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MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russia Today (RT)'s footage of the Siberian meteor blast claimed to have become the most watched video of the phenomenon on YouTube. (Video)
According to RT, the blast, which hit Russia's Chelyabinsk region on the morning of February 15, became the most watched video event of all time with 138 million views, and the fastest video event ever to hit 100 million views, according to VideoMeasures, an online measurement company. More than 400 videos across several online platforms were tracked in this calculation.
RT's montage of several eyewitness videos attracted a record-breaking +28 million views in just five days on the news network's YouTube channel. Overall, RT's videos of the meteor event have already collected more than 45 million views, bringing its YouTube channel within a striking distance of the 1 billion total views mark.
RT has previously set a YouTube record for the most watched news event video of 2011 with footage of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Pew Research Centre's 2012 study named RT as the largest provider of news video footage on YouTube, the world's largest video sharing platform.
The New York Times noted, "Thanks to YouTube and sites like it, viewers around the world could see the meteor from dozens of angles," particularly highlighting "the most-viewed of all the videos, uploaded by the cable channel Russia Today". Mashable, a technology- and social media-focused news blog, dubbed RT's "stunning and terrifying" video "the clear winner" among the meteor event footage. Mashable also noted that all the combined meteor videos exhibited "the vastest rate of viral growth ever seen for an online video event" - beating such phenomena as PSY's "Gangnam Style," Kony 2012 and Susan Boyle's "I dreamed a dream."
RT is a global international news network that broadcasts in English, Arabic and Spanish from its studios in Moscow and Washington, DC, and is available to 630 million viewers worldwide. RT is the only Russian TV channel to garner two nominations for the prestigious Emmy International Award.
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In a city where you can cruise down Lincoln Avenue for a bite at the Lincoln Restaurant (paying the check with currency featuring a picture of you know who), then go shopping in Lincoln Park before meeting a friend in Lincoln Square, it's impossible for Chicagoans to avoid being reminded of our 16th president on a daily, if not hourly, basis.
But why would we want to avoid it? This is, after all, the city where Abraham Lincoln gave some of his most impassioned speeches, where he was nominated for president in 1860 and where, five years later, his body lay in state and was viewed by 125,000 people. (His deathbed is on display at the Chicago History Museum as part of the "Lincoln's Chicago" exhibit.) Not that we have him to ourselves. Lincoln belongs, as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton is reported to have intoned as he stood beside that famous bed, to the ages.
That's why, unlike that of most iconic modern-day figures, who tend to fade reluctantly from the limelight despite increasingly desperate efforts to stay there, Lincoln's ubiquity in contemporary life seems to grow every year. He's been a favorite in Hollywood for decades, showing up in hundreds of films and TV shows, from 1939's "Young Mr. Lincoln," starring Henry Fonda, to 1990's "The Civil War," featuring Sam Waterston. (Raymond Massey, Gregory Peck and Hal Holbrook are among the luminaries who've also taken a crack at Old Abe.)
Less reverently, Lincoln has been co-opted in everything from "The Muppet Show"and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" to an episode of MTV'swacky Claymation series "Celebrity Deathmatch," in which the lanky rail-splitter squared off against another president who was handy with an axe, George Washington. Lincoln has also appeared in comic books ("Superman: A Nation Divided," in which the Man of Steel fights on the Union side) and in more than two dozen video games.
And 2012 is already a banner year, if not a jump-the-shark moment, in Lincolniana. First we were treated to the low-budget spectacle of "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies," in which the president takes time out from writing the Gettysburg Address to deal with some unpleasantly reanimated human flesh, followed by"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,"the $70 million adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel featuring the Man from Illinois battling a different species of undead. (His axe is handier than ever.) This month sees the publication of Stephen L. Carter's alt-history thriller "The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln," in which the president survives the attack at Ford's Theatre in 1865 only to face a trial in the U.S. Senate, two years later, for alleged offenses during the Civil War.
The Lincoln wave may crest in December with Steven Spielberg's long-awaited "Lincoln," based on the Doris Kearns Goodwin best-seller "Team of Rivals" and starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. If you don't smell an Oscar, you probably have a cold.
Why is Lincoln so hot right now, as opposed to, say, Washington or Franklin Roosevelt, for decades his closest rivals in national polls of historians for the title of America's greatest president? The timing that produced the current concentration of Lincoln-related cultural phenomena is largely accidental; we can safely assume, for example, that the makers of the low-budget zombie flick didn't clear their release schedule with Spielberg, who has been in agonizingly slow production on his own film for nearly a decade. (Liam Neeson was originally set to play the title role — that voice and that elongated face would have been perfect for the part — but pulled out.) Carter, a law professor at Yale University and a Lincoln buff since childhood, recently told me that he'd wanted to write this particular novel for nearly 20 years before buckling down about three years ago and finally getting it done.
And yet there's an undeniable sense of karmic convergence, of rightness, even of inevitability, in the present clump of Lincoln projects. Something about the historical moment we're living through is causing us to turn our thoughts his way, making him feel more present, if still spectral, among us, his ghost taking long-legged strides through our dreams.
For this, probably, we mostly have to thank (or maybe blame) Barack Obama, who began his presidential campaign in Springfield, where Lincoln lived and worked most of his life. The link between the two presidents is both politically expedient and intuitively apt. Like Lincoln, Obama is a tall, slender man with a gift for soaring oratory (though Lincoln's speaking voice, of which no recordings exist, was probably higher, thinner and less elegant in life than in our collective imagination). Both are known as tough campaigners, hands-on commanders-in-chief and political centrists whose instinct for moderation leaves them beset by critics from the left and the right. | <urn:uuid:1dedeec6-365b-4150-9409-53e7d023a92b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-13/features/ct-prj-0715-cult-of-lincoln-20120713_1_lincoln-park-16th-president-seth-grahame-smith | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971777 | 1,046 | 1.625 | 2 |
On your way either to or from Coyotepec and Ocotlán, you’re in for an unusual treat if you stop at the small demonstration cochineal farm and museum Rancho la Nopalera (Km 10.5 Carretera Oaxaca–Puerto Ángel, Calle Matamoros 100, tel./fax 951/551-0030, info [at] aztecacolor [dot] com, www.aztecacolor.com), just off the highway at Santa María Coyotepec just north (Oaxaca side) of San Bartolo Coyotepec, a few miles south of the Oaxaca airport.
The farm, officially called the Centro de Difusión del Conocimiento de la Grana Cochinilla y Colorantes Naturales, is the labor of love of retired chemical engineer Ignacio J. del Río Dueñas and his son-in-law, engineer Manuel Loera Fernández. They graciously welcome all visitors—schoolchildren, visiting scholars, neighbors, tourists—to their ranch for the purpose of breathing life into the ancient Oaxaca tradition of cochineal dye, the source of the bright reds in many of the Oaxaca weavings.
Cochineal (cochinilla) is a prized rich scarlet dye, long cultivated in Mexico before the conquest. The Spanish, immediately seeing its export value, expanded production, especially in Oaxaca, where it became a major source of cash for native Oaxacans faced with increasing tribute demands. The rise of the textile industry in England, the Low Countries, France, and Spain further propelled demand for Oaxacan cochineal, renowned as the most brilliant, richest red dye in the world.
The word spread, and, by its peak during the 17th and 18th centuries, Spain’s cochineal trade extended as far as China. Although largely replaced by cheaper synthetic dyes by 1900, cochineal is still locally cultivated in the Valley of Oaxaca.
The actual source of the dye, so intensely scarlet that it is sometimes known as the “blood of the nopal,” is the female of a type of scale insect, Dactylopius coccus, which feeds off a variety of nopal (prickly pear) cactus. Typically, families or village cooperatives own patches of nopal, from which they brush the female beetles during the fall harvest. The beetles are then dried, ground, and boiled in water. The resulting dye suspension is filtered and evaporated leaving pure crimson cochineal crystals, still preferred by many Valley of Oaxaca weavers.
Others besides Señores Dueñas and Fernández believe in cochineal and support its use as a natural dye. Precisely because cochineal is a natural, non-synthetic, product, it’s gaining favor as a food and cosmetic (lipstick) coloring. The small amount of cochineal that the farm produces sells for about $200 per kilogram (compared with silver, at about $100), and requires the processing of about 600 nopal leaves.
They will be happy to show you around their cactus cultivation house and demonstrate how the insects are harvested, and explain their several interesting museum exhibits, which illustrate the history and uses of cochineal.
Get there by bus from the camionera central segunda clase in Oaxaca City, via regional buses Estrella del Valle, Oaxaca Pacifico, or Estrella Roja del Sureste, or more local Choferes del Sur buses.
By car, turn right, southbound, at the small roadside sign Grana Cochineal Tlapanochestli at the southern edge of Santa María Coyotepec village, on Highway 175, 4.7 miles (7.5 km) south of the Oaxaca airport. After a few hundred yards westbound on a dirt road, another sign directs you left to the ranch.
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one of those unnessasary words which come in handy if you run out of real illnesses.
the medical term for the balding of the head
I'm sorry mother, we can't come to the family barbique, Jacks alopecia is very bad right now.
An auto immune disorder in which the white blood cells are mentally damaged and attack one's hair.
Treatments include injecting cortical steriods into one's head, putting said steriods on skin in the form of a cream, and cursing one's blood cells for being so stupid.
Doctor: You have alopecia
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By Maya Bailey, Ph.D. Print Article
Myth: “I’ll believe it when I see it”
Fact: “You’ll see it when you believe it”
The first step in any visualization process is to believe that you can have it.
As an example, let’s consider success in your real estate career. Before beginning to visualize your success, you need to believe that it can happen.
As Henry Ford once says,” Whether you believe you can or you can’t, either way, you are right.”
If you have trouble believing that it can happen, then most likely you are experiencing some self-limiting beliefs that need to be cleared.
Once they are cleared, begin visualizing yourself a year from now doing the following:
· Doing work you love
· Working the ideal number of hours per week you want to work
· Working with your ideal clients, i.e. what characteristics do you want them to have?
· Earning your ideal income (pick a figure that is realistic and optimistic)
Here’s a typical example of what you might come up with: ” I want to earn $300,000 a year, working no more than 40 hours a week, and I want to work with people who are positive decisive and committed.”
Great, now you are crystal clear on your desired outcome.
Next, put yourself inside of this visualization, and feel what it feels like. Take a few minutes where you can be alone, close your eyes and live the visualization, as if it’s happening right now. What does it feel like? The more you breathe the more you are available to feel the positive feelings.
What positive feelings come up for you?
Most people report feelings like: confidence, fulfillment, security, peace, energy, joy, safety and so forth.
Please note that by adding the feelings to this visualization, you are energizing your vision. Without this essential step, your visualization falls flat.
Here’s another helpful hint: picture your visualization, as a moving picture, not a snapshot.
For example, visualize yourself going to the home of a prospective client and giving your listing presentation. Move it forward. See and feel them signing with you.
Imagine finding a buyer easily and effortlessly. Visualize the look on your client’s faces as you present them with a flawless offer.
The final step would be to imagine yourself with the check in your hand, your name on the check and the exact amount.
Here’s the key, imagine your desired outcome as if it had already occurred, with all of your senses involved.
Just to recap:
To make your visualizations powerful and effective, do the following:
1. Believe you can have it
2. Put yourself inside of it and feel it
3. See the visualization as a moving picture, not a snapshot
Follow these steps and watch your visualization become a reality.
Dr. Maya Bailey, Multiple 6 Figure Income Business Coach for Real Estate Professionals, integrates her 20 years of experience as a psychologist with 15 years of expertise in marketing. Her powerful transformational work creates a Success Formula for Real Estate Professionals ready to create a Multiple 6 Figure Income.
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The new school year is well under way and my family is in a groove. First quarter is about to draw to a close, reports cards will come home, and some Fall activates are winding down already with the promise of early Winter sports just a few short weeks away. So how are you doing? Do you feel like you are working hard and a making it work? Or are you doing everything at once and nothing well? Are you having fun? If you answered no to any or all of these questions, I have a few suggestions to help you get back on track and enjoying most every moment!
Files and Record Keeping
Nope, you really won’t need every worksheet or cute picture your child draws. But you will want to keep tests, report cards, conference notes, and special projects. These tell the story of your child’s progress and you never know when that chronology might come in handy for future assessments or accommodations for your child’s greatest success. Easily done with a binder and 4 tabs, simply add items weekly as they come home from school. Click here to watch our tutorial video to show you how.
Live a generally well organized daily life.
Block an organizing window on your personal calendar every week using this time to plan, research and outline logistics for projects on your list. Refer often to that seasonal checklist like the one we offer at www.GOMOMINC.com and include everything from rotating seasonal clothing and décor to tackling fall yard work and home safety tasks like changing batteries in smoke detectors, furnace filters, and more. That way when Saturday arrives, you can stay focused on what you’ve made time for and know that you’ll get more done next time. When tackling organizing projects, remember there is a universal process to sort anything. Just have bins labeled hand me down, consign, donate, or trash and you are on your way from closets to playrooms and more. Click here a tutorial video to show you how.
Be mindful of special events and holidays to come.
After years of trial and error, I’ve come to realize that having an awesome holiday really just boils down to project management. Take a look at your calendar and identify every special event and holiday your family will be involved in. For each event you can create a folder with a list or simply make a list of what’s involved. Are you hosting or attending locally? Are you travelling or staying home? Will you have house guests? Do you need to purchase clothing or costumes, home décor, seasonal decorations, gifts, entertaining supplies, arrange for invitations, or more? I think you get the picture. Then create a timeline for each event to accomplish all the tasks involved. Most everything does well with at least 4 weeks planning, travel will require more as will shipping of gifts. Click here for a tutorial video to get you started now!
Click here to download your free fall checklist!
