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Since the dawn of photography photographers have struggled with skies. Much of the time they are flat, devoid of clouds, gray, boring....... you get the idea. What to do?
Many photographers make a habit of shooting interesting looking skies and then later superimposing these behind scenes with worthwhile foregrounds. Most master printers spend hours trying to coax detail out of burned-out skies. Everyone curses those great shots that are ruined, or at least made somewhat less than great, by featureless skies.
For people that have made the switch to the digital darkroom simple techniques like the one described in White Sky Blues can help nature a bit by improving clear skies with a bit of sunrise or sunset colouration.
There is a software program though that can change the way you do photography forever. It's called Four Seasons.
RAYflect was bought by Metacreations just as this review was first published. Four Seasons was then made part of Kai's Power Tools 6.0 and was called KPT SkyEffects. This was subsequently bought by Corel and is now part of a package called KPT6. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
Zabriskie Point, Death Valley
Not a bad shot from Zabriskie Point at sunrise, but the sky is disappointing. I guess I wasn't there on the right day. But, since Death Valley is some 2,000 miles from where I live it's a bit difficult to drop back on a day with a more interesting sky.
Photographed with a Noblex 135U panoramic camera on Fuji Provia 100.
Here's what I was able to make of it with Four Seasons.
Zabriskie Point, Death Valley (D)
I don't know about you, but for me this sky makes the shot come alive. Here's how Four Seasons made it possible.
The way Four Seasons is applied is by your first Selecting the sky area that you want to replace. This is done with the Magic Wand tool, the Color Range selection or even the new (V5.5) Extraction command. The better the Selection that you make, the more natural the sky will appear. Using the Filter drop-down Four Seasons is then selected and the above window appears.
There is much more here than meets the eye. On the left you can see that you can select and manipulate up to four different cloud layers as well as Haze and Fog effects. Each one of these has individually editable parameters, and like Layers in PhotoShop can individually be turned on or off.
In addition the colour of the sky, the position of the sun and or moon and more than a dozen other parameters can be individually selected and adjusted. It's a little like playing god. The program is even smart enough so that if you move the sun position close to the horizon the sky and clouds change colour appropriately. Similarly, when you introduce haze and fog effects these change the "feel" of the light just as they would in the real world. I've spent many years in software development and all I can say is that this is a programming tour-de-force.
I could go on for pages about this program's features, but since it's downloadable in demo form why not try it out yourself?
The fly in the ointment is you, the user. One has to use extreme restraint when using Four Seasons. Anything other than the lightest touch and the most subtle effects can be obvious and ugly. Here's an example.
Zion Cliffs (D)
Pretty bad huh? Interestingly the cliffs really were mauve in the pre-dawn light under which I photographed them. No manipulation was done to the colours. The sky is another matter. As I was first learning to use Four Seasons I figured that a dramatic sky would help the scene. Well, not quite this dramatic.
Like any sophisticated tool Four Seasons can be used for good or for ill. It's important that you are sensitive and aware of the direction and color of light in your photograph. You need also pay attention to whether or not the cloud conditions that you create are appropriate for the locale and season in which your photograph was taken. Be creative, but be very subtle!
Some User Hints
Four Seasons is slow. It is extremely calculation intensive and when working on a large sky area of a hi-res file it can bring your new super-fast computer to its knees. I currently (Nov, '99) use a 600Mz Pentium III with 512MB of RAM and I've had Four Seasons take five minutes or more to create a sky on a 50MB file.
A solution is to experiment using a low resolution version of your file (96dpi), and then when you have the sky that you want reload the high-res file and apply it while you go for coffee. | <urn:uuid:35741ec3-539e-446b-838a-3277af76789f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://luminous-landscape.com/1photo-pages/4_seasons.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96596 | 992 | 1.625 | 2 |
Is the US About to Launch a War of Aggression?
by Paul Kurtz
The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 23, Number 1.
What is the difference between a preemptive first strike and a war of aggression? The latter is defined in Webster’s as “a forceful action... intended to dominate... (an) unprovoked violation by one country of the territorial integrity of another.” Is the impending war on Iraq a war of aggression?
The United States is arguably the most awesome superpower in the history of the world, able to transport massive military forces anywhere on the globe to enforce the rule of pax Americana. It is essential that it use its power responsibly and with restraint.
The efforts of the Bush administration—now supported by the Congress—to impose its will unilaterally in its foreign policy raises fears among our allies about our misuse of our great power.
President Bush insists that Iraq is “a threat to the peace” and “security of the United States,” for it possesses “weapons of mass destruction,” and that thus a preemptive strike is justified. But Iraq is a small impoverished country of 25 million people, virtually landlocked, with limited technological-industrial resources. It is difficult to see what kind of threat it poses realistically to the United States, in spite of the repetition of the mantra designed to raise fears in the American public.
Many countries of the world now possess weapons of mass destruction; and an estimated forty-four countries have the know-how to build nuclear weapons. (In this regard Iran is a far greater threat than Iraq.) This is why so many are skeptical of the intensified war drums now being beaten so loudly by the Bush administration—on the eve of the national elections for control of the Congress! Many wonder whether there are not deeper geo-political-economic interests at stake, such as the control and exploitation of the vast untapped oil fields of Iraq (also coveted by France and Russia).
To insist that a regime be toppled is a familiar ploy of those who wish to embark on a war of aggression to achieve its national interests, but it is a violation of recognized international law. To threaten the UN that the US will act if it does not undermines the entire concept of collective security introduced to stem wars of aggression after World War II.
The no-first-strike principle has been the centerpiece of the moral case for US wars in the past. There is no imminent threat of a direct attack by Iraq today. If the President barges ahead with his preemptive strike, it would seriously undermine, perhaps irreparably, the international framework of world peace and order so laboriously developed in the last half a century.
The United States should be patient and allow the inspection process administered by the UN to proceed. To do otherwise is to endanger the moral authority that America has had since the Wilsonian era as a stalwart defender of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. To insist that the US has a divine right to invade Iraq, if others do not follow our bidding, would define us in the eyes of the world as an aggressor nation. | <urn:uuid:2049b809-f334-47ef-a542-16cce9d81cd9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/kurtz_23_1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947222 | 646 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Junior golf will be the big winner Monday when defending PGA champion Payne Stewart, two-time U.S. Open champions Curtis Strange and Andy North and former Masters winner Craig Stadler tee it up in the 1990 Grand Slam of Golf at Kemper Lakes Golf Course in Hawthorn Woods.
Also included in the field will be 16 amateurs, who paid about $6,000 each to play in the one-day event. About 7,000 spectators are expected.
Organizers hope to raise more than $100,000 for the Professional Golfers` Association of America`s Junior Golf Foundation. The Grand Slam is the largest single source of funding for the foundation.
The foundation provides materials, manpower and organization for various national junior golf programs, including Clubs for Kids, Learn to Swing clinics, First Swing and Junior medalist teaching programs and PGA Junior Golf Schools. | <urn:uuid:af556626-c82d-40a6-b168-f4d677787692> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-05-28/sports/9002150263_1_pga-champion-payne-stewart-andy-north-big-winner | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919992 | 179 | 1.515625 | 2 |
John Brown Museum
Reverend Samuel Adair and his wife, Florella, were peaceful abolitionists who came to Kansas and settled near Osawatomie, an abolitionist community and a center of conflict during "Bleeding Kansas." The Adair cabin was a station on the Underground Railroad and Florella's half brother, John Brown, used this cabin as his headquarters. The cabin survived the Battle of Osawatomie where John Brown and 30 free-state defenders fought 250 proslavery militia in 1856, and stands on the battle site today. Visitors to the Museum can learn more about the Adairs, John Brown, and others who struggled to survive the border war.
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Why did it end so badly?
- Margaret Thatcher. Vol. II: The Iron Lady by John Campbell
Cape, 913 pp, £25.00, October 2003, ISBN 0 224 06156 9
Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. Even those, John Campbell suggests, who have little or no memory of Margaret Thatcher, live in a world she created; and from which there is no going back. More than any other British prime minister, even Gladstone, she conforms to Max Weber’s type of the modern demagogic politician: the leader who appeals directly to the electorate over the heads of the party machine; and who subordinates the machine to his or her political personality. In the end, the machine overthrew her; but there is no escaping that personality. Even her foolishness was larger than life.
Campbell’s biography, of which this is the second and final volume, is not the only one – and there will soon be an official one by Charles Moore. It will, however, be difficult to trump. Its argument is always fair and judicious: Thatcher-haters will be just as disappointed as devotees. The book begins in 1979, the year Thatcher became prime minister, and covers her active political life since then, as well as (such as it is) her private life. Much ‘official’ material remains unavailable to him: the records of the first year of her government will not be released until 2009. But this is now a very leaky country and it is unlikely that Campbell will have missed much. It is more or less de rigueur for disaffected civil servants to leak to the press, while disaffected ministers are happy to ignore the stupidities of the Official Secrets Act. Furthermore, the American archives can be a gold mine and, as Campbell notes, for all their limitations, official inquiries like the Scott Inquiry into the Matrix Churchill affair tell us a great deal about British government in general and Thatcher’s government in particular. ‘Witnesses’ – friends, colleagues, enemies – are now readier to speak frankly than they once were. Campbell has been able to write a very full biography indeed. There are a number of conclusions one can draw from his account and it is probably best simply to enumerate them, not necessarily in chronological order.
1. Her first government (1979-83) was probably the best. Although she was careful to ensure that the treasury was staffed by like-minded people – led by the chancellor, Geoffrey Howe – the fact that a majority of the cabinet were ‘wets’ meant that she had to argue her case, and the opposition or scepticism of the wets reinforced what was then her habitual caution. Campbell argues that, in practice, Howe forced the pace, though (unlike the wets) she did support his deflationary 1981 budget, which was, in a sense, the Thatcherite Rubicon.
2. Crossing the Rubicon was not something the electorate wished to do. At the time of the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands in 1982, her government was in low water. That invasion (‘salvation in the South Atlantic’) had two consequences: it made support for the government almost a patriotic duty, and Thatcher’s self-estimation and confidence were enormously increased. Although Campbell argues that in the long term the war represented an almost insane misdirection of priorities, Thatcher emerges from his account rather well. However much her government was responsible for what happened, she plainly couldn’t not do anything. She was in addition a good war leader. She admitted her own inexperience, admired the professionalism of the armed forces, and let them get on with it. She was very lucky, and so were they, but they made their luck, and for that Thatcher deserves credit.
3. Thatcherism developed only slowly, partly as a result of the prime minister’s political caution. Campbell points out how nervous she was of touching institutions that enjoyed wide public support. She was, for example, much less ready than Kenneth Clarke to reform the NHS. The enforced sale of council housing was part of her original programme, but it was assumed to be risk-free and had long been contemplated by the party. It was the success of the privatisation – a word she did not particularly like – of BT and British Gas which set the whole thing going. Only then did she become an enthusiast; but she was not always the most enthusiastic. Indeed, some of the worst excesses of ‘Thatcherism’ occurred under her successors. She was similarly cautious in her attitude to the miners. She gave in in 1981 because she thought a fight then would not be worth it. But she was determined there should be no further capitulation and made her preparations accordingly. Campbell argues that however socially divisive the 1984 miners’ strike was, it was a fight Thatcher had to win – especially once the NUM was in the hands of Scargill and others who wished to defy an unpleasant reality.
4. Campbell notes her almost obsessive interest in the ‘secret state’: the nexus between the intelligence services, the arms industry and foreign policy which lay behind one of her government’s most serious crises, the Westland affair, and what might have been one of the most damaging, the arming of Iraq. Thatcher does not emerge well from Campbell’s absorbing discussion of these crises and it was fortunate for her that in the Westland affair Neil Kinnock fluffed his opportunities and that it was, in any case, probably too complicated and arcane an issue for the electorate to master.
5. Campbell’s analysis of her attitudes to Europe and the United States (attitudes not unrelated to the secret state) is also shrewd. It is not an unchanging story, though it involves some of her most basic impulses. In the early days she was more pro-European and, privately, more critical of the United States. This changed when, after the 1983 election, the Labour Party became more pro-European and the TUC discovered that the EU was more likely to protect the interests of its members than any British government. Campbell makes less of this than he could have. What is true of Europe is true also of Thatcherism more generally: as a political doctrine it tended to be what the Labour Party was not. It was against what Labour favoured; that is what unified it. Its apparent incoherence matched negatively, so to speak, the incoherence of the Labour Party in the early 1980s – its simultaneous belief, for example, in both a planned economy and free collective bargaining. Once Labour began to turn to the EU, Thatcher began to turn against it. The hostility to Europe grew as she perceived herself to be a world figure: Europe was not only un-Thatcherite, it was provincial. Nonetheless, the constraints of office to some extent checked that hostility and her more extravagant admiration for the United States. Campbell argues convincingly that her government was never as subservient to American policy as is Blair’s. He also shows how cautious and flexible her policies towards the Soviet Union were. She was especially anxious not to do anything that would undermine Gorbachev. It was only after she resigned that her hostility to Europe and admiration of the US became unbalanced and here her behaviour did immense damage to the unity of the party and the standing of Major’s government.
6. Her premiership accelerated the decay of cabinet or collective government. This was partly because she was originally in a minority within her own cabinet and bypassing it was a way of frustrating the majority. But she always had a preference for ad hoc committees (which she usually chaired) and dealing with ministers on an individual basis. She was suspicious of her colleagues, even the most loyal, like Howe, and her treatment of him and of Nigel Lawson was appalling; though it is easy to exaggerate the political differences between her and them. Nor should we be oversympathetic to Howe, one of the most obstinately wrong-headed of chancellors, or to Lawson, one of the most reckless. There was an increasing reliance on court favourites – particularly Bernard Ingham and Charles Powell, the man Campbell describes as the real deputy prime minister.
7. Campbell is interesting on Thatcher’s attitude to local government and here he attempts some psychological history. He makes the point that Thatcher loathed not just Labour, but all local government, and suggests that this derives from her attitude to her father. Although she was inclined to say she owed him everything, Campbell notes that she got out of her native Grantham as fast as she could and rarely went back. Her hostility to local government, he argues, was a way of striking at the joylessness and repression of her childhood. Whether or not this is right, there is no doubting the hostility, whose apotheosis was the poll tax. She was at first characteristically nervous about the tax, but once converted, characteristically immovable. The attack on local government probably sums up Thatcherism better than anything; and the event that captures its essence is the sale of County Hall, the dignified seat of London government, to be not a university (as it might have been) but, among other things, a hotel and an aquarium.
Campbell makes the point that Thatcher’s Thatcherism was based on a number of paradoxes. Many are now well known. There is the paradox of the woman who wanted to free the people and disarm the state but left us yet more burdened by an increasingly bullying and authoritarian state; who advocated prudence, saving and hard work but who bequeathed us a hedonistic and debt-laden economy; who gave up being a research chemist – presumably, in Thatcherite terms, a ‘useful’ occupation – in order to become a lawyer; who wanted a classless society free of Old Etonian types yet created hereditary peers and did not protest when her husband was made a baronet, a hereditary honour which ensured that her son became Sir Mark; who promoted a benignly neutral market but ruthlessly engineered it to serve the interests of some at the expense of others; who wished to promote a vigorous entrepreneurial class which was, like the East African Asians or the Jews (whose support in her Finchley constituency she always cultivated), most likely to come from outside, but who was at the same time determined to preserve the country’s racial and cultural homogeneity whatever the economic cost.
I am not sure how far these were real paradoxes, at any rate for her. Take the state. When speaking of the state and its relation to society, Thatcherites use the word ‘freedom’, rarely ‘liberty’; and for them, freedom means freedom within a market politically constructed to favour some against others. They do not often use the word ‘liberty’ because it has different political connotations. Thatcher is a conservative and conservatives are not libertarians. The market for them has a disciplinary function, as does the state. Which of the two a government uses for a given disciplinary purpose depends on circumstances, but either will do. Similarly, the fact that the Thatcherite economy was not in practice based on prudence and delayed gratification – quite the opposite – would not have appeared paradoxical to its founder. In one of the most striking sentences in the book – a sentence full of implications – Campbell writes that Thatcher had ‘no experience of business’. She knew nothing of the history of the British economy; nor did most of those who increasingly had her ear. She had no real idea of what made a successful capitalist economy. To the extent that she had an idea it was negative: that the role of a government was to eliminate its ideological enemies, trade unions, for example, or state controls. Once that was done, instant felicity. That a prudent government, which wanted a hardworking and provident people, might not have abolished exchange or credit controls is simply not an objection Thatcher understood intellectually – though she might have done so at some instinctive level.
Campbell touches on a further paradox which cannot be fully developed within a biography, though it has a biographical component. Given that, as he rightly suggests, Thatcher, on the whole, won the argument, and given that for the majority of the population there was, for whatever reason, a significant rise in real living standards during her premiership, why was the whole thing in the end such an electoral disaster for the Conservative Party? The fact is that the disaster owed much to Thatcher’s own behaviour and aspirations. Her fundamental aim was to destroy the Labour Party and ‘socialism’, not to transform the British economy. If the destruction of socialism also transformed the economy, well and good, but that was for her a second-order achievement. Socialism was to be destroyed by a major restructuring of the electorate: in effect, the destruction of the old industrial working class. Its destruction was not at first consciously willed. The disappearance of much of British industry in the early 1980s was not intended, but it was an acceptable result of the policies of deflation and deregulation; and was then turned to advantage. The ideological attack on the working class was, I think, willed. It involved an attack on the idea of the working class – indeed, on class as a concept. People were, via home ownership or popular capitalism, encouraged to think of themselves as not working class, whatever they actually were. The market thus disciplined some, and provided a bonanza for others. The economy was treated not as a productive mechanism but as a lottery, with many winners. The problem with such a policy was that it created a wildly unstable economy which Thatcher’s chancellors found increasingly difficult to control, and in which many of the apparent winners later became aggrieved losers.
The attempt to destroy the Labour Party also involved many risky political strategies. For the Conservatives to take up populism, to declare themselves in favour of a classless society and against Old Etonians, is to play with fire. There is no certainty that the outcome will be the one that is wanted. Although, as Campbell demonstrates, Thatcher spent much time cosseting tabloid editors and grovelling to their employers, it is arguable that in the long term the journalistic techniques of a commercially driven tabloid press did as much damage to the Conservatives as to Labour. The Sun is an unreliable ally, and those elites Thatcherism was designed to prop up emerged no less damaged by it than trade-union leaders. At any event, one consequence of these ‘democratic’ attempts to refashion the British class system for an essentially reactionary purpose was to create a middle class only loosely tied (or tied not at all) to the Conservative Party and almost to destroy the old Conservative working class, an indispensable element of its traditional electorate. And Lady Thatcher bears much of the responsibility for this.
The last paradox is that her legacy to the Conservative Party has been so powerful that the party can do nothing about this failed strategy – other than hope for the best. Of the four men who succeeded her as leader, only one, John Major, was not a Thatcherite as the Thatcherites understood Thatcherism, and Thatcher did her best, on the whole successfully, to undermine him. William Hague gave up any serious attempt to reposition the party, and his two successors have been Thatcherites of the purest water. Michael Howard, of course, was not elected simply because he was a Thatcherite: he was elected because he is a bruiser who the party assumed could do more damage to the government than anyone else. In this sense, his election is purely cynical and opportunist. But to see it only in those terms is to ignore the fact that no candidate thought to be outside the canon could have been elected. It was not a question of Thatcherite or non-Thatcherite, but which Thatcherite. Howard will certainly be more electorally acute than Thatcher was in her last days, but he will not depart in any essential from the legacy, despite what it has done to the Conservative Party. Si monumentum requiris . . .
Although Campbell probably underestimates the political and social ambition of Thatcherism – its attempt to recast British society – his overall conclusion is just. Thatcher was not the genius imagined by her many admirers nor the evil genius imagined by her many opponents. She did not destroy the welfare state or transform the fundamental values of the British people. In many ways, she simply went along with a movement common to all Western societies, particularly English-speaking ones. (Indeed, some, like New Zealand, went further and faster than she did.) For the most part she was only on the side of history, however much she tried to make it. But she gave this historic movement a vocabulary, a dynamic force, an indomitable character, which personalised it and made it almost inescapable. | <urn:uuid:d53a0338-5115-4283-ab7a-ec04b0bd1be2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n06/ross-mckibbin/why-did-it-end-so-badly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980905 | 3,465 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Golden Rule was acquired by United Healthcare back in 2003. The individual health plans are now marketed and sold under the new brand UnitedHealthOne. The way I understand it is as follows: The UnitedHealthOne products are regulated by the insurance laws in Illinois. They are marketed in other states through an association called FACT. Golden Rule Insurance company underwrites the UnitedHealthOne products.
United Healthcare has an excellent reputation and offer a number of insurance products in the Medicare, Large Group, Small Group, Family,and Individual health insurance markets. Over 55 million people are covered by a United Healthcare product.
Insurance regulations prevent me from writing about specific benefits. Fortunately benefit summaries are easy to get. What I can write about is some of the interesting features of their plans.
- They have a huge nationwide network that has over 730,000 doctors and over 5,000 hospitals. Their size also helps them negotiate better discounts which saves you money in the long run. One of my clients recently had a pacemaker put in...The hospitals prices was $147,000...United Healthcare's negotiated / discounted rate was $64,000...that's huge discount.
- Of course UnitedHealthOne plans conform with PPACA (healthcare reform laws) and preventative care services are covered with no cost sharing. Lifetime limits have also been lifted as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- FACT, the association you have to join to get the insurance, offers good discounts on a wide variety of things.
- Untied HealthOne recently came out with a new "Deductible Credit" benefit. You'll have to refer to the benefit summary for specific details, but basically if you don't meet your deductible the lower your deductible the following year. I would rather they lower premiums but I guess it's better than nothing. Hopefully the lower deductible will help you accept the higher premium.
Copay plans are great for those looking for predictable cost. Fixed copays for office visits and prescription drugs. Health Savings accounts are best for those looking to have control over how they spend their health care dollars. Trading off a higher deductible for a significantly lower premium. HSA's - health savings accounts continue to have the same great network discounts and have additional tax advantages. For the absolute lowest premiums United healthcare offers plans with really high, up to 10,000, individual deductibles. Benefit summaries detailing coverage for each of their plans are available as part of the instant health insurance quotes above. | <urn:uuid:460d83cf-e4d3-4187-9216-03d059fe359b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.getonlinequotes.com/golden-rule-health-insurance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968981 | 508 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Television, the movies, and computer games fill the minds of their viewers with a daily staple of fantasy, from tales of UFO landings, haunted houses, and communication with the dead to claims of miraculous cures by gifted healers or breakthrough treatments by means of fringe medicine. The paranormal is so ubiquitous in one form of entertainment or another that many people easily lose sight of the distinction between the real and the imaginary, or they never learn to make the distinction in the first place. In this thorough review of pseudoscience and the paranormal in contemporary life, psychologist Terence Hines shows readers how to carefully evaluate all such claims in terms of scientific evidence.
Hines devotes separate chapters to psychics; life after death; parapsychology; astrology; UFOs; ancient astronauts, cosmic collisions, and the Bermuda Triangle; faith healing; and more. New to this second edition are extended sections on psychoanalysis and pseudopsychologies, especially recovered memory therapy, satanic ritual abuse, facilitated communication, and other questionable psychotherapies. There are also new chapters on alternative medicine and on environmental pseudoscience, such as the connection between cancer and certain technologies like cell phones and power lines.
Finally, Hines discusses the psychological causes for belief in the paranormal despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This valuable, highly interesting, and completely accessible analysis critiques the whole range of current paranormal claims. | <urn:uuid:174cc25a-3453-47d5-8e87-ff9818e8868a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.booksamillion.com/product/9781573929790 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900895 | 283 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Welcome you to our WaterSongline Prayer Resource page. We will continue to share resources that help and inspire your ceremonial. Blessings
Sacred songs have always been away of our ancestors communing with the all above, giving gratitude, calling in the healing and renewal of self, family, friends, loved ones, communities and all our relations.
Many sacred songs are learned in ceremony. Some have been passed down for millenniums and others arise from the heart of the person. Many of the songs words may not have exact meanings, the meaning is in the intention behind the sacred sound. It is the vibration of that sound combined with the intent of the singer that holds the healing. Therefore, know that we all have sacred songs in our hearts. We can ask for them to come forward through our prayers, meditations, and dreams. When a sacred song comes forward always remember to give gratitude to the divine source from which it sprang.
The following sacred prayer songs have been kindly shared with us. Look out as more are added.
Arapaho Native American Church Water/Morning Prayer Sung by Ann Renee Rosencranz (1 of the 16 Wisdom Keepers of the Watersongline). Click here to listen to Water_Morning Songs
Nibi (The Water) Song was e-mailed to us by an equally beautiful Water Sister called Deborah. We are told that all have permission to sing it. The song is called Nibi (The Water) Song. The story behind the song is very touching. Here it is as told on the website Empty Glass for Water (song also available on website given).
This song Nibi was written by Doreen Day at the request of her grandson. She attended a conference about the water in which the internationally known speaker, Dr. Masaru Emoto said, the very least we should do every day, is to speak to the water: Water, we love you. We thank you. We respect you.
So she did this. Every day on their drive to drop Mashkoonce (Little Elk) to school, they passed a body of water. And every day they said these words to the water as they drove by. They made games by saying it in different voices and then would say it as fast as they could. Then one day Mashkoonce, said, “Nokomis why can’t we say this in our language?” So, Dorene asked her daughter’s language teacher to write it in Ojibwemowin. Dorene had the words taped to the car visor as they learned the words.
One day this grandson Mashkoonce said, “Nokomis why don’t we sing the words, don’t you think the water would like it to be sung?” So she thought about it and came up with the tune. They sang this song to the water every morning on their drive to school. It is sung like a lullaby and we don’t use shakers or drums.
Ne-be Gee Zah- gay- e- goo. Gee Me-gwetch -wayn ne- me – goo. Gee Zah Wayn ne- me- goo
This song is brought forth by Mashkoonce Day, Wasaw Wahzhoo Banaise Dodem (Condor Clan). Performed by Dorene Day, Waubanewquay, Marten Clan. Produced by Stephen Lang
SACRED CONNECTION & EDUCATION
As we prepare to send out our healing for our Mother Waters, Earth and Humanity we can begin build and direct the power of our intent by making a connection with nature, and the issues at hand.
Grandmother Mona Polacca, Hopi Tewa Helps to Draft Paper World Water Forum 6 in France
Grandmother Mona Polacca, a Hopi-Tewa, is one of the many Grandmothers who have been actively raising awareness on our water and humanitarian issues. She was one of many First Nation People who drafted a paper that was presented at the World Water Forum 6 in France. The paper called for the rights of water for everyone, but interestingly enough they also say that water has rights to. Water has always been sacred to First Nation People. Actually, before the grab for the Earth, water was honored by all nations and cultures Click the following link to read the draft paper presented at the World Water Forum 6 in France: IWFWP_Statement_to WWF6(3) (1) (2)
Grandmother Agnes from the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers – Speaks on Water
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Seniors and People with Disabilities contract with local Community Developmental Disability Programs (CDDP)
to provide many services to eligible individuals
living within the county area. One critical role of the CDDP is the provision of service coordination, conducted by Services Coordinators and Support Specialists hired through each county. Services Coordinators and Support Specialists essentially “open the door” to services for eligible individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. The distinction between a Services Coordinator and a Support Specialist is tied to the services an individual with developmental disabilities receives. A Services Coordinator works with the individual and their family who receive Comprehensive Services
. A Support Specialist works with individuals who receive services through brokerages
. For additional information regarding the overall responsibilities of the CDDP, refer to Oregon’s Administrative Rule 411-320-0010-411-320-0200.
Who are the Services Coordinators or Support Specialists and how do I get in touch with them?
Local Community Developmental Disability Programs (CDDP)
hire Services Coordinators and Support Specialists. In larger counties, there are a greater number of Services Coordinators/Support Specialists, while in rural areas, there may be only one position.
How are Services Coordinators qualified for this work
A person employed as a Services Coordinator or a Support Specialist must have at least a bachelor’s degree and two years’ work experience in human services. Five years of equivalent training and work experience and knowledge of the public service system for developmental disability services in Oregon can substitute for the college requirement. To assure a measure of consistency across the state, all newly hired Services Coordinators and Support Specialists must participate in a basic training sequence provided by Seniors and People with Disabilities link to Sample Basic Case Management Agenda (Word document).
