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Cancer Support: Life After Treatment
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"Even though the treatment worked and I'm cancer-free, I worry a lot about getting sick again."—Linda, 63
"You expect that after getting through chemotherapy, you can put it behind you and move on. I just wanted things to go back to normal. Some things did go back to how they were. But it's hard, because I feel like something in me is different, and I'm not sure how to deal with it."—Jack, 71
"Cancer changed everything. My body is different and I have scars from surgery, and I'm still trying to get used to that. I'm eating healthier and really taking care of myself now. I also started focusing more on the things that really matter to me. I have a new sense of purpose."—Rosa, 54
Making sense of it all
Surviving cancer is something to celebrate. But many people find the time after treatment is different than what they expected. It may be difficult to make sense of how cancer has affected and changed you.
Some of the changes may be good. You may have a fresh outlook on life and feel that you've been given a second chance.
Other changes may be hard to deal with. You may have pain or scars from treatment. Some of your relationships may have changed. And even though you're well, you may still feel distress over everything you went through. Or you may worry about the cancer coming back.
This is a time of adjustment, taking care of yourself, and finding your new "normal." This stage is part of your recovery, and it may take more time than you expect.
Your new normal
Cancer changes families. It can create closer bonds, but it also can bring out difficult emotions.
Here are some things you can do to help your family adjust:
- Let them know what you can and can't handle. Even though your treatment is over, you may not have enough energy to do all the things you used to do. Let your family know that you still need their help.
- Help them understand that it takes time. Talk about how cancer has changed your family and how some things may not go back to how they were before cancer.
- Be honest with your kids. Speak openly about your cancer and recovery, and let them ask questions.
Some of your relationships may be different now too. You may have new friends because of cancer. You may have grown closer to some of the people in your life. Or maybe you feel disappointed in people you thought you could count on.
Finding your new normal after cancer takes time. Everyone who goes through cancer has a time of adjustment afterward. Be patient with yourself, and remember that there's no right or wrong way to feel.
A sense of closure
Cancer isn't something you'll ever forget, but it's important to look to the future. You could have a party or other type of celebration to mark the end of your treatment. A ritual or celebration can help you feel some closure on this phase of your life. Or you may want some quiet time alone to think about what you've been through and how to move on from cancer.
Help with moving on
Even though your treatment is over, cancer may continue to affect the way you think and feel. You may worry a lot about the cancer coming back, feel stressed about medical bills, feel unhappy or depressed about how cancer changed your body, or feel lonely after the people in your support network go back to their regular routines.
You may just feel frustrated that you can't leave it all behind and move on. All of these feelings are normal. Everyone has different fears, emotions, and reactions after cancer.
Think about connecting with others during this stage of your recovery. Individual counseling can help you work though your fears and feelings. A cancer survivor group will connect you with people who understand what you're going through because they've been there too.
Your doctor can help you find counselors and support groups.
Where to learn more
The following articles from the National Cancer Institute's website may help you:
- "When Cancer Returns," www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/when-cancer-returns
- "Coping with Advanced Cancer," www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/advancedcancer
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|Primary Medical Reviewer||E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine|
|Specialist Medical Reviewer||Catherine D. Serio, PhD - Behavioral Health|
|Last Revised||June 20, 2012|
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Seemingly real Microsoft e-mail is spreading malware, be carefulSeptember 18, 2012 16 Email article | Print article
Whether it be through Windows or its online services, Microsoft touches the lives of many, many people around the world on a daily basis. So when an e-mail from “Microsoft <email@example.com>” with the subject of “Important Changes to Microsoft Services Agreement” magically appears in the inbox of many people, my guess is they are likely to open it. Then when that e-mail tells you to view an updated services agreement via the attached PDF file, my guess is many people will open it. The kicker? The just-referenced e-mail is not actually from Microsoft and the attached file is not actually a PDF — it is a malicious EXE (Microsoft-Services-Agreement.pdf.exe) that contains malware, a backdoor Trojan (Troj/Backdr-HG) to be more specific.
What makes this malicious e-mail particularly clever is not only does it spoof a real Microsoft e-mail but it uses a real subject line to draw people in and then presents them with legitimate text in the body of the e-mail — this exact same e-mail was sent out by Microsoft in August. The only difference is the legitimate Microsoft e-mail did not contain an attached file; rather, the real Microsoft e-mail directed users to read the new agreement on Microsoft’s website.
Update: It looks like Microsoft is still sending out the legitimate version of this e-mail. So if you get an e-mail from “Microsoft <firstname.lastname@example.org>” with the subject of “Important Changes to Microsoft Services Agreement”, it may be a legitimate e-mail from Microsoft or it may not be. If the e-mail has an attachment, it is a malicious e-mail and you should *not* open the attachment. If there is a link in the e-mail, the e-mail is likely legitimate but you should double-check and make sure the link is leading you to Microsoft’s website (make sure the domain is microsoft.com) and not elsewhere.
[Thanks Merlin for the heads up.]
Of course if the spam filter used by your e-mail service provider is half competent, it will immediately notice the e-mail is fake due to the e-mail not being mailed by a Microsoft server and send it to your junk or spam box. (You can spoof the e-mail header but you cannot spoof a rDNS query; rDNS is one technique used by e-mail servers to detect fake e-mails.) However, if this e-mail does somehow end up in your inbox, do not open it. And if you do open it, do not download the attachment. | <urn:uuid:002d3a0d-04f0-4b9a-82ea-5bb3c072e132> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dottech.org/81442/fake-microsoft-e-mail-is-spreading-malware-be-careful/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912437 | 597 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Further along my claim that what separates mathematicians from everyone else is:
and that learning 20th-century geometry might expand your imagination beyond the usual impoverished shapes of taxonomies.
Here are some calisthenics you can do with a pen and paper that I hope give you a feel for what a (mathematical) group is. (It’s a shame that “group”, “set”, “class”, “category”, “bundle” all have distinct meanings within mathematics. Another part of the language barrier.)
Think of “a group” this way. A group catalogues the relationships between “verbs”.
That is: think of a function as a “verb” and the thing it operates on as a “noun”. One of the tricks of abstraction is that these can be interchanged. Maybe what that might mean will already come clear from this example.
Starting with a pentagon, which I’ll just represent with five numbers for the points. (So: whatever works here might work on other “circles of five”—or “decks of 52”—or … something else you come up with!) That will be the one “thing” or “noun” and in the group exploration you’ll see that the “structure of the verbs” is more interesting than whatever they’re acting on. (This is why in group theory the name of the object is usually omitted and people just list the operations/verbs.)
In John Baez’s week62 you can read about reflection groups. I picked two “axes” in my pentagon ⬟ arbitrarily. If you’re writing along you can draw a different -gon or different axes. Reflection is going to mean interchanging numbers across the axis (“mirror”).
It’s the same as reflecting the Mona Lisa except you don’t have to re paint the portrait every time. The same 2-dimensional plane can be indexed by the numbers more easily than by the whole image. (Unless you’re following along with computer tools and you’ve chosen “the square” as your shape. Then transforming
Mona is probably more interesting.)
Without my saying so it’s probably obvious that reflecting twice would bring you back to the start. Flip Mona upside-down, flip the pentagon ⬟ along
a, then repeat.
If you wanted to give “starting point of
noun” a verb-name you could just say
What that establishes, formulaically, is that
⬟). Where ƒ is “flip”. We’ve also established that
ƒ=ƒ⁻¹. Trivial observation, maybe-not-trivial in formula form! After all, suppose you had some science problem and it included a long sequence of
ƒ(g(ƒ(ƒ(ƒ(h(g(X))))))) type stuff. You could make it shorter (and maybe the resulting formula or computation easier) if you could cancel ƒƒ’s like that.
That works for either of my pentagon ⬟ reflections
What group theory is going to talk about is how the two verbs interact. What happens when I do
a(a(b(a(b(⬟))))) ? Well I can already simplify it by reducing any trains of
Above are the first few results of
a∘b∘a[⬟]. (NB: “The first” operation is on the right since the thing it’s acting on only appears all the way to the right. So in group theory we have to read right-to-left ←.) I’ll write a bit more text for those who want to continue the chain on their own to give you time to look away. You could also try doing
b∘a∘b[⬟] where I did
a∘b∘a[⬟] (read right to left! ←).
Just like it’s “sort of amazing” in some sense that
- •••—•••—•••—••• (four groups of three…um, regular meaning of “group”!) is the same as ••••—••••—•••• (three groups of four)…and that not only in this specific case but we could make a “law” out of it
So is it also a bit amazing that maybe these reflection laws will be order-invariant in some sense as well.
That may seem like less big of a deal if you think “Everything in maths is commutative and symmetrical”—but it’s not! And most things in life are not commutative or symmetrical. Try to drink your milk and then pour it into the glass or don your underwear after your pants.
It’s also not so obvious (if nobody had told you the answer first and you just had to figure it out yourself) that
b∘a∘b∘a∘b∘a∘b∘a∘b∘a[⬟] = ⬟.
Another fairly easy shape to explore its groups is the square. (And what goes for the square, goes for the plane 𝔸²—or for 1-dimensional complex numbers ℂ.)
That’s the end of what a group is. Next: looking ahead to put them in context.
All of these activities amount to exploring the building blocks of a particular group.
But someone (Arthur Cayley) has also come up with a good way to look at the entire structure of the verbs.
Which is ultimately where this theory wants to go: to help us compare & contrast verb-structures. (Look up “group homomorphism”.) Or to notice that two natural phenomena exhibit the same verb-structure.
You can download a free program called Group Explorer to look at various Cayley diagrams.
In an upcoming post called The Shape of Logic, the Logic of Shape I’ll talk about the relationship between groups and manifolds.
Where I’ll ultimately want to go with this is to call groups a “periodic table of elements” for logic. That may not be exact but it’s a gist. Given that semigroups, groups, Lie groups, and other assumption-swapped variations on the group concept usually turn out to be “Factorable” into simple components (Jordan-Hölder, Krohn-Rhodes, etc.)—and assuming that the Universe somehow builds itself out of primitives sufficiently determined or governed by mathematics—or at the least, that normal people can learn this periodic table and expand their imagination with powers of 20th century geometry. | <urn:uuid:8547a0df-a011-46db-af7b-960d48e0f470> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://isomorphismes.tumblr.com/tagged/maps | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932836 | 1,490 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Almost a century after the fire, the five women and one man, all buried in coffins under the Evergreens monument, remained unknown to the public at large, though relatives and descendants knew that a loved one had never returned from the burning blouse factory.
Now those six have been identified, largely through the persistence of a researcher, Michael Hirsch, who became obsessed with learning all he could about the victims after he discovered that one of those killed, Lizzie Adler, a 24-year-old greenhorn from Romania, had lived on his block in the East Village.
And so, for the first time, at the centennial commemoration of the fire on March 25 outside the building in Greenwich Village where the Triangle Waist Company occupied the eighth, ninth and 10th floors, the names of all 146 dead will finally be read.
The fire was a wrenching event in New York’s history, one that had a profound influence on building codes, labor laws, politics and the beginning of the New Deal two decades later.
Among the most anguishing aspects was the memory of the more than 50 young immigrant women and men who were forced to leap from the high floors to escape the inferno. However, many of the 146 victims — 129 women and 17 men — burned to death in the loft building, at Washington Place and Greene Street, and had no telltale jewelry or clothing to help identify them.
The day the six unidentified victims were buried was the culmination of the city’s outpouring of grief; hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers turned out in a driving rain for a symbolic funeral procession sponsored by labor unions and other organizations, while hundreds of thousands more watched from the sidewalks.
A century later, names and even circumstances have finally been attached to those “unknowns.”
“We consider his list to be the best ever produced on the question,” said Curtis Lyons, director of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University, which holds one of the most thorough repositories about the Triangle fire.
Workers United, the garment workers’ union, and David Von Drehle, who wrote “Triangle: The Fire That Changed America,” a 2003 history of the fire, said they also regarded Mr. Hirsch’s list as the most authoritative.
Descendants of those who perished, like a great-granddaughter of one 33-year-old victim, Maria Lauletti, were heartened by the news, though no one interviewed had yet made a decision whether to exhume bodies from the Evergreens cemetery and attempt a DNA match.
“It means that there’s recognition that she actually died in the fire,” said Mary Ann Lauletti Hacker, 57, of Fountain Hills, Ariz. “To me, that’s a finality. She positively can be part of the record of those who died.”
No New York City agencies and no newspapers at the time produced a complete list of the dead, Mr. Hirsch said. The most thorough list — 140 names — was compiled by Mr. Von Drehle when he wrote his book, and that was largely based on names plucked from accounts in four contemporary newspapers.
The obscurity of their names is evidence of the times, when lives were lived quietly and people were forced by economic and familial circumstances to swiftly move on from tragedies — with no Facebook or reality television cameras to record their every step and thought.
Mr. Hirsch, 50, an amateur genealogist and historian who was hired as a co-producer of the coming HBO documentary “Triangle: Remembering the Fire,” undertook an exhaustive search lasting more than four years. He returned to the microfilms of mainstream daily newspapers overlooked by researchers before him and to ethnic publications that he asked to have translated, like the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward and Il Giornale Italiano. He estimates that he consulted 32 different newspapers.
He looked for articles about people who, in the weeks after the fire, claimed that their relatives were still missing. He then matched what he discovered with census records, death and burial certificates, marriage licenses, and reports kept by unions and charities about funeral and “relief” payments made to the families of the dead. Lastly, he sought out the descendants of three of the unidentified to confirm that the names he found were still mourned as Triangle victims.
“I’m passionate about the history of this neighborhood,” Mr. Hirsch said of the combined Lower East Side and East Village, where most of the workers had lived. “From my window, I can see the stairs that Lizzie Adler had probably walked down to go to the factory the day of the fire.”
Typical of his illuminating morsels was an article in the Forward asking if anyone had seen Max Florin, a 23-year-old immigrant from Russia and one of the six unidentified victims. “We believe that he survived the fire, but from great fear and being upset he went mad and is wandering the streets,” the article said, in Mr. Hirsch’s rough paraphrasing. “He is of average height and was wearing a black suit.”
Mr. Hirsch began his quest modestly by trying to confirm existing lists. He found that they contained misspelled names, names of those who had actually survived and of those who had not worked at the factory. He was not surprised, given the bureaucratic fumbling and hurried journalism that often follows tumultuous disasters.
He also learned that a name of one identified victim had been omitted. He found an article bypassed by earlier compilers in The New York Times from March 31, 1911, about someone named Jacob Dashefsky, who had come forward six days after the fire to say that his sister Bessie, 25, a Russian immigrant, had not returned home. Her body was identified through dental records and barely missed being buried at the funeral for the unidentified on April 5, 1911. That finding convinced him that there were others who had been omitted for similar reasons.
Mr. Hirsch visited the graves of each of the known victims, who had been buried in 16 cemeteries, to further ensure a comprehensive list. At Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, he came across what he called “my Rosetta Stone.”
He was looking for the monument for Isabella Tortorelli, 17, but instead found a family monument whose Italian inscription spoke of “due sorelle” — two sisters — who perished in the fire. Mr. Hirsch had never seen the name of Isabella’s older sister, Maria Giuseppa Lauletti, on any list before. He checked with the Calvary office and was told that her body was not in the grave.
He located her granddaughter, Mrs. Hacker, in Arizona, who told him that the family had never been able to single out Ms. Lauletti’s body among the unidentified bodies, suggesting that she was probably buried at Evergreens. She also informed him that Ms. Lauletti had been an immigrant from Sicily and the mother of five children, four of whom were put in an orphanage after the fire.
On his own, Mr. Hirsch found a 1912 report by the Red Cross that sought to protect the anonymity of the families receiving cash payments but whose details matched that of Ms. Lauletti. It also revealed that the mother of “Number 85,” as Ms. Lauletti had been identified, was “almost crazed with grief” and “did nothing but moan and weep for weeks.” | <urn:uuid:547e720e-88fd-4a47-bef7-fb3b674aec07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chilaborarts.wordpress.com/2011/02/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983602 | 1,606 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Sunday, April 28, 2013
If you're considering giving Impatiens for Mother's Day, consider what those plants could be suffering from.
Mahoney's Garden Center, located just over the Weston border in Wayland, submitted the press release below. One of the most popular annuals to plant each spring is Impatiens. For many, it’s a tradition to give a basket of Impatiens as a Mother’s Day gift, while for others it is the easiest way to enjoy color in their gardens all summer – even in the shade. However, this year, Impatiens are in danger of a nationwide blight called downy mildew that can destroy these beautiful flowers. Signs of this disease surfaced in 2004, and by last year it began to develop into a widespread catastrophe for gardeners and Impatiens growers alike. “Our number one question last year from customers was ‘What’s wrong with my Impatiens?’” says Mike Mahoney of …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
All the tools you need to start composting in Weston, plus where to get free or low-cost compost for your garden.
If composting is an activity on your list of ways to live greener, here's a how to get started in Weston. Emily Bishton, a designer of sustainable landscapes and an environmental educator for children and adults, says, "Home composting is a fun and easy way to make fabulous and free soil amendments to make all the plants in your garden healthier," Bishton says. "It also eliminates the carbon emissions that are needed to truck your food and yard waste to composting facilities, truck the finished compost back to a retail outlet, and then to your home.” Collecting Kitchen Compost Composting starts in the kitchen. First, you'll want to set up a system for catching compostable materials during your meal and snack clean up process. These include…
Saturday, December 8, 2012
A record number of trees were donated to Trees for Troops through Mahoney's this year.
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
The information below was submitted by Lisa Roberts on behalf of Mahoney's Garden Centers. Over 1,500 military families will have a merrier Christmas this year thanks to those that donated a Christmas tree through the Trees for Troops program at Mahoney’s Garden Centers, including the location near the Wayland-Weston border. Mahoney’s Trees for Troops campaign ran from Veteran’s Day to Dec. 2, allowing donors to stop in at any of their eight locations, or call a hotline, to buy a Christmas tree for a military family. This year, a record number of trees were donated, almost twice as many as last year, making Mahoney’s the number one generator of trees for the Trees for Troops program in North America. “We want to thank you to everyone that …
Monday, November 19, 2012
The garden center just west of Weston on Route 20 has reopened for the holiday season and is in the midst of a charity drive.
Weston's nearby location of Mahoney's Garden Center is back open for the holiday season and it's jumping right into the holiday giving with another year of hosting Trees for Troops. Mahoney's locations throughout Massachusetts, including the one closest to Weston on Route 20 in Wayland, are serving as the hub for the Trees for Troops program in the Commonwealth. Trees for Troops allows individuals to purchase a holiday tree that will donated to a military family serving in the U.S. or overseas. A press release from Mahoney's relays a message from a previous recipient, quoted from the Trees for Troops website: “I wanted to thank you deeply for the tree that you gave me and my family for Christmas this year. My husband is currently serving … | <urn:uuid:d7ecc6e5-2bed-448f-9b75-7cea45aa38b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://weston.patch.com/topics/mahoney%2527s+garden+center | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962323 | 804 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Edmonton Journal - March 1st
In this province, spending energy on water surely must be seen as at least as valuable as the reverse.
Unlike oilsands bitumen, water is a partially renewable resource, but our fresh reserves are under intensifying pressure from booming industry and nation-leading population growth and it is well past time for our deepest thinkers to form a strategy that will provoke responsible governmental policy on preservation and recycling.
If, as some fear, the Redford government is prepared to embrace the concept of a provincewide water market as a means of regulation, it must also address the resulting commodification and potential for a damaging increase in demand. ... Click here to read more. | <urn:uuid:70f42dc5-4744-4cef-9e92-39af1c68f010> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.albertawater.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274&Itemid=89 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962808 | 139 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Alumna's $1-million gift will create a new research chair in geology
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Susan Cunningham understands the importance of geological studies for our planet's future. She wants to help McMaster prepare the next generation of experts who will address climate and environmental issues and lead resource exploration in a responsible and sustainable manner.
At an event on campus yesterday, the senior vice-president, exploration for Noble Energy in Houston announced a $1-million personal gift to establish The Cunningham Chair in Geology within McMaster's Faculty of Science. Among other responsibilities, the chairholder will lead relevant research in sedimentary geology and help build the program by attracting top notch students and faculty.
"Today it is more important than ever to educate people about geology," Cunningham said. "Whether it's oil or gas exploration, mineral and other natural resources, climate issues, or protecting and reclaiming the environment, we need to understand the earth's composition and history and the impact that man is having on the planet."
She adds that the reverse side of the issue - the impact that geological and climate changes have on humans - is equally compelling and further supports the importance of geological research.
McMaster's School of Geography and Earth Sciences offers intriguing courses and research initiatives in the areas of environmental geology/hydrologic sciences and exploration geology/geophysics. The work of the new chair will complement these offerings and help bring geological scholarship and research to a new level.
Cunningham hopes the creation of the new chair will also encourage opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and discussion on topics that are of vital concern to everyone.
"McMaster is very proud of its accomplishments in geology," said President Patrick Deane, "and thanks to this gift we can look forward to a future of enhanced academic strength and innovation."
"Susan's generous donation will go a long way toward enhancing McMaster's authority in the areas of applied geology and geochemistry through the establishment of this new chair," said John Capone, dean of the Faculty of Science. "We are grateful to her both for her financial support and for her passionate commitment to geological education and to McMaster."
Cunningham graduated from McMaster in 1979 and credits her exceptional professors with preparing her for what has been a rewarding and highly successful career in the oil exploration industry. Although currently based in Texas, when it came time to make a significant donation, she said, "My roots are Canadian and I wanted to give back to the institution that gave me my start." | <urn:uuid:3dfcfe82-58b0-4af5-8210-edbe00e8850d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/article/alumnas-1-million-gift-will-create-a-new-research-chair-in-geology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948067 | 557 | 2.328125 | 2 |
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION In the first few months of 2007, John Cherry worked on a survey crew for Shaw Coastal Inc. on the Amite River and other places in southern Louisiana. During some of that time, he would conduct surveys from a boat with another, more senior employee, Michael Reasoner, a project coordinator and safety manager who was needed to operate a hydrograph.
As the days went by, according to Cherry, Reasoner started to do unnerving things, such as brushing up against him and asking Cherry to remove his shirt or wear cutoffs. Despite Cherry telling Reasoner, a much shorter man, to back off, Reasoner over several days continued to make suggestions that implied he wanted to have sex with Cherry. Cherry says Reasoner also sent him salacious texts with messages such as "U R 2 Sexy " and explicit sexual references.
By September, Cherry was ready to quit. He complained to other supervisors at Shaw Coastal, a unit of Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group Inc., but the company's investigation found that it was only Cherry's word against Reasoner's. It seemed improbable, sexual harassment by one man against another—an idea that also has confounded judges in a handful of lawsuits brought by men during the past decade. While most similar same-sex harassment plaintiffs fail in court, Cherry sued in federal court and won a jury verdict of $500,000. After being thrown out by the trial judge, the verdict stood up in an appeal decided early this year. (Shaw is still appealing the amount of the award.)
Cherry's story of alleged harassment follows a line familiar to women who have worked in the building trades. But this and other stories of men harassing men in construction and engineering reinforces the idea that the harassment has less to do with sex than power and intimidation.
The depth of interpersonal pathology involved suggests how tricky it can be for employees to shield themselves from cruel or hot-tempered co-workers and bosses. Employers know they can't wave a magic wand that guarantees employees will refrain from illegal harassment based on gender, race or religion.
Bullying at work, when it doesn't involve race or gender, is legal. Yet a campaign by reformers has put workplace bullying laws in front of lawmakers in more than 20 states. If states start adopting such laws, the laws may afford protection to men who until now relied for relief on Title VII of the federal civil-rights law, which prohibits sexual harassment.
If that happens, the record on sexual harassment lawsuits suggests that employers can expect to win the majority of the time but spend heavily doing it.
Analysis Shows Most Claims Fail
To illuminate the problems of harassment and bullying in construction, ENR collected and analyzed a sample of 70 sexual-harassment lawsuits brought against construction companies in the past 10 years. The research revealed many more failed claims than successful ones, suggesting that employers are doing a good job of successfully shielding themselves from liability. The employee faces a daunting task in meeting the standard needed for a case to succeed—that is, persistent harassment and a hostile environment that hampers the person's ability to do his or her job. The record also suggests that workplace anti-bullying laws introduced, but not passed, in about 20 states could provide a clearer refuge than current law for men victimized by bullying or sexual harassment—and unleash a wave of fresh lawsuits.
"This may sound strange," says Champe McCulloch, president of the Maryland chapter of the Associated General Contractors and a witness in 2011 against a proposed anti-workplace bullying bill introduced in his state. "Virtually every status other than 'white guy' is protected" by federal laws against harassment and discrimination based on race or gender. "If we wanted to disparage this, we could call [similar anti-workplace bullying prohibitions proposed in other states] the white-guy bullying bill."
Does that mean McCulloch believes bullying, whether it is expressed as sexual humiliation or not, is OK?
"No," says McCulloch. "We live in an imperfect world, and not everyone can be cured of imperfection" by laws and lawsuits. "Sometimes it takes good judgment and common sense. No law can deal with every situation with the nuance a company is required to use."
Legal scholars and social scientists say workplace bullying, which is prohibited by law in only two California counties and a few school districts across the U.S., cuts a destructive path across business, distracting and demoralizing employees who witness it and triggering depression and insomnia in its targets. In construction, ensuring that every employee is working without distractions can be the key to preventing accidents.
One contractor human-resources director says her firm has the issue firmly under control and that she is open to anti-workplace bullying laws because she feels her firm's employees already are held to a code of civil behavior. "Our training really covers bullying," says Patti Murphy of contractor Walsh Construction Co., Portland, Ore. "I would be supportive of anti-bullying laws because we have such a strong values system in place." She adds, more protections would not result in more lawsuits.
The biggest question is whether a legal definition of bullying would outlaw testy reprimands by bosses or make companies responsible for off-color exchanges between employees.
In examining court complaints and hundreds of pages of trial transcripts, ENR found that less than half of the cases in the sample were decided by a jury's verdict. In the case of male-on-male sexual-harassment lawsuits, the jury decision rate is only one in five. Judges make most of the decisions—usually in favor of the defendant—or the cases settle.
The small number of men bringing complaints and lawsuits regarding abuse in the form of sexual harassment may disguise the potential for many more abuse-related lawsuits. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' most recent "Current Population Survey," construction industry employees are 90.8% male and 9.2% female. However, men in the construction industry file 19.2% of sexual-harassment and discrimination complaints with the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). | <urn:uuid:b9a4405e-d83e-45da-acbc-04b5b6e48295> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://enr.construction.com/business_management/workforce/2012/1126-will-proposed-anti-bullying-laws-bring-a-wave-of-lawsuits.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968946 | 1,245 | 1.742188 | 2 |
In this video interview, artist Deana Lawson talks about her photography-based work, including her thought-provoking piece in the Greater New York 2010 exhibition—Assemblage (2010), an installation consisting of hundreds of four-by-six-inch glossy photographs T-pinned to the walls of one of MoMA PS1’s third-floor galleries.
The work includes a diverse collection of images, ranging from early twentieth-century ethnographic studies to iconic photographs of celebrities and historical figures, as well as the artist’s own family photos. They include pictures of Haile Selassie appealing to the League of Nations in 1936, Jack Johnson’s 1915 loss by knockout in Cuba, Kurt Cobain, anonymous Congolese dancers, and the wedding of Lawson’s Aunt Karen. Branching out from one corner of the gallery, the photographs create what the artist describes as a “biological mass,” reflecting “a visual regeneration of human histories and futures.”
Lawson makes use of photography and photographic imagery to examine the relationship between personal and social histories. Employing various photographic modes, her work incorporates carefully composed large-format and medium-format images taken by the artist, found images appropriated from public libraries, and snapshots made by friends and family members. Interested in photography’s ability to address both life and death, Lawson is interested in making “pictures of beauty and sacred sexuality [that are] juxtaposed with vessels of injury, violence, and familial loss.” | <urn:uuid:44f7f5d1-ed75-4c71-b1ee-647d5ce959ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://media.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/08/16/deana-lawson-assembled-histories | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938506 | 316 | 2.390625 | 2 |
U.S. Strategy For Afghan War Reaches Critical Stage
Originally published on Thu February 9, 2012 3:28 am
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
We're going to look now at American military strategy for the war in Afghanistan. There's been some confusion lately about whether American forces would end their combat mission sooner than planned and also about how long the U.S. will remain in Afghanistan. So to try to make sense of it all, we're joined by NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman.
TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE: Good morning, Renee.
MONTAGNE: Let's start with the basics. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently talked about hopefully - that was his word - ending the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan by the end of 2013. Which was understood to be about a year earlier than had been talked about before. So will the U.S. stop combat missions at that point?
BOWMAN: Renee, the key word there is hopefully, that the combat mission at the end of 2013 can be turned over to Afghan forces. But everyone I've talked with says at least through 2014 they're talking about still having U.S. forces do some form of combat operations. It might not be large land battles, but at the very least you'll see U.S. Special Forces, Green Berets going on raids, let's say, against Taliban forces. Bottom line, they're still going to be involved in combat.
MONTAGNE: Well, Afghan forces, are they close to ready to take over or are they actually not really ready?
