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When it comes to retailers, big data is perhaps a little too big.
Half of retailers can’t aggregate all their data in one place to make detailed reports and conclusions. 45 percent don’t use available data to personalize marketing communications, and another 42 can’t link data together at the individual customer level.
That is perhaps understandable, because 90 percent of the data that’s ever been created has been created in the last two years, and the rate of data growing is increasing quickly.
But it is also a problem, because big data is the key to knowing your customers, and knowing your customers is the key to being able to sell effectively to them. Big data also has its creepy side, as when Target famously used it to figure out that a girl was pregnant before her father knew.
But many retailers are not effectively pulling together tweets, likes and reviews and matching them against customer lists, transactions, loyalty club memberships, and prospects — which means they are using old dumb marketing techniques in a new smart world.
And missing out on sales.
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The SIlver Sixpence
The SIlver Sixpence
I set out to create a series of illustrations for the Folktale "The Silver Sixpence". I found the tale in Katharine Briggs' book "British Folktales and Legends".
The Silver Sixpence
"There was an old farmer who had a fine herd of cattle, but they gave no milk. At last he asked a wise woman, and she said someone must be milking the cows, and he had better watch in the byre at night.
So the old man lay in the byre, but always at midnight drowsiness would come over him, and he would fall asleep. So at last he made up his mind that he must stay awake, and at midnight the byre door creaked open a little crack and a brown hare came into the byre and went from stall to stall. So the next night the old farmer watched again, and he took his gun, and loaded it with a silver sixpence and waited till midnight. In came the hare, and lolloped from stall to stall, and when she got to the door the farmer took aim and fired. He only hit her front paw, but she gave a great scream, and a flood of milk came out of her and she scampered away.
The next morning the farmer went to see an old woman that lived near. The door was shut, and her granddaughter came to it. “You’ll no can see Grannie,” she said. “She’s ill. She’s hurt her hand.” “That’ll no prevent her from seeing me,” said the farmer “An old neighbour like me.” He went in and found the old wife sitting by the fire, with her hand all bundled up. “Let’s look at your hand, Maggie woman.” Said the old farmer “Maybe I can cure it” He unwrapped the bandages and sure enough there was a wound in it, and in the middle of the wound there was a silver sixpence.
The farmer’s cows gave good milk after that."
I find this story very beautiful, charming and simple with dark undercurrents. It Ignited my imagination and I decided to imbue my imagry with symbolism drawing from the occult and folklore in order the represent the characters, atmosphere and context.
I created these drawings with pencil on paper.
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Sexton Creek Limestone,
Type section and use of name: The Schweizer Member of the Wilhelmi Formation was named by Willman (1973) for Schweizer School 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the type section, which is part of the Wilhelmi type section, in the SE¼ sec. 35, T.35 N., R.9 E., Will County, Ill. The lithologic distinctions between the Birds Member of the Wilhelmi and the overlying Elwood Formation of Illinois are lost in northwestern Indiana, and the lithologic equivalents of each are included in the Sexton Creek Limestone. Because the lower member of the Wilhelmi, the Schweizer, is both laterally and vertically gradational with the Sexton Creek in Indiana, it is included as a member of the formation in Indiana (Rexroad and Droste, 1982).
Description: The Schweizer Member generally consists of intermixed dolomitic shale and shaly to argillaceous dolomite. Silty intervals and patches of siliceous dolomite are present in some areas, but the unit has little or no chert. Reworked Ordovician material, including fossils, is present throughout the member, but particularly in the lower part, and commonly imparts a greenish color to the Schweizer. Otherwise, gray dominates in contrast with the more usual brown of the overlying part of the Sexton Creek. Maximum recognized thickness in Indiana is 39 feet (12 m). The unit thins and disappears to the east and the south by depositional thinning and interfingering with the rest of the Sexton Creek.
Correlation: The Schweizer Member is the basal unit of the Alexandrian Series in Illinois and in part of Indiana. The few indigenous conodonts are those of the Panderodus simplex Assemblage Zone, but this interval is recognized primarily on negative evidence as the zone underlying the lowest level of occurrence of Distomodus kentuckyensis in the Midwest (Liebe and Rexroad, 1977). The Schweizer is about the same age as the Belfast Member of the Brassfield Formation (Dolomite) of southwestern Ohio and adjacent Kentucky .
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ip2c (ip to country) is a program written to determine the country associated to a specific IP address.
The program queries the five main whois servers responsible for each region of the world and try to automatically establish the most authoritative for the IP specified. Then it return the country's two-letter TLD (for example US), the extended country name (for example United States of America), its world region (for example North America) and a string containing a brief description of the organization managing the block of IP addresses containing the submitted IP (when available).
The program can also process a list of IPs stored in a comma delimited file and generate a new file with the country fields added to it.
ip2c is a multithreaded application, and queries all the servers in parallel to minimize the overall response time.
ip2c is distributed as a console (or command line) application (ip2c.exe) and a Windows GUI application (ip2c_gui.exe).
The features of the two versions are somewhat different and examined in more detail in the help file.
As usual I wrote the program for my specific needs, but you are welcome to use it if you find it useful.
PLEASE READ THIS:
This program is not a substitute for the offline databases offered by many geolocation commercial services if you need to process huge amounts of data.
Remember a whois server always has some kind of acceptable usage policy you should be familiar with.
If you use this program to manually check some IP addresses from time to time obviously there is no problem, that is what they are there for.
But if you use the batch mode you must NOT abuse the server. It's a service for all the Internet community so try to be polite.
Use the available program's options to limit the frequency of your queries and don't try to process a thousand of IP addresses in a single shot.
If you commit abuse you can be slowed down, banned for 24 hours, or permanently.
If you are in doubt look online for the policies of each whois server or ask to its admin directly.
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According to Jungian theory, the people, places, objects, and symbols that appear in dreams represent aspects of the self. Therefore, try to make personal associations with your dream images.
The feelings that arise while dreaming are as important as the dream symbols. During your waking state, allow your dream characters and images to speak aloud. Verbal expression will provide insight to these parts of yourself. It’s also helpful to dialogue with your dream images. Have conversations with your dream symbols. Remember, they represent parts of your unconscious thinking. If you don’t understand what it’s revealing to you, ask it questions. And don’t be surprised if it asks you a question or two!
How to Remember Your Dreams
If you have trouble recalling your dreams, ask your unconscious mind to help you remember. Right before falling asleep, state an intention that you would like to remember your dreams. Your unconscious mind knows you very well, so your intention must be sincere.
If you still can’t recall your dreams after the third or fourth evening of making genuine attempts, then ask your unconscious mind to show you why you are resisting.
Once you start to remember, write them down. It is helpful to keep a pad, pen, and nightlight by the side of your bed.
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Special Guest: Charles Duelfer
“I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds,” nuclear scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer is reported to have said after an atomic test in 1945. Over 60 years later, our world has yet to shatter–but not for lack of opportunity. As elder statesmen push for a global nuclear-weapons-free-zone and their successors struggle to prevent both Iran from acquiring those same weapons and North Korea from test-firing missiles that can deliver them, how is the American layman to make sense of the nuclear threat? Is prolilferation inevitable or can it actually be stopped? For some answers, we turned to Charles Duelfer, the MIT-trained arms control expert who formerly headed the Iraq Survey Group. He is the author of the recently released memoir, Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq. (See Appendix for the full transcript of our interview.)
Things are actually better than many predicted just a short time after Oppenheimer saw his first mushroom cloud. The sense among many back then was that dozens of states would soon go nuclear, but containment has been surprisingly successful. “Obviously, this is not cause for insouciance,” Mr. Duelfer cautions, “but it demonstrates that the inhibitions to acquiring such weapons are larger and the benefits smaller than many think.”
In fact, when it comes to threatening humanity’s survival, Mr. Duelfer believes “it is more likely that humans wipe themselves out in more prosaic ways, such as overpopulation and overconsumption of limited resources.” The Cold War-era balance of terror “under which it was conceivable that the massive nuclear stockpiles of these two countries could be launched and the world destroyed in a sudden conflagration,” he explains, ” is now gone.”
Annihilation aside, Mr. Duelfer is skeptical of the nuclear negotiations recently announced between the US and Russia. Although greeted with celebration in the halls of the UN, he predicts that “the impending dialogue between the US and Russia on strategic nuclear forces will begin to highlight a link to conventional force levels that did not complicate earlier negotiations.” In short, our counterparts will be reluctant to reduce their own nuclear forces in light of the “enormous preponderance of US conventional forces.” Domestic politics will ensure that any discussion of conventional constraints will be tricky business.
What did the world learn from the Iraq experience? “Saddam is dead and Qaddafi is not,” he notes. Some countries may take the lesson that forsaking WMD is a healthy and wise decision. On the other hand, it is precisely our “huge conventional military dominance” that may encourage fearful regimes to acquire a nuclear deterrent. But can the Libya experience be replicated in Tehran and Pyongyang? “Probably not.”
Summarizing the work of ISG, Duelfer emphasizes that the group’s report offers rare insight into Baghdad’s operational methodologies and into the evolution of the Saddam regime’s views on WMD development across a multiyear timeframe. While Duelfer’s October 2004 Congressional testimony confirming that the United States was “almost all wrong” in its weapons allegations aroused frustration in many circles, Duelfer insists that the point of ISG was never to find a WMD, but rather “to find the truth.” In this respect, Duelfer suggests the group undoubtedly succeeded even as numerous ISG participants had been “substantially involved in pre-war estimates that judged Iraq would have significant WMD stocks.”
We encourage our readers to peruse the full transcript below and welcome discussion especially on the lessons for the intelligence community.
1. The Iraq Survey Group will be remembered for one conclusion: confirming that there were no WMD stockpiles in Saddam’s Iraq. But the actual report concluded that Saddam’s strategic intent was not benevolent and your predecessor, David Kay, has said he felt Saddam’s Iraq was “even more dangerous” than previously believed because Saddam was losing control. What are your thoughts on the ISG’s legacy?
ISG had an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the inner workings of a regime that was had been extremely difficult to fathom from the outside. I wanted to understand and record the relationship of the regime to WMD over time, not just determine whether WMD stocks existed in May of 2003. If we were to learn from the tragedy of Iraq, I believed it was important to understand the inner workings of the regime to include why Saddam at certain points elected to have and to use WMD and at other times elected not to have WMD. I also wanted to understand what his intentions were for the future-which, it turned out, included the desire to reconstitute WMD capacity when conditions permitted. I believe ISG was successful in detailing the operations and methodologies of the Saddam regime. We looked at how decisions were made, how resources were accumulated and allocated (to include the manipulation of the UN oil-for-food program). We recorded how Saddam exercised leadership (which was often implicit rather than explicit). The ISG report remains a rich resource for understanding how Baghdad looked at the universe and how they misapprehended events and made their own miscalculations. The ISG work is a great case study for intelligence analysts. It is used to illustrate the risks of mirror-imaging, of tending to see or collect only data which confirms a prevalent hypothesis, and points to the effects of mindsets and biases that were developed over decades both in Washington and Baghdad. It is my hope that the data recorded in this report will also inform academic work as well as future policy in other areas. I insisted that the report be entirely unclassified for these reasons.
2. What was the reaction within the ISG when there were no stockpiles discovered? At what point did you decide there were none?
I suspected there would not be much to find when a key senior Iraqi turned himself in to US authorities in soon after the invasion. This senior Iraqi, Dr. Amer al-Saadi gave an interview to a television reporter just before turning himself in and stated that the world would soon learn that Iraq had no WMD. This was a person who would probably be in a position to know about any clandestine programs and he was speaking in full knowledge that the US would soon be combing Iraq. If there was concealed WMD, he could not have spoken so categorically to the press.
My guidance as the head of the ISG was not to find WMD. It was to find the truth. In that we succeeded. Many ISG members had been involved in producing the pre-war estimates that judged Iraq would have significant WMD stocks. There was a natural desire to have these judgments turn out to be correct. But that was not the case, my sense was that most of the ISG analysts who spent substantial time in Iraq were gratified to investigate and record the inner workings of the regime-to include where it was headed with WMD. It is also worth recalling that Iraq was NOT in full compliance with the UN disarmament resolutions. They did have a ballistic missile program that exceeded the UN limits.
3. Are there any lessons to learn from the ISG experience in terms of either production or consumption of intelligence?
There are many lessons about both the collection and analysis of intelligence as well as the use or interpretation of intelligence by policy-makers, and even average citizens. For example, there was an understandable expectation that Saddam would have WMD. A harded mindset developed over the decades prior to the 2003 war. WMD saved Saddam in the war with Iran in the 1980’s (he used 101,000 chemical munitions to offset Iranian “human wave” attacks). Saddam believed that his possession of WMD deterred the US from going to Baghdad in 1991. And the years of cat and mouse with UN inspectors where Iraq actively interfered with inspections also added to the hypothesis that Saddam was hiding WMD and that he had every incentive to keep it. This mindset on the part of US analysts shaped the information that was collected and how it was interpreted. There was no competing hypothesis that was being tested. This bias produced the tendency to only collect and record data which supported the prevalent hypothesis. The intelligence community has responded to this massive failure of analytic tradecraft by mandating that competing hypotheses be maintained to test the rigor of analysis.
Hopefully, consumers of intelligence have also learned to be careful in interpreting what intelligence assessments say. I would recommend that policy-makers who receive intelligence assessments take a course in how intelligence is collected and assembled into judgments. If they had a better idea of how spies work, technical collection systems operate, and how all that stuff gets homogenized into an agreed report, they would have a better sense of how to evaluate such material.
One other lesson is perhaps that the US lost a lot by not having an embassy in Iraq. The US was almost entirely dependent upon the UN for information about Iraq WMD during the 1990’s. Washington did not have any contact with senior Iraqis and had no direct knowledge of what was going on in Baghdad. This produced a very costly gap in understanding.
4. How should we think about nuclear proliferation — as an inevitable process that always happens with technology that people desperately want, or as something that can be prevented?
The Saddam experience suggests both good and bad aspects of the nuclear proliferation issue. Saddam was deposed not when he had WMD, but when it turned out he did not. Other governments looking at Saddam’s fate could easily conclude that if he had not invaded Kuwait before he finished his nuclear weapon, he might be alive and well in Baghdad today. This could affect decisions in Tehran and Pyongyang. However, Saddam is dead and Qaddafi is not. Somehow Qaddafi concluded that it was in his interest to forsake WMD. Can the circumstances that led to Qaddafi’s decision be replicated in Iran and North Korea? Probably not. Curiously, the invasion of Iraq may reinforce the will of Iran and North Korea (and others) to obtain nuclear capacity. The huge conventional military dominance of the US gives a major incentive to those countries that may fear being the object of unwanted US attention. Unless the US is willing provide other equivalent security assurances, it is tough to beat having a nuclear deterrent…and the more countries that have even limited nuclear capacities, the greater the risk that uncontrolled access to nuclear weapons may result.
5. What does the world look like — how does it function — if the non-proliferation regime breaks down and more states go nuclear? Does humanity survive?
I don’t see a radical ramping up in the number of countries seeking independent nuclear arsenals. Looking backwards, the predictions made in the 1960’s of dozens of nuclear weapons states has not come to pass. In the sixty years since the first nuclear test, we have only a handful of nations with nuclear capabilities. Obviously this is not cause for insouciance, but I think it demonstrates that the inhibitions to acquiring such weapons are larger and the benefits smaller than many think. Regarding the survival of humanity, I think it is more likely that humans wipe themselves out in more prosaic ways, such as overpopulation and overconsumption of limited resources, disease, etc. The former balance of terror between the US and USSR, under which it was conceivable that the massive nuclear stockpiles of these two countries could be launched and the world destroyed in a sudden conflagration, is now gone.
6. Are there any macro themes or other issues related to WMD that you are concerned about that are receiving little attention?
I suspect that the impending dialogue between the US and Russia on strategic nuclear forces will begin to highlight a link to conventional force levels that did not complicate earlier negotiations. With the enormous preponderance of US conventional forces, and our track record of using them, the Russians (and indeed other countries) will have a greater reluctance to pare down nuclear systems independently of conventional force reductions. The recent burst of enthusiasm for nuclear negotiations will soon be tempered by this resulting complication. The US is not likely to want discuss constraints on its conventional force composition or deployments, if for no other reason than it will be a contentious domestic issue.
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Mushroom Death Suit Flouts Decades of Super Mario-Based Science
Meet artist/inventor Jae Rhim Lee, whose new catchphrase could be “Eat Me”:
I am interested in cultural death denial, and why we are so distanced from our bodies, and especially how death denial leads to funeral practices that harm the environment – using formaldehyde and pink make-up and all that to make your loved one look vibrant and alive, so that you can imagine they’re just sleeping rather than actually dead.
I thought I could train a toxin-cleaning edible mushroom to eat my body. These mushrooms, which usually grow on wood and decaying material in the forest, can be trained to grow on pretty much any organic material and break it down. So I started collecting my hair, nails and skin so I could pick the best mushrooms to become Infinity Mushrooms, to recognise and eat my body after I die.
Sounds intriguing and eco-friendly and so forth, right? Well, there’s a few snags. For one thing, flesh-eating bacteria are going to feel really threatened by this, and they’re already touchy enough. They’re probably going to see this as an attempt to horn in on their line of work, and they’ll attempt to devour the entire human population before any mushrooms can start chomping on the artist formerly known as Jae.
More importantly: this mushrooms-eating-me plan can’t possibly work. Yes, mushrooms can be trained to break down organic material, but not humans. My proof? Super Mario. And no, I’m not taking the word of a plumber – I’m taking the word of the preeminent mycologist of our time:
Trust him. He’s a doctor.
Mario’s decades of adventurous research has shown that one of two things happen when a human comes into prolonged contact with mushrooms: they double the human’s body size, or they give the human an extra life.
So, essentially, Jae will get into this suit, the mushrooms will grow, and not only will her body not break down, she’ll start expanding and getting extra lives. She’ll be an immortal giant – she’ll have to give up doing art and inventing, and take up fighting the Green Lantern Corps.
At least she won’t have to change the name of her project. Infinity Mushroom actually works better under this scenario!
(Sorry, the Presurfer, but our princess is in another castle!)
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In a speech to members of the Canadian Medical Association on August 18, 2008, federal health minister Tony Clement scolded physicians and nurses for their support of Vancouver’s safer injection site, Insite.
RNAO supports the mission and staff of Insite as an evidence-based health service that demonstrates harm reduction benefits of value to individual well-being and public health.
An open letter to Minister Clement in support of Insite was organized by nursing student, Elizabeth Lee, and endorsed by RNAO in July 2008. To read this letter and related advocacy by nurses on Insite and harm reduction, please see below:
Letter to Minister Clement in support of Insite (July 29, 2008)
RNAO Resolution: Advocacy on a Public Health, Evidence-Based Approach to Insite carried at Canadian Nurses Association AGM, 2007
Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Resolution: Promoting Equity through Harm Reduction in Nursing Practice carried at Canadian Nurses Association AGM, 2007
Canadian Nurses Association (2008), Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses
College of Nurses of Ontario (2005), Practice Standard: Ethics
Globe and Mail article, August 19, 2008 Supporting Insite unethical, Clement tells doctors
Globe and Mail article, August 6, 2008 Clement’s Insite attack leaves WHO red-faced
Health Canada, Final Report of the Expert Advisory Committee on the Supervised Injection Site (2008)
Vancouver Coastal Health, Insite, supervised injection site, website:
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U.S. Army Medical Command Public Affairs
SAN ANTONIO — The Army marks National Depression Awareness Month in October, with a theme of “Depression is Treatable — Get Screened — Seek Care.”
Clinical depression is a serious medical condition that, if left untreated, may lead to other complicated medical conditions.
Seeking treatment for a medical condition, however, is not a sign of weakness. Seeking treatment may prevent a good Soldier from becoming a casualty.
The National Institute of Mental Health has reported that a depressive disorder affects some 14.8 million people in the U.S.
Signs and symptoms of depression may include sadness, loss of interest in things you once enjoyed, feelings of guilt or worthlessness, restlessness, withdrawing from friends and family, or trouble concentrating or making decisions. Depression also may produce body aches and pains, irritability, anxiety, overeating or loss of appetite, or thoughts of suicide or death.
Unfortunately, many people believe their symptoms are a normal part of life. Hence, two-thirds of people who suffer from depression fail to seek the care needed.
The truth is, more than 80 percent of clinical depression cases can be treated effectively with medication, psychotherapy or both, so treatment should not be dismissed.
Anonymous depression screenings are available:
•At Department of Defense, www.militarymentalhealth.org/Welcome.aspx or by
•At Department of Veterans Affairs, www.mentalhealth.va.gov/depression.asp.
•At civilian organizations such as www.mentalhealthscreening.org/programs/military/. The screening sites also provide information about how to get treatment.
For more details about depression, visit www.behavioralhealth.army.mil/, www.resilience.army.mil, www.army.mil/csf/ and www.militaryonesource.com.
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Thylacoleo - The marsupial lion
Mounted skeleton located in the Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte Caves National Park, South Australia
Close up reconstruction by Jeanette Muirhead.
Reconstruction of Thylacoleo hunting short faced Kangaroos by Mauricio Anton.
When: Pleistocene (2 million to 46,000 years ago)
What: Thylacoleo is another example of an extinct australian megafauna. It was the largest marsupial predator Australia has ever seen, weighing in at 250 lbs (~115kg) on average, with individuals half again as big occurring with some regularity. The common name of ‘Marsupial Lion’ comes from its large size, shortened face, and retractable claws - the latter making it unique among marsupials. The forearms of this predator were very robust and had a semi-opposable thumbs, allowing them to drag down their prey. This interpretation is supported by the morphology of the hindlimbs and pelvis, which suggests Thylacoleo habitually reared up on its haunches. It had a formidable set of teeth as well, the extremely large sets of shearing teeth gave it the most powerful bite force of any known mammal. A find of eight skeletons in a cave in southern Australia suggests these animals lived in packs.
Thylacoleo is in the clade Diprotodontia, which contains living koalas, kangaroos, and wombats, but is not closely related to any of these forms. Rather it is in the totally extinct subclade Thylacoleonidae; all the members of this clade were carnivorous, but some were only as small as a house-cat. Like many other large endemic australian mammals, Thylacoleo vanished just under 50,000 years ago. It is thought some aboriginal cave art depicts this lost predator. The genus was named based on material shipped back to the English scientist Sir Richard Owen in the mid 1800s.
When: Eocene (all known fossils from a deposit 52.5 million years old)
Where: Wyoming, USA
What: Onychonycteris is the most basal bat currently known. It differs from living bats in having claws on all five fingers, whereas living bats have lost them. This form also has relatively shorter arms and fingers, as well as longer legs and tail than any other bat, fossil or extant. Onychonycteris was an extremely important find, as allowed us to answer a long standing question about bat evolution: Which came first, flight or echolocation? This taxon was capable of flight, and detailed examination of the cranium revealed that it could not echolocate. Thus, bats took to the skies before they developed a system for seeing with their ears.
This amazing fossil is from the Green River fossil lagerstatten in southwestern Wyoming, and is one of two known complete specimens. This example is not the holotype (the specimen which bears the name) as while it looks absolutely gorgeous, the second specimen was arranged on the rock slab in such a way more of the skull could be studied. Additionally, this specimen was actually in the hands of a private collector, and thus not fully available to science. That is until the specimen was mailed, unannounced, to Dr. Nancy Simmons at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. She was working on publishing this taxon at the time, and the private collector had been informed of this, so the family sent the specimen to allow her the best examination possible. That was one awesome package to open, believe me!
Diprotodon - The Giant Wombat
Mounted specimen on display at the Melbourne Museum, Australia
Reconstruction by Peter Trusler.
When: Pleistocene (1.6 million to 46,000 years ago)
What: Diprotodon is the biggest marsupial to have ever lived. The largest specimens found were roughly the size of an extant hippopotomus; 10 feet (3 meters) long, 6.5 feet (2 meters) tall at the shoulder, and with a weight estimate of over 6,000 lbs (over 2,500 kgs). They inhabited forests and grasslands in Australia, and were herbivores that had an extremely varied diet. There was not much that their large grinding cheek teeth could not process. There are multiple ‘bone-bed’ deposits containing almost nothing but Diprotodon skeletons, offering strong support that they also traveled in herds. Many of these deposits are reconstructed as deaths due to droughts; it took a lot of plant material to sustain a Diprotodon. They occupied simular niches as large ungulate herds today on other continents.
The closest living relatives of Diprotodon are koalas and wombats. This was the largest member of the apt named Australian mega-fauna. This giant animal and many other Australian mega-fauna went extinct shortly after the arrival of humans on the continent, in a mirror of the extinction of the North American mega-fauna 10,000 years ago. In both extinction events this colonization was accompanied by climate changes, leading to much debate as to how influential human habitation was on the loss of these forms. It is thought that Diprotodon and its close relatives may be the basis for the bunyip of aboriginal folklore.
Deinotherium - Hoe tusker
When: Mid-Miocene to Early Pleistocene (~10 million to 3 million years ago)
Where: Asia, Africa, and Europe
What: Deinotherium is a proboscidiean. The only two living species in Proboscidiea are the African and Indian elephants, but there are dozens of fossil species in this order. Unlike some other groups that not only have a much greater number of fossil species than living but a much wider variety of morphologies to go along with that, most fossil elephants well… look like elephants! That being large, graviportal, and trunked.
However, even though there is less extreme differences in morphology within proboscidieans, there are still a lot of variations on the basic elephant body plan. One great source of variation is in the tusks. The tusks of Deinotherium are enlarged incisors of its lower jaw whereas in modern elephants the tusks are enlarged upper incisors. The clade containing Deinotheirum spilt off from the rest of the order roughly 40 million years ago, and the last common ancestor had slightly enlarged upper and lower incisors - thus it appears that some elephant clades further enlarged one set over the other. Oh, one last note about Deinotheirum… it was over 3 times the size of the modern african elephant. It was the 3rd largest land mammal ever to lumber accross the Earth!
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Welcome to Safe Schools
Rutherford County Schools
Safe Schools Overview
Our Guiding Principle: We believe that the key to preventing violence is a school climate that fosters healthy beliefs, feelings, attitudes and communication.
Safe Schools is comprised of three main components:
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be making some changes to this portion of the site to more accurately reflect these components and communicate information. Please stay tuned!
Safe Schools is a component of the Human Resources and Student Services Department - Paula Barnes, Assistant Superintendent Human Resources and Student Services.
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New York Times “The Materialist Fallacy” Misses the Point
By Kathleen Paylor, Chief Spiritual Officer, Conscious Capital, www.consciouscap.com
David Brooks misses the point in his New York Times Op-Ed “The Materialist Fallacy” because he is referencing a context and a debate that also misses the point. Economic determinism is indeed at the root of of much of the weakening of our social fabric and the larger social ills that stem from it. But it is economic determinism that goes much deeper than the symptoms of lost jobs and financial hardship to which Brooks refers. It is a deeper determinism created by the modern economic paradigm of scarcity (and almost axiomatically, fear and self-interest) that has caused (some would say engineered) the loss of community and created the fallacy of self-contained, self-sufficient happiness, an insular autonomy where relationships are mediated largely by money and its interchange. It is an economic system that has monetized and commoditized community.
This is true not just in the social realm, but at a deeper psychic and spiritual level, where the poverty of our internal landscapes and sense of disconnection to ourselves and others is rampant. Brooks is correct that the reappearance of manufacturing jobs will not magically reweave the fabric of society, but he is wrong in thinking that it can be accomplished through the “bourgeois paternalism” of building orderly communities. That too would fail because it is a topical treatment of a much deeper and more pervasive problem: the grief and disconnection of our time, the strip mining of community to build economy. Auden poetically prophecised that “No one exists alone. Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police. We must love one another or die.” Social repair requires much more than sociological thinking; it requires love. It requires us to reconnect with ourselves and our fellow human beings at a deeper level and build from there. This undoubtedly sounds naive and simplistic, utterly un-wonkish, but it is the only way out of this mess. It is the only hope we have.
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Posted 04 November 2008 - 07:47 PM
On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.
The Guru is allowed to speak once (let's say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:
"I can see someone who has blue eyes."
Who leaves the island, and on what night?
There are no mirrors or reflecting surfaces, nothing dumb. It is not a trick question, and the answer is logical. It doesn't depend on tricky wording or anyone lying or guessing, and it doesn't involve people doing something silly like creating a sign language or doing genetics. The Guru is not making eye contact with anyone in particular; she's simply saying "I count at least one blue-eyed person on this island who isn't me."
And lastly, the answer is not "no one leaves."
Posted 04 November 2008 - 07:50 PM
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Posted 04 November 2008 - 08:19 PM
from what i understand...
Posted 04 November 2008 - 09:58 PM
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Posted 05 November 2008 - 09:11 PM
The solution is there. Just figured I'd mention it for those who want to find it out by themselves.
Link? I searched the forum, but couldn't find it..
This has been posted before!!
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To be a successful bartender, you’ll need more than just good people skills… you’ll need firstly to master the basic products and the right tools, and for those of you just exploring the world behind the bar, here’s an outline of the basic tools.
The Basic Tools
Like a dentist with his pick and a plumber with his wrench, to ensure smooth operations behind the bar, you’ll need an array of the right tools. But there’s no need to panic, the bar tools are fairly basic and easy to use.
So whether you need to mix, serve or store, for a home bar or as a professional, the tools are basically the same. These basics include the wine opener, a cocktail shaker, some sort of measuring glass, and a strainer.
The best wine opener is whatever gets the job done, and a little experience with the varieties available will find what suits you best. Some might prefer the Winged Corkscrew, named so because it has wings, which when pushed down, leverage the cork up.
I’ve never had any problems with it, but for rapid opening and especially on bottles with long corks, the corkscrew might not dig in enough to fully pull the cork all the way out.
For simplicity and versatility, the Waiter’s Wine Opener has a sharp blade for cutting cap wrappers, a corkscrew (also known as the worm), and a bottle cap opener for beers and sodas. This tool is most popular and usually the best priced, but too much wear and tear can weaken and then eventually break the worm.
For quick opening with no risk of breaking the cork, the Ahso is called for. This two pronged device has blades which are worked in between the bottle and the cork, and then with a twist and a pull, the cork comes right out of the bottle's neck without ever having been pierced.
The priciest solution is the Table Top Wine Opener, a heavy duty wine opener used to uncork industrial sized wine bottles. This kind of wine opener is more frequently used at banquets, when lots of bottles need to be opened quickly.
A cheaper alternative that works on a similar principle is a wine opener called the Rabbit, which can open wine bottles in under three seconds and is portable.
Whichever one you settle on for your style, it’s a good idea to get some practice with them all, so when the time arises, you’ll handle them like a pro.
The flashiest piece of gear in the bartender arsenal is the shaker, and there are basically two types of shakers that rule the roost.
Featured most frequently in movies, the Boston Shaker is the one most frequently used by professional bartenders.
Consisting of a mixing glass and a stainless steel core that overlaps the glass, you can see the contents of the shaker and there is no problem with the two halves sticking together.
A more old-fashioned option is the Standard shaker, made up three or more parts, such as a strainer cap and a lid, and this is the type most commonly found in the home bar, made in a variety of materials, shapes and designs.
There are literally dozens of types of strainers on the market, but the most useful one is known as the Hawthorn, a flat, spoon-shaped utensil with a spring coil around its head, which fits perfectly into the mouth of the shaker or most bar glasses when the need comes to strain cocktails.
The Barman’s Tools and Glasses
Rounding out the barman’s arsenal is a compliment of tools, which you can see in the image below.
Bar spoon: A long stemmed spoon for stirring cocktails.
