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Swine flu vaccine Japan
Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009
H1N1 vaccine side effects reported
Seven of the 22,000 medical workers vaccinated against H1N1 swine flu have developed side effects, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said.
The finding, released Friday, was revealed after a four-day survey was completed Thursday to ensure the new vaccine was working on doctors and nurses at 67 designated hospitals run by the National Hospital Organization.
Four of the seven developed serious side effects, including vomiting and diminished consciousness, but all are recovering, the ministry said. The other three complained of minor symptoms, such as developing hives.
Meanwhile, other hospitals reported that 25 patients were exhibiting adverse effects from the new vaccine, including two serious cases.
The ministry said half of the 32 people who developed symptoms were found to have food and drug allergies or allergic asthma.
The survey will be followed by large-scale vaccinations of the general public in November, with priority given to people at high risk of developing complications from the flu.
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The US envoy for human rights in North Korea argued yesterday that the lack of basic liberties in the communist nation was an international issue and called on the world to press Pyongyang to reform.
Jay Lefkowitz, speaking at a US-supported international conference on the issue in the South Korean capital, said a campaign to improve human rights in North Korea -- which he labeled a "deeply oppressive nation" -- would serve to boost regional stability, not shake it.
"The contrast could not be more stark. While South Korea has grown fully into a proud democracy with the rule of law, North Korea is a deeply repressive nation," Lefkowitz said.
He described a trip he took to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a heavily fortified frontier that divides the two Koreas.
"Only a short distance from here, beyond the thicket of barbed wire which I saw yesterday when I travelled up to the DMZ, lies a hidden world of hopelessness and terror," he said.
"Countries that don't give their own citizens the basic fundamental freedoms that are required under international law are very hard to trust in any capacity," he said.
"We do not threaten the peace by challenging the status quo," Lefkowitz said in his first public appearance in South Korea. "Indeed, failing to follow this path and take steps towards liberalization is a far greater risk to the long-term security and economic prosperity in the region."
Lefkowitz's remarks appeared to be have been aimed at the Seoul government, which has pursued a path of reconciliation with the North and refrained from openly criticizing the human-rights situation there. South Korean officials say their policy of maintaining stability on the divided peninsula takes precedence over public demands for improving human rights.
Chung Eui-yong, chairman of the National Assembly's foreign relations committee and a member of the governing Uri party, said the government already connected economic aid with human rights.
"Human rights and economic aid are linked, but the government has no reason to officially confirm it," he said on the sidelines of the conference.
He said Seoul sought to refrain from "unnecessarily provoking North Korea," which might react to provocation by suspending inter-Korean negotiations.
Lefkowitz, who was appointed this year to the position, has been charged with raising the human-rights issue and providing assistance to refugees fleeing the North.
North Korea has railed against any criticism of its human rights record as a US-backed effort to seek the overthrow of Kim Jong-il's regime.
The North's Minju Joson newspaper said yesterday: "The US has become loud in trumpeting that there exists a human-rights issue" in North Korea.
"This is, however, a product of its strategy to realize a regime change," the newspaper said in a commentary carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
US Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, who introduced Lefkowitz, said Washington was just seeking to urge the North to reform and live up to its obligations under the UN charter and other international treaties.
"The US has no hidden agenda in raising the issue of human rights in North Korea, we simply want to improve the living conditions of the people of North Korea," Vershbow said. "We want [North Korea] to change its policies and undertake reforms that end the hardships endured by its people."
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Section 102. (a) All persons within the commonwealth, regardless of sex, race, color, creed or national origin, shall have, except as is otherwise provided or permitted by law, the same rights enjoyed by white male citizens, to make and enforce contracts, to inherit, purchase, to lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
(b) A person whose rights under the provisions of subsection (a) have been violated may commence a civil action for injunctive and other appropriate equitable relief, including the award of compensatory and exemplary damages. Said civil action shall be instituted either in the superior court for the county in which the conduct complained of occurred, or in the superior court for the county in which the person whose conduct complained of resides or has his principal place of business.
(c) A violation of subsection (a) is established if, based on the totality of circumstances, it is shown that any individual is denied any of the rights protected by subsection (a).
(d) An aggrieved person who prevails in an action authorized by subsection (b), in addition to other damages, shall be entitled to an award of the costs of the litigation and reasonable attorneys’ fees in an amount to be fixed by the court.
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hanged vs. hung
In primary school we learned that prisoners were hanged by the neck until dead, and not hung by the neck until dead. Paintings, coats, and Christmas stockings are “hung”, not people. They are “hanged”. Is this correct? I hear news reporters say “hung” all the time. Never “hanged”.
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Based on the survey data alone, the 2003 NAAL and 1992 NALS surveys were not designed to provide policymakers and educators with estimates of the percentages of adults at the lowest literacy level for all U.S. states and counties. To address the need for such estimates, a statistical model was developed to produce indirect (i.e. model dependent) county estimates of the percentages of adults based on the 2003 NAAL data. The same modeling approach was then applied to the 1992 NALS data. A Hierarchical Bayes model was adopted using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method (Gelman et al. 2004) and implemented using the WinBUGS software (Lunn et al. 2000). The key components of the modeling approach were to develop (1) a sampling model for the sampling variability present in the county level, direct survey estimates of the county percentages of adults lacking BPLS estimates (for counties with some respondents) and (2) a logit model (linear logistic regression model) to predict the survey estimates from a set of auxiliary variables that were available and measured consistently for all counties.
From Direct county estimates to indirect county estimates
A large pool of items was used in the literacy assessment to enable the surveys to cover a broad range of literacy tasks. However, to keep the testing time at a reasonable level, only a subset of the items in the item pool was administered to each participant. Since respondents took different sets of items that could be different in level of difficulty, it would be inappropriate to base the literacy estimates simply on the number of correct answers obtained. Instead, a marginal maximum likelihood method was applied using the AM software (http://am.air.org/ to represent each individual's estimated proficiency as a probability distribution over all possible scores. The probability distributions for sampled individuals were then used in the estimation process to compute direct estimates of the percentage of adults lacking BPLS for individual counties included in the NAAL or NALS samples.
Variance estimates were then produced for the direct county estimates using a Taylor series approximation that took account of the survey weights and the clustered sample design within counties (see, for example, Wolter 1985). Given the relatively small sample sizes in most counties, the direct estimates were generally imprecise. Since the variance estimates were also subject to considerable sampling variability, they were smoothed using a generalized variance function approach. The direct estimates and smoothed variance estimates for the sampled counties were then used in the subsequent logit model analysis to compute model-dependent, indirect estimates for all counties in the United States.
A key aspect of the small area estimation modeling for the 2003 NAAL and 1992 NALS was finding auxiliary variables that are measured consistently across all U.S. counties and that are effective predictors of the county percentages of adults lacking BPLS. The process of model development involved the compilation of a large number of auxiliary variables that were known or hypothesized to be correlated with literacy. The final set of predictors was selected based on its ability to best account for the between-county variation in the direct estimates of the percentage lacking BPLS for sampled counties.
The best set of predictors for the 2003 NAAL model comprised the following six variables:
- Percentage of the county population who were foreign-born and who had stayed in the United States for 20 years or less years;
- Percentage of county population age 25 and older with only a high school education or less;
- Percentage of the county population who were Black or Hispanic;
- Percentage of the county population in households with incomes below 150 percent of poverty level;
- Indicator variable identifying the New England and North Central census divisions; and
- Indicator variable identifying the SAAL states.
Apart from the SAAL state indicator, all the predictor variables were obtained from the 2000 Census of Population.
The predictors for the 1992 NALS model were:
- Percentage of the county population for whom English was not a native language;
- Percentage of the county population age 25 and older with only a high school education or less;
- Percentage of the county population who were Black;
- Percentage of the county population who were Hispanic;
- Indicator variables identifying the New England and North Central census divisions; and
- Indicator variable for counties in a SALS state.
All predictor variables were obtained from the 1990 Census of Population, with the exception of the SALS state indicator.
Small area model for state and county estimates
A single area-level statistical model that acknowledges the sampling variability present in the dependent variable was used to predict the county percentages of adults lacking BPLS. The logit of the direct county-level estimated percentages of adults lacking BPLS was used as the dependent variable in the model and the county-level variables described above were used as the predictor variables. The logit model also included random state and county effects.
Hierarchical Bayesian estimation techniques with the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach were used to estimate the model parameters. The multiple estimates of model parameter values produced by the MCMC approach were used to produce posterior distributions of indirect estimates of the percentages of adults lacking BPLS for individual counties, whether or not they were included in the sample. Summary statistics for these posterior distributions, including their means (the indirect county estimates) and credible intervals, were also computed.
The indirect estimates for states were computed as weighted aggregates of the county indirect estimates, where the weights represent the county's proportion of the state's household population of adults aged 16 and over. Because county populations of household residents aged 16 years or older were not available for 2003 or 1992, the weight for each county was estimated based on available data from the U.S. Census Bureau for the year in question. The Census Bureau 2003 postcensal estimated residency counts include populations that are outside the scope of the NAAL small area estimation population, such as persons in group quarters and institutions. The 2003 estimated residency counts for ages 16 and older were therefore adjusted by the ratio of Census 2000 counts for persons within households to total population. These initial county population estimates for 2003 and 1992 were then calibrated to the sum of the final sampling weights for the SAAL and SALS states, respectively, and to the sum of the NAAL and NALS final sampling weights for counties in the remainder of each census region. This calibration served to improve the consistency between the indirect and direct estimates.
The primary measure of precision reported for each state or county indirect estimate is its credible interval. The 95 percent credible intervals for both the indirect county estimates and the indirect state estimates were computed by calculating the 2.5 percent (lower bound) and 97.5 percent (upper bound) quantiles of the simulated posterior distributions for the indirect estimates of the percentage of adults lacking BPLS obtained from the MCMC samples. Since these posterior distributions are skewed, the credible intervals are asymmetric around the estimates. For more information about credible intervals refer to Uncertainty in Estimates
Comparison of estimates
Credible intervals for the differences between the indirect estimates for two states, for two counties, and for the two time points for a given county or state are provided in order to assist data users in making comparisons between states, between counties, and across time. Two methods have been applied to determine whether the 95 percent credible interval for the difference between two indirect estimates contains 0.
For the first method, the difference in the 2003 indirect estimate between two states or counties (within a particular state) was computed for each MCMC sample, and the credible interval for the difference was derived from the resultant posterior distribution. In this case, the results reported are the estimated difference and its credible interval. In view of the very large number of possible pairwise comparisons between counties across the nation (about 5 million), this procedure has been applied only for differences in the 2003 estimate between any pair of states and between any pair of counties that are within the same state.
The other method simply determines whether the credible interval for the difference contains 0, without computing that interval. This method has been applied for differences between the indirect estimates for counties in different states, for differences between the 2003 and 1992 indirect estimates for single states or counties, and for all differences between states and counties for 1992. This determination was readily made in two situations:
- If the credible interval for an indirect estimate for county (or state) i does not overlap with the credible interval for the indirect estimate for county (or state) j, then one can conclude that the credible interval for the difference does not contain 0. For example if the credible interval for one county is from 6 percent to 12 percent, and for another county it is from 13 to 21 percent, then the credible interval for the difference will not include 0.
- If the credible interval for the indirect estimate for county (or state) i is fully nested within the credible interval for the indirect estimate for county (or state) j, then the credible interval for the difference will contain 0. For example, if one county has a credible interval of 6 to 18 percent, and another county has a credible interval of 7 to 17 percent, then the credible interval for the difference will include 0.
The situation in which the credible intervals for two indirect county (or state) estimates partially overlap (e.g., the credible interval is from 6 to 18 percent for one county and from 12 to 24 percent for another county) is less straightforward. In this case the following approximate method was used. First, the standard deviations of the posterior distributions of the indirect estimates were estimated as one-fourth of the 95 percent credible interval widths for the estimates, under the assumption of approximate normality. Next, the standard deviation of the posterior distribution of the difference was estimated as the square root of the sum of the squares of the individual standard deviations (assuming that the covariance between the estimates was zero). Then the approximate credible interval was calculated as the indirect estimate of the difference plus or minus twice the approximated standard deviation of the posterior distribution for the difference. In view of the ad hoc nature of this method, the only result reported is whether or not this interval contains 0. No comparisons of estimates at different aggregation levels are allowed because the ad hoc formula does not account for comparisons between these estimates.
Results obtained from this approximate procedure were compared with the results obtained by using the first method described above for a subset of 8,887 pairs of 2003 indirect estimates for counties in different states. In the 7,549 cases of these 8,887 pairwise differences (85 percent) in which the credible interval computed with the first method contained 0, there was just one case using the approximation that did not contain 0. In the 1,338 cases (15 percent) in which the credible interval computed by the first method did not contain 0, there were 73 percent that had a credible interval from the approximate procedure that also did not contain 0. The approximate procedure is thus conservative in the sense that it sometimes indicates that the credible interval contains 0 when it does not in fact. In 81 percent of the 364 cases where the results differed, the credible intervals from the first method had one limit that was less than a percentage point from 0. Attempts to develop an alternative approximation showed no improvement.
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Today we continue reading stories by Nikolai Nosov (Николай Носов) and start to read his next story Gardeners, 1938: about life and adventures in a pioneer camp.
Mishka [a boy's name] and I asked to be put in the same team. Before we came to camp we had agreed that we would work together and go fishing together and everything.
Vadik Zaitsev[a boy's name] proposed having a Challenge Banner to be awarded to the team that finished the digging first. Everybody agreed and it was decided to pass on the banner to the best planters and then to the best weeders. And the team that raised the biggest harvest would take the banner back to town.
Mishka and I made up our minds to win that banner.
“We’ll win it at the start and we won’t let go of it all summer and it’ll go back to town with us,” said Mishka.
We had been given a piece of land near the river. We measured it, marked off the plots and stuck in wooden markers with numbers on them. Mishka and I got plot No. 12. Mishka wasn’t satisfied. He ran off to Vitya to complain that we had been given the worst plot.
“Why is it the worst?” Vitya asked.
“There’s a hole in the middle!”
“What about it,” laughed Vitya. “Besides, that’s not a hole, it’s a hoof-print.”
“There’s a tree-stump on it,”grumbled Mishka.
“The other plots have tree-stumps too.”
But Mishka wouldn’t listen.
“It will have to be dug up,” he cried.
“Well, go ahead and dig it up. If you need help the others will lend you a hand.”
“Thanks, we’ll manage ourselves,” said Mishka huffily. “And help the others too.”
“That’s the spirit!” said Vitya.
Everyone started digging, Mishka and I as well. But every few minutes Mishka stopped digging to run and see how much the others had done.
“If you don’t get to work we’ll soon be way behind the others,” I told him.
“That’s all right,” he said. “I’ll catch up.”
He started catching up, but in a little while he was off again.
We didn’t get much done that day because pretty soon the dinner bell went. Mishka and I wanted to rush off to the plot after dinner, but Vitya stopped us.
“That will be enough for one day. We’ll only work in the mornings. After dinner we’ll rest. Otherwise some of you chaps will overdo it the first day and won’t be able to work the rest of the time.”
The next morning Mishka and I went off to our plot before the others and started digging. After a while Mishka asked Vitya for the tape-measure and began measuring to see how much we had dug and how much was left. After that he did a little more digging and then began measuring again. And each time he measured he found we hadn’t done enough.
“Of course we haven’t,” I said. “Because I’m doing the digging. All you do is measure.”
He threw down the tape-measure and started digging again. But he hadn’t done much when his spade struck a root and he stopped digging to pull the root up. He pulled and he pulled but it wouldn’t come up. He turned over the whole plot and part of the next one, trying to get it out.
“Leave it alone!” I said. “What are you bothering with it for?”
“How was I to know it was half a mile long?”
“Well, let it be.”
“But it has to end somewhere, hasn’t it?”
“What difference does it make to you?”
“I’m that kind of a person. If I start something I’ve got to see it through.”
And he grabbed the root again with both hands. I got angry, went over to the root and hacked it loose with my spade. Mishka took the tape-measure and measured it.
“Look at that,” he said. “Six and a half metres! Now if you hadn’t cut it off it might have been twenty metres!”
I said: “If I’d known you were going to dawdle about instead of working I’d never have hitched up with you.”
“Go ahead and work by yourself if you like. I’m not forcing you to work with me.”
“After I’ve dug up most of the plot already? Nothing doing. But we certainly won’t be the first to finish.”
“Who says we won’t? Look at Vanya Lozhkin and Senya Bobrov. They’ve dug even less than we have.”
He went over to Vanya Lozhkin’s [a boy's name] plot and began jeering at them:
“Some diggers! We’ll have to lend you .a hand pretty soon.”
But they drove him away. “You’d better get to work or we’ll be lending you a hand.”
I said: “You’re a fine one, making fun of others when you’ve done hardly anything yourself! I’m sorry I hitched up with you.”
“Don’t worry,” he said. “I’ve thought up a wonderful idea. Tomorrow we’ll have the banner on our plot, you’ll see.”
“You’re crazy,” I said. “There’s a good two days’ work to be done on this plot, and it’ll be four days if you carry on like this.”
“You’ll see. I’ll tell you my plan later on.”
“All right, but do get to work now. The ground won’t dig itself.”
He picked up his spade to start digging, but just then Vitya said it was time for dinner, so he threw his spade over his shoulder and led the way to the dining-room.
After dinner we all helped Vitya make the banner. We found a piece of wood for the staff, cut and sewed the cloth and painted the staff in gilt paint. Vitya wrote the inscription “Best Gardener” in silver letters on the banner. It looked very handsome.
“Let’s make a scarecrow as well,” said Mishka. “To keep the crows off our garden.”
Everyone liked the idea enormously. We got ,a pole, tied a stick across it for arms, got an old sack for a shirt, and stuck an earthenware pot on top for a head. Mishka drew eyes, a nose and a mouth on the pot with charcoal and our scarecrow was ready. It did look a fright! We stood it in the middle of the garden and had a good laugh at it.
Mishka took me aside and whispered in my ear: “Here’s my plan. Tonight when everyone is asleep we’ll go and dig up our whole plot, all except a little bit which we can easily finish tomorrow. We’re sure to win the banner then.”
“If you would only work,” I said. “But you keep fussing with all sorts of silly nonsense.”
“This time I’ll work like blazes, you’ll see.”
“All right. But if you don’t, I won’t either.”
That night Mishka and I went to bed with the others. But we only pretended to go to sleep. When everything was quiet Mishka gave me a dig in the ribs. I had just dozed off. “Wake up,” he said in a loud whisper. “We’d better get started or we’ll have to kiss that banner good-bye.”
We crept out of the dormitory, got our spades and hurried off to the plot. It was a bright moonlight night and everything stood out clearly and distinctly.
In a few minutes we had reached the plot.
“Here we are,” said Mishka. “This is our plot. I can tell by the stump sticking up in the middle.”
We set to work. This time Mishka really did work and before long we had dug all the way up to the stump. We decided to pull it up. We loosened the earth all around it and pulled at it as hard as we could, but it wouldn’t budge. We had to hack away the roots with our spades. It was hard work, but finally we got it out. Then we evened out the ground and Mishka tossed the stump over to the next plot.
“That’s not a nice thing to do,” I said.
“Where are we going to put it?”
“Not on our neighbour’s plot anyway.”
“All right, let’s throw it into the river.”
We picked it up and hauled it down to the river. It was very heavy and we had a nasty time with it. But finally we got it down to the bank and dropped it plonk into the water. It floated down the river looking like an octopus with the roots sticking out all over it. We watched until it was out of sight and then went home. We were too tired to do any more digging that night. Besides, we had only a little bit left to dig now.
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A former coal strip mine is going to be transformed into a huge solar power plant in Ohio, creating 600 permanent jobs. The 49.9-megawatt project will be developed by New Harvest Ventures and Agile Energy, and the produced energy for the next 20 years will be bought by American Electric Power.
This amount of energy is enough to power 25,000 homes, according to Terri Flora, AEP spokeswoman.
The 239,400-panel solar array is to be called Turning Point, and to help build it, two Spanish companies namely Prius Energy S.L. and Isofoton, have committed to set up factories in Ohio.
According to the governor’s office, Turning Point would be the largest photovoltaic solar array in the United States. The $250 million facility will reach full capacity in 2014, according to AEP Ohio.
The project is going to take place in a former mine adjacent to The Wilds, a 10,000-acre conservation area that is home to native and exotic animals, including some on the endangered species list.
“Solar energy has the potential to bring a host of benefits to south-eastern Ohio, including hundreds of new manufacturing jobs and clean energy for hundreds of thousands of rural Ohioans,” said U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.
Workers will be trained to work in green jobs, programs that will include the skills to build and maintain solar power operations in nearby Zane State University and Hocking College. Supporting the project is David Wilhelm, a venture capitalist from Ohio’s Appalachian region and a heavyweight in Democratic Party politics.
Mike is a master student of graphic design and is particularly interested in green designs and green technologies that affect people directly. Besides publishing, he supervises any changes in the site's aesthetics. The current logo is his concept.
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In response to the terrorist events of September 11, 2001 and the need to improve our ability to respond to disasters of all types, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has developed and expanded its disaster behavioral health services.
Located in Concord, New Hampshire on the grounds of State Office Park South, DHHS is involved in planning, response and recovery activities, in coordination with other emergency response partners. The Disaster Behavioral Health Response Teams (DBHRT), coordinated by DHHS, provides disaster related services to the general public, victims, their families and first responders; including, police, fire and emergency medical personnel.
Historically, behavioral health issues have been left out of disaster planning and response efforts, due to a lack of appreciation of the possible severe effects disasters can have on the emotional well being of individuals and communities. However, it is now commonly accepted that terrorism and natural disasters do have a significant impact on the emotional state and functioning of the general public, victims and first responders. Terrorism is psychological warfare; and therefore, it is critical that we prepare psychologically as well as physically. The State of New Hampshire is preparing relentlessly to improve and expand the range of disaster behavioral health related services. Behavioral Health representatives are playing a key role in planning groups and task forces.
In full support of the concept "all disasters are local," we attempt to create a bridge between the local community and state and federal resources needed to mitigate the psychological consequences of a disaster. Disaster Behavioral Health Response Teams (DBHRT) have been formed in five regions of the state. To date, over 800 behavioral health professionals have been trained and are available for activation and deployment. These teams have received training in the general concepts of disaster behavioral health such as, disaster related behavior, common reactions among special needs/vulnerable populations, their roles in a response effort, Incident Command System and various state-of-the-art interventions such as Psychological First Aid and Critical Incident Stress Management. DBHRT members participate in simulated drills and exercises in their communities alongside their public health, public safety and emergency medical response partners. Team members have been issued a photo I.D. giving them authorized access to sites in the event of a disaster. A Behavioral Health Resource Directory has been developed to assist those impacted by disaster that may require referral for professional services. Public information materials including coping tips and strategies are available upon request.
The Disaster Behavioral Health Program assists the citizens of NH who have been exposed to man-made or natural disasters by providing disaster related services and finding mental health resources.
Five regional Disaster Behavioral Health Response Teams (DBHRT) can be deployed immediately anywhere in the state. To date, over 800 behavioral health professionals have been trained and are available for activation and deployment.
If you would like access to or more information about the Disaster Behavioral Health Response Teams, disaster behavioral health training, how to join a team, or would like to receive educational materials, please contact the Disaster Behavioral Health Coordinator at (603) 271-9454 or (800) 852-3345 ext. 9454.
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The Texas Supreme Court will decide whether the owners of a dog accidentally euthanized by the Fort Worth pound can sue for the sentimental value of the family pet or merely for the replacement value of the mixed-breed animal.
The answer could have long-lasting implications for pet ownership in Texas, leading to divided loyalties among a long list of animal lovers who have weighed in on the legal battle.
The case began as a lawsuit filed by Jeremy and Kathryn Medlen, whose 6-year-old dog Avery escaped from their backyard during a 2009 thunderstorm. Jeremy Medlen found his dog at the city animal shelter but didn't have enough money to pay the required fee, though employees assured him that a "hold for owner" tag on Avery's cage would protect the dog from euthanasia for up to one week.
Four days later, however, Avery was dead.
The Medlens sued Carla Strickland, the shelter worker who had mistakenly placed Avery on the euthanasia list, alleging that her negligence caused the pet's death. Arguing that the dog was irreplaceable yet had little market value, the Medlens sought to recover an unspecified award based on Avery's sentimental value -- kicking off a legal fracas that continues more than three years later.
State District Judge Donald Pierson eventually dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that an 1891 Texas Supreme Court decision allows owners to sue only for the market value of a dead dog or, at best, a special value based on "the usefulness and services of the dog."
The Fort Worth appeals court reinstated the Medlens' lawsuit last year, ruling that more recent Supreme Court decisions established "that the special value of 'man's best friend' should be protected."
"Sentimental damages may now be recovered for the loss or destruction of all types of personal property," the appeals court ruled. "Because of the special position pets hold in their family, we see no reason why existing law should not be interpreted to allow recovery in the loss of a pet."
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case to determine how "companion pets" should be treated by the law. Oral arguments will be heard Jan. 10, with a ruling to follow sometime later.
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Subjective Evaluation of Speech Quality in a Conversational Context
Within the framework of ITU-T, an objective conversational model is developed to predict the impact of network impairments on the conversational quality experienced by a end-user. To train and validate such a model, subjective scores are required. Assuming that a conversation is made of talking, listening and interaction activities, a subjective test protocol is specially designed to take into account these multidimensional aspects of the speech quality in a conversation. Subjects are asked to evaluate speech quality in talking, listening and conversational contexts separately during three successive tasks. The analyses of several tests show that this method is valid for the assessment of listening, talking and conversational quality.
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Thank GOD he can put out a fire, because this pic of Benjamin Franklin is burning us up!!!
Benny Frank Franks helped form the Union Fire Company in Philadelphia. This came about after he and others pointed out in his newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, that there should be a better way to handle local fires. Each member of the fire department pays for his own fire fighting equipment, including buckets and bags, that they have to bring to each fire.
Philanthropy is just soooooo in these days.
Do U think Benny looks good in uniform???
Of all days to sleep in, he picks the day he’s going to attack the Indians?????
Louisiana Governor, Jean-Baptiste
Bla Bla Longest Name Ever Le Moyne de Bienville, told the Governor of Illinois and all of his troops to meet up on March 25th to launch a coordinated attack against the forever-annoying Chickasaw Indians. Bienville arrived late, so Illinois acted like 5 year olds with no patience and went ahead with the attack. Illinois was totally crushed.
Rooster alarm clock FAIL.
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LAS CRUCES — Local schools received about $1.9 million from a Spaceport America sales tax over the past year — money officials said pays for a host of science, math and aerospace activities for students.
Officials from the Las Cruces Public Schools, Gadsden Independent School District and Hatch Valley Public Schools reported to county commissioners Tuesday about how they spent the money over the past year.
LCPS officials said they've invested dollars in expanding learning, inside and outside the classroom, including through robotics competitions and summer programs and a pre-freshman engineering program. Also, a portion of dollars have gone toward teacher training to boost the numbers of Advanced Placement courses, they said.
At GISD, funding has helped pay for students to participate in an Early College High School summer program in Chaparral, among other activities.
GISD Superintendent Efren Yturralde told Doña Ana County commissioners the funding has been a boon in the tough economy.
"These are programs we're able to implement that we normally would not be able to do," he said, speaking at the Doña Ana County Government Center.
Of the $1.9 million collected from the tax between July 2011 and June 2012, roughly $1.2 million went to LCPS, $677,000 went to Gadsden and $65,000 went to Hatch schools, according to a county report.
In Hatch, the spaceport tax dollars are funding an extra science teacher, who also coordinates students'
The 1/4 of 1 percent spaceport sales tax was OK'd by Doña Ana County voters in 2007. A portion goes to the schools, while most of the money is used to repay bonds for spaceport construction in southern Sierra County.
The tax amounts to an extra 25 cent charge on a $100 purchase.
Since the tax took effect in January 2009, a total of $7.03 million has been collected for Doña Ana County schools, according to the county.
Also Tuesday, county officials heard a plan for selecting a site for a new county-city 911 call center. A decision is expected to be made on Dec. 11, officials said.
Diana Alba Soular can be reached at (575) 541-5443; follow her on Twitter @AlbaSoular
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…we can foresee a time when, in a Europe of concentration camps, the only people at liberty will be prison guards who will then have to lock up one another. When only one remains, he will be called the “supreme guard,” and that will be the ideal society in which problems of opposition, the headache of all governments, will be settled once and for all.
Of course, this is but a prophecy and, although governments and police forces throughout the world are striving, with great good will, to achieve such a happy situation, we have not yet gone that far. Among us, for instance, in Western Europe, freedom is officially approved. But such freedom makes me think of the poor female cousin in certain middle-class families. She has become a widow; she has lost her natural protector. So she has been taken in, given a room on the top floor, and is welcome in the kitchen. She is occasionally paraded publicly on Sunday, to prove that one is virtuous and not a dirty dog. But for everything else, and especially on state occasions, she is requested to keep her mouth shut. And even if some policeman idly takes liberties with her in dark corners, one doesn’t make a fuss about it, for she has seen such things before, especially with the master of the house, and, after all, it’s not worth getting in bad with the legal authorities.
