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Two and a half years ago, my wife and I visited Syria as the guest of a prominent businessman there.
At the time, I believed the Syrian people, who were, and still are, under the rule of president/dictator Bashar Assad and his regime, were entitled (as all people should be) to a true democracy and that there was a likelihood that Syria's leadership, wanting to normalize relations with the U.S. would be receptive to the idea.
In fact, since World War II, Syria has had two brief democracies in the 1940s and '50s, and it was an original member of the United Nations.
Furthermore, based on conversations with ordinary Syrians during my visit, it appeared that they are good people — considerate and welcoming to visitors. In speaking to business friends of my host, there was no doubt that the business community favored normalizing relations with the U.S.
At the outset of the current unrest in Syria, I emailed my Syrian friend saying that the demonstrations were a clear sign that the Syrian people desired freedom and that they, in my opinion, were ready for and entitled to it.
He emailed back that people should be allowed to experience their natural rights, but he was concerned that matters could get out of hand. He said that a peaceful transition was needed under the Assad regime to insure public safety, normalize commerce and to make certain that extremist groups would not gain a foothold.
I responded (in early April) that this would be an excellent opportunity for the government to institute real change. I stated: "President Assad now has a splendid opportunity to be the instrument of freedom for his people. He should remain in power for the present to insure stability and convene a convention to write a constitution for Syria including a bill of rights and stand for election when the process is completed."
I believe this would demonstrate Assad's concern for the people and would likely cause them to rally around him. This seemed not only reasonable, but also possible.
After all, hadn't Assad studied medicine and achieved his medical degree in London? And wouldn't these twin experiences — living in England and earning his degree — given him a respect for real democracy and a strong appreciation of human life?
Events of the past eight weeks have demonstrated that I was terribly naive. The savage brutality employed by the Assad government against nonviolent protest has not only revealed that peaceful demonstrations will not be permitted, but also that those who engage in such protests, including women and children, are subject to being slaughtered.
It reminds me of the 1905 "Bloody Sunday" in Russia where Father Georgi Gapon and thousands of poor Russians marched to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to present their demands for reform. The czar's response was to unleash the Imperial Guard, resulting in a massacre of the supplicants. Seventeen years later, the czar was deposed and he and all his family executed.
My point is that I do not believe that tyrants will win in the end. The 20th century was not a good century for dictators in Europe and Latin America, and I believe the 21st century will have similar results for dictatorial rule in the rest of the world.
Thomas Jefferson's prescient declaration that "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" has not yet found universal acceptance.
I believe that Jefferson is on the side of history and that Bassar Assad will find, to his chagrin, that he is not.
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Having a debate is the solution AccuWeather meteorologist Joe Bastardi believes will help bring some answers towards the current "Climategate" controversy.
Bastardi, Class of 1978, spoke to a crowd of about 80 people at the Ramada Inn Conference Center, 1450 S. Atherton St., about Penn State professor Michael Mann and climate change. The event was hosted by the 9-12 Project of Central Pennsylvania.
Bastardi, who has worked for AccuWeather for about 32 years, said in a way he feels "sympathetic" about the issue and asked the audience members several times to look through Mann's perspective.
Bastardi said despite what the majority of people who are against Mann believe, he does not recommend that the university should suspend him and instead should work to have a debate among those involved in the current dispute.
"This is by no means the solution to end 'Climategate,' " Bastardi said. "I'm befuddled though that no one's suggested that a debate take place. What are you afraid of if you know you are right?"
Bastardi said a debate would be the right way to go so that the public would be informed on the issues and facts.
Samuel Settle, chairman of Penn State's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), said he enjoyed Bastardi's speech because of the balance he brought.
"I really liked the idea he brought of the open forums debate and how he focused on the criticism of the work itself rather than the investigation," Settle said.
Bastardi's recommendations come on the same day that Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., announced that he would seek help from government agencies such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct a further investigation into the "Climategate" issue, and most specifically, Mann.
Matt Dempsey, communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, confirmed that Inhofe would go as far as to reach the U.S. Department of Justice if the government agencies would not conduct an investigation.
"Senator Inhofe has been involved in the debate for 10 years," Dempsey said. "[Inhofe's] been the leading skeptic in the U.S. Senate on climate change and he's documented a number of cases where the science was questionable. And so as 'Climategate' shows, it reveals what Inhofe has been saying all along is true."
Dempsey said Inhofe fears the amount of "manipulated data" should raise concern among the institutions involved, including Penn State.
"We were hoping that Mann would step down from his position as the investigation continues, or that the university would seek a temporary suspension," Dempsey said.
"Inhofe has a strong respect for Penn State University, especially with the school deciding to moving on to a full investigation," Dempsey said. "It's probably not as far as it should have gone, but we respect the work they're doing."
Penn State spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz wrote in an e-mail that an internal inquiry "is moving into the investigatory stage, which is the next step in the University's process for reviewing research conduct."
She was unable to comment on Inhofe's statements.
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In a move to make scientific research more freely available, the University of Southampton is running a series of training courses for those planning to set up institutional repositories.
The University, one of the key players in the global Open Access movement, has launched EPrints Services, to provide a range of advice, support, and practical help to all those planning to set up, or maintaining, an institutional research repository.
Computer Science at ECS gets highest rating from students
The UK's first-ever national survey of student satisfaction has resulted in the top place for Computer Science at Southampton. ECS Computer Science students rated their overall satisfaction with their Southampton course at 4.6 (out of 5), one of the top scores in the country for any subject. Earlier this year Electronics and Electrical Engineering was again rated No.1 in the UK by The Times Good University Guide.
Scientists in the School are developing a new framework which will facilitate more accurate probabilistic weather forecasting. Over the years, many different techniques have been used in weather forecasting, from relatively simple observations of the sky to highly complex mathematical models run on the world's largest computers. Despite significant advances in this field, due to the unpredictability of the weather, forecasting remains a complex business.
A new sensor is being developed for the aerospace industry which will also have applications in medicine and the automotive industry. The sensor could be cheaper and more effective than others on the market.
The UK is losing around £1.5 billion annually in the potential impact of its scientific research expenditure, according to one of the key figures in the global open access publishing movement. Professor Stevan Harnad, Moderator of the American Scientist Open Access Forum and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science, has calculated the potential return on the investment in scientific research findings that are being lost to the UK each year through the limitations of the current academic publishing environment.
David Swaffield, research assistant in the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, has been awarded the 2005 Eric O Forster Young Scientist Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
David received his award at the IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids at Coimbra, from Robert Hebner, President of the IEEE’s Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS).
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Recipient: Continental Congress, Massachusetts delegates
Recipient: Adams, Samuel
Recipient: Cushing, Thomas
Recipient: Paine, Robert Treat
Recipient: Hancock, John
This is a summary of a document and does not contain a transcription. If it is available elsewhere in this digital edition, a page number link will be provided below in the paragraph beginning "Printed."
[dateline] Watertown, 11 November 1775
(Misc. Papers of the Continental Congress, Reel No. 8). Although the credentials as passed by the house bear the date 10 November, the
Journal of the House of Representatives
(1775–1776, 2d sess., p. 269–270) indicates that they were passed on 11 November and immediately concurred in by the Council.
These credentials extended the appointments of JA, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine, and John Hancock as members of the Massachusetts delegation from 31 December 1775 to 31 January 1776. The one-month extension was an interim measure to allow the General Court, which adjourned on 11 November, to consider changes in the delegation at its next session beginning on 29 November. When new credentials, to be in effect until 1 January 1777, were adopted on 18 January 1776
, the delegation was retained intact with the exception of the moderate Thomas Cushing, who was replaced by Elbridge Gerry (same
, 3d sess., p. 165).
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Emerging Markets On A Roll
Boom or bust – it’s a phrase often associated with emerging markets
The mid-1990s brought rallies to markets in Latin America and Southeast Asia, where the so-called Tiger economies led the way.
Then came the collapse of the Thai baht in 1996, which unleashed a chain reaction in global markets, cleverly subbed “Asian contagion”, which erased billions of dollars in stock market capitalizations.
The new millennium has been good to many emerging markets. A long-stretch stretch of historically low interest rates in the U.S., followed by a global commodities boom (oil, metals, minerals) lifted markets from South Africa to Russia to Brazil. Russia and Venezuela, both oil producers, are among the top ten best performers over the past five years. Mexico ranked No. 12 with a 31% gain. (See list below.)
Overall in 2006, the MSCI Europe, Australasia, and Far East (EAFE) Index, the leading international equity benchmark, was up 23.5% in dollar terms and 13.8% on a local currency basis.
Reiner Triltsch, head of international trading at U.S. Trust, describes himself as neutral on emerging markets at this time but adds that the "valuations are pretty rich," when "there should be some sort of discount."
"We might consider the possibility of a correction that might be heftier than we all would like," said Triltsch, acknowledging the rally of recent years as well as the historical volatility.
Continued globalization has brought increased foreign direct investment, created well-paying jobs and expanded the middle-class income group in many nations such as India. In countries like China and Vietnam, a new class of consumers is emerging. In Europe, the expansion of the European Union and its single currency system has lifted personal incomes and drawn investment to a host of nations, including Croatia and the Baltic states.
In addition, a wealth of investment money, including hedge funds and private equity groups, is looking for a home and finding it in less developed countries.
Some high-flying markets – especially those sensitive to the value of the dollar -- took a hit as the U.S. Federal Reserve relentlessly raised interest rates from 2004-2006. The peak of the commodities boom in 2006 also caused some capital flight. That triggered alarm bells and the usual warnings about the rise and fall of emerging markets. But the Fed’s decision to stop raising interest rates brought a second – some say, third, wind – to the rally.
Alec Young, global equity market strategist for S&P Equity Research, said he doesn't expect the heady returns seen in the past few years but valuations still look pretty attractive for emerging markets.
"I think we're going to continue to see good returns; the story is very much intact," said Young, in an interview with CNBC.com. "We're looking for moderation with 2007 returns of 10%, which is significantly less than last year but a 10% return is nothing to sneeze at."
The International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook for 2007 calls for global economic growth of 4.9% -- slightly below the 5.1% pace of 2006 but still high by historical standards -- with continued strength in emerging markets.
Here’s a look at some of the best performing emerging markets in 2006 in dollar terms, according to MSCI Barra. Performance data for emerging markets vary somewhat because there's often no established benchmark index such as a Dow 30 or S&P 500.
1. Venezuela-- 110%
2. China -- 79%
3. Argentina -- 68%
4. Indonesia -- 55%
5. Russia -- 52%
6. Sri Lanka -- 50%
7. Morocco -- 48%
8. Peru -- 48%
9. India -- 46%
10. Philippines -- 44%
Some of the the recent winners also show up over a five-year period. Here are the leaders based on annualized returns in local currency terms.
1. Egypt -- 69%
2. Argentina 58%
3. Colombia -- 56%
4. Venezuela -- 52%
5. Indonesia -- 41%
6. Russia -- 39%
7. Pakistan -- 38%
8. Peru -- 35%
9. Sri Lanka -- 34%
10. Czech Republic -- 34%.
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|The foundations are dug for the fence.|
This month, work has commenced on the Hamlyni Habitat, an enclosure in the new facility for the 12 Hamlyni Monkeys living at CRPL. Currently living in many different cages made of metal and concrete, the new habitat will allow all the Hamlyni Monkeys to be housed in a single group, allowing more social interaction between individuals over a range of ages. It will also enable them to be in a more natural environment where they can climb trees, dig in the ground and browse on grasses.
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|The stone foudations for the fence are laid.|
So far, the foundations have been laid and the framework for the mesh fencing has been erected. Staff have also been spending much time planting more trees and shrubs in the area and erecting extra climbing structures.
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A big thankyou goes to Lager Zoo, the Norwegian pet store company that donated $6,000 towards the construction of the Hamlyni Habitat.
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If you would also like to contribute to the new Hamlyni Habitat, all funds donated towards the Operational Costs for the month of July will be spent on building 2 water drinkers in the new habitat. We need a total of $432 to complete the project and then we can start moving the Hamlyni’s in to their new home!
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U.S. weighs upping aid to Syrian opposition
Sources: US not considering providing weapons
The Obama administration is moving toward increasing aid to the Syrian opposition, including providing nonlethal military equipment and possibly strategic military training, sources told CNN Tuesday.
The changes are under discussion with allies as well, as part Secretary of State John Kerry's meetings this week in Europe, a senior administration official said.
The sources said the United States is not considering providing weapons.
The administration is also moving toward giving humanitarian aid directly to the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the official said, adding that this was already happening in limited amounts.
The consideration was first reported on Tuesday by The Washington Post.
The United States is also looking to remove restrictions on "dual-use" equipment, such as those involving communications, body armor, flak jackets, night-vision equipment and military vehicles, according to another source familiar with the policy discussions.
Such items are defensive in nature, but they could be used to aid in combat. The training would be intended to help rebels allocate resources and set objectives, strategize and possibly train a potential police force, the source said.
"They are doing a redefinition of what is lethal," the source said. "They have been working on this for a while."
The source said the United States is also helping the new Syrian government in exile get on its feet by developing government institutions, strategic communications and outreach.
The increase is being done in coordination with the Europeans. A senior European diplomat said that though the European Union is not lifting its arms embargo against Syria, its members are moving to loosen restrictions on nonlethal military aid -- including night-vision goggles, body armor and possible military training. Each EU nation would decide on its own what to supply, the official said.
In meetings on his first official trip, Kerry has focused on Syria. He met Tuesday with German officials and with Russia's foreign minister. Their two-hour discussion included Syria, said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
On Thursday, Kerry travels to Rome for a meeting of countries supporting the opposition.
Kerry was involved in an effort to keep the Syrian opposition -- upset by the government's attacks on Aleppo and a perceived lack of movement by other countries to prevent it -- from following through on an announced boycott of the Rome meeting.
The U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, flew Sunday to Cairo to talk to the opposition and Kerry spoke Monday by phone with the group. By Monday evening, the group announced it would attend Thursday's meetings.
"We are determined that the Syrian opposition is not going to be dangling in the wind wondering where the support is or if it is coming, and we are determined to change the calculation on the ground for President (Bashar al-Assad)," Kerrry said Monday in London.
Until recently, the loosely coordinated rebel movement was heavily outgunned by al-Assad's military forces, who leveraged superior weaponry and an air force.
But rebels have made significant gains recently. As foreign countries have funneled more weapons to the opposition, rebels have seized control of greater territory, and the fighting has moved closer to the capital of Damascus, according to opposition fighters.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia was supplying the rebels with Croatian weapons funneled through Jordan.
"Indeed, we procured new anti-aircraft and heavy defensive weapons donated from Arab and non-Arab countries recently," Louay Almokdad, political and media coordinator for the Free Syrian Army, told CNN on Sunday. "But they are not enough to stand against the regime's forces at this point."
Copyright 2013 by CNN NewSource. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Scientists Say Kilimanjaro’s Ice Caps Rapidly Melting
The majestic snow-capped summits of Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro are melting quickly “” so quickly, in fact, that the ancient mountain’s ice sheet could completely disappear within 20 years, says a US study released on Monday.
In the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, climatologists reported that the ice cap crowning Kilimanjaro’s peak shrank by some 85 in the nearly hundred years between 1912 and 2007. Even more disturbing, however, is the fact that 26 percent of the reduction occurred in the short period from 2000 to 2007 “” an acceleration which they believe has been caused predominantly by global warming.
“This is the first time researchers have calculated the volume of ice lost from the mountain’s ice fields,” explained Lonnie Thompson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University and co-author of the study.
“If you look at the percentage of volume lost since 2000 versus the percentage of area lost as the ice fields shrink, the numbers are very close.”
Though Thompson’s team concedes that other factors such as relative cloudiness and levels of precipitation could also be playing a role, they say that these are likely minor factors compared to the effects of rising global temperatures.
“The fact that so many glaciers throughout the tropics and subtropics are showing similar responses suggests an underlying common cause,” explained Thompson.
“The increase of Earth’s near surface temperatures, coupled with even greater increases in the mid- to upper-tropical troposphere, as documented in recent decades, would at least partially explain the observed widespread similarity in glacier behavior.”
Although the ever-retreating borders of the mountain’s glaciers are the most dramatic and easily observable changes taking place, Thompson says that he is equally concerned about the less noticeable thinning of the ice sheets. Both the Northern and Southern Ice Fields which crest the summit have thinned out by more than 6 feet and 16 feet, respectively.
But the most alarming loss of ice was observed on the smaller Furtwangler Glacier, which Thompson’s team said had lost nearly half of its thickness between 2000 and 2009.
“In the future, there will be a year when Furtwangler is present and by the next year, it will have disappeared. The whole thing will be gone,” said Thompson.
After examining the nearly 12,000-year-old ice core samples extracted from the glaciers, the research group said that they had been able to find no other instances of such prolonged and rapid ice loss. They say that this points to the uniqueness of current temperature conditions around Kilimanjaro, corroborating the idea that current global temperature changes are not part of a larger phenomena of normal cyclical climate patterns.
The research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Image 1: Kilimanjaro’s massive ice fields have begun eroding as global temperatures rise. Credit: Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University
Image 2: The ice fields atop Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro glow golden in the last of the afternoon sun. Credit: Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University
Image 3: One of a growing number of isolated remnants of Kilimanjaro ice spires, once full glaciers. Credit: Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University
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Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson
Olson, Floyd Bjornstjerne (byûrnˈstĕrˌnə) [key], 1891–1936, American lawyer and politician, b. Minneapolis. In his early life he was an itinerant laborer and for a time belonged to the Industrial Workers of the World. He studied law at the Univ. of Minnesota and at the Northwestern College of Law in Minneapolis and in 1915 was admitted to the bar. As county attorney (1920–30) of Hennepin co., he brought about an investigation of graft in the Minneapolis city council. Elected governor of Minnesota three times (1930, 1932, and 1934) on the Farmer-Labor ticket, Olson won national attention in 1933 by threatening to declare martial law and confiscate private wealth unless the legislature enacted relief measures to deal with depression conditions. A strong supporter of the New Deal, he led in the repeal of the Minnesota newspaper "gag" laws, ordered a two-year moratorium on mortgage foreclosures of farms, secured relief for the unemployed, and openly sided with labor in a series of strikes that occurred after 1934.
See biography by G. H. Mayer (1951).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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How many of us can recall, upon learning that Puerto Rico is a United States "possession," a "commonwealth," thinking, "Well, why isn't it a state?" The obvious answer, of course, is because 50 states is such a nice number, and 51 is not. How would you get 51 stars on the flag?
Following a modicum of research, however, one discovers the true reason that Puerto Rico, taken by the U.S. following the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American war of 1898 (The war that made Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders famous, and the war that has the distinction of being the only American war in which more casualties were suffered because of disease than battle), is a territory and not a state: Puerto Rico doesn't want to be a state. Puerto Rico has no reason to want to become a state. Because Puerto Rico is in a strategic location should the Cubans ever stop rolling cigars and starving long enough to move aggressively against the U.S., the United States will maintain their presence on this Caribbean island, and so independence is probably a pipe dream. Barring true nation status, what could be better than being a U.S. territory? Consider: Puerto Ricans are American citizens, free to migrate back and forth with little more difficulty than, say, moving from South Dakota to North Dakota (though the P.R./U.S. move would require much more swimming and much less snow); Puerto Rico is under U.S. Customs laws, and so has no limits or tariffs on imports or exports between the island and the titanic Twinkie that is the continental U.S.; Puerto Rico is protected by the U.S. military from any warlike expansionist neighbors like Haiti or the Virgin Islands; and, best of all, Puerto Ricans do not vote in federal elections, and do not pay federal income tax. Imagine that: no blame can be laid on Puerto Rico for the idiocy of our elected leaders (and that is non-partisan biliousness, thank you), and their tax dollars do not pay for American imperialism. Indeed, as long as they have this level of official separation, Puerto Rico can claim to be a victim of American imperialism - and we all know how much fun that is.
Let us delve deeper: Puerto Rico's climate is, of course, Caribbean; the temperature ranges between 73 and 78 degrees Fahrenheit all year long. Yet Puerto Rico, with 3.95 million residents in 3,500 square miles, has a higher average population density than any U.S. state, and higher than almost any country in the world - more than 1,100 people per square mile. And with 60% of the island covered with mountains, Puerto Rico has all of the joys of urban sprawl available in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston, without Northeastern winters - though there may be a few more hurricanes in Puerto Rico than in Baltimore. The Christmas season in Puerto Rico lasts from Thanksgiving Day until "Las Octavitas," eight days after Epiphany, or January 14. Children get presents both on Christmas Day and on Epiphany, the celebration of the Three Wise Men's arrival at Christ's bedside on January 6; on January 5, the night before Epiphany, children leave grass under their beds for the Three Kings' camels. How can other Americans live with themselves, after centuries of starving those poor beasts? Fie to your milk and cookies for the fat man in red!
Onward: the people of Puerto Rico are as fascinating as people anywhere, of course; but rather than worry about the deeper sociological implications of such a topic, let us simply discuss what we really care about - celebrities. Apart from the literary luminaries of the Nuyorican poets cafe, Jesus Colon and Miguel Pinero among them, Puerto Rico is the birthplace of golfer ChiChi Rodriguez, baseball Hall of Fame member Roberto Clemente, actor Raul Julia, musicians Jose Feliciano and Tito Puente, and quadruple threat Rita Moreno, the first woman to win an Oscar (for "West Side Story," of course, and what twisted mind could expect a page on Puerto Rico not to mention that film?), a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Tony award. It must be noted as well that the oldest man in the world, 113-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro, is a resident of San Juan. He took the title in January of 2005, and before May 29 of 2004, the world's oldest living person was 114-year-old Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan. She lived in Puerto Rico as well.
The question, then, is not why Puerto Rico is not a state. It is why we haven't all moved to Puerto Rico.
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Lamar from Los Angeles writes:
Are solid state hard drives available as external storage units? If so, which would you recommend?
Solid State Disks, (Also known as SSD’s) use very fast memory chips which have no mechanical parts to store information. This allows the drives to be very fast and very low power. You can use a solid state hard drive as an external hard drive, usually by purchasing an external enclosure. The downside to doing so is that most external enclosures are USB 2.0 and would limit the speed of your solid state disk.
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Cervical Mucus Hostility
The cervical mucus is a jelly-like substance produced by minute glands in the cervical canal. It changes in consistency and composition with the menstrual cycle. Just before ovulation and under the effect of the hormone estrogen it becomes very watery and copious to allow the sperm to swim through it. After ovulation and under the effect of progesterone, the mucus becomes thick and sticky, which render it impenetrable to the sperm. Once the sperm are in the mucus, they can stay there for a few days. Thus the mucus acts as a sperm reservoir.
Cervical mucus hostility is the inability of sperm to penetrate the cervical mucus. The significance of cervical mucus hostility is disputable among infertility specialists. Problems with cervical mucus usually cause no symptoms.
- The mucus is too sticky and thick (and there is not enough of it to allow sperm to swim through). This may be due to poor estrogen stimulation of the cervical glands (e.g. wrong timing of the test or lack of ovulation) or poor functioning cervical glands due to infection or damage caused by surgery, as may occur after cone biopsy.
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In one of the most severe economic down-
turns in memory, small businesses are struggling
to stay afloat. For these businesses — almost 97
percent of all companies nationwide — finding
ways to cut expenses by reducing energy con-
sumption is more important than ever. For many,
it can mean the difference between survival and
bankruptcy. Larson and Bobal have found a way
to incorporate energy-saving technologies into
their two converted warehouses without break-
ing the bank.
Running a successful coffee company is not a
simple task, even during good economic times.
The competition is tough, and many consum-
ers on tight budgets can scale back their coffee
habits. Larson and Bobal report that demand
for their fair-trade, shade-grown organic coffee
beans has remained high, even during the reces-
sion: More than 500 coffee shops and grocery
stores carry their products, and the company’s
growth curve shows no signs of leveling off.
“We want to innovate and to inspire people
to make a difference in the world,” Larson said.
“We want to use the company as a soapbox for
fair trade and other issues we care about, and
making coffee is the perfect vehicle.”
What accounts for their popularity? Of course,
marketing a high-quality product is essential.
Customers also respond to the company’s com-
mitment to sustainability, the environment and
community engagement. For example, the com-
pany, in collaboration with Maverick Enterprises
( maverickent.net), developed biodegradable
coffee bags. It also maintains a biodiesel filling
station, which sells Piedmont Biofuels products
( biofuels.coop) for community use, and its local
delivery bus runs on vegetable oil collected from
neighborhood restaurants. (Clients know when
the bus has arrived because the exhaust smells like
Chinese food.) And walk-in customers cannot
help but be impressed by the company’s simple
but effective steps to conserve energy.
A warehouse roof was modified with sky- lights that run the length of the building. The skylights provide ample daylighting and, during the winter, some solar heating.
In quest of Larry’s Beans, a coffee roaster in Raleigh, N.C., we drove winding roads and oak-shaded boulevards through one of the city’s oldest residential neighbor- hoods. The route took us onto the last remaining gravel road within city limits and into an industrial area, right in the
middle of town. Old structures and equipment,
worn and rusty with age, made the district look
more like an abandoned construction site than
the backyard of one of the city’s more comfortable neighborhoods.
Off to the side of the road, we saw signs of
life. First, an old bus painted bright colors, then
a biodiesel pump, flowers, resident cats and a
metal sculpture gateway opening into a courtyard between two renovated warehouses.
The Larry’s Beans facility is an eclectic mix of
reclaimed building materials, new and hand-me-down furnishings and modernistic architectural
elements. No beige walls and drab carpeting in
this corporate environment. Instead, we found
a menagerie of colors, textures and shapes reminiscent of an art studio or creative workshop.
And natural lighting is everywhere.
The coffee roasting area — the heart of the
operation — is tidy and meticulously organized,
and the equipment is sparkling clean. Nearby,
resembling a college research lab, is a glassed-in
tasting room where coffee blends are sampled
early each morning by a certified cupper to
ensure consistency of flavor and aroma. The
smell of freshly ground and brewed gourmet
coffee is irresistible.
Owners Larry Larson and Kevin Bobal have
clear priorities: To spend money on what really
matters — the quality of the coffee — while
maintaining a good work environment for 16
employees. They are also committed to energy
conservation and sustainability, believing that a
green approach to business is not just the right
thing to do, but also the smart thing to do for
today’s successful small business operation.
TIM MAR TIN
solartoday.org SOLAR TODAY November/December 2009 39 Copyright © 2009 by the American Solar Energy Society Inc. All rights reserved.
HELPING SMALL BUSINESS
IS GOOD FOR AMERICA
Of the 5 million businesses oper- ating in the United States, only
about 3 percent are medium- or
large-size companies. The rest are classified as small businesses. With the
tight credit market and marginal sales
volumes, many small companies are
reluctant to invest in solar systems and
other energy-efficient technologies.
To encourage greater use of these
technologies, most states provide
free energy consultation services, and
some offer low interest loans. Because
job creation today is driven more by
small businesses than by larger firms,
helping small businesses survive and
prosper by reducing their energy costs
is good for America.
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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a rhetorical club to be wielded in ideological battles. But this Great Divergence may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes-a drastic, elemental change in the character of American society, and not at all for the better. The inequality gap is much more than a left-right hot potato-its causes and consequences call for a patient, non-partisan exploration. Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, based on his award-winning series of articles for Slate, surveys the roots of the wealth gap, drawing on the best thinking of contemporary economists and political scientists. Noah also explores potential solutions to the problem, and explores why the growing rich-poor divide has sparked remarkably little public anger, in contrast to social unrest that prevailed before the New Deal.
The Great Divergence is poised to be one of the most talked-about books of 2012, a jump-start to the national conversation about the shape of American society in the 21st century, and a work that will help frame the debate in a Presidential election year.
Timothy Noah was recently named "TRB," the lead columnist at The New Republic. He wrote for Slate for a dozen years, and previously served at the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and the Washington Monthly. He edited two collections of the writings of his late wife, Marjorie Williams, including the New York Times bestseller The Woman at the Washington Zoo. Noah received the 2011 Hillman Prize, the highest award for public service magazine journalism, for the series in Slate that forms the basis of The Great Divergence.
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The House of Lords - Into the Future?
Author: Baldwin, Nicholas D. J.
Source: Journal of Legislative Studies, Volume 13, Number 2, June 2007 , pp. 197-209(13)
Abstract:The idea for presenting these opinions on the future of the House of Lords as an article grew out of a seminar held in the House of Lords in February 2006, an event that itself grew from the contributions to the book Parliament in the Twenty-First Century, a collection of 30 essays from academics, commentators and politicians.1 The seminar saw presentations from Lord Howe, Lord McNally and Lord Carter, and it is their observations that follow here.2
Document Type: Research article
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The Washington Post By Fred Hiatt
Monday, April 28, 2008; A15
On a recent visit to Italy, President Vladimir Putin was asked about a Russian newspaper report that he was divorcing his wife of many years to marry a 24-year-old rhythmic gymnast famous in Russia for her lithe beauty.
