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While the third floor of the Prairie-style Madlener House slowly filled for the opening talk of his solo exhibition at the Graham Foundation, Richard Pare screened a video he shot of a Russian industrial bakery in continuous operation since the early 1930s. For almost twenty years now, Pare has extensively documented modernist Soviet architecture built between 1922 and 1932, subsequent to the Russian Revolution of 1917 that overthrew Tsarist autocracy and made way for the establishment of the Soviet Union. While Pare’s video of the bakery’s operations is not included in the exhibition, it provided a rare peek at one of these buildings still in use and a glimpse into the utopian spirit of this period of Soviet modernist architecture: a true marriage of form and function striving for maximum efficiency and manifesting the social goals and technological ideals of a young and still forward-looking state.
Richard Pare, Industrial Bakery, Moscow, 1999, Built 1931, Engineer: G. P. Marsakov (Russian, 1895- ?), Chromogenic color print; Photograph Copyright Richard Pare.
The energetic and experimental idealism intrinsic to the design of factories, residences, and communal buildings in this period, intended to literally house and sustain this new society, perfectly contrasts with the current state of the buildings’ dilapidation and threatened demolition. The Lost Vanguard draws over eighty images from the archive of about 15,000 photographs Pare took between 1992 and 2010 in the former Soviet Union – including in Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, and Russia – a project funded in part by two grants from the Graham Foundation and first exhibited in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Forming the only contemporary, comprehensive record of Soviet architecture from this period, Pare’s documentary project is linked to a preservationist impulse, subscribing to the idea that creating a visual record may serve to generate interest in the architectural importance and threatened existence of the buildings and, thus, save at least some of them. In this respect, Pare’s project is comparable to that of the late photographer Richard Nickel’s in the mid-twentieth century to document and preserve historic Chicago buildings, especially those by Louis Sullivan and the Prairie School. The overarching tenor of both projects is to catalog as much as possible as quickly and thoroughly as possible in a race against the buildings’ impending destruction.
While Pare’s photographs fulfill a documentary and archival function, they are not devoid of subjectivity. His sharply focused compositions display a penchant for abstracting geometric forms, echoing the same visual language as the architecture he captures, yet his images retain a feeling of warmth and even a romanticism for their subjects’ disrepair evinced in his careful attention to light and time of day. His sensibility falls somewhere between Robert Polidori’s images of decaying colonial architecture in Havana and the empty grandeur of Candida Höfer’s architectural interiors, although Pare’s photographs fall short of the Düsseldorf School’s technical bravado. This does not detract from the impressive scale of Pare’s overarching purpose, however, to bring the work of avant-garde Soviet architects and architecture hidden for so long behind the Iron Curtain to the light of international awareness, or at least that of Europe and North America, in an attempt to salvage whatever possible.
Richard Pare, Centrosoyuz Headquarters, Moscow, 1999, Built 1929-1936, Architects: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (Swiss, French from 1930. 1887-1965), Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss, 1896-1967), and Nikolai Kolli (Russian, 1894-1966), Chromogenic color print; Photograph Copyright Richard Pare.
In the conclusion of his talk, Pare showed photographs of later work by one important Soviet architect, Moisei Ginzburg, created after Stalin imposed new restrictions on architecture, by way of contrast with the majority of the architecture depicted in The Lost Vanguard. In Pare’s words, Ginzburg was forced to turn away from modernist experiments to employ a more historicist vocabulary, being “compelled to produce pastiche,” with his work eventually devolving into “classical travesty.” Pare’s correlation of avant-garde design with progressive politics – and, conversely, regressive design with reactionary politics – is convincing in light of his exhaustive practice intersecting architecture and photography, depicting the failed utopia of the Soviet state through the concrete metaphor of the ruination of its earliest and most vanguard architectural structures.
The Graham Foundation is offering free public tours of The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932 every Saturday at 2PM, and a monograph by The Monacelli Press will be available for purchase in the bookshop throughout the exhibition.
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Leading-edge postpartum health clinic targets cardiovascular disease risk
A Queen’s obstetrics professor has founded one of the first clinics in the world to use pregnancy and the postpartum as a key opportunity in a woman’s life to focus on disease prevention.
“This clinic is an extremely novel idea—no one else is doing this at present,” says Graeme Smith, who is also a practicing obstetrician at Kingston General Hospital (KGH).
Pregnancy is a stress test in that it can reveal underlying health issues in the mother that may indicate an increased risk of future heart disease. Around 20 per cent of expectant mothers experience at least one of six indicators during pregnancy including pre-eclampsia, high blood pressure, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, a growth restricted baby, or placental abruption leading to delivery.
Dr. Smith’s Maternal Health Clinic targets women who have had at least one of these pregnancy complications. These women are invited to attend a clinic with Dr. Smith 6 months following delivery. At this appointment women are screened for heart disease risk factors and disease prevention strategies are discussed. All results and recommendations from the clinic are then forwarded to the woman’s family doctor for further follow up and management.
Dr. Smith has also developed a form that he hopes will become the third standard medical form given out to pregnant women who come for assessment throughout Ontario. This potential record would complement the two existing forms that currently collect background data and in-pregnancy data. The third potential record would help identify those higher-risk women who should be going on for subsequent screening and follow-up.
“One of the problems with medical systems everywhere is that they are reactive rather than preventative,” explains Dr. Smith. “Pregnancy is a perfect time for health promotion and disease prevention and that’s what we’re aiming to achieve with The MotHERS Program.”
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Dublin City Libraries and Archive have put images and special collections online.
The Digital Collections Gallery has 529 images and counting. There are photographs from the 1974 Dublin Bombings; Dublin’s Sporting Heritage which honours the fact that Dublin was made European Capital of Sport in 2010; Vanishing Dublin shows places that have disappeared or changed completely in the last half of the twentieth century; Dublin Pubs provides images of pubs both past and present; and Working for the City which is photographs of Dublin City staff at work.
The sporting heritage photos that sparked memories for me were the Liffey Swim of 1999, the Royal Dublin Horseshow and Landsdowne Road. My grandfather won the Liffey Swim when he was a young man. We used to go to the Royal Dublin Horseshow if we were in town when it was on and Landsdowne Road was near where my grandparents lived.
The saddest one for me was Vanishing Dublin. In some of the pictures you would not recognize the area anymore. The photo of Moore Street in 1959 brought back fond memories. I can remember in the 1970s going down to Moore Street and the ladies still used perambulators to transport their wares. Moore Street today is still a market place but things have changed.
The Working for the City gallery is a reminder of how the way we do things sometimes does not change. The cleansing department is a couple of men with brushes pushing two bins on a cart. I remember the Liffey clean up in 1976.
The next gallery is Improvement Works which is current improvements to two libraries in Dublin.
The last gallery is Treasures from the Collections. Capital Letters shows a few of the collections they own by Irish authors. Celebrate! is about festivals, feasts, civic events and commemorations that were held in Dublin. Here you will find a souvenir of the Parnell monument unveiling in 1911, a photograph of the royal visit in 1911, the Papal visit in 1979 and a yearbook from the Dalkey Festival in 1989 amongst other items.
Getting Around provides images of maps and other items relating to the theme. Unfortunately they are not the complete item but snippets. Other collections include Little Treasures which contains material related to children, Rich and Rare which showcases books, manuscripts and broadsheets held by Dublin City Public Libraries, and Women’s Health and Wellbeing which features advertisements promoting “medicines” marketed towards women.
The photographs were most interesting to me. The other items provide a small image and not much else because you have to go into Dublin City Public Libraries & Archive to view the originals and to find out more.
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The Hibernia partners feel there's more oil to be pulled from offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and a little work will make it realistic to retrieve.
Representatives for Hibernia are at Memorial University of Newfoundland's St. John's campus this morning to announce an $11.8-million gift towards new laboratory equipment and research funding for the university.
The funding has been specifically flagged for work on "enhanced oil recovery" projects.
"We are working with the university to develop enhanced oil recovery research capacity and capability in the province," stated Hibernia Management and Development Company president Jamie Long in a press release obtained by The Telegram just prior to the announcement.
"Our ultimate goal is to increase oil recovery offshore Newfoundland and Labrador."
MUN president Gary Kachanoski has said the donation speaks to the capabilities of the university to tackle the topic of enhanced oil recovery techniques.
"Implementing these techniques at the Hibernia field could increase ultimate recovery while developing a pool of locally trained experts in the process," he said.
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Holiday Pantry Helps
The Tarrant Area Food Bank’s Cooking Matters program, a partnership with the national anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength, is a six-week class in food preparation, budgeting, and nutrition for low-income families. Moms, dads, and kids are also taught by local volunteer chefs how to shop seasonally, cook economically, and make the most of staples from the food bank, an organization that serves Tarrant County and 12 surrounding counties.
Every year around this time, Cooking Matters gets a sweet little boost courtesy of Walter Kaufmann’s Chef’s Holiday Pantry. The fancy bake sale is named for the longtime Fort Worth culinary icon who was the former executive chef and owner of the venerable Old Swiss House restaurant. Kaufmann is an active member of the Chef’s Holiday Pantry committee.
“The original idea was inspired by Chef Tom McGrath, who was a volunteer for the Tarrant Area Food Bank,” Kaufmann said. “His passion was contagious. I got involved because I thought that I could help raise awareness and get more chefs involved in the food bank’s programs.”
Presented by Fort Worth Foodie magazine, this year’s Holiday Pantry will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at Ridgmar Mall, in front of Macy’s on the lower level. Customers will be able to indulge in their choice of pastries, cookies, and muffins, including apple-and-cranberry chess pies from the Black Rooster Bakery, pumpkin cheesecake from Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine, dessert tamales from Reata Restaurant, and alfajores (a kind of dulce de leche shortbread cookie) from Lanny’s Kitchen. Blue Bonnet Bakery will bring gingerbread houses, and the Colonial Country Club will roll out Christmas yule logs. If all of that sounds a little too sweet, try Stir Crazy Baked Goods’ Rahr Blonde cheesy mini-bread. Proceeds from the event benefit Cooking Matters and the education fund of the Fort Worth chapter of the Texas Chefs Association.
Christina Jett-Meyer, who co-owns Red Jett Sweets with Natalie Gomez, is a first-time participant in the event and says she’s psyched about donating her cupcakes to the cause. “I believe that one of the key issues with our health in this country today is that no one cooks real food anymore,” she said. “All of the processed and fast food is making us a sick nation. Teaching cooking skills will ensure we have healthy, strong, happy people.”
In Tarrant County, one in every six families is “food insecure,” the federal government’s odd term for not consistently having enough food for every meal. And one in four children in this county goes hungry every day.
The Tarrant Area Food Bank offers Cooking Matters to community groups and churches serving primarily low-income clients. The program focuses on helping families establish healthy eating habits and provides tips on household budgeting. For $10, a family of four could buy food for one meal off a dollar menu at a local fast food restaurant. That same $10 spent in the grocery store could provide one meal plus leftovers for another meal. The problem is that adults who haven’t been taught how to cook don’t know how to cook. And the tradition of cooking (or not cooking) gets passed down generationally.
That’s where Cooking Matters fits in. The program provides long-term solutions to families most at risk of food insecurity by teaching them how to obtain the best nutrition possible on a limited budget. A donation of $100 to Cooking Matters, said the food bank’s nutrition services manager, Micheline Hynes, allows the agency to both stock the classroom with meal preparation items and send 15 participants home with the groceries to make that meal for their families.
Last year, 270 people participated in the program. An impressive 89 percent finished, according to the food bank’s annual Cooking Matters program report.
The Chef’s Holiday Pantry aims to raise $5,000 this year for the program, double what was raised last year, according to Kaufmann. With more than 50 chefs and some of Fort Worth’s best and newest restaurants participating, raising that kind of cash should be, well, a piece of cake.
For more information about Cooking Matters or to volunteer, call the Tarrant Area Food Bank at 817-332-9177.
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These solar-shaded computer centers are designed to help kids in the developing world have access to mentors halfway around the planet.
Remember your chemistry? Then you know that salt is part chlorine. Using a little ingenuity and a little electricity, you can use that chlorine to make water drinkable--and potentially save millions of lives.
There just aren’t yet that many companies that impact investors can invest in. Omidyar Network thinks we should stop trying to invest in businesses and invest in entire sectors, instead.
One of the biggest factors keeping banks from reaching remote areas is actually distributing cash to far flung machines and branches. What if those branches or ATMs didn’t distribute cash at all?
A web tool lets you see what the companies near you are spewing out, and which countries are doing the best and worst to keep emissions down.
No more making plastic from fossil fuels and creating huge amounts of carbon emissions. These new bugs eat CO2 and use it to make plastic themselves.
Simple physics: It takes more energy to move heavier things. You’ll be shocked when you realize how much of the gas we use is just because of America’s obesity problem. | <urn:uuid:1e8c525e-6279-469c-b08d-9edbab387f29> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fastcoexist.com/10102012-wed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937634 | 246 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Menopause is one of the major turning points in a woman's life. The period of time leading up to menopause involves a process of change--and every woman experiences this transition in unique and individual ways.
Many women are enthusiastic about reaching menopause, as it can be a time of freedom from the concerns of pregnancy and PMS. However, some women dread reaching menopause. To these women, menopause can feel like a burden that makes them unattractive, lonely, helpless, and useless. They may mourn the loss of their fertility and youth. Pre-menopausal and menopausal women may experience a wide range of feelings, from anxiety and discomfort to release and relief.
In menopause, several things occur:
- Estrogen production drops dramatically
- Periods stop
- Effects of estrogen loss may be experienced (hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness are common)
- Long-term effects of estrogen loss (osteoporosis becomes a concern)
There are many ways to treat menopause, including, but not limited to: diet, exercise, lifestyle changes, and hormone replacement therapy.
Many women have questions about using hormone replacement therapy after the recent halting of the Women's Health Initiative study on combined estrogen and progestin use in healthy postmenopausal women.
If you are thinking about beginning hormone replacement therapy, or have been taking it and have concerns, please schedule an appointment and our providers will be happy to discuss the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy in great detail.
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What Happened to the Campaign Signs?
Virginia law makes campaign signs on highway medians illegal.
Fairfax County residents might have noticed a distinct lack of campaign signs on highway medians this election season, and county officials say constituents couldn’t be happier.
Posting signs on public rights-of-way such as highways had become a pesky common practice that annoyed both residents and county officials. But legislation drawn up by Del. Dave Albo (R-42) took care of the problem, making all political signs illegal if they’re on public property.
Albo’s bill also amended part of Virginia state code that created a loophole specific to Fairfax County, making it unlawful to remove signs from public rights-of-way until three days after an election.
But under new law, the county can now form an agreement with the Virginia Department of Transportation to remove the signs.
The Board of Supervisors has yet to vote on such an agreement, but Supervisor Pat Herrity (R-Springfield) has been vocal about establishing a funding structure for a program to remove illegal signs and fine violators. Herrity told Patch that the agreement should come before the Board sometime this December.
“Signs placed in the median are really a blight on our community,” he said. “They can be dangerous and they’re illegal.”
And residents are pleased that the medians have stayed sign-free during the 2012 election season.
“Just about everyone I’ve talked to has been ecstatic that they didn’t have to look at the signs in the median this elections season,” Herrity said.
He also stressed that the law didn’t just pertain to political signs, but to all signs.
VDOT has already handed out hundreds of dollars in fines to different vendors who have failed to comply with the law, Herrity said, thanking the Commonwealth for helping to keep medians clear.
Campaign signs, political advertisements and other signs are still legal if they’re kept on private property, such as homes and lawns. Some restrictions do apply, in accordance with the county’s sign ordinance. Click here for more information.
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School begins for our nation’s children. What’s the biggest danger they confront: drugs, gangs, flu, cooties, dropping out, crumbling classrooms, bullies, big classes, bad teaching, dorky-looking gym suits?
Federal Education Inculcator Arne Duncan admits that The Obama entity will speak directly to innocent kids on September 8th and “challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.”
Real Americans know what that means:
“We’re hearing from parents and grandparents that are not very happy. They really feel like it is political indoctrination.” — Stephanie Klick, Tarrant County (Texas) Republican Party chairwoman.
“No Comrade Left Behind.” – Alicia M. Cohn, Human Events.
“As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality. This is something you’d expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.” – Oklahoma State Senator Steve Russell.
”It asks children to get on board with his policies and that’s overstepping his bounds. …. We teach our children values, we teach our children philosophy. Not the president.” – Joyce Kaufman, WFTL-AM (850) in South Florida.
“Indoctrination through Education has Begun.” — Lauri Regan, American Thinker
Just because real presidents have addressed students directly over live television (George H.W. Bush in 1991 and Ronald Reagan in 1988), what gives this illegitimate integallactic upstart the gall to spread his video venom to helpless human offspring?
The Columbia, Missouri School District will quarantine the contagion, and will not screen the broadcast. Say, who’s the U.S. President out there these days, anybody know?
Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here.Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
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Late last week, BP (NYSE: BP ) announced that it's selling its Canadian natural-gas-liquids operations to Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE: PAA ) for $1.67 billion. The deal is one of many BP is counting on to scrape up $30 billion to help pay for last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill and refocus operations.
The sale is a boon for Plains All American Pipeline, a company with 2,480 miles of pipelines and 8.3 billion cubic feet of daily gas-processing capacity. BP is selling the company 2,600 miles of pipeline, special gas-extracting plants, and storage facilities.
BP said it will continue to operate in Canada, placing its efforts on joint ventures that focus on oil extraction from Alberta's oil sands. While oil is more lucrative than natural gas liquids, oil sands development is also more expensive. If the price of oil should decline for some reason, focusing solely on oil sands will hurt BP's bottom line in Canada.
Other recent divestitures
In September, BP jettisoned its fuel marketing operations in five African countries for $296 million. Two months later, the company sold its stake in a deep-water field in the Gulf of Mexico to Stone Energy (NYSE: SGY ) for $204 million.
Still on the table
The company has two U.S. refineries up for sale, one in California and one in Texas. BP is expecting to make $4 billion if or when it finds a buyer. Originally hoping for a bite by the end of 2012, the company has pushed the timetable back to 2013.
On top of that, BP attempted to sell its stake in an Argentine joint venture to CNOOC (NYSE: CEO ) and Bridas Energy by Nov. 1. The deal would have been worth $7 billion and could have gone a long way toward helping BP reach that $30 billion in asset sales, but it fell through at the last minute. BP said it was weighing all its options regarding the properties and that it may return to long-term ownership -- now that oil prices are higher, of course.
BP must see something in the future of this field, because Chinese companies are buying up overseas oil and gas outfits like they're going out of style. Last year, Sinopec (NYSE: SHI ) spent $7.1 billion picking up a stake in a Repsol operation in Brazil and bought out Occidental Petroleum's (NYSE: OXY ) subsidiary in Argentina for $2.5 billion. The company recently threw down another $2.1 billion for Daylight Energy, a Canadian oil and gas producer.
CNOOC has also gone on record saying it will continue to look for overseas opportunities.
After the Canadian gas deal, BP will have sold just shy of $21 billion in assets since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, inching closer to its $30 billion target. The company has to be careful balancing the asset divestments that could ultimately result in a decline in production and hurt the bottom line. Ultimately, it may actually be a blessing that it has held on to its Argentine joint venture. | <urn:uuid:a60402f9-6506-4c3f-b76e-86d622dacd83> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/05/bp-sells-again.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96779 | 641 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The University of Plymouth's world-leading ocean acidification research has been highlighted in a United Nations report launched at the end of the Copenhagen Climate Change summit.
'Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity', compiled by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is the most comprehensive overview to date of all existing scientific evidence on ocean acidification - including breakthrough research led by the University of Plymouth’s Jason Hall-Spencer.
The landmark publication adds increased urgency for world leaders to get agreements on CO2 cut backs given the impacts of ocean acidification on marine and coastal biodiversity, and to raise awareness of policy makers on its possible ecological and socio economic implications.
The report demonstrates that increasing ocean acidification reduces carbonate minerals in seawater, important building blocks for marine plants and animals; and that by 2100, 70% of cold-water corals, key refuges and feeding grounds for commercial fish species, will be exposed to corrosive waters. Based on current emission rates, it is also predicted that the surface waters of the highly productive Arctic Ocean will become under-saturated with respect to essential carbonate minerals by the year 2032, and the Southern Ocean by 2050, with disruptions to large components of the marine food web.
Jason’s research which is cited throughout the study follows his major scientific breakthrough revealing the ecological effects of ocean acidification using volcanic carbon dioxide vents. The innovative approach was developed after his team found that vent systems act as large scale natural experiments revealing the effects of manmade CO2 emissions. Hall Spencer said; “This work is internationally significant because it is the first ever ecosystem scale study of the effects of ocean acidification on marine life – no one has looked at the biological effects of ocean acidification on this scale before. It is an honour to be cited in this landmark report and I hope Plymouth’s contribution will play an important part in achieving the aim of highlighting this serious issue and the need for global action before it is too late.” | <urn:uuid:e5baab63-df2b-438d-9984-88eb591e1c0f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.myscience.org.uk/news/2009/un_report_highlights_plymouth_039_s_climate_change_research-2009-Plymouth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924476 | 416 | 3.09375 | 3 |
The impressive classical ruins frame the kneeling Virgin praying over the Christ Child. His action of sucking a finger is both natural and symbolic, for it seems he may have pricked his finger and drawn blood, a premonition of his Crucifixion. The architecture, beautifully and carefully described in perspective, probably represents a Roman Temple which, according to legend, collapsed when Christ was born. This represented the triumph of the new religion over the old. The painting was transferred from panel to canvas and extensively restored. John Ruskin, the nineteenth century critic and artist, owned it for a time, hence its popular title 'The Ruskin Madonna'. | <urn:uuid:b443023d-77a2-444f-88f3-f64c3cf15258> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/V/308/artist_name/Andrea%20del%20Verrocchio/record_id/2513 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967018 | 129 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Microsoft working on creating the Star Trek Holodeck
It seems that Microsoft has gotten itself another patent and while this might not seem like much in this day where it seems that even sniffles could be patented this one looks to be rather interesting.
Once you get past the mouthful of a title – Method and Apparatus for Providing a Three-Dimensional Task Gallery Computer Interface – one’s attention might be caught by the reference to 3D interface and think that this is just another attempt at creating a 3D desktop UI.
Except that it isn’t.
Unlike other attempts Microsoft is proposing a three dimensional space that includes a real feeling of depth. It isn’t so much navigating in a three dimensional desktop but rather as an actual place.
The patent drawings included this one where you are the person in the lower left hand corner
This would be very much how something like the Star Trek holodeck would work but as cool as this sounds I’m not sure how practical it would be when it comes to our day to day work. | <urn:uuid:8f0d46e4-72af-4eb2-9826-1e3b15d612b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.winextra.com/tech/hardware/microsoft-working-on-creating-the-star-trek-holodeck/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959212 | 220 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Back in the dim, dark past of the latter portion of the last century, learning math was a laborious, tedious job for me. It likely wasn’t all that exciting to my friends and classmates back in the day either. Improving our math skills consisted largely of poring over printed material and flash cards, with an occasional rare foray into a few educational programs on TV. For the most part, learning math was often BORING. The upshot is that we got to inhale the sweet odor of the blue mimeographed quiz/test papers, part of the educational rites of a bygone era. In the present day, kids are blessed with a variety of multimedia tools to make learning math much more enjoyable, and Total Arkade Software has just updated their learning app to include a fun math mode to augment their fun word learning games.
Math mode is a whole new mode featuring 20 levels of crazy mayhem and fiendish puzzles to solve, it joins 4 other modes already available in AbraWordabrA.
- ‘Fill the Gap’ has you filling in word blanks in a race against the clock and the evil Marvo.
- ‘Miss Spell’ tests your spelling to the max when Marvo tries to fool you by putting the wrong letters into words…a truly fiendish puzzler!
- ‘Float On’ starts simply with you guiding a balloon to a magic book, but soon offers a lot more with many balloons and Marvo’s motley crew, the needle brigade, Pogo pongs and mini man Marvo chasing you all over!
- ‘Ultimate Genius!’ says it all, here you can make ANY word you want to reach a target score.
- NEW – ‘Math mode’ has you trying to make the numbers add up!
Would that I had nifty apps like this when I was a school-ager as AbraWordAbrA puts to shame all those green-screened CBM public domain ASCII apps I had on my C-64. Lucky you…head on over to the Apple or Android app stores and check AbraWordAbrA out! (Mimeograph scent not included…anyone want to invest in making a scented/scratch-and-sniff screen protector?) | <urn:uuid:0eaf485f-efe2-4773-be22-8dd1dad878ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://geardiary.com/2012/07/20/total-arkade-software-conjures-up-major-update-for-abrawordabra-for-ios-and-android/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934329 | 475 | 2.328125 | 2 |
(KCEN) -- Women who suffer from migraine headaches are more likely to have brain lesions that could affect their health.
A group of men and women were tracked for nine years after they had an initial brain MRI.
Researchers found women with migraines had more deep white matter brain lesions than women without migraines.
But those lesions did not progress faster in women with more frequent or severe migraines.
And while an increase of lesions was not associated with cognitive decline, there could be a higher risk for stroke among these women.
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NEW YORK, NY (AP).-
New York City architect Edgar Tafel, an original Taliesin fellow credited with saving some of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important works, has died. He was 98.
Tafel, who was instrumental in helping save two historic interiors from a house designed by his celebrated mentor in Minnesota, died Jan. 18 at his home in lower Manhattan, said Robert Silman, a longtime friend and New York structural engineer.
He was the last surviving member of the original Taliesin fellows, a community of young apprentice architects established in 1932 at Wright's home and school in Spring Green, Wis., Silman said.
He had a hand in two of Wright's most enduring structures: Fallingwater on Bear Run creek in southwest Pennsylvania and the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wis.
In his own practice, which Tafel opened in New York after World War II, he was perhaps best known for designing the Church House for the First Presbyterian Church, a 19th-century landmark in Greenwich Village.
Decades later, Tafel was instrumental in helping save two Prairie-style interiors from Wright's Francis W. Little House in Wayzata, Minn., before it was demolished in 1971. The living room is installed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York and the library is in the Allentown Art Museum
His other projects included three college campuses, 35 religious buildings, six townhouses and 80 homes.
Tafel, born in New York City, is the author of "Years With Frank Lloyd Wright" and "About Wright."
