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0027 was one of five Willowbrook bodied Dennis Dominators which were ordered as part of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (MPTE)'s Bus Evaluation Plan.
In 1978 the MPTE placed orders with most of the UK's bus builders for small batches of double deck buses for evaluation to prove which type would be the most suitable to become the future standard double deck bus on Merseyside.
Over the next few years the PTE ordered small batches of MCW Metrobus, Dennis Dominator, Leyland Olympian and Volvo Ailsa chassis eventually receiving fifteen of each type. In addition to trying different chassis the PTE also chose to have the chassis bodied by four different bodybuilders: Alexander, Eastern Coach Works, Metro Cammell Weymann and Willowbrook, although only Alexander supplied bodies on all four types of chassis.
Five Leyland Titan B15s were also ordered but due to production delays these never materialised, the MPTE having to make do with a solitary prototype on extended loan. Unfortunately, with the uncertainties brought about with the abolition of the Metropolitan County Councils and bus de-regulation, the MPTE did not buy any further examples of these types, preferring to continue to order Atlanteans from Leyland in sizeable batches right up until it becoming unavailable in the UK
The five Willowbrook-bodied Dennis Dominators received the fleet numbers 0024 - 0028 and were allocated to Speke Garage. 0024 was the first to enter service in March 1980. Delivery was rather a drawn out affair as 0026 was the last of the five to be delivered, not entering service until seven months later.
The five Willowbrook Dominators were later joined by ten with Alexander 'R' type bodywork, these having air suspension, unlike the Willowbrook Dominators which had steel leaf suspension. Speke garage used the Dominators on routes: 72, 78, 80, 81, 82C and 500 whilst in service with the MPTE.
Due to a combination of being non-standard and having steel framed bodies, the five Willowbrook bodied Dominators did not pass to the MPTE's successor, Merseybus, on its formation in 1986, but were sold for further service. 0024, 0027 and 0028 went to Maidstone & District (where they joined almost identical buses delivered new to M&D). 0025 went to Kingdom Coaches of Tiverton and 0026 operated for Citybus in Hong Kong before ending up with an operator in Guangzhou in China!
After nine years' service with M&D, two of the batch, MPTE Nos. 0024 (UBG 24V) and 0027 (WWM 904W) ended up back on Merseyside, with 0024 being operated by "Happy" Al's Coaches, Birkenhead, and 0027 with Huggins of Moreton. However 0027 was soon on the move again and finally ended up giving four years of service with Smith's Coaches in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
0027 was acquired in February 2001 for preservation by a member of the MTT and shortly afterwards 0024 was also acquired after a number of abortive attempts to save it since it had been withdrawn by Al’s Coaches in 1998 due to a major transmission defect.
Unfortunately whilst dumped on the scrap line, 0024 had been cannibalised. After a thorough inspection, it was found that 0027 was in slightly better condition than 0024 and so it has been decided to restore 0027 and use 0024 as a source of much needed spare parts.
Work to date has seen the replacement of the corroded steel stress panels on 0027 and some mechanical work including the removal and overhaul of one of its road springs. A lot of work remains to be done , but hopefully the vehicle will be completed in the future. 0027 is currently on long term loan to the Merseyside Transport Trust.
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I've already cast my vote. In California we aren't considered particularly important in this presidential election. The last run-up between candidates, marked this week by the third debate between President Obama and former Governor Romney, leaves the election more of a question mark than ever.
When Sen. McGovern, who died Sunday at the age of 90, lost the election to President Nixon in 1972, I was a freshman in high school. The Vietnam War was raging, and we didn't know if we would be picked in a future draft, as many of our older friends and siblings had been. After the election, in short order the Watergate scandal broke, Nixon was out of office, and the Vietnam War was over. Our beaten and bruised soldiers returned to a nation that was openly hostile to them. This was true on the part of both conservative and liberal citizens. Many Veterans' Centers refused to recognize Vietnam War veterans. Fortunately, we seem to have reversed this trend, and returning veterans from today's wars are being acknowledged and supported.
I grew up in Ohio which along with Florida is considered one of the important swing states. A few voters will determine this election. What is it about Ohio and Florida and other swing states that make them so special? I can say this much: Ohio is a collision between east-west-north and south. Ohio is hard to pin down, not because it is bland and monochromatic, but because it is so diverse. There are many constituencies, and this is true for
I grew up in Cincinnati in an era when school busing was the big headline. The question was how do we get people of different races and classes and cultures together in one place, at least for the purpose of equal education for our children? It has never been an easy task. Still, it seems to me this is the idea behind democracy, to get everyone together under the big tent. Isn't this the hope we hold for nations in the Middle East and other parts of the world where we have so heavily invested with our military and aid?
I think we can all relate to Ohio. Wherever we live, we are at a crossroads between various cultures, and the world is only getting smaller. This scares some of us, and for others it is energizing. The boxes that separated us back in the 1970s -- black, white, conservative, liberal, rich, poor, gay, straight -- these arbitrary lines seem to be losing their impact as we cross them within our families, communities, and friendships. Despite this, our politics have become so polarized that Congress can hardly function.
In this election, perhaps Ohio will teach us whether we are ready to embrace the world we live in, a world where democracy happens because people, formerly disenfranchised, now have a voice. It is interesting that Ohio is doing its best to suppress the votes of people living in poor and rural communities. The political interests in power in Ohio seem to think these are the areas of the state that could “swing” them, but not in favor of the current controlling majority. It is a last ditch-effort by some to undermine the democratic process altogether.
I've lived in Humboldt County longer than I did Ohio. We also represent a broad cross section of culture and experience. Perhaps the lesson I take from all this is that listening to one another and being willing to “cross the aisle” on issues we agree on is a good thing, however different our opinions may be. Votes count, whoever may cast them. We have a constitutional duty to respect this, and a personal responsibility to fulfill it.
The Rev. Eric Duff is an Episcopal priest and licensed clinical social worker who writes this column for the Times-Standard. He has a psychotherapy practice in McKinleyville. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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The compelling story of Alan Lomax – the man who recorded so much music around the globe, he was practically a rock star himself! Lomax's efforts with a tape recorder are the stuff of legend – and he's left behind a huge legacy of important recordings that would have never happened without his efforts – jazz, blue
s, folk, and global sounds – collected in the Library Of Congress, issued on Folkways, and circulated in other key ways too! This huge book
really gets at the breadth of work and effort that Lomax put into his project
s – and the whole thing is magnificently done by John Szwed, who's previously penned important book
s on Sun Ra and Miles Davis. 438 pages, hardcover.
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"From the first time I saw a photograph being developed and printed, I was hooked. I couldn't believe it. It was like magic." — Dennis Morris
Dennis Morris, a legendary British photographer, is a camera connoisseur ever since he was 8 years young. In the East End, where he grew up, he was oftentimes called as Mad Dennis because of his penchant and preference for photography over football. At age 11, one of his photographs was printed on the front page of the Daily Mirror, a newspaper in England.
It was 1973 when Morris’ music photography career began. Morris was 14 years young when he was invited by Bob Marley to photograph the reggae remainders of the UK Tour. His shots of Marley and The Wailers became so popular and the images appeared on the covers of Melody Maker and Time Out even before he turned 17.
After a few years, the frontman of the punk rock band Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten (who was then an ultimate reggae fan), personally asked Morris to be the band’s official photographer. Morris trailed the band and took innumerable undisputed shots of Rotten, Vicious, and the rest of the band.
Dennis Morris has written two photobiographies:
1) Bob Marley: A Rebel Life: A Photobiography, 1973-1980
This is a visual celebration of the king of reggae, Bob Marley. Morris photographed him for several years until his death in 1981. The book includes 150 photographs, 50 of which are in color. “Can I take a picture of you?” were his first words to Marley.
2) Destroy: A Photographic Record of the Sex Pistols, 1977
This is a stunning black and white photographic compilation of the Sex Pistols which were taken within a span of 12 months: from their business travels to their inevitable downfall. According to Morris, “The Sex Pistols were the voice of the young, white youth of England. But it was done in a different way.”
To date, Dennis Morris continues to be a pioneer in music photography. He now lives in London with his family. View more of his collections, exhibitions, and publications at www.dennismorris.com.
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We're adopting MongoDB for a new solution and are currently trying to design the most effective data model for our needs are regards relationships between data items.
We've got to hold a three way relationship between users, items and lists. A user can have many items and many lists. A list will have one user and many items. An item can belong to many users and many lists. The latter is especially important - an item can belong to potentially huge numbers of lists: thousands, certainly and potentially tens or hundreds of thousands. Possibly even millions in the future. We need to be able to navigate these relationships in both directions: so, for example, getting all the items on a list or all the lists to which an item belongs. We also need the solution to be generic so that we can add many more types of document and relationships between them if we need to.
So it seems there are two possible solutions to this. The first is for each document in the database to have a "relationships" collection consisting of an array of IDs. So a list document would have a relationships collection for items with the IDs of all the items and a relationship collection with a single ID for the user. In this model these arrays will become massive when an item belongs to many, many users or many, many lists.
The second model requires a new type of document, a "relationship" document that stores the IDs of each partner and the relationship name. This is storing more data overall and so will impact disc space. It also looks like an "unnatural" way to approach this problem in NoSQL.
Performance-wise, space-wise, architecture-wise, which is better and why?
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“I grew up in this world knowing that theater was always a part of the South African social fabric. A place where people can speak truth to power, question their realities, and imagine new ways of being.”
Lewis’s scholarly work explores national identity, gender, and race in a variety of performance media. In her main research project, Lewis is examining the role of white Afrikaner masculinity in South African theater before, during, and after apartheid. In conjunction with a colleague from Rhodes University, Lewis is also editing a volume of scholarly essays about Cape Town-based Magnet Theatre, written by theatre experts from around the world. Magnet Theatre Company has been making theatre in South Africa for the past 25 years, using movement-based and physical theatre to create a new dimension of physical communication. Their goal is to generate artful works that use the language of the body to communicate beyond the written word.
“If we base our piece in a language, we are excluding someone,” said Faniswa Yisa, Magnet Theatre’s resident performer.
Magnet’s performance piece, Every Year, Every Day, I am Walking, which recently played to packed houses here on campus, uses the language of movement to communicate poignant messages about the meaning of home in a time of political and social change. Accessible to global audiences of all languages, this powerful piece about migration, xenophobia, and the power of the imagination has traveled beyond South Africa, to ten African countries, Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Having grown up in South Africa and having witnessed the country’s movement away from apartheid to a more integrated and democratic society, Lewis attributes much of her academic inspiration to her experiences, many of which are mirrored in the works of Magnet Theatre. Much of the Company’s work illustrates an emerging sense of identity—a multifaceted notion explored through artistic expression in post-apartheid South African theatre and performance.
Though Lewis has been in the United States for over thirty years, she returns home annually for the Grahamstown Arts Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa where she first saw Magnet’s Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking. The second largest theatre arts festival in the world, referred to as “ten days of amazing,” Grahamstown showcases a wide range of performing arts including theater, dance, music, film, improvisation, and street performances.
“When I first saw Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in 2007, I was so blown away that I canceled everything else I was supposed to review to see it a second time,” Lewis says.
In honor of UMass Theater’s 40th anniversary, Lewis and her colleagues recently hosted Magnet Theatre in a week long residency on campus. Five members of Magnet Theatre toured the Five-College community, gave lectures, and visited classes. They also performed their movement-based piece, Every Year, Every Day, I am Walking, as part of the Theatre Department’s Mainstage season in the newly renovated Rand Theater.
UMass Amherst and Five College students currently have the opportunity to enroll in a summer course with Lewis based at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. Students in the program will travel to Grahamstown to experience the “ten days of amazing,” meet with artists, and learn from South African theatre scholars and practitioners firsthand. Lewis says the course is modeled on the successful Edinburgh Fringe Festival program that UMass Amherst already offers to theater students, which takes them abroad to experience performances and engage in Scottish culture.
In Grahamstown, Lewis’s students will see cutting edge international performances; meet playwrights, actors, and artists; and have the opportunity to examine and reflect upon how South African history, politics, language, and social justice help create and inform the performing arts.
For Lewis, the politics of theater have long been a personal and scholarly fascination. She argues that all theater is political; it is an art form that directly communicates the issues that face a society.
Quoting Mark Slouka in a recent video by the Theatre Communications Group Lewis says “People look at theater as this frivolous thing, like it’s the garnish, or the parsley, rather than the main course. Theater is the main course.” For Lewis, theatre is the productive space in which people imagine, or rehearse, new ways of being, alternative realities, and richer selves.
Diana Alsabe '15
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The characters and confusion that surrounded Ulysses Simpson Grant in springtime 1864 Virginia come vividly to life in “Command Conflicts in Grant’s Overland Campaign,” the latest book by noted local Civil War author Diane Monroe Smith. She lives in Holden.
Author of the Chamberlain biography “Fanny and Joshua,” Smith wrote “Command Conflicts” after researching the role that Joshua Chamberlain played during the siege of Petersburg. She has now written three Civil War-themed books, accomplishments made possible by her lifelong interest in the war.
“When I was a kid, it was the 100-year anniversary of all the battles, and I was an avid history kid,” Smith said. Her Civil War interest later went dormant until her sons, Robert and Alex, joined Co. B, 20th Maine Infantry, as re-enactors while in their teens.
“They did so without encouragement from Ned and me,” Smith recalled. A 14-year-old Alex later appeared as an extra in the Ted Turner “Gettysburg” movie.
The Smiths took Alex to Pennsylvania during the movie’s filming — and “that really got me going again” about the Civil War, Diane said. She volunteered with the Pejepscot Historical Society, which was then restoring the Brunswick home of Joshua and Fanny Chamberlain.
Smith started “researching the Chamberlains … for seven or eight years,” then wove her research into “Fanny and Joshua: The Enigmatic Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.” Published in June 1999 by Thomas Publications of Gettysburg, the book details the relationship between the Chamberlains and “adds considerable illumination to Joshua’s life and character,” according to John Pullen, author of “The Twentieth Maine.”
The book was well-received, except by certain male historians. “I don’t think all military historians are willing to accept works by a woman,” Smith said. She feels that “‘Fanny and Joshua’ was relegated to being a women’s book because I included her (Fanny Chamberlain) in the biography.
“I was really pleased because it went out of print last year,” Smith said. The University Press of New England plans to re-release “Fanny and Joshua” this month.
During her research, Smith contacted an archivist at Duke University, which she had heard still possessed some Joshua Chamberlain letters. Instead the university had an unpublished “Chamberlain manuscript” detailing the history of the Petersburg campaign, during which Chamberlain commanded a brigade in the Fifth Corps, she learned.
Smith “heavily annotated” the manuscript and published the book “Chamberlain at Petersburg.” The book presents “a good, hard look at the Fifth Corps and their experience in Grant’s Overland Campaign,” she said.
“I was fascinated by it, the whole Fifth Corps experience,” Smith recalled. Drawing upon her research, she started investigating Grant and the generals who surrounded him during spring and summer 1864.
Her effort led to the January 2013 publication of “Command Conflicts in Grant’s Overland Campaign.” Painstakingly researched and highly detailed, the 248-page (bibliography and index included) book follows Grant as he assumes higher command in the Western Theater and ultimately becomes the commander of all Union armies in winter 1864.
Then “Command Conflicts” shifts to the Eastern Theater in spring 1864, when Grant launched the Army of the Potomac on the bloody Overland Campaign. Smith meticulously introduces the many generals who commanded various components of that army and explains how ambition, ego, and personality traits adversely impacted the army’s command structure.
In researching the book, Smith spent considerable time learning about Western Theater battles, including Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, and Perryville. She credits Doug Richardson, a Fort Donelson National Battlefield employee, for providing invaluable information about Grant’s western campaigns.
“I felt it was important how Grant came to power,” Smith said. “I felt I had to know that to have a sense of how the animosity developed between the western generals and the eastern generals” serving Grant in Virginia.
Of all those generals, at least two appear in her book as the less-than heroic giants that American history has made them. Grant brought with him to Virginia Phillip H. Sheridan and James H. Wilson, the latter “a newcomer to Grant’s circle” in January 1863, Smith writes. An infantry officer most of his army career, Sheridan was appointed supreme Union cavalry commander in Virginia in 1864, and Wilson commanded a cavalry division under Sheridan.
In “Command Conflicts,” Smith details how Sheridan and Wilson routinely ignored orders from Gen. George Meade, who commanded the Army of the Potomac and reported directly to Grant. Although he reported directly to Meade, the insubordinate Sheridan often acted as he desired and sometimes bypassed Meade to get cavalry raids approved by Grant.
Smith supports with substantial historical documentation her belief that Grant was too lenient with Sheridan, Wilson, and other Western generals, a habit that possibly extended the war in Virginia an extra nine months. The book lays out substantive evidence that had some of the Western generals not been so contemptuous of their Eastern counterparts and had cooperated more with them during the Overland Campaign, Union troops could have captured the under-defended Petersburg in summer 1864 and forced Confederate troops to abandon Richmond and probably Virginia altogether.
Smith also supports with ample evidence her belief that Grant cared little about his men’s lives. He earned the nickname “Butcher” Grant during the Overland Campaign, during which he repeatedly hurled his men against entrenched Confederates.
“To me, Grant was just a guy who threw men into battle” without personally reconnoitering the terrain, Smith explained.
Well-illustrated with period photographs, “Command Conflicts” includes many maps provided by Ned Smith. The book is a detailed “read”; plan on spending time with each chapter and learning valuable information about the men, campaigns, and battles that took Grant from Belmont in Missouri to the siege of Petersburg in Virginia.
“Command Conflicts” is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online bookstores. E-book versions are available for Kindle and Nook.
Priced at $39.95, the soft-cover “Command Conflicts” was published by McFarland & Company Inc. in Jefferson, N.C.
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This is will explain the Important Things to Know about Typography. Most people put a lot of thought into how their website looks. They want colors that mesh well and pop without overpowering the audience. They want a layout that’s user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing so that people are encouraged to surf around and spend time on the site. And they want graphics and icons that reflect the brand and stand out without being obnoxious.
But there’s one thing that many people forget to pay attention to: the font. After all, it’s just the way the words look, right? It’s the content that matters.
Wrong! While of course it’s vital to have engaging content, that won’t matter one bit if your audience can’t even read it. Here are five things to think about when choosing a font for your site.
Is it legible?
This seems obvious, but too often those of us used to thinking about the aesthetics of a page get caught up on how well a particular font meshes with the visual theme we’re going for. That’s all well and good, but remember that the most important thing is that the typography you choose is clear and readable. Often (but there are exceptions) this means sticking to the usual subjects – things like Times New Roman, Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, Garamond, and similar styles.
Titles versus body
Titles can and should be big and bold (though not necessarily literally bold), and if you’re going to use a typography that’s more, shall we say, stylistic, titles are the place to do it. Just remember that the style in question needs to look good in large sizes, because you want titles big to draw attention.
In contrast, the main point of the body of your text is to convey information, so it just needs to be clean and simple. Oh, and just like title typography needs to look good big, body typography should work well in smaller sizes. The last thing to consider is how well the two fonts look next to each other on the page.
Three is a crowd
Generally speaking, you want two different kinds of fonts (one for the titles and one for the body) andonly two. If you start to add in additional kinds of typography, the page will come across as a disorganized jumble.
Size isn’t everything.
We mentioned before that titles should be bigger to stand out, and most of the time that’s true. However, increasing the size of titles isn’t the only way to call attention to them. You can also set them apart by where you place them, their weight, using tracking (adding or decreasing the space between individual letters in a word), and by making them a different color than the rest of the text. Using color in this way, in fact, can be a great way to complement the visual design of the page.
Break the rules
No, this doesn’t mean that you should ignore everything we’ve just said. Rather, it’s an invitation to take a look around the web at what all the other sites are doing and do something completely different. Don’t just make your title bigger, cover the entire homepage with it. Or make your titles small but striking, and use body text that’s larger.
The point is to think outside of what’s been done before. Anything is fair game so long as it serves the design and makes the site easy to read and navigate.
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If you think of this project as a way of doing a DIY version of an Aqus Toilet, you'd be mostly right. These are also commercially popular in Japan.
The goals of our project were: conserve drinkable water by eliminating the use of clean, potable water to flush toilets; break down social stigma around toilet water pre-use; build awareness of creative water conservation; make toilet modification replicable, accessible, and affordable to low income households; and conserve water at CCAT.
We thought about the fact that clean, drinkable water is being used to flush human waste down the toilet. We consider this to be environmentally and socially irresponsible. Therefore, we took action.
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Allergen and chemical free, fire-safe, long lasting and brimming with character, slate floor tiles are the stylish choice for the modern home. Of course, all natural stone flooring products have the same basic characteristics as slate, so why has slate taken centre stage as the natural stone of choice in trend setting homes throughout Australia? There are several possilble reasons:
- Environmentally conscious Australians are steering away from chemically manufactured products and towards natural products.
- Budget conscious Australians have realised the benefits of buying flooring materials that will last a lifetime (or more) and retain their value over time.
- Flooring companies are now offering the full spectrum of slate.
Of all the natural stones, slate is arguably the most environmentally friendly because it does not require enormously energy consumptive cutting machinery to produce. Naturally layered, it splits off natural cleavage lines of uniform thickness.
Slate is one of the least expensive natural stones. This is because it occurs in abundance throughout the world and is so much more easily and cheaply cut and processed than other stones.
Of all of these reasons, the last one is probably the main reason why so many Australians are rediscovering slate floor tiles. When you go into a showroom or look online, you will discover that slate comes in so many beautiful shades and colours, you can find a variety to suit virtually any interior or landscape design.
Slate: A Subtly Hued Rainbow of Colours
A perfect example of the multitude of hues slate comes in is African multicolour slate. If you are looking for floor tiles that create a natural mosaic of perfectly coordinated colours, then this may be the slate for you. Each tile in this type of slate will contain a fascinating combination of subtle hues, including several shades of beige, gold, blue, green, grey and ochre. One tile may be predominantly blue in colour, while others will have another predominant colour, but when laid, they all blend in perfectly together.
If you're looking for a more uniform appearance, slate is also the answer. Depending on the colour scheme of your room, you can choose between African Blue, Chinese Arctic Green, Indian Arctic Pink or any one of many other subtly hued slates, not to mention shades of grey.
Another reason why slate is the stylish choice in floor tiles is the fact that, unlike many other types of stone, it can be used au naturel or coated with a sealant and can be left rough or polished smooth and look equally beautiful. For indoor use, a sealant is recommended. The sealer will enhance the colouring of the slate and if you want it to retain its natural appearance, you can choose a mat finish or, if you prefer a gloss finish, that can easily be done. Ask your local tile supplier
for their advice. Together, you can find the perfect slate tiles for your floors and the perfect finish to complement them.
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The nuts and bolts of pumping breast milk for your baby
When should I start pumping?
For the first 10 days to three weeks after your baby is born, your life will revolve around nursing. “This is the crucial time for establishing an adequate milk supply,” Walker says. For this reason, breastfeeding experts recommend against using pacifiers, bottles or formula until breastfeeding is going smoothly for you and your baby. After those first two to three weeks, try to start pumping after each feeding; if it’s too difficult to pump this often, aim to do it daily after the first morning feeding. You can either store your milk in the freezer for when you return to work or, when your baby is a bit older, you can let your partner or other family members share in the joy of feeding by giving the baby breast milk from a bottle.
Wait a minute — won’t giving my baby
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Once you and your baby have established a comfortable nursing relationship and he is at least 6 weeks old, offering an occasional bottle will not disrupt your routine, Walker says. Furthermore, many experts agree that you should introduce a bottle at least two weeks before you return to work. (Some maintain that the earlier you do it after the baby is 6 weeks old, the better; if you wait too long to introduce a bottle to your baby, he may revolt.)
Since many babies will not accept a bottle from Mom, this is a perfect opportunity to get your partner or other family members in on the act. The first few times you do offer a bottle, don’t wait until your baby is frantically hungry. Also, be prepared to leave the room (or even the house); if the baby sees you, he may want your breast rather than the bottle.
How much milk do I need to have on hand when I go back to work?
Some experts say that a month’s worth is ideal (if this isn’t possible, aim to store at least a week’s worth), so the sooner you start pumping and building up your stores, the better. Remember that you will bring home fresh milk every day, so what’s in the freezer can be considered the emergency or backup supply (you occasionally may not be able to pump as much milk as your baby takes in a feeding; you can make up the difference with the milk you’ve stored). Also, be sure to keep a few “emergency” cans of formula on hand in case your supply of breast milk dwindles.
When is the best time to pump once I return to work?
Ideally, you should pump during the times when your baby would normally nurse. But if you can’t match your pumping schedule to his feeding schedule, don’t worry; pump during your breaks and lunch hour, and you’ll be in good shape. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t get as much milk from the pump as you’d hoped or if, on some days, you have time to pump only once or twice. You can always make up the difference by pumping in the evenings and on weekends. Also remember that your baby may adapt his feeding schedule to accommodate yours; some babies start to nurse more often or for longer in the mornings and evenings because they want the extra bonding time with Mom. And as long as your baby is growing and has two to five bowel movements and six to eight wet diapers a day for the first two months of life, this “reverse” feeding system can work.
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It is really stressful to live all cold, for long periods of time, in the winter. What do people do to keep warm in their homes, whatever kinds of home they be?
We just had our propane heater fixed and we hope this time it sticks. What a blessed thing to have on demand heat!
In Edwardian times people used large tapetries over doorways and windows, and around their bed posts as bed curtains. They also had warming pans to slide under their sheets...and I guess warming potatoes and rocks would work for the poorer classes.
That does sound all pretty cozy.
I think all the servants would sleep in the common room by a series of blazing fires, except for the few servants that slept beside their masters in nearby cots.
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If you’re looking for an upside to the last few years of economic doldrums, here’s some news for you. The results of a new survey demonstrate that Americans have become more focused, efficient and less impulsive when it comes time to do their shopping.
According to the 2011 Annual Pantry Survey from the folks at Deloitte, 75% of the more than 4,000 respondents believe they are smarter shoppers than they were a year ago, while 86% stated they are getting more precise about the purchases they make. Eight out ten respondents say they are getting in and out of the store more efficiently.
A big reason for this improved efficiency is the research done before consumers even leave the house. 90% of respondents said they know what they’re buying before they arrive at a store, and 83% go into the store with a specific set of brands in mind.
Eighty percent of shoppers responded that the recession has caused them to realize what brands they care about and which ones they don’t. That includes store-brand products, as 90% of people said that they have already figured out which store brands are right for them and which are not.
And when it comes to saving money, 80% of shoppers say they now do more research and go in to the purchasing process with a pre-determined price point and a potential savings amount in mind. And 66% of consumers say they shop when they know products will be on sale.
“Shoppers today expect to get a deal on the products they purchase,” said Pat Conroy, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and consumer products sector leader. “With this mindset it is critical that consumer products companies take measures to enhance brand loyalty by connecting early and often with key audiences in environments outside of the store.”
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|15th Feb 2008, 05:51 PM||Creating shadows in Photoshop Elements #1|
Join Date: May 2007
I realise there are probably much better ways of doing this exact same thing (especially with the full photoshop), but I like this method as if gives you a lot of control over the size/style/opacity of the shadow.
*If you click on any of the images, you can see a larger version*
1. First you will need a picture of a sim, preferably on a plain background (not necessary but makes life a bit easier). Then you will need to cut the sim out so that they are on a transparent background:
2. Select the transparent area around the sim any way that you want (I used the magic wand tool so that I could get it all in one click), making sure to select any bits on the inside that may be overlooked (such as the hole in her arm):
3.Now invert the selection so that you only have the sim selected:
4. Expand this by how many pixels away from the body you want the shadow to end (there can be some guesswork involved as it depends on how large the images is as to how much you will need to expand it by):
5. And now feather that by the same number of pixels as in the last step (this creates the blur effect):
6. Now create a new transparent layer under the sim:
7. And, with the same selection, but on the transparent layer, get the paint bucket tool, and fill the selection with the colour you want the shadow to be (black works best but other colours can create some nice effects)
8. You can then change the opacity (transparency) of the shadow if it is too dark, or you can duplicate the layer if it is not dark enough.
This is what the final result looks like:
Hope this is of some help to people
*By the way, in the final image, I'd also rotated her a bit, and added a warming photo filter, so that's why she looks slightly different from in the tutorial*
Excuse me, but I just have to explode.
|8th Sep 2008, 07:23 AM||#2|
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Nice work, does the version of Photoshop that you're using have layer styles? If so, try out the drop shadow style after you select your figure.
|8th Jan 2009, 12:02 AM||#3|
That's very helpful... my computer doesn't like shadows very much when I'm playing and I always thing pictures look better with them!
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I never knew how to add shadows to the pics with photoshop before. Thank you for this.
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By Wendy Elliott
A retrospective of printmaker David Silverberg’s work will hang at Jack’s Gallery in Wolfville from Feb. 2–March 31.
Silverberg was born in Montreal in 1936. From an early age, he displayed a talent for drawing, and by the age of seven, was attending art classes given by Group of Seven master Arthur Lismer at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
After attaining a BA from McGill University in 1957, he made the decision to pursue art. That same year, he traveled to Paris to study etching and engraving. There, as part of the art community, which included Marc Chagall and Max Ernst, he began to develop his unique personal style.
Silverberg’s chosen medium, engraving, dates to the 15th century and is one of the most unforgiving of traditional artistic media. It is a form of printmaking in which the artist, with a sharp tool called a burin, incises linear marks in a metal plate to form the desired image. When ink is applied to the finished plate and it is run through a printing press, the image is printed onto paper.
