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The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 1 : Work information
- Manuel de Falla (y Matheu) ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, Fernando Lozano (Conductor)
- Work name
- The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 1
- Work number
- 1919-00-00 02:00:00
- Ivan Pastor
- Recording date
Manuel de Falla (y Matheu)
Spanish composer Manuel de Falla was one of the central figures of 20th century Spanish music.
His music drew on the influence of many artistic movements, including neo-classicism, nationalism and impressionism.
His work, like that of many Spanish artists, was also strongly affected by the events of the civil war that ravaged the country from 1936 until 1939, and which inspired Hemingway’s “Farewell to arms” and “For whom the bell tolls”.
Many Spanish critics mistakenly attacked de Falla’s music as unpatriotic, largely because of the strong influence of the work of French composer Claude Debussy . It is certainly true that much of de Falla’s work relies heavily on the work of several leading French composers, but he was very much a nationalist and his music is unmistakably Spanish in origin.
Manuel de Falla's popular El Sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) started life as a. 1917 pantomime in 2 scenes, El corregidor y la molinera (The Corregidor and the Miller's Wife). Based on a novel by Alarcon, it tells the humorous story of a magistrate who falls for the Miller's wife, and is made to look a fool in front of the whole village when she spurns his advances.
The impressario Serge Diaghilev, thinking the plot suitable for dancing, asked Manuel de Falla to revise the work for his company, the ballet russes. The resulting ballet had its first performance, under the title El Sombrero de tres picos (after the shape of the magistrate's hat) in London on 22 July 1919 with scenary by Picasso.
A work full of Spanish character, with the traditional jota, farruca, and zarzuela dances, El Sombrero is a wonderfully vibrant ballet. Two orchestral suites were later created by de Falla to ensure the work had a lasting position in the repertoires of the world's orchestras. | <urn:uuid:0fde1fc8-7fd4-4549-b56b-852fda1e544d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.classical.com/work/2147484064 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930623 | 542 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The farm comprises of barn with loft and ladder, animal shed, farmhouse, pig sty, fences and wooden play base. The roof panels attach with magnets making them easy for small hands to access, and enabling children to create their own farm scenes easily. Playing with the farm will help children develop and understand the environment, learn about farm animals, where they live, and how to look after them. Play Base Size: 62.5cm x 47cm. 3 Years +
Manufacturer's minimum age: 3 years (36 Months and Older). To avoid choking on small parts.
- Wooden Farm Set.
- Includes barn with loft and ladder, an animal shed, farmhouse, pigsty, fences and play base.
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- Encourages pretend play.
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Fair Labor Standards Act Information
Auditor of Dept. of Labor
Provides for a minimum wage, requires time and one half the employee's regular rate of pay after 40 hours in a work week, establishes standards for the employment of persons under the age of 18, contains within it the "Equal Pay Act" (enforced by EEOC usually through contracts with state civil right agencies).
The act provides for exemptions from some of its provisions. The monetary provisions of the statute were developed as a device to spread employment and establish a floor on wages as a result of the experience of the depression. Thus, exemptions are applied very conservatively: an employer does not get the benefit of a generous interpretation where an exemption is at issue and an employee may not waive entitlement under the statute. Exemptions from some or all of the act's provisions or employment subject to special provisions that impact significant numbers of the workforce include: agricultural workers, employees of hospitals and residential care establishments (nursing homes, group homes), tipped employees, employees of state and local governments, executive, administrative, professional and outside sales employees. These exemptions are defined by statute or regulation very specifically. Assume nothing.
Liability for failure to comply with the act: two year statute of limitations except three years in the case of "willful violation"; back wages plus an equal amount as liquidated damages, attorney's fees and court costs. Civil money penalties for child labor violations.
all hours "suffered or permitted" to be worked. Travel time in the nature of home-to-work is not hours worked, however, travel time is compensable when it occurs within an employee's duty period. See "Interpretative Bulletin, Part 785: Hours worked under the Fair Labor Standards Act".
Regular rate of pay:
must be drawn from what happens under the employment contract, the rate actually paid the employee for the normal non-overtime workweek. If an employee's salary is subject to deduction on account of hours worked, the employee's regular rate is computed by dividing the salary by the number of hours which the salary is intended to compensate. If the employee's hours fluctuate but the salary does not, the employee's regular rate is calculated by dividing the weekly equivalent of the salary by the hours worked. Supplements to pay such as commission payments, production bonuses, and sums paid for waiting time are included in the regular rate of pay (they increase the rate by dividing the payment by the total hours worked over the period covered by the payment). See "Regulations, Part 778: Interpretative Bulletin on Overtime Compensation".
Record Keeping: employers are required to keep an accurate record of each employees' daily hours worked, total weekly hours, rate of pay, straight time pay, overtime pay, total earnings, date of payment and pay period covered by the payment, employee name, address, social security number, date of birth if under 18, sex, occupation in which employed. The burden of record keeping is on the employer.
The Wage-Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor, has available a variety of publications that are occupational or industry specific that are free in reasonable quantity. These same publications are available from the Government Printing Office for a fee. The Division has such a small staff and so many responsibilities that they are not looking for employers to investigate, they have all the work they can handle from complaints and investigations directed to address industry specific problems. You are not obligated to identify the firm you are seeking information for or about. The questions asked by staff are designed to assist them in identifying your needs.
We agree. The employee requested it. The employee didn't want overtime.
An employee cannot waive the statute. The employment relationship is a lot like a marriage. When you are together, and all is well, accommodations are made. When you separate, things can get nasty. If the Department of Labor conducts an investigation, it usually examines your employment practices for all employees. A complaint need not have been filed, and if a complaint was filed, you are not entitled to know who filed it or what was alleged. The fact that any employee is alleged to be a liar, a cheat, or a porno movie star is irrelevant if there is evidence that the employee was not paid properly.
Salaried employees do not receive overtime.
There is no exemption from overtime solely on the basis of salaried compensation. There is an exemption from minimum wage and overtime for bona fide Executive, Administrative, and Professional employees who meet very specific duty and salary tests. Reference the nontechnical publication "Executive, Administrative, Professional and Outside Sales Exemptions Under the Fair Labor Standards Act: "or the more detailed, "Regulations Part 541: Defining the Terms "Executive, " and "Administrative," "Professional" and "Outside Salesman"".
The employee volunteered to work the time. The employee did it on his/her own.
All work time "suffered or permitted" must be recorded and paid for. It is the employer's responsibility to control the hours worked by its employees. It is not necessary that the employee receive the employer's permission or approval.
Overtime for Saturday, Sunday or for hours over 8 in a day.
Not required by the Fair Labor Standards Act, or any federal government contract statute. If you have promised, or have had a practice of paying overtime under these circumstances, you may have a contract or other agreement which obligates you to a higher standard.
The salary includes overtime.
As a practical matter a fixed sum cannot include overtime compensation when the weekly hours fluctuate. Editorial note: There is a concept called a "Belo Contract" which has such restrictive provisions that employers attempting to implement such an agreement inevitably fail and find that virtually all of the monies paid are treated as straight time wages. Attorneys who recommend the use of this provision expose their client to grief and unanticipated liabilities.
"Time off plans", "comp time" in lieu of overtime.
Excepting employees of state and local governments, an employee must be paid in full at the conclusion of each pay period. Thus, the records must show the payment of straight time for the actual straight time hours and time and one half for the overtime hours worked. For example, bi-weekly pay period:
40 hours X $4.00 = $160.00
2 hours X $6.00 = $12.00
37 hours X $4.00 = $148.00
An employer cannot "save" an employee's overtime wages for payment in a later pay period.
The employer neglected to keep an accurate record of hours worked for an employee not exempt from minimum wage or overtime.
The obligation to keep an accurate record is the employer's. If the employer neglects to fulfill this responsibility the employer will not prevail in a claim that an accurate determination of liability cannot be ascertained (and therefore no liability exists). We all remember the times we worked when it was burdensome, but do not recall clearly those times when we did not work. Thus, it is to the employer's benefit to maintain an accurate record of hours worked, even when it believes it has no obligation to maintain such a record because of an exemption.
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Tom Noonan, president and CEO of Visit Baltimore, said the tourism bureau is encouraging the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to celebrate their commitments to one another in the city.
“We have long been proud to support the rights and equality of our visitors, and the legalization of same-sex marriage is another important step forward,” he said Wednesday.
Baltimore’s LGBT outreach began long before Tuesday’s vote. The tourism bureau has supported the LGBT community through advertising and other initiatives like its “Rainbow Round-Up” quarterly e-newsletter and sponsorship of events like Pride. The bureau’s LGBT advisory committee of local tourism and business partners also assists in producing an annual LGBT Visitors Guide to Baltimore.
Now, they have a new microsite that provides free planning assistance for gay weddings and “everything same-sex couples need to know to get married in Baltimore,” including practical information like how to obtain a marriage license beginning Jan. 1, 2013. The website also directs visitors to TAG-approved accommodations, or those that enforce non-discriminatory policies and provide diversity and sensitivity training to employees.
Maryland, Maine and Washington became the first states to recognize same-sex marriage via a public vote. They join six other states (Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont), the District of Columbia and two Native American tribal jurisdictions (the Coquille Tribe of Oregon and the Suquamish tribe of Washington) in legalizing same-sex marriage.
Tourism industries that have recognized the importance of marketing to the LGBT community have reaped the benefits, according to the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association. The association’s president, John Tanzella cites New York as a prime example.
“New York City is actively marketing for domestic and international gay couples to visit, get married and honeymoon,” Tanzella told the Pew Center recently. “The city predicts it will generate $310 million over the next three years in incremental revenues.”
Community Marketing, Inc., a San Francisco-based company that focuses on the gay and lesbian market, puts the national economic impact of gay and lesbian travelers at more than $65 billion each year. | <urn:uuid:6893bc6c-6b46-43a3-82d5-f848d2139055> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ibtimes.com/gay-marriage-passes-maryland-baltimore-wants-weddings-865190 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928918 | 459 | 1.890625 | 2 |
PDF is a very handy way to deliver documents over http and there are a number of ways to do this from within Smalltalk. A write up of several techniques can be found here:
seaside.st: PDF in Seaside
I'm one of the main authors of the SPDF library, so it's nice to see it listed among the options. SPDF was developed for use in the insurance industry where 'forms' needed to be produced on the fly, sometimes including TIFF images. SPDF did it's job well enough for the problem at hand, but it's capabilities are rather, ah, narrow.
Having said that, the library is an implementation of the PDF spec, so the terminology of the spec is reflected in the Smalltalk implementation (e.g. data structures and class & method names) ... so it should not be too hard to implement more of the spec as and when needed.
As a case in point, on a recent project I used the SPDF library to produced documents that required automatic line breaking and breaking over pages, and even using the Frame classes to have text flow from a rectangle on one page to the same rectangle on the next page - which happens to addresses some of the weaknesses of SPDF (correctly) identified in the write up.
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DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman Tuesday categorically said the country’s banking sector is moving forward in spite of having global recession.
“Many banks of the world are becoming financially weak due to the ongoing global recession. But, the banking sector of the country is moving forward,” he said.
The central bank governor came up with the observation while addressing a seminar jointly organized by International Chamber of Commerce, UNESCO and BRAC Bank at a hotel in the city.
Dr Atiur also said, “The economy of the country is stable as we are giving importance to inclusive economic growth.”
He said, “We are trying to bring the small and medium enterprise in the main stream as part of our social responsibility.”
He added: “We became successful to face the global recession as we are giving importance to SME sector.”
BDST: 1535 HRS, JUL 03, 2012
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ONE in FIVE: Council of Europe Campaign
to stop sexual violence against children
The Congress is contributing to the Council of Europe's One in Five Campaign, which sets out to promote the Lanzarote Convention, the main legal instrument on the subject. The Campaign also seeks to make all those concerned – including the children themselves – more aware of the gravity of this form of violence and of what can be done to prevent it.
The Congress is responsible for the local and regional dimensions of the Campaign, which reflects its 2009 resolution on preventing violence against children. The aim, first and foremost, is to encourage local and regional authorities to establish appropriate multidisciplinary bodies and mechanisms and to promote a more child-friendly culture.
Fighting sexual violence against children: coordination is needed between state, regional and local bodies
14.03.2013 - ''At the grassroots level, services to fight sexual violence against children can be better tailored to meet citizens’ needs,'' said Clemens Lammerskitten, Vice-President of the Congress, speaking in the Bundestag, the national Parliament of Germany. He participated in a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly’s Network of Contact Parliamentarians to stop sexual violence against children. Discussions focused on national strategies and mechanisms to protect children and to improve close co-operation between the different stakeholders.
Combatting sexual violence of children: showcasing good practices at local and regional levels
12.03.2013 - The Congress launched a new online tool which will enable local and regional authorities to share the initiatives they are taking to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse. This tool accompanies the “Pact of Towns and Regions to Stop Sexual Violence against Children”, launched by the Congress in 2012 as part of its contribution to the Council of Europe’s ONE in FIVE Campaign. “Local and regional authorities must develop and implement relevant action plans and strategies, the Pact will guide them in their choice of policy. The Platform is a means for municipalities and regions to share their initiatives with others who can follow their good examples,” stated Congress President Herwig van Staa.
Sign up for the ''Pact of Cities and Regions''
The Congress is mobilising Europe’s regions to combat sexual violence against children
17.10.2012 - As part of the Congress’s contribution to the ONE in FIVE campaign to stop sexual violence against children, the Congress Chamber of Regions adopted a resolution and a recommendation which call on regional authorities and parliaments to implement the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse in the organisation of their welfare, social and health services, as well as by integrating its provisions into regional legislation where possible.
Report CPR(23)3 | Recommendation 332 (2012) | Resolution 350 (2012)
Congress seminar to propose model bodies to be set up at local and regional level
09.02.2013 - As part of its contribution to the Council of Europe ONE in FIVE Campaign, the Congress organised a seminar in Strasbourg, France, on 9 February 2012 (Palais de l’Europe, room 5). It gathered a panel of experts, grassroots players and local and regional elected representatives. The aim of the Congress is to propose, on the basis of the experiences presented, model bodies to be set up at local and regional level to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and to protect and support victims and their families. The seminar was opened by Maud de Boer Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Keith Whitmore, President of the Congress, and Emin Yeritsyan, President of the Congress Current Affairs Committee.
21st Congress Session: Debate on local initiatives to stop sexual violence against children
18.10.2011 - What can local and regional authorities do to prevent sexual violence against children? How best to foster and develop practical initiatives and good practices in this area? The members of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe examined these issues in a debate on 18 October 2011. The debate formed part of the general theme of its 21st session – "living together in dignity". Concrete intiatives were presented by, respectively, Bragi Gudbrandsson, Director General of Iceland's Government Agency for Child Protection, and Roswitha Wenzl, Commissioner for Children’s Affairs, City of Stuttgart and project director of the “Cities for Children” European Network. | <urn:uuid:6e5f2c60-349b-4d60-8647-208fdabae2b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.coe.int/t/congress/Files/Topics/ONEinFIVE/default_en.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926147 | 911 | 2.359375 | 2 |
What can you do with a degree in history?
Just about whatever you want to do. The analytical and expository skills that the study of history develops are essential to success in virtually all lines of work or study. The career choices of recent Northwestern history majors include broadcasting, business, consulting, finance, foundation work, international relations, journalism, law, medicine, the military, museum management, philanthropy, politics, public service, publishing, research, and teaching. The liberal arts are the best training for a leadership role in life, and no discipline is more central to the liberal arts than history.
For more information on the value of a history degree, please click here.
Why Study History?
History has long been one of the most popular majors in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Students elect to complete a major or minor in history, or choose history courses as electives for some of the following reasons.
Individual reasons for studying history vary widely. Some people look to the past for answers to moral or political questions, others are curious about a particular topic or period they have encountered in high school classes, books, movies, or museums, still others are driven by questions about their family's background or their own identity. All of these and others are valid reasons for studying the past.
History provides one of the most wide-ranging and varied courses of study. You can select topics ranging from Early Modern Britain to American Slavery to Twentieth-Century China. Methods for studying history include everything from reading novels to using economic models. This area of studies is therefore one of the best foundations for a broad liberal education. Our major and minor encourage students to study a range of different areas and periods while providing plenty of opportunities to pursue specialized interest and individual research.
The study of history is one of the best ways of acquiring fundamental intellectual skills. In your classes you will discuss questions such as: Why did a revolution happen in this country rather than another one? Why were women denied the vote for so long? How did people understand death in the Middle Ages? Answering such questions, whether in class or in papers and examinations trains you to do research, to organize information into an argument, and to present your conclusions in a clear and logical fashion.
A history degree or history courses are excellent preparation for graduate or professional school. A small number of our majors go on to become professional historians. For most majors and minors training in history provides a strong background for further study and careers in such fields as law, teaching, journalism, or business.
Who Studies History?
Each year more than 4,000 students from every school on the Evanston campus enroll in history courses. Most of these students are non-majors who wish to satisfy their historical curiosity. Though the department offers courses in numerical sequence, 100-400, it is not necessary to take history courses in order. Freshmen are not limited to 100- and 200-level courses; and 300-level courses may be taken before 200-level courses.
100-level courses are seminars designed to introduce students to the techniques of historical analysis. 200-levels are survey lecture courses, designed to introduce students to the substance of large historical fields. 300-level courses usually cover smaller fields and are distinguished from 200-levels mainly by being narrower in scope. However, most 300-level courses require a higher degree of sophistication in skills and knowledge; thus, students who are unsure of their background in a field should consult the course description and/or the instructor. 400-level courses are designed for graduate students, but on occasion exceptionally well qualified undergraduates may take them if they have received the permission of the instructor. | <urn:uuid:21dd760d-2f82-4b8a-be16-9a724757422c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.history.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947712 | 749 | 2.546875 | 3 |
GROWTH MICROSCOPE: Everyone's looking for answers to economic difficulties. The Miami-Dade County Commission is to weigh in Tuesday, with a resolution seeking to spend up to $150,000 having the Center of Economic Research at Florida International University run a county economic growth study that can take up to a year. The resolution, sponsored by commissioners Joe A. Martinez and Barbara Jordan, says the county is in "an approaching period of economic recession and distress." Mr. Martinez said in July he intended to change the scope of the resolution, eliminating the $150,000 allocation to FIU to allow in-house economists to conduct the study instead. But that intent isn't reflected on Tuesday's commission agenda.
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GAMBLING ON GROWTH: Another commissioner, Dorrin Rolle, wants a different growth study, keyed to the January referendum that allowed slot machines at three county pari-mutuel sites: a dog track, a horse track and a jai-alai fronton. He has a request on Tuesday's agenda for a county study to be completed within 30 days on the feasibility, benefits and costs of working with Miami Dade College to offer training and certification in casino jobs.
THINKING FORWARD: Tommy Hilfiger USA Inc. is to open its first freestanding store in Florida on South Beach in early November. In the midst of a shrinking retail market, the international clothing company has already secured its lot at 616 Collins Ave. and begun construction of the 12,000-square-foot store. "It's not the time to open (a store) up, but it's the time to negotiate leases and prepare for an improvement in the economy," said Steven Haas, chairman of the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority. While the store is not expected to immediately cash in on its location, it will help define the Hilfiger brand along with nine other freestanding stores around the country.
SURINAM SERVICE: After 16 years, passenger service by Surinam Airways this week returned to Miami International Airport — now the airline's only flight to the US. The airline is to provide service twice weekly between Paramaribo, Suriname, and Miami, with a connection in Aruba.
NO USE PLANS FOR MUSEUM: County officials have no plans yet for the Miami Art Museum's site at 101 W Flagler St. when the museum moves to its not-yet-begun home in Museum Park, the remake in the pipeline for Bicentennial Park. Since the park project won't be done for about four years, the county hasn't looked yet at what to do with the county-owned space, said Owen Torres, a county spokesman. The county's Government Services Administration manages the site.
SPONSORSHIP PLEA: Miami's bid to lure corporate sponsors to the city's parks and recreation buildings has yet to bear fruit. Since the ordinance passed in March, the city has yet to ink deals with companies for naming rights. "I think passing the ordinance was a good thing, but it will take a while until we see the real benefits," said Ernest Burkeen, city director of parks and recreation. The city initially chased the idea in hopes of adding to park funds as the city gets ready to slash next year's budget $35 million. Mr. Burkeen said sponsorships are available — awaiting willing sponsors. "Anyone who is interested can identify the location they want… then we'll sit down and negotiate."
STREETCAR SLOWDOWN: Miami's bidding for a firm to work on transportation projects, including the Miami Streetcar project, is close to done, with HNTB ranking first, said Lilia Medina, city assistant transit coordinator. HNTB provides architecture, engineering, planning and construction services. She said the next step is to request approval of the first-ranking bidder from the city commission and nail down a contract. That firm is to "update funding scenarios for the project and other preliminary engineering components in the project," she said. Once this preliminary work is complete, she said, the intent is to return to the commission in the fall for an OK to open bidding for the firm to "design, build, finance, operate and maintain" the streetcar system. She said she's gotten calls from firms in Mexico, Toronto, London and other countries interested in rolling forward as contractor for the trolley line.
SHANGHAI TIES: The Port of Miami, which in the past 10 years has established 47 sister port agreements abroad, plans its first agreement with a port in Asia. If county commissioners approve Tuesday, the port will establish an alliance of cooperation with the Shanghai International Port Group Co. Ltd., home port for some of the largest shipping lines that call on the Port of Miami. China is now Miami's largest foreign trading partner. The agreements call for sharing information on cruise and cargo business, planned infrastructure, marketing research, and possible business ties to promote the paired ports. Exchange educational visits are also on the card: Port of Miami officials visited the Shanghai port in April 2007, spurring the agreement.
DOGGONE: Ties abroad are all well and good, but a pet hotel at the Port of Miami is a dog of an idea, county staffers have concluded. Don't count on boarding Fido at the port on your next cruise vacation. Ain't gonna happen. County commissioners in June voted to study a pet hotel at both the seaport and Miami International Airport as a money-raising idea in tight times. Since staffers couldn't find any other seaport with a pet hotel, they recommend we shouldn't be pioneers. Besides, they say in a report for the commission next week, who wants it? No demand, and no room in the port. But the idea might take off at the airport, because land is available and pet hotels at airports elsewhere in the state have been a big hit with travelers — including bone-shaped swimming pools for pooches.
DOGGONE TWO: On the heels of a successful 2004 TV reality series called "Miami Animal Cops," which is still being shown on Animal Planet, another moviemaker plans a series called this time "Animal Cops Miami" — not too original, but a new name nonetheless. County Manager George Burgess supports the idea: Anglia Productions would pay $50,000 a year into the county's Animal Services Trust Fund while filming county animal control officers on the road and animal shelter staff at work. Topics are to include animal cruelty, dogs running at large and dangerous dogs. Compelling TV stuff. And don't forget the fire department: its snakebite Venom Response Team is to be part of the series as well. County commissioners are to decide Tuesday whether it's a deal. The first series by 2005 was "generating at least five inquiries a week," county film chief Jeff Peel said then. "It's a great recruiting tool."
CULTURE ON THE MOVE: Back in January, when then TotalBank Chairman Adrienne Arsht pledged $30 million to the county's Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, then drowning in red ink, the center's name was changed to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Carnival Corp. got its $10 million naming rights pledge erased and paid-in funds refunded. Now, as the county anticipates installments two and three of the gift from Ms. Arsht, commissioners are to vote Tuesday to rename the nearby Performing Arts Center Metromover Station as the Arsht Performing Arts Metromover Station. The resolution comes from Commissioner Audrey Edmonson.
TRUTH IN PACKAGING: Following public complaints that Miami-Dade surtax funds meant to add transportation infrastructure have been used for operating expenses and that uses of general obligation bond funds have been shifted from what voters were promised, county commissioners are to vote Tuesday on labeling to indicate the source of county spending. Commissioner Rebeca Sosa has on the agenda a resolution directing that titles of proposed ordinances and resolutions on commission agendas state whether spending involves transportation surtax or general obligation bond funds.
HOSPITALITY RECORDS: Record hotel room occupancy and rates were recorded for Miami-Dade from January through July. Miami ranked third nationally in occupancy at 75.8% (up a notch from the same period in 2007), and second in average daily room rate at $172.73 (up 2.3% from 2007), according to the latest report from Smith Travel Research, which compares and ranks the top 25 hotel markets in the US.
ACCESSIBLE ARMY CORPS: For the second year in a row, David Hobbie, chief of the regulatory division of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville district, will travel Florida holding open forums. Topics include an in-depth discussion of the Rapanos Supreme Court Decision and how it continues to affect wetlands determinations, mitigation rulings and a question-and-answer session. The Regulatory Road Show will come Sept. 25 to the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport hotel. Sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. and are to finish by 3 p.m. Details: www.saj.usace.army.mil.
FAT CITY: Executives at the Coconut Grove powerhouse ad agency that handles, among other things, the Burger King and Domino's accounts, have come out with a book published by Brooklyn's PowerHouse Books called "The 9-inch diet," according to Monday's Advertising Age, bible of the ad industry. Alex Bogusky, Crispin Porter & Bogusky's chief creative officer who wrote with help from agency partner Chuck Porter, talks about "the twisted conspiracy that's making our country fat." The agency coined "meatnormous" for Burger King, which claims to be blindsided by the book. "It certainly seems like it should be a big deal to the corporation," franchisee Chris Ondrula told Ad Age. No sweat at Domino's, which said, in essence, have it your way.
ELECTRONIC DEPOSIT: Bank of Coral Gables, open two years, is soon to introduce remote deposit capture, which will allow customers to deposit checks electronically without visiting a branch. This will not only benefit existing customers but will also open the door to businesses outside of the Gables to conveniently use the bank, said President Terry Eden Best. The service should benefit businesses that receive a high volume of deposits, such as law firms and retail operations.
NON-PROFIT TRAINING: Black business professionals can learn about serving on boards of non-profits at a training session offered by C-One — Hands on Miami's Center on Nonprofit Effectiveness — and the Young Professionals Network, a Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce initiative, at 6 p.m. Sept. 4 in the United Way's Ryder Room, 3250 SW Third Ave. Topics include how nonprofits differ from the private and public sectors, board members' legal responsibilities, and the responsibilities of board committees and officers. A board match pool and networking with executives and board members from non-profits is to follow at 6:30 Sept. 11 at Circle of One Marketing's Midtown Design Studio, 2400 NE Second Ave., Studio C. Costs: $25 for Young Professionals Network members, $55 for non-members. Details: (305) 751-8648 or http://www.m-dcc.org
TAX TIME: About 1 million Miami-Dade property owners and businesses should have their notice of proposed property taxes in hand after the county's Property Appraisal Department mailed them last week. The mailing, which lists a property's value as of January, includes a newsletter outlining changes in Florida's property tax system as well as budget hearing dates for taxing authorities such as the county, municipalities and the Miami-Dade School Board. The notice reflects amendments voters passed in January. The homestead exemption allowance for properties with an assessed value of more than $50,000 has been increased from $25,000 to $50,000, and property owners can now transfer their homestead assessment difference — "Save Our Homes" benefit — from one property to another. The deadline to appeal values and file late exemption applications or agriculture applications is Sept. 17. Details: Property Appraisal Department, (786) 331-5321.
SHEIK'S VILLA ON SALE: Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell Realtors has listed Villa Valentino, a 1910 landmark on South Bayshore Drive in Coconut Grove, at a price of $3,499,000. The 11-bedroom, 8-bathroom Mediterranean-style property, reportedly once home to silent film actor Rudolph Valentino, who gained fame in "The Son of the Sheik," recently went through extensive renovations to make updates without tarnishing its history. The 8,155-square-foot, two-story residence sits on a 25,000-square-foot lot.
TRIPLE PLAY: The Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce is to host its annual Chairman's Reception at 6 p.m. Sept. 4 at the Biltmore Hotel. The "Triple Play" is to include a networking reception, committee sign-up and tabletop business expo. Tabletop displays are $250. Tickets: $35 for members, $45 for guests. Details: (305) 446-1657.
CORRECTION: An Aug. 21 people item should have stated that Landy Labadie was named general manager of La Marea at the Tides South Beach.
CORRECTION: Achiever Marc Berenfeld's name was misspelled in last week's photo captions. He was also misidentified. Firm partner Emery Sheer was also misidentified.
CORRECTION: Last week's article on closings at 1060 Brickell should have quoted the price range for new apartments at $200,000-$900,000.
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In 1992, the first Henry’s Drive vines were planted. From the Longbottom farming properties: individual sites were selected most suited to viticulture and have proven to consistently produce fruit with great depth of colour, flavour and aroma.
Since 1992, we have steadily grown the acreage in Padthaway to 250 and have an additional 30 acres in McLaren Vale; growing Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with small plantings of Verdelho, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay. The vines are planted in several sites throughout the Padthaway valley; the differing aspects and soil types provide a variety of flavour profiles which allows us to build more complexity into our wines.
The most northern vineyard is situated on the valley floor which consists of black clay soils with underlying limestone, with the vines running north–south. The more centrally located vineyard is terra rossa soil over limestone with the vines running east-west, whilst the southern most vineyard is situated on the hillside in Padthaway with the soil varying from deep sand to red loam with limestone outcrops with the trellis running north–south.
Our wines are blends of parcels of fruit taken from the three vineyard sites with the exception of our signature wine, Henry’s Drive Reserve Shiraz. This Reserve block is slightly elevated, situated on a hillside and surrounded by towering Eucalypt (gum) trees. The soil is sandy loam interspersed with limestone outcrops and is perfect for producing premium quality fruit. | <urn:uuid:87e2b209-a8ce-4dff-8096-0af294308433> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.henrysdrive.com/our-home/our-vineyards | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954551 | 323 | 1.53125 | 2 |
I'm building an mobile app that needs to communicate with a web service. To make sure that only my app is communicating with the web service, I authenticate using OAuth 2. The fact that I need to store a client id + secret in the app binary is unfortunate enough, but to retrieve an access token using OAuth 2 I need to send a client id and client secret to the server. Is it not very easy to:
- Fake an SSL cert and add it to the list a mobile device's trusted certificates
- Pretend to be the server and monitor the incoming requests
The request will contain the client id and client secret. Now I use these in some other app and communicate with my server.
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The sixth annual event will take place on Sunday, June 10th, between 11:00-16:00 at the Girl Guides Headquarters in Brownsea Drive, off Ellis Street, Holloway Head in the city centre (approx 200 yards up from Holloway Head and The Sentinels, heading out of town).
Visitors will be able to view a wealth of memorabilia, find out about history projects and upcoming talks in their area and are also encouraged to bring along their own artefacts and photographs to show to exhibitors and local history experts.
Birmingham Lives offers the chance to find out about the work of organisations such as Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the National Trust owned Back-to-Backs, The Pen Museum, the Birmingham Air Raids Remembrance History Society and the Victorian Society.
A remarkable range of contributors
Amongst the 28 exhibitors will be a host of local history societies from across the city, including those focusing on the areas of Balsall Heath, Barr and Aston, Balsall Heath, Heartlands, Highgate and Ladywood.
Other organisations represented include Friends groups representing Key Hill Cemetery and Moseley Road Baths (pictured), the West Midlands Fire and Heritage Museum, the Co-op History Group, the British Banking History Society and for those interested in genealogy, the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy.
Alongside exhibitions and slideshows of photographs there will be books, postcards and other souvenirs for sale as well as a display of material from the Girl Guides Association and a wealth of sporting photographs from the Birmingham Lives archive.
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This goes for people born in:2008, 1996, 1984, 1972, 1960, 1948, 1936, 1924, 1912 and 1900. You are compatible with people born in the year of the Dragon and year of the Monkey. Have caution with partners born in year of the Horse.
Being the first sign of the Chinese zodiac, rats are leaders, pioneers and conquerors. They are charming, passionate, charismatic, practical and hardworking. Rat people are endowed with great leadership skills and are perhaps the most organized and systematic of the twelve signs. Intelligent and cunning at the same time, rats are highly ambitious and strong-willed people who are keen and unapologetic promoters of their own agendas, which often include money and power. They are energetic and versatile and can usually find their way around obstacles, and adapt to various environments easily. A rat’s natural charm and sharp demeanor make it an appealing friend for almost anyone, but rats are usually highly exclusive and selective when choosing friends and so often have only a few very close friends whom they trust.
Behind the smiles and charm, rats can be terribly obstinate and controlling, insisting on having things their way no matter what the cost. These people tend to have an immense control of their emotions, which they may use as a tool to manipulate and exploit another person, both emotionally and mentally. Rats are masters of mind games and can be very dangerous, calculative and downright cruel if the need arises. Quick-tempered and aggressive, they will not think twice about exacting revenge on those that hurt them in any way. Rats need to learn to relax sometimes, as they can be quite obsessed with detail, intolerant and strict, demanding order, obedience, and perfection.
