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Implementer Notes.txt [plain text]
The mDNSResponder code has a slight architectural change to improve
The mDNSResponder code previously called ScheduleNextTask() after every
operation, to calculate the time at which it needed to be called back to
perform its next timed operation. When the workload is light, and
protocol operations are rare and far apart, this makes sense.
However, on networks where there is a lot of mDNS traffic (or the CPU is
slow), this leads to the following anomolous behaviour: mDNSResponder
spends a lot of CPU time working out what to do next, when what it needs
to do next should be obvious: Finish processing the big backlog of
packets that have been received.
To remedy this, mDNSResponder now only executes ScheduleNextTask() when
there is no other obvious work waiting to be done. However, the
mDNSResponder code does not have direct access to this knowledge. Only
the platform layer below knows whether there are packets waiting to be
processed. Only the client layer above knows whether it is in the
process of performing a long sequence of back-to-back mDNS API calls.
This means that the new architecture places an additional responsibility
on the client layer and/or platform support layer. As long as they have
immediate work to do, they should call the appropriate mDNSCore routines
to accomplish that work. With each call, mDNSCore will do only what it
immediately has to do to satisfy the call. Any optional work will be
deferred. As soon as there is no more immediate work to do, the calling
layer MUST call mDNS_Execute(). Failure to call mDNS_Execute() will lead
to unreliable or incorrect operation.
The value returned from mDNS_Execute() is the next time (in absolute
platform time units) at which mDNS_Execute() MUST be called again to
perform its next necessary operation (e.g. transmitting its next
scheduled query packet, etc.) Note that the time returned is an absolute
time, not the time *interval* between now and the next required call.
For OS APIs that work in terms of intervals instead of absolute times,
mDNSPlatformTimeNow() must be subtracted from the absolute time to get
the interval between now and the next event.
In a single-threaded application using a blocking select() call as its
main synchronization point, this means that you should call
mDNS_Execute() before calling select(), and the timeout value you pass
to select() MUST NOT be larger than that indicated by the result
returned from mDNS_Execute(). After the blocking select() call returns,
you should do whatever work you have to do, and then, if mDNS packets
were received, or mDNS API calls were made, be sure to call
mDNS_Execute() again, and if necessary adjust your timeout value
accordingly, before going back into the select() call.
In an asynchronous or interrupt-driven application, there are three
places that should call mDNS_Execute():
1. After delivering received packets, the platform support layer should
call mDNS_Execute(), and use the value returned to set the platform
callback timer to fire at the indicated time.
2. After making any mDNS API call or series of calls, the client layer
should call mDNS_Execute(), and use the value returned to set the
platform callback timer to fire at the indicated time.
3. When the platform callback timer fires, it should call mDNS_Execute()
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COVINGTON -- About 2,800 city of Covington electricity customers were affected by a billing calculating error on utility bills that went out in October. The good news is bills were calculated to be higher than they should have been, and customers who received a corrected version owed less.
The error occurred when the city's software provider made some adjustments to take into account customers who are now using solar power, and, when they generate more energy than they can use, selling it back to the city.
"When that characteristic was added, it somehow changed the calculations on the standard rate," City Manager Steve Horton said.
As a result, the usage shown at the top of the customer's bill was not the same as that shown lower on the bill where the rate was calculated. In fact, it was nearly doubled on the rate calculation.
The error was caught shortly after bills were mailed and a letter was immediately sent notifying customers, Horton said. A correct bill was also mailed immediately. City customer service staff have been notified of the issue and are to check the bills of any customers who come in person to pay, Horton said. The issue has also been corrected in the software.
This is the first billing period the error has occurred; customers can check for themselves by making sure the usage at the top of the bill matches the usage down below where the rate is listed, Horton said.
"Nobody got any penalties. If someone feels they are getting some penalties, let us know and we'll make corrections," he said, adding that it hasn't been a big issue for most, since due dates on the bills aren't until early and mid-November. The city has different billing cycles and due dates vary according to geographic area. | <urn:uuid:e8b7a27d-943a-4773-9030-f390dd730f79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newtoncitizen.com/news/2010/oct/26/electric-bill-error-affects-thousands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985891 | 352 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Weight Gain Often Unrecognized by Young Women
Those on birth control shots and young black women more alert to added pounds, study finds
FRIDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Many young American women fail to recognize recent weight gain, and self-perception of weight gain appears to be significantly influenced by race, ethnicity and birth control methods, according to a new study.
The findings are important because weight gain increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and other obesity-related health problems, said the researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
They surveyed 466 women, average age 25, about their weight and other health measures every six months for three years. Nearly one-third of the women did not recognize weight gains of 4.5 pounds during a six-month period, and nearly one-quarter did not recognize weight gains of 8.8 pounds.
Those most likely to recognize weight gain were black women and those who used the birth control injection depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, or DMPA.
The study appears online and in the March print issue of the Journal of Women's Health.
"We were surprised to find that race and ethnicity are determinants of accurate recognition of weight gain, predictors that have never before been reported," lead author Mahbubur Rahman, an assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, said in a university news release.
Further research is needed to explore the link between race, ethnicity and self-perception of weight, he added.
Rahman said the finding that women who use DMPA are more likely to recognize weight gain may be due to the fact that this form of birth control has been widely reported to be associated with weight gain. This may make users of DMPA more likely to monitor their weight.
"In prior studies, we've reported that one-quarter of reproductive-age women who are overweight or obese consider themselves to be normal weight. Misperception of actual weight coupled with inaccuracies in self-perception of weight gain is a threat to the success of obesity-prevention programs," Rahman said. "Changing a health behavior depends on patients understanding susceptibility to a health problem."
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers advice about preventing weight gain.Robert Preidt SOURCE: University of Texas Medical Branch, news release, Jan. 10, 2012 Related Articles
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TOKYO (AP) — Heavy rains and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas left at least 20 people dead in Japan on Sunday as it moved slowly northward past the country's western coast. At least 50 others were missing, local media said.
Evacuation orders and advisories were issued to 460,000 people in western and central Japan. At least 3,600 people were stranded by flooded rivers, landslides and collapsed bridges that were hampering rescue efforts, Kyodo News agency reported.
The typhoon dumped record amounts of rain in some areas. It was the country's worst storm since one in 2004 that left 98 people either dead or missing, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
Talas damaged Nijojo Castle in the ancient city of Kyoto, tearing a large piece of plaster from the gate wall. The castle, a popular tourist destination, is designated an important cultural treasure.
Public broadcaster NHK showed a bridge swept away after intense rain caused a river to swell with brown torrents. People holding umbrellas waded through knee-deep water in city streets and residential areas. Cars were washed away.
The center of the season's 12th typhoon was moving slowly north across the East Sea/Sea of Japan off Japan's west coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
It crossed the southern island of Shikoku and the central part of the main island of Honshu overnight Saturday.
That area is hundreds of miles from Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast.
Because of the storm's slow speed, the agency warned that heavy rains and strong winds were likely to continue and could cause more flooding and landslides. It issued landslide warnings in nearly all of the country's prefectures.
Fears were growing of additional damage from more mudslides because the ground already was soaked.
Three homes were buried in a landslide in Wakayama prefecture. One woman whose identity was still being confirmed died, four remained missing and a 14-year old girl was saved from the debris, police said.
Overall in the hard-hit prefecture, 10 people were dead and 32 people were missing, they said.
Seven people were reported missing in nearby Nara prefecture after their homes were swept down a river, NHK said.
Among the dead was a woman who appeared to be in her 30s whose body was found in a river in Ehime prefecture on Shikoku, police said.
A 73-year-old man in Nara prefecture died after a landslide caused his house to collapse, police said.
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On the verge of the decree of Canonical Erection of the Ordinariate in the UK provided for in the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, it is worth looking back a year to the debates that followed shortly after it was announced. Here is the full text of an article by Fr Mark Woodruff published in The Tablet in October 2009, as he looked back across the previous 15 years to address concerns and fears about the motives and outlook of Anglicans becoming Catholics and, in view of many questions about what Anglican Patrimony might mean, the hopes and contribution they have wanted to offer, with a special emphasis on Unity and Mission.
Fourteen years ago, twelve priests were ordained by Cardinal Hume in Westminster Cathedral. They had been priests of the Church of England, invited to bring their Anglicanism with them. Outside there was a demonstration of Catholic supporters of the women’s ordination to whom the new priests were a sign of contradiction. For months the candidates had been described in the press as defectors, dissidents, traditionalists, disloyal. It is interesting that there are similar reservations about the kind of people, their motivation and baggage, who may join the ordinariates set up by Anglicanorum Coetibus. We turned out not to be Trojan horses in 1995 and I suspect there is no more cause for grievance today than then. The Apostolic Constitution is to be a fact of our Church’s life – our faith must be that all things work together for good to those who love God.
When I became a Catholic it was not to negate Anglicanism, but to be embraced by the Catholic Church. When I am asked why I became a Catholic, the only answer is, “Because I believe the Catholic faith is true”. I learned this faith in Anglican Sunday School, choirs and organ lofts, an Anglican university course, the cathedrals and my life-changing training for ordination with the remarkable religious order, the Community of the Resurrection. All this I treasure and brought with me. And in the prayer inserted into the rite of our ordination by the Holy See it was thankfully received and brought to fruition in the presbyterate of the Catholic Church. I did not become a Catholic in order to become an ex-Anglican.
Cardinal Hume instilled in us that the purposes of the Catholic Church are not served by hurting the Church of England, our vital ecumenical partner. Peter must strengthen his brethren. Somehow our ordinations had to be seen as ecumenical moments; we had to reconcile them to the Catholic Church’s promoting Christian Unity. I fear I handled the transition poorly and my journey felt to some Anglican friends like an act of schism. So I resolved to work as a Catholic for the unity of Christians.
By the same token, whatever misgivings some have about the Apostolic Constitution, we have to discern its purpose as an instrument of Christian Unity. We owe the Anglicans who may take up its provisions not to caricature them. Catholic Anglicans are of various schools and histories. Generalisations like “traditionalists”, “dissidents”, or “extreme Anglo-Catholics” may be handy, but they encourage prejudice and fail to do justice to a rich weave of traditions that soon we will be asked to welcome. There are High Anglicans of the mainstream “Catholic but Reformed” tradition. There are “middle of the road” Anglicans who can find themselves at home in a Catholic parish in
, feeling they naturally belong to the same western Catholic tradition. There are those who looked to Orthodoxy to support an Anglican non-papal Catholicism. There are Anglo-Papalists who, despite Apostolicae Curae, insisted after the 1910 Edinburgh Mission Conference that true Christian Unity involves the whole Church, including Roman Catholics. Some worship only in the Roman rite, a tradition Roman Catholics find difficult to comprehend but which we could credit as the exchange of spiritual gifts commended in Unitatis Redintegratio. There are also “Prayer Book Catholics”, whose Catholicism is expressed in the historic and contemporary Anglican formularies. France
From these backgrounds will come not theological or ritualist reactionaries, but fellow Christians who share the same faith as ours. Last year, the eminent Anglican ecumenist Mary Tanner observed that closing the period of reception on women’s ordination before it was resolved by the Church as a whole in the future meant that those who could not accept it no longer enjoyed an assured place within the Church of England. And Cardinal Kasper at the 2008 Lambeth Conference informed the Anglican bishops that “the ordination of women to the episcopate effectively and definitively blocks a possible recognition of Anglican Orders”. It is not surprising that those whose Anglican Christianity aspired for consummation in visible unity with the Roman Catholic Church have sought the corporate reunion they have prayed for over a century – or that Pope Benedict has responded - especially now that the restoration of complete communion envisaged by Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey has “receded” as a “realistic possibility”.
What patrimony will they bring? There are Anglican traditions of spirituality, preaching, mission and theology in which the Anglican and
both recognise the same faith. There is an Anglican approach to music and liturgy borne of 460 years using the vernacular that makes even their celebration of the Roman rite distinctive. There is the liturgy derived from the Book of Common Prayer that has been the mark of the Pastoral Provision for former Anglicans in the Catholic Churches . I can still recite the Prayer Book services from memory. Perhaps the most distinctive form of Anglican patrimony is its hymnography. Often misunderstood by Catholic liturgists as out of place, this is a comprehensive body of doxological theology from the Greek, Latin, Reformation, Independent and Wesley traditions, as well as the Victorian and postwar “hymn explosions”. Its careful arrangement at services is a subtle science. For Anglicans it has been the most important means of teaching doctrine and fostering spirituality. As a gift to the wider Catholic Church it should not be underestimated. United States
Accommodating the “objective reality” of Anglican liturgical life is a signal that there is nothing distinctive of the Anglican tradition that cannot be encompassed in the contemporary Catholic Church. Perhaps the most hopeful development in ecumenical dialogue in recent times has been receptive ecumenism, which asks each tradition what with integrity it can receive from another to make its own as a step to unity. Through Anglicanorum Coetibus is not the Catholic Church receiving the gifts of another tradition? In the ecumenical long term, does this internal awareness of Anglican identity not provide Catholics with a greater disposition towards unity between them and all Anglicans?
Will many come? It will take courage, time and discernment. Some will discover that they remain convinced Anglicans. Others will be uncertain of how they will be understood. In the 1990s some people’s long sacramental life as Anglicans was disregarded; they were put in RCIA as though they were candidates for baptism or new to the notion of Catholicism. One priest told me they had to have a desert experience. Another said, “This is for the Forty Martyrs.” Hurt and repelled, some walked away. We do not thus treat Catholics coming from the other side of the world while they get acclimatised to UK Catholicism. There would be no question of withholding communion; nor should we set back Catholic Anglicans who come to share our faith. But we have come a long way. If we say that the Universal Church of Christ perfectly subsists in our Catholic Church, there should be no limit to our capacity to embrace diversity in our unity.
It is painfully obvious, however, that corporate reunion for some Anglicans leaves most out of the equation. No one joining the ordinariates can turn their backs and be glad of this. Becoming Catholics they make the teaching on the Church in Lumen Gentium and its inevitable orientation towards visible unity their own. Lest they be signs of contradiction to this, it must become their special duty to redouble the charity that binds all those with an Anglican patrimony and energetically assist the Catholic bishops in their concerted efforts with the Anglican Communion on mission to an ever more secularised society, that the world may believe. | <urn:uuid:21c7919a-8fed-4be5-9c82-866486f6cc91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thecatholicleague.blogspot.jp/2011/01/coming-into-communion.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966007 | 1,764 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Time to Get Down to Business
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We can no longer use the excuse of an upcoming election to kick the can down the road on the immediate economic and fiscal challenges facing the country. The president and the outgoing Congress must work immediately—this year—to prevent the fiscal cliff and lay the groundwork for a Big Deal to restore our nation’s long-term fiscal balance and boost American energy production.
The closer we get to the end of the year with no deal, the more uncertainty we will see on the part of job creators and consumers. The potential for upheaval in the stock and financial markets will grow. And if Congress fails to act, our fragile recovery will be derailed and America could cede its mantle as the world’s largest and most dynamic economy.
The stakes could not be higher or the need for action more urgent.
A lame-duck session of Congress convenes this week with a total of 16 legislative working days for the remainder of the year. Lawmakers must act to prevent the nation from going off the fiscal cliff on January 1,
2013, when the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and other important tax provisions expire and $1.2 trillion in indiscriminate spending cuts take effect. Congress must extend the tax provisions and identify reasonable spending cuts that will not adversely impact national defense or cost jobs. Otherwise, the economy will dip back into recession, and unemployment will spike to 9%.
Then, the really hard work begins. Lawmakers and the administration must strive for an agreement on a framework for a Big Deal that reforms the tax code, tackles deficit spending, restructures entitlements, and embraces revenue-raising opportunities, such as increased domestic energy development.
When Congress closed up shop before the election, lawmakers also left dangling a host of important measures that could help boost our recovery. During the lame duck, they must work to bring some of them over the finish line, including passage of Russia PNTR, approval of the Law of the Sea Treaty, regulatory reform, cybersecurity legislation, and a high-skilled immigration bill.
Political gridlock is a luxury this nation can no longer afford. We face tremendous challenges. The longer we delay, the more painful the solutions will be.
The business community stands ready to work with the president and Congress to bolster economic growth, create jobs, and achieve a Big Deal to restore our nation’s fiscal balance. It’s time to get down to business. | <urn:uuid:9466d759-8311-4efa-9f02-f841e58d470f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.freeenterprise.com/economy-taxes/time-get-down-business?qt-disqus_widgets=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927087 | 540 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Nothing in politics leads to more divisiveness and creates more opportunity for corruption than taxes. Cuyahoga County Council's proposals to change how the Boards of Revision are appointed risk undermining the checks and balances that are at the core of the new county government ("County Council may give up much of its say in hiring hearing officers," Wednesday).
If the opposing party requirement is lifted, it is all but guaranteed that one party will have total control over one of the most important functions of local government -- collection of property taxes. And while we may like and trust our current county executive, allowing the executive branch alone to appoint the panels could open the door to corruption should a less honorable person be elected in the future.
We've seen firsthand what happens when one party or one person gets too much power. Let's not make the same mistake.
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On July 28, 2010, The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) issued a draft Compliance Order to determine how distributed generation (DG) can impact NV Energy’s energy delivery system performance, reliability, distribution operations, and electricity rates. As a result of its significant experience examining DG integration on utility systems in Nevada and the U.S., Navigant was selected by NVE to conduct a study to address the PUCN’s primary objective contained in its Order, summarized in the following question:
‘What is the “maximum amount of DG from renewable energy that can be integrated on the distribution system of the Companies within the existing operating limits?”’
Navigant’s study focused on evaluating the technical and economic impacts of DE on NV Energy’s system and its ratepayers. The study does not address the cost, economics or value of EG from the DE owner’s perspective. Further our investigation focuses on DE installed on NV Energy’s distribution lines (feeders) or customer premises. | <urn:uuid:6a590710-b302-4f95-b50d-2acde864fda5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.navigant.com/insights/library/energy/2011/distributed-generation-study/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927359 | 217 | 1.78125 | 2 |
It's a simple-enough matter A firearm design either evolves to keep up with the needs of the user, or it becomes obsolete and falls by the wayside. Probably the best example of this is Browning's 1911. Similarly, the AR-15 has likewise evolved in an amazing manner to keep up with the needs and desires of its end-users.
From a lightweight combat rifle sent to battle Kalashnikov's Avtomat in the jungles of Southeast Asia, the AR-15 has continually evolved down through the decades. From being considered a poor joke in the accuracy department, it has gone on to drive the M14 from the 600-yard line in NRA High Power. Scoffed at for being a "poodle shooter," the AR has grown fangs and is now available in a variety of calibers, including bigbores like the .458 SOCOM and .50 Beowulf. Its ergonomics and accuracy have allowed it to dominate three-gun and steel-plate matches. Today ARs ride in an increasing number of patrol cars, and M16A2s, A4s and M4 carbines are turning live terrorists into dead ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Without a doubt, the AR hasn't stood in one place for very long. With the surge of research-and-development work due to our war on terror and the recent demise of the assault weapons ban, the AR-15 is more popular today than ever. So let's take a look at where the venerable AR is headed.
Brass And Bullets
One of the most exciting changes to take place in recent years for the AR has been the introduction of both improved ammunition and entirely new chamberings.
Without a doubt, the driving force in improving the performance of the .223 has come from Service Rifle competition. With the 55-, 62- and 69-grain bullets unable to compete with the .30-caliber 168-grain Sierras at 600 yards, service-rifle shooters clamored for something better. This they eventually got in the form of 75-, 77-, 80- and 90-grain match bullets. Overnight the .223 went from being a 300-yard gun to being able to hold its own against the .308 at 600 yards and beyond.
One company that took the lead in this area was Black Hills Ammunition. Due to its quality and consistency, Black Hills quickly won every contract for .223 match ammo for every branch of the Armed Forces. When the war on terror began and our Special Forces needed a long-range load for the new SPR, they simply fielded 77-grain Black Hills Match loads.
Designated MK 262 Mod 0, this load quickly earned an enviable reputation in Afghanistan for excellent accuracy and superior terminal performance. Kills were made with this load out to 700 meters, and in one engagement two SF operators armed with SPRs killed 75 Taliban with 77 rounds. Upgraded to become the current MK 262 Mod 1, this load features a 77-grain Sierra MatchKing with a cannelure for reliable operation in full-automatic weapons.
While you cannot buy MK 262 Mod 1 ammunition, you can purchase 77-grain match ammo from Black Hills. This load is almost identical except for the lack of a cannelure and no crimp on the primer.
While MK 262 Mod 1 gets the glory, Hornady's 75-grain TAP load is also making its presence felt in Afghanistan and Iraq. Also in use by certain Special Forces units, Hornady's 75-grain HPBT TAP load features a 75-grain Match bullet and offers improved terminal performance and superior accuracy compared to the standard-issue 62-grain M855 Green Tip.
Today, though, the AR is no longer confined to only the .223 cartridge. Current models are chambered in a wide variety of pistol and rifle calibers. In this regard probably the most interesting are the 6.5mm Grendel, 6.8x43mm SPC, .458 SOCOM and .50 Beowulf. Both the 6.5mm Grendel and 6.8x43mm SPC are modern intermediate cartridges based on existing cases.
Developed by Alexander Arms, the 6.5mm Grendel is based on a PPC case and throws bullets weighing from 90 to 144 grains. The standard load drives a 123-grain Lapua Scenar at 2,650 fps. Thanks to a very high ballistic coefficient, this load has less drop and wind drift than a 175-grain Sierra from a .308 out past 1,000 yards.
The 6.8x43mm Special Purpose Cartridge was developed by the 5th SFG as a CQB round. Firing a 115-grain OTM bullet, this cartridge was designed to offer superior terminal performance compared to the 5.56 M855 ball round. This it does quite handily. | <urn:uuid:9a274fae-c692-44c2-bbc8-8af5af4de71f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archives.gunsandammo.com/content/evolution-ar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950989 | 995 | 1.578125 | 2 |
On the 49th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, it seems fitting to reflect on where we are in fulfilling it.
Back in January, I wrote this for King’s birthday:
It should surprise none of us that a leader villified by the conservative white community as “uppity” would become as innocuous a figure in our time as King has become. Discussions of race relations in the United States seem to require the opening statement: “let’s begin by recognizing how far we’ve come”. We bow before the common wisdom that demands that we celebrate that racism is still practiced, but illegal! That our systems reinforce segregation by income rather than race specifically. That discrimination based on race is passe, unlike sexual orientation, disability, or felony conviction, which is still wildly popular. That King’s daughter would still live in a world in which her worth to the labor market is still 77% of a man’s.
For more, you can find the post here.
The problem with conversations about race in 2012 is that we are living with a dream unfulfilled. King’s Dream is a dramatic incarnation of GOD’s dream–that King spoke of not only an end to segregation, but discrimination and those means by which the powerful demean and steal the power from others. In our day, it is not only race, but economics, ability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, education, experience, geography, and social diversity that allow the powerful to not only keep, but expand power.The very things that prevent a little black girl and a little white girl from playing side by side.
It was 17 years after that moment that “Trickle Down Economics” was unleashed on the world. A theory that argued for redistributing money to the top of the food chain so that the rest could fight over the scraps. The very antipothy of King’s Dream.
And even now, in this election season, we are having the same conversation as one slate of candidates has made the same ethic its primary economic proposition, calling such distribution a benefit to us all, as it is they who are the job creators.
And yet, it is still so clearly about both race and inequality. About a system that maintains inequality. We defend a system of unfairness because we believe it actually is fair. This was Jesus’s very critique of the Pharisees, whose arguments of fairness to the widow whose son has died are condemned by Jesus as wholly unfair.
We foolishly believe that the issue is about internal prejudice, when the graver ill is systemic oppression. Our race legacy is that we have forgotten the very definition of racism. Until we rediscover it, King’s Dream, as GOD’s Dream, will never be a reality. | <urn:uuid:7be0f095-bcf8-4818-bcea-1d6ef1005472> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://drewdowns.net/2012/08/28/the-dream-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972727 | 596 | 2.578125 | 3 |
This course is an introduction to the sociological examination of economic phenomena. As a subfield that has grown rapidly over the past twenty years, economic sociology has focused on three major activities: First, it has examined the prerequisites for and constraints to economic processes as defined by economists. Second, it has extended economic models to social phenomena rarely considered in the domain of economics. Third, and most ambitiously, it has tried to search for alternative accounts of phenomena typically formulated only in economic terms. This course will provide an overview of these broad concerns and approaches in economic sociology, and review the sociological explanations of economic activities of production, consumption and distribution in a wide range of settings. | <urn:uuid:b64c3414-49f7-4287-a7b7-2dec19cafe44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scholar.harvard.edu/garip/classes/economic-sociology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959616 | 137 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Brian King–Every semester, the Junior Fellows partner with a test-prep company to offer a mock LSAT. The mock LSAT is an actual LSAT previously used by the Law School Admissions Council. By testing themselves on real tests, students can get a fairly accurate indicator of their readiness at a specific time. Given that most of the Junior Fellows want to be lawyers, the partnership makes sense, and provides a great service to SHSU students who are considering law school.
The session began with a Kyle Farmer, a representative from Kaplan Testing, giving a brief overview of the test.
The test is offered only four times a year: February, June, October, and December. He encourages a June test date, which gives students the opportunity to retake it in October or December if we perform poorly. (Our professor, on the other hand, encourages an October test date, which gives us the summer to study.) Farmer also stressed the importance of being to execute logical reasoning under timed conditions.
Just after the Mock LSAT, Kaplan provided scores for the participants, allowing test takers to get a first-hand look at how well they did and what they may need to work on in the future.
Most of the participants were taking the Mock LSAT for the first time, and I was one of those first-time testers. After the test evaluations, Kaplan re-visited some of the “harder” questions on the Mock LSAT in order to provide test-taking strategies and tips.
The mean score at SHSU on these Mock LSATs is 140, which means the students have a lot of work to do before they can expect to get into the law school of their choice. Many students are worried about taking a prep test prior to studying. Actually, that’s the best time to take the test. It gives you a baseline from which to work, it allows you to determine subsequently whether your studying is improving your score, and it gives you information about what you most need to work on so that you can target your studying to some extent.
The key, I think, is to (1) get your baseline score. Then, (2) to create a study schedule that fits your time frame–from the time of the Mock Test to the real thing. (3) Develop backup plans. (4) Develop the other skills and attributes necessary to succeed–high GPA, letters of recommendation, a good resume, interesting stories.
Doing well means studying hard over time, listening to advice from others who have been there, and working closely with your pre-law adviser and professors to position yourself for success. | <urn:uuid:2daaaee8-152d-4f46-b36e-cffed65cca69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://politicalsciencejuniorfellows.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/taking-the-lsat-its-skills-not-facts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962483 | 541 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Finally you can print the inside and outside onto different sides of a single sheet.
First hide the inside layer and make the outside layers visible again so this can be printed first. You will also need to hide the Background layer as this has the guide line on it. If the paper you are using has a side for printing photos, ensure that you're printing onto this. Then flip the page around the horizontal axis and feed the paper back into the printer and hide the outside layers and make the inside layer visible. You can now print the inside to complete the card.
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NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, who is leading the demand for rolling back petrol prices , has it within her powers to mitigate the impact of the last two price hikes for consumers in her home state.
West Bengal has one of the highest state levies on petrol and a reduction on local taxes, bringing them on a par with Delhi's state taxes, will offset the Rs 4.50 price increase effected over the two recent price revisions.
Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has been very vocal in her opposition to last week's petrol pice hike and had even threatened to pull out from the UPA.
Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Trinamool Congress needed to look at their state levies if they were serious about the problems of the common people, though he said the centre needed to do more than just raise prices.
The pump price of petrol at present is Rs 73.15 in West Bengal while it is Rs 68.64 in Delhi. West Bengal imposes special state levies on petrol like toll taxes, delivery charge and a special surcharge on sales tax - charges that are absent in most other states.
States like Kerala have recently slashed levies to cushion consumers from the steep hike in petrol prices. Bengal under the Left Front government, last year, had also adopted similar steps to protect the consumer.
An IOC official said if the West Bengal government did away with special levies and reduced sales tax to 20% from 25%, it would be able to reduce petrol prices by 6 per litre.
Around 40% of what consumers pay as retail prices for petrol nationally goes to the government in the form of tax revenue. On every litre of petrol sold, the centre collects Rs 14.78 as taxes and cess. In states like Bengal, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, the states' share of taxes on petrol is more than the centre's. So while Bengal collects Rs 16.01 every time a litre of petrol is sold, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu rake in Rs 16.85 and Rs 15.94 a litre.
A former oil ministry official said he was surprised at the opposition to petrol price hike. "Petrol prices do not impact the poor, and the state can reduce some levies to provide relief to consumers," he said. The numbers also show that petrol consumption is far less than diesel consumption. While the average monthly petrol sales in the state totals 45,890 kilo litres, diesel sales are 1,66,204 kl.
According to a Planning Commission member, the Trinamool Congress had raised the ante on petrol prices as a bargaining chip to secure a lucrative financial package for the states. "This is a political game and the entire opposition against the petrol price by Bengal is more to do with the financial package that they are demanding," he added.
IOC chairman R S Butola said that the sales tax structure in some states could be looked into. The center had slashed customs and excise duties in July forgoing Rs 49,000 crore by waiving customs duties on crude and lowering it on petroleum products, and sates could look at similar options.
Brinda Karat of the CPM, West Bengal's principal opposition party says it is for the centre to slash duties as the states are starved of resources. | <urn:uuid:99e1c05c-8339-487f-963c-26dcb7670684> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-11-09/news/30377837_1_petrol-prices-litre-sales-tax | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967857 | 678 | 1.539063 | 2 |
By Chris Roberts
By Joe Eskenazi
By Albert Samaha
By Mike Billings
By Rachel Swan
By Erin Sherbert
By Joe Eskenazi
By Albert Samaha
A scientific prodigy, Pan achieved a high position as a mainland China government scientist after graduating from the department of astronomy at Nadjing University in 1967, and later receiving his doctorate from Academy Sinica in Taiwan.
But he was intrigued by the careers of the Western scientists he met when he traveled to conferences -- the raucous hubbub of competing theories, the state-of-the-art research on multimillion-dollar instruments. In 1980, he was courted by the U.S. Naval Observatory and took a two-year appointment as a visiting scientist there. When offered an appointment at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in 1987, he grabbed it. And when Harvard scientists Mike Shao and Mark Colavita jumped to the West Coast to work on the next generation of interferometers -- arrays of individual telescopes whose images are combined -- Pan followed suit.
He would be joining an astronomical dream team that would operate in dream conditions. Working on Mount Palomar outside Los Angeles, in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, these scientists would develop the most advanced instrument of its kind. Under the direction of Caltech Professor Shri Kulkarni, Shao and Colavita would perfect the NASA interferometer, which delicately combines the light from several telescopes in order to detect objects no other instrument has. Pan would conduct astrophysical research on the instrument.
