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Gardening is one of the hottest topics on Hometalk. Whether you're gardening as a profession, or as a hobby, you'll find awesome gardening inspiration on Hometalk. Do you need to identify a plant? Post a photo of it, and a gardening expert will be able to identify it for you. Is your garden blooming in a spectacular way? Share the joy with fellow gardening buffs. All garden talk is welcome on Hometalk; so whether you're planting a flower garden, looking for green gardening tips, or researching the perfect gardening tools, you've come to the right place.
I found this growing in my carrot bed this spring, I let it grow but I still haven't figured out what it is. I shared my vegetable garden with my neighbor last season and I know he planted something late last summer. The simple resolution would be to ask him but he moved. Anyone with suggestions would be much appreciated,
It is the perfect weather today! No major winds, humidity or clouds. Just gorgeous sunshiny blue skies! I have been outside trying to weed, move plants, replant etc. around our yard. We
use our herb beds here at home for recipe developing, testing, personal use and just to try different herbs that we are not familiar with
. About 4 years ago we planted Mugwort. And let's just say I have been trying to eliminate since then! LOL This herb makes mint look docile and non-aggressive! It has a very pretty varigated leaf. But, once you plant it, it will take over! And replant itself everywhere! It also grows pretty tall and bushes out. So, if you ever decided to grow Mugwort, know that you can hack away at and it just comes back.
Mugwort was used in cooking to add a bitter taste to fats and meats. Before hops came along, it was used to make beer. It was a big medicial herb in Asian medicine. It produces a toxic oil when concentrated and used in large quanities over a prologed time. Pregnant women want to avoid it. And quite frankly, I am trying to avoid it by getting rid of it because Mugwort pollen is one of the main sources of hay fever and allergic asthma in the USA.
So, today I have been really working at pulling it all out. I will have to stay on top of this plant areas because new little sprouts seem to come from no where quickly!
For more info on this herb, check out Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwort
We have a problem with nut grass. (My mother bought dirt from a nursery and it was in the dirt) We pull it and its back in back in a week. She has used Roundup and it doesnt work. She bought a " nutgrass killer selective herbicide" by a company called Monterey this also had no effect. As you can see from pics below.
I love the Christmas cactus but try as i may...I have never understood how to keep them healthy and alive. I have read instructions on how to water...
Don't over water, do not allow them to dry out...Place them in well draining soil... Blah, blah, blah,...... I purchased a couple two years ago and as usual they still remain a mystery to care for.
In December of 2011 my white cactus bloomed, the pink one did not.
When I moved to a new apartment the following year I placed them at the window with my other sun loving plants as I did in my last apartment..
That December, neither bloomed.......I assumed it was the change and like the other plants... they needed to get acclimated...
I changed their soil and pots over and over again...Some dried them out to quickly like the clay pots...Others like ceramics, would keep them appearing healthy for a while but then they would stop growing.
This year the only thing I've done differently was to change the pots again!. I purchased two cheap little plastic pots from the dollar store and forgot to place holes in the bottom, however, when I watered them... I allowed them to dry out between watering...and did not bother to punch holes in the bottom because they seem fine..
I than decided this month to place them on the balcony where they receive indirect light... And guess what...They began to bud!
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The Museum is a leading resource for science and geography education. Our school programme caters to all ages and levels including foundation, primary, secondary and A-level. We offer curriculum-linked events, workshops, hands-on activities and a teacher support service to help you get the most out of your visit. All school services are free, but must be booked in advance.
Choose learning activities at the Museum that are appropriate for your students' educational level.
Browse the learning activities on offer in the new Darwin Centre, the Museum’s state-of-the-art scientific research and collections facility.
Meet one of our fun and intriguing characters in the galleries.
Explore the Museum with our self-led activities.
Enjoy one of our fun, educational science shows.
Get to grips with how science works in workshops led by our team of dedicated science educators.
Join the discussion with our exciting programme of talks and debates about the latest science.
Get up close and personal with the Museum in these hands-on activities, where you can handle real specimens from our collections.
Enjoy interactive storytelling that explores natural history and curriculum science in a fun and engaging way.
Share the excitement of our scientists' fieldwork and new discoveries through videoconferences for schools.
All school activities must be booked in advance. To book, please call our school bookings line between 08.30-16.00, Monday to Friday during term-time, or 10.00-13.00 during the school holidays.
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Multipurpose Education Facilities Part of New Museum and Visitor Center
DEARBORN, Mich., Sept.26, 2008 – The Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center at Gettysburg was officially opened today as part of the grand opening of the new Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park. The Education Center was made possible by a $3 million grant from Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company.
Marty Mulloy, vice president Labor Affairs, Ford Motor Company, joined Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, Governor Ed Rendell, actor Stephen Lang, National Park Service officials, Gettysburg Foundation supporters, and other corporate sponsors for the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park.
"At Ford, we understand the value of preserving our American heritage, and we believe it is vitally important to share the historical impact of Gettysburg with generations to come," said Mulloy.
Close to two million people visit Gettysburg National Military Park each year and an additional 12 million students have logged on for a virtual visit to Gettysburg through its distance–learning programs. The new Education Center includes indoor and outdoor educational program spaces and complements the Park's education programs.
"The Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center will be at the heart of the new Gettysburg museum and visitor center's education programs, providing a dedicated space for teacher workshops, classroom use and distance learning programs," said Jim Vella, president, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services. "Ultimately it will serve as a gateway to the Gettysburg experience."
Gettysburg provides hands–on resources for teachers to bring the battlefields of Gettysburg to life both while visiting the park in Pennsylvania or studying the Civil War in their classrooms and helping students understand the realities of the Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg is viewed as the watershed for the Civil War and the battlefield is where Abraham Lincoln made his famous Gettysburg Address in recognition of the impact of the Civil War on the direction of the United States.
"The Gettysburg Foundation is enormously grateful for this gift, which will help ensure that the lessons Gettysburg teaches reach the widest possible audience," Foundation President Robert C. Wilburn said. "The Gettysburg battlefield is one of the greatest classrooms in the nation. The lessons of Gettysburg – of sacrifice, visionary leadership and reconciliation – have educational value that resonates around the world. Through the generosity of Ford Motor Company Fund, we have the opportunity to make Gettysburg a classroom of democracy."
The Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park preserves and presents the story of the Battle of Gettysburg in the larger context of causes and consequences of the American Civil War. The new Gettysburg experience inspires visitors to learn more about the battle's significance in American history, and to draw connections between the events that occurred there and what is happening in their lives today. It is a joint project between the National Park Service and the Gettysburg Foundation.
Ford Motor Company Fund has a history of supporting education programs and projects that keep American heritage alive, such as the Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center in Gettysburg. Additionally, the Ford Orientation Center at the historic Mount Vernon Estate of George Washington recognizes his role in the Revolutionary War and the founding of this country.
Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services is committed to creating opportunities that promote corporate citizenship, philanthropy, volunteerism and cultural diversity for those who live in the communities where Ford operates. Established in 1949 and made possible by funding from Ford Motor Company, Ford Motor Company Fund supports initiatives and institution that foster innovative education, auto–related safety, and American heritage and legacy. National programs include Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies, which provides high school students with academically rigorous 21st century learning experiences, and Driving Skills for Life, a teen–focused auto safety driving initiative. The Ford Volunteer Corps, established in 2005, continues Ford's legacy of caring worldwide. Through the Volunteer Corps, Ford employees and retirees participate in a wide range of volunteer projects in their communities. For more information and programs made possible by Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services, visit www.community.ford.com.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six continents. With about 229,000 employees and about 90 plants worldwide, the company's core and affiliated automotive brands include Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo and Mazda. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit www.ford.com. | <urn:uuid:ea196a42-8449-424e-9f89-2d5c18baf185> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://media.ford.com/article_print.cfm?article_id=29120 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928743 | 941 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Longtime Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide’s two children since 2005, using foundation funds set aside for black lawmakers’ causes.
The recipients were ineligible under anti-nepotism rules of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the money. And all of the awards violated a foundation requirement that scholarship winners live or study in a caucus member’s district.
Johnson, a Democrat, denied any favoritism when asked about the scholarships last week. Two days later, she acknowledged in a statement released by her office that she had violated the rules but said she had done so “unknowingly” and would work with the foundation to “rectify the financial situation.”
Initially, she said, “I recognized the names when I saw them. And I knew that they had a need just like any other kid that would apply for one.” Had there been more “very worthy applicants in my district,” she added, “then I probably wouldn’t have given it” to the relatives.
Her handling of the scholarships puts a rare spotlight on the program and how it is overseen. Caucus members have great leeway in how they pick winners and how aggressively they publicize the awards. Some lawmakers promote the program online, for instance, while Johnson does not.
Philanthropy experts said such lax oversight of scholarship money doesn’t match the standards for charities.
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The foundation – which is supported by private and corporate donations, not taxpayer money – provides $10,000 annually for each member of the Congressional Black Caucus to award in scholarships. Each gets to decide how many ways to split the money and whether to create a judging panel, choose personally or delegate the task.
Johnson, a former chairwoman of the caucus who has served on the board that oversees the foundation, said she wasn’t fully aware of the program rules and emphasized that she didn’t “personally benefit.”
In her interview with The Dallas Morning News, on Wednesday, Johnson said “hundreds of kids got scholarships since I have been here.” Her district covers much of southern Dallas County, including many of the area’s less affluent precincts.
“The most that any kid normally gets is from $1,000 to $1,200. … If it was a secret or if I was trying to hide it, I wouldn’t have done it,” she said.
The foundation’s general counsel, Amy Goldson, said Saturday that the scholarships Johnson awarded violated eligibility rules regarding relatives and residency and are “of great concern.”
The program “operates on an honor system,” so the foundation hadn’t known that money went to Johnson’s relatives, she said. But when a recipient fails to meet eligibility requirements or “misrepresents their eligibility, the scholarship funds must be returned.”
Further, Goldson said, the failure of a lawmaker or aides to follow eligibility rules “is a violation of the letter and spirit of [the Foundation's] requirements.”
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Kaiserswerth is a settlement with a more than 1,000-year history. It is one of the oldest parts of Düsseldorf.
It is in the north of Düsseldorf, next to the river Rhine. Kaiserswerth has 7,712 inhabitants and an area of 4.71 km².
In 1062 the young German King Heinrich IV (still a child) was kidnapped by the archbishop of Cologne.
In 1174 Friederick I Barbarossa moved the Rhine customs collection to Kaiserswerth. So the bishop took over control over the whole empire.
Following emperors used Kaiserswerth as temporary seat like as prison for high-range prisoners.
Between 1212 and 1215 the Count of Berg tried to get out prisoners and made the ground around the Castle dry.
In 1273 the Emperor pledged Kaiserswerth to the archbishop of Cologne.
Kaiserswerth got a French garrison. In 1702 the city was therefore besieged by the Grand Alliance. After that war the castle was mostly destroyed.
In the 19th century Kaiserswerth was famous by its deaconess clinic. Florence Nightingale visited in 1850 and learned from Pastor Theodor Fliedner and the deaconesses working there for the sick and the deprived. Nightingale published The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training of Deaconesses, etc. in 1851 - her first publication.
Kaiserswerth became a part of Düsseldorf in 1929.
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Teachers Need a Positive classroom
Do students feel welcome in your classroom? Do you greet them when they enter? Teachers who have a positive classroom are more likely to have positive students. Those positive students make it more likely that you will have success as a teacher. Creating a positive classroom takes a few small steps for a large reward. A positive classroom environment enhances your classroom discipline and classroom management.
Teachers Have to Want to be There
Do you love your teaching job? Do you hate showing up at your school
every morning? If this is the case, how effective do you think you can
be as a teacher. Chances are, you will just go through the motions and
then dread the next day. If possible, take only a teaching job that you
know you will like. Unfortunately, some teaching jobs do not pan out as
Sometimes you get stuck. Either way, you have got to want to
be there. You as a teacher are the one responsible for the learning of
your given students. Give them your best each and every day. No matter
how tough the teaching job is, you need to have a positive attitude and WANT to be
teaching in your current position. I suppose it is possible to fake it.
So let's change that. You need to at least appear that you want to be
in your current classroom each and every day. Seriously. If you really
cannot do that, quit and look for another job. Your students only get
Welcome the Students
Before each class or school day, be a teacher that welcomes their
students with a smile, and comments how glad you are to see them.
Never Show Anger
This can be tough. Teachers get upset. The key is to stop, breathe,
think. Then move on as fast as possible. Have faith that students will
know you are upset. Many will appreciate that you did not go off.
Students know when they have crossed the line. Why make it worse? Your
classroom discipline must be mastered. Read the article on classroom
discipline and classroom management. Your students will get the idea
that you are a cool head. If not, they will think you can be baited and
try it frequently. The ones who may empathize with you, will lose faith
in you as a teacher. Don't lose the students you can and have reached.
Treat Every Day as a New Day
Forget about the lousy day teaching you had yesterday. Each day in the
classroom is a new one. Strive to be a little better each day. If
teachers look at each day as perhaps a new beginning, they cannot help
but be positive.
No Question is Dumb
Answer every question with tact. Never make a student look like they
are stupid for asking that. A good technique is to always say, "I'm
glad you asked that. I know others had the same question." Or something
similar. Try and steer the question to make a better point or reiterate
something. Turn each question into something positive. As a teacher,
this may take a little practice.
Don't be a Punisher
What does this mean? Many teachers have a
habit of do this or else. Behave or else. Work or else. Teachers need
to avoid this "or else" mode. Here's a newsflash. Students know what is
expected of them. Assign work like you expect it to be done. If you
expect your students to not work, then not working is what you will
get. They will always go for the "else," or have fun trying. If you
wish to assert that you expect them to work, then just say it without
the "else." In other words, simply say something similar to the
following, "Here's your assignment. You all know what is expected."
(Notice the "else" is not needed?) Teachers will have to come up with
all sorts of "elses." Students need to think class work is something
expected and normal. There is no "else." How are you going to punish
non-work? With more work? It is the crazy teacher who says, "If you
don't do this page I will give you ten more!" Can you see how
ridiculous this sounds?
Call Each Student by Name
Greet as many students as possible as they enter your classroom.
Give Students Choices if Possible
This gives a student the feeling that their input is important. Give
them a list of people, places, or things to write about. Is this
possible in math class as well? Yes! How many times have you heard
something like, do problems 1 to 20, odd only. Why not change this to:
Choose 5 problems from 1 to 10, and 5 problems from 11 to 20. It's
basically the same assignment, but students have a choice. Any teacher
of any subject can modify this.
Homework Should be not be Home Work.
Please read the article on homework.
Positive Feedback at all Times
Use positive statements when commenting on students' work. Note how
well students are working instead of the ones that aren't. Wander
around the classroom so you can give feedback and help to all students.
Was a student absent? Welcome them back when they return.
Make Positive Calls Home
Calling home is a great technique for classroom discipline. But make
the first call positive. Call home to praise before you call to
complain. That is, call every parent (yes every) at least once to
acknowledge you are glad to have their child in your classroom and hope
the year will go well. And yes, call at least one time each semester
for every student when you are pleased with the student's work!
Accept Every Student No Matter What
Students are going to look and dress in a way that pleases them.
Sometimes it will make you cringe. Just remember they are young people
who are learning to live in society. You will be amazed how the
roughest or silliest look is just on the outside. They are still
students. This is one time that you do not want to make remarks either
way. Don't be outwardly pleased with the way a student looks either.
But be glad and show your appreciation that the students are in your
class. Without them, you would have no job!
These are just a few ideas for a
classroom and becoming a positive teacher. Eventually, your classroom will be such a positive place, that you as
well as students will want to be there.
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WELLSBURG - A children's group at Franklin Primary School is working to improve their school and community.
About 15 members of the school's Kids Konnection club, an offshoot of the school's Parent-Teacher Association, conducted a cleanup of Wellsburg's Yankee Trail as their first community service project in April and are collecting recyclable material to raise funds for their school.
Kaili Ridgley, the PTA's president; said the group was formed to get children involved in their school beyond their classrooms and teach them about community service.
She noted a number of students had described the PTA as a group "that buys stuff for us." The PTA's members wanted to show the children the planning involved in such events as the school's Spring Bazaar.
And Kids Konnection members took part in that event, raising $200 through a bake sale in which most of the cookies and other treats were sold for no more than a quarter.
PTA member April Eltringham oversaw the effort.
The group also has teamed with the PTA to establish a recycling collection at the school to raise money for various needs and projects at the school and is helping the adult group to identify materials needed for the school's art and music classes.
And in April Kids Konnection expanded its influence to the Yankee Trail, collecting litter between the Dollar General store and Pizza Hut in the first of a series of cleanups, Ridgley said.
"We were trying to think of a community service project and someone asked, how do people adopt a highway, and one thing led to another," she recalled.
Instead of adopting a section of highway, an endeavor undertaken with the help of the West Virginia Division of Highways, the PTA decided to take Kids Konnection to Wellsburg's paved walking trail.
Before that, several members of the group appeared at a Wellsburg City Council meeting to ask the board's permission to adopt the section of trail.
And several local businesses joined council in giving their blessing to the effort. Lowe's Home Improvement supplied two large containers of garbage bags, and Wendy's rewarded the children with free Frostys.
In addition, Eagle Manufacturing provided several barrels for the recycling collection.
"We were trying to stress to the kids the importance of giving back to the community and our community was giving back, right away, to us so I was pretty impressed," Ridgely said.
At one of the group's afterschool meetings, the children made thank-you signs for the businesses and city council.
Asked if she enjoyed the cleanup, Preslei Ridgely, a 6-year-old member of the club and Kaili's daughter, said, "Yeah, but our hands were real sweaty."
She referred to gloves worn by the children to keep their hands free of germs.
Seven-year-old Jazzmyn Carbasho said during the cleanup, the group collected plastic and glass for its recycling collection "but only the parents touched the glass."
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SB 375: Anti-Sprawl Communities Plan with Transportation Choices Aimed at Reducing Global Warming
Governor Schwarzenegger signed California’s Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act, Senate Bill 375, into law on September 30, 2008. This unprecedented though clearly imperfect bill links incentive-based (not mandated) land use decisions, how and where cities can grow, to transportation funding and global warming. Locating housing closer to jobs, providing transportation choices, and creating walkable communities can reduce commute times. It also will cut millions of tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, while improving quality of life.
Sprawling communities, built into wilderness and open spaces far from urban centers or anywhere to walk or bike, require significant expenditure on roads and other infrastructure. These auto-dependent non-places have made driving to work, the post office, and your kid’s friend’s house, the single-largest and fastest-growing source of global warming pollution in California. We need a plan, something, to stop this climate destabilizing consumer of wildlife habitat and sterilizer of human habitats.
San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) approved the first Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) in October 2011. While it represents significant progress in attaining necessary cuts in greenhouse gases, in the long term it falls short with a number of other constraints. I reference “San Diego and SB 375: Lessons from California’s First Sustainable Communities Strategy,” completed by transportation consultant Eliot Rose, Autumn Bernstein of ClimatePlan, and Stuart Cohen of TransForm. With 17 more regional SCS documents in the state yet to be approved, so many lessons can be learned about involving private industry stakeholders, state agencies, and the public at large.
Judge Rules Transportation Plan in San Diego Violates State Enviro. Laws -StreetsBlog LA- By Damien Newton
A Superior Court Judge ruled that the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) violated state law by failing to fully account for, and take steps to reduce, climate pollution in its environmental review of the region’s long-term transportation plan in the environmental review of the Long Term Plan. Link to article
San Diego Has A Plan
The devil, as always, is in the details. We do see some progress, as the plan meets the 2020 and 2035 targets in part by increasing growth in regional centers with Transit-Oriented Development strategies, integrating vanpooling and commute programs, and an up-front investment in public transportation.
Unfortunately, it does not alter San Diego County’s sprawling auto-dependent land use patterns, deferring to local government stonewalling. As a result, progress on reducing per capita greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled actually backslides from 2035 to 2050 — hardly the necessary re-envisioning we need. The California Attorney General weighed in with a scolding and later joined a lawsuit with the Cleveland National Forest Foundation, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, charging SANDAG used a deficient process to develop a flawed plan that will invest primarily in expanding and extending regional in freeways at the expense of public transit. The result will be increased sprawl and pollution that will exacerbate global climate change, they said.
SANDAG, the metropolitan planning organization responsible for planning into the future for the County, approved some years ago a 40-year sales tax known as TransNet that contains significant transportation expansion projects. Those include $53 billion for bus rapid transit, light rail, commuter rail, and thankfully smart growth and habitat protection funding. However, it also programs major freeway expansions in the next 20 years, investing 28 percent more in the latter than on expanding transit. This will hamper construction of a mass transit system and complete streets that could provide viable alternatives to driving while enabling compact, neighborhood-oriented smart growth developments key to the strategy.
That the SCS did not consider front-loading the transit plans as well as require local governments to plan for more infill development, our societal addiction to driving in traffic will continue, paying exorbitant gasoline prices, as the shiny new lanes will only fill with more cars.
Furthermore, it’s Land Use Plan did not analyze local use plans as to their response toward regional trends such as smart growth. SANDAG must accept the responsibility of being a comprehensive planning agency, and create a vision for local municipalities that goes beyond the often locally-based fiefdoms germane to local government planning. Thus comes the backsliding GHG emissions that will increase gradually after 2035, erasing any early gains.
Lessons Learned: Planning for Land Use, Transportation, and Living Re-Imagined
Revisit Unsustainable Committed Funds and Projects and Develop New Funding: With transportation funding already “committed” to the freeway-driving-solo-auto-commuter paradigm, the movement toward sustainability will be slow indeed. Policies must be changed that redefine funds already stipulated for sprawl.
In addition, innovative funding measures must be explored such as congestion pricing, fuel fees and VMT-based fees. That said, one must be careful about regressive taxation and privatization of public resources in order to sell them back to the user. Transportation should be considered a public good and the engine of a regional and local economy, so new revenues should take into account their impacts on different income levels and demographics. The move toward toll roads, evident in San Diego and Orange County, have priced thousands of motorists off precious transportation improvements based on their inability to pay the fee.
Prioritize Sustainable Smart Growth Now: Projects necessary to re-imagine the landscape, such as light-rail and other mass transit improvements, should be prioritized. Land use scenarios such as strengthened Transit-Oriented Development and Complete Streets requirements should work in tandem, especially in transportation sales tax measures that are often more hopeful sources of financing. They can be the impetus to secure more significant sources of funding.
Complete streets policies, for the record, ensure roads designed and operated to enable safe access for all users: pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and public transportation users of all ages and abilities. Caltrans updated a basic policy in 2008, spurring an overhaul of the agency’s procedures and creating new ways to measure how the system meets the needs of those using the roadway by car, foot, bicycle, and public transportation. Fifteen communities in California have adopted Complete Streets policies.
Reduce Long-Term GHGs Steadily in Regional Land Use Plans Through Local Plan Revisions and CEQA Incentives: Regional and local government plans should also be revisited with the eye toward sustainability and reduction of vehicle miles traveled through smart growth and complete streets. Transit priority areas could accommodate more growth, while open spaces, parks, recreational areas and wildernesses should be permanently preserved. Streamlining of projects is available in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review process.
Active Participation from California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) and Other State Agencies: ARB’s review of the SCS process should go beyond technical issues of plans’ obtaining GHG reductions targets. They must look at transportation funding assumptions relative to time horizons, as well as land use assumptions that are project-specific, and how they will affect the overall success the SCS will have attaining reduction targets.
In addition, ARB should work with other state agencies such as the California Transportation Commission to develop official guidance on plan consistency across the state. ARB’s review did not address environmental justice, social equity, nor jobs-housing balance. Instead, the Board suggested other state agencies, such as the Strategic Growth Council, would be better suited to evaluate the plans performance measures in that regard.
Conclusion: A Mixed Bag
With “ambitious but achievable” transportation and land use proposals left off the table, California’s first SCS aimed high but did not quite achieve setting the San Diego region on a long-term course toward sustainability. Work remains to be done there as well as across the state or else we as a people are in trouble.
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New Web-based Alzheimer's Disease Genetic Research Clearinghouse Launched
First-of-its-Kind Online Resource (ww.alzgene.org) Offers Researchers an Extensive Database of Studies on the Genes Associated with Alzheimer's Risk
Boston, MA – AlzGene, a web-based clearinghouse for researchers working to unlock the genetic makeup of Alzheimer’s Disease, has been launched as a way to gather and analyze studies by and for investigators around the world. The project aims to bring clarity to the increasingly prolific and confusing field of Alzheimer’s genetics research.
“As researchers feverishly work on mapping the genes linked to the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, staying informed about what our peers are uncovering is important, but increasingly challenging,” said Dr. Lars Bertram, the lead researcher behind AlzGene. “Nearly a dozen relevant studies are being published each month from research groups worldwide. This wealth of information is becoming more and more difficult to follow, evaluate, and most importantly, to interpret. We developed AlzGene to help.”
Dr. Bertram, assistant professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health developed the AlzGene database (www.alzgene.org) in collaboration with the Alzheimer Research Forum (www.alzforum.org). The database currently includes nearly 1,000 different studies.
The goal of the AlzGene database is to provide an unbiased and regularly updated collection of genetic association studies performed on Alzheimer’s disease phenotypes. Only studies published in peer-reviewed journals available in English are considered for inclusion. Researchers can post comments on the all papers on the site. The site also contains a continuously updated list
displaying the genes most strongly associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.
After initial funding by others, AlzGene is now supported exclusively by the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. The site is the first project of its kind for any of the genetically complex diseases, like heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and cancer.
“Gene research is critical to finding a breakthrough to slow, cure, or reverse Alzheimer’s disease,” said Tim Armour, President of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. “The AlzGene site is a unique, innovative Internet resource for the research community around the world to learn about, compare, and discuss the latest findings on Alzheimer’s gene research.”
Dr. Bertram and his colleagues collected the genotype and key demographic data from more than 1,000 studies and systematically summarized their findings [LB: a little too much ‘key’ for me]. In addition to displaying this exhaustive collection of all genetic association studies published in the field, AlzGene also provides up-to-date meta-analyses on all genetic markers with published genotype data available in three or more independent samples.
“The Alzgene database currently has nearly 180 such meta-analyses on markers distributed over more than 90 different genes,” said Bertram. “One of the latest additions was the discovery of SORL1, the newest gene to be associated with late onset Alzheimer’s. We believe the site will continue to grow by leaps and bounds and serve as the online genetics community for researchers working to find a cure for Alzheimer’s.”
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The Santa Monica Mountains are as ripe in biodiversity as they are rich in history and Peter Strauss Ranch—home to historic Lake Enchanto—offers a bit of both.
Tucked away to the side of Mulholland Highway in Agoura Hills, the failed 1930s resort was once described as a magical wonderland for both adults and children. Now in ruins, the foundations of the once popular hotspot are being reclaimed by the surrounding oak and wetlands under the ownership of the National Park Service.
The land bought by Warren Shobert and Arthur Edeson in 1930s—after its original owner Harry Miller, an automobile manufacturer, lost his fortune in the Great Depression—was turned into a resort. Called Lake Enchanto by the two entrepreneurs, the resort boasted to have the largest swimming pool in the west coast, which has long been out-of-use since its closure in the 1960s.
The circular 650,000 gallon sized pool lies to the west of the property and was just one of the attractions in a resort that featured live pony and horse rides, an amphitheater, rocket car rides, a merry-go-round, a beach area and boat rentals, according to the National Park Service.
Unfortunately for Sobert and Edeson, the resort failed due to the stiff competition wrought on by the opening of Knott’s Berry Farm in the 1940s and Disneyland in the mid 1950s. The dam that held the lake was left in disrepair and eventually burst, flooding the area downstream.
A great example of how quickly Mother Nature reclaims her property, the area now offers glimpses into a wide array of local plants and animals.
The short five-mile trail begins from the picnic area just to the south eastern side of the Ranch House and Terrazzo Dane Floor. Moving past the old exotic bird aviary, the path ascends above a grassy open-air amphitheater.
Winding up and away from manmade structures, the path gently rolls up and down as it delves into the canopied hillside. The trail is smooth and well-kept and provides a small bridge and several steps on its climbs and descents.
Rich in flora to either side, from the reds of elderberries to the yellows of poppies, a spectrum of colors and species can be spotted on the hike. The short path is mostly shaded and when the blue of the sky does break through its wooded canopy, one can see the surrounding ridge top views.
For those who wish to see more ruins, take a right at the fork before reaching the end of the path. After the turn, stay to the left to enter a canyon hiding the ruins of home, which was possibly destroyed by the bursting dam in the 1960s. Look for a crushed blue truck and the home's old foundations hanging under the bulging roots of an old oak.
The area of the old ruins is rich with bird life and one can see the beginnings of a lush wetland starting to form.
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Bottom line: Whoever wins on Tuesday inherits an economy that is still awfully weak and a jobs recovery that’s clearly gaining momentum
An amazing thing about the health care sector is that it expanded at the same rate both approaching the unemployment trough and coming out of it. Government is the odd duck, growing as unemployment increased and shedding jobs as the economy grew.
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For most Americans, today’s jobs report was merely bad. For young people, though, the news was just downright awful.
After declining for most of the summer, the unemployment rate for workers between the ages of 16 and 19 popped up again, rising from 23.8 percent to 24.6 percent. Among 20-to-24 year olds, it hopped to 13.9 percent from 13.5 percent in July.
These numbers don’t necessarily mean that thousands of young people are suddenly getting laid off again. Rather, they’re a sign of how hard it still is for teens and early twenty-somethings to find work.
Read more. [Image: Jordan Weissmann]
The unemployment rate fell to 8.1%, the lowest since January 2009. But don’t mistake that decent-sounding factoid for good news. Job creation barely broke even with population growth, and the entire drop was caused by people leaving the labor force. Here’s the long story: Jobs are recovering at about the same rate as they did after the 2001 and 1990 recession, except they’re recovering from a much, much, much deeper recession. […]
The economy is now officially behind schedule compared to 2011. Average monthly job gains last year? 153,000. This year? 139,000. Over the past three months, the average has slipped to 94,000. That is probably either at, or just below, the rate of population growth. In other words, three years into recovery, we are adding people slowly and adding jobs even slower.
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Mid-wage jobs, such as construction trades and secretaries, accounted for 60 percent of our employment drop during the recession but made up just 22 percent of the recovery through the first quarter of 2012, according to the most recent Current Population Survey data.