Additionally, each county provides training, which includes but is not limited to:
- an overview of DD services and related human services within the county
- the Administrative Rules which govern the CDDP
- an overview of licensing and certification rules for service providers
- an overview of the Client Process Monitoring System (CPMS)
- a review and orientation to Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Administration (SS), Home and Community Based Waiver Services, and the Oregon Health Plan
All Service Coordinators and Support Specialists carry the responsibility as a mandatory reporter of abuse, including abuse of individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness, seniors and children. Beyond this training, all Services Coordinators are also required to participate in a minimum of 20 hours per year of additional training, and attend all Department mandated training events. | <urn:uuid:200a7679-ac68-4559-b8c4-b827454bd1f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oregon.gov/dhs/DD/pages/county/service_coord.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93538 | 531 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Couples and singles welcome
Challenge: Gay and lesbian couples often face cultural stereotypes, misinformation, discrimination, family rejection, and a perceived lack of visible and healthy role models. As a result, many of us have faulty beliefs about the quality and longevity of same-sex relationships. Left unchallenged, those beliefs can limit our capacity to develop meaningful long-term connection.
Solution: Research demonstrates that same-sex couples may actually have some strengths and advantages when compared to heterosexual relationships. A summary of these results leads to practical application and confidence that can boost the connection between same-sex partners.
Course Overview: Join Jeff Lutes as he summarizes the surprising findings from the research on gay and lesbian couples. As a bonus, Jeff will share the steps for developing a "well of goodwill" - a quality often observed in healthy and happy couples. Participation is completely confidential. Attendees can opt to listen quietly or engage actively during the question and answer period with Jeff.
Tuition: No charge - free introductory webinar
Facilitator: Jeff Lutes, M.S., LPC
Duration: 45-60 minutes
Dates & Times:
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Shortly after its Friday morning launch, SpaceX engineers at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station scrambled to resolve an apparent thruster problem that could have potentially derailed the space transport company's latest resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Nine minutes after the launch at 10 a.m., a Dragon cargo capsule went into orbit by the 157-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket. Moments later, engineers monitoring the capsule from the ground reported a problem.
Three of the SpaceX Dragon's four thruster pods did not activate
properly, likely due to on-board systems, delaying the spacecraft's deployment of two solar arrays, USA Today reports.
Several hours later, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced via Twitter that the company's mission controllers managed to successfully deploy the solar array shortly before noon.
On its current resupply mission to the space station, the cargo capsule was equipped with 1,200 pounds of supplies and science equipment plus an additional 600 pounds of hardware in its unpressurized "trunk," the USA Today reports.
Friday's launch was the second of 12 resupply missions NASA has contracted out with SpaceX through a $1.6 billion contract. The first successful launch occurred last October, when the Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX made history by being the first privately held company to send a cargo payload to the International Space Station
The station, which is currently orbiting around 250 miles above the Atlantic, near the New England coastline, has a six-man crew with two Americans, one Canadian, and three Russians. The present commander at the space station is NASA astronaut Kevin Ford.
NASA also awarded SpaceX a contract to develop and demonstrate human-rated Dragon transports, which it says will be ready by 2015. If all goes as planned, the capsule will arrive at the station on Saturday, where it will remain for three weeks, according to the SpaceX website.
The vessel will return to Earth March 25, splashing down off the coast of Baja, California.
Star Trek's 'Scotty' to Reach Final Frontier on SpaceX Rocket
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Climate Change Caused Radical North Sea Shift
Fueled by previously unappreciated links between climate and ecology, the North Sea has undergone a radical ecological shift in the last half-century, say scientists.
The very shape of the food web has changed, from plankton on up to the cod and flatfish that once dominated the icy waters, supporting rich commercial fisheries. They’ve been largely replaced by jellyfish and crabs.
The full scope of the change has gone relatively unnoticed, and could foreshadow changes in waters around the world.
“Climate-driven changes in the biology of the sea are largely hidden from view,” said Richard Kirby, a University of Plymouth marine biologist and Royal Society Research Fellow. “If similar changes occurred in a temperate forest, we would be shocked.”
In a study published in the upcoming December Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Kirby and Gregory Beaugrand, an oceanologist at the Lille University of Science and Technology, analyze decades of climate and ecosystem data gathered in the North Sea, a pocket of ocean bordered by the United Kingdom and Scandinavia.
Though relatively small, the North Sea has historically been a fabulously fertile fishing ground. Even now, it provides about five percent of the global fish harvest — but that’s barely a third of what it yielded just a century ago.
Declining stocks have been blamed almost entirely on overfishing. However, though fishing pressures have indeed been intense, some scientists have suspected that water temperatures are also a factor.
Over the last quarter-century, the North Sea’s upper layers have warmed by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit. That seems like little, but in the North Sea, summer and winter water temperatures differ by just a few degrees. Even a few degrees of change is relatively profound, and enough to disrupt aquatic organisms accustomed to functioning in a very narrow thermal range.
Whether the warming is man-made or not, it’s a sign of times to come. Global ocean temperatures are expected to experience a comparable or greater rise during the next century. And the consequences, as anticipated by the North Sea, have been relatively unacknowledged. Most discussions of climate change impacts focus on the terrestrial. When ocean life is mentioned, it’s in the context of of coral reef bleaching or acidifying waters.
Both those threats are grave, but the possibility of oceans completely changing their character, independent of acidification or reef effects, may be just as troubling.
“The effect of climate on the marine food web, the way small changes can be amplified through the web, that’s the moral of the story here,” said Kirby. “And food webs everywhere will be affected in a similar way.”
At the heart of Kirby and Beaugrand’s findings is data from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, which has been run in the North Atlantic since 1931, when explorer Alister Hardy invented the recorder — a specialized box that’s dragged behind commercial ships, allowing researchers to take sea-wide samples of plankton and juvenile members of other species.
Combined with temperature records, the CPRs provides the most comprehensive climate-ecosystem dataset of any ocean, if not the entire world. And as temperatures have changed, so has every part of the food web, starting with its foundation.
“If you were to divide zooplankton into those that prefer warmer southern waters, and those that prefer colder northern waters, and look at the boundaries between those groups, it’s moved north by over 700 miles in the last 40 years,” said Kirby. “That’s one of the largest range shifts, if not the largest, that’s been recorded.”
The distribution of hundreds of species have changed, in every niche from plankton up to the North Sea’s top predators. Cod and flatfish numbers have plummeted, and tuna have vanished. The ecological roles they once played are now occupied by jellyfish and bottom-dwelling crabs.
“The North Sea has fundamentally changed. It’s a totally different ecosystem from what it was,” said Kirby.
When Kirby and Beaugrand crunched the numbers describing these patterns with equations designed to separate cause from coincidence, they found that temperature drove the changes. They also found evidence for what they call “trophic amplification.”
“Because temperature acts on different components of the food web, the gross effect is amplified,” said Kirby. “It affects the phytoplankton that copepods feed on; it affects the copepods; it affects the predators who eat the copepods; and all those effects, magnified, are much greater than any one alone.” This compounding dynamic is responsible for the extreme rapidity of the shift, he added.
“The findings seem plausible to me,” said Marten Scheffer, a Wageningen University ecologist who specializes in ecosystem-wide transitions. Scheffer, who was not involved in the study, also said that marine shifts are notoriously difficult to study. “Compared to work on lakes, or terrestrial grazing systems, there is little scope for experimental testing,” he said.
According to Kirby, models by fisheries managers need to incorporate these dynamics and and policymakers contemplating global warming need to consider the magnitude of the change.
A similar dynamic may be at work in the Sea of Japan, which in recent years has become dominated by giant jellyfish.
“Marine ecosystems have always changed, but people don’t realize how responsive they are, and how rapidly they may change,” he said. “Humans shouldn’t forget that we don’t live in isolation from the food web.”
Images: 1. Flickr/PhillipC 2. A model of North Sea ecosystem dynamics, from Richard Kirby and Gregory Beaugrand.
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A NEW WEB ATLAS FOR GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION – TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION AND NEW APPROACHES
H. Baer, R. Sieber, J. Cron, P. Marty, L. Hurni
Recently, the Swiss World Atlas started a new cooperation with the Institute of Cartography concerning a supplementary Web atlas version. At that time, the printed atlas already had a tradition of more than eighty years. The new project therefore aims at convincingly combining traditional claims and novel approaches.
For one part, the proposed paper will report on technical aspects and stages of the development. For the other part, it will focus on a few selected topics that reveal new approaches of a general interest. This includes ideas of how to handle sets of maps, what students can do beyond browsing maps, how the literate skills of students can be improved, and how future interfaces might look like.
To start with, the novel idea of synchronized maps will be presented as a means to simultaneously handle sets of related maps. It will be shown that synchronized maps constitute a general concept that enables users for map comparison as well as for spatial navigation.
The atlas will serve a broad audience, but will also be aware of skilled computer-experienced students. This is where the idea of a programmable or scriptable atlas comes into play. Thus, students shall be able to individually control map visualization, symbolize their own data sets on top of existing base maps, and configure the atlas according to their personal needs.
From an educational point of view, it can be argued that with the advent of graphical user interfaces and multimedia products, the literate skills of students risk the danger of turning into a mere recognition vocabulary. It is intended to counter this tendency by assisting them in the use of a proper terminology, supporting text-based interactions with appropriate feedback and the design of a geographic database that builds on language, concepts, and relations.
Finally, the apparently paradox notion of an interface-less atlas reflects the observation that for a Web atlas—in contrast to atlases delivered on a dedicated data storage medium—map search strategies are becoming more important than sophisticated map manipulation tools. The idea is to take much advantage of the powerful search strategies of today’s Web search engines and to tie thematic atlas navigation close to such services. | <urn:uuid:83451b31-03de-4461-9c53-5e403c47c314> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2007/abstracts/html/15_Oral2_1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904811 | 484 | 2.6875 | 3 |
A few months ago, we wrote a list of the ten most likely companies to be bought in the near future with a list of five that would never get bought. (Greenfuel Technologies, one of the top candidates for not being sold, ceased operations the next day. Greenbox, bought by Silver Spring Networks last week, was listed as a possible impulse buy in smart grid.)
But who is going to buy? Here are the main ones. The list is based on stated strategies, company histories, current market circumstances and gut feelings. In other words, pure science.
1. General Electric: GE likes to shop. It got into wind by buying Enron's wind division in 2002 and since then has invested in, or bought, companies like Southwest WindPower and ScanWind. GE now battles Vestas for the top spot in wind.
A similar trajectory occurred in water. It entered the water industry by purchasing Glegg in 1999 and then followed up with BetzDearborn and Osmonics. GE's water group is now a $2.5 billion plus operation with long-term goals to hit $10 billion.
GE's latest obsessions are smart grid, energy storage, and components and software for energy efficient buildings. In all, GE has bought 717 companies and invested in 236, according to this site. With energy as the company's future, the wallet will be open.
2. Siemens: The German GE. Expect to see a lot of emphasis on energy services, water, smart grid, energy efficient components, wind and equipment for building biofuel refineries. In August, it purchased majority shares in two Chinese circuit breaker makers.
3. Applied Materials: Applied is the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and acquisitions are simply a way of life. Startups simply can't achieve the scale they need to become commercial and the established companies don't have the R&D to spread around to try out every single idea. In a sense, the equipment business is really America's Got Talent for the vapor deposition crowd.
Applied entered the solar market with its purchase of Germany's Applied Films for $464 million in 2006. It hasn't been dreamy: many analysts believe amorphous silicon, the kind Applied's equipment is geared toward, will become marginalized. But it probably won't close the wallet. Last year, Applied started to quietly lay plans to get into the market for manufacturing equipment for batteries and energy efficient lights. Applied's VC arm has also invested in a wide variety of companies. Some companies that may go into its maw: Solaicx (ingots – it already invested in Solaicx), Plextronics (printable circuits) Kateeva (novel OLED tools) and something in CIGS.
4. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.: Back in the mid-1980s, investors told Morris Chang that his idea of building a chip factory for hire was nuts. Since then, TSMC has become the world's largest foundry, pulling in billions a year. In August, Chang came back as CEO, announced that TSMC wants to get into LED lights and solar panels, and would likely buy companies. Asian conglomerates, in fact, will be some of the biggest buyers in the coming years. The company is known for relentless manufacturing expertise and a highly competitive culture, like First Solar and Intel. VCs have told us that TSMC's VC unit is already in the Valley armed with a spread sheet detailing markets it would like to participate in. UMC, the little brother rival of TSMC, has launched similar plans. TSMC and UMC could also become factories-for-hire in solar.
5. Valero: Take a look at this chart. Valero doesn't go for those mega-mergers, like Chevron and Texaco. Instead, it buys lots of small items. And it's aggressive. Think of it. Seven years ago, you never saw a Valero station. Now they are a common site. This year it bought seven ethanol plants from VeraSun for nearly $500 million and several other ethanol producers want to offload facilities. If some companies can start to show cellulosic ethanol or algae fuel can scale, there is a good chance Valero will show up with a checkbook first. Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil by contrast seem more intent on forming research alliances with biofuel startups.
6. Toshiba: Batteries, flash memory, computer components, advanced materials, televisions: these are some of the green markets the 150-year old company is in. Toshiba officials said recently that it may need to start buying companies in LEDs to increase its market share. Whether by Toshiba or not, LED startups will likely begin to get snapped up in any event: it's a growing market with high capital costs. Some would-be purchases: Luminus Devices, Bridgelux and Renaissance Lighting).
7. Philips: The same arguments that apply on Toshiba largely apply here, but in LEDs it will likely focus more on lighting fixtures than the light sources, which are semiconductors. It has already bought two companies this year-Teletrol (light fixtures) and Dynalight (controls). Between 2005 and 2007 it bought $5.4 billion worth of lighting companies.
8. Cisco Systems: Not a lot of explanation needed. Cisco wants to deploy its routers and software to control the power consumed by phones, PCs and servers and later the grid, homes and commercial buildings. Just as important, the company has a history of buying lots of companies and actually making the acquisitions work. Possible Cisco buys: Verdiem, Hara, EPS (energy optimization for dairies-very interesting) Optimum Energy, Other buyers in this market: Oracle and SAP. Another plus: Cisco tends to pay higher prices than conglomerates like Siemens, according to Dave Dreesen of Battery Ventures.
9. IBM and Intel: Smart grid and energy efficient computing. Intel periodically goes through acquisition binges. Between 1999 and 2003, Intel bought 37 companies for $11 billion, most of them in communications. Later, most of them were sold off. Did that cure Intel of buying? No way, it got into consumer electronics a few years later. It has begun to plant its processors into wind turbines and smart grid equipment. Intel lately has discussed how digital technology could revolutionize building management and smart grid. History makes me think that someone like Tendril or Lumenergi could be an Intel company.
IBM gobbles up companies too. Side note: IBM has nearly 398,455 employees and $106 billion in revenue. There are probably start-ups that IBM has bought and forgot they owned.
10. SunPower: Also a top ten acquisition target. SunPower faces pressure from both directions: China's Suntech Power Holdings is moving up into the high efficiency panel market SunPower created and while First Solar is setting a low, attractive price for solar nearly everywhere. Thus, like nearly every other solar maker, SunPower will need to diversify. It has been advertising like crazy to make itself a consumer brand so perhaps it will buy an installer, someone doing a solar appliance (thermal, light and PV all in one) or one of the companies doing software for remote solar estimates like Sungevity or Global Solar Center. A BIPV company is another possibility. It has a history in acquisitions with the purchases of PowerLight and Solar Solutions. | <urn:uuid:249b9d4b-6795-4532-bc2a-9d41bae509d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-top-ten-acquirers-in-green-tech/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962398 | 1,520 | 1.554688 | 2 |
2009 Summer Workshop:
Analyzing Poverty and Socioeconomic Trends Using the American Community Survey (ACS)
Deadline for Receipt of Applications: February 27, 2009
June 22-26, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI
A workshop sponsored by the National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan and directed by Reynolds Farley.
The National Poverty Center at the University of Michiganís Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy invites applications for participants in a five-day workshop that will take place in Ann Arbor during the last week of June, 2009. Participants will be provided with training in the use of the micro-data from the Census Bureauís annual American Community Survey (ACS) to understand social and economic issues affecting low-income populations and carry out their own analyses.
The workshop will be directed by Reynolds Farley, the Dudley Duncan Professor Emeritus at the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, in collaboration with his colleagues: Albert Anderson and Lisa Neidert. There will also be presentations by nationally recognized poverty researchers, including some whose research is based upon ACS data. The National Poverty Center will pay the costs of travel, lodging, and meals for participants.
Aims for this workshop include the following:
- Familiarize participants with the concepts used by the Census Bureau and the way the Bureau codes and tabulates information, including measures of earnings, household income, poverty, race, ethnicity, labor force status, and migration. The workshop will provide practical tips for handling the complex sample design associated with the ACS sample.
- Provide hands-on demonstrations with user-friendly software that allows anyone with access to the Internet to tabulate data from Census Bureau micro-data and obtain summary descriptive statistics such as means, standard errors, median and percentile points.
- Provide hands-on demonstrations with user-friendly software that allows anyone with access to the Internet to select and download observations and variables for use with standard statistical packages. Participants will become familiar with accessing and obtaining data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples available from the University of Minnesota.
- Familiarize participants with tabular data products from the Census Bureau. These allow investigators to build profiles of neighborhoods or catchment areas.
- Work on a project focused on their own interests and produce preliminary findings by the end of the workshop and an appropriate data set that can be used when the participant returns to her/his home institution.
- Provide opportunities for participants to discuss the current status of key research and policy issues regarding poverty with nationally recognized experts.
Applications will be accepted from faculty, postdoctoral fellows, advanced doctoral students, federal and state-level policy and research analysts, and others who would benefit from this workshop. Preference will be given to applicants who meet at least one of the following criteria:
- Young scholars, with preference given to those who have received their Ph.D. since 2002.
- Persons who are currently employed at universities and colleges that do not provide support for faculty to pursue additional training in poverty research, especially four-year teaching colleges;
- Persons who are members of groups that are under-represented among poverty researchers and teachers. Faculty members from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) are particularly encouraged to apply.
Direct Questions to:
ATTN: 2009 Summer Workshop
Shawn Marie Pelak, Program Manager
National Poverty Center
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan
5100 Weill Hall, 735 S. State St.
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Subject: General Tech | March 14, 2012 - 03:34 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: walmart, vudu, ultraviolet, ripping, movies, hd, dvd, digital
Walmart Offering DVD Disc to Vudu Digital Copy conversion for cheap, but there is a caveat.
(Preface) Despite the iron fist fighting innovation and locking down media that is the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act), many tech savvy people have employed certain programs and disc drives to rip their physical DVD and Blu-ray collections to digital files that can act as backups and can be easily streamed around the house or over the Internet when you are out and about. The movie studios definitely do not like this practice; however, there is little that they can do about it (and as far as opinions go, they shouldn't). Slowly but surely the world is prodding them with a giant stick of common sense and they are starting to wake up, however. Many DVDs and Blu-rays now come with digital copies that can be unlocked and played via Itunes or Windows Media Player. (Sure, they are DRM'ed but it is a step in the right direction.)
And even more recently, several movie studios have started experimenting with the idea of stream-able copies of physical discs using their Ultra Violet DRM. The official description of Ultra Violet is as follows.
"UltraViolet (UVVU or UV for short) is an an ecosystem for interoperable electronic content. It's a branded set of specifications and agreements along with a centralized rights clearinghouse that allows retailers to sell movies that play on UltraViolet-compatible players and services."
Needless to say, the official word isn't too helpful for those not studying law or marketing (heh). Basically it is a set of standards (including DRM) that other services and retailers can follow and sell access to a library of digital movies from participating movie studios. The standards specify that Ultraviolet movies should be download-able to UV compliant devices; however, at time of writing only streaming devices are commonplace. The way Ultra Violet works is that certain physical disc purchases will have a code that can then be used to redeem a digital copy that can then be streamed to PCs, TVs, and other supported devices (which they estimate at around 300+ devices).
Walmart's approach is a bit different than that but follows the same Ultraviolet DRM and standards. The new Walmart Entertainment conversion service will allow customers to bring in their DVD or Blu-ray collection and for a $2 a disc will be given access to a digital version of that film through their subsidiary company VUDU's movie service. Because Walmart has a deal with the appropriate studios, they are able to convert the movies for a small fee and without needing to rip the discs. Instead, at the Photo Center, employees will examine the discs, then find the matching movie (if there is one, of course) on the VUDU service and add it to the customers VUDU account (or create a new account if they do not already have an existing VUDU account). According to Walmart, the movies will be available for streaming within a few minutes of activation, and customers will be allowed to keep their physical discs.
Further, customers will be able to upgrade their DVD's to an HD (not Blu-ray quality but better than DVD) VUDU copy for $5 (or $3 more than a standard conversion). The wording of the press release is a bit ambiguous but seems to suggest that DVD to SD VUDU and Blu-ray to HD VUDU count as "standard conversions" due to their "equal conversions" description. Only DVDs to HD will be at the higher priced conversion (we'll get clarification on this, so stay tuned for an update).
As mentioned above, there are a couple caveats to this new conversion service. Mainly, the digital copies are (currently) only stream-able, meaning a constant internet connection is required. This point may be moot in a few months when downloads are allegedly going to be supported by Ultraviolet DRM, but at the time of writing still exists. Also, there is the fact that the files are DRM'ed, meaning that customers are out of luck if VUDU shuts down their service or they do not have Ultraviolet approved devices. The major negative that tech savvy people are likely to bring up is that the service costs money for DRM protected files when they are able to rip their DVDs and Blu-rays on their own for free and do whatever they want with the non-DRM'ed files. Finally, the service is further limited by studio support and VUDUs catalog, meaning that they may not be able to convert all of your collection for DVDs or Blu-rays that are not available on VUDU.
It is a valid point; however, it should be noted that while it is rarely enforced, the DMCA makes ripping DVDs and Blu-ray discs illegal (because the programs need to break the encryption to copy the video to the computer). Also, the Walmart service does have the benefit of cheap HD upgrades for your DVD collection at $5 a pop versus $20+ for Blu-ray versions, and it is a heck of a lot faster than waiting for the Handbrake transcoding queues to finish!
In the end, the new DVD and Blu-ray disc to digital conversion service is not perfect; however, it is a step in the right direction and a decent option for anyone that does not have the time or knowledge to rip their own DVD or Blu-ray collection. For example, this is something I could see my family members using as a good way to backup their collection and prevent the situation where their kids favorite movie will no longer play because they stepped on it and threw it like a Frisbee (and the ensuing tantrum hehe). And if they get to the point where the files are no longer DRM'ed I would definitely consider it because of the time saved in converting and cheap HD upgrade (there have been very few movies I've spent the extra money on to get the Blu-ray version whereas I'm less selective about cheaper DVD purchases).
AMD Gets the Direct CU Treatment
In the previous roundup I covered the DirectCU II models from Asus featuring NVIDIA based chips. These boards included the GTX 580, 570, and 560 products. All of these were DirectCU II based with all the updated features that are included as compared to the original DirectCU products. With the AMD parts Asus has split the top four products into two categories; DirectCU II and the original DirectCU. When we start looking at thermal properties and price points, we will see why Asus took this route.
AMD has had a strong couple of years with their graphics chips. While they were not able to take the single GPU performance crown in this previous generation, their products were very capable and competitive across the board and at every price point. In fact, there are some features that these cards have at particular price points that make them very desirable in quite a few applications. In particular are the 2 GB of memory on the HD 6900 series cards where the competition from NVIDIA at those price points features 1 GB and 1.25 GB. In titles such as Skyrim, with the HD texture DLC enabled, these cards start to limit performance at 1920x1080 and above due to the memory requirements needed for these higher resolution textures.
Subject: Mobile | February 24, 2012 - 07:35 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tegra 3, smartphone, quad core, LG, hd, 720p, 4x hd
Last year LG debuted a dual core smarphone at Mobile World Congress, and this year the company is upping the ante to a new Android smartphone powered by a 1.5GHz Tegra 3 quad core processor. Yes, this is still a smartphone, just with a processor that has usually been reserved for tablets like the Transformer Prime.
LG plans to reveal the new Android smartphone at this year's Mobile World Congress 2012 in Spain. The new phone is called the LG Optimus 4X HD and is a 8.9mm thick slab with "prism like" contours and edges. On the outside of the phone, it features a 4.7" True HD IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 720, a LED flash, and two cameras. On the front is a 1.3 megapixel camera and the rear camera is 8 megapixel BSI (Backside Illumination Sensor) camera.
The inside of the phone houses some fairly impressive hardware as well. The phone is powered by a Tegra 3 quad core processor running at 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of LP DDR2 RAM, and 16 GB of internal storage. Backing all this hardware is a 2,150 mAh battery. LG Mobile CEO Dr. Jong-seok Park stated that:
"Speed in itself isn't what makes LG Optimus 4X HD unique. It's the benefit we're bringing to customers with the HD multimedia experience in a mobile form factor."
The LG 4X HD will be running the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and will be available in Europe during the second quarter of this year. The company will further be showing the device off at Mobile World Congress 2012 at the LG stand in Hall 8 from February 27 to March 1.
Do you think the world needs a quad core smartphone yet?
Subject: General Tech, Systems | January 26, 2012 - 11:45 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Raspberry Pi, linux, htpc, hd, gpu, broadcom
As reported earlier, the Raspberry Pi is a small computer intended to run Linux and is made to be portable and able to be powered by USB. The small board is based on the Broadcom BCM2835 chipset, which includes an ARM 11 CPU and a dual core VideoCore IV graphics card co processor. The Raspberry Pi further includes connections for HDMI, component output, and USB ports. The higher tier $35 model will further feature an Ethernet jack and twice the RAM (512 MB).
The Raspberry Pi will soon be available for sale and if the company behind the device- The Raspberry Pi Foundation- is to be believed, the GPU in the little Linux computer will pack quite a punch for its size (and cost). In a recent Digital Foundry interview with Raspberry Pi Executive Director Eben Upton reported on by Eurogamer, Upton made several claims about the Raspberry Pi’s graphics capabilities. He explained that the Broadcom BCM2835’s VideoCore IV GPU is a tile mode architecture that has been configured with an emphasis on shader performance. Upton said “it does very well on compute-intensive benchmarks, and should double iPhone 4S performance across a range of content."
The comparison to the iPhone 4S relates to his further claims that the Raspberry Pi GPU is the best on the market and can best both the iPhone 4S’s PowerVR (Imagination Technologies) based graphics and even the mighty Tegra 2 in fill rate performance. Rather large claims for sure; however, we do have some independent indication that his claims may not be wholly inflated. The coders behind XBMC, open source media center software that allows users to play a variety of media formats, have demonstrated their XBMC software running on the Raspberry Pi. They showed the Raspberry Pi playing a 1080p blu ray movie at a smooth frame rate thanks to the Broadcom GPU being capable of 1080p 30 FPS H.264 hardware accelerated decoding. You can see the Raspberry Pi in action in the video below.
The little Raspberry Pi is starting to look quite promising for HTPC (and even light gaming) use, especially for the price! At $25 and $35 respectively, the Raspberry Pi should see quite the following in the modding, enthusiast, and education community.
Acer recently announced two new additions to its Ethos notebook lineup, which specialize in HD media and gaming. The Acer Aspire Ethos AS59516 and Ethos AS89516 specifically, feature all black, brushed aluminum chassis with a magnesium alloy cover. A 1.3 megapixel webcam, back-lit keyboard, and a scratch resistant Gorilla Glass LCD display are features of both models. External Ports include HDMI, USB 3.0, a combination USB/eSATA port. Further, internal hardware includes Intel’s 2nd generation Core i5 or Core i7 processors, up to 16 GB of RAM, between 500GB and 1.5TB of hard drive storage, a NVIDIA GT550M, and a WiFi radio, and Blu-Ray (or DVD) optical drive are all available options.
The removable touchpad/remote.
With the general hardware out of the way, the most interesting feature that the two models share is a new touchpad that is able to detach from the laptop and act as a media remote control. Upon removal, the touchpad can be oriented horizontally or vertically and presents LED buttons to start, pause, and play music “from across the room.” While the idea of a removable remote has been done before, on HP notebooks especially, the integration into the touchpad will certainly encourage me to not misplace the remote lest I be forced to memorize keyboard shortcuts to use the computer. Further, the remote control does provide controls for easy music playback; therefore, this seems like a good evolution of the idea that Acer has on their hands.
The AS59516 is the smaller of the two new notebooks, and features a 15.6” display at 1366x768 resolution. On the audio side of things, it features 5.1 surround sound output in addition to two built-in speakers and “TubaBooster” technology which seeks to enhance the bass of the sound. The laptop has a starting MSRP of $1399.99 USD, and will be available this week at numerous retailers.
On the other hand, the AS89516 is a much larger affair, which sports a 18.4” display and HD 1920x1080 resolution. It further includes five dolby-tuned built-in speakers in addition to a subwoofer using Acer CineSurround and CineBass technology. The notebook carries a MSRP of $1599.99 USD and will also be available for purchase starting this week. You can check out more images of the new notebooks over at cnet.