BOWMAN: They're not even close to being ready. And I've seen them myself in the field. And that's precisely why you're seeing so much talk now about pulling back and starting this transition earlier - a year earlier. If the deadline is 2014, you have to start at least a year earlier training them, working with them so you can see their weaknesses and then help them improve. You have plenty of time to help them improve.
This week at the Pentagon we heard from the officer who runs day-to-day military operations in Afghanistan. His name is Lieutenant General Curtis Scaparrotti. And I asked him about this very point, about training the Afghans. They're going to send more training teams over this year - 50 Army training teams to help them. And he talked about pushing the Afghans this year more into the lead. Let's listen to what he had to say.
LT. GEN. CURTIS SCAPARROTTI: And I'm pressing commanders to put them into the lead as soon as they can. The earlier we get them into the lead, the better we have a metric of just how well they're doing. And we also know better how to improve them. And I want to do that while we have more forces on the ground in order to help develop them.
MONTAGNE: So again, the idea, Tom, is get these Afghan soldiers out there in the fight so that they can be worked with sooner rather than later so they might be ready by the end of 2014...
BOWMAN: That's exactly right. That they'll have plenty of time to train them and make sure they're competent. And key things they're looking are the ability to supply themselves in the field, do they have good leaders. You know, they might have to change out some leaders over the next year, but they want to do all of this by the end of 2013. They don't want to do this in the end of 2014 when they're ready to turn it all over to the Afghans.
MONTAGNE: One last thing to clarify. Does the mission end by the end of 2014? Will U.S. troops be out by then?
BOWMAN: Absolutely not. And the Americans have talked with Afghan President Hamid Karzai about what they call a longer term national security relationship. And people I talk with say you could have anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 American troops after 2014 doing things like training, perhaps going on counterterrorism raids. That kind of thing. Maybe even having a quick reaction force. If the Afghans get into trouble, you can go help them.
The thing here is that everyone talks about ending the combat role earlier. The bottom line is you're going to have U.S. troops involved in combat in Afghanistan for a number of years.
MONTAGNE: Tom, thanks very much.
BOWMAN: You're welcome, Renee.
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The deadly Bird Flu, which struck Asia earlier this year, is back again. This time, a 67 year old Indonesian woman has become the first casualty of the virus that transmits from birds to the humans and is considered fatal in the absence of any potent antidote.
This is the 54th death in Indonesia due to the disease. The woman from West Java carried a highly pathogenic form of virus.
The large scale culling of poultry birds earlier this year is still fresh in the minds of people of this country. And before that, it was Tsunami that proved catastrophic for the Indonesian public. It seems there is no end to woes for this country with the present crisis – one hopes doesn’t cause a mass-scale damage. | <urn:uuid:4afc0841-d020-4ed5-8c80-15d15886fbc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bloggernews.net/1674 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960262 | 151 | 2.359375 | 2 |
(News article) The first African American to serve on the Toledo Mud Hens board of directors, who learned his love of the game at his mother's knee, Walter E. Johnson died April 4 in his South Toledo home. He was 81.
The cause was unknown, his wife, Lucille, said. He used a wheelchair after a fall about four years ago. He and his wife continued to attend ballgames and concerts.
He was appointed to the Mud Hens' board in 1999. He was named to the advisory board a decade earlier at the invitation of Gene Cook, the team general manger and longtime Toledo councilman who noticed that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were regulars at Mud Hens games.
"That was his passion, the ballpark," his wife said.
The day he died was the first game of the year, the April 4 exhibition against the Tigers. The Hens opened with a moment of silence in his honor as his picture was shown on the video board. The flag was at half staff in honor of his military service.
"We thought it would be appropriate to let his family know we would be missing him sorely," said Joe Napoli, Mud Hens general manager.
Board chairman Mike Miller said: "We enjoyed the history he had with the ball club. His perspective was always appreciated."
Mr. Johnson's late mother, Lola Ollison, drew him to what became Ned Skeldon Stadium in the early days of the Mud Hens' revival. She had followed Negro League teams that barnstormed through their Prescott, Ark., hometown. And when the family moved to Toledo in the 1940s, she soon found her way to the Mud Hens' longtime home, Swayne Field.
"She loved baseball, and he loved it too," his wife said.
He retired in the late 1990s from the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, where for 15 years he helped veterans find work. A retired Army sergeant major, he served from the late 1940s to the late '60s, including stints stateside and in Germany and tours of duty during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
He was a member of Buddy Frankowski VFW Post 5530.
He was born July 24, 1930, in Texarkana, Ark. He graduated from high school in 1946 in Prescott, Ark., and joined his mother in Toledo. He attended the University of Toledo before he joined the Army. He was in San Francisco, getting ready to go overseas, when he met his wife's famous uncle, Art Tatum, the Toledo-born jazz piano great. The pianist played a medley for his nephew-in-law.
The Johnsons' daughter, Deborah, died in 1972 of an intestinal condition. She was 22.
Surviving is his wife, Lucille, whom he married July 27, 1949.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Thursday in the Dale-Riggs Funeral Home Chapel, with wake services at 10 a.m. Friday in the mortuary. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Grace Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder.
Contact Blade staff writer Mark Zaborney at: firstname.lastname@example.org or 419-724-6182.
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We've been here before, but now the Supreme Court is again hearing arguments on the FCC's indecency standards, in particular the First Amendment aspects and the rule on fleeting expletives and broadcast.
Transcript: FCC v. Fox (Oral Arguments, Jan. 10, 2012)
Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog Many options on TV rules, "With one Justice testing the ultimate constitutionality of government controls on broadcast TV, another trolling for an exceedingly narrow approach, two others suggesting that technology may be overtaking the constitutional dispute, one signing himself up for rigorous morality policing, and one whose vote may really be crucial staying entirely silent, the Supreme Court on Tuesday wandered widely in its new exploration of the state of profanity and nudity on television and radio. The lively argument in the latest round of that controversy even had a lawyer pointing out portrayals of nudity in the courtroom decorations above the Justices' heads."
Adam Liptak, The New York Times, TV Decency Is a Puzzler for Justices, "In a rollicking Supreme Court argument that was equal parts cultural criticism and First Amendment doctrine, the justices on Tuesday considered whether the government still had good reason to regulate cursing and nudity on broadcast television. The legal bottom line was not easy to discern, though there seemed to be little sentiment for a sweeping overhaul of the current system, which subjects broadcasters to fines for showing vulgar programming that is constitutionally protected when presented on cable television or the Internet."
Nina Totenberg, NPR: High Court Hears Arguments In FCC Indecency Case
"Inside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, representing the Obama administration, said that Congress intended broadcast licenses to come with an obligation to meet certain decency standards -- standards that would provide a safe haven for family viewing."
Ruthann Robson, Constitutional Law Prof Blog FCC v. Fox Argument: On Naked Buttocks, Regulated Media, and the First Amendment "Both Fox (represented by Carter G Phillips) focused on the 'fleeting expletive' sanction based on Cher's statement at an award ceremony and ABC (represented by Seth Waxman) focused on a nudity sanction based on an episode of NYPD Blue, argued against the FCC (represented by the Solicitor General Verrilli)." | <urn:uuid:e24621dc-6b1a-44d2-b7e4-ed6a751a7c89> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://andrewraff.com/blog/2012/01/11/once-more-with.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932555 | 468 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Experts from security firm F-Secure have published a highly interesting infographic to show less techie users how cybercriminals manage to gain access to our bank accounts and steal our money.
Cyber bank robberies affect all of us and anyone can become a victim of such crimes. In 2010, the US FBI investigated a total of 390 banking fraud cases and the numbers have grown ever since.
So how do cybercriminals manage to steal our money without marching into a bank with guns?
The first thing they do is launch a spam campaign. They send out millions of malicious emails in an attempt to trick users into visiting their cleverly set up websites.
These websites are actually part two of the operation since they contain an exploit kit which “opens the door” to a Trojan downloader.
This malicious element downloads a piece of banking Trojan, the one that’s responsible for stealing our credentials. When a banking Trojan is installed into a computer, the details we’re entering on the bank’s website (or on a site that mimics it) are handed over to the crooks.
Once they have access to our bank accounts, they transfer our funds to the accounts of money mules, individuals who knowingly or unknowingly help the masterminds obtain the actual money. | <urn:uuid:df5c10c7-2f33-4112-ab4a-e5710e8e819b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-Online-Bank-Robberies-Work-Infographic-312999.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922434 | 263 | 2.703125 | 3 |
You get an invite to a trade show, where you want to show off your masterpiece of a mobile app to the masses. But how many people can huddle around an Android-powered phone before it starts to feel like Black Friday at Walmart? What you really need is a way to project your phone display onto a larger more visible overhead screen. There are several options that come to mind.
One is to buy a hardware phone screen projector. Most of these projectors are marketed for forensics specialists who are looking to document evidence on a cell phone. These solutions are reliable, but generally start at several hundred dollars and go up from there. Paraben’s Project-A-Phone ICD-5200 is one that I see show up in Android-related forums from time to time.
Another solution is to install Eclipse and the Android SDK, and then run your application in the Android emulator. There is nothing wrong with this approach, providing the emulator can handle your app requirements. But if you’ve used the emulator much with devices based on Honeycomb or above, you’ve seen that it can get painfully slow to the point where it becomes unusable.
Recently while attending a seminar, I encountered a third solution. A free application called Droid@Screen (Figure A). Droid@Screen can be downloaded from the developer’s website. It’s a pure Java app, and as such you can run it on a PC, Mac, and most Linux distros. It still requires the Android SDK be installed, as it cleverly works by utilizing screen captures over ADB (Android Debugger). The frame rate is somewhere around 40 frames per minute, which isn’t blazing, but adequate for a vast number of presentation scenarios.
I downloaded Droid@Screen and tried it on my Mac. If there is a way to make it easier to set up and get running I can’t imagine what it would be. I plugged in my XOOM tablet, downloaded the JAR file, and double clicked it. Nice! If you develop Android apps, I encourage you to take a moment and try at Droid@Screen. It’s a very handy tool, and you can’t beat the price! | <urn:uuid:f02a19bd-0acd-4006-93f2-57c3905cbf1f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/app-builder/project-your-android-phones-screen-onto-a-larger-display/1168 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924412 | 460 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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The Pressure to Eat: Why We're Getting Fatter
It takes more than willpower to eat a healthy diet and be physically active. Learn more about how life in modern America encourages us to eat too much and move too little.
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Take Charge of Your Health: A Teenager's Guide to BetterHealth
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Understanding and Using the Nutrition Facts Label
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The Food Guide Pyramid
A healthy diet should be made up mostly of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain breads and cereals, with less of your diet coming from milk and meat products. The Food Guide Pyramid is one guide that can help you make food choices.
From here, you can get information from the government on all sorts of nutrition topics -- food labels, food poisoning, eating to prevent cancer, and many more.
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The Vegetarian Resource Group, Vegetarian Nutrition forTeenagers
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Bar Exam: Energy Bars Flunk
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An Energy Wake-Up Call
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When a person speaks about anti-virus software, he or she usually is referring a type of computer program that prevents, monitors and removes any type of malicious threat from a computer system. These threats can include Trojan horse programs, worms, viruses, adware and spyware. Anti-virus programs can be downloaded onto a computer system or used via online scanners. Their success rates can depend on the number of accurate virus definitions in their databases.
A serious concern for many computer users is the threat of malicious programs, such as Trojan horse programs, that can install themselves on unsuspecting victims' systems and cause damage. Other computer threats include adware, which is characterized by incessant advertisements, and spyware, which can track a computer user's habits and collect personal information. Several anti-virus software solutions can protect against all of these threats at once.
There are many paid options for anti-virus software. Some companies offer free anti-virus programs for download and use. These programs, however, can come with significant restrictions placed upon them. For example, some free programs can be used only on personal computers. Other programs might not offer real-time scanning, and users can be forced to manually run virus scans on their computer for protection instead of being able to browse the Internet while having automated anti-virus software work in the background.
Anti-virus software also exists on the Internet in the form of online virus scanners. These scanners are hosted on websites and can be invaluable tools for those who have infected computers and are dealing with a virus that does not allow the user to download programs onto his computer. Some online virus scanners can also help with the removal of viruses.
Regardless of the specific anti-virus software chosen, computer users should always look for a few things. Users should always choose programs that regularly update virus definitions so that their programs can catch new virus threats as they arise. Programs that do not update virus definitions can quickly become obsolete and will not protect users from new virus threats. Computer users should keep in mind that new virus threats crop up daily.
When installing anti-virus software, users should be aware that one good program is usually all that they will need. Running more than one anti-virus program on a computer can result in compromised computer performance. Besides slowing down a computer's processes, installing several anti-virus software solutions on a computer can effect functionality, because these programs might take up a lot of space and require many of the same resources to effectively perform. | <urn:uuid:fb40a99a-b9f9-4f3f-8331-369c909060d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-anti-virus-software.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946633 | 521 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Prooftexting is the practice of using decontextualised quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority. Critics of the technique note that often the document, when read as a whole, may not in fact support the proposition.
Ministers and teachers have used the following humorous anecdote to demonstrate the dangers of prooftexting:
During the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church accused – fairly or otherwise – the reformers of prooftexting. One instance of alleged prooftexting related to the Protestants' use of Ephesians 2.8-9, which reads, in the New Revised Standard Version translation of the Bible:
This text was cited by the Protestants in support of the doctrine of sola fide (salvation by faith alone, apart from good works), and against Catholic understanding of salvation, which holds that for salvation to be effective, individuals must be willing, active instruments of God's grace.
The Protestants dismissed the accusations of prooftexting as Straw man fallacy, noting that other verses (Romans 3:26, Philippians 1:29, Romans 3:28, 1 Corinthians 12:3, etc.) carry similar messages and that these themes are more fully developed throughout the New Testament, notably in Paul's Epistles to the the Romans, the Galatians, the Ephesians and the Hebrews.
Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in "The Guide of the Perplexed.".(Book Review)
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Ginger Can Prevent Motion Sickness
Are you tired of wearing a “patch” when you take a cruise? Do you wish there were some way to prevent motion sickness without taking drugs which makes you sleepy (and which don’t even work if you fail to take them in advance of feeling queasy)?
One solution is GINGER. The herb? Yes. And not only does it really work; but even if you unexpectedly start to get seasick (or airsick; or carsick), ginger will STILL help. Powdered ginger root capsules are available at health food stores.
Take one or two capsules with a large glass of water within an hour of departure. Then if you start to feel queasy after a few hours, take one or two more capsules. You won’t experience drowsiness or lowered mental alertness . . . or motion sickness.
The Chinese have been using it to prevent and treat motion sickness for centuries. Its popularity with Greeks began in ancient times, and they ultimately invented gingerbread to soothe the stomach. English doctors used to prescribe ginger beer for stomach distress. And ginger ale has been used for years to settle an upset stomach, although there is some question as to the amount of actual ginger in today’s ginger ale.
Need more SCIENTIFIC evidence? The ultra-conservative British medical journal, The Lancet, reported on a controlled double-blind study in 1982, comparing the results of Dramamine and the use of one gram of ginger (as well as a control group who took a placebo). Ginger was found to control motion sickness 50% more effectively than the drug.
If you have a motion sickness problem, you might consider trying out your own test, using Dramamine (or something similar) one time and ginger capsules the next time, comparing results. | <urn:uuid:d95fbdb8-337d-48c2-8188-f117888f6472> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thriftytraveling.com/ginger-prevents-motion-sickness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939086 | 374 | 2.25 | 2 |
approximately how to hit the cloud of his possession. So much is the rain bound to the earth that, unable to compel it, man has yet found a way, by lying in wait, to put his price upon it. The exhaustible cloud "outweeps its rain," and only the inexhaustible sun seems to repeat and to enforce his cumulative fires upon every span of ground, innumerable. The rain is wasted upon the sea, but only by a fantasy can the sun's waste be made a reproach to the ocean, the desert, or the sealed-up street. Rossetti's "vain virtues" are the virtues of the rain, falling unfruitfully.
Baby of the cloud, rain is carried long enough within that troubled breast to make all the multitude of days unlike each other. Rain, as the end of the cloud, divides light and withholds it; in its flight warning away the sun, and in its final fall dismissing shadow. It is a threat and a reconciliation; it removes mountains compared with which the Alps are hillocks, and makes a childlike peace between opposed heights and battlements o | <urn:uuid:b6df2730-cb28-4472-9589-28bb74dd6b5e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://manybooks.net/titles/meynella14314341434.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975046 | 228 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Nisswa is located close to the center of Minnesota. Nisswa is between the Crow Wing, Cass county. Nisswa has 10.78 square miles of land area and 7.56 square miles of water area. As of 2010, the total Nisswa population is 1,971, which has grown 0.92% since 2000. The population growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 7.81% and is much lower than the national average rate of 9.71%. Nisswa median household income is $54,403 in 2006-2010 and has grown by 12.62% since 2000. The income growth rate is lower than the state average rate of 17.72% and is much lower than the national average rate of 19.17%. Nisswa median house value is $242,800 in 2006-2010 and has grown by 62.84% since 2000. The house value growth rate is higher than the state average rate of 58.74% and is higher than the national average rate of 50.42%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers Nisswa is better than the state average in quality. The Nisswa area code is 218.
Nisswa, MN Map, Border, and Nearby Locations
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“Here in the North Pole our elves work hard every year to ensure presents are created and delivered on time to good little boys and girls all over the world,” says Santa Claus, “but with a booming world population and the ever increasing demands of modern employment and elf-and-safety regulations, our task is getting harder and harder and we need to modernize without breaking the bank or requiring specialist skills”.
On Christmas Day Santa Claus delivers toys to well behaved boys and girls all over the world. Budgets are tight, especially with the collapse of the Icelandic banking system where most of Santa’s investments were held. As an ethical organization Santa’s operation must also be seen to be economic and efficient and now has to adhere to strict new guidelines on the amount of hours per day elves can work.
Up until now Santa’s operation was largely manual. “We are in an awkward position,” says Claus “people expect us to carry on our traditions of elf-labour and creating products by hand, but at the same time the world has moved on and we need to compete with the likes of Walmart and ToysRUs and cut our costs. So we needed to find ways of improving efficiency without losing our traditional appeal. 100% mechanization is a no-no. But something that would help with the repetitive manual number crunching and data entry tasks would be ideal. We also had to find something that didn’t require specialist IT knowledge. I mean, our elves, bless them, they’re wonderful at toy-making, but technology? Not so much. So we turned to Google and found Macro Scheduler.”
Many of the tasks carried out by the elves are repetitive and time-consuming, taking elves away from the more productive work of producing toys and wrapping presents. “Once a day we have to download the new lists from our incoming server. There’s the naughty list and the good list.” says Jingle, Santa’s Chief Elf, “We need to check for duplicates, then copy and paste each list into our own master list. Of course boys and girls can switch from list to list too, so we need to cross reference. If someone was on the good list but has been naughty we need to find their record, remove it from the good master list and place it on the naughty list. This used to be a manual process, taking around 6 hours a day. With Macro Scheduler we were able to automate the entire process. A macro trigger responds to the lists appearing in the inbox and then reads through the data and cleans our master list automatically. It’s entirely automated. We used to take turns doing this job and you wouldn’t believe how much happier everyone is now that they can make toys instead.”
That task alone is saving over 2000 elf-hours a year. But it’s not just the elf-savings that Santa’s team is benefiting from. Elves are happier too. It also saves a number of embarrassing mistakes. “In the past it was easy to mess up a change in the lists. Some poor kid ends up being put on the naughty list by mistake and he doesn’t get a present. That was a real PR nightmare! Santa would lose his rag too. I mean you didn’t want to be there! Yeh, the elves are much happier now and we’re now more likely to hit our toy-creation performance targets too. Everyone wins”.
Santa and his team are now using Macro Scheduler wherever they can and can see many opportunities to expand its use across their North Pole operations center over the following year.
“We’re really impressed with the product and the support that comes with it. None of our elves were programmers, with only basic IT skills, but they’ve picked up Macro Scheduler quickly. The possibilities are endless and we’re really glad we found it.” says Claus.
For more information on Macro Scheduler click here. For more case studies and success stories go here. | <urn:uuid:3e6ab2c4-452e-444e-8ab4-4f7540d0a303> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/category/announcements/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961771 | 851 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Reviewed by Douglas W. Cupples (Memphis State University)
Published on H-CivWar (December, 1995)
The end of hostilities between Confederate and Union armies in 1865 marked the beginning of a new struggle for many southerners. Returning from military defeat on the battlefield most Confederate soldiers found financial poverty, devastated homelands, and political disenfranchisement waiting for them. For many the future was bleak, at best, and emigration offered the most practicable opportunity for restoring their shattered lives. As many as three million left for the American west and north, and a lesser number to other countries.
A significant amount, perhaps as many as twenty thousand, chose to begin their lives anew in Brazil. The South's Defeat in war had been followed by the policy of congressional radicals labeled Reconstruction. Military occupation coupled with social upheaval and political restructuring acted as a catalyst for many Confederates' desire to escape their devastated region. For most, however, the option of emigrating was not practicable, and many leaders such as General Robert E. Lee actively opposed these ventures.
Although Brazil still recognized slavery, the imminent elimination of this institution was decidedly forecast by the end of the American Civil War, and desires to continue its perpetuation probably held little appeal for the defeated southerners. On the other hand, the South American country was appealing for a variety of other reasons. The climate was similar to the emigres' native South, labor was cheap, and Brazil practiced a high degree of religious and political tolerance.
Although the former Confederates began several colonies, many failed to make it past the 1870s. Nonetheless, a village in Sao Paulo located near the railroad, and called Villa Americana by the natives, was destined to prosper and survive into the twentieth century.
In 1918 an American Geographical Society expedition visited the colony and reported their findings in the April 1928 issue of the Geographical Review. Their report chauvinisticly reported that the Confederados were unhappy, living in squalor, and worse off than they would have been living under Federal control in the defeated South.
Contrary to the Geographical Review's report, most Confederados had adapted well to their new country and had prospered. Considering the conditions that existed in the 1865 South, anything would have been an improvement. Brazil offered the opportunity to prosper and, despite the return of a few disenchanted colonists, the majority made the most of their new lives and eventually merged into Brazilian society.
The Lost Colony of the Confederacy was written by a descendant of the Confederate immigrants. Eugene Harter returned to the United States in 1935, where he completed his education and embarked upon a career in journalism. In 1971 he returned to Brazil as the United States consul. While renewing acquaintances Harter realized that not a single book had been devoted to this aspect of the War Between the States.
Harter has provided a valuable addition to the historiography of the postwar era. Mostly ignored by historians and maligned by the northern press, the Confederados made an important statement about the war and Reconstruction not previously available to students of nineteenth-century America. Harter has corrected this oversight. To understand how deeply southerners embraced their independence and separation from their northern cousins one must understand how deeply they resented reunification. For a large number reunification was less desirable than a completely new start in a new country.
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the list discussion logs at: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl.
Douglas W. Cupples. Review of Harter, Eugene C., The Lost Colony of the Confederacy.
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Sodium Is something that your body needs to function every day. However, it only needs a minimal amount. The sodium in your body helps you maintain the right amount of fluids in your body, helps your muscles expand and contract, and it also helps transmit nerve impulses. Your kidneys help balance the amount of sodium in your body. However, if there is too much if it your kidneys will start to store it. Once sodium levels get to high, your kidneys will release it causing it to exit your body through your urine. If for some reason your kidneys cannot get rid of all the sodium, your body will start to store it in your blood. Sodium attracts and holds water, making your blood volume increase. Increased blood volume makes your heart work harder to move more blood through your blood vessels. This increases pressure in your arteries. Such diseases as congestive heart failure and chronic kidney disease make it hard for your kidneys to keep sodium levels balanced (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sodium/NU00284). YIKES!! Did we scare you yet?? Here are some ways to cut down on sodium in your diet.
You cannot cut sodium out of your diet all together. As stated above you do need sodium in order for your body to function correctly. Your body needs less than 2,300 mg a day or 1,500 mg if you're age 51 or older. Did you know, on average Americans consume…….. 3,400 mg of sodium a day!!! This occurs due to the salt already called for in recipes, and diners add additional salt. One way to help cut out salt is to skip the salt in your recipes. You can also use herbs and spices in place of salt. If you have having company over, let them know ahead of time that there is no salt in the dish so if they would like to add it, they can.
Another way to skip out on the salt is to make smarter choices. Instead of going to McDonalds and ordering that egg McMuffin which has 820 Mg of sodium, choose to make yourself some scrambled eggs. This is a much healthier option, with only 180 mg of sodium. Another helpful way to cut down on sodium is to cook your own food. This helps you decide what you want to put in your food. When trying to lose weight everyone turns to salads. You must be very careful not to sabotage yourself. The salad dressing you put on your salad may be adding more than 400 mg of sodium! Make a healthier choice and use your own oil and vinegar dressing and make sure you measure it out.
If you do happen to slip up and are feeling the effects of too much sodium, fear not! We all have little mishaps, so begin by relaxing. To counter act the overdose of salt, try adding some potassium to your diet. Bananas, raisins, prunes, and orange juice are just a few nutrient-dense, potassium packing foods that will help to right the wrong in your body. | <urn:uuid:5718ed4d-cc3e-41e7-a5a0-f56e4b70f828> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130113/blogs/130119942/0/blogs01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946724 | 613 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Search these database sites for yesterday's news.
The Web disseminates
up-to-the-minute happenings, but it's also a good source of yesterday's
news. Many large papers, including The New York Times <www.nytimes.com>,
offer archive searches on their Web sites. Typically, you'll get
an article abstract and a citation, and you can either download the
article for a fee or view it on microfilm at the library. Though you
might not think your Kansas ancestor did anything to justify a death
notice in the Times, you never know.
Look, too, for smaller
papers indexed, abstracted or digitized on library, genealogical
society or volunteer Web sites. A few examples: Newspaper Abstracts <www.newspaperabstracts.com>, Small Town Papers <www.smalltownpapers.com> and Utah Digital Newspapers <www.digitalnewspapers.org>.
Peruse sites for your ancestral state archives and area libraries and
historical societies, and type your ancestor's town or city plus
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A Premiere Chef Explores The Jiggly Joys Of Gelatin
If you think gelatin's charms go no further than wobbly, crimson cubes of lunchroom Jell-O, one of the most celebrated and ambitious chefs in the country would like to convince you otherwise.
"Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today," said Jose Andres, the Spanish-born restauranteur and innovator of avant-garde cooking, earlier this month. And then he went on to prove it in an engaging presentation at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
The venue, and the introduction by a Harvard biophysicist named David Weitz, might seem a bit odd for a flamboyant, jet-setting chef like Andres. But the unappreciated potential – and mechanics — of gelation in food fit right into the "Science & Cooking" lecture series, organized by Weitz, which brings some of the most creative minds of the food world to talk about pushing the limits of ingredients and their infinite combinations. The lectures also allow scientists like Weitz help chefs problem solve in the lab.
So, about those gelatins. Why are chefs like Andres so excited about them? Because they're one of a chef's greatest tools in tricking the mind and tastebuds. And they're handy substitutes in an age when many ingredients aren't so palatable anymore.
Gelatins turn liquids into solids, and can make cream-based dishes into a lighter, more flavorful affair by eliminating the need for heavy, flavor-distorting fats. They can also replaces starches in pasta, egg whites in meringues, and shark fins in shark fin soup.
Most gelatins out there today are derived from seaweed, animal proteins, fruit pectins or vegetables. Andres uses them all. They're essential to the famous mousse, foam, "air", and "cloud" he serves at minibar in Washington, D.C. They allow him to enhance textures and flavors, he says. And "when you use a simple gelatin like collagen, you can get flavor that is 100 percent pure, maybe event 150 percent. The combustion that happens in the mouth is exponentially higher," he noted.
Of course Andres didn't invent all these gelatin tricks. He credits much of the innovation to his mentor Ferran Adria, whose El Bulli restaurant in northeastern Spain revolutionized cooking and launched the molecular gastronomy movement. "Ferran shared everything," Andres said.
And indeed there's a lot more sharing going on between scientists like Weitz and chefs like Andres than ever before.
"The chefs like Jose we interact with are beginning to appreciate that science has something to offer them .. there's a real dialogue between us," Weitz tells The Salt. "And we gain enormous appreciation of the beauty of what they do." | <urn:uuid:e5303a29-7b42-4ed3-af66-3392948ebcf3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kenw.org/post/premiere-chef-explores-jiggly-joys-gelatin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944699 | 607 | 2.046875 | 2 |
As 2011 comes to a close, there appears to be a drought of "peace on Earth and good will toward men" in numerous global flashpoints.
The last American air transport had barely lifted off from the Baghdad airport before inter-sectarian violence erupted across Iraq. In Afghanistan, the casualty rate among NATO troops is at an all-time high. And no one in their right mind sees a successful long-term conclusion prior to the announced Canadian troop pullout in 2014.
Undoubtedly, the news lines will be the same for the failed U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan: With no possibility of claiming anything close to victory, the spin will be that we successfully rid those countries of cruel masters, led them to the fountain of democracy, beat them relentlessly for seven and a half and 13 years, respectively, but that they still refused to drink.