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Pop quiz: What’s the biggest menace to the economy right now? Is it: (1) the budget deficit, (2) inflation, or (3) long-term unemployment? The presidential campaigns will tell you it’s the deficit. The Federal Reserve might tell you it’s inflation. But with our debt cheap and inflation low, it’s clear that the right-now crisis is that people out of work can’t find their way back in.
Long-term unemployment hasn’t been this high since the Great Depression. It’s an economic scourge because the longer you’re out of work, the harder it is to get work. Employers lose confidence in the jobless and the jobless lose skills the longer they go without a job. Stay unemployed too long and you become unemployable.
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The U.S. economic recovery has been anemic by almost any standard. But for Americans with just a high school degree or less, it’s been worse than anemic. It’s been non-existent.
This week, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce published a new report breaking down job growth during and after the Great Recession by education levels. And as it illustrates in the graph above, employment has been essentially flat since January 2010 for adults who never went to college.
Here’s what that translates too: For about 38 percent of working age Americans, there has been absolutely no growth in the job market since it bottomed out more than two years ago. To get a job, you’ve essentially had to hope someone else lost or left theirs.
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Thirty years ago our community marched on Washington to demand equal rights.
Again in 1987, 1993 and 2000 we marched on Washington to demand equal rights.
Send / ShareAdd CommentThe themes changed. The routes changed. The organizers changed. The speaker lists changed. The celebrity lineup changed. The priorities changed. The vocabulary changed. The heroes and the enemies changed — for the most part. And even the symbols changed.
But with four marches and hundreds of thousands of citizen activists there was one constant demand — a demand for equal rights.
Now, on Oct. 11, our community again will march on Washington to demand equal rights. Participants in National Equality March will celebrate the strides over three decades, the leaps in 30 years. We certainly are not marching from the same place we were in 1979.
But marchers also will make known that their governments treat them as second-class citizens and that they are challenging unconstitutional laws and questioning unacceptable policies for our military, our workplaces, our schools and our families.
You might hear arguments that the march being planned will divert resources from the fights in the states.
I remember hearing similar arguments nine years ago and perhaps even repeated them before I arrived to the National Mall April 30, 2000, to be wowed by the crowd for the fourth march.
The argument of limited resources is deeply flawed.
We, as a movement and community, have not begun to tap our full potential. How can anyone seriously claim that if a person goes to Washington for a weekend in October that he or she is spent out and has nothing left to give a state gay rights organization or a local GLBT center?
I would argue the opposite.
Marches energize some, radicalize others and connect many to people and organizations and campaigns and causes. I would guess that few returned home from D.C. in 2000, 1993, 1987 or 1979 drained and tapped out.
For all the feuding, fussing and misdirected focus on celebrity and flash, the 2000 march helped drive a community through eight long, hard years of painful losses and tremendous victories.
In 1993, marchers left for home committed to meet the challenge issued by Urvashi Vaid, former director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “We have got to match the power of the Christian supremacists, member for member, vote for vote, dollar for dollar,” Vaid had said. “I challenge each of you to not just buy a T-shirt, but to get involved in your movement. Get involved. Volunteer. Volunteer. Every local organization in this country needs you. Every clinic. Every hotline. Every youth program needs you, needs your time and your love.”
The 1987 march, which introduced America to the AIDS Memorial Quilt and included the first mass marriage protest at the Internal Revenue Service, helped build a national coalition for civil rights. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr., told marchers, “Let’s find a common ground of humanity.… We share the desire for life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, equal protection under the law. Let’s not dwell on distinctions.”
And the 1979 march — inspired by Harvey Milk who famously said “Rights are not won on paper. They are won only by those who make their voices heard” — moved so many to carry on through a decade of so much personal and community loss and hardship.
And, on Oct. 12, marchers will return to their hometowns, their home states, the districts and territories, powered to campaign for the demand made on Oct. 11.
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Yes, this week everyone’s talking about 1969 and some sort of summer music jamboree, but we’re going to bump ahead a couple of years, into the next decade:
“The paint on the walls was barely dry when Robert Irwin was invited to conceive a piece that would ‘challenge’ the Walker’s new building, which was designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. The year was 1971 and then-director Martin Friedman’s exhibition, Works for New Spaces, included such other preeminent artists of the moment as Siah Armajani, Larry Bell, Lynda Benglis, Mark di Suvero, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Robert Rauschenberg, and Richard Serra.
“Irwin’s response was one of the most unforgettable yet little-seen installations in the Walker’s history. The untitled work, presented here only twice since the opening, in 1984 and 1989, now makes its fourth appearance in these galleries.”
So wrote curator Betsy Carpenter in the July/August issue of Walker magazine, the occasion being the August 6 unveiling of Slant/Light/Volume, the new installation (seen above) of this Irwin work. Below are some fantastic images of the artist 38 years ago (we love it when librarian Barb Economon pulls these kinds of things from the archives). Come to think if it – if you can access stories from your own long-term memory files about seeing this piece back then, please share via the “Comments” box below.
Looking to the (near) future, fans of early-’70s art will want to make a mental note about the upcoming Abstract Resistance, opening February 27, 2010. Curated by Yasmil Raymond (who is sorely missed, having recently left the Walker for an amazing opportunity at the Dia Art Foundation), this show features a new installation of a large-scale piece by the aforementioned Lynda Benglis for Works for New Spaces — and like this Irwin installation, it’s a knockout. | <urn:uuid:46c06c91-e7c1-49f8-b3a5-73c5bf396e75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/08/14/robert-irwins-walker-installation-were-you-there-in-71/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942355 | 431 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Short Essay Questions
The 60 short essay questions listed in this section require a one to two sentence answer. They ask students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of the text. Students must describe what they've read, rather than just recall it.
Short Essay Question - Prologue and Chapters 1-2
1. Why is Llelo's relationship with his grandfather a secret?
2. Who are Llelo's parents, and what status does this give him?
3. What does Llelo see that he is not supposed to see, and what does his father make him do?
4. Describe Johanna's death.
5. What is Llewelyn's response to Johanna's death?
6. What does Llelo talk about with his grandfather?
Short Essay Question - Chapters 3-5
7. How does the relationship between Gruffydd and Llewelyn change...
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Nov. 11, 2009 Contrary to preconceived notions, the atmosphere and the oceans were perhaps not formed from vapors emitted during intense volcanism at the dawning of our planet. Francis Albarède of the Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS / ENS Lyon / Université Claude Bernard) suggests that water was not part of the Earth's initial inventory but stems from the turbulence caused in the outer Solar System by giant planets. Ice-covered asteroids thus reached the Earth around one hundred million years after the birth of the planets.
The Earth's water could therefore be extraterrestrial, have arrived late in its accretion history, and its presence could have facilitated plate tectonics even before life appeared. The conclusions of the study carried out by Albarède feature in an article published on the 29 October 2009 in the journal Nature.
Space agencies have got the message: wherever there is life there has to be water. Around 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth was bequeathed with sufficient water for oceans to form and for life to find favorable niches in the seas and on the continents resulting from plate tectonics. In comparison, the Moon and Mercury are dry, mortally cold deserts, Mars dried up very quickly and the surface of Venus is a burning inferno.
According to books, the ocean and the atmosphere were formed from volcanic gases and the Earth's interior is the source of volatile elements. However, the rocks of the Earth's mantle are deficient in water (geochemists estimate its concentration at two hundredth percent). The same is true on Earth's sister planets, Venus and Mars. The main reason proposed by Albarède is that, during the formation of the Solar System, the temperature never dropped sufficiently between the Sun and the orbit of Jupiter for volatile elements to be able to condense with planetary material. The arrival of water on Earth therefore corresponds to a late episode of planetary accretion.
It is widely accepted that terrestrial planets are formed over several million years by the agglomeration of asteroids (of kilometric size) then protoplanets (of the size of Mars). The arrival of the last of these large objects corresponds to the lunar impact, 30 million years after the formation of the Solar System. Initially, this hurly-burly took place between planetary objects located within the snow line, in other words between the Sun and the asteroid belt. This space, swept by the electromagnetic winds of the young Sun, was then too hot for water and volatile elements to condense within it.
The major delivery of volatile elements on our planet could have corresponded to a phenomenon that occurred some tens of millions of years after the lunar impact: this was the big clean up of the outer Solar System initiated by the giant planets. Due to their very strong gravity, they sent the final ice-rich planetary rubble in all directions, including in our own direction. Penetrating into the mantle through the surface, the water could then have softened the Earth and reduced the strain at which materials shatter. Plate tectonics then began and with it the emergence of continents, conditions probably necessary for the appearance of life. Mars dried out before water managed to penetrate in depth and, as regards Venus, the conditions that reigned before the violent remodeling of its surface, 800 million years ago, by intense volcanism are still not known.
At a time when the habitability of extraterrestrial planets is beginning to be explored seriously, understanding what made earth the only place that harbors life is a key question.
Volatile accretion history of the terrestrial planets and dynamic implications. Francis Albarède. Nature. 29 October 2009.
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The Situation of Legal Ethics
Posted by The Situationist Staff on December 15, 2009
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This chapter takes as its starting point the question of how otherwise experienced and principled lawyers can make blatantly unethical decisions. As recent research has shown, lawyers can become involved in legitimizing inhuman conduct just as they can in perpetuating accounting fraud or hiding client scandal. To an outsider looking at these circumstances, it invariably appears that the lawyers involved consciously acted immorally. Within the common framework of deliberative action, we tend to see unethical behaviour as the result of conscious and controlled mental processes.
Whilst awareness is always part of our actions, this chapter challenges the pervasiveness of assumptions about the power of conscious processes in ethical decision making. Drawing on a range of psychological research, it focuses on two important findings: first, that automatic mental processes are far more dominant in our thinking than most of us are aware; and second, that because we do not generally have introspective access to these processes, we infer from their results what the important factors in our decision making must be. These findings challenge the notion that individuals can be fully aware of what influences them to act ethically or unethically. It also suggests that we need to concentrate upon those conscious processes that we do know influence decision making in deepening our understanding of how to improve ethical awareness.
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To download the paper for free, click here. To read a sample of related Situationist posts, see “The Situation of Lawyers’ Complicity,” “Gatekeepers Inside Out – Abstract,” “The Situation of Lawyers and Practicing Law,” “Law, Chicken Sexing, Torture Memo, and Situation Sense,” “The Situation of John Yoo and the Torture Memos,” “Why Do Lawyers Acquiesce In Their Clients’ Misconduct?,” Part I, Part II, and Part III, “The Illusion of Wall Street Reform,” “On the Ethical Obligations of Lawyers: Are We Snakes? Are We Supposed to Be?.”
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Night Soldiers by Alan Furst begins in Bulgaria in 1934. There Khristo Stoianev, the novelís protagonist, witnesses his brotherís death at the hands of the local fascist thugs for poking fun at their uniforms. Khristo escapes his hometown and turns to communism as a way to avenge his brotherís death.
Eventually, he is recruited by the NKVD (the Soviet Unionís espionage bureau) and sent to Moscow for training. Following his training, Khristo is sent to Spain in the last years of the Spanish Civil War. After the fall of Madrid in 1939 and his disillusionment with the Soviet Union, Khristo flees to Paris. There he seeks to escape from his past while agents of the NKVD doggedly pursue him. In order to survive, Khristo must reach out to old comrades and classmates from his training days, even as the clouds of war start to build over Europe.
This is the first of eleven books in a series. Some other titles in the series are The Polish Officer, Blood of Victory, Red Gold, The Foreign Correspondent, and Spies of the Balkans. The series is marked by well-paced storylines that are backed by strong research and characterization. The books do not follow one theme and feature repeating characters and settings. Throughout, the reader is provided a view of inter-war Europe that is seldom discussed in this country.
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As many parents with school age children know, getting your child to read can sometimes be a real hassle. This is especially true if your child is struggling in school. In this post-”No Child Left Behind”-world, this can mean pressure from teachers and schools to get your child to improve. I was having this problem with my youngest daughter.
Now, I’ve always believed the way to get someone interested in reading, was to give them a book about something they were interested in or enjoyed. So with my youngest, we tried finding books that she would like, and let her choose the books she wanted to read, but she still struggled with her reading, and never wanted to do it. We were at a loss of what to do, until we found a breakthrough in the form of an anime.
As well as reading manga, I enjoy watching anime based on manga. One series I got interested in was Sgt. Frog from Tokyopop. When I found some fansubs online, I downloaded them to check the anime out. So, I’m out in the living room, watching the shows, and both my daughters come out to see what I was doing. Since these are fansubs, in order to understand what was going on, you had to read the subtitles. Now this isn’t the first time I’ve watched fansubs, or other anime with subtitles. It’s how I prefer to watch my anime. But, this was the first time the girls, especially my youngest, really showed an interest sitting down and actually watching it.
They not only liked watching it, they hijacked the series from me! My youngest starting taking the episodes and watching them in her room. She also started searching Youtube to find videos and more episodes. After doing this for a few weeks, I noticed her reading was starting to improve. She didn’t mind sitting down and reading. She didn’t keep asking if it had been 20 minutes yet (as dictated for homework every night). She was reading whole books (about 60 pages, early chapter books)! Nothing else had changed in that time period. The only thing I could think of that could have spurred this change, was her watching and having to read subtitles.
So, while TV is still a wasteland, it can still have it’s uses. I’m not going to say that this will work for everyone. I think it worked for us, because the girls were already used to the idea of subtitles. It wasn’t until she found something she was really liked and couldn’t see in english, that my youngest finally put an effort into improving her reading skills. But, if you have child prefers TV to books, and they enjoy anime, maybe encouraging them to check out the japanese tracks with subtitles might yield some results. | <urn:uuid:add31aa9-61a1-467a-bda6-7810fb43ab92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://manga.jadedragononline.com/blog/2008/01/27/reading-subtitles-is-fundamental/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989269 | 586 | 2.265625 | 2 |
My past three posts on guilt and blame have been about beliefs and models. Now let’s look at behaviors to solidify and augment that change. Belief without behavior doesn’t change your life and no one can tell anyway. Belief consistent with behavior changes your life.
Today’s suggestion is to be curious about causes of your feelings of guilt and blame and act on it. All too many people ask “Why would they do such a thing?” rhetorically, angrily, not looking for an answer. Yet the answer, if they took a moment to search for it — and the change in perspective, which is the greater challenge — would diffuse their counterproductive emotions.
So ask and find answers to the other person’s motivations (or yours in the past). You don’t have to agree with their motivation. But find an answer. Of course they have motivations, just like you do when they blame you. And as with you, the more you understand their motivations, the less you will be able to blame them.
If you don’t understand their motivations, you cage yourself into unrewarding and painful perceptions of their behavior, in conflict with theirs. You force yourself to assume the other person intended to harm you. You disable yourself from changing their behavior because you assume they are just that way. You force yourself to be self-righteous when you assume they are bad. Who wants to interact with self-righteous people?
Acting on curiosity humbly communicates that you want to understand. Since you would have behaved differently but everyone does their best according to their perspective and abilities, they must have a different perspective and capabilities than you. You have something to learn from them, leading to quite different reactions than common reactions like counterattacking, explaining yourself, withdrawing, or the like.
More important then being different, the reaction is effective. To respond with genuine curiosity about the other person’s motivation when they messed up or behaved in a way many would consider blameworthy is disarming. It’s hard for others to escalate conflict when you’re genuinely and blamelessly asking open-ended questions. You have fewer confrontations. What conflict you have melts away with understanding.
People like working with those who understand them when they do something they wish they hadn’t. You don’t even have to forgive them when you don’t feel they did something wrong.
I’m not suggesting you accept unrewarding situations or people. Of course, try to improve the situation, but that’s looking at the present and future. Arguing over a past that can’t be changed doesn’t help.
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Congress passes bill renewing anti-violence against women act
WASHINGTON — House Republicans raised the white flag Thursday on extending domestic violence protections to gays, lesbians and transsexuals after months of resisting an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act.
GOP leaders, who had tried to limit the bill before last November’s election, gave the go-ahead for the House to accept a more ambitious Senate version written mainly by Democrats.
Democrats, with a minority of Republicans, were key to the 286-138 House vote that sent to President Barack Obama a renewal of the 1994 law that has set the standard for how to protect women, and some men, from domestic abuse and prosecute abusers.
South Carolina’s five Republican congressmen voted against the measure while Democrat James Clyburn voted in favor.
It was the third time this year that House Speaker John Boehner has allowed Democrats and moderates in his party to prevail over the GOP’s conservative wing. As with a Jan. 1 vote to avoid the fiscal cliff and legislation to extend Superstorm Sandy aid, a majority of House Republicans voted against the final anti- violence bill.
Obama, in a statement, said that “renewing this bill is an important step towards making sure no one in America is forced to live in fear” and said he would sign the bill “as soon as it hits my desk.”
The law lapsed in 2011 as it was caught up in the partisan battles that now divide Congress. Last year, the House refused to go along with a Senate-passed bill that would have made clear that lesbians, gays, immigrants and Native American women should have equal access to Violence Against Women Act programs.
It appeared the scenario would be repeated this year when the House introduced a bill that didn’t mention the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and watered down a Senate provision allowing tribal courts to prosecute non-Indians who attack their Indian partners on tribal lands.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., defended the plan: “Our goal in strengthening the Violence Against Women Act is simple. We want to help all women who are faced with violent, abusive and dangerous situations. ... We want them to know that those who commit these horrendous crimes will be punished.”
But the House proposal encountered strong opposition from women’s groups, the White House, Democrats and some Republicans, and on Tuesday, the GOP leadership agreed to give the House a vote on the Senate bill. It passed immediately after the House rejected Cantor’s bill. | <urn:uuid:85be0b0d-6cd8-48d7-84e6-dcba17a5437c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130301/PC1601/130309979/1014/congress-passes-bill-renewing-anti-violence-against-women-act&source=RSS | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962025 | 520 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Short for Programming Language for Business, PL/B is an English-like high-level programming language that offers screen, file and character string manipulation. The PL/B source code will compile and run without changes across multiple platforms and it incorporates strong file access capabilities that distinguish it from other languages. PL/B is also multi-user friendly, as no additional code is required for files to be shared among many users. PL/B was formerly called DATABUS and designed by Datapoint in the early 1970s. It was originally considered an alternative to COBOL. | <urn:uuid:1d98515e-c580-4fc3-afc5-7fdc9ceecf12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PL_B.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96835 | 117 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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Bill Would Promote Solar Power in Georgia by Breaking Utility’s Monopoly
(APN) ATLANTA -- Senate Bill 401 is a new, bipartisan bill introduced in Georgia’s State Senate would encourage private investment in solar power, stimulate the economic growth of Georgia, and enhance the continued diversification of the energy resources.
The bill would overturn two existing laws which are standing in the way of meaningful development of solar power alternatives in Georgia.
As reported earlier by Atlanta Progressive News, the 1973 Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act makes it illegal for anybody but Georgia Power to sell electricity to a Georgia home or business. It also prevents anyone who buys solar panels or any other form of energy generation from selling their excess energy to anyone except Georgia Power.
This means business and homeowners cannot enter into an arrangement--called a power purchase agreement--to lease solar panels from a solar company and pay the solar company for their energy usage like they do in most other states. This presents an obstacle for many people and businesses to put solar panels on their roofs, because it can be cost-prohibitive to buy the solar panels outright. In addition, it reduces the incentive to make the investment because the excess energy cannot be sold to anyone but Georgia Power, which limits its solar energy purchases.
A second law standing in the way of renewable energy is the Georgia Cogeneration and Distributed Generation Act of 2001, which restricts the size of investments in renewable energy. Currently it is limited to 10kw for residential customers and 100kw for business customers. SB 410 removes those limits.
SB 410 is co-sponsored by State Sens. Buddy Carter (R-Pooler), Ronnie Chance (R-Tyrone), Jason Carter (D-Decatur), Tommie Williams (R-Lyons), Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock), and Doug Stoner (D-Smyrna). The bill is assigned to the Natural Resources and Environmental Committee.
Georgia Power opposes the bill but solar companies, environmental groups, anti-nuclear groups, and many businesses and homeowners support the bill.
The inability of Georgians to pursue meaningful solar energy development compounds its continued dependence on dirty, polluting, unhealthy, and unsafe energy sources like coal and nuclear power. Recently, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved two new nuclear reactors at Georgia’s Plant Vogtle, the first approvals of their kind in decades, although the NRC decision still faces legal challenges..
Lynn Wallace, media relations person for Georgia Power, told APN that SB 401 would lead to higher rates. "Georgia Power has an obligation to serve all the customers and when the sun does not shine, solar is not available; then other customers will subsidize solar and shoulder more of the infrastructure maintenance costs," Wallace said.
But solar advocates argued that Georgia Power’s stated objections were a mere pretext for their real objections.
"For a consumer to pick their own way to generate and deliver energy, to be sometimes disconnected from the grid, could be considered threatening to Southern Company's financial model where the taxpayer is required to pay for the next power plant," Patrick Thompson, a small business owner of solar energy in Woodstock, Georgia, said in a press release.
SB 401 is “a way we could all afford to install solar or wind at our homes and immediately reap the benefit of less expensive power. Of course, Georgia Power sees the writing on the wall. It’s competition they don’t want. The people of Georgia are tired of waiting on Georgia Power to go clean. We deserve the freedom to do it ourselves," Claudia Collier, a clean energy advocate from Effingham County, Georgia, told APN.
Others disagree that solar power will force Georgia Power to raise rates, and instead believe Georgia Power's nuclear and coal plants will cause rates to go up.
"If we continue down the road we are going now, getting oil and gas out of shale and rock is expensive and we know that nuclear is not only expensive, but unpredictably expensive," Collier said. Vogtle's initial two nuclear power reactors went 1,200 percent over budget.
"It's a bill that needs full disclosure and full understanding by the members of the Senate,” State Sen. Ross Tolleson (R-Perry), Chairman of the Natural Resources and Environment Committee, told APN in an interview.
“They don't need to be voting on something that they really don't know the complete impact it could have to consumers on their electric bills across the state. I don't see it being voted on this session. I see us having more hearings during the year to fully vet the total impact of the bill. I think it will have an impact of higher prices on the utility bills over time. I don't think the people want that but we will hear all the facts and understand it first," Tolleson said, adding SB 401 will have a hearing next Wednesday, February 29, 2012.
Tolleson seems to have a similar position as Georgia Power.
It is speculated in the halls of the Gold Dome that the Natural Resources and Environment Committee got the bill because they are more easily controlled and there are those in the Committee who want to continue a good relationship with Georgia Power and the benefits that brings.
In contrast, Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers told APN, "SB 401 is good public policy. If people want to use solar energy then we need to make it as available to them as we possibility can. I think some of the restrictions on solar energy now are antiquated and this is really an area of energy production we should be expanding not limiting.”
"I'm in favor of creating third party ownership of power purchase agreements, so people can have freedom of choice with their roofs and land. It is something that is available in 45 states and not something that will drastically impact rates. Basically people would off-set a proportion of their electric use with solar," James Marlow, CEO of Rediance Solar, told APN.
Meanwhile, yesterday, the Subcommittee Two of the House Judiciary Civil Committee, heard testimony on a bill by State Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates), HB 961, that would “prohibit property owners’ associations from creating or enforcing covenants which infringe upon a lot owner’s right to install a solar energy device.”
Marlow brought a sample solar panel to the hearing and let the legislators look at it and touch it. Marlow compared solar panels to cable satellite dishes, in that they used to be large and cumbersome and perhaps a bit ugly. Today’s solar panels can be small, black rectangles that fit right on the roof of a house or business unobtrusively.
Subcommittee Chairman Mike Jacobs (R-DeKalb) said Drenner’s bill will come up for a vote this Friday, February 24, 2012.
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Calderon to seek closer business relations, mend ties during visit to Cuba
By Andrea Rodriguez, APHAVANA -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon was sitting down with Cuba's Raul Castro on Wednesday to strengthen economic cooperation and further repair a relationship that has been strained during more than a decade of center-right rule in Mexico.
April 13, 2012, 4:09 pm TWN
Calderon emphasized the positive upon arrival, talking about what his conservative administration and Cuba's communist-run government have in common rather than their “natural differences.”
The president said he and Castro would discuss commerce and investment, regional concerns and cooperation in areas such as health, education, culture, sports and energy.
“I know this visit... will bring benefits for both peoples,” Calderon said in a brief statement at the Havana airport. He did not take questions, and his meeting with Castro was to be behind closed doors.
Mexico and Cuba are neighbors across the Gulf of Mexico, which is home to rich oil deposits as well as lucrative routes for smuggling drugs and people.
Calderon had planned to visit Cuba early in his term, which began in 2006, promising to improve strained relations. But the trip was put off until now, when Calderon has just months left in office.
Mexico and Cuba have a long, mostly friendly history. Fidel Castro launched his 1959 revolution from exile in the Mexican capital. Under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for seven decades until Vicente Fox's historic victory for Calderon's National Action Party in 2000, the Mexican government was the only one in Latin America that defied U.S. pressure to break relations with Cuba.
But those warm ties began to strain under the last PRI president, Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000), who during a summit on the island suggested that Cuba needed to change.
In 2004, Cuba and Mexico temporarily recalled their ambassadors after Fox's administration voted for a U.S.-backed condemnation of the human rights situation on the island.
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In state court this week, Judge Tim Kelley of the 19th JDC heard a suit filed by the Louisiana Association of Educators, the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, the Louisiana School Boards Association, and 43 local school districts challenging Act 2, which passed during the recent legislative session.
Act 2 expanded school choice through scholarships to participating nonpublic (or public) schools as well as individual course providers which could be private, nonpublic or public. Currently, about 4,900 children are on scholarships to 117 participating schools and, next week, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) will approve a list of new course providers.
The basis of this suit hinges on the constitutionality of using the stateís Minimum Foundation Formula (MFP) dollars to fund scholarships for low-income children who would have had to go to failing public schools. About one-third of Louisiana schools are rated as either "D" or "F" schools, and thatís using a very low-standard grading scale. The MFP is the mechanism by which state dollars are allocated to local school districts, and the MFP resolution included an allocation for state tax dollars to support the new school choice programs.
The other issue being decided is the processes used to approve the resolution containing the MFP during the session. Plaintiffs contest that the resolution had the force and effect of a legislative bill, which would have required 53 votes in the House of Representatives in order to pass. The resolution, SCR 99, received 51 House votes.
Defendants in the case, BESE and the State Department of Education, and intervenors Institute for Justice and the Black Alliance for Educational Options contend that use of tax dollars to fund education is a proper and constitutional use of MFP monies. At issue is the word "public" in the state constitution in regards to directing state tax dollars. Defendants argue nothing in the constitution limits how tax dollars can be used to support quality education. They further claim that the MFP resolution is not a legislative bill, as resolutions are not bound by most of the rules regarding bill introduction, passage, and approval or veto by the governor.
The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) and other groups and citizens in the education reform movement supported Act 2 and the inclusion of school choice in the MFP. These groups believe that tax dollars should follow the child and should be used for the intended purposes of educating children. Indeed, the 43 school systemsí representatives in this lawsuit never uttered the word "student" and focus instead on their allegation that they are losing money to scholarships and providers outside of their school systems. Quality choices, opportunities for children, and intolerance of failed or failing schools just donít seem to enter their equation. No matter the ruling, this case seems headed to the Louisiana Supreme Court and possibly ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court.
In another proceeding this week, a judge in federal court granted an injunction requested by the Tangipahoa Parish School Board to enjoin them from the provisions of Act 2. The board claimed that the 50 students in the scholarship program from their district make them unable to comply with the desegregation agreement in their 47-year old desegregation case. The judge granted the injunction, and included an additional injunction regarding Act 1 regarding teacher tenure and school board reforms. That case is being appealed to the U.S. Fifth Circuit.
The unionsí suit against Act 1 will be heard on December 17 in Baton Rouge. The defenders of the status quo will keep these bills tied up in court as long as possible. Unfortunately, if they are victorious, almost 5,000 children will have to return to schools that have failed them. However, thatís what happens when a childís education is subservient to bureaucracies. | <urn:uuid:1cc591f6-f179-4245-96b2-ffd824661aa4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.heraldguide.com/reader.php?id=11791 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967157 | 765 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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Opinion: After Gaddafi, Libya must investigate suspected war crimes committed by all sides.
BOSTON — Two months after the death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the rattle of celebratory machine gunfire has waned in Libya — and so, too, has the euphoria of the country's newfound freedom.
As revolutionary forces now jockey for power in the new Libya and spurn calls for handing over their weapons, interim authorities face the daunting task of establishing the rule of law.
Read more on GlobalPost: Libya's Gaddafi dead (LIVE BLOG)
The country’s most infamous war criminal may be dead, but untold numbers of alleged criminals from both sides of the conflict still roam free. One whom Libyan authorities should detain and hold accountable is Lt. Col. Mansour, who ordered his troops to kill 153 men in late August.
With a team of forensic experts from Physicians for Human Rights, I investigated this massacre by Gaddafi’s 32nd Brigade soldiers. We interviewed four eyewitness survivors as well as one of the alleged perpetrators, conducted medical evaluations of surviving detainees, and assessed the crime scene using forensic methods.
In our report, "32nd Brigade Massacre: Evidence of war crimes and the need to ensure justice and accountability in Libya," we provide the first comprehensive forensic account of the massacre and produce evidence of torture, rape, and summary executions of these detainees. The massacre took place in Tripoli at a makeshift prison located behind the barracks of the 32nd Brigade — Libya’s notorious special forces headed by Gaddafi’s youngest son, Khamis.
I spoke with one young survivor, “Mohammad,” whom soldiers had detained and tortured there. He told of the night when two soldiers entered the hangar where he and some 150 other detainees were held and began firing automatic weapons. He described how he saw grenades land inside the hangar after the soldiers had thrown them through openings high above the main door. Fortunately, during the chaos, he managed to flee and jump over the wall of the compound.
I also interviewed a mid-level officer with the 32nd Brigade who took part in the massacre that night. “Laskhar” was in the room and heard Lt. Col. Mansour order the execution of all the detainees at the compound. He was then told to go to the compound and ensure there were no survivors. While searching for detainees who had survived the initial attacks, Laskhar inspected each of the wounded men. Those still alive, he shot point blank. Laskhar admitted to executing 12 detainees with his 9-millimeter pistol that night.