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gluten free cooking
I was doing it a bit of internet research on gluten the other day and it struck me how many different reasons there were for taking gluten out of your diet.
Unless you have been ordered to avoid it by a doctor, I figure it must be pretty confusing for anyone weighing up the pros and cons of this inconvenient dietary regime.
So I have decided to do a quick review of the multitude of reasons so many of us are taking this path.
Coeliac disease This is a well documented medical condition in which the stomach lining is damaged by gluten. It might cause many painful symptoms or none at all, but sufferers must strictly avoid all gluten – even trace fragments that could be picked up by accident from other nearby foods. A blood test from your doctor can determine whether you might be suffering from this condition.
Gluten intolerance It might be eczema, regular tummy aches, IBS or some other annoying condition that leads many to avoid gluten. Taking gluten out of the diet or even just reducing it can be enough to help sufferers of these sorts of irritating conditions, but doctors are unlikely to suggest gluten free regimes because little research has been done on their effects beyond the very serious coeliac condition. There are some tests that can be done to detect intolerances but they are not easy to track down.
Sick, grumpy children They could be included in the category above, but many gluten intolerant children are not able to articulate particular health issues. Instead they may eat poorly, sleep poorly, suffer constipation or diarrhea and demonstrate unhappy or disruptive behaviour. They may also have particular behavioural issues or poor concentration and could be underweight (though some may also be big for their age). The medical community at large does not really acknowledge this condition though some dieticians and paediatricians are starting to cotton on to the devastating impact of food intolerances on children.
Because there are such a wide range of reactions in children, key clues to gluten and or dairy intolerance may be things like chronic ear infections, stuffy noses, and strong favouritism of the very foods they have trouble with. Ironically it is this key symptom that makes it so difficult for parents to choose a gluten and/or dairy free diet because they are unsure what their child might eat instead.
Of course most adapt quite happily to alternatives once the offending foodstuffs are removed but its quite a big leap of faith (I know because I have taken it!). A dietician who specialises in food intolerances could help you conduct an elimination diet if you want to be sure that these are the offending foods, and could also advise you on the type of dietary supplementation you may need to do to rebalance the diet.
Autism, ADD, ADHD At the core of this gluten and dairy (casein) free regime is the belief that gluten and the dairy protein called casein have an opiate effect on the brains of some children with these conditions.
While the number of doctors promoting this diet as a treatment for conditions such as autism are still in the minority, there are many stories to be found online of a reduction of symptoms in some children (though not all) in response to this diet. The theory is that for these children the food particles are not properly digested because of damage to the stomach called a leaky gut. The opiate effect of these undigested food particles in the blood stream is then thought to act on the brain exaccerbating many behavioural and physical symptoms.
So there you have it – a potted summary of the many reasons we might choose to avoid gluten. While I cannot vouch for the science behind any of these beliefs, what I can vouch for is my own experience. Taking dairy and gluten from my son’s diet was a revolution for us. It was scary and challenging but we could never go back. (and believe me we have lapsed from time to time on holidays or at special events but we always live to regret it)
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A lot of people really care about congestion. A major source of capital funding in this country is the federal Congestion Management and Air Quality grants. Occasionally, in an argument over some aspect of transportation policy, someone will announce, "But your proposal would cause congestion!" and sit back triumphantly, thinking they've just won.
In the past I've argued for congestion pricing, but honestly I just can't get too excited about fighting congestion. If you read my list of goals above, you'll notice that reducing congestion is not on there. Congestion does affect my goals, so I do care on some level, but other factors may outweigh it.
Unfortunately, "congestion is bad" has become such an article of faith that in 2006 when Mayor Bloomberg said "We like traffic, it means economic activity, it means people coming here," he was attacked by both car activists and cycling activists. I hope that you, my readers, will be a bit more tolerant.
But what is congestion? I think it's important to distinguish a few different aspects. First of all, congestion is not confined to the movement of vehicles or even people. We can have literal congested arteries, where fat deposits slow or block the flow of blood. We can have sinus and chest congestion, where excess mucus can interfere with our oxygen supply or our elimination of carbon dioxide. There is definitely congestion on electronic data networks, just this evening I heard a podcast where someone was talking about congestion in the power grid, and I imagine there's also congestion in aqueducts and sewers.
Back in the realm of vehicles, the most familiar form is road congestion, but we also have air traffic congestion and rail congestion. Road congestion isn't always vehicles: we can have congestion of bikes, pedestrians, roller skaters or golf carts.
What all these things have in common is trouble with flow. Interestingly, it's not all about speed. Sometimes the overall throughput is satisfactory, but the trouble is that there are stops and starts. Other times the flow is constant but it's too slow. There are also two different sources of congestion: either it comes from increased demand, or from other stuff blocking the duct. For example, in power congestion it's simply that people are trying to force more electrons through a grid of a constant size. In contrast, nasal passages and bronchial tubes stay the same width, but get blocked by mucus. Sudafed works by decreasing the production of mucus, while Mucinex works by thinning the mucus; both reduce the blockage, allowing air to flow better.
We see the same divisions in road congestion. Sometimes people get to where they're going in a reasonable amount of time, but they spend too much time stopping and starting, while other times the cars flow at a steady pace but slowly. Sometimes the traffic pattern induces a large number of cars through a road that isn't built to handle them, while other times it's a whole bunch of low-priority vehicles that block the higher-priority vehicles.
For a concrete example, we can turn to Mike Grynbaum's report from last year about the large number of off-duty taxis heading from Manhattan to Queens and back at 4PM for the change of shift. Just as it's more important for air to flow through our noses and lungs into our bloodstream and back out than for mucus to flow out, it's more important for buses, cars and trucks to get to Queens and back than taxis.
It's not that you don't need to drain mucus from your sinuses, and it's not that the taxis don't need to get to get out to Queens for their change of shift. It's just that the mucus could drain slower and leave more room for you to breathe, and the taxis could travel slower and leave more room for other vehicles. The same is true for all the entitled drivers who could be taking the train or traveling at less congested times.
So there you have it: off-duty taxis and discretionary car trips are the snot of New York's roads. Parking pricing is the Sudafed for that snot, and congestion pricing is Mucinex. | <urn:uuid:ddcdacf3-89b1-4070-a708-fb254e5eb664> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-is-congestion.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972126 | 857 | 2.484375 | 2 |
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. newspaper circulation was almost unchanged in the six months that ended in September as publications continued to make gains in digital editions, according to data from a media industry group.
Average daily circulation for print and digital editions combined fell 0.2 percent for the 613 newspapers included in the semiannual study by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Sunday circulation for the 528 newspapers in Tuesday's report increased 0.6 percent.
The Wall Street Journal kept its position as the No. 1 newspaper. Its average circulation grew 9.4 percent to 2.3 million, largely because more readers are paying to read content on its website and mobile devices. Digital circulation grew about 257,000 from a year ago, more than making up for a loss of nearly 60,000 in print.
USA Today was second at 1.7 million, down 3.9 percent. USA Today, which is owned by Gannett Co., remained the No. 1 print newspaper, with a higher circulation than the Journal after digital editions are excluded. Unlike the Journal, USA Today doesn't charge for website access. Its digital circulation is limited to other products, such as subscriptions on Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle.
The New York Times followed at 1.6 million, a 40 percent increase. More than half of the Times' circulation was for digital editions, including subscriptions for full access to the Times' website and mobile apps. The company attributed the gains to the growing popularity of its digital editions and to new rules giving publications more flexibility to count as multiple subscriptions the same person's usage on multiple outlets, such as the website and a Kindle.
The Times was the leading Sunday newspaper, with a circulation of 2.1 million. The Journal and USA Today do not have Sunday editions.
Circulation numbers affect advertising rates at newspapers, particularly for printed editions. Print advertising revenue has been declining in recent years as readers and advertisers shift to the Internet. The economic downturn accelerated the decline. Some newspapers have seen growth in digital ad revenue, but it hasn't been enough to offset the losses in print advertising.
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Love this fractal image, by the entrance to St Michael in the Belfrey church. Here's what's on the label: Fractals, like this Mandelbrot plot, are self-repeating patterns found throughout nature, in plants, lightning and even coastlines. Early work on fractals was pioneered by Lewis Fry (of chocolate fame I assume) Richardson, who went to Bootham School, York 1894-98.
This red cabbage definitely caught my eye - I'm a sucker for any kind of in-your-face colour. Interesting stuff on the label:
Nestlé uses only natural colouring foodstuffs such as Red Cabbage in Smarties ® and explores innovative technologies to make sure they keep their bright colours.
Apparently there are eight different coloured Smarties, each getting their hue from veggies and other plants such as black carrot, hibiscus, safflower, radish, lemon and Spirulina.
I'm very happy to hear that. I was very unhappy when Nestlé took over the Rowntree chocolate factory in York. I'd boycotted their products for years after learning about their exploits in Africa, allegedly trying to persuade mothers that the bottle was better for their babies than the breast. I do happen to believe this, but it's not the issue here, I just found it unthinkable that a global company could be so unscrupulous, placing profit before lives in countries where women can't afford to feed themselves, let alone pay for a commodity that they already have on tap. Surely the answer was to feed the mothers, then the baby milk will flow free. Sorry to rant, but it's taken me years to accept that Nestlé is a part of York and I'm pleased that they seem to be cleaning up their act.
Couldn't pass this one without stopping, all about pigments... opposite the Minster on High Petergate:
Colouring agents used by medieval glaziers to create stained glass windows in York Minster have been found to contain tiny gold and silver fragments now known as nanoparticles.
It goes on to say that nanoparticles are now used in chemistry, medicine and biology amongst other fields.
|© Lisa Blackwell|
Shells of pollen and spores can help preserve and deliver medicines, food supplements and cosmetics, enables by patented Sporomex technology.
If you'd like to see the other fab fifty-six images the best thing is to wander around York and see them in situ, but failing that take a virtual stroll online.
PS Been having a lot of fun on my ipad recently making my own fractal-like images. If you haven't already, check out Uzu (means whirlpool in Japanese), a great app, mind-blowing for design ideas! | <urn:uuid:79fa4f52-5049-4d17-b376-53e0cdae0f66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jeanmosshandknits.blogspot.jp/2012/06/york-grand-tour.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959604 | 569 | 2.15625 | 2 |
New research has suggested that the new minimum price on alcohol could potentially save up to 50,000 pensioners lives over the next decade.
Some Stats and facts:
- Over 65s are more likely to drink everyday and on their own compared younger drinkers.
- An estimation of 1.4 million older people in Britain are drinking too much.
- In the last year there have been more admissions in hospital for over 65s suffering from alcohol related illnesses and injuries compared to 16 – 24s .
- one third of older drinkers are said to develop a drinking problem later in life
So how will putting the price up help ?
Pensioners will not be able to buy as much alcohol as they once could thus reducing the amount of alcohol consumed which results in less illnesses and injuries.
But will it really help ?
What about the pensioners who can afford it how ill this stop them from cutting down on alcohol. Also for the pensioners who don’t have as much what if they spend the more money on alcohol rather than on things that they need, which could lead to another sort of illness. I have doubt in my mind that their will be older people out their that will carry on drinking after the minimum price because they will make up the extra money to afford it. | <urn:uuid:b86894ac-1991-457e-b0ad-0d533c1addee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pada.org.uk/minimum-alcohol-could-potentially-save-50000-pensioners | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973589 | 262 | 2.3125 | 2 |
In the study, which followed 3,091 adults age 65 or older for eight years, researchers found that the 427 seniors who developed dementia had roughly twice the annual hospitalization rate of participants without dementia. Overall, 86 percent of seniors with dementia went to the hospital at least once compared with only 59 percent of those without.
The researchers found that having dementia increased the odds of being hospitalized by 41 percent. More importantly, they found the risk of being hospitalized for potentially preventable illnesses — most commonly, urinary tract infection, pneumonia and congestive heart failure — was 78 percent higher for people with dementia.
The study was published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Elizabeth Phelan, M.D., of the University of Washington School of Medicine and the study’s lead author, said hospitalizations often cause further health problems for dementia patients and should be avoided, if possible.
“There have been lots of studies looking at the risks for people with dementia in the hospital. They’re at risk for delirium, falls, pressure ulcers; they may need to be restrained, and many never return to their prior level of functioning after a hospitalization. If hospitalizations could be avoided, it would be helpful for preserving cognition and avoiding new problems,” she told HealthDay News.
Better in-home care for dementia patients not only can help prevent some of the major causes of hospitalization, she said, it would cost less than a typical hospital stay, and result in fewer health complications.
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A Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, who tried to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, cries as he receives news that he cannot find refuge in the country, June 18, 2012.
An Iranian lawmaker has censured the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for remaining silent toward the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, urging the body to react to such crimes.
“The Organization of Islamic Cooperation can show a logical reaction in this regard, but it has not paid attention to this issue due to internal conflicts which are going on in certain Muslim societies, including the Syria crisis,” member of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Nozar Shafiei, said on Monday.
He expressed hope that the OIC would not remain indifferent to this ongoing catastrophe which is plaguing the Muslim world.
The Iranian legislator highlighted the significant role of the United Nations regarding the slaughter of Muslims in Myanmar, stressing that the UN Charter has the potential to take “very active” measures on the issue, though the organization has shown no reaction so far.
On Saturday, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast expressed the Islamic Republic’s readiness to send humanitarian aid to the Rohingya Muslims, who have been subjected to violence in Myanmar.
The Buddhist-majority government of Myanmar refuses to recognize the Rohingyas and classifies them as illegal migrants, although the Rohingyas are said to be Muslim descendants of Persian, Turkish, Bengali, and Pathan origin, who migrated to Myanmar as early as the 8th century.
Myanmar President Thein Sein said on July 19 that the “only solution” to the plight of the Rohingya Muslims is to send the nearly-one-million-strong community to refugee camps run by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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I am a scientist, and I feel that Bryson has a keen eye for what is important. His book is crammed with wonderful concepts and observations from a remarkable breadth of fields. It is always easy to understand, yet consistently mind-boggling. I personally found the stories of scientists' escapades captivating: it is so healthy to be reminded that science is a human endeavor. These stories of ruthlessness and heartbreak along the path of discovery are exactly the things that elevate this book above textbooks. Also, the narrator does a wonderful job of giving the author's words their intended voice, be it profound, tragic, or comic.
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I had actually grabbed a pair of ASB-04 brackets first. I've had them bolted up together before when I was playing around with the Mark III design.
The ASB-13B "chassis" works great! And a pair of 'L' brackets and a Pololu caster makes a good front/drag wheel. I can't wait to get it powered!
The BH-02 "4 AA Flat Pack with 5.75" leads" can be attached under the R/C servos with Velcro. Nice fit!
What I'm missing (and needed precise dimensions for) is a transition board (adapter) to take the BB II on spacers, and bolt into four holes of the ASB-13B. Now that I've got the proper dimensions (I was off 11 tho' on one of the dimensions), I can rework my bracket accurately. I'll also put in holes for the Arduino UNO board to satisfy the HBRobotics club build.
Another addition that I haven't worked out the mounting for is a solder-less breadboard from Parallax:
It would be mounted above the uP board.
The IR range finders (not sonar, as previously mentioned) are currently just mounted by one hole each of one of the 'L' brackets, something better could be done here (and I really want them at angles.)
i feel a sale coming on. he he he :wink:
i like the idea of using the AS13B as a chassis for a small robot. very cool idea.
using two ASB-04's would give you extra holes tho! :wink:
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Commission Recommends Formal Career Track for ‘Big Data’ Experts
October 3, 2012
The government should create a formal career track for the employees who manage its increasingly large volumes of complex and variable data known as “big data,” according to a new industry report.
The TechAmerica Foundation’s Big Data Commission, in a report released Wednesday, calls for a new federal academy to train and certify employees to capture, store, share, manage and analyze vast volumes of data.
The report highlights the Internal Revenue Service as a user of big data tools and techniques to crack down on tax fraud. NASA, the National Archive and Records Administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are also using big data tools and techniques. | <urn:uuid:ac221fc3-e867-463a-a6dc-8bb302a53df4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ncmahq.org/NewsPublications/CMNewsDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=12998 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905145 | 151 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Contest: Mookum Materialise Wire Challenge 2012 (not submitted).
Polyp is a form inspired by coral and used as cable organizer. Its simple form is plausible to be manufactured by laser sintering process. It simplifies (and manages) six wires into one unification. Wires are clipped in every single “tentacle” on its body. | <urn:uuid:0828e121-d18e-4754-8b11-a32ea622a910> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rendyhimawan.com/post/27632595485/polyp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937863 | 76 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Christ Lives: An Illustrated Oratorio
DVD, 1 hour 30 minutes (NTSC)
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Christ Lives begins with footage from the 2008 live performance of the Oratorio in Palo Alto, California. Swamiji describes how the music came to him while meditating at sacred spots on pilgrimage in the Holy Land in 1983. While there, he experienced the deep inspiration of Christ as a living presence and wrote each piece from that uplifted state of awareness.
The photographs on this DVD were taken by Swami Kriyananda while on that same pilgrimage in 1983 and include: Davids Tomb, the grotto of St. John, the Church of Domination where the Virgin Mary is believed to have died, the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, the river Jordon in Galilee where Christ was baptized, the Church of Agony in Gethsemane, the place of Christs crucifixion in Golgotha, and Mt. Tabor, where Christs transfiguration is said to have been.
David Bingham created this DVD especially for Treasures Along the Path. Please play it as you feel inspired. You may wish to view it in its entirety or have it playing in the background during the entire holiday season. It is our hope that this DVD will bless you and bring Christs presence more deeply into your life. | <urn:uuid:6f3e294e-8319-4084-8bc2-05c50620e2b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=TTDVD109 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957486 | 279 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Meadows are open areas of grassland, untouched by artificial fertilisers and closed to grazing animals during the spring and summer months. They are characterised by a wealth of colourful flowers before they are cut and turned back into grazing land during the winter. With their variety of wild flowers and grasses they form an important habitat for many species of insect and other invertebrates.
Flower-rich meadows have evolved over hundreds of years through a combination of hay cutting and winter grazing. While pasture is grassland that is generally grazed throughout the year, meadows are closed to animal grazing in spring. The plants are left to grow and set seed until mid to late summer when the hay crop is harvested. The cut hay is left to dry for a few days before being baled up, collected and stored for use as animal fodder. After a few weeks growth the meadows are then grazed from late summer or autumn until the following spring.
The plant species found in meadows varies according to local climate and soil conditions as well as the timing of cutting and grazing.
Meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris), oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), common knapweed (Centaurea nigra), yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor), sweet vernal grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) and red fescue (Festuca rubra) are just some of the many colourful plants to be found in traditionally-managed hay meadows.
Apart from the colour and beauty of the plants, meadows are valuable for a wide range of insects. In the spring, orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterflies lay their eggs on Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis). Meadow browns (Maniola jurtina) and skipper butterflies depend on different grasses, such as cock's-foot (Dactylis glomerata) and Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), to lay their eggs in summer, while bumblebees and hoverflies depend on the many nectar-rich flowers.
Most of Britain's meadows were destroyed by the intensification of farming methods after the Second World War. As hedges were removed to increase the size of fields, flower-rich meadows were also ploughed and cultivated for arable crops. Others were ploughed and re-sown as 'improved' grassland, which is a mixture of two main species, rye grass and clover. Growth in this environment is encouraged by chemical fertilisers. Many meadows have also disappeared through urban expansion. By 1984 the total area of meadowland was estimated at just 3% of the 1930 level.
Meadows on some of the less accessible slopes of chalk grassland remain unharmed, as do some damp and isolated meadows. A few have been protected as nature reserves with traditional management methods. Increasingly, meadow creation schemes are reversing the trend of 'improved' grassland by stripping and re-sowing with seeds from unimproved meadows.
Unmanaged grassland will gradually revert to scrub and eventually to woodland.
The Wildlife Garden meadow includes a colourful mix of plants including:
Our meadow attracts many insects including common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus). Its caterpillar feeds off bird's-foot-trefoil. During May and June azure damselflies (Coenagrion puella) may also be seen foraging amongst a variety of plants. Tiny froglets and toadlets migrate to the meadow in June and July. Our sheep come and graze during late summer and early autumn.
Small meadows can be created in gardens instead of lawns, or alongside them. It is unlikely that a garden meadow will be large enough to feed meadow butterfly larvae but the flowers are an attractive addition on their own and are refuges for a number of invertebrates. A lawn fringed with oxeye daisies and buttercups reminds us of the countryside in early summer. Many specialist nurseries sell native meadow plants and seeds. | <urn:uuid:64a73552-3304-4df5-a094-a670c5cdf49e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/british-natural-history/british-habitats/meadow/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953267 | 848 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Professor Creary received his B.S. in 1968 from Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. His Ph.D. is from The Ohio State University in 1973. After a year as a postdoctoral with J.F. Bunnett at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 1974. Professor Creary has been a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
Professor Creary's research interests are a blend of synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry. Studies in his laboratory are directed toward the study of novel reaction mechanisms and reactive intermediates. Reactions that proceed via carbocations, carbenes, free radicals, radical anions and radical cations are current areas of interest.
In the carbocation area, studies are directed toward so-called "electron deficient cations", [R2CE]+. Studies have shown that a variety of such carbocations that are substituted with electron-withdrawing groups E (such as carbonyl, phosphoryl, and sulfonyl) can be generated and, in certain instances, are more stable than expected on the basis of the electron-withdrawing properties of the group E.
Substitution mechanisms of halodiazirines are also of interest. It has been found via 15N labeling studies, that under appropriate conditions, either C-azidodiazirines, or N-azidodiazirines, can be formed as transient intermediates when halodiazirines react with azide ion. Substitution reactions can proceed via Sn2' or SRN1 mechanisms. The possible involvement of the isomeric and formally antiaromatic diazirinyl anions is under investigation.
Carbene chemistry, and the effect of neighboring silicon on carbenic centers, is also an area of current interest. We have generated a number of silicon containing carbenes, and these carbenes rearrange to give products that are indicative of a special interaction between silicon and the carbenic center. Silicon-activated hydrogen migration to carbenic centers is one of the facile processes that silyl carbenes undergo.
A novel β-thiolactam forming reaction has been discovered in our laboratory starting with readily available aryl esters. Subsequent ozonolysis allows preparation of a variety of b-lactam systems. The mechanism, scope, and obvious synthetic utility of this reaction are currently under investigation, as are carbocationic intermediates derived from such systems. | <urn:uuid:12e0c4b8-742d-4d21-9ff2-fff21c2dfd8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chemistry.nd.edu/faculty/detail/xcreary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94478 | 518 | 1.640625 | 2 |
By Randi Henderson
In a small office on York Road the phone seems never to stop ringing: four rings, a click and a machine answers; then the hang-up click and it's ringing again.
"We can't even count the calls anymore," said the woman on whose desk the phone sits. "On the tape we're asking people to write us and we're getting 200 letters a week."
The woman's name is Linda; to say any more would be violating the principles of the non-profit organization she represents. But there are other names that can be mentioned -- names like Roseanne Arnold, LaToya Jackson, Oprah Winfrey and former Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur -- that explain why the phones in the office of Survivors of Incest Anonymous are ringing off the hook these days.
Once a dirty little secret, then a social issue vying for position with a multitude of other social issues, incest has suddenly become a hot topic saturating the media as one celebrity after another comes forth with a personal incest memory.
Talking about incest is becoming more prevalent "because people are beginning to deal with it now," said Lois Meszaros, a Baltimore psychologist who treats incest victims. "It's helpful that some people who haven't come forward before now will because someone famous has."
And if the recent outpouring of celebrity confessions elicits skepticism in some about the validity of long-buried childhood incest memories, don't count Linda, SIA executive director, among the skeptics.
"I'm more suspicious of people who don't say they're victims of incest," said Linda, who 10 years ago started this program for incest victims, following the 12 steps of groups like Alcoholics Anonymous.
According to statistics from the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, one in three women and one in seven men has been victimized by incest or some form of childhood sexual abuse, says Linda, who remains anonymous both for the group and because publicity about this subject upsets her daughter.
SIA interprets the word incest broadly to cover any emotionally damaging sexual encounter by a family member or person known to the family over a period of time.
"I'm stunned by the pervasiveness of child sexual abuse and incest," said Charles Citrenbaum, another Baltimore psychologist who treats incest victims. "People are incredulous, but I have no doubt. More and more people are feeling freer to come forward . . . it is a very healthy thing that it is coming out."
Linda, 37, had been attending Al-Anon meetings when she started being hit by memories of sexual abuse by her mother. "Defrosting" is the word she uses to describe the phenomenon. For some (like Roseanne Arnold) the memories come in a revelatory flood; for Linda the experience had never been totally blocked from her consciousness, but as she gained maturity with her Al-Anon counseling she found herself forced to confront these memories.
Her abuse consisted of "sexual baths" that her mother inflicted upon her repeatedly from the time she was 8 until she was 12. "My mother had the idea that she had to scrub the stinky parts," she recalls, describing the incidents as horrifying and intimidating.
Getting together with other incest victims who were also alumnae of 12-step programs, Linda started a support group 10 years ago that attracted a number of incest survivors (often from referrals from therapists) and branched out to a few chapters. Today there are 800 SIA groups reg
istered around the world, and at least 26 Maryland groups.
"About four years ago, it started taking off," Linda said, tracing the increased interest to the TV movie "Something About Amelia" and the publicity that accompanied sexual abuse charges in the McMartin day care case (although the defendants were acquitted) in California.
Through the late '80s, Linda said, the women's movement has helped female incest survivors face their past. "They're being given permission to say, 'Yes, I'm an incest survivor,' " she explains.
In SIA meetings, participants talk about confronting their feelings, about how random events can trigger flashbacks and how they can be handled, and about personal life histories. Linda recommends that besides attending SIA meetings, people with incest in their past also receive professional counseling. And she offers words of hope:
"Healing is possible," she says. "You can go on to have a healthy emotional life. . . But it is going to take some active work on your part." | <urn:uuid:82704d38-f758-4224-9bf8-e32fff6b990c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/1991_10_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972956 | 922 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Figure 2. Zirconium in H2SO4: Heat Treatment Relieves Weld Worries
Zirconium is vulnerable to attack at high sulfuric acid concentrations, as precipitates form within the weld. Heat treatment will improve resistance.
Figure 3. Zirconium in HCI: Vulnerable to High Concentrations
Zirconium is vulnerable at high HCl concentrations. For equipment being developed for HCl applications, care must be taken to ensure that the metal surface does not come in contact with iron or copper during fabrication. A chemical conditioning pre-treatment should be used to be on the safe side.