If all went as planned, the Caltech-JPL team would eventually move from Mount Palomar to Hawaii, where the researchers would turn the Keck astronomical observatory's apartment-size, 10-meter telescopes into a pair of combined-image binoculars. Thereafter, the team would spearhead NASA plans to send a binocular telescope into space at a cost some say could reach $10 billion.
The mission of this NASA-funded research program was almost Star Trekian in its ambitions: These men were to find planets -- and perhaps, the conditions for life -- in star systems far from our own.
But the dream team has faltered in its trajectory because Xiaopei Pan's research went where no NASA-funded scientists had gone before: The results, he believes, show that in at least some cases, Butler and Marcy have been wrong, and found planets when they should have found stars.
Other members of Pan's team disagree. Shri Kulkarni, the leader of Pan's research team, says Pan based his conclusions on observations made before the Mount Palomar interferometer was perfected, and before the team could make reliable scientific interpretations based on its data. Shao and Colavita say the same thing.
"If you want to go out on a limb, you could say it is resolved -- which wouldn't be wise," says Kulkarni of Pan's assertion. "It takes a couple of years to debug these systems. Most of us in the group don't think we can say anything about whether 51 Pegasi has a companion star."
A companion star, instead of a planet.
Pan, a specialist in the science of binary, or double, stars, likes to remind people that lone stars like our own sun are a minority in the universe. Most stars are paired with companions; these dual stars spin around in space, like the tips of a propeller blade, in eons-long dances. Some 70 percent of the stars in the universe are joined in this manner, akin to the double suns that hovered over Luke Skywalker's home in the movie Star Wars.
"The heavens are like a human society," says Pan. "Couples are common, singles are rare."
Pan believes at least two of the stars Butler and Marcy say have planets are actually being tugged around by binary companion stars. Using the experimental interferometer telescopes atop Mount Palomar, Pan has been observing the stars 51 Pegasi and tau Bootis over the course of nearly a year, and he believes he has enough evidence to submit a paper to Nature this month that would erase two of Butler and Marcy's planets from the sky.
If Pan's assertion were true, it would explain everything. It would account for Gray's stellar pulsations, the wobbles of Marcy and Butler -- everything. As they spin around in lock step, the competing gravity of binary stars can cause one another's mass of nuclear plasma to billow and slosh in a way similar to how David Gray says 51 Pegasi does. As for the wobbling back and forth that Marcy and Butler observed: Binary stars pull each other around in one of the most dramatic gravitational dances in the known universe.
Pan believes so strongly in his results that he plans to submit his paper to Nature in defiance of the other members of his research team. This is a highly unusual move. Until now, papers he has produced using the Palomar interferometer have also borne the names of Kulkarni, Colavita, and Shao.
Already, Kulkarni, Colavita, and Shao have gone into an astronomer's version of spin mode, working to stem the public relations disaster of NASA-funded astronomers bickering in public.
"We've now decided to have one spokesman at Caltech, which is me, one at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is Mark," says Kulkarni, warming to the task of public relations flack. "At the end of this conversation, you will realize that I haven't told you anything at all." | <urn:uuid:bb77113a-0a17-4259-a12c-69ea649beba5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sfweekly.com/1997-07-02/news/planet-wars/5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95794 | 1,169 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The Situation of Lying
Posted by The Situationist Staff on April 7, 2008
Melaine Linder of Forbes has an interesting piece on lying, what situations bring it on, and how it can be detected. We excerpt her article below.
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According to social psychologist Leonard Saxe, director of the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University . . . the right pressures or incentives will cause anybody to lie.
To be fair, most of the time we’re just trying to be nice. (When your girlfriend asks if she looks good in her new dress, most guys–if they know what’s good for them–say yes.) Indeed, according to DePaulo’s study, such “false-positive” fibs are delivered 10 to 20 times more often than spurious denials of culpability.
Thankfully, too: “We lie less frequently to our significant others because we’re more invested in those relationships,” says Jeffrey Hancock, associate professor of communications at Cornell University.
For all the Elliot Spitzers, Jeffrey Skillings and Bill Clintons in the world, studies show that men and women lie with equal frequency. One difference, according to a 2002 University of Massachusetts study conducted by psychologist Robert Feldman: Women are more likely to lie to make other people feel good, while men tend to lie to make themselves look better.
How to catch liars in the act? Traditional polygraph tests, around in some form or fashion since the early 1900s, use sensors to detect fluctuations in blood pressure, pulse, respiration and sweat in response to probing questions. Two problems with polygraphs: First, they only work about 80% of the time, according to the American Polygraph Association. Second, it’s not like we are going to carry all that hardware to a business meeting or a bar.
Skilled liars don’t break a sweat, but the rest of us get a little fidgety. Four possible giveaways: shifty eyes, higher vocal pitch, perspiration and heavier breathing. Of course, not everyone who doesn’t meet your gaze is a liar.
“Certain behavioral traits, like averting eye contact, could be cultural and not indicative of a liar,” says Joseph Buckley, president of John E. Reid & Associates, which has provided interview and interrogation training to more than 500,000 law enforcement agents to date. The company is also the creator of the Reid Technique, a nine-step interrogation process employed by many U.S. law enforcement agencies.
Another clue: imprecise pronouns. To psychologically distance themselves from a lie, people often pepper their tales with second- and third-person pronouns like “you,” “we” and “they,” says Hancock.
Liars are also more likely to ask that questions be repeated and begin responses with phrases like, “to tell you the truth,” and “to be perfectly honest,” says Reid.
When telling the truth, people often make hand gestures to the rhythm of their speech. Hands emphasize points or phrases–a natural and compelling technique when they actually believe the points they’re making. The less certain will keep gesticulations in check, says Hancock.
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|Mandy Patinkin, public domain (Wikipedia)|
Mandy Patinkin became famous for this line in The Princess Bride. Then in 2005-2007, he starred in Criminal Minds, a successful television series about serial killers.
When he quit Criminal Minds unexpectedly, he explained: “It was destroying my heart and my soul... I'm very disturbed by the fact that after a long day of work, this is what people go to watch to unwind - they watch horrible, misogynistic violent activity. It saddens me. There's so much else to do."
Television today is full of graphic, disturbing violence and glorified immorality. Such shows are damaging our hearts and souls, making us depressed, and changing our understanding of right and wrong.
If God forbids something, He does it because He loves us and wants to protect us from harm. Help us, Lord, to agree with the Psalmist who wrote, “I will set before my eyes no vile thing” (Psalm 101:3). | <urn:uuid:6373917c-8896-4e29-8780-3993e90aa5f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://biblelovenotes.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-name-is-inigo-montoya.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956204 | 215 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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A gift of money or of personal property, title to which is passed under the terms of a will.
A bequest or gift of goods or chattels by testament. This word, though properly applicable to bequests of personal estate only, has nevertheless been extended to property not technically within its import, in order to effectuate the intention of the testator, so as to include real property and annuities. Devise is the term more properly applied to gifts of real estate.
The testator's intention, if uncertain, is to be sought, and any words which manifest the intention to give or create a legacy are sufficient.
Legacies are of different kinds - general, specific and residuary.
A legacy is general, when it is so given as not to amount to a bequest of a specific part of a testator's personal estate; as of a sum of money generally or out of the testator's personal estate or the like. A general legacy is relative to the testator's death; it is a bequest of such a sum or such a thing at that time or a direction to the executors, if such a thing be not in the testator's possession at that time, to procure it for the legatee.
A specific legacy is a bequest of a particular thing or money specified and distinguished from all other things of the same kind; e.g., of a particular horse, a particular piece of plate, a particular term of years and the like, which would vest immediately with the assent of the executor. A specific legacy has relation to the time of making the will; it is a bequest of some particular thing in the testator's possession at that time, if such a thing should be in the testator's possession at the time of his death. If it should not be in the testator's possession, the legatee has no claim. There are legacies of quantity in the nature of specific legacies, as of so much money with reference to a particular fund for their payment.
This kind of legacy is so far general and differs so much in effect from a specific one, that if the funds be called in or fail, the legatees will not be deprived of their legacies, but be permitted to receive them out of the general assets.
A residuary legacy is a bequest of all the testator's personal estate, not otherwise effectually disposed of by his will.
As to the interest given, legacies may be considered as; absolute for life, or in remainder. A legacy is absolute when it is given without condition and is to vest immediately.
A legacy for life is sometimes given with an executory limitation after the death of the tenant for life to another person; in this case, the tenant for life is entitled to the possession of the legacy, but when it is of specific article's, the first legatee must sign and deliver to the second, an inventory of the chattels expressing that they are in his custody for life only and that afterwards they are to be delivered and remain to the use and benefit of the second legatee. A bequest for life, if of specific things, is a gift of the property.
In personal property there cannot be a remainder in the strict sense of the word and therefore every future bequest of personal property, whether it be preceded or not by any particular bequest or limited on a certain or uncertain event, is an executory bequest and falls under the rules by which that mode of limitation is regulated. An executory bequest cannot be prevented or destroyed by any alteration whatsoever, in the estate, out of which or after which it is limited. And this privilege of executory bequests, which exempts them from being barred or destroyed, is the foundation of an invariable rule; that the event on which an interest of this sort is permitted to take effect, is such as must happen within a life and twenty-one years.
As to the right acquired by the legatee, legacies may be considered as vested and contingent. 1. A vested legacy is one by which a certain interest, either present or future in possession, passes to the legatee. 2. A contingent legacy is one which is so given to a person, that it is uncertain whether any interest will ever vest in him.
A legacy may be lost by abatement, ademption and lapse. When the legatee dies before the testator or before the condition upon which the legacy is given be performed or before the time at which it is directed to vest in interest have arrived, the legacy is lapsed or extinguished.
As to the payment of legacies, it is proper to consider out of what fund they are to be paid; at what time; and to whom. It is a general rule that the personal estate is the primary fund for the payment of legacies. When the real estate is merely charged with those demands, the personal assets are to be applied in the first place towards their liquidation.
When legacies are given generally to persons under no disability to receive them the payments ought to be made at the end of a year next after the testator's decease. The executor is not obliged to pay them sooner although the testator may have directed them to be discharged within six months after his death, because the law allows the executor one year from the demise of the testator, to ascertain and settle his testator's affairs; and it presumes that at the expiration of that period and not before, all debts due by the estate have been satisfied and the executor to be then able, properly, to apply the residue among the legatees according to their several rights and interests.
The legacy under an universal title is that by which a testator bequeaths a certain proportion of the effects of which the law permits him to dispose; e.g., a half, a third, all his immovables or all his movables, or a fixed proportion of all his immovables or of all his movables.
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Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo: 301 Koan Stories
Dogen Zenji’s Shinji Shobogenzo (also known as Shobogenzo Sanbyakusoku or the Mana Shobegenzo) is a collection of 301 koans compiled by Dogen, begun probably before he made his famous trip to China in 1223. Steven Heine, in Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts, states that the Shinji Shobogenzo text was "complied" in 1235. (Heine, 1994: 105) Legend has it that Dogen copied the entire 100 koans of the Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record) in one evening just before he left China to return to Japan (Heine, 1994: 3)
For many years the authenticity of Shenji Shobogenzo was in doubt, but with the discovery in Kanagawa in 1934 of one volume of this collection, which has been dated at 1288, just 35 years after Dogen’s death in 1253, most scholars now accept the Shenji Shobogenzo as an authentic Dogen work.
When Dogen compiled the Shinji Shobogenzo, he did not include any of the commentaries, introductions, or remarks by Hsueh Tou (J. Setcho ) or Yuan Wu k’e Ch’in (J. Engo ) that are usually included in Mumonkan (The Blue Cliff Record) nor the comments by Wang Sung or the poetry of T'ien-tung found in the Shoyoroku (The Book of Serenity). Nor did Dogen add any comments on these koans in the Shinji Shobogenzo, so there are no comments other than brief ones by Nishijima, most of which are a simplified retelling of the story and some remarks on the story. These comments are not meant to be teishos and they do not go into the koan in any depth. He does, however, give an explanation of some of the literary allusions and metaphorical language. For example, on the koan "A Dialogue of Manjusri and Wu Chu", Blue Cliff Record #35, the final line by Manjusri "… three in front and three-and-three behind" was, according to Nishijima "a very common expression in Buddhism in China, used to illustrate a concrete and particular situation. Here it also suggest "few" in relation to the three or five hundred expressed by Master Mujaku." (p. 176) Some students may find these explanations useful in their studies, although care should be taken in relying on others for an explanation of the metaphorical language found in Zen.
Gudo Nishijima was born in Yokohama in 1919 and began studying Buddhism under Master Kodo Sawaki in 1940. He studied law at Tokyo University and spent most of his life working in finance companies, retiring in the late 1970’s. He became a Buddhist priest in 1973 and received Dharma transmission from Master Rempo Niwa in 1977. He has been studying Dogen’s work for over 60 years1 and has translated the entire Kana (or Kaji) Shobogenzo (Treasury of Eyes of the True Teaching (Cleary, 1993: 1)) or, as Nishijima translates it: The Right-Dharma-Eye Treasury (Nishijima, 1994: xiv)) into English in 4 volumes (available from Windbell Publications). This is, as far as I am aware, the only readily available translation of the whole of the Kana Shobogenzo. His Kana Shobogenzo translation has explanatory footnotes which give literal translations of some of the Japanese phrases, inform the reader about the main characters that appear in the work and give some interpretations, based on Nishijima’s understanding, of some of the difficult metaphorical language and allusions. Nishijima’s Shinji Shobogenzo, on the other hand, restricts commentaries to interpretations and retelling, there being no Japanese literal translations or discussion about the characters.
Nishijima’s comments are influenced by his studies of Nagarjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Indeed, he states: "I found that the ideas set forth in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā were exactly the same as those in the Shobogenzo." (Nishijima, 1997: 4) From his studies of both the Shobogenzo and the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Nishijima has developed an interpretation that he calls "the principle of Three Philosophies and One Reality". (Nishijima,1992: 26) This structure he calls SOAR — Subjective, Objective, Action and Reality.
In his paper, Understanding the Shobogenzo, Nishijima breaks the 95-chapter Kana Shobogenzo into these four categories. Furthermore, he sees these categories within Dogen’s essays and goes on to show how to break down the paragraphs, sentences and even compound and character-words into the SOAR structure. (Nishijima, 1991; 26-28) Understanding this aids in appreciating Nishijima’s comments on the Shinji Shobogenzo, although certainly it is not essential.
Nishijima’s translation of this work has some differences from the perhaps more familiar Cleary translations. Thomas Cleary, in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei, translates the famous koan ‘Wild Ducks’ as:
Nishijima has translated this as:
Nishijima goes on with this particular koan but the point is that Master Baso’s questions and response to Hyakujo’s pain are different. It is impossible to say whether this particular koan was recorded by Dogen differently but Victor Sogen Hori (2003: 34 N.2) states that Dogen's copied version of the Hekiganroku contains "significant differences" from the Chang Ming-yuan text upon which all modern versions of the collection are based. However, Katsuki Sekida, in Two Zen Classics, gives quite a different translation:
All three versions have a different tense in Baso’s question:
Baso’s response to Hyakujo’s pain is also different in all three versions: When was this ‘flown away’; Although you said they have flown away, you are always at this place; how can it fly away.
Although there are these differences in translations, the words themselves are never the point of a koan, especially in Rinzai practice. As Cleary has said about koans, "they reveal themselves as guides to specific exercises in Zen perspective and perception." (Cleary, 1993a: xiv) That is, they point to specific aspects of Buddhist understanding of universal principles or stages of Zen experience. (Yamada, 1981: xxx) Another understanding of the use of koans as practice is that "before enlightenment one should look into the intent; after enlightenment, one may then look into the expression as a communicative tool." (Cleary, 1990: xxxix) (see Victor Sogen Hori's Zen Sand for a fuller discussion on koans, their origins and use in Rinzai)
Although the Shinji Shobogenzo does not contain any comments by Dogen, this does not mean that Dogen did not use koans in his teachings. Quite the opposite. Nishijima lists 74 cases from the Shinji Shobogenzo which appear in the Dogen’s Kana Shobogenzo. Hiene (1994: 259-274) lists 178 of the Shinji Shobogenzo koans as showing up in various writings of Dogen. Hopefully, this will lay to rest the simplistic misunderstanding that Soto Zen does not use koans while Rinzai does.
It’s ironic that legend has it that Ta-hui (1089-1163), who was extremely important in the development of Rinzai Zen in China, Korea and Japan, burned the Hekiganroku around 1140, while Dogen supposedly copied it while in China to take back to Japan. Both sects use koans. The difference lays in how they are used and how they are viewed. Tai-hui saw koans as a barrier, something to break through, a "nonconceptual, nondifferentiable and ineffable truth." (Heine, 1994: 31) The koan Mu is a perfect example of this approach, a word beyond intellectualization or conceptualization. Dogen, on the other hand, saw koans as an expression of reality, not something to be condensed but expanded and elaborated upon as expressions of realization. Indeed, Dogen never used the term ‘koan’, which basically means "public record". (Miura & Sasaki, 1965: 4) 2 Dogen’s labels for these stories were either kosoku (ancestral criteria) or innen (cause or result, and circumstances, a story). For Dogen, the term ‘koan’ meant Dharma or the living Universe. (Nishijima, 2003: ii) Hence, genjo-koan means the "realized law of the universe, that is Dharma, or the real Universe itself". (Nishijima & Cross, 1994: 33)
While Rinzai may use koans as "a theme of zazen to be made clear" (Aitken, 1990: 330), Soto has always placed zazen first and foremost, in the form of shikantaza, "just sitting", and used koan study "outside their practice of zazen" (Miura & Sasaki, 1965: xi) as a topic to be lectured on and studied. Heine (1994: 11) theorises that the Shinji Shobogenzo may have been given to beginners at Eiheiji for study until they were ready to tackle to Dogen’s masterwork, the Kana Shobogenzo.
Finally, some criticisms of Nishijima’s translation. There is no table of contents other than a listing of the three books that make up the Shinji Shobogenzo nor is there an index. This makes it very difficult to find any particular koan. I also had doubts about some of Nishijima’s comments and translations. It is difficult to criticise the translations as Dogen’s record varied from some of the more familiar existing English translations. For example, after Nansen killed the cat, he asked Joshu’s opinion. Joshu put his sandals on his head and left. Nansen said, "If you had been here, you could have saved the cat." (Cleary, 2000: 218) Nishijima’s version leaves out Nansen's comment. Is this because Dogen didn’t record this line? It’s impossible to say without seeing the original Japanese. Nishijima sees Joshu's action as an expression of contradiction—Buddhist teaching forbids killing, yet Nansen did kill the cat in order to teach Buddhism. Somehow, I find this explanation unsatisfactory. Tenkei’s comment rings truer, or at least more interesting: "A lot of people try to figure out the part where Joshu puts his sandals on his head, but would you not doubt if Joshu had put on a bandanna and left? Or would you still doubt?" (Cleary, 2000: 218) One explanation I have heard is that putting sandals on one’s head is a classical Chinese expression of humility. 3 I have not been able to verify this, but it certainly shows how interpretations can differ. Although this collection of Dogen's koans is interesting, it is hardly an essential for a Zen library unless one is particularly interested in koan collections. Many, if not most, of these koans are available elsewhere in better anthologies, such as Cleary's translations of the Shoyoroku (The Book of Serenity) and the Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record). These books are more complete, inasmuch they include introductions, verses and commentaries in some depth. Whether Nishijima’s comments are useful, that needs to be left to the student to decide. A competent teacher should be able to guide here.
In one article, written in 1992, Understanding
the Shobogenzo, he claims to have studied it for 50 years while in another
article, written just 5 years later (Japanese Buddhism and the Meiji
Restoration) he claims "more than 60 years". I’ve taken the latter dating.
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Energy curing technology for coatings and other applications continues to grow so quickly that it has spawned another specialized association.
Three technology companies from North America and the UK have teamed up to form the UV LED Curing Association, designed to address what they say is a growing need for researchers, suppliers, integrators and end users to develop and promote use of the technology.
|Proponents say UV LED curing technology can reduce operating costs, increase productivity and is environmentally friendly.|
Developed over the last decade, UV LED Curing is a technology designed to improve the speed, performance and capabilities of a wide variety of curing applications in coatings, adhesives and other areas.
Anticipating Rapid Growth
The association’s founding companies include Oregon-based Phoseon Technology, a global provider of UV LED technology for curing of coatings, adhesives and inks in industrial applications.
“Along with our fellow founders, Phoseon anticipates rapid growth and acceptance of UV LED curing technologies across a wide range of system manufacturers,” said company president and CEO Bill Cortelyou. “The Association will bring together industry players to set guidelines and ensure compatibility across the industry.”
Other founders are UK-based Integration Technology Limited and Lumen Dynamics Group of Ontario.
“UV LED curing technology has been steadily evolving in the market for almost a decade,” said Adrian Lockwood, Managing Director of Integration Technology. “Its application successes continue to generate increased interest.”
“However, industry inconsistencies in language and measurement practices, as well as a general misunderstanding of the technology, continue to breed confusion and delay implementation.”
The association’s founders hope their collaboration “will promote the successful and more rapid adoption of UV LED technology across many different markets,” Lockwood said.
Allan Firhoj, President and CEO of Lumen Dynamics, said the technology had “realized significant breakthroughs” in the last 15 years and had “witnessed a dramatic rise” in both interest and adoption in the last five years.
He said the association would “be instrumental in helping the market gain knowledge and insight about UV LED technology and its numerous commercial benefits.”
Goals: Guidelines, Information
The group aims to increase the knowledge base and promote the use of UV LED Curing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications, including coatings, adhesives, repairs and monitoring.
Its first goals include:
• Demonstrating to system developers how to effectively integrate UV LED technology into applications;
• Defining and establishing guidelines for UV LED curing applications—a goal that the group said would become increasingly important as the adoption rate of the technology continues to rise; and
• Serving as a forum for communication within the industry.
In the first 12 months, the association hopes to reach agreement on industry guidelines for the measurement of UV LED light sources; develop a common glossary; and develop common means of educating the industry about UV LED curing.
The association will focus on a specific subset of the fast-growing energy curing industry, setting it apart from RadTech, IMI and other groups that represent related, but different, areas. But the new association says it will work directly with the others to promote its goals.
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Brussels declaration for stronger EU data protection reform
A number of civil rights organisations have jointly published a Brussels Privacy Declaration in support of better protection for EU citizens' privacy. The declaration, which interested users can sign, sets out demands for the EU's planned data protection regulation. The organisations also express their outrage that the basic right of individuals to decide what happens to their information is "widely ignored".
The declaration, which has already been signed by nearly a dozen other civil rights and consumer protection organisations, is the brainchild of Dutch organisation Bits of Freedom and the umbrella groups Privacy International and European Digital Rights (EDRi). The authors of the declaration criticise the existence of more than 1,200 companies specialising in trading personal data.
The declaration notes that every EU citizen is already stored in hundreds of databases, largely without their knowledge or consent. Any citizen going online today can expect their every click to be monitored by more than 50 specialised companies. The information collected is constantly being "categorised and judged by algorithms" and the user then treated according to the "perceived value they may or may not bring to business".
The declaration appeals to MEPs and governments to strengthen and better enforce data protection legislation. It calls for the new EU legislation to set out that personal data can only be processed with "explicit, strong and informed consent". The signatories also call for a ban on the practice of coupling the use of a service to the granting of permission to use personal data. They also call for the use of and sharing of data to be made more transparent.
The civil rights groups believe that "true data portability" is essential for promoting competition and making it easier to switch to other platforms. The declaration also calls for secret online and offline profiling of users and customers to be banned and states that every EU citizen should have the right to effectively control his or her personal information. It also calls for "effective redress mechanisms and sanctions imposed on companies and government bodies that do not respect the law".
The declaration is also aimed at countering lobbying by the US government and numerous trade associations and Silicon Valley internet businesses. Recently, for example, a Washington position paper was uncovered that questioned the planned strict enforcement measures against data protection infringements and the requirement for consent. Civil rights and consumer protection organisations are worried that the extensive lobbying taking place will mean that their concerns will end up being ignored.
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While I am what most people would describe as an atheist, I normally call myself an agnostic, not so much because of any belief in a creator, but more because I would be open to accepting there was one if I had any proof. Dawkins has said about the same thing, but unlike him, I am not sure that the world would be a better place without religion. Yes, many bad things have been done because of religion, but there is a huge bias working in what we hear and see. Most religious people that have moderate views are silent and get much from their faith. Many if not most believe in science, evolution and such, but simply add the comforting belief that there a loving god and afterlife. I see this coming from several basic human needs.
There is also a big difference in peoples reality due to IQ differences. Most of us here have a higher than average IQ. My IQ is higher than 99.99 percent of the people around me. The world seems much different to someone with an IQ of even average range. I got a hint of what it would be like to be less logical when an illness affected my cognitive abilities. I had to learn new coping skills and it made me see how someone who just does not have the mental abilities to really understand things like deep time would simply come to the conclusions they have. Nature is really rather miraculous looking.
I have come to the conclusion that humanity will not ever be free of superstitious thinking and it is understandable. With that in mind, insulting religion does not seem to me a good way of fighting against it. Maybe we would be better off trying to influence religious beliefs instead to promote them being a more positive influence while insuring that as much science education as possible while trying to minimize parental indoctrination.
I am not at all sure that Dawkins is a positive force for atheism. I understand why we tend to have a chip on our shoulder. I am so tired to having people try to indoctrinate me, flipping through the religious shows on tv, etc. Before the Internet, I had not even met another person who would admit being an atheist. We have a lot of pent up frustration. But now, we have the Internet and people who are interested in atheistic ideas will find us. We should work towards ways of being seen positively.
So basically, religion is true, it's just confused.
These ideas are all based on real-life experience, mine and other people's. Because, after all, what is philosophy but an analysis of real life?
I admit to feeling a little swamped by this project, by now. I'm unsure of a strategy. I think I need to concentrate on coming up with material, and then to organize it nicely. After that, I need to pass it on to others so that they can expand it. I'm finding that it goes over everyone's heads when they first see it. Christians, however, tend to turn white - which suggests to me that this theory is religious in nature.
I'm in favour of these pithy sayings, because people need something snappy which they can apply in seconds. Also, as in mathematics, moral behaviour follows simple rules.
I don't understand how you got "So basically, religion is true, it's just confused" Simon's quote to me are examples of texts that suggest the basis of human morals not tied to "God said this is so". Perhaps you are drawing from past discussions in this topic while I am new. I agree with you about it going over the heads of the people I would want to understand.
Perhaps it would be better for me to read more of the archives here before I pose questions. Is it common for people to get frustrated at going over the same subject?
Oh, now this is making more sense. I was reading the site using an old computer that does not have the newer goodies in the web browser, so the page was messed up and looked as if your second reply was from a third party when it was actually a continuation of your thoughts.
So yes I agree that in this sense religion has it's basis in some natural truths, just with a bunch of supernatural mumbo jumbo applied in thick sweet and sour layers to make it all go down nice and smooth.
You know, I think of myself as a fairly good communicator, but I find the topic of religion difficult. It takes some care to express my ideas in a clean and simple manner. Pithy is good when you can pull it off.
BTW nice dreadlocks. Do you like playing with heavy equipment? The excavator in the picture was the clue. I love operating a backhoe or dozer. I am a caver and digging open some new entrance to a cave sealed for hundreds of thousands of years, then exploring the virgin passage is one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had. Deep time stares you in the face. Ten thousand years starts to make sense, it becomes real.
"I find the topic of religion difficult." I think even religious people find it difficult. What I've got there is a clean, efficient, stripped-down version. I found it hard work to get to that stage, because the ideas are so profound and all-encompassing. Now, I find it very easy to understand. Adding new ideas however is still hard work.
I've never used heavy equipment, but I used to be a squatter and I love derelict buildings and situations. Something about the teeming history of the place.
1- there are other things that comfort other than religion.
2-people should do what they know is right because they want to do right not because some god says their going to hell for it.
3-i am happy with the fact that once i die i will be no more. people shouldnt invent something thats not there, lie to everybody, and raise hell because nobody else believes in their imaginary friend.
My imaginary friends better than yours!
While it may not do any good to fight it, im tired of taking bullshit from so called christians. im not takin it anymore. im standing up for myself. they need to fuck off. they try to convert us, why cant we try to convert them?
Tiffany, I share all these sentiments and understand the desire to tell off someone who tries to convert you. I have done this myself many times. After checking out your bio, I also understand well the situation you are in. Believe it or not, I am familiar with where you live. I grew up in Wytheville and until about a year ago lived there. I have relatives that live in the Austinsville area. It's pretty well filled with poor uneducated country folk who would find it hard to accept someone suggesting their god is not real. Still, you have to ask yourself what your goals are. If it is to promote secularism, then telling a religious person off is not the best way to get this done. Keeping quiet also gets you no where. While being rude to some proselytizer is satisfying and sometimes appropriate, if your goal is to promote your ideas, then taking the high road is really the only way of doing it. Otherwise you just end up proving (in their mind) their points and dismissing your arguments.
We need to stop respecting what is in their minds or that they may be good at proving their own points in their own heads. We are never to blame for what goes on in their heads.
That is their responsibility and I'm not going to feel guilty if they interpret the truth incorrectly because they are more worried about manners than reality. If they are not challenged or shown our dissatisfaction with their unhealthy and illogical ideas, they will not be able to change their minds no matter what IQ they have.
Any good things that religion may seem to be able to provide can be provided better and more honestly (effective in reality) without the religious organizations or supernatural ideas. Other groups exist and new ones can be formed that fill any actual needs of humanity. Religion can and will fade away given enough time and education.
So let's get busy teaching more people what really exists and less time worrying about their old outdated ideas.
I'm not saying we need to respect their beliefs or remain silent. We can choose to word our statements so that a believer is not instantly enraged and then hears nothing about our view of things. I think maybe I have been mentally where both you and Tiffany are now and gotten past the urge to tell them off. I can remember a time when I had to stop going to church because I was afraid I would not be able to control the urge to jump up and yell "Bullshit" at the preacher. I was going to satisfy family at the time and had a big chip on the shoulder over it. But now I want to promote secularism. The majority of Christians are very moderate and do not speak out. They do listen to other people's views and when they listen to us insulting some fundy, they often hear us also insulting them, when they have never said anything at all. These are the people I would like to reach and they are reachable with a more moderate, reasonable message. Many of them go to church for community and acceptance more than anything else.
I don't agree that secular organizations can provide every good thing that religious ones do. Religion provides the soothing idea that we do not end when we die, that our loved ones will be seen again, that the wrongs people endure will be corrected in the end, etc. These ideas may be false, but many people need this lie and the worse their lives are, the better the lie sounds. Do I promote believing in something false, just because it makes you feel better? No, for me, never, but it is obvious that religion is and has been a big part of humanity. There are reasons for this, some of them may even be hard wired into us by evolution. I think the idea that we can stamp out religion any time soon is being naive. If so, then a better way of minimizing future harm by religious beliefs would be to manipulate those beliefs and make them less damaging while allowing the belief to still be comforting. We do this by finding common ground and cooperation for now and later by controlling it's teaching.