In the East, it must be admitted, they are more forthright. They have settled the business of the female cousin once and for all by locking her up in a closet with two solid bolts on the door. It seems that she will be taken out fifty years from now, more or less, when the ideal society is definitively established. Then there will be celebrations in her honor. But, in my opinion, she may then be somewhat moth-eaten, and I am very much afraid that it may be impossible to make use of her.
When we stop to think that these two conceptions of freedom, the one in the closet and the other in the kitchen, have decided to force themselves on each other and are obliged in all that hullabaloo to reduce still further the female cousin’s activity, it will be readily seen that our history is rather one of slavery than of freedom and that the world we live in is the one… which leaps out at us from the newspaper every morning to make of our days and our weeks a single day of revolt and disgust.
The simplest, and hence most tempting, thing is to blame governments or some obscure powers for such naughty behavior. Besides, it is indeed true that they are guilty and that their guilt is so solidly established that we have lost sight of its beginnings. But they are not the only ones responsible. After all, if freedom had always had to rely on governments to encourage her growth, she would probably be still in her infancy or else definitively buried with the inscription “another angel in heaven.” The society of money and exploitation has never been charged, so far as I know, with assuring the triumph of freedom and justice. Police states have never been suspected of opening schools of law in the cellars where they interrogate their subjects. So, when they oppress and exploit, they are merely doing their job, and whoever blindly entrusts them with the care of freedom has no right to be surprised when she is immediately dishonored. If freedom is humiliated or in chains today, it is not because her enemies had recourse to treachery. It is simply because she has lost her natural protector. Yes, freedom is widowed, but it must be added because it is true: she is widowed of all of us.…
How then can this infernal circle be broken? Obviously, it can be done only by reviving at once, in ourselves and in others, the value of freedom — and by never again agreeing to its being sacrificed, even temporarily, or separated from our demand for justice. The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom. In particular, the few democratic liberties we still enjoy are not unimportant illusions that we can allow to be taken from us without a protest. They represent exactly what remains to us of the great revolutionary conquests of the last two centuries. Hence they are not, as so many clever demagogues tell us, the negation of true freedom. There is no ideal freedom that will someday be given us all at once, as a pension comes at the end of one’s life. There are liberties to be won painfully, one by one, and those we still have are stages — most certainly inadequate, but stages nevertheless — on the way to total liberation. If we agree to suppress them, we do not progress nonetheless. On the contrary, we retreat, we go backward, and someday we shall have to retrace our steps along that road, but that new effort will once more be made in the sweat and blood of men.
— Albert Camus,
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Vanderbilt would play its first night football in Baton Rouge, La., against LSU on October 28, 1933. The Tigers have a long tradition of playing their gridiron games under the lights. Their first night game occurred just two years earlier in 1931 with an LSU victory over Spring Hill, 35-0. Since that time the Tigers have played the majority of their home games at night.
Blinky Horn of The Tennessean wrote of the soon-to-be-played historic game for Vanderbilt:
“It’s six weeks until Vanderbilt stages its first fracas in history under the arc lights. But already—Dan McGugin—has begun to make plans to familiarize his flock of fledglings with moleskin manouverous beneath the mazdas. The Commodore chief-captain is making arrangements to drill the Vandy squad in Sulphur Dell at night so they will not have the buck—argue when they battle Louisiana State in a nocturnal duel October 28 to Baton Rouge.
“There are mazdas at Vanderbilt. But they do not shed enough illumination for punting and passing exercises. The battery of lights which can be turned either into the stadium or on McGugin Field does not supply the artificial daylight which could be obtained in Sulphur Dell. So Dan McGugin is planning to rent Sulphur Dell from Fay Murray and Jimmy Hamilton long enough to permit the Commodores to become accustomed to handling nocturnal punts and passes.”
The Sulphur Dell Ballpark was located in the shadow of the State Capital Building in downtown Nashville and was home to the baseball Nashville Vols of the Southern Association. Murray was the Vols owner while Hamilton was the team’s manager.
The ballpark produced permanent fixed lights in 1931. The Commodores played their first home games at the park in 1890 and 1891 before an on campus field was constructed and used in 1892. Sulphur Dell was known as Athletic Park in this early era.
A note of interest is that on July 6, 1894 the Nashville Tiger’s played a night exhibition baseball game. The Tigers were members of the original Southern League at that time. It was reported that 54 large electric lights were temporarily scattered about Athletic Park and the baseball was covered with prosperous.
Coach McGugin was not unfamiliar to night football. In 1902, as a freshman football player for Drake University, McGugin played in a night football game. McGugin would transfer to Michigan the next year to play for the Wolverines. Horn asked McGugin about that game three decades earlier.
“The lights didn’t seem to bother us so much as I recall it, “Dan McGugin was saying yesterday. “Of course, we didn’t have the forward pass then for that was quite a ways back. Yes, I expect it was more than 30 years ago. Fully that long.
“How did the boys get along handling punts?”
“Well, our side did all right,” said the Vandy skipper. “I did the punting for Drake and I was so busy keeping my eye on the ball. I don’t seem to remember how the other fellows got along handling.”
Vanderbilt went into the game with a 2-1-2 record. The Commodores secured wins over Cumberland and North Carolina with a loss to Ohio State. They also tied Oklahoma and Mississippi State. LSU was 3-0-1 with a defense that recorded four shutouts.
The Tennessean gave this partial report on the game’s outcome:
“Under the arc lights, Vanderbilt came back into the spotlight tonight finishing a furious struggle with the Louisiana State Tigers, 7 and 7. Thereby the Commodores became the first foe of the Tigers to cross their unblemished goal line. Until Nollie Peeples caught a pass down the alley and stepped over the line, no enemy of the Tigers this year had been closer than the L.S.U. 16-yard marker.
“The deadlock was the second suffered by the Jones’ Juggernaut this year and the third snarl in which Vandy has been involved. Previously the Tigers were held to a scoreless tie by Centenary while Oklahoma and the Mississippi Maroons deadlocked the Commodores. An aerial bomb brought both touchdowns tonight in the first nocturnal battle which Vandy ever staged.”
Vanderbilt offered to its football season ticket holders a gathering at the university’s gym for a special detail accounting of the progress of the game. Fred Russell, of the Nashville Banner, wrote after the game:
“Consciously or unconsciously, Senator Huey Long was a contributing factor to Vanderbilt’s tie with L.S.U. Saturday night. Vanderbilt players testify that for no reason at all the Kingfish appeared at their blackboard drill Saturday afternoon and proceeded to fire them up wait talk of Louisiana State’s gridiron greatness. ‘We have five teams and all are of about the same strength,’ said the Senator to the boys. ‘Of course either could beat you tonight.’ And he continued with words about himself and L.S.U. that naturally inflamed the Commodores.”
Russell continued, “Some say Coach Dan McGugin foxed Huey. They figured McGugin invited him to say a word or so knowing he would pop off and make the boys mad. I doubt this. The Kingfish is not dumb. It is easier to believe that he cooperated with McGugin.”
Vanderbilt finished that season 4-3-3 in what was the inaugural year of the Southeastern Conference. The Commodores were 2-2-2 in league play. LSU concluded the season at 7-0-3. Their Conference record was 3-0-2.
Vanderbilt played its first night game in Dudley Field on September 25, 1954 when Baylor defeated the Commodores, 25-14. Reverend Billy Graham donated the stadium lights for his appearances in Nashville.
On September 28, 1892, Mansfield State Normal School (now Mansfield University) played Wyoming Seminary at Smythe Park in Mansfield, Pa., for the first night college football game. A special lighting system was installed, but reported to be unsatisfactory. At halftime the game was called off with the score, 0-0. The game was conceived as way to attract crowds at the Mansfield Fair that year. It was estimated that 18,000 to 20,000 people attended the contest. Thomas Edison invented electricity just 13 years earlier.
This was only the fifth game Mansfield had played in their short football history. Wyoming Seminary (Kingston, Pa.) was a powerful prep school that had been playing football for eight years. The game was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and started at 6:45 p.m. Some reports indicate that some of the lights were hung in the middle of the field on a pole. Other accounts state that the lights were spread along the front of the grandstand.
The first professional football game played under “floodlights” was on November 6, 1929 between the Providence Steam Roller and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League. The game was played in Providence, R.I. in Kinsley Park Stadium. The Steam Roller lost, 16-0 before 6,000 fans. A newspaper report stated that the ball was painted white for the game and resembled a large egg.
Traughber’s Tidbit: The first radio broadcast of a Vanderbilt football game came from Atlanta on November 10, 1928. The Commodores lost to Georgia Tech, 19-7. Dave Morris did the play-by-play for Nashville-based WSM radio.
Tidbit Two: The Vanderbilt football team made its first airplane trip to Chicago to play Northwestern University on September 26, 1947. The Commodores won the game, 3-0.
Tidbit Three: Vanderbilt played its first indoor game on October 4, 1975 in the New Orleans Superdome. The Commodores won that contest over Tulane, 6-0 on Mark Adams two field goals.
If you have any comments or suggestions you can contact Bill Traughber via e-mail WLTraughber@aol.com.
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Originally posted by jeep3r
reply to post by ArMaP
If my interpretation or understanding is correct ...
Error level analysis at its base level is difference / comparative process.
You can mimick what that website does to an extent by taking the image, saving a more compressed copy and then subtracting it from the original.
Basically it's using the properties of JPEG compression since applications such as Adobe or spliced images handle block based compression uniquely.
the authors exactly meant when referring to heavy JPEG compression causing their method to become (potentially) less reliable.
If an image is saved multiple times over and over again or saved at very low quality, this technique does become less reliable and on the opposing
side covering your image in noise will alter every compression block and make it harder to interpret. That would get you caught out in other ways
Whether I got it right or not: I certainly ask myself whether there's no way to preserve the natural noise variance
It's called counter-forensics. (I wouldn't call it noise variance exactly maybe but yus its valid question anyway>.<)
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by wmd_2008
But, as I always say, if done by a professional, nobody would notice it.
Before I start, I say I think you're awesome Armap. ATS will hate me for this, but what you saying isn't quite
accurate and showing ATS persons
photos is not a test of forensics at all.
Image forensics doesn't happen on ATS. Not being mean! Just we don't do comparative science here and if we did, very few persons would read it.
NASA has provided a certain level of transparency with their imagery and hardware leaving them vulnerable if they are faking and altering images. The
image forensics game has developed fast in the last ten years, and we keep finding more ways to model and classify CG and tampered imagery.
Perhaps if they are using incredibly
solid computer generation software and virtual cam, they could be generating the images entirely, but even
then. To say 'if done by a professional' no one would notice ... no not a professional, a counter-forensics God
would be needed to do this, or
they shooting on film sets (again haha).
This is really
brief stuff, but it should give an idea:
Camera lenses are an image ballistics go to - they often contain unique properties which can be modelled.
Chromatic abberation, for example, is from failure to focus light from all wavelengths; different wavelengths of light will hit different parts of the
sensor which can be modelled and then compared to other images. The image center can also be defined to detect cropping, and any attempts to composite
would have to match any lens abberations such as this. There are multiple of these types of things that could be targetted in the Curiousity dataset.
NASA have also been pretty up front about their sensor and other hardware choices. Their choice of color filter array for example. The demosaicing
process and interpolation creates periodic correlation patterns. Changes in this pattern would show that an image was altered, and Curiousity is
providing a huge
data set for consistency investigations here.
The actual editing process is a whole other maths mine field. Scaling, rotating etc ... will resample the image. Again this can be modelled. With the
massive data set provided by Curiousity, hue, saturation, and luma can be areas to look for inconsistent maths. Natural image statistics
(investigation of regularities inherent to natural images) can be a massive boon also as well as our numerous and well understood optics laws.
Digital Image Forensics has come a long
way. Art tools aren't developed to create forgeries. In fact, they're quite lousy at it in an instance
where a lot of information is known about the photos being taken. Even minor changes by the camera itself can be quantified with maths.
There was a time at the start of the digital age where image forensics looked like it was deep trouble ;the wide availability of video equipment meant
that broadcast attacks on video security scanners and similar things became a real concern, and catch up was needed. Such scanners can now recognize
when they are recieving a rogue signal even if their network doesn't just by analyzing the image presented to it.
There have been large numbers of statistical investigations into how images are captured and formed with surprisingly good results. Classification
accuracies in studies reaching 90% is not uncommon, though this number can drop considerbly with some techniques out the wild ... the point is we're
getting a lot better at it, and the danger of new approaches rumbling high profile fakery is quite high.
edit on 7-3-2013 by Pinke because:
(no reason given)
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This house project is founded on the concept of Louis Kahn: a company of space: the project consisted in organizing spaces with different uses related to the individual, around the space of family, gathered in a coherent space unit.
This project is based on the following space concepts:
- the room (space of the community) and the part (space of the individual).
Thus, establishment of the parts, (rooms or services (garage, storeroom)) defines the room, the space of life of the family (stay, kitchen); all these spaces being joined together under the same pave (roof) – the Mediterranean house closed on public space and opened on the patio-garden.
All spaces of the house dilate on the garden by the means of terraces (on all the orientations). Alls the openings “are dug” in the frontage, thus ensuring a protection the sun or the bad weather. Lastly, this building site was the subject of many details, since we drew all furniture (kitchen, chimney,pieces of furniture, etc…).
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Suwannee River Water Management District
The Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) is the smallest of five Florida water management districts that is responsible for managing groundwater and surface water resources in a 15-county region in north-central Florida. SRWMD employs 68 people at the district headquarters in Live Oak, Florida.
The five water management districts were established in 1972 by Chapter 373, Florida Statutes, and were empowered by the electorate in 1976 to assess ad valorem taxes to fund the management of the state’s water resources, and related land resources, to benefit the citizens and the environment. Each water management district is controlled by a Governing Board composed of citizens appointed by the Governor and approved by the Florida Senate. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has oversight responsibility for the five water management districts.
SRWMD’s hydrological activities include regulating the consumptive use of water, regulating the construction and maintenance of stormwater management systems that serve developed properties in order to protect water quality and prevent flooding, regulating the construction of water wells and the licensure of water well contractors, conducting water supply planning, conducting research on water resource issues, buying and managing environmentally sensitive land, and the operation of flood control structures.
The Florida counties which are entirely within the SRWMD are: Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor, and Union. Partial counties include: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Jefferson, Levy and Putnam.
The major river under the district's control is (obviously) the Suwannee. The major tributaries are the: Santa Fe, Alapaha and Ichetucknee. Other rivers include the Withlacoochee, Fenholloway, Aucilla, Steinhatchee, Econfina, Waccasassa and Wacissa.
See also
- Northwest Florida Water Management District
- St. Johns River Water Management District
- South Florida Water Management District
- Southwest Florida Water Management District
- Florida Statutes Section 373.069
- Florida Statutes Section 373.503
- Florida Statutes Section 373.073
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection website: Water Management Districts
- Part II of Chapter 373, Florida Statutes
- Part III of Chapter 373, Florida Statutes
- Part IV of Chapter 373, Florida Statutes
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You've heard of helicopter parenting, free range parenting, the Tiger Mom philosophy, and even slow parenting. While each of the concepts uses different practices, they all have a common goal — raising well-adjusted children who will be contributing members of society. But what is a mom to do when her child is living on borrowed time? As one mom explains, it's time to throw the parenting books and magazines away and live in the moment.
Over the weekend, Emily Rapp wrote about life with her 18-month-old son, Ronan, in The New York Times. In Notes From a Dragon Mom, she described her parenting philosophy based on her son's Tay-Sachs disease diagnosis. Ronan will most likely die before seeing his third birthday. With so much of parenting based on preparing children for the future, Rapp is eschewing the common philosophies and living each day in the moment. She writes:
But today Ronan is alive and his breath smells like sweet rice. I can see my reflection in his greenish-gold eyes. I am a reflection of him and not the other way around, and this is, I believe, as it should be . . . Parenting, I've come to understand, is about loving my child today. Now. In fact, for any parent, anywhere, that's all there is.
What do you think about Rapp's Dragon Mom philosophy? Should we abandon all others and simply stick to hers?
Source: Flickr User WTL photos
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Constructing new houses to accommodate the growth in population is a tough task not only for the architects but for the environment too considering the amount of waste and CO2 emissions related with building construction. To ease the process on both ends, architect and designer Fernando Grasso has come up with a modular home that can be built easily with glass fiber reinforced plastic or GRP.
While plastic isn’t exactly a green material, but the end result that the designer plans to give it to, will definitely be eco friendly. Dubbed Modular Home 03, the concept dwellings are made to be maintenance free so you don’t have to paint them again after every couple of years. Moreover, the robust houses can be produced in factories, thus minimizing waste on the site.
The homes are designed to be manufactured in a series production environment, much like a car, and the owners will be given the option to add more modules without making any changes to the already built structure. New modules, such as new bedroom, will come with all facilities such as a bathroom, water tank and storage space, letting owners increase the size of their home in a breeze.
The self-sufficient dwellings are designed to be powered by solar panels and wind turbines along with heat pump.
Thanks: [Fernando Grasso]You May Also Like:
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Do You Trust the Internet? — Survey of the Day
The scope of the internet is mind-boggling. These days, there is more information available to you on your Smartphone than there is the world’s largest libraries.
But is this information you can so easily access from the web reliable?
According to a new Harris Interactive poll, the answer is a resounding no. Ninety-eight percent of the 1,900 adults surveyed answered that they distrust information on the internet.
Furthermore, 94 percent believe “bad things” can happen as a result of acting on inaccurate web info.
When asked why they are so skeptical of the internet, the respondents pointed to “too many ads” (59 percent) ”outdated information” (56 percent) “information is self-promotional” (53 percent) and “unfamiliar forums (45 percent).
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After 60 years of photographing, one of the few things I’m sure of is that I don’t know how to make a photograph good. I have a fair chance of doing that whenever I photograph something I’d want to show you—something that gets my attention and pleases or stimulates me visually. I make black-and-white still photographs, so that sound, smell, hot, cold, and color don’t register in them. I enjoy the whole sensory experience, but everything that works in my pictures has to do it visually in motionless black, gray, and white tones. Paths of motion are recorded, but their record on paper doesn’t move.
When I’m photographing there’s little room in my mind for thinking. Photography is not an intellectual pursuit. For me, thinking gets in the way of seeing, and in pictures seeing is all that counts. I have to give it full attention. Fortunately, when something that I see grabs me, my thinking dims way down, though some conscious actions remain. I move around, changing my viewpoint to include what looks good and leave out what doesn’t. I focus, and when photographing moving things, I try for good timing—the time when things look best. I push the button then, or just a little before. That’s about all the shooting method I have. Printing takes longer and gives me more time to decide. For shooting I like auto-exposure, but I switch to manual when I know that the camera can’t handle it. I do such things intuitively, not by calculation. Experience has taught me to recognize what will work easily, and what probably won’t work at all. I’ve come to like trying for pictures that seem impossible. Now and then, one works.
Ignore the rules
The visible world is complex beyond our understanding, so pat rules about how to show it in pictures are too simple to deal adequately with reality. In art, rules are best ignored. Like thinking, rules get in the way of perception. If you believe that you must always break them, that itself is a rule, and just as silly as the rest. Still, if you’ve been taught rules that you’re afraid to break, obeying my anti-rule might help to set you free. The anti-rule is, Whenever you see a rule, break it immediately. Rules are clichés. A cliché is a truth or part-truth so thoroughly worn out by popular misuse that it has lost its original meaning.
Clichés are weary words, but can be used well, unlikely as that seems. One example is the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who studied painting with André Lhote, who taught nonsense about geometry that he thought pictures needed. Judging from what he said, Cartier-Bresson always believed in Lhote’s rules and conformed to them, but his eye and talent were so good that his pictures work in spite of it. That’s also true of the painter, José Clemente Orozco, who believed, briefly, in a system of design called dynamic symmetry. Orozco, too, did work that conformed to a dumb system, but his painting was good anyway. He, at least, soon saw that dynamic symmetry was useless and quit using it. When you meet a method that guarantees success in art, steer clear of it. I’m reminded of an art school dean I knew, an administrator who had no real clue about painting. He followed two infallible systems at the same time—dynamic symmetry and the French painter Jacques Maroger’s perfect palette, a hopelessly tame color-harmony scheme. The dean’s paintings were ultra-correct and duller than dishwater (a cliché that fits them exactly).
It may not surprise you that although the Zone System popularized by Fred Archer and Ansel Adams shows a clear understanding of black-and-white film exposure and development, I don’t follow its doctrine of visualizing, and I can’t do all the calculating it requires without meanwhile losing track of my picture. Some people do all that well. It works for them, but not for me. I can’t visualize worth a damn, so I have to make do with mere seeing. In short, do what works for you, and don’t do anything that doesn’t.
Seeing and feeling what’s in front of us clearly enough to photograph it well is not particularly hard, but it certainly is elusive. No step in conventional black-and-white photography is difficult, but then, doing them all correctly guarantees nothing. Many people strike all the notes correctly, but not so many play music. Note the word, “play.” When I worked for Ralph Steiner, he came up with many verbal gems. One was: “Play is hard work that you don’t have to do.” Much of what passes for art is just proficiency in going through the motions. Rather than trying to interpret what I see, I try to go straight to the seeing and feeling, and push the button before they disappear.
Catching elusive visions is largely a matter of taking long chances; of doing things we don’t know how to do. That’s how we learn technique, and what we learn it for. Learned and practiced skill frees us to act impulsively without making too many mistakes and improves our chances of getting lucky.
The importance of luck
I remember talking with André Kertész, who spoke English through a filter of French learned imperfectly from Hungarian. He made himself understood. He’d say, “I had ze chance” (shahnss), French for luck. No one I know of works more simply than he did, and very few work nearly as well. He was right to call it luck. As I’ve been saying for years, my not-entirely-frivolous def inition of talent is: Unreasonably consistent good luck. I have also said for years, You have to give luck a chance.
If you don’t push the button you will make no mistake but you will have no picture, not even a bad one. Catching elusive visions is largely a matter of being ready to see them. An old cliché in photojournalism is “ƒ/8 and be there.” The ƒ/8 is part of a state of readiness, as is being where we can see what we most need to see at the time.
So what do we need to see? As a photographer without clients, what I need to see is always near me wherever I am. When I’m ready to see what’s there, no problem. When I’m not ready, there’ll be no pictures, and that’s perfectly all right. The here and now is all we ever have, and fortunately, it keeps changing.
The simplest things, when we really see them, are fascinating. But trying to “really see” them makes it impossible. We are so busy trying that we can’t see anything without distraction. It’s better just to have the camera ready and pay attention to what’s around us, without worrying about pictures. If we don’t see anything we want to photograph, no problem. We don’t have to take a picture today. When we look at things without wishing or trying, they’re more likely to show themselves to us. It’s like rushing into the woods and peering around for animals. We won’t see them. But if we stay there quietly long enough, they will come out. Making big demands scares away everything but our anxiety. It can’t be forced.
I have a kitchen window that looks out on a back yard of unmanicured trees and ground. I seldom interfere with the yard, which lives its own life. When I have breakfast, a camera is on the table, and as the days come and go, all kinds of things happen out there, some of them wonderful. When what happens there begs to be photographed, I am happy to comply. I don’t chase after it: it is there. Most of my yard pictures are commonplace and predictable, and that’s all right with me. But now and then something wild both surprises me and looks photographically impossible. I focus on such things with special interest, and trip the shutter, and hope for luck. Most such tries fail as expected, but a few come through and give me good surprises. Accordingly, I make many prints I’m not sure about, of photos I’m far from sure of, and again, most fail. But a few come through in spite of everything. Sometimes it takes me a long time to accept them, mostly because they’re unfamiliar. But the best eventually work their way into my reluctant favor, f ighting my doubts all the way, and those I prize. They have shown me something new, and—just as surprising— I have learned to see it. For this I am grateful. It comes from taking chances.
Just being there is a sort of approachless approach that I have come to like. And this now leads me to complete the line that I’ve used for my title: When in doubt, try it out.
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Joe Weisbord joined Fannie Mae at the national office about six months ago. His official title is "Senior Policy Analyst Homelessness Initiatives."
Joe has spent his career finding ways to assist people who need housing.
He was in Dallas yesterday for a series of meetings. I spent about four hours with him. I learned a lot about a tragic, continuing problem facing our nation and my hometown.
During the course of any year over the past decade, approximately 3 million Americans experienced homelessness. For around a quarter million people, homelessness is a chronic condition.
Interestingly, less than 10% of the homeless consume almost half of the homeless assistance resources that are available to communities like Dallas.
Shelters do not provide a solution to the problem.
Solid research tells us that doing nothing to address the issue of homelessness is actually more expensive than developing and implementing effective responses to the problem.
National studies reveal that supportive housing solutions--i.e. providing stable, permanent housing with supportive services for tenants--saves money, lots of money.
For example, studies conducted by the Corporation for Supportive Housing have shown that well-managed supportive housing reduces emergency room visits by as much as 57%; emergency detox services by 85% (I really get this stat--put me on the street with no resources and in about a month I would need detox in the worst way!); and incarceration by 50%.
The same research indicates that by providing stable housing options for people, earned income rises by a full 50%, employment grows in this population by 40% and well over 80% remain in the housing for at least one year!
A current national goal, agreed upon by the President, our Governors and Mayors from across the nation (to date over 180 states and localities have signed on), is to end chronic homelessness in 10 years. One benchmark of success is the plan to develop 150,000 new units of supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals.
Joe Weisbord came to Dallas to share how it is that Fannie Mae plans to pitch in to help the nation achieve the goal through its American Dream Commitment.
Thank God for Fannie Mae!
Here at Central Dallas Ministries, we have a single room occupancy apartment project on the drawing boards. We hope to develop between 150 and 200 "studio" apartments that are high-quality, beautiful and affordable for our fellow citizens and neighbors who need places to call home.
Anyone who would like to help us is more than welcome!
We think we have it figured out. After all, it is not really rocket science.
What people without homes need most is, well, homes.
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As a follow-up to the excellent Wonders of the Universe app released by Harper Collins, Fragile Earth brings us from the farthest reaches of the Universe back to our own beautiful blue world, whose surface is rapidly transforming due to the effects of climate change and human civilization.
With Fragile Earth those changes are brought to light with amazing satellite images and aerial photography, illustrating decades worth of data with a swipe of a finger.
Released on April 19 and developed in conjunction with Aimer Media, the iPad/iPhone app is set to become the definitive reference guide for all those interested in science, nature, photography and landscape.
Fragile Earth combines some of the most powerful images of the environment, showing before and after scenes of our natural world. Through these thought-provoking portraits from across the globe, the app captures the world’s beauty, vastness and vulnerability. Detailed ecological snapshots depict rivers which have dried up or flooded, erupted volcanoes, glaciers in the process of melting, and cities sprawling outward.
Fragile Earth’s innovative swipe function allows users to see years pass under their fingertips – from as far back as 1914 to the present day – by dragging multiple photographic layers across their screen to reveal images of a site before, during and after the landscape has changed.
“We set out to create an app that would convey the innate and delicate beauty of the world’s landscape, while highlighting the dramatic shifts that are taking place across the globe,” said Jethro Lennox, Head of Publishing for Collins Geo, a division of HarperCollins UK. “Not only is the Fragile Earth photography stunning, but we’ve also included more than 50 satellite images which provide detailed ecological snapshots from around the globe. This information is invaluable to anyone concerned for the state of the Earth, or those who are merely curious about our environment.”
Fragile Earth is available for download from the iTunes Store now — and until midnight Saturday, April 28, it’s available for just 99¢ in honor of Earth Week (regular price is USD $2.99). So be sure to grab your copy today!
Photos and additional information provided by Harper Collins and Walker Sands Communications
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The Future of Communications and Work
This month, The Digital Divide looks at ways people are putting communications back in the hands of the community and how technology is shaping the future of how we work.
First, we speak with the Personal Telco Project, a Portland nonprofit dedicated to the idea that people should have a bigger say in how their electronic networks are operated. They began in 2000 by turning people's houses and apartments into wireless hotspots (or "nodes"), and then set about building networks in public locations such as parks and coffee shops. We'll also take a look at the failed MetroFi attempt to cover Portland and hear recent news about another wireless provider, Clearwire.
Next, we hear a talk from the hacker CypherGhost on how modern automation allows you to send a letter 3000 miles for only 42 cents and what security vulnerabilities might exist in that infrastructure. He shares how the new "PLANET" barcode will track all mail in the future.