HCl: Hold the ionsZirconium is used in numerous processes that involve hydrochloric acid, and the metal's corrosion resistance approaches that of tantalum in pure HCl media. Applications include production of azo dyes and fine chemicals, geothermal applications to acidify salt solutions and in hydrochloric evaporators.
You'll note in Fig. 3, however, that the metal is susceptible to localized corrosion attack, including pitting, stress corrosion attack and intergranular attack in oxidizing chloride solutions. Zirconium should never be used where ferric or cupric ions are present.
In addition, care should be taken during the fabrication of zirconium vessels destined for hydrochloric acid service to ensure that no iron or copper is embedded on the metal surface. Consider chemical conditioning pre-treatment prior to placing zirconium equipment into hydrochloric acid service.
Chloride salt resistanceIn chloride salt solutions, most materials are susceptible to localized corrosion attack such as pitting, crevice corrosion or stress corrosion cracking. Zirconium, however, has good resistance to severe chloride environments, even at elevated temperatures. In addition to seawater, brackish and pure waters, zirconium is very resistant to a wide range of chloride salt solutions. Zirconium has limited use, however, in ferric or cupric chloride solutions and will undergo localized corrosion, including pitting or intergranular attack and stress corrosion cracking in these solutions. The presence of the ferric or cupric ions will cause the localized breakdown of the metal's passive oxide layer.
Excellent with organicsZirconium offers excellent resistance to organic media including formic acid, acetic acid, hydroxyacetic acid, lactic acid and urea. Process vessels for the production of acetic acid have been the single largest organics application for zirconium. Only a few conditions will cause zirconium to corrode in acetic acid. These include the presence of cupric ions, free chlorine and extremely low water content. Under highly stressed conditions, a minimum of 650 ppm water is needed to prevent stress corrosion cracking in acetic acid.
Zirconium also is highly resistant to attack by caustics, including sodium and potassium hydroxide, allowing design of equipment that simultaneously resists acidic and alkaline environments. In summary, zirconium can be a cost-effective, highly corrosion-resistant material of construction for chemical processing applications. It has been successfully applied in many severely corrosive environments. In many cases, the metal has not only helped reduce downtime, but lowered maintenance costs, increased process efficiency and eliminated corrosion products in the final product.
Richard Sutherlin is manager of technical services at Wah Chang. A Metallurgical Engineer and a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Oregon, he has more than 25 years experience in the field of corrosion, welding and fabrication of reactive and refractory metals.
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2. Webster, R.T., "Zirconium Cost Effective Uses in Corrosive Applications," Paper 459, Corrosion/87, San Francisco, Ca., 1987, pp.4.
3. Yau, T.L., Webster, R.T., Zirconium in Sulfuric Acid Applications," Materials Performance, Vol. 25 (2), 1986: pp. 15-17.
4. Frechem, B.S.,Fitzgerald, B.J., Webber, R.G.,et al., "Factors to Consider for using Zirconium in Sulfuric Acid Services," Corrosion/ 95, 1995, pp 6.
5. Yau, T.L., Maguire, M., "Electrochemical Protection of Zirconium in Oxidizing Hydrochloric Acid Solutions," Corrosion, Vol.40, No. 6, pp 289.
6. Yau., T.L., "Zirconium for Seawater and Chloride Solutions," Presented at Fourth Asian-Pacifica Corrosion Control Conference, May 26-31, 1985, Tokyo, Japan
7. Yau, T.L., "Performance of Zirconium and Zirconium Alloys in Organics," Journal of Testing and Evaluation, March, 1996. | <urn:uuid:a782f6f2-89ac-4bc8-a5f6-ff93fe147194> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2003/261/?start=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906043 | 1,048 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Blog this: Shakespeare’s works completed by digital monkeys!
Posted by joeabbott on October 6, 2011
There’s an old saying that postulates that with an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of monkeys sitting at typewriters, they’d be able to complete the works of Shakespeare. Well, Jesse Anderson had neither infinite resource so he created a small computer program to act as his “digital monkey”, leveraged some other computer services available through the Internet (to proxy for “infinite” resources), and went about tracking passages created for matches against Shakespeare’s work (courtesy of the Gutenberg Project).
His result: after starting on 8/21/2011, the digital monkeys can take a break … they’re done.
Here’s Mr. Anderson’s “less technical” explanation of what he was doing:
Instead of having real monkeys typing on keyboards, I have virtual, computerized monkeys that output random gibberish. This is supposed to mimic a monkey randomly mashing the keys on a keyboard. The computer program I wrote compares that monkey’s gibberish to every work of Shakespeare to see if it actually matches a small portion of what Shakespeare wrote. If it does match, the portion of gibberish that matched Shakespeare is marked with green in the images below to show it was found by a monkey. The table below shows the exact number of characters and percentage the monkeys have found in Shakespeare. The parts of Shakespeare that have not been found are colored white. This process is repeated over and over until the monkeys have created every work of Shakespeare through random gibberish.
The references he made to the “images below” can be seen at Jesse’s blog; additionally, you can watch the video on the project below:
Unfortunately, it sounds like Mr. Anderson anticipates or has received some angered responses. To the point that he had to implore people to “keep calm” and remind everyone that:
“No monkeys were harmed during the making of this code.”
I know that I imagined monkeys cranking out entire sonnets, not just nine character snippets, and yet, I applaud his ingenuity and initiative. Thanks for adding a little fun to life, Jesse! | <urn:uuid:5b0c5e97-e07a-49d0-baee-f9a9ae876ed4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joeabbott.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/blog-this-shakespeares-works-completed-by-digital-monkeys/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958071 | 478 | 2.53125 | 3 |
OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR)
Your IPR are usually bundled up with other legal areas such as franchising, buying and selling a business. IPR enable you to create value.
You should have an understanding of how to identify and protect your IPR and how IPRs apply to your industry. This understanding can be gained through seminars and reading.
Here is some useful information on copyright from our Law and Disorder website:
A common question that we are asked is "why should I not register my own trade mark?".
If you have decided to do your own trade mark, read the following first.
Ready, fire, aim DIY trade marks
Just as in horror movies when the hero decides to enter the spooky room at end of the hall, there are plenty of people advising against Do it Yourself (DIY) trademarks. In fact there is a whole industry of lawyers and trade mark agents advising against it.
The fun of trade marks is that it stops your competitors copying the unique way you do something. In the case of Coca Cola this is quite understandable. In the case of the New Zealand ice cream seller, who by registering a musical trade mark stopped their competitors playing Green Sleeves it is a service to humanity. Who could not support Harley Davidson wishing to trade mark the Harley Davidson engine rumble? This could keep so many of those aging imitators off our streets.
When someone is considering whether or not to instruct a lawyer to register a trade mark on their behalf they will probably take note of the government web site which is so invitingly user friendly (always a dangerous sign). It offers a procedure which is a simple three step program:
Step 1.Complete a simple application form to the trade marks office and pay a fee.
Step 2.An examiner:
Step 3.The mark is advertised and if there is no opposition then it is registered three months later. Generally it's yours forever provided that you pay the registration fee every few years and continue to use it.
It is hardly surprising that this approach has attracted, a little like accountancy, a lot of strange people. There are all sorts of applications for instance the:
In this climate what red blooded business owner would not wish to apply for a trade a mark to protect their point of difference. Even smells can be the subject of a trade mark. So there is something for everybody.
So why not apply for a trade mark on a DIY basis?
Well, here are three points about the application process:
Here are just three of the potential issues you may face once you have registered the Mark:
The way to avoid these problems is to get legal advice before you apply. You will be advised to have a pre-application search-do it. This will save you from applying for a mark which has no chance of success as it is so similar to a mark being used by another. Once you explain your business plans you will be told in which classes to register. You can discuss in which countries to register and how.
There are business people who manage to register DIY trade marks, run their businesses unsuccessfully and no one ever tries to steal their mark. However, if a name is central to your business and it draws customers, DIY trade marks are not ideal.
To speak to a trade mark lawyer or a lawyer dealing with franchising or other IP agreements or disputes call Laura Pound on (61) 7 5438 8199 or email her on email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:9839623d-db65-4e51-95f8-3c6fc5abf3cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brennanlaw.com.au/ipcopyrighttrademark.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95763 | 726 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Master of Science in Counseling Psychology
The mission of the Chatham University Master of Science in Counseling Psychology Program has at its core a commitment to the education of women and men so that they might as professionals contribute to the health and well being, of human beings through meeting the current and future psychological needs of society.
The program focuses on both the professional, intellectual, and personal growth of students, emphasizing human-centered values as well as evidence - informed treatment approaches. The program aims to prepare students to become competent providers of counseling psychology services in the context of a diverse community and the ever-changing healthcare environment.
Successful completion of the counseling psychology courses prepares students for master’s level positions in professions promoting the optimal development of individuals, families, groups, and organizations. Graduates of the program will be ready for employment in agencies providing mental and physical health services, social services and other educational, professional, and business organizations. The psychology-based curriculum integrates theoretical foundations, experiential perspectives, and research methodologies with practice. In addition, students learn to assess persons in their familial and social contexts, design strategies for change, and evaluate the effectiveness of those interventions. Students are further encouraged to be mindful of the socio-cultural diversity of individuals, families, and groups. | <urn:uuid:d6944c81-69e7-463d-9c6a-17629ddd7390> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chatham.edu/academics/programs/graduate/mscp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916193 | 259 | 1.765625 | 2 |
A veterinarian has many career options. About 40 percent of all veterinarians treat small animals or pets. A large number of veterinarians specialize in the health and breeding of cattle, poultry, sheep, swine, or horses. Many inspect meat, poultry and other foods as part of state-sponsored or federally funded public health programs. Others teach in veterinary colleges. Research is an area which continues to grow in veterinary medicine. Veterinarians are conducting research related to animal diseases, food and drug testing, and animal injuries. In addition, because of the many correlative findings linked to animals, medical research teams have been formed to seek knowledge about the prevention and treatment of human diseases. | <urn:uuid:d9322d33-96c5-452c-9d54-88bbdedbeda6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.luther.edu/preveterinary/careers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95025 | 136 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Federal biologists propose new rule to guide naval training
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — In a preliminary assessment, federal biologists said the mid-frequency sound generated by active sonar, the sound and pressure generated by detonating explosives and other activities associated with naval exercises aren’t likely to have a significant impact on protected marine species.
Nevertheless, the National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing a new rule to minimize impacts from naval training activities, including mitigation zones and observers trained to spot marine life during exercises.
The rule also calls for implementing a stranding response plan that includes a training shutdown provision in certain circumstances, and allows for the Navy to contribute in-kind services to NOAA’s Fisheries Service if the agency has to conduct a stranding response and investigation. It would also designate a humpback whale cautionary area to protect high concentrations of humpback whales around Hawaii during winter months.
Those steps don’t go far enough protect marine life, said Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
“Many whales and other marine mammals, like Hawaiian monk seals, are already struggling for survival. Now the Navy’s going to intensify war games in their habitat?” Sakashita said. We’re learning more and more about the tragic effects of sonar on whales and dolphins, yet the Navy’s being given carte blanche to blast the oceans with it and harm animals over and over again,” she added. (more…) | <urn:uuid:9c1b009a-1fb3-47ac-b66a-b19320f65f8a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://summitcountyvoice.com/tag/us-navy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926474 | 308 | 2.484375 | 2 |
1. The Sapindas become impure by the death (of a relative) during ten (days and) nights, except those who officiate as priests, who have performed the Dîkshanîyeshti (or initiatory ceremony of a Srauta sacrifice), and those who are students. 1
2. (The impurity) of a Kshatriya lasts for eleven (days and) nights, 2
3, (That) of a Vaisya twelve (days and) nights,
4. (Or), according to some, half a month,
5. (And that) of a Sûdra a whole month. 5
6. If during (a period of impurity) another (death) happens, the (relatives) shall be pure after (the lapse of) the remainder of that (first period). 6
7. (But) if one night (only of the period of impurity) remains (and another death happens, they shall become pure) after (the lapse of) two (days and nights).
8. (If the second death happens) on the morning (after the completion of the period of impurity, they shall be purified) after three (days and nights).
9. (The relatives) of those who are slain for the sake of cows and Brâhmanas (become pure) immediately after the burial, 9
10. And (those of men destroyed) by the anger of the king, 10
11. (Further, those of men killed) in battle,
12. Likewise (those) of men who voluntarily (die) by starving themselves to death, by weapons, fire, poison, or water, by hanging themselves, or by jumping (from a precipice). 12
13. Sapinda-relationship ceases with the fifth or the seventh (ancestor). 13
14. (The rules regarding impurity caused by the 14
death of a relative apply) to the birth (of a child) also.
15. (In) that (case the impurity falls) on the parents,
16. Or on, the mother (alone).
17. (The impurity) for a miscarriage (lasts for a number of days and) nights equal to (the number of) months from conception, 17
18. Or three days.
19. And if he hears (of the death of a Sapinda) after (the lapse of) ten (days and nights, the impurity lasts for) one night together with the preceding and following days,
20. Likewise when a relative who is not a Sapinda, a relative by marriage, or a fellow-student (has died). 20
21. For a man who studies the same recension of the Veda (the impurity lasts) one day, 21
22. Likewise for a Srotriya who dwells in the same house. 22
23. On touching (i.e. on carrying out) a corpse from an interested motive, the impurity lasts for ten days. 23
24. (The duration of the impurity) of a Vaisya and of a Sûdra (in the same case) has been declared (by Sûtras 3-5).
25. Or (it shall last for these two) as many nights as there are seasons (in the year); 25
26. And (the same rule may be made applicable) to the two higher (castes).
27. Or (the impurity lasts) three days.
28. And if the teacher, his son or wife, a person for whom (a Brâhmana) sacrifices or a pupil (has been carried out, the duration of the impurity is) the same. 28
29. And if a man of lower caste carries, out (the corpse of) one of higher caste, or a man of higher caste (carries out the body of) one of lower caste, (the duration of) the impurity in these (cases) is determined by (the caste of) the dead man.
30. On touching an outcast, a Kandâla, a woman impure on account of her confinement, a woman in her courses, or a corpse, and on touching persons who have touched them, he shall purify himself by bathing dressed in his clothes, 30
31. Likewise if he has followed a corpse (that was being carried out), 31
32. And (if he has come into contact) with a dog. 32
33. Some (declare), that (the limb) which (a dog) may touch (must be washed).
34. The Sapindas shall offer (libations of) water for (a deceased relative) whose Kaula-karman (or tonsure) has been performed, 34
35. As well as for the wives and daughters of such (a person).
36. Some (declare, that it must be done in the case) of married female relatives (also). 36
37. (During the period of impurity) all (the mourners) shall sleep and sit on the ground and remain chaste. 37
38. They shall not clean (themselves);
39. Nor shall they eat meat until (the funeral oblation) has been offered. 39
40. On the first, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth (days after the death) water (mixed with sesamum) must be offered.
41. And the garments (worn during that ceremony) must be changed,
42. But on the last (day they must be given) to men of the lowest castes.
43. The parents (shall offer water for a son who dies) after he has teethed.
44. If infants, (relatives) who live in a distant country, those who have renounced domestic life, and those who are not Sapindas, (die), the purification is instantaneous. 44
45. Kings (remain always pure), lest their business be impeded, 45
46. And a Brâhmana, lest his daily study of the Veda be interrupted. 46
249:1 XIV. Manu V, 59, 83, 93; Yâgñavalkya III, 18, 28; see also Âpastamba I, 5, 16, 18. Regarding the meaning of the term Sapinda, see below, Sûtra 13. This Sûtra refers, of course, to Brâhmanas only.
249:2-3. Manu V, 83; Yâgñavalkya III, 22.
249:5 Manu and Yâgñavalkya l. l. cit.
249:6 Manu V, 79.
250:9 Yâgñavalkya III, 27. The Sûtra may, however, also be translated 'the relatives of those who have been killed by a cow, or by a Brâhmana, &c.,' as the latter case, too, is mentioned by Yâgñavalkya III, 21. The word anvaksham, translated by 'immediately after burial,' is explained by Haradatta as follows: 'The corpse is seen, i.e. is visible, so Iona; the meaning is that they will be pure after having bathed at the end of the burial.'
250:10 Yâgñavalkya III, 21.
250:12 Manu V, 89; Yâgñavalkya III, 21.
250:13 Âpastamba II, 6, 15, 2. Haradatta states that the Sapinda relationship extends to four degrees in the case of the son of an appointed daughter (see below, XXVIII, 18), while it includes the relatives within six degrees in the case of a legitimate son of the body. In either case the term refers to Sagotra-sapindas, or Sapindas who bear the same family name only. The case of the Bhinnagotra-sapindas will be discussed below, Sûtra 20.
250:14-16. Manu V, 62; Yâgñavalkya III, 18-19.
251:17 Manu V, 66; Yâgñavalkya III, 20. 19. Manu V, 75-77.
251:20 Manu V, 81. Haradatta explains asapinda, 'a kinsman who is not a Sapinda,' by Samânodaka, i.e. 'a kinsman bearing the same family name, but more than six degrees removed,' and yonisambandha, 'a relative by marriage,' by 'the maternal grandfather, a maternal aunt's sons, and their sons, &c., the fathers of wives and the rest.' The latter term, for which 'a person related through a female' would be a more exact rendering than the one given above, includes, therefore, those persons who, according to the terminology of Manu and Yâgñavalkya, are called Bhinnagotra-sapindas, Bândhavas, or Bandhus (see Colebrooke, Mitâksharâ II, 53; II, 6). Gautama's terminology agrees in this respect with that of Âpastamba, see note on II, 5, 11, 16.
251:21 Haradatta explains sabrahmakârin by suhrit, 'a friend.' But the term which elsewhere means 'a fellow-student' cannot have that sense in our Sûtra, as the fellow-student (sahâdhyâyin) has been mentioned already. The translation given above is supported by the manner in which it is used in the ancient landgrants, where expressions like bahvrikasabrahmakârin are of common occurrence.
252:22 Manu V, 81.
252:23 'The word upasparsana (literally touching) does not denote here simple touching. For below, Sûtra 30, bathing with the clothes on, will be prescribed for that, What does upasparsana then mean? It means carrying out a corpse. For that an impurity lasting ten days falls on the performer, provided that the carrying out be done for an object, i.e. with the intention of gaining a fee or the like, not for the sake of doing one's duty. The word impurity is here repeated in order to indicate that the impurity, here intended, differs from that described above. Hence the rules given below, Sûtra 37, which prescribe sleeping and sitting on the ground and so forth, do not apply. (The word impurity) indicates (here) merely that (the performer of the act) must not be touched, and has no right (to perform sacred ceremonies).'--Haradatta.
252:25 Haradatta states that Gautama does not simply say 'six days,' because five seasons only are to be reckoned in the case of a Vaisya, and six in the case of a Sûdra.
252:28 Haradatta asserts that mriteshu, 'have died,' must be understood. But as both the preceding and the following Sûtras. refer to p. 253 the carrying out of corpses, it is impossible to agree with him. It seems to me that Gautama's rule means, that, if a man has carried out the corpse of a teacher, &c., he becomes impure for ten, eleven, or twelve days, or for three days only. See also Manu V, 91, 103; Yâgñavalkya III, 15.
253:30 Âpastamba II, 2, 2, 8-9; Manu V, 85; Yâgñavalkya III, 30.
253:31 Manu V, 103; Yâgñavalkya III, 26.
253:32-33. Âpastamba I, 5, 15, 16-17.
253:34 Âpastamba II, 6, 15, 9; Manu V, 70. Haradatta observes that most Grihya-sûtras prescribe the performance of the Kaula-karman in the third year,
253:36 Yâgñavalkya III, 4.
254:37 Manu V, 73; Yâgñavalkya III, 16.
254:39 Manu V, 73. 43. Manu V, 70.
254:44 Yâgñavalkya III, 23, Haradatta remarks that the rule refers to those Sapindas residing in foreign countries only, of whose death one may hear a year after their decease, and to remoter relations of whose death one hears after the lapse of ten days; see Manu V, 75-76.
254:45 Manu V, 93-94; Yâgñavalkya III, 27. Haradatta add: that the plural 'kings' is used in order to include all rulers and governors, and such persons as the king wishes to be pure.
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Words matter, and words that have somewhat similar meanings can and do carry vastly different connotations.
"He touched my face" can be worded as "He struck my face," but one is more accurate than the other depending on severity. "She's rather unwell" and "She's dying" can refer to the same thing, but there's a difference between someone who's simply under the weather and someone who's knocking on heaven's door.
Don't say "She's dying" when she has the flu, and don't say "She's rather unwell" when she's flatlining.
Rosie O'Donnell isn't "controversial." She's an attention hog.
Stevie Wonder isn't visually impared. He's blind.
Someone in convulsions from a drug overdose is not merely "buzzed," and someone whose brain is failing is not merely "high."
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Obliteration of old roads, dam removals would be OK’d under categorical exclusions
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — The U.S. Forest Service wants to speed restoration of national forest lands by streamlining the approval process for removing dams, and cleaning up debris and sediment and for reclaiming closed roads.
Under the proposal, now open for public comments, projects in those categories could be approved under a categorical exclusion, a type of review that isn’t nearly as extensive as an Environmental Assessment or Environmental Impact Statement — all outlined in the National Environmental Policy Act.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality recently issued guidance for the use of categorical exclusions. The CEQ concluded:
“Categorical exclusions have become the most frequently employed method of complying with NEPA. The extensive and expanding use of categorical exclusions underscores the need for clarifying guidance. Categorical exclusions are appropriate in many circumstances but should not be relied on if they thwart the purposes of NEPA, compromising the quality and transparency of agency decisionmaking or the opportunity for meaningful public participation. The guidance is designed to ensure that agencies appropriately and transparently establish and use categorical exclusions.”
Under the Obama administration, Forest Chief Chief Tom Tidwell has made restoration a big priority. The agency says the proposed rule change will enable more efficient implementation of projects to improve water flow and restore land and habitat.
Many recent forest logging projects related to beetle-kill have been approved under categorical exclusions. Often, the agency uses an up-front public involvement process to find consensus before formulating an official proposal.
Under a categorical exclusion, the Forest Service doesn’t have to prepare a set of alternatives or in-depth studies to show a finding of no significant impact.
“We are gaining efficiencies that allow us to move more rapidly through the environmental review process while reducing the cost to the taxpayers of unnecessary documentation,” said Harris Sherman, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. “These projects are really a win-win for the environment and the public and will result in positive environmental outcomes.”
The proposed changes drew immediate criticism from the Blue Ribbon Coalition, the country’s largest off-road users advocacy group.
“Some of the agency’s recommendations make sense, but as usual, they go too far,” said Brian Hawthorne, public lands policy director for group. “If 40 years of NEPA has taught us anything it is that noble intentions don’t justify half-baked analysis. A bulldozer moving dirt is a bulldozer moving dirt. Environmental impacts don’t magically disappear because the source of sediment is called a restoration project.”
“This borderlines on willful mismanagement,” said BRC executive director Greg Mumm. “The Forest Service is sitting on 20 to 40 million acres of beetle-killed fire hazard and the fuse is lit. Their priorities are out of whack.” Mumm said.
The three proposed categorical exclusions were published last week in the Federal Register.
“These proposed changes will allow us to be more responsive and do a better job of working with local governments, Tribes and communities to move forward important on-the-ground projects,” said U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell.
The proposed rule accelerates the pace of restoration and calls for a three- to five-page decision documentation process, which is less costly to write and review and can reduce the timeframe by as much as nine months compared to a typical environmental assessments which can be hundreds of pages long. This process retains the public notice, comment and appeals procedures that currently apply to categorical exclusions.
The comment period for the proposed change in Forest Service regulations is open for 60 days and closes August 13, 2012. Comments must be received in writing and can be submitted online, by mail or via facsimile.
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Healthy Pregnancy Information Available in New, Free March Of Dimes IPad App
Jul 26, 2012 - 11:15:20 AM
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - WHITE PLAINS, NY, July 26, 2012 – Women can get healthy pregnancy information on-the-go now through a new, free, interactive magazine available through the iPad app store from the March of Dimes.
The March of Dimes has used new technology to put its reliable and comprehensive information about healthy pregnancy at the fingertips of moms-to-be. Women who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant can download the free, interactive magazine to their tablets from the Apple iTunes app store by visting http://itun.es/isc7SZ.
The interactive magazine answers all of the basic questions moms-to-be have about pregnancy. It is a digital version of the March of Dimes “My 9 Months”, magazine, an award-winning bilingual guide to a healthy pregnancy, which features everything expectant women need to know to help them and their babies get their full nine months of healthy pregnancy.
“Launching the ‘My 9 Months’ app is a milestone for March of Dimes efforts to give all women the information they need for a healthy pregnancy,” says Beverly Robertson, MS, MA, national director of the March of Dimes Pregnancy & Newborn Health Education Center. “We know women are busy and want reliable information quickly and on-the-go. This app meets the need for interactive multimedia on a mobile device. It’s a fun way to get the information they want.”
The interactive magazine offers embedded videos and links to the March of Dimes web site for more in-depth information. A Spanish version, Mis 9 Meses, also is available in the Apple App Store, http://bit.ly/MZs3Gd.
The interactive magazine covers how to stay healthy and eat right, what happens at a prenatal care appointment, the signs of preterm labor and what to do if they develop, making a birth plan, caring for a new baby, how to breastfeed and a glossary of pregnancy terms.
The “My 9 Months” interactive magazine has special features. The month-by-month video guide on how a baby grows illustrates the nine month process of a baby’s development. The video also tells about the changes that occur to the pregnant woman’s body. It has interactive pop-ups with questions and answers that young women can keep in mind when it comes to planning their pregnancy. The eating healthy section give young women suggested foods and recommended serving sizes.
The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies®, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org. Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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Description - The Umpqua National Forest covers nearly one million acres and is located in the western slopes of the Cascades in Southwest Oregon. The forest encompasses a diverse area of rugged peaks, high rolling meadows, sparkling rivers and lakes, and deep canyons producing a wealth of water resources, timber, forage, minerals, wildlife, and outdoor recreation opportunities.
