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Make it a resolution not to text and drive in 2011; take time to watch this video with loved ones
With this in mind, AT&T has released a documentary showing real-life stories of those who have suffered a life changing incident because they were texting while driving. Texting and driving can change your life permanently and not only could you end up in the hospital, if you are the reason for somebody's injury or death, you might find yourself in jail.
Take time today to watch this video with the people you care about. Without being overly dramatic, we can easily say that you could end up saving a life.
source: AT&T via AndroidandMe
1. JeffdaBeat posted on 31 Dec 2010, 14:38 0
Or...learn to text without looking at your phone!
3. Rawrzellers posted on 31 Dec 2010, 14:46 0
Her friends already said she never looked at her phone :/
4. stopcryinitsjusafone posted on 02 Jan 2011, 13:24 0
-----says the biggest idiot in the room
2. Rawrzellers posted on 31 Dec 2010, 14:46 1
With AT&T's net work there's not way you'd be able to send more then one message before you get to your destination.
5. JohnPA2006 (unregistered) posted on 02 Jan 2011, 19:16 0
Very simple, DONT TEXT AND DRIVE.
I want to punch people in the face when I see them waving into my lane and I glance over and its some stupid girl in a SUV texting and driving.
Or some young guy in a eclipse tailgating me and texting, I yelled at him when he got next to me to look where he was going, he never heard me because he was still texting.
AS HE PROCEDED TO RUN A RED LIGHT AND ALMOST KILLED SOMEONE.
DONT DO IT, DONT TEXT AND DRIVE, GET YOUR FRIEND TO READ THAT STUFF TO YOU. WATCH THE ROAD. FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR LIFE OR SOMEONE ELSES
WATCH THE ROAD !!!!
6. Chief Thumbbody (unregistered) posted on 05 Jan 2011, 10:35 0
Instead of throwing a punch, try flashing some thumbwear or thumbthings. Love the passion for safe driving. We want you to be thumbbody :) Check outwww.thumbsonthewheel.com | <urn:uuid:9030dde1-87ad-43fc-b64e-e9160ac7b5a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phonearena.com/news/Make-it-a-resolution-not-to-text-and-drive-in-2011-take-time-to-watch-this-video-with-loved-ones_id15631 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918786 | 515 | 1.6875 | 2 |
How To Stop Snoring – An Overview Of A Snorer’s Choices
So you’ve decided it’s time for a change. Your snoring is starting to become a bigger issue and you’ve decided it’s time to learn how to stop snoring. But just where do you start?
First of all, how’s your weight? Being overweight is one of the most common factors in snoring. Being as little as 20% over your recommended weight can lead to excess snoring.
Your eating habits can also affect your snoring. No rich or fatty meals (or dairy products) late in the evening. Avoid the warm glass of milk before bed. These are all things that can lead to blockage of your throat, and ultimately snoring.
Some specific foods that doctors warn against eating right before bed include dairy, fried foods, baked good and chocolate.
Some studies have even shown that taking vitamin C before bed can lead to more snoring.
Also stay away from alcohol late at night. Alcohol leads to relaxed throat muscles, which can contribute to your snoring.
Smoking is another factor in snoring. It leads to more mucous in the throat and can restrict the air flow. This, combined with potential throat irritation from smoke, can be a factor in your snoring.
There are many devices and remedies you can buy that claim to reduce snoring. But before you go out and buy one of those “stop snoring pillows” or consider that new stop snoring procedure you read about, take a look at these simple lifestyle changes. | <urn:uuid:541dbb83-61fb-4bc9-9906-36e3cf9738c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.snoringsolutions.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960322 | 334 | 1.914063 | 2 |
What Men Must Know About Women
While there is no playbook for how to snag and keep a good woman, science has accumulated some helpful tips toward a successful romantic life designed to last well beyond Valentine's Day.
1. Offer money, love and dependability
Gals want looks and smarts. While you men can't control those two characteristics much, take heart: Money and character are also important to women. A study in December of more than 1,000 undergraduate students revealed women's top mate characteristics were mutual attraction and love, dependable character, and emotional stability.
Quality time counts, too.
A survey of more than 5,000 U.S. couples published in the journal Social Forces in 2006 suggested women are happiest in their marriages when men show a high level of emotional engagement: expressing positive emotions; being attentive to their wives' needs; and setting aside time for activities focused specifically on the relationship.
2. Practice saying "thank you"
When it comes to a committed relationship, spats about money and household chores top the list of sources for marital rancor. And research has shown women take on the lion's share of laundry and such.
Listen up, guys: One simple way to keep a lady happy even while buried beneath chores is to say "thank you."
Results from a study of both married couples and college students living with roommates revealed that people who felt appreciated by their partners had less resentment over lopsided house labor. Those who felt appreciated also showed higher satisfaction with their relationships compared with other study participants.
3. Don't be jealous
The Brad Pitts of the world may be good for your relationship. Psychologists have found that after meeting an available, attractive guy, women are more likely to work to strengthen their current relationships. The study, published last year in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, ran lab-based experiments of more than 700 college men and women.
In one experiment, women either met a single guy who flirted with them or an unavailable man who ignored them. Women who met the single guy were about 18 percent more likely to say they'd forgive their significant others for lying about the reason for canceling a date or other irritating behavior.
In a similar situation, men who met a hot, single woman were about 12 percent less likely than other men to forgive partners' annoying behavior.
4. Leave aggression on the field
Women may dig guys roughing it up in a hockey game or other athletic competition. But when it comes to long-term romance, ladies would rather if their mates left such power punches on the ice (or other field), according to a study published in the December 2008 issue of the journal Personal Relationships.
Jeffrey Snyder, a doctoral candidate and evolutionary anthropologist at UCLA, and his colleagues found that women preferred men who relied on prestige, or certain skills and accomplishments, to get to the top, as opposed to men who used subtle aggressive behaviors to reach a powerful position — say, in a fraternity.
But don't women go for "bad guys?" Not when it comes to long-term relationships. If that aggressive man isn't flexible in his behavior, the result could be a domineering bully for a partner.
"If you have one individual that every time they disagree they get coercive and insist that their perspective is best, that their decision is final, and they're going to get their way, that compromises the ability of individuals in a relationship to coordinate," Snyder told LiveScience. "Basically what I'm talking about is inviting a jerk into your household."
5. Watch her heart
Chocolates may be one way to a woman's heart on Valentine's Day, but true love is more than a box of chocolates.
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, and studies have found women, being generally so bighearted, are more likely to than men to discount their own risk of heart disease. Your job, men: Make sure your sweetie gets regular checkups and takes care of herself.
"Women must get serious about heart disease and take control of their heart health, starting at an early age," said Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "Younger women need to take steps now, like eating a healthy diet and being physically active, to help prevent heart disease later."
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Toy Mi KiSponsored Links:
The Toy Mi-Ki is a rare breed of toy dog. It is still a developing breed, and there is controversy over what a “real” Toy Mi-Ki is, what it looks like, and so on. As with many controversial breeds, this issue might or might not ever be resolved; for example, see the continuing controversy over the Jack Russell Terrier and related varieties or breeds.
Appearance: The Toy Mi-Ki stands about 10 inches at the withers. Whether the Mi-Ki has one coat type or two varies with the different groups. One states that the Original Mi-Ki standard has only one coat type, long, straight silky hair with little to no shedding.
Another group states that the Mi-Ki comes in two coat varieties. The long-coated variety does not shed. Any hair that comes out of the dog is retained by the long coat. It is suggested that a fine toothed “wire hound comb” be used to remove the dead hair. The short-coated Mi-Ki does shed but moderately. Neither coat type is preferred over the other. Both coat types are shown in the same ring together; they are not separated into varieties. The Mi-Ki comes in all colors.
There are two ear types, the folded ear and the prick ear, which meams that the ear stands streight up. Both types of ears are acceptable in the breed standard. When the Mi-Ki becomes excited, his ears “wing”, meaning that the folded ear can becoming erect, “winging” out to the side of the dog’s head, giving the appearance that the dog is flying.The eyes are large, dark, and expressive. Mi-Kis are smaller than the average house cat, and are easily trained to a cat litter box.
Temperament: It is a small, devoted companion, who is outgoing, fun loving, and intelligent. It is a small, devoted companion; fun loving, and intelligent. It is quick to learn tricks, and even quicker to make friends with people and dogs alike; playful with other dogs, and loves to snuggle.
History: In North America, at least two breeders began working with the Mi-Ki in 1991 and 1992. The Imperial Toy Mi-Ki Club started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1991, and a different breeder, started stud books for the breed from a different line of Mi-Kis in 1992. The Greater American Toy Mi-Ki Club started around this time, and in 1994 was incorporated in the state of Wisconsin. That club is no longer active, but a new club, The Mi-Ki Club of America, was immediately formed.
The Mi-Ki Club of America claims to have received recognition for the dogs in their stud books in 17 countries around the world. The first Multi-International Mi-Ki Champion was exported to Germany in 2004 and was the first Mi-Ki to be registered there. The Imperial Toy Mi-Ki Club is also still active.
Various clubs have formed, with different ideas about the breed’s status, appearance, and requirements. Some breeders, still viewing the Mi-Ki as a type rather than a breed because there is not sufficient breeding stock to work from and insufficient generations of breeding-true lines, have added additional breeds to the Mi-Ki, including the Yorkshire Terrier and the Shih Tzu, among others. Their dogs have been accepted by the Mi-Ki Club of America as purebred Mi-Kis, which believes that the breed is pure and is working to establish multiple generations of Mi-Ki-only breedings. The Mi-Ki is not currently recognized by any of the major international kennel clubs. Some Mi-Ki dogs are being used as therapy dogs. | <urn:uuid:b1d7649e-5fbc-4627-bb47-459bda36fb69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.heydogs.com/toy-mi-ki/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96769 | 812 | 1.929688 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- Chrysler is recalling nearly a million older models of its Jeep SUVs.
The Vehicles front and side air bags can inflate while they're being driven.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the worldwide recall affects the 2002 through 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the 2002 and 2003 Jeep Liberty.
NHTSA Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Liberty Recall Notice
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Closing statement is the attorney’s final statement to the judge or jury in a trial. It is the concluding statement of each party’s counsel and is made before deliberation begins. The attorney reiterates the important arguments and requests the judge or jury to consider the evidence and apply the law in his or her client’s favor. Usually after the trial the judge instructs the jury on the law that governs the case. Closing statements are not themselves evidence.This is also termed as closing arguments, final argument, jury summation or summing up. | <urn:uuid:f921e0cc-d116-43b2-bcca-1eff91973768> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/closing-statement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952838 | 115 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Lamont Library was the first university library building in the United States specifically planned for undergraduates. Lamont was the idea of Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College and Director of the Harvard University Library from 1937 to 1955. Metcalf actively participated in planning the building with the Boston architect Henry Shepley as early as 1938. At the end of World War II, through the generosity of the major donor, Thomas W. Lamont, Harvard Class of 1892, the Harvard Undergraduate Library became a reality. Lamont opened in January 1949.
Lamont began with 80,000 volumes, which were transferred from the Widener Library, the Boylston Hall reserve-book collections, and the Harvard Union Reading Room. The library included an easy-to-use card catalog of library materials and a modified version of the Dewey classification scheme, with the open-shelf arrangement of books in alcoves thought to be useful for browsing, study, and research by undergraduates. The large reading rooms on three levels were complemented by the alcove seating and by a supply of comfortable armchairs for extended sessions of reading in the great books. Lighting, heating, and ventilation were advertised to be state of the art for institutional buildings. The Penthouse housed classrooms desperately needed by the expanding Harvard College. At the time of Lamont’s opening, the library became the home of the Henry Weston Farnsworth collection, supporting non-curricular reading, and of the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room.
Much of the salutary thinking that shaped Lamont's early appearance and development has undergone revision, and increased demand for space in the library has brought about some significant rearrangements.
Since 1975, all reserves materials have been located at the Circulation and Reserves Desk on the First Floor. In 1978, the Center for students with Disabilities was installed in the former Reserves Desk Area on the B level. With the progressive mainstreaming of library and web access for students with disabilities, the center closed in spring 2007.
From 1992 through June 2007, Government Documents and Microforms, a division of the HCL Social Sciences Program, occupied much of Level B, in addition to one of the basement levels.
In 1994, The Larsen Room, an interactive electronic teaching/learning room dedicated to end-user instruction, was opened on the First Floor, and in 1999 an electronic learning facility dedicated to the training of Harvard College Library staff made its appearance on the Third Floor.
In 1997, the Language Resource Center moved to the Fourth Floor, displacing the classrooms, and in September 2004, the Morse Music Library moved to Lamont’s Level A from the Hilles Library. It is now named Morse Music & Media, to acknowledge the growth in collecting of the non-book formats for undergraduate study.
Two of Lamont's reading rooms have been renovated and have been dedicated to the donors who made the work possible. The Ginsberg Reading Room (1999) is located on the First Floor and the Donatelli Room (2004) on the Third Floor. Both offer a variety of study spaces to accommodate a range of undergraduate preferences.
From 1975 to 2005, Lamont was administered jointly with Hilles, formerly the library of Radcliffe College. The Hilles Library closed in June of 2005. The main-floor Quad Library opened in the Hilles Building fall 2005 and was administered as a unit of Lamont. The Quad Library closed at the end of the spring 2009 term.
In September 2005, Lamont initiated 24/5 service for library users, and in September 2006, the library sponsored the opening of the Lamont Library Café, right inside the main entrance.
In September of 2007, following the closing of the Littauer Library, Lamont became the home library for HCL’s former Social Sciences Program. Four units of the Social Sciences Program—Documents Services, Microform Services, Numeric Data Services, and Environmental Information Services—combined with Lamont Reference Services to form a new service point on Level B—Research Services at Lamont. Research Services is an ideal place to start for information in the fields of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, and it houses the College Library’s major research collections in government documents and microform collections across all disciplines. | <urn:uuid:12e1429e-5db3-400c-9c5c-b61e6ad9d680> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/lamont/history.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950957 | 883 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Sencha Cmd app Build (production, testing ...) Ext.create vs xtypes
What are the differences betwen using xtypes and the Ext.create() way?
I am asking, because, i was trying to build an app based on ST 2.1. In develop mode all worked fine. But after using sencha cmd to build (minfier) the app
i was facing the fact, that nearly no view was working. e.g. jsonp requests were successful, but the corresponding lists show nothing
sencha app build production
after some tests, i recognized the problem has something to do with using multiple view files. if i was putting the whole view stuff in one file, all worked fine in developmode and also after builds.
the comments in the docs gave me the needed hint. here (go down to comments) the user talwinder is posting a solution
I was using Ext.create() to instantiate a class/view. After using xtypes all works.
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Sometime ago I bought the BIWS Financial Modeling Fundamentals course. I didn't really look at it until school ended (didn't have time during exam weeks/end of semester). I already completed many of the lessons and I thought I would give a brief review of the course.
The course is divided into many topics, such as basic accounting,models, Valuation, Mergers models...etc etc. Each topic has many different lessons, each covering an aspect of the topic. A typical lesson consists of a video, some sort of reference material and excel sheets.
What I really like:
- Brian takes time to explain the things he does. Rather than saying things like "copy this into the cell here", he would actually explain why he was doing so & the concept behind it.
- He frequently uses analogies to explain the financial concepts, which I find very helpful.
- You can access the videos online for life and you can download the videos onto your own hard drive.
- Below every video, you can ask questions and, judging by the previous questions, the BIWS team responds very quickly and with great detail.
- At the end of every topic, Brian dedicates one lesson (one video) on possible interview questions and how you should tackle them.
- I think they lowered their price. When I first become aware of BIWS, the fundamentals course was $197. Now it's just $97.
Somethings to be aware of:
- I feel like this course is designed for someone who has at least SOME financial knowledge. Brian does go through basic accounting (e.g. what is an accounts receivable) in the beginning, but I think it's a lot easier if you actually took some basic accounting courses in school. Thus, if you are a complete noob, read some accounting stuff before you take the course.
- Someone mentioned before that Brian incorporates the course into the modeling course. However, I don't think that's the case. The course is a separate course that you must purchase.
It's only been a couple of weeks since I bought this course. I can safely say that I did indeed learn quite a bit. I already knew a lot of the basic stuff so perhaps that's why the course was easier for me. I haven't watched the mergers/stuff yet, which I assume would be much harder. | <urn:uuid:7509282c-d3d2-47c4-8369-a94c4bd3d114> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/my-review-of-breakingintowallstreet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980834 | 490 | 1.585938 | 2 |
What We Raise, When It's Ripe
Today at The Tree Farm
How To Find Us
Garden peas (English peas, shell peas) are picked when the seeds (peas) are nearly full size, but still sweet, young, and tender. Garden peas need to be shelled; the seed is the part that is eaten, the pods are discarded.
Peapods (Chinese peapods, snow peas) are picked while the pods are still flat, before the seeds develop much size. The entire pod is eaten, frequently in stir fries or other Asian dishes.
Snap peas (sugar snap peas) are picked after the seeds are full or nearly full size, and eaten whole, pod and all, without shelling. Snap peas can be eaten raw in salads or as fingerfood (snacks) or lightly cooked in stir fries or other dishes.
We plant peas in late April or very early May so they will ripen about on the first of July. If they ripen a little earlier, we open earlier. Because peas ripens very quickly in hot weather, and a day or two can make a huge difference in flavor and quality, we suggest that you check our phone recording (608 798 2286) or the "today" page of this website for current information in order to get peas at exactly the right stage of maturity.
Each spring we plant peas, snap peas and peapods two or three different times to produce a steady supply of these items throughout July. However, during periods of really hot weather, these vegetables may ripen so fast that one planting becomes overripe before the next begins, creating periods when these vegetables aren't available. Please call (608 798 2286) or check the "today" page of this web site for up to date information.
All kinds of peas are easy to pick. It's easy to tell which ones are ready to pick. We encourage sampling in the field for "quality control". However, pea picking can be time consuming. Peas grow close to the ground, so bending, kneeling, sitting or squatting is necessary to pick them. Some customers like to bring buckets or boxes to sit on or pads for their knees.
A common tradition in this area is creamed peas and new potatoes for the Fourth of July. At The Tree Farm we usually have both peas and new potatoes ready for the Fourth.
Peas and New Potatoes
Shell the English Peas. Rinse, and drain.
Scrub new potatoes. Cut the larger ones into chunks so that cooking time will be fairly uniform for all the potatoes. Drop into boiling water. Boil only until a fork will easily penetrate. Drain.
2 Tablespoons melted butter or olive oil
2 Tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon Salt or less (to taste)
dash of white pepper (optional)
Heat the above ingredients in a sauce pan. Cook quickly, stirring constantly until mixture simmers and thickens.
Add drained potatoes to cream sauce. Stir. Then, stir shelled peas into creamed potato mixture. If mixture is hot enough the peas will change color and no further cooking of the peas is needed. (If the mixture is cool, heat very quickly and briefly, stirring constantly until peas change color indicating they are cooked.) Enjoy!
The Tree Farm
The Pick Your Own Vegetables Place
Cut your own Christmas Trees on December Weekends
In Northwestern Dane County, Wisconsin
8454 Highway 19
Cross Plains, WI 53528
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Part 8, Note 65
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Colorado County District Court Records, Criminal Cause File No. 984: State of Texas v. Ben F. Gee, Criminal Cause File No. 993: State of Texas v. George S. Walton, Criminal Cause File No. 995: State of Texas v. Colonel S. Stoudenmier, Criminal Cause File No. 1073: State of Texas v. Nat Morris, Criminal Cause File No. 1102: State of Texas v. O. M. McKinney, Criminal Cause File No. 1135: State of Texas v. O. M. McKinney, Criminal Cause File No. 1608: State of Texas v. Thomas A. Woolridge; Fayette County New Era, May 16, 1873, September 19, 1873; Colorado Citizen, October 26, 1871, April 8, 1875. "Colonel" was Stoudenmier's first name; not a title. He was the brother of the celebrated El Paso marshal Dallas Stoudenmier, who is said by his biographer, Leon Claire Metz, to have engaged in gunplay in Colorado County during these years. No evidence of any gun battle involving Dallas Stoudenmier in Colorado County has been found. In fact, Dallas Stoudenmier lived in Fayette County in 1870. Metz based his statements on second-hand reports of interviews with persons in 1965, or nearly one hundred years after the incidents might have occurred. It is possible that the people interviewed in 1965 confused the Stoudenmier brothers, attributing Colonel Stoudenmier's difficulties with George Walton to Dallas. Though it is likely that no one alive in 1965 had a direct memory of the otherwise obscure Stoudenmier family in Colorado County, memories of the family might have been passed down after a biographical sketch of Dallas Stoudenmier was included in Eugene Cunningham's 1934 book, Triggernometry. Both Cunningham and Metz spell the name "Stoudenmire." The spelling used herein is that on the marriage licenses of both Stoudenmier brothers and that on Colonel Stoudenmier's tombstone. He died on July 10, 1927, and is buried in Llano, Texas. Dallas Stoudenmier was killed in an El Paso gunfight on September 18, 1882. He had gotten married in Colorado County only seven months earlier. His body was shipped to Alleyton for burial. Though the precise site of the grave has long been forgotten, in November 1998, a man named Charles "Red" Underhill erected a tombstone for the former marshal in the Alleyton Cemetery (see Metz, Dallas Stoudenmire: El Paso Marshal, pp. 29-30; Cunningham, Triggernometry (New York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1934), pp. 171-188; Dallas Stoudenmire Vertical File, Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus, which contains xerographic copies of both marriage certificates and the relevant page from the 1870 census of Fayette County; Colorado Citizen, February 16, 1882; Colorado County Citizen, December 28, 1994, November 25, 1998). | <urn:uuid:b292032f-79d3-4ee3-ba4a-a1e413b33ac1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://columbustexas.net/library/history/footnote/part8-65.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94592 | 670 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Glennan Fellows Work on Developing New Programs for Undergraduate Education
The academic fields and disciplines of the 2008-09 Glennan Fellows vary as widely as the projects they are engaged in.
Awarded each spring, Glennan Fellowships are administered by the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) and designed to reward excellence in faculty and to nurture their growth as teachers and scholars.
This year's Fellows are Darin Croft, anatomy; Lisa Huisman Koops, music; Kelly McMann, political science; Leena Palomo, periodontics; and Gregory Tochtrop, chemistry. The subjects of their work include areas of study in anthropology, child development, undergraduate research, periodontics and technology and curriculum development.
Case Daily will feature each of the 2008-09 award recipients' projects. Today, learn more about Darin Croft, assistant professor of anatomy, and his "Exploring the Mammalian Family Tree" course. Read more.
Rich Sommer (MFA '04)—who stars in AMC's Golden Globe-winning series Mad Men—will take part in a question and answer session beginning at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, November 23, in Clark Hall's third floor lecture hall. Sommer is in town to conduct improvisation workshops with undergraduate students enrolled in Case Western Reserve's theater program. Mad Men is set in 1960s New York. The drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.
Psi Chi, the university's psychology honor society, is accepting donations for its Mitten Mania! project through December 5. Mitten Mania! benefits children attending one of the poorest elementary schools in the state of Ohio. To help prepare for the winter months, Psi Chi is collecting new or gently used winter outer-wear for children in grades K-8. Collection boxes are located in Mather Memorial, Wade, Fribley, Nord Hall, and Thwing Center. For more details, contact Bethany Weiss.
For Faculty and Staff
The Department of Human Resources is reminding all faculty and staff to enroll in Benelect, the university's 2009 benefits program. The deadline to enroll and/or update benefits information is 8 p.m., Friday, November 21. Stop by Crawford Hall, Room 209, between 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. to use computer kiosks or to talk with a human resources representative. Call the Benelect Hotline at 368-1234 for questions. For more information, visit the 2009 Open Enrollment Web site.
The Student Information System (SIS) documentation site offers printable quick reference guides and user manuals as well as video demonstrations of how to utilize the most frequently used functionality in the system. The newest video demonstrates how to review permission requests from students who want to register for restricted classes.
Case Western Reserve University will play host to a first round NCAA Division III football playoff game for the second straight year on Saturday, November 22. The Spartans recently completed their second consecutive undefeated season. The game begins at noon at at Case Field, where the Spartans will host Wabash College. The Office of Student Affairs has offered to pay for all Case Western Reserve student admissions, as the NCAA does not permit free admissions.
All graduate students are invited to Grad Night Out beginning at 7 p.m. tonight at the Winking Lizard in Lakewood, Ohio. The event will feature free food, beverages, karaoke and bowling. Students in need of transportation are encouraged to use their discounted RTA pass. Read more for additional information or contact the Graduate Student Senate with questions.
The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is offering International Study/Travel three-credit hour courses. This year, several courses are being offered to undergraduate and graduate students. Learn more at an information sessions from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21, in Thwing Center's atrium. Contact Deborah R. Jacobson at 368-6014 for more information. Also, read a story about the program.
Students are invited to find the right technical information faster with the Kelvin Smith Library's (KSL) Knovel database. Log on during the month of November to help make Case Western Reserve the top university in the Knovel University Challenge, a three-question contest that also guarantees the university a major prize just for having 100 entries by students. More details on the database, plus the contest (Nintendo Wii, iPods and more), are available on the the KSL NewsBlog.
Kurt Stange, professor in the family medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, oncology and sociology departments, will give a lecture on the topic of "Writing PBRN Research for Publication," from 6-7 p.m. tonight at the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Building, first floor conference room. He will discuss the writing, review and publication process with a focus on practice-based network research. Dinner will be provided; parking is free in the attached garage. Attendees may earn continuing education credits. Learn more about the PBRN Seminar Series.
Lou Bellamy, founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Penumbra Theatre Company, will direct the Cleveland Play House (CPH) production of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun. Case Western Reserve University and the CPH collaborate for the M.F.A. acting program. The production runs through Sunday, November 30.
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The Arkansas Lottery Commission Legislative Oversight Committee meets at the State Capitol this afternoon to hear how lottery officials plan to use ticket vending machines.
Despite opposition that includes conservative group Family Council, the Lottery Commission decided last week to give the machines the green light. The first machines would be put in place sometime next month.
The Lottery Commission has said the first 100 machines will bring in an additional $5 million in revenue to use toward college scholarships.
Opponents fear the machines will lead to underage gambling and cater to addicted gamblers.
Family Council President Jerry Cox restated his organization's opposition to the machines yesterday in a news release, saying “We oppose lottery vending machines because of the harm they are going to do to our state. The decision the Lottery Commission is making will open the door to other kinds of lottery machines down the road—machines that look more like slot machines. We know that will lead to increases in underage gambling, problem gambling, and gambling addiction. In 2008, the State of Arkansas busted payday lenders across the state because their lending practices were illegal. We outlaw those kinds of lending practices because of the harm they cause to Arkansas’ families. And now here the Lottery Commission wants to bring the State into a business that has the potential to cause much more social and economic harm than payday lenders ever did, and they don’t have a problem with it. Someone has to stand up and say, ‘that’s not how we do things around here.”
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According to Darwinism, species that adapt to their environment thrive; those that fail to evolve face extinction. The same is true for ideas. Marxism evolved from the primordial swamp of the Industrial Revolution but lies gasping for relevance after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Asian values -- fashionable when South Korea and Thailand were economic success stories and the West was mired in recession -- lost their luster following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Mutual assured destruction kept the two Cold War superpowers in check but offers little assurance to nations threatened by suicide terrorists. The Club of Rome's doomsday prophecies of global starvation are now starved for credibility. The threat of the military-industrial complex is taken seriously only in Hollywood films and on conspiracy newsgroups. Dependency theory thrived amidst a backlash against economic imperialism yet withered in a globalized era of free trade and foreign investment.
Are these ideas really doomed to oblivion? Or, for all their flaws, do they still have some relevance? Can they make a comeback? FOREIGN POLICY has invited six notable minds to sort through the dustbin of history and share what they found.
About a decade ago, East Asia was hot and so were "Asian values." In explaining East Asia's extraordinary economic development -- what the World Bank termed a "miracle" -- many believed that culture played a pivotal role. After all, so many Third World countries had tried to climb their way out of poverty, and only those of East Asia had fully succeeded. Singapore's brilliant patriarch Lee Kuan Yew became a world-class pundit, explaining how the unique culture of Confucianism permeated Asian societies. Many scholars agreed, perhaps none more forcefully than Joel Kotkin, who in his fascinating 1993 book, Tribes, essentially argued that if you want to succeed economically in the modern world, be Jewish, be Indian, but above all, be Chinese.
I have to confess that I found this theory appealing at first, since I am of Indian origin. But then I wondered, if being Indian is a key to economic success, what explained the dismal performance of the Indian economy over the four decades since its independence in 1947 or, for that matter, for hundreds of years before that? One might ask the same question of China, another country with an economy that performed miserably for hundreds of years until two decades ago. After all, if all you need are the Chinese, China has had hundreds of millions of them for centuries. As for Jews, they have thrived in many places, but the one country where they compose a majority, Israel, was also an economic mess until only recently. All three countries' economic fortunes improved markedly in the last three decades. But this turnaround did not occur because they got themselves new cultures. Rather, their governments changed specific policies and created more market-friendly systems. Today, China is growing faster than India, but that has more to do with the pace of China's economic reform than with the superiority of the Confucian ethic over the Hindu mind-set.
It is odd that Lee Kuan Yew is such a fierce proponent of cultural arguments. Singapore is not so culturally different from its neighbor, Malaysia. Singapore is more Chinese and less Malaysian, but compared with the rest of the world, the two are quite similar societies. But more so than its neighbors, Singapore has had an effective government that has pursued wise economic policies. It's not Confucius but Lee Kuan Yew that explains Singapore's success. The simplest proof is that, as Malaysia has copied the Singaporean model, it has also succeeded economically.
The discussion about Asian values was not simply a scholarly debate. Many Asian dictators used arguments about their region's unique culture to stop Western politicians from pushing them to democratize. The standard rebuttal was that Asians prefer order to the messy chaos of democracy. But East Asia's recent political history makes a powerful case for the universality of the democratic model -- if it is done right. Unlike other Third World countries, many in the region liberalized their economies first and then democratized their politics, thereby mirroring the sequence that took place in 19th-century Europe. The result has been the creation of remarkably stable democratic systems in Taiwan and South Korea, with more mixed but still impressive results in Thailand and Malaysia.
The point is not that culture is unimportant. On the contrary, it matters greatly. Culture represents the historical experience of a people, is embedded in their institutions, and shapes their attitudes and expectations about the world. But culture can change. German culture in 1939 was much different from what it became in 1959, just 20 years later. Europe, once the heartland of hypernationalism, is now post-nationalist; its states are willing to cede power to supranational bodies in ways Americans can hardly imagine. The United States was once an isolationist republic with a deep suspicion of standing armies. Today, it is a world hegemon with garrisons around the world. The Chinese were once backward peasants. Now they are smart merchants. Economic crises, war, political leadership -- all these circumstances change culture.