Read more on GlobalPost: Libya's love for guns
The next morning Laskhar’s commander brought an excavator to the compound to dig a mass grave for the executed detainees, but the heavy equipment broke down, hindering their plans to bury the bodies en masse. Two days later Lt. Col. Mansour ordered that they collect all corpses inside the hangar and burn them. Laskhar and other soldiers followed his orders, collected automobile tires, and put them inside the hangar with the bodies. The soldiers then poured diesel fuel over the bodies and tires and set the hangar aflame.
Sadly, this story is only one of many untold atrocities that were committed during the conflict. The new Libyan government must thoroughly investigate this massacre and other alleged war crimes. Proper investigations, which includes forensic collection and documentation of evidence, serve as a critical first step toward providing justice.
The death of Gaddafi meant he was never held accountable for numbers of egregious abuses during four decades of rule. Other alleged war criminals from all sides of the recent conflict remain at large, however, and must be brought to justice. Holding these individuals accountable is the most effective way to end impunity and establish the rule of law. | <urn:uuid:8211ebfe-3bf8-4d30-93e5-c1cf7bd9c7cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/opinion/120112/opinion-new-libya-government-must-investigate-gaddafi-massacre | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962682 | 781 | 1.71875 | 2 |
A White House briefing on a telephone conversation between them sparked speculation about disagreement and new pressure from Mr Obama for the UK to stay in the EU.
But Downing Street insisted the call was “friendly”.
The Prime Minister believes Britain should remain a member but with changes in the relationship.
He spoke to Mr Obama on Thursday just hours before he called off his long-awaited speech on Europe that he was due to deliver yesterday in the Netherlands because of the Algerian hostage crisis.
The conversation was dominated by Algeria and the ongoing efforts in Mali to overcome Islamist rebels.
But the White House also issued a statement on the EU part of the call, which follows last week’s warning by a senior figure in the Obama administration that referendums can make nations turn “inwards” and that Britain’s EU membership was “in the American interest”.
The White House statement read: “The President underscored our close alliance with the United Kingdom and said that the United States values a strong UK in a strong European Union, which makes critical contributions to peace, prosperity and security in Europe and around the world.”
Mr Cameron’s spokesman insisted: “It was a very friendly and very constructive phone call. The President was setting out his view about the importance of a strong, outward-looking Europe with a strong Britain within it and that’s exactly our view.”
Mr Cameron’s postponed speech was expected to spell out how he would seek a new relationship with Brussels and then get British voters’ consent for the deal in a referendum.
Advance extracts showed he was due to make clear that Europe could fail “and the British people will drift towards the exit” unless the growing gap between the EU and its citizens was addressed although he also wanted Britain to stay a “committed and active” member.
The Prime Minister believes Britain should remain a member but with changes in the relationship
Yesterday a senior French government official said the UK should stay in the EU but “nobody in Europe can accept a state can pick and choose”.
He added: “That is Europe a la carte and that is just not possible.” Former French ambassador to London Gerard Errera, now chairman of private equity group Blackstone in France, said UK calls to stay in the EU but repatriate powers and then have a referendum were “unrealistic”.
He said it was “annoying to France, annoying to everybody and that goes for those who would be the natural allies of Britain”. He added: “If Britain thinks it can blackmail us, it will have to think again. Europe is at too critical a moment that anyone would want to allow Britain to complicate the situation even more.”
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Stanley Fish has a great new post following up on criticism of his review of Terry Eagleton’s new book:
Some readers find a point of vulnerability in what they take to be religion’s flaccid, Polyanna-like, happy-days optimism. Religious people, says Delphinias, live their lives “in a state of blissfully blind oblivion.” They rely on holy texts that they are “to believe in without question.” (C.C.) “No evidence, no problem — just take it on faith.” (Michael) They don’t allow themselves to be bothered by anything. Religion, says Charles, “cannot deal with doubt and dissent,” and he adds this challenge: “What say you about that, Professor?”
What I say, and I say it to all those quoted in the previous paragraph, is what religion are you talking about? The religions I know are about nothing but doubt and dissent, and the struggles of faith, the dark night of the soul, feelings of unworthiness, serial backsliding, the abyss of despair. Whether it is the book of Job, the Confessions of St. Augustine, Calvin’s Institutes, Bunyan’s “Grace Abounding to The Chief of Sinners,” Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling” and a thousand other texts, the religious life is depicted as one of aspiration within the conviction of frailty. The heart of that life, as Eagleton reminds us, is not a set of propositions about the world (although there is some of that), but an orientation toward perfection by a being that is radically imperfect.
The key event in that life is not the fashioning of some proof of God’s existence but a conversion, like St. Paul’s on the road to Damascus, in which the scales fall from one’s eyes, everything visible becomes a sign of God’s love, and a new man (or woman), eager to tell and live out the good news, is born. “To experience personal transformation that in turn can truly move and shake this world, we must believe in something outside of ourselves” (Judith Quinton).”The kind of religion that moves me,” says Shannon . . . is the story of hope and love . . . not the idea that any particular story describes concrete historical ‘truth.’” “It isn’t about moral superiority,” says Richard. “It’s about humbly living an examined life held up to the mirror of a higher truth. It certainly does not seem to be about comfort.”
So to sum up, the epistemological critique of religion — it is an inferior way of knowing — is the flip side of a naïve and untenable positivism. And the critique of religion’s content — it’s cotton-candy fluff — is the product of incredible ignorance. | <urn:uuid:fe37dd1f-4c54-4253-800b-bf8175f7be70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inhabitatiodei.com/2009/05/19/fish-on-religion-and-science/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930999 | 636 | 1.890625 | 2 |
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This species is classified in Subgenus Rhododendron (scaly or lepidote rhododendrons), Subsection Lapponica. It has a wide distribution in Yunnan province, China, and also occurs in southwestern Sichuan province, at elevations from 7,900 to 15,800 feet. Habitats include "boggy, peaty meadows, open situations in alpine scrub, moist stony pastures, open grassy marshes (and) bogs in pine forests" (Davidian), which suggests that this species is a good deal more tolerant of wet soil conditions than most rhododendrons. It was introduced by George Forrest in 1903; subsequent collections were made by Kingdon-Ward in 1913.
R. hippophaeoides forms a small shrub, up to 4 feet tall at maturity. The growth habit can be fairly upright and dense, to somewhat open. Leaves are up to 1 1/2 inches long, gray-green above and densely scaly, with overlapping yellowish-buff scales below. The small flowers are borne in miniature trusses of 4 to 7; their color varies from lavender-blue through purple and mauve shades to pink and rose. Leach describes the blossoms as "particularly charming . . . tiny nosegays of color at the end of almost every twig".
Although rated by some sources as hardy only to -10° or -15°F (-23° to -26°C), Leach claims his plants have endured -25°F (-32°C). My plant, a good near-blue form, has never failed to bloom in almost twenty years of Zone 5 winters. However, published descriptions seem reluctant to mention that the leaves turn brown and roll up tightly at the approach of winter. Looking at the plant in January one would not need much convincing to believe it dead. But the warmth of spring resurrects the seemingly lifeless: the leaves uncurl, turn green, and carry on as if nothing had happened!
Oddly, hybridizers have made little use of this excellent species. Some hybrids with R. hippophaeoides as a parent are 'April Chimes', 'Blue Haze' and 'Mother Greer'.
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The summer soup I planned to feature today relies on tomatoes and sweet peppers. I had anticipated harvesting some from the garden by now, but they are taking their sweet time. However, we have basil in abundance. One can never have too much, but it is starting to form flower heads, which means harvest time. The best way to handle a glut is by making and freezing basil pesto.
This delicious herb can be dried, but the flavour and aroma become a dim reflection of its fragrant self. Few things bespeak summer like fresh pesto, and it freezes well. The handiest way to do this is in ice cube trays.
Pesto can be made with any dark green herb or vegetable. Eager early spring shoots of stinging nettle can be foraged, steamed and made into pesto d’urtica, a delicious and nutritious boon for winter-weary palates. I have also used spinach successfully, and would like to try substituting mint. Cilantro, parsley or well-steamed kale of chard should all work well. However, none offer the classic clove-like redolence of sweet basil.
It can be harvested repeatedly through the season. Leave at least one healthy pair of leaves on the stem and new shoots will emerge from the axils. It is an annual and will stop growing once it sets flowers, so harvesting the tops encourages it to remain prolific through hot weather, which it loves. Frost kills it.
Like all aromatic herbs, basil is best harvested in the morning when its essential oils are most concentrated, before hot sun hits the foliage. Unlike many other garden-fresh herbs, it quickly loses its advantage. If the foliage sits for any length of time, especially if it starts to wilt, that heady fragrance evaporates. Immediately making it into pesto ensures the other ingredients absorb the elusive essence.
Pesto is adaptable and welcomes experimentation. Still, the basic recipe is hard to improve upon.
- ¼ cup roasted pine nuts
- 3 cloves of garlic or more, coarsely chopped
- large bunch of fresh basil
- ¼ cup freshly-grated parmesan
- ¼ cup olive oil
- Pulse pine nuts in a food processor until coarsely ground.
- Add garlic and pulse until there are no large pieces and the mixture sticks together.
- Strip basil leaves from the stem and add to fill the processor compartment. Pulse until mostly blended. Add more basil if desired and pulse until mostly blended.
- Add parmesan and pulse until blended.
- Pour olive oil into the top of the processor so it drizzles down and run until well blended.
- Use within 24 hours or freeze.
- To freeze: fill compartments of an ice cube tray and freeze solid, then remove and store in freezer tubs. One or two pieces are enough to add to most recipes.
Here are some of my favourite ways to use basil pesto:
- On a pizza with cooked chicken, artichoke hearts and a mild cheese such as fontina or mozzarella.
- In a ricotta cheese sauce with green vegetables for pasta.
- Spread over shrimp, rolled in foil and roasted for a few minutes at 400°F/200°C until shrimp are pink.
- Spread on a big slice of beefsteak tomato.
What is your favourite variation on pesto? How do you like to use it?
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WM. T. DUNBAR
MAY 20, 1839
MAY 31, 1919
Rebecca C. Brown was born 20 May 1839 in Monroe County, WV. I have done no research on her or her family at this time.
She was married to William T. Dunbar [1821-1892].
She died 31 May 1919.
RICHARD R. TOLLEY
PVT US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
Richard R. Tolley was born in 1922 to William Edward Tolley and Gillie M. Ray in West Virginia. He was the fifth born of nine children to the couple.
It is believed that Richard never married.
He died in 1986 in West Virginia.
ROXIE BRADLEY LAFON
DAU OF F.P. & ANNIE BRADLEY
OCT. 26, 1893
JUNE 26, 1932
Roxie Bradley was born 26 Oct 1893 to F. Pennington Bradley and Annie McCormick [daughter of Joseph Preston McCormick and Martha Caroline Bean].She was one of at least five children born to this couple.
She was married to Lake Lafon. No info is known on this couple.
She died 26 June 1932 in McDowell County, West Virginia. Cause of Death is listed as cancer.
RUBY A. EPPLING
APRIL 7, 1917
SEPT. 11, 1981
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A report by AG's Animal production service (AGAP) says that, in terms of digestible nutrients, mulberry produces more than most traditional forages. The leaves can be used as the main feed for goats, sheep and rabbits, as supplements replacing concentrates for dairy cattle, and as an ingredient in the diets of monogastric livestock, such as pigs. "It is surprising," says animal nutrition specialist Manuel Sánchez, who recently helped conduct an AGAP email conference on mulberry, "that a plant used to feed the silk worm, which has high nutritional feed requirements, has received such limited attention from livestock producers, technicians and researchers."
Trees travelled with silk worms. Over the centuries, mulberry trees have accompanied the spread of silk worm production throughout the world - to the temperate areas of Europe and North America and the tropics of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Mulberry varieties have adapted to a range of environments, from sea level to altitudes of 4,000m, and from the humid tropics to the semi-arid lands of the Near East. But in only in a few places have they been used as feed for livestock.
The breakthrough came in the 1980s, in Costa Rica, where a farmer who had raised mulberry trees for a failed silk worm project fed the leaves to his goats. Impressed by mulberry's apparent palatability and by the performance of his animals, he shared his experience with scientists at the Tropical Agriculture Research and Training Center (CATIE, Costa Rica), who decided to include mulberry in their tree fodder evaluations. Around the same time, the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry in Kenya and the Livestock Production Research Institute in Tanzania also began, independently, to conduct agronomic and animal trials of the tree.
In trials with growing pigs, replacing 15% of a commercial concentrate with mulberry leaf increased daily weight gains from 680g per day to almost 750g per day. Offered mulberry leaves, Angora rabbits reduced their intake of pellets by up to 40%, representing a considerable saving in feed costs. Other researchers have found that including dried mulberry leaf meal in the mash of laying hens leads to better egg yolk colour and increased egg size and production.
"The long selection and improvement of mulberry has made it comparable to - and often better than - many other forage plants in terms of nutritional value and yield of digestible nutrients per unit of area, specially in tropical environments," says FAO's Manuel Sánchez. "Yield, quality and its availability worldwide make mulberry a very important option to intensify livestock systems, especially in places where enough nutrients can be applied to obtain maximum response in biomass production. The greatest immediate impact would be in tropical areas if introduced as supplement to lactating cows and as feed to growing calves."
Strategic fodder. Meanwhile, FAO's Crop and grasslands service (AGPC), is promoting the cactus pear as a strategic fodder in arid and semi-arid areas. The idea of using Opuntia to feed livestock is not recent - during the 19th century, there was extensive trade in cactus in cattle-raising regions of Texas, USA, and both wild and cultivated cactus are used today in Tunisia, Mexico and South Africa as an emergency forage during drought. But a 1995 FAO study found that more research on cactus was needed and called for "serious R&D in a well-focused programme". Since then, AGPC has helped establish an international technical cooperation network on cactus pear, initiate a horticultural variety information bank, and sponsor a series of international congresses and workshops on the plant.
In North Africa and the Near East, Opuntia has become an important subsistence crop, and an estimated 700,000 to one million ha of it have been planted, mainly in low rainfall areas, to provide feed for livestock during droughts (to encourage plantations, the Tunisian government provides farmers with free growing material, and subsidizes their soil preparation and maintenance costs). As well as providing fodder, the cactus pear helps alleviate pressure on watering holes during the summer and drought periods - research shows that sheep's water consumption drops to nil when their cactus intake reaches about 300g, by dry weight, per day.
AGPC cautions that cactus pear does not provide a balanced diet - it should be fed in association with fibrous foodstuffs (such as straw and hay) and needs to be supplemented with nitrogen. However, as an emergency fodder and a reliable source of forage in low-rainfall areas, it has few equals.
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General tax information
Understanding tax fundamentals can save you money.
Doing your tax return isn't always as daunting as it seems. In fact, it actually can be a great opportunity to get your financial house in order.
If that opportunity lacks appeal or your finances are just too complicated to handle on your own, there are plenty of tax professionals who can do the work for you.
No matter which route you choose, however, you should understand tax basics for two reasons: You are legally responsible for your tax return; and being tax-savvy throughout the year can save you a great deal of money over time.
In this lesson we'll go over some tax essentials, including:
- How much you should withhold;
- What those oft-heard but rarely defined phrases on your 1040 mean;
- What tax records you should keep;
- How you can avoid an audit; and
- Some good tax-planning strategies.
Unless we note otherwise, we're talking primarily about federal taxes. State and local governments impose a variety of income, sales, and property taxes that are too complex and varied to address here.
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- Canon FD manual lenses (28mm f2.8 and 50mm f1.8).
- 77mm-77mm reversing ring.
- 77mm-55mm and 77mm-52mm step-up rings.
- Canon FD rear lens cap.
Most of this approach is very simple to put together. All you need to do is reverse mount one of the manual lenses onto the front filter thread of one of your digital camera lenses. This is done using two adapters in my case. I have some L-series Canon lenses, so chose a 77mm reversing ring for maximum flexibility. In order to use this ring on the manual lenses, a step-up adapter is needed (55mm thread for the 50mm lens, 52mm thread for the 28mm lens).
The one stumbling block I found was stopping down the FD lenses. The FD design has a number of catches and levers on the rear face of the lens. Unless particular pins are pressed in, the lens will not stop down. You can work around this by poking the pins and levers with a screwdriver, then gluing them in place.
Instead of fiddling around with a screwdriver I decided to modify an FD rear lens cap to fool the lens into thinking it was mounted on a camera body. This hack is easy to do:
- First, cut the central section of the lens cap away. I cut the cap right back to the edge so that there would not be any bits poking into the image frame.
- Next remove the stop tab on the edge of the cap. Normally this prevents the lens cap from rotating all the way round. This normally allows the lens to distinguish between and lens cap and a camera body. By removing the tab we can rotate the cap all the way around and fool the lens.
- Mount the cap and depress the stop-down lever on the lens. The lens is now stopped down, the lens cap also doubles as a handy lens hood.
I found the following method worked best for me:
- Set both lenses to manual focus, set focus to infinity.
- Leave the manual lens aperture wide open (f1.8 on the 50mm lens).
- Frame the image and set focus using focus rails.
- Set the main lens to stop all the way down (f40 on the 400mm lens).
- Take the image.
Results and conclusions
As expected, the 28mm lens gives greatest magnification, but results in a large amount of vignetting. Combining the 28mm lens with the 400mm lens gives about 7-8x magnification. I found that the 50mm lens combined with 300mm on the main lens gives the most useful magnification (somewhere around 5x).
Image quality is reasonably good. The main issues are a lot of cyan/red chromatic aberration which can be partially corrected during raw processing. The other difficulty is the extreme limited depth of field, however this is just an aspect of macro photography
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I think the purpose of education is to teach children how to fail.
To drive them to failure and then see what happens.
"If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sure sign that you’re not trying anything very innovative." - Woody Allen
We know that we're entering a new economic reality that is more challenging and less certain.
We know that Moore's Law and "digital Taylorism" present a credible threat to the employment prospects of our students.
And we know that students need to be more imaginative and more creative if they are to overcome these hurdles.
"It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket." - Werhner von Braun
We know that people who have it all just aren't happy.
We know that those with nothing to lose have everything to gain.
And we know that when you're behind in the race, and the odds are stacked against you, you dig deeper and you reach higher.
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
We know that the tired, the poor, the huddled masses fight to breathe free.
We know that those with their backs to the wall, fight harder.
And yet. And yet.
We're too nice to children. We used not to be. Not to Tom Brown. Not to Oliver Twist.
Education has become progressively gentler - in a manner that has not always been helpful.
Children have moved from fear, to security, to dependency; one step too far...
Too dependent on adults; on teachers; on parents; on technology; on frameworks; on specifications...
So I think we need to find new ways for children to fail.
We need to step back; let go a little; be less helpful.
Of course, our students won't always like this approach. But I suspect that they'll learn a lot more.
And, with a bit of luck, they'll learn how to succeed.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Becket
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Why should teens and kids get involved in their community and become volunteers?
Besides the fact there are many good causes, there are many excellent reasons.
Volunteering as a family, whether on a local or even an international level, has many benefits for both you and your children. There is an astonishing array of programs out there designed specifically to help kids get involved along with their parents, fostering positive self-growth and other valuable attributes that your children will carry with them throughout their adult lives.
Here are ten of the reasons why you might want to consider volunteering programs with your children, and the positive impact that such activities will have on their development.
- Instilling a Sense of Compassion – Teaching the concept of compassion can be quite challenging, especially when children are young and have a limited perspective of the world. By volunteering to help people and animals in need, your kids can learn what compassion is and also how to show their own compassion in ways that help those around them.
- Learning to Appreciate Their Good Fortune – Some children may not realize how privileged and fortunate they are to have a safe home, warm clothing and plenty of food to eat. By working with people that aren’t so lucky, your kids can gain a new appreciation for the things that they have, and an understanding of how valuable those things really are.
- Acquiring New Skills – Working in a volunteer capacity will help your children gain new skills by putting them in a position that will require them to gain and utilize the things they’ve learned. Whether it’s proper care of animals or helping to build a Habitat for Humanity home, every volunteer act will help your youngsters learn new skills and valuable lessons.
- Learning About Responsibility – When the care of an animal, the happiness of an elderly person or the full belly of a homeless person is something your child is tasked with, they’ll have a better understanding of what true responsibility is and learn how to apply it in their daily lives.
- Exploring New Interests – Young children may not always realize where they’re interests lie, due simply to the fact that they haven’t been exposed to them yet. Budding veterinarians may feel that spark as a result of volunteering at the local animal shelter, while future geriatric specialists learn of their affinity for helping the elderly after working with them at a senior center.
- Building New Relationships – Working with other children and their families through a volunteer program will expand your child’s social circle beyond their peers at school and play date buddies. Learning the art of making new friends and forging new bonds is only one of the benefits of youth volunteer work.
- Boosting Self-Esteem – Being able to look at a positive difference in the community and take ownership for part of it is a great self-esteem booster, especially for children that struggle in that area. Knowing that they’ve helped someone in need and made that person or animal’s life better through their own efforts is a powerful confidence booster.
- Fostering a Sense of Civic Responsibility – Helping to improve their community through hard work and dedication not only instills a sense of compassion and responsibility in kids, but also helps them understand the concept of civic responsibility.
- Encouraging Physical Activity – So many favorite activities of today’s kids require nothing more than an electronic device and a comfortable place to sit. Getting your kids involved in community volunteer programs has physical benefits in addition to the many psychological and emotional ones, as it gets them off the couch and involved in physically active work.
- Making a Difference in the Community – While most parents do want to get their children involved in community volunteer programs in order to help them reap the benefits of socially-conscious work, the positive impact on the community itself can’t be ignored. When you and your children volunteer together, you’re strengthening the community as well as your own personal bond.
While there are community-based programs that will allow children to volunteer as part of an organization with direct supervision from program directors and leaders, it’s best to look for programs that will allow your family to get involved as a unit, rather than simply dropping the kids off and pursuing your own interests during the rare and valuable downtime.
Remember that children learn many of their habits and ideas from observing the adults that they love and admire; one of the best ways to reinforce the things that they’re learning and encourage further development of their new skills is to model desirable behavior alongside them.
Source: Part-time Nanny
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: Sure, If you submit Macintosh content (files, links or articles)
: then I will add it to the site.
: Hello, Mr. Webmaster Guy. This is Dr. COM WIZ. I'm sorry I took so long to reply. I've been busy. Did you know that I'm creating my own website?
Anyway, all that I can give you at this time are just links to other websites that can be extremly useful for Mac programmers.
1) Did you know that there's a way to turn your PC into a Mac? It's definitly possible! The two world's have finally colided!
Wait a second, how do
you do it? Well, this can be done using a kind of software called an Emulator, so don't have to take anything apart. Some emulators are free and some are costly. Each emulator has it's own style and each gives you a lot of that easy Macintosh experience that you always loved, and you can run just about any Mac program on your PC, all without having to delete Windows, or burn a hole in your hard disk! To learn all about emulators, click on: http://www.sysopt.com/reviews/macemu/
2) Program your Macintosh in the best BASIC ever! It has a delightful interface and brings the ease of BASIC to your Mac, containing stuff you'll never see in good old MS-DOS QBasic! It's called FutureBASIC^3 and is very useful for creating complicated programs. I haven't used it much yet, but from what I saw, I LOVE it! Now, you'll be able to put your Mac emulator to work!
Learn more and download FutureBASIC^3 here: www.stazsoftware.com/fb.html
3) Another BASIC compiler for Macs--METAL. I haven't tried it yet, but it is
freeware and the site brags about it like it's a revolutionary compiler. It probrably is, though. However, I'll find that out after I try it. Learn more and download METAL here: www.lit.edu/~sarmar/GDS/metal.html
Note: I wrote down this link without cutting and pasting. So if it doesn't work, just search for METAL BASIC on a search engine.
Well, that's all for now. I tried to make these invitations apealing, so when I said "a software called an emulator," I wasn't suggesting that you don't know what an emulator is. This is addressed to other people who might read this.
About the Macintosh messageboard that I suggested earlier, maybe the first issues can be about the software that I mentioned above. One can ask a question maybe about programming the Mac or getting around the emulator. Then, this web site will tuly be a PorgrammerHeaven!
This has been,
Dr. COM WIZ
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The federal investigation into Sen. Ted Stevens’ (R-AK) potentially corrupt relationship to an Alaskan oil company has expanded to include his ties to the fishing industry. Investigators issued “subpoenas throughout the industry last year” asking whether Stevens “pushed seafood legislation that benefited” his son Ben, who is a state lobbyist and politician. One fisherman provided the FBI with a taped conversation indicating that Ben Stevens told a client, “I’ll get Dad to fund you guys, too.”
Eleven years ago, I wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly with various predictions and warnings on oil and energy technology and climate. Since those subjects remain hot today — concern over oil prices and peak oil is at a three-decade-high and Shellenberger and Nordhaus have reignited the technology debate with a variety of historically inaccurate claims about the clean energy R&D message — and since this is probably the best thing I wrote in the 1990s, I am going to reprint it here. It is a long piece so I will divide it up into several posts.
“MidEast Oil Forever?” (subs. req’d), coauthored by then deputy energy secretary Charles Curtis, became the cover story for the April 1996 issue (click on picture to enlarge — yes that is a lightbulb, the sun, and a windmill about to go over the edge of a sea of oil).
The back story is that the Gingrich Congress had come in with its passionate hatred of all applied energy research, and the Clinton Administration was desperately trying to save the entire clean energy budget from being zeroed out. I wrote most of the piece in the summer of 1995 and revised it in January 1996. The title was a warning that the U.S. would be stuck with its dependence on MidEast Oil if that happened. Hence the subhead for the article:
Congressional budget-cutters threaten to end America’s leadership in new energy technologies that could generate hundreds of thousands of high-wage jobs, reduce damage to the environment, and limit our costly, dangerous dependency on oil from the unstable Persian Gulf region.
[Note: The original online article had active links, and I have kept those that still work. In the interests of space, I will not indent the whole article, as I normally do for extended quotations.]
Imagine a world in which the Persian Gulf controlled two thirds of the world’s oil for export, with $200 billion a year in oil revenues streaming into that unstable and politically troubled region, and America was importing nearly 60 percent of its oil, resulting in a $100-billion-a-year outflow that undermined efforts to reduce our trade deficit. That’s a scenario out of the 1970s which can never happen again, right? No, that’s the “reference case” projection for ten years from now from the federal Energy Information Administration.
Imagine another world in which fossil-fuel use had begun a slow, steady decline; more than a third of the market for new electricity generation was supplied from renewable sources; the renewables industry had annual sales of $150 billion; and the fastest-growing new source of power was solar energy. An environmentalist’s fantasy, right? No, that’s one of two planning scenarios for three to four decades from now, developed by Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the world’s most profitable oil company, which is widely viewed as a bench mark for strategic planning.
As ludicrous as it might seem that Michael Mukasey’s official view on waterboarding is that he can’t say whether or not it’s torture until he’s been confirmed first, it’s even more ludicrous that Benjamin Wittes thinks this makes sense:
It may be obvious to senators–and to me, for that matter–that waterboarding crosses a legal line. But it would be very wrong for a nominee to call foul on a series of opinions which he cannot read, on which a major covert action program depends, which individuals serving their country have used to assure themselves that they operate within the law, and which happen to represent the position of the department Mukasey aspires to lead.
So basically, waterboarding is torture, and it’s obviously torture, but it would be “very wrong” for a would-be Attorney-General of the United States to say so. And what if that means confirming yet another Attorney-General who will condone this act of torture? Well:
The Democrats have a big club to wield over Mukasey’s head to make sure they don’t get snookered: Without a strong working relationship with them, he won’t be able to get anything done.
Now you’re sitting here and saying to yourself, but wasn’t this just as true of Mukasey’s steadfastly pro-torture predecessors? But Wittes, using the same powers of counterintuition that allow him to divine the notion that overturning Roe v. Wade would be wrong “as a jurisprudential matter” but good “for the cause of abortion rights” turns this into an argument for the “see no evil” approach:
The lack of such a relationship gravely impaired both of his predecessors, albeit for different reasons. And, with only a year to serve in office, Mukasey’s clock will tick loudly from the start. He will prove nothing but a caretaker unless he can act as a bridge between the ruling party on Capitol Hill and an administration that has burned its other bridges to Congress yet desperately needs constructive legislation in a variety of areas related to the war on terrorism.
When in doubt, count on the Bush administration’s good faith! Thank the Lord we have Brookings scholars around to offer us independent research and analysis.
I suppose it’s worth saying something about the rumors flying that Kobe Bryant might get traded to Washington, since I heard someone repeating them excitedly at the corner store. In fact, though, the only observation I have is about the cosmic injustice of conference imbalance. Last year’s Lakers went 42-40, whereas the Wizards went 41-41. So the teams did about the same. Except, of course, that if you swapped the entire Lakers roster for the entire Wizards roster, the Wizards would get much better and the Lakers would get much worse. The two teams, after all, compiled their similar records playing against very dissimilar competition.
Looking for signs of progress in Iraq, the Bush administration has been quick to jump on reports of reduced violence in Iraq. The “violence is thankfully coming down,” said White House spokesperson Dana Perino. Violence is “down significantly from last year,” declared President Bush.
In a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee today, Joe Christoff of the Government Accountability Office stated that this recent reduction in violence should be taken with a grain of salt, as it coincides with increased sectarian cleansing and a massive refugee displacement:
I think that’s [ethnic cleansing] an important consideration in even assessing the overall security situation in Iraq. You know, we look at the attack data going down, but it’s not taking into consideration that there might be fewer attacks because you have ethnically cleansed neighborhoods, particularly in the Baghdad area. [...]
It’s produced 2.2. million refugees that have left, it’s produced two million internally displaced persons within the countryas well.
Christoff’s conclusions echo that of ret. Gen. James Jones last month, who observed “progress” in a Shi’a-led ethnic cleansing campaign.
Also in attendance at the hearing was Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) Stuart Bowen. In his quarterly report to Congress released today, Bowen acknowledged the reduction in violence but stated that it has not been accompanied by tangible political reconciliation, a finding that was neglected by the traditional media in its reporting today. In Baghdad, for example, Provincial Reconstruction Team officials note:
Despite reduced violence, officials are pessimistic that lasting reconciliation is occurring. … In Diyala, there is a desire to work toward reconciliation, but it will take years to overcome ill-will between tribes.