- The Umpqua National Forest is known for countless recreation opportunities in this unique area in the Cascades, where two beautiful rivers, the North and South Umpqua begin. From the snow of the High Cascades to the white water rapids, water has formed the Forest. Explosive geologic events shaped the Umpqua's distinctive landscapes, resulting in spectacular scenery and diverse natural resources. Visitors can discover remote places of solitude. Rainfall produces an intense palette of almost surreal nature as chartreuse mosses drip from towering Douglas-firs and psychedelic lichens cover rock walls deep in river canyons.
There are two designated scenic routes on the Forest. The Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway offers waterfalls, mountain peaks, old volcanoes and lava flows, tall trees, flower-filled meadows, quiet lakes. It's easy to make a full day of the drive, longer if you want to explore or try some of the many side trips or trails. The drive starts and ends near Interstate 5 in southwestern Oregon, at the towns of Roseburg and Gold Hill. The Myrtle Creek Canyonville Scenic/Historic Route is a 68 mile tour which celebrates Douglas County history and the resources that helped build it -- gold, agriculture, and timber. Travel from Canyonville to Tiller then to Myrtle Creek.
The Umpqua National Forest contains three designated Wilderness Areas. The Mt. Thielsen Wilderness encompasses over 55,000 acres along the crest of the Cascades. Born of the same volcanic activity that created Crater Lake, this is the land of fire and ice. The Pacific Crest Trail passes through the middle of the wilderness area. The Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness includes 33,000 acres ranging in elevation from 3,200 to 6,878 feet in the area which separates the drainages of the Rogue and Umpqua rivers. It is a beautiful area of high mountain meadows and hill-hugging mists. The Boulder Creek Wilderness encompasses 19,100 acres, 50 miles east of Roseburg. The wilderness is composed of dense old growth forests and steep terrain, with Boulder Creek running through the heart of the wilderness.
The Umpqua has five buildings available for recreation rental. They include an old guard station, a cabin, a fire guard camp and two lookouts. These buildings do get booked up so reservations are necessary.
Recreation - Because of southern Oregon's mild climate, outdoor recreation is a year-round event. During the Spring, hike to waterfalls, pack a picnic lunch to enjoy by a river or stream, begin watching the changing wildflowers, or just take the family for a drive.
Fishing is popular in the many lakes and rivers during the Summer. Other summertime activities include camping, hiking, biking, boating, and whitewater.
Fall is hunting season. For those who don't hunt, mushrooming is a popular Fall activity or just come out and watch the leaves change color.
During the winter, the high country around Diamond and Lemolo lakes becomes a winter playground. Snowmobile, sled, cross-county ski, snowshoe, or just enjoy the snow-covered scenery. Diamond Lake Ranger District features a network of Nordic skiing trails nestled in scenic mountains. A private company provides Snowcat transport for downhill skiing on Mt Bailey.
Made up of Class II through Class IV rapids, the beautiful North Umpqua River is what Oregon whitewater is all about. Even more impressive than the whitewater is the scenery you'll enjoy on the river -- steep forested canyon walls and sparkling green water. Local guides are available for raft trips.
Climate - Climate on the Umpqua changes with elevation. The area receives a high amount of precipitation. Much of the precipitation comes from October to April in the form of rain at the low elevations and as wet heavy snow in the higher elevations. Although snow is possible in the lowest elevations, it is infrequent. Much of the Umpqua National Forest is at the 3000-4000 foot elevation and averages about 60 inches of rain per year. Late spring, summer and early autumn tend to bring clear, sunny days with moderate temperatures.
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It’s just hours since the nominations have been announced for the 2011 Golden Globes when Beat meets with Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, the directors of Disney’s 3D Rapunzel adventure, Tangled. The film has been recognised in two fields: Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song – Motion Picture, and the pair have spent a long, wakeful night fielding calls from abroad. If they’re at all tired, they don’t show it. But as career animators, they’re perhaps more accustomed to burning the candle at both ends than most. For in a vocation where an individual produces a mere three to five seconds of tangible results per full-time work week, down-time is never really an option.
“Nathan and I actually pitched our next film for John Lasseter [director of Toy Story; Chief Creative Officer of Disney and Pixar] about eight months ago, while we were still finishing Tangled,” tells Howard. “It’s almost like a post-traumatic stress syndrome that happens after you finish one of these things, because you’re working in such a focused way for so long. Psychologically, it’s good for us to have something in the future.”
Tangled is the 50th animated feature released by Walt Disney Animation Studios, as well as Disney’s first computer-generated (CG) film to introduce a new princess. “It’s so great the way it worked out, because [Disney’s first feature-length animation] Snow White was a Brothers Grimm story, and so is this,” Greno enthuses. “And we didn’t even know. We were six months into the movie when someone finally did the math!’”
“The film had actually been at the Disney studios since the 1940s,” continues Howard. “It was on Walt’s desk on a list with Cinderella and Peter Pan as films that they wanted to do.” Six decades seems like an abnormally protracted gestation, even in the painstaking world of feature animation. So why is a Disney-fied Rapunzel only now reaching screens in late 2010? Tangled is the result of six years of intensive reworks, reboots and restarts. During that time, the film was developed in three different iterations by a conga line of creative talent before Greno and Howard’s version was settled on. The fairytale’s static narrative, Howard explains, meant grooming the tumble-haired maiden for the big screen was quite the tricky venture.
“It’s about a very passive young woman sitting in a room for the whole length of the story,” he notes. “Not much real estate for a ninety minute film.” Then there’s the seven years it took to perfect the software required to realise the heroine’s luxuriant locks…
Never before in the history of CG-animated features has hair been called upon to perform and interact with its surrounds so much as it does in Tangled. “And we have seventy feet of it!,” laughs Greno. “They always say ‘Don’t have that hair touch anything!’ Meanwhile, we’re having her tie people up with it, throw it up in the rafters and climb it, and use it as a bullwhip – all these crazy things.”
In case all of this weren’t cause for anxiety enough, Tangled, thanks to its knotty development, holds the distinction of being the second most expensive movie ever, trumped only in total outlay by the third Pirates of the Caribbean – itself another a Disney production. “The nice thing is they don’t tell us exact numbers,” admits Howard when the matter of budget is broached. “Our job is making it the movie it needs to be. We don’t limit ourselves in the story room, saying ‘Well, I don’t know if we can do this technologically...’ It’s more about ‘What’s going to make this movie great?’”
As that Globe nom for Best Original Song suggests, Tangled, like all Disney princess yarns, is a musical. To melodise their kingdom far, far away, Greno and Howard enlisted composer Alan Menken, the musical maven behind such enduring Disney earworms as A Whole New World, Under the Sea and Beauty and the Beast. “Alan said, ‘Why don’t we make Rapunzel’s [numbers] sound like Joni Mitchell wrote them?’,” tells Howard. “We thought that was a great match for Rapunzel. You can just picture her sitting on her bed with a guitar, composing these songs.”
A high-point in the film is Mother Knows Best, the deranged Broadway-style theme tune of the film’s slinky villainess, Mother Gothel. While it’s Menken’s most memorable contribution to the score, it also marks Tangled’s most visually ingenious sequence. “You can get away with things in these songs,” smiles Greno. “Logic can go out the window a little bit. You’re able to creatively explore areas that you wouldn’t have been able to otherwise.” Well worth a few sleepless nights, then.
Tangled releases nationally on January 6 2011. Artwork from the film features extensively in the Dreams Come True: The Art of Disney’s Classic Fairytales exhibition, currently on show at ACMI until April 26. For more info, visit acmi.net.au.
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Date: 01-12-06 07:27
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Being your slave what should I do but tend,
Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend;
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love, that in your will,
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and
our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for
politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation
stands forever. --Albert Einstein
He who takes his life for granted is a pencil without an eraser.
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Wholesale egg prices are up 40 percent because of the current recall. Pork bellies—that’s where bacon comes from—just hit an all-time high of $1.42 a pound. The price of raw coffee beans now sits at a 13-year peak. Breakfast, the fastest-growing part of the foodservice business, once provided full-service operators with their best margins. Now what?
Weak economies like the one we’re in now normally put a damper on food price increases. But that’s not what’s happening to three of the most important commodities restaurant operators serve at breakfast and elsewhere during the day. Since we’re in an environment when it’s risky to just pass along the increased costs to customers and hope for the best, let’s take a look at how long the pain is likely to last.
Shelled egg prices are up because of the fallout from the salmonella-related recall now going on nationwide. For safety reasons, some operators have switched to pasteurized liquid eggs. Either way, be prepared to pay more into the near future until supply and demand balance out.
It’s a different story with bacon. Once a breakfast staple, it’s now used in every daypart and appears on many areas of the menu, up to and including dessert. Couple increased operator demand with this year’s three percent reduction in the number of hogs and you get higher prices.
But should they be as high as they’re spiking now? It’s not just that the price of pork bellies has gotten so high, so fast. Commodity traders point out that the premium paid for them over the price of live hogs, whose price has not climbed as much, has expanded dramatically. Last year at this time, live hogs sold at 50 cents or below per pound, while pork bellies were priced at between 60 and 70 cents. Today, live hogs are going for 82 cents a pound while the bellies are setting an all-time record of $1.42 per pound. It’s a huge spread, but at least the surge in pork belly prices hasn’t caused the price of other cuts to rise.
Pork market experts suggest that the cost of bacon will get worse before it gets better. That’s the same forecast coffee analysts are giving. Prices of raw beans are way up, particularly for higher-quality Arabica beans. However, upcoming harvests in key coffee-growing regions around the world look good, suggesting that prices could return to lower levels once the new supply hits the market.
Painful as these commodity price spikes might be for full-service restaurant operators, it could be worse. That’s especially true for coffee, where restaurants at least have plenty of margin to work with if they choose to absorb the current price hikes. Grocery stores don’t. They have little choice but to pass the increases along right away.
Eggs, even at their currently inflated price levels, remain a relatively low-cost protein item by restaurant standards. Their increase can likely be absorbed. As for bacon, because it is so flavorful, a little can go a long way in many dishes, or portion sizes can be adjusted in sandwiches and other uses. Barring that, it’s the one food item we’re talking about here where you could probably raise prices to cover the difference with little-to-no effect.
So there’s hope that full-service restaurants can ride out these price fluctuations. It might not be so easy for the many QSR chains that have lately come to dominate the breakfast market. According to NPD restaurant industry analyst Bonnie Riggs, 80 percent of the 12 billion morning meals served in restaurants each year are sold by QSRs. This segment’s push into specialty coffees and breakfast sandwiches has been successful, but could now hit the wall as the price of three of the key ingredients that have accounted for most of the growth is going through the roof.
Yet breakfast is a key going forward, says Riggs.
“There is a lot of activity around the breakfast daypart right now, with chains expanding into the daypart, and the addition of breakfast menu items, promotions and deals,” she says. “Currently only one out of ten breakfast opportunities is satisfied by foodservice, and there are more breakfasts skipped than served in restaurants, all of which means that breakfast is a significant growth opportunity for the foodservice industry.”
Prices might be high right now, but full-service is better able to deal with them than most QSRs. If you want to position your restaurant to capture a greater share of the upcoming growth Riggs is talking about, the time to re-strategize your breakfast offerings may be now. | <urn:uuid:2ebc31ba-5af2-4ee3-83f9-6075121c1b5c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://restaurant-hospitality.com/news/breakfast-food-costs-soar-0830 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958255 | 1,008 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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"The King in Yellow" is a book within a book. This is a bunch of slightly connected short stories all dealing with the effect of a two act play titled "The King in Yellow". The stories in this collection, published in 1895, are set in a fictional militaristic 1920s in the USA and Europe. The tales are told from a number of different perspectives, by socialites, soldiers, and artists. Each of them tells how the lives of the narrator and colleagues have been affected by reading "The King in Yellow", a disputable play that has been accused by the church and suppressed by governments. The book tragically affected the lives of those who were reading it. Some find themselves followed by shadowy agents, while others become confused and delusional. Others acted out the play's sad and decadent events, while some just go crazy. The idea of the play itself is only alluded to, or hinted at in brief extracts. One thing is absolutely clear – it’s a tragedy. But the actions of its central characters, including the mysterious King in Yellow himself, remain mysterious and unexplainable. Anyone who is keen on dark macabre tales will certainly love this book!
Of all Professions, that of Arms has in all Ages, since their Invention, been esteemed the noblest and most necessary; it being by them that the Laws preserve their Force, that our Dominions are defended from the Encroachments of our Enemies, and ill designing People kept in the Subjection due to their Sovereigns; and of all Arms, the Sword is probably the most ancient: It is honorable and useful, and upon occasion, causes a greater Acquisition of Glory than any other: It is likewise worn by Kings and Princes, as an Ornament to Majesty and Grandeur, and a Mark of their Courage, and distinguishes the Nobility from the lower Rank of Men.
I rose on Monday morning, the nineteenth, at precisely 2 o'clock, without the use of an alarm clock, after five hours of refreshing rest. At just 4 A. M., having breakfasted, self-prepared, duly laden, I was marching up Church Lane to the Old York Road in the darkness, under clear stars — that being my shortest route to New Hope, where I expected to meet a supper engagement at 7 o'clock that evening.
Ralph Henry Barbour (1870-1944) was an American author who wrote a large number of books for children and young people. His works include: The Half-Back (1899), Captain of the Crew (1901), Behind the Line (1902), Kitty of the Roses (1904), The Spirit of the School (1907), The Lilac Girl (1909), The New Boy at Hilltop, and Other Stories (1910), The Golden Heart (1910), Around the End (1913), The Lucky Seventh (1915), Left Tackle Thayer (1915), The Secret Play (1915), Rivals for the Team (1916), Winning his Game (1917), The Adventure Club Afloat (1917), The Adventure Club with the Fleet (1918), For the Good of the Team (1923) and Hero of the Camp (1932).
Partial Content: The Rubber, Scoring, Cutting, Formation of the Table, Cutting Cards of Equal Value, Cutting out, Entry and Re-entry, Shuffling, The Deal, A New Deal, A Misdeal, Cards liable to be called, Cards played in Error, The Revoke, Calling for New Cards.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV The day after her first introduction to the Cercle, Julie found herself rather bored, and even less inclined than before to enjoy her own company, She wandered about disconsolately in the early morning. She saw the Bertrands depart on their motor for Caen, where they were to spend the day. Monsieur Bertrand had introduced Julie to the Baron d'Avril, he had recognised that the Baron had given her the freedom of the Cercle. It did not seem to him, or to his companion, that there was more to be done for Julie. They would amuse themselves, they would both enjoy Cabourg. Presto! the thing was done. Monsieur and the temporary Madame Bertrand could now devote themselves to each other with an easy mind. But the Baron had been summoned to Villers j that they could not know. The monotony of the hot sandy plage, the sight of the white-capped bonnes, with their wizened, dark-skinned French babies, the rattle with which the sweetmeat sellers announced their approach, the babel of mothers and children, were notcalming to the nerves that had been unstrung by the excitement of the previous evening. The crawling sea, with its waveless, slow-incoming tide, was untempting; but when at length she had made up her mind to bathe, when she found herself out of her depth, the warm salt buoyancy soon exhilarated her. She swam on, and on, until she had forgotten her ennui, her rasped nerves, the monotonous morning, and the heat of the summer noon. It was strange that when, happy and cool in her clinging bathing-dress, she emerged from the sea, she should have almost run into the arms of Monsieur Diderot, the banquier whose advent last night had been the signal for her exciting hour, and to whom she owed her large winnings, and that wonderful series of cards. For she was still a lit...
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Mary Emma Salisbury (1872-c1950), later Mrs. Barse, who wrote under the pseudonym Mary E. Blain was the American writer of: Games for all Occasions (1909), Games for Hallow-e’en (1912) and Games for Children (1923). | <urn:uuid:f1247d83-eb61-4060-893d-b64bc9fae9a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.onread.com/genre/Puzzles-Games-2525 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966277 | 1,385 | 2.234375 | 2 |
I'm in Chicago without a computer so this will be short and sweet since I'm typing with my thumbs.
First correct and non-anonymous comment wins access to the Math Guide.
Chris bought a pumpkin last year that had a diameter of 10 inches and yielded the PERFECT amount of toasted seeds. His pumpkin this year has a diameter of 13 inches. Pumpkin skins generally have a thickness of one tenth of the radius of the pumpkin. Assume pumpkins are spherical and that each pumpkin has roughly equal amounts of seeds by volume. What will be the ratio of the amount of seeds Chris gets this year to the amount of seeds he got last year?
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European Exchange Rate Mechanism
The European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) was a system introduced by the European Community in March 1979, as part of the European Monetary System (EMS), to reduce exchange rate variability and achieve monetary stability in Europe, in preparation for Economic and Monetary Union and the introduction of a single currency, the euro, which took place on 1 January 1999.
After the adoption of the euro, policy changed to linking currencies of countries outside the Eurozone to the euro (having the common currency as a central point). The goal was to improve stability of those currencies, as well as to gain an evaluation mechanism for potential Eurozone members. This mechanism is known as ERM2.
Intent and operation of the ERM
The ERM is based on the concept of fixed currency exchange rate margins, but with exchange rates variable within those margins. This is also known as a semi-pegged system. Before the introduction of the euro, exchange rates were based on the European Currency Unit (ECU), the European unit of account, whose value was determined as a weighted average of the participating currencies.
A grid (known as the Parity Grid) of bilateral rates was calculated on the basis of these central rates expressed in ECUs, and currency fluctuations had to be contained within a margin of 2.25% on either side of the bilateral rates (with the exception of the Italian lira, which was allowed a margin of 6%). Determined intervention and loan arrangements protected the participating currencies from greater exchange rate fluctuations.
Irish pound breaks parity with pound sterling
To participate in the ERM, Ireland had to break the Irish pound's parity with the pound sterling in 1979, because the pound sterling, which was not an ERM currency, appreciated against all ERM currencies shortly after the launch of the ERM. The continued parity between the Irish pound and the pound sterling would have taken the Irish pound outside its agreed band. To fulfil the ERM conditions, the Irish government was required to break the parity of the Irish pound with the pound sterling.
Pound sterling's forced withdrawal from the ERM
The United Kingdom entered the ERM in October 1990, but was forced to exit the programme within two years after the pound sterling came under major pressure from currency speculators, including George Soros. The ensuing crash of 16 September 1992 was subsequently dubbed "Black Wednesday". There has been some revision of attitude towards this event given the UK's strong economic performance after 1992, with some commentators dubbing it "White Wednesday".
Some commentators, following Norman Tebbit, took to referring to ERM as an "Eternal Recession Mechanism", after the UK fell into recession in 1990. The UK spent over £6 billion trying to keep the currency within the narrow limits with reports at the time widely noting that Soros's individual profit of £1 billion equated to over £12 for each man, woman and child in Britain and dubbing Soros as "the man who broke the Bank of England".
Britain's membership of the ERM was also blamed for the prolonging of the recession at the time, and Britain's exit from the ERM was seen as an economic failure which contributed significantly to the defeat of the Conservative government of John Major at the general election in May 1997, despite the strong economic recovery and significant fall in unemployment which that government had overseen after Black Wednesday.
Increase of margins
In August 1993, the margin had to be expanded to 15% to accommodate speculation against the French franc and other currencies.
Replacement with the euro and ERM II
In 1999, ERM II replaced the original ERM. The Greek and Danish currencies were part of the new mechanism, but when Greece joined the euro in 2001, the Danish krone was left at that time as the only participant member. A currency in ERM II is allowed to float within a range of ±15% with respect to a central rate against the euro. In the case of the krone, Danmarks Nationalbank keeps the exchange rate within the narrower range of ± 2.25% against the central rate of EUR 1 = DKK 7.460 38.
EU countries that have not adopted the euro are expected to participate for at least two years in the ERM II before joining the Eurozone.
Current status of the ERM II
On 1 May 2004, the ten National Central Banks (NCBs) of the new member countries became party to the ERM II Central Bank Agreement. The national currencies themselves were to become part of the ERM II at dates to be agreed.
The Estonian kroon, Lithuanian litas, and Slovenian tolar were included in the ERM II on 28 June 2004; the Cypriot pound, the Latvian lats and the Maltese lira on 2 May 2005; the Slovak koruna on 28 November 2005. The currencies of the three largest countries which joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 (the Polish złoty, the Czech koruna, and the Hungarian forint) and the two countries which joined on 1 January 2007 (the Bulgarian lev, and the Romanian leu) are expected to follow eventually.
Other countries to have since joined the eurozone, and hence left ERM II, include Slovenia (1 January 2007), Cyprus (1 January 2008), Malta (1 January 2008), Slovakia (1 January 2009) and Estonia (1 January 2011).
The Hungarian Ministry of Finance said that Hungary originally wanted to adopt the euro in 2010, but this has been delayed. Experts say that the earliest date when Hungary will adopt the euro is 2015. Bulgaria wanted to apply for ERM II membership as soon as possible after the EU entry. In November 2009, Bulgaria confirmed that it planned to apply for joining ERM II in early 2010, but was forced to delay its application for at least one year after updated figures put the budget deficit for 2009 at 3.7% of GDP, outside the Maastricht criteria. Romania initially planned to join ERM in 2010–2012, but after the onset of the Euro crisis, postponed this indefinitely, citing concerns about its workforce productivity.
The Swiss Franc had always floated independently until its currency appreciation became unsustainable during the Eurozone debt crisis, at which point it made a compromise to keep the exchange rate at a minimum of 1.20 francs to the euro, which does not constitute a peg. Switzerland is not officially a member of ERM II as it is not an EU member and expresses no ambitions to become one.
Exchange rate bands
In theory, most of the currencies are allowed to fluctuate as much as 15% from their assigned value. In practice, however, the currency of Lithuania is pegged tightly to the central rate, and currencies of Denmark and Latvia deviate very little (usually less than 1%) from it.
|Date of entry||Country||Currency||€1=||Band||Notes|
|1 January 1999||Denmark||Krone||7.46038||2.25%||<1%||The Danish krone entered the ERM II in 1999, when the euro was created. See Denmark and the euro for more information.|
|28 June 2004||Lithuania||Litas||3.45280||15%||0%||The Lithuanian litas was pegged to the US dollar until 2 February 2002, when it switched to a euro peg.|
|2 May 2005||Latvia||Lats||0.702804||15%||1%||Latvia has a fixed exchange rate system arrangement whose anchor switched from the SDR to the euro on 1 January 2005.|
Historical reference
|31 Dec 1998 —
16 Jan 2000
|17 Jan 2000 —
31 Dec 2000
|28 June 2004 —
31 Dec 2006
|2 May 2005 —
7 Dec 2007
|7 Dec 2007—
31 Dec 2007
|28 June 2004—
31 Dec 2010
|Estonia||Kroon||15.6466||15%||0%||The Estonian kroon had been pegged to the German mark since its re-introduction on 20 June 1992, and then to the euro. It was fixed on 13 July 2010.|
|2 May 2005 —
31 Dec 2007
|Malta||Lira||0.429300||15%||0%||The Maltese lira has been pegged to the euro since joining ERM II. Only two exceptions exist: 2005-05-02 (ECB rate: 1 EUR = 0.4288 MTL) and 2005-08-15 (ECB rate: 1 EUR = 0.4292 MTL).|
|28 Nov 2005 —
16 March 2007
|17 March 2007 —
27 May 2008
|28 May 2008 —
31 Dec 2008
See also
- Kaletsky, Anatole (9 June 2005). "The reason that Europe is having a breakdown...it's the Euro, stupid". The Times (UK). Retrieved 30 December 2008
- Tebbit, Norman (10 February 2005). "An electoral curse yet to be lifted". The Guardian (UK). Retrieved 30 December 2008.
- Davis, Evan (15 September 2002). "Lessons learned on 'Black Wednesday'". BBC News.
- "1997: Labour landslide ends Tory rule". BBC News. 15 April 2005.
- "Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating to the introduction of the euro". Retrieved 25 April 2010
- "European Central Bank". European Central Bank. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "MET – Magyarországi Európa Társaság – On the Introduction of the Euro in Hungary: Let’s Stick to 2010!". Europatarsasag.hu. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "Ungarn: Euro-Einführung noch nicht absehbar – Wirtschaft in Ungarn". Balaton-zeitung.info. 1 December 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "Bulgaria drops goal of ERM2 entry in 2010". The Sofia Echo. sofiaecho.com. 9 April 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
- Isarescu: Trecem la euro dupa 2012 | Eveniment | Ziarul Financiar[dead link]
- Banking News (22 June 2012). "Croitoru (BNR): Adoptarea monedei euro, un orizont indepartat". Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- "Sweden 'not ready' for euro". BBC News. 22 May 2002. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- Martin, Katie (3 October 2011). "Noyer Joins the Euro Peg Gaffe List". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- "Euro central rates in ERM2". European Central Bank.
- "2 May 2005 – Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II". European Central Bank. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "31 December 1998 – Euro central rates and intervention rates in ERM II". European Central Bank. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "17 January 2000 – Euro central rates and intervention rates in ERM II". European Central Bank. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "28 June 2004 – Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II". European Central Bank. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "ECB historic exchange rates". Ecb.eu. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "28 November 2005 – Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II". European Central Bank. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "Slovak Koruna Included in the ERM II". National Bank of Slovakia. 28 November 2005. Archived from the original on 2 October 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2007.
- European Commission. "Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II)". Retrieved 17 March 2007.
- Radoslav Tomek and Meera Louis (17 March 2007). "Slovakia, EU Raise Koruna's Central Rate After Appreciation". Bloomberg. Retrieved 17 March 2007.
- "Euro central rates and compulsory intervention rates in ERM II". European Central Bank. 19 March 2007. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
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How to Draw Cartoons > The game of spots
Here is an interesting exercise. In each of the cards on the right, we try to balance the two spots above with a different number of spots. Try this exercise, starting with any amount of spots placed anywhere.
A paradoxical situation. The little feller single handedly balances the women opposite him because he's got all that white space on his side.
Next: Starting from scratch.
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The definition of family has changed in the decades since “Father Knows Best” was a popular TV show. Instead of Mom cooking and cleaning on the home front, Dad at work all day and then dispensing wise and dispassionate justice when he came home in the evening, families can be single parents, same-sex parents, children from previous marriages blended in a new union and even multi-generational households. And if there are two parents, both likely work.
While the definition has broadened, the importance of the family as a social building block remains critical.
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, in speaking to Parliament, about the youthful rioting in his nation, accurately identified part of the problem. Crime has a context and part of that context is that children are “growing up not knowing the difference between right and wrong,” he said.