Close observation of Silverberg’s work reveals multiple layers of line, pattern and colour, which invites the viewer to look deeper and wonder at the skill, imagination and time taken to bring these engaging images to life.
The natural world and the human figure feature prominently in his work. Influenced by his observations of the world around him and travels to over 80 countries, his work brings insight into the form, lives and surroundings of the vast array of people and experiences.
“I have always loved to draw. I found it a wonderful way to learn about life everywhere. I have been very fortunate,” said Silverberg.
As a teacher, Silverberg has influenced countless students and artists around the world. He spent 23 years sharing his knowledge at Mount Allison University. In 1991 and 1992, he taught and exhibited in China at the invitation of the Chinese government. He was artist in residence at Acadia University from 1995 to 2000 and recently donated his collection of nearly 1,000 fine art books to the Vaughan Memorial Library.
His work is recognized and admired globally and has been included in more than 120 group and 200 solo shows in cities. His work has also be part of numerous group exhibits with such greats as Salvador Dali, Picasso and Marc Chagall. His distinguished awards and credits include membership in the Royal Canadian Academy and the Royal Society of Art in London, England.
Silverberg lives near Wolfville and never stops working. Currently, he is just about finished a rather large suite of line engravings depicting airplanes of the 20th century. A suite of engravings of his granddaughters, Rachel and Naomi, is almost complete and he is also adding to his suites celebrating flowers, birds, lovers, his heritage, animals and landscapes.
The opening reception and film takes place Feb. 2 from 2-4 p.m. The show runs until March 31.
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The emergence of heinous discourse of hatred in social media on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and the provocation of social violence and upheaval in almost all the Muslim countries show that we are suffering from a lack of collective minds. If all Western people had similar sentiments about Islam as depicted in this movie and if all Muslims held a similar mindset as the violent protesters, we would have said that this is something beyond a lack of prudence and wisdom and that it is a genetic state of human nature. But we know that this is not the case. We have seen this again in this situation; there have been many voices of reason in both the Christian and the Muslim worlds, reminding us of what it is to be human.
The question then is this: Considering that there are many voices of reason on both sides and that both sides have well-established institutions that are able to address such matters, how do we still experience violent manifestations of racism? We could look for the answer to this question in globalization, the unequal distribution of incomes and the established bigotries of the “other” culture. But maybe it is time for us to realize that we actually travel around the same state of racism despite thinking that we are healthy and normal. Maybe because many ideals which we consider universal are not universal yet and we still represent our culture and are not mature enough to create a world with other cultures.
One of the ways not to confront this possibility is to analyze the conflict between two cultures based on the results. We are now discussing how this recent provocation would affect the American election or how it would influence American attitudes towards the Arab Spring. We are ready to not rush and discuss the actual matter because we are embarrassed by such provocations and it is also really difficult to prevent such cases. However, what makes these incidents possible is nothing but the current state of relations between the East and the West.
No one would argue with President Barack Obama, who said: “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence.” True, but sadly these are politically “empty” remarks because they do not involve an approach that would prevent such incidents in the future. It invites all to wisdom and reason but it does not speak to the unreasonable.
Reason can only be achieved when everyone speaks to their own communities and societies. The Islamic world has to take a long road on this matter. But the over self-confidence in the West also prevents the East from acting reasonably. And some behaviors in the Islamic world also negatively affect the West.
However, the case is not symmetrical. In the end, the US invaded Iraq, instead of Iraq invading the US. For this reason, it is extremely difficult to achieve an environment of reason unless the Western world confronts its direct or indirect Orientalist tendencies. Hillary Clinton’s reflex after the murder in Benghazi was this: “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate? … This question reflects just how complicated … the world can be.” This naivety is surprising. Is it so difficult to understand that you have also offended or destroyed the social fabric and cohesion in a country that you helped?
This situation, which creates a state of naivety in Clinton, refers to clear exclusion in the world of Mitt Romney; it should be noted that the East hears Romney, not Obama. Romney interpreted the condemnation by the American Embassy in Cairo of those who offended religious sentiments as an apology for American values, including freedom of expression.
It is necessary to see that this is an Orientalist approach that serves the spread of racism because if you define freedom of expression as an American value, you create the perception that defending freedom of expression serves American hegemony over the East. In addition, if you view the use of freedom of expression to offend other cultures as normal, then you are admitting that you do not want to coexist with other cultures.
The universal justification of freedom of expression requires neutrality between cultures. The Western world supposes that this value is neutral. But from an Eastern perspective, it does not look neutral because it is being used in a way to violate the minimum boundaries that coexistence requires.
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DANSP07200 - How statutory payments disputes arise
Employers are required to pay statutory payments (SPs) to employees where qualifying conditions are met. Some of the amounts paid can be recovered by the employer through their monthly National Insurance contributions and PAYE payments or by direct funding from their Accounts Office. Disputes may arise when
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February 8, 2001
Student Art Awards Exhibit
When artists set out to create, they are faced with infinite design choices - what size, shape, light, value, color, texture, space, time and motion will express their intent? On the surface, it seems simple, but mastering the principles of design can take an entire college career, if not a lifetime.
Each spring semester, CSUS art students interested in how the public responds to their design choices can enter their artwork in a juried award show and have professionals from the art community critique their work.
The Student Art Award Show, exhibited at the Robert Else and Raymond Witt galleries this year through March 7, prepares students for the competitive art world and, for the winners, provides cash prizes and scholarships.
"I was honored to have been chosen," said Suzanne Smith, a CSUS graduate student who won several awards last year. "The $2,000 I received helped to pay my fees at school and buy art supplies. Most importantly it was validating to have my artwork chosen. The awards helped to build my confidence so that I can better navigate the very competitive and difficult art world."
This year's judges were artists Ruth Rippon and Suzanne Adan and the awards will be presented by Rollin Potter, School of the Arts director, at noon on Monday, Feb. 12 in the galleries.
The students competed for four different awards and scholarships.
The Raymond and Joyce Witt Scholarship was created in 1978 to memorialize the Witts. Raymond Witt was the chair of the CSUS art department from 1960 to 1972. He was a painter who exhibited widely in Northern California, including the Crocker Art Museum. His wife Joy was a dedicated teacher. As the couple prepared for retirement, they saved money for a home on the coast.
Sadly, Raymond Witt contracted multiple sclerosis and it became evident that they would not be able to enjoy the home they had planned. The Witt's love of this campus led them to give that retirement money to the scholarship that bears their names. Each year the scholarship amount varies, but it can be as large as $1,000.
The Increase Robinson Memorial Fellowship Award was created in 1984 in memory of Robinson. Robinson studied art at Wellesley College, the University of Chicago and the Chicago Art Institute. She was head of the Federal Works Progress Administration for 11 Midwestern states for several years. When she moved to Sacramento she continued her painting and involvement in the arts community. Upon her death, her friends and family honored her by establishing the memorial fund in her name to assist art students at CSUS with yearly awards of $1,000 each.
The Peyser Prize in Painting, named after Fredrick Peyser and founded in 1992, is an award for CSUS undergraduates who work in two-dimensional media. Peyser was the editor at The Commercial and Financial Chronicle and was devoted to promoting education, particularly for the less fortunate. The prize amounts vary each year.
The Jam Studio Inc. Award was created by CSUS alumnus Joanne Marquardt. In the 1980s, Marquardt started her own ceramic company that grew to employ more than 100 people. She sold the business and now owns Jam Studios, Inc. In appreciation of the CSUS art department and faculty she worked with, Marquardt donated money for awards of $1,000 to be given annually to graduate students.
The entries and winners in this year's Student Art Award Show are on exhibit from noon to 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday in the Else and Witt galleries through March 7.
For more information, contact the art department at 278-6166. For media assistance contact the CSUS public affairs office at (916) 278-6156.
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|The First Thirty Years of Television (Coronet Magazine, 1954)|
2013, being the 89th anniversary since the promise of television was first made to the world, is a fine time to post this article that celebrated the first thirty years of its existence. Illustrated with 27 pictures, this article names some of the inventors and the events that TV has made glorious.
• In 1927 Herbert Hoover was the first U.S. President to appear on T.V.
• The first dramatic production appeared on T.V. screens in 1928
• In 1931 George VI became the first British King to be broadcast
• Early television cameras captured Prime Minister Chamberlain upon his return from Munich in 1939 - the same year that the first major-league baseball game was broadcast
• President Truman's 1949 inaugural was the first inauguration to be televised - and that was the year that audiences really began to grow, and advertising fees right along with them.
Television Comes to Hollywood (Rob Wagner's Script, 1938)
"I believe the time will come when the live moving picture machine will be a part and parcel of every up-to-date home. I believe that the day is not far distant when moving picture film will be delivered at the home... and that the written description of the events of the day before will be augmented by the realistic portrayal of the happening..."
- so saith Siegmund Lubin (1851 – 1923), whose prediction was recorded in the July 28, 1906 issue of VIEWS and FILMS INDEX. Lubin is remembered in our age as one of the inventors who improved upon the existing movie camera and projector; his talents as a soothsayer have been largely ignored. We don't know what else he may have "soothed", but he sure was right about television!
- Which brings us to the matter of the attached article, that went to press some fifteen years after ol' Lubin assumed room temperature, but I'm sure that the writer (Tom Moriarty) would have been doubly surprised if Lubin had figured out that TV would evolve into the sordid affair that it is today. However, this column served as an announcement that television was coming and its home deserves to be in Hollywood, USA:
"Hollywood is the particular Creative Front in the world which has completely mastered the technique of volume-self-projection in all the arts."
Anticipating the Television Juggernaut (Stage Magazine, 1939)
This 1939 article was written by a wise old sage who probably hadn't spent much time with a "television set" but recognized fully the tremor that it was likely to cause in the world of pop-culture:
"Of all the brats, legitimate and otherwise, sired of the entertainment business, the youngest, television, looks as if it would be the hardest to raise and to housebreak..."
Click here to read about the early Christian broadcasts of televangelist Oral Roberts...
Seeing the 'Wonder Machine' for the First Time... (Delineator Magazine, 1937)
This is one of the most enjoyable early television articles: an eye-witness account of one the first T.V. broadcasts from the R.C.A. Building in New York City during the November of 1936. The viewing was set up strictly for members of the American press corps and the excitement of this one journalist clearly could not be contained:
"In the semi-darkness we sat in tense silence waiting to see the premiere demonstration of television...Television! What would it be like? I remembered how miraculous the first radios seemed...Suddenly, there in the lid of the wonder machine appeared the small but clear image of Betty Goodwin, television announcer, sent out on the air from the Empire State Building dome. Over intervening skyscrapers it had found its way, penetrating the thick walls of the RCA Building...Miss Goodwin introduced David Sarnoff, president of RCA and from the 7.5 by 10 inch screen he bowed and smiled..."
Television with All It's Possibilities (Stage Magazine, 1939)
There wasn't a single soul in 1939 would have imagined that television would be the sort of venue that would allow millions of strangers to see Tyra Banks get a breast exam, but that is the kind of institution it has become.
STAGE MAGAZINE correspondent Alan Rinehart was astonished that so much dough was being invested in such a young industry, yet he recognized that T.V. was capable of much good, but was also capable of generating the kind of banality that we're used to.
"What then, will be the entertainment value of television?...What's to be the entertainment? Why should we tune in? Will we get more than we will on the radio?...The revolutionary idea about television is that the medium has been developed before the art. It's as if the piano had been invented before music, or paint and canvas before drawing."
Color Television: Hand Maiden to Art... (Art Digest, 1945)
Attached you will read a 1945 editorial written by the art critic Clayton Boswell, who articulately expressed the great hope that the art world had emotionally invested in color television:
"This is what the art world has been waiting for - in the meantime struggling with the futility of attempting to describe verbally visual objects over the air. Now art on the television will be on par footing with music. And what radio has done in spreading the appreciation of good music will be duplicated with fine art...Then indeed will Andrew Carnegie's dream of progress through education come true."
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The University of California is the nation's leader in academic research and technology transfer. The University's world-class campuses and the DOE National Laboratories managed by UC advance knowledge, provide solutions to challenging problems, and offer new business opportunities in the public interest. UC is continually expanding opportunities for partnering with industry - from licensing emerging technologies to participating in active programs of research.
This area provides information about working with UC, how to contact the UC technology transfer offices, the UC Strawberry program, industry-related events that UC is hosting or participating in, and available technologies. Please click the sidebar links to the left for more information.
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Katy Texas Insurance Agency says taking a few simple steps can help property owners and renters protect themselves against losses
Katy, TX insurance specialist says property owners and renters can save money on their monthly premiums if they take a few simple steps.
Frank Hursh, owner of Katy TX Insurance Agency (http://www.katytexasinsurance.com) said the first thing landlords and renters should understand is the need to protect themselves and their properties.
“Most landlords have insurance coverage but they do not have adequate coverage. These landlords or property owners usually find this out when they attempt to file claims. That is when they find out they do not have adequate coverage. By then it is too late. The damage is done,” Hursh said in his office earlier today.
He said that most renters are not even aware that they can get coverage for their properties and families while they are renting.
“Most renters assume that the insurance policy covering the property also covers them. The truth is it does not. The renter is responsible for purchasing renters insurance for themselves and their families,” Hursh added.
The Texas insurance expert said there are two types of insurance policies; those that landlords buy to protect their properties, and those that tenants or renters buy to protect their possessions and themselves.
“Renters insurance that renters buy to protect themselves and their families covers liability so that if someone falls or is otherwise injured on the property they are renting, their medical bills and any legal fees will be covered. The landlord’s or property owner’s insurance does not cover that,” Hursh said.
He said landlords can lower their monthly premium by adding anti-theft and other security features to their properties.
“Flood lights, alarm systems, working gates and other safety devices can help lower your monthly premiums. It is also a good idea for the landlord to keep the property maintained and to check on it periodically. A tenant might be less likely to report leaks, floods and other conditions that could lead to potential property damage that would require you to file a claim,” Hursh added.
Hursh advised renters to consider policies with higher deductible as a way to lower monthly premium.
“You should consider a policy with a higher deductible. This means you’ll have to pay more out of pocket if you need to replace items. You should not do this if you have a lot of high end, expensive, irreplaceable items. In that case you must be sure to have sufficient coverage,” he advised.
In Katy, Houston, Sugar Land, Round Rock, Fulshear, Pearland, The Woodlands, Brookshire, Pearland and other nearby cities, call Katy Texas Insurance Agency at 281-398-1010 or go to http://www.katytexasinsurance.com/contactus.html to get help with renters’ insurance needs.
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Copyright © 2010 Kate Harper
"Manufacturability" is a word I use to describe the method of analyzing your card designs to see how they can be mass produced in an efficient and cost effective manner.
While you probably don't need to worry about this when you first start designing your cards, you might want to think about it early, so you don't create a series of cards that are too difficult to make on a larger scale.
Some people are easily put off by the idea of mass producing handmade cards. It sounds like a contradiction. Shouldn't handmade items be a labor of love that has special meaning? This is exactly the line that divides a hobbyist from a business person. Both people are skilled artists, but the business person is the one that intends to use their artistic skills to create an income.
There is nothing wrong with spending an hour making a card for Aunt Betty, but if you seriously want transform this "craft" into a business, you have to consider that your time is worth something.
You shouldn't be setting up your entire business just so that you can become the world's best card slave.
If I had to choose anything I felt should be taken seriously in the hand-crafted card business, it is the process of manufacturing. The key questions about how to chose materials, the way the work area is going to be set up, how these things can affect production time, and the quality of the work all need to be addressed.
Handmade Card Business Articles by Kate Harper
Backcopy:What to print on the back of your cards
The Handmade Card Business: Card Codes
The Handmade Card Business: All About Envelopes
Starting a Handmade Card Business: Manufacturing
How to Make a Living in the Handmade Card Business
Making Cards: Questions to Ask
Simplify Card Making for a Profit
How to Set Up a Handmade Card Factory
Paying People to Make Your Cards
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Many quotations attributed to famous people are at best paraphrases—though often superior to the original. Others might be subtly altered in the retelling, sometimes with little impact on their effect, at other times irresponsibly changing the meaning.
Here is a selection of well-known sayings or writings that aren't quite accurate (followed by a couple that are but are mistakenly identified as erroneous):
1. "Be the change you wish to see in the world."
This quotation attributed to Gandhi is a later invention by an unknown person, likely inspired by the following passage: "As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. . . . We need not wait to see what others do."
2. "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win."
Gandhi was also credited with this pithy progression, but something like it was actually uttered in a speech at a union meeting in the United States in 1914: "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."
3. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
This is an amended version of a line by playwright William Congreve, who flourished around the turn of the 18th century. The actual comment is "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
4. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
As with many of these lines, the person to whom it is attributed—in this case, Voltaire, perhaps would have wished he had been so eloquent. This ringing pronouncement, however, derives not from the French philosopher's own pen, but from an early 20th century biography of him.
5. "Methinks the lady doth protest too much."
This is a slightly recast alteration of Queen Gertrude's response to Hamlet's query about how his mother likes the play he has, unbeknownst to her, scripted to prompt a guilty reaction from her and King Claudius, who Hamlet believes conspired to murder his father.
She is saying that the character of the queen is trying too hard to appear innocent. The original, no better or worse—merely measured differently—is "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
6. "Money is the root of all evil."
This alteration of a biblical verse, by omitting a vital element of the original, changes the meaning significantly. The verse actually reads, "For the love of money is the root of all evil."
7. "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."
This misquotation lacks the equivocation of British historian Lord Action's actual statement, "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely"—and omits the blunt next sentence: "Great men are almost always bad men."
8. "Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."
The actual quote, from the same play from which the line in the third entry above is taken, is "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast." The next line, elaborating on the theme, is "To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak."
9. "Nice guys finish last."
Legendary baseball manager Leo Durocher wasn't making a blanket statement when he uttered these four words. They are a contracted repetition of his assessment of a baseball team's prospects for the season. The entire quotation is "All nice guys. They'll finish last. Nice guys—finish last."
10. "No rest for the wicked."
This line, uttered jocularly by a busy person, perhaps as an excuse for departing, is probably inspired by the biblical verse "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."
11. "Now is the winter of our discontent."
These first few words of Shakespeare's Richard III are often expressed to mean "The present time is the winter of our discontent."
What the titular character means, however, is made clear by including the second part of the statement, which demonstrates that the phrase is merely a preface to the counterpoint of a reference to better times: "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York."
12. "Pride comes before a fall."
This is a contracted version of the biblical verse "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
13. "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Mark Twain's actual comment is more straightforward: "The report of my death is an exaggeration." In addition, the statement is in reference not to a prematurely printed obituary but to a reporter's inquiry about his health.
14. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
This quotation is a vast improvement over this vaguely similar statement by Irish-born British statesman Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
15. "Theirs but to do or die."
The legendary phrase from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge Of The Light Brigade" has a subtly but significantly different penultimate word. The entire line reads, "Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die."
16. "Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink."
The line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" has been tidied up a bit. The original is "Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink."
Two other well-known statements considered to be misquotes are actually later versions of lesser-known comments. Winston Churchill's phrase "Blood, sweat, and tears," widely believed to be an erroneous version of "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat," is actually a more concise and euphonious update of the more extended form.
By the same token, "I laughed all the way to the bank" is an alleged misquotation (and misunderstanding of Liberace's quip "I cried all the way to the bank," but he actually did use laughed in response to a poor review of a financially successful concert of his.
When he later won a lawsuit—with compensation—stemming from a newspaper's veiled contention that he was gay (the nerve!), he altered the earlier utterance with a change of verb to reply to a query about whether the accusation made him distraught.
A version of this post first appeared on DailyWritingTips.com and ran on PR Daily in February.
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Leading Asian businesspeople called for deepening integration in finance, trade and investment among East Asian countries to combat the European sovereign debt crisis and financial uncertainty, which is casting a shadow over the world economy.
At the third Asian Business Summit held Thursday in Bangkok, leaders from 14 business organisations from 12 Asian economies shared similar views that the continent should establish a regional financial centre so as to be less reliant on Western countries.
They said deeper integration among Asean, Asean+3 and Asean+6 would pave the way for establishment of the Free-Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) by 2020.
Phongsak Assakul, chair of the Board of Trade of Thailand, said private enterprises would like to see that Asia has its own financial centre to ensure businesses suffer fewer impacts from crises like the current euro-zone crunch.
“Currently, the centers of global financial trading are in Western countries. Asia has high potential to be a new centre for financial trading and transactions thanks to stable economic growth,” Phongsak said.
Moreover, he said the private sector wanted to see closer integration on seamless trade under Asean’s agreement with six partner countries – China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand – as it would encourage stronger integration in the Asia-Pacific region.
The meeting also proposed establishment of an Asian bond market to stabilise regional financial growth.
Nelson An-ping Chang, vice chair of Taiwan’s Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, said that amid the global uncertainty, Asia should set up an efficient mechanism for stable exchange rates in the region and with trading-partner countries.
“Asia needs to promote closer financial cooperation and help small- and medium-sized enterprises ensure sustainable growth in the region,” he said.
Chang added that countries in Asia should also strengthen cooperation through public-private partnerships as governments could not alone drive growth amid global difficulty.
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President Obama Heads to Copenhagen as Climate Conference Draws to Close
President Barack Obama is due to head to Copenhagen overnight to join the leaders of over 100 other nations for the final day of the U.N. Climate Change conference in the Danish capital.
Last updated on: December 17, 2009 1:45 PM
The question remains what sort of compromise they can agree on to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to help the most affected and less developed nations of the world cope with global warming.
For the past two weeks thousands of delegates have been meeting in a conference center on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Their task was to come up with a global plan to deal with climate change.
But, agreement has been elusive. Many of the sessions were taken up with finger pointing and rhetoric of who's to blame for global warming, who suffers most, and who needs to do more.
Addressing the conference, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned that, as he put it, no one has come here with "clean hands."
"The inescapable truth is that we, the developed world, carry the overwhelming historical responsibility for the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," Rudd said.
Prime Minister Rudd's message was that the developed world must set things right. But, he also admonished emerging economies to not continue to spew out greenhouse gases.
There have been major differences here at the conference between developed and developing nations and with major emerging economies.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a major funding initiative with a promise to contribute to a global fund of $100 billion annually to help poor nations deal with climate change. But, she said that could only happen if all major economies agree on emissions cuts and on proper monitoring of implementation. She made a clear reference to China, with whom the U.S. has been at odds over the issue.
But, Prime Minister Rudd reminded delegates that everyone has a stake.
"The truth is that unless we all act together because we are all in this together there will be limited prospects of development because the planet itself will no longer sustain development," Rudd said.
That was much the message from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who admonished his fellow world leaders that failure is not an option.
He warned them they would all have to answer before global opinion and public opinion at home if they failed to act. Science has told us what must be done, he said, and we are the last generation to be able to do it.
In an impassioned speech, President Sarkozy said everyone would have to compromise. He appealed to world leaders to sit down and work out their differences and suggested a serious working meeting after Thursday's dinner to do just that.
Initial hopes had been the Copenhagen conference could come up with a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which mandates emission cuts for most developed nations. Developing countries are adamant that they want Kyoto extended beyond its 2012 expiration date. Leaders here have indicated they are looking for a political framework agreement from Copenhagen, with another summit to be held in about six months to work out details and turn it into a legally binding accord.
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Bahain is off to row an ocean
11/01/2013 - 16:57:00
With the London Olympics been and gone, France’s Julien Bahain decided to again take up his oars and do some blue-water rowing.
Bahain, 26, a two-time Olympian with a bronze medal from Beijing 2008, says he needed to find a new challenge and a unique experience following the London Olympic Games. Blue-water rowing provided the answer.
Bahain has recently set off to row across the Atlantic Ocean with Patrick Favre. But Bahain and Favre will not be content just to complete the 2,500 nautical mile journey - they want to set a new course record for a double. The duo departed from Tarfaya, Morocco on 8 January 2013 heading for the Caribbean Islands and will have reach their target in less than 40 days to successfully break the record.
Favre is a very experienced ocean rower. He has completed two Atlantic crossings solo and finished one with a crew. Favre has also sailed the Atlantic three times.
The duo arrived at Tarfaya in late December but had to wait until 8 January to start due to weather conditions.
The current record for two rowers is held by Jamie Fitzgerald and Kevin Biggar (New Zealand) with a time of 40 days, five hours and 53 minutes. It was set in 2003 during the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race.
To break this record Bahain and Favre will have to row at least 62 nautical miles per day (115km). They have calculated that they will be doing about 21,600 oar strokes daily. They have also estimated that each of them will sleep about 5.5 hours per 24 hours as they row in shifts.
The fastest French pair to cross the Atlantic was Jo Le Guen and Pascal Blond who completed it in 49 days back in 1997.
Also about to embark on an Atlantic crossing is 2006 under-23 World Champion Paul Gerritsen of New Zealand. Gerritsen is a last-minute inclusion in a six-person team attempting to break the record for crossing the Atlantic Ocean in less than 30 days. The current record is 32 days. The crew is organised by Great Britain’s Simon Chalk and is currently waiting for good weather to start from Puerto Mogan, Gran Canaria.
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Chatham County Mosquito Control has confirmed that preliminary test results indicate the presence of West Nile Virus (WNV) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in Chatham County. Both WNV and EEE are transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes and can cause mild to serious illness. Mosquitoes that carry the West Nile Virus are more likely to bite during the evening, night, and early morning.
The Chatham County Health Department and Chatham County Mosquito Control urge residents to take appropriate precautions now and throughout the summer to minimize mosquitoes around their property.
There are several easy things you can do to reduce mosquito breeding including removing water-holding containers, changing water frequently in pet dishes, changing bird bath water at least twice a week, and avoiding using saucers under outdoor potted plants. In addition, consider organizing or participating in clean-up activities to pick up garbage from parks and other public spaces. By helping to limit potential breeding grounds for mosquitoes, every resident can contribute to reducing the nuisance caused by mosquitoes and stop the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.
The Chatham County Health Department encourages residents to follow the five “Ds” of prevention:
• Dusk – Mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus usually bite at dusk and dawn.
• Dawn – Avoid outdoor activity at dusk and dawn if possible. If you must be outside, be sure to protect yourself from bites.
• Dress – Wear long-sleeved shirts and pants to reduce the amount of exposed skin.
• DEET – Cover exposed skin with an insect repellent containing the chemical DEET, which is the most effective repellent against mosquito bites.
• Drain – Empty any containers holding standing water because they can be excellent breeding grounds for virus-carrying mosquitoes.
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Students at Roosevelt Middle School in West Palm Beach hope to continue to make a difference in the lives of political prisoners. Todd LaVogue’s World Cultures and Geography classes will be conducting a write-a-thon on Friday, December 10, to coincide with the end of International Human Rights Week. All of the classes will be spending the day on the “Write a Letter, Save a Life” program sponsored by Amnesty International. Students will be writing a minimum of two letters each – one to a political prisoner to express their support and one to their captor to express outrage. The bios on different political prisoners, as well as prisoners of conscience, will be reviewed earlier in the week to select the recipients of the letters.
The majority of the letters written last year were to Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the general who placed her under house arrest in 1990. Kyi’s recent release was a cause of celebration for those students who felt that their letters had made an impact on the decision to let her go.
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Toronto Star Statement of Principles
The general principles that guide the Star’s journalistic integrity.
Truth emerges from free discussion and free reporting. An informed public is essential to fostering and preserving Canada's democratic society.
Section 2 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees “freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.”
With this right comes a responsibility for the media to be accurate, fair, honest and transparent. In its landmark 2009 decision on responsible communication in the public interest, Canada’s highest court asserts this principle: “Freedom does not negate responsibility. It is vital that the media act responsibly in reporting facts on matters of public concern, holding themselves to the highest journalistic standards.”
If the Toronto Star does not live up to this responsibility in everything it publishes — in the newspaper, on its websites and through social media — we undermine our credibility with the public. As the Star’s then-publisher Beland Honderich said in November 1972 on the occasion of the opening of the Star’s new offices at One Yonge St.: “The most valuable asset a newspaper can have is its reputation for telling the truth.”
The Star's basic aim as a news organization is to engage in the full and frank dissemination of news and opinion, and to do so working within the highest standards of journalistic integrity. In reporting news and opinion, the Star seeks to inform the public of the significant and interesting events of the day, with particular emphasis on politics and public affairs.
The Star operates according to the progressive values established by Joseph E. Atkinson, the Star’s legendary publisher from 1899 to 1948. These Atkinson principles are: A strong and united Canada, civic engagement, individual and civil liberties, a necessary role for effective government and the rights of working people.
Our core mission as defined by Atkinson is to focus public attention on injustices of all kinds and on reforms designed to correct them. “Humanity above all,” said Atkinson, who further set the tone of the “Paper for the People” with his advice for newsgathering — “Get the news first, sew it up so the opposition cannot get it, leave not a crumb or a tidbit uncollected, and play it big.”
Herewith are the general principles that guide the Star’s journalistic integrity:
The Star has responsibilities to its readers, its shareholders, its employees and its advertisers. But the operation of a news organization is, above all, a public trust, no less binding because it is not formally conferred. Our overriding responsibility is to the democratic society.
Freedom of expression and of the press must be defended against encroachment from any quarter, public or private. Journalists must ensure that the public's business is conducted in public. They must be vigilant against all who would exploit the press for selfish purposes.
Journalists who abuse the power of their professional roles for selfish motives or unworthy purposes are faithless to that public trust.
The Star is a forum for the free interchange of information and opinion. It should provide for the expression of disparate and conflicting views. It should give expression to the interests of minorities as well as majorities, of the powerless as well as the powerful. The Star aims to present news and information in terms of people and its effect on people, so it can be read and understood in all sections of the community.