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Fall Stock Up for Holiday Fun
Last Minute Tips for a Community Yard Sale
Organize Your House with a Fall Checklist
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From the Director:
We offer a developmental, theme-based preschool program for children age two years and seven months through five years and six months. The program is designed to be nurturing, creative, and fun, in a context that honors structure and develops self-discipline. Each of the three levels actively supports and cultivates a child's social, cognitive, physical, emotional and language development, utilizing an array of primarily experential and hands-on educational techniques. In addition, the school offers a curriculum that is unique to Lone Mountain in both approach and degree of sophistication. By the culmination of the three-year program, Lone Mountain students have been exposed, in an age-appropriate manner, to most of the traditional academic disciplines: Art, Music, Science, History, Sociology, Geography, Psychology, World Religions, etc. Our hope is to inspire a life-long fascination with learning and discovery. | <urn:uuid:e01fff75-bcdf-4ee0-82f1-62e631a91624> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.savvysource.com/preschools/ca/san-francisco/lone-mountain-childrens-center | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932674 | 188 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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The last chapter in the "Jitter Saga" has yet to be written. But the penultimate chapter has just been written by Grimm Audio, who have challenged the most sacred concept -the commonly-held notion that internal clock always performs better than external. Digital clocking has been a hot topic among audio engineers in recent years. Someone started the idea that the built-in clocks found in most converters were poor. And it snowballed from there. Reputable companies started selling dedicated system clocks. Before long, the notion that most digital converters needed a better clock became accepted as gospel. Add the fact that there exists a very real need to have a master clock when connecting multiple digital devices, and the market for digital clocks was established. The CC1 is a master clock from Grimm Audio, a company founded by four of The Netherlands' most prominent engineers: Bruno Putzeys, Guido Tent, Peter van Willenswaard, and Eelco Grimm. We tested the CC1 in my mastering setup and with our Pro Tools HD systems at Treelady Studios. At the same time, Bob Katz ran a Grimm CC1 through trials at his Digital Domain studios as well as with a Pro Tools HD rig at Phat Planet Studios in Orlando. Numerous converter brands were used, including those from Digidesign, Crane Song, Benchmark Media, Lynx, Mytek, and TC Electronic (in the System 6000), in the quest to answer the following questions. Does an external clock improve converter performance? Can an external clock degrade converter performance? Are there tools that measure clock jitter effectively? If not, why not? Given an impeccable clock signal, does our gear have well-implemented word-clock inputs that can take advantage of the better clock? And could we confirm or deny our hypothesis in blind testing? Unlike many manufacturers, Grimm can buttress their claims with genuine high-resolution measurements and cogent explanations that don't stretch the laws of physics. Their claim is that there is a window of opportunity to improve a converter's jitter by using an excellent external clock that has very low levels of low-frequency jitter. The external clock enters the converter through its PLL (Phase Locked Loop), which is able to reduce incoming jitter to some extent, but below a certain frequency, it can only mirror the incoming jitter. So the Grimm clock, because of its extremely low levels of low-frequency jitter, can improve the performance of some converters. So let's examine the unit. The CC1 is cosmetically remarkable, being equally suited for the recording studio or audiophile listening room. The outer housing is powder-coated with a coarse adobe-colored finish. The front panel is solid wood (abachi) with the markings artfully burned into the surface. Status is provided by flush-mounted LEDs, which are nearly invisible until the unit is powered. Small stainless steel buttons provide controls for bank and source-rate choices. The rear panel offers connectivity and configurability: XLR ins and outs for AES3 links, word-clock in, and sixteen BNC word-clock outs. The WC outs are divided into two banks: 1-10 and 11-16. By the way, the Grimm has many unique features, including one that allows you to reclock the signal going into the AES input of a DAC using the Grimm. The CC1 is capable of driving two different sample rates simultaneously, provided they are of the same multiple. For example, I was able to pitch source mixes at 88.2 kHz from a Lynx AES16 and capture them at 44.1 kHz on an RME AES-32 while keeping my entire system slaved to the CC1. You could not, for instance, run 96k and 44.1k at the same time, as they are not multiples of the same whole number (e.g., 96k being double 48k). It's one thing to have measurements, but are they important to normal human ears? To try to settle the controversy, both authors set up tests using the CC1 in combination with many commercially available converters. Both ADCs and DACs are potentially subject to degradation or improvement when fed external clock, so it was important to isolate which side of the stream was under test. Additionally, you must know if the manufacturer uses an integrated or independent clocking approach. What does that mean? With integrated units from Mytek and Digidesign, the master clock drives the ADC and DAC simultaneously. But in the Cranesong HEDD 192, the DAC is independent. Thus, the HEDD's DAC is not affected by its wordclock input. All the other integrated units in this review sync to a single master clock, so you can generalize that reported degradations or improvements affect both ADC and DAC. The moral is, "Never assume; know thy system architecture". Bob's blind testing focused on the DAC section of the Digidesign unit, but was also confirmed by measurements and listening that its ADC behaved similarly. Meanwhile, Garrett's testing focused on the ADC. BK: We conducted a blind test at Phat Planet with 8 listeners, 10 trials each -a total of 80 trials. Chief engineer Aaron Gandia and I carefully chose the source material, trained the listeners, and presented the comparisons in a way that made it as easy as possible to detect the differences. Nevertheless, a rigorous blind test is extremely hard to make, especially with such subtle sonic differences; while I took the test I found that if I lost concentration for even a moment, I could easily make a mistake. While having more trials increases statistical accuracy, ironically it potentially decreases accuracy because the listeners become fatigued. It's amazing that 60% of the total trials were correct; these listeners correctly identified and preferred the sound of the Grimm clock compared to internal clock on a Pro Tools HD 192 I/O interface. A 60% score from 80 trials means that the odds of getting this result by chance alone are only 2.7%, so we should regard this listening test as very indicative that the Grimm clock makes the 192 I/O sound better. That's what I heard. Listener comments on the review sheets include: "I heard more clarity with the Grimm, much more open sound and more depth." "Internal clock: graininess in the upper mids. Low end, high end, and stereo image were better with Grimm." "Grimm did seem to have more dynamic range. Stereo image is bigger with Grimm." GH: From our Pro Tools tests at Treelady, we focused on the AD side of things. We recorded sources through a Lynx Aurora 16-VT and a Digidesign 96 I/O on internal clock and also slaved to the CC1. Playback was done on the Crane Song Avocet to remove the DA from the equation. We agreed that the Grimm CC1 improved the sound of our stock Digidesign 96 I/O units. Comments included a greater sense of depth, cleaner midrange, and smoother highs. Most notable was a tighter bass response. We were split with the Grimm CC1 paired with the Lynx Aurora 16-VT. Most of us thought the low mids and bass were improved with the Grimm at the expense of a more aggressive, even spitty, top end. In that trade off, we felt the Lynx would sound better using its internal clock. BK: Many converters' performance degrades when placed on external clock. In my measurements and listening tests, I found that the Mytek 8x192 definitely performs better on internal clock, as does the HEDD 192, so if you own one of these, it should always be the master clock in your studio. However, according to Grimm, the ubiquitous Digidesign 192 I/O converter performs better on external clock, if a superior external clock is used. GH: So how could an external clock degrade the performance of some units? We found some reasons. First, the design of the external clock could be faulty. It is possible to improve the frequencies in some areas while increasing distortion in others. Second, it may not be the clock's fault at all. Some converters have such noisy WC inputs that it doesn't matter if you have a space clock, atomic clock, or the Finger of God; as soon as the clean clock hits the PLL, noise and distortion are added, polluting the signal. Kind of like pouring bottled water into a toilet bowl and giving your dinner guests a ladle if they're thirsty. GH: So what did we learn? First, there is a lot of misinformation circulating about external clocks. Whether that's intentional or accidental doesn't really matter; what's important is that audio engineers should educate themselves. (Good sources include white papers from companies like TC Electronic and Grimm; peer-reviewed journals; and books such as Mastering Audio by Bob Katz. Bad sources include web forums and advertisements.) The more we understand the tools of our trade, the better the recordings we can make. Second, using an external clock does not categorically improve every converter. In fact, performance can actually degrade in some units. Finally, if you need a house or master clock, realize that not all timepieces are created equally. In this regard, the Grimm CC1 has no peer. With dual frequency banks, ease of use, and AES reclocking abilities, the CC1 represents the most advanced state-of-the PCM clocking art. BK: I think the last chapter in the "Jitter Saga" will only be written if and when a manufacturer manages to make a good-sounding, affordable converter that is audibly jitter-immune. There are many converters currently on the market which claim to be jitter-immune, but to my ears, exhibit slight, audible differences when playing otherwise data-identical sources -for example, comparing the sound of a converter with an AES3 input which produces different sound when fed from the DAW than from the CD player (with identical data). 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NATIONAL Parks and Wildlife Service rangers believe they have given visiting migrating birds the best chance at survival.
Ranger Andrew Marshall, said they had conducted an dedicated baiting program to rid Pelican Island of a pesky, rogue fox.
He said at this time of year the island can play host to up to 25 different species of migrating birds – some which can travel from as far as China and Korea.
“For decades this has been one of the most important nesting sites for migrating birds,” he said.
“The slightest disturbance of these birds can cause major problems for them.
“They don’t retain their energy too well and if they keep getting harassed they may not have enough energy to get to their destination when they leave again.”
For days rangers have been visiting the island laying food in certain areas to attract the fox.
On Monday afternoon 1080 poison was added to the sausage meat-like baits and buried a few centimetres underground.
Yesterday morning a quick search of the area found fox prints in the sand which made a distinct trail between the two toxic baits.
“This has been a good outcome,” Mr Marshall said.
“This means these birds can probably go undisturbed for weeks or even months before another fox manages to find its way onto the island,” he said.
“It’s not impossible with some of these narrower channels that they can swim across.”
Mr Marshall admitted the baiting can at times be met with criticism but said the positives far outweigh the negatives.
“The poison is metabolic – in other words it slows down the metabolism until the animal just goes to sleep,” he said.
“It’s important to protect the birds. The health of the estuary depends on the health of these birds.”
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February 9, 2004
Bruce Walker walked across the hall from the immune response session (featuring four Walker-linked studies) to present an update on his highly visible and often-presented small study of patients treated during primary infection who subsequently underwent several sequential treatment interruptions (STIs). The initial results from the study (3/8 maintained <5,000 copies HIV RNA after the first STI and 5/8 maintained <5,000 copies/mL after the second STI) suggested that very early antiretroviral therapy during primary infection, followed by a series of brief treatment interruptions, could lead to improved immune control of HIV off therapy. Those results have stimulated the practice of treating primary infection and spawned enthusiasm that immunologic interventions (such as therapeutic vaccination) could also be utilized in chronic infection.
Dr. Walker then presented the longitudinal data for a total of 14 patients (all had acute retroviral syndrome) followed for an average of 5.3 years including for up to 3 years after the last STI. Only 1/14 of the patients has maintained control of viremia (defined as <5,000 copies RNA/mL). The second and third STI failed more quickly, with the fourth STI providing no observable benefit.
The rate of CD4 count loss when antiretroviral therapy was stopped was quite high and it was not much different from the CD4 loss observed when stopping antiretroviral therapy in the setting of chronic infection. Dr. Walker then discussed what factors could be identified that could predict the control of viremia. They had looked at HLA type, CCR5 status, GBV-C infection, time of treatment since onset of antiretroviral syndrome (ARS) symptoms, viral load at seroconversion, and anti-HIV immunity from CD4+ or CD8+ T-cells. None of those factors predicted control of viral rebound.
Particularly disappointing was the observation that, although anti-HIV immunity appeared to be enhanced with the STIs, this did not translate into observable clinical benefit. These results were interpreted to indicate that durable maintenance of low-level viremia may be difficult to achieve. The CD4 declines were substantial with immune escape at even low viral loads sufficient to be a problem.
In a question to Dr. Walker, Joe Eron made the comment that the window to perhaps protect anti-HIV immunity during primary infection may be vanishingly short. Another questioner pointed out that the definition of failure (confirmed viral load >5,000 copies/mL or one viral load >50,000) made it difficult to perhaps see some attenuation in the true magnitude of viral rebound. Although Dr. Walker stated that randomized clinical trials of early treatment and immune interventions are needed, the enthusiasm about the potential for this to achieve much has waned.
In all, the different presentations on acute infection suggested that we can do much better in finding and preventing recent infections. Although discussed a lot, superinfections still seem to be relatively unusual but are a growing problem. And it's still unclear how helpful treatment during acute infection is.
Abstract: Limited Durability of Immune Control Following Treated Acute HIV Infection (Oral 24)
Authored by: D. Kaufmann, M. Lichterfeld, M. Altfeld, T. Allen, M. Johnston, P. Lee, B. Wagner, E. Kalife, D. Strick, E. Rosenberg, B. D. Walker
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Pankaj Agarwal and David J. States
Over 3.6 million bases of DNA sequence from chromosome III of the C. eleganshave been determined. The availability of this extended region of contiguous sequence has allowed us to analyze the nature and prevalence of repetitive sequences in the genome of a eukaryotic organism with a high gene density. We have assembled a Repeat Pattern Toolkit (RPT) to analyze the patterns of repeats occurring in DNA. The tools include identifying significant local alignments (utilizing both two-way and three-way alignments), dividing the set of alignments into connected components (signifying repeat families), computing evolutionary distance between repeat fanfily members, constructing minimum spanning trees from the connected components, and visualizing the evolution of the repeat families. Over 7000 families of repetitive sequences were identified. The size of the families ranged from isolated pairs to over 1600 segments of similar sequence. Approximately 12.3% of the analyzed sequence participates in a repeat element. | <urn:uuid:64f1eb37-14ac-4e26-9ced-0d1056f6e6b5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aaai.org/Library/ISMB/1994/ismb94-001.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910861 | 200 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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Veterans, military service members, advocate and federal officials will gather on Capitol Hill Wednesday to mark the third annual National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day.
The legislation that created the annual PTSD awareness day was introduced by Sen. Kent Conrad, (D-North Dakota) who will deliver keynote remarks. Other speakers will include Surgeon General of the Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Green.
Wednesday’s event, called “Visible Honor for Invisible Wounds,” was organized by the nonprofits Honor for ALL and the Code of Support Foundation.
“We want all Americans to understand the true nature of PTSD to help remove the stigma that still surrounds this type of injury,” said Thomas Mahany, president of Honor for ALL.
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Humans have long wondered whether life exists beyond our home planet. In recent years, a host of new technologies are turning speculation into science. We now have the ability to discern the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet so distant we can't even see it, to detect the presence of dozens of new planets circling stars similar to our own sun, and have discovered life in environments on Earth so extreme it's not unreasonable to imagine that microbes -- or more-- may flourish elsewhere in the Universe. To explore this frontier, a new hybrid field called Astrobiology, a combination of astronomy and biology, has sprung up. Given the ability of astronomers to invent ever greater technologies and the recent findings by biologists that life can exist in extraordinarily hostile environments without sunlight, water and oxygen, there's a whole new ballgame out there.
Some stars die benignly like our own sun.
-- Shri Kulkarni, Astronomer
Not benign to us.
-- Robert L. Kuhn, Host
Batter up. Mars then Europa. Astronomer/planetary geologist Bruce Murray has worked on missionsto Mars since before his tenure as head of Caltech's JPL. If anyone wants to get there, it's Murray. But as for drilling for life on Mars, he's skeptical. "The surface of Mars is self-sterilizing. That means it had to either evolve or be subterranean life like in the groundwater of the Earth." Astrophysicist and director of New York's Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson says he doesn't care how big our shovel will have to be to find it, if that's what we need technology to do, we'll invent it. Shri Kulkarni, who observed and correctly assessed what turned out to be the first known pulsar, fields what may be the key homerun, "we now know that star formation is accompanied by planet formation."
"Are the stars out tonight?" Who cares if it's cloudy or bright. Now we know that not only are they there, so are their planets. Multiply the stars times the planets they have all formed? Astronomy is divided into those who say just on statistics alone, there has to be life, and those who refute it by saying that those statistics don't include a myriad of factors inhibiting the development of life, and that we are a chance accident. Will we ever know that we are not alone… or very alone?
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Shri Kulkarni Ph.D.
Planetary Astronomer, Caltech
Shri Kulkarni on the meaning of discovering life elsewhere and the Hubble Telescope.
Bruce Murray Ph.D.
Planetary Astronomer/Geologist, Caltech
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Pools for schools
This week, the Clark County School Board is getting ready to spend $2 million of taxpayer money to help the City of Henderson build a new swimming pool.
So, where is the district getting the money?
From the taxpayer-approved 1998 Capital Improvement Bond. That’s right, 10 years and $4.9 billion later, CCSD is trading in schools for pools. But it’s not just pools. In January, the school board also approved putting aside another $5 million to help the City of Las Vegas build the Smith Performing Arts Center.
Sure, the district is getting the use of some swim lanes for school swim teams. But is money earmarked to build new schools the right funds to tap for that? How does using bond money to pay for athletic expenses—swim lanes for swim teams are athletic expenses—help the students sitting in portables or attending year-round schedules?
In 1998, voters seeking to ward off overcrowding, year-round schedules and double sessions approved a bond to build new schools and modernize old ones. Today, taxpayers will still be carrying tax obligations for repayment on that $4.9 billion until the year 2028. CCSD is still overcrowded, on year-round tracks and claiming a need for yet another new capital improvement bond to build more schools.
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It is common to hear proponents of the new green energy economy talk about a huge potential for efficiency gains to reduce demand for energy. New efficiency standards for appliances, cars, and just about everything else will magically allow our economy to grow without growing our energy consumption.
Mr. Wizard, meet Mr. Jevons. The Jevons paradox, sometimes known as the rebound effect, is the entirely predictable result of genuinely improving efficiency: when you lower costs of something, people consume more. Jevons observed that more efficient ways of consuming coal led to increased coal consumption. Others have observed that the 1970s fuel-economy standards led to increased driving.
Now we see the Jevons paradox as it relates to the new green vehicles that governments are pushing with lavish subsidies, tax credits, and more. As blogger Zach Bowman points out at AutoBlogGreen,
Sweden seems to be experiencing what experts call a backfire effect from the company’s rash of green car sales. Swedish car buyers have been snapping up clean diesel and ethanol vehicles in droves thanks to sizable government incentives, but, according to reports, the nation has actually seen its emissions from the transportation sector increase by an impressive 100,000 tons. What happened?
According to statistics from the Swedish Transportation Agency, average emissions from new cars in the country decreased from 164 to 151 grams of CO2 per kilometer driven, and Swedish drivers used their green cars to cover more territory than ever before. Thanks in part to better fuel economy and the idea that a green vehicle has a slimmer impact on the environment, the overall result is more fuel burned, more emissions spewed.
Environmentalists would have us believe that somehow, the Jevons paradox doesn’t apply to them. Nothing could be further from the truth: as the guys over at the Breakthrough Institute point out, “There is a large expert consensus and strong evidence that below-cost energy efficiency measures drive a rebound in energy consumption that erodes much and in some cases all of the expected energy savings.” | <urn:uuid:6a414723-95f6-4840-8b76-51bb1791d362> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aei-ideas.org/2011/03/the-paradox-of-efficiency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959181 | 417 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Preventing cervical cancer in Peru
Cervical cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths in Peruvian women 15 to 64 years old. Peru has a very high rate of cervical cancer compared with other countries in the world. The majority of Peruvian women with cervical cancer are diagnosed at advanced stages when treatment options are limited and survival rates poor.
There are many reasons for Peru’s extremely high rate of cervical cancer. Although the Papanicolaou (Pap) test can detect pre-cancerous disease, few women can afford to get one. Laboratories are hindered by absent quality control and uniform standards, lack of properly trained personnel and inadequate materials and supplies. Because of a lack of properly trained providers, women frequently receive overly aggressive treatment of precancerous disease (total hysterectomy) which results in unnecessary morbidity. CerviCusco has the resources, personnel and expertise to save lives from this universally preventable cancer. | <urn:uuid:84261498-ea4d-4d91-a8ac-1f6311c21484> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cervicusco.org/english/cervical-cancer-peru.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946575 | 196 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Life insurance can help when you need education loans
Permanent life insurance can be one way to help pay for an education.
There will probably come a time in your life when you need a loan for school—whether your child’s, grandchild’s or even continuing education for yourself. Although you can go through the usual channels to get one—banks/lenders, your 401(k), credit cards—there is another option. You buy a life insurance for valuable death benefit. Permanent life insurance products, such as whole life and universal life offer cash value accumulation in addition to their financial protection. Over the long term, the cash value accumulation may be significant enough to help you. And the interest rates on these policy loans may be lower than a bank loan. Be aware, however, that loans reduce a policy’s death benefit and cash value.
- FINAID's Web site lists details on loans for graduate, business, law, or medical schools.
- The Student Guide is the most comprehensive resource on student financial aid from the U.S. Department of Education. Grants, loans, and work-study are the three major forms of student financial aid available through the Department's Student Financial Assistance office. Updated yearly.
- The College Board's "bigfuture" Web site has lots of general loan information. Talk to one of our agents to learn more about how policy loans can help you.
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People of Northwest Public Radio
Mon February 13, 2012
Venezuela's Chávez Gets Rival In Presidential Race
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will face a young state governor in the October presidential election. Henrique Capriles, 39, emerged victorious this weekend after the opposition held its primary elections.
The Guardian reports that Capriles won in a landslide. The paper adds:
"The governor of Miranda state, which includes most of the capital, Caracas, won more than 62% of the vote and was immediately endorsed by the defeated candidates, who vowed to make him the next president. Jubilant supporters honked car horns, chanted 'unity' and waved yellow flags, the colour of Capriles's party, Primera Justicia.
"'This is not the hour of the left or the right but the hour of Venezuela, of all Venezuelans,' he told a victory rally, repeating a non-confrontational, ideology-free theme aimed at the centre, a strategy partly modelled on Brazil's ruling party.