You are not challenging or showing your dissatisfaction by insulting a believer, you are making an enemy. No matter how satisfying it is, insults are not in our best interest, just as remaining silent does nothing.
and yes hope, while it may make enemies im not just sitting back anymore and taking their crap. im standing up for myself. if they can say their opinions and beliefs, so can i.
i've heard it once said opinions are like assholes, everybody has one. according to christians, their the only ones that can say theirs.
i have the right to state my beliefs, as do they. they insult me, i can insult them back. they shouldnt even be insulting/judging to start with.
we have been goin at it for years and they have a part in it too. im not sitting back anymore and getting run over by christians, ive did it long enough. im standing up for myself. if nobody likes it, i dont need them in my life. the only person i have to proove myself too is my boyfriend. everybody else can kiss my butt. i know i sound pissed or whatever, im just sick and tired of it all.
well said nate!
im glad you can relate to me. im just tired of taking bullcrap from christians. they can say their opinions i can too. yes people here are idiots. im originally from mississippi. bible belt. holy rollers. damn retards.
and nate i completely agree with you. 100%
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Transferring data between computer systems or storage formats is never a trivial task, particularly when it involves both structured and unstructured data. The complexity of data-migration jobs means that cost overruns and delays with "go-lives" are all too common, said Arvind Singh, co-founder and CEO of Utopia, a Chicago-based enterprise data solutions provider.
In a phone interview with InformationWeek, Singh outlined 10 common data-migration problems--five pitfalls and five risks--that enterprises should strive to avoid.
Pitfall #1: Failing to engage the lines of business and business users at the outset.
When companies integrate or consolidate multiple systems into one--often after a business merger--they need to identify the right business uses at the outset.
"You need to identify who knows and understands the business data," said Singh. "Who's the subject matter expert in your business? It's certainly not IT or the systems integrator."
In other words, bring the people who'll be using the data into the migration project. After all, they'll be the ones operating the system once it goes live.
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Three types of restore on Windows 2000
In Windows 2000 there are three different ways of restoring replicated data.
The default is a non-authoritative restore, which synchronizes the restored data with the other domain controllers. In this case the data on the domain controller being restored is replicated from the non-failed domain controllers. Since only changed data is replicated, this option minimizes traffic on the network.
In an authoritative restore, by contrast, the domain controller being restored is controlling. This rolls the entire network back to the time of the backup being restored. This isn't a common method, but it is useful in some circumstances; if, for example, you need to restore data that was deleted by mistake.
The third method is a primary restore, which is typically used when all the domain controllers on the domain have been lost and you have to rebuild the domain from backup. In a primary restore the server being restored is the only working server of a replicated data set. In this case primary restore is used to restore the first domain controller and non-authoritative restore is used for the other controllers.
The kinds of restore and other issues relating to backup and disaster recovery in Windows 2000 are covered in a paper titled "Windows 2000 Disaster Recovery Guidelines" which is available from the Microsoft TechNet (
Rick Cook has been writing about mass storage since the days when the term meant an 80K floppy disk. The computers he learned on used ferrite cores and magnetic drums. For the last twenty years he has been a freelance writer specializing in storage and other computer issues.
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The Windows 2000 Professional Handbook - Administrator's Advantage Series
Author : Louis Columbus
Publisher : Charles River Media
Published : Jan 2001
Focusing on the needs of the technical professional who is responsible for a series of Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems, The Windows 2000 Professional Handbook is designed to be both a handy desk reference in addition to a textbook for MCSE courses. This book provides readers with insights into how Microsoft's latest enterprise-based operating system solves the connectivity challenges with hands-on examples and cases that arise in organizations running multiple operating systems.
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Sri Lankan cricket team captain Kumar Sangakkara thanked Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and The Art of Living for helping the Sri Lankan cricket team to come out of trauma after the Lahore attack. Kumar Sangakara called on Sri Sri in Colombo on January 23. Sri Sri was on a three-visit to Sri Lanka, from January 21-23.
In 2009, immediately after the Lahore attack , the team had undergone breathing sessions and meditation techniques of the Art of Living in Colombo.
On completing the course then, Kumar Sangakkara had said that he had felt relaxed and calm after two sessions of the Sudarshan Kriya. It was “a really pleasant experience”, the sports ministry had quoted him.
"The Sri Lankan cricketers have now found a new direction to be relaxed, calm and still be dynamic and alert," the ministry said.
"Relaxation and recovery is an integral part of a sportsperson's lifestyle, it is techniques like Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique that gives them the energy to bounce back," he said. The eight-hour workshop was conducted by Swami Sadyojatha, International Director, The Art of Living. | <urn:uuid:36b21265-7063-4d03-8bfa-8c8506a3e507> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artofliving.org/in-en/sri-lankan-cricket-captain-calls-upon-sri-sri | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978768 | 253 | 1.554688 | 2 |
"We need to access and educate and provide opportunities to every single talented person that we have here in the United States," says Birgeneau. "And if there are too many talented people, then we need to expand our educational system to make room for them. The United States is in a really difficult situation now in terms of our competition internationally. We cannot afford to throw away exceptionally talented and ambitious people."
For now, the Dream Act is the hope that Victor and thousands of other students hang on to. They hope that one day it will allow them to be more visible and start giving back to the society that raised them.
"I think nobody's going to take away the knowledge and the education I have received," says Victor with a smile. "However the possibilities of me contributing back can end with me getting deported. Every day I think about me potentially getting deported, but I can't constantly be living in fear and I have to continue to be optimistic and hopeful that one day I will be able to contribute back and one way or another with the Dream Act being passed." | <urn:uuid:abce9f7c-0a41-495b-bb04-bdbac192ba0b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7197094&page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972985 | 219 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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"The concept of peak oil, where the inaccessibility of remaining deposits ensures that extraction rates start an irreversible decline, has been the subject of regular debate for decades. Although that argument still hasn't been settled—estimates range from the peak already having passed us to its arrival being 30 years in the future—having a better sense of when we're likely to hit it could prove invaluable when it comes to planning our energy economy. The general concept of peaking has also been valuable, as it applies to just about any finite resource. A new analysis suggests that it may be valuable to consider applying it to a renewable resource as well: the planet's water supply."
We can probably all agree we take clean, bountiful water for granted. Don't know if anyone saw this, but last week read that Oklahoma City is aiming to bring water from Sardis Lake in southeast Oklahoma, although the Choctaw Tribe and surrounding community are protesting this possibility. Our mayor says we need to set in place water sources now or we won't have enough in 20 years given the current growth rate of the city. So .. wouldn't it be wise for us to put in place a comprehensive water conservation and rainwater harvesting program for Oklahoma City now rather than later?
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Anyone who has ever kept a few pot plants about the place will most certainly have seen evidence of spider mites, even if they do not realize what they actually are. A spider mite is a creature which spins a ball of web to hide in right under the leaf of plants inside and outside in the garden. What they need to flourish is a very dry atmosphere and this is why they affect house plants so much.
The damage they do to plants, whether in the garden or in the home is quite horrendous really. They burrow into a leaf and suck the life out of it much like a blood sucking insect. It gets under the leaf since this is where the weakest part is and it is easy for them to invade here. The only time that someone will know that they are present is when they start to see blotchy dried marks on the leaves, but by this time the end may be very near.
There are several ways to discourage their actions but it does take some careful examination to keep them at bay. In the home, where there are few plants, just keep an eye on the undersides of the leaves when dusting around. If any of this fluffy white material is seen, merely brush it off. It does, however, indicate that the area is much too dry so try putting a saucer of water near the plants or put a stone in a pot of water and sit the plant on that. The evaporation of the water will reach all the underside areas and this puts off the creature completely.
In the garden, again, look at some leaves if they look like they are wilting. If there is too much plant life out there, when watering, make sure to spray the underside of the leaves at the same time. Those plants that have been heavily infested should be removed immediately and burned instead of being put in the compost. By burning, the creatures are killed off so they will not come back onto healthy plants. Neem oil spread on the underside of leaves may well work on house plants, but this is too labor intensive for garden plants for sure. It may be good to look into ways to control these creatures by getting other bugs to eat them up instead. Lady bugs are a great friend in the garden and will rid the place of these plus other creatures too, so never kill a lady bug off no matter what happens.
Plants which have been invaded are naturally susceptible to any other kind of infection too. This is why it is so important to keep an eye on things. As with us, a hole will be used for infection to gather and spread so a plant will act like us when we have an infection. Limp leaves and a general malaise will overcome the plant no matter what we do to it. When it gets like this, it may be time to ditch it and start again. | <urn:uuid:bd86a1a3-1d4c-4bd6-b481-47c6ce76d6f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://akerpub.com/Art/160348/270/Tiny-Mites-Cause-Huge-Damage-to-Plants.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973528 | 576 | 2.5625 | 3 |
April 21 2008
The Bloemfontein High Court recently ruled in favour of DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd against the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) in a lawsuit that could have significant implications for the mining industry. The crucial issue was whether the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (28/2002) authorized the granting of new prospecting rights for tailings dumps.(1) Given the high value of minerals contained in tailings dumps across South Africa, the case will also lead to significant adjustments to many balance sheets in the industry.
Holders of mineral rights before 2002 were required to convert (or forfeit) their old order rights to new order rights under the act. Although the legislation pre-dating the act expressly provided for mine tailings dumps rights, it did not contemplate the conversion of old order rights for tailings dumps.
De Beers had held old order prospecting rights to perform prospecting activities on tailings dumps at its Jagersfontein mine (which contained diamondiferous material), but chose not to apply to the DME for the conversion of these rights. In 2006 the DME awarded new order prospecting rights for these tailings dumps to Ataqua Mining (Pty) Ltd, a South African black economic empowerment company. De Beers filed a suit against the DME, claiming that the DME had no authority to grant such rights to Ataqua.
De Beers claimed that the tailings dumps were movable goods because the ore had long been ‘severed’ from the earth. DeBeers further claimed that the ore was not "naturally occurring" and as such could not fall under the act’s definition of ‘mineral’. De Beers contended that the legislature’s omission of an express definition of ‘tailings’ in the act was evidence that it had not intended the act to regulate tailings dumps.
The DME argued that tailings dumps were included under the definition of ‘mineral’ in the act, since the minerals in the tailings were still attached to the ore. Although the ore had been removed from the earth, the mineral was essentially unsevered and therefore still "occurring naturally on the earth", and thus the mineral rights of any tailings dump would ordinarily fall under the act and the custodianship of the state.
The court ruled in favour of De Beers and confirmed that the act targeted unsevered minerals. Since the act makes no provision for converting old order rights over tailings dumps, this proved that the legislature had no intention of regulating tailings dumps under the act. The court also held that an acceptance of the DME’s arguments would amount to expropriation and that “if the legislature intended to take away private rights in tailings dumps it would have stated so clearly and unambiguously”.
The judgment is not yet binding on courts in other provinces of South Africa, but the DME has applied for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal, the highest civil court in South Africa.
(1) Tailings dumps are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the worthless fraction of ore. However, tailings dumps often contain significant percentages of minerals which may have been unobtainable with the limited technology of the past, but have now become viable resources.
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Youtan Poluo growing on Buddha statue.
The myth that has grown up around the plant called the Youtan Poluo or Udumbara has clung on almost as stubbornly as the nonexistent roots with which the plant itself clings on. Said to bloom only once every 3,000 years, this occasion is supposed to mark the arrival of a future king. Let’s see how much truth there is in this fairytale.
The tiny white flowers on filigree stems are actually not much to look at and could easily be overlooked. Honestly, would you look twice if you found something like this growing in your house? Good that Mr. Ding, a farmer of China’s northeastern Liaoning province, was more observant and curious when he was cleaning the steel pipes in his garden.
Mr. Ding with the "flowers" growing on steel pipes in his garden.
That well publicized discovery in 2007 triggered many more in Taiwan, Korea, the US and Germany. Since then, some of the mysterious flowers have been identified as the eggs of lacewings – whose females lay their eggs on threadlike stalks, similar to human hairs, to keep them apart and thus prevent cannibalism among the aggressive young after hatching.
End of story for many but we here at Environmental Graffiti like to dig deeper. Because some of the flowers like the ones below could not be identified as lacewing eggs. They have a stem with branches and emit a distinct smell of sandalwood – and these indeed have been identified as the Udumbara flower of the Ficus racemosa tree.
Because the flower is not very big and therefore difficult to see, a legend developed over the years to explain the absence or supposed rarity of the flower – namely that the Udumbara flower is said to bloom only once every 3,000 years, which meant it came to symbolize rarely occurring events such as the sighting of a Buddha.
The Udumbara flower and tree have great significance in Hinduism and Buddhism (in the latter, it can also refer to the blue lotus, Nila udumbara) and in both philosophies, flowers play a great role and often symbolize virtues like purity or fertility.
A video of the rare occurrence on Korean TV.
It is interesting to note that the first sighting of an Udumbara flower was in July 1997 at a Buddha statue in a temple in Korea, exactly 3,024 lunar years after Buddhism first emerged. So, given that compared to three millennia, a few decades here or there is nothing, Youtan Poluo seems to be pretty much right on time.
A plant blooming every 3,000 years does seem like a stretch but then again, the plant world never ceases to amaze. Many plants bloom only once in their lifetime, like the Talipot palm for example, which does so once every 30 to 80 years. The Kurinji plant blooms once every 12 years, and the Titan arum lily every few decades in the wild and even rarer in cultivation.
The Talipot palm tree.
As far as the Udumbara is concerned, it’s left to note that many flower sightings occurred in Southeast Asia where lacewings are not very common; they mainly exist in North America and Europe. There’s also the strong, pleasant smell and the fact of the flowers opening and closing that the lacewing egg theory cannot explain.
Regardless of what you believe, the story behind Youtan Poluo is an intriguing one and the capacity to believe in a flower that comes into being every 3,000 years perhaps says more about us than the plant. One thing is clear: one tiny flower has surely caused a huge amount of excitement and brought a smile to many a face.
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Despite the tough economic challenges we are facing, the O'Malley Administration made significant strides during the 2009 session to achieve One Maryland: Smart, Green and Growing.
The Maryland Department of Planning played the lead role in the passage of the Governor’s Smart, Green, and Growing legislative package by working closely with our stakeholders – local governments, municipalities, and the environmental community – to strengthen and reinvigorate the fundamental tools of smart growth. The General Assembly passed three significant planning bills in this package. Governor O’Malley signed these bills into law on May 7, 2009. See press release.
One of our most far-reaching legislative achievements resulted in a set of modernized Visions that will impact the future growth in Maryland for generations to come. The new Visions will enhance local comprehensive plans by reflecting a greater connectedness between where we live, where we work, and the quality of life we enjoy (See Planning Visions below).
For the first time in history, Maryland now has a statewide smart growth goal and local governments must develop their own goals. Consistent with the Governor's Stat approach, Maryland jurisdictions will now report on a uniform set of indicators in order to provide better information to influence better planning policy decisions (See Smart Growth Measures and Markers below).
We responded decisively to the Terrapin Run ruling by passing legislation to protect the investment that citizens make in their comprehensive plans, and by enhancing the role of these plans for smart growth
(See Smart & Sustainable Growth Act of 2009 below).
This package of successes represents literally the most significant achievements in smart growth in more than a decade. They address a variety of underlying growth challenges facing our State with a set of smart, practical, and sustainable strategies that will help us keep families first and make better choices on behalf of the citizens of Maryland.
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The Center for Environmental Health (CEH), a California environmental activist group, has filed a complaint Monday against Apple for the iPhone saying that it is constructed using toxins that are prohibited in California. According to the CEH the iPhone is violating Proposition 65 which requires products that expose any reproductive toxins or carcinogens to have a warning label or it cannot be sold in the state. They are giving Apple 60 days to comply before they launch a law suit.
According to a recent Greenpeace report the parts in question of containing toxins are the plastic earphone wiring cover. The report claims the coating contains phthalate esters which have been linked to birth defects. Greanpeace gave Apple only a 2.7 out of 10 in “greenness” in their report which was less than most other major corporations. “The phthalates found in the headphone cords are classified in Europe as ‘toxic to reproduction’ because of their long-recognized ability to interfere with sexual development,” Greenpeace scientist David Santillo said in the report. Brominated compounds were also found in half the samples tested which could create dioxin when burned, according to the study.
Apple was quick to respond to the report. “Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS [Restriction of Hazardous Substances], the world’s toughest restrictions on toxic substances in electronics,” said an Apple spokesperson to MacWorld. “As we have said, Apple will voluntarily eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs by the end of 2008.”
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Should You Change Your Birth Control?
Three new birth control pills hit the market this year. If you've been taking the same one for a while, you might be wondering if it's time to switch. To help you decide, Carolyn Westhoff, MD, medical director of family planning at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, highlights how the newbies compare.
What's new: This is the first and only pill approved to treat women who are suffering from premenstrual dysmorphic disorder (PMDD), a severe form of PMS, thanks to its combination of ethinyl estradiol and drospirenone (forms of estrogen and progestin). It can also help relieve PMS symptoms like bloating and headaches.
What's new: Instead of taking placebo pills the week you get your period, you take a very low dose of hormones. This can help alleviate some of the symptoms that result when hormone levels fluctuate, such as bloating. As with the pill Seasonale, you have just four periods per year.
Loestrin 24 Fe
What's new: The four placebo pills contain iron. "This is great for women who may be iron-deficient or anemic," says Dr. Westhoff. This is also the first pill approved in the United States that isn't a 21/7-day cycle; it's a 24/4-day cycle, meaning you're off the hormones (and get your period) for about three days instead of six per cycle.
Originally published in FITNESS magazine, January 2007.
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Information Literacy is an important academic concept that encompasses the use of multiple intellectual processes during the course of information seeking. These intellectual processes include critical thinking, informed decision making, evaluation of information, and considered reflection. Information literacy consists of more than a set of mechanical searching skills. It represents processes that may be both linear and circular. Effective information literacy practices are grounded in a learning culture that stresses active learning, collaboration, and authentic tasks. These practices are informed by a holistic view of learning that sees a convergence of literacies as the ultimate goal of education.
Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. (ACRL, 2000)
When we find a particular piece of information, whether on the Web or on a bookshelf, we need the skills to ascertain its veracity, reliability, bias, timeliness, and context. (Carvin, 2000)
Students develop the kinds of skills referred to in these quotations over time, and the most successful way to cultivate information literacy among them is to integrate essential concepts into the academic curriculum, where the necessary skills can be learned in context. Although most students are very comfortable users of the Internet, they may find the prospect of navigating their way through the Library's scholarly resources to be daunting and intimidating. In fact, many of them may be inclined to turn to Google when confronted with the task of locating information to complete an assignment, thereby inadvertently eliminating the most important resources.
University students need to acquire the knowledge and skills that will enable them to conceptualize information seeking as an intellectual process rather than strictly a mechanical exercise. Students who are information-literate can evaluate information critically, discern the relevant from the superfluous and incorporate selected information into their knowledge base. These concepts are developed and articulated in the ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and have been widely accepted by the international academic community. The application of these standards has been most successful in institutions that view information literacy as an academic matter rather than an issue confined to the library.
Information literacy needs to be embedded into the academic curriculum of a university in order to develop to its full potential. This does not mean that general stand-alone workshops in information seeking tips and techniques are not of use; rather, it means that these workshops should serve as starting points for more in-depth information literacy practices. Of best value to the student are those experiences that allow him or her to connect conceptual ideas of how to approach the searching process with real tasks that require the application of those ideas to a specific academic need. This level of information literacy practice is most often found in the coursework required of students as they learn to participate in the community of scholars represented by a university.
Embedded information literacy opportunities may take many forms. Liaison librarians can come to classes as guest lecturers to talk about both the search process itself and specific resources that will be of use to students for particular assignments. Guest lectures remain a viable vehicle for information literacy because they allow a librarian to reach a large number of students simultaneously. Guest lectures may also potentially allow for interactivity through questions and for individualized follow up sessions afterwards between librarians and students. The guest lecture format may consist of either a single 50-minute class visit or a series of shorter visits by a librarian over a number of different classes. Other forms of embedded information literacy opportunities include the use of small group formats or active learning techniques in hands-on sessions through a seminar or in a lab. Still other forms exist online through web pages or tutorials created in class management courseware or on the Web. Extensions of these forms of information literacy instruction can include the use of follow-up quizzes online or the use of research journals to extend opportunities for learning beyond the physical classroom. In whatever format instruction is offered, liaison librarians are willing to work with faculty in the construction of assignments that best exploit the potential of meaningful information literacy experiences for students.
Meaningful collaboration between faculty and liaison librarians is an essential ingredient in this endeavor to promote effective information literacy experiences for students. This collaboration may result in the production of better-researched papers, the development of better information-seeking and retrieval habits among students, and the creation of a basis for critical thinking and lifelong learning. The desire of Brock University to move further in this direction is articulated in the teaching, learning, and research goals articulated in the James A. Gibson Library's Strategic Plan (2009) and in the Brock 2014 Knowledge, Engagement, and Transformation Academic Plan.
Integrated information literacy programs create many positive outcomes for students and faculty, and many academic institutions are working to integrate information literacy competencies into their curricula. Successful initiatives lead to benefits such as better-developed research assignments and better use of the Library's collection (Raspa & Ward, 2000; Rockman, 2003). In-class activities designed to develop specific information-related skills can also increase the ability of students to complete assignments effectively (D'Angelo, 2001) and prepare them for accessing and evaluating information in a variety of contexts.
In essence, a successfully integrated information literacy program achieves the following:
There are numerous examples of initiatives where faculty members, or whole departments, have worked to integrate information literacy into the departmental curriculum. The shape of these initiatives differs from institution to institution and from discipline to discipline. The common factor, however, is that a collaborative approach, based on established information literacy competencies, is at the heart of each undertaking.
Numerous examples exist at Brock University of information literacy initiatives undertaken by faculty members and librarians. Below is a small sampling of some of these different programs. The shape of these initiatives differs from librarian to librarian, faculty member to faculty member, and department to department. The common factor, however, is that a collaborative approach is at the heart of each undertaking.
Over the course of the last two years, 2007-2009, Laurie Morrison, Liaison Librarian for Visual Arts, and Keri Cronin, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts have created a series of new information literacy opportunities for students in VISA 1Q98. Laurie arranges for a series of short ongoing encounters between herself and the students at the start of class throughout most of the fall term. These mini-lessons present specific pieces of information to the students, one piece at a time. Examples of the content of these mini-lessons include citation chasing, using Wikipedia and Google wisely, and retrieving digital images through ARTstor. In 2008, Laurie also set up a library learning module online for this class that reinforces and supports the research skills required to complete the course assignments. Results indicate that students appreciate the opportunity to engage in meaningful information literacy practices on their own time and at their own pace. This ability to engage in self-directed learning underscores the importance of librarians offering multiple ways for students to learn.
Intensive English Language Program
In 2006, Karen Bordonaro, Liaison Librarian for Applied Linguistics, created a series of new hands-on workshops for ESL (English as a Subsequent Language) students in the Intensive English Language Program in collaboration with the language instructors. These new workshops are designed for students in IELP 4 and 5 classes. They take the form of active learning through small group task assignments. The classes are divided into a number of small groups, each of which is given a number of guided questions to answer. The guided questions give students sample search techniques and search statements to perform. The students are then asked to explain why certain results may have been retrieved and what can be done to focus and narrow results. The questions also include open ended questions for which there is no one correct answer but which allow students to explain their own searching decisions. At the end of group searching, each group shares their results with the rest of the class. A full class discussion led by the librarian then fills in any missing information, probes their comprehension and their reasoning, and allows students, librarians, and instructors to learn from each other. In addition to promoting effective information literacy practices, this format allows the students to practice speaking English in a non-threatening setting, an additional benefit for this set of learners.
Tourism and Environment
Students in TREN 1F90 Sustainability, Environment and Tourism have had the opportunity over the last several years (2006-2009) to make use of a new information literacy initiative at Brock, the drop-in library clinic. Designed by Marcie Jacklin, Liaison Librarian for Tourism and Environment, these clinics give students an opportunity to extend their learning beyond an initial lecture from the librarian as a guest speaker. In the follow up clinics, students are asked which question from their assignment they would like to review and this list guides the structure of the clinics. The librarian works from what the students say they need to know. In this role, the librarian serves as a facilitator more than an instructor. Learning is informal, collaborative, and participatory. Feedback from the students to the professor has shown the value of offering information literacy sessions in this format in that it gives students a venue in which to express their own needs and to guide their own learning. This format of instruction also supports the notion of information literacy as a process that works best when it allows for different types of learning to take place in ways meaningful to students.
During the summer of 2007, Justine Cotton, Liaison Librarian for English and Communications, and David Sharron, Archivist, devised a series of lesson plans designed to introduce students to the availability of resources in both print and digital format in the area of historical English literature and popular culture. Sources included primary sources, original first editions of books, and online digital databases such as EEBO (Early English Books Online) and ECO (Early Canadiana Online). David and Justine have spoken to students in a number of classes: ENFL 3P20 Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth, ENGL 4V34 Sexual Monsters, ENGL 2P10 Young People’s Literature to 1914, COMM 2P30 Popular Entertainment, etc. From this initiative, several class assignments were constructed by professors in the English and Communication Departments that had students make use of resources in Special Collections and Archives: ENGL 2P64 Early Canadian Literature, ENGL4V66 Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing: Montreal Writers in the 1940s, and COMM 4P55 Advertising, Mass Media and Culture. As a result of this collaboration, many students have now been exposed to various formats of information that will help them develop richer content for their research papers. This form of expanded collaboration between librarian, professor, and archivist has also been beneficial in terms of mutual support for students. Exposing students to many different information perspectives supports the idea of information literacy as a set of intellectual competencies. Information literacy programming is available in all subject areas taught at Brock University. For further information about instructional opportunities, faculty members are encouraged to contact their liaison librarian.
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Skeptics of JFK assassination official version say they’re barred from 50th anniversary
By Edmund DeMarche
Published January 02, 2013
Nov. 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy is slumped in the backseat of this car immediately after being shot in Dallas. (AP)
A Washington-based group that has long questioned the official version of John F. Kennedy’s assassination says the city of Dallas is trampling its rights by barring it from Dealey Plaza for this year’s 50th anniversary of the murder of the nation’s 35th president.
The Coalition on Political Assassinations has gathered every year since 1994 at the site where Kennedy was killed by a sniper on Nov. 22, 1963. The group typically observes a moment of silence and members often give speeches. But this year it was denied a permit, the group’s director told FoxNews.com.
“It’s ironic that the city wants to celebrate JFK’s life — and not his death — at the very place where he was assassinated,” John Judge, the executive director of the group, said. “They are afraid of the thousands of people that will come to the site to commemorate his death and call for the truth.”
The annual gatherings were first loosely organized by journalist Penn Jones, who was one of the earliest skeptics of the official explanation of the assassination. Judge was a friend of Jones, who died in 1998.
“When he died, I promised him I would keep the tradition going,” Judge said.
Although a federal commission studied the shooting and determined that Lee Harvey Oswald, a socialist drifter and former Marine, had acted alone, the assassination has long been the subject of conspiracy theories. Judge said his coalition, which focuses on killings ranging from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., to recent drone attacks in the Middle East, has no single theory about how Kennedy was killed. But the group rejects the findings of the Warren Commission and does not believe Oswald, who was killed two days after the assassination, played any role in Kennedy’s death.
Regardless of who killed Kennedy, Judge believes his group has every right to mark the date at the site.
“This is content-based denial of free speech in a public park,” Judge wrote on his organization’s website. “Dealey Plaza belongs to history and to the American people, especially on the 50th anniversary.”
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings denied that the city banned the coalition from the event, but acknowledged that officials intend to focus on the late president’s life and ensure the event was open “mainly” to residents of Dallas.
“We make sure that opposing voices are heard in Dallas and celebrate freedom of speech,” Rawlings said. “But with this event, we focus on Kennedy’s life and legacy.”
In May, Rawlings put together a committee called The 50th Committee, to organize the anniversary. Most board members were alive to remember the president’s assassination.
“We have one board member who was waiting for Kennedy at a luncheon that he never attended,” Rawlings said.
Rawlings, for his part, remembers sitting cross-legged inside the Leawood Elementary School’s gym in Kansas and being told the news by his teacher.
“I knew it was important,” he recalls. “It was the president.”
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Being laid off used to be taboo. But not anymore. And most of us have thought through some sort of plan for if it happens to us. Gone are the days when people pretend this is not happening.
One of the things my ex-husband and I did well, as did our peers, was learn to tag-team in the layoff department. We both got laid off pretty much all the time throughout the 90s. And somehow, we got a sort of routine, and it became a normal way of life.
Today there is a generation of us in the workforce, totally familiar with layoffs, and totally unfamiliar with the idea that a job is secure. Ever. The good news about this is that there is not a huge difference between someone laid off and someone not laid off in that all of us feel vulnerable and scared.
Which means the etiquette is different than it used to be for talking to someone who's been laid off.
1. Don’t ask “how’s the job hunt?”
Do you know how many times a day someone hears this if he is unemployed? Ten. And even if it’s not ten really, it’s ten in his head. He asks himself that, and he imagines other people asking that, and he stresses about the answer. Because the job hunt doesn’t change much from day to day, but it’s demoralizing to report that.
So trust that someone who is laid off who has something great to report will volunteer it without you asking.
2. Ask about extracurriculars.
At this point, we have a generation that is accustomed to changing jobs often and thinking in terms of the in-between time with jobs. In between jobs is the best time for real vacations and often the best time for gaining deep knowledge of something totally new. This trend is becoming more pronounced during the current downturn. People are focusing on hobbies, kids, and their health — all interesting topics to talk about.
Those of you who are employed might find a little inspiration here. We all know that it doesn’t make sense to only do this stuff during the in-between time. So find out what changes your unemployed friends made to refocus themselves, and see if you can do it now. Before you get laid off.
3. Ask about health insurance.
There needs to be more collective knowledge on how to deal with health insurance during stints of unemployment. For most people, COBRA is about as cost-effective as a penthouse in New York City. So ask about how people are solving the insurance problem because the more we share information, the smarter we are at solving the problem when it hits us.
(What I learned from my last conversation: Move to Massachusetts. Everyone is covered there. )
4. Talk about industry news.
One of the hardest things about being laid off is keeping up in one’s industry. If you’re at the office each day, you keep up, sort of, through osmosis. But if you are not working in your field, you have to try a lot harder to keep up. Just hearing it first hand from someone who's still employed is helpful.
So tell the person what you’re working on. Trends you’re hearing about. Personnel shifts you’ve seen. Also, gossip counts as news. Workplace gossip is a positive way to bond. The laid-off worker is cut out of this positive gossip loop, unless you supply some. So forget what your mom told you about gossip being bad karma. In this case, gossip equals good karma.
