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30. What a strange age. For most of us, it's just when we really start our professional careers. Most people graduate from college somewhere between the age of 23-25, try out a few crappy entry level jobs, maybe travel a little bit and before they finally start to look for a company to settle down and build a career with. A career which can last 20 or more years.
On the other hand, 30 is the age when professional athletes usually peak. The constant training, traveling and competing eventually catches up with even the greatest of athletes and their bodies begin to fail them around the age of 30. It's like this way in all sports. In the NFL, almost all players start to breakdown as the age of 30 gets closer, especially running backs. NBA players usually have some of their best years between 28-32 before the game starts to pass them by. In the Major Leagues, 30 is the age when you start to see players having trouble catching up with a fastball.
Starting at the age of 21, the majority of professional athletes have about an 8-10 year window (if not less) to make as much money as they can before the physical demands of their respective sport catches up with their bodies and they begin to breakdown. We saw it with LaDainian Tomlinson (31 years old) a couple of years ago in football when he started to regress after breaking the single season touchdown record and we are currently seeing it now with Kevin Garnett (34 years old) whose knees are basically held together by duck tape. These examples could go on and on. It is truly amazing when we see freaks of nature like Brett Farve and Nolan Ryan who can still perform at a high level past the age of 40, but those two are aberrations that don't happen too often. For the bulk of pro athletes, turning 30 signifies the beginning of the end.
This is why I found it funny on Saturday night after UFC 118 when the "BJ is overrated" columns started to pop up on MMA websites and blogs after he lost to Frankie Edgar for a second time in a row. It's not that Penn is overrated, it is at the age of 31, Penn has peaked and is now on the downside of his career. Read why after the jump...
Up until recently, most MMA fighters didn't start their careers until they were in their late 20s/early 30s. Randy Couture didn't have his first pro MMA fight until he was 34. Chuck Liddell made his MMA debut at the young age of 29. These two were able to fight until their late 30s (Couture's still fighting in his 40s) because they weren't fighting professional in their 20s. Their bodies didn't have the wear from 10 extra years of being a professional fighter.
The trend of MMA fighters starting in their late 20s/early 30s has already started to change. Gone will be the days when the elite fighters in MMA are closer to 40 than 30. You can directly attribute this to the evolution of the sport. The new crop of up and coming superstars are now going to start training as young as elementary school instead of between the ages of 25-30. This is going to cause future generations of fighters to put a fair amount of wear and tear on their bodies at a young age which in turn will lower the number of years they will be able to fight at an elite level professionally. Simply put, as future fighters start to begin their training at a younger age than their predecessors, the shelf life of an elite MMA fighter is going to start to mirror the shelf life of athletes from other professional sports, especially those of professional football players whose bodies are subject to the same, if not more, constant abuse.
This brings me to BJ Penn. Penn took his first professional MMA fight at the age of 22 and has averaged more than two fights a year since then. The majority of those fights during time pan have been against the cream of the crop of the MMA world (GSP twice, Pulver twice, Hughes twice, Machida etc). Mix in the fact that Penn hasn't done the best job of taking care of his body over the years and you have a recipe for a fighter beginning to break down. The main criticism of Penn over the past two fights with Frankie Edgar is that he looked sluggish and didn't have the speed to handle Edgar's. Translation, Penn looked old and can't catch up to the fastball anymore. Could the Penn that fought Din Thomas, Caol Uno and Takanori Gomi in the early 2000's handle Edgar's speed? Most likely, but that was a Penn in his mid-20s without the abuse of fighting the Hughes's and GSP's of the world yet. The Penn of today and his waning skills just couldn't handle a Frankie Edgar who is just hitting his peak at the age of 28.
The good thing for Penn is that he may be the most talented MMA fighter of all-time. This is going to allow him to stay relevant, maybe even make another title run, before he retires. You have to remember, Penn was so good that his ‘average' is still better than most fighter's ‘best', but we probably won't see another dominate run from him like we did as a Lightweight from 2002-2009.
Penn's recent fall from grace is just the beginning of the trend that is probably going to start happening on MMA over the next few years. The current crop of superstars and champions are going to start to 1) lose more frequently to their younger counterparts and 2) retire. We have already seen Jose Aldo (23 years old) take the place of Urijah Faber (31) and Mike Brown (34) as the king of the WEC Featherweight division (both fighters couldn't handle Aldo's speed. Sound familiar?). UFC Light Heavyweight Jon Jones (23) has already disposed of some of the elder statesmen of the UFC's 205 pound division and has almost reached the top of the ladder. Cain Velasquez (28) and Junior dos Santos (25) have basically already cleaned out the UFC Heavyweight division and are now looking to make a claim as the best fighter in the division. What does this prove? The old is getting older while the young is getting better.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
In two sentences, Thomas Jefferson distilled two centuries of Enlightenment Philosophy.
The truths of which he speaks are, according to Jefferson, so fundamental and not needing explanation as to be self-evident.
It is self-evident that there is a “Creator”
It is self-evident that humans are endowed by that Creator with unalienable rights, meaning that man cannot take them away, as they come from God.
It is self-evident that these rights begin with the most fundamental of all-Life.
It is self-evident that the next two follow in logical sequence: Liberty, and then the Pursuit of Happiness.
It is self-evident that the role of government is to protect those three greatest rights.
It is self-evident that the people reserve the right to alter or abolish that government if it becomes destructive of those rights.
We have seriously lost our way.
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The Ancient Art of Infertility Treatment
When it comes to getting pregnant, old world techniques may be just what today's high-tech doctors will order.
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario
If headlines are any indication of what's hot and what's not, it's easy to believe that infertility treatment is strictly a modern day science, made possible solely through the courtesy of high-tech medicine.
But as good as modern science is, many couples trying to get pregnant find themselves turning to an age-old treatment for help -- one so steeped in tradition it's about as far from life in the 21st century as one can get.
That treatment is acupuncture, and today, even high-tech reproductive specialists are looking to the somewhat mysterious world of Chinese medicine to help those fertility patients for whom western science alone is not quite enough.
"Most of our patients are referred to us by reproductive medicine specialists -- they are usually women who have failed one or usually more than one attempt at IVF (in vitro fertilization), and their doctor is looking for something to help implement the success of their treatment, over and above what the protocols alone can accomplish," says Raymond Chang, MD, the medical director of Meridian Medical and a classically trained acupuncturist as well as western-trained medical doctor.
Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medicine treatment that relies on the painless but strategic placement of tiny needles into a "grid-like" pattern that spans the body, from head to toe. The needles are used to stimulate certain key "energy points" believed to regulate spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical balance. And, for many women, it's often just what the doctor ordered.
"It can allow you to cross the line from infertile to fertile by helping your body function more efficiently, which in turn allows other, more modern reproductive treatments, like IVF, to also work more efficiently," says James Dillard, MD, assistant clinical professor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and clinical adviser to Columbia's Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Indeed, in a study of 160 women, published April 2002 in the reproductive journal Fertility and Sterility, a group of German researchers found that adding acupuncture to the traditional IVF treatment protocols substantially increased pregnancy success.
In this study one group of 80 patients received two, 25-minute acupuncture treatments -- one prior to having fertilized embryos transferred into their uterus, and one directly afterwards. The second group of 80, who also underwent embryo transfer, received no acupuncture treatments.
The result: While women in both groups got pregnant, the rate was significantly higher in the acupuncture group -- 34 pregnancies, compared with 21 in the women who received IVF alone.
But increasing the odds of IVF is not the only way acupuncture can help. Chang says it can also work to stimulate egg production in women who can't -- or don't want to -- use fertility medications to help them get pregnant.
"When you compare the pregnancy rates for an egg producing drug such as Clomid to acupuncture alone, the rates are equal -- a 50% chance of pregnancy in three months for general patients -- to those not undergoing IVF," says Chang.
Unfortunately, however, Chang says that because acupuncture generally stimulates the growth and release of just one egg, it can't be substituted for fertility drugs used in IVF, since they work to produce the multiple eggs necessary to achieve success with this treatmentHow Acupuncture Works
Although acupuncture is fast becoming an accepted fertility protocol, not everyone agrees on how -- or why -- it works.
According to the traditional Chinese medicine explanation, acupuncture stimulates and moves Qi (pronounced "Chee") a form of life energy that ancient wisdom says must flow through the body unhampered from head to toe, 24/7. When it doesn't, illness or malfunctions such as infertility arise.
"Acupuncture works to restore the flow of Qi -- your essence, your body energy -- so with regards to infertility, treatment has a calming, restorative effect that increases a sense of well- being and ultimately helps the body to accept the creation of life," says acupuncturist Ifeoma Okoronkwo, MD, a professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine.
By placing the needles at key energy meridians linked to the reproductive organs, Okoronkwo tells WebMD acupuncture increases, and more importantly, moves the flow of Qi from areas where it may be too abundant, to areas that are deficient, all in a direction that encourages fertility.
To get your fertility Qi up to snuff, most experts say you will need about two, 30 minute treatments a week, sometimes for several months, before the effects can be seen.
However, a slightly more Western way of looking at the effects points less to the mystical Qi and more towards the solid science of brain chemistry.
In studies published in the journal Fertility and Sterility in 2002, Chang, along with noted Cornell University reproductive endocrinologist Zev Rosenwaks, MD, found a clear link between treatment and the brain hormones involved in conception.
More specifically their research noted that acupuncture increases production of endorphins, the body's natural "feel good" brain chemical that also plays a role in regulating the menstrual cycle.
Chang says acupuncture also appears to have a neuroendocrine effect, impacting a three-way axis between the two areas of the brain involved with hormone production (the hypothalamus and the pituitary glands) and the ovaries, a constellation that ultimately impacts egg production and possibly ovulation.
In still another research paper published in the journal Medical Acupuncture in 2000, Sandra Emmons, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health Sciences University, reports that acupuncture may directly impact the number of egg follicles available for fertilization in women undergoing IVF.
"My guess is that acupuncture is changing the blood supply to the ovaries, possibly dilating the arteries and increasing blood flow, so that ultimately, the ovaries are receiving greater amounts of hormonal stimulation," says Emmons, who also uses acupuncture in her traditional medical practice.
Chang says acupuncture may also help when the lining of the uterus is too weak to sustain a pregnancy -- a problem that is also known to increase the risk of chronic miscarriage.
By increasing blood flow to this area, the lining may be better able to absorb the nutrients and hormones necessary to help it grow strong enough to hold onto an implanted embryo, says Chang.Can Acupuncture Help You? How to Tell
As good as it sounds, acupuncture is clearly not the panacea for all fertility problems. As Dillard tells WebMD, in instances where a structural defect exists -- such as a blocked fallopian tube or a fibroid tumor -- acupuncture won't help you get pregnant.
Likewise, once past a certain age, no amount of tickling your Qi is going to increase necessary hormones that have long gone out of production.
For this reason, many doctors recommend that you have at least a basic fertility workup before attempting acupuncture treatment, particularly if you are approaching, or you are over, the age of 40.
"If it turns out you have structural problem that requires a traditional medical 'fix', then the sooner you find that out and get the proper treatment, the more likely it will be that you can get pregnant," says Dillard.
At the same time Chang tells WebMD that younger women -- those in their early to mid-30s -- might want to consider acupuncture first, before investing in expensive and invasive fertility treatments.
"Sometimes a few months of acupuncture will be enough to help you get pregnant on your own," he says.
If, in fact, you do seek acupuncture treatment be aware that not all protocols are equal.
"There is tremendous variability within the field -- with many different techniques and a great deal of the success dependant upon how much the acupuncturist knows about the treatment of infertility," says Okoronkwo.
Costs can also vary dramatically, ranging from several hundred dollars to $1,000 or more, depending on how long you are treated, and who is doing the treatment. And while many insurance companies cover the cost of acupuncture treatments, some don't when treatment involves infertility, so check your policy carefully.
With that said, to help you hone in on the expert that can rock your Qi in the direction of motherhood, our experts offer the following tips:
Published Oct. 13, 2003
SOURCES: James Dillard, MD, licensed acupuncturist, assistant clinical professor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; clinical adviser, Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Columbia University, N.Y.; director, Complementary Medicine Services, University Pain Center, N.Y. Raymond Chang, MD, physician-acupuncturist; medical director, Meridian Medical Group, New York City. Ifeoma Okoronkwo, MD, licensed acupuncturist, clinical assistant professor, New York University Medical Center, New York City. Sandra Emmons, MD, assistant professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health Services University, Portland, Ore. Fertility and Sterility, April 2002. Fertility and Sterility, December 2002. Medical Acupuncture, Spring/Summer 2000; vol 12.
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The day has been punctuated by an intermittent mechanical rumbling as helicopters pass backwards and forwards over the house. Great scoops of water dangle beneath them like the thoraxes of those hornets found round here, called mule-killers for the potency of their sting. The helicopters, and the odd seaplane equipped with a tank for water and known in Italy as a Canadair, are trying to douse the first real fire to get this near to the town since last year.
The rough grass and other scrub vegetation on this side – the southern side – of Passignano, the hill behind Fondi, has been burning off slowly but steadily since this morning and now there’s a large patch of grey-black stubble the shape of Africa, extending from the peak of the hill, over 400 metres above sea level, to the highest house on the slope, a derelict stone building I’ve often coveted, maybe a third up from the foot. The fire’s not out yet; as the light begins to fade the scurries of flame around its edges are more evident than before and almost beautiful. It’s almost certainly someone’s handiwork.
The land isn’t cultivated and is too steep for building, so the culprits are unlikely to be farmers or developers. The only people who stand to benefit are the part time forestry workers who wait to be called, each summer, to deal with fires of this kind. It’s a closed circuit, and as long as no one dies and no famous beauty spots are touched no one seems to care that much, although dogs don’t like the low, rather throaty noise of the helicopters. Maybe, to them, it sounds like a growl. | <urn:uuid:9e7638ba-d367-4523-9f14-7c2e7f8f3b62> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://charleslambert.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/fuoco-fuoco/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96937 | 364 | 1.757813 | 2 |
In what mountain range is K2 located?
#13176. Asked by Courtney. (Aug 01 01 10:53 PM)
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Godwin Austen Glacier and K2 in the Karakoram Range, Pakistan
also called MOUNT GODWIN AUSTEN, called locally Dapsang, or Chogori, the world's second highest peak (28,251 feet), second only to Mount Everest. K2 forms part of the Karakoram Range and lies partly in China and partly on the western side of the Indian-Pakistani line of control in Jammu and Kashmir; it is presently under Pakistani administration. The glacier and snow-covered mountain rises from its base at about 15,000 feet on the Godwin Austen Glacier, a tributary of the Baltoro Glacier. The mountain was discovered and measured in 1856 by Colonel T.G. Montgomerie of the Survey of India, and it was given the symbol K2 because it was the second peak measured in the Karakoram Range. The name Godwin Austen is for the peak's first surveyor, Colonel H.H. Godwin Austen, a 19th-century English geographer.
The name 'Kurra-koorrum,' a rendering of the Turkic term for 'Black Rock' or 'Black Mountain,' appeared in early 19th-century English writings.
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Hydrogen Solar nabs $400k R&D grant
Get thee to sunny Vegas
A UK research company that uses solar power to generate hydrogen has won a $400,000 US Department of Energy award to test its technology in Las Vegas. The grant has been issued via The University of Nevada's Las Vegas Research Foundation.
Hydrogen Solar will work with the research foundation for the first year of a three year research and development programme for a hydrogen refilling station in the casino town. The award is potentially worth another $800,000 to the UK company, if it performs well.
Dr. David Auty, company CEO, described the award as the first step towards commercialising the technology. In August, the company announced that it had doubled its production efficiency, and was just two per cent short of the ten per cent needed for commercialisation.
In August, Dr. Auty explained how the Tandem Cell works:
There are two photocatalytic cells arranged in series. The front cell is coated with a nano-crystaline film which absorbs high energy (ultraviolet and blue) light.
The lower energy light (green and red wavelengths) passes through the front cell and into the second. Here, the light excites the electrons in this cell's coating which sets up an electrical potential.
Now there is a potential difference between the two cells allowing current to flow. This electricity splits the water molecules in an electrolyte, producing hydrogen.
The UK company will join a consortium of organisations, including Altair Nanotechnogies and the Las Vegas Valley Water District. The goal of this phase of the project is to further raise the efficiency of hydrogen production.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | 4:30 p.m.
A University of California, Davis economist has authored a report advocating for a market-based auction system for U.S. work visas, a unique system not seen anywhere else in the world.
On Tuesday, UC Davis professor Giovanni Peri presented his report, commissioned by The Hamilton Project of the Brookings Institution, to a forum that included a White House domestic policy advisors and political and business leaders from both sides of aisle.
The abstract, as well as condensed and full copies of the report, can be found here.
Peri proposes that the U.S. government hold an auction four times a year, with each auctioned permit tied to a temporary visa. Visa-holders could move from one job to another, addressing issues of exploitation by employers raised under the current system. The possibility of permanent residency would be available to those who stay employed.
Permits for highly-skilled workers would start at a minimum of $7,000, while the minimum bid for lower-skilled positions would be $1,000. If there was particularly high demand for a group of workers, the government could issue more visas.
The auction revenue would go to the federal, state and local agencies that provide social services to immigrants.
"A simplified immigration system designed to meet the needs of the economy would allow the United States to maximize the many benefits of immigration and would create a fairer process for potential immigrants," the policy brief states. "The auction-based approach to visa allocation would mean that visas would be given to the immigrants who will contribute most to the U.S. economy and to companies most in need of foreign labor. The market mechanism would also provide useful signals about the constantly-changing economic demand for immigration. By redistributing the auction revenues to the states and localities that receive the largest immigrant inflows, the benefits and costs of immigration would be more evenly distributed across the states."
After testing the system on temporary work visas, Peri suggests expanding the strategy to other areas of the immigration system.
Currently, temporary work visas for skilled workers, such as the H-1B visa, are capped by Congress and are in high demand. Every year over the last decade the cap limit has been met very early in the process.
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Despite remaining in Edinburgh, Seton had an extremely successful career in the court of King James VI and I. Also, although Seton was Roman Catholic, James favoured him due to his support for his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, during her lifetime. This helped Seton in his appointment as Lord President of the Court of Session, a post he held from 1598-1604, and Lord Chancellor of Scotland, from 1604 until his death in 1622. He became the 1st Earl of Dunfermline in 1605. In 1610 he visited London and it is most likely that this elegant portrait was painted during this visit. He is dressed in a dark, subdued outfit, which perhaps relates to the recently issued note about the attire worn by Scottish officers. From his wrist hangs a small gold key, this may refer to his post as Chancellor. | <urn:uuid:0b3807aa-7073-4de6-9b9a-d44c8bfc411c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/G/9098/artist_name/Marcus%20Gheeraerts,%20the%20Younger/record_id/22928 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.996473 | 175 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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Even though it seems like it should be, this article is not part of Uncyclopedia's HowTo series. See real HowTos
So you want a road trip, eh? Well, you came to the right place. Uncyclopedia's always the right place to come to. Back on topic. There are many different types of road trip, from the general "see the sights" road trip to the specific "bragging rights" road trip. I've gone on the second one and it literally takes months of preparation. It's pretty great once it's up and driving, however. What? You think it's "up and running"! Well, there's much more driving than running involved. So you're wrong, and I'm right! Ha! Haha! Ha! Anyway, with practice you can be just like me.
edit Sample Road Trip Routes
The best road trip route is United States Route 66. Everyone in the contiguous United States knows that. What, you don't live in the contiguous United States? Then why are you reading the English Uncyclopedia? We originated the English language! Haven't you ever been to English, Indiana? I have. So you're not reading the right Uncyclopedia! Ha! Haha! Ha! Anyway, if you can't get to Route 66, just leave your house and start driving. Only stop for the essentials. The essentials are: breathing, food, water... and that's about it. There are others, but they're either disgusting or hard to pronounce. You should stop driving after about a week. Then all you have to do is return home. Instant road trip! "Instant" here meaning "two weeks." The best part is that the surprises never stop! You'll be saying "I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish," and "I'm sorry, I don't speak French."
edit History of Road Trips
We probably should have gotten to this first, but nobody cares about the history of road trips. Except me. That's why I started this section. Therefore it's not true that nobody cares. But I just said that nobody cares. Therefore I said something that wasn't true. Therefore I'm wrong. But I can't be wrong, dammit! That would violate the laws of physics! Very well, I no longer care about the history of road trips. Ha! Haha! Ha! Let's move on.
edit Road Trip Gear
First off, you need roads. You can't have a road trip without roads. Roads are to road trips what acid is to acid trips. Next, you need a vehicle. It can be anything from an RV to a motorhome. If you use any other type of vehicle, you will die from starvation, alone and penniless, on a backwoods dirt road in the Midwest. Why? Because I previously mentioned Indiana, which is in the Midwest. It's a type of a subliminal message. Sneaky. Actually, there's a chance of you not ending up in the Midwest. A very large chance. Anyway, if anyone, anywhere, finds your corpse, they'll inform the improper authorities. That's a pun on the phrase "proper authorities" by the way. I like puns. You should too. They make me laugh. Ha! Haha! Ha! Anyway, I haven't actually written anything about actual "gear" yet. I should probably start.
edit Actual, portable, road trip gear
I don't have much to say about actual, portable, road trip gear except that you should bring some with you. Here's a list of some good gear to bring with you.
- Those "essentials" that I mentioned above
- A permanent copy of this article
If you only bring one of these, make it that last one.
edit Othernational Road Trips
Road trips are not exclusive to the U.S., although they should be. I cringe whenever I see some Brit talking about road tripping in short, easily quotable, one-liners. Anyway, some people hate road tripping in their home countries so much that they come to the U.S. so they can do it here. They claim that the reverse also happens, but that has to be all lies. What reason could there possibly be for Americans to road trip on foreign "motorways" and "autobahns"? None, that's what.
I laugh at your silly, pitiful attempts to take over the United States, foreigners! Ha! Haha! Ha!
edit Any Questions?
Yes, you in the on-white. You say that this wasn't a really good Uncyclopedia article? You're saying it'll get deleted? You're asking why I'm repeating everything you said? You're beginning to get creeped out by my perverse demeanor? You're clicking the "Back" button on your browser? You're no longer here? Well, I'm not taking any more questions. So this is the end of the article. So I should go now. Well, I'd better say goodbye then. Goodbye.
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Benn away for a while...
Finally got a D3s and managed to get the Nikon 24 mm TS-E shift and tilt lens. Using what I understand to be the method to get the nodal point I got the values of A=86 and B=115 (lower/upper rail). However taking a pano the other week at this setting, the join in PTGui was a little off. On top of that, I used the full shift up and down (10-11 mm).
A number of questions has arisen:
1. Is my figure of 115 correct for the upper rail. Does anyone have a different setting.
2. Is there anything particular to consider when using a TS-E lens, but only shifting in the vertical plane.
3. The figure of 115 was determined with no shift on the lens, in fact just like using a normal 24mm lens. Do I have to many different calculations for a chnage in the vertical shift.
4. Would PTGui have a problem stitching a pano if the 'film' plane is vertical (no lens distortion to really take into account).
If anyone has any experinece in using one of these lenses, and feedback you may have would be much appraeciated. I'll have another go at trying to get the upper rail figure a little later.
Thanks in advance, | <urn:uuid:6a27059f-a6f4-4fdb-a524-aa44f53892f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nodalninja.com/forum/showthread.php?4194-D3s-24-TS-E&p=32341&viewfull=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944177 | 283 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Opinion: Online anonymity is the new robe and hood of hatred – In America - CNN.com Blogs
Not so long ago, racists had to work hard to spew their venom. They had to starch their robes, get in their trucks, and meet face-to-face with others who viciously hated minorities, gays, women, Jews, and even Catholics.
These days, cowards use the anonymity of computers as their robes and hoods of hatred. With a click of a mouse, you can witness a virtual cross-burning led by the guy in the next cubicle.
It's ironic to think that someone who posts about "lazy" blacks and Hispanics might be running a cyber-Klan meeting while on the clock. With a few keystrokes, people have allowed the hate in their heart to reveal itself by sharing, reposting, and curating images and words that are destructive to the very fabric of our nation. | <urn:uuid:ebdf1c02-936a-4b55-9dd7-93a367e98a26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.spanglishtoday.org/2012/04/opinion-online-anonymity-is-new-robe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97671 | 195 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Originally Posted by mindless
How do they differ? How much do they differ?
Theoretically all speakers could be said to have their goal as one of "accuracy".
However, in reality the performance to an "application" can cause choices to design that affect the abilities and thus the sound.
Case in point a Commercial Speaker may need to have the ability to play LOUDLY, and may sacrifice other more delicate sonic subtleties to reach this goal.
A small nearfield audiophile oriented monitor may sacrifice the ability to to play as loud, for a greater accuracy to detail, resolution and frequency accuracy.
So you will have differences.
Generally, those who argue that PA speakers are (or should) be the same as High End Audiophile speakers fail to recognize these differences in applications.
Like putting a V-8 in a VW. Great at the drag strip, but not so great driving the new GF on a spirited Sunday drive through some challenging country roads. | <urn:uuid:23805364-1456-4786-aba5-ceb96504313f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.avsforum.com/t/1271348/audiophile-vs-professsional-speakers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959933 | 202 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Talk:World Archives Project: U.S., Military Registers, Marines
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Feel free to add to or edit information in this discussion tab as necessary. Please take time to become familiar with the General Keying Standards and be sure to read all instructions on the main project page. (Please note that in case of a discrepancy, project level instructions always trump general keying standards.)
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General Keying Standards
How should dates be entered?
If the DAY appears as 04 on the record the day should be entered as 4.
Please do not add leading zeros to single digit DAYS.
Don't enter a new section when a different 'year group' or 'rank / job title' changes
Don't enter blank records when blank lines are seen.
'Index to Names' pages are Form type 'Cover Pages', not 'Military Register'
Please be careful and choose the latest or most recent military date out of all of the military dates listed.
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Q: Following some of the names, is the word "att". Should this be ignored, or considered a suffix?
- A: Yes I would key att as a suffix. I assume it stands for attorney-at-law.
Q: Do I use "Date of Temporary Rank" over "Date of Rank" when that date is the latest?
A: I have been keying the latest date on the page since the instructions say it's not limited to the examples given.
Q: I am working on records that the first name has Date of Temp Rank as 1 May 43, each name below has a "do". Am I to put this 1 May 43 into each of the others or the actual listed, latest date? They all have a date for entry in 41. As of now, I am putting the 1 May 43 in each name and hoping I have not messed this up!
A: Yes the general instructions say that you should not key quotes/dittos etc, you should actually copy the date from above it is referring to.
Q: I am keying entries where the name suffix is "3d" instead of "III". Do I key as seen?
- A: yes, key 3d as suffix and f7 to accept ti.
Q: if the index of names also has pay entry base dates on it, do we still mark it as a cover page?
Q: Is the "date of entry" a military date or just the date the record was entered?
Q: The image I have appears to be the 2nd page of a 2 page image. It contains birth date and military date but no names, how should I index this?
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Suggestion: In some of the images I see that the information for the record spans 2 images. Names might be on 1 page and relevant information on another. It would be good if both pages, in such a case, could be viewable. it would have to be certain that both pages were related records.
Be careful when two different centuries occur. For example, a man was born in 67, appointed in 90, date of rank 18, date of detail 21. The latest year is 21. Don't always assume the highest number for the year! Therefore, you key 21 for the military year. Think it through! | <urn:uuid:90e3aff2-3aa1-455a-99db-882f76d57da6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:World_Archives_Project:_U.S.,_Military_Registers,_Marines&redirect=no | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933687 | 856 | 1.515625 | 2 |
UN official highlights deep immigration problems in Greece after visit
The UN special rapporteur on migrants' human rights, François Crépeau, expressed on Monday concern about the sweep operations conducted by Greek police, the lack of coordination in the asylum process and the overall treatment of immigrants, although he stressed the need for the European Union to develop an EU-wide approach to the rising number of irregular migrants trapped in Greece.
“I urge the Greek authorities to undertake all the necessary measures to combat discrimination against migrants,” he said after spending nine days in Greece after a trip to the region. “I am deeply concerned about the widespread xenophobic violence and attacks against migrants in Greece, and I strongly condemn the inadequate response by the law enforcement agencies to curb this violence, and to punish those responsible.”
He was especially critical of the operation launched earlier this year by Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias to round up illegal migrants.
“I deeply regret the Greek government’s new policy of systematically detaining everyone they detect irregularly entering the Greek territory, including unaccompanied children and families,” he said. “I also regret the ‘sweep operations’ in the context of operation ‘Xenios Zeus,’ which have led to widespread detention of migrants in different parts of the country, many of whom have lived and worked in Greece for years.”
Crépeau drew attention to the problems caused by a lack of a comprehensive immigration policy and the inability of authorities to work together, citing the example of the island of Lesvos, which has seen a rise in the number of immigrants arriving there due to stronger patrolling of Greece's land borders with Turkey.
“In Lesvos, I noticed that, due to the limited detention capacity and the resulting overcrowding, some migrants are quickly released, and others, particularly families and unaccompanied children, are not detained at all,” he said. “Unless they are provided with a deportation order from the police, they are not allowed to board the boats leaving for Athens and are thus stuck on the island and have to sleep on the street or in parks. Just before my visit to Lesvos, the local authorities provided facilities (a summer camp close to the airport) to house some migrant families. While I greatly appreciate this initiative, it is run by volunteers from the local community, and is not sustainable without support from Greek authorities.”
The UN expert said that unaccompanied or separated migrant children are often released from detention, without any particular status, and without the appointment of a guardian, even though the public prosecutor is supposed to appoint guardians to all unaccompanied children.
“I met migrant children who lived in abandoned buildings or under highway overpasses, without any proper status and without any institutional support apart from the action of some civil society organizations,” Crépeau said.
“It is contrary to the human rights framework to pursue a policy that leaves individuals in a state of legal limbo such that one cannot build a future of any kind and can only live day after day at a level of precarious survival, in constant fear of arrest, detention and deportation,” he underscored.