"'This project,' he said, referring to Chávez's so-called socialist revolution, 'belongs in the past.' He called Venezuela a country in crisis, citing economic and social problems and political polarisation."
Chávez has been in power for 13 years. The Miami Herald reports that a fractured opposition has helped him stay in power. But this time around, the opposition is vowing to unite behind one candidate.
Reuters reports Capriles' opposition quickly endorsed him and the turnout was better-than-expected at nearly 3 million.
Reuters also adds a bit of background on who Capriles is:
"The grandson of Polish fugitives from Nazi persecution, Capriles says he admires Brazil's 'modern left' economic model, which has helped pull tens of millions of people out of poverty through a mix of state spending and respect for private enterprise.
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Edited by David Shatz, OU Press, $45
This is an edited collection of sermons delivered over a 50-year period by Rabbi Norman Lamm, Chancellor of Yeshiva University and a well-known voice of modern Orthodoxy. It consists of some 55 essays on the festival cycle from Rosh Hashanah to Tishah b'Av, as well as a number of thoughtful pieces on Yom Ha'atzmaut.
They reflect Rabbi Lamm's eloquence and erudition, blending a huge array of Torah sources with contemporary cultural and political references. While in some cases quite chatty, they are also highly-structured homiletical masterpieces, packed with pithy and challenging observations.
I was struck by his ability to extract powerful lessons from phenomena that are often overlooked. His piece on the prohibition of wearing leather shoes on Yom Kippur illustrates this: he attributes it to the affirmation of all life on the holiest of days and the realisation that "we must not trample the sensitivities of others underfoot".
Other examples include fascinating essays on the difference between "haste" and "hurry" - rushing towards life or away from it (Pesach); the limits of practicality and the seminal role of unsophisticated visionaries in bringing Jewish history to fruition (Yom Yerushalayim); Jewish identity and the centrality of Torah literacy (Shavuot).
For the pulpit rabbi, the collection is a terrific goldmine of ideas; for the layperson, a sophisticated companion for every festival. Highly recommended, if rather expensive. | <urn:uuid:7c513ca3-7262-4e4c-9ffd-c753d032c9d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thejc.com/print/50295 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927586 | 333 | 1.953125 | 2 |
A State Of Unrest
- Of 409 Maoist killings in 2012 (296 civilians, 113 securitymen), Jharkhand accounted for 160
- This was way above 107 in Chhattisgarh, 45 in Orissa, 43 in Bihar, 41 in Maharashtra or 13 in AP
- Not just mainline CPI (Maoist) but splinter groups are in overdrive
- Proximity to other Maoist-affected states, tribal exploitation, political instability make the state fertile ground for Maoist recruitment and activity.
No sooner had the Union home ministry identified Jharkhand as the state worst affected by left-wing extremism in 2012 than Maoists gunned down 11 policemen in the Katiya forest of Latehar district. It was almost as if the January 7 massacre of 10 CRPF and one Jharkhand Jaguar jawan was expressly meant to underscore the government’s admission of the sharp ascendancy in the trajectory of Maoist violence in the mineral-rich state.
The clouds of war—civil war to be precise—indeed hang low over Jhar–khand. One needn’t venture deep into the countryside; the siege within is evident virtually at the doorsteps of urban zones like Ranchi, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Daltonganj, Chaibasa, Gomoh and Giridih. On a road journey through these areas, Outlook witnessed surreal scenes straight out of a war movie: searchlights revolving menacingly atop fortified CRPF camps; monstrously ugly mine-protected vehicles or MPVs, designed to coolly withstand a 21-kilo (TNT) blast; sniffer dogs straining at the leash; helicopters ready for takeoff at the bark of a command, and boots pounding the ground like there’s no tomorrow.
Indeed, Jharkhand witnessed more killings by Maoists last year than even Chhattisgarh, whose forested Bastar region is regarded as the epicentre of left-wing extremism in India. Out of 409 Maoist killings in 2012 (296 civilian and 113 security personnel), Jharkhand accounted for as many as 160; ahead of Chhattisgarh (107), Orissa (45), Bihar (43), Maharashtra (41) and Andhra Pradesh (13) by a huge margin.
The unacceptably high death toll in Jharkhand’s killing fields last year was capped, as 2013 dawned, by the Katiya bloodbath—unlikely to be forgotten in a hurry after Maoists confessed to planting explosives in the belly of a slain jawan to maximise casualties. And on its heels came a landmine blast in Bokaro’s Jhumra Hills, which left a dozen CRPF jawans severely wounded during combing operations. All this is igniting fears in the security establishment that Jharkhand, along with Bihar’s contiguous Gaya and Aurangabad districts, will upstage the iconic Abujmarh as the bloodiest and biggest theatre of red revolt against New Delhi.
Photograph by Rajesh Kumar
But why is left-wing extremism in full bloom in this tribal state? Telesphore Toppo, the 73-year-old Archbishop of Ranchi and obviously a man of peace, has a blunt explanation: “Jharkhand was created to protect the interests of tribals. But political parties from the word go started exploiting the very tribals whose cause they were supposed to espouse. When Maoists first sneaked into Jharkhand, conditions were ideal for sowing the seeds of rebellion. The seeds they scattered flowered in no time because the ground was fertile. Even today there is no justice in Jharkhand although the state’s coffers are overflowing. And there can’t be peace without justice. Tribal men go to Punjab or Haryana in droves to toil in brick kilns, while the women slog as domestic help in Delhi. Those who are left behind join the Maoists.”
According to Fr Toppo, the tribals—comprising 28 per cent of Jharkhand’s population—are easy pickings for Maoist recruiters not only because of their poverty and backwardness but also due to the excesses committed by security forces. He recalled the killing of a tribal girl by CRPF during Operation Green Hunt in 2010. The victim’s legs and hands were tied to a bamboo pole as though she was not a human being but an animal that had been hunted down. Such barbarism and savagery fuel tribal rage, intensifying the armed conflict between the Maoists and the state.
“Out of 24 districts,” says Jharkhand director-general of police Gouri Shankar Rath, “21 are Maoist-affected today; earlier Maoists were active only in 18 districts.” He is packing his bags for a retired life, but could well be re-employed because he is perceived as a battle-hardened warrior against left-wing extremism. “I have been battling Maoists for 12 years,” he goes on to say. “Forty per cent of my police force is deployed against them. But Maoism hasn’t lost its appeal; in fact, it’s growing dangerously. Now, statistically, we are the worst-affected state.” This is a pity, because, “barring Maoism, on other fronts—caste, communal, agrarian and educational—we are more peaceful than other states.”
Leafing through a classified report, Rath reels off the names of Maoist groups—besides the mainline Communist Party of India (Maoist)—that are on the rampage across Jharkhand: the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI), Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), Tritya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC), Shashtra People’s Morcha (SPM), Sangharsh Jan Mukti Morcha (SJMM) and Jharkhand Prastuti Committee (JPC). “In 2011, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) was responsible for 59 per cent of the violence. Last year, it dipped to 44 per cent. But splinter groups, particularly PLFI and TSPC, went into overdrive in 2012, making Jharkhand the worst-affected state in the whole country.”
Rath is not finished yet. “It’s our misfortune,” he says, “that we’re surrounded by Maoist-affected states—Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, and beyond, Andhra—giving Maoists strategic depth. Another major handicap is our dense forests. Of course, Maoism is no ordinary law and order problem. It’s tied to governance and development—or rather the lack of it! We are saddled with widespread displacement due to mining activities and industrialisation, creating favourable conditions for left-wing extremism to flourish. And to top it all, Jharkhand is politically so unstable; no government here has lasted for five years; there have been eight CMs in 12 years and President’s rule has been clamped on it thrice. So there we are.”
As Jharkhand entered its third bout of President’s rule in January, New Delhi appointed two bureaucrats to advise Governor Syed Ahmed. The choice of advisors—former home secretary Madhukar Gupta and ex-CRPF DG K. Vijay Kumar (see interview)— clearly show that fighting Maoists is a top priority. Kumar has been given charge of the home department; he is now virtually the home minister of Jharkhand. He has at his command 78 companies of CRPF and 100 companies of state police to take the battle into the “enemy” camp. The “enemy” is the Communist Party of India (Maoist)’s Bihar-Jharkhand-North Chhattisgarh regional committee which is believed to deploy no less than 1,000 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) in dalams, or armed squad formations, in Jharkhand.
The subtext, though, is more intriguing. There are divisions in both camps, to put it mildly. The Maoists are split into several groups because of two primary reasons—caste and cash. They fight pitched battles over extortion rights, collection of levies and area domination; the conflict leaves many ultras dead. S.N. Pradhan, the crafty IG (operations), admits taking full advantage of Maoist disunity at every step.
Deadly tread Security personnel carry a cop injured in a landmine blast in Bariganwa
Significantly, this finds an echo on the other side: there is a lot of bad blood between the central security forces and the state police. A senior CRPF officer told Outlook: “Instead of leading us, the state police expects us to do everything, from planning to execution. But after we plan an operation and tell the state police to accompany us, they promptly report sick. They expect us to literally carry them on our shoulders. Are they babes in the woods? No. They are a bunch of shirkers who shed crocodile tears when our boys die in encounters.” Central forces also grudge the huge budgets state police have for modernisation; they criticise the “insurgency industry” Maoism has spawned, hinting at a nexus between the police top brass and suppliers. It’s a case of sour grapes, insist Jharkhand police officers, shrugging off accusations.
Of course, while Maoists truly are in an advantageous position in today’s Jharkhand for a variety of reasons, they are no angels either. No doubt there are dedicated ideologues at the top fighting for the oppressed and the downtrodden with all their might. But at the middle and lower levels there are criminals galore masquerading as Maoists. They have no regard for the human rights of either villagers or security personnel. Senior leaders do try to rectify recalcitrant cadres. Classes are held to inculcate comradely values. But very few undergo a change of heart. There are desertions when discipline is enforced. There are plenty of rotten apples even in the Communist Party of India (Maoist) basket but the splinter groups Rath lists are, by all accounts—including confessions of arrested goons—nothing but extortion rackets run by brandishing weapons snatched from police armouries or dead law-enforcers.
Highly-placed officials admit that Jharkhand is witnessing triangular and even quadrangular contests for supremacy. In the fray are state forces, mainline Maoists, breakaway Maoists and outright criminal groups. Sometimes it’s difficult to fathom who is fighting whom. Security forces have an advantage in any multi-cornered contest while villagers are usually at the receiving end. There is large-scale displacement of the poor because of mining and hydroelectric projects. Displacement is accompanied by police repression. State oppression is an open invitation to Maoists to feather their own nest. New projects anyway entail new roads and infrastructure. Pitched battles are fought for bagging contracts. Maoist and non-Maoist forces extort money from contractors; it’s an increasingly violent free-for-all under the shadow of industrialisation, urbanisation and criminalisation.
Alex Ekka, director of Ranchi’s Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), told Outlook that fanning Maoism are the MoUs being signed by the government with MNCs. “The state is so servile to big business houses in the era of globalisation that it’s giving MNCs land belonging to tribals. When tribals resist land-grabbing, paramilitary forces are sent to silence protesters. The security forces invariably behave like an occupation army which gives Maoists a golden opportunity to come forward as saviours of the oppressed. In reality, the much-touted Saranda Action Plan (SAP) is a ploy to remove hurdles in the path of foreign and Indian companies eyeing the iron ore-rich region. Maoism is bound to flourish when the state tramples upon the interests of indigenous tribespeople.”
The bomb Maoists planted in the belly of the dead CRPF jawan—which they admitted to doing in a four-page Hindi press release—was not debated as vociferously in the electronic or print media as it should have been because both time and space were hijacked by the LoC beheadings. But a civil rights campaigner who for some strange reason prefers anonymity offered a very original argument in favour of the belly bomb. He said it’s as innovative as ramming planes into the World Trade Center. Just as the wtc attacks were necessitated by America’s crimes against innocents abroad, the belly bomb, he argued, was retribution for the reign of terror unleashed by security forces on Indian soil.
By S.N.M. Abdi in Jharkhand
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WDYTYA Vanessa Williams Review
The second season of Who Do You Think You Are (WDYTYA) aired tonight starring Vanessa Williams. Although I thoroughly enjoyed last season, I really liked the format this year. They did not recap after commercials as they did last year, but continued from one ancestor’s story to another. It kept me interested and feeling quite emotional as Vanessa learned of her family’s heritage.
Her father was a teacher, and she discovered her ancestor, William Feilds was an African American teacher in Tennessee not too many years after the Civil War, when most blacks were punished for even learning to read or write. This meant a lot to her. William Feilds was also elected to the Tennessee Legislature in 1878; during his term he stressed the importance of children attending school. William Field’s son, Cyrus W. Fields graduated LeMoyne- Owen College in Memphis the year that William died. William’s wife, Elizabeth Feilds (same last name), died a few years later in 1914 at the age of 55. They were both buried at Tyler Chapel Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.
More on William A. Feilds and his life can be found here!
I was excited that Vanessa was given two pictures of her ancestors. I get so excited to find pictures of my ancestors, so I can just imagine how she felt. But, more so to get one of her earliest ancestor that had been born a slave. Another moment that stood out for me is when she viewed the document of her great great grandfather, David Carl, and it asked if he were a slave. Instead of the typical “No”, her ancestor wrote, “Never.” He had been born a free man. She was given a picture of him in his Union uniform.
Vanessa said how much she wished her father could have known all the family ancestry she had learned. It really struck home on how important it is to share with our families the history we have learned. It is also important to take advantage of gaining family information and documents when the moment arises. We do not know when those chances will occur again and if our loved ones will be around to hear about it.
After the show aired, Thomas MacEntee, founder of GeneaBloggers and High-Definition Genealogy, hosted a GeneaBloggers Radio segment to discuss the show WDYTYA featuring Vanessa Williams and other topics that came up. Viewers were urged to call in; the first call in was J. Mark Lowe from Tennessee and many other genealogist were on hand either calling in or participating in the chat room. It was a great night for those interested in Family History.
I look forward to next Friday evening when Tim McGraw will have his ancestor’s researched. If tonight's show is any indication of future episodes, I will predict that the show will have another quite successful season!
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Born: July 24, 1953 Primary Instrument: Vocal
Ceasar Michael Elloie
Ceasar Elloie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a culture where music is very likely the first sound a child entering his formative years would easily understand. Ceasar was no exception. Being the offspring of a mother who regularly attended services at area Baptist churches, Ceasar and his siblings were always in tow. It is this exposure to gospel music that contributed to the embedding of a spirit in Ceasar’s soul that is now expressed through song. Also noted, this same mother was often regarded as a clone of the renowned Queen of Soul, Ms. Aretha Franklin. So, combining the spiritual nature of his upbringing and the powerful singing voice of his mother; hence, we have Mr. Ceasar Michael Elloie.
Ceasar came of age in a family home where music was a constant, either on the radio, the television or the Hi Fidelity stereo. There were never-ending sounds from the likes of Johnny Mathis, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Nancy Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, or Otis Redding, to name a few. Exposure on this level was instrumental in Ceasar’s musical growth, and it was evident when at the age of 14, he was invited to join a band that showcased their talents around town in various settings which included private functions. Continuing to hone his skills, Ceasar would entertain his peers by breaking out in rhyme, or singing chants during the many school bus rides to area football games during his junior high years. Some of the favorites were Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me, Tipatina, ‘Lil Rider, Hey Pockyway and Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come”.
After leaving high school, having sang in the school’s choir, and held the lead singer position in a popular funk band, Ceasar entered his freshman year at Southern University in New Orleans, where he became a member of the Jazz Big Band under the direction of Dr. Edward “Kid” Jordan.
At Southern, he was given his first real lesson in professional studio recording. Dr. Jordan made arrangements with a recording studio that allowed his students to come in and actually create industry grade recordings. It was there that Ceasar recorded and printed his first 45 record entitled, “I Don’t Know”, with a flip side “Who Stole the Funk”. In 1983, Ceasar distributed 400 copies to individuals from around the world while on a two month singing engagement in Tokyo, Japan.
More than 20 years later, calls are being received from record collectors requesting original copies of this unit. Music auction sites such as popsike.com, eBay, and collector’s frenzy recently accepted bids on this rare unit for as much as $164.00 each.
Following Ceasar’s stint in Tokyo, where after one noted performance, he was honored by members of the United States Embassy with a standing ovation for his masterful rendition of Al Jarreau’s “Black and Blues”, he took to the stage in Taipei, Taiwan. Performances in Taipei included shows at Brown Sugar and T I, two of the city’s premier nightclubs, as well as appearances on live television and in concert venues. Upon his return home, Ceasar resumed his employment with the City of New Orleans as a Steam Plant Engineer. Ceasar notes that he is extremely proud to have been a part of the team of engineers credited with removing water from the streets of the city, in record time, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Though grateful to work in a company that afforded him the privilege of taking extended leaves in pursuit of his musical career, Ceasar’s return is marked by his desire to ensure a stable and secure lifestyle for the first loves of his life, his two beautiful daughters.
With music still being a driving force in his heart, Ceasar soon re-emerged, performing around town with local veterans of the business including James Rivers, B. J. Crosby, and the now late Blues Queen of New Orleans, Ms. Marva Wright.
In 2010, Ceasar decided it was time to produce his first complete CD project. After assembling some to New Orleans’ finest musicians to be part of this venture, “New Orleans to Paris” was soon a finished work and was released on Ceasar’s record label, “Number Three Turbine Records”.
Being his first major production, cover songs were chosen because they are recognized as classics, and listeners are already familiar with them. Incorporating his voice and style with these tunes made it easy for the listener to embrace the smooth and silky sound that is Ceasar. Pleased with the quality of workmanship in this CD, Ceasar has deemed this project to be the signature of his career.
Today, Ceasar is preparing for his second full release which will consist of original material. It is anticipated that this one will be far better, or at least as good, as its 2010 predecessor.