In other words, it was mission impossible from the outset, but the aims of the U.S. and NATO were noble and we gave it the good old college try. We were not defeated militarily. We simply failed to win the peace and now it’s time to cut our losses and move on.
This result, of course, cannot justify the enormous cost in
money and lives expended to date nor does it remove the West’s responsibility for the ongoing violence and suffering in the conflict zones we have chosen to abandon.
Instead of learning from these recent failures, it seems as though the U.S. and Canada are still keen to blunder blindly into new conflicts. To be fair, it should be acknowledged that it is a good military principle to "reinforce success" and it seems the NATO intervention in Libya is being viewed as a clear-cut success.
Using the combination of a one-sided arms embargo, the provision of weapons and training to rebel forces, the freezing of Moammar Gadhafi’s financial assets and a 10-month unchallenged aerial bombardment, NATO was able to effect a regime change in Libya without suffering a single casualty.
While British, French and, presumably, Canada’s elite special forces operated in Libya, there was no large deployment of ground forces. This enabled
NATO to wage a completely bloodless campaign while Libyan rebels and Gadhafi loyalists brutally battled each other on the ground.
It matters nothing that, in the aftermath of Gadhafi’s murder, Libya remains a lit tinderbox of heavily armed militias poised on the brink of renewed tribal clashes and civil war.
What is important is that NATO claimed Libya as a victory and that this same blueprint appears to be the basis for a possible future intervention in Syria.
The propaganda machine has already begun its demonization of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for its heavy-handed suppression of Syrian protestors.
The violence in Syria began as part of the Arab spring movement last February. From the outset, as was the case in Libya, the massed demonstrations turned into armed clashes with government security forces.
During the summer and fall, while Western media focussed on the NATO intervention in Libya, large-scale clashes were erupting throughout Syria.
The UN Security Council authorized severe sanctions against the Syrian regime but with the Chinese and Russian veto, further UN-approved military intervention — such as the implementation of a no-fly zone by NATO — remains unlikely.
While most Canadians have no real understanding of the Assad family’s four-decade rule of Syria and even less comprehension of the tribal and cultural compositions of this unique Arab nation, on the surface the members of the Syrian regime seem like pretty bad dudes. We are also told that the various opposition factions, which include Islamic fundamentalists and Kurdish separatists, are "pro-democracy" forces and that the Syrian dictator is using his military force to quell their dissent.
It sounds pretty heavy handed until you realize that these Syrian rebels include heavily armed and equipped army defectors who have joined the rebellion.
If Assad is guilty of using excessive force against his own people, then one has to wonder what Canada’s response would be in a similar situation. For example, in 1990 when a few dozen armed Mohawk warriors erected barricades at Oka and Akwesasne and killed a Quebec police officer, an entire army brigade was mobilized to contain the violence. When FLQ separatists killed a British diplomat and kidnapped a bureaucrat in 1970, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau declared martial law and deployed the entire army onto the streets of Quebec.
Let’s hope that in 2012 Canada’s foreign policy will become one of looking carefully before leaping yet again into any military intervention under the banner of democracy and human rights.
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Overuse injuries represent the single largest classification of sports-related injuries that require medical attention. All too often, athletes report these injuries to the sports medicine specialist after weeks, if not months, of denial and failed self-treatment. However, with the recent advances in medicine today, injured athletes can recover from injuries that otherwise could end their athletic pursuits.
Endurance athletes, especially runners and cyclists, traditionally have a high risk of lower back, hip and lower extremity overuse injury.1-5 During the running boom of the ‘70s and ‘80s, considerable attention and interest were directed to the diagnosis, treatment, classification and causative factors associated with overuse injuries. As the running boom ran its course, interest within the public and general medical community, including podiatry, waned.
However, there is a building resurgence of interest. Long-distance running, cycling, swimming and other endurance sports are capturing the attention of the endurance athlete community. Some athletes are attracted to endurance activities as a means to expand their aerobic activities. Some pursue these activities to stay fit and healthy. Others look to endurance activities for cross training to help reduce stress on an aging musculoskeletal system while some have a primal urge to reach new physical limits. Whatever the case, these athletes will, in increasing numbers, develop a wide array of overuse injuries.
When these injuries occur, the athletes will turn to the medical community, including podiatrists, for diagnosis and treatment of these injuries, as well as training, biomechanics and equipment recommendations including shoes, pedals, cycling cleats, etc. As was the case with the running boom, podiatry could find itself a key healthcare partner for these athletes.
Who are these new-age endurance athletes? Men, women and even youths have become swept up by the challenge to complete a variety of endurance events and adventure races. Most remain close to home and typically focus on local and regional triathlons and duathlons. As athletes gain confidence and experience, they set their sights on larger, more prestigious and even more rigorous events such as an Ironman, Race Across America (RAAM), Badwater or even Primal Quest. Driving this growth are mid-life adults, who are seeking to maintain an active lifestyle in the face of advancing years.
However, they often bring to their new athletic pursuits old dominant musculoskeletal injuries hidden during years of relative inactivity. These old and dormant injuries are frequently aggravated by the demands of a rigorous training and/or racing schedule, and frequently intermingle with new overuse injuries. Nicholas DiNubile, MD, has described these injuries collectively as “boomeritis,” an endearing term that clearly defines a generation of aging athletes.
Can We Effectively Prevent Overuse Injuries?
The exacting etiology of overuse injuries is often shrouded in uncertainty.6 Many have categorized the factors contributing to overuse injuries among endurance athletes with training errors, anatomical/biomechanical factors and equipment failures representing the most frequently cited circumstances associated with overuse injury. The existence of malicious malalignment continues to dominate our suspicions and is frequently described as a cornerstone to overuse injury. However, many more factors play into the development of overuse injuries.7 Contributing factors can be generalized as either intrinsic or extrinsic in nature. One would typically identify these factors via the patient history and physical examination (see “Which Factors May Contribute To Overuse Injuries?” below).
The implications for podiatric medicine are to “stay the course” or assume an expanded leadership role in the care of endurance athletes. To accomplish this, podiatric medicine must: pursue randomized investigational/experimental research; reevaluate and revise treatment protocols and recommendations; provide recommendations and preventive measures to the endurance athlete community; strengthen peer education opportunities; promote public awareness; and carefully listen to our patients.
Medicine has generally been problem-oriented in its focus on patient care and management. However, we need to help instill preventive behavior within our endurance athletes/patients. We need to encourage more rest and less intense training, and facilitate improved strength and range of motion. New shoes and orthoses alone will not be sufficient to nurture the necessary behavior modifications for the athlete to avoid future disabling overuse injuries.
Which Factors May Contribute To Overuse Injuries?
• Psychological factors
• History of previous overuse injury
• History of previous musculoskeletal injury/surgery
• Previous long-distance endurance sports experiences
• Body height and weight
• Muscular imbalance
• Restricted range of motion
• Biomechanical misalignment of the lower extremity
• Chronic musculoskeletal/connective tissue diseases
• Inadequate warm-up
• Inadequate/improper stretching routine
• Training intensity/effort
• Training frequency
• Training speed/cadence
• Time of day and year
• Previous racing and training efforts
• Participation in other sports
• Racing and training shoes
• Nature of training surfaces (hard, canted, etc)
• Foot orthoses
• Improper fit and use of equipment
• Improper and poor racing/training technique
Case Study: When A Triathlon Runner Presents With Neuroma Pain And Gait Abnormalities
A 52-year-old male professional who has participated in triathlons for the past five years received an orthopedic referral for treatment. The patient exhibited gait abnormalities and complaints ranging from a chronically painful neuroma on the right foot to chronic patellofemoral pain syndrome involving the right knee and degenerative joint disease of the right hip.
His previous treatment has included multiple cortisone injections to the neuroma, over-the-counter (OTC) foot orthoses for training/racing purposes, physical therapy and cortisone injections to the hip.
Daily activities, including work and training, cause variable pain, ranging from mild (3/10) to severe (10+/10). The patient describes the most limiting source of pain as from the right hip, which he notes was injured repeatedly during 20-plus years of playing soccer. His hip fatigues and becomes more painful when his neuroma and knee are symptomatic. He will eventually require hip replacement surgery but he has elected upon the recommendation of his orthopedist to put off this surgery for as long as possible.
The patient does not intend to abandon his current training/racing calendar. He runs three times per week and accumulates an average of 35 miles per week. He rides six days a week, averaging 275 miles/week and swims 1,000 to 2,000 yards daily. This training routine typically requires him to ride and run two days a week. He only performs all three activities during races or events.
The patient does maintain his training regimen and also maintains his racing equipment. He currently uses a stability class running shoe in a wide width, which he replaces every 500 miles. He rides a fit, off-the-shelf road specific bike that has been modified for triathlons. He rides forward in the cockpit area (seat through handlebars) with a tall head tube that places him in a more upright position when he is using his aerobars (aerodynamic handlebars). This has been done in the hopes of relieving hip pain by placing the hip in a more extended position throughout each pedal cycle. His pedal system provides freedom for his foot to float (18 degrees of transverse plain motion) throughout each revolution of the pedal. He rides in a road shoe with a standard sock liner.
What The Diagnostic Workup Revealed
The patient’s physical examination was generally unremarkable with the exception of findings consistent with a suspected neuroma to the third intermetatarsal space (positive Mulder’s and Tinel’s signs), and moderate pain and mild crepitus to range of motion to the plantar aspect to the second metatarsophalangeal joint (MTPJ). Radiographic imaging detected a mildly elongated and plantarly displaced second metatarsal. Ultrasonography confirmed the presence of a hyperechoic mass in the third intermetatarsal that demonstrated a positive Mulder’s sign to direct manipulation. Treating physicians saw no disruption or displacement to the plantar plate inferior to the second MTPJ.
There was also pain in the right lower extremity. Clinicians noted moderate pain to the inferior medial aspect of the patellofemoral joint with crepitus to range of motion. This pain could be accentuated upon extension of the leg with the lower leg internally rotated. Assessment of the patient’s leg strength noted asymmetry between quadriceps with the vastus medialis obliquus (VMO). The patient had noticeable weakness (3+/5) bilaterally. The patient had mild pain throughout the range of motion of the right hip.
The patient also had biomechanical abnormalities. The right leg was 8 mm long. He also had excessive internal rotation of the right hip and weakness in the left hip abductors. The patient had a moderate 8-degree forefoot valgus bilaterally, which is fully compensated in resting calcaneal stance position. Treating physicians evaluated the subtalar joint axis of rotation and noted medial deviation with a moderately high pitch, promoting greater transverse plane motion than frontal plane motion.
These observable factors all contribute to an abnormal syndrome of midstance and propulsive phase pronation of both feet. The use of F-Scan (Tekscan) imaging confirmed the functional dominance of a long right limb.
Digital video (DV) walking and running gait analysis demonstrated a number of abnormalities. These abnormalities included prolonged stance phase pronation of the right foot extending well into the propulsive phase of gait; adduction of the left rear foot at heel off (abductory twist action) secondary to the limb length discrepancy; and a right hip drop secondary to weak left hip abductors. Digital video cycling analysis confirmed the biomechanic details observed during the gait analysis. The analysis demonstrated that the athlete’s relative spinning position in the cockpit was too far forward; the shoe cleat was too anterior to the pedal axial; and there was excessive hip, knee and ankle extension through the power stroke of the right limb. Tracking patellar movements during spinning clearly detected excessive patellar frontal plain motion that was thought to be associated with the patellofemoral pain.
A Closer Look At The Treatment Plan
The patient’s diagnosis did not significantly change. However, understanding the contributing factors permitted the formulation of a treatment plan that would not significantly detract from the athlete’s immediate goals.
Treating physicians proposed a multifaceted treatment plan for this endurance athlete. The plan was successful due to the collaboration of several medical and non-medical specialists, each of whom identified unique problems via the athlete’s medical history, physical examination, and biomechanics assessment. Here were the key elements of the treatment plan.
• The athlete had a bike fit done through a local tech shop.
• The athlete worked with a physical therapist to improve hip and knee ROM, and balance muscle strength.
• A local chiropractor examined the athlete for limb length discrepancy and adjusted the sacroiliac joint.
• A local triathlon coach reviewed and revised the athlete’s current training program.
• The athlete presented to his orthopedist for follow-up and management of the right hip.
• The athlete underwent a series of sclerosing injections on the neuroma on the right foot.
• The athlete underwent F-Scan computer assisted gait analysis and received temporary OTC orthoses that were created based upon the results of the F-scan study.
• The athlete wore a new training/racing shoe based upon the results of his biomechanic examination.
• The athlete wore a new cycling shoe, including a cleat with the addition of a 3 mm shim on the left limb (for the limb length discrepancy) to fit the temporary orthoses.
The successful treatment of many endurance athletes requires a coordinated or collaborative approach involving the skills of medical and non-medical specialties. Building a treatment strategy, as with any medical decision, begins with a detailed history, physical examination and laboratory/imaging results. Rarely have I found a circumstance in which I am the sole provider. More importantly, improvement occurs through the integrated efforts of a range of medical and non-medical specialists. Engaging the expertise of non-medical specialists, such as tech shop staff, coaches and trainers, when necessary, benefits both the athlete and the sports medicine podiatrist.
The popularity of endurance events is growing. Accordingly, there will be an increasing demand for medical specialists capable of understanding the motivations and the sports, in addition to being able to treat overuse injuries. Similar to the running boom of decades past, podiatric medicine will find itself ideally situated to respond to the complex needs of these new age athletes. Podiatrists provide a unique perspective in that they understand the complex interactions of lower extremity biomechanics, sport and injury. Our ability to respond to the complexities of overuse injuries through the development of a treatment plan that integrates our own expertise with that of other medical and non-medical specialists will endear podiatric medicine with the endurance athlete community.
However, only by expanding our experiences via educational opportunities and the pursuit of randomized investigational/experimental research can we maintain our cornerstone role in caring for endurance sports athletes. Will podiatric medicine be capable of continuing to meet the needs of this unique and challenging athletic population?
Dr. Herring is a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine, and the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine. He is a team podiatrist for several college and professional teams, and has a private practice in Spokane, Wash.
Dr. Caselli (left) is a staff podiatrist at the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System in Montrose, N.Y. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
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hat is hatred? What is baseless hatred? And how does this basic human emotion affect our relationships, our communities, and our world? In this fascinating study, pharmacological researcher Rene H. Levy looks through a scientific, sociological, and religious lens at the causes and effects of baseless hatred, and offers a prescription for preventing and repairing its damaging consequences. Levy examines the psychological and neurobiological bases of baseless hatred, and shows how it destroys interpersonal relationships. Baseless hatred is understood within Jewish tradition to have been the cause of the longest exile of the Jewish people from the Land of Israel; Levy discusses the impact of baseless hatred - both from without and from within - on the State of Israel, including an analysis of Islamist anti-Zionist hostility and the more recent Western antisemitic opposition as well as the new existential questions posed by the post-Zionist movement. Finally, Levy shows how the cement that has kept the Jewish people united as a nation, known as arevut, "mutual responsibility," proves to be the remedy for the devastating problem of baseless hatred.
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On Sunday night, PBS's NewsHour web site published a phony story about Tupac Shakur being found alive in New Zealand. The fake story (Tupac died in 1996), was the work of a hacker group named LulzSec who broke into the site and published thousands of employee passwords. But apparently there was a discarded idea before inspiration struck with the Tupac story. “I was gonna write about Obama choking to death on a marshmallow, but I figured Tupac would be funnier,” said Whirlpool, a member of LulzSec who spoke with Forbes's Parmy Olson.
The hacker said PBS was targeted two reasons: "Lulz and justice." The "justice" part of the equation was inspired by PBS's airing of "WikiSecrets,"a Frontline documentary critical of WikiLeaks that LulzSec members say unfairly portrayed the organization and its founder Julian Assange. "Lulz," meanwhile, is just another word for big laughs. “While our main goal is to spread entertainment, we do greatly wish that Bradley Manning hears about this, and at least smiles,” Whirlpool said. “From the start [the documentary] painted a negative picture on WikiLeaks, and it put a great deal of focus on discrediting Julian Assange and Bradley Manning." Whirlpool said the attack was carried out by four hackers in total and was rather easy because of PBS's "outdated" system.
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The Healing of the Gerasene Demoniac. 1* a They came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. 2When he got out of the boat, at once a man* from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him. 3The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain. 4In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. 5Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones. 6Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and prostrated himself before him, 7crying out in a loud voice, “What have you to do with me,* Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me!” 8(He had been saying to him, “Unclean spirit, come out of the man!”) 9* He asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Legion is my name. There are many of us.”b 10And he pleaded earnestly with him not to drive them away from that territory.
11Now a large herd of swine* was feeding there on the hillside. 12And they pleaded with him, “Send us into the swine. Let us enter them.” 13And he let them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine. The herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea, where they were drowned. 14The swineherds ran away and reported the incident in the town and throughout the countryside. And people came out to see what had happened. 15As they approached Jesus, they caught sight of the man who had been possessed by Legion, sitting there clothed and in his right mind. And they were seized with fear. 16Those who witnessed the incident explained to them what had happened to the possessed man and to the swine. 17Then they began to beg him to leave their district. 18As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed pleaded to remain with him. 19But he would not permit him but told him instead, “Go home* to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you.” 20Then the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him; and all were amazed.
Jairus’s Daughter and the Woman with a Hemorrhage.* 21When Jesus had crossed again [in the boat] to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.c 22One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward.d Seeing him he fell at his feet 23and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, “My daughter is at the point of death. Please, come lay your hands on her* that she may get well and live.” 24He went off with him, and a large crowd followed him and pressed upon him.
25There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years. 26She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet she was not helped but only grew worse. 27She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. 28* She said, “If I but touch his clothes, I shall be cured.” 29Immediately her flow of blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. 30Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who has touched my clothes?” 31But his disciples said to him, “You see how the crowd is pressing upon you, and yet you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” 32And he looked around to see who had done it. 33The woman, realizing what had happened to her, approached in fear and trembling. She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth. 34He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.”e
35* While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official’s house arrived and said, “Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?” 36Disregarding the message that was reported, Jesus said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid; just have faith.” 37He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. 38When they arrived at the house of the synagogue official, he caught sight of a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 39* f So he went in and said to them, “Why this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.” 40And they ridiculed him. Then he put them all out. He took along the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and entered the room where the child was. 41* He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!” 42The girl, a child of twelve, arose immediately and walked around. [At that] they were utterly astounded. 43He gave strict orders that no one should know this and said that she should be given something to eat.
* [5:19] Go home: Jesus did not accept the man’s request to remain with him as a disciple (Mk 5:18), yet invited him to announce to his own people what the Lord had done for him, i.e., proclaim the gospel message to his pagan family; cf. Mk 1:14, 39; 3:14; 13:10.
* [5:21–43] The story of the raising to life of Jairus’s daughter is divided into two parts: Mk 5:21–24; 5:35–43. Between these two separated parts the account of the cure of the hemorrhage victim (Mk 5:25–34) is interposed. This technique of intercalating or sandwiching one story within another occurs several times in Mk 3:19b–21; Mk 3:22–30 Mk 3:31–35; 6:6b–13; 6:14–29; 6:30; 11:12–14; 11:15–19; 11:20–25; 14:53; 14:54; 14:55–65; 14:66–73.
* [5:28] Both in the case of Jairus and his daughter (Mk 5:23) and in the case of the hemorrhage victim, the inner conviction that physical contact (Mk 5:30) accompanied by faith in Jesus’ saving power could effect a cure was rewarded.
* [5:35] The faith of Jairus was put to a twofold test: (1) that his daughter might be cured and, now that she had died, (2) that she might be restored to life. His faith contrasts with the lack of faith of the crowd.
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Unfortunately, Moreless cannot answer your posts as he no longer posts in Curezone. However, he has his own website, so you are more than welcome to address him directly.
I always tell those interested in pH balance to buy pH paper to measure the pH of the urine and saliva. It is a tool that may help to see if one suffers from acidosis.
For an introduction to the Moreless protocols you can start here http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1432095#i
and than follow on the suggested links. Read the 10 Simple Steps to Healing-- by Moreless
that is on the same post. Take your time to read the many info that can be found. It will be time well invested.
A bottled water should indicate the mineral content. A real mineral water would measure a pH on the alkaline side I.e. above 7.
A way to increase mineral intake is to take unsulphured blackstrap molasses. The Moreless alkalizing drink is a good way to obtain a lot of different minerals. The blackstrap molasses along with the kelp provide for a lot of many different minerals.
Probiotics may help if you have digestion/assimilation problems.
I don't know much about activated charcoal as supplements, so I won't comment on it.
Calcium is helped if magnesium, vitamin D3 and K2 are also taken.
Magnesium can also be taken externally by the skin. So, what might help is the alkalizing bath that use Epsom salt (Magnesium sulfate).
The more natural the source of calcium is the better it is. Green leafy vegetables. Sardines. Cold water fishes (not farmed).
So much can be said. I am probably not answering your questions the way you hoped. But as I said, invest your time in reading the material that can be found here and buy yourself some pH paper for urine and saliva pH measurements.
Additionally, you will find below some info from Dr Mercola about calcium.
Dr Mercola about calcium
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Osteoporosis is a very common problem. It’s characterized by porous and fragile bones, which over time increases your risk of fractures, most often your hips, vertebrae and wrists. In fact, it will affect about half of all the people watching this video.
The following information is important for a number of reasons, because there’s a lot of confusion about this condition, but I want to specifically clear up two major misconceptions.
Clearing Up Two Major Myths About Osteoporosis and Its Treatment
The first myth is that osteoporosis is due to a calcium deficiency. As you’ll soon see, that’s not simply the case.
The second misconception is that the treatment for it is to use bisfosphonate drugs like Fosamax, Actonel, or Boniva. This is one of the worst strategies for treating this condition, because even though it will increase your bone density, it is a poison! The reason these drugs work is because they actually kill certain cells in your bone called osteoclasts. These are the cells that destroy bone as part of your natural bone regeneration process.
When these cells die off, you’re left with only osteoblasts, which build bone. Hence you get bigger bone that is denser, but NOT stronger. Your bones actually become weaker, and in the long term increase your risk of developing a fracture.
Your bone undergoes a dynamic process, constantly being remolded based on the forces in your body, and you need to have both osteoblasts and osteclasts to remove old bone and rebuild new bone.
Another drug you want to avoid, especially if you have asthma or any other autoimmune disease, is steroids. Steroids are very detrimental for bone density, and will increase your risk of osteoporosis.
Eating Right for Healthy Bone Density and Strength
One of the important strategies for healthy bones is to eat the right kind of foods. If you eat a diet full of processed foods, it will produce biochemical and metabolic conditions in your body that will decrease your bone density, so avoiding processed foods is the first step in the right direction.
Eating high quality, organic, biodynamic, locally-grown food will naturally increase your bone density and decrease your risk of developing osteoporosis.
One food in particular worth mentioning are onions, which are high in gamma-glutamyl peptides that have been shown to increase bone density. But generally, you’ll want to eat lots of fresh vegetables.
There’s a common concern that eating a high protein diet will secrete calcium into your urine. But the truth of the matter is that more people are now eating low-protein diets, and your body needs protein, because amino acids are part of the bone matrix. If you don’t consume enough of specific amino acids your body can’t form strong, dense bones. So you’ll also want to make sure you eat plenty of high quality protein like free-range eggs and grass-fed meats.
One food you may want to consider avoiding is gluten -- a specific protein in many grains, specifically wheat, but also barley, rye, oats and spelt. Gluten has been shown to decrease bone density.
Along with your foods, your omega 3 fat content has a lot to do with building healthy bone. Most everyone needs to take a high quality, animal-based omega 3 fat. I recommend krill oil, as I believe it’s a superior source of omega 3’s.
At the same time, to balance out your omega 3 and omega 6 ratio, you’ll want to reduce the amount of processed vegetable oils you consume. Oils like corn oil, safflower- and soy oil are loaded with omega 6’s. Additionally, canola should be avoided for other reasons.
Another supplement you may want to consider if you already have osteoporosis is vitamin K2, which has been shown to radically improve bone density. Fermented foods, such as natto, typically have the highest concentration of vitamin K found in the human diet and can provide several milligrams of vitamin K2 on a daily basis.
Additional Components that are Vital for Bone Density
Two additional components that are vital for building bone density and strength are vitamin D and proper exercise.
Vitamin D -- Interestingly, you don’t need much vitamin D to protect you against osteomalacia (the term for the softening of bones due to defective bone mineralization, also known as rickets in children). In fact, most of our RDA’s are based on that observation, which is why they’re up to ten times lower than what many people need for optimal health.
Now we know that vitamin D is enormously important for an ever-growing number of conditions, which is why I recommend you regularly expose large amounts of your skin to safe amounts of sunshine (or use a safe tanning bed) to optimize your vitamin D levels.
If neither of those is available, then you’ll want to use an oral form of vitamin D3. However, if you take oral vitamin D, make sure you’re measuring your vitamin D levels with a reputable reference lab (in the U.S. I recommend LabCorp). Getting your levels up to about 60 ng/ml will help you optimize your bone density.
Proper exercise -- The second component you can’t ignore if you want strong, healthy bones is weight bearing exercises like strength training. Remember, bone-building is a dynamic process, so you want to make sure you exert enough force on your bones to stimulate the osteoblasts to build new bone.
You may want to see a personal trainer or exercise therapist to give you specific exercises to build up the muscles around the bone that are most at risk, such as your arms and hips, as that’s where most of the damage occurs.
The Calcium Lie
Dr. Robert Thompson M.D. wrote an entire book, The Calcium Lie, addressing this important issue. Although he’d been able to resolve many illnesses with supplements and herbs and other less toxic alternatives to drugs, he’d come to realize that similar to the pharmaceutical industry, the nutrition industry had its own flaws.
He concluded that enormous amounts of money were being wasted on supplements that had little or no health benefit, and in some cases could actually worsen your health.
One of the tenets of his book is that bone is composed of at least a dozen minerals, and if you focus exclusively on calcium supplementation you are likely going to worsen your bone density, and will actually increase your risk of osteoporosis!
Dr. Thompson believes that the overconsumption of calcium in the goal of preventing osteoporosis creates other mineral deficiencies and imbalances that will also increase your risk of heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Interestingly, he proposes that one of the best practical alternatives is the use of naturally occurring ionic supplements, as ionic minerals are the most plentiful form of minerals found on earth. He believes that almost everyone needs trace minerals, not just calcium, because you simply cannot get all the nutrients you need through food grown in mineral depleted soils.
Unprocessed Salt – A Better Alternative to Calcium Supplementation
Dr. Thompson believes that unprocessed salts are one of the best sources of these ionic trace minerals responsible for catalyzing many important functions in your body.
I have been a long time fan of high quality salt, and even more so once I learned of Himalayan salt, which I believe is one of the healthiest salts on the planet. High quality salts like Himalayan contain vitally important trace minerals from the ancient oceans that are not contaminated with toxins, and which are very difficult to get in your food due to the challenges of modern agricultural practices.
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Is there anything more irritating than that predictable sigh, so often heard from the trendy anti-gentrification crowd, that New York was so much better, so much more authentic, when one couldn’t walk through Central Park without fear of sexual molestation; when Times Square was an outdoor brothel, controlled by illiterate gangsters who kept out both horrid corporations and those even more horrid (and uncool) tourists from Omaha?
The only argument worth making in defense the old New York is that cities in decline often produce great books and films about decline: Saul Bellow’s 1970 classic Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Tom Wolfe’s brilliant Bonfire of the Vanities, Al Pacino in Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon.
While no one is better than Wolfe at exposing the foul political climate of 1980s New York (if you want to understand the baffling rise of Rev. Al Sharpton, familiarize yourself with his fictional counterpart, Rev. Reginald Bacon), the smartest evocation of Manhattan in decline—and one of the best books of the Reagan-era—is Martin Amis’s novel Money, a mordent, frequently depressing, and always riotously funny vision of celebrity culture and two cities (London and New York) approaching civilizational collapse.
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The development of these methods for the study of algebraic geometry was one of the major advances in mathematics during the 20th century. Pioneering work in this direction was done in France by the mathematicians André Weil in the 1950s and Alexandre Grothendieck in the 1960s.
In addition to developments in number theory and algebraic geometry, modern algebra has important applications to symmetry by means of group theory. The word group often refers to a group of operations, possibly preserving the symmetry of some object or an arrangement of like objects. In the latter case the operations are called permutations, and one talks of a group of permutations, or simply a permutation group. If α and β are operations, their composite (α followed by β) is usually written αβ, and their composite in the opposite order (β followed by α) is written βα. In general, αβ and βα are not equal. A group can also be defined axiomatically as a set with multiplication that satisfies the axioms for closure, associativity, identity element, and inverses (axioms 1, 6, 9, and 10). In the special case where αβ and βα are equal for all α and β, the group is called commutative, or Abelian; for such Abelian groups, operations are sometimes written α + β instead of αβ, using addition in place of multiplication.
The first application of group theory was by the French mathematician Évariste Galois (1811–32) to settle an old problem concerning algebraic equations. The question was to decide whether a given equation could be solved using radicals (meaning square roots, cube roots, and so on, together with the usual operations of arithmetic). By using the group of all “admissible” permutations of the solutions, now known as the Galois group of the equation, Galois showed whether or not the solutions could be expressed in terms of radicals. His was the first important use of groups, and he was the first to use the term in its modern technical sense. It was many years before his work was fully understood, in part because of its highly innovative character and in part because he was not around to explain his ideas—at the age of 20 he was mortally wounded in a duel. The subject is now known as Galois theory.