ACCURACY and TRUTH
Good faith with the reader is the foundation of ethical and excellent journalism. That good faith rests primarily on the reader's confidence that what we print is true. Every effort must be made to ensure that everything published in the Star is accurate, presented in context, and that all sides are presented fairly.
Journalistic integrity demands that significant errors of fact, as well as errors of omission, should be corrected promptly and as prominently and transparently as warranted.
The Star should respect the rights of people involved in the news, be decent in its conduct and stand accountable to the public for the fairness and reliability of everything it publishes. Persons publicly accused should be given the prompt opportunity to respond.
The Star believes in paying the costs incurred in gathering and publishing news. Conflicts of interest, and the appearance of conflicts of interest, should be avoided. Star journalists should neither accept anything nor pursue any activity that might compromise or seem to compromise their integrity or that of the newspaper. It is not appropriate for Star journalists to play the roles of both actor and critic.
To be impartial does not require a news organization to be unquestioning or to refrain from editorial expression. Sound practice, however, demands a clear distinction for readers between news and opinion. All content that contains explicit opinion or personal interpretation should be clearly identified as opinion or analysis, as appropriate.
Every person has a right to privacy. There are inevitable conflicts between the right to privacy and the public good and the right to be informed about the conduct of public affairs. Each case should be judged in the light of common sense and humanity.
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Latin American and European leaders have begun a second day of talks in Chile, seeking a free trade deal and other strategic partnerships. President Dilma Rousseff left for Brazil after a major nightclub fire.
A major nightclub fire in southern Brazil overshadowed the second day of the summit between EU and Latin American leaders in Santiago de Chile.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, scheduled to stay in Chile through Monday, departed to return home amid the fatal fire which claimed more than 200 lives.
A spokesperson for the German government in Berlin said Chancellor Angela Merkel had offered her condolences to the remaining Brazilian delegation, while Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle expressed his "deepest sympathy" from Berlin.
"I am most deeply upset by this terrible accident," Westerwelle said.
Merkel said that the EU needed to continue efforts to rein in public debt and kick-start economic growth to instill confidence among trading partners elsewhere.
"The most important thing for countries here is that they have the impression that we in the eurozone are overcoming the crisis together, and not leaving some countries hanging," Merkel said on Sunday.
The summit brings EU leaders together with top politicians from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, more commonly known as CELAC. CELAC is a community of 33 American countries excluding the US and Canada, formed under its current guise in December 2011. The meeting in Chile is the seventh between the two blocs, but the first since CELAC's formation.
Closer ties sought, but barriers remain
All participants on Saturday issued a joint statement saying they planned a "strategic partnership to achieve sustainable development," with Merkel lauding both "broad-minded and dynamic" ties and Latin America's economic progress.
"The dynamic development of this entire region shows that we, within the EU, must strive to ensure we are not left behind, to improve our competitiveness, to reduce our debt. We cannot live on the backs of future generations," Merkel said.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told business leaders at the summit that it was important to "rein in protectionism and promote liberalization" in order to deepen trade ties. EU agriculture subsidies, which can lead to exports undercutting prices from regional producers, is a bone of contention on the CELAC side.
The CELAC delegations were to remain in Chile after the joint summit concludes on Sunday evening. The bloc will hold its own summit on Monday, during which Cuba will take over the body's chairmanship as Chile's term concludes.
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At first glance Klopp and Heynckes, the coaches of the two German Champions League finalists, seem to have little in common. But the two coaches are more similiar than it seems.
Just moments after an English Championship playoff tussle on Sunday, London’s Wembley Stadium began to prepare to host the UEFA Champions League final. Logos were changed and different corporate advertisements posted.
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Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child's Fears, Worries, and Phobias Horror Book Review
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Darkbound is an amazing book. Michaelbrent Collings outdid himself with this book. It is not at all what I thought it would be. I took three nights to finish this book because I stayed up way past my bedtime. Darkbound was so suspenseful that I just kept on reading to…
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If you are the parent of one of the millions of children with worry and anxiety: help is on the way. Anxiety is the number one mental health challenge facing our children today. Fortunately, there is good news for these kids and the parents who suffer along with them - anxiety disorders are also the most treatable mental health condition. With the powerful cognitive-behavioral treatments now available, there has never been more hope for anxious children’s bright future.
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New Technology, In-Flight Security, 100% Screening, Professionalized Workforce, Information Sharing and Detection…
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A Bipartisan Policy Center report released yesterday somewhat echoes what I said in my post and cites specific TSA successes in the areas of information sharing, pre-screening and matching all passengers against government terrorist watch lists to keep travel secure.
In addition, TSA has made significant enhancements to improve technology and to protect passenger privacy. What we do have is a solid lineup of state of the art world class security technology that when used in conjunction with constantly improving processes and a well-trained staff, provides a safe and solid layer of security at our airports. In fact, TSA has certified 10 Explosive Detection Systems and is a global leader in setting the standards for technology that safely screens passengers, luggage and air cargo. Advanced imaging technology (AIT), intelligence, behavioral detection officers, canine teams, and federal air marshals are also key parts of our layered approach. And with the adoption of automated target recognition software for AIT screening devices, we continue to improve passenger privacy.
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Presenter: Walt Dabney
Commission Agenda Item No. 5
State Park Preparedness and Response Efforts to Hurricane Rita
I. Executive Summary: The State Parks Division mobilized key staff and equipment in preparation for Hurricane Rita. The potential impact to State Parks was initially forecasted to be extensive and affect at least one-quarter of the park system, several state parks along the Gulf Coast. The Division coordinated evacuation and recovery efforts in advance of the storm with much assistance from the Incident Management Center at Bastrop State Park, led by Region 5 Director Brent Leisure and the Customer Service Center staff. The Customer Service Center staff was instrumental in responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by coordinating placement of guests and evacuees.
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NearsightednessBy Mayo Clinic staff
Original Article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nearsightedness/DS00528
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Nearsightedness (myopia) is a common vision condition in which you can see objects near to you clearly, but objects farther away are blurry.
The degree of your nearsightedness affects your ability to focus on distant objects. People with severe nearsightedness can see clearly only objects just a few inches away, while those with mild nearsightedness may clearly see objects up to several yards away.
Nearsightedness may develop gradually or rapidly, often worsening during childhood and adolescence. Nearsightedness tends to run in families.
A basic eye exam can confirm nearsightedness. You can easily correct the condition with eyeglasses or contact lenses. Another treatment option for nearsightedness is surgery.
Nearsightedness symptoms may include:
- Blurry vision when looking at distant objects
- The need to squint or partially close the eyelids to see clearly
- Headaches caused by excessive eyestrain
- Difficulty seeing while driving a vehicle, especially at night (night myopia)
Nearsightedness is often first detected during childhood and is commonly diagnosed between the early school years through the teens. A child with nearsightedness may:
- Persistently squint
- Need to sit closer to the television, movie screen or the front of the classroom
- Hold books very close while reading
- Seem to be unaware of distant objects
- Blink excessively
- Rub his or her eyes frequently
When to see a doctor
If your difficulty clearly seeing things that are far away is pronounced enough that you can't perform a task as well as you wish, or if the quality of your vision detracts from your enjoyment of activities, see an eye doctor. He or she can determine the degree of your nearsightedness and advise you of your options to correct your vision.
Since it may not always be readily apparent that you're having trouble with your vision, the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends the following intervals for regular eye exams:
If you're at high risk of certain eye diseases, such as glaucoma, get an eye exam every two to four years up to age 40, then every one to three years between 40 and 54, and finally every one to two years at age 55 and older.
If you don't wear glasses or contacts, have no symptoms of eye trouble, and are at a low risk of developing eye diseases, such as glaucoma, it's recommended that you have an eye exam at the following intervals.
- An initial exam at 40
- Between ages 40 and 54 — every two to four years
- Between ages 55 and 64 — every one to three years
- Age 65 and older — every one to two years
If you wear glasses or contacts, you'll likely need to have your eyes checked regularly. Ask your eye doctor how frequently you need to schedule your appointments. But, if you notice any problems with your vision, schedule an appointment with your eye doctor as soon as possible, even if you've recently had an eye exam. Blurred vision, for example, may suggest you need a prescription change, or it could be a sign of another problem.
Children and adolescents
Children need to be screened for eye disease and have their vision tested by a pediatrician, an ophthalmologist or another trained screener at the following ages and intervals.
- During the newborn period
- At well-child visits until school age
- During school years, every one to two years at well-child visits, or through school or public screenings
If you're nearsighted, the light rays that enter each eye are focused in front of the retina, instead of on the retina. This causes blurry images.
To focus the images it sees, your eye relies on two critical parts:
- The cornea, the clear front surface of your eye
- The crystalline lens, a clear structure inside your eye that changes shape to help focus objects
In a normally shaped eye, each of these focusing elements has a perfectly smooth curvature like the surface of a smooth rubber ball. A cornea and lens with such curvature bend (refract) all incoming light in such a way as to make a sharply focused image on the retina, at the back of your eye.
A refractive error
However, if your cornea or lens isn't evenly and smoothly curved, light rays aren't refracted properly, and you have a refractive error. Nearsightedness is one type of refractive error. Nearsightedness can occur when your cornea is curved too much or, more commonly, when your eye is longer than normal. Instead of being focused precisely on your retina, light is focused in front of your retina, resulting in a blurry appearance of distant objects.
Other refractive errors
In addition to nearsightedness, other refractive errors include:
- Farsightedness (hyperopia). This occurs when your cornea is curved too little or your eye is shorter from front to back than normal. The effect is the opposite of nearsightedness. When the eye is in a relaxed state, light will be focused beyond the back of your eye, making objects blurry. With a little effort, the eye can focus on distant objects making them clear. With greater effort, the eye can focus on near objects to allow them to be seen clearly. Problems with blurring occur when the crystalline lens begins to age and it loses its flexibility and focusing ability. You're usually able to see faraway objects clearly.
- Astigmatism. This occurs when your cornea is curved more steeply in one direction than in another. Uncorrected astigmatism blurs your vision. Typically, the images you see will be blurred more in one direction than another. For example, horizontal images may be more out of focus than are vertical or diagonal images.
Certain risk factors increase the likelihood of developing nearsightedness, such as:
- Family history. Nearsightedness tends to run in families. If one of your parents is nearsighted, your risk of developing nearsightedness is increased. The risk is even higher if both parents are nearsighted.
- Close work. There may be an increased incidence of nearsightedness among people who do a lot of reading or other close work.
Nearsightedness may be associated with several complications, such as:
- Reduced quality of life. Uncorrected nearsightedness can affect your quality of life. You might not be able to perform a task as well as you wish, and your limited vision may detract from your enjoyment of day-to-day activities.
- Eyestrain. Squinting to see in the distance can cause eyestrain and headaches.
- Impaired safety. Your own safety and that of others may be jeopardized if you have an uncorrected vision problem. This could be especially serious if you are driving a car or operating heavy equipment.
- Glaucoma. Severe nearsightedness increases your risk of developing glaucoma, a potentially serious eye disease.
- Retinal tear and detachment. If you're significantly nearsighted, it's possible that the retina of your eye is thin. The thinner your retina, the higher your risk of developing a retinal hole, tear or retinal detachment. If you experience a sudden onset of flashes, floaters, or a dark curtain or shadow across part of your eye, seek medical assistance immediately. Retinal detachment is a medical emergency, and time is critical. Unless the detached retina is promptly surgically reattached, this condition can cause permanent loss of vision in the affected eye.
Preparing for your appointment
Three kinds of eye specialists, each with different training and experience, can provide routine eye care:
- Ophthalmologists. An ophthalmologist is an eye specialist with a doctor of medicine (M.D.) or doctor of osteopathy (D.O.) degree who provides full eye care. This care includes performing complete eye evaluations, prescribing corrective lenses, diagnosing and treating common and complex eye disorders, and performing eye surgery when it's necessary.
- Optometrists. An optometrist has a doctor of optometry (O.D.) degree. Optometrists are trained to evaluate vision, prescribe corrective lenses and diagnose common eye conditions.
- Opticians. An optician is an eye specialist who fills prescriptions for eyeglasses — assembling, fitting and selling them. In some states, opticians are also allowed to sell and fit contact lenses.
No matter which type of eye specialist you choose, here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment, and what to expect from your doctor.
What you can do
- If you already have glasses, bring them with you to your appointment. Your doctor has a special device that helps to determine what type of prescription you already have. If you wear contacts, bring an empty contact lens box — or a box from each type of contact you use if you wear a different strength contact lens in each eye — to your appointment.
- Write down any symptoms you're experiencing, such as trouble reading up close or difficulty with night driving.
- Make a list of all medications, vitamins or supplements you're taking.
- Write down questions to ask your doctor.
Preparing a list of questions can help you make the most of your visit. For nearsightedness, some basic questions to ask include:
- When do I need to use corrective lenses?
- What are benefits and drawbacks to glasses?
- What are benefits and drawbacks to contacts?
- How often do you recommend that I have my eyes examined?
- Are more permanent treatments, such as eye surgery, an option for me?
- If so, which do you recommend?
- What types of side effects are possible from these treatments?
- Will my insurance company pay for surgical procedures or a contact lens fitting?
What to expect from your doctor
Your doctor may ask:
- When did you first begin experiencing symptoms?
- Does your vision improve if you squint or move objects closer (or farther) away?
- Do others in your family use corrective lenses? Do you know how old they were when they first began having trouble with their vision?
- When did you first begin wearing glasses or contacts?
- Do you have any medical problems, such as diabetes?
- Have you started to take any new medications, supplements or herbal preparations?
Tests and diagnosis
Nearsightedness is diagnosed by a basic eye exam. A complete eye examination involves a series of tests. Your eye doctor may use various instruments, aim bright lights directly at your eyes and request that you look through an array of lenses. Each test allows your doctor to examine a different aspect of your vision.
Treatments and drugs
The goal of treating nearsightedness is to help focus light on your retina through the use of corrective lenses or refractive surgery.
Wearing corrective lenses treats nearsightedness by counteracting the increased curvature of your cornea or the increased length of your eye. Types of corrective lenses include:
- Eyeglasses. Eyeglasses come in a wide variety of styles and are easy to use. Eyeglasses can correct a number of vision problems at once, such as myopia and astigmatism. Eyeglasses may be the easiest and most economical correction solution.
- Contact lenses. A wide variety of contact lenses are available — hard, soft, extended wear, disposable, rigid gas permeable (RGP) and bifocal. Ask your eye doctor about their pros and cons and what might be best for you.
This treatment corrects nearsightedness by reshaping the curvature of your cornea. Refractive surgery methods include:
- Laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK). LASIK is a procedure in which an ophthalmologist makes a thin, circular hinged cut that extends partly into your cornea. Your eye surgeon then removes layers from the center of your cornea to flatten its domed shape.
- Laser-assisted subepithelial keratomileusis (LASEK). Instead of creating a flap in the cornea, the surgeon creates a flap only in the cornea's thin protective cover (epithelium). Your surgeon will use a laser to reshape the cornea's outer layers and flatten its curvature and then reposition the epithelial flap. To encourage healing, a bandage contact lens is worn for several days after this procedure.
- Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). This procedure is similar to LASEK, except the surgeon removes the epithelium. It will grow back naturally, conforming to your cornea's new shape. Like LASEK, PRK requires the use of a bandage contact lens following the procedure.
- Intraocular lens (IOL) implant. These lenses are surgically implanted into the eye, in front of the eye's natural lens. They may be an option for people with moderate to severe myopia. IOL implants are not currently considered a mainstream treatment option.
All eye surgeries have some degree of risk; possible complications from these eye procedures include infection, corneal scarring, blurred distance vision, vision loss and visual aberrations, such as seeing halos around lights at night. Discuss the potential risks with your doctor.
Lifestyle and home remedies
Although you can't prevent nearsightedness, you can help protect your eyes and your vision. Follow these steps:
- Have your eyes checked. Regardless of how well you see, have your eyes checked regularly for problems.
- Control chronic health conditions. Certain conditions, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, can affect your vision if you don't receive proper treatment.
- Recognize symptoms. Sudden loss of vision in one eye, sudden hazy or blurred vision, flashes of light, black spots, or halos or rainbows around lights may signal a serious eye problem, such as a retinal tear or detachment, requiring urgent medical attention. Similar symptoms can be caused by other serious medical problems, such as acute glaucoma or a stroke. Talk to your doctor immediately if you experience any of these symptoms.
- Protect your eyes from the sun. Wear sunglasses that block both ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation. This is especially important if you spend long hours in the sun or are taking a prescription medication that increases your sensitivity to UV radiation.
- Eat healthy foods. Maintain a healthy diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables, which have shown to enhance eye health. Try foods that contain vitamin A and beta carotene, such as carrots. Dark leafy greens and fish also may be especially helpful for good eye health.
- Don't smoke. Just as smoking isn't good for the rest of your body, smoking can adversely affect your eye health as well.
- Use the right glasses. The right glasses optimize your vision. Having regular exams will ensure that your eyeglass prescription is correct.
- Use good lighting. Use adequate light for optimal vision.
Although a number of scientific attempts have been made to halt or slow the progression of nearsightedness, there are no proven ways to prevent the condition from occurring or progressing.
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Children are tougher than butterflies!
One of the inevitable consequences of hosting the Olympics is the calling for more competitive sports to be introduced into the school curriculum, so we can, as a nation do better. I think this is nonsense; we did unbelievably well this time around, despite the fact that most of our athletes presumably attended school when socialism dictated that children would be mentally scarred for life if they lost a game of tiddlywinks let alone tennis! I think games and sports are not a bad thing, but many of us hated the whole idea when we were at school.
Schools are meant to educate children in basic skills, literacy and numeracy and so forth, not to spot future Olympic champions.
And what about the risk factor? There is an interesting article here on this very subject and it is also interesting how risk factor assessments are rarely accurate. More competitive sport in schools means more children at risk of injury or death, and there is no such thing as an accident these days.
Frog leapt out and scared gardener!
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Working in a rural underserved community call for a hollistic approach to community development. URF has crafted such an approach to effectively work with the people of the communities in identifying critical challenges and diagnosing them with appropriate measures. To better understand the real needs of the community, you have to open up dialogue and let the voices of the people to be heard.
Our staff and volunteers make home visits to the children and women we serve to better understand how to support. On weekends, small workshops are conducted in the villages discussing various ranging from parenting skills, nutrition, to AIDS awareness; visits to the sick and transporting those who need help getting to hospital; building homes for child-headed families and the eldery, and much more as resources allow.
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C-DIVISION FALL 2013
The object of C- Division is to instill in youth an understanding of the game of soccer in an atmosphere of friendship, fair play and good sportsmanship.
A co-educational program for children born (8/1/2004 to 7/31/2006)
Games are played Sunday afternoons on a small side field. Some additional games will be played at night during the week. Most teams hold one practice during the week. Players must wear soccer cleats and shin guards for games and practices. A size 4 soccer ball is recommended for practices. Tee shirt, shorts and socks will be provided. End of the year pizza parties are provided. Trophies will be rewarded to the first, second and third place teams, and a metal for all other participants.
This program will last for eight weeks. Professional Training will be provided on Saturday mornings. (Three sessions)
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Search Results for 'gaming'
Technology has become a seamless part of students’ lives in and out of the classroom, and schools must find ways to integrate it. This is one of the conclusions in a report by the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), which states that policymakers at the highest level need to understand the trend [...]
Trace Effects The U.S. State Department is jumping into the ed-tech world with an online game meant to help teach “American English” to kids between the ages of 12-16 in more than 30 countries. Meant to provide players with a view of American life and culture different from the typical portrayal in movies, Trace Effects [...]
By Andrew Miller The online educational video game site iCivics, created in 2009 by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor that features civics curriculum, has partnered with EverFi, an ed-tech company focused on K-12 and higher ed. And through the partnership comes a new initiative Commons – Digital Town Square, offered free to all [...]
Flickr:Blakespot By Jennie Rose An estimated 135 million people play video games, spending three billion hours a week glued to a screen. But that’s not necessarily bad news. In fact, playing video games may be part of an evolutionary leap forward, according to Howard Rheingold, educator and author of the book Net Smart: How to [...]
The Infinite Thinking Machine is back after a summer hiatus. This episode focusing on gamification features a great rundown of learning games and programs, including Minecraft, Gamestar Mechanic, NYC Haunts, and Gamedesk, a game company that recently opened a game-based learning school within a school in Los Angeles.
Perhaps the best way to think about games in education is not to automatically call everything that looks like fun a “learning game.” Lumping all digital game approaches together makes no more sense than a toddler’s inclination to call every four-legged animal a “doggie.” Game interest is definitely on the upswing in K-12 and higher [...]
By Suzie Boss The following suggestions for turning K-12 classrooms into innovation spaces come from Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World, published in July by Solution Tree. How can we prepare today’s students to become tomorrow’s innovators? It’s an urgent challenge, repeated by President Obama, corporate CEOs, and global [...]
As the gaming in education continues to grow, one of the foremost experts in the field, Constance Steinkuehler, makes the case for why it’s important to pay attention to what works in gaming and how it could be applied to learning. At the recent Aspen Ideas Festival, Steinkuehler, who’s now a Senior Policy Analyst at [...]
Flickr: Amitburst By Katrina Schwartz Advanced Placement courses have long been the standard for high achievement in high school. The classes are modeled on college courses and are meant to represent the difficulty and breadth of material that students are expected to handle when they get to college. For that reason, some colleges give in-coming [...]
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CINCINNATI — In recognition of National Safety Month, Cintas Corp., a provider of first aid and safety products, has released its top tips for businesses impacted by the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) requirements for chemical classification and labeling. The new system will require millions of businesses and employees nationwide to be retrained on hazard communication.
“Hazardous-chemical information needs to be communicated to any employee who is exposed to or works with chemicals—even bleach,” says John Amann, vice president, First Aid & Safety, Cintas. “With GHS affecting over 5 million businesses, it is important that all employees are trained and understand the upcoming changes to chemical safety so businesses can keep workers safe and maintain OSHA compliance.”
The top tips for transitioning to GHS include:
Anytime a safety standard is created or updated, written programs must be changed to include guidelines for complying with the regulation. Update your written program to incorporate GHS in all of your current hazard communication protocols.
The adoption of GHS has the potential to prevent nearly 600 injuries and illnesses annually, according to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). To be proactive in preventing accidents, employees must be properly trained on new chemical labeling and Safety Data Sheet (SDS) formats. Businesses that make an effort to train well before the deadline will have knowledgeable, prepared employees, thereby limiting injuries, medical costs and potential OSHA fines, Cintas says.
Nine new pictograms for chemical labels will provide visual warnings for carcinogens, skin or eye irritants, flammable products and more. Clarify what each pictogram represents and demonstrate the types of personal protective equipment (PPE) workers should wear for different hazards.
New labels will now have a signal word, the product identifier, supplier identification, and hazard and precautionary statements. These detailed labels include critical warnings, Cintas advises, so it is important to teach employees to thoroughly read them before using the chemical.
Safety Data Sheets (SDS), formally Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), are informational guides for determining chemical handling and storage, necessary PPE and exposure action plans. These will now follow a standardized format and contain more extensive chemical information. Reference OSHA to understand the new layout, and keep your SDS binders accessible so employees can refer to them anytime.
When used in conjunction, instructor-led, DVD and online training engage all learning types. Lessons should combine visual and auditory instruction with group activities and handouts to encourage retention of GHS material, Cintas recommends.
To prevent OSHA fines, it is necessary to document all of the training conducted within your facility. Have employees sign training logs after they have completed GHS training and demonstrated an understanding of the concepts.
“Because hazardous materials present severe risks to workers, complying with GHS guidelines is essential for maintaining a safe work environment,” adds Amann. “Businesses that begin preparing now will find the transition much easier than workplaces that wait until the last minute.”
Cintas is offering a free on-site, no obligation consultation to determine what aspects of current hazard communication programs a given business needs to update. More information is available by calling 877-973-2811.
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RUSKIN – Affordable housing here is growing… up, out and beyond old limitations.
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Or, in the words of Earl Pfeiffer, executive director of the non-profit corporation that helps families acquire a home by participating in its construction, the concept is “evolving.”
Homes are increasingly attractive, maintenance of their communities is more sophisticated, amenities are more often featured, values are more substantial, he says. Yet, the financial investment supplemented with “sweat equity” remains manageable for many probably shut out of other home buying options.
As proof, Pfeiffer points to Bayou Pass, the multi-phase, enclosed affordable housing community straddling 14th Avenue between 21st and 24th Streets. Its first two phases are nearing build-out, a third is in the works.
What’s more, the Ruskin community whose name was inspired by the river shoreline conservation area called Camp Bayou and the passage to it, is but the beginning of the affordable housing evolution, he suggests.
Pfeiffer, an experienced builder and real estate sales agent who cut his lower income housing teeth with the City of Tampa’s programs in the 1990s, now heads Florida Home Partnership, Inc. The non-profit corporation is dedicated to assisting first-time homebuyers into home ownership when the criteria demanded by for-profit lenders cannot be met. It’s the second largest such operation in a federal self-help program in the eastern U.S. The largest, he adds, is in the Orlando area.
Just as the affordable housing practice has evolved, so has the not-for-profit company at its center, Pfeiffer explains. Florida Home Partnership, governed by a 12-person board of directors, grew out of what originally was called Homes for Hillsborough, an entity founded 10 years ago by the late Dorothy Duke, a housing advocate in the north who couldn’t simply retire to Sun City Center.
Over that decade, a total of 325 homes in several different South County areas have been financed, built and occupied through the cooperative efforts of their owners and the non-profit corporation, Pfeiffer notes. Contrary to naysayers who forecast a large number of such homes would become empty resales leading to deteriorating neighborhoods, only 29 of the 325 total have been sold in 10 years. “People,” he asserts, “really want a home of their own to take pride in.”
The first project undertaken by the assisting corporation was the Homes for Ruskin community located north of S.R. 674 and east of 12th Street, a no frills development of single family houses. The most recent is Bayou Pass, complete with a Key West style community center, a pond centered with a fountain and its own homeowners association. In between have come such projects as Summerview Oaks on the west side of U.S. 301, just north of Big Bend Road, and 10 homes built on infill lots in one of the Summerfield Crossings neighborhoods. “We’re now building 70 houses a year; 10 years ago we built seven or eight in a year,” Pfeiffer says.
Several factors combine to create the functional Florida Home Partnership affordable housing program, Pfeiffer states. One involves financial assistance for the buyer, with Hillsborough County providing “pass through,” no interest loans for buyer downpayments as well as a 40-year-old “self help” mortgage loan program offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Another factor keeping the partnership program at the affordable level, Pfeiffer asserts, is that the contractors’ fees are not “marked up.” Contractors doing the tradesman work bid for the jobs and partnership families, in effect, pay “wholesale prices,” he adds.
Then, of course, there’s the work actually performed by the owner families themselves, which is not paid for but eventually is compensated with equity in the properties for the owners.
The process begins with application by the interested, first-time buying family. Loan specialists look for a client who has not owned a home in the last three years and whose income is under 80 percent of the U.S. median, he says. For a family of four, that would be no more than a combined family income of $43,500 annually.
Once determined to be eligible, the mortgage application goes to USDA for funding. The approvals are bundled into a group of 10 with the closing handled as a group at the title company and the construction process begun in a group, after each family has chosen its preferred lot.
The entire process may transpire over a period of a year or more, and the building process alone consumes seven or eight months, Pfeiffer says. The natural result is that the multiple families sharing the experience simultaneously often become close friends, helping one another by sharing their skills during construction.
While such building aspects as the foundation, plumbing, electrical, block masonry, air conditioning, carpentry and cabinetry all are handled by licensed contractors who have bid for the work, there are 64 tasks from excavation and prep work to painting and finishing touches that owners themselves do, Pfeiffer notes. “It’s a great way to build a neighborhood,” he adds.
|Unlike affordable housing developments of the past, Bayou Pass in southeast Ruskin features amenities much like its upscale neighbors. The community center on the south side of still-growing Bayou Pass has a distinctly Key West flavor befitting its tropical environment. The development of single family homes offers first-time home buyers willing to invest their own sweat equity but unable to meet for-profit lender requirements a choice of floor plans, color schemes and front elevations, but with considerably lower mortgages. Melody Jameson Photo|
Ultimately, a family may not only move into a home of its own but also acquire considerable equity in the property at the same time. In Bayou Pass, for example, where the single family dwellings range from three-bedrooms in 1,160 square feet to a four bedroom in 1,584 square feet, the new home owner may have a $125,000 mortgage on a property with a $200,000 valuation, having contributed sweat equity in the end valued in the $75,000 range. The monthly mortgage payment well may be under $500, Pfeiffer indicates.
Looking ahead, Pfeiffer sees more housing construction in the near future for the partnership. The third phase of Bayou Pass, 160 single family homes on about 37 acres in the northwest corner of the 14th Avenue-2lst Street intersection, is projected to get underway in 2009.
Then, there is the new single family Wimauma development to be brought in. Dubbed Hidden Creek, it is set for acreage immediately east of Valencia Lakes. And, the partnership proposes to expand its affordable housing efforts into adjoining counties, probably beginning in Pasco, Pfeiffer says.
There’s an “excitement” and “passion” that characterizes the entire affordable housing operation, the executive director says, “and it’s infectious.” The partnership staff now numbers 16, he adds, and “eight of them came here first as clients.” Enthusiastic families often want to share with others what they have found for themselves, he notes.