Putin denied the report in his usual charming way, scolding the media "with their snotty noses and their erotic fantasies." Then the newspaper that published the rumor was shut down.
Or, to be more precise, the newspaper that published the rumor, in a paroxysm of self-loathing and czar-love, shut itself down. And a few days later, just to make sure, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, approved a law, by a vote of 339 to 1, allowing authorities to shutter any other newspaper that dared to print such reports again.
It is no longer controversial to note that Putin "has led Russia into a harsh brand of authoritarianism with some fascist features," as French scholar Pierre Hassner said in a speech last fall. But it's worth recalling the methodical and patient way he crept toward dictatorship, because recent events raise fears that he is now creeping in the same way toward stifling the independence that Russia's neighboring states have enjoyed since the Soviet Union fractured in 1991.
Putin did not announce, eight years ago, his intention to create an autocracy in which all television channels would be under Kremlin control; in which elections would be decided, by him, ahead of time; in which every major industrialist and provincial governor would dance to his tune and roving bands of nationalist youths would threaten, intimidate or beat up anyone who objected.
He did not announce that by the time he gave up the presidency he would have created a replacement for the Communist Party of olden days -- United Russia -- and that he would graciously accept its chairmanship, though without deigning to join the party. (The only historical analogy that former Russian official Alfred Koch could find for that, Koch told me, was "the relationship between the Hebrews and their God during the exodus: God gave them the law, he led them out of Egypt, but the law was not binding on God.")
Putin did not preview any of this, but he did it, gradually and step by step. And for most of the journey, the Bush administration and other Western governments refused to acknowledge it publicly, or perhaps even to themselves. They fatuously compared 21st-century Russia with Stalin's Soviet Union, as if the positive differences should be comforting. And when the negative trends became too obvious to ignore, they -- particularly the Western Europeans -- still hesitated to offend the bear.
So it should not be surprising that leaders of small and even medium-size democracies on Russia's borders feel nervous as they see Putin challenging their sovereignty and threatening their futures. Estonia has endured cyber-attacks; Georgia's exports to Russia have been blocked; Ukraine has been told that it will be targeted by nuclear missiles should it think of joining NATO and watched as its president was mysteriously poisoned and nearly killed.
"It's clear that, for Russia, any formerly Communist country is a threat, if it opts for democracy, rule of law and human rights," Estonia's president, Toomas Ilves, told me during a recent visit to Washington.
Now Putin has issued a decree establishing legal ties with the rulers of two breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "A greater provocation is harder to imagine," Ilves said, than telling Georgia's government "you don't have sovereignty over your own people."
Georgia's foreign minister, David Bakradze, came to Washington last week to make the same point. "It's not just about Georgia," he said. "It's the first time the Russians think they are powerful enough to change borders in post-Soviet space. . . . If they are not stopped, they will go to the end."
It's quite possible that the Kremlin does not in fact want to absorb and take responsibility for Abkhazia and South Ossetia, at least not now. But undoubtedly Russia took note last month when, at Germany's insistence, and purely out of deference to Putin, NATO deferred Georgia and Ukraine's request for "membership action plans" -- one step on a long road to possible membership. Russia saw NATO's hesitation "as a green light," Ilves said. "It is not the signal being given, but it is taken that way."
U.S. and allied officials, including in Germany, objected last week to Russia's decree on Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as did all three U.S. presidential candidates. Maybe that will be enough, for now. But President Putin will soon become not only party chairman but also prime minister, in charge of implementing the decree he has just issued. The goals of provoking the Georgians into intemperate action, while persuading the Germans that it's all too much trouble to get involved -- those will not recede.
Meanwhile, the lovely and flexible Alina Kabaeva has been installed as a United Russia member of parliament, or Duma deputy. Are relations between Chairman Putin and Deputy Kabaeva anything more than comradely? Don't look for answers in a Russian newspaper anytime soon.
© 2008 The Washington Post Company
Octobr 17, 2008 - President Bush Discusses the Visa Waiver Program
Office of the Press Secretary/
White House News
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Please be seated, thank you. Welcome to the White House. I'm pleased to stand with the representatives of seven countries -- the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and South Korea -- that have met the requirements to be admitted to the United States Visa Waiver Program. Soon the citizens of these nations will be able to travel to the United States for business or tourism without a visa. I congratulate these close friends and allies on this achievement, and I thank you for joining us here.
I also thank Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of the Homeland -- Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff for working hard to make sure this day has finally arrived. Appreciate other members of the administration here and members of the Diplomatic Corps.
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Melbourne science animator Drew Berry would like to thank his director, his parents and all the little cells and molecules who helped him win a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award two weeks ago.
While he did not have his picture taken on the red carpet or schmooze with the stars, Mr Berry's work did star in the DNA Interactive DVD that won the Offline Factual BAFTA for "the most imaginative and effective use of offline interactivity to explore the factual world".
Mr Berry, who completed a masters in cell biology at Melbourne University before moving into computer graphics, said he was "stoked" that his 10 minutes of "3D objects munching on each other, flexing and bending" - a year's worth of work - had been lauded.
He became involved when an international production team, which included the firm that produced special effects for Harry Potter films and Gladiator, was looking for an animator who could combine scientific knowledge with artistic and graphic skills.
The company contacted Mr Berry at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and commissioned his animations for a documentary, DVD and website to mark 50 years since the structure of DNA was discovered.
Alive with vibrant colour and captivating movement, his work helps students and scientists get a visual grip on chemistry that is too complex for words.
"It's all these complicated language and ideas, but when you see it reconstructed as an animation, you just get it," he said.
Many viewers can't resist comparing images on screen to more familiar objects. A cluster of green molecules has been compared to frozen peas, laughed Mr Berry, and a ravenous enzyme to a yapping puppy.
Working at the frontier of science requires creativity. After all, what colour are genetic markers? How does a bacterial nasty attack its prey?
"In the molecular world, colour doesn't have any meaning, shadows don't have any meaning," Mr Berry said.
"I'm using the grammar and the visual ideas from traditional film to show people a world that they can relate to. I put in as much accuracy as I can in terms of scale, dynamics and the way things are interacting, but there is an element of storytelling."
Like all well-mannered award winners, Mr Berry is quick to acknowledge the British and American filmmakers with whom he collaborated on the educational DVD.
The documentary will be screened by the ABC this year.
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From EngineeringUK, this engaging poster looks at engineering careers involved in the staging of a music concert. Short descriptions are given for the jobs of: sound engineer, structural engineer, lighting technician and electrical engineer.
Four lesson activities accompany the poster:
Hot wires: In this activity, students use steel wool as a model for how an electrical fuse works. They investigate the effects of current and voltage. The investigation is set in the context of an electrical engineer who has been asked to check the equipment of a band coming to use a venue for a music concert. Students need to understand how to control electricity and protect electric circuits.
Light and colour: This activity uses the context of a theatre lighting engineer to investigate the different colours found in white light. Students use a prism to produce the visible spectrum and then also investigate the effects of filters and colour mixing.
Turn it down!: This activity encourages students to investigate sound levels and how these can be monitored. Students look at the volumes at which people listen to music and find out how loud sounds can damage hearing.
Balancing act: This resource shows some simple practical activities that can be used to illustrate the principles of levers, moments, pivots and equilibria. Using the context of a stage lighting stand, students investigate the positioning of masses to give a stable arrangement.
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It may sound trite but nature makes some of the most beautiful creations; what's surprising is when natural beauty is even further enhanced by decay. The impressive table top above by studio furniture designer and craftsman Don Howell is a paradigm of a natural phenomenon called spalting. Expert woodworkers seek out pieces of spalted wood, but what is it, exactly?
Spalting typically occurs in light colored hardwoods such as maple, birch and beech. Essentially it is the presence of fungi, eating the sap - which is like a carbohydrate, within the wood. Also called sapstain, the fungi creates the elaborate blue/black patterns that resemble ink drawings across the wood. Interestingly, spalted wood is a popular choice for custom-made guitars.
If you're concerned about having something with fungi inside of it, keep in mind that most wood is typically kiln dried which kills off any living organisms inside.
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After decades of technical development, superconductors – materials that can carry far more electricity than similarly sized copper wires – are being integrated into electricity transmission and distribution grids.
On Monday, American Superconductor Corp. (NSDQ: AMSC) announced its biggest sale yet of superconducting wire meant to transmit electricity at high voltages across long distances – 80,000 meters of wire going to South Korea.
The wire will be used by LS Cable to make cable for a distribution system for national utility Korea Electric Power Corp., expected to be up and running in 2010. It's the single biggest superconductor wire order ever, meant to create the longest-ever superconductor distribution system, nearly a half-mile long, American Superconductor announced.
While the Devens, Mass.-based company was founded in 1987 to commercialize superconductors, it now makes most of its money licensing its wind turbine designs to other manufacturers – mainly Chinese companies at this point – and selling ancillary power equipment (see American Superconductor: The Quiet Wind Player).
Still, the company's superconductor wires, which can carry up to 150 times more electricity than similarly sized copper wires, are in use in a number of grid applications.
In 2006, utility American Electric Power installed superconductor cable using American Superconductor's wires for distribution-level system. And in July, New York's Long Island Power Authority started up the first underground transmission voltage level superconductor cable system using the company's wires.
Despite the extra cost of making and cooling the high-temperature cables, the savings in delivering power in a narrow underground right of way, rather than through massive overhead transmission lines, made it worth the utility's while, said Jason Fredette, American Superconductor director of investor and media relations.
That project, along with the South Korea project, puts the company "on the threshold of commercial success with superconducting cables," he said – though he added that he expects utilities to wait for such projects to be proven in the field before that happens.
Beyond transmission, superconducting cables have characteristics that suit them for use as fault current limiters to prevent current surges caused by grid breakdowns. That's because superconductors actually stop being superconductors and start resisting current when that current grows too great.
The New York utility wants to test the system as part of the $39 million, Department of Homeland Security-funded project HYDRA, which aims to give New York City's power grid the ability to withstand disruptions either natural or man-made.
IN 2007, Zenergy subsidiary SC Power, based in Sam Mateo, Calif., got $500,000 from the California Energy Commission, along with $11 million from the Department of Energy, to study the technology for California's power grid.
That DOE funding round also included a total of $21.7 million for American Superconductor to develop fault current limiter and power delivery equipment, and the company has worked on project Hydra as well.
Of course, utilities are notorious for being slow to adopt new technologies. Both American Superconductor and Zenergy have faced losses in recent quarters as they've sought to build up their utility business.
American Superconductor in February reported a loss of $17.9 million for the first nine months of fiscal year 2008, compared to a $23.6 million loss in the same period in 2007. Revenue for the first nine months of 2008 grew to $109.8 million from $62.5 million in the same period in 2007.
Zenergy reported a loss of €2.5 million ($3.2 million) on revenues of €1.04 million ($1.3 million) for the first six months of 2008, compared to a loss of €1.8 million ($2.3 million) on revenues of €94,000 ($122,000) in the first six months of 2007.
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Cameras are starting to spring up at different intersections throughout Lansing. It's part of a two-year project aimed at controlling the flow of traffic.
The cameras are not used to keep a watchful eye on motorists breaking the law. They are designed to control the flow of traffic by signaling when lights should change.
The city is working on 15 intersections throughout the area. The cameras replace censors in the roads that performed the same function.
The city's assistant transportation engineer admits the cameras do take the photos, but stresses the fact that they're not saved. He says the goal of the cameras is not to cut down on traffic accidents, but if traffic is controlled, that would be a likely result.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the Confederacy was portrayed in a sympathetic light, both in the north and in the south. Huge numbers of students were simply shuffled off to vocational or technical high schools. Southern blacks remained entirely outside the reach of formal education, even after Brown v. Board of Education. Indeed, the kind of education described in “Damaged Discourse” (4/2/2010) was only ever available to a small minority of students.
The political discourse was also not much improved. Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy amid attacks on Kennedy’s religion, birth, and claims that Kennedy was a soviet agent destroying America. The idea that 1970 was the year in which violence became a political tool is founded on forgetfulness. Lynching was a political act, and one that was unceasingly employed to fight against civil rights activists since the end of Reconstruction. Political violence has a long history in the U.S.
Against this backdrop, civility became not a virtue but a vice. The unending calls for moderation and understanding when the United States engaged in an illegal and horrific war in Indochina were calls for compromises with evil. When it came to civil rights, the calls for moderation were no less pernicious in their intention. By creating a common narrative of U.S. history that whitewashed slavery, ignored the labor movement, and justified segregation, the education system in the 1950s created a narrative whose believers supported a status quo that was unjustifiable.
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Rain, Rain Go Away
Into the Eye: Hurricanes!
Do you remember Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, the four hurricanes that roared into Florida in 2004? They dumped multiple feet of water into buildings, blowing the roofs off hundreds of stores and homes. The storms also created significant coastal changes and moved sediment, eroded beaches and created new inlets and destroyed others.
Captiva Island was changed, actually split in two pieces, by Charley, a Category 4 hurricane (wind speeds from 131-155 miles per hour) at landfall. Charley was the strongest storm to hit the United States since 1992’s Hurricane Andrew that caused more than $14 billion in damage.
Hurricane hunters fly airplanes directly over hurricanes and directly drop special instruments called dropsondes into the storm structure. The sondes measures pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction and radios the data to the plane.
-- sponsored by U.S. Geological Survey and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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My son was diagnosed with a double urethra when he was 3 months old. He has two holes in his penis. He was also diagnosed with Reflux III. He was on antibiotics until he was 15 months old. He has never had a bladder infection. At 9 months he had his second voiding cystourethrogram (ed. — X ray while he’s peeing), and it showed no signs of the reflux, but the second urethra extending from the bladder was much more predominant. Is there anything that can be done or should be done for a double urethra. He only urinates from one hole. I am concerned that the urine in the second urethra will cause infections.
Mary Padilla – Santa Maria, California
Dr. Greene’s Answer:
The urinary system is both amazing and complex. Urine is formed in the kidneys by their filtering the blood. The kidneys are located in the back, just under the ribs. A tube called a ureter extends from each kidney down to the bladder. As the urine is formed, it flows down these tubes and is stored in the bladder. Urine leaves the bladder and exits the body through a tube called the urethra.
In girls the urethra is short and straight; in boys the urethra is long, and S-curved. The final portion travels the length of the penis, and typically opens at the hole in the tip.
The formation of the male urethra in utero is complex, and not completely understood. This development can go awry in a number of ways, including part or all of the urethra in the wrong location, valves blocking urine flow, or dilatation so that flow isn’t blocked when it should be. Some boys even have two urethras.
Urethral duplication is a very rare condition – only about 200 cases have been described in medical literature. Urethral duplications occur in many varieties and seem to come from many different abnormalities of development.
Most duplications occur with one urethra on top of the other. Occasionally, however, duplex urethras occur side by side. This is usually the case if a child has two complete penises, but also occurs if the penis is fused but widened. Most of these children have two bladders, plus two normal urethras, and only need surgery if it is needed for cosmetic reasons.
The more common situation of one urethra on top of another occurs in dorsal and ventral varieties.
In dorsal duplications of the urethra, a normal urethra follows the usual channel and ends in a normal hole at the tip of the penis. The other opening appears on the upper surface of the penis, anywhere between the tip and the base. This extra urethra may end in a blind pouch before reaching the bladder. If it does extend the entire length and insert into the bladder, the child will usually dribble urine out of this urethra, since there is no sphincter mechanism to restrain urine flow. Surgery is sometimes needed for incontinence or repeated infections. Since the normally positioned urethra has a normal bladder neck and normal sphincter mechanism, surgery consists of simply excising the extra urethra.
The ventral variety is more variable and less well understood. In some instances, two complete urethras come off the bladder; in others, the urethra bifurcates somewhere along the path. The opening from the second urethra is often located on the underside of the penis (and is thus less visible than in the dorsal variety), but it can appear further down, even as far away as the anterior rim of the anus. The closer the opening is to the anus, the more likely that this abnormally placed urethra is the normal one, with the functioning sphincter mechanism. The normally located penile urethra is often narrow, inelastic, and functions poorly, if at all. As an adult, ejaculation would also occur out of the anal urethra, not necessarily diminishing sexual pleasure, but certainly affecting fertility.
Not all cases of duplex urethras need surgery, or any treatment at all. Children with duplex urethras require consultation with a pediatric urologist and individualized decisions regarding treatment. In general, perianal urethras should be repaired; the surgery is complicated and usually involves trying to move that urethra forward. If both openings are on the penis, as in your son, surgery is usually only indicated if there is a problem with incontinence, infections, or reflux (the backward flow of urine). Incontinence or isolated infections are usually present early on if they will be present at all. Reflux can be present early on, but then disappear on its own. It can, however, develop or re-develop at any time, even in adulthood, leading to infections and pressure-related kidney problems. If the two urethras lie right next to each other, the thin wall between them can give way. When the person urinates, this perforated wall can act as a flap-valve to obstruct urine flow, causing pressure back up. When undetected, this pressure can, over years, lead to renal failure, and even to kidney transplant.
For most of us, the medical conditions that afflict us as adults have their roots in childhood. Attention and appropriate medical care can prevent many of these conditions. For your son, close attention is even more important. His situation might cause him no problems (some cases of double urethra are only noticed incidentally, late in life). It could, however, progress to something serious if not followed carefully. Stay in close contact with your pediatrician and/or urologist, so that infections or reflux can be quickly treated.
Last reviewed: December 09, 2010
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South Korea called off an attempt to put a satellite in orbit on Thursday, the latest setback to a program that has suffered failures in the past.
The launch of the Naro-1 rocket was suspended minutes before takeoff at a launch site on the country's southern coast Thursday afternoon local time.
An inspection found problems with the electronic signal in part of the rocket's mechanism, said Cho Yul-rae, a vice minister for education, science and technology. Additional time is needed to find out the reason behind the problem, he said.
Analysts say the planned launch could rile the country's hostile neighbor, North Korea, which carried out a botched launch in April for which it was widely criticized.
North Korea's secretive, nuclear-armed regime said its rocket, which broke apart soon after takeoff, was also meant to put a satellite in orbit.
But the United States and other countries called it a cover for testing ballistic missile technology. The U.N. Security Council condemned the launch.
South Korean authorities say their latest launch efforts are a crucial step for the development of the country's civilian space program. The satellite carried by the launch vehicle is mainly intended for gathering climate data, they say.
The South Korean launch plan is different from that of the North because it is more transparent, is clearly focused on civilian applications and doesn't contravene U.N. sanctions, according to Lee Chung-min, an international relations professor at Yonsei University in Seoul.
Despite that, North Korea is likely to "insist that a South Korean rocket launch should also be resisted by the international community," Lee said.
North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency has not published any reports so far mentioning the planned South Korean launch.
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How Medicare part D is financed?
It is roughly estimated that almost 75 percent is drug coverage is government financed while remaining 25 percent is financed by the beneficiaries of the insurance. Part D coverage is privatized and totally opposed to the conventional Medicare. In which government can’t directly pay to the service providers. All funds are handed over to the private insurers to supervise benefits.
There is a coverage breach in t the Part D which is called doughnut hole. When beneficiaries are crossed their specific annual limit they have to pay the hundred percent of the cost. It is claimed that gap relieves the monetary load on recipients with the most overpriced drug costs.
Medicare part D has face criticism also and it was due the private administration instead of government. Critics also claim that its programs and prices of drugs are expensive. There is also confusion in selection of plans due the different formularies of private issuers.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Aging and Stanford University have used gene arrays to identify genes whose activity changes with age in 16 different mouse tissues. The study, published November 30 in PLoS Genetics, uses a newly available database called AGEMAP to document the process of aging in mice at the molecular level. The work describes how aging affects different tissues in mice, and ultimately could help explain why lifespan is limited to just two years in mice.
As an organism ages, most tissues change their structure (for example, muscle tissues become weaker and have slow twitch rather than fast twitch fibers), and all tissues are subject to cellular damage that accumulates with age. Both changes in tissues and cellular damage lead to changes in gene expression, and thus probing which genes change expression in old age can lead to insights about the process of aging itself.
Previous studies have studied gene expression changes during aging in just one tissue. The new work stands out because it is much larger and more complete, including aging data for 16 different tissues and containing over 5.5 million expression measurements.
One noteworthy result is that some tissues (such as the thymus, eyes and lung) show large changes in which genes are active in old age whereas other tissues (such as liver and cerebrum) show little or none, suggesting that different tissues may degenerate to different degrees in old mice.
Another insight is that there are three distinct patterns of aging, and that tissues can be grouped according to which aging pathway they take. This result indicates that there are three different clocks for aging that may or may not change synchronously, and that an old animal may be a mixture of tissues affected by each of the different aging clocks.
Finally, the report compares aging in mice to aging in humans. Several aging pathways were found to be the same, and these could be interesting because they are relevant to human aging and can also be scientifically studied in mice.
CITATION: Zahn JM, Poosala S, Owen AB, Ingram DK, Lustig A, et al. (2007) AGEMAP: A gene expression database for aging in mice. PLoS Genet 3(11): e201. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030201, www.plosgenetics.org
Source: Public Library of Science
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Idaho is an open primary state and has never had registration by party. On primary day, any Idaho voter is free to choose any party’s primary ballot. Last year, the Idaho Republican Party filed a federal lawsuit, to force the state to give it a closed primary. But on September 4, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled that the lawsuit requires a trial to determine whether it is true that voters hostile to the Republican Party have been voting in its primary. The Republican Party then said it would soon reveal its plans on how to proceed.
However, the party has not met the informal deadlines for revealing its plans for the trial. The Judge has set a status conference for November 30 to get an updated version of the party’s plans.
Why not, indeed?
What's interesting is that the same argument has been made in courts regarding open primaries. This movement in the courts -- at least on this particular question -- began with the 1986 Tashjian case before the Supreme Court. At issue in that instance was the fact that the Republican Party of Connecticut wanted to open up its primaries -- not close them as in the Idaho case -- but was prevented from doing so because of a Connecticut law, on the books since the 1950s, that kept primaries closed.
What did the Court decide?
Well, the Court sided with the Connecticut GOP: the law violated the party's rights to free association; specifically the party's right to invite -- in this case independents -- to vote in its nominating contests.
But this is a moving target, isn't it? Some states like Idaho or California have gone in quite the opposite direction. Faced with open primaries, parties in both the Gem state and the Golden state claimed that their free association rights were being threatened by partisans (and non-partisans, for that matter) of the other party. That the parties were unable to determine who would participate in its nominations was something Antonin Scalia, in the 7-2 opinion of the Court in the California Democratic Party v. Jones case, found to be "both severe and unnecessary."
That brings up an interesting distinction -- and there are several, actually -- between the California case and the one in Idaho. In California, all the major parties sued to have the blanket primary law invalidated. In Idaho, however, it is just the dominant Republican state party that is attempting to tear down the open primary system. The Democratic Party in Idaho could almost be considered a minor party in the state. And they could care less about the law simply because no or very few Republicans are crossing over to vote in the Democratic primaries. To top it off, the Democrats have often eschewed the primary as a means allocating presidential delegates; instead opting for a closed caucus on the state party's dime.
This, however, raises the biggest problem for the Idaho Republican Party in this case: the burden of proof is one the Republican Party. Their argument is that independents and Democrats could have undue influence (read: a moderating influence) on Republican nominations in the state. Proponents of the current open primaries law have simply said, "Prove it." In other words, how have nominations been negatively impacted by the inclusion of Democrats and independents in the process?
That's where this Idaho case is currently. It's stuck with the Idaho Republican Party trying to determine the extent to which Democrats and independents have made Republican nominees any less Republican/conservative. If Idaho Republicans want a closed primary or a closed nomination process, they are either going to have to do what the Democrats have done at the presidential level (Though, truth be told, Democrats in Idaho use a caucus as a means of keeping out Republicans and limiting, through a caucus, who participates and decides how delegates are allocated. See Meinke, et al. (2006) for more.) or just deal with it.
For now, though, it doesn't look like this particular case is going anywhere.
Read more about the Idaho case here and here.
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Are you sick of looking at dozens of sites on the web for what interests you? Is "surfing" becoming more like a cold plunge every morning?
If so, then Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is for you... and an ever-growing number of others.
RSS is a way of grabbing news and information automatically and arranging it on your own site, My Yahoo, My MSN, Windows Live.com (Beta), or similar 'make your own' pages, or having stories delivered into your e-mail programme, or even straight onto the desktop of your computer.
It's a very simple way of personalising the internet for you, cutting down on searching time and making it easy to stay right up to date.
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard offers RSS feeds from a range of news, sport, and entertainment channels, so you can now have the latest headlines, sports news, movie reviews, even competitions, as soon as they're published. Updates are automatic, and they're absolutely free!
Getting started is easy. All you have to do is decide which way you want to receive your news updates (whether to a My Yahoo page, straight to your web browser, or to your desktop) and download an appropriate RSS reader. Some browsers, like Firefox and Safari already have an RSS reader built in. Other browsers and e-mail programmes will soon have built in readers too.
Google offers a pretty good list of what's currently available.
Don't forget to read our Terms and Conditions before taking a Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard RSS feed.
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Some companies create products and some companies create legacies. Some automobile manufacturers actually become representatives of their nation at the world front. The international automobile industry is a platform to enable technology, innovation and creation pass through out the whole world , spreading the national ethics and design dedications of that manufacturer. One such wonderful force is the centuries old Tata Group. With Tata Motors, the company created a remarkable share of its vehicles in the automobile world. Being a reliable brand which created products that stood on parameters of strength, performance and visual appeal. Very few companies hold the honour of staying in the business for decades, creating an empire around them and a separate universe which makes it self sufficient and builds the company’s capabilities extensively at a global front. Hailing from its equally large and widespread parent Tata and Sons, the Tata Motors has been in the automobile manufacturing business since 1945 which is just a couple of years before Indian independence. Practising its skill as a manufacturer of locomotives, Tata finally set its foot in the commercial automobile sector by developing its first commercial vehicle in 1954. Initially though, Tata Motors had to rope in the German engineering skills so that it could better understand the business dynamics around automobile manufacturing. Tata Motors chose for this purpose Daimler Benz AG, which itself retains its distinct position in the global automobile market even now. Tata Motors however ended the collaboration with Daimler Benz AG in 1969 and years later it produced its very own Tata Sierra in 1991. Tata Motors went on to create innovative automobile marvels which was evident from the 1998 passenger car, Indica, which still enjoys a huge share of customer interest. Over the years, Tata Motors increased its global presence by acquiring the South Korean manufacturer Daewoo Commercial Vehicles company in 2004. It continued the acquisition by taking over the premium British automobile manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover in 2008, all of which eventually led Tata Motors to be ranked among the Fortune Global 500 rankings.
Tata Motors, just like its parent Tata and Sons, has always been consistent in trying out new innovations and providing the latest technology to the consumers in the most simple manner. After excelling in the hatchback models through Indica, sedans through Indigo, sports vehicles through Jaguar and the SUV commuter segment through Landrover, Tata Motors realised another segment which is a top requirement for the Indian automobile customers. Every company needs to adapt to a certain set of uncertainties and distinctness when operating in the Indian automobile market. The demographic changes and factors such as large family vehicles and spacious interiors act as a prime priority for the Indian customers unlike the two seater coupes and cozy well designed vehicles which make their way through the roads in the Western counterparts. Considering the large density of combined families which consist typically of two to three generations, Tata Motors created the Tata Winger which can easily accommodate a large set of passengers. Though this concept is not especially new, considering the number of seven seater vehicles and SUVs prevalent in the automobile market, Tata hits the right chords by providing indisputably best-in-class interiors. The level of comfort offered to the seven passengers in the Tata Winger can not be matched with its existing contemporaries.
The Tata Winger Platinum is a mini van with the comfort and luxury of a sedan class. The base design was borrowed from the Renault Trafic which was a highly successful design. The Tata Winger was officially launched in India in 2007. With its distinct beauty regardless of its large design and the options available in it, all in all made the Tata Winger a sought after mini van for the Indian consumers. The vehicle is offered in India in six variants so as to suit individual needs and demands such as long wheelbase, short wheelbase, higher roof and lower roof. The distinction of the Tata Winger however came in introducing the prospects of such a well designed vehicle for communal and non-commercial purposes such as school buses and ambulance, for which Tata Motors personally created separate variants so that customised products can be shipped directly without having to worry about individual customisation options in the customers locality. The top end model however features a flat roof and air conditioned version suiting a ten seater structure. The other variants can support as many as 13 to 14 passengers. This way, the sub-variants end up consisting of a list of 11 vehicles. The latest addition of the Tata Winger range is the ultra luxurious and unbelievably spacious Tata Winger Platinum. Suiting its title inclusion of Platinum which explains the rarity and the special stature of the vehicle, the Tata Winger Platinum raised a lot of hands from customers dying to own one. The Tata Winger is offered as a standard version which is a non airconditioned, a deluxe high roof version without air conditioning, a deluxe version with flat roof and a sub-variant set of air conditioning inclusion. The top end however remains to be the flat roof air conditioned luxury version. All the variants feature a 1948cc engine which is compliant to the BS III specifications .