Group theory developed first in France and then in other European countries during the second half of the 19th century. One early and essential idea was that many groups, and in particular all finite groups, could be decomposed into simpler groups in an essentially unique way. These simpler groups could not be decomposed further, and so they were called “simple,” although their lack of further decomposition often makes them rather complex. This is rather like decomposing a whole number into a product of prime numbers, or a molecule into atoms.
In 1963 a landmark paper by the American mathematicians Walter Feit and John Thompson showed that if a finite simple group is not merely the group of rotations of a regular polygon, then it must have an even number of elements. This result was immensely important because it showed that such groups had to have some elements x such that x2 = 1. Using such elements enabled mathematicians to get a handle on the structure of the whole group. The paper led to an ambitious program for finding all finite simple groups that was completed in the early 1980s. It involved the discovery of several new simple groups, one of which, the “Monster,” cannot operate in fewer than 196,883 dimensions. The Monster still stands as a challenge today because of its intriguing connections with other parts of mathematics.
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"My boyfriend and I have only had sex twice, but when we do, I bleed afterward. Is this normal?"
If bleeding happens when youve already had sex before, it may be from irritation or scratching (like from your partners fingernails) or some further tearing of the remnant of the hymen. But bleeding can also be from a sexually transmitted disease (STD) or other medical problem. If the bleeding continues to happen or if you have any other unexpected symptom, see a doctor. And, of course, now that you are having sex, use a condom every time to help protect against pregnancy and STDs. | <urn:uuid:c59ede3e-5e4f-493e-a6f7-08a26b970104> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.seventeen.com/health/sex/bleeding-after-sex | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932469 | 127 | 1.90625 | 2 |
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Arose this morning very tired and sore, scarcely able to walk at first but after breakfast felt better and walked around to see what was to be seen after yesterdays fight. I was witness to some awful scenes. Saw the wounded, shot in every portion of their body, head, neck,, body, arms, hands, legs & feet. Some with their limbs taken completely off. Some have died since being brought here, others dying. Wherever I walked the same spectacle presented itself. Among them all I heard not a word of complaint and scarcely a groan. From what can be ascertained we lost in killed and wounded between fifteen hundred and two thousand. Went around to a large pen of prisoners. There were four or five hundred in the pen I saw, and nearly all of them the lowest class of foreigners. This afternoon, a portion of the cavalry brought in seventy five more of the wretches. They were all marched off to the cars and sent to Richmond. As one squad of thirty passed our tent to the cars one fellow spoke to us, saying “Good bye boys I left home to go to Richmond and by ——- I am going.["] We learn to day that the 4th Ala Regt was not so badly cut up as was supposed. There have not been more than forty or fifty killed. Col Jones was not killed, but shot through both legs. Genl Bee died this morning. The Cavalry captured a large amount of baggage, ammunition &c. We got one very large gun from them which they familiarly called “Long Tom”. We got also a very fine ambulance, in which the medical staff were conveyed about. They had every thing complete. I suppose it was the best equipped army that ever started on a campaign. Old Scott is a great fellow for having everything ready before he makes a move. The small arms captured were the finest minnie muskets, which will be of great service to the army, as we are in need of more arms. It has rained all day without ceasing, making it very disagreeable here, especially for those who have no tents, and a great many here have none. The tents of the 4th Ala were left at Winchester. Capts Porter King and Balls sleep with us tonight, making ten or twelve in a tent, but we can sleep very well, as we are not very particular how we sleep.
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This article shows proof that Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, although lacking in formal education, also knows his physics. How some important factors in the sport of boxing such as speed, fist-mass, technique, and even the gloves used affect the effectiveness of a punch are also comprehensively discussed in this piece.
If you take a closer look, the explanation above isn’t really meant to make any exact calculations. Rather, its primary purpose is to show a scientific proof that mass(or weight) and speed are determining factors on how much damage a punch can inflict. Of course you can argue technique and all other factors you can think of. Using the right technique, a boxer can use as much body weight as he can in throwing his punch or he could just sit on his punches or throw arm punches that are much quicker but with less weight, thus, less damage, but the bottom line is still speed and weight (mass).
Now let’s consider adding more variables like defense, gloves used, and technique in throwing the punch. The latter two are factors that the one throwing the punch can control while defense is one thing that the person taking the punch can do to minimize the damage. Here the concept of the change in momentum comes into play.
Remember that we are no longer considering a stationary target and the cushion on the gloves also becomes an additional variable to consider. This therefore becomes a topic about collision, which suggests that it is no longer enough to consider force, or momentum, but the whole impulse-momentum equation given by the equation below
integral of Fdt = integral of dp
where F is the force, dt is the time derivative and dp is the derivative of momentum.
If we assume that the force is constant throughout the collision event (from the moment the glove first touches the target to the moment the glove first leaves the target), the above equation simplifies to
Δp = F Δt or F = Δp/Δt
To give a more vivid example, let me borrow an example given by my good friend nbajr2003 of Pacland. Consider two identical eggs dropped from the same height. One falls on concrete floor while the other falls on a pond. in which case does the egg break?
In both cases, the egg’s change in momentum is the same. They are dropped from the same height, so they both have the same zero initial speeds, and the same speeds just before impact with the ground or the lake. However, the force is applied much more gradually in the second case than in the first case. As a result, the egg breaks in the first case and not in the second case. In boxing, the cushion in the gloves serves to prolong the application of that force, to lessen the damage on the puncher’s knuckles. This is probably the reason why pound for pound king Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao prefers to use the Cleto Reyes gloves because of its less padding, which, based on the above explanations, translates to more damage inflicted by his punches than when he uses a glove with more padding like the Everlast or Winning gloves. Pacquiao, though probably lacking in formal education, certainly knows his physics!
Now let’s consider the defensive capability of the one receiving the punch. Good defensive boxers lessen the impact of their opponent’s punches by moving their heads backward against a straight punch or turning their head sideways in the same direction as a hook they will receive. Usually when they don’t see the punch, they get caught while moving their heads opposite the direction of the punch. Here, the punch is more devastating and usually result to a knockout.
Now going back to F = Δp/Δt, if a boxer can create a potent combination of a greater change in momentum at a lesser amount of time, then that would correspond to greater force, and greater damage!
I hope I didn’t confuse you more.
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Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered opening remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference “Capitol Hill Day Summit” this morning in the Capitol Visitor Center. Below are the Speaker's remarks as prepared for delivery:
“Thank you, Chairwoman Barbara Lee for your leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus - the conscience of the Congress.
“Essential to the CBC's efforts on behalf of all Americans is your ‘Opportunities for All - Pathways Out of Poverty' agenda. As we strengthen our economy for all Americans, we must pay particular attention to those who have been facing long-term economic hardship.
“I would also like to acknowledge Chairman Kendrick Meek for his leadership of one of our nation's foremost institutions for improving the lives of African Americans: the CBC Foundation.
“From across the country, you have come to Washington during a historic moment of opportunity.
“Congress, led by the CBC, is making progress on behalf of all Americans.
“We are guided by the three pillars President Obama established for our nation. They are the foundation of American economic growth and job creation for decades to come: education for all of our children; energy independence and the creation of new green jobs; health insurance reform that ends disparities.
“Essential to the strength of our nation is a quality education for all of our children, and affordable higher education for all who qualify. In that regard, last week the House kept our promise to millions of college students, passing legislation that marks the greatest investment in higher education since the GI Bill.
“I am particularly proud that this legislation will invest more than $2.5 billion in our Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions. This will provide students with the support they need to stay in school and graduate.
“To foster a new era of American energy independence, the House has passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act. It tackles the climate crisis head-on; it revitalizes our economy by creating millions of new, clean energy green jobs; it increases our national security by reducing our dependence on foreign oil; it preserves our planet by cutting emissions; and it helps promote environmental justice.
“Just yesterday, at the United Nations Climate Change Summit, President Obama reaffirmed America's commitment to transition to a clean energy economy that creates jobs and reduces global warming pollution. Our families, our communities, and our nation will be strengthened by this effort.
“And today, we stand closer than ever before in history to passing comprehensive health insurance reform.
“This week, the fifth and final Congressional committee is marking up legislation, and in the House we are working together to reconcile our differences in the versions presented by our committees.
“Though there are some differences between us, the legislation that Congress votes on will lower cost, bring greater choice, and ensure higher quality. It will reduce health disparities and offer stability and peace of mind. And we will pass it this year.
“There's been a great deal of discussion about what health care reform will mean for middle class Americans. Today, I want to clear up the confusion. Here's what reform will mean for you: no discrimination for pre-existing conditions, no dropping your coverage because you become sick, no refusal to renew your coverage, if you've paid in full and become ill, no more job or life decisions made based on loss of coverage, no need to change doctors or plans, if you like the coverage you have, no co-pays for preventive and wellness care, no excessive out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays, yearly caps on what you pay, no yearly or lifetime cost caps on what insurance companies cover.
“This year, with health insurance reform, we have an opportunity to transform our economy and build a foundation for prosperity for all of our citizens.
“And we will do it with the CBC, and all of you, in the lead. We need you to partner with President Obama and Congress to take health care in a New Direction. This week, while you are in Washington we need each of you to contact your Member of the House and Senate about the urgency for health insurance reform.
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Such is the schizophrenic dysfunction of our politics: We constantly demand “conviction” politicians who will “do what’s right” and then condemn them, often in the same breath, for being unwilling to put aside their conviction and their sense of what’s right.
But such condemnation does not fall equally on conservatives and progressives alike. For the progressive’s principle is, at its core, more. Do more. Spend more. Spend more doing more. Any compromise of progressive principle in this regard is seen as “pragmatic.” Hence, the progressive’s heart is always in the right place.
The conservative, however, who says the federal government is not the right tool to fix the problem at hand, or that it is not Washington’s job to fix said problem, or that such a problem is itself not fixable and taking money from taxpayers to try is despotic folly: This conservative’s heart is never in the right place.
In other words, the progressive wins entirely on the principled question of direction. The conservative (or libertarian) loses entirely on principle but gets concessions on how fast we’ll go in the wrong direction. The progressive says, “Let’s move to Mars.” The conservative says, “Earth is fine.” They compromise by moving to the moon. And, before the first lunar dawn, the progressives start agitating about how Mars would be so much better.
When the classical liberal philosopher Friedrich Hayek famously said that he couldn’t call himself a conservative because “It has ... invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing,” he had this dynamic in mind, and you can see it on full display as progressives respond to the unfolding disaster of ObamaCare by arguing for a single-payer system.
This gets to the heart of why the Republican “brand” is in such terrible shape. Over the 20th century, progressives erected a system and culture where the government in Washington is the agency of first and last resort for all of our problems. When government is expected to say yes to everything, electing the Party of No makes as much sense as hiring a priest to run a brothel.
So what is the answer? Many conservatives argue that what the GOP needs to do is start saying “Yes” to things. This was the idea behind George W. Bush’s compassionate conservatism. Americans want an activist government, so conservatives should find things they can be activist about, too. If the government is going to meddle, it might as well meddle in conservative ways.
While individual policies may be advisable, as a general proposition I think this is the wrong way to go. Not only does this do violence to the constitutional order conservatives are supposed to conserve, it forever puts the right in a bidding war with the left about what government can and should do. Conservatives will lose that fight — and possibly their souls in the process.
What’s the alternative? Well, if the game is rigged against you, continuing to play the game is the very definition of idiocy. You have to change the rules.
My own view is that conservatives should recommit themselves to federalism and states’ rights. The Party of Lincoln should protect core civil rights, but beyond that, states and localities should be given as much freedom as they can handle. If California wants to become Sweden with better weather, let it. If Texas wants to become Singapore on the Rio Grande, great, go for it. And the same principle goes for cities and towns within those states.
Of course, conservatives already say they believe in federalism, but they rarely demonstrate it save when convenient. Which brings me back to the question of fidelity to principle. In principle, Republicans should look at the monumental clutter in Washington like a boat with too much ballast to stay afloat: When in doubt, throw it overboard.
In practice, Republicans should be more strategic and discriminating. That means taking positions that are right on policy, but also, when possible, highlighting issues that run counter to the (unfair) caricature of Republicans as prudish moneybags. Personally, I’d start with federal marijuana laws. The tide has turned on pot, and states are going to keep legalizing it. Why should Washington stand in their way? The beauty of federalism is that you don’t have to condone legalization in one state or prohibition in another. It’s just not Washington’s fight.
This can’t happen overnight, but the system didn’t get rigged overnight either.
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I am using in my code at the moment a ReentrantReadWriteLock to synchronize access over a tree-like structure. This structure is large, and read by many threads at once with occasional modifications to small parts of it - so it seems to fit the read-write idiom well. I understand that with this particular class, one cannot elevate a read lock to a write lock, so as per the Javadocs one must release the read lock before obtaining the write lock. I've used this pattern successfully in non-reentrant contexts before.
What I'm finding however is that I cannot reliably acquire the write lock without blocking forever. Since the read lock is reentrant and I am actually using it as such, the simple code
can block if I have acquired the readlock reentrantly. Each call to unlock just reduces the hold count, and the lock is only actually released when the hold count hits zero.
EDIT to clarify this, as I don't think I explained it too well initially - I am aware that there is no built-in lock escalation in this class, and that I have to simply release the read lock and obtain the write lock. My problem is/was that regardless of what other threads are doing, calling
getReadLock().unlock() may not actually release this thread's hold on the lock if it acquired it reentrantly, in which case the call to
getWriteLock().lock() will block forever as this thread still has a hold on the read lock and thus blocks itself.
For example, this code snippet will never reach the println statement, even when run singlethreaded with no other threads accessing the lock:
final ReadWriteLock lock = new ReentrantReadWriteLock(); lock.getReadLock().lock(); // In real code we would go call other methods that end up calling back and // thus locking again lock.getReadLock().lock(); // Now we do some stuff and realise we need to write so try to escalate the // lock as per the Javadocs and the above description lock.getReadLock().unlock(); // Does not actually release the lock lock.getWriteLock().lock(); // Blocks as some thread (this one!) holds read lock System.out.println("Will never get here");
So I ask, is there a nice idiom to handle this situation? Specifically, when a thread that holds a read lock (possibly reentrantly) discovers that it needs to do some writing, and thus wants to "suspend" its own read lock in order to pick up the write lock (blocking as required on other threads to release their holds on the read lock), and then "pick up" its hold on the read lock in the same state afterwards?
Since this ReadWriteLock implementation was specifically designed to be reentrant, surely there is some sensible way to elevate a read lock to a write lock when the locks may be acquired reentrantly? This is the critical part that means the naive approach does not work. | <urn:uuid:f6be47ce-d574-47ae-b8c3-057d304345d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/464784/java-reentrantreadwritelocks-how-to-safely-acquire-write-lock | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935783 | 626 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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BERLIN (AP) — A cow named Yvonne whose escape kept a corner of Bavaria on tenterhooks has turned herself in after three months on the run.
The Gut Aiderbichl animal sanctuary, which now owns the errant bovine, said Thursday that a farmer had called to say Yvonne had shown up on her farm in the Muehldorf area, near the Austrian border. One of the sanctuary's employees was able to confirm Yvonne's identity with the help of her ear tag.
The brown dairy cow escaped from a Bavarian farm in May, then hid in forests. A few days later, she was involved in a near-collision with a police car, and local authorities labeled her a public danger. | <urn:uuid:b6827986-b87e-440f-a8cb-ff3cff48bff2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://manolaw.blogspot.com/2011/09/outlaw-cow-corralled.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98303 | 159 | 1.53125 | 2 |
“For agriculture, it’s going to be important that they continue to educate people about their processes so that consumers become more and more comfortable about the food they’re eating today,” Debbie Roberts, vice president and general manager of McDonald’s Midwest Region.
Speaking at the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation’s 94th annual convention, Roberts also told attendees that McDonald’s will present an ad campaign in 2012 that will feature farmers and growers that supply the products. “We will bring to the consumer, the folks who are actually producing the product,” Roberts says. “They will have the opportunity to meet those folks, see them on TV…put the face with the product.”
She points out that consumers have become increasingly savvy, and they want to know more about the source of their food. “For us to be relevant as a brand, we constantly talk with consumers, and we listen,” Roberts adds. “That’s been the success of McDonald’s; to make sure we have a brand that responds to consumers.”
Some of the things that today’s consumers are telling McDonald’s is that their palates are varied and the growing diversity within the United States require continuous change. “It’s hard to predict where customers will go. You have to be ready to change with them,” she says. “Consumers will continue to be more complex.”
Another trend that she sees for the long haul is the demand for high-quality products. Along those lines, she says consumers will demand high standards associated with the sourcing of their foods.
“We rely heavily on the quality products of our farmers and growers to provide the best quality product to our consumers,” Roberts says.
In terms of relying on U.S. agriculture, she says both Roberts and McDonald’s see it as a key link to feeding the world. “As the world’s population continues to grow, agriculture will continue to be more important,” she adds. | <urn:uuid:7bd9c015-9315-41b5-bde1-f0641ff07e8e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dairyherd.com/dairy-news/latest/-McDonalds-ad-campaign-will-feature-producers-135190673.html?email=yes&cmntid=78288296 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964172 | 433 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Apr. 8, 2009 Mothers with many negative thoughts and feelings are more likely to give their children unhealthy food. This is shown in a study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) in collaboration with the University of Oslo.
This is the first research project in the world that analyses children’s diets combined with both psychological and sociodemographic variables in the mother. As part of the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study, a total of 27,763 mothers were asked how often and how much their 18 month old child ate of 36 types of food and drink. By this age, children learn to prefer sweet and fatty food over healthy food.
"We found that mothers who were emotionally unstable, anxious, angry, sad, had poor self-confidence or a negative view of the world were far more likely to give their child sweet and fatty foods. At the same time, there was no link between maternal personality and how healthy a diet the child got in the form of fruit and vegetables," explains psychologist Eivind Ystrøm at the NIPH.
These maternal personality traits fall under a collective name of high negative affectivity (negative emotions). These people often have a lower stress threshold, giving up quicker when faced with obstacles – e.g. in a disagreement – and often experience lack of control of the child.
"I think that mothers compensate for this either by trying to force healthy food into their child or hold the sweet-bag strings extra tightly," Ystrøm continues. "Paradoxically, they try to balance poor control by actually using more control. With force and restrictions they increase desire which quickly results in resistance in the form of tantrums which these mothers are also bad at resisting. Also, earlier studies have shown that controlling behaviour among parents is linked with a more sugar-rich diet among children."
Aid to nutritional advice
Ystrøm believes that knowledge about the link between the parents’ personality traits and children’s eating habits will be useful for health personnel and others who give nutritional advice.
"People with a lot of negative affectivity often express worry and appear to be helpless and insecure. Research into this type can help to create a toolbox of advice to relieve the feeling of stress and lack of coping and improve the child’s diet. Unfortunately we could not study the fathers, but it is likely that this also applies to them. Men with a lot of negative affectivity often express this in the form of anxiety or anger, but otherwise the characteristics are identical between the sexes."
Independent of sociodemographic factors
Research results were also controlled for the following sociodemographic factors; the child’s sex, smoking, child attending nursery, education, mother’s age, mother’s BMI, number of children, income and marital status. These data were collected from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway at the NIPH. None of them explained the effect that the mother’s negative affectivity had on the child’s diet.
"Or, to put it another way, the impact of sociodemographic variables on children’s eating habits was unaffected by the mother’s personality traits," says Ystrøm.
Mothers who smoked daily, had a high BMI, had many children, had male child / children who went to nursery were less likely to give them a healthy diet. If the mothers were daily smokers, with a high BMI and/or many children, there was a greater chance that they would give their children an unhealthy diet. However, if mothers had a higher education and/or were older, they were more likely to give their children healthier food.
First study of 18 month old children’s nutritional patterns
As well as being the first study to compare a child’s diet with psychological and sociodemographic factors in the mother, this is also the first time that nutritional patterns in such young children are studied.
"This is important because we discovered that the same socioeconomic risk factors for sweet and fatty foods that were found earlier among three to six-year old children in England were already present at 18 months," says Ystrøm. "In addition, this shows that parents’ ability to master stress can affect children’s eating habits from a very early age."
More about the method
Earlier studies indicate that anxiety and post-natal depression can affect a child’s eating habits. However, post-natal depression arises infrequently and usually abates during the first year, so it is probably irrelevant for the child’s eating habits over time. Therefore, with colleagues Susan Niegel and Margarete E. Vollrath, Ystrøm extended the research question to include the mother’s personality measured by negative affectivity.
Children’s eating habits were categorised as “healthy” and ”unhealthy”. Data were cross-checked with information about the mother’s demographic, medical and socioeconomic background from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s Medical Birth Registry. ”Healthy” and “unhealthy” foods were mutually uncorrelated for negative affectivity in the analysis, i.e. a child getting ice-cream for dessert would not affect the variable that the same child had sprouts for dinner.
Weaknesses of the study
The breadth and the number of indicators for the children’s eating habits were limited, as were the types of food that 18 month old children generally eat. Researchers only evaluated which foods children ate and not how they were served their food. Finally, a complete personality evaluation of the mothers could point to a more obvious and overall effect of their personality.
"Therefore, future studies should include all the five basic personality traits that are usually used in personality tests; extroversion, control, sociability and openness to new experiences, in addition to negative affectivity. It can also be interesting to look even closer at the process between a mother’s personality trait and the child’s diet that causes children of mothers with high negative affectivity to have a poor diet," says Ystrøm.
In an earlier study, Ystrøm and his colleagues highlighted that mothers with a high level of negative affectivity often cease breastfeeding before the recommended six month limit.
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- Eivind Ystrom, Susan Niegel, Margarete E. Vollrath. The impact of maternal negative affectivity on dietary patterns of 18-month-old children in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 2009; DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2008.00177.x
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How Often Should You Visit The Dentist For a Check-Up?
The standard recommendation is to visit twice a year for check-ups and cleanings. This frequency level works well for most people.
Patients with implants, crowns and some people with gum disease, a genetic predisposition for plaque build-up or cavities, or a weakened immune system might need to visit the dentist more frequently for optimal care.
Important Reasons For Twice-Yearly Visits:
- To allow your dentist to check for problems that you might not see or feel including early signs of decay.
- To treat any other oral health problems found (Generally, the earlier a problem is found, the more manageable it is.)
What Happens At The Typical Check-Up Appointment?
Two oral health care professionals – the dentist and the dental hygienist – will likely see you. The hygienist will conduct an initial oral exam of your gums and teeth, document any changes in your overall health and medicine use, clean and polish your teeth, talk to you about caring for your teeth and gums, and answer any questions you might have about home care products. The dentist will also conduct an oral exam of your mouth (for signs of oral cancer or other diseases), gums, and teeth; ask about changes in your overall health or medicine use; review the cleaning done by the hygienist; diagnose any oral health problems; and make treatment recommendations.
- Cleaning – Although home-based tooth brushing and flossing help remove plaque, only a professional cleaning – provided by the dentist or dental hygienist – can thoroughly clean your teeth and remove the hardened plaque (called calculus or tartar) that builds up on teeth. The hygienists use a series of metal hand instruments to clean your teeth.
- Polishing – After your teeth have been cleaned, they are polished to remove plaque and stains on the tooth surface. The polish contains an abrasive substance and fluoride, and is applied using a small rotating rubber cup or brush attached to the dental hand piece.
- Prevention – The hygienist might offer additional instructions for you to follow at home, based on the results of your exam. Don’t hesitate to ask us for instructions about brushing or flossing, or general care questions about your teeth and gums.
- DIGITAL X-RAYS – We use DIGITAL X-RAYS thereby exposing our patients to much less radiation than traditional x-rays. The dentist will consider your clinical examination, dental history, and risk for developing cavities in determining the frequency for x-rays.
- Treatment recommendations – If any oral health problems are identified during your examination, the dentist will make recommendations for the best next steps. These might include referral to another oral health care specialist, additional diagnostic tests, or advice to return for restoration work or additional oral health care.
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After I just posted this last poem, I started thinking about one of my former students. When I was in Guyana, I taught seventh grade at a remedial high school. I knew that the experience of my students in Guyana would be incredibly different from my adolescence, but I was surprised at the tragedy that every single one of my students had endured.
I had one student in particalur, Lisa, who disappeared from school one day. No one knew where to find her, and no one really searched. A group of friends – women without husbands who the town dubbed lesbians – found her a week later, beaten up on the side of the road, inches from death. She had met a man, at least ten years her senior, who promised her a life of comfort in exchange for the prize of her thirteen year old body. She came back to school a few weeks later, the scars on her face healed, but her eyes haunt me to this day. Here is something I wrote about her:
Lisa smiles like a woman
the secret pact of women who have endured
the maturity to hide scars
she sits in the back of the class, legs too long for the Form 2 desk, her knees burn into wood. but she folds her hands across her lap and waits for class to start. the short boy beside her, the kid everyone calls ‘roach’ partly because it is his tittle and partly because it suits him, watches her, too shy to speak. The same way celebrity stuns, Lisa commands quiet. I remember her short hair at the beginning of the term. Her curling plaits that touch her ears remind me of the stretch of time that has passed in her absence. as quick as breath.
he beat the girl for two and a half hours before someone stopped him. They found her, crumpled, broken, with a harem of lesbians a week later. the women had taken the running child in. how did she find the strength to run? beaten near to death, thin limbs bloody, face raw, heart destroyed. what was he trying to find? something that defied exhaustion or humanity, his fists refused to let up. and her mother, somewhere enjoying the feel of the next man’s words in her ears, the elixir of promise velvety smooth on her skin. While lisa felt even the air as it traveled across layers of skin she never knew she had. foreign hands lifting her into shame that her brain could not even fathom, she could only feel the warmth of smiles. of women’s faces surrounding her. a threat disarmed.
this is to the faces pressed in mud
the screams silenced beneath the foot of doubt
why would I do that? don’t you know they always want it
this is to the thirteen year old girl abused by her father
but he has a job driving a boat and he brings home bread and sometimes chicken
and what’s a girl supposed to do?
this is to the girls without voices
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It seems that ever since the whole "pink slime" controversy, the general public has been more aware of what they eat.
Now consumers are looking at a product called "tuna scrape." It's similar to pink slime in that it's the bits of meat scraped off of the bones.
A recent salmonella outbreak that was linked to tuna scrape has people asking whether this product is fit for human consumption or not.
Seeing as how it's a common ingredient in some kinds of sushi, raw tuna scrape could pose a serious health risk.
Some food experts don't think there's enough research on tuna scrape to declare it safe. Others think it's so different from pink slime that it's not a fair comparison.
Tuna scrape, like pink slime, is pulled from the bones after all the meat has been taken. But pink slime goes through several other steps of processing.
It is cooked, spun in a centrifuge and then sprayed with ammonia.
At least tuna scrape isn't treated like that but still, it's eaten raw and it's the leftovers that were stuck to the bones.
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Passionist student; renowned for sanctity and miracles; born at Assisi, 1 March, 1838; died 27 February, 1862, at Isola di Gran Sasso, Province of Abruzzo, Italy; son of Sante Possenti and Agnes Frisciotti; received baptism on the day of his birth and was called Francesco, the name by which he was known before entering religion, educated at the Christian Brothers' School, and at the Jesuit college at Spoleto. Immediately after the completion of his secular education, he embraced the religious state; on 21 September, 1856 he was clothed with the Passionist habit, and received the name of Gabriele dell' Addolorata. He made his religious profession on 22 September, 1857, and then began his ecclesiastical studies as a Passionist student. He was gifted with talent of a higher order and with a wonderful memory; and in his exact observance of rule, his spirit of prayer, and his fervent devotion to the Passion of our Lord, to the Holy Eucharist, and to the Dolours of the Blessed Virgin. In the sixth year of his religious life he died of consumption; his death was that of the just, holy and edifying, and he was buried in the church attached to the retreat at Isola di Gran Sasso where his remains are still entombed, and where numerous prodigies have been wrought, and numerous conversions effected, through his intercession.
Little was known of Gabriel's extraordinary spiritual gifts during his life. He was not singular, he conformed himself to the community life; he was only a fervent and exemplary Passionist novice and student hidden from the world in the cloister. After death, this young religious in a few years was declared venerable by the Church, thereby testifying that he had practised all the virtues in a heroic degree; and he was beatified and raised to the honours of the altar, by special privilege of the supreme pontiff before he was fifty years dead.
His solemn beatification took place on 31 May, 1908, in the Vatican basilica, in the presence of the cardinals then in Rome, of the Passionist fathers resident in Rome and of representatives from all the provinces of the congregation. Among those present were many who had known the beatified during his life, including one of his brothers, Father Norbert, C.P., his old spiritual director and confessor and Signor Dominico Tiberi, who had been miraculously cured through his intercession. [Editor's Note: Gabriel was canonized in May of 1920.]
The Mass and Office in honour of Blessed Gabriel are allowed to the whole Passionist congregation, and his feast day is celebrated on 31 May. It is the express wish of Leo XIII and Pius X that he should be regarded as the chief patron of the youth of today, and especially as the patron of young religious, both novices and professed, in all that concerns their interior lives.
