "is not good news" and that it "contradicts assessments made by US military commanders that the training mission is on track".
"We all know that strengthening the capability of the local Afghan forces is the exit strategy - handing security over to them," she said.
Colonel Stuart Cowen, head of the Nato training mission in Afghanistan, told Al Jazeera, the report by the Special Inspector-General "has made some very valid assertions" to some extent.
"However, those assertions were made on data that is slightly outdated. The Nato training mission in Afghanistan, since the research went into that investigation, has made some radical changes and developed the training," he said.
"So whilst they were valid assertions, we would say that the whole training mission has moved on significantly since that investigation."
There were multiple reports of Afghan police skimming fuel, pilfering weapons, and shaking down travellers for money at checkpoints, the report said.
Drug abuse affected 17 per cent of police, according to one Afghan assessment in February that Nato officials thought was low, it said.
Things were so dangerous in some areas, some of the police mentoring had to be carried out over the radio.
Auditors could not visit a police district in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan that received high marks from mentors from August 2008 to June 2009.
|The US report accuses the Afghan police of
pilfering weapons and skimming fuel [AFP]
By February 2010 it was "overrun with insurgents". Delays in construction projects restricted training too.
Afghan army personnel were housed in temporary facilities at a project in Kunduz province when auditors appeared in February.
"We observed Afghan army personnel coping with deep mud, freezing conditions, unsanitary shower and bathroom facilities, inadequate dining facilities, medically unsafe food storage, and sewage being openly discharged on the surface of the compound," the report said.
The US and Afghan forces have, however, had some success recently.
A force of about 700 US and Afghan troops have killed up to 150 Taliban fighters in a major offensive along eastern Afghanistan's border with Pakistan The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The US-led operation, which began on Sunday, was one of the largest yet in the region around Kunar province, said the newspaper, which cited US officials as calling it "one of the most intense battles of the past year" in Afghanistan.
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For those seeking to have a career with jobs in banks in Pakistan there are a few things to consider for this career path. Many will want to try to ensure that they start to study for this career choice while still in high school if given the chance to do so. There are many different careers within the banking industry itself that a person can select from. Therefore, before pursuing any types of employment, some time will be needed to be taken into consideration for planning the end result the individual is trying to achieve.
When a person is wanting to have a job within the banking industry they will want to ensure that they try to begin to study early on for this career choice. Many financial institutions will often times require certain skills to be able to carry out every day duties within this industry.
Most often times they may require that the person applying for this particular job have essential math skills in particular to other types of skills. Furthermore, they may also require that the person have certain training certificates to prove that they have mastered these particular math skills.
Most of the financial institutions will also at times give those that apply for work with them certain exams that the employee will be required to pass in order to gain employment with the financial institution. The financial institutions will often times require a high school diploma from the person wanting to work within that particular field. Some may also require that the person seeking the employment have a college background as well, as these are becoming more increasingly preferred by the managers when they are hiring bank tellers.
There are many different levels within the industry that a person can quite often find a type of employment for. Therefore, for those that are wanting this as a career choice they perhaps should really spend some time investigating what each type of job will require when it comes to the qualifications that will most likely be required of them, to then be able to secure the position that they are looking to work in.
Taking special skilled training classes while still in high school can sometimes be very beneficial to the career choice within this industry that the individual is looking into pursuing once they graduate. Many times, after high school a person that is looking into finding employment within this particular financial industry will often times need to further their education to obtain certain degrees that might be needed to qualify for the type of financial working environment level that they are wanting to work in.
While many that are looking into this as their career choice, there are several types that can be selected from within this industry. For instance, one may be able to locate a job for the banking teller section. This person can often be responsible for dealing directly with the customer for their banking needs.
When a person is wanting to start out within this particular field in this industry, they may want to be sure that they have the abilities to be able to perform multiple tasks while performing their work duties. Many times, the front teller clerks will have the responsibilities of being able to handle many different types of financial transactions for the banking customers.
However, many customers that come into the bank may perhaps have multiple transactions that they may need to be completed by the bank teller. One example that may occur for the bank teller could be helping the customer with, cashing their payroll check, then perhaps depositing some of the funds into their savings account for them, and at the same time the customer may also request to have some of their cash given back to them. Therefore, it will be the tellers responsibility to help the customer complete these transactions without any mathematical errors.
Another type of job that one can pursue within this financial industry, could be perhaps becoming the loan officer for the bank. One of the many responsibilities for this particular job within this industry will many times require the loan officer to have the ability to assist the customers that are wanting to borrow money from the bank the best possible solutions to fit their particular financial needs.
Many banking facilities will require the person wanting to work within this particular job field to have a bachelors Degree. While it may not necessarily be required for the person applying for this type of job, they may still want to also consider having some training skills in the accounting training courses that they take while in high school, as well as when they get to the college training levels.
There are many different kinds of responsibilities that will come with being the loan officer for the bank in which a person is considering. Therefore, before a person applies for this particular job within the bank of their choice, they will want to do some advance research as to what the bank will require of them prior to applying. This can help to eliminate any misunderstandings later on once employment has been established.
When a person is wanting to find any particular jobs in the banking industry, they will want to spend some extra time researching all that may be available to them for this particular working environment. There are many career choices that perhaps can be selected for the person interested in pursuing this working environment from inside this financial industry the abilities to help them make a sound career decision for themselves.
Taking the time to use the many online research tools that can be available to the person researching into the career path of jobs in banks in Pakistan can sometimes further benefit their learning about the career choices that may be available to them. Furthermore, doing the advance research can sometimes provide many benefits as to the outcome the individual can achieve for their banking career.
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A Good Mother (mothers day special!)
Polar bears have gained a lot of attention due to dwindling habitats caused by melting snow and ice in the Arctic region. In the next video, you’ll see how snow and ice are a major part of raising cubs: from helping to conceal their lair for a 5-month long hibernation, to enabling them to hunt and catch their meals.
It’s rough early going for the newborns. About half of polar bear cubs don’t make it through the first year.
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Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
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& History in the
Great Paintings of the Prado
(1998), Rosa Lopez Torrijos
The main building that houses the Museo Nacional del
Prado, one of the world's great repositories of art, traces its roots back to the
reign of Charles III in the second half of the 18th century. Called "the
bricklayer" for his extensive programs of urban development, Charles' original
plans were for the building to be a Natural Science Museum -- the eighteenth century,
"the age of reason," held the sciences in the highest esteem. The king's
architect, Juan de Villanueva, planned a grand neo-classical building, but, due to war,
completion was delayed and the building's initial use was as a cavalry barracks for
It was Ferdinand VII, Charles' grandson, under the influence of his wife, Queen María Isabel, who decided to create a museum to hold the royal art collections. He chose the Villanueva building and had its construction completed according to the architect's plans. The building opened in 1819. The museum was never large enough to exhibit its extensive collections. Over the years other buildings were added to the Villanueva building, but even today there is not sufficient space to show even ten percent of the Prado's holdings.
For the art lover, institutions on the scale of the Prado (or the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum of Art) are at once a joy and a frustrating challenge: joy in the opportunity for the eye and mind to feast on the great art works of the ages, frustration in being able to spend time with only a small fraction of the small fraction on exhibit at any given time. The Prado's collections contain thousands of drawings and prints, decorative arts, more than 700 sculptures, and an astounding 8,600 paintings.
Needless to say, Spanish painting is particularly well represented, but so too are Flemish and Venetian works. Masterpieces abound in the great names of European painting: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck, Durer, Brueghel, Hieronymus Bosch, Velázquez, El Greco, and Goya.
Velázquez' great masterwork, "Las Meninas," a life-sized group portrait, is centered on the Infanta, with her ladies-in-waiting, other court functionaries, and even the king and queen shown observing the entire scene, reflected in a mirror. But the artist himself is equally significant in this canvas, and for all its technical wizardry and royal subjects, it is as much about Velázquez himself, his role as an artist, and his relationship to his patrons. He wears the insignia of the noble rank to which he aspired for years, but which, at the time of the painting, he had not yet been granted by the king. Accounts differ as to what happened. Did he do this at the time of the original painting as an unvarnished appeal to the king for the status he sought? Or was it added later, after actually won, to record for the ages the status of painter as nobleman?
No visitor misses "Las Meninas," but every bit as interesting, if not as perfectly executed, is the later work, "The Spinners," a complex juxtaposition of moments in the story of Athena/Minerva (goddess of wisdom and handicraft) and Arachne, who competed over weaving abilities. The factory-girl spinners of tapestries are portrayed in the foreground with the elegant mythical figures staged in the background. There is no sign of the outcome - Minerva turning Arachne into a spider.
Velázquez was not a prolific painter; only 120 works are known today. Half of those works are in the Prado. El Greco, whose mannerist style and religious ecstasies capture the modern public imagination and make him a favorite with many, created even fewer paintings, only seventy all told. Of those 90% are in the Prado.
On the other hand, Goya, the "first of the moderns," was a prolific painter and the collection of his works at the Prado is the largest of any single artist represented. The sheer volume of work on view is mind-boggling; that so much of it is of such greatness that it speaks so vividly to viewers two centuries later can only generate wonderment. Goya recorded his times, from the "cartoons" (studies for the Royal tapestry factory) which depict aspects of day-to-day life (an "allegory of commerce" for example), paintings of a commedia dell'arte troupe, or another of a china vendor and his aristocratic customer, to the royal portraits, to the varied series of etchings such as "The Disasters of War." He saw with clarity and a sympathetic, humanistic viewpoint which remains enormously appealing today. Much attention is focused on the sensuous, reclining, "Naked Maja," speculated to be The Duchess of Alba, with whom Goya had a torrid affair. It was surely a daringly overt image at a time when the Inquisition was not fully wound down. But Goya's series of portraits of the royal family, including grand Queen Maria Louisa, the real power behind her weak husband, Carlos IV, have more psychological depth and interest than the pasted on face of the Maja and the late "black" paintings exhibit imagination and extension of the means of expression that seem more profound than merely challenging the taboo on sexuality.
Although efforts at restoration continue, the Prado seems to remain behind its peers in the overall condition of its collections. So many paintings seem to be in desperate need of cleaning and all too many exhibit cracks and other damage. Seeing a recently cleaned painting hanging beside one dimmed by the grime of the centuries emphasizes how much is lost and how much remains to be done. Of course, the painstaking process is very expensive, but the prosperity of Spain should allow an acceleration of efforts to save the priceless glories of the state collections.
June 4, 2001 - Arthur Lazere
Durer, Self Portrait,
Rembrandt, Artemesia, 1634
Velazquez, "Las Meninas,"
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The plan for Navy Pier produced by Mayor Washington`s task force is a train without an engine. Some of the components are wonderful, but there`s no motor to rev them up and keep them running.
The profusion of museums, galleries and gardens envisioned by the task force sounds delightful. The jogging tracks, bicycle lanes, picnic patios, dance pavilions, small theaters--lovely, all of them. But would everyone please come down from the pink clouds for a moment and discuss . . . money.
No one enjoys telling the kid there`s no Santa Claus, but somebody has got to convince the mayor and his starry-eyed task force that all of these wonders are not going to drift down from the sky--or from the federal government or the State of Illinois, for that matter.
Shoring up the pier, equipping it with an adequate sewage system, preparing it for year-around public use and providing essential parking facilities will cost at least $100 million. And that does not include creating the museums, galleries, theaters and other amenities the task force wants for this new Navy Pier ``cultural park.`` Its members talk vaguely about getting money from the U.S. Interior Department, the state treasury, city bonds, private foundations and the generosity of the people of Chicago. (``Citizens and organizations,`` says the report, can donate ``bricks, sprinklers, toilets, windows.``)
Task force members must have been so lost in their daydreams that they neglected to keep up with the news. Chicago and Illinois government will be heavy losers in the first round of federal budget cuts, and that first round is just a small taste of what is coming next year. There will be no federal money to restore the pier and there should be none. When aid to schools in poor neighborhoods is being cut, when food programs for indigent invalids face extinction, when seed money to rebuild slums is becoming unavailable, does anyone really expect the federal government to help create art galleries on Navy Pier?
A new study by the National Park Service concludes that the pier does not meet its criteria for designation as a national park, which should give the mayor`s task force a hint that no money will be coming from Washington. State government and private donors won`t be much help, either; their resources will be stretched thin under pressure to replace lost federal money for programs essential to health and economic vitality.
Navy Pier does have marvelous potential as a cultural and recreational center, and the task force presents an exciting sketch of what could and should happen there. But even if these museums and theaters and galleries raise enough money to build on the pier by passing the hat, they are not going to be profitable enough to pay for pier restoration and maintenance.
Navy Pier needs a big infusion of money to get the development started and a continuous income stream to keep it going. The only realistic way to get that money is through commercial growth of the kind flourishing on waterfront ``cultural parks`` in other cities. Yet members of the task force and the mayor`s staff adamantly refuse to make commerce a significant part of the pier`s future.
Some of them talk as if a resort hotel or stores that sell sweaters and shoes would taint the purity of their theaters and galleries. Others are afraid that Water Tower Place and State Street couldn`t take the competition. If that sort of thinking had prevailed throughout Chicago`s history, it would be a swampy village surrounded by wild onion fields.
Navy Pier is no longer the isolated projection it was for decades. Residential and office buildings are proliferating nearby. They`ll provide a nucleus of support for commercial growth on the pier; if it`s properly planned, tourists will flock there, too. The city sorely needs the new jobs and the money generated from fees and taxes.
Commercial development will not push cultural and recreational development off the pier or tarnish it. On the contrary: It will make the other things happen. In today`s world, it`s the only way to make the other things happen.
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported that U.S. food companies are reaching children by embedding their products in mobile game apps. I downloaded a few games this morning and was not impressed.
It is too easy for a child to click a mobile ad; the “x”(to close the ad) is minimal, while the ad itself is splashed across the screen. If you were a young child, would you click on the small x or the over-sized graphic?
My App Review: The SuperPretzel Factory by Sunstorm Interactive may be entertaining for a young child – the child presses different mixer buttons as she/he attempts to fill as many pans with dough as possible before the timer runs out. Most likely they will get frustrated when they make it to level four, only to find a broken cart that will not move to catch the falling pretzels. If you look at this particular game app from an adult perspective – the game consists of approximately 95 percent locked areas and advertising.
The food-industry games generally have rudimentary graphics and objectives simple enough for small children to understand. They have raised debate over who should be responsible for their impact on children—parents or the government. –The Wall Street Journal
Nearly one in five U.S. kids between the ages of 2-19 are overweight. Parents play a crucial role in the prevention of childhood obesity. Teaching children how to select healthy food options begins in the home. Digital technology games can detract from healthy lifestyle choices by luring the child to concentrate on junk food.
“We know that when children are engaged, they learn, so when mobile apps are fun, entertaining and developmentally appropriate, they can be powerful educational tools.” Lesli Rotenberg, Senior Vice President, Children’s Media, PBS.
A Note to Parents
Be aware of how your child is interacting with games on mobile devices. Children rely upon you to provide appropriate stepping stones as they meander through a digital world filled with advertising.
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The new Roundtest RA-H5200 Series roundness/cylindricity measurement system from Mitutoyo America Corp, Aurora, Ill. is said to be both accurate and flexible. Finite-element modeling was used in designing the unit’s base to ensure geometric accuracy by minimizing deformations caused by normal machine operation. The turntable of the RA-H5200 is also manufactured for extreme rigidity and rides on high-precision air bearings. As a result, rotational accuracy—the key to roundness/cylindricity measurement—is described as “world-class” at (0.02+3.5H/10000) μm. The device also features ultra-high ZAxis column straightness (0.05μm/100mm in the narrow range) as well as standard vibration isolation.
The turntable is equipped with automatic adjustment for high-speed, fully automatic workpiece centering/leveling, thus reducing positioning errors. The system uses Mitutoyo’s Roundpak measurement and analysis software that features an intuitive graphical interface, making the instrument flexible and easy to use. The software supports a wide variety of parameters, including those for roundness/cylindricity, as well as flatness and parallelism.
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The universe as we know it today through science is one way to derive analogical knowledge of God. For those who believe modern science does say something to us about God, it provides a challenge, an enriching challenge, to traditional beliefs about God. God in his infinite freedom continuously creates a world which reflects that freedom at all levels of the evolutionary process to greater and greater complexity. God lets the world be what it will be in its continuous evolution. He does not intervene, but rather allows, participates, loves. Is such thinking adequate to preserve the special character attributed by religious thought to the emergence not only of life but also of spirit, while avoiding a crude creationism? Only a protracted dialogue will tell.The speech may have ruffled some cardinal feathers.
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Many small improvements
22 May 2012
First described in 1993, Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome (NBS) is rare, severe disorder that causes a variety of symptoms. Most notable characteristics of NBS are sparse hair, typical facial morphology, distal-limb anomalies and intellectual disability. The lack of known familial cases of NBS suggests that the disorder is caused by de novo mutations. Employing exome sequencing in ten individuals with NBS and extended molecular screening in a larger group, Jeroen van Houdt (Catholic University Leuven) and a large group of colleagues from various institutes identified mutations in SMARCA2 as a cause of NBS. SMARCA2 is a member of the family of Snf2 helicase proteins. A nice study, according to Antoine van Kampen who, together with shared first author Barbera van Schaik (Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam), performed the bioinformatics analysis. "For us, this was the first exome sequencing study. We identified SMARCA2 to be linked to NBS and we were able to start functional studies into this protein."
Genome of the Netherlands
The ever-increasing amount of sequencing data proved helpful, says van Kampen. "In one of the validation steps, we compared our data to those of more than 200 genomes sequenced as part of the Genome of the Netherlands-project. In contrast to the NBS exomes with common SMARCA2 mutations clustered in the ATPase region we found no mutations in this region in the genomes, which supports our findings about the role of SMARCA2 in causing NBS." Although this study did not result in radically new insights from a bioinformatics perspective, projects like these are worthwhile, Van Kampen feels. "Here, the biological question and the biological data are in the lead. We implement and apply a bioinformatics analysis pipeline, which to a large extent is similar to the pipelines used by other groups. Nevertheless, every exome study allows us to further extent and refine the methods used in our pipeline."
Crucial to accuracy and usability of the analysis results are the filter steps. Starting with filtering out low-quality sequencing data, every step in the pipeline comes down to choosing which data to remove. Van Kampen: "We try to generate a manageable, high quality dataset for the biologists to process further. For bioinformaticians, the challenge is to choose the best filters for each particular question and dataset. What you find depends on how you search. We deliver suggestions for candidate-genes, which the biologists try to validate. Depending on discussions with the biologists and/or the outcome of the validation, we have to adjust the filters and go through the data again. It sometime happens that your filters remove the crucial data."