Earlier this month, Gen. David Petraeus confidently declared, “There’s a local reconciliation” in Diyala province.
Kevin Drum says he’s leaning toward Hillary. I lean the other way, but I agree with the idea that Obama’s “Kumbaya campaigning schtick leaves me cold. Worse than that, in fact: it leaves me terrified that he just doesn’t know what he’s up against with the modern Republican Party and won’t have the instinct to go for the jugular when the inevitable Swift Boating commences.” I agree. In the early days of Barack Obama’s campaign I thought he had this exactly right; that the thing to do was to mildly annoy Chris Bowers by lying like hell about a professed desire to unite the country while recognizing that politics is a blood sport played for high stakes against unrelenting foes in which the only thing that matters is getting the number of votes you need to win.
Now I have my doubts.
In particular, if Rudy Giuliani is the Republican nominee, I want to see a Democrat who will, enthusiastically, smear him through his association with Alan Placa and sundry other corrupt figures and whose staff will feel intensely comfortable asking supporters to cut $2,300 checks to a third party pro-life challenger. Someone who’s in it to win it, and isn’t trying to prove anything other than his (or her) ability to win the election. Hillary Clinton is that person and I’m not so sure Barack Obama is.
At the end of the day, though, I’m happy to play the youthful idealist here, and note Clinton seems to have so much less in the way of upside — not just or even especially as a candidate — than do Obama or Edwards. I could imagine either of them successfully taking advantage of the disastrous failure of the Bush presidency to rebrand liberalism as the mainstream ideology of our time. Clinton, by contrast, will bring back competent centrist technocracy and basic morality to the White House. That’d be good, but I think the country’s at a place where we can do better right now than a simple reversion to what we had before Bush and I, at least, would like to hold out for more.
In a written response to questions from Senate Democrats today, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey refused to explicitly say whether he believed waterboarding to be torture. In the four-page letter, Mukasey called the interrogation technique “over the line” and “repugnant” on “a personal basis,” but added that he would need the “actual facts and circumstances” to strike a “legal opinion”:
Hypotheticals are different from real life and in any legal opinion the actual facts and circumstances are critical.
CNN’s Ed Henry notes that with his “facts and circumstances” hedge, “essentially Michael Mukasey is dodging the question of whether legally waterboarding is torture.” Watch Henry’s report:
Senate Democrats have said that Mukasey’s answer on the question of waterboarding and torture is crucial to their vote on his confirmation. “It’s fair to say my vote would depend on him answering that question,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) told reporters last week. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) called it “the seminal issue.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a judge advocate general in the military, has said that it shouldn’t be difficult for Mukasey to be clear on the issue:
If he does not believe that waterboarding is illegal, then that would really put doubts in my own mind because I don’t think you have to have a lot of knowledge about the law to understand this technique violates” the Geneva Convention and other statutes.
Time reported earlier today that if Mukasey “refuses to declare waterboarding expressly illegal, he looks likely to be rejected by the Judiciary Committee.”
Read Mukasey’s full answers HERE.
UPDATE: In a statement, Leahy said he was “very concerned” that Mukasey was “unable to state unequivocally that waterboarding is illegal”:
Based on an initial review of his response to the letter, I remain very concerned that Judge Mukasey finds himself unable to state unequivocally that waterboarding is illegal and below the standards and values of the United States.
Today, the Justice Department’s controversial Voting Rights section chief John Tanner testified to the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights. He offered an anemic apology for his comments that minorities “die first” before becoming elderly, and are therefore not as affected by voter ID laws. He said the comments “do not in any way accurately reflect my career of devotion to enforcing federal laws designed to assure fair and equal access to the ballot.”
Yet after Tanner’s testimony, Toby Moore, a former Voting Rights section employee, testified that Tanner’s remarks “are a fair example of Tanner’s approach to the facts, the truth, and the law.” Moore also said that Tanner “is both the cause and the effect of the politicizing of the Civil Rights Division” and that the voting rights section was “a wounded institution”:
John Tanner is both the cause and the effect of the politicizing of the Civil Rights Division, and should not be allowed to hide behind a career status which he has abjured by his actions.
Until someone in the department, in this administration or the next, admits to the mistakes of the past several years and restores credible leadership, the voting section of the Civil Rights Division will remain a wounded institution. How long will the Department of Justice tolerate chronic mismanagement simply to save face?
One of Tanner’s most controversial acts as Voting Rights chief surrounded his approval of a 2005 Georgia law requiring voters to show photo identification to vote, a law a federal judge compared to a Jim Crow-era poll tax. Today Moore called it a “discriminatory” and “nasty piece of legislation” that included “draconian restrictions.”
Under the Bush administration, the Civil Rights division, of which the Voting Rights section is a part, has undergone “a sea change,” shifting from its traditional focus of protecting minority voting rights to bringing cases alleging reverse discrimination against whites. The section “has notably shirked its legal responsibility to protect voting rights,” former Voting Rights section head Joseph Rich wrote last March.
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Gilbert Arenas gets his big profile in The Washington Post magazine. In my experience, a lot of us Wizards fans are experiencing a bit of cognitive dissonance over the whole Gilbert phenomenon. When I first moved to town and the Wizards were, as they are today, a middling franchise capable of making the playoffs in a weak Eastern Conference, nobody in DC seemed aware of that fact. It’s not really been a basketball town historically, the Wizards/Bullets had been terrible for a long time, and everyone wanted to talk about the Redskins or the new baseball team.
But for DC’s NBA fans there was this treat — a charismatic underrated combo guard with at times questionable decision-making and commitment to defense, but an unquestionable nose for scoring and various delightful quirks. Now over the past twelve months or so, Gilbert seems to have leapt from underrated to overrated — he’s on the cover of NBA Live, I saw his jersey prominently featured in the NBA Store in New York, etc. — and I’m not sure he realizes that he owes his fans in DC something more. In particular, a winning basketball team. In double particular, the Wizards defense was so bad last season that it seems to me that something as simple as a little leadership by example from the team’s star player could do a lot to boost the defense from “awful” to “below average” and win a ton of games. But I’m not at all optimistic that it’ll happen.
The clearest sign you could ask for that Democrats are overwhelmingly favored to win in 2008 is this graphic which appeared in yesterday’s New York Times showing all segments of the health care industry now favoring Democrats with their campaign contributions even though Democrats are all promising tough new regulations that would seem to ill-serve the industry’s interests.
The question of course arises of what these firms are buying for their trouble. It’s something I’d like to see Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both address. I don’t think there’s any sense in asking them (or anyone else) to disavow accepting contributions from this sector of the economy (it’s giant, after all, and “health professionals” and hospital administrators can be donating out of a complicated mix of interests) but as long as we’re in the phase of the political process where these people are supposed to be “pandering” to the Dread Base, I’d like to see us, the voting public, wring a bit more out of them in terms of rhetorical bridge-burning. | <urn:uuid:30e7e352-f71e-47ef-8779-e58d5570c00a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thinkprogress.org/?m=20071030&mobile=nc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963678 | 3,667 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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“bequest” includes any form of testamentary disposition;
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“election” has the same meaning as in the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap. 218);
“election agent”, in relation to a candidate, means the person named as his election agent under section 62(1) of the Parliamentary Elections Act or section 43(1) of the Presidential Elections Act (Cap. 240A);
“gift” includes bequest;
“market value”, in relation to any property, means the price which that property might reasonably be expected to fetch on a sale in the open market;
“nomination day” means the day of nomination at an election or presidential election, as the case may be;
“organisation” includes any body corporate (other than a body established by written law) and any combination of persons or other unincorporated association;
“permissible donor” means —
an individual who is a citizen of Singapore and is not less than 21 years of age;
a Singapore-controlled company which carries on business wholly or mainly in Singapore; or
in relation to a candidate, any political party he is standing for at an election;
“political association” means —
a political party or an organisation which has as one of its objects or activities the promotion or procuring of the election to Parliament or to the office of President of a candidate or candidates endorsed by the organisation; or
an organisation (not being a branch of any organisation) whose objects or activities relate wholly or mainly to politics in Singapore and which is declared by the Minister, by order in the Gazette, to be a political association for the purposes of this Act;
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“recordable donation”, in relation to any donation report, means a donation required by this Act to be recorded in that report;
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Political Donations appointed under section 7, and includes any Assistant Registrar appointed under that section;
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“responsible officers”, in relation to a political association, means —
in the case of a political association which is a body corporate, the persons for the time being holding the offices of chairman, managing director and company secretary, respectively, of the association, or any positions analogous thereto; or
in the case of a political association which is an unincorporated association, the persons for the time being holding the offices of president, secretary and treasurer, respectively, of the committee of the association, or any positions analogous thereto,
“Singapore-controlled company” means a company incorporated in Singapore, the majority of whose directors and members are citizens of Singapore or, in the case of any member being another company, where that other company is incorporated in Singapore and the majority of whose directors and members are citizens of Singapore, and where that other company has a member who is a company which in turn has a member who is a company and so on, where each of those member companies are companies incorporated in Singapore and the majority of whose directors and members are citizens of Singapore;
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one of the directors is a citizen of Singapore; or
one of the members is a citizen of Singapore or a Singapore-controlled company.
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any money or other property which is transferred to a candidate, election agent or political association for a consideration which is less than the value of the money or (as the case may be) the market value of the property shall be regarded as constituting a gift to the candidate, election agent or political association, as the case may be;
anything given or transferred to any branch of a political association or to any officer, member or agent of a political association in his capacity as such (and not for his political activities or his own use or benefit) is to be regarded as given or transferred to the political association, and references to donations received by a political association accordingly include references to donations so given or transferred; and
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a candidate or his election agent; or
a political association,
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The tides are moving strongly in favour of marine energy, promising to add a whole new form of renewable power generation. BY LINDSAY CLARK
Two tidal energy projects, one on each side of Cook Strait, are now under development with another awaiting the go-ahead on the Kaipara Harbour entrance.
All three projects plan to install development stage underwater electricity generators to generate power from strong and fast flowing tidal streams near coastlines.
Marine generation technology is currently about where wind technology was 15 years ago, when the country’s first major wind turbine was erected in the Wellington suburb of Brooklyn in 1993 – and is still generating power.
Just a few kilometres south of the turbine, where the sharp Wellington ridgeline plunges down a cliff into Cook Strait, the first tidal power turbine is planned to bring power ashore.
In April this year Christchurch-based Neptune Power was granted the first resource consent to operate a British-designed, New Zealand-built tidal stream generator as a developmental trial.
Directly across the strait in the narrow Tory Channel entrance to the Marlborough Sounds an Auckland-based company, Energy Pacifica, plans to put 10 tidal turbines into the swift tides that flow through the channel.
The two Cook Strait projects aim to tap into the huge tidal flows that sweep through the strait — some of the strongest tidal currents in the world. The key reason for the strength of these currents is that the main lunar tidal bulge which sweeps anti-clockwise around
New Zealand’s coasts is nearly always out of phase when passing the western and eastern ends of Cook Strait.
This difference in water level drives very fast tidal currents of up to two to 2.5 metres a second (4-5 knots) or greater at times through parts of Cook Strait and into Marlborough Sounds. The difference is compounded at spring tides with a higher tidal range along our west coast than along the east coast.
Neptune Power plans to install a developmental 1MW turbine 4.5 kilometres off Sinclair Head on Wellington’s southwest coast. This is at the southern end of the ‘Karori rip’ where tides accelerate as they turn the south west corner of the North Island. The site has been deliberately chosen in slower tides for testing all aspects of operating a marine energy plant.
A Neptune Power director, applied physicist David Beach, says Cook Strait was capable of generating a tremendous amount of energy, but there’s still a lot to learn about operating a power turbine in the tough marine conditions. Neptune hopes to begin generating power from the single pilot unit by 2010.
Beach says the positively buoyant generator, largely made of fibreglass and carbon fibre, will float about 70 metres below the sea surface and be tethered to a large concrete and steel mass anchor on the seabed a further 30 metres down.
The 10 metre square concrete anchor will be built like an open top box and floated to the site then flooded to sink it. The open top will then be filled with further heavy ballast. The anchor will have steel ‘spades’ sticking out underneath to further prevent the force of the tides dragging the anchor along the seabed.
The floating generator unit will consist of two 15 metre long parallel ducts with turbines inside containing counter-rotating blades to cancel out torque and stop the twisting a single unit might incur.
The 12 metre turbines will be of an open centre design with the blades mounted together on the outer rim and running against sealed magnets on the inside wall of the ducts to generate the power.
The open centre – like a hubless wheel – will allow the tidal stream to flow unobstructed right through the middle of the generator. This will ‘pull’ water across the turbine blades which at the rim should turn at approximately 10m/s at 16-17 rpm.
The twin turbine ducts will have a larger diameter outflow than inflow. This design gives a neat automatic steering mechanism into the current as the wider outflow ducts meet more water resistance than the narrower inlets.
The buoyant tethered design of the turbine unit also allows it to flip end-over-end when the tide turns to always face the tidal stream.
A six to eight kilometre long buried armoured cable will carry 11kV of power just outside the the boundary of the newly proscribed Wellington south coast marine reserve and to feed in to a Wellington city network power transformer in the small coastal suburb of Owhiro Bay.
The cable will also contain a fibre-optic line to provide real-time communication, including underwater video camera links, between the turbine structure and a monitoring base onshore.
Beach says the development project would have a 1MW capacity - enough to supply 800 households. But because the trial location was in a less powerful part rip, he expected it would generate something like 500 kilowatts - or enough for 400 houses.
A commercial turbine farm would need to be built further around the coast where water speeds are 1.5mps or more faster than the experimental unit. Beach says a critical fact about tidal marine energy is that when the current speed is doubled, eight times more power can be produced.
Neptune is discussing partnership with a British turbine manufacturer who had recently successfully tested a 1/6th size prototype, says but declined to disclose the name of the company.
“All of the turbine unit except the cable will be built in New Zealand using boat building skills in this country with fibreglass and carbon fibre. The turbine designer is in fact a New Zealander with a yachtmaking background.”
Across the strait in the Marlborough Sounds the latest operator Energy Pacifica plans to install up to 10 commercial-scale marine turbines near the Cook Strait entrance to the Tory Channel.
Chairman of Energy Pacifica Dr Anthony Bellvé has been a driving force in marine energy developments in New Zealand making the original proposal for generating power at the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour and was with Crest Energy in its first years of developing that project.
Bellvé says he helped form Energy Pacifica in early 2007 to introduce novel methods of renewable and sustainable energy including marine and solar energy. He says his company surveyed three sites with the fastest tidal currents, French Pass in northern Marlborough Sounds, the Karori rip on the Wellington side of the strait and Tory Channel.
“We found Tory Channel to be an optimal site with a tidal current speed of 3.6 metres a second and the best combination of currents, bathymetry and accessibility to the national electricity transmission network”, Bellvé says.
He too emphasised that higher current speeds greatly increased the commercial potential of marine tidal energy. Eight times more tidal stream power is produced during spring tides than at neaps.
Energy Pacifica has just applied for RMA resource consents from the Marlborough District Council. It plans to install 10 commercial-scale marine turbines each able to produce up to 1.2 MW in the 3.6 metres a second in the strong peak currents at the Cook Strait end of Tory Channel.
The 17 kilometre channel which 1.2 million people travel through a year nearly all on the Cook Strait ferries en route to Picton is 500 to 700 metres wide in its narrower stretches and from 40 to 60 metres deep. The tidal generators would be totally invisible to ferry passengers deep below the six metre draft ferries.
Bellvé saiys the higher west coast tidal range is compressed in the funnel-like Queen Charlotte Sound and has a focusing effect in Tory Channel particularly at the Cook Strait end where speeds increase.
Like the tides, the marine energy industry is constantly on the move, and Cook Strait is going to be a key part of future developments.
Energy NZ No.6 Spring 2008
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SHOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE?
What do you do with your Christmas tree next week? The question is of course inapplicable to the one-third of the nation's households who have no Christmas tree in their home and is easy to answer for the multitude of families who have an artificial tree that goes back into storage. But in the more than 30 million homes that have real Christmas trees, where should the trees go when their job is done? The question has an ecologically gratifying answer. Although more than a million acres of the United States were used this year to grow trees that were cut down and kept less than a month, no matter what you do now, your action will be environmentally sound.
One thing about living organisms is that they die. Of course, a Christmas tree is functionally dead before you take it home, unless you happen to get a rooted one you can plant in the backyard after Christmas. (In my experience, these do not die until the next summer.) But during this season most people have to deal with a dead tree in the house. Despite the "12 days of Christmas," which last through January 5, some people say that if your Christmas tree is in the house past midnight December 31, bad luck will befall you for the entire year. You do not have to be superstitious or a pagan to see that a dead tree with dry, falling needles that make it a potential tinder box for a fire is incentive enough not to go 12 more days.
So, what if you have a dead tree with needles littering the floor each time you jiggle it? Time to get the lights and ornaments off and the tree outside. Once the tree is lying on its side outside the front door, you can begin to make choices. One ecologically sound approach is to drag the tree into an out-of-sight spot in the yard. If such a discreet location is not possible, and the tree ends up in a spot where everyone can see it, tell your neighbors you are using it to create "wildlife habitat." Dead trees do, in fact, create wildlife habitat for wood-dwelling insects, fungi, and occasionally amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, depending on the stage of decay, type of tree, and location. So, you are actually doing what you say, though the inhabitants of your created wildlife habitat may not be obvious.
rationale for leaving the tree in your yard is to use the dry branches
for building fires in a fireplace. Old Christmas tree limbs make great
fire starters because they crackle loudly, burn brightly, and are aromatic.
If your tree has been up for a week or more, you can probably start using
the branches right away. Be advised that some organizations decry the
idea of burning a Christmas tree in the fireplace because of safety concerns
about the potential buildup of creosote. So, check into the potential
hazards before taking my advice on how to start a fire.
solution many communities use for Christmas tree disposal is to consolidate
discarded ones into a giant heap of pine, fir, and spruce in an open park
area. The trees are then ground into mulch for landscaping around the
city. Finally, a really simple option exists for people who live in a
community where trash pickup includes removal of vegetation. Haul the
tree to the curb and forget about it. Whichever of these options you choose,
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On an average day, I start out with a cup of coffee with just a little splash of half and half. Last week, when I was traveling, my routine was bucked and let’s just say I was less than pleased with my options. I was stuck with the hotel coffee and the powdered packet of creamer in my room. Since I was desperate for my morning java, I almost used the powdered stuff. But just as I suspected, I read the label and learned it was chock-full of trans fatty acids – ugh!
Why avoid trans fats?
- They raise your LDL (bad cholesterol) levels.
- They lower HDL (good cholesterol) levels.
- They increase triglyceride levels.
- They can cause inflammation in the body.
- They can greatly increase your risk for heart disease (Harvard School of Public Health believes trans fats are responsible for 1 in 5 heart attacks).
Food manufacturers use trans fats because they increase shelf life, keep flavors stable and are very inexpensive. For many years, most of the “junk” foods—cookies, cakes, candies, chips, crackers, and some margarines—were made with hydrogenated (another name for trans fats) oils. But with the negative attention given to trans fats, many manufacturers are cutting back or eliminating their use. Still, you should always read your food labels.
Most foods aren’t labeled as having “trans fats” but there are a few buzz-words that will indicate whether a food product contains this harmful ingredient.
Here is what you don’t want to see on your food label:
- Partially hydrogenated
- Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil
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Mills named American Physical Society Fellow
FEBRUARY 15, 2010
Dennis Mills of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. The honor recognizes his development of synchrotron x-ray optics and related techniques, the build-out of beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne, and the development of x-ray monochromators, phase plates, and timing techniques.
He has also been recognized for his guidance at the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation and for initiating the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering.
He is currently Argonne Deputy Associate Lab Director of Photon Sciences and Deputy Director of the APS, which provides the hemisphere’s brightest x-ray beams for research in almost all scientific disciplines.
Mills' many awards include the Advanced Photon Source Arthur H. Compton Award in 1998 and the University of Chicago Pinnacle of Education Award in 2008.
Mills earned his Ph.D. degree and master’s degree in applied physics at Cornell University and his bachelor’s degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Boffins cobble up phone-powering footwear
Walk to stop your gadgets running down
Research published by the University of Wisconsin describes a way of generating sufficient electrical energy from human movement to power mobile gadgets.
Tapping into the kinetic energy inherent in, say, walking up the street and converting it into electrical energy is nothing new, but the Wisconsin team, led by Tom Krupenkin and J Ashley Taylor, have come up with a system that delivers a sufficiently high energy density to be useful.
Previous systems could generate micro- or milliWatts of power. Krupenkin and Taylor say theirs can produce Watts.
Their system - which the two will attempt to commercialise through their company, InStep NanoPower - sandwiches microscopic droplets of a conductive fluid between a positive electrode layer and a thin-film dielectric. A constant bias voltage is applied between the droplet and the electrode.
Droplet actuation mechanisms include (a) droplets between oscillating plates, (b) droplets between sliding plates, and (c) droplets in a microchannel. (d) Shows in greater detail schematics of reverse-electrowetting-based energy generation process in a microchannel geometry.
Alternatively, a tube can be made from alternating sections of electrode and dielectric, with the droplets placed within.
As the system is shaken, the liquid moves, changing its shape between the sheets or down the tube. The upshot is a decrease in the amount of charge it can hold, resulting in a flow or electrical charge back through the external circuit, creating a current that can power an external load.
It's a reversal of an existing process - electrowetting - in which a liquid is made to move by applying a current.
The team enivsage a shoe containing a tubular generator - pat pending - in the sole. As you walk, compression of a chamber at the heel forces the droplets through many of the tiny tubes, generating power.
Not that it comes free of charge. The killer is the necessary bias voltage used to drive the system.
"The average power per foot can exceed 2W for bias voltages in excess of 35V and 10W for bias voltages in excess of 75V. The bias voltage can be substantially reduced by increasing the capacitance of the dielectric film stack."
Getting the bias voltage to the reduced level is possible, they say, with a DC-DC converter lifting the 3.7V output of a standard lithium battery.
Getting the power out of the shoe and into your phone or laptop is another challenge, of course.
Re: This was done over 10 years ago.
yes, but did he ever get it to work? By the sounds of it, Bayliss was using the piezoelectric effect. I doubt you'll get 1W+ of power out of that.
Older readers may remember that the secret agent Maxwell Smart used his shoe as a phone. The synergy is obvious.
Fun at Airports
Lithium batterys can burn or explode if damaged by cutting, puncture or impact. Not sure I want that under my feet...
Never mind the the issues where you go through any metal detector, and thats not just airports these days.
Does anybody want to volunteer to see what an unexpected 75V DC shock to the soles of the feet feels like? That could put a sudden spring in your step.
May I try and be the first to say
about frikkin time.
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Filed under: Africa, Developing Nations, Terrorism | Tags: Indian Navy, Piracy on the High Seas, Task Force 150
A Hong Kong-registered ship named Delight is the latest to fall into the hands of pirates off the northern coast of Africa. It is now steaming toward Somalia, where it will undoubtedly be held for ransom as was the Sirius Star pictured below.
The Somali government, such as it is, lacks basic law-enforcement agencies to disrupt pirates. It also has a very long coastline along the Gulf of Aden. The neighboring countries of Yemen and Djibouti are a little more stable, but have no more capabilities than Somalia.
There have been 90 attacks on ships by Somalian pirates this year. Commercial vessels in this high-tech era have small, mostly unarmed crews. The International Maritime Bureau says that pirates are currently holding 15 ships and more than 250 sailors. The pirates are well equipped with modern weapons, satellite phones, GPS trackers and fast attack boats.
It’s left to the modern word to police them. The Bush Administration set up a global effort called Combined Task Force 150 under the watch of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. The current commander is a Commodore of the Danish Royal Navy.
Tuesday, a Somali pirate mother -ship aimed grenade launchers at an Indian naval frigate and tried to ram it. The Indian ship Tabar returned fire, set the pirate ship on fire and sunk it. India’s action has probably saved many other ships. At the moment force is the only way to raise the cost of piracy.
The costs of dysfunctional countries can be severe. The Combined Task Force has 2.5 million square miles to patrol. That is a lot of ocean.
Diplomacy, and even talks without preconditions, aren’t going to be the answer.
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Development of biogenerics, perhaps more accurately termed biosimilars, today is more a function of intellectual property
(IP) and politics rather than scientific factors. With the approval of biogenerics no longer hypothetical, the global industry
must now determine pathways for efficient development. China's rapidly growing biopharmaceutical industry plays a significant
role in the biogenerics picture. A key question, addressed in
Advances in Biopharmaceutical Technology in China
, a recent study conducted by BioPlan Associates and the Society for Industrial Microbiology, is whether China's biogenerics
industry is moving in the right direction, or in a disorganized way with little consideration for IP issues (See
, May 2007, "For Biopharma Considering China, Are IP Fears Unfounded?")
Most healthcare policymakers in China and in the West recognize that generic drugs are important to healthcare policy. Because
biopharmaceuticals are currently among the most expensive therapeutics on the market and many blockbuster biopharmaceuticals
are losing patent protection, the biogenerics industry will likely expand.
In China and India, where regulatory and IP standards for biogenerics are more liberal, a biogenerics industry is already
thriving. In China, the presence of a substantial biogenerics industry reflects a growing need to provide modern healthcare
to its domestic populations, at a reasonable cost. Although China sells its products primarily domestically, many US and European
drug innovators struggle with the impact such biogenerics may have on commercialization opportunities and IP protection.
BIOGENERICS AND BARRIERS TO EXPANSION
Biological products in China are mostly biosimilars or biogenerics of Western-invented products. This situation is changing
as Chinese biopharmaceutical companies and venture capital firms invest in product innovation. However, the country's relatively
low investment in R&D and the late development of its recombinant DNA technologies have resulted in most biologics production
being based on non-Chinese IP. In recent years, however, government support has encouraged greater innovation in biological
products marketed in China. Still, there are obstacles hindering the industry's success including the following:
- Low levels of product commercialization: Inexperience in manufacturing processes increases production costs and makes large-scale
- Inadequate market expansion: Products that may be highly successful in the US, such as erythropoietin (EPO) and growth hormone
(GH), tend to yield smaller sales revenues in the Chinese market. Population structure and retail pricing of these drugs are
relevant factors contributing to the disparities.
- Small-scale production with duplicated investment: 21 genetically engineered drugs and vaccines have been approved for marketing
in China. While just one or two manufacturers could meet market demands, multiple producers duplicate production.
- Relatively few products have proprietary IP rights: The technology behind many products is not adequately protected—many are
produced on a small scale, with small profit margins.
- Limited managerial and technical leadership: There is a need for more experienced and talented technical professionals.
PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY BACKGROUND
China produces more generic drugs than any other country in the world. Since the 1950s, China has manufactured these products
to supply its domestic demand. Today, generic drugs still dominate the Chinese pharmaceutical market. However, we are seeing
more domestic innovation, and the market share of innovative drugs increased from 17% in 1997 to 20% in 2003.1 For healthcare policy, economic, and scientific reasons, generic drugs have played a key role in the Chinese pharmaceutical
market and this trend will most likely continue in the future.
China began developing innovative drugs only recently. Its ability to innovate remains relatively limited, partly due to the
current capital investment climate. In contrast, most Chinese drug manufacturers have produced generic drugs for several decades.
China's technical competence in producing generic drugs and its advantage in raw materials have made the country a global
off-patent crude drugs processing center.
In the early 1980s, the Chinese pharmaceutical industry began to modernize. However, Chinese pharmaceutical companies did
not develop innovative drugs because of financial and technical obstacles. Patent laws were not a significant consideration.
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Date: Fri, Jun 22 2007 3:45 PM
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Not sure I understand your points. Some questions for clarification and
> 1. Deaf users have adopted line-by-line text conversation and
> SMS with great enthusiasm because the options open to them
> are mobile, easy to use, and accepted by many non-deaf
> people. This last point allows for direct communication
> rather than relay.
a) IM is indeed used by people who are deaf and people who aren't. People
who aren't deaf also have real-time methods (where people can 'hear' what
people are saying as they are saying it) but people who are deaf do not.
Is your point that everyone enjoys IM or that people who are deaf do not
need and would not benefit from having the option of real-time (read as they
b) On your last sentence - you bring in relay. Not sure what you meant
here. All of the proposed methods could be used with our without relay. Did
I miss something?
> 2. It is likely that if we require character-by-character
> conversation in 255/508 that vendors will either not provide
> it or support it as well as they do line-by-line, and
> non-deaf users may not adopt it either. This would
> perpetuate the communication ghetto we had with wireline TTY.
Is your assumption that non-deaf users would not adopt it based on any
research? All of our work has shown that many non-deaf people would love
to have the ability to view text as it is written when in two way
conversation in IM. They are frustrated by just seeing "the other person is
typing" but not being able to see anything until it ends.
And I'm not sure I understand the 'ghetto' comment. The new proposals move
us away from TTY and to international standards for text on a call. The
protocols proposed would allow both real-time and (see below) line by line
conversation at the user's option.
(I think implementing an option to allow users to hold their text until
return is a good idea. There are times (and some people) where it is more
desirable to finish a corrected utterance before sending. (In fact there
are times when we should have that feature work for people when they are
> Jim Tobias
> Inclusive Technologies
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> +1 732.441.0831 voice/tty
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President Bush's 2009 budget will virtually freeze most domestic programs and seek nearly $200 billion in savings from federal health care programs, a senior administration official said Thursday.
The Bush budget also will likely exceed $3 trillion, this official said.
Bush on Monday will present his proposed budget for the new fiscal year to Congress, where it's unlikely to gain much traction in the midst of a presidential campaign. The president has promised a plan that would erase the budget deficit by 2012 if his policies are followed.
Bush will propose nearly $178 billion in savings from Medicare -- a number that's nearly triple what he proposed last year. Much of the savings would come from freezing reimbursement rates for most health care providers for three years. An additional $17 billion would come from the Medicaid program, the state-federal partnership that provides health coverage to the poor. The cuts would come over five years.
The official, whose spoke on condition of anonymity because the budget has not yet been released, said the budget for domestic programs would look like last year's.
"It's a very small increase," he said. "Very small."
A second official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said that domestic discretionary spending would increase by less than 1 percent under Bush's proposal.
The budget is likely to have deficits of about $400 billion for this year and next.