A century ago, when East Asia seemed immutably poor, many scholars (most famously German sociologist Max Weber) argued that Confucian-based cultures discouraged all the attributes necessary for success in capitalism. A decade ago, when East Asia was booming, scholars turned this explanation on its head, arguing that Confucianism actually emphasized the essential traits for economic dynamism. Then the wheel turned again, and many came to see in Asian values all the ingredients of crony capitalism. Lee Kuan Yew was compelled to admit that Confucian culture had bad traits as well, among them a tendency toward nepotism and favoritism. But surely recent revelations about some of the United States' largest corporations have shown that U.S. culture has its own brand of crony capitalism.
Weber linked northern Europe's economic success to its Protestant ethic and predicted that the Catholic south would stay poor. In fact, Italy and France have grown faster than Protestant Europe over the last half century. One may use the stereotype of shifty Latins and a mañana work ethic to explain the poor performance of some countries in the Southern Hemisphere, but then how does one explain Chile? Its economy is performing nearly as well as the strongest of the Asian tigers. Indeed, Chile's success is often attributed to another set of Latin values: strong families, religious values, and determination.
The truth is that there is no simple answer to why certain societies succeed at certain times. When a society does prosper, its success often seems inevitable in retrospect. So the instinct is to examine successful societies and search within their cultures for the seeds of success. Cultures are complex; one finds in them what one wants. If one wants to find cultural traits of hard work and thrift within East Asia, they are there. If one wants to find a tendency toward blind obedience and nepotism, these too exist. Look hard enough and most cultures exhibit these traits.
One would think that the experience with the Asian values debate would have undercut these kinds of cultural arguments. Yet having discarded this one, many have moved on to another. Now it is Islam's turn, but this time as a culture of evil. Rather than faulting bad leadership, politics, and policies in Muslim countries, many in the West -- including British historian Paul Johnson, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, and U.S. evangelical leader Pat Robertson -- have found it more comforting to fall back on grand generalizations about Islam. They will find that the one group of people who most strongly agrees with them are the Islamic fundamentalists who also believe that Islam's true nature is incompatible with the West, modernity, and democracy. But history will disprove this new version of the culture theory as it has the last. | <urn:uuid:9d38d8a8-3258-4755-a95b-cffc3c1d7b28> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2002/11/01/the_dustbin_of_history_asian_values | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964143 | 1,601 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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Posts by Dr. Alan Jacobs, Neuroendocrinologist -- http://www.neuroendocrinology.orgDoctor's online blog source link: http://blog.alanjacobsmd.com/alan-jacobs-mds-blog/
-----A Neuroendocrine Approach To Finasteride Side Effects In Men, by Dr. Alan Jacobs (Neuro-endocrinologist) http://blog.alanjacobsmd.com/alan-jacobs-mds-blog/2010/04/a-neuroendocrine-approach-to-finasteride-side-effects-in-men.html"I have recently seen an increasing number of men who have developed significant degrees of clinical hypogonadism - low sex drive, erectile dysfunction, reduced sexual sensations and listlessness, fatigue and/or "brain fog" - while either taking finasteride or after stopping the medication, even long after stopping it.
Finasteride is a medication approved by the FDA to treat benign prostate enlargement and testosterone-related hair loss. It does so by blocking the function of an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase. This enzyme normally converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is a more potent hormone that acts at the prostate and the hair follicles. The occurrence of these symptoms in the setting of being on, or even after stopping, the medicine presents a compelling neuroendocrine problem. And it is reasonable to assume that not all men suffer from the exact same cause.The investigation of this problem begins with measuring blood levels of the testicular hormone testosterone, DHT and luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
, which are the pituitary gland's hormones that stimulate the testicles to make testosterone, and also estradiol, a "female" hormone that is present in men, but in much smaller amounts than in women. Small elevations in estradiol in men can have noticeable anti-testosterone effects.
If testosterone is low and LH and FSH are high, then the problem is testicular. If testosterone is low and LH and FSH are low or even normal, then the problem is "upstairs" either in the pituitary gland or in higher brain centers that control hormones.
Depending on the outcome of this evaluation, treatment first and foremost involves giving enough testosterone to bring high normal levels (by gels or intramuscular shots), while blocking the conversion of some of the testosterone to estrogen, which happens naturally in fat tissue. There is a pill for this. If high normal levels of testosterone, combined with low estrogen levels, does not relieve the hypogonadal symptoms, then the possibility that the man has some resistance to testosterone must be considered. This would be akin to the insulin resistance seen in diabetes and would be treated in a different manner.
An MRI of the pituitary gland would be indicated if LH and FSH are low or normal, at the same time that testosterone is low, to exclude the possibility of a benign tumor impairing the pituitary's ability to respond to the low testosterone. Finally, other brain hormones can be effected by finasteride. These are called neurosteroids and their decline can bring anxiety and depression. These neurosteroids cannot yet be measured commercially with blood tests, but the "brain fog" some men experience on finasteride may result from disturbances in attention caused by anxiety or mood changes.
Finasteride certainly helps men fight hair loss and prostate enlargement. However, a considerable number of men have intolerable and sometimes persistent side effects from the medicine. A systematic neuroendocrine approach to this problem should shed light on the cause in a majority of cases and bring relief.
Here are the 2 latest posts from Dr. Jacobs on our condition. Clicking each link will take you directly to the page which is open to comments.
-----June 1, 2010The Plot Thickens, Along With The Hair, When You Mess With Dihydrotestosteronehttp://blog.alanjacobsmd.com/alan-jacobs-mds-blog/2010/06/the-plot-thickens-along-with-the-hair-when-you-mess-with-dihydrotestosterone.html
As I involve myself in the biology underlying the finasteride and post-finasteride-associated hypogonadal syndrome and parallel "brain fog" syndrome many men experience, I have focused on the metabolism of dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the hormone that finasteride inhibits by virtue of its blockage of the 5-alpha reductase enzyme that normally converts testosterone to DHT (along with several other reactions it normally does that form potent neuroactive anti-anxiety and seizure preventing hormones in the brain).
Moreover, I have written here about the role of estrogen in the brains of women (e.g. cognition, neuroprotection) and the fact that we men need estrogen in our brains also. We get it by converting testosterone to estrogen in brain cells by a different enzyme called aromatase. One might think these two pathways for testosterone conversion, one to DHT and one to estrogen, are separate and distinct. Interestingly, several brain areas important for controlling male sexual behavior use estrogen derived from testosterone. When a man takes finasteride to block DHT and save his hair, he is likely unaware of the complexity of this hormone's actions involving sexual behavior, stress responses, cognition and more
. However, a study I recently read, Handa, RJ et al. Hormones and Behavior 53 (2008) 741-752, describes an alternative pathway for androgen regulation of brain function by estrogen receptors triggered by metabolites of DHT
. In other words DHT, 10 times more potent than testosterone, can itself be converted to compounds that bind estrogen receptors
(ERbeta) but are not estrogen. One of these, called 3-alpha Diol, is also a neuroactive steroid that enhances the inhibitory compound GABA in the brain (like benzodiazepines and barbituates). Another, called 3-beta Diol, can act through estrogen receptors to decrease anxiety and regulate the cortisol system's response to stress.
Without going into too much detail here, the important point is that DHT is involved in a number of metabolic pathways in the brain that create androgen-related and estrogen-related compounds that have effects on all these areas of behavior, some as promoters and others as inhibitors, some at androgen sites and others at estrogen sites, and, in at least a subset of men, interfering with this complex web of reactions by blocking DHT, may bring a lot of unwanted extra effects along with the preservation of hair.
-------June 21, 2010A Proposed Mechanism For Prolonged Sexual Side Effects From Finasteridehttp://blog.alanjacobsmd.com/alan-jacobs-mds-blog/2010/06/a-proposed-mechanism-for-prolonged-sexual-side-effects-from-finasteride.htmlSeveral young men seen for hypogonadism (low libido, erectile dysfunction, low energy, etc) after using finasteride have been found to have low-normal levels of bio-available testosterone and LH. This leads to the question of whether partial androgen resistance is at play. It has been shown that androgen insensitivity can occur even without mutations in the genes coding for the androgen receptor1. How then to connect finasteride use to the development of partial androgen resistance, especially outlasting the use of the drug?
In recent years many scientists have looked at the androgen receptor gene with an eye towards a variable length of its structure in one particular region called exon-1. In this region the number of CAG repeats, which code for glutamine (an amino acid-building block for the protein that becomes part of the receptor), vary between approximately 10-25 in different individuals and this variability has been linked to variable effectiveness or potency of androgens (testosterone(T) and dihydrotestosterone (DHT)) in these individuals. In other words, the number of these CAG repeats in the gene for the androgen receptor will effect the functionality of androgens in a man in various tissues in his body and even in his psychological traits
2. This variability can cause hypogonadism in men with normal levels of testosterone, which is what androgen resistance is.
Many recent studies have looked at the CAG-repeat length of the androgen receptor in the setting of various clinical settings and found a causal relationship: in mediating the expression of testosterone deficiency on depressive symptoms, on personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion), amygdala reactivity to threat-related facial expression, body composition (muscle and fat) and circulating levels of sex hormones in young and aging men, on memory function in women, and even to solitary sexual desire in male-to-female transexuals. One study in 20053 linked the effectiveness of finasteride on men with baldness with the number of these CAG triplet repeats; the smaller the repeat number, the higher the improvement with finasteride. I am wondering whether the propensity of finasteride to cause lasting partial androgen resistance in a subset of men relates to the number of CAG repeats in exon 1 of their androgen receptor genes, perhaps those with the greatest number of repeats are at highest risk.
I cannot even guess how finasteride would do this after the drug is discontinued, but it is certainly a testable hypothesis. Take 2 groups of men, one group without any post-finasteride hyposexuality and one group with, and measure the androgen receptor gene CAG repeat length in both groups and compare. If it is the case, then men could be assessed, by a blood test prior to using finasteride, as to the risk of developing prolonged hypogonadism from the drug.
1. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 1996 Dec;45(6):733-9.
2. Int J Androl. 2003 Apr;26(2):76-83.
3. J Investig Dermatol Symp Proc. 2005 Dec;10(3):293-4.
----------Oct. 14, 2010Another Piece of the Post-Finasteride Hypogonadism Puzzle?http://blog.alanjacobsmd.com/alan-jacobs-mds-blog/2010/10/another-piece-of-the-post-finasteride-hypogonadism-puzzle.htmlThe persistence of male sexual side effects (hypogonadism) after discontinuation of finasteride is a serious problem for a significant subset of men who use the drug. I had previously written about whether the propensity of finasteride to cause lasting hypogonadism could be due to the development of partial androgen resistance and whether this relates to the number of CAG repeats in exon 1 of their androgen receptor genes.
Recently, a patient of mine brought to my attention a research paper from Csoka, et al.(J Sex Med 2008;5:227-233) titled "Persistent Sexual Dysfunction after Discontinuation of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors". They added 3 well-characterized case reports to the half dozen or so that were already in the literature and cited studies probing underlying mechanisms for the problem. Their fourth proposed mechanism relates to a growing field that has caught my attention in a big way, the field of epigenetics
. They note that antidepressants can cause complex changes in the expression of genes. They cite animal research that has linked SSRI treatment during youth to permanantly decreased sexual behavior that persits into adulthood and that has explored underlying mechanisms for this including brain epigenetic changes at the molecular level. Epigenetics is a field that concerns the complex web of proteins that surround our DNA. These proteins include histones, which help package and unpackage our genes to either turn on or turn off their function.
"Acetylation" and "methylation" are chemical reactions that alter the histone's function, which in turn alters the expression of our genes. Within this emerging field may lie a new mechanism by which a drug can cause persistent changes in gene expression that can influence sexual behavior.This brings up the idea that there is a common epigenetic mechanism that may apply generally to medications that cause persistent sexual dysfunction
. It may be the case with finasteride that a common epigenetic effect interacts with a less common variant in the androgen receptor gene CAG repeat profile to cause its syndrome of crippling persistent post-finasteride hypogonadism.
Human research in this area has yet to be done, but holds promise for new therapies to treat this troublesome side effect of finasteride
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From time to time we get a peek inside the mind of a true insider. George Soros knows a thing or two about destabilization and far from equilibrium situations. He’s been on the giving and receiving ends of both. From surviving the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II, to single handily crashing the currencies of entire nations, the experience he brings to the table should not be ignored.
With his deep connections in economic and political circles, if there’s anyone who knows what’s coming next, it’s Soros.
In his book The Crash of 2008 and What It Means Soros warned that no matter what governments did, there was no way out of the trap in which the world – namely The United States – finds itself:
“So what does the end of an era really mean? I contend that it means the end of a long period of relative stability based on the United States as the dominant power and the dollar as the main international reserve currency. I foresee a period of political and financial instability, hopefully to be followed by the emergence of a new world order.”
Nearly four years on, the crisis, according to Soros, is now very much teetering on the edge of the instability he forecast in his book:
Via The Daily Beast:
For the first time in his 60-year career, Soros, now 81, admits he is not sure what to do. “It’s very hard to know how you can be right, given the damage that was done during the boom years,” Soros says. He won’t discuss his portfolio, lest anyone think he’s talking things down to make a buck.
Has the great short seller gone soft? Well, yes. Sitting in his 33rd-floor corner office high above Seventh Avenue in New York, preparing for his trip to Davos, he is more concerned with surviving than staying rich. “At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” he says, peering through his owlish glasses and brushing wisps of gray hair off his forehead. He doesn’t just mean it’s time to protect your assets. He means it’s time to stave off disaster. As he sees it, the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of “evil.”
Europe is confronting a descent into chaos and conflict. In America he predicts riots on the streets that will lead to a brutal clampdown that will dramatically curtail civil liberties. The global economic system could even collapse altogether.
“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros tells Newsweek. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens to put us in a decade of more stagnation, or worse. The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system.”
Soros draws on his past to argue that the global economic crisis is as significant, and unpredictable, as the end of communism. “The collapse of the Soviet system was a pretty extraordinary event, and we are currently experiencing something similar in the developed world, without fully realizing what’s happening.”
As anger rises, riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable. “Yes, yes, yes,” he says, almost gleefully. The response to the unrest could be more damaging than the violence itself. “It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.”
One of the leading financial minds and policy influencers in the world has just outlined the best and worst case outcomes for this crisis, and both of them are disastrous.
We cannot stress enough to our readers that, despite the many criticisms, Mr. Soros knows what he’s talking about. He is connected to all of the major players on all levels – economic, financial, political – you name it.
He has gone so far as to suggest that the consequences for America are a complete breakdown in law and order, riots in the streets, financial collapse, and a repressive government response.
Even the best and the brightest don’t know what to do, other than to duck and cover.
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*Carry emergency survival gear, a flashlight, map and compass, matches and water.
*Stop periodically to eat and re-hydrate yourself.
*Wear two pieces of hunter orange that are in good condition.
*Be sure of your target, and what is beyond it.
*Always keep the muzzle of your firearm pointed in a safe direction.
*Unload your firearm before entering a dwelling, before entering a vehicle, or before storing it.
Hunting Safety Facts
*Of the remaining incidents, all but one have involved people in their hunting party or other hunters.
*In the state of Maine during the calendar year 2000, there were 169 vehicular fatalities, 12 snowmobiling fatalities (winter 2000-2001), 11 homicides, 9 boating fatalities, 5 ATV fatalities and 3 hunting fatalities.
Maine White-tailed Deer Facts:
*There are approximately 292,000 white-tailed deer in Maine (estimated wintering population this past year).
*Hunters killed 36,885 deer in 2000. 21,422 of those deer registered were antlered bucks, a state record.
*Maine's regular firearm season attracts the most hunters and accounts for the greatest share of the total deer harvest, which includes two archery seasons, the firearm season as well as a muzzleloader season. In 2000, 92% of the total deer harvest was taken during the four-week firearms deer season.
*Maine's residents registered 87 percent of the deer harvest in 2000.
*Success rate of Any-Deer permit holders was 32%.
*Success rate of bucks-only hunters was 12.1%
*WMD 3 in Northeastern Maine has a wintering population that is a low as 2 deer per square mile. Generally, northern and eastern WMDs average less than 8 deer per square mile
*Central and Southern Maine range between 15 and 25 deer per square mile, and WMD 24 has approximately 40 deer per square mile.
*Some southern coastal sections of Maine where hunting access is restricted or denied average 50-100 deer per square mile.
*This year, 54,000 Any-Deer permits were issued, this represents a drop of 23% from 2000 but is slightly higher than 1999 (53,231).
*The peak breeding time for deer in Maine is the third week of November, consistent with the peak for deer breeding activity from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas.
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The June 12-15, 1991, eruption of 1475m Pinatubo volcano, located 100 kilometers northwest of Manila in the Philippines, was one of the largest eruptions of this century and it strongly effected some aspects of our climate.
In total the Pinatubo eruption discharged 5 billion cubic meters of ash and pyroclastic debris (including 20 to 30 megatons of sulphur dioxide and aerosols) into the atmosphere via eruption columns which were 18km wide at the base and had heights of up to 30km.
A large number of people had to be evacuated due to the erupting volcano, which had remained dormant for 6 decades.
Quick deployment of monitoring instruments and preparation of a volcanic hazards map by scientists from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) and the USGS (United States Geological Service) helped scientists a lot to provide accurate warnings of impending eruptions.
These warnings were widely spread and led to the evacuation of more than 58,000 residents near the volcano, including 14,500 US military personnel from Clark Air Base (which was unusable after the eruption). Before the climactic eruption of June 15, more than 100,000 people had left the area.
The eruption of the volcano produced a large number of micrometer-sized droplets (aerosols) of sulfuric acid which were thrown into the stratosphere. These particles eventually spread out over the globe. The very small droplets blocked energy coming from the Sun, the result was that the Earth cooled off a little with about a half degree centigrade.
These volcanic droplets had also got some other side effects, the particles catalyzed heterogeneous reactions that were probably the cause of unusually low ozone levels.
The particles were also the indirect cause of the destroying of part of the sea-nature in the Gulf of Akaba (180km long, 25km wide, 1.8km deep) because the droplets encouraged the growth of alga (which is very harmful to the sea-nature).
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Alcohol counseling may help domestic abuse therapy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For heavy drinkers in treatment for domestic violence problems, an extra therapy session targeting alcohol abuse may help to speed overall improvement in violent behavior, according to a new study.
Alcohol can lower inhibitions and impair judgment, according to lead author Gregory Stuart of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. "One theory is that alcohol can narrow focus to negative aspects of the environment, and is linked to impulsivity," he told Reuters Health.
Men who are arrested for domestic violence are usually referred by the court to group educational sessions called batterer programs, which don't always address alcohol - even though drinking is involved in a high percentage of domestic disputes, experts said.
Because previous research has found these programs especially ineffective for batterers who also have drinking problems, Stuart's team set out to test whether adding a therapy session devoted to alcohol would affect both drinking and violent behaviors over the course of a year.
For the trial, the researchers recruited 252 men who had been arrested in Rhode Island for violence against an intimate partner and who reported binge drinking (having five or more drinks per occasion) at least once a month.
All attended the court-mandated standard battery program, consisting of 40 hours of group educational programs split into 20 sessions, and half of the men attended an additional 90-minute one-on-one substance abuse session with a therapist.
The men were then asked to complete a survey about their behavior at 3, 6 and 12 months following the treatment program. The researchers also gathered any police reports relevant to the study participants, and analyzed only data for men who had intimate partners at the beginning of the study period.
On average, all of the men participating in the study reported lowered overall violence levels after one year, Stuart's team reports in the journal Addiction.
But participants who received the extra alcohol counseling session had greater short-term improvement in both violence and alcohol consumption compared to men in the standard batterer program.
When the researchers looked at specific aspects of partner violence, for example, men who received the alcohol intervention were less physically aggressive toward their partners at the three-month mark, and less psychologically aggressive at the six-month mark. Continued...
The alcohol-intervention group also drank less per day at the three-month mark and drank less often at the six-month mark.
But at every checkpoint in the study, there was little difference in overall frequency of partner violence in both groups, and after a year, the levels of physical and psychological aggression among men in the comparison group caught up to those of the men in the alcohol therapy group.
"I would have preferred to see these results maintained over time, but for the first six months the rate of improvement was greater for the folks who got the alcohol intervention," Stuart said.
The improvements associated with the extra alcohol-focused session didn't fade over time, Stuart pointed out, but the extra therapy seemed to give those men a "jump start" over the other group during the early months.
"These 90-minute motivational enhancements have been shown to be effective with a variety of different (people)," but usually for those who seek out treatment of their own accord, according to Kenneth Leonard, director of the Research Institute on Addictions at the University at Buffalo in New York who was not involved in the study.
For that reason, seeing any positive result, even a small one, in a group of men in a court-ordered program who had not sought treatment on their own was promising, Leonard said.
In Rhode Island, the 40-hour standard batterer program includes a short section on alcohol, but the duration and content of such programs can vary widely by state, according to Stuart.
Other studies have questioned the effectiveness of existing batterer programs, which Stuart says were "created with the best of intentions" but sometimes include methods that aren't supported by evidence and have a lot of room for improvement.
"All of the participants on average had substantially less substance use and violence relative to where they started, however, there was still too much violence and substance use," Stuart said.
He and his colleagues suggest that the jump-start might have lasted longer if there had been multiple follow up "booster" sessions with a therapist over the course of the year. Continued...
"When you start getting into these more severe samples, my sense is that something more than 90 minutes would be required, or additional sessions," Leonard agreed.
Although the gains were small and temporary, Stuart thinks the results of this study are a promising start toward improving batterer programs.
"The goal is to gently lead them to the conclusion that potentially stopping the use of alcohol and drugs is a good idea," he said.
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Unity in the Foothills
102 Prospect Street, Torrington, Ct 06790
A Course in Miracles Tuesday evenings 7 p.m
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10 Camp Hill Road, Northfield, CT 06778
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First Assembly of God
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Sunday School for all ages 9:30 a.m.
Sunday Worship Service at 10:45 a.m.
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Founders Congregational Church
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- Dr. Kirsten Beyer supervises one of the basic science research groups at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute. Dr. Beyer received her M.D. in Germany and did her postdoctoral training in the Department of Pediatric Pneumonology and Immunology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Before joining the Allergy Division at Mount Sinai, she was a visiting scientist in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Beyer has written many articles related to food allergy and other atopic diseases including publications in the Journal of Immunology, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Her current research focuses on identification, characterization, and modification of allergenic food proteins with the goal of the development of improved diagnostic methods and a safe immunotherapy. In addition, in collaboration with the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, she studies the cellular and genetic mechanisms underlying food-induced gastrointestinal diseases.
Dr. Beyer is member of both the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology. She and her husband have one daughter.
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Apple may speed up the development of a wristwatch-like device and introduce it as early as this year, according to a report Monday by Bloomberg News.
With about 100 product designers working on the project and having filed at least 79 patent applications that include the word "wrist," the company is working on a watch that may include features for making calls, identifying callers, checking map coordinates, counting walking steps and monitoring health data, the report says, citing a person familiar with Apple's plans.
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If you were a child living near 10th and Walnut in the summer of 1926, you may have had the fortune to attend a camp out in the country on the Milwaukee River. You probably boarded a train or streetcar in downtown Milwaukee and made the trip to Thiensville. From there, you may have boarded a raft or climbed on a farmer’s hay wagon for the ride to camp.
Once you got to camp with your shopping bag containing toothbrush and underwear, you were weighed and measured and given a uniform. If you were a girl, you hoped the bloomers buttoned to the blouse somewhere near your waist.
During their time at camp, boys played sports and hiked, while girls concentrated on building domestic skills, swimming in the river and playing croquet.
These pictures were taken during a session at the Fresh Air Camp in 1926.
This house on the Milwaukee River was commonly called “The Home”. Children attending the camp were referred by the Jewish Social Service of the Abraham Lincoln House and the Municipal Health Clinic.
Girls attending the camp in 1926 received good food, learned good manners and thrived in the fresh air.
These girls are celebrating the Fourth of July. The building you see in the background is the dining room wing of the former Boder’s Restaurant.
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Working for Allah:
A Summary Introduction
Working for Allah: Working Involuntarily vs. Working Voluntarily
If you are a human being, two things are true about you:
- You work for Allah – actually and in reality, and a good bit of it involuntarily.
- And at the same time, you must choose to work for Allah, by an act of conscious, considered and rational will – voluntarily, willingly and gladly.
That is because as a human being, your life has two distinct aspects:
- There are parts of you – there are aspects of your life – that are autonomous and involuntary. They are mostly independent of your will and thought – they are not entirely volitional.For example, your blood circulates in your body without your being able to control it.That is how Allah made your body.In the same way, you remain generally earthbound, a prisoner to the law of gravity – unlike birds that have been given by their creator the tools to defy gravity.
- At the same time, you have also been blessed by God Almighty with a measure of choice in some of the things you do in your life. You have been granted by your creator a certain degree of autonomy – what people call free will.For example, you can choose to raise your arm – a capability that you lose when you become paralyzed.So also, you can choose the words you want to speak, or embrace the beliefs you prefer, or entertain the thoughts in your mind that you wish or accept or reject employment at a certain place.
Working for Allah, therefore, means to choose to work for Allah in all the seemingly voluntary aspects of your life, even as your entire being works for Allah in all the involuntary aspects of your life by the very nature of your creation and by the necessity of your design.
Working for Allah: A Considered Choice
Thus, working for Allah is a matter of choice – careful and considered choice – and not a matter of simple habit or of mindless reflex.
To the extent your body slavishly obeys the laws Allah has created to govern this universe, you are a slave of Allah. That is how you involuntarily work for Allah as a human being – the way slaves do. Your body automatically does what it is designed and created and told by its creator to do. You have no choice in the matter.
Your ears hear sounds; your eyes see pictures, forms, shapes and colors; your nose smells scents; your tongue experiences tastes; your hands touch, feel and hold; and your legs support you when you stand up and help you to walk.
This makes you a Muslim – albeit only involuntarily and automatically. That is, those aspects of your life and body are Muslim over which you have no control. That part of you, therefore, is a dutiful and obedient slave of Allah.
But the other, the more voluntary aspects of your life that is where the real test lies. With regard to them, you must make a conscious and rational decision as to whether or not to work for Allah. At this level, you must choose, decide and prefer to work for Allah. At this stage, working for Allah is a choice you make.
Islam: A Rational Alternative
Choosing to work for Allah – voluntarily and willingly – that is what Islam and being a Muslim is all about. It is this decision – and this choice – that makes you a Muslim or a non-Muslim. It is that choice that is at the heart of what God Almighty calls Islam.
Thus, if you choose to work for Allah willingly and voluntarily, consciously and by choice, then you are a Muslim. That is, you are a Muslim in those aspects of your life in which you have a degree of choice, control and freedom. If you reject that choice – and instead choose to work for someone other than God Almighty who made you and made everything in this world for you – then you are not a Muslim.
When you reject that choice – the choice of working for your creator who made you and made everything in this world for you -and you do so knowingly, willfully, and even arrogantly, then you are exactly what you chose to be: a rejecter or a denier.
Kaafir is what the Qur’an calls those who reject God knowingly, willfully, arrogantly.
The challenge, therefore, is that you must consciously, voluntarily and willingly obey Allah and work for him, even as the entire universe obeys Allah and works for him by its very design. And even as your own body and its parts and systems work for Allah in all those areas and aspects over which you have no control.
That is because you are a slave of Allah – that is how he made you – as is the rest of the creation a slave of Allah. It is clear that since he made you, he owns you, just like you say you own the car that you did not invent, design or make but only paid a few thousand dollars or pounds to purchase.
And that is what slaves do: they work for their master. Just like your car works for you. They obey the commands of their master – in every aspect of their lives. They follow the manuals and directives and instructions provided by their owners and masters.
When your car stops obeying your commands or responding to your instructions, it gets sent for service or repair, where its problem parts are cleaned, adjusted or replaced. It then comes back a more responsive and well-behaved car; a car more obedient to your commands and directives; altogether a more “Muslim” car.
Working for Allah: “Worshipping” God and Serving God’s Creation
But at the same time, working for Allah means embracing a more practical as well as a broader perspective on life. It means “worshipping” God and serving his creation.
That means you cannot claim to love and “worship” God and at the same time hate or distance yourself from God’s creation. You cannot profess to be devoted to God in heaven but do nothing to help alleviate the suffering of human beings right here on earth; and to raise and change their condition and make it better; and to invite them to come to God; and show them in the most beautiful and supportive ways how to do it.
For, if you really loved or feared or “worshipped” God, those are all some of the things you will be automatically and powerfully drawn to.
Custodian of the world – that is the status that being a slave of Allah confers upon you. For, now you are not just anyone’s slave, but the slave of the master of the worlds – Rabbul ‘Aalameen, as he calls himself in his last revealed book the Qur’an.
You learn from the Qur’an, which is your primary book of guidance on how to be a good slave of your master, Allah, that your master is also the one who made and owns every ant and elephant, every plant and planet in the universe. He is their only, true and undisputed maker, master and owner.
Just as you also learn that your master – and the master of all the worlds, Rabbul ‘Aalameen – is not only an all-powerful and just master but also a deeply kind, compassionate, caring, loving, doting master. There is none like him in this world.
Most merciful and even more merciful, those are his primary attributes in the opening chapter of the Qur’an called Surah Al-Fatihah.
Islam: Being a Dutiful Slave of the Almighty
That means, as a conscious and committed slave of Allah – as a good Muslim that is, or even just as an ordinary Muslim – you accept the authority and sovereignty of God Almighty, your true and only lord and master, in all aspects and facets of your voluntary life.
That means you believe in him; you teach yourself to love, fear, honor, serve and obey him; and you do your best to live up to the individual and collective code of conduct that he prescribed in the Qur’an and that his messenger Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, so beautifully and so completely practiced in his life – both of which are in our hands today in their entirety and in their full glory, majesty, authority, completeness, accuracy and authenticity.
That also means you embrace a broader and more inclusive perspective on life, on the world and on humanity in general. As a result, you work hard to bring more and more people to see the wisdom and beauty of accepting God as their master. And you also work hard to make the world of Allah a better place for all human beings, regardless of creed, culture, race, age, nationality or gender.
If you did that – if you worked for Allah willingly and voluntarily using a perspective on life that is big and broad and that is inclusive of all human beings and all of Allah’s creation – you are a conscious and committed Muslim. You are a good Muslim, that is. You are now a proper and dutiful slave of Allah.