Tata Winger Platinum Mileage
Tata Motors has introduced the Tata Winger Platinum for those who prefer luxury on the go. This vehicle is targeted towards those Indian families who prefers spacious and luxurious mini van which also delivers great mileage. The company has incorporated an advanced 1948cc diesel engine to this premium mini van that can deliver exceptional performance and mileage. This mini van can offer a mileage of 7.0 Kmpl in heavy traffic conditions and about 11.0 Kmpl in highway conditions . By considering its weight, engine and its ability, the overall mileage of Tata Winger Platinum is rather good.
Power of Tata Winger Platinum
Being a mini van and boasting a capability of holding seven passengers comfortably along with loads of luggage, the power of the Tata Winger Platinum is expected to match the expectations. And Tata Motors exceeds the expectations if any. The vehicle offers an amazing 1948cc engine which is of the TCIC mechanism in deluxe high roof version without air conditioning, deluxe version with flat roof and sub-variant set of air conditioning inclusion and the flat roof air conditioned luxury version while the system is not applicable for the other variants. The engine aptly offers a powerful 65bhp at 4500rpm in the Standard flat roof variant and 90bhp in other variants at 4300rpm . The engine torque is also pretty decent considering its huge structure. The engine torque is lowest in the basic Standard flat roof model with 115Nm at 2000rpm to 3000rpm. The same in other three variants is 190Nm at the same rpm rate. The power to weight ratio of the vehicle is 32 is all the models except the Standard flat roof model which offers a value of 25.
Tata Winger Platinum Colours
These colors are available with all variants of Tata Winger Platinum
Acceleration & Pick-Up
The Tata Winger Platinum features a 5-speed manual transmission system in all the variants . The 215 dia friction clutch is used in all the variants to offer a better performance. The rear axle bogey is available in all the other Tata Winger models models and the front axle features an independent structure with a CV shaft.
Tata Winger Platinum Exteriors
Tata might have created quite a few cars over the years and quite a few of them really ended up being the best selling vehicles in the Indian automobile industry but all of them had one distinction. None of its cars were ugly looking. They always created the perfect designs and borrowed them from other if ever needed. Tata Winger Platinum too enjoys the same DNA and never ceases a viewing angle where the vehicle’s exterior design might loose its dynamism. What most mini vans lag in terms of design is the true van form they adapt. But being steps ahead of the crowd always, Tata Motors adapted a more conventional design so that the aesthetic features of the vehicle do not hamper the pleasant feel which Tata Motors was renown for over the years. The front fascia of the Tata Winger Platinum features a partly steep design which complements the geometric design the vehicle follows. The rectangular body and a prism appended to it. The steep prism structure in the front is a comfortable design as the long height balances the short length and fits in the engine and other machinery with ease. The front fascia has a steep bonnet and it ends with a perfectly block structured headlamps, front grill. The bumper is also available in the same colour as the vehicle’s body so the unanimous design is maintained. The front bumper offers a number plate, place provided for fog lamps and a perfectly robust structure. The side structure is just plain as a paper without much body detailing. The main point which a consumer needs to understand is the fact that the Tata Winger Platinum is not designed to be a sports vehicle and obviously need not actually commute at top speeds which even high end sedans and executive SUVs offer. The basic feature to offer a spacious and comfortable structure led it to have a simple design without the massive aerodynamic upgrades. This is not a backdrop because it is not actually a requirement for the segment Tata Motors targeted with this vehicle. The side view offers a refreshing design with very few grooves and a synchronised design which does not fall out of place at any instant. The intelligent design is evident in the two handles provided for the sliding rear door. This comes in handy because when the door is slid into the corner, the other handle can be used to slid it back. This innovative feature though might seem to be a simple addition helps the passenger on a long run if it is used regularly. The framework behind the rear door offers a proper stabiliser so that the door sliding would not effect the body design by cracking. Though such an issue was not there in every other model available in the market since ages, the techniques used by them increased the width of the vehicle. The windows of the rear seat rows feature a sliding windows reminiscent of the typical van design which helps the vehicle in being an airy structure. The interiors would be properly ventilated due to this design. The wheel arches are not elongated or prominent like most of the usual automobiles. The large wheelbase increases the turn angles of the vehicle so the inner streets might not be the best place to ride this mini van. But this is almost true for any high end model such as a sedan or a massive SUV so this cannot be considered to be a con. The small wheels still fit in apt because of the shock absorbers installed and the overall ground clearance of the vehicle so that many urban obstacles such as speed breakers and pebbles can be avoided. The rear fascia of the Tata Winger Platinum offer a long door structure which has twin doors making it a spacious and easy way to fit in luggage. Since the inner seats can be aligned based on requirements, the boot size would be increased. The chassis of the vehicle seems to be pretty rigid and accurate which actually withstands most of the common minor collisions which become common in the tedious city traffic. The rear doors extend to the rigid body framework and bumper. The door has the number plate added to it in the bottom part. The tail lamps are relatively small considering the huge design. These extend over the middle part of the rear boot doors and the minor detailing done through the side design. This offers the robust design that the Tata Winger already had in abundance. In Tata Winger Platinum, the side step offers a perfect system for aged passengers as well as young kids to have a safe entry and exit without the risk of slipping and other inconvenience.
The length of the Tata Winger is more or less the same in all its variants. The main difference however lies in the Standard flat roof version. All other versions, deluxe high roof version without air conditioning, a deluxe version with flat roof and a sub-variant set of air conditioning inclusion, the flat roof air conditioned luxury version, have the same length of 4920mm. The standard version features 4520mm. The width of all the four variants is a standard 1905mm. The height of the variants varied based upon the option of flat roof or the high roof. The two models of the flat roof Deluxe and the flat roof Luxury have a decent 2050mm. The Tata Winger Platinum however offers a length of 4520mm and a width of 1940mm. The height is a spacious 2050mm, which makes it comfortable to even the tall passengers to fit in easily.
Tata Winger Platinum Interior
Tata Winger Platinum features a seven passenger seat capacity. The comfort in the vehicle is evident in the plush cushions which come with best in class thigh support. The adjustable headrests and soft wide adjustable armrests offer a decent comfort feature pack for the passengers. The Scotch Guard treatment included in the full fabric seat covers offer a luxurious interior structure to the passengers. The legroom is highly lauded for being the maximum provided in the segment. Though Tata Winger itself was a spacious and comfortable vehicle, the commercial aspect of the vehicle as a daily commuter for family was not achieved. To fill this gap, Tata Winger Platinum is launched which creates a distinct seating arrangement like a shuffled card pack so that the legroom of most passengers can be high. To avoid the cramped interior seating, the mid row of seating is limited to two seats. The rear seats offered are of three passengers. The alignment of the seats makes it comfortable for the rear seats passengers to move around. The interior dash is fit with a trendy instrument cluster which follows the minimal design philosophy of the contemporary trend. The speedometer and tachometer have blue electronic displays which offer an attractive feel and appealing structure. The instrument cluster has a white LCD backlit single line digital display showing a digital clock. The instrument cluster is also equipped with an odometer , trip A, trip B, hazard warning switch. The inclusion of visual low fuel warning and a battery charge indicator makes it a really useful system as a whole. The steering wheel and handbrake lever are decorated with stylish leather covering. The plush carpet flooring and stylish roof lining ultimately creates an appealing finish to the vehicle.
With three headrests in the rear seats, the passenger comfort is ensured. The spacious interiors with plush functioning capabilities make it a classy ride. The interior cabin and aisle lamps offer a better adaptability for the passengers. The cabin lamps help in focusing individual lights for customers so that other passengers are not bothered in the process. Tata Winger Platinum truly brings the business class flight experience on road. The roof lamps, in the front row, mid row and the rear seating adds the elegance of the vehicle and enhances the Tata Winger Platinum’s ambience. The air conditioning in the Tata Winger Platinum is another worthy mention. The AC vents are placed near almost all the seats so that the passengers need not wait for the entire vehicle to cool in and can actually face the breeze quickly . The independent control of front and rear air conditioning is another feature re assuring the luxury performance of the Tata Winger Platinum.
The interior measurement is a key trump card for Tata Motors in the Tata Winger Platinum. These spacious interiors are the very parameters which set the vehicle apart from the crowd of ever growing automobile industry. The internal length of the deluxe high roof version without air conditioning, deluxe version with flat roof and sub-variant set of air conditioning inclusion and the flat roof air conditioned luxury version is a decent 2755 mm. The internal length of the Standard flat roof model, however, is 2335 mm. The internal height of the system varies based upon the roof design. The high roof model of course offers a higher roof height of 1900 mm in the Deluxe high roof model while in the remaining models, which are flat roof, the height is 1517 mm. The internal width of the vehicles, 1560 mm, is however same in all the variants. The floor height of the Tata Winger Platinum is a comfortable 480 mm. The fuel tank capacity in all the models is a whopping 60 litres.
Tata Winger Platinum Engine and Performance
All the engines in Tata Winger variants are BS III compliant. The Tata Winger Platinum however features both BS III and BS IV compliant engines. The 1948cc diesel engine offers a power of 90bhp at 4300rpm. The engine enables a torque of 190Nm are 2000 to 3000rpm. The engine is a reliable design and a sturdy structure.
Tata Winger Platinum offers 185 R14 LT , 8PR radial tubeless tyres. The wheels also have wheel caps. Being a seven seater, the wheels are expected to withstand heavy weights and successive issues. Tata Motors did an amazing job in the department.
Braking & Handling
Tata Winger Platinum offers McPherson strut with coil spring as the front suspension and double parabolic leaf spring as rear suspension . The rear suspension are clubbed with hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers, which help in obtaining a comfortable ride which rules out the possibility of bumpy rides . The rear damping characteristics of the vehicle too help in enhancing the pleasurable journey. The brakes are equipped with LSPV which controls the brake loads. The disc brakes with twin pot callipers are fit in the front and drum brakes with LSPV are fit in the rear.
Handling & Safety
Tata Winger Platinum offered a pretty decent safety features to complement the lush feel of the vehicle as a whole. The seatbelts are provided for each and every seat. The child safety lock is provided for the sliding door in order to avoid potential dangers. The most interesting safety feature of all though remains to be the load sensing portion valve , dubbed as LSPV. The LSPV technology works by assessing the load on the wheels so that accordingly the braking can be handled. This reduced the possibility of skidding on roads during braking,
Stereo & Accessories in Tata Winger Platinum
The interiors are equipped with two mobile charging points at the front dashboard near the driver and the passenger area at the sliding door so that the mobility of the gadgets truly stays mobile. The 2 Din music system which can support USB system too , plays the music from almost all the media sources. The vehicle features four pretty decent in built speakers. The music system has an LCD screen so that the entertainment controlling becomes further easy.
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Pros & Cons
Tata Winger Platinum Pros :
Luxurious, best in class space, decent performance.
Tata Winger Platinum Cons :
High price, exterior detailing can be improved.
Tata Winger Platinum Specifications
Tata Winger Platinum Variants
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Called the "king of herbs" by French cooks, tarragon is the main flavoring in many of the sauces that are basic to that country's classic cuisine. In ancient times, the Greeks used tarragon as a remedy for toothaches.
Tarragon is known for its anise-like aroma and taste, which can easily overshadow other flavors in a dish. The narrow-leafed herb can be used fresh or dried. It is also preserved in vinegar for a tasty condiment that perks up salad dressings and homemade mustards.
Tarragon's dark green leaves can be used fresh in salads and sauces or as a garnish. The dried herb enhances fish, chicken and egg dishes as well as a variety of vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, broccoli and beets.
Adding tarragon toward the end of cooking brings out its maximum flavor and avoids its bitter side.
Recipes Make the Most of Tarragon
Chicken Tarragon is an easy-to-fix entree that combines moist chicken breasts with zucchini, carrots and mushrooms. "I love tarragon, so I make this dish often," says Ruth Peterson of Jenison, Michigan.
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Over the years I've noticed that clients who retire but are not prepared for the transition tend to exhibit one of three egos: the Idler, the Conspiracy Theorist or the Homebody. While each has its own characteristics, my argument is that they all stem from low or lower self-esteem. As a result, an individual may need just as much help from his or her advisor in managing their self-worth as their net worth.
Usually, discussions about self-esteem relate to children and teens and how they understand their place in the world. But retirees also can have self-esteem problems that become exacerbated when they stop working. An advisor may be able to help clients avoid this self-destructive behavior and strengthen relationships with them.
After some research, I define self esteem as the emotional and behavioral expression of one's perceived self-worth created by feelings of 1) achievement 2) competence 3) acceptance and 4) respect for oneself. Many, if not all these feelings, are often easier to maintain and build upon while clients are employed than while they are retired.
The primary challenge is whether or not retiring clients will be able to fulfill the same level of expectations as they did in the workplace, or at a minimum, adjust their expectations for each of the contributing feelings based on their new lifestyle, choices, abilities and desires.
In my experience, maintaining a sense of achievement can be the biggest challenge that retirees face. Achievements of all kinds are relatively easy to come by in the workplace because work generally includes a productive component. Take away the work and a person may not feel as productive or worthwhile, especially after a few months of doing nothing.
This highlights the importance for both advisors and clients to incorporate some sort of meaningful goals and objectives (beyond those related to finances) into a retirement plan. This is particularly true for clients often identified as high achievers, such as business owners, doctors, attorneys, etc.
Some people do head into retirement with a general plan to embark on activities that they believe will produce a level of satisfaction similar to what they got from attained levels of achievement or rank in the workplace. But their self-esteem may drop if they don't meet their prior standards. A CEO, for example, who made a name for himself merging and acquiring companies may not feel the same sense of achievement by shooting par golf or walking every morning. General ideas and plans that don't pan out or measure up can have a negative effect on how one feels or acts.
What typically manifests in this case is a retiree who just idles along. Because time is no longer a precious commodity and he has fewer demands, the Idler stretches tasks out to help occupy his available time. That's not to say that's bad behavior, but we all know clients who eat up more time than necessary or show up late and linger because there's no objective to their day. I'm not advocating that everyone in retirement become a "type A" personality or task master, but I believe many of those who putter around simply don't realize they need to either add more plans and objectives to their day and their lives, or ratchet down how achievement levels are influencing their post-work self esteem and, subsequently, shift their focus to other areas.
A retiree's level of competency is another serious factor that can contribute to his or her self esteem. I'm not talking about impaired cognitive abilities, such as those brought on by Alzheimer's or dementia, but rather an individual's ability to perform a specific role or function as someone well-qualified for something.
This may sound a little harsh, but if retirees are no longer using or improving their skills and abilities or haven't established a personal role for themselves in retirement, they can very quickly move from feeling competent to feeling incompetent or worthless.
As a result, a common competency trap that retirees can fall into involves becoming a Conspiracy Theorist. People subscribing to these theories represent the faction that believes the Government is planning to steal everyone's 401(k) and that secret societies rule the world. To me, they are the most interesting and, at the same time, the most concerning.
Without new skills or a definitive role, these folks find that the news media becomes the default agenda of daily life and are consumed by headlines, sound bites and extreme opinions. It's a logical but scary replacement mechanism because many clients in this situation believe they are getting smarter or are among the "informed." Unfortunately, most of the time they dominate conversations and push family and friends away because their audience gets sick of hearing it, don't want to argue about it, or frankly have more important things to do than stop the next secret government coup.
The final retirement alter ago that I want to address is the Homebody -- the unadventurous, friendless person who has more cats than any human should be allowed to own. They cut time they spend interacting with others and fail to maintain the friendships they enjoyed in the workplace.
Study after study suggests that friendships, or the lack thereof, can be the single best predictor of overall satisfaction in retirement. Life expectancy, mood and physical health can all be dramatically increased through a strong network of friends, but people don't always plan for the social aspects of their retirement. Retirees who don't have strong relationships -- because of retiring before their friends do, moving away or realizing current friends just aren't fun, reliable or engaging -- can quickly become homebodies.
Even when they have strong relationships, people who fail to maintain their physical health increase the likelihood that they will have a poor self-image. Their size and appearance can cause them to stay home more than they might if they felt healthy and more able-bodied. For example, those who gain excessive weight increase the likelihood of becoming a homebody because they may not fit comfortably into a theater seat, lawn chair or charter bus aisle, ultimately disconnecting themselves from their peers and others.
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Bookmarks has not yet published a review of this book. We may do so in the future; in the meantime, please see the other review sources to the right and browse the information from Amazon.com below.
<DIV><b>From the acclaimed author of <i>The Wild Places</i>, an exploration of walking and thinking</b><br><br>In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual.<br><br>Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, <i>The Old Ways</i> folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds—wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space, but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.<br><br><br></div>
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Policy Basics: Where Do Federal Tax Revenues Come From?
Revised April 12, 2013
In fiscal year 2012, the federal government spent $3.5 trillion on the services it provides, such as national defense, health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security benefits for the elderly and disabled, and investments in infrastructure and education, in addition to interest on the debt (see our Policy Basics on “Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?”). Of that $3.5 trillion, close to $2.5 trillion was financed by federal revenues. The remaining amount (about $1.1 trillion) was financed by borrowing; this deficit will ultimately be paid for by future taxpayers.
The three main sources of federal tax revenue are individual income taxes, payroll taxes, and corporate income taxes; other sources of tax revenue include excise taxes, the estate tax, and other taxes and fees.
Almost half of all federal revenue (46 percent) comes from individual income taxes. The income tax is generally progressive: higher-income households pay a larger share of their income in income taxes than lower-income households do.
Another 35 percent of revenue comes from payroll taxes, which are assessed on the wage or salary paychecks of almost all workers and used to fund Social Security, Medicare Hospital Insurance, and unemployment insurance. By law, employers and employees split the cost of payroll taxes, but research has shown that employers pass their portion of the cost on to workers in the form of lower wages.
Payroll taxes as a whole are regressive: they collect a higher percentage of total earnings from lower-income workers than higher-income ones. One reason is that the Social Security component of the payroll tax applied only to a worker’s first $110,100 of earnings in 2012 ($113,700 in 2013). Another reason is that payroll taxes do not apply to dividends, capital gains, or other unearned income, which constitutes a much greater portion of higher-income peoples’ earnings.
Corporate income taxes make up about 10 percent of federal revenue, with the remaining 9 percent coming from excise taxes, estate taxes, and other taxes. Excise taxes are collected on the sale of certain goods (e.g., fuel, alcohol, and tobacco); they are intended to raise revenue and, in some cases, discourage consumption of the taxed product. These made up about 3 percent of federal receipts in 2012.
The estate tax is a tax on assets such as cash, real estate, or stock that are transferred from deceased persons to their heirs. Because the first $10.24 million of a married couple’s estate was exempt from the estate tax in 2012, and because of other special exemptions from the estate tax, fewer than the wealthiest two of every 1,000 estates nationwide owed any estate tax in 2012. Estate tax revenues made up 0.6 percent of total federal receipts in 2012.
Another source of federal revenue is excess profits on assets held by the Federal Reserve System. In recent years, these have grown from only 0.8 percent of total revenue in 2005 to more than 3 percent in 2012. The increase in these receipts is due to extraordinary actions taken by the Federal Reserve to combat the financial crisis and is projected to decline in the coming years.
The small remainder of federal revenues comes from various sources such as regulatory fees and custom duties.
Over recent decades, the share of federal revenues coming from individual income plus payroll taxes has grown, while the share coming from corporate taxes and other revenues has fallen. The Great Recession — one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression — and the policies enacted to combat it, including temporary tax cuts, have depressed federal revenues below the typical levels of recent decades. Revenues fell from 18.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2007 to 15.8 percent in 2012. As the economy recovers and temporary tax measures expire, federal revenues are projected to return to higher levels.
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SOURCE The Beer Institute
Study highlights American beer industry's economic impact: $246.6 billion, two million American jobs
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new economic impact study released today shows America's beer industry-made up of brewers, beer importers, beer distributors, brewer suppliers and retailers-directly and indirectly contributes $246.6 billion annually to the U.S. economy.
The American beer industry includes:
Jointly commissioned by the Beer Institute (BI) and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA), the Beer Serves America study shows that the industry generates more than two million American jobs, accounting for nearly $79 billion in wages and benefits and more than $246.6 billion in economic activity. The industry also contributed $49.1 billion dollars in the form of business, personal and consumption taxes in 2012.
"Beer serves America at virtually every level of the economy, from the two million employees, to the small businesses in middle class communities, and the important tax revenues at the local, state and national levels," said Tom Long, CEO of MillerCoors and chairman of the Beer Institute. "From farmers to factory-workers, from brewery-hands to bartenders, beer puts Americans to work."
"As independent businesses, America's licensed beer distributors are proud to provide more than 130,000 quality jobs with solid wages and great benefits to employees in every state and congressional district across the country," said Bob Archer, president of Blue Ridge Beverage Co., Inc. in Salem, Virginia, and chairman of NBWA.
According to the study, the beer industry directly employs nearly 1.1 million people, paying nearly $31.8 billion in wages and benefits, among brewers, distributors and retailers, such as supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, bars and stadiums. Indirectly, the industry generates nearly $153.2 billion in economic activity in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, transportation and other sectors.
"In addition to providing quality jobs with solid wages, the independent, three-tier beer distribution system provides transparency and accountability and works to ensure alcoholic beverages are sold only to licensed retailers who in turn are responsible for selling only to adults of legal drinking age," added NBWA President Craig Purser. "This time-tested system, in which America's beer distributors play a critical role, ensures that brewers of all sizes can reach a wide network of retailers and American consumers can enjoy tremendous choice and variety – 13,000 different labels of beer – at a great value."
"These numbers demonstrate that our industry continues to create quality jobs, build our economy and generate important domestic revenue in an economy that needs every job we can support," said Joe McClain, president of the Beer Institute. "For this reason, it is important that state and federal officials consider equitable tax policies and avoid harming an industry that is so effectively aiding economic growth."
The Beer Serves America economic impact study was conducted by John Dunham & Associates based in New York City and covers data compiled in 2012. The complete study, including state-by-state and congressional district breakdowns of economic contributions, is available at www.BeerServesAmerica.org.
The Beer Institute, established in 1986, is the national trade association for the brewing industry, representing both large and small brewers, as well as importers and industry suppliers. The Institute is committed to the development of sound public policy and to the values of civic duty and personal responsibility: www.beerinstitute.org.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) represents the interests of 3,300 licensed, independent beer distributor operations in every state, congressional district and media market across the country. Beer distributors are committed to ensuring alcohol is provided safely and responsibly to consumers of legal drinking age through the three-tier, state-based system of alcohol regulation and distribution. To learn more about America's Beer Distributors, visit http://www.nbwa.org.
©2012 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved.
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i haven't quite gotten a good grip on the hurricane activity in the eastern pacific just yet. usually on the east coast when a strong hurricane stays offshore it means perfect weather, nice-sized waves and offshore winds. here it's more of a dice-roll whether or not we see waves from tropical systems.
right now, felicia is a category 3 with potential to strengthen some more before it starts weakening closer to hawaii. i looked at the satellite though and the hurricane doesn't look that big, although it's super powerful near the eye. will we see waves from a small but strong hurricane like this one? it's kind of far from california
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The Dermatology clinic at Broadgreen Hospital is the local centre for skin cancer diagnosis and treatment in Liverpool. If you come for an appointment you can expect:
It’s really important that skin cancer is diagnosed quickly. You’ll get an appointment within two weeks at our Rapid Lesion Clinic if your GP suspects squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) or malignant melanoma (MM).
Specialists from different medical areas meet weekly. This is called a multi-disciplinary team meeting (MDT)
and is central to the way we work. The MDT advise, support and create treatment plans that are personalised for every patient. MDT members include dermatologists, specialist nurses, plastic surgeons, pathologists, clinical oncologist and ear nose and throat surgeon (ENT).
Patient information and counselling
We’re there to support you throughout your treatment journey. You’ll be given a key worker
(usually a specialist nurse) and a contact telephone number for any questions you may have.
Reducing clinic visits
Improving the patient experience is one of our key aims. We’re trying to reduce repeat visits by performing surgery on the day if the cancer is operable and the circumstances are correct. We also offer follow-up clinics by telephone.
Complex surgery, locally
We now perform advanced skin cancer surgery at the Royal Liverpol University Hospital - this gives the patient the opportunity to have the procedure performed in this hospital rather than travelling to another.
Skin Cancer diagnosis
We have a large, experienced team of experts who can identify skin cancer quickly and efficiently.
Rapid skin cancer diagnosis
It’s really important that skin cancer is diagnosed early to stop it spreading. You will be referred to the hospital if your GP spots something that needs investigation. Our consultant skin specialists (dermatologists) will see you within two weeks at the rapid lesion clinic. This is based at Broadgreen Hospital.
The dermatologist will examine your skin. It’s possible that the cancer can be spotted at this examination. Often the specialist will use a magnifying glass or hand held dermatoscope to look more closely at the lesion.
The doctor removes part or all of the lesion and sends it to the laboratory. It is analysed under a microscope by a pathologist. This is the only way to 100% identify skin cancer cells. It takes one to two weeks for the results of urgent skin cancer biopsies at the hospital which means our patients get a quick and accurate diagnosis.
Sometimes we need to do further tests to see if the cancer has spread. The doctor will probably feel the lymph glands close to the cancer to see if any of them are enlarged.
Skin Cancer treatment
Your test results are discussed by a multi-disciplinary team (MDT). This is a group of experts including:
- specialist nurses
- plastic surgeons
- clinical oncologist
- ear nose and throat surgeon
They decide the best treatment path if cancer is discovered. You will be consulted fully so that you play a role in whatever treatment you receive.
- Surgery: Most skin cancers are treated with surgery. It is usually a minor procedure and done under local anaesthetic. We have surgeons trained in advanced skin surgery for more complex operations.Very specialised surgery – like plastic surgery, maxillofacial surgery and oculo-plastic surgery – is given at other centres, including University Hospital Aintree and St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals.
- Radiotherapy: This uses radio waves to kill cancer cells. It is often used when the cancer is difficult to operate on. It can also be used with surgery (adjuvant treatment). Patients are referred to the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre for this treatment.
- Photodynamic therapy (PDT): PDT is mainly used to treat pre-skin cancer. It involves cream application and red light treatment to individual lesions. It can be done during the day; no overnight stay is required.
All our patients are given the chance to get involved if suitable. We currently have two skin cancer trials open to recruitment:
A study to find out if diet and lifestyle can affect the chances of melanoma coming back after treatment.
A trial looking at gemcitabine and bexarotene (GemBex) for people with difficult to control T-cell lymphoma of the skin.
Patient support and further help coping with cancer.
In-depth information about diagnosis, treatments, possible side effects and how to get further support.
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When I was in the web business, there was a magic number I kept bumping into. That number was 500. No, it wasn’t the number of clients I had, or how much I charged per hour, or how many hours a week I worked. It was how much money most prospects thought a website should cost. So what do you do if your starting price is three, four, or maybe even five times that?
Is $500 a lot of money? You can’t answer that outside the context of what you’re getting in return, can you? As a freelancer or business person trying to sell your services, you must put your price into its proper context. If you don’t, your prospects will.
Let me put it another way. When you quote someone a price, be it $500 or $5,000, he needs another number to compare that to. If you don’t provide one, he’ll come up with his own. Unfortunately, the number he uses will be something else he spends his hard-earned money on—like his mortgage or his car payment. When your prospect starts comparing your price to his other bills, you’ve probably already lost. In his mind, you’ve become just one more expense that’s going to take money out of his pocket.
The problem is, your prospect is focusing on loss—what he has to spend. You can circumvent that thinking process by providing a different number for him to think about … what he’s going to gain.
HTML x CSS ÷ PHP = ROI
Return on investment, or ROI, is an equation that often doesn’t get introduced into the sales conversation. Yet, ROI is a just number derived from a simple mathematical formula. Let me use an actual example, and since I’m mathematically-challenged, I’ll keep it simple.
Suppose I’m considering a direct mail campaign for my web business. If my total cost for a stock image, plus printing and mailing 5,000 postcards is $1,500, and my average job is $900, then I need 1.66 jobs to break even:
$1,500 ÷ $900 = 1.66
Direct mail has a response rate of 1 – 3 percent. Let’s be conservative and use the lower number. That means, out of 5,000 postcards, l should get about 50 people to respond back. If I can close one out of every 10 people, that’s five jobs and a positive return on my investment. Again, simple third-grade math:
50 ÷ 10 = 5 x $900 = $4,500
I’d spend $1,500 all day long if it meant I’d make $4,500. You can also start out with how much revenue you want to bring in and do the math from the other direction. Once you use this formula with your prospects, all that’s left is his risk quotient: Are you willing to risk x to get y?