Imperfections and unknowns
With the outcomes being so dependent on the selection method applied, how reliable is the information generated by such an analysis? Van Kampen: "The bioinformatics workflow is certainly not perfect yet. Chances are that when you apply a different workflow to the same dataset, you come up with different or partially different results. Studies that compare the effect of different components of the workflows could potentially help in identifying the best way to set up an analysis pipeline. However, such studies are scarce." He mentions the lack of a golden standard. "That is a major problem. Work in that direction is ongoing, but we are not there yet." Imperfections in bioinformatics are however not the only problem as sequencing data are also not perfect. Van Kampen: "We are dealing with many unknowns. You're looking for an unknown gene using experimental and analysis methods that are both still subject to continuous development."
Van Houdt JKJ, Nowakowska BA, Sousa SB, van Schaik BDC, et al.
Heterozygous missense mutations in SMARCA2 cause Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome
Nature Genetics 44, 445-449 (2012); doi:10.1038/ng.1105
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- Conditions & treatments
- Accidents and injuries
- Diseases and illnesses
- Abdominal pain
- Bad cough in children
- Back pain
- Bleeding from the anus
- Chest pain
- Eye and vision problems
- Food- and water-borne diseases
- Genital herpes
- Genital warts
- Haemophilus influenzae type b
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Heart disease
- Hepatitis A
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- Meningococcal disease
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- Thrush when breastfeeding
- Urinary problems
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Giardia is a food- and water-borne disease that is caused by a parasite found in the gut of infected humans and animals (eg, cattle, sheep, cats, dogs, rats and possums).
Giardia is passed on in the faeces of infected humans and animals. People become infected when they swallow the parasites.
Giardia is common in New Zealand. The parasites can live in the environment for long periods – especially in lakes, rivers, streams and roof water.
How do you get giardia?
You get giardia from:
- drinking contaminated water or eating contaminated food
- being in contact with infected animals that are carrying the parasite
- being in close contact with someone who has giardia – eg, people living in the same house or if you’re looking after someone who has giardia
swallowing water that contains the giardia parasite while you’re swimming or playing in lakes, rivers, springs, ponds, streams and so on.
Part of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF). Information on safe food handling and preparation.
Better Health Channel
Victoria State Government (Australia) website. Provides health and medical information.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Part of the United States Government’s Department of Health and Human Services. Deals with public health concerns.
If you have giardia, you could have:
- foul smelling diarrhoea
- stomach cramps and abdominal pain
- nausea and vomiting
- weight loss
- slight fever
- loss of appetite
Your symptoms will appear between three and 25 days (but usually between seven and 10 days) after you become infected. You can be ill for three to four days, then feel better, then the symptoms may come back.
If you don’t get treatment, this can continue and you can be infectious for months.
If you think you may have giardia, this is what you should do:
- Go to your doctor. Take a specimen of some of your faeces (‘poos’) with you in a clean jar, as you’ll need a laboratory test.
- If you do have giardia, your doctor will prescribe a medicine such as Flagyl or Dyzole.
- While the diarrhoea lasts, drink plenty of water to prevent dehydration. Filtered water or water that has been boiled for one minute is safest.
- If you have a child that is ill and they're not drinking, go back to your doctor.
Giardia is a notifiable disease, so before you go back to work (or your child returns to daycare or school) you’ll need to check with your doctor or health protection officer that it’s OK to do so. Usually you’ll be clear when your symptoms have gone.
Here's what you can do to avoid getting giardia – or passing it on.
- Avoid drinking water that may be contaminated – don’t drink untreated water from lakes, rivers or streams, or from an area where the water is unsafe because of poor sanitation or where there are no water treatment systems.
- If you have to drink water that is taken from a roof, river or lake (eg, in a rural area), it should be boiled for one minute or put through an approved filter. The water filter should meet the standard AS/NZS4348:1995.
- When swimming in swimming pools, hot pools or spa pools, take care to not swallow the water.
- Don’t go swimming in a pool if you have diarrhoea. You need to wait at least two weeks after the symptoms have gone – and wash your hands before going for a swim.
- To stop giardia spreading, wash your hands before and after preparing food, after playing or working with animals, and after going to the toilet or changing a baby’s nappy. You need to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and hot water, rinse well and dry them on a clean towel.
Tramping and camping
- Use toilets, when they’re provided.
- If there are no toilets, bury your toilet waste and paper at least 50 metres away from water sources, such as rivers and lakes.
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Daytona State College will hosted events on Wednesday, Oct. 17, designed to raise awareness of what it’s like to live with a disability and to help people living with disabilities improve the quality of their lives.
The 22nd annual Abilities Awareness Day celebration brought together both non-disabled people and people with disabilities in a day that offered offer fun, information, education and understanding.
The celebration took place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the main courtyard of the Daytona Beach Campus, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd. Organized by the college’s Office of Student Disabilities Services, the event was free and open to the public.
Through demonstrations and simulations, the event offered non-disabled participants the opportunity to gain better understanding of the barriers experienced by people living with disabilities. Abilities Awareness Day also featured information about resources available at Daytona State College and in the surrounding community for people with disabilities.
Prior to the Abilities Awareness Day activities, the college hosted a breakfast for participants of Volusia County Disability Mentoring Day, an event sponsored and organized by United Cerebral Palsy of East Central Florida. The invitation-only breakfast was from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Mori Hosseini Center.
Disability Mentoring Day underscores the connection between school and work, and allows disabled individuals to link with volunteer local business representatives to evaluate their personal goals, target career skills for improvement, explore possible career paths and develop lasting mentor relationships. Each year Daytona State College participates in the event to enable students with disabilities to spend part of a day visiting local businesses, non-profit agencies and government agencies that match their employment and career interests.
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Voula Papachristou, Greece’s triple-jump champion, was barred from competing in the London Olympic Games by the Hellenic Olympic Committee after an offensive tweet on Monday.
She tweeted, “with so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitos will be eating food from their own home.”
The Democratic Left, one of three parties in the Greek government, issued a strong condemnation of Papachristou:
“Racist humor and ”jokes” concerning human lives are not tolerated by the Greek society, can not thrive in Greek athletics. The least the Greek Olympic Committee can do now is to revoke Ms Voula Papachristou from the Olympic Games. Watching the Olympics on TV screen, she could do as many vile ”jokes” she wants through the social media. But for sure, she can not represent Greece in London.”
Papachristou apologized on Wednesday afternoon:
“I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless joke I published on my personal Twitter account. I am very sorry and ashamed for the negative responses I triggered, since I never wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights.
My dream is connected to the Olympic Games and I could not possibly participate if I did not respect their values. Therefore, I could never believe in discrimination between human beings and races.
I would like to apologize to all my friends and fellow athletes, who I may have insulted or shamed, the National Team, as well as the people and companies who support my athletic career. Finally, I would like to apologize to my coach and my family.”
But the apology was not enough, as the Hellenic Olympic Committee announced Wednesday afternoon that Papachristou would not travel to London. The committee said she has been ”placed outside the Olympic team for statements contrary to the values and ideas of the Olympic movement.”
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In the less than nine months since Hurricane Katrina, the gaming industry has been a leader in efforts to revitalize the economy of the Gulf Coast region. Much as it did when the first casinos entered Mississippi and Louisiana in the early ‘90s, the industry is supplying jobs, revenue and hope to a region in need. And to anyone familiar with the rebuilding plans currently in the works, it’s clear that gaming entertainment is returning to the region bigger, brighter and better than ever before.
Before Katrina, Biloxi/Gulfport was the seventh largest gaming market in the U.S., home to 13 casinos (including the soon-to-open Hard Rock Hotel and Casino) that employed nearly 16,000 people. The hurricane imposed severe damage in Mississippi, completely or partially destroying a number of gaming properties and disrupting the lives of casino employees by wreaking havoc on their workplaces and homes. After experiencing the most expensive disaster on U.S. soil in recent history, many have wondered whether the economy in the Gulf Coast region could recover from such a blow.
Yet, while images of the Gulf Coast in the months since the disaster have been sobering, rebuilding efforts have been making sure progress, and there have been many images of hope as well. To date, three casinos have restarted operations in temporary facilities while simultaneously moving forward with renovations and repairs in the damaged areas of their properties. Remarkably, in the first two months of 2006, these three facilities had gross gaming revenues of more than $123 million – more than half the total revenues for all 12 casinos during the same period in 2005. And state and local tax contributions from Mississippi casinos are beginning to approach what they were before the storm.
Several of the more damaged casinos also are expected to be up and running before the year is out. And, thanks to a newly issued gaming license, construction is set to begin on the Bacaran Bay casino complex, which will take its place among the existing gaming facilities in Biloxi.
One thing is clear: the gaming entertainment industry is invested in and dedicated to returning the Gulf Coast to its former economic vitality, and even surpassing it. Encouraged by state legislation passed in October 2005 allowing gaming facilities to come onshore up to 800 feet, as well as restricted tax relief granted through the federal Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005 passed late last year, many gaming companies are making the most of this opportunity to rebuild and redesign their facilities.
A number of properties will be expanding their non-gaming offerings, building everything from new golf courses to expansive restaurant and shopping areas to full-service spas. Just one example of these improvements is Harrah’s Grand Casino Biloxi, set to reopen later this year, which will incorporate a wide array of amenities and entertainment options in order to create a true destination casino resort experience.
The substantial progress already being made in the Gulf Coast region is a testament to the strength of our industry and the thousands of people who have served it. At the American Gaming Association (AGA), the strong commitment we demonstrate to our companies and our colleagues is a direct reflection of the industry we serve. Nowhere was that commitment more evident than in the response of our companies in the days, weeks and now months following this disaster. The collective response and rush to the aid of those in need was tremendous and speaks of the unity of the gaming community both along the Gulf Coast and nationwide.
Our number one priority in the aftermath of the storms has been to get employees back to work and help the areas affected by the hurricanes recover. Many AGA member companies, whether or not they were affected by this tragedy, have made sizeable contributions to organizations like the Red Cross and Salvation Army. They also instituted employee fundraising and supply drives to assist relief efforts. And the gaming companies affected by Katrina went above and beyond in creating individual assistance programs and emergency relief centers for their employees, establishing multi-million-dollar employee relief funds, as well as continuing to provide paychecks and benefits for their employees for several months after the storm.
Within days after the storm, the AGA created the Gaming Industry Katrina Relief Fund to provide organizations and individuals who did not have a mechanism to contribute a way to help their colleagues affected by the disaster. The fund raised more than $700,000 for Gulf Coast gaming employees impacted by the storms.
While important, relief monies are just the beginning of a long road to full recovery. Our companies recognize that the current lack of adequate housing must be addressed in order to get employees back to work and to make further progress towards normalcy. I’ve been in talks with many of our executives in the region, and they are making housing a top priority. Currently, most of our member companies are in the assessment phase, dedicating tremendous time and resources to determining the best way for them to proceed as opening dates approach. Whether they will be conduits to housing opportunities for their employees or actually purchase and provide housing has yet to be determined, but our companies are all dedicated to resolving this issue quickly and appropriately.
The rebuilding of the Gulf Coast will continue over the coming months and years, and it will no doubt be hard work. Thankfully, the tenacity and optimism of the gaming industry and its employees in the region will drive progress and ensure a successful rebuilding effort. With the help of the strong men and women who have made our industry such a success for more than 10 years, the gaming industry in Mississippi and the economic vitality of the entire Gulf Coast region will return to their former glory. You can bet on it.
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Explore and Assess Yourself
An important first step in career development is to take stock of your interests, skills, work style, and career goals.
- Reflect on your previous work experiences and your career goals:
- Describe an accomplishment you are proud of: think about what you contributed, why you feel proud, and how you can build on this experience.
- What have you valued about your previous work experiences?
- What are your strengths?
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- Which skills are transferable to other careers?
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This word is synonymous with American history. Thirteen countries, each in his own right, had declared independence from Great Britain by execution of the Declaration of Independence. After the completion of the War of Independence each, again, chose to maintain a high degree of autonomy. As a result the Articles of Confederation [Confederation - A league or compact for mutual support, particularly of nations, or States. - Black"s 5th] were developed to create a Union unlike anything the Europeans had conceived before this time. Thus developed a concept which we are led to believe, by government and it"s processes, does not first. There was, however, a model for this "compact" existent prior to the arrival of white man on these shores. The Iroquois Nation Confederacy had a "constitution" which allowed a high degree of autonomy for the individual nations, while allowing for common support in several areas. The document was originally referred to as "The Great Peace."
Subsequently, after weaknesses were found in the Articles, in convention, "a more perfect Union" was formed. This was accomplished with the purpose of providing protections similar to what had been created by the Iroquois Nations, still intended not to create a single nation [see Federalist Papers #101, rather to enhance the ability of the federal, not national, government to conduct it"s limited business. Whatever the consequences it was realized that the need for unity, the working together despite conflicts in certain ideologies, was necessary if the Union were to be maintained.
It is time for us to look at some realities that the Founding Fathers recognized. Their success is apparent today, at least to some degree. They chose to put aside their differences for the good of the whole. The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers are filled with discussions of the disputes, intentions and criticisms of the opinions of others. Finally, however, after all of the disputes were reconciled to a point of acceptance, the growth of the Nation could proceed.
We are facing a similar situation with regard to unity today. Today, there are many factions attempting to resolve these issues through any number of methods. The respective interpretations of the Founding Fathers intent notwithstanding. These divisions tend to keep us divided to a point that little is accomplished constructively. Each faction is fighting its own battles while proclaiming victory, frequently just prior to arrest. There is a need, now, which is as much as urgent as the need was just over two hundred years ago, for us to put aside our differences and work together to accomplish our common goals. As was reported in a previous post, Liberty is at stake in this country. Its loss will be mourned by all. Its passing perhaps the greatest singular loss we could sustain. Within Liberty lies the heart of the concept of "Republican Form of Government," as guaranteed in Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution. Freedom from restraint, except under lawful authority.
Can you imagine what would happen if arrests could only be made under presentment of a Grand Jury, as is so clearly stated in the fifth amendment to the Constitution? Many patriots" time lost while in jail fighting principles would be regained for more productive use. The "law enforcement" agencies would be put on notice that the great principles of foundation are being reclaimed. The process of Resurrection of the Constitution would begin. It is only for us to come together in an effort that has the blessings of the great concept which can begin this process, and that effort may be here before us now.
Lynda Lyon called today and made the following statement:
"One would have to have been here in Opelika, Alabama to witness the travesty of a trial that my husband and co-publisher, George Sibley, had to endure. Even many of the locals here are stunned at the speed with which George was convicted and recommended for the death penalty. As his attorney remarked, "This was a railroad express, this was a rocket ship." We are not giving up. We are not afraid to stand on our principles of liberty or Death, just as we did in Florida. We are calm and working for appeal. We will fight this to the Supreme Court, if necessary. We trust in our legal knowledge, but more importantly we trust in God. A sharp Constitutional lawyer can make this a landmark case to help turn our country around. Our fight has just begun."
Is this the effort that we can come together on? Those of you who are willing to test this issue, of Liberty, please contact George Sibley or Lynda Lyon, via mail, at PO Box 2407, Opelika, Alabama state, PZ 36801. Give them a phone number where they can reach you, collect. No 800 numbers. If you have anything to offer, please, now is the time to pitch in for the good of all. These people are where many of us may be in the near future if we fail to begin the resurrection process soon. Or, you may call and leave me a number where George and Lynda may call you, collect, and I will pass the information along to them.
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Below are some of the alerts out there on a wide variety of supplements.
Our advice: if you're vegan, other than Vitamin B12, why do you need these? What are you realistically unable to get that you need to expose yourself to the known and unknown problems of many common supplements and vitamins?
This info comes from ConsumerLab.com, an organization that tests and identifies the actual ingredients in many leading supplements. They require you pay $30 to join their website and get access to detailed reports on specific vitamins and supplements. We are not endorsing them or their operation, and have no relationship with them.
Our central point however is this: If you are using supplements, caveat emptor! These recent independent analyses found that 50% of the Vitamin K, 21% of the Calcium & 28% of the Vitamin D supplements tested, failed to meet quality standards and several were contaminated with lead.
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ConsumerLab.com found problems with 29% of the vitamin D supplements selected for testing and review. Vitamin D plays a critical role in bone health, and higher blood levels are associated with reduced risk of heart attack and diseases including depression, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma. But you must choose vitamin D supplements carefully. We found the following problems in supplements containing vitamin D:
Two supplements with vitamin D in combination with calcium and vitamin K were contaminated with lead
A gummy supplement for children contained 251% of the listed amount of vitamin D, while a gummy for adults contained only 32% of the listed amount of vitamin D
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ConsumerLab.com also discovered that labels on two vitamin D products failed to disclose a potential allergen and another was missing a required FDA disclaimer.
Calcium is critical for building and maintaining strong bones and preventing osteoporosis. Calcium is also needed for the proper functioning of nerves, muscles, glands, and the cardiovascular system. Some people don't get enough calcium and can benefit from calcium supplements. At the same time, certain people may be increasing their risk of heart attack by taking too much calcium from supplements.
ConsumerLab.com's tests found that two calcium supplements were contaminated with lead, containing, respectively, up to 4.1 mcg and 5.2 mcg of lead per daily serving. In addition, two combination supplements with calcium provided the wrong amounts of vitamin D -- one had only 44% of the listed amount of vitamin D and the other contained far too much vitamin D -- 251% of the listed amount. These combination products also contained a form of vitamin K made from soy, but failed to list soy as a potential allergen. One other product failed to provide a required FDA disclaimer regarding claims made on its label.
You must join to get the test results and quality ratings for calcium supplements, including combination products with vitamin D and vitamin K. You will get results for 27 calcium supplements: 19 selected for testing by ConsumerLab.com and 8 others that passed Voluntary Certification Program testing. We also identify one product that is the same as one that passed testing but is sold under a different brand name. In this comprehensive report, you'll discover:
Which calcium supplements failed our quality ratings and which passed -- including combinations with vitamin D and vitamin K
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Her parents managed to keep their Jewish identity despite growing up in the denationalized environment of the Soviet Union.