5. Offer up one good contact.
You do not need to pretend that connecting in LinkedIn is going to help this person. I mean, they should have been building their network long before the layoff loomed. But you could offer up one person you know well who could talk with the person laid off.
The truth is that we all know someone who is out of work. And we all know that the next person could be us. Anyone who is feeling smug about having a job has no grip on reality. Sure, some of it is your own doing, your own talent. But some of it is luck. Anyone could be laid off at any time.
This is why almost anyone you ask will help a friend who is laid off. Once. Giving five minutes of help is a reasonable request. So you can make it for a friend. If the friend is not smart enough to turn that five minutes into something bigger, that is not your problem.
6. Acknowledge trouble with the significant other.
More men are getting laid off than women, which puts women in a bad spot because most women choose a husband thinking he’ll earn more than she will (yes, even smarty-pants Stanford women). It used to be that we could not openly discuss the testosterone hit that comes with being laid off. But today it’s fair game, and even compassionate to acknowledge.
Not that women are picking up all the slack. They’re not. Some are in support groups to cope with their boyfriends losing their seven-figure bonuses. Other women lost their jobs right along side their partner.
But the important thing here is that men and women are talking about the relationship dynamic that goes along with a layoff, so you should tread down this conversational path as well.
7. Don’t be shy about gratitude
Tell a co-worker who's been laid off that you miss him or her. And what you miss. It’s hard to keep up morale when you’re looking for a job. And so often we forget what we are talented at because rejection makes us feel totally un-talented.
The act of telling someone what you miss about them reminds them that they are valuable in the workplace. And it also gives you a little boost, because practicing gratitude increases your happiness by 25%. In fact, being grateful for what you have makes you happier than any job could, which is something you can remember when you’re the one who is laid off. | <urn:uuid:99a56bf6-b954-48ae-ab4b-2df3aaae7d9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/02/10/how-to-talk-to-a-friend-whos-been-laid-off/comment-page-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975507 | 1,272 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Tax Reform Overview
The 2-4-8 Tax Blend is a federal tax reform plan that would replace the
regressive, job killing payroll taxes with a 2% net wealth tax
(excluding $15,000 cash and retirement funds up to $500,000). This enables the income tax
rate to be lowered to a flat 8% (because over $1 trillion in tax expenditures
are not needed when the rates are very low). Rather than using a net wealth
tax to “soak the rich” (as some have suggested), the same 2% wealth tax rate and 8% income tax rate
would apply to all. Because 50% of the population has only 1% of the wealth and
10% owns 75% of the wealth the combination tax rate is progressive even
though the rates are identical for rich and poor.
For business, there would be a 4% VAT and the C
corporation income tax rate would be reduced to 8% (for the lowest business
tax rates in the developed
The 2-4-8 Tax Blend is the only tax reform intended to solve the
following economic issues:
1. The elimination of the payroll tax on labor will encourage the
growth of U.S. jobs.
2. The broad net wealth tax base places the growing Social Security and
Medicare programs on sound financial footing without taxing younger workers.
3. With an 8% corporate rate there would be little reason for deferral of taxes on
foreign corporate profits and no reason for a territorial tax system.
4. The 2% net wealth tax provides a negative reinforcer (as in “use it or
lose it”) to productive business investment. The low 8% income tax rate also
supplements business growth.
5. Taxing net wealth eliminates any policy need for estate tax, gift tax or
capital gains tax.
6. The $15,000 cash exemption encourages modest savings for emergencies and
liquidation for tax payments.
7. The exemption for retirement funds (up to $500,000 per person) recognizes
economic mobility and the need to accumulate some wealth over the course of
8. Deductions for mortgage interest, student loans, consumer purchases, etc.
are not needed where the net wealth computation effectively gives a 2%
credit for the unpaid principal.
9. The combined flat tax rates are fair and progressive with no need for
rate brackets or tax credits - (that are necessary when taxing only one tax
10. The elimination of the tax deduction for charitable contributions
will slow the out-of-control growth of public nonprofit institutions which
increased their wealth by 80% in just 10 years (2000 to 2010) and now have
more than seven times the wealth of half the population. The shift in assets
which would otherwise be used for investment in business has also resulted
in the loss of millions of private sector jobs.
The following objections have been repeated often but cannot
1. Assets are difficult to value:
Valuation of assets is easy with
digital filing of tax returns and internet-database technology which was not
widely available 10 or 20 years ago. Taxpayer assistance and automation
improvements by the IRS is considered a threat by many opposed to tax
2. An Amendment to the Constitution is needed:
An income tax surcharge based on net wealth (or simply a tax on net
wealth) includes but is not limited to
a tax on property within state borders and thus the tax rates would not have
to be apportioned among the states.
Other Plan Descriptions
Submission to Ways and Means Tax Reform Working Groups - March 2013
Creating New Wealth by
Taxing Net Wealth
Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee
Expanding the Tax Base to Obtain the
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The United States finances are swirling in ever tighter circles closer the drain and the best solution Obama’s Treasury tool, Tim Geithner, can propose is ”wealthy people need to pay more taxes.”
Really, that’s his and Obama’s solution to our fiscal problem. Here is the video:
“That’s the kind of balance you need,” said Geithner. “Why is that the case? Because if you don’t try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don’t ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to — the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.”
It has been 2 years, 9 months and 25 days since the Democrat controlled Senate has passed a budget (the Republican House has passed many). With this kind of irresponsibility permeating Washington, it is no surprise that our nation is faced with runaway deficits and is going to hit ANOTHER debt ‘ceiling’ in a matter of months.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill had hoped that last summer’s deal to end the nasty fight over lifting the debt ceiling would ensure the issue wouldn’t resurface until at least 2013.
But the Bipartisan Policy Center said Friday that the debt-limit doomsday could come earlier than that.
Analysts from the Bipartisan Policy Center projected that the United States will hit its $16.4 trillion debt ceiling between late November 2012 and early January 2013 due to lower-than-expected corporate tax revenues and the recent extension of the payroll tax holiday.
Of course, insane levels of spending are not part of the problem at all (according to Politico).
You would think that Obama, as the leader of the Democrat party, could use his otherworldly abilities* and superior intellect* to get Harry Reid to pass a simple budget.
After all, it is Congresses responsibility to pass a budget.
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.
I wonder if Mr. Morford feels a slight bit of embarrassment when he thinks back to writing the above article.
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The name of William (Bendigo) Thompson is inextricably linked with that of Ben Caunt by their three epic battles. Thompson, one of a set of triplets, was called Abednego, later shortened to Bendigo. As a boxer, he was often known by his nickname alone.
Thompson started fighting professionally in 1832 with a victory over Joe Hanley, and in 1835, he faced Caunt for the first time. According to contemporary reports, Caunt was incensed by Thompson’s tactic of falling to the ground when in difficulty. In the 22nd round, Caunt hit the kneeling Thompson and lost the fight on a foul.
Thompson won his next three fights before facing Caunt again. Caunt came into the ring in less than the best fighting condition. A great athlete, Thompson easily eluded Caunt’s clumsy attacks. However, in the fifth round Caunt caught Bendigo against the ropes and nearly strangled him. Thompson continuously peppered Caunt with shots to the body. In the thirteenth, Caunt again nearly strangled Thompson. In the 50th round, Caunt alleged that Thompson had illegally kicked him, but the claim was disallowed. In the 75th round, Thompson lost on a foul when he slipped to the ground without having been hit. Some observers believed that Thompson intentionally fell to avoid further punishment, while others believed that Thompson had the fight well in hand and would have won.
In his next battle, Thompson faced the champion James (“Deaf”) Burke. Fighting under the new London Prize Ring Rules, Thompson dominated the fight. In the tenth, a badly beaten Burke head-butted Thompson and was disqualified. In 1840, the new champion, after watching some steeplechase races, exuberantly tried to turn a somersault and fell, seriously injuring his leg. He did not fight for six years until he faced Caunt for the third time. Thompson entered this bout crouching to make himself less of a target and eluded many of Caunt’s thrusts. Thompson dominated the fight and earned the victory when Caunt sat down in the 93rd round without getting hit.
Thompson then retired only to return for one fight in 1850, a victory over Tom Paddock. A hard drinker and an innkeeper, Thompson turned to preaching in his later years, especially concerning himself with temperance issues. Although some questioned his sincerity, he continued his ministry for many years.
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Disaster recovery firms Sungard and Schlumberger Sema both reported clients invoking emergency procedures after the 35=minute power outage.
Jamie Snowdon, research director at analyst firm IDC, said the incident showed the need for organisations to have procedures to deal with both the immediate aftermath of an incident and longer-term business continuity.
"With power, for example, it's important that companies should ensure that their computers can be powered down correctly at short notice," he said.
"There is also a bigger picture of what companies should be doing with data management, such as regular back-up and making sure that important data is easily accessible."
Paul Trowbridge, a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association's European Governing Committee, said that the incident emphasised the need for good practice in IT business continuity.
"Firms need to ensure that their secondary datacentres are significantly far enough away not to be affected by localised power outages," he said.
A spokesman for National Grid Transco said that its IT systems helped limit the impact of the power cut.
"The IT systems that control the sub-station equipment meant that we were able to isolate the fault and limit the areas affected."
"The system also allowed us to restore power within 35 minutes," he added.
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Imagine Silicon Valley in the 1980s with its entrepreneurial, brilliant and creative 22-year-olds working 20 hours a day and eating pizza at 3 a.m. on paper plates.
That scene may still exist, but entrepreneurship is not just for kids. Older folks do it too.
The growing interest in entrepreneurship and age is reflected in a study by the Kauffman Foundation that found that more people ages 55 to 64 are creating their own businesses than those ages 20 to 34.
As a percentage of total entrepreneurs, the 55 to 64 age group has grown the most. For example, in 1996 14.3 percent of all entrepreneurs were ages 55 to 64; in 2011, that grew to 20.9 percent. The percentage of entrepreneurs that declined most sharply were those in the 20 to 34 age range.
This subject is timely. Many older adults are having difficulty becoming re-employed. On average, it takes them about one year and often that new job is at a lower salary with fewer benefits, and part time rather than full time. With an uncertain economy, job shortages in many areas, skill mismatches, ageism and companies doing more with less -- the challenges are real.
Baby boomers and those even older are the healthiest generation in history. With their experience, knowledge and networks, they have a lot to give during what traditionally has been considered their preretirement and retirement years.
I recently had the opportunity to be involved in four conferences
Attendees came for several reasons: unemployment, job insecurity, a burning idea, a desire for freedom, frustration with age discrimination, a desire to make a difference, and economic opportunities. Regardless of their motivation, all had one thing in common: passion.
For many, that passion emanated from personal experiences: getting divorced, serving as a hospice volunteer, giving up a practical career path to take a risk, a love of cooking, or even noticing the broken porches of elderly neighbors and wanting to help.
With their enthusiasm, however, came fear based on some reality, since the failure rate of small new businesses is high.
Some of those fears were based on myths. Here are a few:
Myth 1: Entrepreneurship is a solo profession. In reality, entrepreneurs engage with friends and networks.
Myth 2: Entrepreneurs are born, not made. Actually, one can acquire the knowledge and skills. Many university programs offer this education and training as do conferences, workshops and online resources.
Myth 3: Entrepreneurship requires big and new ideas. Most entrepreneurial launches spring from small ideas. Seven out of eight businesses are an extension of old ideas according to Len Schlessinger, president of Babson College in Massachusetts.
Myth 4: Entrepreneurship is about money. Not always. Many become social entrepreneurs to have an encore career that combines purpose and passion with a paycheck.
Babson College posed a question on its website, "How do you define entrepreneurship?"
Here are some responses:
From a CEO in Brazil: "Entrepreneurship is the ability to dream and realize these dreams, discover new ways to improve people's life and transform the world into a better place to live."
From an undergraduate at Babson: "Recognizing, refining and implementing available resources to create something new and impactful."
From a sales manager in New York: Not accepting the norm and willing to personally take on monetary/professional risk to change the status quo with an expectation of a reward for success.
Graduate student and information technology consultant in India: "Seeing what everybody does, thinking what nobody does."
Clearly, becoming an entrepreneur is not just for the young. However, at any age the risks and rewards must be considered.
There is much we have learned from these conferences as well as from noted speakers such as Doug Rauch, former president of Trader Joe's. I'll share more in another column.
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In our environmental preservation activities, Konica Minolta is working to reduce the environmental impact of each stage of its product-related activities-from product manufacturing through product distribution, use, and disposal. We are also committed to introducing comprehensive environmental management systems that cover manufacturing operations and all other types of corporate activities, with the goal of ensuring that our company and the environment develop in harmony.
Konica Minolta has established standards used to evaluate the environmental impact of our products. Subsequently, we have reduced the number of plastic materials used in the housing of our products including laser printers and toner cartridges. To further support Konica Minolta's environmentally conscious practices we have partnered with a leading printer cartridge recycler who recycles in an environmentally sound and secure manner. The Clean Planet Program encompasses multi-vendor toner cartridges/bottles, waste toner boxes/bottles, and imaging units for ALL manufacturers' spent consumable items.
To recycle ALL toner cartridges and other consumables
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Lift Slow to Get Fit Fast?
Can you get results in 20 minutes a week? Here's what the experts say.
How It Works
The program is simple, says Zickerman, ACSM, owner of InForm Fitness, a
center that specializes in slow-cadence strength training.
"It is lifting weights very slowly to maximize muscle fatigue, the goal
being muscle failure. As we quip, 'Failure is success.' Muscle failure is the
key to stimulating muscle growth."
Power of 10 is based on the premise that eliminating momentum from an
exercise forces the muscle to do all the work. Because the muscle is never able
to rest, fatigue comes faster. When muscles are brought to failure during
strength training, tiny tears occur, creating blood flow to the site, which
helps build the muscle.
The protocol is to lift the weight with a 10-second cadence -- 10 seconds up
and 10 seconds down -- "until you hit that wall," says Zickerman. At
this slow pace, muscles will "fail" somewhere between five and eight
repetitions. When you cannot complete another repetition with perfect form,
A Power of 10 workout lasts 20-25 minutes; includes five to seven exercises
hitting all the major muscle groups; and can be done using free weights or
Zickerman says you can do the program as much as twice a week, but only once
a week is needed for results. For a time-starved society, this sounds like a
fitness solution like no other.
A New Twist on an Old Idea
Power of 10 has been getting some press, with celebrity clients like
newswomen Lesley Stahl and Barbara Walters, but the slow-weight-training
concept is not new.
Orlando, Fla., trainer Ken Hutchins developed a method he called
"SuperSlow" in 1982. He was leading a study with a group of elderly
women with osteoporosis. When using his standard weightlifting protocol (two
seconds up and four seconds down), Hutchins became concerned about the women's
erratic form. He decided to change things, and eventually came up with the
premise of SuperSlow. Using light weights, and slow, steady movements, the
women made dramatic gains in strength.
Wayne L. Westcott, PhD, fitness research director at the South Shore YMCA in
Quincy, Mass., was intrigued. He studied two of Hutchins' groups. In each, 75
people tackled the SuperSlow program for eight weeks (in 1993) and 10 weeks (in
1999). Westcott compared the SuperSlow group with a group that did traditional
weight training, lifting for two seconds and lowering for two. The SuperSlow
group did only five repetitions, while the comparison group did 10. In both
studies, the SuperSlow groups saw strength gains at least 50% greater than the
group doing traditional weight training.
"There no research...that says one strength training workout a week will
increase cardiovascular strength."
Still, Westcott, a former track coach and regular runner, says SuperSlow is
no magic bullet. The workout, he says, is just too hard.
"I wasn't surprised because I had done this myself for nine months
before we did the study so I knew it was very effective," says Westcott.
"But I didn't like it; it didn't fit my personality. And I could tell
throughout the study that (the subjects) absolutely hated it as well."
In both studies, he says, only one out of 75 participants actually stuck
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You’re familiar with this scene: a dog and its owner walk side by side down the street, and you can’t help but smirk that the dog is dressed up just like its owner. It’s undeniable–people often view their dogs as extensions of themselves. The marked bond between people and their dogs is one that often surpasses that with other domesticated animals. You can look at dogs as providers of companionship for humans.
On the other hand, this same bond has given dogs a special kind of social intelligence that is truly unique in the animal kingdom. Enter Dognition, a new citizen science project that aims to contribute to research that furthers the study of dog cognition—the way your dog’s mind processes the world around it.
Although only in its beta phase, Dognition has gained an enthusiastic following in over 38 countries. (Dog lovers, unite!) The project involves engaging your dog in science-based experiments that assess its cognition based on independent problem solving and social problem solving.
Here’s an example of a simple Dognition experiment you can perform with your dog:
Keep in mind—these experiments don’t measure your dog’s IQ. Rather, they assess how your dog navigates the world around it. The data that you collect from these experiments helps deepen the empathy that you share with your dog just as much as it helps researchers understand all dogs as a whole. At the end of your experiments, Dognition provides a platform that allows you to profile your dog based on its results. Is your dog an Einstein? A stargazer? A Renaissance dog? Participants have the potential to gain valuable insight on their dog’s personality through this project.
Dognition is the brainchild of Dr. Brian Hare, who co-authored the book counterpart to this project with his wife. The Genius of Dogs – How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think hit the shelves on February 5, 2013. The book delves into these as well as some other curious topics. (I’m excited for my copy to arrive! It’s the perfect supplement to this already fascinating citizen science project.)
•How we came to know that dogs can retain hundreds, even thousands of words and gestures;
•How “survival of the friendliest” led dogs to domesticate themselves;
•The truth about dogs and physics (and how they’re lousy at it).
Caveat emptor, though. This nifty service comes with a price tag. With a base fee of $60, participants can get started. “Owners tell us that Dognition is helping them understand their dogs better,” says Dr. Hare. “This is a wonderful–and very distinctive–offering. Making it possible has required bringing to the table years of research and expertise, one-of-a-kind technology, plus service and support. This service allows us to make these things available.”
Dedicated to all dogs, Dognition is an ideal project for owners who treasure a deeper relationship with their dogs and are excited about gaining an intimate understanding of dog behavior–perhaps unearthing what exactly it is that makes dogs man’s (and woman’s) best friend.
Dr. Brian Hare himself sat down with SciStarter for a brief Q&A session. He tells us firsthand what inspired his research, what the study hopes to learn about dogs, how he assembled his team, and more.
1. How and when did you discover that dogs can read human gestures?
I was a 19 year old undergraduate at Emory University and I was working with an amazing Psychology Professor Mike Tomasello. Mike was one of the first to realize that human infants develop powerful social skills as early as nine months. This is when infants begin to understand what adults are trying to communicate when they point. Infants also begin pointing out things to other people. Whether an infant watches you point to a bird or the infant points to their favorite toy, they are beginning to build core communication skills. By paying attention to the reactions and gestures of other people, as well as to what other people are paying attention to, infants are beginning to read other people’s intentions.
Mike knew that our closest living relatives, the great apes, could not use human gestures, so he thought that perhaps this ability was unique to humans.
But like many dog owners, I’d spent countless hours playing fetch with my childhood dog, Oreo. If he lost a ball, I’d help him find it by pointing in the right direction. When Mike told me that a chimpanzee couldn’t follow a human point to find food, I blurted out ‘my dog can do that!’ and it all began from there.
2. Apart from helping people learn more about their dogs through science-based games/exercises, what do you hope to learn about dogs as a whole from the collected data?
There are so many fascinating questions people have about dogs that, at the moment, we can’t answer with science – we just don’t have enough time or enough dogs. For example, to answer which breed is the best communicator or the most empathetic, I’d need at least 30 dogs from each breed. If you took the AKC breeds or all breeds worldwide, you would need between 6,000 -12,000 puppies, decades of work, millions of dollars, and about a thousand graduate students. It is no wonder no one has done it. But with Dognition.com, we could do exactly this and more. Questions that we could only dream of answering are now becoming a distinct possibility.
3. Your team seems to come from various backgrounds. How did you assemble the team, and how does it function for this project? How is it managed from different locations?
I was kicking around the idea around the Business school at Duke of a company where people could use science to find out the unique genius of their dog. One of the students of entrepreneurial law said to me, ‘You’ve got to meet Kip Frey’. Besides being a Professor at the Law School, Kip is also an incredibly successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist. We had coffee one day and that’s how it started.
From there, we hand-picked a team to do two things: build a company that would serve the needs of dogs and their owners. And, just as exciting, contribute to the greater good of dogs, through discoveries that could not otherwise be pursued.
We built an advisory board that includes world-leading experts in canine cognition, as well as veterans in the media and technology space — Mark Benerofe, founder and advisor to successful startups including Sony Online Entertainment and Match.com; Web innovator Thede Loder, who was part of the original technology team that created Match.com; Marshall Brain, a leading entrepreneur and founder of HowStuffWorks.com — plus nationally renowned advertising agency, McKinney. They have helped create a rich consumer-facing experience and provided market research, brand development and marketing.
Additionally, we’ve enlisted a panel of highly respected thought leaders from a broad spectrum of dog-oriented disciplines, for the purpose of sharing ideas and providing feedback on Dognition’s mission, products and practices. They contribute their expertise in areas like canine health and well-being, training, service, and behavior. This includes world renowned dog trainer and best-selling author, Victoria Stilwell, and Paul Mundell, National Director of Canine Programs for CCI, Canines Companions for Independence. This unique assembly of experts will help inform our programming and services to meet our over-arching goal of servicing the greater good of all dogs, even while we help individual owners understand and nurture their own dogs in new ways.
4. What inspired you to create a citizen science counterpart to your book?
The whole point of the book, as the title suggests, is to uncover the genius of all dogs. The point of Dognition.com, is to allow people to uncover the genius of their dog, and in doing so, help us better understand all dogs.
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Yes, we’re recycling an old post but never keen to waste things here, we are reposting a very relevant blog post this weekend.
Come Monday the 16th May, a mere 3 days time, we will be launching our latest report on a new area of work for EIA, electronic waste. Some of you may have seen our campaign to raise funds, you can see below our early evidence, since then we have been able to produce a full report exposing our findings. Our report System Failure exposes the toxic flood of discarded technology leaving the UK to wash up illegally in Africa.
Even more exciting, to all those who live in the UK, tune in Monday 8.30pm to BBC One’s Panorama; Track my trash. The Panorama programme features EIA and is based on our findings.
Tune in on Monday and find out where your old PC might have ended up.
EIA’s investigators have discovered that much of the UK’s e-waste is illegally dumped in Africa with terrible environmental and human consequences.
Within Europe alone it is estimated that 75% of e-waste ‘disappears’ despite laws aimed at promoting recycling and banning export to developing countries. E-waste contains valuable metals such as gold and copper. Illegally shipped out in bulk, the waste is stripped down to bare components using primitive methods:
- copper wires are bundled and set alight emitting vast quantities of toxic dioxins
- TV screens are smashed with hammers, releasing plumes of lead dust
- circuit boards are smelted to gather lead with the same utensils that are used to prepare food!
- After the useful metals are taken out, leftover parts are often dumped in landfills or rivers or simply burnt, releasing toxins into the environment that poison people and wildlife for years to come.
Poverty often drives young children to carry out this work to help support their families, and the potential health consequences are dire.
Reproductive and developmental problems; damaged immune, nervous and blood systems; kidney damage and impaired brain development in the young. Studies have also found increased levels of dioxins in mothers and their breast-fed infants who lived at the recycling sites.
ILLEGAL TRADE IN E-WASTE IS A BOOMING INDUSTRY AND OUR DESIRE TO OWN THE LATEST ELECTRONIC GOODS FUELS IT.
This campaign will be launched in the next few weeks with the publication of our ground breaking in-depth report. We plan to distribute these as widely as possible for maximum impact and to bring the message home to decision makers in the government that this is not a trade which takes place far away – it starts here.
A GPS tracker costs £500 and allows us to track specific items of e-waste from point of origin in the UK to their final resting place and provides the irrefutable evidence to expose this illegal trade as well as the detrimental environmental and health impacts. With your help we can track items like fridges, not just from personal waste but corporate and government waste too.
Text EIAA11 £5 to 70070 and support our work today.
What you can do:
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Thankfully, the spaceship created by conceptual collective New Catalogue and installed at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art isn't going into space anytime soon.
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In 1977, NASA approached American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and popular science communicator Carl Sagan with a mission: Find out what it means to be a human on Earth and we'll send it into space, so that intelligent life might one day understand. Sagan and a team of artists compiled a time capsule of 116 images, an assortment of natural sounds and musical collections, and messages spoken in 55 languages on gold-plated audio-visual discs that were attached to NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
Thirty-four years later, New Catalogue (which includes artists Luke Batten, Jonathan Sadler, Mary Vorhees Meehan, and Neil Donnelly along with composer Judd Greenstein) brought its own sounds, images, and a massive "spaceship" installation to SMoCA to revisit Sagan's mission on a large, interactive scale.
"You are about to enter a spaceship," reads the exhibition statement by curator Claire Carter. "There will be many clues in your surroundings — the design language, the constellation of stars, the greetings inscribed on the walls . . . Join them on a journey of exploration — your presence, imagination, even your physical movement, will become part of the artwork."
Next to the description that feels more like the introduction to Disneyland's Space Mountain (more on that later) than a museum statement is a quote from former President Jimmy Carter, who recorded this message in 1977 for use in Sagan's record:
"This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe."
Lights and sounds lead toward the entrance of New Catalogue's spaceship, which is far from high-tech. Particle-board walls and insulation flooring create a long, bubble-lit space for museum guests to enter and participate. Tacked to the insides of the walls are bright TV screens with human faces, clips from popular movies, and images of nature.
Greenstein's infinite, space-inspired score In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves plays through speakers overhead. Paint cans with fat markers and sheets of newsprint fill the majority of the space with simple prompts: What do you think of when you think of space? Which five songs would you bring to space for yourself? What are 10 things aliens would need to see/taste/touch/experience to understand life on Earth?
The answers written by participants reflect age, curiosity, and maturity: "I think of infinite possibility," "Justin Bieber," "It's a Wonderful World," and "iPhones, roast beef sandwiches, and Breakfast at Tiffany's."
What the exhibition's "many clues" hint at is unclear, and the answers provided by the audience are at once entertaining, thought-provoking, enlightening, and cringeworthy. A higher intelligence might laugh at a clip of a Hollywood movie or wince at a sound of a baby crying (both of which are included in the capsule), but after deciphering the scribbled handwriting, phallic doodles, and biblical references, they — and it turns out we — might be left wondering, "Why now?"
In the late 1960s and throughout 1970, talk of space travel, aliens, and our own communication technology was the stuff of popular culture. The United States had just put a man on the moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey had hit the silver screens, and Russia had created the first space station.
Forty years later, our focus has shifted inward. NASA's funding has been slashed, Disney has worried publicly about Space Mountain's "Tomorrowland" becoming "Yesterdayland," and the attempt to communicate with intelligent life has ended in Hollywood catastrophes, including this year's Prometheus. Our outlook on space travel has changed, and what used to be a world of wonder has become a financial drain (and, according to Earthlings at SMoCA, a place we couldn't survive without iPhones).
The exhibition's timing is confusing, and the mission of New Catalogue — beyond creating a cooltime capsule — is just as unclear.
Meehan, Donnelly, Sadler, and Batten have collaborated as a group before, though the collective is best known for work created by Sadler and Batten, who united in 1993.
The two formed New Catalogue in the early 2000s as a commentary on design, photography, and stock images. Their work focuses on creative nonfiction; the two set up models in film-like scenarios and imagine themselves stock photo agents who present a "new catalogue" that pushes the boundaries of sterile imagery. Their work has been showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and at the Prague Biennale.
Batten and Sadler also have worked with Greenstein, who's written music for Carnegie Hall, the Minnesota Orchestra, and violist Nadia Sirota (who recorded Greenstein's extraterrestrial track playing inside the "spaceship" at SMoCA).
Together, the composer, two designers, and two photographers have visited Scottsdale for installation as well as a calendar of events that included the opening and a performance by Greenstein and Sirota. Carter also has hosted a number of walk-throughs, encouraged visitors to take home a stack of newspaper with the exhibition's questions, and hosted an event held under the stars.
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Health*Matters Lunch And Learn Series
There is no charge and enrollment is not required for the following classes. All take place from 12:10 to 12:55 p.m. Bag lunches welcomed. For more information call 643-4646.
March 15, 234 Hearst Gym.
This class will offer two short stretch routines that can help relieve muscle aches and pains and boost energy. The benefits of stretching and how to incorporate stretching into the day will be discussed.
April 12, 234 Hearst Gym.
Participants will learn a routine using dynabands and handweights to use at home or the office for muscle tone and strength.
Safer Sex in the 90s:
* Women Who
Have Sex With Women
* Women and Men Who
Have Sex With the Opposite Sex
* Men Who Have Sex With Men
Each class will offer pointers on how to communicate effectively with a current or potential partner and how to practice safer sex without spoiling the fun. The program will include discussion about the connection between alcohol and drug use and risky behavior. Resources and safer sex kits will be provided. All sessions will take place at the Tang Education Center.
Employee Development and Training
For more information, for copies of the 1995-96 Employee Development and Training catalog or for information on how to enroll in classes, call 642-8134.
New Employee Orientation
April 2, 8:30 am-noon, plus optional campus tour from 1-2:30 pm.
An opportunity for new employees to learn about the university and the Berkeley campus, meet other new employees and obtain specific information needed within the first month of employment. Topics to be presented include benefits of UC employment, campus culture and values, employee support services and common personnel policies.
Managing and Mediating
Conflicts in the Workplace
April 3, 8:30 am-noon. For managers and supervisors only with prerequisite "Managing and Mediating Conflict in the Workplace."
Participants will apply the principles and skills learned in the prerequisite course by participating in case studies, role plays and group activities. The course will present the opportunity for further suggestions for enhancing skills from facilitators and other participants.
Personal Time Management
April 5, 8:30 am-noon.
Learn techniques for analyzing time use, determining priorities in the work setting, planning and making the most of peak energy times of the day and learning when to delegate.
Participating in Teams:
Skills for Effective Teamwork
April 17 and 24, 8:30 am-4 pm.
Through exercises, videos, lectures and small group discussions, participants will learn the basics of teamwork, including team dynamics, roles and behavior, and how to help create effective team meetings, solve team problems and effectively manage conflict.
Sponsored by University Health Service. Pre-registration is required. For information or to enroll, call Laurie Westphal, 643-9403.
Workers' Compensation Benefits Procedures--Introductory Class
April 10, 9 am-noon.
For departmental and payroll staff who want to learn or update their knowledge of campus procedures on processing workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Workers' Compensation Benefits Procedures--Advanced Class
April 17, 9 am-noon.
For staff who already have attended the introductory class. The class will cover calculations and sample cases.
Benefits 403(b) Contributions
Help is on the way for employees wanting to determine their maximum contribution to the 403(b) plan for 1996.
