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The tax-advantaged college-savings plans now house $168.5 billion of our hard-won dough. But not everyone is sold on the idea that 529s are the only way to go.» Read More
Recent graduates with arts degrees face a jobless rate of 11.1 percent. With numbers like that, the degree probably seems useless. But many people have gone on to great success after earning “useless” degrees.
It’s not just the nation heading for a fiscal cliff. In 18 years, the average price for a private university could be as much as $130,428—a year.
Student loans are near the $1 trillion mark and educators are studying harder so they might avoid failing a critical test of advanced college finance.
In the political campaigns still taking shape, President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and lawmakers of both parties say they want to protect college students from a sharp increase in interest rates on federally subsidized loans.
Under a 2005 law passed by Congress to protect lenders, private student loans fall under the same nearly-impossible-to-clear category as child support payments and criminal fines.
Here’s what we do know about student loan debt: it’s roughly $1 trillion in size, greater than either auto or credit-card debt and second only to mortgage debt in the U.S.
What if a college did not spend its resources on sports stadiums? What if it quit the competitive "arms race" and did not build climbing walls and multimillion dollar student unions? What if a college did not spend its students’ resources on top "name brand" researchers, who undergraduates rarely see? In fact, what if there was no faculty tenure at all?
The rampant inflation in the cost of U.S. higher education since 1980 makes gasoline and healthcare price hikes over the same period look like an Indy car racing a pair of old-school Volkswagen vans.
Parents and students have an array of options for financing education costs, including private loans from banks, tapping home equity credit lines and dipping into retirement accounts. However, the quest to provide a better life for their children can create a lager financial mess for the parents.
CNBC's Rick Santelli weighs in on "tough love" and why it is important for people to pay off their debt, whether it's student loans or home mortgages.
As much as you may want to help out a friend or family member in need, there are several rules you should follow before you hand over any cash.
Parents who borrow money to pay for their children's college education are exacerbating a growing student loan crisis.
Job skills are getting higher in growth areas, but there are not enough Americans that can do them. How to fix the rising education gap in America, with Jeremy Siegel, The Wharton School; Ann Winblad, Winblad Venture; and Bill Gross, PIMCO. "Focus on where the jobs are going to be and what education we need to give," says Ann Winblad.
Peter Thiel is one of the most successful investors in Silicon Valley and also one of the most controversial. Last night, he called on top tech companies to drop the college degree as a job requirement. It's not the first time he's questioned the value of college. Thiel's looking for kids around the country who can be molded into innovators and entrepreneurs via the Thiel Fellowship.
When people lament the cost of college, they’re usually talking about tuition. They often don't think of room and board. Now, there's a list that shows that a bed and three square meals a day aren’t cheap either.
A university in the United Kingdom is having a competition where one person will win a "free tutition for life."
CNBC.com spoke with experts in tech, human resources, and finance to determine which professions are best for workers over 40.
It may be hard to pin down exactly what the Occupy Wall Street protesters want, but one of the sources of their frustration seems clear. Many of the demonstrators are drowning in student debt.
Real innovation isn’t common in higher education, especially at the most prestigious schools.
"Our national dialogue is finally starting to allow space for questioning some of these once-sacrosanct myths about higher education," the author writes adding, "People are looking for alternatives. Cheaper, faster, quicker alternatives, which don’t require debt, or time off from careers."
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Summer Fit Workbooks – Exercises for the Brain and Body While Away from School
Book Expo America always brings something interesting to our household. Something we never knew existed, but once we found out about it, we realized it was a great idea. The Summer Fit workbooks seemed like something that every kid would need as they wasted away their summer, knowledge leaking out of their eyes with every dive into the pool. While I do kid about that, I enjoy when my kids can learn a little something and be prepared for the next school year while being physical and getting some needed social learning as well.
I decided to hand over the First to Second Grade and Second to Third Grade books to my parents, who watch the children in the summer and see what happened. Well a full month into the program the kids are really enjoying it and it helps break up their day as well. While the current math and reading are included, options like “circle the healthy choices” often lead to discussion and social learning with things like a kindness chain. Each section is broken down into a week and explains what they child will be covering. The section has three core items, mind, body and values. I was actually surprised how well our 6-year-old is doing in the program and it is really teaching our 8-year-old to think about his choices. The body parts are a bit like a gold star with my boys as they are so active, they look forward to getting to that section.
These are such a great idea that every parent should really look into investing in these books during the summer. Don’t think of this as homework, but a fun learning experience that helps you get closer with your children and keep them fit and ready for the new upcoming school year. They also have great partners, including MLS W.O.R.K.S and USA Cycling (among others).
Summer Fit workbooks and online resources are part of an ongoing initiative to keep children mentally and physically active while away from school using a unique active and values based approach to summer learning.
Summer Fit Learning is made up of parents, teachers, trainers and athletes committed to preparing children mentally, physically and socially for challenges inside and outside the classroom.
Today’s learning environment can be hard to navigate for children as well as parents and guardians. It is critical to develop a balanced approach to learning that combines traditional book based learning with technology, while at the same time encouraging good character and active lifestyles.
Note: Summer Fit Learning Workbooks were provided by Summer Fit Learning for review.
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The Access Consciousness™ Clearing Statement
The Access Consciousness™ Clearing Statement is this little piece of magic that allows you to change anything (and everything!) when you use it.
The Access Consciousness™ Clearing Statement asks your consciousness to return to the point of creation (or point of destruction), before you even planted the seed to this limitation, and invites the seed to dissolve… and everything that had you stuck or stagnating dissipates in seconds! Would you be willing to have change show up with this much ease?
Listen to Dr. Dain Heer explaining how the Access Clearing Statement works in a class in Sweden (MP3 dowload)
Or listen here!
The Access Clearing Statement Explained
Right and Wrong, Good and Bad, POC andPOD, All 9, Shorts, Boys and Beyonds.
Right and Wrong, Good and Bad is shorthand for:
What’s good, perfect and correct about this?
What’s wrong, mean, vicious, terrible, bad, and awful about this?
What’s right and wrong, good and bad?
Is the point of creation of the thoughts, feelings and emotions immediately preceding whatever you decided.
Is the point of destruction immediately following whatever you decided. It’s like pulling the bottom card out of a house of cards. The whole thing falls down.
Stands for nine layers of crap that we’re taking out. You know that somewhere in those nine layers, there’s got to be a pony because you couldn’t put that much crap in one place without having a pony in there. It’s crap that you’re generating yourself, which is the bad part. The good part is because you created it, you can change it.
Is the short version of: What’s meaningful about this? What’s meaningless about this? What’s the punishment for this? What’s the reward for this?
Stands for nucleated spheres. Have you ever been told you have to peel the layers of the onion to get to the core of an issue? Well, this is it—except it’s not an onion. It’s an energetic structure that looks like one. These are pre-verbal.
Have you ever seen one of those kids’ bubble pipes? Blow here and you create a mass of bubbles on the other end of the pipe? As you pop one bubble it fills back in. Basically these have to do with those areas of our life where we’ve tried to change something continuously with no effect. This is what keeps something repeating ad infinitum…
Are feelings or sensations you get that stop your heart, stop your breath, or stop your willingness to look at possibilities. It’s like when your business is in the red and you get another final notice and you say argh! You weren’t expecting that right now.
Sometimes we just say, “POD and POC it.”
“The real change that is possible lies in empowering people who are capable of changing the world and inspiring the people around them with the energy they can be.”
-Access Consciousness™ Founder
Gary M. Douglas
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“What if you are the difference the world requires? Your point of view creates your reality. Reality does not create your point of view.”
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Local group seeks solutions to skilled-worker shortage
Published: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 10:06 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 10:06 a.m.
The local agency tasked with luring new businesses to Terrebonne and developing those already here has embarked on a new partnership intended to tackle a long-existing skilled-labor shortage, officials said.
“This is very important for us next year. We've got to expand our contacts,” said Steve Vassallo, chief executive officer of the Terrebonne Economic Development Authority.
TEDA is partnering with the Mayor's Office of Workforce Development in New Orleans to come up with solutions to problem that “is not unique to Louisiana, said Nadiyah Coleman, director of the New Orleans office.
“As a culture, we have moved away from trade jobs to getting that four-year degree,” Coleman said. “We didn't think about what was going to happen when people in those skilled positions” retired.
Houma unique in its job needs because it has corporate, retail, service and industrial jobs, she said, and employers are finding too few skilled-workers to fill those industrial jobs.
Vassallo and TEDA have sought ways to counteract the problem since Vassallo's took over as TEDA's CEO in the fall of 2011.
Those efforts included meetings with employers and leasing a billboard on Interstate 10 in Laplace advertising the website terrebonneishiringnow.org — at a cost of $20,000 over six months — Vassallo said he realized a bigger initiative was needed. That led to the partnership began with the Workforce Department in New Orleans.
TEDA came up with the idea of reaching out to technical schools and organizations around the state to tap into larger groups of skilled laborers while raising awareness of the job opportunities in Terrebonne, he said.
TEDA hopes to kick off this initiative in February with the help of the Workforce Department. The department has helped TEDA make contacts, and TEDA has started reaching out to local businesses to put together a booklet detailing the types of jobs it offers.
Companies that routinely have difficulty filling certain positions or have specific openings going into the new year, are asked to contact the TEDA office by Jan. 25. Call 873-6890.
“We want to be able to give (potential employers) a notebook when we go and say, ‘Here are the jobs. Here is the pay range,' “ Vassallo said.
“This isn't about the future. This is about right now. We want to have on-going dialogue, not just a onetime thing,” he said.
Coleman and Vassallo agree that the job market will evolve over time. That's evident by the number of college graduates who are unable to find work because too few jobs exist in their chosen field, they said.
Fletcher Technical Community College and Nicholls State University are doing good jobs, but they can't train students quickly enough to meet demand, Vassallo said.
“Some parts (of the U.S.) don't even have jobs available, so the greater we can expand and let people know, the better for us,” Vassallo said.
Staff Writer Sable LeFrere can be reached at 985-857-2204 or at email@example.com.
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Washington’s low-lying capital city is a bit nervous in planning a new $38 million City Hall near the shoreline of Puget Sound, fearing that global warming and rising waters could submerge much of the downtown in this century and create looming insurance issues.
Climate change experts say one of the most profound and visible effects of global warming will be felt along the thousands of miles of shoreline along the Pacific Coast and the Sound, where even a rise of a few feet can submerge vast acres of prime farm, forest, businesses and residential land, sending folks heading for higher ground and new ways of coping.
Experts predict the global sea level rise could increase as much as 23 inches in the next hundred years.
Living on the southernmost shores of Puget Sound, Olympia leaders and townspeople are used to keeping watchful eye on the sea, since tidal surges can waterlog or threaten a downtown built on mud-flats and fill.
One of the state’s epicenters of environmental activism, Olympia wrote its first sea-level assessment 14 years ago and created global warming panels even before that. The city holds community “call to action” forums, complete with scary map projections of how downtown would look like under various scenarios.
Planners already are thinking about ways to armor the town’s most endangered shoreline, and hope never to abandon the peninsula jutting into Budd Inlet.
The issue was brought into stark relief by the council’s recent debate over whether to build the new city hall on prime Port of Olympia land — or head for the hills. The city decided to build in harm’s way, raising the project two feet above current flood level, but conceding that water may lap at the doorstep before the end of the century.
The vote to brave the tides was a considered a symbolic gesture, too. The unacceptable alternative, says Mayor Mark Foutch, is to essentially abandon the downtown core, which includes the community center, farmers’ market, regional sewage treatment plant, child-care center, and an entire business and housing district.
The Capitol Campus is uphill, safely on a high plateau, but the city’s drinking water supply at nearby McAllister Springs is in danger of being contaminated by salt water, so new wells are planned.
“We’ve got some real vulnerability here,” says Rich Hoey, the city’s director of water resources and an adviser to the governor’s climate change panel.
But if Olympia is lit up over the whole issue, other coastal areas seem more blase. Recent news of a new sea-level report, and dramatic potential damage, caused a brief flurry of attention, and then nothing further, coastal leaders and scientists said.
“I think people are still in denial,” says House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, who lives nervously on the Grays Harbor waterfront. “They haven’t taken it to heart — or else they think they’ll be dead and gone by the time it happens.”
Recent scientific reports, including one from the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, suggest a global sea-level rise of between seven and 23 inches by the turn of the century.
The rise is tied to heating and expansion of the ocean, melting of the polar ice sheets and storm surges that can affect tides by at foot or more.
“Seven inches may not sound like much, like gentle lapping, but it can involve storm damage, erosion problems and other effects in the coastal areas,” says Janice Adair of the state Department of Ecology.
Lara Whitely Binder of the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington says increasingly severe storm damage will be the first warning signs — and that some parts of the region already have gotten a taste.
Sea-level changes will vary along the Pacific Coast, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the inland waters, Adair says. Some regions, like the Seattle area, are mostly on higher elevations with rocky shorelines, and others, like Olympia, Dungeness Spit, and some of the state’s islands, are low-lying and exposed.
A report compiled by scientists for the National Wildlife Federation this summer predicted beaches where sea and rivers meet will be inundated and eroded for a 65 percent loss, up to 44 percent of tidal flats will disappear, marshes and other critical habitat will be overrun and familiar sights like Dungeness Spit will be whittled away.
“Given the vast expanse of coastline along the Pacific Ocean and in Puget Sound and the critical role that vulnerable coastal habitats such as marshes, tidal flats and beaches play in the region’s ecology and economy, sea-level rise is likely to have a profound impact on the Pacific Northwest,” the wildlife group’s scientists conclude.
Adair and Binder say rising seas would require communities to deal with a variety of challenges as the salt water encroached on drinking water wells, farmland, sewage plants, housing, roads, rails, homes and businesses.
In the tidal zone, fisheries, wildlife habitat, shellfish beds and recreational activities could be hurt.
Coastal planners are looking at potential impacts on ports, the Skagit Delta, Fidalgo Island and estuaries such as Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor.
For people still building or buying near shoreline, Binder says “It would be wise to ask what is your comfort level with risk over the next 50 or 60 years?”
A building boom is under way in parts of coastal Washington, including Ocean Shores, with little apparent fear of the sea level in 40 or 50 years. As with people building in flood plains, there’s a big issue looming for insurance companies, political leaders and homeowners.
“With sea levels changing, one has to ask if we can guarantee people they will be safe and secure if they build in these areas,” said Gov. Chris Gregoire.
Over the coming years, average people will have to get use to adapting, Adair says.
“We need to talk about climate change and adaptation,” she says. Climate change, including sea change, is “poised to be part of everyday government decisions. The train is leaving the station. You can stay on and help steer it, or let it run over you.”
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The National Directorate for Social Reinsertion (DNRS) through its Women’s Promotion and Protection Unit (UPPF) has provided financial assistance to 259 victims of gender based violence. This is towards meeting their basic expenses while they are going through the ordeal. Of the 259 people receiving this financial support, 63 were assisted in 2010, 130 in 2012 and 66 during the first half of 2012. “We don’t deal directly with the victims; instead we work through the shelters and refuges. In cases of emergency, we attend them directly always through the OPL in all thirteen Districts,” said Head of Women’s Protection Unit (UPF) Joana da Cunha (08/08) from her office in Bemori Dili.
The financial assistance ranges from US$50 to $500 and the money is used to help them deal with their situation or simply cover basic costs. We provide the money through the shelters,” said da Cunha. Vulnerable families are also given a helping hand in obtaining medical treatment.Member of Parliament (MP) Josefa Alvares Soares for the Women in Parliament Group said this is a positive initiative by the relevant ministries dealing with gender-based violence. “I have noticed the MSS program is very straight forward in assisting victims of gender based violence either directly or through the refuges and shelters,” said MP Soares.
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November 15, 2010
A Modest Proposal to Avert Another Mortgage-Backed Securities Disaster
At its core, the mortgage-backed securities crisis is the product of an inadequately regulated mortgage-industry system. This inadequacy resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from you and me to lenders and investment banks, and an economic crisis that continues the plague the country.
So I've been playing a thought-game: what's the smallest amount of regulatory reform that would completely prevent this disaster from recurring?
I've got a nominee.
Before I explain it, I need explain how we got to the point where we need it. To that end, here's the mortgage-backed securities crisis, in 10 easy-to-understand steps!
(follow the bump)
OK, here's the mortgage-backed securities crisis in 10 easy-to-understand steps:
(1) At one time, lenders who made mortgage loans kept those loans in-house; they got the benefit from the loan payments, and they got the cost from default. Their insurance against the cost of default was foreclosure and sale.
(2) That system shut down during the Great Depression. To get home lending working again, the federal government created a brilliantly-conceived secondary market for mortgage loans: lenders could make loans, and then rather than hold onto them, sell them to someone else. This lessened lenders' risks, so they were more willing to make loans.
(3) The entity that purchased these loans from lenders was an newly created government agency called the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA). But -- and this is critical -- the FNMA would only purchase loans that met certain quality standards. The borrower had to produce a significant downpayment (usually 20%), borrow money at a fixed-rate, take a long-term loan, and could not take on debt that exceeded a modest debt-to-income ratio. That meant that (a) the risk of default, and thus foreclosure, was quite small, and (b) the U.S. housing market was remarkably sound and stable.
(4) The FNMA eventually held over 80% of the mortgage loans in the United States. It was ideologically distasteful to have a government agency hold such a huge portion of private loans in a capitalist economy, so FNMA was privatized and became the company known as Fannie Mae.
(5) Investment banks and new lenders began to compete with Fannie Mae to purchase loans on the secondary market, because they could pool the loans together and sell securities in the pool to investors.
(6) Investors loved these mortgage-backed securities, because they were perceived as a very safe and reliable investment: after all, the U.S. housing market had been remarkbaly sound and stable.
(7) Investment banks and lenders competed with Fannie Mae by purchasing loans that did not meet the FNMA's quality standards: no money down, no income-to-debt ratio, adjustable rates, short term loans. Fannie Mae responded by lowering its standards. A race to the bottom began. Soon, Fannie Mae and the investment banks were securitizing pools of very,very low-quality mortgage loans.
(8) Investors, relying on a historically stable U.S. housing market without considering that the conditions that created that stability (i.e., FNMA's quality standards) had been undermined, continued to buy up mortgage-backed securities.
(9) Lenders, who made their profits not by receiving a stream of payments on loans, but instead by making loans and instantly selling them on the secondary market, had every incentive to make as many low-quality loans as possible as quickly as possible.
(10) Borrowers took on loans they couldn't afford and would have to re-finance in short order. They secured those loans with their homes.
It was a house of cards that couldn't possibly last, and both lenders and investment banks knew it. Borrowers didn't know it. Investors in mortgage-backed securities didn't know it. But lenders and investment banks knew it. It is bitterly ironic therefore that we, through the Bush Administration's TARP rescue program, saved lenders and investment banks, but not borrowers or investors.
Now we are caught in a continuous spiral. Foreclosures flood the market, which drives down home values. Home values fall below the amount outstanding on short term mortgage loans that need to be re-financed. Those homes can't be re-financed, because their re-sale value in the event of foreclosure won't cover the amount borrowed. The homeowner in need of re-financing now must either pay the entire principal on the loan, or go into foreclosure. Foreclosures flood the market, which . . . . You get the grim picture.
I don't know how to get us out of this mess, but I do have a modest proposal to help prevent it from recurring. One solution would be to keep Fannie Mae nationalized, re-convert it to the FNMA, and re-impose its old quality standards on the secondary market. But politically? Ain't happening. Apparently it's still, despite everything we've been through, too ideologically distasteful.
So how about this? From now on, lenders have to keep a certain percentage of their loans in-house. Say 20%. But here's the key: they don't get to choose which ones. That's decided randomly. No lender who has a 20% chance of having to bear the cost of a low-quality loan is likely to make one without some serious pause. Think of it as forcing lenders to internalize some of the risk of their behavior.
One regulation. Call it the 'toxic-asset roulette' rule. The rest of the de-regulated mortgage-backed securities system can stay in place.
What do you think? What are your ideas?
Mark A. Edwards
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One more suggestion: Most commercial construction loans have "at will" or "on demand" clauses that allow a bank to call a loan without cause. Outlaw those clauses and make the bank have to prove cause to call a loan.
One of the big problems with those clauses occurred when big banks such as NCB got in trouble. Bank officials across the nation were told to get out of real estate and construction loans as quickly as possible. That set up conditions whereby highly-placed and informed people within and outside those banks could select the most valuable properties for foreclosure, set up fraudulent conditions to put the owners under, then buy the foreclosed property for a fraction of its value. Not only did such games stiff the bank itself of millions of dollars, but developers, contractors, multiple vendors, workers and others working in good faith to finish good projects were bankrupted or financially damaged, and smaller banks holding accounts receivables loans layers down from the primary bank were stiffed as well.
Because the bank making the loans was going under, the primary borrower (put into bankruptcy by the games) and his tiers of contractors had no recourse, since the bank liabilities were fobbed off to the FDIC, which has no money to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars such lawsuits would cost. The resultant loss of tiers of jobs then led to more home mortgage foreclosures.
Posted by: jacke | Nov 16, 2010 1:27:02 PM
Great suggestion, Jacke!
Posted by: Mark A. Edwards | Nov 16, 2010 4:37:13 PM
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Amadeus wants to buy a new canary from the bird seller to cheer up his heartbroken sister, Nannerl. Meanwhile, Devilius thinks a magnificent golden eagle will turn him into a genius composer. He steals the eagle while staging an incident that results in all of the birds escaping. Authorities wrongly blame Amadeus and his friend for the incident and throw them into the dungeon of the Bishop's palace. Can they prove their innocence before the eagle makes Devilius' dreams a reality? The Music: "Salzburg Symphony No. 1" K. 138; Papageno's Aria "Der Vogelfaenger bin ich ja" from "The Magic Flute" K. 620; "Symphony No. 25 in G Minor" ("Small Symphony in G Minor") K. 183; et al. Additional Content: In this episode, Amadeus' flute-playing' saves him and his friends from the dungeon. Kajetan carved the flute out of a piece of wood he carried in his pens. Monti easily carves a flute out of wood and other materials and shows viewers how it works.
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Professor Lawrence Schnapf
Course Description: Redevelopment of brownfield sites is a core element of “Smart Growth” or “Sustainability” initiatives that are being launched by local governments across the country and in New York in particular. New York State has one of the most ambitious brownfield programs and New York City recently became the first city to implement its own local brownfield program. This course will provide students with an understanding of the common elements of federal and local brownfield programs, including the various kinds of financial incentives that are available from these brownfield programs. In addition to these substantive concepts, students will go through a simulated brownfield application process where they will learn how to help clients identify what sites might be suitable candidates for these programs, and how to manage the pre-application and application process from the perspective of the various parties to a brownfield project (i.e., purchaser, seller, lender, community group). Students will be evaluated by their participation in class and a final exam.
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A true classic with a timeless message, The Story of Ferdinand has enchanted readers since it was first published in 1936. All the other bulls would run and jump and butt their heads together. But Ferdinand would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when our pacifist hero is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? This new edition contains the complete original text of the story and the original illustrations with watercolor tones added.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 07 June 2012 08:27 Posted by Clash Thursday, 14 June 2012 01:06
Not so long ago, science learned that eating undercooked pork causes an infection of parasites called trichinosis. Now consider this: the Bible forbid the eating of swine more than 3,000 years before we learned how to cook pork safely.
Deuteronomy 14:8 The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
The Bible is a History book, not a Science book, but it is remarkable that where the Bible touches on Science, not only is it correct, but the writer could not have possibly known what he was talking about! How did the writer know these scientific facts? It must have been revealed to him by the Creator of the universe.
The Bible is unlike ANY book ever written. It is, in fact, the Word of God.
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The SS Artemis was a Federation colony ship that was in service in the late 23rd century. Artemis was launched from Mars in 2274, stardate 7678.43, on a mission to colonize the planet Septimis Minor. The mission was commanded by Philip Bryce, with Galen Pizzorno serving as Deputy Mission Director.
Once underway, however, the vessel suffered a major failure in its navigation systems, sending it off course, ultimately settling around Tau Cygna V. Contact was lost on stardate 7780.85 and the vessel disappeared off Federation sensors. Numerous searches by Starfleet failed to locate the transport or any trace of its crew and passengers.
The fate of the Artemis was finally discovered when the Tau Cygna colony was discovered in 2366 by the Sheliak, who demanded the planet be evacuated per the Treaty of Armens with the Federation. (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command")
- Commander Philip Peter Bryce
- Deputy Mission Director Galen Pizzorno
Some of the information on the SS Artemis comes from the okudagram Riker was reading in the episode. Though illegible on screen, a legible version was reprinted in The 24th Century Technical Manual, Vol. 2 (p. 41). Interestingly, only the first text block and the captions had relevance to the SS Artemis. The two lower paragraphs appeared to have been recycled texts concerning the Charybdis, intended for use on an otherwise unused okudagram in the earlier episode TNG: "The Royale", published in Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission (p.81).
The Artemis was most likely named after Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt.
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One has to admire a person who perseveres through hardship and difficulty, and the same goes for companies that keep going and keep trying, no matter what the market throws at them.
One such company is Sears Holdings and its mass-merchandise chain Kmart. Kmart has borne the brunt of a difficult economy in recent years, facing store closings across the country and declining sales. U.S. sales for the chain in 2009 were $15.7 billion, when it had 1,327 stores, but last year, that number declined to $15.6 billion in 1,307 stores. But that hasn’t stopped Kmart from offering important services at its in-store pharmacies, whose number totaled 981 last year.
In February 2011, Kmart began offering flu shots to customers at 500 of its pharmacies at the reduced price of $15 — or for free to Medicare Part B beneficiaries — while giving those who were members of the Shop Your Way Rewards program 15,000 points — a $15 value — emphasizing the ability of the influenza virus to persist as late as May, past its usual peak season. The company also emphasized the expertise of its pharmacists, available to patients with health-related questions.
Previously, the chain had offered flu vaccinations for $25 at its walk-in flu clinics. Customers who bought a flu vaccination also received a coupon book worth up to $45 and a 10%-off shopping pass for use on health and beauty products and consumables.
Kmart also has leveraged its status as a mass merchandise retailer to attract customers to its pharmacies. In October 2010, it introduced a program whereby customers who transferred their prescriptions over received a $20 Kmart gift card for each prescription transferred, for up to five prescriptions per household. In addition, it introduced the “Transfer for a Cause” program, also donating $5 for up to five prescriptions to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Japan's retail sales rose more than forecast in May, as government subsidies for purchasing fuel efficient cars spurred sales of motor vehicles, data from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry showed Thursday.
Retail sales rose 3.6 percent year-on-year in May, faster than the 3 percent increase forecast by economists. Retail sales have now increased for six straight months.
Nonetheless, data show that sales growth in May eased to a three-month low. This suggests slow growth in private consumption amid intensifying Eurozone woes.
According to the Ministry, motor vehicle sales climbed 47.3 percent year-on-year, but the annual rate of growth was weaker than April's 55.3 percent increase. Growth in fuel sales also eased to 2.2 percent from 7.5 percent in April.
Retail trade in food and beverages increased just 0.8 percent annually in May. During the month, there was a sharper fall in demand for machinery and equipment as sales fell 24.1 percent.
In its latest monthly report, the government warned of downside risks stemming from growing uncertainty about the economic situation in Eurozone, but reiterated that the economy is on the way to recovery at a moderate pace partly due to reconstruction-related demand.
The government also noted that private consumption is increasing at a moderate pace.
In April, the Bank of Japan had boosted the purchase of Japanese Government Bonds by 10 trillion yen, taking the size of the asset purchases authorization, excluding the credit facility, to 40 trillion yen by end-2013. The central bank abstained from announcing more stimulus in its latest policy review.
by RTT Staff Writer
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Construction of the Three Gorges Dam continues even as China's economy sees a slowdown this year. (Photo/Xinhua)
China's investment has accounted for 50% of its GDP, a percentage which will decline to 25% in the next ten years if exports do not revive, says independent Chinese economist Andy Xie, according to our sister newspaper China Times.
As of the end of June, the outstanding loans designated to support fixed assets investment amounted to 20.28 trillion yuan (US$3.18 trillion), an increase of 10.3% year-on-year and a 0.4 percentage point rise from the first quarter to the second quarter, according to the latest figures released by the People's Bank of China. Experts believe this is a sign the growth of investment is speeding up, which will push the increase of GDP.
The yearly growth of fixed assets investment will reach 20% as infrastructure increases steadily, said Lian Ping, chief economist at Bank of Communications.
Xie, the former Morgan Stanley star chief Asia-Pacific economist well-known for his provocative and pessimistic views on China's economic outlook, insists on his contrarian view however, saying that Beijing cannot inject money to overcome the challenge of an economic slowdown like it did in 2009 with its 4 trillion yuan (US$629 billion) stimulus measures. "The old road has come to an end," Xie was quoted by China Times as saying.
Chinese investors have an expectation that the government will launch a stimulus package as its economy staggers. This explains why bulk stock prices have surged 15% while the stock market in the United States has climbed to its highest level in the past five years. Xie, however, doubts the increase will continue.
The current economic slowdown cannot be solved by stimulus policies given the way the market economy is closely connected. It is impossible to solve part of the problem to bring about an overall recovery, Xie said, predicting that high growth is unlikely to be seen again as China faces an economic cycle which is totally different from before.
Beijing should offer large-scale tax cuts instead of pursuing an expansionary monetary policy, which is a prerequisite for an expected boom in the stock market, Xie said.
Regarding the prospects of the real estate market, Xie said the market has a long-term bearish outlook as the country's population will begin to decline from 2020. "Real estate prices will forever slide once the population begins to decline," the economist who accurately predicted economic bubbles including the 1997 Asian financial crisis and subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 was quoted by the newspaper as saying.
Other analyst echoed Xie's remarks. Pan Jiancheng, deputy director of China Economic Monitoring & Analysis Center at China's National Bureau of Statistics, said the current downgrade of economic growth is a "normal phenomenon" and the country is unlikely to see double-digit growth again.
Lu Ting, a Hong Kong-based economist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, said China's economy has not stabilized after Beijing relaxed certain policy controls in May. He predicted along with weak properties investment and exports, GDP growth this year will decline from 9.2% last year to 7.7%. GDP growth will continue to slide if Beijing does not adopt constructive financial and monetary policies, he said.
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Democratic Gov Candidates Debate Marriage, Civil Unions
A final debate between the leading Democrats seeking to become Governor was held last night. Gurnal Scott reports a question about the marriage amendment on the ballot gave voters a clearer picture of where they stand on this divisive issue.
Gurnal Scott: All three leading Democrats for governor, Walter Dalton, Bob Etheridge and Bill Faison are on record opposing an amendment banning same-sex marriages and civil unions. In WNCN TV's debate, the question took a different turn. The candidates were asked if they would push to recognize same-sex marriages and civil unions should they be elected. Faison would only commit to supporting more discussion.
Bill Faison: I think the people in this state believe, on the whole, that marriage is between a man and a woman. I think there's a place for a civil union. I think it's something that we should look at and I think it's something that should be discussed and debated at the legislature.
Etheridge says he would act on the matter if the legislature supported it. But he made it clear he thinks this issue should not be a very high priority.
Bob Etheridge: These issues are nothing more than distractions. They're meant to do that. They're meant to keep us from paying attention to dealing with North Carolina's future.
Dalton was the only candidate clearly in favor of recognizing same-sex marriages and civil unions.