We also look at how technology is changing the future of work. Remote knowledge workers of today need to not only be in constant contact with their companies and customers—they also need to collaborate with their peers and managers. The future of work, hosted by Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo, interviews Kristin Wolff from the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce and Nate Di Niro from Earth Class Mail about the impact of technologies on the life of telecommuting employees.
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- Tehran; 7,352,000
- 1,648,000 square kilometers (636,296 square miles)
- Persian, Turkic, Kurdish, various local dialects
- Shiite and Sunni Muslim
- Iranian rial
- Life Expectancy:
- GDP per Capita:
- U.S. $6,800
- Literacy Percent:
Iran Facts Flag
Iran is a southwest Asian country of mountains and deserts. Eastern Iran is dominated by a high plateau, with large salt flats and vast sand deserts. The plateau is surrounded by even higher mountains, including the Zagros to the west and the Elburz to the north. Farming and settlement are largely concentrated in the narrow plains or valleys in the west or north, where there is more rainfall. Iran's huge oil reserves lie in the southwest, along the Persian Gulf.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who came to power in 1941, perpetuated a pattern of autocratic rule extending back to Cyrus the Great, whose Persian Empire reached its zenith in the sixth century B.C. Aided by the U.S., the shah initiated social and economic reforms financed by petroleum exports. His opponents reviled Westernization for tainting Iran's Islamic purity and cultural identity. Revolution broke out in 1978. The shah fled, and Ayatollah Khomeini imposed a fundamentalist theocracy, under which an estimated 70,000 critics were executed. The official state religion is the Shiite branch of Islam, practiced by most Iranians.
War with Iraq from 1980 to 1988 cost a million Iranian lives and devastated the economy. Iran confronts political and social transformation as some promote liberal ideas, while others hold fast to established Islamic traditions. An estimated seven million Iranians have access to the Internet, which has been used to circumvent government censorship. In December 2003 a massive earthquake struck the southeastern city of Bam, killing more than 30,000 people.
- Industry: Petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and other construction materials
- Agriculture: Wheat, rice, other grains, sugar beets; dairy products; caviar
- Exports: Petroleum, carpets, fruits and nuts, iron and steel, chemicals
—Text From National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition
Armed with cell phones, social media, and sometimes just sheer determination, youth from North Africa to the Middle East are struggling to take ownership of their future.
See images submitted to My Shot of the people, landscapes, and cities that make the Middle East such a beautiful and historic region of the world.
A glorious past inspires a conflicted nation. Learn how ancient Persia evolved into the modern Islamic Republic of Iran.
Shop National Geographic
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> Learning Center > Artificial pond plants
Artificial pond plants
here to see our selection of Artificial pond plants.
pond plants are a great way to add beauty to your pond and have
very little to no maintenance. Some people are not very good at growing
plants. It’s just a fact of nature. If you are one of these people,
but you still want a waterscape in your backyard, consider using artificial
Artificial pond plants do not look like the artificial plants of the
olden days. With advanced technology and newer manmade materials, current
artificial pond plants look so close to the real thing that you often
have to touch them to see the difference. Of course, with the sun, rain,
and wind, the colors in these plants will fade and you will have to
replace them periodically. For a more natural look, mix in artificial
pond plants with real pond plants, and no one will be able to tell the
difference except for the fish!
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A $2.5 trillion deficit-reduction deal brokered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama is grotesquely unfair. It also is bad economic policy. In the midst of a terrible recession, it will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.
At a time when the wealthiest people in this country are doing extremely well, and when their effective tax rate is the lowest in decades, the rich won’t contribute one penny more for deficit reduction. When corporate profits are soaring and many giant corporations avoid federal income taxes because of obscene loopholes in the tax code, corporate America will not be asked to contribute one penny more for deficit reduction. On the other hand, working families, children, the sick and the elderly – many of whom are already suffering because of the recession – will shoulder the entire burden.
The corporate media – which, by and large, covered this debate as if it were a baseball game with political “winners and losers” – mostly glossed over the real-life implications of $917 billion in cuts over the next 10 years. Nobody can predict exactly what programs will fall under the knife or say how much they will be cut. Those decisions will be made over the coming months and years by the appropriations committees. But here’s what’s at stake:
* At a time when there are long waiting lists for affordable child care and Head Start, it is likely that these programs will be cut significantly.
* At a time when the United States is falling further and further behind other countries in the quality of our education, it is likely that tens of thousands of teachers and school personnel will be laid off.
* At a time when working families are finding it harder to send their kids to college, it is likely that there will be cuts in federal student aid programs.
* At a time when hunger among seniors and children is rising, it is likely that there will be cuts in various nutrition programs.
* At a time when 50 million Americans have no health insurance and many of them are utilizing community health centers for their medical needs, it is likely that there will be cuts in primary health care.
* At a time when states, cities and towns already laid off over 500,000 public service employees, it is likely that there will be even more police and firefighter layoffs and large reductions in federal support for roads, bridges, water quality, sewage and public transportation.
That’s just for starters. There likely will be cuts in home heating assistance, affordable housing, support for family-based agriculture and research in finding cures for cancer and other diseases. There likely will be major staffing reductions in agencies charged with protecting the physical health and economic well-being of our people. It is quite likely that the EPA, which enforces clean water and clean air rules, will be cut. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates Wall Street, will be undermined. It is also very possible that the Social Security Administration, which assures that seniors and the disabled receive the benefits to which they are entitled in a timely manner, will also be cut.
That is just the first round of $900 billion in cuts.
In the second phase of the $2.5 trillion package, sweeping new powers are given to a 12-member evenly divided House and Senate super committee. The panel’s mandate is to look at every federal government program and come up with $1.5 trillion more in savings. With Republicans and an increasing number of Democrats calling for major cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, all of those programs will be in jeopardy.
If the committee is unable to agree, cuts will happen anyway. A sequestration process would require $500 billion in cuts to defense spending and $500 billion more in across-the-board cuts to domestic discretionary spending. In that scenario, Social Security, Medicare benefits and Medicaid would be spared, but even more draconian cuts would occur in programs that sustain working families.
There is a great irony in all this. The deficit deal does exactly the opposite of what the American people wanted. In poll after poll, the American people said they believe in shared sacrifice. Instead of putting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education and environmental protection on the chopping block, overwhelming majorities say the best way to reduce the deficit is to end tax breaks for the wealthy, big oil and Wall Street and take a hard look at military spending. What President Obama and Congress did, however, was to let the wealthy and large corporations contribute nothing while making major reductions in services for working families and the most vulnerable people in our country.
Enough is enough! The American people must fight back. We need a government which represents all the people, not just the wealthy, campaign contributors and lobbyists. In these tough and discouraging times, despair is not an option. This fight is not just for us, it is for our children and grandchildren and for the environmental survival of the planet.
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Substitutes for Meat Substitutes
A lot of people have the impression that eating vegan means that you have to spend an arm and a leg on Tofurky and Trader Joe’s special vegan whatever. This isn’t true, there are plenty of cheap and easy ways to make meat substitutes with cheap, whole food ingredients.
- Seitan, Tempeh, and Tofu - These are 3 meat substitutes that are very popular in vegan cooking. Seitan is the best for meat lovers gone veg. Tofu is good for making weird textures like scrambled eggs or ricotta cheese.
- Nuts and Seeds - Healthy and very common in raw food recipes, also really good for staying full while eating vegan.
- Beans and Legumes - Filling and full of fiber, beans and legumes are a great source of protein and are delicious.
- Portobello Mushroom (photo above) - Which produces helps your body produce its own antioxidants and helps with blood flow. Marinated mushrooms can be a great way to add some meaty flavor and a savory texture to your shroom.
- Combos - Adding the foods mentioned above with grains like barley, bulgur what, or quinoa are a great way to make food like veggie burgers or “meat”loaf
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Dear Dr. Roach: I’m concerned that my husband might have transient global amnesia. I accidentally found a note that his deceased wife left, which stated that he had this. Could you explain to me what this condition is, and is there some kind of test to determine if he really has this condition? Can it be corrected, or will it lead to Alzheimer’s disease? What should I look for, and how can I help him? Anything you can tell me will help relieve some of my anxiety. — J.A.C.
Transient global amnesia is a fairly rare neurologic condition whose name tells what you need to know: It is “transient,” lasting less than 24 hours; “global,” meaning it affects your entire memory; and “amnesia,” meaning you lose your memories. Unlike “Hollywood” amnesia, where people can’t remember who they are, transient global amnesia is a loss of recent memories — the past day, month or occasionally even longer. But it lasts a short time and is unlikely to recur. It does not lead to Alzheimer’s.
Transient global amnesia is a much less common cause of abrupt memory loss than other neurologic condition, especially stroke or epilepsy, both of which can cause similar symptoms. So, anyone with sudden memory loss needs urgent evaluation to look for these and other neurologic conditions.
Even though transient global amnesia is very scary when it happens, it is a benign condition in hindsight. Unfortunately, it doesn’t protect you against also getting other memory loss, Alzheimer’s or stroke later on.
Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 87-year-old WWII veteran, in fairly good health, play golf twice a week and have good blood pressure. I lost my wife of 66 years in September. Our family doctor gave me alprazolam for stress and depression. I am not taking this very often anymore. I still have trouble sleeping. He has put me on 10 mg zolpidem. They help me for exactly five hours, which helps. I am concerned about how long I can take this without it becoming habit-forming or experiencing any side effects. Do you have anything else that would help me get a good night’s sleep? — G.R.
Mourning is normal after the death of a spouse. Mourning can have many of the same symptoms of depression, including sleep disturbances. These typically last six months, but some people have problems for much longer.
Keeping up with your activities and staying in contact with close friends and relatives is very important. Normal grieving can turn to pathologic depression, so stay in touch with your doctor to see if you may need treatment for depression.
All sleeping pills can be habit-forming. All medications can have side effects. The biggest concern about long-term use of sleeping pills are falls, which can be very serious for someone in his 80s. There is also evidence that with long-term use, they increase the risk of car accidents.
I would recommend going to every other day on the zolpidem right away, then gradually take them away completely.
Sleep hygiene techniques are very important. Avoid television or bright lights before bed. Don’t lie in bed for a prolonged time when you know you won’t sleep.
DR. KEITH ROACH is a syndicated columnist with North America Syndicate Inc., P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
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Latex overlays inflate to provide the tactile sensation of pressing a button
It seems increasingly rare to see a new gadget these days without a touchscreen. However, touchscreens' versatility is both the technology's biggest strength and its weakness. We've lost the tactile memory we associate with our television remote controls or old cell phones, where we knew and could feel exactly where the buttons we needed were without bothering to look. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are trying to combine the benefits of both, by adding a latex overlay on top of a touchscreen that inflates to create a tactile surface.
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Ashley Adams and her husband, Andy, were shocked to discover they were expecting quadruplets in March.
The couple have been married for four years and were looking to start a family. After trying unsuccessfully for some time to conceive, Ashley underwent infertility treatments and received a double dose of Clomid, which often results in a multiple-birth pregnancy.
"When the doctors told us we were having quads, we were extremely terrified and ridiculously excited all at the same time," Andy said. "It was just unimaginable."
Ashley added, "I didn't know how to process it initially, but it felt like a blessing."
But their surprise turned to fear when doctors diagnosed 24-year-old Ashley with thyroid cancer four months into her pregnancy.
"We were pretty overwhelmed when we found out," Andy said. "We were lost and scared and didn't know what to do."
Doctors had discovered an abnormality in Ashley's thyroid during an ultrasound, and a biopsy diagnosed it as stage 1 cancer. The cancer had spread to her lymph nodes.
"It was scary to find out about the cancer and thinking about what could happen, but if I stressed out about it, the babies would feel it, and I could possibly go into labor even earlier," Ashley said. "Dying was not an option, and our doctors were so reassuring that we just held on to that."
Multiple-birth pregnancies are often complicated, said Ashley's doctor, Julie Scott, a high-risk obstetrician at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. As a result, Ashley wanted to wait until after the babies were born at 30 weeks to undergo cancer surgery. She delivered one boy and three girls, two of them identical twins, on Aug. 26.
Her surgery, a seven-hour procedure that included a thyroidectomy and lymph node removal, took place a few weeks later and was successful.
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Bretton saw himself live again in a son who inherited his looks and his disposition; he had stately daughters, too, like himself: these children he reared with a suave, yet a firm hand; they grew up according to inheritance and nurture.
In short, I do but speak the truth when I say that these two lives of Graham and Paulina were blessed, like that of Jacob's favoured son, with "blessings of Heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under." It was so, for God saw that it was good.
But it is not so for all. What then? His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The impulse of creation forwards it; the strength of powers, seen and unseen, has its fulfilment in charge. Proof of a life to come must be given. In fire and in blood, if needful, must that proof be written. In fire and in blood do we trace the record throughout nature. In fire and in blood does it cross our own experience. Sufferer, faint not through terror of this burning evidence. Tired wayfarer, gird up thy loins; look upward, march onward. Pilgrims and brother mourners, join in friendly company. Dark through the wilderness of this world stretches the way for most of us: equal and steady be our tread; be our cross our banner. For staff we have His promise, whose "word is tried, whose way perfect:" for present hope His providence, "who gives the shield of salvation, whose gentleness makes great;" for final home His bosom, who "dwells in the height of Heaven;" for crowning prize a glory, exceeding and eternal. Let us so run that we may obtain: let us endure hardness as good soldiers; let us finish our course, and keep the faith, reliant in the issue to come off more than conquerors: "Art thou not from everlasting mine Holy One? We shall not die!"
On a Thursday morning we were all assembled in classe, waiting
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CHANDIGARH: It's exam time for students of classes X and XII and with Board exam dates nearing the students are creating their own study space in the house. While some are seen roaming with their books in hand, others are busy listening to music and solving mathematical problems. With everyone having their own style to study, TOI looks at some of the favourite study styles of classes X and XII students preparing for Boards.
Paras Gupta, a Class-XII student, said, "I read out loud and then I write what I have learnt. And for the same, I like to sit alone as otherwise the whole family gets disturbed and keeps interrupting. Also, I like to take small intervals in between my study schedule."
Geetika Jain, a Class-XII student, said, "I like to have the room to myself while studying in order to avoid disturbance. I prefer silence all around so that I can read out loud. Interestingly, when I don't understand something, I like vent my anger on things or scream and I know this will not be a pleasant sight so I prefer solitude. I also prefer studying at night."
Shikha Sharma, a Class-X student, said, "I can't study until I plug in my earphones with soft music. Without music I am unable to concentrate as the sounds from surrounding areas keeps disturbing me."
Hitanshu Sinha, another Class-XII student, said, "I feel very nervous whenever I think of exams so while studying I like to walk around. And I always need a pen or a pencil in hand or else I am unable to concentrate. My favourite time to study is in the morning and for the same I wake up at 3am every day, take a shower and start studying."
Apoorva Goyal, a Class-X student, said, "I like to get up in the morning at around 4am and study for three hours at a stretch, as I feel mornings are the best time to concentrate. I like to study alone, but after I have learnt my lesson, I usually grab hold of a friend to teach the same. For me group as well as individual studies work."
Rhythm Gautam, another Class-X student, said, "My friends and I study together in our free periods whenever we get the time. By studying together, I feel the stress level is low and nervousness is minimal. After I reach home, I revise what we have learnt at night and in the morning we meet early in school to study again. On holidays we study in groups."
The UT education department will launch its toll-free helpline from February 15 to March 31 to help students release examination related stress and give necessary guidance. For the same, a team comprising of 18 members including principals, lecturers, experts, officials of the education department, have been formed. The members can be contacted from 2pm to 8pm
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Nashville, Tenn. - December 13, 2006 -- Tissue regeneration strategies, such as stem cell research, have undergone notable developments over the past two decades. However, an article in the journal, Artificial Organs, suggests that many challenges must be overcome before regenerative medicine is accepted as a viable science.
Though the past decade has seen significant achievements in certain applications of regenerative medicine, it remains primarily a laboratory science with few successful products to attest to its promise. Despite widespread efforts for commercialization, the field failed to keep pace with the public’s expectations. "This brought about the perception that this was not a viable clinical alternative to organ transplantation," says Dr. V. Prasad Shastri, author of the study.
Stem cell-based therapy and other tissue regeneration strategies have the potential to revolutionize regenerative medicine and disease treatment. However, the challenges associated with this research, including limited access to stem cells and other materials, in addition to the fact that research is currently funded by the private sector, remain obstacles.
There is currently a lack of a coherent, comprehensive and unified government policy towards cutting edge research involving stem cells. Poor support from the government is further inhibited by geo-political considerations and there is inadequate public information on the research and a near complete absence of public debate.
In order to reverse the perception of regenerative medicine as non-functional, clear goals with tangible benefits must be set. All parties involved in this research must cooperate in order to ensure outcomes that are consistent with promises.
"With the proper framework and participation of all sectors of society and political support, tissue regenerative technologies are poised to change clinical medicine and significantly enhance the quality of life for all," says Dr. Shastri.
This study is published in Artificial Organs. Media wishing to receive a PDF of this article please contact firstname.lastname@example.org
V. Prasad Shastri, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D. is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University and can be reached for questions and interviews at Prasad.Shastri@Vanderbilt.edu.
Since 1977, Artificial Organs has been publishing original articles featuring the studies of design, performance, and evaluation of the biomaterials and devices for the international medical, scientific, and engineering communities involved in the research and clinical application of artificial organ development. Artificial Organs, published monthly, brings its readership the depth and breadth of the science and technology that continues to advance the Replacement, Recovery and Regeneration of organ systems. For more information, please visit www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/aor.
Blackwell Publishing is the world’s leading society publisher, partnering with 665 medical, academic, and professional societies. Blackwell publishes over 800 journals and has over 6,000 books in print. The company employs over 1,000 staff members in offices in the US, UK, Australia, China, Singapore, Denmark, Germany, and Japan. Blackwell’s mission as an expert publisher is to create long-term partnerships with our clients that enhance learning, disseminate research, and improve the quality of professional practice. For more information on Blackwell Publishing, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com or www.blackwell-synergy.com.
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.
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English 224 A (Item 1223)
Office: C-207 D Phone: 425-564-2425 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
Office Hours:9:30-10:30 Campus Mail: R 230
and 12:30-1:30 Daily
Required Texts: Himes: Voices in Wartime
Ninh: The Sorrow of War
Rabe: War Plays (Streamers)
Chattarji: Memories of a Lost War
O'Brien: The Things They Carried
Optional Text: Roberts: Writing About Literature (on reserve in the BCC library)
Objectives of the course:
English 224 Outcomes
By the end of the quarter, the student should be able to:
· Demonstrate various invention practices: brainstorming, free writing, outlining, journaling
· Demonstrate various patterns of organization and use an organization pattern that suits your identified purpose & audience.
· Illustrate the concept of audience in your writing.
· Artfully combine audience, purpose, and tone in compositions written in and outside of class.
· Write in a vocabulary appropriate to your subject and identified audience.
· Practice good group skills: how to give useful feedback, and how to make use of feedback you receive
· Develop self-assessment skills
· Demonstrate multiple ways of responding to literature.
· Work in groups to analyze various works.
· Effectively use your responses to literature in writing essays.
· Make connections between literature and your world.
1. Please refer to the web site on Arts and Humanities Policies (www.bcc.ctc.edu/arshum/policy.html), all of which apply in my classes. Pay special attention to the section on academic dishonesty. Plagiarism, which we will discuss in class, will not be tolerated. Be warned that BCC uses plagiarism detection methods that can easily find papers that are taken, in whole or in part, from the internet.
2. The grading for papers in this course will be based on a variety of factors, including readability, content, organization, use of sources, and overall effectiveness. A grading rubric will determine points for each assignment. Out of the assigned papers, you will choose three to revise extensively for a final grade.
3. Attendance (15%) is critical in this class, as much of our work is done in groups or in class discussion. Any absences beyond two will negativelyaffect your grade. A grade of F will result if you miss more than nine classes. Excessive lateness will count as an absence if I take roll before you arrive.
4. Your participation is essential to others in the class, whose participation grade depends in part on your preparation. Beyond the writing assignments, participation in groups, quizzes and class activities determines much of your grade, and is evaluated on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. You can ensure a good participation grade if you ask questions and try answering questions in class. Unsatisfactory participation will lower your paper grade by one letter.
5. Your lab fee entitles this class to use the Writing Lab computers. We might meet in the Writing Lab occasionally and use the computers for various assignments. You should use a computer for all of your outside writing (journals may be hand written if legible). The Lab also provides free tutorial help and instruction in editing.
6. Be sure to ask about any of our campus services: Writing Lab, Reading Lab, Multicultural Services, Women's Center, Disability Support Services, etc. We have many resources for our students, and we all want to help you succeed. See me if you would like to know more about available help.
7. If you require accommodation based on a documented disability, emergency medical information to share, or need special arrangements in case of emergency evacuation, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible. If you would like to inquire about becoming a DSS student you may call 564-2498 or go in person to the DSS (Disability Support Services) reception area in the Student Services Building.
Readings will be assigned in class. Begin reading immediately and set a regular time for reading each week. Since this class doesn't meet on Fridays, that might be one good time to devote to reading.
· Reading Log or Journal: (15%) Entries in the reading log will be made each week. These will be reviewed and graded, but not for content. Specific log assignments will be explained in class. The log can provide material for more formal writing assignments.
· Quizzes: (10%) These will be on the readings for each week. Quizzes will take various forms, including True/False, Short Answer, Contest and Essay. Students will participate in generating questions for most of the quizzes.
· Main Paper Assignments: (25%) These formal essays will come out of the discussions and log work, and will also take various rhetorical forms. The form of the papers is determined by the type of analysis featured in the assignment for a particular week. Topics for these assignments may be works not specifically assigned to be read as well as the assigned readings. At least one assignment will require some outside research. All papers should be 2-3 pages in their first draft form.
· Final Portfolio: (25%) Three of your weekly papers will be expanded and revised into final papers for the portfolio, which is turned in at the end of the quarter. These papers should be in final draft form, free of mechanical errors, and 4 or 5 pages long.
Oral Presentation (10%)
Length: 10-15 minutes
A presentation providing additional background about the writers and historical circumstances of the works we read (or other related works) is required of each person, but these may be presented in groups. The group members will all receive the same grade.
Each presentation must have some visual aids. These may include overheads, PowerPoint slides, posters, or charts. Overhead transparencies must be in 24-point font in order to be visible to the class. Our classroom is well-equipped for most presentations, but you must give me advance notice (at least 48 hours) if you need equipment that is not already in the classroom.
Late work: All assignments are due at the beginning of class. Papers turned in after that time will not receive credit. If you have several late papers, your final grade will suffer.
More about Plagiarism: Please visit and read the Avoiding Plagiarism page on the BCC Writing Lab web site (www.bcc.ctc.edu/writinglab). The information there also will help in the use of quoted material, which is an integral part of writing about literature.
General Considerations: I will employ reverse grading in this course: everyone begins the quarter with an A grade. That grade is either maintained throughout the quarter, or it is degraded by absence, late or shoddy work, lack of involvement in class and so on. By following directions and doing what is required, anyone can maintain an A until the end of the quarter.
Class Schedule (subject to change at any time)
Some weeks will also feature a quiz on the assigned reading, peer review sessions, and conferences. All of these are required.
Week One: Course introduction, introduction of class members, first writing assignment. Himes, Introduction and Part 1, pp. 10-63. Chattarji, pp. 1-25.
Week Two: Himes, pp. 67-158; Chattarji, pp. Film--Voices in Wartime (2005), Conferences
Week Three: Himes, pp. 163-234; Film--The Fog of War (2003);
Week Four: O'Brien, The Things They Carried; 10/11 no class; Film--Full Metal Jacket (1986)
Week Five: TTTC, continued; Conferences
Week Six: Ninh, The Sorrow of War; Film--We Were Soldiers (2002);
Week Seven: 10/30 no class; TSOW, continued
Week Eight: Rabe, Streamers; Film--Streamers (1980). 11/10 no class
Week Nine: Conferences; Independent work on presentations.
Week Ten: Presentations in class. Thanksgiving break 11/23, 24.
Week Eleven: Presentations in Class; Portfolio Due. Final In-class Essay.
Bellevue Community College uses the following grading system and standards in evaluating student performance (for more information, see the BCC Catalog):
“A” grades indicate “outstanding” achievement. The “A” student
· demonstrates consistent mastery of learning outcomes for the course
· demonstrates ability to interpret, integrate, and apply learning outcomes beyond the context of the course through application of critical and creative thinking skills
· completes work assignments that consistently exceed requirements and that interpret and apply objectives in new, unique, or creative ways
· demonstrates consistent leadership in class participation activities
“B” grades indicate “high” achievement. The “B” student
· demonstrates a high level of competence in learning outcomes for the course
· demonstrates ability to interpret, integrate, and apply learning outcomes within the context of the course through application of critical and creative thinking skills
· completes work assignments that consistently meet most requirements
· contributes regularly to class participation activities
“C” grades indicate “satisfactory” achievement. The “C” student
· demonstrates a satisfactory level of competence in learning outcomes for the course
· demonstrates competent ability to interpret, integrate, and apply learning outcomes within the context of the course
· completes work assignments that satisfy minimum requirements for the course
· satisfies minimum requirements for class participation activities
“D” grades indicate “poor” achievement. The “D” student
· demonstrates minimum competence in some learning outcomes for the course
· completes work assignments that usually meet minimum requirements
· contributes inconsistently or infrequently to class participation activities
“F” grades indicate “unsatisfactory” achievement. The “F” student
· cannot demonstrate competence in many or fundamental learning outcomes
· submits work assignments that frequently do not meet minimum requirements, or does not complete the assigned work does not satisfy minimum requirements for attendance or contribution to class activities
Good Luck in 101/130/131 this quarter! Let’s make it fun and productive.
Always remember that I want you to succeed but that you are responsible for your own success.
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METAL/NONMETAL MINE FATALITY - On July 24, 2004, a 19-year-old laborer with 8 days mining experience was injured at a crushed stone operation. The victim was operating a skid steer loader to clean spillage around the plant. He was found caught between the tilt cylinder assembly and the top front of the operator's cab. The victim was life-flighted to a hospital where he died on August 6, 2004.
This is the 14th fatality reported in calendar year 2004 for the Metal and Nonmetal mining industries. As of this date in 2003, there were 14 fatalities reported. This is the 3rd fatality classified as Powered Haulage in 2004. There was one Powered Haulage fatality in the same period in 2003.
The information provided in this notice is based on preliminary data ONLY and does not represent final determinations regarding the nature of the incident or conclusions regarding the cause of the fatality.
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Contemporary environmental problems are analyzed as prominent issues in international and domestic politics. Collective choices among sovereign states are discussed with respect to conservation of such global resources as tropical rain forests and the ozone layer. International negotiations and organizations that seek compromise between conservation and economic growth are studied. We inquire into the management of resources such as fish, farm land and energy by regional and national governments, and international agreements, with emphasis on Canadian policy.
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Japan's prime minister has announced that the country's reactors will be allowed to restart once they meet new safety standards. Meanwhile, a recent study by the World Health Organization concluded that health risks to the general public from the Fukushima Daiichi crisis are very low.Developments over the last week related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. nuclear plant blacked out by Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami include:Abe: Compliant Reactors Will Be Allowed to RestartOn Thursday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that his administration plans to approve the restart of reactors that meet standards under development by the country's new Nuclear Regulation Authority, the Mainichi Daily News reported. Overhauled safety regulations are slated to go into effect in July, and the country's nuclear utilities have been installing enhanced seawalls, filtered containment vents and emergency equipment to bring their reactors into compliance.Only two of the 50 reactors that once provided a substantial portion of Japan's electricity are currently operating. When the other plants will return to service, though, will remain an open question while the rules are finalized and the costs to implement them become clear. According to the Asahi Shimbun, none of the reactors have yet met all the requirements in the draft rules. The utilities indicated that adding the new safety enhancements will cost the industry nearly $11 billion, possibly more depending on the final rules. WHO: Fukushima Health Impacts Low for General PublicIn a two-year study released Thursday, World Health Organization researchers predicted low health risks and no observable increase in cancer rates among the general population of Japan stemming from the nuclear accidents. In a release, WHO Director for Public Health and Environment Dr. Maria Neira said, “A breakdown of data, based on age, gender and proximity to the nuclear plant, does show a higher cancer risk for those located in the most contaminated parts. Outside these parts - even in locations inside Fukushima Prefecture - no observable increases in cancer incidence are expected.”The research estimated that female infants in the most contaminated location would have a 70 percent increase in risk for thyroid cancer, a 6 percent increase in risk for breast_cancer and a 4 percent increase in risk for all solid cancers. Male infants in the most contaminated area are expected to have a 7 percent increase in risk for leukemia.A separate study released Tuesday by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, though, estimated that internal thyroid doses of year-old infants living within 30 kilometers of the plant averaged less than 50 millisieverts. That level is considered safe and is lower than earlier, more conservative WHO estimates, which factored in a wider range of contamination sources and different assumptions about evacuations.