Blender: Ice, fruit and more come under the blade at high speeds, and there are many commercial or home blender options on the market, ranging from just a few dollars to hundreds of dollars.
One basic rule to keep in mind regardless of the blender you choose is to always put the liquids in the blender before switching it on. This will extend the life of your blade, especially when blending ice. Some blenders are especially designed for crushing ice, so check the specifications before buying.
Coasters and bar napkins: Coasters are a classy way of preventing moisture rings from forming on the bar or table tops, and napkins keep your customer’s fingers dry and soak up condensation on the glass. Get in the habit of using them frequently and subtly.
Ice buckets: These come in a variety of sizes, but it’s better to get one that’s large enough to hold a lot, than to be stuck with one too small, so keep that in mind when shopping for one.
Ice scoop or tongs: A must for every ice bucket, as you should never use your hands or the glass to scoop up the ice, the first is unhygienic and the second can chip the glass.
Jigger: This small measuring cup can be either glass, plastic or metal and usually has a cup on each end of various sizes, in metric or standard units of measure.
Knife and cutting board: A small, sharpened paring knife is necessary to cut fruit and garnishes, and since you should never cut on the bartop or metal counter, a cutting board is need too. Plastic boards are easier to clean and don’t warp or rot when frequently wet, like in a bar environment.
Large pitcher: Good for mixing up batches of mixed drinks or simply to have on hand for when someone wants water.
Muddler: This small wooden bat or pestle is used to crush fruit or herbs, such as you’ll need to do when making a Cuba Libre, grinding the mint leaves to get the mint juices out of the leaves.
Pouring spout or Pourer: There are many types available, from electronically radio controlled micro-chipped ones for inventory control to ones with plastic balls which kick into the spout when the reservoir of one shot finishes pouring out. Some also come with a lidded spout, to prevent insects from entering or the alcohol from evaporating.
Stirrers and straws: Something for the customer to stir and sip with.
Large cups, tins, trays or bowls: Used to sort and store your garnishes, such as cherries, olives, onions, etc.
(1) Bar Spoon, (2) Blender, (3) Tongs, (4) Ice Scoop, (5) Ice Bucket, (6) Jigger or Measuring glass, (7) Knife and Cutting Board, (8) Muddler, (9) Pitcher.
The right glass for the right drink makes all the difference in presentation. Nothing is worse than getting your champagne in a beer mug or your brandy in a white wine glass.
Presentation is everything and people expect their drinks to be served in the right glasses, especially when forking out money for their libations. The problem of the wrong glass arises because most people and many bars don’t stock up on the right glasses. So what are the right glasses? Read on and learn my friend.
Shot glass: A fixture in every western saloon, the shot glass can also be used as a measuring tool, making it the must have glass for every bar.
Cocktail or Martini glass: Elegant and civilized, this glass is not just for Martinis… Manhattans, Stingers, and many other classic libations look just at home, and you can find them in a variety of sizes.
White wine glass: Learn early on the difference in these most basic of bar glasses, because the wine lovers you serve will never forgive being served in the wrong one. White wine is served in a smaller glass, although they are available in sizes up to 10 ounces. Smaller is better for white wine.
Red wine glass: Also available in a variety of sizes, for red wines, the bowl is wider than that of the white wine glass, allowing more surface area for the wine to breathe.
Champagne glass: This flute shaped glass is tapered to keep the bubbles from escaping, and makes a lovely clinking sound when toasting.
Rocks glass: The old-fashioned bar glass is the work horse of any bar, used for serving up alcohol straight or with a mixer in a range of sizes from 5 to 10 ounces.
Highball glass: Also known as the Collins glass, or in antiquity as the Palour glass, these type of glasses are the most useful for serving cocktails and come in a range of sizes from 8 to 12 ounces.
Cordial glass: In addition to serving cordials, in a pinch you can also use it for serving straight-up drinks without ice.
Snifter: Available in a wide range of sizes, Brandy and Cognac is traditionally served in these short-stemmed large-bowled glasses which are designed to be cupped in the hand to transfer body heat to the contents.
For entertaining at home, you won’t need such a large selection of glasses, basically just two types of wine glasses (white and red) which can both be used for every type of cocktail, beer or wine, and some Rock glasses to easily round out your collection and can serve as every day glasses.And regardless of which glass you do decide to serve your drink offerings in, just remember that the perfect garnish is a warm smile!
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November 1, 2001
Navy announces DD (X)
The Navy says it is to issue a revised Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Future Surface Combatant Program.
Formerly known as DD 21, the program will now be called DD(X) "to more accurately reflect the program purpose, which is to produce a family of advanced technology surface combatants, not a single ship class."
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz approved the revised program focus and reaffirmed the Department's support for the Future Surface Combatant Program.
"President Bush has made transformation of the Department of Defense a high priority. Through DD(X), the Navy has charted a course to transformation that will provide capability across the full spectrum of naval warfare. The Navy's strategy supports assured access to littoral regions and also develops the capability to defeat the air and missile defense threats the nation's naval forces will face in the future."
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics E. C. "Pete" Aldridge stated that "the new program focus and new RFP will enable the Navy to fully leverage the great work already done by the two industry teams, continue risk mitigation measures and permit appropriate spiral development of technology and engineering to support a range of future surface ships to meet our Nation's maritime requirements well into the 21st Century," Aldridge said. "The DD(X) program will be the technology driver for the surface fleet of the future."
"With the approval of this strategy, the Navy has defined its surface combatant roadmap for the future in a manner which ensures all maritime missions can be accomplished. Through DD(X), we are taking a significant step toward providing improved combat capability for our Sailors and Marines," said Navy Secretary Gordon England.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark said the DD(X) program reflects an awareness that effectively defeating future threats, while accomplishing naval missions, will require a range of naval capabilities and different surface platforms.
"One size fits all will not work on the future battlefield," Clark said. "We must continue to exploit the robust R&D effort made on DD 21 even as we focus our research and technology funding of other approaches such as the Littoral Combat Ship concept."
The DD(X) program will provide a baseline for spiral development of the DD(X) and the future cruiser or "CG(X)" with emphasis on common hullform and technology development. The Navy will use the advanced technology and networking capabilities from DD(X) and CG(X) in the development of the Littoral Combat Ship with the objective being a survivable, capable near-land platform to deal with threats of the 21st century. The intent is to innovatively combine the transformational technologies developed in the DD(X) program with the many ongoing R&D efforts involving mission focused surface ships to produce a state-of-the art surface combatant to defeat adversary attempts to deny access for US forces.
The revision of the program is based on the Navy's continued careful examination of DD21 as it reached the source selection milestone this past spring. At that time, the Navy delayed the down-select decision between the two competing DD21 teams in order to take advantage of ongoing reviews being conducted in the Department of Defense, including the Quadrennial Defense Review. The Navy expects to issue the revised RFP within the next few weeks, and to down-select a single industry team to be the design agent and technology developer this Spring.
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When I first began to cover the genocide in Darfur, Chad was a stable country that seemed as if it would finally prosper with new-found oil and stability. Going into Darfur was dangerous then, but Chad’s roads were safe by day, and even at night I never felt at great risk.
And when refugees from Darfur poured across the border into Chad, they got a pretty good welcome from impoverished villagers in Chad. Rich Western countries didn’t offer much, but Chadian peasants shared what little they had. Gradually, though, the Darfur chaos and fighting began to destabilize Chad, and aid workers and UN reps have been pleading for international attention on Chad.
That never came, and now Chad is beginning to resemble Darfur — at least here in eastern Chad where I am now. Those magnanimous Chadian villagers who three years ago were looking after their Darfuri neighbors are now driven from their homes themselves. And the Janjaweed is burning villages as much as 60 miles deep into Chad, sometimes burning people alive in their huts. Today I spoke with a woman who was badly burned as she tried to rescue her husband as he was burned alive; she failed, and so she is now a widow who is also coping with horrific burns.
I’m also seeing the anger feeding on itself. Today I spoke with a boy who said he wanted to go out and shoot all Arabs, even kids, because Arab nomads had shot him and his father. Later I interviewed a rape victim who said she would shoot Arabs if she had a gun. I’m afraid Chad is teetering on a cliff. It desperately needs peacekeepers to bring it back. And the U.S. and France should send a few fighter planes out to the French air base at Abeche and simply strafe the columns of Janjaweed. They’re easy to find, and they’re on Chadian territory, so there are no sovereignty issues. And we would save lots of lives — and perhaps Chad’s future — if we were to do that.
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‘With the unimpassioned skill of a surgeon, he laid bare the anatomy of the recent past.’ The Times
Edward Hallett Carr was born in London and educated at Trinity College Cambridge, gaining a first class degree in Classics and discovering what was to become a lifelong interest in the subjectivity of the historian’s craft. As a historian, Carr is best known for his 14-volume History of Soviet Russia 1917 to 1929, which he began in 1945, completed 30 years later and which led to him becoming widely known as ‘not only our most distinguished modern historian, but also one of the most valuable contributors to historical theory’ (The Spectator).
Carr joined the Foreign Office in 1916, and resigned twenty years later to become the fourth Woodrow Wilson Professor in the Department of International Politics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. While there, he published several books including The Romantic Exiles (1933), about aristocratic Russian radicals, and The Twenty Years’ Crisis (1939) which added to his rich contribution to the study of international relations.
In 1937, Carr joined the Ministry of Information before moving on to write leaders as Assistant Editor of The Times in 1940. He remained at The Times throughout WWII, as well as chairing an influential study group on England-Soviet relations at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
In 1955, Carr was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Six years later he published What is History? (1961) his bestselling book of lectures against empiricism in traditional historiography. The book remains a core influential text for students of history today
Carr died in 1982 at the age of 90. His Papers are held at the University of Birmingham special collections.
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Although a derailing of the global recovery has been avoided, the world economy is still not out of the danger zone, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said after the conclusion of the Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Mexico City.
“Over the last two days, we discussed the challenges facing the world economy and continued our deliberations over next steps and actions,” she said in a February 26 press statement.
Uptick in activity
“Derailment of the global recovery, which was a clear and distinct danger a few months ago, has been avoided for now thanks to strong policy measures–in particular those of the European Central Bank–and strengthened governance in the euro area, and reforms and adjustment in countries such as Italy, Spain, and Greece. High frequency indicators also now suggest an uptick in activity, mostly in the United States.”
But she warned that “the world economy is still not out of the danger zone, and the G-20 countries must now strengthen resilience to further shocks that could result from still fragile financial systems, high public and private debt, and higher world oil prices. Of equal concern is unemployment, which is still too high in many countries.
“Against this backdrop, we also discussed building stronger global firewalls, including enhancing the Fund´s resources, to guard against renewed shocks and to restore global confidence. As you know, we have suggested an increase in IMF lending capacity of US$500 billion, which would be combined with an equally credible, high quality and properly sized firewall at the European level.
“I was encouraged by the G-20’s reaffirmation of the importance of this process,” Lagarde said. “Concrete decisions will await the reassessment by euro area countries of their support facilities, planned for March. In the meantime, there was progress at the technical level, especially a broad agreement that an increase in IMF resources could be done through bilateral borrowing and note purchase agreements. We have used this model before, and we know it can work quickly.
“We also need additional technical work on risk mitigation. Clearly the primary safeguard to Fund resources will be, as always, sound economic programs and strong monitoring, but our Executive Board will also assess other risk mitigation policies in due course. Additionally, I welcome G-20 support for completing the 2010 quota reform agreement, and I urge countries to quickly ratify the measures necessary to implement this important agreement.
Many of the key issues discussed in Mexico City will be reviewed at the International Monetary and Financial Committee´s spring meeting in Washington in April, as well as at the next G-20 ministerial meeting which will take place at roughly the same time, and the G-20 Summit of Heads of State and Government in June. “Until then, it is crucial that countries continue efforts to restore global growth,” Lagarde added. Here are some key links:
- G-20 ministerial communiqué
- Lagarde press statement in Mexico City
- Lagarde’s Davos comments on need to build confidence
- IMF January global economic forecast
- IMF Resources
- Fiscal adjustment: need for moderation
- IMF governance reform
Filed under: Advanced Economies, Economic Crisis, Economic outlook, Emerging Markets, Employment, Europe, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial regulation, Financial sector supervision, Fiscal policy, Fiscal Stimulus, G-20, growth, IMF, Inequality, International Monetary Fund, Low-income countries, Multilateral Cooperation, Public debt, recession Tagged: | Christine Lagarde, euro, Euro Group, firewalls, Group of 20, Group of Twenty, IMF resources, IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, IMFC, iMFdirect blog, Mexico, Mexico City
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V.S. Naipaul’s books have had a genuine influence on how I see the world and live in it. I read his work in graduate school, where I had a class devoted to Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, and left a changed man, more curious and understanding than I was before it. For Naipaul, the world is a difficult place, filled with uncertain futures and danger, but a possibility for navigating through this and living and seeing beauty in the world exists. There is a beautiful sense in his work, fiction and non-fiction, that this place requires one to be tough but also to understand others–especially if that understanding means exposing things that are generally left unseen. I am thinking here of Beyond Belief, a wonderful, difficult work following Naipaul as he travels through the Muslim world. He frustrates (to put it kindly) everyone with his books, nobody more so than the subjects of his books. Pick up a Naipaul novel, A Bend in the River is quick and amazing, and you wont’ be disappointed.
But that is Naipaul’s work. Naipaul the man is an asshole and it can be hard to recommend his work. V.S. Naipaul is arrogant and condescending and treats people terribly, especially if those people are his wife, or not-wife, or Muslim, or Jewish, or Not-English, choose any specification you want. In his work, he is a terse and short, unwilling to accept half-way–and that is an asset in his books. But his acidic attitude matters in public, and the things he says matter: He is a Nobel Prize winning author who has written a body of work that spans decades, hemispheres, religion and politics and family. But then he speaks. What did he say now? The Guardian has the article:
This time, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature has lashed out at female authors, saying there is no woman writer whom he considers his equal – and singling out Jane Austen for particular criticism. Asked if he considered any woman writer his literary match. He replied: “I don’t think so.” Of Austen he said he “couldn’t possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world”.
He felt that women writers were “quite different”. He said: “I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me.”
The author, who was born in Trinidad, said this was because of women’s “sentimentality, the narrow view of the world”. “And inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too,” he said.
He added: “My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. I don’t mean this in any unkind way.”
At least he’s not trying to be unkind. Jane Austen is your equal, Naipaul. She is among the greats of the greats. Jerk.
There is a common refrain in today’s political climate in the US surrounding whether or not the new wave of elected GOP officials were elected with a mandate from voters that includes not raising taxes and not seeking any new revenues for government to handle budget deficits and debts. The GOP officials, according to this narrative, see the voters that elected them as only willing to approve of spending cuts. Did this directive come from the voters at large? I don’t think so. Why not? Because voters actually want to see taxes raised on the wealthiest Americans.
A poll in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune bears this out in our state. “When asked to choose between a tax increase on the top 2 percent of Minnesotans or a state budget “balanced through cuts only,” 63 percent chose the tax increase and 32 percent chose the cuts.”
These are pretty similar to national numbers about the preference for tax increases to be a part of deficit reduction. This is not to say that taxes should be increased or not, but to say that it is disingenuous to pretend that there is no desire for raising taxes. Don’t misunderstand, its not difficult to understand why the GOP are beholden to this narrative: if they bend from the provided narrative, the caustic and destructive part of the Republican party will see to that individual’s demise.
But it gets tiresome to hear the same lines over and over, as a government shutdown looms in Minnesota and national political world is calling names, that the GOP cannot raise any revenues, the voters sent them to cut government spending and not to raise taxes. Unfortunately for the Republican folks, it’s not true and it makes any attempt to come to the middle-ground and compromise absolutely impossible. And the hard-line marriage to this argument is going to cost you. At least in Minnesota.
(And for those who say that President Obama or the Dems won’t compromise, you are wrong. They have compromised a great deal to the GOP, nothing more so than the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts)
It has been said, too often to even bother finding links, that one of the great problems that faces a Newt Gingrich run for president in 2012 is his massive, massive ego. I tend to agree with this. Newt Gingrich possess a brilliant policy mind. He’s creative and smart and capable of seeing things other conservatives are not. The problem for Gingrich is that he is not the next Abraham Lincoln, and running for president in 2012 is not going to decide the fate of union. I know Newt would love to be the one that saves the nation from the brink of civil war, but we are not on the brink of civil war. We’re just fighting about budgets. Sorry Newt, that’s just a bit of ego getting in the way. Again.
Republican Newt Gingrich told a Georgia audience on Friday evening that the 2012 presidential election is the most consequential since the 1860 race that elected Abraham Lincoln to the White House and was soon followed by the Civil War. Addressing the Georgia Republican Party’s convention, Gingrich said the nation is at a crossroads and that the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama would lead to four more years of “radical left-wing values” that would drive the nation to ruin.
Even if this were the case, is Newt Gingrich really the man to stave off the ruin of the nation?
Don’t Say Gay.
This is legislation from Tennessee that recently cleared its Senate Committee. The legislation aims to outlaw any mention of homosexuality in states’s classrooms from Kindergarten through eighth grade. This is wrong. First, teachers do not teach homosexuality into students, and keeping gay and lesbian topics out of the classroom will not lead to fewer gay and lesbian people.
But there is an even more egregious problem with this legislation beyond this obvious notion. Some students, no matter how much one may wish it were not so, are children of gay and lesbian households. Teachers would be forbidden from discussing “any sexual behavior other than heterosexuality,” and this would (presumably) include discussing the home life and issues of children of gays and lesbians. And what, god forbid, if a student is gay, and needs someone to talk to? Shouldn’t school be a safe place for a young person?
The circumstance of being a gay student, or the child of a homosexual family cannot be easy for a grade school student. To remove the opportunity for teachers and school officials from offering words of comfort or understanding is a terrible decision. And it’s wrong.
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As expensive as basil pesto is in the stores, you'd think it was difficult to make; but it is incredibly easy. The only equipment you need is a food processor, blender or chopper.
Makes about 1 cup or prepared basil Pesto!
Discard any flower buds, stems or leaves that aren't in good shape. All we want are leaves; small, medium or large; as long as they are a healthy green, not brown or molding!
Just wash them in a large bowl under cold water, no soap!
If you don't have a food processor, you can use a blender, and possibly a chopper. It would be fairly tedious to do this by hand, but I'm sure it can be done that way, too.
start stuffing basil leaves (in small batches) into the food processor and
chop them into the garlic, olive oil and pine nuts.
Chop the mix until it forms a thick, smooth paste.
Did I mention you need to grate the Parmesan cheese first? Then just add it to the food processor and blend! NOTE: if you intend to freeze the pesto, leave the cheese OUT and add it when you thaw and use the pesto. Cheese doesn't freeze well.
And that is it! You're done! It should look like the photo at right -->
Adding 1 teaspoon of sugar or Splenda to the batch really seems to bring the flavor alive. Try it and see!
The pesto will keep in refrigerator for about a week, or you can freeze it and it will last for 3 to 6 months.
A visitor writes to suggest freezing the pesto in ice cube trays. When it's frozen, just pop the cubes out of the tray and put them into a freezer bag. When you need them, just take one of two of the cubes out - so easy!
Most people serve it over pasta or use it to season fish and chicken dishes.
Can I can pesto?
Herbs and oils are both low-acid and together could support the growth of the disease-causing Clostridium botulinum bacteria. University (Clemson, University of Georgia, etc.) food science researchers do NOT recommend canning herbs .
However, herbs and herb mixtures like pesto CAN be safely frozen! Pesto is an uncooked seasoning mixture of herbs, usually including fresh basil, and some oil. It may be frozen for long term storage. That's the recommended method to save your homemade pesto for the dark nights of winter!
Also, oils may be flavored with herbs if they are made up for fresh use, stored in the refrigerator and used within 2 to 3 days. Fresh herbs must be washed well and dried completely before storing in the oil. The very best sanitation and personal hygiene practices must be used.
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Researchers at the U-M and several other leading medical centers are reporting that a high percentage of patients with a life-threatening heart condition are still dying in the hospital in spite of recent medical advances. Their findings are published in the Feb. 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The ailment is called acute aortic dissectiona rare, but often fatal condition, characterized by separation of the aortic walls. Aortic dissection occurs in two forms: Type A dissection involves the ascending aorta; type B occurs near the left subclavian artery and down the descending aorta.
Despite recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of aortic dissection, the morbidity and mortality for this rare cardiovascular disorder remain unacceptably high, says Kim Eagle, interim chief of the Division of Cardiology and lead author on the new study.
Speaking on behalf of 18 leading aortic centers around the world that are working together to understand and treat aortic dissection, Eagle and colleagues reported on nearly 500 patients treated in the past three years. Researchers at the Health System coordinated the report from the International Registry of Aortic Dissection (IRAD).
Eagle says the study emphasizes the need for emergency cardiac surgery for dissection involving the ascending aorta and the promise of new catheter-based procedures for complicated patients with dissection of the descending aorta.
Aortic dissection can occur anywhere in the aorta and has a wide range of symptoms that often mimic more common disorders like myocardial ischemia or stroke. In addition, physical evidence may be absent or difficult to diagnose. This means, Eagle says, that dissection is hard to diagnose and medical personnel must be highly suspicious, especially due to the critical need for timely response in cases of aortic dissection.
Investigators studied 464 patients treated at the 18 IRAD centers. Two-thirds were male, the mean age was 63.1 years and nearly two-thirds of the patients had type A dissection.
Severe pain was the most common presenting symptom, with type A patients complaining of chest pain, while more localized abdominal or back pain was predominant in type B dissection cases.
Eagle says its important to note that most patients reported a sharp pain, rather than a ripping or tearing pain, which is thought to be the classical symptom. Seventy-two percent of the type A patients were managed surgically while 20 percent of type B patients required surgery. A minority of type B patients who did not undergo surgery were treated by a technique called percutaneous fenestrationa catheter procedure designed to improve blood flow to vital organs. This procedure is in addition to standard medical therapy for type B dissection.
They found that overall in-hospital mortality was 27.4 percent, with the highest mortality in patients with type A dissection who did not receive surgery (58 percent)primarily due to advanced age or other health concerns. Patients with type B dissection treated medically had the lowest mortality rate (10.7 percent), while patients with type B dissection who underwent surgery had a 31.4 percent in-hospital mortality rate.
Investigators also found that several of the accepted symptoms and markers of aortic dissection were not as commonplace as previously reported.
For example, earlier studies point to the value of an abnormal chest x-ray in evaluating suspected dissection. However, Eagle says, he and his colleagues found that a substantial number of patients did not have abnormal chest X-rays. In addition, presence of a normal ECG is touted as a marker that would move a clinician away from a diagnosis of myocardial ischemia toward one of aortic dissection. Once again, investigators found this to be untrue in the present study group. A normal ECG was present in less than one-third of the patients in this study.
Eagle says there was wide variability in the choice of imaging technique used. Investigators found that computerized axial tomography (CT) was most commonly used. Two other widely used diagnostic imaging methodsMRI and transesophageal echocardiographywere used less frequently. The study authors believe the discrepancy may reflect ready availability, rather than a preference.
Eagle says the highest mortality occurred soon after onset of symptoms, necessitating the urgent need for quick diagnosis and appropriate therapy, particularly surgery for acute ascending dissection at an aortic center of excellence.
Acute aortic dissection is uncommon, but complications develop rapidly and the outcome is often fatal, Eagle says. Despite significant medical advances, in-hospital death for aortic dissection remains high. This study confirms the need for further improvements in our ability to understand, diagnose and manage this devastating condition.
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CableLabs® Founder Honored By Air Force Space Command
Louisville, Colorado, September 11, 2006—CableLabs® founder Richard S. Leghorn was among six trailblazing pioneers who were inducted recently into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame for their significant accomplishments in the advancement of space and missile programs of the Air Force.
Leghorn, a retired Colonel of the USAF Reserve, led development of early Cold War airborne and space-based reconnaissance systems. He joined the Army Air Corps six months before Pearl Harbor, serving as a reconnaissance group commander in Europe through V-E Day and participating in the two atomic bomb tests at Bikini in 1946. Shortly thereafter, as part of efforts to overcome the Iron Curtain, he proposed a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, later the U-2 spy plane, to overfly the Soviet Union.
Recalled to active duty in 1951, he organized the Reconnaissance Systems Branch at Wright Air Development Center, Ohio, before transferring to the R&D planning staff at the Pentagon. Six years before Sputnik, he collaborated with the RAND Corporation in studies of a reconnaissance version of their “Earth orbiting vehicle.” Again returning to civilian life, he organized a new company, with Rockefeller support, to develop and build the photographic system of the CIA-Air Force Corona satellite.
After photographing more of the Soviet Union than all missions of the U-2, the Corona satellite, in 1960 for the first time in space history, returned its payload (film) to Earth. Until recently the Corona program has been highly classified and the revolutionary contributions of the technical pioneers, including Leghorn, are only now being recognized publicly.
Leghorn became a cable operator and a major participant in cable's first fight against must-carry regulations and lobbied the industry to establish a research and development laboratory. He funded a significant study by RAND Corporation that led to the structuring and establishment of CableLabs in 1988. Leghorn is a Director Emeritus on the 28-member CableLabs Board of Directors.
About CableLabs: Cable Television Laboratories (www.cablelabs.com) was founded in 1988 by members of the cable television industry. A non-profit research and development consortium, CableLabs delivers innovations that enable cable operators to be the providers of choice in their markets. Cable operators from around the world are members. CableLabs maintains additional web sites at www.cablenet.org.
CableLabs® is a registered trademark of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Other CableLabs marks are listed at http://www.cablelabs.com/certqual/trademarks. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
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Today is America Recycles Day. In an environment of Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, I am willing to be the lone voice of reason in a sea of foaming green. I believe in protecting our environment. I recycle aluminum, try not to litter, compost and even grow my own, mostly organic, vegetables.
But every once in a while, I read a story about some eco-overachiever who has decided to filter his own urine for drinking water or that showering every day will bring on the apocalypse and it makes me question - how far would I go to protect the planet? Admittedly, there are some creature comforts I’d rather not live without and some things I just won’t do.
Here’s a few of those things that make me think - have we gone too far?
Reusable toilet paper
The idea behind it: There is way too much paper waste.
Why it’s too much: I applaud the folks who are so dedicated to a paperless environment that they whip out the Singer and start divying out the fanny pads. But frankly, no amount of Tide extra strength can clean away Family Burrito Night. None.
Recycled sex toys
The idea behind it: Ummm ... naughty environmentalists need love too?
Why it’s too much: Eww. Just eww.
The idea behind it: Number of planets: 1, number of people: 7 billion. Do the math.
Why it’s too much: Actually I see the point of this and I’m all for self-limiting your reproductive bang for the environmental buck. (Are you listening Duggar family? 1.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from one family and we don’t even have a decent TV series to show for it.) But isn’t sterilization a bit drastic? I mean when you want to lose weight you cut back on your eating, you don’t rip out your trachea.
Used condoms made into hair bands
The idea behind it: The almighty dollar.
Why it’s too much: I sincerely hope I do not have to tell you why this is NOT OK.
The idea behind it: Biodegradable cigarette butts. Save the Earth, screw your lungs.
Why it’s too much: As a non-smoker I don’t get it. So maybe this one is OK. What do you think smokers?
The idea behind it: From the folks that sell these things, “Sea Pearls are completely natural reusable sea sponge tampons containing no Dioxin or synthetic fibers. Sustainably harvested and reusable for three to six months or more, Sea Pearls are easy to use, economical, and earth friendly.”
Why it’s too much: I can’t, in good faith, do that to Spongebob.
Thinking of going green? Or greener? How far would you go and where do you draw the line?
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Scope and Content of Collection
Title: Robert P. Sharp papers,
Date (inclusive): 1933-1996
Collection number: Consult repository
Sharp, Robert P. (Robert Phillip), 1911-
19 linear ft
California Institute of Technology. Archives.
Pasadena, California 91125
Abstract: The working papers, correspondence, publications and biographical material of Robert Phillip Sharp form the collection known
as the Papers of Robert P. Sharp in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology. Sharp was a long-time member,
and for some years chairman, of the geology division at Caltech.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright may not have been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on
behalf of the California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item, box and file number], Papers of Robert P. Sharp. Archives, California Institute of Technology.
Sharp's papers came to the Archives in two donations. The materials contained in the first of these originated during his
term as chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (1952-1968) and were embedded in Division files transferred
to the Archives in 1990. The second donation was made by Dr. Sharp himself in 1998 and consisted of papers and documents from
his Caltech office. Subsequently it was decided to remove all of Dr. Sharp's scientific papers from the Division files and
to combine them with the 1998 donation to form the Papers of Robert P. Sharp. Papers connected solely with Sharp's administrative
duties remain in the Division files.
Robert Phillip Sharp was born in 1911 in Oxnard, California. He attended the California Institute of Technology, where he
earned his BS degree in 1934 and his MS degree a year later. In 1938 he received his PhD in geology from Harvard University,
with a study of the structure and geomorphology of the Ruby-East Humboldt Range in Nevada.
Subsequent to his graduation from Harvard, Sharp began teaching at the University of Illinois, but World War II interrupted
his academic career. He served from 1943 to 1945 in the US Air Force at the Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Information Center,
where he was assigned to research and write manuals for arctic survival.
After the war, Sharp joined the University of Minnesota faculty, and in 1947 he began teaching at his alma mater, the California
Institute of Technology, where he spent the rest of his academic career. From 1952 through 1968, he served as chair of the
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. During his tenure he initiated the programs in geochemistry and planetary
geology at Caltech.
The primary focus of Sharp's work has been on forms and processes on planetary surfaces,particularly those of Earth and Mars.
His research topics cover a wide range of subjects,from glaciers to sand dunes and from landslides and mud flow processes
to landforms of Mars.
During his PhD studies, field research in northeastern Nevada established his interest in landform development, mainly erosion
surfaces and glaciations. Sharp's participation in the Caltech Grand Canyon boat expedition of 1937, sponsored by the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, provided him with an opportunity for extended study of the Precambrian erosion surfaces of that
region. An expedition to the Ice Field Range of the St. Elias Range initiated a thorough research on glaciers in Alaska and
Canada. When he moved back to Southern California in 1947, Sharp started to investigate landforms in desert areas, such as
sand dunes and their mechanics, desert domes, desert varnish and ventifacts.
Sharp served as a team investigator on the Mariner 4 (1965), 6, 7 (1969), and 9 (1971) flights to Mars, applying his knowledge
of terrestrial landforms and processes to the study of the surface of Mars.
Sharp's work has been recognized with his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971 and to the National
Academy of Sciences in 1973. He was made an honorary member of the International Glaciological Society in 1973. He received
the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1971 and the National Medal of Science in 1989. He received the Kyrk
Bryan Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1964 and the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1977.
In 1991 he won the Charles P. Daly Medal of the American Geographical Society.
An endowed professorship in geology at the California Institute of Technology was created in 1978 in his name, honoring him
and his academic achievements. Sharp became emeritus professor at Caltech in 1979. He continued to teach until 1998.
Scope and Content of Collection
The present collection is composed of eight series, organized in forty-four archival boxes. The correspondence, Series I,
makes up about a third of the collection, and it contains both incoming and outgoing correspondence organized in alphabetically
ordered folders. However, researchers should be aware that Sharp's correspondence from the 1970s and 1980s has not yet been
deposited in the Archives.
Series II contains Sharp's geology field notebooks covering the years between 1936 to 1996, as well as his research notes
and his annotated maps.
Series III contains teaching material such as course and lecture notes, class assignments, and exams. Teaching aids, such
as reference lists, can also be found in this section.
Series IV deals with both academic and non-academic field trips conducted by Sharp. Photos related to field trips are found
under Series VIII.