Walter Dalton: I would support that law.
Dalton says if the amendment is approved, it still won't settle the issue.
Walter Dalton: If it should pass, it'll end up in the courts and we'll end up spending our tax dollars fighting a case that another state is already fighting and that money need to be going for jobs.
With the debates done, early voting begins today and will run through May 5th.
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In cyberwar, we're our own worst enemy
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama signed an executive order on cybersecurity, calling for “voluntary” standards for critical private-sector systems and for increased sharing of threat information between government and industry to help secure private-sector networks against attacks.
But the executive order did not end the legislative debate. In fact, it has renewed it.Continue Reading
We need healthy debate on this issue, but in recent weeks we have begun to witness the same talking points of entrenchment and intransigence that left us without a cybersecurity bill last year.
How much longer are we going to let politics win over good governance?
This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Designed with the input of U.S. cybersecurity experts from government, the private sector and academia, the strategy was released just a year and a half after the deadliest attack on the U.S. and a few weeks before the Department of Homeland Security opened its doors.
All of those involved in the strategy’s framework understood that the digital backbone of the country was under daily and growing assault. Future attacks were inevitable if we didn’t unite to protect our security and economy.
And yet here we are, a decade later, as rampant identity theft, computer crime and cyberespionage continue to garner U.S. headlines. Recent cyberattacks on the Department of Energy and the Federal Reserve, denial-of-service attacks on several U.S. banking institutions, and recent cyberbreaches at multiple media organizations all demonstrate that our public and private sectors remain far too vulnerable.
We have made progress, and many people have made well-intentioned efforts to push back against cyberthreats that are deepening in sophistication. But that progress is simply not keeping pace with the speed of incoming attacks.
We respectfully argue that, in the fight against hackers and nation states, we have become our own worst enemy.
The political tactics of a polarized Washington, much as we saw with the fiscal cliff, have left us similarly at the dangerous precipice of a cybercliff. And unless we all come together to find common ground, we continue to leave our security hanging in the balance.
Last year, all parties were passionate about their point of view. Many of us have taken a stand. One of us serves as chairman of the National Security Task Force for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the other is a former cybercoordinator for the Obama White House. But we mutually agree that if Washington continues on its current path, we will fail to deliver critically needed legislation — and leadership.
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12:59pm Friday 1st February 2013
By Jill Crooks
Ken Wenman, the boss of the new, enlarged ambulance service serving Wiltshire, believes it will lead to improved performance for patients.
Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS) merged with South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust today.
The new ambulance service, called South Western, will serve a resident population of more than 5.3 million plus an estimated annual influx of 17.5 million tourists.
It covers Wiltshire, Avon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The head office is in Exeter.
The merger has taken 14 months to conclude and Mr Wenman said in that time performance at GWAS had improved.
Mr Wenman, chief executive of South Western, said: “Since South Western has been working with GWAS we have moved from GWAS being one of the poorest performing ambulance trusts to last week being the best ambulance trust in the country on response times for Category A8 (life threatening) calls. We have spent a lot of time looking at how we deploy our ambulance resources and sending the right resources to incidents.”
The service employs about 4,000 people and Mr Wenman said all staff from GWAS had transferred under their same terms and conditions.
He said the jobs of clinical front line staff were protected but there would be a reduction of about 20 posts in administration and management. Consultation with affected staff has started and will take five months.
Jenner House, on Langley Industrial Estate, Chippenham, which is the headquarters of GWAS, will close in December and staff relocated to other offices.
He said there were no plans to close ambulance stations and in fact a new ambulance station will be built to replace the existing one at Malmesbury Road, Chippenham.
Mr Wenman said the benefits of merging the two ambulance services included economies of scale to obtain better value in buying medical equipment and ambulances. As a Foundation Trust, South Western will be able to use surplus money to reinvest in services.
The new ambulance service will have to make efficiency savings ordered by the Department of Health of £10 million a year.
The Wiltshire emergency control room based at Wiltshire Police’s headquarters in Devizes will close in March saving £700,000 a year and 999 calls will be answered at its control room at Bristol.
Although the GWAS name will disappear Mr Wenman said the only replacement signage will be at the 34 ambulance stations in the GWAS area, which will cost £4,500.
He said changing the name on ambulances and other things would not take place for several years as the total cost of replacing the name would be £260,000.
Jo Fowles, secretary of the GWAS branch of Unison, said the union cautiously supported the merger.
She said: “For the majority of staff such as ambulance crews and paramedics it’s business as usual and we expect members of the public will see very little difference from the service. However, it is a period of uncertainty for many staff, particularly those who work in back office functions who will be worried if their jobs are at risk.”
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The teachers the little ones have always trusted were there for them when a crazed gunman turned Sandy Hook Elementary School into a shooting gallery early Friday.
As reports come in from the horrific shooting in an affluent small town in Connecticut, the bravery of the teachers at the 600-student school provided a glimmer of hope in a story that sickened the nation and brought President Obama to tears.
One teacher ushered her students into a bathroom and locked the door, according to Lisa Procaccini, whose daughter attends the school.
"She was in a small class -- a reading group, and they started hearing bangs," Procaccini said. "Her teacher, and I'm grateful for this, rushed kids into the bathroom and locked the door. They told kids it was hammering and tried to keep them calm."
Later, with the shaken survivors safe at a local firehouse, parents expressed their gratitude to the men and women who work every day with their kids and hugged their own children.
"Children were crying," Procaccini said. "[My daughter] did tell me about a little boy that was in a police officer's arms, bleeding. I don't know if she gets it."
Stephen Delgiadice told The Associated Press his 8-year-old daughter heard two big bangs, and teachers told her to get in a corner. His daughter was fine.
"It's alarming, especially in Newtown, Conn., which we always thought was the safest place in America," he said.
Richard Wilford's 7-year-old son, Richie, is in the second grade at the school. His son told him that he heard a noise that "sounded like what he described as cans falling."
The boy told him a teacher went out to check on the noise, came back in, locked the door and had the kids huddle up in the corner until police arrived.
"There's no words," Wilford said. "It's sheer terror, a sense of imminent danger, to get to your child and be there to protect him."
Melissa Makris, 43, said her 10-year-old son, Philip, was in the school gym. "He said he heard a lot of loud noises and then screaming. Then the gym teachers immediately gathered the children in a corner and kept them safe in a corner," Makris said.
An 8-year-old student told WCBS-TV how a teacher saved his life as he walked toward the school's main office, where the shooting started.
"I saw some of the bullets going down the hall that I was right next to, and then a teacher pulled me into her classroom," the student said. "It sounded like someone was kicking a door," he said of the bullets.
Sources identified the gunman as Adam Lanza, whose mother taught kindergarten at the school. He showed up early Friday wearing black military garb and toting three guns, according to reports. In the main office, and with the intercom transmitting the horror through the school's halls, he shot the principal.
He then made his way to his mother's class, sources said, where he killed her and her pupils. By the time it was over, Lanza, six adults and 20 young children were dead in the second-worst school shooting in the nation's history. Only the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, which left 32 dead, was worse.
Parent Brenda Lebinski told Reuters she rushed to the school, where her daughter is in the third grade, as soon as she heard the news.
"Everyone was in hysterics -- parents, students," she said. "There were kids coming out of the school bloodied. I don't know if they were shot, but they were bloodied."
A shaken President Obama spoke Friday afternoon about the tragedy, noting the "beautiful, little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old" who died. And as he dabbed at tears, he also spoke of the educators who died.
"Among the fallen were also teachers, men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams," Obama said.
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President Obama in the White House Situation Room during the Osama bin Laden mission.
President Obama in the White House Situation Room during the Osama bin Laden mission. Pete Souza/AP
In their latest effort to portray President Obama as a gutsy risk taker, as illustrated by his decision to send Navy SEALS into action to kill Osama bin Laden, his re-election campaign team has released a new ad just in time for the May 1 anniversary of the terrorist leader's death.
The ad, which features former President Bill Clinton praising Obama for making a difficult decision that could have had disastrous political results if it had failed, essentially asks "What would Mitt Romney have done?" Actually, it asks "Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?"
Then it seeks to answer the question by highlighting Romney's criticism in 2007 of candidate Obama's vow to attack al Qaida targets in Pakistan and a Romney quote from the same year: "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
Testifying to Obama's steeliness, Clinton says:
"Look, he knew what would happen. Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there and it hadn't been bin Laden? Suppose they had been captured or killed? The downside would have been horrible. But he reasoned. 'I cannot in good conscience do nothing.' He took the harder, more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the more honorable and best result."
The Romney campaign dismissed the ad as a "sad" distraction:
Desperate to tout anything they can, the Obama campaign has turned to bin Laden. The killing of Osama bin Laden was a momentous day for all Americans and the world, and Governor Romney congratulated the military, our intelligence agencies, and the President. It's now sad to see the Obama campaign seek to use an event that unified our country to once again divide us, in order to try to distract voters' attention from the failures of his administration. With 23 million Americans struggling for work, our national debt soaring, and household budgets being squeezed like never before, Mitt Romney is focused on strengthening America at home and abroad.
The ad has some ironies. For instance, former president Clinton himself was accused by conservatives at one point of not doing enough to get bin Laden and famously pushed back against that charge in a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace.
Furthermore, Romney wasn't the only one to criticize candidate Obama for his 2007-2008 stance that he would attack al Qaeda targets in Pakistan with or without the approval of Pakistan's government.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also criticized Obama when she was vying against Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Black Carbon Identified as a Key Element in Himalayan Glacier Melting
Image credit: bongo vongo/Flickr
After the Arctic and Antarctica, the snow and glaciers of the Himalayas are the largest store of water on the planet. When the ice of this "Third Pole" melts each spring, it supplies the largest rivers in Asia—including the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Mekong, Yellow, and Yangtze rivers—with a surge of fresh water that is desperately needed to support the huge populations lining their banks.
This region, however, is warming rapidly—nearly twice as fast as the rest of the world. Though greenhouse gasses have traditionally been blamed for the melting ice of the Tibetan Plateau, new research suggests another factor may be equally significant and could be the key for preserving this vital resource.A study co-authored by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified black carbon, the dark and dangerous component in the soot, as a key factor in warming in the Himalayas. "During the last 20 years," explained Junji Cao, a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, "the black soot concentration has increased two- to three-fold relative to its concentration in 1975."
Black carbon is produced by diesel engines, coal-fired power plants, industrial processes, and outdoor cooking stoves in India and China, and is pulled into the Himalayas by circulating air currents. The dark soot absorbs solar radiation, warming the air that crashes against the foothills of the Himalayas and propels it into higher elevations. This "heat pump" effect is thought to be the source of the region's rapid warming.
William Lau, a researcher at the Goddard Institute, explained that, "it's not difficult to conclude that greenhouse gases are not the sole agents of change in this region. There's a localized phenomenon at play." He also commented:
The phenomenon changes the timing and intensity of the monsoon, effectively transferring heat from the low-lying lands over the subcontinent to the atmosphere over the Tibetan Plateau, which in turn warms the high-altitude land surface and hastens glacial retreat.
And the retreat is hasty indeed. Tandong Yao, director of the Chinese Academy's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, said that, "fifty percent of the glaciers were retreating from 1950 to 1980 in the Tibetan region; that rose to 95 percent in the early 21st century." At current rates of melting, many glaciers are expected to be completely gone by mid-century.
All Carbon is not Equal
Researchers pointed out that, in this case, all carbon is not the same. Organic carbon, produced by wood burning and other processes, is not as dark and thus, does not have the same warming effect as an aerosol.
In fact, black carbon is unique among aerosols in its relationship with solar radiation. Most reflect sunlight which creates a cooling effect.
An Opportunity to Save the Glaciers
In one sense, this discovery casts a dark shadow on the prospect of glacier survival in the Himalayas. In addition to greenhouse gas emissions—something we are having enough trouble getting a handle on—these essential ice flows are threatened by a pollution whose source is ubiquitous in South Asia.
However, black soot also offers an opportunity to save, or at least slow, glacier melting on the Tibetan Plateau. Black carbon particles have a shorted lifespan in the atmosphere than greenhouse gasses, meaning a reduction in emissions could have a substantial and rapid impact.
Whether that is accomplished with filters, cleaner diesel engines, or some other process remains to be seen but, as William Lau said, these finding show that "we need to add another topic to the climate dialogue."
Read more about climate change:
COP15: It's On!
What an Urgent Global Call for a Real Climate Deal Looks Like (Video)
Are We There Yet? COP15 Taking Us Just a Small Step Down the Road to Strong Climate Action
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Early Plan of Sydney - Environs 1890Map Description Early Plan of the City of Sydney and its Environs from "The Royal Atlas & Gazetteer of Australasia 1890"
Early Plan of Sydney - Environs 1890
Click an area of the map to see an enlarged image.
Note: Segment images are part of the whole map and cannot be purchased separately.
The plan of the City of Sidney and its Environs is from "The Royal Atlas & Gazetteer of Australasia", produced by J. G. Bartholomew for T. Nelson and Sons in 1890. The descriptive text that follows is compiled from the atlas gazetteer for 1890.
Several features of note including Botany Bay. This lies just south of Sydney and is a shallow bay affording no shelter for vessels. Here Cook first landed in Australia, and the name was given on account of the large number of new plants found by Sir J. Banks. At one time a celebrated convict settlement. Now a holiday resort. Parramatta: post town and railway station 14 miles W. of Sydney. Oldest town in colony, founded 1790, and then known as Rosehill. First grain was grown and harvested, and convicts first got land grants here. Fine public park and racecourse. Orangeries and orchards occupy most of the 12,846 cultivated acres in the district. Pop. 12,000. Other places of note include Port Hacking which lies south of Botany Bay and affords safe anchorage for coasters. Manley, post town and watering place 6 miles NE. of Sydney, with which it has regular steamship communication. Pop. 1500.
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By Deena Ledesma, parent and teacher
Adam isn’t like other students his age. A gifted and talented student, he is articulate and extremely goal oriented. In fact, he and I are currently training for a half marathon! Adam wasn’t enthusiastic about attending summer school. Our pact was that he would attend for one day and then we’d render a decision that was best for him. From that first day, he was hooked! In fact, on the first day, I asked one of the THINK Together staff, “How did Adam do?” She replied with a big smile, “Adam is a wonderful child.” When Adam heard that, he beamed. Because of Adam’s experiences at Lewis Middle, he asked that I have him transferred there this fall.
Each night, Adam is full of excitement about what he has learned in the academic portion of the program. He’s told me that what he likes best about the program is that the staff make learning fun and memorable. His favorite time at school each day is spent in clubs, in which the students analyze music and films and produce their own original work. In fact, he was busy working on the plot of a movie last week and is eager to get it finished!
My thanks to the Walmart Foundation for their vision to support programs like this one. Our students need more excellent programs like the one that Lewis Middle School and THINK Together are running in our local community.
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|The Rockabilly Guitar Page
The Jime rockabilly trio
The rockabilly trio The Jime is often compared to Brian Setzer and Stray Cats:
"Vince pulls out some leads that would even make old Setzer himself a little green with envy."
Planet Rockabilly, USA
Luckily, The Jime have a rockabilly style completely their own:
"From their musical ability and professionalism they are probably closets to the Stray Cats in comparison but that doesn't mean they sound like Stray Cats as they have their own style and that's good."
Dynamite Magazine, Germany
Some call that style modern rockabilly or neo rockabilly. However, seeing that the original rockabilly from the fifties was a showcase for innovative songwriting and the latest in recording (Think echo) The Jime themselves, just call their style "rockabilly".
While recognizing the influence from the Stray Cats, Vince Gordon lists his strongest influences as Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash and the rest of the "old garde".
There are also several The Jime recordings that have built on the grooves Bill Haley & His Comets laid down in their heyday in the mid fifties.
Rockabilly, rockabilly and more rockabilly!
The Jime Rockabilly Homepage (That you're on right now) does quite a lot more than just talk about The Jime and offer their CDs (There are even some free rockabilly mp3's for you to download in here!). This is also the home of The Rockabilly Guitar Page (Visited yearly by more than 40.000 rockabilly enthusiasts), the eBooks "How to Play Rockabilly Guitar" and "Intermediate Rockabilly Guitar Lessons" plus a special CD with rockabilly jam tracks to play along to, all courtesy of Vince Gordon of The Jime.
How do you say "rockabilly" in six different languages?
In addition to the main site which is in English, there are also five short versions of the site in different languages. The rockabilly lyrics & chords page, The Rockabilly Guitar Page (and it's subpages on everything rockabilly related) and the ebooks and rockabilly jam tracks CD page can only be found on the English site however.
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If the Sun moves into 4th Density, will it then leave 3rd Density? Yes. Those portions of the Sun which are inert, used up so to speak, will remain as a gravitational center for the 3rd Density planets orbiting the Sun, including the 12th Planet which is not scheduled to become a 4th Density planet in step with the Earth. With less of a gravitational pull, the 3rd Density planets in your Solar System will move outward, assuming a larger orbit. Life remaining on the surface of the 3rd Density Earth will freeze to death as the surface of the Earth cools under the diminishing rays from a dimming 3rd Density Sun. We will leave some undesirables behind - mosquitoes, for instance, which serve no biological purpose except to feed themselves and support the transport of parasites and disease, and tapeworms, who likewise are not a necessary link in any symbiotic cycle. The agents of many diseases such as a virus, bacteria, fungus, or invading parasite will not be moved during the shift. All these will freeze to death.
Ultimately, even the core of the Earth will cool, the lava hardened, but life underground will continue for some Millennia before the heat at the center of your old home begins to fade. The Men In Black and others coexisting with you now, in underground homes, are not scheduled to move to 4th Density in step with humans living on the surface. The Men In Black and other underground inhabitants will live, for some Millennia, with the impression that your Sun died. Suns do die quickly, and not all have that last glorious burst of life, the Super Nova. Most do not. During the transition to 4th Density there will be enough fuel left in the 3rd Density Sun to give an orderly death. Those on the 12th Planet, looking through their telescopes, will see a fading Sun, not one that winked out suddenly. They will assume that the Earth's Moon was torn away during their passage through the solar system, not unexpected as in truth this is how the Moon was placed as a satellite of the Earth in the first place.
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The Tragic Case of Hatice Firat →
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in...– René Descartes
Sam Harris on Free Will
It’s a long discussion, but it’s pretty interesting. Check it out here. You could also read more of Harris’s arguments on the subject here, though he pretty much covers it all in this lecture. As always, share your feedback.
Interview with Noam Chomsky
Slate had an interesting interview with Noam Chomsky, one of the greatest - if not contentious - thinkers of our time. He weighs in on a lot of issues, from climate change to linguistics (his specialty) to partisanship in today’s politics. It’s relatively brief, but still pretty insightful.
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Vacancies in the offices of mayor and council members for the City of
You have requested my opinion as to the proper method of filling vacancies in the offices of mayor and council members for the City of
The Georgia Constitution permits the General Assembly to provide for the creation of cities and the structuring of a city’s government. Ga. Const. Art. IX, Sec. II, Para. II. The legislature has exercised this authority through two different methods. First, it has provided laws of statewide application dealing generally with the powers of municipalities. See, e.g., O.C.G.A. § 36-35-1 through 36-35-8 (Home rule powers of municipalities). Additionally, it has provided by various local laws for the creation and structure of 535 cities across the State. The City of
While the original local legislation creating the City of
In the event that the office of mayor, or any one or more of the aldermen shall become vacant by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, said vacancy or vacancies may be filled by appointment and selected by the mayor and the aldermen, in the case of vacancies in the board of aldermen, and by the aldermen in the case of a vacancy in the office of mayor, and persons so selected shall be duly qualified to fill such vacancies for the unexpired terms provided it does not exceed (12) months. If an unexpired term exceeds twelve (12) months, the same shall be filled in the above manner until the next regular election when the same shall be filled by election of the qualified voters of said city.
Over the years, the City’s charter has been amended on a number of occasions. In 1965, the aldermen positions on the council were designated as Posts 1 through 5, but the provisions for filling vacancies as outlined above were not changed. 1965
In case of a vacancy in the office of mayor or councilman from failure to elect, death, removal, or any cause whatsoever, the mayor and council have the power to call a special election ordered by the city council to take place not less than 30 nor more than 60 days after the call of said election, under the same rules and regulations that govern other elections in the city.
In 1987, the General Assembly again amended the City’s charter, affecting only the terms of office and election dates of the mayor and council members. 1987
Where there is a constitutional or statutory right under
It should be noted, though, that the 1980 legislation provides that the special election to fill a vacancy in the office of mayor or a council member should be held “not less than 30 nor more than 60 days after the call of said election.” 1980
Therefore, given these statutes, it is my unofficial opinion that vacancies in the office of mayor or a city council member must be filled by special election and not by appointment by the remaining members of the council. However, while a special election must be held to fill any vacancies, the 1980 provisions for the election date have been superseded by the general law provisions of O.C.G.A. § 21-2-540(c) and any special elections should be held only on one of the statutory authorized dates.
DENNIS R. DUNN
Deputy Attorney General
See Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Active Municipalities by County as of October 4, 2007, http://www.dca.state.ga.us/development/research/publications/Co_Ci_List.pdf (Last visited November 18, 2008).
As with other statutes changing an election practice or procedure in
“An Act amending an Act creating a new charter for the City of
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Waimate, Centre of the South, New Zealand has Edwardian buildings lining the main street of this charming peaceful country town. Tall trees and a taller concrete silo mark Waimate, a centre for farming, forestry and berryfruits.
The Whitehorse, on the Hunter Hills, is made from concrete slabs and commemorates the Clydesdale horses which were originally used to break in the land. Waimate boasts several short walks including the Waimate Walkway which leads to the Whitehorse Lookout rewarding walkers breathtaking views over the district. The lookout is also accessible by road.
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Those two are probably the best, but there are also books on both companies:
"The Crystal Years: A tribute to the Skills and Artistry of Stevens & Williams Royal Brierley Crystal" by RS Williams-Thomas
"Art, Feat and Mystery : The Story of Thomas Webb & Sons, Glassmakers" HW Woodward
Of course there is also the recent book by Charles Hajdamach "20th Century British Glass".
Unfortuanatley, none of them give you the information that I have given you - such as that is :huh: All of them give clues to some characteristics, but much of what I say is gained through experience of handling items, combined with a modicum of research. Mostly, they seem to deal with the more up-market items by both companies, although Hajdamach does discuss some of the production wares, particularly from the post war era, with some emphasis toward cut glass (the work of David Hammond for Webb). Some of the things I have identified to do with S&W over the years are discussed in the text of Hajdamach, but sadly not illustrated.
I hope that may be of some help, Nigel
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Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing
Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington",
published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
C. H. HOLMES is today one of
the progressive and leading business men of Wilbur. He stands at
the head of a large agricultural establishment which owns its existence
and present proportions to his energy and sagacity. When he started
in this business in Wilbur he had a very small stock of goods and a limited
capital. By constant and careful attention to business and wise handling
of the resources, he has come to be one of the wealthy merchants of Lincoln
county. His stock of goods will invoice better than eight thousand
dollars and shows a marked skill in anticipating the needs of the people
by its selection. During his business career, Mr. Holmes has manifested
unquestioned integrity and ability and his standing in the community today
is of the very best.
C. H. Holmes was born in Sauk Rapids, in 1864,
being the son of C. C. and Mary (Conant) Holmes, natives of New York and
France, respectively. The parents were married in Illinois and then
came on to Minnesota where the father opened the first general merchandise
establishment in Sauk Rapids. He rose to a position of prominence
and wealth. Our subject was educated in the public schools and came
west at the age of twenty-four. In 1888, we find him in Spokane whence
he came to Wilbur and engaged variously until 1897, when he took up the
mercantile business for himself. Mr. Holmes has a business that is
increasing very rapidly and its future success is insured by his sagacity
and financial ability.
On March 4, 1888, at Sauk Rapids, Minnesota,
Mr. Holmes married Miss Emma Waltman. Her father, J. S. Waltman,
was a physician of prominence in Minnesota. To them have been born
seven children, Harry C., Roy H., Byron R., Cecil E., Ida M., Earl C.,
and Sylvia. Mr. Holmes is a member of the W. W. and is highly respected.
In addition to the business above mentioned, Mr. Holmes owns a fine residence
in Wilbur and a farm near by.
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|Battle of Midway|
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4th – 7th June, 1942
The Battle of Midway was a Pacific-theatre battle of World War II, fought in 1942 and widely regarded as one of the most important naval battles of the Pacific campaign and in history. In the end, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese by sinking four of their aircraft carriers, Akagi, Soryu, Hiryu and Kaga, and many of their best pilots, at the loss of USS Yorktown. The battle is featured in the game Battlefield 1942.
In the actual battle, the Japanese intended to capture Midway as a base for further operations. Also, they were partially motivated to prevent a repetition of the humiliating Doolittle Raid on Japan, which they thought was launched from Midway. The US intercepted and dechipered a Japanese message that pointed to the plan and assembled what remained of her fleet, including her 3 aircraft carriers (Yorktown, Hornet and Enterprise) to face the numerically superior Imperial Japanese Navy led by the famous Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. While Midway was bombed and the initial US attacks horribly failed, US dive bombers eventually destroyed all four Japanese carriers, forcing Admiral Yamamoto to retreat for the safety of his fleet. The battle is commonly regarded as the turning point of the War in the Pacific.
There are some differences between the game map and the real battle. While in real life the battle was almost exclusively fought on air, this map features a sea-air-land battle. Also, both sides have approximately equal forces in the game, but historically, the US Navy was outnumbered.
The map is centred around the two islands of the Midway atoll, linked by a small bridge. Two fleets are assembled, the allies to the North East and axis to the South West. The islands consist of an airfield outpost and another outpost with a Defgun. In multiplayer, 2 more flags are located at sea, North and South of the atoll.
|Imperial Japanese Navy|
|United States Army|
Each team begins the battle with a fleet of ships. In singleplayer, this comprises an aircraft carrier and a destroyer each. However, in multiplayer, each fleet is bigger, consisting of a carrier (either a Yorktown class - USS Enterprise - for the allies or a Shokaku class for the axis), a battleship (HMS Prince of Wales for the allies or IJN Yamato for the axis), 2 destroyers and a submarine.
Each of the carriers, battleships and destroyers spawn landing craft, LCVP for the allies and Daihatsu-class landing craft for the axis. The carriers also house AA guns and spawn planes, a fighter and a dive bomber each. These are, for the US, the F4U Corsair and SBD Dauntless, and for the Japanese, the A6M Zero and the Aichi D3A Val, respectively.
This is a large airfield, located on the largest of the islands, to the North and East of the atoll. This also spawns fighter and dive bomber aircraft for whoever holds it. It also spawns a jeep and a half-track. The airfield contains several buildings, including a hospital with medical recharges and an aircraft hangar with vehicle repair facilities.
Another outpost is located on the smaller island to the South West of the atoll, linked to the larger island by a small bridge. This spawns a tank and an armoured personel carrier. It is also home to a Defgun.
In the multiplayer map there are also two ocean flags, Point Luck and Point Charlie, located due North and South of the central island respectively. These can be captured by ships or even planes. They're not spawn points for either the player or vehicles, but do contribute to tickets.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health is investigating a possible food-borne illness outbreak at Cebolla's Mexican Grill on W. Jefferson Boulevard.
The department said they received multiple reports of illness from patrons who ate at the restaurant at 5930 West Jefferson Boulevard in Time Corners. About 20 people claim to have gotten sick after eating there on Sunday, March 25.
Although the investigation is ongoing and test results are pending, the symptoms are consistent with a type of viral gastroenteritis known as “norovirus.” It will likely be weeks before the investigation is concluded and findings are known.
The health department said management of Cebolla’s is fully cooperating with health officials in this investigation. The restaurant voluntarily closed on Thursday to thoroughly clean and disinfect. Any employees who have been sick recently will be tested for infection and excluded from work.
Gastroenteritis can be caused by a variety of viruses, one of which is norovirus. Because it so easily spreads in places such as restaurants, schools, nursing homes and cruise ships, norovirus is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States.
People often become infected by eating foods or drinking liquids that are contaminated with the virus, by touching surfaces or objects contaminated with the virus and then touching their mouth, or having direct contact with another person who is infected and showing symptoms.
Symptoms of gastrointestinal illness usually begin 24 to 48 hours after exposure and can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramping. Anyone who develops symptoms should stay home and wash their hands frequently.
For more information, visit www.allencountyhealth.com or call 449-7561.
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End placing children under three in institutions in CEE/CIS region
SOFIA, NOVEMBER 21, 2012 – Government delegates from more than 20 countries of Eastern European and Central Asian region discuss preventing placement of children under three in institutions at a 2 day conference in Sofia hosted by the Government of Bulgaria. Delegates from Montenegro taking part in the conference are: Remzija Ademović, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare; Mira Jovanovski Dašić, Deputy Minister of Health; Nevenka Stanković, Deputy Ombudsman; Branka Tanasijević, President of the Committee for Health, Labour and Social Welfare in Montenegro's Parliament, and Jovan Kojičić, Advisor for Human Rights to the Prime Minister.
At least 1.3 million children in the region are separated from their families often because of poverty and their families’ inability to cope due to stressful circumstances, reveals the study Children under the age of three in formal care in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a rights-based regional situation analysis.
UNICEF Regional Director Marie-Pierre Poirier talking to the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev
All children have the right to live in a family and it is a basic human need: research demonstrates that babies who are institutionalised for more than six months suffer delay in early brain development – this can only be recuperated by the care of a loving family environment.
“One of the recommendations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to Montenegro in 2010 was to reduce the number of children living in institutions and to increase the number of children living in families, including foster care or other family style arrangements that are alternative to institutions,” said Benjamin Perks, UNICEF Representative for Montenegro.
In the CEE/CIS region, only Romania, Serbia and Croatia adopted laws to prevent infants being sent into institutions. More countries are expected to do so following this conference.
“Government of Montenegro is implementing social welfare and child care system reform. In this process, UNICEF support is particularly significant. We have set ourselves a challenge to strengthen the biological family, provide bigger support to mother and child and create conditions for their social and financial security. We will further strengthen kinship foster care and develop standard – professional foster care with primary focus on children from 0-3. We will further strengthen all relevant sectors with the aim of prevention of institutionalization of children,” said Remzija Ademović, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare.
According to the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, there are currently more than 20 children under the age of three placed in institutions in Montenegro. The new Law on Social and Child Protection, which was developed with the support of UNICEF, stipulates that no child under the age of three is to be placed in an institution. This should be used only as a temporary measure of last resort. This new Law has been submitted to the Parliament for adoption.
UNICEF Bulgaria Representative Tanja Radocaj and Jan Jarab, OHCHR Representative for Europe taking the stage
According to the same source, from 2005 to 2009, 59% of the total number of children aged 0-3 have been sent to the institutions directly from maternity wards or hospitals. In order to address this situation, it is planned to adopt an Intersectoral Protocol on prevention of institutionalization of children, adopt standards to help define foster care service and organize an awareness raising campaign to promote fostering and adoption. This will create the necessary preconditions to decrease the number of institutionalized children under the age of three in Montenegro.
The two-day conference is hosted by Government of Bulgaria under the patronage of the President Rosen Plevneliev in collaboration with UNICEF. The aim is to join forces in promoting social inclusion of children deprived of parental care and prevent children under 3 from being placed in institutions in this region.