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Natural/Organic Meat Shopping on the Rise: Survey
Some grocery spending is down but natural and organic meat and poultry shopping is up for the first time in years, according to the “2012 Power of Meat,” an annual study by the American Meat Institute, Food Marketing Institute and Sealed Air’s Cryovac Food Packaging Div.
This is the seventh annual report exploring consumer perceptions, attitudes and behaviors regarding fresh meat and poultry and food shopping and preparation in general. For the 2012 report, 1,340 people were surveyed in November 2011. The study explored a number of topics including consumer consumption and purchasing patterns, nutrition, marketing techniques, consumer interest in organic and natural meat, packaging and labeling. Some of its bullet points:
* Americans buying less groceries to reduce spending: The report found that of the shoppers who reduced grocery spending in 2011, 45 percent reduced their spending by simply buying less. This is nearly the same as the share of people who reduced their grocery spending by using lists, coupons and buying private label products.
* Natural and organic meat/poultry purchases increase for the first time in years: Natural and organic meat and poultry markets attracted new users in 2011 after several years of being flat. 24 percent of shoppers reported purchasing natural and/organic meat/poultry in the three months preceding the study, up from 20 percent the year before.
* Consumers frying less, slow-cooking more: Over the past five years, consumers reported frying less, with a 22 percentage-point decrease in frying as a meal preparation method. Use of slow cookers and ovens in meal preparation increased 12 percentage points over the past five years.
* Household income influencing meat and poultry purchases: Household income is a direct factor in frequency of meat and poultry consumption, as shoppers who experienced a drop in household income tend to eat meat and poultry less frequently -- an average of 3.8 dinners a week -- versus the average four dinners a week for most Americans.
* 51 percent of shoppers checked processed meat ingredients for sodium content, the first time this share exceeded 50 percent.
* Awareness of Country of Origin Labeling rose to 39 percent versus 33 percent in 2011, although it has little reported influence on purchasing decisions if the price of U.S. meat or poultry is higher.
* 28 percent of shoppers said they would purchase more meat and poultry if it were in environmentally friendly materials, even if it costs a little more; 49 percent said they would only purchase more if there was no price difference.
The Executive Summary is available for free download on the Cryovac site (http://cryovac.com/na/en/pdf/POM_summary.pdf). The full report can be purchased off the FMI site (www.fmi.org/forms/store/ProductFormPublic/search?action=1&Product_productNumber=2374) or the AMI site (www.meatami.com/index.php?display=GeneralSearch&action=AddSearchTermAction&searchstring=power+of+meat).
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Social Practice Workshop
Social practices incorporates art strategies as diverse as urban interventions, utopian proposals, guerrilla architecture, "new genre" public art, social sculpture, project-based community practice, interactive media, service dispersals, and street performance.
Overview: The Field of Social Practices
The field focuses on topics such as aesthetics, ethics, collaboration, persona, media strategies, and social activism, issues that are central to artworks and projects that cross into public and social spheres.
These varied forms of public strategy are linked critically through theories of relational art, social formation, pluralism, and democracy. Artists working within these modalities either choose to co-create their work with a specific audience or propose critical interventions within existing social systems that inspire debate or catalyze social exchange.
The Social Practices Area of Concentration
The Graduate Program in Fine Arts offers a concentration in social practices (SOPR). Because many of the opportunities for creating fully realized social artworks come from public commissions, long-term residencies, or the creation of alternative institutions or collectives, the SOPR concentration focuses on preparing students to conceive projects, articulate narratives that support them, and cultivate a network of fellow practitioners and supporting institutions.
The SOPR concentration, therefore, adopts a field-based model for its curriculum that is designed to immerse its participants in the discourse of a social arts practice and to provide them with opportunities to work contextually in a variety of public spheres, including urban environments, social groups, and popular media (e.g., newspapers, Internet publications, and public advertising spaces).
Students emerge with an in-depth understanding of theoretical issues and the ability to formulate a deep rationale for their practice, which will extend beyond their degree.
The combination of theory and practice culminates in a final project and a written master's thesis, which combines a thorough analysis of students' own projects with supporting text that relates their work to theories of art or social construction.
Visiting Artists & Scholars
A fundamental component of the SOPR concentration is its visiting artists and scholars. These professionals teach within with the SOPR workshop program, serving as guest instructors and taking part in the discourse related to students' work.
They share office/workspace within the SOPR workshop area, giving them a valuable proximity to students' daily practice and discourse.
Faculty & Students: Interaction
This arrangement allows for spontaneous and informal interaction between faculty and students, enriching the educational experience beyond the limitations of books, reviews, websites, and documentation.
This ability to foster an ongoing dialogue about the experience of creating projects and about how students' work fits within the context of social arts practice is a hallmark of the SOPR concentration.
Embedded within the Graduate Fine Arts curriculum, the SOPR concentration enables students to immerse themselves in interdisciplinary study, taking critique and theory seminars with studio-arts masters students as well as elective seminars with students from writing, curatorial practice, visual and critical studies, architecture, and design programs.
Students' work, therefore, whether fully realized or in the form of proposals or in-process reports, benefits from critical consideration across a variety of discourses.
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The Space Needle
The ghosts of City Council past are speaking to us. Or, at least, they wrote us a letter, which was recently unveiled in a time capsule dating back to 1962. The letter — which can be found on Publicola along with some commentary from Erica Barnett — reads somewhat awkwardly, like an alien visitor in a strange, foreign land. It details some happenings of the time, comments on how their garb probably looks funny to us, and, more hauntingly, predicts that Seattle today would either be a thriving metropolis or a "charred, deserted relic of a fearful age of nuclear warfare." Thankfully, we opted for the former, and not the post-apocalyptic Mad Max scenario. (No Thunderdome here ... yet.)
Barnett gives us a quick, blunt rundown of what Seattle has looked like since: "Since 1962, of course, traffic has gotten worse, the first floating bridge across Lake Washington, I-90, has been expanded, the second floating bridge is about to be replaced, Seattle Center is being renovated, and the city hall that seemed so new and modern in 1962 has been demolished. We still haven’t had another female mayor, and we still don’t have flying cars."
If anything, the Stranger-sponsored debate at the Spitfire grill was an exercise in pointing out the obvious: A liberal is going to win the seat in the 36th district. Seattlepi.com columnist Joel Connelly, who was present, reminisces and laments that the 36th district used to have a competitive market that produced standout lawmakers.
There is an inherent danger in today's candidates, who, as Stranger blogger David "Goldy" Goldstein points out in a follow-up, have positions that "couldn't be separated by a putty knife" — they might have trouble communicating with those outside the city. Connelly writes, "The fear, from Monday's debate, is that the 36th ends up with a marginalized state representative who makes a lot of noise but shows no inclination for coalition-building."
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While this is good news for kids, it does raise the question of why a district is so dependent on a local levy for funding (it provides about 20 percent of the school's total budget, or $4.5 million per year, which is a lot in ruralite bucks). Certainly, this case highlights at least somewhat the declining respect and seriousness which the Legislature has for education in the state.
For the NFL nerds out there, you may now feast your eyes on the season schedule. Or, if you can't make sense of that gobbedlygook, Seattle Times beat writer Danny O'Neil has a good guide to some of the highlights for the Seahawks. Of note is an early prime-time home game against the Green Bay Packers in Week 3. If the Seahawks somehow manage a win — which isn't too far-fetched, with a new quarterback, "Beast Mode" Marshawn Lynch, and a rather promising young team — Seattle could be put in the national spotlight as a competitive team (which in turn is mucho good for our economy). And if they don't win ... well. Nothing new, right?
Yes, the Space Needle is indeed turning Galaxy Gold, albeit only the top of it, and rather slowly, as quick progress has fallen victim to the Seattle drizzle. Seattlepi.com has details and pictures of the first strokes of paint. For those wondering more about the original colors, and some history about the decision, Crosscut's Mossback and Space Needle expert Knute Berger has got you covered.
As commenters pointed out in yesterday's Midday Scan, it would be nice if they reverted the color of the whole Needle as opposed to just the top. And bring back the gas flame! Hear, hear!
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
4221.0 - Schools, Australia, 2006
Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 26/02/2007
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Statistics on schools, students and teaching staff involved in the provision or administration of primary and secondary education, in government and non-government schools for all states and territories. Schools are classified by level of education (primary, secondary) and category (government, non-government); non-government affiliation (Catholic/Independent); students are classified by level and year of education, full-time/part-time, age, sex and category of school attended; teaching staff are classified by level of school education, category of school and sex.
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I don’t watch a lot of television these days, but occasionally a programme comes along that justifies taking time out to watch on BBC iPlayer. Such was the case with The Great British Countryside which saw Julia Bradbury and Hugh Dennis exploring the South Downs.
The hour long programme gives a wonderful taste of the South Downs, never lingering long in one place and covering the length of hills from the Seven Sisters on the East Sussex coast, through to the watercress beds of Hampshire.
There is some wonderful scenery, as one would expect, but also some explanation of how the Downs were formed and some of the properties of chalk and flint. Hugh Dennis climbs the chalk cliffs (presumably one of the Seven Sisters) and sees just how soft and crumbly the chalk is. We also learn how the chalk impacts on things like horse racing and growing grapes.
Subjects are varied, taking in the history, agriculture, industry and leisure aspects of the South Downs, in short a real cross-section of how man has interacted with the Downs over the centuries.
This programme is a great introduction to the South Downs and even those like me who have grown up in it’s shadow may learn a thing or two about this wonderful landscape.
This episode of The Great British Countryside is available to watch on BBC iPlayer until Thursday 15th March 2012.
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This time of year, we scramble to make sure that we perform routine maintenance on the KNOM buildings and equipment. As we go through this process, we encounter unusual circumstances. (Several years ago, as we were doing a visual inspection of the AM transmitter site, a herd of muskoxen decided to graze near the tower.)
KNOM volunteer engineer Rolland Trowbridge has discovered that the AM transmitter building (sitting on four wood pilings) sways a bit in the wind. Higher velocity wind causes vibrations that are loosening screws and nuts in the wiring and broadcast equipment.
Rolland has been busy tightening components of the AM transmitter – and even the screws holding the wiring in the building outlets.
His attentiveness and his dedication to mission have been a true blessing to KNOM.
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Environmental variables affect economic well-being in three major ways: direct effects on consumption or income of households, industry, and government; accumulation in the environment of stocks of residuals that then affect economic activities or economic assets; and effects on the service flows of economic assets, including capital stock, natural resources, and human resources. The main value of natural-resource accounting is in providing a complete picture of the role these resources play in the economy. Sometimes this information can be used to judge the overall sustainability of the use of resources, while at other times it can be used to manage natural and environmental resources and to inform public policy choices.
4.2 For valuation, the panel recommends that BEA rely primarily on market values or proxies of market values that are based on actual behavior. Contingent valuation, while sometimes useful for other purposes, is currently of limited value for environmental accounting in the context of the economic accounts.
Valuing environmental goods and services requires distinguishing between private and public goods. Market prices provide the marginal valuations for private goods, but determining the value of public goods requires the summation of individual values. Moreover, there may be no behavioral traces for individual valuation of public goods.
Price data are relatively reliable for private market goods produced from forest and agricultural assets, such as timber stumpage, livestock, and land use and quality. Values for near-market goods—those that have direct counterparts in the market—can be constructed by comparing the near-market goods with their market counterparts, adjusting for quality as necessary. Techniques for valuation of public goods are still under development. Some techniques—such as hedonic or travel-cost studies—rely on behavioral or market-based estimates; while these estimates are subject to significant measurement errors, they are conceptually appropriate in economic accounts. Other techniques, such as contingent valuation, are not based on actual behavior, are highly controversial, and are subject to potential response errors.
4.3 Quantitative data on many natural-resource assets are currently relatively adequate. However, the data on many environmental variables are at present poorly designed for the construction of environmental accounts. The panel recommends that greater emphasis be
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well its as the name suggests a simple data encryption algo only diff is that the length of key depends entirely upon the user and also the encryption follows a one time pad format i.e. once key is used to transfer data from A to B once if A is to transfer another set of confidential data to B in the same conversation, he/she will interrupted for another key.
Also the key is attached to the data and then sent over to the receiver so the receiver does not have to be aware of the existence of a key the decryption will automatically take place once the receiver clicks the decrypt button i.e. the algo will automatically take the key out of the data and follow the decryption steps automatically this way the receiver need not know of the existence of any key if he/she is not a computer professional.
I have implemented this algo in java and it works fine still I am working to improve it and to anyone who is willing to share his/her ideas with me please do your suggestions are valuable.
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Duct Cleaning, Sealing & Sanitization
Ducks versus ducts: let’s concern ourselves with the latter because most homeowners have no idea that their ductwork can accumulate mounds of dirt, dust and debris. That environment is a perfect breeding ground for microbes, insects, rodents and plenty of other unpleasant things. Duct cleaning, even in a new home, can result in a better, more dust-free indoor living environment.
In fact, duct cleaning is a smart investment that provides long-term benefits: an effective way to safeguard your home from the kinds of threats that undermine indoor air quality. So if we clean out the pond of those vicious ducts – yes, we’ve belabored this metaphor to the limit – your ducts will be fine. For if it looks a duct, acts like a duct and quacks like a duct – it’s a duct!
Why Should You Have Your Ducts Cleaned?
- Over time, mold and mildew can grow in your ducts, especially in humid climates. In order to prevent these spores from spreading through your home and making your entire family ill, you will want to ensure that your ducts are inspected and cleaned yearly.
- When you fail to have your ducts inspected, there is a chance that bugs, vermin or rodents can come in from outside and set up house in a vital part of your home.
- Dust and debris will accumulate throughout your venting and ducts. If anyone in the house has allergies, this can be particularly miserable.
This is not to say that you should have your system cleaned every year. Having your ducts inspected is necessary and important to your health. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning provides thorough duct cleaning and duct sanitization services, so the air circulating inside your home is clean, conditioned and filtered properly. Of course, we back this and all our home comfort services with a written 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, so you have nothing to lose. Schedule an appointment for a duct cleaning today, and you'll notice a real difference tomorrow.
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McDonald's is well known for including amusing games, contests, and toy offers served side by side with its food. But the so-called "pink slime" associated with McDonald's hamburgers, despite its amusing nickname, has been seen as anything but by critics such as Jamie Oliver and The New York Times. After years of criticism, McDonald's 'pink slime' is a thing of the past.
McDonald's "pink slime," or ammonium hydroxide-treated spare beef trimmings, is used to extend meat products and to kill bacteria. Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver likened the filler to dog food. But McDonald's has confirmed that its use of the additive is a thing of the past, telling The Daily Mail that it hasn't used the pink slime for several months.
McDonald's released an official statement on its decision to discontinue use of "pink slime". In the statement, Todd Bacon, McDonald's Senior Director of Quality Systems, Supply Chain Management, says, "At the beginning of 2011, we made a decision to discontinue the use of ammonia-treated beef in our hamburgers. This product has been out of our supply chain since August of last year. This decision was a result of our efforts to align our global standards for how we source beef around the world."
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What To Do If Your Dog Protects His Food Bowl
Food possessiveness can be quite difficult. As quickly as the dog is given his food his behaviour can change to become possessive and assertive. This is a troublesome behaviour to address and can be dangerous if not changed and monitored scrupulously.
When I feed my dog I walk away , leaving him to eat in peace. Infrequently with a food bowl possessive dog this is forced by a snap or growl. The most important thing not to do, with a dog that is food bowl defending, is approach the bowl and try to take it away. The defending behaviour is straightforward fear of losing the crucial resource and if you approach the bowl then you're augmenting the terror.
To modify any kind of protecting behaviour it's very important to teach the dog to be relaxed round the item that he is defending. By inspiring such relaxation you'll be making your own and your dog’s life simpler. To teach relaxation you have to right away take all focus from the item that your dog is defending.
During feed times this can be done by feeding your dog in a few different feed bowls. Placing three or four empty bowls on the ground, then in turn putting part of the dog’s meal into them will tweak your dog’s belief the single feed bowl is precious. By approaching each bowl and placing food into it you'll be training your dog that by coming near a bowl you are providing a good experience.
Wait till your dog is eating from a specific bowl and in his full view simply drop some food into another one. He'll then follow you to that one for the next part of his meal. By doing this regularly you'll be taking away the specter of someone taking his valuable food and also showing him that some other person being near his food bowl has benefits.
This draft wants to reinforce your relations with your dog. For full info on how I train and feed my dog for the most satisfactory results, and the benefits of positive dog training feel free to visit The Dog Trick Academy.
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It's that time of year again - the time for fall fairs, the traditional time to celebrate agriculture and the harvest, along with innovations in manufacturing and technology. The oldest of these fairs in Canada is the Canadian National Exhibition, or CNE, held each year since 1879 in Toronto, Ontario during the last two weeks of August and including the Labour Day weekend. The photo below from http://commons.wikimedia.org shows the Princes' Gates to the 192 acre Toronto lakefront property that annually hosts the fair, in 2003.
My maternal grandfather, J. (John) Graham O'Neill often shared stories with me about his parent's struggles in attending the 'Ex' with him when he was a child due to his carriage wheels often becoming stuck in the mud of the unpaved fair grounds in the late 19th century.
My own memories range from tolerating my parents' desire to wander through the exhibits of the latest appliances and household conveniences when I knew that the real fun was to be found on the midway to impressing a teenage date by attending a 1975 concert by her favourite 'group', only to blow it by admitting that I wasn't at all familiar with any of the group's music. The group was Chicago. I'm familiar with their music now!
My most memorable 'Ex' recollection however, was the coming of age involved in being allowed to attend the fair for the first time on my own. The year was 1968 and the featured attraction for my friends and I was called "Time Being." An entire building had been transformed into a "psychedelic total environment discotheque" experience, complete with a full slate of '60's rock groups providing live performances. A band would play a concert in the afternoon and another band would play an evening concert. The evening concert typically involved a more well known group.
The day that my friends and I attended 'on our own,' a little known group named "Raja" performed in the afternoon. We knew nothing of the group at the time and still can offer little by way of any song titles but the group's drummer used tympani sticks rather than standard drum sticks and that novelty alone made them interesting and worth watching to a group of 13 year old boys.
The evening performance was what we were excited about because "The American Breed" were scheduled to perform and we just had to see them. At 8:00 p.m., we were front and centre, standing in a sea of teenagers as the group played their two hour concert that included their biggest hit "Bend Me, Shape Me." With the concert over, it was time to hastily make our way to the commuter train ride home so as to not exceed any curfew. Unfortunately, the midway was placed as an obstacle between the concert building and the train station. One last ride, or two, couldn't possibly hurt. And the rides didn't hurt - they were fun, as always. What hurt was the glares from parents who found us walking home at about 1:00 a.m. as they drove through our neighbourhood looking for us.
I don't recall being allowed to go to the 'Ex' again 'on my own' until possibly that fateful date in 1975. Despite not knowing any of the music performed by her favourite group, my date married me two years later anyways!
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Without Walls Eco Practicum is an environmental sustainability and action program for undergraduate students and recent grads, to be held in Sullivan County (upstate NY) this upcoming summer. Participants learn various farming techniques, work with over 20 partner organizations, including Gorzynski Ornery Farm, the Sullivan County Division of Planning, Catskill Mountainkeeper, and NY State Department of State. The students get the opportunity to meet experts in the field in order to engage with the most urgent regional socio-environmental issues. Undergraduate university students from all majors & departments are encouraged to consider this program, as its scope extends far beyond environmental science alone.
The next generation of environmental activists and food justice advocates has much to learn and much to offer. This program aims to activate their existing knowledge and build a bridge between current and future eco professionals.
If interested in being involved, contact:
Without Walls Eco Practicum
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From morning till night it was Lucy's delight
To chatter and talk without stopping:
There was not a day but she rattled away,
Like water for ever a-dropping.
No matter at all if the subjects were small,
Or not worth the trouble of saying,
'Twas equal to her, she would talking prefer
To working, or reading, or playing.
You'll think now, perhaps, that there would have been gaps,
If she had not been wonderfully clever:
That her sense was so great, and so witty her pate,
It would be forthcoming for ever;
But that's quite absurd, for have you not heard
That much tongue and few brains are connected?
That they are supposed to think least who talk most,
And their wisdom is always suspected?
While Lucy was young, had she bridled her tongue,
With a little good sense and exertion,
Who knows, but she might now have been our delight,
Instead of our jest and aversion?
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Next - Snowmobiles and Previous - Music
Good Music Web Site and A Second Good Site
Music is something everyone knows at least a little bit about. There are a lot of talented people singing in the world today. Some of these people include Jesse McCartney, and Ashlee Simpson. Also there are a lot of terms that make up music. Music is a complicated but fun thing.
Jesse McCartney is suddenly having people realize
his talent. He is a seventeen year old singer.
He has been singing
since he was
about seven years old. He recently
came out with his first solo
CD. He now is having fun with
his chart topping single, “Beautiful
Soul”. Before he came
out with his CD he was with his band Dreamstreet.
Now that people know how talented he is, his songs are sky
rocketing to the top.
Ashlee Simpson is another young but talented artist. She is nineteen years old. Following in her sister and brother in-laws footsteps she also recently came out with a solo CD. Most people expected her songs to be girly like her sister’s, Jessica, but she surprised everyone when she came out with her punk-rock CD Autobiography. The amazing part is that it is her first CD and one of her singles, “Pieces of Me”; she wrote and designed most of the music. I know for sure we will be seeing more of her.
There are tons of terms
that make music music. Most of these
terms are Italian.
Some terms that consist of the same kind of genre
use some of the same words. For
example, the initials for soft are P,
the initials for really soft are PP.
There are also terms like crescendo
or decrescendo which mean get louder or get softer.
These terms help music get its flavor.
There are all different kinds of singers and terms. Jesse McCartney’s finally found his music. Ashlee Simpson has found her style of music. All those Italian words make up these peoples lives. And these people make up ours by music.
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The first time Sheila McClear had lunch with Nick Denton, she returned to the office afterward and threw up. She attributed this to food poisoning, but it happened again the second time they had lunch.
Just because we can put something in our mouths, does that make it food? At what point do we decide that something isn't food?
More than 60 percent of Twitter users abandon it after a single month.
Half the crime in Seattle occurs on 4.5 percent of that city's streets; just over 3 percent of street addresses and intersections generated half the crimes in Minneapolis; and 8 percent of street blocks accounted for 66 percent of robberies in Boston.
To get all its extra supplies out of Afghanistan, NATO needs to send one container over the Afghan border every seven minutes from now until 2015.
Roughly 50,000 lives have been lost since Mexico's experiment with a Colombian-style militarized drug war began in 2006. The Citizen's Council for Public Security in Mexico recently estimated the kidnapping rate at three times that of Colombia's darkest days. By November 2011, 80 percent of the population ... said they believed security to be worse than just a year ago. A mere 14 percent believed that the government could beat the drug gangs.
Google+ has attracted 100 million members, who spent an average of 3.3 minutes on the service in January, according to ComScore (SCOR). Facebook's 850 million users spend an average of 7.5 hours a month on that site.
The I.R.S. receives 100 million tax returns a year, most filed within a short period of time and a vast majority legitimate.
From 2008 to 2011, the number of returns filed by identity thieves and stopped by the I.R.S. increased significantly, officials said. Last year, it was at least 1.3 million ...
This year, with only 30 percent of the filings reviewed so far, the number is already at 2.6 million.
Among financial academics, chartists tend to be regarded as quacks. But a lot of the Big Data people are exactly like them. They say, "We are just going to stare at the data and look for patterns, and then act on them when we find them." In short, there is very little real science in what we call "data science," and that's a big problem.
Actuaries can say with great confidence what percent of people with your characteristics will live to be 80. But no actuary would ever try to predict when you are going to die. They know exactly where to draw the line.
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Pepper Davis: A Ballplayer
When I called LaVonne “Pepper” Paire Davis to interview her about the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” she immediately broke into song, selecting another classic written by Jack Norworth: “Shine on Harvest Moon.”
Pepper told me that her two passions in life had always been baseball and writing – specifically songs and poems. She also told me about a book she was just wrapping up, her autobiography, “Dirt in the Skirt,” which she released in 2009.
Pepper was an irrepressible, good-natured lady who loved the game – whether the game was baseball or life. She never failed to bring a smile to anyone she met. She played for 10 seasons (1944-53) in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and her teams made the playoffs nine of those 10 seasons. She was a member of the 1946 Playoff Champion Racine Belles.
Pepper passed away on Saturday at the age of 88.
On the field, she was a fine catcher with a fielding percentage of .977, as well as playing shortstop, third base and occasionally pitching. She was a line drive hitter with good plate discipline, whose 400 RBIs are believed to rank fourth all time in AAGPBL history. On her website, she wished to be remembered as a fiery leader who did whatever it took to win and gave it her all.
Fans of the AAGPBL and the movie “A League of Their Own” can be thankful that she served as a key consultant on the film, and that she co-wrote (with Nalda Bird Phillips) the official league song. She was the first female coach for the World Children’s Baseball Fair, an annual summer baseball program founded by American and Japanese home run champions Hank Aaron and Sadaharu Oh. In 1999, she was one of two AAGPBL players, along with Dottie Kamenshek, to be featured on a Starting Lineup action figure.
Here are the lyrics to her famous “Victory Song.”
Batter up! Hear that call!
The time has come for one and all
To play ball.
We are the members of the All-American League.
We come from cities near and far.
We’ve got Canadians, Irishmen and Swedes,
We’re all for one, we’re one for all
Each girl stands, her head so proudly high,
Her motto ‘Do or Die.’
She’s not the one to use or need an alibi.
Our chaperones are not too soft,
They’re not too tough,
Our managers are on the ball.
We’ve got a president who really knows his stuff,
We’re all for one, we’re one for all,
Tim Wiles is the director of research for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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This is an unusual book on the anatomy of the lung. The outstanding quality of its 359 illustrations, the pertinence of its 20 tables and charts, and the succinctness and clarity of the text alone would be sufficient to make it a valuable document worthy of the attention of any student of chest diseases. When such a work has, in addition, the flavor of the clinical approach of an eminent thoracic surgeon and his worthy colleagues, it deserves to be recognized as unique in our time.
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting and chatting with Professor Nagaishi, a charming person with a great sense of humor. He is admired and respected by all who have known him.
Forewords written by nine outstanding scientists throughout the world attest to the excellence of this text.
The book is organized into six sections: bronchoalveolar, vascular, lymphatic, nervous, muscular, and pulmonary pleura. In
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ANATOMY OF A TOOTH: We think of teeth as being the part visible above the gum, but this is only the tip, or crown, of a tooth. There is also a neck that lies at the gum line, and a root, located below the gum. The crown of each tooth has an enamel coating to protect the underlying dentine. Enamel is even harder than bone, thanks to rows of tightly packed calcium and phosphorus crystals. The underlying dentine is slightly softer, and contains tiny tubules that connect with the central nerve of the tooth within the pulp. The pulp forms the central chamber of the tooth, and is made of soft tissue containing blood vessels that carry nutrients to the tooth. It also contains nerves so teeth can sense hot and cold, as well as lymph vessels to carry white blood cells to fight bacteria.
CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT: Dental crowns, also referred to as "dental caps" or "tooth caps," are dental restorations that cover over and encase the tooth on which they are cemented. Crowns can be made out of porcelain, metal, or a combination of both. A dentist might recommend placing a dental crown to restore a tooth to its original shape; to strengthen a tooth; or to improve the cosmetic appearance of a tooth. The fundamental difference between porcelain veneers and dental crowns is the amount of a tooth's surface each respective type of dental restoration covers over. Dental crowns typically encase an entire tooth whereas porcelain veneers only cover over the front side of a tooth.
The American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., contributed to the information contained in the TV portion of this report.
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Aruna D’Souza is assistant professor of art history and women’s studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York, where she teaches courses on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European art, as well as on contemporary art. She is author of the forthcoming Cézanne's Bathers, Biography, and the Erotics of Paint (University Park, Penn., 2008), and is editor of Self and History: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin (London, 2000) and The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Manchester, 2006). While at the Clark, she will be working on her new book, Open Secrets: Intimacy Between Street and Home in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris, which will deal with the difficulties of—and new opportunities for—intimate encounters in a moment in which the distinctions between private and public were so dramatically being eroded by modern technologies, commercial practices, and urban forms.
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By DIANE L. CHODAN
OBSERVER Staff Writer
The excitement was evident in School 3 on a recent afternoon when the students held their Multi-Cultural Celebration. Students stationed at the doors directed members of the public to the gymnasium. At the door of the gym, other students acting as ushers handed out programs with a polite, "Welcome to School 3."