Economists say the best measure of the deficit is to compare it against the size of the economy. By that standard, a $400 billion deficit represents almost 3 percent of the gross domestic product. By contrast, President Clinton was facing deficits in the 4 percent range when he felt compelled to tackle the issue in 1993.
One official made that clear that Medicare would continue to grow, but not as quickly as had been expected. "Medicare will grow at 5 percent. It just won't grow over 7 percent," said this official.
Savings also would come by charging wealthier people higher monthly premiums for Medicare's drug program.
Last year, Congress declined to go along with the nearly $65 billion in savings the president proposed for Medicare over five years, and that proposal pales in comparison with the savings he now seeks.
Independent experts have warned that the government needs to address the rising cost of health care for businesses to stay competitive and for the government to be able to pay for other important programs in the decades ahead.
"In fact, if there is one thing that could bankrupt America, it's runaway health care costs. We must not allow that to happen," David M. Walker, the U.S. comptroller general, told lawmakers Tuesday during a congressional hearing.
But Democrats said Bush's budget targets the wrong health care providers for cuts. They said insurers subsidized to provide Medicare coverage are being overpaid.
"The president is proposing to once again slash health care coverage for seniors and low-income working Americans," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said. "The president's cuts are exactly the wrong medicine when the cost of health care and the number of uninsured continue to rise and families are feeling economically insecure." | <urn:uuid:c76bb453-15fe-4991-b818-adae37880fbf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327268,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977577 | 628 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The FYhrer's Fortuneteller
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." So said Emily Dickinson, no slouch in the poetry line. I feel the same way about theater. Great theater -- and what is the point in leaving home for anything else? -- should astonish. It should take everything you've ever believed and challenge all of it. Live theater should take your world and turn it upside down.
Thinking about theater in this way, I talk with Mel Gordon, who wrote and directed The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber at the Goethe-Institut in 1994. His latest, also produced by the Goethe-Institut, is Hanussen: The True Story of Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant. Gordon stakes his place quickly in conversation: "My thing is to make theater extraordinary. I want people to be electrified. I want to make theater that's better than movies. Most theater is a 30-minute idea stretched to three hours. I want a three-hour idea that's compressed into one-plus hours. My kind of theater is overrich, overloaded -- as opposed to people just talking."
Is anything about theater worth saving in Gordon's view? He is quick to point out that "nothing can top the live event. There is no movie event, since anyone can see the same movie anytime. The theater event is a one-time thing," Gordon continues. "The live communication with the audience ... is stunning. When it's well-done, then theater is special. I am interested in specialness, in that event that is extraordinarily hot, that happens, then disappears."
How does Gordon approach the bizarre tale of Hanussen? With the awareness that "the story is so extraordinary that it needs extraordinary means to tell it." He explains: "Hanussen was a kind of Houdini/Jimmy Swaggart character. He was a charlatan who may actually have been a real clairvoyant, a Jew who posed as a Danish aristocrat and mesmerized Hitler. He was like Schindler in that he felt he could convince the Nazis on Jewish policy without revealing himself." Of course, when the Gestapo discovered Hanussen's identity, he was executed.
Gordon decided to tell the story as a revue. The evening includes sketches, live music, film clips, magical play, erotic dances, and an authentic mind-reading act performed by Hanussen's own son. The action is nonstop, constantly shifting and changing. "I want to make an impression on the mind of the spectator that can't be forgotten," Gordon concludes with perhaps the only understatement of our conversation. Call 474-0365.
Crooning for a Cause
And now for something completely different: Michael Feinstein appears in concert at Marin Veterans Auditorium Sat., March 30, to benefit the Osher Marin JCC Scholarship Fund. Call 472-3500. | <urn:uuid:753829ee-7911-4a17-baad-815eb142f966> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sfweekly.com/1996-03-27/culture/aisle-seat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968123 | 612 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Every so often a group of humans passes a law or expresses an idea which is so ludicrous as to deserve some sort of award for stupidity. The Irish government has passed a “blasphemy law” which makes it a crime to tell a member of a religion that his ideas are weird or lacking in truth. According to the law, blasphemy is defined as: “publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting related to matter sacred by any religion thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents of that religion.” As Nicholas Nugent of Ireland Atheist notes, this is simply a “silly and dangerous” law.
define: “Grossly abusive.”
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Edwin F. O'Brien, leader of the Baltimore archdiocese, has revealed himself to be a cynical, misguided critic of the Obama administration ("Fight over birth control," Jan. 26). He says it's a pity that the sincere convictions of religious groups are disrespected in the United States. The real pity is that religions are allowed any influence on government policies at all.
To imply the U.S. is not a civilized nation is an insult to this great country. Perhaps the cardinal-designate would prefer to live somewhere like Afghanistan.
Many progressive states, especially in western Europe, are recognizing deity-worship for what it is — primitive, non-rational behavior. Church attendance has fallen precipitously there, and the religiosity polluting American politics is considered an anachronism.
Religious groups don't have a monopoly on morality; far from it. The Catholic Church's nonsensical opposition to the use of condoms makes it complicit in the deaths of millions of human beings, especially in regions where AIDS is epidemic.
Church leaders, from the pope on down, need to keep their opinions to themselves. Their time would be better spent cleaning their own house after the child sex abuse scandal.
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Putting the Stimulus to Work
In February, the U.S. government passed the $787 billion Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus package, in an effort to breathe new life into a lagging economy. According to the website Recovery.org, nearly 20 percent of that money has been meted out in the form of contracts and grants. Much of it is flowing to cities for projects like building new roadways or greening federal buildings. Here's a look at the top municipal recipients and which sectors they're funneling their money toward.
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Good luck and more power to you.
Or this can be titled "One World, One Random number sequence".
The world of Metaphaze II: Avalon began as a MapMaker map that grew and grew and grew, but wasn't able to generate the detail maps I needed for my world.
The maps that come out are quite detailed... I've attached some samples for one of the countries. The last three attached maps show the green country map overlaid with the rivers generated, a county map and a district map.
One of the interesting facets of creating maps this way is you don't realize the detail that comes about when you show how every cell drains via its rivers. I added a sliding scale to eliminate some of these tributaries to clear up the map.
The second thing you realize is that when people create a rudimentary RPG world, it is highly generalized. My first run of my program creating rivers resulted in over 1 million river names. Likewise, with 75 countries, there were over 90,000 counties, almost 10,000 districts and 3,000 regions. The original 1/0 map was exploded from a 180x600 map where each cell was 25x25 kms to a map 1,800x6,000 containing 10 million cells, each 2.5x2.5 kms in size.
The goal of this project is to generate via code everything from the world, all the way down to the different details in each location....
----- Cities, towns, villages, castles, temples, churches, ruins, and dungeons.
When completed, the estimate is a web-site with more than 250,000 maps and more than 1 million pages.
Good luck and more power to you.
Dollhouse Syndrome = The temptation to turn a map into a picture, obscuring the goal of the image with the appeal of cute, or simply available, parts. Maps have clarity through simplification.
You have a good start on your project there. It will be fascinating to see how it progresses. Theres a few of us here who make procedural terrain and its great to see how other people tackle the problems of it.
Theres some sample name generators on here if you dig about tho they were in Python and Perl if I remember correctly. Never known anyone do Pascal - bit before my time I think ! But it can be a faster language than Java.
How are you planning to make it realistic in terms of modeling the world physics above the rivers and the names being random. Is there some phonetic stuff going on ? Theres lots to think about - such a big and ambitious project. Keep posting as you make progress.
This is a highly complex project. It is hard to describe it entirely in a few paragraphs that people will tend to glaze over reading. It evolved from the concept that to "zoom" into a higher detailed map for any region you've created in your world map. Taking a world map and zooming to 75 countries, you've now got to create 75 more maps... If you then go to regional maps, in my world, that's another 3,000 maps... I'm tired already and all I've gotten done is the world map. I'm certainly not going to do the 95,000 county maps or the 3,000 city maps.
My gazette database has more than 35,000 world names. I have a prefix file with 199 entries and a suffix file with 319 entries that add items to the gazette entries to make other versions of these names. Just these three files can generate almost 2 million unique names. In addition, I have 10 translation modules that regionalize the names into other unique and quite interesting names. These are keyed to the country indexes and I can select which translator is used for which countries.
The current challenges I'm working on resolving now are:
1) What to generate for a region page (other than a map)...
2) What to generate for a district page (ditto)
3) What to generate for a county page (ditto)
For these pages, I'm considering a subtle map difference at each level to differentiate each level from the others. So, at the country and region level, the maps will be like those I posted above... as you zoom into the district and county levels, they take on a more parchment/drawn look to them. In all of these instances, I have to use my pascal program to generate the map graphics. In addition, I'll have to figure out what layers I want to be able to combine to create information zooms. (See #5 below)
4) What to generate for a city page... currently, I've been examining the Medieval Demographics document by Ross and found it only generated "jobs" for 7% of the cities population. I've now got a table of jobs and percentage allocations for 100% of the humanoids in the city. I've come up with conditionals for things like sailors who can be found in large numbers in a port city, but not so many in an inland city.
6) Openlayers is a wonderful API for displaying maps on the web. You can use it natively in your own web pages or as I do in the wiki. It manages your layers and all of the zoom and navigation of the map. You do not have to code anything for these features. This allows you to concentrate on generating the map images. When combined with the wiki and semantic layers, you can display data from other pages in pop-up windows on your maps...
The displayed icons actually pull the data that is displayed on them from the associated page for that country.
In addition, the semantic layers allows queries to be built on pages so that you can do things like display regions on a country page, or districts on the region page... or anything you'd like to pull and display.
The unique mix of graphical maps with automated information retrieval creates a very interesting level of cartography that can be explored in different ways than static maps allow.
Interesting and ambitious project (and I thought PASCAL was dead), good luck and looking forward to see how things go.
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Cool. Yes very ambitious.
I would recommend having a look at our CWBP community world building project as well as the links in my sig tho.
The CWBP being a tile based world with maps from world to battlemap and being hosted via a wiki sounds similar.
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Mass. groups to hold transgender awareness day
Transgender groups will host a community action day at the State House to push for public accommodation protections for transgender youth, adults and family. The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition and the Transgender Equal Rights Coalition say they are hosting the action Thursday to educate legislators about the necessity of protections in establishments open to the general public. Those include health care facilities, public transit and bus stations, hotels, motels, campsites, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, convention centers, museums, libraries and galleries. The groups say transgender youth and adults encounter unfair treatment, denying of services, mocking or hostile language, and threats of harm when accessing public services. | <urn:uuid:8f34bdfc-a083-4319-9625-fbeceb9c75b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.glaad.org/news/mass-groups-hold-transgender-awareness-day | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916011 | 135 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Aug. 26, 2006 For the first time, researchers have developed a way to synthesize a cancer-killing compound called rasfonin in enough quantity to learn how it works.
Derived from a fungus discovered clinging to the walls of a New Zealand cave, the chemical tricks certain cancer cells into suicide while leaving healthy cells untouched.
"In 2000, scientists in Japan discovered that this compound might have some tremendous potential as a prototype anticancer agent, but no one has been able to study or develop it because it's so hard to get enough of it from natural sources," says Robert K. Boeckman, professor of chemistry.
"You either grow the fungus that makes it, or you go through a complicated chemical synthesis process that still yields only a minute amount," he says. "Now, after five years of effort, we've worked out a process that lets researchers finally produce enough rasfonin to really start investigating how it functions, and how we might harness it to fight cancer."
In 2000, researchers from Chiba University in Japan and the University of Tokyo simultaneously discovered a compound in certain fungi that selectively destroyed cells depending upon a gene called ras—one of the first known cancer-causing genes. They had found rasfonin, a compound that seemed tailor-made to knock out ras-dependent cancers like pancreatic cancer.
After six years, however, rasfonin's secrets remain a mystery because researchers can't make enough of it to carry out tests.
To bring about a new drug, organic chemists must produce a new chemical in enough quantity to test it under many different circumstances to tease out its modus operandi. Until now, no method existed to generate rasfonin, aside from growing more fungus—a time-consuming and terribly inefficient method.
Boeckman, the Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of Rochester, has now revealed a process that produces 67 times more rasfonin than any previous method. For the first time, scientists can obtain enough rasfonin to conduct proper biological tests on it.
"At a guess, I'd say that rasfonin itself will not be the final compound that might come to market," says Boeckman. "But we need to figure out how it works, how it triggers the cancer cell to shut itself down. The key is to find exactly what buttons rasfonin is pushing, and then figure out if there's a way we can safely and more simply push those same buttons. But we couldn't do that until we have enough to test."
Even Boeckman's simplified process is notably complex, employing sophisticated organic reactions. Instead of the original method's 23 steps, Boeckman's has just 16—but finding them took five years of his team's hard work, skill and intuition.
Boeckman's paper, published in the Aug. 30 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, outlines the sequence of steps showing how Boeckman's group inserted, removed, or altered the three-dimensional and chemical structure of their compound until they produced complete rasfonin. Diagrams of the complete process are available on the Web at pubs.acs.org.
"Very soon, researchers should be able to scale up this process rather easily to whatever volume they need," says Boeckman. "It may be a long road to a possible treatment, but at least we're now past the first hurdle."
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
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"She shares with us her gold - the conception, trial and error implementation, and initial scientific investigation of a new, educationally-oriented treatment approach that she has named mindfulness-based elder care (MBEC)." -from the Foreword by Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, Associate Professor of Medicine, Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society University of Massachusetts Medical School
Drawing on years of experience as a geriatric social worker and mindfulness-based stress reduction practitioner, the author has taken Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and adapted it to the particular needs of elders, their families, and professional caregivers. Mindfulness practices focus on abilities, rather than disabilities, in order to provide paths to the inner strengths and resources that we all possess. McBee's Mindfulness-Based Elder Care conveys the benefits of mindfulness through meditation, gentle yoga, massage, aromatherapy, humor, and other creative therapies to this special population. She provides clear, concise instructions for her program, as well as a wealth of anecdotal and experiential exercises, to help readers at all levels of experience. Hers is the first book to fully explore the value of mindfulness models for frail elders and their caregivers.
Features of this groundbreaking volume include:
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- Designed for short classes or 8-week courses
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- Replete with case studies
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As a Greyhound bus prepared to leave a small town near Atlanta, 19-year-old Azucena headed to the window seat on the last row , on her way to Miami to start school and a new life.
She propped a pillow against the glass and drifted off to sleep as the bus glided down the highway toward South Florida.
Around 5 a.m., Azucena, who does not want her last name used, woke up when the bus driver pulled up to the Pompano Beach bus station — one stop before her final destination.
Three U.S. Border Patrol agents boarded, announcing they would be checking IDs. She lifted her head to see one agent walking directly toward her.
It kind of looked like they already knew who they were looking for, because they went straight to the back where I was, said Azucena, now enrolled in a beauty school in Little Havana.
At that moment, one frightening thought raced through her mind: Oh my God Im being deported!
Azucena spent the next 76 days in a federal immigration center, Broward Transitional Center, becoming one of a fast-growing number of undocumented immigrants caught in what may be the latest crackdown: Grabbing them from public transportation, mainly Greyhound and Amtrak.
Immigration searches on public transportation sites are not well publicized. Border patrol agents generally protect the border or coastline. But, Steve Cribby, spokesperson for U. S. Customs and Border Protection, says agents have the authority to conduct immigration checks in public places. And checks on Greyhound buses and Amtrak are meant to disrupt human smuggling activities into the countrys interior, he said.
The checks are consistent with previous years, he said. Citing law enforcement sensitivity, border patrol officials would not provide figures on apprehensions on public transportation.
But attorneys and others say they have definitely seen an increase.
I am definitely seeing a large number of people stopped by Greyhound, said attorney Sara Van Hofwegen, who worked with Azucena to get her deportation order deferred under the proposed DREAM Act, which will provides a path to citizenship for some.
On one recent visit to the BTC in Southwest Broward, Van Hofwegen spoke to 12 detainees. Five of the 12 were apprehended on a Greyhound.
Id say Greyhound cases make up about 20 percent of our clients now, said Juliet Williams, an assistant with the law offices of Kantaras & Andreopoulos, with offices in Central Florida. That is much more than weve usually seen.
She estimates the firm has seen an increase in Greyhound apprehensions of about 25 percent in the past two years.
Between October 2010 and May 2011, immigration agents in Florida arrested around 2,900 undocumented immigrants. That includes arrests made on public transportation, apprehensions through routine highway stops and drug cases.
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Why should the floor be usual? An Italian plant called 14 Ora Italiana created a collection of colored floors called Uonuon. This collection is inspired by the works of the famous artist Andy Warhol. That’s why the main colors used are exactly the same as in his pictures. 14 Ora Italiana integrated his art into their collection using 14+1 colors. The floors are not only beautiful but also very modern with resistance to extreme temperatures, hit and chemical substances. You may choose your own combination of colors for your floor and order them at the plant. Why should the floors be ordinary? Add some brightness and life not only to the furniture but also to the floors and stairs! And special hello to the fans of Warhol’s works. | <urn:uuid:0b26a16e-6de4-4319-aa41-21af5669334c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.digsdigs.com/colorful-floors-with-a-touch-of-andy-warhols-works/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951945 | 156 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Town and roadstead port, northeastern Algeria, on the Mediterranean seacoast and the western edge of the Collo Kabylie region. The city of Jijel, originally a Phoenician trading post, passed successively to the Romans (as Igilgili), the Arabs, and, in the 16th century, to the pirate Khayr ad-Din (Barbarossa). It remained a corsair stronghold until captured by the French in 1839. Strong local resistance, finally subdued in 1851, resulted in the construction of three forts along its southern fringe and minimal colonization. The original town was devastated by an earthquake in 1856.
In 1664, July 23 under the reign of Louis XIV, a French forwarding directed by the Duke of Beaufort, small natural son of Henri IV unloaded and took the city. Resistance was organized under the direction of Aga Chabane and the French were driven out in October of the same year. Several were done prisoners. Some were repurchased by their families by paying a ransom. Others, which had not been repurchased remained like slaves and were freed thereafter and became highly skilled sailors and took part even in the race under the direction of the corsairs jijeliens.
When a shipwreck happens on the coast of Gigery, which is situated about fifty leagues to the eastward of Algiers, the inhabitants, who are a tribe of wandering Arabs, flock down from the mountains, and seize on everything they possibly can, without any consideration as to the country to which the vessel belongs. If it should happen to be a Turkish ship, the Mahommedan crew is dismissed, with a sufficient supply of provisions to enable them to reach a place where they can be relieved, but all other subjects are made slaves. These Arabs put a high value on iron, which was on one occasion attended with fatal consequences. A bark belonging to Tunis being stranded on the coast of Gigery, the inhabitants hastened on board to plunder. The Turks and Moors who composed the crew, were allowed to go at large; and the natives after carrying off as much as they could, were anxious to obtain the iron about the vessel. As they did not well know how to come at it, they laid a train to the powder magazine, concluding that if the ship blew up, they would be able to collect the iron from the fragments. On setting fire to the train, the vessel indeed blew up; but fifty of the plunderers, who had not retired beyond the effects of the explosion, were killed, and a much larger number wounded.
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And you know what that means....It's nearly the Year of the Dragon! In terms of the Chinese calendar I mean.
I love using the Chinese New Year theme in the classroom. It lends itself to tons of subjects; tangrams/calendar for math, calligraphy/dragons for art and writing, studying the Chinese culture for social studies, inventions for science, etc. You get the idea.
It's such a fun and interesting holiday and kids love it. This year it falls on January 23. There are so many neat things available via the internet to help create engaging lessons and I've tracked down a bunch of them to share with you via a LiveBinder.
I divided the binder into 7 categories with lots of resources in each.
- Clip Art/Graphics
Click on the picture above.
The great thing about putting resources into a LiveBinder is that you can easily add to it at any time and that's just what I'll do. Hope you find lots of resources that you can use.
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Kate's Morning Sickness Is 'Acute'
The Palace has described the Duchess of Cambridge's morning sickness as "acute" and she is at King Edward VII Hospital in Central London, joined by her husband, Prince William. According to a source at St James's Palace, Kate arrived at the hospital from her parents' new home in Bucklebury.
The source adds that the couple decided to "be open" about Kate's pregnancy because she was admitted to the hospital. But, since it's so early, "we aren't going into detail about the pregnancy itself," the source says.
Kate, 30, also has canceled her next three official engagements.
According to the Palace, Kate is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, characterized by severe and persistent nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. If untreated, the patient can suffer dehydration and dangerous weight loss.
This is the first child for the royal couple, who wed in April 2011.
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In the March 2008, issue of the the scientific periodical, the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), is a case series documenting specific chiropractic techniques helping women suffering from monthly menstrual pains. This study looked at the effect of specific chiropractic adjustments on women who suffered with monthly menstrual pains from dysmenorrhea.
The study was conducted on 13 women with an average age of 26 years, with the youngest being 20 and the oldest 45. The women included in this study all reported that they had symptoms of primary dysmenorrhea during all of their menstrual cycles during the previous year. All of the women suffered from low back pain, lower abdominal pain, and general abdominal pain each menstrual cycle.
The time period of the study covered 2 menstrual cycles for the women so the effects of care could be looked at for two consecutive cycles. Prior to care, all women were asked to rate their pains so that a baseline could be established. All subjects were asked to initially rate their pain from 0 to 10 with zero being no pain and ten being the "worst pain you could possibly imagine".
The results of this study showed a considerable improvement for most all of the subjects in each of their two subsequent cycles after chiropractic adjustments. The results for the women showed that their lower abdominal pain decreased from an average rating of 8.3 before care, down to a rating of 5.0 and 3.6 for the subsequent two cycles. Likewise, their general abdominal pain decreased from an average of 7.0 before care to 3.2 and 2.1, and their lower back pain decreased from an average of 6.0 down to 3.2 and 2.7 for subsequent cycles. In addition to the primary symptoms, the women in the study also noted improvements in secondary symptoms which included headaches, fatigue, diarrhea and constipation.
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AUGUSTA, GA – Guardian Watch (www.GuardianWatch.com) is a patent-pending mobile phone application and corresponding Web service that allows anyone with a smartphone to immediately alert emergency respondents and community groups to suspicious activities or emergencies. With the Guardian Watch™ mobile application, you can capture and report emergencies in real-time, as well as immediately alert 911, all from your cell phone. By providing live-stream images, via the free smartphone app, to the Guardian Watch secure Web site, you can provide critical information to local law enforcement and members of your neighborhood detailing any situation in progress, as well as the exact GPS location.
Guardian Watch is free for consumers to download and immediately begin creating community network groups with whom they can share alerts. By elevating social networking to act as a safety tool, Guardian Watch allows you to prepare early and respond quickly, providing every citizen the opportunity to safely take an active role in protecting themselves, their family and the community as a whole. As municipalities come on board, Guardian Watch will serve as a direct feed to notify and inform 911 and any other relevant emergency respondents of situations in progress, effectively saving lives through visual awareness. This puts the power to reduce, and even prevent crimes from happening, right in the palm of your hand.
The FCC states there are over 240 million calls made every year to the 6,149 emergency call centers in the United States alone. First responders are dispatched with very limited visual capability available to them to pre-assess the situation. The Guardian Watch solution uses the population-at-large to provide the real-time visual awareness first responders can use to better prepare prior to arriving to an emergency scene potentially decreasing response times, preserving resources and saving lives.
There are more than 40,000 organized neighborhood associations in the United States. Guardian Watch will help make them more effective than ever. The system continuously engages the public by including a social networking component to allow the observer to journal their story and share it with friends, family and the public, and organize their own neighborhood watch and other civic crime watch organizations in their community.
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When approaching improvisation over an established harmony in any genre, it helps to sort out the types of chords you're dealing with. My approach is rooted in jazz theory, a heavy component of which is improvisation: knowing how to approach a given harmonic progression.
Players like Joe Pass and Jimmy Bruno like to reduce the number of different chords as much as possible. Watching Joe Pass's interviews and instructional videos chronologically reveals the following regression (not direct quotes):
- "Dere are five types of chords: major, minor, dominant, half diminished, and fully diminished."
- "Dere are tree types of chords: major, minor, and dominant."
- "Dere are two types of chords: major and minor."
Pat Martino is known to view every single chord type as a substitution for some other minor chord.
While I usually favor mental shortcuts, and the Pass/Bruno approach is perfect for beginners or for strictly tonal jazz standards, I fear it conflates too many distinct chord types.
I think most would agree with me that there are as many types of chords as you have different ways of dealing with them. That's the point of separating or combining chord types in the first place. However, you lose many harmonic nuances if you combine too much. For example, C6 and Cmaj7 are very similar. In most cases in jazz, they serve the same function. But my improvisational approach is slightly different with each. Over C6, I wouldn't hesitate to use the root, while I'd be careful with the 7. Over Cmaj7, I'd embrace the 7 and avoid the root.
So I came up with a list of chord types, partial to jazz, that cover the different ways I deal with chords. Each of these is still a parent category for more specific chord types, but I chose these because I didn't feel like anything is lost by dealing with every chord within each category in the same way.
The name of each category is the most basic chord type that usually falls into it. I include some other chord types and scales to give an idea of what each category entails.
- 6: 69, major triad
- maj7: maj7b5, maj13#11, Lydian
- 7: 13#11, Lydian Dominant
- 7sus: Mixolydian
- 7b9: 13b9, natural 5, symmetrical dominant
- 7alt: altered 5s and 9s, altered dominant
- m7: more ii than i, Dorian
- m6: tonic minor i, melodic minor
- m7b5: m9b5, Locrian Natural 2
- dim7: symmetrical diminished
I've been using this system in its current state for a couple years now, and it's served me well, but it isn't perfect. There are times when a chord falls into a different category than the way it's written. In less tonal, chromatic modal tunes (Shorter, Hancock, Evans), some chords won't fit any of these categories. Or I might drop the same chord into different categories at different times (or even within a single measure). It helps to view the above list as "ways to deal with chords" rather than "chord types".
I'll end with an example, a static Cm9 chord. I might start by using the "m7" category, using Dorian and minor pentatonic. For some contrast, I could move to the "m6" category, using melodic minor. For some outside tension, I might use the "m7b5" category, tweaking the ear a bit with Locrian Natural 2.
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Foreign Language Placement and Foreign Language Proficiency Frequently Asked Questions
Why do I need to take a language placement exam?
Beginning in fall 2010, all entering undergraduate students are required to take a foreign language placement test to complete their new student registration. This is part of a new foreign language proficiency requirement for all Bachelor of Arts degree candidates in Bellarmine College. Please click here for more information about the foreign language requirement.
Do I still need to take a placement exam if I already have or am waiting for AP, IB, or CLEP scores?
YES! All entering students must take the WebCAPE online placement exam. However, your AP, IB, or CLEP scores may be sufficient to satisfy the foreign language requirement.
Do I still need to take a placement exam if I only had very little of the language?
YES! Our foreign language faculty will use the results of this test to determine your appropriate placement should you choose to study foreign language at Bellarmine. The WebCAPE is also used to determine whether you are eligible to take the STAMP (Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency) test to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language and satisfy the requirement for BA degree candidates in Bellarmine College.
Do I still need to take a placement exam if I’ve had some French, German, or Spanish, but I don’t feel confident and I want to take the Basic (101) course?
YES! No student with any French, German, or Spanish will be allowed to take basic language course without the placement exam. The placement exam will help us determine your level more objectively.
Do I still need to take a placement exam if I’ve had some French (or German, or Spanish) but I forgot every thing?
YES! See above.
Do I still need to take a placement exam if I never had the language before?
NO. If you did not study a foreign language prior to enrolling at Bellarmine, you must start at the 101 level and complete up to six hours of credit in a foreign language.
Do I still need to take a placement exam if I am a heritage or native speaker of a language other than English?
MAYBE. Heritage and native speakers should contact the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at 502.272.8237. You may be eligible for a waiver of the foreign language proficiency requirement, or you may need to take a test to determine your placement should you wish to pursue further language coursework at Bellarmine. Native speakers are only permitted to enroll into courses at the 300 level and above.
What if I want to take a placement test in a language not offered at Bellarmine?
Please contact the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at 502.272.8237.
What if my major has a Foreign Language requirement?
Some BA degree programs in Bellarmine College require foreign language coursework beyond that of the College proficiency requirement; students must meet the requirements of their respective major(s) in order to complete graduation requirements. For all BA degrees in Bellarmine College, however, the minimum proficiency must be met.
How do I interpret my WebCAPE score?
Placement exam results are available immediately after the exam is completed. If you place into the 101-102 level and intend to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bellarmine College, you will need to take three to six hours of foreign language to meet the proficiency requirement. Your advisor will also receive your score and help you with registering for the appropriate course.
If you score above the 102 level and wish to take the STAMP test to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language, you may take the test on campus on your Orientation day. There will be two STAMP testing time slots offered at each SOAR session: one at 1:30 p.m., and one at 3:30 p.m. Our advising and admissions staff will assist you with scheduling your test on that day.
How do I interpret my STAMP score?
Your reading score will be available immediately after you take the test. Your writing and speaking scores will take longer to process. The Department of Global Languages and Cultures will contact you with your final scores. Your final scores will determine whether you 1) have established proficiency at the 201 level, or 2) will need to be placed in a 101 or 102 level course.
I believe my score does not reflect my level. Can I register for a different course than indicated in the score interpretation?
NO. It is possible that after careful consideration and discussion with your instructor during the Drop/Add period that your placement level would change. Any necessary adjustment to a student’s placement will be made promptly during the first few days of class.
Why do I have to take the WebCAPE AND the STAMP to demonstrate proficiency?
While the WebCAPE test is adequate for determining course placement, to establish proficiency in a foreign language and satisfy the graduation requirement for BA degrees in Bellarmine College, we must be able to measure your speaking, writing and reading skills in a foreign language. This is accomplished with the STAMP test, which tests all three skills. | <urn:uuid:4e1f40e6-43a1-4ac6-95a7-d8aed852b587> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bellarmine.edu/cas/foreignlanguages/placementexams/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91921 | 1,066 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Scholar seeks to revise Mark Twain classic
By New edition removes Mark Twain's 'offensive' words
Montgomery, AL – A new edition of Mark Twain's
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" plans to
replace the N-word with "slave" in an effort not to offend
Twain scholar Alan Gribben is working with NewSouth Books in
Alabama to publish a combined volume of the books in February. He
says the N-word appears 219 times in "Huck Finn" and four times
in "Tom Sawyer."