UC Benefits is in the process of calculating the Maximum Annual Contribution, also known as the MAC, for all employees who contributed to the 403(b) plan during 1995. The MAC will be calculated in accordance with Internal Revenue Code provisions using December 1995 and January 1996 payroll data.
A statement indicating the 1996 limit will be mailed to home addresses of affected participants in late March. Due to this project, 403(b) worksheets for 1996 are not available to employees as they have been in past years.
Information regarding limits for current employees who have not participated in the 403(b) plan and for new hires will be published as soon as it becomes available.
ICC Rate for 1996
A contract rate of 6.14 percent for the Insurance Company Contract (ICC) Fund has been negotiated with Principal Mutual Life Insurance Co. The 1996 contract has staggered maturity dates culminating in December 2001. Principal Mutual Life ranks in the upper one percent of all U.S. life insurance companies and is rated A++ by Best & Co.
Contributions invested in the ICC Fund during 1996 will be pooled with existing money in the fund to produce a blended rate of return that reflects the average yield of all the contracts in force.
Assuming that 1996 deposits follow anticipated contribution trends, the university treasurer estimates that the fund will produce a net yield of approximately 7.70 percent in 1996.
Fidelity Investments is once again offering free half-hour counseling sessions for Berkeley employees. Sessions will be held in the Campus Benefits Unit, 247 University Hall, on March 19, April 25, May 23, June 20 and July 18.
To sign up for a session, call Fidelity at (800) 771-3374.
Richard Ofshe, professor of sociology, received the Roy M. Dorcus Award from the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis for best clinical paper on hypnosis published during 1994. The award was presented in November for his paper "Recovered Memory and Robust Repression: Influence and Pseudomemory," published in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
Ofshe's work on recovered memory was featured in the March 7 TV movie "Forgotten Sins," based on the true story of a Washington sheriff who was accused by his daughters of sexual assault.
The Mark Twain Papers project at Bancroft Library has been awarded the first Modern Language Association Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Publication for "Roughing It," published in 1993 by UC Press.
Presented at the association's recent national convention, the prize can be considered the Pulitzer Prize of scholarly publications, according to association officials.
The editors of "Roughing It" include Harriet Elinor Smith of Bancroft and professor Edgar Marquess Branch of Miami University of Ohio. Associate editors are Lin Salamo and Robert Pack Browning, both of Bancroft.
Alan D. K. Laird, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, died Feb. 11 at Kaiser Walnut Creek following a heart attack. He was 81.
Laird, who specialized in water resources and fluid mechanics, was director of the Sea Water Conversion Laboratory and systemwide coordinator of UC's Saline Water Conservation Research Program.
Born in 1914 and raised in British Columbia, Laird came to Berkeley in 1946 as a student, earned both an MS and PhD in mechanical engineering and joined the faculty in 1951. He retired in 1980.
His early research centered on fluid dynamics, including two-phase flow problems and wave interface models. He later focused on methods for the production of fresh water through the desalination of seawater and other fluids.
Laird is survived by his wife, Joyce, of Lafayette, two sons, a daughter and four grandchildren.
Francis J. Whitfield, emeritus professor of Slavic languages and literatures, died Feb. 28 in Berkeley, just before what would have been his 80th birthday.
Whitfield was, in effect, the architect of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and will be remembered by generations of students for his insistence on rigor--tempered with humor and grace--on the many subjects he taught.
His range of interests was broad: poetry, literature, Greek, Latin, biblical texts and mathematics. He edited what is still the most accessible single-volume introduction to the history of Russian literature, D.S. Mirsky's "A History of Russian Literature."
Throughout his career, Whitfield's enduring love was Polish language, literature and culture. In Polish his major accomplishment was the two volume Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary: Polish-English, English-Polish.
In general linguistics, Whitfield's special interest was glossematics, the classification of general structural linguistic practice. His extensive writing and contributions to this field led to an invitation to address the congregation at the 500th anniversary of the University of Copenhagen.
In Slavic linguistics, Whitfield is best known for his textbook of Old Church Slavic.
Born in Springfield, Mass., Whitfield spent his entire college career at Harvard, obtaining a PhD in Slavic in 1944. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1948 and taught until his retirement in 1986.
Upon his retirement, Whitfield was awarded the Berkeley citation.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Cecylia. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Department of Slavic Languages in the name of "The Francis James Whitfield Fund," to go toward support for students in Polish research and study.
A memorial service is scheduled for Thursday, March 22, at 4 p.m. in the Morrison Library.
Memorials for Nestrick, Newman and Stern
A memorial service for William Nestrick will be held Wednesday, March 20, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of International House.
Nestrick, who was chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and an associate professor of English and comparative literature, died at his Berkeley home Feb. 29 of a brain hemorrhage.
Nestrick's exceptionally wide knowledge and interests in the arts were reflected in teaching and publications ranging from English Renaissance poetry to the modern visual arts, opera, music and film.
He chaired the arts division juries for the San Francisco International Film Festival for several years, and this spring's festival, April 18 through May 5, will dedicate a program to his memory.
He served the campus as dean of the Division of Special Programs from 1986 to 1988, and founded and headed the undergraduate major program in film. Since 1980 a member of the Chancellor's Committee on the Creative Arts and also a member of the University Art Museum's Collections Committee, he was a frequent lecturer at the Pacific Film Archive.
A memorial service for Frank C. Newman, retired associate justice of the California Supreme Court and former dean and professor emeritus at Boalt Hall, will be held March 17 at 2 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Faculty Club.
A memorial gathering will be held for Milton Stern March 18 at 6 p.m. in the Faculty Club's Seaborg Room. Stern, who was dean emeritus of UC Berkeley Extension, died Feb. 16 in Florida.
Newman's and Stern's obituaries were published in the Feb. 28 issue of Berkeleyan.
The following is a summary listing of all campus job openings for the current week.
Charles William Tobias, the founding father of electrochemical engineering and former professor and chair of chemical engineering, died March 6 at his home in Orinda after a long struggle with emphysema. He was 75.
A native of Hungary, Tobias took a field that deals with the effects of electricity on chemical reactions and with electricity produced by chemical reactions--the best known practical examples are batteries and electroplating--and gave it a sound scientific footing.
Where before it was almost an art, he detailed the processes involved and quantified them, thereby laying the foundation for advances we take for granted today, such as long-lasting lithium batteries.
Among his many research projects, he studied ozone production in electrochemical cells, investigated the electrical deposition of alloys and metals, studied electrochemical machining of hard alloys and looked at how reactive metals are deposited on electrodes.
In 1954 he also founded an electrochemical research program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which over the years made advances that contributed to longer lasting batteries and batteries with greater storage capacities and greater energy concentrations.
Tobias influenced the lives of many students and faculty members who thought of him as a role model and friend. During his Berkeley career he supervised 72 graduate students, 34 of whom received the PhD. A large proportion of all electrochemical engineers in this country are his former students or students of his students.
"He was not only a scholar, but also a man of enormous charm, wit and human understanding whose presence helped shape the spirit and substance of the Department of Chemical Engineering," said Alexis T. Bell, dean of the College of Chemistry.
A member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1983, Tobias received numerous honors during his 44-year career. Upon his retirement from Berkeley in 1991 he received the Berkeley Citation.
Born in Budapest, Tobias escaped to the U.S. in 1947 just as the communists were taking over Hungary, and headed for Berkeley, where he pursued postdoctoral studies and worked as an instructor in the newly formed Department of Chemical Engineering. He became an assistant professor in 1950 and was appointed a full professor in 1960.
Tobias chaired the chemical engineering department from 1967 until 1972, and served as acting dean of the College of Chemistry in 1978.
He is survived by his wife, Katalin Voros; three children, Carla, Anthony and Eric, by his late first wife, Marcia; two stepdaughters, Eszti and Reka Pigniczky; two grandsons; and a brother.
A funeral service was held March 11 in Berkeley. A recital in his memory will be held later this spring.
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Arrowhead Library System Legacy Grant: SFY 2010 - 2011
Arrowhead Library System
Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.
Minnesota has a strong library presence with over 350 active public library buildings within twelve regional public library systems. Arrowhead Library System (ALS) is a federated regional public library system with central services located in northeastern Minnesota. It has twenty-nine member public libraries located in seven counties: Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, and St. Louis. ALS was formed under joint powers agreements between cities and counties. ALS and member public libraries provide free access to library services and program activities for all residents of the region without discrimination. Through cooperation, shared services, and reciprocal agreements, library users have access to a wide range of public library services, programs and resources within the region and statewide. Through system collaboration, communities develop libraries that capitalize on economies of scale providing greater effectiveness, improved quality and access to more resources.
Through the State Library Services Division of the Minnesota Department of Education, the regional public library systems each receive part of the $4.25 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant through a state formula program. Arrowhead Library System share through the formula is $457,937 in 2010 and $439,943 in 2011. The funds enable ALS member libraries to connect with authors, playwrights, musicians, story tellers, and other arts activities providing a strong program connect for all Minnesotans with the arts and cultural heritage activities. Despite the tremendous success of this grant program the demand for arts and cultural activities throughout the twelve library regions exceed the available resources.
Total Legacy Dollars Received from the State: $457,762.74
Arrowhead (ALS) allocated:
90% of the funds for region-wide collaborative projects, including 2.5% allowed for administrative expenses.
10% of the funds for state-wide collaborative projects.
Total Number of Programs Held:
134 programs (includes folk dance at 21 locations; Perpich Arts students at 4 locations; museums, events, bus trips at 31 locations; photography at 14 locations; poetry at 16 cities; shadow puppets at 7 locations; Summer Reading Illustrator at 20 locations, landscape architecture at 16 locations)
Total Attendance: 22,496
Total Number of Partnerships:5 (Arrowhead regional Arts Council; Perpich Center for the Arts, Reif Center, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Spirit Lake Poets)
Programs sponsored by funds for the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund reached users in 27 public libraries, 4 schools, 1 community college, 2 child cares, 1 senior center, 1 ECFE, 2 community cafes, and all 7 counties (Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, St. Louis) of the Arrowhead Library System.
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When It Might Be A Good Idea To Take Cash Out
Some people simply view this as another way to invest their money, while others only want that money to be passed on to their loved ones. People who invested as a safe place for their money should take it out when they need it, or they feel it is in danger of decreasing. Knowing your needs prior to searching for a free term life insurance quote is essential.
Determine If It Is Necessary To Take Out Your Money
There are a few different types of universal life insurance, and the variable rates that put money at risk should be watched carefully. Though these still are relatively safe, it might be a better option to take the cash out and put it into another account. No matter what your needs are, there are ways to mitigate any negative aspects in regards to the life insurance quotation you chose. If maximum profit is your goal, cashing out at the right time is imperative.
What Happens When You Cash Out?
Depending upon the free term life insurance quote, you may compare several options to help you find the best policy to purchase. Ask whether your policy will still have an underlying payout for a beneficiary is you cash out because some life insurance policies may be voided if you decide to remove money. Using a life insurance quotation is essential for ensuring that you get the best deal possible, while preseving wealth for your loved ones. | <urn:uuid:f3697736-ecd6-4597-9d79-e5e5c4245c11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lifeinsurancefactcheck.com/when-to-cash-in-my-universal-life-insurance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908241 | 622 | 1.59375 | 2 |
China’s successes in establishing itself in Central Asia have been furthered in recent months. After the agreement signed with the Tajik aluminum smelter in spring, during the fall Beijing has once again confirmed its place in the gas and nuclear sectors in Kazakhstan, to Russia’s disadvantage but to the benefit of the Kazakhstani authorities, who as a result will gain in autonomy in strategic domains.
BACKGROUND: In May 2008, China followed in Russia’s tracks by establishing itself in the development of the Tursunzade aluminum smelter, Tajikistan’s main industry. The Tajik Aluminum Company and the Chinese National Corporation for Heavy Machinery (CHMC) signed an agreement for the construction of two factories in the Yavan district that will supply TALCO with raw aluminum for further refinement. The materials required to make aluminum (quartz and coal clay) will be mined from the Chashmasang deposit, situated fifty kilometers from the capital Dushanbe, and which would be able to supply the smelter for the next fifty years. In addition, the Chinese partners are negotiating with TALCO over the construction of a factory for the production of coal and graphite. The project will be financed to the tune of US$ 30 million by China but will also receive aid from the ADB and the EBCD since the total project will cost about 1 billion US$. Currently, the inputs for TALCO are supplied from Russia, China, and the Baltic states, and this could be the first time that the smelter is supplied with materials mined in Tajikistan itself. This agreement revived discussions about China’s possible participation in the Rogun hydroelectric plant project, on which the Russian company RUSAL has set its sights but withdrew from the project in 2007.
However, the country in which China has recently reaffirmed its place as Central Asia’s key energy partner is Kazakhstan. At the beginning of November 2008, CNPC and KazMunayGas signed an export agreement for 5 bcm of gas annually to China. This gas is extracted from the Aktobe sites being exploited by Chinese (AktobeMunaiGas) and to date has mainly exported gas to Europe via Russian gas pipelines. Both companies also confirmed the two-phase construction of a Sino-Kazahkstani gas pipeline, which will form part of the great Sino-Central Asia gas pipeline. It will travel over 1,300 km from the Uzbek border to the Khorgos border post and will include five compression stations along its path. Several sections are to be constructed: one between the Uzbek border and Shymkent, another between Almaty and Khorgos, and lastly above all a North-South section which will link the Beyneu-Akbulak deposits to Shymkent via Kzyl-Orda, with a first-phase capacity of 5 bcm by 2011 and full capacity of 10 bcm per year from 2014-2015. Half of the 10 bcm will go to China, while the other half will be reserved for domestic Kazakhstani consumption. The development of the Sino-Central Asian gas pipeline will therefore enable Astana to get significant transit rights for both Turkmen (Ashgabat is going to deliver 30 bcm to China) and Uzbek (probably 10 bcm) gas.
Lastly, some days later, China confirmed its nuclear partnership with Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan National Atomic Energy Agency, Kazatomprom, has signed two agreements with the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and China Guandun Nuclear Power Company (CGNPC) which make provision for multiple bilateral collaborations. Several joint-ventures under 51 percent Chinese control will be created to supply Beijing with natural uranium and, after 2013, to collaborate in enriching it. Kazatomprom has been supplying nuclear fuel to Chinese reactors since 2007: it sells China natural uranium, which China enriches before sending on to the Ulbinsk factory, located at Ust-Kamenogorsk in east Kazakhstan for its transformation into fuel. Kazatomprom’s director Mukhtar Dzhakishev announced that from now the company aims to participate directly in the construction of Chinese nuclear power plants so it can gain experience in this sector and offer its services to countries other than China. There are also plans for the joint exploitation of uranium deposits in Kazakhstan: those of Irkol (Kzyl-Orda region) which has estimated reserves of 750 tons, and Semizbay (Akmolinsk region) with reserves of 500 tons for CGNPC, and Zhalpak (South-Kazakhstan region) whose reserves are put at 750 tons for CNNC.
IMPLICATIONS: The implications of this strengthening of China’s presence are multiple. China is succeeding in making inroads into Central Asia at Russia’s expense: Moscow seems to have had difficulties keeping the promises it made to the Tajik authorities to take partial control of the hydroelectric sector, and that of aluminum, which is linked to it. In Kazakhstan, China, which has already produced a massive rise in Central Asian gas prices and ended the Moscow-imposed regime of low prices, is resolute about challenging Gazprom’s monopoly. The prospect of China-Kazakhstan cooperation in gas is not limited to 10 bcm of the Beyneu-Shymkent section: the possibility of extending the pipeline’s capacity enabling it to carry a share of production from the immense Karachaganak site is also mentioned regularly, causing concern in Gazprom. The Russian company is also concerned about the increasing loss in importance in Beijing’s eyes of the Sino-Russian Altay pipeline project, relative to the growing importance of the Central Asian scene.
On the Kazakhstani side, one can notice the transformation of Kazatomprom into a holding capable of managing the whole nuclear cycle from the mining of primary resources to the construction of reactors including the enrichment of uranium. In fact, since 2006 Kazakhstan has had a 10 percent stake in the shares of the American maker of nuclear reactors, Westinghouse Electric Co., via Toshiba. The Ulbinsk metallurgy factory, which currently only operates at 30 percent of its capacity, could then become a key piece of Kazakhstani strategy, which is to respond to the ever growing demand of China and Japan for nuclear energy. Kazakhstan’s considerable uranium resources (almost 20 percent of known world resources, estimated at between one and one-and-a-half million tons) justifies its global ambitions since it could produce, according to official figures, 15,000 tons of uranium by 2010, 27,000 tons by 2020, and maintain this level until 2050.
KazMunayGas’ rapprochement with China has a triple effect in the energy domain: Kazakhstan will win the rights to transit Turkmen and Uzbek gas, accentuate Gazprom’s feeling of no longer being the master of the game, and put an end, at least in part, to the gas shortages in the southern regions of the country. Indeed, the Beyneu-Shymkent-Almaty section will enable a three- or fourfold increase in the quantity of gas available in the Zhambul and Alma-Ata regions as well as in the city of Almaty itself. The Kazakhstani authorities will therewith be rid of a related problem, that of the difficult partnership with Tashkent concerning the delivery of gas. Uzbekistan in effect tends not to provide regular deliveries or to play at gas blackmail in its relations with Kazakhstan. Astana also hopes to avoid the critiques issuing from a section of the political class, which is concerned about Beijing’s grip over the Kazakhstani energy sector and denounces the sale of national resources to the Chinese neighbor. This is the case, for example, with the project for the Ekibastuz electricity plant in the Pavlodar region and the high-voltage line Ekibastuz-Xinjiang, which have no provision for connection to neighboring Kazakh consumers. The power stations will thus increase Kazakhstan’s export potential but not remedy domestic consumption shortages. The Sino-Kazakhstani gas pipeline will avoid this criticism as it will also service the local population.
CONCLUSIONS: Though Russia’s still evident dominance in Central Asia cannot be thrown into question, China is nevertheless continuing to make inroads and to capture parts of the market in the region. Weak states such as Tajikistan have everything to gain from the involvement of international actors, whoever they are, while Kazakhstan is enlarging its room for maneuver and continues to make a name for itself as a regional power in key domains such as the nuclear industry, which at present is enjoying more favor due to decreases in the price of hydrocarbons. China’s growing presence in Central Asia is thus in direct competition with Moscow’s plans for the region. Though for the time being both powers may have managed to fulfill their aims without coming head-to-head, this situation will in all likelihood change in the coming years: China is experiencing exponential growth and devouring primary resources, while Russia is using its economic revival to specialize in primary resources and heavy industry.
AUTHOR’S BIO: Sebastien Peyrouse is a Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center. He is the author of Turkménistan, un destin au carrefour des empires (Paris, 2007, in French), among other books. | <urn:uuid:5cdb67ad-6e98-4ba3-ba85-709af09b9999> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://old.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/5001/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941224 | 1,979 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Subtle variations in the sun's brightness helped trigger a drastic climate change in the Yucatán Peninsula, researchers suggest, and that, in turn, may have helped doom the Maya civilization. The new study, based on a mucky lake-bottom core, confirms that the area's worst drought in many millennia struck just as Maya civilization began its accelerating decline.
Solar activity varies in a "bicentennial oscillation" with a period variously reported to be between 206 and 208 years. The pattern is recorded in the abundance of radioactive carbon-14 produced by cosmic rays and preserved in tree rings, which is thought to correspond to a varying number of sunspots and the brightness of the sun.
The new record is a well-dated, high-resolution core from the bottom of Lake Chichancanab, Mexico. Varying amounts of gypsum deposited on the lake floor record the lake's climate: Whenever rainfall decreased, evaporation concentrated salts and the lake water precipitated gypsum. When paleoclimatologist David Hodell of the University of Florida, Gainesville, and colleagues compared the core's gypsum record to records of solar activity, they found that the bicentennial oscillations in each were in step throughout.
The drought record shows just how hard times were for the Maya at the end of their heyday. Dry spells pepper the 2600-year record, but its most intense, most prolonged drought runs from about A.D. 750 to 850, the researchers report in the 18 May issue of Science. In fact, this was the region's worst drought in 7000 years, according to a longer, less detailed record of Hodell's from the same lake, and was one of the bicentennial droughts. The megadrought came just as Maya civilization entered its decline, which ran from about A.D. 750 to 900, as measured by the number of sites where people were building the massive temples and stone monuments that typify the Maya Classic Period.
Mayanists are guardedly receptive of the climate-culture connection. "It's quite possible it was a major factor, but I don't think climate itself is the sole factor of Maya collapse," says archaeologist Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona in Tucson. Climatologists are perhaps more enthusiastic about the sun-climate connection. "The Hodell result adds to a string of recent papers that document the importance of solar variability for climate change," notes paleoceanographer Peter deMenocal of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York. | <urn:uuid:4510e197-714e-4a5e-aa1b-a7ebeb233182> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2001/05/18-02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96208 | 530 | 3.671875 | 4 |
I noticed that some people are searching online to find information about a Scientology birth. Actually it’s not a Scientology birth - it’s a Dianetics birth.
L.Ron Hubbard wrote the book Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950. The book is about how past incidents that contain pain, and any degree of unconciousness, can affect us in the present. This could be as small as stubbing your toe or as big as an almost fatal car accident. What Mr Hubbard discovered was that the words said while a person is hurt, ill or otherwise not fully conscious, can affect them later.
How does this work? If you’ve seen a hypnotist then you’ve seen this at work. What is said to people while hypnotized can be reactivated when they’re awake and they don’t even remember it. Next thing they’re feeling hot, itching, or in pain - and it’s just from a command said while they were ‘unconscious.’
And the fact is that words said when you are ill, injured or in pain can have a similar effect. Birth is one such incident. Any woman who has given birth knows that there is pain involved. And I’m sure you can imagine it’s quite stressful for the baby too. It’s being shoved and pushed out into the world. Often when they arrive the first thing they experience is a slap on the rear end. There are people talking in the room while all this is happening. Sometimes labor can go on for hours.
Image: Found Photos
Preventing any later problems that could be caused by noises and words during the birth is the basis of what is called a ‘Scientology Birth”.
Here is what Mr. Hubbard says:
The mother, then, should be very gentle on herself during pregnancy and those around her should be informed of the necessity for silence after any jar or injury. Say nothing around a woman who has been struck or jarred in any way. Maintain silence in the presence of birth. It is a remarkable fact, and a scientific fact, that the healthiest childern come from the happiest mothers.
And that’s all it is. We strive to give birth in a quiet, calm atmosphere, so that mother and baby will have no ill effects from the birth experience. Some families choose a home birth and others prefer to go to the hospital. But we do like to have the room quiet and calm. | <urn:uuid:66c13237-9759-4371-a962-c842bd654808> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scientology-pasadena.com/tag/dianetics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965127 | 521 | 2 | 2 |
American Biology Teacher Guest Editorial
David R. Hershey
dh321 at excite.com
Fri Dec 3 15:23:53 EST 2004
The following manuscript was accepted as a guest editorial by American Bi=
ology Teacher editor Randy Moore in November 2002. However, the Managing =
Editor much later informed me that the manucript had been misplaced and w=
ould not be published because she felt it was no longer timely. Appeals t=
o the new Editor, Publisher, NABT President and ABT Journal Advisory Comm=
ittee were acarpous so I thought I would make it available here.
David R. Hershey
dh321z at yahoo.com
Plants Are Indeed Intelligent
Biology Today columnist Maura Flannery (2002) rejected Anthony Trewavas (=
2002) thesis that plants have intelligence mainly by assuming it was mere=
ly an "animal metaphor". However, Trewavas (2002) was not being metaphori=
cal, he was being literal. Flannery (2002) arbitrarily restricted the ter=
m intelligence to "an animal way of doing things." However, Webster's dic=
tionaries don't restrict intelligence to animals.
Webster's dictionaries define intelligence as "the ability to cope with a=
new situation" (Agnes 2002) or "the ability to learn or understand or to=
deal with new or trying situations" (Woolf 1973). Flannery (2002) descri=
bed how plants cope with new or trying situations such as high temperatur=
es, water deprivation, and attacks by herbivores and pathogens. Therefore=
, no "animal metaphor" is required. Plants literally fit a dictionary def=
inition of intelligence. Trewavas (2002) said effectively the same thing =
as Webster; plants are intelligent because they have "adaptively variable=
behavior." Trewavas (1999) has evidence that plants learn, which also qu=
alifies as intelligence according to the dictionary definition.
Flannery (2002) stated that all animals, "even a slug", have higher IQs t=
han any plant. However, several plant species are intelligent enough to p=
roduce caffeine, which Flannery (2002) noted is a highly effective pestic=
ide against slugs. Was the inventor of Velcro, George de Mestral, more in=
telligent than the cocklebur (Xanthium stumarium) which gave him the idea=
(Jacobs 1996)? Was Joseph Paxton, the designer of London's famous Crysta=
l Palace of 1851, more intelligent than the giant waterlily (Victoria ama=
zonica) whose leaf venation inspired his design (Carter 1985)? Are the ch=
emists who first synthesized taxol in the laboratory more intelligent tha=
n the Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) which synthesized it first and provi=
ded them with the structure of taxol? Are the thousands of plant products=
in a supermarket just an indication of human accomplishment or do plants=
deserve some credit? Humans often take sole credit for accomplishments t=
hat were really made by plants. Many peop
le do not seem to realize that "Man and all other animals are in reality=
guests of plants on this earth" (Karling 1956).
If the modern Plant Kingdom, consisting of bryophytes and vascular plants=
, was suddenly wiped out, humans would not be able to respond to the "try=
ing situation" without mass starvation. Humans might even go extinct due =
to wars over, or overexploitation of, the remaining food chains anchored =
by algae and photosynthetic bacteria. However, if humans were suddenly wi=
ped out, plants would actually benefit in several ways because they could=
recolonize all the areas occupied by buildings and paving and would no l=
onger have the destructive effects of humans destroying their habitats, o=
vercollecting wild plant species into extinction, introducing nonnative i=
nvasive plants, and polluting the air, water and soil. Even if all animal=
s were wiped out, the many plant species that do not depend on animals fo=
r pollination and seed dispersal would not be negatively impacted. Even m=
any of the plants that coevolved with animals might be able to survive wi=
Common themes in science fiction, and goals of real science, are human cl=
oning and suspended animation for long space voyages. However, plants hav=
e used cloning and suspended animation for over 100 million years. Seeds =
can survive in suspended animation for decades or centuries (Shen-Miller =
et al. 1995). Plants have numerous cloning methods such as adventitious p=
lantlets, apomictic seeds, bulbs, corms, fragmentation, layering, rhizome=
s, runners, suckers, and tubers.
Flannery (2002) noted the "problem" Trewavas (2002) was addressing as "th=
e view of plants as passive and therefore not very interesting organisms"=
=2E However, Trewavas (2002) was only dealing with the view of plants as =
passive. He never stated or implied that plants were "not very interestin=
g." Given that Flannery (1999) wrote a column on plant blindness, it woul=
d have been much more desirable to have stated the problem more accuratel=
y, i.e. "Although a common misconception, it is a huge mistake to view pl=
ants as passive or uninteresting." Flannery (1999) actually dismissed the=
misconception of plants as uninteresting rather well when she asked "Why=
deprive ourselves of the joy of learning about organisms that have come =
up with so many fascinating strategies to deal with the challenge of life=
How can parasitic and carnivorous plants be considered passive when they =
are stealing energy and nutrients from other plants or murdering animals,=
respectively? The strangler figs (Ficus aurea and other Ficus spp.) are =
notorious for murdering their host trees. Plants are constantly battling =
each other to the death. Even seemingly harmless epiphytes are considered=
"nutritional pirates" who intercept mineral nutrients and effectively st=
eal from their host trees (Benzing 1980). Plants may be stationary but th=
eir seeds or fruits may fly, float, be forcibly discharged or carried by =
animals to other locations. Fruits of coconut (Cocos nucifera) may float =
for hundreds of km in the ocean, and the fruit of the sandbox tree (Hura =
crepitans) explodes like a hand grenade when it dries and can forcibly di=
scharge its seeds up to 100 m (Ray et al. 1983).
Plants also face hordes of herbivores and pathogens, resource shortages a=
nd harsh environments. It is hardly passive that plants use a multitude o=
f mechanical and chemical weapons and ally themselves with a variety of b=
acteria, fungi and animals in their battle for survival. Their allies inc=
lude nitrogen-fixing bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi, animal pollinators, ani=
mal seed dispersers, fungal and bacterial endophytes and even ants that s=
erve as live-in bodyguards. Plants not only communicate with other plants=
, they communicate with their allies. For example, an Acacia tree produce=
s a chemical in its flowers that tells its ant bodyguards not to attack t=
he insect pollinators that visit the flowers (Ghazoul 2001).
The sizzling sex life of plants is hardly passive either. Plants flaunt t=
heir sex organs and often advertise them with flashy petals or bracts, de=
licious fragrances or a horrible stench. Some flowers even generate heat =
to attract pollinators or better disperse floral scents (Seymour 1997). J=
ack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) changes its sex depending on the =
resources available (Policansky 1987). Plants fill the air with untold tr=
illions of pollen grains. Plants sometimes even trick animals into pollin=
ating their flowers or dispersing their seeds without giving them the exp=
Contrary to Flannery (2002), I think it is a fundamental requirement that=
students be able to contrast animal and plant strategies to deal with ba=
sic challenges, such as energy accumulation, environmental sensing, solid=
and liquid intake, gas exchange, waste disposal, internal transport, mec=
hanical support, temperature control, defense, growth and reproduction. I=
f students are not able to describe how plants meet these basic biologica=
l challenges, then they are suffering from plant blindness. Darley (1990)=
noted that plants' nutritional mode requires them to be stationary becau=
se they are "collectors and concentrators" and concluded that "If we feel=
animals are superior, it is only because we are animal chauvinists". Whe=
ther called animal chauvinism, plant blindness or plant neglect (Hershey =
1993, 2002, Hoekstra 2000, Wandersee and Schussler 1999), the problem rem=
ains that there are many biology teachers, and thus their students, "whos=
e familiarity with plants is little more=20
than skin-deep" (Nichols 1919). Perhaps Trewavas (2002) discovery that p=
lants are intelligent will make biology teachers take plants a bit more s=
David R. Hershey
dh321z at yahoo.com
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It may still be cold out, but I keep on trying new cold and frosty treats with our ice cream maker. Healthy treats, too, as much as possible, like this Blueberry Frozen Yogurt Sorbet. A sorbet is typically made from juice, with no dairy, while a frozen yogurt is more like ice cream. I am calling this a frozen yogurt sorbet since it's sort of a combination of both.
Both are supposed to be creamy, although I'm a little stumped as to how to make a creamy frozen dessert that's also low-fat. Pretty much everything I've made in our ice cream maker that's milk-based, or with non-fat yogurt, tends toward icy-ness, in spite of taking it out of the freezer multiple times to beat down the icy edges. The cream-based ice creams I've made have been deliciously smooth and creamy. I have yet to make a custard-based ice cream, but am looking forward to trying that, too.