Mark Twain once said that there’s “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” Many of your prospects will feel the same when you start using numbers to make your case. “But it’s just theoretical!” I’ve heard that as often as I’ve heard, “That’s more money than my house payment!” But remind your prospect that he did the same thing when he went into business for himself. He looked at the market to determine how many customers or how much revenue he’d need, then deducted his overhead to see if he could earn enough money to make a living. He took a risk then. This is just one more risk in a series of risks he’s taken since starting his business. Is he willing to take it?
The Final Equation
It makes no logical sense to compare a business expense to your house payment, but keep in mind that people buy based on emotions, then justify it with logic. So it stands to reason that people also refuse to buy based on emotion, doesn’t it? And so the final equation is: Emotions + Logic = More Sales. You need to provide your prospect with both the emotional reasons to buy and the logical reasons to justify it to themselves. ROI is a great way to provide that logical hook for them to hang their hat on once you’ve left the building.
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ALD for H2O and O2 Barriers for Flexible OLEDs
Agency / Branch:
DOD / DARPA
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) has been widely studied for water permeation barriers for flexible OLED displays. Inorganic films of approximately 100nm have been demonstrated to reduce the water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) to 6e-7 g/m^2/d at room temperature. However, these films crack at less than 2% strain. Inorganic ALD films cannot withstand the required 5% strain until their thickness is reduced to 5nm at which point the WVTR becomes unacceptably high. Hybrid inorganic/organic ALD films have demonstrated enhanced strain resilence but few chemistries have thus far been studied, and their optimized WVTR and mechanical flexibility have yet to be determined. We propose to investigate several classes of new precursor chemicals to generate hybrid inorganic/organic films to assess their applicability for encapsulating flexible OLED displays. Once the best chemistry has been identified and optimized, we will leverage our companies history of successful scaling to commercial manufacturing of ALD processes.
Small Business Information at Submission:
Cambridge NanoTech, Inc.
68 Rogers St. Cambridge, MA 02142
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The Freedom Theatre performs in Nabi Saleh. By Bryan MacCormack.
Mohammed returned to the central square of his village in a small caravan of cars with his friends. Their horns were blaring. This wasn’t a usual night in Nabi Saleh: Half of its 500 inhabitants were already out in the square, surrounding a makeshift stage of lights and speakers. His friends dragged him out of the car and through the crowd, toward the lights. The crowd chanted “Freedom!” and then found their way into a song that declares against the jailer, “I will love the dark.” There was a play already underway, and suddenly it was about him — and, by extension, the nearly three-year-old struggle of his entire village.
That night in late September, after two weeks in an Israeli jail, Mohammed came home during a stop of the Freedom Bus. This nine-day tour through the West Bank was the work of the Freedom Theatre, based a few hours north (on a day without checkpoints) at the refugee camp in Jenin. In Nabi Saleh, to an audience of villagers and foreign supporters traveling on the bus, actors from the Freedom Theatre were doing Playback Theatre — hearing stories from people in the audience and turning them into improvised skits.
Urged into taking a microphone, Mohammed described what had happened to him, and what has happened to so many others in Nabi Saleh. Israeli soldiers raided his home in the middle of the night, tore it apart and took him away for interrogation. He was forced to remain standing for hours at a time while blindfolded and hurled with insults. As the actors reenacted Mohammed’s story, his friends shot fireworks overhead.
Mohammed, who looked to be in his early 20s, earned his detention simply by doing what people in Nabi Saleh have been doing since late 2009: demonstrating after Friday prayers, every single week, against land grabs by the nearby Israeli settlement of Halamish.
His arrest is only one of more than a hundred that villagers have suffered since the protests began, including young children. Throughout, houses have been burned, windows have been broken, furniture has been smashed. “We want to make these demonstrations stop,” an Israeli intelligence officer told Mohammed.
Bassem Tamimi is at the forefront of organizing the campaign in Nabi Saleh, his home. He is in his mid-40s, and four years of his life have been spent in Israeli jails. Israelis killed his sister and have arrested each of his children. His face is narrow, with a peppery moustache and dark wrinkles. He looks a little like George Orwell. “We decide to resist because we believe that our destiny is not to accept the occupation,” he said. Nabi Saleh’s strategy comes as a response to the experience of the Second Intifada of more than a decade ago, he says, when Israel was able to justify brutal repression by branding Palestinian armed resistance as terrorism in the international media.
“We don’t want our society to turn to violent resistance in the future,” he explained, “not because our enemy does not deserve it, but because we don’t want to hurt our issue.” Their goal is to create a model of resistance that will spread to other Palestinian communities — and it already has. “We don’t want to go to an academic workshop and talk about violence and nonviolence and Gandhi. No — don’t talk about nonviolence, do it. We’re going to do it on the ground to convince everyone.”
After Friday afternoon prayers each week, the villagers begin a march to the land confiscated from them by the nearby Israeli settlement. Together they approach the inevitable line of soldiers, who inevitably deploy a combination of tear gas, flash grenades, noxious “Skunk” spray, rubber bullets and live ammunition. Some villagers react by throwing rocks while others run. Repeat, week after week.
“They will not give us a rose because we are resisting,” Bassem Tamimi said. “We do not expect that they will welcome us, and we are not welcoming them.” A relative of his, Mustafa Tamimi, was killed last year after being hit in the face by a tear gas canister. Mustafa owned the land with a spring on it that the village had depended on and that the settlement had taken.
A Freedom Theatre actor talks with a boy in Nabi Saleh. By Bryan MacCormick.
Resistance has thus become a way of life for everyone in Nabi Saleh. A point is made of including women and children alongside men. The effects of the fight are therefore visible among villagers of all ages, both men and women: missing fingers, scars and chemical burns. “We know that women are half of our society and half of our power,” Tamimi explained. As for the children, “We want to strengthen them, to make them strong to face the enemy in the future.” One little boy, I was told, had a special talent for throwing tear gas canisters back to from where they came.
During the Freedom Theatre’s show, one women told of being arrested by Israeli soldiers while her children tried to pull her away. Another watched the actors recreate the day that she had to push her daughter out a window after soldiers fired tear gas into her house. A grandmother said that she goes to sleep early since most nights she can expect to be woken up by an Israeli raid.
Balil Tamimi — Tamimi is a common family name in town — has taken on the job of documenting the protests. He looks about Bassem’s age and wears thick bifocal glasses. After the Freedom Theatre finished its performance, clips of video taken by him and others were projected on a wall, with scenes of tear gas canons on armored vehicles and soldiers shooting their rifles. It showed the fence that villagers have made out of spent tear gas canisters.
“From the beginning we realized that the media is one of the most important things,” Balil told me. “We use it in our demonstration to reach the world, to reach people, to tell them what has happened in our village.”
Video projected on a wall in Nabi Saleh. By Bryan MacCormick.
The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem gave him a camera soon after the campaign began, and he uploads his videos to the Internet. They’ve helped attract support from international media and the European Union. Now, in many of the demonstrations, supporters from Israel and abroad stand alongside the villagers. Their target is the mentality of occupation and control, of land grabs and night raids. When that is gone, the people of Nabi Saleh might be willing to welcome their new neighbors.
“If we change our thinking, we can live together,” said Bassem Tamimi. “But they want to control our lives. Life is freedom. If you lose your freedom, you lose everything.”
At the end of the Playback rendition of Mohammed’s story, as is customary in the genre, the actors held their arms toward him with their palms facing up. The visitors on the Freedom Bus were applauding along with the villagers. The actors asked him whether what they had done was right — if they’d captured his experience or if he had anything else to add.
“I have a beautiful feeling,” Mohammed said into the microphone, which echoed his voice against the buildings of the village. “Thank you very much.”
As the Freedom Bus pulled away from Nabi Saleh and on to the maze of roads Palestinian vehicles are allowed to travel on, it passed a corner of the Halamish settlement. Behind the fences and the gate, one could see a group of settlers serenely gathered in a circle under a single streetlight. They were not soldiers with guns, nor were they innocents. It was just a momentary glimpse, and it might have seemed sentimental if it did not come at such a cost.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 - 18:01
"The mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is to
improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of healthcare
for all Americans."
The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other nation, yet numerous studies have found that there is reall y no relationshipbetween spending and the quality of care. “I think the best definition of healthcare quality is the right care, for the right patient, at the right time, every time,” says Clancy. For Clancy, it is critical to make sure that “what we do for patients matches their needs and preferences and actually helps them to get on with their lives.” Comparative effectiveness research (CER )—systematic research that compares different interventions and strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor health conditions—offers much promise.
According to Dr. Clancy, the purpose of this research is to inform patients, providers, and decision makers by responding to their needs about which interventions are most effective for patients under specific circumstances. The Recovery Act allocated about 1.1 billion dollars for CER , with some $300 million allocated to AHRQ’s already-established CER portfolio.
“We live in a very exciting time,” admits Clancy, “because of all of the advances in biomedical science. More and more, it’s not the case that there’s one thing to do for a particular condition—there are multiple choices. How do you make those choices?” CER is looking to fill that gap. “We think this research will help make sense of all of the rapidly expanding options and innovations in medicine. It’s all about focusing on patients’ needs, and applying the best of science to meet those individual needs,” says Clancy.
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The first version of Eudora Welty's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Optimist's Daughter, appeared as a short story in 1969 in the New Yorker. Revised and published as a novel in 1972, it is considered by some to be her sparest novel. In fact, Welty herself thought of the novel as more akin to a short story than a true novel. The book's complexity arises not from its length but from the emotions of the characters.
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and witnesses his death and funeral. From there, she embarks on a deeply personal journey to explore her past and her family in order to make sense of her future.
Welty's novel contains a number of autobiographical elements. Some of the male characters are inspired by Welty's uncles, and the women of the town represent Welty's observations on life in the South. Welty has stated that much of Becky McKelva's background is drawn from her mother's life in West Virginia. In fact, the novel was written not long after her mother's death, a period in which Welty was recalling her mother's life and experiences. In this way, the character of Laurel represents Welty's own desire to inquire into her past and understand how it affects her present and future.
Did this raise a question for you?
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- Four stages of a scientific discipline; four types of scientist
By Alexander M. Shneider
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Volume 34, Issue 5, May 2009, Pages 217-223
In this paper, Shneider suggests to distinguish four different stages of a scientific discipline, that I will briefly summarize below. It is somewhat ironic the author writes he believes "this analysis could be instrumental for individual researchers in their career planning," but then publishes his paper in a subscription journal that wants to charge you US $ 31.50 for a 6 page article.
The identification of different stages through which a research program goes is an approach that resonates with me. I have been previously referring to this vaguely as "the stage of creative process," and have pointed out many times that there can be no overall prescription for what amount of "transformative" and "conservative" research a discipline needs that does not take into account different fields are in different creative phases. Thus any call for more support of one or the other research style is an oversimplified panacea that might or might not work in one or the other case.
However, though Shneider's paper is interesting, I don't find it very well thought through. In particular, the author tends to speak of the characteristics of a "science" and of "scientists," though I doubt these ever occur in a pure form. It would be more useful to characterize a specific research project, and then identify the stage of the discipline by what sort of projects are mainly pursued, or similarly characterize a scientist by what sort of projects he mainly works on. You also wouldn't call a restaurant or its cook "spicy," you'd call a dish spicy and then say the restaurant offers many spicy dishes, and the cook is known for them.
In any case, here the characteristics of the four stages:
- Introduction of new subject matter
- New scientific language
- Often based on new observations and/or experimental results
- First stage scientists not necessarily the ones who discover new facts
- First stage scientists often need to be somewhat imprecise or inaccurate because not all necessary facts are known or properly comprehended
- Theory often contains uncertainty
- First stage scientists do not always possess exquisite technical skills.
- Philosophical, aesthetic and cultural views, analogies and literature are instrumental to the first stage scientists' mode of thinking
- Development of major techniques
- Often re-applications of methods previously developed in another discipline (plus rethinking and adjustments to new task)
- Main characteristic of second stage scientists are ingenuity and inventiveness, an ability to implement ideas and a high risk-tolerance
- Most of the actual data and useful knowledge is generated
- Re-description of subject matter, creation of new insights and questions
- Difficulties and unexplained phenomena often give birth to new first stage
- Most useful personal qualities of third stage scientists are detail oriented, neat, hard working
- Extensive knowledge of philosophy or art is not instrumental
- Communication and carrying on of knowledge
- Reviews, organization of knowledge
- Without the fourth stage scientists, the explosion of new data generated at the third stage would be chaotic
- Development of applications
- Re-evaluation of the role of the discipline in a possibly changing social and cultural context
- Forth stage scientists use a broad spectrum of cultural and philosophical views
- Forth stage work serves to inspire new generations of scientists
The paper also has some remarks on how these four stages relate to Kuhn's theory of scientific revolution. The author points out that Kuhn was aiming at characterizing paradigm shifts, not the life-cycle of scientific disciplines.
I think one should consider that a discipline might run into a case of arrested development in any stage, in which case too much effort goes into the wrong research direction. Unfortunately, such cases might become self-supporting due to the present organization of the academic system in which people go where money goes, and money goes where people go. This leads to the formation of the scientific analog to economic bubbles. As a result, the amount of people working in a field does not accurately reflect its actual promise.
Shneider provides many examples, but these are dominantly from past centuries and from biology and chemistry. If you have a current example, leave it in the comments.
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"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is the perfect Christmas antidote to all the 19th-century celebrations that invade every playhouse each December, when the audience, presumably, wants nothing but Dickens and "The Nutcracker."
The dramatic adaptation of the translation by J.R.R. Tolkien of a poem written in the late 1300 s by a writer known as the Pearl Poet currently fills the Richard Goad Theatre of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company with plenty of action - both real and Monty-Pythonesque - along with caroling, a dragon, an ogre, a very fierce 2-inch-tall troll doll and a story set at a Christmas feast hundreds of years before Tiny Tim.
The play features a story told by Sir Gawain when King Arthur, at the feast in Camelot, refuses to eat until he hears a tale of knightly valor. Gawain, his nephew, recounts the story of his encounter with the Green Knight and the enchantment that brought him his knighthood.
William Christopher Ford is Gawain, and if he seems a little too big and muscular for the role of the teenager he certainly throws himself, literally, into the part. The fight scenes are choreographed to fit the small confines of the Goad, but Ford was so energetic on this night he hit the wall on one occasion with so much force it must have made the bikes on the racks in the store next door shake.
Gawain was a confused and troubled young man as he tried, successfully, to fight off Lady Bertilak's seduction over three very uncomfortable nights
JJ Ryder appears first as the Green Knight, fully 7 feet tall and armed with a very heavy ax. He challenges anyone to give him a blow, if they will agree to take one from him a year and a day hence. Gawain agrees and after much maneuvering beheads the Green Knight, who calmly picks up his head and says he will see Sir Gawain in a year. Ryder doubles as the fierce (sort-of) dragon and as Lord Bertilak, who gives Gawain the run of his castle.
Ashley Marquand has two roles, too, that of Queen Guinevere and Morgan LeFay, Arthur's aunt and nemesis. Kevin Ali is Arthur, who won't eat until he has heard the story.
Mike Austin also has multiple roles. He is the ogre that Gawain kills, after several attempts, with the ogre's comic help. He is the many animals that Lord Bertilak hunts: fox, bear, etc., all over the stage as Bertilak rides back and forth on his stick-horse. And he is part of the gathering of cast members who sing, in four- and five-part harmony, many Christmas carols that may not have been of the period but which give the proceedings an air of authenticity nonetheless.
The play isn't an intellectual one, but rather a playful retelling of a classic. Director and adapter Helen Borgers has fun with the scenes, and "Sir Gawain" is especially good for children, who will love most everything about it.
Nicole Taniduchi, 10, was sitting in the second row at the second performance and she was roaring with laughter, except when the Green Knight lost his head. She recovered when he kept on talking, and loved every one of the animals. Her favorite: the dragon, which fought with its tail as well as its jaws and, played by Ryder, almost defeated Gawain.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 22.
Where: Richard Goad Theatre, 4250 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach.
Tickets: $20, $10 for students.
Information: 562-997-1494 or http://www.lbshakespeare.org/
Our rating: 3 STARS
John Farrell is a Long Beach freelance writer.
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“Discussion Draft” of First-Ever California Fracking Regulations Raises a Howl from Environmentalists
After 50 years of drilling for oil and gas using the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the state of California has finally proposed regulations for the previously unmonitored process―and some environmental groups find them wholly lacking.
The Center for Biological Diversity called “discussion draft” regulations by the California Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources fatally flawed because they “would keep California's fracking shrouded in secrecy and do little to contain the many threats posed by fracking.” Kassy Siegel, director of the center’s Climate Law Institute, said the proposal was “worse than nothing” and is going to have to be “completely rewritten if the goal is to provide real protection for our air, water and communities.”
Fracking entails injecting millions of gallons of pressurized water, chemicals (some toxic), sand and other substances into a well to crack open the rocks and allow easier access to oil and natural gas. Critics say it has been linked to groundwater contamination, air pollution, releases of methane gas, micro-earthquakes and sink holes.
While it has long been used to tap energy supplies unreachable using conventional methods, it has received heightened interest of late from oil and gas companies eager to explore difficult-to-reach supplies embedded in shale. California has the nation’s largest known shale deposits, stretching along a huge swath of the Central Valley up to Monterey County.
The state is poised for a possible oil boom, with Monterey Shale thought by some to hold up to 15.5 billion barrels of oil. Last week, the federal Bureau of Land Management auctioned off around 18,000 acres of Monterey Shale oil leases.
But with fracking coming under increasing criticism across the country, and state lawmakers failing to pass proposed legislation last session that would have imposed minimal transparency about where fracking was occurring and what chemicals were being injected near groundwater, pressure has mounted for some meaningful response from the state.
The Center for Biological Diversity said the proposed regulations fail in key ways. Directly affected property owners would only get three days notice from the state that fracking will occur, and the notification would not include adjacent property owners whose water supply and air were potentially at risk.
Energy companies would have to inform the state what chemicals were being injected into the ground, but a giant loophole would allow them to keep private any chemicals they deemed “trade secrets.” Those chemicals they choose to publicize, and other related information, would be conveyed through the online database Frac Focus, considered by many to be difficult to navigate and industry friendly.
There is no process explicitly laid out for appeals by property owners who oppose the fracking, and well operators wouldn’t be required to collect pollution data that could be used to gauge environmental effects.
The oil industry was pleased with the proposal. “We certainly appreciate the effort that the Department of Conservation is making on these,” Tupper Hull, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, told the San Jose Mercury News. “We are encouraged that they continue to recognize the important role that hydraulic fracturing can play in the state's economy.”
To Learn More:
California Releases First-Ever Fracking Regulations (by Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News)
Five Fatal Flaws in California's New Fracking Regulations (Center for Biological Diversity)
California Oil Regulators Release Draft of Fracking Rules (by Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times)
California Releases Draft Fracking Regulations (by Jason Dearen, Associated Press)
State Moves Slowly on Oil Extraction Rules Favored by the Feds (by Ken Broder, AllGov California)
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Banning Bottled H2O
United States -
17 May 10
The town of Concord in Massachusetts looks likely to become the first American city to ban bottle watered, following a positive vote last week by residents to do so by next January in order to lessen the environmental impact of their community.
"All these discarded bottles are damaging our planet, causing clumps of garbage in the oceans that hurt fish, and are creating more pollution on our streets,'' said 82 year old activist, Jean Hil, who has lead the campaign. "This is a great achievement to be the first in the country to do this. This is about addressing an injustice.”
While many concerned with the environment are praising the efforts of Concord, the ten billion dollar water industry is worried that other towns will follow suit. A legal challenge is already being threatened, with the bottled water manufacturers arguing that they should not be singled out from other industries that produce wasteful products and that people should not be discouraged to consume water.
Internationally, Concord follows the Australian town of Bundanoon who last July banned the sale of bottle water in an attempt to limit associated carbon emissions resulting from the bottling and transportation of bottled water. Residents agreed to replace all single-use bottles with reusable ones that could be filled up from any of the towns free water fountains.
While accessing clean drinking water is not always easy in many parts of the developing world, in developed countries like the USA and Australia tap water offers a more sustainable and possibly healthier option to bottled water. Moreover, as the Natural Resource Defense Council points out, more than 25 percent of bottled water comes straight from the tap anyway.
Find out more about the environmental impact of bottled water here, in The Story of Bottled Water video.
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Eastern Music Camp: Jazz Instrumental
Welcome to the 2013 Eastern Music Camp Jazz Instrumental page! Thank you for your interest in EMC 2013.
Jazz Instrumental Camp is open to students entering the 7th through 12th grades. This camp is designed to meet the needs of those students who are interested in jazz at all levels, providing an instructional and educational experience for both beginners and more advanced students. Students will have an opportunity to study jazz with EIU’s outstanding jazz faculty and other fine musicians from around the country. Students participate in the following:
- Big Band
- Jazz Theory
- Master classes
- Jazz Seminar
- Combos (for the more advanced students)
Participants will also have an opportunity to perform for family and friends at a final concert on Saturday, the last day of camp.
Jazz Instrumental camp is coordinated by Sam Fagaly.
Students should prepare for a brief placement audition to be held on the first day of camp. Rhythm section members should be prepared to demonstrate a variety of styles and play scales. There is no prepared piece required for rhythm section students.
Sam Fagaly, coordinator
Sam Fagaly is the Director of Jazz Studies, conductor of the award winning EIU Jazz Ensemble, and professor of applied saxophone at Eastern Illinois University. He has extensive teaching and performing experience.
He received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Florida, his Masters of Music from Louisiana State University, and his Doctor of Arts from the University of Northern Colorado.
Paul Johnston, faculty
Paul Johnston joined Eastern’s Jazz Studies faculty in 2004. He teaches jazz piano, improvisation, history, and directs the EIU Jazz Lab Band and combo program.
He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Indiana University. He is at home in a wide variety of musical styles and has performed with artists including Clark Terry, Nancy Wilson, Benny Golson, Monica Mancini, and Bernadette Peters.
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Many people in the United States are fascinated by royalty. That’s probably because, unlike many other countries, we don’t have kings and queens here in America.
Ready to take a peek under the crown to get the lowdown on royalty? All of us have different ideas about royalty.
Young children, for example, probably think about princesses, like Cinderella, when they hear the word royalty. Others might immediately think of the British royal family, like Princess Diana, or American women who became real-life princesses, like Princess Grace of Monaco.
Kings, queens, princes and princesses — they seem like larger-than-life figures who live privileged, almost-magical lives. Yet, they’re also human beings like the rest of us. No one can deny, though, that they lead lives quite different than most.
Royalty developed centuries ago under the feudal systems of medieval Europe. Under feudalism, a few powerful landowners gained large territories through either military force or purchase.
The mightiest of these landowners was crowned king. Other, less-powerful landowners gained noble titles by pledging their allegiance to the king and managing smaller territories on his behalf.
Over time, a king would die, and his heirs would succeed him, usually according to the rules of inheritance of money and property. Other nobles would pass on their titles and positions to their heirs in a similar way.
In this way, many European countries developed a complex system of royalty over many hundreds of years, including a wide variety of special traditions and rituals. Although Europe was the only place with a true feudal system, monarchies (governments ruled by royal families) also developed in a similar fashion in Japan and the Middle East.
In the 17th to 19th centuries, many monarchies were replaced with democratic governments that featured leaders elected by the people. When this happened, the royal family often kept an important, but mainly symbolic, role in the government, while actual power was held by elected officials.
Were you born into a royal family? Probably not. Let’s face it, the odds are against you. But that’s OK. A very select few people still marry into royal families from time to time.
Before you start searching for a prince by kissing frogs, though, you might want to ask yourself an important question. Would you really want to be royalty?
Sure, the crowns and fancy clothes are nice. But royals are also subjected to intense media scrutiny. Would you want your every move watched by others?
Depending on what country you live in, you might have a royal title that’s something other than king, queen, prince or princess. Here are a few royal titles used now or in the past in other countries:
- Russia: czar/czarina
- Asia and Africa: emir
- Japan and Ancient Rome: emperor/empress
- Ancient Egypt: pharaoh
- India: raja
- Iran: shah
- Muslim countries: sultan
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VATICAN CITY – Kateri Tekakwitha, a woman credited with life-saving miracles, has become North America’s first aboriginal saint after a canonization mass at the Vatican.
Tekakwitha was among the seven saints Pope Benedict XVI added to the roster of Catholic role models Sunday morning as he tries to rekindle the faith in places where it’s lagging.
Aboriginal Canadians and Americans in traditional dress sang songs to Kateri as the sun rose over St. Peter’s Square.
They joined pilgrims from around the world at the Mass and cheered when Benedict, in Latin, declared each of the seven new saints worthy of veneration by the church.
In his homily, Benedict praised each of the seven new saints as examples for the entire church.
“With heroic courage they spent their lives in total consecration to the Lord and in the generous service of their brethren,” he said.
Speaking in English and French, in honour of Kateri’s Canadian ties, Benedict noted how unusual it was in Kateri’s culture for her to choose to devote herself to her Catholic faith.
“May her example help us to live where we are, loving Jesus without denying who we are,” he said. “Saint Kateri, protectress of Canada and the first Native American saint, we entrust you to the renewal of the faith in the first nations and in all of North America!”
Tekakwitha, who is also known as “Lily of the Mohawks,” was born in New York state in 1656 before fleeing to a settlement north of the border to escape opposition to her Christianity.
She died in 1680 at the age of 24. Her body is entombed in a marble shrine at the St. Francis-Xavier Church in Kahnawake, a Montreal-area Mowhawk community that was expected be well represented among the 1,500 Canadian pilgrims set to attend the celebrations.
The process for her canonization began in the 1880s and Tekakwitha was eventually beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980.
According to a longtime deacon at the Kahnawake reserve, an event six years ago is widely viewed as a miracle which sealed Tekakwitha’s canonization.
The case involved six-year-old Jake Finkbonner, who belongs to the Lummi tribe in Washington, said Ron Boyer, who was appointed by the Vatican in 2007 to help make the case for the canonization.
Finkbonner was knocked over while playing basketball, striking his lip on a post. The incident led to the boy developing a high fever which landed him in intensive care where doctors determined he had a flesh-eating disease.
The deacon said Sister Kateri Mitchell, a Mohawk from the Akwesasne reserve, happened to be visiting the area and was summoned by the family. She had a bone relic of Tekakwitha which was held to Finkbonner’s chest as his family prayed.
According to Boyer, at that point the infection stopped spreading and began to heal.
Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, is among 17 bishops who were to make the trip to the Vatican, while House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer was also expected to attend Sunday’s mass.
The other new saints are: Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy patients in Hawaii; Pedro Calungsod, a Filipino teenager who helped Jesuit priests convert natives in Guam in the 17th century but was killed by spear-wielding villagers opposed to the missionaries’ efforts to baptize their children; Jacques Berthieu, a 19th century French Jesuit who was killed by rebels in Madagascar, where he worked as a missionary; Giovanni Battista Piamarta, an Italian who founded a religious order in 1900 and established a Catholic printing and publishing house in his native Brescia; Carmen Salles Y Barangueras, a Spanish nun who founded a religious order to educate children in 1892; and Anna Schaeffer, a 19th century German lay woman who became a model for the sick and suffering after she fell into a boiler and badly burned her legs. The wounds never healed, causing her constant pain.
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By Tiffany Hsu
7:20 PM EDT, March 14, 2012
Food-borne illnesses caused by fish, spices, produce and other edibles imported from other countries seems to be on the rise – but the countries of origin may be changing, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Of the 39 outbreaks caused by foreign food (which caused 2,348 illnesses) from 2005 to 2010, 17 of them happened in 2009 and 2010, according to the report. Bad fish caused 17 outbreaks; spices were responsible for six.
Though nearly 45% of the cases came from food that had originated in Asia, the report found that nearly half of the outbreaks came from areas that hadn’t previously been associated with such diseases.
The true extent of the outbreaks is probably much more expansive than reported, according to the CDC.
“As our food supply becomes more global, people are eating foods from all over the world, potentially exposing them to germs from all corners of the world, too,” said epidemiologist and lead author Hannah Gould in a statement. “We saw an increased number of outbreaks due to imported foods during recent years, and more types of foods from more countries causing outbreaks.”
Food imports into the U.S. nearly doubled to $78 billion in 2007 from $41 billion in 1998, according to the Department of Agriculture. As much as 85% of seafood consumed in the country comes from abroad.
Copyright © 2013, Los Angeles Times
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Same Sex Couples Say “I Do” In New York
Brooklyn, NY (WIBX) - The state of New York confirmed hundreds of marriages over the weekend. The ceremonies started immediately after the controversial bill legalizing gay marriage went into effect. Burrough Hall in Brooklyn was one of the many places to catch a glimpse of blissful couples making their way down the steps of the Municipal Building after exchanging vows. City Hall in Manhattan, Piers along the Hudson River and Madison Square Garden were other places couples and crowds gathered to mark the monumental occasion.
One couple exiting the municipal building said, “We got married! We got married, it was amazing and the sheer love around us is just terrific. It really is, I mean look at people cheering on the street, I mean, when do you get this, you know.” Darlene Miranda and Cristina Janquera have been together for 11-years and although they had a commitment ceremony in Peurto Rico five years ago, getting the opportunity to legally tie the knot in their own hometown is about validation, progress and hope.