Since she was a child Tamara has been actively involved with emerging Jewish organizations. She attended the first Jewish kindergarten in Belarus and then continued her Jewish journey in Chabad religious school «Lauder Shneur College». She has been attending the Young Leadership School for two years and has worked in day camps and family camps as both an assistant and madricha. She has also participated in seminars and Shabbatons, visited the Atlanta, Georgia JCC Camp Barney Medintz, and worked as a madricha in Camp Szarvash. Her warmth and care are well-known to the special needs children from Ivenets orphanage who she visited as part of Helping Hand program.
Her Jewish experiences not only re-connected her with her heritage and instilled the best of Jewish values in her. It also gave her a strong sense of community and commitment to it.
For several years Tamara has been running Youth Club, Jewish Story Time program and Rosh Hodesh program. In 2011 she became the head of the Youth Leadership program. Being promoted from amidst of young and promising leaders of her age, Tamara handled the challenge of asserting herself as a new program head brilliantly and her fiery hair has become a symbol of vibrant, dynamic and enthusiastic youth of JCC Emunah.
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QuadBlogging Connects Student Writers with Global AudiencesSeptember 25, 2012 | Suzie Boss
A blog without an audience is like...a library without books, a car without an engine, Beyonce without a ring. Those were some of the responses David Mitchell (@DeputyMitchell) got when he asked his Twitter followers to fill in the blank.
"We all understand the importance of audience," says Mitchell, an educator from the United Kingdom and vocal proponent of using blogs to engage student writers. His latest strategy to connect students with readers around the world is the online phenomenon known as QuadBlogging.
The idea is deceptively simple. Four teachers agree to have their students comment on each other's blogs in an organized fashion. Each week, one of the four gets a turn as the spotlight class. The other three classes visit and leave comments. Over the course of a month, every student's work gets read and commented upon. Along the way, students learn about respectful online communication. They may decide to revise their thinking if a commenter shares a perspective they haven't considered.
Mitchell hatched the idea almost by chance with three other schools in the UK. It quickly went viral. In the year since he set up a website to connect interested teachers, QuadBlogging has spread to 2,000 schools in 40 countries. That translates to 100,000 students who are becoming more motivated writers.
Mitchell, deputy headmaster at Heathfield Community Primary School in Bolton, England, isn't exaggerating when he says blogging leads to better writing. He's seen it happen. The first year he introduced blogging to his Grade 6 students, the number who earned top writing scores on British achievement tests increased from 9 percent to 60 percent. "That kind of gain in one year is unheard of," says the veteran educator. Similar growth occurred the next year, when students made the equivalent of two years' progress in writing during one academic year.
Along with measurable results, Mitchell has gathered plenty of anecdotal evidence. Early on, he heard from young bloggers who said they put more time and care into their writing -- so long as someone was listening. "It became my mission to get them an audience," he says. He didn't let them down. His student bloggers have been featured on the BBC and taken the stage at BETT, the world's largest ed tech conference.
Hear more about the backstory of QuadBlogging in Mitchell's presentation to the #140conf12 State of Now Conference in New York.
As more teachers jump onto the QuadBlogging bandwagon, they are sharing insights about what works best with their students. One elementary foursome used their collaborative experience as the focus for action research. Like Mitchell, they found that shared blogging motivated students to write more and produce writing of higher quality. Read highlights of their findings on Silvia Tolisano's Langwitches blog and Inquire Within, a group blog dedicated to inquiry.
Mike Gwaltney (@MikeGwaltney), social studies teacher at both Oregon Episcopal School in Portland, Oregon, and the Online School for Girls, is embarking on his second round of QuadBlogging. This time around, his students are collaborating with classes from Iowa, Baltimore, and France. During U.S. Presidential election season, government students will exchange views with peers from diverse contexts. "It's red and blue states; East Coast, West Coast, and the Midwest; U.S. and international viewpoints," he says.
Providing students with a ready forum for exchanging ideas helps Gwaltney meet a goal that goes beyond academic learning. "My students gain new perspective. They'll tell me, I didn't used to think this way," he says. That's a sign that students are developing "global empathy," a phrase Gwaltney credits to Alan November. "It comes from talking to people who occupy a different place in the world. You may find that your stereotypes are incorrect, and that we're more alike than different in our experiences."
Follow Gwaltney's QuadBloggers in the coming weeks on The Age of Exploration Blog . Students also will be tweeting about their collaborative learning experiences using the hashtag #quad103.
Back in the UK, Mitchell has his hands full between daily school duties and managing the growing network of QuadBloggers. Meanwhile, he's busy dreaming up more digital projects. PassTheBlog is a collaborative writing project shared by 52 teachers; each classroom "owns" the blog and its content for a week. It launched in June, and teacher slots filled up within the first day he mentioned it on Twitter (#passtheblog). Another project, Feb29th.net was a 24-hour phenomenon on Leap Day. The site received 12,000 posts, 5,000 comments, and 400,000 hits during its one-day-only publishing lifecycle.
Mitchell doesn't seem to mind putting in late-night shifts to keep these collaborative efforts humming. "I have a passion to do it," he says simply.
In fact, he's already working on his next innovation. By the end of the year, he hopes to launch a site called The Multitude, which will recruit "real-world" readers for students' blogs. The idea is to reach outside the world of education and connect students with the authentic audiences they crave. Comments would be moderated, likely by Mitchell and perhaps a team of volunteers.
For businesses, this could be an easy way to meet corporate social responsibility goals by asking employees to volunteer a few minutes to comment on student blogs. "It's a way for businesses to give back to education," Mitchell says.
For students, connecting with readers who aren't teachers or students would provide even more motivation to write well. Imagine the opportunities for students working on projects to connect with technical experts who could help them move their ideas along. "We tend too often to pacify and patronize students," Mitchell says, "but instead, we can safely expose them to the world."
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AnyBody: Parents are ignoring their children for their BlackBerry
Okay, I admit it: Sometimes I ignore my children for my BlackBerry - mostly for work-related reasons, although, to be totally honest, there's the occasional personal e-mail or text in there, too. It's just so hard to disregard that bright red flash, signaling a new message. I mean, what if there's a problem with my next column? Maybe an editor is writing with a plum new freelance assignment. . . . What if my babysitter can't make it tomorrow, or there's some pressing missive from a friend?
Before you start throwing stones, dear readers, I've seen YOU out there ignoring your kids, too: Typing furiously on your smartphone at Starbucks or, while your offspring sit across the table, equally engrossed in handheld video games; checking Facebook or playing online Scrabble in the carpool line; texting away during soccer practice; and staring at your cell - instead of your charges - at the playground. And I won't even mention those of you who sneak peeks at red lights, with the kids in the back seat, since that's now illegal in many places and dangerous everywhere.
Forget stressing about young people's texting, Twitter and gaming habits. Increasingly, it is adults' constant, obsessive use of these technologies that's coming under fire.
"It's now children who are complaining about their parents' habits," says clinical psychologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who interviewed more than 300 young people and 150 adults for her new book, "Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other."
What she found, over and over again, was children who feel that their parents often pay less attention to them than to their smartphones, particularly at mealtime, in the car at school pickup and during games or sport events - but even, on occasion, during bedtime stories.
"These are not people who are dysfunctional, who are out of control, who are addicted - they've just kind of let things get away from us," says Turkle. "It starts with the reality that people are expected to be online 24-7 - we're on all the time for our jobs - and it ends in the fantasy of 'there's something new just around the corner, waiting in your in box.' "
While there are many upsides to technology and constant connectivity, experts say there's also a cost for not paying as much attention to one another, especially within families. For one thing, parents who are easily distracted by their phones or iPads are modeling potentially harmful behavior for their impressionable children, says Patrick Kelly, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
He adds that putting these devices first can create discipline issues, too - as with my friend Hannah's 2-year-old son, who has taken to shouting "no, no, no!" and throwing Hannah's BlackBerry on the floor whenever she picks it up to check e-mail.
"If you're taking [parental attention] away from the child, for what looks like it is not a good reason, kids might think, 'What am I doing wrong that my parents don't like me?' and may start acting out to get their parents' attention because they have a hard time distinguishing positive from negative attention," says Kelly.
He has had couples bring a child in for a psychological evaluation and then start texting or e-mailing while their offspring is opening up, answering personal questions. "It's just like [putting a child in] a timeout: If you remove yourself from your child, that's punishment, and when that happens for no reason that a child can comprehend, it sends mixed messages and creates a lot of distress in the child's life, particularly younger children who just don't get that Mommy's working or Daddy has to take this call but will be back in five minutes."
For those who counter that Facebook and text messaging are helping them stay more in touch with their kids than ever before, experts stress that while these technologies can be a positive communication tool, there is simply no substitute for face-to-face contact. "Being able to look your child in the eye, to reflect what they're thinking and to be excited about the big test or disappointed about that breakup, and to really be there with them in a way you can't be in a text, is incredibly valuable, because it teaches kids to reflect on their own mental state and shows they're not alone in the world," says Kelly. "Eye contact is the number-one sign that you're relating to your kid."
As it turns out, we're also hurting ourselves when we juggle work, children and various technology tools at the same time. "Multitasking has been heralded for quite a few years as a skill we needed to master in order to catch up with our children, but research is now showing that the more we multitask, the more we degrade our performance in every one of those tasks," says Turkle. Her book cites a 2009 study from Stanford University, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It found that heavy multitaskers performed much worse on a series of cognitive and memory tests that involved distraction than those who focused on just one thing at a time.
Obviously, there are many parents - and families - who do manage technology responsibly, setting limits and spending tech-free time with their children or partners every day. All of the experts I interviewed recommend this. Some sainted moms and dads even put down their smartphones entirely when the kiddies are around.
But as I sit here writing this article, checking my BlackBerry for e-mails on another looming deadline and paying bills online, while monitoring with one ear a sick child, I particularly appreciate Turkle's sane, practical approach to this problem. "I specifically do not use term 'addiction,' because if you're addicted [to technology use], you have one choice and one choice only - to throw it away - and we're not going to throw this away," she says. "These technologies are with us, but we have to learn to live with them in a healthy way, according to our human values. And our human values are not to put our kids fifth, after texts, e-mail, Twitter and everything else."
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The headlines this summer are full of gloom and doom about the upcoming 2012-2013 school year.
Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off. State and local governments are cutting like crazy and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has released a report warning about the looming sequestration of the federal education budget.
It shouldn’t be like this. According to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, the economy is growing – and has been since July 2009. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared an end to the recession three years ago. We’re now in “recovery.”
In fact, the average rate of growth in real gross domestic product (total US economic output adjusted for inflation) over the past three years has been 2.2 percent per year. That’s not great, but it’s good enough. So, why all the cuts?
With the economy growing 2.2 percent per year, there’s no reason we can’t increase school budgets by 2.2 percent per year. If society’s total resources were distributed the same now as they was in the recession school year of 2008-2009, education budgets would be 6.6 percent higher now than they were then. And that’s in inflation-adjusted dollars.
Instead, school budgets have been slashed in each of the last three school years and they’re on track to be slashed again for 2012-2013.
Where has the money gone? In two words: corporate profits.
Last week, the Bureau of Economic analysis released revised estimates for corporate profits in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The news was bad: corporate profits in every year were lower than originally thought, as reported major news outlets like Reuters. Shed a tear for corporate America.
As it turns out, after-tax corporate profits rose by “only” 14.2 percent in 2009, 23.9 percent in 2010 and 8.9 percent in 2011.
There’s your education budget right there.
Why are federal, state and local governments cutting budgets when the economy is growing? The state and local governments have a good excuse: they can’t easily tax the corporate profits and executive bonuses that are easily shifted outside their jurisdictions.
The federal government has no excuse. The federal government can and should tax corporations and high-income individuals to support public education nationwide.
During the recession the federal government made up state and local budget shortfalls with temporary stimulus money. This funding prevented major cuts to public education during the recession itself, according to a report from the Center on Education Policy. Local education employment fell by only 26,000 jobs in the 2008-2009 recession school year.
Those modest cuts came on the back of a 172,000 increase in local education jobs in 2007-2008.
Now that the economy is expanding, local education employment should be expanding, too. The federal government has the power, reach and resources to tax the growing sectors of the economy in order to provide more resources for local education.
The compound growth in corporate profits has been 54.1 percent since the end of the recession. Executive salaries have grown at a similar pace. Even Forbes magazine admits that “executive compensation will only fuel the outrage over corporate greed.”
The economy is growing. The money is there. It’s our democratic choice: corporate profits or public schools. It’s up to us.
It’s up to you. You can support the education funding program of the National Education Association or join the legislative action campaign of the American Federation of Teachers. You don’t have to be a professional educator – or even a parent – to help promote America’s public schools.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- So you think you can dance at the Jefferson Memorial? Think again.
A federal judge has ruled against a woman who was arrested for dancing with a group of 17 others at the memorial dedicated to President Thomas Jefferson. The woman, Mary Oberwetter, and others were dancing to music on their headphones near midnight April 12, 2008, the eve of Jefferson's birthday.
A National Park Service officer told the group to stop dancing and arrested Oberwetter when she refused. Charges against her were later dropped.
But Oberwetter sued the Park Service last year, claiming a violation of her rights to free expression.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates says the inside of the memorial is not a public forum where people can dance, even if it's a silent dance party.
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The Pacific Coast Highway Gets Rocked
Winter rains caused rock slides that closed the most beautiful highway in California
A rumble, a smack, and then a crack… These sounds were easily heard while standing near the slopes near Point Mugu in mid-December and early January along the Pacific Coast Highway (SR-1), also known as PCH.
On the weekend of December 18 heavy rains caused rockslides along PCH near Point Mugu just miles north of the Big Sycamore Maintenance Yard in Ventura County. Unfortunately, the rocks did not just fall on the shoulder of the highway, they had a bigger impact.
According to the Ventura County Fire Department, a large rock fell onto a car causing the motorist to flee from the car when it became engulfed in flames. The rock knocked the engine out of its block, but fortunately the motorist was not hurt. The highway had to be shut down.
PCH was closed for nine miles between Las Posas Road, to the north, and Yerba Buena Road, to the south from December 18 to January 8. Surfers, outdoor enthusiasts, and commuters had to find other ways around the area.
Even with the chance of getting hit by falling rocks District 7 maintenance crews responded to rockslide locations. Their job was to clear the highway to prevent rock piles and to provide access for public safety vehicles. “Some of the rocks were the size of Volkswagens,” said Maintenance Superintendent Patrick Porteus.
Engineering Geologist Gustavo Ortega was requested to evaluate the situation and recommend a solution. Ortega recommended that the rocks along the slopes with a potential to fall on the highway be removed, therefore the damage assessment team needed a contractor with the necessary skills. AIS Construction from Carpinteria, California whose specialty is scaling and stabilizing dangerous slopes was hired.
AIS removed the rocks and material from the face of the slope by hand with pry bars, picks, shovels, rope, and in some cases, air bags. Climbers attached to ropes and adorned with climbing gear removed rocks and debris while heavy equipment operators below loaded the rocks and debris into dirt haulers.
As repair crews progressed, they attempted to open the highway with a flagging operation on Monday, December 27. But heavy rains caused rocks and debris to fall onto the highway beyond the catchment basins. The highway had to be closed again.
A few sunny breaks in the storm allowed the work to continue.
At the end of the project, approximately 11,000 yards of material was removed from five of the rock slide sites. PCH was opened to the public on Saturday, January 8.
“We do not like to close any freeway or highway, but the danger along PCH to the public and Caltrans employees made it very necessary,” said Deputy District Director of Maintenance Dan Freeman. “Our crews opened the road when they were confident that the slopes were stable and there was no immediate possibility of falling rocks.
Be sure to check out the video and pictures.
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From the "About" page on that website:
This Hebrew transliteration program is created by Joshua Waxman. It is in beta, which means there are still some rough edges to it.
At the present moment, there are only three transliteration schemes supported. More will be added later. These three are:
- Academic Unicode
- Academic Font Friendly
There is also Ashkenazic. This is not my own personal way of transliterating Hebrew -- for example, I use "e" for sheva na rather than single quote -- but it seems a fairly common way.
Still to come:
More transliteration schemes. This is important for the different types of users of this program, as well as handling Google searches for Hebrew transliterated text better.
Also, handling tzeireis in a more natural way. At the present time, in my "Ashkenazic" transliteratikon, eileh and yisraeil both use "ei" to handle the short tzeirei. In actual informal use, a simple "e" would be used for "yisrael." This seems to be a difference between open and closed syllables, and one which does not accord with formal rules of standard dikduk (for eileh is also a closed syllable, with the gemination of lamed). I am in the process of writing a chunker to formally and informally separate syllables, and choose appropriate transliteration on that basis.
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Located in Edmonton, Canada, Jasper Place Branch Library was designed by Hughes Condon Marler Architects. The new Jasper Place Library design encompasses the Edmonton Public Library’s aspirations to create a flexible, open and memorable presence in the community. The design satisfies the following aims: a welcoming space that acts as an inclusive designation for all demographics of the community; a distinctive building that announces its unique role in the neighbourhood as a place for public use; and a sustainable building that will fulfill present and future library needs.
With an eye to a potentially bookless future, this iconic 15,000 sq ft library is focused more on social spaces than on books. The ground floor is occupied by staff functions as well as a double-height reading room consisting of book stacks and reading areas. This public area extends above the staff area to a mezzanine level overlooking the central space. Stairs – some of which are designed to double as reading spaces or an amphitheatre – are located at each end of the mezzanine to form a continuous circulation loop for patrons.
This landmark project will generate civic pride, with its distinctive roofscapes and strong profiles set against the prairie sky and surrounding trees. The facility will set the larger Meadowlark Community apart from other communities within Edmonton. From the road, the concrete roof acts as a unifying enclosure and reinforces the continuity of public space. The design takes advantage of the site’s exposure to vehicle and pedestrian traffic and the potential of light rail transit along the adjacent road to the west. For the community, it offers a friendly welcome by using transparency to open its south and west faces to passersby.
Sustainability on all fronts is a central focus. The design seeks to create a memorable space of lasting social value. The functional longevity is strengthened by an open, flexible floor plan that can accommodate future reorganisation and adaptation. The facility is targeting LEED®-Silver certification.
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Looking for an easy way to improve your brain function, delay mental aging, and live longer? Believe it or not, simple lifestyle changes can help.
Dr. Joseph Mercola says: “You might be surprised to learn that not only do such strategies exist, but many are easily attainable by making simple tweaks here and there to your daily routine.”
Here are the top nine strategies recommended by Dr. Mercola to help improve your mental health and make you smarter.