The name for what you do is Islam. And anyone who submits to his master, to God Almighty, willingly and voluntarily is called a Muslim – the one who submits. You now fear God in his heaven and love and serve his creation right here on earth.
That means you carry out your obligation to God in terms of praying, fasting, pilgrimage and everything else and you do your duty to God’s creation in terms of serving their needs and promoting their welfare.
You are thus connected to God through what people call worship, while you are at the same time connected to God’s creation through service – which in Islam is one of the finest forms of worship. The more clearly you see this and the more deeply you get engrossed in it, the two become increasingly one and the same.
Kufr: Refusing to Work for Allah – Knowingly, Willfully, Arrogantly
If you reject your master’s call knowingly and willfully, after receiving that call, and after having had time and opportunity to consider and evaluate that call, then you are exactly what you chose and decided to be: a rejecter.
You then become, by your own choice, a rejecter of your master’s will, command and authority in the conscious, willing and voluntary part of your life, even though the rest of your body continues to obey him and work for him involuntarily.
The name for such rejection of Allah’s authority is Kufr. And the one who becomes a rejecter is called a Kafir – the one who rejects.
Kufr is thus knowing, willful and arrogant refusal to work for Allah in the conscious and voluntary aspects of your life. It is a deliberate rejection of Allah’s authority, mandate and law in those areas of your life that are seemingly under your more direct and immediate control.
Or, at a more fundamental level, Kufr is little more than a denial of his very existence or his role in this world and your life. But regardless, it is a choice each one of us makes and must make – and must live with. These names and titles – Islam and Kufr – simply go with the choices we make.
They describe the position we have adopted in life. They indicate whether we have made a decision – a conscious and rational decision – to work for Allah or not to work for him, but rather to work for someone else. For, work for someone we must, that being the nature of human life.
As a result, when we decide not to work for Allah, we in effect make a decision to work for others, even if it is just for ourselves. So, for us as human beings the question is never whether or not to have a master – and whether or not to work for someone – but rather which among the many competing masters must we choose and for which one of tem must we work.
Muslims are simply those people who, ostensibly, have chosen God as their master and have made a conscious and rational commitment to work for him as his slaves, while other people have chosen to work for other masters besides God.
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ASP.NET has a stock of built-in controls that covers all major needs of a Web developer. I'm far from saying that you don't need to look elsewhere; let alone am I saying that third-party vendors have had their day. However, the basic programming needs of every developer can be satisfied by stock ASP.NET controls. Then, if you can't still find the control you are looking for, then you typically write one yourself or buy a new specialized control that extends the original control and adds the desired behavior. Object orientation encourages this approach.
So if you need a numeric textbox, you write it one that emits some markup and script. And if you one day feel the need of an auto-completion textbox, you write yet another control. But what if, at some point, you need a control with both auto-completion and numeric input? Should you write a third class that incorporates both "behaviors"?
ASP.NET extenders just serve the purpose of defining a new breed of controls that do not provide any markup, but just inject some script code within existing ASP.NET controls.
ASP.NET extenders are server controls that implement a cross-cutting behavior that can be applied to one or more control types to extend their base capabilities. Extenders decouple controls from behaviors and make possible to extend existing controls with new behaviors.
A good deal of extenders is implemented in the AJAX Control Toolkit -- a shared-source library of Web controls specifically designed for ASP.NET. It is not included in the ASP.NET 3.5 platform and should be downloaded separately.
As an example, consider a really useful extender -- the Calendar extender. In spite of the name, the extender offers date-picking capabilities and can be used to extend a text box control.
By using the calendar extender, you make it virtually impossible for users to type anything other than a date in the target text box. ASP.NET comes with a server Calendar control, but no date picker facilities. Compared to the Calendar control, a calendar extender is really different, as it builds its user interface entirely on the client, works entirely on the client, and generates no postbacks at all as the user navigates to find month and day.
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="TextBox1" /> <act:CalendarExtender ID="CalendarExtender1" runat="server" TargetControlID=" TextBox1" Format="dd/MM/yyyy" />
The preceding code snippet is sufficient to display a popup calendar as the associated text box receives the focus. As an alternative, you can display the popup when the user clicks a page button. The ID of the button is set through the PopupButtonID property. The Format property indicates the format of the date as it will be written to the text box when the user dismisses the calendar popup.
In the AJAX Control Toolkit, many extenders have dependencies on other extenders which would make it difficult to extract just one extender to incorporate it into a custom library. Likewise, an extender can be used also on non-ASP.NET AJAX platforms as long as you can extract out of the toolkit just the pieces that make it work. | <urn:uuid:3b0a434f-1959-461b-9618-e1373686d333> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/aspnet-extenders/208402764 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90846 | 681 | 1.984375 | 2 |
“The most important thing is getting the kids to own the art for themselves and tell what they think about it—for them to give their ideas and put their mark on the paper.”
This is the primary mission for Barbara Pfeiffer—who one day recently taught a second and a fourth grade class at one area school and followed with a first and seventh grade class at another school. It is a schedule requiring flexibility and travel, and represents the culmination of a long journey for Barbara: founder and director of Art Aware, an art appreciation program for inner city elementary school students in Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.
Barbara’s journey, even at its earliest stages, cultivated an appreciation of other cultures and how art can represent that appreciation. "Born and raised in Manhattan, I attended Marymount School, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Music, art, theatre, and literature were integral to my upbringing. A BA in communication from the University of Michigan led to an administrative assistant job in New York City at Franklin Book Programs, a publisher of American classics in foreign languages.
"Then I went to Tokyo for three years and taught English Conversation at Futaba Girls School (famous for Empress Michiko’s attendance). English was a vehicle for teaching about American culture—as I knew it from multicultural New York City. I also began a life-long study of Japanese culture and language.
"After Japan I did administrative assistant work at the East West Center on the University of Hawaii campus, teaching English conversation on the side and studying Japanese. My father's health brought me to Cherry Hill where I discovered the Art Goes to School program and fell in love with it. Through reproductions of art, ancient to modern, 700 volunteers bring multicultural perspectives into the lives of 125,000 elementary students in Delaware Valley suburban schools each year.
"After my father died, I moved to Camden to start a pottery business and to start Art Aware for inner city students with the forty-year organizational model of Art Goes to School. Art Aware differs due to a lack of city parents able to volunteer. Basically, the program is the same. A few volunteers and I each partner with an art teacher in a particular school, offering interactive art appreciation presentations to that teacher’s students. In our twenty-two-year history, we have been to approximately 40 different public, charter and parochial schools in Camden and in Philadelphia— and to some schools many, many times.
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U.S. Can Eliminate Oil Use in a Few Decades
*** U.S. Can Eliminate Oil Use in a Few Decades ***
RMI's Winning the Oil Endgame Shows Businesses How to Mobilize and Profit
Snowmass, Colo., September 20, 2004 - Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) today released Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security, a Pentagon-cofunded blueprint for making the United States oil-free. The plan outlines how American industry can restore competitiveness and boost profits by mobilizing modern technologies and smart business strategies to displace oil more cheaply than buying it.
Winning the Oil Endgame proves that at an average cost of $12 per barrel (in 2000 dollars), the United States can save half its oil usage through efficiency, then substitute competitive biofuels and saved natural gas for the rest - all this without taxation or new federal regulation.
"Unlike previous proposals to force oil savings through government policy, our proposed transition beyond oil is led by business for profit," said RMI CEO Amory Lovins. "Our recommendations are market-based, innovation-driven without mandates, and designed to support, not distort, business logic. They're self-financing and would cause the federal deficit to go down, not up."
Winning the Oil Endgame shows that by 2015, the United States can save more oil than it gets from the Persian Gulf; by 2025, use less oil than in 1970; by 2040, import no oil; and by 2050, use no oil at all.
"Because saving and substituting oil costs less than buying it, our study finds a net savings of $70 billion a year," Lovins said. "That acts like a giant tax cut for the nation. It simply makes sense and makes money for all."
The RMI study focuses on cars and light trucks (SUVs, pickups, and vans). These vehicles account for nearly half of projected 2025 oil use. The report demonstrates that ultralight, ultrastrong materials like carbon-fiber can halve vehicles' weight, increase safety, and boost efficiency to about 85 mpg for a midsize car or 66 mpg for a midsize SUV.
"BMW has confirmed that carbon-fiber autobodies weigh only half as much as steel and have exceptional crash performance," said Lovins. "The resulting fuel savings can be like buying gasoline for 56 cents a gallon."
Winning the Oil Endgame also predicts that to fight better and save money, the Pentagon - the world's largest oil buyer - will accelerate the market emergence of superefficient land, sea, and air platforms. A more efficient and effective military can protect American citizens instead of foreign oil, while moving to eliminate oil as a source of conflict.
"A fuel-efficient military could save tens of billions of dollars a year," said Lovins, who served on a Pentagon task force studying this issue. "As our nation stops needing oil, think of the possibilities of being able to treat oil-rich countries the same as nations that don't own a drop. Imagine too our moral clarity if other countries no longer assume everything the United States does is about oil."
The RMI report says that by 2015, more efficient vehicles, buildings, and factories will turn oil companies into broad-based energy companies that embrace biofuels as a new product line. Winning the Oil Endgame demonstrates how cellulosic biofuels (wood-based rather than from starchy or sugary plants like corn) can replace one-fifth of current oil use, more than triple farm income, and create 750,000 agriculture jobs.
"Europe produces 17 times more biodiesel than we do," Lovins said. "The EU has shifted farmers from subsidies to durable revenues, and now oil companies compete to sell their petroleum-free fuel."
Winning the Oil Endgame demonstrates half of U.S. natural gas can be saved at less than a fifth of its current price. Two-thirds of that figure comes from saving electricity, especially at peak times when it's inefficiently produced from natural gas. This step alone could return natural gas to abundance within a few years, cutting gas and power bills by $55 billion per year.
Recommended policy innovations include:
* Revenue-neutral feebates - rebates for buyers of efficient cars, paid for by fees on inefficient ones;
* Low-income access to affordable mobility - a new nationwide initiative to buy efficient cars in bulk and lease or sell them to low-income drivers at terms they can afford;
* R&D investment incentives and temporary loan guarantees to help financially weakened U.S. automakers retrain and retool faster; and
* Temporary federal loans guarantees to U.S. airlines for buying very efficient new airplanes, provided that for every plane thus financed, an inefficient one is scrapped.
"For the first time, our report adds up the new ways to provide all the services now obtained from oil, but without using oil - which will save us $70 billion a year," concluded Lovins. "Forging the tools to get our nation off oil forever is the key to revitalizing industry and farming."
About RMI and Winning the Oil Endgame
Rocky Mountain Institute, located in Old Snowmass, Colorado, is an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization engaged in research and consulting. RMI fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining. For more information, please visit www.rmi.org, or go to our Media Materials section at www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid65.php.
This peer-reviewed RMI study is based on its five coauthors' 70 years of combined energy experience, mainly in the private sector, and on extensive industry input. The Pentagon and diverse foundations and private donors funded the research. RMI's thoroughly documented 329-page report is introduced in forewords by former Secretary of State, Treasury, and Labor George P. Shultz (an ex-Marine who also chaired the Bechtel Corporation) and by oil geologist and former Shell Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart. The report, its executive summary, and its technical backup can be downloaded free from www.oilendgame.com. | <urn:uuid:23ac9792-3868-4adc-a3a5-e37878f79ca2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-09-19/us-can-eliminate-oil-use-few-decades | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948135 | 1,302 | 2.140625 | 2 |
As the number of American troops in Afghanistan increases, so too does the amount of money spent on development. The assumption is that security and reconstruction are two sides of the same coin, but this may not be the case, according to Andrew Wilder, a research director at Tufts University’s Feinstein International Center.
Speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace recently, Wilder discussed some preliminary findings of his ongoing research into the effectiveness of aid in achieving stabilization objectives in counterinsurgency contexts. The research is based on interviews with Afghans and others in the country. Wilder and his researchers asked interviewees about perceptions of security and insecurity, the drivers of conflict, perceptions of aid programs, and perceptions of aid actors.
While more aid money goes toward development and the goal of stabilization today than in the past—often funneled through military channels—“there’s little evidence of effectiveness,” Wilder told Security Management.
Given the lack of evidence of success, the assumption that development aid leads to security should be reconsidered, says Wilder, who established and led the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), a Kabul-based independent policy research institution, prior to joining the Feinstein Center.
Wilder points to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP), which provides money to military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan so that they can respond quickly to humanitarian needs and reconstruction requirements, as an example of how money is being funneled through the military without a clear understanding of whether it is being well spent. From 2004 to 2008, the DoD spent approximately $1 billion on CERP, according to a May Government Accountability Office report. The 2010 defense bill, which was in conference committee at press time, is expected to appropriate between $1.3 and $1.4 billion to fund CERP.
Wilder notes that, according to a U.S. Army handbook that gives guidance on how to use aid funding, CERP money can be used to “win the hearts and the minds of the indigenous population to facilitate defeating the insurgents.” Some examples of CERP projects might include reconstruction of government buildings, providing school supplies, and repairing or restoring transportation infrastructure.
The goal is laudable, but throwing money into these areas without the proper controls is destabilizing rather than stabilizing, Wilder says. “One of the causes of corruption is the large amounts of aid being poured into Afghanistan, into insecure areas where there’s little institutional or human capacity to monitor,” he explains.
“Corruption comes up in every interview,” Wilder told attendees at the U.S. Institute of Peace event. Wilder further noted that anecdotal evidence suggests that a portion of security budgets for road-building projects in insecure areas is often used to bribe the Taliban not to attack the construction company’s workers. That essentially funds the insurgency.
Wilder also questioned the sustainability of the impact of projects. People are happy when the project is being done, but when it is completed, they want to know “What next?” he said. “This idea that you can do a project and somehow just win hearts and minds, I think is quite simplistic.” He said perceptions of the aid effort are “resoundingly negative” at a time when more aid work is being done there than ever before in the country’s history.
Wilder also referenced lessons from history. “Historically, the times when a modernization agenda is being pushed, those are the times of the greatest instability,” he said, citing the ouster of Amanullah Khan, ruler of Afghanistan from 1919-1929, due to opposition to his political and social reforms.
Wilder cited a document prepared by U.S. consultants in the 1980s that attempted to compile the lessons learned from U.S. aid programs in Afghanistan from 1950-1979. The conclusion of the report was that the “use of aid for short-term political objectives in competition with the Soviet Union tended to distort sound economic rationale for development and in the process to weaken our longer term policy interests. Aid as a tool of diplomacy had its limitations.”
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The second experience happened a few years ago. My wife and I were driving at night from our house in California to our vacation house at the Colorado River in Arizona. It had taken us a few hours to get through all the traffic in the LA basin and were zipping along on I 40 between Barstow and the Cal/Az border. My wife was driving and I was sitting rather bored in the passenger seat. I happened to glance out the window across the dark desert. All of a sudden I saw a beautiful green object streak across the sky. It was beautiful like a green firework. It must've been an iron/nickel meteor since nickel burns green. The photo I used is one I found on the internet. I wish I had a camera handy that night. But what I saw is similar to the photo. | <urn:uuid:7fef4b90-25ba-487b-8344-745a4d2da5a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-928226 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981217 | 199 | 1.5625 | 2 |
A person who does not consume meat or meat products. There are different categories of vegetarians based on the type of foods consumed and desired for their daily diets. Lacto-ovo-vegetarians allow animal products, such as eggs, butter, milk and cheese in their diet, whereas, Vegans do not eat any meat and do not eat animal products of any kind. Some vegetarians will also allow fish and/or poultry in their diets but will not eat any animal meat. This type of Vegetarian becomes close to those considered Flexitarians, a group of consumers who do eat meat one to three times a week.
Another category of Vegetarians is known as the Rawists, who believe that their diet should consist only of raw foods, consuming organic foods that are still "alive" in effect. Foods such as fruits, vegetables, and grains, none of which are cooked make up a large part of the Rawist's diet. Since the diet of Vegetarians typically does not include some form of meat, it often lacks a source of substantial protein, so other foods with proteins are substituted, such as legumes and tofu. | <urn:uuid:640245dc-16ba-46e7-a120-986543bda722> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.recipetips.com/glossary-term/t--34962/vegetarian.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977088 | 232 | 3.46875 | 3 |
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(National Review Online, March 1, 2006)
1. What is “the Great Canon of St. Andrew” and what’s so great about it?
This complex poem (actually a chanted hymn) was written in the early 700’s, and it picked up the adjective “Great” for two reasons: it’s extra-long (about 250 verses), and it’s majestic. The Great Canon was written by St. Andrew | <urn:uuid:0ca219c2-e4da-40a3-a3e2-48a4d65b4e35> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.frederica.com/display/SendRecommendationEmail?moduleId=408991&entryId=401267 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928358 | 140 | 2.5625 | 3 |
There’s a new fad diet out there called the 80-10-10 diet. This refers to the amount of calories you intake and what percentages of each type of calories you need. According to the 80-10-10 diet, you would want make sure that your calories come from 80% Carbohydrates, 10% protein, and 10% fat. I’m not a health expert, but something in me says I need more protein than that! When it comes to dieting, you’ll find all sorts of conflicting information regarding what you should eat and how much of each. The Zone diet, for example, has it’s percentages around 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat. How you do know which one is right? Try them out and see. If it works for you, then it must be right, right?
When it comes to using your money however, you don’t want to play around too much to see what works and what doesn’t. There are 3 things you can do with the money you earn. You can SPEND it, or SAVE it, or GIVE it away. Everyone spends. Most people don’t save. Even fewer people give away a substantial portion of their income. Most people are on the 100% spend plan, and find that they are NOT happy nor have they built up a sizable nest egg to ensure future security. If this is you, try a new approach. Try living on less than you make. How? Try the 80-10-10 budget plan. This means SPEND 80%, SAVE 10%, and GIVE 10%.
Some people have a hard time with this. To some people, asking them to SAVE 10% seems totally outrageous and asking them to GIVE 10% is utterly ridiculous! Doing BOTH seems impossible. I’m here to assure you that it’s not. I’m also here to tell you that your best FINANCIAL life CAN be accomplished by having a proper balance of all three uses of money.
Giving 10% – Giving your money away, to a church, to a charity, or to a great cause, not only benefits those whom you give to, but it benefits YOU. When you give your money away freely, with no strings attached, you feel good about yourself. Even better than giving money away freely is to do it ANONYMOUSLY. When you give, just for the sake of giving, you open the door to receiving more. It’s a phenomenon that’s been around as old as time. What you sow you will also reap. When you give your money away selflessly, new opportunities and blessings find you.
Save 10% – This is the pay yourself first principle. This is setting aside 10% of your income for your retirement consistently over your working life. This ensures that you will have a nest egg large enough to sustain you in your later years, IN LUXURY. However.. there is one caveat I’ll mention now before continuing. If you have debt, then this 10% should be used towards eliminating your outstanding debt instead of saving. Once all your debt is eliminated, then you can begin saving and investing your 10%. For more information about eliminating debt quickly Click Here…
Spend 80% – This is for the rest of your monthly expenses. Budget the everything else in your life with this remaining amount.
You’ll find that by doing this.. you’ll be a happier person in general… because it feels good to give… because your debts are going down or your savings is going up… and you are living below your means.
What about you? Do you think it’s possible to live this way? Do you think it’s possible FOR YOU? Why or why not?
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If you can't play an instrument but still want to rock 'n' roll, you can always become an expert air guitarist. The only problem is, air guitars don't exactly rock the house. Now there's a way to play an actual guitar using air, and you still don't need to know a single chord.
We've all seen pneumatic tubes in action at the bank — those suction things that carry our deposits and receipts back and forth. Well what about a giant version for more efficient long distance travel? Just hop on into the passenger capsule and travel from New York to Beijing in 2 hours flat. Thoughts? | <urn:uuid:9802c115-01c6-4e74-b3f8-28809dfc23e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dvice.com/tags/pneumatic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952661 | 128 | 1.648438 | 2 |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration approved its drug Fulyzaq, which is designed to treat diarrhea in patients taking HIV and AIDS drugs. Its shares rose more than 5% in midday trading.
Salix said it plans to start marketing the drug in early 2013. The company said Fulyzaq could have up to five years of marketing exclusivity, meaning similar products won't be approved in that time.
The drug is designed to treat diarrhea in patients with HIV or AIDS who are on anti-retroviral therapy. Salix says many patients who are taking anti-retroviral drugs experience episodic or chronic diarrhea, which can lead to weight loss and affect compliance with the treatment.
Salix said Fulyzaq, or crofelemer, is the first FDA-approved botanical drug that is intended to be taken orally. The active ingredient in the drug is derived from the sap of a tree called Croton lechleri, and is commonly known as "dragon's blood" because of the red color of the sap. The ingredient is isolated and purified after the sap is extracted.
Shares of Salix rose $2.10, or 5.2%, to $42.57 as the markets moved higher in midday trading. They peaked for the past year at $55.99 in March, and traded as low as $37.52 in early November.
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|Reviews for Cliche Prone|
| dragonflydreamer 4/23/08 . chapter 1
Nice poem. It's funny how things like this just spring out of your head, isn't it? Your rhyming is amazing! Just about every rhyming poem I've review for, I've had to say something along the lines of "your rhyming was to forced and it was completely your focus of the poem. quit butchering your lines and add poetic devices dangit!" I might as well just copy and paste those. However, I didn't once feel that your rhyming was forced. You made it seem like rhyming is the most natural thing in the world; that everyone just whymes naturally in their everyday speach. It kinda reminds me of a Shakespear play. Lol. The idea of the poem, too, is to be applauded. "It’s not a foreign language,/This word this lot hath never known!/It starts with ‘u’ and ends with ‘nique’/And with it something new is sewn." That was simply perfect. I don't have much as far as concrit, but I must say that the parenthases were rather distracting. Were they a part of the poem or were they author's notes? Regardless, I really loved this poem. I'm deffinately adding it to my favorites!
| a lonely september 6/3/06 . chapter 1
i liked the repitition of 'here i rest this case' nice... i love the flow to this, you're good at rhyming & stuff, and usually i'm not into that kinda thing. | <urn:uuid:1578133d-896a-427f-a1e2-8a576b18302a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fictionpress.com/r/2128970/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981833 | 348 | 1.570313 | 2 |
April 2013 by Shannon Sisco
April 26 will shortly be upon us and with it the 76th anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika. This ties in with many news items this month.
First, there is a petition to move the Picasso painting to Gernika. Second, we were honored to have the Mendive Middle School group base their presentation on that event and the subsequent diaspora that occurred. After the bombing, many parents decided to send their children out of the Basque country.
Third, we were contacted by a researcher in England about the Children of '37 at one of the "colonies" established in the UK to house 50 out of the more than 4,000 children sent there for their safety. As soon as Franco came to power and consolidated Spain, calls went out to have these children return. Many did, but others stayed in their new homelands.
National History Day Part 2
March 2013 Shannon Sisco
The Mendive group won in their category! They will be going on for the National competition set for June 9th in Washington D.C. They will be presenting it for Professor Irujo's class April 17th at 4 p.m., located in room 305 of the Knowledge Center. The presentation is open to the Library faculty and staff to attend.
Saturday March 30th at 8:00 in the morning, the UNR campus—and especially the Raggio Building—was bustling with people getting ready to present their projects for the Northern Nevada History Day Competition. Mimi Hoppe, Hannah Quick, Jacinda Tuttle and Tayler Gerhard from Mendive Middle School gave their presentation first that morning. I was lucky enough to see it in person.
Jacinda's portrayal of a modern interviewer and Mimi's as one of the Children of '37 set the scene. Interspersed with meetings between Hannah's Franco and Tayler's von Richtofen planning the Market Day bombing, it gave the audience in a 20 minute timeframe a glimpse into the horror that is modern warfare. Using a power point background with maps and pictures, supplemented by a soundtrack of airplanes with bombs dropping, the presentation transported the audience to that fateful morning in Gernika.
Mimi recreated how one of the Children of '37, as they are called, were sent from their homeland to escape the war. Thousands of children were sent all over the world. The Archbishop of Canterbury first coined the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" to indicate the tragedy that happened. | <urn:uuid:ec8b8fc5-0b87-4079-b4ce-2000f122a961> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/basquelibrary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97151 | 514 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Analytical chemistry technique could help scientists select new drug candidates
October 27, 2011
Analytical chemists use a technique called mass spectrometry (MS) to determine the mass, structure, and composition of molecules. Chen pairs this traditional tool with electrochemistry (EC) using a technique called desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) to break apart the disulfide bonds of protein molecules to better understand their characteristics. This may be important for the synthesis of protein drugs, Chen says, as the molecule must have the right disulfide bond linkages to effectively function in the body.
Illustration by Christina Ullman.
One of DESI’s advantages, Chen says, is that it can directly analyze liquid samples without sample preparation. This could give it broader applications than the current technique commonly in use, electrospray ionization, which requires pretreatment of samples. The coupling of MS with EC by DESI (EC/DESI-MS) involves simpler instrumentation than conventional methods. Many biological molecules under study naturally occur in liquid form and are electrolytically active, explains Chen, who collaborates on the work with Ohio University Professor Howard Dewald and graduate student Yun Zhang.
The technique of EC/DESI-MS can be used for a wide range of studies, from small organic molecules to high-mass proteins. Compared to conventional methods, the technique can examine much larger, more complex molecules than ever before, Chen says.
Chen, who is funded by the National Science Foundation, has applied for a patent on the technique, and is looking for additional proteins to test. His goal is to make the EC/DESI-MS technique accessible to other scientists searching for a more efficient, cost-effective way to identify candidates for new drugs.
By Andrea Gibson
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The metaphor of building bridges is often used to note a rite of passage or a step toward the future. But while many schools at this time of year are focused on building metaphorical bridges for their students, like helping them transition to high school, students at City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology in Brooklyn were doing the opposite this week.
They were breaking bridges.
For three days each summer, City Polytech conducts an orientation program for incoming ninth graders. Besides learning school routines and rules, the students are asked to design bridges — and then weigh them down, in a test of the bridges’ strength.
With minimal materials (Popsicle sticks and Elmer’s glue), the students build the strongest bridges they can. On the second day of orientation, they bring the bridges down, by stacking geometry textbooks on them until they collapse. Read more… | <urn:uuid:0c47928d-f671-48da-abfa-2115cc0d507f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/city-polytechnic-high-school/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960816 | 182 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Shanghai, the most populated city in China, is sinking at an average rate of 2-4 cm per year. Although that may not sound like much, the downward shift can cause the collapse of buildings and underground tunnels, endangering lives and costing money. Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China has granted funding to a Nottingham University researcher to develop a computer program to identify which buildings and other structures are moving the most and are at greatest risk of collapse.
Andrew Sowter, a mathematician and scientist at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, (UNNC) is developing software that analyzes satellite images of Shanghai over the past several years, which shows how much the land has moved across the coastal city. The program can accurately measure the land’s movement down to the millimeter. Along with researchers at Tongji University in Shanghai, Sowter is also analyzing data from the ground to confirm the satellite data.
While Shanghai is being used as a case study, several other cities in China are also sinking and could benefit from the research. Many of the sinking cities are coastal cities, such as Ningbo, which is currently constructing an underground rail system. Like Shanghai, Ningbo has a rapidly growing population and is built on water-logged land. Rapid urban development has also required groundwater to be pumped into the cities, contributing to the sinking.
In 2003, subsidence was blamed for the collapse of an eight-storey building in Shanghai’s inner-city Bund region, which is known for its iconic commercial real estate.
The pumping of groundwater to cater for a massive, growing population has been a significant contributor to subsidence. The problem has been exacerbated by the country’s decades-long building boom amid rapid urbanisation, said Sowter.
Sowter is working in collaboration with Shanghai’s Tongji University, which is gathering ground information to confirm the results of data gathered from space.
’We are advancing and refining existing computer programs so that we can identify risks with greater confidence of the accuracy of the results. Rather than just measuring the problem, we are also improving the models to map and identify priority areas,’ he said.
Sowter said that the technology he is developing can be applied to other risks associated with land, such as earthquake zones, high-risk flood areas, land deformation from mining, and glacier movements. It can, for example, help authorities prevent landslides by detecting where land is starting to move at the stage when changes are slight. | <urn:uuid:20c391a9-fd0f-4fb6-be03-dd0cdb6dfc59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zeitnews.org/node/792 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96211 | 518 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Is the universe running out of energy? It might be one of the explanations for the steep decline in stellar production. The universe is only producing 3% of the stars galaxies were producing 11 and 9 billion years ago. The Milky Way is one of the few galaxies still cranking out stars but there's definitely an overall dramatic drop off probably due to the lack of pure energy supplies needed to fuel star production. In a related matter, black holes are converting consumption of materials such as stars, planets and asteroids into energy. As they do, they're emitting flares of energy, in essence gigantic belches. Galactic center black holes typically consume matter near the core and erupt less as they age. No danger to us from the black hole celestial burps closest to our galaxy's edge. Also, Venus and Saturn are still visible in the eastern pre-dawn sky, Jupiter in the west before sunrise. Jupiter in the east after dark, Mars low in the west at sunset – not far from a waxing crescent moon on Friday the 16th 45 minutes after sunset. Another note: There is a total Solar Eclipse of the moon on Tuesday BUT it can be seen only in North Australia. All this and more on this week's Sky Talk.
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|Snowboarders fly through the air in an attempt to land a back flip with snowboard in tow.|
It's not Brighton, Snowbird, Solitude or any other big ski resort. It's Huntington Canyon and it's the hot spot for local youth on any given weekend during the winter season and especially popular during the Christmas break from school.
The canyon has long been frequented by Emery County teens and Sanpete County teens, but has also been discovered by those wanting to get away from the crowds and pricey lift tickets of the ski resorts along the Wasatch Front.
For the price of a few gallons of gas you can hit the slope over and over. Vehicles drop snowboarders off on top and they snowboard down "the run," to where they are picked up and shuttled back up to start over again.
This furious dropping off and picking up lasts from morning until dark until you can no longer see to board safely and then begins the exodus off the mountain.
This remote canyon location is the site of traffic jams as the narrow canyon road doesn't leave much room to get off the road to pick up the boarders. Patience is the key to the safety of the boarders and those using the road for other purposes.
Snowmobilers use the area on top of Fairview Canyon every weekend for endless miles of snowmobile heaven. But, add long snowmobile trailers to the mix and congestion is a problem on the mountain.
Emery County Commissioner Ira Hatch said they have talked to the Utah Department of Transportation and they didn't seem too interested in widening the roadway to accommodate parking by snowboarders, along the pick-up area.