Gribben says he has used "slave" instead of the N-word at
public readings and found audiences to be more accepting.
Other Twain scholars blasted his decision and Gribben has
received a flood of hateful e-mail accusing him of desecrating the
Twain scholar Stephen Railton, a University of Virginia
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Recent acquisitions: DMI records
Series AWM347 is a recently acquired collection of historical records of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI). Accumulated from 1927 to 1984, these records afford a detailed and often fascinating look into the thinking that characterised Australian and Allied intelligence doctrine for over half a century.
The collection consists of supplementary documents, maps and reports originating with the Commonwealth (Department of Defence and service arms) or acquired from foreign defence and intelligence organisations (in Britain and the United States) and often is collateral to other source material.
The records relate mainly to the Second World War and Vietnam War. The other periods of conflict this series covers is the war in Korea (intelligence gathering from enemy POWs and returning Allied POWs), the Cold War (and the capability of Cold War adversaries) and the inter-war period (the planning and conduct of military exercises).
Of interest is the earliest dated collection item: 'The Army Headquarters Staff Exercise of 1927'. This scheme considered the problem of how to 'oust an enemy once he has seized Port Stephens...the problems of the land defence of Newcastle and the prevention of an advance westward to the Maitland area.'
Another item of interest is the Government War Book of 1954 , and is the first time a Commonwealth agency has offered a 1950s edition for viewing. This document from the Cold War was approved by Cabinet as a 'Summary of Important Action to be Taken by Government Departments', spelling out the commitment of the Menzies Government to direct the economy in the event of war.
AWM347 is not a record of DMI administrative practice. The collecting activity of the organisation meant that most of the maps and reports are distributed copies (for example, Army Staff Exercise 1927). However, the diverse nature of AWM347 makes it possible to gain access to lesser known intelligence histories recorded by government ( such as the Government War Book of 1954), defence and intelligence agencies both here and overseas. The scope of records which are Australian in origin include:
- Censorship and Radio Telegraphy and Telephony, August 1933;
- Security of Internees and POWs in Australia, 1939-1945;
- Intelligence dossiers for Operation Oboe One, Oboe Two and Oboe Six in 1945;
- Monthly reports of Office of the Naval and Military Attaché, Australian Embassy, Saigon 1963-1964;
- Pacification schemes in Phuoc Tuy Province, 1967-1972
Items of United States origin include:
- Department of the Army pamphlet 30-5-2 and 30-11-1. Foreign weapons and military equipment - Volume 5 Engineer Equipment - Volume 6 Signal Equipment, 1951 to 1953
- US 500th Military Intelligence Service Group, Chinese and Korean prisoner interrogation reports, 1953;
- Third Regional Assistance Command PERINTREP [Period Intelligence Report], 1971.
The RecordSearch series decription page for AWM347 enables you to examine the items catalogued to date. You can find more information by viewing the series note, agency links and associated item notes.
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Murad Baksh (died 1661) was the youngest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and empress Mumtaz Mahal. In 1657 he proclaimed himself emperor after reports that his father had died and later joined hands with Aurangzeb to defeat Dara Shikhoh, the eldest son of Shah Jahan. More information...
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She was a daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary (1205-35) and his wife Gertrude, a member of the family of the Counts of Andechs-Meran; Elizabeth's brother succeeded his father on the throne of Hungary as Bela IV; the sister of her mother, Gertrude, was St. Hedwig, wife of Duke Heinrich I, the Bearded, of Silesia, while another saint, St. Elizabeth (Isabel) of Portugal (d. 1336), the wife of the tyrannical King Diniz of that country, was her great-niece.
In 1211 a formal embassy was sent by Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia to Hungary to arrange, as was customary in that age, a marriage between his eldest son Hermann and Elizabeth, who was then four years old. This plan of a marriage was the result of political considerations and was intended to be the ratification of a great alliance which in the political schemes of the time it was sought to form against the German Emperor Otto IV, a member of the house of Guelph, who had quarrelled with the Church. Not long after this the little girl was taken to the Thuringian court to be brought up with her future husband and, in the course of time, to be betrothed to him.
The court of Thuringia was at this period famous for its magnificence. Its centre was the stately castle of the Wartburg, splendidly placed on a hill in the Thuringian Forest near Eisenach, where the Landgrave Hermann lived surrounded by poets and minnesingers, to whom he was a generous patron. Notwithstanding the turbulence and purely secular life of the court and the pomp of her surroundings, the little girl grew up a very religious child with an evident inclination to prayer and pious observances and small acts of self-mortification. These religious impulses were undoubtedly strengthened by the sorrowful experiences of her life.
In 1213 Elizabeth's mother, Gertrude, was murdered by Hungarian nobles, probably out of hatred of the Germans. On 31 December, 1216, the oldest son of the landgrave, Hermann, who Elizabeth was to marry, died; after this she was betrothed to Ludwig, the second son. It was probably in these years that Elizabeth had to suffer the hostility of the more frivolous members of the Thuringian court, to whom the contemplative and pious child was a constant rebuke. Ludwig, however, must have soon come to her protection against any ill-treatment. The legend that arose later is incorrect in making Elizabeth's mother-in-law, the Landgravine Sophia, a member of the reigning family of Bavaria, the leader of this court party. On the contrary, Sophia was a very religious and charitable woman and a kindly mother to the little Elizabeth.
The political plans of the old Landgrave Hermann involved him in great difficulties and reverses; he was excommunicated, lost his mind towards the end of his life, and died, 25 April, 1217, unreconciled with the Church. He was succeeded by his son Ludwig IV, who, in 1221, was also made regent of Meissen and the East Mark. The same year (1221) Ludwig and Elizabeth were married, the groom being twenty-one years old and the bride fourteen. The marriage was in every regard a happy and exemplary one, and the couple were devotedly attached to each other. Ludwig proved himself worthy of his wife. He gave his protection to her acts of charity, penance, and her vigils, and often held Elizabeth's hands as she knelt praying at night beside his bed. He was also a capable ruler and brave soldier. The Germans call him St. Ludwig, an appellation given to him as one of the best men of his age and the pious husband of St. Elizabeth.
They had three children: Hermann II (1222-41), who died young; Sophia (1224-84), who married Henry II, Duke of Brabant, and was the ancestress of the Landgraves of Hesse, as in the war of the Thuringian succession she won Hesse for her son Heinrich I, called the Child; Gertrude (1227-97), Elizabeth's third child, was born several weeks after the death of her father; in after-life she became abbess of the convent of Altenberg near Wetzlar.
Shortly after their marriage, Elizabeth and Ludwig made a journey to Hungary; Ludwig was often after this employed by the Emperor Frederick II, to whom he was much attached, in the affairs of the empire. In the spring of 1226, when floods, famine, and the pest wrought havoc in Thuringia, Ludwig was in Italy attending the Diet at Cremona on behalf of the emperor and the empire. Under these circumstances Elizabeth assumed control of affairs, distributed alms in all parts of the territory of her husband, giving even state robes and ornaments to the poor. In order to care personally for the unfortunate she built below the Wartburg a hospital with twenty-eight beds and visited the inmates daily to attend to their wants; at the same time she aided nine hundred poor daily. It is this period of her life that has preserved Elizabeth's fame to posterity as the gentle and charitable chételaine of the Wartburg. Ludwig on his return confirmed all she had done. The next year (1227) he started with the Emperor Frederick II on a crusade to Palestine but died, 11 September of the same year at Otranto, from the pest. The news did not reach Elizabeth until October, just after she had given birth to her third child. On hearing the tidings Elizabeth, who was only twenty years old, cried out: "The world with all its joys is now dead to me."
The fact that in 1221 the followers of St. Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) made their first permanent settlement in Germany was one of great importance in the later career of Elizabeth. Brother Rodeger, one of the first Germans whom the provincial for Germany, Caesarius of Speier, received into the order, was for a time the spiritual instructor of Elizabeth at the Wartburg; in his teachings he unfolded to her the ideals of St. Francis, and these strongly appealed to her. With the aid of Elizabeth the Franciscans in 1225 founded a monastery in Eisenach; Brother Rodeger, as his fellow-companion in the order, Jordanus, reports, instructed Elizabeth, to observe, according to her state of life, chastity, humility, patience, the exercise of prayer, and charity. Her position prevented the attainment of the other ideal of St. Francis, voluntary and complete poverty. Various remarks of Elizabeth to her female attendants make it clear how ardently she desired the life of poverty.
After a while the post Brother Rodeger had filled was assumed by Master Conrad of Marburg, who belonged to no order, but was a very ascetic and, it must be acknowledged, a somewhat rough and very severe man. He was well known as a preacher of the crusade and also as an inquisitor or judge in cases of heresy. On account of the latter activity he has been more severely judged than is just; at the present day, however, the estimate of him is a fairer one. Pope Gregory IX, who wrote at times to Elizabeth, recommended her himself to the God-fearing preacher. Conrad treated Elizabeth with inexorable severity, even using corporal means of correction; nevertheless, he brought her with a firm hand by the road of self-mortification to sanctity, and after her death was very active in her canonization. Although he forbade her to follow St. Francis in complete poverty as a beggar, yet, on the other hand, by the command to keep her dower she was enabled to perform works of charity and tenderness.
Up to 1888 it was believed, on account of the testimony of one of Elizabeth's servants in the process of canonization, that Elizabeth was driven from the Wartburg in the winter of 1227 by her brother-in-law, Heinrich Raspe, who acted as regent for her son, then only five years old. About 1888 various investigators (Börner, Mielke, Wenck, E. Michael, etc.) asserted that Elizabeth left the Wartburg voluntarily, the only compulsion being a moral one. She was not able at the castle to follow Conrad's command to eat only food obtained in a way that was certainly right and proper. Lately, however, Huyskens (1907) tried to prove that Elizabeth was driven from the castle at Marburg in Hesse, which was hers by dower right. Consequently, the Te Deum that she directed the Franciscans to sing on the night of her expulsion would have been sung in the Franciscan monastery at Marburg. Accompanied by two female attendants, Elizabeth left the castle that stands on a height commanding Marburg. The next day her children were brought to her, but they were soon taken elsewhere to be cared for.
Elizabeth's aunt, Matilda, Abbess of the Benedictine nunnery of Kitzingen near Würzburg, took charge of the unfortunate landgravine and sent her to her uncle Eckbert, Bishop of Bamberg. The bishop, however, was intent on arranging another marriage for her, although during the lifetime of her husband Elizabeth had made a vow of continence in case of his death; the same vow had also been taken by her attendants.
While Elizabeth was maintaining her position against her uncle the remains of her husband were brought to Bamberg by his faithful followers who had carried them from Italy. Weeping bitterly, she buried the body in the family vault of the landgraves of Thuringia in the monastery of Reinhardsbrunn. With the aid of Conrad she now received the value of her dower in money, namely two thousand marks; of this sum she divided five hundred marks in one day among the poor. On Good Friday, 1228, in the Franciscan house at Eisenach Elizabeth formally renounced the world; then going to Master Conrad at Marburg, she and her maids received from him the dress of the Third Order of St. Francis, thus being among the first tertiaries of Germany. In the summer of 1228 she built the Franciscan hospital at Marburg and on its completion devoted herself entirely to the care of the sick, especially to those afflicted with the most loathsome diseases. Conrad of Marburg still imposed many self-mortifications and spiritual renunciations, while at the same time he even took from Elizabeth her devoted domestics. Constant in her devotion to God, Elizabeth's strength was consumed by her charitable labours, and she passed away at the age of twenty-four, a time when life to most human beings is just opening.
Very soon after the death of Elizabeth miracles began to be worked at her grave in the church of the hospital, especially miracles of healing. Master Conrad showed great zeal in advancing the process of canonization. By papal command three examinations were held of those who had been healed: namely, in August, 1232, January, 1233, and January, 1235. Before the process reached its end, however, Conrad was murdered, 30 July, 1233. But the Teutonic Knights in 1233 founded a house at Marburg, and in November, 1234, Conrad, Landgrave of Thuringia, the brother-in-law of Elizabeth, entered the order. At Pentecost (28 May) of the year 1235, the solemn ceremony of canonization of the "greatest woman of the German Middle Ages" was celebrated by Gregory IX at Perugia, Landgrave Conrad being present. In August of the same year (1235) the corner-stone of the beautiful Gothic church of St. Elizabeth was laid at Marburg; on 1 May, 1236, Emperor Frederick II attended the taking-up of the body of the saint; in 1249 the remains were placed in the choir of the church of St. Elizabeth, which was not consecrated until 1283.
Pilgrimages to the grave soon increased to such importance that at times they could be compared to those to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela. In 1539 Philip the Magnanimous, Landgrave of Hesse, who had become a Protestant, put an end to the pilgrimages by unjustifiable interference with the church that belonged to the Teutonic Order and by forcibly removing the relics and all that was sacred to Elizabeth. Nevertheless, the entire German people still honour the "dear St. Elizabeth" as she is called; in 1907 a new impulse was given to her veneration in Germany and Austria by the celebration of the seven hundredth anniversary of her birth.
St. Elizabeth is generally represented as a princess graciously giving alms to the wretched poor or as holding roses in her lap; in the latter case she is portrayed either alone or as surprised by her husband, who, according to a legend, which is, however, related of other saints as well, met her unexpectedly as she went secretly on an errand of mercy, and, so the story runs, the bread she was trying to conceal was suddenly turned into roses.
The original materials for the life of St. Elizabeth are to be found in the letters sent by CONRAD OF MARBURG to Pope Gregory IX (1232) and in the testimony of her four female attendants (Libellus de dictis quatuor ancillarum) taken by the third papal commission (January, 1235). The best edition of the testimony is to be found in HUYSKENS, Quellenstudien zur Geschichte der hl. Elisabeth, Landgräfin von Thüringen (Marburg, 1908),110-40. For the Acts of the process of canonization see HUYSKENS, Quellenstudien, 110-268; Vita S. Elisabethae des Caesarius von Heisterbach O. Cist. (1236), ed. HUYSKENS, in Annalen des historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein (Cologne, 1908), Pt. LXXXV; the hagiography of St. Elizabeth was greatly influenced by DIETRICH OF APOLDA, Vita S. Elisabeth (written 1289-97), published in CANISIUS, Antiquae lectionis (Ingolstadt, 1605), V, Pt. II, 147-217, and in BASNAGE, Thesaurus Monumentorum Ecclesiasticorum (Amsterdam, 1723). IV. 115-152.
APA citation. (1909). St. Elizabeth of Hungary. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05389a.htm
MLA citation. "St. Elizabeth of Hungary." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05389a.htm>.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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The decision was made to conserve cash and resources on development on its cancer drugs.
GERN has 2 cancer therapies in or beginning the 2nd of 3 trials generally required for FDA approval. One treatment, called Imetelstat, is being tested in non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, the blood disorder thrombocythemia and multiple myeloma. The other, GRN1005, is being tested against brain metastases stemming from non-small cell lung cancer as well as from breast cancer.
GERN will cut 66 full-time jobs, or 38% of its workforce, and take cash charge of $5M in Q4/11 and $3M in the first half of FY12. GERN will end 2011 with $150M in cash and it had a net loss of about $65M in the first nine months of the year, according to its most recent quarterly report. Shares of GERN have dropped about 23.18% in trading, to $1.69, so far Tuesday.
Geron said that its move did not reflect a lack of promise for the controversial field. Rather, it said, with money scarce, it had decided to focus on its experimental cancer therapies, which are further along in development.
Still, the move is expected to be widely seen as a setback for embryonic versus adult stem cell research, because of GERN’s central and early role. There will be a lot of concern GERN’s exit, and speculation will create fits, rebounds and share price depreciation -- for a while -- for the stem cell universe. But it has cast a pall over existing research field. A specific issue that is still paramount: managing and controlling the cells, as well as the manufacturing capability.
I believe the FDA bears some responsibility in that it has inhibited research invoking “holds” and trial approvals. (I could have used another title -- “FDA Kills Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research” -- invoking The Buggles' 1979 hit "Video Killed the Radio Star." It celebrates the golden days of radio, describing a singer whose career is cut short by television.)
The biggest credibility hit could be taken by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which was supposed to provide matching funds to help GERN finance clinical trials of its experimental stem cell therapies. Yet another factor is the new CEO, John Scarlett, who was brought in at the end of September to replace longtime CEO Tom Okarma, who had to make some tough decisions.
At the end of the day, as enticing as the upside could have been, it was also impractical to carry cell therapy and cancer research programs. One has to wonder about Advanced Cell Technology (ACTC.OB) as the only stem cell company conducting active clinical trials on human embryonic stem cell-based products. That’s not to say that all stem cell research is toast; work continues in embryonic stem cells and “adult” stem cells treatments forged from cells that already have differentiated into specific functions, like heart muscle, as well as induced pluripotent stem cells, adult stem cells returned to an embryonic-like state and manipulated in the lab to form specific cells.
So how many other business plans are about to change and evolve?
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Only 28 percent of registered voters in Santa CruzCounty turned out to vote in the Tuesday, June 5, presidential primary election, which also asked voters to decide statewide propositions, a local school tax and races on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors.
The local ballot also featured the primary races for positions in the California Legislature and the U.S. Senate.
The primary system was different in years past, however, with the top-two vote-getters, regardless of party, advancing to the Nov. 6 general election.
“It kind of played out as expected,” said County Clerk Gail Pellerin. “I don’t think there were any surprises.”
Candidates for county supervisor and other local offices, however, could earn outright victory June 5 if they received more than 50 percent of all votes tallied.
It was also the first election since a citizens’ commission redrew political districts for county and state offices.
Measure K wins cash for school
ScottsValleyvoters overwhelmingly approved Measure K, a $48-per-parcel annual tax which should generate about $350,000 a year for Scotts Valley’s public schools.
The money should help stave off teacher layoffs, class size increases and program losses resulting from reduced educational funding by the state.
“I think it’s a real indication of all the community’s support of our teachers and schools,” said Derek Timm of Save Our Schools Scotts Valley, which spearheaded an effort to get the measure approved. “The community understood through the campaign that our schools were in real financial straits.”
The measure needed a two-thirds vote to pass and easily reached that mark, with 76 percent of the 4,117 voters approving.
“The community really answered the call,” Timm said. “Their willingness to help really feels great.”
Term limits altered by Proposition 28
By a 64 percent vote, Californians changed the total amount of time a person can serve in the state Legislature from 14 to 12 years, but that dozen years can now be spent in a single house.
Previously, legislators could serve a maximum of six years in the Assembly and eight years in the Senate.
Proposition 29 cigarette tax on brink of failure
An additional $1 tax on each pack of cigarettes sold in California appears to have failed by a small margin.
Though thousands of mail-in votes were still to be counted as of press time, Wednesday, June 6, with all precincts giving their unofficial reports, 50.8 percent of Californians had voted no on the measure.
Supporters hoped to raise about $735 million each year for cancer and tobacco-related disease research through Proposition 29.
Incumbent Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will run against Elizabeth Emken, R-Danville, in the fall. Feinstein gathered 49.5 percent of the vote, with Emken gathering 12.5 percent in a ballot category featuring 24 candidates.
InSanta CruzCounty, Feinstein garnered nearly 64 percent of the vote.
17th State Senate District
Bill Monning, D-Carmel, running for the state Senate for the first time after serving four years as a member of the Assembly, will face Larry Beaman, R-Scotts Valley, in November.
Monning received 59.2 percent of the vote in the district, and Beaman 40.8 percent. However, inSanta CruzCounty, Monning took 73.42 percent and Beaman just more than 26 percent.
18th Congressional District
Incumbent Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, and Republican Dave Chapman will advance to face each other in the Nov. 6 election.
Eshoo captured 60.6 percent of the vote across the 18th District and 63.9 percent inSanta CruzCounty.
29th Assembly District
Mark Stone,D-ScottsValley, and Tom Walsh, R-Bonny Doon, will vie for the Assembly seat vacated by Bill Monnin, who is running for a state senate seat.
Stone took 54.7 percent of the vote district-wide, including 60.64 percent inSanta CruzCounty, while Walsh won 31.8 percent in the district and 25.1 percent in the county.
1st District Santa Cruz County Supervisor
Incumbent 1st District Supervisor John Leopold handily won his re-election bid, garnering 70.31 percent of the vote — 4,300 more votes than Gary Arnold, his closest rival.
The 1st District lines were re-drawn to include a portion of northernScottsValley on the east side of Highway 17.
5th District Santa Cruz County Supervisor
Pending a count of mail-in ballots, it appears Bruce McPherson and Eric Hammer are headed for a Nov. 6 runoff election.
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This major new Handbook provides a definitive state-of-the-art review to political theory, past and present. It offers a complete guide to all the main areas and fields of political and philosophical inquiry today by the world's leading theorists.
The Handbook is divided into five parts which together serve to illustrate:
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The difference between deliverance and spiritual warfare is that deliverance is dealing with demonic bondages, and getting a person set free, whereas spiritual warfare is resisting, overcoming and defeating the enemy's lies (in the form of deception, temptations and accusations) that he sends our way. Deliverance involves the breaking up of legal grounds, the tearing down of strongholds (offensive spiritual warfare), and the casting out of demons. Spiritual warfare on the other hand, is dealing with three key things the enemy sends at us: temptations, deception and accusations.
This teaching will give you an idea of how spiritual warfare works. There are other teachings on this site that will go into more detail on certain areas of spiritual warfare.
Offensive vs. defensive warfare
Spiritual warfare comes in two ways: offensive and defensive. Offensive warfare is tearing down the strongholds the enemy has formed in your mind through deception and accusations, and defensive warfare is guarding yourself against the tactics or schemes of the devil.
The enemy's three primary weapons
There are three things that we can expect from the devil. The Bible tells us that we struggle not against flesh and blood, but against demonic forces. Ephesians 6:12, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." The three primary things we struggle against include:
#1 Deception: To deceive somebody means to make another person believe a lie or something that is not true. When the enemy sends deception your way, it is an attempt to deceive you into believing something that is not true, so you will fall into error. Strongholds are built through deception. A stronghold is formed when deception takes hold in a person's mind. A stronghold is an incorrect thinking pattern that stems from believing something that is not true.
From the very beginning, Satan deceived Eve into believing that God's Word was not true. In Genesis 3:4, the devil told her that she will not surely die as God said she would in Genesis 2:17.
#2 Temptation: Temptation often follows deception. First the enemy tells us, "You won't surely die!", then he makes the fruit on the forbidden tree look good to us. Since Eve accepted Satan's deception (his lie), now the tree that she was not supposed to touch looked good to her. She was tempted (enticed) to sin, because she allowed herself to first be deceived. Temptation is when we are enticed or encouraged to sin in one way or another.
In Matthew 4, Jesus was led out in the desert to be tempted by the devil. The devil tried to convince Jesus that it would be harmless to jump off a building. Often people will be so drawn to sex with their boyfriend/girlfriend when the enemy tries to convince them that it is all harmless and fun, when it's not harmless at all, but an open door to the devil. Jesus saw through Satan's deception, and resisted the temptation by speaking God's Word. King David said in Psalms 119:11, "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."
When the enemy tempts you, he's showing you the worm... but behind that worm is a hook. The Word of God helps you see the hook behind the worm.
#3 Accusations: The devil is known as the accuser of the brethren (Rev 12:10). He is known to take a believer who has done an embarrassing or gross sin in their past, and continue to rub it in their faces and beat them down with guilt and condemnation over their past.
Dealing with deception
We have two weapons to deal with deceptions: the belt of truth (Ephesians 6:14) and the sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17) which is the Word of God. Both are truth, which is found in God's Word, so why are they given two different names (a sword and a belt)? Because one is meant to be defensive (the belt), while the other is meant to be offensive (the sword). This means that the Word of God is both an offensive and a defensive weapon. A belt is something you wear to guard against an attack, while a sword is used to slaughter the enemy.
You use the belt of truth (God's Word) to guard against the enemy's deception (lies) he sends your way, while you use the sword of the Spirit (also God's Word) to tear down existing strongholds (deception that took hold) in your mind.
In Romans 12:2, we are told to "be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." How do we renew our minds? By getting in God's Word! In Ephesians 5:26, this process is referred to as washing of water by the Word: "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word."
Dealing with temptation
In James 4:7, we are told to resist the devil and he will flee from us. But it's not that simple; in the same verse, we are also told to draw near to God. Dealing with temptation is a two fold process of resisting the devil and drawing near to God. The closer you get to God and the more you become aware of His love, the less power temptation will have over you.
James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." (The context of those verse is clearly speaking of temptation).
In the teaching Forgiven Sinner or Saint?, it shows you how the power of sin (temptation) can be broken in our lives.
Dealing with accusations
The fiery darts of the enemy in Ephesians 6:16 are accusations sent our way. For example, when the devil tries to accuse us of our past sins, we are to have faith in the work of the cross and know that they are forgiven and not to look back. Faith is what we use to put out the fiery darts of the enemy (Ephesians 6:16). We are not to meditate about our pasts, because they have passed away (2 Corinthians 5:17), and our sins have been forgotten (Hebrews 10:17).
Ephesians 6:14, "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth (knowing your sins have been forgiven through your faith in the work on the cross), and having on the breastplate of righteousness (not our righteousness obviously, but the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus);"
Our righteousness is as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6), but because of the work of the cross, we can receive the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus (Romans 3:22, Galatians 3:6). Therefore when the enemy tries to remind you of your past, tell him it's been washed away (2 Corinthians 5:17), your sins have been forgotten (Hebrews 10:17) and you have the righteousness of God (Romans 3:22)!
There are other teachings on this site that will specifically help you wage war against the enemy's accusations. They include Condemnation versus Conviction, The Power of Your Thoughts and Dealing with Guilt.
The tearing down of strongholds
A stronghold is deception that's taken hold in a person's mind. It's an incorrect thinking pattern based on a believed lie. People can get incorrect perceptions of God by listening to Satan as he tells them how God doesn't love them, etc. People can feel like dirty old sinners when they believe Satan's accusations as he continually reminds them of their past (which has been washed away!). Strongholds are based on lies from the devil. They can come in the form of deception or accusations. Accusations always lead to guilt and the feeling of unworthiness, which weighs you down and tears you apart spiritually.
Since strongholds are built upon lies that we have been fed, the way we tear down strongholds is by feeding on the truth (in God's Word), which is the opposite of what the enemy has been feeding us. If the enemy has been feeding us a lie, we need to stop eating the lie and start feeding ourselves the truth. The weapon we use to tear down strongholds is found in Ephesians 6:17, "...the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." A sword is an offensive weapon and is meant to tear down and kill the enemy's troops. Strongholds are the devil's assets in war, and he uses them against us. Take up the sword of the Spirit (God's Word) today, and start slaughtering the enemy's assets that he's been using against you!
The teaching on Strongholds will give you a much better understanding of how strongholds work and how to tear them down.
Some good spiritual warfare books
Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer
Basic Training by Kim Freeman
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by Steven Siceloff for KSC News
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 08, 2013
Researchers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are evaluating small tiles made of space trash to find out whether they can be stored aboard spacecraft safely or even used for radiation shielding during a deep-space mission.
The circular tiles were produced at the agency's Ames Research Center in California, where engineers developed and built a compactor that melts trash but doesn't incinerate it. After compaction, a day's worth of garbage becomes an 8-inch diameter tile about half an inch thick. Plastic water bottles, clothing scraps, duct tape and foil drink pouches are left patched together in a single tile along with an amalgam of other materials left from a day of living in space.
"One of the ways these discs could be re-used is as a radiation shield because there's a lot of plastic packaging in the trash. The idea is to make these tiles, and, if the plastic components are high enough, they could actually shield radiation," said Mary Hummerick, a Qinetiq North America microbiologist at Kennedy working on the project.
Possible areas for increased radiation shielding include astronauts' sleeping quarters or perhaps a small area in the spacecraft that would be built up to serve as a storm shelter to protect crews from solar flare effects.
Hummerick and the team working in the Space Life Sciences Lab at Kennedy are trying to identify if the tiles - which are made according to recipes based on trash from shuttle missions - are free of microorganisms or at least safe enough for astronauts to come into contact with daily.
The compactor heats the trash for 3 1/2 hours to between 300 and 350 degrees F, which should be hot enough to kill any microorganisms. The mechanism also squeezes a pound of material into the compressed tile, a reduction of at least 10 times the original size.
"Hopefully we achieve sterilization within the tile," Hummerick said. "We're starting a series of tests with a certain process temperature and time. We just sent Ames six bundles of our special trash recipe. They'll compact it and send them back to us for analysis. If the time and temperature tests seem to be achieving what we want, we'll go to long-range storage testing."
The tiles are stored in an atmosphere identical to that of the International Space Station for the tests. The microbiologists take small samples from the tile and look for signs of microbial growth. They are also interested to see if the tiles will support the growth of fungi and other micro-organisms if left alone exposed in an environment like the one they would face inside a spacecraft.
"They are achieving sterilization for the most part," Hummerick said, explaining that test strips containing bacterial spores are embedded in the tiles to see if the heating and compaction process is effective in killing bacteria. "What we don't know is, can a few possible surviving bacteria go inert and then grow back."
Handling trash is an important consideration for NASA mission planners and astronauts for several reasons. First, no one wants a cramped spacecraft to become overrun with garbage. Second, resources will be extremely limited for a crew that will be expected to live in space for up to two years, the time it would take for a Mars mission.
Crews cannot simply jettison trash as they go through space because it could land on - and possible contaminate - a planet or moon. NASA policy dictates avoiding contaminating other worlds.
"We don't want to contaminate the surface of an asteroid or something just by throwing the trash out the door," said Richard Strayer, also a Kennedy-based microbiologist with Enterprise Advisory Services Inc. "If NASA doesn't do something about it, then the spacecraft will become like a landfill, with the astronauts adding trash to it every day."
Astronauts can pack their garbage from the International Space Station into Russian Progress supply ships, which burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Another primary goal of the process is to remove water from the trash so it can be re-used by the crew. Water is one of the densest life support materials upon which astronauts depend. Because water is so dense, it is very heavy to take into space, so efficiently processing it for re-use is seen as essential to a successful mission beyond low-Earth orbit.
"The mindset is, with limited resources, whatever you can use, you want to be able to repurpose that," Hummerick said. "Water is a very valuable commodity, so you want to recover all of that you can." In addition, the very low water content after compaction makes the tiles less likely to support any microbial growth.