APA citation. (1909). Bl. Gabriel Possenti. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330c.htm
MLA citation. "Bl. Gabriel Possenti." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330c.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J. Murray.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Ok, after reading this article on Cafemom.com, I suddenly feel like a bad mom for taking my daughter to the mall to get her ears pierced. Everybody does it, so it's perfectly fine, right? Well, experts say it's not....here are the 5 reasons why:
Sanitation of the facility:
A mall booth, on the other hand, can be touched by everyone who walks by, is often just a cloth stool in a highly trafficked area, and the only part of their equipment that is sterile is maybe the earring studs -- which doesn't matter if the gun and gloves aren't.
Training of the piercer:
A mall piercing employee often has one day of a seminar, or even a video, then practices a few times on a piece of cardboard with dots or a teddy bear. Sometimes pediatricians offer this procedure, but they're no more trained with a piercing gun than you are.
Quality of the equipment: Piercing guns use cheap metal that almost always contains high levels of nickel despite the fact a good 15 percent or more of the population has a nickel allergy. The studs are so thin that they have a tendency to migrate into the healing flesh, and they are not long enough to allow for normal healing in even the thinnest earlobes. How many times do you hear "The skin will close over the back of the earring if you don't twist it!" This isn't because of twisting (which is not advisable nor healthy!) but because of improper jewelry to begin with. The butterfly back earrings also have so many grooves that they can trap bacteria against the new piercing wound.
Piercing booths hand you a bottle of cleaning solution that is about 99.8 percent water ... and the remainder is Benzethonium Chloride, or they suggest a soap with Triclosan (like Dial) that actually damages healing tissue. Their healing care almost looks satirical to educated piercers, which includes twisting piercing daily, a move that unless the earring is totally free of "crusties" (dried healthy fluid) and totally clean, twists bacteria into and tears sensitive tissue in the newly healing piercing. BAD idea.
Real piercers have been trained to not just hand you a bottle and piece of paper, but show you how to care for a piercing and help recognize potential problems and solve them. Piercing artists undergo often one year or more of internships, take bloodborne pathogen courses, often take CPR just in case of a medical emergency with a client, have to learn about aftercare, potential medical problems, and proper jewelry choices for each piercing type, and have to watch procedures many times before being very closely monitored while learning to perform them. Piercing parlors are required to thoroughly and regularly clean their piercing area (which consists of easy-to-clean materials like a doctor's chair) regularly, and only allow paying customers into the area to prevent any contamination of their sterile equipment. | <urn:uuid:cbe9dedf-e8f7-45d4-84c1-b7b939833961> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.1051thebuzz.com/5-Reasons-to-NOT-Get-Your-Ears-Pierced-At-The-Mall/11600318?pid=185553&archive=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965514 | 608 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Bin Laden Virus Warning
Officials are warning about possible viruses on your computer.
You may get an email from a friend or family member directing you to go to a website with something for the subject of Osama bin Laden pictures or videos of of his killing. Do not open these, unless your friend or family member specifies that they sent them to you, or even give them a call to see if they’re legitimate. In most cases, they’re probably bogus and you should just delete them.
In a report from WNYT, the FBI is also warning computer users about unsolicited E-mails reportedly showing photos and videos of bin Laden’s killing. Plus, questionable links started showing up on Facebook and other social networking sites.
I found out about one or two of these virus generating issues last night, while I was on the air. I started getting posts sent to me on Facebook. A friend of mine asked if I had sent her one of those bin Laden links, which I didn’t. Just before she asked me, I started getting the same bin Laden messages from other people. I also saw the same post several ties in row to some of our listeners.
According to a computer expert, this may be very malicious and will crash your entire system, then make your computer into an attack system, by using your contact list. It will start shooting emails to your friends and family, with the virus attached. Make sure your anti virus software is up to date, and then do a virus scan. Have you received on of these yet? | <urn:uuid:82b3a030-e95e-4fd6-be0f-20729e15d762> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wgna.com/bin-laden-virus-warning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969957 | 320 | 1.867188 | 2 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE || January 26, 2012
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U.S. Helsinki Commission to Hold Briefing on Moldova
WASHINGTON–The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) announced today a briefing:
Moldova: The Growing Pains of Democracy
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
2200 Rayburn House Office Building
Prolonged political stalemate in Moldova raises questions about the country’s ability to stay the course of reform despite the lack of immediate and gratifying results. At the same time, December’s election of Yevgeny Shevchuk – a new and younger face in Transnistria – has again raised hopes for normalization of the decades-old conflict with the breakaway region. Is Moldova’s political deadlock proof that the democratic process is working or evidence of a failing system? Is Russia losing the ability to impose its own flagging brand of “sovereign democracy” in nearby separatist enclaves? What can the United States do to encourage Moldova’s slow, but steady progress toward greater implementation of Helsinki commitments? Please join our distinguished panel for a timely discussion of recent developments in Moldova.
Witnesses Scheduled to Testify:
H.E. Igor Munteanu, Ambassador of Moldova to the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil
Ambassador William Hill, Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College and former Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova
Mr. Matthew Rojansky, Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment
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Major Report to Congress by Secretary of Health and Human Services Documents Need for National Lupus Health Education Program
New report resulting from Lupus Research Institute’s congressional advocacy describes state of lupus research, impact of disease, and barriers to care
Friday, January 22, 2010
A major report on lupus from the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the U.S. Congress this week reviews the state of the disease and documents the need for a comprehensive national provider health education program to help eliminate the barriers of racial disparities in the early medical diagnosis and treatment of lupus.
The report was the result of advocacy by the Lupus Research Institute's National Coalition of state and local lupus organizations. The LRI National Coalition (LRI) vigorously petitioned for congressional funding for a new National Lupus Health Education Program for physicians and healthcare providers, successfully working to secure federal funding of $2.6 million to date to advance needed professional education about lupus.
The new education program is led by the Office of Minority Health in the federal Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with the U.S. Surgeon General and the Office of Women's Health and implemented through the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).
The Secretary's report highlights the effect of disparities on lupus patients, stating that "many still die prematurely from lupus because of complications of the disease, late diagnosis and co-occurring chronic conditions."
It also documents the need for health education efforts, noting that "until researchers discover a cure or new ways of identifying at-risk individuals as well as diagnosing and treating lupus, educating health care professionals about the importance of early diagnosis and teaching patients how to manage and cope with lupus providesthe best opportunity for improving quality of life for patients and for controlling morbidity and mortality."
"We are delighted that a wide spectrum of federal agencies and leading medical, research, and health organizations across the country will now collaborate on this crucial health education program," said LRI President Margaret G. Dowd. "The program rollout began with a kick-off meeting last week in Atlanta hosted by the ACR."
The LRI National Coalition is committed to ongoing advocacy leadership in advancing additional federal funding for this crucial national lupus education program, she added.
"This National Lupus Health Education Program is a hallmark event in a 10-year effort by LRI National Coalition members to bring attention to the issues of racial disparity and support to the needs of people with lupus, particularly those in underserved communities," said Dowd.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (S.L.E.), commonly called lupus, is a chronic and potentially fatal autoimmune disorder and one of the nation's least recognized major diseases. In lupus, the body's immune system forms antibodies that can attack virtually any healthy organ or tissue, from the kidneys to the brain, heart, lungs, skin, joints and blood.
About 90 percent of those diagnosed with lupus are women. African-American women are about three times more likely to develop lupus, and it is also more common in Hispanic, Asian and American Indian women. Lupus is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and stroke among young women.
No new treatments for lupus have been approved in 50 years.
The Lupus Research Institute: Pioneering discovery to prevent, treat, and cure lupus.
The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) is the world's leading private supporter of innovative research in lupus. The LRI champions scientific creativity and risk-taking in the hunt for solutions to this complex and dangerous autoimmune disease. Founded by families and shaped by scientists, the LRI mandates sound science and rigorous peer review to uncover and support only the highest-ranked novel research. It is the only lupus organization to receive an A+ rating by the American Institute of Philanthropy, directly channeling 96 cents of every dollar donated right back to the programs supporting brilliant and determined lupus researchers. The LRI's bold and proven research strategy consistently achieves the insights, breakthroughs, and solid results that are changing the course of lupus research and bringing new hope to people with lupus nationwide and around the world.
The LRI's advocacy arm is its National Coalition, a powerful network of state and local lupus organizations united to prevent, treat and cure lupus by advocating for lupus on Capitol Hill. The Coalition unites lupus groups from both coasts and the nation's major urban centers-New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
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CBS News Correspondent
Mention the name Charles Collingwood and the giants of American broadcasting unite in tribute. Collingwood, a native of Three Rivers, was a Rhodes Scholar who quit the classroom in 1940 to accept a full-time reporting assignment with Edward R. Murrow. “The world that comes out of this war is not going to be a world conducted by pale scholars gorged with useless information,” he wrote. Collingwood excelled in global coverage and commentary for CBS News. “Grace under pressure,” noted colleague Howard K. Smith. “A shining ornament in journalism,” concluded Charles Kuralt. Collingwood died in 1985. | <urn:uuid:bef3b936-0241-4f6c-b9c2-69dcff8a12a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://j-school.jrn.msu.edu/halloffame/collingwood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958494 | 143 | 1.828125 | 2 |
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council moved as a powerful bloc Saturday to try to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's deadly crackdown on protesters, slapping sanctions on him, his five children and 10 top associates.
Voting 15-0 after daylong discussions interrupted with breaks to consult with capitals back home, the council imposed an arms embargo and urged U.N. member countries to freeze the assets of Gadhafi, his four sons and his daughter. The council also backed a travel ban on the Gadhafi family and close associates, including leaders of the revolutionary committees accused of much of the violence against opponents.
Council members additionally agreed to refer the Gadhafi regime's deadly crackdown on people protesting his rule to a permanent war crimes tribunal for an investigation of possible crimes against humanity.
The council said its actions were aimed at "deploring the gross and systematic violation of human rights, including the repression of peaceful demonstrators." And members expressed concern about civilian deaths, "rejecting unequivocally the incitement to hostility and violence against the civilian population made from the highest level of the Libyan government."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated council members for the unified vote, saying it "sends a strong message that gross violations of basic human rights will not be tolerated."
"I hope the message is heard, and heeded, by the regime in Libya," Ban said.
British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant called the vote "a powerful expression of the deep concern, indeed the anger, of the international community." U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said it was "a very powerful message to the leadership of Libya that this heinous killing must stop and that individuals will be held personally accountable."
French Ambassador Gerard Araud said the unanimous referral of the case to the tribunal signaled a new commitment by the international community to its responsibility to protect citizens. "A wind of liberty and change is sweeping throughout the Arab world and I think the Security Council succeeded in responding to this new era of international relations," he said.
The sanctions were welcomed by Libya's deputy U.N. ambassador, Ibrahim Dabbashi, whose entire mission is among Libyan diplomats around the world who have renounced Gadhafi.
Dabbashi said the council vote will engender "moral support for our people who are resisting" and could help defeat "this fascist regime still in existence in Tripoli." He called on the Libyan armed forces to abandon Gadhafi and throw their support to the protesters.
Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch's international justice program, was impressed by the council's unanimous vote and said the action "sends a powerful signal on behalf of justice for the people of Libya and all others victimized by mass force and violence."
The Libyan uprising that began Feb. 15 has swept over nearly the entire eastern half of the country, snatching entire cities in that region out of the government's grasp. Gadhafi and his backers continue to hold the capital Tripoli and have threatened to put down protests aggressively.
There have been reports that Gadhafi's government forces have been firing indiscriminately on peaceful protesters and that as many as 1,000 people have died.
Council members did not consider imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, and no U.N.-sanctioned military action was planned. NATO also has ruled out any intervention in Libya.
Indian Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri noted his country is not an ICC member, and would have "preferred a calibrated and gradual approach," but decided to accept the referral because other council members believed it would help end the violence in Libya.
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Engineering is a term applied to the profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences, gained by study, experience, and practice, is applied to the efficient use of the materials and forces of nature. Engineers are the ones who have received professional training in pure and applied science.Before the middle of the 18th century, large-scale construction work was usually placed in the hands of military engineers. Military engineering involved such work as the preparation of topographical maps, the location, design, and construction of roads and bridges; and the building of forts and docks; see Military Engineering below. In the 18th century, however, the term civil engineering came into use to describe engineering work that was performed by civilians for nonmilitary purposes.
Civil engineering is the broadest of the engineering fields. Civil engineering focuses on the infrastructure of the world which include Water works, Sewers, Dams, Power Plants, Transmission Towers/Lines, Railroads, Highways, Bridges, Tunnels, Irrigation Canals, River Navigation, Shipping Canals, Traffic Control, Mass Transit, Airport Runways, Terminals, Industrial Plant Buildings, Skyscrapers, etc. Among the important subdivisions of the field are construction engineering, irrigation engineering, transportation engineering, soils and foundation engineering, geodetic engineering, hydraulic engineering, and coastal and ocean engineering.
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Need of the Hour: A new alliance for jobs
Every country values education as the path to individual self-improvement and national prosperity. Governments are reforming their education systems. Many governments want to make learning relevant to the job market. Yet despite these efforts, many countries, including in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), are finding that results are elusive.
Despite rising investment in education, the MENA youth unemployment rate in 2011 topped 27%, more than double the global rate of 13%. Instead of educating for employment, the MENA region is grooming a young population without any job-relevant skills. Few understand the gap between education and employment better than the youth themselves. A Booz & Company survey of young nationals in the GCC in late 2010 found that only 22% strongly believed the education system provided sufficient preparation for career success. It is no surprise that the young, particularly the unemployed, are so vocal. This urgent problem demands immediate initiatives, and not just from governments. Education reform is important, but it will not solve the employment crisis anytime soon.
Education changes can take many years to have an effect. The MENA region demonstrates this. Recent education investments have yielded some important gains. The education gap between boys and girls has narrowed. Illiteracy rates have fallen. Unfortunately, more education has not created more employment. Today's crisis requires an imaginative approach, an alliance for jobs among business, government, and the education system.
These three stakeholders have separate and mutually supporting needs. Business wants workers with the correct skills so that it can compete in the global economy. Government wants to shift the economic base towards knowledge and innovation. The education system is the only partner that can produce a critical mass of skilled workers over the long-term. Each stakeholder has to change its approach for the alliance to work and should collaborate with the other to play to their respective strengths.
Business to the rescue
Waiting for the impact of long-term education reform is not an option. The answer lies within the private sector where business has the capabilities, and hence the duty, to engage in short- to mediumterm initiatives that are necessary today to overcome the youth unemployment crisis. Indeed, business has much of the knowledge and capabilities that government and academia lack. Businesses knows what skills young people require to work. Businesses can contribute to improving the planning, governance, and service delivery capabilities of the education sector.
Enterprises should introduce internships and apprenticeships into schools. Our survey found that 59% of respondents had not done a summer placement - whether a job, internship, or training programme - while at school or university. Yet this is precisely the exposure to the workplace and work ethic that students in more mature economies take for granted. One instance of the new approach is the cooperation between the Tamer Group (a consumer, pharmaceutical, and healthcare company) and the Saudi government. Tamer could not find qualified Saudi nationals for its logistics and operations. The firm decided to team up with the Ministry of Labour's Human Resources Development Fund ( HDF ) to create a training institute.
A three-month programme now teaches logistics and operations, along with "soft" skills such as English language. The HDF pays about three-quarters of the cost. Tamer covers the remainder and supplies the training facility. The company generally offers jobs to the top 20% of trainees. The next 30% receive certificates they can use when approaching other firms (the remainder either fail or drop out). In this way, Tamer finds skilled workers and reduces its recruitment costs. The company also enriches its national economic environment by giving Saudi nationals job-relevant skills.
The government as convenor
In the alliance approach, government exercises a different form of leadership. In the past, government used mandates to reach employment goals. Some of these requirements had an important impact, but they did not solve the employment problem. A better strategy is for the government to lead by convening stakeholders. Government can be the catalyst, promoting and funding others' skills initiatives. Certainly, government must pursue the correct social and economic policies. At the same time, it can create the mechanisms and linkages that foster job-appropriate education.
A good example comes from Jordan, where the government, working with the World Economic Forum, assembled the global private sector, the education system, and not-for-profits in the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI). The private sector partners include Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco Systems. The JEI has started 100 "Discovery Schools" equipped with information and communications technology (ICT). Pupils at these schools achieve higher test scores than their peers in other schools, making them more employable. The JEI also contributes to the local ICT sector development.
Towards more relevant education
Education also needs to change tack. Quantity of education has often come before quality. The region's education system does not sufficiently cultivate students' critical faculties and problem-solving abilities. Students are also not adequately developing the "soft" skills demanded by employers, such as communication skills. Instead, the education system should coordinate with business to translate workforce needs into courses and scholarship opportunities.
This collaboration can especially strengthen technical and vocational training programmes so that they produce graduates ready for jobs. In Morocco, the Mohammadia School of Engineers works with the semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics NV. The two have a "center for excellence" in Rabat, a research facility that gives Mohammadia students work experience. The company counsels post-graduates on their research. STMicroelectronics also points them to opportunities inside the company and with other private enterprises. Of course, some education changes have to be long-term.
In Qatar, the Supreme Education Council is overseeing a complete redesign of the primary education system. The reform also includes variety in curricula, parental choice, and accountability for results. The goal is an education connected to economic needs. By collaborating in this novel manner, stakeholders can help the region's youth reach its full potential. Listening to the concerns of youth, the ultimate beneficiaries of these initiatives, is vital. The MENA region's young population is arguably its greatest natural resource. If business, government, and education can combine in an alliance for jobs, they can open this well of talent.
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Study examines the biology of tumor-derived microvesicles
A new paper by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, discusses the biology of tumor-derived microvesicles and their clinical application as circulating biomarkers. Microvesicles are membrane-bound sacs released by tumor cells and can be detected in the body fluids of cancer patients.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the incidence of cancer will reach approximately 9 million deaths in 2015. The rising prevalence of the disease is a major factor that drives the growth of the oncology biomarkers market. Biomarkers can be defined as any biological, chemical or physical parameter that can be utilized as an indicator of physiological or disease status. Thus, biomarkers are useful in cancer screening and detection, drug design and also to boost the effectiveness of cancer care by allowing physicians to tailor therapies for individual patientsan approach known as personalized medicine.
The new paper discusses the potential of microvesicles to present a combination of disease and tissue-specific markers that would constitute a unique, specific and identifiable biosignature for individual cancers.
"As such, it would make their sampling over time a preferred method to monitor changes to the tumor in response to treatment, especially for tissues such as the ovary or pancreas, where repeated biopsies of these organs is impractical," D'Souza-Schorey said.
Profiling of microvesicles could form the basis of personalized, targeted cancer therapies, especially as more reliable and rapid profiling technologies become available.
"For example, certain markers like HER2/neu, in addition to being elevated in breast cancer, is also increased in a relatively smaller subset of other cancers such as ovarian cancer," D'Souza-Schorey said. "This latter group of patients would benefit from existing treatment strategies that target the HER2 receptor."
The approach could be advantageous over currently used approaches of profiling whole tissue or un-fractionated body fluid particularly if circulating microvesicles indeed concentrate molecular changes that occur in the tumor, as it would increase the sensitivity of detecting critical markers of cancer progression.
"One complicating factor, though, is the presence of shed vesicles from other non-tumor cell types also in direct contact with these body fluids," D'Souza-Schorey said. "Thus, equally significant is the development of strategies to selectively capture tumor-specific markers that separate from other shed vesicle populations."
In collaboration with local oncologists, the D'Souza-Schorey laboratory is investigating the potential of microvesicles as a cancer diagnostic platform, a project under the umbrella of Notre Dame's Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics Initiative. The lab's research on the biology of microvesicles and their roles in tumor progression is supported by the National Cancer Institute and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.
"Despite considerable strides, effort and investment in cancer biomarker research in the past decade, there are still more desirable outcomes, most especially enhanced sensitivity to enable early detection ," D'Souza-Schorey said. "An effective biomarker platform that will overcome these challenges would be paradigm shifting in cancer care."
The paper, which appears in the June 15 issue of the journal Genes and Development, was coauthored by Notre Dame graduate student James Clancy.
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David Kirp Discusses the Marketing of Higher Education at TC Booktalk
Published in Inside - Volume IX, No. 6
David L. Kirp has turned out books on subjects as varied as AIDS, affordable housing, gay rights and charter schools. Kirp, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, has now turned his attention to a force he has observed firsthand in his three decades in academia: the marketing of higher education.
Kirp spoke about his latest book, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line, at the American Museum of Natural History's Linder Theater. The discussion was moderated by Richard Heffner, host of Channel 13's "Open Mind."
"There have been times in our history when we've been market-obsessed," Kirp said. "This is one of them." That obsession manifests itself in higher education by treating students as consumers to be lured to elite universities and placated with good grades and plush accommodations, he said. It can mean greater reliance on non-tenured and poorly paid adjuncts, or, conversely, by entering an arms race for famous professors, offering them huge salaries and lighter teaching loads. Sometimes it means, as in the case of his own campus, selling university research to the highest bidder. (At Berkeley in 1998, that bidder was Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant.)
But Kirp wants to offer a nuanced view, he told his audience. The situation is more complicated than the trope of a "purist institution besieged by bankers… If you don't pay attention to the bottom line, you don't live to see another day."
Kirp said he embarked on a "Gulliver's travels" in the course of writing the book, which includes more than a dozen case studies, including Columbia University, to illustrate his themes. At the University of Chicago, he encountered the purist vision, embodied by senior faculty who decried-in the starkest terms-the cash-strapped institution's plans to cut back the required core curriculum and increase the number of undergraduates. Too often this insistence on purism "is self-interest dressed up in fancy garb," he said. "It means freedom for academics to do whatever they want to do."
At the other extreme were the universities that turned departments into "revenue centers," students into customers, professors into entrepreneurs and institutions into profit-seekers. The losers at these institutions included the traditional liberal arts, along with low-income students who were disadvantaged by the increasing proportion of scholarships awarded for merit, not need.
What is Kirp's ideal? There is merit in the classic notion that the academy defends values that don't have short-term benefit, he said: "If your hand is out to power, it's hard to speak truth to power." And while an institution should know what it is and what it stands for, it must also look after the bottom line to survive and thrive.
Kirp writes approvingly of an "open research" consortium at UC Berkeley to develop a powerful silicon chip. "The consortium brought dollars to research ideas, while the university brought ideas and enthusiasm." The result was that knowledge was expanded far more than it would have been otherwise, he said.
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Chancellor's Parashah Commentary
Parashat Va-yeishev 5755Genesis 37:1 - 40:23
November 26, 1994 23 Kislev 5755
Ismar Schorsch is the chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary.
Ben Zoma, a second-century sage, died so young that he never attained the title "rabbi." Yet his wisdom exceeded his years. As proof, I offer his tantalizing paradox: "Who is mighty? One who conquers his evil impulse!" How contrary to the popular culture of contemporary America where strength - physical and external - is defined as a manly trait, to be measured competitively. The young Ben Zoma, in contrast, defines strength as an inner quality of a moral nature, equally applicable to women and men. The real challenge of life is not to subdue others but to subdue ourselves. Self-mastery is the epitome of true strength. Ben Zoma spoke in the spirit of the Psalms and our daily prayers:
God does not care for the power of horses nor delights in man's vaunted strength. The Lord delights in those who revere Him, in those who trust in His lovingkindness (Psalm 147:10-11).
The experience of Joseph in Egypt gives us a pellucid instance of self-mastery. Power and sex go together more often than not. (The recent revelations about Mao Zedong's insatiable lust for sex by his long-time private physician are merely an excessive, but not uncommon, tale of exploitation by men in power.) Sold by his jealous brothers into slavery in a foreign land, Joseph had quickly risen to run the household of one of Pharaoh's chief ministers. Though married, Potiphar, his owner, was a eunuch (eiris paroh - Genesis 39:1), the price to be paid for service at the highest level of government. Under Joseph's supervision, Potiphar's estate prospered and he rewarded Joseph with his complete confidence and absolute control over all his affairs. Indeed, Joseph was not only talented and ambitious, but also good-looking. The Torah is not shy about reporting that "Joseph was well built and handsome (Genesis 39:6)."
And so it did not take long for Potiphar's wife to take note of the exceptional foreigner in her midst. She began to court and seduce him. We do not know for how long. The Torah tends to telescope events. Yet it is clear that the circumstances of Joseph's work had taken a dramatic turn. The minister's wife offered Joseph pleasure with impunity and an end to their mutual loneliness. Yet Joseph resisted, day after day. He did not want to betray his owner's trust nor give offence to God. We marvel at his virtue and self-control.
But the midrash probes more deeply. It detects agitation beneath the surface calm of the text. When Joseph returns to the house once in mid-day with no one there but his master's wife, the midrash senses a moment of weakness. Joseph had not come to work, but to play. Official business was but a pretext. He knew the day to be a national holiday at which everyone would be at the local shrine.
Joseph had decided to recant and found the object of his desire waiting for him. Only at the very last instance does he regain his original resolve to beat a hasty retreat, leaving his nameless consort seething for revenge. In the garment left behind in her hand, the midrash perceived a measure of complicity.
The midrash does not leave us in the dark as to what prompted Joseph's sudden reversal of intent. In his mind's eye he had caught a glimpse of the image of his father. What a profoundly human touch! The memory of his father saved him from committing an act that in a more tranquil state he knew to be abhorrent. As the midrash suggests, Joseph had long been mindful that according to the Torah the prohibition against adultery was a universal standard of behavior.
For Joseph, Jacob personified the holy and this, I submit, is the ultimate task of parenting. As parents we must be more than providers or figures of authority or friends or fonts of wisdom or dispensers of comfort for our children. We must also endow them with a sense of holiness that will kindle their own divine spark and enable them to see the sacred in the ordinary. When we bless our children on Friday evenings or at a festival meal with the ancient priestly blessing, we become for them a momentary source of holiness. It is not a task that we should delegate to others more learned or pious, but seek to fulfill ourselves at the earliest stages of their lives and till long after they have reached adulthood. My father pronounced the priestly blessing on me and my sister long after we were married and had our own children. The tender sanctity of those moments has never left me and I have tried to transmit it to my children.
Ritual is a way of giving voice to ultimate values. Each of us needs a sense of holiness to navigate the relentless secularity of our lives. Morality binds only if it is grounded in God. What will guide our children at critical junctures in their lives if we have failed to bestow on them an appreciation for the sacred? Will our image flash on their inner screen as did that of Jacob in Joseph's crisis of conscience? To lay our hands on our children's heads and recite the priestly blessing slowly is to give them a taste of the holy. It is to use the sanctity of the Shabbat meal to unite us with our children in the presence of God and to fortify them for life.
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The M.A. in Humanities is a 30-unit program supported by several Mount St. Mary’s humanities-related departments. The departments involved include English, Creative Writing, History, and Cultural Studies. Students in the program may elect to have a primary concentration in one of these areas by completing three additional courses (12 units)in their area of choice.
Core Courses: At the heart of the program is a series of three required courses (9 units), each of which is an interdisciplinary “Research and Writing in the Humanities” seminar designed to equip the student to work on his or her thesis or project. Students may take these seminars in any order as long as they complete one seminar on each of the three core areas. Students also have the opportunity to earn college credit by taking Travel Study courses to places such as Ireland, China, Hawaii, Ghana, El Salvador, etc. under the direction of one or more Humanities professors.
Elective Courses: The remaining five courses (15 units) may be chosen from interdisciplinary classes that offer students the opportunity to explore the interrelatedness of various disciplines of study.
Culmination Course: To complete the Master’s degree, each student submits an original, graduate-level project, or thesis (3 units). This work is done under the supervision of a thesis advisor.. If a student chooses to do a project in place of a traditional thesis, a written component is required that places the project in a context that reflects the student’s cumulative experience in the program.
Some students may opt for a traditional Master’s thesis. Others may be encouraged to consider a project or thesis that draws upon the resources of the community surrounding the Doheny campus. Faculty as well are encouraged to draw upon this racially and culturally diverse neighborhood in designing the content and methodology of their courses.
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Families wait for hours to register at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan along the northern border in early July. Within a few weeks, the population of the camp more than doubled, leading to shortages of food, water and medicine.
Families wait for hours to register at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan along the northern border in early July. Within a few weeks, the population of the camp more than doubled, leading to shortages of food, water and medicine. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
It's been only a year since South Sudan became an independent nation. But as NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reported last month, the young county is already facing major challenges.
One of these is a growing population of refugees at the northern border, where conditions have become so dire in the past few weeks that aid workers are now calling it a "health catastrophe."
A third of children at the camps are severely malnourished, the aid group Doctors Without Borders estimates. And about two to five children are dying each day of dehydration and diarrhea, a rate that is more than double the emergency level.
Now the United Nations World Food Programme is pulling out all stops, including emergency air drops of grain, to help these families.
"We use airdrops when there isn't another choice," Challiss McDonough, a spokesman for the World Food Programme, tells Shots. "We haven't done them anywhere in the world since 2009. But there is an urgent need to get food to these people."
Since last November, more than 100,000 people have crossed the Sudan border to escape fighting and find food. The camps depend entirely on humanitarian aid from the outside, and their resources were stretched beyond capacity recently when the population of some camps doubled within a two week period.