For now the system developed by users works. If all users exhibit patience with other users then things work out. Speed is not an option on this winding canyon road with frequent stops and vehicles pulling off the road. Combine these factors with snowy winter weather and caution is essential.
Parents are often enlisted to become the designated drivers as they take their children to the top and meet them at the bottom time after time.
The lift tickets are virtually free and the scenery is unsurpassed as winter sports grow in popularity among county residents and the white stuff that falls in the mountains is put to good use. | <urn:uuid:014cd250-29d7-4554-9f70-fe4c649ba386> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ecprogress.com/print.php?tier=1&article_id=3717 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961726 | 466 | 1.546875 | 2 |
On the issue of attendance, it's very clear. I believe that every student is entitled to an excellent education. Any policy that would render students invisible is not acceptable -- there have been proposals that would render the majority of students in a building invisible, proposals that would render the majority of students in a subgroup invisible.
While I accept that attendance is not solely the responsibility of educators, I reject the notion that educators do not contribute to student attendance.
I ran a school. I was a principal of a school in a very high-needs community. [King was founder and principal of Roxbury Preparatory Charter School in Boston.] We had systematic strategies to ensure students came to school. One was academic engagement, making sure students are learning and excited about learning. Two was reaching out to students' families and engaging them with the work that's going on in school, showing them why school matters for their children's future. But also being incredibly persistent about attendance. I would call relentlessly, go to students' homes -- do whatever it took to make sure that families saw the importance of having children come to school.
- Absences are excused at the discretion of the school leaders only in the case of a verified illness, religious observance, court appearance, or school-imposed disciplinary action (i.e., suspension).
- Immediately upon returning to school, each student must submit to the Office Manager a detailed note—signed by a parent or guardian—that verifies the date(s) of absence(s) and explains the reasons for the absence(s). Unless such a note is submitted the day of the student’s return to school, the absence(s) may be considered unexcused.
- Unexcused absences are never acceptable and may result in at least a .25% reduction in the student’s final grade for each class missed. More than three unexcused absences in a trimester may result in no credit and a zero percent average in each class for the trimester. More than seven unexcused absences in a school year may result in no credit for the year. A student may appeal his or her no-credit status to a Co-Director.
- It is incredibly important for students to arrive at school on time each day. Unexcused tardies are never acceptable. Three unexcused tardies may result in at least a .25% reduction in the student’s final grades.
- A student may be assigned disciplinary consequences, including demerits or detention, pursuant to the disciplinary code, for being tardy and/or for unexcused absences.
- A mandatory family meeting with the Director of Students and/or the School Leaders may be required for any student with 3 or more unexcused absences or tardies.
- Roxbury Prep may involve agencies, the police, the judicial system, and/or other authorities if a student is repeatedly late to or absent from school.
- A student who is absent is responsible for calling the Homework Hotline and submitting homework the day after s/he returns to school.
- A student who misses five or more consecutive days of school without notifying Roxbury Prep or who enrolls in another school is subject to being unenrolled at Roxbury Prep.
Last week, Associate Superintendent Will Keresztes told me the district would not be likely to adopt a policy again that sets a minimum bar for student attendance: "That was a policy that serves adults and not students. The district is not going to engage in that kind of reversal any more. I can't imagine a time when we would create a policy that punishes students for not attending school instead of looking at why they don't attend school and solving those problems.
"That policy created a scapegoat for student attendance problems. It blamed parents and families entirely. The district did not assume any of the responsibility, and that was wrong. When we create schools that engage students, attendance improves."
This week, Dixon told me that in 2005, when the policy was changed, it seemed to make sense to do away with a minimum attendance requirement.
"Kids weren't allowed to take Regents exams. The legality was, how can you stop a child from taking a Regents exam in New York State?" she said. "It was viewed as an obstacle to graduation. If attendance was keeping someone from getting course credit on a course they had passed, we weren't helping anyone move along." | <urn:uuid:8c854668-8a9b-4926-9466-aadcf572679e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2012_04_01_archive.html?m=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968732 | 920 | 2.125 | 2 |
Top 5 Reasons Why Freelancing Is The Hardest Job In The World
Freelancing is not as easy as perceived by many people. People think that freelancers just sit in front of the computers and do a little work to earn huge amount of money. This is a myth and freelancing as a career requires hard work and dedication to show results. Freelancing is one of the toughest and unstable jobs. The income levels may vary too as one month you make a lot of money and the next you hardly make any money and struggle to pay your bills. The initial phase of a freelancer's career is most challenging and things tend to get a bit easier with experience.
When you start out as a freelancer it may be tough to find work as you don't have a client base. Once you complete a few projects efficiently you build credibility which makes it easier to get work. Most people who choose freelancing as a career have no idea that it's one of the most challenging jobs in the world. In this article we will discuss why freelancing is tough and it takes hard work to be successful.
Here are top five reasons why freelancing is the hardest job in the world:
Reason 1: Unstable income
Freelancers can't be assured about their income like a person with a corporate job. In other words they have an inconsistent job with no guarantee of a stable income each month. One month they may make a lot of money and the next month they may be struggling to pay the bills. If you want to be successful as a freelancer you need to learn from these experiences and develop your skills which will help you build credibility.
Reason 2: Distractions
When you work from home as a freelancer, you are bound to face a lot of distractions which will affect your performance. You work on your projects with your family around and are almost certain to be distracted as there is always noise around the house. This is one of the challenging aspects of working as a freelancer as there is hardly anything you can do to stop these distractions.
Reason 3: Need to find regular clients
When you start out as a freelancer it may be difficult to find regular work. You will have to find new clients regularly and if you fail to do so you won't have any work. You don't have a client base and no one really knows you to give you work. It does get a bit easier once you are more experienced and have made a name for yourself with quality work. When you are new you should market yourself so that you get work and build credibility in the marketplace.
Reason 4: Managing every aspect of business
A freelancer needs to manage every aspect of his business on his own and this can be pretty demanding. You have to look after invoicing, client management, marketing and every other aspect of your business. If you fail to take care of any one of them, it can prove fatal for your business.
Reason 5: Balancing work and social life
Freelancers work from home and may find it difficult to strike a balance between their work and social life. You need to think of ways to find new clients and grow your business which may make it almost impossible to take off from your daily schedule. You should work on a schedule and try to find some time especially on weekends for a social life.
Freelancing is a good career option but in no way an easy way to make lots of money from the comfort of your home. Many people dream of leaving their day job and becoming a freelancer as they believe they can earn a lot of money with little effort. Freelancing is not easy and requires persistent effort to be successful. If you are thinking about freelancing as a career option consider the above mentioned factors before getting into it. | <urn:uuid:8d9b8735-9e03-4f64-b1df-58eaaeeaa887> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://programmingbulls.com/top-5-reasons-why-freelancing-hardest-job-world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978766 | 771 | 1.703125 | 2 |
ArticlesGive Bad Breath the Brush-Off
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Halitosis is an oral health problem where the main symptom is bad smelling breath. In most cases, finding the cause of the bad breath is the first step toward treating this preventable condition.
There are many causes of bad breath, just as there are many sources of bacteria in the mouth. Halitosis may be caused by the following:
Certain foods. The things you eat are linked to your oral health, including your breath. Items such as garlic and onions, or any food for that matter, are absorbed into the bloodstream. Until that food becomes eliminated by the body, it has the potential to affect a person's breath.
Poor oral health care. Without proper and consistent brushing and flossing, and routine examinations by your dentist, food remains in the mouth, which is a breeding ground for bacteria. Food that collects on the teeth, gums, and tongue may rot, which causes an unpleasant odor and taste in the mouth.
Improper cleaning of dentures. Dentures that are not cleaned properly may be collecting bacteria, fungi, and remaining food particles, which cause bad breath.
Periodontal disease. One of the primary symptoms of this gum disease is foul, bad smelling breath, and an unpleasant taste in the mouth. This condition requires immediate care by an oral health professional.
Xerostomia (dry mouth). This condition is often a key part of halitosis. When there is a significant decrease in saliva production, the mouth is unable to cleanse itself and remove debris and particles left behind by food. Xerostomia may be caused by certain medications, a salivary gland disorder, or by continuously breathing through the mouth instead of the nose.
Tobacco products. Not only do tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and snuff stain the teeth and put the body at risk for a host of diseases, they also contribute to bad breath. Tobacco users also are at an increased risk for the following:
A loss of taste abilities
A medical condition. Bad breath may be a sign or symptom of any of the following conditions. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Consult your physician for a diagnosis:
A respiratory infection
Infection of the nose, windpipe, or lungs
A gastrointestinal disorder
A liver or kidney disorder
Specific treatment for halitosis will be determined by your physician or dentist based on:
Health of your mouth
Cause or origin of the condition
Extent of the condition
Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Your opinion or preference
Treatment depends primarily on the cause of the condition, including:
Possible Treatment Protocol
Poor oral health care
If the bad breath is due to improper oral health care, in most cases your dentist will treat the cause of the problem.
If the cause of the halitosis is an underlying gum disease, the condition may be treated by your dentist, or you may be referred to an oral specialist -- in most cases, a periodontist. A periodontal cleaning often helps to remove the bacteria and tartar or plaque that has built up and is causing inflammation at the gumline.
Extensive plaque buildup
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Lots of stuff going on in the world lately; not a lot of posting here. Chalk that up to crazy busy real life. I have been following the news, as I know you have, and one huge story is the declaration of martial law in Pakistan. It isn’t exactly a huge shock that a military dictator will do anything to hang on to power, and I know I shouldn’t be surprised that the response from the Bush administration has been a bit subdued. And I wouldn’t be the first to comment on the similarities between the two, er, regimes — using the specters of judicial activism and terrorism to trash opponents and stifle dissent. Hmmm, where have we heard that before?
Anyway, if the Bush administration is so upset with Musharraf, it seems the first thing to do would be to cut US aid to Pakistan. Money talks, right? And it turns out it also walks. Away. With no supervision.
After Pervez Musharraf declared martial law this weekend, Condoleezza Rice vowed to review U.S. assistance to Pakistan, one of the largest foreign recipients of American aid. Musharraf, of course, has been a crucial American ally since the start of the Afghanistan war in 2001, and the U.S. has rewarded him ever since with over $10 billion in civilian and (mostly) military largesse. But, perhaps unsure whether Musharraf’s days might in fact be numbered, Rice contended that the explosion of money to Islamabad over the past seven years was “not to Musharraf, but to a Pakistan you could argue was making significant strides on a number of fronts.”
In fact, however, a considerable amount of the money the U.S. gives to Pakistan is administered not through U.S. agencies or joint U.S.-Pakistani programs. Instead, the U.S. gives Musharraf’s government about $200 million annually and his military $100 million monthly in the form of direct cash transfers. Once that money leaves the U.S. Treasury, Musharraf can do with it whatever he wants. He needs only promise in a secret annual meeting that he’ll use it to invest in the Pakistani people. And whatever happens as the result of Rice’s review, few Pakistan watchers expect the cash transfers to end.
George W. Bush hands over hundreds of millions in cash to Musharraf — this after shipping billions in cash to Iraq (that was money that actually belonged to the Iraqi people, not that they got any say in how it was spent) — with no accounting and no accountability, and he wants to accuse the Democrats of fiscal irresponsibility? Not to mention, all that cash hasn’t prevented parts of Pakistan from becoming safe haven for al-Qaeda.
Once again, the US has propped up a dictator because he was our dictator, dammit. And now he’s done what dictators are known to do. Is it any wonder some people are seeing parallels with the Iran of 30 years ago?
The shah was America’s friend, just like Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. He was our staunch ally against the bogeyman of that time, the Soviet Union, just as Musharraf has been America’s partner in fighting al-Qaeda. The shah ignored America’s admonitions to clean up his undemocratic regime, just as Musharraf has. And as the shah’s troubles deepened, the United States hoped that moderate opposition leaders would keep the country safe from Muslim zealots, just as we are now hoping in Pakistan.
And yet the Iranian explosion came — a firestorm of rage that immolated any attempt at moderation or compromise. A similar process of upheaval has begun in Pakistan — with one terrifying difference: Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
If there is regime change in Pakistan, I doubt we’ll see new leadership that is friendly toward the US. The people of Pakistan know that we’ve been meddling in their affairs, propping up Musharraf without demanding real reforms or putting any strings on that cash we send his way. Cash that, by the way, rarely flows down to the Pakistani people:
Only about ten percent of the $10.58 billion since 9/11 has gone toward development aid and humanitarian assistance, according to the CSIS report — even after Pakistan suffered a devastating earthquake in October 2005. “Close to 90 percent goes to the military-led government,” [Rick] Barton says. “Some of it is directly into the military, and the other pieces go into the Musharraf government.” | <urn:uuid:8135196d-8798-4ac2-b3ed-422c16a20f8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.queervoice.net/kmcmullen/2007/11/07/why-am-i-not-surprised-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964974 | 967 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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Every great step into the future was driven by a vision of what could be. Explorers and dreamers knew that although the future was uncertain and murky, it was inevitable. When Neil Armstrong’s foot touched the moon’s surface, it was a step into the future that reflected the dreams, plans, trials, and errors of those who believed in the reality of that outcome. | <urn:uuid:f619947e-9f1d-45a1-9995-899624668037> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.northsidesun.com/content/aparently-jackson-prep-0?quicktabs_1=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970248 | 91 | 1.898438 | 2 |
"The written law is said to be given for the correction of the natural law, either because it supplies what was wanting in the natural law; or because the natural law was perverted in the hearts of some men, as to certain matters so that they esteemed those things good which are naturally evil, which perversion stood in need of correction." St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (13th cent)
How times have changed--t he written law has now become the enabler and even the promoter of man's perversities.
Excerpt from the Telegraph: "Health authorities are considering paying up to £15,000 to surrogate mothers to help homosexual couples have children.
"North Essex Primary Care Trust has been asked to pay toward a surrogate mother. The PCT said it would also have to consider whether to pay toward surrogates for homosexual couples and single people.
"In a report to the PCT, Dr Rebecca Gibbs said: "The majority of applications for surrogacy to be funded on the NHS stem from heterosexual couples, but consideration would need to be taken for any homosexual couple or single person who wished to become a parent through surrogacy."
"The North Essex PCT said no firm decision had been taken on the issue."
Excerpts from GUARDIAN: "Martin Schiller has a problem familiar to many 17-year-old boys: not enough girls. Schiller's difficulties, however, are not of his making. Nature has not been kind to him. Not in terms of his looks, but his birthplace.
"For his home town of Königstein, a cluster of red-roofed traditional buildings tucked in a picturesque bend of the Elbe river beneath a giant 700-year-old castle, has recently been revealed to have the biggest demographic imbalance of anywhere in Europe between young men and women.
"On Saturday nights, there is a party at Königstein's youth club. 'We have to get the girls to come from Pirna,' says Schiller, referring to the nearest major town, 10 miles distant. Or even, he says, from Dresden, a 40-minute drive away across the rolling, wooded, depopulated Saxon countryside.
"The reason for the imbalance, he adds, is simple: 'The job opportunities Read More...
I suppose this comes as a surprise to those who are in denial of the evils of abortion but the world's leading expert on fetal pain at the University of Arkansas has concluded that babies in the womb can feel pain from an early stage of development. Such a finding may impact an upcoming vote regarding abortion in the U.K. which could ultimately tighten abortion laws and reduce the time limits to obtain an abortion.
From Telegraph.co.United Kingdom: "Prof Sunny Anand of the University of Arkansas will present his report into foetal pain to MPs discussing changes to abortion law on Monday night.
His research concludes that the part of a baby's brain that can feel pain develops before the legal abortion limit of 24 weeks.
It is the first time the abortion laws will have been reviewed in the Commons for nearly two decades.
Prof Stewart Campbell is also on the panel. He pioneered the use of 4D screening, which produces striking images of a baby in the womb.
Nadine Dorries, the Conservative backbencher and former nurse, will chair the Read More...
EXCERPTS FROM DEUTSCHE WELLE: "Leaders of right-wing nationalist parties from four EU member states have announced plans to create a European "patriotic" party that would protect the continent against immigration, "Islamization" and globalization.
"The heads of Austria's Freedom Party, France's Nationalist Front, the Bulgarian Attaca party and Belgium's Vlaams Belang on Friday, Jan. 25, told journalists in Vienna that they had agreed to set up a new party in order to defend Europe from numerous challenges that it faces today.
"We say: patriots of all the countries of Europe, unite," Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache said at the news conference, also attended by French right-winger Jean-Marie le Pen, among others. "Because only together will we solve our problems."
"Warning about the dangers that immigration and "Islamization" pose for Europe, the Read More...
Just a reminder of the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church at the Council of Florence in 1438:
"The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire 'which was prepared for the devil and his angels,' (Mat. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this Ecclesiastical Body, that only those remaining within this unity can profit from the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and that they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, alms deeds and other works of Christian piety and duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his alms giving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church."
Maybe if we took seriously these words and stopped explaining away and undermining this infallible and unchangeable teaching we would not be in the current state of mass apostasy from the Faith throughout the West.
The European Court of Human Rights has convicted France of discrimination for preventing a lesbian from adopting a child. She was turned down by French adoption authorities for lack of a male role model in her household.
A majority ruling found that article 14 and 8 of the Human Rights Convention had been violated. France was ordered to pay the woman 10,000 euros in damages. Article 14 forbids discrimination. Article Read More...
Geert Wilders, 44, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, who compares the Muslim holy book to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, sparked government panic after saying the anti-Islam film would be released tomorrow.
As Dutch police prepared for a weekend of riots and Mr Wilders was told by the authorities that he would have to leave country, he launched a new attack on "intolerant" Islam while announcing that his 10-minute Read More...
"This is holy Church, the one Church, the true Church, the Catholic Church, fighting against all heresies; she can fight but she cannot be conquered. All heresies are expelled from her as if they were dead branches pruned from the vine; she herself however remains fixed in her root, in her vine, in her charity. The gates of hell shall not prevail against her." St Augustine (4th cent)
I wonder what would have happened to this man had he condemned Mohammed as a messenger of Satan?
FROM INDEPENDENT.IE "An unholy row on yesterday's 'Joe Duffy show' began innocently enough, when the chief aide to Nigel Dodds, the North's Enterprise Minister, voiced his objections to the sale of Catholic rosary beads inside St Patrick's [Anglican] Cathedral, in Dublin.
"Wallace Thompson challenged the Anglican Dean of St Patrick's, Dr Robert MacCarthy, for selling rosaries not sanctioned in Holy Scripture, in the cathedral gift shop.
"The Dean explained that the beads were sold because the shop attracted visitors of all denominations, and revenue from the sales helped finance the cathedral's upkeep.
"During an hour-long phone-in, Mr Thompson castigated Read More...
The website also states as follows:
"[W]e can assure you that everything will be better in muslim Denmark: No drugs, no crime, peace, and humanity- instead of drug culture, immorality, possibly human rights crimes and violence which we have now."
"Every immigrant or muslim in danish jails should be released from prisons, because it is possible that there has been plotting or framing or provocation towards them - and all cases should be investigated again carefully."
"Muslim party will be biggest party of Denmark - and it may be soon. First day after Turkey becomes EU member country - about one million 20-50 year old Muslims [may] move to Denmark, and after that Denmark [may] be a muslim country. Be ready!"
"Danish Muslim party's only agenda Read More...
So many "Christians" have come to hold the view that it does not matter what one believes but rather that one is simply sincere and a "good person". But without a firm creed and an authority established by God Himself one is open to compromise with the world, the devil, and the flesh. Surely Christ will not abide with those who compromise and strip His word of all hard teachings--we must either accept or reject Him, we are either for or against Him. Compromise is incompatible with a firm faith that Christ is God, whose word is true and whose promises are as sure as God is sure.
Protestantism's rejection of authority has scattered souls by forcing them to fend for themselves to determine what the essential revealed truths of Christ are. Instead of confidently grasping hold of truth, Protestant Christians must agree to differ as to what truth God intended to reveal. Without the confidence that can only be found when authority is recognized, Protestants are inexorably driven to compromise due to the eternally endless divisions. How ironic it is that "bible believing" "sola scriptura" Christians are on the whole more unsure of truth and the requirements of salvation than prior to the Reformation. As a result Christians have never been so lax, and so lacking in faith.
Many Protestants have come to reject the ten commandments and even baptism as necessary Read More...
As Austria muzzles politicians who speak the truth about the growing Islamization of Europe, the recent statistics on the Austrian birth rate do not lie. With a birth rate of 1.3 births per woman in 2006, Austria was previously thought to be on the brink of the death spiral but officials are now reporting a continued decline in the birth rate for 2007.
There were 69,245 births in Austria during the first eleven months of 2007--which represents a 2.4 per cent drop from the prior year (or 1,674 fewer births).
Top that off with the fact that 38 percent of all births from December, 2006 through November, 2007 were to unwed mothers, up from 37.2 percent from the prior year.
By the way --Austrian politician Susanne Winter is now under guard due to a death threat against her by the "European Al Qaeda". It seems Islamization may be fine for the percentage of the populace who the State supports in a hedonistic, pill-popping, serial shack-up lifestyle--just don't talk about the price that will eventually be paid.
An Australian obstetrician and professor of medicine has called for a "baby levy" under which families that have more than two children would be fined $5,000 upon the birth of a third child and $800 annually in the form of a carbon tax.
Dr Barry NJ Walters, recently wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia: "[S]howering financial booty on new mothers" rewards "greenhouse-unfriendly behaviour" and that Australia deserved no more population concessions than India or China. Each child born should be offset by planting 4ha of trees".
In response Cardinal Pell stated: "I am not sure what is more extraordinary, that an obstetrician could hold such a view or that a leading medical journal could publish such a view, but either way, this is a striking illustration of where a minority neo-pagan, anti-human mentality, wants to take us...If we have learned anything from the atrocities of the last century, it is that wide-scale attacks upon human life and dignity stem from reductive understandings of the human person."
Australian Family Association spokeswoman Angela Conway also condemned Walters saying babies don't cause global warming. "I think self-important professors with silly ideas should have to pay carbon tax for all the hot air they create. There's masses of evidence to say that child-rich families have much lower resource consumption per head than other styles of households."
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- France became the first non- Scandinavian country in western Europe to record a majority of out-of-wedlock births.
Of the 816,500 births registered in France last year, 50.5 percent were to unmarried parents, up from 48.4 percent in 2006 and 40 percent 10 years ago, according to a report today by Insee, the Paris-based national statistics agency.
``What's led the rise in out-of-wedlock births is that a lifestyle that was once confined to Paris is now the norm even in rural areas,'' Guy Desplanques, head of Insee's demographics department, said in a telephone interview. ``Marriage is no Read More...
From Manchestereveningnews: A hospital porter was quizzed by police after a row over a crucifix being covered in a prayer room has denied allegations of assault.
Joseph Protano, 54, was interviewed on suspicion of religiously aggravated assault at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury.
Mr Protano, a devout Catholic from Salford, was released without charge but was suspended four days after the incident and has now been at home for two weeks.
The row centres round a prayer room available to staff and visitors of all faiths at the hospital.
Mr Protano entered the room when three Muslims Read More...
Susanne Winter, a right-wing politician with the FPÖ party, stated that "in today's system" the Prophet Muhammad would be considered a "child molester". Winter who is running for a city council seat in the city of Graz, was apparently referring to Mohammed's marriage to a six-year-old child.
Winter stated that it is time for Islam to be "thrown back where it came from, behind the Mediterranean." She also stated, as have many others before her that Muhammad wrote the Koran in "epileptic fits."
EXCERPTS FROM SPIEGEL: "In an interview with the daily Österreich published on Monday, Winter continued the onslaught saying that child abuse is "widespread" among Muslim men and that Graz is facing a "tsunami of Muslim immigration." In 20 or 30 years, she warned, half of Austria's population would be Muslim.
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The murder of Pat Finucane
Patrick Finucane, a prominent human rights lawyer, was shot dead in front of his
wife and young children as they sat down to Sunday dinner on 12 February 1989.
During the 23 years since, conclusive evidence has shown that both the British
Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary had highly placed agents in the loyalist
paramilitary group that carried out the murder.
Human rights NGOs and others who have investigated the killing believe the only
reasonable conclusion is that very senior British officials must have had
foreknowledge that this murder was to take place.
John Stevens, former Assistant Chief Constable, Cambridgeshire Constabulary,
conducted a number of inquiries into collusion between loyalist paramilitaries
and the RUC and British Army.
The extensive evidence he gathered remains secret.
In 2001 the Irish and British governments asked Canadian Judge Peter Cory to
conduct a review of six cases involving allegations of collusion and to make
recommendations on the need for inquiries.
The two Governments agreed to act as the judge recommended.
In his 2004 report, Judge Cory stated he had found sufficient evidence of
collusion to warrant a public inquiry and recommended one should be conducted as
soon as possible.
Since 2004, the British Government has repealed all existing laws relating to
public inquiries and passed a new statute, the Inquiries Act 2005, of which
sections 19 and 20 give government ministers exclusive power to restrict public
access to information and to order that all or part of “public” inquiries should
be held in private.
Judge Cory has commented since the passing of the Act that no self-respecting
Canadian judge would agree to participate in such a government-controlled
inquiry, which he went on to describe as an "Alice in Wonderland situation."
On 11th October 2011, members of the Finucane family met with British Prime
Minister David Cameron in Downing Street.
Cameron admitted State Collusion in Pat Finucane's murder.
However, the Judge Peter Cory recommendation of a public inquiry, previously
accepted by Tony Blair, was denied, and that only a review of the Stevens and Cory
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The field survey form rated battlefield integrity through the eyes of the survey team. While these observations are valuable in terms of how the battlefield landscapes are perceived subjectively, for the purposes of this study it was deemed important to find a more objective measure of the loss or retention of integrity. For this we turned to the Cultural Resources GIS Facility for a computer analysis of land use within the battlefield study and core areas. Computer mapping and analysis software, collectively known as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used in this study to create a mosaic map by combining many different modern and historic maps; to document study and core areas, to assess current land uses within defined areas; and to calculate statistics for land parcels.
The battlefield study and core areas were reduced to a computer format to enable various comparisons. The average size of study areas of the fifteen battlefields was 5,727 acres, ranging from 3,082 acres at Front Royal to 22,274 acres at Second Winchester. The size of the Front Royal study area accurately reflects the smaller numbers of troops engaged and their restricted deployment along the main roads. Second Winchester, on the other hand, involved a larger force, a network of Union entrenchments, two sweeping flank marches by Confederate forces that literally encircled the town of Winchester, and three days of fighting and maneuvering. The study areas of the Valley's two major battles (in terms of forces engaged and casualties) at Opequon and Cedar Creek were 11,670 acres and 15,607 acres respectively.
Because the study areas of several battlefields overlap, the total acreage for the study areas of the fifteen battlefields was 85,909 acres, 3.4 percent of the area of the Shenandoah Valley under consideration. Battlefield core areas ranged in size from 944 acres at Front Royal to 6,252 acres at Cedar Creek. The mean size of the core areas was 2,415 acres. Total acreage included in the battlefield core areas was 33,844 acres, 1.4 percent of the Valley's land area.
Figure 14 presents the integrity of the battlefields as determined by the GIS analysis. The percentage of built-up lands was computed for the battlefield study and core areas, using available 1973 land use data. These figures were then updated by on-site field inspections. In general, built-up lands, new roads, and quarries were subtracted from study and core area acreage, to achieve an integrity rating. One exception was built-up areas that were residential at the time of the Civil War and that still retain a similar scale and density, such as the old towns of Winchester, New Market, and McDowell. These districts were felt to support battlefield integrity. Retention of 75-100 percent natural and agricultural lands rated ``Good,'' 50-74 percent rated ``Fair,'' 25-49 percent rated ``Poor,'' and less than 25 percent rated ``Lost.'' As presented, the GIS analysis reflects the relative integrity of the battlefields as of 1991.
Figure 15 compares the findings of the field survey with the GIS integrity assessment. The field surveyors were more critical of visual intrusions, particularly of highways, bridges, powerlines, and construction within the battlefield cores. Four battlefields ranked good by GIS were ranked fair by the field survey team: Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, Cool Spring, and Tom's Brook. Four battlefields ranked fair by the GIS methodology, were ranked poor by the field survey: Second Winchester, Second Kernstown, and New Market. Both methods agreed on the goodintegrity of McDowell, Cross Keys, Piedmont, and Port Republic, on the fair integrity of First Kernstown, on the poor integrity of Opequon and Front Royal, and the lost condition of First Winchester. Although the integrity ranking derived through GIS differed in these instances from the field survey rating, both methods cluster the battlefields similarly toward the top and bottom of the scale.
The GIS method generates a gross ratio between land of high and low integrity and does not measure many visual intrusions that are apparent in the field. A minor intrusion in terms of acreage might appear as a major visual intrusion, depending on the location and setting. In this sense, the computer is more forgiving than the critical observer. This reference data is crucial, however, for obtaining a more objective view of the current status of the battlefields. Where the GIS rating is considerably higher than the field survey rating, perhaps, visual intrusions could be removed or masked to improve integrity. The GIS assessment will provide a reference point for monitoring further loss of integrity.
Several interesting facts emerged from a regional analysis of the battlefield study areas. The study areas contain a higher proportion of agricultural land (63 percent) than is the case for the Valley as a whole (37 percent). Due to this, changes in agricultural patterns or loss of agricultural land tend to have a higher impact on the battlefields than on the overall Valley landscape. Forests make up more than 56 percent of the Valley's acreage but only about 21 percent of battlefield acreage. This is accounted for by the fact that the Valley's forests are more concentrated in the higher elevations, while battles typically were fought on lower, flatter ground. In addition, built-up lands are more concentrated in the battlefield study areas (14 percent) than in the Valley as a whole (6 percent), reflecting the location of battlefields on or near important towns and transportation nodes. A relatively high level of existing residential development within a battlefield study area indicates that further development in the vicinity is probable due to current zoning and continued growth. Figure 5 shows the pattern of agricultural land use in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Defense chiefs from four Southeast Asian nations have agreed to begin coordinated air patrols over the pirate-infested Malacca Strait next week to quell foreign jitters about security in the world's busiest shipping lane, officials said yesterday.
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand will each donate two aircraft for the "Eyes in the Sky" plan, Indonesian navy Colonel Surya Wiranto told reporters during a two-day international conference in Jakarta about the 900km waterway.
The planes will begin regular patrols on Tuesday and will have one representative from each of the four nations on board, he said.
More than 50,000 ships, carrying half the world's oil and a third of its commerce, use the Malacca Strait each year.