Speaking to WIBX, the couple said, ”Validation. I would say more validation honestly. Validation first, but you know we’re also representing a lot of gay people out there who want to have this right, or haven’t had this right before. You know, we’re lucky we’re in New York, we live right here in Brooklyn but a lot of our fellow Americans out there can’t have the same rights so it’s special.”
Another Brooklyn couple, 61-year-old Linda Wilkens and 51-year-old Annette Fisher have been together for 16-years. They say the day was about protecting their legal rights. Fisher said, “Hopefully it will give us some more rights than we have. Although we did have to go out of our way to make sure that we were legally protected in other ways because unfortunately we live in a world where sometimes people can be cruel. And so this will protect us a little bit more. You know, we would not have to worry as much like if you didn’t have a will, someone couldn’t come and say, ‘you can’t do this, or you can’t do that.’ I get hit by a car, she becomes the beneficiary of that, not someone else in the family who doesn’t necessarily have an interest in my well-being.”
When asked about those who don’t see eye-to-eye on the issue of gay marriage, Wilkens says it’s about their rights as Americans. “I’m an American citizen, and I believe that I should have the same rights as the next individual because we’re all equal.”
Despite the legal step to officially validate gay unions in the state, many couples still face struggles within their family and community. Orlando Matthews is in a same-sex relationship with a partner who comes from a strict religious upbringing. His parents still don’t accept their relationship, despite their 5-year union. He said, “It causes stress between us but I know it’s harder on him because he always feels like he’s got to choose and I think that his family really makes him feel that way.” He says despite the turmoil, he still tries to stay positive about being accepted in the future.
We met Andrew Cohen from Long Island standing in front of the Municipal Building cheering for the newly weds making their way out into the crowd. “I am one of the many people in New York who would love to get married someday. I hope to have a partner to get married to someday in New York. This is about having equality in New York and being able to have the same rights for all New Yorkers to find someone to be together with for the rest of their lives and raise a family,” he said. New York now stands as the 6th state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriages. It follows, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.
Meantime, challenges to the new law are starting to take shape. The group, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms are filing papers in the Livingston County Supreme Court today, contending that the process and procedure that led to the legalization of gay-marriages was illegal. Rev. Jason J. McGuire is one of the plaintiffs listed on the lawsuit. He said, “We believe that certainly some senate rules were violated, changed at the last minute, and very likely there could be some statute violations as well that the court will be looking at that aided this legislation passing and violated the open and deliberative process.” He says the aim is to nullify the same-sex marriage legislation. McGuire says if the courts agree with NYCF, “It would require the legislature to vote again. This time, in a deliberative way–not behind closed doors and really not under the cover of night.” NYCF lobbied extensively against the legislation.
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What Does "Barriers to Care" Mean?
Oral health only benefits those who have the ability to access it. "Barriers to Care" may be the effect of finances, geographic location, pressing health needs or poor oral health literacy, and can leave patients with serious conditions that threaten their overall systemic health and quality of life. To access the necessary care for their dental needs, patients may require transportation, oral health education or financial assistance. Language, education, cultural and ethnic barriers often further compound the problem.
- The Facts
- 47 million Americans are affected by barriers to care
- 16,511,502 children in the U.S. were not taken to a dentist in 2009
- 29 states and 53 other countries permit expanded function to dental assistants
As of July 2, 2012 there are 4,382 Dental Health Professionals Shortage Areas (HPSA) with 43.8 million people living in them. It would take 8,811 practitioners to meet their need for dental providers (a population to practitioner ratio of 3,000:1).
Resolution 305-RC-2011 Defining Dental Access
Aaron Bumann, a dental student at the University of Minnesota and ASDA’s Western Regional Legislative Coordinator, wrote an article about the term “barriers to care.” In this article he provides background to the resolution that passed at the House of Delegates during ASDA’s 2011 Annual Session. To view the article, click here.
ASDA does not support the use of midlevel providers to solve the barriers to care issue.
ASDA News Articles
On April 24, ABC News with Diane Sawyer reported the story "Hidden America: Medicaid's Youngest Face Dental Crisis." Watch the video below to learn more on the barriers to care issue.
Dr. William Calnon, ADA President, speaks about barriers to care in the Nov. 15, 2011 PBS NewsHour interview called “Millions of Americans Face Life Without Dental Care.” Watch it here.
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Near two mangled, charred metal beams recovered from the World Trade Center, politicians and residents gathered in Glenville to honor the victims of 9/11 and the people who served their country following the attacks.
At the 9/11 memorial next to The Waters Edge Restaurant, constructed in 2006 by owners Pat and Karen Popolizio, public officials shared their stories and tributes related to the terrorism attacks which stopped our nation in silence and sorrow.
Appreciating the wonderful blue sky and the sunshine today, I'm sure we all remember that nine years ago a similar day we awoke to, but that is where the similarities end, said President of The Chamber of Schenectady County Charles Steiner, serving as master of ceremonies.
Christopher Koetzle, supervisor for the Town of Glenville, echoed Steiner's comments about the unexpected events, which unfolded that day.
"On a bright, sunny September morning, just like this afternoon, an evil that we could not imagine descended from our skies over New York City, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.," said Koetzle. "Our job here today is to do more than just remember, what happened on that fateful day can never just be relegated to our history books. We must be vigilante every single day to the struggle against evil and we must ensure that we always ready to meet our obligation as the guardian of liberty."
A total of 2,977 people died on 9/11 and Koetzle noted around the same amount of days has passed since the attack.
"We all have lived one day for each victim since 9/11," said Koetzle. "That has been our gift, all of us here today, but we must ask ourselves is have we lived each and every one of those days in a way that honors the memory of those that were killed We pledge today to honor all those that we lost not in our words, but in our deeds."
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For Immediate Release: Dec. 24, 2007
Media Contact: Communication Office
Vermont Department of Health
BURLINGTON – The Health Department reminds Vermonters that the healthiest way for adults over the legal drinking age of 21 to enjoy the holiday season is to drink responsibly, or not to drink at all.
Alcohol is a drug that depresses the central nervous system, slowing the activity of the brain. Judgment and restraint are lessened and reflexes are slowed. Nationally, drinking and driving kills someone every 31 minutes and injures someone every two minutes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Unfortunately, alcohol use is still considered somewhat of a norm at social gatherings and holiday parties nationwide,” said Barbara Cimaglio, deputy commissioner for the division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse. “Resist the pressure to drink and serve alcohol at social events, serve food, don’t pressure people to drink, and make sure people who have been drinking do not drive.”
Other tips for a safe and sober holiday include always offering alternatives to alcohol to drink at a party so that people have a choice, and to never leave alcohol sitting out where kids can pick it up and drink it.
According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, the $49 billion distilled-spirits industry makes more than 25% of its profits from Thanksgiving to the New Year. Vermont sells nearly 1.5 times the volume of liquor in December than any other month of the year from its 75 liquor and spirit outlets statewide, according to the Vermont Department of Liquor Control.
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While the mechanical side of robotics doesn't really qualify as AI as such you have to admit that the hardware is important. In this case the breakthrough in creating a humanoid torso with amazingly dexterous fingers and hands is the use of a new type of pneumatic actuator.
The idea is that instead of piston driven actuators the pneumatic muscle works in roughly the same way as real biological muscle - but using air and engineering to create the shortening in length rather than chemical reactions. The principle is that short rubber tubes are wired directly to the part that they are intended to move. Inflating the tube causes it to shorten and so create a pulling force. Clearly the problem is that such a device cannot push but you can either use them in pairs or set one working against a passive tension device.
Clearly the advantage is controllability and overall lightness and efficiency. The design is by Festo who are well known for there biologically inspired robot hardware.
Two Bit Circus hopes to create a STEAM - that's Science Technology Engineering Art and Math - Carnival. The basic idea is to take traditional midway attractions and bring them up-to-date using robot/c [ ... ]
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Photograph by Barbara Bell.
The single-stemmed date palm takes thirty years to reach maturity, and can live two hundred years. The tree, which can attain a height of eighty feet and whose drooping fruit clusters can weigh as much as fifty pounds, has a long period of juvenility (Moldenke and Moldenke, Plants of the Bible, 1952). Thus we are able to grow young specimens of various sizes in containers for display, although none are mature enough to bear dates.
Date palms are dioecious, i.e, there are both male and female date palm trees. It appears that even in Mesopotamian antiquity, the need to bring the male and female flowers together in order to ensure good fruiting was recognized, although it would be many, many centuries before plant sexuality was understood. The Greek botanist Theophrastus records the ancient practice of dusting the fruit of the female palm with bloom cut from the male in order to ensure that the fruit persisted and ripened (George Sarton, “The Artificial Fertilization of Date-Palms in the Time of Ashur-Nasir-Pal B.C. 885–860,” Isis, Vol 21, No. 1, 1934).
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Because I am on a restricted diet, can you provide me with a low-fat recipe for a pastry crust?
You're not alone in your quest for a low-fat crust, but a good one is hard to find.
"There is no successful low-fat recipe," said Barbara Farner, extension educator in nutrition and wellness at the University of Illinois Extension. "Crisp roll-out cookies and piecrusts are two dishes without successful low-fat alternatives."
Farner offered these suggestions for those on restricted diets:
Select an oil-based piecrust recipe that uses the more healthful canola or olive oil. Such recipes would contain the same amount of fat, but they would contain less saturated fat.
Switch to a graham-cracker crust, which requires less fat than that found in a traditional pastry crust.
Omit the top crust and bake a single-crust pie.
Please give me advice about replacing other ingredients with applesauce in baked goods.
Applesauce often is used to replace fat in baked goods, but substituting it in recipes can be tricky, writes Sarah Phillips in Baking 9-1-1. It's easiest, she writes, to substitute it in baked goods that use oil, not butter. Candidates include many quick breads, muffins or some cakes, such as carrot cake.
"When a recipe calls for 1 cup of oil, substitute 3/4 cup applesauce," she writes. "Also add 2 tablespoons vegetable oil for better flavor and mouth feel."
She cautions that you also may need to use additional flavoring, some baking soda to offset the acidic applesauce, and a high-gluten flour. Try experimenting with a few favorite recipes to find the formula that works best for you.
Donna Pierce writes for the Chicago Tribune.
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Ernest Gilmer perceives himself closed in by commercial development and he wants out.
His solution -- get his 4.6-acre homesite changed to a commercial use and sell it for commercial offices.
On Monday the County Commission disagreed, rejecting Gilmer`s request by a 2-2 vote.
Try again next year, Commissioner Dorothy Wilken told Gilmer, who lost similar bids in 1984 and 1985.
Gilmer`s home lies within shouting distance of the massive Boynton Beach Mall, Gilmer`s agent, Kieran Kilday, told county commissioners Monday.
Old Boynton Road, which runs by his property, serves as the mall`s rear access road, Kilday said, and is heavily congested.
Gilmer`s site borders the city of Boynton Beach. The land across Knuth Road in Boynton has commercial potential within the city. Commercial offices are planned, Kilday said.
Kilday added that two Boynton Beach developments must pave Knuth Road, now a country road. That will generate considerable mall traffic Gilmer`s property, he said.
With commercial areas across the street, Gilmer`s parcel should, by extension, be designated commercial, Kilday argued.
``I never asked much of my government,`` Gilmer told the commission. ``I`m one of the silent majority, I guess.
``Commercial offices are much more acceptable to people than a shopping center,`` he said.
Three homes sit on Gilmer`s property. The site is zoned agricultural -- a holding category in the zoning code. If developed under existing land use, anywhere from two to 16 units can be built, though 8 to 12 units is the generally acceptable range, planners said.
To the north, across Old Boynton Road, are single-family homes. To the south is a residential development at five units per acre. To the west is vacant, wooded land.
Area resident Dr. Richard Carrington argued that the key issue is that Knuth Road has always been and should continue to be considered the barrier between commercial and residential areas.
``This is not the only alternative Mr. Gilmer has. It can be developed residentially,`` Carrington said.
Unless a developer has the appropriate land-use designation in the county`s comprehensive plan, he cannot submit his project for a rezoning.
County planners have long held that streets serve as effective barriers preventing the spread of commercial or industrial development.
The city of Boynton Beach and the county planning staff advocated denial. The county`s Land Use Advisory Board narrowly endorsed the request.
If granted on Gilmer`s site, staff argued, commercial development would likely expand to the west and to the south, effectively commercializing the strip along Old Boynton Road between Congress Avenue and Lawrence Road.
A lot of commercially designated land already exists in the area, they said.
Gilmer said his wife`s family has lived on that site for 46 years.
When purchased it was a cow pasture. Development was nowhere in sight.
Now it sits just to the southwest of a regional mall.
``It also will be used by those who want to avoid the traffic signals at the mall,`` Kilday stressed.
Kilday argued that the projected professional and medical offices are compatible with the the condominiums to the west.
``We believe these office buildings would provide a more effective buffer, when properly landscaped, than would Knuth Road to the people living to the west,`` Kilday said.
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Quick facts and stats
- SMART Technologies was founded in 1987 by David Martin and Nancy Knowlton, who currently fill the roles of Chairman and Vice Chair, respectively, on SMART’s Board of Directors
- SMART created the world’s first interactive whiteboard in 1991, the world’s first interactive learning center for early education in 2008 and the world’s first large-format interactive flat panel to offer presence detection in 2012
- In 2011, SMART’s share in the interactive display product category was just over 45% globally. Compared with 2010, SMART increased its product category share in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.*
- SMART's annual revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, was US$745.8 million
- More than 175 Fortune 1000 organizations in North America have adopted SMART’s visual collaboration solutions, including Wells Fargo and Google, with more than 45 of these companies moving toward broader adoptions
- In addition to being a Silver Competency Managed Partner, SMART is one of the 11 Global Technology Partners within the Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC) Alliance Program. SMART also has corporate alliances with Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco.
- More than 125 blue-chip (Fortune 500) companies in over 50 countries around the world are using SMART’s visual collaboration solutions in industries such as financial services, manufacturing and advanced technology
- As of March 2012, SMART has 185 design and utility issued patents – 89 patents currently issued in the United States and 96 patents issued internationally – and 568 patents pending
- More than 2.3 million SMART Board interactive whiteboards have been installed globally in education, business and government settings, with over 2 million installed in K–12 classrooms, reaching more than 40 million students and their teachers
- SMART Notebook collaborative learning software has been downloaded by more than six million users in over 175 countries around the world
- Nearly 60,000 digital resources are available on the SMART Exchange website, SMART’s online community for educators. There are over 48 country-specific versions of the site, and SMART Notebook lessons are available for download in 23 languages.
- SMART Technologies Headquarters is located in Calgary, Canada, with international offices in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, China, Japan and Singapore. It has U.S. offices in Washington, DC, New York. SMART has more than 1,600 staff around the world.
- Freestorm visual collaboration solutions are widely used within military and government agencies around the world. Customers include the U.S. Air Force, European Space Agency, Swiss Army, UK Police, Ministry of Public Security in China, Hong Kong Fire Services Department, Logistical Command Center of Chile and the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research and Atomic Energy Council in Taiwan.
- SMART Technologies Headquarters achieved LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold standard certification for its numerous green features and implementation of outstanding environmentally sound practices in manufacturing, packaging and work practices
* Source: Futuresource Consulting – a leading global research company that has tracked interactive whiteboard sales since 2004. For more information, please visit futuresource-consulting.com.
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Sefira library is meant to provide a well tested and reasonably optimized implementations of some tree comparison algorithms, so that they can be tried out in practical applications. Finding the largest common subtree of two ordered labeled trees is a problem with increasing applications (e.g. in XML processing and computational biology), on which substantial progress has been made in recent years. However, papers on tree comparison may not be available without subscription to the appropriate journals and even when they are, they generally don't contain executable code, so using the new algorithms is non-trivial. Also, there isn't one "best" algorithm yet. Distance definitions differ, and even for the same edit distance, time complexity can be measured on different tree features.
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NIH taps Northrop Grumman for $30M bioinformatics project
Northrop Grumman ($NOC) has capitalized on the desire of scientists to stock and share research data. The National Institutes of Health has picked the major government contractor for an IT and bioinformatics project for helping researchers gather, analyze and exchange data from immunology studies.
The NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded the 5-year contract that could be worth up to $30 million and builds off a previous contract with Northrop Grumman since 2004, according to the company. Northrop says the majority of the work will be done in Rockville, MD, and the ultimate goal of the project is to speed scientific findings.
The company is working on the contract with Stanford University School of Medicine and E-SAC, a provider of research data management and bioinformatics support. Part of the project calls for maintaining ImmPort, an online immunology database with tools for data analysis and visualization. In addition, the NIH is pushing development of systems to support interoperability of information.
"Our team will support basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious, immunological and allergic diseases," said Amy Caro, vice president of health IT programs at Northrop Grumman Information Systems.
Through the NIH, the U.S. government spends billions of dollars on basic research in immunology and other fields. IT serves as a backbone for sharing key findings among scientists, as researchers seek better ways to gain access to data that support further discoveries. Institute Director Francis Collins has been a major advocate for speeding the translation of NIH-funded scientific discoveries into treatments for humans, making sure that the public gets a return on its investment in science.
- here's Northrop's release
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Book Talk Assistant
Position Title: Book Talk Assistant
Branch: Available at several branches
Department: Youth Services
Position Summary: Assist the library’s youth services staff by presenting book talks to local elementary school students.
Major Responsibilities: Prepare and present 2-3 book talks per grade level to elementary school students. The book talks should give a glimpse into the setting, characters, and plot without telling the entire story. They should entice the students to want to read the book on their own. A typical book talk lasts 2-3 minutes.
Library staff will select the books to be book talked. Volunteers will be responsible for developing, rehearsing, and presenting their book talks.
Volunteers will accompany library staff to elementary schools to book talk, presenting with the staff member.
Qualifications: High School Diploma or G.E.D., plus two years of college or two years of work experience.
Experience teaching and leading children’s programs.
Ability to prepare and deliver creative, entertaining, and captivating presentations to large groups of children.
Must have a love of reading and an enthusiasm for children’s literature.
Length of Commitment: Three month commitment (April-June)
Time Involvement: Once a week for 3 hours at a school, plus book talk preparation time which can be done at home.
Application Process: To apply, contact Ted Kavich at 703-324-8685. As part of the interview process, potential volunteers will be required to prepare a book talk to present to staff
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When Chris Hennessey and his co-worker found two hummingbirds that had flown into their office window it was too late to save one of the birds, but the second bird was only stunned, and thanks to Hennessey’s efforts and the expertise of two local bird experts, the hummingbird is on a slow road to recovery.
“I’ve found birds with broken wings in the past, so I knew to call Paul and Gloria at Wild Wing Rehabilitation,” Hennessey said.
Paul and Gloria Halesworth have been rehabilitating hummingbirds and songbirds for nine years out of their home in Ahwatukee Foothills, and they took the injured hummingbird in immediately.
“This time of year is mating season, and the hummingbirds get to fighting amongst themselves and forget to look out for dangers around them like windows, buildings or cats,” Paul Halesworth said.
The hummingbird Hennessey found is currently recovering with several others at Wild Wing Rehabilitation. After he has healed, the Halesworths will release him back into the wild.
“They’re like teenagers,” Paul Halesworth said. “You can tell when they’re feeling better because they get agitated. We let them out in places that are close to food sources.”
Living in urban areas is actually better for hummingbirds than being in the desert.
“They do better in the city because there are lots of flowers and insects for them to eat,” Gloria Halesworth said. “The local population of hummingbirds has actually increased over the past few years, although the populations of true desert birds like quail and roadrunners have decreased.”
One common mistake people make that endangers hummingbirds is placing hummingbird feeders near their windows. While it is nice to watch the hummingbirds feed, when they fly close into the feeder they run the risk of crashing into the window.
Last year the Halesworths took in 169 hummingbirds, and they eventually released 92 of the birds into the wild. According to Paul Halesworth, many people believe hummingbirds to be frail, but they are actually quite resilient.
“Hummingbirds only weigh one quarter of an ounce, but they can fly 800 miles or more at once,” he said. “Our hummingbirds here in the Southwest don’t migrate, but some American hummingbirds migrate all the way down to Colombia.”
When people find an injured or orphaned hummingbird, the best course of action is to gently pick them up and place them in a small container. Lightly laying a facial tissue over the bird will help keep it warm, dark and quiet.
“Wildlife animals are supposed to be kept wild,” Gloria Halesworth said. “Letting a bird get friendly or having it perch on your finger is basically like giving it a death sentence.”
The Halesworths are licensed federally and by the state of Arizona to rehabilitate birds, and during their busy season they typically work with the birds 16 hours each day.
“It’s not easy to be a bird rehabilitator, but this isn’t for dabblers,” Gloria Halesworth said. “Saving their lives and releasing them back into the wild is incredibly rewarding.”
If Ahwatukee Foothills residents find injured birds, Wild Wing Rehabilitation can be contacted at (480) 893-6660.
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Narrator: This is Science Today. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered a novel way to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria by using the bacteria's own genes. Matt Coleman, a senior scientist with the Livermore Lab, explains how a gene that encodes for a protein that is able to digest bacterial cell walls, may open the door to a number of new, specifically-targeted antibiotic treatments.
Coleman: Every bacterial cell with a wall required this internal protein, probably so it can divide, we decided to go ahead and clone that protein and when we added that protein back to the bacteria, we suddenly realized that it was very effective in real-time killing the bacteria. Once we discovered that cells had their own endogenous copy of this potential protein, our idea was that we could turn that protein on itself. We could turn it on the bacterium itself and make it lethal. When we over-express it, that's when it becomes deadly.
Narrator: For Science Today, I'm Larissa Branin.
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After your first newborn visit, your baby will likely have a checkup within his or her first month of life. At this checkup, the healthcare provider will examine the baby and ask how things are going at home. This sheet describes some of what you can expect.
The healthcare provider will ask questions about your baby. And he or she will observe the baby to get an idea of the infant’s development. By this visit, your baby is likely doing some of the following:
Smiling for no apparent reason (called a “spontaneous smile”)
Making eye contact, especially during feeding
Making random sounds (also called “vocalizing”)
Trying to lift his or her head
Wiggling and squirming (each arm and leg should move about the same amount; if not, tell the healthcare provider)
Becoming startled upon hearing a loud noise
At around 2 weeks old, your baby should be back to his or her birth weight. Continue feeding with breast milk and/or formula. To help your baby eat well:
During the day, feed at least every 2-3 hours. You may need to wake the baby for daytime feedings.
At night, feed when the baby wakes, often every 3-4 hours. You may choose not to wake the baby for nighttime feedings. Discuss this with the healthcare provider.
If you breastfeed, give breast milk in a bottle at some feedings. This helps prepare the baby for times when Mom can’t be there during a feeding.
Breastfeeding sessions should last around 15-20 minutes. With breast milk or formula from a bottle, give the baby 2-3 ounces at each feeding.
If you’re concerned about how much or how often your baby eats, discuss this with the healthcare provider.
Ask the healthcare provider if your baby should take vitamin D.
Don’t give the baby anything to eat besides breast milk or formula. Your baby is too young for solid foods (“solids”) or other liquids. An infant does not need to be given water.
Be aware that many babies begin to spit up around 1 month of age. In most cases, this is normal. Call the doctor right away if the baby spits up often and forcefully, or spits up anything besides milk or formula.
Some babies poop (stool) a few times a day. Others poop as little as once every 2-3 days. Anything in this range is normal. Change the baby’s diaper when it’s wet or dirty.
It’s fine if your baby poops even less often than every 2-3 days if the baby is otherwise healthy. But if the baby also becomes fussy, spits up more than normal, eats less than normal, or has very hard stool, tell the healthcare provider. The baby may be constipated (backed up).
Stool may range in color from mustard yellow to pale yellow to green. If it’s another color, tell the healthcare provider.
Bathe your baby a few times per week. You may give baths more often if the baby seems to like it. But because you’re cleaning the baby during diaper changes, a daily bath often isn’t needed.
It’s okay to use mild (hypoallergenic) creams or lotions on the baby’s skin. Avoid putting lotion on the baby’s hands.
At this age, your baby may sleep up to 18-20 hours each day. It’s common to sleep for short spurts throughout the day, rather than for hours at a time. The baby may be fussy before going to bed for the night (around 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM). This is normal. To help your baby sleep safely and soundly:
Always put the baby down to sleep on his or her back. This helps prevent SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome).
Ask the healthcare provider if you should let your baby sleep with a pacifier.
Don’t put a pillow, heavy blankets, or stuffed animals in the crib. These could suffocate the baby.
Swaddling (wrapping the baby tightly in a blanket) can help the baby feel safe and fall asleep.
It’s okay to put the baby to bed awake. It’s also okay to let the baby cry in bed, but only for a few minutes. At this age babies aren’t ready to “cry themselves to sleep.”
If you have trouble getting your baby to sleep, ask the healthcare provider for tips.
If you co-sleep (share a bed with the baby), discuss health and safety issues with the baby’s healthcare provider.
To avoid burns, don’t carry or drink hot liquids, such as coffee, near the baby. Turn the water heater down to a temperature of 120°F (49°C) or below.
Don’t smoke or allow others to smoke near the baby. If you or other family members smoke, do so outdoors and never around the baby.
It’s usually fine to take a newborn out of the house. But avoid confined, crowded places where germs can spread.
When you take the baby outside, avoid staying too long in direct sunlight. Keep the baby covered, or seek out the shade.
In the car, always put the baby in a rear-facing car seat. This should be secured in the back seat according to the car seat’s directions. Never leave the baby alone in the car.
Do not leave the baby on a high surface such as a table, bed, or couch. He or she could fall and get hurt.
Older siblings will likely want to hold, play with, and get to know the baby. This is fine as long as an adult supervises.
Call the doctor right away if the baby has a rectal temperature over 100.4°F.
Based on recommendations from the American Association of Pediatrics, at this visit your baby may receive the hepatitis B vaccination.
It’s normal to be weepy and tired right after having a baby. These feelings should go away after 2 to 3 weeks. If you’re still feeling this way, it may be a sign of postpartum depression, a more serious problem. Symptoms may include:
Feelings of deep sadness
Gaining or losing a lot of weight
Sleeping too much or too little
Feeling tired all the time
Feeling worthless or guilty
Fearing that your baby will be harmed
Worrying that you’re a bad parent
Having trouble thinking clearly or making decisions
Thinking about death or suicide
If you have any of these symptoms, talk to your OB/GYN or another healthcare provider. Treatment can help you feel better.
Next checkup at: _______________________________
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Decades before the tortuous franchise move and the triumph of a Super Bowl, Ravens owner Art Modell's emotional ties with football became rooted in Roy Lumpkin.
At age 9, Modell walked a couple of miles to save on car fare and squeezed
out a quarter to sit behind the bench of the NFL's Brooklyn Dodgers, where he
was mesmerized by his first real hero. Nicknamed "Father," Lumpkin was a
hard-nosed blocker from the 1930s who always played without a helmet, exposing
his bald head.
The legacy of Modell, who will be attending his 43rd and last NFL training
camp as an owner next week, will be defined by his relentless will and wit.
Part competitor and part comedian, he is one of the last blue-collar types in
a white-collar business.
Modell, 78, is set in his old-school ways in which the team is a livelihood
rather than high-priced amusement, and players are more like sons than
employees. When he got married, he honeymooned at a preseason game.
When former players needed money, he opened his wallet. And when they died,
he paid for their funerals.
The NFL is Modell's life, and he is just as much a fabric of it.
Modell doesn't just know about Vince Lombardi. He worked alongside the
legendary coach to complete the league's first collective bargaining
He doesn't just reap the profits from the partnership of the league and
television. It was Modell and late commissioner Pete Rozelle who negotiated
the first contracts that are now the standard and what separate the NFL from
Countless other policies were touched by the influence of Modell
unbeknownst to many. When the owners weren't thrilled with an issue he was
trying to pass at the league meetings, Rozelle would call for a break, banking
on Modell to crack up the room with a story and ease the tensions.
"Art Modell is a legend of our game," NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said,
"and one of life's unforgettable characters for all of us who have been
fortunate to know him."
For Modell, getting into the league was tough, and leaving it will be
Minority owner Steve Bisciotti plans to exercise his option and buy the
remaining 51 percent from Modell for $325 million at the end of this season,
which brings the total price to $600 million. The Anne Arundel businessman
wants Modell to stick around as an adviser and has an office for Modell a
couple of doors down from his own in the team's headquarters that are under
Modell plans to stay involved, though he admits it won't be the same.
He was 35 and living with his mother in Brooklyn when he tapped out his
life savings - "I had money left for lunch afterward" - to buy the Cleveland
Browns for a then-record $4.295 million in 1961. Selling the franchise makes a
tremendous profit, but he feels like he will lose a piece of himself in the
"I've had a love affair with the NFL for 43 years," Modell said. "This is
the end of an episode in my life. It's hard for me to pull away. I will,
Hard worker from start
Winning a Super Bowl five seasons after the most controversial franchise
shift in NFL history doesn't surprise those close to Modell. More than a
survivor, he thrives on conquering crisis, dating back to his teenage years.