A valuable lesson for Rats is to learn to consider others before themselves, at least sometimes, and to avoid forcing their ideas onto others. Rats are fair in their dealings and expect the same from others in return, and can be deeply affronted if they feel they have been deceived or that their trust has been abused. Sometimes they set their targets too high, whether in relation to their friends or in their career. But as the years pass, they will become more idealistic and tolerant. If they can develop their sense of self and realize it leaves room for others in their life as well, Rats can find true happiness.
According to tradition, Rats often carry heavy karma and at some point in life may face an identity crisis or some kind of feeling of guilt. Rats are said to often have to work very long and hard for everything they may earn or have in life. However, a Rat born during the day is said to have things a bit easier than those who are born at night. Traditionally, Rats born during the night may face extreme hardships and suffering throughout life. Rat in general should guard themselves against hedonism, as it may lead to self-destruction. Gambling, alcohol and drugs tend to be great temptations to Rat natives.
Tsk..tsk..tsk…We have to be cautious though. Happy Journey in the Year of the Rat, guys! | <urn:uuid:3df2c0f2-d8aa-4ae2-8600-620c232105b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mgi.blogsome.com/2007/12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979316 | 632 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Encopresis: The inability to control the elimination of stool. Encopresis can have a variety of causes, including inability to control the anal sphincter muscle or gastrointestinal problems, particularly chronic diarrhea and Crohn's disease. Several neurological disorders, including Tourette's syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and ADHD are also occasionally associated with the symptom of encopresis, particularly in children. Preventive care for encopresis includes frequent scheduled toileting and the wearing of pads or diapers to prevent embarrassing soiling. Careful cleaning is important to prevent skin breakdown. Treatment of encopresis usually involves treatment of the underlying disorder; cognitive behavioral therapy or behavior modification is also sometimes helpful. Also known as fecal incontinence. | <urn:uuid:cf741d38-803d-449f-baae-8aaff6682c69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.emedicinehealth.com/encopresis/article_em.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924579 | 154 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete on Monday appealed to African leaders to restrain from seeking greater political power and influence for themselves, while urging them to focus on improving Africa's economic status.
The Tanzanian leader said African leaders should put more priority on tackling economic issues and poverty to rid Africa of its global shame as the poorest continent.
In his farewell speech as the African Union Chairman, President Kikwete said African leaders should set aside more time to discuss a global solution to Africa's under-development and make greater use of the existing global cooperation.
He said Africa established better working ties with European and Asian leaders during his tenure as chairman, and stressed the need for Africans to seek a greater voice on global affairs.
The Tanzanian leader demanded that Africa must also be included in the search for global solutions to the current financial crisis, adding that Africa is part of the world and must not be ignored during this period.
The outgoing chair made a series of bold reform proposals for the AU, saying African leaders must immediately establish a budget for the AU heads of state chair to enable him tackle the various challenges facing the continent.
The statement resonated with an appeal made by the AU Commission Chair Jean Ping, who said the Commission was ill-prepared to accomplish its mandate.
Ping told the formal opening session of the 12th AU Summit on Monday that the staff of the AU was inadequate in terms of expertise and resources to deal with the challenges and the mandate of the organisation.
He said Africa was negatively affected by the global financial crisis, threatening the gains that the continent was steadily making towards ending poverty. | <urn:uuid:eaee37b5-2a5c-4496-ae91-ac0c25542d19> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.panapress.com/Kikwete-appeals-to-African-leaders-to-shun-power-greed--12-522254-20-lang3-index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96838 | 340 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Posts Tagged ‘Essay Writing’
November 13th, 2012
Successful College Essays
No matter which way you turn, you cannot avoid grappling with the monster, competition. Competition is ubiquitous. Even admission to good schools and colleges has not been spared. The chances of a candidate getting admission to their first choice schools and colleges have reduced. According to some estimates more than fifty percent of applications to first choice schools and colleges have been turned down. Not many candidates or their parents realize, but the primary reason for this is sub standard college essays. Fortunately this is not an insurmountable problem.
September 1st, 2011
Get to Know Reflective Essay Essence
Everything you write involves you, your reader and the world around you both. If the first element is the most important, if you are writing chiefly about yourself and your own experience, your aim is self-expression. You seek not so much to affect the reader or to explain the outside world as to express your personal thoughts, feelings and experiences. This category includes personal narrative and recollection as well as essays in introspection (for example, a reflective essay).
August 31st, 2011
What is an Acknowledgement?
In scientific literature, an acknowledgement is an expression of gratitude for assistance in creating a literary work. It is written on a separate page at the beginning of the paper. It comes after the dedication but before the introduction. It must not be too long; in fact, one page should be enough. Receiving credit of acknowledgment rather than authorship indicates that the person or organization did not have a direct hand in producing the work in question, but may have contributed funding, criticism, or encouragement to the author.
December 1st, 2010
Keys for good essay papers
Do you consider yourself a talented writer, someone who can easily write all kinds of essay papers? Do you think you know how to write a good assignment? Alternatively, quite on the contrary, do you often find yourself in this situation: asking yourself how is it that you got a C minus in a course where all your classmates got straight A’s? How is it possible for some student to always write great essays while others are always trying harder for nothing? Are they just talented writers? Or is there such thing as an “essay recipe” that they know of, and you haven’t heard of?
The answer is somewhere in between. We regret to inform you that some people are more skilled at writing tasks –and if you have read up to here, we may assume that’s not your case-. However, you can still learn new things and improve your writing with lots of practice. So relax! We can teach you how to write a successful essay paper just by following some simple tips. Of course, no matter which technique you actually end up using, the best thing you can always do is to write, write, write!
November 17th, 2010
Do well in your next higher history essay
Writing successful higher history essays is quite a challenge. Some students can handle the essay writing techniques, but find it hard dealing with so many facts and bibliography. Others, on the contrary, can face a professional historical research, but don’t manage to put it in words, especially when they must respect a certain essay word count.
Of course, if writing is not your forté, or you don’t have time to write your essays, you can always find help in our team of professional writers, who will provide you with a custom made essay. An original paper with intrinsic academic value, written by professional academic writers. However, if you want to try and prepare your own higher history essay, we suggest you avoid these frequent mistakes.
November 15th, 2010
Learn to deal with those challenging TOK essays
TOK (Theory of knowledge) is a course any student must undergo if they wish to obtain a diploma in the International Baccalaureate Programme. In this course, teachers can freely approach to the theoretical foundation of essential concepts through their teaching methodology and course material of choice. The most important thing is that the given concepts can be debated and discussed properly.
In order to pass the course, you must present a TOK essay. The IB prescribes ten essay titles from which you must choose. Each possible essay topic will raise some cross-disciplinary question about knowledge, which you are expected to consider and reach a conclusion. It should be a rather personal essay, in which you demonstrate your own ideas and evolution of though after taking the course. It is not an easy task, but here we can provide you some essay tips for writing successful TOK essays.
October 22nd, 2010
Common mistakes students do when writing media essays
A media essay is not something strange or unusual. In fact, it is a quite common essay topic today. Whether you are studying Language, Communication, Politics, Linguistics, Advertising or a similar career, media essays are very requested by teachers. However, even though an essay about media has the advantage that every student has plenty of experience on the field, they all tend to make quite similar mistakes when preparing their paper. Do you wonder why your essays get C’s or B minus? Do you want an A next time? Read carefully the following advice and avoid these very common mistakes.
October 20th, 2010
Keys for successful critique essays
Do you need to write a critique essay, and you are not sure what to do? Are you afraid of repeating common mistakes? Relax and stay calm: we can help you out! Critique essays should be focused as argumentative essays: imagine you are trying to persuade the reader to change his or her mind into your opinion. You can’t force them to accept the given arguments. Quite the contrary, you must provide them irrefutable reasons on why you are right and the other statements are wrong.
Remember that, as in any other kind of essay, a proper organization of your ideas is the key to a good essay marking. Your examiner will appreciate the organization of your work, as it will make it more easily readable.
September 28th, 2010
How to prepare a great student essay
It’s not your first year at school. You are a high school senior, or you are already in college. And you find yourself dealing with assignments, papers and lots of essays! In fact, all through your academic career, probably starting in school and most likely, later too, you will be required to write many student essays. When you are applying to colleges all around the country, you may likely be asked to write an essay -based on personal experience as well as objective information- as a part of your admission. And college itself is definitely a huge writing training. But, speaking of training, what if you feel writing essays is not your thing? Can you somehow improve your skills? Can anyone teach you how to do it?
Writing student essays can be harder than it sounds. Especially if you have never written one before. So you should have in mind certain tips when the time comes for sitting in front of your laptop. The good news is, you are probably able to acquire the basic essay skills by yourself. Writing training is something anyone can try. Here we provide you with some tips to improve your essay skills and make you feel much comfortable next time a teacher asks for an essay writing task. Take them step by step!
September 4th, 2010
Writing compare and contrast essays in five steps
Did your teacher ask you for a compare and contrast essay and you don’t know how to begin? Don’t panic! Compare and contrast essays are not hard to prepare. This kind of essay is characterized by a basis for comparison, developed in different point or sequences, and analogies, always between two (or sometimes more) terms. Here we will show you how you can write a good essay of this kind just by following five simple steps. | <urn:uuid:84e740ff-462d-4b47-abe7-15fe2af8457b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fastessays.co.uk/blog/tag/essay-writing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960454 | 1,628 | 2.03125 | 2 |
It shouldn’t be any surprise to you by now that big sports equals big money. The Super Bowl, for instance, is the last televised programming in the United States where a majority of the country sits down and watches one channel, garnering millions of dollars for each measly 30-second spot.
But Forbes’ 2012 list of the world’s most valuable sports franchises shows us just how much money our favorite teams are worth. Topping the charts were the two best-branded soccer teams in the universe, Manchester United and Real Madrid, which garnered appraisals of $2.23 billion and $1.88 billion, respectively. After them, MLB’s New York Yankees and the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys tied for third at $1.85 billion while the Cowboys’ archrival, the Washington Redskins, rounded out the Top 5 at $1.56 billion.
As you gloss over the entire list, it will take you no more than a second or two to realize it is HEAVILY dominated by NFL teams. In fact, ALL 32 NFL teams are amongst the world’s 50 most valuable franchises as the average team is worth about $1.04 billion. This, in large part, is thanks to the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (that thing millionaires and billionaires bickered over during the lockout) as well as a round of fresh new television contracts with all the major networks.
Specifically in reference to the CBA, not only does it guarantee a labor peace for the next decade, that bigger piece of the pie the owners got went directly to their team’s valuations (an ‘empty calorie’ analogy feels appropriate here).
Still, not all NFL franchises are created equal. While all of them made the list, the biggest (Washington and Dallas), are still appraised at about twice as much as the smallest (Jacksonville and Oakland).
But of course, the NFL is not the end-all be-all of profitable sports franchising. The sport with the second-highest number of most valuable franchises is soccer. Add in the seven squads that made the list here and football, in one form or another, makes up 78% of the Top 50.
Sure, soccer is outgunned by American football 32-7 throughout the entire compilation, but when it comes to the ultra-valuable franchises, futbol proves to be just as big. Four of the seven teams are in the Top 10 on Forbes’ list TYING the NFL (the MLB make up the other two with the Dodgers and aforementioned Yankees).
Where casual sports fans might really be surprised, though, is where two racing teams make the list. I shouldn’t be the first to tell you this, but advertising makes the world go round. If you honestly believed you made every life decision without the assistance of our corporate overlords, I’m sorry to be the one to break the news to you. And, when you consider this notion, it’s actually not surprising that a flashy-colored car zipping around a race track decked out in brands and slogans is worth a decent chunk of change.
The two teams that made the list were Formula 1′s Ferrari and McClaren. While their exact totals will fluctuate with each new edition the financial analysis company rolls out, don’t expect these two power houses to go anywhere anytime soon.
The next to be made here has to do with markets. Sorry, guys, size DOES matter. And the bigger your market is, the more money your team is worth. Just look at the two NBA franchises that made the list here: Los Angeles (Lakers) and New York Knicks. When it’s come to on-the-court performance in the past decade, these two teams couldn’t be further apart. And yet, they’re the two pro basketball brands worth the most amount of green.
The trend is also highlighted in the MLB teams, as well. Who were the only two MLB teams to make the top 10? New York and Los Angeles. Where are the other MLB teams that made the list based? Boston, Chicago, and New York (again, with the Mets). If you notice, the cash cows aren’t exactly based in Oakland and Kansas City.
The final note on this list has to do with hockey. Sure, the average sports fan loves a good hockey game every now and again, but that enjoyment doesn’t necessarily translate into dollar signs the same way it does with other sports. In total, ZERO NHL teams made the list. In fact, they weren’t even really that close. According to a list compiled in 2010 by Forbes, the most valuable NHL team was the Toronto Maple Leags appraised at just $505 million. That’s $169 million below the bar set by the last team on this list, baseball’s Texas Rangers.
Here is the complete list:
1. Manchester United | $2.23 (billion)
2. Real Madrid | $1.88
3. New York Yankees | $1.85
3. Dallas Cowboys | $1.85
5. Washington Redskins | $1.56
6. Los Angeles Dodgers | $1.40
6. New England Patriots | $1.40
8. Barcelona | $1.31
9. New York Giants | $1.30
10. Arsenal | $1.29
11. Bayern Munich | $1.23
11. New York Jets | $1.23
13. Houston Texans | $1.20
14. Philadelphia Eagles | $1.16
15. Ferrari Racing | $1.10
16. Chicago Bears | $1.09
16. Green Bay Packers | $1.09
16. Baltimore Ravens | $1.09
19. Indianapolis Colts | $1.06
20. Denver Broncos | $1.05
21. Pittsburgh Steelers | $1.02
22. Miami Dolphins | $1.01
23. Carolina Panthers | $1.00
23. Boston Red Sox | $1.00
25. Seattle Seahawks | $997 (million)
26. San Francisco 49ers | $990
27. AC Milan | $989
28. Kansas City Chiefs | $986
29. Tampa Bay Buccaneers | $981
30. Cleveland Browns | $977
31. New Orleans Saints | $965
32. Tennessee Titans | $964
33. San Diego Chargers | $920
34. Arizona Cardinals | $901
35. Los Angeles Lakers | $900
36. Chicago Cubs | $879
37. Cincinnati Bengals | $875
38. Detroit Lions | $844
39. Atlanta Falcons | $814
40. McLaren Racing | $800
41. Minnesota Vikings | $796
42. Buffalo Bills | $792
43. New York Knicks | $780
44. St. Louis Rams | $775
45. Oakland Raiders |$761
45. Chelsea | $761
47. Jacksonville Jaguars | $725
48. Philadelphia Phillies | $723
49. New York Mets | $719
50. Texas Rangers | $674
NOTE: This story was originally published on SportsHead. To read this article and others click here.
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In this article, you will continue to learn about the process of building a GUI in PyQT. Specifically, you will learn about QDialog and QPushButton, which handle windows and buttons, the building blocks of most GUIs.
Understanding the steps involved in a process in just the first step in the journey of understanding the process. In the first part of PyQT, the first step in understanding the process of building a GUI using PyQT was taken. The journey has just begun.
In this journey we will be encountering various components starting with the most common widgets (windows, buttons, etc.) and moving on to exquisite widgets (table view, 3d canvas). In this discussion I will be focusing on the most common ones that become the foundation of a GUI based application: the window and button. In the vocabulary of PyQT they are termed as QWindow (QDialog, QMainWindow, and so on also serve this purpose) and QButton (QPushButton, QRadioButton, and so forth).
In the first section, I will be discussing QDialog. Then I will cover the main slots and signals of QDialog. In the third section I will discuss QPushButton. Finally, in the last section I will extend the application developed in the previous part to provide the functionalities of changing the display to binary mode, as well as controlling the application window using buttons. That sets the agenda for this discussion.
QDialog and QPushButton: Gateways to PyQT Applications
Dialogs and buttons are the most recognized facets of GUI. So how can a toolkit like PyQT be behind? As with all other widgets, it is necessary to know the details in order to tap into their full power. So here are the details.
First, let's discuss the QDialog class. As you know, windows form the basis of all the GUI-based applications. However there are windows and windows. There is a category of windows that acts as containers for other windows and widgets, such as menus and so on. Then there is a category that acts as a container for simple widgets, and is used for capturing user inputs for a specific process.
The first category contains the Main Window of an application, and the second category contains the dialog boxes. Though dialog boxes are primarily used to gather user inputs, there are applications that are built completely upon dialog boxes. In this section I will be discussing the attributes, signals and slots that are required more often in building a dialog based application.
Dialog, by definition, is a window that pops up over the existing application window. The QDialog class is the parent of all the dialog classes. If you remember the "Hello World" application from the first part, the class was derived from QDialog. Now coming back to the QDialog class, it effectively represents the dialogs of real world user interfaces. Since there are two types of dialogs in real world, so the QDialog also supports two types of dialogs, modal and modeless. The important aspect of any type of dialog is that even though it is top level widget, yet it can have a parent.
Now, let's discuss modal dialogues. If a dialog blocks input to the other widgets, then it is modal. The most common way to make a dialog modal is by calling its exec_loop() method. The exec_loop() method returns a useful value when the dialog is closed. One other approach is to call the setModal() method with true. But this has to be done before calling the show() method, because once show() is called, setModal() wont have any effect.
For example, if mDialog is an object of the MDialog class that is derived from QDialog, then:
perform the same function. That is both methods makes the dialog modal.
As for a modeless dialogue, its functioning is opposite to that of a modal dialog. The best examples of modeless dialog boxes are search/replace dialogs provided by word processors. Dialogs are made modeless by calling the show() method instead of the QDialog class. The show() method doesn't grab the focus from other window elements. Instead it returns to the caller immediately. | <urn:uuid:6f4e0305-7958-4715-8010-698ffe195bc1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/PyQT-Handling-Windows-and-Buttons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921515 | 873 | 3.03125 | 3 |
But you can’t scream, fuck me! Then feel safe
Clever Word play.
continuing the “condom” theme, usually if you wear a condom and fuck someone, you’re safe, as in protected.
But Joe is saying that you can’t say “fuck you” to him or bad mouth him even if you protecting yourself.
another interpretation may be that the person is screaming “fuck me”, as if they are having safe sex and enjoying it. But with Joe, if you’re asking for it, you’re gonna get it.
this all depends on if the lyrics “fuck me!” are intended to be dialogue or actually meaning they are saying fuck you to Joe and he’s just speaking in first person.
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The Joseph Jacobs Handbook of Jewish Words and Expressions. For use by anyone calling on the Jewish trade…for making friends with Jewish merchants was issued in 1954 by the Joseph Jacobs Organization, an U.S. advertising agency that specifically targeted the Jewish market. It was created for any business interested in cultivating the Jewish trade, and Calvert Distillers co-opted it for use by its salesmen and distribution to the liquor store owners they called upon so that both could more effectively service their customers with a little schmear of Yiddish to grease the ethnic gears and help all concerned put a little extra gelt (money) in their pockets and mach a leben (make a living). It’s hands across the Old and New Testaments, brotherhood with a dollar sign.
It’s rather quaint as a piece of ephemeral American Judaica. But as with all ephemera, close investigation reveals it to be much more than a handy lexicon.
Between the lines of this little pamphlet lies the history of the liquor business in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. I know this story well and can recite it by heart. My family played a supporting role in the writing of it.
Prior to Prohibition, the whiskey business in the U.S. was a Protestant affair. When the Volstead Act became law, distilleries in the U.S. closed down and their inventories were gathered into U.S. Government bonded warehouses for distribution into the legal trade: Few are aware the there were exemptions under the Volstead Act for the sale of alcoholic beverages during Prohibition: wine for sacramental purposes, liqueurs and rum for industrial baking, and whiskey sold in drug stores for medicinal purposes by a doctor’s prescription.(1)
The original owners of these warehoused goods were issued government receipts and a lively trade developed for brokering the receipts which were sold by the original owners to raise cash, and then brokered for resale. Control the receipts, and you controlled the legal flow of booze in the U.S. The brokers and buyers of the receipts were, to a man, Jews.
By 1930, it was becoming clear that the Noble Experiment was an utter failure and distillers, sensing Repeal in the air, began to prepare for it. But they needed capital to gear up for the change and resume production at a level to meet anticipated demand.
During the ’20s, the National Brokerage Company of Chicago(2), one of the more successful traders of warehouse receipts, learned that a distillery in Kentucky was looking for a financial angel. The distillery, an old family business, had an established brand and venerable reputation. And so National Brokerage Company made a deal with the family patriarch. In exchange for investing the requisite scratch, they assumed control of the distillery’s plants and products and handled all sales and marketing; day to day operations of the distillery and the manufacture of its alcoholic beverages were left in the hands of the family. Thus, Jim Beam bourbon became, for all intents and purposes, Judah Beam, the world’s finest bourbon since 1795 (5555, by the Hebrew calendar).(3)
At the same time, the Bronfman family was buying up distilleries in Canada, amongst them, Calvert, and made strong, similar moves into the United States. South of the Canadian border, Lewis S. Rosenstiel bought the Schenley distillery in Pennsylvania and following that purchase went on a distillery buying binge. By the mid-1930s, Jews controlled the distilled spirits industry in the U.S., completely responsible for its finance, sales and marketing.
In the immediate post-WWII years, the liquor business enjoyed the same boom as every other industry in America. Its expansion and growth through publicy-owned corporations required a dramatic increase in personnel and non-Jews entered the trade in supporting roles. Liquor stores, almost entirely owned by Jews because the liquor trade was considered to be low-class by Christians influenced by the temperance movement, began to become owned by gentiles as upwardly mobile Jews rose to other, more acceptable occupations. The industry, though, was still run by Jews and, by 1954, the need for a pamphlet such as this was strong. By the 1960s, however, the corporatization of the industry was complete and the role of the Jews who established the modern liquor business in the United States gave way to a an ethnically neutral (parve) and faceless industry. Like the movie industry pioneered by Jews, the distilled spirits business shed its roots and became pasteurized, homogenized and fully “American.” Indeed, Jim Beam was sold by the Blum group to American Tobacco (now American Brands) in 1967.
As this throwaway pamphlet demonstrates – all ephemera (or paper collectables) are throwaway by nature, not meant to last much less be collected – these pieces of paper can be as valuable as books for illuminating the world in which they were born. For book collectors wishing to enter the field on a tight budget, ephemera is unsurpassed. The pamphlet under notice is worth $15-$20,
tops. Those who enter the hobby with ephemera often find that it is so rich yet inexpensive that they never want to collect beyond it.
This piece falls into Judaica, specifically American Judaica, with cross-over into 20th century American industry in general and the distilled spirits business in particular. And, just as many have found the collection of the literature of illegal drugs to be a fruitful and worthwhile area of interest and inquiry, so, too, are there collectors who specialize in collecting the literature of booze, with sub-specialties in bourbon, scotch, etc. Further, the establishment and growth of the liquor business in the United States runs parallel to the establishment and growth of the Republic; it is a sub-specialty of Americana. The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 anyone?
Thus, this little booklet can serve as the cornerstone to a collection that can grow in many interesting directions. A far-sighted dealer could build a collection of American liquor business-related ephemera, perhaps with the Jewish slant and form a collection more valuable as a whole than in its parts and sell to a university, a Jewish or a liquor industry trade organization. An individual could do the same and gain much personal nachas (joy), something to really kvell (beam with immense, swollen pride) over having amassed a collection of material that has gotten little attention and, having done so, brought to light a slice of our cultural history and heritage heretofore passed over.
As an adjunct, one could include vintage liquor business advertising, i.e.:
Clear Heads Call For Calvert (1940). Buyers of other brands presumably too drunk to buy wisely.
The Joseph Jacobs Handbook provides a pronunciation guide, so the non-Jews who used it would not make the blunder that one gentile performer in Hollywood made during an appearance on Jan Murray’s early 1960s game show, Treasure Hunt: in a mangled expression of solidarity mit der menschen (good Jewish people) and as a self-elected landsman (fellow townsperson) he mispronounced the Jewish holiday Hanukah as CHa-NU-ka, thereby eliciting peals of derisive laughter from the audience and fellow game show participants, and demonstrating that he was a real schmendrick, a beheymeh, a putz.
1. Title II, sections 3, 6, and 7.
2. The principals of National Brokerage Company were Harry Blum who was married to one of my paternal grandmother’s sisters; his father, Philip; my grandfather, Edward M. Gertz; Moe Rieger, married to Blum’s sister; Joe Levy, who was married to my Great-Aunt Eva Bernstein; and Joe Guzik, brother of Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik, Al Capone’s loyal business advisor and financial wizard. My Great-Aunt Bernice, my grandfather’s sister, kept the books. My grandfather would sell his share of the business to two of his brothers-in-law, my Great-uncles Joe and Leo Bernstein, just prior to National Brokerage Company’s reorganization as the Philip Blum group and its purchase of Jim Beam. In 1941, my great-uncle Harry Blum assumed sole ownership of James B. Beam Distilling Co.
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They IVF horses, don't they?
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
A Federal Court judge is set to decide whether race horses must be bred naturally in a move that the industry warns could lead to job losses and the 'Sport of Kings' being divided.
TranscriptCHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: The sport of kings runs on bloodlines and for 60 years there is been a ban on the use of artificial insemination to breed racehorses. That could change soon when a Federal Court judge rules on a marathon case launched to test the prohibition. The industry says ending it will trigger tens of thousands of job losses locally and divide the sport internationally. Greg Hoy reports.
GREG HOY, REPORTER: Racehorse romance might never be the same with the Federal Court soon to decide how thoroughbred champions are allowed to be bred after a bitter legal challenge pitting two centuries of proud tradition and the brute force of nature ...
TONY HARTNELL, HORSE BREEDER: We are talking about a 600 kilo plus wild animal.
GREG HOY: ... against the latest in reproductive science.
ANGUS MCKINNON, GOULBURN VALLEY EQUINE CLINIC: One of the advantages of artificial insemination vs. natural service is that you don't get anybody hurt typically, like no people or no horses.
GREG HOY: Victorian vet Angus McKinnon runs the world-renowned Goulburn Valley Equine Hospital using chilled or frozen semen from donor stallions duped by so-called phantom females to fertilise up to 10 mares at a time.
ANGUS MCKINNON: I'm not boo-hooing natural service, but from a purely veterinary point of view, artificial insemination has a lot of advantages. And it's not just injury of people or horses; it's reducing disease transmission.
GREG HOY: Perfectly permissible for other horse breeds, AI remains banned for thoroughbreds worldwide and so protecting a lucrative industry. After three years' hard racing, Black Caviar has won a total $5 million prize money, but last year alone her father, the grand stallion Belle Esprit earned $7 million for services rendered.
CHAUNCEY MORRIS, THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS AUSTRALIA: Stallions typically service between 100 to 150 mares a year.
GREG HOY: Amongst the fierce opponents of AI are highly prestigious and profitable stallion studs across Australia, including four owned by Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, who stands stallions in six nations. But only smaller operators and the Breeders Association would discuss the stakes should the court rule in favour of reform.
BRIAN NUTT, ATTUNGA STUD HUNTER VALLEY: It's going to affect us across the board, not just the large stallion farms. I'd be extremely pessimistic about my future in the industry. We're concerned for our employees's futures and we're concerned about the racing industry in general.
CHAUNCEY MORRIS: The 794 stallions that stand currently in Australia, even if you half that number, you could render the 64,000 people that are currently employed full-time by this industry, you could probably half that number.
BRIAN NUTT: Our exports every year total approximately $200 million, and I think to put that at risk is a very dangerous situation.
GREG HOY: Reformists say the barriers to entry are sky high. For those who could afford it, 42 star stallions were flown in or out of Australia last year, servicing 4,400 mares. Another 3,700 mares were flown in or out of the country to meet and mate for similarly high fees, which are set to fall if artificial insemination is allowed.
ANGUS MCKINNON: Frozen semen is a wonderful tool. If you were to consider the use of frozen semen in artificial insemination, well then a lotta times the stallions won't need to be transported between countries. They could be collected, the semen can be transported out here for the breeding season.
TONY HARTNELL: What are the stakes? The stakes are first and foremost a more competitive racing industry; secondly, a more competitive breeding industry.
CHAUNCEY MORRIS: There has been very keen international interest in this case.
GREG HOY: Formerly with the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association Chauncey Morris now represents around 3,500 thoroughbred breeders in Australia.
CHAUNCEY MORRIS: Australian bred horses would no longer be eligible to race outside of Australia. Those markets and all of those opportunities to Australia would be - would just simply cease to exist if Australia were to introduce artificial insemination.
TONY HARTNELL: Who knows? I don't think that's an effect that's going to last very long, but nevertheless, they say it. It'll take some years, two or three, maybe five, but other countries will follow Australia.
GREG HOY: Until now, no-one was big, bold or rich enough to challenge the AI ban backed by racing authorities and breeders in court. Then along came the maverick former bookmaker and breeder Bruce McHugh, flush with funds having pocketed around $55 million. Weathering a withering punting spree by the late Kerry Packer in the 1990s, McHugh mounted a formidable legal challenge to the AI ban with witnesses like horse breeder, lawyer and former head of the Australian Securities Commission, Tony Hartnell.
TONY HARTNELL: The court process has been used until Bruce McHugh stood up as a barrier to entry.
GREG HOY: So this is what all the fuss is about. It is, dare we say it, history in the making. Should the rebel Bruce McHugh and those who support him be successful, the age-old tradition and serious business of thoroughbred horse breeding in Australia, if not around the world, will finally succumb to science. So what would be better for the horse?
TONY HARTNELL: I believe there's very little doubt that if you serve a mare through AI by a vet, you will end up with less disease - or less possibility of disease or infection.
BRIAN NUTT: There are 800 stallions standing in Australia. That will probably be reduced to under 30 or 40, and I think that's just narrowing the gene pool.
GREG HOY: It's a common fear that if science succeeds, race fields in the future may be dominated by offspring of fewer super stallions.
ANGUS MCKINNON: I'm not sure that the industry can self-regulate. It's a bit difficult when you're given the option of breeding a lot of horses to your stallion. I mean, you're probably gonna take that option. But also, if the semen is allowed to come in internationally, then you'll increase the genetic diversity.
GREG HOY: In the end, thoroughbred authorities have argued in court that Mr McHugh and his merry men should simply go away and start their own rival competition and racing stud book, but that seems extremely unlikely.
TONY HARTNELL: I think it's a stupid comment. To my mind, the same sort of idiocy as a rule that says, "We'll only race horses that come to the racetrack in a blue truck." It's - they're all horses, they're all from the same gene pool. It's ridiculous.
GREG HOY: That is the multimillion-dollar moot point, the ball now well and truly in the Federal Court.
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Congress is debating a proposal aimed at making right a land swindle the U.S. government pulled on northern Minnesota Indian tribes 123 years ago, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune
The newspaper reported Monday that six Chippewa tribes would receive a $28 million payment under the plan being debated to make up for some 650,000 acres of reservation essentially stolen from them in 1889.
The Star Tribune said the proposed settlement stems from the 1889 Nelson Allotment Act, under which some reservation land was given to Indians but other acreage was ceded to the government and then sold to settlers or timber companies. The sale proceeds were supposed to go into a trust fund for the Chippewa, but in many cases, the newspaper noted, “that didn’t happen.”
Over the years, courts have awarded a number of settlements involving the Nelson Act; the Red Lake Tribe cut its own deal with the government for $27 million in the late 1990s. Now, according to the Star Tribune, five of the six tribes just want the issue brought to a conclusion.
“We talked over the years about different formulas, but finally five of the six reservations said: ‘Let’s get this thing done; it’s carrying on a long time,’ ” Norman Deschampe, chairman of both the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and the Grand Portage Band, told the newspaper.
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City's 911 System Still Prone To Human Errors, Final Report Finds
A final and edited version of the controversial report on the city's new 911 system was released Friday and finds operators waste time repeating questions and use inconsistent questioning procedures. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report.
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It's an emergency. You dial 911. What happens on the other line is the subject of a damaging report out of City Hall. It examines the Bloomberg administration's attempt to consolidate the city's 911 system: A project, the report found, that is beset by a lack of coordination between the FDNY and the NYPD.
"As far as we've come, the report clearly notes that there are things we can do to make it better," said Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway.
It found emergency responders can be sent to the wrong address. Response times may also not be accurate, neglecting processing times for NYPD calls.
"Why are we not calculating response times the way the ought to be calculated: From the second the emergency call is put into the 911 call taking system to the second when the response team hits the street?" said City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley.
The Bloomberg administration set out to consolidate its 911 call system back in 2004, bringing dispatchers from its first responders under one roof.