The waterway, which is bordered by Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, is infested by pirates and there are fears that international terrorists might target ships passing through it.
"We need eyes from the air to inform the officials below to fight piracy and other maritime crimes," said Wiranto, who is the assistant of operations for the Indonesian navy's western fleet. "The aircraft will only be allowed to patrol the waterway and will not be allowed to cross over to land."
Despite the mounting security concerns, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda on Wednesday criticized a decision by a leading international shipping insurer to include the Malacca Strait on its list of the 20 most dangerous waterways in the world.
He said Lloyds' decision was "erroneous" because none of the countries bordering the strait were at war with each other, and a recent deal had brought peace to Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province in the channel's northern approaches.
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All God's attributes are represented by Him in the utmost and absolute perfection and purity. Because God is infallible, He sets for us the highest of the highest example for each of His divine attributes. He also explains to us the dynamic of each one through clear teachings and allegories. God advises us in Quran to race and strive towards some of His divine beauty and righteousness. Although we can NEVER achieve His perfection, He would like to see us faithful, just, kind, truthful, compassionate and merciful. He would like to see us peaceful, forgiving and appreciative. He is the infinite source and the divine representation of these attributes.
[30:27] And He is the One who initiates the creation, then repeats it; this is even easier for Him. To Him belongs the most sublime similitude, in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Almighty, Most Wise.
[16:60] Those who do not believe in the Hereafter set the worst examples, while to God belongs the most sublime examples. He is the Almighty, the Most Wise.
Throughout Quran, we learn that being appreciative of God is an act and a dynamic expression rather than a static feeling of recognition. Our actions validate our appreciation for God. Believing in the truth is only an initial choice we make on the right path. Appreciating that truth and expressing our appreciation determines our true convictions. We express our appreciation by acting upon our belief and striving to lead the righteous life style dictated by God. Such expression of our appreciation by leading a righteous life is always a condition, side by side to our belief in God and the Last Day, to be redeemed (2:62, 2:112, 5:69, 46:13, 17:19 and many more). Thus, actively expressing our appreciation spells out the test of being on earth and constitutes a vital element for salvation.
[47:31] We will certainly put you to the test, in order to distinguish those among you who strive, and steadfastly persevere. We must expose your true qualities.
One of the attributes of the Most Gracious is being Appreciative/Shakoor/Shaker which indicates to us that appreciation is mutually practiced by God and His righteous servants. When God's allies are appreciative of Him and when they prove their convictions and express their appreciation through righteousness, God displays for them His divine appreciation of their righteous efforts. Because God is infallible, He sets the perfect example teaching us that appreciation is an act and a dynamic expression. How does God validate His divine appreciation? What are the divine acts of appreciation? When we reflect on the following verses, we rejoice in His promises for the righteous in this life and in the Hereafter. This is how God expresses His appreciation of righteousness:
[42:23] This is the good news from God to His servants who believe and lead a righteous life. Say, "I do not ask you for any wage. I do ask each of you to take care of your own relatives." Anyone who does a righteous work, we multiply his reward for it. God is Forgiver, Appreciative.
[64:17] If you lend God a loan of righteousness, He will multiply the reward for you manifold, and forgive you. God is Appreciative, Clement.
[17:19] As for those who choose the Hereafter as their priority, and work righteousness, while believing, their efforts will be appreciated.
[4:147] What will God gain from punishing you, if you became appreciative and believed? God is Appreciative, Omniscient.
[35:29] Surely, those who recite the book of God, observe the Contact Prayers (Salat), and from our provisions to them they spend - secretly and publicly - are engaged in an investment that never loses.
[35:30] He will recompense them generously, and will multiply His blessings upon them. He is Forgiving, Appreciative.
[35:34] They will say, "Praise God for removing all our worries. Our Lord is Forgiving, Appreciative.
[2:245] Who would lend God a loan of righteousness, to have it repaid to them multiplied manifold? God is the One who provides and withholds, and to Him you will be returned.
[47:7] O you who believe, if you support God, He will support you, and strengthen your foothold.
[3:133] You should eagerly race towards forgiveness from your Lord and a Paradise whose width encompasses the heavens and the earth; it awaits the righteous,
[3:134] who give to charity during the good times, as well as the bad times. They are suppressors of anger, and pardoners of the people. God loves the charitable.
[3:135] If they fall in sin or wrong their souls, they remember God and ask forgiveness for their sins - and who forgives the sins except God - and they do not persist in sins, knowingly.
[3:136] Their recompense is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens with flowing streams; they abide therein forever. What a blessed reward for the workers!
[21:94] As for those who work righteousness, while believing, their work will not go to waste; we are recording it.
[47:35] Therefore, you shall not waver and surrender in pursuit of peace, for you are guaranteed victory, and God is with you. He will never waste your efforts.
[61:11] Believe in God and His messenger and strive in the cause of God with your money and your lives. This is the best deal for you, if you only knew.
[61:12] In return, He forgives your sins, and admits you into gardens with flowing streams, with beautiful mansions in the gardens of Eden. This is the greatest triumph.
[61:13] Additionally, you get something you truly love: support from God and guaranteed victory. Give good news to the believers.
[14:27] God strengthens those who believe with the proven word, in this life and in the Hereafter. And God sends the transgressors astray. Everything is in accordance with God's will.
We work hard to validate our belief and express our appreciation to God (90:4). Bound by our limitations and fallibility, it takes a tremendous effort, self discipline, dedication, and a high level of honesty, integrity, reverence and compassion to succeed in that and do justice to our souls. Because God is infallible, His acts of appreciation represent the perfect and infinite justice, integrity, compassion, mercy and grace.
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What is Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)?
Rheumatoid arthritis is a form of arthritis that lead to inflammation in the lining of the joints (ortho means joint and it is means inflammation). Rheumatoid arthritis can last for many years and can effect many different joints in the body. Over time, RA can damage various parts of a joint, such as cartilage, bone, tendons and ligaments.
Who Gets RA?
Anyone can be diagnosed with RA, including children and the elderly. However, most people get RA during their young-to-middle adult years. Women are diagnosed with RA approximately three times more often than men are. Over two million people in the United States have RA.
How can I manage my RA?
Your doctor can suggest different ways to help you manage RA, including over-the-counter and prescription medications. Other treatments may include rest, to reduce pain and discomfort, exercise and physical therapy treatment.
Specific exercises will assist you in maintaining muscle strength and joint mobility. Exercise under the guidance of a physician is particularly important. Exercise improves your strength, endurance and flexibility, so that you can perform daily activities better. The key is to maintain a proper balance between rest and physical activity. Many people with RA can safely participate in appropriate regular exercise programs. Low-impact movement – such as swimming or bicycling – is especially beneficial, because it provides great cardiovascular exercise, without tiring or harming your body’s joints. Always check with your physician before beginning or changing an exercise routine.
In addition to recommending exercise, rheumatologists may refer you to physical or occupational therapies. Physical therapy can help you maintain range of motion in your joints, whereas occupational therapy can teach you ways to cope with the day-to-day problems associated with the disease.
There are several different types of medications to help relieve you RA signs and symptoms. Your rheumatologist will determine which medications to prescribe based on the severity of your disease. A number of factors can determine whether a particular drug will work for you, including how much pain and stiffness you feel, how advanced your disease is and how you respond to various medications. It is sometimes necessary to be on several medications at once, or to switch treatments from time to time. The following is a list of the most commonly prescribed medications for RA:
Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs):
NSAIDs are prescribed to quickly reduce the pain associated with RA. They also reduce joint inflammation, although this benefit can be delayed for four to six weeks. NSAIDs can make you feel better temporarily, but they do not alter the course of RA or prevent joint destruction. They have side-effects such as stomach upset, stomach ulceration and bleeding.
Some of the most commonly prescribed NSAIDs including Relafen (nabumetone), Naprosyn (naproxen), Arthrotec (diclofenac sodium and misoprostol), Daypro (oxaprozin) and Motrin (ibuprofen).
A new category of NSAIDs is called COX-2 inhibitors. Drugs in this class have fewer gastrointestinal side-effects because they do not interfere with an enzyme that is beneficial to the stomach lining. They have the same effect as NSAIDs. Like other NSAIDs, COX-2 inhibitors do not alter the progression of the disease. Medications in this category include Celebrex (celecoxib) and Vioxx (rofecoxib).
Corticosteroids are steroids that have Anti-inflammatory effects. They are prescribed to quickly relieve RA signs and symptoms such as pain and inflammation. However, physicians may have to monitor you more closely when you are on corticosteroids because of the possible development of serious side-effects, including weight gain, osteoporosis, glaucoma, hypertension and cataracts. The side-effects of these drugs can increase both with longer usage and higher doses.
Commonly prescribed corticosteroids include prednisone and Medrol (methylprednisolone).
Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs):
Medications in this class are prescribed to patients who continue to experience joint pain, significant morning stiffness, fatigue or other symptoms, even though they have taken high doses of NSAIDs. These drugs can slow the loss of cartilage and bone adjacent to the joint. However, benefits are often delayed for weeks or months.
Some DMARDs may have side-effects that will increase with the duration of treatment, so these drugs may require patients to be monitored with laboratory tests for side-effects.
Commonly used medications in this group include gold compounds, sulfasalazine, Rheumatrex (methotrexate), Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine sulfate), Solganal (aurothioglucose) and Arava (leflunomide).
Methotrexate is one of the most commonly prescribed DMARDs. It appears to act more rapidly than other DMARDs, and provides longer effective relief from symptoms. Rheumatologists may have to increase the dosage of the drug during the course of your treatment to maintain its effectiveness. Despite increasing doses, the effectiveness of methotrexate can still taper off in some patients. Methotrexate is well-tolerated by most patients. It should not be used if you are pregnant, breast-feeding or planning to become pregnant.
Biological Response Modifiers:
This new class of biologic agents has been shown to have substantial benefits in patients for whom other therapies are inadequate. They target the body's immune system to control the process of inflammation, significantly reducing disease activity.
The most common side-effects of biological response modifiers are injection-site reactions and infections. The medications should be used with caution if you are at risk for infections. Drugs in this class include Remicade, Enbrel and Humira and Abatacept:
Remicade (infliximab) - an intravenous (IV) infusion therapy used with methotrexate. Healthcare professionals administer Remicadeto patients once every eight weeks after a starting dose regimen (please see full prescribing information at www.remicade.com)
Remicade is part of a class of advanced biologic agents that has been shown to have substantial benefits in patients with a number of inflammatory disorders involving the immune system. These biologic agents target specific proteins in the body's immune system to control the development of inflammation, significantly reducing painful symptoms in diseases such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Remicade is given by IV infusion, a simple process that usually takes about two hours. A healthcare professional administers the treatment in a supervised environment, which is either a physician's office or a treatment center. You will receive your first dose followed by additional doses at two and six weeks after the first dose. You will then receive a dose every eight weeks. If you have AS, you will receive treatment every six weeks.
With Remicade , all you have to do is come for your appointment. Your healthcare professional will carefully calculate the dosage customized to your weight so that you get the best response to the treatment. Individual results may vary.
Enbrel (etanercept) - a subcutaneous (under the skin) injection that patients give to themselves twice a week.
Enbrel is a type of protein called a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blocker that blocks the action of a substance your body's immune system makes called TNF. People with an immune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, and psoriasis, have too much TNF in their bodies. ENBREL can reduce the amount of TNF in the body to normal levels, helping to treat your disease. But, in doing so, ENBREL can also lower the ability of your immune system to fight infections.
Enbrel is indicated for reducing signs and symptoms, inducing major clinical response, inhibiting the progression of structural damage, and improving physical function in patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis.
ENBREL can be initiated in combination with methotrexate (MTX) or used alone.
What is Adalimumab?
Adalimumab reduces the effects of a substance in the body called tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). TNF-alpha is involved in inflammatory processes in the body. Adalimumab is used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. However, it may also be used for purposes other than those listed here. Adalimumab is administered as a subcutaneous (under the skin) injection. Do not inject this medication intramuscularly (into a muscle) or intravenously (into a vein).
Abatacept is an investigational biologic drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and its development program was granted Fast Track status by the FDA. Abatacept is Bristol-Myers Squibb's first internally discovered biologic and, if approved, would be the first in a new class of agents called selective T-cell co-stimulation modulators.
Talk To Your Rheumatologist
Rheumatologists have experience in a wide range of therapies for RA. If you are diagnosed with RA, your rheumatologist can work with you to determine the best drug or combination of drugs for you. Rheumatologists are highly-trained specialists who want to support you and your management of RA, so be sure to talk to them whenever you have a question or a concern about your medication.
New investigation of therapies will change practice patterns in the near future.
Do I have Arthritis?
What Is Arthritis?
Many people start to feel pain and stiffness in their bodies over time. Sometimes their hands or knees or hips get sore and are hard to move. These people may have arthritis (ar-THRY-tis).
Arthritis is an illness that can cause pain and swelling in your joints. Over time, the joint can become severely damaged. Joints are places where two bones meet, such as your elbow or knee. Some kinds of arthritis can cause problems in other organs, such as your eyes, or in your chest. It can affect your skin, too.
These problems may be caused by inflammation (in-flah-MAY-shun), a swelling that can include pain or redness. They are telling you that something is wrong.
Some people may worry that arthritis means they won't be able to work or take care of their children and their family. Others think that you just have to accept things like arthritis.
It's true that arthritis can be painful. But there are things you can do to feel better. This booklet tells you some facts about arthritis and gives you some ideas about what to do, so you can keep doing the things you want to do.
There are several kinds of arthritis. The two most common ones are rheumatoid (ROO-mah-toyd) arthritis and osteoarthritis (AH-stee-oh-ar-THRY-tis).
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. This is the form that usually comes with age and most often affects the fingers, knees, and hips. Sometimes osteoarthritis follows an injury to a joint. For example, a young person might hurt his knee badly playing soccer. Then, years after the knee has apparently healed, he might get arthritis in his knee joint. | <urn:uuid:cb98f246-93c0-40b1-80eb-413a799b88b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arthritiscare.com/Rheumatoid-Arthritis-Los-Angeles.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941765 | 2,429 | 3.03125 | 3 |
On February 20, 1828, 105 individuals subscribed to the Lebanon Seminary Fund. These
true founders of McKendree College, whose names are recoded in the McKendree College
Centennial History, are the models for the William McKendree Society. Each was a philanthropic
leader, a patron of independent higher education, and a supporter of the college mission.
Today, the generosity of Society members continues to make a difference in the life of the University and helps perpetuate the vision of the original subscribers by seeking to provide for today's students and future generations. | <urn:uuid:7b9b2f85-6d40-4a51-ab5c-e0e0e1a2f0d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mckendree.edu/giving/fund/recognition/wms/history.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924599 | 117 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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Lecture 9, The Resurrection of God:
It’s been two thousand years since Jesus was crucified and buried. Since then, and especially in the last few centuries, there have been many theories as to what actually happened on the third day. Did Jesus actually resurrect from the dead bodily? Did the disciples actually see Jesus come back from the dead or is there another acceptable interpretation of Scripture we should believe? Continuing this series on The Life of Jesus, Dr. Sproul reminds us again how we can have full confidence in the historical and physical resurrection of Christ. | <urn:uuid:48506d16-b3f7-43ac-ab38-6715f3e95510> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ligonier.org/learn/series/life_of_jesus/the-resurrection-of-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964807 | 117 | 2.5 | 2 |
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UPDATE: The final tallies are in and our hometown team placed sixth overall and tied for the lead in two categories: Energy Balance and Hot Water efficiency. Congratulations to all who participated in this competition - you make us proud!
The Solar Decathlon is a tremendously cool event that allows collegiate teams from around the world to show just what innovative, energy-efficient design looks like - and boy can these kids think outside the box!
Here in Pasadena we admit to being a bit partial to our hometown heroes over at Caltech (as in, the California Institute of Technology, in case you didn’t know). Teaming up with architecture students from SCI-Arc (as in the Southern California Institute of Architecture, in case you didn’t know), the combined team’s entry - called CHIP, for Compact, Hyper-Insulated Prototype - features insulation on the outside of the building and some other very clever design features, including - of course - solar panels.
Check out this video “walkthrough":
The Decathlon starts September 23 and runs through October 2 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. We can only hope that the folks who work in Washington and have a hand in setting national energy policy will take the time to become educated about the possibilities created by innovative thinking regarding our long-term energy needs.
We will be following the status of the SCI-Arc/Caltech team and will post updates as they become available. Go team, GO!
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The horrific murder of 20 small children and six adults at an elementary school in the quiet suburb of Newtown, Conn., was a jolting reminder of just how vulnerable our schools remain. Practically overnight, parents around the country demanded that schools significantly improve their security, and administrators began the process of deciding what changes needed to be made, how quickly they could be implemented and how to pay for them. In many ways, the Sandy Hook massacre was the 9/11 of the American school system. It was the unfortunate wakeup call that was needed to show that too many of our schools are wholly unprepared to deal with most types of major emergencies.
Yet Sandy Hook Elementary School itself did have a relatively robust plan in place for dealing with active shooters and other emergencies. It was a plan that not only saved a lot of lives on that horrific December 14 morning, but was also significantly more advanced and drilled than what exists at most Jewish schools. At Sandy Hook, new security protocols had recently been implemented. Contrary to initial reports, all doors were locked when the shooter, Adam Lanza, arrived at the school.
Lockdowns had been rehearsed, and teachers and staff quickly jumped into action to protect their students, several at the cost of their own lives.
For Jewish schools, the risks of attack are in many ways higher than at non-Jewish institutions, and therefore the importance of operational training is even more relevant. All schools run the risk of an attack by a mentally disturbed person, disgruntled employee or angry student. Yet Jewish schools also run the risk of attack by those who specifically want to target Jews because they are Jews. This should not be construed as an alarmist comment or overreaction, but rather a reality. The government of the United States has for years recognized that the Jewish community is at an increased risk. It is the reason that in 2010 — the last time data was released — 94% of all Department of Homeland Security grants for houses of worship and schools went to Jewish institutions.
Through good policing, intelligence and, in some cases, just sheer luck, most plots to attack American Jewish institutions — including schools — have been unsuccessful. Attacks that have succeeded — such as the August 1999 shooting attack on the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center, which injured children and a camp counselor —did little to raise the Jewish community out of its complacent slumber.
Security training for our schools can truly be a game changer for three main reasons. The first is that nearly every crime committed, be it a terrorist attack or a home burglary, involves some sort of surveillance of the target. To identify and contact law enforcement about a potential attacker operating during this pre-attack phase can literally help avert a disaster. Second, nearly every major active shooter incident over the past 10 years involved the attacker acting visibly suspicious, especially in terms of the clothing worn: camouflage, military vest, all black, hockey masks and shirts with hateful messages.
Basic behavioral detection and situational awareness trainings could have helped identify these suspicious individuals prior to an attack taking place. Finally, nobody knows the community as well as the community itself. We are blessed with incredible support and professionalism from law enforcement, but only with vigilance and assistance from the community can the police department most effectively do its job. Just saying “If you see something, say something” is nice; knowing what to see and how to say that something takes things to another level.
To date, major Jewish organizations are yet to embrace the idea of this sort of intensive security training, and are providing no financial backing to support such a program. Likewise, too many schools are now jumping to buy security hardware and to implement guards without understanding that they, too, must play an active role in protecting their children. Until they do, the Jewish community’s security response will remain incomplete.
The New York City Police Department released a report recently that indicated evidence of an increase in attacks by active shooters in the United States since 2000.
With each successful new incident, the likelihood of additional, deadlier attacks increases, as well. Many of the attackers are familiar with the massacres of the past: They learn from them, seek to emulate and outdo them; they seek infamy and historical relevance. The security of our children’s schools is of critical importance.
The Jewish community must do more to help promote effective security procedures. And that means more security training, for starters.
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In 1706, Thomas Twining first set up shop on London's Strand. In the age of coffee shops, he was the man who loved tea and was dedicated to discovering the world's finest. We created our special 1706 tea for tea-lovers like Thomas.
Bright, strong and full of flavour, it's a blend of only the highest-quality teas from Africa, India and Ceylon.
£6.59 for 80 teabags
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"We created our special 1706 tea for tea-lovers"
We believe that how you make your tea is equally as important as the tea you use, so here are our tips:
- Use freshly drawn cold water
- Use water at a “rolling boil” (100?C)
- Use 1 teabag per cup or 1 teabag per person in a teapot
- Steep for 3 to 5 minutes (or to your taste)
- Best with a splash of milk
… and for freshness every time, keep your tea somewhere cool, dark, dry and airtight!
"oxidation gives black tea its colour and richness"
Black tea, just like green tea, comes from the Camellia Sinensis plant.
- After plucking, the leaves are laid on drying trays & withered to remove some moisture and make more pliable
- The leaves are then rolled and may be cut
- "Broken" leaves are laid out & a heady mixture of warm air, aromatic juices, bacteria & enzymes leads to oxidation (a natural reaction that affects strength & colour)
- Oxidation is stopped by firing (with hot air) when the leaves are the right (brown) colour depending on the region
- The leaves turn black as they dry
... and finally, are sorted or graded by size
Black tea is a natural source of antioxidants that may help protect the body from damage caused by free radicals
All natural ingredients:
- Black tea from several origins
1706 is one of my favorite teas. Since they no longer offer it for sale in the US. I came to the best place.. Twinings UK. I think Twinings has the best teas. 1706 is by far one of the best!!
This is the best tea in the world! Unfortunately, the U.S. branch of Twinings doesn't sell it, so I have to import it from England. It's so good, that I'm willing to do that--but it would be better if U.S. Twinings would sell it too. I can't live without it!
Cant live without this tea!
I noticed this while getting some new Twinings Assam, thought I would give it a go, it's a nice strong blend with a biscuit character, 5 star Tea at it's best.
I loves this tea, I have always been a fan of twinings teas but this is now my everyday tea
A splendid and well balanced blend. It has a magic touch (some would call it 'caffeine') that keeps you well through a hard working day.
A superbly strong golden tea, great for kick starting any morning. Lovely!
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Strabismus is the term used to describe misaligned eyes. There are many types of strabismus. If the eyes are crossed, it is called esotropia. If the eyes turn outward, it is called exotropia. In some cases, one eye can turn higher than the other. The higher eye is diagnosed with hypertropia, while the lower eye is diagnosed with hypotropia. The condition may be intermittent, constant, or it can alternate between the eyes. Cases of strabismus can vary from mild to severe based on the amount of deviation between the eyes.
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Changes to Recreational fishing rules
Please note that some recent amendments to recreational fishing rules have not yet been included in this section, please
for more information.
See Also - Recreational Fishing Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 42KB)
Pukerua Bay Closure
The taking of shellfish, aquatic life, seaweed and the taking of fish except by hand-held lines is...More...
[1 July 2010]Amateur rock lobster holding pot requirements in the Fiordland Marine Area
In September 2009, the Minister of Fisheries approved the separate possession and use of rock...More...
[16 October 2009]Rock Lobster - Hand Operated Lassoes
Recreational fishers can use a hand-operated lasso to harvest rock lobster in all New Zealand...More...
[30 September 2009]Commercial and Recreational Potting for Species other than Rock Lobster
Regulations introduced on 1 June 2009 included changes to the use of pots for recreational and...More...
[11 September 2009]Clarifying changes within the Coromandel Scallop fishery
The Ministry of Fisheries would like to clear up any confusion around the increase in the number of...More...
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Education, politics, and anything else that catches my attention.
Some of us grow out of the idea that we know more than previous generations. Others, I'm sure you know, do not.
We know different stuff.
Probably some shmuck got a hold of one of those charts that shows the doubling of human knowledge every X years which means quite clearly that a highly-educated person of one hundred years ago knew practically nothing since so little was known.Now the sum of human knowledge is so great that even a complete ignoramus must possesses simply fabulous amounts of knowledge.
Agreed. We do know different stuff. But I wonder if anything were to happen, human created or otherwise, how many of us could take said "stuff" (myself included)and be able to, as I have heard it stated, "live off the grid". How much of our knowledge is truly practical. P.S. - Thanks for stopping by and for pointing out the error (as I hang my head in shame) in my Thanksgiving post. (please don't tell my students :) )
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This circuit is built using an OR logic gate, which as the name implies is true (on) if either input A or input B is true. The OR is one of seven common types of logic gates, the others being AND, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR, and NOT (or as most call it, an Inverter). If you build Game Show Buttons or any other Weekend Projects, be sure to send us an email with pictures and a story about your build.
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Tithing is generally understood as giving back for God's work ten percent of one's income? But what counts as income? Net income? Gross income? Do you count employee deduction to the United Way as part of one's tithe or separate? Our first impulse is write rules defining what income is.
That's what the IRS does.
But not the Mormons. It turns out their definition of income is left pretty much up to the individual believer. The driving question for them, though, is not "what is income?" Instead, it's "am I cheating God?"
Many religious traditions stress the importance of charity. But Mormons are remarkable for the amount and the precision with which they give to their church.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that each Mormon in good standing should tithe 10 percent of his or her income. The money goes right to church headquarters in Salt Lake City and then is distributed back to congregations around the world.
"That's written in stone, and preached from the pulpit," says Gordon Dahl, an economist at the University of California, San Diego, who is Mormon.
But while the church is very precise about that figure — 10 percent of income — it does not tell its members what income means.
"Which is really interesting to us economists, because we want to know how people define income," says Dahl.
As anyone who has ever done their taxes knows, figuring out what counts as income is harder than it sounds.
As we enter tax season and either open up the software or talk to our preparers or slog through the instruction books, we find that the IRS has hundreds of pages of rules defining income.
But what does God think? If we think God is watching, how do we think about our money? Dahl thinks that the IRS could actually learn from how Mormons make these decisions.
Studies have shown that people are more willing to pay taxes if they think taxes are fair. People who think someone else is getting special treatment are more likely to cheat.
Dahl theorized that if you know how people naturally think of income, you can craft the tax laws to better match people's motivations.
But first he had to get Mormons to tell their stories.
Tithing is a very personal act, and Dahl says people were unwilling to talk about how much money they sent in. So Dahl and his colleague Michael Ransom surveyed 1,200 Mormons and presented them with hypothetical questions about giving.
"Suppose your parents gave you $500 for Christmas," he told them. "Would you pay tithing on that money?"
That was a resounding yes among Mormons. Gifts of cash are definitely considered income.
What about a gift of a sofa worth $500? Not so much. Few Mormons said they would tithe on that.
What if you got a cash gift from someone you knew had already paid tithes on the money? The majority of Mormons in the study said they were happy to tithe on it again.
The concept of double tithing doesn't seem to upset Mormons the same way double taxation does. In fact, Dahl found that Mormons were willing to tithe on money that came out of a retirement account — even if they had already tithed 10 percent of it before they invested....
Dahl says he found that Mormons, in general, tended to adopt the more simple and generous definitions of income....
"...They're worried about being petty with God," Dahl says.
I asked a Mormon bishop in Salt Lake City if a few more rules defining income might make tithing easier on Mormons or bring in more money for the church. He said all this soul-searching about what you owe God is kind of the point.
Of course, this only works if the individual believer is actually free to act on her or his ethical deliberations.
From the Rev. Lee Shaw of Utah (former LDS)
I read through the ... article. I find it generally true. Tithing is a BIG thing in the LDS church. It is a place where guilt can be played and blessings can be withheld. If you are not a tithing member you cannot go to the temple, church offices, especially for men, are denied you, and it is preached on a regular basis. Mormons grow up expecting to tithe. It is part of the church culture, as is the guilt. In December you go to "tithing settlement" with your bishop. He asks you if you paid a full tithe. I know there are stories of asking to see tax returns, I never experienced [being asked for my tax return] and feel [that] is folk lore. But you are expected to give a full financial accounting to your bishop so that your temple recommend will be renewed.
There is always the debate between "net" and "gross" on what to tithe. Mormons differ on that very much. I always did it on the "net." figuring I didn't see the "gross" earnings anyway.
Mormons are diligent about getting money from members. There is also the building fund and maintenance fund that many ask for. The first Sunday of every month is "Fast Sunday" where you fast for two meals and give the cost of those meals to the church for their welfare program. On that day, at least in my time not sure about now, you had "deacons" (boys 12-14) going door to door to members to collect their "fast offerings." That Sunday is also "Fast and Testimony Sunday" with no speakers, just an open mic for folks to stand and "bear their testimony" about the church, i.e. giving witness in Protestant language. Let me tell you some of those meetings get really, really bizarre as some folks go off on all kinds of tangents about their faith and life.
Which returns us to the study: people feel good about taxation if it feels fair. It also bring us back to the point of the tithe which is not so much the 10% but the conversation with God in the context of our money and our communities. | <urn:uuid:2988244d-16db-4da8-8446-d2bcf58cd436> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/economics/what_if_we_used_our_money_as_i.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981603 | 1,241 | 2.375 | 2 |
Evaluate compressed air system demands to find savings
Understanding the system’s needs can optimize airflow, energy consumption, and reliability.
Air compressors significantly increase the productivity of your processing plant, but they also account for about 10% of your electrical power consumption. It’s important to formulate a compressed air strategy to ensure you are maximizing energy savings. Evaluating your usage patterns, air quality guidelines, and maintenance needs is the key to keeping your compressed air system running cost effectively.
Determine airflow demand
The best way to evaluate the efficiency of your compressed air system is to assess how the air is being used in your plant from the demand to supply side. Start by identifying the components in your system that consume air, for example, assembly tools and material handling products, and their airflow requirements in cubic feet per minute (cfm). It is important to take into account which compressed air consumers are running and for how long. Many applications may require compressed air to be available all the time but cycle only for a few seconds every couple of minutes.
Reduce air supply during off-peak hours
After you take inventory of your system’s cfm requirements and frequency of use, quantify the duration of peak demand volume relative to your average consumption. Understanding the relationship between the increments of supply—that is, compressors available—and demand will help you determine if you can apply storage to your system and turn the air compressor off. Scheduling your air assets according to system demands will ensure that you have adequate airflow while minimizing your costs.
A large production facility may opt to operate multiple compressors in lieu of one larger system. This allows the plant to meet heavy demand during the first shift and shut down some of the smaller compressors during the second shift—when usage drops—to reduce energy consumption.
Variable speed drive air compressors can also help optimize efficiency and reduce the total cost of system ownership. Conventional compressors lose efficiency when they operate below 100% capacity. However, a properly sized and applied VSD compressor will maintain peak performance while supporting a broad range of flow, regardless of demand.