When you exercise, your cells release proteins called neurotrophic factors. One of these proteins is called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which works by triggering chemicals that promote neural health and helps improve your cognitive and learning function.
“Exercise encourages your brain to work at optimum capacity by causing nerve cells to multiply, strengthening their interconnections and protecting them from damage,” explains Dr. Mercola.
He recommends a comprehensive program like Peak Fitness that includes high-intensity exercises, strength training, stretching, and core work, so that you can make the most out of your workouts.
2. Get Enough Sleep.
Sleep helps “reset” your brain so you can look at problems or issues from a different angle, helping you become more creative. It also enhances your memory and helps you take control of challenging situations. In one Harvard study, it was found that sleeping helps people become 33 percent better at inferring connections among distantly related ideas.
“Sleep is not only essential for regenerating your physical body, but it is imperative for reaching new mental insights and being able to see new creative solutions to old problems,” says Dr. Mercola.
3. Increase Your Intake of Animal-Based Omega-3 Fats.
Sixty percent of your brain is made up of fat, 25 percent of which is the omega-3 fat called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The influence of omega-3 fats on your physical and mental health has been greatly debated and researched. There is also compelling evidence that these fats may reduce the risk of or potentially reverse psychiatric illnesses and degenerative brain problems, like memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease.
The problem with omega-3 fats is that they are not created in your body. This is why you must increase your intake of these healthy fats through your diet.
To compensate for an inherently low omega-3 diet, a high-quality animal-based omega-3 krill oil supplement is recommended for virtually everyone, especially if you’re pregnant.
4. Get Enough Vitamin D.
Nerve growth in your brain increases through your activated vitamin D receptors. According to researchers, the hippocampus and cerebellum – brain areas that are crucial for planning, processing of information, and forming memories –also have localized metabolic pathways for vitamin D.
Appropriate sun exposure is the best way to ensure that your body creates enough vitamin D. If you live in an area where it is difficult to get enough sunlight, Dr. Mercola recommends a safe tanning bed or a vitamin D3 supplement. However, there is no “magic dosage” for vitamin D, though, so you should get your vitamin D levels tested to ensure that you are within optimal and therapeutic ranges.
5. Try Coconut Oil.
Ketones, also called ketone bodies or ketoacids, are a type of substance created by your body when fat is converted into energy. Ketones “feed” your brain, reduce your risk of brain atrophy, and may also restore proper neuron and nerve function even after it has been damaged.
You can get ketones from medium chain triglycerides (MCT) found in coconut oil. This healthy oil contains at least 66 percent MCTs. According to research by Dr. Mary Newport, just two tablespoons of coconut oil will give you 20 grams of MCT – an amount enough to prevent or treat degenerative neurological diseases (link).
It is best to take coconut oil with food, so it will not upset your stomach. “My recommendation is to start with one teaspoon, taken with food in the mornings. Gradually add more coconut oil every few days until you are able to tolerate four tablespoons,” advises Dr. Mercola.
6. Optimize Your Gut Flora.
Your gut health impacts not only your brain function, but also your physical health and mental behavior. Your gut is your second brain and is heavily dependent on your diet and lifestyle.
Dr. Mercola points out a close connection between abnormal gut flora and abnormal brain development. Just as you have neurons in your brain, you also have neurons in your gut — including neurons that produce neurotransmitters like serotonin, which is also found in your brain and is linked to your mood.
To ensure optimal gut health, he advises you to avoid processed foods and sugar, and increase your intake of traditionally fermented foods that are rich in good bacteria. He also recommends taking a high-quality probiotic supplement.
7. Avoid Vitamin B12 Deficiency.
Being deficient in vitamin B12 may lead to mental fogginess and memory problems. Recent research claims that people with vitamin B12 deficiency are more prone to getting low scores on cognitive tests. They also have a smaller total brain volume, suggesting that insufficient levels of this vitamin may affect brain shrinkage.
Another Finnish study also revealed that people who consumed B12-rich foods may reduce their Alzheimer’s disease risk during their senior years (link).
Natural vitamin B12 is available in animal food sources, such as beef, seafood, pork, chicken, milk, and eggs. If you cannot consume sufficient amounts of these foods, vitamin B12 supplementation is recommended.
8. Listen to Music.
A recent study shows that listening to music while working out may help improve cognitive levels and verbal fluency skills in people with coronary artery disease. The study reveals that the verbal fluency area more than doubled after listening to music, as compared to a non-music workout session.
“Listening to music has also been associated with enhanced cognitive functioning and improved mental focus among healthy adults, so take advantage of this simple pleasure whenever you can,” says Dr. Mercola.
9. Try Brain Aerobics.
The structure of neurons and the connections in between them changes as you learn, which is why you must make it a point to learn something new every day. You can do this by reading books, participating in social activities, traveling, or learning a new language or how to play a musical instrument.
You can also do brain aerobics, which are simple mind-training exercises that help improve your brain power. Mind aerobics can be as simple as doing crossword puzzles or playing intellectually-stimulating board games.
For more useful holistic tips to improve your health and well-being, read Dr. Mercola’s articles.
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Mostly all computer languages are good for learning about the way that computers work. But if you want to write a program to port scan, exploit vulnerabilities, or process files for you, a game programming language isn't the only thing you need to learn. Years ago, I learned GML (Game Maker Language) and programmed many prototypes for various games in it. Later on, when I started learning C++ and Java, I realized how stupid and pointless GML was and I now never use GML except to play around with game concepts. Although I'm not saying that Dark Basic is a bad language, what I'm saying is that it isn't a suitable language to do everything in.
I recommend for you to move onto another language and learn it well. Try learning Basic if it is similar to Dark Basic. Then try moving onto C++ and Java. Those are the two most dominant languages out there right now. Java is a very fun, simple, and powerful language with cross-platform capabilities. C++ on the other hand, is a very complex and very powerful language. C++ in my opinion is better simply because it has a much greater library of stuff to use. You name it, and it has already been done in C++ before. Servers, databases, client applications, services, games, even other languages. Perl and Lua are two very high level languages built on top of C (C and C++ are almost the same thing).
As a wise centipede once said: "google is your friend"
Good luck to you!
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July 29, 2011
The release of data from the iPrEx study of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in gay and bisexual men and transgender women has led to a good deal of debate about whether and how PrEP should be used. Unfortunately, some of that debate has been fueled by misrepresentations of the study data and, perhaps more alarmingly, by groundless assertions that gay/bi men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) will misuse PrEP, spread drug resistance and act without regard to their health or the health of others if PrEP is made available. A paid ad campaign by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation running in gay papers across the country has contributed to spreading false ideas both about PrEP and about the commitment of gay/bi men to care for themselves and others. We reject those false assertions and want a full and factual discussion of the pros and cons of PrEP in our community.
Recently, two additional studies, Partners PrEP and the CDC's TDF2 study have confirmed the safety and efficacy of PrEP, this time in heterosexual women and men.
A small group of HIV positive gay/bi men who are committed to promoting safer sex and the open exchange of accurate information are circulating the following letter to help clarify the facts about PrEP, open up community discussion and make clear our belief that we are entitled to respect, accurate information and new HIV prevention tools.
This sign-on letter is part of a broad array of advocacy activities being undertaken by the national PrEP Committee. Members of the PrEP Committee include individuals from a host of organizations working on PrEP and other new prevention technologies who meet regularly by phone and email to share information and strategize. For allies who are not HIV+ gay/bi men, you can learn more about this work and how to participate by sending an email to Jim Pickett at firstname.lastname@example.org.
We encourage HIV+ gay/bi men who are allied in the fight against AIDS to help us clear the record about PrEP by signing on to this letter.
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Holland Water Challenge
ABOUT HWC SINGAPORE
The 2nd edition of the Singapore-Netherlands Water Challenge has been launched!
Under the theme Adaptive Solutions for Climate Change the challenge is inviting students and young researchers worldwide with an interest in environmental sustainability and climate adaptation to propose solutions relating to their own local environment. The challenge is open for participation to undergraduate and postgraduate students from all relevant disciplines, including but not limited to environmental science and engineering, water management, urban design and planning, coastal engineering, governance and policy.
The Call for Abstracts is closing on the 17th of October after which selected students will work with the partners to further develop their proposals. A special event for students in Singapore is organised on the 2nd of October at the Aquatic Science Centre. You will receive more details shortly.
As previously, we will take care to maximise visibility for our partners and sponsors throughout the program. Your organisation names and logos are included in all communication materials and featured on the new water challenge website. A brief profile is included in the Call for Entries (attached).
Finally, a special welcome and thank-you to Martin Smouter, Area Manager Asia at Van Oord. Van Oord is the lead industry partner for the challenge this year.
Attached the official Call for Entries. Website: www.hollandwaterchallenge.nl/
Singapore and the Netherlands have enjoyed strong relations for centuries, resulting in successful cooperation in many areas across industry, education, research, culture and government policy. More than anything else, Singapore and the Netherlands share a special relationship with water.
Over many years, both countries built extensive expertise and experience in delta and water technology. Building on their global leadership and honouring the long-standing relationship, Singapore and The Netherlands are proud to the present the annual Singapore-Netherlands Water Challenge & Sustainability Award.
The Singapore-Netherlands Water Challenge aims to strengthen the relationship between the water sectors of Singapore and the Netherlands by creating a bilateral platform for knowledge exchange and talent development. To this end, the programme is focused on two key deliverables:
I. Sharing Experiences & Successes
Singaporean and Dutch organisations – both public and private – cooperate in many areas of the water sector. While the nature and objectives of their activities are very diverse, they increasingly recognise the importance of sharing expertise and best-practices across the whole water-cycle. The Water Challenge programme creates regular opportunities for parties to meet, establish new business connections and highlight opportunities for cooperation.
II. Attracting & Educating Young Talent
For Singapore and the Netherlands to deal successfully with the many water-related challenges they face in the coming years, there is a critical dependency on young talent. As it is, both countries are confronted with growing shortages of water professionals. Here lies a joint interest of both the public and private sector to invest in talent development. Bringing out the very best the Singaporean and Dutch water sectors have to offer, the Water Challenge seeks to inspire young talent in both countries to take an active part in finding innovative solutions for sustainable water management.
For more information click here.
“Where innovation and knowledge meet water technology, a world of possibility awaits. Both Singapore and the Netherlands are proven leaders in the quest for sustainable economic growth and maximization of human resources, leveraging the promising global water sector. As we continue to explore these vital subjects, there are innumerable opportunities for bilateral cooperation– not only between our two countries, but also between businesses, governments, individuals, and knowledge institutions, on an international scale. Bright, enquiring young minds are invited to accept this challenge to help unlock water’s vast potential.”
– Johannes W.G. Jansing, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Singapore
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Daniel Lee Kulick, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Dr. Kulick received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Southern California, School of Medicine. He performed his residency in internal medicine at the Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center and a fellowship in the section of cardiology at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.
Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
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- A heart attack results when a blood clot completely obstructs a coronary artery supplying blood to the heart muscle and heart muscle dies.
- The blood clot that causes the heart attack usually forms at the site of rupture of an atherosclerotic, cholesterol plaque on the inner wall of a coronary artery.
- The most common symptom of heart attack is chest pain.
- The most common complications of a heart attack are heart failure and ventricular fibrillation.
- The risk factors for atherosclerosis and heart attack include elevated cholesterol levels, increased blood pressure, tobacco use, diabetes, male gender, and a family history of heart attacks at an early age.
- Heart attacks are diagnosed with electrocardiograms and measurement of cardiac enzymes in blood.
- Treatment guidelines emphasize treatment at a hospital capable of doing PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) also termed as stenting or stent placement.
- Early reopening of blocked coronary arteries reduces the amount of damage to the heart and improves the prognosis for a heart attack.
- Medical treatment for heart attacks may include antiplatelet, anticoagulant, and clot dissolving drugs as well as angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, beta blockers, and oxygen.
- Interventional treatment for heart attacks may include coronary angiography with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), coronary artery stents, and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
- Patients suffering a heart attack are hospitalized for several days to detect heart rhythm disturbances, shortness of breath, and chest pain.
- Further heart attacks can be prevented by aspirin, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, discontinuing smoking, weight reduction, exercise, good control of blood pressure and diabetes, following a low cholesterol and low saturated fat diet that is high in omega-3-fatty acids, taking multivitamins with an increased amount of folic acid, decreasing LDL cholesterol, and increasing HDL cholesterol.
What is a heart attack?
A heart attack (also known as a myocardial infarction or MI) is the damage and death of heart muscle from the sudden blockage of a coronary artery by a blood clot. Coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply the heart muscle with blood and oxygen. Blockage of a coronary artery deprives the heart muscle of blood and oxygen, causing injury to the heart muscle. Injury to the heart muscle causes chest pain and chest pressure sensation. If blood flow is not restored to the heart muscle within 20 to 40 minutes, irreversible death of the heart muscle will begin to occur. Muscle continues to die for six to eight hours at which time the heart attack usually is "complete." The dead heart muscle is eventually replaced by scar tissue.
Approximately one million Americans suffer a heart attack each year. Four hundred thousand of them die as a result of their heart attack.
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"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion is already born." - Ronald Reagan
"Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." - Ronald Reagan 1982
"I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. - Hillary Clinton
"I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is "Abortion", because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, "Murder" by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts... - Mother Teresa
"I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct." - Sandra Bernhard
"America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life." - Pope John Paul II
In an appearance on the Sally Jesse Raphael show on March 6, 1998, Naomi Judd, country singer, explained that when she became pregnant as an unwed teenager, abortion was "not an option for me." "Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse ... I've seen ultrasounds ... you know that those babies are real." She reminded the audience that if she had had an abortion, the world would have been deprived of the great singing talent of her daughter and fellow performer Wynonna Judd.
"Nobody wants to perform abortions after ten weeks, because by then you see the features of the baby, hands, feet. It's really barbaric." - abortionist quoted in M.D. Doctors Talk About Themselves, by John Pekkanen, p. 93
"If it isn't a baby, then you aren't pregnant, so what are you aborting?" - Author Unknown
Madonna is not pro-life; however, she did say the following after looking at an ultrasound of her daughter Lourdes: "I was stunned when I saw on the ultrasound a tiny, living creature spinning around in my womb. Tap-dancing, I think. Waving its tiny arms around and trying to suck its thumb. I could have sworn I heard it laughing." - Madonna (Source: World Magazine, December 1996)
"If the unborn is not a human person, no justification for abortion is necessary. However, if the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate." - Gregory Koukl
"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State." - Edward Abbey
"Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive." - Author Unknown
"I got to where I couldn't stand to look at the little bodies anymore" - Dr. Beverly McMillan, when asked why she stopped performing abortions.
"If we don't know if the unborn is alive, why take the risk? If it's not alive, then why is an abortion necessary?" - Allison Martinez
"We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus ..." - Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General
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Bury (bĕˈrē) [key], city (1991 pop. 60,785) and metropolitan district, NE England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area on the Irwell River and linked by canal with Bolton and Manchester. A textile city since the time of Edward III, when wool weaving was introduced by the Flemings, Bury has factories for the spinning, weaving, and bleaching of cotton. Hats, paper, machines, and boilers are among its other manufactures. Robert Peel, the statesman, and John Kay, inventor of the "flying shuttle," were born in Bury.
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Jerusalem Religious Leaders on Environment
Adelie penguins walk on the ice at Cape Denison in Antarctica in this 2009 file photo. Religious leaders have urged people to take their faith-based commitment to the stewardship of God’s creation to the U.N. Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil 20-22 June. (photo: CNS/Paukine Askin, Reuters)
22 Mar 2012 by Judith Sudilovsky
JERUSALEM (CNS) — Religious leaders in
Jerusalem urged peoples of all denominations to take their
faith-based commitment to the stewardship of Gods
creation to the U.N. Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable
Development in Brazil June 20-22.
We need to bring an invitation for all religious
leaders from all faiths to speak publicly, with
determination, so that we turn religion into a part of the solution rather than ... risking more and more becoming part of the problem, Melkite Archbishop Elias Chacour of Haifa told Catholic News Service at the March 19 Interfaith Climate and Energy Conference coordinated by the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development.
People have an immense power to respect the
beauty of nature through the expression of their faith,
Archbishop Chacour said, and by using this faith they can
work toward forming an alliance with others to protect the
earth and its natural resources.
I dont (care) if others believe in what I believe in ... but I would like them to consider my positive attitude toward creation. When God created not only the planet but the entire cosmos, he said, ‘This is very good. He created man and woman both in his likeness, and he commissioned them to go and care for the world as if he is saying to them: ‘You be my place-taker, the archbishop said.
For me as a Christian the environment is not a modern topic, it is one of the most ancient topics on earth, he added.
If read attentively, Christian theology and
philosophy can be used to lead the faithful toward a
positive attitude not only for their environment, but also
for the entire cosmos, he said.
This is a starting point, he said. And this will be reflected around us, in our homes and in our societies.
Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III noted that religious leaders not only can influence the faithful in their communities but also all aspects of political life.
There are people who hold (political) positions
who are believers and do follow instructions from their religious leadership, he said. There must be harmony between humanity and creation.
On a more practical level, said Rabbi Yonathan
Neril, founder and director of the Interfaith Center for
Sustainable Development, religious leaders and
institutions have the potential to mobilize billions of
followers in the global struggle to curb climate change and
achieve sustainable development, not only through their
congregation but also through their educational
Religious leaders are some of the most influential
leaders in the world at the grass-roots level ... part of their work is to leverage their moral authority of world
religious leadership to promote a more sustainable planet, said Neril.
Tags: Middle East Christians Jerusalem Interreligious United States Sustainable Development
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Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studio – Irvine, California
An official document by Mercedes-Benz on its Californian Advanced Design Studio in Irvine that illustrates the main activities, the design philosophy and explains the choice of Los Angeles as the ideal location for the studio.
cover image: the Mercedes-Benz SiverFlow concept created by the Irvine Design Studio
This offical document was released by by Mercedes-Benz in its 2008 HighTech Report published on 9 April 2008. The Californian Design Studio will move from Irvine to Carlsbad on July 2008.
The Advanced Design Studio in Irvine feeds inspiring concepts from California into the global market for pioneering vehicles.
The Advanced Design Studio in Irvine near Los Angeles opened in June 1990 as the first Mercedes-Benz design studio outside of Germany.
Today, the approximately 1,200 square meter facility employs 18 designers and model constructors who work on the vehicle designs of tomorrow and beyond, and are
assisted by one or two interns from design schools in the area.