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White tents scatter across the Yida refugee camp along northern border of South Sudan on June 29. The international aid community is struggling to provide food and medical supplies to the families after heavy rains blocked roads to the camp.
White tents scatter across the Yida refugee camp along northern border of South Sudan on June 29. The international aid community is struggling to provide food and medical supplies to the families after heavy rains blocked roads to the camp. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
At the same time, heavy rains blocked roads to the camps. The wet conditions exacerbated health problems and nearly shut down the delivery of supplies.
The World Food Programme started emergency airdrops into one camp last Wednesday, and McDonough says planes are dropping about 100 metric tons of cereal grains each day. They hope to deliver 5,000 metric tons over the next few months to two camps.
By comparison, McDonough says, "we were dropping 140,000 metric tons each year to Sudan before the peace treaty in 2005." For more than two decades, WFP operated an airbase in Kenya for airdrops in southern Sudan. WFP closed its office there last year.
The latest airdrops originate in Ethiopia. They are expensive and logistically complicated, but "the reason we do this is for the urgency of the situation," McDonough says. "People really need nutritional support."
The health conditions in the camp are "catastrophically bad," Helen Ottens-Patterson, a medical coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, wrote in an email to Shots.
Doctors Without Borders is the main provider of medical services for the region, and it has set aside more than 20 million euros to pay for care in the five refugee camps in South Sudan this year. The group has also been flying in medical supplies.
"Malnourished children cannot wait a few weeks for us to supply medicines via slower and cheaper methods. We are saving lives on a daily basis and so have to keep moving fast," Patterson wrote.
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So noting the probable (3-sigma) evidence of a Higgs found in Illinois becomes a feeble exercise in misplaced nationalism? Actually the science was quite proper. At three sigmas they didn't claim the discovery, but have noted it as early supporting evidence for the Higgs that the CERN team was able to nail down at five sigmas. The science is interesting, the silly politics less so. | <urn:uuid:4418d42f-cac5-4aae-9045-01304fb07cae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newscientist.com/commenting/report?id=dn22202-6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966619 | 110 | 1.515625 | 2 |
But for my part, my lord, I then thought, and am still of the same opinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences.
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has farther to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.
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The ability to provenance geologic materials such as chert to their point of origin is immensely useful to archaeologists and other investigators of prehistoric cultures. While simple visual classification and analysis can be useful among separate chert formations, it is inadequate to deal with an intra-formational study such as the Prairie du Chien. In the latter case, geochemical analyses must be employed in order to begin to uncover coherent regional variations which may facilitate the provenance study.
The large-scale sampling and Neutron Activation Analysis of cherts throughout much of the Prairie du Chien group has revealed a number of interesting results. It appears that the Shakopee and Oneota formations behave geochemically as essentially a single formation, with no coherent differences between the two. There do not seem to be any other coherent variations in the vertical dimension, either. This may be either fortunate or unfortunate for those interested in the provenance of Prairie du Chien chert; although it maybe would be useful to make such vertical distinctions in some cases, it also would likely contribute more complications to the issue of horizontal geochemical variances.
There does not appear to be any strong alteration of chemical concentrations in weathered (streambed) deposits. As expected, there are detectable shifts in the concentration of some elements between outcrop and streambed cherts, but the magnitude of the differences is generally within the broad variations of the Prairie du Chien composition.
Some of this homogeneity seems to also extend through the horizontal extent of the Prairie du Chien. Coherent changes in overall chemistry can be detected across the formation as a whole, but there is a great deal of overlap between the ranges of element concentrations found at each end-member. The basic geochemical trend seems to be quite similar to the Model #4 outlined by Luedtke and Meyers (1984): a gradual increase of elemental concentrations in a single direction (Figure 4). It should carefully be noted, however, that the axis of this concentration gradient (northwest-southeast) lies parallel to the direction of maximum geographic spread in the sample locations. Is this a coincidence, or does the distribution of sample locations have an influence on the identified geochemical trends? This is an untestable hypothesis; the only means of verification requires geologic sampling in the northeast-southwest directions, where there are no Prairie du Chien outcrops.
In geochemical provenance studies, the most useful tool for data analysis has traditionally been Discriminant Analysis. It can be very effective for distinguishing between materials from different formations. In this study, this statistical tool was found to be able to distinguish effectively between individual far-separated sources at opposite ends of the field area. However, the gradient of elemental concentrations in the Prairie du Chien is so gradual, and has so much overlap throughout its range, that Discriminant Analysis has proven to be ineffective for distinguishing between regions of the overall formation. In this sense, the methodology of inter-formational provenance techniques do not transfer effectively to an intra-formational study.
The potential for archaeological provenance of Prairie du Chien chert is not impossible, but certainly not very easy. The regional trends identified throughout the formation provide a tantalizing possibility for provenance identifications, but the large overlap of geochemical ranges makes confident source determinations difficult. The results are certainly not discouraging, however, for those who might be interested in applying such techniques to other formations. Definite coherent geochemical trends exist and are quantifiable within geologic formations. Perhaps other formations will exhibit stronger variations and be more amenable to provenance investigations. The potential for intra-formational provenance seems particularly promising for situations in which prehistoric people utilized only a few discrete sources for raw material rather than a broad procurement pattern throughout the entire outcrop area.
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Nashua has a total population of 86,605 and a student population of 5,365. Of these students, 2,256 are enrolled in schools that offer elementary education programs.
Of the 1 elementary education schools in Nashua, the largest elementary education school, by student population, is Rivier College. In 2010, Rivier College graduated approximately 52 students from its elementary education program.
In 2010, 52 students graduated with an elementary education degree from one of Nashua's elementary education schools. In 2009 tuition at elementary education schools in Nashua was $23,965 per year, on average.
You should also anticipate spending about $1,200 for elementary education related books and supplies every year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $9,154 per year, on average, for room and board. If you live at home, you can cut this cost down to approximately $27,325.
If you plan on staying in Nashua after graduating from elementary education school, you should know that job prospects for elementary educators in Nashua, which is the most popular elementary education profession, are good. In 2010, of the 6,600 elementary educators in New Hampshire, 1,580 were working in the greater Nashua area. The government projects that the number of elementary educators in Nashua will increase by 16% by the year 2018. This anticipated change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for elementary educators.
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Azuma Makoto: Water and Bonsai
As an artform that can be traced back over two thousand years in Japanese history, the cultivation of the bonsai follows many horticultural and aesthetic properties that are said to evoke unique responses from different viewers. Traditionally grown small enough to fit inside a small pot, the bonsai generally symbolizes “the aesthetic qualities found in nature through balance, simplicity, and harmony,” with balance being a key element of the bonsai’s aesthetic qualities.
In this installation, Water and Bonsai, self-proclaimed “botanical artist” Azuma Makoto submerges what appears to be a small bonsai tree in an aquarium filled with water. Upon further inspection, however, we learn that this bonsai is actually a piece of deadwood adorned with moss. The moss is kept alive with the aid of a filtration system and LED lights.
As Makoto describes the work,
“Bonsai transforms its shape through [the] ages [and] now finds a life in water and continues to be alive. We can, continuously, admire its new appearance with plants from land and water within clear water.”
In this sense, Water and Bonsai seeks to redefine the tradition of the bonsai by exposing it to a new natural element: the water. The bonsai’s shifting appearance in the water further demonstrates its ability to achieve aesthetic balance and harmony by being “one with the water.” As a result, Makoto exposes us to a sort of miniaturized botanical ecosystem that showcases the beauty and complexity of the plant world.
Azuma Makoto’s practice as a botanical artist involves the staging and creation of “botanical sculptures” and large scale art installations. For more information about Makoto’s other projects, visit his website here.
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Open Forum Co-Hosts (left to right), Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Titilayo Akanke & Malik Yakini. Photo taken at WDTR, 90.9 FM in Detroit (Nov. 25, 2001), a photo by panafnewswire on Flickr.
Originally Published on Tuesday, September 05, 2006
PANW Editor Reviewed Legacy of Radical Media in Detroit
PANW Editor's Note: The following article was written in the aftermath of the 2005 Allied Media Conference (AMC) at Bowling Green University in Ohio. Abayomi Azikiwe, along with Prof. Charles Simmons of Eastern Michigan University's Journalism Department, spoke on the history of alternative media in Detroit. The AMC has beeen held in Detroit since 2007.
2005 Allied Media Conference Featured Panel on the History of Radical Media in Detroit
Charles Simmons & Abayomi Azikiwe spoke on alternative press outlets
By a Pan-African News Wire Correspondent
Bowling Green, OH, 18 June, 2005 (PANW)--A national conference on the role of alternative media was held during the weekend of June 17-19 at Bowling Green State University. Entitled the "Allied Media Conference, New Solutions to Old Problems", the three day event showcased a variety of spokespersons within the broad spectrum of radical communications outlets and networks that exist today across the United States.
Individuals and organizations representing community radio stations, press agencies, publishing houses, foundations, youth centers, magazines, journals and popular art put on displays and held workshops and panels on the experience they have acquired over the recent period in countering the monumental impact of an ever increasing concentration of ownership and programming in the corporate-controlled media.
Some of the panels that were held addressed topics such as: "Are Our Messages Reaching the Right Audiences?; Zine Reading; Grassroots Fundraising; Microradio: Overview & Operations, etc. Many of the speakers represented the burgeoning movement of activists who are seeking means to not only get out the news and information that needs to be seen and heard but to also influence social change in the contemporary era.
Perhaps one of the most interesting panels took place on June 18 which featured Charles Simmons, professor of journalism and law at Eastern Michigan University and Abayomi Azikiwe, the editor of the Pan-African News Wire and a broadcast journalist, who both examined the history of radical media in the city of Detroit.
Charles Simmons began the discussion by conveying his own personal experiences in the United States Air Force during the early 1960s. Simmons had expressed an unwillingness to participate in American plans to invade Cuba after the Bay of Pigs incident in 1961 and the missile crisis which occured in October of 1962.
After being threatened by his superior officers, he was placed in military detention along with other dissidents in the service. It was during this period that Simmons began to read socialist literature and anti-war tracts through a study group established by those who were resisting the cold war policy of the government. Prior to this time period he had spoken with older GIs who had participated in the Korean war. These soldiers held a totally different perspective on the war than what had been promoted by the Eisenhower administration.
"I thought we had won the war, but when I spoke with people who had actually gone there to fight, they kept talking about how they had been beaten by the Korean and Chinese military forces," Simmons said.
In regard to US-Cuba relations, Simmons said that "we had seen the newsreels of Malcolm X meeting with Castro during his visit in 1960 to Harlem and therefore we could not be against Castro if he was liked by Malcolm."
"We never had a fair media in the African-American community other than our own," said Simmons. "The media's handling of the African American community has been unfair from the beginning. It has been racist, it was biased in every way we can think of, it was exclusive and in many communities as it relates to African American societies, we only had some mention of the African American community one day a week.
Many of the mainstream papers would have a section called the "Colored Section" or the "Negro Section" and it was basically a discussion of some level of crime, entertainment and sports." According to Simmons, "it really hasn't changed since then, except we have more days of it and it is broadcast through cable and satellite.
"We were dealing with lynchings in that period and it really hasn't been that long ago. I can remember when Emmit Till was lynched. We were the same age. He was visiting his grandparents in the South and I would do the same thing."
Simmons then went on to discuss some of the organizations in the African-American community that have published newspapers. He mentioned the Nation of Islam which published the Muhammad Speaks.
After his release from the military he returned to Detroit and attended Wayne State University. He became a student activist with UHURU, one of the early militant organizations on campus during the 1960s. "We started to produce leaflets and we mimeographed them right on the campus. At that time people didn't get a lot of flyers and junk mail. We were not saturated with a lot of information. Television wasn't that old and experienced as it is now," Simmons continued.
"We published a newsletter called the Black Vanguard that was circulated in the factories. Also we put out a publication for students called The Razor. We were radicalized more by a trip we took to Cuba in 1964 designed to challenge the State Department's travel ban on the country. We were fortunate to meet Robert Williams there who was in exile from the struggle in the United States. We also met Che Guervara and got to talk with him. We got to play baseball and talk to Fidel Castro. There were a lot of young people in Cuba from the ANC (African National Congress) and the PAC (Pan Africanists Congress) from South Africa, there were people from Namibia and other countries."
Later the political activities of people in Detroit led to the organization of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). Simmons discussed how the organizing expanded to other work places throughout the area. Eventually in 1969, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) was formed.
"There were newsletters printed in each plant named after each revolutionary union movement. When we had protests they were against both the company and the unions. We wanted to desegregate the leadership in the company and the union."
Simmons who later became an international correspondent for the Associated Press, also wrote for the Muhammad Speaks. He then discussed how the League of Revolutionary Black Workers took over the campus newspaper at Wayne State University, the South End, in 1968-69 and ran it as a city wide publication that was heavily circulated in the plants, the community and the schools.
Alternative media in post-industrial Detroit
Abayomi Azikiwe then spoke about the changing character of radical media in Detroit beginning in the middle to late 1970s.
"The whole evolution of radical and alternative media in Detroit was an outgrowth of the popular struggles of African people in the United States and around the world which took place coming out of the post World War II period--and of course becoming more intensified during the 1960s and early 1970s. As Charles talked about during the 1960s, the African American community was in a state of popular revolt. For example, if you read the Kerner Commission Report on Civil Disorder, which was published in the spring of 1968, it indicates that the previous year there had been over 164 rebellions in the United States that were principally led by African Americans."
"In 1968, right in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., over 125 cities had popular rebellions during that particular time period. That extended throughout the summer of 1968. This was also paralleled by a rise of activism in the white community, particularly among the youth. Also activism grew within the so-called Hispanic community, mainly among Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. Then among the Asian American youth as well, largely out on the west coast."
According to Azikiwe, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of his evolving position linking the Vietnam War with the struggle for civil and human rights in the country. After 1965 the civil rights movement began to reassess its position to address the economic conditions facing African Americans. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were tremendous victories but they could not totally address the socio-economic crisis in the African American communities across the country.
"All of this coincided with the so-called Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). This program was designed by the FBI during the 1950s primarily to crush the Communist Party and the left in the United States.
However, by the early 1960s with the burgeoning civil rights movement, most of the efforts that emerged from the Counter-Intelligence Program were geared towards stifling and ultimately smashing the black liberation movement, both the civil rights aspects of the movement as well as the black power and black revolutionary aspects of the movement," Azikiwe continued.
"So by 1969-70, we had hundreds of members of the Black Panther Party and other organizations that had been incarcerated, who had been indicted on criminal charges. So we had a whole attempted criminalization of the African American liberation struggle."
"At the same time, we had burgeoning national liberation movements in Africa. In Guinea-Bissau you had the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea). In Mozambique there was FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front). In Angola there was the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola). In Namibia there was the South-west African Peoples Organization (SWAPO). In Zimbabwe you had the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU). In South Africa it was the African National Congress (ANC). All of these organizations saw the United States as being a principal impediment to their own excercise in self-emancipation.
"The African-American liberation movement in the United States attempted to hook up with the Vietnamese liberation struggle as well as the national liberation movements in Africa and other parts of the so-called Third World," Azikiwe stated.
Illustrating the significance of the struggle in the United States during this period, Azikiwe recalled how the North Vietnamese government had offered to release all United States prisoners of war in exchange for the Americans releasing both Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the founders of the Black Panther Party for Self-defense. Seale and Newton were incarcerated during the fall of 1969 when the offer was made. The United States government under the Nixon administration immediately rejected the notion of linking the war in Vietnam with the black liberation struggle in the United States.
During the early 1970s there were numerous splits within various revolutionary organizations. It is Azikiwe's contention that these fissures were related to the pressure exerted against the black liberation movement by the Counter-Intelligence Program. All of these organizations had independent journals.
He cited the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) newsletters: The Student Voice and the The Movement.
In addition, he spoke about the Black Panther newspaper, the Inner City Voice, published by the LRBW in Detroit, which lasted for several years.
These publications were viewed as a threat by the federal government. According to Azikiwe, J. Edgar Hoover targeted the Black Panther newspaper for disruption because it was the most effective tool the party had during its peak between 1968 and 1971. The newspaper's circulation was reported to have been a quarter-of-a-million copies every week.
"In the Black Panther newspaper you could not only find articles dealing with the struggle in the United States, you could also find international news. They had articles by Kim Il-Sung, Mao Tse-Tung. They had information about the struggles in South Africa, in Congo, in Congo-Brazzaville, in Cuba. In fact Eldridge Cleaver, who was the Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party at that time, when he fled the United States in 1968, the first place he went after he stopped in Canada, was Cuba. Robert Williams had also been there earlier," Azikiwe continued.
Azikiwe mentioned that the Muhammad Speaks, which Charles Simmons was a correspondent for, was one of the best newspapers coming out of the country during this time period. He mentioned that there would be some information on the religous views of the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad. However, the bulk of the paper was objective news coverage of national and international issues confronting African people internationally.
"There were articles in the paper by Charles Howard, who was the United Nations correspondent for the Muhammad Speaks.
There were articles by Shirley Graham DuBois, who was the widow of W.E.B. Dubois, then living in Cairo and the People's Republic of China. All types of great information, in fact the Muahmmad Speaks is still available on microfilm for people who want additional information about that period. If you are really serious about doing historical studies about the 1960s and 1970s, the Muhammad Speaks is an excellent primary resource document. "
Azikiwe went on to discuss the impact of the Counter-Intelligence Program on the black alternative press during this era.
"Many of those organs that I mentioned earlier dissolved. For example, the Movement stopped publishing around 1970.
The Black Panther newspaper after the split in 1971 continued but it did not have the same impact as before. The newspaper published until 1980. The Inner City Voice stopped publishing around 1971.
The Muhammad Speaks, as a result of the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975, his son, Wallace Muhammad, took over the organization in 1975 and about six months after the death of Elijah Muhammad, tremendous changes took place within the Nation of Islam. They closed down a lot of their businesses across the country and one of the casualties of that whole shift in the Nation of Islam was of course the dissolution of the Muhammad Speaks newspaper. This was a major loss to the African-American community and the world."
"The South End newspaper was taken over by the administration in 1973 at Wayne State University. They set it up where in fact students were not able to control the editorial direction of the newspaper. By the time I got to the University in the late 1970s, all of these things had been pretty much eliminated or were in decline. Joining black student organizations during that time period there was a void. It was in the aftermath of the tremendous impact of the Counter-Intelligence Program: the jailing of hundreds of activists in this country, the driving into exile of many others. The fact that the newspapers had been shut down and
gone out of business created a tremendous void as it related to radical and revolutionary ideas during that period.
"During that period," Azikiwe continued, "you had the development of smaller, more limited publications. For example in 1982, we created African Viewpoint, a newsletter.
"It only published a few issues dealing with the struggles in Africa and the anti-racist struggle in the United States. Later Pambana Journal was created which published for over 15 years. By the mid-1990s, with the development of the internet technologies, this phenomena had a tremendous impact on the movement building activities."
Azikiwe attributes the mass mobilizations around the defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the anti-war movement to the effective use of the world wide web. "Today we are in a position to effectively compete with the corporate media. We have to utilize technology to advance the popular struggles to a new level of development in the United States."
During the question and answer period, one audience particpant lamented the lack of knowledge by many younger people in Detroit about the tremendous historical legacy within the city.
Azikiwe pointed out that this information is not taught in the schools or advanced through the mass media and that it is the responsibility of the activists' community to find creative ways of telling the true peoples' history of the country.
Another question related to the status of educational radio in Detroit which has been leased to Detroit Public Television for management purposes. Azikiwe, who was a co-host along with Malik Yakini and Titilayo Akanke on the Open Forum weekly radio program over Detroit Public Schools radio, had there program eliminated due to the changes stemming from the current budget crisis in the city and the politcal conservativism of the state-controlled school board.
Azikiwe stated that "we have to make the leasing of 90.9 FM a political issue in the upcoming school board elections, the first in six years. The station was bought and paid for by the taxpayers of Detroit and they should control its programmatic direction. Public television does not broadcast to people in the city and therefore should not be in charge of a Detroit educational station. We are demanding full restoration of community programming over educational radio," he declared.
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The launch of the atheist bus advertising campaign carrying the slogan: ‘There’s probably no God – now stop worrying and enjoy your life’ has highlighted the extent to which belief has been commodified in the UK.
But it was not the rather harmless adverts, or indeed those behind them, that sealed the deal. Rather it was the Christian response which packaged and placed faith in the shopping centres and high streets alongside the plethora of products to be consumed.
No sooner had the atheist campaign been announced, than Theos – the Bible Society’s thinktank - made a £50 donation. It was of course a public relations stunt which attempted to take the wind out of atheist sails in the ongoing war between some religionists and secularists. But it sought to make a point. They suggested that the adverts would backfire. The campaign would, they said, inevitably point more people in the direction of their own product (faith in God).
Beyond a charge of 'cynicism', nothing much wrong with their tactics many Christians might argue. Except that churches are amongst those who in recent years have been the most vocal critics of consumerism, and the advertising that drives it. Advertising is usually destructive. More often than not advertising is built around creating and fostering a sense of inadequacy or fear, in the hope that the product on offer will be seen as a cure, and bought in large quantities.
Theos chose not to make this point. Quite the reverse in fact. They have instead bought into the advertising strategy. Indeed, it is what they are banking on. They have supported the campaign in the hope that the atheist ads will sow enough doubt and discord to get people looking at their own alternative brand. In their zeal to upstage and subvert their secular opponents, the religionists have taken on the very consumerist values that Christianity ought to stand against.
They even seem to be positively championing such values. In the words of Nick Spencer of Theos, explaining the rationale for supporting the atheist campaign (albeit somewhat ironically): “When competition arrives, it forces a re-evaluation of attitudes and creates an opportunity for the product to connect again with a market suddenly forced to the point of choice. Consumers are faced with the need to make a conscious decision about whether and what to buy. In such circumstances, growth in the overall market is not uncommon. Thanks be, then, to the atheists.”
What then of the product that Christians should push? The atheists it is claimed are poor advertisers for leaving room for diversity of viewpoint, or questioning. “Where did that ‘probably’ come from? It doesn't suggest the sales staff is overly confident about its product” Spencer concludes.
The Christian faith on offer, by implication, seems to be one which leaves little room for doubt. Gone are the notions of spiritual journey, exploration and discovery. But this is a dangerous route to take. Where does it stop? Do we also dispense with Christianity's message of weakness, vulnerability and sacrifice? Turning the other cheek and love of enemies would perhaps have to go too. Such things will only weaken the appeal of our faith in an increasingly competitive market, after all.
The desire of Theos, and for that matter many other Christans, that the Christian faith should be able to say something to the world it inhabits, is a good one. But the medium must be in line with the message. The message must not change to suit the medium. Playing the consumerist game and supporting your opponent's ad campaign because you believe it will work in your favour, isn't the best way to go about it. Better surely to show that your faith can challenge and transform the values of society rather than pander to them.
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I’m just pondering over the news that Simon Duffy, the founder of In Control, has quit the organisation after an alleged Boardroom clash. Simon Duffy will be closely associated in many people’s minds as a major driving force behind the introduction of personal budgets. Many have listened to him speak passionately on the topic at various events over the past few years.
Simon Duffy’s departure from In Control – a social enterprise at the forefront of self-directed support – comes at a critical time for social care. Local authorities across the country are working to implement the personalisation agenda, and In Control has provided many with a model of good practice. The widespread introduction of personal budgets represents a significant shift in the way that services are funded and delivered, and it’s in the these times of change that calls for strong leadership are heard.
Simon Duffy is somebody who many would consider to be a strong leader: he challenges the status quo; provides a strong voice for people who may otherwise struggle to get their views heard; and speaks with conviction about the principles and objectives of personalisation. However, today’s report suggests that this positive side of leadership may also trigger discontent and clashes with others. Successful leadership seems to involve striking a balance between persuading and directing people, whilst enabling them to participate and share in the process of change. Ultimately, I suppose it’s about managing complex and messy human relationships. Is it really fair to expect all leaders to be all things, all of the time? | <urn:uuid:dff4bb85-7fa6-4298-ab6d-cd2ff1bcf6c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/HSC/?cat=20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959735 | 309 | 1.59375 | 2 |
p. 27 VIII.—The Testament of Naphtali Concerning Natural Goodness.
1. The record of the testament of Naphtali, what things he ordained at the time of his death in the hundred and thirty-second year of his life. When his sons were gathered together in the seventh month, the fourth day of the month, he, being yet in good health, made them a feast and good cheer. And after he was awake in the morning, he said to them, I am dying; and they believed him not. And he blessed the Lord; and affirmed that after yesterdays feast he should die. He began then to say to his sons: Hear, my children; ye sons of Naphtali, hear the words of your father. I was born from Bilhah; and because Rachel dealt craftily, and gave Bilhah in place of herself to Jacob, and she bore me upon Rachels lap, therefore was I called Naphtali. 152 And Rachel loved me because I was born upon her lap; and when I was of young and tender form, she was wont to kiss me, and say, Would that I might see a brother of thine from my own womb, like unto thee: whence also Joseph was like unto me in all things, according to the prayers of Rachel. Now my mother was Bilhah, daughter of Rotheus the brother of Deborah, Rebeccas nurse, and she was born on one and the self-same day with Rachel. And Rotheus was of the family of Abraham, a Chaldean, fearing God, free-born and noble; and he was taken captive, and was bought by Laban; and he gave him Aena his handmaid to wife, and she bore a daughter, and called her Zilpah, after the name of the village in which he had been taken captive. And next she bore Bilhah, saying, My daughter is eager after what is new, for immediately that she was born she was eager for the breast.
2. And since I was swift on my feet like a deer, my father Jacob appointed me for all errands and messages, and as a deer 153 did he give me his blessing. For as the potter knoweth the vessel, what it containeth, and bringeth clay thereto, so also doth the Lord make the body in accordance with the spirit, and according to the capacity of the body doth He implant the spirit, and the one is not deficient from the other by a third part of a hair; for by weight, and measure, and rule is every creature of the Most High. 154 And as the potter knoweth the use of each vessel, whereto it sufficeth, so also doth the Lord know the body, how far it is capable for goodness, and when it beginneth in evil; for there is no created thing and no thought which the Lord knoweth not, for He created every man after His own image. As mans strength, so also is his work; and as his mind, so also is his work; and as his purpose, so also is his doing; as his heart, so also is his mouth; as his eye, so also is his sleep; as his soul, so also is his word, either in the law of the Lord or in the law of Beliar. And as there is a division between light and darkness, between seeing and hearing, so also is there a division between man and man, and between woman and woman; neither is it to be said that there is any superiority in anything, either of the face or of other like things. 155 For God made all things good in their order, the five senses in the head, and He joineth on the neck to the head, the hair also for comeliness, the heart moreover for understanding, the belly for the dividing of the stomach, the calamus 156 for health, the liver for wrath, the gall for bitterness. the spleen for laughter, the reins for craftiness, the loins for power, the ribs for containing, the back for strength, and so forth. So then, my children, be ye orderly unto good things in the fear of God, and do nothing disorderly in scorn or out of its due season. For if thou bid the eye to hear, it cannot; so neither in darkness can ye do the works of light.
3. Be ye not therefore eager to corrupt your doings through excess, or with empty words to deceive your souls; because if ye keep silence in purity of heart, ye shall be able to hold fast the will of God, and to cast away the will of the devil. Sun and moon and stars change not their order; so also ye shall not change the law of God in the disorderliness of your doings. Nations went astray, and forsook the Lord, and changed their order, and followed stones and stocks, following after spirits of error. But ye shall not be so, my children, recognising in the firmament, in the earth, and in the sea, and in all created things, the Lord who made them all, that ye become not as Sodom, which changed the order of its nature, in like manner also the Watchers 157 changed the order of their nature, whom also the Lord cursed at the flood, and for their sakes made desolate the earth, that it should be uninhabited and fruitless.
4. These things I say, my children, for I have read in the holy writing of Enoch that ye yourselves also will depart from the Lord, walking according to all wickedness of the Gentiles, and p. 28 ye will do according to all the iniquity of Sodom. And the Lord will bring captivity upon you, and there shall ye serve your enemies, and ye shall be covered with all affliction and tribulation, until the Lord shall have consumed you all. And after that ye shall have been diminished and made few, ye will return and acknowledge the Lord your God; and He will bring you back into your own land, according to His abundant mercy. And it shall be, after that they shall come into the land of their fathers, they will again forget the Lord and deal wickedly; and the Lord shall scatter them upon the face of all the earth, until the compassion of the Lord shall come, a Man working righteousness and showing mercy unto all them that are afar off, and them that are near.
5. For in the fortieth year of my life, I saw in a vision that the sun and the moon were standing still on the Mount of Olives, at the east of Jerusalem. And behold Isaac, the father of my father, saith to us, Run and lay hold of them, each one according to his strength; and he that seizeth them, his shall be the sun and the moon. And we all of us ran together, and Levi laid hold of the sun, and Judah outstripped the others and seized the moon, and they were both of them lifted up with them. And when Levi became as a sun, a certain young man gave to him twelve branches of palm; and Judah was bright as the moon, and under his feet were twelve rays. And Levi and Judah ran, and laid hold each of the other. And, lo, a bull upon the earth, having two great horns, and an eagles wings upon his back; and we wished to seize him, but could not. For Joseph outstripped us, and took him, and ascended up with him on high. And I saw, for I was there, and behold a holy writing appeared to us saying: Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Elamites, Gelachæans, Chaldeans, Syrians, shall possess in captivity the twelve tribes of Israel.