Helping families find their version of “the American dream” with a home of their own pays multiple dividends, Pfeiffer concludes. For benefiting families, it prompts feelings of accomplishment leading to greater stability which, in turn, underpins better citizenship, he says. And that, he sums up, benefits government with an expanded tax base and a more constructive society.
The partnership website address is www.flhome.org. Additional information also can be obtained by calling 813-672-7889.
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Confiscatory Deflation: The Case of Argentina
While assorted financial journalists, market pundits, policy wonks, Fed governors and even mainstream macroeconomists have been thrown into a panic by the slight whiff of price deflation they detected in the last few months in the U.S. economy, they have almost completely ignored the wrenching confiscatory deflation that is now going on in Argentina.
Confiscatory deflation is a particular category of deflation. It is inflicted on the economy by the political authorities as a means of obstructing an ongoing bank credit deflation that threatens to liquidate an unsound financial system built on fractional reserve banking. Its essence is an abrogation of bank depositors' property titles to their cash stored in immediately redeemable checking and savings deposits.
A glaring example of confiscatory deflation is the current situation in Argentina. In 1992, after yet another bout of hyperinflation, Argentina pegged its new currency, the peso, to the U.S. dollar at the rate of 1 to 1. In order to maintain this fixed peso/dollar peg, the Argentine central bank pledged to freely exchange dollars for pesos on demand and to back its own liabilities, consisting of peso notes and commercial bank reserve deposits denominated in pesos, almost 100 percent by dollars.
Unfortunately this arrangement--which inspired confidence in international lenders because it was approved by the IMF and therefore carried its implicit bailout guarantee--did not prevent a massive and inflationary bank credit expansion. As investment dollars flooded into the country, they found their way into the central bank, enabling it to expand the amount of reserves available to the commercial banks. As fractional reserve institutions, the latter, in turn, were able to inflate bank credit in concert by multiplying bank deposits on top of each new dollar or peso of reserves.
As a result, Argentina's money supply (M1) increased at an average rate of 60 percent per year from 1991 through 1994. After declining to less than 5 percent for 1995, the growth rate of the money supply shot up to over 15 percent in 1996 and nearly 20 percent in 1997. In 1998, with the peso overvalued as a result of inflated domestic product prices and foreign investors rapidly losing confidence that the peso would not be devalued, the influx of dollars ceased and the inflationary boom came to a screeching halt as the money supply increased by about 1 percent and the economy went into recession. Money growth turned slightly negative in 1999, while in 2000, the money supply contracted by almost 20 percent.
The money supply continued to contract at a double-digit annual rate through June 2001. In 2001, domestic depositors began to lose confidence in the banking system, and a bank credit deflation began in earnest as the system lost 17 percent, or $14.5 billion worth, of deposits.
On Friday, November 30, alone, between $700 million and $2 billion of deposits--reports vary--were withdrawn from Argentine banks. Even before that Friday bank run, the central bank possessed only $5.5 billion of reserves ultimately backing $70 billion worth of dollar and convertible peso deposits. President Fernando de la Rua and his economy minister, Domingo Cavallo, responded to this situation on Saturday, December 1, announcing a policy that amounted to confiscatory deflation to protect the financial system and maintain the fixed peg to the dollar.
Specifically, cash withdrawals from banks were to be limited to $250 per depositor per week for the next ninety days, and all overseas cash transfers exceeding $1,000 were to be strictly regulated. Anyone attempting to carry cash out of the country by ship or by plane was to be interdicted.
Finally, banks were no longer permitted to issue loans in pesos, only in dollars, which were exceedingly scarce. Depositors were still able to access their bank deposits by check or debit card in order to make payments. Still, this policy was a crushing blow to poorer Argentines, who do not possess debit or credit cards and who mainly hold bank deposits not accessible by check.
Predictably, Cavallo's cruel and malign confiscatory deflation dealt a severe blow to cash businesses and, according to one report, "brought retail trade to a standstill." This worsened the recession, and riots and looting soon broke out that ultimately cost 27 lives and millions of dollars in damage to private businesses. These events caused a state of siege to be declared and eventually forced President de la Rua to resign from his position two years early.
By January 6, the Argentine government, now under President Eduardo Duhalde and Economy Minister Jorge Remes Lenicov, conceded that it could no longer keep the inflated and overvalued peso pegged to the dollar at the rate of 1 to 1, and it devalued the peso by 30 percent, to a rate of 1.40 pesos per dollar. Even at this official rate of exchange, however, it appeared the peso was still overvalued because pesos were trading for dollars on the black market at far higher rates.
The Argentine government recognized this, and instead of permitting the exchange rate to depreciate to a realistic level reflecting the past inflation and current lack of confidence in the peso, it intensified the confiscatory deflation imposed on the economy earlier. It froze all savings accounts above $3,000 for a year, a measure that affected at least one-third of the $67 billion of deposits remaining in the banking system, $43.5 billion in dollars and the remainder in pesos.
Depositors who held dollar accounts not exceeding $5,000 would be able to withdraw their cash in twelve monthly installments starting one year from now, while those maintaining larger deposits would not be able to begin cashing out until September 2003, and then only in installments spread over two years. Peso deposits, which had already lost one-third of their dollar value since the first freeze had been mandated and faced possible further devaluation, would be treated more liberally. They would be paid out to their owners starting in two months, but this repayment would also proceed in installments. In the meantime, as one observer put it, "bank transactions as simple as cashing a paycheck or paying a credit card bill remained out of reach of ordinary Argentines."
Mr. Lenicov openly admitted that this latest round of confiscatory deflation was a device for protecting the inherently bankrupt fractional reserve system, declaring, "If the banks go bust nobody gets their deposits back. The money on hand is not enough to pay back all depositors." Unlike the bank credit deflation that Lenicov is so eager to prevent, which permits monetary exchange to proceed with a smaller number of more valuable pesos, confiscatory deflation tends to abolish monetary exchange and propel the economy back to grossly inefficient and primitive conditions of barter and self-sufficient production that undermine the social division of labor.
Meanwhile, unlike the deflation-phobes in academia, the media, and supranational bureaucracies who have turned a blind eye to confiscatory deflation or hailed it as a responsible "austerity measure," many of its unfortunate Argentine victims have recognized it for what it essentially is: bank robbery by the political elites.
Ramona Ruiz, a retired textile worker, railed at an empty ATM machine, "That is my money inside that bank, mine!" Another, unidentified woman yelled at a government spokesman: "How dare you take my savings." Jose Valenzuela, an Argentine salesman, stated, "It's as if while I am talking to you I'm swiping the change from your pocket." More poignantly, an Argentine businessman lamented, "It is trampling on our liberties. . . . I feel my civic rights, my private rights, have been violated." Finally, Argentine union leaders incisively denounced the policy as "the hijacking of a nation's savings."
Unfortunately, things were to get even worse for hapless Argentine bank depositors. After solemnly pledging when he took office on January 1 that banks would be obliged to honor their contractual commitments to pay out dollars to those who held dollar-denominated deposits, President Duhalde announced in late January that the banks would be permitted to redeem all deposits in pesos. Since the peso had already depreciated by 40 percent against the dollar on the free market in the interim, this meant that about $16 billion of purchasing power had already been transferred from dollar depositors to the banks.
As the confiscatory deflation continues in force, and depositors are barred from redeeming their property titles, the loss of wealth endured by depositors is likely to grow as the peso depreciates further. Happily for bank depositors, Argentina's Supreme Court struck a heroic and stunning blow in favor of property rights on Friday, February 1, when it ruled unanimously (five to zero with three abstentions) that the banking freeze was unconstitutional, arguing that it was "irrational" and that it "annihilated" constitutional rights to private property, in effect opening the door to a much-needed bank credit deflation.
After a shaken Duhalde went on television on Saturday, February 2, to decree that the banks would stay closed on the following Monday and Tuesday in blatant defiance of the Court's decision, the disgusted and enraged middle class took to the streets banging pots and pans and chanting "out, out, all the politicians out" and "give us our money." Duhalde quickly recovered, however, and on Monday he defiantly issued an executive decree suspending for 180 days all judicial challenges of the freeze on bank deposits; he also goaded his allies in Congress to accelerate the process of impeaching the recalcitrant Supreme Court justices for "alleged corruption and improprieties."
The only equitable and efficient solution at this point is for the Argentine government to recognize and adjust its policy to the reality of property--and the reality is that bank deposits are no longer (and really never were) par value property titles to fixed quantities of pesos and dollars. These currencies do not exist in the fractional reserve banking system in anywhere near the quantities needed to pay off depositors.
In economic reality, a bank's deposits are claims on its loan and investment portfolio, including its cash reserve. Therefore, every bank should be immediately handed over to its depositors, that is, transformed into a managed mutual fund. The ownership titles or "equity shares" in each mutual fund would be prorated among the former depositors in accordance with their share of the predecessor institution's deposit balances.
The result would be a bank credit deflation that would result in a swift and sharp, one-shot contraction of the money supply down to the level of the monetary base, which is equal to the amounts of peso and dollar currencies held by the public plus the peso and dollar reserves held by the banks.
While nominal prices and wage rates would have to be readjusted sharply downward, the value of the peso would rise commensurately, monetary exchange and calculation would be restored, and the allocation of resources and distribution of property titles would once again be determined by market processes.
Joseph Salerno, senior fellow of the Mises Institute and editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, teaches economics at Pace University. Send him MAIL, and see his Mises.org Articles Archive. A longer version of this paper was presented at Boom, Bust, and the Future, a financial conference of the Mises Institute. You can listen to the audio version of his longer talk.
Data on Argentina's money supply is provided by Frank Shostak, Ord Minnett Jardine Fleming Futures Daily Report (July 20, 2001).
Reuters, "Riots and Looting in Argentina as Austerity Plan Bites," The New York Times on the Web, (December 19, 2001).
Larry Rohter, "Argentina Is Still Shaky Despite Currency Measures," The New York Times on the Web, (January 11, 2002).
Quoted in ibid.
Quoted in Anthony Faiola, "Argentina Restricts Bank Withdrawals," washingtonpost.com (December 2, 2001), p. A30.
The last two individuals were quoted in David Luhnow, "Argentina Intensifies Defense of Peso-Dollar Link," The Wall Street Journal (December 3, 2001), p. A15.
Quoted in Knight Ridder Newspapers, "Argentina in Cash Chaos: Government Orders Use of Debit Cards over Currency," arizonarepublic.com (December 6, 2001).
Quoted in Faiola, "Argentina Restricts Bank Withdrawals."
Marc Lifsher and John Hechinger, "Argentina Will Pay Bank Deposits in Pesos," The Wall Street Journal (January 21, 2002), p. A2.
Mayra Pertossi, "Argentine Bank Freeze Deemed Illegal," Associated Press (February 1, 2001), dailynews.yahoo.com.
BBC News, "Argentina `on brink of anarchy,' " (February 2, 2002), news.bbc.co.uk.
Michelle Wallin and Jonathan Karp, "In Argentina, It's Duhalde against Judges," The Wall Street Journal (February 5, 2002), p. A12.
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Memories on three decades of volcano coverage
Commentary: Allen Thomas
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Thirty years ago come Tuesday, Mount St. Helens launched its geologic cannon blast, leveling much of the Southwest Washington backcountry, killing deer and elk and turning the Toutle River into a heated surge of mud.
It’s a day I’ll never forget, and I can’t even begin to count how many post-eruption stories I’ve done about the recovery of fish, wildlife and recreation in the Mount St. Helens area.
I was in a rubber raft on Chamberlain Lake, a backwater of the Columbia River at Lyle in Klickitat County, the Sunday morning the mountain blew.
I checked my fishing log (it goes back to 1969) and I caught four smallmouth bass, two largemouth and two crappies that day.
Along the shore was a young angler from Lyle who asked if my fishing partner and I knew about the eruption. We thought he was just talking about the minor ash spits that had occurred to that point.
The radio in my Ford Pinto station wagon-fishing car did not work, so driving west on state Highway 14 I was in the dark. It wasn’t until I got home and turned on television that I learned.
After watching TV for a while, I had to see this with my own eyes, so I drove up Rawson Road east of Hockinson to a spot near Larch Corrections Center that has a commanding view of Mount St. Helens.
Being two years into this job as outdoor writer, I then went to The Columbian office, knowing I’d be expected to do a fish and wildlife story that would be a small component of Monday’s mega-coverage.
I started calling state fish and wildlife biologists at their homes, as if they had any more insight or knowledge than any of us in those first hours of chaos, death and destruction.
The first one I reached was Hugh Fiscus, a fish biologist. Fiscus has a dry wit and the gift of understatement.
I asked him a bonehead question like: “What do you think the impact of all this is on salmon in the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers?’’
His response: “All I’ve seen is what’s on television, but I don’t think it’s good.’’
Ironically, the state Wildlife Commission met in Kelso on May 19, in a regularly scheduled meeting. Although they had an agenda, the eruption was all anyone was talking about.
Bruce Crawford, another state biologist, put a thermometer in the Toutle that morning and got a temperature reading in the 90s.
There were concerns the Interstate 5 Bridge over the Toutle River was at risk due to the mudflow and massive amounts of wood and other debris.
So the Olympia-centric Wildlife Commission and the department staff, not wanting to get caught on the south side of the Toutle if the bridge was closed, adjourned the meeting and reconvened it a few hours later in Olympia.
The fact their decision would put those of us from Southwest Washington on the wrong side of the Toutle was not a factor.
But the eruption of Mount St. Helens — and its recovery — has resulted in so many opportunites I’d never have otherwise had.
I think the most memorable was in 1982, when the Forest Service took a contingent from the The Columbian in by helicopter to Spirit Lake and then to the lava dome in the crater itself.
Immediately, editorial writer Jay Bookman and myself started climbing the dome. Roland Emetaz of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest — more fit than either of us — was there too.
It was a surrealistic world. There was a swirling dusty blue haze, most of it coming from the constant rockfall off the sides of the crater wall.
I’ll always remember Emetaz’s words:
“This is some of newest land on earth. It’s got some settling to do.’’
Allen Thomas covers outdoor recreation for The Columbian. He can be reached at 360-735-4555 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Persons from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes communities, who occupy high positions or have been successful in their field, and their families should be left out of the reservation system, said Minister for Higher Education C.T. Ravi here on Friday.
Addressing the gathering after distributing laptops to 36 SC and ST students pursuing doctoral studies and research programmes at Mangalore University, Mr. Ravi said the intended benefits of the reservation system were diluted, and only a few could take advantage of it, because of the inclusion of the creamy layer. “We need to ask whether, for example, the children of Dalit leaders such as State Minister for Minor Irrigation Govind M. Karjol, Union Minister for Labour M. Mallikarjun Kharge, and Congress Opposition leader Motamma should be included in the reservation system? Instead, those who are downtrodden among the SC and ST community should be identified to avail the benefit of the reservation system…this will go a long way in uplifting the community,” he said. He pressed for a discussion by policy makers on the need to focus on reservation for only the economically-backward sections of the Scheduled Castes.
Earlier in the day, a two-day national conference on yoga therapy was inaugurated on the University premises. The conference will deliberate on the potential of yoga, the current research on holistic sciences, and include practical sessions on using yoga to reduce asthma, diabetes and other ailments.
Mr. Ravi, who inaugurated the programme, expressed his fear that yoga, which was a traditional practice , should not be commercialised and succumb to market trends.
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You may or may not have read that yesterday Lisa Stone announced that BlogHer has teamed up with Global Giving in an effort to save as many women’s lives as possible between now and Mother’s Day. There are several worthwhile causes to support, and myself and others will be blogging about them all month on BlogHer. One of the projects is helping Afghan women safely birth healthy babies.
In the country of Afghanistan a woman dies of pregnancy-related causes every 27 minutes of every day. That’s 53 women every day and nearly 20,000 women per year or 1,900 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. According to the World Health Organization, in 2000 Afghanistan had the seventh worst maternal mortality rate in the world.
In the province of Badakhshan, “a woman faces almost 600 times the risk of dying in childbirth than do her counterparts living in North America. Of the thousands of infants left motherless, 75 percent will perish either during, or soon after, delivery.”
One of the reasons for the abysmal mortality rate is gender discrimination. In Afghanistan men are seen as superior to women and sons are preferred over daughters. This translates into high rates of female illiteracy and malnutrition. Because of the preference towards sons, daughters are often married off early, while they are still children themselves. “More than 40 percent of Badakshani women are married before the age of 15 and often long before their immature bodies can cope with both the demands of sex and the rigors of childbirth. Girls under the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s.”
The terrain of the country is also a problem. Eighty percent of the population live in rural areas which translates into remote and rugged terrain, where roads are poor or don’t exist at all. According to the Population Reference Bureau, only 14% of births in Afghanistan are attended by skilled personnel.
Because many women are without access to basic reproductive education, let alone modern methods of family planning, they are unable to choose when and how many children they have. The contraceptive use among married women, ages 15-49, is just 10%.
This Global Giving project for Afghan women can make a real difference. Creating Hope International and the Afghan Institute of Learning offer “lifesaving health services and medical interventions to pregnant women and babies through three rural clinics in Afghanistan, including on-site baby delivery for high-risk cases. CHI/AIL also educate women about their reproductive health so that they can make healthy choices during pregnancy and delivery.”
I think it’s important to note that the project is sensitive to Afghan culture and works with the community leaders before any programs are implemented. According to Global Giving:
AIL uses a culturally sensitive approach in providing health education and health services to Afghan women and children. They provide education and services in local settings that are safer and easier for women to access. They use mobile clinics to reach patients who cannot safely travel to the nearest health clinics. They employ female health providers because of a cultural preference in Afghanistan that women receive health care from other women. AIL works with community leaders and local men before implementing new and historical controversial programs, and begins new programs only at the request of communities.
As a result of this project 12,000 Afghan women will receive pre- and post-natal care, midwifery, family planning services, education on women’s reproductive health, delivery kits for home delivery, and assessment and intervention for high-risk pregnancies.
To learn a bit more about the Afghan women’s project and the role AIL is playing in education, take a look at this video of a birth attendant training class outside of Kabul: Afghanistan: New Births, New Hope.
A donation of $25 means 20 women will have improved quality of life through reproductive health care and education. For $50, 40 women will have healthier babies because of reproductive health care and education. And for a donation of $85, one woman will be trained as a community health worker and will assist 9,000 women annually. It’s amazing how such a small amount from us can make such a huge impact in the lives of people half-way around the world.
Now I pass the torch on to you. Please consider donating, adding a button or a widget (check out my right sidebar) to your blog and/or blogging about this project to help spread the word. If you do any of those things, be sure to leave a comment (and a link to your post if you blog it) below. Together we can make a big difference in the lives of so many women and children.
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When we pass stress on to others, we create a more stressful world.
It doesn’t matter how we got stressed in the first place, or whose fault it was originally. As soon as we’re stressed, it is our responsibility, and what we do with it is up to us.
When we bring our stress forward, into the next thing we do, it has an effect. We make costly mistakes. We fail to notice novel solutions. We give other people a difficult day. And then they are liable to do the same to others. In other words, we become agents of stresscalation.
As I said in my last post, Stop the Stresscalation, I consider this an ethical issue. How can we talk seriously about stopping wars in distant countries, or having saner political discussions, or reducing health care costs, when we ourselves are passing our stress on to others right around us? Even to those we love and cherish?
As April is National Stress Awareness Month, I’d like you to join me in taking a small but significant step in stopping the stresscalation. Just pick one day this month and on that day, take this pledge: “The stress stops here.” On that day, try not to pass your stress on to anyone else.
No matter what is happening around us, we always have the option to experience it from a more peaceful state of mind. Sure, there may be some real stressors in our lives, but almost every stressful situation would be improved if we took a moment to unstress ourselves. And no matter how stressful the situation, being stressed about it is just not a very effective way to deal with it.
What I’m suggesting is that you try to reframe each stressful experience in this way: Instead of blaming others for the stress, or trying to remove the stressor, consider the fact that you are stressed to be an invitation — an imperative — to unstress yourself immediately.
In other words, before attempting to eradicate the apparent cause of your stress — for this might take a lot of time, or might not even be possible — take a moment to turn down the volume on your own stressed-out mind. Consider the fact that you are stressed to be the urgent issue. And in that moment, resolve not to pass your stress on to anyone else.
You could take a moment to meditate (my preferred approach), or you could do a little dance, sing a song, beat your chest and yell like Tarzan, force a belly laugh or go for a quick run around the block. Just make sure that the stress doesn’t get lodged in your body, your voice or your state of mind. And make sure that whatever life just dumped in your backyard doesn’t start poisoning your neighbors.
Of course, you may not be able to clear all your stress in a moment. And it might not be appropriate to unstress yourself in public. But just by turning down the volume on your stress a little bit, you can make a big change in your day and help others.
At the very least, admit to the people around you that you are stressed, because if you can acknowledge your stress honestly, other people will have an easier time protecting themselves from it. As soon as you own the stress as yours, there is less chance that they will take it on as theirs.
Taking this pledge can change the entire direction of your day. You can really turn things around in a moment. You might feel less victimized by stress. You might release your habit of responding to stress stressfully. You will certainly liberate the next moment from your stressed-out state of mind, and with a less-stressed-out state of mind, you might encounter fewer stressful situations.This might be one of the most important things you can do for your health.
But my main point is that taking this pledge might be the one of the most valuable gifts you could give to others. It will benefit all the people you love, all the people you work with, and all the people you just happen to bump into (or, rather, don’t bump into, because now that you’re less stressed, you can see where you are going).
And all it takes is a simple decision: “The stress stops here.”
And that decision only takes a moment.
So instead of passing on your stressful reverberations to others — causing mistakes, disagreements, miscommunications and grievances down the line — I ask you to create some space, in the next moment, that is free of stress. Create a clearing in which a more peaceful or pleasant experience might be born.
At the very least, free the future from the stress of your past.
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Place 3 large unpeeled potatoes in cold water, bring to a boil, and cook for about 40 minutes or until done. Test potatoes with a skewer to see when done. Place them in a bowl, then peel while hot.
Press the potatoes through a strainer while still hot. If potatoes are cool they will be sticky, making it difficult to pass them through the strainer.
Season with salt and pepper. Mix these ingredients with the mashed potato. Mix well, and cool.
Meanwhile, melt margerine in a frying pan then add flour.
Add the milk and stir until the sauce becomes creamy.
Wait until the sauce thickens, then add the canned corn and mix them well. Refrigerate the sauce in a bowl for several minutes.
Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan. Add sauce and mix it with the mashed potato. Season with salt and pepper.
Form potato mixture into patties, and dredge patties in the flour until they are coated evenly, dip in beaten egg then coat evenly with panko.
Deep fry the korokke pieces until they are golden brown.
Place thinly sliced cabbage on a plate, place korokke pieces over it. Serve them with korokke sauce or mayonnaise.
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Electricity and gas prices to jump 18pc in SA
The Essential Services Commission of South Australia has announced an electricity price rise of 18 per cent.
The state's gas users to face a 17.7 per cent increase from July.
Commission chief executive Paul Kerin said his hands were tied and there was no option but to increase the charges.
"We recognise that costs of electricity and gas have both gone up for various reasons, particularly carbon tax and cost of feed-in tariffs and we have to pass those costs on to all consumers," he said.
Mr Kerin said consumers could seek support and ways to ease their bills.
"There are various forms of assistance that people should certainly look at. They can shop around and there are up to 15 per cent discounts offered by retailers compared to the standing contract, [so] there are ways to save energy," he said.
What the ESC determined
The standing electricity contract price will increase by 18 per cent, largely due to the impact of the solar feed-in tariff scheme on network prices, other increases in network charges and the introduction of a price on carbon emissions.
The Commission has also announced the commencement of an investigation into the retail costs that comprise the standing contract price, particularly the wholesale cost component, which represents around 40 per cent of the total price.
As the gas retailer component comprises around 40 per cent of an average residential gas bill ... the average annual gas bill for a residential customer consuming 21,000 MJ annually will rise approximately $37 (GST exclusive). The remaining 60 per cent of an average residential gas bill is comprised of Envestra's distribution network tariffs as approved by the Australian Energy Regulator.
Carbon pricing will mean an overall annual bill increase of around $31 in 2012-13 and $32 in 2013-14 due to that component.
- Essential Services Commission
The SA Council of Social Service said pensioners, self-funded retirees and those on government allowances would suffer most from the latest price rises.
Executive director Ross Womersley said it would mean power prices had risen by 65 per cent since March 2010.
"A phenomenal increase for any of us to absorb and particularly acute for those people whose incomes aren't growing," he said.
"I don't know too many people around South Australia whose incomes are growing at the kinds of rates that these price increases keep coming."
National Seniors CEO Michael O'Neill said the rises were a blow for older Australians.
"This price hike will wipe out advance carbon tax compensation payments made to retirees in the past few weeks," he said.
SA Opposition energy spokesman Mitch Williams said price rises were the result of several factors including a carbon tax and South Australia's questionable focus on developing green power sources.
"The development of green energy schemes has done nothing to cut the costs of our distribution network, which still has to be borne, nothing to cut the costs of providing electricity in those periods of time when we have peak needs," he said.
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The Federal Government says the impact of carbon pricing on power prices in South Australia will be $1.46 per week.
Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change Mark Dreyfus said that would be less than in other states, partly due to SA's focus on renewable energy.
"The price increase in South Australia that's attributable to the carbon price is about half that of other states and that's because South Australia generates more gas and has more wind power than other states," he said.
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It’s a sign of a real gardener, isn’t it? That shed crammed to the rafters with black plastic pots and never-opened seed catalogues is surely a requirement to be taken seriously as a gardener.
Hoarding, after all, is the Australian way, isn’t it? At least it seems that way.
Television programs from as far away as America and the UK take us into the homes of people whose hoarding addictions seriously impact their lives, but here in Australia, we pack everything away in our garden sheds along with the onions we forgot to bring in the house to eat.
A writer for the Timaru Herald over in New Zealand wrote a piece in January about a shed that would make any hoarder proud. Like most garden sheds, it contained a nearly endless supply of plastic seedling containers as well as pieces of outdoor games that are too badly damaged to use again.
The writer suggested, however, that if the United States ever plans to use Agent Orange again to strip the leaves from an entire country, this shed had the hardware necessary to do the job. That’s a well-stocked shed.
May Dreams Gardens blogger, Carol recently wrote about an article she read in a newspaper concerning bulb hoarding. As it turns out, the article was about people collecting old-fashioned light bulbs before they stop making them, but it set her mind racing. It seems she planned to start hoarding flower bulbs if everyone else was doing it.
Even for the tidiest among us, is there such a thing as an uncluttered garden shed? It takes a lot of equipment to garden properly and to live grandly, and there are always going to be things left over. They have to go somewhere, don’t they? Throwing things away just seems wrong.
Photo source: haven’t the slightest
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The fact that the Germans were developing advanced technologies during the end of the war is a matter of public record. As Sir Roy Feddon, Chief of the Technical Mission to Germany for the Ministry of Aircraft Production stated in 1945. "…I have seen enough of their designs and production plans to realise that if they (the Germans) had managed to prolong the war some months longer, we would have been confronted with a set of entirely new and deadly developments in air warfare."
Captain Ruppelt, Chief of the US Air Force Project Bluebook added in 1956, "When WWII ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and guided missiles under development. The majority were in the most preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even approach the performance of objects reported to UFO observers…"
Some of these German war-time technical advances were well known. The first military jet was the German Heinkel 178 that flew in 1939. In 1943 the Germans also deployed the only jet fighter to go into regular service during the war, the Messerschmitt 262. This jet could easily overtake the fastest Allied aircraft, yet fortunately Hitler ordered that these planes should be fitted as bombers rather than defensive fighters which saved Allied aircraft from devastating casualties.
Then Heinrich Focke was involved in the design of and production of the FW6, Fa223, Fa226, Fa283 and 284 models during the war. He designed a propulsion system known as the ‘turbo-shaft’, which is still used in most helicopters today. Using this technology, Focke designed this upright, vertical take-off aircraft, which was just coming off the drawing board as the war ended. At the end of each of the three long arms of this technologically advanced craft was a small jet propulsion unit. The rotating arms were used to lift the body from the ground like the blades of a helicopter.
In 1939 Focke patented a saucer-shaped craft with enclosed twin rotors described as follows: "The exhaust nozzle forked in two at the end of the engine and ended in two auxiliary combustion chambers located on the trailing edge of the wing. When fuel was added these combustion chambers would act as afterburners to provide horizontal propulsion to Focke’s design. The control at low speed was achieved by alternatively varying the power from each auxiliary combustion chamber."
Cruise missiles were also first used by the Third Reich and V-1 bombs were launched from German occupied territories across the channel into England.
The next German rocket, the V-2 proved to be the predecessor of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that filled the arsenals of the former Soviet Union and US during the Cold War. This missile could travel 225 miles at five times the speed of sound and a single hit could take out a city block.
The Germans also developed a rocket-powered fighter, the ME 163 and although it was never put into regular service, it was the first aircraft to fly faster than 600 miles per hour. These then, were some of the known German advances. However there were also hints of darker technologies not fully understood. It was in 1944 that knowledge of these became public for the first time when the New York Times of 14th December reported "Floating Mystery ball is New German Weapon.
"Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, Dec 13 - A new German weapon has made its appearance on the western air front, it was disclosed today. Airmen of the American Air Force report that they are encountering silver coloured spheres in the air over German territory. The spheres are encountered either singly or in clusters. Sometimes they are semi-translucent." (1)
A typical incident was reported by a veteran pilot of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron. He was flying a mission over Hagenau, Germany on 22nd December 1944 when at 6.00am, whilst flying at an altitude of ten thousand feet, the pilot and his radar operator saw two "large orange glows" rapidly climbing towards them.