Consider air quality guidelines
It is common for plants to waste a significant amount of energy trying to support an excessive air quality target. Start by defining the air quality needs for each area of your system. Then, determine if there are air quality requirements dictated by external influences in the industry or market.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture mandate that compressed air systems used in food and beverage applications have less than 0.01 mg/m3 oil, particulate, or vapor content. You will need a Class 0 certified oil-free air compressor to meet these guidelines. However, the contaminant tolerance is less stringent for general industrial processes and may allow you to use a Class 1 or 2 compressed air system.
Selecting the right kind of compressed air dryer is critical to cost effectively maintaining the air quality required for your process. There are several types of dryer technologies available, including desiccant, refrigerated, and heat of compression (HOC) systems. Heatless, externally heated, and heated-blower purge desiccant dryers can maintain a dew point of -40 to -100 F, virtually eliminating water from the air system. Refrigerated dryers can sustain a dew point as low as 39 F, which is adequate for general industrial applications but would not be suitable for food and beverage production.
In most circumstances, an HOC dryer used in conjunction with an oil-free air compressor provides optimal air quality and dew point management for critical applications. HOC dryers use the heat of the compressor to regenerate the desiccant and remove water from the system, providing oil-free air at a fraction of the cost of traditional desiccant dryers.
Establish a maintenance schedule
Routine maintenance is essential to keeping your compressed air system running efficiently. Maintenance schedules will vary by application and the equipment used in your system, but you should define formal expectations and assign accountability for daily, weekly, and monthly inspections. Your comprehensive maintenance schedule should include a complete system assessment, equipment service, and parts replacements, according to the manufacturer’s recommendations.
It is also important to evaluate the pressure dew point—the amount of water vapor in the air—to protect the quality of the compressed air and the end product. This is a major concern for chemical, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and paint applications where condensate can lead to spoilage, costly clean-ups, and product recalls. Water vapor can also corrode the piping, causing premature system failure and unscheduled downtime.
Conduct a compressed air leak assessment
Most facilities rely on maintenance crews to repair leaks that are loud enough to be heard and identified. This can be challenging when normal operating noises drown out the hissing sound. Some maintenance workers walk the facility during plant-wide shutdowns to check for leaks, but this can be misleading. Many compressed air consumers are isolated from the system when they are turned off.
Your routine maintenance schedule should include a compressed air leak assessment conducted by a professionally trained team. They can use ultrasonic technology to identify and quantify even very small leaks in loud environments.
The majority of compressed air systems leak up to 30%, which can run up large energy bills. A leak assessment can help you identify the cause, location, and size of the leak, and determine the best course of action to correct it. The solution may be as simple as tightening your pipe fittings, but these system improvements can add up to significant energy savings over time.
“We have done significant research on how customers address system leaks, and we discovered that companies that try to deal with leaks on their own typically have the largest amount of problems,” said Jennifer Eckert, marketing manager, Americas service solutions at Ingersoll Rand. “This makes sense when you consider that most maintenance crews are in high demand and short on time. They have to prioritize issues related to the production process and unique system equipment, and mitigating leaks falls lower on the to-do list.”
Another challenge lies in the complexity of the ultrasonic leak detection equipment. Professional audit teams have years of experience and a refined inspection process that help increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the tool. Knowing how to use the ultrasonic device is only half the battle. It is difficult to inspect the entire system if you need to stop and fix each leak along the way. Consequently, the air leak assessment becomes an exercise in finding leaks, recording their location, and fixing them at a later date. It is important to quantify the volume of the leaks and compare that data to industrial class references. Otherwise, you may not repair enough leaks to significantly improve the efficiency of your system.
Finally, companies that try to manage compressed air system leaks on their own struggle with trending and root cause analysis.
“Maintenance workers correct the leaks, but treat it like an event without reporting the issue or analyzing the cause,” Eckert said. “It is critical that companies inventory their system leaks based on type, location, and volume. This process should be repeated at least once a year to identify reoccurring issues and ensure leaks are repaired once, the right way.”
Optimize air supply to increase energy savings
Most companies understand why it is important to increase sustainability, but they underestimate the effect their compressed air system has on their energy consumption. Now is the time to assess your plant’s compressed air system and formulate a strategy to increase its efficiency.
Start by evaluating your CFM requirements, usage patterns, and air quality guidelines to ensure key system components are sized properly and suited for your application. Then, consider adding automated controls to maintain constant pressure and increase reliability. If you can optimize the supply side of your system, you will increase energy savings, shrink your environmental footprint, and extend the life of your compressed air system.
Vipul Mistry is product portfolio manager for Ingersoll Rand.
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A Theologico-Political Treatise, by Benedict de Spinoza, , at sacred-texts.com
Endnote 24. (1) "Now I think." (2) The translators render the [Greek] word "I infer", and assert that Paul uses it as synonymous with [a Greek word]. (3) But the former word has, in Greek, the same meaning as the Hebrew word rendered to think, to esteem, to judge. (4) And this signification would be in entire agreement with the Syriac translation. (5) This Syriac translation (if it be a translation, which is very doubtful, for we know neither the time of its appearance, nor the translators and Syriac was the vernacular of the Apostles) renders the text before us in a way well explained by Tremellius as "we think, therefore."
Endnote 25. (1) "That simple obedience is the path of salvation." (2) In other words, it is enough for salvation or blessedness, that we should embrace the Divine decrees as laws or commands; there is no need to conceive them as eternal truths. (3) This can be taught us by Revelation, not Reason, as appears from the demonstrations given in Chapter IV. | <urn:uuid:13afd41f-e3b4-4e20-a7c3-f89515ca615b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sacred-texts.com/phi/spinoza/treat/tpt22.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944538 | 262 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The World More Full of Weeping
by Robert J. Wiersema
Cover Artist: Erik Mohr
Review by Ernest Lilley
Chizine Publications Paperback ISBN/ITEM#: 9780980941098
Date: September 2009 List Price $12.95 Amazon US / Amazon UK
Links: Books webpage / Show Official Info /
The World More Full of Weeping is an elegant piece of prose that fans of the author's first novel, Before I Wake, will want to enjoy. It's the outside of a story we've seen the inside of often before, the child who goes into the forest to discover an enchanted world within. But this story takes place on the edge of that forest, as his father reaches out and within to make sense of what's happening, remembering when he was young and something wonderful in the woods reached out to him.
There's also an essay included, "Places and Names", in which the author confronts a truth about his own writing that he only learned from his readers, that the sense of place in his works, especially in his first novel, Before I Wake is as important as his plot or character. Authors, he discovers, are often the last to know what went into their works. | <urn:uuid:0235a05d-bc01-42e7-a361-73111dbf1747> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=9621&ShowCoverText=No | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979291 | 256 | 1.5625 | 2 |
As part of a prospective case-control study of osteogenic sarcoma (OS) initiated in 1995 between the NCI and the Harvard Dental School (the Bone Disease and Injury Study of Osteosarcoma [BDISO]), investigators in the Clinical Genetics Branch have studied genetic variation in many genes potentially important in growth pathways. They identified a small haplotype block that was associated with two-fold increase in risk of OS in the IGF2R gene. This region (around exon 16) consisted of CpG islands, and functional analysis of the SNPs in this block suggested that a SNP associated with OS risk results in differential methylation at that SNP site.
Although most cases of OS are sporadic, it is also a prototypic syndrome-related malignancy in the Li-Fraumeni syndrome; germline TP53 mutations are the primary genetic basis for this rare disorder. Therefore, we investigated the role of germline genetic variation in TP53 as risk factors for sporadic OS. Although our data did not indicate a strong link between variation in TP53 and OS risk, they did provide preliminary evidence suggesting an increased risk of OS associated with TP53 variants IVS2+38 and Pro72Arg. While this was a small study, genetic variation across the TP53 gene was thoroughly investigated. Genetic variants in telomere maintenance genes are the focus of ongoing analysis. Preliminary data suggest a possible protective effect associated with specific variants in several different telomere pathway genes.
A formal meta-analysis of this plus other published osteogenic sarcoma case-control studies is now underway, under the leadership of CGB investigators. It will focus on a pooled analysis of birth weight, birth length and height as OS risk factors.
As a follow-up to these pilot observations, subjects from the BDISO OS case-control study were genotyped as part of DCEG's Rare Cancer iSelect project. Comprehensive analysis of more than 25,000 variants in several hundred carcinogenesis-related candidate genes and pathways is being conducted. Increased statistical power will be achieved through pooling of control subjects obtained from other DCEG studies, after careful correction for population stratification. Analysis of these data is currently underway.
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When I was in college, looking to become a technical writer, there was a joke making the rounds: "What's the difference between a pizza and a writer? A pizza feeds a family of four." On the bright side, if you're an aging writer in Argentina, you now at least have your pension guaranteed.
The city of Buenos Aires now gives pensions to published writers in a program that attempts to strengthen the "vertebral column of society," as drafters of the law described their goal. Since its enactment recently, more than 80 writers have been awarded pensions, which can reach almost $900 a month, supplementing often meager retirement income.
"The program is magnificent, delivering some dignity to those of us who have toiled our entire life for literature," said Alberto Laiseca, 71, one of the recipients, who has written more than a dozen books of horror fiction, including "The Garden of Talking Machines" and "The Adventures of Professor Eusebio Filigranati."
The pensions reflect how Argentina has sought to bolster what is already one of the strongest literary traditions in the Spanish-speaking world; Borges, the acclaimed short-story writer and poet, easily comes to mind, but Argentina also boasts classics like "Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism," a 19th century cornerstone of Latin American literature by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, who went on to become Argentina's president.
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Foreign airlines put Wi-Fi in the sky
By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY
Wi-Fi comes to the sky next week as German carrier Lufthansa launches its in-flight broadband service.
Wi-Fi, or high-speed wireless Internet access, is expected to spread quickly among international carriers outside the USA, but domestic travelers will have a long wait.
Lufthansa plans to unveil Wi-Fi on May 17 on non-stop flights between Munich and Los Angeles. It becomes the first commercial user of a Boeing broadband system that's been four years in the making.
The satellite-based system will be installed on the airline's entire 74-plane wide-body fleet over the next year. Passengers with Wi-Fi-enabled laptops will be able to buy access with credit cards. Cost to passengers:$30 for the full flight, or$10 for 30 minutes.
"It's going to allow (fliers) another choice about how they spend all those hours on an airplane," says Scott Carson of Connexion by Boeing, the developer.
Lufthansa executive Thomas Winkelmann says the system offers full Internet access, including e-mail, and has none of the limitations of existing in-flight messaging systems.
United, Continental and US Airways offer e-mail or instant messaging through the onboard Verizon Airfone seatback telephone. E-mail cost: $16 a flight.
Some passengers are enthusiastic. "I would absolutely pay $30 to stay connected. What globe-trotting executive wouldn't?" says Duran Johnson, a telecom executive in Minneapolis.
Keith Dunne, a business owner from Orlando, says he used the Lufthansa system twice during its test period and declares it "worth the money."
Boeing plans to install the system on 300 planes by 2006. Singapore Airlines hopes to have its first plane equipped this year, to be followed by its entire long-range fleet. Says Singapore spokesman James Boyd: "Business travelers need access to e-mail and the Web, whether they are on the ground or at 39,000 feet."
Other buyers include Japan, SAS, ANA and China airlines.
No U.S. airline has ordered Boeing's system. The three largest — American, United and Delta — formed a coalition to help develop it, then bailed out amid cost cutting following the Sept. 11 attacks. All say they're interested, though finances remain a problem. Collectively, the big airlines reported $1.5 billion in losses for the January-March quarter and haven't had a profitable year since 2000.
Profitable discounter JetBlue, which pioneered live seatback television, has balked at Wi-Fi, too. Spokesman Todd Burke said JetBlue reviewed Wi-Fi, but has opted for 100-channel XM Satellite Radio as the next electronic upgrade in the cabin.
One reason to wait is to see whether Boeing competitor Tenzing comes up with a better, cheaper system. Seattle-based Tenzing is partly owned by Boeing rival Airbus.
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You own a forest the size of New Jersey, a glimmering rain forest full of glaciers, spectacular scenery, mountains, waterways, and thousands of islands separated by straits and channels. Over 400 species of terrestrial and marine wildlife, fish, and shellfish abound. Some species, such as the bald eagle and the brown bear, endangered in other parts of the United States, thrive in your forest.
The Tongass National Forest offers outstanding recreation opportunities, some very different from anything you'll experience in national forests in the lower 48 states.
You can camp in a campground - or in a cabin. You can hike through dense forest, alpine meadow, or on a wooden trail through marshland called muskeg. You can explore world-class caves. You can enjoy salt water fjords and unending waterways by canoe or kayak, your own motor or sail boat, charter boat, ferry, or cruise ship. You can watch bears, eagles, whales, and countless other critters in their natural settings. You can visit glaciers by land or sea. And of course, you can fish - fresh or salt water, everything from herring to trout to salmon to halibut. For a real Alaskan experience, visit the Tongass. | <urn:uuid:d3a4135c-3657-4712-a98a-f59062f1112f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alaskaone.com/tongass-national-forest/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920637 | 258 | 2.625 | 3 |
A division of the Roland Corporation, BOSS is probably best known for their range of rugged guitar and bass effects processors, including compact and twin effects pedals, multi-effects pedals, pedal boards and electronic guitar tuners. They also make outstanding multi-track digital recorders for studio use, rhythm machines, loop stations, digital studios, and digital metronomes.
The company’s first models appeared in 1976: the B-100 was a clip-on preamp and pickup for acoustic guitar and the CE-1 Chorus Ensemble was their first effects pedal—one that’s still revered today among guitar players. More compact pedals started rolling out in 1977 with the OD-1 Overdrive, PH-1 Phaser, and the Spectrum SP-1 (a parametric equalizer). In 1978, the company launched the BOSS DS-1 Distortion Pedal, and the TW-1 T Wah. The first compact chorus pedal came out in 1979 as the CE-2. A flanger effect, the BF-2, came on the scene in 1980. The company scored the first mass-produced digital delay pedal with the DD-2 in 1983. Over the next five years, BOSS introduced nine more pedals, and later the famous Metal Zone MT-2 (in 1991). Since the Heavy Metal HM-2 Distortion Pedal became available, it has been an integral part of heavy metal music.
BOSS keeps it simple by keeping the same footprint for all their compact effect pedals, enabling you to easily organize your pedal board. With robust construction and distinctive color-coded cases, you know your guitar effects are rugged and reliable enough to withstand heavy road use and are easy to see and use on stage.
BOSS is famous for their COSM technology, first introduced in 2006 with the AC-3 Acoustic Simulator pedal. Composite Object Sound Modeling gives musicians a more realistic-sounding way to emulate an amp's performance. COSM technology is present today in countless popular models, from the FBM-1 '59 Bassman Pedal to the FDR-1 '65 Fender Deluxe Reverb Pedal. BOSS pedals are also known for their "buffered bypass," which uses Field Effect Transistors to eliminate annoying pops or clicks without degrading your signal. The FET bypass lets you put together more complex signal chains and use longer cable runs without a loss of sound fidelity.
If you like bundling your guitar or bass effects in a floor unit, then check out multi-effects processors. BOSS’ full line of processors—from the GT-10 and ME-50 for guitar, to the ME-50B and ME-20B for electric bass, to the AD-8 for acoustic guitar—all feature COSM digital signal processing. In addition, the EZTone Wizard's easy-to-use graphic icons let you shape your sound just the way you want it. BOSS powerful rhythm machines, like the DR-880, DR-670 or the DR-3 Dr. Rhythm, deliver amazing accuracy to your rhythm tracks. You can also make use of digital recorders like the Micro BR, an eight-track recorder like the BR-600, or one of the portable studios like the 16-track BR-1600CD. | <urn:uuid:4f426425-f4c8-4d84-b684-34d0a5d4f29a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guitarcenter.com/Boss,Featured-OnSale.gc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931837 | 671 | 1.71875 | 2 |
By >Akihabara News Team
LG pledges to switch to cleaner eco-magnesium in all mobile devices
LG mobile phones will become a little more eco-friendly by 2012, the deadline that the company has set for itself to replace conventional magnesium with a new type of clean magnesium alloy. The quality of the phones will not be affected; however greenhouse gas emissions during the manufacturing process will be reduced by a factor 24,000. That’s a significant amount. While the company sees it as a way to save carbon credits, I hope that actual concern for the environment can rein and the new material will be shared (sold) to other manufacturers. | <urn:uuid:276a2545-6f75-48d7-847b-15a484150c41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.akihabaranews.com/74968/environment/lg-pledges-to-switch-to-cleaner-eco-magnesium-in-all-mobile-devices | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925657 | 133 | 1.726563 | 2 |
On this day in ...
... 1828, Russia declared war on Turkey, asserting that the latter had breached the 2-year-old Treaty of Akerman. Eventually Turkey's sultan would yield to Russia's tsar. The ensuing 1829 Treaty of Adrianople resulted in entrenching Russia's hold on Caucasus and Danube territories.
... 1248, the Gothic structure in Paris known as La Sainte-Chappelle was consecretated. It was built as the royal chapel for the "ultra-devout" King Louis IX, and its stories-tall stained-glass windows (above) are, even today, a sight to behold.
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Why a Greek Default Would be Worse Than Lehman Brothers' Collapse
Senior Editor, CNBC.com
If Greece defaults on its debt, the direct secondary effects on financial institutions could be much worse than what we saw after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers sent shockwaves through the global financial system—in part because it revealed that the United States government was willing to let a large, interconnected, complex financial company go bankrupt. Panic erupted, threatening the financial stability of other companies.
But the actual direct effects were few. Lehman had some 600,000 derivatives contracts and hundreds of billions in outstanding bonds, but Lehman’s institutional creditors were generally required to reserve some capital against Lehman’s collapse. This greatly diminished the direct knock-on effects of Lehman’s bankruptcy. Capital cushions actually cushioned.
There is roughly 270 billion Euros in outstanding Greek sovereign debt. Banks—mostly European banks—hold around 100 billion Euros of Greek bonds. Insurance companies, pensions funds and central banks hold most of the other 170 billion. For the most part, these holders of Greek debt have not had to reserve any capital against losses. This means that most of the holders of Greek debt will feel the full brunt of the losses, which raises the question of whether they are adequately capitalized to take the loss.
European bank capital regulations treat Eurozone sovereign debt as riskless. This was, in effect, a subsidy to the riskier Eurozone governments—allowing them to borrow at far lower costs than they other would have faced. The spread between German and Greek debt fell to 20 basis points in 2004, thanks largely to this subsidy.
Banks, of course, loaded up on the riskier debt because it had slightly higher yields. They, in effect, adopted the view of regulators that the debt was risk free. It allowed them to earn higher yields without setting aside additional capital by lending money to borrowers whom the regulations disfavored.
This subsidy was extremely important to European governments. In the US, only 3 percent of government debt is held by banks. In Europe, 30 percent of government debt is held by banks. Without the subsidy, many Eurozone government would have had a much harder time selling their bonds.
(Incidentally, a similar regulatory delusion about risk applied to mortgages. Banks that held highly rated mortgage-backed securities had to set aside just half the capital they did for most other highly rated loans. So, of course, bank balance sheets were far overexposed to mortgages).
This high concentration of sovereign debt in European banks raises the possibility that the banks may be severely undercapitalized—and may require a government recapitalization or face failure themselves. Even the European Central Bank, which now holds a huge amount of Greek debt, may need to be recapitalized.
It is difficult to tell which European banks have the most exposure to a possible Greek default. And this could be a recipe for panic if a default occurs. Banks will know their own exposures but not the exposures of their counterparties. Fearing the worst, many may simply refuse to extend credit to potentially insolvent institutions. A great credit crunch could further imperil Europe’s financial institutions and economies.
But make no mistake. This is not a crisis caused by speculators or greed or capitalism. It is a crisis of governments and regulations, i.e. governments that borrowed too much and regulators that encouraged banks to lend those governments too much.
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Today the Georgia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which is a joint effort by Attorney General Thurbert Baker, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the State Auditor, was awarded the 1999 Integrity Award by the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The award recognizes the Georgia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as the most outstanding of the 47 units around the nation for federal Fiscal Year 1998, which began on October 1, 1997 and ended on September 30, 1998.
The criteria HHS used to make the award were: (1) the amount of taxpayer funds the unit recovered, (2) the number of convictions it obtained, and (3) the efficiency with which it was operated. During federal Fiscal Year 1998, the unit obtained 36 criminal convictions for Medicaid fraud and recovered in excess of $3 million in taxpayer funds.
"We are proud to receive this award as recognition of our outstanding efforts to fight Medicaid fraud in Georgia," Baker said. "We will continue to aggressively pursue and vigorously prosecute those individuals who seek to defraud the taxpayers of Georgia by exploiting a program that is meant to help our most vulnerable citizens," he continued.
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Essay on Sportsmanship
March 22, 2006
Richelle Simonson, associate athletic director for ticketing and events services, said in a preseason football press conference that the university would be placing an emphasis on sportsmanship this season.
"I think we've always had it as a pillar of what we do, but sportsmanship is something we want to try to take to a new level here at Ohio State University," Simonson said. "We're relying on our fans."
"Things like vulgarity, people who may have too much to drink in the stadium or outside the stadium, taunting of the players, taunting of the coaches, throwing things at the visiting team band, all of those things are considered unsportsmanlike conduct."
People may say the university failed after reports stemmed from the actions of fans at the OSU-Texas game in September prompted university President Karen A. Holbrook to issue a public apology.
Fast forward one month to the Ohio State-Penn State football game in Happy Valley, and Buckeye fans, as well as band members, found themselves quite literally in the middle of poor sportsmanship crossfire.
"I saw a fan pushing their way into the ranks of the band, which is frightening," Dr. Jon Woods, director of the OSU Marching Band said in an interview with WBNS 10-TV.
What makes matters worse is that people come to expect poor sportsmanship when they travel. Jessica Burns is a junior at Penn State who plays in the Blue Band and said in an interview with The Collegian that their band should expect to be treated similarly by University of Michigan fans during their away game that weekend.
"Whenever we go to an away game, their fans hate us like our fans hated OSU," Burns said.
This makes it official: The Big Ten has a problem with sportsmanship and we know it. However, they have already taken the first step in attempting to make the problem less severe.
Earlier this year officials from each Big Ten school met with the Big Ten, administrators from the Mid-American Conference and their member schools as well as administrators from select Midwest state high school athletic associations. The discussions included the "decreasing values of sportsmanship at the high school and even the middle school levels" and what can be done to solve the problem.
John Mack, the associate director of championships for the Big Ten, said that the schools launched a joint sportsmanship initiative.
"We asked Big Ten schools to come up with 5 sportsmanship-related initiatives," he said. "Home institutions should be creating an environment to watch their team compete that's not threatening or intimidating."
Several Big Ten schools have already started programs geared at increasing fan sportsmanship. Wisconsin started the Welcome Wagon, a group of people that hand out informational flyers and try to make visiting fans feel welcome in their stadium. Iowa's Hawkeye Pride program has university officials going to classrooms to promote good sportsmanship.
The University of Michigan has partnered with the Michigan High School Athletic Association and created the "Values for the Victors" program over the summer. Maher Salah, director of student-athlete development at the university, said that their student-athlete advisory committee met and discussed what they thought were the pillars of good sportsmanship.
"The student-athlete advisory committee is like an undergraduate student government - one representative from each team meets and shares input," Salah said. "We're targeting high school students but we are also aiming it towards our own fans and sports."
Each high school was sent a letter (http://mgoblue.com/images/academics/sportsmanship/sportsmanship-letter.pdf) encouraging them to exhibit respect, responsibility, leadership and integrity, the four pillars the SAAC agreed upon.
"The message comes from our student athletes as they wrote the letter and have taken the initiative," Salah said. "You have to be realistic and get the message out to respect the other coaches, players and teams. You don't focus on the bad, instead focus on the good."
At Michigan sporting events, pictures of the posters portraying Michigan athletes promoting the program are displayed on the video board while announcements are made throughout the game.
While no formal partnership exists between the Ohio High School Athletic Association and Ohio State, the OHSAA has had its own sportsmanship initiative in place since the early 1990s.
Originally titled "Be a Sport", the new "Respect the Game" is the association's way of getting the message out to member schools.
"Our program involves respect for sportsmanship, teammates, officials and all involved in the game," said Duane Warns, assistant commissioner of the OHSAA. "We want to teach young people values, to make them better citizens. That's why sports were started in schools."
The OHSAA program has its own Web site that features video messages from Dr. Daniel B. Ross, commissioner of the OHSAA; Ohio State greats Archie Griffin, Clark Kellogg and Katie Smith and even sports officials. Materials are available that target all aspects of a sporting event from game management to the athletes to parents and fans.
Warns believes sportsmanship has decreased throughout the decades but progress has been made to better it in recent years.
"Anytime uncivil behavior is directed towards other people is unacceptable," he said. "I never heard profanity as a kid at Ohio State football games, now I hear four letter words in every direction."
The initiatives are not aimed at only the fans. Stiff penalties are in place for athletes or coaches who are ejected from a game.
"If a player or coach is ejected from a game, they are automatically suspended for the next two games," Warns said. This suspension includes any other teams that the offender participates on and can carry over from one season to the next.
However, schools and athletes can be honored for good sportsmanship.
The association annually gives out the Harold A. Meyer sportsmanship award to schools who exhibit good sportsmanship over the course of the school year. According to the OHSAA Web site, eligibility for the award includes having rules in place for dealing with problems, plans for dealing with heated rivalries, ongoing campaigns for good sportsmanship and annual evaluations of coaches, among others. Three schools across the whole state have received the award each year.
Warns is pleased with the program thus far and said that elements of it are promoted though announcements being given at games, posters hanging at schools, and talk with coaches and administrators.
The tricke-down effects have even reached youth sports. Julie Dubielak is the assistant director of the Catholic Youth Organization in Toledo, Ohio.
"We're hopefully not about winning or losing, we're about the child," she said. "We're just trying to teach kids about playing sports."
Dubielak said some of their leagues do not even feature league championships and others do not keep a final score. This helps place the emphasis back on the game.
Unfortunately, stiffer penalties have recently been put in place to deal with decreasing sportsmanship. For example, if a coach or player receives a singe technical foul for unsportsmanlike conduct in basketball, they are immediately ejected and receive a one game suspension. A second technical foul can result in suspension for the remainder of the season.
The sportsmanship landscape is very moldable right now. When high school athletes see events such as the Pistons-Pacers fight or a pregame brawl between two whole football teams they then think they can get away with it.
"Problems stem from the collegiate level and then the high schools have to deal with it," Warns said.
Steps are being taken better promote better sportsmanship at all levels. The Big Ten, the MAC and National Federation of State High School Associations should be proud of the initiatives they have started. They should also continue to build on the momentum they have created.
Warns effectively sums up what is at stake.
"It [sportsmanship] is very important," he said. "It is the foundation of interscholastic athletics and we need to preserve it for future generations." | <urn:uuid:3054af30-468d-4394-bab0-4488f57d1a21> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bigten.org/genrel/032206aab.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974486 | 1,677 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Late Friday afternoon, a friend emailed me the most interesting news story.
An Australian professor just created a mathematical formula to help you figure out what age you should start looking for someone to be serious with, and how long after dating, you should be engaged.
Though intriguing, I’m not completely convinced. The authors of the Reuters article aren’t either. They say that “the mathematical equation for love only has a 37 percent success rate.” But Professor Tony Dooley, math mastermind behind the formula, says, “the formula does seem to fit a lot of couples -- whether through accident or design.” If you’ve got your calculator handy, the math department of the University of New South Wales has posted the full formula and helpful tips for interested lovers.
Love, relationships and life have so many variables. Do you think something so unpredictable can be applied to an equation? Would you put any weight in the answers you got from this equation? And do you feel about math? Though it’s challenging for me, I find guys who can conquer it extremely sexy.
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It’s a universal challenge: getting out of the house in the morning on time — ideally with your children in tow, snacks packed, shoes tied, coats on, teeth brushed and hair combed. It was hard when we had one tiny tot. It was harder when we had two. Now that we have five, well, it’s not easy but, we’ve learned from our mistakes and, in the spirit of sharing, hopefully you can too!
- Wake up earlier. It’s painful but trust me, it works. We made two mistakes in this category. First, we often hit snooze until a baby cried and demanded our attention; at that point, it is too late. You’re already behind the 8-ball. An early rise is critical to the success of our morning mission. It allows us to literally be one step ahead of the little people — which is where you need to be if you’re going to drag them out the door on time. The second mistake we made was letting them sleep in; after years of being told “never wake a sleeping baby”, it seems counter-intuitive to do just that but, you must. They need time that transition time from the land of nod to the day ahead and the more time you allow them, the less hustling and bustling and screaming and yelling there will be. Trust me on this!
- Prep the night before. Make the lunches. Pack those snacks. Put out the clothes. Pack the backpacks. Sign the forms. Write the notes. Set the shoes by the door. Locate the gloves, hats and mittens. It’s not fun but it’s a lot less fun to tackle these tasks with whining tots and as tempers rise and the time ticks away in the morning. And, whatever you do, don’t forget to set the coffee maker! What the heck – you may even want to pick out an outfit and pack lunch for yourself!
- Let them “do it self!“ Kids love to help. So, put them to work! A toddler can find his shoes and put them by the door. A kindergartener can pop a snack into her backpack. And a third-grader can and should be responsible for neatly packing up his homework and picking out clothes for the next day. So, let them. It will ease the burden on you, make them feel great and teach an important lesson about responsibility along the way.
I suppose last but not least, allow room for error. You know what they say about the best-laid plans right? Well, the morning routine is no exception and sometimes you just need to roll with it. Sometimes you are going to be late. And that’s ok. That’s when it’s good to remember one of my mantras, for better or worse, better late than never! | <urn:uuid:f4aae032-cd6f-4096-ac41-3747794322b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lyonsdenmom.com/tag/getting-out-on-time-with-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961525 | 606 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologist of the "Oxford English Dictionary," shows how different types of evidence can shed light on the myriad ways in which words change in form and meaning. He considers how such changes can be part of wider linguistic processes, or be influenced by a complex mixture of social and cultural factors. He illustrates every point with a wide range of fascinating examples.
Dr. Durkin investigates folk etymology and other changes which words undergo in everyday use. He shows how language families are established, how words in different languages can have a common ancestor, and the ways in which the latter can be distinguished from words introduced through language contact. He examines the etymologies of the names of people and places. His focus is on English but he draws many examples from languages such as French, German, and Latin which cast light on the pre-histories of English words.
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O'Loughlin rewarded for performance
By JUDY SHERARD
It came as a surprise to principal Nancy Harman when O'Loughlin Elementary School was named a Title I Reward School.
"We were very surprised, but pleased with the recognition," she said.
Reward schools are those who are in the top 10 percent of Title I schools. Title I is a federally funded program to help ensure all students have the opportunity for a high-quality education.