After the death of his father, a 15-year-old Modell dropped out of high
school to support his mother and two sisters. His first full-time job was as
an electrician's helper, cleaning hulls of ships in a Brooklyn shipyard.
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Remember when we kidnapped the President?
George Bush is an insufferable, smirking twerp, of course. His time in office has brought shame to our country, damaged the environment, staggered the middle class, looted the treasury, weakened our constitutional protections and killed hundreds of thousands of people on the other side of the world. These facts are not arguable, except by a tiny number of wild-eyed dittoeheads. Those in power — Bush’s handlers — are too smart even to pretend otherwise.
But before George II and his father, before the smooth-talking Bill Clinton, before that senile wholly-owned-subsidiary-of-General-Electric Ronald Reagan, in the days before most of you were born, there arose from the boneyard of washed-up, burned out, tossed aside and left-for-dead politicians perhaps the craziest dude ever to claw his way into the Oval Office: Richard Milhous Nixon.
Nixon’s fear-mongering, pandering, smearing, hypocritical Congessional campaigns in California after World War Two are the templates for Lee Atwater’s and Karl Rove’s, the “architects” of all the Bush victories, both father and son. In order to win, Nixon simply tried to destroy his opponent personally. Sound familiar?
He tried to disguise it with his safe blue suits and double-V-for victory arm signals, but his soul was tainted with a streak of craziness. It slipped out one day after Pat Brown (Jerry’s dad) kicked his ass in the 1962 California governor’s race. Nixon was convinced the press hated him and treated him unfairly, and in a famous rant told them that they were going to be sorry, because they “wouldn’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” Good riddance, but it was not to be.
First John Kennedy went and got himself killed, taking a popular Democratic president out of the running. Then LBJ chickened out of the ’68 campaign, Bobby Kennedy had to drop out to spend more time underground, and next thing you knew, all the Democrats could think of was Hubert Humphrey. Nixon beat him by less than 1% of the popular vote, and suddenly, we did have him to kick around again — only now he was rested, ready, and The President.
Make no mistake — today’s neocons would see Nixon as a liberal. He went and talked to the commies in the USSR and China, negotiated nuclear test bans, started the Environmental Protection Agency, even appeared on “Laugh-In.” He’d probably be to the left of Hillary.
But there were millions of angry, disillusioned hippies, yippies and assorted radicals abroad in the streets of America. The Protest Train was in full runaway mode, and even though some of us had forgotten exactly why, we knew in our hearts that The Establishment was the enemy, no matter the problem. We were determined to pin our outrage on someone, preferably the smug face of The Man. Nixon.
My roommate, Scott, and I were beside ourselves every day. Each evening there he would be on the nightly news, making pronouncements, ignoring reality, shifty, sneaky, fucking entitled. Our marijuana intake, never conservative, ballooned out of control. We were going through a lid a week, just trying to make Tricky Dick, whom we saw as the embodiment of all that was wrong in the world, go away. What had we accomplished with our sit-ins, our marches, our activism, our Revolutionary Brotherhood, if this man could be the boss of us?
It was not a time for reflection. It was a time for action.
Next time: Something must be done.
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At Good Samaritan Hospital (GSH), our 350 volunteers are vital to the hospital's caring work. They are the additional hands and hearts that give extra attention to patients and families making their way through the health care system. Our volunteers enjoy the satisfaction of knowing they make a profound difference to our patients, hospital staff, and community.
While sharing their time and special talents, volunteers often say they receive as much as they give. They energize themselves with the spirit of generosity and enrich their own lives with the sincere gratitude of patients, families, doctors, nurses, and staff. As one volunteer says, “I’ve never been paid so much in my life—and this job has no salary.” GSH volunteers benefit from a sense of participation, the joy of giving, and the feeling of family within the Volunteer Services Department.
Making a Difference
We provide a diverse range of hospital volunteer opportunities for anyone 14 years of age or older. Volunteers not only deliver flowers, sort mail, and answer phones; they also transport patients and help care for patients and their families in the hospital’s critical care, surgery, and rehabilitation units. There are also volunteer opportunities in the gift shop, hospital registration, the Samaritan Homeless Clinic, and the hospital’s medical clinics.
A Strong Tradition of Volunteering
GSH opened in 1932 as a collaborative effort between the citizens of Dayton and the Sisters of Charity to build a future around growing technology and innovative health care.
In the mid-1950s, GSH was the first hospital in Dayton to organize a volunteer auxiliary, which ultimately grew into a multifaceted Volunteer Services department.
Today, leading hospital accreditation firms place GSH in the top 5 percent of hospitals in the country for clinical quality and patient care. A large part of this recognition is due to the giving of our volunteers. Our warm, wonderful culture, grounded in the Catholic faith, brings humility to our mission of providing quality care. We invest heavily in our neighborhoods and campus environment to preserve our long history of building a healthier community.
To become a volunteer at Good Samaritan Hospital, call the Volunteer Services Department at (937) 734-2150, for an appointment. It is recommended that you are live in the Dayton, Ohio area.
Volunteers Are Vital
The time GSH volunteers give to our hospital is valued at more than $1 million annually. In a typical year, GSH’s family of volunteers:
- Works 60,000 hours
- Delivers 2,500 floral arrangements to patients
- Completes more than 350 projects for hospital departments
- Prepares and mails more than 100,000 reports and materials for various departments and for hospital administrators
- Walks more than 14,000 miles escorting patients and delivering mail and flowers
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
York was born in poverty in Pall Mall, Tennessee. His family owned a meager farm and often supplemented their diet via hunting. As a result, young Alvin became an expert marksman in the area woods. York was something of a "nuisance" as a youth, frequently getting into drunken brawls. In 1914 his best friend was killed in a bar fight, prompting York to change his ways. He became a devout Christian after that incident, which supposedly led him to file as a conscientious objector at the start of WWI (though there are disputes as to his exact technical status).
York eventually was drafted into the 82nd Infantry Division in 1917. As a corporal in its 328th Infantry, in the Battle of Meuse River-Argonne Forest on 1918 October 8, he assumed command of his platoon after three other NCOs fell. While he is sometimes described as acting single-handedly, his official citation says he led seven others in a charge on an active machine-gun nest. They killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132, including four officers. (He is said to have explained this feat by saying they had surrounded the enemy.) His chain of command honored this accomplishment by awarding him the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor. France, whose forces he was directly aiding and whose territory was involved, added its Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor. Italy and Montenegro, also allies, awarded him their Croce di Guerra and War Medal , respectively. At the time of his heroics, he was in fact only a corporal; his promotion to sergeant was part of the honor that he received for his valor but resulted in his becoming known to the US (and much of the world) as "Sergeant York".
Returning home as a war hero, he founded a private agricultural institute in Jamestown, Tennessee, near his home town of Pall Mall. York Insitute never thrived under his management and was eventually turned over to the State of Tennessee. It still serves as the public high school for northern part of Fentress County, Tennessee despite being operated by the State Department of Education; theoretically any qualified high school student from any part of Tennessee can attend school there in order to study agriculture, but in practice almost all of the students are from the immediate area. York later operated a mill in Pall Mall on the Wolf River which is today part of a state park. The state of Tennessee provided him with a large (by the standards of the area, at least) white frame home near the mill on U.S. Highway 127, which still stands. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1964 and is buried in Pall Mall.
The United States Army named its "DIVAD" anti-aircraft weapon the "Sergeant York" to honor him in the 1980s; however this project was cancelled due to technical problems, so that any "honor" derived from the naming was rather minimal.
- Medal of Honor Recipients – World War I – includes his full citation
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I enjoy thinking about money. I mentally calculate unit prices in the produce section (counter-intuitively, loose garlic was cheaper than 5-head packs). I built my own spreadsheet to support financial decision-making, and I’m tempted to figure out how to do those Monte Carlo simulations. I have fun balancing books and filing taxes, and I even volunteered to help W- with his.
Why do I enjoy personal finance?
My mom occasionally tells a story about how we played Monopoly when my sisters and I were growing up. In the game, my eldest sister often gave my parents investing advice, my middle sister kept giving her money away, and my parents would often end up giving me money. With a seven-year difference between me and my eldest sister, I suspect that the finer points of real estate value, probability, and negotation were lost on me, and my parents probably just wanted to help me stay in the game. (Saling pusa.)
My mom probably sees the story as a wonderful example that three children can have very different temperaments. For me, that story’s one of the reasons why I think about money a lot. I plan and save so that I can enjoy financial independence. I find it difficult to accept gifts that feel extravagant, because I don’t want to be the spoiled youngest child. I keep my life simple and live within my means.
Living within my means and building up good reserves helps a lot. Being an immigrant means that I don’t have a ready safety net aside from the one I make for myself. I can’t just temporarily move in with my parents or crash with some relatives.
Love has a lot to do with it, too. W- is eighteen years older than I am. If I live frugally and manage my finances well, I might have the flexibility to retire when he chooses to. If he’s anything like my parents or his parents, though, we’ll probably live and work for quite a long time. Money is a major issue in many marriages. Good planning, good habits, and good communication can mean that money isn’t a source of friction, but a source of fun.
What do I think about?
I don’t spend a lot of energy worrying about stocks. Day-trading is a zero-sum game that I’d lose. I invest in the market as a whole instead, building my portfolio out of no-frills index funds.
I think about what’s worth spending money on, and what isn’t.
I think about the balance between the present and the future.
I think about what I need to learn from others.
The last time I talked about saving on my blog, my mom said she was uncomfortable with my sharing that I save more than half of my income. Money is taboo. It makes people feel judgmental, envious, or disappointed.
I write anyway. I need to connect with more people. I like reading about what other people are learning about money. I’ve read tons of personal finance books, and I can’t find enough information to cast light on the road ahead. Most of the personal finance books I’ve read focus on paying off debt, managing a mortgage, dealing with cars, setting up the right kinds of insurance, and investing. My favourite personal finance book is Your Money or Your Life, which also helps you learn how to make better decisions by thinking in terms of chunks of your life.
I’m learning that books can’t teach you everything. Books can’t cover what’s worth spending on, because that’s personal. Books written for young professionals often assume you’re shackled by student debt and buried under the debris of reckless credit card use, and not that you’ve gotten things mostly sorted out. Books don’t talk much about blended families or age-gap relationships.
I need to write and to connect. I can do that here, or I can do that in some anonymous blog to at least nod to the taboos. But I always tell people not to count on anonymity on the Internet. Sooner or later, someone will out you. And I’d rather take a look at that taboo and figure out if there’s a good way for us to talk around it.
What are the next steps for me so that I can learn more about personal finance?
Save and invest. Continue building and using my “dream/opportunity fund” for experiments, reflecting on the results.
Connect with other people who are figuring things out or who have figured this out already.
Flesh out goals. It’s good to put a price tag on dreams – not so that you can sell them, but so that you know when they’re within reach.Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/7145
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|Redlining and the Displacement of the Jewish Community of Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan|
In 1967, in the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, many of Boston's politicians, bankers, philanthropists, and religious leaders decided to expand home ownership opportunities for Blacks and integrate Boston's segregated middle-class neighborhoods by making mortgages loans available to minorities, often with no money down. However, because Jewish organizations were active in the Civil Rights movement in official and unofficial capacities, and because Jews were perceived as being more tolerant than their Irish or Italian counterparts, a private agreement was reached among the bankers and politicians to make the loans available only in Boston's Jewish neighborhoods. The Yankee bankers may also have been motivated by a heavy dose of anti-Semitism and greed. Many of the residents in the Jewish neighborhoods had paid off their mortgages so the area was unprofitable for them.
resulting policy, known as "redlining," boomeranged. Instead of peacefully
integrating the Jewish neighborhoods, chaos reigned when increased integration
brought a dramatic rise in crime. Jews began to move out, their flight hastened
by panic-selling and unscrupulous real estate brokers engaging in blockbusting
tactics. With a large Black population competing for a piece of the American
Dream, and a limited area in which to find it, there was no lack of buyers.
Joseph Korff remembered this time:
"The banks were trying to take a position that would be useful from a public relations vantage point, so they agreed to provide federally-insured housing loans on a lower-than-usual underwriting standard. This policy allowed minority people to get loans that they normally would not have gotten. The banks got together and defined a neighborhood within which the loans would be granted. The area the banks defined was just precisely the Jewish neighborhoods of Mattapan, Roxbury, and Dorchester, home to 90,000 Jews.
"Blockbusters came and they blockbusted. My father fought Jewish flight. He went to various Jewish organizations, he dealt with the politicians, but it all happened very rapidly, within a two to three year time period. My father did what he could to stop it.
"Redlining greatly accelerated Jewish migration to the suburbs. In the normal pattern, immigrants settled in Roxbury. Then they stepped up a little in affluence and moved to Dorchester, but they were still basically lower middle class to middle class. When things got better, they moved to Mattapan and they started to sprout. When the wealth came in, they moved to Brookline and Newton. So it was a natural migration anyway. But the migration became extremely accelerated because of the redlining and subsequent violence. There were gangs that beat up Jewish children. The elderly became frequent targets of muggers.
"The Jewish power bases of wealth were allowing the redlining in communities where they no longer lived. The Combined Jewish Philanthropies permitted redlining to happen and may even have encouraged it. Many Jews and Blacks had worked extensively to foster integration. They did not take an active stand or delve deeply enough to understand that the Jewish neighborhoods were going to be decimated. The redlining and the lower underwriting standards when coupled with the activities of the blockbusters had the effect, however, of maintaining segregated communities. Legislation was subsequently passed, but it passed too late.
"My father would come home thoroughly frustrated and the stories would abound about the people getting calls from blockbusters. He would talk to his parishioners and tell them, Don't move, it's okay, we'll do something, and they would come back with stories about this one being mugged and that one being mugged and the broker saying a Black was moving in next door. Some of it was true, some of this wasn't true but it was totally exaggerated by unscrupulous real estate brokers coming in and profiting on the buying and selling. They would encourage Jews to sell their homes at below-market value to them and then the brokers would turn around and resell the houses at inflated prices to Blacks.
"My father was one of the last Jews left in Mattapan. My mother was mugged twice. After the first time my father still wanted to stay. After the second time he decided it was time to go."
In addition to his wife's muggings, two other traumatic events contributed greatly to Rabbi Samuel Korff's decision to leave Dorchester. Both are described in Levine and Harmon's book.
"...[In May 1971] thieves had broken into [Rabbi Korff's] Norfolk Street home while he was out on a condolence call. He'd returned to find his front door smashed in and his possessions strewn about his house. Valuable silver and other expensive items that had been in the Korff family for generations had been stolen, but it was in Korff's study that the greatest damage had been done. My most sacred documents have been destroyed, the rabbi told police. Sacred documents."
Samuel and Nesha Korff in happier times
"...In March 1973, Rabbi Samuel Korff would deliver the ultimate requiem for Jewish Mattapan. Although most of his congregants had been relocated to other neighborhoods...a handful of congregants at Kehillath Jacob had refused to leave. One congregant, a retired fruit dealer named Charles Shumrack, had repeatedly sought reassurance from Korff. I hope the synagogue will remain open, Shumrack would tell his spiritual mentor after every morning service. It will as long as you are alive and come to synagogue, Rabbi Korff would tell him. Content, Shumrack would embrace the rabbi and walk back across the street to his apartment, where he lived alone since the death of his wife two years earlier. In mid-March, Shumrack was found murdered in his first-floor apartment. His rooms had been ransacked, and his clothes were strewn across the backyard. In his eulogy for Shumrack, Korff unleashed months of pent-up frustration and anger: In days of old, when a murder was committed, the civil and religious authorities, the elders and the judges, before even searching for the criminal who perpetuated the crime, would reevaluate their own deeds, and in a special ceremony would seek to know if ‘our hands did not spill this blood.’ Korff then challenged future historians to determine how it is possible for a Jewish community of 40,000 souls to be emptied in the course of two years and how so much crime was concentrated in the short space of 40 blocks. Resorting to the language of the European Holocaust, Korff further demanded an explanation as to how Mattapan, like Roxbury and Dorchester before it, had become Judenrein. For Korff, the battle was over. He left Boston and prepared to rebuild a congregation in the western suburb of Newton. The only question was whether Shumrack would be the last Jewish casualty."
Nesha remembered the move to Newton:
"We left Mattapan because a lot of the colored people moved in and they started to fight with the Jewish kids. So the people could not take it. They started moving out. They moved to different places and there was nobody left to go to shul so the shul fell apart. Some people who had moved from Mattapan to Randolph became connected to a synagogue in Randolph that absorbed the name of our synagogue and its memorial plagues.”
Starting over in a new area was not easy for the 60+-year-old rabbi, but Rabbi Korff began a new congregation in Newton, albeit much smaller than his last. He also established the Institute for Religious and Social Studies which brought together experts in various fields for lectures and discussions. He continued to serve the Jewish community in his many other roles, and despite his many responsibilities he found time to privately counsel troubled members in his congregation and work with students directly and indirectly in various area colleges.
Samuel and Nesha Korff (left) at a family dinner with his sister and brother-in-law, Adele and Max Gass (right)
Judenrein is a German word meaning “free of Jews” and refers to the Nazi policy of eliminating Jews from towns and cities either by forced emigration, imprisonment, and/or murder during the Holocaust.
Levine and Harmon. The Death of an American Jewish Community, pp. 320-321, 324-325.
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- Historic Sites
The Fateful Encounter
IN THE MOST FAMOUS DUEL IN AMERICAN HISTORY AARON BURR IS USUALLY SEEN AS THE VILLAIN, ALEXANDER HAMILTON AS THE NOBLE VICTIM, BUT WAS IT REALLY THAT SIMPLE?
August 1975 | Volume 26, Issue 5
Hamilton was not morally opposed to bloodletting; he had always been quick to advocate military force. Nor had he always been opposed to duelling. He had wanted to fight General Charles Lee during the Revolution, but another man beat him to it and he settled for the post of second. However, his son Philip had been mortally wounded in a duel at Weehawken just three years before, a duel that young Philip had admittedly provoked in a trivial political quarrel and greatly regretted when it was too late. A Columbia classmate described his death: “on one side of him on the same bed lay his agonized father, on the other his distracted mother. …”
That dreadful scene must have been strong in Hamilton’s mind as he pondered his own situation. There is much dispute as to whether he actually hated Burr or had defamed him out of purely patriotic conviction. Probably in the heat of political campaigns he had hated him, but never enough to wish to kill him, and certainly not now. Burr seemed to be on the political downgrade, past the point of no return; Hamilton may even have suspected that the same was true of himself. The old battles were unlikely to be fought again; mortal conflict now would be anticlimax.
Compounding his dilemma was his ability to see two sides of a question. He had excoriated Burr at every opportunity, and the custom of duelling was not based on the objective rights and wrongs of a matter—law courts were supposed to take care of them—but a gentleman’s purely subjective feelings as to whether he had been wronged or his honor sullied. In gentlemen’s language “honor” had been confused with “reputation” for so long that the words had become synonymous. By this standard—and, after all, Hamilton was a man of his time—he must concede that Burr was acting entirely within his rights, even that he was in the right.
Still, some attempt must be made to avoid the issue. Hamilton had a loving wife and a great brood of children, some very young. Despite his high earnings from the law he was heavily in debt, being a better manager of public finances than of his own. Burr was known to be an excellent shot, practicing constantly for the sheer sport of it, though he had missed in the one duel he had fought, possibly due to faulty loading of his weapon. (That duel had been fought in 1799 with Hamilton’s brother-in-law, John Barker Church, as a result of a rumor, which Church helped to spread, that as an assemblyman Burr had profited by aiding a land company.) Hamilton had scarcely held a pistol in his hand since the war. The odds were all against him.
He wrote his reply badly, apparently torn by too many conflicting thoughts and emotions. It was rambling, overlong, evasive to the point of sophistry. Instead of disavowing the phrase “still more despicable,” which in effect he did in later correspondence, he pulled and twisted at it like a baker kneading dough, implying that Dr. Cooper didn’t know what it meant. Worse, he requested that Burr specify just what he had said, as if Burr could be expected to know. Still worse, he ended the letter with a fatal statement: “I trust, on more reflection, you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not, I can only regret the circumstance, and must abide the consequences.”
Hamilton had not only muffed his chance of avoiding a fight, but by that last sentence he had opened wide the door for a challenge. Burr has been accused by many, including some of his own biographers, of hounding Hamilton into tragedy; but considering that he had started the proceedings, he seems to me to have been remarkably forbearing, enough so as to suggest that he might have been content simply to see his enemy crawl.
Instead of challenging immediately, Burr’s return letter merely asked for a definite reply, though it effectively destroyed most of Hamilton’s tenuous argument and requested that he disavow “uttering expressions or opinions derogatory to my honor.”
“Despicable,” the easy out, was gone. Hamilton couldn’t tell himself or anyone else that he hadn’t derogated Burr’s “honor”; he had spent fifteen years doing it. He told Van Ness that he would make no reply. Van Ness, to his credit, cautioned him not to be hasty, but Hamilton remained firm. Only now, with a challenge inevitable, did he seek advice, which perhaps he should have done much sooner. He visited his friend Major Nathaniel Pendleton, who was not adroit enough to save the day but did make efforts. He had conversations with Van Ness, Burr’s potential second, and there was a further exchange of correspondence, though no longer directly between the principals. In the end Pendleton was authorized by Hamilton to state that “in answer to a letter, properly adapted … [he] would be able to answer consistently with his honor, and the truth in substance, That the conversation to which Doctor Cooper alluded, turned wholly on political topics, and did not attribute to CoIo. Burr, any instance of dishonourable conduct, nor relate to his private character. …”
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Today there is an optional memorial of St. John of Damascus, doctor of the church.
John spent most of his life in the monastery of St. Sabas, near Jerusalem, and all of his life under Muslim rule, indeed, protected by it. He was born in Damascus, received a classical and theological education, and followed his father in a government position under the Arabs. After a few years he resigned and went to the monastery of St. Sabas.
He is famous in three areas:
First, he is known for his writings against the iconoclasts, who opposed the veneration of images. Paradoxically, it was the Eastern Christian emperor Leo who forbade the practice, and it was because John lived in Muslim territory that his enemies could not silence him.
Second, he is famous for his treatise, Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, a summary of the Greek Fathers (of which he became the last). It is said that this book is for Eastern schools what the Summa of Aquinas became for the West.
Thirdly, he is known as a poet, one of the two greatest of the Eastern Church, the other being Romanus the Melodist. His devotion to the Blessed Mother and his sermons on her feasts are well known.
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The charms of small towns
When the Bishop's Visitation takes place, the primary intent is that he get to know the people and their concerns, the struggles facing the parish communities, the challenges in handing on the faith, where a particular parish has come from, what the people are worried about now, what their questions are.
However, one also gets to know the sobriquets of local origin, for example that the Town of Alfred was first known as Bradyville (because of the owner of a hotel), then was named after one of the sons of King George III who died as a child (Prince Alfred) and that more recently it claims to be the "French Fry Capital of Canada":
Of course, on asking why we were told that there are four or five shops (depending on the time of year--some close in the winter months) serving the locals and well-informed folk who pass through town on the way to Ottawa or Montreal and points in between (former Prime Minister Jean Chretien was said to frequent the chip stands).
Naturally, Abbe Titus and I had to sample the offerings at Landriault's (who cook their fries in peanut oil, which some favour):
The blog about bogs
Earlier readers will recall in the blog about La Mer Bleu, a bog near Orleans, that we mentioned that the Alfred Bog was twice its size.
However, it's harder to get at. With Abbe Daniel Berniquez driving on Friday afternoon we did not know what to look for and there were no markers to the bog on the east side of town, beyond "Peat Moss Road". We gave up in frustration as darkness fell over the landscape.
However, one of the two permanent deacons in Alfred, Andre Pommainville is a retired agronomist who knows his way around the countryside (the other deacon Real Lalonde works at the local LCBO so gets to know much about the social side of life in town).
On Sunday morning, after the Mass in Lefaivre, Deacon Andre volunteered to show Abbe Titus and me the extensive dimensions of the bog (where the black earth is being prepared for shipment to greenhouses in the Toronto and Montreal areas, how turf is grown for lawns in suburbia, etc).
He also led us to the boardwalk in the bog, much less extensive than La Mer Bleu but restful as we gazed at a vast expanse of vegetation:
From the Ottawa Field-Naturalists Club website:
WHAT IS THE ALFRED BOG?
The Alfred Bog is a little piece of boreal (northern) forest, hundreds of miles south of anything like it. Yet, at 4,200 hectares (10,000 acres), it is the biggest bog of its kind in Southern Ontario, big enough to give refuge to many plants and animals that were stranded as the warming climate pushed the boreal forest northward.
This domed peat bog has been building for 10,000 years and shelters many plants and animals that are rare or endangered, some of which are of national significance.
Examples include the Bog Elfin butterfly, Fletcher's dragonfly, spotted turtle, white fringed orchid, Atlantic sedge and rhodora. In fact the bog has been designated by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources as a "Class 1 Wetland" and an "Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI)".
Being a domed peat bog, the Alfred Bog is unlike the kettle bogs most commonly encountered south of the Hudson Bay lowlands. Kettle bogs are found typically in depressions such as those found when a huge block of glacial ice is buried and subsequently melts, leaving a pond in which vegetation has crept in from the edges until the whole surface is covered with a flat, quaking mat.
Domed bogs drain in all directions from the dome and the only nutrients received come from rain and snow. The dominant vegetation in both types of bog is sphagnum moss, known to gardeners as peat moss. Sphagnum moss thrives in the interior of bogs where cool, wet, oxygen starved, nutrient poor, acid conditions prevail. The dome is formed over millennia because sphagnum moss has the ability to wick up water from below. These conditions produce a unique community of plants and animals.
Alfred Bog lies in the east end of an abandoned channel of the Ottawa River . This was the main channel of a great river flowing down the Ottawa valley to the Atlantic Ocean. It drained a glacial lake centred in Manitoba. Because of reduced flow and glacial rebounding, the river abandoned its old channel and moved to its present location.
Mer Bleue, lying in the west end of the channel is Alfred's smaller twin.
The most significant impact upon the bog over the years has been the conversion of the bog land for agricultural purposes. The first settlers in the area found the bog to be of little use for farming and an obstacle to building roads. Nevertheless, over the years drainage around the margins has reduced it to about a third of its original size.
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Lefaivre, besides being immendsely proud of native son Mgr Joseph Charbonneau, who went of from Vicar General of Ottawa to be Bishop of Hearst and Archbishop of Montreal, was proud of the port that was the centre of their town in the early 20th century.
One day, a shipment of molasses was dumped into the harbour in a shipping accident. The town dwellers coped with the crisis but neighbours from then on referred to them as molasses-eaters, a common foodstuff in those days.
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The episcopal visitation of Alfred and Lefaivre took place from November 26-29 and included visits to the Catholc schools in the towns (Ecole St.-Victor in Alfred and Ecole St-Joseph in Lefaivre), nursing/retirement homes in each town (Mon Chez Nous in Lefaivre; Pension du Bonheur and Auberge Plein Soleil in Alfred).
We had a meeting of all the pastoral and financial councils of the two parishes of St-Victor and St. Thomas at the Centre d'Age D'Or in Alfred: many other service and church committees were also represented, sharing their pride and joy, concerns and questions. A vivacious gathering.
On Saturday evening at the anticipated Lord's Day Mass, Confirmation candidates from the two parishes received the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Herewith photos grouped by town:
In the home of Deacon Real and Irene Lalonde
Abbe Titus, Soeur Pauline
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It’s rumoured that Bill Clinton is one of their descendents, but the gypsies of Yetholm on the Scottish and Northumberland border have more than an American president to their name. We look back on the lineage of one of Britain’s less known royal families.
You may be an American searching for your roots, or just a local, enjoying the country air, but if, like many ramblers walking the Cheviots you stop off to have a pint at Town Yetholm’s only watering hole, you will notice a photo gallery of some of the Border town’s more colourful historic residents. These are the Gypsies of Yetholm.
Picture courtesy of Yetholm Historical Society
The Clinton Connection
The Travellers, or Gypsies as they used to be called, have a long association with this region and once had a ‘royal family’ enthroned at Kirk Yetholm, just over the border from Wooler. There is some evidence to suggest that the former American President Bill Clinton is a descendent of the royal family of Yetholm.
Clinton was born William Blyth IV and only adopted his stepfather’s name ‘Clinton’ when he was at college. Genealogists have traced the president’s lineage back to an uncle of Queen Esther Faa Blyth, one Andrew Blyth, who moved to America in 1801– whether forced or not is unclear. But whatever the case, he chose to remain, unlike his fellow gypsy Jemmy Allan (b1802), famous as a Piper to the Duke of Northumberland, who was transported to America numerous times but always returned within a few months.