Crépeau acknowledged Greece's plans to set up a civilian, rather than police-run, asylum and first reception service.
“I have been informed by Greek authorities that these services should be operational by the summer of 2013,” he said. “If properly implemented, such measures could effectively quickly screen in migrants with vulnerabilities (asylum seekers, children, migrants with illnesses or disabilities, victims of trafficking, victims of violence, persons in need of family reunification), undertake an individual assessment of migrants for whom detention is necessary and the reasons why it is necessary, release all the other migrants with an appropriate status, and thus reduce the hardship experienced at present by many migrants.”
However, the official expressed great concern about the conditions in which migrants were being held.
“I visited the Tychero Border Police Station in Evros, Venna and Komotini detention centers in the neighboring Rodopi regional unit, the central police station in Mytilini on Lesvos, the central police station in Patra, the coast guard’s detention facility at the port in Patra, Corinth detention center, Amygdaleza detention center, Amygdaleza detention center for minors, Aghios Panteleimonas police station and Petrou Ralli detention center,” said the envoy.
“In general, the detainees had little or no information about why they were detained, and how long they would remain in detention. This also applied to some of those who had engaged lawyers, and they complained that the lawyers simply take their money and do not follow up on their cases. Those who had applied for asylum often had no information about the status of their case, and others had not been able to apply for asylum from the detention facility. The medical services offered in some of the facilities by KEELPNO (Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention) were highly insufficient. Most of the detention facilities I visited lacked heating and hot water, and the detainees complained about insufficient amounts and poor quality of food, lack of soap and other hygiene products, as well as insufficient clothing and blankets. Of all the detention facilities I visited, Corinth was the only which allowed the migrants to keep their mobile phones.”
Crépeau also expressed concern about Greek authorities having the right to detain migrants for up to 18 months and denying them automatic judicial review of decisions to detain them.
However, the UN official added that the EU needs to provide further technical and financial assistance to Greece to deal with the situation.
“As the large number of irregular migrants stuck in Greece is mainly a result of EU policies and practices, there is a strong need for solidarity and responsibility-sharing within the EU in order to ensure full respect of the human rights of all these migrants.”
Crépeau is due to deliver to United Nations Human Rights Council’s 23rd session in May or June 2013 the findings of his year-long study on the management of the external borders of the EU and its impact on the human rights of migrants. | <urn:uuid:c4971a2e-5971-47e3-993d-4c994c81d34a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_03/12/2012_472698 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961135 | 1,280 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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There's no better way to observe the Ruhr region's transformation from industrial centre to cultural hub than at the Ruhrtriennale. Music, theatre, literature and dance have colonised the space where chimneys once smoked and blast furnaces sent red light flickering all around. From the outset, the idea of linking a multi-genre festival with the Ruhr valley's industrial heritage was greeted with enthusiasm by the media, audiences and artists alike.
The Ruhrtriennale has been held annually since 2002 and there is a different artistic director every three years. Its venues are industrial monuments including the blasting hall and power plant at Duisburg-Nord Industrial Landscape Park, the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen and the machine hall at the Zweckel colliery in Gladbeck. These were transformed into amazing arts venues – stages, concert halls and studios – during the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition from 1989 to 1999, once it was certain there was no going back to coal and coke. Productions that seek to create a dialogue with these surroundings are at the heart of the Ruhrtriennale, and the main theatre is the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum. Artists such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Bill Viola, Peter Sellars, Ilya Kabakov, Andrea Breth, Christian Boltanski, Johan Simons, Bill Frisell, Patti Smith, Christoph Marthaler, Jan Fabre and Peter Zadek have shaped the Ruhrtriennale – and will continue to ensure that culture not coal is what the Ruhr does best.
23-Aug-2013 - 06-Oct-2013
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No flooding yet, thousands of sandbags set up in Kenosha County
VILLAGE OF PLEASANT PRAIRIE - Authorities say there has been no flooding yet in Pleasant Prairie caused by the effects of Superstorm Sandy.
With waves forecasted to possibly be as high as 35 feet along Lake Michigan on Tuesday, officials in Kenosha County initially urged some to leave their homes due to possible flooding.
They since changed the evacuation advisory to a flood advisory.
Police in Pleasant Prairie told TODAY'S TMJ4's Nick Montes that no flooding has occurred there.
Even though Jay Robinson lives hundreds of miles away from the fury of Sandy, he was up early on Tuesday to prepare.
"My house is not that high," said Robinson to Montes on Tuesday. "Just trying to make sure I'm safe...better to be safe than sorry."
People like Jay have been using sandbags to protect their property from flooding.
"Maybe 22 (sandbags) or something like that, just enough to do the main entrances to the house."
Crews were remodeling another home when the flooding worries began.
"We heard about the tall waves and we tried to prepare a little bit last night, and the builder's out, and he'll shore up things today if we need to."
Since 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, Pleasant Prairie public works crews have delivered 2,000 sandbags, which they have brought to 5th Avenue and 90th Street in Pleasant Prairie.
The winds have been blowing nonstop as far away as Lake Michigan since Sandy made landfall on the East Coast.
Some waves have reached anywhere from 14 to 18 feet.
Kenosha County says it used a reverse 9-1-1 call to tell more than 1,000 people about the voluntary evacuation area.
One man had a truck full of sand bags which he hoped would do the trick.
"Not really sure what to expect, so just trying to do whatever you can to make the best of a bad situation," said homeowner Paul Pachniak.
Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth told TODAY'S TMJ4 that "waves that could wash up with erosion...and could possibly wash up to houses."
Sheriff Beth says they are doing their best to inform people of the voluntary evacuation. The Village of Pleasant Prairie has the evacuation in effect for people living along the lakeshore.
"This is kind of unusual for us to have the lake itself to be the major concern," says Sheriff Beth. | <urn:uuid:11cf867e-5bda-425d-9453-c16c3822a8cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/176352791.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973152 | 522 | 1.742188 | 2 |
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Re^3: Seeing Perl in a new lightby gwadej (Chaplain)
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This is going to be another piece you will think is unnecessary in the beginning. Years ago, I saw version control described as a time machine for your development.
A version control system allows you to go back to earlier versions of your code or compare your two different version of code. This is most useful while things are changing.
For example, imagine that you've got a mostly stable version of your code in place. Now imagine you have a great idea that will only take a few minutes to code up.... 4 hours later, nothing is working and you are wishing you could go back to where you were 4 hours ago. Version control to the rescue.
You could do the same thing by zipping up your entire site any time you feel it is worth keeping.
Version control can also help with seeing what changes you have made (to help you find where you went wrong). Say you want to compare what you did 2 hours ago with what you have now.
The point of enlightenment for me was when I realized that I could use version control proactively. Make sure everything is under version control. Try something experimental that might break everything. If it works, keep it. If it doesn't, toss it. No real loss.
Of course, there are better and more advanced ways to make use of version control, but these would be helpful right away. | <urn:uuid:f7e27e8f-d6ea-44eb-9d50-f57a0fab8d25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=757220 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966006 | 324 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The article, "ASU to provide center to help victims of domestic violence," by reporter Luci Scott, quoted Dean Paul Schiff Berman as predicting the center will become a model for the nation. It will enlist students and faculty from several colleges at ASU to work on matters such as child and spousal abuse, protective orders, custody, prosecutions, family law, juvenile law and health law.
"There are other clinical programs, but very few combine the whole range of different services," Berman said. "Legal problems are usually accompanied by other issues such as health issues, or the need for social services, or psychological pain and suffering, and so we need a more holistic model."
The center is funded with $1 million from the Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation, with an additional $1 million from NextCare Urgent Care for the NextCare Urgent Care Family Violence Clinic, which will be housed in the Center. Dr. John Shufeldt (a 2005 alumnus of the College of Law), founder and CEO of NextCare, praised the law school's hiring of Buel. She is a clinical professor at the University of Texas School of Law, a former prosecutor, and a domestic violence survivor who has made the issue her passion.
To read a press release about her appointment, click here. To read the full Republic story, click here. | <urn:uuid:ae3de7f4-6def-4598-b0b2-67bd0f5cb7c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.law.asu.edu/News/CollegeofLawNews.aspx?NewsId=3529 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965262 | 279 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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By: Spencer Tielkemeier
In a blog post early last November I detailed the beginnings of an experiment in wild beer, which you can read here:
Though I won’t rehash the details of those beginning stages, the project definitely deserves an update. It’s been almost a year since we inoculated the barrels and filled them with BRUIN and now, delightfully, we’re starting to see some awesome results.
Truthfully, we’ve been seeing promising results for quite a while, but after many successive tastes we feel that the beer has reached a point where it’s ready for packaging. About a month ago, we emptied 2 of the 4 oak barrels and bottled them. This small, very limited bottling run yielded about 500 bottles (750ml). We’re leaving the other 2 barrels untouched to continue the aging process in order for them to further gain the complexity that only time can provide. So, in essence, the beer that we bottled a month ago is not truly a finished product, but a “snapshot” of sorts into a year-old souring experiment.
That is not to say, however, that the beer is “unfinished” or rough around the edges. It has developed beautifully over the course of one year into a treat for the senses. We call it WILD BEAR, in reference to both the wild yeast that has made it and the base beer from which we started, BRUIN. Though much of the beer drinking population is not yet familiar with the world of wild/sour beers, those who are will immediately recognize the distinct characteristics of a “Brett beer” as soon as the bottle is opened. The aroma is gorgeous, exhibiting all the best characteristics that Brettanomyces Bruxellensis has to offer including notes of pineapple, tart cherries, oak, and a distinctive barnyard “funkiness” that must be tasted to be understood. The flavor is similarly complex; the bacteria Pediococcus provides a moderate, pleasant tartness that makes the beer an excellent apéritif. The beer finishes dry with a nice tannic oakiness. It is 100% bottle conditioned and, as is the case for all of our beers, made with mostly organic ingredients.
Though 2 of the barrels are now empty, the project will continue on. The barrels will be refilled with fresh beer and, since they already have a vigorous population of wild yeast and bacteria, they will produce beers that share qualities with the one we’ve just bottled (the children and grandchildren of the WILD BEAR). We also have plans to expand our alternative yeast program soon with the addition of more barrels.
We hope you’re as excited for the WILD BEAR as we are. It has enchanted us from day one. Look for an announcement coming soon detailing the specifics of its release.
As always, Drink Texas Proud,
The (512) Team
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Public Papers - 1991
Remarks by the President and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada at the Air Quality Agreement Signing Ceremony in Ottawa
The Prime Minister. Mr. President, distinguished guests: I'm very pleased to welcome President Bush to Canada on his first foreign trip since the end of the Gulf war. He comes to Canada today as a President who is greatly admired at home and widely respected abroad, and one whose skill and resolve provided the international community with a stunning success in a war over Iraq.
In my many meetings and conversations with President Bush since August 2d I have been struck both by his grasp of the issues and by the breadth of his vision in regard to this remarkable problem. He instinctively chose to work within the United Nations. He painstakingly constructed and nurtured a great and disparate coalition of sovereign nations. He provided the perspective and the patience required for successful statecraft. And when, at the 11th hour, a diplomatic solution was again rejected, President Bush provided the strength and the decisiveness required for the successful prosecution of war.
I'm not entirely certain how history will interpret the expression ``defining moment,'' which appears to be pretty much en vogue in certain quarters these days. But I assume it means the crystallization of great need and wise, confident leadership in a manner that indelibly affects succeeding generations. In that regard, the conduct of the Gulf crisis and the war, from its uncertain beginnings to its triumphant end, was in fact, a defining moment for the United Nations, the United States, and the world. And for this extraordinary achievement the name George Bush will live proudly in the history of free men and women.
In fact, this Presidency in my judgment will always be remembered for the uncommon courage and the strong leadership that President George Bush of the United States of America demonstrated throughout an exceptionally challenging and potentially explosive period in world history.
Canada and the United States are close friends and trusted allies. And the President of the United States is always most welcome in our country. And, Mr. President, I bid you on behalf of everyone a most warm welcome here today.
I have noticed that President Bush has acquired along the way a 91-percent approval rating. [Laughter] Because of our close relationship and because this is a special day -- George Bush and I have been friends for many years -- I know that the President will want to pool his ratings with mine. [Laughter] We can then, George, divide by two, and we both come out ahead. [Laughter]
But it's a particular pleasure for us to welcome you, Mr. President, on this visit to sign the Canada-United States Air Quality Accord. This agreement has had a long and sometimes difficult history. It has involved three United States administrations and five successive Canadian governments. You and I, Mr. President, have worked on this issue since the days when you were still Vice President. And I see Allan Gottlieb here today -- when Alan was our Ambassador in the United States, and so many others who have played an important role in it. But no one has played a more critical role than you.
You have demonstrated sensitivity to Canadian interests in your proceeding with domestic clean air legislation and in signing this agreement today. It commits the Governments of both countries, this arrangement today, to a series of targets and schedules, and requires both to make public the progress that is achieved. The agreement also provides a framework for cooperation to solve other transboundary air pollution problems.
[At this point, a telephone rang.]
That's Gallup calling, Mr. President. [Laughter] I expected a push, but not this fast. [Laughter]
With this agreement and with the control programs now in effect in both countries, we are confident that the acid rain menace will be eliminated by the year 2000.
I would like to take this opportunity -- there are many people who deserve to be thanked today. Davie Fulton from the IJC, and I mentioned Allan. And so many others: John Fraser, who is the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. President, but in his previous incarnation was Minister of the Environment, and a most successful one. And I see Bill Reilly, who is here from the United States; and Robert De Cotret; and David MacDonald, who is Chairman of the Environment Committee of the House of Commons; and so many parliamentarians who are with us today who played a key role.
But I would like to thank Michael Phillips, of External Affairs, and Bob Slater, of Environment Canada, our negotiators, for a job well-done. And I would like to thank their American counterparts and the scores of people on both sides, many of whom are present this afternoon, for working so hard to make this happy day possible.
Mr. President, this agreement is very important to Canadians. Our national soul takes its breath from the forests and lakes and mountains and prairies that give life to our country. The aboriginal peoples of Canada have taught us that we hold this magnificent land, as you do yours, in trust for future generations. And so, today's agreement will help us correct many of the errors of the past.
With this agreement we are guaranteeing our children that air quality will never again be taken for granted on this continent. The sensitivity and idealism of children on both sides of the border are our environment's best hope.
Mr. President, your colleagues from the administration, Governor Sununu and General Scowcroft, and your colleagues, Ambassador Ney: on behalf of Canadians young and old, I would like to express our appreciation for your cooperation.
There is someone here, Stan Darling, Mr. President, who is right over there, who, as he says, is a member of the Conservative Caucus, soon to be 80 years young, as he says every Wednesday. He was one of the often unmentioned guiding lights who fought the fight over many long and difficult years to make this possible. And while you and I get to sign it today, Mr. President, what we sign is a tribute to Stan Darling and so many Members of Parliament and Members of Congress and members of the administration on both sides who deserve this tribute today.
So, I would like to express our appreciation for your cooperation, and I want to thank you for your vital contribution to preserving the common environment we both hold in trust for future generations. I'm aware, Mr. President, of the pressures on you. There are actually some pressures on us in the same ways up here in Canada. And to have moved as you did the environmental question so quickly within your own borders, so far and to such heights, is a tribute to the commitment that you made to the American people and to the Government of Canada -- that if elected, you would make this your highest priority and you would try to bring about a day like today. Well, we're here, Mr. President, and we're here on a happy day in very large measure because you provided that principal leadership. You followed through when you gave your commitment. And for that and many other reasons I express our thanks. And I give you the warmest of welcomes to Canada.
Minister De Cotret. President Bush has certainly demonstrated an unprecedented interest in the bilateral environment affairs of Canada and the United States. Mr. President, Canadians look forward to making further improvements to our shared heritage. Allow me to add my appreciation to that of the Prime Minister. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
The President. Thank you all very much for that welcome to Canada. And, Mr. Prime Minister, it's a delight to be with you and Mrs. Mulroney again. And to Minister De Cotret, why, thank you, sir, for presiding at this historic occasion, one that we've been looking forward to very, very much.
To the Members of the Parliament and to our able Ambassador, Eddie Ney, it's a great pleasure to be up here and then to add my name along with our country's commitment to an agreement of great environmental importance. I, too, would like to pay my respects to Mr. Darling. I can't say I have felt his lash or his determination as much as others in this Parliament have felt -- [laughter] -- but I would like to assure him that while he was fighting the domestic battles here, sensitizing Canadians -- and sometimes it spilled over to sensitizing those south of the border here -- Ambassadors Gottlieb and Burney were no paper tigers. They were on us like ugly on an ape, I'll tell you. [Laughter] And they stayed on us, and appropriately so, because I think because of their leadership they had brought many in the United States Congress and many in the administration to understand just how important a priority this was to the Prime Minister and to the Members here. And so, I salute them as well.
Before I speak about this agreement briefly, let me just make a brief comment to underscore my sincere appreciation for the key contribution made by your country to the coalition's recent victory in the war to liberate Kuwait. Mr. Prime Minister, since the very first minute that you and I talked, Canada and the United States were appropriately, significantly side by side. And I thank you, sir, I thank the Canadian people, I thank the Members of this Parliament for standing in partnership for the principles that gave justice real meaning in the world. I once again want to say that I would talk -- I'm sure it seemed to him endlessly -- but to your Prime Minister, and the American people knew from day one exactly where Canada stood. And we are very, very grateful for that.
This agreement that we're fixing to sign is added proof that the challenges we face require a new partnership among nations. Last year at the Houston economic summit, we agreed to give this effort real priority. Our negotiators gained momentum with the passage in the U.S. of our landmark environmental legislation, the clean air act of 1990. Credit for this accord belongs to the EPA in our country, its able Administrator, Bill Reilly, who is with us today. And of course, credit goes to the negotiators on both sides for the spirit in which they completed this task. Let me thank our special negotiator, Dick Smith, and his colleagues, as well as their counterparts across the table on the Canadian side for a job well-done.
Beyond our common interest in our shared environment, this agreement says something about our overall relationship. The fact that Canada and the United States were able so quickly to craft a wide-ranging and effective agreement on such a complex subject says a lot about the extraordinarily strong relationship between our two countries.
Mr. Prime Minister, I do recall our own discussions on environmental issues, and especially our meeting before I became President back in January of 1987. I made a comment then that made its way into more than a few Canadian news reports, that I'd gotten ``an earful'' from you on acid rain. That was the understatement of the year. [Laughter] So now, I came up here to prove to you that I was listening, and all of us on the American side were listening. And again, we appreciate your strong advocacy, your articulate advocacy of this principle that I think will benefit the American people, the Canadian people. And I like to think it goes even beyond the borders of our two great countries.
So, thank you very much. The treaty that we sign today is testimony to the seriousness with which both our countries regard this critical environmental issue. And here is one that did take two to tango. Here is one where each had to come give a little and take a little, and it's been worth it. And I think we're doing something good and sound and decent today.
Thank you all very, very much.
Note: The Prime Minister spoke at 3:50 p.m. in the Reading Room at Parliament Hill. In his remarks, the Prime Minister referred to Allan Gottlieb, former Canadian Ambassador to the United States; E. Davie Fulton, Chairman of the Canadian Section of the International Joint Commission -- United States and Canada; John Fraser, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and former Minister of the Environment; William K. Reilly, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Canadian Minister of the Environment Robert de Cotret; David MacDonald, chairperson of the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Environment; Michael Phillips, Canadian Assistant Deputy Minister for External Affairs; R.W. Slater, Canadian Assistant Deputy Minister for the Environment; John H. Sununu, Chief of Staff to the President; Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Edward Ney, U.S. Ambassador to Canada; and Stan Darling, Canadian Member of Parliament. The President referred to the Prime Minister's wife, Mila; Derek H. Burney, Canadian Ambassador to the United States; and Richard J. Smith, U.S. Special Negotiator for Acid Rain Talks With Canada. | <urn:uuid:60d2c0be-db63-40fa-a14a-85a2a3dca995> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=2794&year=1991&month=all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972395 | 2,653 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Kuwaiti writer Mohammed Al-Mulaifi was sentenced to seven years of hard labor in prison yesterday for slander and defamation against the country's Shi'ite minority on his Twitter account. He said members of the country's Shi'ite Muslim minority were loyal to foreign countries due to their alleged foreign origin. He was also fined US$18,000.
Kuwait is split 70/30 between its Sunni and Shi'ite citizens. It has laws that forbid the maligning of either expression of Islam.
The Kuwait Times said, "Al-Mulaifi was accused of broadcasting untrue news on his Twitter blog about the existence of racial and sectarian division within the Kuwaiti community, and of accusing some citizens of affiliations to foreign countries. Al-Mulaifi was found guilty of undermining the Shiite doctrine and insulting Shiite scholars."
He was also charged for his accusations that Kuwaiti parliamentarian Ahmed Lari was of non-Kuwaiti origin and for slandering a Shi'ite religious figure, Imam Al-Mahdi.
The court's statement said he was convicted because he communicated "falsehoods about sectarian divisions" in Kuwait via Twitter and because he "insulted the Shiite faith and its scholars." His tweets, said the ruling, "damaged Kuwait's image."
Al-Mulaifi was arrested in February after Shi'ite Kuwaitis, including members of the government, vociferously protested his tweets.
Twitter is popular in Kuwait, as it is in the rest of the Gulf States. Kuwait is not alone in seeing a surprising number of its users get in trouble for their tweets, usually statements of a religious nature. In neighboring Saudi Arabia, Hamza Kashgari tweeted statements that inspired public anger, which was in turn fanned by internal political elements resentful of the liberalization of the country. Kashgari was intercepted in Malaysia after fleeing the kingdom in fear.
Not all Kuwaitis support the sentence. Kuwait Times reported that international lawyer and arbitrator Labeed Abdal is calling on the Kuwaiti Government to clarify the limit of the rights and freedom of expression.
"Interpretation must be thoroughly studied and properly identified," said Abdal, "In [Al-Mulaifi's] case, they are mixing it with personality and politics. Also, punishment must be adjusted to the crime committed." | <urn:uuid:87e49274-a812-438b-8f00-8e199ecbbb6f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/kuwaiti-writer-gets-7-years-for-slandering-religious-minority-on-twitter/?comments=1&post=22751187 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975083 | 477 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Election Registration Process
Come April, 2011, Nigeria will be having another democratic election. Voters registration process as regards the forthcoming election has began with 132,000 Direct Data Capture Machines imported for this process. This is the first time since independent that the Direct Data Capture (DDC) machine is used in Nigeria to ensure a free and fair election. Many citizens are excited at this new process which captures one's data and photo. There have been a huge challenge using the machines which have resulted to improper training of those engaged to handle the process. There have been stories of those rejected by the machine or malfunction of the machine. I wonder why they were not well trained despite the huge amount of money released for this election.
Many Nigerians are so eager to register for various reason. Some wants to exercise their civic rights while most parents believes that government may require the card to enrol their children n school and they just want to register to have the voters registration card. They are not interested to vote because they believe that there vote do not count. To vote is our rights but having it count is what cannot be determine in Nigeria among politicians. Public office in Nigeria is a do-or -die affair, politician do anything to get a chair of their choice. This is why the citizen do not believe in their vote. Also, with the fight outbreak in my community on Sunday, one whose wonder why there should be a fight at the registration centre that even involve the use of cutlass on each other just the poor processes.
There was rumour of another bomb blast that was supposed to be planted in Lagos, Nigeria. Schools have not resume this year because of this rumour to avoid more casualties and stories of kidnapping of children. They may likely resume next week and am sure will stay back home in April till after there is certainty that the environment is peaceful.
The primaries have been peaceful as compare to past elections and look forward to April for the election proper. We really hope it will be a peaceful one without violence which has always been the iced decoration of all elections in Nigeria. | <urn:uuid:e3574a7f-54d7-4535-951a-463a4aa9ec3d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://worldpulse.com/node/33731 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977917 | 420 | 1.640625 | 2 |
This past week there have been a lot of questions about the WMF vulnerability, what Microsoft is doing, and what the community should do to protect against it. For many reasons, Microsoft's response to the problem is best left to those who do this for a living. However, there is a lot of interest in the community for ways to protect against the problem until an official patch is available. Obviously, a patch is the best protection there is, but until there is one, and until we can get it applied, do we just watch our systems melt around us? I cannot speak for Microsoft and this blog post is a purely personal opinion piece, not a Microsoft statement. However, I think this is just another risk management problem.
Let's look for just a minute at the vulnerability itself. It exploits a little-known function in Windows Meta Files (WMF). Those files are used for, well, I don't know really. I think they are mostly used for clipart in Office. In any case, the exploit involves a file with special commands in it, which would be rendered by shimgvw.dll acting on behalf of the user. The exploit requires user interaction, such as surfing to a web site hosting an image that exploits the problem, viewing an e-mail with an embedded such image in an e-mail program that shows those images (Outlook 2003 does not do so automatically), or opening an image as a file attachment. Of course, the usual "security researchers" are publishing canned versions, metasploit versions, and all other manner of sample exploits to make it possible for even criminals who barely know how to use a computer to exploit this issue.
There are many different exploits of this by now. They are currently in active use to install spyware, according to SANS.
A number of protective measures do exist. They include the usual measures as well as a few unique ones.
Surf in an unprivileged contextSimply surfing the web as a non-administrator will go a long way toward protecting yourself. The obvious way to do this is to make your user account something other than an administrator. You really should do that anyway. However, even if you cannot be a regular user (all of us can, strictly speaking, but it is inconvenient), use the Restricted Tokens functionality in Windows XP Service Pack 2 to surf unprivileged. A really simple way to do that is to use the Run As functionality. Right-click the icon you use to launch Internet Explorer (or whatever browser you use) and select Run As. When you do you get this dialog.
If you select the "Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity" checkbox you will get a restricted security token and the browser will basically be a regular user. The damage it can cause is therefore that of a regular user. Of course, this is nowhere near as good as running as an regular user, but at least it goes some way toward surfing with protection.
Obviously, your users will never do this on their own. You can do it for them though. Right-click the icons they use to launch their browser, and select the Advanced button on the Shortcut page. Click the "Run with different credentials" box and click OK twice. Now distribute this icon and make sure it is the easy way for them to launch the browser. They will naturally, as users tend to do, click "OK" on the first dialog pops up, which will automatically give them a restricted token. Here is how that looks:
If you want to verify that this works, use Aaron Margosis most excellent PrivBar toolbar for IE. I find it a handy measure to ensure that I am browsing in the right context. There are some things that do not work properly in this context, like the MSN toolbar, but I find that a small price to pay. Another annoyance is that none of your settings for IE work when you run restricted. Finally, it does not seem to work at all on a domain-joined system that is not connected to the domain.
How and where does this help? Using a restricted account is good security practice no matter what. It will contain the exploit to only information that the restricted user has access to and makes it a lot harder escalate the exploit to other systems. In addition, it means that it is very difficult for the attacker to rootkit the system through this type of exploit since the user does not have access to install anything. However, surfing restricted will not stop the exploit. It just makes it somewhat less bad. If the user has access to sensitive information, so do the criminals. That means that while all my users are running restricted, as do I most of the time, I do more than that to protect them.
Block the Exploit At The GatewayThe next possible preventive measure is to attempt to block the exploit. I showed last week how to block file extensions in ISA server and Susan showed how to do it on the mail server if you have SBS. If you do not have SBS, the process is a bit more complicated, but you can still do it.
Blocking the files at the gateway is a great idea. It stops the exploit somewhere where the exploit has no control. If you try to stop the exploit at the user level, the user has the ability to override the protection as long as there is a compelling enough reason to do so. As we all know, promises of huge sums of money, chocolate, or naked dancing pigs, is far more important than security to most users. Given the tradeoff between the two, security stands no chance. With extension blocking the user has no control over the protection and therefore cannot override it very easily.
Of course, there is a downside. According to Security Focus, there is now a handy exploit kit that produces exploits that do not use the WMF file extension. That means that blocking only WMF files does not stop all exploits. It only stops those we know about right now that use WMF extensions. This works because the system is written to be smart about file contents. If the file extension says it is a JPG file, but the content says it is WMF, then clearly someone must have made a mistake and they really wanted the file parsed as WMF so it will go ahead and do so. Unfortunately, we live in a file extension oriented world, but the components are written assuming that file-extensions are unreliable. Protective measures are still file extension oriented though. Therefore, blocking files based on extensions is useful, but not complete protection. To be fully protected you would need to block all the file types that can be used, which may include EMF, GIF, JPG (and friends), Paint, PJPG, PNG, TIF, WMF, and possibly others as well. Of course, you can block all of those as well, but now we are really making web browsing painful. A better option would be to have a smart file parser at the gateway which can determine based on the contents of the file what it is. If you have a Network-Based Intrusion Detection System, this would be a really good time to get the manual out and figure out how to block WMF files based on content.
The question then is, should you use file blocking? Personally, I have blocked WMF and EMF files. I have not gone so far as to block JPG and the others yet. I probably will not do so as I believe (hope) that the sites my users go to will not be hosting the exploit. They are typically only surfing a few different sites and that limits exposure. Had my exposure been different, the value of the information I protect been higher, my legal requirements to provide protection been firmer, or my risk tolerance been lower, I probably would have blocked all of them. It really comes down to risk management, and there is no right answer here. You have to judge your risk, your requirements, and your tolerance for risk. The cure here is to block all these file extensions. The cost of actually doing so is low, but the side-effects are large. The potential risk is variable depending on the environments. You end up with a risk management formula that looks something like this:
RiskOfAttack*CostOfAttack - CostOfCure - CostOfSideEffects*RiskOfSideEffects = RiskCoefficient
Obviously, this is entirely abstract, but if the calculated risk coefficient is positive, and greater than your risk tolerance, then you would implement the protection. In my case, the risk coefficient is negative for this particular preventive measure meaning that the cost of the side effects of the cure are greater than the risk itself. In your case, that may not be the case.