The reward school program is part of the Kansas State Department of Education's ESEA Flexibility agreement with the federal department of education. Selection is based on one of two criteria, high performance or high academic progress.
Harman received a certificate in late August from the state recognizing O'Loughlin as a high-performance school.
It was selected based on the past four years of combined state reading and math assessment results.
"It's a reflection of our district as a whole, and then our building's staff that is committed to teaching the curriculum," Harman said.
She credits the district's forward thinking, as well as parental support and the students' dedication.
"There's a lot of arguments about the good and bad of state assessments over the years," Harman said. "One thing it has done is make us focus on student learning, and student needs, and student progress and evaluating where each student is. I think all of those are reflections of our better understanding."
Harman said the school consistently has had high scores on the assessments and likely will achieve the standard of excellence for a 15th consecutive year.
"When you do it over and over, you know your teachers are doing an amazing job and students are stepping up," Harman said.
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For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses
One sodden evening in April 2010, an Indian army major from the 4 Rajputana Rifles arrived at a remote police post where the mountains gather in a half-hitch around Kashmir, India's northernmost state. Major Opinder Singh "seemed in a hurry", a duty policeman recalled. Up in the heights of the Pir Panjal range, down through which the major had descended, it was snowing and his boots let in water. "The officer reported that the previous night his men had killed three Pakistani terrorists who had crossed over into our Machil sector," the policeman recalled. "Where are the bodies?" the policeman had asked, filling in a First Information Report that started a criminal enquiry. "They were buried where they were shot," the major retorted, before taking off in his jeep.
"It was not unusual," the policeman later told investigators, when questioned as to why he had not insisted on viewing the corpses or checking the identities. Kashmir had been in turmoil since Partition in 1947 and on a virtual war footing for the past two decades, with some estimates placing the dead at 70,000. Strung with razor wire and anti-missile netting, the state had been transformed into one of the most militarised places on earth, with one Indian paramilitary or soldier stationed for every 17 residents. The Pakistani intelligence services and military trained and funded a legion of irregulars, who infiltrated over the mountains to kick-start a full-blown insurgency in 1989, keeping the Indian-ruled portion of the Muslim-majority state permanently alight.
Once picture-perfect, a place of pilgrimage for backpackers and mystics of all religions, Kashmir had become one of the most beautiful and dangerous frontlines in the world. Machil, the sector in which Singh had sprung his operation, was especially treacherous, consisting of a clutch of isolated villages strung along the Line of Control (LoC), a high-altitude ceasefire line that had split Kashmir in 1972. Up here in the thin air, India had created a fearsome barrier, made lethal with the help of Israeli technology, a partially electrified series of fences connected to motion detectors, surrounded by a heavily mined no-man's land.
On 30 April, 2010, an armed forces spokesman in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, confirmed Singh's story. "Three militants have been killed in a shootout," said Lieutenant Colonel JS Brar, detailing how three AK-47s, one Pakistani pistol, ammunition, cigarettes, chocolates, dates, two water bottles, a Kenwood radio and 1,000 Pakistani rupees had been recovered. The standard-issue infiltration kit. The corpseless triple-death inquiry was an open and shut case.
However, a few days later, at Panzalla police station, 30 miles from Machil, a simple missing case was causing everyone problems. Three Kashmiri families from nearby Nadihal village had turned up to report the disappearance of their sons: Mohammad, 19, Riyaz, 20, and Shahzad, 27, an apple farmer, a herder and a labourer. They had not seen them since 28 April and would not be calmed by detectives. Soon, their appeals drew the attention of Kashmir's most dogged human rights lawyer, Parvez Imroz, whose response to what would become known as the "Machil Encounter" was about to create a watershed in Kashmir.
Dressed in the uniform of the Kashmiri bar, a crisp white shirt and sombre morning suit, over the past two decades Imroz had become a fixture at the high court in Srinagar, filing thousands of habeas corpus actions (which literally translates as "produce the bodies") on behalf of families who claimed their relatives had vanished while in the custody of the Indian security forces.
These actions rarely succeeded, the Indian army insisting that the missing had flitted over the LoC to Pakistan, recalling historic scenes at the start of the insurgency that terrified New Delhi, when tens of thousands of young Kashmiris jumped aboard buses manned by youthful conductors shouting: "Pakistan, Pakistan here we come." But what the writs did achieve was to create a paper trail from which Imroz was able to estimate that 8,000 Kashmiri non-combatants had vanished from army custody in a state the size of Ireland – four times more than disappeared under Pinochet in Chile. "The military grip has been suffocating," he told the Guardian, "and making someone vanish sows far more fear than spilling their blood".
Imroz had spent much of his career facing down security forces protected by specially drafted laws. Under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, soldiers and paramilitaries enjoy total immunity from prosecution, unless the ministry of defence sanction their trial. Using new Right to Information (RTI) laws, Imroz obtained confirmation that despite the fact that hundreds of soldiers stood accused of murder, rape and torture, not a single case had proceeded. In contrast, Kashmiri citizens are dealt with using the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, under which they can be jailed, preventively, for two years, if deemed likely to commit subversive acts in the future, with an estimated 20,000 detained, according to Human Rights Watch.
Imroz's campaigning achieved other things. He caught the attention of the UN, and this year Christof Heyns, a special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, warned India that all of these draconian laws had no place in a functioning democracy and should be scrapped. The price for confronting the security forces and the militants they faced down was severe. In 1992, Imroz mourned the loss of his Hindu mentor, an activist who was gunned down by Muslim insurgents. Three years later, Imroz was driving home from court when he felt a cold draught grip his chest. "I slumped over the wheel, inexplicably," he recalled. Bystanders who came to his rescue told him he had been shot. A militant group later claimed it was a case of mistaken identity. In 1996, the Indian army abducted Imroz's friend and fellow lawyer, Jalil Andrabi, whose mutilated body was found after three weeks. Imroz shut himself off. For years he refused to marry or have children, worried they would be targeted. In 2002, his accomplished protégé, Khurram Parvez, a young Kashmiri graduate, was badly injured in an IED attack that killed his driver and a female colleague, Asiya Jeelani. Two years after that, a gunman posing as a client, shot dead another of Imroz's legal allies. In 2005, when Imroz was awarded the Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize, first given to Nelson Mandela, he was unable to accept it in person as India declined to issue him a passport.
But Imroz's reputation began to build in the countryside, from where terrified villagers travelled to besiege his rickety chambers on the Bund, in central Srinagar, carrying with them stories. In 2008, these accounts enabled the lawyer to make his greatest discovery. While surveying disappearance cases in villages across two of Kashmir's 23 districts, including Baramulla, from where the three Nadihal men would vanish in 2010, villagers showed him a hitherto unknown network of unmarked and mass graves: muddy pits and mossy mounds, pock-marking pine forests and orchards. According to eyewitnesses, all had been dug under the gaze of the Indian security forces and all contained the bodies of local men. Some were fresh, others decayed, hinting at a covert slaughter that went back many years.
Imroz widened his search, mapping almost 1,000 locations. He was shocked by the implications. Indian law requires that the police probe every violent death and that corpses be identified. But in the village of Bimyar, white-haired Atta Muhammad Khan came forward to describe how he had been forced to inter 203 unidentified bodies under cover of the night – men whose identities and crimes were unstated. "Some corpses were disfigured. Others were burnt. We did not ask questions." It was a similar story in Kichama village, where the lawyer mapped 235 unmarked graves and in Bijhama, where 200 more unidentified corpses had been interred. In Srinagar, Imroz's team alerted the government's State Human Rights Commission (SHRC). "We suspected the missing of Kashmir were buried at these secret sites," he said, publishing a report, Facts Under Ground.
An official response came two months later, just after 10pm on 30 June, 2008. Imroz had at last married Rukhsana, a business woman, and they now had two children, his daughter Zeenish, 12, and a boy, Tauqir, aged seven. The family lived in Kralpora, a tree-lined suburb eight miles from Srinagar city centre. No one called round on the offchance. Rukhsana heard a rap at the door and glanced outside to see that their security lights had been smashed. "I knew what this meant," she said, the door knock immediately conjuring memories of murdered friends. Imroz ran to the back of the house and shouted for his brother, Sheikh Mushtaq Ahmad, who lived next door.
As Ahmad emerged with a torch, a shot was fired, narrowly missing his son. A stranger screamed: "Put that light out." Then, a grenade exploded, shrapnel pitting the front door. Tear gas shells followed, waking neighbours who unlocked the village mosque. The imam mobilised residents to surround Imroz's house, as an armoured vehicle and two jeeps from the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force and police Special Task Force, took off. "They had come to kill us," Rukhsana recalled. "We need protection," she said. Who do you need protection from, I asked her. "From our own government of course. It's jungle law."
After the attack, Human Rights Watch called on India to "protect Parvez Imroz, an award-winning human rights lawyer" and his case was raised in the European parliament. His family pleaded for him to quit. "I was terrified," the lawyer conceded. "I was starting to have horrible dreams. But being silent is a crime."
Imroz and his team redoubled their efforts, spreading their net across 55 villages in three districts, Bandipora, Baramulla and Kupwara. An ad-hoc inquiry run by volunteers and funded by donations saw the number of unmarked and mass graves mapped rise to 2,700. Inside them were 2,943 bodies; 80% of them unidentified. "These were hellish images from a war that no one has ever reported," said Imroz. "We suspected this to be prima-facie evidence of war crimes," he added. "Who are the dead, how did they die, in whose hands and who interred them?"
The SHRC finally agreed to an inquiry. Soon, it had its work cut out. Using RTI laws, the police were forced to concede that they had lodged 2,683 cases for the covertly interred in just three districts. And a new deposition submitted by Imroz's field workers covering two more districts, Rajoori and Poonch, mapped 3,844 more unmarked and mass graves, taking the total number to more than 6,000. There are still another 16 districts yet to be surveyed, leaving Imroz to wonder how many violent deaths and surreptitious burials have been concealed across Kashmir. Finally, last September, the SHRC made an announcement, stating that Imroz's discovery was correct: "There is every possibility that unidentified dead bodies buried in various unmarked graves … may contain the victims of enforced disappearances." The UN weighed in this year, a report to the Human Rights Council warning India of its obligations under human rights treaties and laws. Kashmiri families had a "right to know the truth" and that "when the disappeared person is found to be dead, the right … to have the remains of their loved one returned to them, and to dispose of those remains according to their own tradition, religion or culture".
After the Nadihal men disappeared, Imroz's field worker, Parvaiz Matta, travelled to the village. He found an eyewitness, Fayaz Wani, a close friend of the missing men. Wani finally revealed the Indian army had offered the men jobs, in a deal brokered by a Special Police Officer (SPO), who had given them a sum equivalent to £7 each, "as a show of good will", before taking them to a remote army camp in Machil.
The families of the missing men filed a complaint against the SPO, Bashir Lone. "This man broke down, admitting his role, claiming that nine soldiers at a remote army camp had shot the three men, so they could claim reward money," Matta said. (The army routinely gives financial rewards to soldiers who kill militants.) On 28 May, 2010, three bodies were exhumed from unmarked graves close to the camp, some of those already mapped by Imroz, and in which the government said were foreign fighters. Their families identified Shahzad, Riyaz and Mohammad by their clothes.
The Nadihal cash-for-killing story and news of a legion of unidentified dead lying in unmarked graves, sent hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on to the streets in the summer of 2010. Sensing the building anger, the army and central government in New Delhi promised an inquiry, offering, without irony, talks to anyone in Kashmir "who renounced violence". However, when no answers came, Kashmir went into convulsions, as crowds of youths armed with stones ambushed soldiers, police and paramilitaries who returned fire with live rounds. I arrived in Kashmir shortly after. More than 100 demonstrators had been killed, many of them children. International news channels briefly took an interest, asking if Kashmir was experiencing its own Arab Spring. But the cameras left quickly, as a vicious crackdown began clearing the streets: the government's own statistics showing that more than 5,300 Kashmiri youths, many of them children, were arrested.
In 2011, Imroz went to work again, investigating how India had restored the peace, and I shadowed him. He took statements from those who had been released and the families of those still incarcerated. "The affidavits made for chilling reading," he said. The majority of youths alleged torture, with independent medical examinations confirming that many had their fingernails pulled and bones crushed. One teenage prisoner told the Guardian: "The police started on our hands and fingers, breaking them with gun butts, and by the end when tears were streaming down our faces, we were hung by our ankles and had chilli rubbed in our wounds." Others claimed to have petrol funnelled into their rectums. One group alleged in court that they were forced to sodomise each other, while a police cameraman filmed.
This year, Imroz and his field workers widened the research to commence the first state-wide inquiry into the use of torture. Their findings will go to the UN and to Human Rights Watch later this summer but a draft seen by the Guardian suggests that not only is torture endemic, it is systemic. In one cluster of 50 villages, more than 2,000 extreme cases of torture were documented, any of which would kick-start an SHRC inquiry, and all of which left victims maimed and psychologically scarred. Methods included branding, electric shocks, simulated drowning, striping flesh with razor blades and piping petrol into anuses.
This work suggests that the statewide ratio for Kashmiris who have experienced torture is one in six. "For the 50 villages, in this small snapshot, we located 50 centres run by the army and paramilitaries in which torture had been practised," Imroz said. The methods, language and even the architecture of the torture chambers are identical. "What we are looking at is not a few errant officers." Files released under RTI laws show how these practises go back to 1989. These documents, seen by the Guardian, also reveal horrific practises, including one sizeable cluster, confidentially probed by the government itself, where men from the Border Security Force (BSF) lopped off the limbs of suspects and fed prisoners with their own flesh.
The Guardian traced one of the victims, a shepherd Qalandar Khatana, 45. Hobbling on crutches, bandages covering his ankles, both feet having been sawn off, he recalled: "I was held down, a BSF trooper produced a knife and then I passed out as the blood gushed from me." His file says a government investigator confirmed the story and produced eyewitnesses.
Another villager, Nasir Sheikh, a carpenter, who lost both legs below the knee and one hand, added: "The smell was of death – urine, shit, sweat. You knew you were about to be slowly murdered. It was like being thrown down a well where no one can hear you scream." His file confirms the story and suggests that compensation be paid. The UN special rapporteur on torture has been refused entry to Kashmir since 1993. Domestic legislation to outlaw torture has stalled. "When will the world start asking as tough questions of India as it is of Syria?" Imroz asked. "Or are we Kashmiris invisible?"
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- Spring of Life -
H. Roger Bothwell
Learning to Listen
Recently I have trying to hone my birding skills by learning bird songs.†† I figure I can go birding by sitting in a folding chair and just listening.† Once I hear it I can look at its picture and add it to my dayís list. Obviously some are fairly easy to learn.† Is there anyone who canít identify a robin by sound?† However the flycatchers and the warblers are something else.† I have a lot of learning to do.† A lot of it is learning to listen. We take listening for granted since we have been doing it prior to our birth.† But skilled listening is another story.† It takes practice; lots of practice.
I think the same can be said for hearing the still small voice of God.† He wants so very much to talk to us but He is careful not to blow us away with a big thunderous voice.† He chooses to whisper. He is gentle that way.† If we fill our ears with the sounds of life and add to them the sounds of music in the car, music while we walk, music while we study, we make it difficult for Him.† We overpower Him.
He especially likes to talk to us when we read His word.† He has excellent commentary to add to Matthew and John.† He likes it when we read about Jesus and He wants us to feel the breeze from the shores of Galilee.† He wants us to savor the sweet scents of food in the marketplace of Nazareth.† There is so much to experience when we take our time.† Donít try to read the Bible through in a year.† If you set that for a goal there will be days you will rush to keep on schedule.† Those might be the very days He has something special to say.†††
My address is† firstname.lastname@example.org or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your support of our faith ministry.
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Sometimes we need to protect our iPad with password. This way to keep our private data securely from opened and read by other people or friend, especially when we live together with friend in hostel school. So protect our iPad with password is urgently. But how if sometimes we getting forget the password to open our iPad? It does’nt matter, that is not big problem. It’s so easy to recover or change our iPad password. Here some tips to protect your iPad with password. The first before you do, we suggest you to make a backup of your iPad via iTunes. Why? You can restore from backup in case you forget your password in the next time without having to restore it as a new device (If you do make a backup when a password has already been made, when you forget you r iPad password, you only have to restore your iPad as a new device).
To start the password creation process, click on the “Settings” icon or app from your main screen (it’s the one that looks like gears). Then in the Settings menu, click on the “General” tab, which is the fifth option from the top after “Picture Frame”. This will bring out several options to your right. Click on “Passcode Lock”, which will be the seventh option from the top. Then you will be asked to pick a 4 digit codefor your password. To be sure you picked the right passcode, you will be prompted to enter it again.
In the future you can enable or disable the passcode by press the button on the top tab allows you to turn your passcode on and off. | <urn:uuid:acc84271-0c2e-46c1-8ccb-7d00577a2404> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ipadstory.net/how-to-set-your-ipad-password/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927687 | 343 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 2:05 a.m.
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Beyond the Sun
The historic Boulder Dam Hotel, which since 1933 has been home to celebrities, royalty and bums, will close Saturday until further notice.
The board of the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association, which owns the hotel, restaurant and Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum at the site, voted Wednesday night to close the operation because it has run out of money.
At the same meeting, board President Bill Ferrence resigned effective Saturday. Ferrence is also manager of the Boulder Dam Credit Union, which holds two mortgages on the hotel of $940,000.
The hotel opened in 1933, while Hoover Dam was still under construction.
During its heyday in the 1930s and ’40s, it hosted Shirley Temple, the Maharajah of Indore, India, and Cornelius Vanderbilt and his new bride.
In the 1970s, after decades of neglect, it became a flophouse, then had several owners try but fail to restore it.
The Boulder Dam Hotel Association was formed in 1993 to raise money to renovate the hotel, which reopened in 2003. The historical association became sole owner in 2005.
The board, in a statement, said if it is able to raise $250,000 by Sept. 10, it will be able to reopen the hotel.
The decision to close came after the historical association failed in an appeal to the city’s Redevelopment Agency on Monday for a $135,000 cash infusion that would have kept the hotel, restaurant and museum afloat through next June. The measure, which was changed to a $40,000 loan to start, failed on a 2-2 vote of the City Council, which doubles as the RDA board.
Mayor Roger Tobler and Councilman Cam Walker supported the measure. Councilman Travis Chandler and Councilwoman Linda Strickland opposed it.
Councilman Duncan McCoy, who supported the plan, was advised to abstain because of his past involvement as a member of the association’s board.
The board statement said that because of lost revenue from bookings that would have to be canceled, the cost of reopening will be greater than that of keeping the hotel open.
The hotel’s 23 employees will be laid off after their shifts Saturday, which is the end of a pay period, new President Darryl Martin said.
Roseanne Shoaff, who manages the hotel with her husband, Roger, will stay on at a reduced rate to help close the books, Martin said. The Shoaffs, who live in an apartment at the hotel, will have to move, he said.
The Boulder City Art Guild Gallery and other stores and tenants in the hotel will be given 30 days to move, he said. The hotel building will remain open to allow customers access to those businesses.
No hotel guests were booked for Saturday night, said board member Val Olsen, who is an employee of the Boulder City News. The museum’s archive, which is kept in the basement, will stay there for now.
Former museum curator Dennis McBride, who now is a collections specialist for the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas, spoke to the board before its decision, offering the state museum’s resources and help.
He noted that the state museum is moving into a new, 78,000-square-foot building.
“If you are looking for direct gifts, nobody has any money,” McBride said. “But we still have resources you do not. It will take creative thought and effort on both sides.”
The association board will meet next week to begin discussing what to do with the archive, Martin said.
The board plans to apply to the Credit Union for a loan modification, he said. He noted the difficulty of Ferrence’s position as manager of the Credit Union holding the hotel’s loans, which prompted his resignation.
“Bill Ferrence has worked so hard to get the hotel where it is headed. He and his wife, Cheryl, have put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it,” he said.
Olsen and fellow board member Bret Runion, who provided the board’s statement to the media, said the board would appeal to the community to keep the hotel open.
“We know from past experience that the people of Boulder City have stepped up,” Runion said. “We have put out an image of success for so long, it appeared we were doing so well that we didn’t need help.”
They noted that the hotel was purchased and renovated primarily to house the museum and archive, which had previously occupied the back of a store.
“We’ve invested $3 million in this structure,” Runion said. “The community has stepped up in the past and will continue to do so.”
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The NBC Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra. It was made by David Sarnoff of the National Broadcasting Company mostly for conductor Arturo Toscanini. The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other conductors. It was the house orchestra for the network. It began November 13, 1937. It ended in 1954. | <urn:uuid:3badf8a4-1fac-4553-b74c-a5ec06b4a5fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Symphony_Orchestra | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963902 | 73 | 2.078125 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo (R-2nd) on Thursday, Sept. 25 praised House passage of H.R. 758, the “Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act”, which would require health plans to provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for women who undergo mastectomies and lumph node dissection during their treatment of breast cancer.
Introduced by Representative Rosa DeLauro (CONN-03), the legislation also mandates insurance companies to cover secondary consultations sought by women.
“Nearly everyone knows a family member, friend or coworker whose life has been affected by breast cancer. The physical and emotional strain on women with breast cancer is significant and, accordingly, must be treated as such by insurance companies and doctors. This bipartisan legislation will help to ensure breast cancer patients have adequate time to recover from their medical treatment,” stated LoBiondo, an original cosponsor of H.R. 758 in a release.
For more than a decade LoBiondo has introduced or been an original cosponsor of similar legislation that would end the practice of “drive-by mastectomies.”
With 222 cosponsors, H.R. 758 is endorsed by the American Cancer Society and the National Breast Cancer Coalition. In April 2008, LoBiondo was honored by NBCC with a Certificate of Excellence for his perfect record of supporting their legislative priorities in the first session of the 110th Congress.
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This column appeared in yesterday's Winona Daily News and is reprinted with the permission of the author. Bluestem also recommends today's column by WDN online editor, Jerome Christenson, Minnesota used to be better than this.
by Thomas Trehus
The United States was founded on a basic principle of negotiation called compromise. The founders of this country, in all of their genius, knew the dangers of one single political ideology conquering all.
James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton knew the only way to make government work for all the people was to separate power and balance the factions that influence government.
Since then, compromise has been the only solution to getting things done amongst the two political parties. If the principle of compromise has been the only strategy to meet the needs of the people, then why haven’t our local representatives compromised in trying to balance the state’s $5 billion budget deficit?
By all means, it is admirable for a politician to stick to his/her campaign promises.
Greg Davids and Jeremy Miller both campaigned not to raise taxes, but to balance the budget through spending cuts.
Mark Dayton was elected governor by claiming he would raise taxes on the wealthiest Minnesotans to balance the budget.
Whether you agree with either of these philosophies, both were elected and both stuck to their beliefs when they took office, until Dayton did not. The governor released his budget with not only income tax increases on the wealthy, like he promised, but with spending cuts as well.
He compromised, twice actually, once in February and once before the legislative session ended.
Davids and Miller on the other hand, released their budget bill holding firm to their Republican Party principles.
The session ended while Davids and Miller did nothing to compromise with the governor on behalf of the people of Minnesota.
The result of saying no to compromise is a government shutdown starting July 1 that would halt most construction projects and cause 40,000 public employees to lose their jobs.
The impact will be devastating to the economy. We need to call Rep. Davids and Sen. Miller and thank them for holding firm to their campaign promises, but remind them that when governing, compromise is essential.
Davids can be reached at (507) 951-3893. Miller can be reached at (507) 474-2562.
Bluestem author note: Thomas Trehus, who grew up in Houston County's Wilmington Township, attends the University of Minnesota. His post, Thomas Trehus: Thissen will improve Greater MN infrastructure, education and health care, was published in January 2010, as part of a Bluestem series by Greater Minnesota DFL activists writing about why they supported different candidates for governor.
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For several thousand folk, Yorkshire Day can be a poignant occasion, provoking a sense of loss, resentment and peaceful resistance. They are The Exiles, those who were banished across alien borders when parts of the county were lost in local government reorganisation, 30 years ago. John Woodcock reports
There is a part of Lancashire that is forever a prickly white rose. Likewise, for all the best efforts of Oldham Metropolitan Borough across the Pennines, they can't take the largest part of it out of Yorkshire, as events this Sunday will confirm.
It is 30 years since Whitehall civil servants flourished their pencils and in the name of local government reorganisation, in places crossed out more than a thousand years of history.
Mapmakers have since done their bidding. In most modern atlases you'll find chunks of geographical Yorkshire exiled in foreign parts.
For a time the scandal was more far-reaching, but at least north Humberside has been reclaimed by the old East Riding, and for ceremonial purposes at least, Yorkshire again represents more than 300,000 souls who were maroooned in that artificial enclave called Cleveland.
In a few hapless areas elsewhere, however, there remains a sense of lost heritage. The redrawn administrative borders banished West Craven and Bowland into Lancashire, despatched the Sedbergh area of the Dales into Cumbria, and left Bowes and surrounding villages languishing under the yoke of County Durham.
What to do about it? In some parts folk are philosophical and see no point in fighting border wars. So long as they feel secure about their roots, what does it matter that bureaucrats chose to move them?
Even if others are reluctant, Geoff Hoyle, a feisty 83-year-old despite his dicky heart, feels obliged to fight on behalf of around 50,000 Yorkshire folk who find themselves on the wrong side of ancient boundaries which were redrawn in 1974.
He is fighting their cause through organisations such as the Campaign for True Identity and Unite Craven. He's bombarded town halls and government departments with protest letters, and in what passes for subversion west of Skipton, where he lives, has helped erect signs on roads like the A56. They inform drivers that whatever their maps may be telling them, they are not in red rose territory but crossing the original border of Yorkshire.
As Yorkshire Day approaches, he has written to the Yorkshire Post to restate what for him is a passionate case – not always fully-supported by others.
He would have liked to celebrate August 1 with the help of the town crier of Barnoldswick – the largest place to switch sides when West Craven was moved to Lancashire – but the chap has now moved to Cornwall.
Not to worry. "We must not forget," says Hoyle's letter to us, "the unwavering spirit" of the thousands who were forced out of the county and resettled in alien lands. "Their Yorkshire Day will have a special poignancy. The rest of us should help these people return to the fold to make Yorkshire whole once more.
"Their experience shows that we can't take our county for granted. If we do nothing it could well disappear from the map of England."
That's stretching it, of course, especially as the government at the time of the '74 changes made it clear they were for administrative purposes only and that the ancient or geographic counties had not been abolished.
That's all very well, retorts Hoyle and others, but the reality is that some organisations don't make such distinctions and after all this time, tend to acknowledge only the administrative borders.
"The situation has become so confused and misleading, some people are no longer sure where they live. We need stability, an official recognition that the old boundaries are permanent and confirm where people really belong."
They are in no doubt in Diggle, Denshaw, Delph and Dobcross, some of the townships and villages within the former Saddleworth urban district which, along with West Riding county council, disappeared in 1974.
Today, Saddleworth, which can trace its links with the County of York to Norman times, is by far the largest district, in acreage, within Oldham Metropolitan Borough.
That, in theory, puts it in the original Lancashire, except that few among the 25,000 on Saddleworth's electoral roll acknowledge the red rose. On the contrary, the Saddleworth White Rose Society bitterly resents Oldham's domination and claim on it, counters proudly on its website that "Saddleworth is in Yorkshire!", and on Sunday will be making its annual point even more forcefully than usual.
It can also claim some other telling psychological victories.
In addition to being in the phone directory for North-East Manchester, Saddleworth numbers now also appear in the one covering Huddersfield and District. When local people insist on giving their address as Saddleworth, Yorkshire, not everyone gets the point, among them utility companies. A bit of friendly persuasion is sometimes called for, explains Society member Doug Branson.
"They used to fob us off with the excuse that as we were part of Oldham Metropolitan Borough, the computer wouldn't accept our Yorkshire addresses. When that happens now, people say to them, fine, we'll switch to a supplier who will.
"There's usually a pause and back they come to say, sorry, we can do it after all. It's amazing what can be achieved through applying a little commercial pressure."
Ideally, Saddleworth would like to break away from Oldham's control, and become part of a new rural authority serving Pennine areas within Yorkshire.
That, for the moment, is a dream, but Yorkshire Day certainly isn't. This year's is an extra special event, aimed partly at those who are newcomers to the area.
On a playing field in Uppermill there will be four hours of entertainment featuring local brass bands, displays detailing the history of Saddleworth, stalls selling Yorkshire plaques and other merchandise, and the reading of the ancient Yorkshire Declaration of Integrity.
Yorkshire flags will fly, and shops and businesses have been invited to decorate their windows with a suitably white-rose theme.
It is, says the organisers, "a strong, clear statement that the people of Saddleworth are proud to be Yorkshire folk".
Those in the gas and electricity companies may be dismissive sometimes, and new maps don't help, but there are those in high places who appreciate the campaign.
"The fact that Saddleworth is still part of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire is extremely important." Who said that on September 3, 2004?
Only the Prince of Wales.
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By Phil Billingham, CFP and Mark DiGiovanni, CFP
Phil Billingham, CFP from the UK says disassociation from product providers:
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In India, about 10 or 20 years ago, if you were lucky enough to have a relative who was an insurance agent, your family would receive financial advice. With growing complexity in financial products, more people started looking for somebody to help them make the right decisions.
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By Patrick Canion, CFP
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When connecting to the internet in an internet cafe, hotspot or other public connection you could be opening yourself up to serious security issues.
I've read your articles about how a secure home wireless network is important. But lets say I'm in a cafe, and I'm connected to their public wireless, is all my privacy compromised? I have a firewall and I suppose that will block any attacks into my laptop, but what about the information I send out such as online banking and the like on that public wireless?
You are absolutely right to be concerned.
There are steps that you need to take to ensure both your security and your privacy.
There are three things you need to consider when using an internet service away from home: your internet provider, your internet connection, and your computer.
Your ISP can monitor everything you do. I'm not saying that they are, but they can.
Whenever you're using a wireless hotspot such as in an internet cafe, or even a wired connection in a hotel or somewhere else, they are your ISP for that connection. Again, I'm not saying that the coffee shop, hotel or their wireless provider is spying on you, but I would take care to make sure you trust the provider you're using. If you're at "Joe's Cafe" and it's Joe's teenage son that's just slapped a wireless access point on their DSL connection - yes, he could certainly be monitoring what you're up to if you're not careful.
But that's not really the biggest threat. So while you should of course exercise caution, for this discussion I'll simply assume we can trust whoever's providing the internet connectivity.
The people we shouldn't trust are the other users within range of that wireless connection.