6. And again, after seven months, I saw our father Jacob standing by the sea of Jamnia, and we his sons were with him. And, behold, there came a ship sailing by, full of dried flesh, without sailors or pilot: and there was written upon the ship, Jacob. And our father saith to us, Let us embark on our ship. And when we had gone on board, there arose a vehement storm, and a tempest of mighty wind; and our father, who was holding the helm, flew away from us. And we, being tost with the tempest, were borne along over the sea; and the ship was filled with water and beaten about with a mighty wave, so that it was well-nigh broken in pieces. And Joseph fled away upon a little boat, and we all were divided upon twelve boards, and Levi and Judah were together. We therefore all were scattered even unto afar off. Then Levi, girt about with sackcloth, prayed for us all unto the Lord. And when the storm ceased, immediately the ship reached the land, as though in peace. And, lo, Jacob our father came, and we rejoiced with one accord.
7. These two dreams I told to my father; and he said to me, These things must be fulfilled in their season, after that Israel hath endured many things. Then my father saith unto me, I believe that Joseph liveth, for I see always that the Lord numbereth him with you. And he said, weeping, Thou livest, Joseph, my child, and I behold thee not, and thou seest not Jacob that begat thee. And he caused us also to weep at these words of his, and I burned in my heart to declare that he had been sold, but I feared my brethren.
8. Behold, my children, I have shown unto you the last times, that all shall come to pass in Israel. Do ye also therefore charge your children that they be united to Levi and to Judah. For through Judah shall salvation arise unto Israel, and in Him shall Jacob be blessed. For through his tribe shall God be seen dwelling among men on the earth, to save the race of Israel, and He shall gather together the righteous from the Gentiles. If ye work that which is good, my children, both men and angels will bless you; and God will be glorified through you among the Gentiles, and the devil will flee from you, and the wild beasts will fear you, and the angels will cleave to you. For as if a man rear up a child well, he hath a kindly remembrance thereof; so also for a good work there is a good remembrance with God. But him who doeth not that which is good, men and angels shall curse and God will be dishonoured among the heathen through him, and the devil maketh him his own as his peculiar instrument, and every wild beast shall master him, and the Lord will hate him. For the commandments of the law are twofold, and through prudence must they be fulfilled. For there is a season for a man to embrace his wife, and a season to abstain therefrom 158 for his prayer. So then there are two commandments; and unless they be done in due order, they bring about sin. So also is it with the other commandments. Be ye therefore wise in God, and prudent, understanding the order of the commandments, and the laws of every work, that the Lord may love you.
9. And when he had charged them with many such words, he exhorted them that they should remove his bones to Hebron, and should bury him with his fathers. And when he had eaten and drunken with a merry heart, he covered his face and died. And his sons did according to all things whatsoever Naphtali their father had charged them.
Gen. xxx. 8. Josephus, Ant., i. 19. 727:153
Gen. xlix. 21.27:154
[Wis. 11:20, Sir. 42:7.]27:155
The Greek text here is obviously corrupt, and doubtless one or two words are wanting. The reading of the Cam. ms. is, οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν ὅτι ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ τοῖς προσώποις ἢ τῶν ὁμοίων. In the Ox. ms. the passage is wanting.27:156
It seems very doubtful what is meant by κάλαμος here. I have thought it best, therefore, to leave the matter open. The Ox. ms. punctuates στομάχου κάλ.27:157
Cf. Reuben 5 [note 3, p. 10 supra].28:158
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Laura J. Martin, MD
May 24, 2010 -- Beta-blocker medications, which are not commonly prescribed for patients with chronic lung disease, may actually be of benefit to them, according to a new study.
The medications, prescribed for high blood pressure and cardiac disorders, may help lengthen survival and reduce respiratory flare-ups, according to a team of Dutch researchers.
In years past, doctors have hesitated to give beta-blockers to these patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) because of concerns that the drugs might have adverse effects on the lungs.
The new study suggests otherwise. ''Our study is the first that clearly gives a hint that beta-blockers could also exert a pulmonary beneficial effect as shown by their reduction of exacerbations," says study researcher Frans Rutten, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands.
The study is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Research in 2002 showed that beta-blockers that are cardioselective (preferentially affecting the heart, not other body systems) are well-tolerated in those patients with COPD, says Rutten.
Other research showed that patients with heart failure plus COPD and those with COPD who had suffered heart attacks did well on beta-blockers, too, Rutten says.
In the new study, Rutten and his colleagues looked at 2,230 men and women, age 45 and older, who had gotten a diagnosis of COPD between 1996 and 2006. COPD includes emphysema, chronic bronchitis, or both. About 16 million Americans have COPD, according to the National Lung Health Education Program. COPD is mainly caused by smoking.
Those with COPD are also prone to develop cardiovascular disease and often need medications to treat both the cardiovascular disease and the lung disease. Examples of beta-blockers are atenolol (Tenormin), metprolol (Lopressor, Toprol-XL), and carvedilol (Coreg).
In the study, nearly 30% were on beta-blockers while others were on different kinds of cardiovascular drugs, sometimes in combination.
During the 7.2-year average follow-up, 686 patients, or about 31%, died, and 47.3% or 1,055, had at least one episode of worsening of COPD.
Those who took a beta-blocker were 32% less likely to die during the study follow-up and 39% less likely to have worsening of COPD than those who didn't use the drugs.
Ideally, Rutten says, the next step is to compare beta-blockers with placebo in patients with COPD, both with and without co-existing cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure, to confirm the results.
The new study results may change practice, according to two doctors familiar with the study.
"This is a very important study." Says Don Sin, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine and a lung specialist at the University of British Columbia and the Providence Heart and Lung Institute in Vancouver, who wrote an editorial to accompany the study.
'It appears that individuals with COPD who took the beta-blockers had better outcomes than those who did not," he tells WebMD.
The study, he writes in his editorial, "has turned the story of beta-blockers in COPD into a curious case of a foe becoming a potential friend to millions of patients with COPD worldwide."
"For years, people have automatically assumed that beta-blockers were unhealthy for asthmatic and COPD patients," he says. He cautioned, however, that the study did not look at those with asthma, so that needs further study.
''Before this study, it would have been completely acceptable to not consider beta-blockers in patients with COPD," says Anthony Gerber, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, who reviewed the study and editorial for WebMD.
But now, he says, the message for doctors caring for COPD patients who also have coexisting cardiovascular disease is that a doctor should not automatically rule out beta-blockers in COPD patients.
Doctors can try a beta-blocker and monitor a COPD patient's lung function to see if the lung function is compromised with the medication, and then decide what to do accordingly, he says.
SOURCES:Rutten, F. Archives of Internal Medicine, May 24, 2010; vol 170: pp 880-887.Sin, D. Archives of Internal Medicine, May 24, 2010; vol 170: pp 849-850.Frans Rutten, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands.Don Sin, MD, MPH, professor of medicine, University of British Columbia and Providence Heart and Lung Institute, Vancouver, Canada.Anthony Gerber, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver.National Lung Health Education Program.
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Priest and martyr, b. in Derbyshire; d. at Canterbury, 1 October, 1588. He was a scholar of Ven. Nicholas Garlick at the Grammar-School, Tideswell, in the Peak District, studied for the priesthood at Reims and Rome, and was ordained in 1586. He left Rome the next year, and soon after his arrival in England was apprehended and condemned to death for his priesthood. He suffered at Oaten Hill, Canterbury, together with Venerables Robert Wilcox and Edward Campion. Being so young, it was thought that his constancy might be shaken by the sight of the barbarous butchery of his companions, and his life was offered him if he would conform to the new religion, but he courageously answered that he would not purchase a corruptible life at such a price, and that if he had a hundred lives he would willingly surrender them all in defence of his faith. While in the Marshalsea Prison he wrote a "Rituale", the manuscript of which is now preserved as a relic at Olney, Bucks. He sent this manuscript to a priest, as a last token of his friendship, the day before he was taken from the prison to suffer martyrdom.
CHALLONER, Memoirs; FOLEY, Records; Roman Diary (London, 1880); MORRIS, Catholics of York.
APA citation. (1908). Ven. Christopher Buxton. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092b.htm
MLA citation. "Ven. Christopher Buxton." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F. Holbrook. Te martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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In the Christian Bible, there is a verse, describing a forerunner, which simply says “There was a man named John.” We have now learned that a man named John Hope Franklin, who has been a gift to the entire world, a forerunner in the struggle for freedom, has now slipped gracefully into the hands of God. We, who knew Dr. Franklin, referred to him with the greatest respect because of the truth he told about our history which continually gave us hope that if we own the past we could correct our tomorrows.
These videos, produced by Cash Michaels of CashWorks HD Productions, are about early voting across North Carolina. The latest video reports on the first days of early voting and encourages those who haven't voted to vote now. Click to forward this video to friends and colleagues.
Emphasizing that the NAACP is officially non-partisan but not non-political, NAACP President William Barber spoke to the Progressive Democrats of North Carolina's
state convention in December of 2007. The loyalty must be to principles
of justice. He talked about building a new progressive coalition for
change in the state. "You can't put new wine in old wineskins because
the old wineskins will burst and they can't maintain or hold onto the
newness....You have to use new wineskins." Video clips below:
"Examining Your Financial Health Now and for the Future: Student Loans, Credit Cards, and your Credit Score" is a webinar sponsored by the North Carolina NAACP for Historically Black Colleges and Universities in North Carolina.
Fifty individuals logged in for the live broadcast of the webinar. Others attended at the four hub locations, which included Pembroke University, North Carolina State University, Duke University, and North Carolina Central University, with each hub responsible for 15 slots at each location. The U.S. Department of Education supplied an expert on student loans.
In a videotaped address to the North Carolina NAACP meeting in Wilmington, NC, Duke University historian John Hope Franklin, 93, discusses the continued significance of the 1898 Wilmington riots or coup d'etat. (Videography by Jan Nichols of the North Carolina Justice Center; video editing by Jim Buie for the NC NAACP.) In the clip below,
'We' Is the most important word in the social justice vocabulary. The issue is not what we can't do, but what we CAN do when we stand together. With an upsurge in racism/hate crimes, criminalization of young black males, insensitivity to the poor, educational genocide, and the moral/economic cost of a war, we must STAND together now like never before.' | <urn:uuid:aff6230a-21bd-4f80-a994-e2b47dcade34> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://carolinajustice.typepad.com/ncnaacp/audiovideo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943875 | 545 | 2.125 | 2 |
Life can never be too convenient for us. We always want more, and that’s certainly the case with technology. Twenty years ago we never imagined our lives would be as technical as they are, yet it’s still not enough. We want more. Wireless charging for smartphones is one of those items on our list.
It doesn’t seem like we’ll have to wait too much longer, although that all depends on what you consider “true” wireless charging. DigiTimes is reporting that “industry sources” are telling them that the next generations of the Samsung Galaxy and the iPhone will have some form of wireless charging.
The next iPhone to be released, reportedly called the iPhone 5S, with the most recent shipping rumor talking of an August 2013 release, will utilize a wireless charging technology that Apple developed. What isn’t known is if the wireless charging will be built into the device or whether it will require an accessory for the charging.
The Samsung Galaxy S IV, due to be released next week is said to have the Qi wireless charging technology. It might not ship with the wireless charging capability and might require users to buy an additional back cover that will access a charging pad. Nokia already uses this technology. It requires the user to place the phone in a compatible charger or use a wireless charging shell. Ideally, several phones will eventually use the same technology which will make it possible to have universal charging stations.
There are already charging mats out there that will charge things wirelessly. But the kick of this, as well as with the Qi wireless charging technology, is that those things need to be plugged in. It’s not like it can be done without any electric power at all. There just doesn’t need to be a wire used.
Either way, whether with the Qi technology or something similar, what wireless charging will do is make it that much more convenient. The more ways that exist to charge phones, tablets, and other mobile devices, the better it will be all around. I’d like to be able to charge my iPhone 5 without having to sit next to a wall outlet. I only need a USB plug or a a wall outlet to charge it, but being next to a wall outlet isn’t always convenient. But to use the Qi technology, I’d still have to be near an outlet.
Regardless, with Apple and Samsung stepping up to the plate to provide some type of wireless charging, it shows the industry is listening. It may not be exactly what we expect by wireless charging, but it’s still another step in that right direction.
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Hill is a great poet and musician, and will leave you with an indelible memory of Chicago.
Dealing effectively with racism must involve thinking and action that transcend material considerations.
Gene Marks was right in his essay "If I Were a poor Black Kid". Just not the way he imagined.
It’s my considered opinion that unless OWS becomes injected with a brand-new life force and spirit, it has pretty much exhausted itself by now.
The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial should inspire the nation to get Americans back to work.
Baha'i Black Men's Gathering celebrates 25 years.
What would Frederick Douglass say about July 4th today?
A teacher celebrates Black History Month with a hopeful attitude about building relationships with students.
Yes I would take my hat off for Eminem because from the lowest possible he came around, succeeded and dominated!
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With all of this talk about world wonders lately I thought I should post about some fellow museum bloggers who have just completed an amazing feat. Brendan Fletcher and Emma Nicholas, working with the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia just finished their 3000km (1864 mile) walk along the entire length of the Great Wall of China. Blogging the entire way, they were helping to add a unique perspective to the Powerhouse Museum's exhibit on the Great Wall and I should say they were quite successful.
Make sure to check out their Walking the Wall blog, which has some very interesting stories about what they found along the way.
I'd like to see more museums trying out adventurous blogs like this. We've featured some of our staff out in Antarctica, Madagascar, and I even got to bob along on a scientific drilling ship in the Pacific. What sort of web journals would you like to see from science museum folks, out in the world, adventuring along? Dino dig blog? Astronaut blog? Underground science blog (science of spelunking)? Nuclear reactor blog?
A recent study, outlined in this article, has reached the audacious conclusion that people walk the way they do because it’s efficient.
The “inverted pendulum” motion of the body (the way we walk) is the most metabolically efficient way for us to move at low speeds, and the parabolic arch motion (the way we run) is most the most efficient for higher speeds.
So it turns out that evolution is practical, but not particularly funny.
I have found, however, that almost all walks are funny, if you can just watch them from an upside-down perspective. This can be tricky, but if you find yourself at the science museum any time soon, I recommend you check out the “eyepod” (our camera obscura) in the Big Back Yard. It projects an image of the prairie maze, upside down, on the wall of the room. When you see people moving through the maze from that unusual perspective, they do look pretty silly. | <urn:uuid:0d6a9532-0448-444e-87a4-de2c0667473b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencebuzz.org/buzz_tags/walk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954186 | 426 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Jan. 22, 2009 EU researchers have taken speech recognition to a whole new level by creating software that can understand spontaneous language. It will, like, make human-machine interaction, um, work a lot more, er, smoothly.
Automated speech recognition has revolutionised customer relations for banks, allowing them to respond quickly and with less staff to more low-level queries. It has helped to enable online banking and the development of more advanced private and public services because machines can handle routine matters, leaving people to take care of more serious issues.
But this technology has its limits. The most common, very basic, voice system asks a series of questions or offers a series of options, slowly and fitfully narrowing down your problem or supplying the solution. It would be nice to just tell the service what you want.
Soon, you can, thanks to the work of the Luna project, a European-wide effort to dramatically advance the power and intelligence of speech recognition. The team is moving the system from utterances – like ‘yes’, ‘no’, or ‘account’ – to spontaneous speech, such as ‘I want to get the balance on my current account.’
Um, ah, and er…
This high level of speech recognition is called spoken language understanding (SLU), where software understands the meaning of what you are saying and can filter out the irrelevant verbiage, like ‘um’, and ‘ah’ and ‘er’.
Luna’s work in several languages is even more impressive. It has developed the most advanced SLU for both Polish and Italian, languages that had no similar systems before.
It is a big job. “We had to spend a lot of time initially recording spontaneous conversations between people and between people and machines,” explains Silvia Mosso, coordinator of the EU-funded Luna.
This is called the corpora, the collection of words and phrases that gives the software its basic language. Then, researchers have to annotate the terms in a way that machines can understand, and finally they apply statistical language models.
I have a problem …
“You can say things like ‘I have a problem with my printer’ and it will help you go through the options,” says Mosso.
The result is a system that can interact with people in a much more natural and fluid way. It will mean faster and more productive interactions with service centres, whether its getting travel information from public transport, dealing with an IT problem or tourist information – three of the areas where Luna applied its research.
“The advantage with these areas is that you can apply our work to any kind of help centre. But if you want to apply it to different areas, then you need to do the initial collection of the conversations, the corpora, again,” Mosso reveals.
Their scientific work is perhaps even more important. It looked at the fundamental mechanics of language and the development of SLU, work that will have potential applications in robotics and other areas.
Luna presented its work at ICT 2008, Europe’s largest conference and exhibition for European Information and Communication Technology research, and its demonstration was well received. “We had an avatar presenting the project and talking to people about it, and it was very popular.”
The work of the project is guaranteed practical use, with industrial partners like France Telecom, Loquendo and CSI Piemonte planning to incorporate the results into the services run within public administrations.
And the project has still several months left before it ends. “We have released the baseline systems in three languages and we will be refining them over the last months of the project.”
And then people can look forward to telephone systems with a little more understanding.
The Luna project received funding from the ICT strand of the Sixth Framework Programme for research.
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In 1946, Richard and Helen Brown became pioneers in vocational education. They established the American Institute of the Air to train students for a career in broadcasting. The school’s name changed to Brown Institute in 1954, when courses in electronics, computer programming, and television production were added.
The Browns maintained a genuine concern for the academic success of each student. Richard and Helen personally helped students find jobs and places to live. They left a legacy of excellence and professionalism in broadcasting. The successful broadcasting careers of thousands of former students originated at Brown. Some of them are now members of the Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
Richard and Helen Brown retired in 1978. The school was renamed Brown College in 2001. Their legacy continues to have an immeasurable influence in media and broadcasting.
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The English faculty are responsible for three general education courses: Western Heritages I and II, and Introduction to Literature. The Western Heritages courses--casually referred to as LAR 111 and LAR 112--comprise a two-semester sequence taken by nearly all freshmen. In LAR, students become familiar with some of the important ideas and texts that have shaped the West; they engage in various kinds of writing; and they engage in discussion about the meaning of the liberal arts, the Christian liberal arts, and the liberally educated person. In Introduction to Literature (ENG 200), students read, discuss, write about, and in some cases perform various kinds of literature, including drama, poetry, fiction, and non-fictional prose.
Within the English major, we offer a variety of courses and three different "tracks" that an English major may pursue: the literature track, the writing track, and teaching certification in secondary English education. We also offer a minor in English.
The USF English department strives to provide timely, thorough, and personal advising for students. Faculty work closely with their advisees to shape a curriculum that best meets the needs and interests of the student. Beyond assisting with degree plans and registration, faculty advisors also guide advisees through the English Major Portfolio and Colloquium, which serves as a capstone to each English major's course of study at USF.
Along the way, the relationships between faculty and students can develop beyond mere academic advising, developing into collaborative partnerships wherein faculty and students co-author papers for publication or presentation at academic conferences. Recent and upcoming examples include undergraduate English majors presenting work at the 2006 Spring Conference of the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English and the 2007 Regional Conference of the Midwest Writing Centers Association.
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The positive employment results were seen on both sides of the Ottawa River and came even as the area's largest employer continued to shed jobs.
There were 9,300 more people working in Ottawa-Gatineau last month than in December, easily outpacing the growth in the labour force.
Statistics Canada employment numbers are based on a three-month moving average.
With an addition 7,100 people looking for work last month, the region's unemployment rate fell 40 basis points to 5.9 per cent.
That's the second-lowest unemployment rate in Ontario, after Guelph.
There are now 20,900 more people working in Ottawa-Gatineau than a year ago, an increase of three per cent.
What makes the strong job numbers remarkable is that the increase comes as the federal civil service - the region's largest source of employment - shrinks.
There were 9,000 fewer people working in local public administration positions in January compared to a year ago.
"(January's increase is) not coming from the traditional areas of growth," says Statistics Canada analyst Vincent Ferrao, adding no other city in Canada added as many jobs as Ottawa-Gatineau.
The largest increase in employment came from the professional, scientific and technical sector, which includes fields such as architecture, engineering and accounting.
That category is up by nearly 20,000 workers, year-over-year, and currently sits at 76,000 employees.
The closely-watched technology sector is up by nearly 2,000 jobs over January 2011 to 44,000 employed workers.
The tourism and hospitality sector, generally regarded as the region's third-largest economic sector, is also up. There were 6,800 more people working in the accommodations and food services industry last month, reaching 37,900, than a year earlier.
Health care and social services also posted an increase, as did business support services, which includes workers in fields such as property management, call centres and employment agencies.
The construction industry posted a modest year-over-year decline, shedding 1,200 jobs and falling to 33,900 workers.
It was a different story elsewhere across the country.
Nationally, Canada's economy squeezed out a paltry gain of 2,300 jobs last month as the country's unemployment rate increased due to more people looking for work.
Statistics Canada said the unemployment rate climbed one notch to 7.6 per cent last in January, as the economy continued its struggle to produce jobs in numbers large enough to absorb the increase in Canadians looking for work.
Economists had expected a pop of 25,000 jobs for the month, in part because of the unseasonably warm temperatures could have encouraged more hiring in some industries.
But the increase was much weaker than anticipated, compounded by the 23,700 additional Canadians that joined the labour force, accounting for the climb in the jobless rate.
January was the third month in the last four that saw the unemployment rate increase since last September's 7.2 post-recession low.
"This extends the ugly end to 2011," said Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist with BMO Capital Markets.
"Today's report reinforces the point that Canada's job creation engine is cooling markedly," adding that there is no single factor for the softening trend that has seen employment fall on average during the last four months. The 7.6 per cent unemployment rate is also the highest in nine months.
TD Bank economist Derek Burleton said the recent figures are consistent with an economy fighting to keep its head above water. And he sees little relief in the upcoming months.
"For the year as a whole, we continue to expect average monthly job gains of about 10,000 per month, more heavily weighted to the second half of the year," he advised clients in a note.
The Canadian dollar fell almost one third of a cent to 99.74 cents US on the news.
After a strong start in 2011, employment in Canada has largely stalled since last summer, with only 20,000 or so jobs being added in the last six months.
Over the past 12 months, the economy has produced 129,000 new jobs, or a 0.7 per cent gain in employment, one of the weakest records in a non-recessionary period in many years.
The fall-off in job creation has coincided with generally weaker economic conditions and declining business confidence due to uncertainty in the global situation. Earlier in the week, the agency reported that the economy contracted slightly in November following a flat growth reading in October.
Most economists believe conditions in Canada, as well as job creation, will remain weak throughout 2012.
The strongest indicator in January's report was that number of employees in Canada rose by 39,200, offset by a similar decline in self-employment.
That is usually considered a good sign because in a weak economy, many who can't find work will resort to generating their own jobs even if the pay is lower.
By sector, employment rose in the education, information, culture and recreation, and in other service industries in January.
Meanwhile, there were a big loss of 45,000 workers in the professional, scientific and technical services industries, and construction shed jobs despite the warm temperatures during the month. Manufacturing saw a small pick-up but remains 44,000 down over the last 12 months.
Regionally, there were few major changes in any province except Quebec. After a sharp drop in employment the previous few months, Canada's second most populous province saw 9,500 new jobs added, bringing the unemployment rate down three-tenths of a point to 8.4 per cent.
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Reports from Britain state that the orchestra will mimic playing to prerecorded music due to concerns about the weather and the shape of the performing venue -- a large, oval-shaped arena whose scale would apparently make a live-music performance tricky.
Danny Boyle, who serves as artistic director for the massive event.
The London Symphony has reportedly recorded the music that is scheduled to be played during the July 27 ceremony. The Daily Mail reports that Boyle wanted the orchestra to perform live, but that he was overruled by the organizing committee for the Games.
When viewers around the world tune in for the ceremony, they can expect to see the conductor and musicians from the renowned orchestra going through the motions while a soundtrack plays.
This wouldn't be the first time that the mimicking of live music was used at an Olympics ceremony. In 2008, a mini-controversy developed during the Beijing Games when it was revealed that a 9-year-old singer lip-synced to the voice of another young girl whom officials had deemed less telegenic.
Similarly, at President Obama's inauguration, the musical performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriella Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill played, unamplified, to a recording. The decision to use a recording was made over fears that the cold weather that day could damage the instruments.
Olafur Eliasson work rejected by London Olympics
Esa-Pekka Salonen to carry Olympic torch for London Games
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I had the opportunity to make a really FUN cake for a 3 year-old boy this week! Boden loves all things under the sea, including octopuses, turtles, sharks, whales, starfish, turtles and more. Tara (from Terra Rosa in Ithaca, NY) designed a beautiful party invitation that I used for inspiration.
Boden loves chocolate, so the cake is chocolate with chocolate mousse filling. The base cake is frosted with chocolate fudge frosting, while the top cake is finished using vanilla mousse frosting. All the sea creatures are made from fondant.
To make your own version of this cake (or a similar theme cake), I’ve included step-by-step instructions below. If you are a novice, make sure you have 2 days to spend working on all the steps. With more experience, you can expect this cake to take you about 6 hours (baking the cake, making the frostings and fillings, and decorating). Note: The directions to make the cake are below the picture montage.
How to Make This Cake
- Prepare your cakes
This cake used a half sheet pan for the base, and a 9″ round for the top. Plan to make about 2 1/2 recipes of your favorite chocolate cake. Bake cakes and cool completely. If you plan to split the cakes, it is best to chill them in the refrigerator or allow to cool overnight.
Prepare chocolate mousse frosting and vanilla mousse frosting.
- Split, fill and crumb coat
Split the cakes and fill with the chocolate mousse frosting. Place your half sheet cake on the base you plan to use, and place your 9″ round cake on a cardboard round that is the same size as the 9″ round cake. Crumb coat each cake.
Now, prepare your chocolate fudge frosting using your favorite chocolate frosting recipe. The dark canvas makes things pop! Frost your base cake. Then use your vanilla mousse to frost your top cake on the cardboard round. I used a small spatula to make the waves. To make the sandy island, I used brownulated sugar. Simply pour the desired amount on the top of the cake for your island. Put the top cake in the refrigerator, so that it is easier to place it on the bottom cake when ready.
It is time to stack the cakes. Get out 8 straws or dowels. Place them in the base cake, in the area that the top cake will rest on, and cut to the appropriate size. Place the 9″ round on the half sheet cake. Pipe, using a #32 star tip, around the bottom edge.
Begin to sculpt your sea creatures. I used the invitation (photo above) as my inspiration, and my list of things that Boden loves that his Mom had given me. Have a collection of fondant, clay tools, edible markers, a big roulepat mat, and a small rolling pin. Using a large number cookie cutter, cut out the number for the age.
Place sea creatures where desired on the cake. Then use a #18 tip to pipe a small border around the bottom edge. Use #18 to make stars around the top edge. For the writing, use a #16 star tip for the base lettering and a #5 round tip for the top border. Finish the cake by making an umbrella in a color matching the number. Cut a circle, then slice halfway through to wrap it around. Tape a popsicle stick in the center and place the umbrella in the cake. | <urn:uuid:eba1ad70-7415-4cce-92bd-34106c4c81e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.emoticakes.com/blog/2011/01/07/bodens-under-the-sea-cake/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90177 | 735 | 1.507813 | 2 |
A new study has provided the most probable explanation for human geophagy — the eating of earth — it protects the stomach against toxins, parasites, and pathogens.
The first written account of human geophagy comes from Hippocrates more than 2,000 years ago, said Sera Young, a researcher at
Cornell University and the study’s lead author.
Since then, the eating of earth has been reported on every inhabited continent and in almost every country. Despite its ubiquity, scientists until now have been unable to definitively explain why people crave earth. Several hypotheses had been considered plausible.
Some researchers have hypothesized that earth has a protective effect, working as a shield against ingested parasites, pathogens, and plant toxins.
In the study, Young and her colleagues analyzed reports from missionaries, plantation doctors, explorers, and anthropologists to put together a database of more than 480 cultural accounts of geophagy.
The database includes as many details as possible about the circumstances under which earth was consumed, and by whom. Overall, the Cornell researchers found the protection hypothesis to fit the data best.
The database shows that geophagy is documented most commonly in women in the early stages of pregnancy and in pre-adolescent children.
Both categories of people are especially sensitive to parasites and pathogens, according to Young and her colleagues. In addition, geophagy is most common in tropical climates where foodborne microbes are abundant.
Finally, the database shows that people often eat earth during episodes of gastrointestinal stress.
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18 / 07 / 2011 - Doctors told us to abort our little girl as she wouldn`t survive birth - but our little fighter has flourished
Before she was even born, doctors said there was little chance Charley-Marie Skinner's would survive her birth.
Scans showed a massive tumour covering the entire left chamber of her heart that was restricting blood flow.
