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On a winter day ruled by gloom and horizontal snow, even a
fishing guide might be excused for dreaming of being elsewhere.
Most guides and anglers have gone elsewhere.
"When it's like it was today, I think of sweat running off my
nose out on the flats in the Bahamas," said Kyle Holt, one of the
few guides from Basalt who actually found employment in the
midwinter gale. "Of course, when I'm sweating in the Bahamas, I
think of being here."
Among Colorado's sterling tail waters, few would dispute the
eminence of the Frying Pan River: 14 miles of gorgeous stream
below Reudi Dam, 8 miles of which offer roadside public access.
It's fishable all the way up to the concrete foot of the dam,
which isn't permitted on most other tail waters. And it stays
ice-free in its upper reaches because of the 40-degree currents
that issue from the dam.
Trout keep right on feeding, oblivious to the season. Slate
gray dippers, water ouzels, twitter and wade into the stream to
feed on an aquatic smorgasbord unmatched almost anywhere else in
The problem in summer is that anglers often must stand in line
for preferred fishing beats. But in winter, particularly in an icy
gale, an angler can march right up to that hallowed spot known
indelicately as the Toilet Bowl and yank trout until his arm gives
Ben Adams of Pleasant Grove, Utah, did just that. In the
howling blizzard, he was the only person fishing the Frying Pan's
usually busy upper mile. He stood at the foot of the dam,
straight-lining with a Mysis shrimp fly, playing one stout trout
"It's a good spot," Adams said. "I was here last week for the
first time. It was so good, I came back."
Although the Frying Pan River is one of Colorado's most
beautiful places, nobody can accuse its most famous fishing hole
of scenic charm. Water boils from the concrete into a dark pool 40
feet deep. It's like fishing in a noisy bunker. But trout,
including a few monsters of 15 pounds, queue up there to munch
The Mysis, a freshwater shrimp introduced from the Great Lakes,
has wreaked havoc in many reservoir food chains. But the tiny
clear and whitish shrimp have inspired a cult following among fly
fishers who angle beneath dams, particularly on the Frying Pan.
The Pan is stuffed with trout food from aquatic worms, scuds
and caddis to mayfly and stonefly nymphs. But Mysis that stream
from the dam, sometimes en masse, are the tenderloin that grows
A few Mysis nearly always trickle from the dam, but the big
waves generally come in March. Tim Heng, who manages the Taylor
Creek Fly shop in Basalt, said the shrimp, which turn milky white
when they die, sometimes can be seen for more than a mile down
river from the dam.
"They are mostly dead or in their dying throes when they come
out," said Heng, who, like most Frying Pan regulars, is a keen
observer of the shrimp and trout that feed on them.
Fly anglers fish Nos. 18 and 20 Mysis imitations as nymphs,
mostly with a dead drift, in the Frying Pan's upper reaches. But,
Heng said, swimming imitations also work. When the shrimp are
dying they swim in spurts, fast at first, then floating away.
"There's a fair number of Mysis coming out now, which normally
doesn't happen with low flows," Heng said. "It typically happens
when you have high flows."
That might be because drought and water calls downstream have
shriveled Reudi Reservoir to a shadow of its former self, causing
the shrimp to concentrate near the dam. When full, Reudi can hold
106,000 acre/feet of water, but it now stands at a mere 38,000
Nevertheless, the Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the
dam, has kept water running for the Gold Medal River. Although no
official minimum flow has been established for the Frying Pan,
Heng said BuRec tries to keep at least 39 cubic feet per second
running from Reudi. The flow currently is 44 cfs, low but adequate
for fish and fishermen.
And trout, indeed, were feeding in chow lines on Mysis shrimp.
Some fishing guides, Holt included, have taken curiosity about
the little shrimp to its extreme limit. He conceded that eating
anything uncooked from a river is risky, because there is always a
chance of ingesting the parasite giardia. But in the pursuit of
knowledge, he has munched Mysis.
"They taste salty," he said. "And when you cook them, they
taste . . . well, like shrimp." | <urn:uuid:a9f51504-7d31-4b25-acc9-f1ac4dd2554a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.anglerguide.com/articles/655.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957079 | 1,065 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The SHF1 before hard drive installation
Installation is very simple. The SHF1 suspends the hard disk on two rails connected to four rubber grommets to dampen vibration. The hardest part is squeezing the drive between the tight grommets, but it's really not very difficult. Once it's in, simply insert and tighten the four screws to fasten the drive to the rails.
The SHF1 with a 3½" hard drive installed
Next, peel the protective film off of the sticky thermal pad, and apply it to the top of the drive. With the thermal pad on, the heatsink can now be screwed on to the top of the unit with four long screws, tightly enough to ensure good heat transfer but not so tight as to stress the drive. With this step complete, the hard drive installation for the SHF1 is complete.
The thermal pad placed on the hard drive...
...and then the heatsink is screwed on, completing the install
In most cases, this is all the preparation required before the SHF1 is installed. However, the SHF1 has extra brackets for additional configuration options if the user wants to provide even more cooling than the two fans that come with the SHF1 offer. They could also accommodate a second drive. The option to expand the unit's usability is very nice, but it does require more fans than the SHF1 ships with, so we will concentrate on using the unit with a single hard disk.
With the hard drive installed, the SHF1 simply needs to be slipped into a 5½" drive bay. If active cooling is desired, the final touch is to attach the fan power leads to a single molex connector off of the power supply, and the SHF1 is good to go.
The SHF1 installed in the ATX case, running and with illuminated fans
It is important to note that when the SHF1 is running, the two 40 mm fans are so quiet that I couldn't really tell if they added to the ambient noise of the case or not. There's really no reason to operate the SHF1 passively as the fans certainly don't make any racket when they're powered up. | <urn:uuid:f4b5f357-c8f3-4a8c-9cdc-08e9e8c03dbf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/the-sytrin-shf1-hard-drive-cooler-uk,review-2105-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950606 | 453 | 1.773438 | 2 |
International football's FA board (IFAB) has unanimously approved the use of goal-line technology after months of exhaustive tests were carried out on two systems - Hawk-Eye and GoalRef.
The Premier League reacted to the historic decision in Zurich by vowing to implement the technology "as soon as practically possible''. However, the introduction will not be immediate because each system will have to be licensed, installed and tested in each venue to ensure it is functioning properly.
"The Premier League has been a long term advocate of goal-line technology,'' read a statement from the organisation. "We welcome today's decision by IFAB and will engage in discussions with both Hawkeye and GoalRef in the near future with a view to introducing goal-line technology as soon as is practically possible .'"
The technology could be ready to go in the English top-flight as soon as the new year and FA general secretary Alex Horne said it could also be used for the latter stages of the FA Cup, as one of the goal-line technology systems is already installed at Wembley Stadium.
"It is perfectly possible to introduce it halfway through the season," Horne said. "We have already got Hawk-Eye at Wembley, it needs to be calibrated and make sure it's working properly and licensed so we are nearly there and we could turn Hawk-Eye on quite quickly.
"The FA Cup would be our decision and we could say for the semi-finals and finals of the FA Cup we could turn it on, I don't think that is a very controversial decision."
Meanwhile, FIFA intends to put Hawk-Eye and GoalRef to the test at the Club World Cup in Tokyo in 2013, with a view to using it at next year's Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said world football's governing body would pay for the systems - around £160,000 per Stadium - and leave them in place in the stadiums used during all three tournaments.
Momentum towards goal-line technology has increased since Frank Lampard was denied an equaliser for England against Germany in the 2010 World Cup when the ball hit the bar and bounced over the line but no goal was given.
That incident caused the FIFA president Sepp Blatter to publicly back technology for the first time, and the issue hit the headlines again when Ukraine were denied a goal when the ball crossed the line against England in Euro 2012.
Blatter said: "For me as FIFA president it became evident the moment what happened in South Africa in 2010. I have to say 'thank you Lampard'. I was completely down in South Africa when I saw that it really shocked me, it took me a day to react. It happened again in Ukraine, and Ukraine can still not believe it now.''
There will be no move towards bringing in other technology, such as video replays to judge offsides for example, said IFAB in a statement.
"This approval is subject to a final installation test at each stadium before the systems can be used in 'real' football matches,'' said the statement. "The IFAB was keen to stress that technology will only be utilised for the goal-line and for no other areas of the game.''
Tests on the Hawk-Eye and GoalRef systems were carried out by the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology, with the results evaluated by IFAB members at a meeting earlier this month.
Hawk-Eye, developed by a British company, is based on cameras, while GoalRef, a Danish-German development, uses magnetic fields. | <urn:uuid:28a49bb3-9d93-46bf-a148-d8ef00e2e162> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1123004/goal-line-technology-given-go-ahead?cc=5901 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973886 | 735 | 1.640625 | 2 |
In this study, 106 autistic children (mean age 8.5yrs, range 3-14.2yrs) were receiving intensive (27-35hrs/wk) one-on-one ABA-based interventions (the ABA school group), while 51 children received "eclectic" non-ABA autism-specialized services (27-30hrs/wk; the ASD unit children).
Some of these children (109) were judged to be in various ranges of intellectual ability, but this information was gathered by questioning individuals who worked with the children and was not verified in any way. Similarly, there is no information about these children's diagnoses, beyond that they were "children with autism spectrum disorder," and for seven children, even their age was unknown.
All 157 autistic children's challenging behaviours were assessed through a version of the Behavior Problems Inventory (Rojahn et al., 2001; Murphy et al., in press, take their description of this instrument nearly verbatim from this earlier paper). This instrument involves interviewing informants (rather than direct observation) and divides challenging behaviours into three categories: stereotypy, self-injury, and aggression.
Regardless of the reasonable sample size, this study's authors chose to organize their data in ways that made many statistical comparisons useless. There is a clear trend, though, if you slog through what information they do provide. This is summarized in the discussion, about comparisons between children in the ABA school group and children in the non-ABA ASD unit group:
With regard to the type of intervention received being a risk factor, findings show that the type of intervention is not related to the prevalence of challenging behavior. However, in relation to participants receiving an ABA intervention, they displayed a higher frequency of stereotypy and also showed higher levels of aggression.If I adhered to autism advocacy standards, I could simply repeat some or all of this excerpt endlessly as some kind of "proof" of what intensive ABA programs accomplish.
But the first sentence in the quote above is not supported by the authors' analyses. The other sentence is accurate in the sense that what is claimed can be traced to statistical comparisons that were actually carried out.
However, these statistical comparisons are within the context of a very poor quality study where the findings, even within the given highly questionable parameters (e.g., definitions of challenging behaviours that, among many other limitations, encompass presumed mental states) are virtually impossible to interpret.
Available data that might assist in interpreting the findings are simply not reported (e.g., demographics of the two different intervention groups). But even were the data better reported, this study is based on an very poorly characterized sample (poor characterization being the standard in the vast ABA literature), and one that according to what scant information is provided, is not representative of autistic children in general.
Indeed, an inventory of the errors (some of them instantly obvious) and major weaknesses in this paper would be lengthy and would include, somewhere down the list, the authors' contention that ABA must have been effective in their study in reducing challenging behaviours in autism because, well, ABA is effective.
This paper was accepted (within two days of being submitted) by an autism journal edited by a famous behaviour analyst. In my view, in its epublished form, this paper contributes nothing reliable or worthwhile to autism research.
What is worthwhile, though, is the reminder that quality and standards matter. The selective reading and promotion of research of overwhelmingly poor quality is central to autism advocacy--is one of its signatures. Autism advocates have successfully insisted that poor quality research is what autistics deserve.
But poor quality research can be selectively invoked to support any position, as I've pointed out here. For example, the low/no standards of science and ethics that autism advocates have imposed on autistics have led to public funding for RDI. But pushing poor standards and poor quality research is not going to lead to better outcomes for autistics. Claiming otherwise, as autism advocates loudly do, harms autistics.
Murphy, O., Healy, O, & Leader, G. (in press). Risk factors for challenging behaviors among 157 children with autism spectrum disorder in Ireland. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rojahn, J., Matson, J.L., Lott, D., Esbensen, A.J., & Smalls, Y. (2001). The Behavior Problems Inventory: An instrument for the assessment of self-injury, stereotyped behavior, and aggression/destruction in individuals with developmental disabilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31, 577-588. | <urn:uuid:01a2e545-5e87-4842-ba39-abb6e229198d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://autismcrisis.blogspot.com/2008/12/autism-advocacy-standards-aba-and.html?showComment=1228439160000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958932 | 945 | 2.53125 | 3 |
A study of lid-less toilets in hospitals has revealed an uncomfortable truth that could apply to us all: Flushing the toilet with the lid up sprays a fine mist of bacteria-laden water into the air, which can settle on every surface on the bathroom, including your toothbrush.
It’s a process long known to hygiene experts, and it’s called aerosolization. Mythbusters did a segment on it and concluded that while toilets with lids up do spray water all over the bathroom, the risk associated with this process was negligible.
This newest study suggests that’s not the case when anyone using the toilet is sick, however, as in a hospital setting. Specifically, elderly individuals carrying the bacterium C. difficile might transmit it through lidless flushes. C. difficile infections are on the rise; this might be one reason why.
Photo: Jim Fischer
More sciencey awesomeness on SmartPlanet: | <urn:uuid:f57cab2d-ccd8-4e8d-9519-be8324ffe840> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/science-scope/new-evidence-that-flushing-your-toilet-with-the-lid-up-is-a-public-health-hazard/11828 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937194 | 199 | 3.5 | 4 |
A writing group can help us grow as writers, and feedback sessions help us polish our writing to send out to markets. But not all feedback sessions are equal.
When a work needs serious revision, we want to be told by our writing group members – but in an honest and respectful manner. That doesn’t always happen in a feedback session. I’ve been attending writing classes and groups since the mid-1990s. Sometimes, even when you have strong ties to other group members, you may receive a critique that hurts. It happens. Most of us wear our hearts on our page, so to speak, and it can hurt when someone doesn’t understand – or like – our work.
We also tend to hear the negatives more than the positives. For me, learning to deal with critiques has a steep learning curve. Some 20 years ago, as a result of an offhand remark in a class – “It’s more of a character sketch than a story” – I put one of my stories in a box in the basement. Ten years later, I took it out, dusted it off, and sent it to an editor who offered feedback. The editor loved it and decided to publish it. Lesson learned: if I don’t believe in my writing, who will?
I’ve given and taken poorly handled critiques, and I’d like to talk about some ways I’ve learned to deal with it – although I’m still learning through trial and error, after almost 20 years.
1) Say thank-you. Being defensive only makes you look bad. Put the critique away for a while, and look at it next month. Search for one thing in it that might help the work. And conjure a mental garbage can for the rest.
2) Try not to take it personally. The critique is directed at the page, not at your heart – although it sometimes doesn’t feel like that. Consider the source: maybe the critique-giver had a bad week, or maybe they have another agenda. For example, do they consider themselves rivals in your genre or style? If this might be true, see Step 1 again.
3) Talk to someone about how you feel. Try another group member, the group leader, or a trusted friend. Recently, after a rough session, I considered leaving a group. Instead, after I calmed down, I contacted another group member, although I didn’t know her very well, and discovered she felt the same way. We were able to initiate a discussion in the group, and that helped clear the air.
Above all, don’t give up on yourself. Writing is a craft as well as an art, and it takes time to learn. If a group isn’t working for you and your writing, and you are being held back by the attitudes or critiques you’re getting, it may be time to leave that group and seek another.
Have you had a negative feedback experience? Please leave a comment (click “Read more” below for the comment box). | <urn:uuid:111c53ec-a841-442f-9a8e-103f8804c5fc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mepowell.com/blog/category/writing/creative-writing/page/6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961612 | 643 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Planck Spots Hot Gas Bridging Galaxy Cluster Pair Space Wallpaper
About this Image
Planck has discovered a bridge of hot gas that connects galaxy clusters Abell 399 (lower centre) and Abell 401 (top left) as seen in this space wallpaper. The galaxy pair is located about a billion light-years from Earth, and the gas bridge extends approximately 10 million light-years between them. The image shows the two galaxy clusters as seen at optical wavelengths with ground-based telescopes and through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (in orange) with ESA's Planck satellite.
Credit: Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect: ESA Planck Collaboration; optical image: STScI Digitized Sky Survey | <urn:uuid:57975e3d-4f26-4266-b418-7a6356e78ac7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.space.com/18612-planck-spots-hot-gas-bridging-galaxy-cluster-pair.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919514 | 153 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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The best quality shawls is Pashmina which are made of Pashmina, the wool of the wild Asian mountain goat. The fine fleece used for the shawls is that which grows under the | <urn:uuid:1b530e52-5384-4c66-bf73-45bcc6fc2b25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.elegantparkdresses.com/article/tag/shawl/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968598 | 391 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The Wrangell St. Elias Wilderness
You wake each morning immersed in nature’s exuberance. The unnaturally long, brilliant days of an Alaskan summer are bursting with life.
Here in the heart of the wilderness, a hundred miles from the end of the road, bears roam glittering sandbars. Moose feast on wild vegitation. Dall sheep tread their ancient mountain paths and eagles soar from cliff to spruce.
The Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains
Stretching from Canada’s Yukon Territory to the Pacific Ocean, Wrangell-St. Elias national park is part of the largest protected land mass on earth. But most people will never see it.
Although the land surrounding Ultima Thule Lodge is deep in a national park, it is utterly inaccessible and almost entirely unvisited.
There is only one way to get here.
When you come to Alaska, people ask you “Who are you flying with?” And even if you’re a skilled pilot with your own private plane, there’s just one hamlet deep enough in the mountains where you can buy enough fuel to reach this hidden valley.
Flying over these peaks, in weather this unpredictable, requires an experienced bush pilot. You want someone who grew up in a cockpit. You want Paul Claus.
An Adventure Each Day
There's no itinerary. "Wilderness," says Paul Claus, "is the unexpected. We let nature lead us, so every day is different.
“We may fly up into a mountain valley, or put you down on a sandbar at the edge of the forest, and take you on a hike that literally no one has ever done before.”
“No human being has ever stood here,” says your guide.
You stand on the rocky peak of a mountain with no name. The sun is warm on your back. The glacier here is receding, and the stone beneath your feet has only been bare for a few days.
Glacial runoff thunders down from the mountain in a massive waterfall. Vast clouds of vapor glitter in the sunlight. You watch as the glacier calves a huge, jagged shard of ice, and it drops down into the valley below...
crashing into the Chitina river. You’ll drink that tonight.
Behind you, the two-seater Piper Super Cub waits silently, its steel propellor glinting in the sun, its massive, rubbery bush-wheels perfectly suited for a landing at the top of the world. | <urn:uuid:5311031b-0779-4f50-b7ea-e0e83c533693> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ultimathulelodge.com/alaska-wilderness-lodge/wrangell-st-elias | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919019 | 536 | 2.125 | 2 |
It was recently reported that over 50 pubs a week were closing as a result of an increase in beer tax. There seems to be some surprise that private sector economic activity is reducing (ignoring the temporary effects of the recession). However, this is an inevitable result of public sector economic activity rising.
In the last few years there has been a transfer of national income from the private sector to the public sector of about 10% of total national income (therefore of about 20% of the private sector). This has come in two forms. Some of the increase in government spending has arisen as a result of increased welfare payments. This has no direct effect on private sector production because money is simply being transferred from one group of consumers to another: government production is not increasing. However, the welfare recipients will spend the money on different things from those that taxpayers who are paying increased taxes would have bought. Therefore there are additional disruptions to the normal dynamic process of changes in preferences leading to different goods and services being required to meet demands. This is a problem but not necessarily serious.
However, a good proportion of the increase in government spending is being spent on services - especially health and education. This involves a direct transfer out of private sector spending, and ultimately production, to public sector spending and production. There are lots of complexities and leads and lags but, ultimately, a substantial part of private sector production must completely shut down in order to release the economic resources necessary to provide more schools and hospitals (or, strictly speaking, largely more bureaucrats and administrators). The fact that pubs are closing down directly because of a beer tax is simply a more obvious mechanism than the less obvious mechanisms that occur when the state bids in the labour markets for more resources thus raising costs for other employers, ultimately leading to a reduction in private sector production. | <urn:uuid:c2a5e767-4153-4768-8a52-40d24d01922c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/if-the-state-expands-the-private-sector-must-shrink | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974576 | 364 | 2.3125 | 2 |
By Jason Lange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy barely grew in the fourth quarter as the military slashed spending and companies restocked their shelves with less gusto, but growth already appears to be picking up.
The Commerce Department said on Thursday the economy expanded at a 0.1 percent annual rate in the last three months of 2012, scratching an earlier estimate that had showed a small decline.
The growth rate was the slowest since the first quarter of 2011 and fell short of the 0.5 percent economists had expected.
But consumer spending, while not stellar, was comparatively robust and economists see signs the factors that restrained growth late last year are already reversing in the first quarter. A month ago, the government had said the economy contracted at a 0.1 percent pace.
"The details of the report bode well for the beginning of this year," said Harm Bandholz, an economist at UniCredit in New York.
Indeed, other reports on Thursday showed a drop in new claims for jobless benefits last week and a sharp rise in factory activity in the Midwest, adding to a string of recent data that suggests the economy improved early this year.
The GDP report showed consumer spending expanded at a 2.1 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter. That suggests modest underlying momentum in the economy as it entered the first quarter, when a significant tightening of fiscal policy began.
Inventories subtracted 1.6 percentage points from the GDP growth rate during the fourth quarter, while defense spending plunged 22 percent, shaving 1.3 points off growth. Many economists expect both of those categories to add to growth in the first three months of the year.
The drag from inventories was actually greater late last year than initially estimated, suggesting an even sharper rebound is due in the first quarter.
Data on retail sales and on housing have suggested a tax hike enacted in January did not deal a big blow to households, and most economists think growth will pick up later this year despite a wave of federal spending cuts due to begin on Friday.
POCKETS OF STRENGTH
There were some relatively bright spots in the GDP data.
Imports fell 4.5 percent during the period, which added to the overall growth rate because it was a larger drop than in the third quarter. Buying goods from foreigners bleeds money from the economy, subtracting from economic growth.
At the same time, exports did not fall as much as the government had thought when it released its earlier estimate. Exports have been hampered by a recession in Europe, a cooling Chinese economy and storm-related port disruptions.
Excluding the volatile inventories component, GDP rose at a revised 1.7 percent rate, in line with expectations. These final sales of goods and services had been previously estimated to have increased at a 1.1 percent pace.
Business spending was revised to show more growth during the period than initially thought, adding about a percentage point to the growth rate.
Growth in home building was revised slightly higher to a 17.5 percent annual rate. Residential construction is one of the brighter spots in the economy and is benefiting from the Federal Reserve's ultra-easy monetary policy stance, which has driven mortgage rates to record lows.
JOBLESS CLAIMS FALL
A separate report showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, suggesting some traction in the labor market recovery.
Initial claims for state jobless benefits dropped 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 344,000, the Labor Department said.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected first-time applications to fall to 360,000.
While the level of jobless claims is near where it was in the early days of the 2007-09 recession, hiring has remained quite lackluster. Job gains have averaged 177,000 per month over the past six months.
High unemployment prompted the U.S. central bank last year to launch an open-ended bond buying program that it said it would keep up until it saw a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market.
In a separate report, the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago said the pace of business activity in the U.S. Midwest rose to its highest level in nearly a year in February as new orders increased.
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Bacterial RNA Polymerase
Eukaryotic RNA Polymerase
The promoter region contains important sequences that are required for RNA polymerase to bind. These sequences are similar in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes, but the locations are different.
Conserved Sequences in Promoters
As DNA unwinds during bacterial transcription, the transcription apparatus occupies different sites in the gene during different steps of transcription.
DNA Footprinting TechniqueThe RNA polymerase-promoter complex is partially digested by DNase I. The DNA is then labeled on one strand. The fragments are then broken using the Maxam-Gilbert sequencing reagents. A control is run which is treated identically except it consists of the same promoter DNA without the transcription complex attached. The fragmented DNA is then separated on a gel. That region of the promoter sequence in the control that is missing in the complexed DNA defines the region in which the DNA is bound.
Steps in Model Eukaryotic TranscriptionThe adenovirus late promoter requires four accessory factors and RNA Polymerase II to be added to the promoter in a defined manner for transcription to begin. This can be monitored by footprinting analysis to measure the size of the complex. The following table shows the order in which the the four transcription factors and RNA Polymerase II come together to form the protein that will actually transcribe the gene.
For bacterial RNA polymerase, only the sigma factor is needed for the enzyme to recognize the promoter. The eukaryotic transcription factors may indeed act as sigma factors to allow the eukaryoitic RNA polymerase to recognize the promoter. Some of the factors may be specific to certain promoters so groups of factors like these would be expected to exist.
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Salty Diet Bad for Blood Vessels, Heartby
. There are many amongst us who add more table salt while eating. Researchers say, not a good idea. Here is why!
The recommended sodium intake is less than 2,300 mg per day. If you are above the age of 50 or have any medical...
Astringent-Did the fox taste the rabbit?by
Astringent is the sixth taste. Six tastes? That's right, sweet, salty, sour, pungent......It was as though he had travelled only the familiar, his experience of taste truncated by the absence of words to describe...
Dry Mouth? Don’t Delay Treatmentby
FDAmedically as xerostomia, occurs when you don’t have enough saliva, or spit, in your mouth.
Feeling... mouth may make it difficult to speak, chew, and swallow, and may alter the taste of your food...
The Power of Expecationby
I heard about an experiment once where they blindfolded people and put different kinds of tastes in their mouth…salty, sweet, sour. The first time they told them what to expect before they placed...
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Take ... For Seniors
Many people think snacks are junk food,
though it doesn’t have to be that way. Snacking can be part of a balanced
diet. Eating small portions between meals provides your body with energy to
keep you going throughout the day.
Try to keep your snack portions small
and less than 250 calories. Spacing out meals and snacks can help prevent
weight gain. The Nutrition Facts Label on packaged foods will help you
figure the calories and nutrients that are in one portion size.
More foods are now being packaged in
single-serving portions, making it easier for you to keep track of how much
you’re eating. But you still want to be careful about what kinds of food
you choose to snack on!
Sugary and fattening sweets like cookies
and candy lack nutrients. Many salty foods – like chips – can dehydrate
you. These foods should be eaten in moderation.
For healthy and filling snacks, try:
Fresh or frozen fruit, or a handful
of dried fruit, such as raisins.
Raw vegetables – carrots, celery,
red and green pepper – cut and portioned in small plastic bags. Try
filling celery with peanut butter or low-fat cottage cheese, or dipping
your vegetables in low-fat dressing.
A whole-wheat English muffin with
apple butter and a cup of herbal tea.
A slice of angel-food cake with
non-fat whipped topping.
Whole-grain crackers (could be
topped with cheese or peanut butter).
Non-fat cottage cheese or yogurt
A handful of nuts, dried fruit or
trail-mix (or make your own mix by buying the ingredients you like).
A smoothie (blend nonfat milk and/or
yogurt with fruit).
So forget the bag of chips or candy bar
and reach for a handful of nuts and raisins. You'll get extra fiber,
vitamins, and minerals, all for about 50 calories.
With proper portions and healthy food
choices, snacking can enhance, rather than hurt your diet.
How Walking Buffs
You lace up your walking shoes, stretch,
and set out on a brisk walk … all with the goal of being fit and healthy.
What you might not know is that your walk benefits your mind just as much as
your body. Recent research finds that physical activity is good for mental
Simple forms of steady exercise, such as
walking, give you the best mental boost. Walking improves your ability to
make decisions, solve problems, and focus. Even small doses of walking, like
a 15-minute trek, can increase your brain power.
These benefits are not just short term.
The mental perks continue long after your body has cooled down from a walk.
Perk Up by Walking
When life gets you down, walking can
ease some of the burdens and relieve sadness or anxiety. Here’s why:
Aerobic activity releases hormones
like adrenaline in your body. These hormones are key players in your
nervous system and in boosting your mood.
Endorphins also release in your body
during activity. They help relieve pain and create a sense of
Try to find time for brain breaks each
day by walking. Remember, you can break your treks up into several short
Expand Your Outlook
Many people use walking as a time to
pray, meditate, or just think. Alone time spent walking can help you gain
perspective and balance.
If you walk with a friend or family
member, you also can enrich your mind by talking about issues of interest.
Intelligent banter sharpens your wit; this, in turn, increases your mental
skill. It’s enjoyable to plan what topics the day's walk will explore.
Walking beefs up your mind in many ways.
Here are more benefits:
Exercise helps you sleep better.
Restful nights are essential for clear thought processes.
As you continue to walk, you’ll
deepen your self-motivation and personal will. This can help you muster
the mental drive you need each day.
The point is this: Any time you can
dedicate to walking is time your brain and mind need for clarity and
strength. When you feel overwhelmed, find the time to walk. You’ll get
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Click here for a little introduction to dwarf hamsters and The Happy Hamstery.
Thinking about getting a dwarf hamster and want to get a feel for what ownership entails? Or did you just buy a dwarf and need some tips? In either case get information on Caring for Dwarf Hamsters.
Want to see what a certain color looks like? Need to know if you really saw your "same sex pair" mating? Is your first litter about to arrive & you want to know what the babies will look like? Or do you just want to see some cute pictures of my dwarves? Well,
Love your same sex pair, but want to start breeding? Do the right thing and get a some general information before diving in! Come learn about
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Some pertinent data:
-- Women who are more religious are less likely to experience divorce or separation than their less religious peers.
-- Marriages in which both spouses attend religious services frequently are 2.4 times less likely to end in divorce than marriages in which neither spouse worships.
-- Religious attendance is the most important predictor of marital stability, confirming studies conducted as far back as 50 years ago.