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Patent Law Updates | New Proposed Legislation
September 9, 2011
Senate Passes Historic, Sweeping Patent Reform Legislation
America Invents Act
H.R. 1249, 9/8/2011
The U.S. Senate Thursday passed historic legislation making the first comprehensive reforms to the nation’s patent system in nearly 60 years. The bill is named for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas). Patent reform was first introduced in Congress in 2005.
The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 89-9. The House overwhelmingly approved H.R. 1249 by a vote of 304-117 on June 23 this year.
The House Judiciary Committee explained that the America Invents Act implements a first-inventor-to-file standard for patent approval, creates a post-grant review system to weed out bad patents, and helps the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) address the backlog of patent applications.
The bill now goes to a bicameral conference committee of senators and representatives to work out differences in the versions of the bill each chamber approved. A bicameral conference committee approval will send the legislation to President Barack Obama’s desk for his signature.
The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress has come out with a section-by-section summary, which is reproduced below:
Section 3 -
Amends federal patent law to define the “effective filing date” of a claimed invention as the actual filing date of the patent or the application for patent containing a claim to the invention (thus replacing the current “first to invent” system with a “first inventor to file” system), except as specified. Requires the effective filing date for a claimed invention in an application for reissue or reissued patent to be determined by deeming the claim to the invention to have been contained in the patent for which reissue was sought. Establishes a one-year grace period (a prior art exception) for inventors to file an application after certain disclosures of the claimed invention by the inventor or another who obtained the subject matter from the inventor. Revises provisions concerning novelty and nonobvious subject matter (commonly referred to as conditions for patentability). Repeals provisions relating to inventions made abroad and statutory invention registration. Permits a civil action by a patent owner against another patent owner claiming to have the same invention and who has an earlier effective filing date if the invention claimed by the earlier patent owner was derived from the inventor claimed in the patent owned by the person seeking relief. Requires such an action to be filed before the end of a specified one-year period. Sets forth derived patent provisions. Replaces: (1) interference proceedings with derivation proceedings, and (2) the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the Board). Requires reports from: (1) the Small Business Administration (SBA) on the effects of eliminating the use of dates of invention in the patent application process, particularly on small businesses; and (2) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on the operation of prior user rights in selected countries in the industrialized world. Expresses the sense of Congress that converting from a “first to invent” to a “first inventor to file” patent registration system will: (1) provide inventors with greater certainty regarding the scope of protection, and (2) promote international uniformity by harmonizing the U.S. patent system with systems commonly used in other countries with whom the United States conducts trade.
Section 4 -
Modifies requirements regarding the oath or declaration required of an inventor. Allows a person to whom an inventor has assigned (or is under an obligation to assign) an invention to make an application for patent.
Section 5 -
Replaces the earlier inventor to file defense to infringement for business methods with enumerated personal defenses available in actions involving validity or infringement, under specified conditions and subject to exceptions, with respect to subject matter consisting of a process, or of a machine, manufacture, or composition of matter used in a manufacturing or other commercial process, that would otherwise infringe a claimed invention being asserted if: (1) the person commercially used the subject matter in the United States, either in connection with an internal commercial use or an actual arm’s length sale or other arm’s length commercial transfer of a useful end result of such commercial use; and (2) the commercial use occurred at least one year before the earlier of either the effective filing date of the claimed invention or the date on which the claimed invention was disclosed to the public in a manner that qualified as an exception from prior art. Sets forth guidelines for assessing commercial use in a premarketing regulatory review period and by nonprofit research laboratories or entities. Prohibits certain institutions of higher education and technology transfer organizations from asserting such defenses. Restricts transfers of the right to assert such defenses. Prohibits deeming a patent invalid on novelty or non-obvious subject matter grounds solely because such prior commercial use defenses are raised or established.
Section 6 -
Allows a person who is not the patent owner to request to cancel as unpatentable one or more claims of patent by filing a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to institute: (1) post-grant review on any ground that could be raised under specified provisions relating to invalidity of the patent or any claim, and (2) inter partes review (replaces inter partes reexamination procedures) on specified novelty and nonobvious subject matter grounds based on prior art consisting of patents and printed publications. Limits the filing of petitions for post-grant review to the nine-month period beginning after the grant of patent or issuance of a reissue patent. Requires any petition for inter partes review to be filed after the later of: (1) nine months after the grant or reissue, or (2) the date of termination of a post-grant review. Directs the USPTO to make public data available on the length of time between the institution of, and issuance of a final written decision for, each post-grant and inter partes review. Prohibits the USPTO Director (defined as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and USPTO Director) from authorizing: (1) inter partes review unless the petition shows a reasonable likelihood that the petitioner would prevail with respect to at least one of the challenged claims; or (2) post-grant review unless information in the petition, if not rebutted, would demonstrate that it is more likely than not that at least one of the challenged claims is unpatentable, or unless such petition raises a novel or unsettled legal question important to other patents or applications. Disallows: (1) post-grant review and inter partes review if the petitioner (or real party in interest) has filed a related civil action before filing the petition, and (2) inter partes review if the petition is filed more than one year after the petitioner is served with a complaint alleging infringement. Prohibits the petitioner from asserting claims in certain proceedings before the USPTO and International Trade Commission (ITC) and in specified civil actions if such claims were raised or reasonably could have been raised in the respective reviews that result in a final Board decision. Allows any person, at any time, to cite to the USPTO: (1) prior art bearing on the patentability of a claim, and (2) statements of the patent owner filed in a proceeding before a federal court or the USPTO in which the patent owner took a position on the scope of any claim of a particular patent. Requires, on written request of the person citing prior art or written statements, that that person’s identity be kept confidential. Sets forth the standards applicable to inter partes reexamination during the intervening period between the enactment of this Act and the effective date of inter partes review.
Section 7 -
Sets forth the Board’s required composition and duties. Allows appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) from specified Board decisions, including examinations, reexaminations, post-grant and inter partes reviews, and derivation proceedings.
Section 8 –
Allows any third party to submit any publication of potential relevance to a patent application (commonly referred to as preissuance submissions).
Section 10 -
Authorizes the Director, for a seven-year period and subject to conditions, to set or adjust by rule any fee established, authorized, or charged by the USPTO under specified federal patent and trademark laws. Requires the Director to notify Congress of (and publish in the Federal Register) certain proposed fee changes. Reduces certain fees to qualified small entities (including fees for prioritized examination of utility and plant applications) and any micro entity. Defines the term “micro entity” as a certifying applicant who: (1) qualifies as a small entity as defined in regulations issued by the Director; (2) has not been named as an inventor on more than four previously filed patent applications, as specified; and (3) has gross income below a designated level without having transferred ownership interest in the application to an entity with gross income exceeding such limit. Authorizes the Director to impose income, annual filing, and other micro entity qualification limits under provisions related to institutions of higher education. Establishes an additional fee of $400 for original patent applications filed non-electronically.
Section 11 -
Sets forth fees for filing, excess claims, examination, issue, disclaimer, appeal, revival, extension, maintenance, patent search, small entity, national fees (for certain international applications), and other specified fees. Establishes prioritized examination fees and a 15% surcharge for specified fees to be credited to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Appropriation Account, remain available until expended, and used only for specified expenses relating to patent applications. Terminates such surcharges and prioritized examination fees on the effective date of the setting or adjustment of the underlying fee pursuant to the Director’s exercise of authority under section 10 of this Act for the first time with respect to that fee.
Section 12 -
Establishes supplemental examinations to consider, reconsider, and correct information. Requires the Director to order reexamination if a substantial new question of patentability is raised by at least one item of information in the request. Requires the Director to confidentially refer to the Attorney General (DOJ) any material fraud on the USPTO that may have been committed in connection with a patent when the Director becomes aware of such fraud during an ordered supplemental examination or reexamination proceeding.
Section 13 -
Decreases the percentage of certain invention-related royalties and income that must be paid to the federal government and correspondingly increases the percentage that must be given to small business firms when a nonprofit organization has a funding agreement with the government for the operation of a government-owned, contractor-operated facility. (An existing provision defines the term “funding agreement” as a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement entered into between a federal agency and any contractor for the performance of experimental, developmental, or research work funded in whole or in part by the federal government.)
Section 14 -
Deems any strategy for reducing, avoiding, or deferring tax liability insufficient to differentiate a claimed invention from the prior art when evaluating specified conditions of patentability.
Section 15 -
Prohibits using a failure to disclose the best mode as a basis on which any claim of a patent may be canceled or held invalid or otherwise unenforceable.
Section 16 -
Allows virtual markings (markings that direct the public to a freely-accessible Internet address where a patented article is associated with its patent number) to provide public notice that an article is patented. Requires the Director, within three years, to report to Congress on the ability of the public to obtain information from such virtual marking and related legal issues. Revises provisions addressing false marking actions to: (1) prohibit anyone other than the United States from suing for the applicable penalty, and (2) allow only a person who has suffered a competitive injury to file a civil action for recovery of damages adequate to compensate for the injury. (Current law allows any person to sue for a penalty of $500 for every such offense, in which event one-half is awarded to the person and one-half to the United States.) Exempts from false marking liability virtual markings with matter relating to a patent that covered that product but has expired.
Section 17 -
Bars using an accused infringer’s failure to obtain the advice of counsel to prove that any infringement was willful or induced.
Section 18 -
Requires the Director to establish, with specified standards and procedures, an eight-year transitional post-grant review proceeding for reviewing the validity of covered business-method patents (claiming a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of a financial product or service, except technological inventions).
Section 19 -
Amends the federal judicial code to deny state courts jurisdiction over legal actions relating to patents, plant variety protection, or copyrights. Grants the CAFC exclusive jurisdiction of appeals relating to patents or plant variety protection. Adds procedural provisions regarding joinder of accused infringers in patent cases. Provides for the removal to a U.S. district court of legal actions involving patents, plant variety protection, or copyrights, and for the remand of unrelated matters.
Section 21 -
Permits the USPTO to pay subsistence and travel-related expenses of persons attending certain USPTO-conducted intellectual property programs who are not federal employees. Authorizes the Director to fix a basic pay rate below a certain level for administrative patent and trademark judges appointed under specified provisions.
Section 22 -
Establishes in the Treasury a Patent and Trademark Fee Reserve Fund in which any USPTO fee collections for a fiscal year in excess of the amount appropriated for that fiscal year must be deposited. Directs, to the extent and in the amounts provided in appropriations Acts, amounts in the Fund to be available until expended only for obligation and expenditure by the USPTO in accordance with provisions requiring: (1) specified patent fees and any related surcharges to be used only for expenses relating to processing patent applications and other activities, services, and materials relating to patents and to cover a share of administrative costs; and (2) specified trademark fees collected under the Trademark Act of 1946 and any related surcharges to be used only for such costs relating to trademarks.
Section 23 -
Requires the Director, within a three-year period using specified criteria, to establish at least three U.S. satellite offices for the USPTO and submit a related report to Congress.
Section 24 -
Designates the satellite office to be located in Detroit, Michigan, as the “Elijah J. McCoy United States Patent and Trademark Office.”
Section 25 -
Authorizes the USPTO to establish regulations providing, at the request of the applicant, prioritized examination of applications for products, processes, or technologies important to the economy or national competitiveness without recovering the aggregate extra cost of providing such prioritization.
Section 26 -
Requires the Director, within four years, to submit a report to Congress assessing federal patent policies, the implementation of this Act, competitiveness of U.S. markets, and access to capital for investment by small businesses.
Section 27 -
Requires the Director to conduct a study and report to Congress on effective ways to provide independent, confirming genetic diagnostic test activity where gene patents and exclusive licensing for primary genetic diagnostic tests exist. Defines “confirming genetic diagnostic test activity” as the performance of a genetic diagnostic test, by a genetic diagnostic test provider, on an individual solely for the purpose of providing the individual with an independent confirmation of results obtained from another test provider’s prior performance of the test on the individual.
Section 28 -
Requires the Director to establish a Patent Ombudsman Program using available resources.
Section 29 -
Directs the Director to establish methods for studying the diversity of patent applicants, including applicants who are minorities, women, or veterans. Prohibits using the results to provide any preferential treatment to patent applicants.
Section 30 -
Expresses the sense of Congress that the patent system should protect small businesses and inventors from predatory behavior that could result in cutting off innovation.
Section 31 -
Requires the Director to study and report to Congress on how the USPTO, in coordination with other federal agencies, can help small businesses with international patent protection and whether a revolving fund loan or grant program should be established to help pay the costs of filing, maintaining, and enforcing such international patent applications.
Section 32 -
Directs the Director to support intellectual property law associations in establishing pro bono programs to assist financially under-resourced independent inventors and small businesses.
Section 33 -
Prohibits issuing a patent on a claim directed to or encompassing a human organism in any application pending or filed on or after the enactment of this Act.
Section 34 -
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to submit a report on the consequences of litigation by non-practicing entities, or by patent assertion entities, related to patent claims under specified federal patent laws and regulations.
Section 35 -
Declares that this Act shall take effect one year after enactment and apply to any patent issued on or after that effective date, except as otherwise provided.
Section 37 -
Sets forth a provision concerning calculation of the filing period for patent extension applications related to drug products and certain other items subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
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Oklahoma public school officials say they are reluctant to consolidate
Oklahoma legislators and rural school officials have different views on consolidating schools and the impending effects it would have on students and budgets.
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Schools can consolidate for various reasons, including when school leaders realize they don't have enough money or students to stay open, or the state identifies a problem with the school's leadership, finances or academic performance.
The most recent forced annexation took place at the end of the 2010-11 school year when Boynton-Moton school district was forced to close, sending students to Midway school district or Haskell school district.
Boynton-Moton in north central Oklahoma was the subject of a state audit from 2007 to 2009, which found several cases of mismanaged funds and other violations. A few highlights included the fact that the school was operating with insufficient funds, teachers were often paid without contract or in excess of their contract, and the superintendent at one point received mileage compensation for travel to and from his home, even though that benefit was not included in his contract.
Mary McElhaney, a teacher and librarian at Midway, said it was a huge adjustment since most of the Boynton students weren't performing at the same level as their new classmates.
“It was like they weren't used to learning and being expected to respond and do well,” McElhaney said. “I would give them an assignment, and they would act like, ‘We have to do all of it? We have to read the whole book?'”
John Truesdell, superintendent of Midway Public Schools, said he was happy to add 47 students to his roster last year.
“We need to look at finding ways to grow,” Truesdell said. “We don't even have a convenience store in this community.”
He also drives the school bus, mows the school property, helps paint the building and announces at basketball and football games.
“We're going to do what needs to be done,” he said. “You just put on different hats.”
View from the road
Todd Russell, a convenience store owner who has lived near Midway all his life, serves on the school board.
“With no kids coming in, the community's getting smaller,” Russell said. “There were more people here when I was a kid.”
He's a project manager for a construction firm and does a lot of traveling for his job. He said he doesn't want to see the Midway community fail like some others he's seen during his time on the road.
“I do a lot of windshield time,” he said. “I see lots of communities go to waste.”
He's afraid that as schools close, so will the towns around them.
“What can you do? Businesses don't come to small communities,” he said. “We're not going to move backwards.”
Closing a school
Two years ago, Steve Richert asked community members to support closing his school district due to low attendance and a waning reserve budget.
“It was a loss that nobody wanted,” said the superintendent of Washita Heights school district in Corn, about 80 miles west of Oklahoma City.
Richert's connection to the school started when he was a child.
“That's where I started my educational career with my mother as my first-grade teacher,” he said. “Not only that, but my brother was the principal there at one time.”
With just 99 students, the school consolidated in late April with Cordell Public Schools.
Side effects to mergers such as this are added transportation costs and longer bus rides for students. Adding a new bus route in the district meant an extra $11,000 in fuel costs, Cordell Superintendent Brad Overton said.
Like other abandoned schools, Washita Heights was placed on an auction block. The building was bought by a local heating and air conditioning business.
When asked what's left in Corn, population 503, Richert mentioned a cafe, a Mennonite church, a post office, a roofing company and a nursing home.
“I encourage small districts to hang on as long as they can,” he said. “There is a sense of pride that everybody wants to hang on to. There's something there that when the school closes, seemingly the town folds.”
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San Anselmo, CA.
The other day, I popped a button on a shirt. It was a smaller size shirt than I typically wear (XL vs. XXL), but I can’t recall popping a button on a shirt before. So, on a hunch, I measured my chest. It proved to be nearly 2 inches larger then when I last measured it.
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What is going on? I had read the studies about mitochondrial biogenesis from resveratrol, in which mice had developed defined muscles by taking large amounts of resveratrol, but that was for human-equivalent amounts of about 3.6 g/day, and I have been taking only about 200 mg/day. But I am also taking other PGC-1alpha inducers, within the context of the Program.
What I do know is that I’m maintaining my weight. But there’s more: I seem to be shifting more toward lean body mass. Have I increased my exercise regimen? No—I’ve actually decreased the amount of time I spend in the gym. So the only thing I can attribute my success to is Durk & Sandy’s 21st Century Weight Control Program, to which I’ve been faithful now for 18 months. [See letters published in Life Enhancement in January 2007, May 2007, and March 2008. – Ed.] I’m thrilled with the results!
San Anselmo, CA. USA
In November 2006, I started Durk & Sandy’s 21st Century Healthy Weight Program with the Glycemic Control barley and resistant starch products, ShapeShifter Teas, and the MealMate supplement. I then added, when they became available, LifeByChocolate, No Crumb Left Behind, and Cocoa ’n Nuts & Spices Cookies. I have not been the same.
As I’ve written to Life Enhancement before, I exercise most weekdays—aerobics for 30 minutes, if nothing else, but usually some weight training and stretching for up to another 1/2 hour. Confounding to me, although I had done this for 13 years, is that even a well controlled diet combined with a superior exercise program didn’t really work to maintain my weight. Although faring somewhat better than most of my nonexercising but diet-conscious friends, the sorry truth is that during those 13 years, I had added 25 lbs of weight (mostly fat). Was weight gain an inevitable part of the aging process, I asked?
I can now report, topping any previous spurious losses, that I am back to where I was 13 years ago, having lost about 25 pounds. And although I reached my low point about 5 months ago, the most amazing thing is that I have not regained any weight! This is unlike anything any diet has ever done for me.
My typical day is pretty much as I’ve reported before. I start with a quickly cooked (2 minutes) bowl of Glycemic Control Quick Flakes, microwaved with some milk, and then topped with Functional Gourmet MCT Oil and Butter Buds, along with blue or black berries. On my drive to work, I sip a cup of ShapeShifter Teas. Then with my lunch, I drink a cup of a low-glycemic-index juice or water into which I’ve stirred 2 tablespoons of Glycemic Control Flour. Later, in mid-afternoon I drink another cup of ShapeShifter Teas. On those days when I have had a third cup, I dip below my plateau. But unfortunately, I am rarely able to fit the third cup in, even if I use the dregs from my second cup, which have less caffeine.
I believe this is because I start my day with a combo of Memory Upgrade (containing high amounts of choline) and BLAST (containing substantial phenylalanine with some caffeine), which really gets me going, but shifts me into a high adrenergic gear, so that I am sensitive to additional caffeine or any other methylxanthine stimulant. Among the productive positive results is imperviousness to napping. Here I add hours to my day.
With dinner, I usually consume Glycemic Control Nuggets, microwaved for about 8–10 minutes in a vegetable broth, and occasionally blended with wild rice. With each meal, I also take 2 capsules of the MealMate formulation, as well as 2 more at bedtime. Although the number of recommended servings of ShapeShifter Teas is 3 cups per day, I have rarely consumed more than 2 per day. How much more progress I might make with a third cup is something to contemplate.
For a snack—so important to my other needs—I eat a small dish of Glycemic Control LifeByChocolate, or a portion of No Crumb Left Behind, or several Cocoa ’n Nuts & Spices Cookies. Yummy! One thing more: my workouts have been a lot easier, and I actually look forward to exercising. That’s thrilling!
San Anselmo, CA. USA
I began Durk & Sandy’s 21st Century Healthy Weight Program back in November 2006, when I was privileged to have early access to all components of the program: the Glycemic Control products, the ShapeShifter Teas, and the MealMate supplement. [Regarding MealMate,
article. –Ed.] Although I exercise 4–5 days/week and have done so regularly for nearly 13 years, even a carefully controlled diet had not helped maintain my weight. The awful truth is that each of those 13 years added about 2 lbs of weight (mostly fat). Sadly, I had reconciled myself to accepting weight gain as an inevitable part of the aging process.
But then I began Durk & Sandy’s program. I can now report that, after 20 weeks, without any hunger, I’ve lost 19 lbs (all fat), and I cannot remember feeling better. I follow a low-glycemic diet for the most part, and I use the Glycemic Control products without fail at 3 servings/day.
Now, at the start of my day, I typically prepare a small bowl of Durk & Sandy’s Glycemic Control Quick Flakes, microwaved with some milk for 2 minutes and topped with Functional Gourmet MCT Oil, Butter Buds®, and berries. As I drive to work, I sip a cup of ShapeShifter Teas brewed in a French press earlier that morning. Then with my lunch, I drink a cup of a low-glycemic juice into which I’ve stirred 2 tablespoons of Glycemic Control Flour. Later, in midafternoon, I drink another cup of ShapeShifter Teas.
With my dinner, I typically have Glycemic Control Nuggets, prepared much like hearty rice (e.g., microwaved for about 8 minutes in a vegetable broth). With each meal, I also take 2 capsules of the MealMate formulation, as well as 2 more at bedtime. Although the number of recommended servings of ShapeShifter Teas is 3 cups/day, I have rarely consumed more than 2/day. How much more progress I might make with a 3rd cup is something to contemplate. For a snack, I eat a small dish of Glycemic Control LifeByChocolate. Yummy! One thing more: my workouts have been a lot easier, and I actually look forward to exercising. Amazing!
Denver, CO. USA
Since I began to use Durk & Sandy’s Glycemic Control products, I have experienced some weight loss—about 5 pounds so far—along with significant alleviation of what has been a constant problem over the years: periodic bloating. It’s not just the weight loss that has brought relief, because I’ve lost weight before and still had to deal with the discomfort of too much puffiness, especially around my waist. So I’m quite happy so far, except for some flatulence, presumably due to the undigested carbohydrates. If the rest of the program works as well, sign me up. I’m stoked on the ideas underlying these products.
San Anselmo, CA. USA
I’ve been privileged to gain an advanced start with Durk and Sandy’s new weight loss program, and so far, so good. In a period of 9 weeks, my total loss has been 8 pounds, although I have not been completely faithful to the program—I’d say I’ve been about 80% compliant. It has been far more difficult to lose weight in the last few years. Although I exercise regularly, I had reached a point several years ago, in my late 50s, where only vigorous exercise combined with a strict diet could put a dent in my weight. Soon after the losses, however, my weight would start creeping up again, so much so that I was constantly outgrowing my clothing. This does not produce confidence. But after 2 months on Durk & Sandy’s program, with a few easy additions to my diet and a few changes in what I select, my expectations have been fulfilled. I’m very optimistic about what continued use will bring.
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BY DAVID J. RUSIN
In While Europe Slept, American Bruce Bawer describes how he moved to the Netherlands because of its vaunted tolerance for alternative lifestyles, only to find Islamist gangs attacking gays on Amsterdam streets. Three years after the book’s publication, new evidence illuminates European Muslims’ attitudes toward homosexuality and the challenges they pose.
A survey by Dalia Mogahed’s Gallup Center for Muslim Studies asked Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain, France, and Germany about their views on a number of issues, including whether they believe that homosexual acts are “morally acceptable or morally wrong”:
The French public is more likely than any other population polled to view homosexuality (78%) as morally acceptable. As points of comparison, 68% of Germans and 58% of Britons believe homosexuality is morally acceptable. Among European Muslim populations surveyed, the acceptability of homosexuality is highest among French Muslims (35%) and lowest among British Muslims (0%).
The uniformity of the UK sample does stand out; has there ever been a poll in which everyone offered the same opinion on a controversial topic? However, the finding that Muslims are more critical than their non-Muslim counterparts is no surprise. Nor is it a grave concern on its own. Believing that others suffer punishment in the afterlife is very different than sending them there to face it. The problem is that, rather than “loving the sinner and hating the sin,” some Muslim preachers cross the line by failing to condemn violence against gays — or even promoting it.
For example, Bawer notes that in November 2007, “the deputy chairman of Norway’s Islamic Council, Asghar Ali, refused to reject the death penalty for gays. When Senaid Kobilica, the head of the Islamic Council (which represents 60,000 Muslims), was asked where he stood on the question, he replied that he couldn’t give a definitive answer until he got a ruling from the European Fatwa Council.” Nine months later he was still waiting.
In addition, there have been explicit justifications of violence against gays across Europe, including the UK. During a 2008 investigation of British mosques, “a female reporter infiltrated women’s study circles. In one, a preacher using the name Umm Amira told followers: ‘We are not going to be like animals … or to be like the homosexuals, God save us from that, you understand? We have to take the judgment; the judgment is to kill them.’” Extremist cleric Anjem Choudary also voiced support for the stoning of homosexuals in March 2009.
Islamic leaders who excuse or even advocate anti-gay violence can turn Muslims’ negative views of homosexuals, as documented by the Gallup survey, into a powder keg. It is these radical imams whom European governments must target. Are they ready and willing to do so? Bruce Bawer provides this discomfiting clue: the aforementioned Asghar Ali, who could not bring himself to renounce the execution of gays, sat “on the board of … the largest and most influential association within Norway’s ruling Labor Party.
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Are movies about moviemaking the shortcut to Oscar glory?
During award season, nothing says Oscar more than a movie about moviemaking. So it’s no surprise that the film that has so far earned the most award season word of mouth is “The Artist,” a valentine to the romantic era of silent movies by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius. Despite being in black and white and having almost no dialogue, the film is near the top of every Oscar pundit’s best-picture scorecard.
Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” is also getting its fair share of award season buzz, thanks to a flood of glowing reviews. Set in 1930s France, it chronicles the relationship between a young boy who tends the clocks in a Paris train station and a curmudgeonly toy seller who turns out to be Georges Méliès, the cinema wizard whose groundbreaking 1902 short, “A Trip to the Moon,” made him one of the most iconic figures from the pioneer days of filmmaking.
Both films have award season cred because the motion picture academy voters have rarely been able to resist heaping plaudits on movies about show business. As early as 1937, the academy fell in love with the inside-showbiz tale “A Star Is Born,” giving it seven Oscar nominations. In 1950, Hollywood spawned two big showbiz-centric Oscar favorites, with Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard” vying for Oscar glory against “All About Eve,” a backstage Broadway drama that ended up winning six Oscars, including one for best picture.
More recently, “Chicago,” a classic backstage musical, won the best picture statuette in 2003, and Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” a 2005 best-picture contender, chronicled the exploits of Howard Hughes, who produced a host of seminal early sound films and romanced a host of Hollywood starlets.
This year, both “The Artist” and “Hugo” have a lot going for them. “The Artist” is loaded with charm and sly wit. It cleverly draws on our memories of past films. The leading man has a Jack Russell terrier that is a throwback to Asta, the playful wire-haired fox terrier in “The Thin Man” movies, while the film’s flinty chauffeur, played by James Cromwell, is clearly inspired by a similar character played by Erich von Stroheim in “Sunset Boulevard.”
As Scorsese’s first foray into 3-D, “Hugo” also functions as a meditation on the art of filmmaking, with Scorsese breaking new ground using 21st century stereoscopic cameras as he tells the story of a filmmaker who pioneered many of the tricks Scorsese and other artists grew up using.
European filmmakers have often hit Oscar pay dirt with movies about movies. Notable examples are Federico Fellini’s “8 1/2” in 1963, François Truffaut’s “Day for Night” in 1973 and Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso” in 1989, which were all memory films about the influence of film — and filmmaking — on their characters’ lives. The key word here is memory. The academy eyes the past with a reverence and emotional tug, which is why so many films set in the past do so well at award time.
Harvey Weinstein, who understands Oscar voters better than anyone else alive, recently pointed out that Hollywood loves films about the creative process almost as much as films about showbiz. If you study Oscar history, you see that it’s a shrewd observation (and not just because Weinstein’s new film, “My Week With Marilyn,” another inside showbiz tale, will probably earn Michelle Williams a lead actress nomination). Oscar voters are fascinated with creative process films, whether they are stories about a troubled math genius (“A Beautiful Mind”), the Bard at work on a masterpiece (“Shakespeare in Love”), a musician whose gift helps him avoid certain death (“The Pianist”), a writer whose work ripples through generations (“The Hours”) or a brainy iconoclast whose college-dorm invention changes the way we relate to each other (“The Social Network”).
The Oscars are all about celebrating artistry, so it’s no wonder that the movies that often resonate the most with academy voters are films that explore the lives of artists, whether they are literally show people or simply characters whose creativity is an art form in itself. It’s why, come nomination day, academy voters may not forget about “Midnight in Paris” either. The Woody Allen film is all about our fascination with the artistic process, populated with iconic artists (Cole Porter, Pablo Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald) who’ve already been absorbed into our movie memories. It’s a pretty simple award season equation. Art about art equals Oscar nomination — at the very least.
Photo: Berenice Bejo, right, with Jean Dujardin at a screening of "The Artist" at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year in Cannes, France. Credit: Vincent Damourette/European Pressphoto Agency
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For Sarah and James, all ideas of treasure hunting get washed away when they accidentally burst the park water mains.
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Let’s Ask Marion: Thumbs Up For Pollan’s “Manifesto”?
Submitted by KAT on Wed, 01/02/2008 - 1:39pm.
Kat: I just finished Michael Pollan’s new book, In Defense of Food, and found it to be a fairly scathing indictment of our corroded, corrupted food chain. Any book that calls on Americans to boycott CAFOs and support CSAs is A-OK with me.
But—and this is a big but—I was perplexed that he seems to embrace the “fat is a faux foe” school of thought, which purports that the link between saturated fat consumption and heart disease, diabetes, and obesity is some kind of medical myth. Pollan suggests other potential--and plausible--villains: excess consumption of carbs; insufficient exercise; round-the-clock snacking; the lack of diversity in the Western diet that deprives us of so many crucial nutrients, and so on.
According to this theory, fat is just a red herring (chock full of omega 3’s, presumably) and the connection between the cholesterol in our food and the cholesterol in our blood is another myth, a marketing ploy to sell margarine. So why does every doctor I know tell me to watch my borderline-high cholesterol and go easy on the cheese? Are they all suckers, Lipitor lemmings, co-conspirators in a big fat hoax?
Dr. Nestle: Cheers for Michael Pollan's new book and the great work he is doing to teach everyone about food systems. Of course I love his book. It says exactly what I did in What to Eat, and he is a journalist with a broader reach. I don't see his book as an exhortation to eat more fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. On the contrary, his advice is crystal clear: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." This is just what I said in What to Eat: "Eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food." It's also just what federal agencies have been advising for the last 30 years, although in code.
As I am constantly trying to explain, the science of nutrition is complicated. I am not aware of any disagreement that high blood cholesterol is a risk factor for coronary heart disease. But it's just a risk factor. That means that people with higher blood cholesterol levels have a greater chance of developing coronary heart disease. How much greater? It depends. Risk factors just mean that on average, across the population, the chance is greater, but for any one individual the specific risk is uncertain and depends on all the other dietary, behavioral, environmental, and genetic factors that also affect risk. As for saturated fat: Surely there is no disagreement that it raises the risk of higher blood cholesterol levels, almost as much as trans fats do. Here too, we are talking about risk, not inevitability.