De-Register the DLLinvokedThe official Microsoft work-around is to de-register the shimgvw.dll file so that it does not get invoked at all. This does stop the attack since the vulnerable component is no longer used. However, the cost of implementing the prevention is high since it requires the action to be taken on every single machine. If you have an Enterprise Management System (EMS) that would not be too difficult, but still takes some work. If you do not you have to either run to every system and run the regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll command. Then when the crisis is over you have to run back to every system and do basically the same thing. Each operation takes a reboot.
There is one other problem with this protection. In order to unregister the DLL you have to be an administrator. I can see a lot of people that would put a logon script together that would unregister the DLL. Then I see a web page that says "in order to see the naked dancing pigs on this page you must first run this component. Please click here first..." and a link to a cmd file with regsvr32 shimgvw.dll. You see, users can undo any protective measure you put in place as the user.
The potential value of de-registering the DLL is high if the user is not an administrator. If the user is an administrator, it is negligible. The side-effect is moderate. It only stops the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, which breaks the filmstrip mode in Windows Explorer and viewing any file type that is registered to that component, which is all of the ones listed above. You can, however, still surf the web and see pictures there. This highlights an important point, there are usually more than one way to skin any particular cat. Any component that explicitly loads shimgvw.dll is not protected. I do not know of any such components, but since the DLL is still there it is foolish to think that there is not something that loads it. Couple that with a high cost of implementation and you find that either your risk of attack or your cost of attack, or both, has to be extremely high to go this far. It is a valuable protective measure in some environments, but certainly not in all. Personally, I have used this measure on one machine where I have to be an administrator.
Up to date Anti-MalwareThe old standby of keeping your anti-malware (anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, anti-whateverthecurrentfadistoday) up to date is of course also recommended. Doing so will block known exploits, but not unknown ones. The anti-malware crowd are working overtime on this one to keep their signatures up to date, but eventually, signatures will fail. I think of anti-malware as antibiotics. Sure, I like them, and sure, they prevent infection, but eventually the pathogens become resistant, and at that point there is no cure. It is a case of leapfrogging. We leapfrog the criminals, then the criminals leapfrog us. Then we leapfrog the criminals, and they leapfrog us. We have been doing so for 20 years or more, and we are still fighting the same battles.
Note that I am not saying not to use anti-malware. You definitely should use it. It is a nice safety net. Just do not become overly reliant on it. The time will come when an exploit is not stopped by anti-malware. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because you have anti-malware you can stop being vigilant.
Unofficial PatchFinally, there is an unofficial patch. Patch really is the right terminology for this. It patches (using basic rootkit technology) a system DLL to ignore calls to the vulnerable function. The patch is an executable and has to be run on each vulnerable system, meaning cost of implementation is potentially very high. According to SANS, it does stop the current exploits. Personally, I have not tested it, and I have no intention of using an unofficial patch at this time.
Again, it is risk management. If you have extremely high security requirements, you may want to go so far as using something as drastic as an unofficial patch. However, in that situation you are probably not willing to trust a third-party packaged patch anyway. The unknown risk of issues with an unofficial patch is pretty high. The cost of implementation ranges from low in a very managed environment, to very high in an unmanaged environment. If your risk and the cost of the attack is very high then you may want to consider the unofficial patch, but I cannot in the best conscience recommend it right now.
ConclusionHopefully this will help you consider the options. There is no right solution, there is no one-size fits all approach to preventing this problem. Even in a single network there is no a single approach that always works. Some exposed machines deserve more protection than others, as do some users. My point in this post is not to solve the problem for you, but to point out some things you may not have considered yet. If you have, congratulations, you are probably ahead of the game. This, after all, is just another risk management problem. | <urn:uuid:3356557e-5f94-4d3c-9cd9-53562447de7d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.technet.com/b/jesper_johansson/archive/2006/01/02/416762.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959325 | 2,897 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Oscar was adopted as a kitten from an animal shelter and grew up in the third-floor end-stage dementia unit at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The 41-bed unit treats people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses, most of whom are in the end stage of life and are generally unaware of their surroundings. Oscar was one of six cats adopted by Steere House, which bills itself as a “pet friendly” facility.
After about six months, the staff noticed that Oscar, just like the doctors and nurses, would make his own rounds. Oscar would sniff and observe patients, then curl up to sleep with certain ones. The patients he would sleep with often died within several hours of his arrival. One of the first cases involved a patient who had a blood clot in her leg that was ice cold at the time. Oscar wrapped his body around her leg and stayed until the woman died.In another instance, the doctor had made a determination of impending death based on the patient’s condition, while Oscar simply walked away, causing the doctor to believe that Oscar’s streak (12 at the time) had ended. However, it would be later discovered that the doctor’s prognosis was simply 10 hours too early: Oscar later visited the patient, who died two hours later.
Oscar’s accuracy led the staff to institute a new and unusual protocol: once he is discovered sleeping with a patient, staff will call family members to notify them of the patient’s (expected) impending death.
Most of the time the patient’s family has no issue with Oscar being present at the time of death. On those occasions when he is removed from the room at the family’s request, he is known to pace back and forth in front of the door and meow in protest. When present, Oscar will stay by the patient until they die, then after death will quietly leave the room. | <urn:uuid:40c6ce55-e137-4e39-ad77-4860dbd92a0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ignitethisfire.tumblr.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983489 | 410 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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Vista Sound and Volume Controls
Posted By On August 31, 2007 @ 3:01 PM In System Tune-Up Help | Comments Disabled
As you probably already know, Microsoft has added a number of new features and enhancements to its Windows Vista operating system, with one of those being the new sound controls. They really are a welcome addition in terms of features and ease of use. New to the Vista sound controls is the ability to individually control the volume of software applications that use sound, including the background Windows sounds. From now on, users will no longer have to listen to the clicks, bells and other somewhat annoying sounds if they don’t want to. This new feature is especially helpful when you have music or another type of media playing on your computer. Keep reading for all the details!
Access to most of the available sound features in Vista is now easily accomplished by right clicking on the sound icon in the notification area of your taskbar. From there, you can open the new Volume Control, open the Audio Devices Panel, as well as, set the default System Sound Events. These items may also be accessed by going to Start, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, Audio Devices and Sound Themes.
Opening the Audio Devices section will allow you to view the active Output and Input sound devices on your system. From this panel, you may access the Advanced Properties of each device as well, such as tone adjustments, speaker configuration, levels and other general options for that device. From the sound icon, you can also choose the System Sound Events, which will allow you to set your default Windows sounds, such as the beeps and clicks you hear when doing various Windows tasks, etc.
Opening the Volume control from the sound icon will allow you to adjust the volume of any currently open applications that happen to use sound. To the far left is the Main Volume and to the right, you’ll see the individual sliders for open applications. The first slider under the Applications section is for the Windows sounds and so on. Now, each slider can be adjusted independently and they only control a specific application. The icons above each slider helps you to easily identify the application and if you hover your mouse over the icon, it will give you more detailed information. Cool, huh?!
Hope this one helps you out with your Vista sounds and volumes!
~ Ramachandran Kumaraswami
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Jonathan's assignment is to investigate the building itself; looking for the architectural features that reveal how and why each building has changed over time and how it fits into the context of the local community.
In each programme our duo are called in to solve the hidden history of a house, no matter how big or small, old or new.
Dr Nick Barratt is our archive specialist. Dr Jonathan Foyle is our architectural historian and archaeologist.
In this programme, Nick and Jonathan are called to investigate the secret past life of a Victorian Villa in East London. The owner thinks it dates back to 1884 - but the house turns out to be much older than it looks.
The owner, Jakob Hartman inherited the deeds to the house when he bought it. With these came some intriguing documents going right back to the 1880s, including birth, marriage and death certificates belonging to previous owners and a letter referring to a blocked up doorway between his house and the one next door. But now, curiously, there's not a scrap of physical evidence to suggest that the doorway exists.
Jakob asks the Hidden House History team to find out when and how his house was first built and what the relationship is with the house next door. He's also keen to find this blocked up doorway.
Maps in the local archives reveal how Walthamstow has gone from a Victorian farming community to a haven for the commuter belt, with prices that reflect this. In 1884 the house was sold for £255, in 1994 it was £25,000 and now - who knows?
Spotting a change in the skirting board, Jonathan's initial investigation reveals that the bathroom is a later addition on top of the kitchen. The first floor bedroom has a handsome fireplace, the marble used shows the Victorian love affair with Italy, but the small grate inside is a reflection of the steamer ships bringing coal from Newcastle into London - no longer did you need a big basket for huge logs - just a tiny basket for a coal fire.
Jonathan's exploration moves upstairs, revealing how in a Victorian villa everything diminishes the higher up you go - rooms and windows get smaller and ceilings get lower.
Measuring up the house, Jonathan discovers that there's a proportional system through the house - the measurement of 2' 7" carries through doorways, halls and stair case. The Victorian builders must have thought this was ideal for the human frame. As he starts to draw up the plans he confirms his theory that the bathroom was a later addition. This does not fit with the idea that the house would have been built in the 1880s.
Jonathan searches for the outside toilet in the back garden and, by digging with owner Jakob Hartman, he finds fragments of the old toilet including the bracket, the waste pipe and a bit of the bowl.
Jonathan consults a series of texts on toilet history he discovers that the vogue for having your own loo at home increased after the Great Exhibition. In 1861, Thomas Crapper produced his loo with a new mechanism and using the enterprising tag-line: 'A certain flush with every pull'. Looking at his images of toilets he dates the loo in Walthamstow to the 1860s.
Jonathan finally takes his chisel to the wall to look for the blocked up door. His starting point is to shine a torch on the walls so that the beam travels along the wall and picks up all the irregularities - he spots a straight line coming down and a change in the skirting also suggests that this might conceal a blocked door.
After two unsuccessful tries on the ground floor he moves his investigation to the first floor and finally reveals two different colours of brick and two types of plaster. This is where the blocked up door is. (Top tip - if you try this at home check for electrical wiring before taking a chisel to the wall to avoid electric cables.)
By comparing parish maps from 1822 onwards, Nick discovers that the house is represented on a map from1865. This means that it's at least 20 years older than Jakob had originally thought and it was built long before the arrival of the railway. But who was building such a smart villa before the arrival of the railway?
At the Vestry museum Nick's investigation into the index of street names reveals that Jakob's house dates back to 1855, another 10 years older than he thought. There's a puzzle for Nick - he now has to find proof that this is in fact the date that the house was built - but by whom?
Nick manages to establish that the date of the house's construction was 1854 and an obscure line in the title deeds names Walter E Whittingham. By cross-referencing it with information held in the 1851 Census, Nick discovers that he was Secretary to the National Freehold and Land Society, an organisation which was buying up estates and building houses on them - one of the first things they built was Jakob's house.
He asks local historian Martin Stutchfield to help him to flesh out the names of the builders of the area and the growth of Walthamstow. The builders who were developing this area were called the Harveys - hence the name of the villa.
Nick decides to find out more about the previous owners who made the house their home, the Baralett's and the Tanners. He tracks down the grave of Mary Ann Tanner at the local church only half a mile from Jakob's house. He discovers that Mary Ann and Edward Tanner bought the house for their daughter Maud, who tragically died in child birth. Twenty-four years later, Mary Ann was buried in the grave with her daughter.
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There are many questions relating to annulment and divorce in the Philippines, and many of the concerns of our readers had already been addressed in previous articles. Nevertheless, to consolidate everything for everyone’s easy reference, here are the FAQs on annulment and divorce in the Philippines:
Is divorce allowed under Philippine laws?
No, divorce is not allowed in the Philippines. However, there are certain instances wherein the divorce secured abroad by the foreigner-spouse, and even by former Filipinos, are recognized under Philippine laws. More discussion here (Judicial Recognition of a Foreign Divorce Decree).
Would it make any difference if I marry abroad where divorce is allowed?
No. Filipinos are covered by this prohibition based on the “nationality principle”, regardless of wherever they get married (and regardless where they get a decree of divorce). Discussions relating to Overseas Filipinos or OFWs are transferred in Part V.
Is “annulment” different from a “declaration of nullity” of marriage?
Yes. In essence, “annulment” applies to a marriage that is considered valid, but there are grounds to nullify it. A “declaration of nullity” of marriage, on the other hand, applies to marriages that are void or invalid from the very beginning. In other words, it was never valid in the first place.
Also, an action for annulment of voidable marriages may prescribe, while an action for declaration of nullity of marriage does not prescribe.
So, if a marriage is void from the very beginning (void ab initio), there’s no need to file anything in court?
For purposes of remarriage, there must be a court order declaring the marriage as null and void. Entering into a subsequent marriage without such court declaration means that: (a) the subsequent marriage is void; and (b) the parties open themselves to a possible charge of bigamy.
What if no marriage certificate could be found?
Justice Sempio-Dy, in the “Handbook of on the Family Code of the Philippines” (p. 26, 1997 reprint), says: “The marriage certificate is not an essential or formal requisite of marriage without which the marriage will be void. An oral marriage is, therefore, valid, and failure of a party to sign the marriage certificate or the omission of the solemnizing officer to send a copy of the marriage certificate to the proper local civil registrar, does not invalidate the marriage. Also the mere fact that no record of marriage can be found, does not invalidate the marriage provided all the requisites for its validity are present.” (Citations omitted)
Can I file a petition (annulment or declaration of absolute nullity of marriage) even if I am in a foreign country?
Yes, the rules recognize and allow the filing of the petition by Filipinos who are overseas.
What are the grounds for annulment?
1. Lack of parental consent in certain cases. If a party is 18 years or over, but below 21, and the marriage was solemnized without the consent of the parents/guardian. However, the marriage is validated if, upon reaching 21, the spouses freely cohabited with the other and both lived together as husband and wife.
2. Insanity. A marriage may be annulled if, at the time of marriage, either party was of unsound mind, unless such party after coming to reason, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife.
3. Fraud. The consent of either party was obtained by fraud, unless such party afterwards, with full knowledge of the facts constituting the fraud, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife. Fraud includes: (i) non-disclosure of a previous conviction by final judgment of the other party of a crime involving moral turpitude; (ii) concealment by the wife of the fact that at the time of the marriage, she was pregnant by a man other than her husband; (iii) concealment of sexually transmissible disease or STD, regardless of its nature, existing at the time of the marriage; or (iv) concealment of drug addiction, habitual alcoholism or homosexuality or lesbianism existing at the time of the marriage. However, no other misrepresentation or deceit as to character, health, rank, fortune or chastity shall constitute such fraud as will give grounds for action for the annulment of marriage.
4. Force, intimidation or undue influence. If the consent of either party was obtained by any of these means, except in cases wherein the force, intimidation or undue influence having disappeared or ceased, the complaining party thereafter freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife.
5. Impotence. At the time of marriage, either party was physically incapable of consummating the marriage with the other, and such incapacity continues and appears to be incurable. Impotence is different from being infertile.
6. STD. If, at the time of marriage, either party was afflicted with a sexually-transmissible disease found to be serious and appears to be incurable. If the STD is not serious or is curable, it may still constitute fraud (see No. 3 above).
What if a spouse discovers that his/her spouse is a homosexual or is violent, can he/she ask for annulment?
Homosexuality or physical violence, by themselves, are not sufficient to nullify a marriage. At the very least, however, these grounds may be used as basis for legal separation.
How is “legal separation” different from annulment?
The basic difference is this – in legal separation, the spouses are still considered married to each other, and, thus, may not remarry.
Is legal separation faster than annulment?
Not necessarily. The petitioner in a legal separation, just like in an annulment, is still required to prove the allegations contained in the petition. More important is the mandatory 6-month “cooling off” period in legal separation cases. This is not required in annulment or declaration of nullity cases. The court is required to schedule the pre-trial conference not earlier than six (6) months from the filing of the petition. This period is meant to give the spouses an opportunity for reconciliation.
What are the grounds for legal separation?
1. Repeated physical violence or grossly abusive conduct directed against the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner.
2. Physical violence or moral pressure to compel the petitioner to change religious or political affiliation.
3. Attempt of respondent to corrupt or induce the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner, to engage in prostitution, or connivance in such corruption or inducement.
4. Final judgment sentencing the respondent to imprisonment of more than six years, even if pardoned.
5. Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism of the respondent.
6. Lesbianism or homosexuality of the respondent.
7. Contracting by the respondent of a subsequent bigamous marriage, whether in the Philippines or abroad.
8. Sexual infidelity or perversion.
9. Attempt by the respondent against the life of the petitioner.
10. Abandonment of petitioner by respondent without justifiable cause for more than one year.
The term “child” shall include a child by nature or by adoption.
Should I file a petition for legal separation, can I use my own sexual infidelity as a ground?
It is interesting to note that among the grounds for legal separation, as listed above, only “sexual infidelity or perversion” is not qualified by the phrase “of the respondent” or “by respondent”. This may give the impression that the sexual infidelity of the petitioner, or the one who filed the petition, may be used as a ground in legal separation. We must consider, however, that legal separation is filed by the innocent spouse or the “aggrieved party” against the guilty spouse.
What happens if after learning that your husband (or wife) is unfaithful (No. 8 above), you still co-habitate with him/her?
This may be construed as condonation, which is a defense in actions for legal separation. In addition to condonation, the following are the defenses in legal separation:
2. Connivance (in the commission of the offense or act constituting the ground for legal separation).
3. Mutual guilt (both parties have given ground for legal separation).
4. Collusion (to obtain decree of legal separation).
5. Prescription (5 years from the occurence of the cause for legal separation).
If you’re separated from your spouse for 4 years, is that a sufficient ground for annulment?
No. De facto separation is not a ground for annulment. However, the absence of 2 or 4 years, depending on the circumstances, may be enough to ask the court for a declaration of presumptive death of the “absent spouse”, in which case the petitioner may again re-marry. See Can someone remarry without going to court due to absence or separation?
What are the grounds for declaration of nullity of marriage?
1. Minority (those contracted by any party below 18 years of age even with the consent of parents or guardians).
2. Lack of authority of solemnizing officer (those solemnized by any person not legally authorized to perform marriages, unless such marriages were contracted with either or both parties believing in good faith that the solemnizing officer had the legal authority to do so).
3. Absence of marriage license (except in certain cases).
4. Bigamous or polygamous marriages (except in cases where the other spouse is declared as presumptively dead).
5. Mistake in identity (those contracted through mistake of one contracting party as to the identity of the other).
6. After securing a judgement of annulment or of asolute nullity of mariage, the parties, before entering into the subsequent marriage, failed to record with the appropriate registry the: (i) partition and distribute the properties of the first marriage; and (ii) delivery of the children’s presumptive legitime.
7. Incestous marriages (between ascendants and descendants of any degree, between brothers and sisters, whether of the full or half blood).
8. Void by reason of public policy. Marriages between (i) collateral blood relatives whether legitimate or illegitimate, up to the fourth civil degree; (ii) step-parents and step-children; (iii) parents-in-law and children-in-law; (iv) adopting parent and the adopted child; (v) surviving spouse of the adopting parent and the adopted child; (vi) surviving spouse of the adopted child and the adopter; (vii) an adopted child and a legitimate child of the adopter; (viii) adopted children of the same adopter; and (ix) parties where one, with the intention to marry the other, killed that other person’s spouse, or his or her own spouse.
9. Psychological Incapacity. Psychological incapacity, which a ground for annulment of marriage, contemplates downright incapacity or inability to take cognizance of and to assume the basic marital obligations; not a mere refusal, neglect or difficulty, much less, ill will, on the part of the errant spouse. Irreconcilable differences, conflicting personalities, emotional immaturity and irresponsibility, physical abuse, habitual alcoholism, sexual infidelity or perversion, and abandonment, by themselves, also do not warrant a finding of psychological incapacity. We already discussed the guidelines and illustrations of psychological incapacity, including a case involving habitual lying, as well as the steps and procedure in filing a petition.
Please note, however, that there are still other grounds to declare a marriage as null and void.
Browse through the comments below to check if your questions are similar to that of others. Other common issues are consolidated in Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Costs in seeking an Annulment, and other related posts. You can check the Related Posts at the bottom of each post. | <urn:uuid:58c8d700-1d25-40b2-b85e-0f40058bca54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jlp-law.com/blog/annulment-divorce-legal-separation-in-the-philippines-questions-and-answers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938158 | 2,564 | 1.515625 | 2 |
MIchigan city loses 'anchor' in blast that killed 2
Friday, December 31, 2010
WAYNE, Mich. (AP) — In an area challenged by one of the nation’s toughest economies, any family business keeping its doors open is a success. In the working-class Detroit suburb of Wayne, the high-end William C. Franks Furniture store stood out.
Until a suspected natural gas explosion Wednesday morning destroyed the 50-year-old business, critically injuring the owner, Paul Franks, and killing two employees, salesman James Zell, 64, and clerical worker Leslie Machniak, 54.
Franks’ father founded the store in the city of 19,000 about 15 miles from Detroit.
The store has been “one of the anchor businesses in the town of Wayne for years,” said Mayor Pro-Tem Donna McEachern, who has known Paul Franks for more than three decades. “This is one less very important business we have in the community.”
McEachern says the blow to the business community comes as the city mourns the deaths of Franks’ employees and prays for his recovery. Franks, a staple in the community, was in critical condition Thursday in the burn unit at the University of Michigan medical center in Ann Arbor.
Utility and fire officials focused Thursday on determining whether a natural gas explosion leveled the store.
Consumers Energy spokeswoman Debra Dodd said crews worked overnight to repair a gas main behind what had been the Franks Furniture store and removed a section of pipe for investigation.
She said it was not clear if the main was damaged in the explosion or if it had been ruptured prior to the massive blast. An investigation into the cause could take weeks, if not months, she said.
“Nobody wants to jump to any conclusions,” she said, but added, there are “things about it that are characteristic” of a natural gas blast.
Dodd said the utility had received two calls of a possible gas leak in the area in the hours before the blast and that a worker had been trying to track down the source when the explosion took place.
Wayne Fire Chief Mel Moore said Thursday that fire officials had inspected the store about two weeks ago and found no major problems. Moore described the store as “neat and clean.”
Early Thursday, before work crews arrived, the main street through Wayne was largely quiet in contrast to the hectic and busy scene a day earlier. Large garbage bins lined the road where emergency vehicles had pulsed Wednesday.
Portions of the collapsed roof, rubble, and upended and broken furniture filled the store’s shell. Debris-encrusted armoires and entertainment centers still stood in one small area of the store spared from the collapse.
One framed piece of art still adorned a wall. The cinema-themed picture read: “Live Life. There is No Take Two.”
A “special sale” tag hung beneath it.
Searchers had rescued store owner Franks shortly after the blast. Workers recovered the bodies of Zell and Machniak, both of Westland, on Wednesday night.
Moore said crews were able to get to Franks because he was near the back of the building. The other two were “trapped amid the debris” and unable to get out, he said. | <urn:uuid:7499bcaf-b3c1-4bf1-bb8a-efd79a258ff5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newstribune.com/news/2010/dec/31/michigan-city-loses-anchor-blast-killed-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971602 | 704 | 1.554688 | 2 |
|“The Attack upon the Chew House” by Howard Pyle (1898)|
On April 19, 1898, Howard Pyle wrote to a fellow member of the Mahogany Tree Club:
April 19th 1898
Dear Mr Cadwalader: -
I send you with this a reproduction of my picture of the attack upon Chew House.
It does not, of course, give any suggestion of the color - which was in cool and luminous greys - but it will at any rate indicate the arrangement of the “composition”
I hope sometime for you to see the original
To John Cadwalader Esq
Notes from a 1949 conversation between Pyle’s student Frank Schoonover and Pyle’s secretary Gertrude Brincklé reveal these details about the painting:
Some of Mr. Pyle’s students (including Schoonover and [Clyde] Deland) went to Germantown and photographed the house from the angle you see in the painting. On this side of the steps where the men are standing there was a green bench with flowerpots on it. The students told Mr. Pyle about it, and he said that was a good idea, and that if it were there at the time the photograph was taken, it would probably always be there - even at the time of the battle.... Some of the students posed for the painting, Mr. Schoonover included.Pyle most likely painted the picture in March 1898. He then put it on view, briefly, in Philadelphia before shipping it to New York to be photographed and engraved for the magazine. After his hopes that it and the other eleven pictures in the series would be purchased and hung in the Library of Congress were dashed due to some legal technicality, it was exhibited here and there over the next several years. In a review of a 1905 Pyle show, The American Art News said of the "The Attack on the Chew Mansion" [sic]: “The composition is excellent, and the drawing and color make it one of the finest of modern historical paintings.” Hear, hear!
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|Title: ||Examining the behaviour of re-gifting using a multi-method approach.|
|Authors: ||Ormandy, Elizabeth Mary|
|Issue Date: ||2011|
|Abstract: ||This study investigated the behaviour of re-gifting using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Re-gifting is the gift-giving behaviour of giving a gift that was previously given to you, to another with the pretence that you purchased the gift. The qualitative phase used semi-structured interviews to uncover an initial understanding of re-gifting behaviour from participants’ selected using purposive sampling. The main findings arising from this phase showed that re-gifters used three main factors to determine when it is appropriate to re-gift. These three factors, relationship, occasion and gift were used as the basis of the conceptual framework. This framework was then analysed using an online experiment with the use of vignette techniques which was the focus of the quantitative phase.
The study focused on understanding what influences individuals decisions to re-gift. The main factors of interest were how the gift, occasion and relationships involved influenced re-gifting intentions. Re-gifting attitudes where analysed using the factors gift-giving attitudes, previous re-gifting experiences and frequency of re-gifting. A total of 211 responses were collected from Web users from around the world. The study suggests that re-gifters are influenced by the relationships involved and the type of gift, not the occasion. Re-gifting attitudes can be influenced by previous re-gifting experiences. This study has numerous practical implications, more specifically for retailers and charity organisations. This study adds major contributions to both gift-giving and disposition literature and introduces the area of re-gifting. Future research in cultural differences, gender differences and re-gifters versus non re-gifters suggested.|
|Publisher: ||University of Canterbury. Management|
|Degree: ||Masters of Commerce|
|Rights: ||Copyright Elizabeth Mary Ormandy|
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Guest Author - Stephanie L. Watson
Most people who pay attention to the emerging world of technology and gadgets might be familiar with Apple’s famous hardline stance on refusing to configure its iOS products to play Flash in mobile Safari web browsers, seemingly more than willing to cut off iPhone and iPad users from such things as embedded videos and Zynga games on Facebook, while other smartphones such as Android and Blackberry systems are more than willing to make Flash enabled mobile browsers. Apple’s explanation was that Flash was buggy, used too much battery life and was on its way out anyway. Some mention was even made of the emerging technology from Microsoft, Silverlight, as a replacement for Flash, and that web designers should start optimizing their web pages for Silverlight instead of Flash.
To further understand what you, as a web designer, should do about the Flash vs. Silverlight debate, and which to choose for your own web design, it is important to understand the basics of both. To begin with, Flash is far more established than Silverlight and existing webpages with embedded media already make more use of Flash than anything else. Silverlight, although new, however makes more efficient use of web browser limitations and optimizes the resulting object more easily than Flash in many cases.
An example would be in how the two render animation. Flash makes use of a frame-per-second rendering, which means if you want something to move across your screen in a certain amount of time, you must calculate the frames per second it will take to do so. Silverlight allows the same thing based on a set amount of time, instead of how many frames per second, allowing more flexibility for the web designer to define where and how long an animation should run.
Flash files are usually compressed, while Silverlight files are not, so while Silverlight might be more flexible, its files are usually larger. Flash will support multiple vide formats, while Silverlight is limited to WMV and WMA only, at the time of this writing. Flash will support Microsoft operating systems as well as Mac and Linux, while Silverlight only supports Microsoft and Mac but not Linux. Flash will support nearly every image format currently available, while Silverlight only supports PNG and JPEG formats. Perhaps the biggest hangup to Silverlight, however, is that Flash supports webcam and microphones, while Silverlight does not.
As you can see, Silverlight is very much in its infancy and still has many features it must offer in order to be compatible with Flash. If you are looking to design your web page with a lot of media and interactivity, at the time, Flash is the way to go. It will be your choice whether to optimize your web page for mobile browsers that do not support Flash, but even iOS users are finding ways around the Flash restriction Apple has imposed on its devices, showing the web design world that even those limited by Flash still prefer it to Silverlight. | <urn:uuid:d977759a-3138-40f6-952e-b407898d6650> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art63640.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948827 | 595 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The news came out yesterday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wanted to cut wrestling from the 2020 Olympic Games. As expected, there was a lot of anger towards that decision. I think that anger was warranted.
The good news is it's not as simple as wrestling being dropped from the Olympics with no hope of it ever coming back. Here's a quote from IOC President Jacques Rogge: "The vote of yesterday is not an elimination of wrestling from the Olympic Games. Wrestling will participate in the games in Rio de Janeiro. To the athletes who train now, I say, 'Continue training for your participation in Rio. Your federation is working for the inclusion in the 2020 Games.'" (CBC)
Take a deep breath. It's not completely gone. There's going to be a final decision made in September where we'll know if wrestling will still be a part of the Olympic Games.
The question is why is it even on the chopping block? Wrestling is a sport that was in the first Olympic Games in Greece in 1896. As a son of Greek parents I can tell you how much the Olympics means to my family going back several generations. Wrestling is one of the sports that the Olympics were built on. It's a sport that defines what the Olympics are about just lack track and field is. And they want to take it away? That's not right.
When you talk about amateur sports in the Olympics usually it's a case of athletes competing in a sport either as teens, collegiate athletes or people at a young age where they are preparing for a professional career in that sport. Some of the competitors are already pros too. Pro wrestling, as usual, is a little bit different.
Pro wrestling, which is what we refer to what WWE does, isn't the same as amateur wrestling obviously. There are theatrics, they do what they can to entertain the audience and of course the results are predetermined. However, pro wrestling has a tie-in to amateur wrestling because there are many performers that come from the amateur field.