Bloomberg said earlier this year it was working.
Just a few weeks ago, City Hall refused to release the report which cost taxpayers $500,000 -- that is until the courts made them.
The release of the report actually comes after years of delay in implementing the city's unified 911 call system. It was supposed to be complete in 2008. But it wasn't until earlier this year that the transition to the call center for FDNY, EMS and NYPD call dispatchers was finally complete.
The entire project was supposed to cost $1.3 billion. It's price tag now is more than $2 billion.
Of the 14 recommendations in the report, City Hall says it will immediately implement two of them, one of which will establish a working group to make improvements and will examine the rest. | <urn:uuid:c7201872-6490-4e86-813e-2c433f6bc9b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/160602/city-s-911-system-still-prone-to-human-errors--final-report-finds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949248 | 457 | 1.625 | 2 |
Reducing the risk of illness and injury related to interactions between people and their environment
Body Crafting- (Tattoo and Piercing)
Ensures safety of health issues through education and inspection of tattoo and body piercing establishments.
Ensures food safety and prevents foodborne illness by working with food service facilities through inspections, education and risk assessments.
Hazardous Waste And Chemicals
Provides assistance and information about residential and commercial hazardous waste and chemicals.
Hotels and Motels
Inspects hotels, motels and campgrounds for sanitary conditions and compliance with regulations.
Indoor Air Quality
Assesses homes, schools and commercial facilities for indoor air quality issues including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, mold, mildew and radon.
Lead Poisoning Prevention
Eliminating childhood lead poisoning through elevated blood lead level investigations, lead based paint inspections, risk assessments and health education.
Occupational Health and Safety
Reviews all occupational fatalities and provides recommendations on injury prevention.
Public Health Hazard Investigations
Provides assistance to homeowners concerning public health hazards such as raw sewage, garbage, scrap tire piles, pests and animal waste.
Enforces home quarantines for cats and dogs, locates persons exposed to rabid animals and alerts the public of rabies outbreaks.
Identifies homes with radon concentrations which can pose a serious health threat increasing the risk of developing lung cancer.
Rodent Control (Rats and Mice)
Investigates rodent problems, identifies conditions that may attract rodents, locates areas that may provide access into homes and assists with control.
Regulates and monitors residential and commercial on-site sewage management systems to minimize the risk of health problems related to untreated human sewage.
Swimming Pool, Beach and Spa
Ensures safe and healthy public swimming facilities to prevent drowning, injuries and the spread of infectious diseases.
Tools for Schools
Assists schools to develop and use indoor air quality management practices to reduce exposures to indoor environmental contaminants.
Well Water Testing
Collects samples for limited bacterial analysis and makes recommendations about well disinfection.
West Nile Virus
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Acts of Apostles - Chapter 1
1 In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning
2 until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven.
6 Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for you to restore the kingdom to Israel?'
8 but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'
12 So from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, they went back to Jerusalem, a short distance away, no more than a Sabbath walk;
13 and when they reached the city they went to the upper room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Jude son of James.
14 With one heart all these joined constantly in prayer, together with some women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
19 Everybody in Jerusalem heard about it and the plot came to be called "Bloody Acre", in their language Hakeldama.
20 Now in the Book of Psalms it says: Reduce his encampment to ruin and leave his tent unoccupied. And again: Let someone else take over his office.
23 Having nominated two candidates, Joseph known as Barsabbas, whose surname was Justus, and Matthias,
26 They then drew lots for them, and as the lot fell to Matthias, he was listed as one of the twelve apostles.
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The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is a Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985. The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) has become the most widely used Roman Catholic Bible outside of the United States. It has the imprimatur of Cardinal George Basil Hume.
Like its predecessor, the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) version is translated "directly from the Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic." The 1973 French translation, the Bible de Jerusalem, is followed only "where the text admits to more than one interpretation." Introductions and notes, with some modifications, are taken from the Bible de Jerusalem.
Source: The Very Reverend Dom (Joseph) Henry Wansbrough, OSB, MA (Oxon), STL (Fribourg), LSS (Rome), a monk of Ampleforth Abbey and a biblical scholar. He was General Editor of the New Jerusalem Bible. "New Jerusalem Bible, Regular Edition", pg. v.
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Chinatown Metro Gold Line Station, corner of Alameda Street/North Spring Street at College Street
BIKE: There is no river bike path in this area. Consider hiking to a Metro Gold Line station and bringing your bike on board.
TRANSIT: Take the Metro Gold Line to the Chinatown Station.
CAR: Exit the 110 Freeway at North Hill Street in Chinatown. (This exit is on the left for the southbound 110.) The exit puts you southbound on Hill. Turn left on College Street and left again on Alameda Street (which becomes North Spring Street). If the park is open (interim use expected to open in 2006), turn left and park in the park's lot. If the park is not yet open, street parking is available on Alameda/North Spring or College.
Alternately, exit the 5 Freeway at Pasadena Avenue in Lincoln Heights. Turn southwest (toward downtown) on Pasadena Avenue, which merges into North Broadway just before the L.A. River. Continue on Broadway into Chinatown, turn left on College Street, and follow the directions above.
From the upper level of the Metro Gold Line Chinatown Station, there is an excellent panoramic view. Go to the north (Pasadena) end of the station. The Cornfields Yard, a flat, banana-shaped 32-acre former rail yard connecting Chinatown with the L.A. River, is to the right of the Metro tracks.
The river is difficult to see, but it's there below the arches of the North Broadway Bridge at the far end of the Cornfields. In the late 1990s, FoLAR and other groups successfully sued to stop a planned industrial development here. In 2001, California State Parks purchased the site and formed a community advisory committee to develop a plan for the park.
From the Metro station, to the left of the Cornfields, you can also see the hills of Elysian Park (see the side trip this walk). Behind the row of palm trees is Dodger Stadium. Farther left is Chinatown, and the downtown skyline, including Los Angeles City Hall, is behind you.
Directly west of the Metro station is Capitol Milling. At the time of its closure in 1999, Capitol Milling was the oldest continually operating business in the city of Los Angeles. The initial building on the site dates to 1831. The original mill was powered by water from the L.A. River, delivered via the Zanja Madre. This business went through incarnations as Steams Mill, Eagle Mills, and, in 1883, Capitol Milling. The site is now slated to become mixed-use downtown loft living.
From the station platform, descend to the ground level and walk left (north, toward the Cornfields) onto Alameda, which turns slightly to the right and becomes North Spring Street. Walk along the perimeter fence, with the Cornfields on your left. Between Sotello Street and Mesnager Street on your right (across the street) is a small historic marker acknowledging this site as the historic River Station Terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad established in 1876. The entire Cornfields site, called the River Station Area, is designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #82.
Continue walking north on North Spring and veer left onto Baker Street. Walk to the end of Baker and look up at the magnificent North Broadway Bridge. When it opened in 1911, this bridge was called the Buena Vista Viaduct. The bridge, which featured a newly invented open spandrel arch (instead of a fully filled solid arch, there is space between the arches and the roadway), was technologically innovative for its day. It had the longest concrete arch in California when it was built. The bridge predates Merrill Butler's tenure as city bridge engineer. It was designed by architect Alfred F. Rosenheim, though it is generally credited to Homer Hamlin, who served as the Los Angeles city engineer from 1906 to 1917.
In 1998 through 2000, the city of Los Angeles did a fantastic job of retrofitting, rebuilding, and reinforcing the bridge. This included restoring long-lost ornamental features such as the four decorative pylon pedestals it the ends of the bridge. You may be able to spot cliff swallows that form the nests on the underside of the bridge.
Directly ahead of you, at 1800 Baker Street, is what is historically known as Midway Yard. These yards are currently temporarily serving as the maintenance yards for the Metro Gold Line. In the future, when the Gold Line has been extended to the east San Gabriel Valley, Metro plans to relocate the maintenance yards to the eastern end of the line, freeing up this important site to connect Elysian Park with the L.A. River Greenway.
At this point, you're very close to the river, but it's not easily accessible due to railroad tracks that line both sides of the channel through much of downtown. The tracks are active, with dozens of Amtrak and Metrolink trains daily. FoLAR has called for Los Angeles to study the long-term feasibility of consolidating, raising, and/or building underground portions of the railroad tracks, in order to reconnect downtown with the river.
Walk south (away from the river) on Baker Street. Take the first left onto Aurora Street (unmarked). On your right, the three-story red brick building at 1727 North Spring Street, is the Woman's Building. Established in 1975, the Woman's Building was an important space for feminist art, hosting groundbreaking gallery and workshop projects for many years. It still serves as artist studio space.
Turn left on North Spring and ascend the North Spring Street Bridge. This bridge was constructed in 1927 to relieve crowding on the North Broadway Bridge. It was designed by Major John C. Shaw, Los Angeles city engineer from 1925 to 1930, although Merrill Butler's name also appears on the plaque (on your left at the far end of the bridge). Restoration in 1992 included repair and replacement of railings and lighting. Check out the views of the North Broadway Bridge to your left, and the Main Street Bridge to your right.
Just past the end of the bridge, turn left onto the stairway into Downey Recreation Center, cross the site, and ascend the steps on the far side. Turn left onto North Broadway.
As you cross the North Broadway Bridge, you encounter views of the North Main Street Bridge, the Cornfields, and the downtown skyline. The views are especially nice from the large central belvedere (viewing platform).
Continue walking south. On your right, across the street at 1039 and 1051 North Broadway, respectively, are St. Peter's Church and Casa Italiana. The area that is known today as Chinatown has many layers of history. Prior to its 1938 inauguration as "New Chinatown," it had been home to waves of immigrants from Mexico, Croatia, and Italy. Los Angeles' Chinese communities were relocated to the current site to make way for the construction of Union Station.
Turn right on Bernard Street. Check out the information stanchion in front of the Chinatown Heritage and Visitors Center (411 Bernard Street; 323-222-0856; open Sundays 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.). This stanchion is one of 15 on a self-guided walking tour of Chinatown. It's a project of Angels Walk L.A. and provides valuable historical information, including a section on the Cornfields and the Zanja Madre.
If you're up for it, you can do the entire 1.9-mile Chinatown walking tour (follow directions on the stanchions), or you can just check out the five stanchions on your way back to the starting point. Return to North Broadway and turn right (south). At Chinatown's East Gate, turn left onto the crosswalk. Turn right to continue south on the east side of the street. Turn left onto College Street to return to the starting point.
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When my kid eats chickpeas, he gets a mild rash. Is that something I should avoid - or push so he’ll overcome it?
Even if the rash is mild, avoid exposure to chickpeas until you can see an allergist. There may be a risk for more serious manifestations of allergies and for that reason do not push him, thinking he may build up an immunity over time.
Chickpeas are part of the legume family and contain protein which can trigger an allergic reaction.
The protein in chickpeas is similar to the protein in soy. The body reacts to the protein in that mast cells release histamine and that leads to inflammation manifesting in the skin and chest.
Chickpeas are common in Indian and Mediterranean foods. When you visit restaurants which specializes in these foods, be aware of that. The protein in chickpeas also is heat stable and that means that fumes from preparing chickpeas alone can trigger asthma attacks and allergies in predisposed patients.
Hummus also contains chickpeas and should be avoided for now.
According to a study published in 2008 in The Journal of Allergy and clinical Immunology, patients who react to chickpeas are also at risk for cross-reactions to peanuts and tree nuts.
Blood tests can be done before you see an allergist to identify chickpea allergies, but the blood test may not be definitive—it is just a screen. An allergist will do more tests to determine the risk of future reactions.
Food allergies evolve, so the the timing of the allergy test is important, and for that reason you may have to plan on seeing the allergist more than once.
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16.2 Employment at Will
- Understand what is meant by employment at will under common law.
- Explain the kinds of common-law (judicially created) exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine, and provide examples.
At common law, an employee without a contract guaranteeing a job for a specific period was an employee at will and could be fired at any time and for any reason, or even for no reason at all. The various federal statutes we have just examined have made inroads on the at-will doctrine. Another federal statute, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, prohibits employers from discharging employees who exercise their rights under that law.
The courts and legislatures in more than forty states have made revolutionary changes in the at-will doctrine. They have done so under three theories: tort, contract, and duty of good faith and fair dealing. We will first consider the tort of wrongful discharge.
Courts have created a major exception to the employment-at-will rule by allowing the tort of wrongful discharge. Wrongful discharge means firing a worker for a bad reason. What is a bad reason? A bad reason can be (1) discharging an employee for refusing to violate a law, (2) discharging an employee for exercising a legal right, (3) discharging an employee for performing a legal duty, and (4) discharging an employee in a way that violates public policy.
Discharging an Employee for Refusing to Violate a Law
Some employers will not want employees to testify truthfully at trial. In one case, a nurse refused a doctor’s order to administer a certain anesthetic when she believed it was wrong for that particular patient; the doctor, angry at the nurse for refusing to obey him, then administered the anesthetic himself. The patient soon stopped breathing. The doctor and others could not resuscitate him soon enough, and he suffered permanent brain damage. When the patient’s family sued the hospital, the hospital told the nurse she would be in trouble if she testified. She did testify according to her oath in the court of law (i.e., truthfully), and after several months of harassment, was finally fired on a pretext. The hospital was held liable for the tort of wrongful discharge. As a general rule, you should not fire an employee for refusing to break the law.
Discharging an Employee for Exercising a Legal Right
Suppose Bob Berkowitz files a claim for workers’ compensation for an accident at Pacific Gas & Electric, where he works and where the accident that injured him took place. He is fired for doing so, because the employer does not want to have its workers’ comp premiums increased. In this case, the right exercised by Berkowitz is supported by public policy: he has a legal right to file the claim, and if he can establish that his discharge was caused by his filing the claim, he will prove the tort of wrongful discharge.
Discharging an Employee for Performing a Legal Duty
Courts have long held that an employee may not be fired for serving on a jury. This is so even though courts do recognize that many employers have difficulty replacing employees called for jury duty. Jury duty is an important civic obligation, and employers are not permitted to undermine it.
Discharging an Employee in a Way That Violates Public Policy
This is probably the most controversial basis for a tort of wrongful discharge. There is an inherent vagueness in the phrase “basic social rights, duties, or responsibilities.” This is similar to the exception in contract law: the courts will not enforce contract provisions that violate public policy. (For the most part, public policy is found in statutes and in cases.) But what constitutes public policy is an important decision for state courts. In Wagenseller v. Scottsdale Memorial Hospital,Wagenseller v. Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, 147 Ariz. 370; 710 P.2d 1025 (1085). for example, a nurse who refused to “play along” with her coworkers on a rafting trip was discharged. The group of coworkers had socialized at night, drinking alcohol; when the partying was near its peak, the plaintiff refused to be part of a group that bared their buttocks to the tune of “Moon River” (a composition by Henry Mancini that was popular in the 1970s). The court, at great length, considered that “mooning” was a misdemeanor under Arizona law and that therefore her employer could not discharge her for refusing to violate a state law.
Other courts have gone so far as to include professional oaths and codes as part of public policy. In Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Services v. Diane Mariani, the Colorado Supreme Court reviewed a trial court decision to refuse relief to a certified public accountant who was discharged when she refused to violate her professional code.Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Services v. Diane Mariani, 916 P.2d 519 (Colo. 1996). (Her employer had repeatedly required her to come up with numbers and results that did not reflect the true situation, using processes that were not in accord with her training and the code.) The court of appeals had reversed the trial court, and the Supreme Court had to decide if the professional code of Colorado accountants could be considered to be part of public policy. Given that accountants were licensed by the state on behalf of the public, and that the Board of Accountancy had published a code for accounting professionals and required an oath before licensing, the court noted the following:
The Colorado State Board of Accountancy is established pursuant to section 12-2-103, 5A C.R.S. (1991). The Board has responsibility for making appropriate rules of professional conduct, in order to establish and maintain a high standard of integrity in the profession of public accounting. § 12-2-104, 5A C.R.S. (1991). These rules of professional conduct govern every person practicing as a certified public accountant. Id. Failure to abide by these rules may result in professional discipline. § 12-2-123, 5A C.R.S. (1991). The rules of professional conduct for accountants have an important public purpose. They ensure the accurate reporting of financial information to the public. They allow the public and the business community to rely with confidence on financial reporting. Rule 7.1, 3 C.C.R. 705-1 (1991). In addition, they ensure that financial information will be reported consistently across many businesses. The legislature has endorsed these goals in section 12-2-101, 5A C.R.S.
The court went on to note that the stated purpose of the licensing and registration of certified public accountants was to “provide for the maintenance of high standards of professional conduct by those so licensed and registered as certified public accountants.” Further, the specific purpose of Rule 7.1 provided a clear mandate to support an action for wrongful discharge. Rule 7.1 is entitled “Integrity and Objectivity” and states, “A certificate holder shall not in the performance of professional services knowingly misrepresent facts, nor subordinate his judgment to others.” The fact that Mariani’s employer asked her to knowingly misrepresent facts was a sufficient basis in public policy to make her discharge wrongful.
Contract Modification of Employment at Will
Contract law can modify employment at will. Oral promises made in the hiring process may be enforceable even though the promises are not approved by top management. Employee handbooks may create implied contracts that specify personnel processes and statements that the employees can be fired only for a “just cause” or only after various warnings, notice, hearing, or other procedures.
Good Faith and Fair Dealing Standard
A few states, among them Massachusetts and California, have modified the at-will doctrine in a far-reaching way by holding that every employer has entered into an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing with its employees. That means, the courts in these states say, that it is “bad faith” and therefore unlawful to discharge employees to avoid paying commissions or pensions due them. Under this implied covenant of fair dealing, any discharge without good cause—such as incompetence, corruption, or habitual tardiness—is actionable. This is not the majority view, as the case in Section 16.4.4 "Disability Discrimination" makes clear.
Although employment at will is still the law, numerous exceptions have been established by judicial decision. Employers can be liable for the tort of wrongful discharge if they discharge an employee for refusing to violate a law, for exercising a legal right or performing a legal duty, or in a way that violates basic public policy.
- Richard Mudd, an employee of Compuserve, is called for jury duty in Wayne County, Michigan. His immediate supervisor, Harvey Lorie, lets him know that he “must” avoid jury duty at all costs. Mudd tells the judge of his circumstances and his need to be at work, but the judge refuses to let Mudd avoid jury duty. Mudd spends the next two weeks at trial. He sends regular e-mails and texts to Lorie during this time, but on the fourth day gets a text message from Lorie that says, “Don’t bother to come back.” When he does return, Lorie tells him he is fired. Does Mudd have a cause of action for the tort of wrongful discharge?
- Olga Monge was a schoolteacher in her native Costa Rica. She moved to New Hampshire and attended college in the evenings to earn US teaching credentials. At night, she worked at the Beebe Rubber Company after caring for her husband and three children during the day. When she applied for a better job at the plant, the foreman offered to promote her if she would be “nice” and go out on a date with him. She refused, and he assigned her to a lower-wage job, took away her overtime, made her clean the washrooms, and generally ridiculed her. She finally collapsed at work, and he fired her. Does Monge have any cause of action? | <urn:uuid:9bb8f33a-fe57-4c5b-922f-2e605fef79c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/reader/6055?e=mayer_1.0-ch50_s02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960372 | 2,349 | 3.015625 | 3 |
For decades, California has been the engine of growth behind America’s sputtering clean-energy economy — adopting groundbreaking clean air and climate policies as federal efforts lagged behind.
The hope was that California’s initiatives would become the template for a national law to slow global warming.
That hasn’t happened yet — and it isn’t likely to over the next four years. In his second term, President Barack Obama faces the same divided Congress that rejected carbon-reduction targets and a price on carbon dioxide emissions, two cornerstones of California climate policy.
But an Obama White House provides California a key federal partner that wants to regulate global warming emissions from power plants and cars, and won’t interfere. Steady support from the top might encourage other states to copy or join California’s pioneering initiatives, according to policy experts and advocates, which only helps the Golden State.
“I can imagine a set of states deciding to take on something like California’s program several years into an Obama administration, having warmed up to the idea of greenhouse gas regulation and having seen it work in practice," said Cara Horowitz, executive director of UCLA Law School’s Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.
California’s clean economy is driven by at least four sweeping policies: an economywide cap-and-trade program that puts a price on carbon pollution; a low-carbon fuel standard that limits the sale of carbon-intensive fuels; a 33 percent renewable electricity standard; and rigorous clean-car mandates for automakers.
Here’s a rundown of some of the policies, and a look at how the second Obama administration could help them along.
• Cap and trade: Removing the stigma
After six years in the making, California is set to launch the first auction of its cap-and-trade program on Nov. 14.
The program is the hallmark of California’s global warming law, AB 32, which requires the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.
Regulators will set a ceiling on CO2 emissions from utilities, oil extractors and fossil fuel-burning factories and require them to pay for their pollution by buying carbon allowances in quarterly auctions.
In year one alone, the program is expected to generate between $660 million and $3 billion in auction proceeds. By 2020, cap and trade could send $8 billion into state coffers annually.
California’s program is the nation’s second cap-and-trade system and the first to target carbon polluters across the economy. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative limits emissions from power plants in nine participating Eastern states. In both cases, the states established the program without federal involvement and approval.
Obama supported federal cap-and-trade legislation in his first term, and rumors are swirling that he might push for a national carbon tax to help cut the deficit. Far more certain is that his Environmental Protection Agency will finalize greenhouse gas limits for existing power plants and oil refineries.
Any action from Obama on greenhouse gases could help chip away at the stigma of regulating carbon, said Horowitz of UCLA’s climate change center.
• Low-carbon fuel standard: Will Obama weigh in?
Another critical piece of California’s global warming law is a rule to slash carbon emissions in transportation fuels. The Obama administration isn’t directly involved with the measure, but the standards are stuck in legal limbo and the White House could opt to weigh in.
The low-carbon fuel standard — the first of its kind in the world — went into effect in the spring. Under the rule, oil importers, refiners and fuel blenders must cut the “carbon intensity" of their fuel mix by one-quarter of a percent this year and by 10 percent by 2020. The rule would discourage the use of oil sands crude and other high-carbon fuels and encourage greater adoption of electric cars and other clean vehicles.
Transportation accounts for 40 percent of California’s global warming emissions and about a third of U.S. emissions.
In December, a federal judge ruled that the policy was unconstitutional because it regulates economic activity outside California’s borders, siding with oil companies, Midwestern ethanol producers and other opponents. Advocates appealed the decision.
The rule’s fate now rests with a three-judge panel in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is expected to issue its final decision in 2013. The Obama administration could, in theory, attempt to sway the 9th Circuit judges by filing a friend-of-the-court brief expressing support for the program.
• Zero-emissions vehicle mandate: A sigh of relief
For California’s new mandate for ultra-clean cars, Obama’s victory removes any doubt the program will move forward.
The rule, approved in January, requires 15 percent of all cars sold in California to be zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV). Compliance begins with model year 2018; full compliance is expected by 2025. State regulators unanimously passed the mandate after four years of bargaining with the auto industry and environmental groups.
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PREHISTORIC INDIAN DECOY
In 1924 a group of scientists excavating in Nevada's Lovelock cave found a cache
of 13 tule duck decoys dated to nearly 2000 years. Made to resemble
a canvasback drake, these decoys were painted with native pigments and had white feathers
tied to their backs with string made from native hemp. This replica decoy is made
like the originals, complete with red ochre paint and ground soot used for black.
The cane arrow is a highly specialized and ingenious type for taking ducks on the water
and this type could have been used with similar decoys. The ball of pitch
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such arrow shots much easier to take. One has to marvel at the ingenuity of the
early Indian hunters and the gear they so cleverly made and used.
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For example: It's rare that a woman, even an independent one, would want to be with a man who is shorter than her. And should he be shorter, he needs to make up for it in other ways (aka bulk) -- although not the big beefy bulk since women are not attracted to those.
The attraction would imply that part of the emotions is more than just mental.
Size and strength (at least to some extent) are objective values in a man. Women are physically weaker, in general, so having a strong, tall man around is handy, and gives some measure of security in a threatening situation.
Girls learn this very young, and so it affects whom they are attracted to. Some women may make the mistake of over-emphasizing physical attributes when choosing a mate, but even those who do not overemphasize physical characteristics do not necessarily ignore physical characteristics.
There are, of course other learned values -- perhaps not so important, but learned, nonetheless -- of having a partner who looks "appropriate" for oneself. Having one's partner ridiculed for not being tall enough is something I think many women want to avoid.
All this is learned, so there's no contradiction here to the claim that man is born tabula rasa. | <urn:uuid:14a7e3d6-fca0-4524-b5bf-d60e6ec10d94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://objectivistanswers.com/questions/6612/if-man-is-born-tabula-rasa-then-why-are-women-attracted-to-men-who-are-bigger-than-they-are | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964939 | 259 | 1.679688 | 2 |
From the Semitic Adonai
, which means "lord". In Greek myth
Adonis was a handsome young shepherd killed while hunting a wild boar. The anemone flower is said to have sprung from his blood. Because he was loved by Aphrodite
allowed him to be restored to life for part of each year. The Greeks borrowed this character from various Semitic traditions, hence the Semitic origins of the name. | <urn:uuid:a5deaea1-0419-4e18-be04-8582ef124017> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.behindthename.com/name/adonis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975606 | 89 | 2.75 | 3 |
Northern California Coastal & Inland Valleys
Deadhead Spring-Flowering Bulbs
Daffodils or tulips that you intend to save for next year should have the faded flowers removed. Allowing them to form seeds saps valuable energy from the bulb. By removing the spent flowers, all the energy that would have gone into forming seeds will be used instead for making the bulb strong for next year. Once you have removed the flowers, feed the bulb plants with a balanced fertilizer. Treat them as if they were an honored guest in your garden, watering and fertilizing regularly. Once the foliage begins to yellow, withhold water until the tops are completely dry. At that point, either dig and store the bulbs until fall or remove the foliage, which should pull away easily, and leave the bulbs in the ground.
Remove Spent Flowers from Rhododendrons
This is a sticky job but one that has vast rewards next year. By removing the spent flowers from azaleas and rhododendrons, you encourage new growth to sprout at the base of each flower head. With proper pinching, your plants will be lush and bushy instead of tall and straggly. The spent buds snap off easily between your thumb and forefinger. Take my advice and wear gloves.
Don't do any large pruning jobs right now. One reason is that the sap is flowing and any major cuts can seriously injure ornamental and fruit trees. Another reason is that the birdies are nesting now. Birds are glorious companions to any garden because they eat insects -- even more when they have a hungry family to feed.
Compost Pea Plants
Nothing makes better compost than members of the pea family. Cut vines into small pieces after the plants are through bearing and toss into the compost pile or leave on the surface of the soil to act as mulch. Leave the roots in the ground where the nitrogen nodules can benefit the next crop.
Ready, Set, Plant!
It's time to plant your vegetable garden. The soil has warmed sufficiently to encourage root growth on warm-season annuals. Corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, basil, and all those things that love the heat can go into the ground now. Protect new seedlings from hungry slugs and snails. | <urn:uuid:508843e5-f4b5-48d5-b041-d4c4e1d60e86> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.garden.org/regional/report/arch/reminders/2396 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953838 | 468 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Preventing Childhood bullying
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and President of Daniel, Jim Clark, put together a few guidelines for parents to go over with their children.
• Be a friend to the person being bullied. Children can help someone who’s been bullied
• Tell a trusted adult at school, like a teacher or coach. An adult can help stop bullying by
• Help the person being bullied to get away from the situation. However they do
• Set a good example. Do not bully others. If a child knows not to bully others, then other
• Don’t give bullying an audience.
The most obvious signs that your child is a victim of bullying are physical such as bruises or injuries. But others include:
• Seeming anxious
• Getting in trouble more easily than usual • • Trouble eating or sleeping
If you discover that your child is the bully, Clark says that you need to talk to them about their behavior. Confront them and
Clark advises NOT confront the bully’s parents or the bully himself.
For more information about bully prevention visit danielkids.org.
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Places of worship belonging to religious minorities in Malaysia are continuing to be targeted in a dispute over the use of “Allah” by non-Islamic faiths. The new general secretary of the World Council of Churches has expressed “deep concern” about the situation in the Muslim-majority country.
A Swiss vote to ban the construction of minarets at Muslim houses of worship sent ripples of surprise and dismay across Europe and Islamic countries at the end of November, even as opponents vowed to challenge the results.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America announced in mid-November that some 40 full-time jobs, of which six were vacant, will be eliminated in order to stay within a budget reduced by nearly $7.7 million. The program and staff reductions reflected the struggling U.S.
Among the leads investigators explored as they sought to uncover what motivated Major Nidal M. Hasan to kill 13 fellow soldiers in early No vember at Fort Hood in Texas was his apparent worry that serving in the U.S. Army compromised his Muslim faith.
Amid widely different estimates of the size of the world’s Muslim population, a new demographic study has determined that followers of Islam represent nearly a quarter of the world’s current population, with nearly two-thirds of them living in Asia.
The Swiss Council of Religions, which includes Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders, has gone on record rejecting a call for a nationwide ban on the construction of minarets at mosques. Some Swiss groups want to ban minarets out of fear of Europe’s growing Muslim population.
Next to the minaret of Milwaukee’s Islamic Society a new sign appeared after the horrific events of September 11: “Our Hearts and Prayers Are with the Victims and Their Families.” That message was emphasized at the mosque’s prayer service on September 14, the national day of remembrance for all those who have suffered as a result of September 11’s terrorist attacks
The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Sitting with Sufis: A Christian Experience of Learning Sufism | <urn:uuid:ee7376c8-75b3-42ef-8a95-2d576bab57c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.christiancentury.org/category/keywords/islam?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950579 | 451 | 1.703125 | 2 |
My daughter will soon be turning six years old. I am 23 weeks pregnant with her new baby brother, and she is very, very excited about this. However, I have noticed that since my husband and I told her about the baby, she has been acting out more. When she does not get her way she screams and throws a huge tantrum.
I am at my wits' end because she is constantly acting this way. Please help with any ideas you'd like to suggest. Thank you.
Your daughter may be genuinely excited about a new sibling, but that's probably not all that she is feeling, and she may be acting out those more negative emotions.
Think for a minute about what this will do to the life she has now. She will no longer have her parents all to herself. She'll never be the youngest again. There will a demanding newborn on the scene whom she won't be able to play with for months. Jealousy and trepidation are normal emotions for her, as well as excitement.
First, extinguish the acting out just as you would if she were two: let her know that her bahavior isn't acceptable and ignore the tantrums as much as possible. Then, since she is almost six and more verbal than a two-year-old would be, begin to talk regularly about what she may be feeling. If she can't verbalize her emotions, a quick internet search will yield many good story books about children dealing with new siblings. Emphasize what she will be gaining: newfound status as the competent, older child and a helper that you will be relying on.
Last, begin a tradition now that you can plan to continue once the baby is born, of designating some special time just with her. A few times a week, give her 30 to 60 minutes of unstructured time. Your husband may want to do this as well, and he needs to agree to take the baby to give you uninterrupted time. She will look forward to this, and it may help smooth over the big adjustment that she is facing. | <urn:uuid:f463ee43-336d-41e3-ac1d-3285b96d4d1f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.babyzone.com/kids/discipline/advice-dealing-with-tantrums_77001 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988405 | 425 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Lenon Lathan is much more than a former resident of Sturgis.
Lathan is an American hero whose military service will not only be recognized for the sacrifices he made as a young man, but also the for importance his service means to the African American community.
Lathan, who was born in Sturgis in 1926, will receive the Congressional Gold Medal Wednesday, along with other veterans a part of the first African American U.S. Marine Corps, the Montford Point Marines.
Denise King, Lathan’s daughter, said she did not realize the importance of her father’s service until several years ago.
“I’ve always known my dad was a Marine,” King said. “When my husband’s cousin realized he was an original Montford Point Marine, I began to dig deeper into the significance of that.”
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential directive allowing African Americans the opportunity to be recruited into the Marine Corps. However, instead of being sent to the traditional boot camps in Parris Island, S.C. or San Diego, Calif., African American recruits were segregated and sent to basic training at Montford Point in Camp Lejeune, N.C.
From 1942 to 1949, approximately 20,000 African American Marines were trained at Montford Point.
Now living in Blue Island, Ill. at the age of 85, Lathan said although he is very proud of his time in the armed forces, he initially did not know what the Marine Corps was exactly.
“I volunteered to join the armed forces, but after meeting with a recruiter, they picked me and said I was suited to be a Marine,” Lathan said. “They chose me. I didn’t choose them.”
Lathan served two terms as a United States Marine from 1944-1948. At the time of his training, he said, he did not understand the significance of the training situation he was in.
“I had no idea what being a Montford Point Marine meant,” he said. “I’ve lived a life of segregation, so being in a segregated corp at the time didn’t seem all that different from my life.”