"‘Upon reaching our altitude’ the pilot reported, the objects ‘levelled off and stayed on my tail.’ He went into a steep dive and the ‘glows’ followed in sharp precision. He banked as sharply as he dared and the objects followed. For two minutes the ‘lights’ stalked the fighter through several intricate manoeuvres, peeled off under perfect control, then blinked out…" (2)
The purpose of these strange objects was a mystery, for they merely followed warplanes, but apparently never opened fire or otherwise attacked them. These objects were named ‘Foo Fighters’, a term which came from a headline ‘Where There’s Feu, There’s Fire.’ Each side in the war seemed to believe that the Foo Fighters were the inventions of their enemy and several reconnaissance missions were launched to gain further information.
To date, it has never been clearly established where the technology came from, and the origins of the foo-fighters remain an historical puzzle alongside the Scandinavian ghost rockets. What was clear, however, was that it wasn’t Allied technology, and that was a serious cause of concern.
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Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Preserving the Stories of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma
Caught in the midst of an ongoing research project, I have logged many hours in the archives at the Library of Congress. To enter this archive is to enter a rarified space, a quiet zone accessed only with a special ID card and a trip through a metal detector. No pens are allowed and no paper. The histories collected here are special and guarded. They unfold for the scholar and the expert, for those with credentials. But what if we thought about the archive differently, as a place of open access and limited gatekeeping? Digital technologies can help animate the archive in meaningful ways, pointing toward new modes of memory and history that engage the spirit of open access and democratic exchange while also undertaking very crucial work in cultural preservation. The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) provides a vibrant model of just such an endeavor, functioning as a re-imagined archive, one conceived for the present and the future.
Over 500 images, numerous stories, and diverse other files -- including podcasts, PDFs, and more -- chronicle the powerful storms that ravaged the Gulf Coast region in fall 2005 and document the experiences of those affected by the worst hurricane season in recorded history. As the user traverses the words and pictures gathered here, the human and material costs of the hurricanes come into more powerful relief, adding a new level of granularity, intimacy, and poignancy to mainstream media accounts. We know that Hurricane Katrina unleashed the largest displacement in U.S. history; HDMB layers that knowledge with detailed meanings and diverse voices. In my introduction to the second issue of Vectors, I commented on the limits of putting too much faith in technology when faced with a disaster like Katrina. HDMB suggests that technology can also help us connect, remember, and perhaps heal.
The website reconfigures the goals of traditional oral history projects via a meaningful collision with electronic media, creating a space not only for the preservation of memory and experience (a lofty aim in and of itself) but also for emergent modes of interpretation and knowledge management. For instance, the site's 'map browser' allows users to pinpoint the geographic location of a story or an image, while also inviting a comparative analysis of how different neighborhoods or regions were impacted. The site's search function allows this archive to respond to its viewers own interests and desires, while the 'contribute' field encourages additions and reflections, opening the collection up to expansion and growth. To date, many of the pieces published in Vectors in some way work as analogues to more traditional scholarly artifacts, re-making and re-imagining the article in rich multimedia dimensions or supplementing the constraints of the monograph via an expanded archive. Projects like this one push in another direction that the journal is eager to explore, toward a more connected and networked scholarly vernacular.
HDMB simultaneously displays and extends the pioneering work undertaken by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Since the early 1990s, the Center has actively modeled vibrant new modes of public history while exploring the power of the internet to expand our conceptions of what counts in and as an archive. Their work troubles a number of binaries long reified by history scholars (and humanities scholars more generally), including one/many, closed/open, expert/amateur, scholarship/journalism, and research/pedagogy. We are pleased to feature their work here.
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The Clueless Soccer Dad's Guide to the Beautiful Gameby Chris Roberts, Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, Minn. — Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts spends a good amount of time cheering on his sons at their youth soccer games. But, quite often, he has no clue what's happening on the field.
In honor of the World Cup -- and, perhaps, to gain some respect from his children -- Roberts decided to learn a little about the world's most popular sport. He recruited Minnesota Public Radio News reporter Euan Kerr and Current host Mark Wheat to give him a crash course on "the beautiful game."
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Since time immemorial, mankind has been looking for a way to predict the future. This is especially true for the United States government, which seeks to forecast the effects of policy and legislation.
But what is forecasting and why is it useful?
Just as many historians and political scientists study the past in order to understand the present, others study the past in order to better grasp the future. In many ways it is eerily similar to what you see the local weatherman do every evening. Forecasters study trends and developments and try to make guesses as to what the likely outcomes are, and what could happen if other events occur. This is a more common event than you may think, with government organizations ranging from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to the CIA involved in this type of work.
Forecasts serve as important tools for policymakers to understand possible future scenarios and prepare for them. This work is important in trying to understand the impact of legislation on the economy and on government spending, and can hold sway over arguments.
The CIA and other groups do this type of work on topics involving U.S. foreign policy and national security. For example, since China has experienced annual GDP growth hovering at 10 percent over the last two decades, the most likely future scenario is that rapid economic growth in China will continue in the near future, assuming current policies are maintained. This is a sound line of reasoning: it takes into account historical trends and analysis of the current economic situation within China and provides the most likely outcome if these trends continue.
This work is crucial to defining American foreign policy in the long-term, as in this case towards an economically empowered China. If you think China will continue to grow economically, it certainly changes the way in which American-Chinese relations are conducted. Similarly, if one believes that growing instability is the problem, then one must be prepared for this.
The problems that arise from forecasting can be divided into two basic areas: problems with the forecast itself, and then what we do with the forecasts.
One big issue in forecasting is time. If one is creating a forecast for the near future, it is more likely to be accurate, but is less helpful in creating long-term solutions and policies. Long-term forecasts can be useful to policymakers in trying to create long-term solutions, but these forecasts are more likely to miss critical events, tarnishing their worth.
While one can predict something when speaking vaguely, it is nearly impossible to forecast specific events. Many foresaw some form of civil disorder in the Middle East occurring sometime in the near future because of unemployment and other economic/political troubles. No one predicted a 26-year-old Tunisian setting himself on fire would ignite the collapse of the Tunisian government and send waves throughout the Middle East. While this event may be too specific, I have not heard of anybody that thought the Egyptian and Tunisian governments would be overthrown in 2011, that a civil war would break out in Libya, and that protests would roil Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain.
These can be called ‘outlier’ events in terms of forecasting. These events have a small chance of occurring at any given moment, but have a very large impact when they do. Two other events which stand out as outliers from the past 20 years are the collapse of the Soviet Union and the events of Sept. 11. Neither event could have been reasonably predicted at any moment to have been a likely occurrence, yet these are two of the most defining events of the last two decades.
While outliers may be the events that have the most impact, they are outliers for a reason. They are simply unlikely to occur. The more time we spend researching and preparing for these events, the less time and money is spent preparing for the more likely outcomes. The obvious answer would then be to balance our attention between the scenarios, but this is a trap that only can be conceived as effective in the present. When an outlier occurs, people will be outraged that more time and money was not spent preparing for it. When an outlier is prepared for but does not occur, people will view it as a waste of taxpayers’ money.
So if the problems of forecasting are so vast, then what good is it to even try to do so?
First, one must realize the importance of these forecasts is in their utility as tools to help prepare for the future, not predict the future. So long as policymakers and the public understand that there is a certain risk of something happening, then it is no longer entirely in the hands of those who did the forecasting.
Finally, we just need to accept that some future events are unknowable, and expect that our intelligence agencies and others involved in forecasting will not always foresee important events. As the Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. stated, intelligence agencies can “reduce the uncertainty for decision makers, but not necessarily eliminate it.”
That being said, I still don’t trust the weatherman.
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Subtitle: Containing the present state, county and city governments; a complete list of all county officials, post offices and money order offices in Texas; also, an index of societies, associations, churches, corporations, educational institutes;...
Hall, Anthony, 1944-;
Municipal officials and employees -- Texas -- Houston -- Interviews;
African American legislators -- Texas -- Interviews;
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City of Houston Chief Administrative Officer (2004- ) Anthony Hall, talks about his political career. He served as a State Representative in the Texas Legislature from 1973 to 1979, on the Houston City Council from 1979 to 1989, as Chairman of the...
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What are the main medicines for a psychiatric emergency?
In a crisis there may be many reasons why a medicine or group of medicines are chosen. These might include:
- side effects (which ones are important to you)
- local policies or agreements (such as what that GP surgery uses, in your county, country etc)
- national policies (e.g. NICE, SIGN – see last question)
- familiarity (it may be better to get best out of a medicine you are familiar with)
- relative costs for similar medicines
- personal preference
- how bad the symptoms are
- any medicine the person might have done well with in the past (as it’s more likely to work again)
The choice of medication for a psychiatric emergency will be based on:
- Local guidelines
- How long the symptoms have been going on
- Diagnosis, although this is not easy on the first occasion. If a similar crisis has happened before, and a diagnosis made, that may help choice of medicines
- Any medicines the person might have had before e.g. if the person has never had antipsychotics before, lower doses should be used
- How bad the symptoms are e.g. how much danger there is to the person or others
- How reliable the medicines are at having the needed effect
The main medicine choices in UK are listed below (each link should open in a new window). They are divided in “Main medicines” and “Others”:
For convenience, the "Main medicines” are those medicines that are officially "approved" to treat the condition or symptoms. They are listed in the British National Formulary (www.bnf.org/bnf/). To be listed in the BNF there needs to be good evidence that the medicine works and that the producers have been given a license (a long and costly exercise).
“Others” are those medicines where there is some evidence that they help, but either not enough for a license or that no license has been applied for. These should usually only be used where other standard treatments have failed. Many of these might be need to be given by injection if the person refuses tablets or syrup.
Main medicinesBNF Listed
Antipsychotics – best to help symptoms such as psychosis, hallucinations and feeling paranoid:
Haloperidol – this can be used for most causes of a crisis. It can be given as tablets, syrup or an injection into the muscles. Usually given with benzodiazepines (see below). It also sometimes needs an anticholinergic such as procyclidine to reduce some side effects. The usual top or maximum dose by mouth is 30mg a day, or 18mg a day by injection. There is usually very little to be gained by having doses higher than this.
Aripiprazole - can be used for schizophrenia or mania. It can be given as tablets, melt-in-the-mouth tablets, syrup or an injection. The usual top or maximum dose is 30mg a day.
Quetiapine - can be used for schizophrenia or mania. It can only be given as tablets. The usual top or maximum dose is around 750mg a day.
Risperidone - can be used for schizophrenia or mania. It can be given as tablets, melt-in-the-mouth tablets or a syrup. The usual top or maximum dose is 6mg a day, although up to 16mg a day can be given.
Zuclopenthixol acetate (Clopixol Acuphase®) – can be used for schizophrenia. It is given as an injection, every 1-2 days. The top or maximum dose is 400mg over two weeks, or up to 3 injections in two weeks.
Trifluoperazine - not often used these days but can be given as tablets or syrup.
Chlorpromazine - not often used these days as it can cause blood pressure to drop quickly but can be given as tablets or syrup.
Benzodiazepines best to help agitation, mania, restlessness:
Antimanics are best used to help if the person is known to have mania (see bipolar mania)
Valproate e.g. Depakote® can be used in higher doses for a crisis. In mania, around 2000mg a day can be given as a starter dose for a few days until symptoms settle.
Carbamazepine - can be used in higher doses for a crisis if due to mania
Combinations– because no single medicine works for everyone, sometimes two are used together. Usually we reckon one medicine is best, but not in this case.
An antipsychotic and a benzodiazepine - it has been shown that an antipsychotic and a benzodiazepine given together are more likely to have a quicker effect. Not only that, but there is then less chance of needed a second injection. The most common pair is haloperidol and lorazepam. Haloperidol 10mg and lorazepam 2mg (sometimes called "ten and two") is often used as it adds an antipsychotic effect to a calming effect without using too high doses of either medicine. Olanzapine and a benzodiazepine should not be given at the same time.
An antipsychotic and promethazine.
Midazolam - this is a very short-acting benzodiazepine. It works very quickly (seconds) but doesn't last long (about 5-10 minutes). It can be given as an injection or mouth spray.
Antihistamines e.g. promethazine. This has a very sedative effect.
Loxapine may become available in 2013 as a spray.
With all these, the doses given in a crisis or psychiatric emergency often need to be higher than usual. So, some of the side effects are different, especially if given by injection. Some of these can include:
Dystonia - when muscles go into a spasm after an antipsychotic injection. It can happen in about 1 in 10 people after an antipsychotic injection.
Heart effects - people given haloperidol by injection should have an ECG (heart monitored) as soon as possible
Disinhibition - with the benzodiazepines some people can lose their inhibitions and become more aggressive, especially if younger or older. This probably doesn’t happen as much as people think it does. It might happen in less than 1 in 100 people.
Akathisia can be caused by some antipsychotics. Akathisia is a restlessness, where the person only feels comfortable when moving around. The trouble is that this can look like agitation and lead to higher doses being given.
Most of these can be helped by an anticholinergic drug such as procyclidine.
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>It appears there is a Linux driver (see >/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/de4x5.c) for this card, so writing an >Etherboot driver would be easier than having to decode things from >scratch. No, this appears to be the older Etherworks 3, which uses the ewrk3.c driver in Linux. The notes say it uses a custom chip by DEC. The chip appears to be straightforward, using a shared memory scheme. >All this being said, the time I have spent learning and contributing to >Etherboot has been well worth the effort. I encourage anyone who is >interested in understanding computers more to do the same. Driver >writing is like poetry; each word carries meaning, and it is an efficient >use of language. I find satisfaction in knowing that a driver I wrote or >debugged is helping people who I may never meet. That's true, there is something compelling about writing a piece of software that actually talks to the the outside world via silicon and metal, rather than being insulated from it by printf, or XPutPixel or whatever. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <firstname.lastname@example.org> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to email@example.com. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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"Cars have become an appliance... And on top of that, you start feeling a bit guilty about driving a car, because it pollutes, you use a lot of gasoline." These are the words of Henrik Fisker, car designer and the man who startes his own automobile company which currently builds and sells the extended-range electric Karma sedan.
"Why do electric cars, or small fuel-efficient cars, always have to look dorky? Why can't we make a beautiful, gorgeous car?" Well, if you're the man who penned the BMW Z8 and a couple of show-stopping Aston Martin coupes, you don't have to design a dorky EV. Which explains the sleek lines of the aforementioned Karma and upcoming Fisker Atlantic.
Will Fisker ultimately succeed in establishing a viable automaker that continues to build cars well into the future? Only time will tell. Either way, we have to admire Henrik's bravado. "The doubters out there, they are rarely the builders. And those who are the skeptics, are never really the inventors... There are a lot of us out there who believe that dreams are possible."
Those parting words are spoken as Henrik Fisker lays out what appears to be a two-door sports car with a low-slung profile that would seemingly mesh quite well with the rest of Fisker's slinky but eco-conscious machinery. Scroll down below to watch the video, which was shot during his TED talk at Chapman University.
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President Obama sounded many of the right notes during Tuesday's State of the Union speech, but continued economic uncertainty and political deadlock have many in the tech industry skeptical of any plans coming out of Washington.
Obama emphasized the importance of returning manufacturing jobs to the United States, and he touched on issues promoted by the tech lobby, including tax reform, education, and immigration. He also planned to visit an Intel plant in Arizona on Wednesday as part of his post-State of the Union tour.
But now the tech industry wants action.
In a market where products can rise and fall in a matter of days, and business models are challenged daily, the pace of action in Washington tempered enthusiasm for the president's proposals.
“The tech industry has been a consistent investor in this country—on average, each technology industry job supports three jobs in other sectors of the U.S. economy—and now we’re looking for cooperation and certainty from Washington to help us continue to be the world’s leader,” Dan Varroney, acting president of TechAmerica, said in a statement. “[Tuesday’s] speech held a lot of promise. What we need now is follow through.”
The industry reaction largely mirrored the "tempered optimism" expressed by tech executives in a study released by the IT trade group CompTIA on Tuesday. CompTIA Vice President Tim Herbert said that many in the industry are expecting "a dose of bad news with any good news" as the economy struggles to rebound in the coming year.
While Obama’s focus on manufacturing is a “welcome message,” a more comprehensive approach is needed, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said in a statement.
“We have a long way to go to revitalize this critical sector. What matters now is matching words with action,” the group said. “The president and many members of Congress agree on such issues as in-sourcing, manufacturing competitiveness, and R&D. They should not wait until after the election to act.”
The Business Software Alliance praised Obama’s plan to crack down on the "scourge" of counterfeit goods and establish a Trade Enforcement Unit to investigate unfair trade practices.
Although Obama did not expand on broadband deployment plans announced during last year’s speech, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Shirley Bloomfield said she was pleased that he recognized that an incomplete broadband system is undermining economic growth, especially in rural areas. The White House should look to small, rural telecom companies to help expand broadband access, she said.
"These technology leaders have demonstrated their tenacity and creativity in building network infrastructure that reaches every member of their communities," Bloomfield said. "If we want to support innovation and ensure broadband connections, the administration needs to invest in these small businesses who make it happen in their communities every day.”
The reaction from tech leaders in Congress was largely divided along party lines.
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., kept to the broader Republican talking points, castigating the president for repeating old rhetoric that isn’t backed up by action.
“The president said we have an incomplete high-speed broadband network, but his Federal Communications Commission is protecting its turf instead of joining us to free up airwaves to build the next generation communications networks,” said Upton, who has been among the critics of the FCC’s Internet competition rules. “And while he acknowledged that some regulations are outdated, unnecessary, or too costly, the reality is that the vast federal bureaucracy continues to churn out some of the most expensive rules in history, putting jobs at risk and driving up prices for middle-class families.”
Obama earned praise from Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., for mentioning cybersecurity (albeit briefly); from House Cybersecurity Caucus Cochairman Jim Langevin, D-R.I., for addressing the “skills gap” that prevents many high-tech jobs from being filled; and from Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., for promoting innovation and national broadband connectivity.
“I have pushed for affordable high-speed and wireless Internet to be available to communities all across our country, and believe it's crucial that we close the digital divide in rural America,” Rockefeller said in his response.
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Common Core State Standards: Definitions of Key Terms
Below are definitions of the key terms used through the discussion of the Common Core State Standards and the Standards' relationship to gifted and talented education.
Acceleration is a broad term used to describe ways in which gifted student learning may occur at a faster more appropriate rate throughout the years of schooling. It refers to content acceleration through compacting and reorganizing curriculum by unit or year, grade skipping, telescoping two years into one, dual enrollment in high school and college or university, as well as more personalized approaches such as tutorials and mentorships that also would be sensitive to the advanced starting level of these learners for instruction. Both Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate at the high school level represent programs of study already accelerated in content. AP courses also may be taken on a fast track schedule earlier, as appropriate
Assessment is the way to determine the scope and degree of learning that has been internalized by the student. For purposes of gifted education, the assessments must be matched to differentiated outcomes, requiring the use of authentic approaches like performance-based and portfolio-based assessment demands. Some assessments are already constructed and available for use, exhibiting strong technical adequacy and employed in research studies while others may be teacher-developed, with opportunities to establish interrater reliability among teachers who may be using them in schools.
Characteristics and needs of gifted learners is the basis for differentiating any curriculum area. In Language Arts, verbally talented students learn to read early, talk in complex sentences, write coherent text, and become sensitive to language at an earlier stage of development than typical learners do. Because of this advanced readiness to engage with their world, their curriculum diet should be advanced, rich in experiences for increasing complexity and depth, and open-ended to allow for creative manipulation of ideas and concepts. In Mathematics, mathematically precocious learners learn their number facts early, can perform computational operations before they are taught in school, and have a sensitivity to patterns, and love to engage in problem-solving through puzzles and games. Because of this advanced readiness, these students need to be accelerated through the basic material in Mathematics in order to focus on higher level math concepts and problems.
Curriculum is a set of planned learning experiences, delineated from a framework of expectations at the goal or outcome level that represent important knowledge, skills, and concepts to be learned. Differentiated curriculum units of study already have been designed and tested for effectiveness in both Language Arts and Mathematics or units may be developed by teachers to use in gifted instruction.
Differentiation of curriculum for gifted learners is the process of adapting and modifying curriculum structures to address these characteristics and needs more optimally. Thus curriculum goals, outcomes, and activities may be tailored for gifted learners to accommodate their needs. Typically, this process involves the use of the strategies of acceleration, complexity, depth, and creativity in combination.
Instruction is the delivery system for teaching that comprises the deliberate use of models, strategies, and supportive management techniques. For gifted learners, various inquiry strategies such as problem-based learning and creative problem-solving, and critical-thinking models such as Paul's reasoning model, used in a flexible grouping approach in the regular classroom constitutes instructional differentiation.
Teacher Quality refers to the movement at all levels of education to improve the knowledge base and skills of classroom teachers at P-12 levels, which is necessary for effective instruction for advanced students. It is the basis for a redesign of teacher education standards and a rationale for examining P-12 student outcomes in judging the efficacy of higher education programs for teachers. Policy makers are committed to this issue in improving our P-16 education programs.
Glossary of terms used in the Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards
Return to Common Core State Standards Main Page
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Stroll the busy streets just a few blocks from our nation’s Capital, and you just might knock elbows with some of the people responsible for most of the news we see every evening. As much as fifty per cent of our daily news starts in DC, by some accounts.
And you’ll see something else. On just about every corner, amid the mass of humanity that is the lifeblood of our country, you’ll see men and women selling a newspaper call Street Sense, which is responsible for a lot of the news you just never hear about – the news of the homeless.
Not just about the homeless, but written and produced largely by the homeless.
You can’t miss them. They proudly wear the bright green vendor’s vest that’s fairly screaming Street Sense. Look a little closer, and it might be one of our students.
Every year, dozens of students from RMU travel to DC for a few weeks to work with the good people at Street Sense who help coordinate the publishing and selling of this captivating bi-weekly newspaper. The students chip in and help wherever they can – serving meals, taking on some administrative tasks, and generally, and joyfully, being available for whatever. Including hawking a few newspapers.
Street Sense is a way for the homeless to make a few dollars each day – enough for a meal, for a snack, for a necessity. Sometimes they can even sock enough away to pay for a place to stay – off the street.
And each of our students comes back home with a new perspective about the homeless, a new understanding of how homelessness happens, and how people can help. Really help. People like themselves. People like you.
NOTE: Robert Morris University thanks Abby Strunk, Executive Director of Street Sense, for all her help to us when we filmed our RMU story in DC, and for her many kindnesses to our crew, our students and to the homeless.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006 1:25:33 AM
organic means carbon containing and none of that stuff has ANY carbon in it! *glassy compunds* (silicates) include common sand, iron sulphates come from vulcanoes and olivine is another rock!
Are you kidding? It hit a bird, hence organic material. B-|
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:12:39 PM
This article wasn't trying to "prove" anything. The science behind it can`t be b.s. because they clearly state that any scientific results won`t be available for a month. The thing in the beginning about organic matter is just overemphasized by the writer because she wants to draw attention to her article.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 6:48:06 PM
Why is everyone so skeptical? No one wanted to believe there are other planets orbiting stars, when common sense dictates in an infinite universe, there are infinite planets... Of course there are organic materials in comets.. Of course there is/was life on Mars, Water is present all over the universe, and interdimensional "travel" or "breaching" happens all of the time. In the next decade or so, our notion of "solar system" and "universe" are going to change dramatically. You heard it from "palm" first.
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Difficulty: Level 5 - Easy
Type: Other Games and Toys
What's GNU? The three-letter-word race game that spells FUN! The object of the game is to spell more three-letter words than the other players. Up to 36 Word-Starter cards, which have one letter provided and two blanks, are spread out for everyone to see. Players slide the clever Letter Getter to magically reveal two letter tiles. Kids then must look at these tiles and try to make three-letter words by filling in the blanks on the Word-Starter cards. The player with the most three-letter words when all the tiles run out wins!
Awards: iParenting Media award, The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval Award 2002
Ages: 5 to 8, Multi Player
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Born August 29, 1911 - Died August 12, 1982
Patent #: 3,722,002
Sir John Charnley invented low-frictional torque arthroplasty, or LFA, the hip replacement surgery that has relieved the pain and restored the movement of hundreds of thousands of people.
Charnley established the Center for Hip Surgery at Wrightington Hospital in 1962. There, he continued to develop LFA, and taught his methods to specialists, surgeons, and biomechanicians from around the world.
Born in Lancashire, England, Charnley studied at Manchester University and trained at the Royal Manchester Infirmary and Salford Royal Hospital. He published seminal papers on the non-surgical treatment and surgical compression of fractures before beginning his work on hip replacement in 1954. Although the procedure had been done before, it generally resulted in pain due to pressure on nerves in the hip socket and poor lubrication of the joint.
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Following an arrest initially made in March of 2011, the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) is crediting the successful conviction of the crime to “Blaze,” the agency’s arson dog. Brian Keith Wilson, a 46-year-old Stapleton man, pleaded guilty on May 4 to charges of Reckless Burning. He was fined $1,000 and placed on two years probation. The AFC’s arson bloodhound, Blaze, was instrumental in the investigation and subsequent arrest of Wilson last year after several wildfires were set in the Stapleton area of Baldwin County. The dog was scented off evidence at a location where the suspect had been observed by eye witnesses, then tracked the scent to a house in which Wilson was found.
Meanwhile, another recent arrest resulted from an investigation in which Blaze played a significant role. AFC Law Enforcement Chief Craig Hill reported that Darren Mitchell Lavender, 47 years of age of Mobile, was charged with Reckless Burning on May 10. The AFC’s arson bloodhound had been requested by Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries officials earlier this year to assist in locating Lavender who had evaded arrest by game wardens. It is alleged that the suspect set several fires as a diversion to aid his escape. Blaze was scented off evidence found at the scene, and tracking the scent, has placed the suspect at the scene of the fires. Reckless Burning, a “Class A” misdemeanor, carries a penalty of up to one year in jail and/or up to a $6000 fine. Lavender was also charged with Hunting Without Permission and Failure to Wear Hunter’s Orange by the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.
According to Chief Hill, canines have been used in law enforcement for years to locate evidence and people. As with fingerprints, each person has a unique scent. Blaze’s ability to track a human scent has added a whole new dimension to the AFC’s law enforcement tool box.
The Alabama Forestry Commission is committed to reducing the number of forestry-related crimes that occur each year across the state. These crimes generate losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to landowners, the timber industry, and Alabama’s economy. The AFC provides a Wildland Arson/Forest Crimes Hotline so that citizens can call and report theft of timber, vandalism or theft of harvesting equipment, or wildland arson. This toll-free number is (800) 222-2927. Any information provided is confidential and the caller remains anonymous.
This release reports an arrest only. All suspects are innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
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You may recall, that on January 23, 1980, in his State of the Union Address, President Jimmy Carter announced a new American policy that came to be called the Carter Doctrine. Referring to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Mr. Carter stated:
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by an outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.In the most recent SOTU Address, President Bush explained
Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only possible use he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or attack.
With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East and create deadly havoc in that region.
Has Carter really forgotten what it's like to be President? Has he forgotten his own contribution to foreign affairs?
Of course Carter has a history of conceding -- which brings me to Tip O'Neill's comments (see paragraph titled The 1980 Election) on Carter concerning his 1980 concession speech before the polls closed: "You guys came in like a bunch of pricks, and you're going out the same way"
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A UK study has shown that the use of a “polypill”, filled with 4 different medicines, has the potential to save thousands of lives. The study was performed by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and was published in the journal PLoS ONE.
The polypill consisted of three blood pressure lowering agents amlodipine (2.5 mg), losartan (25 mg) and hydrochlorothiazide (12.5 mg) which were given at half the standard dose. The pill also contained a cholesterol lowering medicine called simvistatin (40 mg) which was given at the standard dose. Several previous studies have been done and showed the benefits of using a polypill approach however, the studies were all ruled out for one flaw or another. This study was the first of its kind as it basically focused on one group and that was people over 50 who had not reported any events of cardiovascular related diseases. 116 people were invited to participate in the study and only 86 responded.
The study was designed to give half of the participants the polypill and the other half an identical looking placebo for 12 weeks. This was a double-blind study meaning that neither the participants nor the investigators knew whether they were taking a placebo or not. After the 12 weeks were up, the participants switched to the other pill. The results of the study were pretty impressive. At the end of 12 weeks on the polypill, compared to placebo mean systolic blood pressure reduced by 12% and diastolic blood pressure by 11%. LDL cholesterol reduced by 39%! Total cholesterol, including triglycerides were significantly reduced, without consequence to HDL, the good cholesterol.
According to an article on Express.Co.Uk, Dr Wald, from Queen Mary, University of London, is quoted as saying, “The health implications of our results are large. If people took the polypill from age 50, an estimated 28% would benefit by avoiding or delaying a heart attack or stroke during their lifetime; on average, those who benefit would gain 11 years of life without a heart attack or stroke.” Not everyone is as eager to jump on the bandwagon as a BBC article reports, “The British Heart Foundation called for more research and said pills were not a substitute for a living a healthy life.” Due to regulatory hurdles, production of this wonder pill make take a couple of years, but it looks like it could be well worth the wait.
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The Australian Army Legal Corps (AALC) consists of Regular and Reserve commissioned officers that provide specific legal advice to commanders and general legal advice to all ranks. They must be admitted to practice as Australian Legal Practitioners.
Legal officers can specialise in operational law (such as the laws of war and international humanitarian law, administrative law, and disciplinary law which is derived from the Defence Force Discipline Act.