My issue with dumping wrestling from the Olympics is not even about me watching the sport. I can honestly say I don't watch it that much although in the Olympics I do. I'm a jock. I love watching sports with the "big four" North American sports (NFL - also college football, NBA - also college basketball, MLB, NHL) at the top of my list. I watch soccer (or world football) when they have their major international tournaments and also on a casual level as well. I also love the Olympics. Without question the track & field events are my favorite, but I try to watch as much as I can to soak in the experience as best I can.
The reason I pay attention to Olympic wrestling is because I enjoy watching athletes compete at the highest level. To see athletes busting their ass after years of training in their particular sport and trying to earn a medal for their country is inspiring. It's fun to see how happy those athletes are when they get on a podium and are presented with their gold, silver or bronze medal around their neck. A lot of times even athletes that finish out of the medals are proud of where they finished because they got to experience competing in the Olympics.
Personally, I never participated in wrestling. I tried it in high school just like I tried pretty much everything because I'm a competitive guy that loves sports. The ones I played the most were basketball and soccer, both of which I still play in my early 30s. After a couple of days of wrestling tryouts I didn't go anymore, but I always respected the athletes because it's not an easy sport.
When you think about pro wrestlers with ties to Olympic wrestling the first name that comes to mind is Kurt Angle. As I'm sure you've heard many times before, Angle is pro wrestling's only Olympic gold medalist. He won the gold for the United States in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with, to quote him from a memorable promo, "a broken freakin' neck." Angle won the gold in the 100kg (220 pounds) weight class. If you've never seen it here it is:
Kurt Angle's story is a long one, but here's the short version. After winning the gold Angle had a tough time finding a career he liked. He tried sportscasting as well as doing commercials. Nothing really stuck for him. He attended an ECW event in late 1996, but he didn't like it and spoke poorly about pro wrestling after it. Then in late 1998 he signed a deal with WWE. For the next year he trained to wrestle, adapted to it very quickly, worked house shows and debuted at Survivor Series 1999, an event that I witnessed in person in Detroit. I thought it was interesting that WWE would debut him as a villain, but then I saw the brilliance behind it. He went out there, got booed because he was a cocky jerk and then he would rip on the audience for booing a guy that won a gold medal for their country. Normally people are appreciative of athletes that win a gold for their country, but not in pro wrestling if the guy is a jerk. It worked. That night I knew he would be a star, but I didn't know how great he would become.
From there you know the Angle story. He had what I would consider the best rookie year in wrestling history. Within one year he went on to win multiple titles including the WWE Title as he beat The Rock at No Mercy 2000 in October. By the end of 2000 he was one of the best in-ring performers in the company. From 2001 to 2005 to me he was the best performer in the company whether he was a villain or a hero. In 2006 he left WWE and has been the biggest name in TNA Wrestling ever since.
Angle is one of my five favorite wrestlers. Why? Because not only is he an outstanding in-ring performer, capable of cutting great promos and elevating others around him, but he also worked as hard as anybody I've ever seen. His intensity is off the charts. The best part about Angle is that his competitive nature makes his matches feel "real" and isn't that what pro wrestlers should try to do? It's not like he was given a push just because he won a gold medal. He earned everything he got in pro wrestling. Does he currently tweet some silly things? Yeah, but that doesn't take away from his amazing career as a pro wrestler.
I applaud Angle's current employer TNA Wrestling for the article on their website about the issue. In the article, Angle commented on the matter:
“Wrestling is one of the most competitive sports in the world today. Winning the gold for my country in one of the original Olympic sports was one of the greatest moments in my life. The wrestling community is in a state of shock with this decision – we cannot sit back and allow this to happen. I will do whatever it takes and work with my company TNA WRESTLING and the competitive wrestling community to determine what we need to do to reverse this decision.”
The article also saw TNA encourage WWE to get involved in this issue to try to spread the word about how important Olympic wrestling is. I hope WWE gets involved because they're the biggest wrestling organization in the world and their reach can't be touched by anybody. As a company that has hired many of them and continually scouts amateur wrestlers, WWE knows how important they are to the success of their company.
There was also former WWE Champion The Iron Sheik, who competed for Iran in the 1968 Olympics and later became a coach for the United States. Eventually he made his way to the World Wrestling Federation where he became a legend known for making people humble.
Over the years there have been a number of outstanding collegiate wrestlers that didn’t make it to the Olympics, but they had those dreams just like Angle. Names like Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, Jack Swagger and Dolph Ziggler to name a few. When I say a "few" I mean it. There are dozens of wrestlers past and present with ties to amateur wrestling, not only at the collegiate level but also in high school as well. (I could write a lot about MMA competitors with amateur wrestling backgrounds too, but I want to keep the focus on pro wrestling.) In a lot of cases, if you watched pro wrestling on television you were likely drawn to amateur wrestling because there are similarities there.
What was the goal for those amateur wrestlers? The Olympics. If you take that opportunity away from athletes just because the IOC deems field hockey, modern pentathlon, taekwondo and canoe kayaking more important (those events were in the final voting) then you're not encouraging the youth to participate in sports. Isn't that what the Olympics are supposed to be about? To teach kids to follow their dreams, reach the highest level and compete to win a model for their country? That's what it's about to most of the world. It shouldn't be about money.
Here's the fact about wrestling that really sticks out to me: Wrestling featured 344 athletes competing in 11 medal events in freestyle and seven in Greco-Roman at last year's London Olympics. They also added women's wrestling to the Olympics at the 2004 Athens Games. There were 29 countries that won medals in wrestling events in the London Games. It's truly a worldwide sport, yet they're going to take it away? It doesn't make sense to me.
I think amateur wrestling is the kind of sport that teaches athletes how to train the right way, work hard and gain discipline from a young age. Obviously going from amateur wrestling to a pro wrestling career is not an easy transition, but I think those that could adapt learned a lot from their training. It would be nice if athletes could still have those same Olympic dreams rather than having them taken away because some old guys in charge aren't as supportive as they should be.
It's cool to see that the Keep Wrestling in the Olympics page on Facebook has over 60,000 likes in a day. That's great. Go like it, visit it and read the posts they are making because the only way this decision is going to change is if the fans of competitive sports speak their mind on this subject. There are petitions out there too. You can also tweet the IOC at @IOCMedia although I doubt that's going to work very well since it looks like one of those corporate accounts that merely links to news without ever talking to people.
There are two petitions I'd suggest signing. One is the WhiteHouse.org petition, which has over 17,000 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon. There's also a Change.org petition that has over 23,000 signatures by Wednesday afternoon. I've never been a big petition guy, but for something like this I had no problem putting my name on there.
The reason I wrote this is because I love pro wrestling. As somebody that loves "this business" (Triple H's favorite phrase) I realize how important amateur wrestling is to the form of entertainment that I enjoy watching so much every week for over 25 years of my life.
If you're a fan of pro wrestling then you should do your part to have your voice heard because it has an effect on all of us. Hopefully when the final decision is made in September we'll see that wrestling remains an Olympic sport in 2020 and beyond.
Until next time, thanks for reading.
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Windows 8 deep-dive: Get to know the People app
- — 12 November, 2012 16:05
Social media is now embedded in our business workflows, our shopping habits, and our news sources. So it's no wonder that Microsoft infused social media features into its Windows 8 contacts app, People. The message is clear. Since social media is omnipresent in our lives, it should be woven throughout Windows 8 as well.
But make no mistake: People is a contacts list, first and foremost. Although it does allow you to commingle all of your social media and email associations including those from Facebook, Google, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Outlook, Twitter, and your Microsoft Account social media management is not the People app's main purpose.
What People does well
Let's say that you use a few different email platforms and a small handful of social media services, and that each platform and service connects you to hundreds of different people. Family and friends are on Facebook, coworkers are on LinkedIn, your favorite celebrities and media personalities are on Twitter, and a good portion of the people mentioned above appear in your various email address books.
The People app gathers up all of those associations and sorts them into alphabetical order for your viewing pleasure. Once your contacts are synced, you can favorite or even pin the important people in your life directly to your Start screen for quick access.
People works well as a central depository for storing all the bits of information that pertain to your contacts. You can associate email addresses, Twitter handles, websites, phone numbers, addresses, job titles, and companies to each individual entry. You can also use People to quickly open the Messenger app to start a Facebook chat session with a contact, and People hooks into the new Maps app for planning a route to someone's address.
You'll also find some rudimentary social networking tools within the app that allow you to tweet, retweet, like, or comment on the latest content without having to leave People.
People gathers photos from each of your Facebook contacts, too. Just tap a contact's tile, and if he or she has public-facing Facebook photos, you can see them hereall separated into albums, just as they appear on the actual Facebook page. Scrolling through them is simple, as is viewing or posting comments.
Where People falls short
Although the People app attempts to provide a semblance of social media interactivity, its features are scant and its interface is difficult to navigate. For example, if you want to see new tweets from all your follows, you have to head to the 'What's new' section. But if you want to post your own tweet, you need to enter the 'Me' section, a completely different location. These two basic Twitter features aren't integratedand that's confusing.
The app also flouts the familiar "long list of tweets and status updates" format that everyone has come to expect from pretty much every social media app in existence. Instead, it renders individual tweets and status updates inside obnoxiously large tiles that you can't compress, collapse, or otherwise resize. The layout leaves a lot of dull, blank space all over the page.
Traditional social media apps, such as Twitter or Tweetdeck for iOS and Android, offer a compact, list-style view that shows multiple tweets at once. People, in contrast, has room for only six updates on a single piece of screen real estate, so catching up on updates is more trouble than it needs to be.
Unfortunately, People doesn't include features for divvying up your contacts into logical groups. For instance, the ability to separate relatives, coworkers, friends, and casual acquaintances into easily sorted buckets would be helpful. As it stands, the single, unified contacts list becomes unmanageable quickly, and organizing people only by name doesn't provide enough customization and control.
Key options and settings
Let's delve into the settings that you can find within the Charms bar when the People app is active.
Accounts: Here you can add, manage, and remove the various accounts you've linked with your Microsoft account. Note that removing the Microsoft Account will remove all accounts, and People will become unusable until you log in with another Microsoft Account. Under the accounts that are email-related (such as Google, Hotmail, and Outlook), you can set the frequency by which the system will download new mail, and whether to sync email, contacts, the calendar, or all three. Accounts such as Facebook and Twitter need to be managed online through Internet Explorer (you'll see a link to the correct location).
Options: Here you can choose to sort contacts by last name (sorting by first name is the default). You can also elect to filter which of your connected accounts will appear throughout the app's main areas. If you clear the checkbox next to an account, that account's contacts will essentially disappear from the master contacts list and 'What's new' feed, but all those people will still show up in search results.
The rest of the settings include Help (which takes you to Microsoft's FAQ page), About (which has technical information about People), Feedback (which allows you to provide feedback on the app), Permissions (which lists the different things you have agreed that People can use), and Rate and Review (which takes you to the Windows Store to review the app).
Now let's look at the main options that are available throughout People; each set of options is contextual, and varies depending on where you are inside the app.
From the main home screen:
Right-clicking or swiping up from the bottom on this page produces the Options bar, with three selections: 'Home', 'Online only', and 'New'. 'Home' is on every Options bar in People, and will send you back to the Home screen. 'Online only' will filter your contacts to show who is currently online (discussed below). 'New' will allow you to create a new contact by defining a person's name, email address, and the like.
From the Me screen:
- Right-clicking or swiping up from here will give you the 'Edit' option, which launches Internet Explorer and takes you to your Microsoft Live page to edit your primary Microsoft account.
- When browsing Photos in your Me screen, you can click on any image to like it or browse and leave comments. Right-clicking or swiping upward will give you the 'View it on Facebook' option, which launches you right to the page in a browser. Like many of the option bars throughout Windows 8 apps, this bar also offers a 'Refresh' button to refresh the current page.
From the 'What's new' screen:
You can select a single post to participate in regular social media activities such as liking, retweeting, commenting, and replying. Right-clicking or swiping up from the bottom on any single post will allow you to refresh the page or view the post on the applicable website.
Right-clicking or swiping up on the main 'What's new' page will give you a 'Refresh' option as well as a 'Filter' option to select which social network to view. Only one social network can be visible at a time, and you have to wait for the page to load completely before looking for this option, or else it may be missing.
From an individual person's or entity's contact tile:
Right-clicking or swiping up from the bottom on this page will reveal 'Pin to Start', 'Favorite', and 'Link or Edit' options. If a number appears in the 'Link' button, it refers to how many profiles are currently linked to that contact (as discussed below). 'Edit' allows you to adjust and enter any additional information you have on the contact that the social network may not have provided already. Tapping 'Pin to Start' will make the contact a tile on your Start screen, while 'Favorite' will place that contact front and center in a prominent position on your main People screen.
Tips and tricks
Opening People for the first time is an underwhelming experience. None of your accounts, other than your Microsoft Account, will be synced, making People a desolate and deserted place. To rectify this, enter Settings in the Charms bar, and add some accounts. The setup isn't daunting: Just hand over your login information and passwords, and refresh the main page to enjoy synced connections.
People does a decent job of linking the same contacts from different networks under one profile, but it may miss some duplicates, or you might want to manually link two accounts together.
To link two accounts under one, click a contact and swipe up from the bottom or right-click the page. Click the Link button, and you'll see all the accounts linked to that contact on the left side. If you don't see the contact you want to link under 'Suggestions', click the Choose a contact button, locate the contact, and click Add. Once finished, click the Save button at the bottom-right corner. Both of those contacts will appear under the single name, with the contact you originally started with as the dominant one appearing in the contacts list.
Although user-interface adjustments in People are severely limited, you do have a way to "zoom out" and parse through contacts by letters of the alphabet instead of scrolling through hundreds of contact names. If your machine has a touchscreen, use a pinching motion with two fingers on the home screenthis action will activate the "semantic zoom" feature for that bird's-eye, alphabetic view. If you're using a mouse and keyboard, you can activate semantic zoom with the scrollwheel on your mouse. If you need to search for a specific contact, use the Search function in the Charms bar.
You may see a thin green strip next to a contact's profile picture. This indicates that the person is currently online, and most likely available for instant messaging. If you would like to see everyone who is online, swipe up from the bottom or right-click on People's home screen. Click the Online only button, and everyone who is offline will be filtered out of the contacts list.
An alternative to People
We recently posted an article with 11 replacements for Microsoft's standard apps. If People isn't living up to your social media standards, take a look at FlipToast, which gathers Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Instagram under one comprehensive app. Right from the first screen, you get areas for the most recent posts, notifications, photos, messages, upcoming birthdays, and friends. | <urn:uuid:0614138d-92ef-4033-844a-4b0e19e4d811> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/441786/windows_8_deep-dive_get_know_people_app/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926227 | 2,177 | 1.765625 | 2 |
It looks as if Pew saw something other research has failed to see (check out the below image). Using sentiment trackers and analysis, so far U.S. males (n=1000+) seem to be hostile toward the idea of marriage (contributing to the low marriage rate?). This study, of course, is ongoing, and the findings seem similar to the Pew findings - though, unlike Pew, this study does not evaluate what is considered the "most important thing in life," but what is the general sentiment toward marriage of men and women. To a certain degree, I think the Pew study creates a weakness by asking a dumb question, instead of trying to capture the overall sentiment (which would be more accurate). Nonetheless, a post explaining more details about this study (which is much larger) will be forthcoming.
While my study does not calculate age (unlike the Pew study), this seems to reconcile with my findings during my years at Wells Fargo where Millennial males didn't seem interested in the prospect of marriage. As it turns out, male Echo Boomers may be wise for abstaining from marriage. While this bodes well for men, it creates a dilemma for culture (from Male Echo Boomers Dump Marriage):
Related, there's been an increase in young women who say that having a successful marriage is one of the most important things. A recent study might even show why they would think this since parenthood ranks of high importance to young women as well:
A new study discovers that while mothers have a unique social and emotional bond with each child, a father’s love contributes as much — and sometimes more — to a child’s development.
The results from more than 500 studies suggest that while children and adults often experience more or less the same level of acceptance or rejection from each parent, the influence of one parent’s rejection — oftentimes the father’s — can be much greater than the other’s.
In other words, Kay Hymowitz is both right and wrong about family formation: while a marriage - including a man and woman - cultivates the best environment for child-rearing, the Millennial generation will probably have a low marriage rate, affecting its other social value, parenthood.
On a related note, anyone investing in psychiatric medication is about to make some serious dough over the next few decades. | <urn:uuid:bcb95470-a149-440a-a447-442a02e24b6b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://echoboombomb.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959616 | 483 | 1.960938 | 2 |
I first saw this cute butterfly block tutorial on Four Wise Monkey’s blog and had to give it a try. She is quite creative and has lots of fun projects to check out on her blog. I liked it this butterfly block, but it had a lot of bulk in the center so I worked up a way to eliminate some of that and thought I would share my method here. I am new to writing tutorial so I hope this all makes sense, but following my own directions I was able to make these in about 20 minutes and it would be faster if you had them precut and chain pieced them together. Let me know what you would do with these cute blocks. I have a few ideas for mixing them with some other blocks for wall hangings or place mats or mug rugs…and on and on as the mind turns.
This will make a 6 ½” block.
Cut: 1 – 4” Square of print fabric
1 – 4” square of background fabric
1. Mark a diagonal line on the background fabric and sew ¼” from each line then cut apart on the drawn line.
2. Iron the seam on one square toward the background and one toward the print.
3. Square up to 3 ½”
6 - 2” squares of background fabric
1. Mark a diagonal line on the 6 background squares.
2. Place the first square on the top left corner of the wing square and sew on the drawn line. Cut ¼” from the seam.
4. Place the last 2” squares on the bottom left of each wing and sew on line. Trim to ¼” and press toward background.
5. Square all blocks up to 3 ½”.
Lay the 4 blocks out as shown and sew together matching center seams. I pressed the last seam down for the least bulk. Draw butterfly antennae and embroider.
Now start dreaming up ideas to use these in projects!
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Miller v. Alabama
|Docket No.||Op. Below||Argument||Opinion||Vote||Author||Term|
|10-9646||Ala. Ct. Crim. App.||
Mar 20, 2012
|Jun 25, 2012||5-4||Kagan||OT 2011|
Holding: The Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentencing scheme that requires life in prison without the possibility of parole for juvenile homicide offenders.
Plain English Summary: In a series of decisions dating back to 1988, the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that youths under age 18 who commit crimes must not necessarily get as severe a punishment as adults who committed the same kind of crimes. Among other rulings, the Court has forbidden the death penalty for minors who commit murders, and it has barred a sentence of life in prison without a chance of release for minors who commit crimes in which the victim is not killed. In this new ruling, the Court avoiding imposing such a flat ban on life without parole for a minor who commits murder, but it did rule out such a sentence as a mandatory requirement in all such cases. It said, though, that it does not expect very many youths under age 18 to get such a sentence that essentially would require them to stay in prison until they die.
Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Kagan on June 25, 2012. Justice Breyer filed a concurring opinion, in which Justice Sotomayor joined. Chief Justice Roberts filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito joined. Justice Thomas filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA, J., joined. Justice Alito, filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Scalia joined.
- Opinion recap: Narrow ruling on young murderers' sentences
- Eighth Amendment prohibits mandatory life without parole for juveniles
- Argument recap: Compromise on youth sentences?
- Argument preview: Youthful crimes, life sentences
- SCOTUS for law students: Defining the contours of the Eighth Amendment
- New review on youths' punishment
Briefs and DocumentsMerits Briefs for the Petitioner
- Brief for Former Juvenile Court Judges
- Brief for The American Psychological Association et al.
- Brief for Amnesty International, et al.
- Brief for Certain Family Members of Victims Killed by Youths
- Brief of Jeffrey Fagan et al.
- Brief for J. Lawrence Aber et al.
- Brief for Professor of Law and his Students from the Moritz College of Law
- Brief for Juvenile Law Center et al.
- Brief for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund et al.
- Brief for Michigan et al.
- Brief for National District Attorneys Association
- Brief for the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Lifers | <urn:uuid:915a64b9-a35d-4756-a7cf-868facf35f91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scotusblog.com/miller-v-alabama/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9064 | 580 | 1.984375 | 2 |
From: The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society
By Alexander Gaffney
A proposed rule by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which would implement a so-called Unique Device Identification (UDI) system has been held up at the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for months, but could soon see rapid adoption under proposed user fee legislation in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
The UDI rule, mandated by the FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) of 2007, is intended to establish a uniform medical device identification system able to be harmonized with rules being simultaneously developed in the European Union. Due to a legislative oversight in FDAAA, the rule was never given a date before which the rule needed to be implemented, creating a situation where OMB could legally delay the implementation of the rule for as long as it wishes to do so.
The rule has been deemed to be “economically significant” by OMB, and has been held up by its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) since 11 July 2011 for reasons that are unclear.
While several pieces of legislation have been introduced to overcome the delays, including the Ensuring Safe Medical Devices for Patients Act proposed by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and the Sentinel Assurance for Effective Devices Act of 2012 introduced by Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), there had been no action on the part of OMB to date to pass the legislation in the face of mounting congressional pressure.
Under language passed in both the FDA Reform Act in the House and the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) in the Senate, the FDA and OMB would be given a deadline before which it would need to pass the UDI rule. FDARA mandates FDA to promulgate regulations no later than 120 days after the enactment of FDARA. The Senate proposes a slower pace of adoption, saying proposed regulations would need to be in place by 31 December 2012, final regulations be in place by 31 June 2013 and the regulations in effect by 31 June 2015.
The Gray Sheet reported in April the FDA was looking to launch the UDI system by the start of January 2013 “regardless of the status of the UDI proposed rule,” but little information has emerged since then and it is unclear whether either FDARA or FDASIA would affect FDA’s proposed actions. | <urn:uuid:206cc81b-0587-4dcc-9330-0a393209d1b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thecre.com/oira_reg/?p=258 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973525 | 487 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Phase II-III study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of T-DM1 versus. Taxane in HER-2 positive Gastric Cancer and Gastroesophageal Cancer
What is the purpose of this trial?Trastuzumab emtansine is an investigational drug being studied by F. HoffmannLa Roche Ltd (Roche) and Yale Cancer Center for treating advanced gastric cancer. Trastuzumab emtansine is composed of a chemotherapeutic agent (DM1) linked to Herceptin® (trastuzumab), a monoclonal antibody (a type of protein that is normally made by the immune system to help defend the body from infection and cancer) that attaches to protein called HER2 on cancer cells. Trastuzumab emtansine has caused cancer cells to die in laboratory studies and has slowed tumor growth in animal studies. In clinical trials, some patients given trastuzumab emtansine experienced tumor shrinkage. Trastuzumab emtansine is produced by Roche. The use of trastuzumab emtansine in this research study is experimental, which means that it is not approved for the treatment of HER2 positive advanced gastric cancer or adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction.
- 18 and older
- Last Updated:
- Study HIC#:
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Cool/useful short examples of Perl?
david at matthewman.org
Thu Jun 9 15:39:45 BST 2011
On 9 Jun 2011, at 15:16, David Landgren wrote:
> I had all the parts lying around, but didn't realise they were germane to the problem. So, thanks for the cogent explanation.
You're welcome. ;-)
This effect means that:
don't do the same thing either, whereas from the 'overloaded operator' point-of-view *as far as I can tell* they do the same thing. The 'unless' statement runs the overloaded '!' subroutine of the class in question, as opposed to doing a 'bool' conversion on the class and doing a logical NOT on the result of that, which is the other thing it *might* be expected to do.
I just wrote a class to check this. It claims that everything is true (especially the lies), and is called 'Garak', ;-)
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Birmingham, Alabama – After its successful launch earlier this year on the iPad and on the Kindle Fire, Software Smoothie is pleased to announce that Felt Board the app is now available for the Barnes and Noble NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet. Praised by teachers, therapists, parents and their children, Felt Board is designed to encourage open ended play, creative storytelling, and learning. Imaginations soar as children mix and match felt-like scenery, props and costumes to create characters and invent stories.
“Unlike traditional felt boards, this digital version offers many opportunities for customization due to its large selection of characters, props, and backgrounds. Every felt board “set” ever is included in one app! Having all conceivable options covered, this app excels at fostering creativity, promotes storytelling, and brings imaginative play back to the forefront as its main purpose.” – Teachers With Apps
In addition to open-ended play and creative storytelling, Felt Board offers many exciting opportunities for learning in alignment with Common Core Standards in both literature and mathematics. Children can use Felt Board to retell key details of familiar stories, to illustrate narratives and to create visual displays for speaking and listening activities. Children can also use Felt Board to sort items into categories, demonstrate an understanding of cardinal numbers and relationships, visually represent mathematical operations, and to explore colors and shapes and their relative positions to one another.
“If working on a ‘letter of the week’ tell a story centered around that letter,” writes educational technology specialist Andrea Gardner in her blog Applicable 2U. “An alternative option would be as children understand numbers, tell a number story. Your child or student(s) story becomes a visual story problem to reinforce appropriate grade level operations.”
With all it has to offer, Felt Board the app is perfect for play time, classroom time, story time or anytime!
Software Smoothie is located in Birmingham, AL and founded by David and Mindy Douglas. Dave is an experienced corporate software developer who now also develops apps for tablets and mobile devices. Formerly a teacher, Mindy oversees the educational and creative side of the team’s app development. Their goal is to create fun, educational and innovative apps for children and families. Copyright (C) 2012 Software Smoothie. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. | <urn:uuid:49694b19-e9b7-49ef-827d-c1777ecac9b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mobileappz.tv/back-to-school-is-even-better-with-a-digital-felt-board-app-now-on-nook/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946571 | 508 | 1.632813 | 2 |
It's Day 3, Princess Presto Day! Unlike yesterday, the boys weren't too interested in donning a girl's mask (I guess getting in touch with their feminine side doesn't extend to Princess Presto's sparkly pink-ness), but they still tackled the day's worksheets with enthusiasm. Today's activities didn't seem to be too related to the 3 Little Pigs episode, and the kids were getting a bit too intimate with that episode anyway, so I let 3Po and Jammy watch another episode of SUPER WHY (Goldilocks and the Three Bears: The Mystery ) instead.
The activities for Princess Presto Day were centered around phonics: matching letters with their corresponding sounds. It was interesting to see that 3Po and Jammy had no problem at all with the first worksheet (looking at pictures, identifying the beginning sound and circling the beginning letter), but found the second activity (and the related follow-up activity, the Letter Scavenger Hunt) quite challenging. It was kind of the opposite: they were given a letter and had to come up with a word beginning with that sound. They needed a bit of help from The Pea and me, but eventually Jammy really got into it. Our house is now full of letters taped to various objects, including me (I was the lucky recipient of 4 letters: M for Mama, F for Friend, G for Glasses, and A for Ana). My favorite one is the "I" taped to the light switch:
Me: Jammy, why is there an "I" on that switch?
Jammy: Because "L" is for light switch.
Me: But that's an "I', not an "L".
Jammy: But I couldn't think of anything that starts with "I", so I pretended that it was a lowercase "L".
Methinks Princess Presto would be proud.
Staying in this summer? Start your own 5-day Super Why Super Reader Summer Camp! Go to http://www.pbs.org/parents/childrenandmedia/learningwithmedia/superwhy.html to download the 3 Little Pigs episode and all the activities for each day.
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Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See thou to that.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for us to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day.
The religious leaders of the day were consumed with envy of Jesus Christ. For three and a half years He healed the broken hearted, the sick, those taken in the prison of sin. Kindness had poured from His lips. His great heart was one of love, love, love! But He was betrayed and condemned to die for the price of thirty pieces of silver.
For the price of Jesus’ blood the chief priests bought the potter’s field. The potter’s field was the place where potters would throw away their broken pottery. They discarded the pieces in the field as useless.
Treasured reader, do you feel as if your life or heart has been broken? Have others discarded you and considered your life as useless? Have you been shattered by the effects of sin in your life, either your own sin or the sins of others? Do you feel as if your life has no value and you have been, in effect, thrown away?
In Scripture, we are sometimes referred to as vessels or pottery that the potter God is forming into beautiful vessels of His choosing. God, by buying with His own blood, the potter’s field and all the broken pieces within it, is saying to us “I love you so much that I bought that field so that I could have, as my own, the field with all of the broken people within it. I shed my blood so that I could purchase broken people and put their lives back together.” He sees such value in us that He wants to put the broken pieces back together in our lives and we will be a beautiful vessel used for the glory and honor or God.
And when He puts our broken lives back together, the greatest light of His love and compassion will shine through the cracks in our vessels.
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Obama Again Carries Wauwatosa, But More Narrowly
President again captures city, but by a smaller margin than in 2008 when he overturned a tradition of Republican voting.
President Barack Obama for a second time carried Wauwatosa in a national election, although this time by a more narrow margin.
Obama polled 15,220 votes in Wauwatosa, compared to 14,511 for Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
In 2008, Obama polled 15,573 to John McCain's 13,728.
Despite the Democratic president's win, Republican Tommy Thompson, in the race for the U.S. Senate, garnered 72 more votes here than did Democrat Tammy Baldwin, outpolling her just 14,588 to 14,516.
Obama becomes a two-term president after winning Wisconsin and the nation; Baldwin, after 14 years in the House of Representatives, becomes a U.S. senator-elect, the first woman from Wisconsin to hold that office. Thompson says he won't run for office again.
Wauwatosa voted for George W. Bush twice, in 2000 and 2004, before swinging to Obama and the Democratic ticket in 2008.
In other races affecting Wauwatosa, both the 13th and 14th State Assembly Districts were won by Republicans from Brookfield, besting two Democrats from Tosa.
In the 13th District, which is spread across the south sides of the two cities, Rob Hutton defeated John Pokrandt by 20,378 to 13,219. In the 14th, comprising the north sides of Tosa and Brookfield, incumbent Republican Dale Kooyenga defeated Democratic challenger Chris Rockwood, 20,921 to 14,451.