-- Couples who share the same faith are more likely to reunite if they separate than are couples who do not share the same religious affiliation.
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Local Polish community celebrates Paczki Day
DEPEW, N.Y. -- Western New York's Polish community celebrated music, ethnic fun and food at the 16th annual Paczki day festival Sunday afternoon in Depew.
Hundreds came to the event, which featured live polka music, dancing and dozens of paczki donuts. Attendees enjoyed the jelly filled pastries before their lenten sacrifices begin on Ash Wednesday.
Organizers said it's important local Polish people commemorate their heritage in a fun way.
"We started this 16 years ago just as a fundraiser for our group and it's kinda grown, and we're in a bigger location now and we invite the young people, the old people, the families to come out, everybody to just have a great time," said organizer Michelle Kisluk.
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The Duty of Colored Men to Enlist.
Published: August 2, 1863
A LETTER FROM SECRETARY SEWARD.
Secretary SEWARD having been inquired of by J.M. LANGSTON as to the duty of colored men in view of the fact that the wages offered to them as soldiers are less than those offered to whites, sends a reply as follows:
The duty of the colored man to defend his country whenever and wherever and in whatever form, is the same with that of the white man. It does not depend on, nor is it affected by, what the country pays us or what position she assigns us; but it depends on her need alone, and of that she, not we are to judge. The true way to secure her rewards and win her confidence is not to stipulate for them, but to deserve them. Factious disputes among patriots about compensations and honors invariably betray any people, of whatever race, into bondage. If you wish you race to be delivered from that curse, this is the time to secure their freedom in every land and for all ???erations. It is no time for any American to be hesitating about pay or place.
I am your obedient servant,
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Fast Hashes Kill Cryptographic Security
Fash Hashing algorithms such as MD5, SHA or SHA1 are not meant for security – to protect critical information, especially passwords, hashing algorithms must be intentionally slowed down to counter brute-force attacks. Troy Hunt, a Microsoft MVP, demonstrates how the password hashes provided by SqlMembershipProvider are vulnerable to brute-force attacks.
SqlMembershipProvider is the default membership provider that comes with the ASP.NET web application template in VS 2010. In his article Our password hashing has no clothes, Troy demonstrates how the salted SHA1 hash based password security used in the SqlMembershipProvider can be cracked by using a GPU, a dictionary called hashkiller and a brute force algorithm. In a sample size of 40,000, real life passwords (taken from an earlier breach), the algorithm cracked 24,710, or 67% of the passwords, in 45 minutes. And these include passwords that would pass as being strong -
How about “volleyball6” – 11 chars of two different types. Further up the list was “zaq1@WSX” – 8 chars of upper, lower numeric and symbol, surely enough to pass most security policies yet even when stored as a “secure” salted hash, utterly useless.
The problem is the speed with which new hashes can be created once you have a dictionary of potential passwords, with hardware getting faster and faster.
So what’s the solution? Key stretching, by iterating the hashing several times can offer a way to slow down hashing algorithms enough to make brute-force attack more difficult. Bcrypt and PBKDF2 are two such algorithms - these are called adaptive algorithms since they can be made slower over time (as hardware gets faster) by increasing the number of iterations. Bcrypt.NET implements the former and the DefaultMembershipProvider implements the latter. DefaultMembershipProvider uses 1000 iterations of SHA1 and is the default provider that is present in the ASP.NET MVC 4 template in VS 2012. Troy’s article Stronger password hashing in .NET.. explains how to use some of these alternatives, and also how to migrate your application to stronger hashes without breaking your authentication. | <urn:uuid:e2d098de-749e-431c-b0a3-dbe0862e53da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/07/hashing-dot-net | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921651 | 460 | 2.078125 | 2 |
2011 Fulbright Queensland Scholarship — UCLA
“Maintaining the highest possible standards of fingerprint evidence is important for making sure that innocent people are not wrongly accused.”
Matthew Thompson, a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland, is the winner of the prestigious 2011 Fulbright Queensland Scholarship, sponsored by the Queensland Government and Universities.
“Everyday, law enforcement agencies identify thousands of fingerprint matches that can be used as evidence in convicting criminals,” Matthew said.
”Contrary to popular belief and TV shows like CSI, computers are not relied upon to match crime-scene fingerprints. Instead, human fingerprint experts decide whether a print belongs to a suspect or not.”
“But, despite its 100 year history, there have been few peer-reviewed studies directly examining the extent to which experts can correctly match fingerprints to one another. And mistakes made to date have resulted in innocent people being wrongly accused.”
Matthew’s Fulbright Scholarship will allow him to further his research on assessing inaccuracies in fingerprint identification, and collaborate with US law enforcement agencies.
He will carry out his research at the University of California, Los Angeles to determine how accurate fingerprint experts are, explore the psychology that affects how well they match fingerprints, and maximise the reliability of fingerprint evidence in the criminal justice system.
“I’ll work with fingerprint experts in the US to determine the factors—about the person and about the print—that will allow experts to make the most accurate matches,” Matthew said.
“I believe the outcomes of my research will improve the welfare of Australians and Americans by upholding the process of law, and help to prevent wrongful convictions and promote rightful ones.”
Matthew has a BInfTech and a BSc (First Class Honours) in Psychology from The University of Queensland. He has won awards and prizes including the Queensland Government Smart Futures PhD Scholarship, the NICTA Research Project Award, and the ATSE Young Science Ambassador Award. Matthew is also a keen photographer, blogger and musician.
The prestigious Fulbright program is the largest educational scholarship of its kind, created by U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright and the U.S. Government in 1946. Aimed at promoting mutual understanding through educational exchange, it operates between the U.S. and 155 countries. In Australia, the scholarships are funded by the Australian and U.S. Governments and corporate partners and administered by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission in Canberra.
Matthew is one of 26 talented Australians to be recognised as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011. Applications for Fulbright Scholarships in 2012 open on 1 June, visit www.fulbright.com.au
Host University: University of California, Los Angeles
Advisors: Jennifer Mnookin, Jason Tangen, Itiel Dror, Penelope Sanderson
Dates: April 2012 to April 2013
Queensland Government Smart Futures Scholarship
NICTA Research Project Award
Collaborators: Queensland Police Service
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This is something called the Gambler's Fallacy
. It is "committed when a person assumes that a departure from what occurs on average or in the long term will be corrected in the short term. The form of the fallacy is as follows:
1. X has happened.
2. X departs from what is expected to occur on average or over the long term.
3. Therefore, X will come to an end soon."
"Jane and Bill are talking:
Jane: "I'll be able to buy that car I always wanted soon."
Bill: "Why, did you get a raise?"
Jane: "No. But you know how I've been playing the lottery all these years?"
Bill: "Yes, you buy a ticket for every drawing, without fail."
Jane: "And I've lost every time."
Bill: "So why do you think you will win this time?"
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The Eras, classified according to the principles and practices of spiritual progress as laid down in the Hindu Dharma, are three:
Vedic literature consists of Samhithas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads; of these, the first three deal with Karma and are known as Karmakanda and the last, the Upanishads, are concerned with Jnana and so are called Jnanakanda.
The groups of Manthras in the Veda Samhithas are full of Stotras, glorifying
Gods like Indra, Agni, Varuna, Surya and Rudra. The Aryans in ancient
times earned peace and contentment and the fulfillment of their desires
by sacrifices and rituals, addressed to these Gods through these Manthras.
They realised that the Absolute Principle, the Paramatma, is One and one
only; and they also knew that it manifests nevertheless as varied and
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* Presents diverse experimental viewpoints from the beginning of classical electroencephalography to the more recent imaging, single units, electro-magneto-encephalography studies, etc.
* Includes classic data as well as new data based in the existing literature and on the long scientific research lines (auditory and sleep) developed by the author and coworkers on this subject since 1963
This book presents for the first time a view of a sensory system working in a different state-that of the sleeping brain. The auditory system is always “open” receiving information from the environment and the body itself (conscious and unconscious data). Even during sleep the auditory information is processed, although in a different way. This book draws information from evoked potentials, fMRI, PET, SPECT, lesions, etc., together with electrophysiological online data in order to depict how the auditory system single unit activity, recorded during sleep, revealed the possibility of sensory information participation in sleep processes.
Basic sleep and auditory system researchers (human and animal research) from all over the world. MD´s in the Otolaryngology and Sleep Medicine area from any country. Students, both in basic (Master and Doctorate degree) as well as in clinical field (MD students, residents and young MD´s looking forward to be part of Otolaryngology and/or Sleep Medicine. | <urn:uuid:e567ef65-8dc0-4711-8349-c92d8d4dd4a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123738905 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918641 | 280 | 2.421875 | 2 |
If you're looking at a boat in the 18' to 25' range (6.1m - 7.62m) then it's pretty likely that it will have a 5.0 liter engine as its standard power plant. Volvo Penta's 270-hp version of this size engine is very popular, for not only its size, but also its ability to accommodate either the single prop SX drive or the Duoprop drive.
If you are thinking about upgrading from the standard 4.3 L engine, you should know that Volvo Penta has been able to get 20% more horsepower out of the 5.0 L engine compared to the 4.3, even though its displacement is only 16% more.
This engine produced a top speed of 47.8 mph in a test of the Glastron DX 215 BR. Best cruise was at 3500 rpm where the boat went 29.8 mph and got 3.08 miles per gallon.
In a Regal 3060 Commodore we saw a nearly identical top speed of 47.7 mph with twin 5.0 L engines, and a best cruise of 25.8 at 3000 rpm, getting 1.73 statute miles per gallon.
Power steering and trim are standard and they are available with SX or DP drives.
Volvo Penta 5.0GXi (270-hp) Captain's Report
We tested the 5.0L and got a bead on how this little mill performs, but is it going to be enough for you? We'll help you decide.
The What For
The Volvo Penta 5.0L measures 36.8” (93.5 cm) long x 28.6” (72.6 cm) wide x 32.1” (81.5 cm) high and weighs roughly 1000 lbs. Measure your engine compartment and you’ll see that’s not a lot of room being taken up. This engine generally will be found in boats 20’ (6.10 m) – 25’ (7.62 m) when used as the boat's single power source. If it’s part of a twin engine application, you’ll be looking at a boat of around 28’ (8.5 m) – 32’ (9.75 m) in length.
This is core of the catalytic converter which is now required to be on all gas inboard engines sold in the U.S. in order to meet EPA emissions standards,
So What Can It Do For Me?
There’s a good question. Let's see how it did for us. Out test boat was a bow rider with a test weight of 4,030 lbs (1828 kg). This boat was 21' 6" (6.58 m) with a beam of 8' 6" (2.59 m). Test power was a catalyzed 270-hp 5.0 GXiC (Gas, eXtreme hp, fuel injected, Catalyzed). Here are the results…
Here we have a top speed of 52.4 mph with a 21.4 gph fuel burn. Best cruise came in at 3000 rpm and 28.6 mph where we had a fuel burn of only 7.6 gph. But what is likely to matter most is the fact that throughout the entire power range, we had ample power to spare. No matter where the throttle was, when we slammed the stick to the stops, the boat launched ahead with no hesitation.
Note threads on dip stick so you suck out the oil when it's time for changing. This is an important time and hassle-saving system. Thank you Volvo Penta!
So in other words, if you are cruising around and having a good ole time, then 270 horses will be plenty. In this size boat, you're also likely to drop a buddy or two in the water and do some skiing, wakeboarding, or tubing. In that case, because we had so much power to spare, you'll have little trouble pulling even your overweight friends up on top. But of course there's always a cutoff point, so let's see how the 5.0L performs when there are two of them powering the boat.
Capt. Steve's hands are on the famous "black box."
Our next test features a performance cruiser with an empty weight of 9500 lbs (4309 kg). Our 5.0L engines were driving the Duoprop drives.
Now we have a top speed of 46.2 mph with a combined fuel burn of 41.9 gph. Best cruise is still at 3000 rpm with a speed of 23.1 mph and a fuel burn of only 12.5 gph. So we're still getting the performance one would expect with this engine, and even if you want to do some towing in a boat this size, you won't be taxing the capabilities of the engines.
But one thing that is inescapable, with Volvo Penta as a whole, and the 5.0L itself, is the abundance of features that we found when we did our video tour: The ability to easily and cleanly change the oil and filter, the effortless serpentine belt replacement procedure, the electronic control, and, maybe most important to the end-user, is the ability to take advantage of EVC.
The Volvo Penta EVC system is plug and play to transmit vast amounts of data and at the same time keep gremlins out of the system.
This is one of the greatest technological leaps forward since they started slicing bread, and it’s a feature that is directly felt and experienced by the operator.
The acronym stands for Electronic Vessel Control and it’s the latest development in engine control and instrumentation, and you can take it from someone who has tested EVC personally. Once you’ve experienced it, you never want to go back.
Because this isn’t a full blown EVC report, the short version is that EVC allows for plug and play installation between the motor, and both the engine controls and helm gauges, that allows you to not only control the flow of data to the helm but electronically control the engines, and therefore the output and synchronization with effortless authority.
Captain Steve tears apart the exhaust riser to inspect the catalytic converter.
That means that all those mechanical connections between the helm and the engine are long gone, and adding a remote location for your engine controls, say at the stern or for wing controls, is as easy as adding another wiring run. And the digital controls are opening up a whole new breed of capability. Cruise modes, tow modes, trim assist, single lever modes… all are available at the push of a button.
Fuses are easy to locate on top of a Volvo Penta engine and spares are inbedded in the housing.
Clearly the Volvo Penta 5.0L is much more than just an engine. It’s technology at its finest, and the ability to exploit that technology will only serve to make our days on the water more hassle free, and therefore more enjoyable.
Filters are easy to change on the Volvo Penta 5.0L engine.
What is Volvo Penta Talking About?
One factor of these Volvo Penta gas engines that many find confusing, including us, is the nomenclature of each engine type. GI,GX… etc. What does it mean? It’s really just simple code. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll realize it’s pretty straightforward. Write this down…
First off, they all start with G, like in Gas.
– Low output. This is for your lower end 4.3’s at 190-hp. There are no “L” engines above 4.3.
– X is for Extreme. Why not use E for Extreme??? We’ll get to that later. Generally an “X” engine has another 20-30 extra horses for an engine of the same size. The 4.3GL is 190hp. The 4.3GX is 225hp. The 5.0 series are all “X”.
– Fuel injected. No carburetor. For some reason it’s the only letter identifier that is in lower case and it’s good for the engine, but wreaks havoc on a spell check. The 5.0GXi is extreme hp and fuel injected.
– Engines with this designator will be equipped with a catalytic converter, just like in your car. This is a new requirement and any 5.0 engines manufactured after 12/09 will be required to be equipped with one. So why might your new boat not have one? Because manufacturers can still use up their supply of older non-catalyzed engines, which they’re trying desperately to do as this feature adds roughly $3,500, but it’s a federal requirement now so don’t yell at the builder.
– The engine is set up to accommodate EVC or Electronic Vessel Control. This is the coolest thing to come along since ice.. You can also see our dedicated video on the benefits of EVC. For now, let’s just stick with the basics and also the fact that now we know why “E” doesn’t stand for Extreme.
So to sum it all up, a 5.7 GXiC(E) will be a 5.7Liter, G
as engine, Ex
treme hp, fuel injected, equipped with a C
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(The Humanitarian Social Network)
Rich countries delivered $3.2 trillion of aid to poor countries between 1960 and 2008 (World Bank, 2011). Yet only 36% of aid workers think projects achieve their intended impact (McKinsey & Devex, 2011).
Aid recipients agree, calling for a change in aid’s business model—from that of delivery of goods and services to one focused on relationships (The Listening Project, 2010).
I have experienced the impact and potential of alternative funding and support mechanisms that could serve the conservatively estimated 1,000,000+ local groups and grassroots movements operating across the globe (Wiser.org, 2011).
A major obstacle to this, however, is the estimated 595,000 aid workers (ALNAP, 2010) who are rarely called to examine the bureaucratic rigidities that govern their day-to-day work and that deflate and/or marginalize local activists and changemakers. Cynicism, burnout, and jadedness on the prospect of any “real” progress can seriously compromise the hopefulness that many workers had when they entered the aid industry (Satori Worldwide & Mindfulness for NGOs, 2011). Much of the time, the needs of aid institutions and philanthropies overshadow the needs of grassroots-up initiatives, with SO much being lost in the over-technicalization of aid work and grantmaking.
Yet in my experience as a loudspeaker for "local changemakers," I've seen a growing cadre of skilled professionals that openly, bravely, and constructively question “business as usual" in the aid industry. And they are so needed. Connecting aid workers who want to instill and/or re-cultivate a sense of public service and downward accountability within their roles is the first step to change.
Imagine if just a small percentage of the large-grant aid resources are “unlocked” for grassroots-up initiatives. To re-direct even 0.01% of industry resources for local changemakers would be a tremendous win.
By supporting and encouraging dedicated and self-identified change agents within aid institutions to create more trust, equity and mutual accountability with those we serve in the developing world, the system-wide reform needed becomes possible. Like you, I no longer want to see local civil society organizations as the lowest common denominator of international development assistance. It’s time to recognize local initiatives and indigenous organizations as vital to supporting demand-driven development that can genuinely challenge power asymmetries, and unleash social change.
I support whydev.org's initiative to build an international support network for isolated a... because, aside from offering mentoring and coaching, I think this effort could help share the good practices and actionable insights about how to better serve local partners, from within the system and outside of it. Now is the time to be corrective and imaginative, shifting the cognitive frameworks with which we talk about international aid.
No matter how you relate to your role in making the world a more equitable and peaceful place for its people to share in its prosperity, you have to do the internal work to know yourself first. In order to "be there" for anyone else, whether it's your partner you sleep next to or the partner to which you give money, your own sense of well-being is the first thing that affects how effective you are in relating to and supporting others.
To meet the challenges of the 21st century, we will have to “flip the aid system” to put more local and national actors in the driver’s seat of development. I, for one, want to make sure the next generation of aid workers is ready.
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All this time, we've been tinkering with lie detectors and physical pressure to force people into telling the truth — all for nothing. A new study suggests that magnetic stimulation to a special part of the brain can force subjects to tell the truth.
Playing Wii and mind stimulation games like Brain Age aren't the only ways to keep your brain and body from rotting. NES and good ol' Bomberman works great too! Take it from 99-year-old Umeji Narisawa who's been playing Famicom (NES in U.S.) for 26-years to keep her brain sharp.
We've already seen how positioning magnets near the brain can influence brain function, but now researchers are experimenting with zapping the skull directly with a mild electric current, to help the brain operate at a higher level. | <urn:uuid:004da6b3-b65e-49ad-a009-ee1f7da6657a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dvice.com/tags/brain-stimulation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939681 | 165 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Apache iBATIS moved into the Attic in June 2010. iBATIS was a data mapper framework that made it easier to use a relational database with object-oriented applications. There were both Java and .Net implementations.
The user mailing list, website, downloads and issue tracker all remain, but are read-only. See the website at http://ibatis.apache.org for more information on iBATIS.
The iBATIS committers moved over to MyBatis which is the natural successor to iBATIS.
As with any project in the Attic - if you should choose to fork iBATIS outside of Apache, please let us know so we can link to your project.
Archived versions of iBATIS may be downloaded from the Apache Archives.
As mentioned above, one fork that has been created is MyBatis at http://www.mybatis.org/. | <urn:uuid:76a10e54-b817-4e2e-84e6-19d52baa183a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://attic.apache.org/projects/ibatis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941635 | 188 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The Osprey is intended for installation in high sanitation areas of food packaging plants. Along with an innovative compact footprint, it is able to be placed at the discharge point of primary packaging systems. A vision inspection system allows the Osprey to track and handle randomly oriented and spaced products, and a vacuum leak detection system assures that only completely sealed packages are cased. Depending on the variables of individual primary packaging lines the Osprey can achieve throughput rates of 85 to 120 packages/mi. The Osprey can also be supplied with an integrated case erector and top and bottom case sealer. Provides primary and secondary packaging automation for meat, poultry, and cheese. | <urn:uuid:94406d28-516c-4c20-9b4e-6426b0140b74> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.packworld.com/print/38149 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916246 | 135 | 1.570313 | 2 |
I have been searching for the "ultimate" book on the science of cooking for a while now, and this book is my latest read on the subject. While it's not what I was hoping to find, it is the most interesting of the books I've read so far.
McGee's earlier book, "On Food and Cooking" (ISBN 0684843285), attempted to be encyclopedic in its coverage of food topics, hitting on every ingedient from a historical and scientific perspective. As a result (for me, anyway), it failed to be fully satisfactory on both counts. This book makes no such pretense, and is much the better for it.
From the earliest chapters, discussing the effects of searing and various temperatures on meat (did you know you could kill trichinella by keeping pork below 5 degrees Fahrenheit for 3 weeks?), I knew that I was in for a much more interesting and lively read this time around. There is a lot of interesting, new and useful information in this book, though the information doesn't always necessarily satisfy all 3 criteria at once.
The second chapter, for example, covers the topic of why oil collects on the inside of your glasses when you cook. The actual reason turns out to be fairly pedestrian, but the story of his experimentation (including a rather tongue-in-cheek diagram of several pairs of glasses propped on inverted bowls around a frying pan) was fun to read.
The topics in the book were chosen more-or-less at random, consisting of free-form explorations of topics including how to force persimmons to ripen, just how little egg you can get away with in mayonnaise, the truth (such as it is) about food, cancer, and heart disease, and various thoughts about what makes things taste good. The chapters on sauces were in general very well done, and I like the fact that McGee spent significant time discussing strategies for defeatng salmonella in egg-based sauces.
The only word of warning I have to offer is that McGee's writing style tends toward the sesquipedalian (and if you don't feel comfortable with words like "sesquipedalian", you'll probably find the book a bit hard to read). While I can't fault McGee's knowledge, from a presentation perspective, well, Alton Brown, he ain't. | <urn:uuid:dffe7f99-2012-4204-9f55-bb4962f76946> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Curious-Cook-Kitchen-Science/dp/0020098014 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964982 | 487 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest women's college in the United States. It is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college. It is one of the Seven Sisters and is also a member of the Five Colleges consortium.
The college was established in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith.
Notable deans, administrators, and faculty
Smith College is the first and only women's college in the U.S. to grant its own degrees in engineering. The Picker Engineering Program offers a single Bachelor of Science in engineering science, combining the fundamentals of multiple engineering disciplines.
The Ada Comstock Scholars Program is a bachelor's degree program for nontraditional-aged students.
Undergraduate majors and minors offered
Both major and minor are offered in each subject unless otherwise noted.
Humanities and language
In addition, students can design specialized majors and minors with the approval of the College and related departments.
Colors and mascot
Smith College does not have college colors in the usual sense. Its official color is white, trimmed with gold, but the official college logo is currently blue and yellow (a previous logo was burgundy and white). Athletic teams have competed in blue and white uniforms since the 1970s, and selected Pioneers as the official name and mascot in 1986.
Smith has a rotating system of class colors dating back to the 1880s, when intramural athletics and other campus competitions were usually held by class. Today, class colors are yellow, red, blue and green, with incoming first-year classes assigned the color of the previous year's graduating class; their color then "follows" them through to graduation. Alumnae classes, particularly at reunion, continue to identify with and use their class color thereafter.
Smith is nearly unique among modern American colleges in that all undergraduate students are required to live in on-campus dormitories. This policy is intended to add to the camraderie and social cohesion of its students.
Academic year events
Mountain Day is observed early in the fall semester. The President of the College selects a crisp, sunny, beautiful autumn day when the leaves are in full color, and announces the cancellation of classes by having bells rung on campus at 7:00 AM on the chosen day. The eager anticipation of Mountain Day leads to intense speculation and a higher-than-normal interest in meteorology by students in the weeks leading up to the surprise announcement. Traditional observance of Mountain Day by students might involve New England road trips or outdoor pursuits, and college dining services provides box lunches to be taken off-campus.
Otelia Cromwell Day, named for Smith's first known African-American alumna, began in 1989 to provide students with an in-depth program specifically addressing issues of racism and diversity. Regular classes are cancelled, and students are invited to participate in lectures, workshops, symposia and cultural events, centered around a different theme each year.
In February 1876, the College began an annual observance of George Washington's birthday. In 1894, a rally became part of the day's events, and the focus of the celebration became primarily patriotic rather than exclusively social—though always with a women's college twist. Students that year staged a mock debate on the subject, "Does Higher Education Unfit a Man for Domestic Life?" In 1906 the celebration was first referred to as Rally Day (although the name was not used officially by the College until 1992). In 1944, seniors made Rally Day the first public wearing of their graduation caps and gowns; since then, mortarboards have been replaced by wacky, often homemade hats. Today, the Rally Day Convocation is centered around a historical theme, and features a distinguished keynote speaker and the awarding of Smith College Medals to accomplished alumnae.
Reunions and Commencement events
The Alumnae Association of Smith College hosts official class reunions every five years, plus a special two-year reunion. All alumnae from all classes are welcome to return in any year; "off-year" alumnae attend campus-wide events as the "Class of 1776".
Traditional reunion and Commencement events are linked, and celebrate the close ties between Smith's alumnae and its graduating seniors and their families. At the conclusion of final exams, most underclasswomen leave the campus, while seniors remain in their houses for a week to celebrate and prepare for Commencement. Alumnae arrive for reunions later in the week, and many alumnae arrange for official accommodations in the campus houses, right alongside senior residents.
Ivy Day, the day before Commencement, is the high point of reunion and a significant event for seniors as well. Junior ushers lead a parade through campus, carrying vines of ivy to be planted by the departing seniors as a symbol of their lifelong connection to the college. Alumnae (and, often, their children), dressed in white and wearing sashes in their class color, line up in reverse order by class along both sides of the route. Seniors line up nearest the end of the parade route, wearing traditional white dresses and each carrying a single red rose. All cheer each alumnae class as it marches past, then fall in to join the end of the parade. Many alumnae classes carry signs with humorous poems or slogans, or hold balloons or wear hats in their class color. Ivy Day festivities conclude in the Quad, where the seniors plant their ivy and speakers address alumnae on the progress of fundraising and the state of the college.
Illumination Night, beginning at dusk on the evening before Commencement, is a beautiful celebration of the campus and a send-off of sorts for graduating seniors. Throughout central campus, electric street lights are replaced for one night by multicolored Japanese-style paper lanterns, lit with real candles. These hang on both sides of every walking path and cast a soft glow over the buildings and lawns. Student acapella singing groups and improv comedy troupes roam the campus, stopping occasionally to entertain the crowds. A jazz band, hired by the college, turns the science buildings' courtyard into a dance floor. Seniors, alumnae, faculty and their families spend the evening on walking tours of the illuminated campus and Botanic Gardens. The major official event of the night is the Senior Step Sing: seniors gather on the steps of Neilson Library, where they are serenaded by members of the Sophomore Push committee, then are physically pushed off the stairs and "into the real world".
Until the early 1990s, all alumnae reunions were held during Commencement weekend. However, as the number of returning alumnae grew beyond the capacity of the campus, reunions were split into Reunion I/Commencement Weekend and Reunion II, held the following weekend. "Significant" reunions (50-, 25- and 10- year, but also 2-year) and the earliest reunion classes (65-year and prior) are assigned to Reunion I; "lesser" reunions (5-, 15-, 20-, 30-year, and so on) are assigned to Reunion II. Although the AASC sponsors an Alumnae Parade (in place of Ivy Day) and a second Illumination Night, these events are far less festive as the seniors and their families have long since graduated and left campus.
The Alumnae Association of Smith College considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not generally differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying Smith alumnae.
Barbara Pierce Bush, class of 1947, did not graduate; she left the college in 1945 to marry George H.W. Bush. | <urn:uuid:9568f12d-2d14-4c26-bd10-69196ea59071> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Smith_College | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955412 | 1,600 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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A week ago I purchased, from my LFS, a dozen Ottos, and three SAEs, to act
as algae eaters, in my new 55gal freshwater Planted Tank.
A day later, I noticed that one of the Ottos had a white growth, on the side
of his head. I called the manager of the store and he told me to bring him
back and he would be replaced.
Since then nine of them have died. The SAEs seem to be healthy.
What, if anything, can I expect from the LFS. I would like to add some
American Flags to combat the Hair Algae. Should I do something to combat the
Otto's disease before I introduce more fish?
Thanks for any help! | <urn:uuid:5fc9e664-5d74-43dd-acdd-fd8f91f5973c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plants/month.200011/msg00532.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95328 | 180 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Not sure if your computer might be harboring personally identifiable information (PII), whether others or your own, but don't know how to find and protect it? Identity Finder software lets you hunt it down and clean it up, giving you the peace of mind that comes with knowing exactly what PII is (or isn't) available to you, and the ability to immediately secure it.
Once installed, running periodic scans of Identity Finder not only helps prevent identity theft but also aids in keeping Brown compliant with federal and state laws by detecting and securing sensitive data on your computer, such as Social Security and credit card numbers, references to passwords, and other customizable data that you specify.
The enterprise version of Identity Finder is available to all active faculty and staff, who can download and install the full enterprise version of IDF from CIS's software download pages (Windows | Mac versions) onto their Brown computers. Anyone (students and home users) can install a free version available on the Identity Finder website on their personal computers to perform basic search and remediation. More robust personal versions are also available from IDF's site.
Consult the Identity Finder FAQ for more details, including instructions for use, best practices and support questions. | <urn:uuid:dd1ba915-4a32-4dac-8796-060ee808b64e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://brown.edu/cis/information_security/guard_your_privacy/privacy_identityfinder.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921892 | 246 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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University of Dundee
Football is one of the most popular team sports and children intensively practice specialised skills without any specific guidelines in relation to the intensity and duration of training.