A lot of commercially available frozen yogurts really aren't any better than ice cream because of all the added sugar, but this frozen yogurt sorbet is full of health benefits from the blueberries and Greek yogurt, and low in both fat and sugar.
I'll continue experimenting with the texture, and see if I can't make a frozen yogurt that's light, but with a smooth and creamy mouth feel, too! Curious to see if it would make a difference in the texture to strain the blueberry puree, I gave this recipe another try, and this time strained all the pulpy bits out of the puree. In the next photo, you can see that the two photos on the right are from the strained batch - it had a much smoother and creamier texture - and the photos on the left have the bits of blueberry pulp, giving it a chunkier, more rustic texture. Whether or not you take that step is really just up to your personal preference, but for myself, I far preferred the texture of the strained batch.
As most sorbets tend to do, this freezes pretty solid, but scoops very easily if you let it thaw out for 30-40 minutes before serving. A little alcohol added to the mix would help as well.
Blueberry Frozen Yogurt Sorbet
- 1 pound fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 cup non-fat Greek yogurt
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
In a medium saucepan, combine the blueberries with the sugar and lemon juice. Simmer over medium low heat, until the berries thaw (if frozen) and start to release their juices and the sugar dissolves. Set aside to cool, then puree the sauce in the blender until smooth. For a smoothier sorbet, pour the puree through a mesh strainer, using a spatula to push as much of the juice through as you can; discard the blueberry pulp left behind. Refrigerate overnight, or until thoroughly chilled.
Whisk together the chilled blueberry sauce with the yogurt, milk and vanilla. Freeze according to your ice cream maker’s instructions. When mixture is frozen to soft-serve consistency, fold in the remaining 1 cup of blueberries. Transfer to a container and freeze until firm, 4-6 hours. When frozen for longer, the sorbet freezes pretty solid, but will soften up to a "scoopable" texture when left out to thaw for 30-40 minutes.
Yields about 1 quart.
WW Points Plus Value: 3 points for 1/2 cup
Note, any form of berries or your favorite fruit such as cherries, peaches, mangos, etc, could be substituted for the blueberries. If using a seeded berry such as raspberries, I would suggest pushing the hot berry sauce through a mesh sieve to strain out the seeds, before chilling.
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Take me to your leader!Is this your political leadership? Democrats should take note.
In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia
named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of
the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for
a robe and hood from every applicant, the "Grand Dragon" for the mid-Atlantic
states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the
As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington,
Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd's organizational skills that he urged
him to go into politics. "The country needs young men like you in the leadership
of the nation," Baskin said.
The young Klan leader went on to become one of the most powerful and
enduring figures in modern Senate history. Throughout a half-century on Capitol
Hill, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) has twice held the premier leadership post
in the Senate, helped win ratification of the Panama Canal treaty, squeezed
billions from federal coffers to aid his home state, and won praise from
liberals for his opposition to the war in Iraq and his defense of minority party
rights in the Senate.
Despite his many achievements, however, the venerated Byrd has never
been able to fully erase the stain of his association with one of the most
reviled hate groups in the nation's history.
It is unconscionable that a minority would stand in association with this sort of man. In "Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields", Byrd writes of his past, but,
...The account is not complete. He does not acknowledge the full length of timeIf only more voters would pay attention at the choices the political leadership makes. It is time that our politicians are held accountable, if they intend to be public figures making decisions that will affect our lives, and that of our men and women in the military.
he spent as a Klan organizer and advocate. Nor does he make any mention of a
particularly incendiary letter he wrote in 1945 complaining about efforts to
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Induction Street Lights Program
Mayor Andrew Hardwick and Superintendent of Electric Anthony Fiore are pleased to announce that the Village of Freeport has received a $173,100 grant from the DOE to replace 340 less efficient High Pressure Sodium (HPS) street lights with new longer-life, high efficiency Induction fixtures.
In 2010, the Village of Freeport was awarded an ARRA grant to implement a pilot program to install 340 high efficiency induction street lights around the Village of Freeport. We divided the Village into four quadrants and installed approximately 90 in each quadrant. Induction street lights provide the same light output while consuming less energy than the old style high pressure sodium (HPS) fixtures. In our case, we replaced 123 Watt HPS fixtures with 80 Watt induction fixtures, an energy savings of approximately 35%. With regard to maintenance, the induction fixtures require substantially less maintenance than the HPS fixtures which require maintenance on average every 3 years while the induction fixtures come with a 10 year full warranty and have a life expectancy of 20 years. The induction fixtures have also received positive feedback from the community. As a result of the success of the pilot program, we will continue to convert the remainder of the Village’s street lights to the high efficiency induction lights. | <urn:uuid:eb811bd4-a52c-43a7-b2de-dbc3bd1ae973> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.freeportelectric.com/Green_Initiatives/Induction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92284 | 256 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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|The Lower Rooms
Written by JulieW
(4/4/2006 9:23 a.m.)
They made their appearance in the Lower Rooms; and here fortune was more favourable to our heroine. The master of the ceremonies introduced to her a very gentlemanlike young man as a partner; his name was Tilney.
The reason why is that they no longer exist is that they were destroyed in a fire in 1820.
I thought you might like some information about the rooms.
They were situated ,as their name suggests in the older less fashionable part of Bath, between the Terrace and the River Avon, behind the Abbey.
They were originally known as Harrisson’s rooms being built by a Mr Thomas Harrison, as a financial speculation. This was done with the encouragement of Richard “Beau” Nash who was the first Master of Ceremonies in Bath throughout the early part of the 18th century. The rooms were completed in 1708.
Originally the rooms consisted only of a card room and a tea room ,but were terribly popular never the less.
Above is a picture taken from an 18th century fan, of Harrison’s ball room.
Eventually it was enlarged and came to comprise of two tea rooms, a card room and a ballroom.
Harrison died in 1735, and after a short time when Lady Hawes ran the rooms they were taken over by a Mr Simpson in 1749 and were , thenceforth known as Simpson’s Rooms from that date. He considerably improved the buildings even building a theatre in the basement in 1750.( However, note,he eventually consented to shut it down on accepting annual sum of money from the proprietor of the Orchard Street theatre! One way to deal with the opposition!)
My copy of the New Bath Guide for 1767( a guide for visitors to Bath) has the following to say of the rooms( note the Upper Rooms were not built at this time):
There are two public Assembly-Rooms in this Place, viz. Mr Simpson’s and Mr Wiltshire’s; the largest is kept by Mr Simpson; was built in the year 1750; and is 90 feet in length 36 in breadth and 30 in ehight; it has a very fine Stocco(sic) ceiling; their(sic) is hung up in it a Portrait Picture of the late Richard Nash ,Esq, Master of the Ceremonies, besides several very fine landscapes and is thought to be as elegant a Room for its size as any in England.
By the time JA wrote NA the Lower Rooms were in decline. The more fashionable Upper Rooms had opended(in 1770) and served the richer residents of that newly built area above Queens Square and in the higher part of the city around the Royal Crescent and the Circus.
By the time JA wrote Perusasion( also set partly in Bath) the public entertainments offered by all the towns assembly rooms were declining in popularity.
So when the Lower Rooms were destroyed by fire, they were not rebuilt but replaced instead by the Royal Literary and Scientific Instituation.( Lady Russell would have surely approved;-)…)
Graham Davis in his essay Entertainments in Georgian Bath: Gambling and Vice writes:
When the Lower Assembly Rooms were destroyed by fire in 1820 it was decided not to rebuild them but to erect a Scientific and Literary institution on the site .The Lower Rooms had suffered from the expansion of the city and a corresponding drift to the North of Queens Square where the most fashionable lodgings were concentrated. This decision not to rebuild symbolised the change from the indulgent pleasures of the eighteenth century to the more earnest activities of the nineteenth
I find it interesting that JA’s writings record this shift in social behaviour, don’t you?.
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Community volunteers and emergency services officials have teamed up in an effort to improve our ability to meet any emergency throughout Hays County. Sponsored county-wide by the Hays County Office of Emergency Management and the Sheriff’s Office, CERT is organized into six teams serving each section of the County.
A component of the Department of Homeland Security, CERT was introduced to the county in February 2003 and now has nearly 100 members.
It is providing backup for:
- Volunteer Fire Departments
- Hays County Sheriff’s Office
- Hays County Office of Emergency Management, and Centex Chapter of the American Red Cross.
CERT members receive training and support from leaders of each of those organizations.
In addition to its emergency response mission, CERT is also providing non-emergency support at community not-for-profit events such as:
- Lions Market Day
- Dripping Springs Founders Day
- Law Enforcement Appreciation Day and
- the Buda Fire Fest.
Volunteers are needed. Those wishing to join the Hays County CERT team must be county residents, over 18, and complete an application form. If accepted for the program, applicants must complete a FEMA-prescribed CERT introductory course.
To see when the next class begins, click
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For additional information, please click
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KABUL: A Taliban spokesperson on Wednesday dismissed the outcome of a conference in London between the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Britain which aimed to work towards a peace deal within six months.
The conference and other “horse trading” were “the real obstacles of effective and fruitful negotiations between the factual sides,” Zabihullah Mujahid wrote on the Taliban’s website.
This is apparently a reference to the Taliban’s repeated demand that any peace negotiations should be between itself and the United States.
The Taliban in March 2012 suspended contacts with American representatives in Qatar over a potential prisoner exchange and opening a liaison office in the Gulf state.
The militia has consistently refused to negotiate directly with the Western-backed Kabul government, against whom it has been waging an insurgency for 11 years.
Mujahid wrote that Western forces facing military defeat use such conferences as propaganda to conceal the deadlock in the country and “show that some activity and progress is going on.”
US-led NATO combat forces are due to withdraw from Afghanistan next year, and efforts to negotiate peace have gained urgency as they seek to leave with some dignity.
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AUSTRALIA's beef industry will export 975,000 tonnes this year, setting a new record.
But with the US one of Australia's largest customers - and competitors - for beef, the ride could be a rocky road this year.
Meat and Livestock Australia released its cattle projections on Monday, and chief economist Tim McRae said a highlight was increased beef going to the US.
"When we did our early projections, we didn't have such a big jump factored in, but boosted sales late last year gave us confidence the US market was going to grow substantially," Mr McRae said.
"And while we're coming off a low base, the predicted 28 per cent increase is still good."
MLA estimated the US would import 215,000 tonnes of Australian beef this year, dominated by manufacturing beef sales.
It would go someway to making up the shortfall of this class of beef, as the US herd falls to its lowest levels for decades.
"I was reading something that showed the US herd could be the lowest its been for 60 years and so there is a shortage of lean cow beef in their own (domestic) market," he said.
But while the US herd might be languishing, it was still the world's major beef exporter and a major threat to Australia's two biggest markets.
The weak US dollar was expected to play a big role this year and MLA predicted exports to Australia's two biggest customers - Japan and Korea - would fall.
MLA estimated exports to Japan would fall 4 per cent this year to 330,000 tonnes, on the back of a 4 per cent drop last year.
But there were predictions that the Korean market would slide 15 per cent this year, to 125,000 tonnes, as cheaper product from the US takes the place of Australian beef.
However, total beef exports were expected to rise this year by 3.1 per cent, with other markets expected to pick up the slack from Japan and Korea.
This would make it the biggest export year ever for Australia's beef industry.
The Australian cattle herd was forecast to continue to grow, with estimates it would reach 30 million this year, and 31.5 million by 2016. But this was largely lead by growth in the Northern Territory, which, combined with Queensland, was now home to 52 per cent of the national herd.
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Your baby is now around 3.5 centimetres long and weighs about 9 grammes. This week she begins to develop her irises and the ridges on her fingers are developing into nails.
The internal parts of the ears are now fully formed and the vital organs (brain, liver, kidneys, lungs and intestines) are fully functional. Her stomach is now moving into her abdominal cavity and the oesopahgus, connecting the stomach and throat, will soon be complete. This will enable your baby to start swallowing amniotic fluid shortly.
Over the course of this week your baby is already kicking and punching in the amniotic fluid, although it'll probably be at least another six weeks before you're able to feel the movements.
What’s happening with Mum?
By now you will have booked your 12-week scan and will soon have the chance of hearing your baby’s heartbeat. You may also want to think about whether to undergo antenatal screening to check for abnormalities, particularly if you are in your late thirties or have a family history of genetically transferred illness.
You may already have put enough weight that yourself and your partner would notice, and you may be finding some of your pre-pregnancy clothes a little tight. Conversely you may be able to see no changes, or may even have lost weight if you've been struggling with morning sickness and finding it difficult to eat.
NB: All pregnancies are different and fetal growth rates vary, this is meant only as an approximate guide to development. If you have any concerns about your developing pregnancy then speak to your doctor.
Getting exercise - Exercise in pregnancy can help ease the pains of pregnancy and labour and help you get back into shape after birth faster too. Here's some ideas for safe safe pregnancy workouts.
Trouble sleeping? - It's very common for pregnant women to have difficulties sleeping at various times during their pregnancy, including the first few months. If you're suffering from a lack of sleep take a look at our ideas for getting a better night's sleep.
Useful pregnancy books - I saw the review of Yehuid Gordon's Birth and Beyond on this website, and it is a book I have and which has been pretty useful. It's also very dry and informative, rather than anecdotal. Any of you girls got any suggestions for books? Take a look at the book recommendations others gave Shelley on the forum.
You can join in the discussions and share pregnancy experiences and advice with other ThinkBaby members in the pregnancy folder.
You can also check out ThinkBaby's reviews of pregnancy and parenting books as well as member reviews.
Suffering at work? - At work at 11am every day I rush to the corner shop and buy a packet of crisps. No one knows I’m up the duff and I wish I could tell them so that they would understand how truly awful I feel.Writes Lucy in her pregnancy diary.
You can keep your own online pregnancy diary with the ThinkBaby blogs and either share it with family and friends or keep it for yourself.
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FAA faces years of transition to telecom backbone
The aviation industry is in the worst financial condition since World War II, yet carriers and the nation's air traffic system must cope with an expected doubling in flight volume over the next 10 years, officials said at a recent meeting of the Air Traffic Controllers Association in Washington.
They'll need to streamline everything from aircraft spacing to runway design. Underlying most of the proposed improvements is the Federal Aviation Administration's plan to modernize its voice communications.
FAA in July awarded the five-year FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure contract, worth an initial $1.7 billion, to Harris Corp. and a dozen telecom and networking vendors. They plan to migrate five different FAA networks into one backbone by late 2007. The contract could be extended to 15 years for a potential value of $3.5 billion.
Current work represents the first two task orders of the indefinite-quantity contract.
'We are going to swallow this monster one bite at a time,' said Y. Joe Sleiman, business development director for Harris' government communications systems division in Melbourne, Fla.
Sprint Corp. will supply the FTI backbone with final connectivity through local and regional telecom operators. The WAN will encompass 35,000 circuits for voice, radar and other data links to 5,000 locations at FAA headquarters, nine regional FAA offices, 21 air traffic control centers, 170 large air terminals, 350 other air terminals and 61 automated flight service stations.
'Technically, it isn't challenging at all,' Sleiman said. 'What's challenging is the sheer magnitude, the number of connections and the customer-premises equipment that's got to go in.'All in one
Initial networks to be integrated are the Leased Interfacility National Air Space System, Bandwidth Manager, Data Multiplexing Network, Agency Data Telecommunications Network 2000 and NAS Aviation Data Interchange Network.
Some of the networks, such as NADIN, an old X.25 packet-switched network, will move to newer frame relay technology, Sprint spokesman John Polivka said.
WorldCom Inc. holds a five-year bridge contract for much of the communications backbone being replaced. The cutover to Sprint will happen over the remaining four years of that contract.
FTI now is in the blueprint stages. Plans are to be finished by June, with installation at initial sites by October of next year. By mid-2004 the transition backbone must be ready for the 21 control centers, four major support facilities and two NADIN network nodes. Full transition to FTI is supposed to happen by September 2007.
In addition to the amount of integration required to bring FAA communications under a single infrastructure, the critical nature of the data makes reliability essential.
'It's not your typical telecom job,' said Sleighton F. Meyer, Harris' senior communications manager. 'There cannot be any downtime during the transition.'
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Science 5 focuses on man's use of God’s creation and design and studies minerals and rocks, fossils, matter and heat, sound and light, weather, biomes, ecosystems, and the respiratory and circulatory systems. The student develops his science process skills as he participates in hands-on activities and projects. The Science 5 Teacher’s Edition contains 126 lessons grouped in six units. Each unit consists of two interrelated chapters. Most lessons include additional background information, cross-curricular links, and scientific activities. Information for the teacher includes suggestions for teaching the material as a three-quarter year program or as a half-year program. The Teacher’s Edition also includes useful information about science process skills, the management of activities, and grading. Reproducible pages, a materials list, rubrics for assessing Activity and Explorations lessons, and the Science 5 alignment with national standards are located in the back of the Teacher’s Edition. The Teacher's Toolkit CD-ROM includes quizzes, science fair information, and more. | <urn:uuid:d77fddde-e56f-40ef-a90b-cb8d7f32a359> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bjupresshomeschool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_Science-5-Teacher-s-Edition-with-CD--3rd-ed.____1842953 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928673 | 213 | 3.890625 | 4 |
Author Christie Barnes has good news for you: You don’t need to worry about kidnapping, school snipers, terrorism or stranger danger. Why? The odds of most of those things happening to a child are 1 in 10 million.
In an attempt to feel as if we can control our world and protect our kids, Barnes says that parents worry too much — about all the wrong things. She should know.
One day, her husband, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Barnes, took their one-year-old triplets and four-year-old daughter out for a walk in the park. The next day, tragedy struck and Peter died of a stroke. Barnes knew then that the real dangers in life are the ones you can’t necessarily predict or prevent.
So what else don’t we need to worry about?
Top Ten Things That Parents Don’t Need to Worry About:
2. School snipers
4. Stranger danger
7. Playing in the front yard/walking to school
9. School buses
10. Natural Disasters
She’s not saying that none of these things happen, but they are not as big a problem as you might conclude based on the attention they get in the media. Barnes new book, “The Paranoid Parents Guide: Worry Less, Parent Better, and Raise a Resilient Child,” is due out in September, but meanwhile, you can check out her website: www.paranoidparentsguide.com.
In general, Barnes says, we don’t need to worry as much about our kids when they are in elementary school “unlike the teen years when trouble is twenty times more likely.”
On average, according to Barnes, boys get into 75% more trouble than girls. Whereas girls shout for help when they’re drowning and run out of burning buildings, boys tend not to call for help and to hide in a fire.
So what should we worry about? Well, I don’t think there’s a reason to worry at all, but if you do want to fret, these are the real causes of death and injuries for most children: car accidents, homicide, maltreatment or abuse, suicide (teen boys), drowning (young boys), fire (young boys), suffocation, bicycle accidents (boys), unintentional poisoning.
Personally, I’m not a worrier. Why worry about things that may or may not happen? Sure, it’s good to be prepared, but I don’t want to raise my kids in an atmosphere of fear. Like Barnes, I find it liberating to let go of worries. “When I realized that shopping carts are scarier than sharks, we went scuba diving,” Barnes says. In other words, don’t let fear prevent you from living your life.
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There is no doubt that Windows developers love MFC. We want more MFC classes but not .net framework. If Microsoft stopped the update of MFC, open source community will offer what we want instead. Then why we continue using Visual Studio? Just because Visual Studio has Intellisence? I choose Visual C++ because it is the best development environment of MFC. C++ is an open world, the reason why we chose Visual C++ is that we love MFC, it speed up our develop progress. And we dislike .net framework because we need more flexibility. Intel compiler generates faster code and it will be the first choice if Visual C++ stopped its support of MFC.
Last edited by RoyTellect; June 19th, 2006 at 06:54 AM.
I think they got this message now after 4 years of not getting it. What I've heard is that Orcas will focus on some improvements in MFC to vastly improve the leveragability of both the XP and Vista user interface experiences - something I'm highly looking forward to, being an MFC programmer myself.
But what other classes do you want, other than being able to take advantage of new OS controls? Any non-UI related stuff you can suggest?
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The future of the state’s beer market potentially is about to change, and not for the better. That is, if some legislators in Jefferson City get their way. The Missouri Senate is considering Senate Bill 876, in which the main provision states that no brewer, brewer employee, nor brewer affiliates “may have any financial interest in a beer wholesaler, or serve as a director, manager, employee, or agent of a beer wholesaler.”
There is an exception for small breweries (those that produce less than 10,000 barrels a year) owning wholesalers that sell only those breweries’ beers. My question is, why is the state interfering in beer distribution in the first place? Is there a great harm that the state needs to address? Is there anti-competitive behavior occurring? I have not seen an argument being made for this bill on its merits. However, I can see a potential negative. Middlemen, such as beer distributors, succeed when they add value to the process. Such middlemen can be important components of economic organization, but that is only if they add value to the process; state officials should not mandate them into existence.
While there are some legitimate roles for the government in regulating alcohol sales (i.e., age restrictions), the provision that would be created in this proposal is not one of them. If brewery officials do not think it is to their benefit to own or have a financial interest in wholesalers, they will make that decision. However, I do not see why the state should involve itself even more in the market with a mandate for the distribution system of a certain product. SB 876 is another example of the state meddling in areas that are best left to the market. | <urn:uuid:84791d08-b739-4069-ab97-753509564d4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.showmedaily.org/2012/04/beer-wars.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959888 | 353 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Aaron Naparstek (LF 2012) wants people to rethink the paradigm of traffic accidents. When cars hurt and kill pedestrians and cyclists, there needs to be a more precise word and a less passive response. In his talk "No Accident: Rethinking Motor Vehicle Violence” at the Harvard Kennedy School, he emphasized that fatalities and injuries caused by automobiles have been written off as inevitable by society rather than being prosecuted as crimes or even actively protested.
Naparstek is unapologetic about his skepticism about cars belonging in cities, and the "Watch out Metropolis” ad for the Dodge Charger last year captures precisely what he wants to reject: a city ruled by cars and a system designed to keep them moving. He believes that the number of cars killing people is a direct indicator of the quality of life in a city. Little old ladies out walking are his indicator species of a healthy urban habitat.
According to Naparstek, cars didn’t initially win the battle for street space. In the 1920s there were violent revolts and class struggles to oppose the car, as the newly invented automobiles killed thousands of pedestrians at a rate comparable to a nation at war. The Brooklyn Death-o-Meter at the Grand Army Plaza in 1927 tracked these traffic fatalities. Yet by the mid 1930s the car had won. Pedestrians could now be convicted of the new crime of "jaywalking”. Today there are 33,000 road fatalities – the equivalent of two 747s crashing each week – but few people are calling for change.
Some areas of the U.S. are actually getting safer. New York City had a 30% reduction in traffic fatalities between 2001 and 2011. The inauguration of Complete Streets design principles – factoring in pedestrians, bike and other non-car uses for public roadways – has increased safety by lowering the number of cars speeding along 9th Avenue and roads adjacent to Prospect Park. The changes have also led to fewer motor vehicle crashes on sidewalks. However suburban areas and other cities remain dangerous for pedestrians, especially along arterial roadways.
Sweden is Naparstek’s model nation for rethinking the role of the automobile. In the past decade, the nation decided not to accept 600 roadway fatalities per year and established "Vision Zero.” There is now a national focus on driving at lower speeds to keep pedestrians alive. Similarly, the Netherlands has implemented radically different urban design features to prioritize safe cycling and walking. Beginning in The Hague after the 1970s oil shocks, the Dutch have installed protected bicycle facilities in cities around the country.
The presumed innocence of drivers in fatal collisions continues to upset Naparstek who sees motor vehicles as weapons. In Manhattan, vehicular killings are outpacing gun deaths in 2012. In the vast majority of cases, when a driver kills a cyclist the official police reports state "no criminality suspected.” This in turn leads to a blame-the-victim mentality. As long as a driver is sober and has his papers in order, he can legally kill people with his car in New York City.
Naparstek wants a culture change, a society that does not accept the high number of fatal traffic collisions as inevitable accidents. This will mean changes in the existing justice system whereby drivers must have at least two other problems (an expired license and drunkenness, for example) in order to be convicted of a traffic crime. He wants reform in the police practices and procedure, instead of just cleaning the scene and getting traffic moving again as quickly as possible.
Autonomous vehicle technology also makes him nervous. While it may work on the interstates, he doesn’t think that it will keep pedestrians safe in cities. Finally, he believes that better data, analysis and transparency is essential.
Naparstek was the founder and editor in chief of Streetsblog before becoming a Loeb Fellow last year. This year, as a visiting scholar at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, he is working on a book on the history of livable streets. He has also organized a talk series at MIT called "The New Urban Interface” and will give a similar talk on December 3rd. | <urn:uuid:cd25fe12-2d3d-4172-846c-30821fce6de4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb-fellows/aaron-naparstek-doesnt-believe-in-accidents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967075 | 859 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The Kebra Nagast, by E.A.W. Budge, , at sacred-texts.com
And Târâ (Terah) begot a son and called him "Abraham" (or, Abram). And when Abraham was twelve years old his father Terah sent him to sell idols. And Abraham said, "These are not gods that can make deliverance"; and he took away the idols to sell even as his father had commanded him. And he said unto those unto whom he would sell them, "Do ye wish to buy gods that cannot make deliverance, [things] made of wood, and stone, and iron, and brass, which the hand of an artificer hath made?" And they refused to buy
the idols from Abraham because he himself had defamed the images of his father. And as he was returning he stepped aside from the road, and he set the images down, and looked at them, and said unto them, "I wonder now if ye are able to do what I ask you at this moment, and whether ye are able to give me bread to eat or water to drink?" And none of them answered him, for they were pieces of stone and wood; and he abused them and heaped revilings upon them, and they spake never a word. And he buffeted the face of one, and kicked another with his feet, and a third he knocked over and broke to pieces with stones, and he said unto them, "If ye are unable to deliver yourselves from him that buffeteth you, and ye cannot requite with injury him that injureth you, how can ye be called 'gods'? Those who worship you do so in vain, and as for myself I utterly despise you, and ye shall not be my gods." Then he turned his face to the East, and he stretched out his hands and said, "Be Thou my God, O Lord, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Creator of the sun and the moon, Creator of the sea and the dry land, Maker of the majesty of the heavens and the earth, and of that which is visible and that which is invisible; O Maker of the universe, be Thou my God. I place my trust in Thee, and from this day forth I will place my trust in no other save Thyself." And then there appeared unto him a chariot of fire which blazed, and Abraham was afraid and fell on his face on the ground; and [God] said unto him, "Fear thou not, stand upright." 1 And He removed fear from him.
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With an election looming and uncertainty over the state of the global economy, Malaysia’s banks may have to work hard to maintain earning levels amid predictions of lower rates of household borrowing growth.
Many analysts are tipping a slowing of loan growth in 2013. The results of a study by Alliance Research, a division of Alliance Investment Bank, points to loan growth of between 7% and 9% in 2013, down from the 11% for 2012 and 13.6% in 2011, respectively, in part due to net interest margin compression and higher provisions for non-performing loans.
The report, released at the beginning of January, also said even the lower levels of growth could be optimistic – at least in the first part of the year – if consumers became more cautious in their spending patterns ahead of the general election, scheduled for the end of April at the latest. Consumer activity, and subsequently bank lending, could also be negatively affected by the possible introduction of new taxes and higher utilities tariffs following the election, the report noted.
While individual lending could slow, this may not apply to the business sector, at least according to an investors’ note issued by HwangDBS Vickers Research, a division of a local investment bank by the same name, in early January. The report says there should be increased demand for finance from firms looking to benefit from the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), a government initiative to develop the country into a high-income economy by the end of the decade.
With the ETP aiming to more than double per capita income by 2020 and create 3.3m new jobs, the government is encouraging private sector investment in key areas. The private sector in turn is looking to the banks to help finance the retooling, infrastructure and expansion needed to take part in the state-backed projects. These borrowing requirements could boost bank-lending activity during the year, HwangDBS said.
Wong Yin Ching, co-head of financial institution ratings at RAM Ratings, a domestic credit ratings agency, told local media in early January, “We anticipate stronger financing demand from corporations as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), underscored by the rollout of projects under the ETP and the 10th Malaysia Plan”.
These views were backed by a report prepared by the research unit of MIDF Amanah Investment Bank in early January, which noted the ETP projects would drive demand for corporate loans debt-capital fundraising, again with strong calls for funding from SMEs.
While the elections and unsteady global markets could impact the Malaysian economy, an investor note issued at the end of December by RHB Research Institute said it was maintaining its overweight outlook for the banking sector, which it described as robust and “safe”.
“We think the sector’s ‘defensive’ qualities will help tide investors through the volatile first half on even keel,” RHB said. “As macro conditions improve after that, we see the banks as one of the major beneficiaries.”
While the reduced rate of growth for banks’ loan portfolios could see a lower level of earnings across the sector, there was potential for revenue-generating expansion elsewhere. According to Asian Development Bank economist Jayant Menon, the opening up of the Myanmar economy to outside investment, along with the development of the economies in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, held out the promise of growth for Malaysian banks.
“There is also a lot of potential for banks to increase their sales and revenues in these new frontier markets,” he said in an interview with state news agency Bernama in late December.
RHB Bank board member Tan Sri Azlan Zainol said recently RHB would explore opportunities in Myanmar. This, along with a move into the Indonesian market, was part of RHB’s strategy to expand its overseas earnings from 5% of revenue to 30% by 2020, he said in mid-January.
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Two atomic-scale studies announced in the past week could have major implications for the future of computing and information storage. Last Friday, IBM researchers in Zurich announced they had measured how long a single atom can store information. And Monday, Kiwi researchers announced they had trapped a single atom inside a tractor beam and taken its picture.
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Maybe it's time to get a Tofurkey for Thanksgiving (and pick one up for Christmas, too), since turkey prices have been steadily on the rise in recent years, and don't seem to be letting up.
From 2005 to 2011, the average price for turkey went up by 47 percent, compared to 13 percent for all food at home, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Higher costs for feed and rising energy costs have caused farmers to cut down on production and have helped to drive up costs for the feathery fowl.
The latest CPI report from the Labor Department suggests that the trend is continuing: the price for "other poultry including turkey" (a category that excludes chicken) was up last month by 5.5 percent on an unadjusted, annual basis.
The price of turkey (and of many other foods) could get pushed even higher as the year draws to a close. That's because last summer's historic droughts, which wreaked havoc on crops nationwide and pushed corn and soybean prices upward, appear to finally be showing up in food prices.
"There's possible evidence that we're starting to see drought impacts on a minor scale," says Richard Volpe, a USDA economist, pointing to October food price upticks. "Could there be an impact for Thanksgiving? Maybe. Christmas? Probably."
That could mean growth in prices for poultry, eggs, and dairy products, as those birds and cattle tend to eat a lot of corn and soybeans. Growing grocery bills could make shoppers feel pinched amid the holiday spending season.
"Normally, this would not be that big a deal. People would just absorb the price hike," says Jeet Dutta, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics. But these are not normal times; many people's budgets are still strapped as the economy continues its uncertain recovery.