In the late 1980s, at least three American and international health agencies (the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine, and the World Health Organization) issued enormous reports reviewing the evidence and concluding that people would have a lower risk of chronic diseases if they ate less fat. I was involved in the one from DHHS--the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health--so I know something about the thinking at that time.
Two factors were involved. The first was scientific: by reducing overall fat intake, people would automatically reduce their intake of both saturated fat and calories and, therefore, reduce their risk of heart disease and obesity-related diseases all at once. The second was political: the principal food sources of saturated fats are meat and dairy products. So advice to eat less saturated fat really means the politically impossible “eat less meat and dairy foods.” In this political context, “eat less total fat” was a euphemism for “eat less of foods of animal origin.”
What none of us could foresee was the food industry's response--to flood the market with low-fat products that contained just as many calories, this time from sugars (among them, high fructose corn syrup). "Low-fat," as we now know from Brian Wansink's work, is a signal to eat more calories. So it’s no surprise that people gained weight. One of the things I like most about Pollan's book is its emphasis on foods, not nutrients. We now understand that to focus on fat or carbohydrates outside of their food sources is to confuse the issues. So is a focus on nutrients without taking calories into consideration. Pollan’s book gives good advice about what to eat and is a great start to the new year.
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Stuart Firestein: "Ignorance: How It Drives Science" (Rebroadcast)
“Knowledge is a big subject. Ignorance is bigger...and it is more interesting.” These are the words of neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, the chair of Columbia University’s biology department. Firestein claims that exploring the unknown is the true engine of science, and says ignorance helps scientists concentrate their research. He compares science to searching for a black cat in a dark room, even though the cat may or may not be in there. Firestein's laboratory investigates the mysteries of the sense of smell and its relation to other brain functions. A discussion of the scientific benefits of ignorance.
chairman of the Department of Biology at Columbia University, professor of neuroscience.
It's commonly believed the quest for knowledge is behind scientific research, but Columbia University neuroscientist Stuart Firestein says we get more from ignorance. In his new book, “Ignorance: How It Drives Science,” Firestein argues that pursuing research based on what we don’t know is more valuable than building on what we do know.
Firestein said most people believe ignorance precedes knowledge, but, in science, ignorance follows knowledge. Knowledge enables scientists to propose and pursue interesting questions about data that sometimes don’t exist or fully make sense yet. “I use that term purposely to be a little provocative. But I don't mean stupidity. I don't mean dumb. I don't mean a callow indifference to facts or data or any of that,” Firestein said. Instead, thoughtful ignorance looks at gaps in a community’s understanding and seeks to resolve them.
The Scientific Method Was A Mistake
The scientific method was a huge mistake, according to Firestein. He said nobody actually follows the precise approach to experimentation that is taught in many high schools outside of the classroom, and that forming a hypothesis before collecting data can be dangerous. “The trouble with a hypothesis is it's your own best idea about how something works. And, you know, we all like our ideas so we get invested in them in little ways and then we get invested in them in big ways, and pretty soon I think you wind up with a bias in the way you look at the data,” Firestein said. There is an overemphasis on facts and data, even though they can be the most unreliable part of research. “I think science and medicine has set it up for the public to expect us to expound facts, to know things. And we do know things, but we don't know them perfectly and we don't know them forever,” Firestein said.
Chasing A Black Cat In A Dark Room
Firestein compared science to the proverb about looking for a black cat: “It's very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room especially when there's no cat, which seems to me to be the perfect description of how we do science.” He said science is dotted with black rooms in which there are no black cats, and that scientists move to another dark room as soon as someone flips on the light switch. He said scientific research is similar to a buying a puzzle without a guaranteed solution.
Finding A Cure for Cancer
Scientists have made little progress in finding a cure for cancer, despite declaring a war on it decades ago. Firestein said he wondered whether scientists are forming the wrong questions. “It's just turned out to be a far more difficult problem than we thought it was, but we've learned a vast amount about the problem,” Firestein said. But he said the efforts haven’t been wasted. Many important discoveries have been made during cancer research, such as how cells work and advances in developmental biology and immunology.
Asking Specific Questions
Firestein avoids big questions such as how the universe began or what is consciousness in favor of specific questions, such as how the sense of smell works. For example, he is researching how the brain recognizes a rose, which is made up of a dozen different chemicals, as one unified smell. Firestein said scientists need to ask themselves key questions such as, “What will happen if you don't know this, if you never get to know it? What will happen when you do? Then where will you go?” He calls these types of experiments “case histories in ignorance.”
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Reprinted from IGNORANCE: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein with permission from Oxford University Press, Inc. Copyright © 2012 by Stuart Firestein.
This is a rebroadcast. Please view the original broadcast to comment.
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Tropical and subtropical mangroves
support adjacent marine communities and ecosystems, including seagrass beds and coral reefs. However, little is known about the intra-wetland processes that regulate those interactions and how they are affected when the coastal zone is altered by eutrophication.
The objectives of this study are to determine the patterns of nutrient limitation across mangrove forests in Bocas del Toro and the effects of nutrient availability of plant growth, within-plant nutrient conservation mechanisms, litter turnover rates, soil chemistry, and primary consumption.
This study is part of our effort to understand general patterns of nutrient availability in mangrove ecosystems. Our goals are to compare plant growth, photosynthesis, nutrient cycling processes, and animal-plant interactions in response to nutrient enrichment in mangrove forests.
We propose to investigate patterns of above- and below-ground growth, faunal composition and abundance, herbivory patterns, soil chemistry, and nutrients cycling that occur in the ecotones connecting the open water mangrove forests with the interior mangrove forests at Bocas del Toro. Data from this experiment will be compared to other ongoing fertilization experiments in mangrove forests elsewhere in the Neotropics and in Australia.
These experiments are fundamental to understanding the role of mangroves in absorbing and capturing nutrients in eutrophying systems and the impact of nutrient enrichment on these systems.
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Big Al Downing
was a unique if unsung figure in the annals of popular music, becoming one of the first African-Americans to enjoy success in the white-dominated realms of rockabilly and country. So varied and checkered was his long career that he even cracked the disco charts. Born January 9, 1940, in Lenapah, OK, Downing
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turned down a basketball scholarship from Kansas State University to accept the offer, and after several tours of the Midwest the group signed to the Dallas-based White Rock label to cut two 1958 singles: the first, "Down on the Farm," was credited to Big Al Downing & the Poe Kats
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brought to both a gritty, R&B-inspired edge largely absent from most rock & roll records of the time, even recalling Jerry Lee Lewis
with his frenetic piano playing.
Neither White Rock release was a hit, but the Poe Kats nevertheless caught the attention of rockabilly spitfire Wanda Jackson, who tapped the group as her new backing unit. Despite touring behind Jackson, Downing & the Poe Kats still found time to cut a second White Rock side, "Miss Lucy," which the Carlton label licensed for national distribution. Carlton set up the next session at producer Cosimo Matassa's New Orleans studio, site of Fats Domino's greatest achievements. Backed by Crescent City session aces like Mac Rebennack (the future Dr. John) and Alvin "Red" Tyler, Downing cut 1959's "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold," but again the disc went nowhere and he and the Poe Kats resumed their work with Jackson, cutting the classic Capitol sessions that yielded her 1960 global smash "Let's Have a Party," which features Downing on piano. Over the next 18 months he headlined three singles for the V-Tone label -- "Yes, I'm Loving You," "Words of Love," and "So Many Memories" -- but solo success remained elusive; a 1962 cover of Marty Robbins' "The Story of My Life" first cut for Downing's own Kansoma imprint nevertheless piqued the interest of Chess, which reissued the disc nationally to little avail. Kansoma's last-gasp follow-up, "The Saints," was at least something of a pyrrhic victory: Domino later covered its b-side, "Heartbreak Hill."
In 1963 Downing signed to the Lenox label and traveled to Nashville to cut a session with Little Esther Phillips. The resulting duet "You Never Miss Your Water (Till the Well Runs Dry)" proved a surprise hit, reaching the number 73 spot on the Billboard pop charts. The solo follow-up, "If I Had Our Love to Live Over," earned little notice, however, and a year later he resurfaced on Columbia with "All I Want Is You." The subsequent "Georgia Slop," a cover of the Jimmy McCracklin tune, ranks among Downing's most incendiary performances, but it too was a commercial failure and his recording career ground to a halt. He spent the next several years as a hired gun, touring behind everyone from Johnny Mathis to Dottie West to his boyhood hero Domino. When he finally returned as a headliner with a 1969 re-recording of "The Saints," issued on the Silver Fox label, he shunned the rock & roll trappings of his earlier efforts in favor of a country-soul sound. The follow-up, "Melody of Soul," which fused three Four Tops hits, further established the new status quo, but again Downing found the charts impenetrable and after one final disc, "Give Me Good Loving," his recording career again went into limbo.
Downing did not resurface until 1973, landing with Chess' Janus subsidiary for "Thank You Baby." When the following "I'll Be Holding On" began generating interest at radio and -- more surprisingly -- nightclubs, Chess reissued the track on its own imprint, and it emerged as one of the earliest disco hits, cracking the Billboard R&B Top 40 and reaching number 85 on the pop charts. Chess had high hopes for its sequel, "Gimmie Some Lovin'," but the record tanked and the label terminated Downing's contract. His lone Polydor release, 1976's "I Love to Love," met a similar fate and the singer again dropped from sight, cutting his already-tenuous ties to dance music to return to his country music roots. His 1978 Warner Bros. debut, "Mr. Jones," immediately hit the Billboard country Top 20, and the subsequent "Touch Me (I'll Be Your Fool Once More)" proved even more successful, reaching the number 18 slot. With 1979's "Midnight Lace" and "I Ain't No Fool," Downing reached only the lower rungs of the Nashville charts, but with 1980's "The Story Behind the Story" he returned to the Top 40. Despite "Bring It on Home" reaching the number 20 position, Warner nevertheless declined to extend Downing's contract, and he went M.I.A. for two years.
When Downing reappeared with 1982's "I'll Be Loving You," he was the flagship act of the fledgling Team Entertainment label. This maiden release still slipped into the number 48 spot, although the subsequent "Darlene" and "Let's Sing About Love" managed to climb only into the mid-sixties. 1983's "It Takes Love" would prove Downing's final Top 40 country entry, although his final Team releases, 1984's "The Best of Families" and "There'll Never Be a Better Reason for Bein' Wrong," both charted. Downing next recorded for Vine Street, notching minor hits with 1986's "How Beautiful You Are (To Me)" and the next year's "Just One Night Won't Do." His final country singles -- the 1990 Door Knob releases "Bound for Baltimore" and "Father #1" -- coincided with a resurgence of interest in Downing's early rockabilly sides, and in 1994 he released Back to My Roots, a return to the sound of his formative recordings. He maintained a relentless tour schedule during the decade to follow, regularly appearing on Nashville's legendary Grand Ole Opry as well. In 2003, he issued his final collection of new material, One of a Kind. After battling leukemia, Downing died July 4, 2005, in Leicester, MA. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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Energy companies for which refining crude oil is a large part of their business are subject to variations in the crack spread: The difference between the cost per barrel of crude oil and the two major products of the refining, or cracking, process. The products are heating oil and gasoline, both of which have a certain amount of price volatility that is transferred, along with variations in the price of crude oil, to the crack spread.
The energy crack spread is defined in terms of futures on crude oil, heating oil and gasoline. There are 42 gallons of heating oil, and 84 gallons of gasoline, for every three barrels of crude oil. Each heating oil and gasoline futures contract equals 1,000 barrels, or 42,000 gallons.
For example, on July 16, 2012, December 2012 heating oil, gasoline or RBOB (Reformulated gasoline Blendstock for Oxygen Blending) and crude oil futures had closing prices of $2.7932, $2.9711 and $87.10, respectively. To compute the crack spread, the total price of three barrels of crude oil, $261.30, is subtracted from the sale of 42 gallons of heating oil and 84 gallons of gasoline, and the difference is divided by three. This is what is known as the “3-2-1 crack spread”:
($117.31 + $249.57 – $261.30) / 3 = $35.19
Spread over time
Over the past five years, the crack spread has varied from a low near $5 to highs around $35. The current rising trend in the crack spread is shown on “Energy equities and the crack spread” (below). Although the difference between crude oil prices and a refiner’s product prices would seem to be a possible predictor of a petroleum company’s stock price, this chart does not confirm the theory. Note that two significant short-term price trends — up and down — are led by Valero and Tesoro stock prices. In any case, the equities are more volatile than the crack spread, with cumulative percentage changes varying over a 40-percentage-point range compared with the crack spread’s 20-point range.
An improved fit with the prices of Valero and Tesoro stocks is achieved by combining the equities with heating oil minus gasoline RBOB. The data in “Heating oil less gasoline” (below) are cumulative percentage changes, permitting a comparison of several different series having different absolute values. This shows the ability of heating oil to match equity price changes for the two companies, as well as the enhanced effect when gasoline is subtracted from heating oil price changes.
“Cumulative percentage changes” (below) combines the three crack spread variables — crude oil, heating oil and gasoline — and shows that they all are correlated positively with the Valero equity series. Near June 1, 2012, Valero’s stock price is seen leading the other variables as energy futures increase toward mid-July. Although the crude oil price also is increasing, heating oil and gasoline are climbing faster, improving the crack spread and supporting the higher stock price.
The comparative volatility of energy equities is expressed again on “Energy call options” (below). Valero and Tesoro have the two highest call price curves, while the components of crack spreads are in the middle. Chevron, one of the largest integrated energy companies with products in all segments of the petroleum and natural gas industries, has the lowest volatility.
Exploiting with options
The close proximity of the curves on “Energy call options” suggests some potentially profitable spread possibilities. For example, Valero and Tesoro stock prices are similar in volatility, as are the prices of gasoline and heating oil futures.
On “Heating oil/gasoline spread” (below), the difference between the two December 2012 futures prices varies from 32¢ to 41¢ per gallon, or $3,780 for 0.09 of one option point valued at $42,000. This is the maximum spread over the period shown, but there would have been other opportunities including two moves of 6¢, approximately $2,520 each way, starting at April 13 and May 25. This spread often is called “the widow maker.”
The “Cumulative percentage changes” chart shows that all of the associated crack spread variables tend to move together over extended periods, so that watching for shifts in pricing can focus on short-term seasonal — primarily weather-related — influences together with market and geopolitical influences. Currently, heating oil is following its typical seasonal movement, generally falling from January to June, then rising from July through November. This trend has a positive impact on energy-related equities.
Forecasting crack spreads is possible by using the upper and lower breakeven prices computed by the option pricing regression model, LLP (available at futuresmag.com as a free Excel download worksheet). Breakeven prices show the upper and lower futures price at expiration that would permit an initial delta spread (long the number of call options specified by the slope, or delta, of the option price curve while selling short one underlying futures contract) to be free of profit or loss at expiration.
On June 26, 2012, the following breakeven prices existed for December 2012 futures:
With December futures prices current as of mid-July, the energy crack spread forecast is 18.119. The upper breakeven spread is 13.028, and the lower spread is 10.201. The forecast is biased to the low side by the crude oil upper breakeven price having a greater percentage gain over the current price than either heating oil or gasoline.
Ethanol & corn
During June 2012, Valero Energy Corp. idled two ethanol plants, each with more than 110 million gallons per year capacity. This action is due at least in part to the reduction in the margin of income over cost, as shown on “Ethanol/corn spread” (below). After a period of slowly declining positive margins, the price of corn accelerated much faster than the price of ethanol starting in mid-June (47% for corn vs. 32% for ethanol from June 18 to July 18). Although this situation is a temporary problem for Valero, it illustrates the need to expand the usual definition of crack spread to include other energy sources.
The relative importance of ethanol in Valero’s inventory mix was outlined in notes to the company’s financial statements dated March 31, 2011. Refinery feedstocks equaled $2.8 billion, refined products and blendstocks were $988 million, and ethanol feedstocks and products were $250 million.
We noted that energy stock prices do not correspond well with the crude oil crack spread. One reason for this is the increasing role of alternative fuels and their varied impacts on earnings and stock prices. Another important reason is the hedging of costs (crude oil and corn, for example) by petroleum refiners and ethanol producers.
Ultimately, energy crack spreads may be viewed as a measure for the need to hedge, with declining positive, or negative, spreads resulting in a potential increase in the volume and open interest in trading of futures, options and swaps related to energy derivatives.
Paul Cretien is an investment analyst and financial case writer. His e-mail is PaulDCretien@aol.com.
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“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?” – Alexis De Tocqueville
I over heard two little old ladies discussing Obama, on the Bus a few days back. One said to the other ..”..he’ll be assassinated before long, all the good ones are…” . This statement got me thinking.
According to The Telegraph, last year; “Security surrounding Barack Obama has been stepped up amid fears he could be an assassination target“. So the threat is there.
As I watched the Inauguration, the preposterous thought lingering at the back of my mind as the motorcade (As i’m sure it did with many people watching that day) made it’s way down Pennsylvania Avenue, was “If he gets out of that car, he could be killed“. He got out. He lived. I was clearly being a little over paranoid.
However, if you’d have asked people on November 22nd 1963, if they thought the President could be so easily killed, they’d have laughed at you too. They’d have claimed it ridiculous to even consider. And even afterwards, the blaming of such a colossal historical event such as the Kennedy Assassination is widely blamed on one crazed man, despite an incredible amount of evidence pointing to the contrary.
Strong Left Wing characters on the World stage with deep influence do not last very long. John Kennedy was one of many which to date includes Robert Kennedy, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Ghandi, John Lennon, Fidel Castro (who despite being alive, has been the subject of many plots), Che Guevara, and half the establish Left wing of Chile. It’s something even the late comedian Bill Hicks picked up on. Especially when it comes to Kennedy, there could not be more evidence to suggest a connection to people like E.Howard Hunt (who even admitted his involvement in the assassination) Who was also involved in the removal of the Left wing government of Guatamala, Che’s death and in Watergate. It seems that when the Left wing becomes pretty powerful, the Left Wing pays the price. Do I believe it’s one big right winged conspiracy? No. Not at all. I believe that when the power of the rich becomes threatened, they act to protect themselves. Who do I believe the Kennedy assassination can be largely attributed to? Lyndon Johnson. It’s all about power, it’s all about money.
Unfortunately for the Kennedy conspirators… they didn’t count on a film of the event taking place that day. Nor did they count on Hunt being identified pretty conclusively by a Photographer that day. They should also be slamming their heads into the wall over the ridiculous notion that a gangster like Jack Ruby shot Oswald purely because he “felt for Jackie and the kids“.
Having read the Warren Commission’s report all the way through a couple of times, and having likewise read the Hutton Enquiry’s report into the death of Dr David Kelly over here in England, it’s not very long before you come to the conclusion that a Commission’s Report will never tell the entire truth.
A man named David Sanchez Morales, who is somewhat of a legend in CIA circles, who colleagues have claimed “if you see him walking down the street in a foreign country, then you know a coup is about to take place”… is quoted as saying to a friend and reporter in 1973; “I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard.” The evidence is overwhelming in that if they want to, the powers that be can eliminate the President of the United States and his brother, and get away with it.
So based on the logic, is it possible that President Obama could be assassinated? Yes… based on the fact that he’s clearly left wing and i’m not sure if America is ready to accept such a President for very long. I’m not suggesting that those who disagree as strongly as many do with him, are all out to see him dead, not at all. Like those of us who hated George Bush, we did not want to see him killed. We wanted to see him democratically removed from Office. Likewise, the majority of those who disagree strongly with President Obama want to see him removed Democratically and peacefully. But there will be those, who do not care for such notions.
Capping the wages of guys at the Companies who demanded bail out money; although a fantastic and much needed move, was also incredibly dangerous.
Princeton University professor of Political Science, Melissa Harris-Lacewell stated that ” “For many black supporters, there is a lot of anxiety that he will be killed. It is on people’s minds.“. The fact that he is Black is much less of a fear for those of us who like Obama, than it is that he’s a Left Winger. His ideology presents the most problematic of dilemmas.
The Hindustan Times referred to President Obama as the “biggest ever assassination target in US History“. I think that’s true. His skin colour is one thing, but mix that together with his ideology and he’s easily the biggest target for assassination that has ever stepped foot in the White House.
Now, i’m in no way claiming to hero worship either Kennedy brother. They were both a little bit dodgy to say the least. But as ideologies go, I relate to them. Much as I do to Obama.
The fact is, if the unthinkable were to happen and Obama were to be injured or worst still, killed, regardless who committed the act, it would be blamed on White Supremacists. The Kennedy assassination was blamed on an Anti-Castro lone gunman. The RFK Assasination was blamed on a disgruntled Palestinian.
Whatever the truth may be in these cases, the public will never know. We will never know why people heard shots coming from the Grassy Knoll. We will never know why a man had an umbrella opened on a sunny day. We will never know why a tramp was arrested who looked like Howard Hunt and the interview that took place between the police chief and the tramp was never recovered. We will never know why Oswald chose to say “I’m just the patsy“. We will never know why Jack Ruby killed Oswald. But we have our own minds. We can look at the evidence, and we can use our common sense to come to our own conclusions. I conclude that Kennedy was killed because Johnson was a little bit too ambitious. I conclude that RFK and Martin Luther King were killed because they threatened the status quo. I conclude that if Obama is killed, it’s because agents for hope and change, even including President Lincoln, do not last too long in Politics.
Perhaps i’m wrong. Perhaps the 1960s was such a turbulent decade. Perhaps those who wanted such powerful change both economically and on the issue of civil rights, were ahead of their time. Perhaps they were easy targets. Perhaps the threat of Communism was such a worry that anyone with Left Wing values were considered a threat. Perhaps those days of such malicious undercover CIA operations is over. Perhaps Obama has inherited such a financial mess, and such a hated ex-President, that that fact alone will keep him safe. Let’s hope so.
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Educate. Empower. Act. The mission of Project WET is to reach children, parents, educators and communities of the world with water education. We invite you to join us in educating children about the most precious resource on the planet — water.
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During development of the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide, water quality was identified as a priority topic. The need to make the complex topic of water quality meaningful and relevant became increasingly apparent as Project WET interacted with:
During this time, the Hach Scientific Foundation, an organization dedicated to fostering and supporting science and science education, expressed interest in supporting a legacy project that would bridge classroom understanding of water quality and field experiences.
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VoIP (voice over IP) is an IP telephony term for a set of facilities used to manage the delivery of voice information over the Internet.VoIP involves sending voice information in digital form in discrete packets rather than by using the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A major advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service.
VoIP derives from the VoIP Forum, an effort by major equipment providers, including Cisco, VocalTec, 3Com, and Netspeak to promote the use of ITU-T H.323, the standard for sending voice (audio) and video using IP on the public Internet and within an intranet. The Forum also promotes the user of directory service standards so that users can locate other users and the use of touch-tone signals for automatic call distribution and voice mail.
In addition to IP, VoIP uses the real-time protocol (RTP) to help ensure that packets get delivered in a timely way. Using public networks, it is currently difficult to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS). Better service is possible with private networks managed by an enterprise or by an Internet telephony service provider (ITSP).
A technique used by at least one equipment manufacturer, Adir Technologies (formerly Netspeak), to help ensure faster packet delivery is to use PING to contact all possible network gateway computers that have access to the public network and choose the fastest path before establishing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sockets connection with the other end.
Using VoIP, an enterprise positions a "VoIP device" at a gateway. The gateway receives packetized voice transmissions from users within the company and then routes them to other parts of its intranet (local area or wide area network) or, using a T-carrier system or E-carrier interface, sends them over the public switched telephone network.
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Midwestern University, the state's largest not-for-profit healthcare university, offering medical, dental, pharmacy, optometry, and nine health sciences degrees, has been both a major economic contributor to its surrounding county and a significant source of new jobs despite the recession, according to a new study released by economic consulting firm Applied Economics.
The study determined that Midwestern's effect on business development, job creation, personal income, tax revenues, and construction expenditures is prevalent throughout Maricopa County, and that it extends far beyond the university's direct contribution of nearly 600 full-time employees and a $43.9 million payroll.
In fact, Midwestern University had an overall impact of $303.8 million for fiscal year 2010/2011. The study cited direct factors such as the University's own operations and those of its three campus-based community healthcare clinics - the Midwestern University Dental Institute, the Midwestern University Eye Institute, and the Midwestern University Multispecialty Clinic - as well as indirect and induced impacts that include employee spending, vendor purchases, and student and visitor spending.
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While any major business can provide a substantial boost to the surrounding economy, the impact of a professional and graduate school like Midwestern is twofold. Not only does it support economic development through its jobs, payroll, and reliance on other local businesses and suppliers, but it also produces educated healthcare professionals who establish private practices and serve at health care facilities in order to meet the health demands of the community.
For a copy of the Midwestern University Economic Impact Brochure, go to http://www.midwestern.edu/Community_and_Media.html.
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Islamism is very much a relic of the 20th century, a discredited orthodoxy of limited appeal to the Arab masses. History has shown, however, that well-organized parties of circumscribed appeal can nevertheless assume greater influence by exploiting the disarray of transition periods and divisions within democratic camps. The problem is compounded by the temptation among many in the West to appeal to the “political” wing of militant organizations such as Hezbollah or to reach out to “moderate” elements of Islamist parties. The challenge for Washington today is not to cling to some kind of ecumenical spirit but to actively choose sides and fortify the political center against forces of intolerance.
Many in the West presume that once Islamist parties are integrated into the political order, the burdens of governance — compromise, coalition-building and constituency maintenance — will inevitably lead them to dispense with their ideological past. Such liberal conceits do a disservice to the Muslim Brotherhood and its many offspring, denigrating their commitment to their dogma.
The ideology of Islamists is predicated on the notion that religion is a comprehensive belief system that is both eternal and transnational. The moderation that these groups have exhibited in the past few decades in places such as Egypt was pragmatism born out of compulsion, not some kind of intellectual evolution. Relieved of the constraints of Arab police states, they are free to advance their illiberal, anti-Western agendas.
The plight of Islamist associations resembles the communist parties that did so much to derail Europe's liberal age in the 1920s. Like the Islamists, the communists never commanded much popular support, but they used their parliamentary and paramilitary presence to undermine the prospects of fledging democracies; Germany and Italy are two examples. In due course, their devotion to the Soviet Union and their subordination of national interest to the cause of the global proletariat did much to facilitate the rise of fascism.
Islamist parties can be counted on to similarly menace an inexperienced democratic order. Their deputies are extremely likely to press discriminatory legislation; their religious leaders will stimulate passions against women's rights groups and nongovernmental organizations; and their militias will threaten secular politicians and civil society leaders who do not conform to their template. Such agitations may not garner absolute power but could still provide an opportunity for national militaries to end the region's democratic interlude in the name of stability and order.
The answer, then, is not to exclude Islamist parties from political participation. A genuine democratic system will have to include all contending voices, however ill-intentioned and radical they may be. Washington's challenge is to make certain that the region's political transition does not culminate in the assumption of power by another military clique. So the United States and its allies must strengthen the political center and the democratic regimes that are coming to power in the midst of economic crisis and without the benefits of mature institutions.
A massive package of economic assistance to countries such as Egypt and Tunisia would tether these nations to the United States and would allow Washington to be clear that extremism in any guise will cause cessation of support. Even in an age of budgetary constraints, Washington may be able to generate substantial sums by channeling military aid to civilian pursuits and by collaborating with the European Union, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The United States may not be able to determine the outcome of the Mideast uprisings, but it can still impose conditions and offer incentives that diminish the appeal and potency of militant actors.
Beyond such measures, Washington has the moral obligation of political partiality. During the Cold War, it did not remain passive as the forces of democracy battled the communist parties that sought to exploit post-World War II dislocation to advance sinister designs. The United States actively and at times covertly aided noncommunist forces throughout Europe, ensuring the defeat of powerful communist parties in France and Italy. In the context of the Middle East today, this means standing with emerging secular parties and youth activists as they seek to reinvent the region's politics and finally push the Middle East into the 21st century.
The notion that America's interventions in the Arab world have made it a toxic agent that should stand aside is a presumption of the Western intelligentsia — and one rejected by Arab protesters, the majority of whom have not uttered anti-American slogans. The springtime of the Arab world offers the United States an opportunity to reclaim its values and redeem its interests. America has a stake in the future of the Middle East and should not shy away from cultivating the nascent democratic movements sweeping the region.
The writer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
This article appears in full on CFR.org by permission of its original publisher. It was originally available here.
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Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality, Second Addendum to the 3rd Edition Volume 1 - Recommendations
This second addendum further updates the third edition of the Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality. It includes more guidance on household water management, rainwater harvesting, vended water, temporary water supplies, and pesticides used for vector control in drinking-water sources. It also includes a series of new microbial and chemical fact sheets. Moreover, “expanded” fact sheets are included for key chemical risks such as arsenic, fluoride and nitrate/nitrite.
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aka the NotMilk Man
following is a warning to people who might read one of Cohen's
essays, hear him speak, or meet him in person.
20, 2002 -- No matter what reason brings a person to vegetarianism,
ethics play a role. We do it because it's the right thing to do
for our health, our environment, or the animals used for food.
The same ethics
that move you to a plant based diet require you to show honesty
and integrity in the way you act when promoting vegetarianism. You
can't take the easy way out, embracing anyone who supports your
agenda simply because they say they're "on the same team."
integrity -- a respect for truth -- has motivated numerous top vegetarian
and vegan experts, scientists, MDs, authors and activists to arrive
at the same conclusion: Robert Cohen is a fraud.
Cohen, who sometimes
calls himself the "notmilk man," is abusive and dishonest.
He also has a propensity for fabricating scientific data which has
time and again been shown to be not only worthless, but potentially
and background make him highly unsuited to be an advocate for a
dairy-free or vegetarian lifestyle -- or anything else, for that
run numerous articles over time documenting Cohen's unscrupulous
vegetarian advocates have publicly and privately repudiated Cohen
and his tactics.
to Cohen's dishonest diatribes from time to time, we have decided
to create this page so we may direct people to the selected articles
a point of diminishing returns in responding to such a person --
especially one with a very bad "say anything" habit. For
that reason, VegSource will likely not be responding to Cohen's
future nonsense. He's wasted enough of our time.
Articles about Robert Cohen:
hurt "the cause" to expose Cohen's antics to prospective
vegetarians and non-vegetarians?
We believe it's
good for people who are new to the idea to see that vegetarians
respect truth and don't shelter charlatans just because they yell
"for the animals" a few times. And we believe it's good
for them to see that VegSource doesn't promote bad information just
because someone seems on the surface to promote a same/similar agenda.
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Golden Week (Gōruden Wīku), often abbreviated to simply GW and also known as Ōgon shūkan ( "Golden Week") or Ōgata renkyū ( "Large consecutive holiday") is a Japanese term applied to the period containing the following public holidays:
Emperor's Birthday (Tennō tanjōbi), until 1988
Greenery Day (Midori no hi), from 1989 until 2006
Shōwa Day (Shōwa no hi), from 2007
|Perhaps a little kite flying during this holiday|
Constitution Memorial Day ( Kenpō kinenbi)
Holiday (Kokumin no kyūjitsu), from 1985 until 2006
Greenery Day (Midori no hi), from 2007
Children's Day (Kodomo no hi), also customarily known as Boys' Day (Tango no sekku)
|Heading out to a movie or dinner for Golden Week|
The National Holiday Laws, promulgated in July 1948, declared nine official holidays. Since many were concentrated in a week spanning the end of April to early May, many leisure-based industries experienced spikes in their revenues. The film industry was no exception. In 1951, the film Jiyū Gakkō, recorded higher ticket sales during this holiday-filled week than any other time in the year (including New Year's and Obon). This prompted the managing director of Daiei Films to dub the week "Golden Week" based on the Japanese radio lingo “golden time,” which denotes the period with the highest listener ratings.