“In too many cases, the parents of these children — if they are still around — don’t care where their children are or who they are with, let alone what they are doing,” he said. “The potential consequences of neglect and immorality on this scale have been clear for too long, without enough action being taken.”
A recent study, commissioned in the United Kingdom, coincidentally, shows what many people already knew: an engaged father makes his children better. Specifically, the study showed that fathers spending time with their children resulted in smarter kids.
The differences in intelligence between those with strong father relationships and those without were detectable even when the offspring were 42 years old, the study found. Not only did children with engaged fathers have higher IQs, but they also had more success in their jobs.
A report on the research project published by the London newspaper The Telegraph quoted researcher Dr. Daniel Nettle who directed the study: “What was surprising about this research was the real sizeable difference in the progress of children who benefited from paternal interest and how 30 years later, people whose dads were involved are more upwardly mobile. The data suggest that having a second adult involved during childhood produces benefits in terms of skills and abilities that endure throughout adult life,” he said.
The research, which studied more than 11,000 British men and women born in 1958, revealed that it was not enough to have a two-parent household; the father had to be actively involved for the positive impact to be recorded. The researchers asked mothers to what degree the father was available for “quality time” interaction with the child or children, including reading to them and organizing outings.
Such studies confirm the importance of functioning families and the value of the two gender role models. Such studies can and should have an impact on public policy.
As Mr. Cameron said, “We need a benefit system that rewards work and that is on the side of families. We need more discipline in our schools. We need action to deal with the most disruptive families.”
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Ahimsa Can Save the Planet
Establishing nonviolence as the central principle in our relationship with nature is the key to an effective and lasting environmental movement
For observant Hindus, Jains and Buddhists, hurting or harming another being damages one's karma and obstructs advancement toward moksha, liberation. Mahavira, the last great teacher of Jainism, even proclaimed that ahimsa, nonviolence, is the greatest dharma. In modern times, Mahatma Gandhi is a shining example of a dedicated practitioner of ahimsa, advocating ecological practices which created harmony with nature.
When I mentioned this to my students recently, one immediately questioned me and asked if Indians in India are following the principles of Gandhi, and, if not, how can we expect others to do so? It is true that India and many other emerging nations in the world are enthusiastically aping the West with its ever-expanding economy and ever-shrinking natural resources. I was also asked two related questions recently at a conference on World Religions and Ecology: "What do the non-Western countries expect of the Western countries? If the rest of the world is eager to make the same mistakes the West did, what route should the West now take to ensure the planet's survival?" Perhaps one answer is to embrace Gandhi's ecological practices. If the West is to remain the intellectual leader of the world, the quicker it reforms and transforms itself, the better for our planet. So long as the West continues to crave more natural resources without changing its lifestyle, it will continue to lack the moral authority to preach to other cultures. It was the West that led the world with its modern scientific and technological innovations for the last several centuries. The West must now emerge as a new ecological leader, with Gandhi as the foundation of its lifestyle. All voices to save the planet's ecology are hollow rhetoric until that happens.
There cannot be and should not be a separate "war on terrorism," "war on climate change," "war on drugs," "war on corruption," "war on obesity" and so on. All aspects of modern life--our physical, mental, and spiritual health, the environment, the global security and international peace, social justice, and so on--will get a great boost if we first become nonviolent in our most basic activity: eating and surviving. "We are what we eat." This is such a simple statement and yet is so widely ignored all over the world. This is the way Gandhi lived every day, and his protest against the imperial power was influential because it was based on his own great life--unlike many contemporary activists whose own lives are nowhere close to Gandhi's.
Gandhi's entire life can be seen as an ecological treatise. This is one life in which every minute act, emotion or thought functioned much like an ecosystem: his small meals of nuts and fruits, his morning ablutions and everyday bodily practices, his periodic observances of silence, his morning walks, his cultivation of the small as much as of the big, his spinning wheel, his abhorrence of waste, his observance of basic Hindu and Jain values of truth, nonviolence, celibacy and fasting. Gandhi's life and his dharmic teachings have inspired today's moralists, nonviolent activists, feminists, journalists, social reformers, trade union leaders, peasants, prohibitionists, nature-cure lovers, renouncers and environmentalists.
Despite all the recent advances in India's economy and consumerism, Gandhi's inspiration still thrives in modern India as an alternative perspective. Many contemporary environmental activists and dharmic leaders have modeled their lives taking their inspirations from dharmic teachings of India or have resisted the global consumerist pressure in various other ways. These include Sunderlal Bahuguna (now in his 80s, leader of the famous Chipko Movement in North India); Medha Patkar (a strong voice against big dams in Central India); Dr. Vandana Shiva (fierce critic of Western-style globalism and capitalism); Anna Hazare (in headlines recently for his major protest against political corruption, also famous for his ecological experiments in his village in Central India); Pandurang Hedge (man who is leading Chipko-style movement in South India); the late Pandurang Shastri Athavale (with his global Swadhyaya Parivar); the late Anil Agarwal (founder of Center for Science and Environment). In addition, there are hundreds of smaller voices spread all over India, making India the home of the biggest environmental movement on the planet, according to Dr. Christopher Chapple in Hinduism and Ecology. There are also dozens of institutions founded by Gandhi himself in several Indian towns that are still flourishing with their own small-scale production of textiles and agriculture. Almost every Indian political party must use at least the rhetoric based on Gandhi's values whenever there is a discussion on taking technology or any kind of help from the USA, UK, France or other major Western power. Finally, several recent major Bollywood blockbusters feature Gandhi-like figures, reminding the audience of his message of nonviolence and civil disobedience.
Yes, Gandhi's immortal soul and other dharmic traditions of India are still vibrant even in the 21st-century globalized consumerist society. Several decades ago, in his nonviolent movement for civil rights, Dr. Martin Luther King said, "Christ furnished the spirit and motivation, while Gandhi furnished the method." It is time again to go back to these cherished values propounded by Christ, Gandhi and Dr. King. All three practiced and preached an absolutely simple lifestyle. All of humanity must now start to practice a simpler lifestyle, one that is nonviolent not just toward other human beings but also toward the entire Earth.
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The bronze art treasure, Apollo Saettante, Apollo the Archer, is visiting Los Angeles through the summer, far from his home in the Real Museo Borbonico in Naples.
The luminous statue arrived on the cliffs of Malibu, California, where he received a tender beauty treatment from Getty Museum conservationist Erik Risser and curator David Saunders, antiquities specialists working in collaboration.
Originally a fixture of the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the dear boy, his arms upraised to hold a bow and arrow that have long since disappeared, was discovered in bits and pieces in 1817 after being buried in ash by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Reassembled, the slender bronze archer underwent various patch-and-paste jobs over the last two hundred years. The Getty’s boffo preservationists, using x-ray radiography, ultra-violet photograph, endoscopic examination and good old-fashioned book research, restored and spruced him up, and now he’s on view, spanking new at 3,000 years old (see before/after, left and right photos above).
Who says L.A. doesn’t offer the best nip-and-tuck in the world?
And he’s a beauty, his exquisite dark-olive skin shimmers; he’s a smooth-sailing, heavy-metal god.
Yet another Apollo frolics our way this April, to our anticipation and delight. He’s the charming, debonair and, oh heck, legendary and personable New York City Ballet dancer, Jacques d’Amboise, known for his execution of the great neo-classic role that Balanchine fashioned for Serge Lifar in 1928.
Promoting his latest book, “I Was a Dancer,” d’Amboise will chat with ballet maven Sasha Anawalt, lucky woman, at the cozy Mark Taper Auditorium of downtown’s Central Library. Here’s Alastair Macaulay’s book review in the New York Times.
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Robinson's body, which had served him well as an athlete, failed early. Heart disease complications and diabetes weakened him and made him almost blind by middle age. On October 24, 1972, he died of a heart attack at home in Stamford, Connecticut, aged 53. Jackie Robinson is interred at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. His grave is located about half a mile south of the Jackie Robinson Parkway, which bisects the cemetery. | <urn:uuid:aae2fbea-8a04-4b01-8deb-200549a610d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://worldhistoryproject.org/perspectives/064e4a4b0d549e92c11c3709f5436e19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985208 | 92 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Get Hopping, It's The Easter Bilby
The Easter shopping frenzy seemed to start the very day after the Christmas sales concluded. Supermarket aisles were suddenly packed to the ceiling in oddly shaped compound chocolate, all wearing garish coats of aluminium foil. Eeek. But, say you can’t instead cycle down to your local food co-op and get some fair traded, organic dark choccy to celebrate the death of a wise man some 2,000 years ago? It’s a conundrum that fortunately Australians can avoid. Elsewhere they have a bunny, but we’ve got the Chocolate Easter Bilby. Like a bunny, the bilby has long ears, a cute nose and lives in a burrow. Unlike rabbits the poor little guy is officially listed as endangered. Actually a bandicoot, the Bilby has pouch, a bit like a kangaroo or wallaby, for toting the little 'uns around in.
Since 1999 there has been a concerted attempt to save the the greater bilby from the extinction that was visited on their cousin, the lesser bilby. $300,000 AUD of funding was raised to built a massive 25sq km electrified predator-proof fence around a bilby sanctuary in the Currawinya National Park in remote Queensland. Feral cats and foxes were trapped, and eventually when the enclosure seemed predator-free the cute little creatures were released. All the while, Darrell Lea, a confectioner of 90 years standing have been slinging the fund between 30 and 50c from sale of each bilby chocolate lookalike. By our reckoning almost half a million lumps of long eared choc have been consumed, and $185,000 AUD donated. Of course, you could also just donate directly to the fund. Save the Bilby Fund | <urn:uuid:bf668b90-cbf3-477e-825e-763d073f976f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/get-hopping-its-the-easter-bilby.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959845 | 377 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Syrian defector: Assad forces transferred WMDs to Lebanon
Syrian defector says army moved 100 kilograms of chemicals used to compose lethal sarin gas from secret base in direction of Lebanon
Post commentator, David Ignatius spoke to a Syrian source who received information from a Syrian defector who worked inside a chemical weapons network.
The source was speaking with Ignatius from his hiding place in an Arab country outside Syria, with the "hope of encouraging greater American involvement with the opposition."
Though suspicious of the source's motives, and considering the case of an Iraqi defector who delivered fabricated information to US a decade ago in order to catalyze an invasion, Ignatius stressed that the defector's information was corroborated by independent sources.
According to the defector, in January, two senior Syrian officers were transferring 100 kilograms of the chemicals used to compose the lethal sarin gas from a secret base some 50 km northeast of Damascus in the direction of Lebanon.
Chemical weapon Syrian base
US sources, however, have no evidence that chemical weapons were indeed transported outside of Syria.
Nonetheless, the Syrian defector's account further recounted an incident in which two men with Lebanese accents arrived at the secret base, where they were trained in the methods of mixing of isopropanol and methylphosphonyl difluoride – the mixed concoction of which produces sarin gas.
Syria is known to be in the possession of some 500 tons of isopropanol and methylphosphonyl difluoride, but stores them separately so as to avoid any lethal leaks.
According to recent reports, processes of merging the substances, rendering them ready for use, have already begun. The defector's information supports the theories by which Syria is preparing to activate chemical weapons, as it is now capable of transporting the chemicals and probably mix them en route.
To further substantiate the claim by which Assad's regime was prepared to utilize chemical weapons, various Syrian sources reported that in a facility in the Damascus suburb of Dumar, special vehicles were upgraded in order to transport the chemical components.
The Dumar facility is part of a network of portable research laboratories, the construction of which started in the summer of 2011, a few months after the opposition to Assad's regime started to form.
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Tracing "Hallelujah" From Obscurity To Ubiquity
Back in September of 2010, noted music journalist (and former editor-in-chief of SPIN and Vibe magazines) Alan Light was among 4,000 people sitting in the Jacob Javitz Center for Yom Kippur services when the Congregation Beit Simchat Torah choir took the stage to conclude the solemn proceedings with a stirring version of "Hallelujah."
"I just thought, 'Man, this song is really in a very different place now,'" says Light. "Obviously it's attained a very different status in the world if here at the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, at the climax of the service, that's the song they come out and sing. And this was the same year that Justin Timberlake had sung it at the 'Hope for Haiti' telethon, and k.d. lang had sung it at the Winter Olympics, so I just started to think of what I knew of the story of the song and that it was not a quick or easy road to get to that kind of place."
Or, as Light writes in his new book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah": "How did this unconventional song attain such popularity, in such an incremental fashion, over such an extended period of time? Why did it go from being a forgotten album cut by a respected but generally unknown singer-songwriter to a track on Susan Boyle's 2010 Christmas record?"
An absorbing read, The Holy or the Broken traces the song's fascinating journey chronologically--starting with Cohen writing and recording the track in the early 1980s--and places Light's critical examination of the touchstone recordings of "Hallelujah" (by Leonard Cohen, John Cale, and Jeff Buckley, particularly) alongside interviews with scores of folks who were either involved with those recordings or who've recorded or performed their own covers of the tune since (Bono, Justin Timberlake, Amanda Palmer, Jon Bon Jovi, Brandi Carlile, Rufus Wainwright, and American Idol contestants included).
"I certainly wanted to know what it meant to all these people who had done it," says Light, "and while it took some time to get people like Bono or Timberlake to talk about it, they all wanted to do it. And what was really striking, over and over again, was that while some of these people, like Bono, you'd expect him to have something intellectual to say about it, you talk to American Idol contestants or Michael Bolton or whoever and you might expect them to say 'Oh, I sang it because my manager told me to,' but everybody had thought about it, everybody had ideas about it--some more profound than others, but you just get the sense that nobody blithely does this song. They know they're doing something important and they're aware of the legacy."
One person that didn't add his two cents to the book--though his public quotes over the years about "Hallelujah" are sprinkled throughout--was Cohen himself. "I didn't expect that Leonard was going to talk to me," says Light. "I wanted his blessing and his support for it, which he gave me. He's kind of told the couple of stories that he's gonna tell, and if he was gonna say, 'Oh, I thought of that line while I was brushing my teeth,' that's probably not gonna help the aura and the myth around the song, so I totally understood that." | <urn:uuid:4ddb07e2-5cb6-459d-9b44-340f66d214c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/01/hallelujah.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984384 | 736 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Mercy Health will soon open Phase I of the new Betty and Bobby Allison Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Families like the Skiles know the care that comes from the center. Both twins Mara and Reaghan and their brother spent the first few weeks of their lives there.
"You'd have to leave when the hospital physicians were making their rounds," she recalls. "There were issues with patient confidentiality."
While mom Laura says the NICU's staff was instrumental in her children's recovery, the open space there prevented her from one-on-one time in private with her preemies.
"Just being able to spend time with your children intimately when they need it the most was one of the hardest things."
Now an addition at the NICU, featuring individual rooms, allows families to focus on their babies alone and according to doctors, will reduce the time infants have to spend in the NICU.
"We control the environment," says Clinical educator Caroline Griesemer. "We can control the lighting. We can control the sound."
Griesemer says the customized rooms can directly influence the baby's neurological development.
"A 23-weeker is used to a very quiet uterus where they aren't subjected to loud noises and they aren't subjected to bright lights."
For families like the Skiles, this new space is something they say will help families cope during crisis.
"You can have the privacy to cry if you want to cry and celebrate a new milestone," says Skiles.
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Florida Family Network and FAMU's Institute of Public Health Awarded $80,000 to Begin to
Fight Childhood Obesity in Tallahassee
Florida Family Network (FFN) and Florida A & M University, (FAMU) Institute of Public Health, College of
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences recently received an $80,000 grant from the Blue Foundation for
a Healthy Florida, of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) to combat childhood obesity in
"This grant comes at a time where the childhood and adult obesity rates are alarmingly high not only in
Leon County and the state of Florida specifically, but in general, we are seeing our data mirroring national
data", said Sokoya Finch, Executive Director of Florida Family Network.
According to the CDC, nationally childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The
prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 years increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in
2008. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 19 years increased from 5.0% to 18.1%.
FAMU's Institute of Public Health professor and director, Dr. Cynthia M. Harris, said a few years ago,
"It was almost unheard of to see children with heart disease or Type 2 diabetes due to obesity". She
said Type 2 diabetes used to be called "adult-onset diabetes," but no more. That's why the grant is
needed, Harris said.
Compelled by the serious and widespread of the obesity epidemic for children, families, communities
and the healthcare system, the Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, the philanthropic affiliate of Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) launched a statewide initiative called Embrace a Healthy
Florida in May 2008. The $8 million, four-year strategic effort addresses the causes of childhood
obesity through public-private partnership.
Tallahassee is one of five Florida cities collaborating with The Blue Foundation through Embrace a Healthy
Florida - The Blue Foundation's childhood obesity initiative. "Childhood obesity's widespread threat to
children, families, communities and the health care system compels us to take action," said Susan Towler,
vice president, the Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida. "Through Embrace a Healthy Florida, we hope to
work side-by-side with the Tallahassee coalition to stop the epidemic before more of our children
develop diabetes, heart disease and other obesity-related health problems." These concerted efforts
may help to parallel and promote similar endeavors in Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa and Miami.
Embrace a Healthy Florida supports community-based programs that promote change in families'
dynamics, parenting, child care centers and schools, neighborhood recreation opportunities and other
factors that influence on the availability and accessibility of healthy food and the frequency of physical
The leading coordinating institution/agency (FAMU & FFN) has a management/administrative team who
are also responsible for coordination and direction of the coalition, consisting of Miaisha Mitchell,
Executive Director of the Greater Frenchtown Revitalization Council (Front Proach Initiative) and
Dr. Penny Ralston, Professor, dean Emeritus (College of Human Sciences) and Director of the Center
on Better Health and Life for Underserved Populations at Florida State University. Both Ralston and
Mitchell will serve as COPE consultants bringing in their expertise to enhance the work of the coalition
and help guide the direction, results and the building of a best practice template.
The Tallahassee project, entitled, "Healthy Children! Healthy Future! Healthy Tallahassee! Hope Thru
Childhood Obesity Prevention Education (COPE) Coalition plans to develop and implement a multisectoral
community-wide coalition focused on reducing childhood obesity in Tallahassee. The COPE coalition will
address the following priority areas:
1. Public health
2. Early care and education
4. Community planning
5. Parks and recreation
6. Public safety
7. Medical/health provider services
Through the formation of interdisciplinary COPE teams, each of the above priority areas will be covered in its
entirety. These teams will have a specific focused area with the COPE Coalition. The COPE Teams will
develop specific goals and measurable objectives for their area of focus. A logic model/service delivery
model will be the conceptual framework in which the coalition will further its work to do a number of things
- Recruit youth engagement and involvement in the initiative
- Increase parental involvement, engagement, buy-in and ownership of the work, its strategies, and
outcomes of the work
- Engage local and state lawmakers in the COPE Coalition work to inform policies particularly pertaining to
social determinants that contribute to overweight and obesity in Tallahassee children
- Develop a 5-year COP Coalition Strategic Plan to address overweight and obesity in Tallahassee Children
through a mini-grant process to organizations, agencies, etc.
- Evaluate the process and outcome evaluations of all COPE Coalition procedures, activities and the
effectiveness of the COPE coalition products and outcomes
This year COPE's work plan will consist of three phases:
- Phase I - Orientation and introduction – establishing vision, mission, goal, objectives & setting
- Phase II - Review, assessment and development – review of existing work and best practices
resulting in the development of COPE teams
- Phase III - Strategic Plan Development, information dissemination and outcome evaluation. The
development of a mini-grant process (for year 2) and an annual outcome evaluation to measure
success in meeting project goals and objectives.
COPE's coalition partners joined its efforts during the application stage. Individuals, agencies, medical
community, organizations, local, county, and state government individuals and agencies are not only
supporting this initiative, but they are also sharing their resources, assisting in bridging various gaps in
the areas of childhood obesity, and blending previous and current work towards one coalition that
serve the children and families impacted by obesity and its contributing factors to poor health within
the communities of Tallahassee.
"We feel we have a strong university/community collaborative that involves the key players &
key stakeholders in city, county and state government, Leon County Public Schools, the healthcare
professions, public health, indoor/outdoor recreation-physical activities organizations, and others.
Our job will be to have the legs of the table to be the parents/caretakers of the children who are fighting
obesity as well as the youth. We will be a real meaningful coalition if we have a good representation of
concern parents, family members and youth who can give breath and dept to this body of work. When
this happens, this will be true community involvement, real coalition work and thereforth its efforts
sustainable. With this type and level of involvement, our efforts will be grounded in gravity, research,
policy and practice", said Finch.
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Many parents are aware of the dangers of hypothermia with leaving their kids in the car during the winter, but parents must also be take precautions against hyperthermia.
Dr. Brian Kempton, MD, Medical Director for Community Hospital's emergency room, said kids left in running cars with the heat on are at risk for overheating.
"It could happen anytime you put the kids in the car with good intention that you'll only be gone for a minute but then that stretches and you lose track of time," Dr. Kempton said.
Already this year, an 18-month-old in Oklahoma was found dead after being left in her father's car with the heat running.
Dr. Kempton said it's a warning to all parents to never leave their kids in the car, under any condition.
"They're precious and we've had some incidents here in the area, up on the Mesa with those two kids, it's tragedy that just can't be quantified for that family," Dr. Kempton said.
KKCO 11 News reached out to Mesa County Sheriff's Office to ask whether overheating was involved with the case of the Jensen boys, who both died after being left in their mother's vehicle. Public Information Officer Heather Benjamin said the case remains sealed by a judge and under investigaion.
Dr. Kempton said it may only take the temperature inside of the car to get to mid-80's before overheating can occur.
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Nov. 9, 2010 With the help of the army of volunteers working on the Galaxy Zoo 2 'citizen science' project, an international team of scientists have discovered that the bars found in many spiral galaxies could be helping to kill them off. The researchers present their results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The overwhelming majority of stars in the universe are found in galaxies like our own Milky Way. These vast stellar assemblies contain anything between a few hundred million and one million billion stars and come in a variety of shapes, from irregular to elliptical (shaped like rugby balls) to spirals, where spiral arms wind out in a disk from a central bulge.
About half of these spiral galaxies have a bar -- a linear structure of stars crossing the centre (as shown in the galaxy in the left hand side of the image). Bars are important for the evolution of galaxies as they provide a way to move material in and out in the disk and possibly help to spark star formation in the central regions. They may even help feed the central massive black hole that seems to be present in almost all galaxies. But bars provide us with a great puzzle because we still don't understand why some galaxies have bars and others do not.
The team, led by Dr Karen Masters of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, drew on the work of the volunteers taking part in Galaxy Zoo 2, the follow on from the highly successful Galaxy Zoo project. In this second phase users were asked to make detailed classifications of the galaxies they looked at, including information on the presence of a bar.
With these data -- the largest ever sample of galaxies with visual bar identifications -- they have shown that red spirals are about twice as likely to host bars as blue spirals. These colours are significant. Blue galaxies get their hue from the hot young stars they contain, implying that they are forming stars in large numbers. In red galaxies, this star formation has stopped, leaving behind the cooler, long-lived stars that give them their red colour.
The astronomers conclude that bars might help to kill spiral galaxies, although how they do it remains a mystery. But the Milky Way has a bar too, so this discovery may be telling us something about its future.
Dr Masters sings the praises of the Galaxy Zoo 2 volunteers. "I'm really delighted to publish this first science result from Galaxy Zoo 2. Having so many people involved in this research is wonderful, and I feel a great weight of responsibility to make sure good science comes out of all the hard work they put into classifying galaxies.
'For some time data have hinted that spirals with more old stars are more likely to have bars, but with such a large number of bar classifications we're much more confident about our results. And all of this is thanks to the dedication of the volunteers who provide the raw 'clicks'.
'It's not yet clear whether the bars are some side effect of an external process that turns spiral galaxies red, or if they alone can cause this transformation. We should get closer to answering that question with more work on the Galaxy Zoo dataset."
The volunteers or 'Zooites' share her enthusiasm. Eric Hobein adds "It's nice to figure out how we help and be a super-tiny part of it all"; whilst Mike Tracey comments "I had fun doing my bit and my high school students were involved too. It is great to be part of a real life project which can produce real science."
For more information about the Galaxy Zoo project, visit: www.galaxyzoo.org
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- Masters K. L. et al. Galaxy Zoo: Bars in Disk Galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2010; (in press) [link]
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It’s almost income tax time. And while we’re still a few months away from that April deadline, the local AARP is preparing to kick off its annual Tax-Aide program.
AARP spokesperson Gloria Hopkins said the program is designed to help people that might not otherwise be able to file a tax return by helping residents make sense of the tax laws and forms that seem to get more and more complicated with each successive year.
The program provides free federal tax preparation assistance to those who cannot afford professional tax help — senior citizens, people with disabilities, those that cannot speak English and those with low-to-moderate income.
In fact, the program is a necessity for many area residents who can’t afford to have their taxes prepared professionally, and the heart and soul of the operation are volunteers.
AARP volunteers explain many special tax credits and deductions and how people may claim them on their tax returns. They help complete returns, as well, right down to any refunds that might be due the taxpayer.
“Things are moving along nicely for us,” Hopkins said. “Most of our volunteers from last year are back again this year, which really makes things easier. The one volunteer spot that was vacated has been filled, as well, so we feel really good going into this year's training.”
Tax law can quickly become confusing, according to Hopkins, and with so many changes being made from year to year it's easy to miss out many government programs.
“There's just so much red tape involved, it's almost impossible for people to keep up with all of it,” said Hopkins. “And if they don't have the money to hire a tax professional, they can be missing out on all kinds of deductions and programs the government offers. This program gives them a chance to sit down with someone who is trained to deal with these things.”
Hopkins said the time squeeze to get the changes created by the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act Of 2010 into the IRS computers is just one example of challenges faced by tax preparers this year.
“There are a lot of changes to look at this year. The one that is going to affect more filers in the Crossroads is the loss of the non-itemized property taxes,” she said. “Last year, people were able to claim their property taxes without filing an itemized return. Unfortunately, that wasn't renewed this year, so there are going to be a lot of people here that are going to lose that deduction.
“Another big change is the IRS won't be mailing out any of the tax booklets like they have in years past. That might have folks that have been doing their taxes on paper thrown off a little. However, the IRS is pushing hard to get people to use the electronic filing. The forms, however, should still be available from the same locations they have been in the past.”
Hopkins said area residents planning to use the service should be sure to gather up their financial information before heading to the Senior Center.