The first written record of gypsies in Kirk Yetholm dates back to 1695. It seems that many of them fled there to escape persecution, and, in some cases, to hide from the constabulary on both sides of the Border, It is believed that in that year a gypsy saved the life of a local laird who, as a thank you, built some houses in the village. They were to be leased to the gypsies in perpetuity. The main families were the Youngs, the Taits, the Gordons, the Fleckies, the Douglas’, the Blyths and the Faas (or Faws).
For the next 200 years or so, they wintered in Yetholm and every summer packed up their wagons to sell wares in the surrounding towns. They criss-crossed Northumberland and Cumbria, regularly stopping in at Wooler, Boulmer, Berwick, Appleby and Carlisle. At Boulmer they were renowned for their trade in smuggled whisky and gin from Holland, which one estimate in 1885 valued at £20,000 per annum!
The Royal Line
The first recorded ‘King’ in Yetholm, was one Patrick Faa in the 1730s and ‘40s. His queen was a formidable six-foot-tall woman called Jean Gordon, whom, it was believed, was the inspiration for the character of Meg Merrilees in Sir Walter Scott’s novel Guy Mannering. But royal blood was no protection for this family: Patrick was deported to the Americas for theft, three of his sons were hanged for sheep stealing and Jean was drowned by an angry mob in Carlisle for voicing her sympathy for Bonnie Prince Charlie.
The Faas were unashamed supporters of the Scottish Royal House, as it was thanks to the Stewarts that they owed their own royal status. It was widely believed that James V had granted their ancestor, John or George Faa, the right to call himself the King of the Gypsies in 1539. Historical records show that there was indeed a writ of the Privy Council recognising the right of a John Faw, the ‘Lord of Litill Egypt’ to rule and enforce laws over his ‘people’. It seems that James was hoping to encourage a degree of self-regulation to a group who were increasingly troublesome. He apparently revoked it a year later, but the gypsy royals conveniently ignored this.
The Egyptian Connection
‘Litill Egypt’ referred to the fact that it was believed that the gypsies, who first came to the British Isles in the 1500s, hailed from an island off the coast of Egypt – hence the nickname ‘gypties’ or ‘gypsies’. More recent research, particularly into linguistic links, has revealed that while some gypsies may have sojourned in Egypt, their most likely ethnic origin is North West India. In the 1540s and 50s there were a number of ‘documents’ floating around gypsy circles claiming royal approval – each of them referring to a king, earl, knight or rajah of ‘Litill Egypt’.
In Durham in 1549, Amy and George Fawe laid a charge against a John Rowland, for counterfeiting the king’s Great Seal and falsely claiming to be ‘King of the Gypsies’. The Faas claimed this right exclusively as their own. The royal lineage continued through the Faa family and later, by marriage, the Blyths, until 1898, when the last king, Charles Faa Blyth, was crowned. The most famous of the royals was Esther Faa Blyth, or Ettie, as she was known to family and friends. Ettie claimed the crown in 1861 by literally fighting off rival claims from her sisters after the death of her father Charles.
Queen Esther’s Coronation
Picture courtesy of Yetholm Historical SocietyKirk Yetholm’s village green was the site of this catfight and also the victorious queen’s coronation. This eyewitness account appeared in the Kelso Chronicle in 1861:
The Queen, mounted on her palfrey, proceeded to the Cross, where the ceremony of coronation was to be performed – the crown-bearer and the crowner following behind … he now placed the crown – a tinsel one, alas! – upon the head of Esther … and proclaimed her Queen Esther Faa Blyth, challenge who dare.
And no one dared – not even on her royal demise in 1883, and it seemed for a while that she would be the last gypsy monarch. Queen Esther became something of a celebrity with Victorian gentry who travelled from all over the country to visit her in her ‘palace’ – which is now a B&B called the Gypsy Palace. Despite receiving gifts from many of her admirers, Esther died in poverty, and with her the lively tourist trade that made Kirk Yetholm a ‘must-stop’ on the route to Scotland.
The Last of the Line
In an attempt to revive the flagging economy, a relative of Esther’s was crowned Charles II in 1898 in a farcical ‘coronation’ that brought a great crowd but was considered demeaning by the locals. On Charles’ death a few years later, none of his descendents were prepared to take up the crown. By the turn of the 20th century, the gypsies of Yetholm had either moved away or become assimilated into the local population, and no longer saw themselves as a separate race.
Now all that is left are a few photos on a pub wall, a small cottage called the Gypsy Palace and some fabulous stories.
Picture courtesy of Yetholm Historical Society
For more on Yetholm and its colourful heritage, including original photos of the Gypsy Royals, visit
This article first appeared in the Northumbrian in August 2003 as ‘King’s, Queens and Presidents’
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Johnson City, N.Y.– The Binghamton Senators will be joining The Magic Paintbrush Project Wednesday, October 20th 1:30pm to 3:00 for their Annual “Paint With The Players” Workshop. This special workshop will be held at The Magic Paintbrush Project’s workshop at The Oakdale Mall.
With over 130 confirmed attendees the workshop is limited by reservation only.
Each year the B-Sens spend an afternoon with individuals with special needs at The Magic Paintbrush Project. The Project brings together special needs families, professional hockey players and a community of fans to cheer them on as they combine goals and gear with inspiration. In addition to special needs families, event participants from the "Oak Tree Program" and Greene Central Schools will also be participating.
This event supports individuals with special needs as they demonstrate how they use “teamwork” to successfully navigate the daily challenges of living with a disability. The Binghamton Senators join in the fun and become a member of the individual’s team. In addition, this event collaborates with a number of agencies and organizations, exhibiting how the community “teams up” to successfully meet challenges. The planned activities include “Pumpkin Hockey” and the 7th Man Slide. These activities have been carefully developed to meet these identified needs, with abundant laughter and purpose.
Artwork created at this event will be on permanent display at The Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena as well as area businesses and community centers. A one of a kind team autographed painted jersey from this session will be available in November at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena at the Annual Clay Ground Plate Auction on December 17th & 18th. The Magic Paintbrush Project will be showcasing the artwork created at this event at the arena throughout the year.
About The Magic Paintbrush Project
Life Is Washable, Inc. dba The Magic Paintbrush Project (The Project) provides workshops which use creative art materials to complement services and supports for individuals, families & professionals facing the challenges of a special needs diagnosis (e.g. autism, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, cognitive delay.) The Project successfully supports thousands of developmentally disabled individuals and their families in meeting their identified goals (e.g. socialization, movement, communication, advocacy and self-determination) by facilitating sessions that include appropriate activities, adaptive tools and training designed to meet these needs.
The Magic Paintbrush Project has presented over 1,500 workshops since its inception in 2006, serving over 14,000 workshop participants. Demand for workshops continues to grow and The Project is now active the Hudson Valley, Syracuse and Rochester regions as well as the Broome Regional area. In addition to the direct supports to families with special needs, The Project has created new jobs (Currently 14+ part time staff), and provides support to area agencies.
For More Information Contact: Jennifer O’Brien, Program Director 607-729-5059
***Life is Washable***
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Economy and jobs are the top issue on Latino voters' minds, according to the 2012 “Latino Decisions Poll,” a theme that will be featured prominently in this week’s Hispanic Heritage events in DC.
It's all the more reason to discuss a powerful engine of opportunity in this country called the clean “green” economy – it is here, it is real, and it is one of the few bright spots in an economy desperate for a comeback.
In 2010, I wrote “Green Can Grow Latino Business,” arguing that the clean economy will create new demand for goods and services, new supply chains and niche markets, and opportunities to create new business models and reinvent old ones.
This is a boon for all would-be entrepreneurs, including Latinos — the nation’s fastest growing demographic. Further, new business creates jobs, and jobs create more demand for goods and services, and the virtuous cycle continues.
The results? Despite the persistence of a national recession, the clean energy sector grew at double the rate of national economy from 2003-2010, attracting record-level investment and venture capital last year, and boasting twice the export value of traditional sectors. In total, “Green Goods and Services” as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor accounts for 3.1 million U.S. jobs, with more than one-third of those jobs in the struggling construction and manufacturing industries.
In my home state of California, where Latinos make up 38 percent of the state’s population, the numbers are even more striking:
- California leads the country in clean economy jobs and solar power generation, and wind power has doubled since 2002.
- The state accounts for 13 percent of all “environmental goods” exported by the U.S., the majority in renewable or efficiency products.
- From 2002 to 2011 the state produced 9 percent of worldwide clean energy patents,
- Since 2006, $9 billion in venture capital has flowed to California clean technology firms.
Jobs in the clean economy are diverse, across a wide range of education-level and skills. On average, clean economy jobs offer a higher median wage and career advancement opportunities, and almost half of all jobs in the clean economy don’t require a college degree, according to the Brookings Institution.
An analysis of clean energy jobs in Southern California by Philip Romero, the former Dean of CSU Los Angeles College of Business and Economics, finds that “workers command wages with a 50-to-100 percent premium over the average job,” and estimates that the overall clean economy will grow “by at least 60-to-100 percent” by the late 2030’s.
If we want to compare this to fossil fuels, we find that the overall clean economy employs “more than ten times as many workers in the LA region as does petroleum and coal products production,” according to Romero — and analysis of the oil industry’s own job estimates finds that more than half of all the state’s “direct jobs” are gasoline station attendants making minimum wage.
If we want to have a serious discussion about economic opportunity – for all communities – we need look no further than the clean “green” economy.
It is an economic engine that is creating new demand, new investments, well-paid jobs, and new business opportunities, all in spite of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
And, by the way, it is creating economic growth without harming the planet and poisoning communities with toxic pollution. If we want America to continue being the land of opportunity, then let green grow!
Jorge Madrid is a Fellow with the Environmental Defense Fund. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Voces Verdes, and a former Graduate Fellow with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, and the California Latino Caucus Institute. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org
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Language and financial exchange
Bangladesh is one of the most secular countries in the world where Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and Aborigines enjoy full freedom of expression and have a thirst for democracy.
It is a developing country with a population of nearly 150 million and exports a huge number of skilled and unskilled human resources. Between three and four million people are now working in other countries mainly as economic migrants. A sizeable number have settled in these countries particularly those in Europe and North America.
This settler-turned-diaspora group of Bangladeshis are a potential source not only of remittances into their countries of origin but of investments resulting in overall socio-economic growth of the world. They also act as Ambassadors for international economic integration and their remittances form a major component that supports the improved balance of payments position of Bangladesh.
The ability to speak English is an economic empowerment tool and so educating potential migrants about the environment in their chosen host country, including lifestyle, banking practices, expenditure pattern and social and cultural practices will increase their own potential and opportunities in their host country.
English Speaking Union
To help with the promotion of the English Language as an economic empowerment tool, the Foundation is working with the English Speaking Union(ESU), an international charity founded in 1918 to promote “international understanding and friendship through the use of the English Language.” The Union is expanding its range round the globe providing opportunities for people from different cultures to meet and learn about each other’s background, beliefs and ideas. They do this through exchanges, conferences and international debating and public speaking training and competitions. They have offices in nearly 60 countries including Bangladesh and will provide knowledge and expertise in promoting English Language training through its networks in the country and further afield.
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Moms - Do your children ride their bikes to school? What do you do to ensure their safety and encourage healthy biking habits?
Bicycle safety is important for children and adults. Here are some general guidelines to get you started and a link to your state's bike laws.
Have y'all started school yet? I'm already best buds with the principal at the new school my children are attending. Stop by the forum and share your first day of school jitters, your concerns for the year, or your ideas for making sure your children have a successful year!
I look forward to hearing from you,
Lisa Polovin Pinkus, Moms Editor
One of hundreds of sites at BellaOnline.com
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Let’s walk away from all the kiddie tutorials, the anime lessons, and even the animal submissions for now. I want to take a look at a symbol or logo that represents a small handful of people that brought us one of the best motorcycle brands which started in 1901. Today, I want to show you guys "how to draw Harley Davidson logo", step by step. The logo is seen in mainly one of two ways; a badge like symbol with a rectangular banner in the middle, and a badge with an eagle head and wings omitting from the sides. The American company was founded in Milwaukee Wisconsin during the beginning of the 20th century. It is also a company that survived through the great depression, as well as through a struggling battle against Japanese motorcycle manufactures as their competition. In the beginning a fellow named William Harley designed plans for a small engine that would be placed on a regular bicycle or pedal bike frame. The engine was 7.07 cubic inches or the equivalency to a one hundred sixteen cc powered motor. The idea was to have a bike that could be driven without the need of using your foot for pedaling. In 1903 Harley and his close friend Arthur Davidson continued to work on their creation with the addition of the northside Milwaukee machine shop which belonged to a mutual friend named Henry Melk. During the same year their creation was finished and this time they brought in some extra help from Arthur’s brother Walter. They all thought that the motor-bike was great, but what they didn't like about it is how it lagged or lacked the ability to make it up the hills of their Milwaukee neighborhood. As soon as the faults of their bike creation was discovered, all three men went back to the drawing board to make a motor-bike that could handle the task of driving up hills as well making it though a race. This time the second generation bike which is also going to later be known as the first ‘Harley-Davidson’ motorcycle had a bigger engine, and heavier flywheels. The second motor was a whopping 405 cc or 24.4 cubic inches, and the flywheels weighed around twenty eight pounds. It was a breakthrough for the men and with the help of some other friends; they started selling their motorcycle models. Harley-Davidson went from working in a 10x15 space, to a 40x60 plant. Of course over time the manufacturing plant only grew, and the company became more and more popular. All three Davidson brothers along with William Harvey conquered a feat and made a dream a reality. Every major brand starts from somewhere, but all of them start from a dream. Harley Davidson bikes are now America’s number one motorcycle brand, and the modifications only get better with age. So I hope you like this tutorial on drawing the Harley-Davidson logo because I had a lot of fun making it. I will fly back around to submit more drawing fun so stay tuned in.
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Jerome, Idaho (KMVT-TV) When you think of 9-1-1, you think of Police Officers, Paramedics or Firefighters. But 9-1-1 dispatchers, the people behind the phone, are your first line of defense if you have an emergency.
"9-1-1 dispatchers cover a wide myriad of responsibilities. Everything from non emergency calls and a lot of times after hours public work calls. On the other end of the spectrum we have emergency, literally life or death calls, and everything in between," said Trevor Churchman, a 9-1-1 dispatcher at SIRCOMM.
When you dial 9-1-1, the dispatcher is the person responsible for getting you help in your time of need. They are trained to provide you assistance while dispatching emergency crews to your emergency.
"We're responsible for communicating with officers in the field as well as paramedics, firefighters and QRU members. There are a large number of people we communicate with,” said Trevor Churchman.
9-1-1 is one of those services we don't think about until we need it. but when you're dialing 9-1-1, there are a few things that will help dispatchers get you the help you need.
"The first thing to remember is when calling 9-1-1 is that you're going to be speaking to someone who deals with this literally day in and day out. We're there to help,” said Trevor Churchman.
The most important thing dispatchers will need is your location. Once they have your location, they can get you help.
"The more calm that the caller is, the more efficient we can be in obtaining the information we need," said Trevor Churchman.
Dispatchers will ask for your name, location, phone number and a description of your problem. If you have a medical call, they will begin emergency medical dispatching. 9-1-1 dispatchers, the trained professionals providing you help on the other end of the phone.
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The police have the power to stop and/or search an individual in a public place if they have ‘reasonable grounds for suspicion’ that you are in possession of illegal drugs, stolen property or that you are carrying an offensive weapon or have committed an offence.
The police do not have the right to stop you simply because you identify as a lesbian, gay men, or a bisexual or trans person, or because you are Black or Asian, for example. You also should not be stopped simply because you are in a cruising ground. For more information see the section Cruising, Cottaging and the Law.
You don’t have to give your name, address or date of birth to the police if you’re stopped and searched unless you’re being reported for an offence. The officer will fill out a form outlining the reason for stopping you, the outcome of the stop and search and their name, and give you a copy. This information won’t be held on file unless you’re charged with an offence.
The search can take place on the street. If the officer asks you to remove more than your coat and gloves, or asks you to remove anything you wear for religious reasons, then you must be taken somewhere out of public view. You’ll be asked to turn out your pockets and show the officers the contents of your bag. All stop and searches must be carried out with courtesy, consideration and respect for the person concerned.
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This nasty looking gadget is known as a Baldock cage, it is simple to use and will not harm the queen providing that it is not pressed too heavily into the comb. When it is not in use, press it into a piece of expanded polystyrene foam (styrofoam) which will protect your hands from the sharp points and the prongs themselves from damage.
This method of marking is employed when an unmarked queen is in a full sized colony.
It is used with the prongs on the surface of capped brood,unfortunately a few pupae may be damaged by the prongs, but this is a small price to pay for a simple method.
The spacing between the prongs is large enough to allow workers to escape, but the queen has a larger thorax and thus is captive. She is immobilized by pressing the cage down until she is gripped by the soft and compliant mesh. When she is still it is an easy matter to dab on paint or cement a numbered disc to her. A few moments delay to allow the paint or cement to dry and the cage is withdrawn.
There is a colour scheme in use for marking honey bee queens...
There are also coloured discs and numbered discs with coloured backgrounds. Grey is occasionally used instead of white. I have used quick drying silver paint sometimes, as this is very 'visible'.
I often use numbered discs that I cement in place using coloured lacquer as glue. The colour of the lacquer gives me a batch code. My list of batch codes is:-
brown = 1, red = 2, orange = 3, yellow = 4, green = 5, blue = 6, purple = 7, grey = 8, white = 9, black = 0 (10).
I also had a lurid lime green and a lightish lilac colour that were used in place of any colour that I had run out of. My batch marking code is that used in identifying electronic components and it led to an error recently... I was convinced in my mind that my list agreed with the 'normal' one at the figure two... I was wrong yellow is two, there is no equality at any number in the two systems.
The discs are small and difficult to handle with clumsy fingers... An easy way to have them ready for the instant that you require them, is to put one end a piece of thin tubing in your mouth place the end of the tube on the top surface of the disc then apply suction with your mouth. The disc will stay in position and can be allowed to dangle ready to be applied when you have dotted the adhesive on the queen. This suction method can be applied to picking queens from combs, but you will need a slightly greater diameter of tubing. The soft PVC tubing I use for number pick up came from a surgical 'butterfly' (picture at right) which had a piece of tubing 900 mm in length and 1.8 mm diameter. For picking up queens a piece of silicone rubber tubing, about 3 mm in diameter, can be utilised (obtain from medical suppliers). Plastic tubing can be used providing a silicone rubber cuff is added to the business end.
The following description of using the tube cage has been lifted from an Email to the 'Irish List' sent by Brian Cramp.
The tube cage, this is better when using the glue and numbered discs, as you can take the queen away from the hive and buzzing bees to mark her, with this cage you can also clip one wing at the same time. The cage consists of a 30 mm glass (or plastic) tube about 80 mm long with a 5 mm sq. elastic mesh stretched over one end and held in place with a rubber band, a 28 mm plunger covered on the top with a 9 mm thickness of soft plastic foam. To use it the queen is captured in the open end of the tube and the plunger inserted into the mouth of the tube, to hold her captive. Cover the brood box to keep the bees happy while you take the queen away to mark her, prepare the glue and disc then push the plunger up to trap the queen against the mesh with the dome of her thorax through a mesh hole to mark her. If you also wish to clip a wing, you can twist the plunger slightly and one wing tip will poke through the mesh, cut off about 4 mm and the job is done. Withdraw the plunger about 25 mm the queen will walk about un-harmed wait a few minutes to let the glue or paint dry, pull the cover off the brood box place the tube along a seam between the frames, pull the plunger out, and let the queen walk out and down on to the comb.
future picture about marking using Baldock cage
Karl Jenter manufactures this plastic device that resembles a clothes peg, they call it 'queen pliers', I prefer 'queen tongs', which sound a little less brutal. This has soft sponge areas for gripping the queen's abdomen and small, stubby, transverse silicone rubber tubes that grip the sides of the queen's thorax. I have one of these items myself, but I have never used it, (it came with other items along with a cell plug box). It is spring loaded and the 'grip limit' can be set using the thumbscrew.
The snippers themselves are intended for precision cutting of sewing stitches and are known as stitch snippers. The curly cord is available from baby shops as they are expected to be used to secure babies dummies so that they do not get lost.
I find that a safety pin in my bee suit just below my right shoulder allows the coiled tether to extend to a position that is easy for my right hand to grasp.
The closeness of contact between the edges of the two blades is easy to sense so that a crisp, clean cut may be made.
They are only suited to right handed use, unless a left handed person develops an upward cutting motion.
My Method is right for me because I have small, soft hands. Those with large stubby fingers and hard dry skin may have difficulty holding the queen's legs with sufficient sensitivity. I suspect that this method is best suited to the ladies.
I use elasticated calico cuffs and no gloves, although the top quality surgical gloves may be suitable, this is one occasion that the extra sensitivity of bare flesh is needed. I have been stung by a queen (once only), but it is very, very rare for this to happen. You will also receive the occasional sting from a worker whilst performing this operation.
I should say that I normally perform clipping and marking on queens that have just started to lay, in the nuc that they were mated from. Such nucs have few bees and have an adequate dosage of queen pheromone to keep them calm.
Step by step (assuming right handed)
Using your right hand, pick the queen off the comb using thumb and forefinger to grip both pairs of her wings... as shown left. An even more detailed description of the 'picking up' method is given on the page Picking up Queen Honey bees.
Then point the forefinger of your left hand at your right shoulder, keeping your hand up towards your face at a comfortable distance for good vision. (Illustrated at right.)
Offer the queen towards the tip of your left index finger and she will grip it with all six legs. Now gently close the tip of the left thumb and the side of the second finger onto the queens legs. You may now release the grip of your right hand (left picture).
Aim your left hand at an angle as if to miss your right shoulder then slightly lift the queen's right wing with the tip of the lower blade of the snipper, position the blade so that about one third of the wing will be amputated. After ensuring that there is no spare leg involved and that the blades are perpendicular to the wing surface... complete the cut. Do the marking first particularly if using fish glue, to attach numbered discs, which requires a slightly longer drying time than paint.
Some texts advocate the use of surgical scissors to perform this cut. But such scissors are not so easy to keep sharp and do not give the operator enough 'sensory feedback' to ensure perfect blade contact throughout the cut and as a result can cause tearing rather a clean cut.
I have never marked unmated queens, as I think the risk of non acceptance is higher as the virgin will be perceived by the bees a 'defective', they are less likely to pay her the attention she needs and may well supersede her quickly... See page on Induced Supersedure which also has links to other similar pages.
It has been suggested by some that the hands should be swabbed with alcohol between marking one queen and picking up another, to avoid the transfer of the 'smell' of one queen to the next. I have marked and clipped queens, around thirty at a time, sequentially, using the method shown above. I did not wash my fingers between queens and I do not recall any problems. The mating nucs contain small frames that are of such a size that the total frame area is about equal to one Langstroth deep frame. with 1000 - 1500 bees. Thus, what queen pheromone there is, is spread relatively thickly over a small quantity of bees.
Printing method... I have heard reports of some paint markings only lasting for two years or so. There are two reasons for this, one is paint quality, but the other is a little more subtle. The thorax of the queen is not totally smooth and does have some hair on it, applying paint using a small brush only wets the tips of the hairs and the bulk of the paint does not penetrate to the carapace. The workers are able to nibble away at the paint and slowly remove it. To avoid this you need to 'print' the mark using the end of a wooden match stick or similar, applying the paint in this fashion makes it penetrate right through the hair to the carapace itself.
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Description: Shooting entirely on analog video, Lars von Trier directs the made-for-Danish-TV version of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides. The screenplay is based on a 1960s adaptation written by master Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer that was never produced during his lifetime. The mythological story follows after the tale of Jason and the Argonauts, with Jason (Udo Kier) having successfully returned with the Golden Fleece and ready to marry the young Glauce (Ludmilla Glinska), daughter of King Kreon (Henning Jensen). In doing so, Jason abandons his long-suffering wife, Medea (Kirsten Olesen), who is also the mother of his two children. When the King exiles Medea, she plots a vicious plan of revenge that involves poison, hanging, and misery for all. Produced in 1987, Medea received an extremely limited theatrical release in the U.S. in April of 2003.~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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LVI Janamejaya said, With what penances was the high-souled Utanka endued so that he entertained the wish to denounce a curse on Vishnu himself, who is the source of all puissance' Vaisampayana said, O Janamejaya, Utanka was endued with austere penances. He was devoted to his preceptor. Endued with great energy, he abstained from worshipping anybody else. All the children of the Rishis O Bharata, entertained even this wish, viz, that their devotion to preceptors should be as great as that of Utanka. Gautama's gratification with and affection for Utanka, among his numerous disciples, were very great, O Janamejaya. Indeed, Gautama was highly pleased with the self-restraint and purity of behaviour that characterised Utanka, and with his acts of prowess and the services he rendered to him. One after another, thousands of disciples received the preceptor's permission to return home after the completion of their pupilage. In consequence, however, of his great affection for Utanka, Gautama could not permit him to leave his retreat. Gradually, in course of time, O son, decrepitude overtook Utanka, that great ascetic.
The ascetic, however, in consequence of his devotion to his preceptor, was not conscious of it. One day, he set out, O monarch, for fetching fuel for his preceptor. Soon after Utanka brought a heavy load of fuel. Toil-worn and hungry and afflicted by the load he bore on his head, O chastiser of foes, he threw the load down on the Earth, O king. One of his matted locks, white as silver, had become entangled with the load. Accordingly, when the load was thrown down, with it fell on the earth that matted lock of hair. Oppressed as he had been by that load and overcome by hunger, O Bharata, Utanka, beholding that sign of old age, began to indulge in loud lamentations from excess of sorrow. Conversant with every duty, the daughter of his preceptor the, who was possessed of eyes that resembled the petals of the lotus, and of hips that were full and round, at the command of her sire, sought, with downcast face, to hold Utanka's tears in her hands. Her hands seemed to burn with those tear-drops that she held. Unable, accordingly, to hold them longer, she was obliged to throw them down on the Earth.
The Earth herself was unable to hold those tear-drops of Utanka. With a gratified heart, Gautama then said unto the regenerate Utanka, Why, O son, is thy mind so afflicted with grief today? Tell me calmly and quietly, O learned Rishi, for I wish to hear it in detail' Utanka said, With mind entirely devoted to thee, and wholly bent upon doing what is agreeable to thee, with my, heart's devotion turned to thee, and with thoughts entirely dwelling on thee, I have resided here till decrepitude has come upon me without my knowing it at all. I have not, again, known any happiness. Though I have dwelt with thee for a hundred years, yet thou hast not granted me permission to depart. Many disciples of thine, that were my juniors, have, however, been permitted by thee to return. Indeed, hundreds and thousands of foremost Brahmanas have, equipt with knowledge, been permitted by thee to depart from thy retreat and set themselves up as teachers' Gautama said, Through my love and affection for thee, and in consequence of thy dutiful services to me, a long time has elapsed without my knowing it, O foremost of Brahmanas. If, however, O thou of Bhrigu's race, the desire is entertained by thee of leaving this place, do thou go without delay, receiving my permission'
Utanka said. What shall I present to my preceptor? Tell me this, O best of regenerate persons. Having brought it, I shall go hence, O lord, with thy permission' Gautama said. The good that the gratification of the preceptor is the final fee Without doubt, O regenerate one. I have been highly gratified with thy conduct. Know, O perpetuator of Bhrigu's race, that I have been exceedingly gratified with thee for this. If thou becomest a young man today of sixteen years, I shall bestow on thee, O regenerate one, this my own daughter for becoming thy wife.
No other woman save this one is capable of waiting upon thy energy' At these words of Gautama, Utanka once again became a youth and accepted that famous maiden for his wife. Receiving the permission of his preceptor, he then addressed his preceptor's wife, saying, What shall I give thee as final fee for my preceptor? Do thou command me. I desire to accomplish, with wealth or even my life, what is agreeable and beneficial to thee. Whatever gem, exceedingly wonderful and of great value, exists in this world, I shall bring for thee with the aid of my penances. I have no doubt in this' Ahalya said, I am highly gratified with thee, O learned Brahmana, with thy unintermitting devotion, O sinless one. This is enough. Blessed be thou, go whithersoever thou likest'
Vaisampayana continued, Utanka, however, O monarch, once more, said these words, Do thou command me, O mother. It is meet that I should do something that is agreeable to thee' Ahalya said, Blessed be thou, bring for me those celestial ear-rings that are worn by the wife of Saudasa. That which is due to thy preceptor will then be well-discharged' Replying unto her So be it, Utanka departed, O Janamejaya, resolved to bring those ear-rings for doing what was agreeable to his preceptor's wife. That foremost of Brahmanas, Utanka, proceeded without any loss of time to Saudasa who had through the curse of Vasishtha become a cannibal, in order to solicit the ear-rings from him. Gautama meanwhile said unto his wife, Utanka is not to be seen today' Thus addressed, she informed him how he had departed for fetching the jewelled ear-rings of Saudasa's queen. At this, Gautama said, Thou hast not acted wisely. Cursed by Vasishtha, that king who has been transformed into a man-eater will verily slay Utanka'
Ahalya said, Without knowing this, O holy one, I have set Utanka to this task. He shall not, however, incur any danger through thy grace. Thus addressed by her, Gautama said, Let it be so' Meanwhile, Utanka met king Saudasa in a deserted forest
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|The largest collection of online information about Conway's Game of Life and Life-like cellular automata. Contains over 900 articles.|
|Share discoveries, discuss patterns, and ask questions about cellular automata with fellow enthusiasts.|
|Golly is a free program that allows you to easily explore much larger patterns at higher speeds than any web-based applet ever could.|
Josh Ball has discovered a microscopic orthogonal spaceship with a new velocity, namely c/7. It is the slowest orthogonal spaceship, which (together with its loaf-pushing behaviour) led to it being named 'the loafer'. Adam P. Goucher discovered how to synthesise it with 18 gliders; this was further reduced to 8 by Matthias Merzenich. Shortly afterwards, a gun was engineered to repeatedly emit the spaceship.