At the time, April 29 was a national holiday celebrating the birth of the Shōwa Emperor. Upon his death in 1989, the day was renamed "Greenery Day."
In 2007, Greenery Day was moved to May 4, and April 29 was renamed Shōwa Day to commemorate the late Emperor.
|Heading out to a Shrine|
Many Japanese take paid time off on the intervening work days, but some companies also close down completely and give their employees time off. Golden Week is the longest vacation period of the year for many Japanese jobs. Two other holidays may also be observed for most or all of a week: Japanese New Year in January and Bon Festival in August. Golden Week is an extremely popular time to travel. Flights, trains, and hotels are often fully booked despite significantly higher rates at this time. Popular foreign destinations in Asia, Guam, Saipan, Hawaii, and major cities on the west coast of North America, such as Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, and Vancouver, as well as in Europe and Australia, are affected during these seasons by huge numbers of Japanese tourists.
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Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank Thursday issued fishery disaster determinations in the Northeast.
The declarations open the door for tens of millions of dollars in funds to relieve struggling fishermen and their ports, but the finding offered no immediate and certain assistance, according to The Gloucester Times.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s analysis finds that despite fishermen’s adherence to strict catch limits, several key fish stocks in the Northeast groundfish fishery are not rebuilding, according to reports.
"Despite fishermen's adherence to catch limits over the past few years, recent data shows that several key fish stocks are not rebuilding," Blank wrote in a letter to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Thursday, according to the Martha’s Vineyard Times. "Low levels of these stocks are causing a significant loss of access to fishery resources with anticipated revenue declines that will greatly affect the commercial fishery."
The news comes as a think tank in England has made a controversial case for suspending fishing in Europe for nine years in areas with low levels reportedly caused by overfishing. The London-based New Economics Foundation argued in its report that the suspension would generate billions of pounds in profits by 2023. Private investment would compensate fishermen and maintain boats.
A senior UK fishing industry representative said stocks were already improving and that the idea made no sense.
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Other important issues related to the data collection for a drinking-riding study are discussed in this section.
Issues to be considered when selecting sites for data collection or areas from which to analyze archival data should include the following:
- The likelihood of finding sufficient motorcycle crashes. Some areas of the country have relatively longer riding seasons that encourage more people to ride motorcycles and to ride more miles per year. States such as Florida, Texas, and California would be ideal for doing research in this respect.
- The likelihood of finding sufficient riders for participation in surveys. This consideration can be addressed by conducting surveys in States with longer riding seasons.
- The generalizability of results to the larger population. Throughout the United States and the world there are physiological, cultural, demographic, and other differences among riding populations, their drinking behavior, their willingness to drink and ride, and the way in which their bodies process alcohol. To the extent that differences exist among rider populations, data showing the prevalence of riding after drinking and the relationship of BAC to impairment in one area may not generalize to another. On the other hand, it may be reasonable to assume that whatever effect the BAC has on motorcycle operation, it is primarily physiological, and would apply to people of similar physiology regardless of location. For that reason, it seems appropriate to conduct research where it can be done most cost-effectively with confidence that the result can be generalized to other areas, provided there are no general differences between the physiologies of riders in the two areas.
- Differences between States in terms of the existence and enforcement of helmet laws will lead to different rates of helmet usage. Different States may also have different levels of usage of “novelty” helmets—helmets which do not meet DOT standards and offer little protection. Because unhelmeted (or “improperly-helmeted”) riders are likely to be more severely injured in a crash, and more severe crashes are more likely to be reported, any methodology that depends on motorcycle crash reporting will likely see a higher proportion of unhelmeted riders than exist in the population at large. Because there is a correlation between riding unhelmeted and riding while impaired (as well as other demographic variables), some State laws and practices may skew results with respect to BACs of the crashing rider sample. For this reason, it may be impossible to generalize results across States.
- Some cities or areas will have different types of roadways that will influence the types of crashes and the outcome severities. For example, cities having the highest numbers of motorcycle fatalities tend to be in the southern and western States where roads tend to be wider and average speeds within the city are faster. To get representative results, it would be best to examine areas with a variety of road types and speeds.
- Consideration of the relationship between the crash data and the comparison data is necessary. This will reduce the number of confounding variables (e.g., environment, roadway type).
- The San Diego Trauma System was specifically mentioned as a site where quality data could be collected from a relatively large sample of motorcycle crash victims.
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IEA announces release of 60M barrels from oil reserves, energy stocks drop as oil prices plunge
Thursday, June 23
United States and its industrial allies in the International Energy Agency announced Wednesday that they would release 60 million barrels of crude oil from reserves over the next 30 days. The news immediately sent oil prices down about five percent.
The release would be the biggest ever coordinated from strategic reserves, and over the next month it would exceed the amount of oil lost on world markets since the fighting in Libya. Half of the release would come from U.S. reserves.
The president made the decision out of concern that the drop in oil production in the Middle East was slowing economic growth in the United States and abroad, said a senior White House official who was authorized to speak only on condition of anonymity.
The administration said it would also consider taking additional steps to bring down the price of oil at the end of the 30 days.
“The U.S. stands ready to do more, as and if necessary, to address this issue,” the administration official said. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said earlier that Wednesday that “as we move forward, we will continue to monitor the situation and stand ready to take additional steps if necessary.”
Recent data on the nation’s economic recovery have been grim, with the unemployment rate around 9 percent. The move comes just as gas consumption is rising with the summer driving season, and it could bring some relief to consumers at the pump and to economies that have been already struggling to recover from economic downturn.
According to the Energy Department, the 30 million barrel release would be the largest ever from the U.S. strategic reserves.
In response to the surprising move to release millions of barrels of crude oil into the market, oil prices dropped to its lowest price in several months. As Margot Habib explained:
Oil tumbled to the lowest price in four months after the International Energy Agency said its members would release crude from strategic reserves.
Oil fell as much as 5.3 percent as the agency announced the release of 60 million barrels to partially alleviate the effect on supply from a 132-million barrel disruption caused by the unrest in Libya. The IEA said 2 million barrels a day would be available in the first 30 days.
“The big driver is the IEA number,” said Stephen Schork, president of the Schork Group Inc. in Villanova, Pennsylvania. “The market started moving lower as soon as the IEA announced that it was having a press conference as people anticipated this very thing.”
Oil for August delivery dropped $4.55, or 4.8 percent, to $90.86 a barrel at 9:34 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier, futures touched $90.32, the lowest level since Feb. 22. Prices have gained 19 percent in the past year.
Brent crude for August delivery fell $6.38, or 5.6 percent, to $107.83 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. Prices have risen 41 percent in the past year.
It’s only the third time in the history of the IEA the reserve has been tapped. The first was during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and the second was after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The IEA announcement coupled with a rise in claims for unemployment benefits drove stocks down in early trading on Thursday. As AP reported http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...ChH_story.html
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to 429,000 last week, much higher than economists expected and the largest rise in four weeks. Applications have stayed above 400,000 for more than two months, the latest sign that hiring has weakened from earlier this year.
“This is no longer looking like a small soft patch,” said Lawrence Creatura, who manages a stock portfolio at Federated Investors. “It’s beginning to look more like quicksand.”
Oil prices fell 5 percent after the International Energy Agency said 60 million barrels of oil would be released from reserves to make up for the loss of Libyan exports. That sent Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and other energy stocks sharply lower.
In contrast, airlines stand to benefit from cheaper fuel costs. Their stocks were mostly higher. United Continental Holdings Inc. gained 4 percent and JetBlue Airways Corp. 2 percent.
The Dow Jones industrial average is down 184 points, or 1.5 percent, at 11,926 in early trading.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is down 19 points, or 1.5 percent, at 1,267. The Nasdaq is down 37 points, or 1.4 percent, at 2,631.
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Japan Wrestling Federation President Tomiaki Fukuda on Wednesday called into question the International Olympic Committee’s decision to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games, saying the sport’s governing body has failed to give “clear reasons” for why wrestling is being removed.
Fukuda said the fight to keep wrestling in the Olympics was far from over.
“The final verdict has not been made on whether it will be removed. Everything will depend on our efforts and actions from now,” said Fukuda, who is also vice president for FILA, wrestling’s world governing body. “We have been in the Olympics from the start, so there was always the feeling of reassurance that it was a key sport.”
Wrestling was removed from the IOC’s list of 25 “core sports” for the games in 2020, which have yet to be awarded to a host city. Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul are bidding for the 2020 Summer Games.
The IOC executive board will meet in May in St. Petersburg, Russia, to decide which sport or sports to propose for 2020 inclusion before the final vote is made at the IOC general assembly in September in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The IOC’s executive board shocked the world’s wrestling community, whose sport dates back to the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, with its vote to cut the sport on Tuesday.
Wrestling now joins seven other sports in applying for 2020, among them a joint bid from baseball and softball, squash, karate, roller sports, wakeboarding, sports climbing and the martial art wushu.
However, it is extremely unlikely it will be voted back in so early after being removed by the IOC’s executive board.
FILA is scheduled to hold an executive conference in Phuket this Saturday and Sunday to address the issue in view of building a case to present to the IOC board in May.
“We’re getting a late start. Unless we exert an enormous amount of energy it will be difficult to rebound from this,” Fukuda said.
Fukuda questioned an evaluation done by the IOC program commission that analyzed 39 criteria, including TV ratings, ticket sales, antidoping policy and global participation and popularity. Wrestling was apparently ranked “low” in several technical criteria.
“No clear reasons have been presented. I also question whether the figures they have are correct,” Fukuda said.
Something that has not been explained, however, is how modern pentathlon survived the four rounds of secret balloting among 14 members, excluding IOC president Jacques Rogge, despite being considered the most likely to be dropped.
Members vote each time on which sports should not be included in the core group; wrestling and modern pentathlon were tied for five to top the first round, but wrestling received seven, six and eight for the most in each of the final three rounds.
Modern pentathlon, which along with wrestling and field hockey, was left in the final round, curiously received votes of five, four, five and three — its final vote having two fewer than its first.
Wrestling has been a rich source of Olympic medals for Japan in the women’s competition and three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida was still in trying to come to terms with the IOC’s decision.
“There are a lot of children who want to win medals at the Olympics and this (decision) will end their dreams,” she said.
Three of four wrestling golds in London last summer came in the women’s division from Yoshida (55 kg) and Kaori Icho (63 kg), both of whom made it Olympic three-peats, and Hitomi Obara (48 kg).
“I thought it was a joke (when I heard the news),” said now-retired Obara. “For athletes, not having a goal to work toward is tougher than losing.”
Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu in London became the first Japanese man to win Olympic gold in wrestling since 1988, when he capped a string of impressive results to take the 66-kg freestyle title.
“I don’t know what goal to aim for now. I have to just keep trying my best in competition,” he said.
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The use of punctal plugs in children
- 1Clinical and Academic Department of Ophthalmology, Great Ormond St Hospital for Children, London, UK
- 2IInd Department Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 3Developmental Biology Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
- 4UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh and Eye Center, Pittsburgh PA
- Correspondence to Dr Ken K Nischal, UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh and Eye Center, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh Pa 15224, USA;
Contributors All authors contributed to the design, data collection and writing of the paper.
- Accepted 25 September 2011
- Published Online First 22 October 2011
Background/aims To evaluate the safety and efficacy of punctal plugs in children with dry eye syndrome.
Methods A retrospective case series of patients who had an insertion of silicone punctal plugs for dry eye syndrome. Data collected included presenting symptoms, signs, systemic disorders if present, type of anaesthesia and complications by the time of last follow-up.
Results Twenty-five patients (median age at insertion 7 years, range 1.5–13.8 years) were identified. Median follow-up was 18 months. The commonest symptoms were photophobia, soreness and blepharospasm, and the commonest sign was punctate epithelial erosions. Concurrent systemic disease was present in 18/25 patients. Repeated procedures were carried out in eight of 25 patients. Twenty-four of 35 insertions were performed under general anaesthesia. A substantial improvement in ocular surface disease was noted in all cases: frequency of lubricant use was reduced in eight of 25 and visual acuity improved in 15/25 patients. Spontaneous extrusion was the commonest complication and occurred within 6 months in 19% of cases.
Conclusion Dry eye syndrome in children is often accompanied by systemic disease, so in a child with persistent symptoms this should be explored. Punctal plugs offer a safe and effective form of treatment especially as compliance of frequent lubrication is limited in children.
- Child health (paediatrics)
- embryology and development
- eye (globe)
- ocular surface disease
- punctal plugs
- stem cells
Competing interests None.
Ethics approval Ethics approval was provided by Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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|1948: St Laurence
in Lanzarote, Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
in Lanzarote, Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
Church of England, Diocese
A small unassuming whitewashed building topped by twin bells,
at the end of a terrace of properties that wind their way up
a steep street. Inside there is a small narthex, and access
to the main body of the church is through a tall wrought iron
gateway inscribed with the words "Ave Maria." The
interior has cool whitewashed walls on which are mounted the
stations of the cross. A large wooden crucifix is hung on the
wall behind the altar, which consists of a small communion table
on which is placed a silver cross together with two candles.
The building hosts congregations of three denominations: Roman
Catholic (under the name Nuestra Señora del Carmen),
German Evangelical, and the Anglican church of St Laurence.
The Canary Islands have a Roman Catholic tradition. However,
with the advent of tourism, Anglican and German churches have
established themselves to cater to the spiritual needs of residents
and visitors, meeting primarily in Roman Catholic churches.
I think this is a lovely example of fellow Christians working
together. St Laurence in Lanzarote also meets at existing churches
in Puerto del Carmen, Nazaret and Playa Blanca, and a meeting
hall at Costa Teguise. There is a timetable of services of holy
communion and morning prayer at all these locations. There appears
to be a thriving resident ex-pat congregation with an active
social calendar. They have a Bible study group and a Mothersí
The Canary Islands are an archipelago off the northwest coast
of Africa. Their name is thought to derive from the Latin meaning
"island of the dogs" and may refer to large populations
of monk seals ("sea dogs") that once flourished there.
The islands are an autonomous community within the kingdom of
Spain and are largely self-governing. Puerto del Carmen is a
man-made tourist resort on the south coast of Lanzarote, the
easternmost island and probably the first to be settled. A volcanic
island, Lanzarote features some very dramatic landscapes. The
church is situated in the old part of the original village,
close to the fishing harbour. Bars and cafes of all descriptions
now surround it.
The Revd Idris Vaughan, chaplain, and Mr David Dowdell,
lay reader. Father Vaughan is the sole Anglican priest on the
island and he has quite a tight timetable in ministering to
the four churches.
The date & time:
Easter Sunday, 4 April 2010, 12.30pm.
What was the name of the service?
How full was the building?
The small church was quite full Ė I would say there were at
least 80 people present, with a good mixture of ages. It was
difficult to work out who were regulars and who were tourists.
Did anyone welcome you personally?
Several ladies greeted me and made me feel welcome.
Was your pew comfortable?
It was comfortable enough for a modern wooden pew. However,
there were no hassocks and my poor knees shook at the prospect
of kneeling on marble, so I didnít subject them to it!
How would you describe the pre-service
It was extremely quiet, with some whispered greetings and conversations. I was puzzled that there was no music on this Easter Sunday, and looked around for the organ. Was it hidden in an archway or was it at the back? I couldnít see one.
What were the exact opening words of the
"Alleluia. Christ is risen." "He is risen indeed.
What books did the congregation use during the
Common Worship Holy Communion Order 1, Complete
Anglican Hymns Old and New, and a sheet containing the
collect, readings and gospel.
What musical instruments
None! The chaplain sang the opening line of each hymn, which
the congregation then took up.
Did anything distract
I felt vaguely perturbed at the lack of music, even though the
congregation sang valiantly. It somehow didnít feel quite right
for Easter day.
Was the worship stiff-upper-lip,
happy clappy, or what?
It was solemn and dignified with the minimum of ceremony. The
celebrant was vested in a gold coloured chasuble and his reader
wore a blue scarf over his alb. Bells were rung at the consecration.
The language was a mixture of modern and traditional, which
seemed appropriate since the ex-pat congregation and the visitors
must have come from all sorts of traditions.
Exactly how long was the
On a scale of 1-10, how good was the preacher?
9 The chaplain involved children in his sermon by inviting
them to the front, where they were given the task of illustrating
the risen Christ. The congregation had to sing "We are
the king who rides a donkey" to the tune of "What
shall we do with the drunken sailor." At the refrain "Jesus
the king is risen" the children had to leap into the air.
In a nutshell, what was the sermon
In a nutshell, it was about the surprise of Easter. Surprises
come in all forms: delightful, joyous, shocking. Everyone had
seen Jesus crucified on the cross, yet his tomb was empty. This
brought about mixed emotions of confusion and fear to Mary Magdalene
and the other women who had brought spices to embalm his body.
It is the same for us when we lose our loved ones. This is where
God gives us a new direction and brings light out of darkness.
We rejoice that Jesus has risen today.
Which part of the service was like being in
The peacefulness of the much used little church seemed like an oasis of calm amidst the bustle of the outside secular world.
And which part was like being in... er... the other place?
The lack of an organ meant everyone had to sing in tune. Some
didnít manage it! A groaner somewhere behind me would have been
better miming the words!
What happened when you hung around after the service looking lost?
A couple approached me; apparently we had boarded the same bus
in Costa Teguise, some 10 miles away. Others made friendly conversation
and I had a pleasant chat with the chaplain.
How would you describe the after-service
We were all presented with a small bag of mini Easter eggs.
I donít think they had the facilities for offering liquid refreshments.
How would you feel about making this church your regular (where 10 = ecstatic, 0 = terminal)?
8 People were friendly and convivial, and I departed
thinking I would like to visit this church again. The opportunity
presented itself sooner than I had anticipated! I found myself
unable to return home and was stranded on Lanzarote because
of the volcanic ash from an Icelandic volcano that caused all
northern European airspace to close down. Fortunately my airline
put me up at a luxury hotel, and so I had another chance to
worship at the church again.
Did the service make you feel glad to be a
Undoubtedly. I always enjoy seeking out an Anglican service when I am on holiday, and I left this church feeling warm and contented.
What one thing will you remember about all this in seven days' time?
The peace and the calm soothing feeling one experiences when visiting this church.
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Revised December 3, 2003
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP PUSHES FOR EXTENDING EXPIRING TAX BREAKS, BUT IGNORES EXPIRING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
House extends large corporate tax break first enacted in 2002 stimulus package, while Majority Leader says economic conditions mean unemployment extension is unnecessary
By David Kamin and Isaac Shapiro
PDF of full report If you cannot access the files through the links, right-click on the underlined text, click "Save Link As," download to your directory, and open the document in Adobe Acrobat Reader
When Congress returns from its Thanksgiving break on the week of December 8, it will be under pressure to complete action on legislation that would extend more than a dozen tax breaks scheduled to expire at the end of the year. The House passed a tax-cut "extenders" package before the break, but the Senate did not. Despite efforts to ensure that an extenders package is enacted before the end of the year, Congressional leaders have shown no willingness to consider extending the temporary federal program to help the long-term unemployed, which, starting December 21, will not provide any benefits to those who newly exhaust their regular, state-funded benefits.
In addition, the House version of the tax-cut extension bill would continue a large, supposedly temporary corporate tax break that was enacted as part of the 2002 stimulus legislation. When it comes to the unemployment benefits, however, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told BNA Daily Labor Report on November 19 that there is no reason for extending those benefits. The House approach implies that corporations need continued support amidst a still-weak economy, but that laid-off workers do not. This is despite the fact that firms might not use the tax breaks to hire new workers and that the unemployed workers who have their benefits run out will be receiving neither paychecks nor unemployment benefits.
Representative DeLays contention that there is no basis for extending unemployment benefits is strongly contradicted by the evidence:
- In key respects, even with the recent upturn in job growth, the labor market is weaker today than when the temporary federal unemployment benefits program was established by the March 2002 stimulus legislation. The current unemployment rate is higher, and there are more unemployed workers, fewer jobs, and much more long-term unemployment. In fact, the number of individuals out of work for at least 26 weeks was more than 50 percent greater in October 2003 than in March 2002.
- If no Congressional action is taken to extend the unemployment benefits program starting December 21, between 80,000 and 90,000 unemployed workers will exhaust their regular unemployment benefits every week without being able to receive any federal unemployment benefits to help them make ends meet as they continue to look for work.
- The number of workers exhausting their regular unemployment benefits and thus in need of temporary federal benefits is much larger today than when the temporary federal program enacted in response to the downturn of the early 1990s was ended.
It should also be noted that Congressional leaders are proposing to extend various tax breaks for six months to a year, thereby maintaining the fiction that these tax breaks are temporary, when virtually all knowledgeable observers agree that these tax breaks will continue being extended each time they are about to expire and likely never will be permitted to terminate. According to the Congressional Research Service, only one temporary tax provision has been allowed to expire in the last 25 years. As a result, the official estimate of the cost of extending these tax breaks for six months to a year substantially understates the true cost of these tax breaks over time, and hides their long-term effects on a federal budget that already faces large deficits for the foreseeable future.
Moreover, if the House corporate tax provision is included as part of the extenders package this year, that will set a precedent for this provision to be automatically considered as part of the package of extenders in future years. Thus, a large, supposedly temporary corporate tax break included in the 2002 stimulus package may become an ongoing feature of tax law. Under the House bill, this provision would reduce corporate taxes by $19 billion in 2004. If this corporate tax provision really is allowed to expire after one year, as the official cost estimate for the House bill assumes, most of the revenue loss in 2004 would be offset by increased revenue collections in subsequent years, and the total revenue loss from the provision would be $5 billion over the ten-year period. But if this provision instead becomes part of the list of tax measures that are routinely extended whenever they are slated to expire a development toward which the House bill takes a large step the provision could cost tens of billions of dollars over the coming decade.
The True Cost of Extending the Expiring Tax Breaks
Congress seems intent on pushing through legislation to extend expiring tax breaks. The House of Representatives passed its tax-cut extenders bill, which extends 14 separate tax breaks, by voice vote with less than one hour of debate on November 20. In the Senate, Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and ranking member Senator Max Baucus introduced an extenders bill. The House bill would reduce revenues by $7 billion over ten years; the Senate bill is advertised as being deficit neutral because it offsets the cost of the tax cuts with revenue-raising provisions.
These official cost estimates are misleading, however, as they understate the likely impact on the budget. The tax cuts in these bills would be extended for short periods typically six months in the Senate bill and one year in the House bill. It is a virtual certainty, however, that these tax breaks will be extended again and again in future years. Once extended, these tax cuts will add billions more to the deficit.
- The Senate tax-extension bill is technically revenue neutral over ten years; it includes $1.2 billion in tax cuts and $1.2 billion in revenue raisers. But its costs are front-loaded, since most of the tax cuts in the bill are extended for only six months. The revenue-raising provisions, on the other hand, would be in effect for up to the full ten years covered by the cost estimate. If all provisions both the tax cuts and offsets remain in effect throughout the ten-year period, as likely would be the case, the cost will be $24 billion over ten years.
- This $24 billion in revenue losses would result in $6 billion in costs in additional interest payments on the federal debt, so the total impact on the deficit would be $30 billion over ten years.
- The bill that the House has approved is more costly. As noted, if the new corporate tax provision it includes really is allowed to expire after one year, as the official cost estimate for the House bill assumes, the total revenue loss from the provision would be $5 billion over the ten-year period. But if this provision is extended in future years, it could cost tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
Problem of Tax Extenders Will Grow Worse In Future Years
The passage of a package of tax extenders has been a Congressional ritual in recent years. This practice has always been a poor way to carry out tax policy, creating unnecessary uncertainty in the tax code and masking the true long-term cost of the tax-cut provisions. If Congress wishes to extend these provisions, it would be more appropriate to enact permanent tax changes and to offset fully the resulting costs.
It would be wise for Congress to establish such a precedent, since dealing with temporary tax provisions will become a much more substantial problem in future years. With the enactment of the 2001 tax bill, the number and cost of temporary tax provisions has exploded. Policymakers have come to rely on writing large new tax cuts into law for seemingly temporary periods in order to game the system and conceal the true, long-term cost of the measures in question. The Congressional
BudgetOffice now estimates that the ten-year cost of permanently extending all of the tax provisions that are scheduled to expire before 2013 amounts to a whopping $2.1 trillion.
A study by William Gale and Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution on the costs of extenders underscores how large this issue is about to become. Gale and Orszag, looking at various ten-year periods, estimated the cost of extending tax provisions that were scheduled to expire during each period. They found, for instance, that the cost in January 2001 of extending expiring tax provisions was $22 billion in the tenth year of the period. Now, however, following enactment of recent tax-cut legislation, the cost in the tenth year would be $430 billion.
I see no reason, particularly with a 6.1 percent unemployment rate, to be extending unemployment compensation, [House Majority Leader Tom] DeLay said. Currently, he added, every economic indicator is better than in 1993, when the Democrats ended the [federal] unemployment program.
In March 2002, the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation program was established to provide additional federal benefits to those who exhaust their regular, state- funded benefits. The TEUC program is scheduled to phase down sharply at the end of the year. Starting December 21, workers who exhaust their regular unemployment benefits will not be eligible for additional weeks of benefits through the federal TEUC program. The only people who will continue to receive TEUC benefits will be those who exhausted their regular benefits before December 21.
In contrast to the Congressional Leaderships last-minute push to extend expiring tax breaks, the Leadership has shown little interest in extending the federal unemployment benefits. This omission is particularly striking in the House bill, since it includes extension of a corporate tax break enacted as part of the 2002 economic stimulus package, while failing to extend the federal unemployment benefits that were established as part of the same stimulus legislation. In essence, House Leadership has indicated that it believes corporations need continued support as the economy recovers but unemployed workers do not. The facts suggest otherwise.
The labor market is weaker today than when the TEUC program was created in March 2002. As noted earlier, and as the following table indicates, even though there has been some increase in jobs in recent months unemployment indicators and especially long-term unemployment are higher today than in March 2002. And employment is lower.
Contrary to the House Majority Leaders claim, many economic indicators, and especially labor market indicators, are worse today than when the temporary federal benefits program of the early 1990s ended. The temporary federal benefits program of the early 1990s began to phase out sharply in February 1994; key indicators of the need for a temporary benefits program remain worse today than they were in early 1994. The earlier program ended after a sustained period of robust job creation; we have now experienced only a few months of modest job creation. In addition, many more unemployed workers are exhausting their regular unemployment benefits before finding work and thus are in need of assistance from a temporary federal unemployment benefits program than during the early 1990s.
- Before the earlier program was allowed to phase down in early 1994, the number of jobs in the economy had increased for 22 of the previous 23 months. There were 2.6 million more jobs than at the previous employment peak.
By contrast, October 2003 marked just the third straight month of modest job creation, following six consecutive months of job loss. Moreover, in October 2003, there were still 2.4 million fewer jobs than in February 2001, the month that employment peaked before the downturn kicked in.
Situation when TEUC was enacted
Number of Jobs
- The number of people in need of assistance from the TEUC program is much higher than it was than when the temporary federal benefits program of the early 1990s was ended. Over the past three months, despite modest job growth, 1.07 million workers exhausted their regular unemployment benefits. This is 41 percent higher than the 757,000 workers who exhausted their regular unemployment benefits in the equivalent period before the federal program of the early 1990s ended.
Three additional reasons to extend the program
First, the federal unemployment insurance trust fund contains ample funds to cover an extension of federal unemployment benefits. The federal unemployment insurance trust fund currently contains about $20 billion. These funds were paid into the federal unemployment insurance trust fund precisely for the purpose of providing federal unemployment benefits at times when the job market is weak. The cost of a straight extension of the TEUC program is less than $1 billion a month, so there is no risk of depleting the trust fund through another TEUC extension.
Second, it is also of note that unemployment benefits provide more stimulus to the economy than corporate tax cuts. An Economy.com study of the effects of various ways to stimulate a weak economy found that for each dollar of cost to the federal Treasury, federal unemployment insurance benefits were the single most effective policy mechanism examined. Unemployment insurance puts money in the hands of people who need it and generally will spend it quickly. Although the Economy.com study did not examine the specific corporate tax break contained in the current House extenders bill, the study found that similar corporate tax cuts were among the least effective methods of stimulating the economy.
Specifically, the study concluded that each dollar of new federal expenditures for unemployment compensation generated an increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) of $1.73. The study found, by contrast, that for each dollar used for a range of corporate tax breaks, real GDP would rise less than $0.35. In boosting a weak economy, unemployment compensation was found to have much greater bang for the buck. Needless to say, unemployment insurance also is much more effective in targeting help on those who most need it.
Finally, federal unemployment benefits truly are temporary. There is little question that they will expire when the economy and the job market recover sufficiently. In every past economic downturn in recent memory, temporary federal unemployment benefits have been provided when the economy was weak and then terminated when the job market recovered adequately. This contrasts sharply with the various expiring tax provisions that Congress now is extending, which are temporary in name only and generally are never allowed to end.
Jill Barshay, Temporary Tax Breaks Usually A Permanent Reality, CQ Weekly,
November 15, 2003.
This provision would allow corporations to carry back net operating losses for five years and use loss deductions against the corporate Alternative Minimum
Tax. This provision essentially allows corporations to take certain deductions in the current year rather than in future years. Relative to current law, this timing shift results in a revenue losses in 2004 and revenue gains in the subsequent years (as corporations take smaller deductions in those years). If it is extended beyond 2004 and remains in effect over the full ten years, however, its cost will be much higher.
BudgetOffice, The Budgetand Economic Outlook: An Update, August 2003, Table 1-6. This number includes CBOs estimate of a realistic alternative minimum tax (AMT) relief package, amounting to $548 billion, including interaction with other provisions. Current AMT relief expires at the end of 2004.
Fawn H. Johnson, Unemployment Insurance: DeLay Sees No Reason to Extend Federal UI Program Into Next Year, Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) Daily Labor Report,
November 20, 2003.
The one exception is in New York, where workers who exhaust their regular benefits starting on December 22 will not be eligible for TEUC aid.
Even after adjusting for the growth in the size of the labor force, there were 25 percent more individuals exhausting their regular unemployment benefits over the past three months than in the equivalent months before the program of the early 1990s ended.
The Need For Federal Government Aid to State Government, Economy.com, February 2003. For a discussion of the report, see Andrew Lee and Joel Friedman, Reports Finds Most Administration Growth Proposals Would Be Ineffective Economic Stimulus, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 8, 2003.
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Impotence, Incontinence Risk Casts Doubt on High-Tech Prostate Surgery
TUESDAY Oct. 13, 2009 -- Heightened risks for post-operative incontinence and impotence may outweigh any benefits from minimally invasive "keyhole" surgery for prostate cancer, a new study suggests.
The presumed good stemming from the robotic technique are being oversold to a public that is all too willing to believe, said Dr. Jim C. Hu, a genitourinary surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who led the study.
"Given the expense of the procedure and the hype around it, expectations are being raised that are too high," said Hu, whose team published the findings in the Oct. 14 Journal of the American Medical Association.