Subject: Processors, Systems | June 12, 2011 - 08:57 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: SFF, Intel, htpc, hd, DIY, atom
Habley has recently shown off a new small, embedded computer dubbed the SOM-6670E6XX. The new computer is the size of a post-it note; however, it sports an Atom E600 processor running at 1.0Gh as well as an integrated GMA600 graphics core. To be more specific, the motherboard in question measures 70mm x 70mm.
The CPU and GPU blend is able to support two displays and pipe two HD video streams to each. Using Media Player Class Home Cinema 1.5, the computer is able to play both a 1080p MPEG4 trailer of the X-Men First Class film and a HD FLV version of SpiderWic simultaneously. While playing both films, the CPU saw around 93% usage and 210 MB of RAM from the Windows Embedded 2009 operating system. Further, while playing an HD FLV film trailer while also watching an HD YouTube clip, the processor was again pegged at 93% usage; however, in this test the RAM usage was much higher, at 422 MB. The test system used, in addition to the SOM-6670, it consisted of a SOMB-073 Carrier board (which provides the various IO including video and audio output, mouse and keyboard input, and SATA ports), 1GB of on-board RAM, and a 5400RPM laptop form factor (2.5”) 120GB hard drive.
Including the two monitors, at 1280x768 (over HDMI) and 1920x1080 (SDVO) respectively, the system drew 18 watts during usage. You can see the test system of the small HD-capable computer in action in the video below. What uses do you have in mind for a micro-sized computer such as this?
Subject: Displays | May 2, 2011 - 06:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: widi, wireless, hd, 1080p, stream
Wireless video streaming is nothing new to PC Perspective, in 2010 we saw Intel's WiDi technology and Ryan was streaming 1080p Iron Man using the Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 WHDI card (aka Little Cthulhu). A new way to achieve the same results is with the brite-View Air SyncHD which Missing Remote just reviewed. Read on to see if this is worth ~$230 of your hard earned money.
"If wirelessly transmitting a Blu-ray stream (which tops out around 50mbps) is questionable, transmitting uncompressed 1080p/60 video seems downright impossible. Yet, that is exactly what brite-View claims to do with their Air SyncHD transmission kit. In a nutshell, the brite-View Air SyncHD transmission kit promises to wirelessly bridge an HDMI source device and HDMI receiving device, freeing you to place the devices anywhere within the system’s wireless range. Further, the system manages to send 1080p/60 video, audio and infrared (IR) with less than one millisecond latency up to 66 feet. It sounds great on paper, but can it deliver?"
Here are some more Display articles from around the web:
- AOC e2343F2 LED Monitor Review @ t-break
- ASUS ML248H 24” Monitor Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Sony Bravia KDL-46EX720 Review @ TechReviewSource
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During the next four decades the mass transportation system in Boston experienced tremendous physical expansion. New rapid transit tunnels were constructed, elevated railway lines were thrust out into outlying communities, new surface routes were established, and new carhouses and terminals were built.
The Boston Elevated Railway was always one to be innovative in the area of equipment. Today, when there is so much emphasis being placed on light rail vehicle design, it is interesting to note that the principle of the articulated or bending (in the middle) streetcar originated right here in Boston during the 1912-1913 era. Searching for a way to provide service on the narrow twisting streets of the Hub, the Boston "El" took two early 20 foot boxlike streetcars and joined them together to articulate or bend. Bostonians of the day dubbed this new type of equipment "two rooms and a bath". During the BERY era, Boston also built the nation's first sub-aqueous or underwater mass transit tunnel (East Boston Tunnel).
In 1922, Boston's first motor bus route was established. In 1936, Boston opened its first trackless line. For a brief time, Boston was the third largest operator of trackless trolley in the country.
The BERY's ambitious expansion did not save it from serious financial problems, however. The development of the automobile and the building of better roads combined to rob the BERY of ridership. Inflated labor and material costs increased its overhead, while its legislatively mandated five cent fare with free transfers held.
History: Table of Contents
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What does Bonde do Rolê mean?
It apparently roughly translates as "The kids from Role" or "The gang from Role", so I've been told. Role is apparently a bar or cafe in their hometown, but I can't find any sources to support this. 220.127.116.11 (talk) 11:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
It really means "the gang from rolê". Rolê is a slang for "taking a walk" or "hang around".
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More reliable Tube carries record-breaking numbers
Making further improvements to the daily reliability of the Tube is central to everything we do as passenger numbers continue to grow to record levels.
- More train services operated
Figures published today by Transport for London (TfL) show that London Underground (LU) carried the highest number of passengers in its history during December as the reliability of the Tube continued to improve.
Friday 9 December saw the highest number of daily passenger journeys ever recorded on the Tube, with 4.17 million journeys made.
That figure is almost seven per cent higher than the corresponding day in 2010.
The week ending Saturday 10 December was also a record-breaker, with a new weekly high of 24.9 million people using the Tube as the festive season got into full swing.
The news comes on the back of the latest Tube performance results published by TfL for the four week period from 16 October to 12 November.
They show that the Tube carried 94.6 million people during that period, up by more than four million on the same period last year.
LU operated 97.5 per cent of scheduled kilometres during the period, an improvement of one per cent on the previous period.
Reliability, as measured by the amount of delays caused to customers, has also continued to improve.
Since the Tube became part of TfL in 2003/04 delays have been reduced by more than 40 per cent.
Reliability improvement programme
Other improvements delivered during the four-week period include the expansion of the new air-conditioned 's-stock' fleet running on the Metropolitan line to 21 trains and the rollout on stations of new electronic service update boards, providing customers with more detail about the status of their services.
These improvements reflect LU's comprehensive reliability improvement programme which has three key elements:
- Response and recovery to any incidents that occur
- Predicting and preventing failures happening in the first place
- Improving how LU upgrades existing assets and purchases new assets
Mike Brown, LU's Managing Director, said: 'Making further improvements to the daily reliability of the Tube is central to everything we do as passenger numbers continue to grow to record levels.
'A range of work is under way to further improve reliability, which we expect to pay dividends over the coming months.
'At the same time, we are rebuilding the network for the future, delivering 30 per cent more capacity through new trains, track and signalling and rebuilding some of our busiest stations.'
The Tube reliability programme has involved the introduction of a series of 'Command Centres' set up for every line on the network in order to deliver improvements in performance.
It also involves working with and learning from the operators of other metro systems, as well as a range of blue-chip companies outside of the rail industry, to understand how they deliver increasingly reliable performance, both in terms of day-to-day operations and investing for the long term.
A range of new techniques are being implemented to predict when maintenance should be performed to prevent unexpected equipment failure.
This includes advanced signal monitoring technology that helps indicate potential failure, and Automated Track Monitoring Systems, which automatically identify any track related defects and allow maintenance activities to be planned to minimise disruption to passengers.
LU is also increasing its incident response capabilities, and developing plans to co-locate engineering and operations staff in a consolidated command and control centre to help speed up the time it takes to recover from incidents.
It is also working closely with the British Transport Police (BTP) in order to establish a system where the BTP will be helping to get LU's Emergency Response Unit swiftly to where incidents are taking place under blue light conditions.
Customer information around service alterations is being improved, and staff training given an increased focus on keeping customers informed.
New radios are in place for better communication between staff, and upgraded electronic status update boards are being rolled out across the network giving more detail on services.
Notes to editors:
- The total amount of additional journey time experienced by Tube customers, known as Lost Customer Hours, has been reduced by 63,000 on the previous period
- The previous daily Tube ridership record was just more than four million, and the four-weekly level just more than 90 million
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Ontario pharmacists practicing in family health teams and the patient-centered medical home.
ABSTRACT The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) approach continues to gather momentum in the United States and Canada as a broad approach to reform the delivery of the complete primary care system. The family health team (FHT) model implemented in Ontario, Canada, best mirrors the PCMH approach of the United States. The integration of pharmacists as key members of the health care team providing on-site, in-office coordinated care to FHT patients was included from the start of planning the FHT model and represents a substantial opportunity for pharmacists to realize their professional vision. Several research projects in Canada and elsewhere have contributed to providing evidence to support the integration of pharmacists into primary care practice sites. Two major research programs, the Seniors Medication Assessment Research Trial (SMART) cluster randomized controlled trial and the Integrating Family Medicine and Pharmacy to Advance Primary Care Therapeutics (IMPACT) multipronged demonstration project made substantial contributions to evidence-informed policy decisions supporting the integration of pharmacists into FHTs. These projects can provide useful information to support the integration of pharmacists into the PCMH and to encourage further research to better measure the effect of the pharmacist from the holistic patient-centered perspective. | <urn:uuid:3b7bff3c-5858-47c8-a2d4-95f566a9c2dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.researchgate.net/publication/224006232_Ontario_pharmacists_practicing_in_family_health_teams_and_the_patient-centered_medical_home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928555 | 267 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Thread subject: The Dyscalculia Forum :: Typing problems?
Posted by Patricia on May 27 2010 01:43 PM
I have less trouble typing since I got a computer back in 1999! But my trouble with typing is that left-right confusion thingy. I often get confused and look for a key on the wrong side of the keyboard; looking for the "S" on the right side.
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A report just out from the Maine Commission for Community Service states a “Report on Volunteering and Civic Life Holds Good News About Maine.” According to the annual update, Volunteering and Civic Life in America, Maine teens and college students rank high among those in other states for commitment to volunteerism.
- The rate of volunteering among teenagers (44 percent) places Maine number one in the ranking of states. Like exercise and many other habits, volunteering and engagement in community or civic life are habits that, if formed early, last a lifetime. Equally important is the fact involvement in community life as a service volunteer rather than service recipient supports positive youth development.
- Maine’s strong showing with regard to volunteering by college students (37 percent of students, sixth highest in the nation) is followed by a strong rate of volunteering among young adults just beyond college age. The rate of volunteering among young adults (34 percent) earned Maine a rank of number two in the nation.
Here at UMaine, we know how involved our students are, and we are grateful for your service to your fellow students and the surrounding communities.
To read the entire press release for more highlights on Maine, click Maine Service Commission News.
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With our tour group, we visited a couple cities: Cologne, Bonn and Trier.
Cologne is famous for its huge Cathedral. According to Wiki, it’s Germany’s most visited landmark. My photo doesn’t do it justice since I couldn’t capture its grandeur with my micro 4/3’s tiny lens but believe me, it was very impressive! I also noticed many of the stone structures had a darkened color to them due to age and weather. It gave some of the buildings a rather ominous look.
Some people think Beethoven was from Vienna since he spent many of his years there, but his birthplace was actually Bonn. The Beethoven Monument by Klaus Kammerichs in front of the Beethoven Hall in Bonn was amazing! While the front is based on a famous portrait of Beethoven, the back of the monument supposedly depicts the composer after he became deaf.
The weather wasn’t so great while we were in Germany but seriously, this country does the best job of taking care its buildings and keeping them nice. Most of the buildings we passed all looked freshly painted and clean even though you could tell they were built ages ago.
But the best part of Germany is the food! Even though the average income in Germany is higher than that of some of its surrounding countries, the food here is more affordable and very delicious. I got a delicious cheese bagel with sunflower seeds for less than 2 euros. | <urn:uuid:b327897f-83e8-4a7a-a86e-56ddb0436be6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lovecaketravels.tumblr.com/post/25781032717/with-our-tour-group-we-visited-a-couple-cities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989921 | 307 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The hypnotic lure of sea jellies at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago
Monday, April 18, 2011
There's something almost hypnotic about watching the jellyfish pulse and float in the exhibit tanks at Shedd Aquarium. For once, my three kids weren't in a hurry to get to the next exhibit. Instead, all four of us stood gazing at the translucent sea jellies on display at the Shedd's new temporary exhibit.
The exhibit, which just opened last week, consists of more than 10 different kinds of jellies, including a kid favorite - the upside-down jellies -plus plenty of other see-through creatures set against brightly colored backgrounds.
The jellies are displayed along with interactive elements that teach visitors about these fascinating creatures that survive without brains, blood or bones. As the multi-hued jellies drifted in the tanks, dragging their long tentacles behind them, almost every visitor to the exhibit stopped and took photos and videos.
And that may be the only drawback to the exhibit. Most of the display tanks are fairly small, and people lingered at each one, making it hard for kids to see what was going on unless they were willing to wait patiently for their turn. We beat most of the crowd by hitting the exhibit first thing after the aquarium opened - a couple hours later when we were leaving, the exhibit was quite crowded.
A real plus for "Jellies" is that it transcends ages - even the toddlers and preschoolers in the crowd were mesmerized by the jellies, but no more so than all the adults who couldn't pull themselves away from each tank. It's definitely worth the trip to the Shedd for this exhibit.
"Jellies" runs at the Shedd through May 28. Tickets are $3 per person if added to the basic Shedd Pass, and are included in the Shedd Pass Plus and Total Experience Pass tickets. | <urn:uuid:0c0969aa-bf02-4d25-b326-43bde6875319> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chicagoparent.com/magazines/web-only/2011-april/jellies-debuts-at-shedd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969688 | 397 | 1.570313 | 2 |
- ABOUT US
- WHAT WE DO
- HOW TO HELP
- CLUB PAGES
- BUS PROJECT
We work with children aged 5 – 11 years and our ministry is largely based on the traditional ‘Sunday School’ format, although updated by making full use of the latest technology to deliver an exciting programme of fun activities, largely based on Bible stories and incorporating games, quizzes, song and craft work.
Our aim is to reach out to those with special needs or facing rural isolation where we plan to encourage social interaction, friendship, guidance, education and support. Our research suggests a need for this type of work, particularly in the rural areas where children otherwise, might not benefit from community activities.
Ruth Blunt, our Children’s Work manager has recently attended extensive training in puppetry with a view to using this medium as a new communication tool in future work. She has also been asked by John Hardwick, well known nationally for his children’s work, to collaborate on material for new books he is publishing. She is assisted by a session worker and many volunteers.
Our Children’s work is currently divided into 3 main disciplines:
We currently work in the Town of Woodbridge and the surrounding villages of Hasketon, Rendlesham, Melton, Wickham Market and Sutton Heath to deliver weekly clubs during term-time, either in village/church Halls of after school or during lunch breaks at Primary Schools. Attendances normally range between 10 and 25
We arrange clubs of 4 – 5 day duration during holiday periods based on a similar format to Kidz Klubs but on a much larger scale with attendances of 50 – 60 children. They incorporate short plays, extended craft sessions, learning songs, games and quizzes and are often supplemented by parents being invited to a celebration event where guest performers provide related entertainment.
We visit a number of Primary Schools locally to help with Assemblies by providing songs and Bible based stories, linked with puppetry on some occasions. We also provide sports coaching at 2 Primary Schools | <urn:uuid:c4661a09-8a68-4586-bc8b-af50bd90cbc5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.just42.org.uk/childrens-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96897 | 420 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The following text is excerpted from "When Religions Claim Superiority, " published by Madhu Kishwar in her magazine, Manushi. For the original complete article, See http:/www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue145/index.htm.
As an invitee to the World Parliament of Religions, held in Barcelona in 2005, I heard speaker after speaker reiterate the importance of cultivating a spirit of tolerance in individuals, and teaching people to respect diverse faiths. If people are not convinced of the intrinsic equality of all human beings, they are not likely to want to learn about their different faiths with a spirit of respect. Individual transformation plays an important role in building tolerant societies. However, some forms of hatred and prejudice cannot be banned; they can, at best, only be kept in check and under control.
It is only when societies are able to institutionalize fair and just norms for determining the rights of various groups--irrespective of power, status, class, race, caste, color, gender, language, religion or national origin--that they create the essential prerequisites necessary for imparting interfaith harmony.
Learning about other people's faith is easier if we see that faith as a part of their culture, values and collective aspirations. In pre-modern times, the task of interfaith learning and bridge-building between diverse groups occurred in different ways.
A few hearty souls undertook long journeys across major geographical boundaries to immerse themselves in the lifestyles of distant communities and form bridges of spiritual communication between those cultures and their own. Most ordinary people, however, learned about other religions simply through direct contact with followers of those religions. By participating in the festivals of friends and neighbors of other faiths, they absorbed foreign customs almost imperceptibly.
The people of the Indian sub-continent provide a good example of how, over centuries of cohabiting, different religious communities can evolve humane and dignified ways of living together. These included--in addition to joining in the celebration of each other's festivals--having common shrines of worship and learning from saintly figures whose teachings transcended religious divides. This was all possible because, in the Indic universe, there has never been a centralized religious authority issuing dictates regarding how one should relate to people of different faiths.
Bonding despite differences
Such cultural bonding was facilitated by a deep-rooted belief, shared by many people of different faiths and religions, that, among many other social responsibilities, padosi dharma (the moral responsibility towards one's neighbors or fellow villagers) is no less sacred than one's responsibility to family or caste. For example, a woman born in a particular village is expected to be treated like a daughter of that village by the Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs who live in that village. Although it must be clarified that everyone certainly does not follow this principle uniformly, it is nevertheless a tradition that has commanded enough respect to be regarded as a moral code worthy of transcending religious divides.
This is reflected in the fact that, starting from the early days of Indian cinema, an overwhelming majority of Bollywood films have depicted idyllic inter-community bonds established on the basis of neighborhood ties and personal friendships between people of different religions. In these films, the bonds of neighborhood and friendship are depicted as being at least equal, if not higher, than those of blood relationship. This is one important reason why Bollywood melodramas have gained greater popularity in non-European countries than Hollywood films have. In such a moral universe, a sensitivity to other religious sentiments comes spontaneously. For example, it is a common practice for Hindu and Muslim neighbors to exchange food gifts during important festivals of both communities. However, Muslims take care to send only uncooked dry food to their Hindu neighbors out of respect for their unique taboos. Likewise, no Hindu family would ever offer to a Muslim friend a non-vegetarian dish not prepared with halaal meat. One can cite innumerable examples of such spontaneous and graceful mutual accommodation. Religious differences or caste-based taboos are rarely perceived as cause for hurt or conflict. Unfortunately, many modern secularists, who insist that inter-community harmony can be established only when everyone gives up all their religious taboos, end up creating more strife than harmony.
When freedom causes pain
Currently, the formal study of interfaith relationships is confined primarily to a small group of academics. Every now and then, some scholar of religion will trigger interfaith hostilities because his or her writings are perceived as "hurtful " or "insulting." For example, a book on the Hindu God Ganesha, by American scholar Paul Courtright, caused a major uproar recently because the author used Freudian analysis to interpret Ganesh's elephant head and trunk in sexual terms. Those Hindus who led the campaign against this book saw it as part of a deep-rooted bias in Western academia, stemming from a tendency to trivialize or demonize Indic religions and cultures. The book is undoubtedly the product of painstaking research, and Courtright obviously knows more about the stories, myths and legends surrounding Ganesha than many practicing Hindus. What offended believers, was not his lack of knowledge but his use of a totally alien and inappropriate tool of analysis to deal with the belief system and iconography of a faith that does not lend itself to a Freudian worldview.
This is a classic example of conflicts arising not out of too little knowledge, but too much of it, combined with the unconsciously imbibed arrogance of a Western academia which assumes that its tools of analysis give it the right to understand and pass judgment on the experiences of all human beings. Instead of dealing with what was actually a criticism leveled at their intellectual approach, many Western Indologists treated the conflict as a case of "academic freedom " versus an intolerance of Hindu community leaders. Such an approach left the conflict unresolved in a bitter stalemate.
Western vision predominates
The problem is further compounded by the fact that the study of other religions and cultures is largely a one-way process. While Western universities have any number of departments, centers and courses for studying and teaching religions and cultures of non-Western societies, as well as their own, most non-Western countries are not engaged in similar studies of Western faith systems, or even their own. Thus, for a serious scholarly study or teaching of Hinduism, Indians go to American, British or Australian universities, because there are simply no such opportunities available for this study within India.
For this reason, most noteworthy scholarship ends up being processed in Western universities that are burdened with their inevitable, in-built bias. Today most people know of the faiths of others through brief and limited exposure to superficial descriptions of them on TV, in newspapers, films and other mass media. The dominant forms of international mass media have deeply imbibed a distorted Eurocentric worldview, with its tendency to see the cultures and faiths of non-European peoples as intrinsically inferior and backward, as mainly of anthropological interest, existing only as a curious hangover from a lower stage of human evolution. Therefore, instead of leading to greater understanding, fleeting mass media images of unfamiliar practices tend to create negative stereotypes that fortify prejudices.
Those of us who are interested in interfaith harmony need to consider seriously how we might reconcile conflicting assertions. While it is true that academic freedom should be preserved, it should also be acknowledged that every cultural community should be treated with respect and integrity. For this, special tools of analysis need to be evolved that can encompass the experiences, value systems and sensitivities of a diverse group of people.
Exclusivist claims hinder
The concept of God in Christianity (as well as that of other Abrahamic traditions) poses the biggest challenge for interfaith harmony. We cannot provide meaningful interfaith education without effectively combating the culture of intolerance derived from a belief in the inherent superiority of an exclusivist, hierarchical, jealous God, and without connecting such views to the power imbalances that came to define the economics and politics of our planet during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are strong connections between authoritarian ways of thinking and tendencies to see God as an intolerant, jealous and tyrannical authority figure who punishes those who do not do His bidding.
Monotheistic faiths have consistently claimed that the commandments of their Gods are somehow more superior and justified than those of other faiths. Although the followers of various Hindu sects also believe that their own faith is best, they don't usually hate or attack those of others.
Riots, massacres and genocidal attacks are almost always linked to conflicts over economic and political power. In such charged situations, religion often becomes the match that lights the tinder. This is an important reason why politicians strategically co-opt religion in their secular battles.
The colonial dimension
The military, political and economic colonization of India resulted in aggressive onslaughts upon the country's cultures, faiths and value systems. People were told that their Gods were false and their faith systems were flawed, inferior and even evil. Not surprisingly, the flourishing of anti-colonial national factions simultaneously gave rise to religious and social reform movements, during which colonized peoples fought to defend their faiths, families and cultural values against their ruler's onslaughts.
At first, many important religious reformers in colonized countries tried to modify their faith systems so that they would be acceptable from a Western point of view. They tried to purge their religions of supposed evils, like the worship of images and idols and the belief in Gods and Goddesses. These reformers dismissed polytheism as a lower form of Hinduism meant to aid the illiterate masses and claimed that the Vedantic conception of the Divine, adopted by the colonial Hindu elite, was not all that different from the Christian belief in a one and only, all-supreme God.
The sense of humiliation and self-loathing encouraged by colonial education created whole new generations of confused people with a fragile sense of selfhood. A few astute people like Mahatma Gandhi recognized that, in most cases, the apologetic efforts of the elitist reformers only succeeded in wedging a divide between these well-meaning reformers and the sincere followers of their own faith. This did not, however, prevent them from asserting their hybrid religious/ethnic identity as a living example of modernity and progress.
Interfaith learning is like language learning. A person who is not in command of his or her own language will find it difficult to learn alien languages and certainly will not be able to understand their nuances. Similarly, those who are not deeply rooted in their own faith and belief system will find it difficult to understand and appreciate those of others. | <urn:uuid:714eefc8-a96b-4c6e-bfef-1c926f9abca7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/print.php?itemid=1447 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95865 | 2,173 | 3 | 3 |
Marketing While You’re Parenting
By Robert W. Denney
When I first learned that the focus of this issue was on parenting and practicing—and that columnists were encouraged to incorporate a parenting theme in their submissions—I was stumped. How in the world could parenting be included in a discussion of marketing?
But after several periods of unproductive thinking, suddenly I started to recall some of the successful lawyers I have worked with over the years who make time to be good parents and are also excellent business developers. And the more I thought about them, the more I realized that many of them develop business because they are parents.
No, these lawyers don’t give their children their business cards to hand out at school, and they don’t have their kids wear badges that say, "My father (or mother) is a good lawyer!" Not only would that violate most ethics rules, but it would also be bad marketing. What these parents do, in most cases without even thinking about it, is maximize opportunities to meet new people—and, therefore, potential clients —by being involved in their children’s activities.
Soccer, Spring Fairs, Musicals: Opportunities Abound
Here are just a few examples of some of the successful parent-marketers I know.
¦ The chair of the estate planning practice group in a 17-lawyer firm has three children, ages four, five and eight. She has been active in the parent-teacher association at her oldest child’s school for three years and also works in the school library one afternoon a week. She reports that more than half of her clients are other parents whom she has met either through the PTA or the school library.
■ Several years ago, the head of the corporate practice in a 40-lawyer firm had two children in high school. He volunteered to run the annual spring fair. It was the best organized and most successful event in the school’s history. As a result of that, and of the recognition he received, he became much more widely known and has had a steady flow of new clients ever since—most of whom he had not even met beforehand.
■ A young litigator’s twin boys were in Cub Scouts a while back. The Scout Pack was failing and was about to be disbanded when his sons asked him if he would take over as chairman and try to save it. For his boys’ sake—and with no thought of business development—he took over the job for two years. He not only saved the Pack, he built it into one of the most active and successful ones in the area. As he was completing his term, one of the other fathers, who was the managing partner of an engineering firm, asked the young litigator to meet with the firm to discuss handling all its litigation because he was impressed with the lawyer’s ability, patience and persistence. As a result, this young lawyer obtained his first major client.
■ A solo practitioner began coaching summer soccer eight years ago, when the oldest of his four children was playing for the team. While the team hasn’t always had winning seasons, the solo has become widely known and respected in his community. Many of his clients are parents whom he first met when he coached their children.
■ Four years ago, when she was a freshman, the daughter of a labor and employment attorney made the cast for the local high school musical. The school produces a major musical every year, with more than 100 students involved. As they were about to begin rehearsals for that year’s show, the music director suddenly resigned. The attorney is an accomplished vocalist who is a soloist at her church. The school principal asked if she could jump in as music director that year. She did—and she has continued in that role. Since then, her practice has grown dramatically. She reports that many of her new clients are either parents or have been referred to her by parents.
Ground Rules: Active Parent First
In any type of marketing, there are always a few basic ground rules, the things you should and shouldn’t do. The same is true in this case.
First off, don’t become involved in your children’s activities solely because you want to meet potential clients. As with any outside activity, if that is your only reason for participating, it will actually work against you. People will soon recognize your motive and resent it. Join up because you want to be an involved parent and want to help the organization.
Also, don’t just be a joiner. Be active. Work at it. Accept a leadership position if offered or, at the very least, be a member of the group who can be counted on.
Finally, remember what I call the Principal of Transfer. Non-lawyers are funny people. If they know you are a lawyer and they see you commit yourself to a project outside of your law practice, handling it competently and enthusiastically, they will assume you are also a good lawyer. As a result, they will think of you when they need a lawyer. No, it doesn’t make sense to most lawyers—but it does to everyone else.
So, without trying to, you can often be an effective marketer by simply being an active parent.
Bob Denney ( firstname.lastname@example.org), president of Robert Denney Associates, Inc., is a strategic marketing and management consultant. He can be reached at (610) 964-1938.
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China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
In a new book, The People's Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment, HBS professor William C. Kirby discusses common assumptions about pre-revolutionary China and its development into an economic power. Key concepts include:
- Essays in the book address four main themes: politics; social transformations; wealth and well-being; and culture, belief, and practice. Kirby refers to the first three decades of the PRC as "a regime of wasted, and wasteful—not to mention criminal—youth." However, he says, many of the essays in the book show how the country has taken good advantage of the last three decades.
- Mid-century revolutionaries and scholars cited the economy as a major reason that China needed a revolution. However, the country actually sustained decent financial growth, fueled by private enterprise, from the 1910s until the onset of the global depression of the 1930s and the Sino-Japanese war in 1937.
- While China's central government was weak in the first half of the twentieth century, the country during that time developed strong methods of institution-building at the national, provincial, municipal, and local levels.
Editor's note: On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China turned 60 years old. To mark this event, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University held a conference titled "The People's Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment," convening China experts from around the world. The resulting book includes several of the papers and lectures that were presented at the conference, providing a wide range of views about China's past, present, and future. In this excerpt, editor William C. Kirby, an HBS professor and director of the Fairbank Center, discusses common assumptions about pre-revolutionary China, from both an economic and a political perspective. (Footnotes have been deleted.)
At mid-century, Chinese revolutionaries and many foreign scholars believed that China was in need of a revolution, perhaps above all for economic reasons. They saw a stagnant or even declining economy during China's Republican period, divided sharply between the internationally-oriented port cities and the unchanging, "feudal" interior, with its increasingly impoverished peasantry. Without doubt, China was in a desperate economic condition in 1949. It had endured eight years of war with Japan, followed closely by another four years of civil war. But was it in need of an economic revolution?
"The broad indictment of the pre-revolutionary economy is simply not sustainable today."
The broad indictment of the pre-revolutionary economy is simply not sustainable today if we take seriously any of the solid economic history done by historians in China or the West in recent decades. Rather, we have a picture of sustained, reasonably high economic growth during the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s—up until the onset of the Sino-Japanese war in 1937. This was a growth fueled above all by private enterprise, urban and rural, in what we may now consider the first "golden age" of Chinese capitalism. This new economic activity began and spread outward from China's centers of international trade and investment, particularly the lower Yangzi region and Manchuria. Growth was slowed significantly in the 1930s by the global depression and by the financial policies of the Nationalist government, and it would be stopped altogether by the onset of the Sino-Japanese and then civil war; but that did not mean it could not be revived in peacetime. With the total economic as well as political-military collapse of the Nationalist regime, the new PRC had a potentially wide range of economic policy options.