Legal officers can also appear on behalf of members of the Australian Defence Force charged with service offences, although usually not those heard at Regimental or Battalion level. They can also appear as prosecuting officers as well as assist boards of inquiry.
Promotion and level of pay is determined by experience as well as recognised levels of legal competency, which are closely associated with obtaining post-graduate qualifications, such as the Master of Laws specialising in military law through the Australian National University.
Many members of the Legal Corps have been appointed as Queen's Counsel or Senior Counsel, and a number have been elevated to various Australian courts (including county, district courts, and state supreme courts).
The Corps motto is ‘Justitia in Armis’, which is Latin for ‘Justice in Arms’.
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The Long-Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) passed on the information below. The LTCCC is a non-profit group dedicated to improving long-term care through research, education and advocacy. Please visit their website and consider joining the group.
In April, CMS issued new interpretive guidelines for state surveyors to help them assess nursing home compliance with the Nursing Home Reform Law (OBRA '87), which requires that residents be provided with the care necessary to enable them to achieve their highest practicable physical, social and emotional well-being. Though these requirements are all essential components of our national minimum standards for nursing homes, from a consumer perspective they are generally considered to be largely absent from survey and oversight processes. The institutional nature of most nursing homes, high incidence of pressure sores and widespread use of physical and chemical restraints are all evidence that nursing homes have been permitted to operate with virtual disregard for what the law requires.
The new guidelines, which go into effect on June 17, give surveyors detailed information on how to assess nursing homes specifically in terms of quality of life and environment. Following are some examples of guidelines relating to dignity and autonomy from the advance copy of the guidelines:
1) Grooming residents as they wish to be groomed (e.g., maintaining the resident's personal preferences regarding hair length/style, facial hair for men, removal of facial hair for women, and clothing style);
2) Encouraging and assisting residents to dress in their own clothes appropriate to the time of day and individual preferences rather than hospital-type gowns;
3) Promoting resident independence and dignity in dining such as avoidance of:
4) Day-to-day use of plastic cutlery and paper/plastic dishware;
5) Bibs (also known as clothing protectors) instead of napkins (except by resident choice);
6) Staff standing over residents while assisting them to eat;
7) Staff interacting/conversing only with each other rather than with residents, while assisting residents;
8) Respecting residents' private space and property (e.g., not changing radio or television station without resident's permission, knocking on doors and requesting permission to enter, closing doors as requested by the resident, not moving or inspecting resident's personal possessions without permission);
9) Respecting residents by speaking respectfully, addressing the resident with a name of the resident's choice, avoiding use of labels for residents such as "feeders," not excluding residents from conversations or discussing residents in community settings in which others can overhear private information;
10) Residents have the right to have a choice over their schedules, consistent with their interests, assessments, and plans of care. Choice over "schedules" includes (but is not limited to) choices over the schedules that are important to the resident, such as daily waking, eating, bathing, and the time for going to bed at night. Residents have the right to choose health care schedules consistent with their interests and preferences, and the facility should gather this information in order to be proactive in assisting residents to fulfill their choices. For example, if a resident mentions that her therapy is scheduled at the time of her favorite television program, the facility should accommodate the resident to the extent that it can.
11) If the resident refuses a bath because he or she prefers a shower or a different bathing method such as in-bed bathing, prefers it at a different time of day or on a different day, does not feel well that day, is uneasy about the aide assigned to help or is worried about falling, the staff member should make the necessary adjustments realizing the resident is not refusing to be clean but refusing the bath under the circumstance provided. The facility staff should meet with the resident to make adjustments in the care plan to accommodate his or her preferences.
12) The food procurement requirements for facilities are not intended to restrict resident choice. All residents have the right to accept food brought to the facility by any visitor(s) for any resident.
13) Procedure [for Surveyor to Follow]: For a sampled resident, use resident and family interviews as well as information from the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) to consider the resident's former life style and personal choices made while in the facility to obtain a picture of the resident's individual needs and preferences.
14) Throughout the survey, observe: Do staff show respect for residents? When staff interact with a resident, do staff pay attention to the resident as an individual? Do staff respond in a timely manner to the resident's requests for assistance? Do they explain to the resident what care they are doing or where they are taking the resident? Do staff groom residents as they wish to be groomed?
15) In group activities, do staff members focus attention on the group of residents? Or, do staff members appear distracted when they interact with residents? For example, do they continue to talk with each other while doing a "task" for a resident(s) as if the resident were not present?
16) Determine if staff members respond in a dignified manner to residents with cognitive impairments, such as not contradicting what residents are saying, and addressing what residents are trying to express (the agenda) behind their behavior. For example, a resident with dementia may be attempting to exit the building in the afternoon, but the actual intent is a desire to meet her children at the school bus, as she did when a young mother. Allowing the behavior under supervision such as walking with the resident without challenging or disputing the resident's intent and conversing with the resident about the desire (tell me about your children) may assist the behavior to dissipate, and the staff member can then invite the resident to come along to have a drink or snack or participate in a task or activity.
NEW CMS GUIDELINES CALL FOR HOMELIKE ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING HOMES, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, April 10, 2009.
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Should Metric Collection in Clinical Trial Contracts be Obligatory?
Establishing robust metrics at the start of a study, and systems to monitor them in an ongoing manner, should be integral to all work that a Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) performs. Metrics should be used to monitor progress (or lack of progress), and should record deviations from the planned schedule.
Of note, metrics are sometimes not defined clearly at the outset of a study, and often not incorporated into contracts. A lot of metrics need to be “balanced” between what is controllable by the CRO and what is controllable by the sponsor. Therefore, the metrics that are incorporated into a contract need to be carefully chosen. Ideally it should be a small and accurate set of performance metrics that will meet the customer’s needs and enforce efficient information flow – it being a breach of contract not to provide and review the metrics.
When defining what metrics will be collected, it is critical to carefully consider the reasons and benefits, as the collection of too many metrics usually proves disadvantageous. Remember, not all that counts can be counted and not all that can be counted counts!
Metrics should enable a team to increase productivity, work smarter, and make better decisions. They should also measure success of the sponsor as well as the vendor because delays or deviations from the original plan can be caused by both. Metrics should allow the user to manage and improve performance through the setting of realistic and achievable expectations. They can also be used for vendor rating purposes as each study is completed. Such ratings could also be applied to clinical sites and any freelancers used on the study.
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Published: Oct. 17, 2006
Updated: Apr. 27, 2010
Almost every woman has felt victimized by her hormones at some time in her life. After all, a woman’s monthly and lifetime cycles greatly influence her experience of the world -- and rarely, it seems, for the better. Most women bemoan the cramps and irritability of PMS, the swollen ankles and physical awkwardness of pregnancy, and the hot flashes and "spaced-out" feelings of menopause.
Many women also spend a large portion of their lives seeking to avoid the unwanted aspects of being female. They chemically alter their bodies with medications to avoid pregnancy or periods; later, they may turn to other drugs to diminish the effects of perimenopause and menopause.
But what if women could learn how to embrace these changes rather than dread them? What if they could learn from them and hear the messages their bodies are sending?
That’s what Tracy Gaudet, MD, women’s health expert and executive director of Duke Integrative Medicine, hopes to teach women in her book Consciously Female: How to Listen to Your Body and Your Soul for a Lifetime of Healthier Living (Bantam Dell, $25.95, paperback also available).
Gaudet, an obstetrician-gynecologist, believes many women have lost the connection between their bodies and souls. These women, she says, are living “unconsciously.” Gaudet wrote her book to help women rediscover that lost balance and return to a state of being “consciously female.”
“We women tend to be so busy running to the next thing in our lives that we miss out on what’s happening in the moment,” says Gaudet. “We often end up overriding what our bodies are telling us, which lessens the quality of our well-being or even causes us to ignore early disease processes.”
In the book, she gives the example of “Karen,” a 29-year-old mother of two small boys, who worked as an accountant. Karen came to Gaudet complaining of unusually severe PMS symptoms. Her mood swings were so bad that her husband called her Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Upon examining Karen, writes Gaudet, it “became apparent that she was running on empty. She never felt she had enough time.” Karen rushed between work and home and child rearing with little time for herself or her relationship with her husband. Her exercise routine consisted of walking across parking lots from her car to the office or stores, and her diet revolved around fast food and Diet Coke.
Gaudet recounts that she told Karen that she needed to restore balance to her life. Karen agreed to eat fewer prepared foods and eat more whole foods. She switched from soda to water. She began to get up a little earlier each morning to exercise to a home video. Gaudet taught her some breathing exercises that Karen could use to relax at her desk or in her car.
Karen followed Gaudet’s advice, and her cramps and mood swings became much less severe.
In Consciously Female, Gaudet explores modalities ranging from nutrition and exercise to spiritual connections to discover how they can enhance healthier living at every stage of female life. The book reflects Gaudet’s strong belief in the powerful connection between mind, body, spirit, and community in the interplay of both health and disease.
Gaudet's commitment to exploring this approach to medicine came early in her career. She served as founding executive director of Dr. Andrew Weil’s Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson before joining Duke to lead Duke Integrative Medicine. Gaudet’s eloquent, outspoken advocacy of integrative medicine has made her a nationally renowned expert in the field.
Gaudet, who earned her medical degree at Duke, explains that integrative medicine does not reject conventional modern medicine, nor does it uncritically accept all alternative practices. Rather, integrative medicine recognizes that different people in different health situations require responses that are tailored to their unique needs.
“Integrative medicine seeks to match the best practices to a given situation,” Gaudet says. “Very often, these may be state-of-the-art conventional treatments. But sometimes, the best treatment may be a careful, scientifically supported but less mainstream therapy.”
In Consciously Female, Gaudet uses her expertise in integrative medicine to help women live more fully and comfortably in their bodies. “Optimal health requires being attuned to what both body and soul are telling you,” she says. “A balance between the two -- body and soul, equally nurtured, functioning in concert -- is my definition of true wellness."
Get more information about Duke Integrative Medicine.
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Wolves In The Throne Room played an amazing set as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival at Minehead last week (curated by Godspeed You Black Emperor!). A sense of profound respect, awe and humility for nature is a concept that seems to lie at the heart of Wolves In The Throne Room. This sense of "mother nature" in her most primal (and dangerous) form is personified in many respects by the goddess Hecate, lunar goddess of the crossroads; torchbearer at the threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead.
Whilst the earliest depictions of Hecate are of a singular form, it is her later development into a "triple goddess" that is predominant today, most notably in the neo-pagan religion of Wicca - though a quick perusal of the works of William Blake, Shakespeare and many others show this archetype to be constantly lurking within the shadows of popular culture. She wears many guises, appropriating the appearance and charateristics of a multitude of deities...Diana, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Medusa...
Sketch in progress. I later revised the dead tree brances to thicker, simpler shapes as I realised I wasn't leaving enough space in the composition for it to read easily, and chose instead to create the "wild" density I was after by concentrating on the foreground roots and flora detail.
"Diadem of 12 Stars"
I used a highly reflective, rich gold metallic ink for the main tree / foliage colour.
A last minute impulse decision saw me printing a 2nd black layer in the final print to create more background texture.
"Now the absence of the soul in sleep has its dangers, for if from any cause the soul should be permanently detained away from the body, the person thus deprived of the vital principle must die. There is a German belief that the soul escapes from a sleeper’s mouth in the form of a white mouse or a little bird, and that to prevent the return of the bird or animal would be fatal to the sleeper. Hence in Transylvania they say that you should not let a child sleep with its mouth open, or its soul will slip out in the shape of a mouse, and the child will never wake. Many causes may detain the sleeper’s soul." - Chapter XVIII 'The Perils Of The Soul", p.182 - The Golden Bough by Sir James Frazer.
I felt that this threefold depiction would allow me a more fluid and dynamic composition in contrast to my last WITTR poster which was an intentionally static and stylised interpretation of a tarot card (The 5 of Wands - "Strife"). In this instance, I wanted to evoke a feeling reminiscent of late 19th / early 20th century illustration. Whilst the composition contains many static elements, I was keen to introduce a more fluid central focus in the form of the "maiden" aspect of Hecate. However, both myself and the band felt that an overtly sexual depiction would not be in keeping with the desired aesthetic - in the end the scroll wrapped around her body was a useful device in preserving modesty, introducing more movement and displaying type inobtrusively. All other elements such as animals and foliage are depictions of flora and fauna sacred to Hecate (and related goddesses) - once again I found an excuse to put a serpent into the design!
Hecate is a constantly evolving force, eluding strict definition and hovering just beyond the bounds of rationality. No one depiction will ever be true and the more you research her, the more myriad her form and origin become.
5 colour print. Edition of 110. (Signed & numbered).
18x24". 270gsm "Vellum" paper.
1 colour print. Edition of 10. (Signed & numbered).
18x24". 270gsm "Vellum" paper.
On sale now from scrawled.bigcartel.com
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October is National Cyber Awareness Month. Cyberspace is an important domain and is vital to our way of life.
Think about it. In almost everything we do today whether conducting financial transactions, communicating with our loved ones or even conducting military operations we depend on cyberspace. This month is dedicated to not only educating people about the importance of being safe online, but also about how to improve overall security measures when operating in cyberspace. After all, assets whether national or personal are everyones responsibility.
At U.S. Cyber Command, we know the threats are real. On an average day, Department of Defense networks are probed approximately 250,000 times an hour. There are foreign intelligence organizations attempting to hack into U.S. computers, and terrorists are active on more than 4,000 websites.
But you dont have to take my word for how real the threats are. Just ask any anyone who has had their e-mail account hijacked or has encountered some kind of identity theft.
One of our basic missions at U.S. Cyber Command is the protection of DoD critical networks.
Simply put, we are responsible for the protection of the dot-mil domains. And although the Department of Homeland Security is the lead agency for protection of U.S. government domains, U.S. Cyber Command is prepared to assist in the protection of critical infrastructure. We work closely with interagency and international partners to execute the mission to allow the United States to operate freely in cyberspace. We bring a coordinated and synchronized effort to cyber operations.
A little more than a year ago, President Barack Obama declared the U.S. digital infrastructure to be a national security asset and pledged to make it secure, trustworthy and resilient. In recent testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, indicated that threats to U.S. infrastructure are real.
Recent cyber events like those that occurred in Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008 suggest that cyber attacks have become real war-fighting tools. Our own DoD networks incurred a dangerous intrusion in 2008 and DoD took appropriate action to remedy the problem. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn indicated in a recent Foreign Affairs magazine article that the incident was a turning point in U.S. cyber defense strategy.
So what part can every computer user play to help ensure their safety in cyberspace?
The first step is to make sure the anti-virus software running on your computer is up to date. At work, this is normally performed by an information technology professional. But at home, each computer owner must take responsibility.
Make sure the appropriate firewalls are in place and that you receive automatic program/software updates once your protective software is loaded. There are many free or reduced-priced anti-virus packages available on the Internet and through DoD.
Dont compromise passwords.
Finally, back up critical data in a location other than the main computer, such as on a CD or an external hard drive at home or to a designated place on the network if you work in DoD where connecting external devices to your government computer is normally prohibited.
These are just some of the simple steps to ensure cyber safety.
As October is National Cyber Awareness month, U.S. Cyber Command stands ready to execute the full spectrum of cyber operations, but cyber security starts with you. Remember, everyone has a part to play in ensuring our DoD networks stay secure and our national assets are protected.
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With the arrival of the blossom flower and warmly spring, Chinese infrastructure construction is in full swing. An increasing demand for all kinds of building materials, the processing equipment crusher will occupy a very important position and become the backbone industry. As one of the most widely used equipment in mining machinery, roll crusher has developing potential in the industry.
Roll Crushers are compression type crushers, and are once widely used in mining. They have, within the last 10 or so years, fallen into dis-favor among mining and processing companies. The probable reason is because the large mines require very large crushed product output with minimal cost, makes the roll crusher uncompetitive. The double roll crusher is not nearly as productive as cone crushers, with respect to volume, and they do have a little higher maintenance associated with them. Roll crushers do, however, give a very close product size distribution, and if the ore is not too abrasive, they do not have high maintenance costs.
Roll crushers have a theoretical MAXIMUM reduction ratio of 4:1. If a 2 inch particle is fed to the roll crusher the absolute smallest size one could expect from the crusher is 1/2 inch. Roll crushers will only crush material down to a minimum particle size of about 10 Mesh (2 mm). A teeth roll crusher uses compression, with two rolls rotating about a shaft, towards the gap between the rolls. The gap between the rolls is set to the size of product desired, with the realization that the largest feed particle can only be 4 times the gap dimension.
As the roller is smooth, roll crusher is not only able to crush stone, but also grind materials. When the material into the crushing chamber, the materials suffer gnaw force from rotating rollers of the machine. Material is forced to go through gap between the two rollers, squeezed and cut grinded, the material begins to fragmentation. And then small particles go through the gap of two rollers along the tangent of the roller rotation, discharged from the machine. When the particulate material is over the gap, they will continue to be broken until into small particles and discharge them.
The Do's and Don'ts When Operate the Roll Crusher Relevant information about HX Roll crusherApplication of Roll Crusher in Iron Ore DressingRoller Crusher distinguishes itself in Cement Mill
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Canada has a population of approximately twenty six million people.
With the introduction of the federal government's multicultualism program, the
social demographic make up of Canada is quite vast, bringing together people
from many different nations to join those already living here. Taking the
population as a whole into account, it is no secret that historically, certain
members of this social order have been denied fair access to employment system.
The federal and provincial governments had undertaken steps to address the issue
through a wide range of programs such as equal employment and other affirmative
action programs to "promote equal opportunity in the public service for segments
of the population that have historically been underrepresented there." Today
those designated groups, underrepresented in the labour force include women,
Aboriginal peoples, disabled people, and persons who are, because of their race
or colour, is a visible minority in Canada. In October 1984, Judge Rosalie
Silberman Abella submitted a Royal Commission Report on equality in employment
(the Abella Report) to the federal government. "The Commission was established
in recognition of the fact that women, visible minorities, the handicapped and
native peoples were being denied the full benefits of employment." Based on
the findings of the Abella Commission, the federal government implemented "The
Employment Equity Act" in 1986. This short paper will evaluate the success of
the "Act" and will argue that although some progress has been made, the Canadian
Labour force still does not reflect the demographic composition of Canada as the
Act had targeted.
For the purposes of implementing Employment Equity, certain individuals
or groups who are at an employment disadvantage are designated to benefit from
Employment Equity. The Employment Equity Act describes the designated groups as
"women, aboriginal... [continues]
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Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde
November 18, 2012–February 25, 2013MEMBER EARLY HOURS
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor
In conjunction with the film exhibition Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960–1986
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Tokyo transformed itself from the capital of a war-torn nation into an international center for arts, culture, and commerce, becoming home to some of the most important art being made at the time. Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde provides a focused look at the extraordinary concentration and network of creative individuals and practices in this dynamic city during these turbulent years. Featuring works of various media—painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, and graphic design, as well as video and documentary film—the exhibition offers a story of artistic crossings, collaborations, and, at times, conflicts, with the city as an incubator. It introduces the myriad avant-garde experiments that emerged as artists drew on the energy of this rapidly growing and changing metropolis.
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde brings together some of the most iconic works from the period as well as works recently discovered or reevaluated by new scholarship. A significant number are already part of MoMA’s collection, while others are on loan from important public collections in Japan and the United States. Artists in the exhibition include artist collectives such as Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop), Hi Red Center (Takamatsu Jiro, Akasegawa Genpei, Nakanishi Natsuyuki), and Group Ongaku (Group Music); critical artistic figures such as Okamoto Taro, Nakamura Hiroshi, Ay-O, Yoko Ono, Shiomi Mieko, and Tetsumi Kudo; photographers Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eikoh, and Tomatsu Shomei; illustrators and graphic designers Yokoo Tadanori, Sugiura Kohei, and Awazu Kiyoshi; and architects Tange Kenzo, Isozaki Arata, and Kurokawa Kisho, among others.
In conjunction with Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, MoMA presents a 40-film retrospective of the Art Theatre Guild, the independent film company that radically transformed Japanese cinema by producing and distributing avant-garde and experimental works from the 1960s until the early 1980s. The retrospective features such filmmakers as Teshigahara Hiroshi, Shindo Kaneto, Imamura Shohei, Oshima Nagisa, Matsumoto Toshio, and Wakamatsu Koji. This exhibition runs December 7, 2012–February 10, 2013, and is organized by Go Hirasawa, Meiji-Gakuin University; Roland Domenig, University of Vienna; and Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.
Organized by Doryun Chong, Associate Curator, with Nancy Lim, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition is co-organized and supported by the Japan Foundation.
The exhibition is made possible by UNIQLO.
Additional support is provided by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, David Teiger, Chris A. Wachenheim, The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Shiseido, ITOCHU International Inc., and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.
Special thanks to JAPAN AIRLINES.
MoMA courses offer adults the rare opportunity to study modern and contemporary art with leading art specialists during and after public hours in the Museum's galleries and multimedia classrooms.
Postwar Japanese Art in Context
Five Wednesdays, 6:00–7:50 p.m., 11/7, 11/14, 11/28, 12/5, 12/12
Instructors: Reiko Tomii and Midori Yoshimoto
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Where & What is Portsmouth?
In the heart of New England an hour north of Boston, an hour south of the White Mtns.
A picturesque setting in a colonial-era seaport.
On the coast of New Hampshire is the seaport city of Portsmouth. Incorporated in 1653, Portsmouth is home to a rich history that includes being NH’s oldest settlement and the first capital of the colony of NH.
Portsmouth is located nearly equidistant from the cities of Boston to the south, and Portland, Maine to the north, and is situated ideally along the banks of the Piscataqua River, just before the mouth of the river feeds into the Atlantic Ocean’s Gulf of Maine.
Portsmouth’s proximity to the ocean, mountains, woods, rivers, and lakes is one of its defining features. With 23,000 residents – and many more working at companies in the city, Portsmouth is neither a “small town” nor a “big city.”
Its oceanside location makes for an idyllic pocket of favorable weather. It is consistently milder in Portsmouth than in even its closest neighbors, causing many of us here to purport a certain “magic” quality to our town. With fewer inches (sometimes fewer feet) of snow, shorter duration (or altogether avoidance) of passing storms, warmer winter temperatures, and cool summertime ocean breezes, Portsmouth residents live in a perfect alcove of verdant, four-season New England weather.
Portsmouth’s strategic geographic location attracted the founding of two military bases: the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, founded in 1800, and the former Pease Air Force Base, whose airport is still operating in a civilian capacity as the Pease International Tradeport.
Portsmouth is a true destination town that visitors from all over the country and world flock to. Downtown Portsmouth boasts hundreds of local shops and restaurants – arguably the densest concentration of restaurants and bars in New England – that attract shoppers and diners from all over, as well as students from the nearby University of New Hampshire (campus is 11 miles inland, in Durham, NH). The resulting mix of world-class restaurants, live-music-filled bars, and youthful awesomeness equals a kick-ass, fun nightlife.
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Up to 100,000 people flee fighting in Darfur: U.N.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Fighting over a gold mine in Sudan's Darfur region has forced 100,000 people to flee and brought the closure of all public offices and schools in one town to accommodate the displaced, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Conflict has raged in the vast arid region of Darfur for almost a decade since mainly non-Arab tribes took up arms against the Arab government in Khartoum in 2003, accusing it of political and economic neglect.
Violence has ebbed since a peak in 2003/2004 but has picked up again in the past few months.
This month heavy fighting broke out between two Arab tribes over gold in the Jebel Amer area in North Darfur, displacing or severely affecting 100,000 people, the United Nations said. It had previously reported 70,000 displaced people.
"Many of these people are living in the open in appalling conditions," the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report.
Some 65,000 people had fled to the town of El Sireaf, the United Nations said, adding that all public offices and schools had been closed in the area to shelter displaced people.
The United Nations said it had delivered more than 600 tonnes of food but had been unable to assess the scale of conflict because the authorities had not allowed a U.N. delegation to travel to the affected area.
Some 30,000 people were displaced by separate fighting between the army and a rebel group in the central Jebel Marra area, the United Nations said two weeks ago.
Events in Darfur are hard to verify as Sudan restricts travel by journalists, aid workers and diplomats. This week security agents denied Reuters a travel permit to attend a government-sponsored disarmament conference in West Darfur, despite an official invitation. No reason was given.
Rebel divisions and a string of broken ceasefires have scuppered years of international mediation and several rounds of peace talks. Banditry has also spread.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and other Sudanese officials to face charges of masterminding war crimes in Darfur. They deny the charges and refuse to recognize the court.
Human rights groups and the United Nations estimate hundreds of thousands of people have died in Darfur's conflict. The government says around 10,000 people have been killed.
(Reporting by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Stephen Powell)
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What is Records Management?
Records Management is another name for ways of organising your information, whether it is held on paper or electronically. Records Management aims to control the creation, version control, distribution, filing, retention, storage and disposal of records.
What is a record?
Such things as:
- paper files
- CCTV tapes
- raw data
- electronic files
are all records if they record details of a business decision - in other words they
document the decision - making process for administrative, legal, financial and historical purposes.
Examples of non- records are:
- duplicates of official records
- reference documents
- documents relating to own, personal affairs
Why do I need Records Management?
The University's records are a corporate asset. They are important sources of administrative, evidential and historical information, and are vital to the University in its current and future operations. Records provide part of the corporate memory of the University and give awareness and understanding of its history and procedures.
Additionally, the University is expected to comply with several pieces of recent pieces of information legislation, such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000. To do this correctly we need to improve our Records Management functions.
Any improvement will also bring organisational benefits such as:
- better use of physical and server space
- better use of staff time
- improved control of valuable information resources
- compliance with legislation and standards
- reduced costs
Who is responsible for Records Management?
All University staff who create, receive and use records have records management responsibilities. Looking after the University's records is part of the day job, and if done properly will assist staff in their work.
The Special Collections in the Arts and Social Sciences Library on Tyndall Avenue houses the University College and University of Bristol collection, where University records with long-term research value are preserved and made available.
What does Records Management involve?
1. Find out what records you hold in the office / Department.
Do a survey of all the storage areas overseen by your office, and also all the cabinets and desks.
Look at your servers and find out what documents are held on your PCs and what has been burnt onto CDs or is held on microfiche / film.
2. Apply a Retention and Disposal Schedule (RDS).
An RDS lists every type of record the University creates and / or holds, and recommends how long the records should be kept for. Establishing a regular (perhaps annual) review against the RDS will help to ensure consistent and timely disposal.
Until the University compiles a Retention and Disposal Schedule of its own, please be guided by the generic Higher Education schedule compiled by JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) click here.
3. Manage your storage to ensure that records are accessible to staff.
Physical Storage Space
- Make sure the filing system is easy to use and maintain.
- Keep the storage space free from clutter.
- Make sure the storage area is weatherproof and protected from flooding, fire and infestation.
- Consider the security requirements of the files. Should they only be available to certain people? Do they need to be locked away?
Electronic Storage Space
- Ensure that your shared drives are well organised.
- Avoid meaningless file titles such as "John's files" or "miscellaneous / general".
- Make sure that you save records where they can be accessed by your team if you are off sick, on holiday or absent from the office - store them on the shared drive.
- Apply the Retention and Disposal Schedule in the same way as you would to your paper records.
- Make sure that your electronic records are backed up - store them on the shared drive.
4. Identify historical records.
The JISC Retention and Disposal Schedule will identify some types of records that have a historical value and need to be preserved. Other types of records that have a historical value could be:
- The minute books of Faculty Committees
- The minute books of Departmental Committees
- Register of Students
- Student index cards
Any possible historical records should not be destroyed once they cease to be useful to the business. Instead, contact the Archivist, Arts and Social Sciences Library on (0117) 331 7092.
- There is currently no UK legislation that requires the retention of emails per se, though there are legal retention periods for certain types of information whether held in electronically or in hard copy.
- Emails are records in the same way as paper documents are. An email, whether stored electronically or in hard copy, should be retained for the appropriate amount of time considering the subject of the email and the information contained within it.
- Email inboxes should not be left to become unworkable through the volume of emails held in them.
- Always bear in mind that an email could be retrieved after it has been deleted from your inbox.
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Boonsri DickinsonAssociate Editor of BYTE
Mobile Device Biometrics: The Eyes Have It
Category: Smartphones, Social Networking
With so much of our banking and interactions taking place on our mobile phones, we still live with a false sense of security because it doesn't take much for someone to hack our phones. By using more unique identifiers biometrics such as eyes, rather than passwords corporations and banks may have a more secure way to authenticate our identity.
EyeVerify makes biometric technology which uses eye vein patterns. CEO Toby Rush says "no one can pretend to be you with an eye print. Most eye verification technologies lack 'liveness' detection. With EyeVerify, you can't fake it with photos or videos. You have to stand in front of your camera on any smartphone."
EyeVerify implements a vein biometrics system that only requires software and the device's camera. It allows mobile users to authorize transactions and access secure information. Using the camera on the phone, the software can determine 4 ROIs (regions of interest) in your eye, sending a pass/fail and a confidence interval. If it passes, you are granted access to the application. If it fails, access is denied.
The technology came out of academic labs in 2005, after Dr. Reza Derakhshani, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), and Dr. Arun Ross, West Virginia University (WVU) had developed the technology to identify people by their eyes. Rush saw an opportunity to commercialize it and decided to license the researchers' patent that uses the blood vessels in the back of the eye. As Rush sees it, it's a way for companies to build services that allow their phones to be secure without adding any hardware requirements.