Lathan said he had always wanted a better life for himself and was not afraid to move beyond his comfort zone.
“I saw this as a chance to move beyond my hometown of Sturgis,” he said. “I took a chance with the Marines.”
King said her only regret is not knowing about her father’s historic service sooner, but she is proud of his accomplishments.
“There just aren’t enough words for me to describe the amount of pride and joy our family feels for him receiving this honor,” she said. “We are so grateful to the men and women who made our lives so much richer because of the sacrifices they made while serving this great country.”
While Lathan was not initially excited about the honor he will receive until his children’s enthusiasm won him over, he said he is excited about his trip the nation’s capitol because of his continued interest in the changes America has seen over the years.
“Things are a lot better than they were when I was young, but we are still always fighting for something,” he said. “I’m just glad I’m in America.”
Live coverage of the event will appear on C-SPAN Wednesday, and Lathan said he is becoming increasingly excited as the day approaches.
“I really hope that I will be able to recognize or remember one of my old buddies who I was enlisted with.” | <urn:uuid:61855ca8-34fc-4ee4-b7af-f584eed63375> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.starkvilledailynews.com/print/10366?quicktabs_4=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987609 | 787 | 2.515625 | 3 |
David F. Skoll wrote:
Hector Santos wrote:
This RFC 821 (clone in 2821) "recommendation" in question:
In many cases the sender-SMTP then simply needs to search for
the reply code followed by <SP> at the beginning of a line, and
ignore all preceding lines. In a few cases, there is important
data for the sender in the reply "text". The sender will know
these cases from the current context
It's not a recommendation. It's merely an illustration of one
Like we have many to choose from :-)
Anyway, I read the source code to Sendmail 8.14.0. It's not exactly
easy to follow, but this is what it does: Sendmail uses the reply
code from the LAST line, but the text message from the FIRST line.
So if it receives:
150-One second please
250 Message accepted
it returns a reply code of 250 with a text part of "One second please".
(Yes, this is weird behaviour and could lead to very confusing log messages.)
I just downloaded it (Chef Boraydee <g>).
What I see is:
- checks for valid lines ("XYZ" "XYZ-" or "XYZ ")
and ignores the rest (continues reading). Junk
lines are ignored.
- does an atoi() to get the reply code which has a natural
delimiter for non-digits
- if the code is less 100, continue reading
- breaks on the non-continuation line, which coupled with the
above, it returns the last reply code.
So from this, as I expected, SENDMAIL does not error out with
continutation lines (i.e, 150-) when reading reply lines for ALL states.
What it probably interested here is that its uses a non-standard less
than 100 code for "informational", so something like this is valid under
Also, I stand my engineering that most, if not all, even SENDMAIL until
shown otherwise, will reset their timers when the channel is active again.
In the case of Sendmail, you are correct. It does reset the timer
when it receives a line. But as I wrote, that's an implementation
detail and there are perfectly valid reasons why you should
have an overall timeout.
I'll say it again this way: this is a common "method" concept in C/S
(Client/Server) designs, especially in a TCP/IP environment. The point
here is that C/S (or even P2P) communication timeouts is generally based
on channel idleness. Hence, I wasn't surprise SendMail also falls in
the same group. We can call it an implementation detail if we like, we
are not going to find too many systems that deviate from this
fundamental design concept.
Yes, overall timeout is fine, That is an implementation detail that is
not found across the board. A great idea to have, but I would not be
surprise if its not utilitzed across all systems.
In my SMTP design experience, the basic overall concern has been
unexpected or ungraceful DROPS and not really trying to regulate how
long a session is taken simply because there is no hard core rule on how
long a total session should take. But I agree, this are necessary
If we wanted to juggle this idea, we can say that a maximum transaction
time for a CLIENT would be:
MAIL FROM 5
RCPT TO 5
DATA 10 (5 for 352 response, 5 for upload response)
Or 25 or 35 minutes if how you want to include DATA/QUIT.
Permitting different reply codes in a multiline reply is confusing and
of doubtful utility.
The only current useful I see is KEEP ALIVE. I can't think of any other
need. But as you can see from SENDMAIL it obviously found a need for
what it calls "informational" reply lines.
I believe the RFC should be
reworded to make it clear that all reply codes in a multiline reply
MUST be the same code.
That would be an unnecessary restriction. Clients or servers doen't
require this tightness.
Then leave it up to an extension to negotiate
keepalive if the client wants it and the server is willing.
IMV, this is backwards. This is a server driven control concept. The
client may have restrictions but it is the server that will drive this,
not the client. The server determines if its something it would want to
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With Alaska natives and others clamoring for the government to seek an additional $100 million in damages related to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, government scientists have just released new findings that show the disaster was, as more than one blogger put it, “the gift that keeps on giving.”
In islands right in the path of the 17-year-old spill, researchers found that oil was distributed throughout the intertidal zone between the high- and low-water marks, says an AP story. This is surprising because the common wisdom was that most of the oil floated, on high tide, to the top end of that zone.
Instead, half of it is being found down below the halfway point, where otters, birds and other critters forage regularly, as described in the press release on the study led by National Marine Fisheries Service researcher Jeffrey Short:
(T)he researchers estimated that in a given year, a sea otter — digging three pits a day searching for clams and other prey — would probably come into contact with Exxon Valdez oil at least once every two months. However, sea otters dig thousands of pits a year, and Short suspects they actually could be encountering oil far more often than estimated.
This comes as Alaska natives and others, pointing to unexpected damage, are asking the state and federal governments to enact a “reopener” clause in the government’s lawsuit against Exxon, seeking an additional $100 million in damages. (ExxonMobil has so far managed to escape paying a separate, $4.5 billion judgment in civil court.) The deadline for moving on the reopener is June 1.
Exxon spokesman Mark Boudreaux told the AP:
We find the timing interesting, that the study has been released for peer review two weeks before the deadline for the decision to notify Exxon Mobil of an intention to request a reopener of the settlement.
A spokesman for the American Chemical Society, which published word of the findings on its Web site for the journal Environmental Science and Technology, told Dateline Earth the findings had been peer reviewed as all studies are before publication.
If you think big oil spills are a thing of the past, check out these two pieces of evidence that they continue, and could happen right here in Puget Sound:
Here is the latest on the Selendang Ayu, the soybean-carrying freighter whose engine went out days after leaving Seattle and crashed into the Aleutian Islands, creating a colossal mess.
Here is my colleague Eric Nalder’s 2005 expose’ on the continuing safety lapses in the oil-tanker industry. | <urn:uuid:8d800345-3124-438a-b374-fbee627c68bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/environment/2006/05/17/exxon-valdez-redux-with-a-big-decision-looming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959812 | 546 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra
Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra
Paperback; 313 pages
Abstract Logix Books
Anyone who's old enough to have experienced the Mahavishnu Orchestra's debut The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia/Legacy, 1971) when it was first released knewwhether they liked it or not, whether they understood it or notthat a sudden and monumental shift in modern music had just taken place.
Sure, others had begun combining the improvisational prowess of jazz with the volume and energy of rock. Drummer Tony Williams, whose Lifetime band featured British guitarist John McLaughlinwho formed the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the first placehad released Emergency! (Polydor, 1969), a raw sonic assault on the senses that, nevertheless, retained the clear earmarks of jazz. Williams' ex-boss, trumpeter Miles Davis, had been experimenting with rock rhythms as early as Miles in the Sky (Columbia/Legacy, 1968) but once again shattered his own conventions in a much more profound way with the one-two punch of In a Silent Way (Columbia/Legacy, 1969) and Bitches Brew (Columbia/Legacy, 1969).
But The Inner Mounting Flame represented an entirely different approach. Like Lifetime, it was LOUD. But unlike both Lifetime and Davis' efforts, there was a stronger compositional focus that included irregular meters, Indian harmonies and vivid counterpointall played, more often than not, at mind-numbing speeds that few others could match. But despite concert volumes that were so powerful that they sent some running from the venues, the Mahavishnu Orchestra was also capable of great beauty. And whether they were playing the almost impossible-to-conceive blinding theme of Inner Mounting Flame's closer, "Awakening, or the brief acoustic respite of "A Lotus on Irish Streams, the passion of McLaughlin, keyboardist Jan Hammer, violinist Jerry Goodman, bassist Rick Laird and drummer Billy Cobham was inexorable and undeniable.
Considering its significance, what's surprising is that it's taken so long for someone to write the story of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a group that may not have been the first jazz/rock outfit, but was undoubtedly the most influential and successfuldespite the brief existence of its first and most important incarnation. The good news is that Walter Kolosky's Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra has finally arrived after years of research and interviews, and it delivers on the expectation of anyone whose life has been inextricably changed by the initial incarnation of the group.
Subtitling the book The greatest band that ever was, Kolosky makes no bones about the fact that, for him, the Mahavishnu Orchestra represented a clear musical pinnaclethe musical pinnacle, in fact. But he's not alone. Intrepid drummer/percussionist Gregg Bendian's Mahavishnu Project, a tribute band that does more than simply recreate the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, but treats it as repertory classical music to be explored, torn apart and reinterpreted, has been met with open armsand not just by Mahavishnu fans eager to hear the music in live performance (many of them too young to have experienced the real thing). At the Bendian-organized three-day Vishnu Fest that took place last year in New York City, McLaughlin attended the first night, while Laird and Hammer were on hand for the final evening, which paid tribute to The Inner Mounting Flame. By every account a grand time was had by all.
While Kolosky's passion for the group is evident from the first page to the last, he rarely imposes himself on the reader. Instead, a relatively chronological history of the band is presented through the words of those who lived it: the members of the group, the roadies, the managers and agents, and the almost countless musiciansmany of whom, like guitarists Pat Metheny, John Scofield and John Abercrombie, have gone on to greater fame themselves.
What becomes clear, when reading of the first Mahavishnu Orchestra, is how its coming together was one of those rare confluences where everything lined up perfectly. In the same way that Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia/Legacy, 1959) would likely not have come about the way it did had it taken place a year earlier or later, the first Mahavishnu Orchestra would not have been the same group had it not been there at just the right place, exactly the right time. Every member's contribution was of equal importanceMcLaughlin's voracious interest in music and Indian culture/spirituality, Goodman's classical and rock background, Cobham's muscular approach to groove, Hammer's distinctive guitar-like voice on Minimoog and Rick Laird's unmovable anchor, consistently creating a fixed frame of reference regardless of the maelstrom that was going on around him.
Laird was, in fact, the most consistently-overlooked member of the band and Kolosky goes to significant length to explain just how critical his role was. Surrounded by virtuosos who were often soloing at the speed of light, Laird seemed an odd choice. Rarely soloing himself, Laird's sometimes hypnotically-repetitive lines seemed at odds with the rest of the group. But another bassistperhaps one like Stanley Clarke who was more extroverted and excessivewould have completely altered and likely destroyed the delicate balance of the group's diverse musical personalities. What also becomes clear is that while Laird's playing may have appeared simple, his harmonic knowledge had to be as strong as those around him; in order to find the unifying thread to tie everyone else's more outer-reaching explorations together he had to make the right decisions, which he did every time.
Kolosky doesn't sugar-coat the group's conflicts. This was, after all, a band that essentially imploded after only two studio albumsignoring the more recently-discovered third album The Lost Trident Sessions (Columbia/Legacy, 1999), recorded in 1973and one live record. But he doesn't exploit them either. While there are clearly some unresolved issues between various members of the group, there has also been a certain degree of forgiveness as well, and to some extent Kolosky can take responsibility for that by encouraging each member of the band to open up and talk about the events surrounding the group's beginning, rise to success and ultimate dissolution.
Kolosky also tackles the delicate subject of spirituality with an approach that makes it clear that McLaughlin's personal search was unquestionably responsible for his extreme dedication and the musical directions he chose. But thankfully Kolosky avoids making any value judgements. The biggest strength of Power, Passion and Beauty is how Kolosky, despite being a huge fan, lets the story tell itself rather than injecting too much of his own viewpoint, in direct contrast to Paul Stump's more easily contestable Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin (SAF Publishing, 1999).
If there's a weak point in the book it's in Kolosky's attempts to provide blow-by-blow descriptions of individual compositions. While any music critic's greatest challenge is to articulate in words the indescribable entity that is music, it's perhaps best to describe it in more general terms rather than becoming too specific.
But it's a small quibble as Kolosky doesn't focus the emphasis of the book on the Mahavishnu Orchestra's admittedly groundbreaking repertoireagain, in contrast with The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis 1980-1991 (University of Michigan Press, 2005) where author George Cole, despite having interview footage every bit as good and revealing as Kolosky's, spends far too much time dissecting each and every song Davis recorded in his last decade of life. How many ways can you say funky?
While the original Mahavishnu Orchestra dissolved at the end of 1973 and, being the most significant incarnation of the group gets the majority of Kolosky's attention, he does detail the second version that included, amongst others, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, drummer Narada Michael Walden and bassist Ralphe Armstrong. Kolosky also gives relatively short shrift to the 1980s incarnation, simply called Mahavishnu (despite McLaughlin having long abandoned the teachings of his 1970s guru, Sri Chinmoy). But there's no doubt which version of the band Kolosky is referring to when he describes The greatest band that ever was.
It's been over 30 years since McLaughlin, Hammer, Goodman, Laird and Cobham have played together. Every one of them has gone on with their lives, some to greater success than others and oneLairdgiving up performing entirely and finding another artistic outlet in photography. Kolosky rightfully focuses on just how vital each of them was in the day and, despite the passage of time and considerable diversification, continues to be.
There are those who still look back fondly on other fusion groups of the timekeyboardist Chick Corea's Return to Forever, keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter's Weather Report and keyboardist Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. But while they weren't the first jazz/rock group by a long shot, the Mahavishnu Orchestra effectively fired the first major salvo that made the early to mid-1970s a heyday of artistic creativitya time when anything and everything was possible. A time when major labels would put serious money behind groups that, were they to emerge today, would be relegated to smaller independent labels or be forcedas is the case with Bendian's Mahavishnu Projectto self-publish.
The three albums released during the Mahavishnu Orchestra's brief existenceThe Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire (Columbia/Legacy, 1972) and Between Nothingness and Eternity (Columbia/Legacy, 1973)continue to sell today, building a following of new fans, many who weren't even born when the group was active. With Power, Passion and Beauty, Kolosky has finally righted a wrong, delivering a book that is as factual an account of the group's rise and fall as will likely ever be published.
The subtitle, The greatest band that ever was may prove hyperbolic for some, but clearly not for Kolosky. Absolutes aside, the Mahavishnu Orchestra's importance in the history of not only jazz, but music in general, cannot be underestimated or overlooked. Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra will ensure that those unfortunates who missed the emergence of the Mahavishnu Orchestra can live vicariously through the clearly articulated experiences of the many people who contribute to what is, ultimately, a terrific story beautifully told.
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Air Force Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach has flown on dozens of combat missions over Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo as an F-15E Strike Eagle weapons officer. His commanders have called him a "war hero," "superstar" and "#1 officer/aviator."
But for the past two and a half years, the decorated airman has been grounded at a desk job in Idaho while military brass have sought to oust him under the "don't ask don't tell" policy.
Now, with President Obama poised to sign into law a repeal of the policy on Wednesday, ending the ban on openly gay troops, Fehrenbach and dozens of service members under investigation or with discharges pending could soon be in the clear and free to resume the careers they love.
"I'm just incredibly proud of our country and of this military that so many service members will be able to serve with dignity and integrity," said Feherenbach, 41, the highest-ranking officer investigated under the policy. "It's actually taken a day or two to sink in, because it seemed so unbelievable at the time."
Officials say the 17-year-old policy will remain in effect in the near term, however, until the president, Defense Secretary and Congress certify that the military is ready to implement a repeal. Then, a 60-day waiting period begins before the ban is officially removed from the books.
While it's unclear how vigorously the ban will be enforced during that time, Feherenbach said there are already signs officials are aggressively pursuing the change.
"I just received an email from my commander, and I understand that the Air Force Chief of Staff has sent out a note that said we're going to do this, we're going to follow the law, we're going to be professionals as we always have and we're going to respect each other," he said.
In the weeks ahead the Pentagon is expected to revise policies and regulations to reflect the repeal, and train leaders on how to enforce the rules. More than 2 million service members across the military are also expected to be briefed on what is expected of them and what is not.
"The implementation plan lays out an ambitious agenda of things that need to be done," said Defense Secretary Robert Gates last week. "How long that would take, frankly, I don't know."
Among the expected changes is non-discrimination against a military applicant who may volunteer that he or she is gay, opening the door to the return of thousands of service members whose careers were cut short after they were outed on the job.
"I just really miss it. I miss the people, the mission, the comraderie. I can't wait to get back in there and finish my career," said Mike Almy, an Air Force Major and 13-year veteran who was discharged four years ago after investigators learned he was gay through personal emails. He plans to re-enlist.
Nobody knows for sure how many of the estimated 14,000 gays and lesbians discharged because of their sexual orientation will want to re-enlist or still meet the requirements for active duty, including age and fitness levels.
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Would You Pay a Premium to Lease Green Space?
By Greg Zimmerman, Executive Editor - January 2007 - Green
Two 15-story buildings stand right next to each other in a prime downtown location of a major city. Both buildings are brand new and have received plenty of inquiries from potential tenants.
Building #1 is a traditionally built, modern facility — it meets code to the letter. Building #2 is similar to Building #1 in terms of amenities. It offers the same types of leased space, but designers have taken a few extra steps to make it a green building — it has a LEED Core and Shell certification, and its developer has offered to assist tenants with their own LEED for Commercial Interiors certification goals. A lease for 40,000 square feet of space at Building #1 costs approximately $35 per square foot, Building #2 costs $36.50 per square foot. Is the cost premium worth it?
An increasing number of tenants interested in green space are being forced to ask themselves that question. It’s a matter of adding the building’s greenness to the numerous other criteria for leasing space, and determining where on the priority scale green features land. Is a LEED rating worth as much as, say, elevator reliability or restrooms? It’s a difficult issue, to be sure, but asking those kinds of questions will determine how much (if any) more a tenant is willing to pay and whether they’re willing to extend the length of their lease.
For some tenants, the answer is easy. “We’d definitely be more likely to get into a long-term lease with a totally sustainable building,” says Cristine Kanasek, manager of facility services for Duke University Clinical Research.
For most tenants, however, it’s a bit more tricky. Overall, willingness to pay a premium to lease green space is simply a function of how much an organization values sustainability. “Organizations are creating business models reflecting sustainability,” says Chris Moss, president of Moss Green Realty, a New York City real estate brokerage. “Those organizations are more likely to look for green space.”
Looking High and Low
The problem is that those organizations that value green are having difficulty finding existing green space to lease. Even though green buildings are being built at an unprecedented rate, the large majority are occupied by a sole occupant. The green development market is slowly gaining momentum, but most developers still view green speculative properties as too risky. The dearth of tenable green space, then, is one reason landlords can charge more.
“There are just no green buildings in our area,” says Brad Humrighouse, a Cincinnati-based broker for Coldwell Banker. “I think it’s coming, but right now, requests for green space are falling on deaf ears.”
“It’s a market with huge growth potential,” says Kanasek. “But developers don’t feel like they have to do it. It’s difficult for them to give up their typical construction principles and change their mindsets and materials.”
Even in New York, a city with several green high-rise office buildings either just opened or under construction (see cover story, page 30), Moss says tenants have trouble finding space that meets their green needs.
“The inventory of green buildings is low,” he says. “In New York City, landlords with attractive green features are definitely able to charge a premium — if they’re in a good location. Tenants need to work with landlords to get them to build green.”
Tenant/landlord cooperation to build or renovate green seems to be the trend. Tenants interested in green features are either petitioning landlords to make green improvements to space they already lease or are doing their own green renovations.
“The market is very much tenant-driven right now,” says Moss.
The good news for organizations interested in green space is that landlords seem more willing to listen to arguments for green improvements. And many of the green features that make tenants happy are relatively inexpensive.
Humrighouse says good lighting and indoor air quality seem to be the most important. He says he uses a “letter of intent” to make sure that tenant improvements include low-VOC paints, carpets, sealants and other finishes, as well as full-spectrum lighting.
“In terms of things that are very obvious to tenants, natural light and fresh air seem to rate very high,” says Moss. “Green areas, like parks or green roofs, do too. If the energy savings from the building are passed on to the tenants, that can be a huge incentive as well.”
Find the Hot Buttons
Other priorities depend on the level of green sophistication of the tenant. For tenants looking to persuade a landlord to make green improvements, the goal should be to find a particular green strategy that hits a landlord’s hot buttons — something that the landlord would be willing to do over the whole building, not just for a single tenant.
In leasing space for his own company, Moss, for example, convinced his landlord to switch to green power. “After some thinking with the landlord, we figured out a way to make it happen,” he says. “I was really impressed with the landlord — he went out of his way to make it happen. Now the landlord is negotiating with the bulk supplier to use green energy for the whole building.”
Until the development industry finds a “magic key” for complete market transformation to sustainability, the market will continue to be driven by tenants. Many think that magic key could be a study that proves green buildings are appraised at higher value than a similar, traditional building — something green building advocates already believe. The problem is that many of those same advocates don’t see an apples-to-apples comparison.
“Green buildings are inherently different,” says Moss. “It’s tough to compare green buildings with non-green buildings and say ‘all things being equal.’ They don’t feel, look or operate the way non-green buildings do. With LEED-certified buildings, different features are intrinsic.”
But it’s because organizations are valuing those green features more and more that green leased space is in such high demand.
Grade “A” Savings for Going Green
A recent study shows that the net financial benefit of building a green K-12 school can be as much as $71 per square foot (see chart to the right) when compared with a school designed just to meet code.
“Greening America’s Schools: Costs and Benefits,” produced by Gregory Kats, managing principal of Capital E and former director of financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy in the U.S. Department of Energy, is the result of an examination of 30 green K-12 schools located all over the country. According to the report, “conservative and prudent financial assumptions” were used to analyze the cost benefits of building sustainably.
The report states that the national average school construction is $150 per square foot. Building green adds an average of 1.7 percent to first costs, or about $3 per square foot.
Other significant findings of the study detailed in the report include:
- Green schools in this study used an average of 33 percent less energy than conventional schools.
- Greening America’s schools could lead to a reduction of 585,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, and significant reductions of other greenhouse gases.
- The 30 green schools in the study used 32 percent less water than conventional schools.
- Seventy-five percent of senior executives believe that a green school improves the ability to attract and retain teachers.
In addition to illustrating the costs and benefits of the schools particular to this study, the report draws on several other green school-related studies and incorporates that information as well. The report concludes that building green schools is “more fiscally prudent and lower risk than continuing to build unhealthy, inefficient schools.”
To download the report for free and click on “Greening America’s Schools.”
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
Joe Van Belleghem
Buildgreen Developments Inc.
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR
James E. Hartzfeld
David A. Gottfried
WorldBuild Technology Inc.
Michael L. Italiano
Sustainable Products Corp.
PRESIDENT, CEO and FOUNDING CHAIRMAN
S. Richard Fedrizzi
U.S. Green Building Council
1015 18th St., NW Ste. 805
Washington, DC 20036
Studying LEED in Public Buildings
A study by PinnacleOne, a construction consulting firm, shows that 48 percent of public building owners have implemented energy efficient measures into projects within the last year. Of those owners, 70 percent received LEED certification (71 percent received silver certification and 29 percent received gold).
Read and Be Green
ASHRAE’s updated GreenGuide: The Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable Buildings contains a new chapter that provides guidance on how to use LEED. The book also contains a new chapter on how HVAC&R systems interact with the local environment and methods for mitigating their impact.
Washington, D.C., Mandates LEED
Washington, D.C., is the first major city in the country to pass legislation mandating that all new buildings must meet LEED guidelines. Starting in 2012, the bill requires that all new construction or major renovation projects 50,000 square feet or more would have to meet LEED requirements
Support for Renewable Energy
The IRS has allocated $800 million in tax-credit bonds for 610 renewable energy projects to be located throughout the U.S.
CI = Commercial Interiors
EB = Existing Buildings
CS = Core and Shell
LEED = Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
*A “registered project” is one that has applied for certification, but has not yet been conferred a rating by USGBC
Data are current as of November 2006.
USGBC TAKES CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION
At Greenbuild in November 2006, USGBC unveiled a series of eight Climate Action proposals and recommendations that will spotlight green buildings’ impact on climate change. They are:
For more information on these eight Climate Actions, download the complete document.
Hospital Earns Gold by Going Green
Hospitals and healthcare facilities have stringent requirements when it comes to power and indoor environmental quality. The very direct connection between these systems and the preservation and protection of human life means that their reliability is paramount.
— Rachael Zimmermann, associate editor
Rebuilt Railyard Garners Gold Certification for EPA
Formerly a massive rail yard and Superfund site, Potomac Yard just outside of Arlington, Va., has been rebuilt into a sprawling mixed-use development including retail, office and residential space. One and Two Potomac Yard, the site’s flagship office buildings, achieved LEED-NC Gold certification in July 2006. They are the first new construction projects in the Washington, D.C., metro area to receive LEED Gold certification.
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Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently wrote a comic book that explains the health reform law so it is easy to understand. He shared some of his insights and lessons from his home state about what makes health reform work at the World Health Care Congress in Washington. Hint: It includes the Boston Red Sox.
Gruber is also a member of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority Board, the Massachusetts health insurance exchange. The nation’s health reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is based on the Massachusetts pioneering health reform law.
[Political Malpractice: Are politics extinguishing health insurance exchanges?]
Below are are excerpts from his April 17 presentation:
What the Affordable Care Act is trying to do is bridge the historical divide between the right and the left on healthcare reform. Its approach is incremental universalism. Incremental borrows from the right, meaning let’s build on the existing private health insurance system; universal borrows from the left, meaning let’s get to universal coverage. Massachusetts healthcare reform law just had its sixth anniversary.
The three-legged stool
The core of that act is a three-legged stool. The first leg is insurance market reform. If you have employer-sponsored insurance or government-sponsored insurance, you’re in pretty good shape. If you go outside those systems, you’re not. In most states, the non-group health insurance market is fundamentally broken.
Individuals don’t have access to insurance they can count on if they get sick. The first leg of that stool is to end that discrimination in insurance markets, to make sure that people have access to insurance no matter whether they are sick or healthy at fair prices.
That’s why you need the second leg of the stool, the individual mandate, which ensures broad participation in the insurance pool to make sure that insurers can price fairly and still stay in business. However, you can’t mandate people to buy something they can’t afford. That’s why you have the third leg of the stool, the subsidies to make health insurance affordable.
Those three legs of the stool are what we put in place in Massachusetts and it’s worked incredibly well. We’ve covered about two thirds of our uninsured citizens, and we fixed the broken non-group health insurance market. We have taken a market, which was fundamentally broken, and cut the premiums in half over the first three years of the law’s implementation. We’ve done so on budget, according the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, and we’ve done so with broad public support.
Boston Red Sox and health reform
What made it work was an enormous social buy-in to the concept of universal coverage. The Massachusetts Health Connector, which implements the law, ran ads between the first and second inning of every Boston Red Sox game in the summer of 2007, a good year for the Red Sox.
The ad would say that you have to have health insurance. The ad would show a man with a broken arm and who said he was glad he had health insurance. And people went out and got it. No one came out afterwards and said stick it to the man, don’t get health insurance.
In the first year, the penalty for not having health insurance was just $200. But people went out and got it in record numbers. In the first year, there was a new tax form that had to be filed, and 98 percent of tax filers got it right that first year. So health reform was popular, and it was implemented and socially accepted. That may not be true elsewhere.
What Massachusetts didn’t do
People in the media say health reform failed because Massachusetts has the most expensive health care in the country. We had the most expensive health care before health reform and after reform. It has nothing to do with health reform. That’s because health reform in Massachusetts wasn’t about cost control. It was only about coverage and fixing the broken non-group market.
But national health reform has to tackle the much more difficult subject of cost control. The Affordable Care Act tries to do so through a number of channels—through limiting open-ended tax breaks for employer-sponsored insurance; through changing the way providers are paid, moving from fee-for-service and how much they do to how healthy they make you; through comparative effectiveness research to understand what works and doesn’t in health care.
All these aspects are modest steps forward, but they are at least steps. We have been paralyzed at the federal level in trying to move forward on cost control.
How to separate the wheat from the chaff
It’s an incredible challenge to control costs because, first, we don’t actually know how to control costs in health care in America. A lot of what we do in health care is good for you and some of it is a waste, and we don’t know how to get rid of the waste without potentially putting at risk the things that are good for you. We have ideas, and we’re getting there, but we don’t know yet. So in that situation, you move forward slowly.
The second barrier is politics, which even if we knew how to control healthcare costs, the politicians wouldn’t let us. Witness the ‘death panels’ debate. So you move forward slowly and cautiously. If we let frustration that we’re not going fast enough on cost controls halt our progress, we would effectively be moving backwards.
On coverage, it’s critical that states show leadership, and some states have begun to do so to fix the broken non-group insurance markets. By setting up these competitive exchanges, you will get insurers to have to compete and show what they are offering, what their products mean, and let individuals shop for the product that best fits them.
So, this is not socialized takeover of health care. This is inducing and making more effective private health insurance competition where there wasn’t effective competition before.
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In a previous life, or that’s how it seems, I played jazz drums behind such fine players as John Eacott, Ashley Slater, Mark Lockheart, Mark Bassey, Andy Robinson and Charles Alexander. Now, sadly, the drums are in the garage. When I moved north for that most romantic of reasons, falling in love with a local, the gigs dried up…
Never mind, I took to writing instead. My most recent book is about stamps. No, don’t click away – the book is really about history. Stamps, I found, are marvellous raconteurs, telling stories of their eras with an eloquence few artefacts can match. Music is, of course, a key part of national history, and I found it perpetually winding its way into my narrative.
Music often marches ahead of stamp design. In the Edwardian era, for example, stamps are formal and elegant – while people flocked to Music Halls to hear Marie Lloyd. The First World War did little to change this. In 1924, Empire was celebrated on stamps by a roaring lion – while the nation’s youth were discovering jazz, though the big dance orchestras or the great solo instrumentalists. It took stamp design till the 1930s to make a similar leap forward into the modern era.
Being the age I am, I can’t tell Britain’s story without discussing The Beatles. John Lennon, I discovered, had been a stamp collector as a boy. Even better, I found that his collection included a 1940 Penny Black centenary on which he had given Queen Victoria and King George VI beards and moustaches.
Later in the book I discuss the rise of multicultural Britain. The music of the new, diverse nation was probably best celebrated in stamps via a 2006 issue, Sounds of Britain. More generally, in the new millennium, popular music has found its way onto stamps via issues of album covers: the two narratives have finally got into some kind of step, though rock gets much more coverage than jazz.
Looking round the world, America and France lead the way in specifically jazz-themed stamp issues. A British jazz stamp issue? Why not? It’s part of our national story, after all.
First Class, a History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps by Chris West is published by Square Peg at £16.99. For the other books in our prize draw, check the LondonJazz Wednesday Morning Newsletter | <urn:uuid:ee6ed669-f6d3-451b-a05c-c87d6fea0d2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.londonjazznews.com/2012/11/book-prize-draw-first-class-history-of.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956386 | 506 | 1.75 | 2 |
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Posted at 05:04 AM on Friday, September 19, 2008 by post7348
On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we honor the brave and patriotic Americans who were held as prisoners of war, and we remember those who are still missing in action. For their valor and selfless devotion to protect the country they love, our Nation owes them a debt we can never fully repay. On this day we underscore our commitment and pledge to those who are still missing in action and to their families that we will not rest until we have achieved the fullest possible accounting for every member of our Armed Forces missing in the line of duty.
To observe this important day, the National League of Families POW/MIA flag is flown over the Capitol, the White House, the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and other locations across our country. The flag is a solemn reminder of our Nation's enduring obligation and promise to our courageous service members who remain missing and a tribute to those who have been imprisoned while serving their country in conflicts around the world.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Friday, September 19, 2008, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. I call upon the people of the United States to join me in honoring and remembering all former American prisoners of war and those missing in action for their valiant service to our Nation. I also call upon Federal, State, and local government officials and private organizations to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.
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10 full-year scholarships will be awarded by the BhutanMusicFoundation based on a student's desire to learn music at Kilu Bhutan Music School for school term starting in February.
1. Interested candidates are invited to submit an A4 telling
Why you'd like to study music.
How much time you'd study/practice daily.
Could you introduce music in the home? To friends and family?
2. For very young children, an application in Dzongkha is welcome, it should be in their own words. Parents may quote what children say if they cannot write.