Its actual choices, however, were narrowed by the ideological conviction that China was in need of a fundamental economic restructuring. After a rather halfhearted attempt at a mixed economy under the slogan of "new democracy," early PRC leaders followed the road of high Stalinism. They believed that land-owning farmers and entrepreneurial businessmen were not only reactionary in a political sense, but also part of the root cause of a combined economic stagnation and social backwardness that only socialism could cure. In the early and mid-1950s this would lead to the expropriation of the property or exile (to Hong Kong and overseas) of China's business classes; the political murder of hundreds of thousands (if not more) of small landlords; and the consequent destruction of entrepreneurial talent as well as opportunity. To this we must add the execution of between three to five million alleged "counter-revolutionaries" in the political-economic terror of the Korean War years.
Another lesson, born of simplistic class analysis, that the countryside was the proper place for peasants, the cities for workers, would lead to the system of nationwide household registration and internal passports known as "hukou," which would consign rural communities, especially in China's poorest parts, to immiseration of a kind not known before, to stagnation in situ, without—as had been the case during the Republican era̶the possibility of outmigration. If the urban working class of the Republican period was constantly reconstituted by rural migrants, the Communist urban working class—particularly those in state industries—became a closed caste, an industrial elite with hereditary jobs, and with privileges and security far above that of their rural cousins. If anything, the gap between urban and rural identities became greater. And the difference between rural and urban—particularly during the Great Leap Forward, when at least 30 million perished—could become a matter of life and death.
One area of demonstrable economic success in the 1950s, the enormous growth of state enterprises, particularly in heavy industry, was the area of greatest continuity with the old Nationalist regime. In both strategy and detail, much of Communist China's first Five-Year Plan had been on Nationalist China's drawing boards.
"In the first half of the twentieth century, China developed one of the more dynamic systems of higher education in the world."
The result of all this was that as the rest of East Asia began to thrive in the postwar era, China was comparatively stagnant, or worse. The lessons of the catastrophe of Maoist economics were, however, learned by Mao's successors, whose economic counter-revolution dismantled his policies, returning to many aspects of pre-revolutionary China: allowing family farming; permitting again a form of mixed economy; welcoming international investment on a vast scale; and gradually limiting the state to the role of guiding, rather than running, the economy.
The results, though hardly without problems, have been simply stupendous, far exceeding the expectations of either Chinese or foreign observers when the reforms were announced three decades ago. One thinks only of what might have been, in the dark decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, since many of the basic elements of Chinese economic growth, in fact, were there all along.
A second myth at mid-century was that the Republican era had been a political interregnum, without a functioning central government, an interregnum called to an end by the New China of the Chinese Communist Party.
China's central governments were indeed weak during the first half of the twentieth century. But the more we know of the pre-1949 decades, the more they emerge as a formidable period of state- and institution-building at the national, provincial, municipal, and local levels. The modern ministerial structures of a central government, the common features of provincial and municipal administration, a national system of higher education, and new sets of civil and criminal codes were all established during the reforms of the late Qing and Republican eras. Much of this would be swept away, quickly and almost casually, by the new Communist government. Later much of it would have to be reestablished, slowly and painfully, in the 1980s and 1990s.
Take the case of higher education. In the first half of the twentieth century, China developed one of the more dynamic systems of higher education in the world, with strong, state-run institutions (Peking University, Jiaotong University, National Central University, and at the apogee of research, the Academia Sinica), accompanied by a creative set of private colleges and universities (Yenching University, St. John's University, and Peking Union Medical College, to name but a few). All these, too, would be swept away in the late 1950s and 1960s, yet the traditions and memories of preeminence remained, and today's educational leaders have used these lessons to fuel the more recent, dramatic growth in scope and excellence of Chinese universities.
The early PRC was widely believed to have provided a greater level of national unity and stability than its predecessors. Unity, perhaps: for only under a strongly unified political system could a policy such as the Great Leap Forward reach into every Chinese village with such lethal consequences. Stability? No. Each of the first four decades of the PRC was witness to major and destabilizing political upheavals.
Yet who among us would have predicted the comparative stability, accompanied by rapid economic growth, of the last two decades? The lessons drawn by China's post-Tiananmen leaders was to pursue vigorous, often audacious paths to economic growth, opening up also new realms of freedom in personal and professional lives, and new modes of communication (cell phones, the Web, the blogosphere) while maintaining, indeed enhancing and modernizing, the authoritarian state. How long this balance can be sustained is of course one of the questions in this book, but the apparent reality of the political stability of the last two decades is surely striking, compared to anything that came before it.
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Homosexual Couples "Are Not Family," Says Vatican Official
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BUENOS AIRES, AUG. 29, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Homosexual couples cannot be considered as "family" in the proper sense of the term, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
Commenting on the law of civil unions of homosexuals in force in Buenos Aires for the past few weeks, Archbishop Renato Martino said: "They can call it what they wish, but that is not family."
"Children need a father and a mother, and that is the general rule," Archbishop Martino explained during a visit in Argentina, in statements to the Catholic agency AICA.
If same-sex couples were to adopt children, he asked: "Where would the role of the absent father or mother be?"
"We know precisely by the Declaration of Human Rights that the family is the basic cell of society and, as such, must be protected," the archbishop said. "Many times, it is destroyed by divorce, but that is not the rule. Even in these situations of emergency, when the family breaks down, provision must be made for the education of children, who need a father and a mother."
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Hello again boys and girls, woman and men and other visitors of DragoArt.com. I haven’t uploaded anything in the past few days because I was working on a really cool tutorial on a creature that needed to be updated to something better. For my first tutorial of the day I will be showing you "how to draw a Griffin step by step". Now as you know I have a total of two Gryphon lessons, and to me they are not really that good now that I look back on them. This Griffin that I am showing you how to draw today is a traditional gold colored creature that we all know and love. I am very proud of this updated version of a griffinn because it came out spectacular and wicked beautiful. I drew very long and hard on this sketch because I wanted it to come out just right. All the inspiration for this griffin came from the movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” which I watched on DVD two days ago. The gryphons in the movie were so smooth looking and majestic when they flew around in the skies and that is what I wanted my version to come out looking like. Now if you notice I still have a problem with drawing dragons and other creatures from different angles which is why almost all of my animal like drawing of fantasy creatures are either from the side or the back. The main reason why this griffon took me so long is because I drew him in a three fourths view perspective and to me that was very challenging to do. In the end though the creation came out awesome and colorful and all the colors blend together nicely. This tutorial will show you how to draw a traditional gryphon step by step. Like always the instructions are simple to read and the steps are easy to follow which makes this tutorial easy enough for everyone to try. I will be back soon with more drawing fun so stay tuned kiddies. | <urn:uuid:3623cb3b-d3af-4bb1-bf4b-9f1ad9244fcb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/1320/1/1/how-to-draw-a-traditional-griffin.htm?cmID=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96496 | 415 | 1.695313 | 2 |
December 28, 2007
Google in 2000
What search engine did you use in 2000? It's very likely that the answer is not Google. Three months before Google became the default search provider for Yahoo, Google's search results looked slightly different than they look today. Google showed relevant categories from DMOZ, the snippets were much shorter, the "related pages" feature was called GoogleScout, "I'm Feeling Lucky" was added to every search results pages and you could choose the number of search results from a drop-down. At that time, Google didn't offer any specialized search engine, but it added at the bottom of the page a list of links to competitors (you probably used one of those search engines). The number of search results was much smaller because Google only indexed around 200 million web pages and Google was still looking for ways to monetize the search engine.
Google still hosts a search results page from April 2000, even if it's slightly modified because it was a part of an April Fool's Day prank called Mentalplex. Here's a slightly updated search results page from later that year.
The same year, Google introduced text ads, but they were rather primitive. "Google has recently started to include text-only banner ads on their search engine, but you may have not noticed the change because most searches currently don't include a banner ad along with the search results," reported tomalak.org in January 2000. Here's how the advertising system worked at that time:
"Google uses its Patent-Pending PageRank Technology and sophisticated query classification to create a Virtual Directory. In other words, Google categorizes the thousands of different search queries into the Internet's most popular and targeted areas. Advertisers simply select from a wide range of available categories most appropriate to their business. Google will match the appropriate ads to the category most relevant to the user's search."
The web could still be approximated by directories, collections of high-quality sites manually categorized by editors. In March 2000, Google integrated data from the Open Directory Project: "1.5 million entries, arranged in over 200,000 categories, selected and maintained by a volunteer corps of more than 22,000 editors." Larry Page concluded that "the addition of Netscape's Open Directory Project creates the most comprehensive and robust search resource for finding information and browsing the Web. We've combined the best aspects of search and directories to create an enhanced tool for easy access to information contained on the Web."
Google's traffic started to grow at an alarming rate. "Google ended 1999 averaging about 7 million searches each day, a roughly 70,000% increase over the 10,000 searches per day that were performed on the Google site in December 1998! This explosive growth reflects the total number of searches performed by users on www.google.com and on our corporate partner sites. As of the middle of January, we are averaging more than 10 million searches each day," reported Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the company's newsletter. Google wasn't satisfied and launched an affiliate program that enticed webmasters to add a Google search box to their sites. "By signing up for our affiliate program (...) you'll be able to place a Google search box on your site and begin receiving 3 cents for each search you send our way." At the end of 2000, Google handled more than 100 million search queries a day.
2000 was also the year when Matt Cutts joined Google. "When I joined in 2000, Google was a scrappy underdog search engine. Back then, Altavista was vastly more popular and reported 50 million searches a day. Google was popular among savvy webmasters and at many universities, and usage was growing quickly by word-of-mouth, but the smart folks at Google were eager for the company to be more well-known."
An example of positive feedback from 2000 (Usenet, via Google Groups):
"Try www.google.com. I've been most impressed with its ability to return good, relevant hits. Another big bonus with Google is that the site is almost completely clear of bandwidth-hogging graphics and advertising. The web site has to be the fastest I've ever seen."
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WASHINGTON (LA Times) — With lawmakers singing the blues about the looming “fiscal cliff,” why not a resolution to show their support for designating Jan. 8 as Elvis Presley Day?
Ten members of Congress have signed onto the resolution to show they have a big hunk o’ love for the king of rock ‘n’ roll.
Presley, born Jan. 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Miss., died at age 42 on Aug. 16,
1977, at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. He “remains one of the most famous American entertainers of all time whose influence on music and whose cultural impact continues today,” according to the resolution.
Demand for Elvis items certainly has not faded.
One of the most requested items from the National Archives is a photograph of Presley shaking hands with President Richard Nixon during a White House visit. And the Elvis stamp has been the most popular postage stamp.
The resolution, which “encourages the people of the United States, federal, state and local governments, and interested groups to observe Elvis Presley Day,” was introduced by Rep. Larry Kissell, D-N.C., who was defeated for re-election this month.
Presley’s “impact on rock music, our culture and our nation is long overdue to be recognized,” Kissell said in a letter to colleagues. “The story of Elvis is, in part, the story of the American Dream: answering the call of our nation and joining our military. Lifting himself up from poverty to become a successful entertainer, followed by billions across the globe. Giving back to the nation through charity benefits and free concerts.”
With time running out on the congressional session, it’s uncertain whether the measure will come before the House before Congress leaves.
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Day in the Life
Thanks to Mr. Gallerano’s 8th Grade Religion classes for providing a glimpse into their daily lives at HTS.
This was a good collaborative effort using Google Docs, allowing all 8th graders to participate and contribute.
Also, thanks to Fiona Ellsworth and Emma Rose for their editing and final revisions.
Wake up in the morning, put my plaid on, and take a look in the mirror…flip my hair.
And so it begins…waking up and attempting to hold onto your dreams from the previous night. Listening to Jimmy Hendricks and dancing around your room while you put your uniform on. Prancing down the stairs until you fall, remembering that you are still only half awake.
Over breakfast, you wonder if there will be something special going on at school today. Though rare, every event has proven to be a fun break from our usual school day. Assemblies and field trips are widely anticipated. The Science Fair is a big hit. Also, recently, we celebrated Catholic schools week, during which we get the opportunity to dress in funky socks and hats, dress like a teacher, show our appreciation for parent involvement through a mass, and to end the week wearing pajamas to school. We also had an assembly for students to learn about HTS’s connection with a parish in Haiti, and going along with our donations of school supplies are letters from each of the classes. The representatives who talked to the school about their trips to Haiti remind us how they live as incredibly poor but happy people. This reminds you to be thankful for field trips coming up, which some children don’t have.
There are periodic field trips throughout the school year. The eighth grade has the most. They go canoeing on the Anacostia river, take a tour at Gettysburg, go to the zoo with their 2nd and 1st grade buddies, and take a field trip to King’s Dominion. Field trips are fun because you have no school for an entire day and get to do interesting and fun activities with your friends. All these memories of such exciting trips to come remind you of the big end-of-year finale: Field Day. The last day, with no lessons or classrooms, filled with exciting and wet fun. “Oh,” you think to yourself, “when will the end of the year come?”
A rushed breakfast comes after you realize you forgot to do your science homework. Then your parents casually say, “Oh, you should be going now, its 8:05.” Then it’s the run/walk to school where you constantly feel the pains in your back from carrying that hefty backpack. A few minutes later you climb the many stairs to the main office and rush upstairs.
Hollie Anderson made her way from her car in the drop off line to the front door. Mike opened the door for her. She then had to wait until the next student took the door from her—nothing new. As she was walking to the theater she waves to her friend doing homework in the cafeteria. As she waves, Sister Regina sees her neon pink nail polish. When Hollie approaches the door to the theater, Sister stops her.
“Honey Child, what is on your nails?” Sister spoke in a tone like the nail polish personally offended her. “Oh, that…. Well, I didn’t have any nail polish remover…So…” Hollie stuttered in reply.
“When you go to homeroom, remove it, and you have a check.” Sister stated frankly.
“Yes, Sister,” Hollie said glumly as she walked away with her first check of the month.
She was only a few feet away when Sister called out, “And unroll your skirt, Child!”
When she got in hearing range of the 8th grade, her friends called out to her. She heard,
“What was that about?”
“Did you get a check?”
“Did you get number four on the math?”
“How was your weekend?”
“Did you see the Super Bowl!?!”
She smiled at the familiar greeting from her friends and classmates. This was her favorite part of the day. Coming into school and laughing with friends. Talking about the recent new episodes of Pretty Little Liars, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS, and others. This was the part of her day where she could be herself and not be the good student just yet. She could just relax with friends. “8th grade, 6th grade!” Sister called out, indicating it was time to go upstairs and pack for the first three periods and then go to homeroom. The theater erupted in the new noise of people yelling over each other to be heard while going up the back stair to the top floor.
You open the double doors to the eighth grade hallway and suddenly you hear…THE NOISE. It’s like living in an African Savannah! The trampling Elephants (a.k.a. 8th grade boys), and the nimble gazelles leaping through the prairie, avoiding the trauma of being hit by a back pack or being whipped by the infamous hair flip. Just getting to your locker is a struggle!
On her way to her locker she was stopped three times, at least.
“Hey Holls! I’m still coming to your house after school tonight, right?” asked Hanna
“Oh, yea, deffy!” Hollie replied.
Walking away she heard her name being yelled so it could be heard over the buzz of chatter. Turning around she saw Tony heading her way.
“Hey Tony wassup?” Hollie said.
“Oh nothing. So what’s first three periods?” Tony asked.
“I.D.K. Check your own locker,” Hollie said back in reply.
“Only if you open it. You know I can’t,” Tony begged.
Hollie’s only reply was rolling her eyes and opening his locker and then her own neighboring locker. They talked about what they had done yesterday, while packing for the first three periods.
As they walked into homeroom a direct order was shouted out.
“Sit…in a chair…right now!” Ms. Shannon ordered. As she took attendance and everyone was talking the intercom came on and it was time for prayer. Everyone stood up and recited the prayers. Then the bell rings and classes begin…
When you go to first period, you see lots of tired people. Some people are energetic about starting the day and talking to friends. We usually spend 5-10 minutes panicking because we left something at home, searching frantically through our backpacks, and leaving autopilot long enough to sigh in relief when we find it in our backpack or locate a merit pass at the bottom of our pencil case. Each day, first period is a different subject. People seem to be sluggish, but after they wake up, they become livelier. Each day the teachers are prepared to teach us a different lesson.
Second period is much better. We talk and joke around, laugh, and are more cheerful. We’ve gotten our stride and shaken off the last bits of sleep. You can see the staff and the students slowly waking up and there is a faster pace to the day. There are more interactions between the teachers and the students, and people start to enjoy themselves. Sometimes in the morning you can see potential new students and their parents touring the school with Mr. Darr. Coffee is in the hands of most of the teachers.
Moving on to third period, people are getting used to the normal procedure of the day. Classes start to get more fun. Third period is pretty normal and after the bell rings, break arrives.
“Hey Hollie!” a voice shouted across the room. “You got any snack?”
“Sure,” Hollie answered, holding up her bag of Oreos. Instantly she was attacked with hungry friends.
“I’ll be your best friend!”
“Hey, I gave you some chips yesterday!” Walking away with her snack seriously depleted, Hollie went to sit by Hanna on the radiator. The heat coming up through the radiator warmed them as they rested their feet on backpacks thrown by the side of the room. They talked till the break bell rang.
Exiting the room to calls of, “Hey Hollie, what do we have next?” “Oops, did we have homework in science?” Hollie departed to her fourth period.
The middle block makes Hollie feel like she’s caught in a sandwich, between break and recess and lunch. And once there’s an image of food in her mind…there goes all her chances for learning something now.
The bell after break sends you hustling away with a big backpack. This is the only point at which you are far away enough from the extremes of being away from school that your thought really isn’t anywhere but on what will presently happen in the confines of these three middle periods. There is no rush from hitting the midpoint of the day at lunch and you are no longer thinking about home when you got up or the commute to school. You are stuck in a sandwich of classes on either side of you and you only have to accept to boggle down and get some work done.
Of course, heading into the end of the final of the three periods all energy levels go down, as teachers know. They know the clock will soon run out and students’ abilities to give their attention and learn will plunge going into the final twenty minutes before lunch. At this point we feel two forces wearing us down, tiredness from going through ninety minutes of bustling and learning and the promise of refueling energy to come.
“I wonder what is for lunch today,” Hollie said as she approached the hot lunch buffet area.
“Ooh, it looks like chicken!” Hanna said excitedly.
After making her way slowly through the line, muttering, “Rice please…thank you,” she surveyed the watering hole at which her classmates had gathered. There was a different kind of NOISE than the zoo’s buzz in the hallway. There were more intermittent laughs as her animal classmates had more time to talk about their day so far. Being one of the first in line, Hollie made her way to an empty table. Soon the seats around her filled and the table rung with chatter.
After a short grace and some more talking, Ms. Shannon went from table to table dropping wipes to clean the table when we were done. Passing the wipe cautiously around the table, everyone cleaned their own area and at the same time as the bell for seventh period, Mrs. Shannon once more returned to the tables to give her approval of their cleanliness. Then it was hustling upstairs in herds to make their way to the homestretch of the day.
Next comes the last 2 periods of our day. Last block is right after lunch. We often have Spanish and Religion classes, though occasionally Math or English. In Spanish, we first pray the Examen. It is a time for examining our day, and seeing how God has been a part of it.
After Examen is said and done,
7th period has begun
As sleepiness begins to set,
Our minds begin to recollect.
How has God been in our day?
To answer we must pray
And see the moments that incite
Some emotion that shines bright.
Whether we did something nice,
Or witnessed another sacrifice,
God is there all the time
To remind us of all that is sublime.
Whether we are in Religion, Math, English or Spanish, recess is still on our minds. We can hardly hear the teacher speak, through our deep thoughts of freedom. We hold up our heads with tired arms, as we groan to the teacher’s declaration of homework to come. In religion, we are talking about intimacy and transparency with God. We recently talked about Paul of Tarsus, commonly known as Saint Paul.
Then we continue to the last of the day. After the short interval has ceased, we are back to taking notes. All that our minds can think of now is the glee of the final bell ringing. We are learning “conocer” and “saber” in Spanish class right now. We have quizzes often, and have homework nightly. When the bell strikes 2:50, we pack up our books in hastiness. If it’s Tuesday, we receive our Tuesday Folders. Our homeroom teacher rushes us to sit down; the quicker we’re in, the quicker we’re out! The last few stragglers stumble in to the shouts of the teacher, who are just as anxious to leave us hooligans. As the freedom bell rings, the hordes of students stumble out the doors. Some say goodbye and sprint for their cars, while others socialize at Saxby’s and Wisemiller’s, before going back to the classrooms for after-school math.
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Viral Hepatitis (cont.)
Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
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What is the treatment for viral hepatitis?
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Treatment of acute viral hepatitis and chronic viral hepatitis are different. Treatment of acute viral hepatitis involves relieving symptoms and maintaining adequate intake of fluids. Treatment of chronic viral hepatitis involves medications to eradicate the virus and taking measures to prevent further liver damage.
In patients with acute viral hepatitis, the initial treatment consists of relieving the symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Careful attention should be given to medications which can have adverse effects in patients with abnormal liver function. Only those medications that are considered necessary should be administered since the impaired liver is not able to eliminate drugs normally, and drugs may accumulate in the blood and reach toxic levels. Moreover, sedatives and "tranquilizers" are avoided because they may accentuate the effects of liver failure on the brain and cause lethargy and coma. The patient must abstain from drinking alcohol, since alcohol is toxic to the liver. It occasionally is necessary to provide intravenous fluids to prevent dehydration caused by vomiting. Patients with severe nausea and/or vomiting may need to be hospitalized for treatment and intravenous fluids.
Acute HBV is not treated with antiviral drugs. Acute HCV - though rarely diagnosed - can be treated with several of the drugs used for treating chronic HCV. Treatment of HCV is recommended primarily for the 80% of patients who do not eradicate the virus early. Treatment results in clearing of the virus in the majority of patients.
Treatment of chronic infection with hepatitis B and hepatitis C usually involves medication or combinations of medications to eradicate the virus. Doctors believe that in properly selected patients, successful eradication of the viruses can stop progressive damage to the liver and prevent the development of cirrhosis, liver failure, and liver cancer. Alcohol aggravates liver damage in chronic hepatitis, and can cause more rapid progression to cirrhosis. Therefore, patients with chronic hepatitis should stop drinking alcohol. Smoking cigarettes also can aggravate liver disease and should be stopped.
Medications for chronic hepatitis C infection include:
Medications for chronic hepatitis B infection include:
Decisions regarding treatment of chronic hepatitis can be complex, and should be directed by gastroenterologists or hepatologists (doctors specially trained in treating diseases of the liver) for several reasons including:
Fulminant hepatitis. Treatment of acute fulminant hepatitis should be done in centers that can perform liver transplantation since acute fulminant hepatitis has a high mortality (about 80%) without liver transplantation.
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just curious about pantograph routers which were used to manufacture wood type.
does anyone actually have one of these. what about a working one?
how about some good photos or infor on one of these machines.
what about router bit sizes? obviously i’d assume on routed wood type the small fine corners like within an N or M had to be hand finished unless they were changing bits mid production.
does anyone have any info on the production process from wood block to finished type?
for some reason i’m really drawn to this aspect of letterpress. the actual creation of type by hand in a way the gave such consistent results.
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A company called New Hermies makes pantographs for making signs, most signs are done on a computer these days. check out their site. Dick G.
I guess I could just get one of these (looks like hermes has the same one.
under 2 grand.. what a steal. with the price of wood type on ebay it’ll pay for itself in no time. lol
Wood will be where you’ll really spend the money. The Hermes engraving machines do very shallow engraving, not at all the depth you really need for type. The large pantographs like those at Hamilton were made to trace patterns in several sizes for a family of type. You would be much better off with a larger engraving machine like a Lars-Gorton. I used to have a model 3U (I think) which will do a 1 to1 to 10 to 1 reduction. You would have to make patterns tho. There are inexpensive CNC routers that would do the job as well.
when you say ‘inexpensive’ CNC would you say less money then that compucarve?
as for wood I’m in the process of testing some maple slabs I got form a local firewood guy. I got a couple of 1.5 inch slabs from the end of a felled tree and a couple of 3-4 inch diameter logs I’m going slide up just to mess around with.
I’m not really interested in trying to put together full sets of type.. well.. maybe i am.. but just for myself.. i don’t know yet.. but i have the itch to make something and this seems relatively doable and the next logical step given my previous lino carvings.
i was even thinking of rigging up some sort of dremel setup, i’m just not too sure it’ll have the power needed unless I make a couple of passes to get a decent depth.
eh, the worst i could do is fail. :)
I started out with Dremel tools, and they work fine as long as you give them time to cool down. I got pretty fair depth with them as long as your bits are sharp. I was lucky enough to find a radial arm router which allows for some rather delicate work. I have made letters that I needed for several wood fonts I own, and blocks for posters, but I primarily use it to rout excess wood for my wood engravings.
I was interested in making my own wood slabs, about 40 years ago. After finding a source of wood that was actually from Hamilton, I never made my own wood, again, because of the work involved.
You really need to visit the Hamilton Museum, in Two Rivers, WI. Here is a photo of some wood being cut on a pantagraph-router, by one of the Museum’s volunteers, Norb Brylski:
I have been told that there are a few old pantograph-routers in private hands. I do not have one, but I used a drill press to hand-cut and plane my letters; then cutting the acute counters by hand.
If you are interested in seeing some specimens, which contain a few re-cut letters, they are within the above photostream—-you just have to search to see which letters were re-cut in the Index of each specimen book.
thank you gentlemen.
paul.. i totally want some of those cuts.
how much finishing are you doing by hand on those and what material are you using?
not familiar with a radial arm router so i’ll have to look into it.
i’d love to get out to the museum but it’ll be something to plan for since it’s about 8.5 hours one way for me.
i assume with a drill press or even a dremel mounted in some sort of rig you could just move the material under the stationary bit.
i’ll have a look for those letters you cut.
i’m definately interested in giving this a try (among 100 other things related to letterpress) haha.
An inexpensive way to go may be to try a Milescraft Pantograph Router Stencil Tracing Kit. You can get it at Home Depot for just under $50. It attaches to a router and will do exactly what you are attempting. Trace and recreate wood type. I was thinking of doing it myself. Just thought I’d pass along the knowledge.
thanks for the info. I have a router but it’s the large type you’d use for cabinetrym etc. I couldn’t imagine trying to use it for much else.
something like one of those rotozip tools might work.
I did end up picking up a pantograph engraver. It’s a New Hermes ITF-V model and I found a manufacturer to supply a couple of fluted router needles that fit the engraver.
The only thing left to do now is to create a few master patterns with a scroll saw or something and a slab of type high end grain wood.
It’s going to be a good year or so until the slabs of maple I picked up locally and prepped for drying will be ready to become wood type but I should have more than enough to do a few complete fonts without a problem.
It’s funny how when I pass a freshly felled tree on someone’s property as I drive down the road all I see it wood type. :)
I just purchased a large pantograph and all of the patterns from what used to be American Wood Type Manufacturing Company. There are around 100 boxes of patterns. Some of the patterns are really old.
Right now I am working on setting everything up to start manufacturing wood type using the original patterns. I intend to start producing new type for sale, hopefully within the next week or so.
I will take a few pictures of the machine and some of the patterns and post them on a new thread.
I am thinking of calling the company the Virgin Wood Type Company.
I would be super interested in seeing a photo of the pantograph that American Wood Type used. And even more interested in images of the patterns.
I am currently focused on researching 20th century American manufacturers (as an extension of the work I did on the Kelly Collection web site: http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/a_ah/rrk/index.php )
and would be greatful for images if it might be convenient.
and all the best getting everything set up
Did this happen to come from Russ Clements?
Does the pantograph router have two cutting heads or one?
I am glad to hear these materials will finally be used! Congratulations!
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Social media customer service is no longer optional, according to a new study just released by NM Incite, Nielsen, and McKinsey. According to the 2012 Social Care (=social media customer service) Survey, 47 percent of U.S. social media users expect companies to provide “social care.” In fact, according to the study, 30 percent of active social media users prefer social media customer service to telephone customer service. What was most surprising, perhaps, is that even customers aged 65 and over use social care.
Other important findings of the study:
- 71 percent of those who receive great social care say they are more likely to recommend a brand based on this experience
- 70 percent who receive satisfactory social care say they will use social care again
- Facebook and Twitter are the platforms preferred by respondents for social care
- Social Care Users prefer Facebook over the company blog; and they prefer the company blog over Twitter
Implications for Your Business
This change in preference for social media customer service seems to have reached the tipping point very quickly. It was merely months ago that many social media services firms were telling their clients it was time to consider social care; today, social media customer service is expected.