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The Birth of Stochastic Science
I have seen in Richard Dawkins' work many references to the difficulty people have, when looking at an animal, in accepting that it is not the product of a top-down design, but the result of a random process — more exactly the upper bound of a random process, in which (roughly, and only roughly) the most successful mutations tend to make it. Yet my problem is that when those who accept the evolutionary argument look at a computer, at a laser beam, at a successful drug, at a surgical technique, at the spread of a language, at the growth of a city, or at an commercial enterprise, they tend to fall for the belief that its discovery or establishment partook of some grand design. And, in hindsight, some "explanation" will be given as to why it happened: there was a plot — it could not have been an accident.
Alas, we are victims of the narrative fallacy — even in scientific research (but while we learned how to manage it in religion, and to some degree in finance, we do not seem to be aware of its prevalence in research). The pattern-seeking, causality producing machine in us blinds us with illusions of order in spite of our horrifying past forecast errors. I hold that not only discoveries are also largely the result of a random process, but that their randomness is even less tractable than, and not as simple as, biological evolution. While nature might produce milder form of stochasticity, the environment for manmade discoveries is governed by a far, far more severe, wilder form of processes, those called "fat tailed".
Against what one might expect, this makes me extremely optimistic about the future in several selective research-oriented domains, those in which there is an asymmetry in outcomes favoring the positive over the negative — like evolution. These domains thrive on randomness. The higher the uncertainty in such environments, the rosier the future — since we only select what works and discard the rest. With unplanned discoveries, you pick what's best; as with a financial option, you do not have any obligation to take what you do not like. Rigorous reasoning applies less to the planning than to the selection of what works. I also call these discoveries positive "Black Swans": you can't predict them but you know where they can come from and you know how they will affect you. My optimism in these domains comes from both the continuous increase in the rate of trial and error and the increase in uncertainty and general unpredictability.
I am convinced that the future of America is rosier than people claim — I've been hearing about its imminent decline ever since I started reading. Take the following puzzle. Whenever you hear or read a snotty European presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as "uncultured", "unintellectual" and "poor in math" because, unlike his peers, they are not into equation drills and the constructions middlebrows people call "high culture". Yet the person making these statements will be likely to be addicted to his Ipod, wearing t-shirts and blue jeans, and using Microsoft Word to jot down his "cultural" statements on his (Intel) PC, with some Google searches on the Internet here and there interrupting his composition. Well, it so happened that the U.S. is currently far, far more tinkering an environment than that of these nations of museum goers and equation solvers — in spite of the perceived weakness of the educational system, which allows the bottom-up uncertainty-driven trial-and-error system to govern it, whether in technology or in business.
It fosters entrepreneurs and creators, not exam takers, bureaucrats or, worse, deluded economists. So the perceived weakness of the American pupil in conventional and theoretical studies is where it very strength lies — it produces "doers", Black Swan hunting, dream-chasing entrepreneurs, or others with a tolerance for risk-taking which attracts aggressive tinkering foreigners. And globalization allowed the U.S. to specialize in the creative aspect of things, the risk-taking production of concepts and ideas, that is, the scalable and fat-tailed part of the products, and, increasingly, by exporting jobs, separate the less scalable and more linear components and assign them to someone in more mathematical and "cultural" states happy to be paid by the hour and work on other people's ideas. (I hold, against the current Adam Smith-style discourse in economics, that the American undirected free-enterprise works because it aggressively allows to capture the randomness of the environment — "cheap options"— not much because of competition and certainly less because of material incentives. Neither the followers of Adam Smith, nor to some extent, those of Karl Marx, seem to be conscious about the role of wild randomness. They are too bathed in enlightenment-style causation and cannot separate skills and payoffs.)
The world is giving us more "cheap options", and options benefit principally from uncertainty. So I am particularly optimistic about medical cures. To the dismay of many planners, there is an acceleration of the random element in medicine putting the impact of discoveries in a class of Mandelbrotian power-law style payoffs. It is compounded by another effect: exposure to serendipity. People are starting to realize that a considerable component of the gravy in medical discoveries is coming from the "fringes", people finding what they are not exactly looking for. It is not just that hypertension drugs lead to Viagra, angiogenesis drugs lead to the treatment of macular degeneration, tuberculosis drugs treat depression and Parkinson's disease, etc., but that even discoveries that we claim to come from research are themselves highly accidental, the result of tinkering narrated ex post and dressed up as design. The high rate of failure should be sufficiently convincing of the lack of effectiveness of design.
But if the success rate is very low, the more we search, the more likely we are to find things "by accident", outside the original plan — or the more an unspecified original "plan" is likely to succeed. Looking at the swelling pipeline, something tells me that the discovery of cures, or near-cures for unspecified diseases is about to happen — except that I do not know which one, nor do I know where it is coming from. More technically, I see the sign of fractal randomness in these payoffs from the fact that results are more linear to the number of investments than they are to quantities invested — thus favoring the multiplication of small bets.
All the while institutional science is largely driven by causal certainties, or the illusion of the ability to grasp these certainties; stochastic tinkering does not have easy acceptance. Yet we are increasingly learning to practice it without knowing — thanks to overconfident entrepreneurs, naive investors, greedy investment bankers, and aggressive venture capitalists brought together by the free-market system. I am also optimistic that the academy is losing its power and ability to put knowledge in straightjackets and more out-of-the-box knowledge will be generated Wiki-style. But what I am saying is not totally new. Accepting that technological improvement is an undirected (and unpredictable) stochastic process was the agenda of an almost unknown branch of Hellenic medicine in the second century Mediterranean Near East called the "empirics". Its best known practitioners were Menodotus of Nicomedia and my hero of heroes Sextus Empiricus. They advocated theory-free opinion-free trial-and-error, literally stochastic medicine. Their voices were drowned by the theoretically driven Galenic, and later Arab-Aristotelian medicine that prevailed until recently.
This idea applies to so many other technological domains. The only bad news is that we can't really tell where the good news are going to be about, except that we can locate it in specific locations, those with a high number of trials. More tinkering equals more Black Swans. Go look for the tinkerers. | <urn:uuid:b4045091-8911-45d2-928c-ba399204b607> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://edge.org/print/response-detail/10370 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954152 | 1,657 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Defectors from Syrian army attack military facilities
So, too, was the timing. After months of equivocation, Arab leaders are closing ranks on Assad, in part out of concern that the eight-month-old uprising against Assad’s rule is descending into an armed struggle that could spin beyond Syria’s borders.
But Assad’s loss of Arab support appears only to be accelerating the push to arms, by giving his opponents hope that they will soon receive international help. It also may be interpreted as a signal to members of Syria’s armed forces that now is the time to defect, said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics.
“This is extremely dangerous,” he said. “We’re witnessing the emergence of a potent armed insurgency that could really plunge the region into conflict.”
The insurgency is coalescing around an entity called the Free Syrian Army, a group of defected army officers who fled to Turkey and proclaimed their existence in a YouTube video in July.
The group says it represents as many as 10,000 defected soldiers who are operating in small groups scattered around Syria. It asserted responsibility for Wednesday’s assault on the Air Force Intelligence building in a posting on its Facebook page, saying the strike was intended to “send a message to the regime that the Free Syrian Army can hit anywhere and anytime.”
Diplomats suspect that the number of defectors may be far smaller and that the group also comprises civilians who have taken up arms.
But Col. Malik al-Kurdi, the Free Syrian Army’s deputy commander, said in a telephone interview from Turkey that defections have risen in recent days in response to the Arab League’s decision Saturday to suspend Syria if it does not stop violence against protesters.
Kurdi said the rebel group is pushing Arab leaders to go further, toward the creation of a buffer zone along the Turkish border where a real rebel army can be formed and a no-fly zone imposed.
Neither Western nor regional powers have shown any inclination for military intervention in volatile Syria, but Kurdi said he is confident that it will eventually come.
“We are powerful and we can impose the reality of our power to push the Arab League,” he said.
November 16, 2011, Syrian army defectors go on the attack? NeedToAwaken/EuroNews:
September 16, 2011, Syria Army Attacks Hama Protesters as they Leave Mosque 9-23-11. Syria2011archives/SyrianDream:
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I'm currently troubleshooting a state-variable filter I built. All of the filter types work, but the resonance pot has no effect. Tracing a sine signal through the feedback pathway, I found that it ended at pin 7 of U6 - a LM13700. This is the input to the transistor buffers, and there's no audible signal coming out on pin 8, which is the output from that buffer.
Here's the schematic I'm working from. I'm referring to U6. It looks like it is hooked up as an emitter follower. DC voltage at pin 7 is -36.7mV and at 8 is -252mV.
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M. A. Osterman, H. R. Miller, K. Marshall, W. T. Ryle (Georgia State U.), H. Aller, M. Aller (U. Michigan), S. Wagner (Landessternwarte Heidelberg)
The TeV blazar PKS 2155-304 was the subject of an intensive two week optical and infrared observing campaign in August 2004 at the CTIO 0.9m telescope. During this time, simultaneous X-ray data from RXTE was also obtained. Over the course of these observations, two large flares occurred at these wavelengths. In the weeks following the CTIO campaign, more flux increases were observed at X-ray, optical, and radio wavelengths. We present an analysis of the relative sizes, shapes, and time delays of the various flares in order to constrain various models for blazar physics (e.g. shock in jet, accelerating or decelerating jet) assuming a synchrotron self-Compton model for the production of X-ray and higher energy emission. MAO, HRM, KM, and WTR are supported in part by the Program for Extragalactic Astronomy's Research Program Enhancement funds from GSU.
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The ascension of Mitt Romney, though drawn out, is boring by comparison to the Republican Convention of 1912. The June 21, 1912 issue of the The Times Dispatch devoted nearly the entire front page to the activities of the major parties in preparing for the November election. The headline declares “Beat to Frazzle, Roosevelt May Quit Republican Party.” The previous evening in Chicago, former President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to the convention saying, “If the people want a progressive party, I’ll be in it,” and “I shall have to see if there is a popular demonstration for me to run.” There were challenges to the credentials of delegates for Taft and Roosevelt, each seeking to advance their own candidate’s interests.
Two articles describe the chaos of the day’s events at the Republican Convention. One article describes that the official business at the meeting for the previous day lasting 5 minutes.… read more »
The dramatic courtroom incident, coined variously the “Hillsville Massacre” and the “Courthouse Tragedy,” immediately became a huge news story and newspapers nationwide covered it in colorful, and often inaccurate, detail. For several weeks after the courthouse shooting, front pages in Virginia dailies like the Times Dispatch and the Rockingham Daily Record obsessively covered events surrounding the Allen clan with large photos and in depth articles on their front pages.
A story like the “Hillsville Massacre” was perfect fodder for contemporary newspapers, as the early twentieth century papers were undergoing a dramatic transformation from their staid precursors. As the nineteenth century came to a close, advanced industrialization and better public education created an exponentially growing audience of newspaper readers. Publishers realized newspapers could be a lucrative medium not only to inform, but also to entertain. At this time two important newspaper men, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, catered to this ever growing audience through new journalistic techniques still used in newspapers today. The fierce competition between Pulitzer’s World and Hearst‘s New York Journal led to innovations to attract readers such as the heavy use of photographs and illustrations, bold headlines and dramatic coverage of often gruesome and spectacular events. In many cases, facts were altered to make stories more sensational.
The Floyd Allen story was perfectly suited for the newspapers of 1912, both for how it read and for its abundant visual offerings so it is no surprise that the court room shoot out was heavily publicized in newspapers across the nation. The nature of the crime, the story’s setting, its aftermath and the men involved offered a tantalizing ongoing saga to curious newspaper readers. Undeniably, it was attention-grabbing that such a … read more »
While the events of March 14, 1912 produced many villains, a notable heroine stands out. Jezebel Goad, the daughter of Deputy Dexter Goad, was in her father’s office the day of the Allen hearing. When she heard gunshots, she ran to the courtroom to see what was going on. Without a thought, she fought her way through the gunfire to help her father and aid the wounded.
Goad’s heroics were covered extensively in newspapers. The Lexington Gazette‘s account of August 7, 1912 read:
“Instead of fainting or leaving the scene when the firing began, Miss Goad sought to enter the courtroom to go to her father. To gain entrance she was obliged to pull from the doorway a man who barred the way. Then she reached her father, and seeing that he was not badly hurt, she helped the wounded and dying.”
According to Jerry Leonard’s Travesty of Justice, the Mount Airy News ran the following account of Jezebel Goad: “Of all the heroes you have read about in story and song none will measure up with Miss Jezebel Goad, the beautiful daughter who stood bravely by her father last Thursday. Talk about your women melting up pewter plates and carrying water from springs, when the men dared not go, all such stories took little by the side of what the Hillsville beauty did last Thursday when she saw her father in danger. She was in the clerk’s office when the fight started and she rushed into the bullet ridden room as if she had not one thought for her own safety. . .of all the heroes who were that day brought to light none … read more »
This month marks the 100th anniversary of events surrounding the Allen family and the infamous “Hillsville Massacre.” The sensational coverage and gripping photos of the characters and events surrounding the courtroom shooting captured America’s imagination in 1912 and until the sinking of the Titanic a month later, the “Hillsville Massacre” took up a good deal of front page copy in newspapers across the country. In the coming days, to mark the anniversary, the Virginia Newspaper Project will feature entries on the events and people involved accompanied by front pages, articles and photos from newspapers in the collection of the Library of Virginia and from the digital newspaper resource, Chronicling America.
To find out more about the “Hillsville Massacre,” please visit Out of the Box, the official blog of the Archives Division at the Library of Virginia.
The front pages shown below represent only a small sample of the newspapers that covered the story across the nation, many of them reporting on the massacre the same day it happened. These pages can be found at Chronicling America.
In 1912, Carroll County, Virginia was a sparsely populated Appalachian farming region with few modern conveniences. Located in the southwestern part of the state and bordering North Carolina, it had no paved roads and only a single phone line connecting Hillsville, its county seat, to nearby Galax, Virginia. Its remote location and lack of modern convenience made it a world unto itself. On March 14, 1912, however, tragedy propelled this small farming community into the national spotlight when Carroll County native Floyd Allen, a prominent businessman and large land owner, became the central character in a controversial courtroom shooting that left five dead and seven wounded.
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If the idea of going to the dentist for a procedure brings on feelings of fear or anxiety there are options to ease the anxiety. IV sedation is very safe and easy and is recommended for moderate to severe anxiety. Medication is given right into your blood stream and it works quickly and effectively. You will remain awake during your procedure, but you will be in a heightened state of relaxation. It is also possible that you will not remember part or all of your procedure afterwards.
IV sedation makes long or complex procedures seem shorter, allowing you to have all of your work done in a single visit in many cases. As an added precaution a local anesthetic will be given to the area that is being worked on to ensure that there is no pain. The benefit of IV sedation is that the level of medication can be adjusted during your procedure to ensure maximum comfort. Your heart rate and breathing are monitored very closely while you are being medicated because your safety is our number one concern.
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A standard balance sheet has three parts: assets, liabilities and ownership equity indicating the net worth of the company at a certain point in time. A balance sheet dated May 30, 2008 contains account balances as of that day and is a snapshot of the company’s finances at that point.
Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity
A balance sheet has to balance. This means that assets must equal liabilities plus owner’s equity. Assets are resources such as cash, inventory, and accounts receivable that are owned by or owed to the company. Liabilities and owner’s equity are claims to those assets. Essentially, the value of everything owned minus the money owed to others leaves the value of the owner’s rights to the business.
You’ll usually see balance sheets formatted in one of two ways—the account form which lists assets on the left and liabilities and owner’s equity on the right or the report form which lists the assets first and the liabilities and owners equity next in vertical arrangement. Examples of both are listed below.
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When a conflict strikes the Red Cross is quick to respond, providing first aid and emergency supplies, as well as health and psychological support to those in need.
Once the emergency phase is over, we continue to fill health and social care gaps in the affected region. This ranges from helping people overcome their psychological traumas to running immunisation programmes to stop outbreaks of disease.
In Afghanistan, the British Red Cross is helping address issues such as malaria, malnutrition and drug use. We're also involved in programmes to help children overcome the effects of war in Sierra Leone and Liberia. | <urn:uuid:4f44d8a9-8556-4d1d-b362-7ecb6ad13da1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.redcross.org.uk/conflict | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954842 | 116 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Copenhagen is the capital city of Denmark and a very prestigious location it is. It attracts a lot of tourists, most of them interested in the rich cultural backdrop that the city has been home to for a lot of years. There are many ways to experience Copenhagen, but, always, those that cannot reach the city directly can find some consolation in admiring the many framed art exhibits, the art print entries and other canvas print products that have Copenhagen as the main point of interest.
Because of its never-ending expansion the city of Copenhagen and Malmo will soon become a metropolitan zone, with all that it will feature. There are many reasons why Copenhagen has had such a successful economic journey. One of those has to be the tourists attracted by the architecture of many buildings and sites in town. Another reason could be the fact that the city has been featured on a multitude of posters. A poster of Copenhagen can give you a virtual tour of the city and it can quench your desire to visit and to see the many landmarks there.
Taking the time to visit Copenhagen during your vacation may not be as easy for everyone. However, this is not the only way to see Copenhagen and, while seeing the city, people cannot miss the poster art. A great deal of posters feature divers regions of the city, all equally interesting. If a real visit is not available, than one should go for a poster or art print of Copenhagen . It can be just as appealing. | <urn:uuid:3e96d6ec-7c0c-4bb9-9552-677aa222a28e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artflakes.com/en/copenhagen-poster/l/architecture/object | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973893 | 296 | 1.570313 | 2 |
|Wedding of Vernon Dursley and Petunia Evans|
Vernon Dursley and Petunia Evans marry
The wedding of Vernon Dursley and Petunia Evans took place sometime in the last third of 1977. The wedding celebration marked not only the beginning of Vernon and Petunia's marriage, but also Petunia's final estrangement from her sister Lily.
Prelude to the weddingEdit
At some point in the 1970s, Petunia left her home in Cokeworth to pursue a typing course in London. This led to her getting a clerical job, where she met Vernon Dursley, a junior executive whose complete ordinariness she found appealing. Vernon also took a fancy to Petunia, and the two went on a number of dates, which mainly involved Vernon discussing himself and his narrow views of the world.
Vernon proposed to Petunia in his mother's sitting room in late 1977. Petunia gladly accepted, but secretly worried what Vernon would think when he met Lily, who was then in her seventh year at Hogwarts. She eventually told Vernon about Lily being a witch on a date, and while he was shocked, he assured her he would not hold it against her.
The couple's first meeting with Lily and her boyfriend, James Potter, went poorly. Vernon tried to impress James with the car he drove, and when James responded by describing his racing broom, Vernon assumed he must be living on unemployment. James told Vernon about his parents' fortune in Galleons, but since Vernon could not tell whether he was being had on or not, he became angry. The evening ended with Vernon and Petunia storming out of the restaurant and Lily bursting into tears.
Fearing that she would be, yet again, overshadowed by her sister, Petunia refused to have Lily as a bridesmaid, which upset Lily; Marge Dursley was probably a bridesmaid. Both of Petunia and Lily's parents may have attended the wedding. Vernon refused to talk to James at the reception, but described him as 'some kind of amateur magician' within his earshot.
By the end of that year, Vernon and Petunia had already settled at 4 Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey. Petunia and Vernon's only child, a son named Dudley, was born on 23 June, 1980. The couple took pride in being a "normal" family, unlike Lily, who married James Potter.
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 In a deleted scene on disc two of the Blu-ray edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Petunia tells Harry, "I have lived in this house for twenty years", indicating she settled at 4 Privet Drive in 1977, since the scene is set in 1997. Since the Pottermore backstory for Petunia mentions Lily was still in her final year at Hogwarts during Vernon and Petunia's engagement, and Lily's final year was 1977-1978, the engagement must have thus occurred on or after 1 September, 1977 and the wedding and moving in together by 31 December, 1977.
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The Alliance has compiled a number of resources available for survivors, their friends and families, and professionals assisting survivors in New York City.
NYC Teen Health Maps21,000 NYC Public High School Students Have Been Raped
In 2005, the number of students—both male and female—reporting forced sexual intercourse increased from 5.6 percent in 2001 to 7.5 percent in 2005. For young women alone, reports jumped from 5.4 to 9.5 percent. According to this data, nearly 1 in 10 young women attending NYC public high schools have been raped. Which is why we created a wallet-sized map of rape crisis and health care services that teens can access confidentially, at little or no cost. The NYC Teen Health Map was developed with youth for youth to provide them with a discreet, confidential list of youth-friendly services.
It's real sad 'cause I do know girls that have been raped in the past. They don't tell anyone, they don't tell the authorities, they feel ashamed, or they think it's their fault. That's why I wanted to participate 'cause I could sort of relate. It's part of trying to get information out to people who've been raped or abused.
You might know somebody who is in a situation and you can actually help them. It can happen to you, it can happen to anybody and you can give it [the NYC Teen Health Map] to them.
I like that it gives you a bunch of places that you can go and then if you see one that is close to where you live you just turn the map and 'Oh! It's right here!'
It's good because it's easy to take it anywhere.Since youth are most likely to turn to their friends if they have experienced sexual or dating violence, it is important that youth have these maps both for themselves and to give to their friends.
Yes, I would [carry it with me] and it would be nice to have more to hand them out to friends because they are small and they can fit in your wallet.Just one way the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault brings New Yorkers together to care for our survivors and to end sexual violence.
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Provided below is a general-purpose brief biography for adaptation in conference programs:
Shirley Brice Heath, linguistic anthropologist, studies learners across the life span in non-formal environments of learning. She gives primary focus to the ways in which speakers, young and old, learn the structures and uses of language as well as the attitudes, gestures, and interactional ways called for in learning environments of all types. In community arts organizations, she has examined the learning outcomes that result when youth living in under-resourced communities participate in planning, creating, producing, and critiquing products and performances. Within community sites dedicated to involving young people in sustained science learning, she has given special attention to the ways in which science learning demands close analysis of visual detail, trial and error, sketching and modeling projects, and strategic problem-solving. In her research on families, friendship groups, and community organizations, she studies how responsible roles accelerate desires for organizational, scientific, and mathematical knowledge.
She is the author of Words at work and play: Three decades in families and communities (2012) and the classic Ways with Words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 1983/1996). Heath has taught at universities throughout the world, most notably Stanford University and Brown University, and as Visiting Research Professor at King's College, University of London. Of particular note are Heath's publications written for community advocates of creating environments in which the arts and sciences are both viewed as essential to building highly effective learning environments. In 2004, with Shelby Wolf, she published for teachers and arts practitioners a series on "visual learning"; in 2005, a similar series on learning through drama and in arts and science project-based work was published. In several nations, she has studied youth-based community organizations in which the young devote themselves to environmental projects, social justice, enterprise development, and educational inclusion. Her resource guide and prize-winning documentary ArtShow (2000) features young leaders in four interracial and cross-class community arts organizations in the United States. She also directed and produced two short documentaries on youth organizations dedicated to the sustainable agriculture and environmental architecture. These are available with ArtShow on a DVD (2005) entitled ArtShow 2 Grow.
For further biographical information, see Appendix A of Words at work and play (2012) and the prologue to Ways with Words: Language life, and work in communities and classrooms (1983/1996) also give biographical information. | <urn:uuid:7ecb100d-f6bd-4692-bd44-752fc88473f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shirleybriceheath.net/biography/biography.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952181 | 507 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The rupture between North and South was caused by an inherent conflict between their economic systems. The industrializing North poured its money into manufacturing and internal improvements such as railroads and canals, while the agrarian South still invested primarily in land and slaves. The contrasting laws and cultures needed to sustain each region's growth made divisions between the two groups extremely difficult to reconcile.
The main priority of most Northerners was not abolishing slavery, but thwarting Southern attempts to secede from the United States. Supporters of this theory claim that the North believed no state had the right to secede from the nation, and would have accepted the continuation of slavery in some form had the South agreed to work within the existing governmental system.
The North and the South fought the Civil War primarily over the institution of slavery, and whether it should continue to exist in the United States. From this perspective, Northerners are perceived as abolitionists or at least opposed to the power of slaveholders. Southerners fought primarily to protect their property rights (i.e. the right to own slaves).
Southerners went to war primarily to protect the broader right of state governments to remain the primary authority for passing and enforcing laws within their borders. The right to own slaves was secondary for Southerners to the right to protect their interests against those of the federal government.
When examining the evidence in this exercise, rank it on a sliding scale of overall relevancy from "Very Relevant" to "Not at All Relevant." Relevant means that the evidence is not ambiguously related to the argument; it clearly strengthens the case for a particular thesis. For example, a piece of political satire may carry less weight as evidence then a speech made by a prominent political figure. By choosing "Not at All Relevant" you are saying that the evidence does not support the specific thesis. | <urn:uuid:002250dd-7d5d-405f-a777-23c76f787f70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/interactives/thesis/view_hypotheses.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967007 | 381 | 4.125 | 4 |
Speaking to the FCCT via Skype 2009, Professor Tongchai Winichakul and Professor Andrew Walker announced a petition - signed by dozens of leading global figures in human rights, civil liberties and academia, to then-Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, citing Thailand's Article 112 and urging the government to consider the following:
Please stop seeking more suppressive measures against individuals, web sites, and the peaceful expressions of ideas.
Please consider suggestions to reform the lese majeste law to prevent further abuses and to prevent the possibility of further damage to the international reputation of Thailand and the monarch.
Please consider taking action to withdraw the current lese majeste charges, and working to secure the release of those already convicted under the lese majeste law. They are charged for expressing their ideas. This should not be a crime.
The letter argued that "frequent abuse of the lese majeste law against political opponents undermines democratic processes" and generates "heightened criticism of the monarchy and Thailand itself, both inside and outside the country."
Three years later, the law remains the same, but debate over 112 has only deepened and widened. The number of cases has shot up. There seems to be no appetite for amendment of the law despite several petitions and much criticism both within and outside Thailand. Yet the law is increasingly an emotional and politically explosive fault line.
Three years on, Andrew Walker and Thongchai Winichakul will speak at the FCCT again via video conference, to review what has transpired since, and assess what may lie in store in the future.
Responding from the FCCT itself and joining the discussion, will be
Dr Chaichana Inkawat, professor of the Faculty of Political Science at Ramkhamhaeng University. A graduate of Thammasat University and a Fulbright Scholar to Cornell University, Dr Chaichana has been faculty at Ramkamheng University for almost four decades. He is also a regular political contributor to independent and state-owned current affairs programmes in Thailand.
Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director, Prachatai.com, found guilty with a suspended sentence recently, under the Computer Crimes Act for not removing allegedly lese majeste comments from the website quickly enough. Ms Chiranuch is the winner of the International Women's Media foundation's 2011 Courage in Journalism award.
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"On this day though, the sounds of people walking and talking in the hall were interrupted by five loud popping sounds directly outside my classroom. To me, it sounded like balloons popping. It was not balloons. Either Mr. Nelson saw what was happening or was familiar with the sound of gunfire and immediately closed the door and put a rolling cart with a TV in front of the door. Although I remember the pops, I don't recall hearing any screams. While we had no idea what was happening or happened outside the classroom, Mr. Nelson made sure that we didn’t go near the door. Although my memory about this event 20 years ago is a little fuzzy, I believe that he called the front office to let them know that he heard what could have been gunfire. My guess is that he knew what was going on but didn’t want to alarm us too much." - from the blog "Sean's Ramblings," about a shooting at Woodland Hills High School in 1992
Seven years before Columbine—20 years before Sandy Hook—Woodland Hills High School experienced a shooting within its halls.
On Sept. 21, 1992, a 15-year-old sophomore from Swissvale brought a gun to into school and fired four shots into a crowded second-floor hallway as classes changed at 8:17 a.m. One bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit a 17-year-old senior from Wilkins Township in the right shoulder. The senior, who was not the target of the shooting, was not seriously injured.
Allegheny County and Churchill police said at the time the 15-year-old suspect brought the gun to school to settle an out-of-school argument with another sophomore. The incident ushered in the use of metal detectors and security guards at the high school, and by fall 1994 had trickled down to the school's two junior highs.
Passing through metal detectors—and having bookbags and purses searched—has been a long-standing routine as students enter the schools each morning. Parents and visitors also have to pass through the same security measures.
Woodland Hills' high school and junior high have one of the most "stringent" security programs that Substitute Superintendent Alan Johnson has seen during his career in education. That includes armed police officers at both buildings.
"Now the challenge is to look comprehensively at our other buildings," he said. "The lesson of Sandy Hook was the small schools. The elementary schools are not immune from this thing. We have to think with all school levels the way we thought at high schools."
In reviewing the schools in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in December that killed 20 students and six educators, Johnson said some potential problem areas were found that the district plans to address. He gave principals and security officials the task of doing a building-wide audit at each school to see what can be done to make security tighter.
One area for improvement is the entry systems. Woodland Hills' elementary schools all have a remote entry with a camera, where an office staff member has to "buzz in" visitors.
But with the exception of Shaffer School in Churchill, where visitors enter right to the office area, the other schools have a distance between the front door and the office. That's something Johnson said the district will be looking at addressing.
The district has created a procedure for dealing with parcels coming into the schools. Fortunately, the district doesn't have any large, low-level windows that would provide entry for an intruder, Johnson said.
"We really have made some changes," he said. "I'm pretty proud of what Woodland Hills has in place. Woodland Hills had done a pretty good job of protecting its kids and its grounds."
To read more of the blog about the day of the 1992 shooting, click here.
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Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741–1828)
H. of bust 15 3/4 in. (40 cm), H. of base 4 11/16 in. (11.8 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1974 (1974.291)
Houdon's bust of Diderot, a pivotal figure of the French Enlightenment, was first modeled in terracotta in 1771 at the behest of Prince Dmitrii Golitsyn, a Russian diplomat and former ambassador to France (1762–67), possibly as a souvenir of his friendship with the renowned Encyclopedist after Golitsyn's posting to the Hague. A particularly prestigious commission, due in part to Diderot's prominence as an art critic, the success of this portrait helped make the young sculptor's own fame.
Although Diderot's thoughts and writings paved the way for revolution, his incandescent wit, combined with an almost childlike enthusiasm, endeared him to intellectuals and aristocrats alike. Houdon's portrait, more than any other contemporary image of the philosophe, captures the elusiveness of his quicksilver charm.