Awards:Armstrong Family Services Award for Continued Dedication and participation in their fund raising efforts.
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SRUC’s Riverside Students Share Barony Forestry Expertise
Published Wednesday, 31st October 2012
A group of third year Countryside Management Students from SRUC’s Riverside campus in Ayr visited the Forestry Commission site at Greskine (west of Moffat).
Barony Forestry Training instructors were delivering the third of this year’s successful programme of industry training courses.
Barony Forestry Training delivers a range of commercial short courses on forestry, arboriculture and forest machine operations. On this occasion they were running the third in a series of intensive Forest Machine Operations courses, commissioned by the UK Forest Products Association and funded by the SRDP Skills Development Scheme. There are supported by in-kind contributions of harvesters and forwarders from Commercial Partners John Deere and the Forestry Commission. Instructors include SRUC’s Barony Campus staff and external contractors.
The SRUC student visit came about because one of the industry trainees, David Johnson, had previously completed a Countryside Management Degree at Ayr. The group were led by lecturer Ian Cornforth. Their course is designed to provide employment opportunities for countryside rangers, woodland managers and biodiversity and access officers for SNH, Local Authorities and National Parks.
Following the links with Barony Ian Cornforth said;
“It was a really great visit for all the students who were very impressed with instructor Paul Fotheringham and his wide range of skills. I will definitely be looking to repeat the trip in future years as it really ties together a great many strands of the advanced woodland management module that this particular group of students were taking as part of their Honours year in Countryside Management”.
The Countryside Management course is designed with exit points at HNC, HND, General and Honours degrees. In September 2012 a distance learning Masters option in Countryside Management was launched.
Barony Forest Training has run three eight-week courses in 2012, each providing comprehensive training in harvester and forwarder operations for four candidates. The courses help fill a market-failure skills gap identified by the UKFPA, and have received consistent ministerial support since they first ran in 2007. They enhance and improve the skills of existing forestry workers by providing training and certified assessment experience in mechanised timber harvesting operations.
Photograph: Ian Cornforth and the Ayr students don’t let atrocious weather conditions spoil their concentration as Paul Fotheringham explains timber prices and the cut lengths and destinations (some to different sawmills, some to the local Stevens Croft biomass power station) of the harvested timber in the road-end stacks.
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Song Of The Day
John Renbourn: Renaissance Dance
John Renbourn was among the best of the guitarists to come out of the British folk-rock, folk-jazz, folk-Baroque or whatever-you-want-to-call-it movement of the early 1960s. Davey Graham forged the path of combining jazz, classical and folk on a fingerpicked, steel-stringed guitar. John Martyn created something unique with his slurred, bluesy vocals and electronically (and otherwise) altered guitar improvisations, while Richard Thompson was just flat-out brilliant.
But Renbourn really seemed to "get" the soul of the American blues that swept Britain in the late 1950s. In his own records, his remarkable duets with Bert Jansch and their work together in Pentangle, Renbourn could travel effortlessly from Renaissance music — which he learned early on, being trained in classical guitar by a teacher who had the foresight to tip him off to early music at a time when few others were interested — to jazz. He could play a salterello and he could play Mingus. In everything he did, Renbourn was a soulful player. He made it easy to be a fan.
So it came as a shock to see him in a 2006 documentary for which he was interviewed about Sandy Denny. (They'd known each other at the Kingston College of Art.) Renbourn looked awful and, though only 66, was barely able to speak. Shock turned to joy a few weeks ago, however, with the release of his first new record in 12 years.
Palermo Snow shows the guitarist in fine form, especially in the album-opening title track, which seizes attention right away: beautiful finger-picking on a steel string that's less folk than a Renaissance dance (and, at the same time, a dark jazz tune), with its moving bass line and contrapuntal melody. But then, about halfway through, a clarinet played by Dick Lee comes in; first solo, then doubled. That adds yet another flavor — an Arabic/Mediterranean sound that evokes the tune's inspiration: a rare snowfall in Palermo, Sicily, when Renbourn was there for a concert. As he writes in the liner notes: "Everyone seemed to be entranced — going about like sleepwalkers as a spooky silence hung in the air. It is hard to forget being there and witnessing a big, bustling city held in thrall by a fall of snow." That just about sums it up for the song, too, especially the part about "entranced" and "held in thrall." Copyright 2011 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. | <urn:uuid:0424453c-fd44-465c-993d-891aabd71f2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.weku.fm/post/john-renbourn-renaissance-dance | 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 | 0.972478 | 571 | 1.8125 | 2 |
About RU486, the chemical abortion drug
(Copyright 1988 The New York Times)
ABORTION FOES KEEPING NEW DRUG OFF U.S. MARKET
NEW YORK -- While a new abortion-inducing drug is expected to be sold
in France, China, England and other countries, opponents of abortion
are blocking sale of the drug in the United States.
The fate of the drug, RU 486, which has a potential for other medical
conditions, mostly affecting women, is focusing new attention on the
influence of the anti-abortion movement on medical decisions.
National Right to Life and other groups opposed to abortion have
served notice to drug companies that if any company sold an
abortion-inducing drug the millions of Americans who oppose abortion
will boycott all the company's products. This happened to the Upjohn
Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich., when it tried to develop abortion-inducing
drugs several years ago.
Pharmaceutical companies say they have no plans to seek the Food and
Drug Administration approval that is necessary to sell
abortion-inducing drugs in the United States. They say publicly that
they are not cowed by the anti-abortion movement and that they had
other reasons for not selling such drugs. Privately, however, drug
makers speak differently.
``The reasons are obvious,'' said one company executive who asked not
to be named. He said his company feared that if it sold such a drug,
it would suffer greatly from a boycott by the millions of members of
National Right to Life and by ``all the physicians, pharmacists and
lay people who don't believe in abortions.''
``We don't want to get into it,'' he said.
Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Somerville, N.J., holds the
option rights to apply for government approval to market RU 486 in the
United States, but it has declined to do so.
``We're not in that business,'' said Dr. Victor J. Bauer, executive
vice president. Hoechst-Roussel is part of the Hoescht Celanese Corp.,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoechst AG of West Germany. Hoescht
Celanese makes chemicals, fibers, plastics and printing materials as
well as a variety of drugs and, according to Standard & Poor's
Register of Corporations, has annual sales of $1.7 billion.
Sterling Drug Inc., which is testing a similar drug in Europe, says
it, too, had no plans to sell its drug in the United States.
In combination with an existing drug, prostaglandins, RU 486 is safer
than surgical abortion early in pregnancy and is so effective that
experts predict that where it is available it may nearly replace
surgical abortion in the first trimester.
The drug is expected to be approved for sale in France and China in
March, with marketing expected within a year in other countries,
including Sweden, the Netherlands and England.
Experts said RU 486 or a similar drug might eventually enter the
United States under another guise. Researchers are studying it for
widening the opening of the birth canal, which may enable many women
to avoid Caesarian births, and treating some forms of breast cancer
and endometriosis, a leading cause of infertility.
Once a drug receives federal approval for marketing for any purpose,
physicians can prescribe it to patients at their discretion.
But Dr. Richard Glasow, who is education director of National Right
to Life in Washington, said his group would not be fooled. National
Right to Life, with 2,000 local chapters, would still organize a vast
boycott unless the drug was the only one available to treat a
life-threatening condition, Glasow said.
``Our basic position is that death drugs designed to kill unborn
babies have no place in America,'' he said.
The power of anti-abortion groups ``is very upsetting,'' said Dr.
Irving Spitz, director of clinical research at the Population Council
in New York City. Dr. Daniel Mishell, professor and chairman of
obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Southern California
School of Medicine, said he thought it was ``medically wrong'' that RU
486 would not be available to American women.
Mishell has just completed a three-year study of RU 486, paid for by
the Population Council, which is a private group. By law, federal
funds cannot be used to support research on abortion, and Mishell's
study is the only American study of the drug.
Spitz said, ``Because of the possible political backlash, we have
kept a low profile,'' adding: ``We have not really encouraged studies
in this country. We feel that our hands are tied. It's a question of
Experts said that if women in the United States did start using the
two-drug combination, RU 486 and prostaglandins, the whole abortion
picture would change. Because the vast majority of abortions are
performed in the first trimester of pregnancy, abortion clinics could
be put out of business.
Having an abortion could mean obtaining and filling a prescription,
not undergoing surgery. According to Dr. Jose Barzelatto, director of
the World Health Organization's human reproduction program, the cost
would be less, though it is not clear yet how much less, than surgical
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GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) — The Land Between the Lakes is making some changes that will benefit users this spring.
The 170,000-acre federal reserve in Kentucky and Tennessee lies between the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers.
Acting area supervisor Brian Beisel says camping will cost less at the Smith Bay and Birmingham Ferry campgrounds because they have been converted to backcountry camping areas.
There will also be another recreational area available. The Northern Nature Watch Area near the Woodland Nature Center is opening 8,500 acres to day use.
Rushing Creek and Jones Creek Campgrounds have been closed to camping and vehicles due to budget reductions in maintenance, but the Jones Creek boat ramp will remain open.
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The easy answer to this article’s title is “Disney”, but it’s not exactly that simple. Joseph Menn recently published an article in the LA Times that caught my eye: it’s all about the copyright specifics concerning the famous Mouse, the biggest fictional character in history. Although the legal thicket surrounding copyright law is rather tiring for anyone who isn’t a law student, the idea of maintaining copyright “in perpetuity” is a pretty interesting concept to think about (since it, well, prevents the public domain from ever expanding), and ideally copyright should be a distant-but-important concern for any designer or creative type. Ideally.
So it turns out that over the past several years, several legal scholars have been trying to prove that due to a mis-filing of copyright on the original “Steamboat Willie” title screen, Disney was never able to properly copyright the source of its character. While the character is still registered as a trademark, some of the original 1920s cartoons and their versions of Mickey have, if you follow the scholars’ logic, “fallen” into the public domain.
Disney calls the new claims “frivolous,” implying that the silly obscurity of the argument can be (and certainly will be) easily dismissed in court. It gets interesting when you discover, however, that Disney has resorted to similar legal contortions several times–often in order to argue the very same thing: that works supposedly under copyright are actually in the public domain (often around the time Disney released a film based on the work, of course).
The most notable example is the copyright on “Bambi”, a work I had no idea was based on an Austrian book. Disney successfully argued Bambi was part of the public domain by the 1950s, the reason being that its original copyright notice was published 3 years too late. Writes Joseph Menn:
In the 1930s, Salten’s [the author of Bambi] rights were assigned to Disney, which made the famous 1942 movie. When Salten’s heirs renewed the copyright in 1954, they correctly listed 1926 as the year of Bambi’s first copyright.
But in a 1994 dispute over royalties with a small publisher that had acquired the Salten family’s rights, Disney lawyers said the 1954 copyright was void because it was filed three years too late — based on the fact that the story was first published in 1923. A federal judge sided with Disney, ruling Bambi was in the public domain.
Of course we all know big companies with massive legal teams and heavy financial interests to protect can easily use obscure parts of the law to argue their case, and the amount of firepower they can put behind those arguments is never short of impressive. The legal costs can bankrupt whoever might step up.
Disney has a somewhat illustrious history with recent copyright legislation: the casual name for Sonny Bono’s 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act is the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, both due to the timing of its passage and heavy industry lobbying from its main benefactor. When it passed, several opponents called it “corporate welfare” for the deference it gives to copyright holders.
Eventually, the act was brought before the US Supreme Court in a suit that called it unconstitutional. The plaintiff was Eric Eldred, one of the co-founders of the famous Creative Commons. While his suit was defeated 7-2, one of the dissenting opinions (.pdf) explains the problem with the act:
The older the work, the less likely it retains commercial value, and the harder it will likely prove to find the current copyright holder. The older the work, the more likely it will prove useful to the historian, artist, or teacher. The older the work, the less likely it is that a sense of authors’ rights can justify a copyright holder’s decision not to permit reproduction, for the more likely it is that the copyright holder making the decision is not the work’s creator, but, say, a corporation or a great-grandchild whom the work’s creator never knew.
The general argument for liberalized copyright laws goes something like this: some of the greatest works of art in history were created from other sources, so eternal copyright will bankrupt a large number of future artists, way down the road. As lawyer Chris Sprigman explains:
Borrowing is ubiquitous, inevitable, and, most importantly, good. Contrary to the romantic notion that true genius inheres in creating something completely new, genius is often better described as opening up new meanings on well-trodden themes. Leonard Bernstein’s reworking in West Side Story of Romeo and Juliet is a good example.
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There is a point in nearly every film-goer’s life when he sees something in a movie and wonders, “now how on earth did they do that?”
Some of the images that have been created for the silver screen are truly astounding, from the earth-shaking battles in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, to the mesmerizing digital environments produced for Avatar, Tron: Legacy, and 2010′s visual effects champion, Inception.
When you look deep under the hood, there is a tremendous amount of sophisticated math and science that goes into modern computer graphics. But for every computer scientist working behind the scenes, there are three or four digital artists working hard to bring the creatures, characters, and landscapes of their imaginations to life.
The Computer Graphics Pipeline
The process that goes into the production of a fully realized 3D movie character or environment is known by industry professionals as the “computer graphics pipeline.” Even though the process is quite complex from a technical standpoint, it’s actually very easy to understand when illustrated sequentially.
Think of your favorite 3D movie character. It could be Wall-E or Buzz Lightyear, or maybe you were a fan of Po in Kung Fu Panda. Even though these three characters look very different, their basic production sequence is the same.
In order to take an animated movie character from an idea or storyboard drawing to a fully polished 3D rendering, the character passes through six major phases:
- 3D Modeling
- Shading & Texturing
- Rendering & Post-production
In pre-production, the overall look of a character or environment is conceived. At the end of pre-production, finalized design sheets will be sent to the modeling team to be developed.
- Every Idea Counts: Dozens, or even hundreds of drawings & paintings are created and reviewed on a daily basis by the director, producers, and art leads.
- Color Palette: A character's color scheme, or palette, is developed in this phase, but usually not finalized until later in the process.
- Concept Artists may work with digital sculptors to produce preliminary digital mock-ups for promising designs.
- Character Details are finalized, and special challenges (like fur and cloth) are sent off to research and development.
2. 3D Modeling
With the look of the character finalized, the project is now passed into the hands of 3D modelers. The job of a modeler is to take a two dimensional piece of concept art and translate it into a 3D model that can be given to animators later on down the road.
In today's production pipelines, there are two major techniques in the modeler's toolset: polygonal modeling & digital sculpting.
- Each has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, and despite being vastly different, the two approaches are quite complementary.
- Sculpting lends itself more to organic (character) models, while polygonal modeling is more suited for mechanical/architectural models.
3. Shading & Texturing
The next step in the visual effects pipeline is known as shading and texturing. In this phase, materials, textures, and colors are added to the 3D model.
- Every component of the model receives a different shader-material to give it an appropriate look.
- Realistic materials: If the object is made of plastic, it will be given a reflective, glossy shader. If it is made of glass, the material will be partially transparent and refract light like real-world glass.
- Textures and colors are added by either projecting a two dimensional image onto the model, or by painting directly on the surface of the model as if it were a canvas. This is accomplished with special software (like ZBrush) and a graphics tablet.
In order for 3D scenes to come to life, digital lights must be placed in the scene to illuminate models, exactly as lighting rigs on a movie set would illuminate actors and actresses. This is probably the second most technical phase of the production pipeline (after rendering), but there's still a good deal of artistry involved.
- Proper lighting must be realistic enough to be believable, but dramatic enough to convey the director’s intended mood.
- Mood Matters: Believe it or not, lighting specialists have as much, or even more control than the texture painters when it comes to a shot’s color scheme, mood, and overall atmosphere.
- Back-and-Forth: There is a great amount of communication between lighting and texture artists. The two departments work closely together to ensure that materials and lights fit together properly, and that shadows and reflections look as convincing as possible.
Animation, as most of you already know, is the production phase where artists breathe life and motion into their characters. Animation technique for 3D films is quite different than traditional hand drawn animation, sharing much more common ground with stop-motion techniques:
- Rigged for Motion: 3D characters are controlled by means of a virtual skeleton or "rig" that allows an animator to control the model's arms, legs, facial expressions, and posture.
- Pose-to-Pose: Animation is typically completed pose-to-pose. In other words, an animator will set a “key-frame” for both the starting and finishing pose of an action, and then tweak everything in between so that the motion is fluid and properly timed.
Jump over to our computer animation companion site for extensive coverage of the topic.
6. Rendering & Post-Production
The final production phase for a 3D scene is known as rendering, which essentially refers to the translation of a 3D scene to a finalized two dimensional image. Rendering is quite technical, so I won’t spend too much time on it here. In the rendering phase, all the computations that cannot be done by your computer in real-time must be performed.
This includes, but is hardly limited to the following:
- Finalizing Lighting: Shadows and reflections must be computed.
- Special Effects: This is typically when effects like depth-of-field blurring, fog, smoke, and explosions would be integrated into the scene.
- Post-processing: If brightness, color, or contrast needs to be tweaked, these changes would be completed in an image manipulation software following render time.
We've got an in-depth explanation of rendering here: Rendering: Finalizing the Frame
7. Want to learn more?
Even though the computer graphics pipeline is technically complex, the basic steps are easy enough for anyone to understand. This article is not meant to be an exhaustive resource, but merely an introduction to the tools and skills that make 3D computer graphics possible.
Hopefully enough has been provided here to promote a better understanding of the work and resources that go into producing some of the masterpieces of visual effects we’ve all fallen in love with over the years.