Sharp's manuscripts, preprints and talks can be found in Series V. They are arranged in chronological order and contain a
wide variety of related documents, from outlines and notes to related correspondence. Sharp's reprints have been grouped in
Series VII contains a small amount of biographical material. Researchers should refer to Sharp's oral histories, conducted
in 1979-1980 by Graham Berry and in 1999 by Shelley Erwin, which are deposited in the Caltech Archives.
Series VIII contains research related photos, field trip photos, and some personal photos.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.
Sharp, Robert P. (Robert Phillip)
California Institute of Technology
- Records of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
- Robert P. Sharp Oral History with Graham Berry (1979)
- Robert P. Sharp Oral History with Shelley Erwin (1998)
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Emotional eating is a hot topic at Green Mountain. We speak about it frequently. It can be triggered unexpectedly for no obvious reason or it can be in reaction to wanting to manage a difficult situation.
In the class “Understanding Emotions That Can Lead You To Eat” we discuss the thorny problem of identifying emotions. And in fact, mindless eating can cut your head off from your body, so you don’t know how to think about what you are feeling.
One strategy that can help you connect to your feelings and your food is mindful eating. Michelle May, MD and author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat, writes:
Mindful eating is not just about the appearance, taste, and aromas of food. To me, it encompasses the entire Mindful Eating Cycle: Why? When? What? How? How Much? and Where?
With awareness of each of these decisions in my eating cycle, I can respond instead of react. I have response-ability, rather than re-acting and continually playing out old patterns.
This process of responding rather than reacting gives us the space to explore emotions or habits. By getting to know our feelings we can use emotional eating as an opportunity to learn more; more about our habits, our feelings and our patterns of mindless eating.
What might your emotional eating be trying to get our attention about?
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Increased Dogs Off-Leash Enforcement at Dallas Road Pathway and Beacon Hill Park
June 18, 2012
Dallas Road Pathway is a popular spot for walkers and joggers, tourists, and dog owners exercising their pets. Considered part of Beacon Hill Park, the Dallas Road Pathway between Douglas Street and Clover Point is the only area of the park where dogs are permitted to be off-leash. To balance the needs of all users of the pathway and park, the City of Victoria is starting additional Animal Control Bylaw presence during summer evenings and weekends to educate dog owners and ensure they have close supervision of their dogs and carry a leash at all times.
Within Beacon Hill Park, dogs must be kept on-leash at all times and are not allowed in the Heronry at Good Acre Lake, at the Children's Petting Zoo, and at playgrounds in the park. Signs are posted reminding users of the off-leash rules, along with dispensers of biodegradable doggie bags and trash bins. Learn more.Go to Top
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Almost three years ago I praised the ideas expressed in the bestselling book Made to Stick. I even featured the ideas briefly in the first book, Presentation Zen . Earlier this month Fast Company Magazine featured a 3-minute video by Made to Stick co-author Dan Heath on th eir website called Presentations that Stick. Watch the video below o r checkout the transcripts and resources on the Fast Company site. As you may recall from the book Made to Stick, if you want to communicate your ideas in a way that makes an impact, then craft messages that embrace storytelling, are simple, concrete, credible, emotional, and have an element of unexpectedness. In the video below, Dan reminds presenters to (1) be simple (without being simplistic), (2) show something, and (3) tease before you tell.
Educational Technology and Information Literacy (ET-IL) skills are valued at Pine Lane as a component of 21st Century Learning Skills. Likewise, 21st Century Learning Skills are a critical piece of Douglas County's plan for providing a World Class Education. 21st Century Skills There are 12 skills outlined by DCSD as ones that are to be addressed as part of delivering a World Class Education.
Due to overwhelming response, Share Fair registrations have reached capicity for this year. To be placed on the waitlist, visit the Share Fair site . Dr.
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Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 10th, 2001
J. Inostroza and colleagues collected all clinical S. pneumoniae specimens isolated from patients with invasive or sterile-site infections admitted to a regional general hospital in southern Chile during a five-year period.
They isolated 50 serotypes comprising 247 strains - 69 in patients younger than five, 129 in patients five to 64 years old, and 49 from patients 65 and older. Eight serotypes were common to all three...
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We were just talking about the scholastic and the imaginative that underpins some gems of scholarship – such as Ramanujan’s work on the Ramayana (and his work on poetry, in poetry), and here comes another deeply inspiring articulation.
Nauman Naqvi, anthropologist, delivers a wonderfully framed, evocative,(and beautifully filmed) lecture ruminating on the art, the poetics of Sadequain – linking his calligraphy, his art, his poetic imagination, and then moving out towards the act of witnessing, of sacrifice and of truth.
It really is a must-must-watch.
What is the source of Islam’s potential for a beautiful, passive revolution today? How are the greater and lesser jihads distinct and entangled? What are the experiences of force given in the Muslim tradition? What are the relations between beauty, divinity, history and the forces of peace, truth and violence in this tradition? These are the prayers, the questions silently addressed in this filmic presentation of the anguished work of poesy and asceticism against historical violence in the painter-poet Sadequain (1930-87) – a presentation of the experience and logic of another force given in Islam, and dramatized in the life and oeuvre of this postcolonial Pakistani artist. Through a range of effects – including a generous and dynamic display of striking images juxtaposed with ravishing lyric from both Sadequain, as well as the larger Indic-Muslim and affinate traditions of the pre- and post-colonial modern period – this lecture-film enacts the experience and logic of this other force in three dramatic scenes of a performative lecture given by Nauman Naqvi at The Second Floor (PeaceNiche) in Karachi. The scenes – the hand, the head, and gesture – are scenes of what Sadequain called the technique of ‘mystic figuration’ in his painting: a certain tortured entanglement of the aesthetic, the ethical and truth in Muslim inheritance. An anguished entanglement of beauty, the good and truth in their ecstatic appearance in the secular world – the world of sight and sound – that is inseparable from the demand of sacrifice, of a strenuous self-canceling intention given in the aspect of a subtle violence of immanence in the Muslim understanding of being and existence. In tracing this haunting, subtle force of life, the lecture-film gestures towards the potential inheritance of a radically ethical politics of universal grace in Islam.
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So you are wondering how to be a leader at school or in the classroom? Here are the good news first: “American social psychologists recently completed a series of experiments to identify leadership qualities. It turns out that a leader may not even be a very competent person who knows how to talk“. In general, [...]
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), is an Austrian physician and psychologist, founder of the theory and method of treatment of neuroses, called psychoanalysis. The Freudian theory became one of the most influential psychological teachings of the 20th century.
Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is an example of psychodynamic approach to the study of human behavior. With this approach, it is believed that the unconscious psychological conflicts control human behavior. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, built the psychoanalytic concepts almost entirely relying on his extensive clinical observations of patients with neuroses, as well as [...]
What is the difference between conformity and nonconformity? As a person, understanding the meaning of concepts that are being introduced by influential people in the society is something that should be done before doing something about it. Many people are not living the kind of life that they really want and some were not able [...]
Psychology had long been looked upon as a science that talks about the saddest and the most tragic experiences in human life that create some or the other disorder in the brain. However, in the 1950s, occurred another theory which was called the Humanistic Approach Theory and it focused more on the positive side of human nature, giving [...]
Psychology is a popular university major that’s both fascinating and challenging, and one of the greatest appeals is the diversity of research topics available to study. Conducting thorough research and field studies provide students with a more hands-on experience and a chance to become true scholars of a particular aspect of psychology. Before selecting a [...]
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Benzman opines that the value of photocopy (Xeroxing) is no match to the original art. For example, even if M.F.Hussain’s original art is valued at millions of rupees, the price of the photocopy of the same art would be available for just ten rupees whatever be the quality of the of the Xerox printing.
The value of NTR is massive and he commanded huge respect among Telugu people. Same can not be said about his children and grandchildren, who are seeking support from public as inheritors of his political legacy.
Just being his sons do not mean people respect them in the same way. The original NTR value is enormous but the same cannot be given to his Xerox copies i.e Balayya,Jr,NTR,Kalyanram and Tarakarathna.
If somebody is quoting his ancestors it indicates that he himself is worthless.
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Cold Weather Doesn`t Slow Down Oil | VideoChris Williams | 1/31/2013
Many of those workers from other states probably had no idea just how cold it can get here. Hearing about it is one thing, but working in it is another.
"It`s pretty cold right now. I think it`s about -45 or -50 with the wind
chill," said oil rig worker Daniel Sanderson.
Sanderson moved here from San Diego. He says he used to complain, when temperatures got down into the 20s, but yesterday he was working in -34 degrees.
"It`s pretty cold, your fingers, sometimes your fingers get to the point where you can`t feel them anymore and they start burning. They get really hot, and after that you just can`t feel them," he added.
Chuck Elkins is a truck driver, and says temperatures this cold make the lines and pipes freeze. "Your lungs have a tendency to burn if you get a little winded, and out of breath. This morning we were chaining down, and it got a little hard to breathe. It was 23 below. Thank God the wind wasn`t blowing. It gets a little chilly. It can be a little painful."
There are hundreds of water trucks on the road. Cold temperatures and water don`t mix.
"We`re going down the road at 55, 60 miles an hour, so thereís a chill factor on top of the temperature. It freezes our tubes like a solid brick of ice," said truck driver Rick Johnson.
The clothing workers have to wear to stay warm also slows them down.
"Well I got insulated overalls on. Then I`ve got a these FRs on over top of them. Sometimes I have a couple shirts on, gloves and I wear the ski mask," said truck driver Lewis Barrett.
Barrett says the cold weather sometimes gives him a headache, and Johnson`s truck wasn`t the only thing freezing.
"Everything, your mustache freezes, just like mine is right now," added Johnson.
Thankfully for these workers, temperatures are expected to start warming up on Friday.
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Jacology: Obamacare Birth Control Opt Out
(KPLR) – In Friday’s Jacology, Charles Jaco examines the change to the affordable health care act for religious institutions wanting to opt out of contraception coverage. But not everyone is happy with the ruling.
The Obama administration today watered down its requirement under Obamacare that employers offer workers contraception and birth control as part of their health insurance policies. The White House now says religious groups are exempted if, their primary purpose is religious, if most of the people employed by them share their religious belief and most of the people they serve do the same.
This means tough stuff for employers like the hobby lobby chain and others, who have sued saying that the company owners are against contraception and that even offering birth control as part of an employee insurance package violates their religious beliefs. The administration says if your primary purpose is saving souls, you can opt out. If you’re primary goal is making money, not so much.
But when we talk about religions and birth control, what are we talking about? The Catholic Church of course opposes birth control. The Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian and Mennonite churches have no problem with contraception. Hindus and Muslims allow birth control. Jews are split on the issue. Southern Baptists are okay with some contraception.
So when opponents of birth control say that requiring birth control coverage in health insurance tramples religious liberty, what are they really saying? They’re saying that their religious belief trumps the right of anyone to pay for their own contraceptive coverage. They’re saying that their belief is more important than the employee’s belief.
And it’s not even all beliefs. Catholics, Orthodox Jews and some protestant evangelicals oppose birth control. And that’s it. No other religions are bothered by contraception. So it could be argued that favoring a ban on contraception coverage means favoring a few religions over everyone else.
I’m Charles Jaco and that’s Jacology.
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Prince Charles has unveiled a memorial in Moray, Scotland to commemorate the work of the Land Girls during World War II.
The Women's Land Army was established in 1917, and allowed thousands of women to work on the land for the war effort.
The sculpture in their honour was designed by Peter Naylor. Environment secretary Richard Lochhead said: "The Women's Land Army played a crucial role in helping to feed the nation and maintain our agricultural land during the dark years of World War II.
"Their dedication and drive was truly remarkable - and the fact we have such well-based agricultural and forestry industries in Scotland is a testament to all that they achieved."
"The splendid sculpture in Moray is a fitting tribute, which shows the appreciation we all have for the Women's Land Army and ensures their extraordinary story is preserved forever."
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Jamie points out this interesting article about how hard it is for programmers to get names right. Since software ultimately is used by and for humans, and we humans are pretty tightly linked to our names (whatever the language, spelling, or orthography), this is a big deal. This piece notes some of the ways that names get mishandled, and suggests rules of thumb (in the form of anti-suggestions) to encourage programmers to handle names more gracefully.
An anonymous reader writes "WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download and comes with 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Major new features in this release include a new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them easily to implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies."
Calopteryx writes "New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. 'Dubbed Gemini, [Andrew Wade's] creature is made of two sets of identical structures, which sit at either end of the instruction tape. Each is a fraction of the size of the tape's length but, made up of two constructor arms and one "destructor," play a key role. Gemini's initial state contains three of these structures, plus a fourth that is incomplete. As the simulation progresses the incomplete structure begins to grow, while the structure at the start of the tape is demolished. The original Gemini continues to disassemble as the new one emerges, until after nearly 34 million generations, new life is born.'"
MyRottenHell writes "After beta testing Zenoss Core for the last month yesterday version 2.5 went live yesterday. It's the first monitoring tool I found that gives me Amazon EC2 cloud monitoring. My sites are running Drupal and I was using a synthetic transaction plug-in to monitor website responses and and an ODBC plugin to test MySQL. The only thing I need now is something to monitor Amazon S3 does anyone know of a open source (or at least free) tool that does this."
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Where is this coming from? The SecondLife Linden Exchange market shows no such trend. The L$ is still trading at the same amount it was before the gambling ban announcement, as shown here: https://secure-web3.secondlife.com/currency/marke
t .php (login required). Neither volume nor rate has changed substantially.
Sounds like FUD.
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Ken Kesey's Buchla synthesizer
The man's voice you are hearing is Daniel Hamm, describing the beating he took in the Harlem 28th precinct. The police were about to take the boys out to be "cleaned up" and were only taking those who were visibly bleeding. He proceeded to squeeze open the bruise on his leg so that we would be taken to the hospital. He is the subject of Steve Reich's first "phazing" piece which was produced at the San Francisco Tape Center. It is also very significant because it uses a new technology to form a new kind of music, and to some extent, changed the definition of music. Reich was one of many artists (mostly composers) that were just beginning to work with new technologies, such as tape recorders, analog synthesizers and multi-colored light projection.
Pauline Oliveros, Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick conceived the Tape Center in 1960. It was a place where experimental artists could work together and as individuals, pooling resources and knowledge in an unstructured space. It was a place that met the needs of a small group of artists who needed access to equipment and a venue to present concerts of experimental music.
The Tape Music Center quickly developed a unique philosophy and aesthetic mission. It was a place where artists could do things that they couldn't do in a normal venue or in an academic setting. The concerts were not really legal and sometimes they were picketed because of some part of the performance was unacceptable to the general public. For example, Robert Davis had a piece that consisted of four naked people on toilet seats--in 1961 that was considered totally outrageous.
In 1961 they had been given a mansion somewhere on Jones Street. It was going to be demolished in a year so they used it as a concert hall. There were about nine concerts the first year, mostly consisting of about a half hour of electronic music followed by works from other composers. Although composers such as Sender, Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and light artist Anthony Martin were very prolific, there was a considerable amount of time experimenting with other modern composers' works that were not being recognized by academia or regular concert goers. Recent works that were being written by composers like Cage and Berio, were not only being rehearsed and performed, but were augmented by some movement, or an experimental light show.
The Tape Center sparked my interest because it was an open environment to experiment with new technologies, which in turn, spawned the creation and development of the buchla synthesizer. When The Tape Center was on Divisadero it shared the space and collaborated with The San Francisco Mime Troupe, KUSF and local pop artists. The Tape Center also thrived on this collaboration and combination of the different art forms and disciplines. It was open to all artists in the community. Consequently, it helped establish San Francisco as the birthplace of "Multi-Media" and the exploration of new technologies in the arts.
"It was about the freedom to experiment and about reaching an audience interested in what we were doing," said Morton Subotnick. Interest in the Tape Center ranged from the forefront of avant garde classical music to the pop groups of the sixties. The breaking of these boundaries had a profound effect on both genres.
Pauline Oliveros said, "The rock music scene was revving up then. I remember Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin visiting the Tape Center. Different musicians came through to check out the technology especially after Don Buchla introduced his Buchla Box (Synthesizer). Anthony Martin, who did our light shows, begin to work with the rock bands at the Fillmore Auditorium. The Trips Festival took the Tape Center works out into the music industry.
The Pirex Plate light shows of the '60s were created by Lee Remour but then shortly picked up by Tony Martin. The Pirex Plate Lights Shows are the classic multi-colored trippy-dippy light show. Tony Martin then did the light shows for the Mothers of Invention.
"Psychedelia opened up a lot. Boundaries became very fuzzy for awhile as the scene exploded and thousands of people began to inhabit the Haight-Ashbury district where the Tape Center was located. Mostly people were getting out of their heads with LSD etc.," Oliveros told me.
Artists at the Tape Center broke down disciplinary boundaries and normal administrative functionality. This produced a cross-pollinating ferment between audio and visual media. Ramon Sender's Desert Ambulance--for accordion, tape, slides, and film--and Morton Subotnick's Mandolin--for viola, tape, slides, and view-graph projection--are examples of this pioneering work in "mixed media." Or, what is later know as multimedia. Painters like Robert Laveen were doing real-time painting, which was later labeled "performance art." Ronnie Davis started the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Even when the music was somewhat traditional there was political and theatrical experimentation laid over the top.
San Francisco's diverse audience made it very easy to experiment both aurally and artistically, although there were a few minor protests about some of the content. Pauline Oliveros describes the audience as a collection of friends and acquaintances, but it also included many soon to be prominent members of the rock scene of the '60s. There was a close relationship between "hi art" and "low art"; or rather there were no boundaries between artistic disciplines.
Charles Boone wrote, "the Tape Music Center was proof that music here could be created completely outside academic and commercial circles. It demonstrated, too, that ambitious concepts and projects could be realized on a shoestring; that innovative music depended more on the vitality of the ideas than on big budgets and fancy tools."
Sources: Thirty Years of Non-Stop Flight: A Brief History of the Center for Contemporary Music David W. Bernstein
emails with Pauline Oliveros; phone conversations with Morton Subotnick
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FOR THE RECORD:
Military medical malpractice: An article in Sunday's Section A about military medical personnel being immune from malpractice lawsuits said Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) had served as a fighter pilot. He was an Army infantry officer in Vietnam. —
A student nurse assisting an understaffed anesthesia team tried to resuscitate Witt and failed. Inexplicably, Witt's gurney was wheeled into a pediatric area. Lifesaving devices sized for children, not a 175-pound adult, proved useless, according to an internal report on the incident.
Medical personnel at David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base screamed at each other. A double dose of a powerful stimulant was mistakenly administered. When a breathing tube was finally inserted, it was misdirected, uselessly pumping air into the patient's stomach. Errors compounded errors and delays multiplied.
By the time a breathing tube finally was inserted correctly, Witt had devastating brain damage. Three months later, he was removed from life support and died. Witt, who grew up in Oroville, Calif., left behind a wife and two children, including a 4-month-old son.
"This medical incident was due to an avoidable error," concluded an unpublished internal report, a copy of which was reviewed by The Times.
Despite questionable medical care criticized in the report, the bereaved family could not sue for malpractice because Witt was an active-duty airman. Under limits stemming from a Supreme Court ruling nearly 60 years old, military hospitals and their staffs are immune from malpractice claims -- even for the most egregious lapses -- if the victim is an enlisted member on active duty.
A series of court rulings since 1950 have upheld the original decision, known as Feres vs. United States, denying members of the military the right to sue for damages over medical errors or even deliberate wrongs.
Barbara Cragnotti of Medford, Ore., learned of the Feres case after her son Joseph suffered lung and neurological injuries from undiagnosed pneumonia while under a military doctor's care. Joseph Cragnotti was in the Navy and had nearly completed training for submarine duty when he was stricken.
Military medical personnel failed to provide antibiotics, and her son ended up having multiple surgeries. He lost part of a lung. His mother said his condition deteriorated further after doctors at the naval hospital in Bremerton, Wash., took the sailor off a needed drug, causing seizures and permanent neurological damage.
Joseph Cragnotti, now 28, has left the military but still needs treatment for his medical conditions.
His mother joined VERPA -- Veterans Equal Rights Protection Advocacy -- a nonprofit group determined "to expose and remedy" what it calls "the un-American Feres doctrine."
Barbara Cragnotti, now head of the organization, foresees more trouble as wounded troops from Iraq and Afghanistan strain a taxed military health system. "Congress is not going to act until the public forces them to," she said. The military medical establishment is "hiding behind the Feres doctrine."
Christine Lemp, whose husband, James, 35, died after receiving questionable medical care at Missouri's Ft. Leonard Wood, said accountability was lacking. "One of the most disturbing things is that these doctors can do anything and nothing happens," she said.
Army Capt. James Lemp was diagnosed with a stomach virus in 2003. Hours later, he was brain-dead from a stroke-like condition called vertebral artery dissection. Experts hired by his wife said that with proper treatment, he would have had a 90% chance of recovery.
Defending the doctrine
Feres supporters say the doctrine is necessary to protect the military from costly, time-consuming trials that could compromise military discipline. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine), a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a former fighter pilot, called Feres "a reasonable approach to ensuring that litigation does not interfere with the objectives and readiness of our nation's military."
For years, the Department of Justice and the Pentagon have joined forces to fend off legal and legislative challenges to Feres.
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Are you driven by achievement, a workaholic, basing all your self-worth on productivity? If so, it’s time to get a better perspective on life. Achievement isn’t everything and the problem with this attitude is that you could have an emotional crash when you retire or your business slumps.
Try changing your thinking to something like ‘It’s great to achieve, to do well, but it’s not everything. I can learn valuable lessons when I don’t do so well. It’s okay!’ Try to enjoy the creative process of doing things. Workaholics often have the attitude that only they can get the job done properly and so are reluctant to delegate any work. Assess whether this attitude is really valid as it only increases your stress.
Stress leads to burnout which is just a more acceptable name for depression stemming from the work-place. Change your attitude. Work is obviously a good thing, but it can be problematic if it overwhelms all the other aspects of your life. Your family and your children also need your time. If you neglect them in favor or your work you might just find that they are no longer available when you need them!
Try to find a balance in the different areas of your life.
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Contrary to popular notion, age has less to do with age spots than the sun has. Prolonged exposure to the sun’s harmful UVA and UVB rays damages collagen and elastin, which are chemical compounds in your skin that impart elasticity and firmness. Your skin thus loses its healthy texture and age spots, caused by overactive melanin-producing melanocytes begin to surface. It was once thought that age spots appeared after the age of 50 but it is now known that these spots can rear their dark and ugly heads at any age, making you look years older than your actual age.
Combatting the Sun
So, how do you keep these unsightly spots at bay? The trick is not only to camouflage them but also adopt measures that reduce the damage to the skin caused by ultra-violet radiation. Here are some handy tips:
- Pile on the sunscreen when you go out in the sun. Now that you know what’s actually behind age spots, this tip shouldn’t come as a surprise. Shop for a sunscreen that offers broad spectrum protection against both UVA and UVB rays from the sun and apply it liberally on your face, neck, and arms before you step out into the sun.
- Revamp your diet to include more greens. An unhealthy and sun-damaged skin is at the root of age spots. So, to restore health to your skin and promote the generation of healthier cells, gorge on natural foods such as fresh vegetables and fruits. These low-fat food items will not only work wonders on your skin but as fringe benefits, you will also see the pounds and the inches peeling off.
- Increase the intake of vitamin and mineral-enriched foods. If you are gulping down the greens regularly, you will not be short on vitamins and minerals. Additionally, you can include skin-friendly foods such as carrots, nuts, fish, and yam in your diet to promote a younger and radiant-looking skin by improving the texture and smoothing out the tone.
- Use a skin brightening formula. You can scour the shops or browse the Internet to find a skin brightening formula containing brightening agents that promote the reduced appearance of age spots. There are formulas that contain Saxifraga Sarmentosa extract that is known to promote the reduction of visible damage caused by ultra-violet radiation.
- Use makeup to camouflage age spots. Once they have shown up, age spots do not disappear overnight; you need to follow the above-mentioned routine regularly to see a positive outcome. In the meantime, you can use a concealer or dab some foundation on your face to hide the age spots.
Prevention is the Best Medicine
As you can fathom, as in the case of many other skin problems, there is no better antidote to age spots than maintaining a healthy lifestyle and using sunscreen generously. Couple that with a clinically tested age spot serum and younger looking skin is yours.
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Totally Terrific Treehouses
The tree houses are now open…and we have one new one opening Memorial Day weekend and another in June! Come experience Fort Tyler starting May 25 (members can enjoy a Members Preview event on May 24).
Come climb, explore and play in our Totally Terrific Tree Houses!
The first tree house you will see is just down the path from our Visitor Center features three small cottages built on an 8 foot tall raised deck nestled among the giant hemlock trunks. Originally built in 2008 by the students from the Williamson School of Free Trades .
Walk through the tunnel of the Imagination Station and enjoy a wonderful view into the surrounding woodlands. Grown-ups are invited to take a break in the amphitheatre style benches as the kids don costumes for our costume box and enjoy putting on a show or playing make-believe. This special retreat was created by Allan A. Myers, Inc. and Pocopson Industries in 2008.
The Tree Hugger house sits at the edge of meadow and forest, encouraging visitors to observe the wonders of each.
With a conservation ethic in mind, Tree Hugger is made of materials salvaged on-site from fallen trees and from reclaimed lumber. It was created in 2009 by Janiczek, LLC and students from Philadelphia University under the direction of Re:Vision Architecture.
Cape May Birdhouse
Cape May Birdhouse
This fanciful human-scale birdhouse is inspired by Tyler Arboretum’s Bluebird Trail, a series of over 40 nest boxes that provide appropriate habitats for eastern bluebirds raising their young. The architectural details and paint scheme recall the Victorian beach houses of Cape May, NJ. Relax and enjoy the meadow in the colorful Adirondack chairs and discover information about bluebirds inside surrounding smaller birdhouses.
Designers and Builders: Sam Burkholder and Paul Farnshlader
Relax on the bench that rings this tulip tree. The cords that hang through the hexagonal roof are attached to bells suspended in the branches. Kids can create arboreal music by pulling the cords to ring the bells. When no one is here, the wind takes on the role of bell ringer as it stirs the multiple sets of wind chimes hanging high in the branches. Created by a team of Mt. Airy neighbors – a visual artist, an architect and an architecture student – this tree house gives visitors a playful way to interact with the tree.
Designers and Builders: Steve Kelly, John Darling-Wolf, Russell Pierson, Mt. Airy Treehouse Players
Inspired by the amazing tree houses that were exhibited in 2008, dedicated Volunteers working with Tyler’s Horticulture Department decided to create a house of their own in 2009. The result is Backyard Memories.The builders drew inspiration from memories of childhood hideaways where the world of adult rules were left on the ground. This tree house was assembled from recycled lumber and found objects and features a green roof.
Strummin' & Drummin'
Strummin’ & Drummin’ features a giant guitar created from the trunk of a huge fallen scarlet oak. The stump of this same tree enjoys a second life as the base of an oversized drum. This fun exhibit was built in 2009 buy the local performance and music education group Makin’ Music Rockin’ Rhythms.
Inspired by an angled, towering white oak, the designers of Outlook created a cantilevered platform that relies on the strength of the leaning tree. An arching suspension ladder of steel cables and bars is counterbalanced against the tree with a web of cables reaching out to nearby trees. The oval platform recalls the shape and structure of a leaf. Like a gigantic leaf held up to the sun, laminated plywood defines the veins against a translucent floor. Designed by PDK Architects and build by Hessert Construction.
Located just off the Scenic Loop, ADA-compliant Fort Tyler will be open to the public on May 25, 2013, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. A unique collaboration among Linn Architects in Media, students from The Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades and Toll Brothers, Fort Tyler is situated among a grove of trees with a catwalk bridge leading to a fort-like structure 13-feet high. This tree house recalls childhood memories of building traditional backyard tree houses and forts. From images of medieval majesty to pioneer wilderness, Fort Tyler beckons the imagination to run free.
Fort Tyler was made possible by the following sponsors:
Tulip Tree House
Coming June 2013!
The Tulip Tree House is scheduled to be completed in June and was designed by Parris Bradley, who also designed the popular Troll Bridge, which is now a permanent feature at Tyler.
The Tulip Tree House joins a permanent collection of nine other tree houses at Tyler. The 2008 <em >Totally Terrific Tree Houseinitiative invited designers, architects and builders of all sorts to create unique tree house structures for children to enjoy for years to come.
The Butterfly House offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about, photograph and get a close-up look at local butterflies in all stages of development. The exhibit features a 1,400-square-foot Butterfly House filled with natives including monarchs, sulphurs, hairstreaks, red-spotted purples, great spangled fritillaries, painted ladies and swallowtails. The exhibit includes extensive plantings that feed both butterflies and caterpillars.
The goal of Tyler’s Butterfly House exhibit is to promote greater understanding about a significant aspect of ecology and human interaction with the natural world.
The Butterfly House exhibit is free with the price of a regular admission to the Arboretum and open seasonally through the months of July and August.
In 2013, the Butterfly House will open for visitors on Saturday, June 29 for the summer season.
The Stopford Family Meadow is a meadow labyrinth that invites adventurers to travel its paths to find their way to the center. The meadow grasses are mown in the winter. In spring the maze is filled with daffodils and by mid-summer the grasses and wildflowers have grown high to once again create the walls of the maze. Along the paths and around the maze perimeter there are Discovery Stations that educate and entertain. From the Raptor Roost, located at far end of the Maze, visitors can get an “eagle’s eye” perspective of the meadow. And the nearby Basking Circle is the perfect place to look for a sleepy snake or pretend the stone enclosure is a fort, castle, or other make-believe space.
Sit a Spell: Seats that Tell a Tale
Sit-a-Spell: Seats that Tell a Tale showcased the artistic talent and spirit of our surrounding community, and celebrated nature from the vantage point of outdoor seating. Designed to entice visitors of all ages to “sit, look and see”, it featured both expected and unexpected ways to celebrate nature and enjoy the outdoors from the vantage point of one-of-a-kind chairs, rockers, benches, gliders and other furniture. In addition to seating for adults, a special storybook category for kids focused on fairytales, nursery rhymes and current children’s literature that celebrated the outdoor world. The Lorax, Alice in the Wonderland, the Three Bears, and many other stories were conjured up in this unique display, which took place from May 26 through October 28, 2012. SIT A SPELL was made possible through the generous support of presenting sponsor, NBC10 and media sponsors, County Lines Magazine, 99.5 WJBR Radio, Delaware County News Network and MetroKids
Tyler Arboretum’s SIT A SPELL Exhibit
Delco News Network
May. 23, 2012. 09:00 PM EST
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Adopt-A-Fish programs offer students and adults a chance to share in what FWP biologists are learning about the fish that live in different parts of the state. Biologists capture fish and implant them with a small radio transmitter. Movement and locations of the fish are posted to the internet, where they can be monitored by anyone. Some classrooms even get to adopt their own fish, and can name the fish, and may even take a field trip to watch the biologists conduct their research and see their adopted fish.
There have been three Adopt-A-Fish programs in Montana. None of them are active at this time, but you may wish to read about the programs, and also follow the past movements of the fish, and learn about their unique life histories and habitat requirements.
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The Department of Pediatrics provides a diverse and extensive spectrum of medical expertise from primary care to subspecialty services. Currently, there are approximately 160 full-time faculty in general pediatrics and 16 subspecialty divisions.