“People need to be sure to bring all of the pertinent information with them, including a tax booklet if one was received through the mail, W-2 forms and 1099 forms,” said Hopkins. “They also need to bring any forms that show their 2009 earnings and their 2008 tax returns. We also need a social security card for every person named on the return and a photo ID for the person filing.”
Participants in the program will be able to e-file their tax returns at no charge.
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Genital warts are warts that are located near or in the genital areas. In a female, that means on or near the vulva (the outside genital area), vagina, cervix, or anus. In a male, that means near or on the penis, scrotum, or anus.
Warts appear as bumps or growths. They can be flat or raised, single or many, small or large. They tend to be whitish or flesh colored. They are not always easy to see with the naked eye, and many times a person with genital warts doesn't know that they're there.
Genital warts are caused by a group of viruses called HPV (short for human papillomavirus). There are more than 100 types of HPV. Some of them cause the kind of warts you see on people's hands and feet. Genital warts and the kinds of warts on hands and feet are usually caused by different types of HPV.
More than 40 types of HPV cause genital warts. Genital warts can be passed from person to person through intimate sexual contact (vaginal, oral, or anal sex). In some rare cases, genital warts are transmitted from a mother to her baby during childbirth.
HPV infections are common in teens and young adults. The more sexual partners someone has, the more likely it is that the person will get an HPV infection.
Signs and Symptoms
Most HPV infections have no signs or symptoms. So someone can be infected and pass the disease on to another person without knowing. However, some people do get visible warts.
People often don't have any symptoms from genital warts — the warts usually do not hurt or itch, which is one reason why people may not know they have them. Doctors can diagnose warts by examining the skin closely (sometimes with a magnifying glass) and using a special solution to make them easier to see. A Pap smear (a test that is performed during a gynecologic exam) and other tests can help diagnose an HPV infection.
Experts believe that when a wart is present, the virus may be more contagious. But HPV can still be spread even without any visible warts.
A person who has been exposed to genital warts may have warts appear any time from several weeks to several months after exposure. Sometimes warts can take even longer to appear; the virus can live in the body for a very long time without causing any symptoms.
Because many people who are infected with HPV don't show any symptoms, anyone having sex should get regular medical checkups and tell their doctor about their sexual history.
What Can Happen?
Sometimes, if left untreated, genital warts may grow bigger and multiply. Often, they go away on their own without treatment — but this doesn't mean people can ignore genital warts, because they still can be spread to other people.
How Are They Prevented?
The only surefire way to prevent genital warts is abstinence (the decision not to have sex). Teens who do have sex can get some protection by properly using a latex condom every time they have any form of sexual intercourse (vaginal, oral, or anal sex).
Condoms may not give complete protection because the virus can spread from or to the areas of the genitals not covered by the condom. Condoms also reduce the risk of other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as well as pregnancy.
The U.S. government has approved a vaccine that protects against some of the strains of HPV that can cause genital warts, cervical cancer, and other types of cancer.
There is no cure that will get rid of the HPV virus completely. But treatments can reduce the number of warts — or help them go away faster. When the warts disappear, the HPV virus is still there, though it may not spread as easily.
If you are having sex or have had sex in the past, think you might have genital warts, or if you have had a partner who might have genital warts, you need to see your doctor or gynecologist.
A doctor will do an examination, make a diagnosis, and then provide treatment, if necessary. A number of different treatments might be used depending on where the warts are located, how big they are, and how many there are. The doctor might put special medications on the warts, or remove them with treatments like laser therapy or chemical "freezing."
Sometimes warts can come back, so you might need to visit the doctor again. Anyone with whom you've had sex also should be checked for genital warts.
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SmartChart XP is a MS-Excel based application that automatically creates Flow-Charts. The useability and advantage of this Flow-Charts are increased immense compared with the traditional Flow-Chart approach.
The very usefull but also very simple methodic applyed by SmartChart XP enforces the successfull analysis and definition of many kind of processes and workflows. Therefore it is not only a drawing tool. It allowes the user to focus on the analysed subject instead of the drawing tool.
Last but not least the readability of charts created with SmartChart XP is many times over traditional Flow-Charts.
SmartChart XP is used in different fields of Softwaredevelopement and industries like chemical industry or metalworking industry. It is very easy to use and enforces the successfull analysis and definition of flows through its simple but powerfull Entity/Activity model.
Becouse of its universal approach it can replace several drawing tools and methodics at least as a first aid box.
In the field of software-developement it can be used to doument the business processes supported by the software solution and also to plan and document the programmcode implementation.
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Creating a fairer Britain
We've put all the essential resources and training modules in one place to help employers and service providers get started with the Act.
As part of the Equality Act, a new public sector equality dutycame into force. View our guidance and resources for public authorities.
Download guidance documents for employers, workers, education providers, service users and service providers.
We are producing Codes of Practice to explain the statutory provisions of the Equality Act. Some have been laid before Parliament and approved as statutory codes of practice, some are being revised following public consultation, and some are being drafted as non statutory codes, and will be published for public review shortly.
How to comply with equality law and implement good practice in all aspects of employment including recruitment, pay, working hours, managing staff and developing policies.
Understand your rights to be treated equally in employment including when applying for jobs, promotion, flexible working, reasonable adjustments, equal pay, and retirement.
Guidance on how to comply with equality law and implement good practice when providing services, for all types of business, association or organisation.
Understand your rights to be treated equally and free from discrimination when buying goods or accessing services, including protection against harassment and rights to accessibility.
How to implement the Equality Act in schools including topics such as identity-based bullying, school trips, uniforms, corriculum delivery, same-sex schools, disabled pupils and admission terms.
How to provide equality in FE/HE, including details on work placements, admissions, harassment of teachers or students and pregnancy and maternity.
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What is Access to Work?
Access to Work is a programme run by the Department of Work and Pensions that provides support to disabled people to help them overcome work-related obstacles arising from their disability, if this is likely to last for 12 months or longer.
Access to Work has recently provided the following statement:
"It is the legal responsibility of employers under the Equality Act to make reasonable adjustments to allow disabled staff to do their work. The Access to Work programme is intended to provide funding towards equipment and support that would be above and beyond what is reasonable for an employer to supply.
What support is regarded as "standard and reasonable" is under constant review and guidance to our staff is regularly updated to reflect ever changing work practices, I.T. advancements and accepted industry standards.
As part of the latest update examples of the types of equipment that should be considered as standard have been included in the Access to Work guidance to assist advisers in making operational decisions. The list of examples provided is not exhaustive and advisers have the discretion to identify other types of equipment as standard for a particular industry or occupation".
Under the Equality Act 2010 universities will need to continue to consider reasonable adjustments for staff, students and service users, in relation to:
Provision, criteria or practice
Access to Work applies to any paid job, part-time or full-time, permanent or temporary.
Applications for Access to Work can only be made by the disabled employee.
Access to work grants/costs
The amount of help which staff may receive from Access to Work will depend on how long they have been employed and what support they need. Access to Work can pay up to 100% of the approved costs if the member of staff is working for an employer and has been in the job for less than six weeks. Access to Work pays a proportion of the costs of support if all of the following apply to the member of staff:
they are working for an employer
they've been in the job for six weeks or more
they need special equipment or adaptations to premises
The precise level of cost sharing is determined as follows:
large employers with 250 or more employees will pay the first £1,000 and 20% of costs up to £10,000
For details of how the process works and how to apply see UCL's Access to Work policy.
A helpful flow-chart that summarises the process is available here (WORD file).
A list of what is and isn't covered by Access to Work can be found here.
Access to Work Business Centre
Telephone number: 020 84263110
Link to Access to Work website
If you would like further UCL support or information on applying to Access to Work please contact the Head of Equalities & Diversity: firstname.lastname@example.org or 0207 679 9762 ( x 09762).
The Disability Discrimination Act defines disability as "a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term effect on his/her ability to carry out normal day to day activities". Long term means likely to last for at least 12 months.
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The History of the Society
The Society was inaugurated at a meeting on May 24th. 1933, when a group of aquarists determined to form a society to allow opportunities for like-minded individuals to share an interest in the study of aquatic life in the domestic situation.
As a consequence, the first official meeting of the Society was held at the (then) Melbourne Aquarium alongside the Exhibition Buildings, on the 17th. of July 1933, with twelve attendees.
Interest and initiative grew as more and more exotic fishes were successfully bred. Meetings continued at the Exhibition Buildings, then later, in the homes of members.
Eventually a larger meeting venue was required and the North Melbourne Town Hall became the home of the A. S. of V. until 1959
It was in this year that the venue changed to the National Herbarium, located in the Shrine Gardens on Birdwood Avenue, where meetings were held for the next decade.
On May 22nd. 1971, the Society relocated its headquarters to its own, newly renovated premises at 29 Grant Street Clifton Hill.
The hall being purchased from the defunct Abbotsford Angling Club. The Society has continued operating, with monthly meetings at the renamed C.R.Paton Hall in Grant Street, proud of its achievements in developing interest, and extending knowledge of, fish keeping in Victoria. In 2010 we begin a new phase of operations working in close conjunction with the Eastern Districts Aquarium Society, with alternating meetings combining members of both clubs.
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This week we invited The Mindful Foodie, aka Lesh Karan, to talk about living and eating, and how she does it, well, mindfully.
Lesh is a freelance medical and health writer, with qualifications in pharmacy and medical science. She's also studying to be a Health Coach. We love her because whilst she has a background in Western science (so she 'gets' that world), her true passion lies in whole foods, holistic health and natural well being, all the while being mindful of the ethical and environmental considerations of the way we live and eat... and she makes stock out of chicken feet...
Sustainable Living & Chicken Feet Stock, by The Mindful Foodie
The word “sustainable” means different things to different people. To me, it means living on this planet while reducing my impact on Earth’s resources as much as possible (a low carbon footprint, if you will) — without losing my sanity.
Sometimes the word “mindful” is used interchangeably with sustainable. Eating mindfully, from a sustainability angle, is being conscious of where your food comes from, how it was grown or produced.
But eating mindfully can also mean eating slowly without any other distractions (like eating in front of the computer, or whilst watching TV, or reading, or eating while driving), so you can savour the taste of food and feel satiated and nourished.
In this modern world, being 100% sustainable (where you have absolutely no negative impact on Earth’s resources) and mindful is challenging and (almost) impossible. Unless you go down the route of no impact man.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean we can’t reduce our impact on the planet to a significant degree. Anything we can do will help. Start with small steps, and make small changes progressively. Trying to change old habits all at once can be overwhelming and, I find, is bound to fail because it gets frustrating. So go slow and steady.
From a food perspective, here are some of my best tips for eating sustainably and mindfully:
• Eating mostly vegetarian foods — I occasionally eat a little bit of fish and organic chicken
• Rarely wasting food — this is because I sat down and roughly worked out how much hubby and I need each week
• Shopping at farmers' markets for local, organic and seasonal produce
• Never eating in front of the TV
— this gives you a chance to concentrate on the food you're eating, the way every mouthful smells, tastes and feels. You get to appreciate food a whole lot more by eating in this way.
My thoughts on…
— Local versus imported foods:
Because of the Australian climate, some yummy, healthy stuff is hard to get locally, like dates, coconut and chocolate, although I’ve just discovered an Australian chocolate, which I must try! Where I have found a local product, I usually switch to it, such as this organic Tasmanian quinoa. If I do buy imported products, I like to check out the ethos of the company before I support it.
I find seafood quite a complex area. So I rely heavily on the advice from the guys at Good Fish Bad Fish. Fish sustainability depends on so many things – the way seafood is caught, what region it’s from and what season it is, just to name a few. So what may be sustainable in USA may not be the case in Australia, and vice versa.
In the Western world, we could all do with eating a lot less meat. We certainly don’t need it everyday (or every week). If we do choose to eat meat, my belief is that meat should come from “happy” animals raised in their natural habitat, and that we should be open to eating all parts of the animal, so nothing goes to waste...
Like this stock recipe, which uses chicken feet. It’s the best ingredient to make chicken stock with, I hear.
Chicken stock recipe
Photo by Lesh Karan
• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 3 dried bay leaves
• a handful of fresh herbs, like thyme, rosemary and sage
• 2 celery stalks, leaves and all, washed and roughly chopped
• 2 carrots, washed and roughly chopped
• 1 brown onion, quartered
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled
• sea salt and pepper, to taste
Put all ingredients in a stockpot and add about 3.5 litres (14 cups) of water. Bring to a boil and turn down to heat to a simmer. Simmer for 3–4 hours. Strain using a fine mesh sieve. You should end up with about 10–12 cups stock, Freeze in 2–3 cup portions. Awesome for making soups!
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Photograph from FLPA, Alamy
Published August 10, 2011
Live fast, age fast—at least if you're a male houbara bustard.
That's because male bustards that perform longer courtship displays lose sperm quality faster than males that do not put on elaborate seduction shows, a new study suggests.
The sheer energy required to keep up marathon performances eventually takes its toll on the sperm production of the flashy males, which actually start out with healthier, more robust sperm than their humdrum rivals.
"In nature, life is very risky, so you need to balance the benefit that certain behaviors can give you at present, and the costs that these same behaviors can incur later on," said study senior author Gabriele Sorci, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Burgundy in France.
In the case of the bustards, Sorci thinks the showy males get the balance right, in terms of survival. In part because of the high chances of dying young in the wild, he said, "it's always the best [reproduction] strategy to have early benefits and eventually pay a later cost."
The new study represents the first time that such a tradeoff has been linked to declines in male fertility in any species, Sorci added.
Showy Birds Firing Blanks
In their North African habitat, male houbara bustards perform long displays to attract females up to six months out of the year. Some males keep at it for several hours a day and perform more often, while others invest less of their resources to luring mates.
After strutting for a while, a male erects an ornamental "shield" of long white feathers and then runs at high speed, often circling a rock or a bush, according to the study, published recently in the journal Ecology Letters.
The show climaxes in a flash of black and white feathers and several booming calls so deep they're almost out of range of human hearing, according to Sorci.
Females will often select males that run more laps while taking fewer and shorter breaks.
For the study, the team used ten years of data taken from more than 1,700 male bustards—ranging from 1 to 24 years old—at captive-breeding facilities in Morocco.
Each day, workers would observe the males' courtship behavior, which is roughly the same as in the wild. The scientists then added up the number of days the males were seen displaying, and for how long. The result was an index of "male sexual-display effort" for every year of each bird's life.
Also daily, a team would place a dummy female under each male bird to initiate mating and then capture his ejaculate in a petri dish, the study says. Scientists recorded the quality of the bird's semen—how many sperm were in each ejaculate, how well they swam, etc.
The results showed that the most avid performers during youth released smaller quantities of semen, with more dead and abnormal sperm, at older ages. The data also uncovered a still unresolved mystery: Though these flashy males had passed their reproductive prime, the show still went on, Sorci noted.
Fabrice Helfenstein, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, said via email that the study "is sound—it is based on a lot of animals and uses properly new statistical tools."
For instance, the captive birds proved useful: "Such aging processes are usually hard to reveal in wild animals," which are generally thought to die too young to suffer the effects of aging, said Helfenstein, who was not involved in the new study.
Casanovas, Take Note
In general, the idea that investing in sexually attractive traits early in life racks up costs later could possibly be applied to other species, including humans, study co-author Sorci said.
For instance, showy male bustards may be the "bird equivalent of the posers who strut their stuff in bars and nightclubs every weekend," study leader Brian Preston, also of the University of Burgundy, said in a statement.
"If the bustard is anything to go by, these same guys will be reaching for their toupees sooner than they'd like."
A new species of dinosaur-era reptile is rewriting the books on the evolution of so-called sea monsters, a new study claims.
The world's highest peak has been shedding snow and ice for the past 50 years, possibly due in part to global warming, new research shows.
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The Liquid World
How to survive in an age of death.
Twelve days ago, I flew from London's Heathrow Airport to Washington's Dulles airport. In my shoulder bag, I had two bottles of water and a portable alarm clock. If the security officers at Heathrow had taken my alarm clock and my bottles, I still had a wristwatch and a tube of toothpaste. If they'd taken those, I had butterscotch candies and three pens full of ink. If they'd taken those, I had a container of prescribed pills and a key that unlocks my car by remote control.
You want to stop people from blowing up planes with sophisticated explosives and detonators? Start confiscating pills and car keys.
That's my reaction to the news that we've foiled a plot involving fluid explosives and flash cameras. Airport security teams are confiscating liquids, gels, and lotions. Britain is banning iPods and cell phones. At Dulles, a passenger was ordered to peel her banana.
Do you think somebody capable of hiding an explosive inside a banana peel isn't capable of hiding it inside the banana?
The new no-liquid rules make an exception for prescription medicine. Do you think I can't make a prescription label on the color printer at my office? Do you think I can't empty and refill capsules?
How will you check my key to make sure it operates my car? Will you take it at the security gate? Will you make people leave their car keys at the airport?
Security machines screen for metal, not liquids. To catch liquids, officials say they'll frisk more passengers. But people already carry illegal drugs onto planes by sealing them in plastic bags and swallowing them or hiding them in body cavities. How many cavities do we plan to search?
The government says it's developing gizmos to spot liquid densities characteristic of explosives. Good luck. In the abandoned 1990s "Bojinka" plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Yousef left behind dolls with explosive nitrocellulose in their clothes. Show me the gizmo that can catch that. Take my water, and I've still got my clothes.
President Bush praises the "solid" investigation that uncovered the plot. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the British did it by following "threads." Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says we're working "to dismantle these terrorist cells before an attack occurs." Kip Hawley, the head of the Transportation Security Agency, says liquid explosives are "on our radar screen."
These are the metaphors of a bygone age. Nothing is solid for sure anymore, not even bombs. Between terrorist cells, there are often no threads. No dismantling is final. Radar's lousy in water.
Will Saletan covers science, technology, and politics for Slate and says a lot of things that get him in trouble.
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Soledad Fox considers the literary influence of Cervantes on Flaubert in NER 27.1:
The presence of the Quixote in Flaubert’s imagination can be traced back to his childhood. When he was a young boy, his favorite pastime was to have Don Quichotte read to him aloud, in an abridged French edition edited by Florian. Once he had learned how to read for himself, he collected other editions of the novel, and the impact of these readings is made evident in a letter he wrote in 1832, when he was only ten years old, to his friend Ernest Chevalier:
I know I had told you before that I wanted to be a playwright, but on second thought, I’ve decided against it . . . I have decided instead to become a novelist and I’ve already got some ideas for my first books. I’ll write about Cardenio, about Dorotea, and one about Ill-Advised Curiosity. | <urn:uuid:48561917-7656-4cf7-8727-6309e29557cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nereview.com/2012/10/02/flaubert-and-don-quixote/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986406 | 212 | 2.875 | 3 |
Watch: People Who Do Noise, a full-length doc on Portland music makers
What is "noise" and what is "music"? And where exactly do the two meet? Or should they? Are they completely different entities, to be appreciated on separate but equal terms?
Such questions are apparently the basis of a riveting documentary (see it below) called People Who Do Noise, which focuses on artists working in the experimental music underground of Portland, Oregon. To aficionados of the noise genre, Portland is akin to Liverpool, England in the early '60s, or Seattle, Washington in the early '90s.
Made on a shoestring budget of $10,000 back in 2008, People Who Do Noise goes up close and personal with the musicians of this scene, profiling them in candid interviews (they're an opinionated bunch!) and working on music they fully admit isn't for everyone. And that's precisely the point.
Perhaps the sounds these performers create aren't your cup of tea, either. That's fine. But the documentary is well worth watching for the interviews. Taken together, they create a fascinating mosaic of a bold, uncompromising musical movement. | <urn:uuid:bad8e9e0-76b6-4c26-b94d-586908d59be4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/watch-people-who-do-noise-a-full-length-doc-on-portland-music-makers-516576 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947196 | 241 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Low-income children relying on Medicaid or other government-funded health care have much more trouble finding a new doctor than children with private insurance, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
That difficulty is amplified when it comes to specialty care, particularly mental health, dermatology and neurology.
More than three-quarters of 932 doctors surveyed by the GAO reported having difficulty referring children with public insurance for specialty care, citing an overall shortage of specialists, and, in some cases, different waiting lists for children receiving Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits than children with private insurance.
In 2010, more than 40 million children in the country received health care through one of the two government programs. That care cost $79 billion in federal and state funds in 2009, the most recent year for which information is available.
The report estimated that 22 percent of all doctors don’t participate in Medicaid or CHIP.
Among participating doctors surveyed, only half accepted all children in Medicaid or CHIP as new patients, while 80 percent of those doctors accepted all children with private insurance. Nearly 10 percent of those doctors didn’t accept any new child patients on Medicaid or CHIP, citing low reimbursement rates and billing hassles as the two biggest reasons for not participating.
Doctors in rural areas were more likely to accept new patients with Medicaid and CHIP than doctors in urban areas, according to the survey, but rural primary care doctors experienced more difficulty referring their Medicaid and CHIP patients to specialists than their urban counterparts.
Once enrolled, children with Medicaid and CHIP were treated roughly the same by doctor’s offices as children with private insurance, with comparable wait times.
GAO fielded the survey from August 2010 through October 2010. Names were selected from the American Medical Association’s Physician Masterfile. GAO sent the survey to 2,642 doctors and got 932 responses.
FAST FACT: More than 20 percent of doctors don’t participate in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to the GAO survey. That number is higher among specialists, 29 percent of whom don’t participate in the public health insurance programs for low-income patients. | <urn:uuid:db2928ae-1eb8-466b-8d25-39a55bc44ec1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.publicintegrity.org/2011/07/01/5102/doctors-less-welcoming-children-medicaid-gao-finds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951727 | 455 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Home School Heartbeat Radio Program
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on today's Home School Heartbeat as he explores the sacrifices that parents make to educate their children at home.
Count the cost and decide whether the sacrifice is worth it.
You'll be pleased to know that few homeschool parents regret their decision to educate their children at home. Spending more time with our children is typically found to be a blessing rather than a curse, though there will be times when we wonder if that's true or not.
Most people who plan to homeschool generally recognize that the success of the endeavor will be greatly aided if they can operate on one income. Homeschooling requires a sacrifice of money since one parent-usually the mother-who does the bulk of the teaching is unavailable for full-time work outside the home.
A single parent who homeschools is likely to be both worker and teacher.
Consequently, most homeschool families typically survive on one income.
Homeschooling also requires a sacrifice of time. Where we spend our time and money speaks volumes about our true character.
The goal for most homeschool parents is to produce a mature Christian homeschool graduate who will be a blessing to society.
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The August 16, 2005 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine published an article by Dr. David M. E. Eddy et al using a mathematical model called the Archimedes model. This computer based model was applied to the question of is it more cost effective to give metformin or to employ the methods of the Diabetes Prevention program (DPP) of lifestyle modification to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes in high-risk individuals. The DPP had shown that over the almost three years of the trial there was a relative risk reduction of 58% from life-style and 31% for metformin. An earlier article in the same journal used a different model (Markow model) to attempt to answer the same question. The authors concluded that the lifestyle modification was more cost effective. The Eddy article found the opposite to be the case. The views of two editorialists were sought and published in the August Annals issue in an apparent attempt to place things in context.
One editorial author was Dr. Michael M. Engelgau who was one of the researchers in earlier study that found lifestyle modifications more cost effective. Not surprisingly he criticizes the Eddy model saying in part " I believe Eddy and colleagues' criticisms [of his model] are based on inaccurate descriptions of the DPPRG model". Eddy et al in their introduction state their method is " more thorough,clinically realistic and independently validated".
So whose model is better? Whose conclusion is correct? Is there a "correct"? Dueling experts with opposing conclusions.
The Archimedes model also found that it would be more cost effective to wait until a person developed diabetes before instituting either metformin or lifestyle modification. It will be interesting to see what the folks at the America Diabetes Association or Joslin Clinic say about that.
In real life, of course, a physician will attempt to convince the "pre-diabetic" to loose weight and exercise and may even in addition suggest metformin. But these models are less used to aid individuals docs and individual patients decide what to do that they are to make policy decisions for large organizations in regard to how to allocate funds.
The line between "pre diabetes" and diabetes is arbitrary and the definitions of these two conditions change with the edicts of the ADA and the physiological processes that Eddy claims to model with differential equations are poorly understood and always in flux as new biological insight are gleaned. The output of these models is quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) in which researchers claim to be able to measure and average the "quality" of a person's life. I have posted before on the topic of QALY and cost effectiveness articles.
These models have assumptions on top of assumptions, offer little transparency, are essentially mysterious black boxes to all but a few of the researchers who are expert in such matters and for physicians , or for that matter, policy makers to accept these at face value ( and here how can you when two studies are so contradictory?) requires faith. | <urn:uuid:9f58eb6b-f6bf-4f85-9410-32cbb566dfb4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mdredux.blogspot.com/2005/08/dueling-medical-mathematical-models-to.html?showComment=1124584380000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95691 | 617 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Who: Robert and Judy Parsons, both 67
Where: Edenton, N.C.
Question: What should retirees do in this volatile market?
Robert Parsons retired in 1985 after 26 years as a Navy air-traffic controller, then spent several years in law enforcement before he developed a bad back and retired for good. After watching the value of his IRA shrink from $130,000 to $98,000 in just a few weeks this fall, he's wondering what he should do now to protect his nest egg. His investments may eventually recover, but, asks Parsons, "Do we have time for that?"
Time is of the essence if you're in your sixties. But you could live 20 or 30 more years, so it's no time to panic and abandon the fundamentals. You need cash for your immediate needs, but you also need growth via the stock market over the long term, says Stuart Ritter, a certified financial planner with T. Rowe Price. "You are not going to use all of your money in the next two years." Even if you're 65 or older, Ritter recommends keeping about 55% of your retirement savings in a diversified portfolio of stocks and stock mutual funds.
The Parsonses' investments are well diversified, but they need enough money on hand to cover their current expenses and any emergencies. Marc Schindler, a certified financial planner in Bellaire, Tex., recommends keeping as much as two years' worth of expenses in cash, such as in a money-market account or short-term CD.
You won't need that much if, like the Parsonses, you have sources of guaranteed income (the couple have Robert's military pension and their Social Security checks). In fact, they don't plan to tap their IRA until they start taking required minimum distributions at age 70. And because Robert is a retired member of the military, Tricare for Life helps fill the gaps in Medicare and lowers the couple's out-of-pocket costs.