3. Scholarships will continue based on the student's applied effort to learn music.
If a student shows exceptional interest and good work ethic (verified by teachers), the scholarship will be extended into the next year. No serious students will be abandoned mid-study!
4. In the event of a 'tie,' applicants from less advantaged backgrounds will get preference.
Deadline for the application is on October 31st.
The BhutanMusicFoundation will form an international jury comprised of experts from Bhutan, USA, Netherlands.
Winners will be announced on December 15th!
Please mail all applications to
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Apple could add considerably to its retail reach, if a new report out Friday is accurate. According to a “source familiar with Apple’s plans,” AppleInsider says Apple will bring store-within-a-store retail outlets to Target locations sometime soon, helping it reach markets Apple’s own stores don’t cover.
Apple initially intends to open mini-store locations, like those it currently uses at select Best Buy locations across the U.S. and Canada, in 25 Target locations in areas where a standalone Apple Store isn’t economically viable, according to the report. Target has 1,752 stores currently operating in the U.S., more than Best Buy’s roughly 1,100 locations. Apple now has store-within-a-store setups in more than 600 of those Best Buy locations.
Target stores currently offer iOS devices, including the iPod and iPad, as well as the iPhone in stores that have Target Mobile sales centers. The rumored expansion would allow the 25 pilot stores to begin offering sales of Mac computers, as well as other Apple-branded hardware and peripherals. Bringing Macs right into the stores could help capitalize on the so-called “halo effect” of iOS devices, which sees Mac sales increase in proportion to the iPhone and iPad’s success. Customers who come in to Target for an iPhone would be more likely to at least take note of and consider a Mac purchase, too, since all those products would be available for hands-on trial in one place.
This isn’t the first time people have suspected a limited retail partnership would lead to something larger. Back in December 2008, Walmart began selling iPhones, and then in 2009, Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes suggested that along with iPod sales they would be precursors to the store-within-a-store model being adopted at Walmart locations. So far, that hasn’t happened, but there’s good reason to suspect Target is a better candidate for this kind of setup.
The main reason is that Target appeals to a different demographic than Walmart. Target’s crowd tends to be closer to Apple’s core market audience, namely middle-class buyers with more cash to spend. Selling Macs, which are for the most part much pricier than iOS devices, is a good fit for Target’s customer base, especially in places Apple’s own retail shops can’t reach. | <urn:uuid:79551bf5-a30a-4a00-8e0f-e2eb166f5748> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gigaom.com/2012/01/06/a-target-expansion-would-broaden-apples-halo-effect/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959975 | 506 | 1.507813 | 2 |
By Michelle Nijhuis | January 4, 2013 | 4 Comments
I don’t care if they’re real. I’m just grateful for the texting fails collected on DamnYouAutocorrect. Maybe a guy really did offer to cook his girlfriend “chicken vaginas” instead of chicken fajitas; maybe a mom described her toddlers as having “pornstaches” instead of milkstaches in their Christmas photos; maybe a dad told his kids that his wife’s allergic reaction was treated with an “epic penis” instead of an EpiPen. Or maybe not. Either way, my inner copyeditor and my inner potty-mouthed teenager, normally not even on speaking terms, are collapsing against each other, embracing as they weep with laughter.
So I was fascinated by the recent news that embarrassing autocomplete errors probably predate the iPhone. In fact, they probably predate the computer. And they very likely didn’t start in the Western world.
Thomas Mullaney, a history professor at Stanford and — surely — the world’s only expert on the Chinese typewriter, recounts in a recent paper that in late 1956, a Chinese typist named Zhang Jiying made national news. Zhang had typed 4,730 characters in an hour, about four times the average speed at the time, and the state press trumpeted the feat as yet another achievement by a Mao-era “model worker.”
His real achievement, however, had little to do with agile fingers or sustained effort: Zhang and his fellow typists were tweaking existing typewriter technology, gradually creating something akin to an autocomplete function.
Chinese typewriters, which first appeared in the 1910s, had tray beds packed with some 2,500 separate character slugs; typists selected, inked, and lifted each metal slug via a moveable lever. The characters were grouped by frequency of use, but arranged alphabetically within those groups. Zhang’s innovation was to reorganize his characters into clusters that tended to occur together. (While the strategy was probably prone to autocomplete-type errors, the advantages of its speed must have outweighed any typographical risk, and it stuck; today’s Chinese word-processing software uses a similar approach.)
After Zhang’s famous typing sprint, Mao-era typists continued to arrange and rearrange their character trays according to their individual preferences and the work at hand, which often involved typing speeches and pamphlets for the regime. As a result, character-bed arrangements became bits of political history, reflecting the rise and fall of Communist slogans and word choices, and the consequences of the patterns were far darker than those of any autocorrect gaffe. Mullaney reflects:
What we encounter in certain Maoist-era machines was the development of a practically infinite number of deeply personal pathways to a singularity most commonly thought of through the dystopian metaphor of “newspeak” … what became possible was, ironically, an ever more tight-fitting, personal connection and commitment to the rhetorical apparatus of Maoism.
Which makes me wonder how the modern autocomplete and correct functions affect our communication. While we’re thankfully free from explicit, government-imposed newspeak, autocorrect does adapt to the vocabulary of each user, remembering our favorite words in order to refine its guesses. By doing so, could autocorrect also subtly reinforce our existing conversational tics, making us more predictable texters and speakers? If so, that’s one more reason to give thanks for its occasional side-splitting errors: at least they keep us interesting. Pass the chicken vaginas.
Top image from, obviously, DamnYouAutoCorrect.com.
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Hi from Dubai and Choooooo Chooooo to you.
The Dubai Metro officially opens today but the city’s commuters will have to wait another day before they can take a ride on the £4.5bn transport system.Its construction has been the emirate’s largest infrastructure project in more than a decade, and an army of overseas workers laboured day and night to meet the deadline as featured in this random slide show of how it all came together:
It is the world’s largest automated driverless train system – with just under 75km of magnetic track. The Metro will be able to carry up to 27,000 passengers in each direction every hour.
The carriages boast air conditioning, wi-fi and mobile phone reception while a gold class cabin with leather seats and plush pile carpets offers panoramic views at the front of the train. Sadly mountain bikes & surfboards will be banned and I’m not aware yet if coffee will be allowed!
Most commuters only care about its congestion-beating ability as this place was bumper to bumper before the economic crash. The ambitious project has had to defend a budget spike of 75% – with the estimated cost rising from an estimated $5 bn to about $9 bn. The Road and Transport Authority also announced that only 10 of the Metro’s 29 stations would be opened and we’ll have to wait unil March 2010 before the benefits of the system really kick in.
While Cairo and Tehran already have metro systems, Dubai’s network is the region’s first mass transport system in more than a decade. It ensures Dubai’s ambition to be the Middle East’s number one metropolis remains on track but is it sustainable considering the current economic climate?
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On this day, September 21, 1780, a meeting was held between two high ranking military men that resulted in one of them being demoted from Major General to Brigadier General. It's not a desirable happening even under normal circumstances, but when you change sides in order to get a demotion, it doesn't do a great deal for your reputation as an up-and comer.
That's what happened when a certain Major General Arnold of the Continental Army became Brigadier General Arnold of the British Army.
It all unfolded when Benedict Arnold, a hero to many (including a rather influential guy named George Washington), decided that the chart of his career path wasn't steep enough on the upside while the chart of his net worth was sliding off the bottom of the graph paper. And as if that wasn't bad enough, a few days later the chart of his legacy prospects looked the same as the post 1929 Dow Jones Industrial Average. His stock never recovered, but enough of the market analogies.
The meeting was of the secret variety, at least that's what it was supposed to be, but one of the participants, a certain Major John Andre of the British army, was captured on his way back from the negotiations with the minutes of the meeting still in his briefcase. It was a mistake that resulted in the shortening of his life due to the lengthening of his neck.
For his part, Arnold had to paddle his ass down the Hudson River at a high rate of speed to avoid the same fate. He narrowly avoided capture by his former employers and was subsequently put in charge of a brigade of British soldiers and awarded a pension £360. He also got a lump sum of over £6,000 in payment for his treachery. Who says crime doesn't pay?
In the end his name became synonymous with the word "traitor," at least on this side of the pond. He didn't do too well on the other side either, because after all, even a red coat never really trusts a turn coat. | <urn:uuid:d195b2d0-a334-4111-b88b-181d89f8d60f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cheekyhistory.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-rotten-egg-benedict-style.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990529 | 422 | 2.8125 | 3 |
While tuba isn’t indigenous to Mexico and the word doesn’t come from the Spanish language, tuba is certainly part of the Malecón or beach experience in Puerto Vallarta. Having traveled across the Atlantic from the Philippines in the 16th century, when both countries were under the dominion of Spain, this coconut-based drink found its first American home in Colima, considered its place of origin in Mexico.
Don Miguel, who hawks tuba on the Malecón in downtown Puerto Vallarta, says, “Tuba is pretty much available all along the coast, wherever there are people on the beaches. I used to sell south of here, but four years ago they gave a license for selling on the Malecón.” Going out daily, he acknowledges seasonal variations. “The best season is the winter, when visitors come from colder areas in the north. They walk around in shorts and look for tuba. I have clients who ask for tuba in large amounts for a reunion or party.”
He mixes it at home. Fermentation is part of the process, but tuba is appreciated as non-alcoholic refreshment. Traditionally, the sap of the coconut palm flower was collected in the morning, only from female palms not destined to be harvested for coconuts. The concentrate is the modern secret, he says. “When people ask me for the recipe, I have no problem giving it to them. I’m not egotistical.” In a few short hours, the fermentation process begins, faster as the day warms up. The container used to draw off the sap was of clay, like the containers the tuberos (tuba vendors) use to vend the tuba.
Now, many collectors use plastic, a lighter material, but since it doesn’t insulate from warmer temperatures, the collection process must be handled much more quickly.
The tubero mixes in clean, chipped ice to keep the tuba fresh and, upon serving to clients, adds chopped apples and walnuts. A medium-size plastic cup runs $10 pesos, while the larger size costs $15. Have you had your tuba treat today? | <urn:uuid:bd56fa44-c9c1-4ded-9486-3622cbead83f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/read/readkidsandfamily/refreshing-tuba.print.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961801 | 456 | 1.742188 | 2 |
by Lori Mortensen
Publishers Weekly Foucault was small and slow moving as a child, but he had a clever mind. Drawn to science as an adult, he made an incredible discovery, one that would allow him to prove the unprovable-that the Earth does indeed spin on an axis. Mortensen's prose infuses this small scientific drama with remarkable tension, while Allen's dramatically lit paintings, often organized into elegant panels, have a cinematic quality and amplify the action even further. It should enchant not only science lovers but any child who has felt awkward and dreamed big. Ages 7-9. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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School Library Journal Gr 2-4-A 19th-century figure formerly relegated to entries in collective biographies at last gets his due in a solo picture-book biography. The pendulum that bears his name, designed as proof that Earth spins on its axis, is still regarded as one of the most elegant scientific demonstrations ever. Despite this and other technical achievements, however, Foucault spent most of his short life outside the French scientific establishment. Why? A lack of advanced academic credentials for one thing, suggests Mortensen in her matter-of-fact narrative and more detailed afterword-but also, without making a direct claim, she points to evidence that he may have suffered from a spectrum disorder. Allen's digitally finished paintings mix sequential panels and larger tableaus to depict a frail, thoughtful-looking young man working alone in a tidy, shadowy workshop or showing his latest invention to small groups of marveling onlookers. Readers will marvel too, at the genius of this little-known scientific wizard.-John Peters, New York Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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As the book being serialized putting up an interesting question, ‘Why Pay Tax?’ has put up a detailed view of taxation and economic activity in the country, as well as conceptual forms of ascribing functions to various participants in an economy, it is perhaps time to put in a word, while not making a formal review as it isn’t systematic enough. A review has also its drawbacks as one is pained to play the role either of a publisher (if it is a good book) or a reader (whether its contents are right, to an informed reader) and the two aren’t quite compatible. So an informal (illegal?) review skips the role of the publisher as at least one publisher has given a clear answer by publishing it, and another publisher an even clearer answer by serializing it, so no more breath needs to be wasted on that problem per se.
What comes up as interesting is how the discussion in the book takes up and continues matters raised in previous years without conceptual transformation, which is normal, in that we do not usually change to become different people in a debate, but we enable others to take note of our point of view. Whatever change one may undergo through debate is psychic, for instance the reaction to a certain point, though indulgently many of us have tended to think this conforms one’s positions, not by endorsement but by incomprehension, so what matters is a formative stage. After one has passed examinations say for bachelor’s, master’s and then the doctorate, ‘change’ of opinion is only possible in like manner, if the person reads a text that is authoritative to him or her, and then follows up with what the author says.
Thus the review being taken up here is a regurgitation of the sort of debates in seminar rooms at the University of Dar es Salaam that accompanied the start of informal sector economy discussion, one of the key areas of research of Prof. Ted Malyamkono, founder director of ESAURP, a regional research outfit on what universities do. Aside from the technical data and handling of the issues, as to what the non-registered (thus non tax-paying) section of economy had been undergoing, how far it has changed or been changed, there are conceptual elements that remain troublesome. More significantly, they have an impact in the human side of things, as economic study has villains and heroes, either as thumbs up generators of profit or as exploiters of cheap labour, leaving a trail of tragedy, disaster all over the place.
In the first place there is the notion of ‘underground’ economy, and one wonders in how many seminars Prof. Malyamkono has participated where contributors failed to mention the difference between goods smuggled through ‘panya’ routes and thus no tax was paid on them, and when a person sells roasted maize on the roadside and does not pay taxes. The first activity is definitely ‘underground,’ but there is nothing underground about the second type of activity – but it is precisely this sort pavement business, which occupies much of the space where elaborate econometric effort to measure ‘underground’ activity is devoted, if one just picks installment no 7. The notion of underground is morally inseparable from illegality, and if this element were taken into account, the don could have helped us to estimate how far we have come from the days of Ujamaa when underground economy touched most economic life.
This difficulty is not marginal in the study especially when one looks at its impact in how the data is handled, for instance in relation to the growth and decline of the ‘underground’ economy. While shifting the order of reference, one may pick up a later comment and then return to a previous one, the later comment saying that “the decline in tax evasion from 11% in 2000 to about 9% in 2006 (was) a result of (ongoing) tax reforms and improvement (of) tax administration which (has) enabled most informal businesses to be captured by the tax net.” The comment the author made earlier (in installment no. 7) is that the ‘underground economy’ stood at 20 to 22% in the mid 1970s, up to 30% in the 1980s, reaching 39% at the close of the 1990s-and then blossoming to 46% in 2005 and 48% in 2006, which seems to be the final dating of ‘data-stream,’ and that means one takes year 2006 as highest expression of that state.
Strictly speaking, what the author is talking about isn’t underground economy but pavement business, which really was picking up quite fast in the 2005-6 period. So the data stops at the moment that the bulldozing of hundreds of thousands of small businesses along pavements took place, threw millions of people into psychic paralysis, breakdown of countless number of families, and sowed the seeds of distrust of the fourth phase administration (difficulties of life, not the policy measure per se). It is indeed remarkable that the prime minister who supervised nationwide demolitions was himself later removed, without any prior protests, as he was himself involved in informal tendering, just what he had crushed. It is unclear is the research could point a way at humane transition from pavements to other engagement. Nonetheless this load may be too much to place on the shoulders of the researcher or the government, as it was simply consonant with culture as it prevails here, in the sense of the ‘colonial’ notion of trespass where informal traders are just occupying municipal territory meant for other activity.
Hardly any African country is known to have humanely treated informal traders in replacing them, and this culture is being continued at the moment, with roadside bulldozing, beachside erasing etc on the same notion of trespass. The reason it is so appealing is that it is tied up with the non-propertisation of land generally, since it would have been possible for traders to enjoy the protection or influence of those who own houses behind their own activities, or likelihood of paying rents to them, in another setting.
This other setting could have been projected from the way Prof. Hernando de Soto handled the issue, and countless bureaucrats and researchers like Prof. Malyamkono don’t seem to have grasped the point, in which case the bulldozing of pavement businesses in 2006 wasn’t a surprise.
The program that the third phase presidency embarked upon on the basis of the Peruvian economist’s effort was just one of obtaining a title to a residential house and plot, with which one could then borrow money.
Did Prof. de Soto come all the way to teach that if one owns a house he can get a loan so long as he has a title, and in what way would that explain ‘How Capitalism Succeeds in the West and Fails Everywhere Else,’ really?
What the noted Peruvian economist was teaching is that if one is doing business on the roadside, and he is assured of occupying that place for a definite period, say six months, one year or two, he can get a loan on that basis.
If he fails to pay in a given period, the loaner (a microfinance group) can replace him or her with another person by reclaiming that space so long as there is still time for a newcomer to earn what the lender wants.
It was a program of formalisation of roadside business not so that they pay tax but that a key element in the trade, space, becomes a negotiable instrument.
But as he was talking to non-liberals, their whole frame of mind was to squeeze the juice of how to expand the tax net, like Ted… | <urn:uuid:175a7c83-c96e-4870-9542-33866b679b31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php/&tfww.ripAtiKIKX0Dnx/www/ds.ofrend/ondex.phelivery/_id=4/function.fopen?l=43901 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971085 | 1,605 | 1.84375 | 2 |
What you should know about
a wrongful death law suit?
In law a wrongful death is a death caused by the misdeed, or recklessness of another. In a wrongful death case, the family of the deceased has the right to file a lawsuit against the responsible party for monetary damages. A wrongful death lawsuit is a civil action. It is not a criminal charge.
A famous trial you likely remember is the O.J. Simpson murder case, where O.J. was acquitted in his criminal murder trial, but then later charged in a civil action for wrongful death. The jury in this action found Simpson liable and awarded the plaintiffs $33.5 million in compensatory damages. Wrongful death damages may include:
- Cost of medical treatment,
- Financial losses, including lost wages,
- Future earnings and inheritance,
- Physical and emotional anguish,
- Loss of companionship, or loss of parental guidance,
- Other damages brought about by the victim’s death
It is never easy dealing with and adjusting to the tragic and sudden death of a loved one. Because of this a delay in retaining a wrongful death lawyer often happens. But this may be a critical mistake, because the evidence of cause may disappear or be destroyed if not tracked down immediately and documented by experienced investigators and legal counsel.
At Mostyn Law we have a committed team of experienced personal injury lawyers skilled in collecting evidence, and building strong cases against the opposing party. When you ask us to you help in a wrongful death matter you can trust us to be there each step of the way fighting to get for you all the monetary awards you deserve. | <urn:uuid:73087635-ee49-43db-ba05-34c2bec32332> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mostynlaw.com/practice/wrongful-death-accident-attorneys-lawyers.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963953 | 334 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The purpose of this document is to give an overview of the networking capabilities of the Linux operating system. Although one of the strengths of Linux is that plenty of information exists for nearly every component of it, most of this information is focused on implementation. New Linux users, particularly those coming from a Windows environment, are often unaware of the networking possibilities of Linux. This document aims to show a general picture of such possibilities with a brief description of each one and pointers for further information. The information has been gathered from many sources: HOWTOs, faqs, projects' web pages and my own hands-on experience. Full credit is given to the authors of these other sources. Without them and their programs this document would have not been possible or necessary. | <urn:uuid:81e79cc7-3103-4f88-9660-c91781c3fa03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939084 | 150 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Eddie Condon This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz: photographer, author and record producer Hank O'Neal, who collaborated on Eddie Condon's Scrapbook of Jazz talks about the Condon legacy. Eddie's daughter Maggie Condon shares her wealth of memories.
The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website.
A fast-talking, wisecracking Midwesterner, Eddie Condon epitomized Chicago Jazz and his Greenwich Village nightclub was the heart of the New York jazz scene in the '40s.
Listen to Hank O'Neal's full interview here.
Listen to Maggie Condon's full interview here.
Maggie paints this picture of her father at the height of his career: A couple facts about Eddie: he didn't own a watch; he never did, never carried a wallet and had absolutely no ID on him wherever he went. When he went to Toots Shoors, or to any bar in NYC in the '40s and '50s they knew who he was. Inside his Cavanaugh (hat) his name was inscribed in the hat band Eddie Condon. He'd order a couple of drinks, he'd take his hat off, he'd show it to the bartender and that was it, he was good to go. His hat was his ID. That's what it was like for Eddie in New York in the heyday."
Eddie Condon was a renaissance man of jazza guitarist, bandleader, nightclub owner, author and first-rate wit. He won the Down Beat poll for Best Jazz Guitar" in both 1943 and '44. When he passed away at age 67 in 1973, Condon left a rich legacy in his extensive catalogue of recorded music, and in his jazz lore collected in his autobiography, We Called It Music..
Albert Eddie" Condon was born in 1905 in Goodland, Indiana. Based in Chicago for much of the 1920s, he played banjo with the Austin High Gang along with Jimmy McPartland, Gene Krupa and Frank Teschemacher. Condon switched to guitar and moved to New York in 1929, where he worked with Red Nichols' Five Pennies and Red McKenzie's Mound City Blue Blowers.
Throughout the '30s, Condon organized and contracted musicians for New York recording sessions, many were racially mixeda rarity at the time. Record collectors prize Condon's incomparable 1932 Rhythmakers sessions with Red Allen, Zutty Singleton, Pee Wee Russell, Fats Waller and Joe Sullivan, among others.
Hank O'Neal says: From the time Eddie Condon arrived in New York at the age of 22 on the eve of the Great Depression, he was a guy who could get things done. He always had tremendous energy. He talked fast and moved fast and jumped at every opportunity to put bands together and make records. And, Eddie couldn't care less whether a musician was black or white."
In the late '30s and early '40s, Eddie Condon led recording sessions for Milt Gabler's Commodore label, had a nightly gig at Nick's in the Village, and then produced a stellar series of live sessions at Town Hall for broadcast weekly on national radio. In the process, Eddie Condon became a star of the Manhattan jazz scene.
Condon opened his first nightclub in 1945 on West Third in the Village. Simply called Condon's, the club featured the foremost soloists of the eraBobby Hackett, 'Wild Bill" Davison, Pee Wee Russell, Edmond Hall, Peanuts Hucko, Bob Wilber, Bud Freeman, Ralph Sutton, and a host of others.
To this day, to describe a jazz band as playing in the style of Eddie Condon" means that the band has a guitar and string bass in the rhythm section, and that it plays in a swinging 4/4 rhythm more closely related to a swing band than to a traditional New Orleans ensemble with banjo and tuba playing in 2/4. The Condon Style" is synonymous with Chicago Style," and Condon's nightclub was at the heart of that scene.
Hank O'Neal says about Condon's nightclub: ..."it was a cauldron where wonderful people came together on a nightly basis. Not only the customers but the musicians came there. If you look at the photographs and the scrapbook that Eddie and I did all those years ago it was a Who's Who of movie stars and writers and painters and musicians. And it wasn't just jazz musicians, it was pop musicians, it was classical musicians. It was as famous as the Stork Club was uptown... Eddie wanted to make people feel good with his music and I think he succeeded admirably.
Eddie Condon lived in the same Greenwich Village flat for much of his adult life. Every afternoon, he'd make the five-minute walk across Washington Square Park to his nightclub, a hot spot for the Manhattan in crowd." Kirk Douglas, John Steinbeck, Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer were among the regulars.
When Condon wasn't busy setting up concert and recording dates or making the rounds at his club, he was raising his two daughters with the love of his life, his wife Phyllis. In this week's show, Maggie Condon shares her mother's musing on life Condon-style and her own reflections growing up in their unusual household. Here Maggie describes visits to her father's nightclub when she was a kid: We usually went to the club when they were preparing to open, early in the afternoon after school. Making Shirley Temples with all the cherries was a big deal. Liza and I would just take over the long bar while the guys were cleaning up getting ready for the night. Then we'd go down to the basement. That's where all the action was 'cause that's where the house cat lived and there was often a litter of kittens. The other thing we used to love was the electric train set. Wild Bill Davison was an electric train lover and collector, so they had an electric train in the room where the guys used to take their breaks."
When Maggie was asked by host David Holt how her famous father would like to be remembered, she replied: I think Eddie's small band was like a democracy. Every player was equal. Every player had a unique voice that they expressed when they took their solosexcept Dadwho never took a solo. He was the spark plug. I think that's how he thought of himself. It was a different band when he was there and when he wasn't. Everyone was equal in the band. There was no 'leader.' He thought of himself as one of the guys. I think that's how he'd like to be remembered. And the music. He lived for the music. That was probably number one." | <urn:uuid:5db32abd-08a9-4ad3-840d-9cf00f26a616> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.allaboutjazz.com/news.php?id=95562 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985665 | 1,431 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Now this mental exploration involves, of course, changes in the direction of the attention corresponding in some way to changes in the direction of the lines. Does this shifting of the attention involve ideated movements? There can be little doubt that it does. “I felt an impulse,” says one, “to turn in the direction of the image seen.” And the unconscious actual movements, particularly those of the eyes, which are associated with ideated movements, took place so often that it is hard to believe they were ever wholly excluded. Such movements, being slight and automatically executed, were not at first noticed. The subjects were directed, in fact, to attend in all cases primarily to the appearance and disappearance of the images, and it was only after repeated observations and questions were put, that they became aware of associated movements, and were able, at the close of an observation, to describe them. After that, it became a common report that the eyes followed the attention. And as we must assume some central influence as the cause of this movement, which while the eyes were closed could have no reflex relation to the stimulus of light, we must impute it to the character of the ideas, or to their physical substrates.
The idea, or, as we may call it, in view of the attitude of the subject, the internal sensory impression, thus seems to bear a double aspect. It is, in the cases noted, at once sensory and motor, or at any rate involves motor elements. And the effect of the activity of such motor elements is both to increase the distinctness of the image and to prolong the duration of the process by which it is apprehended. The sensory process thus stands in intimate dependence on the motor. Nor would failure to move the eyes or any other organ with the movement of attention, if established, be conclusive as against the presence | <urn:uuid:28e1801b-7a49-4091-94db-96968b136092> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/16266/172.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982912 | 387 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Through his research in the application of hyperbaric oxygen, he pioneered its use in the treatment of decompression sickness and air embolism in both military and civilian divers.
Dr. Davis received his M D. degree from the University of Missouri and his Master’s in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley. He then studied diving medicine at the US Navy Experimental Diving unit in Washington, DC. During the Vietnam War, he was Director of Base Medical Services and Flight Surgeon at Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam.
In 1974 he founded the USAF Hyperbaric Medicine Center at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, where he conceived, implemented and established the first major program in the US to apply and study the therapeutic effects of hyperbaric oxygen. In 1979 Dr. Davis retired from the USAF as a full colonel and chief flight surgeon after 20 years of service. Following his retirement he was appointed National Consultant in Hyperbaric Medicine to the Surgeon General USAF.
Dr. Davis was the epitome of a dedicated physician. He was not satisfied to only practice medicine, which he did with skill and compassion, but also contributed much to the great needs of the diving, aerospace, and hyperbaric medicine communities. He was the Medical Program Director for Medical Seminars, Inc., which organized seminars in diving medicine for physicians around the world. One of his last positions was as medical consultant to the space program, and he chaired a NASA committee planning the necessary hyperbaric facility on the first US space station. | <urn:uuid:fc83fd7d-da26-49a8-8a62-259f573b8f2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scubahalloffame.com/hallmembers/2000/jeffersondavis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97469 | 312 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Teachers TV has a week of programmes, 10 - 16 November, examining the benefits of good practice in coaching and for the entire schools workforce, including the pupils. One of these, CareerWise - Mentoring and CPD, reviewed on the TTRB, aims to develop a critical awareness of the mentoring and coaching of teachers by teachers.
There is a range of further resources on the TTRB which explore mentoring and coaching, some of which are linked to below.
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The brain is one of the most amazing organs in the human body. It controls our central nervous system, keeping us walking, talking, breathing and thinking. The brain is also incredibly complex, comprising around 100 billion neurons. There's so much going on with the brain that there are several different fields of medicine and science devoted to treating and studying it, including neurology, which treats physical disorders of the brain; psychology, which includes the study of behavior and mental processes; and psychiatry, which treats mental illnesses and disorders. Some aspects of each tend to overlap, and other fields cross into study of the brain as well.
These disciplines have been around in some form since ancient times, so you'd think that by now we'd know all there is to know about the brain. Nothing could be further from the truth. After thousands of years of studying and treating every aspect of it, there are still many facets of the brain that remain mysterious. And because the brain is so complex, we tend to simplify information about how it works in order to make it more understandable.
Both of these things put together have resulted in many myths about the brain. Most aren't completely off -- we just haven't quite heard the whole story. Let's look at 10 myths that have been circulating about the brain, starting with, of all things, its color. | <urn:uuid:7586d955-aeaa-4cc6-bb8b-29460f9d3133> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/10-brain-myths.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979672 | 270 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to teach students the importance of being grateful and giving thanks. It's very common for children to disregard the significance of the little things that go on in their daily life. For instance, being grateful for having food, because it keeps them alive, or being thankful for their house, because that means they have a roof over their head. Children tend to think of these things as everyday occurrences, and not realize the importance they have on their life.
Take time this holiday season and require your students to think of every aspect of their lives and why they should be thankful. Provide them with the following activities to help them have a better understanding of why it's important to be grateful, and how that can impact their life.
A Simple Thank You Card
Something as simple as making a homemade thank you card is a great way to teach students to be grateful for what they have received. Have students make a list of specific things that their parents do for them or things their parents make them do. For instance, "I am thankful my parents go to work to make money so I can have food, clothes and all the basic necessities in life." or " I am thankful my parents make me clean my room because they want me to live in a healthy environment and learn responsibility." After students have created their list of things they are thankful their parents do for them, have them choose a few phrases and write them in a thank you card.
- I am thankful my parents make me do the dishes because that means we have food to survive.
- I am thankful my parents make me take care of my dog because that means my dog is happy.
- I am thankful my parents have a job because that means we have money to survive.
Read a Story
Sometimes reading your students a story can have a profound impact on how they view something. Choose any of the following books to show students the significance of being grateful. Books are a great way to open up the lines of communication and discuss this subject matter further.
- The Firefighters Thanksgiving, by Maribeth Boelts
- Thanks for Thanksgiving, by Julie Markes
- Giving Thanks, by Jake Swamp
- Giving Thanks, by Sarah Fisch
- Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks, by Margaret Sutherland
- Grateful, by John Bucchino
Write a Story
A creative way to expand on one of the ideas listed above, is to write a story about why the students are thankful. Have students look over the list they created when they brainstormed for their thank you card, and choose one idea to expand into a story. For example, they can create a story centered around the idea that their parents work in order for them to survive. Encourage students to use their imagination and provide details from their real life, as well as ideas that they make up.
Field Trip to a Shelter
The best way for students to really be thankful for that they have in their life, is to show them what others do not have. A class field trip to a local food shelter will provide the students with the opportunity to see, that some people are thankful for just having food on their plate. After the field trip, discuss what they saw at the shelter, and make a chart about things students can do to help people in need. Discuss why they should be grateful for what they have, and how they can say thank you to the people that mean the most to them. | <urn:uuid:8d26e895-1a5a-4e23-b7d2-13c3d36db8a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://k6educators.about.com/od/novemberholidayslessons/a/Creative-Ways-To-Teach-Students-The-Importance-Of-Giving-Thanks.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977088 | 699 | 3.828125 | 4 |
According to a recent study conducted by Yale and George Mason Universities, most Americans are firmly behind the development and implementation of cleaner energy technologies. The majority – across the political spectrum – would even support taxing carbon emissions to help reduce industrial pollution.
When the largest economy in the European Union derives 20% of its energy from renewable sources, it is a milestone worthy of international attention. Germany’s renewable energy consumption jumped 2.5% within the last year, sending the total consumption of green power in that country to 20.8%. Since 2000, Germany’s use of renewable energy has increased… [Continue Reading] | <urn:uuid:ad6a658e-2c2d-4278-adb2-f3954d8c6015> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://metaefficient.com/tag/renewable-power-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936877 | 125 | 2.203125 | 2 |
As happy as I was with the Melendez-Dias decision, I am also bothered by some longer term implications for science, namely its credibility.
Being a scientist, I am fully aware of all its flaws and shortcomings. I know what they are and how to best deal with them. The general public is not. The most common perception, which is desirable to me, is that they look upon science as providing factual answers that are generally not be questioned. With every passing scandal however, this perception fades. The decision mentioned above adds to this. While I certainly have no problem with people understanding that science is not perfect, the attitude that is arising seems to be that science is just an opinion, and since it is an opinion, anyone can hold their own and they are all equally valid. (This is analogous to the people that downplay evolutionary theory by stating it is "just a theory", although that argument is fatally flawed for reasons that I won't get into here.)