Worryingly it is unknown when overtraining may occur which may damage the growing areas of bones that are already 2-5 times weaker than the surrounding bone. The growth spurt at puberty is a particular area of concern because if the growth plate is regularly injured by too much exercise, this may result in bone deformity or lead to individuals being smaller than expected. 3D motion analysis software like the technology used in Harry Potter films and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used together to help improve our scientific knowledge on how lots of exercise can affect skeletal growth in healthy individuals. Ultimately this collaborated research project between CAHId, IMAR and ISE could significantly provide greater detail as to the appropriate prescription of training for young athletes and the impact his may have on long-term growth and development. In addition the research may well provide information on the levels of exercise required to induce positive changes in growth, therefore enabling us to prevent possible long-term health risks and give a better understanding as to how bones adapt to our changing lifestyles. | <urn:uuid:ce085676-5fca-491b-9660-d3b0acad7d53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/cahid/staff/1048 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926326 | 263 | 2.5625 | 3 |
SHERMAN, TX -- The "Fiscal Cliff" refers to a combination of tax increases and spending cuts set to automatically kick-in at the end of the year.
Small Business Development Center Executive Director Karen Stidham said most experts believe small businesses will fall the hardest.
"The major problem right now is uncertainty," she said. "They don't know."
Businesses are cutting back spending and hiring while they wait for a deal, Stidham said.
"Some people may be facing some unemployment or at least a cutback in some of their hours, if they're hourly employees," she said.
And Stidham said the uncertainty of tax increases on individuals and possibility of lay-offs hurt the economy.
"But we're seeing consumers now saying they may cut back some of their Christmas spending and end of the year spending," she said.
Talking with people on the street, most Texomans are pretty opinionated on the matter. Most notably, they don't want to see their taxes increase. But a lot of people say they're just fed up with the process in general and want to see a deal put together.
"They either need to quite the spending and leave the taxes alone, or just let it go over the cliff, and let the president have it - it's what he wants," said local Mike Bernard
"I'd like to see them work together. That's what we elected them to do," said local Pat Esralian.
But Stidham said it's not time to panic.
"That's probably going a little bit too far. But we certainly need to be aware and concerned," she said.
Stidham said congress can retro-actively pass bills to fix the situation if we do go off the cliff. | <urn:uuid:5f7d8433-4aba-4308-abc7-7239e01fb1b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/Fiscal-Cliff-could-be-disastrous-to-local-businesses-183259092.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976758 | 366 | 1.617188 | 2 |
1776: Washington DC's Startup Incubator Leads an Entrepreneurial Revolution
Co-founders Donna Harris and Evan Burfield with D.C. Mayor Vince Gray at 1776's Open House.
Credit: Daniel Schwartz/1776
The power held within the nation’s capital makes its presence felt when visitors tour Washington, D.C.’s, majestic monuments and gaze upon the imposing neoclassical architecture throughout the city.
While some people bemoan the bureaucratic nature of Washington, the founders of 1776, a startup incubator, hope to leverage the city’s political machine to unleash an army of disruptive companies on the Greater Washington region and the world.
“I see the potential of what could be, if we can figure out how to unleash these disrupters on these big challenges,” Harris says.
Based on her experience with running startups and working as a managing director of Startup America for the past few years, Harris believes that 1776 is just the innovation seed that D.C. needs to blossom as a region.
“These great minds from Silicon Valley, Boston and all these other ecosystems aren't spending as much time in D.C. as they could and should, because there's no place for them that feels comfortable,” she says.
That’s why in 2011 she reached out to Evan Burfield, an accomplished startup founder and technologist. After Burfield sold his company Synteractive, which worked closely with the government to build open-government platforms like data.gov, recovery.gov and treasury.gov, he received an e-mail from Harris, inviting him for a leadership meeting.
The connection between the two was strong early on, and Burfield jumped right in and began strategizing with Harris and the rest of the 1776 team to hash out ideas around launching a cutting-edge startup incubator in the city. He eventually signed on as a co-founder.
Located in downtown D.C., in an office space of 15,000 square feet, with the option to expand up to 60,000 square feet over time, 1776 appears to be off to a great start. D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray was on hand for the incubator’s official launch, and interested applicants are pouring in, Harris says.
“The response [to 1776] has been phenomenal. Our advisers are people like Brad Feld, Paul Singh, Scott Case — just some fantastic, really smart thinkers, who immediately said this is exactly the concept that D.C. needs," Harris says.
Jonathon Perrelli, CEO of Fortify Ventures, poses with Scott Case and Paul Singh, who both serve as advisors to 1776, at the incubator's open house.
Credit: Daniel Schwartz/1776
A Change Is Gonna Come to Washington
One of the most fear-inducing words to utter around the steps of Capitol Hill these days is “sequestration” — the steep budget cuts that are set to hit government spending if Congress fails to pass a budget.
But these budget cuts, which Burfield believes will happen sooner or later, have the opportunity to free the necessary talent to light a fire under D.C.’s startup scene.
“In New York, it's not an accident that you've had a massive flowering of Silicon Alley right after you saw the dominant industry collapse and you saw a whole bunch of talent get unleashed,” he says.
D.C., Burfield explains, has a deep bench of technology and engineering talent that’s been locked up in government contracting work.
“In Silicon Valley, the dot-com bubble burst, and everybody just started new companies because they didn't really have anything else to do. In D.C., what really put everything on freeze was you had the dot-com bubble burst, immediately followed by 9/11, which resulted in a massive increase in technology spending by government,” he says.
While sequestration might hurt, it could potentially give birth to a new breed of entrepreneurs.
“It's going to open up a whole lot of really interesting opportunities for smart entrepreneurs to step in and take advantage of this change,” Burfield says.
The Declaration of Entrepreneurship
When Harris and Burfield began putting together the idea for 1776, they went out and sought advice from other cities that had launched similar initiatives. Chicago’s 1871, in particular, was an inspiration.
The two relied on Kevin Willer, president and CEO of the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, which operates 1871, for guidance on how they should move forward with their idea. They started by taking cues from the Chicago incubator’s name, which references the year of the great Chicago fire.
"After we spent time with Kevin from 1871 last year, we thought, ‘What about 1776?’” Burfield says with a laugh.
The United States declared its independence from Britain in 1776. Similarly, Harris and Burfield hope that entrepreneurs in the region will claim their independence by entering the startup ecosystem.
They also hope that 1776 becomes a must-visit stop for influential people in the same way 1871 has for Chicago: U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron paid a visit to the incubator during a trip to Chicago last year.
Harris believes that if entrepreneurs and politicians can meet and collaborate more regularly, it’ll be easier to connect the dots for innovation.
Life in the Startup Lane
While Living Social is probably the most well-known startup headquartered in the city, Social Tables has quietly been making waves of its own. The startup company’s web-based software for event planning received some high-profile exposure when the Recording Industry Association of America used it for the Latin Grammys last year.
Social Tables, which has moved into 1776’s campus in downtown D.C., was one of the first startups to do so, says Trevor Lynn, responsible for conversion and strategic partnerships at Social Tables.
The value that 1776 offers the company — which has grown from three employees to 15 in seven months — has been essential in terms of providing a flexible workspace.
“A startup is sort of like a toddler,” Lynn says. “You know that the clothes won’t fit in three months.”
Besides the shared workspace, 1776 also plans to offer startups access to a “fat pipe,” Burfield says. Connectivity has been a challenge for D.C. in particular, but access to high-bandwidth, high-speed Internet is non-negotiable for most startups, he adds.
“Sitting around in a shared work environment and being told, 'No one can use YouTube and no one can use iTunes' is kind of a crappy way to work,” says Burfield.
In addition to the campus space, 1776 will offer a startup school, host events and launch a competitive accelerator, which will eventually fund and invest in startups it deems worthy.
If all goes well, Lynn thinks the potential of 1776 and the D.C. region to have an impact on the economy is huge.
“People have tried to do this in other cities, but I think the best part about D.C. is every city doesn’t have all of these embassies and government agencies,” he says. The convergence of international power and entrepreneurial innovation is, according to Lynn, “a whole other advantage that any other city can’t offer really.” | <urn:uuid:e6356893-f8f2-4fd0-bb48-7d1fb3fcb5dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2013/02/1776-washington-dcs-startup-incubator-leads-entrepreneurial-revolution | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958399 | 1,582 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Green Tomorrows: the Scenarios
This matrix served as the core of the presentation I gave at Opportunity Green this past weekend and, in a somewhat different form, at the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change conference the week before.
(I'm also looking at it as the core for a book.)
The four boxes represent a variety of "response" scenarios, each embracing elements of the prevention, mitigation, and remediation approaches to solving the climate crisis. Certain approaches may receive greater emphasis in a given scenario, but all three types of responses can be seen in each world. And while individual readers may find some scenarios more appealing than others, none of these stand out for me as indisputably "bad" response models.
The two critical uncertainties used as scenario axes aren't meant to cover every possible force driving change; rather, they're what I've come to see as issues that are fundamental to how the next few decades play out. It should be noted that the drivers are not particularly "green" in emphasis: this matrix structure can be used to think about different scenarios regarding (e.g.) nanotechnology, military developments, even social networks.
The first driver is Who Makes the Rules?, with end-points of Centralized and Distributed. This driver looks at the locus of authority regarding the subject (in this case, climate responses) -- are outcomes dependent upon choices made by top-down, centralized leadership, or made by uncoordinated, distributed decision-making? Centralized doesn't necessarily mean government; a world where a small number of wealthy individuals or corporations play key roles in shaping results would be just as "centralized" as one of state dominance. Similarly, distributed doesn't necessarily mean collaborative; a world of competing actors with diverse agendas and little ability to exert decisive power is as distributed as one of bottom-up civil society movements.
Although my bias tends towards distributed/collaborative, top-down models are often better-able to respond quickly to rapid developments, and can also offer a more predictable environment for business and organizational planning.
The second driver is How Do We Use Technology?, with end-points of Precautionary and Proactionary. This driver looks not at the pace of technological change (something of a canonical scenario driver), but at our political and social approaches to the deployment of new tools and systems. The "precautionary principle" and "proactionary principle" concepts are related, but not identical: this driver is as interested in why we deploy our technology choices as it is in which technologies we choose. Precautionary scenarios can encompass worlds in which governments, academia and/or NGOs fully examine and evaluate new technologies before use, worlds in which customers increasingly demand technologies for prevention or amelioration of possible adverse events, and worlds in which legal liabilities and insurance requirements force slow and careful deployment of new technologies. Similarly, proactionary scenarios can encompass worlds in which developers can test and deploy any new systems meeting limited health and safety requirements, worlds in which customers (whether top-down or bottom-up) strongly favor improved capabilities over limited footprint, and worlds lacking clear mechanisms (legal, political, economic) for stopping deployment.
My bias here is towards a limited precautionary approach, but the need for rapid response may end up pushing towards a proactionary world.
The combination of these two drivers give us four distinct worlds.
"Power Green" -- Centralized and Proactionary: a world where government and corporate entities tend to exert most authority, and where new technologies, systems and response models tend to be tried first and evaluated afterwards. This world is most conducive to geoengineering, but is also one in which we might see environmental militarization (i.e., the use of military power to enforce global environmental regulations) and aggressive government environmental controls. "Green Fascism" is one form of this scenario; "Geoengineering 101" from my Earth Day Essay is another.
"Functional Green" -- Centralized and Precautionary: a world in which top-down efforts emphasize regulation and mandates, while the deployment of new technologies emphasizes improving our capacities to limit disastrous results. Energy efficiency dominates here, along with economic and social innovations like tradable emissions quotas and re-imagined urban designs. The future as envisioned by Shellenberger and Nordhaus could be one form of this scenario; the future as envisioned by folks like Bill McDonough or Amory Lovins could be another. Arguably, this is the default scenario for Europe and Japan.
"We Green" -- Distributed and Precautionary: a world in which collaboration and bottom-up efforts prove decisive, and technological deployments emphasize strengthening local communities, enhancing communication, and improving transparency. This is a world of micro-models and open source platforms, "Earth Witness" environmental sousveillance and locavorous diets. Rainwater capture, energy networks, and carbon labeling all show up here. This world (along with a few elements from the "Functional Green" scenario) is the baseline "bright green" future.
"Hyper Green" -- Distributed and Proactionary: a world in which things get weird. Distributed decisions and ad-hoc collaboration dominate, largely in the development and deployment of potentially transformative technologies and models. This world embraces experimentation and iterated design, albeit not universally; this scenario is likely to include communities and nations that see themselves as disenfranchised and angry. Micro-models and open source platforms thrive here, too, but are as likely to be micro-ecosystem engineering and open source nanotechnology as micro-finance and open source architecture. States and large corporations aren't gone, but find it increasingly hard to keep up. One form of this scenario would end with an open source guerilla movement getting its hands on a knowledge-enabled weapon of mass destruction; another form of this scenario is the "Teaching the World to Sing" story from my Earth Day Essay.
Which scenario is most likely? It depends a bit on how fast the truly disastrous manifestations of climate change hit. Climate catastrophe happening earlier than currently projected would push towards the more proactionary worlds. It also depends a bit on whether governments and corporate leaders continue to lag community and activist groups in terms of willingness to embrace big changes to fight environmental risks. Centralized responses may end up being too little, too late if wide-spread bottom-up models take root.
Ultimately, which one of these scenarios comes to dominate depends on the choices we make today. We simply can't go on pretending that we don't have to deal with this problem for awhile yet, that "the market" or "the government" or "new technologies" will fix everything in time, that we aren't responsible. The more we abandon our responsibilities, our agency, the more likely it is that the world that emerges will not pay attention to our interests. Acting now is no guarantee that we'll get the world we want -- but not acting is as close as you'll get to a guarantee that we won't. | <urn:uuid:43ba0e11-131c-4fee-b430-7a51c80132ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://openthefuture.com/2007/11/green_tomorrows_the_scenarios.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940949 | 1,442 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Ice climbers witness avalanche in Yoho
Jan 9, 2013 / 10:01 am
Two BC ice climbers dodged death, along with torrents of snow and ice, while climbing a frozen waterfall in Yoho National Park in southeastern British Columbia.
A safety specialist at Banff National Park says the men, both in their 20s, were on a vertical portion of the waterfall, known as the Pilsner Pillar, near Field, BC, on Sunday.
Brian Webster says the lead climber looked up to see the avalanche break free above him.
As the lower climber ducked into a cave for protection, Webster says the man on the waterfall barely had time to set his ice axes and get a good grip before the debris cascaded over him.
Fortunately, the avalanche did not sweep the climber away and Webster says he was able to make an anchor and descend from his perch when the danger had passed.
The Canadian Avalanche Centre lists avalanche risk as high in Yoho and Banff national parks and all across the lower half of BC, from the South Coast to the North Columbia region, in the wake of a fierce winter storm that dumped at least 20 centimetres of snow on southern BC mountains. (CHNL)
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When You Can't Find Perfect People
few minutes before I was scheduled to begin a
keynote presentation, an
attendee who introduced himself as Mr. Lansdorf asked me, "What can I do
about working for a corporation full of stiffs?" In spite of the fact that
the company paid quite well, Mr. Lansdorf's people never performed the way he hoped they would when he hired them.
His co-workers weren't much better. As for his
boss, "He couldn't care less about my problems. He'd like to be able to forget about my whole department."
"So what exactly do you want?" I asked.
"What I'd like is for people to do the job they're supposed to do, the way they're supposed to do it."
"Which means?" I asked.
"To do something beyond the minimum: to go the extra mile for
Everybody expects something for nothing."
"Hey, I earn my money," Mr. Lansdorf insisted. "I go way beyond
"And it gets you?"
"Nothing, that's the point. It gets me nothing."
"So how long are you going to keep doing that?"
"Not much longer, believe me."
"But you want others to go beyond the minimum: without putting
something it in for them? Aren't you the one who's expecting for something
"I want people to do what they should do."
"So what we're talking about is morality and ethics? What people should do?"
"Exactly." he said.
"So as a
manager, your ability to manage is based upon people
doing what they should do? Otherwise you can't get the results you
"No of course not. Nobody does what they should. At least nobody
in my company."
"So wouldn't you be better off trying to find a way to get the results you need
with the people you've got rather
than the perfect people who do what they should and apparently don't exist. Or at least don't
exist in your company?"
Obviously. Bingo! I thought. I felt like Socrates:
elucidating my point with just the right questions. Of course later someone
reminded me of the famous report given by a third-grader: "Socrates was a
Greek philosopher who went around giving people advice. They poisoned him."
So much for the Socratic method.
If it was so obvious why had he been asking his people to go the extra mile
when there was really no advantage in it for them? Even if they went along
in order to stay on his good side, how enthusiastic would they be?
You Can't Sell an Empty Glass
Why do we all so frequently
act like Mr. Lansdorf? Trish asks
her boss to go out of his way for her and help get her promoted. There's nothing in it for him. If anything, losing Trish will make his job
more difficult. He's a nice guy.
He may help her. But wouldn't he go along far more willingly if he was doing it to gain another ally
in management; or to earn points with the company for having developed
another manager; or to free up Trish's spot so he can reward and keep from losing that great new talent he's been grooming on the rung below hers.
It's obvious: you can't
sell anybody anything if you don't offer them some benefit. You can't motivate anyone by offering them an empty glass. It's obvious: and we all forget it. Constantly. We hope ethics or morality
or religion or character will make up for the lack of incentive.
Does your idea of character tell you that when there's little or nothing in it for you that you should devote yourself
unstintingly to providing for someone else's welfare? If so please call, I've got a job for you.
If I believe that playing by your rules,
systems, procedures, traditions or morality guarantees that I'm going to lose, do not expect me to play by them.
Bosses who tell you they can't hire good
workers are usually telling you they're poor bosses. They're telling you they aren't
providing sufficient incentive for people to meet their standards. Or if
they have provided the incentive, they havenít provided sufficient nuts and
bolts, real-world training and direction, leaving their people wanting to
climb the mountain but without a clear enough trail to follow.
To mix metaphors a bit, they arenít
adding enough water to the glass.
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This cheap pamphlet was published in Dublin in 1916, in the period between the Easter Rising and the start of Sir Roger Casement's trial for high treason. Casement, a British civil servant, was alleged to have sought German support for an Irish rebellion. He was convicted, and hanged at Pentonville prison on 3rd August 1916.
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Perhaps the most significant decision a parent makes is choosing the perfect name for her child.
Perhaps the most significant decision a parent makes is choosing the perfect name for her child. But nowadays, with committed partners having different last names, hyphenated married names, single parents, same sex parents, divorced parents, and other relationship scenarios, determining a child’s last name can be an unexpected challenge.
"What do you think about kids' last names? Should they have dad’s last name whether you are married, defacto separated, single or whatever?" a Circle of Moms member with the screen name "Kel80" asks.
Single moms especially like to discuss the last name topic. "I am very close to my due date and I am still deciding if I want to give her my last name or her dad’s last name," Kayla O. says, for example. "Me and the dad are off-and-on dating … it’s been complicated. So my question is, should I use my last name or the dad’s?"
If you, too, are wondering what last name to write on the birth certificate, Circle of Moms members recommend considering the following four questions.
1. Does Either Parent Have a Preference?
Generally speaking, your child’s chosen name should be something both parents agree on, says a Circle of Moms member named Jodi. So it’s important for parents to talk about their preferences in advance of the birth to avoid making a last-minute decision before being discharged from the hospital.
For example, a mom who calls herself Firebird B. shares that a friend who kept her maiden name when she married also gave her daughter her maiden name, with her husband’s blessing. Firebird adds that the husband even considered taking his wife’s last name too: "Not because it's an excessively awesome name; he just doesn't get on well with most of his family."
Charlotte R. is another parent who felt strongly about the chosen last name, giving her son both her and her husband’s name. "There are only girls in my generation of my family, so the name would have died out," she explains, adding that she also wanted her child to have a last name that represents mom and dad equally.
Single moms Chelsey H. and Amanda W. suggest moms consider how they will feel about a name long after the child’s birth. If you are unmarried and your child has the father’s last name, it can create a little confusion for mom in school, at doctor’s offices, and when traveling, they say.
"Maybe you don’t think about it now, but you’ll have people assume you have the same last name and then people start calling you Mrs. …and then you [will have to explain], 'Oh no, we have different last names; he has his dad’s last name,'" Chelsey says.
"I’m constantly called by his last name at doctors, I always get looks about the different names, [and] people assume [my children’s] fathers are different and [even] that he's not mine!" Amanda says of her son who has her ex's last name and her daughter, who has her last name.
2. Is Dad Going to Be An Involved Parent?
The consensus in the Circle of Moms community is that if the father will not be involved in the child’s upbringing, then he’s also abandoned baby naming rights. Despite tradition, "I don't see the point in giving a child the last name of a father who is only marginally involved, or not involved at all, from the time the baby is born," Becky F. says.
Candice N. agrees, saying, "If you believe the father will not be in the baby's life very much except to buy diapers here and there, then in my opinion, I'd say to take your [last name]."
Tiffany B. goes even farther: "Your child should have your last name unless you are married to the father," she asserts.
On the other hand, "If you believe the father will be around and will be a good father, then I say give the baby his last name. It will make him feel more connected. And, honestly, he has just as much [of] a right to want the baby to take his last name as you do," says Melanie L.
After all, "If the guy is willing to sign the birth certificate and take ‘ownership’ so to speak, why not let him?" Keshia W. says.
3. Do You Want Your Child to Choose?
A good compromise, of course, is to hyphenate your child’s last name using both partners’ last names. That’s the option Montana E. chose, saying she didn’t want her daughter to have a different last name from her, but didn’t want to deprive her dad of the last name either.
Angela V. also hyphenated her children’s last names using her name and their dad’s last name because she says she really wanted her name in there somewhere.
Hyphenating the last name can be an especially good pathway if parents want their child to eventually choose their own name once they are older, or have some connection with the father even if he isn’t an active parent. "You never know when the father may come around," Amber M. says. "[By hyphenating] at least you give your child the option of choosing what they want as they get older. My son is 10 now and I am glad that I gave him both. His dad came around, and my son is proud to have both names."
Hyphenation is becoming more typical in today's world, says a mom named Ponda A. "If both names are on the birth certificate, then both names are to be listed on documents. When the child is old enough to make a legal decision, then they can... legally change their name to one or the other."
Yet even if no legal changes are made, a child often will choose to drop one of the hyphenated names if he no longer has any connection with it. Kathy F.’s daughter has two last names (one from her father, one from Kathy), and used both in elementary school. When she started middle school she just used Kathy’s name on school papers that don’t require her full legal name.
Ponda says this is a common occurrence. "I have talked to a school attendance administrator who deals with this. She indicated that she sees several of the students [who] have two last names... [drop] one of the names... in everyday conversations."
4. Keep Your Child in Mind
Whatever last name you decide to bestow upon your child, remember to keep your child’s best interests in mind, Circle of Moms members caution.
"Trust yourself to know what to do: His name, both? It's not about how the mother feels about the father," Kara C. says. "Too many mothers think about how they feel, when it's not about them."
"Regardless of your relationship with [the dad], it's not about either of you, it's about your child," agrees Liz. A.
And in the end, "It doesn't matter what their name is as long as [you’re] their mom," reminds Lisa B.
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Absolute Space in its own nature, without relation to anything external remains always similar and immovable. (Isaac Newton, 1687)
I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary matter. (Hendrik Lorentz, 1906)
According to the general theory of relativity
space without ether is unthinkable; for in such space there
not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence
for standards of space and time. But this ether may not be thought of as
endowed with the quality characteristic of matter, as consisting of parts
('particles') which may be tracked through time.
(Albert Einstein, 1928, Leiden Lecture)
The inseparability of time and space emerged in connection with electrodynamics, or the law of propagation of light. With the discovery of the relativity of simultaneity, space and time were merged in a single continuum in a way similar to that in which the three dimensions of space had previously merged into a single continuum. Physical space was thus extended to a four dimensional space which also included the dimension of time. The four dimensional space of the special theory of relativity is just as rigid and absolute as Newton's space. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
Having recognised that the individual points in Newton's absolute space have no physical reality, we must now inquire what remains of this concept at all. (Max Born)
Contrary to current views, the greatest scientists (physicists, philosophers) of history believed that Space must exist to necessarily connect matter and its interconnected motions. Below are a few of many famous quotes from famous scientists on the existence of Space (as required by the Metaphysics of Space and the Wave Structure of Matter).
1687) Absolute Space in its own nature, without relation to anything external
remains always similar and immovable.
(Kant, 1781) Natural science (physics) contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. … Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.
(Faraday, 1830) I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
(James Clerk Maxwell, 1876)
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.
(Lorentz, 1906) I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary matter.
A three-dimensional (spatial) world is infinitely more likely than any of its alternatives.
(Albert Einstein, 1928, Leiden)
According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable; for in such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time. But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of matter, as consisting of parts (‘particles’) which may be tracked through time. The idea of motion may not be applied to it.
(Lama Govinda, 1969)
According to ancient Indian tradition the Universe reveals itself in two fundamental properties: as Motion and as that in which motion takes place, namely Space. This Space is called akasa and is that through which things step into visible appearance, i.e., through which they possess extension or corporeality. Akasa is derived from the root kas, ‘to radiate, to shine’, and has therefore the meaning of ‘ether’ which is conceived as the medium of movement.
The principle of movement, however, is Prana the breath of life, the all-powerful, all-pervading rhythm of the universe. The fundamental element of the cosmos is Space. Space is the all-embracing principle of higher unity. Nothing can exist without Space.
(Sudhakar S.D 1988) The Universe is Brahman, the One that
underlies and make possible all the multiplicity. It is the source of the
entire cosmos and all cosmic activities relating to the emergence, existence
and dissolution of the terrestrial phenomena that form the cosmic rhythm.
‘The One manifests as the many, the formless putting on forms.’
The Maitri Upanishad mentions two aspects of Brahman, the higher and the lower. The higher Brahman being the unmanifest Supreme Reality which is soundless and totally quiescent and restful, the lower being the Shabda-Brahman which manifests itself into the ever changing restless cosmos through the medium of sound vibrations.
The Upanishad says that, 'Two Brahmans there are to be known: One as sound and the other as Brahman Supreme.'
The process of manifestation is from soundless to sound, from noumenality to phenomenality, from perfect quiescence of being to the restlessness of becoming'. Manifestation of the ultimate reality takes place through the vibrations of Shabda-Brahman, for vibration is the expression of energy and the action and interaction of vibrations produce all the phenomena on many different planes.
The Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) is Simple (founded on ONE thing Space) and Necessarily Connected, this being the necessary foundation for all reason and certainty in the Sciences (i.e. not my opinion). The Wave Motion of Space (and thus the motion of matter) are logical because the Properties of Space as a Wave Medium are logical / necessary - this is why logic exists in the universe, and why Mathematics exists within Physics.
A good question. We do not directly experience it, as wave
structures of space we only experience wave interactions in space, not space
itself. i.e. We experience the spatial dimension of space (that we are immersed
in space) and interacting with other matter waves in space, but we do not
experience its properties as a nearly rigid continuously connected wave
medium (we must use reason to work this out, as the WSM does - this relates
So space may have more properties to explain our human emotions / complexities of the mind (taste, color, love, pain, moral senses).
To those of you who are spiritual
/ religious. Well space is just another word for what we experience
existing in, you can call space what you want - God, Brahman, Tao, Aether,
Zero Point Energy, Vaccuum flucuation, ...
As to the complete properties of space / god - I don't know. But it is definately a wave medium, matter is formed from waves in space. The mind and our emotions - that is very complex - and no one can yet explain this. This is the future of physics / the sciences.
However, it is now clear that the wave structure of matter explains matter perfectly if we assume Space is a wave medium, that matter is made of waves in space (trying to describe an interconnected reality with discrete and separate particles was the central error of science).
Below are some quotes and a brief summary of the properties of Space - an Infinite, Eternal, Continuous Wave Medium.
On the left side of this page you will find links to the main articles which explain and solve many of the problems of postmodern Metaphysics, Physics and Philosophy from the new foundation of the Metaphysics of Space and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM).
The following two quotes describe an Infinite and Eternal Space very well. And to all scientists it must be both disturbing and sad to realise that it was only 400 years ago that Bruno was burnt to death for writing such things!
'In his major work, paradoxically entitled On Learned Ignorance,
Nicholas returned to the central idea of Anaxagoras - an infinite, unlimited
universe. In contrast to Ptolemy's finite cosmos circumscribed by concentric
spheres with earth at their center, Nicholas argued that the universe has
no limits in space, no beginning or ending in time.
Nicholas's infinite universe is populated by an unlimited number of stars and planets, and, of course, has no center, no single immobile place of rest. The earth, he reasoned, must therefore move, like everything else in the universe. It appears at rest only because we're on it, moving with it. He cast aside the geocentric cosmos entirely.' (Nicholas of Cusa, a German-born bishop, born 1401)
'Bruno traveled to England and befriended its leading political and scientific figures; and when he returned, he popularised Copernican theory on the continent. Bruno took Digges's version of the infinite, Copernican universe and purged it of remaining Ptolemaic elements, such as the perfect spheres that carried the planets' orbits. He made this infinite universe, with its infinite inhabited worlds, the basis of his philosophy, integrating Nicholas of Cusa's thinking, even going beyond it. Bruno explicitly challenged the idea of creation ex nihilo, arguing that the universe must be unlimited in both space and time, without beginning or end.' (Lerner, 1991)
As only One thing, Space, exists, there can be no boundary to Space (as
a boundary is between two things) thus Space is unbounded and therefore
As Blake famously wrote;
'If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would be seen as it is, infinite.' (1800)
Both Parmenides and Spinoza perfectly state the logic of One Infinite Substance;
'No two or more substances can have the same attribute and it appertains to the nature of substance that it should exist. It must therefore exist finitely or infinitely. But not finitely. For it would then be limited by some other substance of the same nature which also of necessity must exist: and then two substances would be granted having the same attribute, which is absurd. It will exist, therefore, infinitely.' (Spinoza, 1673)
'Existent’ is indivisible, for where is the second
power, which should divide it?