The first implication of this preference for your business is that social care is no longer an option. If you plan to leverage social media to grow your business, you must have a social care program. However, issuing an immediate announcement that your company provides social care is not recommended.
The second implication of this shift is that every word of a customer service conversation conducted on social media is visible to the world. Your company probably cannot afford to learn as you go, making mistakes in the public eye. If you offer social care precipitously, the cost of a failure or a mistake might be the social reputation of your business.
The third implication of the preference for social care, therefore, is that you must give high priority to the task of planning and building a program of social care. When getting it wrong can be so costly, every company (of any size) needs to develop a strategic plan for social care.
Components of Your Plan
At a time when social care can make or break your business, planning for every possibility in the customer service interaction is critical. Here are the essentials of every plan:
- Who will be your social care team? Typically, these individuals will be level headed, not inclined to panic or over-react, knowledgeable of company policies, trained in customer service, and empowered to speak and act on behalf of the company.
- What are your social care policies? Every company needs clear, written policies about customer service:
- the conditions under which returns can be made by customers for full refund and within what time limits;
- how much time you are willing to spend helping the customer learn to use your product;
- how far you are willing to go to make a customer happy;
- the limits on your liability for customer failure or misuse of the product, etc.
- How will your social care team monitor social media for customer complaints or questions? In addition to your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, you will need some type of monitoring software to find and report relevant conversations.
- What is the timeframe for a response to a question or complaint? Recent studies indicate that most social media users expect an “immediate” response. How quickly do you expect your social care team to respond to a question or complaint? Many firms benchmark their response time at one hour.
- Will this team monitor and respond to positive comments in social media? If they do, what is their message to the customer? What is the goal of the response?
- When should a social care conversation be taken offline? The reason for embracing social care is to provide transparency into how your company values and treats customers. Demonstrating exemplary customer care can be powerful. Yet personal information (phone number, mailing address, etc.) should not be exchanged in open conversations. What are your guidelines?
Today, social media customer service is expected. Before you authorize people to interact with customers in social media, it is critical to establish policies, procedures, and processes. Choose the people who will deliver social customer service carefully, and empower them within the limits your company determines. By also making them familiar with your key marketing messages and informing them of social media marketing campaigns, they can also support your marketing efforts, present a consistent voice to the public, and win brand advocates for your business.
By Vickie Pittard, Partner
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Pendilia (singular pendilium; from Latin pendulus, hanging) are pendant or dangling ornaments for a piece of metalwork such as a crown, votive crown, crux gemmata, or kamelaukion, and are a feature of Early Medieval goldsmith work. On crosses the pendilia may include the letters alpha and omega, and on votive offerings, which were often designed to be hung over altars and where pendilia are at their largest and most spectacular, they may spell out whole words (see illustration).
The term is commonly used in coin collecting. Pendilia are depicted on coins as jewels or pearls hanging from the sides of the crown, and occur frequently on coins of Byzantine emperors. The pendilia which hung from the Emperors' crowns began with Marcian. Although the years saw the styles of crown change, the pendilia remained, at least through Manuel II Palaiologos. Surviving crowns with pendilia include the Holy Crown of Hungary, the Croatian Crown of Zvonimir, and many votive crowns of the Treasure of Guarrazar from Visigothic Spain. | <urn:uuid:0e66d3db-28e7-4f26-85a2-de3256671391> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendilia | 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 | 0.948348 | 239 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Gibraltar is a British territory located just south of Spain and is less than three square miles. The Gibraltar Airport is the closest airport to a city center (only about 1/3 of a mile) in the world and only five airlines currently serve the airport.
What probably makes it most unique is having the main road connecting Gibraltar to Spain, Winston Churchill Avenue, go right over the runways. Every time a plane takes off or lands, traffic must be stopped.
The airport is in the middle of being renovated. Not only will they be increasing the terminal three fold, they are also constructing a tunnel for vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Although this will make the city and airport run more efficiently, it the airport will lost a little of its unique character.
* British Airways taking off
* Ariel showing the road, Giraltar Rock, and town
* Iberia Airbus A320 landing (they have stopped flying to Gibraltar as of September 2008)
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On September 16, 1998, about 1230 eastern daylight time, an Aeronca 65-TAC (L-3), N39309, nosed over during the landing roll at Dalton Municipal Airport, Dalton Georgia. The airplane was operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, and visual flight rules. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. A flight plan was not filed for the personal flight. The private pilot was not injured and the airplane was substantially damaged. The flight originated from Hawkins County Airport, TN (RVN), about 0915 on the same day. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
According to the pilot, after landing on runway 32, the airplane tracked along the center line then veered to the right over running the runway right side. The airplane continued down an embankment then nosed over inverted. The pilot also reported that the tailwheel right spring was absent, which resulted in the loss of directional
The airport manager stated that he examined the airplane and the runway skid marks following the accident. He reported also, that the right tail wheel castering spring was missing. He noted that the tire marks indicated the airplane veered right in a wide arc, shortly after touchdown, with the left main tire mark three times wider than the right He opined from the skid marks that the tail wheel contacted the runway about 15 feet beyond the main wheel contact. The airport manager stated that if the right tail wheel castering spring had been absent on touchdown, the airplane would have veered left. | <urn:uuid:e074f6a6-848e-413f-ac18-f21ea4581631> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20001211X11004&ntsbno=ATL98LA126&akey=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957592 | 319 | 1.664063 | 2 |
As odd as it may seem, one of the reasons I got into anthropology is because I wanted to write books and articles for a general audience. Now, of course, anthropology classes don't teach this, but I felt like they would give me a solid base of knowledge to feel confident about the issues that I would like to write about. I've always been told that I'm a good writer - though modesty keeps me from believing it fully - but I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to write for a general audience as opposed to an academic one. A couple of recent posts on Savage Minds spurred my thinking along and provided some interesting ideas, but I have a few thoughts of my own.
Academics often complain that most readers don't want to navigate all of the subtle nuances of an issue. This is often blamed on either laziness or a lack of intelligence in the general population. To me it's neither, it's more about efficient use of time and energy. Think about the last time you read a book that wasn't about a topic that you research - what was it about the book that kept you reading? Why did you take time out of your busy schedule to finish it? Everyone's busy. Everyone has a lot on their minds. An author shouldn't expect too much from the reader - say what you have to say, make it engaging and let them do with it what they will. Academics, particularly anthropologists, expect the reader to follow every twist and turn, every complexity, every odd detail of the topic. It's not that they can't, but that they don't have the time and energy to spend following our trail after working, taking care of a family, being social, etc. Popular writing should accept that. It should serve as an entryway, drawing people in with inviting architecture and then allow them to wander the many paths as they see fit.
When I have time I would like to survey popular science books and popular social sciences books and see why some work and others don't. Until then, here are a few preliminary thoughts on how to write a good popular piece.
Tell a story - People like stories. They're interesting, engaging and help us remember the information better. The whole book doesn't have to be a story, but if you frame the information in a narrative the reader will hold on longer than if you just start presenting information. All of the most memorable popular science books use this little trick, and it really does work.
Avoid jargon - This should be obvious. Jargon serves only to distance those who understand it from those who don't. Popular writing is meant to bring the reader closer to the discipline, not push them away. Jargon may have its place in academic writing (I'm not completely convinced of this, but I'll grant it for now), but it's best kept out of popular writing.
Make it concise - Like I said before, people don't have the time and energy to follow you down every single trail. Popular writing should provide the information as clearly and concisely as possible. That means that some people will misunderstand it - they'll lose track of the complexities and the details. But some people will be drawn in to follow the trails, and it's those people we're after.
Be Persistent - Write often, keep trying to get published, and correct people when they misinterpret you. It's not easy writing for a general audience. It takes a lot of work; if you don't have the time or energy to put into it then don't expect readers to have the time and energy for you. Readers will misunderstand and misinterpret you. You have to own that, and understand that it's your responsibility to keep working to make it right.
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From: Wei Dai (email@example.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 01:06:53 MST
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:42:22PM -0600, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Well, I provided an alternative, very much earlier, date in THE SPIKE
> (which Seth Lloyd felt was more or less in line with his own analysis).
> Here's a novelized version, from THE HUNGER OF TIME by me and Rory Barnes
> `But our true first parents, the Titans, were hewn by evolution from Chaos
> in the earliest eternities of the very first microsecond of the Big Bang.'
Did Seth Lloyd mention which analysis of his supports this theory? It
doesn't seem consistent with my understanding of what he has written, in
particular his paper "Computational capacity of the universe" available at
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0110141. Quoting from page 3:
> For most of its history, the universe has been matter-dominated -- most
> of the energy is in the form of matter. As will be seen below, most of
> the computation that can have taken place in the universe occurred
> during the matter-dominated phase.
In the same paper he mentions that the matter-dominated phase started at
about 700,000 years after the Big Bang.
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Organising your group
How is your group going to work?
Your first meeting is an opportunity to find out how everyone involved wants the group to work. Decisions about how you organise will be an ongoing process: sometimes things will change and you’ll need to be flexible.
Whether you are a new group or a long-established group, it is important to take stock of what you want to achieve and what being a local group means to the members. It is especially important when starting out, but should be done regularly. A new person joining creates a great chance to reassess how the group is working while finding out what the new member would like.
Ask yourselves: who are we? What do we have in common? What do we want to do?
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Often groups start with a few friends with ideas in common, but this isn’t the only place to look! Ask Unlock Democracy and we will provide you with details of other Unlock Democracy members in your area. It’s also worth checking for other organisations in your area with similar interests and getting in touch with their members. Finally, it’s worth contacting local councillors, MPs, journalists and community leaders and let them know what you’re doing. They might be able to spread the word with their influence.
Sharing the workload
One of the worst things you can do is try to take everything on yourself. People want to feel a part of something and this comes from feeling they genuinely have something to contribute and are appreciated for it. You can do this by distributing tasks and delegating. For instance, if there is a specific task list including contacting potential speakers for an event or finding a venue, you can spread it around to a few people. It will also help to assign some roles in your projects. You might find you need:
- Meeting Chair
- Social Media co-ordinator
- Fundraising co-ordinator
- Communications Officer
- Central Office Liaison
Remember that all groups are unique and the roles you create will depend on how you work. Keep the structure of the group relatively flexible – remember different people have different time constraints and it is important to be able to work around these. It may be worth asking around the group if they are happy with their roles or would like to help with something else every month or so.
Also bear in mind that just because you’ve started the group doesn’t mean you need to remain the main organiser. There are loads of different reasons why anyone might at one day choose to stand aside. This is why it is important to ensure that everyone takes on a role and keeps notes on how they do things so when the time comes to hand over, the new person will have an idea of where to start.
It doesn’t need to be all activism with your group. Sometimes it’s nice to take a bit of time out and socialise together. Sometimes the best ideas come from informal chats, too!
And remember, if you ever feel like you need a bit of support in running your group, get in touch with us. | <urn:uuid:17b67fc3-4b77-40d8-9fc9-53344c542ed1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://unlockdemocracy.org.uk/pages/organising-your-group | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96264 | 642 | 1.796875 | 2 |
When the Ice Age ended more than 15,000 years ago, melting glaciers created the saltwater estuary that today sustains the Essex River’s myriad boaters, clammers, and fisherman. Amid this naturally beautiful backdrop, Essex River Cruises and Charters floats its two handsome spectator vessels, the Essex River Queen I and the Essex River Queen II. Guides lead daily, narrated cruises through the estuary, navigating the protected waters and pointing out the various local flora and fauna of the salt marsh.
Cruises embark daily from May to October and also include weekend cruises, during which passengers are serenaded by the plaintive cries of pelicans begging for the love of a good man. The fleet is also available for group tours and charters for up to 100 passengers at a time, and the staff caters signature clambakes and other events along the tidal beach. The cruise-curators even make big days memorable, transporting wedding parties to any of the many secluded tidal beaches in Essex Bay for ceremonies or receptions. | <urn:uuid:2960aebb-7b9b-4460-9131-546086d0ab76> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.groupon.com/local/saugus-ma/things-to-do | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937628 | 212 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Services at NH Hospital
In 1842, the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane opened its doors for the care and treatment of individuals with mental illnesses. Services were originally offered in a single Main Building in Concord, but the size of the institution escalated over the decades to include numerous buildings spread over a 123-acre campus. The patient/resident population peaked at 2,700 in the 1950's.
Today, New Hampshire Hospital provides a range of specialized diagnostic and therapeutic services for individuals with major mental illnesses related to thought, mood and behavior (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, attention and conduct disorders) who are in need of acute, continuing or transitional mental health care. The Hospital advocates for and provides responsible psychiatric services, which support an individual's recovery toward an authentic sense of personal meaning and optimum health. Our work is directed toward evaluating innovative treatment methods and sharing outcomes that improve the mental health of individuals served. Currently, anticipating over 2400 inpatient admissions per year, half of our patients are discharged within eight days and the average daily census is approximately 250 across all program areas (210 acute and 40 transitional).
Under statutory authority, New Hampshire Hospital provides a wide range of psychiatric services utilizing an Interdisciplinary Treatment Plan Model. A team of mental health professionals is assigned to each patient admitted. The team works with the patient, members of the patient's family and community treatment team to design a unique, flexible treatment plan for that person. In collaboration with community mental health centers, a comprehensive, individualized discharge plan is developed for each patient. Hospital staff meets with consumer groups and have and active relationship with the New Hampshire Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Approximately 800 staff makes up the Hospital's employee base. Administrative and support personnel compliment specialized nursing and allied clinical staff. A full staff of Board Certified Psychiatrists work onsite through a contractual agreement with the Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School.
Our patients needs include smooth access to services; safety and sensitivity in daily care; skill and attentiveness from physicians/residents and nurses; timely, helpful therapies; accommodation of family needs and visits; a clean, restful environment; adequate food and nutrition; timely, clear aftercare planning and an overall feeling of improvement on discharge.
The Hospital remains committed to developing patient care strategies that ensure our continued presence as a center of excellence within an integrated system of community based care. | <urn:uuid:46fab333-306d-44ac-87bc-aa9dcb46291a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/psych/care/nhh_services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942591 | 477 | 1.851563 | 2 |
David B. Leake
Explanation-based learning (EBL) is a powerful method for category formation. However, EBL systems are only effective if they start with good explanations. The problem of evaluating candidate explanations has received little attention: Current research usually assumes that a single explanation will be available for any situation, and that this explanation will be appropriate. In the real world many explanations can be generated for a given anomaly, only some of which are reasonable. Thus it is crucial to be able to distinguish between good and bad explanations. In people, the criteria for evaluating explanations are dynamic: they reflect context, the explainer’s current knowledge, and his needs for specific information. I present a theory of how these factors affect evaluation of explanations, and describe its implementation in ACCEPTER, a program to evaluate explanations for anomalies detected during story understanding. | <urn:uuid:22de5ff2-530b-4290-85f5-3120fcea49f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aaai.org/Library/AAAI/1988/aaai88-045.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944135 | 174 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Maine Senator Olympia Snowe’s idea of creating a public option as only a fallback if private insurance companies fail to produce genuine competition seems to be gaining currency at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue at the moment. Today’s Washington Post has new details on how a “trigger” would work:
…in recent days, the White House has aggressively pursued a deal with Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), a member of the Gang of Six. She favors a slimmed-down bill that would take effect more slowly and would create a public insurance plan only if private insurance companies do not offer better coverage at lower rates. Under Snowe’s “safety-net option,” aides said, private insurance companies would be asked to develop plans affordable to 95 percent of the population in a given state or region.
In areas where private firms do not comply by 2013 — when people are scheduled to begin entering a new federal insurance exchange — a nonprofit insurance plan sponsored by the government would be added to the list of private options.
The public insurance plan would be offered in any state where fewer than 95 percent of the residents had access to affordable coverage.
Congress would define “affordable” with a sliding scale based on income. Under a proposal being considered by the Finance Committee, Medicaid would be extended to anyone with income less than 133 percent of the poverty level ($29,327 for a family of four).
For people with incomes just above that level, insurance would be considered affordable if they could find a policy with premiums equal to no more than, say, 3 percent or 4 percent of their income. For people with incomes exceeding three times the poverty level ($66,150 for a family of four), insurance might be deemed unaffordable if the premiums were more than, say, 12.5 percent to 15 percent of their income.
The theory here, of course, is that this is another way of reaching President Obama’s stated goal for a public option, which is to keep insurance companies “honest.” And it is an idea that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been flirting with for months.
Insurance companies are likely to go along as well. They backed a similar trigger mechanism when it was used with the Medicare prescription drug program a few years back: The government would be allowed into the market only if private insurance companies weren’t competitive enough on their own. That “trigger” has never been pulled. But for those who advocate a public plan, this is likely to be seen as the weakest possible option, short of dropping it altogether. It would be, in their view, a mirage. | <urn:uuid:bf3e76a1-96b8-4645-90dc-997dc23d310b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://swampland.time.com/2009/09/05/health-care-the-public-option-fallback/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973584 | 553 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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According to The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), it was because of the Judeo-Christian perspective of the apocalypse that the Mayan vision of cosmic cycles as well as resulted in the alleged prophecies of the end of the world was easily interpreted.
INAH cited in a statement that experts say, “The time when the Mayan writing was deciphered, it was found that, amongst many other things, implied the end of cycles, making it an interpretation with ease from the Western thought and perspective, associating this to an apocalyptic vision of the end of the world”.
The Mayan experts, Mario Aliphat and Rafael Cobos agreed that the world view of ancient civilizations like the Maya was twisted by the western messianic thinking.
Aside from that, they mentioned, it made it possible for the “modern prophets” to commence projecting the assumed “end of the world” from the end of a period along with the beginning of one other, which generally corresponds to an account in the Mayan calendar. The experts will meet so as to talk about the prophecies of the Mayan.
At the VII Round able of Palenque, in a town of the same name which is nearby the archaeological site in the Mexican state of Chiapas, a special session will take place – 60 experts in Mayan culture will meet from November 27th to December 2nd “to ascertain Mayan prophecies about 2012″.
According to experts, among the 15000 known Mayan glyphic texts, only two mention the year 2012; the 1st of these quotations is in the 6th monument within the El Tortuguero archaeological zone, in the town of Macuspana, and then the next, in the town of Comalcalco, both in the state of Tabasco.
Carlos Pallan, an epigrapher and the author of a guide to the Mayan calendar mentions that concrete cycles are personified by animated beings and had their own name comprised the ancient Mayan time; one example is, a mythological bird represents the 400 years cycle or baktun.
The rituals of the Mayans were created to make the subsequent cycle positive plus there’s “certain emphasis” that in 2012 a calendar cycle was to occur, which was “the heart of the confusion,” he said. Aliphat and Cobos also said that the whole Mayan ritual system was attempting to forecast the suitable or the wrong dates for planting, harvesting, and even war by means of astronomical observation.
The Cycles Of The Mayan
The Mayan culture specialists say, the Mayas created new cycles with a long duration, which actually led them to analyze dates from earlier, mythical and also future times.
For the Mayas, a cycle was made up of 400 years and each was made up of 13 cycles, leading to a total of 5200 Mayan years (5125 based on the Gregorian calendar), and in line with that account, the present era ends on the 23rd of December 2012 and a brand new one will begin.
Moreover, experts claim that the Mayans believed that the end of each era the cosmos regenerates which completes a cycle of creation.
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Physician robot to begin making rounds
The robot can be controlled by an iPad and can make hospital rounds while the doctor observes remotely
Computerworld - The maker of Roomba, the robotic vacuum, has stepped up its game and Tuesday unveiled a 5-ft., 4-in.-tall, 140-pound "telemedicine" robot aimed at aiding hospital patients in emergency situations, especially during nighttime hours when staffing is lower.
The robot, dubbed RP-VITA (Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant), is the result of a collaboration between iRobot and InTouch Health, a telemedicine robotics vendor.
With a video screen for a head, a microphone and speaker for a mouth and two high-definition cameras for eyes, RP-VITA offers a more human-like interaction for physicians who can't be on site. For example, one of the robot's cameras offers a 170-degree view of a room while the other offers a clinician or nurse up to 30-times magnification, enough to see how a patient's eyes respond to light.
"You can read a magazine from across the room with this thing," said Glen Weinstein, general counsel for iRobot.
The robot also has an autonomous navigation capability that allows it to move from one point to another while avoiding obstacles. It can also be controlled by a clinician or a nurse using an iPad tablet or a laptop over a Wi-Fi connection.
Apart from its most well-known Roomba product, iRobot makes a number of products for both the consumer market and the military. RP-VITA, for example, uses technology from iRobot's current Ava robot, which already had autonomous point-to-point navigation. The new RP-VITA, however, has a slicker, human-like form to it. It uses the latest in telemedicine technology from InTouch Health, which already sells remotely controlled robots for hospitals.
For example, InTouch Health's RP-7 robot is already used in several hundred hospitals, offering clinicians remote patient interaction with patients. The RP-7, however, is controlled with a proprietary joystick and not a web-based interface. Even so, there are about 70,000 RP-7 "sessions" or patient interactions per year, according to Yulun Wang, CEO of InTouch Health.
"Remote presence capability has the opportunity to transform healthcare delivery at its core. I can see a day where millions of sessions are going on on an annual basis," Wang said.
The new RP-VITA robot is being marketed for use in hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units to allow physicians speedy access to patients in critical situations. The robot, which has a five-hour battery life, is also being sold as a way for physicians to make their rounds without being at the hospital.
"What's more important here is it's not just facilitating the doctor making his rounds, but the team making their rounds," Wang said. "The challenge is getting all the team members there simultaneously. The ones who are not able to be on site at the given time can beam into RP-VITA and participate in the rounds that way."
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
Welcome Arty. Feel free to ask.
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A non-profit is just a regular company, it just has to comply with additional set of rules to be eligible for non-profit, tax-exempt status. Those rules vary by state. See http://www.councilofnonprofits.org/howtostartanonprofit for the minimum basics on establishing a non-profit.
In that respect it doesn't matter where you are located, physically, as you would be just an owner and/or employee of that company.
That being said, judging from your question, you seem to have serious misunderstanding of even the basics. For example, you don't register as a non profit - you create a company and then apply for a non-profit status as a company. Similarly, there is no such thing as online-only non-profit just as there is no such thing like online-only corporation.
Obtaining a non-profit status is hard. Government makes money by taxing corporations. Non-profit status means corporation don't have to pay taxes. Government doesn't like that and sets a high bar for giving non-profit status. Government requires a lot of paperwork to obtain non-profit status initially as well as to prove, every year, that you're still eligible for that status. This is the kind of paperwork that you're very unlikely to complete without the help of an accountant and a lawyer that specialize in that area. It's also costly. | <urn:uuid:6197da1a-2f38-4c60-8886-595c6c03d507> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/33991/can-i-run-a-web-based-non-profit-org-while-living-abroad?answertab=oldest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976022 | 289 | 1.875 | 2 |
6 April 2010
More than 130,000 children and families in six provinces involved in the World Food Programme’s school feeding scheme have benefited from grant assistance provided by the Korean government and movie star Mr Jang Dong Gun. Deputy Minister of Education Lytou Bouapao yesterday welcomed Mr Jang to Laos at a ceremony attended by WFP Deputy Representative to Laos, Ms Elisabeth Faure.
1 April 2010
The Republic of Korea government has provided 3.37 billion kip or US$ 400,000 to the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare to purchase rice for the poor the north and southern Laos. The package was presented by representative of the United Nations World Food Programme, Ms. Karin Manente, to Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare of Laos, Mr. Laoly FaipengYoa, at the witness of the Republic of Korean Ambassador to Laos, Mr. Lee Gun-tae and relevant officials.
1 March 2010
Parents in rural Laos are still keeping their children out of school so they can work to support their families, according to a senior education official in the tiny Southeast Asian country—one of the world’s poorest.(..)The WFP works with the Lao Education Ministry to provide free snacks and lunches to rural schoolchildren, and girls are given rations of canned fish and rice to take home as an incentive for parents to send their daughters to school.
29 December 2009
Three months after tropical storm Ketsana struck southern Laos, leaving 28 dead and an estimated US$90 million worth of damage to property and infrastructure, tens of thousands of survivors find themselves with little or nothing to eat.(..) To cope, Bounted's family, like others in the district, are living off cassava, a staple of the Lao diet, mixed with rice donated by the World Food Programme (WFP).
6 October 2009
In Laos, the storm killed at least 24 people. The floods meant that until two days ago, the worst-hit Attapeu region could only be reached by helicopter and boat. The United Nations World Food Programme says canned fish and rice have now been delivered to storm survivors. MAKIN: The World Food Programme has an office in Attapeu which is on the border with Vietnam and Cambodia down in the south, right in the south of Laos.
4 October 2009
Attapeu had been inaccessible but on Saturday the water subsided enough to allow government helicopters to begin delivery of rice and canned fish from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) stockpile, said Cornelia Paetz, a spokeswoman for the agency. “It’s very significant because Attapeu is the worst-hit province,” Paetz said, adding that two districts of Attapeu were now accessible by road.
2 October 2009
"We are extremely concerned about people getting back on their feet following such devastating destruction," WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said from Washington. "In some places, there is water as far as the eye can see, and people are literally swimming to safety."
20 July 2009
Over 100,000 people in the southeast Asian country of Laos are being given emergency food aid after a plague of rats wiped out much of the country's rice harvest. The World Food Programme is delivering 5,000 tons of food supplies to seven provinces in the north of the country.
15 July 2009
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is classified as a Least Developed Country (LDC) and Low Income Food Deficit Country (LIFDC). The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been successfully running a school feeding program since 2002, in close cooperation with the Lao Ministry of Education. (..) We talk about education and school feeding in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) with Ms Karin Manente, WFP country director in Vientiane.
21 May 2009
"After this, I quit!" says my colleague Lin, and he is only half joking. He takes the Buddha image that hangs around his neck and raises it to the sky in silent prayer. (..) After an hour or so we reach the MAG team. They have just finished clearing the path we have walked on. It is to be widened into a road big enough for vehicles, to be built by MAG's development partner the World Food Programme.
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In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.
The start-up company came out of nowhere, building a database application beloved by vibrant, young Internet companies. Logging in from homes scattered around the globe, its workers seemed more a part of a virtual commune than a corporate monolith, and they relished taking on proprietary software giants like Microsoft.
But like most open-source companies, MySQL’s sales, tied to support deals, never matched the astronomical number of downloads for its product, about 60,000 a day. In January 2008, the founders decided to sell the company for $1 billion to Sun Microsystems. And this year, Sun agreed to sell itself to Oracle, which makes database software aimed at larger companies and tougher jobs, for $7.4 billion.
Now, disagreement over the value of MySQL — both as a stand-alone entity and as part of a big company — lies at the heart of a bitter public battle between Oracle and the European Union over the Sun acquisition. The fight illuminates a larger truth about open-source companies: their societal and strategic importance far exceeds their financial value as operating businesses.
European regulators view MySQL as sort of a database of the people, a low-cost alternative to Oracle’s costly proprietary products. The regulators worry that Oracle may stop improving MySQL in favor of protecting its core traditional products, and customers will lose an important option in the database market.
“In the current economic context, all companies are looking for cost-effective I.T. solutions, and systems based on open-source software are increasingly emerging as viable alternatives to proprietary solutions,” said the European Commission’s competition chief, Neelie Kroes, in a recent statement. “The commission has to ensure that such alternatives would continue to be available.”
Oracle, meanwhile, insists that it will continue to develop MySQL and other Sun technologies. Oracle’s chief executive, Lawrence J. Ellison, contends that MySQL serves a different part of the database market than Oracle’s main products do — an assessment supported by many analysts. One main incentive for Oracle to keep improving MySQL is that the program serves as a bulwark against Microsoft’s SQL Server database, which challenges Oracle’s products on the low end.
“The commission’s statement of objections reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics,” Oracle said in a statement.
To Ms. Kroes’s point, there is an open-source alternative, and usually a pretty good one, to just about every major commercial software product. In the last decade, these open-source wares have put tremendous pricing pressure on their proprietary rivals. Governments and corporations have welcomed this competition.
Whether open-source firms are practical as long-term businesses, however, is a much murkier question.
The best-known open-source company is Red Hat, which produces a variant of the Linux operating system for server computers. Like most of its peers, Red Hat offers a free version of its base product and relies on selling support services and extra tools for revenue. In its last fiscal year, which ended in March, the company’s revenue rose 25 percent to $653 million, and it reported net income of $79 million.
But Red Hat is a rare case. “There’s only one company making real money out of open source, and that’s Red Hat,” said Simon Crosby, the chief technology officer at Citrix Systems, which acquired the open-source software maker XenSource for $500 million in 2007. “Everyone else is in trouble.”
The enduring appeal of open-source software revolves more around its disruptive nature than blockbuster sales.