The voter turnout in Wauwatosa was a very high 88.63 percent, topping 2008's 86.5 percent. The total number of ballots cast was 30,182 out of just over 34,000 registered.
Below are vote totals for contested races in Wauwatosa. Results are for Wauwatosa only. The attached spreadsheet (see photo gallery) includes the unofficial vote tallies for all races broken down by ward.
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|4th State Senate District
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After job growth nearly stalled in May, the deteriorating global outlook will likely keep future hiring weak. And experts don't expect the Federal Reserve to revive the economy.
Payrolls grew by 69,000 last month, the smallest rise in a year, the Labor Department said Friday. It was less than half of what analysts expected. March and April payroll gains were revised down . The jobless rate edged up to 8.2%, holding above 8% for a 40th straight month.
Payroll growth averaged less than 100,000 over the last three months, less than half the winter's pace. The weak spring may be payback for growth brought forward by earlier mild weather, with future job gains somewhere in the middle. Or it may be the start of a deeper slump.
Factory activity around the world is decelerating or contracting at a faster pace, threatening to drag down U.S. manufacturing and keep a lid on hiring this year.
"The U.S. economy is slowing down because the global economy is slowing," said Steve Blitz, chief economist at ITG Investment Research.
The Institute for Supply Management's index of U.S. manufacturing fell to 53.5 in May from 54.8 in April, pointing to slower expansion. Gauges for production and exports dropped sharply, while orders accelerated.
U.S. stock indexes dived more than 2%. The 10-year Treasury yield fell below 1.5%, a fresh 60-year low.
It's not time to panic, but it is time to recognize that the "magic of monetarism is done," Blitz said, doubting any fresh Fed asset purchases will do much except prop up stock prices and perhaps stoke commodity-led inflation.
Abundant liquidity and low rates aren't restraining growth. Blitz favors more spending from the U.S., China and Germany. Such fiscal stimulus seems unlikely, but he doubts a recession is coming.
"What you have is confirmation of more of the same: continued slow growth," he said.
Conditions for more quantitative easing seem to be coming into place as growth stalls and inflation slips below the Fed's 2% target. The core PCE deflator, a favorite Fed gauge, rose just 1.9% in April vs. a year earlier, the Commerce Department said.
But the Fed may hold its fire. Just as Chairman Ben Bernanke was skeptical of the winter's hiring spike, he is likely to be skeptical of the latest skid, said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors.
The six-month average of payroll gains is about 175,000, which he said is consistent with economic growth of 2%-2.25%. Q1's annualized rate was 1.9%.
Naroff doesn't see another recession, barring a major shock. While exports will soften, oil prices are down sharply, giving consumers more spending power.
"They pretty much offset each other," he said.
Spending held up in April, with the annual growth rate staying at 4% or higher. Consumers also bought more durable goods.
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Comparative study of experimental and numerical NO profiles in SI combustion
A detailed comparison of exptl. obtained, spatially and temporarily resolved NO concn. profiles in an SI engine with different modeling approaches was performed. The primary goal was to evaluate potential exptl. problems assocd. with the use of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) for quant. NO measurements under engine conditions. Quant. measurements from engine runs with propane fuel using two different approaches for LIF detection of NO in IC engines were assessed in terms of sensitivity to temp., fluorescence quenching, and interference by mol. oxygen and flame intermediates. It was found that results obtained with a scheme using excitation near 248 nm and detection at 230 +- 10 nm allow a direct comparison with modeling results because spatial variations of temp. and quenching corrections are negligible. Using 225-nm excitation, a significant distortion of the profiles close to the flame front was revealed due to an addnl. contribution of O2-LIF signal. Calcd. NO profiles were obtained from a one-dimensional computation with detailed chem. of 56 species using the MixFla code as well as using a simple model including only the Zeldovich reactions and a variable prompt-NO contribution. Computations with the full kinetics code were performed for fixed initial conditions, while the simple model allowed implementation of the time history of the temp. in the unburned gases as well as of pressure to simulate engine conditions. While the peak NO concn. of the full calcn. and the measurements agree well, the spatial distribution is very different. The exptl. detd. flat NO distribution in the center of the flame is not captured by the model. The simple model on the other hand yielded a spatial profile similar to the measurements. However, the abs. NO no. densities were obtained by scaling the results to exptl. data for the middle of the combustion chamber and adopting the prompt-NO contribution from the detailed kinetics calcn.
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Post office to be renamed in Height's honor
A post office in Washington will be officially renamed in honor of civil rights leader Dorothy Height.
A ceremonial renaming of the post office near Union Station is scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday. It will become the first federal building in the city to be named after a black woman.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who represents the District of Columbia in Congress, introduced the bill to rename the post office and will be on hand for the ceremony. She says Height was proud to be a D.C. resident.
Height was president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years.
The Associated Press
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All about flatulence
For children, flatulence (passing wind) is a great source of humour. But for adults, flatulence may no longer be a laughing matter. It is embarrassing and considered socially unacceptable. Even worse, it often causes abdominal bloating and pain, which can be very uncomfortable.
Here are some facts about flatulence
Most people produce over a litre of wind each day. Passing wind is actually a sign of a healthy body and diet. Men break wind approximately 12 times a day. Women break wind approximately 7 times a day. There are two sources of wind; the air swallowed and mixed into food in the stomach, and the gas produced in the intestines by the process of digestion. Foods that contain carbohydrates (some sugars, starches and fibre) require certain enzymes in the small intestine to be digested and absorbed. If the foods are not digested in the small intestine they pass into the large intestine where harmless and normal bacteria break down the food producing gas. The main gas producing foods are beans, cabbage, brussel sprouts, onions, bread, brans, cereal, pasta, fruit and even milk.
As we age, our enzyme levels may decrease and flatulence and bloating may increase. The bacteria in the large intestine produces different gases - nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, methane and sulphur dioxide. Much of this gas is absorbed back into the body, but the remainder is expelled. The type of gas produced is determined by the nature of the bacteria in the bowel, diet and genetics. About half the population produces gas that has no odour, but as for the other half...
What you can do about flatulence
Here are some tips on reducing flatulence. Remember that it is normal to produce gas and many of the main offenders of flatulence are actually caused by foods that are good for us. Avoid introducing excess air and gas into your system like, smoking, chewing gum, and drinking carbonated drinks. Avoid eating or drinking in a hurry and always chew your food well.
Avoid sorbitol, a sweetener found in sugar-free gum and candies, as it is hard to digest and causes gas and bloating. Avoid the foods which give you gas. Altering the diet may help control gas but can be difficult as dietary habits are not easy to change and it may not be practical or sensible to avoid these foods. Take a product to manage more comfortably the gas that your body produces. These products are available over the counter from your pharmacy and may contain simethicone, activated charcoal or peppermint oil. | <urn:uuid:27afbb47-20b9-499d-8d4a-2cf04424f11d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://keypharmaceuticals.com.au/products/all_about_flatulence.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942694 | 526 | 3 | 3 |
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LTE 4G is a must-have feature for many smartphone shoppers. Instead, the Nexus 4 supports the fasest version of HSPA+ -- which is considered to be 4G by some carriers -- at 42Mbps. Why would Google leave this feature out?
Android lead Andy Rubin told The Verge that leaving out LTE 4G was a "tactical issue," explaining that 4G hasn't been rolled out widely enough yet to warrant including it. That's a weak-sauce answer, and I'll tell you why.
For starters, the Nexus 4 is based on the LG Optimus G. The Optimus G is already sold by AT&T and Sprint in the U.S. -- and supports both carriers' LTE 4G networks. In other words, the feature was removed for the Nexus.
Second, LTE is abundantly available, at least in the U.S. Verizon's LTE 4G network is available in 400 markets, AT&T's is on track to reach 100 markets by the end of the year, and even Sprint's is getting off the ground. MetroPCS and and Cricket Wireless also offer LTE, although in much more limited capacity.
[ How does Google's new tablet stack up? Read iPad Mini Vs. Nexus 7: Tablet Smackdown. ]
Third, past Nexus devices supported the most limited 4G network technology out there: The Nexus S, which was the 2010-era Nexus Android smartphone, could be used on Sprint's now-defunct WiMax network. WiMax is a certifiable failure; LTE won't be. This alone negates the validity of Rubin's comments.
However, there are complicated issues when it comes to LTE that are worth pointing out. In the U.S., LTE is being operated on a half dozen different frequencies. Verizon and AT&T use 700MHz (but not the same 700MHZ), Sprint uses 1900MHz for now, but will eventually transition to 1900MHz and 2.5GHz. T-Mobile's forthcoming LTE network will operate in the 1700MHz AWS band. The LTE situation is far worse in Europe.
When viewed from this angle, it makes a lot more sense that Google decided to stick with technology -- and spectrum bands -- that are widely used the world over. HSPA+ should be fast enough for most people most of the time.
Still, the Nexus 4's lack of LTE makes me cranky.
The Nexus 4 will e available for purchase directly from the Google Play Store beginning Nov. 13. The 8 GB version costs $299 and the 16 GB version costs $349. These aggressive prices for an unlocked smartphone are made possible in part thanks to the lack of LTE 4G, which adds to the bill of materials.
There will always be trade-offs.
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I know the first thought most people will have reading this: “What does a middle class white male with a Master’s Degree know about racism and diversity?” And you would partially be right; I do not have a lot of experience with racism first hand. I have not had to deal with racism as an integral part of my life. But you would also be wrong, though not in the way you expected.
Peggy McIntosh wrote a great essay talking about white privilege, and it hits very close to home.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks.
It is a very true statement, and applies to the video game community in a heavy way. It was something I never really noticed for a very long time, because I was taught not to recognize white privilege; which in this instance was all the white influence in video games.
Well, I am standing up right now and demanding better diversity within video games.
Not because of a “holier than thou” cause.
Not because I want to see everyone equally represented (even though I do).
Not because it will increase the player base of gamers in the world, and promote inclusivity (but it will).
Not because I want to see people with different skin colors in games (one sided diversity).
To me, it’s never been about that, at all… It’s not about fairness, it’s not video game affirmative action. It’s about actually pushing our medium to make better games, to tell better stories in our games.
That’s what I’m talking about. Sure, diversity is the right thing to do for many moral reasons, and reasons of equality, but everyone can get behind the idea of better stories within games. There are thousands, if not millions, of narratives and ideas that can still be told in the video game world; let’s open up and find out what those are.
Create a discourse and move the world forward. Unpack your knapsack.
The inherent racism of developers
“But Jacob!” you say, “I don’t see this racism you’re talking about. Games have ideas ranging from historical settings all over the globe, to the completely fantastical!” You would be partially correct. The answer is not a simple one though, so bear with me.
One of the biggest issues I see with racism and diversity within games is not the people within games, but the developers and designers of games. As I stated before, it is not conscious racism, it is not the racism associated with the pre-1960s in the U.S. (Separate But Equal), and the civil right’s protests. It is racism that is blind in one eye, and partially uneducated. I will show you an example of what I am talking about. (quick note: I am not calling developers racist, I am trying to point out a subconscious pattern of thinking that [almost] all of us have)
Mists of Pandaria
Can you see it? The inherent racism here is not in the actual design in this picture. I think it is great that designers are looking to other cultures for aesthetic design. The problem is that of all the characters and everything else that exists within this game (in this case, World of Warcraft), there is not one person in the game that is Asian. Even the “Humans” within the game do not have an option to have Asian features. (Pandarens do not count, give me a break) Explain to me how you can import this amount of Asian culture into a game, and ignore the people? Sure, it may seem like a minor thing, but who cares about sitting in the front or back of the bus? I think that this subtle concept is what Peggy McIntosh is talking about with her essay.
Here is the counter argument that is going to come up right away: “But WoW is a fantasy world, and has all kinds of races that aren’t even human!”
Sure, but they are all still inherently white. Or, if not, they are stereotypical of another race or culture in an almost offensive way. “But that is ok! It is just a video game!” Wrong. That just perpetuates the cycle and nothing gets better. Diversity (especially sexual diversity), is very lacking in WoW and other games.
Why are dwarves stereotypical Scotsmen that drink too much, with a Scottish accents and kilts?
Why are trolls stereotypical “Jamaicans”, with their Voo-Doo and accents?
I cannot count the number of times goblins have been called the “Jersey Shore” of WoW, especially with their starting zone.
2 out of those 3 examples are even racist to a sub-culture of white people. It is racism within the white race (which in itself is a generalization).
If you want a quick video to get an idea of what I’m talking about, here’s a great one from the Extra Credits crew at Penny-Arcade. Or go read a book about it (Chapter 4).
Now, I realize that all of the traits of these races are a part of WoW lore, and I am not suggesting they change right now, I am just pointing out the inherent biases that a predominantly white video game community has when trying to create diverse games and story lines. It is actually good game design considering the current gaming demographics; it has been proven that people like to play games that reinforce their self image. The problem is, if we (the gaming community) are only reinforcing the self-image of one select group of people, we are excluding everyone else. If the gaming industry would like to keep growing, that means different gaming populations. Which means diversity. Plus, we want to be inclusive here, amirite?
It is not something that will change overnight, but it needs to be talked about and discussed. It needs to be in the light of day, and it needs to be improved upon. Big props for the community at Guild Wars 2 and their Blog Carnival on Diversity. This is a great step, and more of the communities should be doing things like it.
Here is another example of a game moving the racial dialogue forward. The new Assassin’s Creed game (3) will feature a minority hero; a Native American that belongs/belonged to the Mowhawk/Kanien’kehá:ka. I am sure there will be some things about the portrayal that will be completely accurate and racially sensitive. Other things in the game will probably be on the opposite end of the spectrum. But, they are moving the conversation forward. Taking risks, expanding story possiblities, and reaching out to new audiences. Good for them. I will be buying this game just to see the story and how it works (even though I love AC 1 and only played 10 minutes of AC 2 because of boredom, this story change has guaranteed my purchase of AC3).
Racism within games
This needs to be mentioned briefly, but I will not pay much attention to it because it detracts from my main point; the racism within the community of gaming. The players themselves are the worst offenders, but that is a post for another day because it touches on many larger issues.
(Aside: If you are one of those people that shouts hurtful/racist things online or in games, calling people “f*g” or “n*gger”, I will call your ass out. every. time. That shit is not cool.)
The long tl;dr
As an individual, I may not be the best person to talk about diversity or racism because of my background, but I do not think that should matter. The discussion needs to happen, and I will step up to the plate and take my chances with it, even if I get hit by the pitcher. Everyone else can walk around with their invisible knapsack; I want to unpack mine.
Do you have any other examples that fall inside these lines? What about suggestions to improve diversity within the gaming world?
Everyone in the game industry needs to have the courage to stand up and create diverse games, and to play diverse games.
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LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization said Monday it is too soon to say whether there could be an outbreak of a SARS-like killer respiratory disease after health officials in Britain announced they detected a related virus in a severely ill patient from the Middle East.
British officials alerted WHO on Saturday of the new virus in a man transferred from Qatar for treatment in London. He had recently traveled to Saudi Arabia, where another man died of a similar illness earlier this year.
The man in the new case was sickened by a coronavirus, from a family of viruses which causes most common colds but also includes the virus that causes SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. In 2003, SARS killed some 800 people, mostly in Asia, in a short-lived epidemic.
"It's still very early days," said Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman. "At the moment we have two sporadic cases and there are still a lot of holes to be filled in." Hartl said it was unclear how the virus is spread and there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
Coronaviruses are typically spread in the air but Hartl said scientists were considering the possibility that patients were infected directly by animals. "All possible avenues of infection are being explored right now," he said.
So far there is no connection between the cases except for a history of travel in Saudi Arabia. SARS was first spread to humans from civet cats in China.
Hartl said no other countries have so far reported any similar cases to WHO.
Other experts said it was unclear how dangerous the virus is. "We don't know if this is going to turn into another SARS or if it will disappear into nothing," said Michael Osterholm, a flu expert at the University of Minnesota. He said it was crucial to determine the ratio of severe to mild cases.
SARS hit more than 30 countries worldwide after spreading from Hong Kong. Osterholm said it was worrying that at least one person with the disease had died. "You don't die from the common cold," he said. "This gives us reason to think it might be more like SARS," which killed about 10 percent of the people it infected.
Britain's Health Protection Agency and the World Health Organization said in statements that the 49-year-old Qatari national became ill on Sept. 3, having previously traveled to Saudi Arabia. He was transferred from Qatar to Britain on Sept. 11 and is being treated in an intensive care unit at a London hospital for problems including kidney failure. Respiratory viruses aren't usually known to cause serious kidney problems.
The Health Protection Agency said it was unaware of any ties the patient had to Britain and that he likely was in a private clinic in the Middle East before being transferred to the London hospital. It said none of the health workers involved in his treatment had fallen ill.
WHO said virus samples from the patient are almost identical to those of a 60-year-old Saudi national who died earlier this year. The agency isn't currently recommending travel restrictions and said the source of infection remains unknown.
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There are many ways to enter the preserve, but most lack adequate parking and currently none offer toilet facilities, except the Oak Riparian Park in Oceanside, which offers both as well as a chance to appreciate the beautiful old live oaks for which the park is named. The hike described here uses well-traveled, mostly marked trails, though it can be a challenge not to veer off on one of the many informal, heavily used trails. Do not worry about getting lost. That would be almost impossible, as your goals are usually within sight.
From the Oak Riparian Park lot, walk to the southwest and take the concrete path leading west and then south toward the oak-lined stream where the concrete ends and a well-used dirt trail begins. Cross the stream and proceed west, following the trail on the south side of the stream, passing under huge live oak trees. In 0.12 mile, pick up the Lake Calavera Preserve trail (marked). Continue walking west through the riparian ecosystem with more live oaks, mule fat, toyon, willows, lemonade berry, and gooseberry. For the first half mile, the trail follows and crosses the stream several times before leaving the stream and entering an open grassland of mainly nonnative grasses. At this point, Mt. Calavera (or Cerro de la Calavera...also known as Skull Hill), rises to a height of 513 feet.
In another 0.6 mile there is a well-marked fork in the trail. Choose the trail marked “Peak,” passing through a coastal sage scrub community with a preponderance of black sage and buckwheat and then into a mixed chaparral community of mission manzanita, yucca, lemonade berry, bush monkey flower (red, yellow, and orange), as well as deer weed and chamise. At 1.2 miles into the hike, you will find yourself on the nearly flat top of Cerro de la Calavera. This is all that remains of a volcano that occupied this site 22 million years ago. It is what is known as a plug, composed of fine-grained basalt that clogged the volcano’s throat. After the volcano erupted for the last time, its cone slowly eroded away, leaving only the plug. In recent times, people helped this process along as the plug was mined to produce gravel for close to 25 years.
On a clear winter’s day, you will be able to see the ocean to the west and spot San Clemente and Catalina Islands. Look northeast to see the snowcapped San Gorgonio and San Jacinto mountains, east to Palomar Mountain, and southeast to Double Peak and San Diego’s Mt Whitney. Find the trail on the southwest side and keep to the right as you descend to a nearly flat trail leading north then east around the mountain. When you reach the northwest side of the hill, follow a trail down to the dam that impounds Calavera Creek, creating the lake. Cross the dam and take the trail leading to the right just beyond the end of the dam. This trail will take you back to the Oak Riparian Park parking lot as it proceeds through several areas undergoing habitat restoration. Large posters provide information on some of the work being done to restore the habitat. After 2.75 miles into the hike there is a junction with Creek Crossing Trail. The southern choice intersects the trail coming out from Oak Riparian Park. The eastern choice leads to Lake Street and back to the park.
Distance from downtown San Diego: 41 miles. It is a 45-minute drive to the trailhead. Go north on I-5 to Hwy 78, then east to the College exit. Go south 0.4 mile on College to Lake Blvd. and turn left. Drive east 1.5 miles to Ridge Road and the sign for the Oak Riparian Park. Turn right into the parking lot. Picnic tables and toilet facilities available.
Hiking length: 3.2 miles round trip.
Difficulty: Easy, except for a short scramble to the top of Mt. Calavera. The area is open to all types of non-motorized activities, including walking, running, and mountain-biking.
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HAMPTON — Students at Peninsula schools learn to perform jazz music -- and find they really dig it.
Eight o'clock in the morning isn't a time one usually associates with playing jazz.
But a dozen musicians are gathered at that hour on this morning, ready to blow a Miles Davis tune.
We're not in some smoky nightclub; it's the Phoebus High School band room, a square, high- ceiling room covered with a jumble of echo-dampening panels. Band leader Jim Stanley is leading the school's jazz ensemble through a rendition of Davis' lively, bouncy "Four."
Jazz isn't a big segment of the music business today. But through school music programs, a new generation still gets exposed to this distinctly American art form.
There are jazz groups in the majority of public high schools on the Peninsula, and in many middle schools as well. Here's a sampling of what a couple of them are up to:
At Phoebus High, the jazz program has made its mark; two of Stanley's students at the Hampton school got into the all-star band at last spring's Chantilly Jazz Invitational, a statewide competition for student jazz bands.
"The marching band is good" at Phoebus, says Stanley, "but a lot of people think that's all we do."
Not all the ensemble members are here for this practice; some have conflicts with other school requirements, which bothers Stanley a bit.
"People say you have to stress academics," he says. "Well, band is academics. It's part of the No Child Left Behind Act."
They're student musicians, and Stanley stops them frequently to offer coaching. "Bring it down," he says to some horns that are playing too loud. "You guys come up a bit," to others. He corrects a mis-emphasized beat: "It's ba-da-BOP, not TAH- da-bop."
Next the ensemble practices a sweet, mellow rendition of "My Funny Valentine," with a trumpet taking the solo lead.
"When someone's playing the melody," Stanley cautions the other players, "you can't drown them out. You have to get out of the way. You are the support."
While their generation might be more attuned to rock or hip-hop, the Phoebus musicians respond to jazz's appeal.
"It flows differently," says Adam Milhollen. "It takes a lot more skill; the tempo changes."
In contrast, says Ian Dansey. "All the popular music today is so musically simple."
Some are more familiar with the genre than others. "I grew up around jazz with my father and other relatives," says Emily Morgan, whose bass playing made her one of those two Chantilly all-stars. "Jazz really clicks with me. It's not really limited, like a lot of concert music. You get a chart with chords, and you go on from there. You put yourself into the music."
Improvisation is a big part of the jazz art, and Stanley works to develop it with his young musicians. "We have everyone do the background chords, and then do solos. We have them listen to recorded solos to show them how solos develop."
There's more jazz around than people realize, Stanley says, since it's used in a lot of movie and television background music.
But jazz is about more than instrumentals. "Look at your accents and dynamics. You've got to swing harder," Gordon Parr admonishes his jazz vocal group at Tabb High School in York County.
There are 22 singers, evenly divided between boys and girls, at this recent rehearsal, and Parr is pushing them toward precision. "It's hard literature," he says. "It's not watered down."
They start by singing a spiritual -- "Have you heard the story of the baby boy, born in Bethlehem ..." in close harmony. Parr says it's a good warm-up piece because "it's comparatively simple, it's repetitive and it starts training their ears for the tight harmonies."
Vocal jazz is hard to teach, he says, because of the close harmonies and because not every singer can do it. "A voice that can give me a little bit of air in the sound, a stronger, non- vibrato tone" is what's needed for the "West Coast swing" style of jazz he teaches.
And just as in instrumental jazz, "a lot of the stuff we do is not written, it's not on the page." Here, that's often a matter of vocal styling and phrasing.
"Ladies, can you be a little sassy?" Parr asks at one point while they work on a number titled " 'Deed I Do."
Later he demands: "I want to hear a shake" -- a jazzy fluttering of the note -- "on 'Oh my honey, you're the best.' "
Says singer Emily Nichols, "It's more difficult, but once you learn it, it's more fun to sing."
"The style is different," says Corey Firkin. "It swings. When you perform, you can see the crowd getting into it, snapping their fingers."
Some students get exposed to jazz at an earlier age.
Whacking two drumsticks together to count out the beat, Valerie Bridges is leading her jazz band at Gildersleeve Middle School in Newport News in a rocking tune called "Comin' at Ya."
Posters of jazz and blues greats -- Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Count Basie, W.C. Handy -- look down from the music room's wall upon the 30 young musicians.
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“This book will help you flourish.” With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is. Traditionally, the goal of psychology has been to relieve human suffering, but the goal of the Positive Psychology movement, which Dr. Seligman has led for fifteen years, is different—it’s about actually raising the bar for the human condition. Flourish builds on Dr. Seligman’s game-changing work on optimism, motivation, and character to show how to get the most out of life, unveiling an electrifying new theory of what makes a good life—for individuals, for communities, and for nations. In a fascinating evolution of thought and practice, Flourish refines what Positive Psychology is all about. While certainly a part of well-being, happiness alone doesn’t give life meaning. Seligman now asks, What is it that enables you to cultivate your talents, to build deep, lasting relationships with others, to feel pleasure, and to contribute meaningfully to the world? In a word, what is it that allows you to flourish? “Well-being” takes the stage front and center, and Happiness (or Positive Emotion) becomes one of the five pillars of Positive Psychology, along with Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment—or PERMA, the permanent building blocks for a life of profound fulfillment. Thought-provoking in its implications for education, economics, therapy, medicine, and public policy—the very fabric of society—Flourish tells inspiring stories of Positive Psychology in action, including how the entire U.S. Army is now trained in emotional resilience; how innovative schools can educate for fulfillment in life and not just for workplace success; and how corporations can improve performance at the same time as they raise employee well-being. With interactive exercises to help readers explore their own attitudes and aims, Flourish is a watershed in the understanding of happiness as well as a tool for getting the most out of life. On the cutting edge of a science that has changed millions of lives, Dr. Seligman now creates the ultimate extension and capstone of his bestselling classics, Authentic Happiness and Learned Optimism.
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Dr. Seligman begins by promising that this book will help us flourish in life. He backs up this statement with science and the stories of those who have benefitted from his approach to building a life worth living. Happiness is only a part of the equation. We also need meaning, love, engagement, self-esteem, resilience, optimism, accomplishment, and positive relationships. Drugs may provide relief from symptoms, but Dr. Seligman’s well-being theory offers a cure, and he suggests that educators and parents should teach these skills to the world. He gives examples of using resilience training with the military, and well-being training with children and corporations. The exercises in the book are designed to help readers create their own fulfilling life. The author of Authentic Happiness and Learned Optimism, Dr. Seligman is the leader of the Positive Psychology movement. | <urn:uuid:d130ff4a-4202-4134-bf00-ecb4417f7ebc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ncreview.com/self-help/flourish-a-visionary-new-understanding-of-happiness-and-well-being | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950289 | 735 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Back on the 20th of December, 2009, I ran a
photo (left) of Obama that showed a large scar on the right side
of his head.
A reader emailed The Obama File a blow-up of the image and this tip. In addition to the large scar, the larger image (right)
also clearly shows that Obama's ear lobe has a crease.
National Institute of Health conducted a
on the value of the ear-crease sign in predicting the presence of
coronary artery disease. The study consisted of 340 consecutive
patients who underwent coronary arteriography. In this selected
population, 75.6% of whom had coronary artery disease, the sensitivity
of the sign was 59.5%, the specificity 81.9% and the positive predictive
The sign was associated with increasing age but was
also independently associated with obstructive coronary artery disease.
No significant correlation was found between the sign and the presence
of risk factors or other signs of such disease, except for corneal arcus.
In symptomatic patients the sign suggested the presence of more
extensive coronary artery disease. In an asymptomatic population
with a low prevalence of coronary artery disease it appears to be of
limited value in predicting obstructive coronary artery disease.
However, it may identify a subset of patients prone to early
ageing and to the early development of coronary artery disease, whose
prognosis might be improved by early preventive measures.
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is an important
for African Americans, who are diagnosed with CAD at high rates.
The scar itself is interesting.
In "Dreams..," there are two
references to scars. Only one applies to Obama, and that resulted
from a large cut on his arm he received as a child in Indonesia (page
Obama also tells of a wound he received on his head (page
36), also in Indonesia, when struck by a rock, thrown by another
child. In the book, Lolo Soetoro describes the wound -- "it's not
There's no mention of Obama's wound in the
single-page "doctor's note"
he released during the campaign (by comparison, John McCain released
1,173 pages of his
medical records to the press). So where did that nasty "hockey
stick-shaped" scar on Obama's head come from? -- an accident? -- a
mugging? -- an operation? You know he remembers.
Another Look At The Scar
Taken during Obama's December, 2011"shopping" photo op.
"I Got Hit On The Head With A Rock"
Note that Obama refers to his daughter "Natasha." Obama has two daughters, Sasha and Malia.
Does Obama have a physical handicap?
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Anderson residents have learned to take Hartwell Lake for granted, but a couple of events in 2012 stood as reminders of how it once was and could be without the lake.
The lake's 50th anniversary was celebrated this past year with a traveling photo exhibit, fishing contest, gathering of dignitaries and a parade across the earth-and-concrete dam that has held back the Savannah River since 1962.
That lake helped put Anderson on the map, historians and engineers agreed, and is on the short list of economic engines that have kept Anderson's businesses humming for decades.
But even the most impressive of engineering feats can't compete with Mother Nature.
Coves returned to swampland and grassy fields in many areas of the Upstate and northeast Georgia as unrelenting drought saw the lake's waters recede.
So it is that the top story of Hartwell Lake in 2012 is the dry weather. Rain fell, and it fell consistently, but at a fraction of normal.
The region's drought was declared "severe" by a state committee on Dec. 11,
Reflecting that, Hartwell Lake has not been full — at 660 feet above mean sea level — since June 6, 2011, and has been in general decline ever since.
By year's end on Monday, the lake stood at 646.27 feet above sea level. This was more than a foot higher than the year's low, which at 644.78 on Dec. 15 was the lowest the lake had been in three years.
But it was still nearly 14 feet below full, triggering a "Level 3" response from the dam's operators since Nov. 1 — the most dramatic drought response since 2009.