But there cannot exist several 'Existents,' for in order to separate them, something would have to exist which was not existing, an assumption which neutralizes itself. Thus there exists only the eternal Unity.' (Parmenides, 450BC)
There can be no ‘Particles’ because ‘Particles’
require two things - the ‘Particle’ and the Space around the
‘Particle’, thus One Infinite Space must be a continuous medium.
Or as Aristotle says;
'This shows us two things: you cannot have parts of the
infinite and the infinite is indivisible.'
'But indeed even if the One is more like a Principle, and the one is undivided, then the whole Universe will be undivided either in quantity or in form.' (Aristotle, 340BC)
Lerner also importantly argues for the necessary existence of a continuous Space and Time (and continuous Time is simply caused by the continuous Wave-Motion in a continuous Space);
'All of modern analysis, including most of the mathematics
underlying modern technology, relies on the concept of continuity - that
between any two points in space, there is an infinite number of other points.
In the same way, between any two points in time there is an infinite number
of other moments. Without these assumptions it's virtually impossible to
use modern mathematics in a logically consistent way.
Indeed, the idea that space and time are infinitely divisible is vital to explaining the very existence of the irreversible time of the real world. Without such true infinities the world would be a vast digital computer, each instant predetermined by its initial state, without a past, present or future. So to argue that there is no true infinity, ... is tantamount to a rejection of modern mathematics, the technology based on the use of the mathematics, and the new discoveries in thermodynamics.
And once we accept the continuity of space and time it's hard to object on philosophical grounds to an infinite extent of space and time.
Thus while the idea of an infinite chain of cause and effect may appear mind-boggling, such an infinite chain exists even in the present, with each passing second- each an infinity of moments. To accept an infinite past is no more or less difficult philosophically than to accept the continuity of time - the infinity of moments in a single second.
While these conclusions are not commonsensical, they are logically consistent. … if an infinite universe is rejected philosophically, the infinity of space in a single inch or the infinity of instants in a single second must be rejected as well, along with all the science based on the hypothesis of continuity.' (Lerner, 1991)
There are two separate arguments for an Eternal Space which support one
i) As only one thing, Space, exists, there can be no creation of Space as creation requires two things (Space, and that which is not Space but created Space) thus Space is Eternal. As Spinoza writes;
'A substance cannot be produced from anything else: it will therefore be its own cause, that is, its essence necessarily involves existence, or existence appertains to the nature of it.' (Spinoza, 1673)
ii) As we explained earlier, Time is a consequence of the Wave Motions
of Space, and that it takes ‘Time’ for Wave Motions to flow
from place to place in Space. Time does not exist as a thing in itself,
it is, like the ‘Particle’, an effect of the Wave Motion of
Space, not a cause! Thus Time only applies to Matter, as the Spherical Wave
Motion of Space and not to Space itself. Therefore Space was not created
for this requires the concept of time (that the Space that now exists was
created at some time in the past) thus Space is Eternal. (Space simply exists.)
As Aristotle correctly writes;
It need hardly be pointed out that with things that do not change there is no illusion with respect to time, given the assumption of their unchangeability. (Aristotle, 340BC)
Aristotle also realised that Motion cannot come from no Motion, thus Motion must always exist. He also realised the close connection between Time and Motion!
'Motion must always have been in existence, and the same can be said for time itself, since it is not even possible for there to be an earlier and a later if time does not exist. Movement, then, is also continuous in the way in which time is - indeed time is either identical to movement or is some affection of it.' (Aristotle, 340BC)
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Once called a "poetess" by her male colleagues, Carol Ann Duffy becomes the first woman to hold the prestigious post.
Carol Ann Duffy has been appointed Britain’s first female poet laureate after a 341-year run of men. That’s an awful long monopoly, but England, not to mention poetry, has rarely been accused of being quick to change. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning was considered for the post in 1850, but she lost out to Alfred Tennyson.)
Duffy first got attention in 1999 with the collection “The World’s Wife,” which views literature and history through the eyes of women behind myth-making men (poems include “Mrs. Faust” and “Pilate’s Wife”). According to a story in the Guardian, she was widely regarded as runner-up in 1999, when then-Prime Minister Tony Blair chose outgoing laureate Andrew Motion. Rumor had it Blair believed England wasn’t ready for Duffy: She’s not just a woman, but she’s also a lesbian.
Duffy told BBC Radio 4 she had some hesitation about the position.
“I did think long and hard about accepting it … I think my decision was purely because there has not been a woman. I see this as a recognition of the great women poets we now have … and I decided to accept it for that reason.”
In an interview with Jeanette Winterson, Duffy once explained what it was like to break into the British poetry scene back in the 1970s.
“When I started on the circuit, I was called a poetess … Older male poets, the Larkin generation, were both incredibly patronizing and incredibly randy. If they weren’t patting you on the head, they were patting you on the bum.”
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The firm that was eventually to become Miles Madeira was originally known as Rutherford & Brown, established on the Island of Madeira in 1814.
In 1856 Henry Price Miles left England with his family and arrived in Madeira. Having worked as an apprentice since the age of 12 under the tutelage of James Rutherford, he acquired sound knowledge and experience of the workings of the Madeira trade. In 1872 the Rutherfords left for London (due to Phylloxera which decimated most of the vineyards in Madeira) and started up a wine importing business at the Old Trinity House in Waterlane. This prompted Miles to purchase the company and stocks and he later made a gentleman's agreement with Rutherford that any Madeira sold by them in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, or Russia would be bought through H.P.Miles and Co. This agreement was respected and carried on until the Rutherfords sold their firm Rutherfords, Osborne and Perkins to Martini Rossi in the 1960's.
Together with the wine production, H.P.Miles created the first brewery in Madeira in 1872 called the "Atlantic Brewery". It was in these two companies that he and his 2 sons, Henry Alfred and Charles Vaughan created the Miles legacy on the Island.
After the end of World War II, conditions in the wine trade became extremely difficult and Henry Alfred Miles' son, Cecil Miles negotiated the entry of H.P.Miles and Co. into the Madeira Wine Association. All the wine stocks and buildings were incorporated into the M.W.A and today the actual Madeira Wine Company's bottling plant is situated in the old Miles' adega at Largo da Saude. One of the lodges continues to be used exclusively for the ageing and maturation of the Miles' Frasqueira-Vintages and older blended wines.
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Section Two: The Life We Share with Others: Our Anglican Vocation
This section elaborates the purpose of our communion together as being for God's mission in the world. It locates our Anglican inheritance and faith, traced back to the apostolic Church, reshaped by the Reformation and continually being renewed by the Holy Spirit. It enumerates the consequences of our missionary life, which although not perfect, have contributed significantly to the emergence of a diverse worldwide family of Churches and which continue to be shaped by different cultures and languages.
The CDG notes the comments that the St Andrew's Draft's treatment of Mission was lighter than the treatment of other sections, and sought to give the section greater weight and substance in the RCD.
The RCD includes a new section 2.1.3 which recognizes the need for humility and repentance where the actions of churches have undermined the credibility of the Church's mission and the integrity of the gospel.
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Cholestasis of Pregnancy
Cholestasis of pregnancy is a condition in which the normal flow of bile in the gallbladder is slowed or stopped resulting in itching and jaundice (yellowing of the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes). Although it may begin in early pregnancy, cholestasis is more common in the last trimester of pregnancy and usually goes away within a few days after delivery. Cholestasis of pregnancy occurs in about one woman out of 1,000 overall, but it is more likely in Swedish and Chilean populations, and in multiple pregnancies. It has a high risk of recurrence in future pregnancies. It is also known as intrahepatic (in the liver) cholestasis of pregnancy and pruritus gravidarum (severe itching).
The gallbladder is an organ attached to the lower part of the liver. It serves as a holding reservoir for bile that is produced in the liver. Bile acids are important in the breakdown of fats in digestion. Waste products in the blood are converted to a part of bile called bilirubin.
It is thought that hormones in pregnancy affect gallbladder function, resulting in slowing or stopping of the flow of bile. This causes a build up of bile acids in the liver, which can spill into the bloodstream causing itching. Jaundice may also result when bilirubin levels build up.
Cholestasis may increase the risks for fetal distress, preterm birth, or stillbirth. It may also increase the mother's risk of postpartum hemorrhage (severe bleeding following delivery).
The following are the most common symptoms of cholestasis of pregnancy. However, each woman may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- Overall itching
- Mild nausea and discomfort in the upper right abdomen
- Dark urine color
- Light coloring of stools (bowel movements)
- Jaundice (yellow coloring of skin, eyes, and mucous membranes)
The symptoms of cholestasis may resemble other medical conditions. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, generalized severe itching without a rash is often the first clue to diagnosis. Blood tests for liver function, bile acids, and bilirubin often show changes which may also aid in the diagnosis.
Specific treatment for cholestasis of pregnancy will be determined by your doctor based on:
- Your pregnancy, overall health, and medical history
- Extent of the disease
- Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- Expectations for the course of the disease
- Your opinion or preference
The goals of treating cholestasis of pregnancy are to relieve the itching and prevent complications. Itching may be treated with topical anti-itch medications or with corticosteroids. Medication is sometimes used to help decrease the concentration of bile acids. Vitamin K may also be used if blood clotting factors are abnormal. Fetal monitoring tests may be used to check the well-being of the fetus. If cholestasis of pregnancy endangers the well-being of the mother or fetus, then an early delivery may be necessary.
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Nicolas-Charles Oudinot was born in Bar-le-Duc on 25 April, 1767, into a family from the petite-bourgeoisie. At the age of seventeen, after completing his studies in his hometown as well as in Toul and unwilling to follow in his father's professional footsteps, he signed up for the Médoc Infantry regiment, in 1784. Returning to the region three years later as a sergeant, he married Françoise-Charlotte Derlin in September 1789.
On 14 July, 1789, Oudinot was named captain and placed at the head of a band of national guard volunteers. Having served with distinction in a number of local disturbances, he was named chef de légion and commander of the département's National Guard in 1790, and was elected lieutenant-colonel of the 3e bataillon des volontaires de la Meuse, on 6 September, 1791, with whom he left for the north-eastern front.
Following his remarkable defence of Bitche, he was promoted to chef de brigade (colonel) on 5 November 1793 and was given the command of the 4e demi-brigade which had just been formed from one of the best regiments of the royal army: the Picardie regiment. In December of the same year, during the Haguenau affair, he received the first of many wounds that would make him the most injured maréchal in the Empire. A few months later, his actions at Kaiserslautern, where he cleared a passage with his bayonet through the ranks of Prussians, saw him promoted to Général de brigade (14 June 1794). He was, at the time, twenty-seven years old and, like the majority of future marshals of the Empire, had reached the rank of Général de brigade well before the events of 18 Brumaire. In October 1795, after receiving five sabre wounds at Neckerau and left for dead on the battlefield, he was taken prisoner by the Austrians. Freed the following year in an exchange of high-ranking officers, he rejoined the Armées du Rhin et de la Moselle, which were commanded by General Moreau. In 1799, during the Helvetian campaign, he distinguished himself during the captures of Zurich and Constance. At the time he was a chef d'état-major to Masséna, who named him général de division on 12 April 1799.
Oudinot went on to take part in all of the major campaigns of the Consulate and Empire, with the exception of the Spanish and Portuguese campaigns. Serving with Masséna in the Armée de Ligurie, he survived the siege of Gênes. During the final actions in Italy, he once again distinguished himself, notably in personally capturing (with the aid of his état-major) an Austrian battery that was guarding the Mincio passage (December 1800). In February 1805, on the eve of the creation of the Third Coalition, he was given the command of the grenadiers réunis, elite soldiers that would soon become known simply as "Oudinot's grenadiers". That same year, he was victorious at Wertingen, Amstetten, Vienna and Hollabrünn and was involved in the victory at Austerlitz. He played an important role in the 1806 Prussian campaign where he took Ostrołęka with a brilliant cavalry charge and was equally distinguished facing the Russians at Friedland (June 1807). On 25 July, 1808, the Emperor named him comte de l'Empire. At the head of his company, nicknamed "the infernal column" due to the fear that it inspired amongst the enemy's ranks, he was successful at Ebersberg then at Essling during the Austrian campaign of 1809. After Lannes was fatally injured, the Emperor gave the command of the 2e corps to Oudinot. Shortly after, at Wagram, he once again performed magnificently, seizing victory and going beyond his orders from Napoleon. The latter awarded him his Maréchal's baton on 12 July 1809 and also named him Duke de Reggio.
Whilst it may initially appear that Oudinot was singled as a future maréchal very early on in his career, there were a number of factors that could have limited his rapid rise through the ranks. Firstly, he originally served in the Armée du Rhin and therefore did not meet Napoleon until after the creation of the Consulate. He was also a confirmed Republican and for a long time remained in the 'opposition' group of generals. And whilst he was undoubtedly a leader of exceptional bravery, he was not always the greatest strategist. Finally, his numerous wounds meant that all too often he was sidelined at the moment that awards and medals were distributed. Nevertheless, he married intrepidity with a chivalric spirit that was admired by his opponents, and, despite his apparently rough exterior, he also displayed an undeniable savoir-faire which led to a number of missions more diplomatic than military in nature.
In 1806, he was charged with the task of taking possession of the Neufchatel (Switzerland) principality on behalf of Berthier. The principality had been ceded to France by Prussia, and his impartiality led to the inhabitants offering him sword of honour and Neufchatel citizenship on his departure. As Governor of Erfurt, he had the delicate task of ensuring that the Congress which took place there (September 1808) was successful. Following Louis Bonaparte's abdication as king of Holland and Napoleon's resulting decision to annexe the country to the Empire, Oudinot was given the task of managing the occupation.
It was during his time in Holland that he learnt of the death of his wife, with whom he had seven children. On 19 January, 1812, he married Marie-Charlotte-Eugénie de Coucy, a young Ancien Régime aristocrat, with whom he had four more children. All his sons went into a military career: the oldest, Victor, was a lieutenant in the hussars in 1809, a squadron chief by the end of the Empire and, in 1849, was made commander in chief of the French expeditionary corps against the Roman Republic, the short-lived state that emerged after theocratic papal rule was overthrown in the same year. His second son, Auguste, was a colonel in the Chasseurs d'Afrique and was killed during the Algerian conquest. The third, Charles, was an infantry lieutenant-colonel and the fourth, Henri, was a général de brigade.
During the Russian campaign of 1812, he had a number of victories in the Pulutsk region (August 1812) and demonstrated admirable courage during the Battle of Berezina (November 1812).
He was involved in the German campaign of 1813 and the French campaign of 1814, during which he received his thirty-second wound. He was one of the generals at Fontainebleau who encouraged Napoleon to abdicate and, allied to the provisional government after the Emperor's abdication, was made commander in chief of the corps royal des grenadiers et chasseurs à pied (the former Garde Impériale). He was also named ministre d'état and a Peer of France under Louis XVIII. During the Cent-Jours, he refused to serve Napoleon or Louis, explaining to Napoleon upon being summoned, "Since I shall not serve you, Sire, I shall serve no-one." Napoleon would later pay homage to this loyal and honourable conduct at St. Helena.
Upon Louis XVIII's return, Oudinot became Major General of the Garde Royale (8 September, 1815) and went on to serve under the Restoration governments. Although initially sidelined during the July Monarchy, the ageing maréchal accepted the functions of Grand Chancelier of the Légion d'honneur (1839) and, three years later, was made Governor of the Hôtel des Invalides. He died on 13 September, 1847.
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BELGRADE, Aug 4 – Serbia’s Socialist-led government stepped up control over the central bank in the struggling ex-Yugoslav republic on Saturday, ignoring IMF criticism and a warning that the move would hurt its bid to join the European Union.
Parliament adopted amendments to the law on the National Bank of Serbia, as the government seeks to harness the bank to a promise of more expansive fiscal policies to halt a slide into recession and rein in unemployment of 25 per cent.
Central bank governor Dejan Soskic, who since 2010 had steered a restrictive monetary course in the face of an increasingly bleak economic outlook, had already quit on Thursday.
The law creates a powerful, parliament-appointed supervisory body represented on the bank’s executive board and gives the assembly responsibility for appointing its entire top management.
Jorgovanka Tabakovic, a lawmaker and senior member of the co-ruling Serbian Progressive Party, is widely tipped to replace Soskic, a move certain to shake investor confidence in the bank’s independence even further.
It will also deepen doubts in the West over the new government’s commitment to the largely reformist, pro-EU path Serbia has taken since the ouster of late Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.
The EU is watching closely, unnerved by the return to power of a socialist-nationalist political alliance that was last in government at the tail-end of Milosevic’s disastrous 13-year-rule, when Serbia was mired in war and hyperinflation.
The International Monetary Fund, which Serbia plans to tap for new funding, had warned before the law was adopted that it would mark a “major weakening” of the bank’s autonomy.
The EU, which made Serbia an official candidate for membership in March under the previous Democrat-led government, said it would be a “step back” for the accession bid.
After the criticism, the government dropped one element of the new law that would have allowed the central bank to buy securities issued by the government or other public entities on the secondary market – amounting to the indirect monetary financing of the public sector.
But writing in the Serbian daily Politika on Saturday, US Ambassador Mary Burce Warlick said the pressure put on Soskic and the changes to the law “represent a failure of the rule of law and raise serious questions about the respect for independent institutions.”
The IMF, in a letter to Soskic before he resigned, cautioned that the law would have “considerable implications” for a 1 billion euro ($1.23 billion) loan program which the Fund froze in February over Serbia’s rising debt but which the new government says it wants to renegotiate.
The coalition under Socialist Prime Minister Ivica Dacic says the bank’s independence will not be compromised, but that it should work in closer harmony with the government as it tries to fire up an economy that contracted 1.3 per cent in the first quarter of this year and 0.6 per cent in the second.
Under Soskic, Serbia has the highest official interest rates in central and eastern Europe at 10.25 per cent.
“I assure the domestic and international public that parliament will work openly, and as such the National Bank of Serbia will also work openly, and the law at its core does not encroach on the independence and monetary policy of the central bank,” said Nebojsa Stefanovic, parliament speaker from the ruling coalition.
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More than one attendee at the Social Philosophy and Policy conference voiced dismay over David Horowitz's promotion of the Academic Bill of Rights. A typical plank:
Curricula and reading lists in the humanities and social sciences should reflect the uncertainty and unsettled character of all human knowledge in these areas by providing students with dissenting sources and viewpoints where appropriate. While teachers are and should be free to pursue their own findings and perspectives in presenting their views, they should consider and make their students aware of other viewpoints. Academic disciplines should welcome a diversity of approaches to unsettled questions.
What's not to like? According to its critics, the ABOR damages academic freedom by forcing professors to respectfully present viewpoints that they consider unworthy of respect. In fact, it is a thinly veiled order to give "equal time" to disreputable right-wing views.
But isn't ideological discrimination against non-leftists (another key issue in the Bill) a serious problem? The ABOR opponents admitted that it does happen, but maintained that it is incredibly rare - and already against existing university policies. Right-wing students who cry "ideological discrimination" are probably just angry that they got the grade they deserved.
As far as ideological discrimination against students goes, I actually agree. What's interesting, though, is that left-wing academics are so quick to dismiss the importance of the kind of discrimination with which they have the most personal experience. I found myself thinking: Gee, if ideological discrimination is rare, and accusations of ideological discrimination are primarily a tactic for shifting responsibility for one's own failures onto others, maybe there's a broader lesson. Maybe if you ran a business instead of a classroom, you'd start to see all "discrimination" in a similar light.
In fact, as I've argued before, since they are non-profits, universities are likely to feature unusually high levels of discrimination. If you don't see it there, you have to wonder if it really exists. | <urn:uuid:947268ca-eb4e-443a-a198-45e75f345aaa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2007/11/discrimination.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96793 | 398 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Of the seven local hospitals that turned down Dr. Willie Parker and his co-worker’s requests for admitting privileges to the hospital’s emergency rooms—a requirement of Mississippi’s new TRAP law—five belonged to Hospital Management Associates Inc., a Florida-based chain of hospitals. Now that company is being investigated for its own emergency room policies.
According to the Jackson Free Press, a 60 Minutes investigation has unveiled a number of whistleblowers in the chain’s hospitals claiming that they were encouraged to route patients into the emergency room when it wasn’t medically necessary as a means of boosting the company’s profits. The chain is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for the practice.
“That really just bolsters that this admitting privilege thing is such a fraud,” JWHO owner Diane Derzis told the Jackson Free Press.
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by Eliana Buenrostro
For the past 3 months, I’ve really enjoyed watching The Legend of Korra on Nickelodeon. For those whose don’t know, The Legend of Korra is a follow up to the critically acclaimed series Avatar: the Last Airbender, which aired on Nick from 2005 to 2008. Avatar is heavily inspired by distinct Asian cultures and takes place in a world where four nations–each a representative of the elements earth, water, air and fire–rule separately. Some of the people born within each nation are born with the ability to “bend,” or control and manipulate the element of their respective nation. Given the show ‘s careful character development, attention to detail, gorgeous animation, distinctly developed plot, and realism, it is no surprise that in 2008 when Avatar won a Peabody, it was for its “unusually complex characters and healthy respect for the consequences of warfare.” After Avatar ended in 2008, its fans eagerly awaited Korra’s premiere.
It’s rare to find a show directed at children that treats kids in a realistic manner instead of as unintelligent, hysterical or dramatic. It is even rarer that a show – in any genre – portrays women in a realistic manner. Avatar: The Last Airbender did both. One of the characters that stood out to me most in the series was Katara, one of the female protagonists. She’s the narrator of the story and an exceptional waterbender who travels with the Avatar and is determined to help him end the Hundred Year War. A driving force in her quest to defeat the Fire Lord is the death of her mother: when she was a child, her mother was killed by the Fire Nation, the very group responsible for the war. One particular touching moment late in the series was when Katara, intent on seeking revenge, finds the general responsible for killing her mother. It is in that moment that she realizes revenge would not bring her peace.
Another stand out female lead is Azula, a firebender and daughter of the Fire Lord who is waging a war on the Earth Kingdom. She is, in my opinion, one of the best developed villains I have seen on a kids’ television show. From a young age she was a prodigal firebender. She never had a very pleasant or submissive personality, but with only her father around to praise her abilities she eventually became abusive and manipulative. Azula even overheard her own mother say she was terrified of her. That, coupled with her mother’s protectiveness of her brother over Azula, left a profound impact on her. By the end of the series, we see her become mentally unstable, after the only friends she had unexpectedly betray her. I could never defend the incorrigible things Azula does, but she certainly intrigues me as a character.
The Legend of Korra is undoubtedly darker than its predecessor. It deals with themes of abuse of power, political corruption, and manipulation. Years after the end of the original series, a war is waging between the citizens of Republic City, the haven built after the Hundred Year War. An extremist group of non-benders have begun to terrorize the benders after decades of feeling powerless. It brings up a lot of interesting questions about class struggle and power abuses. With the new series also comes the introduction of more complex female characters–this time, the Avatar has been reincarnated as a hot-headed girl. As the new Avatar, Korra is almost practically opposite to Aang, the Avatar of the original series. While Aang was generally peaceful, humble and cared a whole lot about nature, Korra is headstrong and unafraid to use her abilities to intimidate. She is ready to fight at a moment’s notice and she even enjoys her title as Avatar, where it took Aang a while to grow into it. She is eager to impress and she soon joins a pro-bending team. I don’t really see Aang using his bending for recreation like this.
As much as I love the characters from the original series, I have found Korra to be infinitely more relatable than past characters. She is not motherly or sweet and she has the tendency to clash with authority quite a bit, but she also has a tender heart. Her struggles revolve on her attempting to connect with the spiritual side of being an Avatar. She is joined by another equally complex counterpart, the non-bender Asami Sato. Asami looks traditionally feminine, enjoys watching pro-bending matches and is an experienced fighter (though I was disappointed that her being inducted into Team Avatar was the result of horrendously handled love triangle). Her biggest challenge in the series is putting aside her father, who is bent on revenge, to do what is right.
While undoubtedly many of themes in these series are very dark, there a lot of lessons that can be taken from them. It is first and foremost a story of friendship and family and of hope and perseverance. These are kids whom have been tasked with saving the world. They are treated with respect by the adults, unlike in a lot of children’s programming, the female characters are developed and complex. If you haven’t seen either series, they’re worth a watch. | <urn:uuid:83f7323e-3d0d-4fa3-9ac6-0f26948935a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sparksummit.com/2012/07/11/complex-female-characters-in-kids-tv-avatar-korra/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977019 | 1,083 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Dist. 201 plans to launch more safety measures
Sandy Hook tragedy spurs Minooka schools into action
The tragic shooting of school children and adults in Newtown, Connecticut has Minooka Grade School District rethinking some of its own safety measures.
While the district has a very effective safety plan to keep children safe at all seven schools, some things might be changed as a result of the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Minooka Superintendent Al Gegenheimer said.
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In the film industry, a film is considered shelved if it is not released for public viewing after filming has started, or even completed.
A film can be shelved for a number of reasons:
- A film may receive poor reaction from test audiences and other critics, prompting film producers to choose to never release the film, instead of spending additional money to print and promote it.
- A film may also go over budget and not find funders, causing the film's producer to abandon the film instead of completing it.
- In other cases, a film may be considered too controversial for a release, and is unable to find a distributor.
- One of the main actors died or resigned while the film was in production.
- A film may be become embroiled in legal battles, such as illegal funding means.
- A film may have been produced only to fulfil a legal obligation, such as to fulfil a contract or keep an intellectual property alive.
The term "shelved" may refer to other entertainment media, such as music albums (e.g. Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine) and novels.
Famous shelved films
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, was completed in November 1963 but it was only released in January 1964, due to the assassination of JFK.
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash, a comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, was completed in 2000. Warner Bros. shelved the film for nearly two years before finally releasing it in August 2002. Pluto Nash soon gained infamy as one of the most expensive box office bombs in Hollywood history.
- Arrive Alive was supposed to be a comedy film starring Willem Dafoe as a hotel manager mixed up in various scams and Joan Cusack as his girlfriend, but was cancelled after a week's filming when the producer Art Linson decided it wasn't as funny as he thought it would be.
- Being Human a Robin Williams vehicle commissioned by David Puttnam when running Columbia Pictures. Completed in 1989 after Puttnam had been ousted Columbia's new owners shelved the film until 1993.
- Brenda Starr was slated for release in 1986 but shelved until 1989 due to litigation; the film was based on a comic strip and starred Brooke Shields in the title role.
- Creation demonstrated the stop-motion effects of Willis O'Brien, who later went on to complete the effects for King Kong. This pilot film was never completed, though some surviving prints still exist.
- Collateral Damage, an action film featuring hijacking of aircraft and bombing of large buildings, was scheduled for release in October 2001. However it was shelved following the September 11 terrorist attacks and was finally released later in 2002.
- Dark Blood was cancelled halfway through filming due to the death of its star River Phoenix.
- The Day the Clown Cried, an early 1970s film about Nazi concentration camps directed by Jerry Lewis. Some bits of behind-the-scenes-footage have been found, as well as production stills.
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (2003) was eventually screened at film festivals, then scheduled for release in 2007 under the changed title Shortcut to Happiness.
- Fantastic Four, a 1994 film produced by Roger Corman that was never intended to be commercially released. Bootlegs of the film, however, leaked onto the internet and are available on VHS and on YouTube.
- House of 1000 Corpses was completed in 1999 or 2000, but was unable to find distribution until 2003 due to its violent subject matter.
- I Love Lucy, a feature film version of the popular sitcom which combined three episodes with new scenes added. MGM demanded the film be shelved because they felt it would diminish interest in The Long, Long Trailer. After one test screening, the film was shelved and forgotten.
- Knockaround Guys was completed in 1999, but was not released until 2001, to capitalize on actor Vin Diesel's popularity.
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was a film which commenced filming in 2000 but was shelved after 2 weeks. It was going to be directed by Terry Gilliam but was cancelled when star Jean Rochefort was injured. The "behind the scenes" featurette for the DVD became the basis for the documentary Lost in La Mancha.
- O, completed in 1999, but was not released until 2001 because of the Columbine High School massacre.
- Playing God was finished in 1995 but not released until 1997 due to negative reactions from test audiences.
- RoboCop 3 was filmed in 1991, but shelved and not released until 1993, due to Orion's bankruptcy. Bootleg copies showed up several years before the official release.
- Robotech the Movie: The Untold Story, a film that splices together footage from the OAV Megazone 23 and the Southern Cross segment of the Robotech TV series, was intended as a side story in the Robotech Universe. Producer Carl Macek initially intended to create a straight adaptation of Megazone 23, which would have been slightly re-written to take place in the Robotech Universe. He was reportedly pressured by Cannon Films into including more action scenes, thus the decision to splice Southern Cross battle footage into the final product. This movie showed only for two weeks in Mesquite, Texas and was shelved. The film did get a general release in South America, however.
- Something's Got to Give, a film left unfinished by the death of Marilyn Monroe.
- The Thief and the Cobbler, an animated epic by Richard Williams in progress in the late 1960's, but left shelved for a long time due to his other works being made. Was intended for a 1991 release by Warner Bros., but since Disney's own "Thief and the Cobbler" named Aladdin was in progress, Warner Bros. dropped the deal with Richard Williams's work. So the film was completed faster and was released for the UK in 1994 and for both US and Canada in 1995, with critically panned reviews saying that it's a ripoff of Aladdin. Remastered editions of the unfinished versions are available in bootlegged DVDs or on YouTube.