The design center in Irvine regularly shares ideas — and staff — with its sister studios in Yokohama and Sindelfingen.
A fourth studio in Como, Italy, which has around 20 employees, focuses exclusively on interior vehicle design.
The mirrored glass facade on Cowan Street in Irvine, California, harbors a workshop where experts continually contemplate the future of automotive design — even though very few of their ideas will ever see the light of day.
Those lucky enough to be able to visit Mercedes-Benz’ North American Advanced Design Studio near Los Angeles are allowed a look into the brainstorming processes of vehicle designers whose activities are normally a well-guarded secret.
Futuristic vehicle models scaled 1:4 are displayed on platforms at the design center in Irvine, and the walls are adorned with large-format sketches of vehicles that will either be presented at auto shows from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, or else built exclusively for internal development studies.
Examples include an all-wheel-drive search and rescue vehicle equipped with thick cleated tires for desert driving, state-of-the art satellite technology, rescue tools, a hydrogen drive system, and a four-door luxury convertible named “Ocean Drive” that combines the sleek power of the S-Class with the elegance of the legendary 300D “Adenauer” from the 1960s.
Also on view is an initial prototype of the F 700 research vehicle, which features state-of-the-art technology for enhanced safety and comfort as well as an aerodynamic profile that takes its cue from the shape of a dolphin.
Finally, there’s a particularly bold vehicle study code-named “Silverflow” which, depending on the driving situation, can alter its appearance at the push of a button, like a projectile made of liquid metal.
The futuristic car can be compressed or extended, and even repair itself. Inspiration from neighboring Hollywood and its special effects obviously played a role here.
Free-flowing ideas “Advanced Design is a creative oasis — an island in the sea of production, where you can let your ideas flow freely without worrying about how to get them to the series production stage,” says Gorden Wagener, Vice President for Global Advanced Design.
Some 60 designers work at the three locations on concepts that will keep Mercedes-Benz at the cutting edge of automotive developments for the next 50 years or more.
Together with model constructors, these specialists create exterior design styles behind closed doors. They also work closely with engineers to develop the technological innovations that are often hidden under the vehicles’ futuristic-looking shells.
The activities of the three studios are complemented by an Interior Design Center in Como, Italy, where 20 creative minds tap into the inspiring innovations that can be found in neighboring Milan, a famous center of fashion and furniture design.
This global network has resulted in “continual competition to come up with the best solutions,” says Wagener as he leads us on a tour of the modest-looking facility in Irvine. Wagener’s team develops new concepts and models in a two-story building surrounding an enclosed courtyard lined with palm trees.
Around half of their developments make their way into the ongoing product design process at the company’s headquarters in Sindelfingen.
Beneficiaries include new versions of Mercedes-Benz model series such as the A, G, and S-Class. The other half are bold visions for the automotive world of the 22nd century — visions that for now at least are limited to the drawing board or the computer screen.
Balancing act “Design is emotional — it should display not only the personal signatures of the designers themselves but also the influence of the places where they work,” says Wagener.
When these three aspects form a perfect constellation, an initial sketch in Irvine, Yokohama, or Sindelfingen will eventually end up as a new vehicle model that can be on the global market some three years later.
The concepts for the new CL and SLK originated in southern California, for example. In addition, Irvine produced the prototype for an extraordinary compact car — formerly called the MCC — which hit the streets of California as the smart fortwo at the beginning of this year.
Designers take note of how many of their ideas make it from the note pad to the showroom.
Like its counterparts in Germany and Japan, the U.S. design studio regularly submits a series of concepts that provide a strategic foundation for the development of new models or bold research (F) and vision (V) vehicles. Although the timeline for these concepts varies, they must all be able to transport the core messages of the Mercedes brand into the future.
“We intentionally collect various approaches with global aspects, because each studio is influenced by its specific cultural surroundings,” says Wagener, who visits the studios in Germany and Japan at least once a month.
After all, creativity cannot be managed exclusively by phone, e-mail, and videoconferencing: “Designers need to present their ideas personally in order to promote them successfully.”
From paper to clay
Each design project can produce as many as 20 proposals that are examined by the Group’s Board of Management, which then chooses three or four promising ideas.
These ideas make the leap from a sketch or a computer animation to a detailed, varnished clay model. The process ends with one selected model being built to scale at headquarters in Germany.
“It’s an unbelievably great feeling to see your baby on the road,” says Chris Rhoades, who together with Wagener and Senior Vice President Peter Pfeiffer developed the concept for the Group’s latest research vehicle — the F 700, which is a futuristic version of the S-Class.
F700 Concept – CAD screenshot
The vehicle, whose aerodynamically streamlined design is based on bionic techniques, is a computer lab on wheels that houses the latest innovations for comfort, safety, navigation, and environmental protection.
Its vertically arranged headlights, for example, contain intelligent laser scanners that monitor the road ahead, while a Diesotto engine with a hybrid module hums under the hood.
“F vehicles are like our free-style events; production design is our compulsory exercise,” says Wagener.
He views both as a challenge, however, since not having factory specifications to comply with doesn’t make it any easier to dream up creative designs.
Los Angeles: the ideal location
First of all, the LA metropolitan area, with its 13 million residents, is a mecca for car fans and enthusiasts who like to work on and improve their vehicles
in accordance with their personal tastes.
“There were several good reasons why we chose the LA area to open the first Advanced Design Studio outside of Germany in 1990,” says Benjamin Dimson, also a designer in Irvine. “For example, the people here are more obsessed with their cars than are people elsewhere.”
Lifestyle trends in and around LA continue to be driven by people’s desire to own automobiles tailored to their individual needs.
It was in Los Angeles, for example, that the surfing craze was born in the mid-1930s, and surfing eventually gave birth to skateboarding and snowboarding.
Of course, those who wish to go to the ocean, desert, or mountains to do any of these things need a network of highways. They also need vehicles like SUVs and pickups that can support the most diverse activities.
Even though such vehicles are often used only in cities, they nevertheless express the desire for an active lifestyle. And that’s exactly what drivers are looking for in the design of their vehicles.
The power of Hollywood
The first freeway in the region opened in 1935 — and the first publicized smog incident occurred in 1943.
Later on, in the mid-1970s, the first catalytic converters were launched inCalifornia. Today California remains the leader in the U.S. — if not the world — when it comes to passing emission and fuel economy regulations that oblige vehicle and engine designers to “think green” when going about their work.
Technical innovations from the Golden State, and Hollywood celebrities, are two additional key factors that continue to have a long-term impact on American society, the U.S. economy, and mobility in general.
In fact, the vehicles used in successful films, or driven by successful actors and actresses, often send a positive signal to consumers.
It’s therefore not surprising that all big-name automakers have set up design studios in the LA area to tap into the region’s creative minds, including students from the famous Art Center College of Design.
“We don’t blindly follow fashion here,” says Wagener. “Instead, we try to identify long-term trends that will increase the value of the Mercedes-Benz brand for decades to come – ideas that meet the highest demands for engineering, performance, comfort, and safety.”
That’s why designers must “live in the future” and think at least two or three vehicle generations (around 14–21 years) ahead.
“We get our inspiration for this,” says Wagener, “from all types of encounters — with other drivers in traffic jams or at traffic lights, at the beach, on the road, and from our in-house trend researchers in Germany.”
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'Joy of Cooking' comes to America
The French 'Joy of Cooking' gets an American version called 'I know How to Cook' -- an adaptation of the 1932 bible of French cooking.
Chef and blogger Clotilde Dusoulier lead the effort to make the bible of French cooking, "The Joy of Cooking," accessible to English speaking home cooks. Recently on "The World, she talked to anchor Marco Werman about her work and the book’s recipes.
"I Know How to Cook" is the name of the American version of the cook book, and hits US stores this month. The original version is in French. Accordingly, just about every household in France has a copy of “Je Sais Cuisiner.” Now 77 years after its first publication, it’s been translated for the first time.
Dusoulier adapted it for English and says she was very literal in the adaptation. The translation keeps intact such classics as boiled veal tongue for readers in the U.S.
"The book is very much a reference book on how to cook classic French dishes. So from the most basic vegetable meat and fish dishes to things that are a little more unusual such as innards and offal parts but that’s really more anecdotal I would say on the scale of the book which includes 1,400 recipes."
Many of the recipes are quite accessible; a few remain obscure. The book also features color photographs, a big difference from the very grey original “Je Sais Cuisiner.”
"It’s true that the French version is very much a paperback style kind of book that people keep on top of their fridge and don’t really think of as a glamorously designed book, but still one that serves its purpose beautifully."
In France, the original “Je Sais Cuisiner” remains relevant. Dusoulier says it serves as a practical, how-to kind of purpose.
"In France it’s very much the kind of book that the parents might give their child when he or she leaves the parent’s home. It’s used very much as a reference book. For instance you want to make a roast and you just want to know how to cook it. You know for how long and how you should prepare it. The kind of side dish that you might serve it with. So it’s a very practical oriented book."
Dusoulier says it's hard to select a few favorites from the 1,400 recipes in the book, but she's managed to do that.
"For instance I like the gouzer which are the cheese puffs ... I like them because first of all they are very, very good. Also they’re not that hard to make and they really make an impression because not everyone knows how to make patachou, the pastry dough that goes into those. But it’s really very simple."
Julia Child’s classic, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” has just been reissued. Dusoulier is quick to point out how her adaptation of Ginette Mathiot’s book compares with Julia Child’s classic.
"The big difference between Julia Child’s book and Ginette Mathiot’s book is that Julia Child had a professional culinary training, so her repertoire of recipes were very much chef recipes with all the technique and the sophistication that that entails. Whereas Ginette Mathiot, she was a home economics teacher, so in her book she takes home-style recipes and tries to teach them to home cooks. So they’re a lot simpler and in my opinion, less intimidating."
For those trying to impress some guests by cooking something that’s totally French but doesn’t take a lot of effort, Dusoulier has a suggestion:
"Well I have one dish that I plan to make for friends who are coming to dinner on Saturday and it’s called Lamb Shoulder Provencal. And it’s a stuffed and rolled lamb shoulder. So you basically make a meat stuffing with herbs that you spread on the lamb shoulder. You roll it up, tie it up, with string which is always impressive for some reason. And then you baste it for two and a half hours. It’s a very simple but rather impressive dish.
PRI's "The World" is a one-hour, weekday radio news magazine offering a mix of news, features, interviews, and music from around the globe. "The World" is a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston.
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We talked about Everex’s gPC last week, explaining that it’s basically a cheap PC running a version of Ubuntu that links directly to Google apps for most of its office functionality. What we didn’t know is that you can download gOS all by itself, burn it to a live or installation CD, and enjoy turning your $3,000 gaming rig into a $199 Wal-Mart clunker.
Why would you do this? Well, this product could ressurect your old PCs, which can then be given to parents or grandparents, ensuring tech support will be minimal on these new machines. You could also use gOS to create a decentralized document storage system for classrooms or training purposes, allowing you to give each of your students an on-line repository and saving cash on attached storage. The possibilities, as they say, are endless. Take a look at Lifehacker’s how-to and then get thee some gOS — or just Ubuntu.
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Almost all reported that they were targeted in last year’s highly publicized “distributed denial of service attacks” (DDOS) — efforts to disrupt access to Web sites by barraging servers with computer traffic. The assaults, which are ongoing, made headlines in the fall when U.S. officials said they believed they were launched by the Iranian government in retaliation for sanctions imposed because of Tehran’s nuclear program.
The disclosures are significant in that for years, companies, including banks, have been loath even to acknowledge that they have been victims of such incidents.
But it appears that SEC guidance issued in October 2011 making clear that companies need to report significant computerized theft or disruption, combined with greater public attention to the issue, is forcing more disclosure. Also, the fact that the banks hit by the DDOS attacks have been named in media accounts has made ignoring them more difficult.
Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, for instance, disclosed it had endured a DDOS attack early last year. “We did it as a way to be transparent,” said Debra DeCourcy, a bank spokeswoman. “If there is something else positive that can be gained from that, it’s all the better.”
DDOS incidents do not involve penetrating networks, but the assaults that washed over the banking industry in the fall were of such force and duration that banks have spent millions of dollars shoring up their security, industry officials said. Some analysts estimate that the collective cost comes to hundreds of millions of dollars.
The disruptions also got the attention of the White House and the national security community, which have been trying to help the private sector better handle such incidents. President Obama recently signed an executive order aimed at helping companies in critical sectors shore up their network security. Improved sharing of threat data between the government and companies is considered crucial to that effort.
Such corporations as eBay, LinkedIn, Level 3 Communications, Chesapeake Energy and AT&T have admitted they suffered intrusions or disruptions last year. “It’s almost naive for most large companies in the critical infrastructure sector to say that they aren’t subject to attack,’’ said Paul Smocer, president of BITS, a financial services trade organization.
The stepped-up disclosure, he said, “brings greater awareness, greater diagnosis and a desire to find a stronger cure” for system vulnerabilities.
Even with the new openness, security experts say the real scale of companies affected by cybersecurity incidents is much larger.
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Difference is !
Ivan Pavlov never had a collar.
One Shooter One Spaniel One Retriever
Actually Bill when we start to talk about the similarity or difference between a marker and negative re-enforcement, it's a completely different discussion.
You're right, there's definitely an association. Turning of the pressure would be the same as the food/toy on the other side of the equation.
I suppose the marker is just a step in the chain that happens to be missing when we use -r.
Along the same lines, you should be able to condition an association between a collar correction and a particular whistle tone or trill through consistent application. Once the association is made you should be able to maintain it with intermittent application of the collar and associated whistle tone. Ultimately, you should be able to get the desired response from just the conditioned whistle tone in situations where the dog does not have the collar on. I am sure people do this already but I do not consciously make it part of my training program. I do use whistle modulation to communicate with the dog.
When a dog knows sit-to-flush, and a bird gets up, it can be held to a high enough standard that sit is enforceable with the collar, without the command being given.][/QUOTE]
Dog sampling a pile of birds on a blind. Push button ---dog returns
Dog drops bird on his way back from retrieve,,dog is screwing around---push button dog picks up bird and straightens his act out.
Dog returns after retrieve--- handler starts BSing-- dog veers off because of handlers lack of focus-handler wakes up-- handle rpushes button---dog returns to heel
Dog rolls bird in mouth--handler pushes button---dog stops rolling
It works for any well conditioned response in context
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
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Brief SummaryRead full entry
The flightless Ostrich (Struthio camelus) is the only species in the genus Struthio and in the family Struthionidae. The Ostrich is the tallest and heaviest living bird. Males are 2.1 to 2.75 m tall and weigh 100 to 130 (or even 150) kg; females are around 1.75 to 1.9 m tall and weigh 90 to 110 kg. The eyes are the largest of any terrestrial vertebrate, with a diameter of 5 cm. Its long, stout legs allow an Ostrich to cover a lot of ground quickly and can also serve as powerful weapons; each foot has a 10 cm sturdy flattened claw on the thick inner toe (uniquely among living birds, there are only two toes on each foot). The Ostrich is the fastest runner among birds. It can maintain a speed of 50 km/h for around half an hour and can sprint to 70 km/h with strides of 3.5 m, using its wings for balance at high speeds.
The male Ostrich is mostly pitch black, but the wings and tail are a sharply contrasting pure white; females are notably drabber. The Ostrich is one of the relatively few bird species that has a penis, which the male displays prominently during courtship.
Ostriches are found across much of the Sahel and eastern and southern Africa in a range of open habitats, from savanna to desert (in southern Australia there are some small populations of feral Ostriches from abandoned Ostrich farming operations). Ostriches do not require drinking water since they obtain sufficient water mainly from succulent plants. On hot days, they can allow their body temperature to rise to 42 C, reducing water loss through transpiration.
Outside the breeding season, Ostriches tend to live in small groups (although hundreds of Ostriches may congregate around water sources in the dry season). During the breeding season, birds form pairs or small harems. Males are territorial and engage in conspicuous courtship rituals. Multiple females may lay eggs in a single nest; a single nest may contain dozens of eggs, although only around two dozen can be incubated. Both the male and female incubate, with the more conspicuous male taking the night shift. Each egg weighs around 1.5 kg--enormous in absolute terms, but only around 1.5% of the adult female's weight. Eggs hatch together after around six weeks.
The idea that an Ostrich will bury its head in the sand in the face of danger is a myth, although when it feels trapped an Ostrich may sit down motionless with head and neck stretched on the ground in front of it in an apparent attempt to remain inconspicuous.
Ostriches produce many vocal and non-vocal sounds. They are omnivorous, but generally feed largely on plant material. The 14 m intestines allow them to eat many foods rejected by many other animals not equipped to extract enough of value from less desirable food items.
Ostriches have long been exploited by humans for their feathers, eggs, meat, and skin. At one time the Ostrich was common in most of Africa and southwestern Asia. Today, the range is considerably reduced and the subspecies that used to occur from the Syrian desert to the Arabian Peninsula was virtually extinct by 1941, having declined rapidly after World War I, with the last known record being a drowning individual in Jordan in 1966. There have been some efforts to reintroduce Ostriches to the Middle East.
(Folch 1992 and references therein)
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The entertainment industry's pursuit of tough new laws to protect copyrighted content from online piracy is bad for business and for the economy, says a new report by the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a Washington policy group that has its roots in the business world.
The group urged policy makers to realize that hastily enacted laws and regulations could have unintended consequences and slow the pace of innovation and economic growth. It also recommends that the next two years be used to develop a consensus on the proper course of action to take. The group urged the government not to set mandatory digital rights technologies.
The report urges the entertainment industries to come up with new ways of doing business that can accommodate and even profit from digital distribution. It cited the success of Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store as one online business that offered consumers an easy-to-use alternative to free music services.
The report noted that this is not the first time that new technology has been perceived as a serious threat to entertainment interests. The industry adapted to, and in fact was strengthened by, development of the player piano, phonograph, radio, and VCR. In each of these cases, new business models were created in response to these new technologies, the report said.
Susan Crawford, a professor at the Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University and an author of the report, told the New York Times that a growing number of business leaders are worried that the trend toward “equating intellectual property with physical property” might be hampering innovation.
“Bits are not the same as atoms,” she argued, contending that the distinction is being blurred by Hollywood. “We need to reframe the legal discussion to treat the differences of bits and atoms in a more thoughtful way.”
The chief author of the report, Elliot Maxwell, a former adviser to the secretary of commerce on the digital economy during the Clinton administration, said that middle ground was hard to find in the many conflicts over intellectual property. The report, he said, was an attempt “to find a way through this thicket.”