Men who have the prostate-removing surgery, which requires only a small incision and is helped along by robotic technology, do get out of the hospital faster than those who have the older operation, according to the report. Patients who underwent the more high-tech surgery spent an average of two days hospitalized rather than the three-days seen with traditional procedure. They were also less likely to require blood transfusions or suffer respiratory or surgical complications, researchers found.
But the study of more than 8,800 men also found a higher incidence of genitourinary complications, including impotence and incontinence, among those having the keyhole procedure (4.7 percent) versus those who got traditional surgery (2.1 percent).
And yet the popularity of minimally invasive prostatectomy, especially when done with robotic assistance, continues to grow. It accounted for more than 40 percent of all prostate operations in 2006, up from 1 percent in 2001, the report said.
That growth has been fueled by "widespread direct-to-consumer advertising," according to the report.
The minimally invasive technique is especially popular among patients in high-income areas, the research team said. This may be the result of a "highly successful robotic-assistant MIRP [minimally invasive radical prostatectomy] marketing campaign disseminated via the Internet, radio and print media channels, likely to be frequented by men of higher socioeconomic status," they wrote.
"Patients are demanding it," agreed Dr. Stephen J. Freedland, associate professor of urology and pathology at Duke University Medical Center, who performs prostate surgery but does not do the minimally invasive version. "In many cases, if the surgeon is not offering it, the patient will not come to you. So you have no choice. You do robotic surgery, or you don't do surgery."
Men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer usually go directly to the Internet for information, and what they usually find are reports about the benefits of minimally invasive robotic surgery, Freedland said.
"But we are learning more and more that there are not all the benefits that have been touted," he said. "There are some benefits. But for long-term outcomes, there is no benefit and perhaps some detriment."
The numbers in the new study "are really worrisome," Freedland said. "They are finding an incontinence rate that is 30 percent higher and an erectile dysfunction rate that is 40 percent higher, and those are really important."
And the robotic technique is not readily mastered by surgeons, he said. "The learning curve is 150 to 200 patients, so the first 150 you do, you're practicing on them," Freedland said.
Men who are considering minimally invasive prostate surgery should first check carefully about the training of the surgeons doing the procedure, Hu said.
"They should go online to see how long the procedure has been available [at the clinic]," he said. "They should ask about how surgeons have been trained to do it, whether they have extensive training or just a standard three-day course."
Minimally invasive robotic surgery for prostate cancer is in an early stage of evolution, Hu said, and the surgical techniques needed to preserve urological function and prevent incontinence and impotence still have not been perfected.
There's more on prostate cancer surgeries at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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In 1953 John Myers brought his friend Gary Wolf a book he had just read, Space Hawk by Anthony Gilmore. The two were already avid readers but this would be their introduction to an entire genre, Science Fiction. They both say that it was Space Hawk that sparked a life long love of all things Sci-Fi. According to both of them, they had an opportunity to re-read Space Hawk as adults and found that it had not weathered the years well. They decided they would write their own science fiction adventure in the same style, but do a better job. The result is their book Space Vulture. (more…)
FLURB is not new. Issue number 7 is now up. But it is new to me. What I’ve read so far is different, but good. The text is mixed with illustrations. You can check it out and it wont cost you more than bandwidth and time.
Random House seems to be hopping into the “give the first one away free” game. The Suvudu Free Book Library is your new place to pick up the first book from some of their Scifi/Fantasy series. I saw Red Mars over there – you can’t go wrong with stuff that solid. Just be prepared to fork over the cash when you want to keep going, and with the line up they have it’s a slim chance you wont want to.
What do you get when you team up an astronomer/sci-fi author and the National Science Foundation? An anthology of free Astronomy Science Fiction stories. There are 14 stories in the collection that has been edited by Mike Brotherton They say, “The purpose of the anthology is to provide stories with ample and accurate astronomy spanning a range of topics covered in introductory courses.” and “Fans of science fiction with good science should also enjoy these stories.”
Right now the stories are all available to read on-line. There is a download tab that promises “Downloadable versions of the anthology coming soon.” I hope so, this kind of thing would be perfect to have on my phone.
This list was actually done the end of last year, but I just ran across it via a blog post I spotted on reddit. io9s top sci-fi books of 2008 This is a good list for anyone looking for some good reading. I’ll list the books below, but it’s worth hopping over there to read the comments and slivers from their reviews. One of them is by Doctorow. So you know what that means – you can read it as quickly as you can go to his site and download it. Another is by Tobias Buckell – which means I’ll be reading that for sure. (It also reminds me I have never posted a review of his last book I read – gotta do that.) Anyway, here they are.
- Liberation, by Brian Francis Slattery
- Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
- Nano Comes to Clifford Falls, by Nancy Kress
- The Alchemy of Stone, by Ekaterina Sedia
- Sly Mongoose, by Tobias Buckell
- The Night Sessions, by Ken MacLeod
- Postsingular, by Rudy Rucker
- Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
- Matter, by Iain M. Banks
- Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- Multireal, by David Louis Edelman
John Scalzi the author of Hugo Award nominated science fiction novel Old Man’s War has built what started as a story serialized in his blog into a series of full novels and short stories. The latest installment in the OMW universe, Zoe’s Tale is quite a departure from the previous three books. It is the first of Scalzi’s sci-fi novels written intentionally as young adult fiction. In a move that I am sure will continue to fuel Scalzi/Heinlein comparisons, Zoe is a precocious young woman thrust into a world of adventure and danger. In just three years Scalzi has built an impressive resume as an author of fiction and Zoe’s Tale will be no small part of what looks to be an influential and outstanding career.
Orson Scott Card’s work Ender’s Game began as a novelette, that he says he wrote as a means of leading up to the full story he had developed, Speaker for the Dead. Ender’s Game was published as a full novel in 1985, won the Hugo and Nebula awards (as did Speaker for the Dead in ’86 and ’87). I think it is safe to say that Ender’s Game is ensconced in its position as a science fiction classic. Now, 23 years later, Card has finished the first direct sequel to Ender’s Game in his new novel Ender in Exile.
John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War universe now spans four novels, The Last Colony is the third. Of those initial three this is the one that is most a sequel. The first, Old Man’s War and the second, The Ghost Brigades each stand alone. And I think that The Last Colony actually can do so as well, but this is the first where the main characters are both from the previous books. That said, this is still a complete story and may even appeal to readers who may have not been crazy about the previous books.
This is a little outside the norm for me – but a friend of mine from slashdot won a short story contest and it is a pretty great story in my estimation. So if you would like to enjoy a quick but well done read – head on over and check out Shroud. I guess I am a bit biased by the fact that my nick over at the dot is stoolpigeon – and this story has a lot of pigeons in it. But it really is very well written.
Tor has launched their new social, sci-fi, fantasy and much more, blogging, new fiction, super duper site. Right now there are 2 short stories up and available to read/download. They are “After The Coup” by John Scalzi, and “Down On The Farm” by Charles Stross. Both in worlds developed by the authors in full novels. Scalzi’s story is in the Old Man’s War universe and is a great read. Stross’s story is from his “Laundry” stories, which I don’t know but I liked this story. Nice mix of magic, math and computing.
On top of all that, for a limited time every ebook and piece of art they made available during their promotional period leading up to the launch of the site are all available right here. Every book is available in multiple drm free formats. I’ve read 3 so far and loved all 3. I’m working on my fourth now. There are over 20 total and so I’ll have lots of fun stuff to read for some time.
If they stick with what it says in the post – all this will no longer be available 7 days from now. They will shut it all down after the 27th. The artwork is also amazing and available in a wide number of sizes. This is when the Down Them All plugin for firefox really comes in handy. Right-Click, Save As just wont cut it for this much awesome stuff.
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I am taking a blog hiatus. This is an encore presentation of a previous post.
One of the things writers seem to love to do is point out errors others make in grammar, punctuation, and word usage. But many years as an editor has taught me that even those who are best with the language still make mistakes, and there are some words that seem to trip up almost everyone. So today I’m sharing a short list of the errors I most commonly see in manuscripts, along with some tips on correct word usage.
This list is specifically taken from my own notes on mistakes I’ve seen lately, but obviously there are many more confusing words! A book I highly recommend is 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionary. It’s fun reading and a great resource to keep on your shelf. (I do).
You can lead a horse to water. (verb, present tense)
She led the class in a song. (verb, past tense)
Pencils used to be made of lead. (noun)
Time to lie down for a nap. (verb, present tense)
Yesterday she lay on the grass and daydreamed. (verb, past tense)
If you are going to use “lay” as present tense, it’s only if you are going to lay something down. The present tense verb “lay” needs to have an object.
Will this post affect the way you write? (verb)
If so, I hope it has a positive effect. (noun)
I’m trying to effect a change in the way writers use grammar. (transitive verb meaning to cause or bring about)
I passed by Starbucks and didn’t stop! (verb, past tense)
I can’t drive past Starbucks without being tempted. (preposition)
The one-dollar cup of coffee is in the past. (noun)
It’s time for a lesson in grammar. (contraction for “it is”)
Choosing the appropriate word has its difficulties. (possessive form, adjective)
The ONLY time you use an apostrophe is when you want a contraction meaning “it is.” There is NO apostrophe in the possessive form.
Help – I need some advice! (noun)
Please advise me on my publishing journey.
They stood in front of the altar to get married. (noun)
Before the wedding, she had to alter her dress. (verb)
When you’re on a horse, you should hold the reins. (noun)
Please try to rein in your feelings. (verb)
The king reigns over his country. (verb)
(Note that when you “rein in” your feelings or you try to “rein in” your kids, it’s a metaphorical use of the original “rein” which pertains to horseback riding.)
This blog has several discrete parts. (adjective meaning separate or distinct.)
Please be discreet when discussing details of your contract. (adjective meaning to be prudent or use discernment; or to be unobtrusive or unnoticeable)
All you grammar police out there: Obviously I’ve just given simplistic examples here, and I haven’t covered all uses of each word. Feel free to add your two cents (and good sense).
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David E. Hoffman at Foreign Policy:
One of the unsolved mysteries of the A. Q Khan nuclear proliferation network is whether there was another nation that benefited, beyond Iran, North Korea and Libya. Khan, the metallurgist who played a key role in Pakistan’s quest for the atomic bomb, acknowledged selling equipment and plans that could be used for nuclear weapons to these three countries, but, by some accounts, he and his associates also referred to a hidden “fourth customer.”
Now, Joshua Pollack, an expert on nonproliferation whose work has appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the ArmsControlWonk.com blog, and the Nonproliferation Review, has written an article with a surprising suggestion: the fourth customer might have been Pakistan’s bitter rival, nuclear-armed India.
In a piece just published in Playboy, Pollack lays out some evidence that the Khan network’s wares–including the key features of centrifuges needed to enrich uranium to higher levels for a weapon–may have found their way to India. More:
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British businesses spend more than £2.3 billion every year on banking charges.
This is according to new research from CashFlows, which looked at the per-transaction and monthly fees being levied by the banks.
Banking charges are an irritating and potentially expensive fact of life – but many firms could reduce the amount they shell out with relatively little effort. We have compiled five top tips to help you cut your banking costs.
1. Understand the charges
You cannot hope to reduce your banking charges unless you are confident that you understand them first. A startling 16 per cent of respondents to the CashFlows research said that they did not know how much they spend each month on banking charges. Your first step should be to investigate your current bank’s fee schedule. Make sure that you pay particular attention to the charges associated with the transactions you carry out most frequently. Could you reduce your costs by changing the way in which you make or receive payments?
2. Reduce your transactions
Many banks charge their business customers on a per-transaction basis. You can therefore reduce the amount you pay by reducing the number of transactions that you carry out. Plan ahead in an effort to cut the number of deposits or withdrawals that you need to make. Consider waiting, and taking a larger sum of cash to the bank, rather than making several trips (while remembering to ensure that any cash is stored safely). Similarly, if you know that you may need cash in the next few days, consider holding onto it rather than making a deposit and then a withdrawal.
Where possible, try to encourage automated electronic payments. The charges for receiving BACS or Faster Payments tend to be lower than those associated with cheques. In addition electronic payments tend to take less time to clear, helping to improve your cashflow in the process.
4. Stay in credit
This is, of course, not as simple as it sounds. Many firms rely on credit to finance their day-to-day operations – but this quickly gets expensive. Try to draw up accurate cashflow forecasts in order to maximise your chances of staying in the black. If you are forced to borrow, make sure that you take some time to investigate the most cost-effective options. Credit cards and overdrafts tend to be particularly expensive. You might want to consider alternatives like invoice financing in an effort to reduce your costs.
5. Shop around
Finally, remember the importance of shopping around. As with every service, it is important that you regularly consider your business banking arrangements. Be prepared to shift providers if you find a better deal elsewhere. Most banks will offer an introductory period during which transactions are free. You may be able to significantly reduce your costs by ‘hopping’ between these.
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Having diabetes markedly raises the risk of developing a host of other ailments, from heart disease to stroke, blindness and kidney failure. Many arise after blood vessels suffer damage, spurring the accumulation of fatty deposits in the arteries or the wild, blinding growth of capillaries in the eye.
"We're interested in what happens in the body at the molecular level to cause these life-threatening problems," said Mark S. Segal, Ph.D., an assistant professor of nephrology, hypertension and transplantation at UF's College of Medicine. "Our work is focused on understanding why diabetic patients are at increased risk for these other diseases."
The problem is rooted in the body's response to vascular injury. The bone marrow churns out cells crucial to repairing the damaged lining of blood vessels. But sometimes they fail to report for duty.
"Part of the defect we think is occurring in diabetic patients is these cells do not carry out appropriate repair, and therefore these patients are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease and other complications," Segal said.
The inability of the cells to repair the peripheral vasculature, the large vessels of the body, is similar to their inability to repair the small vessels within the eye, he added.
"In the vasculature it leads to atherosclerosis, and within the eye it leads to diabetic retinopathy," he said. "So the link is we have one defect in these cells that can lead to both of these problems."
UF researchers isolated these repair cells from blood samples drawn from patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease and studied them in the laboratory. The cells were unable to move about normally. But when nitric oxide gas was added, Segal said, the cells lost their rigidity, becoming suppler, and their ability to move dramatically improved.
In the body, nitric oxide occurs naturally. It helps the repair cells move out of the bone marrow where they are made, and it opens blood vessels and improves the uptake of oxygen. Patients with diabetes, however, commonly have low levels of nitric oxide.
"We went on to show that actually what's happening is nitric oxide is affecting the skeleton, or scaffold of the cell, and by adding nitric oxide we're able to rearrange the scaffold," Segal said. "When we rearrange the scaffold, the cells are able to migrate. The benefit of this is that when cells have improved movement they are able to repair the endothelium (the lining of the blood vessels) better and perhaps prevent atherosclerosis."
UF scientists suspect that in the cells taken from diabetic patients, nitric oxide interacts with a protein that steers the protein to the cell surface instead of inserting it into the cell as it would in healthy people. That causes the cell to stiffen.
The finding raises the possibility that nitric oxide could someday be used to keep the cells mobile, enabling them to travel to distant sites when needed, Segal said.
"The importance of this is related to other work that has shown that many drugs being used on the market today actually affect nitric oxide levels within these cells," Segal said. "So someday there may be two ways to help people whose cells may not function as well as they should. One is through certain medications - there may be a way we could actually give medications that would affect the nitric oxide levels within these cells and enhance their migratory ability. The other is through certain instances where we might actually collect these cells, treat them with nitric oxide outside the body and give them back to patients, to help improve the cells' migration ability."
In the future, for example, patients with diabetes and atherosclerosis who require angioplasty might receive injections of their own repair cells. The cells would be removed, incubated with nitric oxide to improve their function and then returned. They would theoretically help blood vessels heal more quickly, and perhaps keep new fatty deposits from forming, Segal speculated.
The research grew out of previous work at UF in collaboration with UF biochemist Daniel Purich, Ph.D., and pharmacologist Maria Grant, M.D. UF materials scientist Roger Tran-Son-Tay, Ph.D., among others, also participated in the current study.
"The work of Segal and colleagues is groundbreaking and provides important insights into the underlying mechanism of blood vessel damage in diabetes, which is the hallmark lesion for complications affecting the kidneys, eyes and nerves in patients with diabetes," said Anupam Agarwal, M.D., director of the Nephrology Research and Training Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.
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A vivid and thoughtful portrait of China by a Pulitzer Prize- winning husband-and-wife team of New York Times correspondents formerly in Beijing. Allowing for the complexity of the task, and for the sad record of China watchers (almost all of whom, for example, were unaware of the greatest man-made famine in history, which followed the so-called Great Leap Forward at the end of the 1950s and killed 30 million people), Kristof and WuDunn puzzle over the great paradox of present-day China: that, amid all the signs of a dying political dynasty, there flourishes one of the most buoyant economies in the world. All the signs of the death of the Communist Party era are visible: the alienation of the people; the loss of belief in the ideology even among the Party elite; the loss of control over information; and the growth of competing centers of power. It is a regime that has ``the worst public relations sense of any major government in the world'' and is ``too corrupt, too rotten, to be very successful at being totalitarian.'' And yet, in bringing industry to the rural areas, Deng Xiaoping unleashed a second agricultural revolution which--largely by removing Party control and instituting a regime closer to that of Dickensian England--brought about an annual growth rate of 13% in 1992 and 1993. This rate, as the authors point out, is unsustainable, but it has already raised more than 100 million Chinese out of poverty. With due recognition of the fallibility of the experts, the authors think that the most likely scenario is one of peaceful evolution, along the lines of Taiwan. The authors may not always be quite as skeptical of statistics as one would like, but this is a hard-headed, clear analysis filled with anecdote and vivid reportage.
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Roses before all the rain.............
Roses! We have around 28 different roses: wild or species roses, old roses (some of which date to the Renaissance) and the rest are mostly Canadian super hardy roses. Although it hasn’t happened in the past few years, the temperature can get down to 25 below zero.
The photo with only one kind of rose is “The Milford Rose,” which dates back to the late 1700 and was brought here by the Pinchot family of Milford. It appears to have come from France and is very, very fragrant.
Behind the feverfew,the Apothecary rose is in the foreground, Nearly Wild behind that and a nameless very old rose in the back.
In the bottom photo, the white rose is Frau Karl Drushki; the pale pink is New Dawn and the red one is Blaze.
Luckily I got these photos before all the rain turned most of the blossoms to mush.
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This is an almost exact model of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet engine - the same engine that powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The only difference is that this one is made entirely of Lego.
On display at the Farnborough Airshow 2012, this working, spinning, model is quite the sight to behold. It wasn't put together by Rolls-Royce but by a specialist Lego construction team which certainly had their work cut out for them - quite the step up from the Lego Xmas Tree.
The real Trent 100 has fan tips moving faster than the speed of sound but those of this 152,000 Lego brick model were moving considerably slower at the time. The Trent is also capable of compressing air into a space 50 times smaller than its original volume but we're not so sure that the super structure of this version is quite up to the task.
Were you to buy the real McCoy, you'd be the proud owner of a jet engine in which each blade produced the same horsepower as a Formula 1 car with fuel burning at 2000C, roughly half the temperature of the surface of the Sun. Your choice as to which would do better in your living room.
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In a previous blog post, I addressed how in cases of driving under the influence, the blood alcohol content ("BAC") of the offender affects the severity of the sentences. Clearly, obtaining an accurate measurement of BAC is very important to law enforcement officials. As a result, after someone is arrested for DUI and transported to a hospital or police station, breathalyzer or blood tests are administered to specifically determine the suspect's BAC. Over the years many people have asked me if they can simply refuse to submit to those tests. Surprisingly, you can in fact refuse to take such a test. However, if you do, your driver's license will be suspended for at least one year and you will subject yourself to further possible disadvantages.
The suspension arises from the so-called "Implied Consent" law, which is found in section 1547 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, . Generally, section 1547 states that anyone who ". . . drives. . . a vehicle in this Commonwealth shall be deemed to have given consent to one or more chemical tests of breath, blood or urine for the purpose of determining [BAC] . . . if a police officer has reasonable grounds to believe the person . . ." is under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. More simply stated, in the eyes of the law, anyone driving a vehicle in Pennsylvania has already implicitly consented to BAC testing. Refusals to submit to BAC tests will result in a license suspension of at least one year. Moreover, such suspension will be in addition to any suspension that arises from the DUI charges themselves if a conviction occurs.
In addition to the suspension, a refusal can lead to other detrimental consequences. First, the DUI charge will be placed in the third tier for sentencing purposes, resulting in harsher sentences and more expensive fines. Essentially, this treats the offender as if they had a BAC equal to or higher than .16 percent. This is obviously detrimental to drivers whose charges would have been treated as first or second tier offenses had they submitted to the BAC test.
Additionally, the refusal itself can be used against suspects at trial to prove a consciousness of guilt. At the time of testing, a DUI suspect is told that if they refuse the BAC test, they will lose their license for at least one year. At trial, prosecutors will argue that instead of submitting to BAC testing, refusing suspects chose to lose their licenses for one year because they knew that their BAC would likely be above the legal limit.
Those disadvantages underscore the need for competent legal representation when facing DUI charges. In the future, we will address other topics related to DUI, including field sobriety tests, licensing issues and the consequences of driving with a suspended license, so please be sure to check back.
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What control are you using?
Can someone help me with a custom macro to find out the exact cycle time for an executed program ?
Right now i enter the system clock variable value into another user variable during start and end of the program and then manually find out the time difference between the two times to find the cycle time. This is a cumbersome job when there are multiple programs with ATC being used. I was wondering whether someone knows how to subtract the end time from start time on a 24 Hr clock (also considering date of execution by taking into account system date). The date on my system reads in format hh/mm/ss and the variable is updated as hhmmss.
thanks a ton
What control are you using?
You may find it simpler to use the continuous millisecond counter #3001.
Reset #3001 to zero at start of program.
At end of program save the value of #3001 to another macro variable (#500 for example). Then convert this value to a legible format (sexagesimal). I use the format hh.mmss (this works well as the values on my macro setting screen are displayed to four decimal places regardless).
Conversion example: -
This one-line formula rounds down to the last whole second. You can probably live with this when measuring a single cycle time.
For greater accuracy (eg if you are adding these times together) you may want to use ROUND where FIX is. This creates another issue, however - in some cases it will round up to 60 seconds and you would need to put in another couple of lines of logic to check and correct the final value if necessary.
IF[[[#500*100]-FIX[#500*100]]EQ.6]THEN#500=#500+.004 (rounds up the minute if necessary)
IF[[#500-FIX[#500]]EQ.6]THEN#500=#500+.4 (rounds up the hour if you have now made it necessary)
Last edited by christinandavid; 02-04-2011 at 05:40 PM. Reason: Made a boob...
Thanks for the help
I will try the code that you gave. I will probably go with the millisecond option. Assign the value to a variable and then deduct the same value from the millisecond variable and then put it through the code that you helped with.
I was actually thinking of a code where i calculate the hours from the clock but it could get complicated during changeover of the day but your approach of calculating from milliseconds look simpler !
I managed to write one-liners for converting all the other time formats the control uses - millisecs to decimal hours and vice versa, decimal hours to hh.mmss and vice versa. Give us a shout if you need any pointers.
The system I am working on keeps track of the shift as well as seperate tools and sequences within a cycle, extracting those times from auxilliary functions such as tool and pallet changes - I'm having a hard time proving it out as it involves modifications to those macros and I have to wait for the right jobs to come along to do the testing...plus I'm not always on the control in question.
I'm getting there...slowly
I' am actually just looking at getting a program run time in minutes at this point of time.
My next step would be to output the concerned macro variables into a program for which i have not got a solution yet. I cant use DPRINT as my machine has a dataserver and I' am not connected by RS232 which is supposed to be a must for DPRINT to work. If only i would output the data into a program and then punch it out to data server, i have ways of processing this data externally on a computer by putting it into an excel spreadsheet and getting all the info that i want in an understandable and presentable format.
Do you know of a way to take out macro variables the way i' am wanting them ?
DPRNT is the only way to get a decent report out of the machine as far as I know...
From what I have read on this site, it should be possible to set up the system parameters to output data to RS232 using DPRNT (as long as the external computer is 'ready'), while still keeping the dataserver path for programs.
Saying that - surely the macro variable values can be 'punched' to the dataserver/dataserver host, as can the system parameters? I'll look at that the next chance I get...
Hopefully I will get this sorted on our control when we get the Renishaw GUI installed (been waiting two years for that one). For now, I have a little laminated template to hold over the monitor so I can keep track of what each variable represents (my system uses from #500 up to #799...don't laugh...)
You use close to 300 variables for monitoring ! Thats great....seems like you dont allow any information to escape..i cant even imagine how to make use of all 300 variables in one go
I' am also looking for ways of just punching the variable values into data server and i hope i can get it sometime soon. There are things that Fanuc is very unfriendly about and i think this is one of them. Even though computers and networking technologies have moved ahead FANUC still holds onto stuff like DPRINT which does not work on an internal channel like the data server communication.
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Technology is growing and evolving at a drastic rate. What is new today, is obsolete tomorrow. Lets be honest, we can never live without mobile phones. Its what we live and roam around with everyday to communicate all the time. As User Interaction becomes more and more demanding these days, the technology has to cope up.
Mobile phone business is one of the most rapid growing industries. Not so long ago, the popular and most awesome phone was Nokia 3310 with mere basic functions: call, text messaging and the only bearable game, snake. However, significant improvement has been made since then. Some phones have no buttons and are equipped with multi-touch screens, accelerometers, audio systems, video systems and hundreds of other media and productivity features. Perhaps the term ‘Smart Phones’ is a best way to describe them considering manner in which it is evolving. Today’s phone boasts in offering wide screen experience, surround sound, seamless integration, GPS, Video Conferencing etc.
But designers are bound to imagine what will the future look like. What we can expect from the next generation of handsets that will be available in the next 10 years? So, in this article I have showcased over 35 creative and futuristic cell phone concepts which will definitely amaze you and put your imaginative minds at work. Take a look.
1. MAGIC STONE
The revolutionary approach lies in the fact, that a customer can model absolutely any shape of the mobile phone’s case, with absolutely any color and different patterning and pictures on it through an internet page with the help of a simplified scheme.
Piccolo Concept 1 cell phone received its design inspiration by Motorola, bringing a sexy and sleek concept that will definitely appeal to females.
Origami, a Motorola concept cell phone, is made of thin segmented “technostuff.” It “can be folded into different forms to serve different functions: phone, recording device, camera, and, presumably, a pointy paper crane.
The designer, Mac Funamizu, drew on the Nokia Aeon to design a phone he would like to have, complete with Apple’s standard livery. Using a nondescript tactile feedback technology, its surface adapts to different purposes while the e-ink screen envelops the phone in graphics and information.
Designer Jakub Lekeš tries to push the limits of phone designing with his concept. This phone has many useful features. A sliding touch screen QWERTY keyboard is concealed under the display and there is a 4.3 megapixel autofocus camera with digital zoom support on the back. The most interesting feature is the side of the phone that shows the running track.
6. WRIST PHONE
The Wrist Phone is a simple, non pretentious phone and is a very basic device that is devoid of the fancy stuff. This makes its cheap to manufacture and market. Another point in its favor is the portability factor; you can simply wrap it around your wrist. Leaving the connectivity issues aside, the phone has the potential to make its mark.
Check out the Eclipse Intuit Phone by Eddie Goh. It’s got all the basic stuff we’ve come to expect from our mobiles; powerful 5 megapixel camera with built-in software for editing and uploading to a photo album, slide-out touch keyboard with tactile feedback, and a nice big touchscreen front and center. What makes this concept unique is parts of the phone are made from a chemically based thin solar skin to charge the battery when exposed to any kind of light. We’ve recently seen patents from companies like Apple detailing this exact thing. It would seem the technology is viable and Eddie Goh isn’t too far off.
The Sony Simplicity Concept is a mobile phone, just a phone, nothing else. It’s made for people that don’t need the modern functions like SMS, Organizer, Camera, E-Mail, surfing and so on, it’s made for people that just want to communicate via phone. Just like in the good old days.
by Andrew Zheng, the handset is a thin slider with a touch screen on board and a physical button keypad. The unusual shape of the LG Traveler phone was created for better grip and this aspect gets enhanced. Thanks to rubbers grips on the side.
10. SMART PHONE
Created by Marc Schomann, sleek design with rotating qwerty keypad and lcd.
The LG Flutter will have an opportunity to be featured in a future blockbuster movie. The device opens up like a fan, as you can see in the image above and has a flexible OLED touch screen display that scrolls radically.
The Kambala is a mobile phone that transforms to an earphone as well. Pop the center piece and the earpiece clip pings out; clip this to your ear and you got a phone-earphone! Multilayered Polymer which hosts all the electronic components is used in its construction. A continuous flexi-screen with plenty of sensors makeup the surface and it has the ability to transmit the image on the inside of the phone to the outside.
An intriguing concept from NEC Design, this Tag Soft-Shell Mobile Phone shows how cumbersome carrying a phone in your pocket can be. Made of rubbery "shape-memorizing" material, the tag will bend and twist at your command.
The “Window Phone” makes accurate predictions and even changes its display to reflect the climatic conditions outdoors.
Kyocera’s EOS folding concept phone incorporates a flexible OLED screen, changing its form factor from a clamshell into something more closely resembling a wallet or clutch-purse.
The concept behind the Sticker Phone is quite simple; most of us tend to place our mobile phone near windows for better signal reception. So this concept takes it a step further by adding a solar panel to the back of the phone and giving it a slight arch so that it can stick (via suction) to the window glass for some sunshine.
LG concept phone called Helix, a device that can also be used as a slap bracelet worn on the owner’s wrist. LG Helix comes with flexible circuits, a touch screen display and the concept device is made out of rubber and black stainless steel. You can attach the handset to the belt, through a magnetic charger and use the kinetic energy generated by the user to power up the cell phone.
18. Dial Phone
The trend in concept phones these days is turning retro, which is why we have the “Dial” reminisce the era of the round-dials on phones. The difference however lies in the present concept being touted as a fashion accessory that can be crafted in the metal of choice; giving you the luxury of being, chic, sporty, or uber-rich. A projected light beam in the inner circle impersonates the rotary dial, but to dial a number you need to simply touch it. Quite interesting.
19. Motorola Sparrow
Motorola has come up with a new concept of Motorola Sparrow. A concept conceived to provide retail stores with a mobile point of sale device. The Motorola Sparrow is an all-in-one device that combines a scanner, RFID, point of sale (POS) system, communication and credit card reading capabilities. Equipped with touch sensitive areas, the front and back of the Motorola Sparrow makes it easy to navigate and use.
Mexican designer Veronica Eugenia Rodriguez Ortiz created the Yuxa wearable cell phone concept. This is an eco-friendly phone featuring an OLED display and rechargeable battery, plus an innovative means of communication.
It’s got raised and lowered portions to create braille using what’s called Electric Active Plastic (EAP!) Several different modes can be activated: text, braille numbers, roman-character numbers, and off (all lowered.) It can send and receive phone calls and texts, displaying texts in braille in the space normally reserved for a screen on the average phone.
Designer Tao Ma has designed an inimitably different concept phone that has got the looks of a bracelet. The shiny gizmo vibrates when you receive a message and you can read the text by taking the bracelet off the wrist and pressing its precious looking keys.
Trou Hologram Mobile Phone relies totally on 3D holograms being projected in the vacant display area. Tiny projectors line the inner surface of the hollow and bring to life the many aspects of the technology. Imagine seeing 3D maps of a particular area or your girlfriend’s hologram when she calls!