Students celebrate multiculturalism at Dunkirk School No. 3
According to Gail Miller, a reading teacher at School 3, "Our Multi-Cultural Celebration is an off-shoot of our Black History Celebration. We are in the third year of this project. It involves the children doing some research about the people they are interested in learning about. This year, the children read about, took notes on and wrote pieces about inventors, famous women, explorers, leaders, authors, musicians, athletes, U. S. presidents, and scientists. The people studied were of varied descents - African-Americans, Europeans, Asians, Caucasians, Native Americans."
Daniel Genovese, the principal, introduced the program by saying, "I can feel the energy here." He explained that the presentations of each class would be taped and later burned to a CD so the children could see themselves perform. Bill Smock, a technology teacher at the High School recorded all the performances.
The program began with a slide show highlighting the children at the school to Bette Midler's recording of "From a Distance."
OBSERVER Photo by Diane R. Chodan
Robert Desmond’s first grade recited “George Washington Carver – America’s Greatest Farmer” in nice loud voices.
The students laughed and pointed as they recognized themselves and their schoolmates.
Each class and every child in the school was involved in making some type of presentation to demonstrate what they had learned. The presentations included songs, poetry (some of which was student written), raps, and famous quotes.
Linda Orcutt's kindergarten class presented "The Fuzzy Caterpillar." Patty Murray's kindergarteners each used imagination to come up with an exaggeration, such as "I am so strong I can lift my house."
Pam Pleszewski's fifth-grade class presented a short play called "KC's Dream" which brought to life the accomplishments and struggles of famous African-Americans such as Harriet Tubman, Nat "King" Cole, Martin Luther King Jr. These famous persons visited KC during a dream to help him deal with prejudice he felt.
Robert Desmond's first grade recited a poem about George Washington Carver. Gena Graves' first graders wrote and performed a rap about inventors.
Tammy Natarnicola's second grade wrote and recited a poem about Leaders. Nancy Ringler's second graders wrote a poem about inventors. This poem was written for two voices, so the class was divided into two groups which alternated in reciting.
Heidi Luce's third grade wrote acrostic poems about famous musicians. Valarie Csont's third grade recited a poem called "The New Kid."
The fourth grades presented famous quotes - Cindy Krzakala's students from famous women and Jeanette Kozlowski's from famous explorers.
Angie DiCara's fifth graders were the last to perform. They held a presidential parade. Each student carried a colored model of a president and gave a short description of what the president did. The last model was one of "Mr. Genovese who is like our president." Afterward, this class lead the students and the audience in the song "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood.
The finale of the program was the whole school singing, "That's What Friends Are For." According to Miller, "(This song was) celebrating our sense of community and family."
The public was invited to stay to view the writing and artwork displayed in the halls.
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Apr. 2, 2011 A common genetic variation links to both bladder cancer risk and to the length of protective caps found on the ends of chromosomes, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported on April 2 at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting.
These endings or tips, called telomeres, guard against chromosomal damage and genomic instability that can lead to cancer and other diseases.
"We found a single point of variation in the genome strongly associated with a 19 percent decrease in bladder cancer risk. The same variant also is linked to longer telomeres, which accounts for part of the overall reduction in risk," said first author Jian Gu, Ph.D., assistant professor in MD Anderson's Department of Epidemiology.
Telomere length diminishes with age, Gu said, and short telomeres are associated with age-related diseases such as stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Previous studies separately tied telomere length either to cancer risk or to genetic variation. The paper by Gu and colleagues is the first to make both connections.
"Understanding the complex genetic regulation of telomere length and its relation to the causes of bladder and other types of cancer will help develop therapies or lifestyle changes to reduce cancer risk," said senior author Xifeng Wu, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of MD Anderson's Department of Epidemiology.
Wu and colleagues in 2003 were the first to show that short telomeres increase the risk of bladder, lung, kidney and head and neck cancers in a human epidemiological study.
Start with 300,000 SNPs
The new findings were presented by Gu at the AACR annual meeting and simultaneously published in Cancer Prevention Research, an AACR journal.
AACR President Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., the Morris Herzstein professor of biology and physiology at the University of California San Francisco, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 2009 for her role in the discovery of telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
Researchers first conducted a genome-wide association study to identify genetic variations associated with telomere length. They analyzed more than 300,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), common points of variation in the genome, in 459 healthy controls.
This narrowed the field to 15,120 SNPs, which were then validated in 1,160 healthy controls in two independent populations. They selected the top four SNPs that were associated with telomere length across all three populations for the bladder cancer association study.
Then there was one
The team evaluated the association of these four sites with the risk of bladder cancer in a case-control study of 969 patients and 946 controls. Only one, a SNP on chromosome 14 known as rs398652, was associated with bladder cancer risk.
Since the SNP was associated with both telomere length and bladder cancer risk, the team conducted a mediation analysis to determine whether the effect on telomere length caused some of the risk reduction. Telomere length accounted for 14 percent of the SNP's effect on bladder cancer.
"We think the remaining portion of the SNP effect on bladder cancer may be caused by inflammation or immune response," Gu said. "But understanding the remainder of the risk will require more basic research." Rs398652 is nearest to a gene on chromosome 14 called PELI2, which is involved in the inflammatory and immune response.
Follow up studies will focus on whether this SNP is associated with other types of cancer, particularly those affected by telomere length such as lung, kidney and esophageal cancer, Gu said, as well as the biological mechanisms by which the SNP affects telomere length.
Grants from the National Cancer Institute funded this research.
Co-authors with Gu and Wu are co-lead author Meng Chen, Ph.D., Sanjay Shete, Ph.D., Christopher Amos, Ph.D., Yuanqing Ye, Ph.D., and Jie Lin, Ph.D., all of the Department of Epidemiology, and Ashish Kamat, M.D., and Colin Dinney, M.D., of MD Anderson's Department of Urology.
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Just for today, forget every single excuse you make not to improve your health. The guidelines mentioned in this article are not set in stone, but are a beginner’s guide to improve your emotional, spiritual and physical life amidst a busy professional life.
1. Replenish Energy with Water
Our bodies are composed of 90% water and each organ functions well if you replenish your body with water adequately. You can decrease many of your bodily pains by drinking more water only because body parts need hydration.
2. Walk Regularly
Immobility means a sedentary lifestyle which is a curse for the body. Walking lets your body stay active and streamlines blood flow. For example, your heart requires that you stay active so it may function at an optimum level. Walk in the morning to intake oxygenated air because it kills virus and bacteria and might also help prevent cancer.
3. Hug People Your Loved Ones
Scientific research says that by hugging people you love, you can ward off depression because you body releases Oxytocin that are also called feel-good hormones.
4. Consume At Least 3 Servings of Fruit
You should consume at least ½ cup of cherries, blueberries or grapes every day. Dark colored fruits are rich in phytonutrients such as proanthocyanins which fight against querticin and brain disease. Moreover these fruits are rich in water and natural sugar which help restore energy.
5. Eat More Vegetables
Eat more vegetables since these are the best to gain maximum nutrition. These are less expensive and easily available at grocery stores. Buy them in large quantities and use them to prepare salads. Consume greener ones more because they are rich in minerals, vitamins, enzymes, chlorophyll and several phytonutrients.
Allocate some time to meditation and unplug yourself from worldly deeds. You will feel more relaxed, and physically and emotionally more powerful after meditating.
7. Deep Breaths
Breathing deep helps reduce buildup of stress hormones as your blood flows in a better manner. This also helps you release anxiety and induce better sleep.
8. Consume Snacks When Hungry
Consume low-calorie snacks such as hummus, vegetables, dried fruits, whole grain pitas and fruits when you feel hungry between meals. These will help you regulate mood and stabilize blood sugar levels.
9. Drink Homemade Fresh Juice
Prepare fresh juice using green veggies to help your body heal naturally. Green vegetables are powerhouses of essential nutrients that help your body energize speedily.
10. Count Your Blessings
Make a list of your blessings, since research reveals that gratitude leads to happiness and better health.
11. Do Someone a Favor
You do not need hoards of cash to help someone spend a good day. Instead, having a heart-to-heart with anyone can make them feel good and help them believe in the goodness of people.
12. Haven’t Pampered Yourself In Ages?
Now is the time to do so as there’s always a room for improvement. Get yourself a manicure and pedicure, and take a warm bath in Epsom salts. Remove dry skin with a bristled brush that will peel off dead skin cells and toxic build up in tissue.
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Tar Sands Tranform Parts of Alberta to Toxic Waste Land
from Wildlife Promise
Felice Stadler filed this dispatch while on a tour of tar sands producing Alberta, Canada. National Wildlife Federation is working to slow production of tar sands fuels in Alberta. Tar sands are one of the dirtiest fuels in the world and wreak havoc on people and the environment.
Thursday, October 7, 2010 – Our final day in Fort McMurray
No amount of photos, conversations with advocates, or ground tours with industry, can prepare you for what you experience when you see Alberta’s tar sands fields from the air. The scale is mind-boggling.
Under a clear blue sky, we flew in a Cessna jet over open mine pits, toxic tailing ponds, black petroleum coke dumps, oily mud flats, and thick pollution plumes. The landscape, in every direction, was covered by an oily sheen that shimmered under the sun.
The amount of sludge blanketing the landscape is the equivalent of 6 billion barrels of toxic waste. There is enough water in the tailings ponds to flood Staten Island, NY. And every winter, particle air pollution from the smokestacks turns the snows black; and when it melts in the spring, it releases the equivalent of 5,000 barrels of oil into the Athabasca River.
All of the toxic ponds and mines we saw leech freely into the Athabasca River. In fact, the entire operations lie in an enormous flat river basin, and the pipes, roads, refineries, and pits are built in and around tributaries and wetlands. The Athabasca is brown and looks lifeless.
In between the massive oil fields and ponds we see little notches of beauty, a reminder of what once was—stream oxbows snaking through intact forests. Each of these little oases provides welcome relief to what we’re seeing.
The oil companies have transformed Fort McMurray from a town of 11,000 30 years ago, to a work camp of nearly 100,000 people, the majority of whom travel great distances to work in the tar sands fields. The companies have developed perverse relationships with First Nations communities where trade-offs are negotiated to ensure peace and minimal resistance. They have managed to get a strong foothold in a province where the political leaders act like oil barrens, and the electorate is nearly silent. In the last provincial elections, only 11% voted.
When I hear stories from the First Nations community leaders, I am reminded of how I felt when my 9 year old son confided in me about his first encounter with a playground bully. How do I encourage my son to stand up to him—the Yard Ape ( as a bully is aptly named in a children’s book)—and to turn his fear into anger and strength? How do I encourage him to look for and lock arms with his friends and allies so that he doesn’t have to stand up to him alone? How do I tell him that just because he’s the shortest boy, doesn’t mean he’s the weakest and can be bullied?
Tonight, over dinner with staff from the Keepers of the Athabasca, I found myself asking those same questions. Here, the Yard Ape, unfortunately, is a club of every major oil company in the world. And the task of standing up to this bully is obviously much greater and much more daunting.
But the path to changing the power dynamic may not be all that different. Join forces, turn fear to anger, shift from resignation to hope, stand tall, and call for a different path forward. Loudly.
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Our president is a wordsmith.
Syllables are notes on a scale for Barack Obama, played deliberately and elegantly. He hears music when he speaks and so do we. The notes he chooses are revealing. He seldom plays what he does not intend.
As his inaugural address floated down the National Mall from the steps of the U.S. Capitol, we heard this comforting refrain: "We have never ... succumbed to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through government alone."
The casual listener may have heard a call for balance and moderation, but the president's composition was breathtakingly radical.
There is no situation, he informed us, in which government is not indispensably needed. Sometimes, it may require a little help: Society's ills can't "be cured through government alone."
This president's audacity is no longer hope: Obama is pursuing a spectacularly bold and activist, big-government agenda.
He opposes austerity only for Washington: His attempt to protect our bloated government from the "sequester" was ferocious. Obama's apocalyptic warnings that the automatic budget cuts would "gut critical investments in ... education and national security" could make a professional alarmist such as Al Gore jealous.
Obama confronted the sequester deadline like a surgeon who could not bring himself to wield his scalpel upon a member of his own family. He rejected the authority to target the spending cuts himself, though he had called the alternative "a meat cleaver approach."
For Obama, taking personal responsibility for sparing one government program and not another was "Sophie's Choice": He loves them all equally and endlessly.
In this president's world, our government should never shrink. His vision of social equality requires expanding social programs to bring the poor up and higher taxes to bring the rich down.
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A headline from August 31: "More Evidence That House Has Stabilized."
This is not from the future, though news reports today citing a third straight month of growth in the Case-Shiller Index measuring housing values would suggest many are now writing stories for tomorrow with that headline. However, this headline is from August 31, 2010. Last year at this time, the Case-Shiller numbers came out and showed positive numbers for housing values and it some argued we'd reached the bottom. Even the Wall Street Journal ran a piece saying, "Home prices appear to be stabilizing..."
Unfortunately, nothing was further from the truth.
Today, a year later, we have a similar Case-Shiller report and are seeing similar talk about the stabilization of housing prices, on news that housing prices gained 1.1% from May to June 2011:
Bloomberg: "Home Prices in U.S. Showed Signs of Stabilizing"
TradingPoint: "U.S. home prices stabilizing"
ChattanoogaNews: "Local, national numbers reflect stabilizing housing market"
And again, unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.
The problem is that these sources are citing non-seasonally adjusted housing value numbers. Non-seasonally can a good metric to see what is happening in the housing market in real time (well, real time with a two month lag, but its all relative). However, it is not a good metric for gauging the overall trend of the housing market—at least going month to month. The reason is that we always see movement like this in the spring. Consider the below chart showing in gray the February to June period each of the past three years—you'll note monthly non-seasonally adjusted numbers always tick up in this time, only to collapse the following months.
A much better predictive trend is the year-over-year measurement. Looking at the data from a year ago, we see not a 1.1% increase as from May to June, but a 4.7% decline from June 2010 to June 2011. There is also bad news in the seasonally adjusted data, which James Groth covered on this blog earlier today. An even more ominous statistic is the 9.6% fall in inflation adjusted housing prices from the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011.
We all want to see the housing market recover, but we are going to have to accept a redefinition of what a stable and healthy housing market looks like. Falling housing prices in a way are good news since we're still in the housing bubble and need prices to decline further before there will be sustained recovery. And we're going to have to accept that housing is more a store of value (like a good savings account) than a great investment tool with high return on investment.
Until we see that mental shift we'll continue with flubs like this blog post by Scott Grannis on SeekingAlpha last year at this time:
"it looks like the housing market has found a new equilibrium clearing price level... I continue to think that prices have fallen enough to at least hold steady at current levels for the foreseeable future. As the top chart shows, there has been a 33% decline in inflation-adjusted housing prices from their 2006 peak, and that is by far the biggest downward price adjustment in nationwide housing prices in my lifetime."
It may be the biggest downward price adjustment—but our own lifespans are not the best measure for understanding the new reality we live in.
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A fundamental effect of over-consumption is a reduction in the planet's carrying capacity. Excessive unsustainable consumption will exceed the long term carrying capacity of its environment (ecological overshoot) and subsequent resource depletion, environmental degradation and reduced ecological health.
The scale of modern life's over-consumption has enabled an overclass to exist, displaying affluenza and obesity. However once again both of these claims are controversial with the latter being correlated to other factors more so than over-consumption.
In the long term these effects can lead to increased conflict over dwindling resources and in the worst case a Malthusian catastrophe.
However, the Worldwatch Institute said the booming economies of China and India are planetary forces that are shaping the global biosphere. The State of the World 2006 report said the two countries' high economic growth exposed the reality of severe pollution. The report states
The world's ecological capacity is simply insufficient to satisfy the ambitions of China, India, Japan, Europe and the United States as well as the aspirations of the rest of the world in a sustainable way
Movements and ideologies have formed in recent decades to reduce over-consumption. These include anti-consumerism, ecological economics, freeganism and green economics. However laudable, these efforts mathematically cannot mitigate the consumption impacts projected from population projections through the year 2050.
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the image of the future change and we must change , every things, materials , the products , the way of life , all and all
education in future of 21st century as not the same of 20 st century
in my field :architecture and urban ism the nano Joy big rolls for create modeling , new ch apes , functions , spaces , ...
in my department of architecture engineering i probosces postgraduates courses as nanoarchitecture , green nanoarchitecture , nanocity in order to prepare the young architects and students for understanding the the nanoproducts and how we can use
also now there are nano studio expose nanomaterials samples and applications
we hope receive more samples of new materials for the studio and nanotechnology examples
thanks for all
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I've read one one of the US national forest or wilderness websites that when camping in the wild, one should camp at a certain distance from a water source. Should I understand a water source to mean ...
My friend wants to do an overnight on the grand canyon this summer. We are experienced hikers in pretty good shape. However we've NEVER hiked out west, much less the Grand Canyon. What are the key ...
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Are there any edible wild berries in southern California? Are there any conventional berries (like wild strawberries or blueberries) and how far out of the city do I have to go to find them?
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Even a short-term job can build your career
Parents do a lot for their newly graduated sons and daughters.
"What else can I do to help my son or daughter get a job?" a lot of parents ask me.
While the number of people getting a career position right out of college has dropped in recent years, the outlook is better this year. Employment for college grads is up from last year. And surveys say employers plan to hire more graduates this year.
It depends on your field.
Even last year and before that, companies had entry-level jobs. Like then, and now, getting them is competitive. But new grads are getting hired.
And if you're a parent, the best thing you can do to help your new grad be one of those hires is to help them deal with the two issues they control.
Issue No. 1: Their minds.
Among many issues on the minds of new grads is how future employers will perceive short-term jobs unrelated to their degrees. Some grads tell me it will "ruin my chances of getting into the line of work I want" or that it just "looks really bad."
That's just silly.
Help them understand this: No career path is perfect. Many, many people from generations before them have taken short-term jobs and positions unrelated to their ultimate career. They did it for various reasons. They needed — like them — to pay bills.
Taking an unrelated job doesn't make you hopelessly flawed. It's a circumstance.
Help them see that they not only get to decide how they will view this circumstance but also how they'll talk about it to potential employers.
Let's say your daughter goes to work for a home-improvement center after graduation.
The job may not have been her ideal, but she learned about operations and customer relations. So instead of feeling bad about the experience, she can talk about how it helped her understand the way a business functions — or how customers think.
She received an opportunity to improve her skills in dealing with people. The retail job helped prepare her to be a better contributor in her career position.
Help any graduates understand that seeing a job this way will put them in a better frame of mind for interviewing — less desperate and panicked. It will make them more confident.
And that makes them more effective when talking to employers. All that enhances their chances of getting hired for a career position.
Issue No. 2: Their activities.
New graduates are like most job hunters who spend most of their time sending out resumes. They sit in front of their computer and look for online applications to fill out.
Help them understand that most jobs aren't listed on the Internet. In fact, many openings don't get advertised at all.
Many jobs are still brewing in the minds of employers.
The employers may know that particular projects will be ramping up. Or they're expanding into a new market and thinking about hiring in a few months.
Help your graduates see that if they are initiating meetings, networking and talking to business owners, your acquaintances and others, they will be the first to know about such openings.
Help them see that sending out resumes all day may keep them busy but it is not a strategic way to find a career position.
Help them understand that most people get hired because they connected with a live human, more than once. They followed up. They persevered.
And they stood out from their competition because they did these things.
And if your graduates are like most sons and daughters that parents tell me about — ones who don't listen to them — you always can leave a copy of this column on their nightstands.
Career consultant Andrea Kay is the author of "Life's a Bitch and Then You Change Careers: 9 steps to get out of your funk and on to your future." Click here for an index of At Work columns. Send questions to her at 2692 Madison Road, #133, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208; www.andreakay.com or www.lifesabitchchangecareers.com. E-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Teaching Phonics to Children
How to Teach Phonics and Reading
Teaching children to read by teaching phonics activities is a lot like doing math, where you have to know what the numbers are, how to count, and you need to learn to add and subtract before learning to multiply and divide. Teaching phonics to children is no different where you follow a step by step approach by first teaching the child the alphabet letters and phonics sounds, and then teaching them the combination of different letters to create different words, and using words to form sentences. It is a very logical and sequential buildup of phonics knowledge and reading ability.
Watch a 2 year 11 months old reading below. She was taught using a simple step-by-step phonics and phonemic awareness program.
Before a child can learn to read, he or she must first learn the alphabet letters, and know the sounds represented by the letters. It's usually easier to teach some consonants and short vowels first before moving on to more complicated things such as consonant digraphs (2 consonants formed to produce one sound, such as "ch" or "ph") and long vowels. As you can see, teaching children to read by the phonics method helps them develop phonemic awareness, and it is also a very logical and straight forward approach.
Teaching Phonics Sounds Lesson Plans
Start off by teaching your child the phonics sounds. You can choose to teach your child in alphabetic order going from A to Z, or you can teach several commonly used consonant sounds and vowels, and go from there. For example, you may start teaching your child /a/, /c/, and /t/ (slashes denote sound of the letters). Once your child has learn to quickly recognize these letters and properly sound out their sounds, you can then teach them to blend /c/, /a/, /t/ to make the words "cat", or "tac", or "at".
As you introduce more letters and phonics sounds in your lesson plans, you can generate more words, and slowly introduce short, simple sentences to your reading lessons. Depending on the age of your child, I would suggest keeping the phonics lessons relatively short - around 5 to 10 minutes. Sometimes, just 3 to 5 minutes for a short lesson is plenty, and you can easily teach these short phonics lessons 2 or 3 times each day for a total of 10 to 15 minutes. Young children tend to be forgetful, so repetition is very important.
You don't want to make the lessons too long and boring, that the child begins to feel like doing a "chore" when learning to read. So keep it short, fun, and interesting. By keeping the phonics lessons short, you also avoid overwhelming the child with too much information, and always remember to make sure your child has mastered one lesson before moving on to new material. Confusion and uncertainty will only make their learning effort difficult and frustrating - so review often, move on to new material only after they've mastered the current lessons.
So when can you start teaching phonics sounds and lessons to children? Not everyone will agree with me on this, but I believe that if your child can speak, then your child can learn to read. Of course, every child is different and unique, and some children will be more receptive to learning reading than others. One thing for certain, is that the earlier a child learns to read, the better.
We have taught our 2 year old daughter to read through teaching phonics sounds and lessons, and helping her develop phonemic awareness. If you watched the video above, that is our daughter reading randomly created sentences. We simply started teaching phonics sounds to her by spending 5 to 10 minutes each day, spread between 2 to 3 separate lessons, and slowly introduced new letters and reading material.
If you would like to learn more about the simple, effective, step-by-step method of teaching phonics and phonemic awareness, please signup for our newsletter below. We also send out new teaching children to read articles, tips, and updates.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the longtime head of Poland's influential Roman Catholic church who helped lead the nation peacefully through martial law and the fight against communism, has died. He was 83.
Church authorities said Glemp died Wednesday evening in Warsaw. He had been ill for many years, and the Polish news agency PAP said he had lung cancer.
Warsaw Archbishop Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz said Glemp was a leader "in a difficult time" through which he led the church with prudence and wisdom.
A lawyer by education, Glemp was appointed primate of Poland's Roman Catholic church in the tempestuous, yet hope-filled year of 1981. That was the heyday of the Solidarity freedom movement, when the nation openly opposed the communist authorities with massive strikes and when the threat of a communist clampdown and even Soviet intervention was mounting.
Initially, he seemed to lose face in the public eye in comparison with his predecessor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, a stalwart opponent of Poland's Communist regime. But for Glemp, the main goal was to avoid confrontation with the regime and prevent bloodshed.
He was criticized for his conciliatory tactics, but they helped the Poles save lives and go mostly peacefully through 18 months of harsh military rule imposed in December 1981 and through Poland's isolation and want of the 1980s. Under his guidance, the church offered spiritual and material support to Solidarity activists and dissidents, many of whom lost their jobs. He supported Solidarity leader, Lech Walesa, who won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for advocacy of freedom.
Glemp's calm also disarmed the bitterness and anger that rose in Poland after the secret security abducted and murdered a pro-Solidarity priest, Jerzy Popieluszko, in 1984.
As primate, Glemp played an active role in helping end communism in Poland, when church authorities initiated and guaranteed the fairness of political negotiations between Solidarity and the weakening communists in 1988 and 1989. The Communist regime ended peacefully through free elections in 1989.
A clever political strategist, Glemp was a conservative religious leader. In the 1980s he opposed Jewish demands to have a female convent —and its cross— moved from near Auschwitz, the former Nazi German death camp, considered by Jews to be the largest cemetery of Holocaust victims. His reluctance, before he finally obeyed orders from Polish-born Pope John Paul II, earned him the label of anti-Semite in much of the world.
Under Poland's young democracy and its painful transformation to a market economy, Glemp stressed the need to protect ordinary people who were losing jobs by the tens of thousands. He also campaigned to protect the Catholic faith, which for centuries was a defining feature for the Polish people.
Glemp remained the head of the Polish bishops' conference until 2004, and retained the title of primate, the top leader, until 2009.
His years of leadership largely coincided with the papacy of the Polish-born Pope John Paul II, who was elected pope in 1979 and died in 2005, and whose words and first visit to Poland as pope in 1979 had inspired the Solidarity movement.
Three days of funeral ceremonies will begin Saturday and the burial will take place Monday at St. John's Arch Cathedral in Warsaw, Nycz said.
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Does anyone recognise the people in it? I know the older woman on the far right is my paternal great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Lorne CRUCKSHANK (nee BRACKENREG) - (also sometimes spelled Cruickshank). Her husband, John CRUCKSHANK, died in 1912 and Elizabeth is wearing mourning black, and John's not in the photo, so I presume it was taken since then.
Three of Elizabeth's four sons all married in 1914 or 1915, and a daughter in 1913.
So the contenders are these four of her eight children:
a) Ruby Clare CRUCKSHANK marrying Percy A JONES (1913 - West Maitland)
b) Sidney Herbert CRUICKSHANK marrying Maude Annie BENNETT (1914 - Hamilton)
c) Leslie George CRUCKSHANK marrying Louisa Elizabeth HALL (1915 - Narrabri)
d) Cyril Douglas CRUCKSHANK marrying Minnie Florence METCALF (1915 - Cessnock)
Does the placement of the mother-in-law mean anything? If she's standing next to a man does that indicate that he's her son? Or maybe just the best man, possibly unrelated? Her flower is the same as the buttonhole on the man she stands beside, but I don't think he's the groom. I think the groom would be the other seated man with roses in his buttonhole which seem to better match the bride's bouquet. Also, he's sitting in a much fancier chair - surely the groom would get a flashier chair than the best man! I presume the bride always stands in wedding photos so as to show off her dress at it's best.
Any/all ideas welcome :)
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WASHINGTON - Western sanctions on Iran contributed to a drop in Iran's access to global sources of capital last year, the US Treasury department said in a report to Congress.
Foreign banks cut their lending exposure to Iran by the equivalent of $9.1 billion in 2012, down 53 percent, said the report, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Thursday. The report, which cited information from the Bank of International Settlements, said broader international sanctions against Iran and other perceived weaknesses in the investment climate in Iran also contributed to the drop.
The United States and the EU have imposed sanctions on Iran that aim to slow funding to Tehran's nuclear program. The West says the program is developing nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
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Subscribing to RSS Feeds
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To take advantage of RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") feeds, sign up for one or more Web feeds of interest and read them using an RSS reader, also called an "aggregator."
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"SMART" Technology06.22.2012 | Science, Research, Engineering
"SMART" RFID technology developed at the University of Dayton Research Institute for safety applications was named today one of the year's "most technologically significant new products" by the editors of R&D Magazine.
The 2012 R&D 100 Award is the third for the Research Institute distinguished research chemist Robert Kauffman, who developed Status and Motion-Activated Radiofrequency Tag (SMART) sensors under FAA funding to help ensure the safety of aircraft. But the technology quickly showed promise in a variety of other areas related to safety, and – less than 24 hours after news of the technology was first published in 2011 – Dayton-based American Thermal Instruments contacted Kauffman to license SMART sensors for use in monitoring temperature-sensitive products during shipment.
Kauffman and ATI are also talking with several companies about bringing the technology to market in a variety of other applications, including: impact sensors to monitor possible damage to items during shipping; impact sensors for football, firefighter and mining helmets; and temperature sensors for firefighter apparel and for train wheel bearings.
SMART sensors work by reporting unsafe or undesirable changes in the condition of a product or device the sensor was programmed to monitor. A SMART sensor designed to monitor temperature, for instance, could be packed with a crate of frozen food en route from producer to store. As the food arrives at checkpoints along the distribution route, a simple handheld scanner – similar to those used at grocery stores – could be used to quickly and easily check the tag for temperature issues without having to open the crate. If at any point the food was exposed to unsafe temperatures – even briefly – the tag will report the problem to the scanner. If the food remained safely frozen the entire trip, the tag will provide no read-out.