Retirees who aren't as fortunate can bolster their depleted savings by withdrawing less money than they had originally planned. One common guideline recommends withdrawing 4% of your savings in the first year of retirement, then bumping up your withdrawals by about 3% of the original balance every year to keep pace with inflation. But in a down market you'll do better if you base your 4% withdrawals on the reduced value of your nest egg, rather than the original balance, and temporarily discontinue those 3% increases.
You won't need to spend as much of your retirement savings if you boost your income. And combining part-time work with a hobby -- such as working at a golf course, garden center or veterinary clinic -- might also get you an employee discount.
In addition, working at an extra job for a few years after retirement could help you delay taking Social Security. And for each year after your normal retirement age that you hold off, your benefits will be increased by 8% for the rest of your life.
If you qualify for $1,600 a month at age 66, for example, delaying the start of benefits until you're 70 would bump up your benefit by about $500 a month (see the Retirement Estimator at www.socialsecurity.gov). All future cost-of-living increases would add to that higher base. | <urn:uuid:65554854-8894-4ead-9183-f53f9572b04c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kiplinger.com/article/retirement/T032-C000-S002-how-to-cope-with-a-deflated-ira.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968524 | 681 | 1.554688 | 2 |
About the Society
MARYLAND STATE SOCIETY UNITED STATES DAUGHTERS OF 1812
Ella Virginia Houck Holloway Chapter (Southern Maryland)
President: Carol T. Whitsell
Ella Virginia Houck Holloway, born next to the Shot Tower in Baltimore in 1862, was instrumental in persuading U. S. Congressman Charles J. Linthicum to introduce a bill in Congress which would mandate the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem. On March 3, 1931, Congressional Resolution (46 Stat. 1508) was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover.
The Baltimore Sun reported that "Mrs. Holloway considered herself an expert on the use and display of the flag and to that end toured the city to see that the flag was not improperly displayed. She did have rather impressive credentials in this department, having served as chairman of the Committee on the Correct Use of the Flag of the United States Daughters of the War of 1812." The Sun further reported, "She always appeared in public wearing a tall shako, a cylindrical beaver hat with plume, that rose a foot above her head." She told the Sun in 1937, "The general contours of my hat and the Constitution of the United States must remain unchanged."
Mrs. Holloway was admitted to the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 on 16 Jan 1903 and served as Maryland State President beginning in 1918. Upon the death of Mrs. Holloway in 1940, a Sun editorial declared, "Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, who died yesterday, would have been a noteworthy person in any era." | <urn:uuid:09fba050-f3de-492c-84e6-8fea079dfdd7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usdaughtersof1812maryland.org/chap_holloway.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953253 | 331 | 2.609375 | 3 |
About The Romanian Language
The Romanian language is one of the several Romance languages of the Italic subfamily belonging to the Indo-European group. Most of the words came from Latin. Other words in the Romanian language came from the Slavic, Greek, Turkish, Hungarian and Albanian languages. It is spoken with four dialects most. Romanian is spoken in four dialects: Daco-Romanian, Macedo-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian. Daco-Romanian, also known as proper Romanian is uttered by about 22 million people in Romania, parts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and 3 million in Moldova. In most of the Balkan countries, several hundred thousands still speak Macedo-Romanian. Others in northwest Greece speak the Megleno-Romanian dialect. Istro-Romanian is spoken in Istria.
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38.4 percent of fast food workers think that their job is actually making the world a worse place, according to a recent survey from PayScale published at CNNMoney.
That's the highest percentage of a profession by far, according to PayScale. The number-two was gaming dealers at 17.6 percent, and the average job clocks in at less than 1 percent.
Why do fast food workers feel so down about what they're doing?
The most likely cause is that they feel they're contributing to the obesity epidemic in the U.S.
Other jobs that came in well above average were telemarketers, TV newscast directors, bartenders, loan collectors, fashion designers and investment bankers, according to PayScale. | <urn:uuid:618c6808-42a7-42c1-8cd0-b189895b4983> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.businessinsider.com/fast-food-workers-making-world-worse-2012-10?pundits_only=0&get_all_comments=1&no_reply_filter=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973717 | 150 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The Holy Family
The Marian Library recently received a book titled, The Holy Family as Prototype of the
Civilization of Love: Images from the Viceregal Americas edited by Joseph F.
Chorpenning, O.S.F.S. The volume is published by Saint Joseph's University Press in
Philadelphia, 1996. The book is devoted to the history of devotion to the Holy Family as it has
been represented in art in the Americas.|
The book was inspired by Pope John Paul II's letter to families, issued on the feast of the Lord's Presentation in the Temple, February 2, 1994. The letter encourages families to imitate Mary and Joseph's pilgrimage of faith.
|The Marian Library acquired a publication titled, Mexican Devotional Retablos. The works are from The Peters Collection and depict the folkart of Mexican popular devotion. The book is published by Saint Joseph's University Press in Philadelphia and edited by Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.|
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This page, maintained by The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute, was last modified March 14, 2012 by Sumithra Kulkarni. Please send any comments to email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:69a4dfad-3743-448c-b2c7-fe2908e1624e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/gallery/artists/chorpenn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926453 | 272 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Southwestern College History
Southwestern College was chartered June 19, 1885, by the Methodists of Kansas as “an institution of learning of full collegiate powers.” It opened its doors for forty-three learners on September 7, 1886. The first name of the College was “The Southwest Kansas Conference College”; the name “The Southwestern College’’ was adopted November 5, 1908.
The residential campus, located on 85 acres in Winfield, Kansas, offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs for traditional age learners.
The College began offering degree completion programs for working adults in 1994 and began moving some of these courses online in 2001. This was a very progressive move for a small private college at that time. Currently Professional Studies has undergraduate and graduate programs in Winfield, Kansas; Wichita, Kansas; McConnell AFB, Kansas; Midwest City, Oklahoma; Ft. Riley, Kansas; and online. | <urn:uuid:a5051318-d90f-4b4f-9033-c794f9ce3465> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.southwesterncollege.org/about/history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975283 | 190 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Here's what I read this past week:
161. Lost Cause by John Wilson (finished 10/15) RF about a boy on a quest to find out answers about his Grandfather's mysterious past.
162. Rat by Lesley Choice (finished 10/15) High interest-low readability book about standing up to bullies.
163. Three Little Words by Sarah N. Harvey (finished 10/17) RF book about a boy coming to terms with being abandoned as a child and re-meeting his birth mother.
164. Prisoner of Snowflake Falls by John Lekich (finished 10/19) RF book about a boy with a conscience who steals to survive and the consequences of his actions.
165. True Blue by Deborah Ellis (finished 10/20) RF book about a girl dealing with her best friend's arrest on charges of murder.
166. Riot Act by Diane Tullson (finished 10/20) High interest-low readability book about riots following a championship game.
167. The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis (finished 10/21) HF book about an intelligent and clever girl and her family's difficulties during the Great Depression.
168. The Truth About Truman School by Dori Hillstad Butler (finished 10/21) RF book about online bullying.
My reading plan for this week:
- finishing Close to Famous by Joan Bauer.
- Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill
- Journey of Xoc by Matt Dembicki
- Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
Want to know what others are reading this week? Head over to TeachMentorTexts and click on the links!
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Anyone familiar with the way the city Department of Parks and Recreation has (mis)handled the Cedar Grove Beach issue could’ve seen this one coming: Parks now says the promised transformation of the former beach colony into a full-service public park is at least three years away.
What a shock!
Remember when the city told the last 41 families belonging to the Cedar Grove Beach Club - some of whom had summered there for decades - that they had to get out in September in order to make room for Parks’ big plans for the place?
Their eviction had been set in motion way back in the 1950s, when “Master Builder” Robert Moses condemned Cedar Grove in order to construct a shoreline parkway. The parkway was never built, of course. The property thus fell under city control and, from then on, the residents retained access to it via a series of short-term leases.
A few years ago, however, the city got a bee in its institutional bonnet and said it just had to have the site now and the residents had to leave ASAP.
In a statement last fall, the Parks Department justified this needless eviction by promising, “Staten Islanders will enjoy an uninterrupted stretch of public recreational shoreline from Oakwood Beach to New Dorp Beach, reconnecting the borough to its maritime heritage.”
Except that Parks has never maintained the beach it owns at Cedar Grove - or any of the beaches it owns south of Midland Beach, for that matter. The mess at New Dorp Beach adjacent to Cedar Grove attests to this chronic neglect. In fact, Cedar Grove Beach was always kept in pristine condition by the residents themselves, despite the fact that they were, after all, merely tenants.
That won’t be the case in the summer of 2011 or thereafter. Expect deterioration of what had been a vibrant little beach community to ensue.
And now Parks says that while there will be a lifeguard and temporary rest rooms at Cedar Grove come Memorial Day, its full renovation of the place as a public park won’t happen until at least 2014. “At least” is the operative term here.
Part of the problem, as critics of this scheme noted early on, is that the Parks Department already has a lot on its capital budget plate and never allocated anywhere near the funds necessary to bring its plan for Cedar Grove to fruition.
Now it turns out there are other glitches, as well. A preliminary environmental assessment released this month found the “potential for significant adverse environmental impacts” in Parks’ plan to incorporate Cedar Grove’s acreage into its vision of a “continuous, open public beach” stretching from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to Crescent Beach in Great Kills. Apparently, the possible presence of asbestos in the cottage structures and underground oil storage tanks are the issues, and there are concerns about wetland areas as well.
So Parks must wait for a full Environmental Impact Statement before it can apply for permits. And the city comptroller has yet to sign off on the preparation of that EIS, as is required.
Meanwhile, the State Historic Preservation Office is still considering designating the property as a historic site.
So instead of beginning the demolition of the cottages and building a playground, picnic area, bike path and other amenities before the summer of 2012, as planned, Parks will have to wait. In fact, it would have to wait even if it did set enough money aside for these improvements.
“[Parks] doesn’t have any of their permits; they don’t have all their ducks in a row,” said Roy Wood, the beach club president whose family summered at Cedar Grove from 1954.
The city could have allowed the residents to stay on for at least a few more summers as it worked on getting the required approvals. That way, as Mr. Wood notes, at least then Cedar Grove would have generated revenue for the city from the residents’ lease payments.
Now Cedar Grove is of absolutely no use to Parks, to the residents or to the public and it won’t be for the foreseeable future.
Given all the looming obstacles to fulfilling its vision for Cedar Grove, it’s more of a puzzle than ever that Parks was so eager to roust the residents. So for several years at least, the place will stand as a forlorn monument to Parks’ misplaced zeal. How is this good public policy in any way? | <urn:uuid:a3e8fcd1-2947-40ec-ba35-249901bea745> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.silive.com/opinion/editorials/index.ssf/2011/03/parks_sketchy_cedar_grove_plan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963422 | 928 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Voting and Elections
On November 6, 2012, U.S. citizens voted for the next president, as well as some state and local offices. President Barack Obama was declared the winner of the presidential election.
Learn about President Barack Obama and His Inauguration
Learn about President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Jill Biden, and find out how you might be able to participate in the 2013 inauguration.
Learn about Elections and Voting
See campaign finance reports, children's resources, and voting district maps. Learn election facts and history, how the electoral college works, and more.
Where Do I Vote?
Find your polling location and hours on your state election website.
Request an Absentee Ballot
Find out how you can request an absentee ballot to vote if you are away from home on Election Day.
Register to Vote
Locate your state's voter registration deadline; learn how and where to register; and find information on voter eligibility.
Read tips on researching candidates for the upcoming election.
Volunteer and Contribute to the Election Process
Learn how you can become a poll worker; donate to candidates and committees; and participate in other election-related activities.
Track Fundraising and Spending in Federal Elections
Learn about donations and expenditures in the presidential and congressional races.
Contact Your Elected Officials
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Birdbath Basics: Installation and Maintenance
A garden just isn’t quite the same without a birdbath or two. Well maintained birdbaths placed in inviting locations for wildlife entice a plethora of native birds and other thirsty woodland creatures to garden areas, providing endless hours of quiet entertainment and enjoyment as well as allowing for plenty of photo opportunities and observations worthy of recording in bird watching notebooks. Read on for helpful birdbath tips to keep your garden or backyard in tip top shape for our fine feathered friends.
1. Choose a location near trees and woods or areas that are known nesting locations and/or reliable food sources for birds, such as close to berry trees, suet feeders, thickets and bird feeders.
2. Do not place the birdbath in an area that gets full, hot sun as the water will become too warm to cool the birds off and it may evaporate altogether.
3. Choose a Bird bath that is medium to large in size and at least 4 inches deep so that there is plenty of water for a few birds to splash in together (communal bathing is something many species of birds prefer to do, and it is fun to watch) medium and large bird baths allow for evaporation and spills throughout the day too.
4. Change the birdbath water daily. Birds are known to frequently use birdbaths as toilet as well.
5. Clean your birdbath at least once a week, more if needed. A simple wash out and refill from the garden hose is usually sufficient. If further cleaning is necessary, empty the dirty water and fill the bath basin with clean water from a hose or rain barrel. Add 1tsp. of household bleach to the water. Let the bleach sit for at least 5 minutes and then scrub with an old toothbrush brush before rinsing thoroughly and refilling.
*IMPORTANT NOTE* Do not leave the birdbath unattended while the bleach is sitting-bleach in the water is toxic and even deadly to birds and other animals!
6. At the end of the season, before it freezes, move terracotta or concrete birdbaths out of the elements and into a storage shed, garage or basement for the winter to avoid cracks and breaks- unless you plan to purchase a winter bird bath heating device that will keep the water in the bath free flowing for birds and other wildlife species to drink when needed. Such devices may be purchased at garden centers or home improvement stores nationwide. | <urn:uuid:6794339c-46ad-488d-ae4c-ac574fb03833> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yankeemagazine.com/gardening-advice-ideas/birdbath-basics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937826 | 506 | 2.59375 | 3 |
With a good amount of learn Chinese language programs out there it is often troublesome to work out what to choose and what actually fits your learning style. This short article will evaluate Rocket Chinese to Rosetta Stone Chinese. With any luck, you may then be able to make a better judgment about whether or not one of these courses is for you.
- With plenty of learn Chinese language courses out there it is usually hard to determine what to select plus what actually fits your studying style. This article will contrast Rocket Chinese to Rosetta Stone Chinese. Hopefully, you might then be able to make a better decision about whether one of these programs is for you. The first thing to mention is that Rosetta Stone is largely a software program. It is one of the better learn Chinese software courses in reality but if you don’t have time to sit at a computer or prefer to study in another way then it may not be what you are looking for. They have recently added an audio companion guide (CD’s you can load in your mp3 listening device and play at whatever time you feel like it) but most of your time will be in front of the computer if you want to fully utilize Rosetta Stone. For it’s part, Rocket Chinese also requires you to spend a good period of time on the computer. As an example the 3 games (which are similar in style to Rosetta Stone) must be played from your PC or Mac computer. If you are looking to use the feedback features of Rocket Chinese then you also must be logged onto their website. Rosetta Stone employs their unique ‘Dynamic Immersion’ technique to teach you Chinese. Basically this involves no conscious thinking on your part. You’re immersed in the Chinese speaking world and pick up vocabulary due to practice and repetition. The technique works as follows : It will say a word or sentence (or show a word or sentence) and show you 4 pictures. One corresponds to the word or sentence. You are required to guess which one. You undergo a series of questions - 20-25 for every lesson/module. If you get a high score on the lesson it is possible to go to the next lesson. This is the same approach which you used to understand your native tongue - seeing an image and linking a word or sentence to it. You do not have to consciously learn what the word means. It merely sticks with adequate repetition of the picture/word grouping. This tends to even be done with complicated sentences. And is how we pick up a language as a youngster. Rosetta Stone even offers a program that can scrutinize your pronunciation plus a headset comes supplied these days. Rocket Chinese is more conventional in that it’s predominantly an audio course with supplementary reading material that shows the grammar of the language and introduces vocabulary. There is a Rosetta Stone style series of games that employ the same picture/word association instruction that is used with Rosetta Stone but it is not as comprehensive. It also has loads of multiple choice testing that is good to give a learner feedback on how he/she is doing. Rocket Chinese is more responsive to students as they have a forum and the program seems to have changed in style over the past few years, indicating that they are taking note of their students regarding how to boost the program. Rocket Chinese can be downloaded from the web for $99. Rosetta Stone Chinese level 1 can be purchased for approximately $229 (depending on where you buy it online) and sent to you physically.Nonetheless, you must get the other two levels to complete your Mandarin Chinese education so it’s considerably dearer than Rocket Chinese (you can bundle the 3 levels together for approximately $540). Learn about the popular, self study Chinese course, clickRocket Chinese or how about learn Chinese free http://rocketchinesereviewed.com/ http://rocketchinesereviewed.com/learn-chinese-free
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I love this.
It’s from Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire-Hathaway’s shareholders, and it’s about how Warren and Charlie dislike some mutually accepted accounting practice that I won’t pretend to understand.
Here’s the text leading up to the quote.
We continue, nevertheless, to use that formula in presenting our financial statements. Black-Scholes is the accepted standard for option valuation – almost all leading business schools teach it – and we would be accused of shoddy accounting if we deviated from it. Moreover, we would present our auditors with an insurmountable problem were we to do that: They have clients who are our counterparties and who use Black-Scholes values for the same contracts we hold. It would be impossible for our auditors to attest to the accuracy of both their values and ours were the two far apart.
Part of the appeal of Black-Scholes to auditors and regulators is that it produces a precise number. Charlie and I can’t supply one of those. We believe the true liability of our contracts to be far lower than that calculated by Black-Scholes, but we can’t come up with an exact figure – anymore than we can come up with a precise value for GEICO, BNSF, or for Berkshire Hathaway itself. Our inability to pinpoint a number doesn’t bother us: We would rather be approximately right than precisely wrong. | <urn:uuid:0d8e0e0e-9523-4dec-bb11-8b393bacdbc2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://exitcreative.net/blog/2011/07/precisely-wrong-approximately-right/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951362 | 304 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Justice Department rejects Texas voter ID law
The Justice Department has rejected Texas's new voter identification law, concluding that its requirements allowing only certain IDs at the polls are likely to discriminate against Latinos.
"According to the state’s own data, a Hispanic registered voter is at least 46.5 percent, and potentially 120.0 percent, more likely than a non-Hispanic registered voter to lack" a driver's license or official non-driver ID card, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez said in a letter to the Texas Secretary of State's Office Monday.
Under the Voting Rights Act, Texas and parts or all of 15 other states are required to have voting changes preapproved by the Justice Department or a federal court. Texas filed suit in January seeking pre-approval of the voter ID law. The case is pending before a three-judge court. Under the law, the state has the burden to demonstrate that the changes in voting procedures will not have a "retrogressive effect" on electoral participation by minorities.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued a statement calling the decision “no surprise” and vowing to keep up the court fight to implement the statute.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has already held that Voter ID requirements are constitutional and nondiscriminatory, and several other states--including Georgia, Indiana, Kansas and Wisconsin--are allowed to require photo identification to vote,” Abbott said. “Texas should not be treated differently and must have the same authority as other states to protect the integrity of our elections.
Perez's letter (posted here) notes that the new law, known as S.B. 14 and signed by Gov. Rick Perry last May, requires that the state issue special free IDs for voting. However, there would still be a cost to individuals who lack the required underlying documentation, like a birth certificate, Perez wrote.
"There is a statistically significant correlation between the Hispanic population percentage of a county and the percentage of a county’s population that lives below the poverty line. The legislature tabled amendments that would have prohibited state agencies from charging for any underlying documents needed to obtain an acceptable form of photographic identification," Perez noted.
Perez said many voters were likely to have difficulty getting to a Department of Public Safety office to get an ID, either because of distance or limited hours.
"Even after submitting data that show over 600,000 registered voters do not have either a driver’s license or personal identification card issued by DPS – and that a disproportionate share of those registered voters are Hispanic – the state has failed to propose, much less adopt, any program for individuals who have to travel a significant distance to a DPS office, who have limited access to transportation, or who are unable to get to a DPS office during their hours of operation," Perez wrote.
The law specifically dictates that state firearms licenses are valid identification for voting. However, critics have noted that IDs issued by state universities are not among the approved documents.
In December, the Justice Department refused to clear South Carolina's new voter ID law. Officials there are also suing.
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Early mornings no longer bother me. I rarely eat breakfast but since I got up so early I decided to head to the café and grabs some food.
We learned that duos would be performing skits of the Chinese sentences we learned, I was with Connie, a really funny rising senior who has awesome work ethic. We practiced nonstop in class and even continued in the hallway during our break. It was then when I also met some African students from Uganda who were also studying Chinese at Minda University. I asked him where I would be able to get a haircut, seeing as it was almost time for me to get one. He struggled to explain where he got his, until I figured out that he cut his own hair. Today’s lecture was on Mao and the People’s revolution. I’ve been considering doing my final report on this topic ever since getting here when I noticed that this man had some sort of impact on this country—so much so that his face would be the equivalent to seeing the golden arches back in the states; excessive. Coming to China with no previous knowledge of Chinese history, this lecture was the thing I needed to catch up with the last sixty years of this country’s history. The lecture point out key information including, how and why the communist revolution occurred, Mao Zedong’s objectives, his success in military leadership and his future failures in the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. We also touched on the post-Mao period in which China experienced both economic and cultural changes with the reformation of the economy and the later Tiananmen Square crisis. This was information I previously read about in the coursepack, however I feel like hearing someone speak about it, I grasped more of it. My next step in understanding was finding out more about Mao; a man admired and detested at the same time, most likely a very complex, if not complicated individual.
As soon as we got out of class today we headed to Mao’s Mausoleum. It’s in the middle of Tiananmen Square so I expected to be hot and irritated by the people. That was an understatement. We took public transportation to the square, which is always cool—while taxis are amazing (especially at such a low price) it’s really awesome to get out and do it like the locals, no matter how hot and crowded it is. Those lucky enough to find a seat ended up going to sleep for the long ride. Instead of chatting with the conscious ones, looked out the windows people watching, for the first time realizing just how expansive the city was. It took us about two hours to get back to the Square but once we got there we all jammed onto the line which seemed never-ending. We passed the time on the line by singing 80s and 90s hits and Negro Spirituals; it was another one of those special moments with the group. I entered the hall to Mao’s Mausoleum, astonished by the sea of people sobbing and gently placing yellow daisies under a Lincolnesque marble statue of the Chairman, near are some of the leader’s famous words:
“It is only through the unity of the Communist Party that the unity of the whole class and the nation can be achieved, and it is only through the unity of the whole class and the whole nation that the enemy can be defeated and the national and democratic revolution accomplished.”
Past the big Mao the large group of spectators split into two groups and went through two different doorways. I head right. I head towards the back of the line, letting the Chinese get a closer look at the body. Mao Zedong’s remains lie behind a crystal glass, tucked in a under a red flag with the sickle and hammer symbol on it. His face, waxy in appearance and for some reason very orange, lie still, reminiscent of how he left it thirty-three years ago. I couldn’t quite get over the whole aura of the memorial; from the initial sight of seeing people place flowers down under the effigy, I felt as a guest would at a wake; it felt as though Mao had just died. The tears that many shed for this man, who I still don’t have a clean-cut opinion on, were fascinating. As we were quickly rushed out of the dimly lit room but the intimidating guards I tried to think of who would be worshipped on such a grand stature back home. While we do have large statues of leaders, soldiers and even entertainers, I don’t think any of the visits they receive could match to the monumental crowd that wrapped around the square, waiting hours upon hours for a glimpse of the man known as Mao. I need to find more about the Chairman, he must have been very important in China’s history to have such power; scary power. We almost didn’t make it to the mausoleum, I’m glad we did—not to see Mao, even though that was an event within itself, once again watching the people and viewing their reactions to the stage of Mao were the most intellectually stimulating moments to capture.
After the mausoleum we split up into groups to visit homes of University Professors and make dumplings (Jiǎozi). Our host was a woman in her thirties who didn’t speak English but with the help of Professor Gilmartin was still was able to communicate to the group of six. Our host premade the filling of pork, scallions, leeks, garlic, vinegar and ginger. She then gestured us to wash our hands and get dumpling making. I was pretty awful and ended up making little dumplings that looked like Christmas sacks. At the end of the day we had probably close to 200 dumplings. One thing about Chinese culture, and I’m guessing most other cultures is that it is considered to be rude to not finish a meal, no matter how large it is. I ended up eating close to 20 dumplings and am officially all “dumplinged out”.
Dinner was at Xiang Yang Tun, what most described as a Cultural Revolution themed restaurant. Decorated with large red tables, glowing red lanterns and walls plastered with propaganda-heavy newspaper of Mao’s People’s revolution. It seemed to be the perfect albeit most surreal way to end the day of the topic I wanted to do my project on. We had dinner with intellectuals who lived through the revolution. I found myself somewhat tired or possibly sick, I wasn’t able to capture his whole story or the magnitude that the revolution had on people. News traveled fast around the group that the restaurant might have offended our Li Yan, our TA. I had to find out why. There is much more to be learned about this time period. I feel like there’s so much more that I need to know. | <urn:uuid:3634fae1-3921-4b31-8334-08079f778363> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-story/story1077.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979386 | 1,439 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Networking is a huge part of big business. LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, is corporate social networking. Every day contacts are made on LinkedIn that make money for businesses. If you, the employer, don’t have a LinkedIn account, you may be missing some money-making opportunities.
This is where your employees can help. That employee who spends all day on Facebook? Put him to work setting up your LinkedIn account. That lady in sales that loves to Tweet may be able to teach you a few things. Set up a company Twitter account and create a presence for your company there.
Networking also can help with research. That project you assigned to the new intern? She had no idea where to find the information she needed, so she pulled up her Facebook account and posted the question to her 5,000 friends and family members. Within ten minutes she found out her friend from high school works with someone who would love to answer any questions she has. The end result of that project is far above anything you could have come up with on your own. All because of social networking.
Never underestimate the power of technology. In the past few years, the Internet has given users a way to have networks of friends with them all the time, everywhere they go. Flat tire? With just one status update, you can find out the best tire place in your town and you might even find out a former college classmate owns a place that will give you a great deal. If you can harness this power and use it to help your small business, you might be surprised at how much social networking can do for you.
But for the most part, employees use social networking as stress relief. While some employees can get carried away, many of today’s workers are used to multitasking. At home they watch TV, surf the Internet, and talk on the phone, all at the same time. We, as a society, have grown restless when single-minded focus is required and cutting back and forth to social media throughout the day allows us the diversion we need to recharge. Even if you block sites like Facebook and Twitter on the server side, how many of your employees can access these sites via cell phone? Is it helping or hurting them? It might be telling to note that, according to this article in ComputerWorld, an Australian study found that social media increased the average worker’s productivity by nine percent.