Even in a BYOD scenario people can use personal phones and have biometric access to access corporate documents, Rush said. He also sees applications in healthcare, where doctors and nurses or patients can access their records. Or in online education, it can let teachers know who is taking the test. Even in logging into social networks such as Facebook, it can authenticate who is online. With EyeVerify, banking applications and others can use the 'liveness' factor for authentication. By using the camera, the software can detect if there's a person there depending on the focus and exposure and white balance.
Banking in particular could benefit from a more secure system. Most people don't like to use mobile banking because they have security concerns, Rush said, and EyeVerify can give them the confidence they need.
As we live our lives more online, protecting our digital identify becomes that much more important. Rush said that in emerging markets such as Nigeria and Indonesia, identity is the biggest issue in combating fraud. Biometrics are not expensive, but have had false starts in the past. For instance, biometric technology that used the retina as verification never really took off. Airports are using the iris and the color of the eye, but that requires an expensive hardware component.
"We are looking at the whites of the eye. For corporate applications for authentication, the user would hold the camera away from the face, look left or right and EyeVerify would process it in a few seconds. The software would respond to calling application and either confirm or deny who you say you are. The entire process takes about 4 seconds.
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky said, "Biometrics have long been seen as a possible solution to the authentication crisis, as we're all enrolled merely by virtue of having bodies. The field has struggled, however, due to problems of deployment (you have to have readers everywhere), accuracy (it's surprising how little uniqueness there is in voices and faces), and security (you leak your biometrics everywhere you go). EyeVerify is interesting in that they're leveraging the ubiquity of cell phones with high resolution cameras to solve the problem of deploying readers, and that they're using one of the few biometrics that is in fact highly unique, and thus effectively discriminates between many users. That being said, like all biometrics, you expose your eyes frequently and in public."
Another eye verification company called Iris Guard allows customers to conduct banking or buy and pay with their eye, claiming to eliminate identity theft and fraud. Iris Guard uses an iris biometric camera, rather than the whites of the eyes. Even 24 Hour Fitness is using fingerprints to identify people to cut down fraud and to save money on printing plastic cards. While there's no such thing as absolute security, using more unique ways of identifying that you are who you say you are will get us that much closer to fail-safe security. And with the popularity of mobile phones and good cameras in them, EyeVerify may be a step in the right direction. In general, people don't like having to go through inconvenience to lock down their phones, so they will have to make sure the process of verifying your eye is quick and easy to use. EyeVerify says that their iPhone version is done, and is in beta. The Android application will be completed this month.
Kaminsky casts some doubt on Rush's claim that eye prints can't be faked: "Their pattern can be captured surreptitiously, and replayed forever with no possibility of revocation. But if the only people who have to worry about hacking you are those who can get within a very short distance away -- realistically, that's something of a win. Liveness checking never really works. But it doesn't matter -- if their accuracy is reasonable, they're useful. (It can't work because the pattern is static and effectively 2D. But seriously, they just need to try.) Interestingly, they're slightly worse off than fingerprints, as high resolution photos of your fingers are rarely published while eyes may very well be."
Boonsri Dickinson is the Associate Editor of BYTE
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A Groqit (grock’et) is pocket-dwelling device that reads and remembers barcode information. It can hold hundreds of thousands of barcodes and related information and do lookups in seconds.
You use it at home to compile and store barcode numbers from your music, video, book and other personal collections, then bring it with you when you go shopping. It can be used to read barcodes (UPC or EAN) of books, DVD’s, games and so on, which it then compares to its stored lists of what you already have. It tells you whether or not the barcode you have just read is something you already own.
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Hundreds of local students are expected to attend Cal State San Bernardino Palm Desert's third annual Environmental and Sustainability Expo today.
The event will feature award-winning science fair and environmental club
projects from students from all three Coachella Valley school districts and
research on environmental science, and representatives from local green
businesses will be available to speak with students about working in related
fields, campus spokesman Mike Singer said.
The expo brings together middle, high school and college students,
university researchers and Coachella Valley green industry leaders to
"celebrate and learn more about environmental science, sustainability and
local and global green projects in a way that emphasizes the importance of
environmental sustainability in the Coachella Valley,'' Singer said.
Students from the Palm Springs Unified School District will screen their
environment-related digital films. At 8 a.m., green consulting company
EcoMotion will place a 37-foot balloon on the grassy area in the middle of
campus to represent what a ton of carbon dioxide looks like. At 11 a.m., Rachel
Kornak, program development manager at the University of Redlands' Redlands
Institute, will give a presentation, "Mapping Your Impact -- The Cost of Being
The Environmental and Sustainability Expo is sponsored by the campus's
Palm Springs Institute for Environmental Sustainability.
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The state of Indiana requires that educators seeking license renewal complete six (6) semester hours of coursework from an accredited institution OR obtain 90 Professional Growth Points. If you are renewing your license using only coursework, have completed at least three (3) semester hours through Indiana Wesleyan University since the date that the license needing renewed was issued, and wish to have IWU’s Licensing Department assist in the process, please feel free to download the following license processing information.
The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) has implemented the License Verification and Information System (LVIS), a user-friendly license processing system that makes the renewal process quick and efficient. For more information on this system, please visit the IDOE website at http://www.doe.in.gov/student-services/licensing/professionalizing-license.
A Standard/Provisional educator license is valid for a period of five (5) years from the date of issue. Upon expiration, it may be renewed for a five-year period, provided that the renewal requirements (i.e., six (6) semester hours of coursework or 90 Professional Growth Points) are completed between the issue date on the license and the time that it is renewed.
The requirements for professionalizing a teaching license are as follows:
Note: Applicants wishing to professionalize Administrative or School Services licenses will need to visit the Indiana Department of Education website at http://www.doe.in.gov/educatorlicensing/converting.html for more information on requirements to professionalize these license types.
Beginning July 1, 2012, applicants applying for ANY license action (including renewal and professionalization) will be required to show proof of current active CPR/Heimlich Maneuver/AED certification at the time of application. For more information, please visit the DOE website at http://www.doe.in.gov/student-services/licensing/cpr-heimlich-maneuver-aed-certification.
IWU’s Master of Education degree program is approved by the Indiana Department of Education and is offered in both onsite and online modes. Obtaining your M.Ed. degree will assist you in the area of salary advancement as well as the professionalizing of your Indiana State Teaching License.
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A majority of the worlds data and information is still in paper form. This vast amount of non-magnetic data provides an extremely large window of opportunity for the hard disk industry. Demand for computer storage is being driven not only by the conversion of "paper" data to electronic data, but also by new data that is being created as a result of new technologies such as the Internet, enterprise and server demands, and an increase in the demand for personal PCs as well as notebook drives. Also, high-power and storage-heavy applications today demand additional storage space. According to Dataquest (based on capacity surveys and forecasts of the number of megabytes per drive and the number of drives shipped), the total storage market could grow to support 5.6 million Terabytes of primary hard drive storage in 2002, a staggering figure.
The key factors driving down the cost of disk drives are production volume and GB/disk platter. In recent years, technological leaps and bounds have been made in improving areal density. Historically, the areal density (Gbits/in≤) has increased at a rate of about 60% yearly. This increase in areal density ratios has resulted in an industry where fewer components are needed to manufacture a high-capacity drive. This has caused disk drive prices to drop as capacities become greater and greater.
In addition to the traditional applications of data storage for personal computing and servers, a new market has emerged for consumer electronics. New appliances such as digital audio and video equipment are utilizing storage capabilities and are opening a new field in hard storage. Several companies including Quantum, Panasonic, Seagate, and Western Digital are participating in this new trend.
Market and Product RequirementsTo obtain better competition, HDD vendors are lowering price of disk drives in exchange for a decrease in warranty period. In order to better supply customers, vendors have employed the usage of JIT (Just In Time) warehouses to distribute their products. A main JIT center is located in Dallas, Texas. However, with this system of storage comes a charge of storage and handling.
Pricing of Disk StoragePricing of storage devices is divided up into three main categories including mobile (notebook/laptop computers), desktop, and server/enterprise devices. Currently, Hitachi offers the lowest OEM price per drive with IBM maintaining a solid hold in the technology sector. Desktop drives include 5400-RPM IDE drives and 7200-RPM IDE drives. In the future, most desktop systems will migrate to the faster, 7200-RPM, drives. Current price leaders are Seagate and Quantum offering a good balance of quality and pricing. The final section is the server and enterprise drives. These drives are mainly for high-performance systems meant to handle a large load of traffic and access. They feature rotational speeds of 7200 RPM to 10,000 RPM. New fiber-channel technologies will be the next area of competition for the enterprise market. Popular capacities for enterprise drives include 18 GB and 36 GB formats.
Market ForecastDemand for PC OEMs will increase as time passes, and this will become ever important in the disk drive market. Disk drive companies must excel in quality, technology, and time to market as well as remain competitive in order to remain standing in the market. A major contributing factor towards lowering hard drive factory cost is the requirement of fewer components to build disk drive units of high capacity.
Major Suppliers and StrategiesThe PC market dynamics changed in 1998, we saw the larger suppliers gaining share (top five control 42% of the market), with each focusing on supply chain management and integrating elements of a direct model. We saw some major market share shifts over the course of the year whereby IBM, Maxtor, and Fujitsu took share from Seagate, Quantum, and Western Digital, leveling the playing field somewhat. The 3-inch drive efforts stalled and the 5.25-inch drive designs are generally moving toward end of life.
The demand for desktop PCs, and hence, the demand for desktop disk drives, continues to grow fueled by higher-performance, higher-capacity systems despite seasonal volatility and inventory patterns. We expect that the increasing bandwidth that is being built into the current network infrastructure will ignite the proliferation of applications that are ideally suited for hard disk drive storage solutions.
Channels of DistributionThe distribution industry is going through a fundamental shift from fulfillment-heavy to service and support-heavy focus. In light of competitive threats from the Direct Model offered by Dell, Gateway and others and the product selection information and ordering available directly from the web.
A number of programs including Build-To-Order for smaller OEMs, BTO and Fulfillment for Large system Integrators, Reseller Programs for VARS and Smaller System Integrators are being pursued by the Distributors.
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1. Balsamic vinegar
Why? - Two tablespoons of salad dressing contain approximately 150 calories. Two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar contain less than 10 calories and yet your salad will taste every bit as good.
How? - When you're not drizzling it on your salads add it to your pastas. A splash of balsamic vinegar, a little brown sugar and a pinch of salt will turn even the plainest tinned tomatoes into a mouthwatering, waistline friendly sauce that tastes great on pasta, home-made pizza, chicken, fish or pulses.
2. Tinned puy lentils
Why? - Once thought of as 'hippy' food, tinned green lentils are now all the rage. Packed full of cholesterol lowering, blood sugar balancing fibre, these super convenient, ready in moments lentils are also a great source of six important minerals, two mood balancing B-vitamins and, as if all that wasn't enough, they are high in hunger zapping protein too - all with virtually no fat. At just 230 calories for a whole cup of cooked lentils these really do earn their 'super food' title.
How? - Lentils are the chameleon of the food world as they take on almost any flavours you care to throw at them so they taste great with everything from light, white fish through to rich and meaty beef dishes.
Use then in place of mashed potatoes, as a base for salad dishes, as a substitute for mince, add to soups, stews, and casseroles or mix with a little half fat crème fraiche, mint or flat leaf parsley and lemon juice and serve with a hot smoked fillet of salmon on top — delicious!
[Related feature: 7 tinned foods no slimmer should be without]
3. Rapeseed oil
Why? - Rapeseed oil contains the lowest saturated fat content of any oil, has 10 times more omega 3 than olive oil and is a good source of skin enhancing, immune strengthening vitamin E. It also has a high 'smoke point' which means its nutritional value is maintained, even during cooking at high temperatures. What's more, it's produced on our own British soils. To learn more visit Wharfe Valley Farms.
How? - Blend with tinned chick peas and tahini paste to make a super healthy and delicious hummus. Drizzle a little over salads, pasta or risottos, mix with lemon juice, garlic and balsamic to make a salad dressing and use in place of butter in mashed potato.
Why? - We all know how good oats are for us and oat bran, in many ways is even better. That's because it is lower in calories and even higher in protein and cholesterol lowering fibre. In fact, just one 40g serving of oatbran contains 83% of the recommended daily amount (3g) of betaglucan — a soluble fibre that binds with excess cholesterol and removes it from our blood stream. This high fibre content is great for making you feel full for up to four hours after eating too.
How? - Oat bran is creamy in texture so it goes down effortlessly and makes a great thickener for soups, stews and casseroles. Add it to home made breads, muffins, biscuits and pancakes or sprinkle it on top of your usual breakfast cereal.
[Related feature: All you need to know about cooking oils]
For a really delicious, super fast, incredibly healthy breakfast that will see off hunger pangs to lunchtime and beyond, mix equal quantities of oats and oatbran with nuts and seeds of your choice and store in an airtight container. To serve mix two tablespoons with a little fruit juice or skimmed milk and top with fresh fruits such as sliced kiwi, blueberries, strawberries or grapes.
5. Tinned wild salmon
Why? - There are so many health benefits associated with eating this fish that the question should actually be 'why not'? It reduces cholesterol, protects heart health, reduces the risk of stroke, helps prevent immune and inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and some skin conditions, minimises the risk of some mental disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and is essential in infant brain and eye development during pregnancy and nursing.
Oh, and the delicate bones that are rich in calcium and magnesium are cooked in the can (don't worry, they're so soft you won't notice them in your finished dish) making canned wild salmon one of the most calcium-rich, bone strengthening non-dairy foods you can eat. Of course, because it's wild it is relatively low risk in terms of contaminants such as mercury and pesticides.
How? - Use it as a main ingredient of fish pies, Thai fish curries, pasta dishes or chowders. Mix with some vinegar, lemon juice, horseradish sauce and plenty of black pepper for a delicious sandwich filling. Alternatively, combine the tinned salmon in a bowl with a couple of tablespoons of bread crumbs, some finely chopped spring onions or chives, deseeded, red chilies (optional) and an egg to bind it all together.
Coat in a little more egg and bread crumbs mixed with finely chopped chives and a little oil and bake in a hot oven for approximately 30 minutes turning once for a super, healthy, delicious supper.
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Having a Koi pond at your home is undoubtedly the quickest way to reduce stress and noise that you have to deal with on a regular basis. This peaceful and quiet place is essentially a man-made paradise. Apart from eliminating stress and tension from your mind, a Koi pond is a perfect way of adding beauty to your backyard or any outdoor space. However, it requires some effort to keep it in its healthiest and most attractive condition.
Here are a few other pond tips? Look no further…
- Do not start feeding your pond fish until the pond water is at least 50°F.
- Add beneficial bacteria. Remember beneficial bacteria removes ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and organic debris such as dead leaves, uneaten fish food, fish waste etc., that cause water clarity problems.
- Maintain salt level between 2.5 – 3.0 ppt.
- Switch to higher protein food 2-4 times daily.
- Back flush filter media weekly.
- Minimum 10% weekly water change.
- Check chemical levels.
Whether you have a water garden, pondless water features, large koi pond, or two acre lake, Creative Visions Landscapes can help get what you want out of that body of water and enjoy your pond. We carry many different pond supplies including; pumps, filters, skimmers, liner/underlayment, UV supplies, water treatments, aquatic plants, koi and other fish and fish food. So, if you have a question about your pond, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Summer has arrived! With an early arrival to summer, you’re sure to want our landscape tips for June. By the way… What happened to the Rose Festival curse? We aren’t sure what to think, but we are loving this beautiful sunshine!
Now that summer is on us, things will start getting dry. Be sure your lawn is getting enough water. As a general rule, you want to get at least an inch of water per week to keep a good green and healthy lawn.
June is still early enough to prune some plants if needed, so you can clean up some plants or do full pruning if needed. Planting new plants can still be done, you may just have to water a little more to keep them bright and plenty healthy.
Just a reminder: We landscape all through the year, every month we are planting new plants, the only difference is during hot dry weather we have to water more. Need some landscaping help? Give us a call.
Here are a few landscape tips for June
- Spray weeds
- Allow bulb foliage to completely yellow and then cut back to the ground
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs and trees
- Make sure raised beds receive enough water for plants to avoid drought stress
- Monitor azaleas, primroses and other broadleaf ornamentals for adult root weevils.
It’s already March! But, like you know the weather in March in Portland is very unpredictable. Plants will start blooming, your grass will start growing and Spring will arrive! Here are a few landscape tips for March.
Landscape Tips – Planning
- Plan the vegetable garden carefully for spring and summer vegetables. If you lack in- ground gardening space, plan an outdoor container garden.
- Use a soil thermometer to help you know when to plant vegetables. Some cool season crops (onions, kale, lettuce, and spinach) can be planted when the soil is consistently at or above 40°F.
Maintenance and Clean Up
- Lawn mowing: Set blade at 0.75 to 1 inch for bent grass lawns; 1.5 to 2.5 inches for bluegrasses, fine fescues, and ryegrasses.
- Compost grass clippings and yard waste, except for clippings from lawns where weed-and-feed products or herbicides (weed killers) have been used.
- Spread compost over garden and landscape areas.
- Cut back most plants.
Seriously it’s February? We can’t believe that one month of 2013 is already gone. But, the good news is that Pond Season is not too far off. However, remember we can still get some cold weather in late February and into March. So even if you see your fish moving around a little bit, do not start feeding them yet. Here are the rest of your February pond tips:
- Check water levels regularly. Keep water levels consistent, adding fresh water
when levels recede.
- Don’t let your pond completely ice over.
- Add beneficial bacteria. Remember beneficial bacteria helps pond filters control algae and algae blooms in ponds and koi and fish pools by reducing fish waste and pond scum.
- Maintain salt level between 1.25 – 2.00 ppt.
- Do one back flush of filter media.
You never know what kind of weather we’ll get in February. Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow. So, they say we will see an early spring. But, in Oregon, it could be beautiful and sunny, soggy and wet or glistening in snow! No matter what Mother Nature delivers there are some landscaping items that really should be taken care of.
Landscape Tips for February
- Cut back ornamental grasses
- Do dormant pruning of wood shrubs and trees
- Check perennials planted in late summer or fall. Push them back in the soil if they are raised
- Prune suckers from the base of ornamental trees, roses, and shrubs
- Tune up lawn mowers and have the blades sharpened before the rush
It’s January, start of a New Year! We don’t know about you, but we’re more than happy to leave 2012 behind. We’re definitely hopeful that 2013 will be a better year! We’ve got a lot of great plans for 2013. So, keep your eyes out for notifications from us! We look forward to sharing this great year with you!
Landscape Tips for January
- Watch for field mice damage on lower trunks of trees and shrubs. Eliminate hiding places by removing weeds. Use traps and approved baits as necessary.
- Check the soil moisture around boxwood and holly, water if needed.
- Snow can be used as mulch on perennials and areas where bulbs were planted last fall.
- Don’t walk on lawns until frost has melted.
- Make sure our recent deluges have not left bulbs and tree roots bare.
The days are getting shorter and in a few days, we’ll turn the clocks back. The rain seems like it’s starting to settle in, so let’s take a look at some of the last landscape activites we want to make sure get done before winter comes.
- Rake and compost leaves that are free of diseases and insects. Use mulches to prevent erosion and compaction from rain.
- Protect built-in sprinkler systems: drain the system, insulate the valve mechanisms.
- Drain and store hoses.
- Consider planting shrubs and trees that supply food and shelter to birds; e.g., sumac, elderberry, flowering currant, and mock orange.
- Plant spring-flowering bulbs, such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses.
- Check firewood for insect infestations. Burn affected wood first and don’t store inside.
There’s no denying it… Fall is here! Here at Creative Visions Landscapes, we are doing a lot of fall clean up and getting ready for winter. There are leaves to be raked, water features to winterize, drainage to improve. We’ve got projects to wrap up before winter hits!
Here are just a few landscape tips for October
- Cut back perennials
- Plant bulbs
- If needed, improve soil drainage needs of lawns before rain begins.
- To suppress future pest problems, clean up annual flower beds by removing diseased plant materials, overwintering areas for insect pests; mulch with manure or garden compost to feed the soil and suppress weeds.
- Store garden supplies and fertilizers in a safe, dry place out of reach of children.
September has arrived! Many kids are back in school and fall sports are being played. This is a great time of the year in Oregon. We tend to get some beautiful days in September, cool mornings warm afternoons and beautiful sunsets! You’ve got to love the fall in the Northwest!
If you’re running kids to football, volleyball and soccer practices while trying to maintain a full-time job we know it’s difficult to remember what you’re supposed to do with your landscape. So, here are some tips to help you out.
- Check soil moisture levels through December
- Divide hosta and daylilies
- Plant fall flowers like pansies
- Complete fall lawn seeding projects
- Aerate lawns
We have some of our hottest days in August, so don’t think summer is over yet!
With the busy-ness that comes with the month of August, don’t forget to take care of your landscape. If there’s a project you just can’t get to, call us. We’d be happy to help! August is the pefect time to…
- Order fall bulbs
- Plant late-blooming perennials, mums, or pansies
- Look out for spider mite and aphid activity
- Need a new lawn? The optimal time for establishing a new lawn is August through Mid-September.
- Use mulch to protect ornamentals and garden plants from hot weather damage. If needed, provide temporary shade, especially for recent plantings.
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Willow family (Salicaceae)
Description: This native deciduous tree is 60-120' tall at maturity. It develops a single stout trunk up to 4-6' across and forms an ovoid crown in open situations. The trunk bark of mature trees is thick, gray, and coarsely ridged. The abundant branches are ascending above and drooping below; they are somewhat crooked and knobby. Branch bark is light gray to gray-brown and fairly smooth. Alternate leaves are 4-5" long and 3-4" across; they are deltate-ovate in shape and crenate-dentate along their margins. The teeth of the leaves are slightly hooked. Individual leaves have flat bottoms and slender tips. The upper leaf surfaces are medium green and glabrous, while their lower surfaces are pale green, hairless, and dull. Leaf venation is pinnate. The slender petioles are nearly as long as the leaf blades; they are light green, glabrous, and somewhat flattened. Eastern Cottonwood is dioecious; individual trees produce either all male (staminate) flowers or all female (pistillate) flowers. These flowers are produced during the spring before the leaves develop in the form of drooping catkins about 2-3" long. Male catkins occur in clusters of 2-4 near the tips of branches, while female catkins are produced individually. Each male catkin is bright red or yellow and cylindrical in shape, consisting of a dense mass of nearly sessile male florets. Each male floret consists of a dish-shaped basal disk and 20-60 reddish or yellowish stamens. At the base of each male floret, there is a fringed bract. Each female catkin is green and cylindrical in shape, consisting of many female florets on slender petioles (see photo of Female Catkin). Each female floret consists of a dish-shaped basal disk and a single ovoid pistil about 8 mm. (1/3") long. Each pistil has 3-4 flattened stigmata with undulate margins. At the base of each female floret, there is a fringed bract. The florets are wind-pollinated. Afterwards, the male catkins wither away, while the female catkins elongate to 4-6" in length while developing their fruits. During early to mid-summer, these fruits split open to release their seeds. Each fruit releases about 30-50 seeds with cottony hairs. The seeds are distributed by the wind and can travel several hundred feet in the air. They also float on water and can travel downstream. Individual seeds are about 2 mm. long. The woody root system is shallow and branching. This tree reproduces by reseeding itself.
Cultivation: The preference is full sunlight, moist conditions, and soil consisting of sandy loam or silty loam. Growth and development of young trees is quite fast. However, mature trees are usually short-lived (100 years or less). Temporary flooding during the spring is tolerated. Because the wood of the branches is rather soft and brittle, this tree is vulnerable to storm and ice damage. For female trees, the cottony hairs of the seeds may be released in such numbers that they can clog gutters and the filters of air conditioners. Because the spreading roots wander in search of water, individual trees should not be planted near sewers or water pipes.
Range & Habitat: Eastern Cottonwood is a common tree that is probably found in every county of Illinois (see Distribution Map). Habitats consist of bottomland deciduous woodlands, banks of rivers and lakes, banks of mine spoil, picnic and camping grounds near sources of water, and sand dunes near Lake Michigan. Sometimes Eastern Cottonwood is cultivated as a landscape tree in yards. It frequently colonizes disturbed open areas that are moist. In bottomland woodlands, common associates are Black Willow, Green Ash, Slippery Elm, Silver Maple, and River Birch. There is a subspecies, Populus deltoides occidentalis (Western Cottonwood), that is found along rivers in the Great Plains region. It has smaller leaves with larger teeth than the typical eastern subspecies.
Faunal Associations: Eastern Cottonwood and similar species are an important food source of many insect species. The leaves are eaten by the caterpillars of the butterflies Limenitis archippus (Viceroy), Limenitis arthemis astyanax (Red-Spotted Purple), and Papilio glaucus (Tiger Swallowtail); they are also eaten by the caterpillars of the skipper Erynnis icelus (Dreamy Duskywing) and the caterpillars of many moth species (see Moth Table). Other insect feeders include many leaf beetles (see Leaf Beetle Table), larvae of long-horned beetles (see Long-Horned Beetle Table), larvae of the weevil Cryptorhynchus lapathi (Poplar-and-Willow Borer), aphids (see Aphid Table), plant bugs (Lopidea cuneata, Lygocoris hirticulus, & Tropidosteptes populi), the leafhopper Idiocerus lunaris, and larvae of the sawfly Trichiosoma triangulum. Many of these insects are important sources of food to insectivorous birds. Some birds feed on the buds and catkins during the spring when other sources of food are scarce; these species include the Ruffed Grouse, Prairie Chicken, and Purple Finch. Eastern Cottonwood provides nesting habitat for such birds as the Pileated Woodpecker (cavities in large trees), Baltimore Oriole, Warbling Vireo, Northern Parula, and Yellow Warbler (young trees). Some mammals also use Eastern Cottonwood as a food source. White-Tailed Deer browse on twigs and foliage of this tree, as does the Cottontail Rabbit when seedlings are within reach. Beavers use small trees as a source of food and also as construction material for their dens and dams. Like certain birds, tree squirrels sometimes eat the buds during the spring.
Photographic Location: Meadowbrook Park in Urbana, Illinois.
Comments: Eastern Cottonwood develops very quickly into a rather coarse and robust tree. Its shiny leaves glitter in the sunlight, and they make a conspicuous flapping sound in the wind that can be construed as either relaxing or annoying. This tree can be distinguished from its relatives from the deltate shape of its leaves, which have bottoms that are more or less flat. The narrowly rounded teeth of its leaves are somewhat unusual because they are slightly hooked, and it has flattened petioles, unlike some Populus spp. Trees that are referred to as 'poplars,' 'aspens,' and 'cottonwoods' are members of the same genus and closely related to each other.
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Matthew Marks Gallery - 24th St.
Like most people, my first inclination upon being faced with the work of the late Anne Truitt was to label it Minimalist, a perspective that tends to obfuscate her subtle insight into the natural, the spiritual, and the psychological. While her sculptures, paintings, and drawings, dating back to the early 1960s, address the purest elements of art–line, color, and balance–she was unconcerned with the industrial fabrication inherent in the standard modes of the Minimalist movement.
The life-size monolithic structures for which Truitt is best known are not flawless volumes markedly void of the human hand ala John McCracken or Sol LeWitt, but solid, impenetrable bodies of wood. These squared columns, which range from five to eight feet high, are covered in layer upon layer of juicy paint. Though the surface is sanded between each coat, the varying directions of Truitt’s brushstrokes are still faintly detected. As the paint’s pigment slyly changes with each application, dense, and often vibrant, color is steadily, and lovingly, produced.
What most separates Truitt’s oeuvre from that of the Minimalists is her proclivity for visual disruptions. At once polished and austere, her work, though calm on the surface, always suggests a certain level of agitation and unease. The lines in her drawings are just shy of being perfectly straight and the blacks in her paintings never reach the Richard Serra-like intensity, as greens, blues, and purples can’t help but shine through. Resting atop miniature unseen pedestals, her vertical plinths in shades of white, pink, red, blue, and black appear to hover an inch or so off the ground, suggesting an otherworldly environment culled straight from the imagination of Stanley Kubrick.
While the commanding scale of her three-dimensional works noticeably intimates the human form (in height and width), Truitt’s drawings hint at the psychological nuances of human memory. The most absorbing of these–black uneven rectangles calling to mind both imposing buildings and vast landscapes, and delicate pencil drawings of houses and white picket fences–can be seen in “Anne Truitt: Drawings,” an exhibition of works on paper currently at Matthew Marks Gallery.
28 Dec ’62, 17 Nov ’62, and Summer ’88 No. 6, titled, like so much of Truitt’s work, for the dates of their completion, are dark washes of black acrylic on paper. Each work is a large rectangle of varying density. The slanted and often jagged borders of the mass offer up sense memories of silhouetted landscapes from evening walks, and the stark shadows cast from buildings on sun-drenched afternoons. Like shadows, the blacks themselves aren’t entirely black, but emanate with dim traces of red, blue, and purple–an effect that arouses a false, though not unwelcome, sense of depth within these two-dimensional spaces.
Truitt’s most visually literal works are a series of acrylic and graphite drawings depicting the fences, ridgepoles, and wood-planked walls of her childhood home. Like the American dream of suburban domesticity, these small illustrations are clean, organized, and unobtrusive. In fact, the lines are so thin and so lightly drawn that they would be entirely missed if we were not face to face with them. The white acrylic stays dutifully within the confines of the uneven graphite, while, at the same time, constantly flirting with the notion of disappearing into the paper altogether. It is the visual surprises in Truitt’s work, however understated they may be, that release the artist not only from the limitations of Minimalism, but from the sphere of our expectations as well.