SMART sensors, which are simple and inexpensive to make at less than 50 cents a tag, can also be designed to monitor products and devices for hidden impact, corrosion, cracks and tampering. SMART sensors attached to football helmets for peewee and professional players alike could be scanned after a game or practice to report a dangerous level of impact, even if the player wearing it showed no signs of a concussion; the same technology could be used to tell if a composite aircraft panel has sustained a sub-surface crack.
ATI will use SMART technology to develop and manufacture RFID tags for temperature monitoring of products such as food, pharmaceuticals and medical devices during shipment. The company is also targeting railway safety in the form of temperature sensors for train wheels which, when they overheat, typically indicate a problem with the wheel, bearing or brakes – any of which could cause derailment.
Kauffman and University of Dayton Research Institute physicist Doug Wolf originally developed the technology for use in SMART electrical wire clamps for aircraft, which were designed to alert aircraft maintenance personnel if they became broken or were not properly closed. A typical commercial aircraft has miles of wiring secured in bundles by hundreds of thousands of clamps, Kauffman said. If a clamp breaks and wires become loose, they can rub against each other or against the aircraft fuselage – which could lead to a break in the insulation. An exposed wire could prove catastrophic because of its potential for sparking, Kauffman added, especially if it is in the presence of fuel.
In 2009, Kauffman won an R&D 100 award for Power-Activated Technology for Coating and Healing (PATCH), a type of self-healing wire that reacts instantly to a breach in its insulation by creating a new layer of insulation at the breach site. PATCH has been licensed to Pinnacle Systems in Beavercreek, Ohio.
In 1992, Kauffman won an R&D 100 award for the Remaining Useful Life Evaluation Routine (RULER), a computerized dipstick used to measure the quality of lubricating oil in aircraft, automobiles and electrical power-plant turbines as well as cooking oil in restaurant kitchens. By accurately predicting how long the oil will be useful for its intended purpose, the RULER – now being sold worldwide by Fluitec – saves money by eliminating the need for routine oil changes based on a calendar rather than oil quality.
About the awards:
The 50th annual R&D 100 awards recognize the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the last year, according to Paul Livingstone, senior editor for R&D Magazine. Established in 1963 and international in scope since 1965, the awards are selected by an independent panel of experts, including professional consultants, university faculty, industrial researchers and the editors of R&D Magazine. The winners represent a cross-section of industry, academia, private research firms, and government labs, and winning technologies are used in medical, industrial, research, consumer, and manufacturing applications.
Past R&D 100 award winners include the flashcube (1965), automated teller machine (ATM) (1973), halogen lamp (1974), fax machine (1975), liquid crystal display (1980), Nicoderm anti-smoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug (1993) and HDTV (1998).
Winners will be recognized in the September issue of R&D Magazine and at the R&D 100 Awards Banquet on Nov. 1, 2012, in Orlando, Fla. A list of winning innovations is on the R&D 100 Awards website.
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Consumer Reports says many tests unnecessary for general population
Many cancer tests have been oversold to the general population, and the risks of some outweigh the benefits, according to Consumer Reports.
Dr. Jeffrey Starke, a tuberculosis specialist, became a patient himself when his PSA levels, a marker for prostrate cancer, edged up slightly on two different occasions. Each time, his doctor urged a biopsy.
"Elevated PSA levels don't necessarily mean cancer is present," said Consumer Reports' medical adviser Dr. John Santa. "But such levels can scare men into undergoing riskier tests."
Starke took the risk, but said the second biopsy almost killed him.
"I became very, very sick with what is called sepsis, which is a bacterial infection that landed me in the hospital for four days," Starke said.
No cancer was found in either biopsy.
"Even when prostrate cancer is found, it may not become dangerous," Santos said. "And the fact is, treatment itself can cause serious side effects."
Consumer Reports does not recommend PSA tests for most men as the latest evidence s hows this test does not signifcantly reduce deaths.
And, unless you are at high risk there are other cancer screenings Consumer Reports does not recommend, including ones for pancreatic, lung, ovarian or skin cancer, among others.
"However there are three tests we analyzed that are well worth getting, but it does depend on your age," Santos said.
Colon cancer screening is very likely to be beneficial for people ages 50 to 75, according to Consumer Reports.
They also recommend mammograms for women ages 50 to 74 every other year and Pap smears for women ages 21 to 65, but only every three years.
"These are guidelines for the general population," Santos said. "If you have a family history or other medical factors that put you at higher risk, work with your doctor to determine the cancer screenings you need and when to have them."
Copyright 2013 by Consumer Reports. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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According to a study conducted at the Ohio State University, there are more than 33,000 home health care providers in the United States, offering assistance to approximately 12 million people. Nearly 70% of the home health care patients are over the age of 65, and a large percentage (about 64%) are women. Home health care providers offer a wide range of services, including care related to diabetes, Alzheimer’s’, osteoarthritis, cancer, hypertension and heart conditions.
Home health care employees are typically registered or licensed practical nurses, but may also include physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and dietitians. Many home health care providers combine medical services with life assistance services, such as meal preparation, light housekeeping, transportation to medical or other appointments, medication management and companionship.
The benefits of home health care have long been known. Treatment in the home means that many people do not have to go into hospital, convalescent or other institutional long-term nursing care facilities, places where they will be unfamiliar with surroundings, or feel isolated. With in-home health care treatment, a patient can go about his or her life in a normal fashion, stopping only to receive necessary treatment. Because of familiarity with surroundings, there is less likelihood of injury due to tripping, slipping or falling. In addition, there are substantial psychological benefits to being in one’s own home.
Contact the Professionals at Star Multi Care
At Star Multicare, we provide a full range of in-home health care services, and also work with people in assisted living or other residential care facilities. To learn more about the ways we can help you and your loved ones, contact us online or call our office at (877)920-0600
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The Known World Players will hold auditions for the Pennsic 43 production of Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales” this year on the following dates and times at the Amphitheatre:
Archaeologists working on an excavation at Kibbutz Bet Qama, in the B’nei Shimon region of Israel were surprised to discover a beautifully-preserved, Byzantine mosaic dating to the 4th - 6th centuries. The mosaic adorned the floor in what experts believe was a public building. (photo)
The SCA’s Board of Directors sent out a request for comments on a proposed revision to Corpora that concerns Grievances and Sanctions.
Lady Isabel Fleuretan and Augusto G report that they have posted albums of photos from AEthelmearc War Practice which took place May 16-19, 2013 at Cooper's Lake Campground in Pennsylvania. The photos are available to view on PhotoBucket.
Pennsic 42 Mayor, Mistress Chai’usun, has announced a number of changes of import to those planning to attend this year's War.
Carowyn encourages travelers to the Pennsic War to take care in securing trailers carrying gear with a lock to prevent theft of the trailer.
The Board of Directors of the Society for Creative Anachronism is seeking candidates for the position of Society Minister of Arts & Sciences.
Baroness Angelique d’Herisson reports that a Red Cross Blood Drive will again take place at this year's Pennsic War.
"What I love about these events is the gentile behaviour of the lords and ladies with everyone embracing the concept of chivalry, honour and grace," said Catalina Damiana Flores de la Monatana (Camila Turner) about attending events in the SCA. Catalina recently spoke to Chris Owen of the Sunshine Coast Daily (Queensland, Australia). (photos)
Restoration of a fresco in the Vatican has revealed a small group of naked dancing men with feathers in their hair. Researchers think these figures may be depictions of Native Americans. The fresco was painted by Renaissance master Pinturicchio in 1494, just two years after Columbus sailed to America.
On Saturday, June 1, 2013, the outgoing Royal Archery Champions of the East ran a devious (some would say “despicable”) tournament to determine their successors.
The outcome of this year’s Pennsic War is based on 47 war points. The East Kingdom Gazette reviews the overall schedule, as it will appear in the site booklet.
An archeologist taking a walk in the woods discovered an inscribed stone that likely belonged to a nearby medieval church in Wales. The decoration on the stone dates to the 9th or 10th century. The stone features an unusual cross only seen in two other stones.
Joe reports that he has created an album of photos from Spring 2013 Crown Tournament which took place May 4, 2013 in the Kingdom of Ealdormere. The photos are available to view on Photobucket.
The Laurels and Pelicans tried to take to the field at Panteria on a rainy weekend to raise money for the East Kingdom's Pennsic War Chest. Instead of holding boffer melees outside, the peers engaged in one-on-one bouts for the entertainment of a soggy crowd at an event where most of the activities were rained out.
Residents of Perthshire, Scotland will have a unique opportunity in June 2013 to re-discover their own heritage when archaeologists will undertake the excavation of a Pictish longhouse. In addition to the chance to help in the dig, the project will include workshops, guided walks, presentations, and demonstrations.
Silver Buccle Herald, Kameshima-roku-i Zentarou Umakai, reports that Their Majesties Maynard and Liadain of the Kingdom of AEthelmearc have placed three of Their subjects on vigil to contemplate elevation to the Peerage. The announcements were made at AEthelmearc War Practice, May 18, 2013.
Until January 5, 2014, the Corning Museum of Glass will present Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead, a major exhibition of glass beads and beadwork from many cultures. In addition, the museum will offer demonstrations of bead-making, as well as hosting its Annual Seminar on Glass October 18-19, 2013.
On the SCA Newcomers list, THLord Ian the Green offered information on the making of period ink by way of his blog Scribescribbling. He also offers documentation on recent ink-making experiences.
Jim Revells, a.k.a. Olaf Trollhiemsfjord, is in the process of founding a company to teach traditional crafts and trades. Project Trollhiem, LLC is currently seeking funding to take their program on the road.
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Adapted from the Introduction by Jaime Leal Anaya, the Editor of the new book of Ramtha’s teachings, “The Mind Gladiators of the Future”
“All the younger gods were for welcoming Psyche at once, and Hermes was sent to bring her hither. The maiden came, a shy newcomer among those bright creatures. She took the cup that Hebe held out to her, drank the divine ambrosia, and became immortal.
“Light came to her face like moonrise, two radiant wings sprang from her shoulders; and even as a butterfly bursts from its dull cocoon, so the human Psyche blossomed into immortality.”
This passage taken from the late 1800s work, Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew by Josephine P. Peabody1, provides us with the perfect setting for exploring the myth or, perhaps, the truth behind the long-sought-after secret of immortality.
Time is invisible and an abstract concept but it becomes something quite real when its cold thoroughfare sculpts a very visible trace on our face and the body struggles, fatigued with age. The clarity and vitality that often escape us in the autumn of our life’s journey brings us face to face with its elusive but real presence.
During the times of the great Greek Epics — the stories of the Gods from Olympus, and that culture’s renowned thinkers and philosophers — the highest virtue a mortal person could strive for was being remembered. They hoped that their name and the conquests of their life survived in the memory of generations to come, in the future, for all time. Nevertheless, the poets in love with life, the heroes and dreamers never gave up crying out to the Gods and cursing them with rage for excluding us from the elixir of immortality, apparently reserved exclusively for the divine.
If our destiny seems to be no more than to live, wither away and die, why did the Gods give us the ability to love beyond our reach, unconditionally across time, and dream of a life everlasting? It is said they heard Achilles challenge and taunt the heavens with a similar plight. The chroniclers of his life bear witness to both the divine and mortal blood that ran through his veins, yet he did not share the same destiny, the Holy Grail from the hand of Hebe, as the beautiful soul of the young lover of Eros, Psyche.
Today, science has already discovered the immortal gene, the switch that remains turned off in our DNA that prevents the telomeres from diminishing and wearing out at a cellular level. If this gene could be turned on it would allow us to live on in the same physical body without aging or losing our vitality and basic functions. It is interesting that it would be science, as well, the one who discovered the most powerful agent responsible for turning on this immortal gene. This potential and this gene is inherent in us, is part of our physical construction, not a fairy tale or myth of a long-gone age. What activates it, according to scientific findings, is not so much a substance or secret elixir we must ingest but something surprising and unexpected within us, unrecognized — our common thoughts, our consciousness.
The most advanced studies of our times on genetics and neuroscience continue to offer us convincing and growing evidence that our daily thoughts, even those we do not pay much attention to and run unconsciously without reins behind the curtains of our life’s dramas, are what determine and mold our experiences in life. Our thoughts have a real impact on the multitude of physiological processes in our body and determine how we adapt to our environment, as well as the experiences we get to choose, engage and live that define our identity and the quality of our life.
Today, science has already discovered the immortal gene, the switch that remains turned off in our DNA that prevents the telomeres from diminishing and wearing out at a cellular level. If this gene could be turned on it would allow us to live on in the same physical body without aging or losing our vitality and basic functions.
How could it be possible that the key to immortality and eternal life was always hidden inside us? How can it be something so subjective, so within our reach and apparently simple, that at the same time slips away from our grasp? The greatest legendary masters who have survived and are still remembered in history offer us their life’s example as a testament of truth that immortality and a life worthy of being remembered throughout time is not mere fantasy but something reachable and real for those who understand what those legendary beings knew and learned and still know. It is true, nevertheless, that such a conquest is the crown of glory of a splendid radical few!
We are reminded, specifically, of Apollonius of Tyana. Apollonius’ chronicler Philostratus, the personal historian of Roman Empress Julia Domna, recorded the sage’s celebrated last words at his trial before Emperor Domitian and the Roman Senate. The Emperor asks Apollonius whether he realizes that his life and freedom depend completely on the Emperor’s decisions. To this, Apollonius replies with the epic words of Homer from The Iliad, where Hector of Troy bellows in anguish to Achilles in the battlefield: “Don’t you know that you cannot slay me, since I tell you, I am not mortal?” “And with these words Apollonius vanished from the court, which was the best thing he could do under the circumstances, for the Emperor clearly intended not to question him sincerely about the case.” These are the words of historian Philostratus, from The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Vol. 2, translated by F.C. Conybeare, published in the early 1900s by the Loeb Classical Library2.
What activates it, according to scientific findings, is not so much a substance or secret elixir we must ingest but something surprising and unexpected within us, unrecognized — our common thoughts, our consciousness.
The question that has escaped us and remained largely unclear to this day is this: What is the art, the Holy Grail for conquering time and reaching immortality? The masters and teachers throughout history have always insisted that the path and the answer are usually very simple. They require, nevertheless, an unwavering dedication to the knowledge and its application in life by our own hand in order to reach the goal.
This art is the craft of the Great Work, where the rough metals of our mortal humanity are transmuted through initiations in the knowledge. Our base metals are transformed into the purest metal of all that never tarnishes or ages like solid gold.
Our thoughts have a real impact on the multitude of physiological processes in our body and determine how we adapt to our environment, as well as the experiences we get to choose, engage and live that define our identity and the quality of our life.
This ancient and legendary knowledge is the wisdom that recognizes the divine inside each human being, simply because we are the creators of our destiny by virtue of our thoughts and their impact on reality. This is the message and teaching of the Master Teacher Ramtha the Enlightened One, the Lord of the Wind, and his School of Enlightenment.
The new book, The Mind Gladiators of the Future, gathers Ramtha’s teachings that illustrate the journey one must take to understand the nature of time and how to create our timelines and destiny consciously and intentionally. That is the subject covered in the first part of the book, “Remembering the Future.”
Significantly, and what often passes by before us unnoticed, is what we must do to conquer our humanity, riddled with limitations and doomed to the grave. What does it take to become legendary beings, worthy of being remembered beyond time? This is covered in the second part, “To Become the Master of Time, You Must Conquer the Beast.”
The question that has escaped us and remained largely unclear to this day is this: What is the art, the Holy Grail for conquering time and reaching immortality?
Ramtha explains that focus is the master key to accomplish the task and offers us various practical ways in which to put it into practice. The third and final part of the book delves into the concept of the river of time, a mind frequency specific with the future, how we can reprogram our brain with an immortal dream of metamorphosis, and how to create and mold the wave of reality, from the point of view of a master.
Ramtha describes the importance of the teaching in this book with these words:
“These are very simple little notes, but within them hold the secrets to a seventh-level master, a multidimensional entity, an impressive master who has the magic to make things happen.” — Ramtha
Ramtha, The Mind Gladiators of the Future, is more than a mere book. Its intended objective is to produce in the reader a sincere personal contemplation, an experience and to open widely the doors for your Spirit to fly away with the wings of a butterfly, as Psyche and Eros, in the divine garden of fantastic realism.
This ancient and legendary knowledge is the wisdom that recognizes the divine inside each human being, simply because we are the creators of our destiny by virtue of our thoughts and their impact on reality.
Now is the time for waking up and coming to know the secrets that had remained hidden under the custody of a rare few. The key is in your hands and the door only you can open it. It has always been that way so you can discover, in person, the power and treasure that are preserved locked within you. Remember, the truth is really discovered when you experience it. To an extraordinary journey!
1 Riverside Literature Series. Houghton Mifflin Co., Vol. 114. Cambridge, 1897.
2 Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1912.
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What spiritual or consciousness related activities do you currently practice for keeping young, healthy and full of vitality in mind and body? - Tell us below!
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Instructor: Reena Goldthree
For this project, you will work in small groups of three to create a short documentary film. You and your group members will select the specific topic of the documentary; however, your film must critically examine some aspect of women’s lives in the Caribbean before 1960. For your film, you can choose to analyze the life of a specific Caribbean woman, investigate a social movement led by women (i.e., the campaign for women’s suffrage), or examine major topics such as slavery and indentureship with a focus on women’s lived experiences.
By creating an original documentary, you will have the opportunity to explore the issues that we have discussed in class through the visual medium of film. You will also be able to research a topic that interests you and communicate your findings to your peers and the broader public. Rather than simply telling a story about the past, your documentary should make a compelling argument—using voice-over narration, audio, and relevant historical images and film—about the topic you choose to explore. Your argument should be informed by relevant primary and secondary sources beyond the assigned course readings. Each documentary should be 5-6 minutes and must include a bibliography. The final cut of your documentary will be due on March 1, 2011. We will screen and discuss the documentaries in class on March 2, 2011.
To help you create your documentary, you will attend two special workshops. The first workshop, led by librarian Amy Witzel, will explore how to find relevant primary and secondary sources for your film. The second workshop, led by Susan Simon at Jones Media Center, will review multimedia composition techniques and provide basic training in iMovie and Photoshop. In addition, you will complete several mini-assignments in the process of creating the documentary, including an oral “pitch” of your topic, a written film treatment, and a draft script and storyboard.
After completing this project, students will be able to:
- Discuss how race, class, sexuality, and nationality have shaped the opportunities available for various groups of Caribbean women
Identify some of the major social, political, and cultural institutions that have sought to define women’s roles in Caribbean society
Produce polished multimedia compositions that have an original perspective, clear argument, supporting evidence, and proper citations
Since this is a collaborative project, your group will receive a grade for the written treatment, storyboard, script, and bibliography. Your group will also receive a grade for the final documentary film. As a class, we will work together to develop a rubric to assess the documentaries.
You will receive an individual grade for your written reflection on the filmmaking process.
Reena Goldthree, Instructor for AAAS 7
Susan Simon, Media Learning Technologist, Jones Media Center
Amy Witzel, Reference Librarian for African and African American Studies (AAAS) & Women and Gender Studies
Kay Yi, Writing Assistant for AAAS 7
AAAS 7 Library Resources Guide (prepared by Amy Witzel)
AAAS 7 Blackboard Page (see “Video Project Resources” link)
Student Center for Researching, Writing, and Information Technology (RWIT)
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Battery Maintenance and Charging Information
The most commonly used battery in scooters and motorcycles is the Lead Acid battery. These batteries are made up of plates, lead, and lead oxide with a 30% sulfuric acid and 70% water mixture. This solution is the battery acid which causes a chemical reaction to produce energy.
There are two main types of lead acid batteries. Starting/Cranking for running an engine and Deep Cycle for marine and golf cart applications. The starting battery SLI (starting lighting ignition) is designed to start and run engines. Engine starters need a large starting current for a short time. Starting batteries have a large number of thin plates for maximum surface area. A Deep Cycle battery has less initial energy, but greater long-term energy by using solid lead plates. There are also dual purpose batteries which combine the features of both types.
Batteries come with classifications and standard codes which are AH, RC, CCA and CA. These are standards that most battery manufacturers use to rate the output and capacity of a battery.
*Amp Hour (AH) is a rating usually found on most batteries. If a battery is rated at 100 amp hours it should deliver 5 amps for 20 hours, 20 amps for 5 hours.
*Reserve Capacity (RC) is an important rating. This is the number of minutes a fully charged battery at 80 degrees F will discharge 25 amps until the battery drops below 10.5 volts.
*Cold Cranking Amps (CCA) is a measurement of the number of amps a battery can deliver at 0 degrees F for 30 seconds and not drop below 7.2 volts. A high CCA battery rating is especially important for starting battery applications, and in cold weather.
*Cranking Amps (CA) is measured at 32 degrees F. This rating is also called marine cranking amps (MCA).
The freshness of a battery should always be considered. The longer a battery sits on a shelf and is not re-charged, the more deterioration that can occur. Most batteries have a date of manufacture code on them. The month is indicated by a letter starting with A and beginning in January and the year is a one or two digit number. For example, 'A10' would tell us a battery was manufactured in January 2010.
Battery maintenance is very important. The battery should be kept on a trickle charger when not in use. If not properly maintained they might only last 2 seasons because of sulfation. Sulfation is defined as the build-up of sulfur molecules in battery acid. When left alone it will become so deeply discharged that the molecules begin to coat the battery's lead plates. Before too long the plates become so coated that the battery dies. We have a large selection of Battery Chargers to choose from and PulseTech products are great at preventing this occurance. Choose from our selection of Xtreme Smart Chargers and Solar Pulse Chargers and Maintainers. These ultra-high quality chargers use modern technology to perform a 3 step charging process. The first step is bulk charging where 80% of the battery energy capacity is replaced by the charger using the maximum voltage and current amp rating of the charger. 2nd step is when the battery voltage reaches 14 volts it will start the absorption charge. This is when the voltage is held at a constant 14 volts and the amps reduce until the battery is almost fully charged at 97-98%. The final step is the float charge which is a regulated voltage of no more than 13.4 volts and usually less than 1 amp of current. This will bring the battery to being 100% charged. The float charge will not heat batteries but will maintain the batteries at 100% and prevent cycling during inactivity.
Battery care is just as important. Batteries and terminals can be cleaned using a solution with 2 tablespoons of baking soda and a pint of water. Cable connections need to be cleaned and tightened routinely. Many battery problems are caused by corroded and loose connections. A battery needs to have the fluid level checked and it is suggested to use mineral free water when refilling. Distilled water has the impurities removed and will not contaminate battery cells. A good tip is to never overfill battery cells, especially in warm weather. What happens is the fluid expansion caused by heat can push excess battery acid from the battery. To prevent corrosion of cables on top post batteries use silicon sealer at the base of the post and place a felt battery washer over it. Coat the washer with a high temp grease then place the cable on the post and tighten.
Battery testing should be done on a routine basis. Battery drain can occur even with the key off. Many vehicles have clocks, computers, alarm systems and other electronic devices that can drain a battery. The constant low or dead battery caused by excessive energy drain will quickly shorten battery life. One of the easiest ways to measure voltage is to use a digital D.C. voltmeter and a load tester if testing sealed batteries. Before testing voltage the battery should be fully charged and rested for a few hours after the charge in order to get the most accurate reading.
By following these steps and applying a proper maintenance technique, the life of a battery can be extended by up to 5 years and provide your vehicle with a dependable power source.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
The Washington Post
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The latch is missing from the stall door in the public restroom south of the Washington Monument. The hinges are bent. The partition is wobbly. Paint is peeling from the ceiling. Rust stains the toilet fixtures, and two signs on a wall warn in red letters: "No Bathing."
Outside, along the two-and-a-quarter-mile strip of green between the Capitol and the Potomac River known as the Mall, broad swaths of grass are trampled to dust. Light fixtures are broken or missing. The ornamental brick circles around the famed elms are buried under dirt and gravel.
Reflecting pools are cloudy with muck. An underground irrigation system is inoperable. And the oldest structure on the Mall has missing and boarded up windows.
The Mall, the historic stretch of green known as "America's front yard," has long needed a facelift. The National Park Service says it needs $350 million in deferred maintenance.
People in power have started to notice the shabbiness.
Last week, a House Appropriations subcommittee recommended an extra $100 million for upgrades and maintenance. In April, the Bush administration announced a $2.2 million public-private program to erect new signs on the Mall. And in November, the Trust for the National Mall was established to help raise private donations.
"We certainly have a lot of people who are coming to realize how important this place is," Peggy O'Dell, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said last week.
The Park Service says national parks across the country need $6 billion in deferred maintenance, a figure that has more than doubled in eight years. The Mall draws 20 million visitors a year, more than the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Yosemite parks combined. It is the location of the nation's most famous monuments and memorials and the site of some of the country's most historic public gatherings.
"It's a place that people come and they use hard, and it shows its wear," O'Dell said. "It's showing its age, and it's showing its wear."
The grass has been battered by giant public events, as it is this month with workers setting up the mammoth encampment of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
"It got this way through complete and total inattention," D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) said. "You've got to keep the lawns mowed. But if nobody's looking, you don't have to do much more than that."
Not only was nobody looking, critics say, but few Washington insiders seemed to care.
"This is just one of the areas where there wasn't a vocal enough constituency," said John E. "Chip" Akridge, chairman of the Trust for the National Mall, which estimates $100 million is needed for building repairs, new restrooms and restaurants.
In 2006 the Bush administration unveiled the Centennial Initiative, proposing that up to $100 million in federal money be spent annually on the park system for 10 years. The goal was to generate, along with private donations, as much as $3 billion by the time the Park Service marks its 100th anniversary in 2016.
But this year, the initiative only got $24.6 million in federal funds and $27 million in philanthropic contributions. In April, it announced the first funding of, among other things, the Mall sign project.
The House interior and the environment appropriations subcommittee recommended a separate $100 million appropriation to redress what Chairman Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) called the "lack of investment in necessary maintenance." In an interview, he called the Mall's condition "marginal."
"The Park Service has been underfunded," he said. "Things just weren't taken as good a care of as they should have been."
Thanks to the Park Service, much of the Mall, flanked by grand museums and public structures, still dazzles. Many tourists say it doesn't look that bad.
"I think it's amazing, considering the amount of people, the amount of heavy traffic here," Patrick Crofton, 58, of Philadelphia said recently as he stood near the Washington Monument. "I'm pretty impressed."
But Mall visitor Shanti Corrigan, 39, of Berkeley, Calif., who lived in the District in the 1990s, said: "I don't think it looks that great, compared to when I used to live here. They haven't created the kind of welcoming environment you would want for the nation's capital."
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, enhanced security on the Mall has been a priority. Barriers have gone up at the Washington Monument and are almost finished at the Lincoln Memorial. A temporary lighting system is in place along the Lincoln reflecting pool.
Many local officials, residents and advocates say the Mall's condition has badly deteriorated. At a congressional hearing last month, it was described as decrepit.
Tourists sometimes "take the 30,000-foot view," said Akridge, who called the Mall "a disgrace" at the hearing and has lobbied Congress on its behalf.
"You're looking at those iconic structures," he said. "The long view is fabulous. You need to look at the 30-foot view. That's where it becomes pretty bad."
On a recent tour of the Mall, he pointed out the 1830s stone canal house at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
Passed by hundreds of tourists every day, the oldest structure on the Mall is heavily overgrown with bushes. Windows and doors are boarded up. The woodwork looks as if it hasn't been painted in years.
Nearby, the Bicentennial-era lake at Constitution Gardens, west of the World War II Memorial, is spotted with algae. Its stone border and east terrace are crumbling in places.
The souvenir and snack stand at 15th Street and Madison Drive NW resides under a torn and faded tent where visitors sit at metal picnic tables on dirty rubber matting amid trash cans and foraging crows.
Across the Tidal Basin, an area considered part of the Mall, the Jefferson Memorial's sea wall is sinking into the water. So much of the basin's southwest sea wall is overtopped at high tide that a footpath detour has been built.
"There are not a lot of things that don't have that nick or ding, or need a coat of paint," Akridge said.
Despite a few new restrooms and snack shops, a chronic scarcity of both remains, he said.
The Mall was part of the original 1791 plan formulated by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French-born architect hired by George Washington to design the capital.
It has undergone many changes. It was expanded with fill dredged from the Potomac River and then populated with the famous monuments and memorials.
In 1902, the Senate commissioned the McMillan Plan, an ambitious program for the Mall that was inspired by Europe's great parks.
The Park Service is working on a new plan for the Mall, seeking public input and weighing alternatives.
But some people want more than a plan. Judy Scott Feldman, head of the nonprofit National Coalition to Save Our Mall, says a new McMillan-like commission is needed.
"You can fix up things all you want," she said. "But really what we need is something bigger that deals with bigger issues."
You Can Help
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Sep 27, 2004 (12:09 PM EDT)
IBM Carves New RFID Unit
Read the Original Article at InformationWeek
IBM has created the Sensor and Actuator Solutions group to support devices such as those used in radio-frequency identification setups. The unit will be funded up to $250 million during the next five years to create consulting and other services and software.