"People could cut back in spending on other items. Holiday spending overall could be hurt to some extent because people are paying more for groceries and for eating out," Dutta says.
But even if holiday budgets take a hit from food price increases, the real spikes will come after the new year, says Volpe.
"It's in the first quarter of 2013 that we expect to see the biggest impacts for poultry, fluid milk, and eggs," he says. Prices for beef and pork will follow suit, he adds, as higher feed costs impact cattle and hog herds as well.
But even going vegan won't spare shoppers from the high prices. Eventually, says Volpe, the many products throughout the supermarket that contain elements like corn syrup and corn meal will slowly become more expensive.
"That's going to happen throughout 2013," he says. "It'll be a gradual, spread-out thing. But over the course of the year, consumers and food prices will certainly feel it."
- Drought Threatens to Push Up Dairy Prices
- Sour Grapes: Europe's Worst Harvest in 50 Years
- Is the Government Wrong About Inflation?
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|Posted by More on July 03, 2002 at 23:40:27:|
|In response to Re: Noisey Toilet|
Listen closely. Is the noise really in the wall, rather than in the toilet? Toilets that are ceramic give off almost a bell tone ring or clank(unless they are heavily insulated) You probably are hearing water hammer thumping. Review all the many many previous remarks in these pages about hammer or thump noises.
: Recently our toilet has begun to make loud noises after the tank has emptied. It is a loud thumping noise in the pipe afte the yoilet has gone through its cycle of flushing. I have replaced the entire internal mechanice with high quality ball cocks and all, still the noise persists. Sometimes it is louder than other times and even double thumping.
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There’s an old adage that goes, “Nothing happens until somebody sells something.” We have educational programs for owners on how to advertise to bring prospective customers into the store; programs on store layout and design so the “buying experience” is easy and satisfying; and programs that train the installer.
But somewhere along the line, we forgot to train sales personnel on the “art of selling.” FCW’s recent RēCO Report shows the strength and power of a good salesperson. When asked to rate a salesperson’s influence, wood customers rated the salesperson as influential to extremely influential at 77.7 percent. This story is repeated in carpet at 81.6 percent; vinyl scored 64.3 percent and laminate at 71.8 percent.
With advertising, manufacturers create brand awareness for its product. But even when customers came in specifying a brand, the salesperson was influential in changing the customer to another brand. This occurs 77.9 percent of the time in wood, 76.6 percent in carpet, 72 percent in vinyl and 77 percent in laminate. The sales associates are not switching the customer for their gain but rather for the customer’s. Most often, the switch is to get the customer to higher quality product or being sure they buy the right product for their need. Price is also a consideration in brand switching but it came in a distant third or fourth consistently.
So, if the salesperson is so critical to the sale being made and the selection of the products, why aren’t we beating a path to their door with product knowledge and sales skills training? We occasionally have some seminars that we can send sales people to but real sales training takes more than a once a year meeting.
Both my sons helped pay their college bills by working part time. One worked in a Big Box store selling consumer electronics, the other worked in a local food store chain. I was amazed at the time these companies spent training part timers. Every week had a short meeting on “happenings” in the company. And every month, a couple hours were spent on sales training. These meetings addressed the skills of greeting, qualifying, product presentation, handling objections and closings, as well as in-depth demonstrations of product features and benefits. They wanted everyone on the sales floor to know more on each product than the customer.
Quarterly, they had half-day meetings discussing people’s buying motives and behavior and how to adjust your selling behavior to complement the customer’s buying behavior, by department. It may seem like a lot of training for a part time crew, but it made everyone on the floor a trusted advisor to every customer.
All in-store training sessions are led by the department or store manager. This is critical to establishing the manager as the team leader.
About 20 years ago, the American Floorcovering Association (AFA) developed two sales training programs. One was The Mayfield College of Sales Knowledge. This program was a three-day seminar led by Frank Mayfield and Herb Wolk and the industry’s top sales professionals of the time. The second was the “20 Minute Selling Workout.” The training package consisted of VHS tapes plus student workbooks equipping the store owner/manager with tools and resources to conduct weekly in-store sales training sessions.
A visit to the past can help us shape the future. Combine a trained, expert, trusted sales personnel plus effective advertising plus targeted store layout plus great after the sale installation/performance equals the winning formula.
If we don’t train the sales personnel, then all these Made in America and environmentally responsible messages will never impact the consumer on the sales floor, where it matters most.
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William Wilson Quinn
Lieutenant General, United States Army
a contemporary press report:
William W. "Buffalo Bill" Quinn, 92, a retired Army lieutenant general who was an intelligence officer in Europe in World War II and a frequently decorated regimental commander in the Korean War, died September 11, 2000 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He had congestive heart failure.
General Quinn's peacetime career included a
period as director of public information of the Army in Washington. In
other assignments, he headed the Army section of the U.S. military advisory
mission in Greece in the 1950s and served as deputy
He made his mark as a staff officer in World War II. In March 1944, after serving as a divisional and corps intelligence officer in North Africa and Italy, he was named intelligence officer of the 7th Army.
Although he held the relatively junior rank of lieutenant colonel, he was responsible for gathering and coordinating information for the invasion of southern France on August 15, 1944, that was carried out by U.S. and French troops.
Four months later, he gave timely warning of a desperate German offensive near Colmar in northeastern France. For this, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
At the end of the war, General Quinn played a role in Washington in the transformation of the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime spy agency, into the Central Intelligence Agency. In late 1945, he was named director of the Strategic Services Unit, which had been set up to preserve OSS intelligence assets. In July 1946, he was named chief of operations of the Central Intelligence Group. He remained in that job until 1947, when the organization became the CIA.
Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet issued a statement after learning of General Quinn's death, hailing him as "a leader and visionary" who played an important role in maintaining the nation's intelligence capability between the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War.
In 1997, General Quinn was awarded the Agency Seal Medallion.
When the Korean War began in 1950, General Quinn, by then a full colonel, was serving on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo. General Quinn was put in charge of intelligence for the amphibious assault at Inchon. The attack, carried out by Marines and joined by Army troops two days later, turned the tide of battle in the first phase of the war. He then served as intelligence officer of the X Corps.
In January 1951, he was given command of the 17th Infantry Regiment. The unit had just received a new radio call sign--"Buffalo"--and he decided to call his troops "The Buffaloes." He also started a publicity campaign aimed at hometown newspapers. Two newspaper correspondents gave him the nickname "Buffalo Bill," and it stuck for the rest of his life.
"Almost overnight, the Buffaloes became famous," wrote Clay Blair in "The Forgotten War," a history of the Korean War. "Hundreds of GIs requested a transfer to the outfit; some, General Quinn boasted, even went AWOL to join."
Over the next eight months, General Quinn was awarded the Silver Star, for personally reorganizing a stalled attack, and the Bronze Star with combat "V," for leading a patrol eight miles into enemy territory. Other decorations included the Legion of Merit and Purple Heart.
In September 1951, he returned to the United States. In 1953, he went to Greece for two years with the Joint Military Aid Group. His later assignments were in this country and Germany. He was director of public information from 1959 to 1961, and deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1961 to 1964, when he took command of the 7th Army in Germany.
William Wilson Quinn, who was born in Crisfield, Maryland, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1933 and was commissioned in the infantry. He also graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College.
After retiring from the Army, he was a vice president of the Aerospace Group of the Martin Marietta Corporation until 1972. He then established Quinn Associates, a consulting firm.
General Quinn, a resident of Arlington, was honorary colonel of the 17th Infantry, a consultant to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a trustee of the National Historical Intelligence Museum and a member of the Army & Navy and Chevy Chase clubs and the Talbot County (Maryland) Historical Society.
Survivors include his wife, the former Bette
Williams, whom he married in 1939, of Arlington; three children, Sally
Quinn, the writer who lives in Washington, Donna Quinn Robbins of Oakland,
Calif., and William Jr., of Phoenix; and four grandchildren.
On Monday, September 11, 2000 at Walter Reed
Army Hospital. Funeral services, 11:30 a.m., Thursday, September 14 at
St. Alban's Church, 3001 Wisconsin Ave., NW, followed by interment with
full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. (Meet
at Memorial/Main Gate.) In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to
The 17th Infantry Association, 2423 Bailey, Dearborn, Michigan, 48124.
Posted on Thursday, May. 19, 2005
BY SALLY QUINN
My mother was from Savannah, Georgia. She was a real Southern cook. What that means to me is that you are not happy unless you have grease running down your elbows when you eat. Our food wasn't just fried. It was fried in bacon grease. She kept a jar of it on the kitchen counter. We had fried chicken and fried okra and fried grits and even fried pound cake.
But her favorite dish was chicken and dumplin's, without the g. Big chunks of juicy chicken in a creamy sauce covered with browned fluffy dumplings. We ate them with butter beans (limas, to you Yankees) and pickled peaches. And champagne. Always champagne. Perrier Jouet. She drank nothing else.
Bette Quinn wasn't just a great cook. She was a great person and a real pistol. Voted the best legs in Savannah, she was the ultimate Southern party girl and a real iconoclast behind that soft, ladylike, flirtatious demeanor. She was my closest friend and confidante. I adored her and she cherished me. We never had a harsh word between us in all my life.
She died in September of last year. But not before she had planned the menu for her funeral. My mother judged a party by the food. If you asked her how a party was, she would inevitably answer, ``Well, they had a beautiful country ham.''
The worst indictment was if they ran out of food. ''Yankees tend to run out of food,'' she would observe. (I'm really not prejudiced. I am married to one.)
My mother decided to die. She was 86 and a stroke victim with Parkinson's disease. In the end, she had a hard time swallowing and had to be spoon-fed liquids lying down. Life without being able to eat well was just not worth living. So she simply stopped eating. We all agreed to honor her wishes.
She slowly cut back until one day, about two weeks into her fast, she started drinking only water and then not even that.
At the end of a week without water (we were swabbing her tongue), I took her a bottle of Perrier Jouet. I poured two glasses and held one up to her lips. Then I toasted her for being the most wonderful mother in the world. She smiled, told me she loved me and drank almost a half a glass. It was the last thing she had to drink. She died 36 hours later.
We held the funeral the following week. She was buried with my father at Arlington National Cemetery. Fifteen years earlier, she had given me an empty magnum of Perrier Jouet and told me to save it for her ashes. She wanted to be cremated and buried in it. You can imagine the faces of the people at Joseph Gawler's Sons funeral home when we walked in with the champagne bottle and her instructions. They were very accommodating. When our limo (paid for earlier by my parents) pulled up to the grave site at Arlington, there was the sedan from Gawler's.
My father was a three-star general and had received a full military funeral with a horse-drawn caisson carrying his flag-draped coffin, a gun salute, taps, the works. At my mother's grave site, there were two uniformed, white-gloved soldiers. As the sedan pulled to a stop, they reached in very formally and pulled out the champagne bottle, then marched to the platform under the canopy for the service, followed by family members weeping and laughing at the same time.
The Army chaplain gave a beautiful eulogy, referring to the champagne bottle as ''Mrs. Quinn.'' He talked about what unsung heroes Army wives were. We surrounded the bottle with her favorite gardenias as the bagpiper played Amazing Grace. After the funeral, we headed back to the house to prepare for the memorial service and party.
We had asked the caterers to help us out with some of the food; we had given them my mother's recipe for chicken and dumplin's, which was to be the pice de résistance, along with a ham and biscuits, butter beans, pickled peaches and ambrosia.
Fortunately at the last minute, I had requested a tasting. What was waiting for us when we returned from the funeral was a weird-looking gray blob in a plastic container filled with murky liquid. It seems that the Chinese chef had taken a look at the recipe and decided that it was not his idea of dumplings. What we were facing turned out to be a Chinese dumpling in chicken broth. After a few frantic phone calls, the caterers took another crack at the recipe. Then the second tasting turned out to be too salty. The third tasting was perfect.
(You have to be really careful about the salt in this recipe. You don't want it oversalted. On the other hand, my mother insisted, as do all Southerners, that you had to serve salty foods at parties so the guests will drink more and have a better time.)
The service was beautiful. Everyone was handed a glass of champagne before they sat down in the living room. We had dance music, we had toasts (not eulogies) and at the end, we all sang her favorite song, Because of You, which was played at her wedding.
Then the guests hit the buffet. The caterer made almost twice as much chicken and dumplin's as we needed. And do you know that we nearly ran out? It was that good. People were going back for thirds and gushing over how delicious it was.
We were all so pleased at how well everything
had gone. But we knew that my mother had been hovering over the buffet
table that whole evening. We could feel her spirit and knew that she was
happy at how well everyone had eaten. We could hear her voice as she used
to go around the table at dinner saying, ''Y'all want some more chicken
and dumplin's?'' Always, Mama. And another glass of Perrier Jouet, too,
to toast the greatest mother in the world.
QUINN, BETTE W
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Augustin Eugène Scribe
Scribe, Augustin Eugène (ōgüstăNˈ özhĕnˈ skrēb) [key], 1791–1861, French dramatist and librettist. He began his prolific and highly successful writing career with vaudeville sketches. One of the first playwrights to mirror bourgeois morality and life, he infused 19th-century French opera and drama with liberal political and religious ideas. Among the best of his comedies, which are notable for their well-structured plots, is Bataille de Dames (1851). His historical drama Adrienne Lecouvreur (1849) was later adapted as an opera. Scribe wrote librettos for about 60 operas by such composers as Auber, Meyerbeer, Halévy, Bellini, and Verdi.
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Listen to the following longer passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of the test, two points for each question.
In early September, Trinidad's state-owned sugar company made all of its 9,200 employees redundant. Though most are Indo-Trinidadians and supporters of the island's truculent opposition party, there were no protests. The workers got redundancy pay totaling 115 million dollars, the offer of retraining, and the chance to continue growing cane as independent farmers in plots on the company's 31,000 hectares of farmland.
Trinidad, booming on oil and gas, has plenty of new jobs. Jamaica's stagnant economy is another story. The government privatized its sugar factories in 1994, but agreed to take them back four years later. Hit by floods and droughts, this year's sugar crop was a disaster. A shutdown might be greeted with riots by the 7,000 sugar workers and 8,000 cane farmers of the country. Barbados, prosperous and stable, has a different problem. Its neat cane fields are far more attractive to tourists than the eroded scrubland of Antigua, which stopped growing sugar 30 years ago.
21. What is the most appropriate title for the passage?
22. Which of the following statements is not true of Trinidadian workers who were made jobless in early September?
23. What happened to Jamaica's sugar factories in the 1990s?
24. What is happening to Barbados's sugar industry?
25. Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
China and India have roughly the same population, but when it comes to mobile phones, there is no comparison between the two. In India, seven years after the launch of mobile-phone services, there are only 10 million users. In China, half that number signs up as new subscribers every month.
Geography and culture explain some of the differences. The concentration of economic activity in China's eastern coastal region gave its mobile operators big economies of scale, allowing lower prices. In China, telephones quickly came to be regarded as fashion items, something that has only recently happened to India.
But the main difference is regulation. India chose a licensing policy that divided the country into 22 regions, each with two licenses to operate mobile networks. Bidding in multiple regions was restricted. This aimed to promote competition, but led to a fragmented market with a baffling array of operators, none of which has economies of scale. Limited spectrum also hurt service quality.
26. Which is the most appropriate title for the passage?
27. According to the writer of this article, how many people sign up as new mobile phone subscribers in China every month?
28. Why are the prices of mobile telephone services lower in China's eastern coastal region?
29. Why are mobile phones popular in China, according to the speaker?
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The complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. seeks a declaration that AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile would violate U.S. antitrust law. The government is also asking for an injunction blocking any implemention of the deal.
In its complaint, the government stated that the acquisition would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market. It's something Sprint, the nation's No. 3 wireless carrier, has been saying for some time.
At the same time, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) agreed that it, too, had reservations about the deal. However, the FCC has not yet completed its review.
AT&T is currently the nation's No. 2 carrier, behind Verizon. T-Mobile USA is the No. 4 carrier in the nation; a deal combining the two would put AT&T clearly in the No. 1 position in the U.S., but Verizon has not voiced any opposition to the deal.
If approved, the $39 billion merger would have concentrated 80 percent of the U.S. wireless carrier market between the combined AT&T / T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless.
If the deal is blocked, AT&T would have to pay Deutsche Telekom $3 billion in cash. It would also be required to provide T-Mobile USA with wireless spectrum in some regions and reduced charges for calls into AT&T’s network, with the total package valued at as much as $7 billion, Deutsche Telekom said earlier this month.
AT&T said it was surprised by the DoJ's action. In a statement, the company said,
We are surprised and disappointed by today’s action, particularly since we have met repeatedly with the Department of Justice and there was no indication from the DOJ that this action was being contemplated.The benefits for AT&T are clear: it planned to use T-Mobile's portion of the wireless spectrum to advance its LTE rollout. In addition, AT&T has promised to bring 5,000 wireless call-center jobs (translation: low-paying) back to the United States if the acquisition wins approval.
We plan to ask for an expedited hearing so the enormous benefits of this merger can be fully reviewed. The DOJ has the burden of proving alleged anti-competitive affects and we intend to vigorously contest this matter in court.
However, it is certain that certain (much higher-paying) jobs that would overlap between the two carriers, such as sales and marketing, would see layoffs in the U.S.
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Members of the Chicago Academy of Sciences first met in 1857, gathering at the original Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum to share their passion for education and the natural world. Though their meetingplace and library was burnt down in the Great Chicago Fire, their commitment to natural science stood strong. By 1894, the Academy had regrouped and rebuilt their collection in Lincoln Park, using dioramas filled with flora and fauna to create an interactive learning experience.
Today, the museum welcomes guests on a 6.35-acre campus opened in 1999 and filled with exhibits that expand the relationship between the public and nature. In addition to more than 15,000 plant specimens and 22,000 amphibians and reptiles, a wilderness walk takes guests through Midwestern environments, including praries, savannahs, and dunes, all filled with living and preserved animals. Visitors can touch live wildlife from Illinois wetlands and stand in a swirl of 1,000 exotic butterflies and birds in the Judy Istock Butterfly Haven and tropical greenhouse. Outdoor exhibits demonstrate the power of energy-efficient technology with 17,000 square feet of green roofs, the compost coral, rain-barrel ranch, and the restored native prairie made completely out of recycled soda cans. | <urn:uuid:44612618-db33-49d7-83b4-ff6882388ce5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.groupon.com/local/chesterton-in/things-to-do | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930192 | 249 | 2.625 | 3 |
The American Diabetes Association is releasing new guidelines for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The bottom line is that the patient needs to work with their doctor to figure out the best treatment plan. One size does not fit all.
The A1C Guidelines have changed:
- 5.5 or less if you do not have diabetes
- 6.0-6.5 if you have diabetes but no heart disease and few episodes of low blood glucose
- less than 7.0 if you have diabetes and other health issues
Bottom line- your A1C goal needs to be decided with you and your doctor.
Lifestyle treatment for type 2 diabetes is still suggested first:
- enjoy a healthy diet with moderate carbohydrate intake
- lose 5-10% of body weight if overweight
- exercise for 2½ hours/week
Treatment may also include medications. Metformin is a first-line medication. Other meds can be added of needed. Again, this is a decision to make with your doctor.
The new guidelines for treatment of type 2 diabetes focus on YOU the patient, other health conditions you have, your lifestyle, level of motivation and ability to make changes. Each person is different in what they can or cannot do. The bottom line is to have good control of your type 2 diabetes to reduce your risk of complications such as early heart disease or kidney failure. | <urn:uuid:42d6444a-3033-4667-816f-4a92820cea59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marthajefferson.org/nutrition/2012/06/new-diabetes-gudelines/?cat=13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94216 | 281 | 2.265625 | 2 |
and Texas History Center
|Rosenberg Library GTHC Home Pre-1900 Storm 1900 Storm 1909 Storm 1915 Storm 1919 Storm Causeway Grade Raising Seawall|
Galveston, Texas, is located on a barrier island two miles off the upper Texas Gulf coast. Subject to extremes in weather, the city is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes in the western Gulf of Mexico. Galveston during the 1890s was a booming seaport and one of the nation's wealthiest cities. The Storm of September 8, 1900, changed the city's fortunes. It killed approximately 8,000 people on Galveston Island and left an estimated $28 million in property losses.
In recovering from this cataclysm, Galveston transformed itself through political and technological changes. It pioneered the commission form of local government in 1901, undertook the construction of the initial portion of the Seawall (1902-04), raised the city's grade (1904-10), and opened the new causeway (1912). These improvements meant that Galveston was much better prepared to cope with an even more severe hurricane in August 1915.
The Rosenberg Library has significant archives about this transformational period of our city's past. Its letters, photographs, oral histories, and other materials form the basis of this project. The separate collections can be found by following the Collections link above.
Galveston and Texas History Center I Rosenberg Library
Funding for the
1900 Storm Photo Exhibit was provided by a grant from the Institute of Museum
and Library Services and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
If you are interested in a copy of this image, please review our photo reproduction policy and contact us by mail or through e-mail.
Galveston and Texas
History Center, Rosenberg Library, 2310 Sealy Avenue, Galveston TX 77550
Voice (409) 763-8854 ext. 127- Fax (409) 763-0275
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|Μόλη<ς> Μ(άρκου) Ἰου–
λίου δίς τοῦ Πυ–
<θ>ᾷ τῷ ἀδελφῷ
Moles, son of Marcus Iulius II, great-grandson of Pythas, in memory of his brother Hermaios.
Round molded funerary base with relief depicting two raised hands, seen by Naour in 1974 in the village Sofular, 7 km NW of Boubon.
Height: at least 94 cm; diameter: 40 cm; letters: 3-4 cm.
Naour 1976, p. 122, no. 14 (pl. VII.14); SEG 26 (1976-77), 1430.
L. 1 : Instead of the sigma, the stone has two oblique lines resembling a lambda. On Μόλης see no. 63.
The stone was in the courtyard of a mosque near the modern road from Çameli to the plain of Boubon in a region, as described by Naour, "towards the hill situated between Kömürlük dağ and Eren tepe" (also called Yaylacı tepe, or Yaylacık dağ). On our information, that hill is referred to by the ubiquitous name of Asar tepe (asar: ruins). In 2006, the stone was installed on top of the wall surrounding the yard of the mosque in the center of the village, together with four other funerary columns, in part inscribed and also featuring schematic depictions of raised hands. One of the stones bears such a schematic drawing, as well as four lines saying that the tomb was raised by Ναννα, daughter of Φιλέτας, for her son Φιλώτας. Naour reports a sarcophagus lid, pottery sherds and tiles in the village near the mosque, and funerary columns in the cemetery. There must have existed an ancient settlement with easy access to the plain of Boubon at or near the modern village (Naour, op. cit., p. 122). Further, Naour saw rectangular blocks and fragments of columns near a fountain at the village Arıkaya on the road leading to Boubon. At the old cemetery of Arıkaya there were numerous ancient fragments. The modern–day road between Sofular and Boubon appears to follow an important ancient route, and the territory of Boubon must therefore have extended towards the West to include the region south of Çameli (Naour, op. cit., p. 123).
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The radical mullahs who rule Iran want me dead, first for betraying my country as a member of the Revolutionary Guards who spied for the CIA, and now for renouncing the religion that allows them to cling to their tyranny.
Modern-day Iran has been dominated by Islam since the Muslim conquest of Persia in the seventh century. When I was born, during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, there was freedom of religion, but, like the vast majority of people, I was raised a Muslim. Though many Iranians did not practice the religion, they were respectful of its belief, and it was through my grandmother that I learned about Islam and how I could find my way to God in becoming a pure human being.
Islam has been passed from one generation to another, each believing that it represented a God who loved and promoted respect, justice and enlightenment. I grew up believing in a loving God, always relying on Him to help me choose the right path in life. When the Islamic Revolution took place in 1979, sending the shah into exile, I returned home from the United States, where I had just finished my education. I wanted to help my country progress, hopeful that there would be full democracy. I believed that Ayatollah Khomeini would be true to his promise of freedom for all.
A childhood friend talked me into joining the Revolutionary Guards because of the knowledge and expertise in computers I had learned in the United States. But only months later I was shocked to witness the most heinous crimes taking place under the banner of Islam.
The mullahs forced Iranians to adhere to a strict Islamic dress code and subjected them to amputation as the punishment for stealing, lashing for drinking, stoning for adultery. Boys and girls seeking the freedoms promised to them were rounded up and taken to Evin prison. Many were raped, tortured and executed, among them my best friend and his siblings. Teenage girls were raped prior to execution because in Islam a virgin can go to heaven, and the “men of God” wanted to deny them that reward. Others were slowly lowered in tanks of acid so they would die painfully.
Khomeini and the clerics announced themselves as representatives of Allah on earth and declared anyone opposing them to be a “Moharb,” an enemy of God. The punishment was execution. Tens of thousands were executed.
With that horror unfolding, I chose to return to the United States and collaborate with the CIA, hoping to help overthrow an evil regime that had hijacked my country in the name of Allah. I returned to Iran after CIA training, and my espionage career began. During all those ensuing years as I witnessed unimaginable crimes committed by the clerics, I believed they misrepresented Islam. What God could demand such cruelty?
As I learned more about the Quran and what Muhammad prescribed, I concluded that Islam as now practiced in Iran is no true religion, that the Allah of the criminal ayatollahs is not the real God. Their religion turned against every principle of humanity. They instituted a cruel set of laws that represent intolerance, savagery and injustice, representative of an evil mind, not a loving God.
So I renounced Islam and began the quest to find the real God, the one who had blessed me so often in very dangerous times as a CIA spy. In that journey through a few Christian friends, I came to learn about Jesus. I found myself deeply moved by the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. His words spread through my soul as seeds sprout and grow, opening my eyes and my heart to the real love of our Lord. It was then that I knew beyond doubt that the Bible was the true Word of God. That Jesus was the One I had always been looking for.
Jesus came to me when I needed guidance. He came to me at a time when my faith in man and religion was totally shaken. His words and His love became the guiding light to set me free from sin and hopelessness. I found myself knowing there is goodness and kindness and that it comes from within us – that it is only through His love that we will find peace and eternal life.
Islam preaches (Quran, 5:33): “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.”
Our Lord, Christ says (Luke 6:37-38): “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give and it will be given to you.” And in Luke 6:32-36: “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. Be merciful as your Father is merciful.”
After a long journey, I have finally found my God. I feel at home now. And as I continue my fight against the evil in Iran, I know in my heart that the Lord will guide me in that fight because He loves the people of Iran even more than I do. The Iranian people are desperate for their freedom, and Jesus says, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free (John 8:31-32).”
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons. He is a senior fellow with EMPact America and the author of “A Time to Betray,” a book about his double life as a CIA agent in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. “A Time to Betray” was the winner of the 2010 National Best Book Award, and the 2011 International Best Book Award. | <urn:uuid:f4efa7d8-d037-4ce4-a5ec-03986618f526> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wnd.com/2011/08/337309/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979253 | 1,346 | 1.726563 | 2 |
SPECIALIST SCHOOLS The future of specialism
With specialism funding no longer ring-fenced and the SSAT losing its government funding, Elizabeth Reid considers what the future holds for specialist schools and the SSAT itself
part of a continuum which started when the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) was founded 24 years ago. We have always argued that schools perform
best when they have autonomy. The best ideas come from teachers and school leaders freed from imposed constraints who are encouraged to innovate and share. So what does the new world mean for specialism
and for the SSAT? What do the reforms brought in by the new government mean for schools and their specialism? Our commitment to the 100 per cent principle
– raising standards for all young people – and our approach, putting schools at the centre of all our work, has never mattered more. now is the moment for the schools working together to lead the development of the education system. The prospect of schools gaining greater powers and the ability to transform the curriculum so it is tailored
e live in times of rapid change, but also enormous opportunity for the education system. Schools are getting more freedom to determine their own future and to decide how best to teach.
in many ways the changes we are seeing now are
to the needs of students has been met with enthusiasm in many schools. The power of improvements in education led by schools is increasingly realised. That is why headteachers are at the centre of the curriculum review. A significant number of schools have converted to
academy status, and many more are considering how a change of status could have a beneficial impact on the education they offer their students. Undoubtedly, specialism has been enormously
important to many schools and has helped them transform the education they offer. it has allowed schools to develop a distinctive ethos and has produced great improvements in subjects both academic and vocational. it has also formalised mutually beneficial links between primary, secondary and special schools, and other stakeholders including business and the community. Specialist schools have also helped re-invigorate
subjects like physics, chemistry and modern languages, improving take-up after concerns about their decline and driving up exam success. For example, 55 per cent of students at language colleges gained an A* to C grade in a modern language gCSe compared with 29 per cent for schools nationally. The government has removed the ring-fencing
around money paid to specialism, which will now be incorporated into mainstream funding to schools. local authorities, in consultation with their Schools Forum, will decide on the distribution of the former specialism funding as part of the 2011/12 funding settlement – but ministers have made it clear that they want the benefits of specialism to continue. There is a strong ministerial mandate for schools to
continue with their specialist work. What is different is that it is now for schools themselves to decide how they want their work to develop. That is part and parcel of giving autonomy to school leaders and a school-led system. As the school system becomes more diverse, i
believe there will be renewed value in the distinctiveness that specialism provides. We plan to accredit the effective use of specialism in schools and thus offer continued verification of specialist status.
No more change Psycho babble
A leAding think-tank has reported that the current cuts in services are likely to lead to “social unrest”, partly because of their perceived inequality. There is, however, something else afoot here, and it has the potential to impact dramatically upon the wellbeing of our students. in the 1970s, American sociologist Alvin Toffler
predicted that the rate of change in modern civilisation would accelerate to such a degree that enormous numbers of people would experience shattering stress and disorientation. Toffler described this condition as Future Shock, and as the world feels the impact of global change, its effects put people under increasing amounts of pressure. Some of this has to do with the
fact that human biological evolution is falling behind developments in technology and lifestyle. Toffler claims that both physiological and psychological stress emerges as a result of a growing deficit between daily demands and coping mechanisms. What does this have to do
with our students? First of all, adolescence marks a period of enormous change on every level which can cause of enormous psychological or emotional stress. equally, today’s youth does tend to have a less stable home life than in the past. Parents are stressed-out, overworked, more likely to be dependent on alcohol and other rewards to cope with their own stress, the catalyst for which is sociologically deep-seated. We have high expectations for our students,
which the often outspoken and inaccurate media reminds them they have failed to achieve. Rapid and escalating changes in the labour market and further educational opportunities mean that adolescents are now confronted with a series of challenges that can push them to the brink of their ability to cope. We have a new government, which wishes
to leave its mark. Take, for example, the english Baccalaureate. This is change that impacts upon students, and potentially pushes them towards careers, educational institutions and even subjects that are
beyond the scope of their natural talents and abilities. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a plumber or a mechanic, if that is where interests and skills lie. And you don’t need to speak French or Spanish to achieve this. Furthermore, there are plans to radically change the national curriculum, which will place enormous stress on teachers and schools. Change is not a bad thing, but for it to be
accepted (and acceptable), it must have clear benefits. Change for the sake of change is unnerving and counterproductive, as it genuinely undermines the stability of an institution that is paramount to the support of today’s youth. Kids of all ages thrive on consistency
and routine. There is plenty of research to suggest that an increasing number of children have more profound problems with their mental health than those 30 years ago, and it has been proposed that this is due not only to changes in the way we live now, but the sheer number of changes that
affect our students. Change can act as a trigger for emotional turmoil, particularly if the reasons for it are not perceived to be valid, or cannot be fully understood. Young people who find it difficult to cope are much more likely to experiment with alcohol, drugs and other
substances, become disaffected, or drop out. There are, of course, ways and means of supporting students and helping them to develop resilience – which i will examine in my next column.