The Department offers a full range of services through its capabilities as a comprehensive pediatric care center. Services include a multidisciplinary team approach involving physicians, psychologists, nurses, nutritionists and social workers to treat many diseases including cystic fibrosis, childhood cancers, diabetes, muscular dystrophy, asthma, JIA,, and immune deficiencies. The Department also provides comprehensive medical and rehabilitative services for developmentally disabled and birth-injured children in collaboration with the Sparks Clinics at the UAB Civitan International Research Center. Other services include CV surgery, Sports Medicine, Burn Center, Renal Dialysis, Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Regional Poison Control Center, Sleep Center, Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and Critical Care.
Each year, Department faculty members oversee more than 163,000 outpatient visits, including approximately 60,000 patients seen through the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division. Pediatric faculty manage more than 9,800 subspecialty and general pediatric inpatient admissions per year. In addition, the Neonatology Division provides coverage for the UAB Medical Center and Children's Hospital as well as four private, not-for-profit community hospitals.
The Department's most recent initiatives include: strengthened Childhood Obesity and Nutritional programs, creation and development of a Pediatric Deep Sedation program, accreditation of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, initiatives in Solid Organ Transplant, Juvenile Diabetes Center, and Rheumatoid Arthritis, and addition of CV surgery.
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Start here to lay the foundation for successful, subsequent explorations in the Contemporary Art Start Curriculum Guide and in person at MOCA. The two units in this section are designed to help students become familiar with the basic vocabulary and concepts of contemporary art, as well as the inquiry approach they’ll encounter throughout the curriculum and during guided visits at MOCA.
The Contemporary Art Start (CAS) Curriculum Guide provides a core of general art knowledge upon which to base the specific exploration of contemporary art. It can be used effectively by teachers with little or no previous experience in the arts as well as by those with more. Designed in accordance with California's Visual & Performing Arts and English Language Arts learning standards, units can be ordered flexibly to relate to both MOCA exhibitions and diverse subject areas. Throughout the Guide are questions that work ideally when blended with facilitation techniques.
In this section, find nine units covering a wide variety of forms and media used by contemporary artists, ranging from painting and installation art to performance and architecture. These units are designed to familiarize students with: the tools, techniques, and rationale for using specific media; a range of ideas they can be used to express; and the impacts different art forms can have on viewers.
Explore the 12 units in this section to access contemporary art through provocative themes that cross subject area boundaries, including fantasy, biography, scientific discovery, and abstraction. These units feature a wide array of art forms and emphasize the careful thinking behind meaningful works of art.
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Professor Dolores Albarracin, a psychology expert at the University of Illinois, said that weight-loss campaigns that promote exercise may actually cause people to eat more than they need - possibly negating the positive effects of the activity.
She revealed people who were shown posters advising them to join a gym or take a walk subsequently ate "significantly more" food than those who were shown similar posters urging them to make friends or be in a group.
The professor, whose findings are published in Obesity journal, confirmed: "They ate one third more when exposed to the exercise ads."
Professor Albarracin noted that policymakers should be aware that "whatever they communicate is likely to influence not only the behaviour they had in mind but other behaviours that might be somewhat remotely linked".
Health experts recommend that we exercise for at least 30 minutes, five times a week.
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Boalt Human Rights Clinic Seeks to Hold Guatemala Accountable for Forced Disappearances
International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) students Carmen Atkins '08, Katherine Burdick '09, and Jason Guerrero-Phlaum '09, recently traveled to Washington, D.C. with the clinic's associate director, Roxanna Altholz, to advocate on behalf of Guatemalan survivors of human rights violations.
On October 12, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights heard both expert and witness testimony about Guatemala's failure to investigate forced disappearances carried out by security forces during that country's civil war. Family members of 28 of 183 victims are represented by the Myrna Mack Foundation (Fundación Myrna Mack), a Guatemalan human rights organization, with the support of the IHRLC. The two witnesses who testified at the hearing were family members of victims.
The victims' names were recorded in a logbook known as the "Death Squad Dossier," which was found among secret Guatemalan military files and which was made public in 1999. It also contains photos of 183 victims, as well as coded references to secret executions for which nobody has been held responsible.
Guatemalan prosecutors have virtually ignored the logbook despite its evidentiary value. At the hearing, Atkins conducted the direct examination of the expert, Kate Doyle, who testified that the Death Squad Dossier is an authentic document created by Guatemalan military intelligence. Doyle is a Guatemala expert at the National Security Archives and has compiled more than 15,000 declassified U.S. documents on Guatemala.
Witnesses Elizabeth Josefa Andrade and Mirtala Linares testified about their two-decade long struggle to bring those responsible for their family members' disappearances to justice. Burdick and Guerrero-Phlaum prepared the witnesses' written affidavits and oral testimonies. "Attending the hearing made abstract concepts about human rights real," said Guerrero-Phlaum.
The families are asking that the commission rule on the complaint and hold Guatemala accountable for the disappearances of their loved ones and for its failure to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators. "If Guatemala is serious about human rights, it must prosecute those responsible for these crimes," says Altholz.
After the hearing, Burdick said, "The experience reminded me of why I wanted to be a lawyer in the first place, and it will make me a better advocate."11/13/2007
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A Type II/V cement designation indicates that the cement complies with the requirements of ASTM C 150, Standard Specification for Portland Cement, for both Type II and Type V cements. It is quite common to find cements that comply with multiple cement designations such as Type I/II and Type II/V.
For general construction, a Type I cement can be used. Typical applications include paving, floor slabs, and building columns. A Type II cement also meets the requirements for Type I cement, but has a lower heat of hydration than a Type I and greater resistance to sulfate attack. Type II cements can be used for mass concrete applications, and in concrete exposed to heavy concentrations of deicing salts (bridge decks). Type II cement is also recommended for use when there will be exposure to marine environments and moderate sulfate attack as defined by the Building Code.
Type V cement is specifically designed for high sulfate resistance. The cement is chemically modified to increase concrete's durability in high sulfate content soils and groundwater. Type V also meets all requirements of Type II.
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Supporting Your Student While Letting Go
The college years can be exciting and stressful for both you and your child. Exciting, because your child will be learning to live independently, and this allows both of you to explore other parts of your lives. Stressful, because this means that your relationship will change. Some find this process enjoyable; others do not. In order for this transition to be as productive as possible, you will need to be patient, understanding, supportive, and clear and reasonable about your expectations. Listed below are some tips you might find helpful during this process.
- Rule #1: Don’t ask if he is homesick. While it is true that many students miss being at home, most are so busy in the first weeks of school that they do just fine, as long as nothing reminds them about being away from home. Even if he never brings it up, you can rest assured that he does miss you. If your student is really homesick, encourage him to stick it out for one semester.
- Rule #2: Write, even if she doesn't write back. Your student will be exploring and enjoying her independence and this is necessary for her development. Even so, she will want to keep her family ties, as well as the security those ties bring. It’s nice for her to receive things in the mail (and depressing when the box is empty). Still, she may not respond for some time. Don’t interpret silence as rejection.
- Rule #3: Ask questions (but not too many). First-year students tend to resent interference with their newfound lifestyles, but most still want to know that someone is still interested in them. Parental curiosity can be experienced as supportive or alienating, depending on the attitudes of the people involved. Honest inquiries that further the parent bond are welcomed. Pulling rank, “I have a right to know” questions, and hidden agendas should be avoided.
- Rule #4: Expect change (but not too much). It is natural and inevitable that your student will change over the course of his time here. For some, this change is gradual. For others, it is quick and dramatic. This can be quite stressful for all involved. It helps to remember that young adults should be forming their own identities, and that it is counterproductive to try and stop them from doing so. While you may never understand the changes in your child's social, vocational, and personal choices that may occur in college, it is within your power to accept them. Maturation can be a slow and painful learning process. Please be patient.
- Rule #5: Don’t worry excessively about moody behavior. You might find parenting during the college years to be pretty thankless. Your student may sometimes feel overwhelmed with all that is happening, and she might turn to you in distress. Conversely, you may rarely hear from her when things are going well. You are serving as a “touchstone” for your student, someone she can turn to when she feels the need. Regardless of what she might say, this is valuable to her. If your student’s “bad mood” seems persistent and you have concerns about it, call the Office of Student Health Services to discuss it further.
- Rule #6: Visit (but not too often). Whether they admit it or not, students usually appreciate visits from their parents. This gives them a chance to connect to both of their “worlds” at once. “Surprise” visits are usually not appreciated because they can feel disrespectful. It is better to wait for planned visits, such as the Family Weekend opportunity. After that, arrange times that are convenient for you and your student. When you do visit, treat your child to a meal away from the dining hall or offer to do the laundry. Your visits will be eagerly anticipated!
- Rule #7: Avoid the “These are the best years of your life” speech. The college years are full of discovery, inspiration, good times and friends. But they are also marked by indecision, insecurity, disappointment, and mistakes. In all probability your student will learn that college is much more challenging, in every way, than he imagined. Parents who think that college students “have it made,” and that they should always perform well and be worry-free are wrong. Those who accept the highs and lows are providing the kind of support students need most.
- Rule #8: Trust your student. Finding oneself is a difficult enough process without feeling like the people whose opinions you respect most are second-guessing your own second-guessing. One mother wrote her son during his senior year: “I love you and want for you all the things that make you happiest: and I guess you, not I, are the one who knows best what those things are.” If you’re smart, you’ll believe it, mean it, and say it now!
Adapted from the National Orientation Directors Association
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If you've never had a prickly pear before, you're in for a real treat. You can get about one cup of juice from one average sized prickly pear. For a very refreshing drink, mix equal parts of prickly pear juice and limeade.
This small, lightbulb-shaped fruit actually sits on top of the stem—the nopals—of the prickly pear cactus, a plant native to Belize. Depending on the variety, a ripe prickly pear will take on the color of the flower. Also depending on the variety, the flavor can evoke watermelon, citrus, or strawberry. Because it is a fruit of the cactus, be careful handling it, since not all the spines may have been removed. Prickly pears can be peeled and eaten raw but can also be used to make liqueur, syrup, jellies, preserves, and candy. You can also try drinking its juice as a preventative measure against hangovers. Prickly pear juice works wonders in cocktails and can be used in vinaigrettes for salads. I've used the juice to flavor cream cheese frosting for a lime flavored cupcake, and have seen others boil it down with a bit of orange and lemon juice to make a sauce for fruit salads and cheesecakes.
Many Belizean markets and farmers carry prickly pears. Be fore-warned though, while the ones in markets have been cleaned of the tiny hair-like thorns, the ones fresh off the cactus are covered with them, so be sure to handle them with heavy leather gloves and scrub them hard to ensure all the painful little barbs are off. Either way, handle them carefully or with gloves just in case.
HOW TO CUT A PRICKLY PEAR
1. Slice both ends of the prickly pear and discard them.
2. Make one long vertical slice down the body of the prickly pear.
3. Slip your finger into the slice and grab a hold of the skin.
4. Begin to peel back the thick fleshy skin that's wrapped around the prickly pear. Discard the skin. You'll be left with the prickly pear itself. The flesh is studded with tons of little edible seeds, if you like them, feel free to just chop the prickly pear up and eat, seeds and all. I myself prefer just the juice. To extract the juice, place the "husked" prickly pears into a blender or food processor and pulse until liquefied. Place the juice into a fine mesh sieve and push out the juice into a pitcher or bowl. Discard the remaining pulp and seeds.
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In a survey of Metro transit workers, most gave the agency high marks for safety overall, but nearly half said they have encountered close calls on the job that could have resulted in serious injury or death.
A large majority of mechanics, track workers, bus drivers, train operators and others described their workplace as somewhat safe, not very safe or not safe at all, The Los Angeles Times reported (
A significant number of workers, particularly those who operate and repair transit systems, also believe their supervisors are concerned about safety only when there is a serious accident, the newspaper said.
A report on the survey's finding states that Metro employees said that accidents were thoroughly investigated, education and training programs were effective, management addressed safety-related complaints and changes in safety rules were adequately communicated.
"There is clearly a positive safety culture at Metro," researchers wrote, adding that such a distinction is enjoyed by only "a handful of transit agencies."
Some 745 employees responded to the workplace questionnaire at the LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. It was conducted by Sam Schwartz Engineering, a national consulting firm.
Metro Chief Executive Art Leahy told the Times he was pleased that the survey results were "generally positive" and noted that many of its recommendations already have been addressed. For example, he pointed out that the management of the department that maintains rail systems has been changed, more workers have been hired and trackside safety measures improved.
Leahy said he would have liked the poll to be more comprehensive and questioned whether the employees who responded were really representative.
The Times said significant numbers of bus drivers, train operators and those who work on Metro's rail network were more critical of their safety and agency practices than workers who are less connected to the direct operation and maintenance of rail and bus systems
They claimed that many close calls or near-misses are never reported to supervisors and that Metro is more interested in disciplining individuals for mishaps or safety violations instead of preventing recurrences.
Many other employees who work on tracks and related equipment said they were seriously concerned about pressure from supervisors to ignore some safety rules and procedures to get assignments done.
With about 9,000 employees, Metro operates nearly 2,000 buses and 87 miles of subway and light-rail lines.
The report, obtained by The Times under the state Public Records Act, is scheduled to be discussed at the authority's December board meeting.
Information from: Los Angeles Times,
The Associated Press
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The potent influence of the 'Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce' in promoting economic diversification in the American colonies has long been recognized,
though probably not adequately appreciated. Illustrative of the stimulus given by the Society to one of the
numerous phases of colonial agriculture which it encouraged is this account of the response of two New Jersey men to the Society's
offer of a premium for the planting of voneyards. One of the men, Edward Antill, received the largest individual
premium ever awarded by the Society to an American. The other, William Alexander, the self-styled Earl of Stirling,
was honoured with a gold medal. Both recipients, and most particularly Antill, were inspired by the Society to make
notable contributions to the history of American viticulture.
Almost from the establishment of the first English settlement in North America there had been efforts to cultivate wine-producing
vineyards. Spurring these endeavors was the hope that both the mother country and colonies might be relieved of their dependence on foreign
sources of wine. Perhaps the earliest attempt to develop a vineyard was made in Virginia in about 1619, with indifferent
results. Subsequently there were many other venture sin grape growing in Virginia, some with strong official encouragement but all
doomed to failure. In South Carolina, French Huguenots, especially skilled in viticulture, made repeated but uniformly unencouraging attempts
to create a wine industry. Indeed similar unpromising experiments were tried in nearly every colony southward of New England.
With rare exceptions attention was centred on the problem of ascertaining which varieties of the European grape
(vitis vinifera) would thrive in the American environment. Native American vines, which grew in profusion throughout the
colonies, were largely ignored.
It was with some awareness of this background of failure that the Society in 1758 offered a premium of 100 pounds to the
colonist who, within seven yeras, should be the first to produce five tuns of red or white wine of acceptable quality.
Presumably it was believed that if encouragement were given to continued experimentation with transplanted varieties of
vitis vinifera, an adaptable variety might ultimately be found. Despite the generous amount of the premium,
which continued to be advertised until 1765, no planters came forward to claim the award.
Undaunted, and still persuaded of the importance of developing a supply of wine within the Empire, the Society renewed its
efforts in a new form in 1762. A premium of 200 pounds was to be granted for the greatest number of vines, not less than
five hundred, which produced 'those Sorts of Wines now consumed in Great Britain.' The vineyard, in order to qualify,
must have been properly planted, fenced, and cultivated between 1st April, 1762 and 1st April, 1767. One such
premium was advertised for the region north of the Delaware River and others for the southern colonies and Bermuda. A second
premium of 50 pounds was to go to the planter of the next greatest quantity of vines, not less than one hundred in number. The terminal
date of the offer was subsequently extended in 1770.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, LORD STIRLING
Among those who were to compete for the Society's bounty was William Alexander, or, as he was commonly called, Lord Stirling.
Through his gardener, Thomas Burgie, he advised the society in 1767 that he had planted 2100 vines. Earlier, in 1763,
he had explained to his friend, the Earl of Sherburne, the difficulties that confronted an American viticulturist and had
made a plea for governmental encouragement of such projects.
"The making of wine [he wrote on 6th August], also, is worth the atteniton of Government. Without its aid, the cultivation of the
vine will be very slow; for of all the vines in Europe, we do not yet know which of them will suit this climate; and until that is
ascertained by experiment, our people will not plant vineyards; few of us are able, and a much less number willing, to make the
experiment. I have lately imported about twenty different sorts, and have planted two vineyards, one in this Province
[New York] and one in New Jersey;
but I find the experiments tedious, expensive, and uncertain; for after eight or ten years' cultivation I shall perhaps be obliged
to reject nine tenths of them as unfit for the climate, and then begin new vineyards from the remainder. But, however
tedious, I am determined to go through with it. Yet I could wish to be assisted in it, I would then try to a greater
extent, and would the sooner be able to bring the cultivation of the grape into general use."
It is entirely probably that Stirling was at this time aware of the Society's interest in encouraging the planting of vineyards,
for he had become a member while resident in London in 1760. The son of James Alexander, who had fled from Scotland in 1716
after participating in the Jacobite rising of that time, William was born in New York City in 1726 and inherited a position of wealth
and prominence. After serving briefly in the French and Indian War, he journeyed to England in 1756 and remained there for five years,
during most of which time hewas engaged in a fruitless attempt to secure recognition of his claim to the lapsed Earldom of Stirling.
Upon his return to America, he began the development of a considerble estate at Baskingridge, Somerset County, New Jersey,
which soon became his permanent residence. He was appointed a member of the Governor's Council and assumed a leading role in the
political, economic and social llife of New Jersey. With the outbreak of the Revolution, he cast his considerable prestige and ability
on the side of Independence and won distinction as Major-General in the Continental Army.
The second claimant of the Society's bounty, Edward Antill, was also one of the leading men in the province. The son of a merchant,
landowner, lawyer and political figure who had emigrated from Richmond, Surrey, prior to 1681, Antill was born in New York City
in 1701. After attaining his majority he settled at Raritan Landing, opposite New Brunswick, in Piscataway Township, New Jersey,
on lands inherited from his father. He married as his second wife a daughter of Governor Lewis Morris, served briefly in the Assembly and for two decades as a member of
the Council, and devoted himself to managing his handsome estate and operating a large brewery.
A persistent advocate of agricultural improvement and a fervent believer in the mercantilist concept of the economic relationship
of the colonies to the mother country, Antill viewed his viticultural project as a patriotic cause. 'When I first
undertook a Vineyard,' he wrote at the end of his life, 'I can without the least spark of vanity say, I did it for the good
of my country, and from a love of mankind...' He explained to the Society that when he learned
premiums were to be offered for various kinds of agricultural prodducts, he gave careful consideration to which of them might be
grown in New Jersey, weighing such factors as soil, topography and climate. He concluded that vineyards were well suited
to his region. It was not the American environment, he maintained, but rather the ignorance and indifference of the American
farmer that waas responsible for the lack of vineyards in the colonies.
"The People of Ameridca are generally unacquainted with the Art of improving & cultivating of Lands to advantage; they jogg on
in the beaten Paths of their Ancestors ... I have been thought by some Gentlemen as well as by Farmers very shimsical in
attempting a Vineyard; it is looked upon as an absurd undertaking, as a farce upon Nature, as though I meant to extort from her
what is not in her power to yield. As if America alone was to be denyed those cheering comforts which Nature with a
bountiful hand Stretches forth to the rest of the World."
Having determined upon his course of action, Antill prosecuted the project with remarkable vigour. He began planting in
the spring of 1764, and by the end of 1765 he had a vineyard of eight hundred vines and a flourishing nursery. The
vineyard consisted chiefly of Madeira, Burgundy, and Frontinac grapes, together with a few 'Sweet-water Grape vines,
and of the best
sort of the Native Vines of America by way of tryal.' Planted at a distance of six feet one way and five feet the other,
the vineyard was well managed, cultivated and fenced. Antill deliberately located his vineyard on the south side of a hill
fronting a public road - 'that everyone may see what they otherwise would not believe practicable' - and offered cuttings,
together with proper instructions, to anyone who was interested in emulating his experiment.
When the Society's Committee of Colonies and Trade met on 27th October, 1767, it had before it certificates relating to
the vineyards established by Lord Stirling and Edward Antill. It then resolved that Stirling was entitled to the first
premium of 200 pounds and, oddly enough, adopted a similar resolution with respect to Antill. Some weeks later, when the
report of the Committee was made to the meeting of the Society, that part which related to Lord Stirling was disagreed to and the consideration
of the remainder was postponed. At the next meeting of the Society on 2nd December, 1767, it was resolved that Antill should be awarded
the first premium; no mention was made of Lord Stirling. Subsequently, on 24th December, the Society voted to award a gold medal
'to the Rt Honble the Earl of Stirling for having planted 2100 vintes in North America in pursuance of the Views of the Society.'
What the precise nature of the disagreement was between the Committee of Colonies and Trade and the Society is not revealed. Robert Dossie, who was at the time
a member of the Committee, stated that Lord Stirling 'failed in some essential points of certification,' but he does not explain
what these points might have been. The Chairman of the Committee, ehose report had been disagreed to by the Society,
declined to serve any longer in that post, which suggests that the case of Lord Stirling had engendered some ill-feeling. It is
even possible that the Society's action may have been influenced by the fact that William Alexander had chosen to assume a
dignity to which he was not properly entitled and which he had been forbidden to assume by the House of Lords.
Antill was deeply grateful to the Society for both the honourable recognition and the material reward that had been conferred on
him, and he continued to communicate to the Secretary of the Society his enthusiastic plans for furthering the cause of
American viticulture. He had already proposed that the Society should finance a small, model vineyard where
intensive, long-range experiments oculd be carried forward systematically. The cost he extimated at a modest 200 pounds for
seven years. Later, in 1768, he put forth a similar proposal in the New York Gazette, on this occasion appealing to
'the Gentlemen of publick Spirit, in the different colonies, or Bodies of Men associated for promoting Arts, Manufacturers,
and Agriculture' for support. He also reported that he was writing a treatise on viticulture 'collected from the best
Authors, from the Information of the most knowing among the French and Germans, and from many Experiments which I have made
for my own satisfaction.' It was his constant endeavour to stimulate other farmers to plant vineyards. 'I have set it on such a footing
by some Things which I have Published,' he wrote, 'that some People in the Colony of New York & many more in the Colony of
Pennsylvania are become Sanguine in the attempt...'
His zeal for agricultural improvement was not confined to viticulture alone. In the same letter in which he acknowledged
the Society's bounty, he set forth at length 'the best and cheapest method for raising and fattening Hogs, for raising of black
cattle without Milk, for keeping up and increasing the Milk of Cows in Winter, and for stall feeding of Oxen and sheep'. In
In essence, all of these methods involved the use of boiled potatoes as feed. Antill was pleased to communicate this yet Secret
and new discovery to the Honorable Society for the good of the People of England', and in anticipation of 'a premium in some
Degree adequate to the Merit'. In the same letter he also dealt with the medicinal qualities of rhubarb and the suitability
of olive yards to the southern colonies.
Transcending even his interest in agriculture, however, was his patriotic love for his country. 'I read with pleasure,
nay with transport, the proceedings of this most grand and benificent [sic] Society', he exclaimed; 'I see with great Satisfaction
the Arts, Agriculture, and Commerce rising and improving from Every quarter, and a foundation laid for surprising
effects from every Branch and for great increase of wealth and power to the Nation which I pray God to Establish Forever.'
Perhaps Antill's greatest accomplishment and surely his most important contribution to American viticulture was his 'treatise' on the subject. Entitled
'An Essay on the cultivation of the Vine, and the making and preserving of Wine, suited to the different Climates in
North-America', it was published posthumously in 1771 in the first volume of the Transactions of the American Philosophical
Society. In forwarding the piece for publication in May, 1769, Antill wrote 'I have at last, after many hard struggles, and
many a painful hour, labouring under a tedious disorder, finished the essay on the cultivation fo the Vine ...'. He had
recently removed from his estate at Raritan Landing to Shrewbury, New Jersey, where he died on 15th August, 1770.
The first publication by an American on any fruit, Antill's eighty-page essay remained the authorative work on the
subject for more than fifty years. It borrowed heavily from Columella's classical Of Husbandry in Twelve Books, from
Philip Miller's The Gardener's Dictionary, and from other contemporary authorities, but incorporated as well the results
of Antill's own experiments.
THE FAILURE OF TRANSPLANTING FOREIGN VINE STOCK
It was, in one sense, a final monument to failure; to the failure of Antill and all the other colonial viticulturists who had
spent their energies in the futil effort to cultivate vitis vinifera. The European grape could not be grown successfully
in eastern America, where it fell prey to phylloxera, black rot, powdery mildew, and downy mildew. But it was not until half
a century after Antill's death that this fact was at last comprehended and successful efforts were made to domesticate
native American vines and to produce satisfactory hybrids. Antill did not completely ignore the American species.
"The reason for my being silent about Vines that are natives of America is, that I know but little of them, [he wrote
in his 'Essay'] having but just entered upon a trial of them, when my very ill state of health forbad me to proceed.
From what little observation I have been able to make, I look upon them to be more intractable than that of Europe, they
will undergo a hard struggle indeed, before they will submit to a low and humble state, a state of abject slavery ..."
The futility of endeavouring to transplant vitis vinifera to America was at last being recognized. The astute
Robert Dossie was persuaded that the proper course was to develop the native vines, and he was doubtless instrumental
in inducing the Society in 1768 to offer medals for thier cultivation. The anonymous author of American Husbandry,
published in London in 1775, was most insistent that American grapes should be preferred to the European varieties. Antill's work
may be adjudged a failure. But such failures were a necessary prelude to ultimate success. The encouragement that he, and many others,
received from the Society, was instrumental in producing the knowledge that was at last to make possible the effective exploitation
of the American grape.
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LDP won a landslide, but not a mandate
By Jeffrey Hornung, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Jeffrey W. Hornung is an associate professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, HI and an adjunct fellow with the Office of the Japan Chair at CSIS in Washington, D.C. The views expressed in this article are his alone.
This past weekend, the Japanese public went to the polls in their first election since the March 2011 earthquake that triggered a deadly tsunami and nuclear crisis. While many pre-election polls indicated that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would return to power, the landslide nature of the LDP's victory over the Democratic Party of Japan took many by surprise. As the president of the LDP, Shinzo Abe is set to become premier on December 26 for his second stint in office. But although Abe's LDP secured a majority, the victory should not be viewed as a mandate. Abe would be wise not to rush his conservative agenda.
The election for Japan's Lower House saw 1,504 candidates run for office, the largest number since World War II. While a handful of these were independents, the others were members of a dozen parties. The result was a very crowded field complete with a dazzling array of policy promises varying from abolishing nuclear energy, strengthening prefectural powers, increased public works spending, halting a planned consumption tax hike, and constitutional revision.
In an election that was touted to be a referendum on things like nuclear energy and the consumption tax, it is surprising the smaller parties that ran on these issues did not do well. For example, the Tomorrow Party of Japan ran on an anti-nuclear platform while the LDP supported restarting nuclear plants. Yet, the Tomorrow Party made few gains. In Fukushima prefecture alone, the epicenter of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, voters elected LDP candidates for 4 of their 5 representatives. In the three prefectures hit hardest by the 2011 disasters, out of 15 seats available, the LDP took 10, the DPJ 4, and the Tomorrow Party only 1. This one seat was won by political kingmaker Ichiro Ozawa, who arguably could have run successfully on any ticket.
So why, if pre-election polls did not indicate overwhelming support for the LDP, did the party win by a landslide, the DPJ lose large numbers, and smaller parties -- with the exception of the Japan Renewal Party (JRP) -- not do well? Many argue that Abe's stronger position vis-à-vis China appealed to voters. Others argue voters were angry with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's decision to raise the consumption tax. Also, some have argued that the Japanese are swinging to the ideological right. Yet, there are reasons to question all of these. While Abe has taken a vocally firm stance against China, just a few months ago Noda took the unprecedented step of nationalizing the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu in Chinese), infuriating Beijing. If voters are upset with the consumption tax, there would have been more support for the Your Party and Tomorrow Party, which opposed the hike, rather than the LDP and Komeito, which helped pass the hike. Finally, if increased nationalism is the cause, we would expect to see more nationwide support for the JRP. Instead, the party's gains were regionally limited, gaining the most in the Osaka constituency, where the party was formed, and the Kinki regional bloc, where Osaka is located.
It is therefore more accurate to see the results as a rejection of the DPJ, rather than support for the LDP or its policies. The DPJ lost its way. Despite sweeping to power in 2009 with a reformist message, it failed to deliver on its campaign pledges, hurt relations with its U.S. ally, angered its rural-agricultural base by supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and struggled to effectively respond to the March 2011 disasters. There was widespread displeasure with the DPJ's three years in office and the election was the opportunity to make that sentiment felt. Post-election polls support this sentiment. One Yomiuri Shimbun poll showed that, when asked about the reason for the LDP landslide, 55 percent said they were simply disappointed in the DPJ. Another Asahi Shimbun poll showed that, when asked whether the reason for the LDP victory was because of support for LDP policies or disappointment in the DPJ, 81 percent chose the latter.
Supporting this discontent was that, compared to the other choices, voters found the LDP a more credible alternative. Many of the smaller parties focused on niche issues, like nuclear energy or the consumption tax. Others simply have no track-record of governing. These parties could not convince the public they were viable governing alternatives, ensuring the LDP appeared as the only legitimate choice.
Finally, statistically, one cannot overlook the effect of the large number of parties. The large number running in single-seat districts diffused votes and enabled successful candidates to win with small totals. For example, out of 25 districts in Tokyo, only six districts saw the winning candidate gain more than 50 percent of the vote.
This all contributed to the LDP's landslide, but it should not be interpreted as a mandate. It was a rejection of other parties, not support for the LDP. Abe's decision to govern with Komeito ensures that his government can override Upper House opposition to his bills because the parties' combined strength of 325 seats ensures Abe's government will have a two-thirds majority (320 needed). Yet, because the victory is not a mandate, he should not rush to implement his conservative agenda. Instead, Abe needs to focus on the economy and employment, which 35 percent of voters (the most of all answers) said was their top interest in the same Asahi poll mentioned above. By contrast, only 12 percent were interested in constitutional revision or national security.
This is important because Abe made constitutional revision and national security issues a priority during the campaign. After winning, Abe said he will focus on revising Article 96 of the constitution to lower the requirement that is needed in both parliamentary chambers to revise the constitution. Currently, a two-thirds majority is needed. He wants a simple majority in each chamber. After getting this revision passed, he would then have a much easier path toward revision on substantial issues. He has also proposed increasing Japan's defense budget as well as reinterpreting the constitution to allow Japan's military to engage in collective self-defense, thereby loosening close to six decades of restrictions on the military. Related to these issues are Abe's personal views of history and Japanese education. He has indicated his desire to revise the Fundamental Law of Education. In his earlier stint as premier, he focused on instilling patriotic education in Japanese children by revising the Law. This time, he wants to revise the textbook screening process to review the clause that states neighboring countries' feelings must be considered when deciding on textbook contents.
Because he does not have a mandate, Abe should proceed with caution on this more conservative agenda. Voters want their leaders to address Japan's economic problems. There is a wide array of issues from which he can start: stagnant growth, demographic implosion, rising social welfare costs, inadequate inclusion of women in the economy, mounting public debt, and the continued reconstruction of the Tohoku region. Abe has chosen to focus on Japan's deflation and will aim at passing a FY2012 supplementary budget and the FY2013 budget to include public works spending. Economists will continue to debate the wisdom of his plans to curb some of the Bank of Japan's independence, set a 2 percent inflation target, and spend on public works projects that many see as unnecessary and threaten to increase Japan's debt. The important thing for Abe to keep in mind is that he must deliver results ahead of next summer's Upper House election. After all, this past week's election demonstrated how easily voters turn against incumbents that fail to perform.