IBM says it will roll out in the fourth quarter WebSphere-based RFID middleware that will automate the collection, integration, and management of data collected from tags and readers at distribution centers and stores. The embedded pervasive logic within IBM's software is built on Java J9 open standards.
But the unit is focused on more than simple RFID. It will work with sensors driven by field-programmable logic that can be programmed to manage manufacturing-execution systems and discrete control systems. The sensors, for example, are found in machinery that control conveyer belts used in creating chips at IBM's Fishkill, N.Y., factory.
"We are on a mission to provide an integration layer from the physical environment to the back-end IT enterprise," says Robert Mayberry, VP of the Sensor and Actuator Solutions group. "For the last several years, the chip plant has used the Internet to get back-end apps such as ERP and CRM platforms to communicate with other. We plan to take these batch functions and turn them into real-time platforms."
Sensors and actuators, also known as micro-electromechanical, or MEM, tools, have been around for years. In 2002, MEMs began to venture out of automotive and military uses and into the telecom and computer markets. Since sensors aren't limited to RFID, companies that are looking beyond an RFID slap-and-ship supply-chain environment are beginning to realize that other sensors that sense vibration and chemical content in the air, for example, can connect with RFID platforms.
While the adoption rate for sensors and actuators in the near term is being supported by demand for RFID, Mayberry says opportunities exist in other industries, such as biometrics and energy. Harbor Research estimates there will be more than 1.2 billion devices categorized as "smart sensors" or controllers by 2005.
IBM formed the unit in part because it wants a piece of the contracts to optimize airline engines and to address homeland security needs.
"The country also needs to go back and look at energy utilization, so there will be a time when power and energy plants will come online," Mayberry says, "They will need to take advantage of sensors and actuators."
The 1,000-person group is part of IBM's application-integration middleware division.
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Pollyanas Are Good Lie Detectors
In 1913, Eleanor H. Porter published a young adult's book, Pollyanna, about a girl who finds the good in everything. Soon, Pollyanna became synonymous with naively optimistic people—people who are often too trusting and easily duped. This stereotype appears to be misleading; trusting people are better able to detect duplicity than untrusting folks.
Nancy Carter and Mark Weber from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto videotaped second-year MBA students interviewing for a fake job. The researchers instructed half of the interviewees to be absolutely honest and the other half to lie. All of the participants received $20 for their efforts and Carter and Weber promised the interviewees an additional $20 if a lie detection expert believed they were telling the truth.
The researchers then asked a different group of participants to answer a survey, assessing the amount of trust they place in others. The participants watched the tapes and evaluated how honest they believed each interviewee was. Those people who were more trusting were better able to discern whom the liars were whereas less trusting people had a difficult time differentiating between liars and truth tellers.
"Although people seem to believe that low trusters are better lie detectors and less gullible than high trusters, these results suggest that the reverse is true," the coauthors write in the paper, which appears in Social Psychological and Personality Science. "High trusters were better lie detectors than were low trusters; they also formed more appropriate impressions and hiring intentions."
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Financial Aid Resources Provided by Eastern Washington University
There are many financial aid resources available to students at EWU. Please visit Eastern's Student Financial Services page for more information and a complete listing of services offered through the University. The College of Business and Public information also has a scholarship page specific to its department.
Other Sources of Financial Aid and Scholarship Information
The following is a list of websites that provide information on sources of various forms of financial aid and are independent of Eastern Washington University. This list is not exhaustive, financial aid seekers should be creative in the criteria they use to search for financial aid as awards are given for a wide range of reasons.
Information for International Students
The following is a list of websites and a brief description of what they offer in terms of help for international students
International Financial Aid and College Scholarship Search - IEFA is the premier resource for financial aid, college scholarship and grant information for US and international students wishing to study abroad. At this site, you will find the most comprehensive college scholarship search and grant listings plus international student loan programs and other information to promote study abroad. http://www.iefa.org/
International Student Loan Program Center - Each year over 200,000 Americans study abroad and nearly 600,000 international students come to the USA to study. However, studying abroad often requires financial assistance for extra expenses such as travel, accommodations and materials, which can make it a greater financial commitment. InternationalStudentLoan.com is here to help, by offering a range of international student loans and study abroad loans to international students in the USA and Canada and for Canadian and US Students studying around the world. http://www.internationalstudentloan.com/
Funding for US Study Online is an extensive database of scholarships, fellowships and grants organized and maintained by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Funding for US Study includes all types of funding programs, for all levels of post-secondary study, across the full range of academic areas. http://www.fundingusstudy.org
EduPass - This site provides information for international students who are thinking about pursuing an undergraduate, graduate, or professional education in the United States. It also contains material of interest to international students who are already in the United States. There is also some information for international students who are interested in studying in countries other than the US, but the main focus is higher education in the US. http://www.edupass.org/finaid/databases.phtml
The Global Student Loan® is the only comprehensive education loan for international and distance learning students that does not require a co-signer in the host country. http://www.globalslc.com/
EducationUSA is a global network of more than 450 advising centers supported by the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) http://exchanges.state.gov/fosters mutual understanding between the United States and other countries by promoting personal, professional, and institutional ties between private citizens and organizations in the United States and abroad, as well as by presenting U.S. history, society, art and culture in all of its diversity to overseas audiences. Millions of prospective students learn about U.S. study opportunities through EducationUSA centers each year. http://educationusa.state.gov/
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Dr. Sean Casey, Tuesday, 11-13-12 November 14, 2012Posted by The Space Show in Uncategorized.
Tags: asteroid minding, Astronauts for Hire, CubeLab, cubesat proliferation., cubesats, Dr. Sean Casey, Founders Institute, GLXP Teams, human spaceflight, ISS, Lunar Cube Sats, NanoRack, Nanosatisfy, NanoSats, NewSpace business incubator, NewSpace Business Plan Competition, QB50 Project, Silicon Valley Space Center, Skybox, SOFIA, space entrepreneurism, spaceports
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Dr. Sean Casey, Tuesday, 11-13-12
Guest: Dr. Sean Casey. SOFIA update, Silicon ValleySpaceCenter, entrepreneurial space ventures and opportunities. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. We welcomed Dr. Sean Casey back to the show. Our first topic dealt with updates to the SOFA Project (Space Research Association for NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy). You can find out more by visiting the SOFIA website, www.sofia.usra.edu. Dr. Casey talked about upgrades, new science programs, and more for SOFIA, plus he addressed issues specific to airborne observatories. After the SOFIA update, we turned our attention to California’s Silicon Valley and the new Silicon Valley Space Center (SVSC) which is a non-profit business accelerators focused on connecting entrepreneurs with NewSpace leaders and other commercial opportunities. Visit their website for more information, www.svsc.org. The balance of our discussion centered on the activity of the SVSC with a focus to developing cubesat, nanosat, and other NewSpace opportunities. Dr. Casey mentioned several companies that suggested what he was focused on including Nanosatisfy (www.nanosatisfi.com), Skybox Imaging (www.skyboximaging.com), and GLXP Teams.
In the second segment, we talked more about the SVSC and Silicon Valley in general, especially for projects outside of California. He talked more about the companies already mentioned and told us about additional entrepreneurial companies doing cubesat, nanosat, and other startup space ventures. We talked about classroom opportunities with cubesats, ways to help in commercial space projects at the classroom level, and how to engage students early on in exciting and doable NewSpace projects. Near the end we talked about human spaceflight opportunities as opposed to the science missions.
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Suborbital Conference Interviews, Friday, 3-2-12 March 2, 2012Posted by The Space Show in Uncategorized.
Tags: : Dr. Angie Bukley, Astronauts4Hire, Brian Shiro, Chuck Lauer, Dr. Sean Casey, International Space University, NOAA., Rocketplane Global, SOFIA, space tourism, suborbital research
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Suborbital Conference Interviews, Friday, 3-2-12
Guests: Dr. Angie Bukley; Brian Shiro; Chuck Lauer; Dr. Sean Casey. Topics: International Space University (ISU), Astronauts4Hire, suborbital flight, Rocketplane, research projects, SOFIA. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation of the Space Show copyright. This program consists of five taped interviews conducted at the Next Generation Suborbital Conference held in Palo Alto, CA from Feb. 27-29, 2012. Each interview is about 30 minutes in length. There is approximately 10-15 seconds of dead air between interviews. The first interview is with Dr. Angie Bukley who is the Dean at the International Space University (ISU). Dr. Bukley discusses ISU, the upcoming summer session at Melbourne, Florida, and much more. The second interview is with Brian Shiro who is the President of Astronauts4Hire and a former student at both the UND SpSt program and ISU. Brian currently is with NOAA in Hawaii. We talk about Astronauts4Hire, suborbital flights and research and more. The third interview which took place on Wednesday was with Chuck Lauer. Chuck announced that Rocketplane was back! He went over the basics of their plans, the flight experience, spaceship plans, and more. Chuck was followed by our discussion with Elizabeth (Liz) Kennick who is the new Project Leader for Teachers in Space with The Space Frontier Foundation. Liz explains the program from top to bottom and the programs in place to do effective outreach to both teachers and students. Our final interview was with Dr. Sean Casey. He updated us on the NASA SOFIA Program and talked about his own suborbital research project plans. He also provided us with some comparisons of a sounding rocket versus the new generation of suborbital vehicles in terms of G-force, the quality of the ride, protecting instruments or being able to use off the shelf instruments and more. Please post your comments regarding any of these interviews on The Space Show blog URL above. If you want to email any of our guests, send it to me at firstname.lastname@example.org and I will forward it to the person of your choice.
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|Hey, kid. Welcome to Prison.|
You think you just woke up here one day, right? Think again. It was your whole life that brought you to this. Fact is, you were born to be here. Go ahead, look around. I’ll be here when you get back.
Looks smaller than it is, don’t it? Sometimes, it doesn’t even feel all that bad. But stillÉ You look through those bars, and you see all that you’re missing. Hopes. Dreams. What could-have-been. Here, put your palms up to the Black Iron, grab the bars, let me show you something.
Feel that? That’s all the books you’ve read. And that entire wall over there is your adolescence. Look up: It’s your CD collection. The floor you woke up on? Your parents. Like I said, you were born to be here. It’s your life, it’s the cold trap of your own existence. You painted yourself into a corner.
So, now you’re wondering why you feel trapped here, in your own life. Why now, why today, can you see the bars of a Black Iron Prison that you made for yourself? Because you stopped reacting, and took a couple of steps forward. You thought you could do what you wanted, you tried to be self reliant, and bang. You smacked your head against the wall.
What’s that? Yeah. That’s when the claustrophobia sets in. When you didn’t know you were trapped, everything was fine. But now that you know, you can see your entire, tired, monotonous life stretch out before you, trapped in these 4 walls, these 6 sides. Breathe, kid. It’s just abject panic that you’re feeling right now. Some even say that this is what death feels like: An unchanging life, immune and unfeeling to what you really want.
Look around you. Look at these cold, black bars. The colorless ceiling. The hard ground. That’s your universe. That’s the world you’re going to be living in for the rest of your life here in Prison. You’re going to live out your life in quiet desperation. Or, not so quiet if you decide to take the rife/bell tower route. Either way, long or short, it’ll feel the same. Dead, unchanging.
So, if you’re interested, I’d like to invite you to a jailbreak...
Just turn around.
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One of the main thing this chapter talks about is the importance about research design. If an experiment isn't properly designed and administrated, it may not lead to conclusive and accurate results, and can actually lead to very harmful procedures done to patients. Another thing that this chapter focuses on was the difference between correlation and causation. Two things are correlated if they are related to each other, but causation means that one thing leads to the other. Often times there is a third variable that is unaccounted for which links the two variables together. This is really important to understand when looking at newspaper headlines, as they tend to confuse correlation with causation. You must look at the data they took and make sure they lead to causation results and that the researchers or newspaper editors don't mistake the difference between correlation and causation. This is why you sometimes see crazy headlines that do not always seem to make sense such as "Fear of hell makes us richer, Fed says," and "Eating fish prevents crime." While these items are probably, we must be extremely careful to not assume there is a causation relationship between the two variables.
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Anyone who's had to use our healthcare system lately will not be surprised to learn that a performance scorecard released this week found several areas in need of improvement. Access to care is one example. In that category, the Commonwealth Fund report gave the United States a score of 58 out of 100 in 2008, nearly 10 points lower than in 2006, when the first national scorecard was released. That's in part because last year, 42 percent of adults—some 75 million people—were either uninsured or underinsured, the report found, compared with 35 percent in 2003.
Overall, the country scored a 65, down slightly from 67 in 2006, based on indicators in five areas: healthcare outcomes, quality, access, efficiency, and equity.
Other failings the report highlighted: Only half of all adults receive recommended preventive care and screenings. And the United States ranks last among industrialized countries at preventing premature deaths from preventable causes like heart disease and diabetes, which I wrote about earlier this year.
But the study also showed that when we put our minds to addressing problems, scores improve. The national emphasis in recent years on hospital safety has contributed to a 19 percent improvement in hospitals' ratios of actual deaths to the number that would be expected based on the severity of patients' conditions and other factors. Hospitals also have made strides at making sure that patients with heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia get the recommended care. "What gets attention gets improved," Cathy Schoen, senior vice president at the Commonwealth Fund, said at a briefing announcing the scorecard results. However, she noted, "To date we have focused too narrowly."
The upcoming presidential election presents an opportunity for change, as the report points out. But will it happen? On Tuesday, I attended an event sponsored by Rutgers Business School's pharmaceutical management program at which the top healthcare advisers to both campaigns discussed the candidates' plans for healthcare reform. Obama adviser David Cutler, a Harvard University economist, described Obama's plan to achieve near universal coverage by creating health insurance exchanges that can't turn sick people away or charge them more. McCain adviser Gail Wilensky, an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, presented McCain's plan to remove the favorable tax treatment on employer-sponsored insurance and provide tax credits to make coverage more affordable. (For more details, check out the story I wrote this spring about the candidates' proposals.)
At the outset, moderator Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs (and a former U.S. News writer) promised that anyone hoping to get splattered by a little mud that day would be disappointed. She was right. But the discussion was so darned dispassionate that it was hard to make the connection between the candidates' lofty proposals and the reality that people are literally dying because they can't get the healthcare they need. As I rode down in the elevator with two attendees, one of them said to the other, "I wanted to be inspired. But instead it was a lot of rhetoric, no good answers, and it was boring." Candidates, take note.
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|Death:||Died in New York, NY, USA|
|Cause of death:||Jean Webster died of complications from childbirth|
|Managed by:||Karen Richardson|
About Alice Jane Chandler McKinney (Webster)
Jean Webster: Humanitarian/ Author
A Woman Whose Words Should Not Be Forgotten
Jun 19, 2007 Melissa Howard
Jean Webster is an important American author. Not only for the lasting success of two of her books but also for her humanitarian efforts.
Jean Webster is most well known for her books Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. The well-loved Daddy-Long-Legs has been translated into eighteen languages. Despite the popularity of these two books and her blue-blood literary lineage, her other works and even her biography have nearly vanished from the record.
Jean Webster was born July 24, 1876 to Annie Moffet Webster and Charles Luther Webster and was named Alice Jane Chandler Webster. Her family’s artistic and leadership heritage was valuable. Her uncle was Samuel Clemens. In addition to the prestige of her Uncle, Jean’s father was an author and a partner in Clemens’ publishing firm. Among other notable ancestors, Jean also counted Daniel Boone and Eli Whitney. When she went to college, she had a roommate with the name Alice and was asked to take her middle name. She complied and took the opportunity to update what seemed to her the old-fashioned name Jane to Jean.
She attended Vassar College where she did well. However, she was a terrible speller and when asked by a teacher “On what authority do you spell thus?” she replied by mocking her last name. “Webster,” she said even though she was not related to the Websters of dictionary fame. While at college, she majored in English and economics and prepared for a literary career. As part of her economics degree she visited homes for delinquent and destitute children, which became background material for her later writing. She had a vivid imagination and one time allowed her imagination full reign while working on a newspaper article and nearly lost her job over it.
After college, Jean wholly pursued her goal of being an independent writer. She compiled and published a collection of stories that she wrote while in college. The collection was titled When Patty Went to College. Jean had a wandering spirit and traveled often. While in Italy she found material for her books Jerry Junior and The Wheat Princess.
She was a hard worker and the quality of her writing had as much to do with her work ethic as any inherent genius. She would write volumes and then begin the arduous process of cutting, editing, and pruning. Daddy-Long-Legs was published in 1912, and was a critical and popular success. As a result, she converted the story to a play, which was also successful. The success of the play was used to promote charitable works and reform. The importance of the book and play in this regard cannot be underestimated as Daddy-Long-Leg dolls were sold to raise money so that suitable families could adopt orphans.
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Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.
Alice Jane Chandler Webster was born in Fredonia, New York. She was the eldest child of Annie Moffet Webster and Charles Luther Webster. She lived her early childhood in a strongly matriarchal and activist setting, with her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother all living under the same roof. Her great-grandmother worked on temperance issues and her grandmother on racial equality and women's suffrage.
Alice's mother was niece to Mark Twain, and her father was Twain's business manager and subsequently publisher of many of his books by Charles L. Webster Publishing, founded in 1884. Initially the business was successful, and when Alice was five the family moved to a large brownstone in New York, with a summer house in Long Island. However, the publishing company ran into difficulties, and increasingly the relationship with Mark Twain broke down. In 1888, her father had a breakdown and took a leave of absence, and the family moved back to Fredonia. He subsequently committed suicide in 1891 from a drug overdose.
Alice attended the Fredonia Normal School and graduated in 1894 in china painting. From 1894 to 1896, she attended the Lady Jane Grey School in Binghamton as a boarder. During her time there, the school taught academics, music, art, letter-writing, diction and manners to about 20 girls. The Lady Jane Grey School inspired many of the details of the school in Webster's novel Just Patty, including the layout of the school, the names of rooms (Sky Parlour, Paradise Alley), uniforms, and the girls' daily schedule and teachers. It was at the school that Alice became known as Jean. Since her roommate was also called Alice, the school asked if she could use another name. She chose "Jean", a variation on her middle name. Jean graduated from the school in June 1896 and returned to the Fredonia Normal School for a year in the college division.
In 1897, Webster entered Vassar College as a member of the class of 1901. Majoring in English and economics, she took a course in welfare and penal reform and became interested in social issues. As part of her course she visited institutions for "delinquent and destitute children". She became involved in the College Settlement House that served poorer communities in New York, an interest she would maintain throughout her life. Her experiences at Vassar provided material for her books When Patty Went to College and Daddy-Long-Legs. Webster began a close friendship with the future poet Adelaide Crapsey who remained as her friend until Crapsey's death in 1914.
She participated with Crapsey in many extracurricular activities, including writing, drama, and politics. Webster and Crapsey supported the socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs during the 1900 presidential election, although as women they were not allowed to vote. She was a contributor of stories to the Vassar Miscellany and as part of her sophomore year English class, began writing a weekly column of Vassar news and stories for the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier. Webster reported that she was "a shark in English" but her spelling was reportedly quite eccentric, and when a horrified teacher asked her authority for a spelling error, she replied "Webster", a play on name of the dictionary of the same name.
Webster spent a semester in her junior year in Europe, visiting France and the United Kingdom, but with Italy as her main destination, including visits to Rome, Naples, Venice and Florence. She traveled with two fellow Vassar students, and in Paris met Ethelyn McKinney and Lena Weinstein, also Americans, who were to become lifelong friends. While in Italy, Webster researched her senior economics thesis "Pauperism in Italy". She also wrote columns about her travels for the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier, and gathered material for a short story, "Villa Gianini", which was published in the Vassar Miscellany in 1901. She later expanded it into a novel, The Wheat Princess. Returning to Vassar for her senior year, she was literary editor for her class yearbook, and graduated in June 1901.
Back in Fredonia, Webster began writing When Patty Went to College, in which she described contemporary women's college life. After some struggles finding a publisher, it was issued in March 1903 to good reviews. Webster started writing the short stories that would make up Much Ado about Peter, and with her mother visited Italy for the winter of 1903–4 including a 6-week stay in a convent in Palestrina, while she wrote the Wheat Princess. It was subsequently published in 1905.
The following years brought a further trip to Italy and an eight month world tour to Egypt, India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Japan with Ethelyn McKinney, Lena Weinstein and two others, as well as the publication of Jerry Junior in 1907 and The Four Pools Mystery in 1908.
An increasing intimacy and a secret engagement developed between Webster and Ethelyn McKinney's brother, Glenn Ford McKinney. A lawyer, he had struggled to live up to the expectations of his wealthy and successful father. Mirroring a subplot of Dear Enemy, he had an unhappy marriage to an unstable woman, Annette Reynaud, who was frequently hospitalized for manic-depressive episodes. The McKinneys had a child, John, who also showed signs of mental instability. McKinney responded to these stresses with frequent escapes on hunting and yachting trips as well as alcohol abuse. He entered sanatoriums on several occasions as a result. The McKinneys separated in 1909, but in an era when divorce was uncommon and difficult to obtain, were not divorced until 1915. After his separation, McKinney continued to struggle with alcoholism, but had his addiction under control in the summer of 1912, when he traveled with Webster, Ethelyn McKinney and Lena Weinstein to Ireland.
During this period, Webster continued to write short stories and began adapting some of her books for the stage. In 1911, Just Patty was published, and Webster began writing the novel Daddy-Long-Legs while staying at an old farmhouse in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Webster's most famous work was originally published as a serial in the Ladies' Home Journal and tells the story of a girl named Jerusha Abbott, an orphan whose attendance at a women's college is sponsored by an anonymous benefactor. Apart from an introductory chapter, the novel takes the form of letters written by the newly-styled Judy to her benefactor. It was published in October 1912 to popular and critical acclaim.
Webster dramatized Daddy-Long-Legs during 1913, and in 1914 spent four months on tour with the play, which starred a young Ruth Chatterton as Judy. After tryouts in Atlantic City, Washington, Syracuse, Rochester, Indianapolis, and Chicago, the play opened at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City in September 1914 and ran until May 1915. It subsequently toured widely throughout the US. The book and play became a focus for efforts for charitable work and reform. "Daddy-Long-Legs" dolls were sold to raise money to fund the adoption of orphans into families.
Webster's success was overshadowed by her college friend Adelaide Crapsey's battle with tuberculosis, leading to Crapsey's death in October 1914. In June 1915, Glenn Ford McKinney was granted a divorce, and he and Webster were married in a quiet ceremony in September in Washington, Connecticut. They honeymooned at McKinney's camp near Quebec City, Canada, and were visited by former president Theodore Roosevelt, who invited himself, saying "I've always wanted to meet Jean Webster. We can put up a partition in the cabin."
Returning to the US, the newlyweds shared Webster's apartment overlooking Central Park and McKinney's Tymor farm, in Dutchess County, New York. In November 1915, Dear Enemy, a sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs, was published, and it too proved to be a bestseller. Also epistolary in form, it chronicles the adventures of a college friend of Judy's who becomes the superintendent of the orphanage in which Judy was raised. Webster became pregnant and according to family tradition, was warned that her pregnancy might be dangerous. She suffered severely from morning sickness, but by February 1916 was feeling better and was able to return to her many activities: social events, prison visits, and meetings about orphanage reform and women's suffrage. She also began a book and play set in Sri Lanka. Her friends reported that they had never seen her happier.
Jean Webster entered the Sloan Hospital for Women, New York on the afternoon of June 10, 1916. Glenn McKinney, recalled from his twenty-fifth reunion at Princeton University, arrived ninety minutes before Webster gave birth at 10:30 p.m to a six-and-a-quarter-pound daughter. All was well initially, but Jean Webster became ill and died of childbirth fever at 7:30 am on June 11, 1916. Her daughter was named Jean (Little Jean) in her honor.
Jean Webster was active political and socially, and often included issues of interest in her books.
Jean Webster supported women's suffrage and education for women. She participated in marches in support of votes for women, and having benefited from her education at Vassar, she remained actively involved with the college. Her novels also promoted the idea of education for women, and her major characters explicitly supported women's suffrage.
Eugenics and heredity
The eugenics movement was a hot-topic when Jean Webster was writing her novels. In particular, Richard L. Dugdale's 1877 book about the Juke family as well as Henry Goddard's 1912 study of the Kallikak family were widely read at the time. Webster's Dear Enemy mentions and summarizes the books approvingly, to some degree, although her protagonist, Sallie McBride, ultimately declares that she doesn't "believe that there's one thing in heredity," provided children are raised in a nurturing environment. Nevertheless, eugenics as an idea of 'scientific truth'— generally accepted by the intelligentsia of the time— does come through in the novel.
From her college years, Webster was involved in reform movements, and was a member of the State Charities Aid association, including visiting orphanages, fundraising for dependent children and arranging for adoptions. In Dear Enemy she names as a model the Pleasantville Cottage School, a cottage-based orphanage that Webster had visited.
Jean Webster's Timeline
June 24, 1876
Alice Jane WEBSTER daut of Chas. L. & Annie M. WEBSTER at Fredonia Chaut. Co. N.Y. July 24th 1876 at 6 p. m.
September 7, 1915
Middletown, CT, USA
Glynn Ford McKINNEY to Jean WEBSTER at Washington Green Connecticut September 7th, 1915.
June 10, 1916
New York, NY, USA
Jean WEBSTER McKINNEY, daughter of Glynn Ford McKINNEY and Jean WEBSTER McKINNEY in New York June 10th, 1916.
June 11, 1916
New York, NY, USA
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Our motto is: more poems less demos.
While theirs is a specific craft, the mission statement of SfPC has wide applicability to all places of learning. For example, in the following paragraph, substitute writer with any other creative role.
We are interested in craft, and the idea that every writer needs space and time to hone their trade. Our school aims to provide a safe haven – so you could get acquainted with the craft at your own pace, make it your own, find that part between your true creative process and the craft. This takes time, encouragement, the right push at the right time, conversations with colleagues, and more time.
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There is some debate amongst backup vendors on what defines an agent, some consider any amount of scripting to be an agent, while others imply it is what does the data transfer plus any amount of scripting necessary. Is there a need for both Agent and Agent-less within a virtual environment? This also begs the question, who is responsible for properly handling the application whose data you are backing up?
Modern virtual environment backup tools take a few steps to complete:
- Communicate the desire to create a snapshot to the hypervisor
- Software communicates that a snapshot is needed (A)
- Hypervisor communicates the need to quiesce the disk to the virtual machine
- Hypervisor takes the snapshot (B)
- Backup happens
- Software Communicates that backup is finished (C)
- Hypervisor commits the snapshot (D)
- Hypervisor communicates that the snapshot process has ended to the virtual machine
- Back Complete
Of these steps 2 of them communicate with the virtual machine, so that the virtual machine can properly handle the application. For Microsoft Windows this may be just using VSS which is Microsoft product aware and therefore produces non-crash consistent backups, while other non-Microsoft applications could be crash consistent.
What does Crash Consistent mean? It means that when the data is restored bits and bytes of data may be missing as that data may not have been written from memory to disk. In the case of a database, this could be a large amount of data. Crucial data could be lost. In essence, the backup could be nothing more than swiss cheese with lots of holes in it. If this is a full disk backup, there is also a chance that the VM may not boot.
The goal of any backup tool should be to eliminate such issues. However, failure to communicate to the application that a backup is to occur is an issue. Does the backup software you use integrate with your applications in any way to ensure all data within the application caches are written to disk?
On VMware vSphere the communication to the virtual machine that a snapshot will be taken or has been committed only happens if VMware tools is installed and up to date, if not then these actions are not communicated to the VM and you end up with a crash consistent backup. Which should be avoided at all cost. So, there needs to be some way for the backup tool to communicate with the applications within the VM to quiesce the application, sync data from memory to disk, so that the process can be complete before the snapshot is taken. For VMware vSphere, the VIX API could be used to communicate through the hypervisor to execute per VM commands with the proper authentication within the VM. For other hypervisors, other techniques are required such as agents, WMI, remote command execution (ssh), etc.
Nor can the backup vendors ignore Linux in favor of Windows and visa versa, there is a growing number of mission critical Linux machines being virtualized. If you are backing up mission critical applications within the virtual environment application quiesce is very important. Many backup vendors depend on the hypervisor to perform this communication and the guest operating system to do the proper thing. However, if that communication is not guaranteed to happen, or the proper thing is not good enough or non-existent (such as no VSS on Linux machines), then the backup will remain crash consistent unless such a script can be written by your administrators.
This is where tools such as Symantec NetBackup and other legacy backup tools work best, they already know you need to tell the application to quiesce and then only backup the data for the application. These tools also contain agents that in some cases virtual environment aware.
Agent-less backup is great for filesystems, but not necessarily for applications, as such it may be time for the virtual environment only backup vendors to consider application agents not just for restore, but also for backup for all operating systems. Depending on the hypervisor to do the work, is a catch-22 as the hypervisor vendors only support their subset of applications and operating systems and not all the applications and operating systems in use within the virtual environment.