"Voting" in science certainly doesn't help, such as when the IAU voted that Pluto was not a planet or when 1500 scientists formed a 'consensus' opinion on global warming. This continues to give the general public the perception that science is an opinion.
Add to that the endless "health" stories about how eating ___________(insert the food the day here) is prevents __________________ (insert the illness of the day here) only to be contradicted by a report next week that the same food actually causes that same disease and you have the makings of a immensely poor perception of that factuality of science.
I'm not sure what can be done. Education is desirable, but won't work. Newly minted scientists have a very poor understanding of the inner workings of science including the flaws that I alluded to above. It takes more than a few years to really see the true picture - some never do. There is no way we can expect better of the general public given that most of them thought their science classes were dreadful.
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The pews of the 12,000-seat auditorium are packed for Sunday services and the capital's skyline is aglow with red neon crosses. Those not inside the Yoido Full Gospel Church -- the world's largest congregation -- can watch the sermons online in 16 languages.
South Korea has an ancient tradition of Buddhism, but in recent times evangelists have put Christianity on track to becoming the nation's dominant faith. Korean missionary work, second only to the US, places it at the forefront of the global search for converts.
But the kidnapping of 23 church volunteers in Afghanistan on July 19 is forcing churches to think again.
In recent years, hundreds of volunteers have been expelled from Afghanistan, Egypt and China, while others were detained or killed in Iraq. Some press ahead in Somalia, even though it was declared off-limits by the Korean government.
Two of the hostages in Afghanistan -- a clergyman and another man -- have been shot to death and abandoned by the roadside. The fate of the remaining five men and 16 women, remains uncertain.
The church and the hostages' relatives say the volunteers were working on humanitarian projects and were not evangelizing.
They are mostly in their 20s and 30s, and belonged to the Presbyterian Saemmul Community Church, which has roughly 3,800 followers, in the town of Bundang just south of Seoul.
Many attended Bible school together and trained as nurses, teachers, musicians, engineers and even a hairdresser before setting off to Afghanistan on a trip headed by a pastor with the Korean Foundation for World Aid, a non-governmental agency guided by Christian beliefs.
There were 16,616 South Koreans posted in 173 countries as of January, according to the Korea World Missions Association.
The country's recent embrace of Christianity, once a tiny minority, has spurred one of the most dramatic national religious shifts in the last century. It now equals Buddhism at around 26 percent out of a population of 49 million, according to conservative estimates. The remainder have no stated religious affiliation.
Americans successfully introduced Christianity to Korea 120 years ago, but it has really gained a foothold since the 1960s, after 35 years of Japanese occupation and the 1950-1953 Korean War that left about 2 million Koreans dead.
South Korean missionary work is driven by a sense of postwar moral debt to the foreign missionaries who built schools, hospitals and orphanages. The church won further support for helping bring democracy to South Korea in the 1980s.
Christian groups also provide extensive humanitarian help to neighboring North Korea, as well as its citizens who flee into China to escape Kim Jong-il's dictatorship.
At US theology centers, Korean missionaries are trained to work in potentially hostile environments by teaching culture and language rather than preaching.
"Many [Korean] ministers, theologians, and seminary professors have been educated in the US," Sung-deuk Oak, an assistant professor of Korean Christianity at UCLA, said. "American theology is powerful in Korea."
Cross-culture church planting, as it is known in Christian circles, has become "a worldwide trend" that is popular at Korean's dominant Presbyterian Church, he said.
South Korean missionary work targets a geographical region of the northern hemisphere, known as the "10/40 window," between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator, said Pastor Oh Sung-kwon, Secretary General of the National Council of Churches in Korea. | <urn:uuid:f2253663-d615-4943-82e7-4b760a32c794> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/08/13/2003373923 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968185 | 695 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The answer is simple: The Arduino programmers are lazy and don't have much of a clue. The whole of the core is riddled with wrong data types, bad practices, and generally stupid ways of doing things. All of which end up rubbing off on users who are new to programming and blindly copy how Arduino have done things, picking up said bad habits and practices for themselves.
Well now that we are dissing Arduino, allow me to add my gripes!
The HARDWARE design is all wrong. Ever try to use the "mounting" holes on the board? Impossible. They are too close to connectors, and there are no "keep-outs" to protect traces from screw heads or standoffs.
There are not enough VCC and GND points available for prototyping.
There is no good place to clip on a ground wire (like for a scope probe).
There is not enough keep-out clearance around the ICSP connector for the MEGA16 USB processor, and BARELY enough room around the main ICSP connector.
The USB interface uses a 16.000 crystal
, but the CPU uses a lousy resonator that drifts with temperature.
Don't believe this one? Setup a 60 Hz square wave (or 50 depending on where you live), watch it on your scope with the scope sync'd to the line and watch it's drift.
Then touch the resonator and you will see the frequency slowly change (drift rate changes) as it warms up.
It's not finger capacitance - the change doesn't happen immediately, it SLOWLY drifts! Remove the finger and it drifts back down.
Wonderful design where PRECISION TIMING is needed (not).
The connectors on the board should have been MALE pins, not a female header. It's much easier to make a custom female-to-female cable with Sparkfun or Pololu jumper wires and single row or dual row connectors.
Because of this, the first thing I usually do is de-solder the connectors on an Arduino and replace them with male header pins.
Voltage regulator: Why not use something more beefy like a 7805 and some decent heat sinking (or at least provide a spot to solder in an optional one)?
Pin numbers: How stupid is that? What's wrong with "PORTB, BIT 7"?
Why is map() done with long ints? It's almost useless that way. I modified my library (overloaded the function) to also support floats.
Speaking of floats, why doesn't the IDE have the option
or disable floating point support
for printf, sprintf, sscanf, etc? I had to write my own mod to add that feature!
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On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
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Having left their little house on the Kansas prairie, the Ingalls family travels by covered wagon to Minnesota and settles in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek. Pa trades his horses Pet and Patty to the property owner (a man named Hanson, who wants to go west) for the land and crops. He later gets two new horses as Christmas presents for the family, which Laura and her sister Mary name "Sam" and "David". Pa soon builds a new, above-ground, wooden house for the family, trusting that their first crop of wheat will pay for the lumber and materials.
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While the book makes the dugout seem idyllic, we learned when examining the dugout replica at the museum that it was tiny, dark, leaked water and I can only imagine was full of bugs. Dugouts were meant to be temporary housing and not built to last. No wonder Pa decided to build the house before the first wheat crop. No wonder Laura went on and on about china doorknobs and “boughten” doors on hinges and glass windows.
The dugout site is marked with a massive sign which only serves to dwarf the small depression in the top of the creek bank that is the dugout ruins.
After entering the property, you drive back on a gravel road a little ways to the creek. There is a circular area to park your vehicle and the site is well marked and has a number of informational plaques. The closest landmark is the big rock which is disappointing since they aren’t really sure if it is THE big rock described in On the Banks of Plum Creek in addition to it being mostly buried under thick layer of dirt and, when we visited, completely submerged in the creek.
If you can read the sign you can see it’s reported to be location of the dugout ruins, spring, big rock, tablelands and plum thicket. I was most excited to see the dugout ruins though I was also really curious about the tablelands and the big rock.
After spending an hour or so going through the Walnut Grove Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, we got directions to the dugout site which is described in On the Banks of Plum Creek. It’s located less than 2 miles north of town on a piece of private property that the family has opened up to tourist for a nominal fee paid on the honor system. The story goes that the family purchased the land in the late 1940s and, when improving the property, took down an old dilapidated building that may have been the house that Pa built with lumber he got on credit. Not long after that Little House illustrator Garth Williams came through in search of the Ingall’s house and old dugout site. (See The Walnut Grove Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder for more detailed information.)
Then Ma told them something else about Santa Claus. He was everywhere, and besides that, he was all the time. Whenever anyone was unselfish, that was Santa Claus. Christmas Eve was the time when everyone was unselfish. On that one night, Santa Claus was everywhere, because everybody, all together, stopped being selfish and wanted other people to be happy. And in the morning you saw what that had done.
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25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25
1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize that they actually have your best interests in mind or you forgive them for being flawed human beings, you can’t happily enter adulthood with that familial brand of resentment.
2. Kiss someone you think is out of your league; kiss models and med students and entrepreneurs with part-time lives in Dubai and don’t worry about if they’re going to call you afterward.
3. Minimize your passivity.
4. Work a service job to gain some understanding of how tipping works, how to keep your cool around assholes, how a few kind words can change someone’s day.
5. Recognize freedom as a 5:30 a.m. trip to the diner with a bunch of strangers you’ve just met.
6. Try not to beat yourself up over having obtained a ‘useless’ Bachelor’s Degree. Debt is hell, and things didn’t pan out quite like you expected, but you did get to go to college, and having a degree isn’t the worst thing in the world to have. We will figure this mess out, I think, probably; the point is you’re not worth less just because there hasn’t been an immediate pay off for going to school. Be patient, work with what you have, and remember that a lot of us are in this together.
7. If you’re employed in any capacity, open a savings account. You never know when you might be unemployed or in desperate need of getting away for a few days. Even $10 a week is $520 more a year than you would’ve had otherwise.
8. Make a habit of going outside, enjoying the light, relearning your friends, forgetting the internet.
9. Go on a 4-day, brunch-fueled bender.
10. Start a relationship with your crush by telling them that you want them. Directly. Like, look them in the face and say it to them. Say, I want you. I want to be with you.
11. Learn to say ‘no’ — to yourself. Don’t keep wearing high heels if you hate them; don’t keep smoking if you’re disgusted by the way you smell the morning after; stop wasting entire days on your couch if you’re going to complain about missing the sun.
12. Take time to revisit the places that made you who you are: the apartment you grew up in, your middle school, your hometown. These places may or may not be here forever; you definitely won’t be.
13. Find a hobby that makes being alone feel lovely and empowering and like something to look forward to.
14. Think you know yourself until you meet someone better than you.
15. Forget who you are, what your priorities are, and how a person should be.
16. Identify your fears and instead of letting them dictate your every move, find and talk to people who have overcome them. Don’t settle for experiencing .000002% of what the world has to offer because you’re afraid of getting on a plane.
17. Make a habit of cleaning up and letting go. Just because it fit at one point doesn’t mean you need to keep it forever — whether ‘it’ is your favorite pair of pants or your ex.
18. Stop hating yourself.
19. Go out and watch that movie, read that book, listen to that band you already lied about watching, reading, listening to.
20. Take advantage of health insurance while you have it.
21. Make a habit of telling people how you feel, whether it means writing a gushing fan-girl email to someone whose work you love or telling your boss why you deserve a raise.
22. Date someone who says, “I love you” first.
23. Leave the country under the premise of “finding yourself.” This will be unsuccessful. Places do not change people. Instead, do a lot of solo drinking, read a lot of books, have sex in dirty hostels, and come home when you start to miss it.
24. Suck it up and buy a Macbook Pro.
25. Quit that job that’s making you miserable, end the relationship that makes you act like a lunatic, lose the friend whose sole purpose in life is making you feel like you’re perpetually on the verge of vomiting. You’re young, you’re resilient, there are other jobs and relationships and friends if you’re patient and open."
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Pennsylvania's new Megan's Law
March 22, 2013
Guests: CAPTAIN SCOTT PRICE, TED GLACKMAN and GREG ROWE
Pennsylvania's new and stricter Megan's Law took effect in December making the Commonwealth the sixteenth state to comply with the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. The Act requires all states to use uniform criteria for their sexual offender registries and imposes a financial penalty if they fail to do so. Pennsylvania's revised law extends the length of time some sexual offenders remain on the registry, adds certain non-sexual crimes to the list of offenses for which people must register, and expands the registry to include homeless and transient people as well as some juveniles. Critics contend the law is too harsh and makes it more difficult for convicted sex offenders to earn a living and get treatment. Proponents say it closes serious loopholes in the Commonwealth's sex offender registries and makes it easier to track offenders when they relocate to another state. Joining us to explain Pennsylvania's new Megan's law is CAPTAIN SCOTT PRICE of the Pennsylvania State Police, the agency authorized to create and maintain the Commonwealth's sexual offender’s registry. Then we'll talk about the pros and cons of the law with TED GLACKMAN of the Joseph J. Peters Institute and GREG ROWE of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. | <urn:uuid:50e8e0af-f7cf-478c-a36a-9e433d133568> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2013/03/22/pennsylvanias-new-megans-law/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924017 | 276 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Reading ‘Healthy Habits’ in Lake Worthby Jane Smith
He thinks people need to develop eating and exercising habits to become healthy and lose weight. He even quotes famed runner Jim Ryun, who broke the 4-minute-mile record as a Kansan high school runner, as saying: “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit will keep you going.”
Cole advocates staying active daily, not just the three times a week you visit the gym. “Simply finding ways to stand up while doing activities you typically sit down for can be a great start,” he writes.
Back to basics
For people who want to lose weight, he says to weigh yourself daily “because it is a lot easier to lose 15 pounds than it is to lose 50….Be brave.”
He also advises the ol’ food diary as a way to help people track the calories they eat and learn to estimate portion sizes. He quotes a 2008 study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, that found “the act of writing down and monitoring your daily food intake doubles your weight loss results.”
Other tips include: read about health and fitness daily, reinforce your motivation by purchasing a new outfit when you’ve lost several inches, plan your meals, and stick to the habits — no free days where you can eat whatever you want or do nothing all day.
Four habit-altering cycles
Each cycle lasts 6 weeks and has nutrition and fitness goals that you do until they become habits. The cycles are:
1. Nutrition — Eliminate processed sugar, replacing it with sugar-free sweeteners. Fitness — Do your have-to chores, such as cleaning or dog-walking, for 20-30 minutes daily.
2. Nutrition — First focus on carbohydrate and protein mixing for 3 weeks, then switch to healthier carbohydrates for the next 3 weeks. Fitness — Add moderate level group training classes or participate in a favorite sport, such as dancing or basketball, twice a week for at least 20 minutes. Continue doing your have-to chores at least twice a week.
3. Nutrition — For the first 3 weeks, eliminate trans fat and reduce fats by trimming it from meats; for the second 3 weeks, reduce salt intake. Don’t eat in restaurants. Fitness — Consider competitive sports, participate in charity runs, 3 or 4 times weekly for at least 30 minutes at a time. Continue with your have-to chores.
4. Nutrition — Learn how to write down and calculate the calories of everything you eat by keeping a food diary. Fitness — Add twice-a-week weight training. Continue with competitive sports and physical hobbies.
My healthy lifestyle
I do eat a healthy diet. I limit processed sugar and rarely consume artificial sweeteners because I found that they actually make me more hungry. I also don’t add salt at the table, and I’m already an avid label reader, avoiding foods with over 400 mg of sodium and those that contain more than 30 percent of their calories from fat. I rarely eat red meat and trim the visible fat when I do.
But I do think I need to go back to keeping a food diary, if only to remind myself that I already had reached my calorie limit for that day.
Anybody else keep a food diary? Please share your results in the comments section below.
And now for my numbers
I had my best walking day last week on Friday, June 29, 2012, when I walked: | <urn:uuid:96cb2d3b-d276-412f-b27c-b6bcdaa61587> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/step-by-step/2012/07/02/reading-healthy-habits-in-lake-worth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951538 | 725 | 2.421875 | 2 |
When considering the twenty-fifth anniversary of Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR), I found myself amazed. With each Spring/Summer and each Fall/Winter issue arriving on newsstands across the continent, AQR has twice annually put Alaska and Alaskan talent on the literary map for twenty-five uninterrupted years.
Published by the University of Alaska Anchorage and edited by Ronald Spatz, AQR has always operated on a simple premise: Don't push a parochial agenda. Although scores of Alaskan writers have graced its pages with stories, essays, poetry, drama, and photographs, their subject matter has been as diverse and eclectic as imaginable. As an example, AQR's recent Hidden Alaska mini-anthology featured a collection of writings that revealed a deeply personal slice of Alaska not always readily apparent to the larger world. And, among its most enduring achievements, AQR introduced many readers across the globe to the tales and legends by the first Alaskans, with two special issues devoted to our Native writers, storytellers and orators.
Each stunning AQR cover offers a distinctly Alaskan face to the world, from Athabaskan fish camps to the lone walrus of Kalgan Island; however, there is nothing regionally limited about the content. AQR's innovative special issue, ONE BLOOD: The Narrative Impulse broke new ground, exploring genre crossings in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Another example: the 80-page photo essay of international importance, "Chechnya: A Decade of War" by Alaskan photographer Heidi Bradner was of a scope rarely equaled by any national publication, small or large.
AQR is on the cutting edge and as Laura Furman, series editor of the Prize Stories observed, "AQR is playing an impressive part in our national literature." Indeed works showcased in AQR have gone on to win national awards such as the O. Henry Award, Best American Essay, Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize and others, awards that have confirmed and consolidated its respect and recognition as a major, world class literary magazine of consequence.
While AQR has been exporting Alaskan talent to the world at large, it has simultaneously been bringing the literary cosmos into Alaska in the form of the best new writing of our time. Along with work by new and emerging authors (some now internationally known) AQR has featured interviews and special sections with a veritable who's who of America's literary lions and lionesses--Jane Smiley, Richard Ford, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, Patricia Hampl, Billy Collins, and Jane Hirshfield to name just a few.
AQR has been rewarded with accolades including the Alaska State Governor's Award for the Arts, and Special Recognition by the Alaska Center for the Book. It has been duly recognized for its excellence by Poets & Writers, The Literary Magazine Review, Library Journal and many other organizations and publications of note. It is undeniably, as The Washington Post Book World editor put it, "One of the nation's best literary magazines."
By refusing to be parochial or cliquish (always selecting and showcasing the finest work available), AQR has raised the bar and inspired and fostered excellence among new and emerging writers both in Alaska and outside it. But here's the astounding thing. In spite of the odds against it, in spite of the vicissitudes of the small press business, and the exigencies of print publishing in general in a digital world, after twenty-five years ---twenty-five years! --- Alaska Quarterly Review is still producing beautiful, thoughtful, exciting and important issues twice each year. Now, that is something to celebrate. | <urn:uuid:cb43da5a-ff03-4251-95db-78879dec66b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Reading-and-Writing&page=Pass-The-Word&viewpost=2&ContentId=2622 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949224 | 764 | 1.757813 | 2 |
How do I...?
Gardena, once the berry-growing capital of southern California, is today called the "Freeway City" because it is bordered by the Artesia, Harbor, and San Diego freeways to its south, east, and west, respectively. Its modern-day urban designation is a far cry from Gardena's early reputation as a "garden spot," a lush oasis of greenery fed by the waters of the Dominguez Slough. Long before it was officially incorporated in 1930 by combining the rural communities of Moneta and Strawberry Park, Gardena was known first by Gabrielino Indians and later Spanish and American settlers as a long green stretch of land amidst coastal sage scrub.
The community originally evolved from part of the roughly 43,000-acre Spanish land grant, the Rancho San Pedro, given to Juan Jose Dominguez around 1800. The site was later named the Rosecrans Rancho after Union Army Major General William Starke Rosecrans, who bought 16,000 acres following the Civil War. This land would later be bordered on the north by Florence Avenue, on the south by Redondo Beach Boulevard, on the east by Central Avenue, and on the west by Arlington Avenue. After the property changed hands several times, early Gardena was laid out with Figueroa and 161st streets at its center, the idea being that the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway would pass next to it when extended south between those two communities. When the route instead came in along Vermont Avenue, the community moved to accommodate the change.
Farming became Gardena's main industry early in the twentieth century, though berries, especially strawberries, were its claim to fame. The community became known as "Berryland," and was renowned for its Strawberry Day Festival and parade every May. The berry industry dwindled with World War I, when land was used first for other crops and then later for development.
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1975. USA. Steven Spielberg. 124 min.
Saturday, August 13, 2011, 2:30 p.m.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
1975. USA. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, based on the novel by Benchley. With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. The massive success of Jaws, released in the U.S. on June 20, 1975, gave us the term "summer blockbuster," invented the contemporary "event film," and redefined the seasonal rhythm of American moviegoing. Filmed mostly on Martha's Vineyard, that bastion of summering folk, Jaws tells the simple story of a great white shark with a penchant for eating foolish bathers who ignore the warnings of harried police chief Martin Brody—memorably embodied by Scheider (who passed away in February of this year). Brody, Dreyfuss's jittery shark expert, and Shaw's salty sea dog of a boat captain have all become indelible icons of American cinema. 124 min. | <urn:uuid:e4419a72-5507-49fe-904c-c962b46be543> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/12992 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916721 | 238 | 1.523438 | 2 |
RelEx is an English-language semantic dependency relationship extractor, built on the Carnegie-Mellon Link Grammar parser. It can identify subject, object, indirect object, and many other syntactic dependency relationships between words in a sentence; it generates dependency trees, resembling those of dependency grammars, and specifically, those of Dekang Lin's MiniPar and the Stanford parser. It accomplishes this by applying a sequence of rules, based on the local context, and thus resembles constraint grammar in its implementation. In this sense, it implements some of the ideas of Hudson's Word Grammar. However, unlike other dependency parsers, RelEx attempts a greater degree of semantic normalization.
Augmented Syntax Diagrams (ASDs) provide a way to represent grammars of natural languages as directed graphs. Nodes represent instances (or usages) of words and phrase types in a language such as English. Edges link nodes together to indicate how instances of words and phrase types can follow one another to make up phrases, clauses, and sentences in the language.
Amiba is a Gene Expression Programming (GEP) framework for Java. GEP is, like genetic algorithms, a branch of evolutionary computing. The framework separates the process of evolution from the process of interpretation of the chromosome, allowing the use of various schemes. For example, graphs may be used as terminals and graph operations as operators in the chromosome instead of the usual double precision numbers. It implements mutation, transposition, and recombination. Options and rates are easily configured through an XML file. A mechanism to load fitness cases in bulk is also provided.
Python Web Graph Generator is a threaded Web graph (Power law random graph) generator. It can generate a synthetic Web graph of about one million nodes in a few minutes on a desktop machine. It supports both directed and undirected graphs. It implements a threaded variant of the RMAT algorithm. A little tweak can produce graphs representing social networks or community networks. It can also output connected components in a graph.
Isobel is a framework to build complex information retrieval and analysis systems. Isobel can be functionally divided in two subsytems, Isobel Gatherer (the crawling and filtering subsystem) and Isobel Analyzer (the analysis subsystem). The two subsytems can also be used separately. Isobel Gatherer offers ready-to-use services like content fetching, scheduling, document format conversion, Hyperlink graph storage and analysis, content storage and indexing. A programmer may easily add new services. Isobel Analyzer uses the IBM UIMA architecture to reuse the analysis components developed for this architecture.
SIOX4Java (Simple Interactive Object Extraction) is a Java SDK that provides a generic segmentation engine for extracting the foreground from still images with little user interaction. The underlying method (which has also been integrated into GIMP) is noise and motion blur robust and can easily be adapted for the segmentation of objects in videos. The SDK also contains an experimental feature called the "Detail Refinement Brush", which enables the removal of spill colors and manual refinement of highly detailed textures. | <urn:uuid:6aecd5c5-fde3-4bfc-ade3-093125d359e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freecode.com/tags/apache-20?page=1&sort=created_at&with=562&without=3025 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903972 | 646 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Government Success With a Little Pain
The Baker Park swinging bridge is an iconic symbol of a beloved public green space amidst the hustle and bustle of downtown Frederick.
Generations of Fredericktonians tell tales of crossing that little pedestrian bridge in all manner of ways, from the hand-in-hand stroll of lovers to the dangerous hand-over-hand crossing underneath the walkway prompted by boyhood dares.
For years, the bridge was closed, a victim of the ravages of age on wrought iron, wood and steel combined with the lack of discretionary revenue to make the necessary repairs.
It wasn't that past city leaders didn't want to fix it, it's just that the several hundred thousand dollar cost estimate in difficult budget years was just too high a mountain to climb. The political justification of that kind of expense was simply a "bridge too far” – budget-wise.
So, along comes Mayor Randy McClement, the former bagel king turned very competent public administrator. A notorious penny-pincher, this is the same mayor who cut out extra subscriptions to the local newspaper and tax-funded bottled water dispensers in city offices.
His logic on the water dispensers was that the city produces drinking water for its citizens; so, how then can they justify buying commercial bottled water for public sector employees. Similarly, his take on the newspaper subscriptions was that one or two newspapers per facility was more than sufficient.
Employees could share the paper with other departments, and with a subscription comes on-line access, too. Besides, should we really have a bunch of government workers reading the paper on the public's dime?
It was through this simple pragmatism filter that Mayor McClement decided the fate of the swinging bridge. Acting Public Works Superintendent Marc Stachowski proposed a unique solution; he would use his internal workforce, on a time-available basis, to restore the bridge. That way, instead of paying a contractor the exorbitant prices they estimated to fix the bridge, DPW workers who had downtime between jobs could fix it over time. It wasn't like there was some pressing need to get the bridge opened, as it had been closed for several years.
The secondary benefit was just as, if not more, important than the cost factor. By doing the research and de-constructing the bridge for repair, DPW workers could see how this marvel of engineering was put together, enabling much simpler and cost-effective future repairs.
So, that's the course they chose. For the next few years, DPW workers, already being paid to work for the city, would conduct Internet research into how to maintain a structure like the swinging bridge. As time permitted, they took component pieces apart, experimented with alternate materials, and welded, chipped and restrung the parts and sections back together.
All of this happened outside the view of most, save the people who live around Baker Park, the people who most missed having the bridge open to foot traffic.
So, why did what would otherwise be a celebrated, cost-controlled public works project evolve into a political controversy? We have a watchdog, maybe two, to thank for that.
First, a citizen retiree from a federal bureaucracy happened upon the final stages of the restoration. DPW workers were painting the bridge, and had jury-rigged a painting platform in Carroll Creek. The contraption involved a few large step ladders and a few planks, and spanned about 15 feet of the creek.
To be honest, it looked a little shaky. Photographed at just the right angle, catching the painters leaning out a little bit, anyone would conclude that this was a thrown-together operation.
Couple that with a career as a professional second-guesser who went around telling people how to do things to be fully compliant with regulations, and you have a problem.
The civic safety watchdog ran to the newspapers and spilled the beans. Dutifully, the paper dispatched a photographer to capture the Kodak moment, along with plenty of sky-is-falling quotes about placing workers in jeopardy.
As if that weren't enough, one of our county commissioners, the owner of a private sector utility company, found another excuse to employ his Yellow Pages argument.
The basis of the Yellow Pages argument is that if you can find a service in the business section of your phone book, then government shouldn't be doing it.
Full Disclosure Alert – The commissioner in question is Kirby Delauter. This writer really likes Kirby, and has a ton of respect for Kirby's family business. A north county employer for generations of utility workers, W.F. Delauter & Son is responsible for helping to build Frederick County as we know it.
Kirby came into office with the tsunami that swept Blaine Young into the top spot at Winchester Hall. Kirby, Blaine, Paul Smith and Billy Shreve all succeeded by joining forces and messages, capturing the imagination of the electorate on a promise to simplify, reduce and control the cost and size of government.
They've done what they said they would.
Attacking the swinging bridge as an example of a project government shouldn't be involved in is just a little short-sighted. It does make a good political slogan, though. This project is actually an example of the kind of project that we should be demanding from our governments, the efficient deployment of resources and talent to maximize our flexibility, responsiveness, and to reduce costs.
As far as the civic safety watchdog, maybe we can find a leash and a muzzle. If the nanny-state wants to get involved in matters like this, we're already sunk. While we could have doubled the cost to paint the bridge by bringing in a private sector bridge painter, who would have built-in the cost to erect a scaffold in his bid, they still could have had an accident. It happens every day.
At the end of the day, the swinging bridge is reopened. The cost to restore it was a fraction of what it could have been, and city workers now know how to repair the bridge more effectively in the future for having gone through this experience.
So, while it might violate the Yellow Pages theory and the strictest interpretation of worker safety regulations, it's a fantastic outcome and something the entire community can, and should, be proud. | <urn:uuid:80570e57-9666-430f-be89-678a416a723c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5185 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969919 | 1,301 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Companion planting is a core element of organic gardening. This has proven to have improved the yield of surrounding plants and even improve the flavour of neighbouring plants.
Who doesn’t like being around a friend? Around someone with similar likes perhaps? Or in whose company we bloom to our fullest or even someone who offsets our own quirks?
Well, as it turns out this may be a natural instinct for all living things, including plants. Maybe we've learnt this behaviour from plants? Watch them grow in the forest and you find they thrive in the company of some and are unable to in the presence of others. It is interesting to understand how this works and use it to the advantage of all plants in your organic garden.
Many of us think of organic gardening as growing without the use of pesticides. While this is a key feature, an organic garden is much more than a mere shift from harmful chemical fertilisers to organic ones. It is in fact an entire interconnected system that includes insects, birds, sun, water and all other aspects of a living community. Viewed through such a lens, companion planting is a core element of organic gardening.
Its benefits are many - natural insect repellents, shade and windbreaks; providing necessary nutrients to the soil and other plants and reducing the need for external fertilisers. Another advantage of companion planting is making optimal use of available space by growing plants of differing heights. By growing different types of plants, the garden becomes a conducive environment for beneficial microbes and insects.
In addition to the science of companion plants having the ability to improve the yield of surrounding plants, some people have also found that companion plants improve the flavour of neighbouring plants; a strong connect with our taste buds! For instance basil planted with tomatoes not only improves the yield – they taste good together!
The planting of the ‘Three Sisters’ (beans, corn and squash) by the Native Americans is often cited as a classic example of companion planting: The beans provide the essential amino acids, riboflavin, and niacin; the squash provides vitamins A and C, and vegetable fat from their seeds; and the corn provides all the other nutrients needed.
It is said that each of the ‘Three Sisters’ when grown together provided a harvest that would keep and sustain the community for months. In terms of space, the tall, sun-loving corn proved to be the perfect companion to shade tolerant squash and the creeper beans used the corn as a trellis. This diverse canopy also helped in pest control to a fair extent. What also worked was that these vegetables tasted good together, when cooked!
When selecting companion plants for the garden, not only should we consider which pests are deterred but also what each plant adds or takes away from the soil, and what effect the proximity of strong herbs may have on the flavour of neighbouring vegetables!
Some underlying techniques of companion planting include:
Some examples of companion planting in your vegetable garden
Beans: All beans enrich the soil with nitrogen fixed from the air. Generally, they are good company for carrot, celery, corn, eggplant, peas, potato, beets, radish, and cucumber. Beans are great for heavy nitrogen users like corn because beans fix nitrogen from the air into the soil so the nitrogen used up by the corn are replaced at the end of the season when the bean plants die. Keep beans away from the alliums (flowers).
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Volume 1.4 - Cricket wicket soils - will the ball bounce or spin?
Cricket wicket soils - will the ball
bounce or spin?
Gary W Beehag, Sportsturf Products Manager, Collins & Sons (Contractors) P/L (Sydney)
Australian Turfgrass Management Volume 1.4 (August - September 1999)
Consistent ball bounce is arguably the most important objective for cricket curators to achieve in the preparation of clay soil wickets. Australian cricket wickets utilize numerous clay soil types all with slightly varying properties. Studies conducted on these clay soils have characterized their properties to explain their physical behavior. Not all wicket clay soils are the same with the overriding difference being their clay mineralogy.
Clay soils used in Australia for cricket wickets are black earths. Portland, Bulli, Merri Creek and Collins wicket soils being the best known. Bulli wicket soil was first extracted in the late 1890’s from several sites near Wollongong (NSW) and was supplied by Matthew Collins to the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) up until the late 1950’s when the source of this supply ceased due to housing developments. Bulli soil became famous for its inherent ability to percolate water in a saturated state and to produce high quality wickets of international standard. The story of Merri Creek wicket soil in Victoria is a similar one. The original Merri Creek soil was extracted from one site in Victoria and was used at the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCG) as early as 1859 (Derriman, 1981). Collins wicket soil is a more recent type to replace another soil used around Sydney, Wamberal. What properties distinguish high quality wicket clay soils like Bulli soil and Merri Creek soil? The answer lies is their clay mineralogy.
Unlike the cricket wicket soils used in Britain and New Zealand, Australian cricket wicket soils possess less organic matter and have a greater clay content. In 1931, C. S. Piper, a soil physicist at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute (Adelaide) undertook the first survey of the physico-chemical properties of various Australian cricket wicket clay soils. Piper studied numerous clay soils which included those from Athelstone (SA), Bulli (NSW), Goodna (Qld) and Merri Creek (Vic.). Piper reported that the clay content of these soils varied between 50-75% (Piper, 1931). Subsequent studies conducted on clay soils by Don McIntyre a CSIRO soil physicist revealed more detailed properties of the clay colloids between the soils used on the major cricket grounds throughout Australia (McIntyre, 1983).