Given all this, we can expect Abe to put his full attention to the pending budgets to ensure he can claim some successes prior to next summer's election. At the same time, he will probably avoid contentious issues on his conservative agenda to avoid overreaching. Assuming he can lead the LDP to victory in the Upper House elections, attention will then turn to the more conservative items on his agenda and his pursuit of strengthening Japan's military profile. If he fails, and fails big, we may be talking about a new premier as soon as next summer.
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A U.S. military aircraft crash that killed two Marines Wednesday will give new ammunition to critics of the V-22 Osprey, but the incident alone should not doom the controversial program.
The Marines were killed and two others hurt when a V-22 tilt rotor aircraft went down in southern Morocco, where 1,200 U.S. troops are participating in African Lion, an annual exercise with local forces. Marine Corps officials are investigating the crash, and the cause it not yet known.
The crash is the latest black eye for a program that struggled for decades to get off the ground, besieged by cost increases and fielding delays. Last November, the projected lifetime costs of operating the V-22 fleet swelled by $46.1 billion, to $121.5 billion.
The V-22, built by Boeing and Bell, can take off like a helicopter, then rotate its nacelles and fly like a plane, giving it the ability to travel at much greater speeds than the much older U.S. military choppers it will replace. The powerful aircraft has a troubled past. Several test flights have ended in fatal crashes. The program was plagued for years with developmental and technical problems while costing much more than initially projected.
Since it was finally fielded several years ago and sent into combat, military leaders, V-22 proponents and Marine pilots have repeatedly given the Osprey fleet glowing reviews.
"The V-22 remains the safest rotorcraft in the Marine Corps fleet. The Moroccan incident is the first fatal crash of a Marine tiltrotor in over ten years, despite numerous deployments to war zones and disaster locations like Haiti," says Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Lexington Institute and defense industry consultant. "Tiltrotor technology has revolutionized expeditionary operations, combining in a single airframe the vertical agility of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing plane. The resulting gain in operational performance makes a return to conventional rotorcraft unthinkable."
Richard Whittle, a longtime Pentagon correspondent and author of what many defense insiders call the definitive book on the V-22, tells U.S. News & World Report "whether this crash says anything new about the Osprey as an aircraft is impossible to say until we know the details of what happened."
"In any event, it's worth pointing out that, popular impressions aside, this is actually only the fifth fatal Osprey crash in history, and the first the Marines have suffered in more than a decade. Over the same period, the U.S. military has lost 411 conventional helicopters at a cost of nearly 600 American lives," says Whittle, now a senior scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based Woodrow Wilson Center. "The only other fatal mishap involving an Osprey since 2000 occurred in April 2010, when an Air Force CV-22 carrying Army Rangers flipped over onto its back and killed four people after making a hard landing and hitting a ditch with its nose gear during a night raid in Afghanistan."
Yet, due largely to its high costs, the program makes the list of almost every detailed plan for cutting the annual Pentagon budget. The federal deficit reduction panel created by President Obama, for instance, called for immediately ending the program and canceling all future purchases to save money in 2010.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a California Democrat, called the program a "boondoggle" for the "military-industrial complex" last year.
Woolsey said on the House floor that the aircraft has received "mediocre marks" from independent auditors and "under performed across the board." She added that there are reports the V-22 has struggled in "high-threat environments," and the job of the Pentagon is not to make defense contractors rich.
But in the two defense budget cycles since, the V-22 program has survived, with lawmakers green-lighting the Marine Corps' proposed plans and funding levels. The Corps spent much of 2010 and 2011 telling anyone who would listen, from lawmakers to defense analysts to journalists, that the once-troubled V-22 was finally out of the woods and performing better than expected in Afghanistan.
A V-22 rescued the pilot of an American F-15E fighter that crashed in Libya. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos frequently tells audiences and interviewers that he often flies around volatile Afghanistan in an Osprey. And Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was pictured exiting a V-22 during a recent swing through Afghanistan.
Longtime Pentagon watchers in Washington say V-22 critics will try to use the crash in new attempts to kill the program.
"In today's climate, defenders and critics of the V-22 will probably opine their agenda as the facts slowly come in, mostly before," says Winslow Wheeler, a former congressional aide on defense matters now with the Center for Defense Information.
Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at the Teal Group, says "V-22 supporters and detractors have seen what they want to see for decades now."
Still, analysts say the Moroccan mishap will not be enough to sway ample numbers of lawmakers to vote in favor in terminating the program.
"One unfortunate accident won't tip the balance," says Aboulafia, "unless the crash was caused by a design flaw, which is unlikely."
Whittle says inside the Beltway "the Osprey program is in better shape than it's ever been, despite this crash."
"There are always critics in Congress and elsewhere who're going to want to cancel programs, and some will no doubt use this as an occasion to claim the V-22 is 'accident-prone,'" Whittle says. "But that ignores the facts, and if the V-22 survived from 1989 to 1992 when it had barely flown and then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was trying his best to scrap it, I hardly think Congress is going to kill it now."
The Pentagon intends to buy around 450, with the majority going to the Marines and 50 to the Air Force. One V-22 proponent says the crash shows the military needs more Ospreys in its fleet.
"The accident does underscore the requirement to purchase a prudent number of attrition aircraft," says Thompson. "Aircraft losses are a common phenomenon for the military even in peacetime--witness the crash of a Navy jet in Virginia last week--so there must be an adequate inventory of airframes to sustain operations over several decades."
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Here I am reproducing in its entirety a post over on Facebook from my old college roommate and current TFA teacher, Jack Soltysik. Jack remains a friend, of course, and is the most motivated smart person I know. Since leaving college, we have kept in contact and my respect for his intellectual faculties and integrity has only grown.
On a side note, my 2000 National Spelling Bee winning brother went to Harvard to become a doctor ([sarcasm]and of course is now getting into finance [/sarcasm]) and as recently as 2007 told me that he sometimes had dinner with professors including Mankiw.
In any case, I agree with Jack on Mankiw. But here I’ll let him speak for himself. The entire post is worth reading:
A few years back, Mankiw wrote:
“Some students may view the economic mainstream as right of center. That assessment is probably correct, at least as judged by the universe of college professors. But the job of an introductory course is to present, as honestly as possible, the consensus of the profession. If the typical economist is more market-friendly than the typical literature professor, then that point of view will likely be reflected in the leading textbooks.”
I think that I’m *generally* satisfied with this approach to academic openness and freedom. Sociologists are to the left of political scientists which are to the left of economists (please keep in mind that something like 80-90% of economists identify as Democrats and the the numbers for journal editors are higher). I don’t think any discipline is crazy; I think most ideas in college curricula are reasonable and to the extent that you disagree with models of thinking, don’t take the course; and if you can’t avoid the course, it will probably do good for you to be exposed to contrarian ideas; and you will have plenty of opportunities to study and read about whatever the hell you want.
But I think a bigger issue is that the foundations of economics, by the beginning of the 20th century, were divorced from ethics, rewedded to calculus, and there has been very little looking back. When Keynes weaved together his General Theory to get a trodden world out of the depression, the entire “trick” was analytical; it was done on pen and paper with maths. He opens up his book by saying:
“The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight—as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to thro over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry.”
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November 4, 2010 – The United Nations General Assembly today convened to adopt its annual resolution on the “Situation in Afghanistan.” The adoption of the resolution signifies the GA’s continued support and commitment for lasting peace, security and stability in Afghanistan.
During his statement, Ambassador Tanin outlined the many important developments which took place over the course of the year. Among them include President Karzai national agenda, announced in November of last year, which prioritized reintegration and reconciliation, security, governance, development and regional cooperation for the coming years. He also highlighted Afghanistan’s national consultative peace-jirga; the outcome of the London and Kabul Conferences, and the holding of recent Afghan parliamentary elections.
In the area of socio-economic development, he said that “the average income had nearly quadrupled since 2001”, while “government revenue surpassed one billion dollars for the time,” in Afghanistan’s history. In the areas of education and health, he referred to the “71% student enrollment rate, construction of 4,000 schools over the past nine years, and increased accessibility to health-care, including immunization for children, which has led to a decrease in the under-five and infant mortality rates. With regard to empowerment of women, he said Afghan women would make up more than quarter of the Afghan national assembly. Further, he stated that the percentage of female government employees had increased to 18 percent and number of females serving in Afghanistan’s national security forces (ANSF) exceeded 1,000.
Turning to the recent parliamentary elections, he noted that the recent polls were the first which were led by Afghans, and highlighted the broad participation of all segments of society in the elections. “This recent election included 2,556 candidates, 406 of whom were women. Millions of Afghans cast their ballot to choose 249 members of parliament, shaping our nation’s future by strengthening Afghan institutions and building momentum for stabilization,” said Ambassador Tanin.
Ambassador Tanin alluded to continued efforts of the Afghan government to strengthen bilateral cooperation and collaboration with neighboring and regional partners. In that regard, he referred to President Karzai’s visits to China in March, India in April, Japan in June and Pakistan in September. He also underscored President Karzai’s participation in various regional forums, including the South-Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit in Bhutan in April, as well as the Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey Trilateral in January; Afghanistan-Iran and Tajikistan Trilateral in Tehran; Afghanistan-Iran-Tajikistan Trilateral in Tehran, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan-Tajikistan-Russian Federation Trilateral in SOCHI.
On security, Ambassador Tanin noted that terrorists and extremists continued their efforts to expand the scope of their attacks. “The Taliban and its allies continue their attempts to increase insecurity and spread violence to new parts of the country. The violent campaigns of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda have killed thousands of innocent men, women and children,” he said. He however affirmed that Afghanistan and its international partners continued progress in the fight against terrorism by disrupting and defeating the activities of extremist groups.
In addition, he underscored “effective regional cooperation” as “vital for peace and security in the country,” while stressing the need for meaningful and sincere cooperation at the regional level. In that regard, he emphasized increased focus on “ending sanctuaries where terrorists continue to receive training, financial and logistical support in the region.”
Moreover, Ambassador Tanin highlighted Afghanistan’s transition strategy, which is aimed at Afghan ownership and leadership in meeting the security needs of the country. He highlighted the up-coming NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, at which Afghanistan and its international partners would “establish steps needed for a long-term partnership between NATO and Afghanistan that will endure beyond the completion of NATO’s combat mission.”
He also stated that Afghanistan’s transition strategy would be among the important issues to be discussed at the NATO Summit.
Ambassador Tanin reiterated Afghanistan’s commitment in building the size and strength of its national army and police so as to “take the lead in combat operation in volatile provinces by 2011 and assume full security responsibility by 2014. He noted that the transition process would be a “gradual and conditions-based process,” which required the sustained support of the international community for increased Afghan security force capability.
He also said that achieving peace and security would not be possible by military means alone. He noted that “reconciliation and reintegration of former combatants is critical for establishing peace and security in our country.” He referred to Afghanistan’s peace and reconciliation initiative, aimed at “reconciling those who would like to join the peace process.” In that regard he emphasized that “human rights, including the rights of women would remain a priority,” throughout the reconciliation process.
Ambassador Tanin reiterated the sincere thanks and appreciation of the Afghan people and government for the continued support and commitment of the United Nations, and the international community for lasting peace, security and stability in Afghanistan.
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By JEFF WERNER
The Council Rock school board has approved a proposal by the Pennsylvania Economy League (PEL) to conduct an updated demographic study of the district.
The study will assist the district in putting together its next round of capital improvement projects, in addition to deciding where it needs to go in terms of facilities and student population, according to SuperintendentMark Klein.
“It is essential for us to get a current look at this to help us with projections in regard to enrollment,” said Klein.
The board voted unanimously Sept. 20 to spend up to $11,200 on the study.
The previous studywas both “thorough and comprehensive,” but did include over-projections, which Klein attributed to the unanticipated downturn in the economy.
The updated study will provide the district with data designed to assist the administration, board members and the public in making decisions regarding the district’s future classroom, program and staffing needs.
The study will review population trends, housing growth and birth patterns, migration of families and children and enrollment of children in private and charter schools outside of the district.
It will also look at development activity, including the annual number of occupancy/building permits for new and/or rehabilitated housing units and new housing units proposed, under way or under serious consideration.
When the study was last done in 2006, board member Robert Donnelly said it was a more optimistic growth pattern.
“Housing was booming. Everybody was moving around. Now we’re going to revamp that. We went from 12,600 kids to 11,500 children in our school district. Where are those children located? What school buildings do we need to serve those kids correctly?
“PEL will give us a starting,” said Donnelly. “First and foremost, we need to know what that demographic pattern is going to be over the next four or five years. PEL will give us that information,” he said.
Once the district has that information, Donnelly said there will be community and board discussions and “18 months from now we’ll have an idea of where we’re going to take this district over the five to 10 years.
“It will be based on quality information that has a fiscal responsibility as well as a measured responsibility and first and foremost the responsibility of serving our constituents – our taxpayers and our children,” he said.
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(n.) A fluid in which fine particles of iron, magnetite or cobalt are suspended, typically in an oil. A ferrofluid is superparamagnetic and can create liquid seals held in position by magnetic fields. One application of ferrofluids is to keep dust off of the drive shafts of magnetic disk drives.
Ferrofluids were invented by NASA as a way to control the flow of liquid fuels in space.
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Columbus and His Creator
by Paul G. Humber, M.S.
Some years ago, the Philadelphia Daily News published a cartoon characterizing Christians who hold to the fundamentals of the Bible as out of touch with reality. As an educator, I found it particularly offensive. Sammy, standing on the Bible in a classroom with his back to the others, was looking at a flat "globe" of the earth. The other students and teacher, with quizzical looks on their faces, encompassed a normal (i.e. round) globe. The teacher, presumably responding to a student's question, is depicted as saying, "Because Sammy's mom is a fundamentalist, that's why." The intent seems to be to ridicule Bible-believing Christians and their view of science. Apparently neither the cartoonist nor the editors realized that Christopher Columbus, a round-earth activist of the highest degree, was driven far more by the Bible than by the science of his day. A dedicated student of the Scriptures, he put his faith into action.
At last, after almost 500 years, Libro de las profecias (Book of Prophecies), written and compiled by Columbus, may be seriously considered in English! In her Christopher Columbus - His life and discovery in the light of his prophecies, Kay Brigham has provided translations of major portions and analysis of his book. She describes it as "a compilation of passages from the Bible which the Admiral believed were pertinent to his mission of discovery, selected by Columbus himself with the help of his friend, Fray Gaspar de Gorricio." Excerpting from folios 4-6 (using her book as source), I quote Columbus, who in turn was addressing his Spanish sovereigns:
"At this time I have seen and put in study to look into all the Scriptures, cosmography, histories, chronicles and philosophy and other arts, which our Lord opened to my understanding (I could sense His hand upon me), so that it became clear to me that it was feasible to navigate from here to the Indies; and He unlocked within me the determination to execute the idea. And I came to your Highnesses with this ardor. All those who heard about my enterprise rejected it with laughter, scoffing at me. Neither the sciences which I mentioned above, nor the authoritative citations from them, were of any avail. In only your Highnesses remained faith and constancy. Who doubts that this illumination was from the Holy Spirit? I attest that He (the Spirit), with marvelous rays of light, consoled me through the holy and sacred Scriptures . . . encouraging me to proceed, and, continually, without ceasing for a moment, they inflame me with a sense of great urgency. . . .
I am the worst of sinners. The pity and mercy of our Lord have completely covered me whenever I have called (on Him) for them. I have found the sweetest consolation in casting away all my anxiety, so as to contemplate His marvelous presence.
I have already said that for the execution of the enterprise of the Indies, neither reason, nor mathematics, nor world maps were profitable to me; rather the prophecy of Isaiah was completely fulfilled . . . .
Your Highnesses, remember the Gospel texts and the many promises which our Savior made to us, and how all this has been put to a test: (for example) St. Peter, when he leapt into the sea, walked upon (the water) as long as his faith remained firm. The mountains will obey anyone who has faith the size of a kernel of Indian corn. All that is requested by anyone who has faith will be granted. Knock and it will be opened to you. No one should be afraid to take on any enterprise in the name of our Savior, if it is right and if the purpose is purely for His holy service . . . . The working out of all things was entrusted by our Lord to each person, (but it happens) in conformity with His sovereign will, even though he gives advice to many. He lacks nothing that it may be in the power of men to give him. O, how good is the Lord who wishes people to perform that for which he holds himself responsible! Day and night, and at every moment, everyone should give Him their most devoted thanks."
Noted author, Simon Wiesenthal, in his Sails of Hope, confirmed earlier what is now clear from Columbus' own writings:
"That religious elements played a great part in Columbus's thoughts and actions is evident from all his writings. It may come as something of a surprise to us that his concept of sailing west to reach the Indies was less the result of geographical theories than of his faith in certain Biblical texts -- specifically the Book of Isaiah."
William Loren Katz, though affirming Columbus' "enormous skills, courage and ambition," added that "Columbus carried in his heart the burning embers of hate" and repaid the "generosity" of the natives with "treachery." Others have similar concerns.
Sadly, exploitation of peoples and lands followed in Columbus' wake, and Columbus himself contributed in part. His own testimony of being "the worst of sinners" has already been mentioned, but he also viewed himself as "Servant . . . of the Most High Saviour, Christ the Son of Mary." He trusted apparently in Creator Jesus who forgives the sins of repentant sinners. Indeed, he named the very first island he landed on San Salvador out of regard for his "Holy Savior" (translation).
The esteemed Harvard historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, who dedicated a copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Admiral of the Ocean Sea to his "shipmate," Lieutenant Commander Millard J. Klein, Kay Brigham's father, was more generous in his appraisal of Admiral Columbus. He wrote, "I cannot forget the eternal faith that sent this man forth, to the benefit of all future ages." Columbus sought the conversion of the natives. On the premise that people are lost without Christ, such a concern could be interpreted as an expression of genuine love rather than of hate. He prayed on San Salvador:
"O Lord Almighty and Everlasting God, by Thy holy Word Thou hast created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea; blessed and glorified be Thy Name, and praised be Thy Majesty, which hath deigned to use us, Thy humble servants, that Thy holy Name may be proclaimed in this second part of the earth."
According to Morison, Columbus and his family were different from many of the others who wanted "to get gold quick and go home." Only Columbus, "his family and a few faithful, humble souls" cared for establishing a "permanent settlement" and the transfer of Christianity to the Indies.
Morison was not unaware of some of Columbus' shortcomings, but he also wrote of his "humanity:"
It was to Columbus' credit that humanity prevailed over glory. It must have been a temptation to parade this brilliant savage royalty with their gold and feather ornaments at court. But he thought of the cold weather in which they would suffer and die, of what the pretty daughters might expect from his seamen, of the disillusion that would await these innocent souls in Castile. So he took compassion on them, declined the cacique's request, and sent the Indians ashore in the ship's boat after receiving their homage and fealty.
Kay Brigham's assessment of Columbus is very positive: "On account of faith -- 'being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see' (Hebrews 11:1) -- Columbus discovered America, the most significant event for the human race after the birth, death, and resurrection of the Savior of the world. Faith liberated Columbus from the chains of human myopia, launching him on a divine mission and propelling him to a providential destination . . . initiating the histories of the United States, Canada, and the numerous American Republics and the phenomenal expansion of the Christian faith."
Scriptural passages cited by Columbus in his book, Libro de las profecias (Book of Prophecies) include the following:
The LORD reigneth, let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof (Psalm 97:1);
Sing unto the LORD a new song, and His praise from the ends of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof (Isaiah 42:10);
Listen, O isles, unto Me; and hearken, ye people from far (Isaiah 49:1);
My righteousness is near; My salvation is gone forth . . . . The isles shall wait upon Me, and on Mine arm shall they trust (Isaiah 51:5);
I am sought of them that asked not for Me; I am found of them that sought Me not; I said, Behold Me, behold Me, unto a nation that was not called by My name (Isaiah 65:1);
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: And, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:19,20);
But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8).
"Columbus always loved to apply the Sacred Scriptures to his own life and adventures," according to Morison. Wilbur E. Garret, National Geographic Editor, shares that this was also true at his death: "Son Ferdinand reports that Columbus repeated the words attributed to Christ on the Cross -- `Into your hands, Father, I commend my soul' -- and died."
- Philadelphia Daily News, October 28, 1986, p. 33.
- Kay Brigham, Christopher Columbus - His life and discovery in the light of his prophecies (Terrassa, Barcelona: CLIE Publishers, 1990), pp. 53, 61, 82, 85, 86, 115, 124, 125, 127, 129, 131, 167.
- Simon Wiesenthal, Sails of Hope (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1973), p. 122.
- William Loren Katz, "'Ill Winds' Drove Columbus," The New York Times, October 8, 1979.
- Samuel Eliot Morison, "Christopher Columbus, Mariner," American Heritage, December 1955, p. 93.
- Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1942), pp. 6, 206, 476, 494.
- Peter J. Marshall, Jr., and David B. Manuel, Jr. The Light and the Glory (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1977), p. 41.
- Wilbur E. Garrett, "Columbus and the New World," National Geographic, November 1986, p. 564.
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Apportionment and the 2000 Election
Michael G. Neubauer and Joel Zeitlin
The size of the House of Representatives can make a difference in elections. For example, if the House had had 492 members in 2002, Al Gore would have been elected.,though a size of 536 would have caused George Bush to be the winner. All House sizes greater than 655 would have made the election go to Bush.
Examining Continuity, Partial Derivatives and Differentiability with Cylindrical Coordinates
Thomas C. McMillan
The reason why some functions of two variables are continuous but not differentiable at a point (almost always the origin, at least in textbooksthe functions themselves probably do not care) can be made clear using cylindrical coordinates.
Parrondo’s ParadoxHope for Losers!
Darrell P. Minor
It seems impossible that two coin-tossing games, both unfavorable to the player, could, when played alternately, have a positive expected gain. Paradoxical indeed, but it can happen. I have not yet internalized the result: I still don’t understand it. But it is true, and enlightenment may eventually come.
A Generalization of a Minimum Area Problem
Russell A. Gordon
Almost all calculus students at one time or another find the equation of the line through a point in the first quadrant that minimizes the area of the resulting triangle. This line solves other problems as well, and they generalize to three dimensions.
Baseball’s All-Stars: Birthplace and Distribution
Paul M. Sommers
Baseball can provide any number of data sets on which to practice your statistics. Here is one more sample.
Sets of Sets: A Cognitive Obstacle
Sets are abstract objects and sets whose elements are sets are more rarified still, so they can cause students to gasp and sometimes to suffocate. Recognizing this is the first step towards doing something about it. What is done may not succeed universally, but incremental improvement is better than none.
On the Square Root of aaT + bbT
Dietrich Trenkler and Götz Trenkler
There is no nice formula for the square root of a matrix. Here, though, is a nice formula for the square root of some matrices.
Tugging a Barge with Hyperbolic Functions
W. B. Gearhart and H. S. Shultz
The hyperbolic functions, which seem to be fading out of the elementary calculus curriculum, have more than one natural application. The Gudermannian, which never was able to get more than a toehold in texts, is also worth remembering.
Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam
Ed Barbeau, editor
A power series with an asymmetrical radius of convergence, and other new developments.
Warren Page, editor
On the Indeterminate Form 00
Applying L’Hôpital’s Rule to textbook exercises on the form 00 usually leads to an answer of 1. How unimaginative! Any answer can be obtained.
On the Work to Fill a Water Tank
Robert R. Rogers
When pumping water, we usually think of lifting slabs of fluid. If this makes you uneasy, here is another way to look it.
A Magic Trick from Fibonacci
James Smoak and Thomas J. Osler
Dividing 100 by 89 produces the first five Fibonacci numbers; dividing 10000 by 9899 produces the first 10, and 1000000/998999 gives 15. Something is clearly going on. The something is here made clear.
Lagrange Multipliers Can Fail to Determine Extrema
Yes, it is as the title states. Is there nothing we can depend on?
Odd-like (Even-like) Functions on (a, b)
Zhibo Chen, Peter Hammond, and Lisa Hazinski
By moving the point of symmetry of odd and even functions away from the origin, we are able to integrate cos(π sin2θ) from 0 to π/2 with ease.
Problems and Solutions
Benjamin Klein, Irl Bivens, and L. R. King, editors
Warren Page, editor
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About Thomas Francis Bayard
Thomas Francis Bayard (October 29, 1828 – September 28, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served three terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware, and as U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Early life and family
Bayard was born in Wilmington, Delaware, son of U.S. Senator James A. Bayard, Jr. and Anne Francis, and grandson of U.S. Senator James A. Bayard, Sr. The Bayards were a wealthy and aristocratic family in Delaware at that time, claiming descent and inheriting some of the wealth of Richard Bassett and Augustine Herrman, the Lord of Bohemia Manor. Thomas Bayard was the fourth generation of the family to serve in the U.S. Senate. He was considered a prominent Bourbon Democrat.
Bayard studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1851 and worked as his father’s assistant. He was appointed United States District Attorney for Delaware from 1853 until 1854 and then practiced law in Philadelphia with his friend, William Shippen, from 1854 until 1858, before returning permanently to his father’s practice in Wilmington. In 1856 Bayard married Louise Lee. She died in 1886, and in 1889 he married Mary W. Clymer.
As determined Peace Democrats, Thomas Bayard and his father were very much opposed to the Lincoln policy of coercion to prevent the secession of the Southern states, although they seemed equally in favor of remaining in the Union. While many of their actions raised questions from their opponents about their loyalty towards the Union, no evidence of treason has ever been established. Thomas Bayard was himself the First Lieutenant of a group known as the Delaware Guard, widely considered to be one of the military arms of pro-Southerners in Delaware. When the Delaware Guard was finally disarmed, Bayard was arrested for resisting the seizure, but was later paroled. However others may have felt, on January 2, 1861, Bayard is widely credited for convincing the Delaware General Assembly to drop, once and for all, any thought of secession.
United States Senator
Bayard was elected to his father’s seat in the United States Senate in 1868, and would serve there from March 4, 1869 until March 6, 1885. At various times he served as President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, Chairman of the Finance Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee, Committee on Engrossed Bills, Committee on Private Land Claims, Library Committee and the Committee on the revision of laws. During his time as a senator, he was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the 1876 Presidential election in favor of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. As a Democrat, Bayard voted with the seven-member minority on all counts. Bayard was a candidate for President of the United States in 1876, ran second to Winfield Scott Hancock for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1880, and second to Grover Cleveland in 1884.
Bayard resigned from the U.S. Senate to become U.S. Secretary of State in the first administration of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. He was in office from March 7, 1885 until March 6, 1889, and was best known for negotiating the Fishery Treaty, settling fishing rights between the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic. He was also known for having paved the way for settlement of the Samoan question with Great Britain and Germany, and for upholding the special interest of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands. In addition, there was a dispute with Russia, known as the Bering Sea controversy, and an agreement with Spain abolishing certain tariffs.
After four years in private practice he was appointed the Ambassador to Great Britain during the second administration of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. He was the first person with that title, and served from 1893 until 1897. Bayard is sometimes credited for building the first strong links between the United States and the United Kingdom. His term was controversial, however, because while Ambassador, Bayard condemned the American policy of protectionism in trade, which he deemed "state socialism."
The Encyclopædia Britannica notes “his tall dignified person, unfailing courtesy, and polished, if somewhat deliberate, eloquence made him a man of mark in all the best circles. He was considered indeed by many Americans to have become too partial to English ways; and, for the expression of some criticisms regarded as unfavorable to his own countrymen, the House of Representatives went so far as to pass, on the November 7, 1895 a vote of censure on him. The value of Bayard's diplomacy was, however, fully recognized in the United Kingdom where he worthily upheld the traditions of a famous line of American ministers.”
Death and legacy
Bayard died at his daughter’s home in Dedham, Massachusetts on September 29, 1898, and is buried in the Old Swedes Episcopal Church Cemetery at Wilmington. U.S. Senator Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. was his son. There is a Thomas F. Bayard Elementary School in Wilmington and a statue on Kentmere Parkway in Brandywine Park, also in Wilmington.
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The World Energy Engineers Congress features many ways to lower or even eliminate energy costs, though they do come at a price. The conference attracts thousands of energy experts from around the world to the Georgia World Congress Center. This year's event runs from October 31st through November 2nd.
At the low end of the price point: LED lightbulbs. Experts from Atlanta Lightbulbs said while they can cost three times what a CFL bulb costs, they last up to five times longer and don't contain mercury.
Electric cars are also a big draw. A Georgia Power spokesman said Federal and State Tax credits can bring the price down to around $28,000. He said over the life of the vehicle it will yield an 87 percent savings in fueld costs.
New advances in Solar Energy were another hot topic. "Solar is probably the biggest trend in the industry right now," said Pete Marte, CEO of Hannah Solar. Solar energy combined with heating and air systems that grab energy out of the ground can lead to Net Zero energy use, meaning a household can produce as much much energy as it consumes.
There is only one such home in Georgia, in Palmetto. Experts say they are quite popular in Canada, and may catch on as the U.S housing industry recovers and more new homes are constructed.
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Vacation rentals in France (farms, cottages, gites, apartments)
French Language Lessons: Guide to Transliterations
For many native English-speakers, pronouncing French is problematic at best. There are a number of sounds not found in English that are difficult for us to wrap our minds, not to mention their tongues, around. Also, French spelling is complicated (well, actually, no more complicated than, say, English!).
In the Slow Travel French Language Lessons, we have devised this particular system of transliteration in order to simplify pronunciation for people who have little or no experience with French language. Simple transliterations are given for each word or expression with the understanding that they represent an approximation of the French sounds and might not yield a true, idiomatic pronunciation. That being the case, care has been taken to come up with equivalents that are as close as possible yet rendered in a consistent, "user-friendly" manner. Also, sound files for each lesson have been provided.
We feel that the best approach for learning to pronounce the words and phrases in the lessons is to use the transliterations in conjunction with the sound files. First try pronouncing on your own using the transliteration - then listen to the sound file and try again. Hopefully, with a little practice, you should have no problem being understood by native French speakers.
In this system of transliteration, a number of conventions have been employed. Hyphens appear in between syllables of one word, or a hyphenated word. Some accented syllables are capitalized (see Accented Syllables and Words below). Nasals are not directly addressed, however the vowels provided where a nasal sound would ordinarily appear are, in most cases, very close. Liaisons are indicated by red, italicized initial consonants of elided-to syllables.
Transliteration Symbols and Explanations
By some accounts there are 15 distinct vowel sounds in French. For our purposes, we have slightly streamlined this to include 10:
* eh is used for the written "è" and "ê", ay for written "é".
Silent Final Consonants
Many final consonants in French are not pronounced. There are, of course, many exceptions. For our purposes, when what looks like a final consonant is not rendered in the transliteration, assume that it is silent. (There are cases, however, where normally un-pronounced final consonants are pronounced. See Liaison, below.)
Mute e at Ends of Words
Many French words end with a final "e" which usually indicates that the previous consonant should be pronounced. Things get more complicated, however, when a mute e follows two consecutive consonants (e.g. the word for table, "table"). In this example, both the b and l are pronounced, however it is impossible to do so without adding the "shadow vowel", uh. We will use (uh), to indicate case such as these.
Although many final consonants in French are silent, in some cases they become "un-silent" and are elided to the next word. This is called "liaison". Here is an example: in the expression à tout à l'heure (roughly translated as "see you later"), the final "t" of tout is elided to the next word, in this case, "à" (transliteration: ah too tah luhr). The general feeling is that eliding consonants makes for a smoother flow, and thus a more elegant pronunciation.
The rules for liaison are complicated and even controversial. Many French people disagree about when liaison should be used. That said, in the commonly used phrases found in these lessons, most liaisons are not disputed. For our purposes, they will be indicated by red, italicized initial consonants tacked onto the beginning of the next word.