Internal networking helps your business, as well. Set up a company Facebook page and encourage everyone to follow it. The internal interaction will help your employees get to know each other better, boosting camaraderie and adding an element of teamwork that may currently be missing from your corporate environment.
That’s not to say social media doesn’t hurt productivity, as well. Certainly employees will abuse Internet access and that should be dealt with on a management level. But is blocking access to these sites the answer? Social networking is becoming a very real part of the corporate structure and if you aren’t embracing the technology, you may be left behind by your competition.
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Atlantic menhaden serve as roving filters, converting algae into energy and thus reducing nutrient loads in bays and covers. An adult menhaden, through its unique filtering gills, is able to process up to four gallons of water per minute or a million gallons of water every 180 days. Multiply this by the number of menhaden in any given area and this is an amazing amount of water being filtered; a reduction of nutrients means fewer algae blooms and ultimately more oxygen for all fish.
But what menhaden do best is that they get eaten by other fish, particularly striped bass and other game fish targeted by recreational anglers. They’re an important part of the food chain.
“Game fish and seabirds, sharks and whales all seek out these oily fish as a favorite meal, making menhaden a crucial link in the ocean food chain,” according to H. Bruce Franklin, a professor at Rutgers University and author of “The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America.”
This week the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) will vote on Draft Amendment 2 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic menhaden, which outlines a number of possible regulations on the species. These proposed regulations will force the commission to choose between allowing industrial processors to continue to over-fish the species with little or no restrictions, or will rescue the fish with regulations that will start to rebuild the species that can help restore our bays, coastal waters and fishery.
Recreational anglers and environmentalists have weighed in with widespread support on the issue. “A total of 128,333 comments were received on Draft Amendment 2,” said Steve Medeiros, president of the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association. “Of those comments, 127,925 comments were letters. Thirteen public hearings were held in 10 states. Approximately 502 individuals were estimated to have attended the hearings combined. I don’t have a breakdown yet, but I think that we will see a large majority seeking action to start rebuilding the stock.”
Amendment 2 will come before the commission Thursday, Dec. 13. I’ll report on the outcome in next week’s column.
The West Bay Anglers are continuing to hold their lobster raffles to raise funds for the Impossible Dream and their Take a Kid Fishing program. They take place every Saturday at the Warwick FOP, 95 Tanner Ave., Warwick, through March 16, 2013. Doors open at 1 p.m. and the public is invited to attend.
The anglers raffle off large lobsters — ranging from 6 to 14 pounds — and usually have a table with small appliances like toasters and George Forman Grills, a meat table with hams and roasts of all types, a miscellaneous table and a final table with large prizes like Sony flat-screen TVs, GPS systems, gift cards, cash and more. For information, call 401/463-7532.
Rhody Fly Rodders meeting
The Rhody Fly Rodders will hold their Premier Fly Tying Event at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the Riverside Sportsman’s Club, 1 Sportsmans Drive, East Providence.
Members, friends and the public are invited to participate in this great evening of “fly-tying for charity.” Bring your tying tools; tying materials will be provided.
Winter harvest schedules
Last week the Marine Fisheries Division of the R.I. Department of Environmental Management announced the winter harvest schedules for shellfish in management and transplant areas. For the Bristol shellfish transplant area, the schedule is as follows: Open from 8 a.m. to noon on Dec. 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28 and 31; from 8 a.m. to noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in January 2013; and from sunrise to noon Monday through Friday from Feb. 1 to April 30.
Visit www.dem.ri.gov for detailed closure information.
Where’s the bite?
Tautog and cod fishing is good if you’re willing to fish in cold weather. Anglers are experiencing good fishing off Newport.
“I fished in the waters around Newport Thursday and did very well,” said Dave Garzoli. “The water depth was between 60 to 70 feet. Limited out easily and released a bunch of keepers and a pile of shorts and landed two cod over 22 inches, all on green crabs cut in half.”
The Francis Fleet reported: “Had a great day of black (tautog) fishing (Sunday) despite the very wet conditions. A very light crowd was treated to stellar fishing. Many limits on the blackfish with the biggest blackfish being over 10 pounds. Also found a pile of nice fat healthy cod with five fish over 12 pounds. Some anglers managed to snag a half-dozen cod with others getting a few. More and more cod have been showing up as the season goes on.”
Capt. Dave Monti has been fishing and shellfishing on Narragansett Bay for more than 40 years. He holds a captain’s master license and a charter fishing license. Your fishing photos in jpeg form, stories, comments and questions are welcome. Visit Capt. Dave’s No Fluke website at www.noflukefishing.com or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.org.Add to favorites | <urn:uuid:ad186315-2e8a-4a44-89a6-b61ffa7ca1ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eastbayri.com/opinion/columns/what-atlantic-menhaden-do-best-they-get-eaten/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946675 | 1,152 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Excerpted from “St. John Beach Guide,” by Gerald Singer
Besides sharks the most feared fish seems to be the barracuda. They are curious and often come alongside a snorkeler and look at them. Barracudas have the disconcerting habit of opening and closing their mouths displaying their sharp teeth and a serious overbite. This motion is not meant to frighten or to warn. It is simply a part of the way they breathe.
Barracudas feed on fish very much smaller than themselves, which would exclude big, fierce-looking human beings.
I personally have never known of anyone getting attacked by a barracuda, and this includes spearfishers and SCUBA divers. But, to stay on the safe side, it would probably be better not to wear shiny jewelry while snorkeling. The theory here is that a visually challenged barracuda or one hunting in murky water might mistake that glittering object for a little fish and go after it.
I’ve never known of this actually happening, but it won’t hurt to take this precaution. My rule of thumb is that although anything is possible, not everything is probable and shark and barracuda attacks on Virgin Island snorkelers to me fall into the realm of overwhelmingly improbable and should not be a cause for concern. | <urn:uuid:c2c96af9-046b-4e82-bbdb-cd5764b35b70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://seestjohn.com/st_john_life/st-john-usvi/st-john-virgin-islands-barracudas/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964272 | 280 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Herbal therapy is one of the other main treatment methods. Herbal medicine relies on the detailed diagnosis of the imbalances in the body to derive a herbal combination specific to each patient.
Herbs work by:
- Moving and building the Qi, blood and fluids of the body
- Warming or cooling the body
- Draining or retaining the fluids of the body
- Drying or moistening the body
As you can see these actions are mostly in pairs of opposites, which enables balance to be restored.
Herbal treatment takes a holistic view, for example to treat a cough, it must first be determined how the body is affected and what imbalance has occurred, then an appropriate group of herbs are combined to treat the problem. Simply using stop cough herbs does not address removing the pathogen or supporting the body in returning to health and balance. It is in the combination of herbs that the most benefit is obtained and side effects are minimized or avoided. The focus in each treatment is holistic: it takes into account the strength and nature of the pathogen, the degree of imbalance, the age and sex of the patient, and their constitutional fragility or robustness.
Herbal formulas are comprised with herbs designed for each patient. Changes in dosage and herb composition change the focus of the formula and hence what it can treat.
Herbal formulas come in different forms:
A raw herbal decoction consists of individually weighed unprocessed herbs placed together to form one bag of ‘formula’. One bag is boiled to make either one or two days worth of medicinal liquid. This is the strongest form of herbal medicine; it offers flexibility to the practitioner to custom the formula to the patients specific needs.
A raw herbal decoction is powdered after it has been assembled for a specific patient. The powdered herbs can then be taken as a decoction after boiling or in powdered form either mixed with warm water or in capsules. In this case the preparation time is reduced for the patient yet access to the strength of the unprocessed herbs is obtained.
These are famous formulas used for generations for common illnesses. They are tiny herbal pellets, referred to as tea pills, which are taken two or three times a day. Taking herbs in this form is sometimes more convenient for the patient as they require no preparation. However, they are pre-formulated, so they may not match a specific situation.
Freeze Dried (Granular)
These are raw herbs that have been cooked and freeze dried. These are more convenient than the raw decoction as no cooking is required, but they are not as strong. They are stronger, however, than the patent medicine and adaptable a patient’s specific situation.
These are alcohol and water extracts of raw herbal formulas. These are convenient and effective; there are certain situations where a tincture is the most effective method of treatment.
Topicals (liquids, creams, salves, pastes, plasters)
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In this segment, Coach shares the origins of CrossFit”s dietary prescription: meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.
In 1995, Glassman says he took a year off from training to travel with the founder of the Zone Diet, Dr. Barry Sears.
“We had a revolutionary message at the time,” he says. “It was: The carbs that you think are so good are bad—they’re killing you; in fact, that’s why you are headed towards heart disease and your mother has it.”
On tour, Glassman found that “nutrition and exercise are twin facets of the same goal or result, which is improved health and fitness.”
Glassman also discusses how the Paleo Diet has affected CrossFit nutrition.
“Paleo’s the easy paradigm,” he says, and it fits well with the CrossFit prescription—but alone it isn’t enough.
“There’s a better way than Paleo even, and that is to not just look at the quality of the foods but to simultaneously look at the quantity,” Coach says.
“When we move from Paleo to something Zone-like we put the nutritional prescription on a quantifiable basis, we’re turning nutrition from religion to empirical science, and I begin to learn the lessons as to what happens when you tweak these knobs.”
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Christine Lilyquist, Egyptian scholar and curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, teaches a Dartmouth class in the Bernstein Study-Storage Center.
A family explores the exhibition GAWU: El Anatsui in front of Hovor, 2003, a work by the artist in the Hood’s collection.
July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007
Acquisitions 1 (2005.75.1 to 2006.48.2)
Acquisitions 2 (2006.49 to 2006.60)
Acquisitions 3 (2006.61 to 2006.65.18.1-3)
Acquisitions 4 (2006.66.1 to 2006.81)
Acquisitions 5 (2006.82.1 to 2006.89.6)
Acquisitions 6 (2006.90.1 to 2006.90.31)
Acquisitions 7 (2006.91 to 2006.98)
Acquisitions 8 (2006.99 to 2007.4)
Acquisitions 9 (2007.6.1 to 2007.10)
Acquisitions 10 (2007.11.1 to 2007.18.5)
Acquisitions 11 (2007.19.1 to 2007.25.32)
Acquisitions 12 (2007.26.1 to 2007.39.11)
The Hood Museum of Art's collections are rich, diverse, and available for the use of both College and the broader community. Numbering some 70,000 objects, the collections present art from ancient cultures, the Americas, Europe, Africa, Papua New Guinea, the Arctic, and many other regions of the world. This year, the Hood’s collections grew by 370 objects through gifts and purchases.
"At the Hood Museum of Art, there's a marvelous art piece. It's called Hovor. I liked it because Hovor looked like a mountain fort. It impressed me because Hovor was made of of trash!"--ArtStart student
Through the generosity of the museum's many donors and the perspicacity of the curators and the museum's director, Brian Kennedy, many fine works joined the collection in 2006-7. The museum's collections are encyclopedic in nature, and the acquisitions listed in this report reflect the wide range and global nature of its holdings, from work by contemporary Tlingit artists Norman Jackson and Preston Singletary to the Japanese prints donated by Anne Thomas in honor of her husband. Several exhibitions, past and future, have spurred donations and purchases, including the stunning collection of American watercolors from the collection of Phillip Greene given in memory of his wife and co-collector, Marjorie, wonderful photographs by Serge Hambourg taken of the May 1968 protests in Paris, important Native American ledger drawings by Howling Wolf and Frederick Douglas purchased from the preeminent collection of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949, African contemporary works by Malick Sidibe and Lalla Essaydi, which will be seen in an upcoming spring 2008 exhibition, and photographs of Dartmouth's homegrown dance company Pilobolus that were featured in an exhibition that complemented their residency as Montgomery Fellows and the gift of their archives to the College. Dartmouth art history professor Allen Hockley has been working over several years with funds provided by E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation to enhance the museum's Japanese print collection.This past year, he has been able to add to the museum's eighteenth-century holdings in this area through the generosity of the foundation.
A gift of a work from Australia (prompted by the museum's showing of the exhibition Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters), purchases of work by unknown Northern Cree artists, and acquisitions of contemporary work by such Native American artists as Nicholas Galanin and Zig Jackson and Ugandan artist Jak Katarikawe have widened the museum's holdings in areas not well represented. The museum has few works that document the important performance art movement of the sixties and seventies and this has been amended by gifts of work by Vito Acconci and Carolee Schneemann by Monroe Denton, Class of 1968.
In the realm of European art, a preparatory drawing and related oil by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Charles Fairfax Murray entered the collection through the generosity of Dartmouth alumni couple, Margaret and Hank Erbe, and two Ensor etchings through a gift from print collector and alumnus David Stahl. In addition, the museum purchased its first Edgar Degas print and also acquired at auction a rare and important portrait of William Legge, Lord Dartmouth, by the Italian artist Pompeo Batoni, funded through the generously of Jane Dance and David Dance D'40, T'41, Jonathan L. Cohen D'60, T'61, Frederick Whittemore D'53, T'54, Barbara Dau Southwell '78 and David Southwell T'88, Parnassus Foundation/Jane and Raphael Bernstein, and an anonymous donor.
Noteworthy in the area of American art, the museum has acquired a fine Canterbury sampler, a large collection of Depression-era photographs by Mike Disfarmer through donation by the Osman family, several works by George Tooker, who resides part of the year in Vermont, and three portfolios of the German born photographer Lotte Jacobi, who spent the latter part of her life living and working in New Hampshire. Lastly, the museum unveiled a major commission of a work by sculptor Howard Ben Tre, Kira's Benches, under the auspices of a recently established endowment by Hood Board of Overseers member Benjamin Schore and his late wife, artist Kira Fournier.All of these gifts and purchases and others listed in the following summation, reflect the richness of the museum's collection, the college’s curriculum to which these acquisitions relate, and the interests of donors and patrons. The director, curators, and staff would like to thank the museum's many donors, both those who give works of art directly and those who have established acquisitions endowments, for their contribution to the museum’s greatest asset, its collections.
This year, the Hood lent 49 objects to exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe, including sixteen of its own objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the Hood-organized exhibition Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf. Hood objects were seen by more than 743,738 visitors to those museums worldwide (visitation numbers were not available for the Gwangju Biennale). Finally, the Hood conserved ten art objects this year.
The Hood and the Dartmouth College Library introduced new interpretive tools to enhance visitors' experiences with José Clemente Orozco's The Epic of American Civilization (1932-34), arguably the most important mural cycle in the United States. Located in the Reserve Corridor of the College's Baker Library and maintained by the Hood, the murals provide students with the extraordinary opportunity to live with a monumental work of art, designed for and located in a prominent study area in the heart of campus. In addition, the work is visited by thousands of tourists, school children, and scholars from around the world each year. In summer 2007, the Hood published a brochure with a walking guide to the murals and essays by former Hood director Jacquelynn Baas and Assistant Professor of Art History Mary Coffey, with support from Monroe Denton '68. We also produced three audio tours--one each by Baas and Coffey, and another by Anthropology Professor John Watanabe--available for download from the Hood's or the library's Web sites and preloaded on iPods at the reserve reading desk for use free of charge.
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RALEIGH – A Virginia man who wants the U.S. government to build a monument to blacks who fought in the Revolutionary War is asking North Carolina counties and towns to approve a resolution in support of the effort.
Maurice Barboza, founder of Liberty Fund DC, started by asking local government officials in the 1st Congressional District to sign resolutions in support of the monument because more blacks tied to the war lived in that area than any other in North Carolina. On Friday, 27 counties in 11 other congressional districts received the information, and he planned to send the information to Gov. Beverly Perdue, legislators and congressional representatives Monday.
“These patriots are the truest example of the struggle for liberty and democratic principles, yet for generations they were cast aside, misunderstood and portrayed as separate from the central theme of American history,” said Barboza, who lives in Alexandria, Va. “I believe their story will help to bind citizens of every background to a principle-centered – rather than a race-centered – concept of who we are as a people. My generation never learned the history as children, to our detriment.”
North Carolina was home to 5 percent – or 252 – of about 5,000 known patriots, said Barboza, citing research by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Of those, 109 came from the counties in the 1st District.
Liberty Fund DC began this phase of the project in May 2011 in Connecticut and Massachusetts, where several communities along with Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and lawmakers, have endorsed the effort. Others who support his effort are New Orleans; several areas in Virginia and then-Gov. Tim Kane; and Marietta, Ohio. Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed a citation earlier this month.
Barboza, a marketing consultant and former staff member for the House Judiciary Committee, got involved in his family’s ties to the Revolutionary War in the late 1970s when he traced his genealogy to a father and son from Maine who fought. He joined the Sons of the American Revolution in April 1980 and suggested that his aunt join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
DAR denied membership to his aunt, Lena Ferguson, before relenting after a four-year fight that resulted in a settlement requiring the DAR to identify black veterans of the Revolutionary War and publish a book about them, said Barboza, who describes himself as black with a multiracial background. That book, titled, “Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War” was published in 2008, although less complete versions were published earlier.
During that time, Barboza was involved in trying to bring the monument to the National Mall. But that effort fell apart, and the monument lost a reserved spot on the mall. He resumed his efforts after Ferguson died in 2004, and he’s now working to get one built near the mall.
The bill would authorize the interior secretary to work with Liberty Fund DC to identify a site and come up with a design.
The material going to local and state leaders doesn’t seek money, although private money eventually would pay for the monument. Instead, Barboza wants them “to share their history with the nation because that will propel the project everywhere and promote local sites of interest and more research to enlarge the DAR’s work and bring clarity to individual patriots.”
The project hit another obstacle in March, when one of the bill sponsors, Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., died. Barboza has reached out to the office of Rep. G.K. Butterfield, the 1st District congressman. He has more black patriots in his district than any other member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Butterfield is willing to sponsor the bill but is working with Payne’s office to see if that’s the right step to take, said Saul Hernandez, Butterfield’s legislative director. “We’ll do everything we can to make sure these people are honored,” Hernandez said.
The bill ready to go to the Senate floor but hasn’t moved forward in the House during this congressional session, Barboza said. The bill would authorize the interior secretary to work with Liberty Fund DC to identify a site and come up with a design.
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March 23, 2007 By Merrill Douglas
Not to mention the fact that a concentration of empty, dilapidated buildings can sabotage economic development, offering businesses the perfect incentive to locate elsewhere.
At one end of the spectrum, some cities have developed sophisticated technology systems for cataloging and tracking vacant properties, giving these municipalities the information they need to manage such properties. At the other end, some cities' methods are a bit more archaic.
"Some cities still have their property information on index cards," said Jennifer Leonard, director of the National Vacant Properties Campaign (NVPC) at Smart Growth America, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C.
Paper property records don't get updated often, and when they do, not everyone gets the news. An employee in a property disposition department looking for the owner of an empty four-family building, for example, might not know that a code enforcement officer has already tracked that property owner down, Leonard said.
"Unless you can integrate all that information in one place and one piece, where everyone has access to updated information," she said, "it's not very useful."
This year, 10 communities received help in managing data on their vacant properties, thanks to the 2006 National Vacant and Abandoned Properties Grant Program, which is co-sponsored by the NVPC, GIS software developer ESRI and GPS technology developer, Magellan. The program provides hardware and software to communities to help develop applications for managing vacant properties.
Each winner received one or more handheld GPS units from Magellan, and ESRI's ArcPad software for mobile GIS and field mapping applications, plus online training in the technology.
The grant is meant to shine a light on the connection between community planning and economic development, and publicize the NVPC.
"We thought that putting together a mobile GIS grant program would be a really good way not only to support the work [NVPC] is doing with many communities and trade associations, but also to promote the upcoming [NVPC] conference," said Milton Ospina, ESRI's economic development and industry manager.
The NVPC will hold its first national conference this spring, and grant recipients are invited to attend and present their applications.
Data Fuels Strategies
The grant program is one example of the kind of technical assistance the NVPC provides to communities so they can organize their vacant and abandoned property inventories. Once they do, the communities can develop strategies for converting once-vacated real estate into productive uses.
For instance, Leonard said, Baltimore plans to acquire at least 5,000 vacant properties and transfer them to private developers -- both for-profit and nonprofit.
With ArcPad running on the Magellan GPS unit, a field worker standing near a building can capture the site's geographic coordinates, and then use a customized onscreen form to record information about it.
"Then you can link it up to a photograph or other GIS records," Ospina said.
Originally 67 communities applied to the grant program, outlining how they would use the technology.
"They have vacant properties that they need not only to identify," Ospina said, "but catalog and inventory and find a way to put them back to proper use."
Applications came from cities with as many as 350,000 residents and as few as 7,000, and from several regional planning agencies, Ospina said. Although the program was promoted mainly to planning and economic development departments, submissions also came from redevelopment, public works, engineering and environment management departments, and mayors' offices, he said.
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Social networking is becoming more and more popular and now kids younger and younger are going online to interact. According to Inside Network, nearly 21% of Facebook users are between the ages of 13 and 17 as of September 2011.
Children tend to not pay attention or be aware of many online scams or cyber threats that exist on the Internet, so coming up with a plan of action is important. Parents need to monitor their children’s online habits and keep the following advice in mind.
Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona urges parents to explain the difference between sharing and over sharing. While social networking is about connecting with people, kids should never share personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, bank account numbers, passwords or their Social Security number. Talk about what constitutes inappropriate photos or language and stress the fact that, once something is posted, it can never fully be taken back, even if deleted.
Join them online. Parents should set up their own account in the same social networks as their children. This will help better understand what social networking is all about. Parents can also “Friend” their child and keep an unobtrusive eye on what they are doing.
“Never talk to strangers” applies online too. One of the first rules kids learn is to never talk to strangers. Parents should remind children that the rule holds true when online. Even though chatting with a stranger online can seem harmless, the relationship can evolve and grow until the stranger has earned a child’s trust, and can then exploit it.
Set strict privacy settings. Most social networking sites let users determine who they want to share information with. Advise children about restricting access to social network profiles to only friends or users in safe networks such as their school, clubs or church groups.
Keep the channels of communication open. Let kids know that you are always ready to talk if they are ever threatened, bullied or feel uncomfortable about an experience they had online. Report concerns about data collection from children under 13 to the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus at www.caru.org/complaint. | <urn:uuid:f2ec5a75-9045-4a31-80ec-c3f288495149> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tucsoncitizen.com/bbbconsumeralert/tag/twitter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958325 | 432 | 3.25 | 3 |
Classic Horror Plays > Massacre at Paris > Scene IX
Massacre at Paris
By Christopher Marlowe
Published in 1593
[Enter two with the Admirals body.]
Now sirra, what shall we doe with the Admirall?
Why let us burne him for a heretick.
O no, his bodye will infect the fire, and the fire the aire, and
so we shall be poysoned with him.
What shall we doe then?
Lets throw him into the river.
Oh twill corrupt the water, and the water the fish, and the
fish our selves when we eate them.
Then throw him into the ditch.
No, no, to decide all doubts, be rulde by me, lets hang him
upon this tree.
[They hang him.]
[Enter the Duke of Guise, and Queene Mother, and the
Cardinall (of Loraine).]
Now Madame, how like you our lusty Admirall?
Beleeve me Guise he becomes the place so well,
That I could long ere this have wisht him there.
But come lets walke aside, th'airs not very sweet.
No by my faith Madam.
Sirs, take him away and throw him in some ditch.
[Carry away the dead body.]
And now Madam as I understand,
There anre a hundred Hugonets and more,
Which in the woods doe horde their synagogue:
And dayly meet about this time of day,
thither will I to put them to the sword.
Doe so sweet Guise, let us delay no time,
For if these straglers gather head againe,
And disperse themselves throughout the Realme of France,
It will be hard for us to worke their deaths.
I goe as whirl-winces rage before a storme.
My Lord of Loraine have you marks of late,
How Charles our sonne begins for to lament
For the late nights worke which my Lord of Guise
Did make in Paris amongst the Hugonites?
Madam, I have heard him solemnly vow,
With the rebellious King of Navarre,
For to revenge their deaths upon us all.
I, but my Lord, let me alone for that,
For Katherine must have her will in France:
As I doe live, so surely shall he dye,
And Henry then shall weare the diadem.
And if he grudge or crosse his Mothers will,
Ile disinherite him and all the rest:
For Ile rule France, but they shall weare the crowne:
And if they storme, I then may pull them downe.
Come my Lord let's goe.
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The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is pleased to congratulate Chattanooga, Tennessee, for building the largest publicly owned, full fiber network in the United States. Chattanooga’s public power utility, EPB, began offering telephone, broadband, and television services on its new fiber-to-the-home network on September 15.
This broadband network will allow smart-grid applications for the electrical utility as well as offer local support, faster speeds for both uploading and downloading, and create a competitive environment for broadband.
Christopher Mitchell, the Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative at ILSR was excited at the announcement. “Every year, we see more communities building what many companies refuse to: fiber-optic networks offering fast and affordable connections. This network will cut subscriber bills, increase broadband speeds, and create jobs.”
Mitchell is a national expert on publicly owned broadband networks. An author of several case studies and reports, he also maintains MuniNetworks.org, a web site that tracks news in the community network sector.
The United States has steadily fallen behind peer nations on international broadband rankings over the past decade, something Mitchell attributes to a lack of public investment in networks. “Too many communities have waited for the private sector to build this essential infrastructure even as most companies have found it insufficiently profitable to invest. To remain competitive internationally, we need the public sector to step up broadband investments.”
Mitchell has previously demonstrated that publicly owned networks offer some of the fastest broadband connections in the country, while keeping access affordable to all.
Though it will not be finished for a few years, Chattanooga’s broadband network already is already available to 17,000 people and businesses – a number that will expand to 100,000 within a year. More information about the new Chattanooga network is available on MuniNetworks.org. | <urn:uuid:23d9f885-983e-4d7c-a7c8-05a820cd42a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ilsr.org/chattanooga-launches-nations-largest-muni-fiber-network/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948726 | 383 | 1.78125 | 2 |
An examination of the principles and maxims that govern judicial reasoning through intensive analysis of selected statutes, judicial opinions and leading articles on the topic of legal reasoning. Students will be taught how to brief cases and will be exposed to the socratic question-answer method of teaching frequently used in law school.
- Credits: 3
- Offered: Every third semester
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