One of the most prominent critics of attempts to increase control over copyrighted material applauded the new report. “I think it’s exciting,” said the critic, Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society. “The points they are making are obviously right,” he said, “but the only way people will get it is if more credible, mainstream organizations begin to utter it.”
Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said that he had not yet seen the report but was strongly critical of the view that his industry was trying to place unfair burdens on consumers.
“They say it will stifle innovation—that’s malarkey,” he said. “If all of this digital property is free, who is going to invest 50 to 60 million dollars to make a movie?” he asked.
The full report, “Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property,” is available at: www.ced.org.
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A Victim Of Medical Tourism
Photo © Millicent Odunze, M.D., M.P.H.
New Year's resolutions to get a better body are beginning to emerge. Combine this with the busiest travel season of the year and you have the potential for trouble. Ispos, a global market research company, has unveiled a new survey that demonstrates one in five people "definitely would consider traveling to another country to receive medical or dental care if the cost were significantly lower than in their country."
For some people, receiving medical care abroad includes getting plastic surgery. Obviously there are competent, skilled plastic surgeons outside the United States. And not all United States surgeons performing cosmetic plastic surgery have been trained in an accredited plastic surgery residency. However, it may be more difficult to assess the training and credentials of plastic surgeons outside the United States. In the United States, if a surgeon is negligent, there is a means for legal recourse. If an unfavorable incident happens while you are abroad, you may be on your own. In trying to save a buck when it comes to your body, you may end up paying more for revision surgery than you would have in the first place!
Whether you have you surgery in the United States or elsewhere, make sure you know the credentials of your surgeon.
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(KFVS) - Kentucky State Police are reminding drivers they will be seeing an increase movement of deer throughout the area as fall is in full swing.
According to KSP, deer season begins Nov. 10 and drivers are more likely to encounter the animals on or near roads.
Spokesperson for KSP, Sgt. Rick Saint-Blancard says drivers need to take extra precautions when driving during fall months.
“It is extremely important to recognize this ever-present risk, especially at this time of year when nearly fifty percent of all collisions with deer occur,” he said. “Last year, we had 2,938 deer-related collisions in Kentucky with three of those being fatal collisions."
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are approximately 1 million deer related vehicle crashes each year that kill nearly 200 people, injure over 10,000 and result in over $1 billion in vehicle damage.
Saint-Blancard offered the following tips for drivers:
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Chaitra Navratri Is also called vasant Navratri or Ram Navratri, falls in the month of Chaitra each year. Is the festival of nine days dedicated to the nine forms of Shakti (Mother Goddess) in the spring season. Chaitra Navratri signifies the start of “VIKRAM SAMBAT” i.e the Hindu New Year. The 1st day is called a GUDI PADAWA which mainly celebrates in Maharastra. This is celebrated during Vasantha Ritu (beginning of summer).There for another names falls as a VASANT NAVRATRA and the 9ths day of Navratrs is the birth date of Shree Rama so this festival also called as a Ram Navratra. At the time of War between Shree Rama and Ravana, It was Lord Rama who worshipped Maa Durga for 9 days before going to war in Ashwina Month to invoke the blessing of Maa Durga and then the period got changed of Durga Puja from Chaitra to Ashwin. This is why the Durga Puja during (September – October) is also known as Akal Bodhon or untimely invocation.
King Dhruvasindu was killed by a lion when he went out hunting. Preparations were made to crown the prince Sudarsana. But, King Yudhajit of Ujjain, the father of Queen Lilavati, and King Virasena of Kalinga, the father of Queen Manorama, were each desirous of securing the Kosala throne for their respective grandsons. They fought with each other. King Virasena was killed in the battle. Manorama fled to the forest with Prince Sudarsana and a eunuch. They took refuge in the hermitage of Rishi Bharadwaja.
The victor, King Yudhajit, thereupon crowned his grandson, Satrujit, at Ayodhya, the capital of Kosala. He then went out in search of Manorama and her son. The Rishi said that he would not give up those who had soughts protection under him. Yudhajit became furious. He wanted to attack the Rishi. But, his minister told him about the truth of the Rishi’s statement. Yudhajit returned to his capital.
Fortune smiled on Prince Sudarsana. A hermit’s son came one day and called the eunuch by his Sanskrit name Kleeba. The prince caught the first syllable Kli and began to pronounce it as Kleem. This syllable happened to be a powerful, sacred Mantra. It is the Bija Akshara (root syllable) of the Divine Mother. The Prince obtained peace of mind and the Grace of the Divine Mother by the repeated utterance of this syllable. Devi appeared to him, blessed him and granted him divine weapons and an inexhaustible quiver.
The emissaries of the king of Benares passed through the Ashram of the Rishi and, when they saw the noble prince Sudarsana, they recommended him to Princess Sashikala, the daughter of the king of Benares.
The ceremony at which the princess was to choose her spouse was arranged. Sashikala at once chose Sudarsana. They were duly wedded. King Yudhajit, who had been present at the function, began to fight with the king of Benares. Devi helped Sudarsana and his father-in-law. Yudhajit mocked Her, upon which Devi promptly reduced Yudhajit and his army to ashes.
Thus Sudarsana, with his wife and his father-in-law, praised Devi. She was highly pleased and ordered them to perform Her worship with havan and other means during the Vasanta Navratri. Then She disappeared.Prince Sudarsana and Sashikala returned to the Ashram of Rishi Bharadwaja. The great Rishi blessed them and crowned Sudarsana as the king of Kosala. Sudarsana and Sashikala and the king of Benares implicitly carried out the commands of the Divine Mother and performed worship in a splendid manner during the Vasanta Navratri.Sudarsana’s descendants, namely, Sri Rama and Lakshmana, also performed worship of Devi during the Vasanta Navratri and were blessed with Her assistance in the recovery of Sita.
The fasting and feasting is part of the ritual of these nine days. Jagrans, Bhajan gatherings, temple visits are parts of the activities of devotees during navratri. It is the duty of the devout Hindus to worship the Devi (Mother Goddess) for both material and spiritual welfare during the Vasanta Navratri and follow the noble example set by Sudarsana and Sri Rama. He cannot achieve anything without the Divine Mother’s blessings. So, sing Her praise and repeat Her Mantra and Name. Meditate on Her form. Pray and obtain Her eternal Grace and blessings. May the Divine Mother bless you with all divine wealth!"
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- Chaitra Navratri
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- Skandmata Devi
- Kaatyayani Devi
- Kaalratri Devi
- Mahagauri Devi
- Siddhiratri Devi
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Sebetwane, also spelled Sebitwane, or Sibituane (born c. 1790–1800—died 1851, Barotseland [now in Zambia]), Southern African king (reigned c. 1820–51) who established the large and powerful Kololo nation in what is now southwestern Zambia after an arduous migration from his original home in what is now the Free State province in South Africa.
Sebetwane was a chief of the Patsa, a subgroup of the Sotho (Basuto). During the late 1810s or early 1820s, he moved with some of his people eastward from the plains of what later became the Orange Free State into the northern Caledon River region bordering on the Maloti Mountains. At some point his people were attacked by slaving groups from the coast, after which the survivors and others who joined them moved north of the Vaal River. They later went west, across the southern Transvaal, into what is now southern Botswana, where in 1824 they attacked the Ngwaketse. The Ngwaketse counterattacked and drove Sebetwane’s Patsa northward. The causes of these remarkable migrations remain speculative. They occurred at a time when Griqua and Korana raiders were devastating much of Transorangia (the region north of the Orange River), raiding for cattle and people to supply to farms in the expanding Cape Colony; refugees migrating away from raiders on the east coast, who were linked to the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay and Inhambane, were also going into the area.
The precise movements of Sebetwane’s group between the mid-1820s and the late 1830s are still unknown. By about 1838–39 the Patsa, now calling themselves the Kololo, had first settled south of the Zambezi River. They later moved north of the river and attacked and absorbed the Lozi and other groups on and around the Zambezi floodplain. While fending off raids from Mzilikazi’s Ndebele warriors to the south, Sebetwane was able to create his Kololo nation, a composite Sotho-Lozi state based on cattle and agriculture that used a form of the Sotho language. By the late 1840s the Kololo were involved in the slave trade.
Distinguished as both a warrior and a statesman, Sebetwane was able to consolidate his military gains by his generous and just treatment of the conquered peoples. An imaginative politician, he maintained a peaceful kingdom, despite the numerical inferiority of his own Kololo people, by preventing them from forming an aristocracy and by the delegation of authority to conquered chiefs.
In 1851, the year Sebetwane died, the Kololo were visited by Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whose notes are a primary source of Kololo history. Sebetwane was eventually succeeded by his son, Sekeletu, during whose rule the state weakened. During the 1880s the Kololo were absorbed into a reemerging Lozi state under Lewanika.
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Canada - Hylan G-F 20 (Synvisc®) is an elastoviscous fluid containing hylan polymers, which are derivatives of hyaluronan (sodium hyaluronate). It is indicated for the treatment of pain caused by osteoarthritis of the knee in patients who have failed to respond adequately to conservative nonpharmacologic therapy and simple analgesics. Treatment involves intra-articular injection once a week for 3 weeks. The most commonly reported adverse incidents have been pain, swelling and effusion in the injected knee (1).
From March 1996 to January 2005, Health Canada received 31 reports of suspected incidents associated with Synvisc®; 23 were received in 2003-2004. In nine cases, the synovial fluid was not removed before each injection, and in five the course of injection was continued after the occurrence of adverse symptoms. Six of the 23 recent reports described patients who had pain, walking disability and knee swelling with or without effusion after the third injection of the first course. Two of these 23 patients were admitted to hospital.
The occurrence of post-injection effusion may be associated with the number of injections (1). There have been reports in the literature of pseudosepsis (2). In affected patients, pseudo-sepsis typically occurs after more than one injection. Sepsis or pseudogout should be ruled out. Mononuclear cells are present in the synovial fluid (2). Although the cause of pseudosepsis is not fully understood, there is increasing evidence to suggest an immunologic mechanism (2).
Health care professionals should be aware of these possible adverse incidents and encouraged to follow the labelled procedure, including aspiration of synovial fluid before each injection (1). Patients should be alerted of the occurrence of such events, and those who have severe inflammation of the joint after an injection should be fully evaluated (3).
Extracted from: Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletter, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 2005.
1. Synvisc Hylan G-F 20 [prescribing information]Ridgefield (NJ): Genzyme Biosurgery. Revised 2004 Nov 15.
2. Goldberg VM, Coutts RD. Pseudoseptic reactions tohylan visco supplementation: diagnosis and treatment. Clin Orthop 2004;(419): 130-7.
3. Bernardeau C, Bucki B, Liote F. Acute arthritis after intra-articular hyaluronate injection: onset of effusions without crystal. Ann Rheum Dis 2001;60(5): 518-20.
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Nadia Arumugam, Contributor
I cover food and drink from business and current trends to nutrition
September 22 marked the first day of fall. Turning leaves, cooler weather and shorter days signal that summer is already behind us. But the relentless heat and drought that’s ravaged the nation’s growing fields over the last few months won’t be so quickly forgotten, not least because of their long lasting impact on our grocery bills.
According to September’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) – a USDA and Bureau of Labor program that tracks changes in prices paid by urban consumers, overall food inflation for groceries for the year ahead will be above the historical average at 3% to 4%.
More particularly, in 2013 beef is set to rise 4% to 5%, dairy 3.5% to 4.5%, and bakery products and cereals 3% to 4%. The standard rate of food inflation is around 2.8%.
This year’s drought has been the worst since the 1950s. Farmland that was scorched by July was truly desiccated a month later, as the intensity of the disaster worsened rather than abated as the summer progressed. (39% of the contiguous U.S. was in “severe” to “extreme” drought at the end of August.)
Even with rains courtesy of Hurricane Isaac, and some heavy downpours this month, there has been little overall respite, since the recent rains soaked areas not affected by the drought. According to last week’s Drought Monitor Report issued by the USDA, the National Drought Mitigation Center, and the Western Regional Climate Center, 65% of the contiguous US is still in moderate to extreme drought, up from 64% the week before.
The damage to this year’s harvest has been especially devastating because the drought has hit at the heart of the Corn Belt. As of mid-September, 52% of the country’s corn crop was rated in poor to very poor condition. And this month, the USDA further reduced its 2012/2013 corn crop estimate to 10.727 billion bushels – the lowest since 1995. But, it’s not just corn that’s in bad shape, soybean yields have also been hit hard by the excessively dry spell.
Grain prices have unsurprisingly propelled to record high levels. According to the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service (ERS), if the farm price of corn increases by 50% (which it did from June to July), then retail food prices will increase 0.5% to 1%, on average. However, not all foods will be equally affected by the drought and the dwindling corn supply.
See slideshow for a detailed breakdown on how the drought has affected different categories of food.
“The more processed, and refined a food is, the less it’s impacted by the price of agricultural goods, – only a few pennies worth,” says William Snell, of the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky. A steak or a gallon of milk which may appear to be far removed from a field of grain nut are considerably more influenced by the drought’s detrimental effects than a box of corn flakes, a bottle of corn syrup, or a loaf of Wonderbread.
“Less than 10% of the price of that bread accounts for commodity items,” explains Snell. “The remainder is the cost of processing, advertising, transporting, marketing, packaging, and it goes all the way down to the cost of the individual working in the grocery store.” With fresh beef, on the other hand, up to 50% of the retail price can be attributed to the farm.
So what connects the price of milk and steak or indeed a whole chicken or a pork chop so closely to grain? The feed that nourishes the livestock, of course. With corn and soybean meal – the protein part of chicken feed, at sky-high prices, producers are burdened with prohibitively high input costs. Fresh protein then as well as dairy will see the most dramatic price spikes.
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WAPA moves to outsource all water desalination to Seven Seas
Published: May 26, 2010
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ST. THOMAS — The V.I. Water and Power Authority voted Monday to outsource all of its water desalination territorywide to Seven Seas Corp. — a move that is expected to cut its water production costs in half.
WAPA Assistant Executive Director Glenn Rothgeb said the details of the deal have not yet been hammered out, but he expects customers to see “significant savings.”
In 2009, WAPA spent $26.5 million to produce potable water. Seven Seas Corp. is expected to produce enough water to serve all Virgin Islands customers at an annual cost of $11 million to $14 million.
Seven Seas Corp. will use reverse osmosis to filter seawater into drinking water. Currently, WAPA uses a system that distills salts and other solids out of water by applying heat. That system is nearly three decades old and relies on steam provided by WAPA’s generators. When the generators go down, so does water production.
“The reverse osmosis system is not dependent on steam as the power source,” WAPA Executive Director Hugo Hodge Jr. said. “The problems that we’ve had in the past wouldn’t affect water production.”
Reverse osmosis passes water through a thin membrane to filter out salts and other solids.
Seven Seas already is already producing 1.5 million gallons of water per day for WAPA on St. Croix in a system unveiled in June. St. Croix’s water is currently a blend of half-distilled, half-reverse osmosis water.
Reverse osmosis leaves more salt behind in the water than distillation does. The salts left behind make the water taste different, Rothgeb said, but the difference is minimal.
Seven Seas was one of six companies that responded to a request for proposals for a reverse osmosis system that WAPA sent out in September.
Asked how the Seven Seas contract would affect the jobs of WAPA’s water system employees, Rothgeb said it is “premature to say.”
Board members Juanita Young, Cheryl Boynes-Jackson, Brenda Benjamin and Noel Loftus voted to approve the contract with Seven Seas, as did V.I. Personnel Director Kenneth Hermon, who is a member of the board. Board member Donald Francois abstained. Housing, Parks and Recreation Commissioner St. Clair Williams and Planning and Natural Resources Commissioner Robert Mathes, also members of the board, were absent from the meeting.
The board also voted to:
• Approve purchasing $1.8 million in parts for Unit 23, a 42-megawatt generator, from General Electric.
• Authorize establishing a 457(b) retirement savings plan for employees to supplement their Government Employees Retirement System benefits.
All employees will be eligible to participate in the program, but WAPA will not match contributions employees make.
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This paper develops geographical spatial analysis of macroeconomic variables to understand climate change sensitivities and impacts. The approach is promising because it provides a way to overcome partial equilibrium analysis based on specific sectors as well as provides the analysis at a larger scale appropriate for climate change study. In addition, this approach enables researchers to examine non-market sector effects such as ecosystem shifts, human and animal settlements change, and human health related issues. Our results indicate that economic activities as well as non-market factors such as human settlements and animal density are not particularly sensitive to different climates. The analysis indicates that humans as well as animals have adjusted well to different climates. Our results show that geographical adversities such as high mountains, inland without access to the oceans, very steep locations have the greatest impacts on the lives of the humans and animals.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Photography Professor Claire Garoutte teamed with community partners to create a new Summer Youth Media program for teens from Yesler Terrace. Their photographs and videos are on display in the Vachon gallery in the Fine Arts Department.
Yesler Terrace, a public housing complex built between 1941 and 1943, is a highly diverse community located just east of Seattle’s downtown. On average, its residents earn less than 30% of the city’s median income. Redevelopment will replace existing buildings with a mixed-income community.
Using photography and video, the students examined the history of Yesler Terrace, the diversity within their community, and the potential impact upon this community of the redevelopment project.
“In addition to the images and voices heard in the exhibit, the program helped build community connections,” Garoutte said.
The 6-week program was a partnership with RecTech, The Multimedia Resources and Training Institute, Youth in Focus, and the College of Arts and Sciences Fine Arts Department. The program aims to document the redevelopment of Yesler Terrace over the next 15 years. This program was supported by the Seattle University Youth Initiative and Missions funds.
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It’s the match that lit the fuse that caused the explosion that led to the theory of the Big Bang. That’s how one scientist explained the discovery of the Higg’s Boson.
Frankly, I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Tim and I came across a herd of Boson once. We were vacationing on Catalina Island and had been on a day long hike on the island’s preserve, which was reportedly full of wildlife. We were within a mile of finishing up that hike when I started complaining that we hadn’t seen one wild boar or even a jackrabbit all day long.
Some wildlife, I said. We haven’t even seen a cockroach in the wild.
Be careful what you wish for, Tim replied. I don’t think you really want to see a boar in the wild.
He’d no sooner spit out that admonition when we rounded a corner and there, sitting at the bend in the trail was the mother-lode of wildlife. Beasts lounging, sans swimsuits, in the afternoon shade.