Clay soils are composed of secondary minerals derived from primary parent rock minerals during the natural weathering processes. Most of the clay in natural soils is colloidal and which is of a crystalline structure. The crystalline structure can be seen by high-powered microscopy. The crystalline structure of clays are either of a two-layer or a three-layer. The dominant atoms are silicon and oxygen and to a lesser extent, aluminium. The degree and pattern of ‘ soil cracking’ during normal wetting and drying cycles of wickets is primarily determined by the type of clay crystalline structure. Clay minerals are basically classified into one of three clay groups. These groups being kaolinite, illite and montmorillonite (smectite). Clay mineralogy is typically determined by X-ray diffraction techniques and differential thermal analysis. Wicket soils are typically composed of each clay mineral in varying proportions. Uniformity of the cracking of the wicket surface is an inherent characteristic within the soil, based on the proportions of each clay type.
The kaolinite clay group comprises a two-layered, rigid structure that does not expand when wet. Illite has a three-layer structure and is another clay type like kaolinite, which does not expand when wet. English wicket soils are largely composed of illite and kaolinite. Montmorillinite or smectite on the other hand is a two-layer structure. Montmorillinite does have space between the layers and which expands when wet. In addition, montmorillinite clays have a greater capacity to exchange cations and which are held in the exchangeable (plant available) form (Donahue et al 1971). Both Bulli and Merri Creek soils are largely composed of smectite. Bulli and Merri Creek soils are alluvial black earths. Collins wicket soil (Sydney) is a volcanic black earth with properties which mirror those of the original Bulli soil.
Clay mineralogy results in linear and volumetric changes of clay soils, which explains their cracking ability. This is readily seen during wetting and drying cycles. High quality clay soils must possess plasticity (ability to be moulded and shaped without rupture) and maintain coherence (ability to remain dense when in a dry and moulded state). Changes in linear and volumetric shrinkage have long been used by civil engineers to characterize the structural stability of soils. Linear and volumetric shrinkage can be readily measured by laboratory methods and is a useful physical measurement to compare unknown soils in order to predict their behavior in the field. Intimate knowledge of the properties of clay soils plays a vital part of wicket preparation to achieve the desired results.
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Lo, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and twelve, a great tragedy struck the kingdom nestled in the center of the Great Plains of Iowa. In the kingdom, a castle was ruled by a beautiful Queen. The Queen, in her infinite wisdom, decided to acquire a fish for her only offspring, because children love looking at colorful, squirmy things they can't reach and are forbidden to touch.
The Queen's intentions were good, whishing to provide the child with a unique source of wonder, but lo she did not take into account the ability to look at literally millions of pictures of fish on the enchanted Internet or watch them on the Discovery Channel or Animal Planet in glorious high definition.
She summoned a fish, and with it came a curse: responsibility. It had been chronicled that the Queen's interest was far more suited to important matters of the day - dishwasher loading seminars, orders of furniture rearranging, letter filing and cake popery - than that of pets.
The Queen's handmaiden, who was staying at the castle, soon adopted the tiny creature. She named him "Lord Byron" cryptically stating about the fish, "Looks like a Lord Byron", a proclamation that only made sense to others of her clan. The handmaiden quickly grew attached to aquatic orange creature and was soon entrusted to his feeding and cleaning.
One fateful grey evening, the handmaiden was struck ill with a mighty pox, rendering her as useful as Lord Byron himself, and was banished from the kingdom before Lord Byron's vessel could be cleansed. The Queen, taking on responsibility far below her stead, attempted to clean the bowl herself. Lo, these were dark days indeed.
The water changed, the Queen poised to grasp Lord Byron to return him to his aquatic home
and the scream could be heard throughout the land.
Glass ruptured; crows flocked off trees, a clowder of cats sprinted into the forest. Moments later the Queen called out for help.
The Warrior heard her cry from the depths of the living room. After heroically pausing the game, the Warrior most certainly did not roll his eyes at the beckoning and leapt into action.
The Warrior appeared, let's say, radiantly galloping shirtless atop a mighty steed to the Queen's aid, her terror momentarily suspended by the glimmer of pure masculinity in his fiery eyes.
"What?" the Warrior declared, boldly bracing himself against the stove to keep from passing out due to getting up too quickly. The Warrior was not yet battle-ready, having dozed off after chasing after the Queen's child, a girl whose mystical powers daily saps the Warrior's energy.
Mightily, the Warrior assessed the situation. Lord Byron was flopping about outside his bowl. The Queen was paralyzed with terror. There was this weird mark on his hand. He was going to have to get that looked at. Time was not the Warrior's ally in this battle, for he knew the fish could not long survive in this world. The Warrior's strength was matched only by his intellect like that.
The Warrior unsheathed his wooden spoon, Excalibur, and advanced cautiously. Adopting a stance of a Samurai and the expression of a terrified 14-year-old girl, the Warrior slowly extended his trusty cutlery and nudged the dying friend, hoping the creature would meet him halfway and flop himself onto the spoon to facilitate his rescue. Panicked and with visions of being sauted, Lord Byron's attempts missed their mark.
The Warrior, really wishing it hadn't come to this, tossed aside his spoon, which clattered to the floor, likely splashing wet fish amoebas wherever it landed. The Queen would be most displeased at this, though the Warrior, wise beyond his years, determined this wasn't really something she needed to know.
Closing his eyes, the Warrior summoned the power of his ancestors, and formed a cup with his right hand. The Warrior grasped the fledging fish in his mighty paw, the very paw that would soon wrap around the Queen in a triumphant embrace but only after a thorough scrubbing and healthy rubbing of Purel.
Or so it seemed. Just as the Warrior sensed success, Lord Byron seized with the joy of being saved by a hero of such handsomeness, causing the Warrior to reel due to an extreme sense of ickiness.
It should be noted in our tale that Lord Byron was poised precariously near the vile Insinkerator - a creature of mythical lore whose hunger can never be fully satisfied - as if enacting the iconic scene in Return of the Jedi when Han Solo, Chewbaca and Luke Skywalker were sentenced by Jabba the Hut to jump to their demise into the gaping maw of the sarlacc.
Whether by accident or fate, Lord Byron executed a perfect dive into the dark pit of the Insinkerator, momentarily leaving the Warrior stunned.
"Nooooo!" cried the Warrior as the heavens thundered and volcanoes erupted. Trees began breaking. A Native American began to weep.
Per the Queen's directive, a rescue now was impossible. Once devoured by the Insinkerator, there was no hope. After running a bunch of water "because maybe that will help get him to the ocean" the Insinkerator was activated, causing the ground to quake and the Warrior's heart to get all mashed up, likely a similar feeling being experienced by the once great Lord Byron.
The only task left was to inform the handmaiden, who would no doubt be crushed.
"That's not my job," the Warrior suddenly, but bravely, proclaimed. "I'm just here to save the day."
The Warrior then valiantly strode to the refrigerator for a yogurt.
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Eiruvin 7 - 13
A Voice From Heaven
The "bas kol" - voice from Heaven - announcing that in halachic disputes between Beis Hillel and Beis Shammai the ruling is like the former, twice echoes in the pages of our weekly section. It is first mentioned regarding the beraisa which states that one may follow either the ruling of Beis Hillel or Beis Shammai. One approach of the gemara is that this applies even after the bas kol ruled in favor of Beis Hillel, because the beraisa follows the opinion of Rabbi Yehoshua that no bas kol can influence a halachic decision. Once Hashem told us in His Torah that "It (the Torah) is not in heaven," contends Rabbi Yehoshua, there can be no Divine intervention in the halachic process which is left entirely to the Torah Sages.
The second time we hear this echo is in the statement of Rabbi Abba in the name of the Sage Shmuel (13b). There, a three-year long dispute between Beis Hillel and Beis Shammai was climaxed by a bas kol declaring that even though both opinions were "words of the Living G-d," the halacha is like Beis Hillel. If both opinions were so in tune with the Divine Will, asks the gemara, why did Beis Hillel merit to have the Divine ruling in their favor? Because of their gentleness and tolerance, the gemara answers, as demonstrated by their always quoting the opposing opinion of Beis Shammai, and sometimes even stating it before their own.
The position of Rabbi Yehoshua in the first reference has its source in the classical dispute between Rabbi Eliezer and his colleagues, led by Rabbi Yehoshua, over the halachic status of a particular oven. Although he was outnumbered by his colleagues, Rabbi Eliezer refused to abide by the majority ruling mandated by the Torah in such a case, and called for Divine intervention to prove that he was right. The miracles he invoked in reversing the nature of a carob tree, a stream of water and the Beis Midrash walls did not impress his colleagues. Even when he finally succeeded in having a bas kol announce that "the halacha is always like Rabbi Eliezer," a resolute Rabbi Yehoshua led the opposition by standing up and proclaiming "It is not in heaven" - once the Torah was given to us, we pay no attention to voices from Heaven in regard to the halachic process.
Rabbi Yehoshua's sweeping rejection of any intervention by a bas kol leads our gemara to conclude that he would reject even the Heavenly voice that ruled in favor of Beis Hillel, therefore leaving the option to follow Beis Shammai's ruling. The mainstream approach of our Sages does, however, view that bas kol as the final word in deciding between the two opinions, and the halacha is therefore clearly like Beis Hillel, with no option to follow Beis Shammai's ruling.
If we accept the bas kol in regard to Beis Hillel, asks Tosefos, why did all the Sages - not only Rabbi Yehoshua - reject its intervention on behalf of Rabbi Eliezer? Two resolutions are offered. One is that a bas kol can indeed be considered, but in the case of Rabbi Eliezer who invited Heavenly intervention, it was clear both from the nature of the request and the language of the message that it was intended only as a tribute to his scholarly greatness and not as a halachic decider. The other resolution is that a bas kol cannot upset the ruling of a majority since the Torah told us to abide by majority rule. In Rabbi Eliezer's case he was in the minority but in Beis Hillel's case they were the majority. The only reason a bas kol was needed was to do away with Beis Shammai's argument (Yevamos 14a) that majority rule applied only when the disputants were of comparable intellectual status, but not in this dispute because Beis Shammai was sharper. The bas kol clarified that this was not a consideration, but rather that majority decision must always determine the halacha.
Shaking Words, Shaking Worlds
When Rabbi Meir came to Rabbi Yishmael to learn Torah he was asked:
"What is your profession, my son?"
"I am a scribe" was the reply.
"Be very careful in your work, my son" cautioned Rabbi Yishmael, "because yours is a Heavenly profession. Should you delete even one letter from the Sefer Torah you write, or add one letter, you destroy the world."
Rashi offers examples of how the addition or deletion of a single letter can lead to a blasphemous or heretical reading of the Torah. Tosefos, however, cites only examples of addition but not of subtraction.
Maharsha explains that only in regard to adding a letter is there a need to point out the danger this can bring to the world by allowing for a heretical reading. In regard to deleting a letter, however, there is an obvious danger even if that deletion does not affect the meaning of the word. This is because of our tradition that the letters of the Torah form the sacred Names of Hashem in the way they appeared before the creation of the world as black fire upon white fire. These letters were employed by the Creator in creating His world, and it is through them that He sustains it. The deletion of even one letter of this sustaining force therefore threatens the existence of the world.
Without referring to our gemara, the great Biblical and Talmudic commentator Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban), who lived several centuries before Maharsha, elaborates on the same concept in his introduction to his commentary on Chumash. He utilizes this concept of the letters forming holy Names to explain why a Sefer Torah is disqualified if it has one letter more or less than the prescribed text, even if that letter does not at all affect our understanding of the true meaning of the word. (For example, the word "osam" appears 39 times in the Torah with the letter "vav" in it. Although we would read it exactly the same way without the "vav" because of our tradition of vowelization, the deletion of this letter disqualifies the Sefer Torah. The same is true if one adds a "vav" where the prescribed text does not call for one.)
The black fire on white fire of the pre-creation Torah allowed for reading its letters either in combinations which formed the sacred Names or as the words which make up the accounts and mitzvos we are familiar with. Hashem gave Moshe the Torah to be recorded in the latter fashion and orally instructed him in how to read those same letters as combinations forming the Names. The Divine energy implicit in those letters cannot be tampered with by adding or deleting a single letter, and such an error can have serious ramifications both for the Sefer Torah and the entire universe. | <urn:uuid:3641eb38-96a0-4429-a691-71cd9970d913> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ohr.edu/this_week/the_weekly_daf/266 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968402 | 1,499 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Report: Resident doctors may need more sleep
A woman in bed with sleeping pills nearby.
JEREMY HOBSON: Starting next month new doctors-in-training won't be allowed to work more than 16 hours straight without a break for sleep. The current max is 30 hours. Some doctors, though, say even these new rules don't go far enough.
From the Marketplace Education Desk at WYPR in Baltimore, Amy Scott reports.
AMY SCOTT: In an article out today in the journal Nature and Science of Sleep, a group of doctors says hospitals should limit all residents to 12-16 hours shifts with a minimum of 10 hours between shifts. Under the new rules, after their first year residents will still be allowed to work up to 28 hours at a stretch with just 8 hours in between.
Charles Czeisler teaches sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School. He says a person who's worked that long is as impaired as someone who's legally drunk.
CHARLES CZEISLER: And we find that one out of five resident physicians admit to making a sleep-related mistake that has actually injured a patient. And one out of 20 admits to making a sleep-related mistake that has resulted in the death of a patient.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education wrote the new work rules. The Council says it reduced hours for first year residents because they're the least-experienced, most vulnerable doctors in training. But the group says studies have shown that reducing hours doesn't necessarily reduce medical errors or lead to more sleep.
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How far is Carisolo, the comune (municipality) in the province of Trento in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 30 km northwest of Trento from Forti, the place in Italy measured in The kilometre (American spelling: kilometer; symbol km), the unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a seconds?
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How to Take Your Own Screenshots
Screenshots. Sometimes they're all we have to go on for information about a hotly anticipated game. But our fascination with them doesn't stop after a game is released. Shots of a game in action represent badges of honor -- accomplishments that can create awe and envy. So many times, I've pulled off odd or incredible feats in a game with no way to share my experiences. I've often thought about taking my own screenshots, so I did some research. Preserve your own moments of glory by following these kinda-simple steps.
1. Hook it up and pass it along. Things will be considerably easier if you're attempting to capture on a computer. Tons of inexpensive or even free software applications, like Topaz Moment or My Screen Recorder, will record whatever's happening on your screen, including gameplay. Many will have built-in editing tools, too, so feel free to skip to Step 3.
Now, the process gets more complicated if you're taking video from a television hooked up to a console. You need to get the video signal from the television to your computer. The easiest way is the pass-through method. You'll need a digital video (DV) camcorder with analog inputs and a FireWire digital output. Many DV cameras use FireWire, so this shouldn't be a problem. Run audio-video cables from your TV into the camcorder and connect it to your computer via FireWire. Some products, like Pinnacle's Dazzle Video Creator Plus or Video Capture for Mac, come with both hardware and software. Very important: Be careful not to trip over anything.
2. Capture the frag. This stage requires an application that will do the actual video capturing. Apps like iMovie on the Mac and Movie Maker on Windows PCs will recognize when a DV camera is attached, and will give you the option to record. Play as you normally would, except with, y'know, less sucking.
3. Clip it good. Once you've got enough sufficiently face-melting footage edited into a clip that you like, it's time to pull out still images. Again, many video editing programs will have this function. Some, like Apple's QuickTime, will let you save those still pictures in a variety of different formats.
Keep in mind that, as a result of using analog video, the fruits of your labors may not necessarily be as sharp as the screenshots game publishers send to Web sites. But your screens will have something they can never capture. Heart, soul, determination and, yes, teabagging.
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Inactivated influenza vaccine is safe for children and adults with stable asthma
QUESTION: In children and adults with stable asthma, is the inactivated trivalent split virus influenza vaccine safe?
Randomised (allocation concealed), blinded (clinicians and patients), placebo controlled crossover trial with follow up to 14 days after each injection.
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2032 patients who were 3–64 years of age, had stable asthma, and had been taking prescribed treatment for asthma within the preceding 12 months. Exclusion criteria included hypersensitivity to egg products or thimerosal, inability to use the peak flow meter properly, lack of a telephone, history of Guillain-Barré syndrome, influenza vaccine in the previous 6 months, and a temperature ≥38.0oC within 24 hours before enrolment. 1952 patients (96%) (mean age 30 y, 62% girls and women) received vaccine and placebo injections and completed both 14 day postinjection diaries.
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Until now, comparing stress levels in individuals across the United States over time was not possible due to a lack of historical data that tracks stress using accepted comparable measures.
New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Sheldon Cohen and Denise Janicki-Deverts used telephone survey data from 1983 that polled 2,387 U.S. residents over the age of 18 and online surveys from 2006 and 2009 that polled 2,000 American adults each. All three surveys used the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), a measure created by Cohen to assess the degree to which situations in life are perceived as stressful.
Cohen and Janicki-Deverts used the respondents' answers to determine if psychological stress is associated with gender, age, education, income, employment status and/or race and ethnicity, and if the distributions of stress across demographics were constant over the 26-year period.
Published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the results show that women, individuals with lower income and those with less education reported more stress in all three surveys. They also show that as Americans age, they experience less stress and that retirees consistently report low levels of stress, indicating that retirement is not experienced as an adverse event.
"We know that stress contributes to poorer health practices, increased risk for disease, accelerated disease progression and increased mortality," said Cohen, the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology within CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences who is a leading expert on the relationship between stress and disease. "Differences in stress between demographics may be important markers of populations under increased risk for physical and psychological disorders."
Using the 2006 and 2009 surveys, Cohen and Janicki-Deverts found that those most negatively affected by the 2008-09 economic downturn were white, middle-aged men with college educations and full-time jobs. The authors suggested that this group may have had the most to lose since both their jobs and their savings were at risk.
Their results also showed between a 10 and 30 percent increase in stress in all the demographic categories over the 26 years between 1983 and 2009, however Cohen cautions against drawing the conclusion that Americans are more stressed today.
"It's hard to say if people are more stressed now than before because the first survey was conducted by phone and the last two were done online," Cohen said. "But, it's clear that stress is still very much present in Americans' lives, putting them at greater risk for many diseases such as cardiovascular, asthma and autoimmune disorders."
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And is it, as it currently exists, a threat to India?
The phrase is meant to denote a series of bases stretching from Sudan in Africa, under the subcontinent, and continuing on to mainland China. These bases are thought to threaten to contain Indian naval aspirations and provide the People’s Liberation Army Navy with staging points for operations in the Indian ocean. The term has been in the news these past days due to the transfer of management of the Pakistani port of Gwadar to the innocuously named Overseas Port Holdings Ltd., a Chinese state owned enterprise. The Chinese “bases” thought to threaten India are located in Pakistan (Gwadar), Sri Lanka (Hambantota), Bangladesh (Chittagong), and Myanmar (Kyaukpyu Y Sittwe). Upon cursory examination one could be forgiven for thinking that China has successfully encircled India. A closer examination of these bases, and the cost of using them to project hard power, gives lie to this interpretation.
These “bases” are really nothing of the sort, at least not in the way Americans tend to envision such things. Say “base” to an American and they will likely think of a leased area in a foreign state where their government exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction and has basing rights. Something along the lines of the bases at Guantanamo, Ramestein, and Futenma. This is not the form that China’s “pearls” have taken.
Gwadar is still simply a container port, one that is now operated by the Chinese government, but still just a container port. It cannot, at this time, service warships in a meaningful fashion. Furthermore, while Gwadar does have great strategic position, located at the entrance to the straights of Hormuz and with access to Somalia and Bab-el-Mandeb, it suffers because it is not well linked by either road or rail to the rest of Pakistan – thus making resupply of any base there rather complicated even in peacetime, much less during war. Moreover, the area in which it is located, Baluchistan, is beset by a persistent insurgency. Finally, the actual land on which it sits is shockingly exposed, an inverted “T” that juts into the ocean and leaves the ships based there vulnerable to both air and missile attack. Gwadar leaves a good deal to be desired as a military base.
Similar critiques can be made about most of the other “pearls” in the string. All of them are commercial in nature. Hambantota is a container port and oil refining and storage area. Chittagong is the main commercial port of Bangladesh. Kyaukpyu Y Sittwe is the Western terminus of a planned pipeline running from the bay of Bengal to China’s Western provinces. This is fitting with the posture of commercial expansion the PRC seems to have adopted for the near to mid term. The string of pearls at this present moment is a bid not for military dominance but for markets and influence in South Asia and access to resources (read: Oil) in Africa and the Middle East.
The threat posed by the string of pearls to India is no less real for all of this, it is simply not military in nature. Instead, the PRC is wielding economic might as a weapon. The threat is that India may soon look to its near abroad and find that the PRC has established itself as a benevolent hegemon in South Asia, supplying infrastructure durable goods, and expertise to the region in exchange for support for a Sino-centric Asian order. | <urn:uuid:ca94eac7-fc6b-4f10-9604-b6ed4bc20713> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://indianforeignpolicy.umwblogs.org/2013/02/19/what-exactly-is-the-string-of-pearls/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962043 | 756 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Sharing is Caring.
Have you heard that before? As an elementary teacher, I have heard people say it again and again. But what does that mean for our kids? Caring for others is an important skill to work on with children of all ages. One thing I definitely want to teach W is to think of other people. The newest initiative, Softness Worth Sharing, by Kleenex is a great way to help teach children to think of others.
One of my favorite things to do is give a gift to someone who isn’t expecting it. It doesn’t have to be anything huge. It could be something I know they’ve wanted or maybe something they need. For example, I love buying my teacher friends extra supplies for their classroom when things get low.
It just lets them know that they are in my thoughts. This is the kind of thing I want to teach W to do.
Kleenex brand, America’s softest tissue, knows that the moments of unexpected thoughtfulness make all the difference.
Softness Worth Sharing
Although we are over a month into the school year, as a teacher I always have school on my mind. I’ve had a few students out because they’ve already had a cold! We’ve gone through at least 3 boxes of Kleenex already and it’s only the beginning of October! Staying healthy and helping others do the same is the theme of my life these days!
Right now, Kleenex is offering a great way to share with others and help them stay healthy this fall! When you purchase a Kleenex Brand Care Pack, you can redeem the code from your pack at kleenex.com/
It’s easy to send a special little gift to someone who might need a bit of extra care!
The care pack includes a variety of products to help keep healthy and relax a bit. The following are included in the Kleenex Brand Care Pack:
- lip balm
- 1 oz. hand sanitizer
- coupon booklet,
- Kleenex Brand Share Pack
- Kleenex Brand Slim Pack
- Four songs to download from up and coming Universal Music Artists
And you can surprise someone just by making a purchase you normally make! I just bought a Kleenex Bundle Pack for my classroom a few weeks ago. If you’re looking for someone in need, definitely think of the moms and teachers that you know! We always need help taking care of the little ones in our lives!
You can learn more about the Softness Worth Sharing program by visiting Kleenex on Facebook!
Who in your life could use a little extra care right now?
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This guide is not an attempt to bash those who do believe but is an attempt to highlight the problems with the idea of Bigfoot existing.
Also, for the purpose of this breakdown I will be using the most common theory, which is that Bigfoot is an ape or hominid.
I will begin by looking at how a species such as Bigfoot is commonly assumed to have evolved and highlighting the problems regarding this.
The two main ideas are that Bigfoot is a descendant of Gigantopithecus, or more closely related to man, putting it within the Hominid bracket.
Gigantopithecus: Does roughly fit the sizes as commonly reported as that of Bigfoot, of around 7ft - 9ft tall and weighing around the 1000lb mark.
The Problem with this: It is commonly held that Gigantopithecus was a quadruped, which if true Bigfoot would also most likely be a quadruped. The reason for this is that bipedalism usually only develops within small species, it is only after bipedalism has become established that the species can then increase in mass.
Large Theropod Dinosaurs such as T.Rex are a good example of this. Although T.Rex may have been one of the largest Theropod Dinosaurs to live, it was its much smaller ancestors that evolved bipedalism. Once established this would allow the following species to increase in size as each generation evolves measures to deal with the increasing mass being exerted on the limbs.
A 1000lb Gigantopithecus going from a quadruped to biped would just not be practical as each leg would have to support twice as much weight as before, severely hampering movement and cause excessive wear on the legs. An example can be seen in those who are bedridden with morbid obesity as their legs are not capable of supporting the mass of their bodies.
Hominid: This would solve the problems with developing bipedalim as if Bigfoot was a Hominid bipedalism would already be the established form of locomotion which would allow for increase in mass over time.
The Problem with this: Neanderthals,Homo Erectus and Homo Heidelbergensis are three commonly mentioned Hominids in regards to Bigfoot as well as occasionally older species such as Paranthropus. The difficulty here lies in that we have a fairly good idea of what the first three looked like, all of which were very Human in appearance. As for an older species such as Paranthropus, they do superficially resemble Bigfoot, apart from size, but like all non Human Hominids not a single species has been uncovered in America.
Bigfoot is predominately sighted in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S, generally in wooded areas but has been sighted in almost every other state of America as well as Canada, again in mostly wooded areas.
The Problem with this: Species that live in forested areas are usually smaller than those that live in open terrain. For example the African Forest Elephant is smaller than its open country counterpart. This is because size hampers movement through woodland. Also a tall biped would have a higher centre of gravity reducing an animals stability whilst traveling through potentially uneven terrain.
Another problem with the habitat of Bigfoot is that no Apes are found in temperate forests within the northern hemisphere and their has never been any fossils uncovered to suggest the existence of any form of Ape in America.
Although it is possible convergent evolution could have occurred within the New World Monkeys to produce an Ape-Like species, which then migrated to North America during the Great American Interchange. But again we would be expected to find fossil evidence of this occurring as well as wondering why it would become extinct in its original territory, etc.
There are three options available regarding the diet of Bigfoot, Carnivorous, Herbivorous and Omnivorous.
Problem with being a Carnivore: If Bigfoot was Carnivorous then it would be the only Ape or Hominid known to only eat meat. It would also be limited to eating fresh meat as Apes and Hominids do not have a sufficient digestive system to counteract the harmful toxins found in rotting meat.
Limiting Bigfoot to only fresh meat would mean it would have to hunt and due to its size it would have a much higher calorific intake than a Human. One of the main problems I see, is that carnivores are generally opportunistic which would lead to reports of livestock being killed by a Bigfoot for example, as well as bringing it in to competition with other predators. The species would also struggle due to being hampered by its inability to consume rotting meat.
Problem with being a Herbivore Bigfoot being a Herbivore is a much more plausible idea, yet still poses problems. Plant matter is generally poor in nutrients which leads to Herbivores having to spend long periods of time eating. This would suggest a lifestyle similar to that of Gorillas confining Bigfoot to a home range of no more than a few miles which would increase the likelihood of discovery as if one Bigfoot was sighted then the others wouldn't be too far away.
Problem with being an Omnivore Out of the three being an Omnivore is the most likely diet as it is the most varied and fits closer to the diet of most Apes and Hominids. The problem here lies in that Omnivores are just as, if not more opportunistic than Carnivores and this poses the question as to why Bigfoot is not sighted as regularly as other Omnivores in urban areas. You also again have the problem of hunting and why livestock are not reported being killed, etc, and if the species uses rudimentary tools, why has no evidence of this been produced.
If we look at the most likely scenario regarding diet and assume Bigfoot does indeed live within wooded/forested areas as is most commonly reported we would be looking at a large, Omnivorous, mammal.
The Problem with this This would place it well within the niche currently occupied by the Black Bear, especially within the Pacific Northwest. It would also mean Bigfoot would most likely be viewed as a possible food source by Pumas, especially the young and weak. Due to this there would surely be evidence, in the form of carcasses, of young or weak Bigfoot being preyed upon by Pumas.
Also, due to the clash of niches with the Black Bear there would be evidence of violence between the species as is seen between Hyenas and Lions. As Bigfoot is alleged to be an Ape or Hominid, therefore meaning it would be a social species, would give it a distinct advantage over the Black Bear, thus reducing the Bears numbers and range, which is contrary to the current trend as Black Bear numbers are steady increasing.
This is also not taking into account possible interactions with Brown Bears and Wolves, who although occupy slightly more open country, could still encounter a Bigfoot.
These reasons and more lead me to believe that Bigfoot does not exist.
That is my take on the situation, which I have tried to come at as logically and unbiased as possible and I just hope it gives people a few things to ponder on, skeptics and believers alike.
I know I haven't tackled every area, such as population levels, etc but then I don't want to be here forever.
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By Bai Linh Hoang
Jan 17, 2013
Angola is the second largest oil producing country in Africa and its capital city, Luanda, has one of the highest costs of living in the world. A majority of the population in Angola’s capital lives in informal settlements on the outskirts of the city because they cannot afford to live in the city itself.
Interested in how the government might resolve such a problem, Professor Anne Pitcher went to this African nation to investigate how a post war, resource rich, authoritarian regime might implement a policy to mitigate its housing shortage. Because data on Angola is extremely limited, Pitcher had to engage in fieldwork to discover the extent and issues surrounding urban housing provision.
Pitcher confronted other difficulties as well, such as the high cost of conducting research in a very expensive post-war economy, with limited services available to assist her. However, in spite of these hurdles, Professor Pitcher also encountered memorable moments that made this research trip a unique adventure.
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Political Correctness: The administration blames U.S. troop rudeness for insider attacks by Afghan training partners. So it's issuing an etiquette book ordering them not to criticize "pedophilia" and other things Islamic.
Echoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who recently compared our troops to terrorists, the administration says troop insensitivity to Afghan culture, not Taliban infiltration, is behind the recent spike in deadly green-on-blue attacks.
In fact, a draft Army handbook advises troops against insulting not just sacred Islamic figures but the Taliban themselves. The 75-page manual lists among "taboo topics" of conversation between U.S. troops and their Afghan counterparts "making derogatory comments about the Taliban."
Also off-limits: "advocating women's rights," "any criticism of pedophilia," "mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct" or "anything related to Islam."
So let's get this straight. We spent our blood and treasure in Afghanistan over the past decade not to destroy the enemy and its brutal culture of terrorism, beheadings, stoning of women and child marriage and rape, but to protect and preserve them?
The extreme political correctness doesn't stop there.
The New York Post reported in September that to avoid offending Afghans, U.S. commanders are putting troops through intense Muslim sensitivity training. Among other things, they've been ordered to:
Wear surgical gloves when handling the Quran.
Never walk in front of a praying Muslim.
Never show the bottom of boots while sitting or lying across from a Muslim, which in Islam is considered an insult.
Never share photos of wives or daughters.
Never smoke or eat in front of Muslims during the monthlong Ramadan fasting.
Avoid winking, cursing or nose-blowing in the presence of Muslims — all viewed as insults in Islam.
Avoid exiting the shower without a towel.
Avoid offering and accepting things with the left hand, which in Islam is reserved for bodily hygiene.
It's outrageous that the administration would even suggest U.S. troops are to blame for their own murder at the hands of allegedly insulted Muslims.
More than 2,000 of our men and women in uniform have given their lives protecting Afghan families and their country from al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists.
This sensitivity program mirrors this administration's response to Muslims killing our diplomats and torching our embassies: Blame Americans, not the attackers. And apologize, while promising to be more sensitive to Islam.
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This is the day when Britons observe two minutes of silence at the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour. Fewer than 23 World War I era veterans survive, down from 51 at last year's remembrance. Tomorrow is Veteran's Day in America, and last year I wrote about the service history of my Gr-great Uncle, WWI veteran Edward Olmsted.
This photograph was taken in 1943 when my grandfather, then a navy surgeon, was posted at a recruiting center in Nashville Tennessee. He was there long enough for his family to briefly join him, moving to two more stateside assignments before shipping out to the Pacific in the summer of 1944. The happy baby in the sailor hat is my mom, seated in the lap of her father, Bob Barker, with her elder sisters Peggy and Happy perched behind. This is one of my favorite family photographs both for the moment it captures and for what it represents.
The monument commemorates the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee: a horrendous two-day engagement near the end of the American Civil War. Clearly the family decided to take in a local site of historic interest - my grandmother behind the camera - but with my grandfather in uniform the picture takes on a deeper meaning. He and his wife and young children make the sacrifice for him to serve his country in one of its times of greatest need. World War II defined my grandparents' generation, as well as their marriage, for my grandmother like so many others raised her young girls alone during her husband's deployment. They wrote daily letters to each other and the children ended their prayers at night with "and bring my Daddy safely back to me." My grandmother told me there wasn't a dry eye in church one Sunday when my mother's small voice popped up with that coda after the Lord's Prayer.