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State media: Peru's president to supervise mine rescue
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- NEW: Peru's president says it will be "a few hours" before the rescue begins
- NEW: The miners' "spirits are quite high," President Ollanta Humala says
- Nine miners have been trapped since Thursday
- In 2010, 33 miners were rescued after being trapped underground for 69 days in Chile
(CNN) -- Peru's president arrived Tuesday night at a mine in southern Peru, where he was expected to lead an operation to reach nine trapped miners.
"We have been able to talk with the miners. Their spirits are quite high," President Ollanta Humala told reporters outside the mine.
But more work needs to be done before the rescue begins, Humala said. Engineers were working to make sure the mine was secure "so there are no victims," he said.
"Those same engineers tell us that we have to wait a few hours. They haven't said how many," the president said.
The miners have been stuck since Thursday in the wildcat Cabeza de Negro mine in southern Peru.
Earlier Tuesday, one of the mining engineers in charge of the rescue declined to give a specific time frame for the operation.
Perú: Rescate de mineros
"We can't say how long it will take right now to get them out, but I can guarantee that they are alive, that they are in good health, and that ultimately they are going to be freed alive," engineer Carlos Bejarano said.
A cave-in over the weekend complicated efforts.
"It's very complicated work. We're taking into account all the necessary security measures to avoid risks among the rescuers themselves," said Cesar Chonate, a regional head of Peru's civil defense agency, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
Video from state-run TV Peru showed workers, wearing hard hats and headlamps, loading rocks into a pushcart by hand.
It was not clear what caused the initial collapse.
The miners have been getting oxygen, food and water through a tube, which has also allowed them to stay in contact with people above ground, Andina reported.
Peruvian Mining Minister Jorge Merino was also in the area and appealed to mining companies for their expertise, according to a statement from his office.
Mining is big business in Peru, which is a major world producer of copper, silver, gold and other minerals.
"The important thing is that the nine people are alive. We won't abandon them," Merino said.
The ordeal stirred memories of a 2010 Chilean mine collapse in which 33 men were trapped underground for 69 days. All those miners were rescued, pulled one by one from hundreds of meters beneath the Earth's surface with a specially designed capsule.
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OMG it’s so simple! Roll up a piece of paper with your cheat notes on it and STICK IT INSIDE A PEN! Then TRY TO READ THE TINY HANDWRITING THROUGH THE CLEAR PLASTIC during the test!
I’m sure it’s OK to immortalize dishonesty on YouTube… Because, like, NOBODY important ever checks YouTube — like teachers, employers, or The Chicago Sun-Times.
Do students really think that this works? Having a little rolled-up piece of paper with microscopic notes on so densely packed together that they threaten to collapse into a black hole, not to mention being sheathed in plastic which blurs the resolution of the notes? How could someone even find those notes legible, let alone useful?
If this young lady wants to come to my college and take a class with me and take one of my tests, I’ll look the other way if she wants to use this little pen trick, because if you haven’t learned the…
In my upper-level courses — especially the two senior-level math majors courses I teach, Modern Algebra and Topics in Geometry — traditionally I’ve seen timed tests and so forth as being ineffective in assessing the kinds of advanced problem-solving that students in those classes have to do. Mainly the problems are ones in which they have to prove a theorem. It’s hard to do that under a time pressure because it’s a creative endeavor.
So typically I’ve given such problems out as homework, with the instructions that students may work together on understanding the problem and drafting up a sketch of the solution (Polya’s stages 1 and 2) but the main solution itself, as well as any reality-checking, has to be done individually.
Another thing about group work and assessment. In some courses, particularly upper-division courses with small enrollments, the same kind of individual accountability I’m looking for can be found through oral presentations, not just timed assessments.
I found this out in the textbook-free quasi-Moore Method abstract algebra course I did this past semester. Students were free to work with each other and consult outside sources on any course task they wished to, but at the end of the day their grade depended on their ability to get up in front of the class (and me) and present their work — answering questions on the particulars, being able to explain the overall strategy of a proof, and defending their work against potential holes. Students who could do this on a regular basis scored highly. Students who couldn’t scored poorly. It worked out.
One of the things I have learned this semester (which is now officially over, having turned in my last batch of grades this morning) is the following lesson which I am convinced I must implement immediately: Group work has been playing far too great of a role in my student’s grades. From this point forward, assignments which could conceivably be done in groups — not just those that are designated for group work — will count for no more than 10-15% of the grade in my courses.
I like collaborative learning. I think, in fact, that working with other people on math can be not only a highly effective way of doing so but also carries with it a powerful pro-math socialization effect. The best personal friendships that I had during my college + grad school years were those that I formed with my classmates in my various math classes, as we struggled through material that, to us at the time,…
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Pedagogy Includes Technology
Pedagogy Includes Technology" The Technology Source, November 1998. Available online at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1034. The article is reprinted here with permission of the publisher.
Too often, university administrators don't pursue on-campus technological advancements that require large monetary investments and more faculty/staff training, even if those technologies offer substantial benefits. Furthermore, administrators facing their own impending retirement often fail to seriously consider which technologies may be standard for university campuses after their tenure in office. To wit: we often lower our anchors when the climate calls for sails.
An information superhighway road sign commonly placed before universities is "DangerTechnology Ahead." Consider, for example, Ed Neals (1998) warning that "Often, technology is adopted for instruction without considering the pedagogical basis for its use or how much it may warp the educational process. ... The potential for conflict arises when teachers lose the right to make pedagogical choices that don't include technology or when they want to go slowly and experiment rather than jumping in with both feet."
Peter Havholm (1998) goes so far as to assume that "if both the developing world, and [an unnamed state in the U.S. mentioned by Ptaszynski (1997)] would swear off buying computers that have to be replaced every three years and software that has to be upgraded every six months, they'd be able to afford a lot of good teachers, books, paper, and pencils. They've already got the tables in their dining rooms and kitchens."
Herb Stahlke and J. M. Nyce (1996) also wave a warning flag:
There has been a tendency to let technological possibilities drive Web instructional design and use. The theoretical rationales that have been invoked to justify commitment to Web efforts have tended to be weak: ad hoc and post hoc appeals to post-modernism. However, perhaps more than anything else, these efforts build on and reflect a kind of naive optimism about technology, particularly new technologies, and the role they should have in higher education.
Characteristic of [pro-technology] optimism is the statement that the World Wide Web "may have 1000 times more pedagogical power than two-way TV." Crucially missing from almost all these Web efforts is any discussion of what is a suitable or appropriate use of technology. On the contrary, the tendency has been to assume its appropriateness. In addition, there has been little in the way of an attempt made to establish research agendas that address the issue of appropriateness.
There is No Pedagogical Deficit
These skeptical scholars offer thoughtful and reflective observations about educational technology. But their descriptions rely largely on highly selective anecdotal material. Their implied argument is that using educational technology must result in a "pedagogical deficit," but they have elected not to do original research to support their hypothesis. Instead, they rely on each others statements that "surveys of the literature do (or do not) show" the claimed results.
Technology is Cheap
Many of us have indeed learned from our mistakes, especially over the past few years of robust computer-centered media development. Unfortunately, many others have not learned, and remain in the mindset of ten years back or more, before computer-mediated education was both inexpensive and versatile.
Ed Neal, in a June 1998 article in The Technology Source criticized a study in virtual learning conducted by Jerald Schutte, saying: "We cannot ignore the enormous costs of the technology in this equation. If [Schutte] had used these methods in his traditional class, costs would not have increased, but because he and his students needed the networked technology of a major educational institution, they incurred the extremely high costs of technology" (Neal, 1998).
In his equation of technology with unnecessary and expensive costs, Neal has stacked the deck with outdated, costly assumptions from ten or more years ago. Let's carefully consider a seemingly improbable situation. What if, in the real world, you acquired a PC at the same dollar cost today as the PC you bought 10 or so years ago, which at that time was 1,000 times less powerful, and then in another ten years acquire a new PC which is 1,000 times more powerful than your present one, also at the same dollar cost? That is an increase in power of one million times, at the same cost, over just 20 or so years. If we run the numbers from our own experience, we can readily see that what may have appeared improbable is actually plausible. And that's just the hardware. The greatest value by far is in the power of the software in the hands of the individual. Students and professors benefit from the more than $6 billion that has been spent on applied research and development of personal software tools.
Neal, Havholm, Stahlke and other skeptical scholars tend to ignore how cheap, ubiquitous, versatile, and powerful today's microcomputers are. Their observations represent common complaints while ignoring reasonable prescriptives for using our rich and increasingly boundless cultural resources to address these concerns. Academia must be able to easily transport thought and ideas through virtual books and journals as though they were, as indeed they are, just alternate forms of the same material. Anything else cheats both professors and students of an entire venue of expression. To claim that paper is always superior to visual media would be to hold that Shakespeare's greater art lies in the printed text rather than on the stage, or that James Whitcomb Riley's words leap to life best from a paper page and not from the cadence of a spoken or recorded voice.
We may not be doing enough, quickly enough, to deal with the big changes coming in the near future. Unfortunately, those of us over the age of 55 were trained in an era when none of today's powerful electronic media forces had been unleashed. Our evaluations and decisions are made largely without benefit of the knowledge or intuition gained by the developmental experience of growing up with the overwhelming media environment prevalent now. The background experience of growing up with TV and computers changes our cultural expressions. Will this changed culture impact upon how we think and learn? Not only will it, it already has.
Today, the newest configurations of media on the World Wide Web are powerful, inexpensive, highly interactive, individually controlled for self-pacing, ideally suited for independent learning, and ultimately empowering to the user. Technology has already swept over us. It is no longer a technological argument, but rather a cultural change. It would be foolish not to keep up with the cultural changes of the real world. As you read this letter, the new technology driving corporate universities is eating our academic lunch.
The interactive media of today, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, are no less humanistic than Gutenbergs printing press machine. Our cultural literacy is no less critical in either. Given that these interactive media are becoming increasingly prevalent in our culture, not requiring modern library skills or the communicating skills of using virtual text is not just educationally risky, but is academically, pedagogically, and fiscally unsound.
Neal, E. (1998). Techies vs Teachies. AAHESGIT Listserve #134. Retrieved October 4, 1998 from World Wide Web: gopher://list.cren.net:70/0R105727-117890-/archives/aahesgit/log9806.
Havholm, P. (Feb. 1998). It's not the technology that worries me. The Technology Source. Retrieved October 4, 1998 from the World Wide Web: http://technologysource.org/?view=article&id=174.
Stahlke, H.F.W. and Nyce, J.M. (1996). Reengineering higher education: Reinventing teaching and learning. CAUSE/EFFECT, 19(4). Retrieved October 4, 1998, from the World Wide Web: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9649.html.
Neal, E. (June 1998) Does using technology in instruction Enhance learning? The Technology Source. Retrieved October 4, 1998, from the World Wide Web: http://technologysource.org/?view=article&id=86.hidden objects gamesmatch 3 gamesmarble popper gamesword gamesbest pc gamesmahjongkids games
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Present market statistics and assistance are two essential things required to draft an offer.
A Real Estate Professional interlinks your offer to purchase with the seller’s representative. Occasionally there may be several offers at a single instance. A Real Estate Professional will advise you throughout the process.
Firm to Offer Purchase
Buyers are set to purchase the home without any conditions. That’s why it is preferred by sellers.
Conditional Offer to Purchase
Usually there are certain conditions on an offer to purchase like; “subject to home inspection", "subject to financing" or "subject to sale of buyer's existing home". The home purchase is not firm until all the conditions are satisfied.
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Seller may accept or reject the presented offer to purchase. Also seller can submit a counter-offer. The counter-offer may be with respect to the price, closing date, or any number of variables. To finalize an offer both buyer and seller should agree to terms or either side ends the negotiations.
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Q: At 43, I have night sweats before my period, insomnia a day or two before, and I’m so restless my husband moves to the sofa. Can you suggest any supplements or other natural remedies?
A: ‘The first step is to get a diagnosis,’ says consultant gynaecologist Michael Dooley. ‘Your symptoms could be due to several causes or a mixture.’ So do book in with your GP for tests (see below) and meanwhile try these simple shifts.
Keep a diary or follow a (free) period tracker app (eg Period Tracker Lite): this gives invaluable information for your doctor and helps you feel in control.
Changes in your periods and night sweats indicate hormonal imbalance: this could be early symptoms of menopause (perimenopause). Your GP will probably do blood tests for hormone levels (FSH – follicle stimulating hormone – and oestradiol), which signpost the stage of menopause and any significant hormonal deficiency. This should be done in the early part of the cycle and will need to be repeated, due to hormonal fluctuations.
Symptoms in the latter half of your cycle suggest premenstrual syndrome (PMS). This is common in perimenopause and is likely to be connected to falling oestrogen levels, so adding oestrogen (as a patch or gel) for the second part of your cycle – or the whole – may help. This is HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) rather than a natural remedy, but it’s often useful to see how a patient responds over two or three months to confirm the diagnosis. You can always review then.
Your symptoms might also suggest thyroid problems: difficulty sleeping, mood swings and sensitivity to heat may be linked to an over-active (hyper-) thyroid. Discuss with your doctor.
Supplements may be useful: try Femforte 1 by Biocare, a multivitamin/mineral suitable for women of all ages, £22.05 for 90 tablets; Lamberts Vitamin B6 £4.60 for 100 tablets; DynoMins Magnesium, £14.60 for 90 tablets; and IdealOmega3, £23.70 for 60 capsules. Additionally, Sage Complex, an herbal blend, has helped many women around menopause, £23.95 for 90 capsules.
Yoga has been shown to help: try slower forms of yoga (eg Iyengar, iyengaryoga.org.uk).
Avoid coffee, caffeinated drinks (also chocolate), and alcohol. Sip plenty of still water during the day and keep a glass by your bed.
Keep blood sugar levels steady by eating every two to three hours (wholesome snacks between meals, not confectionery!).
Read Your Change Your Choice by Michael Dooley and me.
Don’t tell but we’re longing to find a Cuddleduck in our Christmas stockings. They’re designed for babies (and toddlers) but this natural rubber quacker (free of chemical nasties such as phthalates, and with child-safe paint) is so adorable we’ve all fallen for him. Squeeze him and he squeaks, and even squirts water. Cuddleduck, £5.99
A Massage Made in Heaven
There’s nothing more attractive than bright skin. But somehow dull days often mean a dull complexion and with party season coming up, it’s time to prep.
Facialist Annee de Mamiel, who’s trained in traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, recommends giving yourself a short facial massage every evening. ‘Stimulating the microcirculation gives a radiant glow, fine lines are reduced and by moving the lymph you reduce puffiness.’ Annee recommends using facial oil at night (I love her organic seasonal oils, currently Autumn with rose otto, geranium and lemon, Autumn Facial Oil £58 for 20ml, from Victoria Health).
- Smooth 4-5 drops facial oil on to cleansed face and neck.
- Cup your hands over your nose and mouth and breath in deeply for a count of three, then exhale slowly to a count of five.
- Repeat three times to release tension.
- Using small circular upwards movements massage your jawline from the point of your chin to your ear. Then from the corners of your mouth over your cheeks to ear lobe. Next from the base of your nose to the top of your ear.
- Continue until the oil is absorbed (or your fingers are tired).
NB Annee also suggests eating lots of healthy soups made with red, orange and yellow veggies, which are rich in skin-nourishing beta-carotene (a precursor of vitamin A).
The Healing Power of Pilates
The benefits of Pilates – an exercise method which develops strength, flexibility and coordination – now include help for pre- and post breast cancer care. Ten Pilates in London offers a one-on-one, individualised course designed for women undergoing mastectomy to help prevent lymphoedema (long term swelling where lymph nodes have been removed in the arm) and also to regain shoulder movement. Additionally, master trainer Amy Ryan has compiled a series of exercises to follow at home, on tenpilates.com. One hour Pilates lessons with Amy Ryan, £100, tel: 020 7495 8642.
Also, Pippa Middleton credits her super-toned figure to regular Pilates sessions.
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On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest open elections. For years they had asked for state or federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud (forged ballots, secret ballot counts and intimidation by armed sheriff's deputies) by the local political boss. They got no help.
These Americans' absolute refusal to knuckle under had been hardened by service in World War II. Having fought to free other countries from murderous regimes, they rejected vicious abuse by their county government.
These Americans had a choice. Their state's Constitution -- Article 1, Section 26 -- recorded their right to keep and bear arms for the common defense. Few "gun control" laws had been enacted.
These Americans were residents of McMinn County, which is located between Chattanooga and Knoxville in Eastern Tennessee. The two main towns were Athens and Etowah. McMinn County residents had long been independent political thinkers. For a long time they also had: accepted bribe-taking by politicians and/or the sheriff to overlook illicit whiskey-making and gambling; financed the sheriff's department from fines-usually for speeding or public drunkenness which promoted false arrests; and put up with voting fraud by both Democrats and Republicans.
The wealthy Cantrell family, of Etowah, backed Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1932 election, hoping New Deal programs would revive the local economy and help Democrats to replace Republicans in the county government. So it proved.
Paul Cantrell was elected sheriff in the 1936,1938 and 1940 elections, but by slim margins. The sheriff was the key county official. Cantrell was elected to the state senate in 1942 and 1944; his chief deputy, Pat Mansfield, was elected sheriff. In 1946 Paul Cantrell again sought the sheriff's office.
At the end of 1945, some 3,000 battle-hardened veterans returned to McMinn County; the GIs held Cantrell politically responsible for Mansfield's doings. Early in 1946, some newly returned ex-GIs decided to challenge Cantrell politically by offering an all-ex-GI, non-partisan ticket. They promised a fraud-free election, stating in ads and speeches that there would be an honest ballot count and reform of county government.
At a rally, a GI speaker said, "The principles that we fought for in this past war do not exist in McMinn County. We fought for democracy because we believe in democracy but not the form we live under in this county" (Daily Post-Athenian, 17 June 1946, p.1 ). At the end of July 1946, 159 McMinn County GIs petitioned the FBI to send election monitors. There was no response. The Department of Justice had not responded to McMinn County residents' complaints of election fraud in 1940, 1942 and 1944.
FROM BALLOTS TO BULLETS
The primary election was held on August 1. To intimidate voters, Mansfield brought in some 200 armed "deputies." GI poll-watchers were beaten almost at once. At about 3 p.m., Tom Gillespie, an African- American voter was told by a sheriff's deputy that he could not vote. Despite being beaten, Gillespie persisted. The enraged deputy shot him. The gunshot drew a crowd. Rumors spread that Gillespie had been shot in the back; he later recovered (C. Stephen Byrum, The Battle of Athens, Paidia Productions, Chattanooga, TN, 1987; pp. 155-57).
Other deputies detained ex-GI poll-watchers in a polling place, as that made the ballot counting "Public" A crowd gathered. Sheriff Mansfield told his deputies to disperse the crowd. When the two ex-GIs smashed a big window and escaped, the crowd surged forward. The deputies, with guns drawn, formed a tight half-circle around the front of the polling place. One deputy, "his gun raised high...shouted: 'If you sons of
cross this street I'll kill you!'" (Byrum, p.165).
Mansfield took the ballot boxes to the jail for counting. The deputies seemed to fear immediate attack by the "people who had just liberated Europe and the South Pacific from two of the most powerful war machines in human history" (Byrum, pp. 168-69).
Short of firearms and ammunition, the GIs scoured the county to find them. By borrowing keys to the National Guard and State Guard armories, they got three M-1 rifles, five .45 semi-automatic pistols and 24 British Enfield rifles. The armories were nearly empty after the war's end. By 8 p.m. a group of GIs and "local boys" headed for the jail but left the back door unguarded to give the jail's defenders an easy way out.
Three GIs alerting passersby to danger were fired on from the jail. Two GIs were wounded. Other GIs returned fire.
Firing subsided after 30 minutes; ammunition ran low and night had fallen. Thick brick walls shielded those inside the jail. Absent radios, the GIs' rifle fire was uncoordinated. "From the hillside fire rose and fell in disorganized cascades. More than anything else, people were simply shooting at the jail" (Byrum, p.189).
Several who ventured into the street in front of the jail were wounded. One man inside the jail was badly hurt; he recovered. Most sheriff's deputies wanted to hunker down and await rescue. Governor McCord mobilized the State Guard, perhaps to scare the GIs into withdrawing. The State Guard never went to Athens. McCord may have feared that Guard units filled with ex-GIs might not fire on other ex-GIs.
At about 2 a.m. on August 2, the GIs forced the issue. Men from Meigs County threw dynamite sticks and damaged the jail's porch. The panicked deputies surrendered. GIs quickly secured the building. Paul Cantrell faded into the night, having almost been shot by a GI who knew him, but whose .45 pistol had jammed. Mansfield's deputies were kept overnight in jail for their own safety. Calm soon returned. The GIs posted guards. The rifles borrowed from the armory were cleaned and returned before sunup.
THE AFTERMATH: RESTORING DEMOCRACY
In five precincts free of vote fraud, the GI candidate for sheriff, Knox Henry, won 1,168 votes to Cantrell's 789. Other GI candidates won by similar margins.
The GI's did not hate Cantrell. They only wanted honest government. On August 2, a town meeting set up a three-man governing committee. The regular police having fled, six men were chosen to police Etowah. In addition, "Individual citizens were called upon to form patrols or guard groups, often led by a GI... To their credit, however, there is not a single mention of an abuse of power on their behalf" (Byrum, p. 220).
Once the GI candidates' victory had been certified, they cleaned up county government, the jail was fixed, newly elected officials accepted a $5,000 pay limit and Mansfield supporters who resigned were replaced.
The general election on November 5 passed quietly. McMinn County residents, having restored the rule of law, returned to their daily lives. Pat Mansfield moved back to Georgia. Paul Cantrell set up an auto dealership in Etowah. "Almost everyone who knew Cantrell in the years after the Battle' agree that he was not bitter about what had happened" (Byrum pp. 232-33; see also New York Times, 9 August 1946, p. 8 ).
The 79th Congress adjourned on August 2, 1946, when the Battle of Athens ended. However, Representative John Jennings Jr. from Tennessee decried McMinn County's sorry situation under Cantrell and Mansfield and the Justice Department's repeated failures to help the McMinn County residents. Jennings was delighted that "...at long last, decency and honesty, liberty and law have returned to the fine county of McMinn.. " (Congressional Record, House; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1946; Appendix, Volume 92, Part 13, p. A4870).
THE LESSONS OF ATHENS
Those who took up arms in Athens, Tennessee, wanted honest elections, a cornerstone of our constitutional order. They had repeatedly tried to get federal or state election monitors and had used armed force so as to minimize harm to the law-breakers, showing little malice to the defeated law-breakers. They restored lawful government.
The Battle of Athens clearly shows how Americans can and should lawfully use armed force and also shows why the rule of law requires unrestricted access to firearms and how civilians with military-type firearms can beat the forces of government gone bad.
Dictators believe that public order is more important than the rule of law. However, Americans reject this idea. Brutal political repression is lethal to many. An individual criminal can harm a handful of people. Governments alone can brutalize thousands, or millions.
Law-abiding McMinn County residents won the Battle of Athens because they were not hamstrung by "gun control " They showed us when citizens can and should use armed force to support the rule of law.
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Bill McKibben: “The Biggest Fight of Our Time”
As one of the best-known writers on the world’s most dire environmental problem, climate change, Bill McKibben has long walked the razor’s edge between hope and fear. In 2010, he published Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, a sobering account of what climate change has already unleashed—the ways in which the places we live, the water, weather, seasons, ecosystems, and oceans are changing irrevocably. McKibben also founded 350.org, one of history’s largest and most ambitious political movements, uniting people around the world to fight climate change.
In this interview, YES! got personal with McKibben: Where does he find hope? What role does faith play for McKibben, a longtime Methodist Sunday school teacher? How does small-town Vermont, where the writer now lives, shape his ideas and activism? And what’s the best advice for anyone feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of what McKibben calls “the biggest fight of our time”—the fight to save the planet?
Editor's Note: This interview was filmed June 1, 2011 as part of YES! Magazine's 15th Anniversary Celebration. For the latest in the Keystone XL Pipeline fight, click here.
Madeline Ostrander interviewed Bill McKibben for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions for a just and sustainable world. Madeline is senior editor at YES!Interested?
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Data center management needs to tie IT and facilities, report states
Managing a data center includes more than just the IT aspect of
it, and managers should deploy data center infrastructure management
software that ties together the IT and facilities factors, according to a
white paper released by market researcher IDC.
The advent of technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing
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deployment times requires more advanced capacity analysis and
longer-term planning. These strategies need to incorporate concerns
around power and cooling, traditionally the domain of facilities
managers, according to the paper, written by IDC analyst Katherine
“Datacenter Infrastructure Management: Bringing Together the World of Facilities and Cloud Computing,” was sponsored by CA Technologies, a developer of DCIM software.
Complexity could jeopardize data center consolidation
“DCIM software brings together various IT and facilities systems,
including generators and servers, to perform power usage effectiveness
reporting, data center visualization, dashboard reporting, what-if
scenarios, and, ultimately, control to improve the data center's
performance and efficiency,” the white paper states.
DCIM includes planning, management, and optimization software and
services for space, power and cooling within the data center. The
software and services typically focus on the intersection of facilities
and IT systems to create a view of the entire data center.
A real DCIM product must be able to monitor at least one component on
the IT side — virtual machine, server, storage or network equipment —
and one component on the facilities side — cooling, power distribution
unit, uninterruptible power supply, sensors or generators — although it may see many more than one on each side.
“Data centers are very complex buildings or giant computers,
depending on how one thinks about them,” the report states. So for one
solution to effectively integrate power, cooling and IT, the software
must be capable of integrating across old and new vendor technology and
business groups, the report states.
Some roadblocks to integration of IT and facilities revolve around
cooling and monitoring across different vendors' platforms. For
instance, due to outdated, proprietary protocols, many DCIM products
cannot monitor, manage or control cooling in the data center. Cooling is
very important to a well-functioning data center.
Additionally, some DCIM vendors can see only certain vendors' cooling
or virtualization management platforms. Data center managers need to be
sure that the solution monitors the vendors' equipment they want to
monitor. They have to choose software that touches all the integration
points across people, processes, and tools and has overcome many of the
roadblocks to integration in the data center, the IDC paper states.
Because DCIM is relatively new software — about 1 to 2 years old —
deploying and using the software could require additional services.
“These services include data center audits, installing supporting
sensors and software, or work creating custom reports. As time goes on,
IDC sees this problem diminishing as services templates and experience
increase,” the paper states.
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Proposed new discovery/changegroup protocol
The wire protocol has several flaws:
- it uses the roots of the new branches, this is susceptible to a race (see issue1320) .
- if the client is missing a lot of nodes but doesn't have any local changes, it will still have to do a lot of round trips to discover the base nodes.
See WireProtocol for the current protocol.
Instead of exploring the missing remote nodes like the current protocol, this proposal explores the local nodes, exploiting more local knowledge and having a stateful approach (which can't be done on the server).
It only needs one new server call:
- list of local nodes
return a boolean array, value is True if the server has the node, False otherwise. (TODO: investigate what is cheaper, between list and boolean array / to avoid races, should we pass the head as argument?)
The client keeps all it's nodes between three states: unknown, missing and common. At each iteration, it builds a sample of the nodes in unknown state, send it to discover and update the sets accordingly. The sample size should obviously be bounded.
Proposed sample construction: first breadth first search, starting from the nodes at headsof(unknown), keep nodes at a distance 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... from the heads. Second breadth first search starting at rootsof(unknown), keep the nodes at a distance 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... from the roots. If the sample is bigger than MAX_SAMPLE_SIZE, take a random sample from it, but make sure it includes the heads. If the number of unknown nodes is smaller than MAX_SAMPLE_SIZE, send all the unknown nodes to discover.
During testing in largish repository (NetBeans, Linux Kernel), the number of iteration was almost always lower than 5.
Proposed tweak: the server can compute it's own unknown set and return a sample on it's own. Testing showed that it didn't make a big difference in the number of iterations (it usually removes at most one round trip)
The current changegroup() uses base nodes, it should instead use common nodes.
- roots = list of nodes, that the server can assume the client knows (as well as all their ancestors).
find all changesets ancestors from heads and not descended from roots and return them as a single changegroup
A changegroup is a single stream containing:
- a changelog group
- a manifest group
- a list of
- filename length
- file group (terminated by a zero length filename)
A group is a list of chunks:
- chunk length
- self hash, p1 hash, p2 hash, link hash
- uncompressed delta to p1 (or optionally to the previous node)
- (terminated by a zero length chunk)
- where should lightweight copies be put?
Prototypes can be found here:
- Estimate early how much data or items have to be transfered and communicate this to the other side, so a progress indicator could be more useful.
-- ThomasArendsenHein 2008-10-24 14:23:01
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