At Level 3, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates the lake and dam, caps discharges from its system of lakes on the Savannah River to 3,800 cubic feet per second. Because of the severity and long-term nature of this year's drought, however, the Savannah District's commander, Col. Jeff Hall, was able to reduce discharges to 3,100 cubic feet per second this past fall.
Whether rain this winter will help restore the lake is anyone's guess, but the corps' hydrologists believe it could recover another two feet by March — still far below full and not ideal going into the heat of summer.
According to a 2010 Strom Thurmond Institute study, Hartwell's nearly 9,000 private dock owners represent more than $100 million in spending annually. Meanwhile, when the average lake level was 13 below full pool in 2008, recreation visits dropped by nearly 298,000, according to the study.
Even as Hartwell's muddy banks grew wider this past spring, a celebration of the lake's 50 years of operation was in full swing.
The corps together with business leaders, historians and area residents organized a major gathering at Hartwell Dam on April 25, the date in 1962 when turbines in the dam came to life and started transmitting electricity across the Southeast.
Dozens of the dam's original designers and builders showed up.
A life jacket, keen knowledge of lake currents and rescue workers' night-vision equipment helped save an Anderson man who was stranded in Hartwell Lake for more than three hours when his kayak tipped over in a thunderstorm on July 16.
Jeff Nichols, 56, went missing as the sun went down just before 9 p.m. when strong winds pushed his kayak out into the lake near the Green Pond landing. He wouldn't be found until after midnight, having been thrown from his boat.
"I started to hallucinate," Nichols told the Independent Mail the next day. "I was chasing after boats that weren't there."
A major search that pulled in the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Anderson County's emergency services was launched after family members called 911. They were discouraged when they found his kayak and he wasn't with it. No one was sure if he had his life jacket on. He did — key, rescuers said, to his survival.
Meanwhile, Nichols' dog — a five-pound Chihuahua mix named Senorita — was tucked inside the kayak's dry compartment.
Nichols' son, Will, and a competitive fisherman helped spot the older man after studying the lake currents in the area, shutting off their bass boat's motor and listening for his cries.
Senorita, a little worse for wear, came through the ordeal, crawling out when rescuers popped open the compartment.
ANDERSON'S OWN MEGARAMP
Ground was broken in late May on the $4.1 million Green Pond Landing fishing and recreation facility in west Anderson.
County and state officials described it as a future economic engine for the region as Anderson will be able to host major fishing tournaments.
What is now a single-lane boat ramp with 20 truck-trailer parking spaces just off S.C. 187 will someday have 160 trailer parking spaces, 100 single-vehicle spaces, an amphitheater, a six-lane boat launch, two bathroom buildings, a courtesy dock and walking trails.
Green Pond will have the longest, deepest launches on the lake.
In 2012, Anderson County had about a third of the money it will need to finish the project.
Full build-out will take years, but construction has started with the expanded parking and boat-launch areas.
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Two months after apparently squelching an insurrection, the leadership of the World Jewish Congress is facing renewed calls in its ranks for an independent audit and increased accountability.
Isi Leibler, a senior vice president of the organization whose public appeals for improved governance and transparency regarding WJC financial dealings prompted his dismissal in September, has refused to step down, and he seems to have found allies among the leadership of the Swiss branch of the WJC.
There is plenty of commentary to be offered on the obsessive response of America’s media to the death of Michael Jackson. You have to hand it to Congressman Peter King, who, albeit it in a very undiplomatic way, expressed what many are feeling. At the very least, Michael Jackson was an accused pedophile, a bizarre caricature of a self-loathing Black man whose hatred of his own skin and features led him to multiple acts of self-mutilation, a serious substance abuser, and, to put it generously, a very, very strange version of an adult. From whence all the adoration?
History is written by the winners, and so is the Torah. Korach is depicted as a bad guy, when an honest reading of the last three-and-a-half books of the Torah suggest that Moses was a singularly uninspiring leader, a less poetic speaker than most any prophet that followed, and just begging for a challenge from Korach or anyone else. Whatever Korach’s failings, the tragedy of the Korach story is that a more suitable challenger to Moses was surely intimidated into silence by the heavy-handed obliteration of Korach.
Sick of donning those goofy, “clown shoes with holes” known as Crocs — but can’t resist the obvious comfort factor? Well, there’s a new plastic sandal in town, and it’s direct from Israel. The Hoki sandal, popularized by Tel Aviv-based former executive producer Shlomit Slavin, has hit boutiques on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Park Slope, and can be purchased online at Ravinstyle.com.
In print, the Middle East is a political hotspot of clashing ideologies. The music streaming out of the region, however, reveals that a harmonious cross-cultural interchange is also at work there and in countries to the west along the Mediterranean coast.
Wedding bells (er, accordions) may be heard this weekend on "Sex and the City."
It seems the Klezmatics, perhaps America's best-known klezmer ensemble, recently taped a few numbers for an episode of the HBO hit series that features the WASPy and svelte Charlotte York, newly converted to Judaism, apparently headed for the chupah with her latest paramour, the pudgy Jewish lawyer Harry Goldenblatt. | <urn:uuid:233fafdc-1ee7-48e9-adfd-00bd329143bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thejewishweek.com/category/position/singer?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961614 | 598 | 1.515625 | 2 |
General Practice, Solo & Small Firm DivisionMagazine
Intellectual Property Law
Certification Marks as a Means of Protecting Wine Appellations in the United States
By Milo G. Coerper
For almost 40 years, I have practiced in the area of intellectual property law, particularly trademarks and geographical indications of origin. Among other activities, I have been helping clients protect foreign wine appellations in the U.S. market through all means available and have written and lectured extensively on this subject. This article will focus on the use of certification marks in the United States.
Even though protection against use of false geographical indications has long been a part of the common law of the United States and, since the 1905 Trademark Act, also of its federal statutory law, it was only with the Trademark Act of 1946 (the Lanham Act) that certification marks, as such, were named, defined and protected. Although the certification mark is named and defined in a basic federal statute dealing primarily with trademarks, it is a distinct kind of mark, different from a trademark, and may be a geographical indication. Under the Lanham Act, certification marks receive substantially the same protection granted to trademarks.
Certification marks provide the only means for establishing a registered property right in a geographical indication, including a wine appellation, in the United States. Section 45 of the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. §1127, defines "certification mark" as any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof (1) used by a person other than its owner, or (2) which its owner has a bona fide intention to permit another person to use in commerce and files an application to register on the principal register established by this act, to certify regional or other origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy, or other characteristics of such person’s goods or services or that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization.
A certification mark, as noted in In re Florida Citrus Commis-sion, 160 USPQ 495, 499 (TTAB 1968), "is a special creature created for a purpose uniquely different from that of an ordinary service mark or trademark...."
One type of certification mark certifies that goods and services originate in a specific geographic region. A recent search of active registered certification marks in the U.S. Trademark Office in Class A for goods revealed 827 registrations, of which 170 are for "indications of regional origin." Of these 170 registrations, 61 are for wine appellations, all European (mostly German, for which I was the registration lawyer), except one recently from the United States (which will be discussed briefly below).
The oldest registration is for VIN DE BORDEAUX for wine from the Bordeaux region of France which was issued in 1957 to the association that approves Bordeaux wines. It is possible that, because of this registration, Bordeaux was not listed along with certain other French wine appellations, namely Burgundy, Champagne and Chablis, as a "semi-generic" in the ATF regulations but rather was listed as a "distinctive designation."
As to the one U.S. certification mark for wine, a registration was granted to the Napa Valley Reserve Certification Board for "Napa Valley Reserve" for "still wines and sparkling wines" on April 11, 1995. Why was this registration sought? Several years ago, the European Union (EU) adopted legislation requiring that the term "Reserve" used on any imported wine must be defined by the rules of the country of origin of the wine, and the country of origin must also have some type of certification system in place to ensure the term is used in accordance with published rules. ATF tried unsuccessfully to define the term. As a compromise, the Napa Valley Vintners Association suggested a definition and volunteered to assure compliance with that definition (presumably the "Napa Valley Reserve" certification mark was part of this effort). The United States offered this compromise to the EU. The EU rejected it because it was not regulatory and the association was nongovernmental. It is believed that the wine trade relationship between the United States and the EU is now so badly strained that nothing short of a federal definition will satisfy the EU.
The foregoing is an example of the difference in approach between the EU and the United States in this area, which was highlighted at the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) first World Trademark Symposium in 1992. It was concluded that the protection of geographical indications varies enormously from country to country. An apparent lack of understanding and knowledge of this type of protection in other countries warrants an educational process to understand the problems and solutions offered in the different countries of the world. The group concluded that the term "geographical indications," as used in the symposium, which covers all kinds of names with a geographical connotation, including "appellation of origin," and "indication of source" should prevail. In talking about a "registration system," two kinds of such systems were envisaged: a governmental system, such as the one provided for by the European Commission; and a private initiative system developed by encouraging the use of collective, guarantee or certification marks.
The TRIPS has also had an impact on the protection of wine appellations in the United States. Pursuant to Article 63.2 of the TRIPS Agreement, the U.S. government notified to the TRIPS Council, certification marks, as defined in the Lanham Act and the ATF regulations, as the relevant federal regimes for the protection of geographical indications in the United States.
In addition, the United States has responded to a request of the TRIPS Council in connection with the work to be undertaken under Article 23.4, which provides that to facilitate the protection of geographical indications for wines, negotiations must be undertaken in the Council for TRIPS regarding the establishment of a multilateral system of notification and registration of geographical indications for wines eligible for protection in those members participating in the system. There is no time schedule for such "negotiations," nor does it appear that any establishment of such a system need be mandatory – it could be merely informative – as regards the wine appellations notified and registered by the various members.
Accordingly, it is clear that both domestic and foreign wine appellations may best be protected in the United States through the use of registered certification marks.
Milo G. Coerper is a retired partner of the international law firm of Coudert Brothers in Washington, DC, and a counsellor in his areas of expertise.
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On "Good Morning America" today, Dr. Richard Besser described recommended preventative tests for men to maintain their health. For more information on these tests, click on the links below and then visit the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthy Men webpage.
BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) A BMI tests measures your body fat based on your height and weight.
CHOLESTEROL Cholesterol tests are blood tests used to detect the total amount of fat in your blood.
BLOOD PRESSURE Your doctor should check your blood pressure at least once every two years, or more depending on your risk. After learning your numbers, your doctor may recommend a few lifestyle changes to help maintain a healthy blood pressure and lower your health risks.
DIGITAL RECTAL EXAM A digital rectal exam is done to check for problems with organs typically below your stomach.
SKIN CHECK Many dermatologists recommend doing a self skin check monthly, so you can notice any changes in your skin.
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES Testing for sexually transmitted diseases is done in many different ways. Depending on your risk and sexual behavior, your doctor may recommend that you are screened.
HIV SCREENING Reasons your doctor may recommend screening for HIV include if you have sex with men, had unprotected sex with multiple partners, are being treated for sexually transmitted diseases, or if you have ever used injectable drugs.
DEPRESSION If you have felt "down" or hopeless during the past two weeks or you have had little interest in doing things you usually enjoy, talk to your doctor about depression. Depression is a treatable illness.
ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM SCREENING Doctors may recommend ultrasonography in men aged 65 to 75 who have ever smoked.
PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN (PSA) TEST A PSA test checks for levels of protein in prostate cells. A high level of protein in the blood may be a sign of prostate cancer. | <urn:uuid:a9347c1c-3080-459a-811d-909b204ce709> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/mens-health-tests/story?id=10935011 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92503 | 419 | 2.5625 | 3 |
By Amanda Gardner
MONDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Having your baby at home with a registered midwife is just as safe as a conventional hospital birth, a new study says.
In fact, planned home births of this kind may have a lower rate of complications, according to the study published in the Sept. 15 issue of CMAJ.
Even though the study was conducted in Canada, where attitudes toward midwifery are more accepting than in some other countries, the findings may help to calm an ongoing controversy in the United States and elsewhere.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is opposed to home births, as are certain organizations in Australia and New Zealand. More organizations in Great Britain are supportive and Canadian provinces are currently transitioning to midwifery, said study lead author Patricia Janssen, director of the Master of Public Health Program at the University of British Columbia.
Janssen, a registered nurse who has midwife training though not certification, said: "People who function as independent midwives are not necessarily tightly regulated [in the U.S.] depending on which state you're in, so there may not be a guarantee that they have had an adequate level of training or a certified diploma or anything like that. And they may not be monitored and regulated by a particular professional college."
The controversy has resulted in a lack of clear regulation and licensing requirements in the United States, said Dr. Marjorie Greenfield, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.
According to Greenfield, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives does have a certification process but many states don't recognize it. "If you're a woman who wants to have a home birth, how do you determine if this person has appropriate qualifications?" she said.
The authors of the new study compared three different groups of planned births in British Columbia from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2004: home births attended by registered midwives (midwives are registered in Canada), hospital births attended by the same group of registered midwives, and hospital births attended by physicians. In all, the study included almost 13,000 births.
The mortality rate per 1,000 births was 0.35 in the home birth group, 0.57 in hospital births attended by midwives, and 0.64 among those attended by physicians, according to the study.
Women who gave birth at home were less likely to need interventions or to have problems such as vaginal tearing or hemorrhaging. These babies were also less likely to need oxygen therapy or resuscitation, the study found.
The authors acknowledge that "self-selection" could have skewed the study results, in that women who prefer home deliveries tend to be healthier and otherwise more fit to have a home birth.
Janssen said she hoped "this article will have a major impact in the U.S." But there is a definite "establishment" bias against home births. And the issue is an emotionally charged one, she said.
"There is a political and economic issue about controlling where birth happens, but also a deep belief by physicians that it's not safe to have your baby at home," Greenfield said. "Doctors see every home-birth patient who had a complication, but we don't see the ones that have these beautiful, fabulous babies at home who may breast-feed better or have less hospital-acquired infections. There may be medical benefits," she added.
"Midwifery needs to be regulated. It can't be under the radar because then it's dangerous," Greenfield said. "There has to be a regulatory process and a licensure process [to protect] women who are going to choose home birth anyway."
Visit the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives to learn more about this specialty.
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An advantage for the navigator is the comfort of having food frozen at –18 degrees C instead of just meals based on dehydrated cereals and dried fruits. Embraco’s corporate technology officer, Laercio Hardt, said that variable-capacity compressors also have extremely low temperature variations when used in freezers or refrigerators, improving the quality of food preservation.
Klink visited the manufacturer’s laboratories in Joinville Brazil, where the systems were designed and received a performance evaluation of the compressors used on his last expedition, from Embraco’s engineers. He also went to Sao Francisco do Sul, a city not far from Joinville, to visit the Museu Nacional do Mar, which houses one of the first boats he used.
“In the beginning, Amyr wanted to preserve films and videos at –5 degrees C, using the least possible amount of power. Thus, at the beginning of this year, Embraco provided him with the solution of installing the FFU 100 HAK Racional Series compressor,” said Hardt.
“Now the VCC3 is able to give more benefits,” he added. “Furthermore, the use of ecologically friendly refrigerant gases, which do not affect the environment, is being adopted.”
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Let every medical man whose eye may glance at this column, ask himself whether or not he would like to see the Association so strong in numbers that its voice would be authoritative.
Let him reflect that with a great membership, would come the financial ability to purchase articles; to increase the number of pages; to illustrate articles better; to have better typographical work; to have more machinery; in a few words, to have a journal of the highest class, without increasing the cost to individual members.
Let him consider that a large membership will give means of encouragement, by prizes or otherwise, to original investigators. That it can influence meritorious legislation, and retard or stop the passage of bad measures. Having thus reasoned, let him ask how he can personally lend his aid toward the accomplishment of these ends.
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Medivac choppers are often the life line for trauma victims. And one medivac company in Gadsden County is worried it might have to fly somewhere else.
Colorado based Air methods--the company in charge of Airmedic in Gadsden--says the county will be discussing other plans for in-flight medical care Tuesday night. The company says new plans could include more responsibility for Gadsden County.
County leaders say they will look at other options to see what might work better for the area. However, Air methods says Gadsden County currently does not pay for any of its services, the helicopter, or staff. Air Methods has several in-flight medical services in Tallahassee and surrounding areas. The company says it has nearly 350 helicopters nationwide.
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2010 Minority Faculty Development Workshop
The theme of the 2010 Minority Faculty Development Workshop was "Engineering Faculty Success". Tenure-track junior and mid-level engineering faculty in a U.S. four-year institution were encouraged to apply. Through a series of carefully crafted and tailored sessions and activities, participants became more knowledgeable and better able to navigate the path to career success as an engineering faculty member. The workshop was sponsored by the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and took place from March 21st to 24th, 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was co-organized by Georgia Tech and MIT. The target audience was members of underrepresented groups as defined by NSF (African-American, Hispanic or Native American).
Our goal was to provide promising underrepresented engineering faculty with tools successfully navigating the academic tenure-track and for ensuring their retention and advancement in academe.
A select group of scholars was chosen from a national pool of applicants.
The MFD Workshop is more than just a workshop. Both workshop and post-workshop activities are designed to develop a supportive community of researchers. During the workshop you will meet other African-American, Hispanic and Native American who are interested in advancing and thriving in academe. Everyone attending the workshop earns membership in the Minority Faculty Development Forum. The mission of the Minority Faculty Development Forum is to provide an ongoing mechanism to support to career development and retention of junior faculty and to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in science and engineering.
- Application Deadline: January 18, 2010
- Acceptance Notification: January 29, 2010
- Airline & Hotel Registration Deadline: February 12, 2010
- Workshop: March 21-24, 2010
The MFD Workshop took place at MIT in Cambridge, MA. Participant housing and travel was paid for by the workshop sponsors. Upon acceptance to the workshop, applicants were given necessary information to make their travel and hotel arrangements. | <urn:uuid:22f66a12-ecef-4910-bd80-4185831ebd97> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nagt.org/facultyequity/workshop10/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966414 | 393 | 1.695313 | 2 |
You may be flushing more than your waste and your wallet down the toilet with a colon cleanse. Your health could be circling the drain, too, according to a new study released today in the Journal of Family Practice.
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Researchers from Georgetown University Medical School looked at 20 studies published in the last decade and found little evidence of benefit to colon cleansing. But they did find dozens of cases of problems: cramping, bloating, vomiting, electrolyte imbalance, renal failure, and the biggest problem of all, death.
“This is not a manifesto against complementary and alternative medicine, since I’m a big proponent,” says Georgetown family medicine physician and lead author Dr. Ranit Mishori. “But there is absolutely no evidence that it [colon cleansing] helps. Instead, we found that it can be harmful.”
The theory behind the need to cleanse your colon is called “autointoxication.” Food gets trapped in the colon, rots, and causes the release of toxins. The theory was largely discounted in the early 20th century.
But everything that’s old is new again, and detoxing is hot, stemming largely from people’s fears of the copious amounts chemicals and pesticides found in food and the environment. With claims that a cloggy, toxin-filled colon can lead to a litany of ills including skin problems, sexual dysfunction, asthma, obesity, memory loss and even cancer, detox devotees are making colon cleansing trendy again.
You can get your colon clean a few ways. Herbal concoctions, some of which are mixed with coffee or laxatives, can be taken orally or in the form of a suppository. Although they promise rejuvenation and well being, herbal preparations, none of which are FDA regulated, can cause serious side effects like dehydration and liver toxicity. Other DIY cleanses, such as the lemon-juice based Master Cleanse, are reportedly used by celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow.
Some people prefer a more up-close-and-personal approach with a colonic, also called colon hydrotherapy. A “colon hydrotherapist,” or “colon hygienist” inserts a rubber tube into the rectum, and fluid (often as much as 60 liters) is pumped in and out through the tube. The procedure is like an "enema on steroids," says Mishori, citing rectal perforations, acute water intoxication and even an outbreak of amebibiasis, a parasitic infection caused by contaminated equipment, among study findings.
But colon cleansing has its advocates. “Almost to a one, people will say they feel better after a colonic,” says Russell Kolbo, a chiropractor and naturopathic doctor in Gig Harbor, Wash. Although Kolbo, who says about 50 colonics a week are done in his clinic, is a believer in the autointoxication theory, he also believes that more rigorous studies need to be done, and that therapists should not diagnose, treat or prescribe unless they are professionals licensed by the state to do so.
But it’s also the “cure-all claims” that do some real damage. “It [a colonic] is just one tool in a tool box,” says Kolbo, past president of the International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy. “When people start throwing around the word ‘cure’ that’s a real problem.”
Until there’s more scientific evidence, Mishori is telling her patients to steer clear of colon cleansing. “I never used to know what to say when patients would ask,” she says. “Now I know the answer, and it’s ‘no.’”
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Emerging directly from the pen of Johan de Crem, a small robin this year adorns the Christmas stamp. Fascinated by fauna and flora since a very young age, this Belgian artist possesses a remarkable brushstroke which has earned him, from the time of his first participation in the National Exhibition of Wildlife Artists in Bruxelles, the recognition of his peers.
The European Robin belongs to the family of turdidae. Its size is around 14 cm and its maximum life span is about 13 years. Except for summer, it sings all year round. Its constant chanting serves to defend its territory in spring and winter. In summer, it is usually found in woods, forests, bower, or hedges. In winter, it is not unusual to see it in the gardens of towns and villages.
|Price of the stamp:||0,50 + 0,05 €|
|Watercolours:||Johan de Crem, Belgique|
|Printing:||Multicoloured high-resolution offset by the "Zegelddrukkerij van de Post", Mechelen (B)|
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The Center for Business & Industry – Corporate & Public Safety is pleased to be an approved training provider for Emergency Management continuing education and certification courses. Effective emergency management relies on thorough integration of emergency plans at all levels of government and non-government involvement. Activities at each level (individual, group, community) affect the other levels. It is common to place the responsibility for governmental emergency management with the institutions for civil defense or within the conventional structure of the emergency services. In the private sector, emergency management is sometimes referred to as business continuity planning.
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The University of Kansas Libraries
Anschutz Library receives plaque recognizing outstanding efforts in energy conservation and sustainability
On Friday, August 14, Chevron Energy Solutions (CES) will present a plaque to Anschutz Library to recognize outstanding efforts in energy conservation and sustainability.
Building operations manager Robert Szabo and Libraries sustainability ambassador Amalia Monroe will accept on behalf of KU Libraries. The presentation will take place at 10 am in Watson Library, conferences rooms 502A and B.
CES is presenting the plaque to "support, recognize and encourage another step the University of Kansas is taking to help us manage the energy crisis the world faces and contain costs at KU."
Anschutz Library is included in the KU/CES partnership for conserving energy on campus. Anschutz will receive the plaque to recognize the library staff's ongoing efforts to use energy efficiently, and because this year, Anschutz will be powered exclusively by wind energy.
The Student Environmental Advisory Board, a KU student organization, spearheaded a Student Senate initiative to reduce dependence on unsustainable energy in 2007. The initiative uses student fees to purchase wind power credits from one of Westar Energy's Kansas wind farms to offset fossil fuel power to the building. Anschutz Library was chosen for the project because of its central campus location and its familiarity to the university community.
The wind energy purchased is equivalent to eliminating the burning of more than 3 million pounds of coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 6 million pounds over the course of the year.
For more details on the project, see the related University Relations release.
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If you haven't exercised in a while, the thought of slipping into a pair of tight pants and a sports bra might seem depressing in itself. Exercise, however, has been shown to be more effective than many antidepressants in reducing major depression.
Part of that may be attributed to the endorphin effect of exercise. We feel that the sense of purpose and accomplishment that comes with regular exercise also helps. Sometimes action has to come before motivation, and depressed folks need to act to prime their motivational engine.
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Henry Bowers: Small Scot with big heart who took on Antarctic
HE WAS the short, stout, yet steadfast Scotsman who fulfilled his life’s ambition by accompanying Captain Robert Falcon Scott on his final adventure, where he perished in the icy wastelands of the Antarctic.
Now, in the centenary year of his death, a new biography of the Inverclyde-born navy lieutenant who played an invaluable role in the heroic British expedition to the South Pole has shed new light on his remarkable journey.
The book, which features previously unpublished correspondence from Bowers and recently discovered diaries and photographs from his family, also documents a series of intimate letters between the Scot and his mother as he neared death in his blizzard-bound tent aged just 26, in which he promised her that “God shall wipe all tears from our eyes”.
It reveals how Henry “Birdie” Bowers yearned for a life spent exploring from an early age, writing a letter to a remote community in Antarctica addressed “Dear Eskimo”, asking the inhabitants to tell him about their way of life.
The book’s publication comes ahead of a special centenary dinner being held in Bowers’ home town of Greenock, where the guest of honour will be polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
A stocky red-head with a prominent hooked nose which led to his nickname, Bowers followed in the footsteps of his master mariner father and shipwright grandfather to pursue a life at sea. He rose to become a lieutenant in the Royal Indian Marine Service, serving in Australia, America, India, Burma and the Persian Gulf, before he was chosen above 8,000 other men to join Scott’s expedition in 1910.
Standing just 5ft 4ins high, he overcame the doubts of some that he was not up to the task, and eventually became indispensable to Scott, with the famous explorer using one of his last letters in early 1912 to describe Bowers as one of his “closest and soundest friends”, who remained “cheerful, hopeful, and indomitable to the end”.
In her book, Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott’s Marvel, author Anne Strathie documents his early years as well as his experience on the ill-fated expedition aboard the Dundee-built Terra Nova.
“Hopefully this book will let a few more people know who he was,” Strathie said. “After all, he was the first Scot to reach the South Pole, and the youngest man to make the trip – a record which stood for around 90 years.
“I think that sometimes people feel that Scott’s expedition was a purely English thing, but Birdie played such a vital role, and people forget his and Scotland’s involvement in polar exploration.”
His formative years in Scotland – Birdie’s mother would later move to Bute after he went to sea – informed his later experiences, according to Strathie, who details how he compared the “wonderful desolation and grandeur” of the Antarctic to places in his homeland, using one journal entry in December 1911 to write of how “the mountains surpassed anything I have ever seen – beside the least of the giants, Ben Nevis would be a mere mound”.
“It’s very touching the way he compares some of the mountains in the Antarctic to Ben Nevis and when he was at McMurdo Sound he describes how a stretch of water reminded him of the Firth of Clyde,” said Strathie, from Busby near Glasgow.
The book also includes several letters sent by Bowers to his mother, Emily. One, highlighting his conflicted feelings, reads: “I have never missed civilization so far and except for seeing your dear face again would be in no hurry to return. I am proud to be under such a leader and to be associated with such an excellent lot of men… One realises [God’s] presence here in the uttermost part of the Earth more than anywhere.”
Elsewhere, the gentle, compassionate nature of Bowers shines through when he writes about the prospect of killing the floundering ponies who were used on the expedition to the pole.
“It is sad that for the poor ponies there is no return,” he writes. “They have been our pets for so long that I cannot bear to contemplate the fact that I shall have to shoot Victor in less than three weeks. They are all well treated and any beating or undue urging is out of the question; we have not a whip or stick in the party.”
Next month, Strathie will take part in a conversation about Bowers’ life with Sir Ranulph at Greenock’s Arts Guild Theatre, before both take part in a special centenary Birdie Bowers dinner at the town’s Tontine Hotel.
The latter event will see a toast made in honour of Bowers, while a short film featuring photographs of the Terra Nova trip will also be shown. Drew McKenzie, director of Discover Inverclyde, the local tourism forum which is organising the dinner, said it was a fitting way to remember Bowers.
He said: “The Bowers family is rooted in Greenock, and I think people respect the uprightness of Birdie and the ethos of the man. He was so reliable and in the way he conducted his life he is a great role model.”
• Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott’s Marvel by Anne Strathie, will be published by The History Press on 24 September
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March 8, 2013 By News Staff
Answer: He chewed his strawberry pop tart into the shape of a gun
In Anne Arundel County last week, a 7-year-old boy was suspended for two days for chewing his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun and saying, “Bang, bang” — pointing the breakfast treat at a classmate, according to an assistant principal at Park Elementary School. The child, however, says he pointed it at the ceiling, The Washington Post reported.
“In my eyes, it’s irrelevant; I don’t care who he pointed it at,” said the boy's father. “It was harmless. It was a danish.”
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Officials probe use of helicopter at football gameFebruary 1, 2013 @ 3:34 pm
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California officials are investigating the unauthorized use of a state Department of Justice helicopter by an agent at a high school homecoming football game in Northern California.
KCRA-TV reported ( http://bit.ly/WZmrlG) Thursday that top officials at the DOJ did not know the helicopter _ usually flown for drug busts _ was being used to hover over the game in El Dorado Hills.
The incident was caught on video and uploaded to YouTube. The station says it showed a DOJ agent dropping a football from the helicopter to his son, a player, on the field.
The cost to taxpayers for use of the chopper was between $900 and $1,300 for the stunt, not including the cost of personnel used to fly the aircraft.
Larry Wallace, director of law enforcement for the DOJ, said he will now personally approve any authorized use of the helicopter.
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As we move from January into February we’re left with no doubt that 2010 is well and truly behind us. What have we achieved this year? What did we create? Well, apart from 13 magazines – the creation was solely in your hands.
I’ve been writing the Short Cuts section of 3D World for around 3 years now, and it’s one of the best sections of the magazine to be involved in. We cover a range of animation and VFX short films, which we get sent, find online, or the most fun way to see these short, is at events like Siggraph and FMX. But it’s not gone unnoticed that an increasing number are created by students like you.
Now, while those of us on this magazine are looking ahead and working on our March and April issues – there are many students out there wishing back the clocks as they handcuff themselves to their workstation to finish a final project.
Over the last month or two we’ve been trying to help with plenty of tips, for example we posted up our 10 best animation tips & tricks, to make sure we got some great shorts to watch over the summer.
Judging by last year’s shorts, many directors don’t need them.
Despite reports like this that say some courses fall short of providing those working in 3D the skills they need, there is still great work coming through, and while thinking about what to write for my first Escape blog, I decided it would be a great opportunity to visit some 2010 short-film favourites from across the board – student, independent filmmaker, and major studio.