Accented syllables and words
As a general rule (again, with many variations and exceptions!), French words tend to be accented on the last syllable or the last syllable of a group of words. They also tend to be lighter accents than we're used to in English. In rare instances where this is not the case, or for clarification, an accented syllable will be indicated by ALL CAPS.
These are just the beginning tools for learning to pronounce French words. For those wishing further refinement, we are writing a Detailed Pronunciation Guide.
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— MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The technology may still be a few years from installation and deployment, but researchers at West Virginia University are working with a Delaware company and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to fine-tune giant inflatable plugs that could protect subway and vehicle tunnels from future flooding.
The Resilient Tunnel Plug has been years in development and testing, but it may be more relevant than ever: Superstorm Sandy sent a record 14-foot storm surge into New York Harbor, flooding subway tunnels that move some 5.2 million people a day.
There is no telling how well ILC Dover's Resilient Tunnel Plug could have helped prevent damage, "but that's the kind of thing we're designing these things for," Homeland Security spokesman John Verrico said Thursday as the latest testing got under way in an airplane hangar.
Packed like an air bag, the oblong balloon made of Space Age materials flopped out of the wall of a scale-model subway tunnel that WVU engineers developed several years ago, inflating in about two minutes. While contact sensors monitored the pressure, engineers with WVU, ILC and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory visually inspected the edges to see how tightly the tube filled the tunnel.
A proper fit is critical to the plug's success, said John Fortune, project manager for the Department of Homeland Security.
"If there's not a good seal, we're going to see substantial flooding," he said. And while there will always be some leakage, the goal is to make it minimal.
The plug is first inflated with air, then pressurized with water, which adds strength and the ability to withstand external pressures, Fortune said.
When it's fully inflated, the woven bands of the Vectran fiber blanket around it are virtually impenetrable, said ILC's senior project engineer, Jeff Roushey.
Vectran is a yarn spun from liquid crystal polymer. Its manufacturer says that pound for pound, Vectran fiber is five times stronger than steel and 10 times stronger than aluminum. For the plug, the yarn has been woven into 2-inch wide bands that Roushey says can withstand 5,000 pounds of force.
Underneath that webbed outer shell is a second, smooth layer of Vectran that looks like a vinyl shower curtain, protecting the bladder from anything that might somehow make it through the webbing.
"The idea is redundancy and flexibility," Roushey said.
Engineers still must design containers for the plugs, as well as effective inflation and security systems. Tunnels will have to be modified, too, and that will take time and money.
Roushey said those details may take two to three years to fully resolve, but the goal is to create and install plugs that function like air bags in a car. They sit unnoticed — until they're needed.
The testing also helps researchers determine how much larger the plug should be than the tunnel it's designed to seal and protect. Roushey said the idea is to develop a range — say 5 percent to 20 percent — to fit most applications.
The plug's design has changed as newer, stronger materials have emerged.
While Homeland Security was primarily interested in protecting transportation tunnels, Verrico said the plugs could also be used to stop smoke, gases and chemicals.
"But also, the real test here is the deployment method," he said. "How do you get this thing installed in the tunnel so that it's able to quickly inflate, be deployed and doesn't kink up and will seal the tunnel? There are a lot of aspects to determine."
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Lucie Madeleine Renaud (21 February 1900, Paris – 23 September 1994, Paris) was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre. She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grémillon including Remorques (Stormy Waters, 1941) and Lumière d’été (Summer Light, 1943).
Renaud had a son, Jean-Pierre Granval (10 December 1923 – 28 May 1998), by her first marriage. In 1940, Renaud married her second husband, actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault (1910–1994). They remained married until his death in 1994. She died the same year. The couple acted together and co-founded a number of theater companies, touring extensively throughout North and South America.—Wikipedia
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We truly believe in partnering with our patients to give them the best care possible. During the consultative portion of your examination, your Eye Care Center doctor will review with you steps to take to support preserving your vision and eye health. Our office has developed a program that we refer to as Ocular Wellness. Ocular Wellness is the philosophy of educating our staff and our patients about how to prevent eye disease through a combination of preventative care and lifestyle choices. This can have a significant impact on your vision and understanding of your eye, how it works, and how you can have the best vision throughout life.
This philosophy supports our company’s Mission and Vision statements, which aren’t just words on paper, but rather a dedication to our patients and providing them with the best possible care and support.
There are five founding elements to the Ocular Wellness Program:
Preventative Eye Care:
At the Eye Care Center we believe vision is a precious gift and it’s our responsibility to preserve and enhance this gift. By following a regimen of regular preventative examinations, you can increase your chances of early detection and treatment of diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts and macular degeneration.
The sun has damaging rays that can damage the eye. Just as it is important to wear sunscreen as a protection from skin cancers, it is important to wear sun protection to protect the eye itself. Cataracts and macular degeneration are shown to be contributed to by the sun’s damaging rays. Additionally, sun wear will help to protect the sensitive tissue surrounding the eye. More skin cancers and irritations caused from the sun are found around the eyes than any other part of the body. There are several different options to consider to adequately protect your eyes from the sun. Your doctor and the Eye Care Center staff will recommend the appropriate option for you depending on your specific lifestyle and visual needs.
As most people are aware, smoking has been shown to have many harmful effects on the body, and the eyes are no exception. In fact, smoking has been consistently linked as the most modifiable risk factor to macular degeneration. Smoking is also a significant contributor to cataracts and dry eye.
Eat a healthy diet:
Research indicates that a healthy diet is essential to maintaining good eye health. Specifically, a balanced diet rich in green, leafy vegetables and maintaining a proper balance of omega 3 to omega 6 is critical to the health of your eyes.
Vitamin and Omega 3 supplementation:
Depending on your situation, specific vitamin supplementation beyond what a general multivitamin offers may be recommended to you. A large long term study showed that patients with macular degeneration showed a reduction in the progression of the disease after taking certain levels of vitamins with high antioxidant properties. For dry eye, many studies have shown that certain levels of Omega 3 intake (either in diet or supplementation) can reduce the progression of the disease and corresponding symptoms that can affect your vision and your quality of life.
To read more about your eye health and our technology at the Eye Care Center, please click on the links below.
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THE BOOK Wild Beauty was Toedtemeier’s magnum opus. It contains 134 images that show the Columbia River Gorge’s transformation from the primal scene Lewis and Clark witnessed to the developed present. Among the featured photographers is Carleton E. Watkins, the revered nineteenth-century landscape photographer Toedtemeier idolized. Together, the photos tell a story not just of natural beauty but also of the terrible wonder of dynamited boulders and falls now flooded. Wild Beauty is a record of how Portlanders historically have interacted with the landscape, a chronicle of the art of photography, and a study of what Oregon lost—and managed to save. The book won the five-state Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Oregonian named it the top Northwest book of 2008. The first printing sold out; the second was just released, in March.
THE COLLECTION During his twenty-three years as PAM’s curator of photography, Toedtemeier acquired rare, early Oregon and Northwest images as well as those by contemporary photographers working in a range of styles, from the minimalist black-and-white landscapes of Robert Adams to the theatrical fictions of Cindy Sherman and Carrie Mae Weems. The collection now contains more than five thousand brilliantly chosen photos, including those of famous photographers like Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Minor White, and of lesser-known masters. “Terry pioneered for the people of Oregon the idea that photographs could be works of art,” says the influential Weston Naef, the curator emeritus of photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
HIS OWN PHOTOGRAPHS Technically impeccable, fastidiously developed, polished to the smallest pebble on a beach, Toedtemeier’s photographs contain a preternatural sharpness and thunder with his passion for the Oregon landscape. His epochal vistas of sea caves, natural arches, and vast rock formations comprise an otherworldly corpus. His art was particularly informed by his scientific eye (he studied geology in college) and by the history of Western photography. Since his death, a patron has bought his work for the Philadelphia Art Museum; his photographs already had found a home at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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If Project K-Nect is proof that at-risk kids benefit from access to smart phones (many of them, the founder Shawn Gross says, have gone on to take Advanced Placement math classes), what happens to those who don’t have smart phones?
A reader asks:
My question for the group discussion is that because many of my socio-economically challenged students don’t have the capability to engage in education via smart phone technology, how do I get them to ride the wave too? I am still challenged to get many of them to do any last century style pen and paper academics.
I asked K-Nect’s Gross to elaborate, and here’s his response:
“Statistically, teenagers rank as the fast growing segment for smart phones. As a result, we will see the disparity between the haves and have-nots begin to erode. Nevertheless, a digital divide at some level will always exist. In such cases whereby a student is not able to afford access to these types of devices, school systems need to help subsidize access.
The FCC has taken the first step towards examining providing funding to school systems for use of mobile devices by students off campus. If the program is successful, schools will be able to tap into a very large funding pool to help eliminate some of the inequities.
Finally, regarding the concerning engagement, our research indicates that students feel largely disconnected in math and science when utilizing a 20th century model that encompasses paper and pencil. This is a population that seeks manipulative and multimedia and wants to use social networking as a means from which to solve instructional problems. After all, this is how they solve all of their social problems.”
The FCC reference Gross is eluding to is the $9 million program called “Learning On-the-Go” that will be “piloted in 14 states and will fund wireless broadband for 10 laptop programs, two virtual schools, three handheld device programs,” as well as one program in New Orleans that will “give third through sixth graders access to wireless data cards,” according to ReadWriteWeb.
That’s in near future. Read how teacher Bill Ferriter finds ways to include those who don’t have the phones in his classrooms today.
Another interesting point to add to the dialogue: From the Speak Up 2010 survey, parents are willing to buy their kids mobile phones — if the school allowed it.
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Presentation by Damian Wilson, BBC Media Action, about the Climate Asia project.
Presentation delivered by Damian Wilson, BBC Media Action, about the Climate Asia project - evidencing public understanding of climate change in order to enable effective action.
Presentation delivered by Julie Gray, Traffic, on their experiences of engaging new audiences and effecting behaviour change in relation to reducing demand for wildlife trade. Presented as part of the Delegate Showcase at Communicate 2012: Breaking Boundaries.
Judy Ling Wong, Honorary President of the Black Environmental Network, gives her perspective on the progress that has been made towards establishing full ethnic environmental participation, and where more work needs to be done to engage diverse audiences. Presented as part of the Engaging New Audiences session at Communicate 2012: Breaking Boundaries.
Kim Fitzgerald is a independent community engagement practitioner and project manager.
This presentation includes key communication support tools for use with minority ethnic groups, recommendations for better practice, good practice examples, measuring effectiveness, challenges and opp
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Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter
In elementary school, every teacher had one of those pull-down maps of the world to teach geography. On occasion, I thought the largest land masses, known as continents, reminded me of pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. They just seemed like they should fit together, somehow. Not until I took Earth Science, in 8TH grade, did I discover my earlier idea was correct. My teacher explained about a phenomenon, known as, The Continental Drift Theory. He said that some German had the same idea I did.
The man my teacher mentioned, Alfred Wegener (Vay gen ner), developed The Continental Drift Theory in 1915. He was a meteorolgist and a geologist. His theory basically said that, at one time, there existed one large supercontinent, called, Pangea, pan, meaning all-encompassing, and, gea, meaning the Earth. He went on to suggest that, seismic activity, such as erthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, also called tidal waves, eventually created fissures, or cracks in the Earth. As these fissures became larger, longer, and deeper, 7 pieces of Pangea broke off and, over time, drifted to the places where they are now. These 7 large pieces of land are what we now call, continents. They are: North America; South America; Europe; Asia; Africa; Antarctica; and, Australia. Some people refer to the country as Australia, and the continent as, Oceania. They do this because there are other countries, such as New Zealand, included as a part of that particular continent.
At the time, people thought Wegener was, well, “nuts.” Only in the 1950s did people begin to take his idea seriously. According to the United States Geological Survey (the USGS), thanks to the use of the submarine and the technology developed during World War II, scientists learned a lot about the Ocean Floor. When they found out that it was not as old as the Crust, or Surface, of the Earth, sicentists had to ask themselves, “Why?”
The answers have to do with earthquakes, volcanoes, and magnetism. When the Earth cracks, molten magma, from the middle of the Earth, known as the Mantle, works its way to the surface, where it becomes known as, lava. That lava melts away some of the older layers; then, when the water cools that lava, it forms a new layer of Earth. For that reason, if scientists tried to determine the age of the Earth from samples taken from the Ocean Floor, they would be very wrong.
That same equipment also helped scientists recognize that heavy amounts of basalt, a volcanic rock that contains high amounts of iron, could throw compasses off course. This information provided one more pieces to the puzzle. Now, scientists recognize that the North and South Poles were not always where they currently are.
The Earth changes every day. Although we might not notice it, the continents move all the time. We don’t only revolve, or spin, around the Sun. We also drift across the surface of the planet.
The United States Geological Survey has some excellent information on this topic.
University Today has some other fabulous material about this and related topics, including Earth, Barely Habitable?, by Fraser Cain begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, and Interesting Facts About Planet Earth.
You can also read or listen to Episode 51: Earth, of Astronomy Cast, also produced by Universe Today.
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Bicycle spokes & nipples at good prices from starbike.com
Spokes and nipples are an integral part of a wheel
They connect the hub
and transfer the load and power in between them.
have a spoke head, which sits in the spoke holes of the hub.
On the other end is a threaded section, which goes into the nipples sitting inside the rim bead.
are produced in many shapes.
A special spoke type are bladed spokes, which offer an aerodynamic advantage and increased stiffness.
A famous manufacturer of bladed spokes is the belgian company Sapim
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Another very well known spoke manufacturer is DT Swiss
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[Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]
- Cleopatra. Go to, go to.
[Enter the Messenger as before]
Come hither, sir.
- Alexas. Good majesty,
Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you
But when you are well pleased.
- Cleopatra. That Herod's head
I'll have: but how, when Antony is gone
Through whom I might command it? Come thou near.
- Messenger. Madam, in Rome;
I look'd her in the face, and saw her led
Between her brother and Mark Antony.
- Cleopatra. Didst hear her speak? is she shrill-tongued or low?
- Messenger. Madam, I heard her speak; she is low-voiced.
- Cleopatra. That's not so good: he cannot like her long.
- Charmian. Like her! O Isis! 'tis impossible.
- Cleopatra. I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish!
What majesty is in her gait? Remember,
If e'er thou look'dst on majesty.
- Messenger. She creeps:
Her motion and her station are as one;
She shows a body rather than a life,
A statue than a breather.
- Charmian. Three in Egypt
Cannot make better note.
- Cleopatra. He's very knowing;
I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet:
The fellow has good judgment.
- Cleopatra. Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long or round?
- Cleopatra. For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.
Her hair, what colour?
- Messenger. Brown, madam: and her forehead
As low as she would wish it.
- Cleopatra. There's gold for thee.
Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:
I will employ thee back again; I find thee
Most fit for business: go make thee ready;
Our letters are prepared.
- Cleopatra. Indeed, he is so: I repent me much
That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,
This creature's no such thing.
- Cleopatra. The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.
- Charmian. Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,
And serving you so long!
- Cleopatra. I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian:
But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me
Where I will write. All may be well enough.
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News tagged with medical
Related topics: patients , drug , food and drug administration , high blood pressure , hypertension
Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and medical technology to diagnose and treat injury and disease, typically through medication, surgery, or some other form of therapy. The word medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing.
Though medical technology and clinical expertise are pivotal to contemporary medicine, successful face-to-face relief of actual suffering continues to require the application of ordinary human feeling and compassion, known in English as bedside manner.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Gourmands and foodies everywhere have long recognized ginger as a great way to add a little peppery zing to both sweet and savory dishes; now, a study from researchers at Columbia University shows purified components of the ...
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Attacks on the Press in 2012 - Ukraine
|Publisher||Committee to Protect Journalists|
|Publication Date||14 February 2013|
|Cite as||Committee to Protect Journalists, Attacks on the Press in 2012 - Ukraine, 14 February 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/512b79c428.html [accessed 21 May 2013]|
|Disclaimer||This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.|
Parliament votes to criminalize defamation, backs down in face of outcry.
Opposition broadcaster targeted in politicized tax prosecution.
As Ukraine prepared to assume the 2013 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the nation's leaders undermined one of the organization's core values: freedom of the press. Censorship, denial of public information, physical attacks against reporters, and politicized lawsuits against news outlets marred the nation's press freedom climate, the Kiev-based Institute for Mass Information, or IMI, reported. The boldest attack against the free press was parliament's vote to criminalize defamation. Legislators were forced to withdraw the bill within weeks in the face of nationwide protests and international outcry. Protests also greeted a government tax investigation into the opposition broadcaster TVi. Starting in July, tax police and prosecutors raided the station's newsroom and froze its bank accounts. Prosecutors eventually dropped their case against TVi owner Nikolai Knyazhitskiy but imposed a fine against the station. Impunity prevailed in ongoing assaults against reporters, as it did in the 2000 murder of Georgy Gongadze, the first online reporter in the world to be killed for his work. Although the trial of a former Interior Ministry general on charges of carrying out Gongadze's brutal slaying began in July 2011, the proceedings ground away without resolution in late 2012. The prosecution has been pockmarked by the government's procedural missteps. In June, an appellate court said prosecutors could not pursue a case against former president Leonid Kuchma, who has long been accused of ordering the murder.
[Refworld note: The sections that follow represent a best effort to transcribe onto a single page information that appears in tabs on the CPJ's own pages, which also include a number of dynamically-generated graphics not readily reproducible here. Refworld researchers are therefore strongly recommended to check against the original report: Attacks on the Press in 2012.]
Years in jail: 5
Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, passed a criminal defamation bill in September. The legislation would have reintroduced libel and insult – decriminalized in 2001 – into the penal code, with prison penalties of up to five years. Facing outcry at home and abroad, lawmakers withdrew the bill in October.
Verkhovna Rada vs. the press:
July 18: Vitaly Zhuravskiy, a pro-government MP, registers the bill in Verkhovna Rada.
September 18: A majority of the lawmakers – 244 out of 347 present – vote in support of the bill.
September 25: Ukrainian media start a nationwide protest called Say No to Defamation Bill, publish lawmakers' phone numbers, and urge readers to protest the legislation.
October 10: Verkhovna Rada drops the bill, annuls the September vote.
Cable companies: 80
During the government's tax evasion inquiry of TVi, at least 80 regional cable companies removed the station's programming from their systems, local and international press reports said. Owner Nikolai Knyazhitskiy told local journalists that, combined with the government-imposed fine, his company suffered losses equal to US$1.2 million.
TVi under pressure:
July 12: Tax police raid TVi offices and open criminal case against Knyazhitskiy, local press reported.
July 20: Local cable companies remove TVi programming from their networks.
September 12: A Kiev court rules against TVi and orders it to pay a fine of 4 million hryvnas (US$490,000). The authorities freeze the station's bank accounts.
September 24: TVi pays the fine after supporters come to its rescue.
October 10: Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov calls on cable networks to carry TVi's programming again.
Violations in one month: 60
Press freedom violations intensified ahead of the October 28 parliamentary election, IMI reported. The group said it had documented at least 60 violations in September alone, ranging from denial of public information to physical assaults on reporters and politicized lawsuits against news outlets. The number was up tenfold from January; both current lawmakers and new candidates were involved in the attacks, the IMI said.
Attacks on the press in September 2012:
September 20: Journalist Irina Fedoriv receives anonymous phone threats demanding she stop reporting on the transfer of public lands into private hands.
September 26: Investigative journalist Dmitry Volkov is assaulted in Kiev in connection with his reporting on land distribution.
September 27: A lawmaker in Lugansk assaults and threatens reporters with the independent broadcaster RTV when they attempt to interview him.
Months on trial: 18
Aleksei Pukach, a former Interior Ministry general charged with executing Georgy Gongadze, remained on trial at the end of 2012. Valentina Telychenko, a lawyer for the journalist's widow, Myroslava Gongadze, told local reporters that procedural violations had stalled the case. Pukach remained in state custody.
Other unsolved attacks:
March 2010: No one has been held accountable for a brutal 2010 assault on Vasyl Demyaniv, editor of the independent newspaper Kolomyisky Vestnik. In November 2011, an appeals court overturned the convictions of two suspects after Demyaniv said they had been wrongfully accused. The case was put on hold in April, local press reported.
August 2010: Vasyl Klymentyev, editor of the independent weekly Novyi Stil, went missing after leaving his home in Kharkiv with an unknown man in a BMW in August 2010. Although the editor's body was never found, the authorities opened a murder investigation. In August 2012, the Interior Ministry named a suspect – Andrei Kozar, a former police officer – and issued an arrest warrant, the independent business daily Kommersant-Ukraina reported.
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Today I’m at the Caring For the Common Good: Why It’s Important To Integrate Faith, Work, and Economics one-day symposium at Cedarville University. As I have opportunity, I will blog regarding the lectures and panel discussion.
First to speak was Rudy Carrasco of Partners Worldwide on the topic of Caring For the Common Good. He spoke on three basic areas: do the poor have stewardship responsibilities, subsidiarity, and protest & invest.
On the first, Rudy noted the poor have stewardship and justice responsibilities. In addition, they are included in the charge of the Great Commission. Finally, they are empowered through Christ. The poor has intrinsic dignity as like the rest of society were created by God.
On the second, it is important to realize those connected most closely to the problem will oftentimes have the first responsibility to solve the problem. John Cowperthwaite, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971 has said, “In the long run, the aggregate of decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if it is often mistaken, is less likely to do harm than the centralized decisions of a government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster.”
On the third, we must be knowledgeable when applying our good intentions to poverty. Sometimes our good intentioned efforts can unwittingly deprive the poor of justice. For example, a church in the US wanted to help provide relief to those affected by the earthquake in Haiti and gathered jars of peanut butter and sent them to Haiti. Though good intentioned, these efforts impacted a local Haitian entrepreneur.
I hope to update this more as the day continues.
Update: Second to speak was Matt Zainea of Blythefield Hills Baptist Church. Matt spoke on the topic: Theology and Economics: Seeing the Whole.
Economic terms are woven into the Scriptures. An example is the usage of “redemption” in the context of salvation. Another illustration is the parable of the talents found in Matthew 25. God designed us to be producers and are considered wicked and lazy when like the third servant fail to do so.
Oftentimes a fractured Biblical understanding of economics is communicated as one of more aspects are left out. The complete Biblical understanding starts with us as image bearers being called to work thus able to own property within community operating in shalom. As image bearers, we are called to work and through work our image and calling is shown to the world. Udo Middleman says, “Only in creativity do we externalize the identity we have as men made in the image of God. This then is the true basis for work.”
The externalization of work creates property. Property rights exist, but what is really protected is man’s creative mental activity – his ideas which are externalized into things which he owns and has a right to possess and enjoy.
Work and property are essential elements to create community. One person’s creative activity is to be qualified by other people’s creative activity. Creativity is to be mutually stimulating. Community should be marked by a healthy interdependence.
Shalom is God’s vision of how he wants His people to live together. Shalom is a Christ-centered community flourishing through the interdependent usage of His resources. This is the best model to use even in a broken world.
Update: We ended the day with a panel discussion on the topic of social justice and Scripture. Panel members include Cedarville professors Dr. Jeff Haymond and Dr. Bert Wheeler along with Mr. Zainea and Mr. Rudy Carrasco. Audio for the discussion will be posted in this post and on the Acton website within the next couple weeks.
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center provides comprehensive, state of the art surgical care to the Southern Piedmont and Southeastern United States, and educate the next generation of healthcare providers and innovators.
The clinical program incorporates a broad range of rotations and patient care experiences in general surgery and the respective surgical specialties. The first two years of training are focused on general care of the surgical patient, critical care medicine, and basic surgical skill acquisition. During the third and fourth clinical years, the resident has the opportunity to function as the senior resident on respective services, thereby gaining progressive maturity of surgical judgment and technical skills. During the chief residency year, the individual is expected to oversee the care of their respective surgical services and assume the role of the “operating surgeon” on most procedures. The operative experience gained during his/her residency is both broad and complex in areas of hepatobiliary, trauma, and upper abdominal vascular procedures. In addition, senior responsibilities on pediatric surgery and transplantation provide a depth of experience in these areas of surgery.
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5 Foods That Give You Energy To Play Sports
If you want to be in optimum shape to participate in the activities you love, you must learn about the 5 foods that give you energy to play sports. By incorporating these foods into your daily diet, you provide fuel for your body to achieve its maximum potential. Try adding these foods to your daily diet for both proper nutrition and high energy levels.
- Complex carbohydrates. These foods give you energy to play sports by providing glycogen, the main fuel source for the body. By choosing complex carbs instead of sugary simple carbs, your body will sustain its energy levels for several hours.
- Protein. Foods containing protein not only provide energy, but help the body to build and repair muscles and tissues. While athletes participating in intense training regimens may need larger amounts of protein, most people can obtain adequate amounts simply by eating a variety of protein-rich foods such as lean red meat, chicken, turkey, fish, eggs, dairy products and legumes eaten with whole grains.
- Water. A dehydrated body cannot operate properly and will experience extreme lows in energy. Keep well hydrated by drinking 6 to 8 cups of water each day. Exercise will further increase your body's need for water in addition to the often quoted 6 to 8 cups a day. However, the body also obtains water from many foods such as fruits, vegetables and other drinks.
- Fruit. Fruit provides a quick source of energy, much like simple carbohydrates, but without the high sugar content and calorie levels of such foods. When exercising for extended periods of time, usually at least an hour or more, fruit should be included as a main source of energy to play sports.
- Specialized sports supplements. Some people looking for foods that give you energy to play sports turn to supplements, herbs, powders and protein bars. These are not usually necessary for the general public, though you may experience a boost in energy levels. If you choose to use such items, remember that this should be in addition to a healthy, well-balanced diet, not a quick fix for poor eating habits. Such foods may indeed be useful for those who play sports for long periods of time, giving them a boost of energy mid-session.
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Ok my latest attempt, i set up a ad hoc wireless network on my laptop that connects to the internet, i went into the wireless adapter settings and set its ip to 192.168.1.1, its subnet auto filled and i left the default gateway blank, i also filled in the dns servers with two working ones i know of.
On the second laptop i connected to the ad hoc network on the first laptop, i set the wireless adapter settings on the second laptop up, with an ip of 192.168.1.2, auto filled sub net and a default gate way of 192.168.1.1.
The internet connection which shows up as a separate network had the three check boxes on the sharing tab checked, both computers could share files back and forth, so i tried the internet, no luck.
So on the first laptop, the one that connects to the internet i merged the internet connection network and the wireless ad hoc network together.
Still i could share files etc, but still no luck with the internet connection.
Does anyone have any idea of what im doing wrong?
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Google's world wide web wars
The giant of search engines has seen off its commercial rivals. Now it's locked in a series of increasingly fierce fights with assorted national governments
We use its technology dozens of times a day with scarcely a thought. But what is Google? Is it just a search engine? Is it a publisher, or merely a platform, an intermediary? A content kleptomaniac and parasite – in Rupert Murdoch's famous characterisation – or simply a stunning, hydra-headed incarnation of the zeitgeist? Google is a stunningly resourceful and ingenious servant – but is it on the way to becoming our master?
It was 14 years ago this month that Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company, and they show no signs of slowing down. At the headquarters in Mountain View, California this week, State Governor Jerry Brown signed a law allowing the company's driverless cars on to California's roads, following Nevada and Florida. "Today we're looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow's reality," Mr Brown gushed. "This is the place where new ideas, risk and imagination come together to really build the future."
But this was also the month that saw the first US Ambassador killed in living memory, as a direct result of the furious reaction to the crude video The Innocence of Muslims, a trailer for which was posted on YouTube, which is wholly owned by Google. Efforts by Islamic groups around the world to force the company to take the video down saw the head of Google's Brazilian operations, Fabio Jose Siva Coelho, arrested this week after the company lost a final appeal. He was released soon afterwards but must appear in court again.
Brazil has been a particularly turbulent market for Google, with more demands for content to be removed from the website than in any other country. This week Jose Guilherme Zagalio, the head of a commission set up by the Brazilian Bar Association to investigate information technology, said: "Our laws trying to govern the internet are outdated. It's not clear who is responsible for content, and that creates uncertainty."
But this is an issue that resonates around the globe. In Jerusalem, offended Muslims tried without success to persuade an Israeli court to grant a temporary injunction against Google, blocking the same video. "Freedom of expression is not freedom without limits," one of the plaintiffs, M K Taleb a-Sanaa, told media after the hearing. "People were actively hurt by this. It can't be that because [the courts] are not Muslim [they] won't worry about the feelings of Muslims." Inside court, Mr Sanaa compared the Innocence of Muslims trailer to a hypothetical film making light of the Holocaust. He argued that the Israeli courts would waste no time forcing Google to remove material deemed offensive to Jews.
Google's lawyer dodged that awkward line of attack. The point, according to Hagit Blaiberg, was that Google was not a publisher of offensive videos or anything else: it was merely an engine which could be used to search for anything. Google content was not out there in the public domain like an advertisement on a billboard. "It's a choice, they have to go to it," she said.
Google later commented that the plaintiffs were pursuing the wrong party: they should be suing the people who made the movie, because even if Google took the film down, people would be able to watch it on other sites, thereby arbitrarily punishing Google for the success of its search engine.
The argument will rumble on, but Google's claim to be just another search engine is starting to seem increasingly unconvincing. Fourteen years after its winningly spare and restrained home page entered our lives, its dominance of search is close to total. That's why Google was the target of the case launched in Berlin yesterday by the former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley, claiming the search engine is breaking German privacy laws by providing links to websites with videos of him at a sado-masochistic sex party.
Google's freedom of expression defence plays well in the US, where it chimes with the First Amendment. But such battles are less easily won elsewhere, and there are also copyright claims and anti-trust cases to worry about, in the EU and the US. So the company has recently been working overtime to build strong teams of lawyers, academics and professional lobbyists to fight its corner.
In Google's new office in Berlin's famous Unter den Linden, brightly coloured robots cluster in plexiglass cases, young, casual employees whizz on scooters down corridors decorated with cityscape murals, and the conference rooms are named after hip Berlin clubs. But behind the easygoing scenes, a deadly serious campaign to nail German opinion at the highest level is under way.
With the European Commission mulling a new data privacy regulation that would establish a "right to be forgotten" online, and the German Cabinet approving a rule giving publishers the right to charge search engines when they list articles together with a short text, Google risks seeing the ground it has so smartly appropriated bit by bit clawed back.
Rupert Murdoch (who recently admitted defeat on the question of allowing Google access to articles from The Times and The Sunday Times) has described the company as a "content kleptomaniac". If he is right, its impunity may not last much longer. But Google is not giving in without a fight.
Der Spiegel revealed some of the company's plans this week. Annette Kroeber-Riehl, the leader of seven lobbyists in the new office, says the company aims to be "transparent and open". But the magazine claims to have detected opacity and manipulation in the way Google is trying to make friends and influence people.
In autumn 2010, a Google-funded think-tank called Collaboratory invited 41 experts to discuss the crucial issue of copyright. But according to one of the invited experts, Stefan Herwig, who runs a music label, the "guidelines" in the final document that came out of the meeting did not represent the expert discussions but were drawn up separately by a team of nine. "We were merely window dressing," he commented.
Crucially, the guidelines described search engines like Google as "intermediaries" – a term that had not come up in their discussions. The interests of these "intermediaries", the guidelines said, should be "considered equally" with those of creators and users, because they "promote or enable the availability of creative property through secondary offerings." Five of the experts objected to the use of "intermediaries", and expressed surprise that it was in the document. "To some extent," said Herwig, "Google produced the desired results itself."
The man who assembled the guidelines' drafting group, Till Kreutzer, is himself closely connected with Google, having created the Initiative Against Ancillary Copyright, which Google co-founded.