Here’s a phone that’s intuitive, functional and sleek; people let’s scrutinize the Easter Moai. It wouldn’t be a futuristic phone, if it didn’t have a touchscreen LCD! For convenience, all the function keys are reserved to the slant edge, which I think is brilliant. The face has just the essentials slated to the corner edge, giving the much needed screen-space that most people demand these days.
A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, simple and carefree. You can change its form according to your needs during the day. You dont have to carry it in your pocket or on your wrist. You can carry it anywhere, in anyform. You can roll it, bend it, put on your clothes like a clip. It also makes some form changes that makes it more ergonomical: i.e. when you want to talk on the phone, the body form turns into the form of the good old telephone. You can personalize these forms and record them. So it fits you the best in the way that you have chosen. Also e-motions let you send forms to other 888 users: i.e. you can send a heart shape to your girlfriend or a dancing figure to your friends to call them to the party tonight. This way you can talk without words.
27. Blue Bee Phone
Another futuristic smart phone created by Kingyo. Blue Bee is a very interesting handset interface which is also appealing at the same time.
28. KRE8, a DJ Phone
Designer Jose Tomas DeLuna thinks that there is a market for the creative music junkies who like to mix their music on the go. As a result he has conceptualized KRE8, which is mobile phone but has plenty of musically enhanced features. It’s a device that bridges musical creativity and communication.
29. LG Burst
The LG Burst is a projector phone designed to enhance the mobility and functionality of the traditional touch screen phone. Using specialized software to distort and compress the touch space image display, Burst projects images onto any flat surface.
The Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces.
33. Connext Concept
Connext is an all-in-one, flexible smart device designed by James Zhang that can morph its form to fit the application that it assumes. Combining OLED touch-screen technology with E-paper flexibility, this device can switch to become a mobile phone, computer, multimedia player, watch, physical avatar etc.
The “Gigaset Eco Visions” “Leaf” and “Solar” are made of recyclable raw materials, such as eco-plastic and liquid wood. Sun-light is used as a natural energy source for handsets.
This HiFi concept headset gives us a whole new way of using a cell phone. It’s a peculiar touch screen phone which the headset can be wrapped around the head to enjoy music and attend to call even when you are moving around.
36. Ply Phone
Each section is tabbed to core functions like a dialpad, keyboard, gamepad, touchscreen, pico project, and printer! Will it ever see the light of day? Hard to say. Miniaturizing some of those proposed functions seems beyond what science and technology can achieve now but never underestimate kooky designers and crafty engineers.
This new DYA phone brings a whole new meaning to the world slider. DYA phone has an unique design that uses diagonal cut and become compact when not in use. But it is large enough for any other basic function you need
Creative designer Jeremy Innes-Hopkins has an interesting concept phone called the Nokia Kinetic. An electromagnet in the base of the phone allows weight to be shifted which causes the phone to stand up when receiving a call.
The concept of alternate arrangement is how designer Timo Wong arrived at the design of CELLS. The design mimics the contours of a typical fruit tray. The number keys are not separated by straight lines, boxes or circles but by alternating contours on one single surface.
The Philips Fluid Smartphone designed by Brazilian designer Dinard da Mata looks like one of those "Slap Wrap" slap bracelets kids used to wear in the 90s. Flexibility is one thing that makes it differ from conventional smart phones. Made of OLED, it can keep all the features of a smart phone available while adding the extra advantage of turning into a bracelet.
This phone has got everything a modern phone has. You’ve got the high contrast OLED display. You’ve got the really thin form factor. And then there’s the number key pad and soft keys sitting nearly flush with the surface. But what’s really interesting is the bulge protruding from its center-back, hiding a camera and flashlight. Lay it on a table and the screen stays angled just enough so legibility isn’t an issue. Put a Pokemon on either side and watch it seesaw.
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Bear Cubs are Third grade boys who work together toward earning their Bear badge. If a Bear is new to Cub Scouting, he must first earn his Bobcat rank. “To earn the Bear Badge, a Cub Scout must complete 12 achievements out of a possible 24 that are offered in the book. The achievements are grouped in 4 major areas, GOD, COUNTRY, FAMILY, and SELF. Within each group, a required number of achievements must be completed, as indicated below. Also, any achievements that they do NOT use to earn the Bear Badge may be used to earn Arrow Points.” Resource: Bear Badge Requirements
CubCastEach month the national office provides two timely podcasts based upon best practices in Cub Scouts. You can listen to past podcasts by clicking the archives button in the lower right below.
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May 14, 2012
Viennese Cowboy in the Middle East
The two brown horses gallop lightly on the famous Viennese Ringstrasse. They remain calm, even when cars drive by from left and right. “This part is called Karl-Lueger-Ring, after the former Mayor, who happened to be a big Anti-Semite. Last week I heard that the city is going to rename it – and justified”, the carter explains, surprisingly in Hebrew! Well, not an academic Hebrew, “but good enough for the kitchen”, he admits.
His name is Rupert Adensamer. He’s 34, studied the history of the Middle East, originally Viennese. Most of his life, he has spent among his horses. For the last three years he was occupied with conveying the story of the Austrian Capital through the most authentic method: on the carriage. But one thing separates him from his other jealous comrades: Rupert has a connection to Israel; such as only the ones who rode across it on a horse’s back could understand.
Rupert Adensamer first came to Israel at the age of 22, for the purpose of a national service, instead of going to the Austrian military.“ I worked for the remedial community ‘Kfar Rafael’ in Beer Sheva. There I lived exactly like in a Kibbutz”, he remembers, “as the time went by, I learned the language from the residents.” The mission ended after 6 months, but Adensamer continued coming every few months during his vacation from the university. “It was the time of the second Intifada, and rockets started falling in southern Israel. Since there was a difficulty with recruiting more volunteers from Europe, they kept on calling me. I was always very happy to come.”
Eventually, it was a relationship with an Israeli ‘Kibbutz-Girl’ that led to a new passion: Horse Breeding in Israel. “My girlfriend’s dad sympathized Shagya Arabian horses, exactly the same type that my family has been breeding for the last 40 years. So I offered that we open up a stable in the Kibbutz. We started out with 3 horses that my family gave us. Today I have 11 horses together with other Israeli partners.”
Sounds like a successful business.
“From the beginning I said that it won’t turn into a business. It’s about vision, family, about love to the horses that brings people together despite their differences. And in the middle-eastern reality – this is a very important asset. Although, we do specialize the horses to compete in ‘Endurance’ competitions for distances of 120km and more. These contests are very popular in the Arabian countries, like in Jordan where even Israeli groups take part in.”
Is there a difference between owning horses in Israel and in Europe?
“The big difference is that in Europe, you could actually make a living out of it. In Israel there is a very young tradition in this field. Israelis tend to focus too much on the final goal, not on enjoying the road to it, and in the meanwhile they complain that the horses are not fast enough. Also historically, Jews had never the image of horsemen. Besides that, I’m always worried about thefts. Last week, somebody tried to steal my horses in Israel. You need to understand, that each time a horse gets stolen, there goes also his genetics. This genetics is crucial for the race’s breeding. That is why I keep my horses in different stables. The positive side is that in the northern Israel you have the ideal conditions for the horses. I think that I would be happy to be a carter along the beach of Tel Aviv.”
At a certain point, the carriage turns away from the Ringstrasse and enters the old city of Vienna. “This was the Emperor’s residence during the winter”, Adensamer says while maneuvering between hundreds of curious tourists, and then he asks: “do you see this balcony? It was installed by order of the Baron Wilsczeck so it will turn directly to Sissi’s room window.”
How do you adjust the content of your tours to the different tourists?
“Sometimes the people I take with me are not interested in history. In case they do, I try to put up a comedy show while adjusting the content to the nationality: the Argentineans are interested in Sigmond Freud’s old house, the Japanese want to know everything about Mozart. The Arabs are more interested in Shopping. The Israelis are the noisiest, but they also have the best mood. They always think that I try to fool them, but once I start to talk in Hebrew, they already feel like at home and I become a part of the family.”
So you’re addicted to the Middle East.
“Look, everything that happened in my life regarding this region was a coincident. I wanted to study history, and if you keep your eyes open, there’s no way that you miss this tensed topic. I think that Israel is, without its fault, too much in the focus of the international media. Like there aren’t any other disasters in the world. I also noticed that we in Europe are much more stressed about the possible war with Iran than Israel. Because you have bunkers.”
Do you see how the world politics also affect the world of horse breeding?
“Through horse breeding you can save entire races that almost disappeared due to the world wars. The Lipizzaner, which are so beloved by the Austrians, were almost extinct after WW1. The devotion of one man saved them. Or for instance: in the 18th century, the horses back then were considered to be too heavy for their role in the postal service and in the military. So Arabian horses were brought from the Middle East to Europe. The horses became then lighter and more human friendly. A real “Arabization”. It came to the situation in which the Bedouins have sold their entire species. Only in 1994 they managed to save their horses from extinction. Thanks to the water distribution agreement during the peace treaty with Israel.“
And there is probably a lot of politics in the world of carters.
“Everybody here are equal. If there is someone who has a wrong attitude, the things will be addressed directly. Women have it much easier in this job. Carters have also a bad image in the Austrian society: either we are gamblers and alcoholic, or we are technology deniers. Which is sometimes true. Each and any one of us has also a nickname. Mine is ‘Herr Magister’, after my academic degree. When they want to hurt me, they call me ‘Judenschwein’ (Pig-Jew). It started when I tried to help an Israeli lady during an argument she had with one of my colleagues. After I spoke to her in Hebrew, the other carter became angry since he thought that I tried to arrange something behind his back. Some of the carters here do not understand that the fact that I speak Hebrew and lived in Israel, does not make me Jewish. But they don’t care. It made me understand how deep the Anti-Semitism is rooted in some Viennese. And they never even met a Jew in their live. Even as my friends in Israel told me how common the Anti-Semitism in Austria is, I couldn’t believe it. Until I experienced it by myself. For this kind of people I’ll be a Jew on purpose.”
Why did you choose this job, even though you’re academic?
“First, I earn here much more than in the academy. Second, after many years of travelling, I had to stabilize my life. I reached the conclusion that I prefer to be with my family and my horses, especially when they eat and I can relax with them. And indeed, I managed to build my own urban Kibbutz in the middle of Vienna: I don’t need my phone because everybody know where I am, I don’t have traffic problems, I don’t need a parking lot. I have the perfect balance between city and nature. But still, this job takes over your life. When everybody are on vacation, I need to work. When they are at work, I need to take care of the horses. Either you are a carter for life, or none.”
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The capital city
Glitz, glamour, golf and more
Center of the Blues Universe
Elms Court is one of the most outstanding suburban villa residences in Natchez. Construction on the two-story center portion of the Greek Revival structure was begun around 1836. In 1895, James Surget bought Elms Court from relatives and presented it to his daughter, Carlotta, as a wedding gift when she married David McKittrick, whose descendants still occupy the home. Elms Court is often on tour during either the Spring or Fall Pilgrimages.
This modest historic residence was the home of Richard Elward, a book-binder and Natchez newspaper editor. Set close to the street on a corner of a lot encircled by a palisade fence, the brick cottage is distinguished by the high quality of its exterior, Greek Revival style woodwork. You can find it while strolling through the garden district of town and it's side faces that of Greenleaves.
Museum provides visitors with a glimpse at life along the river—examining both the risks and benefits of living so close to the water. Inside the building, the museum features an orientation theater, classroom space and an assortment of interactive and educational displays for all ages. The museum offers tours aboard the Motor Vessel Mississippi IV. This tugboat was in use from the 1960s until 1993 when it was finally retired. Visitors will better understand life aboard the vessel through interactive displays, a variety of historical items and a boat simulator in the pillot house. Free admission.
Mississippi River Adventures is a great place for catfishing and fun in the sun on the Mighty Mississippi River.
Canoeing/Kayaking this river is becoming increasingly popular but is not safe without the services of an experienced guide. ? Outfitter - Quapaw Canoe Company, Clarksdale, MS, 662.627.4070
The museum features the world’s largest collection of WBTS ship models and a collection of riverboat models and naval vessels with Mississippi names. The museum will also have model railroad layouts on display. Admission.
Let the good times roll while aboard American Cruise Lines’ brand new Mississippi Riverboat, Queen of the Mississippi. On the greatest paddlewheeler to ever grace the Mississippi River, you can expect to step back in time to the grand era of steamboating, while enjoying modern safety features never before seen on a Mississippi paddlewheeler. Step ashore to explore historic Natchez, Civil-War era Vicksburg and Oak Alley, one of the Old South’s most legendary plantations. The Queen of the Mississippi will embody the spirit of traditional Mississippi River cruising and the grandeur of the riverboats of the past, while offering all the modern comforts and amenities American Cruise Lines passengers have come to expect.
In the 1840s, slaves from plantations at Plum Ridge, Wildwood Locust, and Swiftwater built the levee that can still be seen from Bayou Road and Lela Lane.
Make an appointment with J. Stone to get lost in history with rare, early and antique maps, books and prints, all located inside the J.N. Stone House Musicale B&B. Joseph Stone also provides engraved and lithographed maps, botanicals and wildlife prints, historical documents, 16th, 17th 18th & 19th Century items, as well as George Ohr Pottery, Native American Pottery and Navajo weavings.
Sightseeing and dinner cruises on the Mississippi River.
THE OFFICIAL TOURISM RESOURCE FOR THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
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ESRI ArcGIS Online Free Services
Overview | Accessible Data | Usage Notes
According to Environmental Systems Research Institute, or ESRI:
"... ArcGIS Online Services offers a collection of 2D map services and 3D globe services, as well as task-based functional services, which you can use to support your GIS work... ArcGIS Online Services include a number of online map layers that you can use within your own map documents and applications. These layers include multi-resolution imagery, street maps, topographic maps, shaded relief imagery, and more... ArcGIS Online Services are always available on the Web so users with Internet access can use these services at any time."
See the list of free available services on ESRI's Resource Center website. Additional "Premium" serices are available for a charge, but access to these premium services are not available through the Libraries.
ArcWeb vector and image datasets have been cataloged into GIS Lookup, and are listed below:
- "ArcGIS Online Services" is one of many sources for online streaming data. See the OGC WMS page for additional streaming data sources.
- As with all geospatial web services, only an image of the data is being sent to your desktop client. You are not able to query, edit, export, or otherwise use the data as you would if it were in a file-based vector format stored on your own computer. However, there aren't as noticeable limitations when using raster-based service content (maps and imagery).
- The advantages of geospatial web services are that they allow you to quickly access and view basemap data that are stored and maintained (kept up to date) elsewhere, which saves a lot of work. You can then overlay other existing GIS data stored locally with the basemap data from web services.
Go to the GIS Data List Page
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The freedom to choose: finding the right bookPosted: October 29, 2012
By: Vicky Coffin
I love walking into libraries and book stores—I am like a kid in a candy shop. I just know that if I explore enough, I will find at least one book miraculously placed on the shelf just for me. It could be a novel about vampires or witches; it could be a pop-up picture book that I can share with my kids; it could be a manual on home repair full of instructions my husband and I need to fix the leaking kitchen faucet. In every scenario, there is one common theme: the freedom to choose. I can make the choice to escape my reality for a while, spend quality time with my family and friends, or educate and empower myself, all with just a book.
I did not always feel this way; when I was younger, reading felt like a chore. I equated reading with homework and drudgery. It seemed like a waste of time to read about events that happened in the distant past when I should be out in the real world living my life. I could not relate to many of the characters in books that are now considered classics; Tom Sawyer, Hamlet, and Madame Bovary were all so foreign to me. Not only did I not understand why the characters behaved the way they did, but I didn’t really care, either.
When I read Wuthering Heights for the first time, something changed. I hated Heathcliff and Cathy—they were both cruel, tortured souls. So, why did I care what happened to them? When I truly opened my mind and heart to the author’s words, I realized that these flawed characters were capable of sharing a perfect, deep love. It was not the fairy tale kind of love with happy endings and noble sacrifices—it was messy and passionate and all the more real to me for its honesty. And that is what hooked me—that I could get lost for a while in these other realities—that I could step back from my own life to problem-solve, reason, or even fantasize with all of the time in the world. If I needed to, I could simply shut the book and walk away. But I am nearly always compelled to crack that book open again after some time of reflection.
Now that I am a parent, I find it compelling to share my love of literature with my children. I have favorite stories that I think they will enjoy, but I’m always surprised how a book I picked up on a whim ends up being one of their new favorites. They always love to guess what will happen next, and we have the chance to talk about the rights and wrongs of the world through a story. I am also amazed at the factual information they absorb about their favorite subjects. My seven year-old told me today that the spot on Jupiter was most likely caused by a comet—that is news to me!
I cannot deny that I, too, love to learn new things from books authored by experts in all different subject matter. Parenting books filled with information about pediatric care helped me at 2:00 a.m. on many occasions when my kids were sick; my knowledge of installing flooring, cement board, tiles, fixtures, and even renovating a complete kitchen has expanded exponentially with the help of many how-to books; and of course, the textbooks I visually consumed during my studies in librarianship have led me down a career path that gives me much personal fulfillment. I am very fortunate to spend each day at my job helping others find just the right book—for research or just for pleasure.
And that is truly the key—finding the right book. One book can light a fire under you—make you question the world and seek out the answers—allow you the opportunity to ponder your own choices and your perceptions of others. In the world of reading and literature, you are given an opportunity that no one can take away—the freedom to choose where your thoughts will take you next. Get lost in a good book, and just maybe you will be found.
Vicky Coffin has worked at both public and academic libraries during her career as a librarian. For the past seven years, she has worked as a Reference Lecturer at the J. Eugene Smith Library at Eastern Connecticut State University where she is also the primary collection builder for the library’s popular Leisure Reading Collection.
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Navigating today's economy can be trickier than explaining the infield fly rule. But for a handful of billionaires faced with faltering markets and grim economic data, baseball has been the key to staying afloat--for now.
By Forbes' latest count, eight of the 30 Major League Baseball teams are wholly or partially owned by billionaires. Another two 10-figure plutocrats run the corporations behind teams: the Chicago Cubs are controlled, for now, by billionaire Sam Zell's faltering Tribune Co., and the Atlanta Braves are owned by John Malone's
Two-thirds of Major League Baseball teams either rose in value or remained flat last year, including those owned by billionaires, adding stability to their owners' fortunes while other components of their personal balance sheet crumbled. Also holding up are the values of the regional sports networks that carry big-market teams like the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, further helping their owners.
In Pictures: Baseball's Billionaires
Red Sox owner John Henry has watched his asset management firm, J. W. Henry & Associates, deteriorate in value as the stock market crashed in the past year. Yet he debuted on Forbes' list of the World's Billionaires in March with a net worth of $1.1 billion.
More than 90% of his fortune comes from baseball assets. The Red Sox are valued at $593 million (net of debt) this year, up 3% in a year. Henry purchased the team in 2002 with partners Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino. Today his company, New England Ventures, owns the Sox, Fenway Park and a majority stake in the lucrative New England Sports Network.
Forbes 400 mainstay George Steinbrenner has kept his $1.3 billion fortune steady with the New York Yankees. The Bronx Bombers are baseball's most valuable team at $1.5 billion, up $194 million in a year. But nearly all of team's valuation is leveraged; the Yankees borrowed $1.4 billion for their new stadium. The team also committed $425 million in long-term contracts for pricey free agents Mark Texeira, C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett in the off-season.
Making up for the debt on Steinbrenner's personal finance sheet is the lucrative YES Network, which the team owns 35% of. YES carries all of the Yankees to the tri-state area and beyond; cable providers pay more than $2 per subscriber to have it on their system.
Several owners lost their billionaire status because their teams did not represent enough of their fortunes. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim owner Arturo Moreno was worth $1.1 billion last summer. By February his shares of
Similarly, Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos had $1.2 billion as of the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans last September, but we estimate his investments outside the team fell at least 30% during the recent market turmoil. That drop kept him off our list of the World's Billionaires in March despite the Orioles' value staying flat at $250 million this year. Angelos' stake in the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), which broadcasts Orioles and Washington Nationals games, adds millions more to his fortune.
Baseball teams as bankable assets may not be a trend for long. Baseball is the first sports league to begin play during the recession, and attendance in the first few weeks of the season is down 7% compared to last year. Even the notoriously rabid Boston Red Sox fans have yet to snap up season tickets at Fenway Park for the first time since 2003.
Also being slashed: player salaries. According to an April analysis by the Associated Press, 16 out of 30 MLB teams have already sliced their payrolls this season, saving a total of $47 million.
Last week Hicks Sports Group, the holding company of Texas Rangers billionaire owner Tom Hicks, defaulted on more than $500 million in loans, opening the door for banks to eventually assume control of the Rangers and force a sale.
In Pictures: Baseball's Billionaires
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Rather an old news item but amusing nonetheless.
It seems a bit of a bollock was dropped on a joint venture to produce a Mars orbiter; one engineering team using metric units while another used imperial units for a key spacecraft operation.
Result? One lost craft for NASA, costing $125 million!
I loved the statement:
"People sometimes make errors. The problem here was not the error, it was the failure of NASA's systems engineering, and the checks and balances in our processes to detect the error. That's why we lost the spacecraft."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is rejecting the notion that an American pope would be too closely aligned with the U.S. government.
Obama says the Catholic bishops in the U.S. "don't seem to be taking orders from me." And he says an American pope would preside just as effectively as a leader of the Catholic church from any other country.
Cardinals are meeting in the Vatican to vote for a new pope. No American has ever served as pontiff and some cardinals worry an American pope's actions would be viewed as serving the U.S. instead of the church.
The president, in an interview with ABC News aired Wednesday, says the new leader of the Catholic church will have "a tremendous and positive impact on the world."
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So, why should YOU start your own online radio station, radio show, or Podcast? Here are 8 reasons:
1. You have a band and you want to reach people with your music. Even if you just begin by streaming your first CD, that's a start. Plus: lace in announcements of upcoming shows and CD releases.
2. You are a school and you want to provide students and parents with information about current activities.
3. You are in the Radio club at your school and everyone wants an opportunity to practice being a DJ on a real broadcast service.
4. You are a school district or a state and you want to provide a stream with consolidated listings for school Snow Closings in a particular area or for the whole state. Remember: an online Radio station can serve a very specific purpose.
5. You are a college student and want to make extra money by programming to the students at your college or University with the music they want along with announcements about upcoming activities, commercials from the local bookstores, bars and restaurants.
6. You collect a particular type of audio, music, or other type of recording and want to share them with the world.
7. You want to spread the word about a political candidate or political agenda using recordings of candidate speeches or your own recorded analysis and commentary.
8. You have a business and want to promote it. For instance: if you sell motorcycle parts, you might consider a stream with updated motorcycle news.
These are just a few ideas. There are many ways to go about setting up an online Radio station. For more pointers see the following articles:
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Monday, September 28, 2009
If you go
Yampa Valley Medical Center will host "2009 H1N1 (swine) Flu Update" on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Presented by Dr. Rosanne Iversen, Steamboat Family Medicine, Steve Hilley, RN, YVMC's Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, YVMC, and Jim Johnsen, EMT, Emergency Preparedness & Response Coordinator, and the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurses Association. The presentation will be in the hospital's Conference Room 1. This event is free and open to the public.
Tips and symptoms for swine flu
How to protect yourself
- Wash hands frequently
- Use hand sanitizer
- Avoid putting objects in your mouth or by your face
- Cover your cough
- Get vaccinated
- Avoid large gatherings
If you get sick
- Stay home at least 24 hours without fever except to go to the doctor.
- If you still have a cough or runny nose upon returning to school or work, cover your cough/sneeze and wash frequently. Studies have shown you still are spreading the virus.
- Limit your exposure to others in your home. Consider staying in your room and using your own bathroom.
- Clean the bathroom and other surfaces daily.
- If you are severely ill or at risk for complications, your physician may prescribe antiviral medications.
- Take Tylenol or Ibuprofen for fevers (do not give Aspirin to children).
- Sore throat
- Runny or congested nose
- Dry cough
- Body aches, headaches
- Diarrhea and vomiting
For more information go to: www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
Pandemic 2009 H1N1 (swine) flu is here in Routt County. And with school back in session, numbers are on the rise.
Typically, we see our first cases of "seasonal flu" in mid-winter.
However, during a pandemic, the new or "novel" flu can arrive anytime. Routt County had its first case of the new H1N1 flu in June 2009.
It is important to point out that a pandemic flu, such as the 2009 H1N1, is not the same thing as seasonal influenza. Seasonal flu comes around every year. It is especially dangerous for the elderly, children and people whose immune systems are weakened by chronic illnesses.
With a pandemic flu, everyone is at risk.
Pandemic flu results from an all-new virus, rather than an annually evolving one. That is why this year's H1N1, much like the 1918 swine flu, will affect the young and the healthy. It also will spread more quickly.
Our schools are prepared with hand sanitizer and a plan in place to send children home who have a cough and a fever.
Federal, state and local government also have plans in place. The 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine should arrive in Steamboat Springs in the middle of October.
You will be able to get the vaccine from physician offices as well as the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurses Association.
Not everyone will be able to get the vaccine when it first arrives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the first to receive the vaccine will be: pregnant women; people who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age; health care and emergency medical services personnel; persons between the ages of 6 months and 24 years old; and people ages 25 through 64 who are at higher risk for 2009 H1N1 because of chronic health disorders or compromised immune systems.
Why this tiered approach? There will be enough of the vaccine for everyone, but it will trickle in.
We want to first immunize those at highest risk of spreading it, as well as those most likely to have severe complications.
You may have noticed individuals older than 65 have been excluded from the first tier. This is because almost all cases of H1N1 so far have been younger than 65.
More than 50 percent of cases are younger than 25. It is possible that the older you are, the more likely your body can recognize and defend against the 2009 H1N1 because of its similarity to other viruses in the past.
Get vaccinated now for seasonal flu. When the 2009 H1N1 vaccine becomes available, make sure to get the shot for that, too.
The seasonal flu shot will not protect you from 2009 H1N1 because it is a different virus.
Take the flu seriously, and protect yourself. In the United States, 36,000 people die annually from the seasonal flu. The 2009 H1N1 should be treated as being just as deadly and has the ability to affect more people.
Rosanne Iversen, M.D., is a family physician at Steamboat Family Medicine and has been practicing medicine in the Yampa Valley since 1992.
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US scholar says Israelites drank beer as well as wine
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Ancient Israelites drank not only wine but also beer, according to a biblical scholar at Xavier University, a Roman Catholic school in Louisiana, reports Ecumenical News International.
"Ancient Israelites, with the possible exception of a few teetotaling Nazirites and their moms, proudly drank beer - and lots of it," said Michael Homan, in his article for the September/October issue Biblical Archaeology Review, Religion News Service reports.
While English translations of the Bible do not mention beer, the original Hebrew does, he said. Homan, an archaeologist, said the Hebrew word "shekhar" has been mistranslated as "liquor," "strong drink" and "fermented drink," but it translates as "beer" based on linguistic and archaeological research.
Confusion over whether the ancient Israelites drank beer also stems from the difficulty of identifying and finding archaeological remains of beer production in Israelite artefacts.
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Nanotechnology is the technology of developing microscopic devices. The best known variant is nanorobotics, the creation of microscopic robots, which are generally expected to be used in medical applications and computer manufacturing.
Nanotechnology in Science Fiction
Nanotechnology, especially nanorobotics, appears frequently in modern science fiction.
- TNG "Evolution" - Modified medical "nanites" infest the computer systems of the Enterprise, interfering with ship functions and threatening a unique research opportunity. They eventually develop a sentient hive mind and negotiate their own release to an uninhabited planet.
- Star Trek: First Contact - The Borg assimilate victims from the Enterprise by injecting "nanoprobes" into their bodies that take control of them. These will be a feature of the Borg in all of their subsequent appearances.
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A new initiative to improve police skills takes off in December, amid hopes that it will improve the use of data and evidence by officers as they strive to improve performance and drive down costs.
The Home Office has just announced that Alex Marshall, chief constable of Hampshire (pictured left) will head the College of Policing. It will be more of a ‘virtual’ college than a campus-based institution and support the training and capacity efforts of police forces rather than itself provide courses. But the government hopes that it will improve police operations and set standards for specialist skills and training, in fields such as investigation, intelligence gathering and firearms.
The government hopes policing will become cleverer, allowing cuts in what it calls bureaucracy as well as ‘driving down crime’. Home Office minister Damian Green said: ‘the college will be the engine of police reform, enhancing professionalism and setting the highest standards of integrity. It will allow us to develop the change in culture crucial to British policing.’
Mr Marshall has been chief constable in Hants for four years and is credited with establishing a national police air service, cutting costs on the way. He talked of the college cutting ‘unnecessary policies in policing’, replacing them ‘with practical, common sense approaches based on the evidence of what works.’
But assessing what works depends on more police officers being able to read the data and count the numbers. A test for Mr Marshall and the new college will be how far it picks up the work commenced by the Society of Evidence Based Policing and similar initiatives, pushing officers and police managers to study crime patterns and police deployments closely.
Police officers are going to be able to do the numbers and the College of Policing will need to insist on more stats capacity.
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Colorado's drought in 2001-02 accelerated the tree-killing pine beetle outbreak in the Rocky Mountains -- and a dry 2012 could spell more trouble for the state's pine trees, according to new research from the University of Colorado.
Next, the research team led by CU doctoral student Teresa Chapman will study correlations between Colorado's most recent wildfires and the pine beetle epidemic that previously had killed trees in those burn areas, thus creating even more dry fuel for the wind-whipped flames.
Chapman explained that drought coupled with warming temperatures are environmental factors that favor the beetles. In those conditions, trees are unable to produce resin -- the hydrocarbon that helps them ward off the insects.
"Warmer temperatures already favor the beetles, and coupled with the extreme drought of 2001-02, the trees were not able to defend themselves," Chapman said.
Mountain pine beetles are about the size of grains of rice, and adult females lay their eggs -- up to about 75 at a time -- in the bark of trees. When the larvae hatch, they spend about 10 months feeding underneath the bark before developing into adults and attacking other trees. The pine beetles disrupt the circulation of trees, essentially starving them to death.
About 3,000 square miles of forest are affected by the pine beetle epidemic in the southern Rocky Mountains, which stretch from Wyoming through Colorado and into the northern part of New Mexico.
The new research out of CU reveals that the pine beetle outbreak originated in several locations and spread out, coalescing and continuing to spread. Previously, it was believed that the pine beetle outbreak may have started in one place and spread from there.Colorado's drought of 2001-02 played a key role in pushing the pine beetle outbreak into a regional epidemic even when temperature and precipitation levels returned to more normal levels. The beetles moved into wetter and higher elevations, attacking less susceptible lodgepole pine forests.
A paper on the research -- which was funded by the National Science Foundation -- recently was published in the journal Ecology.
Co-authors on the study include CU geography Professor Thomas Veblen and Tania Schoennagel, an adjunct faculty member in the geography department and a research scientist at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.
A 1980s outbreak of the pine beetle in Colorado's Grand County was halted by extremely low minimum temperatures during the winters of 1983 and 1984, according to Veblen. But during the current outbreak, minimum temperatures during all seasons have been persistently high since 1996. The temperatures are well above the levels of extreme cold shown to kill beetle larvae in lab experiments.
"This implies that under continued warming trends, future outbreaks will not be terminated until they exhaust their food supply -- the pine tree hosts," Veblen said in a news release.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Brittany Anas at 303-473-1132 or email@example.com.