They can run 25 mph, Tim noted, as we stood there trying to figure out if we could walk within four feet of them on the dusty trail without becoming their afternoon snack.
The bus was due to pick us up on the other side of that boson herd within the hour. If we missed the bus it was a long, long hike back to the other side of the island.
Holy Higgs! I said. What are we going to do?
The way Tim was looking at me, you would have thought I’d just picked up a rattler and danced on an altar nekkid. Tim shuffled his pack and took off walking, right in front of the Daddy of all Boson, while I stood still as a stone angel. He could offer himself as the evening appetizer if he wanted, but I had no intentions of being desert for some hairy-butt buffalo. But that wildabeest barely blinked as Tim strode within a few feet of his nose. Convinced that it was because Tim was more bone than meat, I refused to budge.
Come back here and get me right this minute, I demanded, ever the damsel in distress.
Tim rolled his eyes and trudged on up the hillside without me. Suit yourself, he said, and left me standing there, a herd of beastly boson separating us.
I stomped my feet. I cried. I considered retracing our previous hike, but feared I’d only encounter a herd of wild boar in the other direction.
Then I made eye contact with the Buddah of all Boson. Giving him the double-dawg-dare-you-stink-eye, I stepped out gently, moving slowly, hopeful that he wouldn’t even notice that I was more meat than bones, and within licking distance of his feet.
If Higg’s Boson is the match that lit the fuse that started the explosion that is Creation, then the herd of boson I encountered that afternoon on Catalina Island are Higg’s lazy, pot-smoking, hairy-backed, good-for-nothing cousins. I’m pretty sure you could have put dynamite up their arse and they wouldn’t have moved out of that afternoon shade.
Although, given how hot it’s been across most of the US this summer, I can’t say I blame them none.
I hope in all this oppressive heat, all your God-particle parts are staying cool and that all your encounters prove as chill as those on Catalina Island.
And may the force of Higg’s deter you away from any future implosions.
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Volume 7, Number 1 (1999): 170 pages
Waconda Lake: Prehistoric Swidden-Foragers in the Central Plains
by Donald J. Blakeslee
Almost one thousand years ago, a new way of life developed on the Great Plains. Previous to it, people had subsisted primarily by hunting and gathering, with only a few crops, casually sown and harvested, merely a supplement to their diets. Previously, they were fairly nomadic, shifting their camps with the seasons. Then something happened, and it happened fairly swiftly. The people settled down in sites that were occupied for at least most of the year, and they began to grow crops in earnest. They did not give up hunting and gathering, but domesticated plants became an important part of their diet. The new way of life lasted for several centuries before another transformation occurred, generating a new lifestyle.
The several centuries following A. D. 1000 produced an archeological record that has been investigated since the late nineteenth century. In spite of extensive excavations and intensive analyses, the record of this period on the Plains has remained quite problematic. Rather than rebuilding repeatedly on the same spot and leaving a neatly stratified record, people moved every few years, so that it has been impossible to say which house was built first and which second. Rather than living in neatly bounded villages, the people lived in scattered homesteads, so that no one has been able to determine the size, let alone the structure of their communities.
This volume presents a new analysis of that way of life, one that offers new solutions to old problems, new approaches to well-known puzzles. Rather than using the ceramics to determine the sequence of occupation of sites in a locality, it analyzes them for apparently contemporaneous differences. It reinterprets data collected thirty years ago, and using ideas generated in the intervening decades, offers a very different interpretation of a way of life.
It deals with the archeology of Waconda Lake, a reservoir on the Solomon River in north-central Kansas, and is the public report of work done by Wichita State University for the Bureau of Reclamation. Normally such work is called Cultural Resource Management (CRM), and the reports generated by it see only limited circulation, even among archeologists.
This report is different because it is the result of a process different from that normally used by federal agencies. The Bureau of Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas Projects Office has entered into long-term agreements with several universities in the region for the performance of the archeological work that normally would go to the lowest bidder. In return, the universities have contributed a great deal of volunteer labor and equipment use so that the cost to the government is lower than what it would normally be for the same services. While this might sound like just another cost-saving maneuver, the implications for understanding the archeological record run deep.
The important differences for the archeologist have to do with the time frames for planning and performing research. Under the normal contracting procedures, an archeologist has only a very brief interval in which to respond to a request for a proposal. What are euphemistically called "research designs" are barely more than listings of how many pits are to be dug and by what means, and what kinds of materials will be identified and counted. Time simply does not exist for reflection and discussion with students and colleagues regarding what approaches might be most productive. Since cost is a major consideration in the evaluation of most proposals, the archeologist is not likely to consider approaches that might be costly in terms of time because they usually translate into higher dollar figures and hence into unsuccessful proposals.
The time parameters enter even more heavily into the fieldwork and analysis portions of any project. The time allocated for fieldwork is usually the bare minimum needed to follow the framework of the original proposal. New ideas generated from the results of the fieldwork seldom can be followed up. Worse, the time allotted for analysis in the laboratory is always too short to accommodate new thoughts derived from the analysis itself.
The new procedure initiated by the Bureau of Reclamation involves five-year agreements with various universities. The long time span allows for careful planning in cooperation with Bureau archeologists. It also allows for repeated revisions of the initial research design as they become necessary. It allows too for the collection of pertinent data from outside the area involved in a specific project when this is necessary.
A primary result of the new time frame, and one that has enormous importance for this volume, is the opportunity for extended re-analysis of archeological collections from Waconda Lake. In the 1960s, Waconda Lake was the scene of one of the most concentrated studies ever performed of Central Plains sites. The resulting publications (Carlson 1971; Krause 1969, 1970; Lippincott 1976, 1978; Marshall 1967) were signal contributions to Plains archeology, but they left many unanswered questions. Part of the long-term agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation and Wichita State University involved the acceptance by WSU of responsibility for curating artifacts and records previously stored at the University of Nebraska. Re-analysis of them, in conjunction with continuing fieldwork, has allowed us to achieve exciting new insights into the life of the people who occupied the land around Waconda Lake in the 11th to 13th centuries.
In order that the new information generated by the work at Waconda Lake find its proper audience, this volume was not written for the "gray literature" of CRM reports. It addresses issues of vastly larger scope than found in normal reservoir survey reports, and should be of interest to a far wider audience than is normally the case. For the same reasons, it does not follow the usual report format that tells in absolutely linear order what was known before and after the project. Instead, it is organized around a wide variety of research questions, emphasizing what can be learned rather than what has been found.
A report of this magnitude is never the work of a single set of hands. Contributors to this volume include professional scientists Bob Blasing, Nancy Pearson, Myra Giesen and Jim Winfrey of the Bureau of Reclamation, David May of the University of Northern Iowa, John Weymouth of the University of Nebraska, Peer Moore-Jansen of Wichita State University, Larry Tieszen of Augustana College, Martin Stein of the Kansas State Historical Society, and Gayle Carlson of the Nebraska State Historical Society. Administrative assistants who kept the paperwork up to date and the principal investigator's nose to the grindstone are: Carole Robarchek, Melvin Johnson, and Doreen Grattopp. Graduate students from Wichita State University who participated in the project include crew chiefs Loy Neff, Danny Wescott, and Carolyn Johnson; laboratory supervisors Rick Plouch and Frank Gagné; and illustrator Kent Wilkinson. Others who contributed were the participants in seminars in archeology at Wichita State University. They are: Bob Ficenec, Susan Hascall, Roberta Hayworth, Susan Houghton, Rick Plouch, Linda Edgeworth Terry, Marie Huhnke, Alex Kurota, Ron Dorsey, Cindy Ball, and James Watson. Other students performed various laboratory analyses. The ones who contributed significantly include David Walters, Elaine Banman, Sonny Ng, and Ron Dorsey. All photographs are by Frank Gagné; rim profiles are by Alex Kurota.
Both the field crews and the laboratory crews were composed primarily of students. Other volunteers who participated in the fieldwork include Sam and John Blakeslee, Mel Johnson, Joy Lewis, Donna Martinson, and Cleta Mulder. Rob Carlson provided his services as a pilot for aerial photography, and Letha Johnson provided free consultation and use of a computer for the development of a database. Many local residents provided valuable information, and foremost among them was Gerald Dubbert, who had been the primary informant for the University of Nebraska in the 1960s. Mike Nyhoff and all of the personnel at Glen Elder State Park provided assistance at every turn. Finally, I owe a great deal of thanks to the circle of scholars who have provided both constructive criticism and moral support over a period of many years of investigation.
In spite of all of this help, there are bound to be errors in this volume: sins of omission and commission. I acknowledge them as my own.
Back issues of Central Plains Archeology can be purchased by NAPA members and non-members for $10 each, plus $2 each for postage. To order, send check or money order (payable to the Nebraska Association of Professional Archeologists) to:
- Kelli Bacon
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P.O. Box 82554
Lincoln, Nebraska 68501-2554
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can anyone tell me how to get the full file address from a file pointer?
I use the dev-c++ compiler and when I ask the user to enter the filename to save the data to
and the user just enter a name like "text.dat" without c:\ (so not the full address). it's saved to my dev-c++ folder on the computer where the compiler is installed.
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A recent survey done by the government shows more and more teens are hanging up their Joe Camels for Mary Jane. (not much has changed since you were a kid burning Choom… Mr. President?)
A report by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention revealed that 23% of high-school students had recently smoked cannabis – while 18% filled their lungs with tobacco. This study delved into various topics which included random acts of risky behavior.
For years counting, there has been a rapid decline in teens that smoke cigarettes. Cannabis use has risen and fallen throughout the years, but has increased as of late. Marijuana and Tobacco have been neck & neck for teen vices for countless ages, but last year Mary Jane passed nicotine for supremacy for the 1st time ever.
The University of Michigan also did a study and reported that same exact data – Marijuana use was beginning to surpass cigarettes. Various experts stated that teens today view marijuana as far more safe than tobacco.
Is this incline a result of the Internet and education — more kids are available to more knowledge in regards to the pros & cons of Marijuana vs. Tobacco – Or is it because teens enjoy the pleasant, uplifting, cerebral aroma of marijuana plant compared to the not so fresh stench of the cancer stick. Whatever it is, Joe better watch his rear view mirror…common sense has been let out of Pandora’s box – and Mary is coming up strong.
Kids – don’t smoke pot… you might become President.
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Company Favored Mexican Workers Over American Workers, Federal Agency Charges
ATLANTA – Hamilton Growers, Inc., doing business as Southern Valley Fruit and Vegetable, Inc., subjected American workers to discrimination based on their national origin at its Norman Park, Ga., location, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed recently.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the company engaged in a pattern or practice of firing virtually all American workers while retaining workers from Mexico during the 2009 and 2010 growing seasons. The agency also alleges that the employer fired at least 16 African American workers in 2009 based on race and/or national origin when their termination was coupled with race-based comments by a management official. The lawsuit also alleges the employer provided lesser job opportunities to American workers, which resulted in their earning less pay than their Mexican counterparts, and subjected American workers to different terms and conditions of employment, including less desirable job assignments.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of national origin and race. The EEOC filed suit (Civil Action No., 7:11-CV-00134-HL) in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC is seeking back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for 19 persons who filed charges with the agency and for other American workers harmed by the practices. The agency is also seeking injunctive relief designed to stop the discrimination and prevent it from recurring in the future.
“The EEOC has reason to believe that the practices alleged in the lawsuit are relatively common in the industry,” said Bernice Williams-Kimbrough, district director for the EEOC’s Atlanta District Office.“The EEOC is committed to protectingAmerican workers from arbitrary firings and disparate treatment due to national origin.”
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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Facebook has expanded its antivirus program to allow users to proactively request help if they suspect their account has been compromised.
Facebook already monitors its site and identifies users when it suspects that content on their account might be malware, but with more than 900 million users, the social network can't be everywhere at once. As a result, the company has announced that users who suspect that malware has been installed on their device can run a check for free using software from Microsoft or McAfee.
"Previously, if you suspected you may have malware installed on your device, you would either need to run anti-virus on your device or wait until Facebook identified an actionable threat," Facebook said in a note on its Security Page. "Now, with our new self-enrollment malware checkpoint, you will be able to proactively obtain your choice of a free anti-virus product to scan and clean your system."
Facebook is offering access to McAfee's Scan and Repair or Microsoft's Security Essentials. When you click on either of those links, Facebook will ask you to re-enter your password for security purposes. A message will then appear that says: "If you think someone may have used your Facebook account without your permission, secure your account to get help. If you know your account is secure, click 'Cancel.'"
If you opt to secure your account, Facebook will install the Microsoft or McAfee software in order to clean up your machine.
"We hope that by making our technology available to more users, on demand, will help all the people who use our service keep their data and devices secure," Facebook said.
In April, Facebook teamed up with several leading antivirus firms to launch an Antivirus Marketplace, which allows users to download a six-month free trial of the companies' software. The marketplace is currently offering products from McAfee, Norton, Microsoft, Sophos, and Trend Micro.
Published under license from Ziff Davis, Inc., New York, All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2012-2013 Ziff Davis, Inc
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Philip Howard says, “Real people, not rules make things happen.” His latest book, Life Without Lawyers, reveals our newfound litigious culture saps the American entrepreneurial spirit. “We’re paralyzed in fear.”
Freedom in America was once inspired by values and virtues that sought the common good. A culture of responsibility has given way to a culture of rights that now puts the individual good over the common good. Instead of values and virtues inspired, we have rules and regulations imposed.
Philip Howard suggests we’re a country Drowning in Law. His solution: Restore Responsibility. Howard shares his vision in 18-minute TED Talk below…
Visit Philip’s website, www.CommonGood.org to learn more.
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Was born in Germany in 1828. He emigrated to the United States in 1856, and stopped in the city of Buffalo for six months. He then moved to the city of Quincy, in the state of Illinois, where he remained two years, and then moved to the town of Barry, in Pike county, where he permanently located and engaged in the general furniture and upholstering business. In 1857 he married Miss Carolina Herman. She was born in Germany in 1836, and emigrated to the United States in 1857. When Mr. Wendorff came to this country he was very poor, but was industrious and economical, and by giving strict attention to business he has prospered well in life, and has succeeded in gaining and retaining the confidence of all who know him. He is now well established and is carrying a heavy stock of first class goods in his line, perhaps the heaviest and best stock of furniture in Pike county. He manufactures a great deal of his goods, and employs none but the best mechanics and uses none but the best of material. He challenges competition in prices, considering style and quality, consequently those wishing goods in his line will do well to give him a call and examine his stock. Mr. and Mrs. Wendorff have had born to them six interesting children, all living. Mr. W. is a strictly moral man, and stands high in the moral community in which he lives.
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The city took legal action after its municipal utility, Garland Power & Light (GPL), was refused permission to build some of the new transmission lines in the north of the state, hundreds of miles away from Garland, a suburb of Dallas (see map).
The PUC must now revisit GPL's bid and decide whether to allow the utility to build a portion of the project, which could alter construction plans on lines where contracts have already been won by other utilities.
Last year the PUC decided against awarding GPL a contract, arguing that, were it to hand a deal to GPL, it would lose control over the route and construction timetable of the line.
Further, any local people who opposed the line would face sending their complaints to a distant city council, rather than to state regulators.
The lines, part of the state's $5 billion Competitive Renewable Energy Zone (Crez) plan, are expected to serve as part of a superhighway bringing wind power from gusty but sparsely populated west Texas to Dallas and other energy-hungry metropolitan areas.
All Texas utilities share the cost of Crez. But GPL, which owns its own coal power stations and other generation sources, is unlikely to derive significant benefit from the new lines. GPL had planned to offset some of the cost of Crez allocated to it by making a profit from building transmission in the Panhandle. When it was refused, it brought the lawsuit.
District Judge Stephen Yelenosky of Austin remanded the PUC's 2009 order, which awarded dozens of Crez projects to various utilities, ruling that some of the deciding factors used by the commission to reject GPL's bid were not legally relevant. The judge stopped short of issuing an injunction on any segments of the project. Meanwhile, ten so-called high-priority Crez projects, on which GPL did not bid, are unlikely to be affected.
"The PUC's concern about their authority to oversee a municipal utility's lines seems to be a valid point," says Mike Sloan, president of Texas-based renewable energy consultancy Virtus Energy. "The City of Garland may have good reasons for feeling like they need to do it. But it seems very unusual to have a municipal utility that owns major assets hundreds of miles away." Sloan expects the issue to be resolved within two months.
Texas electricity ratepayers are billed roughly $4 per month to pay for Crez, which is expected to accommodate up to 18.5GW when completed in 2013 - a boost of nearly 25% to the state's main power grid.
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The team found that speciation and genetic divergence are related in about a third of the 122 plants, animals, and fungi studied.
"One-third is a big number," Pagel said. "Detractors might have said that number was zero. We've shown, I think, that this is at least common. It doesn't have to happen every time, but it happensin plants, animals, and fungi."
New Species May Boost Evolution
Pagel suggests that the link between speciation and accelerated evolution may have roots in traditional Darwinian theory.
The correlation appears more common in plants, perhaps because so many plants trade pollen, hybridize, and readily form new species. "When [new species arise] they start out in really small groups of a few individuals, and that's where we think the mechanisms that cause the acceleration of evolution are most likely to occur," Pagel said.
"Genetic drift" is one such mechanism.
If a population splits into two groups, and one group is very small, a single random genetic change in the small group can quickly make that entire group diverge rapidly.
A change in skin color, for example, can quickly become a common trait among a small population of a dozen or so individuals.
Larger groups would require many such chance events to produce the same kind of species-wide change. Another possible evolution-boosting mechanism is the role of new species within existing ecosystems.
"When a new species forms, there's a very good chance that it will occupy a different niche from the ancestral species," Pagel said.
"If it didn't, it would be competing directly with the ancestral species, so new species often have to find new ways of making a living."
New niches may require new traits or skills. Therefore, a greater number of genetic mutations may prove successful, resulting in more adaptations living on in the species and getting passed on to later generationsnatural selection in overdrive.
"We think that at speciation there's a rapid burst of adaptive evolution, and once [the new species] has occupied a niche, it can settle down and there's no longer as much pressure for rapid adaptive change."
Genetic results suggest that some 22 percent of all genetic evolution could be associated with speciationeven though such events are rare and short-lived.
"We found that to be a huge number," Pagel said.
Underscoring how rarely successful new species appear, he added, "Consider that, along the lineage leading from our common ancestor with chimpanzees to modern humans, there may be something like ten events of speciation or fewer but perhaps 5 million or more years of gradual evolution."