Keep in mind, this article is just a jumping off point—we discuss all of the topics raised here with greater detail in other articles. In addition to About.com, art books for specific films can be eye opening, and there are vibrant online communities at places like 3D Total and CG Society. I urge anyone with a further interest to check them out, or if you've got an interest in making some art of your own, take a look at our tutorial series: | <urn:uuid:43aee604-3460-435e-a21c-0ddc79c222e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://3d.about.com/od/3d-101-The-Basics/tp/Introducing-The-Computer-Graphics-Pipeline.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941396 | 1,534 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Minnick, Alfred C.
The following data is extracted from History of Daviess County, Missouri - Jackson Township, Daviess County, Missouri, Biographies.
Was born in Washington County, Virginia, July 24, 1819. His parents, John and Elizabeth McCauley Minnick, were also natives of Virginia. He was reared to manhood upon his father's farm in his native County, and there received his education.
On the 28th of October, 1841, he was united in marriage to Miss Martha Houston, daughter of John Houston, both natives of Virginia. Two children were the fruits of this union; namely, John, and Elizabeth C., now Mrs. W. L. Dryden. Mrs. Minnick died in Washington County, Virginia, October 5, 1845. On the 23d of December, 1846, Mr. Minnick married Miss Mary Lowry, daughter of John Lowry, also natives of Washington County. By this marriage they have three children; namely, Martha J., Isaac M. and William 0.
In the fall of 1849 Mr. Minnick and his family migrated to Missouri and settled in Daviess County. In 1876 he joined the Confederate service, enlisting in Company A, Missouri State Guards, under General William Y. Slack, served six months, and then returned home to this County, where he has since lived, engaged in the peaceful pursuits of the farm. He owns a fine farm of 325 acres, 170 under fence, and 140 under cultivation, all well watered and improved. Mr. and Mrs. Minnick are members of the Camberland Presbyterian Church. He is a staunch Democrat.
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Although many new students are firmly decided on their major, many others begin their UMUC studies without a definite major or career path in mind. Choosing from many different majors can be a tough decision. In fact, "Which major should I choose?" is one of the most common questions that students ask their UMUC advisors. If you are undecided, consider using the following steps to identify the best major for you. Remember to consult with your advisor before making a final decision.
The Decision-Making Process
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Interest rates fell sharply in the bond market Friday as a disappointing government report on hiring led investors to buy safe investments.
Heavy demand for Treasurys drove rates lower. The yield on the 10-year note, which is tied to rates on mortgages and other consumer loans, fell to 3.22 percent from 3.37 percent late Thursday.
The price on the note maturing in May 2020 rose $1.3125 to $102.375.
The Labor Department said hiring remains weak, raising worries about the pace of the economic recovery. Private employers hired 41,000 people in May, down 80 percent from 218,000 in April. It was the lowest number since January.
Stocks turned lower on the report, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling more than 200 points in afternoon trading.
The disappointing news on jobs only added to concerns about the U.S. economy and fed demand for Treasurys and other relatively safe investments.
Many investors are also worried about how Europe will manage its heavy debt loads. Comments from Hungary's new government that the country's economy is in dire shape helped send the euro to a new four-year low against the dollar, even though Hungary isn't part of the 16-nation block that uses the shared currency.
The fear is that weakness in smaller European countries could lead to more expensive bailouts, as happened with Greece. European countries and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to a $1 trillion emergency loan package to shore up weak countries, but investors are not yet fully convinced that that will be enough to prevent the crisis in confidence in Eureopean goverment debt from deepening.
Treasury prices had skyrocketed in recent days because of the persistent worries in Europe, sending yields in the 10-year and 30-year bonds to their lowest levels of 2010.
In other trading, the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond maturing in May 2040 fell to 4.15 percent from 4.27 percent. Its price rose $2.15625 to $103.90625.
The yield on the two-year note that matures in May 2012 fell to 0.73 percent from 0.83 percent. The price rose 18.75 cents to $100.03125.
The yield on the three-month Treasury bill maturing on Sept. 2 fell to 0.12 percent from 0.13 percent. 1
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Here are a few definitions and explanations to help understand what we're talking about regarding the Mythicist Position.
"Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) in his (lost) Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum established a distinction of three kinds of theology: civil (political) (theologia civilis), natural (physical) (theologia naturalis) and mythical (theologia mythica). The theologians of civil theology are "the people", asking how the gods relate to daily life and the state (imperial cult). The theologians of natural theology are the philosophers, asking for the nature of the gods, and the theologians of mythical theology are the poets, crafting mythology. The terminology entered Stoic tradition and is used by Augustine of Hippo."
: "Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies" ... such as the sun, moon, planets, stars, constellations and milky way etc. created by William Derham in 1714
Astrotheology: "Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon, planets, stars, constellations, earth, etc."
--Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998
"astrotheology: theology or religious systems based on the observation of stars..."
--"The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families," p. 93.
"astrotheology, theology founded on the stars"
--"Hartrampf's Vocabulary Builder," p. 156.
"Archaeologists are generally agreed that the dominant ideas embodied in the Roman funerary ritual came from the astrotheology of Babylonia and Syria..."
--Francis Hobart Herrick, "The American Eagle: A Study in Natural and Civil History," p. 200.
"Astral Mythology - Or 'star mythology.' From the Greek. The corpus of myths in which stars play a role, particularly as divinities or gods in astral configuration... In agragrian and especially in highly advanced cultures (such as Babylon, Egypt, Mexico) astral mythologies arose surrounding the sun, the moon, planets, and individual groups of stars."Star-Worship (Astrolatry, Sabaism)
--Udo Becker, Lance W. Garmer, "The Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols," p. 28.
"The sun, moon, planets and stars have been worshipped as gods in a number of cultures. Star-worship evolves from the awe felt at the beauty, regularity, mystery and power of the heavenly bodies (especially of the sun) and in response to their effect, real or imagined, on terrestrial and human life. The sun and moon, in particular, are perceived as the givers of time (time being measures by their motions) and the sun as the regulator of the cycle of the seasons. Star-worship usually accompanies, indeed triggers, the early development of astronomy and calendrics and sanctions the parallel growth of A strology. This was certainly so in Mesopotamia in the last two millennia bce [10: i–iii ] and in Central America among the Maya [9: v ]. Star-worship probably underlies the prehistoric megalithic astronomical sites of northern Europe [9: ii–iii ; e.g. Stonehenge] and similar sites in North America [9: iv ; e.g. the Big Horn medicine wheel]. From Mesopotamia star-worship passed into Graeco-Roman culture . Sun-worship became, in the 3rd century ce , something of an official religion in the Roman empire, contemporary ideology seeing in the divine emperor (Emperor-worship ) a terrestrial counterpart of the sun as sovereign of the universe. At the same time Mithras was worshipped as a solar god (see Mithraism) and his mysteries incorporated much arcane astral lore."
"Astrolatry is the worship of stars and other heavenly bodies as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies. The most common instances of this are sun gods and moon gods in polytheistic systems worldwide. Also notable is the association of the planets with deities in Babylonian, and hence in Greco-Roman religion, viz. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn."* Archaeoastronomy
: "The branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, esp. as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures."
"The study of the knowledge, interpretations, and practices of ancient cultures regarding celestial objects or phenomena. The branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, esp. as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures."
A famous example of archaeoastronomy would be Stonehenge. But there are countless others from around the world
. You may also find examples of astrotheology & archaeoastronomy here
and much more throughout this forum.
"At Stonehenge in England and Carnac in France, in Egypt and Yucatan, across the whole face of the earth are found mysterious ruins of ancient monuments, monuments with astronomical significance. These relics of other times are as accessible as the American Midwest and as remote as the jungles of Guatemala. Some of them were built according to celestial alignments; others were actually precision astronomical observatories... Careful observation of the celestial rhythms was compellingly important to early peoples, and their expertise, in some respects, was not equaled in Europe until three thousand years later."* Mythicist
— Dr. Edwin Krupp, In Search of Ancient Astronomies, page xiii
Astronomer, Archaeoastronomer & Director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles
: "A person who views various figures of antiquity, including both pagan gods and major biblical characters, as mythical. Moreover, a mythicist may also recognize the origins of these myths as being based in nature worship and what is called "astrotheology."
It's wise to be more clear on what we mean by the word "myth" too:* Myth
: "a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, esp. one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature
"A myth is a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural
or social phenomenon
, and typically involving supernatural beings or events."
"A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world
or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society"
"Myths are "stories about divine beings, generally arranged in a coherent system; they are revered as true and sacred; they are endorsed by rulers and priests; and closely linked to religion. Once this link is broken, and the actors in the story are not regarded as gods but as human heroes, giants or fairies, it is no longer a myth but a folktale. Where the central actor is divine but the story is trivial ... the result is religious legend, not myth." [J. Simpson & S. Roud, "Dictionary of English Folklore," Oxford, 2000, p.254]"
"A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical."http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/myth
Myth - "a myth is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to be in their present form. The active beings in myths are generally gods and heroes. Myths often are said to take place before recorded history begins. In saying that a myth is a sacred narrative, what is meant is that a myth is believed to be true by people who attach religious or spiritual significance to it. Use of the term by scholars does not imply that the narrative is either true or false."http://www.reference.com/search?q=mythhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythAnthropomorphism
: "Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism
The Value of Mythicism
"Mythicism has much to offer to those who find it difficult to believe in the gospel story as "history" but who wish to know the deeper meaning behind the story. Indeed, the mythicist position importantly serves as a bridge between theism and atheism, as it does not seek to discount or denigrate the long and exalted history of thought concerning religion and mythology, dating back many thousands of years, as manifested in the religious and spiritual practices of man beginning millennia ago and continuing since then. The pinnacle of mythicist cultures—more specifically those based on astrotheology—can be seen in the massive and mysterious civilization of Egypt, for example. Rather than being ignored and dismissed, such wondrous creations should be explored and treasured as unique and glorious contributions to the overall human accomplishment."
"One criticism as concerns the mythicist position is that it has not been taken seriously by mainstream academia because it is "absurd." In the first place, what is more "absurd," accepting the fabulous fairytales of a particular culture as being "historical" without a shred of credible, scientific evidence, or suspecting these tall tales to be along the same lines as those of other cultures, such as the Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman, which are currently accepted as being myths? When it comes to the gods of all other cultures, including those of the ancient religions and extending to those still in currency in "modern" faiths such as Hinduism, Christians and mainstream non-Christian and atheistic scholars alike are in agreement that these entities are myths. Hercules, Zeus, Athena, Neptune, Diana, Ganesha, Hanuman—these are all myths. Therefore, as concerns the non-biblical characters in religions globally for eons, Christians and mainstream scholars are mythicists. It is only the biblical figures who receive special consideration and pleading. In reality, in dismissing mythicism, Christian believers are in effect negating themselves."http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com/mythicist.html
Evemerist or Euhemerist:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Euhemeristhttp://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Euhemerushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuhemerusRealize that while the word "Euhemerism" (which should also be transliterated "Evemerism") may easily be found in dictionaries or encyclopedias such as the above, you will not find a meaningful explanation of the mythicist position anywhere. It has never been a real option - until now. | <urn:uuid:5f5e78cd-01e0-4308-bf5a-70c4dadcec18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.freethoughtnation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17686 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938771 | 2,392 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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Kinabalu, Sat. - Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) has urged the
National Registration Department (NRD) to speed up the issuance
of birth certificates to rural children and adults to enable
them to apply for identity cards and exercise their citizenship
MP Dr Maximus Ongkili said the number of people without birth
certificates and identity cards in the rural areas was still
huge and existing procedures to overcome the problem were
too cumbersome, lengthy and expensive for most village folk
in the interior.
the National Registration (Amendment) Act 2001 in parliament
last Thursday, Ongkili urged the NRD to simplify the procedures
for late registration and exempt or reduce the charges for
those involved, stressing that "exemption or reduction
of charges is provided for under the Act and accompanying
too long the Home Affairs Ministry and NRD have been placing
the blame on the rural communities for not registering early
the births of their children, accusing that rural people do
not realise the importance of birth certificates.
is a misplaced judgement. It is not true that rural people
do not place importance on acquiring birth certificates. The
real problem is that they do not have the money to pay for
travel and the necessary costs to register and acquire the
documents on time," he claimed.
who is also PBS deputy president argued that had the children
of rural families been born in hospitals and rural clinics,
they would automatically be registered for their birth certificates
because it would be so convenient to do and there would be
government personnel to assist.
of the rural people without birth certificates and therefore
without identity cards were born in their poor homes without
the attention of a rural nurse. The basic problem is poverty
and poor government service," he said.
the government to stop blaming the rural families for their
predicament, Ongkili appealed to the government to increase
the allocation for the NRD, "so that more rural visits
could be made by its officers to register and issue birth
certificates and identity cards to our rightful citizens who
are yet to get their proper documents."
the specific amendments to the Act which among others provided
for the Director General and Deputy Director General of the
NRD to be appointed by the Yang DiPertuan Agong, he hoped
that the amended Act would give the Department an improved
hope the amendments will make the NRD more transparent and
professional in carrying out its duties especially in Sabah
in light of previous involvement by its officers in fake I.C.
rackets as proven by the ISA arrests of 1996.
as well we hear only of "I.C. palsu" and not "Jabatan
palsu", he added. | <urn:uuid:a03bc8a2-af29-4f2a-8f81-20f062ffdd18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pbs-sabah.org/pbs3/html/news/2001/010512max.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953691 | 572 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The grainy surveillance tape tells a disturbing story as a school bus skids off the road and sends students tumbling. The accident may have happened in Ohio, but it isn`t calming parents` fears here in Arkansas. Now, parents are asking safety-related questions. One of the most common: why don`t buses have seatbelts? The Little Rock School District`s Director of Transportation, Michael Martello, says there`s a good reason. "Putting seatbelts on large school buses would have little or no effect," he says, citing several studies from the National Highway Transportation Safety Adminstration. He says seats are cushioned, buses are well-built and drivers are well-trained. Still, of course, accidents do happen. Pulaski County reported more than 80 accidents during the last school year and 12 so far this year. The district stands by its safety record and transportation officials say they`re doing everything they can to bring those numbers down. They say that does not include installing seatbelts into their buses. | <urn:uuid:4459c2be-c3f8-410e-9e7a-844bb7238ace> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arkansasmatters.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=43225 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969323 | 212 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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A Simple Socket Server Using 'inetd'by samizdat (Vicar)
|on Apr 19, 2006 at 12:26 UTC||Need Help??|
Using inetd to serve a socket
It is often the case that one needs to test a system before the hardware is available or on-line. In my case, I'm developing an interface which will talk to a socket on a complex piece of Fab Metrology gear called an Applied Materials NanoSEM, using a complex protocol called SEMI SECS-II/GEM HSMS. I needed a quick and dirty handler to act as the NanoSEM while I get the protocol parser working.
UNIX-like systems such as FreeBSD and Linux have a nifty feature called inetd, which comes to our rescue. inetd runs a program you specify whenever somebody else tries to connect to the socket you've chosen. By making a few simple configuration improvements, we can send our input to the specified socket, and inetd invokes our program, passing our input to it as STDIN. Our handler then processes it and spits out its response as STDOUT back to our socket. Cool, huh? What's even more cool is that if another process (or system) also tries to connect to the same socket, inetd will invoke another copy of our handler without bothering the first one.
Interested? Okay, here's the code...
The server handler:
This little program will process anything that comes in on the specified port, clearing carriage returns and line feeds, and (in this simple case) spitting it back with two spaces in front and a newline at the end. An input containing "endit" causes the handler to exit, and, thanks to the flush sequence at the top, output is immediate. Make your program executable:
Okay, now, here's the setup. In /etc (you need to be superuser), edit /etc/services to add your port number to the known services list, making up a unique name for the service. My port is 6100, its service is 'secshsms', and I've asked it to handle both stream (tcp) and datagram (udp) packets, although this example will only deal with tcp.
Next, edit /etc/inetd.conf to attach your program to that service:
Okay, find inetd and restart it.
From now on, any process that attempts to talk to my machine's port 6100 gets its output routed to my handler sinet.pl.
With that in hand, here's a sample client, adapted from Perl Cookbook recipe 17.10. It can be installed on any machine within a routable network (i.e., no firewall) and it will talk to my handler.
A simple client:
Working from this skeleton, a more elaborate language can be developed. The program on each end can be made to parse and respond to commands from the other.
UPDATE 1: changed server user to nobody, thank you idsfa.
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Gov. Janklow Memorial
By Jenifer Jones
Family, friends, and members of the public paid their respects to former Governor Bill Janklow during a viewing and memorial at the state capitol Tuesday.
Supreme Court Justice Steven Zinter says when you look at the paintings and ornate woodwork in the state capitol building, you're looking at Bill Janklow's fingerprints. Janklow's body sat in a flag draped casket in the building where he spent twenty years of his life, as South Dakotans came to say goodbye to the man who left such a deep imprint on the state.
"Regardless of what he was doing, he was always an advocate, and a very good one," Roger Damgaard says.
"Well he probably had the biggest heart of anyone I know," Gloria Damgaard says.
"He was a champion of people, of those less fortunate. I know on a personal basis, when it comes to protecting young people he did that, and he did it daily. So we will miss him deeply," Dennis Wiese says.
They are just a few of the South Dakotans who came to remember Janklow and his accomplishments. Former democratic lawmaker Lars Herseth says if it hadn't been for Janklow, South Dakotan's would be living in a very different state.
"I guess I ask you, can you envision a South Dakota without railroads running from state to state, east and west, north and south," Herseth says. "That's what we're looking at. Can you envision a South Dakota without Citibank and all of the things that it had as offshoots, including the healthcare field today, because that came really from the same industry. Can you imagine a South Dakota that had to go through a lot to get connected to the internet world?"
Herseth says Janklow was a visionary who believed in his convictions. Supreme Court Justice Steven Zinter says those convictions led to achievements that will stay with South Dakota forever. He quotes a 16th century poet.
"Death comes to all, but great achievements leave a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old," Zinter says. "William J. Janklow, his accomplishments, and what he left behind are chiseled deep into South Dakota's granite. They live on as a monument that will endure until the sun grows old."