Other examples of the company's efforts to influence public debate include the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, founded last year, to which Google contributed €4.5m (£2.9m). "What does it mean when a company that has an excessively large amount of influence on everyday activities on the internet is also involved in shaping the public discourse?" Der Spiegel asks. "And what happens when a company which has a quasi-monopoly as a search engine also threatens to gain a quasi-monopoly when it comes to explaining the internet?"
For 14 years, Google has been deft at dodging the sort of image issues which have clung to Microsoft and other tech giants. It "has been able to make itself look like the good guy" writes US tech writer Don Reisinger. But for how much longer?
Google provides us with a wonderfully clear window on the world – but at the same time goes to considerable lengths to control the way it is seen from the outside. As the legal challenges mount up, it is building itself a powerful, largely invisible fortress.
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As I've been posting color studies on my FB page I've heard some re-occurring questions/comments regarding painting. I want to take a second and expand on those topics. I'm not a master painter but hopefully this can be as helpful to you as it has been to me.
Question #1-How do you keep the colors harmonized when you use so many?
I think one of the best books I've ever read is, Alla Prima by Richard Schmid. One particular section talked about placing colors side by side as you work, rather than blocking in all around the image and laying in randomly. Schmid highly recommends laying each stroke next to another stroke on the canvas so you can easily see color relationships. As you know, colors affect how we interpret those colors around them. You could have a completely desaturated grey and lay it down with a warm cadmium red and that grey will appear as cool as a spring cyan sky. Moving in a flow with your paint will save you time and increase accuracy. It's hard enough to paint a good image. Make it easy on yourself and lay colors side by side until you've blocked in the entire piece. There are so many benefits to doing this. One of them is seeing the big picture in terms of color harmony. If you can see the big picture, it's easy to solve the problem. If you can't see the big picture, then you're only seeing part of it, therefore, you can only solve part of the problem, if that. If you've blocked in correctly, you will immediately see where you lie. If it doesn't excite you, start over.
This leads into the next topic.
Question #2-How are you doing these studies so quickly? How long do you spend on them? Do you use a tablet, computer or traditional medium?
When I do a study, I'm either outside on location or inside looking at a photo. I use a tablet with a painting app, a laptop with photoshop 4, or oil paints (Windsor & Newton, Lefranc, Rembrandt). When I am outside it's usually during my lunch break. I know I've got 45 minutes to knock something out so I work quickly to block in the values and make the temperatures work. In 5-10 minutes, I know if the painting is working. If its not working, I recheck my values. If the values are working, I recheck my color relationships. If color relationships are working, I ask a co-worker nearby what they think. If I'm alone, well, I might go climb a tree or something. Usually, I can solve the issue in one of those first two questions (assuming I laid down a strong design; I never start painting unless my design is solid).
When I'm working inside from a photo, I apply the exact same principles. I find a reference that inspires me. I bring it up on the monitor to the side of my canvas. From there, I shrink both images down and lay in colors quickly. The advantage to working on a computer is being able to shrink the image down small. I can go twice as fast because my strokes cover more. There are disadvantages or temptations to a computer. Color dropping is like a dangerous drug; it gives you a temporary boost but when it's all over you're left lower than you started (you're probably wondering what a Mormon boy knows about drugs...not a whole lot. This analogy is over) I committed myself during college to never color drop. This was the best decision I made because I was forced to make decisions. As I've began to understand color more, I've seen opportunities to exaggerate and manipulate it. This is the funnest part of painting!
Question #3-What is the most important thing in painting color?
In my opinion, the most important things in painting color are VALUE, LOCAL COLOR, and RELATIONSHIPS.
VALUE-This is the grayscale version of your painting. If your value is off, everything is off. When I paint, I spend the most time perfecting the value in the thumbnail. Once thats good, it's quite enjoyable. You can see the end from the beginning and experiment with colors.
LOCAL COLOR-This is the color of your subject with no light affecting it. Once you lock this down, it's fairly simple rendering out the rest. If you dont understand the local color, the result will muddy your image and weaken the overall punch.
COLOR RELATIONSHIPS-This is how a color looks next to another color. It is either warmer or cooler. A painting is all about laying warms and cools next to one another. There is no universal rule to what is warm and cool. One thing that helped me a great deal was learning how to make a warm and cool for each color.
I hope this is useful in some way. Thanks for visiting my blog and supporting my work. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the encouragement and friendships from this small world we work in.
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The Europe’s only museum dedicated to the Sun is in Riga!
There are no two similar nations or cultures in this world. However, the Sun is equally significant in many cultures around the globe, and people depict it in many different ways. We welcome you to the Museum of the Sun to see for yourself the diversity of ways how humans see the Sun!
There are more than 380 different sun wall decors, clocks and mirrors in the collection of the Sun museum from many countries from all continents, and a special exhibition of suns made by Latvian artists and craftsmen specially for Sun museum.
Each visitor receives a white plaster sun as a gift from the museum and is invited to paint it at the museum’s creative studio. One by one these small suns are spreading all over the world accompanied by pleasant memories. Before leaving it’s a must to stop at the museum’s souvenir shop and check out the original items made by the local artists, so you can take a bit of light and warmth along with you.
Come to the Museum of the Sun to find your own one!
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Parts of the corporate network, such as disk drives and servers, can be at risk of intrusion without a proper data protection architecture. Ron Willis of Cipher Optics explains how companies are using this architecture to secure their networks.
Video Whiteboard: How to secure your data
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Hello, I'm Ron Willis, CEO of CipherOptics, and today I'mhere to talk to you about how to secure data over your corporate networks. Letme first start out by talking about how network security is used today. One ofthe first approaches companies have taken to protect network security is byprotecting their infrastructure. And this is through things such as firewalls,intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, deep packetinspection and other technologies to protect, secure and keep their networksrunning.
Then over the last four or five years, they've focused onhow to secure the people that have access to the networks. And we use thingssuch as AAA, which consists or Radius. We have technologies such as Knack,Knap, Unified Threat Management and others that are used to make sure that onlythe right people have access to today's networks.
However, with all this protection that's been put intoplace, one of the things that still remains unprotected is data. Greater than61 million personal records were stolen just in the last 15 months alone. Soobviously not enough work or not enough protection exists within the network toprotect data.
That's really the third element of network protection andnetwork security that I want to talk about. So for protecting data, you'reprimarily using a technology called encryption. And encryption also requiresthat we have policy and keys in order to make it work and make it be effective.However, today's encryption technologies for the network such as IP set sufferssome severe problems when trying to protect the network. It doesn't scale. It'svery hard to set up and manage, very expensive to deploy. It also breaks keynetwork elements such as load balancing, redundancy, multicast and broadcast,all technologies that get broken by using network security such as IP set.
So what a number of companies are working on today toprotect data within the network is a data protection architecture. So withinthe network, we have a number of different network elements. We have diskdrives, we have servers, router switches, we've got PCs, we've got IP phonesand a number of different elements we connect to today's networks. And more andmore, these network elements are beginning to include encryption as one of thebasic functions within the technology.
So the challenge is how d owe make all these things tietogether and work together to protect data. And so we have a concept of a keyauthority that manages keys and ties all of these different resources togetherinto this data protection architecture. And this is much analogous totechnology called DHCP, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. And what thisallowed IP to do in its early days was a user to connect to the network andautomatically receive IP addressing information so they could connect to thenetwork. That technology really made IP become the connectivity utility that itis today. And this key authority will do the same thing for encryption,allowing different resources to automatically connect and pick up policies andkeys from this key authority. This will allow for skill, ubiquity, set-up andmanagement that's unheard of with today's technologies.
And there's one last critical element to this and this ispolicy management. And policy management ties into existing network securitytechnologies to pick up entitlements and authentications that take place there,and push those down to the key authority. So by adding these solution elementsto today's networks, we're able to completely eliminate these risk associatedwith lost data, and for the first time we're able to completely secure dataover today's networks.
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International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium
Symposium: New Insights Into the Causes of Lymphoma
Monday 28 July 2008
In 2008, a one day symposium entitled "New insights into the causes of lymphoma" was held the day prior to the Seventh Annual Meeting of InterLymph investigators. This meeting was open to all InterLymph investigators, as well as others with an interest in the causes of lymphoma. The meeting was organized by the InterLymph Working Groups, the Coordinating Committee, and the Sydney conference convenors. The meeting included a number of invited presentations across the InterLymph working group areas of Lifestyle and environment, Host and Genetics, Immunity and Infection, Pathology and Survival, Hodgkin's disease and Multiple Myeloma. Invited presentations were chosen by the Coordinating Committee, with the active advice and participation of the Working Groups.
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We have an equality testimony that rejects invidious distinctions among people. At one point in our history it became common for there to be men’s meetings and women’s meetings. It came to be felt that this sort of “separate but equal” way of living out our equality testimony was not good enough. There was a tendency to assume that the men’s meeting was doing the real work, while the women’s meeting was doing “women’s work.” Separate men’s and women’s meetings were laid down and Friends no longer divide by sex. So are gatherings like the “Paint and Pray” weekend open only to women a reversion to the past? Upon reflection I find it to be in right order. Friends with common interests sometimes find it energizing to come together. Why shouldn’t some of these special gatherings be all-female? The practice bears watching however because if we were to find that dividing Friends into groups according to sex were to become the norm instead of an occasional thing then we would be back to “separate but equal” and that would not be in gospel order.
Upon further reflection I find that when it comes to young adult Friends (YAFs) such segregated gatherings are not merely an occasional thing. I would ask Friends to reflect seriously on the possibility that we are treating YAFs as implicitly second-class Quakers by encouraging them to meet so often among themselves and so rarely among us OAFs (older adult Friends.) Two recent blog posts suggest this to me. One is by “James Naylor” of Quaking Harlot. http://quakingharlot.blogspot.com/ “James” writes of her experience and wonders why so many of the YAFs who were specially trained and nurtured to become the next generation of Quaker leaders have instead dropped out of involvement with Friends organizations. James writes: "A series of events recently had me thinking, again, on why it is that so many young adult Friends seem to drift away…I have many lines of thought on this phenomenon. Currently, I am pondering how it is that few of my year in QLSP are actively involved with Friends." Another is the comment by Micah Bales http://valiantforthetruth.blogspot.com/ writing about the FUM Triennial: "Thursday night, after Bolling's presentation, the few Young Adult Friends present at this event gathered together, along with a few other YAFs who had come over from North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative), which is holding its annual sessions in nearby Greensboro. There were about a dozen of us, and we shared together about our experiences in the past few years, as well as about our frustrations as young adults in a religious community that alternately pampers us and patronizes us. There was a great sense that we are hungry for a more intergenerational life in community. We are, first and foremost, adult Friends. We just happen to be part of a religious community that tends towards the upper age range. Christ is teaching his people himself, and it's not limited to any age group. "
The common thread here is that something is out of order in the way we are dealing with YAFs. I would ask Friends to seriously consider the possibility that our frequent sponsoring of segregated YAF events “pampers and patronizes” people who are essentially Quakers who just happen to be younger than we are. Query 12 of our Yearly Meeting's queries for the monthly meetings has it right, I think. “Are our younger members appointed to committees and encouraged to share in other responsibilities of the Meeting?” This query directs us to treat younger members of meeting in the same way we treat older members. It advises us not to treat them as unique or special. It does not pamper, it does not patronize, and, Friends, it is good advice.
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March 30, 2012
The last night in Egypt: Reliving the Exodus
The Passover Haggadah challenges us not just to remember the pain of slavery and the joy of freedom, but to relive the journey from one state to the other: “In each generation, every individual should feel as though he or she had gone out of Egypt.” How can we achieve that?
The Haggadah contains the answer in a simple phrase: “Whoever elaborates upon the story of the Exodus deserves praise!”
In that spirit, here’s an idea for a discussion to help bring the saga of the Exodus to life. If possible, conduct this activity in a room other than the dining room, before you sit down at the table. For those who haven’t tried it, you’d be amazed at how much easier it is to engage people when you’re not sitting at the seder table.
Here’s the background: It’s the Israelites’ last night in Egypt, the night of the final plague, the slaying of the Egyptian first born. (Note: Sources are divided as to whether this plague targeted only males or included females as well.) When the Egyptians learned about this fearful plague, some Egyptian mothers decided to seek refuge for their firstborn in the houses of Israelites. Imagine the Israelites, sitting safely in their homes, and suddenly there’s a knock at the door and an Egyptian mother is pleading for the life of her firstborn.
Should the Israelites take in the Egyptian firstborn?
This works very well as a simple drama. Choose someone to be a door; he or she simply stands in the middle of the room with arms outstretched parallel to the floor. Ask a few people to stand on one side of the door and play the part of the Egyptian mothers begging to save the lives of their firstborn. Ask others to be on the other side of the door and play the role of Israelites. Since Israelites don’t always agree with one another, some should argue for and others against letting in the Egyptians.
If you have lots of people at your seder, you can either let people participate in the drama from the “audience” or ask anyone with something to say to join the drama on one side of the door or the other. Remind everyone that these are matters of life and death, so amplifying the drama and emotion are fine. Arguments based on any historical periods are welcome.
Feel free to allow questions about the morality of the last plague. Also remember that Exodus 12:22 says that the Israelites should not leave their homes until morning. The Bible says nothing about whether or not to let others in or to keep the door closed.
When the drama has ended, ask your group to vote: Are you letting in the Egyptians or not?
Now share the following midrash (Exodus Rabbah 18:2) with the group. It was written down about a thousand years ago, but is probably based on a more ancient source. Before reading the short text, you might ask your guests to vote again about whether they think that in the midrash the Israelites take in the Egyptians or not.
When the Egyptians heard that God would strike down their firstborn, some were afraid and some were not. Those who were afraid brought their firstborn to an Israelite and said, “Please allow him to pass this night with you.” At midnight, God smote all the firstborn. As for those who took asylum in the houses of the Israelites, God passed between the Israelites and the Egyptians, killing the Egyptians and leaving Israelites alive. Upon waking at midnight, the Jews found the Egyptians dead among their surviving firstborn.
The midrash seems to suggest that independent of whatever divine plan may ultimately unfold, on earth we have a responsibility to act in accordance with human moral codes that stress the importance of saving human lives. In this light you might want to consider these questions: Have we stood idly by the blood of our neighbors (Leviticus 19:16)? Have we remembered to “know the heart of the stranger because [we] were strangers in Egypt” (Exodus 23:9)? Have we used our memories of suffering and persecution—in Egypt and elsewhere—to nurture vengeance or to remember our responsibility to create a better world?
David Arnow is the author of “Creating Lively Passover Seders, 2nd Edition: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities” and co-editor of “My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries,” both published by Jewish Lights Publishing.
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- Available Now
October 9, 2008 Sellersville Theater, Sellersville, Pennsylvania
Moonalice poster by Chuck Sperry
According to Moonalice legend, the tribe played a little known role in saving the Continental Army at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777–78. Under the command of noted hemp farmer George Washington, the Army made camp in Valley Forge with hopelessly inadequate supplies and training. As a result, 2,000 soldiers died of disease over the course of a normal Pennsylvania winter. Yet somehow the Army emerged in the spring of 1778 as a first-rate fighting force. How did that happen? History credits Baron Freiderich Wilhelm von Steuben, a Prussian offer who trained the soldiers. What history doesn’t properly explain is how Steuben did it. Fortunately, the Moonalice legend fills in the holes in the story.
Steuben was unusual for a European officer in that he understood and worked directly with enlisted men. He understood how to motivate them. He eschewed traditional methods, such as the cat o’ nine tails and the firing squad. Instead, he used metaphorical carrots. Actually, the substance underlying the metaphor was hemp. George Washington’s hemp.
To reward the troops for a job well done, Steuben initiated a ceremony that the French later named the “feu to joie.” The translation is Fire of Joy. The French used it to refer to a parade-ground salute with hundreds of musket shots. Steuben’s version used hemp and matches. Whose approach do you think was more effective?
According to Moonalice legend, you can’t get there from here. We recommend that you enjoy the herbal products of your choice and then go somewhere else.
According to Moonalice legend, October 9 has been a date with ups and downs. Exactly 1005 years ago, Leif Ericksson first landed in North America. Leif was into Viking entertainment. The local Moonalice tribe was open minded, but chose not to join in. So Leif had a few hits of the local herb and then went home. In 1919, the Black Sox “lost” the World Series, leading to an ugly scandal and a premature end to the career of Joe Jackson, a Moonalice on his mother’s side whose refusal to use footwear prevented him from getting a Nike contract. The fact that he left the game in disgrace 50 years before Nike may also have been a factor. The weirdest event of all came in 1992, when a 13-kilogram fragment of the Peekskill meteorite landed in the driveway of a family named K—-, destroying their 1980 Chevy Malibu. It could have been worse, the meteor just missed the barn where the K—-s were curing their hemp harvest.
In India, today is Vijayadashami. (Vee-jay-a-da-shami), which celebrates the triumph of good over evil. In this country, we will celebrate this on November 5.
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Not since World War II has a U.S. Navy ship been painted in the classic camouflage pattern, but they're going retro with the USS Freedom.
DARPA's Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program would plant stealthy robotic pods on seafloors that could float to the surface and deploy themselves on demand.
Who says military drones only belong in the air? The Navy has gotten into the game, test firing missiles from a 36-foot inflatable hulled, remote-controlled boat. Six anti-armor missiles successfully struck floating targets over two miles away, fired by personnel onshore at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.
Dolphins are smart little buggers, and the U.S. Navy has used them, via the Marine Mammal Program, to locate underwater mines and enemy divers. They've proven incredibly adept at using their sonar to find said objects, but the Ukrainian Navy wants to test another aspect of dolphin-skill: how they do wielding weapons.
You know how water is blue, right? The reason water is blue is because it absorbs the red part of the solar spectrum. This, unfortunately, is a big chunk of the energy that solar cells like to suck down, which is why we don't have solar powered submarines, but the Naval Research Lab has designed a new type of cell that does work under da sea.
Every science fiction movie you've ever seen is about to come true. The Office of Naval Research claims laser cannons will be on ships in about four years. In fact, contracts for defense contractors to build them should go out this year.
At the end of last month, the Navy got an early Valentine's Day present in the form of a prototype fully-weaponized naval railgun. And on Tuesday, it released a video of its first shot, which we're officially filing under "things not to get in the way of."
It'll be a bad day to be a pirate if Juliet Marine finds any takers for their "Ghost" high-speed attack boat. It's got jet engines, a heavy weapons payload, and it can somehow raise itself up out of the water to pounce on unwary buccaneers.
Now that they've got this brand new seaworthy pick-up truck, the Navy is about to start getting phone calls from the Army and the Marines asking for help moving furniture and whatnot. But that's okay. That's exactly the reason the Navy built this ship in the first place.
The Navy, being the Navy, is never satisfied with the amount of blowy-uppyness demonstrated by its weapons. The Office of Naval Research has come up with a new material that turns the structural casings of things like missiles and artillery shells into explosives, increasing their destructive power by a factor of five.
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Hi Seanarice, welcome to the Seven Forums.
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Not knowing the make and model of your modem, call Comcast again and ask how to set up your connection. You have most probably received a setup CD with the modem, you could also start by running it on your computer and following instructions given on screen.
Hope this helps at least a bit. Come back if you have any more questions.
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August 1, 1970
(Mother gives Satprem the message for August 15:)
"Even the body shall remember God."
(Then she translates another quotation from Sri Aurobindo:)
"Whatever sufferings come on the path, are not
too high a
price for the victory that has to be won
and if they are taken in the right spirit, they
become even a means towards the victory."
Letters on Yoga, 24.1636
We've made brochures, On India, and then five cards with quotations.
(Mother gives Satprem the texts)
I am told you said that the Chinese threat to India was "inescapable"?
No, I didn't say that.... Who said that?
It's attributed to P. B. You know, things get distorted....
Yes, completely distorted. I said it was "serious." Because they aren't conscious, the government wasn't at all conscious of the danger. So I had them warned. But I didn't say it was "inescapable"; I said it was dangerous - if it were inescapable, I wouldn't have done anything!
You know that Calcutta's walls are all covered with slogans: "The
Chairman of China is our chairman." The atmosphere is like that. A gentleman who, I think, headed the University there, [[P. K. Basu, vice-chancellor or the Calcutta University. He paid a visit to Mother in June. ]] or the official in charge of education, came here to ask us to go and do something in Bengal - I saw him. It seems he is scared stiff.... He asked us to go and do something. So it's almost officially that we're called there.
The response in Orissa is excellent.
But there is ... I think it's the Chief Minister, or a minister from Madras, [[M. Karunanidhi, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. ]] who went to France because a Tamil congress was held there, and he met Z, who is our friend. [[An officer in the Indian Embassy in Paris. ]] And he told Z that he and the Madras government in general are "very guarded about the Ashram" because we are "Bengalis" ... (I forget - absolutely stupid!) and "what we say isn't true." Anyway ... such stupid things that I can't even remember them. And that's the official attitude. He said, "We'd rather have foreigners there than Bengalis, because we will be more secure." There you are! Absolutely imbecile.
So we are in a ... bizarre situation: the whole anti-government movement in India doesn't want us to be helped by the government; and the government of one province says we are friends with another province and we shouldn't be friends ... So to please them, we would have to become as stupid as they are.
P. B., I don't know what he says, but he read me something he had written, which was good. He said the danger is serious - and it's true.... But there have been remarkable things: for instance some young people from that pro-Chinese movement [the "Naxalites"], who want the Chinese, have written to me to ask me if that is right, if they should be like that, and ... "We'll do as you say." So it shows that in any case the Influence is strong.... There are signs ... there is hope. No, it's not inescapable. It's dangerous, but not inescapable....
But among themselves they're worse than hooligans! They quarrel in a very petty manner, and that's what makes the work difficult.
But I've learned things about the Tibetans.... The Tibetans are with us, but
a Tibetan boy who came here recounted some frightful things.... They fled from
their country and had settled near the border (they lived in huts near the
border, with his father, mother and grandfather). A Tibetan came and asked them
for shelter. They took him and put him up. But after some time (I don't know how
many days), a group of other Tibetans came to find that man, saying he
was an enemy. So those Tibetans (I thought they were all the "victims of the
Chinese" - they are the victims of their own division), they came and killed the
father, mother and grandfather; they tried to kill the son but missed: he
escaped and is now here. Incredible stories! So they're all like that, arguing
and quarreling among themselves - naturally, if they continue ... they open the
door to everything.
So some tell me, "Don't be with this man, because ..." and others tell me, "Don't be with those, because they are enemies...." There you are!
So we answer, "We are with everybody."
One wonders what will have the power to pull India out of all
They must be pulled out of politics.
Sri Aurobindo said in black and white what they should do.
I said (I saw the governor, he comes and sees me), I told him, "You have an exceptional chance, it's the Centenary; it's an opportunity which gives you a sort of right to push it forward - use it, use this opportunity; you have two years to counter the movement."
But we can't openly say we are with them, because ... that would cut off a whole party - we are with nobody. We are only with Sri Aurobindo - with nobody. Those who come, whoever they are, are welcome.
This (Mother points to the brochures) is part of the literature we distribute, there are very good things in it. I haven't read it.
It's a series of questions and answers about all kinds of problems: education, language, and so on.
Are there answers from Sri Aurobindo?
I don't know, it's not signed. Yet I see one thing from you....
Nothing is quoted or signed, so one doesn't know if it's from Sri
Aurobindo, from you or from someone else.
But we are obliged to let the idea stand on its own, because if we present it in the name of someone they don't like, they'll chuck it out!
They wanted to involve me in the action but I refused. I said,
"No, I don't want to." I don't want to get involved in this: I am not
Indian, and I don't want to be pushed to the fore so that one day they'll
suddenly say there's a "foreigner meddling in our affairs." I forbade them to
say, "Mother said this ... Mother said that...." No thanks!
Yes, but that's how they are!
It's comfortable when one is ... (gesture in the background). Yet I see some of them, they come, more and more of them. I can't always refuse.
That's why, that's the reason why I didn't want to write something of my own to this Msgr. R. I don't want to, I don't want people to say, "Oh, there's a woman who ... Mother who ..." - that doesn't exist! (Mother laughs)
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Littelfuse has introduced the LV UltraMOV Series of low voltage, high surge current, radial leaded varistors. They provide an ideal circuit protection solution for lower DC voltage applications by offering higher surge ratings than ever before available in such small disc sizes.
A few months ago, my wife bought a lamp at an office-supply place to light up the table where my father-in-law plays dominoes with us. He’s 87 and his eyesight isn’t what it used to be, so having lots of light in the right place is important. The ceiling light doesn’t quite do the job.
Osram Opto Semiconductors has expanded its portfolio of proximity and ambient light sensors with a new, extremely powerful version with low power consumption. The compact SFH 7776 digital sensor registers the ambient brightness – even behind dark smartphone covers....
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Dow Corning introduced new Dispensable Thermal Pads, which are positioned as providing cost-effective thermal management in LED lighting applications. The new materials are said to enable LED lamp and luminaire manufacturers t
When I was a child, my brother and I would play a little game, flipping on light switches and counting the minutes until my dad turned them off. He told us that someday we’d pay the electric bill and he’d have the last laugh, watching us pad around turning out lights just like he had.
U.S. traffic safety regulators are asking automakers to put stronger limits on how long drivers can use in-car touchscreens in an effort to curb distracted driving.The voluntary guidelines unveiled Tuesday would restrict the amount of time it takes to perform a single function on the car's audio/visual systems to two seconds.
Acuity Brands, Inc. will unveil a new LED lighting system concept during LIGHTFAIR International 2013, April 23-25, in Philadelphia. Using wall-recessed LED luminaires, the system is a unique combination of indirect ambient illumination and luminous presentations to provide an engaging, visual experience that can be customized for the occupant and the space.
Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with colleagues at the École Polytechnique in France, have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes light emitting diodes to be less efficient at high drive currents.
Bridgelux announced the commercial availability of the Vero LED array, a solid state light source that is positioned as making quality lighting easy. All form factors of the LED arrays are now commercially available and shipping to customers and distribution partners worldwide. The
JKL Components Corporation has announced the availability of an LED Signage & Display Kit — Part Number SK14. It includes a full selection of LED technologies appropriate for use in the signage, display, gaming and architectural industries. These kits are excellent for product development of backlit signs....
Phihong USA has introduced a new series of waterproof LED drivers for use in a broad range of residential and commercial applications. Designated the PDA040 series, the LED power supplies are available in constant-current outputs of 700, 1050 and 1400mA at a nominal input voltage rating of 120-277VAC.
BlueLevel Technologies, Inc, has announced a flexible extended length version of the Model AP/APX RF admittance point level sensor using a rugged ⅛” diameter stainless steel cable. To aid in the shedding of material from the cable a Teflon coating has been added, which has an extremely low coefficient of friction.
The GenLume series of LED drivers from ERG Lighting offers a wide range of efficient and reliable drivers with output power from 18W to 200W, including exclusive easy-to-install wiring compartments that eliminate the need for a J-box. Applications include signage, outdoor lighting, strip lighting, and industrial illumination....
The April issue of ECN deals with power and wireless power supplies. In the Editor’s View, Executive Editor Chris Warner discusses Marissa Mayer’s infamous memo to Yahoo employees, Managing Editor Kasey Panetta details bendable display technology, and Technical Contributor M. Simon delves into the pros and cons of LEDs as they relate to design.
DILAS offers a 120 Watt, high-brightness and high-efficiency device from a tailored bar (T-Bar) based, 976nm, 100-micron, 0.22NA fiber-coupled module. Through the optimization of semiconductor chip structures and optical parameters, DILAS’ T-Bar architecture delivers high beam quality....
The new infrared (IRED) Oslon black SFH 4716S from Osram Opto Semiconductors is one of the most powerful IREDs on the market, with an optical output of 1030 milliwatts (mW) and a beam angle of 150 degrees. It offers perfect illumination at a range of a few yards/meters and is ideal for gesture detection systems....
Larson Electronics Magnalight released the RFM-LED-7 roof mounted, pan and tilt LED light. Equipped with a handle and shaft suited for most standard vehicles, this roof mounted LED light can be positioned quickly and easily by operators from inside their vehicle.
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A visual guide to what the cosmic event will look like from space -- and from right here on Earth.
The Andromeda galaxy is about 2.5 million light years away -- for now.
NASA scientists announced yesterday that Andromeda (also called M31) and our own galaxy, the Milky Way, are on a collision course that will result in a dramatic rearranging of the two galaxies that will begin in about four billion years and last for another two billion. In the end, the two galaxies will merge completely into a single elliptical galaxy. A third galaxy, M33, may join in the collision, and, possibly, even reach the Milky Way first.
It had long been known that Andromeda is rushing towards Earth at about 250,000 miles per hour -- or about the distance from Earth to the moon -- but scientists were unsure whether the two galaxies would full-on collide or just barely brush. The new research is the result of careful observations of Andromeda by the Hubble Space Telescope, which show that the gravitational pull of each galaxy is pulling them closer and closer together, and "remove any doubt that [M31] is destined to collide and merge with the Milky Way," NASA said. The sun could end up in a completely different region of the galaxy, one much farther from the galactic center, but that the Earth and solar system would survive.
These sorts of collisions were more common in the early universe, when the universe was smaller, but they still happen because of the gravitational pull of dark matter.
NASA has provided artistic renderings of what the whole event -- unfolding over billions of years -- will look like from here on Earth:
In addition, a video shows the trajectory of the two galaxies and how the collision will appear from space:
To learn more about how scientists measure distances of light years in space, we have an explainer video up here.
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Science magazine (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS]) has been holding a Dance Your PhD contest since 2008* (as best I can determine from a Sept. 17, 2010 posting by Katherine for SciFri). In any case, this year they received a record number of entries (from an Oct. 14, 2011 posting by John Bohannon on Science Now),
Have you ever wondered what nanotube chemistry might look like as a dance? Or fruit fly sex? Or protein x-ray crystallography? Look no further. As part of the 2011 Dance Your Ph.D. contest, scientists who study those phenomena and more have converted their research into dance videos for your enjoyment and edification. And today the 16 finalists of this annual contest are revealed below.
A record 55 dances were created for this year’s contest, submitted by scientists around the globe, from the United States and Canada to Europe, India, and Australia. As the contest rules state, each dance must be based on the scientist’s own Ph.D. research thesis, and that scientist must participate in the dance. For many of the graduate students who danced, the research they depicted is still ongoing. For some of the older contestants, the project is a distant, perhaps harrowing memory from their early days in science. The dances are divided into four categories based on subject: physics, chemistry, biology, and social science. (The criteria for those categories are explained here.)
One of this year’s finalists is from the DeRosa lab at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Titled, “DNA Aptamers as a Tool for Studying Mental Health Disease.” Erin McConnell and her troop are featured in the video below,
I haven’t had time to review the other finalists but given this one, I can hardly wait.
The DeRosa lab also had a finalist in last year’s Dance Your PhD contest. It’s not the only reason I contacted the lab’s leader, Maria DeRosa but it did add a piquant flavour to my interview with her, which I will be posting tomorrow (Oct. 25, 2011).
*ETA Oct 24, 2011 1500 hours: There is an Oct. 18, 2011 article by Bob Weber for the Globe and Mail newspaper about the Canadian finalists in the 2011 Dance Your PhD contest. The contest was informally created in 2007 according to its originator John Bohannon.
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Lately, I’ve been reading a book called The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me about Politics, Leadership, and Life, by Dick Wirthlin, Reagan’s chief strategist and pollster from 1968 to 1988 and unofficial member of his inner circle. Wirthlin gives some interesting insights into Reagan’s personality, beliefs, style, and skills. Of course, it is Reagan’s oratory and rhetorical talents that come to the fore. What was it that made Reagan such an effective speaker? Obviously, he was able to deeply connect with his audience. But, how?