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East Dundee church celebrates 150th anniversary
Some will say a church is only as strong as its congregation. A building and steeple can withstand floods, fires and tornadoes, but if its worshippers are not united and supportive, the bricks and motor that hold the roof up, hold a hollow shell.
For the past 15 months, members of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in East Dundee have been celebrating and testifying to the strength of their 150-year-old landmark Route 72 church with services, songs and gatherings.
To cap off their yearlong 150th anniversary celebration, Immanuel Lutheran Church members will host a dinner at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, and noon Sunday, Jan. 20. The dinner for both dates will be served in the East Dundee church, 310 E. Main St.
Tickets, which will cost $10 for adults and $5 for children, can be purchased at the church office. The deadline to purchase tickets is Jan. 10. Info: immanuel.ed/org; (847) 428-4477.
In a book they put together, "Immanuel, God With Us," generations of Immanuel worshippers chronicled the tribulations and quarrels their great-grandparents, grandparents, mothers and fathers overcame to form the congregation, build the church, rebuild it a few times, and add on to it for the growing Fox Valley congregation.
It wasn't always pretty, said William Yonker, Immanuel's senior pastor. And at times, the trials seemed steeper than the muddy hill worshippers climbed or descended on foot, horse or automobile tire to enter the building.
"Through the years, it seems that we did everything we could to kill this church," he said jokingly. "But, it didn't die; the members kept it going."
Those members, many of whom were German immigrants, formed the congregation in 1862. Two months after the Civil War ended, in 1865, Immanuel members dedicated their first church building. They also dedicated their lives to ensure it kept alive.
"The congregation of the first church consisted of poor, working people who came up with enough funds to buy the property and build it," said Immanuel member Gerald Heinz, who helped research and write the church's history book.
When a new building was needed less than 30 years later, members reached into their pockets again and contributed $25,000 to build a larger church.
"But that building didn't have a basement," Heinz said. "The church members actually dug under the church to carve out a basement."
Above their heads and inside the building, plenty of other members were donating their skills and time to help the congregation grow, flourish and serve the surrounding community. Through the generations, they have helped pastors marry, bury and baptize souls by playing organs, preparing the altar, and sweeping the floor. That spirit continues today.
Sally Susanke is one of those members who lives it. For 25 years, she volunteered with Immanuel's altar guild.
"I volunteered to make things run smoothly for the church so do the other people. We're glad to do it." she said.
The guild is responsible taking care of the robes, vacuuming the steps, getting the candle wax out of the carpeting, and putting Easter lilies and Christmas poinsettias to the altars.
"At Christmas, there can be from 20 to 30 poinsettias to put up," she said. "And at Easter, we're constantly changing the colors on the altar. It's a big job."
Ralph Buhrow is another longtime committed member of Immanuel's congregation. For 72 years, he has learned there, prayed there, and served on various committees, including the anniversary committee.
"I went to school from the first grade at Immanuel," he said. "That was when the school desks were bolted to the floor. The old school gym is actually where the kitchen is now."
Staying active in the church has not only been an important part of his life, but it has kept Immanuel Lutheran Church strong, relevant, and available for more than a century.
"We couldn't ask for a better congregation," Yonker said. "Whenever there has been a need with the church or school, Immanuel members have always been there to lend their support."
It started with the initial meetings and first services in the 1800s and was passed from generations into the 21st Century, he said.
The book, "Immanuel, God With Us: 150th Anniversary, 1862-2012," can be purchased at the church office.
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Gallery of Philologists
21 Feb 1764 - 27 Nov 1849
A lifelong man of letters and patron of learning; a precise and generous spirit. His forbears included a successful military commander, and Rwan Ywaen's own gift for organization and his sense of the larger agenda is evident throughout his career.
He passed the state examinations in 1789, and received a series of literary appointments in the Palace. In 1793, while Director of Education in Shandung, he compiled under Bi Ywæn's direction a catalogue of all early Shandung inscriptions on bronze and stone, prefiguring his later work in establishing the best texts of the Thirteen Classics. In 1795 he was transferred to Jvjyang, again as Director of Education, and employed more than forty scholars in the compilation of his dictionary of usages in the Classics, the Jing-ji Dzwan-gu (1797-1798, printed 1800, supplement 1801). Among Rwan's lesser-known scholarly enterprises is the collaborative Chou-rvn Jwan, begun at this time (1797) but completed only later (1799). It included the biographies of 280 astronomers and mathematicians, among them 37 Europeans. It became the standard work on its subject, and supplements were added by others, the fourth appearing in 1898. In this as in many of his projects, Rwan Ywæn made a beginning that later ages found it valuable to continue and improve on.
He was assigned to Peking in 1798, and was a director of the metropolitan examination of 1799, which was famous for the large number of those passing it who later had eminent careers in government or scholarship. He served as Governor of Jvjyang in 1800-1809, where he promoted learning by establishing academies and sponsoring publication projects. When Rwan was in Ningbwo as an examiner during 1803-1804, he ordered the Fan family to compile a catalogue of their unique collection of rare books, the Tyen-yi Gv library; this catalogue, listing 4,094 items, was finally printed in 1808.
During the period of mourning for his father (1805-1807) he printed his own notes on the Classics: the Shr-san Jing Jyau-kan Ji (1806).
He became Governor of Jyangsyi in 1814. Using the earliest texts available to him, most of them from Sung times, including stone-inscribed versions, he produced in 1816 what is still the definitive edition of the Thirteen Classics and their commentaries: the [Sung-bvn] Shr-san Jing Ju-shu. His own earlier collation notes on these texts (Jyau-kan Ji) were appended to this edition. Rwan was assiduous in recommending titles omitted from the Sz-ku Chywæn-shu, their number eventually reaching 175. His annotations to these works appeared in 1822 as the Sz-ku Wei-shou Shu-mu Ti-yau: "Abstracts of Works Not Included in the Sz-ku Chywaen-shu."
His later career was a succession of southern Governorships, most notably that of Gwangdung. In that position, he sponsored the comprehensive Hwang-Ching Jing-jye, a still standard collection of classical commentaries in the progressive tradition of "evidential scholarship" (kaujvngsywe). Its compilation spanned the years 1825-1829, and when completed it included 180 works, comprising 1,400 jywaen in 366 volumes.
In his governmental role, Rwan Ywæn adopted a strict but ultimately flexible policy toward British traders at Gwangdung; for this he was criticized at the time, but admired in retrospect, after the more confrontationist stance of Lin Dzv-syw had brought on the war of 1840-1842. After other southern governorships, he was called to Peking as a Grand Secretary in 1835, but was permitted to retire due to illness in 1838. On his 80th birthday (1843) and again in 1846 he was awarded special honors. He died in 1849.
A copy of Rwan's evidential scholarship collection, the Hwang-ching Jing-jye, was presented together with other works by the Government of China to the Government of the United States in 1869. These formed the nucleus of the Chinese collection in the Library of Congress. Let that link stand as a favorable omen of continued progress overseas, in the tradition partly defined and organized by Rwan Ywaen.
- Arthur W Hummel. Eminent Chinese 1/399-402
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Lake Chiemsee, nestled in the Chiemgau Alps, is a perfect example of Bavaria at its loveliest. In the winter, the blanket of snow over the picture-book countryside adds to its charm.
From mountains to lakes to palaces, the Chiemgau region of Upper Bavaria has everything a holidaymaker might fancy.
Reit im Winkl is one of most reliable of Germany's winter sport resorts when it comes to snow. At lower elevations, it's ideal for cross-country skiers, and a bit higher up, Winklmoosalm offers the perfect terrain for downhill skiing. For après ski entertainment, there's the Bergfex'n Trio, who perform at Hindenburg Cabin.
Even in winter, boats take you over Lake Chiemsee to the fabled palace of Herrenchiemsee. It was built by Ludwig II of Bavaria, who also built Neuschwanstein.
Master chef Heinz Winkler provides culinary delights at his restaurant in Aschau and at an elevation of nearly 1700 meters, Mount Kampenwand offers a magnificent panoramic view of the Alps.
Myanmar's president has received an official welcome by US President Barack Obama. The reception represents more than a reward for the military state's gradual reform process; it also reflects US interests.
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Images, Coimages, and Exactness
By the first isomorphism theorem, we know that any morphism in an abelian category factorizes as with , and is epic. Since is monic, exactly when . That is, the kernel of is isomorphic to the kernel of . Then since is epic, . So there’s a sort of a symmetry here between the monic and the epic in the factorization of .
Now let’s consider another morphism and a pair of morphisms so that . Then we can factorize each of and as above to find . Then there is a unique such that and .
To see this, set . Then so . Thus factors uniquely through as . Then . And so since is epic we have .
Now, we’ll regard and as objects in the arrow category . Then the pair is a morphism from to . Similarly, the triangle is an object of , and the triple is a morphism in this category.
What the above proof shows is that any object in can be assigned an object in , and that any morphism in can be assigned one in . Clearly this assignment amounts to a functor. In particular, if we start with the identity pair we must have an isomorphism for , and thus any two factorizations are isomorphic.
Now, given this unique (up to isomorphism) factorization, we can define the image and coimage of as and . Thus as expected the image of is a subobject of its target, and the coimage is a quotient object of its source.
Now that we have defined images and coimages we can define what it means for a composable sequence of morphisms to be exact. Let’s say we have and . Both and are subobjects of , and we say that the pair is exact at when . We say that a longer string of composable arrows is exact if it is exact at each object inside the string.
As a special case, we say the sequence is short exact if it is exact. That is, if we let the two outer arrows be the unique such, let , and let , then the sequence is short exact if , , and . If we drop the left we call the sequence short right exact, and short left exact sequences are defined similarly.
Now the factorization of gives rise to two short exact sequences: and . Then because the objects of the coimage and the image are isomorphic, we can weave these two sequences together at that point. In fact, we did something just like this back when we talked about exact sequences of groups!
An -functor is called left exact when it preserves all finite limits. In particular it preserves kernels — that is, left exact sequences. Since any -functor preserves biproducts, preserving kernels is enough to preserve all finite limits. Similarly, a right exact functor is one which preserves all finite colimits, or equivalently all cokernels — right exact sequences. Finally, a functor is exact if it is both left and right exact.
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This is a short guide, adapted and expanded from the list published here. It isn’t exactly a scientific review. but it seems to me to sum up most of what a patient needs to know. At least it is more accurate than HRH’s guide.
The guide has now been reproduced in the Financial Times (apart from the new last item). Perhaps it will even be read by more people than the original.
- Homeopathy: giving patients medicines that contain no medicine whatsoever.
- Herbal medicine: giving patients an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety.
- Acupuncture: a rather theatrical placebo, with no real therapeutic benefit in most if not all cases.
- Chiropractic: an invention of a 19th century salesmen, based on nonsensical principles, and shown to be no more effective than other manipulative therapies, but less safe.
- Reflexology: plain old foot massage, overlaid with utter nonsense about non-existent connections between your feet and your thyroid gland.
- Nutritional therapy: self-styled ‘nutritionists’ making untrue claims about diet in order to sell you unnecessary supplements.
- Spiritual healing: tea and sympathy, accompanied by arm-waving.
- Reiki: ditto.
- Angelic Reiki. The same but with added “Angels, Ascended Masters and Galactic Healers”. Excellent for advanced fantasists.
- Colonic irrigation: a rectal obsession that fails to rid you of toxins which you didn’t have in the first place.
- Anthroposophical medicine: followers of the mystic barmpot, Rudolf Steiner, for whom nothing whatsoever seems to strain credulity
- Alternative diagnosis: kinesiology, iridology, vega test etc, various forms of fraud, designed to sell you cures that don’t work for problems you haven’t got.
- Any alternative ‘therapist’ who claims to cure AIDS or malaria: agent of culpable homicide.
- Libel: A very expensive remedy, to be used only when you have no evidence. Appeals to alternative practitioners because truth is irrelevant.
The last of these was inspired by Jack of Kent, the Prince among lawyers.
The guide appeared as a sidebar in an article in the Financial Times
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Can't combine circuits.
Originally Posted by KEITH
I may be missing something but the way I read it you have no neutral for the lights.
Why worry about combining circuits? just have power (A) feed switch 1 &2 for the light (black) & night-light (red) and splice the whites. do same on 2nd pair of switches with power(B) for fan and heater
That is the exercise here and my question; neutral wires are pigtailed in the switch box and in the ceiling for the fan,light and night light and are not shown for either circuit in this diagram as well as the ground wire(s).
The HEAT's 12/3 shares nothing with the other circuit except the yellow covering on the cable; the heat 's red and the neutral belong to that 'heat" circuit.
So....I am sorry I didn't return to this forum earlier. I went to city hall and nailed down one of the electrical code enforcement folk and they said I was spot on with my wiring reasoning...I am no pro...
So if were to have pigtailed ALL the neutrals, for all four devices in the switchbox and in the ceiling, would this have been KOSHER?
I know the word neutral means neutral but wouldn't that be mixing stuff across circuits?
ALL devices will have their separate switches.
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"Moscow-Beijin 1988" Beijing by Kuznetsov_Sergey
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Beijing, also known as Peking, is the capital and the second largest city of China.The total area of Beijing is approximately 16,800 sq km, and has over 7.23 million people, 3 million of which are temporary residents.The temporary residents are comprised of business persons, teachers and students.Beijing's permanent residents are from all of the different ethnic groups found in China with the Han's comprising over 96% of the population.Mandarin Chinese is the language spoken in Beijing, with Beijing's dialect being the standard form of Mandarin.
Beijing has four definite seasons. Summer and winter are the two longest seasons with fall and spring being the shortest.The climate varies according to the season with autumn being the most pleasant time to visit.Autumn is usually clear with cool temperatures, while winter is dry and, at times, bitterly cold with temperatures dropping below 5 degrees F (-15 C).Spring is usually dry but very windy (protect eyes to keep out blowing debris), while the summer is rainy and hot with temperatures soaring above 100 degrees F (38 C).
A city plan was first laid out in the Yuan Dynasty. Yet only after extensive reconstruction during the Ming and Qing (1644-1911), did the city emerge as an architectural masterpiece fit to serve as the capital of the Chinese empire. A north-south axis bisects the city with the ImperialPalace was knows as Danei (The Great Within). In the Ming, it was renamed the Forbidden City (Zijincheng), and more recently it has come to be called the PalaceMuseum (Gugong Bowuyuan). Designed with thousands of halls and gates arranged symmetrically around a north?south axis, its dimensions and luxuriance are a fitting symbol of the power and greatness of traditional China.
After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, China fell prey to the Northern Warlords and Kuomintang, Beijing suffered the same fate as the rest of China, hobbling along like an old camel without a sense of direction. The Chinese People's Liberation Army formally entered Beijing on January 31, 1949, opening a new chapter in the long history of the city. It was in Tian'anmen Square on October 1st, 1949, that Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China, with Beijing as its capital.
The city has changed totally since then. It has expanded from its old confines within the nine gates of the Inner City wall (Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen, Xuanwumen, Chaoyangmen, Dongzhimen, Fuchengmen, Xizhimen, Andingmen and Deshengmen) to the seven outer gates (Dongbianmen, Guangqumen, Xibianmen, Guang?anmen, Yongdingmen, Zuoanmen and Youanmen) and out into the suburbs, Beijing now covers an area of about 750 square kilometers, which includes a dozen new living districts built on the outskirts of town.
Tian'anmen Square is still the center of Beijing, Chang an Boulevard now running 38 kilometers from Shijingshan in the west to Tongxian in the east. The palaces and city towers along both sides have been designated cultural relics for national protection. Former imperial residences and gardens have been opened for public viewing.
New buildings like the International Post Office and Bank of China have been built along the Second Ring Road, the former line of the Inner City wall. Old living quarters and blocks of traditional Beijing style buildings, such as Liulichang Culture Street, have been restored. Large scale construction has been undertaken along the Third Ring Road and the fourth Ring Road.
Future development in Beijing will continue to preserve the symmetry of the old city layout while integrating modern architectural design into the over all plan.
For the first time for last forty years Chinese People Republic represents its treasures in Russia. The exhibition was opened in the Moscow State Historical museum in the summer of 2006.
It was devoted to "the eighth miracle of the world" - to terracotta army of the emperor Tsin Shihuandi. Visitors of an exhibition received a rare opportunity to see 81 original monument from the Museum of terracotta army which is in Sian. These are figures of soldiers and horses, a chariot, bronze products, subjects of life, weapon and coins.
In multimeter trenches, presumably, there are about eight thousand figures of soldiers and horses. Now researches of the monument is proceeding. It is cleared away about two thousand figures, more than thousand are restored.
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04-Mar-2007 -- We got ourselves into a bit of trouble the first day of our field trip. Our plan for the day was to travel from Niamey to Tahoua, some 400 km to the Northeast, taking the main highway across Niger. We were setting out to document some of the great successes farmers were having in improving their natural environment. We were especially interested in measuring the much increased tree cover on their farmlands. We had aerial and satellite photographs that showed that tree densities were much higher today than in 1975, despite the relatively low rainfall and a much higher human population.
We headed out of Niamey in two 4x4 vehicles. Our Nigerien counterparts included an ecologist, a forester, and a soil scientist from the University of Niamey. It was Sunday, and it was to be a relaxed 6-hour drive to Tahoua. However, two-thirds of the way there, we decided to leave the paved road and follow minor tracks to take a closer look at the diversity of landscapes – from completely degraded land to relatively productive farmland surrounding century-old Hausa villages. I mentioned the Degree Confluence Project and pointed out that there was an unvisited confluence point near our route. Both my American and Nigerien colleagues took great interest in the Project and in the challenge, so we decided to try to capture the Confluence. After all, it was only 10 km east of our sandy track.
At 4 p.m. we left the track and headed directly for the Confluence. The terrain turned out to be incredibly rugged – fields, scrubland, and Mars-like rocky hills. Near the Confluence, deep gullies blocked our way, so we covered the last kilometer by foot. We nailed it – 14N 5E – as the sun was setting. A great capture to be sure, but now we faced nightfall and a long, difficult drive to Tahoua.
With no tracks to follow, I navigated in the dark using Venus in the West and Sirius to the South. Skirting ravines and rocky hills, we finally found a track, then a village, then more villages. Driving through the Hausa villages at night was surreal. They were cloaked in darkness, with only the occasional flicker of an oil lamp. As everywhere, the villagers were helpful, guiding us onward toward Tahoua. Finally we found our way to the city, arriving at our hotel at midnight.
Continued at 14N 6E.
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