Zinter also acknowledged the woman behind the former governor, his wife, Mary Dean.
"Thank you for letting so many of us be a part of your family," Zinter says. "But most of all Mary Dean, thank you for sharing Bill with the people of the state of South Dakota. We all know that families are partnerships. And you, in your quiet way, were the partner that enabled Bill to do what he did for the people of this state."
Zinter says Janklow had a big heart, and was an iconic man of passion, and compassion.
Former Supreme Court Justice Judith Meierhenry says it's the personal, private moments she remembers most. She and her husband met Janklow and his wife as college students at the University of South Dakota. She says they would sit around with friends discussing ways to infiltrate student government at USD, which they eventually did. Then, on New Years eve 1978, Janklow was sworn in for his first term as Governor, which Meierhenry says brought in a new era.
"The excitement of being here, of the people that he brought in that first term, was unbelievable," Meierhenry says. "We were young, I mean none of us were 40 years old. We were in our early 30s, mid 30s, Bill was 39 when he was sworn in. We were eager, we believed that we could change the world, and everybody worked hard and did what they needed to, and Bill, there is hardly one thing that hasn't been touched by him, my life included."
Meierhenry says she and Janklow's lives were intertwined and says they shared a lot of memories.
"We have reached now the final scene of this full and rewarding life," Meierhenry. "The camera fades and now the credits are starting to roll across the screen. And like a lot of long and fulfilled and wonderful stories, we are left wishing for more. But even so, we without hesitation we stand and applaud with tears in our eyes and love in our hearts, and with a pride and celebration, because we know that one man can, and did make a difference. Thank you Bill, for being my friend."
After the memorial service, uniformed men carried the casket down the capitol steps as bagpipers played Amazing Grace. The former Governor was honored with a 21 gun salute and a flyover by f-16 jets. Then the motorcade pulled away, and Janklow left Pierre for the last time. | <urn:uuid:2c7fb3dc-18ee-48c8-89a9-7f222b041c8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sdpb.org/statehouse/shows.aspx?MediaID=60314&Parmtype=TV&ParmAccessLevel=sdpb-all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988017 | 1,010 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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||Posted - 07/27/2012 : 11:30:20 AM
Saw this in my email and had to share! Here's the text that was with it "A monster white sturgeon weighing an estimated 1,100 pounds and measuring 12 feet, 4 inches was caught and released on the Fraser River, a British Columbia waterway famous for its big sturgeon...just not this big. Angler Michael Snell, front, with wife Margaret and guide Dean Werk pose with the mammoth sturgeon.
Catches of white sturgeon averaging 30 to 100 pounds are typical on the Fraser, even an occasional 250-pounder, but nothing as massive as this sturgeon, believed to be the biggest freshwater fish ever caught on rod and reel in North America...and possibly the oldest.
"I've been a professional guide on the Fraser for 25 years and I've never seen a sturgeon this big," said Dean Werk, owner/guide of Great River Fishing Adventures.
"We have helped to collectively tag more than 47,000 white sturgeon since 1995, and scanned in excess of 90,000 tagged sturgeon that have been caught and released. This tells us this dinosaur fish hasn't been caught in at least 18 years if ever at all. I'd bet she's over 100 years old."
Think about that: Incredibly, this massive sturgeon, a prehistoric species, might have been hatched the year the Titanic sank.
It could also be 35 years older than the angler, Michael Snell, 65, of Salisbury, England. Snell, who was fishing with his wife, Margaret, called the catch a fish of a lifetime."
Light travel's faster than sound. This is why some people appear smart until you hear them speak.
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||Posted - 07/30/2012 : 1:40:56 PM
Amazing that creatures like that still exist on the Earth and in such small bodies of water (relative to the size of the animal). They released it, so not sure they can get a record. Not sure that I could have done the same so hats off to those guys. I kind of wonder how accurate the weight estimate is. A 1000lb blue marlin is a lot taller than that with the same width, but maybe they have some kind of super secret sturgeon weight formula I don't know about.
||Posted - 07/28/2012 : 08:28:35 AM
Might be (obviously is) a tackle record, look at the rod he caught that on no way that is lined with line over 100lb test (if its braid)
Bragging may not bring happiness,
but no man having caught a large fish,
goes home through the alley.
||Posted - 07/27/2012 : 1:26:32 PM
Saw that on yahoo news yesterday freakin amazing
2006 pioneer 197 SF 150 4s
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The EU's emissions trading system has fundamental flaws and is failing to deliver the carbon cuts needed, campaigners told a debate in Brussels (Tuesday) ahead of the start of UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
And an MEP warned the debate that industry lobbying was damaging the EU's position on climate change, accusing BusinessEurope of failing to represent the views of its members who are calling for tougher targets.
Bas Eickhout MEP (Green) told the debate, organised by Corporate Europe Observatory, TNI, Friends of the Earth Europe and FERN, that BusinessEurope claimed to speak on behalf of European industry but in fact represented the lowest common denominator position, effectively silencing those companies which support a 30% cut in CO2 emissions by 2020.
Oscar Reyes from Carbon Trade Watch told the debate that carbon trading system failed to require countries to take responsibility for their own emissions, allowing them to offset them by buying permits from the developing world.
He said what was needed was a change in climate finance, shifting subsidies away from fossil fuels and investing in infrastructre, non-fiscal measures, as well as a complete transformation politically.
Damian Meadows, the Head of Unit for International Carbon Markets at DG Climate Action, said that carbon trading must not be seen as a sole solution, but putting a price on carbon was an important component.
And he defended the EU's position ahead of the Durban climate talks, saying the EU wanted a multilateral agreement – but increasing the EU's target unilaterally would not deliver action from the United States or China.
“We need broad commitments, we need a clear roadmap from Durban,” he sid.
Esther Bollendorff from Friends of the Earth Europe told the debate that the European Union must face up to its historical responsibilities by taking action first, but that it was also in the interest of European industry.
“It's in our own interest for Europe to take action to cut emissions at home, so we cannot support the Commission position to only take action if others do too,” she said.
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Important information you should know before you begin work in Germany. This section will tell you about some of the practical issues which you will need to consider after you have started working.
German residents are liable for taxation on their world-wide income where as non- residents are only liable for taxation on income derived from German sources. Residency is defined as having a domicile or having been present in Germany for an uninterrupted six- month period, which may fall in two calendar years. Expatriates living in Germany as residents may be subject to pay German income tax, especially if they are employed by a German company.
Taxable income includes income from employment, self-employment, business and real estate. Employment income includes salaries, wage bonuses, profit participation and other remuneration and benefits granted for services rendered in public participation and other employment, as well as pensions and other benefits received by a former employee. Money paid to foreign employees in Germany, such as foreign service, income tax, car and housing allowances, are considered additional employment income, with no preferential tax treatment.
The German tax system is very similar to the tax system in most other
western countries. Taxation of an individual’s Income is progressive.
more you earn, the more tax you are required to pay. The German government
differentiates between two forms of income tax, Lohnsteuer and
Einkommenssteuer. Lohnsteuer is paid on salaries and wages, and is deducted from your paycheck. Einkommenssteuer is paid on self employed income, and is an estimated amount based on your earnings from the previous year. As a rule you are obliged to submit an income tax return by the 31st of May of the year following the one which the income was received. There may be penalties if the return is filed late. | <urn:uuid:2ecf9707-4cce-4a3d-843c-02e0fb643f82> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fidelio-relocation.de/en/faq/tax/important-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98065 | 373 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Day in and day out, many pig producers around the world breed their pigs, wean them and grow them to slaughter age. In order to do so, the animals need to receive sufficient amounts of feed from a young age onwards. But how do the pigs learn how and what to eat? Learn how to eat like a pig – and pigs will be better understood, concluded Dr Marije Oostindjer, WUR, in her PhD study.
Piglets in commercial husbandry are generally weaned between three and four weeks of age for economic reasons, which is earlier and more abrupt than would occur under (semi-)natural conditions. Many piglets have no experience with solid food before weaning, resulting in low food intake and growth after weaning. Newly weaned piglets often also show a high incidence of diarrhoea and maladaptive behaviours after weaning due to the low food intake and high stress levels at weaning and thus reduced health and welfare.
The aim of this research was to explore whether providing piglets with more opportunities to learn from their mother about what, how and where to eat can increase food intake before and after weaning and consequently can reduce health and welfare problems after weaning. Young animals learn from experienced conspecifics what, where and how to eat. This social learning may also be important for piglets and when given the opportunity, piglets would follow the sow while she is searching for food and eating. In pig husbandry, however, the opportunities to learn from the sow are very limited as the sow is often confined throughout lactation, fed a different feed than the piglets in an inaccessible, raised trough. Sows and piglets are also mostly housed in rather barren, stimulus-poor pens. Three pathways of learning that could probably be improved in current pig husbandry have been chosen for review:• Direct learning from the sow through cues derived from observation and eating together
• Learning in an enriched environment and
• Learning from flavour cues in the maternal diet
Direct learning from the sow
Providing piglets with more opportunities to directly learn from the sow may stimulate the development of feeding related and social behaviours, which may result in a higher food intake before weaning and consequently result in a higher food intake after weaning. Providing piglets and sow with an enriched environment may increase the amount of information that piglets can acquire from the sow because the sow can show more behaviours.
Enrichment may also provide piglets with the opportunity to practise behaviours, and enrichment in early in life may increase the ability to adapt to stressful situations, such as being weaned abruptly. An experiment investigated effects of increased opportunities to directly learn from the sow and an enriched environment. Piglets were reared with a confined or loose-housed sow in a barren or in an enriched (straw, wood shavings, peat and branches) environment. Piglets could eat together with the sow in a family feeder if the sow was loose-housed. After weaning half of each litter was housed in a barren pen and half in an enriched pen.
The barren and enriched housed piglets from the loose-housed sows were exposed to a novel food test either with their mother present or absent. Being able to eat novel foods together with the mother resulted in a lower reluctance to approach and eat the novel food and a higher intake. Piglets from an enriched environment were already less reluctant to eat the novel food, regardless of whether their mother was present or not, and also had a higher food intake. Being able to eat together with the sow and being reared in an enriched environment also had positive effects on feeding-related behaviours and growth in the home pen. Enrichment of the lactation pen also had positive effects on postweaning food intake, indicating that preweaning enrichment can help to stimulate early food intake in piglets. Being reared with a loose-housed sow had positive effects on behaviour postweaning, suggesting that the sow is important in the development of adaptive behaviour. Postweaning enrichment had profound positive effects after weaning: a higher growth in the two weeks after weaning, a profoundly lower diarrhoea prevalence and a higher feed efficiency. Piglets also showed more play and less damaging behaviours postweaning when housed in an enriched pen.
These positive effects of enrichment may be due to decreased stress levels or increased gut health. Preweaning and postweaning enrichment did interact with each other: piglets from an enriched lactation pen housed in a barren pen postweaning showed a lower performance, more damaging behaviour and low levels of play in the first two weeks postweaning, so if enrichment is provided before weaning it is important to also provide it after weaning. Enrichment of the pre- and postweaning environment, and being able to eat together with the sow thus seems important in improving performance, health and welfare of newly weaned pigs.There are many learning processes involved in eating together: observing what the mother does, participating, learning about the location of the food and learning about the type of food that the mother eats. Learning from the sow is more effective than exposing piglets to the food without being able to learn from the sow. Observing or participating with the sow while she is eating were both effective in stimulating piglet food intake and in establishing a preference for the food eaten by the sow. Piglets use information about the location where the food was present, but prioritise information about the type of food that the sow eats. This indicates that it is important to let sow and piglets
eat together, but particularly to provide sow and piglets with the same food.
The results from the experiments on flavour learning further stress the importance of matching sow and piglet food, at least in flavour. Young animals can learn from flavours in the maternal diet, which enhances recognition, preference and acceptance of foods containing these flavours around weaning. In a first experiment piglets were exposed to anise flavour through the maternal diet before birth, during lactation, both, or never, before weaning. Piglets that were exposed to the flavour before birth recognised the flavour after birth in several behavioural tests, also see box ‘The Gate Preference Test’.
The clearest effects on behaviour were found in tests eliciting a moderate stress response, suggesting that the mere presence of a familiar flavour may reduce stress. Piglets were provided with control food and flavoured food after weaning, and piglets that were exposed to the flavour through the maternal diet did not show a preference for the flavoured food. Prenatally exposed piglets did, however, show a higher food intake, less diarrhoea and less damaging behaviours.
In the research, various criteria were used to prove this relationship – e.g. the effect was measured on latency to eat, play behaviour, manipulating and vocalisations. Good results were noted when a similar flavour from preweaning was around – e.g. when it was in the air. There, considerably fewer piglets lost weight in the first three days post-weaning.
The lack of preference for the flavour, together with the results from the preweaning behavioural tests suggest that the effects were due to reduced stress at weaning, caused by the presence of the familiar flavour. Piglets exposed to anise flavour through the maternal diet both before and after birth, or never, were provided with the anise flavour in the air or in the food after weaning. Piglets exposed to the flavour showed lower levels of cortisol after weaning, less variation in growth, less damaging behaviours, more play behaviour and less vocalisations, all indicative of reduced stress. It did not matter whether the flavour was present in the food or only in the air, suggesting it is particularly the odour of the familiar flavour that is important in reducing weaning stress.
In conclusion, information from the sow plays a critical role in the development of independent feeding and reducing weaning-related problems. Currently, piglets do not have enough opportunities to learn from the sow, and lactation pens and food of sows and piglets could be improved to create possibilities for sow and piglets to eat together and to eat the same food during lactation.
Enrichment may be provided both before and after weaning to further stimulate the development of solid food intake. Reducing stress through enrichment and providing a flavour associated with the sow’s diet will further ensure an improved performance, health and welfare of newly weaned piglets.
The Gate Preference Test
Many trials were carried out to find out more about piglet behaviour. One of the trials Oostindjer and her team conducted was a so-called ‘Gate Preference Test’, carried out with piglets of about six or seven days old. They were separated from the sow and given the opportunity to return to the sow via either an anise-scented gate or a mint-scented gate, created by placing anise-and mint-flavoured swabs. The piglets were given five minutes to find their way back – and all behaviour was monitored, e.g. sniffing, chewing, choosing the gate, starting position. It was expected piglets would have a preference for a familiar smelling gate to move from a nonsafe environment to a safe environment (with the sow). Results seemed to confirm this: When the anise was placed above the right gate, piglets exposed to anise prenatally tended to show a higher interest (i.e. sniffing and chewing) in the anise gate, and showed a lower interest in the control gate than control piglets. Piglets that were prenatally exposed to anise spent more time on the anise side of the test than control piglets, who spent more time on the control side of the arena when anise was above the right gate. | <urn:uuid:cc3e1d44-f3bf-4e64-a751-23d9f6d61191> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pigprogress.net/Breeding/Piglet-Feeding/2011/12/Understanding-piglet-feeding-preferences-better-PP008119W/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971564 | 2,021 | 3.984375 | 4 |
Loyola/Notre Dame Library Screens Smoke Signals as Part of “Books into Film” Series
February 25, 2011
The Loyola/Notre Dame Library is hosting a screening and discussion of the film “Smoke Signals” and short story collection “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” on Monday, Mar. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Ridley Auditorium.
College of Notre Dame of Maryland Associate Professor of Communication Arts Joe Schaub will lead the discussion of the 1998 film, which is based on Sherman Alexie’s short story “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona.” The story focuses on two young Native American men grappling with the death of a man who was a father figure to them, but who ultimately became an alcoholic and abandoned them.
The Loyola/Notre Dame Library is located at 200 Winston Ave. in Baltimore.
The event is part of the “Books Into Film” series sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council. Libraries at five Maryland colleges and universities will offer free screenings and faculty-led discussions of films adapted from popular books. The series begins March 2 at 5:30 pm with a discussion of “Short Cuts,” adapted from Raymond Carver’s collection of short stories, at Washington College.
Other events in the series include:
Wednesday, Mar. 2, 5:30 p.m.: Discussion only of “Short Cuts” at Washington College (Sophie Kerr Room, Clifton M. Miller Library), Chestertown, Md. Due to the length of the film, “Short Cuts” will be screened separately on Friday, Feb. 25, Sunday Feb. 27 and Monday, Feb. 28. All screenings will take place in the Norman James Theater, William Smith Hall, at 7 pm.
Thursday, March 24, 5 p.m.: “The Name of the Rose” at Stevenson University (Dawson Center, Room 12), Stevenson, Md.
Thursday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.: “The Dead” at Hood College (131 Hodson Science Hall), Frederick, Md.
Thursday, April 14, 4 p.m.: “Brick Lane” at Goucher College (Hoffberger Science Building, Kelley Lecture Hall), Towson, Md.
Light refreshments will be available at all screenings.
Each library will have a limited number of copies of its featured book available. For information on receiving a copy of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, please contact Alison Cody at firstname.lastname@example.org.
For more information and contact information for site coordinators at each institution, visit http://booksintofilm.lndlibrary.org.
ABOUT COLLEGE OF NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND
College of Notre Dame of Maryland engages students as confident, capable learners and leaders, thriving in the vibrant, personal community of its distinguished Women's College, College for Adult Undergraduate Studies, and graduate programs. Rich in tradition, Notre Dame provides students with opportunities in research, study abroad and service to the global community. Notre Dame’s graduates change lives—in their careers, communities and families. In September 2011, the College becomes Notre Dame of Maryland University. Visit www.ndm.edu. | <urn:uuid:50ee2aa4-2b69-4776-8592-03e2cdb5cba5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ndm.edu/newsroom/detail/loyola-notre-dame-library-screens-smoke-signals-as--part-of-aubooks-into-filmau-series-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922018 | 710 | 1.640625 | 2 |
By John L. Fossum
The first war crimes case arising from Darfur, Sudan has completed the confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The case against Bahr Idriss Abu Garda was heard in the ICC from October 26th through October 30th. The court will now rule on whether or not there is sufficient evidence to have a trial for Abu Garda.