- Principal photography on Jet Pilot with stars John Wayne and Janet Leigh was completed in 1950, but the film was not released until 1957 due to producer Howard Hughes. | <urn:uuid:cc70ec33-f9df-414b-972f-989dbde17bfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://everything.explained.at/Shelved/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977669 | 1,299 | 2.234375 | 2 |
January 6th, Feast of the Epiphany
[The wise men] having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star which they had seen in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was. And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. (Matthew 2:9-10)
It is generally considered a more conservative and traditional position to believe that the star of Bethlehem was a real and historical star. Indeed, even many Catholics are excited about recent so-called “scientific” data which seeks to determine which star or astronomical event was the historical star of Bethlehem.
Thus, we might be surprised to realize that the overwhelming consensus of the Catholic tradition – from the Church Fathers, through the Scholastic Doctors (including St. Thomas Aquinas), and up to the great theologians of the counter-reformation period – maintains that the star of Bethlehem was not a real star. It was not an event in the heavens at all; that is, it was not in outer-space, but was another sort of reality. Indeed, the star of Bethlehem was a light brightly shining but low to the earth and within our atmosphere. It was no star, nor even a comet or any such thing – rather, it was much more like the pillar of fire which led the Israelites out of Egypt.
The Biblical Evidence
The star of Bethlehem is mentioned only in the first ten verses of the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew:
When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. Saying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to adore him. […] Then Herod, privately calling the wise men, learned diligently of them the time of the star which appeared to them; And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go and diligently inquire after the child, and when you have found him, bring me word again, that I also may come to adore him. Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star which they had seen in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was. And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
From the Gospel account, we notice several points about the star:
1) It came to be in connection with the birth of Christ. Whether this was on the very night he was born (as St. Thomas Aquinas believes) or perhaps as many as two years before his birth (according to Sts. Augustine and Chrysostom), the star most certainly came into existence in connection with the Nativity of our Lord. [this is why King Herod inquires the time of the appearance of the star – so as to determine the time of the birth of the Christ Child]
2) It was not as other stars, far above and away from the earth. Rather, it came down low near the earth and indicated the very house where the Child lay – hence we read (in verse 11), And entering into the house etc.
3) It did not move according to the pattern of the other stars, but guided the Magi and went before them.
4) This star shown both in the day and in the night, but at other times immediately vanished (as in when the Magi arrived in Jerusalem and so had to seek the guidance of the scribes there). The star also re-appeared all of a sudden and gave the wise men exceeding joy.
5) Finally, this star was exceedingly bright and much larger than any other stars – and, in this manner, it attracted the attention of the wise men and was able to show the way for them to Bethlehem.
The witness of the Church Fathers
To my knowledge, there is not a single Father of the Church who believes the star of Bethlehem to be a true and real star of the heavens. Even those who say that it is a “star” specify that it was not like the other stars, but was a “new star” created by the Christ Child to guide the wise men to him. Most certainly, the Church Fathers are unanimous in teaching that it was not one of the ordinary stars of the universe which could be mapped out by astronomers.
Here are some of the interpretations relative to the star given by the Fathers of the Church [quotes taken from the Catena Aurea]:
St. Augustine says that it is a “new star” and that it was “not of the number of those stars, which from the beginning of time observe their paths of motion according to the law of their Maker; but a star that first appeared at the birth”. And again, the same Doctor of Grace says, “It was first created at His birth.”
St. Leo the Great speaks of the “rise of a new star.”
St. Remegius puts forward the opinion of those who say that the star was no star at all but “the Holy Spirit: He who descended on the baptized Lord as a dove, appearing to the Magi as a star.” On the other hand, he also says it is possible that the star “was an Angel, the same who appeared to the shepherds.”
The ancient Gloss (glossa ordinaria) states that the star is called “His star” (i.e. the Child’s star) because it is “the star He created for a witness of Himself.” Again, it is put forward as the opinion of St. Fulgentius that the star was created when the Child was born and then disappeared after the wise men worship the Christ. Further, the Gloss also specifies that the star could not have been in the “heavens” (i.e. far above the earth in outer-space), but “must have been in the air” (i.e. within our atmosphere and not too far up, about the same height as the clouds) “and close above the house where the Child was, else it would not have pointed out the exact house.”
Finally, St. John Chrysostom is most explicit in maintaining that the star of Bethlehem was not what we would call a star when he writes: “This was manifestly not one of the common stars of Heaven. First, because none of the stars moves in this way, from east to south, and such is the situation of Palestine with respect to Persia. Secondly, from the time of its appearance, not in the night only, but during the day. Thirdly, from its being visible and then again invisible; when they entered Jerusalem it hid itself and then appeared again when they left Herod. Further, it had no stated motion, but when the Magi were to go on, it went before them; when to stop, it stopped like the pillar of cloud in the desert. Fourthly, it signified the Virgin's delivery, not by being fixed aloft, but by descending to earth, showing herein like an invisible virtue formed into the visible appearance of a star.”
St. Thomas Aquinas said that it wasn’t a real star
In Summa Theologica III, q.36, a.7, St. Thomas Aquinas asks whether the star which appeared to the Magi belonged to the heavenly system, and he replies “no”.
The Angelic Doctor relies heavily upon the patristic witness of Sts. Augustine, Chrysostom, and Leo (all cited above). He claims that “it is clear, for many reasons, that the star which appeared to the Magi did not belong to the heavenly system.” And he concludes that “it seems more probable that it was a newly created star, not in the heavens, but in the air near the earth, and that its movement varied according to God’s will.”
St. Thomas, like St. Augustine and others, does not really believe that the star was a newly created “star” (as in a burning ball of gas, billions of miles away in outer-space), but rather affirms that it was a newly created reality which was very close to the earth and certainly no higher than the clouds.
This “star of Bethlehem” is most certainly not something which modern-day astronomers could detect or discover – it was not even an astronomical reality! Rather, it was very close to the earth.
What then was this thing which is called the “star of Bethlehem”?
An explanation from Fr. Cornelius a’ Lapide
The greatest Catholic biblical scholar since St. Thomas Aquinas, the Jesuit Fr. Cornelius a’ Lapide, offers the best explanation of the star of Bethlehem.
He tells us that it was a newly created reality, a condensed mass of dust and air which was illuminated and moved about by angels. It appeared to the Magi to be something like a star, but particularly large and bright – hence, it amazed them and brought them great joy.
This “star” was not far above the earth and existed only for the thirteen days from Christ’s birth to the coming of the Magi. It left no historically or scientifically detectible traces, other than those preserved in the Scriptures and in Tradition.
Does this make the “star” to be less real or less important? Not at all! There is a long tradition of recognizing a connection between the star of Bethlehem and the pillar of fire. The star was much like the pillar which led for the Israelites, excepting that it was higher in the air (but not too far away). Just as the pillar of fire led the Jews from slavery into freedom, so too did the star of Bethlehem lead these gentiles from slavery to sin and ignorance into the freedom of Christ.
The error of those who seek to discover the “Bethlehem Star”
It has become popular (and “traditional”) to try to determine which star or which astronomical event in the universe was the historical star of Bethlehem. This study is terribly misguided and exposes the faith to ridicule. Further, this study is far removed from the Catholic tradition.
Here we see an example of well-meaning Catholics over-reacting to the modernist and rationalist tendencies of some historical-critical “scholars”. But this over-reaction itself does great damage to the faith, since we look like fools if we try to say that the Bethlehem star was a real star – in such a study, we dismiss our tradition, St. Augustine, St. Leo, St. Gregory, St. Thomas, and all the rest.
Further, those who claim that the star of Bethlehem was an astronomical reality in outer-space end up rendering the Gospel account unintelligible: How could a star out in the universe indicate the very house in which the Christ Child lay? How could such a star or other astronomic reality (be it a comet or supernova or otherwise) come to rest over the very place in which Jesus and Mary rested?
Finally, if the star was in outer-space, why was it noticed only by the wise men and not by others? Indeed, the reason why only the wise men (and perhaps a few others) saw the star was because it wasn’t far above the earth but only up in the clouds and so was only visible to those in the immediate vicinity of the Magi.
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After more than eight months of space travel, the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft carrying the $2.5 billion, 2,000-pound Curiosity rover is nearly ready to touch down on the red planet. Hundreds of CAE man-hours helped simulate, optimize, and validate the mission in the digital world, but the moment of truth for the rover and spacecraft design will be the final landing, which is slated for 10:31 p.m. PT on Sunday, Aug. 5.
The Curiosity, with its six vehicle configurations, 76 pyrotechnic devices, and 500,000 lines of software code (among other innovations), has been called the most sophisticated rover ever sent to Mars by its maker, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). A critical component of the rover's ongoing development has been a partnership between Siemens PLM Software and the JPL. Siemens' Teamcenter PLM software and its NX CAD and NX CAE tools were used to design and simulate the rover digitally before any physical prototypes were built and to ensure all components would fit together, operate properly, and withstand their environment.
Siemens PLM Software's CAD, CAE, and PLM tools played a pivotal role in the design of the Curiosity rover, which is slated to touch down on Mars at 10:31 p.m. PT on Sunday, Aug. 5.
(Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
"NASA's JPL has employed the latest in software technology to design the Mars rover to withstand the impossible extremes of launch, space travel, atmospheric reentry, and landing a 2,000-pound operational vehicle on the surface of Mars," Doug McCuistion, director of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, said in a press release and at a press conference at the recent Farnborough Air Show.
One of the biggest design challenges in the Curiosity mission was the Mars landing -- a feat NASA is billing as "Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror." It will take seven minutes for the rover to travel from the top of the atmosphere down to the surface of Mars, but it takes 14 minutes for a signal from the spacecraft to reach mission control, so there will be a period when the ground crew will be completely in the dark about its status. | <urn:uuid:d8c00bbb-8309-4ce9-a6f5-a33bde329c53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1394&doc_id=247536&f_src=designnews_node_3056 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933697 | 459 | 2.765625 | 3 |
"I wanted it to be a 'global' replacement system so that anybody on the globe could receive it," said Dr. Rockwood. This desire, coupled with his knowledge of the shoulder, one of the most complex joints in the human body, has resulted in the Global prosthesis becoming the most used shoulder replacement system in the world.
Usually shoulder replacement candidates suffer from either a fracture or a form of arthritis, which can cause extreme pain and stiffness and diminish a patient's range of motion. "What people really want," said Dr. Rockwood, "is relief from pain. With the Global prosthesis they will gain more motion than they had before the surgery. The shoulder never returns to 'normal,' but the patients end up with a functional shoulder and pain relief."
The GlobalTM Total Shoulder Prosthesis System includes three components. Two of them, a metal ball that replaces the head of the humerus (bone which extends from the shoulder to the elbow) and a body with stem that is secured into the upper arm bone, are available in multiple sizes. The third component is the glenoid (shoulder blade socket) prosthesis which replaces the socket part of the joint. Depending upon the severity of the problem, a patient may require all three parts of the system, a surgical procedure termed total shoulder arthroplasty, or two parts of the system (metal ball and stem units), a procedure called a hemi-arthroplasty.
Dr. Rockwood developed the system at the request of DePuy Inc. of Indiana. "I agreed to develop it provided there would be superb teaching manuals, materials, videotapes, etc., for the product, so the doctor could go home and explain to the patient what is to be done," said Dr. Rockwood. "And for the first five years of its availability there was a proviso that the prosthesis would not be sold to a doctor until he or she took a course on how to use it. The most important part of the Global system is teaching the surgeons how to use it."
While the proviso has expired, surgeons from around the world continue to attend Dr. Rockwood's classes in shoulder replacement system techniques. Participants review videotapes demonstrating surgical techniques and then observe Dr. Rockwood perform shoulder replacement surgery via closed- circuit television. "I have a microphone and they have microphones, so it becomes interactive," explained Dr. Rockwood. Michael A. Wirth, MD, associate professor of orthopaedics and shoulder surgeon, moderates the closed-circuit surgical procedure. He fields questions from the attendees, and he and Dr. Rockwood comment extensively on the hows, whys and wheres of the procedure.
The class also includes a skills lab during which doctors implant the shoulder replacement system in synthetic plastic shoulder bones. At the end of the course participants leave with teaching manuals, videotapes and plastic models of the prosthesis and bones. The models help patients understand what the surgeon will be doing at the time of the procedure.
Most patients require a three-day hospital stay for a total shoulder replacement. "Our patients come in on a Monday and leave by Wednesday," said Dr. Rockwood. "They also start an exercise program the same day as the surgery."
There's yet another part of Dr. Rockwood's shoulder system—a rehabilitation kit that includes all of the necessary materials for rehabilitation of their shoulders. Patients take the kit home following surgery. "I have found it more convenient for the patients to be able to do their rehabilitation at home. The kit includes a fully illustrated booklet of all the exercises to be performed and a videotape demonstrating how to do them. This way the patients can do the rehab at their leisure, three to four times per day at home, seven days per week—they can even do their rehabilitation exercises in their offices or while on vacation. If patients follow the recommended exercise regimen, most of them can begin to hit golf balls around eight weeks following surgery. They're playing real golf after 12 weeks."
Dr. Rockwood has devoted the past 30 years of service to the Health Science Center. He was the third faculty member to be hired in the Medical School. He served as the first chairman of orthopaedics and continued in that position until 1988 when he stepped down to devote more time to research and writing. He continues full time in the department, and his practice is limited to the care of shoulder problems.
A native of Oklahoma City, he earned degrees from Oklahoma City University (OCU) and the University of Oklahoma (OU) and graduated from OU's School of Medicine in 1956. In 1961 he completed his orthopaedic residency at the OU Medical Center. Dr. Rockwood received an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from OU in 1993 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1996. In December he will receive an Honorary Doctor of Sciences degree from OCU. | <urn:uuid:3ce0cef0-bc1c-411a-8447-8d6c1371e71a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uthscsa.edu/mission/summer97/rockwood.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959612 | 1,005 | 2.21875 | 2 |
The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau, visible at a distance from the east, south and west. It contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II, a total of 17,201, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New Guinea and the Philippines. The headstones are aligned in 11 plots forming a generally circular pattern, set among masses of a wide variety of tropical trees and shrubbery.
The chapel, a white masonry building enriched with sculpture and mosaic, stands near the center of the cemetery. In front of it on a wide terrace are two large hemicycles. Twenty-five mosaic maps recall the achievements of the American armed forces in the Pacific, China, India and Burma. On rectangular Trani limestone piers within the hemicycles, are inscribed the Tablets of the Missing containing 36,285 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. Carved in the floors are the seals of the American states and its territories. From the memorial and other points within the cemetery there are impressive views over the lowlands to Laguna de Bay and towards the distant mountains.
The cemetery is open daily to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except December 25 and January 1. It is open on host country holidays. When the cemetery is open to the public, a staff member is on duty in the visitor building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.
Manila American Cemetery is located in the Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley. It can be reached most easily from the city by taxi or automobile via Epifano de los Santos Ave. (EDSA) to McKinley Road, then to McKinley Parkway inside the Global City. The Nichols Field Road is the easiest access from Manila International Airport to the cemetery. | <urn:uuid:4917c766-9d6f-44ca-8c59-5e2064cf520d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ml.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952803 | 395 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Student Advising Office
- To support the University of North Texas and the College of Education by providing developmental academic advising.
- To assist students in the development of academic plans in accordance with their life goals.
- To partner with students to assist them in their pursuit of academic success in their chosen fields.
We in the Student Advising Office of the College of Education want to extend a warm welcome to all. As our focus is directed towards the support and enhancement of all of our students, please let us take a moment to share with you our mission statement and goals. Our goal is to provide exemplary developmental advising to each of our students. The advisors partner and collaborate with students to assist them in their pursuit of academic success in their chosen field.
As the world we live in is ever increasing in complexity, diversity, knowledge, and opportunities, it is important for us to enable our students to confidently meet and surpass any challenge they encounter. We strive to help our students develop their human capacity by having professional well trained advisors work with our students in the design of an academic plan that supports success. We offer an opportunity for students and advisors to engage in genuine dialogue leading to the development of a plan for academic fulfillment.
We strive to assist our students in the development of an academic plan that truly embraces their life goals in the hopes that they will become not only credentialed individuals, but also educated fully confident citizens of the world who can take their place and be productive members of society.
We thank you for your interest in the College of Education and the Student Advising Office where we strive to help our constituents integrate their life goals with their academic goals.
Dr. Gwenn Pasco
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The poorest Ohioans are a demographic that hasn’t been courted much by the campaign of either President Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Much of the focus of the rhetoric of both candidates has been on how their leadership would benefit and grow America’s middle class.
However, Ohio’s county Job and Family Services offices — where low-income Ohioans go for benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid, or welfare — have quietly registered more than 500,000 Ohio voters since 2010.
It’s unclear how many of these newly registered voters will cast ballots in November, but all indications are the race in Ohio remains tight — and every vote will be important.
The registrations are the result of changes that were enacted after a federal lawsuit was settled in 2009.
The suit alleged widespread violations of the federal National Voter Registration Act; part of the law requires public assistance agencies to provide voter registration opportunities to clients. The 1993 law is also known as the "Motor Voter" act because it allowed states to register voters when they were renewing a drivers license.
The lawsuit, filed in 2006, alleged that random visits to JFS offices in several counties found the offices had no voter-registration applications on hand. A survey of people leaving the offices noted only three of 103 were asked if they wanted to register. From 2002 to 2004, 10 county JFS offices didn't register any voters, 17 other county offices registered fewer than 10 voters, and 32 county offices registered fewer than 100 voters.
Also between 2002 and 2004, some JFS offices for rural counties with small populations registered far more voters than urban counties with larger populations and more people living at or below the poverty line; and although JFS offices processed approximately 4.7 million requests for assistance between 2003 and 2004, the number of voter-registration applications processed during that period amounted to less than 1.5 percent of that number.
The suit was filed by ACORN, a group that drew fire from Republicans in Congress and later effectively collapsed in the wake of a video-sting scandal.
As part of the lawsuit’s 2009 settlement, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services agreed to incorporate voter registration materials into the application for food, cash, and medical assistance.
Registration is optional, and no one seeking benefits is required to register to vote, said Ben Johnson, a spokesman for the state Department of Job and Family Services.
County agencies are required to send completed voter registration forms to their county board of elections and report the total number of registrations to the Ohio department each month.
State data show 191,237 registrations through county JFS offices in 2010; 195,560 registrations in 2011; and 125,597 this year through the end of August.
Some of these registrations are likely not brand-new voters, but currently registered voters updating an address or other change, said Mr. Johnson. There is no way to know how many are new versus current voters, however.
Prior to the lawsuit and settlement, all of Ohio's county JFS offices were registering about 1,775 voters monthly; the number is now closer to about 16,000 a month, said Lisa Danetz, senior counsel with Demos, a liberal policy and advocacy organization.
Ms. Danetz was one of the lead attorneys in the 2006 lawsuit against the state. Since the case in Ohio, similar suits have been settled in Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Georgia.
The Ohio case was one of the first. Suits are ongoing over the issue in Louisiana, Massachusetts and Nevada, she said.
Lower-income people tend to vote at a rate below that of the general population, said Stephen Brooks, associate director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. “The further down [in income] you go, the less likely you are to vote,” he said. Mr. Brooks also noted that being registered doesn't mean a person will actually vote.
“If you register because you are getting your [driver’s] license, there’s no guarantee that 10 months later when the election rolls around, you’ll care to vote.”
Voter-registration materials are typically available at public high schools, libraries, county treasurer offices, county boards of elections, and offices of the Ohio Bureau of Motor vehicles, according to the secretary of state’s office.
Joel Potts, executive director of the Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association, said that although he believes voter registration is a service that should be offered by JFS offices, he questions how effective it is to register clients when they often come to a JFS office in the midst of an economic emergency.
“They [clients] get so much paperwork and everything else from us, frankly, I’m not sure if it is really a high priority for people who are coming to us,” Mr. Potts said.
However, while campaigns do not traditionally pay attention to low-income voters as a group, Mr. Brooks added, “In a tight election, like the one we are going to have in Ohio, every vote counts.”
Melvinita Williams, who was in the lobby of the Lucas County Job and Family Services office on Thursday morning, said she will vote in November for President Obama.
Now age 49, she said she has been registered to vote since age 18 and takes the right seriously.
"Our voice counts," she said. "It does count."
She supports President Obama because, she said, "I feel like he hasn't had enough time to change. It was messed up when he got in there."
Khassandra Billings, another registered voter who was at the Lucas County JFS office, said she also will support the President because she believes he has made progress with improving the economy and has made it easier for someone like herself to attend college.
"I want to go to college," she said. "Obama has taken steps to make it easier to afford college."
She also took issue with Mr. Romney's comments about 47 percent of Americans expecting government support and feeling like they are victims, she said.
A Gallup poll in September found President Obama has a significant lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney among low-income voters, although Mr. Romney still gets 34 percent of the vote among Americans with household incomes less than $24,000 annually.
Oct. 9 is the deadline to register to vote in Ohio for the November general election. Early voting begins Tuesday.
Jack Frech, Job and Family Services director in Athens County, Ohio, said the fact that neither presidential candidate has done much to capture the vote of the low-income clients his office serves is disappointing and shows the depth of the stigma against the poor.
“There’s several hundred thousand people — at minimum — who walk through our offices who are registered to vote,” he said.
Jon Stainbrook, chairman of the Lucas County Republican Party, said the theory that poor people are all Democrats is false and he thinks JFS offices "should do their jobs properly" and make an effort to register voters.
"People would say 'why would you want people to be registered?' Well, it's the law," Mr. Stainbrook said.
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What We're Reading: Productivity Takes Many Forms
Productivity = 10,000 Steps On a Single Conference Call: A recent New York Times report covers the growing trend of treadmill desks and stand-up work stations in the workplace. Expect to hear more about the stand-up work trend in the new year, as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has launched a pilot program in its own offices to assess the possible health benefits for American workers.
Productivity = Maximizing Your High Maintenance Employees: Fortune's "Ask Annie" column addresses the problem of managing "high-maintenance, high-performance" employees.
Productivity = Baby Animal Pictures: The Washington Post and PLOS One report that work performance will improve after workers look at pictures of kittens, puppies and other little critters. Researchers from Hiroshima University found that university students who viewed pictures of baby animals did more productive work afterward, compared with those who saw pictures of adult animals or pleasant food. We especially like the baby pandas, and feel really productive now. | <urn:uuid:d16fe462-c622-44e4-8456-f1e5dc82df60> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washingtonworkplacelaw.com/what-were-reading/what-were-reading-productivity-takes-many-forms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922013 | 214 | 1.648438 | 2 |
My Collection of Old Books
August 19, 2008 | Permalink
One question that I have been asked a number of times in person and through email is "what sort of books do you collect for your library other than Ballantyne and Henty?" While it is true that Ballantyne and Henty take many of my shelves, I do try to collect some of the other great authors of the 19th century.
The first real book I read was Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. It was probably one of the first books to spark the love of reading in me. In the beginning of Treasure Island, Stevenson has a poem to the "hesitating purchaser" in which he speaks of his top three favorite authors. When I began to think about books I should be collecting, the first thing I did was to take the poem by Stevenson and incorporate that into the process of building up my library. In the poem, Stevenson names three of the men he thought of as the "great" authors of his time.
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wind and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Were these and their creations lie!
I began with James Fenimore Cooper. I had read an abridged version of The Last of The Mohicans when I was 11, so I was not completely new to Cooper, but he had not captured my imagination the way Henty or Ballantyne had. I found out later it was because so much of his stirring love of the outdoors had been cut out of the book. One of the problems with abridged versions is that someone other than the author uses their own judgment to slice and dice the book into something other than what the author intended. The results are sometimes quite dissatisfying, as I had discovered. Consequently, I didn't fully appreciate Cooper. When I realized that Stevenson thought so much of him that he included him in his list of top authors, I knew I must look into Cooper further.
First I bought an old copy of Cooper's The Leatherstocking Tales from eBay. I was blessed to find a reasonable price. After I received it, I realized that it was a nice edition: 1880's Routledge, and just about 900 pages long! Thankfully, the 900 pages were divided into five stories. All five, The Deerslayer, The Last of The Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie, were bound together! I read the whole book in three weeks. Ever since then, I have thoroughly enjoyed collecting and reading Cooper's works. About a year later, I found an amazing collection of thirty of his books selling for $35. As you would imagine, I snatched them up quickly. I still have only read half of them.
The other two authors mentioned by Stevenson were R.M. Ballantyne and W.H.G. Kingston. I had already heard of both men. I began collecting Ballantyne on the recommendation of some Christian book vendors. I knew of Kingston because Henty had helped to edit two of his books, Our Soldiers and Our Sailors. Kingston had also translated books for Jules Verne from the original French. In fact, he had translated one of my favorite books of all time, The Mysterious Island!
I had not had an opportunity to collect Kingston as much as the other authors until our recent Scotland trip. While in Scotland, we visited the island of Iona. There is much to be said about Iona. You can read more about it here. But to get back to the story, while on Iona, we found a little book store. The store was chock-full of all sorts of books. We saw some amazing volumes there, but what caught my eye immediately was a little pile of Nelson & Sons books lying in a corner. At first I thought they might be Ballantyne, but on closer inspection, I found that they were Kingston books. Unfortunately, because of the weight limits on travelers, I was only able to take home two of Kingston's books. The two I bought were Peter the Whaler, and The Wanderers. You can see an image of The Wanderers above. If any of you ever visit the island of Iona, I highly recommend you visit the little old bookshop there. I am sure you will find some treasures. | <urn:uuid:0117f292-da15-4f57-bc3a-8b7cba0d939f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ballantynethebrave.com/blog/old_books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98533 | 905 | 1.625 | 2 |
| 29 November 2012
New York (US) and London (UK): Varonis – the leader in data governance software, has gone out on a limb to predict that the world will not end on December 21, 2012. In stark contrast to many Doomsayers who warn of an apocalypse being a reality next month, Varonis instead warns organisations to prepare for an increase in ‘Salami Attacks’ - a series of minor attacks that together result in a larger attack.
Speaking about this warning, Varonis CEO and co-founder Yaki Faitelson explained, “A bit like a sandwich is pieced together one ingredient a time, we believe that the vast expanse of information about employees and business partners poses a new and very real threat to organisations. All the individual scraps of information about an individual online can be researched and pieced together to create a complete picture – who they are, where they work, which school they attended. It’s all there waiting to be plundered and the primary thing that saves most people is nobody is looking for them. But what if someone were? It’s important that, as an organisation, you make sure your employees – especially those in key positions, are made aware of the risks. Consider collecting the information that’s easily accessible on one employee to demonstrate what can be done to really bring the message home.”
Varonis has five more predictions of the challenges organisations will face over the next twelve months:
A Rise in Internal Search
There’s a growing gulf between the people who know how to find the right information quickly and those that don’t. Organisations need to get their employees thinking about what needs to be kept, what has to be kept legally, what can be removed and how to intelligently archive their information. Yaki adds, “Organisations are storing so much data – intelligent search, retention, and archiving will be a competitive advantage.”
A Growing Chasm between IT and Everyone Else
There’s a growing disparity between how people use technology in their personal and professional lives. With a huge portion of the workforce connecting remotely via both personal and professional devices, the traditional infrastructure is being assaulted by new requirements, devices and services. This will impact a number of business areas. For example, who owns the intellectual property of documents created on a personal device? If an employee uses a personal device to check their work email, what rights does the organisation have to access, search, or wipe the memory? Organisations must become master in their own home, yet still offer the flexibility the workforce is increasingly demanding.
Organisations are used to collaborating internally but the need to collaborate with third parties—business partners, contractors, vendors, customers, etc.—is increasing, and files are growing too numerous and too large for email. Organisations need to introduce processes that ensure the right sensitive information is shared, with the right people, securely.
The Data Mountain
Analysts concur that data is growing exponentially – with IDC quoting 50% year on year. In contrast, Moore’s law estimated that processing power doubles every two years, although many believe that 2013 will see this growth start to slow. Organisations need to look for solutions that will intelligently archive their information, while automating management and protection.
Shortage of people with big data analytics skills
While technology exists which allows organisations to store and analyse huge amounts of data, there is a serious lack of data scientists to interpret the results and make informed decisions. More information doesn’t always lead to better decisions. But, if you have the automation and the talent to distinguish causality from coincidence, you can gain an edge.
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May 3, 2007 When a song on the radio or the cell phone on the car seat next to a young driver beckon, she may not resist the temptation to turn up the dial or take a call while maneuvering in traffic. Such distractions could lead to a car crash, especially for young drivers with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
As a group, young ADHD drivers are two to four times more likely to have a car accident than non-ADHD drivers. Daniel Cox, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the University of Virginia Health System, has conducted research aimed at improving those odds. His team's newest study will look at the effects of methylphenidate (MPH), a controlled-release stimulant, on young ADHD drivers facing real-life distractions.
"In controlled laboratory studies, there are no cell phones, no pressures to get home before curfew, no passengers encouraging the driver to ‘get air,' no pets that slip from the driver's lap down to the pedals and no hamburger dripping with mustard in the driver's right hand," said Cox. "This, however, is real world driving. We want to investigate the benefits of medication in the context of such real world distractions and demands."
This research team's past studies have compared long- acting MPH to extended-release amphetamine salts and found that MPH is more effective in helping young ADHD drivers pay attention and have fewer driving mishaps while on the road. A second study Cox's team completed showed that ADHD young drivers fare better when driving cars with manual transmissions rather than automatic transmissions. In this latest study, funded by Shire Pharmaceuticals, Cox's team hopes to determine the benefits of MPH during routine, daily driving.