As long as there has been software, there have been some people eager to share and improve it for the common good. The rise of the Internet made such sharing easier than ever, enabling people the world over to work together on projects outside the confines of a formal corporate structure.
Open-source software has thrived and played a prominent role in the building of the Internet’s infrastructure. Many companies rely on Linux-based computers and Apache Web server software to display their Web pages. Similarly, the Mozilla Firefox Web browser has emerged as the most formidable competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The grass-roots nature of open source has led advocates to view the projects as a populist foil to proprietary software, where a company keeps the inner workings of its applications secret.
But in the last decade, open-source software has become more of a corporate affair than a people’s revolution.
In some cases, dominant technology companies have used open-source projects as pawns. Google, for example, has needled Microsoft by providing financial support to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the development of Firefox. I.B.M. has been a major backer of Linux, helping to raise it as a competitor to Microsoft’s Windows and other proprietary operating systems.
Many of the top open-source developers are anything but volunteers tinkering in their spare time. Companies like I.B.M., Google, Oracle and Intel pay these developers top salaries to work on open-source projects and further the companies’ strategic objectives.
In the last three years, there have been five big acquisitions in which a major technology company bought an up-and-coming open-source company for many times its annual revenue. Sun, for example, bought MySQL for about 10 times its revenue, while Citrix bought XenSource for more than 150 times its revenue, according to people familiar with the companies’ sales.
Most recently, VMware, the leading maker of virtualization software, brought SpringSource for $420 million, or about 20 times its annual sales.
“A lot of these guys were getting close to an I.P.O., but they elected to go the acquisition route instead,” said Michael Olson, the chief executive of Cloudera, an open-source start-up. “A lot of open-source firms are one-product companies, and it’s hard to build a long-term, successful business that way.”
The larger technology companies have tended to buy these one-trick ponies for strategic purposes. With its core server business declining, Sun hoped it could piggy-back on MySQL’s momentum with Internet companies. In SpringSource, VMware acquired a company that had cultivated deep interest with software developers and helped VMware diversify beyond its virtualization roots.
“VMware took into consideration that which money can’t buy, which is a critical mass of adoption,” said Peter Fenton, a venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital, who has been involved in some fashion with many of the large open-source deals. “SpringSource’s main product was the equivalent of a best-selling novel.”
Citrix took perhaps the biggest risk of all, paying a huge premium for XenSource in the hopes of disrupting VMware’s position in the virtualization market.
“I don’t think Citrix would ever say it paid too much,” Mr. Crosby said. “Citrix leaped to the forefront of a whole software category. The ability to talk credibly about virtualization is worth a huge amount in its own right.”
Meanwhile, the ideal of an independent open-source giant has faded.
Mr. Fenton said that many open-source advocates had once hoped Red Hat would scoop up the top open-source start-ups, keeping these crown jewels out of the hands of proprietary software makers. But the company failed to go after other open-source companies initially and later could not afford to pay the high prices offered by larger companies.
“You could make the case there was a window of opportunity to do that three to five years ago,” Mr. Fenton said. “That opportunity has gone away. And it’s hard to put Humpty Dumpty back together again now.”
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Teaching Kids About Recycling
About the author: Viccy Salazar joined EPA in 1995. She works in our Seattle office on waste reduction, resource conservation and stewardship issues.
Recycling is hard. Sometimes I don’t even know what to recycle so when it comes time to talk kids about recycling, where do I start?? Well, I had to teach recycling to a bunch of preschoolers on America Recycles Day, here is what I learned.
Make the rules simple –
- Cans, paper, boxes, jars, and bottles go in the recycle bin.
- If it is dirty, clean it or throw it away
- No Lids, they go in the trash.
- No food in the recycle bin – even if it is attached to something else.
- If it is broken – in the trash
- If it can be used again, use it again or donate it to someone who can.
Practice – When we actually practiced, the kids couldn’t remember what went where until they had tried it a few times.
Expect mistakes – use them as a teaching opportunity.
Relate it to protecting the earth and the animals. The kids really wanted to help out.
Try it out with your kids. It was fun, informative and reminded me what to recycle. How did it work?
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The Clinch River flows through some scenic gorges and has sweeping mountain views. Some sections contain Class I to III rapids. The river offers canoeing, kayaking and fishing for smallmouth and muskies. The Nature Conservancy has designated the river as one of the "Last Great Places" in America because it is home to protected species of mussels.The Clinch River is great for fishing. Fees do apply for obtaining fishing license that is required for fishing.
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Hi...ive been trying to wrap my head around these equations but just can't seem to get it yet.....heres a few examples:
Factorise completely the following expressions:
1) 4t^2 - 9s^2
2) 3s^3 - 15s^2 - 18s
3) 2x^2 - 13x - 24
If any of you guys can work it out clearly for me I would be very greatful!!! | <urn:uuid:fddb5f03-d973-4f4b-bb00-aef3af7768e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mathhelpforum.com/algebra/12187-factorize.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951629 | 94 | 1.710938 | 2 |
It's extremely simple if you use two different figures. Like MPK said, make a circle, make a smaller circle, place the smaller circle in the bigger circle.
However, if you want it all one figure then you have to make a circle, create a hidden line segment on its node, make another circle on the end of the line segment, and adjust the length and angle of the line segment so that the second circle is within the first. That way the two circles will be connected and rotate in unison.
It's not rocket science, I'm sure if you work at it a little longer you'll figure it out.
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Television in Argentina
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Argentine television broadcasting began in 1951 with the inaugural of then state-owned Canal 7, developed by Radio Belgrano executive Jaime Yankelevich. Color television broadcasting, however, was not widely available until after 1978, when the government launched Argentina Televisora Color (ATC), now Canal 7 (Argentina's principal public television station). The prevalence of cable television, increasing steadily since the first CATV transmitter opened in the city of Junín in 1965, is now the third-widest in the world, reaching at least 78% of households.
Digital television
Argentina has adopted the Japanese standard ISDB-T, with the modifications done by Brazil. Initially Argentina had selected ATSC standard in 1998 (Res. 2387/98) which was backed by Grupo Clarin and promoted by the U.S. Embassy over DVB-T promoted by the biggest incumbent telcos and European cellular phone manufacturers like Nokia. There had been experimental ATSC broadcasts since 1999 before the government overruled the decision.
There is an agreement between Brazil and Argentina, signed in the light of Mercosur trade bloc, where both countries agree to share information, studies and efforts to select the same Digital TV standard.
By August 27, 2009, Argentina government announced officially that Japanese standard was adopted, with Chile and Perú at the same time. The goal behind this political decision is to achieve a wide, free, high quality regional TV.
Major TV broadcasters, namely El Trece and Telefe had been showing off sample digital broadcasts at electronics and media sector shows like the CAPER exhibition, but Canal 13 still hasn't started to broadcast in the now official Argentina standard.
HDTV-ready TV sales are increasing in Argentina, with the first TVs made available since 2005 by local firm Philips. The firm introduced back then three HD-ready (1080i) CRT TVs in 25, 29, and 33-inch versions. These tvs were manufactured in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina and included Pal-N/B and NTSC analogue tuners, plus HD component video inputs. Only a single model, the 25-inch, 16:9 one featured HDMI. As of 2008 the firm has switched to LCDs.
On November 2008, local cable TV firm Cablevision, which merged with Multicanal, started offering its "Cablevision HD" service. This rather expensive offering costs an additional $30 ARS over the standard Digital-TV service price. It uses ATSC and the firm makes mandatory the purchase of its "HD Tuner with DVR" at a cost of around $200 US dollars. As of late 2008 most LCDs advertised as "Full HD" offer at least 1080i signal support.
Cable television had its origins in the 1960s, when a CATV service started to operate in Junín, Buenos Aires. Currently, cable television is available in 5.5 million homes, the best ratio in Latin America and second in the world.
In the 1980s cable operators started operations in the absence of local regulations. Those earlier operators started a merged process which evolved toward the merge of Cablevision and Multicanal, the two biggest cable companies. The resultant company, named Cablevision, is owned by Grupo Clarin, the biggest newspaper in Argentina, who is also the owner of LS85-TV (the 2nd highest-rated TV station in Buenos Aires) TyC the owner of the monopoly of the soccer TV broadcast rights, thus turning into the dominant player.
Some small TV cable companies are operating, but the tendency now is that Cablevision will dominate this market in the future. Telecom Operator, Telefónica and Telecom, the monopoly in the fixed-cellular market is lobbying for opening the market towards the triple play. The Government is opening a window to allow the cable operators to enter in the telephony and extend internet coverage, before fully deregulating this market. In order to operate as a cable company in Argentina, a license from Comfer is required. This license is very difficult to get.
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Tools and Rules
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To write HTML, it's best to use a simple text-editing program. For Mac users, see if you can find a program called TextEdit or SimpleText. For PC users, try looking for Notepad or WordPad.
You can also use a word processing program, such as Word or WordPerfect. If you do, you must save your work in text format. To do this, when you are ready to save your work, click "File" and Save As, and not Save. This is because when you choose Save As, a box pops up and lets you choose the format in which you want to save your document. In this case, you want to save your work as Text.
Why all the fuss if you are using a word processor? Well, web browsers can only read text, and they can't understand anything else. When you use a word processor program like Word, your document does not automatically save as Text. That's why I suggest using SimpleText or Notepad because your documents are automatically saved as Text.
While learning HTML, I suggest that you save all your documents in one folder and on your machine's hard drive. Perhaps the simplest way to do this is to make the new folder on your desktop, allowing you quick and easy access to your documents.
Naming your document:To name your document, you can choose any filename that you want. But, you need to be sure to add the ending of .html. For example, if you want to name your document "Fred", you would type in the name as: Fred.html.
Viewing your document:When you are ready to see your new web pages, all you have to do is double click on the filename and it will appear on your computer just like a web page. This way, you don't need to have space on a web service provider to start learning how to write HTML. However, when your ready to show off your hard work to the rest of the world, you will need to send your documents to a web server, such as Tripod or Angelfire.
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Monday, 20 August 2012
By Roderick Evans
Jesus came as a visible demonstration of God’s standard of service and worship. Christ did not come as Lord and Savior only. He came as the Son of God. This demonstrated that God expects to have a personal (familial) relationship with His people. The highest title upon Jesus Christ was that of ‘Son.’
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. (Luke 1:32)
Because the Christ came as a Son, this meant that God wanted His people to also understand Him in a truly, personal way. The foundation of their worship and approach to God was to be done through relationship. The basis of their experience of God would be based upon His personality.
Since Jesus came as a living example, His life before God as a Son sets the guidelines for man’s life before Him. As a Son, Jesus walked in obedience to the Father. Though He was Lord of all, He humbled Himself under God’s hand. He followed whatever He was instructed to do.
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. (John 12:49)
This was to be the ultimate demonstration of how man is to approach God. As a Son, Jesus displayed how one can have a personal relationship with God and adhere to His righteous standards. This is how man’s relationship with God is perfected. Man’s righteous acts would be an outward manifestation of the inner transformation. As we follow Christ’s example, we show ourselves to be children of God indeed.
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Plasma Processing and Processing Science
applicable in VLSI fabrication as the industry migrates to larger and larger wafer sizes.
As with VLSI processes, one can expect that, in the various display industries, there will be a growing concern with the environmentally benign disposal of wet etchant wastes. Gaseous processes, such as plasma etching, generally result in fewer waste disposal problems and effluent volumes than, say, wet etching. Accordingly, although the required breakthroughs are challenging, so are the opportunities for large-area, low-cost plasma processes.
There are more similarities than differences among the technology requirements for VLSI and silicon-active matrix LCDs, although VLSI geometries are almost an order of magnitude smaller. Thus, as an example, anisotropic plasma etching is required to maintain critical dimensions in small etching geometries for VLSI, whereas in displays, anisotropic etching is required to maintain process tolerance over larger areas with minimum dimensions. Overetching in depth can be tolerated, whereas lateral etch nonuniformities cannot.
A second example can be drawn from the need for faster processing. Single wafer processing in VLSI needs faster process rates to achieve competitive economics. Displays also need faster process rates because display areas are large, yet their marketable costs per unit area are low. Other problems encountered in VLSI fabrication will also become important in dry processing of displays: cleaning of substrates, control of particulates, and charge-induced damage in the etching process.
To have an impact in display applications, NRL needs to proactively form teaming relationships and cooperative joint R&D programs and sponsor programs with display producers and would-be producers, researchers, and infrastructure suppliers. Specific contacts should be made with the MCC FED Consortium, the newly formed U.S. Display Consortium (USDC), and the North American Flat Panel Division of SEMI, as well as key U.S. display manufacturers. The corporate members of the USDC would be a good start: AT&T, Electro-Plasma, Magnascreen, Optical Imaging Systems, Photonics Imaging, Planar Systems, Plasmaco, Standish Industries, Tektronix, and Xerox, plus Micron Display, Sarnoff, SI Diamond Technology, MRS, Applied Materials, and so on. NRL expertise in FEDs is an internal resource that could be leveraged to acquire visibility in the display community. | <urn:uuid:922c3d7b-5ccc-4d5e-b78f-0a465db04e12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9854&page=29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911391 | 555 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
What is disseminated intravascular coagulation?
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Care Guide
Disseminated intravascular coagulation is also called DIC. It is a condition that may cause serious problems with bleeding or blood flow. It happens when the blood clotting agents (platelets and certain proteins) in the blood become over-active. Platelets are blood cells that help stop bleeding by sticking together to form a clot. With DIC, the platelets and blood proteins coagulate (form clots) throughout your body. When they are used up fast in this way, you may get uncontrolled bleeding. You may also have blockage of blood flow to vital organs in your body. DIC is always caused by another medical condition. Your health, quality of life, and ability to function may decrease without treatment.
What causes DIC?
This condition may be caused by any of the following:
- Blood vessel problems, such as an aneurysm (sac formed by an area of a blood vessel).
- Immune disorders, such as a severe allergic or blood transfusion reaction. If you received a new organ, such as a kidney, you may get transplant rejection. This is when your immune system attacks the new organ.
- Bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic infections.
- Problems with pregnancy and giving birth. This may be a placenta that separates from the uterus (womb) before the baby is born. This is called a partial (previa) or complete (abruption) separation of the placenta. The placenta is the tissue connecting you and your baby in the womb. Ask your caregiver for more information about placenta previa or abruptio placenta.
- Severe head or other injuries, such as from being in a car accident.
- Severe liver disease or swelling of the pancreas.
- Other causes may include:
- Burn injury or near-drowning.
- Cancers, such as solid tumors and leukemias (blood cancer).
- Chemotherapy (medicines used to treat cancer).
- Heart attack or cardiac arrest.
- Heat stroke or frost bite.
- Over-use of street drugs.
- Poisoning from animal bites, such as snakes.
- Burn injury or near-drowning.
What are the signs and symptoms of DIC?
You may have any of the following:
- Bleeding. You may lose of a large amount of blood very quickly. This bleeding may cause a big decrease in your blood pressure. You may bleed from your nose or gums. You may see blood (red if new blood, black if old blood) in your vomit or bowel movements. You may also have blood in your urine, coloring it pink or red. Women may have bleeding from the vagina (birth canal).
- Confusion or trouble thinking.
- Cough or trouble breathing.
- Decrease in the amount of your urine.
- Skin changes, such as bruises, purple-colored patches of bruising, or pinpoint reddish spots on your body. You may also have areas of swelling filled with blood. Your skin may take on a yellow color (jaundice).
How is DIC diagnosed?
Your caregiver will ask you about any recent infections, surgeries, or diseases you may have had. He may also ask about your family health history, and any medicines you had taken or are presently taking. He will also do a complete physical exam on you. Blood may be taken and sent to the lab for tests.
How is DIC treated?
Treatment is aimed at treating the problem or disease causing your DIC. You may be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for treatment and close monitoring of your condition. You may be given antibiotic medicines if you have an infection. Blood or parts of your blood, such as platelets, may need to be replaced (transfusion). If you have a tumor, you may need surgery to remove it. Women who have given birth but the placenta did not come out may need surgery. This surgery will remove any of the placenta left inside. Your DIC will not get better until the condition causing it is treated. Your caregiver may also give you medicines to relieve your symptoms. Ask your caregiver about other treatments, procedures, or surgery that you may need. Ask your caregiver for more information about blood transfusions.
What are the risks of having and being treated for DIC?
- Medicine used to treat DIC may cause nausea (upset stomach), vomiting (throwing up), headache, flushing, fast heartbeat, or seizures (convulsions). Having blood or parts of blood replaced may cause a transfusion reaction. A transfusion reaction happens if your immune system starts to attack the blood you have been given. Your caregivers will be there to watch out for these problems.
- With DIC you may be at a higher risk of getting a blood clot in your leg or arm. This can cause pain and swelling, and it can stop blood from flowing where it needs to go in your body. The blood clot can break loose and travel to your lungs or brain. A blood clot in your lungs can cause chest pain and trouble breathing. A blood clot in your brain can cause a stroke. These problems can be life-threatening.
- If your DIC is left untreated, it may lead to severe (very bad) bleeding and other life-threatening problems. You can also have a lack of blood flow to your organs or other parts of your body from clots that form. This may damage your organs or lead to tissue death (gangrene). Gangrene in your fingers, hands, toes, or feet may require surgical removal (amputation) of the injured part. Ask your caregiver if you are worried or have questions about your disease, treatment, or care. Ask your caregiver for more information about blood transfusions.
Where can I get support and more information?
Having DIC may be life-changing for you and your family. Accepting that you have DIC may be hard. You and those close to you may feel sad, angry, or scared. These are normal feelings. Talk to your caregivers, family, or friends about your feelings. Contact the following for more information:
- American Academy of Family Physicians
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
Leawood , KS 66211-2680
Phone: 1- 913 - 906-6000
Phone: 1- 800 - 274-2237
Web Address: http://www.aafp.org
You have the right to help plan your care. Learn about your health condition and how it may be treated. Discuss treatment options with your caregivers to decide what care you want to receive. You always have the right to refuse treatment.
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The above information is an educational aid only. It is not intended as medical advice for individual conditions or treatments. Talk to your doctor, nurse or pharmacist before following any medical regimen to see if it is safe and effective for you.
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Mary Szybist Discusses "Incarnadine"
Mary Szybist went to church in her youth, but spent much of her time as a young adult trying to move away from her religious tradition. It wasn't until she took a trip to Italy seven years ago that she began to appreciate some of the ideas of the church she was raised in.
In Italian art museums, she began to fall in love with Christian imagery, and in particular the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, where the angel Gabriel told Mary she would conceive Jesus Christ. Szybist says,
The annunciation appeals to me in part because it's a vision of an encounter, where a human actually perceives something unlike herself. I find the whole vision of trying to perceive something 'other' moving, because its very hard to do.
Her new book of poems Incarnadine builds on the image of the annunciation. Szybist (pronounced "she-bist") used as her epigraph a line by Simone Weil:
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Have you read Incarnadine? Has your childhood religion had an effect on your adulthood in surprising ways?
- Mary Szybist: Poet, associate professor of English at Lewis & Clark
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New sugarcane cultivars developed for sand soils of south Florida
Two new sugarcane cultivars specifically developed for Florida's sand soils have been released by Agricultural Research Service scientists and cooperators.
The new cultivars, CP 00-1446 and CP 00-2180, were developed at the ARS Sugarcane Field Station in Canal Point, Fla., as part of an effort to provide growers with more cultivars that yield well on sand soils. The new cultivars are the result of cooperative research with the University of Florida and the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc.
During testing, potential sugarcane cultivars are evaluated on their yields of cane and sugar. Both CP 00-1446 and CP 00-2180 produced high quantities of cane, and their sugar yields were 32 percent and 15 percent higher, respectively, than the sugar yield of a commercial variety used for comparison.
Growers in Florida usually get three annual harvests from one planting of sugarcane. Both new varieties produce very high cane yields for the first harvest and moderate yields for the other two harvests, commonly referred to as ratoons.
CP 00-2180 is unusual because it is the offspring of a single sugarcane variety, HoCP 91-552. It is rare to have commercially viable offspring from a self-cross of one cultivar.
Florida produces more sugar than any state in the United States. The majority of the sugarcane is produced in organic soils along the southern and southeastern shore of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida. Twenty percent of Florida's sugarcane acreage is grown on sand soil.
Researchers at Canal Point develop sugarcane cultivars that meet Florida sugarcane growers' needs. The station's goal is to produce disease-resistant varieties that contain good amounts of cane tonnage and sugar content. Research conducted at the station is responsible for substantial yield increases in Florida during the past 40 years.
Seed cane of the releases is available from the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc., for commercial planting. Small quantities of seed cane for research purposes can be obtained from the ARS Sugarcane Field Station.
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Alternate name: Deodar, California Christmas-tree
Family: Pinaceae, Pine view all from this family
Description Large evergreen coniferous cedar, conic crown, level branches, drooping branchlets. Needles 2.5–5 cm. slender (1 mm. thick), borne singly on long shoots, dense clusters of 20-30 on short shoots; varying from bright green to glaucous blue-green in color. Female cones are barrel-shaped, 7–13 cm. long, 5–9 cm. broad, disintegrating to release the winged seeds. Male cones 4–6 cm. long, shedding pollen in autumn.
Dimensions Height: 24 m. (80 ft.)
Diameter: 0.9 m. (3 ft.).
Habitat Cities, suburbs & towns.
Range Northwest, California, Florida, Southwest, Texas, Southeast.
Discussion Name derives from the Sanskrit devadaru, meaning "wood of the gods", a compound of deva (god) and daru (wood). Wood is used building material because of its durability, rot-resistant character and fine, close grain, which is capable of taking a high polish. Its historical use to construct religious temples and as landscape around temples is well recorded. Its rot-resistant character also makes it an ideal wood for constructing the famous houseboats of Srinagar, Kashmir. In India, during the British colonial period, deodar wood was used extensively for construction of barracks, public buildings, bridges, canals and railway cars. Despite its durability it is not a strong timber, and its brittle nature makes it unsuitable for delicate work where strength is required, such as chair-making. | <urn:uuid:ea50bf9d-b9e2-46e1-aaa1-28c70bc5648b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?lshapeID=22&curGroupID=10&lgfromWhere=&curPageNum=17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92692 | 352 | 2.890625 | 3 |
a stone wall which the Roman emperor Hadrian ordered to be built across the north of England in 122 AD from the east coast to the west, in order to defend Roman Britain from attack by northern tribes such as the Picts
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Battle with epilepsy doesn’t hinder alumna’s political career
Cindy Acree is a good teacher for many life lessons: overcoming adversity, the importance of hard work, helping those who read more…
Cindy Acree is a good teacher for many life lessons: overcoming adversity, the importance of hard work, helping those who can’t always help themselves.
Acree (MSJA ’88) was a longtime sufferer of temporal-lobe epilepsy, which for years caused her occasional seizures and frequent “absent states.” Because of the affliction, she also could hold forth on what to do when others’ negative opinions are directed at you: shake it off and move on.
“People would assume I was mentally defective,” she says. “I’d hear them talking about me behind my back, saying that I wasn’t all there. Epilepsy is a devastating neurological condition that few understand and many are afraid of. You just learn to deal with it, to work that much harder.”
Acree’s hard work has paid off. In 2008, she was elected to the Colorado Legislature as a Republican representing western Aurora and most of rural Arapahoe County. Her story is one of perseverance, and it’s one that has greatly influenced her political efforts.
During her childhood in Bentonville, Ark., Acree was not afflicted with the medical condition that would envelop so much of her adult life. She raised livestock and grew fruit on her family farm. She recalls her high school years fondly.
“Living in the country, you establish a great work ethic,” she says. “You compare that to the high school experience of today, in the city. There’s access to everything. It doesn’t really create an environment where kids have to be creative to entertain themselves or have to work to get what they want.”
Acree attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she met her future husband, Robert. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history and political science. She also has an associate’s degree from Cottey College in Missouri, where she studied theater. She has dabbled in community theater and has logged some time in traveling shows. Her stint as an actress prepared her well for politics, she says.
Eventually, though, she followed her husband, who worked in the oil and gas industry, to Colorado. It was at DU law school that she earned a master’s degree in judicial administration and later, from 1988–91, taught classes in technology and legal enterprise.
By this point, however, Acree had long been living with her condition. The seizures first appeared when she was an undergraduate, and she quickly had to adjust to her limitations. She couldn’t drive, since the seizures came with little to no warning. During her time at DU and in her first jobs for law firms, after she graduated, she took cabs and buses.
Determined to secure employment on her own merits and avoid the social stigma attached to epilepsy, Acree never shared information unless she was asked.
“I’d never tell them until I was hired,” she says. “On my first day I’d convene a staff meeting, tell them I had seizures and here’s what to do: Don’t put anything in my mouth. If I’m unconscious more than two minutes, call an ambulance.”
The limitations in her life were many. Often she had trouble concentrating, and during phone calls she would take notes in case she suffered an absent state and couldn’t remember what was said earlier in the conversation. She couldn’t have children, and sometimes even crossing the street was fraught with anxiety.
In 1991, in hopes of ending the epilepsy, she underwent what at the time was considered an experimental surgery to remove her right temporal lobe. A blood clot on the table resulted in a stroke that left her paralyzed on the left side of her body. She had to learn to walk again and became right-handed instead of left-handed.
It was another blow, but in a way it was a reasonable tradeoff. Free of epilepsy, Acree began driving again for the first time in 16 years and even went to the grocery store herself — something she had never done. She became a distance bicyclist, finishing the grueling Ride the Rockies. Most importantly, though, Acree had children — a daughter, and later, twin boys. It was at the insistence of her daughter that Acree got on the bike. She rode 437 miles across the Colorado mountains without being able to stand up and pedal or get on and off the bike by herself.
“Growing up, my mother always told me that if you think you can, you can,” says Acree’s daughter, Hope, who studies chemistry at Colorado Mesa University (formerly Mesa State) in Grand Junction. “When I was learning to ride a bike, my mother couldn’t ride a bike. I told her that I’d learn, but that she’d have to learn, too. She’d fall off at first, but she’d always get back up.”
Cindy Acree has been around politics most of her life. In 1968, she worked on Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign. More recently, she served as the campaign manager for her predecessor. With several political appointments to her credit, she has served her community as chair of the Aurora City Citizens Advisory Budget Committee, the Cherry Creek School District Facility Long Range Planning Committee and the Colorado Stroke Advisory Council.
“The timing just seemed right,” she said of her run for the Legislature. “It was a great way to continue the work I was doing with health care and these medical issues. I think our public policy needs to be made by people who have experience with these things.”
She went on to chair the board of the Colorado Neurological Institute (CNI), the largest neuroscience center in the Rocky Mountain Region. It was the first neurological institute in the world to be chaired by a former patient. She served on the board of Spalding Hospital, where she did her rehabilitation. CNI designated the Cindy Acree Hope Award in 2002 to recognize patients who overcome adversity and inspire hope in others.
Since then, she helped established one of the nation’s largest telemedicine programs in Colorado. Launched in 2006 by the Colorado Neurological Institute, Colorado-Digital-Online-Consultant allows stroke patients in remote areas of the state to be treated immediately, rather than flying to a metro-area hospital when time is a crucial factor. She is constantly advocating for people with disabilities.
As vice chair of the health committee, she has passed legislation that reforms Medicaid, makes medical services more accessible to seniors and children and brings down costs of delivering care. In upcoming sessions, she hopes to prompt legislation that would require insurance companies to recognize driving retraining as an integral part of rehabilitation so they will cover the expense like they do other rehab expenses.
She credits DU for much of her success and follows a stringent code when considering legislation.
“I made a rule when I came into office that I would look at every law based on the Constitution, my values and my constituents,” she says. “If there’s ever a conflict, my constituents win. I don’t care if I believe in my heart that something is the right thing to do, if enough people contact me and say, ‘We don’t want you to vote for this,’ I will vote my district.” | <urn:uuid:a5f66959-13b4-4751-a264-22f638735f9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.du.edu/today/news/battle-with-epilepsy-doesnt-hinder-alumnas-political-career | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981487 | 1,614 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Calls to Florida's child abuse hotline are up 16 percent, not because there's more abuse, but because of a new law requiring people to report.
Failing to report child abuse is now a third-degree felony.
After news of the Jerry Sandusky scandal spread, Florida lawmakers got to work passing the toughest child abuse reporting laws in the county.
"We really have a chance to significantly reduce abuse in this state," Secretary of the Department of Children and Families David Wilkins said.
Wilkins was joined by child abuse survivor Lauren Book on Monday to unveil a program showing people how to spot child abuse victims.
"It's our moral obligation, and now it's our legal obligation," Book said.
Book walks the state every year and teaches safety in schools.
She lobbied to stiffen penalties for not reporting abuse, increasing the punishment from a misdemeanor to a third-degree felony.
Since the law's passage, calls to DCF's child abuse hotline have risen 16 percent, and hotline workers say more callers equals more points of view, giving DCF multiple perspectives on the same case or incident.