Abu Garda was the Chairman and General Coordinator of Military Operations for the United Resistance Front, he appeared voluntarily in The Hague in May of this year. Abu Garda is accused of three counts of war crimes, murder, attacking peacekeepers and pillaging as defined by the Rome Statute, the founding document of the ICC.
The ICC has also indicted the current president of Sudan, Omar Al Bashir, and issued a warrant of arrest for Ahmad Harun, a former Interior Minister and Humanitarian affairs minister. The ICC has also issue an arrest warrant for Ali Kushayb, the alleged leader of the Janjaweed militia. All three are not yet in the custody of the court or have refused to appear voluntarily before the court.
There may also be indictments that have not been unsealed from Sudan. The situation was referred to the ICC by the United Nations Security Council, because of the concern of an ongoing genocide. The ICC also has ongoing cases involving countries bordering Sudan, the Democratic Republic of The Congo, the Central African Republic and Uganda. Those three situations were referred by member states of the ICC. There are defendants in custody and awaiting trial from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and from the Central African Republic. All the accused from Uganda are currently at large.
The ICC was developed to offer the international community a permanent court for the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC is unique compared to all other international tribunals in that it allows the victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity to seek reparations and even social services through the court. Victims may also have an opportunity to participate in the case and provide submissions for the court to consider in the cases.
Victims may participate anonymously and are eligible for protection from the court in addition to support and services. Victims who wish to seek reparations are eligible for the appointment of counsel at court expense. The court has developed a list of eligible counsel who may be appointed to represent victims. The counsel may assist the victims in preparing their applications and in seeking and advocating for the support they are eligible to receive. The process is bureaucratic and long, but can result in significant benefits to the victims at no cost to them.
John L. Fossum is an attorney with Fossum Law Office, LLC, and was admitted to practice before the ICC in 2005. He is also admitted to practice before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He is one of fewer than 40 lawyers in the United States admitted to practice before the ICC. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.org or by phone at 507-645-0002. | <urn:uuid:68040398-160c-4125-a69b-6d5cd074614b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.anjnews.com/node/1338 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971119 | 621 | 1.851563 | 2 |
The Growing Competition for Students: Online Schools Storm the Ivory TowerShare
Students today are looking for ways to sidestep the high costs and inconvenience of attending a brick and mortar schools. Estelle Shumann discusses factors to bear in mind as students seek meaningful education on the Internet.
More and more jobs today require a college degree, which means that students are pursuing higher education more aggressively now than ever before. At the same time, though, tuition costs and overall expenses have never been higher. When forced to decide between diminished job possibilities and decades of debt, many students are looking for a cheaper way by turning to the online space. Internet-based education has been around for some time, but has seen an unprecedented surge in enrollment in recent years. Online colleges promise “more for less” by offering competitive degrees on a flexible, from-home schedule, often at a fraction of the price. Some academics wonder if the bar hasn’t been lowered too far, however. While many online institutions offer a quality education, not all do. The inadvertent result may mean a workforce that is technically more educated, but nevertheless lacks true knowledge—which could be very problematic. On the flip side, a more open educational landscape may be worth the payoff for the schools that are actually able to provide top-notch learning.
College enrollments are generally up across the board, but the online sector has seen the most dramatic shift when it comes to new students. “Online enrollments increased 10% last year contrasted with the less than 1% growth of the overall higher education student population,” Utah’s KSL radio program reported in May 2012. “Students’ busy lives require a thoughtful and skilled juggling act as they attempt to balance work, family and business travel,” the program said. “The online degree seems like the perfect solution for career advancement without having to give up a good job with its secure income.”
In most cases, the students who are enrolling in online courses are not the same as those who would be applying for traditional four-year undergraduate programs. While some students do look to the Internet for schooling just out of high school, most, as the KSL story implied, come from a more established professional background. The sector seeing the biggest hit from the online shift is the community college and technical school arena. These sorts of programs are often seeing something of a decline in admissions as more and more prospective students turn to the Internet.
One of the biggest concerns educators have is that the online space, while certainly convenient, may not be effective for every student. “Studies have shown that student success—in particular, retention rates—in many online courses is significantly lower than in similar traditional face-to-face courses,” a 2008 report in the Virginia Community College publication Inquiry said. The online format makes it easy for students to essentially “fall off the grid,” the report said, and encouraged a resurgence of online training and active mentorship to encourage students to get the most out of the material presented.
Even students who are successful—that is, who complete the courses with good grades and come away with substantial knowledge of the subject area—may not be receiving quite the same education as their classroom-based peers when it comes to socialization, which is concerning to some. A college degree “is an educational experience rather than a training course,” the Financial Times said in a 2012 survey of online learning. “Accessing and digesting content is only one aspect of the programme. Reflecting, communicating, engaging and collaborating with a network of academics and peers are equally important.”
There are many cases in which free or low-cost education makes sense, and few legitimately argue that online education should be regulated or clamped down. The benefits of making knowledge and instruction widely available overwhelmingly outweigh the negatives. Still, students would be wise to carefully investigate any online program before enrolling, and to make sure than any course of study—whether Internet or classroom based—has the potential to help the student advance his or her career and networking goals. | <urn:uuid:19c39a84-7da9-4bf0-a939-494fc85724c3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.creativitypost.com/education/the_growing_competition_for_students_online_schools_storm_the_ivory_tower | 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 | 0.964916 | 838 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Space Discovery Institute Classes Conclude with a Splash in Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jul. 24, 2009) -- The Space Foundation’s Space Discovery Institute classes wrapped up this week in Colorado Springs with a last day rocket launch at Manitou Springs High School. The rocketry class spent the week studying aerodynamics and design and then applying what they learned to building model rockets. On Thursday they launched water rockets made from 2-liter soda bottles. Pictured are class instructor Bobby Gagnon, Space Foundation aerospace education specialist, and class member Jessica Kamalu launching a water rocket. Kamalu is one of this year’s winners of the Lucy Enos Memorial Scholarship, awarded annually by Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham and his wife Cynthia.
The 140 elementary-school-through-high-school teachers who attended the classes in Colorado Springs this summer learned hands-on, minds-on activities and developed lesson plans to take back to the classroom. They also gained access to Space Foundation-provided teaching aids and additional lesson plans.
The classes can be applied to several master's degree programs through both Regis University and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The courses are developed and taught by Space Foundation educators, who are accredited teachers with additional space education credentials. The standards-based curriculum is designed to improve students' skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to motivate them to continue to study STEM topics.
The week-long programs covered six different topics:
• Biological and Physical Research: International Space Station Science & Space Law
• Astronomy Principles for the Classroom: Exploring our Universe/The Search for Life
• Space Technologies in the Classroom: Nanotechnology and Space Spinoffs
• Earth Systems Science: Planetary Geology
• Lunar/Mars Exploration and Base Construction
• Rocketry: Space History
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Three decades after the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this year’s Israeli athletic delegation joined Israeli diplomats and other Jews in commemorating that terrible loss this morning here in Beijing in an event sponsored by the Israeli embassy and the Israel Olympic Committee.
According to Haaretz, hundreds came to the event, including representatives of Israel’s athletic delegations, and Israel’s science, culture and sport minister, Raleb Majadele, who spoke of his friends among the athletes murdered in Germany.
What is troubling to learn is that the International Olympic Committee has refused to hold any official commemoration of the horrific event in the past 36 years.
JTA quotes the secretary-general of the Israeli Olympic Committee, Ephraim Zinger, who gave this answer as to why the IOC has steadfastly refused to acknowledge or commemorate the murders despite Israel’s raising the issue at every meeting with the IOC.
“Probably they are concerned about the reaction of those who will disagree with a memorial like this,” Zinger said. “There are 205 NOCs [national Olympic committees] participating in the Olympics, and there are more than a few dozen that will strongly disagree with this kind of event.” | <urn:uuid:2e0d3507-14c5-4c31-a896-0f39fb61dc23> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.forward.com/beijing-brief/14017/israel-commemorates-the-munich-massacre-here-in-be/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961579 | 251 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Wisdom From Senior Citizens
1. I started with nothing. I still have most of it.
2. When did my wild oats turn to prunes and all bran?
3. I finally got my head together, now my body is fallingapart.
4. Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
5. All reports are in. Life is now officially unfair.
6. If all is not lost, where is it?
7. It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
8. If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.
9. The first rule of holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
10. I tried to get a life once, but they told me they wereout of stock.
11. I went to school to become a wit, only got halfwaythough.
12. It was so different before everything changed.
13. Some days you're the dog, and some days you're thehydrant.
14. Nostalgia isn't what it use to be.
15. Old programmers never die. They just terminate andstay resident.
16. A day without sunshine is like a day in Seattle.
17. I wish the buck stopped here! I could use a few.
18. Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents inthe back seat cause kids.
19. It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's thesudden stop at the end.
20. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't beenanywhere.
21. Living on Earth is expensive, But it does include atrip around the sun.
22. The only time the world beats a path to your door isif you're in the bathroom.
23. If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would have putthem on my knees.
24. Never knock on death's door, ring the bell and run(he hates that).
25. Lead me not into temptation (I can find the way myself).
26. When you are finally holding all the cards, why doeseveryone else decide to play chess.
27. If you are living on the edge, make sure your wearingyour seatbelt.
28. There are two kinds of pedestrians. The quick and thedead.
29. An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
30. A closed mouth gathers no feet.
31. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at whichone can die.
32. Its not hard to meet expenses; they are everywhere.
33. Jury: Twelve people who determine which client hasthe better attorney.
34. The only difference between a rut and a grave is thedepth.
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Room 137, Bureau of Mines Building, WY
Toll Free: (307) 766-2929
Email: 766-6729 Fax
December 5, 2011 — State, national and international media frequently feature the University of Wyoming and members of its community in stories. Here is a summary of some of the recent articles where UW is making the news.
Colorado's Grand Junction Sentinel was among sites publishing the Associated Press version of UW's news release on the first two students receiving bachelor's degrees through the School of Energy Resources.
Professor Jon Naughton, director of UW's Wind Energy Research Center, is quoted in a Casper Star-Tribune story about wind energy economics.
UW's fall commencement news release was picked up by the Associated Press and appeared on several news outlets, including Cheyenne's CBS affiliate KGWN-TV. The Festival of Trees release also was picked up by KGWN.
The High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal published UW's news release about improvement in brucellosis research and testing at UW.
UW 4-H educator Rachel Vardiman has led a successful program in Johnson County that pairs 4-H kids with local businesses to learn about the particular business and learn different skills associated with them, according to a Sheridan Media.com story.
The regional agricultural publication Tri-State Livestock News carried UW's news release about the horse judging team's second-place finish at the American Quarter Horse Association's world championship.
KOWB Radio carried UW's release about the College of Engineering and Applied Science's 17th annual Senior Design Symposium.
WIA Report (Women in Academia) noted that Dorothy Yates, UW associate vice president for research, received the Herbert B. Chermside Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research Administration from the Society of Research Administrators.
UW and Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials are planning a $500,000 research project to study nutrition, habitat and movements of the Wyoming Range mule deer herd in southwest Wyoming, according to a story in The Billings Gazette. | <urn:uuid:2dc63edf-25f4-41be-86a7-4a78c56f5c24> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/uw-in-the-news/2011/12/uw-in-the-news.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934556 | 427 | 1.578125 | 2 |
URGENT ALERT: MEXICO
Take action against the officials who raided a high security women’s shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua State
On 9 June 2010, fourteen men, six of whom were carrying high-powered weapons, arrived at the secret facilities of Sin Violencia A.C. (“Without Violence”), the only high security shelter in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua State, Mexico, for women at extreme risk of violence. Heading the group was court clerk Román García, who presented a copy of an official letter signed by the First Judge of the Bravos Judicial District Family Court, Lic. Guadalupe Manuel de Santiago Aguayo. The letter authorized the use of force and breaking of locks in order to take immediate custody of a minor girl named in the letter. However, the letter was not addressed to the shelter. Accordingly, the shelter staff refused to allow the men to enter and asked for a search warrant, which the men did not have. The staff also informed the men that the girl was not at the shelter, and further explained that it was not possible to allow them to enter since it was a high-risk shelter where the protocols prohibited the entry of men, especially armed men.
The men threatened to send the shelter staff to prison and one of them, while showing his weapon, told the staff, “I invite you all to cooperate, or I will have no other choice but to act.” Another took the shelter director’s identification card saying that now he had more information about who was opposing them and further threatened, “You all are going to regret this, you’re going to get into trouble, it is better that you cooperate, and we’re going to tear down the doors and break the locks.”
Faced with threats of violence, the shelter staff was obliged to open the doors of the facility. The men entered the shelter violently, throwing furniture around, looking under beds and creating a hostile and terrifying situation for the resident women and children who had previously escaped violent situations in their homes. The men did not find the girl as she was not in the shelter.
Mexico’s General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, which is applicable in the State of Chihuahua, has been hailed internationally as a landmark law that comprehensively and holistically addresses all forms of violence against women. This law requires all levels of government to encourage the establishment and maintenance of shelters for victims and their children; acknowledges the need to keep the location of such shelters confidential; and stipulates that “shelters shall be safe places for victims, which means their location cannot be provided to persons unauthorized to go there.”
The law also recognizes that public servants may through their acts or omissions perpetrate violence against women and requires the government to “[s]trengthen the criminal and civil framework to ensure punishment for those who engage in harassment or persecution.” Mexico’s national legislation is further supported by its international commitments under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women.
The actions of the government officials who stormed the shelter constituted violence against women perpetrated by agents of the state and were in violation of Mexico’s national legislation and international obligations.
Please write to the Head of the Chihuahua State Supreme Court and the Governor of Chihuahua and ask them to take disciplinary action against the state officials involved in the raid on the shelter and to look into the possibility of prosecuting these officials who have so blatantly violated both the letter and the spirit of Mexico’s General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence. Ask them also to ensure that relevant government officials are thoroughly trained in implementing this law and in conducting themselves appropriately towards victims of violence and their defenders. Remind them of their obligations under state, federal and international law to protect the human rights of women. TAKE ACTION!
Letters should go to:
Lic. Rodolfo Acosta Muñoz
Head of the Supreme Court of the State of Chihuahua
Calle Allende No 901.
C.P. 31000, Zona Centro
Tel: +52 614 1 800 700 ext. 12800
Lic. José Reyes Baeza
Governor of the State of Chihuahua
Palacio de Gobierno
Calle Aldama # 901 Col Centro
Fax: +52 614 4 29 34 64
Tel: +52 614 4 29 33 00 ext. 11123
Send a copy to: Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres
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Family Faith Formation
A LITTLE ABOUT FAMILY PROGAMMING…
Each year, more and more families register for the weekly FAMILY PROGRAM held in Dougherty Hall.
What do we DO at these family sessions? A sampling of parent comments shared at the end of last year’s program will give some insights:
…My family and I have spent the last two years in Families at Ten. At first we chose the class because it was convenient to go right after mass on Sundays and did not add to our hectic weekly schedules, But I came to enjoy the fact that the class would expound on the readings from Mass and help everyone come to a better understanding of what God was asking of us.
…My family has enjoyed the families at ten and five programs. We find the reduced pressure and flexibility of not needing to attend every week helpful with our busy lives. Deacon Claude has put together engaging programs that has allowed us as a family to continue discussions at home. I like that this is a program that we can do together as a family, not just having the kids disappear into a classroom for an hour. It allows us to share our ideas about faith with our children more so than if they were in a traditional religious ed. setting.
…We really enjoy the Families at 10 program for several reasons. It gives us time "together" away from the daily hustle to relax, communicate with each other and learn more about our faith. Our son enjoys the program because it is always FUN. We play games while learning, share ideas with other families we know, and think about ways to better ourselves and others in the community. You (Deacon Claude) do an excellent job preparing the program and involving everyone during the class. I believe all the families enjoy this time no matter what age. I know I have learned a lot in the past several years and look forward to next year.
…My family joined family's at 5 this year and I thought it was a great and fun way to learn about our Lord and how we should live as Christians. It was a great experience to do this as a family because if your children see that you as parents are involved in our faith then they will also grow and be involved in their faith.
…We have enjoyed the Families program for a couple of years now. It's a great way to engage the entire family in sharing our religious education while sharing it with our friends and new acquaintances from the group. It is interesting, fun and often enlightening. The kids learn and the adults often are relearning or remembering things that we may have forgotten from our youth education programs.
…We have liked the Families program because it is flexible and allows us to attend as often as we can, but it's not a problem if we miss a week. It is nice to be able to participate together as a family to better understand the readings of the day rather than having separate religious ed. instruction. It has helped me as a parent to better understand things and to be able to explain them to my kids. I think it helps the kids to be more engaged with the mass, too, if they have a better understanding of the readings.
…the sessions helped us to really engage with the kids about the content vs. "how was religion class today?" that we'd typically ask when they were in the other program. We'd then be able to follow-up on what we discussed during the week or apply it to activities we did as a family. Another helpful part of the program was to hear how other families felt, practiced, etc. We felt it built a stronger sense of community than the after school/mass program.
…We enjoy the family time together and the sharing of ideas. We also enjoy the flexibility of the schedule (10 am or 5 pm). Our three children's individual perspectives have allowed them to learn from each other.
…I loved coming to class with my daughters, especially right after 9:00 mass. I was better able to understand what the liturgy was trying to teach us, as I am not really equipped to teach the girls myself. I can tell they learned a lot each week, and we are all better people for it. I loved the simple games that helped teach us how to be better Christians and citizens. The lessons definitely resonated with me and my kids. We talked about things that I am sure would have never been brought up in conversation if we hadn't attended Families at 10.