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The City of Marshall entered the municipal electric and utility ownership and operation in 1893 by acquiring the hydroelectric plant from the Perrin Estate. A bond issue for $50,000 was floated via a special election held by City Council with 40 odd votes against and more than 500 for. Of the total amount, $17,000 was paid for the purchase of the existing facility. The remainder of the bond paid for construction, acquisition of a new dam, two new waterwheel generators and two sixty horsepower street light arc machines.
From this meager beginning, it is claimed that the City of Marshall utility system is the third oldest hydroelectric utility system operating under its original ownership in the United States.
The demand for electricity had grown to a point that it was necessary to obtain additional power from an outside source. In 1906, a contract was born between the City of Marshall and Commonwealth Power Company, which later became Consumers Power Company. Two new larger water wheels of 175 kva and 250 kva were purchased and installed for $10,620 through a bond issue in 1910. In 1911, the Brush Company of Cleveland Ohio added a new addition to the existing plant on South Marshall Avenue at the cost of $14,000; it is listed in the Historic American Engineering Record. Two more water wheels were purchased and installed in 1919 one of which replaced the smaller of the two installed in 1910. In 1928, a larger water wheel, generator and exciter were installed, replacing the remaining 1910 wheel. The larger water wheel is currently in use today along with one of the 1919 versions. The other 1919 version is currently not in service but still remains as part of our plant.
Inasmuch as the total flow of the river had been utilized, it was decided to purchase two 550 horsepower, 400 kW Nordberg diesel-electric generating units. These units were installed in a new building built to the north of the Hydro Plant and were placed in service in 1922 at which time the contract with Commonwealth Power Company was discontinued.
As the demand for electricity continued to grow additional diesel and dual fuel generating units were purchased and installed along with numerous modifications which included:
1936 - One new Nordberg diesel engine, rated at 1,250 H.P. and 860 kW
1942 - An addition was added to the west end of the existing power plant and one new Nordberg diesel engine rated at 1,500 H.P. and 1,000 kW was installed. This is the #4 Engine.
1948 - One new Nordberg diesel engine rated at 2,400 H.P. and 1,875 kW was installed. This is the #5 Engine today.
1951 - One new Nordberg Radial diesel engine rated at 1,600 H.P. and 1,170 kW was installed to replace one of the 1922 Nordberg's. This unit was removed in 1980.
1953 - One new Nordberg diesel engine rated at 1,600 H.P. and 1,130 kW was installed to replace one of the 1922 Nordberg’s. This is the #2 Engine today.
1973 - One new Fairbanks-Morse 12 cylinder opposed piston engine and generator set was installed and rated 2,070 kW at 2,880 H.P. This is the #3 Engine today. This unit replaced the 1936 Nordberg.
1978 - One new Colt - Pielstik 16 cylinder dual fuel engine and generator set is installed and rated at 5,711 kW at 8,000 H.P. This is the #6 Engine today. The original bonded debt was $2,650,000.00 (10-01-76) with debt retirement in 2005.
In 1978, Marshall’s peak electric load was 14,600-kw, serving 3,690 customers, 701 streetlights, and 270 security lights.
In 1979, the City of Marshall and four nearby communities formed a joint agency, called The Michigan South Central Power Agency (MSCPA) and installed a 55 MW steam powered generator in Litchfield, Michigan. An upgrade was completed in 1999 that increased the capacity to 65 MW.
In May of 2001, nine Caterpillar generating units were installed at Coldwater’s State Street Substation for an additional capacity of 16 MW. In addition, MSCPA purchased nine used Caterpillar generating units that were previously installed at the Garfield substation in Coldwater for Consumers Energy. Three of these units were installed in Marshall.
In August 2000, four new 20,000-gallon fuel storage tanks were installed at the Power Plant. Each tank is equipped with a continuous electronic monitoring and inventory system. The electric actuated valves for fill lines and suction lines are controlled with the existing SCADA system.
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Puppies being re-sold for huge profits in “flips”
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A warning is being issued for people putting pets and puppies up for adoption.
A new trend, which animal activists call “disturbing,” is sweeping the internet.
It’s called “dog flipping.”
People scour the internet or even shelters and bring home purebred or desirable puppies and then re-sell them for a profit.
Some of the dogs are shipped to other countries on planes, while others land in puppy mills, where they are used as breeders.
Dr. Greg Cunningham from Detroit Dover Animal Hospital in Westlake says, “That’s part of the reason a lot of shelters spay and neuter before they’re allowed to leave.”
Still, other dogs face an even more distressing fate. Often small or timid dogs are flipped and sold to be used as bait in dog fighting rings.
“It’s very upsetting,” said Amy Cannon.
She learned about dog flippers the hard way after two of her dogs that weren’t supposed to be able to get pregnant, suddenly mated.
Cannon took the puppies to a veterinarian and got them their shots and then sold them on Craigslist for a very low price.
She thought she did everything right, and even sold two of the pups to a seemingly loving couple.
“(The buyer) was like, ‘We live with our family and have land,’ and I felt really good about it,” said Cannon.
The couple seemed so sincere she even gave them a third puppy named “Frankie” for free.
“So he could live with his brother and sister … how fun will that be,” Cannon recalled.
But that joy turned to anger when a short time later the puppies turned up on Craigslist being sold for a higher price.
“They didn’t even try to disguise it,” said Cannon. “They listed him with his same name and everything.”
Cannon and her boyfriend devised a sting operation and got Frankie back, but she has no idea what happened to the other two puppies.
“It makes me sick,” said Cannon.
She turned that rage into action and started “The Citizens Against Flipping Dogs” on Facebook.
Cannon is also working on getting legislation passed that would make dog flipping illegal, and is calling it “Frankie’s Law.”
The practice has actually been occurring for a while.
Dr. Cunningham says “dog brokers” have been doing the same thing for at least five to six years.
Not only is the flipping upsetting to the original owner, it can also be bad for the puppy.
“Absolutely, I think it’s got to be very traumatic to them,” said Dr. Cunningham.
He says many dogs can recover if they end up in a loving household, but some could be injured or develop other illnesses.
“They’re picking up how many dogs and taking them to who knows where,” said Dr. Cunningham.
Cannon suggests people exercise extreme caution when buying or selling an animal.
She says research potential clients on the internet. Look at how many times their name and phone number turn up on the web. Dog flippers tend to be on many websites with multiple dogs.
Watch out for fake rescue organizations. Cannon says people will claim they are helping dogs when they are really flippers.
Listen carefully and be cautious trusting a sob or slick story.
And finally, be wary of anyone attempting to purchase or take more than one animal.
A Painesville woman thinks she had dog flippers contacting her.
Ellen Dvorek breeds Golden-Doodles but sells them for far less than what they are worth on the internet.
“I’m not trying to get wealthy, you know, just trying to breed really cool dogs for families,” said Dvorek.
But she started getting strange emails after posting her puppies on the internet.
Dog flippers aren’t anxious to discuss their business, but some have defended their actions on blogs saying they have every right to earn a living.
(our sister station WJW-TV in Cleveland contributed this report)
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A United Nations working group is currently looking into how the UN should respond to possible threats to the planet from near-earth objects, such as asteroids.
Currently, hydro power plants in Bulgaria are leaders in energy generation, but there is a 'realistic possibility that the water resources of the country will be expended'
The first step towards reform has been taken by giving all scientists above pensionable age one month's notice, Dnevnik daily said.
The ESF report stressed that BAS operated on the "border of survival" due to severe lack of funding, thus it was proposed that the academy's funding is reevaluated thoroughly in order for the institution to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency
Which institutions were deemed useless, was to be determined by a European expert audit, which was to publish its report on November 30.
The Sofia Echo settles in cyberspace.
A fond memoir of the life and times of a certain English-language publication.
Film almost inspired bone-idle journalist to start jogging.
Russia's revolution of the well-fed, well-dressed and well-informed.
Your Facebook friends have more friends than you and other surprising findings from a new Facebook study.
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Fruit trees are flowering, or will soon, and if you are able to fertilize only once a year, now is the time to do it. Any granular fertilizer will do. First, determine how many square feet are under the tree's foliage canopy, and use the amount recommended on the package label. Scatter the fertilizer under the tree, making sure that you distribute it evenly, and then work it into the soil by roughing up the ground with a steel rake. If it should rain, the water will carry the fertilizer to the roots; otherwise, use a sprinkler to irrigate deeply.
If you didn't get around to planting that fruit tree you've always wanted, it's not too late. Although the bare-root season has passed, many nurseries pot up their unsold bare-root plants. Some of the advantages of bare-root planting (including price) are lost, but the trees still have time to become well-established, planted this early in the spring.
Deciduous fruit trees should be pruned by now, but if you haven't done so, do it now. Don't prune too heavily at this time of the year, however. Fruiting-flowering varieties should be cut back while they are in flower; put the branches in a vase.
Many pesticides are toxic to bees. Don't spray trees now or you'll risk killing the bees that are doing the pollinating--which will result in less fruit.
After the first week of March, there is no danger of frost (except in the mountains). All the materials used to protect plants from freezing can be put away. And then, once a few warm days have taken the chill out of the soil, planting for summer can begin.
Snails flourish at about the time daffodils start to bloom. To eliminate them, sprinkle in the late afternoon; then go hunting for them with a flashlight after dark. That is an especially successful method. Or scatter bait. Another option is to introduce decollate snails (cannibal snails) into your garden. They eat mostly snail eggs and baby snails--and old leaves as well. It's possible to be disappointed with decollate snails because three years or so must pass before results show. If you do use them, be very careful with snail bait because they'll eat it, too. However, since decollate snails are not climbers (except during heavy rains), you can put bait in raised pots, where only common snails are likely to go. Decollate snails are available from J. Harold Mitchell, 305 Agostino Road, San Gabriel 91776; telephone (818) 287-1101.
Bromeliads with pups around the base that are one-third to one-half the height of the parent can be separated, and the pups can be used to form new plants. If you use snail bait, be careful to keep it out of the plants' cups. If the colors of a bromeliad seem pale, increase the amount of light gradually.
Tuberous begonias can be started now. Place them up to their necks in slightly damp peat moss. When pink sprouts appear, plant the tubers in pots or in the ground. Once planted, they should not be moved, because their leaves won't adjust to light from a new direction. The larger-flowered types grow well near the beach, but the single-flowered varieties or the smaller, double ones (such as 'Nonstop') are best for the inland areas.
Limes make a useful and fragrant addition to yard and kitchen. Three varieties of lime trees are commonly available in nurseries: 'Bearss,' 'Mexican' and 'Rangpur.' 'Bearss' is the most practical lime for local gardens; it thrives in any of the climatic zones where lemons grow well. 'Mexican' is known as the bartender's lime and is juicier and more aromatic than other varieties; however, it is suited to only the most frost-free of areas. 'Rangpur,' which tolerates the cold quite well, is not a true lime but rather a sour mandarin orange. It is sold as a lime because its highly acid fruit makes it a useful lime substitute.
Broccoli transplants can still be planted; set out in a few weeks, however, they will probably do poorly. Warmer weather and longer days make the heads flower before they reach harvest stage.
Arugula, often listed in seed catalogues as rocket salad or \o7 roquette\f7 , is a green whose leaves have a pungent, strong watercress flavor. A handsome plant with bright-green leaves, it is no trouble to grow. It is strictly a cool-weather green, so plant it now.
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Into the Earth: The Archaeology of Darkness - Conference
Date: Saturday, 27th October 2012, 9am-5.30pm
Location: Institute of Technology, Sligo
Through time people have repeatedly sought out enclosed dark spaces in which to carry out particular activities ranging from ritual retreat and initiation ceremonies to votive deposition and burial. This desire to seek out and spend time in places of absolute darkness forms the focus of this conference. We hope to gain insights into why people have required these dark silent spaces, and how such environments can affect people physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
What was the role of dark places in the life of a community? Were there associations with solitude, transformation, sanctuary, regeneration, or death? How did interactions between people and darkness affect the individual and how s/he was regarded by the rest of the community? And how did this interaction transform places in the landscape? The archaeology of darkness conference will explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the placement of art; how the orientation of mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze Age changed from a focus on the rising to the setting sun; how the senses are affected in caves and monuments that were used for ritual activities; the experiences of Bronze Age miners who worked in dangerous subterranean settings; journeying deep inside caves in Late Bronze Age Ireland; the interplay between darkness and light from a Christian monastic perspective; a caver’s experience of spending long periods underground; and darkness as represented in folklore and mythology.
This archaeological and multidisciplinary conference, hosted by I.T. Sligo, will be the first to examine this subject in a dedicated fashion and promises to be a thought-provoking and exciting event.
Visit www.archaeologyofdarkness.com for more information.
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With recent tragedies involving firearms, it is a good time to review some gun safety tips. Insane people and criminals will misuse firearms, but when it comes to our own guns, we are in control. Our firearms are our responsibility and we can definitely take steps to prevent accidental discharge, theft, unauthorized use or mishandling of our guns.
First, let’s talk about gun security. There are many ways to secure firearms. A gun safe may be the most secure method.
Make sure only authorized adults have access to any gun safe, and always store firearms unloaded, with the safety on and magazine out. Visually clear the gun before storing it. You can also disassemble the gun and store the parts separately so that if someone gains access to one of the storage locations, they will not have all of the parts of any of the guns. You may want to store your ammunition and any magazines in a separate location from the gun. Simply “hiding” your guns within your home is not enough, because a burglar may have plenty of time to find them. Also, if there are children who live in or visit your home, they may find them.
If an unauthorized person gains access to your gun, you can help prevent it from being used with a gun lock. One type is a trigger lock. A trigger lock is designed to surround the trigger and prevent it from being activated. Another type is a cable lock, which has a steel cable that goes through the part of the gun where the bullets are loaded into the chamber or through the barrel of the gun. You should always keep the keys to your gun locks in a safe location that is not accessible to children.
The Temecula Police Department Crime Prevention Unit has a limited supply of cable locks available free to Temecula residents at the Old Town storefront office, 28690 Mercedes St. in Old Town, from Monday through Thursday. Please do not bring a firearm in to get a cable lock. A crime prevention officer can explain how to properly use the lock.
If you own firearms, it is highly advisable to take a safety course to learn about safe handling and use. If you allow your children to shoot your guns, it is absolutely imperative they be taught safe handling and use of firearms. Never allow children to handle any firearm without direct adult supervision.
Firearms safety classes are available in all major cities. Classes are also available online. You can check with any gun shop or even major retail stores that carry firearms to find a safety course in your area. Safety training is critical because firearms are designed to exert lethal force. Misuse or mishandling of firearms can result in severe injury or death.
Please take time to review the laws regarding firearms as well as any city or county ordinances. Safe handling and storage of firearms will prevent nearly all firearms accidents and help keep firearms out of the hands of criminals.
Community Service Officer John Thomas is a crime prevention officer with the Temecula Police Department. Call (951) 506-5132.
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Volunteer Services is the centralized office to guide, support, and encourage community involvement and give public recognition to those students actively involved in community service. Participation and involvement in community service activities can eliminate a students’ self-doubt on career decisions, positively impact on class performance, and affect personal attitude on life---promoting competence, self-confidence and experience in problem-solving. Volunteer Services provides an array of opportunities for students based upon their interest, skills, and time commitment. Students can chose to participate in Mobilization At Xavier (MAX), Agency Clearinghouse, or One Time Volunteer Opportunities.
Mobilization At Xavier (MAX) began as a coalition of students desiring to promote social awareness and social responsibility through community service. This program offers a variety of campus service programs that help students MAXimize their time spent helping to rebuild the community. MAX is not a structure but a realization of a vision... a more humane and socially responsible society for tomorrow. "Servin' for a change", the group's motto, symbolizes the dedication to maximizing the time spent in helping to save and rebuild our communities. MAX is operated by student project coordinators who plan, implement and carry out all program activities and recruit volunteers
(see MAX Volunteer Application). MAX offers service programs in the areas of Mentoring and Friendship, Literacy and Education, and Special Populations.
Agency Clearinghouse functions to introduce service agencies within the community. Volunteers are given the opportunity to function in agencies of their interest throughout the city. Agency Clearinghouse allows students to gain valuable public and non-profit career experiences in human and social services.
One-time Volunteer Opportunities are opportunities that allow all students who are not involved in on-going volunteer programs to experience volunteering in the community according to their interest.
Please add, For More Information, contact Christy Lagarde
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One-Stop-Benefits-Shop Available for Washington County Seniors and Veterans
For Immediate Release Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Approximately 60% of veterans, seniors, and persons with disabilities are not receiving the benefits to which they are entitled. The result may be poor nutrition, past due medical bills, and utility shut-offs. Washington County's Benefits Enrollment Center, a program of Disability, Aging and Veteran Services, is a one-stop-benefits-shop that can help.
In the past year, the Center has screened over 500 individuals for eligibility for food stamps, property tax relief, Medicaid, home energy assistance and other programs. The day to day work of the Center is completed almost entirely by volunteers who meet with individuals where it is most convenient for the person seeking help.
"Most of the time people don't know what benefits are available to them or they can't make it to an office." says program coordinator Linda Sneddon. "Paperwork and documentation can be difficult. This program removes barriers for many of these people."
In a thank you letter, a client's daughter wrote, "Without your intervention, my parents wouldn't be receiving attention to critical services needed. It will be great to begin accessing services and living beyond a crisis stage. One year of crisis is more than enough. I believe the services people have shared with us reflect a nicer quality of life for my family."
To learn more about volunteering in this program, contact Rebecca Tabra, Program Educator, at 503-846-3087. To request help, call 503-846-3060.
Contact:Wendy Gordon, Dept. Communications Coordinator
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Delhi, the capital of India, is a fascinating mix of cultures, religions and peoples. In the Old Delhi, built by the great mogul Shah Jahan in the 1600s, rickshaws zoom along narrow alleys where mosques and Hindu temples stand side by side. An intoxicating aroma floats from the Khari Baoli spice market, and the fabric, fruit and flower stands along the streets shine in all colours of the rainbow.
In New Delhi, the dazzling administrative buildings, fountains and boulevards, a legacy of British colonial rule, look as if they are from another world. The Baha'i temple, shaped like an enormous lotus flower, and the temple of the monkey god Hanuman represent religious construction at its best. The three UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Delhi are also a must see: the tomb of Humayun, the Qutub Minar minaret and the Mogul Fortress. Cosmopolitan Delhi is India's most versatile city for dining and shopping.
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An Open Letter to Principals: Five Leadership Strategies for the New YearAugust 8, 2011 | Eric Sheninger
As the calendar turns to August, school leaders across the country are meticulously planning for the upcoming year. This process has become more difficult as mounting challenges such as budget cuts and what seems like a relentless attack on the profession of education have taken their toll on staff morale. With this being said, quality leadership becomes even more essential in order to cultivate a school culture whose primary focus is on the learning and achievement of each and every student.
Here are some of my leadership strategies for making change during challenging times. Please feel free to share any other ideas in the comments section below.
Strategy One: Make No Excuses
Success in this endeavor relies on us to take a no-excuse attitude. Ask yourself this: What am I prepared to do to improve all facets of my school? How will I accomplish more with less? Think and reflect upon the ways to accomplish the goals you set as opposed to the challenges, roadblocks, and pushback you will experience. These are all common complications that arise during the change process and should not be used as excuses not to push forward.
We must be the pillars of our respective institutions and focus on solutions rather than problems. Succumbing to the negative rhetoric, abiding by the status quo, and having a bunker mentality will do nothing to initiate needed changes in our building to improve teaching and learning.
Each day we are afforded an opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of our students through our role as education leaders. Our passion for helping all students learn and assisting staff in their growth should be the driving motivational force to make our schools the best they can be, regardless of the obstacles. Everything is changing -- the world, learners, job market, technology, access to information -- the sad reality though is that schools are not. We need to be catalysts to drive this change!
Tip: Meet with your administrative team and teacher leaders prior to the start of the school year to identify issues where excuses routinely arise. Begin to map out collective responses focusing on positive solutions to these problems.
Strategy Two: Model a Vision for Excellence
Begin by articulating a clear vision to your staff. The consensus has to be that every student can and should learn. Getting your entire staff to embrace this concept is at the heart of effective leadership. I prefer to use the word "embrace" rather than "buy-in" -- a more commonly used word synonymous with change efforts. We should not be trying to sell our staffs on pedagogical techniques and other initiatives that will better prepare our students for success once they graduate.
In order to promote the embracing of new ideas, strategies, and techniques we need to collaboratively work with staff to transform traditional classroom environments into vibrant learning communities where all students are authentically engaged.
Tip: Engage your staff in a brainstorming session during the first faculty meeting in order to develop a collective vision on how to transform the school for the betterment of all students.
Strategy Three: Embrace 21st Century Pedagogy and Curriculum
A vision begins with talk, but will only become reality with action. As society evolves due to advances in technology, we as principals must ensure that instruction follows suit or we run the risk of our schools becoming irrelevant. By irrelevant I am referring to our ability to prepare students with the skills to think critically, solve problems, demonstrate learning through creation, and compete in a global society.
As instructional leaders, it is our primary responsibility to observe and evaluate instruction. With this comes the responsibility to ensure that teachers are provided the freedom to take risks, knowledge of effective practices, resources to make it happen, and flexibility to incorporate innovative teaching strategies. With these parameters in place, principals must then be able to consistently identify, foster, support, and promote 21st century pedagogy.
Inherent within this shift is the need to re-evaluate the curriculum as the real-time web and information age present new challenges to instruction and student engagement. The time is now to lay the foundation to ensure that our students evolve into critical consumers of content, understand the importance of digital citizenship, as well as possess the ability to create, analyze, and interpret an array of media messages.
Tip: Start the year off by gathering key stakeholders to collaboratively revise your curriculum to emphasize essential skills necessary for today's learners to excel beyond your walls.
Strategy Four: Breathe Life Into Professional Development
Most teachers cringe when they hear the words "professional development" and rightfully so. The traditional model utilized by many schools forces educators into structured silos based solely on district and school goals while ignoring staff interests and passions. PD can be inspiring and fun when people are free to follow these interests and develop their own support communities.
Tip: If you thirst for an innovative culture focused on student achievement, begin the process of transitioning to Professional Learning Communities (PLC's). To take it a step further, model and encourage your staff to form their own Personal Learning Network (PLN). Then step back, give up some control, and watch your staff thrive as their passion fuels a transformation of the teaching and learning culture at your school.
Strategy Five: Stay Connected
Principals need support -- here are some resources to help you stay connected to others making change:
- A Principal's Reflections My blog
- Connected Principals Community and resources for principals
- Burlington High School Principal's Blog Patrick Larkin's Blog
- #cpchat Connected principals chat on Twitter
- #edchat Educator chat on Twitter
- What is Edchat?
- Administrators Discussion group on Edutopia
- Educators PLN
- Future of Education Steve Hargadon's interview series with leading educators
- Edcamp a series of "unconferences" around the world
Change begins with a no-excuse mentality. Don't waste one more minute pondering what could be. There is a revolution going on right now in learning, and it is up to us to lead the way. Please share any leadership strategies that are making a difference in your building.
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View original article at: 7 News Belize
6 Cadavers Found at Abandoned Medical School
6 cadavers were discovered yesterday in San Pedro Town. They were brought to Belize for research at the Medical University of the Americas. The thing is that the school building has, for all intents and purposes, been abandoned for three years. And so for three years – the human remains were left rotting – until yesterday when they were found.
The six cadavars were found here – on examination tables inside what appears to have been a laboratory at the now abandoned Medical University of the Americas in San Pedro. Town Council workers made the ghastly find yesterday.
S.G. Jr., Foreman – Town Council
“J.S. donated the furniture to us so we came to clean up and then one of my workers came in here and found the bodies that are here.”
Do you know where they came from or what they are doing here?
“Well this was a medical school so they had these cadavers for medical purposes.”
How long have they been here?
“In my estimation, about three years.”
How many did they find?
S. G. Jr.,
“Well I think they are about six of them. Five of them are preserved but one of them is half fixed, the texture is loose and has plasma, like body fluid coming out of it.”
No foul play is suspected but it has left a foul taste in the mouth of the Town Council.
“They can’t leave cadavers just like that. It has to be put in the ground.”
You were shocked when you found them? What was your reaction?
“Well I wasn’t shocked but it is a bad thing to do on their behalf.”
The Town Council says it will be bury the remains. The school opened its Belize Campus in February of 2002. 5 years later in 2007 the building was placed for sale. The school was run by Dr. J.S. He is out of the country but we did contact his wife R.S. who told us she is no longer associated with the school and she could not comment. She did concede involvement with the school but said that was years ago. The school however does still operate outside of Belize, in St. Kitts and Nevis. It’s website it mentions that students dissect cadavers.
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Ambergris Caye Directory
Unlearn Old Habits and Replace with Effective Ones
By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant - Ancient Chinese wisdom reminds us that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Following these lines of wisdom, I encourage all Belizeans, most especially school leaders and parents throughout the entire country, to join me in taking those first few steps on our very long and difficult but “necessary” journey to reinvent, reform, and strengthen schools in Belize. Today’s high dropout rate by students who are “bored out of their minds” at school everyday indicates that schools today are not serving our youth and nation as they should. So, let’s take those first important steps to signal to our people, and to the world, that schools in Belize today can and will,
*effectively respond to the rapidly changing world around us today
*successfully educate young Belizeans to live and “fit” in 21st Century Belize
Before we start on our “journey”, I acknowledge what readers have pointed out in commentaries to my previous articles and in face-to-face conversations with me: I keep focusing only on what teachers need to do in the classroom, but do not also point out or suggest specific areas where/how leaders of our schools, parents, and students could also change/recharge themselves to make teaching/educating young people today successful and “less frustrating”. So, this week’s article takes the spotlight OFF what teachers should do, and focuses on old habits that others need to unlearn and replace today. Nonetheless, the fact remains that teachers have the most important roles in schools, and they will always be the key and frontline persons who can create “working” classrooms (all levels) in schools. Part II of this article will focus exclusively on students and teachers.
*Step 1 - The very first step to take in creating the best Education Systems in Belize that will prepare our young people for today and tomorrow is to want it first! Even that, though, is not enough to start our journey to create, update and c o n t i n u o u s l y improve schools in this country. We must replace the all-encompassing indifference on the part of most parents and those who are “in charge” of managing and developing schools today. We simply cannot “cave in” to those who keep screaming that we must run schools the same way as “when they were there”. Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Additionally, unlike how it was done in the past, any new vision for schools in Belize cannot be kept buried under some powerful leader’s “Classified” documents! Any new vision for our schools needs to be SHARED with the entire country, especially with our teachers, students, parents, and business communities!
*Step 2 - In order to make Education in Belize successful we must bring teachers’ salaries up to 21st Century standards of living! Students are not the only ones who need motivation, encouragement, and incentive to “learn” and make the education process successful; so do teachers! A “livable” salary for teachers (financial stability) will provide incentives for them to want to grow and develop in their profession. Let’s not “let sleeping dogs lie” in the field of Education and continue to hire whoever is willing to teach in our schools at unrealistic salaries. We get what we pay for! Belize National Teachers Union recently held its annual convention. There they vociferously pointed out what I stated last year in Let’s Start to Improve our Schools: “No matter what level the school, Primary or Secondary, it is of paramount importance that our school leaders develop a faculty culture that is always focused on professional growth and development. That, however, will never be easy as long as the complaining and bickering by overworked and underpaid teachers drown out the voices of those devoted to learning, sharing and supporting each other.”
*Step 3 - Unlike how Primary and Secondary schools were managed in the past, today we must let each teacher know and feel everyday all day, that he/she counts! Our teachers, not their employers, are the ones who are ultimately responsible for helping students “to learn”. Principals, Headmasters, Managers: do your teachers know and feel that you regard them as “significant” to your school? Financial recompense (salary) alone does not provide the “motivation/impetus” to encourage a teacher to want to keep improving constantly -- feeling “needed” and appreciated does!
*Step 4 - Parents: You must make every effort to “keep up” with your children today! You may not be able to stop them from being exposed to very realistic but violent video games, or from watching adult TV, or from participating in 24/7 interactive websites where the entire world (cyberspace) participates, or from sending and receiving emails – good, bad, ugly, and everything in between. However, “I don’t know how to work a computer!” is no longer an excuse! Whether you are computer literate or not, you have great influence on your children -- use it! Listen to them, answer their questions, try to guide them, and by all means LEARN from them. (Whenever I am “stuck” on the computer, I rely on my youngest son to “come to the rescue”. In today’s world a 60 year old can learn so very much from a 16 year old!)
Participate in their education! Screaming at them that you work your # off to be able to pay for their education is not “participation”. Being one of the 400 (out of 450) parents who do not bother to show up to school to see your child being honored publicly for good grades, sports participation, or other school activity is not participation. Merely providing money for your son’s/daughter’s education (school fees, books, uniforms etc.) is not participation. If your parents did not participate in your education that does not mean you can do the same today with your child. This is 2012! Spending money on your children without providing emotional support is worthless and meaningless.
*Step 5 - School Managers (government and church) and Boards of Directors: let’s find out exactly what Belizean business communities and leaders want/need schools to produce. What literacy skills do employers today need to make our Belizean business communities grow and develop on a world competitive basis? Schools cannot assume that what they produce is good enough for any business. We now have such a wide variety of business industries in Belize. Recent news flashes indicate that Belize is now preparing to have world-class medical centers, hospitals, and shopping centers. Perhaps in the past, educators worked very hard to produce high-performing students who made schools “look good”; however, today our ultimate goal is to educate them so they can “fit” successfully into our communities, not only to make schools “look good”.
*Step 6 - School leaders: Let’s start to “prioritize” things that need to be addressed at school every day. Things that may seem insignificant to you are of vital importance to our students today. If we keep insisting on managing schools the way it was done 50 or 25 years ago, we’re inviting trouble and failure. Important meetings and “your” deadlines no longer always come first. Many of our students today cannot read at their class level, are “lost” in gangs and drug use/abuse, have many “negative” close/family influences in their lives, and live in abject poverty and desperation. Addressing these issues first is far more important than attending bureaucratic meetings or trying to get the most and highest CXC passes for your school.
On a final note, I encourage all Belizean adults, especially educators, to keep modeling positive behaviors, especially “patience”, everyday to send powerful messages to young people today. I am convinced that Belize’s high crime/murder/gang involvement rate today is somehow tied to the fact that our youth have become totally engulfed and swallowed up in the FAST rate at which everything moves today -- thanks to technology. Most young people today simply do not or cannot comprehend the need for, importance, and beauty of “patience”. Let’s show them “how” patience works! A direct quote from a previous commentary posted to this column: “The best way to raise upstanding citizens is to lead by example - show the students love, hope, compassion, respect, honesty, diligence and ambition (to name only a few of lessons.)”
Yes, we want well-behaved, motivated, and high performing young Belizeans in schools today; more important though, we want “happy” Belizean students.
Oceana Belize Donates Trawler for Seaweed Project
Repairs Commence on Sir Barry Bowen Bridge, San Pedro
Mexican Tourism Delegation “I Discovered Yucatán” Visits Belize
Placencia Tops Belize National Tourism Awards 2013
Pet of The Week
Advantages and Disadvantages In Drilling Oil In Belize
SP Cancer Society to Hold 3rd Annual Blood Drive
Strange Home Remedies to Remove Head Lice!
Belize Represented at the FCCA Trade Show in Puerto Rico
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