In the study, driver performance will be measured using a device called DriveCam. This video system will be mounted inside the vehicle and will measure and record all audio visual signals. When there is a marked change in driving force, DriveCam will store the 10 seconds before the change and the 20 seconds following the change. The study will last six months. For three months of the study, participants will receive MPH administered through a patch.
"We think that the drivers will perform better on the MPH patch than without the medication, even in light of real world situations," Cox said. "This information will help young ADHD drivers decide what approach may be best."
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During the past eight years, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice has been a key ally in Domestic Workers United’s fight for fair treatment of housekeepers, nannies and other caregivers. As part of its Shalom Bayit [peace in the home] campaign, JFREJ has assisted the organization in determining best practices for employers of domestic workers, and joined DWU in Albany to lobby for a domestic workers bill of rights. Now their work is paying off.
The New York Senate earlier this month passed the bill of rights, a year after the Assembly passed a similar bill. The legislation affords domestic workers — nannies, housekeepers and home assistants — basic workplace rights, such as termination notice and sick pay, as well as legal recourse to take action against an abusive employer. Domestic workers were not included by President Roosevelt in the National Labor Relations Act, and have since been excluded from the protections given to most other workers in the United States.
Sarah Fields, program coordinator at JFREJ, spoke recently The Sisterhood about the organization’s involvement in the campaign for domestic workers’ rights.
Elissa Strauss: When did JFREJ get involved with domestic workers’ rights?
Sarah Fields: In 2002, JFREJ began working with Domestic Workers United. In 2003 and 2004, JFREJ helped pass a New York City Council resolution for domestic workers rights. JFREJ was the only ally organization that DWU felt both shared their political vision and had access to employer communities.
How has JFREJ been involved?
Shalom Bayit developed a vision of altering power relations between domestic workers and employers by advocating for change in employment practices and empowering community members to speak out and educate each other and the community at large about Jewish values and domestic labor. JFREJ began to reach out to employers, specifically to try and get them to begin using a standard contract. We also began reaching out to synagogue communities, where employment of domestic work was common.
We also organized the Employers for Justice Network, which is a group of approximately 100 employers of domestic workers, who have improved their employment practices and taken action in support of the Domestic Workers’ bill of rights.
So what is the Employers for Justice Network and how can people get involved?
These are employers who have committed to taking one step up in their employment practices — this could be in salary, sick days, vacation time, holidays, conversations with their employees, a contract, environmentally friendly cleaning products, etc. They improve their own practices and then often have living room gatherings where they invite their employer friends over to engage on the issue and get them to improve practices as well. Then they lobby, speak at rallies, public hearings. … People can get involved with the Employers for Justice Network by contacting JFREJ and connecting with the campaign’s organizers.
What challenges did you face when trying to educate employers about the way to treat their domestic employees?
Many people don’t to see themselves as employers or their homes as workplaces. Our analysis says this is a feminist problem as people don’t consider the home as a place of work because domestic work is not real work, but rather the work of women.
So it is fair to say we’ve had a fair amount of resistance and continue to see it even in the debate in the Senate. Other problems come from employers’ worries and hesitations about the logistics of implementing changes in their relationships. The shift in pay or treatment can be a real adjustment in their spending and budgeting, but we make sure to emphasize worker justice and proper employment ethics as one of the central values of all employer-employee relationships.
Do you have any personal connection to this work?
For me, as a woman who grew up in a time in which I was told I could “have it all,” part of me connected with the idea of the fact that another group of women work to make that dream possible. More specifically, growing up my parents made a particular point of not hiring someone to work in their home.
My grandparents were longtime employers of a housekeeper and I now realize they were model employers. My grandfather, as the owner of a medium-sized business and my grandmother, active in her teachers’ union, saw their housekeeper as an employee, who they paid social security for, gave time off to and tried to treat well. Many of the younger members of our campaign grew up in homes with domestic workers in which there was little discussion surrounding such employment.
What’s next for the Shalom Bayit campaign?
The next step is to get the bill of rights into law in New York State. The Senate passage last week was, of course, huge, but not the end of the road. Presently, the assembly bill needs to be reconciled with the Senate bill and then once that happens Gov. Paterson will then need to sign the bill into law — something we are confident he will do. | <urn:uuid:f19ae851-c2b8-4906-9c2d-98ed9b71a710> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/128754/the-jewish-group-behind-the-nanny-bill-of-rights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977639 | 1,031 | 1.828125 | 2 |
How do I read the sidewall of my tire?
On the sidewall of every tire, there's a great deal of information that identifies its construction and capabilities.
Example: P185/75R14 82S
|P||Service type: Indicates this is a passenger vehicle tire, as opposed to a tire made for a light truck (LT) or other vehicle.|
|185||Section Width: The width of the tire in millimetres from sidewall to sidewall. This measurement varies depending on the width of the rim to which the tire is fitted: larger on a wider rim, smaller on a narrow rim. The number on the side of the tire indicates the width measured with the tire fitted to the recommended rim width.|
|75||Aspect Ratio: The ratio of height to width. This tire's height is 75% of its width.|
|R||Internal Construction: How the plies are constructed in the tire carcass. "R" means radial. "B" in place of the "R" means the tire is belted bias construction. "D" in place of the "R" means diagonal bias construction.|
|14||Rim Diameter: The diameter of the wheel in inches.|
|82||Load Index: This tire has an industry-standard maximum load of 475 kg (1,047 lbs.) Different load index numbers correspond to different maximum loads. The maximum load is shown in lbs. (pounds) and in kg (kilograms), and maximum pressure in PSI (pounds per square inch) and in kPa (kilopascals).|
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PASCAGOULA, Mississippi --- Skies will be partly cloudy today with a 50 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service forecast for the Pascagoula area.
Highs will be in the lower 90s with southwest winds 5 to 15 mph, with gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.The 50 percent chance of rain will linger overnight with lows in the mid-70s.
Rain is also in the forecast for Wednesday, with a 50 percent chance in the day dropping to a 30 percent chance Wednesday evening. Highs will be in the low 90s and lows in the mid-70s.
Jackson and George counties remain under a flood warning from the Pascagoula River, which is expected to crest Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. at 25 feet then begin falling.
Nationally, Tropical moisture associated with the remnants of Isaac interacting with a frontal system will bring a flash flooding threat to the East Coast on Tuesday. Showers and thunderstorms will be capable of producing heavy rainfall that could lead to incidents of flash flooding. | <urn:uuid:02b1007d-1a73-4676-aa4f-d378656a0460> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/09/forecast_calls_for_50_percent.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939464 | 220 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
The Lithium Chase
The New York Times
For many years, few metals drew bigger yawns from mining executives than lithium, a lightweight element long associated mostly with mood-stabilizing drugs.
Suddenly, the yawns are being replaced by eurekas. As awareness spreads that lithium is a crucial ingredient for hybrid and electric cars, a global hunt is under way for new supplies of the metal.
Toyota Tsusho, the material supplier for the big Japanese automaker, announced a joint venture in January with the Australian miner Orocobre to develop a $100 million lithium project in Argentina. That deal came only days after Magna International, the Canadian car parts company that is helping develop a battery-powered version of the Ford Focus, announced that it was investing $10 million in a small Canadian lithium firm that also has projects in Argentina.
They were the latest in a series of deals and projects announced over the last year, reflecting a new urgency among companies to assure themselves future supplies of the metal.
“There is a sea change under way,” James D. Calaway, the chairman of Orocobre, said. “We are at the front end potentially of a very significant increase in the demand for lithium for the emerging electric transportation sector.”
Mr. Calaway added, however, that the timing of any increase in lithium supply and demand was difficult to predict in large part because electric cars had yet to take off in any big way.
About 60 mining companies have begun feasibility studies in Argentina, Serbia and Nevada that could lead to more than $1 billion in new lithium projects in the next several years, while dozens of smaller projects are being proposed in China, Finland, Mexico and Canada.
The companies are competing for construction financing, and the future of most of the projects will depend on how popular electric cars eventually become. That is an open question since batteries remain expensive, recharging stations need to be developed, and consumer taste for cars that depend on regular stops at electric outlets remains untested.
“It’s moving so fast,” said Edward R. Anderson, president of TRU Group, a consultancy firm that specializes in the lithium industry. “There are a lot of people throwing money into this, and a lot of people are going to lose their money.”
In the meantime the four biggest current producers, which mine and otherwise gather lithium in Chile, Argentina and Australia, say they are planning to expand long-running projects as future demand warrants.
In Bolivia, which has almost half of the world’s reserves, the leftist government is building a pilot production plant and is drilling exploratory holes. That Bolivia is a remote, unstable country often hostile to foreign investment has helped spur interest in producing lithium in neighboring Argentina and Chile, in Australia, and in the United States. Several Canadian and American companies are making claims about future production prospects in Nevada, though few analysts foresee large-scale production from that state.
While most experts are skeptical that meaningful amounts of lithium can be produced domestically, they maintain that adequate supplies will be available from sources outside of Bolivia for many years to come and note that the biggest producer, Chile, is a dependable American ally.
Most of the lithium market serves a variety of industrial applications. About a quarter of all lithium produced is used for energy storage, in everything from cellphones to laptop computers to digital cameras.
That proportion stands to increase sharply if battery-powered cars take off. Lithium-ion batteries are the favored battery type for electric and hybrid vehicles because they carry more energy with less weight than other materials and because they lose their charge more slowly. They store about three times as much as energy per pound as a nickel-metal hybrid battery.
Lithium is found in trace amounts in many places, but it is being produced commercially mainly by two methods. One is through mining and processing, a relatively expensive method that produces the metal mostly for glass, ceramics and the manufacturing of television tubes.
The more economical and significant method is through evaporation of lithium-containing brines, mostly in salt flats in the highland areas in South America and western China. Lithium reservoirs have been formed over millions of years in highland bowls, after rivers and hot springs washed over lithium-laden rocks and leached the mineral from them. Producers drill wells into the salt flats and pump the brine into evaporation ponds. With the removal of water, the lithium content in the brine increases to a level where it can be collected and shipped to a chemical plant for processing.
The industry leader in this method of production is Sociedad Química y Minera, a Chilean fertilizer company in which the Potash Corporation, a Canadian fertilizer giant, holds a major stake. The other important producers in Latin America include FMC Corporation and Chemetall, a subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings, which also operates a small brine reserve in Nevada.
Recycling of lithium from used batteries could become an important source, in which case “the demand for virgin material would be reduced,” said R. Keith Evans, a geologist who serves as a consultant to lithium producers. Up to 50 percent of the lithium in used batteries may be recycled in the future.
But Mr. Evans added, “The big question is the timing of demand. Are you going to build a plant before a market has developed?”
By the standards of traditional gold and copper booms, the increase in interest in lithium is still muted among big mining companies. Supplies of lithium are plentiful for now, and the price of lithium chemicals actually declined at the end of last year because of the economic slowdown. The price for lithium carbonate, the basic lithium compound used in batteries, had been around $5,000 a ton for the last five years or so, and has leveled at about $4,000 since October.
But with several major auto companies promising to market electric cars around the world over the next few years, demand may be poised to increase. Nissan will introduce the Leaf, a five-passenger electric car, and General Motors will introduce the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid, within the next year.
“We believe that demand is slated to rise dramatically,” according to a recent report by the investment adviser Byron Capital Markets, predicting a 40 percent increase in demand for lithium from 2009 to 2014. Credit Suisse, in a recent report, predicted a 10.3 percent annual growth in demand for lithium between 2009 and 2020.
“You could probably go further out than that and see similar growth rates,” John P. McNulty, a co-author of the Credit Suisse report, said. “It’s going to be a big industry.”
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Some folks were blogging about the anthropic principle a little while back (see Bill's great entry here, for instance).
My problem with the anthropic principle is the implied determinism-- an assumed inevitability such that, if certain initial cosmic conditions and/or constants had varied by the smallest fraction, humanity would not have arisen.
I don't know anything technical about quantum indeterminacy, but it seems to me that, if the universe possesses an objectively indeterminate aspect, it'll be impossible to confirm the inevitability of human life.
Plus, there's this: if initial conditions had been different in the primordial cosmos, it's possible that other forms of intelligent life would have arisen and engaged, at some point in their history, in exactly this kind of speculation, marveling at how the universe seems to have been fine-tuned to produce them.
A while back, I wrote a piece titled "the brown chowder splats louder." A paragraph from that post, which uses feces to address some Buddhist issues, is relevant here:
Where do your ass-babies come from? I think it's obvious that crap isn't a self-creating, self-sustaining thing-in-itself. No: your warm, steaming offspring are a labor of love, the result of the concerted efforts of your desire to eat, the dutiful (doodieful) choreography of your digestive system, the culture/society that makes certain forms of food available to you, the world history that gave birth to that culture/society, the galactic history that gave rise to our world, and the cosmic history that gave rise to our galaxy. You, right now, sitting on the toilet, asshole puckered and about to utter that maternal chocolate scream, are an event that's been billions of years in the making.
There's nothing to stop us from applying the anthropic principle to more than human beings. If we assume that every phenomenon is both (spatiotemporally) unique and causally interconnected with other phenomena, then it should be obvious* that every moment contains events that could not have happened had previous conditions been otherwise.
If the anthropic principle can be so readily applied to all other phenomena, does it add anything to the discussion? Why not talk about a scatological principle**, or a urological principle***? Why not a saurian or ornithoid or xenomorphic**** principle? I don't think the anthropic principle holds any explanatory power. It assumes a cosmic determinism our sciences appear to be refuting, and is too readily applicable outside the anthropic realm. If creationists are looking for an argument for the existence of a creator (of humans), they'll need to look elsewhere.
[NB: The anthropic principle suffers the same problem as Intelligent Design Theory: there's no reason for classical theists to assume the Judeo-Christian God is behind all this. Both the AP and IDT could be taken to imply some sort of massive alien engineering... at which point our speculations are running up against Occam's Razor.]
* If you agree with the implied determinism of the anthropic principle, I mean.
** Perhaps the universe's crowning purpose is to produce human shit.
*** Or piss.
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Turboprop kitplane delivered to South Africa buyer
The two ferry pilots had just one goal after the day’s flight leg from Agadir al Massira, Morocco, to the island of Gran Canaria off Africa’s west coast: finding food.
But the hotel where Bob Jeffrey and David Robinson were billeted wasn’t on the main tourist beat, and nearby fast-food choices held little appeal.
They headed out to explore. In a half mile, they noticed a commotion up ahead.
“We were actually amazed at what we found,” Robinson wrote in a trip blog. “There was a street festival of all local foods and goods which only happens once every three years. There was traditional Spanish food, music, dancing, and lots of local people enjoying the festivities.”
So much for the notion that the pioneer days of aviation are over in the age of owner-built turboprops tracking satellite navigation signals.
Whether they were shedding ice in the flight levels or stumbling on a street festival in the Canary Islands, Jeffrey and Robinson cherish the memories of flying a newly completed Lancair Evolution turboprop single from Redmond, Ore., to Johannesburg, South Africa, where owner Arnold Pistorius waited to take delivery of his aircraft.
The pilots also staked a claim to a little bit of aviation history: The 24-day journey brought the first Lancair Evolution into Africa, Robinson said in a phone interview. And it marked the longest cross-country flown in the kitbuilt aircraft, he said.
The flight also made a good warm-up for their upcoming Evolution delivery flights to Russia and Brazil in 2013.
You need to redefine the term “cross-country” to convey precisely what the two partners in Elite Pilot Services of Bend and Redmond, Ore., accomplished between Oct. 23 and Nov. 16. Jeffrey flew the aircraft from Redmond to the east coast, then across the Atlantic Ocean, picking up Robinson at Biggin Hill Airport outside London, England. The pair flew on to Spain, and then down the African coast, landing 25 times in 18 countries, dodging thunderstorms, fleeing from ice in the flight levels—and sometimes, catching really good tailwinds.
The Evolution performed flawlessly, and there were “zero maintenance issues,” they said.
Before you order the databases and paper charts (they had both) for a similar mission, it might be prudent to note that Jeffrey and Robinson do this sort of thing for a living. They also train pilots in technically advanced aircraft, and provide transition instruction for the move up from piston power to turboprops. That was how they met Pistorius and began flying his aircraft, recently completed with the assistance of Redmond-based Composite Approach.
Still, there’s good news, if you find yourself motivated to consider buying and even building your very own turboprop: Robinson said that most pilots with some experience in a high-performance piston single are good candidates for upgrading to an aircraft like the four-place composite Evolution, that flies comfortably at 300 knots at flight levels in the mid-twenties.
“If someone has flown a Cessna 182 or a Columbia, there’s no problem transitioning,” Robinson said.
A ‘digital kit’
The 750-shaft-horsepower PT-6A-135A turbine engine-powered airplane is actually easier to fly than a piston aircraft because “there’s much less to operate,” Robinson said. The single power level makes cockpit life easy, but what challenges many transitioning pilots is speed, and having to adjust to thinking about descending from cruise as much as 80 miles from the destination.
On the subject of pioneering in aviation’s modern age, Lancair describes the aircraft as the first “digital kit” that is based on a software-aided design and constructed with tools and molds that came from the same digital files as the design elements. “Lancair’s core competency lies in carbon composite construction and aerodynamic efficiency, and when this is coupled with the power and reliability of the Pratt & Whitney PT-6 turboprop engine what emerges is an aircraft that is simply unmatched in the certified world,” the company says of the Evolution. Piston-powered Evolutions come with a 350-hp Lycoming engine.
At the conclusion of the flight at Lanseria Airport, in Johannesburg, South Arica, the two pilots had flown the Evolution a combined 13,195 nautical miles in 59.6 flight hours.
The last of the journey’s many adventures occurred on short final in Johannesburg, where Robinson fought off turbulence and wind shear ahead of approaching bad weather to make “his usual grease job” on landing, the blog said.
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Smart cards are perhaps the single largest application of embedded microcontrollers by volume. They are evolving from relatively simple single application chips to high capacity multi-application secure devices. The Mobile Segment is a key driver for new technology in the smart card market with the once humble SIM card becoming a true multi-application card. Since all GSM handsets carry SIM cards, it is a device primed for carrying: payment, ticketing, loyalty, physical access control and many more applications that require some level of offline secure functionality. Over-the-air provisioning of new applications is driving the need for additional processing power and storage.
ARM has developed the SecurCore range of processors to address the specific needs of secure chip designers looking to create tamper-resistant devices. Secure Elements can take many other forms than traditional smart cards and include Secure Micro SD cards, embedded secure elements and embedded SIMs for machine-to-machine communication
A number of ARM's silicon partners are investing in silicon development to pursue the Smart Card Market. The combination of ARM's business model and technology brings the following user benefits:
A spectrum of software-compatible solutions that cover a wide range of performance and security enables OEMs to utilize their software investment across a broad range of products - this improves the development cycles for the release of new platforms
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|Philippines Table of Contents
The Philippines is the world's second largest producer of coconut products, after Indonesia. In 1989 it produced 11.8 million tons. In 1989, coconut products, coconut oil, copra (dried coconut), and desiccated coconut accounted for approximately 6.7 percent of Philippine exports. About 25 percent of cultivated land was planted in coconut trees, and it is estimated that between 25 percent and 33 percent of the population was at least partly dependent on coconuts for their livelihood. Historically, the Southern Tagalog and Bicol regions of Luzon and the Eastern Visayas were the centers of coconut production. In the 1980s, Western Mindanao and Southern Mindanao also became important coconut-growing regions.
In the early 1990s, the average coconut farm was a medium-sized unit of less than four hectares. Owners, often absentee, customarily employed local peasants to collect coconuts rather than engage in tenancy relationships. The villagers were paid on a piece-rate basis. Those employed in the coconut industry tended to be less educated and older than the average person in the rural labor force and earned lower-than-average incomes.
Land devoted to cultivation of coconuts increased by about 6 percent per year during the 1960s and 1970s, a response to devaluations of the peso in 1962 and 1970 and increasing world demand. Responding to the world market, the Philippine government encouraged processing of copra domestically and provided investment incentives to increase the construction of coconut oil mills. The number of mills rose from twenty-eight in 1968 to sixty-two in 1979, creating substantial excess capacity. The situation was aggravated by declining yields because of the aging of coconut trees in some regions.
In 1973 the martial law regime merged all coconut-related, government operations within a single agency, the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA). The PCA was empowered to collect a levy of P0.55 per 100 kilograms on the sale of copra to be used to stabilize the domestic price of coconut-based consumer goods, particularly cooking oil. In 1974 the government created the Coconut Industry Development Fund (CIDF) to finance the development of a hybrid coconut tree. To finance the project, the levy was increased to P20.
Also in 1974, coconut planters, led by the Coconut Producers Federation (Cocofed), an organization of large planters, took control of the PCA governing board. In 1975 the PCA acquired a bank, renamed the United Coconut Planters Bank, to service the needs of coconut farmers, and the PCA director, Eduardo Cojuangco, a business associate of Marcos, became its president. Levies collected by the PCA were placed in the bank, initially interest-free. In 1978 the United Coconut Planters Bank was given legal authority to purchase coconut mills, ostensibly as a measure to cope with excess capacity in the industry. At the same time, mills not owned by coconut farmers--that is, Cocofed members or entities it controlled through the PCA--were denied subsidy payments to compensate for the price controls on coconut-based consumer products. By early 1980, it was reported in the Philippine press that the United Coconut Oil Mills, a PCA-owned firm, and its president, Cojuangco, controlled 80 percent of the Philippine oil-milling capacity. Minister of Defense Juan Ponce Enrile also exercised strong influence over the industry as chairman of both the United Coconut Planters Bank and United Coconut Oil Mills and honorary chairman of Cocofed. An industry composed of some 0.5 million farmers and 14,000 traders was, by the early 1980s, highly monopolized.
In principle, the coconut farmers were to be the beneficiaries of the levy, which between March 1977 and September 1981 stabilized at P76 per 100 kilograms. Contingent benefits included life insurance, educational scholarships, and a cooking oil subsidy, but few actually benefited. The aim of the replanting program, controlled by Cojuangco, was to replace aging coconut trees with a hybrid of a Malaysian dwarf and West African tall varieties. The new palms were to produce five times the weight per year of existing trees. The target of replanting 60,000 trees a year was not met. In 1983, 25 to 30 percent of coconut trees were estimated to be at least sixty years old; by 1988, the proportion had increased to between 35 and 40 percent.
When coconut prices began to fall in the early 1980s, pressure mounted to alter the structure of the industry. In 1985 the Philippine government agreed to dismantle the United Coconut Oil Mills as part of an agreement with the IMF to bail out the Philippine economy. Later a 1988 United States law requiring foods using tropical oils to be labeled indicating the saturated fat content had a negative impact on an already ailing industry and gave rise to protests from coconut growers that similar requirements were not levied on oils produced in temperate climates.
More about the Agriculture of the Philippines.
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Mali, once rich from gold, today is considered one of the world´s poorest countries with 90% of the population living on less than $2 dollars a day. Despite this, it has some of the warmest people. An estimated 90% of Malians are Muslim and almost 50% of the population are less than fifteen years old.
Its hard to understand how Africa´s third largest producer of gold has failed to benefit over the last 15 years in terms of industrialization, the job market, public finance or level of social expenditure. Direct foreign investment has enjoyed excellent returns through tax breaks while exercising little to no effective corporate social responsibility. A variety of factors are to blame for not bringing the people of Mali out of poverty. Child labor is common in all regions.
Mali is home to the Dogon people whose culture and traditions had largely gone unchanged until tourism. The Dogon are losing their younger generations at a rapid rate to seasonal work outside the community.
These photographs were taken while developing several works-in-progress on child labor, the Dogon country and Muslims in Mali prisons. The UN estimates the number of child laborers in the gold trade at 100,000 - 250,000 in West Africa. Mercury poisoning from gold refining and the loss of eyes to metal shavings in recycling plants are commonplace for many young children. The swelling population in prisons is explained by some Malians as - one´s fate is determined by Allah alone, regardless of state law. One of my works-in-progress is to examine this in contrast to inmates in the USA turning to Islam once incarcerated.
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The mass of Tamil women and children struggling to walk out of Sri Lanka's war zone were so emaciated that an aid worker thought he was seeing a horror movie.
Some of them had become so thin that their bones could be seen under the thin layer of fleshless skin. They were in bloodstained, dirty and torn clothes that had not been washed for several weeks.
Many had untreated festering wounds. Some were so sick that they could not stand on their feet. At the first opportunity, they collapsed on bare earth.
Barring a few who were willing to speak, most were too weak to even utter a few words. When they did, they had only one wish: water.
And they were famished. Most of them had not had a proper meal for a long time. Their eyes begged for food.
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The Bishops’ amendment asserts that the diocesan bishop will retain full authority over all parishes, even when he or she has delegated certain functions to an alternate bishop. At the same time, it makes clear that this alternate bishop functions in his own right, and not merely with delegated powers.
The Bishops’ second amendment concerns the Code of Conduct, which bishops will need to abide by when drawing up a scheme for any parish that makes a formal request for alternate provision in their diocese. The wording of the code cannot be finalised until after the draft Measure becomes law; but the amendment requires the code to ensure that “the exercise of ministry by those bishops and priests will be consistent with the theological convic-tions as to the consecration or ordination of women which prompted the issuing of the Letter of Request”....
A statement issued after the House of Bishops’ deliberations was unusual in making clear what they didn’t do as much as what they did. “The House rejected more far- reaching amendments that would have changed the legal basis on which bishops would exercise authority when ministering to parishes unable to receive the ministry of female bishops.”
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Image of the day: Robotic mechanic repairs satellite in space
Artist’s concept of a robot mechanic repairing or repurposing a satellite. (Image via DARPA)
The above image is an artistic concept of satellite repurposing put out by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In this new technological advancement, a robot would be able to reach a satellite in space and create new use for it.
Satellites today are not intended to be repaired, but DARPA’s Phoenix program is hoping to change that by repurposing retired satellites while they remain in orbit.
The technology being worked on could allow for flight robots that comprise arms, tool development, and adhesion capabilities, and easily conformable robot modules that would allow them to get the work done in space.
“Today, satellites are not built to be modified or repaired in space.” said Dave Barnhart, DARPA program manager. “Therefore, to enable an architecture that can re-use or re-purpose on-orbit components requires us to create new technologies and new capabilities.”
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Teachers, students, professors and parents assembled on the muddy lawn of the Capitol. They wore black T-shirts saying “save my education” and held signs with slogans like “what about my kids?” and “cuts hurt California’s future.” And they were fired up:
“They say cut back, we say fight back…..
Mee: “It’s really bad at community colleges. Getting into classes is absolutely ridiculous.”
Caitlin Mee is a student at two Sacramento-area community colleges.
She says she can’t get all of her classes at one school, so she’s going to two. Mee’s hoping to transfer to UC Davis soon. She’s so frustrated by the budget cuts and fee hikes at Universities that she’s decided not to pursue her chosen profession: education:
Mee: “I wanted to be a history teacher, teach maybe 8th grade. It’s not worth it. There’s no money in it. Nobody can get jobs as history professors and especially as teachers.”
“Today we make history, we’re going to let it shine….today, we make history….fade out”
Winston Lancaster is an Associate Professor at Sacramento State. He says the rally is making history:
Lancaster: “for the first time we have cooperation from every segment of education in the state, from the K-12, the community colleges and the UC’s.”
Cecil Canton is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Sacramento State. He’s also with the California Faculty Association. He says the crisis is unifying people in the education community in California – and around the nation:
Canton“now people are starting to wake up to the fact that it’s not just in their school district, it’s not just in their little college. It’s everywhere, it’s bigger.
California’s State Schools Chief says he expects a record number of layoff notices to go out to teachers this month. Governor Schwarzenegger met with higher education officials this week. He says he’s done everything he can for schools, given the state’s 20 billion dollar shortfall. However, he did promise officials that the first chunk of extra revenue that comes in would go toward Cal Grants, which help students pay for college. | <urn:uuid:99140e14-04d9-4a3c-b637-35b1f37f9271> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.capradio.org/articles/2010/03/04/rally-for-education-at-state-capitol | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959768 | 516 | 1.601563 | 2 |
By now, almost everyone who made the typical New Year's resolution has long since abandoned hope of getting lighter and stronger. Not so for the North American steel industry, which realized years ago that it must develop products that are lighter, stronger and more adaptable to the changing needs of a wide customer base.
Despite the global economic crisis, North American steel producers are still devoting millions of dollars to research into high-strength steels (HSS) as they attempt to regain market share lost to lighter metals like aluminum while at the same time making products stronger and safer for consumers.
"All of our divisions in Sweden and in the U.S. are pursuing high-strength steels in various products," said David Britten, president of SSAB North America Inc., Lisle, Ill., a unit of Sweden's Svenskt Stal AB (SSAB). "We see smaller niche opportunities in different market segments. We think there are more opportunities for growth in these markets."
Automakers who find themselves under increasingly stringent environmental regulations naturally are drawn to lighter, high-strength steels because they are more environmentally friendly. Less weight in the steel means higher payloads and improved mileage, and thus fewer trips and less vehicle wear and tear, among other environmental benefits.
"That's certainly part of it," Britten said. "People want to go green, if you will. People want to take advantage of those kinds of things. But there are financial benefits as well when it comes to life cycle. These products are stronger and last longer—they get nicked up, sure, but they don't have to be replaced as often."
SSAB has a long line of high-strength steel products it manufactures in Sweden and the United States, branded under names such as Amox, Docol, Domex, Hardox, Toolox and Weldox, each with different properties and chemistries that give them hardness, flexibility or other traits suited to various applications.