Specialists were convinced she would die in the womb and advised her parents Heather and Andy, from Darwen, Lancashire, to terminate their baby.
They refused, saying they would rather let her die naturally than go through the trauma of an abortion.
The couple were told to start making funeral arrangements and even bought a moulding kit to make prints of their baby's hands and feet as a reminder of their child.
They were forced to break the tragic news to their five other children that they would not be welcoming a new baby sister.
The couple already knew they were having a girl after full-time mother Heather, 27, went for a 20 week scan at Burnley General Hospital - but the tumour was missed.
It was spotted just over a week later when she went for another scan to check the growth of the baby because some of Heather's older children had been born abnormally small.
Heather and Andy were transferred immediately to St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, to see a specialist.
Heather said: 'When the doctor said there was nothing they could do and that I needed a termination, I just said: 'no way.'
'I didn't want an abortion. I wanted nature to take it's course. The thought of losing my baby was awful. I didn't know how to deal with it.
'We were left in a room and just cried.'
When they got home, a specialist midwife was assigned to them to help them cope with their inevitable loss.
Heather added: 'We bought a moulding kit to make prints of her hands and feet. We also got two identical blankets - one to wrap her in when she was born that we would keep and the other to bury her in.
'It was heartbreaking having to tell the children. They were so quiet.
'Every day we wondered if today would be the day she died inside me.'
But against the odds, Charley-Marie, now 19 months old, astounded medics and clung on to life.
She was born in January 2010 three weeks premature by Caesarean section at Blackburn Royal Hospital.
Heather said: 'All I wanted was to see her eyes. The doctors still said that she would die as the tumour was so big it would stop the blood flow around her heart.
'But she cried, she was breathing and doing everything that a newborn does.
'Straight away they took her down to the neonatal intensive care unit and scanned her heart. The tumour was inside the entire left chamber but somehow her little heart was still finding a way to pump blood around.'
The first 48 hours were were critical and her parents were left not knowing if their daughter would make it.
However, scans showed that Charley-Marie's heart had actually grown to make room for the tumour.
Three days after she was born, the couple were allowed to take her home.
Council worker Andy, 51, said: 'We came home and just in the car on the drive way. We didn't know what to do next.
'We were numb. We hadn't bought anything for her - just the clothes and blanket to bury her in.'
The couple even brought their wedding forward because doctors warned Charley-Marie would not see her first birthday.
Heather said: 'We'd planned a big, white wedding in our local Cathedral but we wanted Charley-Marie there so we got married when she five-weeks-old.'
The baby was diagnosed with the rare, life threatening condition Tuberous Sclerosis, which causes benign tumours to grow on vital organs, when she was five-months-old.
There is no cure and the couple were told an operation wouldn't help.
Heather said: 'We were told it was the largest tumour they had ever seen at the hospital.'
As Tuberous Sclerosis is a genetic condition, the family asked to be tested for it.
It revealed that Andy and the couple's daughter Emma-Jean also have the condition.
Scans showed three-year-old Emma-Jean has a tumour behind her left eye and two smaller ones in her heart. Their son Alfie, two, does not have the condition.
Andy has had several benign tumours during his life but it was never known why until Charley-Marie's diagnosis.
Heather and her three children from a previous relationship - nine-year-old twins James and Jessica and Jennifer, eight - did not need to be tested.
When Charley-Marie reached her first milestone, the family celebrated with a party and fireworks.
Heather said: 'She's our little miracle. She's proved everyone wrong and shown she's a fighter.
'They have no idea how Charley-Marie's heart will cope as she gets older. They don't think that the tumour will ever shrink but may in fact grow with her. We just have to watch her and hope for the best.
'She's just started walking and sometimes she gets out of breath, which worries me, but she's like any girl her age. She's loves Peppa Pig and always has a cheeky smile on her face.
'Finding out that Emma-Jean and Andy have Tuberous Sclerosis has definitely saved their lives as now we know what to watch out for and they can be closely monitored for any problems.'
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Okay I have to admit it – I have been obsessed with the Trayvon Martin shooting after listening to the 911 tape (below) on You Tube where you can hear someone screaming numerous times for help, then gun shots, then silence. Each morning I wake up and the first thing I google is the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Brief details as to what happened on February 26, 2012 – Trayvon Martin a seventeen year old was a guest at the residence of his fathers girlfriend who lived in Sanford Florida. Trayvon went to a convenience store at 7:00 pm to get an iced tea and skittles. When he returned to the gated community George Zimmerman a neighborhood watch coordinator for the condo association took notice and placed a call to the police department reporting suspicious behavior on Trayvon’s part stating “he was walking around looking about”. During the call to police Zimmerman said that Trayvon “was starting to run and that he was going to follow him”, but the police dispatcher told Zimmerman that it wasn’t necessary and that they didn’t need him to do that because police were on the way. Zimmerman said “okay I will meet the police by the mail boxes”, but before hanging up he said “actually could you have him call me, and I’ll tell him where I’m at”. A confrontation occurred between the two, they got into a scuffle on the ground and Mr Zimmerman who had a gun shot Trayvon once in the chest and is claiming self defense under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law.
It should be noted that a number of burglaries had taken place in Zimmerman’s condo complex in the past year or so, but there are a few things about this story that just don’t sit right with me.
Is it fair on Zimmerman’s part to assume that because a person is “walking around looking about” that they are up to no good ? It was dark and raining, could Trayvon have been lost or confused as to which was the condo he was staying at.
Zimmerman did his job by alerting the police, but does he have the right to pursue Trayvon especially after he’s told not to do so ?
If Zimmerman had not had a gun would he still have pursued Trayvon ?
When they got into a scuffle on the ground does it seem reasonable for Zimmerman to claim self defense under the Stand Your Ground law when he was the one armed with a gun and outweighed Trayvon ?
If charges are brought against George Zimmerman I am hopeful that a public trial will answer some of these unanswered questions and I will be glued to court TV watching. It’s only my humble opinion, but every story has two sides to it, if charges are in fact brought against George Zimmerman then he will have the luxury of deciding whether or not it is in his best interests legally to tell his side of the story. As for Trayvon Martin, he can’t tell his side of the story because he’s dead. | <urn:uuid:9d7e832f-be40-4889-a65f-f6a4d5985c3c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://webnerhouse.com/tag/shooting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986269 | 629 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Roberto De Mattei, a Roman Catholic professor and vice president of Italy’s Centre for National Research, has an awesome new theory about why the Roman Empire came undone: the gays! Guess who doesn’t much like this theory? The gays!
“The Roman colony of Carthage was a paradise for homosexuals and they infected many others,” De Mattei claims in a new radio interview. “The invasion of the Barbarians was seen as punishment for this moral transgression. It is well known effeminate men and homosexuals have no place in the kingdom of God. Homosexuality was not rife among the Barbarians and this shows God’s justice comes throughout history.”
Well then! So it’s not that Romans acting all gay somehow made them lesser warriors, but god hated the way all these gay couplings were happening under his watch and decided to let the Barbarians stomp them out?
But what else would we expect from the same man who blamed the Japanese earthquake and tsunami as god’s plan? (“Great catastrophes are a terrible but paternal sign of God’s benevolence which call attention to the ultimate scope of our lives. … If the Earth offered no danger, pain or catastrophe it would fascinate us to no end, and we would too easily forget we are citizens of heaven.”)
Sadly, actual experts on Roman civilization had to put down their tea to refute De Mattei’s claims.
Fellow historians, gay rights groups and politicians expressed their outrage over the historian’s claims. “I have tabled an urgent call for the education minister to intervene,” Paola Concia, a lawmaker with the Democratic Left, said. Italian homosexual groups said the professor’s comments were “based on superstition” and described them as ridiculous and outrageous”. The groups called on him to resign from his Rome-based post.
“It is highly improbable homosexuality led to the fall of the Roman Empire,” historian Emilio Gabba, a leading light in Roman history, said. However research would seem to suggest homosexuality was rife in ancient Rome, and it is widely portrayed in ancient Roman art and was seen as acceptable 2,000 years ago. “There is no proof Rome had a high number of homosexuals. I can safely say Rome did not fall because it was gay,” Professor Lellia Cracco Ruggini, an expert on Roman history from Turin University, added.
Except I kind of like De Mattei’s little theory about how all the world’s disasters are simply god’s punishment, because can you even imagine what’s in store for the world’s Catholics for their abuse of thousands of little boys? And their contributions to helping HIV spread? I think the earth might just open up and swallow Vatican City whole. | <urn:uuid:c1985484-878a-41b9-b1f8-95313eeda785> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.queerty.com/crazy-roman-catholic-professor-roberto-de-matteis-theory-god-wiped-out-roman-empire-because-it-was-a-gay-paradise-20110410/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966067 | 603 | 2.203125 | 2 |
"In Britain, A Census Goes Deep Into The Woods"
"In the Chiltern Hills of southeast England, forester Bob Davis strolls through the woodlands. Davis is a big, bearded, gentle man — think Hagrid in the Harry Potter books — but he is dwarfed by the gnarled and twisted giants around him.
We're walking through to probably the biggest tree in the woodland," he says. "It's a bit of a 'wow factor,' this one."
He points to a beech tree believed to be 400 years old. The tree, in a dim, dappled clearing, is almost as wide as it is tall. It has a mossy, twisting, bulbous trunk and water pooling on its pocked bark.
Britain's Ancient Tree Hunt
Naturalists say as many as 70 percent of Europe's ancient trees may be in Britain. Now, two British charities are working to identify every single one. "Source: NPR, 09/04/2009 | <urn:uuid:93e74ac4-8c8f-4b05-8b6a-890e3108dc98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sej.org/headlines/in-britain-a-census-goes-deep-into-the-woods | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964496 | 206 | 2.734375 | 3 |
By Kirsten L. Werner, Natural Lands Trust
On a snowy morning in early spring, 1890, Eugene Schieffelin arrived in New York City’s Central Park bearing 60 European Starlings he’d imported from England at great personal cost. His breath curled around him as he bent to unfasten the latch on their cage and release the birds to the grey March sky, their iridescent feathers winking in the half light.
A wealthy aristocrat, Schieffelin belonged to the American Acclimation Society, which dreamed of introducing every bird mentioned in Shakespeare’s works to North America. Many, such as the Nightingale and Skylark, did not survive but the Starlings thrived. By 1928 they were found as far west as the Mississippi. By 1942 they’d made it to California. By the mid-1950s there were more than 50 million of them.
In the 1800s, nature’s complex and delicate balance was not well understood. Today, with our knowledge of the often devastating impact of non-native species on local ecosystems, Schieffelin’s 19th century actions seem naïve and even foolish. But the Starlings are out of the bag, as it were. With numbers now topping 200 million, they are considered one of the most invasive species on the continent. And as they have multiplied, so has their toll on agriculture, public health, and native bird species.
Invasive Plants--Other Good Intentions Gone Awry
Starlings aren’t the only species that were introduced with good intentions but disastrous results. Many of today’s most pernicious weeds were once believed to be beneficial additions to the environment. In the 1930s, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service touted multiflora rose for its use in erosion control and as “living fences” to confine livestock, and state conservation departments encouraged its use by distributing root cuttings free of charge to landowners. European settlers brought garlic mustard to the continent to use as a flavorful cooking herb that doubled as a remedy for gangrene and ulcers. Also known for its medicinal benefits, purple loosestrife was popular in late 19th century gardens.
Whatever useful purpose the plants may have served, the consequences of their introduction have been severe. All considered to be “invasives,” they seed prolifically, grow fast, spread rapidly and aggressively, or lack the diseases and predators that keep their populations in balance in their places of origin. As a result, these plants can out-compete other species and destroy diversity, causing a ripple effect throughout the ecosystem. In fact, invasive plants pose a threat to two-thirds of all endangered plant and animal species.
Managing Invasives --Techniques
As owners and stewards of more than 21,000 acres of land, Natural Lands Trust spends countless hours working to control invasive plant species on our preserves. Woody species—such as autumn olive, Norway maple, and bush honeysuckle—are good candidates for mechanical removal with pruners, handsaws, chainsaws, and brush cutters. However, most of these plants will re-sprout—sometimes vigorously—without some additional attention, so mechanical methods are often paired with chemical ones.
A less obvious approach—but one widely used at Natural Lands Trust—is called cultural control: essentially stacking the deck in favor of desirable species. For example, by replanting an old farm field with a diversity of native trees we “jump-start” the process of succession from field to forest and give the native trees a chance to shade out invasives. Minimizing unnecessary soil disturbance is another important cultural control because it limits the germination of invasive seeds. Biocontrol, in the form of a pair of weed-eating goats named Duffy and Seamus, is another technique the organization uses. The goats are very good on uneven or wet terrain and other places not accessible to tractors
But even with concerted, sustained efforts to manage invasive plants, these species persist. “Natural Lands Trust takes a balanced approach to managing invasive plants,” says Dan Barringer, invasives coordinator for Natural Lands Trust and manager of Crow’s Nest Preserve in Warwick Township, Chester County. “We know they will always be with us, but we do what we can to minimize their impact.”
As daunting a task as it may seem, small victories help keep Dan and the other preserve managers motivated. One such triumph came in the form of an ephemeral wildflower. For the last several years, staff has been diligently pulling garlic mustard from the woodlands at Crow’s Nest Preserve. This noxious weed exudes a chemical into the soil that inhibits the growth of other plants. Recently, Dan discovered a patch of nodding trillium had emerged where the garlic mustard once grew. A sweet success, indeed.
Natural Lands Trust is the region’s largest land conservation organization, preserving open space throughout eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Find further details about nature preserves open to the public, upcoming events, ways to support Natural Lands Trust, and more online at www.natlands.org
If you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em!
“Invasivores” go a step farther to protect the environment by eating invasive plants and animals. In the spring, try this tasty recipe to make good use of noxious garlic mustard, which threatens native wildflowers and butterflies. For the best flavor, pick the leaves before the plant has flowered (March-April). Be careful to ensure the garlic mustard you use is not chemically treated, and avoid plants growing along the road.
Garlic Mustard Pesto
3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 garlic clove
2 Tbsp pine nuts
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, about 1 ounce
4 cups of garlic mustard leaves (Alliaria petiolata),
or 2 cups garlic mustard with 2 cups basil leaves
Place all of the ingredients except the basil in a
blender or food processor. Blend until smooth, then
add the garlic mustard and/or basil a handful at a
time, blending until all of the greens are
incorporated and the pesto is smooth.
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Dates: Aug. 11-12
Field: 72 (36 men and 36 women)
Top Country: Sweden and Hungary (21 medals each)
First Held: 1912
The modern pentathlon competition is held over a single day. First there's the fencing competition, held in a sudden-death format. Next up is the swimming event (200-meter freestyle) followed by the riding competition (a 12-jump course). Each individual event earns a score. That score determines a time handicap, which assigns each athlete a starting time for the combined running and shooting competitions. In this section of the event, athletes shoot a set of five targets after running 1,000 meters. The athlete who crosses the line first wins gold.
The United States is fourth in total medals with nine. Hungary and Sweden are tied for the most with 21 medals. The U.S. has never won a gold in the sport, but has taken home six silver and three bronze.
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Economic problems, particularly those in Europe, have increased the public’s awareness of how fragile the relationships are between different currencies, and how difficult it may be to keep an international currency such as the euro afloat. With its institutional limitations, the European Central Bank is not able to act with the full force of a central bank characterized by the U.S. Federal Reserve — buying and selling government securities and providing liquidity to member banks as a lender of last resort.
Although the problems the euro faces seem severe, it is not at the top of the list in terms of implied volatility. “Forex option price curves” (below) shows that the options market on Nov. 4, 2011 put the March 2012 euro calls in second place following the Swiss franc, and slightly higher than the Japanese yen. The Swiss franc may have been temporarily in the top position because of its relatively steep 11.3% decline from Sept. 2 to Nov. 4. Higher price curves indicate predicted larger price spread variations between Nov. 4 and expiration in March.
Percentage price changes for March 2012 futures over 90 days ending on Nov. 18, 2011 show a similar pattern with minus signs as the U.S. dollar index at plus 4.67% strengthened against other currencies: Swiss franc – 14.29%, euro – 5.37, British pound – 4.27%, Canadian dollar – 3.57%, Australian dollar – 2.64%, and Japanese yen – 0.58%.
“A futures pair” (below) shows the possibility of spreads between the euro and Australian dollar options. For the purpose of this chart, the space between prices for the two currencies is reduced by multiplying Australian dollar prices by 1.37 (because the average price of the March euro over the Sept. 1 to Nov. 18 period is approximately 37% larger than the Australian dollar futures). Variations in the March 2012 call prices indicate that the Australian dollar options were more variable than the euro during this period.
As long as the options price relationship holds, spreads between the pair could be profitable.
For example, buying relatively undervalued Australian dollar futures at 0.9241 on Oct. 4 along with a sale of euro futures at 1.3239, and reversing the spread trade on Oct. 14, would have produced a gain of 9.9% for the Australian dollar vs. 4.7% for the euro’s March contract.
Prices for currency options trades may be compared to the hypothetical prices shown by Barchart.com. These theoretical prices are based on the Black-Scholes option pricing model for a wide range of put and call strike prices. Barchart.com also shows actual trades and the timing of them at specific strikes. This permits a look at individual trades relative to the hypothetical price curve when the trades were made. Prices are shown with a 10-minute delay.
For example, on Nov. 16, 2011, a trade for March 2012 euro calls at 1.40 strike is priced at 0.0266 at 10:07 a.m. when hypothetical prices for puts and calls are shown for latest options at 10:20 a.m. As explained later, when a smoothed option price curve is computed, the trade at 0.0266 is estimated to be underpriced by approximately $64 compared with the theoretical pricing model.
“March 2012 euro calls” (below) charts variations from published prices. As shown on the lower graph (“Euro option price curve”), the regression model is a close fit to Barchart.com prices, with market prices falling almost on the predicted prices at each strike price. The upper chart contains the variations from the smoothed price curve in dollars instead of option points. Because each option point for euro calls is worth $125,000, the variations are greatly magnified from those along the lower curve.
A similar pair of charts is shown on “March 2012 Australian dollar calls” (below). The smoothed curve of prices in option points related to strike prices exhibits a few points that deviate slightly from the curve, but overall the fit is very close. It is only when the variations from the curve are multiplied by $100,000 (the value of one option point for Australian dollar options) that the differences are measured in terms of U.S. dollars.
The small dollar variations from zero in both of the upper charts for euro and Australian dollar calls are rounding differences. While the price quotes for options are limited to four decimal places, the smoothed curve data is calculated on a computer spreadsheet. Computer calculations are carried to as many as 18 decimal places; thus, with the magnification of 100,000 or 125,000, variations around the curve are relatively small.
The larger peak variations — at strikes of 1.05 and 1.10 for Australian dollar calls or 1.40, 1.45 and 1.50 for euro calls — represent actual trades. The dollar variations for these trades suggest that many actual trades take place at prices that are overpriced (with a spike down) or underpriced (with an upward spike) relative to the Black-Scholes hypothetical prices. That there are differences from the theoretical prices is not surprising. An analogy might be a football player on the field not knowing exactly where the first-down line is, while the television audience can clearly see the yellow line on the TV image.
Options traders are trying to find the correct price in real time with shifting parameters, so missing the hypothetically correct price by $50 or $60 may not be a bad estimate. It would be interesting to see how many traders may look back at a source such as Barchart.com to find out how well their actual buying or selling prices compared with the hypothetical price curve. Black-Scholes option prices depend on an estimate of the volatility of the underlying futures contract; differences in estimates can lead to over- or underpricing.
The charts on page 28 show option prices and strike prices for the euro on Nov. 16 and the Australian dollar on Nov. 8. Option prices are those listed by Barchart.com, while the predicted prices are computed by a regression equation that creates a parabolic option price formula. The five actual trades all are undervalued, depicted as positive variances of predicted prices less market prices. To take advantage of the lower-than-theoretical prices, credit spreads are suggested in which an adjacent call at the hypothetical price is sold while the undervalued option is bought.
Two tables showing option and strike prices on Nov. 16 for the euro and Nov. 8 for the Aussie are included online. Option prices are those listed by Barchart.com, while the predicted prices are computed by a regression equation that creates a parabolic option price formula. The five actual trades are all undervalued, as positive variances of predicted prices less market prices. To take advantage of the lower-than-theoretical prices, credit spreads are suggested in which an adjacent call at the hypothetical price is sold while the undervalued option is bought.
The credit spreads in this sample are expected to be completed in the same day as the original trade, from mid-morning until the afternoon close. Results of the trades also are shown online. Because the underlying euro futures price declined on Nov. 16, the actual trades that were bought as undervalued calls resulted in losses, while the corresponding sales of adjacent calls gained. For Australian dollar calls on Nov. 8, buying the undervalued options produced an overall gain for the day as the futures price increased.
The analysis of options pricing and the results of actual trades make it apparent that success — particularly in the short-term — may depend on knowledge of hypothetically correct prices as well as the significant magnification of small variances from those prices. Forex futures are influenced by world markets and political climates, while their puts and calls are priced by surgically precise mathematical models. | <urn:uuid:66883684-89c0-48b2-acb1-588eb902dbd2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.futuresmag.com/2012/03/30/building-forex-volatility-strategies?t=forex&page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936177 | 1,617 | 1.929688 | 2 |
His proposal, which ignited a small firestorm in the blogosphere, has almost no chance of becoming reality, yet I still found the idea unsettling. The urge for a mural on such an important building suggests that we have lost our ability to look at architecture and see meaning in the arrangement of stone and glass. If any building should be easy to read, it is the Internationalist-style, form-follows-function PSFS by George Howe and William Lescaze. But we've become architectural illiterates.
Benner, a 27-year-old photographer and social-media manager, started his website two years ago to document Philadelphia's rich collection of street art, of both the official and unofficial variety. He has uncovered and documented some real inspirations.
A Philadelphia native, Benner told me in an interview that he loved the PSFS building, yet always wondered, "why a blank wall?" on what is effectively the back of the 33-story tower. He concluded that a mural might "energize" the wall, and decided to float the proposal on his website and see whether anyone responded.
Did they ever. At least four other websites jumped into the fray, and Twitter lit up with comments over several days, both for and against.
Many of those taking part in the conversation pointed out that PSFS is Philadelphia's best and most important 20th-century building, a groundbreaking skyscraper that is a staple of architecture curriculums around the world - not to mention one of an elite group of National Historic Landmarks protected by federal law. The building at 12th and Market Streets currently houses the Loews Philadelphia Hotel.
Seven decades after it opened as the offices for the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, the tower is as elegant as ever, rising from a gray, polished granite base that engages both its corner and the curve of the 1890s Reading Terminal Headhouse across the street.
Everything you see on the outside corresponds with what's going on inside. The ribbon of windows facing Market Street served offices. The sensuously curved glass at street level provided excellent display for a retail tenant. The back wall was left blank because that's where the elevators are. In William H. Jordy's definitive 1962 essay on PSFS, he notes that the rear facade was Howe's favorite.
But when Benner looked at the wall, what he saw was a "boring black" wall. Why not fix it the way so many blank walls in Philadelphia are "fixed" these days? With a mural.
This is a big part of the problem. We've reached the point in Philadelphia where murals have become the default balm for all our urban blights. Got an empty lot? Paint a mural on the exposed wall. Is your neighborhood shopping street on the rocks? Bring in celebrity artists Haas & Hahn to stripe the facades in tropical colors, as the Mural Arts Program did on Germantown Avenue. Paint is the panacea. It is no longer good enough for a brick wall to remain a brick wall.
Philadelphia, it often seems, spends more time boasting about its mural count - 3,000 and growing - than the quality, variety, and condition of its impressive collection of architecture. The Mural Arts Program was originally founded to fight graffiti, and later evolved into a program to involve kids in art-making. Fighting blight became part of its portfolio, too.
Now, however, there are murals going up in some of Philadelphia's poshest neighborhoods. Even worse, murals have become an end in themselves. Last year, when a developer wanted to build a new house on an empty lot at Ninth and Bainbridge, neighbors complained it would cover up a mural.
Have we really gotten to the point where our facades need pictures to be interesting?
Now, I'll concede that not everyone spends their days looking at and thinking about buildings, but I'm endlessly fascinated by the patterns, recesses, and textures of Philadelphia's hugely various building facades, the boogie-woogie rhythm of grids layered over time. Buildings aren't static, two-dimensional billboards, but ever-changing, three-dimensional objects that shift their expressions as sun and shadow caress their faces. Murals always look the same.
The pictures might occasionally help a blighted neighborhood. But PSFS isn't blighted; it's a huge success story.
Nor is its back wall really blank. That's another misreading.
Usually when we talk about blank walls, we mean those at eye level on main streets. They're one of the great urban scourges because they prevent people on the outside from interacting with people on the inside. They make us feel alone and unsafe.
But a windowless facade on the upper levels is a different issue. Lots of building facades with no windows are thrilling, like the fantastically patterned north wall of Furness' Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. PSFS' south wall is less elaborate, but its glazed black brick and corner windows provide enough texture to keep us interested.
Why would you cover that up?
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Chapin Professor of Geology J. Mark Erickson recently participated in an
Apollo Geology Training Workshop at NASA in Houston, led by Senior Scientist
Dean Eppler '74.
Participants included NASA astronauts and their former teachers, who have
the responsibility for developing ideas and methods for the geology
curriculum to be used by the next group of lunar astronauts,
those of the Constellation Project. In addition to Erickson and
Barbara Tewksbury '73, a member of the design team, participated in the
workshop, held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston in April.
Class of 2008 Valedictorian David Baker, of Camden, New York, is among the
Institute's 2008 summer interns.
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Water most important training tool as athletes take to practice fields Freshman Coyote football player Clayton Bryan of White River, takes a refreshing drink of water during practice Tuesday morning. Both Coyote and Tanager football players are taught the importance of fluids when practicing in extremely hot and humid conditions. by M. Jill Karolevitz Often depicted in movies as a non-athlete with less-than-average intelligence, a water boy may now be termed as the most important component of a football team as players begin practicing in extreme heat and humidity.
With the recent tragic deaths of Florida freshman running back Eraste Autin from heat stroke after a voluntary workout, and Minnesota Vikings' lineman Korey Stringer, also from heat stroke after an intense practice at the Vikings' training camp in Mankato on the hottest day of the year, local coaches are sticking with a regimen they've followed for years.
"Water, water, water," said Vermillion High School football coach Gary Culver. "You can't get enough of it. You have to coach the kids about football, but you also have to educate them about hydrating themselves before, during and after practices and games."
The VHS football squad began practice on Thursday, Aug. 9.
"This is my 25th year of coaching and I'd like to think I have a pretty good hold on this," Culver said. "It isn't like this is the first time we've had to practice in this type of heat."
He outlined the safety precautions he's used throughout his tenure as the players take to their pre-season drills.
Practice sessions are held twice a day until school starts. They run from 7:30 to 9 a.m., then 10 a.m. to noon.
"With this weather, the heat has really cranked up by noon," Culver said. "We stay away from that hot period of the day � from 12 to 8 it's usually just brutal � and the coaches, players and trainers really seem to like that schedule."
The VHS football team has a trainer available on the practice field as well.
"He handles all the injury evaluations, which could be anything from a sprained ankle to heat exhaustion," Culver said. "We do pretty well in being able to spot kids that may be in trouble."
Unlimited water is probably the most important factor in football practice, Culver added.
"No one is ever denied water at any time," he said. "And we take at least four breaks during practice.
"I'm not that sold on Gatorade before or during a game � it may be okay afterwards to replenish potassium and salts � but there's nothing better than cold water and lots of it," he added.
Culver encourages his players to stay conditioned during the summer, but the first practices are also geared for working the players into shape a little at a time.
"We start the first three days without pads, which helps acclimate them," Culver said.
Looking back, Culver said he learned his lesson the hard way about about keeping the kids hydrated.
"When the DakotaDome first opened in 1979, our first game in there I had five kids sent to the hospital," he said. "They were dehydrated. We weren't prepared for those conditions."
Since then, the VHS football squad has not had that problem.
"We feel like we've gotten smarter over the years," Culver said.
University of South Dakota head football coach John Austin echoes Culver's safety precautions.
"It's very important that the players hydrate themselves before, during and after practice," Austin said. "And we always get into the swimming pool after practice. That's a requirement and it helps cool their body temperatures back down."
Austin has had no problems with athletes suffering from heat-related illness since he came to USD, "but we always have to take precautions," he said.
Freshmen USD football players started practice on Tuesday, Aug. 7. Varsity practice began today, Aug. 10.
"We have two practices a day," Austin said. "They run from about 9 to 11 a.m., then from 3 to 5 p.m. We have running water in the practice field, kids each have water bottles on the field and they take scheduled breaks where they are given additional water, or than can stop and have a drink of water at any time during practice. There's a misting machine out there, too."
Education is also important, Austin said.
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The city also agreed that any future curfew consideration would be the least restrictive necessary to meet a “compelling need”, whatever that is.
What it is not, according to the ACLU, is the simple fear of crime.
City Attorney Eric LaFleur told news media that what a compelling need is is still being fashioned.
The curfew that prompted the ACLU intervention came after an upswing in robberies and other crime-related activity.
The curfew was adopted in February 2011 and renewed regularly until October 2011, when it was suspended following filing of the suit.
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