– Taylor Ruby
Images: Anne Truitt, 5 Nov '62, 1962, Acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 inches, Courtesy of the artist & Matthew Marks Gallery; Anne Truitt, Untitled, 1966, Acrylic and graphite on paper, 15 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches, Courtesy of the artist & Matthew Marks Gallery.
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What To Do When You Have A Slab Leak
No one thinks about their house or business plumbing until something goes wrong. Basic plumbing maintenance of your plumbing system at home and in your work is extremely important. Every time you turn on a faucet or use a toilet or wash one of your vehicles you call for the water to be there and function correctly.
One of the more difficultplumbing problems is a slab leak. It can be very expensive to fix, especially if not identified immediately. There really is not much you can do to prevent them in terms of maintenance.
A slab leak happens when the water pipe is leaking below or within the concrete foundation of your home or business. Since a leaking water pipe is buried in the slab or immediately under it, it is a lot more difficult to access in order to repair than a pipe that might be leaking beneath a cabinet or in a shower.
Plumbing has both incoming and discharge water. Slab leaks can happen in either of those systems. If the slab leak is minor it may not be noticeable for a very long time. The water supply coming into the home or business is pressurized. One sign of noticing a slab leak is if you have less water pressure than normal. This will cause flooding under the slab because the pressure in the pipe remains the same, it is just released before it gets to the sink, shower or toilet as usual. Leak detection on the outgoing pipes is more difficult. This will however cause problems under the slab and will eventually be detected by shifting ground, unusual flooding or foul odor.
Typical signs that can lead to slab leaks are the shifting of the groundwork, } inexpensive water pipe lines, water supply pressure that’s too high, and when the pH scale of the water supply is excessively high, then the incoming copper pipe may cause to rust which will lead to leaks.
In the event you have a slab leak here are some basic steps to repair the damage:
- Detect the location of the leak. Wet floor, walls and/or outside area are clues.
- Remove the flooring from the area.
- Using a concrete tool such as a jack hammer or drill try to carefully break the concrete. Most slabs are about 3-5 inches thick so this will take work and effort. The opening must be big enough for you to be able to reach the damaged pipe and cut, replace and repair the damage.
- Locate the main meter and turn off the water. Cut the piece of damaged pipe that is leaking. Replace the pipe with identical material piping. If copper, then replace with copper. If PVC, then replace with PVC.
- 5. Replace the concrete with a mixture from a bag. Fill the hole entirely.
- Wait a day and replace the flooring.
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Jumping Off the Bandwagon (by Matthew Gallion)
The Internet makes everything from pornography to postmodernism accessible to any and to everyone. Blogs, Wikis, Twitter, Facebook, and the like have significantly challenged hierarchical economies of thought, publicity, and the “celebrity.” Young kids hit it big on YouTube, becoming household names and oft-quoted catchphrases. Movie stars make friends with their fellow Internet-addicted fans. Bloggers gain bigger followings than long-established newspapers, providing commentary on every event from fashion to fascism and pop culture to politics—as if such things were truly so separate.
Postmodernism, like Tom’s Shoes or the iPad, is unfortunately hip. This means that some who deeply desire to be hip like to throw the “p-word” around. It has become the only socially acceptable way to talk about thinking, culture, and even the church. Throw in a digital dash of virtual reality, and one finds an overwhelming amount of postmodern hype plastered all over the Internet.
Oddly enough, the road to popularity in emergent Christianity is lined with flashy billboards with giant smiling faces and speech balloons loaded with postmodern jargon. It is worrisome that the combination of postmodernism and the Internet has been “commodified” through global capitalism into one more way to make a name for oneself. The Internet makes the world smaller; it closes the gap between those who are “famous” and those who are not. Public figures interact on a daily basis with average Janes and Joes. Becoming well known is part and parcel to the American dream, and it is getting easier by the minute.
However, what I find most appealing about Mark C. Taylor’s approach to postmodernism is that it results in the ubiquity of art that is deeply rooted in imagination and creativity. So it seems tragic to me to hop onboard the bandwagon in order to make a name for oneself, particularly at the cost of exploring and creating in one’s own context. I am making an open call to those within emergence Christianity who seek to become blogging celebrities and authors: Stop trying to gain recognition for your creations and just be content to create. Stop selling your religion for traffic and hits. Live art. Love the impossible. Don’t substitute the gleam in the Pan’s eye for subtle forms of consumeristic capitalism that are enamored with a big tent. In other words, escape the big tent and gather around a table instead, however big or small it might be.
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the essay “The Postmodern Pan and the ForeverNeverland,” which appears in the forthcoming book The Hyphenateds: How Emergence Christianity is Re-Traditioning Mainline Practices.
Matthew Gallion is a graduate student at Missouri State University where he is pursuing an M.A. in Religious Studies. Matt studies responses to American evangelicalism in postmodern contexts, particularly the emerging church and the emergent conversation, and the intersection of faith and culture, particularly in crossing the “digital divide.” He is the author of “The Price of Freedom: Bribery, the Philippian Gift, and Paul’s Choice in Philippians 1:19-26,” which won the prize for best graduate paper at the annual meeting of the Central States Society of Biblical Literature. He received his B.A. from Southwest Baptist University and currently serves as Pastoral Resident at National Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Springfield, Missouri. Follow him at www.matthewgallion.com.
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The University Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) has launched a new outreach initiative in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin. This new program, GeoFORCE Alaska, is designed to increase the number and diversity of students pursuing STEM degree programs and entering the future high-tech workforce. It uses Earth science as a hook because most kids get excited about dinosaurs, volcanoes, and earthquakes, but it includes physics, chemistry, math, biology and other sciences. Students are recruited in the 8th grade and then remain in the program for all four years of high school. They must maintain a B or better average to participate in GeoFORCE events, culminating in an exciting week-long field event each summer. Over the four-year period, they will travel to Fairbanks, Arizona, Oregon, and the Appalachians. All trips focus on Earth science and include a 100+ page guidebook, with tests every night culminating with a final exam.
The Texas program, with adjustments for differences in culture and environment, is being replicated in Alaska beginning with the first cohort of 40 rising ninth graders during the summer of 2012. The program will continue to add a new cohort of ninth graders each year for the next four years. By the summer of 2015, the program will reach capacty of 160 students in grades 9 through 12.
GeoFORCE Alaska is forming partnerships with companies that will benefit not only from the community outreach aspects of the program, but potentially as employers of GeoFORCE students who ultimately graduate with applicable degrees. This follows the approach taken by the Texas program in which these partnerships have included not only funding, but participation by company personnel in summer field events, as mentors, and as providers of internships once the students reach college.
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"With geology professors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Texas at Austin, the 16 students traveled 1,018 miles by bus to visit the Permafrost Tunnel in Fox, the Healy coal deposits, Denali National Park, Portage Glacier, Matanuska Glacier and the Denali Fault." Read the rest of the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer article »
The launch of the GeoFORCE Alaska program was also mentioned in a Fairbanks Daily Newsminer editorial. Read the article »
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Well-managed tourism can help protect the world’s wetlands
09 Jul 12
Whether kayaking in the Iberá Marshes in Argentina or bird-watching at Ba-Be Lake in Vietnam, tourists are providing income for the conservation of wetlands worldwide, as demonstrated in a new publication launched by the Ramsar Secretariat and UNWTO.
Besides providing essential services such as water, food and energy, wetlands offer significant opportunities for tourism, which can in turn deliver economic benefits for local communities and the sustainable management of wetlands, according to the publication Destination Wetlands: Supporting Sustainable Tourism.
Growth in sustainable tourism not only reflects environmental realities, but also a desire from tourists themselves to embrace green tourism. “There is a trend among tourists of turning towards green forms of tourism, towards destinations that offer wildlife and heritage,” said Cristian Barhalescu, State Secretary, Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism of Romania. “As wetlands, with their diversity and richness, become subject to tourism development, the interconnection between tourism and wetlands should be given special attention by all actors involved.”
Through 14 case studies, covering different wetland types around the world, the publication demonstrates how sustainable tourism practices in and around wetlands can contribute to conservation, economic growth, poverty reduction and support to local cultures.
The publication was launched at the 11th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP11) in Bucharest, Romania (6-13 July 2012). Held under the theme Wetlands and Tourism, COP11 will debate a landmark Resolution on Wetlands and Tourism, urging sound tourism practices in wetlands.
"The adoption of this Resolution on Tourism and Wetlands will provide an important framework to help countries better recognize the linkages between wetlands and tourism so as to develop sustainable tourism in wetlands and other ecosystems. It proposes measures that they can take in the short and long term to ensure sustainable wetland tourism," said Anada Tiéga, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention. "Of course it is important to consider tourism in all wetlands – not just those designated as Ramsar Sites – since the Contracting Parties to the Convention are committed to managing all wetlands and promoting their wise use."
“For Romania, the development of eco-tourism in the wetlands is a priority, and an example in this respect is the Danube Delta. Ramsar Sites in Romania must be placed at the very centre of our attention and the Ministry of Environment and Forests, together with the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, will ensure that this becomes a reality,” stated Corneliu Mugurel Cozmanciuc, State Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests of Romania.
The focus on tourism at COP11 comes on the back of increasing collaboration between UNWTO and the Ramsar Secretariat. Since 2010, both have been working together towards the development of sustainable wetland tourism, with World Wetlands Day 2012 (2 February) celebrated under the theme “Wetlands and Tourism: A Great Experience”.
“Wetlands are one of tourism’s greatest assets, attracting millions of tourists each year,” said UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai. “Working in close partnership with the Ramsar Secretariat, UNWTO is determined to sustainably manage wetland tourism through sound polices and planning, thereby conserving them for the enjoyment of generations to come.”
International tourist arrivals reached 982 million in 2011 and are expected to top one billion in 2012, generating over US$ 1 trillion in international tourism receipts. It is estimated that half of all tourists travel to wetlands, particularly coastal areas.
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Happy 4th of July to all of us in the United States and I hope the rest of you around the world will join us in our celebration.
On Wednesday I'll be giving my thoughts about a book I recently finished reading. It will be a somewhat negative review partly because I disliked the style of the writing, but also because of the rambling approach of telling the story (stories?).
As I was thinking back on this book I began thinking about how writing is sometime similar to a fireworks display. I also wanted to do a post today related to the Fourth of July. Okay, so it's a gimmicky way to go, but this is my fireworks display for today.
There are many types of fireworks ranging from simple sparklers and firecrackers to elaborate roman candles and multicolored skyrockets. Fireworks may emphasize effects such as noise, smoke, fire, or floating materials, or may be a combination of any or all of these. The display of the fireworks may be very basic for a solitary user or a small group of users, or they may be very elaborate on a massive scale for the larger audience. Whatever the case, fireworks are intended to capture attention.
Writers use literary effects to capture the attention of readers. The fireworks of writing may come in the form of unique story approach such as twists or surprise endings. Other attention getting devices may include vivid descriptions, clever metaphors, quirky style, or unorthodox punctuation. Strong characters and realistic dialogue may be the forte of some writers while others may engage in rambling stream of consciousness or peculiar digressions into philosophical realms.
Whatever the writer's approach may be, it will often become the trademark of that writer. Some may pass off a writer's trick bag as gimmickry, while others will include it as style. However, the writer should always make an attempt to be authentic and coherent. All noise and dazzle might catch a readers attention initially, but will eventually wear thin if there is no substance.
What kind of fireworks do you like to use in your own writing? What fireworks--gimmicks, styles, or inclinations--annoy you most in the writing of others? Will you be watching (or did you watch) a professional fireworks display on July 4th or do you like to buy your own fireworks and put on your own display at home?
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Dry skin is an extremely common problem which occurs to approximately everyone, especially throughout the winters. In this condition, the skin lacks the usual glow and the shiny character as the oil glands produce less amount of oil than the necessary amount. Thighs, sides of stomach, lower arms, chest, cheeks and the area approximately the eyes are the areas that are the majority affected in this condition. Since the skin lacks suppleness, it is additional vulnerable to form wrinkles easily.
The condition can be recognized by scratching as throughout scratch it forms a white line on the skin. Although a variety of moisturizers are a remedy they merely function for a limited time and therefore are an annoyance quite than a remedy. However, there are many home remedies obtainable to treat the condition, easily within the reach.
Using Honey and rose water
Honey is a very high-quality moisturizer and it helps protect the agility of the skin. Add ½ tsp of rose water by means of 1 tsp of honey and apply it as a body cream, particularly as a face wash. Keep it on the skin for 20 minutes and then wash by means of cold water. This will work magnificently to keep dry skin problem away.
Using egg yolk
Egg yolk can also be a magnificent home remedy for dry skin. For better results, add single egg yolk by means of a few drops of rose water, one tsp every of olive oil and orange juice and a small number of drops of lime juice. Apply on the skin, particularly face, 15 minutes previous to taking bath. This works as a body lotion throughout the winters as well.
Using papaya and banana
Papaya and banana used as a puree, adding a pinch of avocado, works as a extremely high-quality home remedy for dry skin. This preparation be supposed to be left on the skin for 20 minutes for receiving better results.
Using Milk cream
Milk cream can too be used as a remedy for dry skin. Add a few drops of rose water and lime juice to milk cream for better employ. This remedy will stay the skin toned, shiny and free as of dryness.
Using avocado and lemon juice
Avocado is also an extremely good remedy for dry skin. For making it more effectual, add a small number of drops of lime juice with mashed avocado and be relevant on the skin. Keep this on the skin for almost 20 minutes to get more advantage and then dab off the excess with a cotton ball. It is a magnificent way to keep dry skin problem away.
Using clay powder and honey
Clay powder and honey mixture can too be used as a remedy for dry skin. Add 1 tsp each of green soil powder and uncooked honey and blend it well. Apply the blended mixture in excess of the skin and keep for 20 minutes. However, take ample mind not to apply this on the eye area as it may damage the eyes.
Using pea nuts and milk
Pea nuts mixed by means of milk and honey is a very high-quality home remedy for dry skin. Make a paste by addition some peanuts with milk. Then add a small honey to this mixture. Apply this on the majority affected areas and let it dry. Then, wash off by means of cold water to obtain a shiny and well moisturized skin. This is particularly applicable for the face.
Apple can also be used next to dryness of skin. Peel off the skin and annoy it finely and stay it in refrigerator for 20 -30 minutes. Apply this thinly grated apple on the skin for 15 minutes. This will calm the skin and add a shiny glow.
Using almond and olive oil
Almond and olive oils can too be used as a remedy for dry skin. These are careful to be excellent moisturizers and can be practical on the skin overnight and washed rotten in the morning. Applying these easy and effectual home remedies one can easily get rid of dry skin inside a few days.
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Kids Health Matters: School Nutrition
Updated: Friday, January 11 2013, 09:41 AM EST
All this week we've been focusing on childhood obesity in our special reports: Kids Health Matters.
This morning, we go into a school to examine the lunch program.
That's where we see what is really happening and learn that breaking bad habits is the key to a successful diet.
Over the years the look of school cafeterias has changed drastically, that's because the kids look different.
Gone are the days of sweets and cakes, now you'll find many fresh fruits and vegetables.
Experts say you can look at class pictures from over the years and see a drastic change in the number of obese children.
In 2010 the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act was signed to help fight childhood obesity.
Now schools are making major changes to make sure children are getting more nutritious meals with less fat.
All of those fresh fruits and vegetables come at a cost... Especially as grocery prices are already on the rise.
For September, Henderson County Schools spent $50,000 dollars more on fruits, vegetables and whole grain products than the same time last year.
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Pastor Roger Anghis
November 25, 2012
We have seen our constitutional rights be little by little be either restricted or removed entirely. During the last 4 years we have seen our president, elected to represent the people of America and uphold the Constitution and the laws of this land, ignore his oath and rule a s a dictator removing our rights to liberties that our Founders fought and died for.
We will see more of our rights removed and made void during the next four years because the party that has control of the Senate and the White House have no regard for the document that has made America the envy of the world.
Over the years we have seen our Constitution redefined by the Democrat Party to suit their idea of what America should be. Our Founders believed in personal responsibility and for the right of the individual to prosper as he saw fit. The Democrat Party believes that the common person needs to be taken care of by the government from cradle to grave. The major changes began during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Despite his claim to the contrary Roosevelt was a socialist to the core. His appointments of the Supreme Court show his socialist tendencies. Many of his programs to ‘create jobs’ were overturned by the Court because they did not fall into the constitutional authority of the federal government. He believed that it was the government that created jobs, just as our current president believes. In his years before WW II he was a total failure and his economic advisor even stated that all the spending Roosevelt did had only made the situation worse.
I would like to concentrate this column on what has happened to our First Amendment rights over the years. The First Amendment reads: Congress shall make no law respecting the establishing of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
This Amendment was redefined to mean the exact opposite of what its intent had been mean to understand for the first 156 years of its existence in 1947 in the Everson v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. In my book, Defining America’s Exceptionalism I explained what happened to our First Amendment because of that case: The Everson vs. Board of Education is an important case as it was the case that completely redefined the First Amendment. In David Barton’s book Original Intent, he effectively describes the results of this case: “The question of what the Founders intended as the proper relationship between religious expressions and “public” life (whether in education, law, government, or throughout society in general) is clearly documented in their numerous writings on the subject. Those records establish their intent and thus clarify their two references to religion in the Constitution.
The first reference is in Article VI, Section 3:
[No] religious test shall ever be acquired as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
The second is in the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .
Through the years, these two constitutional requirements have formed the basis of many judicial decisions. Historically, legal scholars have examined both phrases when seeking the intent of the either; the understanding of each was made more complete through examination of both.12 The goal was always to identify and establish the original context and purpose of those two religious provisos before attempting to apply them.
However, in Everson (1947) the modern Court discarded this objective. It first divorced the First Amendment from its original purpose and then reinterpreted it without regard to either historical context or previous judicial decisions. The result was that the Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of “religion” as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new “modern” concept which even now remains vague and the Court created a new and foreign purpose for the First Amendment and completely rewrote its scope of protections and prohibitions.”13
From this case we see a complete turnaround concerning the meaning of the First Amendment. This new ‘meaning’ is almost the opposite of what the Founders established. If you ask “How do we know this?” it is simple. The Founders did everyday what the Court today says is unconstitutional. This 1947 misinterpretation has been a cancer to our Constitution and to our rights. At this point I feel that we need to look at historical evidence of the religious grounding of the Founding Fathers. There is a term used in the courts that describes admissible evidence and that term is ‘organic utterances’. This consists of the bulk of historical documents and previous legal rulings which makes up what is known as ‘common law’. We will look at some of these ‘organic utterances’ and see if the Founders were as un-religious as the Courts have declared.
Because of this attack on the meaning of the First Amendment and the complete redefinition of its meaning the Court has used that case to systematically chip away at all of the provisions of the First Amendment. The Everson case set the ground work to remove prayer from schools, the Bible from schools and virtually all other public arenas. The removal of the Ten Commandments from all public buildings has helped keep our religious heritage from the eyes of our children. One has to question these Court decisions all of our public buildings in Washington, D.C. have biblical references carved in their stone walls. On the doors of the Supreme Court even have the Ten Commandments carved into backs of the doors so that when the doors are closed during the session, the jurists would always have the foundation of our laws before their eyes. These actions of the Court have restricted our “freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof”. The Bible was the book for teaching in our schools from the 1600’s until the early 20th century. The Everson case made that illegal. Thomas Jefferson stated that the history of our nation should be taught to our children at the earliest of age so that it will never be forgotten. To teach the Christian faith of our Founders has been deemed illegal because, well, it ‘establishes’ a religion and that is illegal. It is now illegal to teach the true history of America.
Another aspect of the Frist Amendment’s religious freedom is the ‘free exercise thereof’ of our religion. That means we have the right to practice our faith as we see fit. Our current president has denied this right to all American’s through his so-called Affordable Healthcare Act. Even though most of Americans are against abortions this ungodly piece of legislation requires that all participate in the murder of the unborn. That is a violation of our religious principles yet the man elected to protect those rights is denying us those rights.
Even the right to petition our government is being attacked. Since the last election there have been petitions from all States to secede from the union because of the massive voter fraud that won the election for our current president and on the White House website there is a threat to have the citizenship of anyone that signs a secession petition revoked.
It is the philosophy of a Marxist/communist to remove individual freedoms for the ‘good of the state’. Obama has no use for our Constitution or our Bill or Rights because it puts limits on government and keeps the power in the hands of the people. Our job is to maintain the rights garnered for us by the Founders so we can pass those rights to our children as the Founders did to their children.
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To do that we have to elect men and women who love America and will defend our Constitution. For the last two presidential elections we have failed to do that. Our only hope to keep America from complete collapse is the prayers of the Body of Christ and the House of Representatives which is controlled by the Republicans. Between those two sources, prayer being the most effective, we can keep America from destruction.
Volumes could be written concerning how our rights are being taken away and they will be written. We are told in scripture to occupy until He comes and that means to continue to fight the good fight of faith. No power can overcome those who know who they serve. Who will you serve? As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.
© 2012 Roger Anghis - All Rights Reserved
Pastor Roger Anghis is the Founder of RestoreFreeSpeech.org, an organization designed to draw attention to the need of returning free speech rights to churches that was restricted in 1954.
President of The Damascus Project, TheDamascusProject.org, which has a stated purpose of teaching pastors and lay people the need of the churches involvement in the political arena and to teach the historical role of Christianity in the politics of the United States. Married-37 years, 3 children, three grandchildren.
Web site: RestoreFreeSpeech.org
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'Thermal pollution' in rivers not fully mediated by gravel augmentation
Although adding gravel to a river to replace lost sediments won't likely cool the whole river channel, it can create cool water refuges that protect fish from thermal pollution, according to a U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station study. The research—featured in the June 2011 issue of Science Findings, a monthly publication of the station—is among the first to explore the interplay between sub-surface water flow and temperature in large rivers and is helping to guide river restoration strategies in the Pacific Northwest.
In the study, which began in 2006, station research hydrologist Gordon Grant and Oregon State University colleagues Barbara Burkholder and Roy Haggerty examined the effect of subsurface water flow through riverbed sediment—a process known as "hyporheic flow"—on daily minimum and maximum water temperatures. The focus of their study was Oregon's Clackamas River, which, at the time, was undergoing intensive restoration planning efforts led by Portland General Electric (PGE) as part of the relicensing process for the river's hydroelectric system. The addition of gravel to the large river as part of these efforts—aimed primarily at reversing changes in river channel morphology that have resulted from sediment transport being interrupted by the dams—allowed the researchers to explore whether doing so had any measurable effect on reducing "thermal pollution," or unusually high water temperatures caused by human activities like dam operation, logging, and wastewater treatment.
"Previous work suggested that water emerging from gravel bars might actually be cooler than the surrounding water," said Grant.
The research team hypothesized that the continual cycling of subsurface water through the riverbed—during which cool nighttime water would travel through the gravel bar, exiting and mixing with the stream during the warmer daytime—would have a "buffering" effect that would keep the river's daily peak temperatures down, but not necessarily change the river's overall mean temperature. To explore their hypothesis, they mapped the locations of gravel bars along a 15-mile stretch of the river and documented the temperature of water cycling into and out of each of them.
They found 52 temperature differences within the stretch of the Clackamas, with temperatures at these locations from 1 to 4 degrees cooler than the main channel. The researchers were then able to link the cooler areas with specific gravel bar features and with specific times and locations within the Clackamas to create models that depicted the subsurface flow patterns—ultimately revealing that a very small percentage of the river's water actually passed through the gravel bars, making any overall effect on the mean temperature minute.
"Results showed a hundredth of a degree of temperature change through a single bar," said Grant. "Not much."
This finding suggests that gravel augmentation alone is not likely to have a significant temperature-mediating effect in large rivers. However, the work demonstrated that gravel augmentation may provide local habitat benefits to fish and small invertebrates by creating cool areas within rivers where they can seek refuge during hot weather.
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Why Should Everyone Else Pay for Other People’s Dumb (and Hedonistic) Career Choices? asks Barry Rubin on PJ Media.
He starts with a hard-working 28-year-old man who is “puzzled and increasingly bitter that he cannot make a good living” with a degree in linguistics — to which he’s adding Oriental philosophy studies.
He cannot make a living because the market for people with degrees in linguistics and in Oriental philosophy is limited. He should have known that. Someone should have told him that. The calculation of practicality should have been made. It wasn’t.
Young people need to be taught “the world doesn’t owe them a living,” whatever politicians may say, Rubin writes.
If you have a profound passion for art, literature, or other such things, go for it. But be aware of what’s likely to happen afterward.
. . . Studying the social sciences and humanities, not to mention all of the phony degree programs that have sprung up, does not make one employable, nor does a degree have written on it “hire this person at a high salary.” Even as they charge more, universities — especially certain departments in them — are creating neither qualified professionals nor serious intellectuals.
“Get a useful education, a job, and a hobby in that order,” Rubin concludes. “And don’t expect the hardworking people, who have had to make compromises in their own lives, to pay for you to do whatever you want.”
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In my opinion this is a must read. Sam you may have read it. If you have read it please read it again. If not.. you may find concepts in it that are applicable to your work in the sciences of human psychology, social psychology, anf logical reasoning. The book is:
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky Simon and Shuster, NY (1985)
I’d like to discuss this book with you Sam and with the members of your newly formed group.
Thanks for getting this site up. Your readers needed a place to discuss and debate.
I’m 77 years old and I am in the process of writing an autobiography. I might need help in getting my work reduced to a prospectus that can be sent to possible publishers.
Robert I. Wexelbaum
W2ILP communicating with the world since 1951 <B.C. (before computers)>
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Maria Trejo, Elev8 director at Ames Middle School in Chicago, says that her school, which was recently in danger of becoming a military school, will not be closed or made a welcoming school. Ames boundaries, however, will be reconfigured for the upcoming school year. This change will increase their enrollment by 300-500 students.
Trejo says that safety is everyone’s number one concern. “Now that the list is out, parents are very concerned because the kids will have to be transported through gang territories,” she says. A newly formed organization called The Logan Square School Facilities Council (LSSFC), Trejo adds, is also pressuring CPS to come up with a safe passage plan.
When Chicago Public Schools made the very controversial decision this past March to close 54 public schools, many pointed out that black and Latino students would be the hardest hit. Nine out of ten students potentially affected by school closings this year are black and eight of the schools that are scheduled to be closed and incorporated into other schools have over 20 percent Latino enrollment.
Chicago Public Schools has argued the schools that are being closed have been losing students as a result of the population changes in the city. Last month, it also also announced that it will be investing $155 million in welcoming schools to provide children with the resources they need. Despite the justifications, the announcements of the closures were initially met with protests and boycotts throughout Chicago.
The most recent school hearings, however, have been sparsely attended. Community leaders believe that some people are simply burned out at this point. The list of schools being closed will not be official until May 22nd, but many parents, community organizers, and school officials are already preparing for the upcoming changes.
Chicago Public Schools has announced that that each welcoming school will have a dedicated safety plan tailored for its specific needs. They’ve partnered with CPD to make sure each plan considers neighborhood conditions, the distance between schools, and an analysis of other safety risks such as busy streets and intersections. They will also provide individual support strategy plans based on the distinct needs of students, families and communities.
Cristina Carreto, Family and Community Engagement Manager for Pilsen and Little Village, also says safety is at the top of everyone’s list. “We’re working hard with CPD [Chicago Police Department] to make sure the transition runs smoothly,” she says.
Carreto says that the elementary schools in her predominately Latino neighborhoods– Cardenas and Castellanos– will be the welcoming schools while nearby Paderewski, located in a predominately African American community, will likely be closing. “I think their concern is the integration of students with a different background,” she says. “We want to start building these relationships with each other. We want to build that gradually.” Carreto says that they are also beginning to plan bullying and culture workshops. They are also considering summer picnics, carnivals, tours for students and parents, and setting up pen pals between the three schools. But they hesitate to implement any measures until the school closure is certain.
Student transitions and safety are not the only concern. Trejo believes that the added distance between home and school will prevent many parents from becoming engaged in their children’s education, especially because most are busy working parents.
Alivette Alicea, who has two of her five children at Ames, says she’s hopeful about the changes.
“We have the faith that it’s going to be good for us because we’re underutilized,” she says. She’s also glad that the principal is having an open house and tours for students and parents. “That’s awesome because not all of the other schools do that. If we could bring more parents to get involved, it would be great for students.”
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September 17, 2012
Read: 1 Samuel 2:12,27-36
Why do you . . . honor your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people? ó1 Samuel 2:29
Therapist and mother Lori Gottlieb says that parents who are obsessed with their childrenís happiness may actually contribute to their becoming unhappy adults. These parents coddle their children, do not equip them to deal with the real world, look the other way when their children do wrong, and neglect disciplining them. In 1 Samuel, we read that the high priest Eli sometimes looked the other way. We donít know what he was like as a father when his boys were young. But he failed to properly deal with their behavior as grown men serving in Godís temple. They were selfish, lustful, and rebellious, putting their own needs ahead of Godís Word and the needs of the people. At first, Eli rebuked them but they would not listen. Instead of removing them from service, he looked the other way and let them continue in their sin. As a result of his sonsí sins and because Eli honored his sons above the Lord (1 Sam. 2:29), the Lord warned Eli that his family would suffer judgment (v.34; 4:17-18). As Christian parents, we have the awesome responsibility to lovingly discipline our children (Prov. 13:24; 29:17; Heb. 12:9-11). As we impart Godís wisdom to them, we have the blessing of helping them develop into responsible, God-fearing adults.
They are buds of hope and promise, Possessed by Him whose name is Love; Lent us here to train and nourish For a better life above. óCrosby
Failure to discipline our children is a failure to love them
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