Elk Hair Caddis
Director: Magnus Møller, Peter Smith
This film is by a group that studied with Animation Mentor. It’s notable for working well despite the limits of time and budget that you get with a student film. It has an almost cut-out quality and the sets look hand-made. Very funny, very quirky, and highly stylised – all things that we look for when covering student work, something that sticks out among the hundreds of others that surface every year.
Will & The Wheel
Director: Margherita Premuroso
We were aware of Margherita’s excellent character animation work from previous shorts – but then time she stretched her legs with a whole new story for Playstos Entertainment. It has a very similar, simplistic style to a student shorts – but with a budget behind it, Margherita was able to spend more time to fully bring out those character quirks, of which Will, has many.
Director: Alan Short
Despite the DreamWorks partnership ending following the release of Aardman’s first all-CGI film Flushed Away, the studio clearly learnt a lot. Last year, they released Fly – a great example of how, with the right characters, they can pull the story along. Essentially just based in one room and an annoying fly, the short is still great fun, and it’s also good to see the bigger studios keeping the creative juices flowing with little gems like this. | <urn:uuid:e59891e0-ee60-486f-adfd-e90a4a1bce37> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.escapestudios.com/the-best-animated-shorts-of-2010/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965163 | 645 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Research within the School of Earth and Climate Sciences covers fields as diverse as glaciology, sedimentology, plate tectonics, paleoclimatology, structural geology, glacial geology, sea-level change, hydrogeology, environmental geochemistry, petrology, mineralogy and marine geology. With funding from federal, state and private agencies we seek answers to fundamental questions about Earth’s past, present, and future. Successful research depends partly on graduate and undergraduate students who become involved in projects, and we encourage interested students to contact us! Our research falls into four thematic areas – you can browse these areas below or click on the following links to get there.
Climate Change, Glacial Geology, Glaciology and Quaternary Studies
As concern about the timing, magnitude, and rate of future climate change increases, developing a comprehensive understanding of the relevant mechanisms governing climate variability is crucial. The identification of several abrupt climate shifts in the paleoclimatic record greater in magnitude than those experienced by modern society has served to highlight the potential risks associated with continued increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions. A variety of techniques, including modern observations and process studies, paleoclimate proxy data, and model-based data synthesis and prediction, are used to identify triggering mechanisms of abrupt climate change, These, in turn, serve to improve our ability to estimate future changes. Models that explain observed climate variability on all timescales are still inadequate, in part due to a lack of information on fundamental relationships between climate and environmental responses. Hypotheses that relate changes in climate forcings and associated responses are critical, particularly for the Southern Hemisphere, where long high-resolution paleoclimate records and detailed glaciological observations are limited. Additionally, an understanding of human response to past climate change provides an opportunity to understand the societal impact of major environmental events, such as changing weather patterns and rising sea levels. The interdisciplinary field of geoarchaeology provides the opportunity to examine such events in a human context, leading to a better understanding how future events may shape our cultural response. The School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute
have long been recognized as leaders in these areas, and have been involved in defining and refining several paradigms associated with global and abrupt climate change. Over the next decade, School and Institute faculty will have integral and often leadership roles in several climate research initiatives ranging from deep ice core recovery and geologic sampling to satellite remote sensing and examining human culture/climate linkages.
Environmental Geosciences and Watershed Systems
The Environmental Geosciences Group at the University of Maine studies near surface Earth processes that control water movement, surface erosion, the transport of sediment and nutrients into and through major rivers, and the chemical alteration of earth materials. Ecosystem management, water resource protection, and the supply of clean drinking water are all intertwined with near surface physical and chemical processes. These processes impact the lives of people whenever they drink from Maine’s abundant water resources or cast a fishing line into one of the many lakes and rivers in the state, and they have direct bearing on the structure and viability of ecosystems in both rural and urban settings. Environmental geoscience faculty are involved in studies of watershed geomorphology, peatland hydrology and geochemistry, groundwater movement in fractured bedrock, chemical weathering of bedrock, and geochemistry related to carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions. Examples of questions that inspire research undertaken within the group include:· What is the timing and magnitude of sediment movement through watersheds?· How does groundwater flow within peatland ecosystems interact with carbon cycling?· What chemical reactions control the weathering of important rock types?· How do biota affect rock weathering?· How do watersheds respond to changes in climate, vegetation and urbanization?
Our studies involve field and laboratory measurements, experimentation and computer simulations. Collaborators in environmental geoscience activities at the University of Maine share our goal of improving our understanding of the environment to develop adaptive natural resource management strategies essential to sustainability. These groups, as well as state and federal agencies, provide many exciting opportunities for multidisciplinary interaction.
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Rocks and landforms at Earth’s surface, potentially hazardous volcanic and seismic activity, the response of Earth’s surface to icecaps that come and go with changing climate, and the slow but inexorable movement of continents all result from the interaction of physical and chemical processes taking place throughout Earth’s crust and mantle. With international interest and funding directed towards addressing both basic research questions and applied problems, the broad fields of geodynamics, structural geology, mineralogy and petrology are mainstays of geoscience research. Our ongoing and new capacity for microanalysis, including optical microscopy, energy- and wavelength-dispersive spectrometry, cathodoluminescence, and electron backscatter diffraction, along with grain- through orogen-scale numerical modeling and supercomputer applications, allow us to develop groundbreaking ideas related to coupled physical and chemical processes that shape Earth’s surface and drive evolution of its lithosphere. Our research program spans spatial scales from micrometers in individual mineral grains (deformation mechanisms, mineral chemistry, microstructures) to hundreds of kilometers in mountain belts (tectonic history, magmatism, structural development, and coupling of surface and deep processes). We study events that occurred from 4 billion years ago at the dawn of Earth’s history to those active today. We make observations of the natural world, using field, analytical, geochemical and geophysical datasets, and explain these observations using basic physical and chemical principles. We employ numerical and analogue modeling to test our explanations and conceptual predictions. Our most active research threads center on relating strain to surface evolution, mountain-scale dynamics, mid- to lower-crustal rheology, elastic anisotropy, earthquake geology, microstructural evolution, magma dynamics, pressure-temperature and chemical evolution of metamorphic rocks, stable isotope fractionation and mineral paragenesis. Please go here
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The response of shorelines and their inhabitants to rising sea level and associated coastal processes has been a major research focus of near shore Marine Geology for many years. With the recent explosion of human populations in coastal areas, such as barrier islands, deltas and landslide-prone bluffs, there is a growing need to develop quantitative measurements and models to understand how coastal environments have changed, are changing and will likely change as the level of the sea rises and storms frequently alter the shore. Sea-level change is driven by both glacial expansion and contraction, as well as by land level changes associated with loading/unloading of ice on the land; processes that link marine geology to climate change and geodynamics. As the shoreline rises and falls, processes dominated by waves, wind and tides have swept over what is now the seafloor, as well as terrestrial regions and lakes. We have pioneered the development of indices to record sea-level change over the past 20,000 years from locations above and below the present shoreline. We have studied the record of past sea-level changes by mapping the seafloor and lake bottoms. We interact with State agencies, such as Maine Geological Survey and Department of Marine Resources and federal agencies, including the U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service. We have used our expertise to influence state and national policies on mitigation and prevention of coastal hazards and sound shoreline construction planning.
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An important aspect of our work is communicating our knowledge of Earth, its climate and environment to others. We do this in several ways. For example, every year we host an Earth Science Teacher Workshop in which up to 50 Maine State teachers participate in a variety of activities including seminars, demonstrations and field trips. Together with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, we have developed the IDEAS program
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Cree, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They formerly inhabited the area S of Hudson Bay and James Bay in what is now Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba S of the Churchill River. Members of one branch of the Cree, allying themselves with the Siouan Assiniboin, moved southwestward into buffalo territory and became the Plains Cree. It is probable that they introduced the method of hunting buffalo by driving them into enclosures, since the Woodland Cree used this method in hunting deer. The traditional culture and language of the Woodland Cree greatly resembles that of the Ojibwa.
A warlike tribe, the Cree were nevertheless friendly toward French and English fur traders, and their history is closely connected with the activities of the Hudson's Bay and the North West companies. They were powerful in the late 18th cent. until smallpox drastically reduced their population. In 1884 they were involved in the second Riel Rebellion (see Riel, Louis), in Saskatchewan.
About 200,000 Cree live in 135 bands in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. They have the largest population and are spread over the largest geographic area of any aboriginal group in Canada. In the 1990s, Cree living in N Quebec waged strong opposition to the province's planned massive James Bay hydroelectric project, but in 2002 they negotiated an agreement with Quebec that permitted partial hydroelectric development, mining, and logging in exchange for jobs and .5 billion in financing (over 50 years). The agreement also recognized the autonomy of the Cree as a native nation. In 2012 they signed an agreement with Quebec to establish the Eeyou Istchee James Bay territory (largely the former Baie-James municipality), 114,801 sq mi (297,333 sq km), to be jointly governed by Crees and non-Cree residents. In 1990 there were over 8,000 Cree in the United States, some of them sharing a reservation in Montana with the Ojibwa.
See L. Mason, The Swampy Cree (1967); E. T. Denig, Five Indians Tribes of the Upper Missouri (1975).
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South Koreans clone dog
South Korean scientists announced yesterday that they had created the world's first cloned dog - an Afghan hound called Snuppy - by the same somatic nuclear cell transfer method used to brew up Dolly the sheep.
Lead boffin Woo-Suk Hwang of Seoul National University told a press conference: "Our research goal is to produce cloned dogs for [studying] the disease models, not only for humans, but also for animals." Although Hwang's team admitted they chose the Afghan for its "size and striking appearance", they stressed in a statement: "The purpose of this research is to produce research animals, not domestic pets."
Snuppy ("Seoul National University puppy") was concocted from adult skin cells taken from the aforementioned Afghan hound, Reuters reports. The team transferred 1,095 into 123 surrogates resulting in just two successful live caesarean births.
Of the two puppies, one named "NT-2" died of pneumonia 22 days after birth, although it was anatomically normal. Snuppy was delivered on 24 April from a yellow Labrador surrogate.
The Seoul team's press release also, rather confusingly, says that "the difficulty in producing dog clones underscores the importance of responsible regulation of this vital science," - a reference to the ongoing controversy over cloning.
Back in March, the UN issued a non-binding ban on all forms of cloning, including "therapeutic cloning" where (human) embryos are created for cell harvest and then discarded. Many countries including the UK have ignored the ban, but have stressed that under no circumstances will they allow cloning of a human being. ®
Michael J. Fox makes stem cell plea
Spain greenlights therapeutic cloning
Bush pledges to veto stem cell bill
Scientists hail stem cell breakthrough
UN approves human cloning ban
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"Pharisees were hypocrites"
In the Gospels, the Pharisees are portrayed as religious hypocrites and the most vocal opponents of Jesus. Researchers in the field of religion, however, are convinced that things could not have been so. Pharisees took really seriously the laws, but the prohibition, to save someone's life (on Saturday), did not existed. In addition, they claimed not share their religious beliefs by all others. In many ways, words and deeds of Jesus is very close to the beliefs of the Pharisees, especially the famous Rabbi Hillel, who lived in the same period. Furthermore, Bible scholars believe that evangelist’s embellished generally powerful role Romans simultaneously portrayed the Hebrew, in a worse light. | <urn:uuid:fbfe1a7b-b49e-4f5a-b317-92ca77944d33> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://worldalldetails.com/Facts/Philosophy/Pharisees-were-hypocrites.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978919 | 155 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Re: human rights vs. societies rights
Todd N Nims (nimstod@MAIL.AUBURN.EDU)
Thu, 8 Dec 1994 19:19:06 -0600
A book I once read, "Earth Abides" by George R. R. Stewart, discuses one
possible outcome of a large human population. I dont know whether or not
he has any scientific basis for his writngs but I dont think it was
written for scientific debate anyway. I would recomend it as simply an
interesting book with some interesting ideas that you could probably read
over the holidays.
Todd N. Nims
Auburn University, AL
On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, Luis Medina wrote:
> no living species I know can grow exponentially for ever. If this kind of
> silly extrapolation was true the mold that is growing under your
> garbage container would be invading your living-room by monday next week.
> 1) there are no resources to maintain an exponential growth
> 2) people, like any other species in non equilibrium abundancy, will be food
> for other species. specially if some of us start to get undernourished and
> A more normal growth curve look like _/ \ the last part of the
> curve only occurs in closed systems when resources are exhausted or are too
> dificult to get for that particular species. In more open and complex
> systems other species recycle the resources used by previous species and
> make posible flat or oscilating periods of growth for long periods of time.
> With luck, for geologic periods of time.
> limiting population is a short term proposition with no real solution (since
> even at very low growth rates you get large populations). What is going to
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By Arlene Karidis
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a three-part series from journalist Arlene Karidis, whose career as a health reporter spans two decades. Karidis says the Affordable Care Act is already helping many of the people who need it most, but that for many more Americans, the best of the reform legislation is yet to come.
Jennifer, a 33-year-old college student, struggles with mental illness. It’s been an ongoing battle for Jennifer, who’s founder of a nonprofit organization for cancer survivors. Fortunately, health reform has enabled her to breathe some relief.
One of the biggest weights off Jennifer’s shoulders is that she is no longer up against a lifetime limit for hospitalization. ”Previously I was discharged from the hospital before I should have been because of the lifetime limit, which for me was $50,000. That’s the cost of about three admissions,” she says. “Fortunately I haven’t required inpatient care for some time, but knowing it will be there should I need it, is a relief.”
While the federal law mandates that group plans cover behavioral health at the same level as medical and surgical benefits, compliance can be spotty. Organizations such as the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare continue to advocate for broader education and compliance in this health care niche.
But at least as of 2010, the health reform law provides a mechanism to appeal a coverage determination, regardless of an individual’s health issues. The new external review process for consumers is expected to be critical for anyone requiring ongoing, expensive health care, and who may have a claim denied by their insurance carrier. Because the provision is new, its effectiveness remains to be seen, but people like Jennifer and her husband, Jason – who suffers from chronic asthma – see this as a move in the right direction.
The couple are eagerly awaiting a provision banning denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Jason has worked for UPS and had insurance with his employer for 17 years, but has been denied coverage of his asthma because he was diagnosed as a child. “Often, when he tells a doctor he has insurance – but it won’t cover asthma – they require 100 of payment up front, and Jason has gone without care because we just couldn’t afford it,” says Jennifer.
The two – and others in their situation – can also look forward to cost-lowering health reform provisions that take effect in 2014. One provision is Medicaid expansion that will cover individuals at 133 percent of the poverty level and below. For moderate-income individuals – above 133 percent of poverty but below 400 percent – state-based health insurance exchanges will provide tax credits to help pay for premiums. The lower costs will be critical for those living with chronic conditions.
“With mental illness, the lower premiums will be significant because the people affected tend to have multiple morbidities,” says Andrew Sperling, Federal Legislative Advocacy Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). ”No longer will they be denied or priced out of the market because they have bipolar disorder or schizophrenia and also have diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Once full-blown health reform kicks in, their situation will be radically different.”
Posted May 2, 2011
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This year, taxes on small-business owners are under particular scrutiny. They're getting so much attention because Congress is currently debating a jobs bill with multibillion-dollar tax credits for small businesses. Last week, the Senate passed a bill with a payroll tax holiday for business owners and their employees and an extension of a tax deduction on capital expenditures. The payroll tax holiday—dubbed the Hire Now Tax Cut—allows an employer to forgo payroll tax on any unemployed person hired by the firm this year.
[See our list of the Best Mutual Funds for 2010.]
While this bill offers a tax incentive for 2010, when it comes to taxes, 2009 is currently the more important year for small-business owners. The 2010 jobs bill does not affect the returns taxpayers are filing this April. Instead, small-business owners will be trying to cash in on several tax breaks stemming from last year's stimulus bill that can reduce the amount they owe on their 2009 income.
The majority of small businesses, which have few or no employees, may have trouble finding tax breaks that apply to them. "If you comb through the stimulus package and see what's practical for small businesses, there's just not a lot there, especially for the really small folks," says Kevin Reeth, CEO of Outright.com, a website that offers financial management tools for small businesses and the self-employed. For example, one stimulus provision offered a special tax refund to small businesses that had carried operating losses in recent years. But calculating if a business is eligible for this provision—which expired in September for corporations and October for individuals—often requires the help of an accountant. Many of the smallest businesses might find that it's not worth spending those extra resources for the credit. "How much of a difference will it make, and will they burn through that money paying for a professional?" asks Reeth.
But there is also good news for small-business owners this tax season. Some of the tax breaks that may seem out of reach or overly complicated are actually worth the effort. And there are some new tax breaks this year that appeal to many business owners—not just the most successful.
Overlooked Tax Breaks
• When self-employed people ask him for tax advice, Reeth finds confusion over the home office tax deduction to be the most common misconception that causes entrepreneurs to miss out on tax benefits. This item in the tax code allows an individual to deduct any expenses incurred from running a business out of the home. For example, if you have a room in your home where you do all your work, you can write off a percentage of your rent or mortgage interest based on the proportion of your home that the office occupies. Reeth finds, however, that "it's shocking how few home-based businesses claim it because they are afraid they will get audited." Audits do occur, but Reeth says that businesses that could easily avoid IRS suspicion are often overly sensitive to this threat. They miss out on big savings as a result. For example, many eBay or Amazon-based businesses might use one room in a home to store all the items sold online. Simply measuring the square footage of the space devoted to inventory is one way to figure out how much to write off. If that room is filled to the brim with inventory and not used for other purposes, the chances of problems with the tax man are minimal.
• Another misunderstood tax-code item concerns businesses that do independent contract work. The owners of these business must report the income earned from clients on their 1099 forms. But many do not realize, says Reeth, that the total amount that was billed to the client is not always the amount that should go on the 1099. "Say you invoice a client for $11,000, and $1,000 is for supplies they are reimbursing you for," he says. In that case, $10,000 is the actual earned income, because reimbursements do not have to be reported. But many business owners forget and increase their tax liability as a result. "People just get busy at this time of year, so they're just not paying attention and gloss over it," says Reeth.
New Tax Breaks
• Last year's stimulus bill created the Making Work Pay tax credit, which is worth up to $400 for working individuals who earn between $75,000 and $95,000, and $800 for working married couples who earn between $150,000 and $190,000. The tax credit is aimed at employees, but many business owners will get to cash in as well. That's because for about 20 million businesses in the country, the owner is the sole employee, so he or she might be eligible for the credit. "What's cool about that is it's a credit and not a deduction, you can write it off straight off your tax liability," says Reeth.
• Small businesses that provide health insurance for their employees know about the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, which allows former employees to continue coverage for a period of time after they leave a business. Individuals who receive health benefits under COBRA have to pay 35 percent of the cost of premiums, while the former employer pays for the remaining 65 percent. But a stimulus provision offers a tax credit that reduces a business's employment taxes by whatever it is paying for the 65 percent. | <urn:uuid:f3d8b24b-4af0-41ab-ac8e-133caa960505> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/articles/2010/03/04/small-business-tax-breaks-in-2010_print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975102 | 1,095 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The new Helsinki Guggenheim is positioned at the crux of the Kirjava Satama Harbors historical and transit districts. The project siting is based upon the Kirjava Satama Harbor Masterplan which aims to reinvigorate the city qualities of the harbor through the institution of a built program highlighting corridors leading back into the depths of the city. The new Guggenheim Helsinki will act as an extension of the urban corridor in order to promote an integration of inner city spaces and harbor edge destinations. As a symbol for the achievements in modern day art and culture, the museum will act as an icon for Helsinki as it reinvigorates the city fabric.
The museums is located along the main harbor road allowing for the best visual presence to incoming commuters and people visiting the harbor. To the north, the museum provides a pedestrian/city entrance along the water’s edge at the historic market area in order to create the most direct and visually apparent connection to the canal leading back through the city. From this focal point, the streaming form bridges the existing canal acting to highlight the urban corridor through which the museum finds its placement. The fluid and smooth volume grows and expands to create the museums program, bifurcating to create various exhibit spaces, double height areas, and periphery circulation tubes. The largest spaces are opened by two puncturing tubes providing light for circulating exhibition spaces and below grade galleries. Visitors are guided through spaces by smooth transitions between floors in large, skylight periphery staircases. Soft turns and broadly arching walls provide backdrops for light-washing and delicate qualities of ambient lighting.
The museum is conceived as a series of smooth, soft surfaces of clay unto which cuts, gashes, and holes are exacted for qualities of light, transparency, and transition. As a reliquary for cultural objects, the museum is only defined permanently by what it houses and those qualities that are phenomenologically felt while inside. The surface becomes a medium upon which multiple manipulations are executed to express its lack of importance for the definition of what it holds. The logic of form driven by context and purpose becomes the museums voice where its aesthetic quality is purely reflective of surface qualities and un-representational mediums.
Status: School Project
Location: Helsinki, FI
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As the population of the world continues to grow, industrial farming demands may soon exceed the earth's capabilities.
According to an interesting podcast from Scientific American’s “60-Second Earth” weekly series, we may be running out of dirt.
Destructive farming has put a dent in the earth and it’s precious soil and air. To be proactive, we must find ways to practice more efficient farming.
The future of farming is a future of fighting climate change and continuing to battle to preserve these soils. Ultimately, this will also be decided by the future of eating: the amount of land needed for farming in the first place could be radically reduced if people stopped eating as much meat.
There are several methods that scientists are finding very beneficial to the soil and the future of farming practices – biochar and no-till farming.
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One of the key aspects of being healthy is maintaining a proper gut flora. Lately, this has been stressed out by many people, including Chris Kesser, Art Ayers, among others. Gut microbiome is a new area of research which will influence all areas of health, specially chronic diseases caused by inflammation.
Fiber has been promoted for a long time as necessary and healthy. We are supposed to eat fiber because it feeds our gut bacteria and produces short chain fatty acids (SCFA) which serve as fuel to colonocytes (butyrate) and controls cell metabolism and renewal, as well as expression and synthesis of some important biomolecules (mucin, for instance). Current guidelines dictate that fiber's daily intake should be around 25-30g, the more, the better. This, from my perspective, is completely unnatural and its only purpose serves to "justify" whole grain/cereal consumption.
Fiber is one of the great exclusions when adopting a ketogenic diet. Fiber rich foods tend to be high in starch (cereals/grains/legumes) or sugar (some fruits). Vegetables are viewed as fine by most standards, and overall tend to be just water plus fiber. So when someone restricts his carbohydrate intake to trace amounts, it is not strange that they experiment constipation. This can be potentiated by possible dehydration (not drinking enough water/electrolyte imbalance). In a nutshell, from the fiber-hypothesis, a ketogenic diet is harmful to gut flora and consequently, to health.
Duncan et al. (1) found that when obese subjects switched to a low carbohydrate diet (24g/day) butyrate production (estimated from fecal samples) fell linearly with carbohydrate intake. Changes in bacterial species included a reduction in Roseburia intestinalis and Eubacterium rectale, both which produce butyrate from glucose from soluble sugars in vitro. Brinkworth et al (2) found that fecal butyrate excretion was 30-60% lower in subjects eating a high fat-low carbohydrate diet compared to a high carbohydrate diet. The level of Bifidobacteria also decreased.
The results of these studies show a clear trend: carbohydrate intake and levels of butyrate correlate directly. Ergo, it is assumed that a healthy diet must have a good amount of starch/glucose and non-digestible polysaccharides to produce butyrate and promote colon health.
In my opinion, the interpretation is backwards. Considering the effects of butyrate on colon health, increasing the number of gut bacteria capable of fermenting carbohydrates and producing butyrate is an evolutionary adaptation to a lack of dietary butyrate.
Eating a high fat diet with more butyrate (specially from butter and full fat dairy) decreases the need for species which produce butyrate. Most butyrate (approximately 85%) is absorbed in the gut, so fecal samples may not be a good indicator of overall butyrate levels in the colon. At least not the butyrate that matters. It must be kept in mind that the content of other SCFA (such as propionate and acetate) is also important.
Gut flora is extremely succeptible to diet. It also controls almost every physiological process in our bodies. It is not rare that a decrease in the supply of essential nutrients (in this case butyrate) changes bacterial population in the gut, trying to maintain homeostasis and proper functioning. After all, it is a symbiotic phenomenon, we need them and they need us. A clear example is fasting induced adipose factor (FIAF) (3). Gut microbiota is needed to digest dietary polysaccharides. Studies with germ-free mice have shown that gut bacteria promotes absorption of monosaccharides from the gut lumen, increasing de novo hepatic lipogenesis, and promotes adiposity via supression of FIAF (4). Germ-free mice are protected from diet-induced obesity partially because of increased levels of FIAF (5). Backhed et al. made an elegant scheme of the process:
Conventionalization of adult germ-free mice with normal microbiota from conventional raised animals has a dramatic impact on metabolism and nutrient partioning, increasing bodyfat by 60% and causing insulin resistance in only 14 days. This despite reduced food intake.
This results can be interpreted as a mechanism by which gut microbiota promote food storage during ample food intake, associated with an increase in polysaccharide supply. This depends on the amount of bacteria capable of fermenting glucose, which in turn depends on the composition of the diet*.
In conclusion, a proper ketogenic diet should not compromise gut flora. The increase in the need for non digestible carbohydrates may only be relevant when a diet is nutrient deficient. Avoiding most inflammatory foods can help reducing both the number of pathogenic bacteria and the fat storage properties associated with some glucose fermenting bacteria.
* The importance of diet in determining the effect of gut flora in nutrient partioning has been shown recently.
Duncan SH, Belenguer A, Holtrop G, Johnstone AM, Flint HJ, & Lobley GE (2007). Reduced dietary intake of carbohydrates by obese subjects results in decreased concentrations of butyrate and butyrate-producing bacteria in feces. Applied and environmental microbiology, 73 (4), 1073-8 PMID: 17189447 | <urn:uuid:a6bd1074-83b5-4319-8430-938788d7ab85> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lucastafur.com/2011_06_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918459 | 1,124 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Lecture on Utica Shale formation
Date of Event: January 31, 2012
Posted: January 27, 2012
GRANVILLE, Ohio—The Utica Shale formation has become the subject of debate in Ohio and the nation. Peter MacKenzie, vice president of operations for the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, will present a lecture “Utica Shale - Why it’s the big deal, what it means for geologists,” at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, in room 311 of Denison University’s Olin Science Building (100 Sunset Hill Drive). The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Geosciences and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Erik Klemetti at 740-587-5788 or visit blogs.denison.edu/geosciences/ or www.denison.edu.
Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking. | <urn:uuid:30b24bf5-a4d6-4631-8eed-8f66debfbabf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://denison.edu/offices/publicaffairs/pressreleases/geoscience_mackenzie_20120131.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910152 | 265 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Today I read a post by Dave Askaripour asking if any entrepreneurs had experienced the physical hatred of school that he had come to recognise as he was finishing up University, and whether anyone had solutions to coping with the problem.
This struck a chord with me on 2 notes. Firstly, I’m still in full-time education from 9 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon and secondly, Im having a hard time maintaining enthusiasm for school/college life. Everyday I feel like school is a drag and much like David, I feel that my time could be better spent working as an internet entrepreneur, growing my online businesses, making more money and developing my skills in an online respect.
However, as the question asked I did have a solution. This solution at the moment keeps me sane throughout the working day, and helps me to return home at the end of the day feeling invigorated and not a nervous-wreck after a hectic day at college. So what is this simple solution I hear you ask at your computer? Find aspects of each lesson and minute you spend at school, realise how it will affect your future as an entrepreneur, and enjoy doing it.
OK – I may need to break this down a bit. Say for example you’re in an Economics class (which is by far my most favourite subject) and you’re feeling bored and lethargic. Listen to what your teacher is teaching you about supply and demand, or economies of scale. Realise that this may relate to a time in the future when you’ve got a product and don’t know how much to price it at (look at the equilibrium market price). Then pay attention to what the prof is saying and start to enjoy the lessons.
In theory, this sounds easy. A short and sweet: stop, listen and learn. But we all know that the answer and the practical side is hard. There’s so many distractions at school – your mates sniggering in the back row, the football match going on outside the classroom window, that packet of crisps that you’re dying to eat, and that text message you need to send. But there’s hometime for that. Focus, focus and focus will help you through your day and by thinking ahead to your life as a fulltime ‘preneur, you’ll start to realise how other subjects will help.
English for example is a good one. Whilst you might not feel on top of the world writing a 2000 word essay, when it comes down to it, you’re merely practising your writing skills. This in turn will help communication with buyers, sellers and investors when you’re online and may also help your blogging fingers turn into turbo writers for posts.
David also mentions the social aspect of school. This is very important. School, college and university are breeding grounds for learning the marketing ropes. When you talk to your mates everyday, you’re infact learning the art of confidence which will come in handy when you’re pitching about your new Web 5.0 idea in the future.
Don’t be a recluse and think about your online earnings whilst at school (which is another point mentioned in David’s Book – Young and Hungry: The New Entrepreneur). You’re only at school once in your life so make the most of it by going out, socialising and meeting people that may turn out to be great business contacts in the future.
To conclude – school shouldn’t just be seen as a slog-house. Schools are there to teach, and whilst the history of France may not seem interesting at the time, it may just help you to swing that deal around when you’re chatting with a French contact. Live, listen and learn while you’re at school and you’ll be laughing when you’re in the real world. | <urn:uuid:626127d7-ceb4-49f1-8932-9b3ccf89d18a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.blogtrepreneur.com/2007/03/01/how-to-make-the-most-out-of-schooling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959315 | 808 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Forest Management Plans
W. M. Beaty & Associates, Inc. (WBA) has a proven track record of successful forest stewardship. One of the reasons for our success is good planning, an essential element in the long-term practice of forestland management. A forest management plan is a document that provides a road map for landowners, with strategies designed to help them realize their goals and objectives. Timberlands under our care each have long-term management plans that define individual landowner goals and objectives, assess current conditions, and detail the management practices needed to achieve, sustain, or enhance them. All this while emphasizing protection of forest resources and the ecosystem.