The empress Catherine enticed Diderot to Russia the year in which this marble was carved. It has a well-documented provenance in the collection of French art assembled by another Russian expatriate, Count Alexander Stroganov. It was for many years kept in the Stroganov palace-museum in Saint Petersburg along with a bust of Voltaire by Houdon (1972.61), a vivid documentation of the enduring Russian passion for French culture. | <urn:uuid:e0a1eacd-a573-4a18-8876-86000448bb3b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1974.291 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939619 | 344 | 2.609375 | 3 |
11:29 am May. 7, 2012
The words-to-picture exchange rate is famously unfavorable—so the PEN World Voices Festival set itself a daunting challenge in placing Diane Arbus’s photography opposite her “precise use of language” for a slideshow screening and panel discussion Saturday night.
The slideshow, at least, was an impressive piece of archival handiwork. In 1970, Cornell Capa (who later founded the International Center for Photography) asked Arbus to give a lecture for a group of fellow photographers. The result was a casual, revealing presentation of her work and ideas. After Arbus’s suicide in 1971, an audio recording of the talk was acquired by her estate—and in 2005, to coincide with the traveling retrospective Diane Arbus Revelations, the estate reconstructed the slideshow, matching her words with the images they describe. The result is a master class from beyond the grave, which has been shown publicly only a handful of times.
Saturday’s screening at MoMA was presented in conjunction with the PEN Festival, and so required a literary connection. Following the 40-minute slideshow, Doon Arbus (the artist’s eldest daughter), novelist Francine Prose (who once wrote about Arbus for Harper’s Magazine), and novelist Michael Cunningham (whom Prose recommended for the event) read excerpts from the artist’s papers, then spoke about her relationship to language.
Neil Selkirk—the only authorized printer for the Arbus estate, and one of the three people who assembled the slideshow—apologized in his introduction for the quality of the audio.
“Can you hear me?” begins Arbus, speaking over a blank black screen.
The roughness of the recording—ambient noise, audience reactions—gave it immediacy. Arbus’s photograph of “A young Brooklyn family” initially appears backwards; the talk pauses to reverse and refocus the slide, an effect the reconstructed slideshow dutifully replicates. Arbus met the family’s mother on the subway, she says.
“She’s one of those people who’s always told she looks like Elizabeth Taylor,” Arbus says, and she sort of does—“that’s her fable.” Arbus went on to meet the woman’s family, which included a husband, a baby, and a child Arbus first describes as “mongoloid” before correcting herself: “retarded.” The parents she describes as childlike, “rudimentary.” They had a copy of a book called The Ideal Marriage on their shelf, Arbus recalls, bemused.
“They were so incredibly inarticulate,” she says.
The slideshow includes some of Arbus’s collection of newspaper clippings (twins at a pie eating contest, freaks in the National Enquirer) as well as her own photos—of nudist camps, sideshows, Manhattan apartments. “Terrific” is Arbus’s adjective of choice. Photography she describes as “a sort of naughty thing to do.” About some of her best-known images, she’s coy.
“That’s just a kid with a hand grenade,” she says, showing her famous picture of a boy wearing overalls and a deranged expression. “He was just exasperated with me.”
Following the slideshow, a squad of museum employees arranged chairs onstage, and without preamble, Francine Prose began to read. She was very solemn. After a brief excerpt from Arbus’s writing, Prose paused to say that they had planned to do away with formal introductions—but for the sake of clarity, she went ahead and identified herself, Cunningham, and Doon Arbus. There would be no post-panel Q&A, Prose said, because the texts were “self-explanatory.”
Doon Arbus gazed fiercely into the audience from beneath a cloud of hair. She wore flowing black garments. Prose and Cunningham wore pants and jackets and, in Prose’s case, polka-dot socks.
Prose had selected an excerpt from a paper on The Canterbury Tales that Arbus wrote her senior year in high school. In it, Arbus describes Chaucer’s narration as “calm and tender.”
“You get the feeling that he is a little bit beyond them”—his fellow pilgrims—“but doesn’t want to seem so.” Chaucer looks on people as “whole miracles,” she writes. “Each one will always be himself, and he wants that.”
Cunningham said he had picked out “A few things Arbus wrote about families,” which he read with great flourish. “I think all families are creepy, in a way,” Arbus wrote. And, of a photograph that shows a family lounging on its Westchester lawn: “The parents seem to be dreaming the child, and the child seems to be inventing them.”
“My turn,” said Doon, who read an excerpt from another high school essay—this one on Plato—which found her mother commenting on “the differentness, the uniqueness of all things.”
To begin the discussion, Doon turned things over to Prose, suggesting that she speak about words as the “footprints of a person.” But Prose chose instead to speak about adjectives: Arbus was very good with them, she said.
The panelists spent much of their time agreeing that Arbus was very great.
Cunningham said that anyone who could come up with the line about the parents dreaming the child and the child inventing the parents “is a writer.”
“I feel so tiny right now,” he said.
“I can’t even take a photo on my phone,” Prose said.
Arbus even had a good personality: Cunningham noted with surprise that the voice we’d heard in the slideshow was “more fun than I thought she’d be!”
Prose praised the freshness of her vocabulary.
“If Chaucer knew the word ‘terrific,’ he would have used it all the time,” Prose said.
Cunningham hazarded a bit of speculation on Arbus’s relationship with her subjects.
“I feel like there should be more about me in this discussion,” he began, saying that when he wrote he tended to start from point of “disdain,” inventing his characters’ worst qualities, then defending them and gradually falling in love with them.
“My narcissism is starting to show—“ he said, before trying to liken himself to Arbus.
"No," Doon responded; her mother was “the opposite.”
It was hard not to bring a fixed idea of Arbus to this kind of discussion. During the slideshow, Arbus has to insist that a newspaper photo of a criminal in a slip actually depicts a woman: her recorded audience naturally assumes it's a man in drag.
Mortality is the preoccupation of the selection of clippings. In one picture, figures face a wall, hands over their heads.
“That’s in Warsaw,” Arbus explains. “Jews about to be executed.”
Another was a candid photo of a happy couple on a couch, which ran in the newspaper after their murder.
“The photograph doesn’t actually forecast anything,” Arbus says. But its power lies in “being so goddamned still while everything else is moving.”
This was what Doon later summarized as her mother’s “incredible faith in reality.”
“It really was like that,” Arbus says as she goes through the clippings, “and now it isn’t.”
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DEFINITION OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER
Organic matter contributes to plant growth through its effect on the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the soil. It has a:
- nutritional function in that it serves as a source of N, P for plant growth
- biological function in that it profoundly affects the activities of microflora and microfaunal organisms
- physical and physico-chemical function in that it promotes good soil structure, thereby improving tilth, aeration and retention of moisture and increasing buffering and exchange capacity of soils.
Humus also plays an indirect role in soil through its effect on the uptake of micronutrients by plants and the performance of herbicides and other agricultural chemicals. It should be emphasized that the importance of any given factor will vary from one soil to another and will depend upon such environmental conditions as climate and crpping history.
Availability of nutrients for planth growth
Organic matter has both a direct and indirect effect on the availability of nutrients for plant growth. In addition to serving as a source of N, P, S through its mineralization by soil microorganisms, organic matter influences the supply of nutrients from other sources (for example, organic matter is required as an energy source for N-fixing bacteria).
A factor that needs to be taken into consideration in evaluating humus as a source of nutrient is the cropping history. When soils are first placed under cultivation, the humus content generally declines over a period of 10 to 30 years until a new equilibrum level is attained. At equilibrium, any nutrients liberated by microbial activity must be compensated for by incorporation of equal amounts into newly formed humus
Effect on soil physical condition, soil erosion and soil buffering and exchange capacity
Humus has a profound effect on the structure of many soils. The deterioration of structure that accompanies intensive tillage is usually less severe in soils adequately supplied with humus. When humus is lost, soils tend to become hard, compact and cloddy. Aeration, water-holding capacity and permeability are all favorably affected by humus.
The frequent addition of easily decomposable organic residues leads to the synthesis of complex organic compounds that bind soil particles into structural units called aggregates. These aggregates help to maintain a loose, open, granular condition. Water is the better able to infiltrate and percolate downward through the soil.The roots of plants need a continual supply of O2 in order to respire and grow. Large pores permit better exchange of gases between soil and atmosphere.
Humus usually increases the ability of the soil to resist erosion. First, it enables the soil to hold more water. Even more important is its effect in promoting soil granulation and thus maintaining large pores through which water can enter and percolate downward. From 20 to 70% of the exchange capacity of many soils is caused by colloidal humic substances. Total acidities of isolated fractions of humus range from 300 to 1400 meq/100g.As far as buffer action is concerned, humus exhibits buffering over a wide pH range.
Effect on soil biological condition
Organic matter srves as a source of energy for both macro- and microfaunal organisms. Numbers of bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi in the soil are related in a general way to humus content. Earthworms and other faunal organisms are strongly affected by the quantity of plant residue material returned to the soil.
Organic substances in soil can have a direct physiological effect on plant growth. Some compounds, such as certain phenolic acids, have phytotoxic properties; others, such as the auxins, enhance plant growth.
It is widely known that many of the factors influencing the incidense of pathogenic organisms in soil are directly or indirectly influenced by organic matter. For example, a plentiful supply of organic matter may favor the growth of saprophytic organisms relative to parasitic ones and thereby reduce populations of the latter. Biologically active compounds in soil, such as antibiotics and certain phenolic acids, may enhance the ability of certain plants to resist attack by pathogens. | <urn:uuid:833bcd65-8a67-4736-afda-c721d7a836ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.humintech.com/001/articles/article_definition_of_soil_organic_matter2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945005 | 844 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Thiruvananthapuram: Terming as "unilateral" the findings of the Supreme Court appointed Empowered Committee on Mullaperiyar Dam, Kerala Water Resources Minister PJ Joseph on Tuesday said there was no change in the state's stand on construction of a new dam.
The panel relied on the report of Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu to come to the conclusion that the reservoir was safe, rejecting the studies by Roorkie and Delhi IIT's, he told reporters here.
The state had submitted these reports to the Empowered Committee headed by former Chief Justice of India AS Anand.
Kerala Water Resources Minister PJ Joseph said there was no change in the state\'s stand on construction of a new dam.
The Committee's finding that the dam was safe was not acceptable to the state and it would present before the apex court these studies to press its case, he said.
Maintaining that there was no change in Kerala's position on construction of a new dam as an alternative to the existing one, Joseph said, "Kerala is confident that its demand for new dam will become a reality".
On the Commmittee's observation that it would take ten years for the construction of a new dam, Joseph said as per a report received by the state, a new dam could be built in two years.
Joseph also referred to the recommendation of the Central Water Commission in 1979 which supported the idea of a new dam at Mullaperiyar.
The two states have been engaged in legal battle over raising the water level of the dam, which irrigates five southern districts in Tamil Nadu.
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Estrogen is no longer the preferred therapy because recent, large studies have shown that the hormone increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease for some women. Given that news, millions of women have abandoned hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and are seeking other ways to ease symptoms. So-called natural remedies such as soy, herbal products or acupuncture have not proven safe or effective at this point.
The latest Rochester study is the first to compare gabapentin and estrogen head-to-head against a placebo. Although it showed a substantial placebo effect similar to other menopause studies – women taking the sugar pill reported a 54-percent reduction in hot flashes – the women taking gabapentin and estrogen reported even better results, with a 71 percent to 72 percent decline in symptoms.
"Gabapentin does appear to be as effective as estrogen," said lead author Sireesha Y. Reddy, M.D., assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "Until now its efficacy relative to estrogen was unknown."
Approximately 75 percent of postmenopausal women between the ages of 35 and 60 experience hot flashes. Gabapentin (sold under the trade name Neurontin) was approved by the FDA in 1994 to treat epileptic seizures but has been used off-label for years to treat headaches, shingles pain and other ailments. Scientists hypothesize that gabapentin may reduce hot flashes by regulating the flow of calcium in and out of cells, which is one mechanism for controlling body temperature.
An expert panel on menopause convened by the National Institutes of Health last year cautioned against the tendency to use treatments with scant safety data, and concluded that nothing to date was as effective as estrogen therapy although more research was needed.
In the latest study, Reddy and colleagues enrolled 60 women in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial for 12 weeks. Initially the researchers received more than 1,500 calls from women who wanted to participate, but after screening the callers to meet the study's protocol, the number was whittled to 60, with 53 women complying with every step.
They were randomly divided into three groups: 20 women received gabapentin at 2,400 mg per day and a daily placebo or fake estrogen pill; 20 received estrogen in the form of Premarin at 0.625 mg per day and a fake gabapentin pill; 20 received sugar pills resembling gabapentin and estrogen. The women recorded the frequency and severity of their hot flashes in diaries.
Results were tabulated using two statistical methods to compare the women's hot flash reports throughout the 12-week period with their baseline symptoms. Doctors did find that women who took gabapentin complained more often of headaches, dizziness or disorientation. Researchers believe that slowly ramping up the medication and taking it with meals can alleviate the side effects.
The NIH funded the study. Pfizer Inc. supplied gabapentin but had no role in the research. A co-author on the paper, Thomas Guttuso Jr., M.D., has a patent for the use of gabapentin in the treatment of hot flashes. Guttuso is a former neurologist at the University of Rochester who is now on the faculty at the University of Buffalo.
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They: Latinos in North Carolina
A Personal Essay
By Bob McCarthy
Senora Gavilan arrives with her baby at the hospital business office where I volunteer. Mounting medical bills have driven her here. She appears tired, the twists in her single, black braid loosened, perhaps a visual into her state of mind. She responds to my efforts when I greet her, guide her to the office, and assist her in filling out the application for aid, each time with a smiling “gracias.”
I serve as a Spanish interpreter, “mas o menos” (more or less) I always say, adding, “mas menos que mas.” It usually draws a smile, if not a laugh, from nervous lips. Three years before I retired, I decided to learn Spanish. More than an oft-deferred life goal, I wanted to help. Latinos are a community presence in Henderson, North Carolina, many of them speaking little or no English.
Sra. Gavilan’s handshake is mild, she wears a floral perfume, and her voice is low-pitched, slightly hoarse, and warm. It is the voice, as it always is, that tips me over, that cinches the meeting of individuals. Whatever I might be for her, she is a distinct person for me, one who leans forward and engages my eyes when she speaks. We go from there, working together to complete our complementary tasks.
Learning she is eligible for help, her eyes tear. Her gratitude swells when I insist upon carrying her daughter as I escort Sra. Gavilan back to her well-traveled Chevy Blazer. A quick glance at the baby reveals two staring black eyes over a puddling brown smile. Teeth lie in the future. I wonder if the baby senses her mother’s relief?
I am always amazed at the burden of trust people like Sra. Gavilan must shoulder even to come to the office. The overwhelming majority are indocumentados who don’t speak English. Discovery has to be a constant fear.
I’ve often heard Latinos dismissively referred to as they. But for me, Sra. Gavilan is no longer (if she ever was) a part of a faceless grouping. She is who she is, a human being with a unique personality and an intelligence ready to engage. And in that, she enriches my life even as I try to make hers a bit less burdensome.
Pass a construction site in Henderson, you will likely find Latinos working. Where at one time there were set-asides excluding Latinos—masonry conceded to blacks, finish carpentry to whites—that is changing. They increasingly do everything that involves labor, what I call real work. Agriculture, lawn and property maintenance, manufacturing (what little there is) —they are there.
My wife and I contracted to have the exterior of our house painted. Jorge—“call me George”—and his crew, Latinos all, arrived and went to work. Between reversed ball caps and trimmed mustaches, their eyes rarely strayed from the task at hand, even when conversing.
The white contractor told me, “I’ve been in the business over twenty years, tried all kinds. These guys are the best.”
By the time the paint dried, they had prepped and painted two interior rooms while repairing cracks in inner walls, a damaged ceiling, and a rotted threshold. They also added mortar to gaping brickwork, and replaced warped decking. All of this in addition to the exterior painting, and the work was exemplary. More importantly for my wife, they removed a snake that fell off the garage door as they were painting it.
In brief interludes—a water break, a breather from intense North Carolina heat, general clean up—I spoke to Jorge in Spanish. I never pass up an opportunity to practice. He complimented my “acento.” In turn, I expressed my satisfaction with his good work.
With the increasing presence of Latinos in Henderson, I’ve heard occasional sniping comments about “the language,” as in they don’t speak “it”—it, of course, English. In Henderson (as I suspect is true elsewhere), the children of Latino immigrants learn English rapidly, even when Spanish is solely spoken at home. But if the barrier of language is what primarily separates some residents of North Carolina from others, then I want to help dismantle it or, at the very least, help them negotiate it. It was for this reason I underwent the hospital’s volunteer orientation.
As far-fetched as the anglo fear of a Spanish conquest strikes me, it might be more conceivable if everyone who spoke Spanish was culturally similar. Descriptors like “Latino” falsely suggest a single people, providing only a telescoped they. At best, “Latino” loosely clumps culturally diverse peoples who speak many languages derived from Spanish. Moreover, when we overcategorize, does this not blind us to the individual? If I say “Latina” rather than “Senora Gavilan,” am I not forcing her into a them, leaving me subservient to a bias I might fail to recognize?
Craig Ferguson, comedic host of The Late Late Show (I TiVo it), ends each night asking, “What did we learn tonight?” a humorous lead-in to signing off. But the question is more broadly relevant to my experiences with Latinos in Henderson. What have I learned thus far?
I’ve become more aware of the humanity, collectively and individually, of people striving for a better life. Rather than ennobling them (the Dances with Wolves effect), the humanity I detect is human, and in that, warts and all, it brings them closer to me. To us.
I’ve also become increasingly aware of North Carolinian generosity through our programs to keep the undocumented from drowning beneath waves of unremitting medical bills. The experience has increased my sense of pride in North Carolina. Behind the public grumbling against them, we do care.
And I’ve learned the Spanish word for “disrobing,” i.e., quitarse, as in “Por favor, quitese su ropa.” Please remove your clothes. Perhaps I should explain.
I was asked to assist Senor and Senora Camarillo in her preparation for an endoscopy, an outpatient procedure designed to visually examine the upper gastrointestinal tract. An attractive couple, they seemed a good match, her quiet assertiveness balancing his courtly reserve. She asked the questions, then, they would confer. Their hope was that her doctor might finally be able to explain continuous GI distress; mine—that I might alleviate her presurgical anxiety by explaining the procedimiento and guiding her through each stage of the process until the OR nurse took over.
I accompanied her to the surgical-prep bay, interpreting the nurse’s instructions up to the moment she was to disrobe and don a surgical gown. In the middle of my instructions, I forgot the verb for disrobing. Without flinching, Sra. Camarillo reminded me it was “quitarse.”
Let me quickly add: when I asked Sra. Camarillo, per the nurse’s instructions, to disrobe, I also requested that she immediately put on a hospital gown. I experienced no difficulty remembering the verb “to put on.” I thanked her for her assistance and left.
I then returned to the husband in the waiting room, and explained where his wife was in the process—omitting the part about disrobing.
What else have I learned?
I’ve learned we’ve experienced an influx of people much like our ancestors—possibly the most desperate but likely the bravest. Would I, in similar straits, have the courage to uproot myself to, say Brazil, no matter the opportunity, where I’d become a foreigner without the language, social connections, or cultural acceptance? Where at the caprice of economic downturn I become suspect, perhaps viewed as a drag on native advancement, especially if I’m undocumented?
North Carolina is experiencing an economic downturn. In Vance County, the unemployment percentage is high and rising with the loss of major industries (tobacco, textiles, and manufacturing)—the industries that initially attracted Latino workers. Faced with the impact of this recession, some Latinos will leave; others have already left. To succeed, one must first survive. But the stouthearted, the ones with fiber, will abide. Sra. Gavilan and her bebe, Jorge and his campaneros, Sra. Camarillo and her husband—all of them are still here, seeking to find and fit a niche. They will remain, eventually becoming fully fledged Americans.
They will become we.
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[vdr] Dumb question on DVB-C
mws at twisted-brains.org
Tue Oct 25 10:59:59 CEST 2005
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 10:30, Simon Baxter wrote:
> I'm currently using a Nova-T card for terrestrial DVB, but would like to
> add a DVB-C card and connect to cable.
> Am I right in assuming that channels on cable are organised much like on
> terrestrial, with 3 or 4 transponder frequencies carrying 3 or 4
> channels each? I wonder, because as the cable is provided by a single
> supplier, I wasn't sure how the channels are mapped.
there are frequencies, that can carry an amount of services. depending on bandwith
that can be carried. there is nothing, that depends on how much provider do insert data.
> Secondly, are channels that require CAM decrypting all generally on the
> same transponder? Or are these pay-channels interspersed with the free-
> to-air ones across the frequencies?
why is that important? normally FTA and Crypted can be seperated or mixed on transponders.
also a matter of bandwith, how much of those can be carried
> vdr mailing list
> vdr at linuxtv.org
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Decoding QR Codes
You’ve seen them in newspapers, magazines, in stores and online. They can be placed on business cards, on menus, even in television commercials.
You know what I’m talking about: the black and white square that looks like a barcode. What exactly are they, and why are they appearing everywhere?
What is a QR code?
A QR – or quick response – code is a type of two-dimensional matrix barcode consisting of black modules placed on a white background in a square formation. These codes can contain data such as URLs, SMS, emails, geo locations, contact information and even resumes. Toyota first started using QR codes in the ‘90s, but businesses have recently started using these codes in marketing campaigns. This widespread trend has been appearing everywhere within the last year.
How do I use them?
QR codes are most frequently scanned with a mobile device such as an iPhone, Android or Blackberry by using the device’s camera. A QR code or barcode reader application is then used to decode it. Make sure your device is ready: codes can appear almost anywhere - like restaurants, movie theaters and even on television.
So why would I want to scan it?
QR codes are meant to offer a benefit. Companies use these codes for many reasons: coupons, contests, gifts, exclusive downloads, time-sensitive access to websites or to find out more information. Best Buy uses QR codes on the price tags of their televisions. Scanning a television’s QR code takes you to the Best Buy website, where you can read customer reviews and view special offers.
QR codes should be accessible, visible and rewarding. When incorporated into a marketing strategy, QR codes can be extremely effective if used correctly.
Have you ever scanned a QR code? If not, give it a try!
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Many people have asked if Fort Fremont (sometimes misspelled "Freemont") dates from the Civil War, or earlier. According to Grace Cordial, Historical Resources Coordinator, Fort Fremont "did not exist until 1899. There was no previously known military installation on that site."
Construction of coastal batteries was authorized by Congress under the $50 million Harbor Fortification Defense Act of 1898. Fort Fremont was built by the Corps of Engineers on condemned private property with construction starting in 1899. Former owners of portions of the condemned land were Ellen A. Crofut, F.A. Dran, Jacob Meyers, Jack Freeman, July Fripp, Andrew Jenkins and Ellen Williams. The Corps of Engineers hired labor from the Beaufort area to build the military complex. In 1900, Fort Fremont was turned over to the Coast Artillery. The National Register of Historic Places documentation states that "Fort Fremont is one of only two extant Spanish-American War fortifications which retain their character from that period."
According to Historic Resources of the Lowcountry, "Fort Fremont is said to have been the most expensive of all Beaufort area forts and perhaps the most useless, because no shot was ever fired from the fort."
( Image courtesy of Beaufort County Planning Department, 2007)
Fort Fremont is located at Lands End on St. Helena Island, S. C., four miles southeast of Port Royal. It overlooks the Fort Fremont Reach of the stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway that runs from Port Royal to the Beaufort River.
( Image courtesy of Beaufort County Planning Department, 2007)
The complex at Fort Femont consisted of almost 170 acres of land with numerous outbuildings, including an Administration building, guard house, barracks, hospital, stable, mess hall, bakery, commissary, post exchange, lavatory, and water tower. Of these, only the 10 inch battery, the rapid-fire battery and the brick hospital built in 1906 survive. All the other structures were made of wood and were demolished at various points before 1989 when documentation was submitted to the National Register of Historic Places.
(Section of Fort Fremont Plat, 1906 in the Beaufort District Collection)
The first commander of Fort Fremont was Lt. Johnson Hagood, First Artillery. After Hagood married in December of 1899, a Capt. Knowlton and Lt. Stanley D. Embrick succeeded him for the following two years.
According to the November 7, 1901 Palmetto Post, Capt. Knowlton recommended that the War Department buy adjoining land from African-American owners, in order to drain ponds and improve sanitary conditions for soldiers and civilians alike. Lt. Embrick had earlier made similar improvements on the premises.
The full company of personnel at Fort Fremont was set at 108 men in July of 1908, when 40 newcomers arrived from Columbus, Ohio. The 1907 payroll for the fort was $2,000 a month and $22,000 were spent on improvements to the facility in that year. Fort Fremont had the second-lowest number of desertions in the United States in the year 1910.
In June1910, violence erupted between artillerymen at the fort and African-American civilians, involving the sale of illegal "blind tiger liquor" by the locals. Following several fights and gun fights, six soldiers were wounded and one killed. Isaiah Potter, arrested for the fatal shooting, claimed that the trouble began with what the Beaufort Gazette called "intimacy between (Potter's) wife and a private soldier."
The same Beaufort Gazette article indicated that Fort Fremont's soldiers were in frequent social contact with the townspeople of Beaufort: Pvt. Frank J. Quigley, the slain soldier, had been "well known and liked in Beaufort and in many of the towns in which the Beaufort baseball team played last season, having played behind the bat for the Fort Fremont team and the Beaufort team."
A local legend identifies Quigley as the ghostly Land's End Light.
The garrison's single artillery company manned three 10-inch disappearing guns and two 4.7-inch rapid fire guns. Much of the bastions and the concrete emplacements for the guns remain today. (The March 2, 1899 issue of The Palmetto Post told that "a large force of laborers" was at work on the fortifications, that the 4.7-inch guns had already been mounted, and the emplacments had been completed for the larger weapons).
A report from the December 12, 1901 Palmetto Post gave an idea of the sort of ballistic maneuvers that occupied coastal artillery troops of the day. On the Hilton Head Island installation, a board of army officers conducted a test of the "new pneumatic dynamite gun," at the mouth of Port Royal Sound. The weapon had a range of 6,000 yeards and was capable of aerial torpedoes of 1,800 pounds (containing 50-200 pounds of nitro gelatine). Both dummy and live-cartridge projectiles were fired (the latter "threw columns of water into the air" as they exploded upon impact).
In 1908, the general public could freely tour the fort and its weapon emplacements. "A few years ago, the orders were very strict," said the July 9 Beaufort Gazette, "but now the government is glad to have people look all over the works. The big guns and mine firing devices are well worth an afternoon."
The June 26, 1930, a Beaufort Gazette reported that the guns at Fort Fremont as "stayed on the fort until the World War when they were taken to France" (in a 1972 Beaufort Gazette article, however, historian Gerhard Spieler said that there was some doubt about this, with conflicting reports that the guns had been simply stored away).
As early as 1906, however, the War Department gave serious consideration to the closing of Fort Fremont, due to budgetary constraints.
The March 10, 1911 Beaufort Gazette reported that the 127th Company -- under command of Capt. W. E. Murray -- was ordered to proceed from Fort Fremont to Fort Sam Houston (Galveston, Texas), along with eleven other coast artillery units, for mine-planting practice. Only "the post non-commissioned staff and a detachment of five men and a non-commissioned officer of the 116th company coastal artillery from Fort Screven, Ga." were left to man Fort Fremont. Dr. Charles S. Halliday, post surgeon at the Fort Fremont hospital facility, did not know "whether his removal (was) permanent or temporary."
But on June 30, readers of The Beaufort Gazette learned that "the last steps toward the abandonment of Fort Fremont (were) being taken." Captain Murray, a sergeant and five privates had arrived from Galveston to pack and ship "all the portable material and equipment in the several quarters of the fort." Although much property had already been packed for shipment to Fort Crocket, Texas, the job would require another several weeks to complete. Sergeant Meyers told the newspaper, " I am glad to get back to Beaufort, and I only wish I were here to stay" (Meyers, Capt. Murray, and the soldiers were to be stationed at Fort Crocket).
Regarding reports that Fort Fremont would be sold or abandoned, the April 16, 1912 Beaufort Gazette quoted the Assistant Secretary of War: "... I have the honor to inform you that no such action is contemplated at present. A small detachment of soldiers had been serving as caretakers at the fort after troops stationed there had been reassigned to Galveston the previous year.
A December 7, 1921 Charleston News and Courier article reported that the Treasury Department requested Fort Fremont from the War Department, for use as a quarantine station. The property had by then been placed on the Secretary of War's list of properties no longer needed for military purposes and available for sale.
Fort Fremont was deactivated in 1921.
On June 26, 1930, a Beaufort Gazette story announced that New York corporate executive Frederick H. Barnes had bought the Fort Fremont property at "the largest (price) paid for a country estate on the coast to date." Mr. Barnes had plans to build a Spanish villa on the site, complete with a sunken landscaped garden and a private yacht basin. The newspaper described the existing hospital building as "beautiful ... standing on near the water's edge, facing the sound." Several of Barnes's friends were also "contemplating acquiring country estates on St. Helena."
John Demosthenes and a group of other local businessmen bought the property from Barnes in 1946 (a Greek immigrant, Demosthenes had served in the Coastal Artillery at Fort Screven and had been to Fort Fremont on frequent work details). At that time, the 170 acres were split into waterfront sites for summer beach houses. In 1951, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Schurmeir renovated the hospital structure into a hunting and fishing lodge. In 1972 the concrete gun emplacements were the property of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Dowling.
The Trust for Public Land and Beaufort County Council paid $5.4 million to two landowners in October 2004 in order to transform the remnants of Fort Fremont into a beachfront park. Final design plans for the park are under discussion.
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"Fort Fremont Not To Be Sold." Beaufort Gazette, April 26, 1912, p. 1.
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"Fortifications at Port Royal Island."
Palmetto Post, March 2, 1899, p. 3.
"Hunting Lodge will be opened near Beaufort." [uncited newspaper clipping in McTeer Scrapbook 1, (p. 13)].
Lowcountry Council of Governments. Historic Resources of the Lowcountry. The Council, 1979.
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Application for Fort Fremont Battery, 1988-1989.
"New Soldiers for Fort Fremont." Beaufort Gazette, July 9, 1908, p. 1.
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