SSAB has added heat-treating operations to its plate mill in Mobile, Ala., and is learning to make some of those grades. The company is already experiencing success with customers who use the steels in such varied applications as crane booms, refuse trucks and some heavy equipment applications, Britten said.
"A lot of it is still in the developmental stage," he said. "We're learning to do a few of these things and seeing where they can be successful. A lot of customers are looking to do more with high-strength steels because of the environmental and financial benefits. It's an important niche and one where we see a lot of opportunity."
Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., also sees opportunity. The company has developed a new alloy known as Carpenter AerMet 340, which it says demonstrates high hardness, exceptional tensile strength, fracture toughness and yield strength. It has shown superior ductility to alloys of similar strength, the company said.
The new Carpenter grade, which can be used in a variety of automotive, racing, aerospace and defense applications, is already being used in applications in tubing, structural parts and components, driveshafts, springs, connecting rods and crank shafts.
Use of more high-strength steels regularly is associated with the U.S. automotive industry, where automakers and government regulations are seeking vehicles that are more fuel efficient but with improved crashworthiness.
"Advanced high-strength steels are in more and more demand," said Ron Hughes, manager of advanced engineering and product development at Severstal North America Inc., Dearborn, Mich. "The dual-phase steels and trip (transformation-induced plasticity) steels that we are using now not only are being employed to absorb energy in a crash, but to avoid penetration."
Hughes said that his company is the largest supplier of boron steels in North America. "We have been working with these kinds of steels for years," he said. "But in recent years, customers have been seeking better formability. Dual-phase steels were more formable than the high-strength low-alloy steels, and now the trip steels are more formable than dual phase. Now we're getting even more formability from heat stamping."
Environmentalists have applied pressure on the steel and automotive industries for the production of more environmentally friendly vehicles, Hughes said, but noted that the need for improved safety goes "hand in hand" with that. The U.S. government and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, for example, recently increased roof crush weight standards for vehicles. Government regulations are now moving to requiring roofs that can withstand 2½ times the vehicle weight, up from 1½ times previously, while insurance company standards are in the midst of increasing that requirement to four times their weight in rollover tests.
Jody Shaw, automotive marketing manager at the Troy, Mich., automotive unit of U.S. Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, said that although high-strength grades have been around for years, application opportunities are increasing. New vehicles now average about 150 pounds of high-strength steels apiece, up from only around 70 pounds as recently as 2007. "As we get more and more comfortable making these kinds of steels, we find more and more applications for them," he said. "Low-alloy steels have been very brittle. We are developing more high-strength steels that are not as brittle and, therefore, stronger and able to absorb energy better."
He believes that the development of high-strength steels, combined with the new, stiffer regulations for both crashworthiness and environmental friendliness, are opening the door to the use of more high-strength steels in automotive construction.
"I think you'll see it growing," he said. "We might be at somewhere between 10 and 15 percent usage in a body structure today. But I can see that with the way things are going it won't be too long before high-strength steels (comprise) 40 to 50 percent of a vehicle's body structure."
The North American steel industry is committed to expanding its work with automakers to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles that also will reduce dependence on foreign oil, the American Iron and Steel Institute, Washington, said. Research and development in high-strength steels is part of the plan.
Ronald Krupitzer, vice president of automotive applications for AISI's Steel Market Development Initiative, said the use of advanced high-strength steels offers significant benefits in cost, weight savings, improved safety, recyclability and life-cycle emissions for future vehicles. Recent work with automakers has demonstrated that high-strength steels available today can reduce a vehicle's structural weight by 25 percent.
The amount of steel in today's new vehicles represents about 60 percent of its total weight, he said. Research funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Energy Department is under way at the university level to develop future steels that promise additional savings. The future grades should be available for vehicles built around 2020, when the 35-mile-per-gallon standard is expected to be in effect.
In addition to mass savings, steel offers low total emissions associated with manufacturing and driving vehicles, Krupitzer added. This is measured by life-cycle assessment, an established method of accounting for all the emissions associated with products like automobiles. The relatively low emissions and energy content of steels, and their high recyclability compared with other automotive structural materials, offer the cleanest environmental solutions to future vehicles. SCOTT ROBERTSON | <urn:uuid:a6fde99b-37bf-43a2-a9d1-7bfa1420e350> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amm.com/Magazine/2507335/Market-Spotlight/Pricing/Pricing/StatCity.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962126 | 1,550 | 1.90625 | 2 |
There are numerous water filtration systems available today and are relatively inexpensive and simple to fit. With the water quality in Ireland constantly coming into question it is becoming more common for people to install a water filtration system to protect their family from harmful bacteria and chemicals often found in today’s water. Depending on the water problems or the individuals concerns on water quality, there is a water filtration system to suit all.
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In many areas, particularly in mountainous regions you may suffer from a low pH value and as a result this can cause corrosion in water pipes. A simple solution is the installation of a pH Correction Filter that adjusts the pH of acidic waters.
Inside the water filter you will find a substance called calcite, specially activated masses of calcium carbonate that slowly raise the pH of the water. Backwash happens periodically to maintain an optimum performance level. A chemical analysis of the water determines exactly how much is needed to neutralise the water. Signs that your water may have a low pH are a green / blue stain in baths and sinks and in cistern. | <urn:uuid:3da01b87-f49e-4850-be6f-428317d93b92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://midcorkpumpservices.ie/Water-Filtration.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939387 | 747 | 2.0625 | 2 |
CHAPTER XI. THE LAST STAGE OF THE CIVIL WAR
From Wallingford Henry marched north through central England, where towns and castles one after another fell into his hands. From Wallingford also, Eustace withdrew from his father, greatly angered by the truce which had been made, and went off to the east on an expedition of his own which looks much like a plundering raid. Rashly he laid waste the lands of St. Edmund, who was well known to be a fierce protector of his own and to have no hesitation at striking even a royal robber. Punishment quickly followed the offence. Within a week Eustace was smitten with madness and died on August 17, a new and terrible warning of the fate of the sacrilegious. This death changed the whole outlook for the future. Stephen had no more interest in continuing the war than to protect himself. His wife had now been dead for more than a year. His next son, William, had never looked forward to the crown, and had never been prominent in the struggle. He had been lately married to the heiress of the Earl of Surrey, and if he could be secured in the quiet and undisputed possession of this inheritance and of the lands which his father had granted him, and of the still broader lands in Normandy and England which had belonged to Stephen before he seized the crown, then the advantage might very well seem to the king, near the close of his stormy life, greater than any to be gained from the desperate struggle for the throne. The Archbishop of Canterbury, who had by some means returned to England, proposed peace, and undertook negotiations between the king and the duke, supported by Henry of Winchester. Henry of Anjou could well afford to wait. The delay before he could in this way obtain the crown would probably not be very long and would be amply compensated by a peaceful and undisputed succession, while in the meantime he could give himself entirely to the mission which, since he had landed in England, he had loudly proclaimed as his of putting an end to plundering and oppression. On November 6 the rivals met at Winchester to make peace, and the terms of their agreement were recited in a great council of the kingdom, probably the first which was in any sense a council of the whole kingdom that had met in nearly or quite fifteen years. First, the king formally recognized before the assembly the hereditary right of Henry to the kingdom of England. Then the duke formally agreed that Stephen should hold the throne so long as he should live; and king, and bishops, and barons bound themselves with an oath that on Stephen's death Henry should succeed peacefully and without any contradiction. It was also agreed under oath, that all possessions which had been seized by force should be restored to their rightful owners, and that all castles which had been erected since the death of Henry I should be destroyed, and the number of these was noted at the time as 1115, though a more credible statement gives the number as 375. The treaty between the two which had no doubt preceded these ceremonies in the council contained other provisions. Stephen promised to regard Henry as a son - possibly he formally adopted him - and to rule England by his advice. Henry promised that William should enjoy undisturbed all the possessions which he had obtained with his wife or from his father, and all his father's private inheritance in England and Normandy. Allegiance and homage were paid by Henry to Stephen as king and by William to Henry, and Henry's barons did homage to Stephen and Stephen's to Henry, with the usual reservation. The king's Flemish mercenaries were to be sent home, and order was to be established throughout the land, the king restoring to all their rights and resuming himself those which had been usurped during the disorders of civil strife.
This programme began at once to be carried out. The war came to an end. The "adulterine" castles were destroyed, not quite so rapidly as Henry desired, but still with some energy. The unprincipled baron, friend of neither side and enemy of all his neighbours, deprived of his opportunity by the union of the two contending parties, was quickly reduced to order, and we hear no more of the feudal anarchy from which the defenceless had suffered so much during these years. Henry and Stephen met again at Oxford in January, 1154; they journeyed together to Dover, but as they were returning, Henry learned of a conspiracy against his life among Stephen's Flemish followers, some of whom must still have remained in England, and thought it best to retire to Normandy, where he began the resumption of the ducal domains with which his father had been obliged to part in the time of his weakness. Stephen went on with the work of restoration in England, but not for long. The new day of peace and strong government was not for him. On October 25, 1154, he died at Dover, "and was buried where his wife and his son were buried, at Faversham, the monastery which they had founded." | <urn:uuid:ca337d73-df09-4892-bc94-cf7426a27408> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://historion.net/history-england-norman-conquest-death-john-1066-1216/chapter-xi-last-stage-civil-war?page=9&quicktabs_1=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.994057 | 1,036 | 2.671875 | 3 |
CHESAPEAKE, Va. - Seventy-seven-year-old fisherman James Phelps told police yesterday his 17-foot fishing skiff was sunk by a passing barge here on the Elizabeth River. He reported the accident to police at 8:45 a.m. yesterday, according to a PilotOnline report (The Virginian-Pilot), and it's currently under investigation by the Coast Guard and Virginia Marine Police.
The 1,000-hp tug Albert Pike, which was pushing the 120' barge, helped with Phelps' rescue after he was thrown into the water, but the Pike crew doesn't believe it hit the man's boat. The 59'x20' Pike is owned by Skanska USA Civil Southeast, and was originally built in Portsmouth, N.H., at Adams Shipyard in 1958.
A samaritan, who helped with Phelps' rescue, confirmed his accounting of the accident, but police have yet to find the sunken boat and can't confirm a collision until they find a sunken boat. In an interview with the Pilot, Phelps said he is a retired Navy petty officer first class, and didn't have time to start his engine to get out of the way of the barge's wake: "The wave just filled my boat up, and it went down," he said. "I couldn't do anything about it." | <urn:uuid:a9605d4b-3c5d-47df-a710-b9929ec03d99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.workboat.com/Online-Features/2012/Did-barge-sink-man-s-fishing-boat-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987051 | 281 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Devoted wine drinkers know Australian wines grew popular in the 1990s and into the new century. Throughout the 1990s and until 2007, Australian wines rapidly expanded in sales in the United States and England as both "critter wines" - so called because of the illustrations of animals prominently featured on labels - and higher end-Aussie wines became trendy and good values. Consumer preferences for fruit-forward, earlier drinking wines also played to the strengths of wines from the Land Down Under. By 2008, Yellow Tail was exporting almost 8 million cases annually to the United States. Other large industrial wineries, such as Jacob’s Creek and Rosemount, experienced significant growth, too. However, beginning in 2007, Australian wine exports began to decline and went into a steep slump. As low price imports from South America, South Africa and other parts of the world created a global wine glut and the U.S. dollar declined in value, American consumers turned to alternative wines. Some wine analysts believe palate fatigue was also a factor as consumers, tired of big fruit bombs, perceived all Aussie wines to be simply generic copies of each other. As any product becomes homogenized and loses its uniqueness, it’s a commodity and low price becomes a dominant factor. Customers rapidly shift to lower-priced alternatives, and the wine market has always been fickle. Consequently, one might argue the success of the Australian wine industry from 1990 to 2007 created the foundation of its recent sales decline. I’ve always believed any wine that attracts and introduces consumers to the pleasures and joys of wine is a good thing. Kudos to the commercial wines of Australia if they attracted Yanks to vino. Nevertheless, it isn’t surprising that once attracted to wine, consumers became more adventurous and gravitated to captivating wines from Italy, Spain, France, and Portugal. That’s evolution at its finest. However, to view Australian wine only from the perspective of mass-marketed wines presents too limited a picture. One misses that Australia has an abundance of boutique winemakers and artisans capable of crafting fabulous wines in contrast to high volume products. High quality, distinct Australian wines exist and merit attention. In recent years, predictions for Australia’s success shifted to artisan wines, although their sales have also taken a hit. In the future, we’ll see better marketing of Australia’s quality wines. As evidence of that, I recently attended a wine tasting featuring wines from Old Bridge Cellars. This importer emphasizes regional terroirs and what one wine writer described as "finesse-driven winemaking," a term that most aptly captures the essence of wines I love. Old Bridge’s mission is "the promotion of Australia's 'real wines,' championing those winemakers who give everything in their pursuit of truly distinctive, regionally defined styles that sit comfortably with the world's best." If the tasting I attended was representative of that purpose, they are succeeding admirably. Here’s what I enjoyed and recommend you try, too. Let’s start with a tasty white. Brokenwood 2010 Semillon ($20) from the Hunter Valley is a tantalizingly smooth, well-made white that should appeal to sauvignon blanc drinkers. It beautifully accentuates apple and citrus fruit, while combining excellent acidity in a superbly integrated wine. Mark P. VincentJohn Duval oversaw the production of Penfolds Grange (currently selling for more than $400 a bottle) until he left Penfolds in 2003 to start his own winery. 2009 John Duval SGM Plexus ($37) is a delightfully well-balanced offering - a term used in the most devout religious sense here - made from shiraz (48 percent), grenache (21 percent) and mourvedre. Everything about this wine is heavenly, from its delectable red and black fruit flavors mingled with spices to the impact of subtle oak flavors. D’Arenberg 2009 "Footbolt" ($18) is an affordable, yet impressive wine with surprisingly smooth mouthfeel and a delicious blend of fruit and spice flavors. Named after a race horse that earned the D’Arenberg family large sums of money partly used to fund their wine business, this wine is a genuine winner as well. D’Arenberg 2008 "The Dead Arm" Shiraz ($65) is an incredibly well-made wine for more serious occasions. Before you write off Australian wine, give these a try. You’ll be glad you did, Mate. Enjoy. Mark P. Vincent is a Shrewsbury, Mass. resident who has a passion for wine. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:4b1e53c0-b9da-4626-b7a5-19fb4fe2f783> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thekansan.com/article/20121025/NEWS/121029461/1015/LIFESTYLE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960406 | 967 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time’s noblest offspring is the last.
George Berkeley, 1726
And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893
, in William C. Davis’ book The American Frontier, with a photograph of two Native Americans in full dress playing ping-pong in front of a small group of cowboys and Indians, all likely on their day off. This was part of the cast of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and the year was 1902. “By then,” the text reads, “most people knew the score.” Indeed.
Following his death, Abraham Lincoln had been carted around the country in a special railway compartment named for him by the Union Pacific Railroad company. Before being laid to rest, his corpse was trotted from city to city so that the bereft and the bereaved could pay tribute to the man who had done so much for his country. It had been a sudden passing, in 1865.
There was something of the same memorial spirit, I think, behind Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven. The West and the Western had both died abruptly, too. Yet Unforgiven lives on. Fifteen years on, its power has not diminished, but increased with age. It has not mellowed, but ripened.
Unforgiven is a movie about endings. An autumnal movie. If the Western, as the actor Robert Duvall says, is “our story,” our national mythology, then discussing Unforgiven may help us understand ourselves. The Western genre “died” a century after the American frontier did, but their passings reflect each other. Eastwood’s greatest film is concerned about the dissolution of both.
I understand Unforgiven to be an Apocalypse Book along the lines of St. John’s Revelation and kin also to the Buddhist Sutta Pitaka, the Hindu Kali Yuga, the Islamic account of the Day of Reckoning, or Judaism’s acharit hayamim. The prime business of this movie is eschatology.
Unforgiven is set in the 1880s; the story of William Munny (Eastwood), once a vicious, violent killer made worse by whiskey. The plot is as follows: A prostitute is cut up by cowboys in the whorehouse of Big Whiskey, Wyoming. The town sheriff and strong man, Little Bill (Gene Hackman), goes soft on the toughs and gives them a pittance of a whipping. He then releases them. In response, the bordello pools its money and puts out a thousand-dollar contract on the knifemen. This reward attracts the interest of the West’s diminishing pool of gunfighters, notably English Bob (Richard Harris), a rising star of the pulp magazines that have already begun to turn the Great West from dying reality into living myth. The sole member of Bob’s entourage consists of such an undertaker: his chronicler and publicist, a Eastern scribbler named Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek), a writer of lurid paperback Westerns with titles like The Duke of Death.
Neither Briton, book, nor bounty, sit well with Little Bill, who administers to Bob the third of the several terrifying beatings administered during the course of the film. In effect, Hackman’s character is dealing with a fellow competitor in the field of gentrification; the Englishman’s working-over comes from his violating two of Little Bill’s civilizing rules; one written (no guns in town) and one unwritten (no “scum” or “bad types”).
Little Bill’s laws present a rebuke to the West’s chief characteristic; what the historian Turner called “the outer edge of the wave—the meeting point between savagery and civilization.” Part of Turner’s thesis was that the frontier was the pressure-valve in American society—where people like William Munny could go: “As has been indicated, the frontier is productive of individualism. Complex society is precipitated by the wilderness into a kind of primitive organization based on the family. The tendency is anti-social. It produces antipathy to control, and particularly to any direct control. The tax-gatherer is viewed as a representative of oppression.” Anti-social. The Western movies of mid-century Hollywood seem eminently social, in retrospect. What would the men of The Magnificent Seven say to such a professorial rebuke?
But Unforgiven is a revisionist epic. So Munny has used this opportunity to become a violent murderer and a lousy herder of swine; Little Bill uses his rules as a mask for his psychopathy and power-hunger. In Eastwood’s Wyoming, freedom’s made bad men; but civilization makes worse. Hackman’s rule over Big Whiskey gets a dexterous metaphor of its own: Outside the settlement, Little Bill is building, with his own hands, his dream house; a house where, we are told, no angle is straight—“crooked timber,” truly.
Despite Bill’s throttling of English Bob, word gets out about the reward, which brings The Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett), braggart man-child, to Munny’s door. Munny, we’re told in the prologue (reminiscent of She Wore A Yellow Ribbon), was cured of drinking and wicked ways by his wife, who died and left him with two children, three years before our story begins. Having turned his back on violence, like the hero of Shane, he is called to resume his craft.
After debating and assuring himself he’s no longer a “bad man” (“I’m just a fella now.”)—a sentiment he will repeat ad nauseam for the rest of the film, trying to convince himself of something he knows not to be true—he recruits his old partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and, together with The Kid, go to Big Whiskey to discuss the reward. Freeman and Woolvett visit the upstairs bordello, leaving Eastwood, shivering with rain chills, alone in the first-story bar. Fever-ridden Munny, now apparently a pacific man, is discovered to have a gun and is beaten up horribly by Little Bill. Rescued, he has a vision of the Angel of Death and, after several days near death, is healed and sewn up by Logan. Recuperated, Munny and company pursue the cattlemen. With the elderly Logan now psychologically unable to murder and The Kid too nearsighted, it falls upon Munny to kill the offender. He does so. Logan leaves the group, vowing to meet Munny later; instead, he is caught by Little Bill’s posse. Whipped by Bill for information, he dies. Meanwhile, the Kid and Munny find the second cutter.
The Kid kills him; his subsequent emotional breakdown puts a lie to his claims that he’s a “damn killer.” Munny begins drinking again during these scenes. Meeting a prostitute with the reward outside Big Whiskey, Munny and the Kid find out about Logan’s death and Little Bill’s displaying of Ned’s body outside of Greeley’s tavern. We then hear the full extent of Munny’s past; he’s killed many, many people, including women and children. Eastwood, planning to seek vengeance, orders the Kid to go home and begins to empty a whiskey bottle down his throat.
That evening, Munny, fully transfigured now into the Angel of Death of his vision, rides into town in the rain on a pale horse and kills Little Bill and five other men. Riding out, he warns the cowering townspeople to “give Ned a decent burial” and not to “cut up any more whores” or he’ll kill them all. A man with Munny in his gunsight is unable to shoot. The movie then ends, with the epilogue suggesting that Munny and his family went West to San Francisco, where “it was rumored he prospered in dry goods.” We are left with the same shot of Munny’s house, tree, and wife’s graveyard that opened the film.
What is this movie about?
My thesis is this: I think most myths are incomplete without an ending. Arthur goes to Avalon. Robin Hood shoots an arrow to mark his grave site. Davy Crockett dies at the Alamo. Like Ragnarok was to Norse myth, Unforgiven is to the Western; the “end myth.” It was made in 1992, long after Americans had chosen Star Wars, sci-fi, action, and urban noir as their preferred entertainments. It was Eastwood’s goodbye to the genre that’d made him.
And because it’s the end of the Western, its subject matter was necessarily an elegy on the West and simultaneously a “true history” of the American frontier: nobody is what they seem; deception is everywhere; morality is not black and white; killing scars you in every way; justice is either too light or too extreme; the West was full not only of individualist pioneers, but sociopaths; good men are sometimes bad men and vice versa. Demystification could be the word for it; “revisionist”—already used above— is another. Unforgiven is in part a fulfillment of the trend began by movies like Shane, Little Big Man, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and, to some extent, High Noon and The Searchers. Impressive as that pedigree is, however, Eastwood’s movie has a self-consciousness none of its progenitors can match. Some of the best speeches in the film come from Little Bill’s explanation to the pulp writer Beauchamp of the way the West really was; no, not that way, this way. Again, deception: Munny isn’t a farmer but a natural killer; the Schofield Kid is a liar; Little Bill is a bully, English Bob is a fraud who kills unarmed men.
“Where” is the film historically? Unforgiven is set in the weeks and days before and after September 18, 1881 (the date President Garfield died; we see the newspapers with this headline during the railway car scene). Why? Because this is when the west died; as a famous author once put it: “when they [historians] begin working on your biography, it’s like someone chiseling your tombstone.” Two years later, in 1883, Buffalo Bill would found his Wild West show, featuring real cowboys and Indians. 1883 was also the year Civil War general William T. Sherman said “I now regard the Indians as substantially eliminated from the problem of the army.” Almost every Native American tribe—teeming an estimated 300,000 in 1845—had been relocated to a reservation.
Eight years after that, on January 19, 1891, the whole Sioux nation—the last true holdouts—surrendered formally to the United States, ending 400 years of off-and-on racial warfare. Other Plains inhabitants had fared just as poorly; by 1890 there were an estimated 750 bison left alive, down from an estimated herd of 60 to 100 million 40 years earlier. A year before that, the 1890 bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census would report “Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.”
It was this report that inspired Turner’s paper. The fact was amazing. The frontier had always been a fluid concept; initially, it was any land more than 100 miles from the eastern seaboard. Jefferson Davis and Lincoln were considered “Western men.” But what we think of today as the true frontier, the “West,” the Wild West, once called the “Great Desert”—2.5 million square miles of wilderness, 700 miles of plains and arid steppes, dominated by mountains that trumped the Alps—that West, was done and finished in about 77 years: conquered by McCormick’s horse-drawn reaper (patented 1834), Deere’s clod-breaking sleek steel plow (c. 1837), and Morse’s telegraph (1844), but most of all by the Transcontinental Railroad. When the last, gold spike was driven in on May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah, they had it hooked up with telegraph wires so the hammered pulse could transmit its own news like a nervous shock to both coasts. They might as well have sent an earthquake.
It’s appropriate, in a way, that Lincoln serves as the opening to this essay, for reasons other than the news of another murdered president opens Unforgiven. 1865, after all, was also the year America’s vast energies, no longer sapped by war, turned to the frontier. The martyr himself had made it possible. Lincoln had signed the—literally—groundbreaking Homestead Act on May 20, 1862, finishing a political effort that dated back to 1844, partially the result of Horace “Go west, young man” Greeley.
The Homestead Act opened that West to white settlers—by the end of century, some 600,000 farmers had received clear title to about 80 million acres of public lands. Life in the middle of death—for this was the postbellum age, as Lewis Mumford wrote in The Brown Decades: “Dead men were everywhere. They were present in memory; their portraits stoically gathered dust in empty parlours; they even retained possession of their bodies and walked about the streets; they spoiled gaiety, or rather, they drove it to fevers of license and distraction.” But in the North, 900,000 immigrants were replacing the war dead. Even the South, which had lost a quarter of its white male population, was full of movement: veterans returning home, freedmen roaming, Union soldiers on patrol.
It is this mixing of the quick and the dead that is at the heart of Unforgiven—a funeral cortege and eulogy for the Western and by extension, the West, that is unafraid to show its subject for what it is. Unforgiven is a Western that rebukes Westerns—not only their glibness, but their moral simplicity, their glossing over of history, their shallowness and embrace of easy killing and violence as solution. William Munny may very well threaten the townspeople of Big Whiskey with fire and death if they don’t take down Ned’s corpse from its humiliating public display, but his real-life counterpart Eastwood is doing just the same thing; only with an idea, not a man. If Unforgiven does an especially good job of both celebrating and castigating the West and the Western, if it displays its wares too well, if it takes a dour page from Buffalo Bill—or if we find this practice too odd, we might take counsel from the example English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who thought all corpses should be flayed, then publicly displayed (and whose mummified corpse is on display at the University College, London); who, in his own will, asked his executor, Dr. Smith, to
. . . take my body under his charge and take the requisite and appropriate measures for the disposal and preservation of the several parts of my bodily frame . . . The skeleton he will cause to be put together in such a manner as that the whole figure may be seated in a chair usually occupied by me when living . . . The body so clothed . . . he will take charge of and for containing the whole apparatus he will cause to be prepared an appropriate box or case . . . my executor will from time to time cause to be conveyed to the room in which they meet the said box or case with the contents therein to be stationed in such part of the room as to the assembled company shall seem meet.
“There was nothing on the stone to explain to Mrs. Feathers why her only daughter had married a known thief and murderer, a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.” So the epilogue of Unforgiven tells us. To watch this movie is to also visit a grave, and see that Eastwood has taken Bentham’s advice. We, too, have had a strange romance. | <urn:uuid:d3fbe22b-74de-4e54-9ac2-343bc53fc661> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://metaphilm.com/index.php/main/detail/unforgiven/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966672 | 3,611 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Thompson, John Vaughan (DNB00)
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THOMPSON, JOHN VAUGHAN (1779–1847), zoologist, was born on 19 Nov. 1779, and when a youth lived at Berwick-on-Tweed, where he learnt medicine and surgery. At the age of twenty Thompson joined the Prince of Wales's fencibles as assistant surgeon, and on 15 Dec. 1799 was ordered to sail with the 37th foot for Gibraltar. Three months later his regiment embarked for the West Indies and Guiana, to take part in the war against the Dutch, and in the engagements that followed Thompson was present (as staff-surgeon) at the taking of Demerara and Berbice, and was made full surgeon in 1803. In 1807 he pub- lished a ‘Catalogue of Plants growing in the vicinity of Berwick-on-Tweed.’ While in the military service he interested himself in zoological work. During his nine years' service in the West Indies he described in 1809 a new pouched-rat from Jamaica, Mus anomalus (Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. 1815), while he observed and was the first to explain the habit of land-crabs in going down to the sea to spawn, and the changes of form which the young crab undergoes during development.
At the close of 1809 Thompson returned to England, and on 6 Feb. 1810 was elected to the fellowship of the Linnean Society, in whose ‘Transactions’ (1808, vol. ix.) his observations on certain British birds had already been published. In 1812 Thompson sailed for Madagascar and the Mauritius, where he spent four years. He was deputed to introduce vaccine into Madagascar for two successive years, and devoted a considerable part of the remainder of the time to an examination of the famous extinct Mascarene birds. His observations on the dodo appeared in the ‘Magazine of Natural History’ for 1829.
After his return in 1816 Thompson settled at Cork as district medical inspector, and completed those wonderful discoveries of the life-histories of the marine invertebrata of the Cove of Cork, which made his name famous. In 1830 he was appointed deputy inspector-general, and in 1835 he went to Sydney in charge of the convict medical department and as acting officer of health. He remained in New South Wales until his death at Sydney on 21 Jan. 1847.
Vaughan Thompson has secured a permanent place in zoological literature through his discoveries of the nature and life-histories of the feather-star (Antedon, belonging to the Crinoid echinodermata), the polyzoa, the cirripedes (or barnacles), and several divisions of the crustacea. Our present conceptions of the structure of these forms, of their zoological position, and of the metamorphoses which they undergo, date from Thompson's papers.
The first of these, ‘A Memoir on Pentacrinus Europæus, a recent species discovered in the Cove of Cork’ (1 July 1823, Cork, 4to, 2 plates), announced the presence of a stalked crinoid in our seas; the discovery that the crinoidea were truly ‘radiata,’ and that (as was shown more fully by a second paper in the ‘Edinburgh New Philosophical Transactions,’ 1836) this pentacrinus was really the young stage of antedon, the feather-star. These startling conclusions drew the attention of zoologists in France, Germany, and elsewhere to Thompson's work, and many of his succeeding papers were translated or abstracted into scientific journals abroad.
In September 1828 there appeared the first number of Thompson's ‘Zoological Researches,’ published at Cork, containing an account of the life-history of the shore-crab. With the exception of Slabber, who published some observations on the subject at Haarlem in 1778, Thompson was the first to point out that, contrary to the received opinion, the crab passes through such a remarkable series of changes of form and structure in attaining the adult condition as to constitute a veritable metamorphosis. The greater part of the remainder of Thompson's work, of which six numbers appeared between 1828 and 1834, consisted in the detection of the metamorphosis in other groups of the crustacea.