"So many of the calls are also data points, so it may not be a necessity to do an investigation at that point, but it may be collecting information that may be used to make a decision down the road," Wilkins said.
DCF and Book are spreading the message through a campaign called Don't Miss the Signs.
Despite all her success, Book isn't ready to stop fighting.
"I don't know if I'm ever going to rest," she said. "I think I'm going to constantly be working on making this an issue that is important for the rest of our lives."
Book launched an online petition asking people to speak up for abused children.
The new law also creates a $1 million fine for colleges and universities whose administrators learn about abuse but don't tell the proper authorities. | <urn:uuid:c2bbd9d0-fcdd-4e7b-8d0c-2502a5657897> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.news4jax.com/news/Child-abuse-hotline-calls-up-16-in-Fla/-/475880/18310004/-/ju3qjxz/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965906 | 396 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The first debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama only passingly touched on issues that are a focus of this blog, in several references by the candidates to energy independence (an unattained goal of presidents since the Nixon era) and Romney’s assertion about billions spent propping up “green energy” startups.
The Times has produced a very helpful fact checking tool in which passages in the debate (video and transcript) are linked to assessments by reporters on relevant beats.
Here’s one of Romney statements on money spent on green energy:
You put $90 billion into — into green jobs. And — and I — look, I’m all in favor of green energy. Ninety billion (dollars) — that — that would have — that would have hired 2 million teachers. Ninety billion dollars. And these businesses — many of them have gone out of business. I think about half of them, of the ones have been invested in, they’ve gone out of business. A number of them happened to be owned by — by people who were contributors to your campaigns.
Here’s John Broder’s deconstruction:
Mr. Romney said that half the companies backed by the president’s green energy stimulus program have gone out of business. That is a gross overstatement. Of nearly three dozen recipients of loans under the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program, only three are currently in bankruptcy, although several others are facing financial difficulties. Mr. Romney also said that “many” of the companies that received such loans were supported by campaign contributors. George Kaiser, a major fund-raiser for Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign, was an investor in Solyndra, the failed solar panel maker, but there are also examples of Republican and Democratic campaign contributors who also invested in firms supported by the loan guarantee program.
The Washington Post has more. This is not the first time Romney has rolled out the $90 billion figure for such spending. After his campaign pursued this line of attack in July, Matthew Wald of The Times called it “true, with an asterisk.”
My favorite section of the debate came when the candidates clarified their views of the role of government. I don’t doubt either man’s interest in improving America’s capacity for ingenuity, resilience and entrepreneurship. But Obama was alone in citing past instances where government (under a Republican administration) played such a role:
I also believe that government has the capacity — the federal government has the capacity — to help open up opportunity and create ladders of opportunity and to create frameworks where the American people can succeed. Look, the genius of America is the free enterprise system, and freedom, and the fact that people can go out there and start a business, work on an idea, make their own decisions.
But as Abraham Lincoln understood, there are also some things we do better together.
So in the middle of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln said, let’s help to finance the Transcontinental Railroad. Let’s start the National Academy of Sciences. Let’s start land grant colleges, because we want to give these gateways of opportunity for all Americans, because if all Americans are getting opportunity, we’re all going to be better off. That doesn’t restrict people’s freedom; that enhances it.
Of course the question remains whether Obama — or anyone else — can overcome the paralysis on Capitol Hill and pursue fresh initiatives of this sort.
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Most Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give, whether the measurement is the number of friend requests received, the use of the "like" button, the number of messages sent or tagging people in photos.
The main factor driving this phenomenon is that there is a segment of "power users" who specialize in different Facebook activities and contribute much more than the typical user does, according to a new study that for the first time combines server logs of Facebook activity with survey data to explore the structure of Facebook friendship networks and measures of social well-being.
The typical Facebook user was moderately active during the month of the study's observation as far as sending friend requests, adding content and "liking" the content of their friends. However, a proportion of Facebook participants -- ranging between 20% and 30% of users depending on the type of activity -- were power users who performed these same activities at a much higher rate; daily or more than weekly. As a result of these power users, the average Facebook user receives friend requests, receives personal messages, is tagged in photos and receives feedback in terms of "likes" at a higher frequency than they contribute.
Read the full report, Why Most Facebook Users Get More Than They Give, on the Pew Internet & American Life Project's Web site. | <urn:uuid:a0c6dbd2-825c-4b17-83e1-1d746efb7040> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899370108&category=56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957771 | 263 | 2.109375 | 2 |
September 26th, 2008 01:33 AM #1gina j Guest
sacroilliac joint syndrome
I wonder can anyone shed some light-
When a woman is pregnant , her body releases a hormone, relaxin, in order that muscular tissue allows movement of the bones especially the pelvis to help accomodate the birth proccess. Is there a link post partum or rather is there any chance that post partum this or a simular hormone is released before each subsequent period/ menstruation which could aggrevate this condition? I am an Aromatherapist and I am finding this complaint frequently in women aged between 30 and 40yo who have also bore children.
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The Merced Theatre, designed by the Reid Bros., was built in 1930 by Golden State Theatres, a dominant circuit in Central and Northern California. It opened on October 31, 1931.
It became part of United Artists Theatres in the mid-1970’s and by the mid-1980’s, the original 1,658-seat auditorium had become four screens.
The Merced Theatre closed in the Spring of 2002 because of competition from a new stadium theater which opened a block away. In July of 2002, the city of Merced approved the purchase of this theatre for $700,000, half the $1.4 million asking price. According to the Merced Sun-Star it will be managed by the Merced Theatre Foundation, a non-profit agency, renovation work would take at least 3 years and up to $3 million to complete. The theatre is to operate as a community theatre, and it also has street-level shops and upper-level apartments.
Only 300 seats were being used in what was screen 2, but this operation closed in 2009. By 2012, the entire theatre has re-opened as a single auditorium known as the Art Kamanger Center at the Merced Theatre.
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April 27, 2009
SALEM, MA--Record your favorite memory of Salem. Listen to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Play a 17th-century version of badminton or a game called "Hunting a Deer in My Lord’s Park." Drink some flavored "shrub." It’s all part of Time Travel Days at Salem’s Old Town Hall, a new local history festival sponsored by the Gordon College Institute for Public History. The family-friendly festival--which takes place Saturday, May 2nd and Sunday, 3rd, 2009, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Old Town Hall, Derby Square--is FREE and open to audiences of all ages.
“This festival gives us a chance to celebrate Salem’s rich history and to provide something new at the Old Town Hall,” said Kristina Stevick, director of the Gordon College Institute for Public History. “We’re hoping people who don’t know the building will be inspired to spend some time in it, to learn about its history and have fun playing with the past.”
Performers will include The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers, Essex Harmony, Pastimes Entertainment, Empire Theatre Company, Gordon theatre arts professor Norman Jones as Nathaniel Hawthorne and others. There will be food, music, games, theatre and activities representing a variety of eras.
One of the activity options will be to record a favorite Salem memory, courtesy of LampPostMedia.net. This “memory project” footage will be used as part of an exhibit planned for 2010 on the ground floor of the Old Town Hall.
In addition to the fun, attendees will be able to vote at a portable polling station for the Old Town Hall to win $100,000 in preservation funding from The National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express. New England Technologies Group, a Cambridge based company with ties to Salem, has been designing the specialty booth for Time Travel Days.
The Old Town Hall is one of twenty-five sites in the greater Boston area competing for the funds. The winner is based on popular votes which are tabulated daily. The city-owned, Gordon College-managed building is currently tied for first place.
The additional votes gathered at Time Travel Days, especially if those people continue to vote daily, could push the property solidly into first place ensuring structural repairs and upgrades which will increase the buildings usage and public benefit.
For more information about Time Travel Days or any of the other programs and events sponsored by the Gordon College Institute for Public History, please contact Kristina at 978.867.4767 or historyalivegordon.edu. For information on College Communications, please contact Jo Kadlecek at 978.867.4752. | <urn:uuid:9730a326-ad41-4c0e-9c33-2abb729ed883> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gordon.edu/article.cfm?iArticleID=758&iReferrerPageID=5&iPrevCatID=30&bLive=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92057 | 581 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Posted by David Leibowitz on March 26th, 2009 in Bankruptcy, Chapter 13, Chapter 7, Discharge, Student Loans
Clients ask me “I have big student loans – can bankruptcy help?” Frequently, student loans are only a part of the client’s problem. People also have a great deal of credit card debt to go along with the student loan.
Sometimes, the client’s education has paid off. The client has a high-paying job. Such clients need to consider filing chapter 13 if they can’t keep up with their debts. In chapter 13, they can establish a monthly payment to the chapter 13 trustee. Over a period of five years, the unsecured debt will be satisfied. And progress will be made on the student loan. With other unsecured debt satisfied, the debtor can concentrate on paying the student loan.
Sometimes, the client’s education has not paid off. The client has a low paying job or no job at all. Chapter 7 can eliminate the non-student loan debt. However, unless the debtor is facing a “substantial hardship” the debtor is still obligated to pay the student loan – possibly for a very long time.
Unfortunately, it is very hard to establish a “substantial hardship” – essentially the debtor has to be in such bad straits that he or she will never be able to satisfy the loan – usually because of a serious disability.
To establish this condition, you literally would have to sue your lender. You’d have to contend that you can’t live, even minimally, while paying the loan, and that your situation is unlikely to change for the foreseeable future. It’s a catch-22. You can’t afford to pay the student loan. And you can’t afford to pay an attorney to file a suit to establish that you can’t pay the student loan.
If student loans are part of your problem, don’t be afraid to call us – we can be part of the solution. | <urn:uuid:45547fef-81b3-4828-aec4-dbe16721f356> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lakelaw.com/tag/student-loans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968814 | 433 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Unused and out-of-style eyeglass frames with scratched or discarded lenses overflow the Annapolis carport. But optometrists Robert and Lila Schwartz are unconcerned -- the glasses are part of what they call "the greatest recycling program in the world."
The Schwartzes, members of a non-profit, independent group called Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity, plan to distribute the glasses in Third World nations.
The couple made their first trip with a VOSH group to Haiti about eight years ago. The trip was exhausting, but the couple has continued traveling to Third World countries, providing people with eye exams and glasses.
"On our first trip, there were only three optometrists and three students. We were set up in a dance hall, a bar," Lila Schwartz said. "The country is extremely primitive. It is one of the poorest countries I've ever seen.
"We saw 1,000 (people) in four days, but this was our smallest mission."
On subsequent trips, her husband said, the group examined more than 2,000 people. Many of the patients seen by VOSH had never had an eye exam nor owned glasses.
Thousands of usable eyeglasses are collected and sorted biannually by the Lions Club Association for Sight and Hearing. Ernie Leeger, past president of LASH, said the Lions collect glasses from drops in grocery stores and optometry offices and take them to the Lions Club in Ellicott City.
The Lions sort all usable material and turn the glasses over to the non-profit VOSH. VOSH groups around the United States travel to Third World countries taking optometrists, students, supplies and glasses.
"LASH is the umbrella group for most of the Lions clubs along the Eastern Shore and had been collecting glasses from different optometric offices and shipping them to a United Nations agency in New York," said Robert Schwartz, one of four directors of the Maryland VOSH group. But the UN group could not decide what to do with all the glasses.
"Just at that time, we went to a LASH meeting and made a presentation about VOSH," added Lila Schwartz, Robert's wife and fellow director. "We told them we needed glasses."
LASH responded by asking, "How about 35,000 pairs?"
The Maryland VOSH group has visited Haiti, Honduras and Cancun. Although the first leg of each trip lands the mission in a large city, volunteers are transported into small, remote villages, usually by a host group of the Lions or Rotary clubs.
VOSH's budget is limited to about $4,000, including $2,000 in scholarship money from LASH. Optometry students who wish to make the four-day journey get $250, but must pay about half the airfare.
Practitioners pay their own way as well as supply 250 pairs of glasses.
Volunteer is a word that continually crops up when discussing VOSH. The Schwartzes tell of their second trip with the International VOSH group, when volunteers from an Indiana college drove buses from Chicago to Honduras so transportation would be provided for the group.
For the next mission to Guatemala in January, usable glasses will be delivered to Opportunity Builders in Glen Burnie. Mentally disabled and handicapped employees there will be paid for their work assembling and packaging the glasses. | <urn:uuid:91a2c82a-3b3c-43a7-8f8b-5daf6d0aa099> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-11-11/news/0502210337_1_vosh-schwartz-lions-club | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960512 | 692 | 2.1875 | 2 |
TIPP10 makes PC (and by extension, MAC) computer users ready for the ten-finger system on the keyboard. Train with the free software for both beginners and advanced fast typing.
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I know its hard to believe, but industry insiders often make and drink too much of their own Kool-Aid! Unfortunately, this seems to be happening all too frequently with cloud computing, the latest in a long line of our industry’s over-hyped buzzwords. Here’s how to tell if you need to come back down earth when communicating about “the cloud” with the rest of the universe.
1. You are incapable of providing a clear definition, in plain English (or whatever your primary language is) of what cloud computing is. Even for the most introductory purposes, you are constitutionally unable to sum up cloud computing simply, such as “a scalable computing model that lets people access and use software, server and storage resources over the Internet”.
2. You have become fanatical about “the cloud”. You’ve lost the ability to even-handedly assess the pros and cons, or let any doubts about security, privacy or performance temper your zeal (even as Google argues that technology has ensured that “complete privacy does not exist”). You’ve decided that “the cloud” way is the only way.
3. You spend a disturbing amount of time pondering and debating questions such as, “is a private cloud (a private cloud being a cloud architecture and services that an organization builds for its own use) really a cloud?”—even as you acknowledge the existence of private clouds.
4. You feel compelled to make nuanced distinctions between cloud computing and software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, and anything-else-as-a-service—even though hardly anyone else cares.
5. You feel more at home marketing the benefits of “the cloud” than marketing the benefits of your solution—whether its CRM, collaboration, financials or flying monkeys.
6. Software and computer appliances annoy you. After all, appliances offer customers many of the cost, time, management and ease of use benefits as solutions offered via the cloud. But appliances—and customer data–sit on customer premises, and vendors provide service, maintenance and upgrades over the Web—kind of reverse cloud. If appliances take off, wouldn’t that slow down “the cloud” as you currently define it?
If you answered “yes” to three or more of the above questions, it’s time to put down the Kool-Aid and remember that the vast majority of business decision makers “really don’t know clouds at all” (thanks, Joni Mitchell). They are just trying to figure out how run payroll more cheaply, collaborate more productively on new widget design, or sell more widgets. Meanwhile, many IT people believe the cloud was invented to take their jobs away. So please bring your cloud conversations down to earth, before “the cloud” is vaporized. | <urn:uuid:4568e702-4585-4aaf-98ef-f1d4edabcc6f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smb-gr.com/blogs-laurie-mccabe/six-signs-that-it%E2%80%99s-time-to-bring-your-cloud-speak-down-to-earth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94411 | 606 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Micro Cars Ltd has entered a new era in manufacturing container carriers for heavy long haulage and tractors specially to cater to the needs of the North and East.
The company last week commissioned a new facility at its Polgahawela factory complex for the purpose to manufacture Prime Movers (Container Carriers) for the two regions where large volumes of goods are required for transport, which otherwise is transported by sea.
At its new complex
Chairman of the company Dr. Lawrence Perera told the Sunday Times FT that manufacturing commercial vehicles in Sri Lanka will have many benefits to the national economy such as saving of valuable foreign exchange such as overheads, salaries and wages, and profits that would be paid to overseas suppliers, in the event these vehicles are imported in completely built form.
A tractor production line is made available with the technical co-operation by International Tractors Ltd. a company of the Sonalika Group of India branded as ‘Sonalika marketed by Micro Agri’, to meet the increased demand of agriculture tractors and implements due to the vast expansion of new land in the North and East, he said.
All vehicles assembled in Sri Lanka are with over 35% local value addition. This includes manufacturing components locally. This gives an opportunity to local manufacturers to supply some parts to vehicles manufactured in Sri Lanka , while an opportunity is made available to the youth to be a part of this exercise. Dr. Perera disclosed that Micro Cars Ltd also designed a modern rail solution named “Lanka Econo Rail” to be manufactured in Sri Lanka with technical assistance from Germany as a modern and economical solution to resolve the mass transportation problems.
Micro Cars Ltd with the capacity to manufacture 300 cars per annum, has already sold 1300 cars in 2008 while this year sales have been slow due to recession and other economic factors. Around 700 vehicles were sold up to August this year, he said . | <urn:uuid:8ec8329a-9c11-4635-a020-14cba1201d1a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090830/FinancialTimes/ft36.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967249 | 390 | 1.703125 | 2 |
September 15, 2011
Reports highlight Jewish issues in Poland, Hungary
Reports released by a Jewish think tank in London highlighted the need for the reform of Jewish infrastructure in Hungary and support for Orthodox and non-Orthodox alternatives in Poland.
The reports issued Thursday, published by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, assessed the development of Jewish communities in Hungary and Poland since the collapse of communism, as well as the challenges they face going forward.
Research in Hungary reveals a community reinvigorated over the last 20 years but facing the challenge of low engagement in communal life; only 10 percent of the Jewish population is affiliated with a Jewish organization. The report calls for the Hungarian Jewish communal infrastructure to be restructured to ensure that decisions on issues affecting the whole community are made in a democratic and transparent fashion. It also called for more religious pluralism and more cooperation among groups and initiatives.
The report on Poland calls for continued support for the Orthodox mainstream as well as for the development of non-Orthodox alternatives. It urges support for educational initiatives and the preservation of Jewish heritage. | <urn:uuid:1e83e3b2-bb30-4802-8f86-34d626051461> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/reports_highlight_jewish_issues_in_poland_hungary_20110915 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954245 | 216 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology report details on the biological mechanisms through which cells degrade own cellular material, allowing them to survive starvation conditions.
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(HealthDay)—An experimental drug that taps the power of the body's immune system to fight cancer is shrinking tumors in patients for whom other treatments have failed, an early study shows.
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Newly described type of immune cell and T cells share similar path to maturity, according to new study
(Medical Xpress)—Labs around the world, and a core group at Penn, have been studying recently described populations of immune cells called innate lymphoid cells (ILCs). Some researchers liken them to foot soldiers that ...
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Researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida have evaluated how Florida health care and social service agencies distribute "Libres para Siempre", a Spanish smoking relapse prevention booklet ...
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A ground-breaking advance in colonoscopy technology signals the future of colorectal care, according to research presented today at Digestive Disease Week(DDW). Additional research focuses on optimizing the minimal withdrawal ...
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Age has little to do with how patients should be treated after suffering a stroke, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
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If you're a left-brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear, according to a newly published study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
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Levels of physical inactivity and obesity are very high in children, with fewer than 50% of primary school-aged boys and fewer than 28% of girls meeting the minimum levels of physical activity required to maintain health. ...
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Men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations, according to a Viewpoint ...
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Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques aimed at mental and neurological conditions include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression, and transcranial direct current (electrical) stimulation ...
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The hardening of arteries is a hallmark of atherosclerosis, an often deadly disease in which plaques, excessive connective tissue, and other changes build up inside vessel walls and squeeze off the flow of ...
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Elsevier today announced the publication of a recent study in Reproductive BioMedicine Online on 5-day old human blastocysts showing that those with an abnormal chromosomal composition can be identified by the rate at whic ...
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The presence of posttraumatic stress disorder is significantly associated with the development of type 2 diabetes. This is the finding of scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University Hospital Gießen ...
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(Medical Xpress)—Athletes no longer ask whether beetroot juice improves sporting performance - they just want to know how much to drink, and when.
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(Medical Xpress)—University of Bath researchers have found a previously undiscovered link between epileptic seizures and the signs of autism in adults.
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Attenborough's Life Stories - Part 2Airs Wednesday, January 30 at 07:00 PM "I've been lucky enough to live through what well might be considered the golden age of natural history filmmaking." - Sir David Attenborough
Now a world-famous veteran of wildlife presentation on television, Sir David Attenborough was eight years old in 1934 when he saw his first natural history film.
It featured the popular naturalist Cherry Kearton, one of the earliest pioneers of wildlife photography and filmmaking. "Kearton's films captured my childish imagination," says Attenborough. "It made me dream of traveling to far off places to film wild animals."
Years later, those dreams became an illustrious reality. For over half a century, Attenborough has been at the forefront of natural history filmmaking, witnessing an unparalleled period of change in our planet's history. His first-hand accounts offer a unique perspective on the natural world. To mark his 60th anniversary on television, Nature presents Attenborough's Life Stories, a three-part retrospective of his life and work. | <urn:uuid:fd1b575a-3e6c-47ef-9094-a185e692dc46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wyoptv.org/programming/viewprogram.php?id=3721&aid=6210 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947587 | 219 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Bank of Nova Scotia
, better known as Scotiabank
, was established in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1832. After more than century and a half of banking experience, the company has managed to amass about 7.5 million customers within Canada, and another 7.1 million in 50 other countries (making it Canada's most international bank). Scotiabank currently has 1,019 branches, nearly 3,000 automated banking machines (ABMs), and over 100 Wealth Management offices within Canada.
Internationally, the group employs 46,000 at more than 1,900 subsidiary branches, and approximately 3,500 international automated banking machines throughout the regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Latin America, Mexico, and Asia. As the third largest bank in Canada
, and one of North America's premier financial institutions, Scotiabank currently holds about $500 billion in assets, $350 billion in deposits, and employs approximately 68,000 people. Scotiabank Group provides a broad range of personal, commercial, and corporate & investment banking products and services.
Scotiabank Operational Divisions
The Scotiabank Group operates publicly through 3 main divisions – Retail and Small Business Banking, Commercial Banking, and Wealth Management. The Retail and Small Business Banking division offers loans, mortgages, credit cards, insurance, investments, and checking & savings accounts to small businesses and individuals. The Commercial Banking division offers banking solutions for medium-large sized businesses, with products and services geared towards agricultural, real estate, leasing, franchising, and automotive lending. The Commercial Banking branch also includes custom-tailored solutions provided through the Roynat Capital brand. The Wealth Management division provides a wide range of products and services, including investment management advice, retail brokerage, financial, trust & estate planning, mutual funds, savings products, and private client services for professionals. Scotiabank Group also offers wholesale banking products and services to corporate, government and institutional investors through Scotia Capital, the group's wholesale banking arm
History of Scotiabank
Scotiabank was founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1832 as the Bank of Nova Scotia. The bank then expanded into the Maritime Provinces until 1882, when they opened a branch in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Scotia Group then expanded into the American Midwest, establishing branches in Minneapolis (in 1885) and Chicago (in 1892). Also in 1892, the bank became the first to establish a branch in Newfoundland, Canada, more than 55 years before any other bank. By the turn of the century, the Bank of Nova Scotia had opened 38 branches throughout Canada, the U.S. and Jamaica. By this time, the bank had a presence in all of the Maritime Provinces, as well as Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba. The Bank of Nova Scotia has steadily grown during the past century through the following 11 key mergers and acquisitions.
• 1883 - Union Bank of PEI
• 1901 - Summerside Bank
• 1913 - Bank of New Brunswick
• 1914 - Metropolitan Bank of Canada
• 1919 - The Bank of Ottawa
• 1994 - Montreal Trust
• 1997 - National Trust
• 2003 - Inverlat (Mexico)
• 2005 - National Bank of Greece (Canada)
• 2007 - Banco Wiesse Sudameris (Peru)
• 2007 - Banco Sudamericano (Peru)
Scotiabank Products and Services
On the Scotiabank web site
, their products and services are split into 4 main categories – Day-to-Day Banking, Borrowing, Investments, and Insurance. The 'Day-to-Day Banking' line of products and services include checking &savings, student banking, senior banking, money transfers, electronic banking, and mobile banking. The 'Borrowing' line of products and services include mortgages, equity plans, credit cards, lines of credit, personal loans, business loans, and more. The 'Investments' line of products and services includes brokerages (self-managed or full-serviced), Mutual Funds, GICs, RSPs, TFSA, RESPs, RDSPs, and more. The 'Insurance' line of products and services includes travel insurance, mortgage protection, credit insurance, life insurance, loan protection, line of credit protection and more.
Through the above operating divisions and products & services, Scotiabank successfully accommodates the banking needs of millions of clients on a daily basis, and is steadily expanding. Being one of Canada's original banks, and a current member of the 'Big Five' banks in Canada, it is likely that the bank will continue to grow its customer base within the coming decades.
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Magnetic houses? Using the earth's magnetic field to date archeological sites
Archeologists finished their dig of a Cherokee Winter House in early February, just in time for other Park employees to complete a paving project on Newfound Gap Road. The road does not cover the site, but digging close to the road could undermine the stability of the roadbed. During the dig, archeologists did archeomagnetic dating of burned material they found in the Cherokee house hearth. This method allows archeologists to date artifacts more precisely (within 20 years of the actual event) than the carbon dating that’s been the only method available before. It works by comparing how the magnetic particles in material found at the site—say, burned wood—line up with a record of the earth’s magnetic fields in the past. The earth’s magnetic field changes slowly but regularly, and we have a reliable record of when and how it changed. When wood or other material burns, the metallic elements inside it line up with the magnetic field at the time, thereby “recording” the date for archeologists to compare to read later. This lets archeologists look for patterns of movement and production, because they know when ceramics were fired or when people last cooked in a particular house.
Artifacts that archeologists found on their bitter cold dig included not only hearth materials but beads, animal bones (including deer, frogs, and toads), ceramics, and at least three projectile points that will likely turn out, in analysis, to be arrowheads as well. | <urn:uuid:60617366-f96d-447d-870b-18e4fd95fb1d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nps.gov/grsm/naturescience/dff209-researchcultural.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953751 | 321 | 3.9375 | 4 |
ANIMAL ENTERPRISE PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENT -- HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS (Extension of Remarks - September 15, 1993)
HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS
in the House of Representatives
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1993
- Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, last year the Congress passed the `Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992'--Public Law 102-346--in response to a growing national trend of violence perpetrated by animal rights extremists on the agricultural and scientific research communities. This law now provides an important Federal statute against these costly and destructive acts.
- Unfortunately, a disturbing new trend has developed which the original bill did not thoroughly cover. Individuals have now become the targets of violent and life-threatening attacks by animal rights extremists. Individuals, family members, and personal property have been increasingly intimidated and victimized through the use of tactics typically associated with terrorist organizations. According to the September 1993, U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Report to Congress on the Extent and Effects of Domestic and International Terrorism on Animal Enterprises, `. . . the most disturbing pattern to emerge during the period in question was that individuals and their personal property were targeted with increasing frequency (p. 9).'
- Evidence of this trend is clear: On April 29, 1993, in the State of Maryland the homes of five researchers were attacked by animal rights extremists. In my home State of Pennsylvania, Dr. Adrian Morrison researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, has been consistently terrorized through both physical and psychological intimidation. Our fears are further perpetuated by Animal Liberation Front statements such as: `I would be overjoyed when the first scientist is killed by a liberation activist,' Vivien Smith, Animal Liberation Front, The Saturday Times Review, November 7, 1992.
- Mr. Speaker, I find such attacks and statement not only unsettling but perverse enough to warrant legislative action. Therefore, today I am introducing legislation in response to this trend of personal victimization by animal rights extremists. My legislation amends the Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992, to include person and personal property of those persons engaging in an animal enterprise. My bill is offered based on findings from the September 1993, U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Agriculture Report to Congress on the Extent and Effects of Domestic and International Terrorism on Animal Enterprises, which documents this growing trend of personal victimization: `All of the extremist acts that have been directed against individual researchers have involved either threats against their person or family members or vandalism to their personal property or both.'
- My amendment is designed to protect individuals engaging in an animal enterprise, such as farmers and researchers, from senseless acts of violence. My amendment has already received enthusiastic support from professionals in these fields, and today I ask my colleagues for their support and cosponsorship of this legislation. For those of my colleagues who may have constituents in their districts employed in such industries as dairy, meat production, pet shops, textiles, medical research, pharmaceutical production, high-technology research and development, universities, health care, or countless other industries linked to an animal enterprise, I especially urge your consideration and support of this legislation. | <urn:uuid:d7535019-3c8a-4f0a-8b4e-1e76680126a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1993_cr/h930915-terror.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949048 | 663 | 1.664063 | 2 |
As previewed a couple of weeks ago, the government's default KiwiSaver makeover plans feature a rethink of current investment strategies for disengaged members.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) discussion document published this Tuesday, notes default options the world over tend to exert an inordinate gravitational pull.
"Based on the experience with KiwiSaver default product enrolments to date, the experience of other jurisdictions, and research by behavioural economists, we expect there to be a large and persistent group of savers remaining in the default product, even though it may not be appropriate to their own circumstances and risk preferences," the report says. "This forms the basis of a hypothesis that shifting the KiwiSaver default product towards a longer term, more growth-oriented investment objective will deliver better outcomes for default members."