A summary of the known orthogonal spaceship speeds is given in the following diagram, using Ford circles to represent rational numbers:
HighLife differs quantatively from Conway's Game of Life due to an additional birth condition: if a dead cell is surrounded by six live neighbours, it becomes alive. Qualitatively, the main difference between Life and HighLife is that the replicators in Life are imagined to be very large (no explicit examples have been discovered, although the technology behind Gemini could be adapted to yield one), whereas there is a nice small example in HighLife.
Soon after the discovery of the replicator, it was realised that it could be tamed into a c/6 spaceship by pulling a blinker behind it. In 1999, Dean Hickerson proposed the existence of spaceships with much slower velocities, obtained by pushing junk at one end of a replicator track and pulling it at the other end. No explicit examples of spaceships were discovered this way, although Dean found a workable push reaction. This was mentioned on David Eppstein's website and in a chapter he wrote for Game of Life Cellular Automata.
It was pretty much forgotten for 14 years, until Adam P. Goucher wrote a search program to attempt to construct replicator tracks capable of forming spaceships. Initially, he found a c/69 spaceship with over 84 billion replicator units; his results and method of searching are summarised on Complex Projective 4-Space. Due to its immense size, slow movement and general appearance, it was named the Basilisk. Karel Suhajda commented on the post, suggesting trying different speeds. Tweaking the search parameters resulted in a c/63 spaceship with about 2 billion units; however, this was still prohibitively large for Golly.
Self-replication in Conway's Life has been a topic for discussion and research from the very beginning, over forty years ago now (!). The original purpose of Conway's Life was to find a simplification of John von Neumann's self-replicating machine designs, which used a CA rule with 29 states. A couple of non-constructive universality proofs for B3/S23 Life were completed very early on, though they were never published in detail -- and my sense is that actual self-replicating patterns along the lines of these proofs would require something on the order of a planet-sized computer and a geological epoch or two to simulate a replication cycle.
The technology to build a Conway's Life replicator out of stable parts has been available since at least 2004. A working pattern could certainly have been put together in a few years by a full-time Herschel plumber, with a high-energy glider physicist or two as consultants. But unfortunately there seem to be very few multi-year grants available for large-scale CA pattern-building -- even for such obviously worthwhile Holy-Grail quests as this one!
In 2009, Adam P. Goucher put together a working universal computer-constructor that could be programmed to make a complete copy of itself. The pattern, however, is so huge and slow that it would have taken an enormous amount of work to program it to self-replicate -- it would have been easier to come up with a new replicator design from scratch. Clearly, in hindsight, everyone was waiting for something better to come along.
A wealth of new generalised Herschel conduits have been discovered recently, even since the latest update on LifeNews. A member of the ConwayLife.com forums with the alias 'Guam' has successfully built a stable 90-degree reflector with a repeat time of 444 generations, marginally faster than its 466-tick predecessor.
The core of the reflector is a staged-recovery mechanism found in an earlier 487-tick reflector. The speed-up is therefore achieved by surrounding the core with a more efficient Herschel track (exploiting the new conduits), enabling the gliders to be delivered to the active site faster than before.
In other news, there is now a continuous version of the Game of Life exhibiting rich behaviour. It cannot be simulated in Golly due to its incompatibility with HashLife, although I believe the next release of Ready will incorporate it.
As detailed over on Complex Projective 4-Space, I computed some large images of the Mandelbrot set. For example, here is part of a screenshot of Golly, looking at the Seahorse Valley in the Mandelbrot set:
With Golly, we can run the Mandelbrot set in a cellular automaton. The results are fairly uninteresting with B3/S23, so I simulated the boundary (obtained from the original image by one generation of B3/S23) in HighLife (B36/S23) instead. As with all sufficiently large chaotic HighLife universes, profusions of replicators emerge:
You can download the files from Complex Projective 4-Space yourself if you're interested in running a simulation. For these purposes, you'll want the 262144 by 262144 monochromatic image (25 MB download as .mc.gz), rather than the scaled-down colourful version.
My apologies for the lack of recent postings. There are rumours that the LifeNews server may be turning off in the immediate future, so I was tentative about uploading something new. Nevertheless, Andrew Trevorrow convinced me that this deserves to be published on ConwayLife.com, and I understand this to currently be the most direct way of doing so.
The developers of Golly have recently turned their attentions to creating a new piece of software capable of supporting reaction-diffusion systems and cellular automata on arbitrary meshes. This has been discussed on Complex Projective 4-Space and The Aperiodical, amongst other places.
There has also been some work on cellular automata on Penrose tilings. Nick Owens and Susan Stepney investigated B3/S23 a while ago, writing a chapter about the topic in Adamatzky's Game of Life Cellular Automata. This summer, a couple of related, independent and almost simultaneous discoveries were made. One of these was a weakly universal cellular automaton on a Penrose tiling; the other was a glider.
Marijn Heule, Christiaan Hartman, Kees Kwekkeboom and Alain Noels systematically searched the entire space of 10-by-10 patterns with fourfold rotational symmetry, finding a Garden of Eden with 92 specified cells (56 live, 36 dead). Moreover, they proved the non-existence of Gardens of Eden within a 6-by-6 box.
If you asked a fellow Life enthusiast for the most important GoL discoveries in the 1990s, the Herschel track must surely feature. With a few elementary conduits, it is possible to design tracks capable of moving a signal to anywhere in spacetime (as long as there is enough 'manouevring room' and sufficient time), and placing it in any orientation. Herschel tracks underpin all but two of the known stable reflectors, and support the construction of glider guns for every period greater than or equal to 62.
Firstly, what is so special about the Herschel? Is it really so much more useful than any other transient objects? It appears that the answer is both yes and no: other objects can be used, but they must eventually decay into Herschels. This is illustrated rather eloquently by a simple matrix. The row represents the input; the column represents the output. A red blob indicates if a primary (one-stage) conduit exists to transform the input into the output. Clicking on the matrix will enable you to download a complete collection of primary conduits. (A collection of all conduits, primary and composite, is provided later in this article.)
Some of these conduits are new discoveries. The Pi-to-R converter was discovered by Guam on the conwaylife.com forums, published in the form of a quaternary Herschel conduit: H-Pi-R-B-H. The completed conduit takes 309 generations to turn a Herschel anticlockwise, so is designated L309. In terms of the number of intermediary objects, L309 is the most complex Herschel conduit to date. Indeed, its 309-tick delay is rather rapid for a quaternary conduit.
Matthias Merzenich has discovered a c/7 diagonal spaceship -- the first of its speed. This raises the total to thirteen reasonably-low-period spaceship velocities, specifically eight orthogonal (c/2, c/3, c/4, c/5, 2c/5, c/6, 2c/7, 17c/45) and five diagonal (c/4, c/5, c/6, c/7, c/12). Of course, an infinite number of spaceship velocities are known, as the Gemini can be adapted accordingly.
Moreover, Matthias has actually discovered an infinite family of such spaceships, as one of the frontal components can support itself to yield an extensible spaceship.
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Environmental group calls for protected habitat to be set aside for jaguars in the American Southwest
Environmentalists are asking the federal government to set aside an area of the Southwest more than half the size of California to help protect the endangered jaguar.
The area proposed as critical habitat by the Center for Biological Diversity would represent one of the largest swaths of land set aside for any single species, spanning more than 53 million acres across New Mexico, Arizona, Southern California and West Texas.
"As an animal at the top of the food chain, jaguars roam over vast distances and we need to think beyond individual animals and instead plan for managing a recovered population," the center's Michael Robinson said Tuesday.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is evaluating what the elusive cats need to survive and areas in the Southwest where they would have the best chance. The agency has acknowledged "physical and biological features" in the region that can be used by jaguars.
The largest cats native to the Western hemisphere, jaguars live primarily in Mexico and Central and South America. They once inhabited an extensive area that spanned California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana, but there have been only rare glimpses of the animals along U.S.-Mexico border in recent years.
Jaguars were spotted in 1996 near the Arizona-New Mexico border and again in 2006. Most recently, a snare captured a jaguar last year in southern Arizona. That cat was eventually euthanized after falling ill, sparking criticism over jaguar recovery efforts.
The Fish and Wildlife Service decided this year to set aside critical habitat for the jaguar based on information from the last three years, but indications show that amount of land will be far less than what environmentalists want, given that the southwestern United States represents only a fraction of the jaguar's current range.
"Just because we've seen a couple of jaguars doesn't mean that's suitable habitat for a viable population. It's at the edge of the species' range, and that's the worst place in the world to try to understand the life history characteristics of an animal," said Paul Krausman, a biologist and professor at the University of Montana.
The other hurdle is the sheer magnitude of the group's proposal, which includes more than 27 million acres in Arizona and another 26 million in New Mexico, or nearly 83,000 square miles.
Caren Cowan, executive director of the New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association, said designating such a large swath of critical habitat would have wide-ranging implications for land managers and would serve as "another nail in the coffin" of the region's rural livelihoods.
The Fish and Wildlife Service said it will review the Center for Biological Diversity's proposal along with other comments received on jaguar habitat. The agency plans to have a draft proposal ready early next year.
"We're going to concentrate on the fact that the jaguar barely occurs in the U.S. and so the amount of habitat that is truly critical to its recovery is going to be much smaller than it would be for a widespread species such as a spotted owl or a lynx," said Steve Spangle, field supervisor of the agency's ecological services office in Arizona.
Large areas of critical habitat are not unheard of. The agency has designated about 39,000 square miles in six northern states for the Canada lynx, 13,000 square miles for the Mexican spotted owl and 9,600 square miles in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah for the desert tortoise.
A proposal is also pending to set aside more than 200,000 square miles for the polar bear, but most of that is sea ice.
Robinson said the areas outlined in the center's proposal were chosen based on a review of several models and maps assessing potential jaguar habitat in the Southwest. The areas would provide a protected avenue for the cats to travel northward from Mexico, he said.
"This would enhance the northern jaguar population's chance of survival and recovery by conserving habitat that could potentially support dozens if not hundreds of jaguars," Robinson said.
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What is a Neurologist?
Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system including diseases of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and muscles. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and other tissue, such as muscle.
A neurologist is a physician (not a surgeon) who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat, neurological disorders. Pediatric neurologists treat neurological disease in children.
Neurologists perform neurological examinations of the nerves of the head and neck; muscle strength and movement; balance, ambulation, and reflexes; and sensation, memory, speech, language, and other cognitive abilities. They typically work closely with the Neurosurgeon and perform most of the pre-surgical evaluation.
In the United States, neurologists typically have completed four years of pre-medical education, four years of medical school, and four years of residency training (including the intern, or first, year). Neurologists may also elect to complete a fellowship of one to two additional years in a subspecialty, such as Epilepsy.
An Epileptologist is a physician (neurologist) who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.
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eBay has unexpected, chilling effect on looting of antiquities, archaeologist finds
By Meg Sullivan May 04, 2009 Category: Research
Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ago.
"My greatest fear was that the Internet would democratize antiquities trafficking, which previously had been a wealthy person's vice, and lead to widespread looting," said the UCLA professor of anthropology, who directs the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
Indeed, eBay has drastically altered the transporting and selling of illegal artifacts, Stanish writes in an article in the May/June issue of Archaeology, but not in the way he and other archaeologists had feared.
By improving access to a worldwide market, eBay has inadvertently created a vast market for copies of antiquities, diverting whole villages from looting to producing fake artifacts, Stanish writes. The proliferation of these copies also has added new risks to buying objects billed as artifacts, which in turn has worked to depress the market for these items, further reducing incentives to loot.
"For most of us, the Web has forever distorted the antiquities trafficking market in a positive way," Stanish said.
Looting, which is illegal, is widely recognized as destructive to cultural heritage because it can remove from public ownership tangible links to a people's past. In addition, looting is perceived as the enemy of scholarship because it typically is done without regard to any appropriate methods that allow scientists to date objects and to place them in a larger, more meaningful context.
One of the world's premiere authorities on Andean archaeology and supervisor, at UCLA, of the one of the world's largest collections of working archaeologists, Stanish has been tracking objects billed as antiquities on eBay for more than nine years. His conclusions also are informed by experiences with the U.S. customs service, which occasionally asks him to authenticate objects. In addition, Stanish has visited a number of workshops in Peru and Bolivia that specialize in reproductions of pottery and has interviewed these artisans. While his background is in South American archaeology, he has tracked eBay listings of antiquities from many cultures.
"Chinese, Bulgarian, Egyptian, Peruvian and Mexican workshops are now producing fakes at a frenetic pace," he writes.
When he first started tracking eBay's sales of antiquities, Stanish focused mainly on objects related to his field. At the time, the ratio of real artifacts to fakes was about 50-50, he estimates. About five years later, 95 percent were fakes. Now, he admits, he can't always tell, because the quality of the fakes has improved so much.
He estimates that about 30 percent of "antiquities" currently for sale on eBay are obvious fakes, in so much as creators mix up iconography and choose colors and shapes for visual effect rather than authenticity. Another 5 percent or so are genuine treasures. The rest fall in the ambiguous "I would have to hold it in my hand to be able to make an informed decision" category, he writes. Stanish admits himself to occasionally being duped by fakes encountered in shops in areas where both looted items and fakes are sold.
The advent of eBay has had the biggest impact on the antiquities market by reducing the incentive to unearth precious treasures in the first place, Stanish has found.
"People who used to make a few dollars selling a looted artifact to a middleman in their village can now produce their own 'almost-as-good-as-old' objects and go directly to a person in a nearby town who has an eBay account," he said. "They will receive the same amount or even more than they could have received for actual antiquities."
As a result of the rise of a ready market, many of the primary purveyors have shifted from looting sites to faking antiquities.
In addition to linking craftsmen with a market for cheap fakes, eBay has tended to have a depressing effect on prices for real looted artifacts, further discouraging locals from pillaging precious sites.
"The value of ... illicit digging decreases every time someone buys a 'genuine' Moche pot for $35, plus shipping and handling," he writes. (An authentic antiquity would sell for upwards of $15,000.)
So far, authentication techniques have struggled to keep abreast of increasingly sophisticated fakes, Stanish said. Pottery can still be authenticated reliably, although the process is costly. In addition, forgers tend to only guarantee the authenticity of their pieces as long as no form of "destructive" analysis is used. While just a tiny flake of pottery is required for thermoluminescence dating — the gold standard for pottery — the process is technically considered destructive, Stanish points out, so the test invalidates such warrantees, no matter its conclusion.
Thanks to laser technology and chemical processes for forming antique-appearing patinas, stone and metal, reproductions are "almost impossible" to authenticate using today's technology, Stanish writes. However, the prospect of authentication techniques eventually catching up with today's fakes is also having a chilling effect on the market for antiquities, by dramatically adding to the risk of illicit, high-end trafficking.
"Who wants to spend $50,000 on an object 'guaranteed' to be ancient by today's standards, when someone can come along in five years with a new technology that definitively proves it to be a fake," he asks.
Archaeology is a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America, North America's oldest and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology.
UCLA is California's largest university, with an enrollment of nearly 38,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The UCLA College of Letters and Science and the university's 11 professional schools feature renowned faculty and offer more than 323 degree programs and majors. UCLA is a national and international leader in the breadth and quality of its academic, research, health care, cultural, continuing education and athletic programs. Four alumni and five faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
- King James Bible "Authorized Version", Cambridge Edition
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¶ Because to euery purpose there is time, and iudgement; therefore the misery of man is great vpon him.- King James Version (1611)
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For there is a proper time and procedure for every delight, though a man's trouble is heavy upon him.- New American Standard Version (1995)
for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:- American Standard Version (1901)
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.- Basic English Bible
For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him;- Darby Bible
There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man: - Douay Rheims Bible
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For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.- World English Bible
For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.- Youngs Literal Bible
For to every matter there is a time and judgment; for the evil of man is great upon him.- Jewish Publication Society Bible
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8:6 Because - There is a fit way and season for the accomplishment of every business, which is known to God, but for the most part hidden from man. Therefore - Because there are few who have wisdom to discern this, most men expose themselves to manifold miseries.
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United States Space & Rocket Center
U.S. Space & Rocket Center
One Tranquility Base
Huntsville, AL 35805
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is recognized as one of the most comprehensive U.S. manned space flight hardware museums in the world. Their facilities include Spacedome Theater, Rocket Park, the Education Training Center, which houses NASA's Educator Resource Center, and more.
The Davidson Center for Space Exploration is like no other in the country. In its 476 foot long, 90 foot wide and 63 foot high structure, suspended 10 feet above the floor, is a national historic treasure, the mighty Saturn V, restored to its Apollo-era readiness.
Visitors to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center will experience Huntsville's role in the making of the moon rocket, the space race, the Apollo missions, learn about the Space Shuttle program, the International Space Station and onto the next beginnings with NASA's Constellation project.
Time to Visit
If you're looking for the time of year with the fewest crowds, you might try December, January or the first half of February. With less people onsite, you'll have a more time to really study the displays.
There are over 30 exhibits in Rocket Park. These include:
International Space Station
A model of various units of the International Space Station are on display in several trailers in the Rocket Park.
The Space Museum houses many, many rocket- and space-related exhibits. It also is where the iMax theater and gift shops are located.
Below are photos of Dr. von Braun's office.
From Wikipedia.com: U.S. Space Camp is hosted by the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. "Space Camp" refers to both the actual camp and a family of related camp programs offered year-round by the facility. The camp provides residential and day camp educational programs for children in various age groups and adults. These programs include space oriented camp programs, aircraft themed Aviation Challenge camps, and outdoor oriented X-Camp programs, with the intent to promote science, engineering, aviation and exploration.
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Host David Thurmond tells how clogging came to America and how shoes with taps evolved. He tells students to note that the dancing emphasizes movements below the waist and to look for movements that resemble square dancing. Champion cloggers Stacy McWethy, Trevor DeWitt, Cristy Corwin, and Zach Davis show off their skills to music by Hog Operation.
Find additional arts resources for your classroom at the KET Arts Toolkit website.
The traditional Appalachian dances are clogging (with its variants of flatfooting and buck dancing), mountain square dances, and play party games. Traditionally they are all recreational, social dances, although today clogging is often performed as an artistic or competitive dance.
In the isolated homesteads and villages of the Appalachians, dances were the major social activity, usually enjoyed by entire families. Often the dances revolved around planting, harvesting, or barn raising, when communities shared the work followed by a dance. Communal celebrations like weddings were another occasion for dances, and often young people just liked to gather at someone’s home on a Saturday night to enjoy dancing spiced with a little courtship under the supervisory eyes of the adults.
Clogging, like tap and jazz dance, is a uniquely American dance form. It incorporates elements of Irish jig, English step dancing, and African rhythms and high-kicking steps. It is highly unusual because it has also been influenced by Native American dance, specifically the Cherokee stomp dance. The Appalachian Mountains were one of the few places where there was an intertwining of the native culture and the culture of the early settlers, including intermarriages. When the Cherokee were forcibly removed from North Carolina and marched to Oklahoma, they crossed Kentucky, and some Cherokees escaped en route and fled to the mountains, where they blended into the Appalachian culture, increasing the cultural influence begun in the days of early settlement.
This type of dance wasn’t called clogging until 1939, when the Saco Gap Dancers performed for the king and queen of England at the White House. The queen commented that it reminded her of a dance still performed in the north of England by dancers wearing heavy wooden shoes, or clogs.
A highly energetic percussive dance, clogging is characterized by fast footwork and virtually motionless torsos. It can be done as a solo dance, as a couple dance, or as a group dance. Sometimes dancers use clogging steps while performing square dances. There are lots of variations on the dance, and in the past, there were different steps from one hollow to the next. Most cloggers today wear shoes with taps, but clogging can be done in any shoes or even barefoot. In the past, clogging was almost always done to brisk banjo picking, but today cloggers dance to many styles of music.
The term flatfooting is sometimes used as another name for clogging, but some see the two distinctly different from each other. Clogging tends to be more structured while flatfooting is more freeform. Flatfooters don’t hop or spring as cloggers sometimes do. Buck dancing makes more use of the heel and toe than the shuffle step common to clogging. And buck dancing is done with bent knees.
Whatever you call it, clogging is great fun and great exercise.
Academic standards correlations on Teachers' Domain use the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) database of state and national standards, provided to NSDL projects courtesy of JES & Co.
We assign reference terms to each statement within a standards document and to each media resource, and correlations are based upon matches of these terms for a given grade band. If a particular standards document of interest to you is not displayed yet, it most likely has not yet been processed by ASN or by Teachers' Domain. We will be adding social studies and arts correlations over the coming year, and also will be increasing the specificity of alignment.
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The Earthbound Cook: 250 Recipes for Delic
ious Food and a Healthy Planet
by Myra Goodman
A cookbook with a conscience, from an author who knows the world of responsible eating as well as anyone. Is cage-free the same as free-range? Is grass-fed worth the price? What’s better: farmed salmon or wild? Organic salad that’s been shipped across the country, or local salad grown with pesticides? To nuke leftovers in the microwave or crank up the oven? Myra Goodman—co-owner of Earthbound Farm, the country’s largest producer of organic produce and other products, inspiration behind the Earthbound Farmstand Café, and author of Food to Live By—now brings both sides of the dinner dilemma together by showing us what to shop for, and how to cook it.
The Earthbound Cook turns dilemma into joy—in full-color. It pairs 250 sumptuous recipes with all the information cooks need to make greener, smarter choices. Here is Pork Chile Verde, Beef Tenderloin with Brandy Mushroom Sauce, Chicken Puttanesca—plus how to make the most eco-friendly meat choices and how to decode the labels on poultry and eggs. Vegetarian entrees such as Roasted Cauliflower Tart and Rigatoni with Eggplant and Buffalo Mozzarella for that one day a week we should abstain from meat. Salads (Escarole with Walnuts, Dates, and Bacon, Farro Salad with Edamame and Arugula) and sides (Carrot Risotto) and all the facts about the benefits of eating organically. And fish of course—Coconut-Crusted Salmon, and why to choose wild whenever possible.
No sacrifices here—doing the right thing has never looked, sounded, or tasted better. Or been easier.
About the Author
Myra Goodman is the co-owner and vice president of Earthbound Farm, which she founded with her husband, Drew, in 1984. She is also the author of Food to Live By. Myra lives with her husband and two children in Carmel, California.
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Historical: A Saxon lord who owned land on the Welsh border during the time of the Norman conquest. He may have married a Welsh person, which is no big deal. An account of his historical deeds can be found here. It should be noted that his name means Prosperous, or wealthy, so we may guess that he was quite a successful lord.
Mythological: For me the legendary Edric is far more interesting than his historical incarnation. It is said that he fell in love with a Fairy woman, and kidnapped her. She agreed to marry him if he never made mention of her heritage; many years later he broke his oath and she vanished immediately. Edric himself died of grief.
Later stories cast Edric himself as a supernatural being. He, his wife, and his people were banished deep into the caves and mines until the wrongs done by the invading Normans were put right. They guide miners in the dark by tapping the walls where rich loads are. It is said that when England is about to go to war they can leave the mines for one day, and ride over the hills towards the enemy country, though they will only appear if the war will be serious. Sightings of him were reported in Shropshire before the Napoleonic and Crimean wars, and even as recently as 1914 and 1939.
Legends of Wild Edric's Followers began in the Shropshire lead mines, slowly spreading to Cornish tin mines and finally to the lead mines in Yorkshire after a migration of Cornish Tinners.
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As flu threatens lives in our communities, time to dispel vaccine myths
January 28, 2013 · 10:20 AM
By Dr. Alex B. Berezow
For the Reporter
It's been a tough year for public health. The U.S. faces a particularly harsh influenza season, but this virus represents only one problematic pathogen.
Another is the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of pertussis (whooping cough). In December, Vermont declared a pertussis epidemic. Last April, so did Washington state.
Both of these infectious diseases have vaccines that can help keep them in check. However, as I discuss in my new book, Science Left Behind, myths surrounding vaccines live on to this day – like zombies that just refuse to die – preventing otherwise responsible people from getting vaccinated.
The influenza vaccine is hounded by the myth that it will give people the flu. Just recently, this myth was repeated on the popular Seattle radio program The Ron & Don Show (the myth was stated by Ron and, thankfully, debunked by Don). With the injectable vaccine, this is biologically impossible because it uses dead viruses; with the nasal spray, mild symptoms may develop because it uses weakened (but live) viruses.
Yet, the myth persists, probably due to two major misunderstandings. First, the word "flu" is used colloquially to refer to anything from a bad cold to food poisoning (often called "stomach flu" or "24-hour flu"). But the influenza virus does not cause these maladies. Thus, it is possible to receive the influenza vaccine, yet still get stricken by any of several different microbes that cause the common cold or food poisoning.
Shot is not perfect
Second, the influenza vaccine isn't perfect. The CDC estimates this year's concoction to be 62-percent effective. That is because multiple influenza strains circulate in the population, but the vaccine only covers three of them – picked in advance by epidemiologists who predict which strains will pose the biggest threat each season. Additionally, your body needs about two weeks to mount an immune response to the vaccine, meaning you are vulnerable to infection during that time period.
The pertussis vaccine is hobbled by what, in retrospect, may have been a poor decision about 20 years ago. The old vaccine (DTwP) used whole-cell pertussis. It could certainly cause a fever, but there were also unsubstantiated claims that it caused neurological damage. Because of that, a new acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine was created.
The problem, though, is that evidence strongly indicates that the new pertussis vaccine does not work as well as the old vaccine. Specifically, the new vaccine does not provide as long lasting immunity. Therefore, the combination of children who receive a less effective vaccine and an adult population who often neglects to get their pertussis booster shot (Tdap) is probably driving the uptick in pertussis cases.
Is there any chance that public health officials will switch back to the old vaccine? Probably not. In an email, University of Washington epidemiologist Jeff Duchin wrote, "Returning to the (DTwP) vaccine that causes more side effects would not be successful if it were not acceptable to the public."
Considering that a substantial number of people still believe vaccines cause autism, it is difficult to imagine ever switching back.
But, a thoughtful, scientifically minded public should ponder that possibility. It may very well be that the risk of using the new, less effective vaccine outweighs the risk of side effects from the old, more effective vaccine. In other words, we must decide if we want more fevers or more cases of pertussis.
In the meantime, please do your civic duty and go get your flu shot.
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world's largest breast cancer organization, awarded more than $100 million in research grants last year, representing the largest single-year investment in research in the organization's 26-year history and a 30 percent increase over the previous year’s award total of $77 million. The 2011 grants slate moves Komen for the Cure closer to accomplishing its goal of investing another $2 billion in breast cancer research and community health programs by 2017.
The Southern Arizona Affiliate funds grants to local community projects providing education, community outreach and survivorship support; and/or screening and diagnostic services; and/or treatment services to the medically underserved, uninsured or underinsured. Funds are awarded to not-for profit organizations that provide innovative, non-duplicative breast health and breast cancer services directly to the medically underserved, uninsured and underinsured. Services to be provided in the Southern Arizona service area: Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise, Yuma, Graham and Greenlee counties
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U.S. citizens need as much information as they can get to make the best decisions about their political system and the companies they invest in, believes Kim Cranston. The son of late California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston is using the Internet to do that.
Americans are more likely to face tough issues head on, such as climate change, if they have more information, Cranston says. For that reason, he, Jeff Manning, and some Stanford students have started a website to put an easy voting guide on the Web. The idea behind the website, transparentdemocracy.org, is to give people guideposts.
“A user can see how people they trust are voting and why — Republican or Democrat, Chamber of Commerce, League of Women Voters, anything that is in there,” Cranston said. People can add their comments, too.
The site, still in the testing stage, lists 153 ballot propositions from 35 states in the last election, everything from gay rights to tax proposals.
Cranston and the students also list shareholder proposals for companies such as ExxonMobil, with the views of outside groups. Those issues cover everything from moving company headquarters to executive compensation.
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