For now, however, it’s important to recognise that even small changes can impact on our students’ wellbeing, and unseat vulnerable young adults who are finding their “groove” and exercising their rights to be individuals. educators have a strong, loud voice and now, more than ever, it needs to be heard. What’s broken can, most surely, be changed and fixed, but if that change cannot be proven to have long-term benefits that enhance rather than detract from the lives of our students, then we should stand our ground. Shouldn’t we?
• Karen Sullivan is a bestselling author, psychologist and childcare expert. She returns after half-term.
Specialist schools will be at the centre of the
curriculum review, and will play a vital role in the drive to raise standards in academic subjects like languages, english, maths, science and humanities. We are also working to help schools maximise the
potential of the academies programme. The expansion of the academies programme must act as a catalyst for school leaders to consider new ways of working, doing things differently and doing them better. So far, more than 1,000 school leaders, representing nearly 750 schools, have attended our events offering advice on conversion and we are ready to support all schools to become academies when they feel the time is right for them. Our motto has always been for schools, by schools.
Reforms to school governance makes this more relevant than ever before. Schools across the country have shown the power of partnership through our network of schools – working together to learn practical lessons and share what works in the classroom. The SSAT is encouraging schools to consider the use
of their new freedoms and the responsibilities that come with them, encouraging debate and discussion among school leaders and sharing the outcomes. Our network of leadership and innovation hub schools continue to develop their partnership working with other regional schools to offer high quality development programmes that are responsive to local context and need. We can also provide a powerful voice for school
leaders nationally. We wrote to Michael gove before Christmas raising concerns about the english Baccalaureate measure in performance tables because it changed the basis upon which students – and schools – were judged and we will continue to represent our members’ views on the implications of this new development. We are also actively involved in the debate over the future of vocational education. The rapid change in the education system means
our network of schools has never been more important – bringing together not just secondary schools, but primary and special schools both here and overseas to offer stimulating ideas, and practical projects to improve still further the education we offer. Colleagues in schools across the country have
experienced the value of co-operation which is now firmly embedded in the education system and i believe schools will support each other through the changes ahead.
• Elizabeth Reid, pictured above, is chief executive of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.
FOR BETTER CHILD HEALTH SCHOOL NURSES MORE
A properly resourced school nursing service is required to help schools meet the government’s health and wellbeing objectives.
Research published in the British Journal of School Nursing (BJSN) shows that more school nurses are needed to meet these objectives and ensure school children receive the health care and support they deserve. Therefore
the BJSN has launched a campaign to increase the number of school nurses.
For more information on the campaign visit
Support the campaign or send us your views at:
SecEd • February 3 2011
SCHOOL NURSES FOR BETTER CHILD HEALTH
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Everyone can use a little extra cash, especially entrepreneurs. When you are developing your own business, it is always difficult to fork out the money you need not only to get it started, but more importantly, to keep it running. Today, entrepreneurs everywhere are going to great lengths just to make a couple extra hundred dollars a week. If you're struggling to raise capital, provide much-needed supply for your new startup, or just want to make some extra money on the side, here are some simple options that business men and women everywhere are resorting to. More importantly, these suggestions do not take much time, so you, as an entrepreneur, can still spend as much time as you need on your business.
1. Sell your stuff online
One of the easiest ways to make a little cash on the side is to sell stuff that you do not use anymore online. The websites for selling your stuff (without even leaving the house) are endless—just try eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, or even build your own site for selling. You'll be amazed at how much money you can make through online bidding. Selling your stuff online takes virtually no time at all. Your things may be bought while you're at work, while you're with your family, even when you're sleeping. Consider selling old electronics that still work (such as iPods, cell phones, video cameras, etc.). Jewelry is another hot-selling item on websites such as eBay.
2. Have a yard sale
Much like selling your stuff online, a yard sale is a great way to make a little extra income. Once a year, clean out your storage room, attics, and basements. You may actually find a couple of treasures here and there that others would die to have. In the spring or summer, arrange a yard sale or a garage sale with others in your neighborhood. By posting signs in your neighborhood's surrounding areas, customers from all over will visit your home to make a couple of purchases. Also, be aware that people are ready to bargain, so be sure to know exactly what price you are asking for each item. A successful yard sale can bring in up to $700 in one day!
3. Teach something
If you have the time on the weekends, you may want to teach something that you're good at. You can teach children (and even adults) piano lessons, swimming lessons, how to build a website, or how to scrapbook. Other services that many people look for are dog-walking or house sitting. Additionally, tutoring is another in-demand service that any entrepreneur could excel in. Consider taking a couple of Saturdays a month and teaching lessons. Charge more for the service than you may think; you'd be surprised at what parents will pay to help their children grow. Successful "do it yourself" lessons could earn you up to $600 extra dollars a month (8 half hours lessons every Saturday at $20 each comes to about $640! And that's only sixteen hours of extra work a month!). Teaching something you love can also become a type of stress reliever. Not only will this activity get you away from your entrepreneurial work, but it will also act as a fun opportunity for you to make some money.
4. Cut Back
One of the easiest ways to make extra cash is by cutting back. Here are some ways to cut back for-business expenses:
• Cut back on supplies: if you're spending too much money on supplies for your business, buy an off-brand instead of a more expensive label brand.
• Consider working from home: working from home means no leases to worry about. Without leases, you don't have to worry about paying for utilities for your office space as well. Additionally, many entrepreneurs have decided to use virtual offices in order to save up some extra money.
• Employ interns: interns run quite cheap these days, especially in a recession. Instead of hiring an over-qualified, full-time employee for office work, consider hiring an intern that is in high school or college. They will do the exact same amount of work for half of the price. If you are going to employ an intern, we do suggest allowing your intern some experience in the company as well (don't treat your intern like a go-fer! Give them some challenges in the business. This will help them to stay motivated. Who knows, they may become an asset to your business in the future).
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Some Tips To Help You Create Your Dream Garden
We all want a beautiful home and we spend a lot of time and money in getting one. However, a lot of times we forget the area that surrounds the house – both the front garden and back garden. The outdoor space of the house should ideally be a place that invites you to unwind, takes you closer to nature and makes you want to spend most of your time there. In addition, since it is the outdoors, the garden goes a long way in determining what your neighbours think of your house. As they say, a beautiful garden can be as much a neighbour’s envy as the owner’s pride. Besides, it can be your very own source of organically grown fruits, vegetables, and beautiful flowers. Designing the garden to fit these needs can be an interesting but challenging task.
A good garden design is usually the result of good planning. Given below are some tips that will help you create a beautiful garden.
- Determine the size of the area that you can use for your design purposes
- Make a rough estimate of your budget
- Decide on the look for the finished garden: traditional, country, contemporary, etc
- Accordingly, decide on the various products and plants you would want to use for the garden
Some products that will aid you in building your garden of dreams are listed here:
Garden Turf: Growing a beautiful new lawn without hassles and in a short time is extremely easy with the use of high quality garden turf. Not only with it enrich the soil but it will give it a uniform and neat look. With the availability of turf specialists, buying lawn supplies online has become very convenient.
Garden Sleepers: The way to define and make the garden boundary or your driveway attractive is by using railway sleepers. Sleepers are large pieces of Oak or soft wood and can be used creatively in your landscape plan. Whether as a raised bed for growing your fruits and vegetables, or steps to lead to a deck with chairs, railway sleepers offer a chunky, rustic long lasting solution.
Mulch and Compost: Once you have your lawn and the garden furniture ready, it is time to plant those plants. Specifically for the well-being of your plants, make sure to use garden mulch. It is a protective layer put on top of the soil. It can be used to make ornamental garden paths, to suppress weeds and to retain soil moisture. Garden bark is one of the best bark mulch products available. Garden bark chippings are not only ornamental but also very durable. Further, do not forget to add compost to the soil. Compost is obtained by the decomposition of organic material and provides vital nutrients to the soil. Besides, it also acts as a soil conditioner and a natural pesticide.
If you get these basics right, you can go on to express yourself in your choice of garden plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables.
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Based in Jakarta, Nadi Gallery is an art gallery founded by Biantoro Santoso, a young collector of Indonesian art. His devotion for art and his desire to take part in promoting contemporary art in Indonesia have led to the existence of this gallery.
Nadi Gallery was officially opened on the 15th of September 2000, marked by the opening of an exhibition showing the paintings of Heri Dono, a celebrated artist.
The Indonesian word nadi means "aorta", "artery", "vein" that evokes the idea of signaling pulsation. Without pulsation, the aorta soon looses its significance for life. As the name indicates, the Gallery's principal programs of exhibitions have been aspiring to present the pulses of recent developments in contemporary art in Indonesia.
All the exhibitions held by and at the Gallery are designed in cooperation with guest or independent curators. Exhibitions are scheduled to take place at least six times a year. Those exhibitions are intended to present works by Indonesian artists as well as artists from other parts of the world with highly qualified, unique and innovative achievements.
While adopting strategic approaches to enhance appreciation of art, exhibitions at Nadi Gallery also give careful consideration to the commercial aspect of the works presented. Therefore, in addition to promoting artistic development and offering to artists a space to show their qualified works, the Gallery also invites collectors for the enjoyment and purchase.
Of no less importance is the Gallery's attempt to play its role in facilitating programs that involve discussions and exchanges with and among artists, art critics, curators, and collectors while helping with workshops, book publishing, and designing projects related to various possibilities in the field of art.
Nadi Gallery is always open for dialogues and collaboration with various parties, both individuals and institutions of whatever backgrounds.
In line with that, Nadi Gallery intends to position itself as a significant "pulsation" amid the currents of the pluralist artistic expressions in Indonesia. | <urn:uuid:54ba0642-37bf-4540-965c-3e65df2dd91b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artinasia.com/galleryDetail.php?catID=0&galleryID=322 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961714 | 398 | 1.5 | 2 |
Colorblinded Wages – Abstract
Posted by The Situationist Staff on September 5, 2008
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Immigrant workers with darker skin color have lower pay than their counterparts with lighter skin color. Whether this pay penalty is due to labor market discrimination is explored using data from the New Immigrant Survey 2003 to estimate wage equations that control for skin color, sequentially taking into account a series of individual characteristics related to labor market productivity and personal background. These characteristics include Hispanic ethnicity, race, country of birth, education, family background, occupation in source country, English language proficiency, visa status, employer characteristics, and current occupation. The analysis finds that the labor market penalty to darker skin color cannot be attributed to differences in productivity and is evidence of labor market discrimination that arises within the U.S. labor market. The largest groups of post-1965 immigrants – those from Asia and Latin America – are penalized in the U.S. labor market for their darker skin color.
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President Bush’s speech at the Naval Academy today was a brilliant exposition of his strategy in Iraq and in the war on terror. It was thematically similar to a number of other excellent speeches he has given over the past four years, many of which we have quoted and linked to, but it included a more detailed analysis of the progress of Iraqi units in taking over the defense of their country than we have seen before. It is a little-known fact, I’m afraid, that, in a series of speeches extending over a period of years, President Bush has articulated his policy vision more consistently and more eloquently than any President since Lincoln. His speeches have, for the most part, gone unheard, unread, and uncovered by the mainstream media. Let’s hope this one is different in that regard.
Here are a few highlights:
The terrorists in Iraq share the same ideology as the terrorists who struck the United States on September the 11th. Those terrorists share the same ideology with those who blew up commuters in London and Madrid, murdered tourists in Bali, workers in Riyadh, and guests at a wedding in Amman, Jordan. Just last week, they massacred Iraqi children and their parents at a toy give-away outside an Iraqi hospital.
This is an enemy without conscience — and they cannot be appeased. If we were not fighting and destroying this enemy in Iraq, they would not be idle. They would be plotting and killing Americans across the world and within our own borders. By fighting these terrorists in Iraq, Americans in uniform are defeating a direct threat to the American people. Against this adversary, there is only one effective response: We will never back down. We will never give in. And we will never accept anything less than complete victory. (Applause.) ***
As the Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop levels in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders — not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington. (Applause.)
Setting an artificial deadline to withdraw would send a message across the world that America is a weak and an unreliable ally. Setting an artificial deadline to withdraw would send a signal to our enemies — that if they wait long enough, America will cut and run and abandon its friends. And setting an artificial deadline to withdraw would vindicate the terrorists’ tactics of beheadings and suicide bombings and mass murder — and invite new attacks on America. To all who wear the uniform, I make you this pledge: America will not run in the face of car bombers and assassins so long as I am your Commander-in-Chief. (Applause.)
Some critics continue to assert that we have no plan in Iraq except to, “stay the course.” If by “stay the course,” they mean we will not allow the terrorists to break our will, they are right. If by “stay the course,” they mean we will not permit al Qaeda to turn Iraq into what Afghanistan was under the Taliban — a safe haven for terrorism and a launching pad for attacks on America — they are right, as well. If by “stay the course” they mean that we’re not learning from our experiences, or adjusting our tactics to meet the challenges on the ground, then they’re flat wrong. As our top commander in Iraq, General Casey, has said, “Our commanders on the ground are continuously adapting and adjusting, not only to what the enemy does, but also to try to out-think the enemy and get ahead of him.” Our strategy in Iraq is clear, our tactics are flexible and dynamic; we have changed them as conditions required and they are bringing us victory against a brutal enemy. (Applause.)
Most Americans want two things in Iraq: They want to see our troops win, and they want to see our troops come home as soon as possible. And those are my goals as well. I will settle for nothing less than complete victory. In World War II, victory came when the Empire of Japan surrendered on the deck of the USS Missouri. In Iraq, there will not be a signing ceremony on the deck of a battleship. Victory will come when the terrorists and Saddamists can no longer threaten Iraq’s democracy, when the Iraqi security forces can provide for the safety of their own citizens, and when Iraq is not a safe haven for terrorists to plot new attacks on our nation.
Before our mission in Iraq is accomplished, there will be tough days ahead. A time of war is a time of sacrifice, and we’ve lost some very fine men and women in this war on terror. Many of you know comrades and classmates who left our shores to defend freedom and who did not live to make the journey home. We pray for the military families who mourn the loss of loves ones. We hold them in our hearts — and we honor the memory of every fallen soldier, sailor, airman, Coast Guardsman, and Marine.
One of those fallen heroes is a Marine Corporal named Jeff Starr, who was killed fighting the terrorists in Ramadi earlier this year. After he died, a letter was found on his laptop computer. Here’s what he wrote, he said, “[I]f you’re reading this, then I’ve died in Iraq. I don’t regret going. Everybody dies, but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it’s not to me. I’m here helping these people, so they can live the way we live. Not [to] have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators_. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark.”
There is only one way to honor the sacrifice of Corporal Starr and his fallen comrades — and that is to take up their mantle, carry on their fight, and complete their mission. (Applause.)
Our friend Michelle Malkin must be very proud that her publication of Corporal Starr’s last letter, which was sent to her by one of his relatives after his name was misused by the New York Times, made it into the President’s speech.
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Mr. Buckle, the master of the house at which Jack Maggs obtains his position as a footman, is initially depicted as a passive man, kind to his servants and content to remain reading in his room for the majority of the day while carrying on a quiet affair with his young maid, Mercy, at night. However, with the advent of Tobias Oates's experiment on Jack Maggs and Maggs's subsequent outbursts, Mr. Buckle's character seems to twist open, revealing a man who is more materialistic and gratified by power and control than his earlier characterization would suggest. He is especially unnerved and upset by the damage Magg's commits to the house when he enacts a quarantine by bolting the doors and windows with poorly inserted nails. With this event, Mr. Buckle begins to lose his polished veneer and composure, and the subtle beginnings of his change are apparent when he first views the house after the nails are removed:
You could have fed him rancid bacon and he might not have complained. You could leave the sheets unlaundered for two weeks at a stretch. But Heaven help you if the floors weren't polished, if the mantelpiece wasn't dusted every day. He liked his inheritance to shine. Consequently, to see the fresh injury which Jack Maggs's departure had caused to his front door was more disturbing to the owner than even he — who had seen the rusty nails first breach that lustrous black surface — might have anticipated.
He knelt before the door as if winded. The nails had been ripped out roughly. In their place were jagged wounds: gouges, dents, raw splinters. Tenderly, he laid back the splinters against the wounds, but the hurt was too savage for such ministrations.
Back in his sitting room, he repeatedly pulled the bell for Constable. When he was not answered, he returned to the front door and picked up the horrid nails himself. He dropped them into his jacket pocket, and hurried down the breakneck stairs into his kitchen. Here he found the fire dead and a queer pink-grey mouse eating a crust of bread on the table. The three thin lines between Mr Buckle's eyebrows deepened. At first it seemed that he might strike the mouse, but then all his energy emerged in a violent shiver. He went quickly back up to the ground floor and then up the back stairs.
And there, in the snuggery, he found Mercy and Constable sitting side by side on the ottoman, chatting contentedly like dowagers at a ball.
He spoke to them politely. They were lazy and familiar in return. [162-63]
1. The injuries of the house are described almost as if the house was a person. How is this significant in the context of Mr. Buckle's relationship with the house itself? How is it related to his relationships with the servants who live in the house?
2. The damage to the wood is attributed to "Jack Magg's departure" . Usually, one would expect damage to a house being caused by someone entering the building by force, not someone leaving. How does this reversal reveal the character of Jack Magg's, and his odd position as a criminal?
3. What is the distinction made between household chores which are primarily related to the body — eating rotten bacon, sleeping on unclean sheets — and chores which affect the appearance of the house itself? Why is this so important to Mr. Buckle?
4. What stops Mr. Buckle from attacking the mouse? Is he in conflict over his character changes, which seem to stem from the upheaval of his household? How might his relations with the servants, particularly their apparent lack of concern toward Mr. Buckle at the end of the passage, contribute to his agitation? Is Mr. Buckle a genuinely good person who has undergone tremendous stress, or was his apparent kindness prior to this based on the lack of turmoil in his household?
Carey, Peter. Jack Maggs. New York: Knopf, 1998.
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“The problem with communication… is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” -George Bernard Shaw
Communication is essentially what Anthology does. Sure, at the surface, we create some really nice designs and we develop functional websites - but websites function as communicative devices - and as I explored in The Anatomy of Great Design Part 01, great design starts with effective communication. So, the goal at the core of all of this is to communicate to your audience.
As simple as this concept may seem, it is overlooked far too often.
Let’s take websites for example. As companies explore building a website, the natural tendency is to make an attempt to impress potential customers. Too many times, the requests are filled with desires to hijack the user experience (not intentionally), create menus that move and sparkle, and bring attention to non-important items. These requests have the same goal as an executive that purchases a flashy sports car just to “show off” when meeting clients. At the end of the day, the car may be impressive, but whether the job is done effectively is what ultimately matters to the client.
When this tendency to impress is extended into web development, it cripples the ability to communicate effectively. Flashy design, gimmicky features, and unnecessary copy cloud the ultimate goals of the site. And, unfortunately, too many times, the web developer has to lay down and submit to the clients requests - and when that happens, the job is not being completed with excellence.
The problem is that when the site is finished and everyone has gone home, the company may be thrilled with the impressive new website, but if it does not communicate effectively and meet the needs of the users, it is ultimately a failure - it is the illusion that communication has been accomplished.
The next time you are building a new site for your company, keep these things in mind:
1. Deny The Desire To Impress - Users will only be impressed the first time they visit your site. After that, the only thing that keeps them coming back is functionality and ease of use. If you can say “that is coooooool,” it probably is doing more harm than good.
2. Develop A Site For Your Client, Not Yourself - Keep the user in mind when determining how you site will look and how it will function. The site may be about you, but it is more about your user.
3. Determine The Key Goals - And do not add anything to the site that does not directly or indirectly encourage the success of these goals. Stay focused.
Agree? Disagree? Feel free to be heard in the comments section. And as always, remember to subscribe to the RSS for future posts on design, web development, and online marketing.
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Encouraging Bad Coding?
A recent office-cleaning turned up a quote I'd kept from an automotive magazine from 20 years ago:
"Protecting drivers from the consequences of bad driving encourages bad driving"
Well, that seems reasonable to me. If you didn't have bumpers, seatbelts, airbags, and whatever...you'd probably be encouraged to drive more carefully, right? And the Darwinian aspect would help cleanse the pool of bad drivers. So, how well would this translate to software development?
"Protecting developers from the consequences of bad coding encourages bad coding"
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Decorating with Mirrors
From a practical point of view, distorted mirrors in your interior is absolutely useless. However, not every designer or
decorator would agree with this statement.
Some professionals believe, that by incorporating in a design decorative convex mirrors, or "special effects" mirrors that are
made by using deformed sheets of polished metal, you can create a quite unique interiors. After all, the reflection in such
mirrors is as unusual and impressive as if it would be a surreal piece of art.
Another decorative trick used by designers and decorators - angling mirrors. When mirrors are situated on an angle toward each
other, the reflected image "brakes" into several parts, while reflected objects do not appear distorted. It creates an artistically
appealing mosaic effect. This method of decorating with mirrors is widely used in a hotels, restaurants, stores, and some times
incorporated into residential interiors.
Another popular method of decorating with mirrors - fragmentation. This method is based on arranging mirrors in certain order
near each other. For example, if several long and narrow mirrors are placed near (not against) each other it will not only
elongate the appearance of the wall, but also creates a comforting repetition. Reflections in the mirrors will capturer not
a continues view of an interior, but fragments of it, creating a unique effect. If the same long mirrors are located in a
vertical, but in an horizontal pattern it will make a wall appear wider.
Using this method endless composition can be created. By using different shapes of mirrors dramatic or whimsical effects can
be accomplished. Talking about the fragments, some of today's innovative mirrors designs contain several differently shaped
mirrors (round, oval, square, or odd shaped) assembled together. This type of mirrors combinations are definitely unconventional,
and can have an impacts of a true artistic expressions.
One of our favorite old tricks - shelving with the mirrored back. Dingy, purely lit wall can be brought back to live with
mirrored shelving. You can attach mirrors to the back of any shelving unit, and place it against the wall. Than you can
decorate the shelves with your favorite
crystal accessories, or other home accessories with reflective surface. This method will
not only brighten up a space, but add interest to the overall room decor. By placing live plants on the shelves the amount
of flowers will be doubled by they're reflection in the mirror, and you can create blooming parodies in your room.
Lack of lighting is a common problem these days. Dark unused corners and nooks often become a challenge to decorate. Long
mirrors placed in such places will do the trick of expanding a space and bringing in more light. The combination of wall
mirrors with soft lighting (indirect lighting, electrified
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Jay Inslee was sworn in as Washington’s 23rd governor on Wednesday, Jan. 16, and delivered his first speech as governor just a few short hours later.
In his inaugural speech, Gov. Inslee was quick to reinforce his commitment to job creation, calling it the state’s “top priority today, tomorrow, and every day for the next four years.”
“A new world economy is emerging from the depths of this recession, and while its contours and relationships are not fully understood to us, we do know two things,” stated Inslee. “One. With our uniquely powerful fusion of values and talents, Washington state has the potential to lead the next wave of world-changing innovations. Two. The world will not wait for us.”
Inslee made specific requests to the Legislature, calling on legislators to help craft a bipartisan, multi-modal transportation package that includes trains, light rail, buses and bicycles.
“To honestly address our infrastructure, we have to recognize that creativity is as important as concrete. I want us to turn our innovative spirit toward crafting a transportation package that includes roads, trains, light rail, buses, bike routes and other modes of transportation,” said Inslee. “We need ways to free capacity for freight and commerce, and rethink how we do the business of transportation in our state and how we use our transportation infrastructure.” | <urn:uuid:8171f1b4-0939-42ca-8c2d-b50c208eb4d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.cascade.org/2013/01/inslee-calls-for-bike-route-funding/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963868 | 295 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Tech, Telecom and the InternetThe contentious ongoing battle over Internet taxation promises to be the hottest high-tech fight in Congress and State capitals across America during the next few years. At the heart of this debate lies the question of whether state and local sales and use taxes should be imposed on goods and services purchased via the Internet. Moreover, the debate has raised important questions about the taxation of the telecommunications industry in general. Specifically, should the telecom industry be singled out for unique tax burdens and levies that other industries do not face?
Regrettably, the debate over Net taxation is largely an effort to simply roll the out-dated state and local sales tax structure of the Industrial Age onto the fast-paced Information Age economy. While some state and local representative groups profess to believe they can create a "simplified" system of sales tax administration that will could be applied to Internet, such claims seem dubious.
But even if this claim is taken at face value, it is important to understand that the simplification process which these groups advocate is, in reality, an attempt to create a collusive multi-state tax cartel. Such a result would betray the Founding Fathers' intended model of competitive federalism and would greatly discourage tax competition between the states. In that sense, such "simplification" proposals can be seen as little more than an attempt to create an Articles of Confederation-style tax system for e-commerce.
While Congress is busy fighting over an extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act's existing moratorium on access taxes, lawmakers should instead be taking a harder look at the anti-competitive tax systems state and local officials are proposing. A better approach work as follows:
a. Congress should make permanent the current moratorium on Internet access taxes.
b. Congress should clarify and codify existing Supreme Court nexus jurisprudence to ensure there is no taxation without representation.
c. State and local governments should explore pro-competitive tax reform alternatives such as an origin-based methodology for sales tax collection or a movement away from product-based sales taxation altogether.
d. State and local governments should also take steps to reform other telecom industry taxes and levies.
e. Congress and the Administration should continue to pursue a international agreements that will guarantee a "global free trade zone" for electronic commerce.
Finally, the ongoing debate over Internet and telecommunications tax policy should be guided by five principles:
1. No multiple or discriminatory taxation: The Internet should not be subjected to unique or overlapping taxes.
2. No taxation without representation: Companies should only be required to pay taxes in those jurisdictions where they have a substantial physical presence or "taxable nexus."
3. Tax competition, not tax collusion: State and local governments should not be allowed to establish collusive tax regimes which discourage vigorous interstate tax competition.
4. Protect consumer privacy: Intrusive regulations and tax collection systems should not be created in an attempt to trace and tax electronic transactions.
5. Reform or abolish "taxes on talking": Existing industry-specific telecommunications taxes should be radically reformed or abolished to equalize tax treatment with other industries.
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Posted by Doodlemum
Things that I have had lobbed at me today:
Tomato, rice, chicken, sausage roll, egg, toast and a beaker.
I hope Gruff prefers eating tomorrow instead of throwing his food at his mother.
Posted on April 27, 2011, in Uncategorized and tagged babies, Drawings, Family, Food, Humour, Illustration, Life, Mums, Pen and Ink, postaday2011, Sketchbook. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
I think you’re living my life on the other side of the pond. Can’t recall how I found your blog in the first place, but it brightens my “in box” each day. My Ben is in the same “throw it with gusto” phase. Sigh.
Keep up the lovely musings.
Aw thank you and welcome. Yes my floor is much better decorated with cereal hoops and rice. I never did like clean, hello to Ben too!
Gruff is a baseball pitcher in the making! ) What an arm!
Myles likes to think he’s a rugby player in the making….I’m still optimistic he’ll plump for something more artistic!
A beaker!!! oh dear! I hope he prefers throwing the food into his mouth tomorrow too!
And I didn’t duck fast enough…ouch!
love it. what a patient mother you are.
Hmmmm…think I pretty much ran out of it yesterday but Gruff is happily back to putting food in his mouth today and I am back to smiling!
Little Sister only throws or knocks off her food when she is full. You have to watch out for her sippy cup, it hurts the toes when it lands on them.
I think children should come with safety gear for parents and siblings, you’re too right, little ones can hurl a beaker at breakneck speed, you need the reflexes of a ninja to duck Gruff on a surprise assault!
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While this review may look promising on the surface, in fact the results of the ALRC's report have been largely dictated by it's terms of reference.
Big content has succeeded in preventing the ALRC from examining any of the following:
* unauthorised distribution of copyright materials using peer-to-peer networks;
* the scope of the safe harbour scheme for ISPs;
* a review of exceptions in relation to technological protection measures; and
* increased access to copyright works for blind and visually impaired people.
There are other existing reviews which cover these topics, and these reviews are not open to public comment. Big content has won big time in the ALRC's review before it has even begun.
The only thing to regret here is that LightSquared is run by idiots who should have known better, were undoubtedly told multiple times by their own engineers that this was impossible, but they continued to forge ahead anyway.
LightSquared is run by really, really smart people who were/are intent on gaming the system and making a few billion dollars. They were allocated some satellite spectrum, which is cheap, and wanted to exploit a loophole which allowed them to repurpose it as terrestial which is very, very expensive. Essentially, LightSquared was engaged in spectrum arbitrage, where they could make a great deal of money by ripping off the US taxpayer. LightSquared management was completely uninterested in any tedious parts of reality which got in the way of making all that lovely money.
China is usually given as the bogey man in cyberwar scenarios. What most people in the west don't understand is how vulnerable China is to a cyberwar.
Ninety percent on all PC's in China - whether personal, academic, corporate or government PC's - have pirated copies of MS Windows, which means that these PC's cannot run Windows Update. The vast majority of PC's in China have unpatched vulnerabilities - many are actually already infected with malware.
China is running its' own cyberwar scare campaign - there are many articles in the Chinese press about various research institutions has PC's hacked and secrets stolen. China is extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks and they are very aware of it. The Chinese government has a program in place to remove MS-based software from all government computers. It would appear that this program has a long way to go - with vastly more than 50%, possibly as much as 90% of government PC's still running Windows.
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About Hale County
Hale County was created by the Alabama legislature on January 30, 1867. It was named for Lt. Col. Stephen Fowler Hale, a Confederate Officer from Greene County, killed at Gaines' Mill, Virginia.
Hale County is located in West Central Alabama. Much of the newly formed county had been the part of Greene County east of the Black Warrior River. This river is the boundary between Greene and Hale today. The remainder of Hale County was taken from Perry County, Marengo County, and Tuscaloosa County. Hale County is bordered by Tuscaloosa, Bibb, Perry, Marengo and Greene Counties. It encompasses 661 square miles.
Hale County has a population of approximately 18,111. It has four high schools, four elementary schools and one private school.
Greensboro is the county seat. Other towns and communities include Akron, Gallion, Moundville, Newbern, and Sawyerville.
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