While the report states early on that the government has "no preferred position", there is a clear implication that the current conservative investment strategies of default KiwiSaver funds don't serve the best interests of most members.
Suggested options include 'life-cycle' funds, which change individual members investment mix on an age-based formula, or 'target date' schemes that lump an annual cohort (say, those due to turn 65 in 2040, in a single investment pool that adjusts over time).
Either way, mandating default KiwiSaver members to take on more risk carries some obvious political risks too.
"In many respects the Government's role regarding the default product is as a de facto investment adviser," the report says.
Furthermore, by selecting private default providers the government also hands those (mostly) lucky institutions a free kick.
"We think valuable brand equity accrues to a product and a provider through the awarding of default status. It gives, in effect, an implicit government 'stamp of approval' which equates to a value-add for that provider," the MBIE document says.
There's a real economic value for default schemes, too, with the report estimating the current six providers could collect between $400-500 million in fees from default members over the next decade not including the 'brand equity' that might flow on to their other products.
The report also notes that the "notion of providing 'choice' by having a number of default providers may be largely redundant, outside a spreading of concentration risk across several providers rather than one".
Despite dismissing the idea of a single government-run scheme, the report contemplates a number of scenarios that might dilute this default effect including appointing more providers (up to 12 might qualify under existing rules).
Another option may be to let everyone in on the game by allowing all providers to offer a default-compliant fund similar to the MySuper rules currently being implemented in Australia.
Whatever happens, it is hard to see the default game to continue without some significant changes to the rules. For instance, the MBIE report proposes a few ways to rein in the economic rent-seeking behaviour that default providers are prone to, including:
Imposing a fixed fee meaning default managers won't get the natural uplift in income as funds under management increase;
A tiered fee where a percentage-based fee must reduce as funds under management rise; and, centralising the administration function for all default schemes to create economies of scale, leaving managers free to charge only for investment duties.
Incumbents, of course, will be lobbying to protect the status quo but there's enough in this report to suggest they shouldn't succeed.By David Chaplin | <urn:uuid:df45800f-9d98-47c4-9ace-6477ca6f866e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10847355 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926552 | 729 | 1.59375 | 2 |
This is a call for participants and contributors to an in-depth learning and sharing session on sanitation in rapidly-growing towns.
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, together with UCLGA, WIN-SA and AusAid, are hosting a Learning and Sharing Workshop around this crucial topic in November 2011. The 2 day session, to be held near Johannesburg (in the week of 7 November), will explore proactive, tangible ways to deal with pressing sanitation issues in towns experiencing rapid growth in Southern Africa.
SADC participants (eligible countries in green here) are invited to apply to participate or contribute to the workshop – which discusses practical and pragmatic ways to seize the current ‘window of opportunity’ that exists in rapidly growing towns. The application deadline is 5 October 2011.
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But two local young women — Diane Draper of Williamsport and Jensen Roman of Falling Waters, W.Va. — took a less common path after school.
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They each wrote and published a novel.
In getting their stories into print, Draper and Roman had to confront obstacles — friends' doubts, family expectations and the authors' own fears and insecurities, not to mention the challenge of sticking with the solitary work of writing for months and months.
But they persevered, finished their projects and learned a thing or two about themselves.
They each came into The Herald-Mail to talk about their novels.
Fictional romance reflects real-life love
Roman's novel, "Experiment XIII," tells the story of Ellie, a small-town girl living in Montana in 2041, who meets a dark-haired stranger and falls in love. Turns out the stranger has escaped from a horrific science experiment that gave him extraordinary powers, and the people running the experiment want him back.
Roman, 22, graduated from Hedgesville High School in 2007. She said the sci-fi/romance story idea came to her long before she started writing it.
"I got the main idea in my head when I was a freshman in high school. It wouldn't stop nagging me. I'm like, 'I don't want to write it right now. Just wait,'" she said. "Sophomore year, junior year, senior year, it just kept nagging me. 'Write, write, write.' Then I went down to visit my husband's family in Florida, and I'm like, 'OK, I'm just going to start writing you. That way, you'll leave me alone.'"
Turned out the story reflected Roman's own love life — minus the horrible science experiment.
"I've had my flings. I've had my heart broken at least three times," Roman said. "So the romance is kind of like mine. It's just spur-of-the-moment — first comes friendship, then it becomes romance, then gets stronger."
Ellie first encounters Athen, the experimental refugee, when she and her brother, Lee, exit a movie theater. Ellie is turned off by the sullen, withdrawn, badly injured young man, but Lee insists on helping Athen, and eventually Ellie warms up to him.
Roman said her romance with her husband, Yasmany Roman, also started in a low-key, unexpected way.
"We met (in) a chat room. He lived in Florida and I lived up here. People were telling me, ‘There's no way this relationship's going to happen,'" she said. "Well, one year later, he started calling. He said he wanted to see me. He rode a Greyhound bus for three days to come up here. One year later, we got married."
Now married a year, the couple live near Roman's parents, Curtis and Melissa Jones, in Falling Waters, W.Va. Jensen Roman writes full time and her husband is training to be a law enforcement officer.
Roman said she is largely a self-taught writer. Her imagination took off when she read J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
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What will the university of the future look like?
A few things are clear: In the rapidly changing landscape of the 21st century, universities will succeed by finding new and innovative ways to deliver learning; by integrating diversity deeply within the university’s culture; and by developing new strategies to collaborate with private and public sector partners to realize our mission. Successful universities will serve both local and global communities.
Having just celebrated McGill’s 190th anniversary, I am reminded of how even the most far-reaching vision of the future is built on the foundations of the past. Established through the singular act of vision that was James McGill’s founding bequest, McGill has continued to take bold steps to positively shape our collective tomorrow. We have cultivated research and scholarly collaborations with outstanding people and institutions here at home and around the world. We are contributing to the resolution of major local and global problems, and we have secured McGill’s position as a sought-after destination for the world’s finest international students and professors.
Just this year, I received recommendations from my Principal’s Task Force on Diversity, Excellence and Community Engagement. These addressed McGill’s best practices to embrace and encourage people with diverse backgrounds, viewpoints and ideas to come together to advance knowledge and service in the best interests of healthy society and proposed new approaches that are under consideration.
It is also clear that at the heart of McGill’s progress lies the talent and commitment of our people, and the generosity of our community. As it has been for nearly 200 years, McGill’s bold embrace of the future is dependent on the support of alumni, friends and community members who understand the needs of our students and faculty and who support them in building stronger, more educated and more prosperous societies.
In this issue of Making Hıstory, we shine a spotlight on the power of philanthropy to shape our future. From improving global health, to enriching debate on human rights and international justice, from encouraging young entrepreneurs to supporting science outreach, from improving cancer care delivery to finding a cure for cancer, our generous donors are making sure that McGill’s next two centuries will be as extraordinary as its first two.
On behalf of the entire McGill community, I thank you for contributing so importantly to McGill’s future, and the future of civil society.
—Professor Heather Munroe-Blum, OC, OQPrincipal and Vice-Chancellor
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Court's decision to treat infection as traumatic injury makes claim timely
Case name: Burress v. IBP, Inc., No. 8-477/07-1887 (Iowa Ct. App. 10/29/08).
What it means:
Under Iowa law, an employee has one year to file an occupational disease claim and two years to file a traumatic injury claim. If credible evidence indicates that the claimant contracted an infection through an abrasion in the skin rather than from a generalized exposure to hog's blood, the workers' compensation commissioner may treat the claim as a traumatic injury rather than as an occupational disease.
Summary: A worker at a meatpacking plant acquired an infection after undergoing hip surgery. He was diagnosed with brucellosis, a disease acquired through direct contact with an infected animal -- in this case, slaughtered hogs. The employer argued that the worker suffered from an occupational disease and failed to file his claim within a year after the disease manifested itself. A lower court agreed and dismissed the claim as untimely. The Court of Appeals reversed, citing the deputy commissioner's finding that the claimant most likely sustained a cut to his hand, and experienced a sudden, traumatic exposure to hog's blood. Treated as a traumatic injury, the claim was timely.
The worker's physician explained in an opinion letter that the bacteria causing the infection are confined to "domestic or feral swine," with infection occurring when the animals are processed. He stated that the "portal of entry" is through abrasions in the skin but that "aerosol transmission" could also occur in slaughterhouses.
The Court of Appeals found that although the physician's letter could have supported a finding that the worker's infection was an occupational disease, it was up to the commissioner to "determine the credibility of witnesses, weigh the evidence, and decide the facts in issue." Based on credible evidence that the worker contracted the infection through an abrasion in the skin, the commissioner reasonably concluded that the worker had suffered a traumatic injury.
December 1, 2008
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Payment for caring work
Make our voices heard on * anti-mother, anti-caregiver policies * criminalizing poverty * racism *war and occupation * housing * welfare * valuing and payment for caring work* pay equity * children unjustly taken from mothers by LA County *justice for victims of South LA serial murders * California budget cuts *UC & Cal State fee increases* immigration policies that break up families *prostitution & other struggles for survival * the right to home care by those of us who are older &/or have a disability * healthcare *rape & violence * breastfeeding * childcare * lesbian/gay/
Date: Saturday, 13 March 2010 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: London, Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square
An International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day Event Saturday 13 March 2010 – Mothers March & Speak Out – For recognition and support for all the workwe contribute to society – Come with your children, relatives and friends.Bring your banners, placards and demands – Assemble 2pm Trafalgar Sq – March to Parliament Sq – Wes
Helen Lowder, Mother and parliamentary secretary speaks on: "Double trouble double day", speaking at the International Gathering of the Global Women's Strike and the International Women Count Network, London 31 January - 8 February 2009 at Bolivar Hall, Venezuelan Embassy.
It’s our money not the bankers’!
How dare MPs, defiant about paying back “expenses”, squeeze those of us with least during this economic crisis?
Kim Sparrow of Single Mothers Self-Defence speaks at the International Gathering of the International Women Count Network and the Global Women's Strike, London, February 2009.
Co-ordinator of Global Women's Strike
Quoted in NY Times Op-Ed: Pay People to Cook at Home!
Speaking at The Life and Legacy of C.L.R. James Conference
In the Guardian: From welfare to wages, women fight back against the uncaring market
More Guardian articles
Listen to speak in Ireland: "How can women defeat austerity?"
Other countries we work with (so far...)
Sojourner Truth Radio
Margaret Prescod on Sojourner Truth Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Tuesdays.
News on US domestic & foreign policy. Cutting-edge interviews with women, people of color & others around the world.
KPFK's Margaret Prescod named Best Radio Personality - 2012 by OC Weekly!
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This Is the Iraq Recession
Think Progress reminds us that before the Iraq War, economists were predicting that a prolonged occupation could lead to a recession here at home and around the world. Witness:
"A war against Iraq could cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars, play havoc with an already depressed domestic economy and tip the world into recession because of the adverse effect on oil prices, inflation and interest rates, an academic study [by William Nordhaus, Sterling professor of economics at Yale University] has warned." [Independent, 11/16/02]
"If war with Iraq drags on longer than the few weeks or months most are predicting, corporate revenues will be flat for the coming year and will put the U.S. economy at risk of recession, according to a poll of chief financial officers." [CBS MarketWatch, 3/20/03]
"If the conflict wears on or, worse, spreads, the economic consequences become very serious. Late last year, George Perry at the Brookings Institution ran some simulations and found that after taking into account a reasonable use of oil reserves, a cut in world oil production of just 6.5 percent a year would send the United States and the world into recession." [Robert Shapiro, former undersecretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, 10/2/02]
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On September 11, 2001, two hijacked jet aircraft laden with volatile aviation fuel crashed into the World Trade Center, killing 2,600 people and destroying the twin towers. But there was a second catastrophe, as well: Extremely high rates of deadly respiratory disease among the 20,000 rescue workers and others who toiled in clouds of toxic dust at Ground Zero that officials claimed was not dangerous to breathe.
No amount of money -- not even the $7 billion paid out through a special compensation fund -- could stanch the grief of the families of the men and women who died on 9/11. No amount of money can restore to good health the men and women who were stricken because of the toxic cocktail in the air and wreckage of the twin towers, but a $657.7 million settlement announced late Thursday that is to be paid out based on the severity of illnesses will help.
While 19 Al Qaeda-trained hijackers perished and Khalid Sheikh Mohamed will strand trial for his role as the 9/11 mastermind, Dick Cheney and the other White House and intelligence agency officials who ignored repeated warnings about the attacks have never been held accountable and at this late date certainly never will be. Nor have Rudy Giuliani and Christie Todd Whitman, who as New York City major and Environmental Protection Agency administrator cavalierly ignored or papered over concerns about Ground Zero health hazards.
The sleazy Giuliani was a known quantity, but Whitman's hypocritical role has never gotten the attention it deserves.
The former New Jersey governor was a rising national Republican star until she was cast out of the GOP temple by the conservative priests in July 2003 for being too moderate. This was well before the full extent of the public-health disaster at Ground Zero became known, as well as how Whitman had willingly let the White House stage manage her pronouncements that workers had nothing to worry about, in several instances rewriting press releases to paint a more upbeat picture.
Whitman initially refused to testify before a House judiciary subcommittee about her post-9/11 statements and when she did disingenuously claimed that those pronouncements were directed at neighborhoods around the WTC and not the workers.
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I was really pleased when John asked me to do an interview, and took the opportunity to expand at some length on his questions, most of which centered around the future of print books and ebooks. And who isn’t interested in ebooks these days?
Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of the interview. To read the whole thing, see the link at the end of the article.
Q: Your website is called The Book Designer, and yet you blog about electronic publishing, in which authors/publishers have less and less to say about the design of their books, because the target delivery device is not defined. A cell phone is not the same thing as a large computer screen or a kindle, any yet your ebook may end up on any of them. What does it mean to “design” a book these days, when the concept of “book” is so fluid and the variety of reading devices so great?
As I write this, printed book still far outnumber ebooks, and books that are published only in e-formats are rare. Most ebooks start off as print books, so book designers are still busy.
Ebooks are growing and everyone knows that the move to electronic delivery of text is unstoppable. Economic pressures are also pushing this transition
The problems that designers face with ebooks are primarily a result of the primitive nature of the tools available to us to create the files that will be read on these devices. I’m mostly a print guy, and have no particular expertise in EPUB or other ebook formats, but it’s obvious that better software standards and better interpreters on the hardware end will make a huge difference about how we can design these books.
Even now there’s a big difference between ebooks that are produced without much thought, or through automated processing engines, and ebooks that are crafted by knowledgeable and attentive designers. Just look at Elizabeth Castro’s EPUB Straight to the Point for a well-designed ebook built for EPUB format. The best of the translations from print to ebook display their origin in print typography while still being flowable and readable on various screen sizes.
The EPUB version that Joshua Tallent created for my client Lisa Alpine is a good example, where the artwork used in chapter openings was carefully preserved and really does a good job of translating the print design into electronic form.
So the short answer to your question, John, is that while we have entered a dark age for design on ebook formats, it looks like there’s a light up ahead.
To read the entire interview, go to John Sundman’s Wetmachine blog. Here’s the link:
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Democide: Socialism, Tyranny, Guns and Freedom
The first widely studied modern democide occurred in Turkey between 1915 and 1923, when the Turkish government decided to eliminate the country’s Christian minority, primarily ethnic Armenians and Greeks who had Turkish roots extending back to before the Islamic conquest. Two million Christians were murdered on forced marches into deserts without water or food. This democide occurred in view of Western reporters, who took photographs and posted contemporary wire reports. The fact that the democide was known outside Turkey did not deter the Turkish leaders.
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October 2012 Issue
What started as one small painting on a barn in Adams County has multiplied into an international art project, all started by one woman to honor her mother and her Appalachian heritage.
Donna Sue Groves originated the idea of a quilt barn trail nearly 23 years ago.
Courtesy of Donna Sue Groves
Snail's Trail, Groves' tobacco barn, painted by Marietta artist Geoff Schenkel.
Effie Mullins/Athens Photographic Project
Century of Progress, Niday barn, Green Township
Double LeMoyne Star, Goodseed Farm, Peebles
Jerry Lindsey/Athens Photographic Project
Lemon Star/Birding and Heritage Quilt, Moyer Winery and Restaurant, Manchester
Mountains, Faught barn near Hamdon, Vinton County
Brandi D. Betts
Friendship Star, Phipps barn, West Union
Gentleman’s Fancy, Fender barn, Baltic
Ohio Star, Lewis Mountain Herbs and Everlastings; Manchester
Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement, by Suzi Parron with Donna Sue Groves
Courtesy of Ohio University Press
Donna Sue Groves isn’t actually a quilter.
The woman behind the National Quilt Barn Trail, which links 44 states and two provinces in Canada, has made only one quilt square in her 64 years — a Tree of Life pattern that is more suitable as a wall hanging than a blanket.
“Mother says [quilting] traditionally skips a generation,” says Donna Sue, referring to Nina Maxine Groves, the woman who inspired her to create the first quilt barn in Adams County. “But I love fabric, I love the patterns and I’m fascinated with the stories of those who do quilt, and so I just consider myself a cheerleader.”
Donna Sue is hardly on the sidelines, though. Her original idea for a quilt barn nearly 23 years ago rapidly spread to small towns across the nation, patching neighbors together and boosting tourism in rural areas.
The idea formed after she and her mother purchased a 28-acre farm in Adams County. A run-down, ugly tobacco barn sat on the property, prompting her to tell Nina Maxine — a master quilter — that she’d spruce it up with color by painting a quilt square on it to honor her mother’s hobby. But the pieces of the plan didn’t come together until residents offered to help nearly 10 years later. Combining quilts and barns may seem like an unlikely marriage, but both were an important part of Donna Sue’s childhood. During long car rides between her home in Kanawha County, West Virginia, and her grandparents’ home in Rhone County, West Virginia, Nina Maxine made up a game to keep Donna Sue and her brother Michael occupied. With no electronics for distraction and few out-of-state license plates to count, the children scored points for spotting certain types of barns — like a dairy barn — or for reading advertisements painted on the worn wooden boards.
“It was either that or Dramamine,” says Donna Sue, laughing. During these rides, her mother usually patched quilt squares together. The barn spotting became a family event when Donna Sue’s father started photographing the barns or discussing their history and architecture. Later, when the family moved to Xenia after Donna Sue’s father got a job with the Greene County Health Department, the barns she saw in Ohio reminded her of her Appalachian roots.
All of Adams County knew of Donna Sue’s plan to paint a quilt square for her mother, and it became a running joke. Finally, though, in 1999, Pete Whan of The Nature Conservancy, who was working at the Edge of Appalachia Preserve, offered to help find support for the project. At that point, Donna Sue said, “Why don’t we paint more than one and create a driving trail for tourists?” The idea came naturally to Donna Sue, who spent nearly 20 years volunteering and working with nonprofits and artist organizations throughout the state, first with the Ohio Community Development Corporation’s VISTA project (Volunteers in Service to America), where she incorporated art into parenting classes, and then as the Southern Ohio field representative for the Ohio Arts Counsel. And she knew that the region was passionate about farming and crafts, creating the perfect platform for a community project.
“These are just folks at the ground level who come together to create a project for the betterment of their community that happens to be fun,” she says. “And it’s not rocket science; it doesn’t take a skilled person to do it. Children can paint them, seniors can paint them. The men love it because it tends to incorporate wood and framing … or how to better hang it on the barn.”
In January of 2000, residents got together to plan the trail and in 2001, the first quilt barn — an Ohio Star — was unveiled during the Lewis Mountain Olde Thyme Herb Fair. And in 2003, Nina Maxine finally got her quilt square. Donna Sue commissioned Geoff Schenkel, an artist in Marietta, to paint a Snail’s Trail pattern for their tobacco barn.
Eleven years and about 3,000 quilt squares later, Donna Sue is convinced that this is the largest public art project since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s WPA murals. The quilts have spread from rural barns to inner-city buildings.
“It showcases to the rest of the world that comes to visit us how beautiful and how great it is in rural America,” she says.
Still, Donna Sue is surprised at how quickly the project took off, and she’s still getting used to the publicity.
“My job is to stay in the background always … I’m the hand-holder. I’m the one asking questions. I’m not the one that’s supposed to be celebrated,” she says.
It seems, though, that Donna Sue provides the frame and the patchwork for this international sampler, keeping people together and assisting them through the process. She’s made friends across the country, people who have created their own quilt squares, often in memory of loved ones.
“I learned people’s children’s names and their favorite color and the fact that they lost their mother or husband,” she says. “Over and over again, I heard that the project changed their life. It gave them reason to live. It gave them reason to get up out of bed.”
But to Donna Sue, the people she’s met in the process have lifted her up “like angels” through periods of grief and mourning, first after the loss of her job with the Ohio Arts Council in June of 2008 and then following her breast cancer diagnosis a month later.
“The biggest thing was their positive energy and their prayers that they sent me, and [it] gave me hope,” she says. “Hearing how this project changed lives gave me something to focus on and hold on to in my darkest of days.”
And although Donna Sue has been breast cancer free for nearly five years, last year she found out that the disease has spread to her kidneys and bladder. To say it’s been tough is an understatement. She brushes away tears when she speaks of her mother — alive and well at 84 — whom Donna Sue, currently undergoing exhausting treatments, is unable to help. Still, she retains her optimism.
“I’m going to live as hard and as long as I can and be upbeat and hopeful and positive because I can’t change the facts,” she says.
The quilt barns project helped Donna Sue put down roots in Ohio, even though she’s lived in the state for most of her adult life. In many ways, though, home is still rural West Virginia and, initially, it’s where she wanted to return after her father’s death and her mother’s retirement. But fewer family members remain in the area, and there was little economic opportunity, so going back to West Virginia seemed impractical. Nina Maxine, who enjoyed camping and fishing at Brush Creek State Forest in Adams County, suggested they move to that rural area of southern Ohio.
“It’s not so different here,” says Donna Sue. “I love it here. I can’t turn back the clock. I have to think about the rest of my journey and it’s totally impractical [to move back to West Virginia] but my heart is always over there,” she says. “But I’ve had a good life here.”
Last year, Donna Sue and other quilt square organizers around the country celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Adams County Quilt Barn Trail at the Red Barn Convention Center in Winchester. It’s a testament to her involvement and kind spirit that about 250 people from 15 states showed up to celebrate.
Donna Sue has received multiple awards and invitations since starting the quilt trail movement, most recently the 2010 Governor’s Award for the Arts. She was also invited to the prestigious Houston International Quilt Festival in 2009, where she was recognized for inspiring the first quilt barn trail in Texas.
“I’ve had a damn good life and I’ve had a lot of fun,” she says. “No one has reaped more riches of friendships and people. I’m the richest woman in the world; I am the most blessed. ... This project has brought so much joy and hope and love from people I would have never met.”
To learn more about the history, location and stories behind national and international quilt barns, pick up a copy of Suzi Parron’s new book,
Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement (Ohio University Press and Swallow Press, 2012). Parron, a high school English teacher in Atlanta, sought the story behind the movement after encountering her first quilt barn — a Flying Geese square — on a trip through Cadiz, Kentucky. Through her research, she encountered Donna Sue and, together, they compiled the book. To order a copy, visit ohioswallow.com. | <urn:uuid:0872e145-45de-407f-a562-2d31b7742ac0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ohiomagazine.com/Main/Articles/4655.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96005 | 2,201 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Going global includes your diet. If you eat, its hard to miss a South American staple showing up on salad bars and in bags on the grocery store shelves all across the U.S.
Its quinoa, and its a new old grain.
Pronounced KEEN-wah, its a native of the Andes region including Ecuador, Bolivia, Columbia and Peru where it has been cultivated for thousands of years. There its used much the same way as we use cereal grains, though rather than a grass quinoa is technically the fruit of a plant.
Tiny grains of quinoa are flat and range in color from yellow or white to dark brown. They fluff up like rice when theyre cooked.
Unwashed quinoa has a coating of a substance called saponin. It has a bitter flavor and lathers when it gets wet. The saponin is mildly toxic, so youll want to rinse quinoa several times before using it. If it comes prewashed, it doesnt hurt to give it one more rinse.
Nutritionally, quinoa is strong. Its high in protein and dietary fiber, and it provides good amounts of B vitamins and several minerals, including iron, zinc, manganese and magnesium.
Quinoa is versatile. You can use it like rice in savory dishes such as casseroles, pilaf or salads, or use it as a side dish with cooked vegetables.
It also makes a good cooked breakfast cereal. It blends well with cinnamon, nutmeg and sweeteners like brown sugar or maple syrup.
Quinoa is also gluten-free, so it works for people who need or want to avoid gluten. Buy it at any natural foods store, conventional supermarkets including Lowes and Harris Teeter, and at big-box stores such as Costco and Sams Club.
Look for recipes online and experiment. Ive tried quinoa in a variety of ways and theyre all good. My favorites include quinoa pudding with cooked, dried fruits and cold salads made with cooked vegetables such as spinach and sweet potatoes.
Sample quinoa when you see it on restaurant menus. I tried a delicious sweet and spicy quinoa salad from the Whole Foods Market salad bar, and I hope its there again when I go back.
Its a big world of food out there with lots of healthful and good-tasting options to try. Add quinoa to your list.
Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a licensed, registered dietitian and clinical associate professor in the Departments of Health Policy and Management and Nutrition in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Send questions and comments to email@example.com and follow her on Twitter, @suzannehobbs. | <urn:uuid:c24c7410-6e45-465c-87fc-aa568e30e9d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/11/1992210/quinoa-old-grain-is-getting-new.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945887 | 562 | 1.9375 | 2 |
A POWERFUL government agency has just had a trove of its most sensitive interactions with key counterparties around the world thrown open to the public. I'm not talking about the State Department but the publication today of who got help from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending programmes during the crisis.
Unlike WikiLeaks' release of diplomatic cables, it's the Federal Reserve doing the releasing this time. Still, there are similarities, such as the Fed's initial resistance—it cited the confidentiality that normally surrounds such relationships (especially with foreign central banks)—and the future chilling effect. For the Fed to be an effective lender of last resort, borrowers cannot be cowed by the stigma of public disclosure.
Under the compromise contained in the Dodd-Frank Act, the Fed today released details of who borrowed what from its various emergency programmes from December 1st 2007 to July 21st 2010. Details of borrowing from regular discount-window and open-market operations will be published with a two year lag.
The details are interesting, even titillating, but not terribly surprising. The biggest banks tended to be the biggest borrowers. The data are a bit tricky to interpret: each loan is reported separately even when it represents the rollover of a maturing loan. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank and JPMorgan Chase all borrowed at least $15 billion each via the Fed's Term Auction Facility; the total outstanding at any one moment exceeded $45 billion in the case of Bank of America and Wells Fargo, according to Bloomberg. One of the more intriguing revelations is how much support the Fed gave to Europe's banks: an American unit of Belgium's Dexia had at least $14 billion outstanding at one point; RBS Citizens, a unit of Royal Bank of Scotland, at least $14.5 billion, and Bank of Scotland (part of Lloyds), $12 billion. Is it a coincidence that the parents of all these banks had to be bailed out by their host governments? (The European Central Bank was also far and away the largest users of dollar swap lines from the Fed, at one point borrowing $171 billion. It then lent those dollars to euro-zone banks.)
Investment banks also became big borrowers when the discount window was opened to them. Bear Stearns borrowed up to $28 billion (no surprise there) as it fended off collapse in March of 2008. But the others did not borrow in size until that fall. Lehman borrowed $28 billion the day of its bankruptcy. (Why it didn't borrow sooner is a bit puzzling. Was it too scared of looking like it needed the help? And should the Fed have lent to a dealer whose holding company had just sought bankruptcy protection?) Merrill Lynch borrowed up to $33 billion, Morgan Stanley $47 billion, and Goldman Sachs $18 billion.
These revelations reinforce what we already knew: that the Fed helped reinforce all these firms' “too big to fail” status by lending them huge amounts when they needed it. Yes, this is moral hazard, but some moral hazard has always been the price of having a lender of last resort, and the alternative would certainly have been worse.
Just as the debate about the WikiLeaks release has been less about the content of the cables and more about the impact on relationships formerly shrouded in secrecy, the bigger debate about the Fed's revelations ought to be how this changes its relationship with the financial industry going forward. For now, I don't see it doing much damage; it's hard to see any bank's health or reputation being compromised by public acknowledgment of the fact that it borrowed from the Fed during one of the biggest crises in history, and the two-year delay in future disclosure should give a bank plenty of time to sort out whatever forced it to borrow in the first place. Disclosure also may make it less likely that the Fed's offices will be abused in the first place. But when a future crisis begins, will a bank that would otherwise have borrowed from the Fed think twice and try to ride out a liquidity crunch, risking an exodus of funding until it's too late? | <urn:uuid:9faae804-42a2-434f-9de6-36a2435e7475> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/12/fed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968435 | 825 | 2.078125 | 2 |