Forest management plans may also provide both short and long term economic and regulatory benefits, in terms of State and Federal cost-share programs for certain practices, and reduced regulatory documentation and constraints for future planned management practices. Working in partnership with resource protection agencies, WBA can prepare and implement an appropriate management plan for your timberland. | <urn:uuid:3cf7b001-88c5-4b9d-a6cc-65853c68cad0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wmbeaty.com/what_we_do/mgmt_plans.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912195 | 200 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Improve academic achievement through a technology-infused classroomInfuse higher-level thinking skills in content areas.
Teach reading strategies in the content areas.
Increase evidence of comprehension.
Use phrasing and expression to improve fluency.
Communicate through listening, speaking & writing.
Utilize innovative strategies for the delivery of rigorous and relevant curriculaWrite for a global audience.
Provide immediate feedback to students.
Differentiate instruction based on student need.
Select learning tool, based upon self-evaluation of learning needs.
Increase amount of student talk in mathematics.
Provide professional development which supports critical thinking and problem-solving skillsImplement the Gradual Release Model to generate student-centered learning.
Facilitate students' use of technology to investigate, solve and share solutions to issues and topics in real world problems (Challenge-based learning)
Provide training which supports the iPad as a tool for critical thinking and problem solving skills.
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Jan. 23, 2013 at 8:27 PM ET
Does your phone get a "no signal" warning or slow speeds while you're out and about? The latest version of the OpenSignalMaps app will check your position against a huge database and tell you which direction to walk — or whether a nearby cafe or shop has Wi-Fi you can use.
OpenSignalMaps has been amassing data for a long time on everything from where carriers have the best signal to what phones people are using, and has a few fun projects on the side as well — like this map of Wi-Fi names supporting one or the main other political parties.
In the latest version, OpenSignalMaps, a free download for Android devices, is making that data extra-accessible. Pull up its little dashboard and you instantly get a compass telling you which way you need to go to get a better signal. If you're on the road, check the map for the next town with solid coverage.
The map also shows the locations of the more than 100 million Wi-Fi hotspots OpenSignalMaps has mapped all over the world. No more scanning for and trying out a handful of networks — probably not a good practice anyway.
Here's the app in practice:
Be aware, though, when you download the app, you start contributing to its database. Nothing personal, of course, just things like the signal at your location and open Wi-Fi you come across. If you're not okay with that, you can continue finding a signal the old-fashioned way: Waving your phone in the air.
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God of the Tulwyn
Heart of the Wind, Raging Voice of Thunder, Lord of Death Storms
Tribal Demigod
Kekamar is never drawn or otherwise depicted by the Tulwyn.
Kekamar is the spirit of the wind, manifest directly when the wind is blowing. When the wind blows strongly, he is watching his people and directing his will, when it blows lightly he is resting, although still watchful. Only on the rare occaisions when the wind stops altogether is Kekamar said to be asleep. He is a cruel god, with no time for the weak, the dishonest or those who fail in their chosen aims.
Source: Tulwyn 1-4
Where did the world come from?
In the beginning was a great void of perfect stillness, in which the First Gods floated. They created a world for themselves, a world of stone, heat and calm water. But nothing lived in that world, for everything was motionless, like a great carving. The First Gods marvelled in the beauty of what they had wraught, and yet they could see something was lacking. After many aeons of time had passed, one among the First Gods, whose name is now forgotten by us, conceived the idea of motion. He created the motion, gave it the name Kekamar, and placed it in the world . The other gods were delighted, for Kekamar brought a new kind of beauty to the world, rushing and blowing across the surface, and now they could see what had been lacking in their creation.
Of course, many of the First Gods now began to create their own moving things, and so were born living things, and dancing flame, and flowing rivers and many other things which are now forgotten. But the First Gods kept these things as slaves only, to admire as one might admire a fine piece of handicraft. Always the First Gods would put constraints on their creations, so that they might not spoil the tranquility of the world.
Kekamar in particular was not happy with this, for he had been created to be motion itself, rushing free across the surface of the world and he would accept no boundaries to his movements. So one day, he gathered together all of the greatest creations of the First Gods, those beings that we now call the Lesser Gods. And he talked with them at length, and inspired them to rebel against their creators and throw them back into the still void from which they had come. And, after a great war that spread across all the world, in which many creatures and powers were lost to the world, Kekamar and his allies did as they had vowed.
Thus was the world made the way it is today.
Where did I come from?
Humans were created by the Lesser Gods as they were created by the First Gods. At first we were still and mindless, but Kekamar breathed on us, and we became alive and our souls awakened. The breath of Kekamar is the vital spark which dwells in all living things, and which infuses our spirits and those that dwell in animals and other things which move, such as rivers or fires. Only the hard motionless stone lacks a spirit, for it is not truly alive.
Why am I here?
As Kekamar gives us life, we must emulate his ways so that he will take pride in us. Like him, we must be active and full of life, and must fight against our enemies. We must constantly strive to better ourselves in his eyes, and then tell of our deeds so that we may serve as an example to others. As Kekamar defeated the First Gods, so we must combat the other peoples of this world, that we may make ourselves stronger. Weakness and failure are the worst things that can befall a man; he proves hismelf unworthy of Kekamar's gift of life. To be still and passive is to be defeated; we must roar and rage even as the Wind Lord does, that our enemies will fear our name.
Women are here that may may birth many warriors and make our people stronger. But they too, should be full of vigour and life, not passive like the women of weaker peoples.
What happens after we die?
Kekamar is a harsh but just god. Those who have struggled long and mightily will come to his attention, and be reborn as warriors in Yashain to continue in his service and enjoy an afterlife of never-ending battle. Otherwise you will be reborn in another body, to try again. Those who are outcast, or die impure for some reason, cannot be reborn, and instead must wander the world as lost spirits lamenting their fate.
What can you tell me about magic?
There are two kinds of magic in the world. Proper magic comes from Kekamar, and is used by our priests to help make us stronger. Although our priests are not the greatest of warriors, they deserve our respect for they aid us in battle, and pass on news of our deeds as an example to future generations. All these things make us stronger, and bind us together as one people.
But there is another kind of magic, which is soulless and profane, which twists the spirits and the earth to its own ends, against the will of the gods. This magic without gods is evil, and although its very presence may corrupt you and take you further from the Wind Lord, you must destroy all those who use it. Then you must find a priest to purify you of its taint.
What of the other Gods? Tell me the Truth about...
We encounter the followers of this goddess occaisionally, and have heard of her prowess. She is a strong goddess and teaches people to be powerful and honest warriors, as they should. Yet she does not understand how to use that strength properly, at times showing 'mercy' - surely a most foolish idea!
This is a weak goddess, associated with living things. Her followers are soft and foolish, and defeating them in battle - as when we raid the lands around Firis and Shiran - is so simple that it does not count as a real victory. But that is not to say that we should not steal their food and tools when appropriate, for if they cannot withstand us, that is their fault. The only chance for glory comes when the followers of Larani protect those of this weaker goddess.
The god of dreams and Sindar rules the land beyond the Farin, where Kekamar has willed we must not travel. He is not a god that it is proper for humans to worship and is best left alone.
This god sends the Ivashu that occaisionally travel through our lands. He cares nothing for humans, and is not ever-present as our god is, so it is not proper to give him worship. Those fools who do so may easily be defeated.
This god has begun to attract followers from our ancient enemies, the Chelni. He is a worthy opponent, and like our god is a god of motion and bravery. We must never give him quarter or treat his followers as brothers, yet he is a god that can be admired in his own way.
This is the god of moving flame, almost as ancient and powerful as Kekamar himself. Like Sarajin, his worshippers are powerful warriors who understand that no mercy should be given in battle and are worthy opponents to face. But they are a dishonest people, and fond of the wanton destruction which fire can visit and in this way they are foolish, for they rarely protect even their own allies and cannot act as one nation as we do.
There are many minor spirits in the world, made by the Lesser Gods as we were made. We do not worship them, for they are weak as individuals, but we respect them and give them their due. Some spirits are hostile, and our priests must drive them away or destroy them, as we drive away and destroy our mortal enemies.
Or is he actually a Lesser God? On Harn at least, he has more worshippers than some of the civilised deities (my calculations put him ahead of Sarajin, Morgath, Save K'nor and Naveh), although this is obviously not true in the world as a whole. Perhaps he is just a Lesser God whose worshippers have not been very successful in spreading his word - probably due to a lack of desire.
Therefore, to the Tulwyn, Kekamar is the first and greatest of the Lesser Gods. It is unlikely many civilised theologians would agree with this assessment.
No information is given on this topic in the published material. This is entirely guesswork on my part.
Not all gods are listed here. The Tulwyn have little, if any, knowledge of or contact with the religions of Halea, Save K'nor, Morgath or Naveh. They meet Halean merchants along the Salt Route, of course, but they don't necessarily know or care who they worship.
To the Tulwyn priests page
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WASHINGTON ——A month after Hurricane Sandy crashed ashore, hundreds of Marylanders affected by the storm are still waiting for the federal government to provide funding for housing and living expenses.
Federal assistance has been flowing for weeks to families in hard-hit counties of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency is still reviewing a formal request for aid that Gov. Martin O'Malley submitted to the White House on Nov. 8.
Overall, the storm has caused more than $27 million in damage statewide.
"These people are getting antsy," said Noah T. Bradshaw, the housing inspector for the city of Crisfield, who estimated that there are up to 350 homes in the city that were severely flooded. "Give us something down here to help some of these people rebuild."
Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City on Oct. 29, sparing Maryland the brunt of its heavy rain and wind. Still, portions of the Eastern Shore experienced major flooding. As much as 30 inches of snow fell in Western Maryland. At the peak of power outages, about 365,000 homes were dark.
Days later, O'Malley formally requested federal assistance, writing that the storm was of such magnitude that "effective response is beyond the capabilities of the state and local governments." He specifically requested assistance for people living in Worcester, Dorchester and Somerset counties.
Following a review by FEMA, President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration for Maryland on Nov. 20. That formal designation addressed part of the governor's request, allowing state and local governments to recoup costs needed to repair public facilities, such as roads and parks.
But the White House has yet to make a determination about individual assistance, which allows residents affected by the storm to apply directly to the federal government to help pay for temporary housing, to repair or replace homes and for other expenses, such as vehicle damage.
"We have a lot of individuals who will need it," said Rep. Andy Harris, a Baltimore County Republican who represents the Eastern Shore. "It's unclear whether the state's going to be able to provide [help] without federal individual assistance."
"We certainly understand that gathering the correct information and reviewing that information for an event like Hurricane Sandy can take some time," said Maryland Emergency Management Agency spokesman Edward J. McDonough. "But we also understand that some folks in Maryland — especially on the lower Eastern Shore — are struggling financially and are looking for a swift decision."
McDonough said that "state and local officials have provided FEMA with extensive documentation of the damages and we are … awaiting a decision."
FEMA declined to discuss the status of Maryland's application other than to say that it remains under review. Several officials said that the agency has requested additional information from state emergency officials and that those assessments are currently underway.
The agency is reviewing a similar request from West Virginia.
"We're going to find a way to help," said Sen. Ben Cardin, who has pressed the administration for the designation. "We believe that we have a good chance, but we're not putting all of our eggs in one basket — we are looking at other ways we can help the individuals involved."
Cardin and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, both Democrats, signed a letter to the White House last week arguing that some residents are "in desperate need" of the assistance. Cardin said he has spoken to FEMA administrator W. Craig Fugate about Maryland's request.
"Nearly a month after Sandy, it's important that these residents know that they have a federal government on their side," Mikulski said in a statement.
In addition to federal aid to state and local governments, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said this week that it will impose a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures of federally backed mortgages in some portions of Maryland.
Bradshaw and others said FEMA is working aggressively on the ground in the Eastern Shore to assess damage. On the surface, he said, the city appears to have made a remarkable recovery but deep problems remain.
"If you ride through Crisfield, it looks pretty good now," Bradshaw said. "But when you get inside [the homes], that's when you say, 'Oh my goodness — they're sitting on wet furniture.'"
Cardin and Harris spoke at a hearing Thursday of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works intended to assess the impact of the storm. During her testimony, New York Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand broke into tears as she described the story of two young boys who were swept away from their mother by floodwaters on Staten Island.
The hearing came as the White House prepares to send a multibillion-dollar emergency spending request to Congress to fund disaster relief. That legislation will land in the middle of difficult negotiations over other fiscal issues that must be resolved by year's end.
Similar disaster spending bills have recently become controversial as Republicans have sought to offset their cost with other budget cuts. Harris said he would insist that any additional money spent on Sandy recovery be paid for without adding to budget deficits.
He dismissed concerns that the position could jeopardize disaster funding to Maryland and other states.
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Date of Award:
Master of Science (MS)
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Robert W. Hill
Evapotranspiration (ET) of center pivot irrigated alfalfa was studied in the windy, arid, Curlew Valley, Northern Box Elder County, Utah, during the summers of 2009 and 2010. ET was estimated using eddy covariance (EC) and surface renewal (SR) techniques. ET estimates from the EC and SR analyses were compared with estimates using ASCE Standardized Reference ET Equation, with both dual and mean crop coefficients.
EC energy balance closure was 0.80, on average, in 2009 and 0.76 in 2010. The SR weighting parameter (α) was calculated through linear regression of EC and SR sensible heat flux estimates. Alpha was found to be 0.70 if EC energy balance closure was forced and 0.55 if closure was not forced. ET from SR analysis with α = 0.70 (ETSRα=0.70) was 409 mm in 2009 and 331 mm in 2010. ET from EC analysis with forced closure (ETECforced) was 390 mm in 2009 and 326 mm in 2010. In contrast, ETSRα=0.55 was 408 and 333 mm in 2009 and 2010, respectively, while ETECunforced was 315 and 251 mm in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Combined ETECforced and ETSRforced were compared with estimated crop ET from the ASCE Std. Eq. with both dual and mean crop coefficients (ETcDual and ETcm, respectively). ETcDual was 689 mm in 2009, as compared to ETcm and ETEC-SRforced, which were 677 and 617 mm, respectively. In 2010 ETcDual was 674 mm, with ETcm and ETEC-SRforced being 629 and 576 mm, respectively. The Kcm approach more closely approximated the estimated wet soil evaporation determined from the ETEC-SRforced for the measurement conditions and stated assumptions.
ETEC-SR estimates were compared with irrigation application information to approximate field scale water balances. Effective precipitation plus net irrigation application (less wind drift and evaporation) were nearly equal to ETEC-SRforced for 2nd and 3rd crops of alfalfa in 2009 and 2010. No deep percolation was calculated using ETEC-SRforced; however, soil moisture measurements were not sufficient to verify that this was true. The water balances suggested that the fields were being underirrigated which may have caused salt accumulation in the soil, as evidenced by the low reported yields.
Barker, J. Burdette, "Estimation of Field Alfalfa Evapotranspiration in a Windy, Arid Environment" (2011). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 919.
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Posted: November 7, 2012 | By: David Weil, Esq.
The first thing to understand when dealing with someone else’s insurance company is that it is someone else’s insurance company. You have certain rights with your own insurance company, based upon various provisions of state law and upon the language of your policy (which is basically your contract with them). Those rights do not, however, extend to your relationship with someone else’s insurance company.
We purchase insurance to protect us from unexpected peril. We do not buy it to protect someone else from unexpected peril, and the obligations of an insurance company in the event of a claim reflect this relationship.
In an accident such as our reader has described, the role of the other boat owner’s insurance company is basically to protect their client from a lawsuit. This is usually accomplished by working with the damaged or injured party to provide the minimum compensation that their client is likely to be responsible for. In other words, we need to evaluate the obligations of the other boat owner, not his insurance company.
With that in mind, let’s look at the rules for assessing property damage in a maritime incident. The goal in such a case is always to return the damaged party as nearly as possible to the position he or she was in immediately prior to the incident.
This sounds simple enough, but it is rarely a simple equation -- and it often leads to disputes. The disputes are often over the question of “betterment,” which goes to one of our reader’s other points. He complains that his boat may not be returned to its “original” condition, but he is not entitled to a better boat than he had prior to the incident.
In our reader’s case, the insurance investigator disagreed with a lot of the yard’s recommendations. By itself, there is nothing surprising about this. The insurance company and the yard each have their own economic interests at stake, and the fact that one disagrees with the other says nothing about who may be right.
For example, the first issue raised by our reader is that the insurance company wants to pay for repairs to items that the yard would like to replace. The insurance company may feel that replacing the damaged components with new parts would actually put our reader in a better position. But the yard may believe that the damaged component cannot realistically be repaired.
Often, the only solution to these disputes is for the damaged party to hire a marine surveyor who is experienced in insurance claim investigation. In fact, in disputes such as this one, we usually recommend that the damaged party hire an experienced marine investigator before retaining an attorney.
The surveyor/investigator will act as an on-site expert on behalf of the boat owner, and if disputes arise that can’t be resolved through negotiations between the experts, an attorney would need to bring an expert witness into the case anyway.
Our reader had two other questions. The first involved the assignment of a “depreciated value” to the swim platform.
A damaged swim platform may be difficult or impossible to repair. As such, it may need to be replaced with a newly fabricated swim platform.
If the old structure was already worn and damaged, a new platform would improve our reader’s boat, which -- as noted above -- is not required. He may, therefore, be entitled only to a partial payment toward a brand-new swim platform. This may seem unfair, since he would be required to come out of pocket for some of the overall replacement cost, but he will end up with a better boat in the end.
Finally, our reader asks about compensation for his loss of use of the boat. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that no compensation is owed for loss of use of a recreational vessel. Recreational vessels do not generate income for their owners, and since leisure time has no measurable value, a damaged party may not recover for the loss of use of a leisure asset.
I generally close these articles by noting that there is no substitute for expert maritime legal advice in these cases, and that a maritime attorney should be consulted to answer questions unique to each reader’s circumstance. However, as noted above, an experienced and qualified marine surveyor should be consulted at the beginning of any marine insurance dispute, and this consultation should typically take place before an attorney is retained.
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It cannot take you from your agony into an ecstatic experience. It cannot take you away from darkness into light, from death into immortality. This is the delusion.
Something so hard to fathom is known by a buddha and no one else.
Remember, by ‘buddha’ is not meant any personal name. ‘Buddha’ simply means the awakened one. Anyone who becomes awakened, enlightened, is the buddha. You are also the buddha; the only difference is that you are not aware of it. You have never looked inside yourself and found the buddha there. Your very life source is nothing but enlightenment.
Bodhidharma is saying: Something so hard to fathom is known by a buddha and no one else. You will know only that you are deluded if you enter yourself and find your authentic individuality. Then there will be a comparison. The man who has never seen real roses may remain with plastic flowers his whole life, believing that these are real roses. To wake him up, you have to bring real roses so that he can compare and he can see the difference. The plastic flowers are dead; they don’t have any fragrance. They have not grown up; they will not die.
The real flower is fragile. With the morning it comes into existence, dances in the rain, in the wind, in the sun, and by the evening it is gone. It comes from the unknown and moves back into the unknown. The same is the situation of our human life.
We come from the unknown and we go on moving into the unknown. We will come again; we have been here thousands of times, and we will be here thousands of times. Our essential being is immortal but our body, our embodiment, is mortal. Our frame in which we are, our houses, the body, the mind, they are made of material things. They will get tired, they will become old, they will die. But your consciousness, for which Bodhidharma uses the word no-mind – Gautam Buddha has also used the word, no-mind – is something beyond body and mind, something beyond everything; that no-mind is eternal. It comes into expression, and goes again into the unknown.
This movement from the unknown to the known, and from the known to the unknown, continues for eternity, unless somebody becomes enlightened. Then that is his last life; then this flower will not come back again. This flower that has become aware of himself need not come back to life because life is nothing but a school in which to learn. He has learned the lesson, he is now beyond delusions. He will move from the known for the first time not into the unknown, but into the unknowable.
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Linux Powers Giant Database: 400TB of Climate Data and Counting - page 2
Linux and Climate Change
From a software point of view, the main advantage of CERA-2, which integrates data and metadata, is the flexibility of its schema. It's easy to add new data with entirely different models. The basic entry structure for a CERA-2 entry is a set of blocks of data, centred around a metadata block. If you're into your databases, you can find detailed information on the model structures available online.
Data can be accessed via the web, but not all of the available data can be kept on disk – the less-often used data are kept on tape and accessed only when needed. This is of course a nuisance from the point of view of the scientists as it means access takes longer, and the aim is to have as much as possible of the commonly-used data on disk.
Catalogue metadata is accessed via Java Server Pages and servlets (avoiding any requirement for client-side software). Anyone can access the data searches anonymously, but you need an account to download the actual data. The WDCC also provides a collection of data processing tools which users can use once they've downloaded their data. Here too, it's overwhelmingly UNIX-type machines that are expected and supported. The CDO climate data processing tool runs on Solaris, Linux, and MacOSX (which is Free-BSD-based under the hood), and the NCO command-line tools are all Linux and Mac OSX packages as well. Another tool, the Climate Data Analysis Tools, are written in Python, and supported primarily on Solaris, Mac OSX, and various Linuxes. The scientific climate community is obviously heavily Linux- and FOSS-based!
It's an impressive project, and getting bigger all the time as more models are run and more research data produced. It's good to know that open source is contributing to working on the big problems out there.
Solid state disks (SSDs) made a splash in consumer technology, and now the technology has its eyes on the enterprise storage market. Download this eBook to see what SSDs can do for your infrastructure and review the pros and cons of this potentially game-changing storage technology. | <urn:uuid:a67d75ec-a21b-416a-bee2-20b0900b0379> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6895/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92868 | 461 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The bars in the above chart represent each earning brackets' share of total income (in blue) and share of total tax, and not merely income tax, contributions (in red). Matthew O'Brien explains why the system is only slightly progressive, despite 47% not paying federal income tax:
[T]here are lots of other taxes, and they're mostly regressive. The payroll tax and state and local taxes all hit poorer households harder than they hit richer households. Once you add up the progressive federal income tax and the regressive federal payroll tax – which raise roughly the same amount of revenue – with regressive state and local taxes, you only just get a progressive system overall.
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By the Numbers (ThinkProgress):
- 70: Percentage of Americans who now oppose overturning Roe, the highest number since 1989. Most religious groups also want to leave Roe in place
- 135: Number of new state-level abortion restrictions enacted over the past two years. 2011 and 2012 represented the worst years for reproductive freedom since the 1973 Supreme Court decision. 87: Percentage of U.S. counties that don’t have an abortion clinic. At least four states — North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Mississippi — only have a single abortion clinic left.
- 45: By the time American women reach this age, nearly half of them will have had an unintended pregnancy at some point in their lives. About one in three will have had an abortion.
- 20: Number of states that allow insurers or employers to deny women affordable contraception by refusing to comply with Obamacare’s birth control mandate. Studies have shown that Obamacare’s contraception provision will help reduce the national abortion rate.
- $470: Average cost of a first-trimester abortion. Even though most of the women who have abortions have health insurance, the majority of women pay out of pocket to have an abortion.
- 42: Percentage of women who have abortions whose income levels fall below the federal poverty line. Seven out of ten women who have had an abortion would have preferred to have the procedure sooner, but many of them were forced to delay because they needed more time to raise the money for it.
- 0.3: Even fewer than this percentage of abortion patients experience complications from their procedure that require hospitalization. Some studies have suggested that having an abortion is actually safer than giving birth. | <urn:uuid:cdfb461f-69e9-4157-92a2-660f1be089b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://criticalmassprogress.com/tag/our-bodies/ | 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 | 0.956933 | 342 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Oh for Pete’s sake! Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Summer is Sarah Palin’s merciless assault on the Queen’s English, “refudiate,” and only because refudiate has been the most searched-for non-word on its Internet website since the fateful day William Kristol declared it a miracle of profound conservative wordsmithery. Is the volume of Internet searches the only criteria for this literary honor? We are confused then as to why “Bristol Palin nekkid” or maybe “birfcertificate” is not the Word of the Summer. Very fishy indeed, perhaps fishy enough to warrant a recount?
Sadly no, but you probably can count on Sarah Palin incorporating this into some sort of horrible political ad when she runs for Governor of America in 2012, in which ad she brags about being the only native Alaskan besides Shakespeare to invent a word that is Googled a lot on Merriam-Webster’s elitist Internet dictionary.
What were some of the runner-up words? They were mostly found in complicated movie titles and tabloid headlines about Chelsea Clinton.
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More than 20,000 activists, health experts and global leaders from nearly every nation are in Washington this week for the 19th International AIDS Conference.
One priority should be spearheading a joint, global effort against HIV and tuberculosis.
The rationale for a joint effort is clear. Where HIV and TB are most common, the epidemics have merged, or are in the process of merging, into a single co-epidemic.
We have both suffered from, and been cured of, TB. So let us explain how it works.
Imagine TB as kindling.
Two billion people — one-third of humanity — carry a latent TB infection. The vast majority of those infected live their whole lives without becoming sick with TB or spreading the infection. The body’s immune defenses seal the invading TB germs within a tiny capsule at the infection site — preventing the germs from multiplying.
Now picture HIV as a match.
HIV destroys the immune system. When this happens, the capsule containing the TB germs weakens and breaks. The germs spill out and multiply. The person becomes sick with tuberculosis, transmitting the germs to others through a telltale cough.
Those whose immune systems are weakened by HIV are at extreme risk of dying from TB.
In this way, HIV fuels TB. In addition, TB also makes people more likely to contract HIV. TB during pregnancy, for example, doubles the risk of passing HIV from a mother to her baby.
HIV caused levels of TB to quadruple in most African countries from 1990 through 2005, according to the World Health Organization. The disease is now the No. 1 cause of death among people living with HIV, responsible for one in four AIDS deaths.
With this deadly combination, it’s not surprising that Africa is the only region currently not on track to meet the health-related millennium development goals.
In South Africa, where more than 70 percent of TB patients are HIV-positive, we’re at the epicenter of the joint epidemic. But our country is also making some of the boldest moves.
The government took an important step last year with its first combined national strategy to fight HIV and TB. That 20-year plan is for zero new HIV and TB infections and zero preventable deaths from HIV and TB.
If South Africa can combine its forces against the two diseases and aim for zero TB and HIV deaths, there is no reason why any country should call for less.
And there is evidence that we can reach for these targets.
By scaling up simple measures — like giving a TB test to everyone who tests positive for HIV — we could save a million lives by 2015, according to a publication by the Stop TB Partnership, WHO and UNAIDS.
As delegates gather this week to discuss the conference theme of “Turning the Tide Together,” let us seize this opportunity to build partnerships for a joint, global fight against TB and HIV.
We have two requests.
First, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should expand efforts to address HIV-TB co-infection through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
As the world’s largest global AIDS program, this plan can make the fastest progress against HIV-TB and provide lessons for other large-scale programs.
That support for HIV-TB activities — offering routine HIV testing and preventive treatment to TB patients, and vice versa, plus other services — has remained flat. Just slightly more than 2 percent of PEPFAR’s budget for the past three years.
Second, we need the help of the AIDS community to raise demand for full access to TB services — including new technology that can diagnose TB in people living with HIV.
The standard TB test cannot reliably detect tuberculosis in people living with HIV. But a new test called Xpert MTB/RIF can — and without the need for a sophisticated laboratory. Xpert is the most cost-effective TB test available, according to a recent study in the journal AIDS. Thanks to the efforts of partners around the world, it is starting to be used in the communities where it is needed most.
We hope the AIDS community will help us demand more funding for rapid diagnosis. After all, once someone living with HIV is diagnosed with TB, he or she is supposed to be immediately eligible for anti-retroviral therapy, which in turn supports HIV prevention.
Because of the stigma and fear that surrounds TB, we also need leaders at all levels, including AIDS activists, to promote open discussion about TB and a culture of tolerance, compassion and respect.
Thanks to a series of recent scientific breakthroughs, this week’s conference is the first in 30 years that has activists seriously contemplating the end of AIDS.
Yet to see a real end to AIDS, we must put an end to TB. So let’s combine our efforts to reach these two goals.
Desmond Tutu is archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa. Gerry Elsdon is a South African businesswoman and television host of “Big Brother South Africa.” Both survived TB. | <urn:uuid:6bde08b6-7cfa-4047-960b-cf14667d0139> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=63A3AA8E-F8DE-4DFF-AD58-2864E752BC8F | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946381 | 1,052 | 3.3125 | 3 |
April 12, 2013. Posted by Simon Rentner.The pianist and saxophonist Kyle Shepherd is one of Cape Town's most highly tipped musicians. (Image Credit: freelenz/Flickr)
Brilliant art often hides in plain sight. Such is the case in South Africa, where, for centuries, the country turned its back on black and "coloured" musicians.
In the mid-'60s, the apartheid government made it impossible for its best musicians to operate or make a living. Being a true jazz musician in the apartheid era was particularly dangerous; artists who played music that symbolized empowerment, integration and freedom posed a direct threat. This is why so few "classic" South African jazz recordings exist in the first place. Now, as South Africa enters a modern age, many of the same problems that frustrate American jazz artists actually plague South Africans. Recording contracts for its elders are few and far between.
That said, there's one bright light in the country: The Cape Town International Jazz Festival, one of Africa's largest music events. Last weekend, jazz — and all that it represents — was celebrated as a vital component of South African identity. This "grandest gathering," as it was called, not only drew a massive audience (26,000 people in two days), but also attracted Africa's top business leaders and dignitaries, including South Africa's president himself.
Here are five South Africans — all featured at this year's festival — whom every jazz aficionado should know.Read more
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April 11, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.
Guitarist Kevin Eubanks talks with Rhonda Hamilton about his Mack Avenue album, The Messenger. Eubanks, who was the leader of the Tonight Show Band for fifteen years, performs at New York's Birdland jazz club on April 11, 12 and 13. Eubanks also appeared on WBGO's JazzSet in 2012. Enjoy!
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