Anyone within wireless range of your laptop could be monitoring your internet usage.
So, here's what you need to do:
Use a firewall! Sounds like you're already doing this, but for everyone else, this is critical. And it doesn't have to be difficult; for example, I simply enable the built-in Windows firewall when I'm in an open WiFi situation.
Yes, there may be a router or firewall at the hotspot protecting you from threats from the internet, and that's fantastic. It's also not at all what I'm talking about here. In an open WiFi situation and in any "internet provided" situations like hotels, you need to protect yourself from everyone else that's on the same side of the router as you are. They can see and connect directly to your machine unless you have enabled your firewall.
Use httpS! That's https; note the "s" at the end. An https connection is encrypted. That means that while someone can see that you're accessing a particular web site, if you're using https they cannot see any of the data you send to or receive from that site. This is the only safe way to do online banking. If you can't connect via https, or the "s" disappears at some point in your exchange with your bank, then stop immediately. If it's not https it's not secure and anyone in the room could be monitoring what you're doing.
Secure your Email! Email is perhaps the biggest open security hole in these situations. If you use a POP3/SMTP email client, the default configuration for most is totally unsecure. I could sit in a corner of the internet cafe and not only read your email with you, but also steal your account name and password. It really is that unsecure.
With POP3 and SMTP you should contact your email provider and see if they support SSL connections. If they do, it's a slightly different configuration in your email program but once done all of the communication between your email program and email servers are securely encrypted.
Online or web-based email services deserve special consideration. Most do not support https connections. The one exception is Gmail, which will use https if you make sure to login through an https connection, and have the "always use https" option selection in Gmail's options.
Consider a VPN. Not all sites support https as it takes extra work on their part. For example, there is no https version of ask-leo.com; you can only access it through unencrypted http, and that's the norm for most sites that don't process confidential information. But that means that someone could still be watching where you go. If you don't mind them seeing that you're visiting ask-leo.com, or what you might happen to search for on Google, or whatever other sites you're visiting in the clear, then you don't need to do anything.
And not all email providers will provide secure connections.
However, if you're a "road warrior" and spend a lot of time in internet cafes, have an unsecure email configuration, or browse a lot of sites that you'd rather not be so easily sniffable, you might consider a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service. I've never used one personally, so I can't recommend one specifically, but there are several. http://www.hotspotvpn.com/ is one example. Using these services you create an encrypted connection to the service and route all your internet traffic through them. When you do this, the folks in the cafe see only encrypted data which they can do nothing with.
Realize that a "login intercept" protects them, not you. In many free WiFi situations the first time you use the service no matter where you try to go you're first intercepted and sent to a page where you're required to "login" or otherwise accept the terms of service. This page does not protect you at all. It has nothing to do with security, wireless or otherwise. It's nothing more than a bit of legalese to protect the internet provider.
So, how big is the risk, really?
I would expect busy hotspots near sensitive areas to be a fairly reasonable risk. Busy coffee houses, open airport WiFi, libraries and the like seem like "target rich environments" for the potential hacker. These are certainly places where I'd make sure to take these safety measures myself.
Less busy hotspots? Perhaps not so much.
But it is possible, and more frighteningly, it's not all that hard for someone who's technically savvy.
(This is an update to an article originally published February, 2008.)
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Usually, the LEGO group doesn't seem to have much organisation; at least in the past. That's why you can find sets with two different numbers, or two different sets with the same number.
Now the keyword here is "seem", as I suppose there was some logic to it even in the past.
But nowadays there is some logic, and even if not all of it is understandable, you can at least spot some key elements, such as:
When I was a kid and they started the 4 digits scheme, the first digit indicated the global theme pretty clearly. 8 was Technic, 6 was LEGOLAND, 77 were trains, and so on. At least for trains, they tended to use round numbers for bigger sets, ending in 0 or 5.
Now, the first digit seems to have lost its significance, and sets in the same theme are usually attributed a range of numbers, with the small set getting the lowest number. It's not an absolute rule, and I guess it depends on availibility or other factors.
Sets in the 10000 range are LEGO shop exclusives. Usually, you will usually only find them on Shop@Home or in LEGO retail outlets, but not in regular toy stores.
Sets in the 20000 range were used for the BrickMaster serie, with each set accompanying a BrickMaster issue.
Sets in the 20200 range will seemingly be used by the "LEGO Master Builder Academy" sets
Sets in the 21000 rang are architecture sets.
Sets in the 30000 range are usually small promotionnal polybags
In addition, there are 7-digits numbers floating around which are probably some other form of internal numbers. For specific things without a set number, that's usually the only thing you'll find.
For parts, you have to distinguish design ID, identifying a specific mould regardless of the color; and element ID, which identifies a unique design/color combination.
I don't know how design IDs were or are attributed, but it seems there is now some sequential logic behind it. Not that changes in design which don't affect the functionality (hollow bars at the bottom of 1x bricks, for example) don't usually lead to a new design number (while peeron will append a "a", "b",... to indicate the version, LEGO doesn't do that internally).
Element IDs used to be a juxtaposition of design ID and color ID, so a Black (26) 2x4 brick (3001) would be simply 300126. These numbers are still around for parts which existed when that scheme was used. 300126 is still the element ID of a black 2x4 brick.
However, at some point (not sure when), they changed this to use a 7-digit number for the element ID, which doesn't ahve a relation to the design ID or color any longer. These seem to be sequentially attributed, and it could be that they share the same sequence as internal set numbers (but that's just a guess, really). There are also numbers for individual instruction booklets, which ROSCO used to scan for directly on the LEGO site.
As for where to find these, that's more difficult. You'll notice I link a lot to BrickSet, that's because I feel they do a fantastic job of cataloguing sets. Peeron has a good database too, but it's usually slower.
For parts, you'll need to go to Peeron, or BrickLink, but they sometimes differ in their numbering when the official number of a part isn't known. Note that they usually use design IDs and not element IDs, although there is some work in progress regarding that.
Of course, while internal LEGO aren't exactly public, you can find design IDs embossed in elements, and element IDs in the back of all instruction leaflets. Also, the online pick-a-brick and the custoemr service "replacement part" function let you browse recent sets and see what the design and element IDs are for given elements. | <urn:uuid:8f398cf3-176a-4b9a-9f31-4f57a4a9cb0e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/653/is-there-a-convention-for-part-and-or-set-numbers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960774 | 835 | 1.625 | 2 |
By Jesse Brown - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 0 Comments
If the topic of patent law fails to inspire much feeling in you, read Steven Levy’s exhaustive Wired feature, The Patent Problem—it will leave you apoplectic. Levy details just how far the U.S. patent system has strayed from its original purpose. Intended to incentivize invention, and included in the Constitution for that purpose, patents have mutated into anti-innovation weaponry.
The reasons are many. One is the evolution of patents into saleable assets. This was supposed to allow a poorly resourced inventor to sell his concept to a company with the cash to pull the trigger on it. Instead, companies began stockpiling patents without using them, in order to keep ideas away from rivals or to demand licensing fees from anyone who actually put the ideas on the market. Another huge problem was the Patent Office’s inability to evolve from the mechanical age to the digital age, which led them to rubber-stamping hundreds of thousands of software patents for generic or general concepts. Then came the birth of the Patent Troll, who banks on this incompetence by securing intentionally vague patents they never intend to use for anything but extortion (Levy focuses on an “inventor” who claims his patent covers every eCommerce site on the Web, whose legal threats have generated millions in settlements.) Finally, there’s the patent arms-race between mega-corporations, a battle which sees patents not as ideas to turn into products, but as munitions in a legal arsenal. The intent was to prevent costly legal battles—you sue me, and I’ll sue you. But this pax has unravelled of late, as evidenced by a recent slew of mega-lawsuits. It’s a ludicrous waste of resources that has resulted in Apple and Google both spending more money on patents than on R&D. The result, writes Levy, is “a disastrous environment for innovation” wherein “it’s practically impossible to build anything without violating a patent…and risking a multimillion-dollar lawsuit”.
While our patent regime differs from America’s, there’s a high degree of standardization among G8 countries when it comes to intellectual property law, and Canadian inventors face the same hurdles Levy describes. Still, global awareness of (and disgust towards) the broken patent system is growing. In the U.S. this is taking the form of measured and slow-moving legislative efforts. Here in Canada, a landmark Supreme Court ruling could change everything.
By now you’ve likely heard of the decision against drug-maker Pfizer. Yes, you’ll soon be able to get cheap generic penis pills in Canada, but the implications could be far greater. Pfizer’s patent was deemed invalid because it didn’t adequately describe what Viagra is. Mention of the active chemical, Sildenafil, was buried in the patent. The Court ruled that in order to protect an invention, a patent must actually disclose what that invention is. Beyond common sense, this is so because of the “patent bargain”: an inventor tells the world how to make something in exchange for a time-limited monopoly on that invention. Pfizer may have been trying to hide their innovation, or they may have been trying to define their patent as widely as possible in order to block rivals from selling a similar product made in a different way. Whatever their motive, a bold new precedent has been set that could radically shake-up technology patents.
From now on, any patent that fails to adequately describe the invention it seeks to protect is vulnerable. That’s a threat to thousands of software patents. As lawyer Eugene Meehan, the former executive legal officer at the Supreme Court, told the Vancouver Sun, “the decision is a legal earthquake in the patent world – it’s like hurricane Sandy blew through the Patent Act.”
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Abstract: The antioxidant activity and the chemical composition of methanol extracts from peel and pulp belonging to two species of Tunisian prickly pears Opuntia ficus indica (spiny and thornless forms) and Opuntia stricta have been studied. The antioxidant capacity was measured by DPPH radical scavenging activity. The total phenolic compound (TPC) and the total flavonoid content were determined by the Folin–Ciocalteu method and colorimetric method, respectively. The phenolic compounds were identified and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with an electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). The results showed that O. stricta fruits present the best antioxidant activities than the two forms of O. ficus indica, while the TPC was more important in O. ficus indica than in the O. stricta fruits. The peels have higher flavonoids than pulp, and the thornless variety has more flavonoid than the spiny. The RP-HPLC and ESI-MS analysis detected two classes of phenolic compounds and betalain pigments. Isorhamnetin derivatives are the dominant flavonol glycoside identified in O. ficus indica (spiny: 65.25 μg·g−1; thornless: 77.03 μg·g−1) and O. stricta peels (19.22 μg·g−1).
Abstract: Milk thistle dietary supplements that contain silymarin are widely marketed and used in the USA and other countries for liver enhancement and recovery. More recently, silymarin has also been identified as a possible antiviral for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. To assess different brands of commercially sold silymarin, 45 products were collected from local stores and analyzed for their silymarin content, antioxidant activities, and antiviral activity against HCV. Antioxidant activity was measured as radical scavenging activity using DPPH and by estimating their antioxidant capacity as trolox equivalent. Anti-HCV activity was measured in an HCV genotype 1b replication inhibition assay. Samples were found to vary widely in their silymarin content, with some samples having none or very low concentrations while silymarin represented higher than 80% of other samples. Both antioxidant and anti-HCV activity correlated with the overall level of silymarin.
Abstract: The main objective of this study was the screening of some selected aromatic plants very popular in Greece, with respect to their total phenolic content, antioxidant capacity, reducing activity, and oxidative stability. All plants were extracted with the conventional method, reflux with methanol. The essential oils of the plants were also analyzed for their antioxidant properties. The total phenolic content was determined by the Folin-Ciocalteu method using gallic acid as the standard, while the phenolic substances were identified and quantified by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) coupled with a multi-wavelength ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) detector. The antioxidant capacity of the plant extracts was measured by their ability to scavenge free radicals such as (a) DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) and, (b) ABTS (2,2′-azinobis-(3-ethylbenzothiaziline-6- sulfonate). The Folin-Ciocalteu method proved the existence of antioxidants in the aromatic plant extracts. Taking into account the results of the DPPH and ABTS methods, the free radical scavenging capacity was confirmed. Eventually, all plants exhibited low but noticeable protection levels against lipid oxidation, as determined by the Rancimat test.
Abstract: Extracts of plants from the Malaysian rainforest and other fragile habitats are being researched intensively for identification of beneficial biological actions, with assessment of antioxidant behavior being a common component of such assessments. A number of tests for antioxidant behavior are used, with the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and ferric reduction activity potential (FRAP) assays often being used in parallel, and also with measurement of total phenolics content (TPC) as a surrogate marker for antioxidant capacity. The present study investigated the possible redundancy in using all three assays to determine antioxidant capacity in 92 extracts obtained from 27 plants from the Malaysian rainforest. The results demonstrated that the assays displayed a high (R ≥ 0.82) and significant (P < 0.0001) correlation with one another, indicating a high level of redundancy if all three assays are used in parallel. This appears to be a waste of potentially valuable plant extracts. Because of problems with the FRAP assay relating to color interference and variable rates of reaction point, the DPPH assay is the preferred assay in preliminary screening of extracts of plants from the Malaysian rainforest.
Abstract: The antioxidant activity of four species of the Malvaceae family (Sidastrum micranthum (A. St.-Hil.) Fryxell, Wissadula periplocifolia (L.) C. Presl, Sida rhombifolia (L.) E. H. L and Herissantia crispa L. (Brizicky))were studied using the total phenolic content, DPPH radical scavenging activity and Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) assays. The antioxidant activity of the crude extract, phases and two isolated flavonoids, kaempferol 3,7-di-O-α-l-rhamnopyranoside (lespedin) and kaempferol 3-O-β-d-(6''-E-p-coumaroil) glucopyranoside (tiliroside) was determined. The results showed that there is a strong correlation between total polyphenol contents and antioxidant activity of the crude extract of Sidastrum micranthum and Wissadula periplocifolia; however, this was not observed between Sida rhombifolia and Herissantia crispa. The ethyl acetate (EaF) phase showed the best antioxidant effect in the total phenolics, DPPH and TEAC assays, followed by the chloroform (CfF) phase, in most species tested. Lespedin, isolated from the EaF phase of W. periplocifolia and H. crispa may not be responsible for the antioxidant activity due to its low antioxidant activity (IC50: DPPH: 1,019.92 ± 68.99 mg/mL; TEAC: 52.70 ± 0.47 mg/mL); whereas tiliroside, isolated from W. periplocifolia, H. crispa and S. micrantum presented a low IC50 value (1.63 ± 0.86 mg/mL) compared to ascorbic acid in the TEAC assay.
Abstract: High rosmarinic acid (RA) productivity has been achieved by applying jasmonic acid and yeast extract elicitors to the in vitro sprout culture of Orthosiphon aritatus (IOSC). The highest RA accumulation from three solvents was detected in IOSC after treatment with yeast extract (5 g/L). HPLC analysis clearly confirmed a drastic increase in RA subjected to yeast extract elicitation. Therefore, this yeast extract elicited IOSC was chosen for a lactic acid bacteria (LAB) fermentation study as a model system. This selected IOSC was subjected to different types of LAB fermentations (Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 8014 and Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM) for different periods of time 24, 48 and 72 h. The LAB fermentations consisted of solid state fermentations (SSF) and liquid state fermentations (LSF) in a Digital Control Unit (DCU) fermenter system. The aim was to determine the effect of fermentation on the antioxidant properties of the plant extract. Results indicated that all types of LAB fermentation decreased the level of RA and total phenolics, however, a slight increase in total flavonoids and flavonols was observed in SSF samples. HPLC results confirmed that the longer the fermentation, the greater the reduction in RA content. The highest reduction was obtained in the sample of LSF inoculated with L. plantarum for a period of 72 h. The temperature of fermentation (37 °C) was predicted as contributing to the declining level in RA content. The loss in RA was concomitant with a loss of total antioxidant activity (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) scavenging activity, Trolox Equivalent Antioxidant Capacity (TEAC), and Superoxide Dismutase (SOD)-like activity). These results indicate that RA is the major contributor to the antioxidant activity of this plant. | <urn:uuid:56ce907d-3230-4cfe-8edf-113b6699058f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ajax/latest_articles/antioxidants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923458 | 1,886 | 2.09375 | 2 |
By Elizabeth Mitchell
Science reporter, BBC News
Artist's impression: The iconic Ice Age woolly mammoth
Scientists have discovered that the last Siberian woolly mammoths may have originated in North America.
Their research in the journal Current Biology represents the largest study of ancient woolly mammoth DNA.
The scientists also question the direct role of climate change in the eventual demise of these large beasts.
They believe that woolly mammoths survived through the period when the ice sheets were at their maximum, while other Ice Age mammals "crashed out".
The iconic Ice Age woolly mammoth - Mammuthus primigenius - roamed through mainland Eurasia and North America until about 10,000 years ago.
Previous studies had hinted that the last mammoths left in Siberia were not natives - but immigrants from North America.
However, more evidence was required to strengthen the case for this "out of America" theory.
A team of researchers led by Professor Hendrik Poinar from McMaster University in Canada collected 160 mammoth samples from across Holarctica - a region encompassing present day North America, Europe and Asia.
Well-preserved DNA material - between 4,000 and 40,000 years old - was obtained from "almost every part of the animal - even from preserved hide, skin and hair", Professor Poinar told BBC News.
They analysed DNA from mitochondria - genetic material which is passed from mother to offspring via the egg - and can be used to track the ancestry of a species back many hundreds of generations.
The genetic information confirmed that a North American mammoth population overturned those endemic to Asia.
It is hard to speculate why the North American woolly mammoths returned to Siberia.
BERING LAND BRIDGE
a vast tundra plain that connected Asia and North America
about 1,000 miles from north to south at its greatest extent
was exposed and submerged as global sea levels changed during the Pleistocene
flooded and became the Bering Strait about 11,000 years ago
may have enabled migration of humans from Asia to the Americas
"Presumably, conditions were favourable on the Bering land bridge which was more of a large filter than an open highway," suggested Professor Poinar.
The expansion of North American forests may have "pushed the mammoths along", he added.
At the same time, the native Siberian mammoths, which may have been around for much of the Middle Pleistocene, completely disappeared.
It is unclear if the Siberian mammoths experienced a "natural decline" or if they were outcompeted by the North American immigrants.
The endemic Siberian population had different molar features and a "very unique DNA signature" - that was dated to be almost 900,000 years old.
It is possible that it may not have been a true woolly mammoth - but a more primitive species.
"Many people thought that this (primitive) species had become extinct way before 38,000 years ago," said Professor Poinar.
"Palaeontologists were not so happy because these are the intricacies of DNA that are very difficult to discern based on mammoth tusks and teeth," he added.
Scientists are now beginning to understand the dynamic evolutionary history of these Ice Age mammals.
"This study adds to a growing body of evidence about just how dramatic and tumultuous the Pleistocene climate actually was," Dr Beth Shapiro, a scientist from Penn State University in the US, told BBC News.
"With ancient DNA, we can actually go back in time and look directly at these old populations.
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Sponsored by science teachers Jeremy Armstrong and Vijay Purugulla, the club not only is the first one of its kind in the county, but it the first archery program in the state of Georgia to be sponsored by the Olympic Archery in Schools program.
Founded by Purugulla, the club consists of 13 boys and seven girls. They practice Mondays at the Big Woods Goods sporting goods store in Canton.
With films such as “The Hunger Games” and “The Avengers,” not to mention the Summer Olympics in London, bringing archery to light, Purugulla felt he would have enough students show up to fill out a club at Etowah.
“I expected about 30, maybe 40 students to be interested,” Purugulla said.
Instead, on the day of signups, Purugulla found his classroom was filled with 70 prospective archers.
“We actually had to turn students away,” said Purugulla, who admitted students to the club using a first-come, first-serve basis. “The turnout was much bigger than I expected.”
Purugulla, who said he first became involved with archery in 1983, decided to start the club after retiring from coaching high school sports.
“I decided that archery would be a great activity for the school that would benefit anyone regardless of background or ability,” said Purugulla, a former cross country coach at Creekview. “You don’t have to be what is considered an athlete in high school to try it.”
For Purugulla, the draw of learning to use a bow is simple.
“When you shoot, there is nothing between you and the bow,” he said. “There is nothing fancy about it. It is just you, your bow, and your target.”
Senior Haley Cary was one of the first students to join.
“I was very excited when I heard about the club, but I had no idea that so many people would show up,” Cary said. “It’s nice to know that I was able beat out 50 other people to get in the club.”
Besides allowing students to feel like their favorite movie characters, Purugulla said he also felt archery was a great way to instill discipline in the shooter.
“Just like in the classroom, the more you pay attention, the more you focus, the more you listen — automatically, the more disciplined you are,” he said. “The goal is not just to be able to hit the target, but to focus on their body discipline and to understand the mechanics of how they shoot. They have to focus on themselves.”
Junior Sam Schuvart echoed similar thoughts as his coach.
“It teaches me patience,” Schuvart said. “You can’t just expect to go out and hit the target. You actually have to try. You have to think about what you are doing.”
Though the club has only been practicing for four weeks, the coaches have already scheduled the club for its first competition in November.
Purugulla hopes that, as the students continue to progress, they will begin to enter tournaments on their own, and eventually move onto a higher level of competition.
“I want them to see that they can keep growing in their level of skill — that they can go from our program to the Olympic Junior Archery program, and even beyond,” Purugulla said.
But more important for Purugulla is that the students find archery to be something they can enjoy doing for the rest of their lives.
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to Answer Questions Teens Ask About Suicide
What if my friend refuses to talk with someone and says if I tell
anyone he’s thinking of suicide, he’ll kill himself for sure?
This is not an unusual response. It is a form of testing and can be
interpreted as a question. The suicidal person will be unsure of
anyone who wants to
help. Some will be more unsure than others. This response is from a person
who is not quick to trust because of previous hurts and betrayals by
others of his confidence. Still, what this person is checking out
about the friend
who wants to help is how much they are willing to fight to save their
life. If the friend agrees not to tell anyone, they will lose his
What needs to be said to the potentially suicidal person in this situation?
A good response to the threat is:
“Look, you let me know you were feeling suicidal. If you didn’t want
help, you would never have said anything to me, so I’m not
going to let it go. Come on. Both of us will go see someone.”
This kind of response lets the person know how serious we are and
how much we care. It brings them back in touch with that part
In most cases they will agree to see someone after hearing this.
If they still insist on not talking and take off, it is critical
who can get to that youngster be told immediately.
Kids need to know exactly who they can tell and in what situations.
When in school, there are the teachers, counselors, etc. When
out of school,
there are their own parents, police, and the phone operator
for the Suicide Prevention Center, etc. Make sure they know where
to go for
Schools can work out an arrangement with a 24-hour prevention
center so that when kids call and identify the school they
if necessary, notify an identified person in the school.
What do I do if I want to break up with a boyfriend but he says he’ll
kill himself if I do?
When this occurs, the suicidal person is often very angry but unable
to direct the anger appropriately. He/she is also devastated by
the “rejection.” In
most cases, the breakup brings to the surface feelings around a much
earlier rejection by a parent that the suicidal person is unable
to separate out
emotionally from the current situation, or is not consciously aware
that the tremendous hurt he/she feels now goes back to a time long
The friend who is breaking up with this person who is doing the threatening
will also experience a lot of anger for such a drastic retaliation
as well as fear that it may actually happen. The tendency is to act
on the anger
and say something like, “Go ahead,” or “That’s
your problem, not mine.” Sometimes the person reacts to the fear
and either becomes immobilized or gives in to promising not to tell.
About the only response in this situation is something like:
I know you’re really upset; so am I, but I can’t keep going
out with you. You make me really mad when you dump suicide on me, but you
are also making it clear that you really are hurt, too. Both you and I
need to go talk to someone. I don’t want you to hurt yourself, but
I can’t lie to you and say I want to keep going out with you, either.
If you don’t go with me to talk this out with someone, I’ll
have to tell someone, because I’m still your friend and I don’t
want you to hurt yourself.”
If they are still talking suicide after this, it is imperative that
someone is told. It’s helpful to let students know that if they
do this much, they have done as much as they can possibly do. Stress
the importance of
telling someone, as this will help relieve them of the horrendous burden
of guilt should the person kill him/herself. A promise to talk to someone
is not enough in this situation. They must talk with someone immediately.
Once contact is made with a professional, they can take over, and the
responsibility of the friend has ended. They were honest and did all
they could possibly
What do I do when no one believes me or does anything if I tell
them about a friend I think is thinking about suicide?
The only thing to do when an adult, whether a parent or
counselor, refuses to believe someone is contemplating suicide
is to immediately go to someone
else who will listen and do something.
What if the counselor my friend is seeing isn’t helping?
Sometimes counselors and therapists are thought to be miracle workers,
and clients are said to be resistant or at fault if they are
not making progress. There is no therapist/counselor who can work
well with everyone.
Personality clashes happen; backgrounds get in the way, and
some problems are simply outside of the therapist’s skill and knowledge.
Yes, it is true that sometimes clients unknowingly sabotage
counseling, but it is also true that even the best therapist
is unable to
help some people who would do better with another counselor.
If counseling doesn’t seem to be helping, first let the counselor
know. A good counselor will agree and suggest taking another direction
for a period of time and if that doesn’t help, recommend another
counselor. A good counselor will also recognize the need for an immediate
referral if it is felt that continuing a while longer will not be helpful.
The counselor who does not do this, but quickly says the problem is
with the client, is likely not to be the therapist to continue to see.
Remember, the suicidal person often does not want to die, they
just want the hurt to end.
I would feel dumb asking a friend if they are suicidal. What
if they weren’t?
Won’t they think I’m crazy?
Yes they may call you crazy, but not really think you’re crazy.
By asking, you are showing how much you care, how much you pay attention
them, and how much courage you have to risk being wrong rather that
assume they can handle things.
What if someone wants to die because things are bad and
to change – shouldn’t they have the right
Ultimately, the person does make the final choice as
to whether they will live or end their life. It is
critical to remember,
who is certain that suicide is the only way usually
does not tell anyone or leave clues. Those who leave clues
life are crying out for help. If the response to their
cry is “That’s
your choice,” it may be interpreted as a rejection,
and as a decision on your part not to get involved
because you think they are
not worth saving.
Remember, the suicidal person often does not want to
die; they just want the hurt to end and know of no
other way or have not had the experience
of someone being there for them when they need it most.
How do I get my friend to talk when he/she
says it doesn’t help
Sometimes people find it difficult to talk because
they are confused and don’t know what they
are thinking. Sometimes they are scared that they
will say something to upset the listener. There may
be a fear
that as they talk, they may not like what they hear
Silence is a difficult situation to deal with
because the silent person is in control.
It leaves the listener
anxious about what to say or do. It helps in this
situation to let the person know
their silence probably has protected them before
from people who were insensitive, mean, critical,
what they had
or not serious enough to get so uptight over. If
you can let the person know you understand this
you’re not one of these people
and ask them who hurt them so badly that they feel like suicide, they are
likely to open up. If this doesn’t help,
and they continue their silence, get help.
Why should I call a suicide prevention center?
What can they do over the phone?
The counselors at these centers are trained to
talk with people in crisis. They generally
know what to
to say it,
and when. They can also
call others to come to the aid of a person
in need, or if you are calling about a friend,
It needs to be made clear, however, that
in some centers the philosophy is that a
person has a
right to choose
live or die.
This attitude is not one that I personally
support because psychologically, the person
in need is desperately hoping someone will
them from ending their life. To say to the
person that it
to ignore their cry
for help and not understand the psychological
dynamics. Ultimately, it can become the reason
attempt and death. We
What about someone who draws pictures of
a body hanging?
Remember that any reference to dying, verbal
or written, can be a clue that the person
indicate suicide, but this can’t be determined
until the person is asked about suicide. Drawings
should be taken seriously.
I know someone who jokes about it. What
do I do?
Suicide is no joke. Even people who
joke about it are serious. The joking
knows of no other way
to communicate. These people often
joke about everything that is serious
Any reference to dying, verbal or written, can be a clue that a person
This girl I know never
does anything she threatens
to do when she’s
mad. How do I know if she’ll do something dumb one of these times?
I get tired of her.
This kind of person makes us
angry after awhile. We
tend not to listen to them,
or even want to spend time
with them. This is a normal
The anger comes from our own fear that the one time we don’t take
the person seriously, they’ll do something drastic. That’s
a lot of pressure and makes us feel like we can’t win.
The fact is that each threat must be taken seriously because the risk
is high if it is ignored. It helps to sometimes say to this person,
upset me when you keep threatening to kill yourself. I know you’re
mad, but why would you want to give the person you’re mad at the
satisfaction of saying you’re crazy because of your suicide threats?
It really doesn’t help, and killing yourself is not likely to change
much of anything. Let’s go talk to someone who can help straighten
This may or may not help. The threat still needs to be taken seriously.
If you don’t feel comfortable dealing with the person, then tell
someone else who can get to them.
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Immigration Policy’s Backfire
THE SOURCE: “Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy: Explaining the Post-1965 Surge From Latin America” by Douglas S. Massey and Karen A. Pren, in Population and Development Review, March 2012.
In April, the Pew Research Center reported that the net number of people migrating from Mexico to the United States had fallen to zero, and might even have entered negative territory, largely thanks to the evaporation of job prospects in the United States. This finding coincides with the end of a four-decade trend that saw the Hispanic population of the United States rise from 10 million in 1970 to 50 million in 2010. What caused the upsurge? An ill-conceived immigration reform law in 1965 and decades of harsh enforcement policies that backfired, contend Princeton sociologist Douglas S. Massey and Karen A. Pren, manager of Princeton’s Mexican Migration Project.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was intended to open a new era for U.S. immigration policy. The sweeping legislation did away with retrograde quotas on select nationalities, replacing them with quotas that prioritized immigrants’ skills and family connections. Lawmakers also ended the Bracero program, a guest worker scheme for Latin Americans that critics put “on a par with Southern sharecropping.”
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7 Yoga Poses That Can Give You a Sore Back
If you're not thoughtful about the way you move, your "om" could turn into a serious "ouch." Here are 7 simple yoga exercises that can cause back pain -- and how to stay safe
CobraWe've seen you -- pushing up on your arms and into the floor so that you can mimic the exaggerated arch of this pose's namesake serpent. While the graceful position is pretty easy on the eyes, it's not difficult to see how hard it can be on your spine.
All the force you are exerting to arch your back concentrates at a narrow point in the lumbar spine, causing a compression injury and most likely, a very sore back.
Though this may fly in the face of what you've always known a cobra to be, don't put any substantial pressure on your hands when you are moving into this pose, says Rowe. Allow your body to bend from your mid-back, instead of lower down. Make sure you feel your body lengthening from the front, pulling through your shoulder blades as you move into your arch. "This posture should be easy and comfortable, and it's more important to do it in a way that protects your body than to match the picture in your mind of how it is supposed to look," she says.
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