“[One] key component of Reagan’s ability to persuade through reason by motivating through emotion, and an incredibly effective means of conveying core values in personally relevant ways, was his integration of stories in his communications. Stories work because they don’t raise the red flag of the ‘hard sell,’ and indeed, Reagan used them to let the audience link the rational to the emotional for themselves.”
But, the aspect I want to highlight here is that of “core values”.
“What put Reagan in a league of his own was his intuitive but sure understanding that values are the strategic linchpins of effective persuasion. I define values as the measures by which individuals determine the worth or importance of matters of concern in their lives. For example, ‘freedom’ is a value. If a person cherishes freedom, that value becomes the yardstick by which he or she can measure the importance of relevant public policies. A president might argue that a given military action is necessary to protect our ‘freedom.’ The presence of that value communicates that the speaker treasures an insight that exists within the individual members of his or her audience. Put another way, if persuasive communication skills are precious jewels, then values are the showcase used to display them.”
Well put, I think. Later, Wirthlin continues his appraisal of the “values” component in Reagan’s communications:
“What was it about the Greatest Communicator that made people love him so?
After conducting hundreds of studies on President Reagan’s leadership, and after having spent a quarter century at his side analyzing his every communicative move, I believe I can answer that question in that one word I raised earlier in talking about his communicative strength: values.
The reason Ronald Reagan continues to engender such a deep emotional response is that he communicated universally these shared values. While issues change, values endure. I defined values earlier as those beliefs that give life its meaning and worth. They are the ‘anchors’ that order the world around us. We don’t often think in terms of our values, but that is precisely why they wield such power. Like gravity, these invisible forces order the way we live, the choices we make, and the things we hold dear. Values are unchanging, transcendent, timeless. Politicians who speak about ‘issues’ come and go. But that rare breed of leader whose rhetoric embodies broadly shared values in the context of issues represents an individual who will likely stand the test of time.
This fundamental truth of communicative leadership goes a long way toward explaining the depth of commitment and passion people feel when they talk about Ronald Reagan. I once told a reporter I would walk over hot coals for Reagan. Okay, so maybe that was a tad overstated, but the fact is Reagan struck powerful chords when he spoke. And it wasn’t just with me. Listen to the language people use when talking about his legacy. I mean, honestly, can you imagine anyone referring to the Johnson Revolution, the Nixon Revolution, the Ford Revolution, the Carter Revolution, or the Clinton Revolution?
But the Reagan Revolution?
‘The Gipper’ made you want to join his revolution.”
You may not be or have been a huge Reagan fan. But, you have to admit that his abilities as a speaker to really connect with his audience, gain their trust, and even infect them with his optimistic enthusiasm was amazing. I think Wirthlin was able to identify some very significant factors for why that was.
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Latest information continues to point to a slightly larger global cereal output in 2000 than in the previous year. However, based on current forecasts, total cereal production would not be sufficient to meet expected utilization requirements in 2000/01 and global cereal reserves would have to be drawn down. To avoid any further deterioration of the cereal supply and demand balance in 2001/02, a more significant increase in cereal production would be necessary in 2001.
FAO's latest forecast of world cereal production in 2000 is 1 896 million tonnes, (including rice in milled equivalent), 6 million tonnes more than the forecast in the previous report and about 1.3 percent above the revised estimate of 1 871 million tonnes for 1999. The forecast for wheat has been revised down since the last report, by 5 million tonnes, to 590 million tonnes. This would be virtually unchanged from the previous year's output and close to the average of the past five years. In Asia, aggregate output in the region is forecast to remain virtually unchanged from the previous year. Although, serious drought could reduce the main rainfed crops in several countries throughout the region, the main irrigated crops have performed well. In Africa, reflecting persisting drought in the main wheat producing countries in the north of the region, the wheat output forecast has been reduced since the last report and now points to a decrease compared to 1999. Also in Europe, the forecast for wheat has been revised downward slightly, mainly reflecting a deterioration of prospects in the Russian Federation. Nevertheless, output in this region is still expected to rise sharply from the previous year following a significant increase in area in the EC. The forecasts for North America and Central America remain virtually unchanged since the last report. A smaller crop is expected in North America this year due to reduced plantings. The Central American crop may increase slightly but will remain close to the normal level. In the southern hemisphere, although the main 2000 wheat crops are still being planted in some areas, early indications are generally favourable; above average crops are expected in South America and Oceania, although slightly below the previous year's levels.
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FAO's forecast for global coarse grains output in 2000 now stands at 908 million tonnes, 8 million tonnes up since the last report, and 3.3 percent above the revised estimate of 879 million tonnes for 1999. The bulk of the revision since the previous report, is accounted for by North America and Europe, where planting conditions have been generally favourable and more land has been devoted to coarse grains this year. Elsewhere in the northern hemisphere, coarse grains production in Asia is expected to decline marginally, while slight increases may be recorded in Africa and Central America. In the southern hemisphere, larger coarse grain crops are expected in South America and Oceania.
The 2000/01 paddy season is underway in some northern hemisphere countries while, in others, the season still awaits the onset of monsoon rains, which generally begin during June. Current indications suggest that rice area could contract in some countries, reflecting the effects of government policies and/or low international rice prices relative to alternative crops. In the southern hemisphere and around the equatorial belt, harvesting of this season's main paddy crop has already been completed in some countries and is nearing completion in others. Preliminary assessments, particularly in the major producing countries, point to a lower paddy production, mostly attributed to a fall in area, resulting from depressed rice prices. FAO tentatively forecasts global rice output in 2000 at 398 million tonnes (596 million tonnes in paddy terms), about 1 percent less than the record 1999 crop.
FAO's first forecast of world cereal trade in 2000/01 is 221 million tonnes, about 4 million tonnes, below the estimated volume in 1999/2000. Global wheat trade is forecast to fall by over 2 million tonnes in 2000/01 to 101.5 million tonnes, still above the average of the past 5 years. Most of the decrease is accounted for by the Russian Federation and Pakistan in view of improved production prospects this year. Trade in coarse grains is also expected to be smaller, by about 2 million tonnes, at 97 million tonnes, mostly because of increased production in a few importing countries, especially the Russian Federation. For rice, while it is still too early to make a forecast for the calendar year 2001, FAO tentatively expects that, at the global level, rice shipments could remain close to the current year's level, now forecast at 22 million tonnes. Regarding 1999/2000, forecasts for wheat and coarse grains are now firmer as the season is drawing to a close. Except for rice, world trade in most other major cereals is expected to be notably larger, in spite of smaller food aid shipments.
FAO's forecast for world cereal utilization in the current 1999/2000 season has been raised since the last report, by 7 million tonnes, to 1 892 million tonnes, mostly in line with the upward adjustments made to the production estimates for 1999. At this level, world cereal utilization will be nearly 1 percent up from the previous year, largely on account of increased food consumption. While the rise in feed utilization at the global level is expected to be negligible, weak feed grain prices are the main driving force for much faster growth rates in demand in North and South America. Preliminary indications for 2000/01 point to a further rise in total cereal utilization. The overall outlook is expected to be similar to this season, but the growth in feed use may prove more significant, especially in Europe where a recovery in production in many parts could boost domestic utilization. Unknown at this time is the impact of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Far East Asia on the demand for feed grains in 2000/01.
International wheat prices edged slightly higher since the previous report, mainly in response to less favourable weather conditions affecting crops in the United States. In May, the price of U.S. wheat No. 2 (HRW, fob) averaged about US$116 per tonne, up US$4 per tonne from March and US$4 per tonne above the price in May 1999. Developments on the international maize market have been uncertain in recent weeks, reflecting the strong influence of weather on new crop conditions at this time of the season. Overall, U.S. maize No. 2 (fob), averaged US$95 per tonne in May, unchanged from March but US$2 above the corresponding month a year ago. By contrast, the declining trend in international rice prices persisted in recent weeks as ample supplies of new crop in the major exporting countries and dull import demand continue to pressure prices downward. The FAO Export Price Index for Rice (1982-84=100) averaged 98 points in May, down by 2 points from the previous month, 15 points below a year earlier and the lowest level since September 1993.
FAO's latest forecast of global cereal stocks at the end of countries' 1999/2000 crop years now stands at 331 million tonnes. Although this is slightly less than the previous forecast and 14 million tonnes below their opening level, the ratio of global cereal carryovers in 1999/2000 to trend utilization in the following year remains within the minimum safe range. However, turning to the next (2000/01) season, if current forecasts for cereal production in 2000 materialize, a further draw-down of cereal stocks would be required to meet expected global utilization in 2000/01, in which case, the stock-to-use ratio could fall to 16.6 percent, slightly below the minimum safe level of 17-18 percent.
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Recently, there has been an ever increasing demand for organic products, particularly for organic baby products. Parents of course want the best for their babies and organic baby stores in Sherwood stock everything they need to keep their bundles of joy happy and healthy.
Sherwood organic baby stores market goods that have no toxins and chemicals. So the primary benefit of organic baby products is that they are healthier and have a lower risk of triggering side effects like allergic reactions.
Eco-conscious parents also enjoy the fact that organic baby products are also better for the environment. Cotton utilized to create materials for organic baby clothes, for example, are not treated with incesticides and chemicals that affect much more than the cotton crop.
Products in Sherwood Organic Baby Stores
As more parents discover the importance of choosing organic, more organic baby products are being sold in stores across the country. These days, parents can find an organic option for nearly anything.
Popular organic baby products are:
- Baby clothes
- Baby food
- Bath products
- Lotions and Creams
Makers can only label their baby products organic once they've been granted organic certification. One important note to remember is that unlike organic products, 'all natural' products aren't regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Parents that are contemplating an 'all natural' product need to carefully examine the ingredients and/or label to decide whether an organic option is a better choice.
Well Known Organic Baby Stores in Sherwood
Burt's Bees is a famous line of personal organic products, including organic baby products. Their products can be purchsed in well established stores around the country such as Target.
Baby Earth is an online organic baby store that sells all natural and organic baby products from a variety of companies.
Whole Foods Market has been a top provider of organic products since 1980, and there is no shortage of organic baby products in their stores.
The Organic Consumers Association and the Organic Information Center are also wonderful resources for researching different organic products and services, including organic baby stores.
Investing in organic products, particularly food and hygiene products, when kids are in the initial stages of development is an investment worth making. As organic baby products grow in popularity parents can expect to find more local and online organic baby stores in Sherwood to shop at and more affordable prices as well.
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Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 95 (August/September 1999): 18-20.
"Manslaughter, I could understand how they would arrive at that. But murder? This? They must have been an astonishingly cruel jury!" Jack Kevorkian told reporter Jack Lessenberry. "You tell them I said this," he went on. "I don’t want to be a martyr. I want to be free. And that’s why I am doing this, and you should print that. I need to be free to die."
Free to die. Curiously, when Franklin Roosevelt listed his four freedoms, the freedom to die somehow escaped his attention. But in Jack Kevorkian’s cri de coeur, uttered on the threshold of the imprisonment that will likely prove to be—ah, the delicious irony!—a life sentence, he has revealed the secret passion that undergirds both his own warped career and that of the euthanasia movement itself.
Kevorkian has spent his life in morbid fascination with death. Long before coming to public attention, he had earned the sobriquet "Dr. Death" from his colleagues in postgraduate hospital training for his habit of staring with an ophthalmoscope into the eyes of patients as they were dying. (At the moment that the heart stops beating, the blood in the easily visualized retinal arteries stops moving. Then, agonal spasms of the arteries divide the column of blood into segments often called boxcars, because the segments of blood move slowly along their track as the site of arterial spasm shifts along the artery.) In general, medical house staffs are fairly tolerant of morbid curiosity, and will justly attribute a few such observations to the needs of medical training. But they can recognize a voyeur when they see one.
Kevorkian’s occasional forays into academic publication all reflect his abiding fascination with death. Typical of the lot is a 1985 article in which Kevorkian describes a variety of experiments that have been conducted on executed humans. In one particularly disquieting section, he speculates at length concerning how long consciousness may persist after beheading.
Even his artwork, painted with a surreal exactitude, is but one long memento mori (several examples of his artwork may be found at www.kevorkian.com). One representative piece, entitled "Nearer My God to Thee," shows a terrified naked man, digging his nails into the walls of a stark chamber in a vain effort to prevent his falling into the yawning abyss beneath him. Kevorkian’s description of the painting may tell as much about his ideas as does the image itself:
This depicts how most human beings feel about dying—at least about their own deaths. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an afterlife of heavenly bliss. Most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death. We contemplate and face it with great apprehension, profound fear, and terror. Sparing no financial or physical sacrifice, pleading wantonly and unashamedly, clutching any hope of salvation through medicine or prayer. How forbidding that dark abyss! How stupendous the yearning to dodge its gaping orifice. How inexorable the engulfment. Yet, below are the disintegrating hulks of those who have gone before; they have made the insensible transition and wonder what the fuss is all about. After all, how excruciating can nothingness be?
Kevorkian’s fascination with death has not been limited to that of other people. (Many psychologists would argue, of course, that in fact the obsession is not about other people at all.) Suicide, not just assisted suicide, has been a recurrent theme of his speech, writing, and presumably thought for many years. Shortly before his conviction for the murder of Thomas Youk, Kevorkian reiterated his view that he saw himself involved in a mortal struggle. "Either they go or I go," said the aging defrocked physician. "If I’m acquitted, they go because they know they’ll never convict me. If I am convicted, I will starve to death in prison. So I will go."
Michigan prison authorities recently revised their policies, and now will not force–feed an inmate who refuses to eat. Despite that, Kevorkian has not yet carried out his threat of suicide. Nonetheless, this threat has been repeated so often in recent years as to become the leitmotif of his raging twilight. It bears special consideration, for within it is the key to understanding the most notorious serial mercy killer in history.
It would be a mistake to think that Kevorkian’s suicide by starvation in prison would be an act of martyrdom. A martyr, after all, chooses a worse fate in order to promote a cause that will live after him. For Kevorkian and other euthanasiasts, however, suicide is not the worse fate. It is living within the divinely ordained limits of human freedom that is the intolerable alternative. Just as rape is not about sex, so euthanasia is not about comforting the dying. It is about power. What is intolerable to the euthanasiast is not suffering or dying, but not having control over life and death. The essence of the movement is to defy our human limits and mortal destiny, not by avoiding death, since that is impossible, but by choosing its time and circumstance. "If I am not free to die," goes this logic, "then I am not free." Suicide for Kevorkian would be an act not of self–sacrifice but of self–aggrandizement.
Although his opponents have often lost sight of his purposes, Kevorkian himself has never veered from his target. Promotion of legalized euthanasia, just as his earlier promotion of vital organ transplants from condemned criminals, was never an end in itself. Rather, as he unabashedly described in his book Prescription: Medicide, legalized lethal human experimentation has ever been the cold star guiding his macabre life voyage. Even that, however, had a metaphysical subtext. Had science truly been the purpose of his ghoulish zealotry, then his ardor would have faded when no scientist stepped forward with an important scientific question that only such experiments could answer. No, the question gnawing at Kevorkian’s faithless heart has always been a philosophical one. What is it that separates life from death? What is the vital essence, that immeasurable something that is here one minute, and gone the next, and with it gone all of subjective existence? He thought that by peering into the eye, or perhaps the brain, or perhaps the pituitary or anyone–but–God knows what, he might discover the awful secret of life and death. His career has been as tragic as that of the chemist who thought he could understand a love letter by performing an analysis of its ink.
Now that he is at the close of his bizarre quest, Kevorkian realizes that the only lethal human experiment he will be able to perform is on himself. That, as much as the limits imposed by incarceration, explains his choice of starvation as a technique of suicide. The hunger would pass in a few days. After that, he could slowly drift toward death, and leisurely study the changes occurring within him as it approaches. Only starvation would give him the time to observe the changes both subjective and objective that occur at the border between life and death. Perhaps he longs for a final insight that will allow him to leave the world possessing a secret, if brief, triumphant knowledge that he alone could attain.
It is not lost on Kevorkian, of course, that his carrying out the threat of suicide by starvation in prison would make the state of Michigan an unwilling enabler in his scheme. He has never been able to see the moral distinctions among allowing someone to die, helping him kill himself, and administering the coup de grâce personally. How satisfying, then, it would be for him to force his nemesis, the legal authorities of the state he decries as "plutocratic and theocratic," to be apparent accomplices in his suicide. It would add another flourish of power to his final act.
Such is the twisted ruination of a life that has mistaken carbon monoxide for a pain–reliever and lethal injections for lovingkindness. Such can only be the result when mere men, whose origin is dust and destiny is dust, try to snatch the power that rightly belongs only to their Creator.
Perhaps it would have been different if Kevorkian had ever married and fathered children. Those who have known such love can more easily see an intrinsic worth in life that perdures despite ailment and disability. Even atheists can recognize a holy value in life when they gaze in love upon their children. Whether Kevorkian’s deathly narcissism was the cause or the effect of his isolation we may never know. One can and should condemn a criminal who has arrogantly flouted the law and cold–bloodedly taken a life. But at some level one must feel tremendous pity for a man whose greatest love in life has been death itself. How utterly tragic. In his enduring fascination with death, Kevorkian has never really lived.
Eric Chevlen, M.D., is Director of Palliative Care at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio.
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“What was the primary means of motivation in those days?”
– Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, The Two Thousand Year Old Man
For the 2000 year old man, fear may have been a very effective motivator: when he saw a lion, he was motivated to run the other way. That, in a nutshell, is the problem with fear. Fear doesn’t make someone move toward safety; it makes them move away from danger. Same thing? Not really. In jujitsu, pain can be used to invoke a fear of injury. Someone experiencing that pain, and that fear, will move away from it, even if moving away means running full tilt into the nearest tree.
In business, the same phenomenon occurs. Faced with an unexpected problem or setback, the most common response is to highlight the threat to the organization and all the terrible things that will happen if the threat is not immediately countered. This practice of attempting to motivate people to work harder through fear – fear of competition, loss of market share, job loss, company going out of business, and so forth – may encourage harder work, but not necessarily more effective work. In the business environment, there are a lot of trees.
While fear gets the adrenaline flowing, it also narrows focus, reduces creativity, and makes it harder for people to recognize and change a losing strategy. This would be fine, except that what is actually needed in most situations is a creative solution, the ability to accurately assess whether or not a strategy is working, and the ability to quickly discard failing strategies. Avoiding premature decision making, no easy task at the best of times, only becomes more difficult. As we all learned in grade school, in the event of a fire, don’t rush for the door: proceed slowly and avoid panic. The same is true in business: rushing to a decision is almost guaranteed to lead to a bad decision.
So given that the business needs to get employees focused and energized to meet a potential challenge, how should it go about doing that?
The key is to recognize that the glass in not half empty. It’s half full. That makes a difference: instead of focusing on what you lack, focus on what you have going for you. Instead of fear, instill an atmosphere of optimism. There are several steps to accomplishing this:
- Start by defining success. What does it look like? What will your business have accomplished in order to have been successful? Communicate that in a few brief, vibrant, sentences. If you don’t know where you’re going, you can waste a lot of time not getting there.
- Lay out a set of goals that will make the business successful. Include what you’ll be doing as well as what you expect others to do.
- Remind employees of previous challenges that they’ve successfully overcome. Emphasize the positive: how teams pulled together, how individuals stepped up to the plate, and so forth.
- Recognize that roadblocks will appear: don’t assume everything will go perfectly. The competition may do something unexpected. A critical employee may get the flu. A storm may disrupt travel or power. Make sure you’ve allowed time to deal with the unexpected so that it doesn’t derail you.
- Present energizing images to use when bad news strikes or setbacks occur: a cyclist passed by an opponent can imagine a rubber band attached to his opponent’s back. The rubber band pulls him faster and faster until he passes said opponent. Come up with the equivalent for your business. Repeat it frequently. If you can’t keep a straight face, find a different image.
- Take the time to brainstorm different solutions to the problems you are facing. Evaluate what you come up with and make sure it will get you to that success state. Rushing off down the wrong path wastes valuable time and, even more important, drains enthusiasm.
- Periodically review progress and show people how far they’ve come. Pilots may care more about the runway ahead than the runway behind them, but everyone else is motivated more by how much they’ve accomplished rather than being constantly reminded of how much more there is to do.
- Celebrate successes. Short-term reminders increase the sense of progress and make people feel appreciated.
Half empty or half full. A fearful team or an enthusiastic, creative team. It’s your choice.
Happy New Year!
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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging China not to detain Christian members of unregistered "house churches" who plan to worship outdoors this Easter. But the agency doubts China's communist party will heed the word of caution until the administration can convince it to embrace human rights.
USCIRF Chair Leonard Leo chided government officials on Wednesday for their "ruthless intolerance" towards the unregistered Shouwang Church's public prayer services. He also urged Chinese officials to take a more peaceful tact with house church members on Easter Sunday.
"Beijing's action further alienates the fast-growing number of religious believers in China, particularly during Easter, the most sacred week in Christianity," said Leo in a statement.
In the weeks leading up to Holy Week, authorities from Beijing's Communist Party prevented the 1,000+ Shouwang congregation from occupying the premises it rented to hold services. The church responded by scheduling an outdoor worship service. The police then arrested over 100 members including Shouwang's senior pastor, Jin Tianming, last weekend.
Shouwang Church is still planning to hold outdoor prayers on Easter Sunday unless they are given permission to celebrate indoors at their usual building.
Leo desires that the government allows Christians to practice their faith uninterrupted. However, Scott Flipse, USCIRF deputy director of policy and research, does not believe the Communist Party will let an event they view to be a form of dissidence go unchallenged.
He said the government is skittish about any form of public discontent due to rumors of a political uprising dubbed the Jasmine Revolution.
At least 54 artists, lawyers, writers, activists and intellectuals have already been detained, The Irish Times reports. The most high-profile figure to be detained was the controversial artist Ai Weiwei, according to figures from the Chinese Human Rights Defenders group.
But in this specific instance, Flipse noted, the party feels threatened by the Protestant Church.
In some part of China, "There are more Protestants than party members," he explained. "Protestants have become a political challenge because their growth."
The Pew Research Center estimated in 2007 that 50 million to 70 million Christians practice in unregistered religious gatherings or house churches. Meanwhile, the number of Christians belonging to registered organizations totals less than half of that.
China allows freedom of religious belief and protects religious activities that are state-sanctioned. Religious groups in China are required to register with the government and operate under official religious bodies. For Protestant churches, that means operating under the Three-Self Patriotic Movement and the China Christian Council (TSPM/CCC).
Unregistered churches, or "house churches," are not outlawed, but are not permitted to openly hold religious services unless they affiliate with a patriotic religious association
Especially daunting to the Beijing authorities, Flipse added, is that Christianity has drawn intellectuals, lawyers, professionals and youth to its membership. He told The Christian Post that Communist Party officials are likely fearful that these members are going to be "more loyal to their church than their party."
These thoughts are motivating party officials to challenges activities to which they previously turned a blind eye.
In a February 2011 speech, Wang Zu'on, head of China's State Administration for Religious Affairs, called on government officials to renew efforts to "guide" unregistered Protestants to worship in state-sanctioned churches and break up large unregistered churches such as Shouwang into small groups.
The only way to change China's treatment of the Church, Flipse said, is to show its leaders that it is in its interest as a nation to embrace human rights such as religious freedom and freedom of speech.
When asked if President Barack Obama's administration is doing its part to encourage China to embrace human rights, he commented, "I think that the administration has found their voice just recently."
In the past, Flipse said, "[the administration] admitted they sought in the beginning to downplay human rights to get long-term cooperation."
This is not the right path to ensuring China changes its human rights policy, he noted. "Our (USCIRF's) position is clear: You just can't [ignore human rights]." Instead, the United States and the world have to send a unified that message that freedoms of speech and religion are important, he stressed.
Flipse said he was encouraged by Obama's mention of human rights during China President Hu Jintao's January visit.
During a state arrival ceremony at the White House, Obama stated, "History shows that societies are more harmonious, nations are more successful, and the world is more just, when the rights and responsibilities of all nations and all people are upheld, including the universal rights of every human being."
Despite some progress, Flipse emphasized that now is the time to do more. China will be facing a change in leadership in 2012, he pointed out. "They're deciding what the policy (on churches) is going to be right now.”
Flipse offered his advice for future diplomatic discussions: "You're not going to force China. You have to show them that it's in their best interest [to adopt human rights policies] and why."
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Many people probably haven't visited a school since walking out the door upon graduation. Today, there are endless opportunities for the community to interact with Bend-La Pine Schools. You can volunteer your time at any school site, participate or donate in the Education Foundation or become a Key Communicator. Read below to learn more.
To provide accurate information in a timely way, Bend-La Pine Schools has a formal network called "Key Communicators." The basic concept is quite simple. Key communicators will be contacted via e-mail with information about schools, and whenever there is a need to quickly disseminate information about something that is of particular interest to the community. They will be asked, as a key communicator, to relay that information to friends, neighbors and co-workers as they would normally reach within the course of a day. If someone has a question, concern or an idea, the key communicator has direct access to school officials by phone or e-mail. There may also be times where key communicators will be asked to give advice and insights on issues facing the school district.
The network is very informal. There are no regular meetings, no officers, no assignments. By using e-mail, a key communicator network is a cost effective, efficient way to keep accurate information flowing to the community, and creates an easy-to-use pathway for people like you to touch base with district officials.
If you're interested in learning more about the school district and how you can be a key communicator, contact the Public Information office at (541) 355-1003.
Volunteer Your Time
Investing your time, energy and knowledge at a school or directly in a classroom can be a very rewarding experience for you and those you help. When you work with students, you have an opportunity to make a difference in their lives...assisting in a classroom, coaching a team, helping out in the library, or simply handling recess or bus duty.
If you would like to volunteer, please fill out the Bend-La Pine Schools online volunteer application. It's quick and easy, and once you've submitted your application, the school district will perform the appropriate background checks to ensure the safety of our students. We typically receive the results within a week. Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Bend-La Pine Schools!
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'Idol' Begins Voting by Text MessagingStarting today, users of AT&T Wireless service can vote for their favorite contestants on "American Idol," the hit talent show in its second season on Fox TV.
This follows last year's exercise in which 110 million "American Idol" viewers phoned in votes for their favorite singer throughout the stages of the contest. AT&T Wireless' sponsorship is evidence that text messaging in the United States is catching up with Europe, albeit slowly.
"What we're trying to do is drive wireless data usage as a whole, and it's absolutely the youth target that's spot on for that target," said Brian Levin, president of Mobliss Inc., the Seattle wireless media firm that created the program.
Thirty million to 40 million consumers have two-way text-messaging phones nationwide out of the 135 million cell phones in use. About 3.3 million text messages a day are sent across wireless carriers in North America. By contrast, Europeans last year sent an estimated 860 million messages daily.
But rarely has there been such a vast effort in the United States to tie in a TV show with wireless voting.
Individuals cast their vote by sending in a text message. They use the same contestant codes as those entered by traditional call-in voters. Voting lines will be open only for two hours after each episode's broadcast in the local time zone.
Mobliss' technology can recognize only area codes, not where the user actually is. It will tabulate the submitted votes to determine which contestant reaches the next round. At the same time, AT&T Wireless users also can participate in on-air polling to voice their opinions via text messages.
Results will be broadcast on the next half-hour episode. The wireless-voting option will be promoted on the show. Contestants' individual numbers will be listed as well. Test messaging will cost nothing extra to those AT&T Wireless users who have that option in their calling plans. For others, a text message costs 10 cents to send and nothing to receive.
The producers of "American Idol," 19 Entertainment and FremantleMedia, are preparing for an avalanche of responses. A similar wireless collaboration last year with German TV show "Jede Sekunde Zahlt" (Every Second Counts) drew more than 1.2 million votes to decide the favorite contestant.
Text messaging to determine the outcome of contests is equally popular in Britain. Flytxt, a London wireless marketing shop, handled the Miss World voting effort as well as the "Blind Date" show. Most recently, it was asked by the BBC to handle wireless and Web-based recruitment for "Born to Win," a talent show to select sports stars.
However, with its sponsorship of "American Idol," AT&T Wireless does not intend to use the user's data for marketing. This is strictly to maintain the cell-phone user's privacy.
"The issue is everyone has these phones in their pocket that have this capability to do text messaging," Levin said. "Broadcasters are looking for a way to interact with their viewers. It provides more value to advertisers and a better value for the content of the show.
"So, we're solving two problems," he said. "One, we're giving people a reason to and teaching them how to use text messaging here, and two, we're helping them interact with this media. It's the Holy Grail of what we're doing -- it's giving the average consumer the power to instantly voice their opinion."
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Heresies throughout the History of the Church
by Bob & Penny LordISBN
I was watching EWTN
with Doug Keck earlier this morming. They were rerunning a show from 11 July 1999. The guests were Bob & Penny Lord. They were there to talk about the above book which they had just published.
Over the years I have read several of their books* & seen many of their series on EWTN. They have all been well researched, well written & have aided my faith greatly. I can safely say that if it is put out by the Lords then it has to be good. (& Penny being a paisan has nothing to do with it, though it doesn't hurt.)
I have to admit I have not read this book. So, why am I talking about it?
Simple. I can safely say that it needs to be promoted. As I was watching the show, I realized how pertanant this book is to the current situation in much of the Church. Sadly, the reasons for their writing the book are still arround. & this book is just as much a part of the solution now as it was then.
What is the book about? It looks at the various heresies that have cropped up throughout the history of the Church. It also shows how today's heresies including "New Age" are rewraps of the old heresies.
The title comes from St. Paul's description of the Cross (1 Corinthians 1:18-25). Something that have seen is true through personal experience. The Cross is a scandal. Over the years people have tried to find away arround it, to avoid it or deny it. The result has been the heresies that have splintered the Church. &, as I said, still are.
So, why is this book a part of the solution, not just a look at the problem? To start, by knowing what the various types of heresies are out there, you are now able to recognize them when they pop up under their new cover. In showing you how the Church combated the heresy, you are armed to do the same.
When it came out Mother Angelica said: "This book must be in every Catholic home in America!" I suspect that she is absolutely right (as usual) in this case.
(As I said, this is not a part of my library, yet. God & my budget willing, it will be someday.)
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SETI's Jill Tarter has devoted her career to hunting for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and almost all aspects of this field have been affected by her work.
Astronomer Jill Tarter is director of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute's Center for SETI Research, and also holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI. She led Project Phoenix, a decade-long SETI scrutiny of about 750 nearby star systems, using telescopes in Australia, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. While no clearly extraterrestrial signal was found, this project was the most comprehensive targeted search for artificially generated cosmic signals ever undertaken.
Tarter serves on the management board for the Allen Telescope Array, a massive new instrument that will eventually include 350 antennas, each 6 meters in diameter. This telescope will increase the speed and the spectral range of the hunt for signals from other distant technologies by orders of magnitude.
Tarter is committed to the education of future citizens and scientists. Beyond her scientific leadership at NASA and the SETI Institute, Tarter has been actively involved in developing curriculum for children. She was Principal Investigator for two curriculum development projects funded by NSF, NASA, and others. One project, the Life in the Universe series, created 6 science teaching guides for grades 3-9. The other project, Voyages Through Time, is an integrated high school science curriculum on the fundamental theme of evolution in six modules: Cosmic Evolution, Planetary Evolution, Origin of Life, Evolution of Life, Hominid Evolution and Evolution of Technology.
"'Are we alone?' Humans have been asking [this question] forever. The probability of success is difficult to estimate but if we never search the chance of success is zero."Jill Tarter
“We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”
“Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.”
“We misuse language, and talk about the ‘ascent’ of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life but our ego hasn’t caught up yet.”
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