His third discovery was the nature and life-histories of barnacles (Zool. Researches, No. iii., 1830, and Phil. Trans. 1835). Up to 1830 these animals, chiefly owing to Cuvier's influence, had been classed with the mollusca. Thompson showed that from their structure, and the nature and fate of their larvæ, the cirripedes must be considered to form a division of the crustacea.
The last of Thompson's more important discoveries was that of ‘Polyzoa, a new Animal discovered as an Inhabitant of some zoophytes’ (Zool. Researches, No. iv., Memoir v., December 1830). This paper demonstrated ‘another form of animal not hitherto known, and which, while it must be allowed to belong to a new type of mollusca acephala, resembles exteriorly in some measure the hydra.’ ‘This discovery will remove that part of the sertularia not provided with distinct oviferous receptacles to the class mollusca acephala, as well as such other genera as may hereafter be found similarly circumstanced.’ These and other passages clearly show that Thompson used the term ‘polyzoa’ as the name of a colonial animal exhibiting a distinct type of structure and hitherto confounded with hydroid polypes (for the discussion of Thompson's meaning of polyzoa see Hinck's British Marine Polyzoa, i. 131).
There is no complete list of Vaughan Thompson's works. Papers contributed by him to learned societies are to be found in the Royal Society's ‘Catalogue’ (v. 958–9). Besides an important paper (Entomol. Mag. 1836) containing a large number of observations on Sacculina, a parasite of crabs, on land crabs, and other crustacea, Thompson evidently wrote, but never published, works on the development of parasitic copepoda, since he announced several discoveries in the covers of his ‘Zoological Researches.’ His last papers dealt with the growing of cotton and sugar-cane (India Agric. Soc. Journal, 1842–5, vols. i–iv.)
Vaughan Thompson's work has not been fully appreciated. Probably no naturalist has ever written so little, and that so good. In his lifetime the discoveries Thompson made were combated by men of authority, and since his death they have too often been accepted without due acknowledgment or have been attributed to later observers.[Information from the War Office; Professor Ray Lankester's article ‘Zoology’ in the Encycl. Brit.; letters from Dr. James Hardy of Oldcambus, N.B.] | <urn:uuid:f90c127f-e521-4397-9570-b38af18f20ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thompson,_John_Vaughan_(DNB00) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96427 | 1,540 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The Ministry of Tourism has a scheme for granting approval to hotel projects from the point of view of this suitability for international tourists. A classification committee set up by the Ministry classifies the functioning hotels under the star system into six categories from star one to five star deluxe. Similarly, the Ministry has a scheme of approving Travel Agents, Tour Operators, Adventure Tour Operators and Tourist Transport Operators, the idea being to encourage quality, standard and service in these categories so as to promote Tourism in India.This is a voluntary scheme open to all bonafide agencies.
A Travel Agent is one who makes arrangements of tickets for travel by air, rail, ship, passport, visa, etc. It may also arrange accommodation, tours, entertainment and other tourism related services.
Inbound Tour Operators
An Inbound tour operator is one who makes arrangements for transport, accommodation, sight seeing, entertainment and other tourism related services for foreign tourists
Tourist Transport Operators
A Tourist Transport Operator Organization is one, who provides tourist transport like cars, coaches, boats etc. to tourists for transfers, sightseeing and journeys to tourist places etc.
Adventure Tour Operators
An Adventure Tour Operator is one who is engaged in activities related to Adventure Tourism in India namely, water sports, aero sports, mountaineering, trekking and safaries of various kinds, etc. In addition to that he may also make arrangements for transport, accommodation, etc.
Domestic Tour Operators
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This wasn't just any box. It was a Tzedakah box. And it belonged to 5-year-old philanthropist Zofia Kirshbaum.
UCI Nursing Program's youngest donor
Before the Jewish Sabbath, Zofia would pass the special box around for charitable donations. Zofia’s parents, in keeping with the Jewish imperative to heal the world through good deeds, would fill it with coins and bills.
Zofia’s Tzedakah box, in many ways, embodies the values her parents have tirelessly instilled in her: compassion, the importance of family and a responsibility to help the needy.
These are the very values practiced everyday at UC Irvine Health Affairs, the recipient of Zofia’s largesse and where she and her younger sister Temma were born by emergency C-section. At UC Irvine, physicians provide compassionate care, while nurses treat patients like loved ones, alleviating their suffering with hugs, smiles and extra pillows.
So committed is Zofia to UC Irvine and its vision of nursing the sick to health that she has asked her parents, friends and other loved ones to skip birthday toys and instead to make donations on her behalf to the university.
To date, one of UC Irvine’s youngest supporters has contributed $1,800 to a nurse’s fund to purchase clothes, toys and other items for abandoned and underprivileged babies.
“She’s a wonderful role model,” said Gail Devaney, director of women’s and children’s services for nursing administration.
Breaking into a smile, Zofia says: “When I grow up, I want to be a nurse at UC Irvine and help people.”
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microarray - principals of microarray and its applications (Oct/24/2004 )
I'm Sharon currently doing my degree program.
I have difficulties in understanding the theory and application behind microarray.
So, anyone can help me with these so that I can get started with my project.
Now that's a brodad question. Basically a microarray is a slide containing tightly spotted substrate, often cDNA.
A labelled probe (or mixture) is added to it and after washing hybridization signals are monitored. That's the basis. For applications:
one of the most often used technique is to analyze whole genome expression profiles.
For this cDNAs containing all known genes are spotted on the slide. Then mRNA of the test organism for instance grown under two different conditions (or mutant vs WT) is isolated and labelled (each with own dye, e.g. Cy3 and Cy5) and then hybridized on the slide. After washing first the itensity of probe 1 is measured, then itensity of probe 2. The ratio of expression can then be calculated (after data normalization) and one can identify genes that are differentially expressed under given conditions.
This is just a rough example, but basically anything that normal hybridization assays can show can also be realized in an array experiment.
I recommend checking pubmed for microarray reviews. There are quite a few out there.
You may find helpful info at
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Google Search is known to test new features on random unsuspecting users. At any point of time, there are probably several different versions of its search page floating around. The latest feature that has been spotted in the wild is “Quick View” for mobile search results.
Google has been offering the Quick View option for documents (PPT, PDF etc.) for quite some time. Now, it’s toying with the idea of introducing Quick View for websites. Wissam Dandan spotted that Google is displaying a Quick View link in the search results page for Wikipedia pages. Tapping on the link opens up the mobile version of Wikipedia.
Currently this feature seems to be limited only to Wikipedia. However, there’s no reason why Google couldn’t expand this feature to include all webpages. It can either attempt to load the mobile website whenever possible, or load a stripped down version (sort of like Readability mode) of the webpage. Right now this feature doesn’t really make much of a difference; however, I like the concept. Hopefully, Google will expand the feature and roll it out to all mobile users in the future. | <urn:uuid:dcedb687-5925-482c-9800-8e3e6463b0c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/google-mobile-quick-view.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930583 | 237 | 1.5 | 2 |
Political honeymoons are strange affairs of very diverse lengths. Tony Blair's lasted virtually his entire first term, and then some. Barack Obama's was pretty short before he was plunged into the maelstrom of finance and health reform. The new Cameron-Clegg coalition enjoyed a good press conference in the No. 10 garden, and must then have wondered where its honeymoon went as 'senior' Tory backbenchers (well, Chris Chope anyway) on one side, constitutional experts such as the admirable Professor Hennessy on the other, and rejected suitor Lord Adonis on yet another, all honed in on the proposed change to parliamentary dissolution arrangements. This is yet to be debated, and there is hopefuly room for manouevre, although the key element of the change - the removal of the Prime Minister's right of choice over election dates - is to be welcomed. It is the 55% requirement in the Commons for a dissolution of a government to occur that is causing headaches. The angst over 55% may be over-stated, at least in terms of praticalities. The last time a vote of no confidence succeeded was 1979, where Margaret Thatcher famously forced Callaghan to call an election as a result of a one vote majority in the Commons. But Callaghan was pretty well at the end of Labour's term anyway, and would have had to have an election by the end of the year in any case. Before that vote, you'd have to go back to the 1924 vote against the minority Conservative government, which was passed by well over 55% of MPs.
There is, incidentally, some honeymoon joy for the coalition - although it is mixed. UK Polling Report indicates a 60% approval for the new government. Alas, 28% think it will last less than a year! | <urn:uuid:8434a925-c54c-4222-a7fc-febe3a3680a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sgspolitics.blogspot.com/2010/05/coalition-honeymoon.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97242 | 369 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Women throughout the world who are struggling for recognition, participation in the political process –and freedom in general– they are the new suffragists. Someone to be acknowledged in this area is Ida Lichter, a psychiatrist who lives in Sydney, Australia. Her recent book, Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression, is a carefully researched and illuminating account of what Ida calls “the new suffragists” of today. I highly recommend it.
In a recent email exchange, Ida and I discussed the link between the U.S. suffrage movement and the “new suffragists.” Ida said: “Although there are different campaigns for equal rights in a variety of Muslim countries, I was struck by the passion, courage and determination of many women reformers to achieve equality with men by focusing on the injustice of discriminatory laws. They utilize scholarly exegesis to unmask the egalitarianism they believe to be inherent in the Koran but expunged by a patriarchal, tribal reading. Like the suffragists, they aim to achieve enfranchisement and equal rights, and many women, particularly in Iran, have taken part in well-organized peaceful protests and a One Million Signatures Campaign, risking injury, arrest and detention. They also want an end to the infantilization and idealization that characterized misogyny in the West for centuries and is still prevalent in many Muslim societies. In their quest, they embrace a historic revision of the patriarchy and a new definition of Muslim women by women.”
Ida is on Twitter and I’ve been following her recent posts so that our rich history and tradition can be linked to those struggling in the world today. It’s possible to offer much-needed support inspired by the “Spirit of 1776.” | <urn:uuid:c04122fa-054f-4893-b400-e477ca01155f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://suffragewagon.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/who-are-the-new-suffragists-today/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=1630920375 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955636 | 373 | 2.65625 | 3 |
During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates. Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman are professors of statistics at Stanford University. They are prominent researchers in this area: Hastie and Tibshirani developed generalized additive models and wrote a popular book of that title. Hastie co-developed much of the statistical modeling software and environment in R/S-PLUS and invented principal curves and surfaces. Tibshirani proposed the lasso and is co-author of the very successful An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Friedman is the co-inventor of many data-mining tools including CART, MARS, projection pursuit and gradient boosting. | <urn:uuid:2dedfcb3-b5d3-450d-8ad9-282cdc8e7f8a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.booksamillion.com/product/9780387848570 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94999 | 402 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Be True to Your School Readers respond to "Go Big Green"
Our November/December 2007 cover story on environmentally friendly campuses drew nationwide attention and plenty of letters from readers, who showed their school spirit by writing to tout the eco-accomplishments of their local colleges and alma maters. Which campuses do you think should have been on our "10 That Get It" list? E-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.org or add your comments to our "How Green Is Your Campus?" group on Facebook, and maybe you'll help your favorite school make the grade next year.
SINS OF OMISSION
How painful for an Ole grad to see in a big bubble on page 39 the reference to Carleton College's wind turbine when twin turbines can be seen in Northfield, Minnesota. While St. Olaf College did get a nod on the bottom of the page for its [nontoxic] lab chemicals, I think it's noteworthy that green has been a goal of St. Olaf's for a while now. Not only does it have a wind turbine on campus, too, it also composts all food waste (while shaming students twice a year by displaying the results of that waste in garbage bags in the commons); has an organic farm, STOGROW [St. Olaf Garden Research and Organic Works], begun by Oles on campus; buys as much food locally for the cafeteria as possible; discourages having cars on campus while offering busing into town for the needs of students; and recycles, recycles, recycles. I have since never lived or worked anywhere where I had to walk more than ten feet to recycle a plastic bottle. I know I'm biased, but my major green love began at Olaf, and it needs to get the credit it deserves. Brittany Collver
Nice piece on the ten eco-hip campuses, but you missed an important one just a 30-minute BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] ride from your office. Ohlone College in Fremont, California, is about to open a new campus in Newark with these features:
geothermal and other conservation measures that will result in a 25 percent improvement in energy performance
The building is in line for gold LEED certification. Gold certification is based on green building design and construction, brownfield redevelopment, alternative transportation, water-efficient landscaping, optimal energy performance, diversion of 50 to 75 percent of construction waste, use of local and low-emitting materials and recycled-content products (including old blue jeans), thermal comfort, design innovation, and the retention of a LEED-accredited professional.
Ohlone is planning a Green Tie Gala on February 2 to introduce the campus to the community. Stop by and say hi. Bill Parks
Journalism adviser, Ohlone College
I'm curious as to why Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, was not mentioned in your article. Their curriculum revolves around taking care of the environment. Irene Gibson
Holmdel, New Jersey
Although I applaud your effort for tackling the topic of the top ten greenest colleges and universities in the United States, I'm afraid that you are in need of much more research.
First off, check out Prescott College--these folks have been at the forefront of the green movement before it was even called that. Other institutions that should have been on your list: Evergreen State College in Washington and Lewis & Clark College in Oregon.
Having been a student at Prescott and also a professor in the University of California system, I can offer firsthand observation that the UC system is far from green. Prescott, on the other hand, has been a pioneer of environmental ethics. Its alumni list reads like a who's who in environmental efforts. Every student goes through a three-week wilderness-orientation program, buildings are made of recycled materials, it has an organic farm, and on and on. Hope you take a look and revise your list. Robert Alexander
I can't believe that Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, did not get some mention in your article on cool green schools. Check it out. Barb Russ
Editor's note: We featured (and praised) Prescott College, Northland College, and the three other schools in the Eco League in another article in the same issue, "A League of Their Own."
If you haven't checked out Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, I think they warrant a look. The daughter of a friend of mine started attending that school a couple of years back, and my wife and I have been very impressed with what we've learned about their focus on environmental issues and how they put that into practice. Chris Young
Boulder Creek, California
Enjoyed your November/December issue and was especially interested in the article about green colleges. Have you checked out Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania? They have a sustainable farm that feeds the students and faculty, plus many programs for college and community service. They deserve credit too. Darcy Wagonhurst
The ranking of college greening efforts in "Go Big Green" showed there is great public misperception about the sustainability efforts at Princeton University. The ranking apparently relied on a student assessment of sustainability policies from the independent student newspaper. Had we been contacted, we would have been eager to contribute a wealth of information about our initiatives and progress. We also would have noted that we do not rely on symbolic measures or demonstration projects that often attract attention, but do not always serve as meaningful measures of sustainability.
We are addressing all areas of operations, including energy and carbon-dioxide emissions, research, education, outreach, and student initiatives. Already in place are Princeton's Sustainable Building Guidelines, which require environmental and energy performance that exceeds the basic certification under the LEED rating system.
Among other initiatives, the university's central cogeneration plant won the 2007 EPA Award for energy conservation; average gross emissions on campus since 1990 have increased by less than 5 percent, despite significant campus growth; Princeton is unrivaled in its research potential for finding solutions to the global climate crisis; and our students are involved with promoting the full range of campus sustainability initiatives. These elements tend to defy comparison in current rankings. Shana Weber
Sustainability manager, Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
I just read the article on the college campuses that "get it," and wondered where the University of Vermont fit in—it was not listed in the top 10 or honorable mentions.
When we visited a summer ago, the University of Vermont was clearly engaged in being a green campus, from a new LEED building under construction to extensive recycling. For comparison, we also visited Northwestern, where the food court was glaringly all fast-food chains with all the usual processed, nonlocal food and packaging, and the buildings were overheated. Kathleen McLynn
There is a campus here in Minnesota that didn't show up on your list of ten cool schools. The University of Minnesota Morris will most likely be the first carbon-neutral campus in the nation. By the end of next year, it will have reduced its carbon emissions due to facility operations by 80 percent, and may purchase offsets for the remainder of its carbon footprint. Greg Ackerson
I've gotten several letters, after I sent out your article on the "10 That Get It," about why you didn't consider Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. They have the first green building in the state, they buy all their chickens from our local organic farm (Norwich Meadows, which sells to chefs in New York City and at the Greenmarket, and they are all about supporting local farmers and produce in the dining halls. Perhaps you didn't know about them. In case you didn't, I thought you should. Patsy Smith
You must check out Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and its newest dorm, Kaneko Commons, which was constructed of recycled and recyclable non-toxic [materials]. Students in this dorm commit to sustainable communal living and rainwater collected from the roof flushes toilets. Many more excellent things are happening on this campus with its commitment to sustainability; I think Willamette should have had a place on your list. I visit often; my daughter (politics/music, class of 2010) attends. Janet Zimmerman
I was dismayed to not read any mention of my alma mater, the Audubon Expedition Institute, a program now offered through Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The program dates back to 1969, when it was called the Trailside Country School, making it a true pioneer for the "Cool Schools" featured in Sierra. Long before there was a Big Green Bus, AEI students were exploring North American bioregions in small groups on retrofitted school buses, camping everywhere they went. This immersion program for both undergraduate and graduate students creates experiential learning communities that inspire informed and compassionate ecological leadership. Insofar as your article may inspire students to choose one of the schools featured, it is too bad that the Audubon Expedition Institute won't benefit from the recruitment, and too bad for those readers who would have found AEI as perfect for them as I did for myself. Brian Winters, class of '96
Please take a serious look at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, for this list. Thanks! My daughter's there majoring in wildland grasses, hydrology, and forestry and this school beat out UC Berkeley and Davis for her attention. Gail Herstead
I was really disappointed that you didn't mention the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in your issue featuring schools that "get it." MCAD was the first in the world to provide a platform for designers working in sustainable design to create curriculum to serve all designers and businesspeople, not just architects or product designers.
Most of man's impacts happen—before a single tree is cut, or a single mountain "topped"—on the drawing table and in the boardroom. The Sustainable Design certificate program empowers decision-makers to do the right thing from the very start: To be proactive (do more good), rather than reactive (mitigate bad). When you revisit this issue, I hope you will include MCAD's ground-breaking program. Wendy Jedlicka, CPP
Jedlicka Design, Ltd.
I was surprised to see the University of California at Santa Barbara sadly omitted from your rating of best green colleges in the United States. While the UC system as a whole weighed in at number four, there was no mention of its environmental flagship. UCSB's environmental-studies program was one of the first in the country. In fact, the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, and the anti-oil group GOO (Get Oil Out) it spawned, is widely regarded as the birthplace of the modern environmental movement. One visit to the campus, where tens of thousands of bicycles dominate the landscape, and you can see that the environs of Isla Vista is far more than a throwback to the '60s. In the mid 1980s, while today's Oberlin greenies (who chalked up your number-one spot) were merely in diapers, the UCSB campus group Environmental Unity was busy brainstorming the feasibility of curbside recycling and other such "drastic" measures to shake up yuppie Southern California. Paul David Lee
UCSB environmental studies alumnus
SHARING THE WEALTH
The University of California, Irvine, is retrofitting its campus shuttle system to run entirely on biodiesel, reducing its carbon footprint. It also completed a how-to guide several months ago that may be helpful to staff at other institutions looking to convert their fleets to 100 percent biodiesel. Erin Lane
Erin Lane, senior administrative analyst, University of California, Irvine
THE PERILS OF PLASTIC
I think the writers of the "Cool Schools" article did a grave disservice by not looking into the practices of the schools' cafeterias. I have found an alarming trend when I visit colleges. The once common practice of using reusable plates and stainless-steel utensils has gone out the window. All the schools I have visited are now using disposable paper and plastic. I'm supposing the reason is budgetary. Even environmentally sensitive students don't seem to notice this waste.
If you figure that school is in session for nine months and there are, say, 12,000 students eating two meals a day in the cafeteria, there would be about 6.48 million each of forks, plates, and cups being used one time and thrown away. This is such a stark example of how not to behave environmentally that I hope the word gets out to all those paying, caring parents and that, in the future, you ask specifically about this practice when writing an article. Maybe then the tide can be reversed. Thank you for letting me point out this tragic trend. Suzanne Richman
I just returned from a trip to historic Williamsburg and the beautiful campus of the College of William and Mary. It was horrifying to see exclusively plastic everything used in the dining halls of the oldest and most historic school in the country. I had just been at UC Davis, where everything, including the dining facilities, is green. Please send a copy of your magazine to the College of William and Mary so that they may be enlightened. Ruth Donohugh
THOSE DARN DORMS
University and college students deserve kudos for their work in greening their campuses, but there is an even greater impact they can make right in their own dorms. Do they monitor how much water is being used for those long, hot showers? Are windows being left open in climate-controlled dorms, letting out precious heat or cool air? Are lights being left on unnecessarily? Are computers turned off at bedtime? Are there unnecessary power suckers (electric toothbrushes, heated curlers, etc.) being left on? Is a refrigerator in a dorm room really a necessity? There is much to be done before we can say that colleges are ecofriendly. Barbara Rohrer
Wow, is this old lady proud! My alma mater, Berea College, was No. 7 on the list of coolest schools. I attended homecoming recently and toured the campus, marveling at all of the ecological work that is being done. The best part? The influence this will have on students! Roberta Larew Allison, class of '42
WHAT DOES GREEN REALLY MEAN?
Thank you so much for informing readers about green colleges. Some of the campuses mentioned, such as Warren Wilson College, Berea College, and Middlebury College are indeed exemplars. Oberlin College is the home of Professor David Orr, who deserves a category all by himself. But the decision to not include the Eco League consortium in your top ten is puzzling. A guide to green colleges that doesn't extol some of the greenest is a conundrum.
Indeed, what is a "green college"? Should a college be considered green because students vote to pay an extra $25 a year for green energy and the school is cutting back on energy use? I would suggest that for a prospective student, the most important aspects of a green college are the academic and cultural ones: Does the college have a green ethos? Does ecological literacy run deep through the various majors? What does it mean to be a green thinker? Can you get a "green education" at a college that has no field studies, no history of interdisciplinary or critical thought? At a college that has only one recent or weak environmental-studies program? How successful is the college at directing students to meaningful and good-paying careers? These questions go beyond organic gardens and green dorms—though I do consider them both very valuable indeed.
For families interested in learning more about Warren Wilson College (I confess, two of my own children attended there), Northland College, Berea College, Prescott College, and other green and socially responsible colleges and universities, both public and private, may I humbly direct them to my book, Making a Difference Colleges, which is now in its tenth edition. It is certainly the only college guide endorsed by Julia Butterfly Hill, Green Teacher magazine, and the late David Brower. Miriam Weinstein
San Anselmo, California
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When creating the Canada Pavilion for the 2010 Expo in Shanghai, developers went to an unlikely source for inspiration. Acrobatic group Cirque de Soleil was asked to help design the building, and the result is an eco-friendly modern design.
The Canada Pavilion is an odd shaped building, but what’s more interesting is the attention towards the environment. The pavilion is made to have a special green wall, and even better, it will also collect rain water through the green wall which will then be used in the pavilion.
A cool design from some crazy acrobats! Check it out.
Rain Harvesting Architecture
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Rhetoric in Design
The act of persuasion is evident in many aspects in life and, as expected, is very powerful in the eCommerce design realm. Much like how we as individuals dress, act and communicate in different situations as we seek to produce a desired outcome, you can believe companies take the same approach.
Consider the introduction of presumed needs around new consumer products. For the purpose of this discussion, let’s take the iPad2. We as consumers, even here in Seattle, have lived most of our lives without a device like this. Apple, through carefully crafted discourse, has created a deep-seated need for consumers — and in particular, for me — to have this. Aspects of my life now seem to be only partially fulfilled, but can become complete with the help of 1.33 pounds of goodness. From the allure of the potential features prior to its release (which is evident from the smattering of rumor sites) to the opening day sale with lines wrapping around buildings, Apple has persuasion and allure down to an art. It is a well-orchestrated and carefully crafted experience that consumers can’t seem to get enough of.
Apple isn’t the only company leveraging the power of rhetorical theory when communicating with customers. We find this used in many eCommerce and transactional experiences. All of us have experienced a site that had the product we wanted; however, something about the experience made us uncomfortable and thus we took our business elsewhere. Tangible evidence from our design engagements shows a well-designed and architected user experience creates a comfort level with a customer that (when done right) results in driving conversion up. There is direct evidence that “anybody can design” could not be farther from the truth for items where a conversion is needed.
Apple is definitely proof of this.
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Creative Uses for Stencils
Step 2: Cut out design using a sheet of Mylar, a utility knife and a self-healing cutting board. Tape your paper to the cutting board, then tape the sheet of Mylar over the paper, so that while you are cutting, everything stays in place.
Step 3: Using a type of paint that is appropriate for the surface you are stenciling, pour a bit onto a paper plate. Load your paintbrush with a fine coat of paint. Make sure you use a stencil brush, which has hard bristles and a flat top.
Step 4: Tape stencil to desired area (use masking tape, so that if it is a painted surface, the tape doesn’t damage the paint) and stipple the design. Stippling is a paint technique which calls for dotting the paint, rather than stroking it. Peel your stencil from wall when done, and repeat, if desired. | <urn:uuid:b2bee9e8-7b3f-4a92-9067-886198a758a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yankeemagazine.com/craft-ideas/creative-uses-for-stencils/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925414 | 201 | 2.34375 | 2 |
If social media is really like a dinner party, it seems like we’re missing something … humor.
Humor is one of the most effective-and under-appreciated tactics in communications. This applies to every day business discussions, professional presentations, and yes, social media. Look at Pinterest. Some of the most popular pins are funny or offbeat. Twitter and Facebook is even better. Who can’t resist a clever or funny tweet, or conversation starter?
Good humor works because it connects with people at an emotional level. We live in a very serious world. Humor provides us a mental break. For companies, it’s a great way to come across more engaging and naturally-more human.
But humor has to be handled right. Just being funny online is not enough, and there are risks. Here are five tips to keep in mind as you engage with humor.
- Use humor creatively,particularly when it comes to explaining complex subjects. And don’t be afraid to be a little edgy. Look at thisinfographic which is focused on helping users improve their Facebook Edgerank score. Rather than just a dry listing of tips, “Conquer the Facebook” uses clever humor with news stream posts by “legendary Facebook conquerors” like Julius Caesar (Ex: #5 Ask for Likes- Genghis Kahn states: “Ask for likes if you’re a Mongol with a funny decapitation story.” Clever and funny. (more…) | <urn:uuid:5e136805-8d13-4c44-a0dc-7d4b87080496> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ioncorporation.com/blog/?m=201204 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920094 | 314 | 1.914063 | 2 |
I am studying a protein which is probably a transcription factor (it encodes a transcription factor domain although this domain is not involved in DNA-binding). Bioinformatics predictions show that apparently the protein does not have DNA-binding motifs, although I have functional data highly suggestive of the protein being involved in gene expression regulation.
Is it possible that it is a non-binding transcription factor? Are these proteins common? Do they have particular features? Could it be interacting with a DNA-binding molecule allowing the regulation of gene expression? Does anyone know how I can predict this and look for the putative mediator(s)?
A big thanks for anyone who can help!
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his
reason, it puts him into confusion
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is
free who cannot control himself.
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
A university`s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.
The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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As part of the 2012 celebrations for the Alan Tuiring centenary, the Bletchley Park Trust hosted the annual Loebner Prize competition to find the world’s best conversational computer programme. The contest was run by David Levy who won the prize in 1997 and 2009. The chatbot programmers competed for a coveted bronze medal and a prize fund of $7,000 sponsored by Dr. Hugh Loebner who founded the competition twenty years ago.
The Turing Centenary Loebner Prize competition took place on 15 May 2012 at Bletchley Park, starting at 1:00pm. A team from the University of Exeter‘s Computer Science department (Dr. Ed Keedwell, Max Dupenois and Kent McClymont) were running a LIVE webcast of the 2012 Loebner Prize and so, for the first time, interested people from around the world were able to follow the conversations the judges have as they happen.
The contest consisted of 4 rounds of 4 conversations with four chatbots:
1st Prize ($5,000) and the bronze medal was awarded to Chip Vivant created by Mohan Embar.
2nd Prize ($1,000) was awarded to Angela created by Bruce Wilcox.
3rd Prize ($750) was awarded to Adam created by Daniel Burke.
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Every prototyping project has its own rhythm, but there are patterns within these rhythms that one can see emerging over time — eternal constants in the process of creation. This week, as I iterate yet again on a prototype, I am noticing a pattern that I’ve seen before.
In particular, I notice that my process of prototyping is divided into three successive phases. Each phase, or “version” if you will, serves a distinctly different purpose.
The first version of the prototype says “This is just a rough sketch of what the result will look like”. In that first stage, the important thing is to quickly and efficiently throw something together which conveys an idea, with no attempt at robustness or reusability.
The second phase says “Watch this demo — it has many cool features, but it will break if anybody uses it except me”. This phase is a bit of a magic act. The idea is to show the full potential of the approach, but without the robustness of a real product. As long as I’m the only one using it, it looks wonderful. But if anybody else were to try to use it, they would quickly put their foot through a hole in the floor, and things would all fall apart pretty rapidly.
The third phase says “Go ahead, you use this.” This is a much harder thing to create, and it requires everything that was learned during the first two phases. It is the stage where you build something that can withstand being used by random people — people who aren’t trying to avoid the weak spots.
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This page consist of information regarding a basic energy audit conducted on the University of Guam Campus by the Center for
Island Sustainability and UOG Green.
An Energy Audit measures how much energy is used in a building, paying special attention to how energy is wasted. There are many different kinds of energy audits. Some look at all the types of energy use, however others focus on a single type of energy, in our case, electricity.
These audits focused on energy usage and energy wastes.
2012 UOG Energy Assessments
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