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I looked at the list of 1st level wizard spells from 2nd edition, first to see how many of them were present in 4th edition. The word in the parentheses, when in bold, gives the form the spell takes in 4th edition. If the word is not bolded, it is the form it would take, or at least what I think would best represent it, as well as a basic explanation of how it might function.
Affect Normal Fires (ritual)
Armor (utility power, daily power that gives the wizard an armor bonus to AC for the encounter)
Audible Glamer (at-will cantrip, renamed ghost sound)
Burning Hands (attack power)
Cantrip (at-will cantrip)
Change Self (utility power, renamed disguise self)
Charm Person (utility power, renamed fast friends)
Chill Touch (attack power, melee touch, deals necrotic damage and weakens)
Color Spray (attack power)
Comprehend Languages (ritual)
Dancing Lights (ritual, but I could also see a version as a utility power)
Detect Magic (part of Arcana skill)
Detect Undead (at-will cantrip, detects the presence of undead)
Enlarge (utility power, makes the target bigger, weapon damage increases)
Erase (ritual, same function as in 2nd edition)
Feather Fall (utility power)
Find Familiar (feat)
Friends (cantrip, renamed suggestion)
Gaze Reflection (utility power, gives a bonus to defenses vs gaze attacks)
Grease (attack power)
Hold Portal (ritual)
Hypnotism (attack power, the effect is much more limited)
Identify (automatic in 4E)
Jump (utility power)
Light (at-will cantrip)
Magic Missile (attack power)
Mending (ritual, renamed make whole)
Message (cantrip, same function as in 2nd edition)
Mount (ritual, renamed steed summons)
Nystul's Magical Aura (ritual, same function as in 2nd edition)
Phantasmal Force (utility power, renamed spectral image)
Protection from Evil (utility power, gives the target a bonus to defenses against evil elementals, immortals, and undead)
Read Magic (part of Arcana skill)
Shield (utility power)
Shocking Grasp (attack power, melee touch, lightning damage)
Sleep (attack power)
Spider Climb (utility power, warlock power)
Taunt (attack power, causes the target to move toward you and grant combat advantage)
Tenser's Floating Disc (ritual)
Unseen Servant (ritual)
Ventriloquism (at-will cantrip, renamed ghost sound)
Wall of Fog (utility power)
Wizard Mark (ritual, renamed arcane mark; you can also make one using the at-will cantrip prestidigitation, but it only lasts 1 hour)
So of the 45 spells, 34 of them exist in 4th edition (75%), and the remaining 11 have clear applications in 4th. The first complaint (that older spells are not represented in 4E), is clearly erroneous.
Next, I looked at how the uses of the more free-form (less combat oriented) spells have changed over the editions:
Affect Normal Fires: same uses throughout all editions. 4this actually the most useful, as it lasts for 8 hours, and doesn’t end if you extinguish fires.
Alarm: same uses throughout all editions. 3.5 and 4th let you set a mental alarm as another option. 4th allows creatures to avoid setting off the alarm by making a stealth check, but also allows the caster to know exactly where the alarm was triggered should it go off.
Audible Glamer/Ventriloquism: same uses throughout all editions. 4th reduces the volume you can create with the spell, but also combines the two into a single spell.
Cantrip: same uses throughout all editions.
Change Self: same uses throughout all editions. 4th adds the ability to mimic a specific individual.
Charm Person: same uses throughout all editions. 4th adds that the target answers any questions you ask truthfully, and clarifies that the target will not risk its life or property for you.
Comprehend Languages: same uses throughout all editions. 4th adds the ability to write and/or speak the language as well, if your arcana check is high enough.
Dancing Lights: same uses throughout all editions.
Feather Fall: same general use, but 4th is much more limited. Can only target one creature, and can’t target objects.
Friends: same uses in all editions.
Hold Portal: same uses in all editions
Hypnotism: 2nd lets you give any brief and reasonable-sounding request, 3.5 is the same, 4th limits it to a single target, you either force the target to move or make it attack one of its allies
Jump: same uses in all editions
Light: same uses in all editions.
Mending: same uses in all editions.
Mount: same uses in all editions.
Phantasmal Force: 4th has much reduced size of the illusion, but you can also include sound
Spider Climb: 4th is most limited, as it only lasts for 1 round. Otherwise, same uses in all editions.
Spook: 2nd and 3.5 make a single target run away. 4th lets you use arcana in place of intimidate, so more uses.
Tenser’s Floating Disk: same uses in all editions. 4th lasts longest
Unseen Servant: same uses in all editions. 4th and 3.5 last longer. 4th can carry the most.
Wall of Fog: same uses in all editions
Out of the 23 spells, 12 have the same uses in all editions. There are minor differences, but these are often things that make the spell more useful in 4th (unseen servant can carry more, floating disk lasts longer).
Of the remaining 11,
3 are much more limited in 4th (spider climb only lasts 1 round, hypnotism is limited to a single target, and you can only make it move or attack an ally, feather fall can only target a single creature and can't target objects)
4 involve some loss of versatility along with some gains: spectral force is a far smaller area in 4th, but you can also make sounds, ghost sound combines two spells into one, but doesn't let you create as loud of sounds, alarm can be avoided by a stealth check, but you also know exactly where it was triggered if it does go off.
4 are more versatile in 4th: Spook lets you do anything you could do with intimidate, rather than simply forcing a creature to run away, comprehend languages allows you to write and/or speak the language if you get a high enought result on the arcana check, change self allows you to mimic a specific individual, affect normal fires lasts much longer, and doesn't end if you extinguish a fire.So it turns out that the second part of the complaints (that spells in 4E are limited to simple, combat-oriented applications) is also erroneous.
Spells and Powers in 4E are just as varied and versatile as they were in older editions. The difference is that 4E streamlined the mechanics and used a uniform template so that it was quick and easy to figure out what a power did. Just as you don't need rules for roleplaying, you also don't need rules to tell you all the things you can do with a power. The mechanics for a power simply tell you the rules for attacking with the power, or using the power in a default way. They in no way are telling you that it is the only way to use the power, or that you can't try to think up creative uses for the power. | <urn:uuid:00a7f141-ad81-4869-a717-b45d98968acb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://community.wizards.com/arithezoo/blog/2012/02/14/uses_of_spells | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941652 | 1,693 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Nebuchadnezzar was the proud king of Babylon who ignored the God of Israel and saw himself as greater than God. But God humbled Nebuchadnezzar:
“He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws. At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, ‘What have you done?’”
Nebuchadnezzar no longer saw himself as the source of his greatness, but he saw the God of Israel as the truly great One and the only One worthy of being treasured and receiving praise. Once Nebuchadnezzar was humbled and understood and treasured God for who he truly was, his heart could not help but burst into praise to God the Most High. | <urn:uuid:f2bffec1-75ff-4ba2-bec8-6d7b759a3641> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theidentityshift.com/tag/daniel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990863 | 284 | 2.4375 | 2 |
A unique drama therapy program encourages refugee students to share their stories, helping to liberate them from the burden of traumatic memories.
Both sides of politics talk about the importance of teacher quality, but Australian governments have been unwilling to pay for high-quality teachers.
The government's funding reforms fail to tackle disadvantage in public schools.
Artists and educators have teamed up to find innovative ways of helping children learn social skills.
The emphasis on attaining higher degrees does not always lead to better teachers.
Even after decades of study and use, vaccination remains a controversial practice.
A degree in the science of property and valuation can help build a developing career.
After Ford, what does the future hold for our remaining automotive players?
Australian students are more depressed than those in selected other countries.
Schools would face rigorous reporting burdens about their plans to improve performance even if Victoria refuses to join the Commonwealth's education reforms.
Photographer VICKY HUGHSON caught up with some new arrivals at the Warrnambool Base Hospital last week.
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Christopher Strachey was born in 1916. His father was the cryptographer, Oliver Strachey, from whom he may have derived his lifelong love of visual, verbal and mathematical puzzles and problems. His mother, Ray Costelloe, was an active suffragist; she built, largely with her own hands, the 'Mud House' near Haslemere which was a family holiday home and was used by Strachey throughout his life as a place of retreat for thinking or writing.
Strachey was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk (where he won a medal for the High Jump), and at King's College, Cambridge. He read mathematics and physics, and on leaving the University took an appointment as a Research Physicist in the Valve Research Laboratories, Standard Telephone & Cables Ltd., where he worked on the theoretical design of centimetric radar valves. After the war he became a schoolmaster at St. Edmund's School, Canterbury, 1945-49, and at Harrow School, 1949-52. It was during his period at Harrow, and in his spare time, that he began to construct a draughts-playing program for a computer. His temperamental ingenuity and mathematical training coalesced and he had found his metier. According to The Times obituarist, he 'suddenly appeared' in 1950 at the National Physical Laboratory 'with a draughts-playing program for their Pilot ACE'; this is not strictly the case, though it is true that 'this was extraordinarily sophisticated work, particularly for an unknown amateur'. In fact, Strachey had learned the autocode of the Pilot ACE from M. Woodger in January 1950 and had devised a draughts-playing program, but was frustrated by the delay in commissioning the machine, which was not capable of running his program until late 1950. A demonstration in 1951 of an improved version of the program and, characteristically, of a program to play 'God Save the King' on the Manchester Mark I machine led to his appointment as Technical Officer, National Research Development Corporation, 1951-59. During this period Strachey was involved in work on various computers built by Ferranti Ltd. and by Elliott Bros., though he is also remembered for another jeu d'esprit, the 'Love Letters' program for the Manchester machine.
Major projects were the St. Lawrence River Power Project, described as 'another tour de force which advanced the opening of the Great Lakes to shipping by many years', logical design for the Elliott 401, and the overall design of the Ferranti Pegasus. Of this, Strachey wrote: 'Pegasus was unusual in that this assembler and library system was designed and completely written before the prototype machine was completed. I did most of the work of commissioning the prototype machine'. A not dissimilar example of his insistence on the primacy of software may be seen many years later, in March 1969, when Strachey's operating system (written in BCPL) for the Modular One machine supplied for his Programming Research Group in Oxford enabled the machine to pass its acceptance trials within hours of its delivery and to be in full operation in 48 hours.
In 1959, at the first international conference on information processing, Strachey gave a paper, Time-sharing in Large Fast Computers, which broke new ground at the time. Strachey himself later moved away from the concept and became 'largely disenchanted with the idea of using a very large machine to do a great many very small jobs', but his name has remained associated with time-sharing.
In the same year, 1959, Strachey left the National Research Development Corporation and, with Peter Landin as his assistant, set up a private consultancy, working from his London house in Bedford Gardens. This was a relatively rare enterprise for the period, and he was consulted by a large proportion of the computer manufacturers then operating in Britain, as well as continuing to work on specific projects for the National Research Development Corporation. His own primary interest in high-level programming languages and mathematical semantics was furthered by his work on LIST for the EMIDEC 2400 machine, and led in 1962 to a part-time appointment at Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory and a Senior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge. The project was the design of the hardware and software of the Titan computer, later known as the Atlas 2. Strachey's specific contribution to the project was the development of a general purpose programming language (known as CPL) and its compiler. In a tribute to Strachey, published in Computer Bulletin, September 1975, David Barron writes of this episode
We never did get a compiler, but at the end of it he had formulated some of the fundamental ideas of modern programming languages, had sown the seed for the work on formal semantics that he and Peter Landin were later to pursue, and I had gained an understanding of programming languages the depth of which I have only recently come to appreciate.
One of our first concerns was the name of the language. One of the ideas we floated, and discarded as too presumptuous, was 'Programming language one'. We have been kicking ourselves ever since. We eventually settled on CPL, for 'Cambridge programming language', and when later a group from the Institute of Computer Science in London joined the project the same acronym was used, the meaning now being 'Combined programming language'. It did not escape notice that the initials could also denote 'Christopher's programming language', and that is how I, for one, would wish it to be remembered. We devoted a lot of time in the early days to syntactic matters, particularly to the problem of defining operator precedence so that the 'obvious' mathematical meaning of an expression is retained. However, this preoccupation with syntax was short-lived, being terminated by the enunciation of Strachey's first law of programming: 'Decide what you want to say before you worry about how you are going to say it'. Following this dictum, Christopher began to think about the formal semantic definition of languages, particularly by use of the lambda calculus, and produced a number of highly significant concepts, notably 'left hand values' and 'right hand values', the direct descendant of which is the reference concept that is central to Algol 68. Although CPL was never completely implemented, and scarcely used, it had a remarkable influence. BCPI., devised by one of Strachey's students as an implementation subset of CPL, had established itself as an implementation language in its own right; POP-2 and Algol 68 show many traces of CPL in their design.
The work on CPL also bore fruit more directly for Strachey. It led to his development of the General Purpose Macrogenerator, 'a simple but very general string processor', and to the paper Towards a Formal Semantics, which he described as 'the beginning of a mathematical (as apposed to operational) approach to formulating the semantics of a programming language', and on which he continued to work, in collaboration especially with Dana Scott, for the rest of his life. It also led to the Summer School on 'Advances in programming and non-numerical analysis' held in 1963 at Oxford, where, in 1965, the Programming Research Group was established under Strachey's direction. He remained there, as Reader then Professor in Computation, and Fellow of Wolfson College, until his death in 1975.
From about 1962, Strachey began to be increasingly involved with public life and policy in computing. He served on various committees of the British Computer Society, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and later the Science Research Council, the International Federation for Information Processing, and others. He was also in demand for lectures and papers, at conferences, working parties, symposia and the like, as well as to referee research proposals and publications. In 1971, Donald Michie wrote: 'Today an "invisible college" of programming theory exists throughout the Universities of Britain. Almost every member of this "college" was guided along the path at some stage by Strachey's direct or indirect influence'.
Although, in compiling the above outline of Strachey's career and work, use has been made of printed obituaries and tributes, the collection itself documents the whole story, often in great detail. This is because Strachey was of a squirrel-like temperament, retaining his own papers and incoming material. From time to time, too, he would draw up a tabulated 'state of affairs' document summarising aspects of his life and activity. Much of the collection is indeed Strachey's own manuscript, in a small hand which hardly varied with time; the programming for the Manchester machines, the mathematical calculations on eigenvalues, the LISP compiler, the Modular One Compiler, and many others, are all entirely in his hand. There are also multiple drafts for major papers on Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages (1967, unpublished), Varieties of Programming Languages (1972), and A Theory of Programming Language) Semantics (1974, unpublished). Of more than personal interest, too, are the various receipts and account books, particularly those relating to his private consultancy, which show how such an enterprise could be run at the time.
The Section on Strachey's consultancies often includes programs, reports and other printed or duplicated material emanating from the firms or manufactures involved. These have been retained, as subsequent mergers and changes in the British computer industry have often occurred.
There is no bibliography of Strachey's writings; he was notoriously reluctant to commit himself to academic writing and some of his major work remained unfinished or unpublished at his death. Shorter articles, papers and drafts can be found passim. See especially Sections C, F and G; there is a note in the introduction to Section H on such material included there. | <urn:uuid:f1320e18-f3af-4a17-9649-80a20cdb1c13> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=161-csac71180&cid=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977453 | 2,031 | 2.25 | 2 |
Dr Tony Dodd, University of Sheffield, UK
From: Civilian UAVs: Practical Challenges and Regulatory Implications, Theme 1: Autonomy, certification and airworthiness, London
28 March 2012 Transport channel
The civilian applications of UAVs are now being explored at an ever increasing rate with fully autonomous systems opened up to a huge potential community. While military UAVs operate in a pre-determined airspace, civilian UAVs fly in an open, non-segregated one.
The problem is that currently there is a gap in the regulatory framework for the autonomous operation of UAVs in a non-segregated space. If UAVs are to be routinely used in a civil airspace then, along with practical end-user problems, it is important to address autonomy, regulation and certification issues.
Key themes of the seminar include:
* Certification and regulation of UAS including a UK Civil Aviation Authority view on the future of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
* Addressing the safe integration of UAVs in the European airspace
* Autonomy, challenges for operational sense and avoid systems
*Safety, security and UAS communications systems
* Potential applications and benefits for a commercial and public sector
* Summary panel discussion: what engineers can do to improve the public's perception of the UAVs in the civil space?
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Authors: Tovey, Robert Atkins
Date: January 23, 1854
Robert Atkins Tovey, Sr., wrote to his wife, Eliza (Matthew) Tovey, at their home in Albany, New York. Tovey reported that, since the freezing of the Missouri River, mail was slow, and he had lost his job making stove fixings because of the inability to obtain materials from steamboat transport. Tovey also described his friend Swifts' problems maintaining ownership of his land claim, and the prospect that he himself may participate in a new town's development.
Keywords: Commerce; Labor; Land acquisition; Land claim disputes; Land claims; Missouri River; Religion; Squatters; Swift, J. Dedan; Tovey, Robert Atkins; Town development; Weather
Letter, Tovey, R. [Robert] A. to My Dear Wife [Eliza (Matthew) Tovey]
Authors: Tovey, Robert Atkins
Date: c. 1854
Robert Atkins Tovey, Sr., an Englishman traveling to Kansas Territory, wrote to his wife Eliza (Matthew) Tovey, at their home it Albany, New York. Tovey recounted his travel experiences by steamboat and rail. Throughout, he provided detailed scenic descriptions from New York, the Great Lakes, Detroit, Illinois, St. Louis, and the Missouri River. Tovey, coming into contact with slavery on his journey, included brief commentary on the subject.
Keywords: Diseases; Medicine; Missouri River; New York; Railroads; Slavery; St. Louis, Missouri; Steamboats; Tovey, Robert Atkins; Transportation; Travel
Worcester County Kansas League
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Date: March 1, 1855
The Emigrant Aid Company had to increase prices because rivers and lake were frozen. As a result, emigrants would have to travel by land with the use of railroads, leading to this price increase.
Keywords: Boston, Massachusetts; Emigrant aid companies; Emigrant aid companies - Free state; Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909; Missouri River; Railroads; St. Louis, Missouri; Steamboats; Worcester County Kansas League
Letter, [Hiram Hill] to Dear Wife
Authors: No authors specified.
Date: May 7, 1855
Hiram Hill of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts wrote to his wife while traveling up the Missouri River from St. Louis to Kansas City. Hill was a free soil sympathizer evidentially traveling with a company of like-minded settlers, for he wrote that some steamboat passengers viewed the company with "rather suspitious eyes." Hill told his wife not to worry although one family had cholera and, on another boat, fifteen had died the previous week. The letter, written hastily in pencil, is not signed.
Keywords: Diseases; Hill, Hiram; Missouri River; Sickness (see Illness); Steamboats; Transportation; Travel; Water transportation
Letter, S. L. Adair to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn
Authors: Adair, Samuel Lyle
Date: September 8, 1855
This long letter was written in Osawatomie to Jocelyn, who was Samuel Adair's contact with the American Missionary Association. The first three pages dealt with some disagreement over Adair's salary and support that was to be provided by the association, his efforts on behalf of religion, and prospects for a "union" church building that would be shared by several denominations. The last page discussed economic conditions in Kansas Territory and the difficulty of getting items to Kansas either via the Missouri River or by overland freighting from St. Louis. This appears to be a draft of a letter sent to Jocelyn.
Keywords: Adair, Samuel Lyle; American Missionary Association; Churches; Economic conditions; Freight and freightage; Jocelyn, S. S.; Lykins County, Kansas Territory (see also Miami County, Kansas); Miami County, Kansas (see also Lykins County, Kansas Territory); Missouri River; Osawatomie, Kansas Territory; Transportation
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Using the Problem of Familiarity to Your Advantage
It’s still not time to explain what you do. You still need to overcome the problem of “I know what you do.” Remember that you want to keep the listener fully engaged and interested. Your introduction is intended to lead to a more extensive conversation and possibly a professional engagement in the future.
Be aware that a significant majority of the investors you’ll meet already have one or more financial advisors. According to a Cerulli Associates’ analysis of a year’s worth of studies on financial advisory relationships, 70% of clients allocate assets to more than one advisor or directed-brokerage account. Therefore, there’s a good chance your audience knows what an advisor is and does. So, before you deliver your introduction, address the issue of familiarity by saying, “I’m sure you know what a financial advisor does; you probably have an advisor whom you work with. Well, although I’m a financial professional, what I do is very different from what the typical advisor does for his clients.” As you say this, it’s helpful to sweep your hands from left to right in front of you, as if moving an object away from you and the other person to imply, “I’m not like those people!”
You’ve now accomplished several important goals in the conversation: you’ve established a high level of novelty, the other person has asked you twice to introduce yourself, you’ve suggested that what you do is different, and you’ve swept their current advisor out of the conversation.
All this has taken about a minute from the time you were first asked, “What do you do?”
The Grass Is Always Greener
Now it’s time to close—the only point in your introduction that you need to think about strategically. You’ve brought the conversation to a sharp point of focus, and the person you’re talking with is using mental energy, ready to hear about what you do. Now it’s time to reveal your specialization.
The most common mistake advisors make when introducing themselves is to be far too general so as not to alienate anyone. By trying to be all things to all people, you actually succeed in being meaningless and boring; remember the problems of familiarity and attention deficit? Rather than alienating prospective clients, creating a clearly defined barrier actually increases your appeal.
Here’s a simple, three-step process for creating this part of your introduction:
- Step One: Define a very specific group or type of investor you work with or a group whom you’ve served well. The key here is to be very specific.
- Step Two: Describe a painful problem investors have or a danger to which they are exposed. Again, be very specific.
- Step Three: Describe how you solve the problem in simple terms.
Now you can introduce yourself properly: “I specialize in [name the problem you solve] for [whom you solve it for] who are concerned about [the problem or danger they’re exposed to].” Your strategy is to reveal yourself as a highly talented and focused professional who has the knowledge and ability to solve important problems. This also tends to cause the other person to ask for specifics—most often either the nature of the problem or the features of the solution. Either way, the conversation is started with you sounding very knowledgeable.
For example, you might introduce yourself by saying, “I specialize in performing municipal bond analyses for qualified investors who are concerned about protecting themselves from rising interest rates by shifting from passive to active management.” Almost any person you would want as a client will have two immediate reactions to this: one, she will be curious about the specifics of the problem and the details of your solution; and two, she will wonder if she will qualify to work with you. More often than not, the other person’s advisor is a generalist, and your specialist role automatically raises your status in the listener’s eyes.
By pointing to a specific benefit or service you provide that’s both credible and describable, you get to the heart of an issue: your process, specific solution or particular benefit that you provide to your clients. Be confident that following the steps outlined here will enable you to create the “Wow!” you’ve been seeking. | <urn:uuid:df4956b3-8145-460c-8a24-55ff8f3cdea7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.financial-planning.com/blogs/Creating-Wow-in-5-Minutes-or-Less-2683095-1.html?pg=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955875 | 927 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Today is National Doctors Day!
“* The first Doctors Day observance was March 30, 1933, in Winder, Ga. The idea came from Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Cha Almond, and the date was the anniversary of the first use of general anesthetic in surgery. (On March 30, 1842, Dr. Crawford Long of Barrow County, Ga., used ether to remove a tumor from a patient’s neck.)
* The Barrow County Medical Society Auxiliary proclaimed the day “Doctors Day,” which was celebrated by mailing cards to physicians and their wives, and placing flowers on the graves of deceased doctors, including Dr. Long.
* The United States House of Representatives adopted a resolution commemorating Doctors Day on March 30, 1958. In 1990, legislation was introduced into the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate to establish a National Doctors Day. Following overwhelming approval by the House and Senate, then-President George Bush signed a resolution designating March 30 as National Doctors Day. The first National Doctors Day was celebrated in 1991.” | <urn:uuid:59fa557e-a48e-4073-95c7-ac6d90254af9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/03/today-is-national-doctors-day-first.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964455 | 227 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The shelves of local liquor stores are piled high with concoctions such as bubble gum vodkas and root beer schnapps, sickly sweet libations that are not only synthetically flavored but also reminiscent of a candy store.
On the other end of the spectrum, there’s Art in the Age, a Philadelphia-based spirits company that has carved out a name for itself as makers of what founder Steven Grasse—an ex-ad man once deemed “the Don Draper of outrageousness”—calls “historically based artisanal crafted spirits, each one completely different.”
In just a matter of a few years, Art in the Age has dominated that nascent spirits category with its sophisticated and original products, such as ROOT, SNAP, and Rhubarb Tea (formerly known as RHUBY). Each of the spirits has its origins in the Colonial and Federalist-era past, recapturing a piece of American history in a bottle. ROOT is based on “root tea,” a folk recipe from the 1700s and precursor to root beer; SNAP recalls a Pennsylvania Dutch Lebkuchen (ginger snap); Rhubarb Tea is based on an alcoholic rhubarb tea recipe favored by Benjamin Franklin. The company’s latest offering, SAGE, is now on shelves.
In keeping with the company’s ethos, SAGE is a “garden gin” redolent of sage, rosemary, lavender, and fennel, and is inspired by avid horticulturist Thomas Jefferson and Bernard McMahon, Jefferson’s botanical advisor. McMahon, the author of the 1813 book Flora Americae Septentrionalis, was tasked by Jefferson with chronicling the 130 different plants discovered by Lewis and Clark on their fabled exposition. With SAGE, Art in the Age has concocted a spirit that uses the botanicals that link Jefferson, McMahon, and Lewis and Clark. Like all of their products, it transports the drinker to a pre-industrial time in our history, recalling “an earlier, more verdant world, when nature was more abundant and adventures more frequent.”
The 47-year-old Grasse, Art in the Age’s founder, is passionate about reconnecting to pre-industrial times. (The company’s name is derived from Walter Benjamin’s landmark 1936 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”) “It’s a personal interest of mine,” said Grasse, speaking to The Daily Beast. “I’m obsessed with before the world turned to shit, pre-industrial era—which started in 1840—and the stories of America before industrialization happened.”
“When we set out to start Art in the Age, we challenged ourselves,” he said. “I wanted to create the weirdest thing I could think of and put it in the simplest bottle possible and see if I could make that work. But I also wanted to create something that was really interesting and different and mix in my personal interest in history.”
Grasse likens Art in the Age to other organic brands with strong philosophies. “I want to be like the Newman’s Own of spirits,” he said. All of the spirits are certified organic, though Grasse is quick to admit that “certified organic could be a gimmick” if used improperly. “A lot of brands exploit that… but I don’t think anyone really gives a shit about it,” he said. “I do it because I want it to be historically accurate. Everything was organic back then.”
As for the spirits themselves, they are deeply layered and complex, subtle brews that provide a sophisticated base for a cocktail rather than a splash of intense flavor. ROOT exudes an essence of birch bark, wintergreen, spearmint, cinnamon, and all spice; it is far cry from the flatness of a synthetic root beer-flavored vodka. SNAP overflows with blackstrap molasses and ginger, as well as spices. RHUBY is a heady blend of rhubarb, beets, carrots, and cardamom. SAGE is a garden’s worth of herbs and botanicals. At 80 proof, they’re potent and patently unique. In April, Grasse unveiled Spodee, a wine fortified with high proof moonshine that tastes strongly, and surprisingly, of chocolate. They’re strange and wonderful, oddball spirits that reflect the nature of their creator.
“I want to be the Spike Jonze of booze,” Grasse said. “Or even John Sayles.”
Grasse is a mad scientist, visionary, and iconoclast. In 1989, he founded his own advertising agency, Gyro Worldwide (later renamed Quaker City Mercantile), and produced work for such clients as Camel and Puma, developing a reputation for a madcap guerilla marketing style that fit perfectly into the punk rock era. One campaign, for a Philadelphia clothing store called Zipperhead, used images of serial killers like Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer, and a tagline that read, “Go a little crazy now instead of a lot crazy later.” That campaign landed Grasse in the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times, but lost the company quite a number of clients, even as it positioned them on a national scale.
“I was not the wild child of advertising,” said Grasse, “but the insane person in advertising.”
Beginning in 1999, with his brother, Peter, Grasse produced a series of short films called Bikini Bandits—in which bikini-clad strippers with guns rob convenience stores—and turned down a shot at Hollywood and a feature film. A Studio Canal Plus feature based on the franchise collapsed and never made it to the screen. “Fuck Hollywood” is a typical Grasse refrain, as is “I don’t give a shit about Hollywood.”
Grasse also created Sailor Jerry Rum, a best-selling spiced rum that’s based around the cult surrounding the late WWII American tattoo artist Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins (“It’s a mix of tattoo culture, rock ‘n roll, and bikers,” said Grasse), and crafted the now-ubiquitous Hendrick’s Gin as a work-for-hire for William Grant & Sons, the makers of Glenfiddich whiskey. He also wrote a controversial 2007 book entitled The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World, which the Daily Mail decried as “outrageous.”
Lest you think that Grasse is resting on his laurels, last year he took Art in the Age in another direction, founding the Tamworth Lyceum, a Tamworth, New Hampshire-based mercantile store, coffee shop, and lyceum, which hosts lectures, art exhibitions, and workshops. And the company is breaking ground on a distillery in September, to be located in an old inn down the street from the lyceum.
“With this, we’re taking the Art in the Age philosophy a step further,” said Grasse. “The transcendentalists—Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott—believed that we needed to return to a spiritual world and to nature… They were heeding the warning that we were going to destroy this planet with the coming age of industrialization and that’s what happened. So we’re going back even further, and being even more obsessive about this in our next venture.”
Grasse’s plans for the company’s distillery involve creating a personal laboratory for more experimental creations and he also plans to make perfume, which Grasse notes is how distilleries were discovered, “through alchemy,” in the first place.
“I want to see what happens when I distill wild mushrooms that I foraged in the park,” said Grasse. “I want to go crazy and see what’s possible. I’m going to be the mad scientist of this business and explore where it could go… I look at Art in the Age as a real jumping off point. We can get weird and it works. So let’s get weirder and see what happens.” | <urn:uuid:2e58f28b-160c-4070-9cd9-72ac5fdcf947> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/04/art-in-the-age-ex-ad-man-steven-grasse-s-wonderfully-weird-spirits.print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949205 | 1,790 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Kale is the new spinach. It’s nutritious and it’s part of the cruciferous vegetable familythat includes cabbage, collard greens, broccoli, bok choy and Brussels sprouts. See,there’s a good reason you were force fed Brussels sprouts when you were a kid.Cruciferous veggies are loaded with beneficial vitamins, minerals, and loads of fibre thatare good for the gut. Kale is the darkest of all dark leafy greens, and I’m sure by nowyou’ve heard how good dark leafy greens are for you. Eating them may reduce cancerrisk and lower blood cholesterol among many more health benefits.
I can understand kale might look unappetizing to a new palette, but with all it’s versatility I’m sure you can figure out some way to eat it. Sometimes I put it in my berry smoothiefor breakfast, eat it raw and chopped finely in a salad, baked like a chip, or stir friedwith lots of other veggies. So to get you started on the kale train I’m going to give you 2magnificently easy recipes to try. The more you eat kale (or any dark leafy greens) themore you’ll start to crave them. This is true. Try it. I dare ya!
Krispy Kale Tofu
1 cup short-grain brown rice or basmati
1/3 cup olive oil
1 tsp sesame oil
|2 tbsp soy sauce
1 lb kale chopped (ribs removed)
1 gala apple, chopped into cubes
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
1/2 lb extra-firm tofu, cut into 1/4″ cubes
Preheat oven to 350°. Prepare Brown Rice. Whisk together olive oil, sesame oil andsoy sauce. Reserve 1/3 of the dressing, and combine the remainder with kale, coconutand tofu – I sometimes add chopped apple with the skin on too. Toss well, and thenspread it in a single layer on 2 sheet pans. Bake until crispy, about 25 minutes, stirringoccasionally to cook evenly on all sides. Remove from oven and toss mixture withremaining dressing and the cooked rice. Serve warm.
This recipe is a winner. I almost ate all of it in one day, which is possible sans rice! Butyou make a lot of it and as a left over meal the kale surprisingly stays crispy.
Kale & Avocado Salad
1 small bunch kale
3 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
¼ to ½ teaspoon sea salt
2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 tbsp diced red onion
2 tbsp hemp seeds (optional)
1 ripe avocado
½ cup diced cucumber
Chop the kale into bit size pieces or thin ribbon like pieces and place in a bowl. Place ina large bowl and sprinkle with ¼ teaspoon of salt. Using your hands, massage the saltinto the kale. This is the secret. If raw kale is a little much for you, this softens it. You’llnotice it starts to wilt because of the salt. Add olive oil, lemon, garlic and onion to thebowl and continue to toss with your hands Add the hemp seeds, avocado and cucumberwhen you’re ready to serve. Hemp seeds are optional. I also like adding pumpkin seedssometimes.
This salad recipe was how I converted from hating kale to loving kale… and now eatingit 4 or 5 times a week. If you’re still skeptical if you’ll like kale you could try this saladmixture in a whole wheat pita which breaks it up a bit.
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