These are the words of just some of the families who have been part of the FAMILIES AT… program at St. Mary’s.
FLEXIBLE. On a given week, the Sunday program at 10 AM may work better in your schedule; another week, it may be the 5 PM program. And this year there is even more flexibility as we continue to offer the FAMILIES program at 8:30 AM on Sundays in St. Bridget’s.
FUN-FILLED is another trademark of these sessions. In each session, we use a variety of teaching approaches and activities. Often we are rushing to get through the day’s lesson in just an hour; the time never drags.
FAITH-FILLED is what these sessions are all about. We spend time each session coming to a better understanding of the day’s Scriptures and how to apply them in our daily lives.
WANT TO LEARN MORE?
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Ridge and furrow that grand remnant of medieval farming appear like ripples in the fields surrounding our villages and town. Tamworth is no exception and in this post I’ll be looking at ridge and furrow I’ve noticed to the north of Tamworth.
A quick explanation of ridge and furrow: Ridge and furrow is the result of ploughing by teams of oxen with non-reversible ploughs. In the middle ages families owned strips of land dotted throughout large common fields, so the ploughing location didn’t change much over the years . So over the years the ploughing motion built up earth in the centre of their strip and left a dip between each ridge. This technique offered the advantage of better drained soils. For more information on them take a look here and here.
These techniques pretty much ended when enclosure and modern farming techniques came along, this changed everything in the countryside and through it’s knock on effects, displaced peasants, richer single landowners changed pretty much everything else in the world through it’s speeding up of the industrial revolution. This meant though that evidence of ridge and furrow patterns have only survived where modern ploughing hasn’t continued. So that’s fields that have been kept for pasture as grasslands and areas like country estate gardens.
The results are ondulating green fields. The effect is mesmerising and the appearance of the ridges and furrows changes with the light throughout the day. Apparenty the best time of day is sunrise, haven’t managed to take photos at this time yet another one for the list. In one way they can be seen as monuments to the toil and lifestyle of those medieval peasants. Just as grand in their way as castles and cathedrals and satisfying that basic need, to eat! Unlike great stone age earthworks they were built over slowly and gradually over hundreds of years. Something pretty special about all that daily struggle for survival preserved as gently ripples in a field.
I’m lucky that I’ve been able to see a field system and even landscapes which in some ways bear resemblance with medieval central England. My father comes from the frontier lands between Portugal and Spain in northern Spain in a region called Galicia. It’s far away from the typical Spain image as possible, it’s a land of green rolling hills, chestnut forests and bagpipes. Until recently(a couple of decades) it had a vibrant peasant culture in the countryside. Villages separated by hundreds of metres dot the hills, they were largely self sufficient and surrounding the villages are fields strips reminiscent of the old ridge and furrow system which operated around Tamworth. People still have in their possession small strips of land sometimes tiny in size. Each of your plots are sprinkled throughout the area. One by the stream, one on a hillside, a chestnut grove here and another on the other side of the village, this was I believe it was similar to pre enclosure England.
I’m not saying that recent peasant Galicia is the same as life in the countryside around Tamworth 500 years ago. Each region is different, it’s own history and culture, don’t want to go down that road of ”like England but 30 years ago” way of thinking. Were in 2011 together! It does help though in seeing what a peasant countryside looks like and how it works,one without affluent landowners and commuter villages. Maybe a better way of thinking about it would be idea of how rural England would have been today if enclosure and industrial revolution hadn’t have happened or had happened differently.
Below I’ve marked on a google map image evidence for ridge and furrow together with documentary and archaeological evidence for medieval villages. It’s not complete and is just to give an idea of the amount of villages in the landscape surrounding Tamworth. It was in effect a world of villages, After all towns were not much more than large villages themselves. Forgot to mention that ridge and furrow is a good pointer that there was a village thereabouts. Some of those villages continued such as Wigginton while others such as Syerscote became single farms and country estates. What happened to the dissappeared villages? Well enclosure and concentrating the land and profits into single farms must have a been big reason. Also similar to this was landowners using the land for the more profitable sheep grazing and chucking the peasants off the land. This appears to have started back in the 16th century. Also there’s the simple fact that with mechanization farming just doesn’t need that many people working on the fields. The result is a far more lonely but could be argued more profitable landscape.
1. Ridge and furrow and some interesting earthworks including hollow ways(click on google freezeframe image below) on the northern edge of modern Wigginton village, supports the idea that the village has been displaced to the south(from Staffordshire HER).
Just to the east of Wigginton village are extensive ridge and furrow patterns. You can even make out the individual field boundaries(pastscape).
A photo of the ridge and furrow taken on a walk through these fields along a public footpath. Contender for the best preserved ridge and furrow I’ve seen around Tamworth.
2. Ridge and Furrow around modern day Syerscote farm. According to Pastscape scape entry you can also make out house platforms, together with the fields is evidence for a dissappeared medieval settlement, consisted of 5 houses and was deserted between 1334 -1524(Staffordshire HER).
3. In the land surrounding Amington hall, this field report states that an aerial photograph turned up evidence for a medieval village, together with the telltale sign of a medieval fishpond. According to HER Staffordshire could be site of village known in Domesday book as ‘Ermendone’. Nowadays there’s a later Victorian fishpond just to the right. Can’t make out any ridge and furrow from the ground but the landscape is pretty special around here, with it’s stately ancient oaks, Old 16th/18th century Amington hall and the bends of the river Anker.
4. Statfold. Walking on further up from Syerscote, are the impressive ridge and furrow systems surrounding modern day Statfold farm. There is documentary evidence here for a medieval village and there were still houses and community around the house until living memory. (from a conversation with the owner of the house, more on that in next photo)
Just tried to save the rest of post and lost it, bahh. Understandably think I’ll leave it for later!
All Saints Church
5. Wigginton park
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Nutrition Centre Gives Mothers and Children Hope for a Healthy Future
By Elliot Hannon
Purulia, India - When Rasumani Mahato’s one-year-old daughter, Bhanumati, was no longer strong enough to sit up on her own, Mahato knew something was wrong. She didn’t know what the problem was, but Bhanumati’s appetite vanished and she refused to eat even the biscuits that were part of her staple diet.
Mahato met the Anganwadi worker who referred her for a check-up at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in her village where she was told that her daughter was severely malnourished. “I thought she had some disease, but when I came here I realised it was food that was the treatment,” says Mahato.
Malnutrition, particularly during childhood, can have a lifelong impact on a child. Undernourishment makes common childhood diseases, like diarrhoea and pneumonia, potentially fatal and stunts the physical and cognitive development of a child.
In West Bengal, the problem is also acute, as 19 per cent of children under the age of five are undernourished. With UNICEF’s efforts and IKEA Foundation support, the Positive Deviance programme was extended to address the problem of severe malnutrition in the state.
In partnership with the Department of Health and Family Welfare and the district administration of Purulia, UNICEF established the first NRC at the Bengunkodor Primary Health Centre of Jhalda Block 2 to provide medical support, as well as nutritional care and lifestyle counselling for mothers with children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
“We hope the Purulia model will be a role model for other districts,” says Purulia District Magistrate, Avanindra Singh, when talking of the 10-month old centre. “The target is to have 21 NRCs in the district so that the maximum number of such severe cases of malnourishment can be handled by professionals.”
The centre resembles the children’s ward of a hospital. Mothers sit on hospital-style beds nursing squirming children in each of the centre’s two dormitory-style rooms. Uniformed attendants shuffle around on squeaky clean floors. The hospital atmosphere underlines how serious the problem is for many of the children staying at the centre.
“All the children that come here are very thin, some can’t sit, some can’t play, some can’t walk and some are only skin and bones,” says Dr Bilweswar Chattaraj, the physician overseeing the NRC.
In the severest cases where there are medical complications, the child is admitted for between two and three weeks and receives 24-hour medical treatment and support.
Once admitted, every aspect of daily life of the mothers and their children is monitored. The mother receives hands-on training on child care practices, including feeding. Feeding and bathing times are scheduled, as is education and training on healthy cooking for the mothers.
“The mothers are learning how to feed, look after and cook for their children. Before they didn’t know about the food that is healthy for children and is cheap and locally available,” says Dr Chattaraj.
Sustaining a healthy family
Every bit helped for Bipula Kalindi, 20, who spent 21 days at the NRC. Before her stay at the centre, Kalindi fed her two-year-old son Bijoy mostly powdered milk because, she says, that’s what she thought was best for children.
During her stay she learned how to wash vegetables thoroughly before cutting them and was counselled on food hygiene and the importance of hand washing with soap at critical times. She was also taught how to properly bathe her son to keep him from getting sick again. “I now realise that I could have done the things I learned at the NRC at home,” says Bipula.
Fultusi Kalindi, 30, came to the NRC with her two-year-old son, Amit, after the community Anganwadi worker said he was dangerously thin. Amit’s doing much better, she says, but he’s not the only one. “They gave me nutritious food, so I’m feeling better as well,” says Fultusi.
To ease the financial burden for many of the women, who are sometimes surviving on less than 50 rupees (a little more than US$1) a day, the centre pays them 100 rupees (a little over US$2) as compensation for their daily wage so they will complete their stay here.
After checking out of the centre, each mother is visited by the Anganwadi Worker to check on the progress of their child. For Mahato, now that she’s learned how to keep her child healthy, she’s looking to the future for her daughter. “I have to make sure she gets a good education. I will have to buy books and stationery, but I will do whatever is required,” she says.
Many of the changes will be gradual, but some of the results are immediate, says Dr Chattaraj. “When they go home we see playful children. There’s a change in their faces, a change in their weight, some children who were about to die are now getting a better life because of this centre.” | <urn:uuid:b216144d-21b0-47b3-b34a-931bdd7ec2d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unicef.org/india/reallives_7199.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97385 | 1,160 | 2.375 | 2 |
Sept. 30, 2011
Two King County organizations honored with first-ever Executive's Awards for Community Preparedness
VashonBePrepared and Carnation-Duvall Citizen Corps Council recognized for preparedness and response efforts
Two local organizations were recognized today by King County Executive Dow Constantine for their commitment to emergency preparedness and response. VashonBePrepared and the Carnation-Duvall Citizen Corps Council were both honored with the first-ever Executive’s Awards for Community Preparedness.
“When storms knocked out power and blocked roads last winter, I saw first-hand how members of VashonBePrepared jumped into action to open warming shelters and deploy a ‘bucket brigade’ to distribute fuel for generators – keeping Island residents from suffering in the cold,” said Executive Constantine. “I was also very impressed with the work of the Carnation-Duvall Citizens Corps Council to provide shelters and keep their community informed during flood events. I am pleased to honor the spirit of self-reliance shown by these hardworking volunteers and encourage others to follow their lead.”
VashonBePrepared was chosen for its quick action after last year’s Thanksgiving week winter storm that knocked down power lines and left many Vashon and Maury Island residents in the dark. Volunteers also coordinated the emergency response with King County and Puget Sound Energy to restore power to the area in half the time originally forecast.
“The impressive work done by VashonBePrepared in those cold, dark days went beyond the basics,” Executive Constantine said. “Their ongoing actions demonstrate a ‘whole community’ approach to disaster response.”
“Island communities can be isolated from emergency resources if disaster strikes. Preparation is the most important thing a community can do to ensure their safety,” said Councilmember Joe McDermott who represents Vashon and Maury Islands. “VashonBePrepared is a model for other communities, and I commend them, their volunteers and partner organizations, and all the people of Vashon and Maury Islands for their exemplary work preparing for the unexpected.”
The Carnation-Duvall Citizen Corps Council was also honored by Executive Constantine. The council, one of the first of its kind in King County, is a partnership of local volunteer groups and first responders who are active in disaster preparedness and response.
“Every year, residents of the Snoqualmie Valley experience flooding that impacts peoples’ lives and livelihoods,” Executive Constantine said. “Through the planning and education efforts spearheaded by the Carnation-Duvall Citizen Corps Council, residents of the Snoqualmie Valley are better prepared to take action when floodwaters rise.”
“The dedicated volunteers in the Carnation-Duvall Citizen Corps Council are a huge asset to the community, and they continue with regular training and drilling nine years after formation of the Corps,” added Councilmember Kathy Lambert, who represents the Snoqualmie Valley communities and helped establish the organization. “They offer community emergency response team classes with the breadth and depth of information and experiences that empower residents to respond to many emergencies. Their efforts were recognized by FEMA Region X as one of the first and most successful Citizen Corps in the country, and they continue to provide an excellent model of grassroots community coordination.”
“As we head into another winter storm season, with the prospect of a ‘double-dip’ La Niña on the horizon, it is more important than ever for communities to be prepared,” Executive Constantine said. “We encourage everyone to take the steps necessary to prepare themselves, their families, and their neighborhoods for emergencies.”
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PERSONAL HEALTH; Save Emergency Rooms for Emergencies
By JANE E. BRODY
Published: April 27, 2010
One of President George W. Bush's most injudicious statements was his suggestion in 2007 that anyone who could not afford private medical care could always go to the emergency room.
It is true that emergency rooms are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and are required by law to accept all comers regardless of their ability to pay (although many will do whatever they can to turn away those without insurance or cash unless they are critically ill or injured or brought in by ambulance). And in this no-house-calls era, doctors' answering machines commonly advise their patients with a medical emergency to call 911 or go to the emergency room.
But even people who have a personal physician are often inclined to go to the emergency room when they have a bad sore throat or a persistent cough and are unable to reach their own doctor. And as any responsible medical professional will tell you, emergency rooms are hardly the place to go for run-of-the-mill ailments.
That is especially true now that millions of Americans have lost their jobs and the medical insurance that comes with them. Lacking any option, they are showing up in emergency rooms, contributing to ever-longer waits and a higher risk of cursory treatment by overworked doctors and nurses.
The new federal health care legislation should take some of the pressure off. It includes $11 billion to establish more than 1,200 community health centers to provide treatment -- and, one would hope, preventive care -- to low-income patients who now rely on emergency rooms for their health needs.
My family's experience with emergency rooms better reflects when and how they should be used.
For me: I suffered what turned out to be a hemorrhage in my ear on a flight to Arizona and, in the middle of the night, was in such pain I was banging my head against a concrete wall. Likewise, on a trip to Florida, while packing to go home, I threw my back out and couldn't stand or walk despite a fistful of pain medication.
For my son Erik: When he was 10, on a visit to Minnesota on Labor Day weekend, he suffered a terrible bite from a neighbor's dog and was bleeding profusely from his ear and mouth.
For my husband: In his 40s when he was still a smoker, he developed severe chest pain which, fortunately, turned out not to be a heart attack. Decades later, during treatment for cancer, he awoke one morning unable to walk and his oncologist said to call an ambulance because he was at risk of paralysis.
For my grandson Stefan: At age 6, he fell from a monkey bar in the schoolyard and broke his arm.
For my daughter-in-law Kris: At a skating party, she fell backward on her head and blacked out, unable to recall what had happened.
In a real emergency, like severe chest pain, difficulty breathing or profuse bleeding, the fastest route to care is to call 911 for an ambulance. The patient will be taken directly to an E.R. bed and evaluated immediately. Even before arrival, the ambulance personnel will have alerted the emergency room to the patient's condition and expected time of arrival so that the proper help will be on hand without delay.
For those who come to an emergency room on their own or are taken by a relative or friend, personnel at the front desk will ask about symptoms to determine if immediate care is needed. If not, a triage nurse will assess the patient's condition to assure that the sickest people are seen first.
Thus, you will not necessarily be taken in the order of arrival and you might have to wait a long time -- even hours -- to be seen by a doctor if your condition is not deemed serious by the triage nurse.
My son, husband and daughter-in-law were seen right away because their symptoms warranted immediate attention. But despite excruciating pain, my grandson and I had to wait; our symptoms were not considered a threat to life or limb.
As the demand for emergency room services rises, the waiting times can get longer and longer, sometimes reaching as long as eight hours, with occasional horror stories of patients who die while waiting to see a doctor.
When to Go
In his well-researched book ''The Essential Hospital Handbook'' (Yale University Press, 2009), Patrick Conlon lists the following conditions to help people determine who should go to the E.R., based on recommendations from the American College of Emergency Physicians:
Chest or upper abdominal pain or pressure.
Fainting, sudden dizziness, weakness.
Changes in vision.
Confusion or changes in mental state.
Any sudden or severe pain.
Severe or persistent vomiting or diarrhea.
Coughing or vomiting blood.
Shortness of breath.
Unusual abdominal pain.
In addition, children should be taken to the emergency room if they persistently refuse to eat or drink (especially under age 5) or have persistent fever above 100.4.
Mr. Conlon writes that the E.R. is seldom the right place for people with minor burns or injuries; sprains or strains; coughs, colds or sore throats; ear infections; fever (except as noted above) or flulike symptoms; skin irritations and rashes; mild asthma or any chronic health problem.
Yet the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports that among the top reasons people seek emergency care are sprains, strains, bruises and other superficial injuries. (Chest and abdominal pain, legitimate reasons for seeking emergency care, are the others.) Minor ailments like sore throats and infections are not high on the list, but people with such complaints contribute to long waits for everyone in the E.R.
When emergency care is needed and time permits, Mr. Conlon suggests considering what to take and what to leave at home. Bring a list of any medications and over-the-counter remedies the patient takes; the name and phone number of the family doctor; proof of insurance; a brief health history; enough cash for incidentals; plenty of reading material; and, I would add, a fully charged cellphone. But leave home all jewelry and other valuables.
Finally, don't be afraid to speak up if symptoms get significantly worse or intolerable while you are waiting. Check periodically with the desk personnel to remind them why you are there.
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Last summer, the National Science Foundation named a previously undiscovered species of fish after the late reggae icon Bob Marley. Now researchers have looked skyward and found the remnant of a star in the shape of an endangered manatee.
The gas cloud, which the National Radio Astronomy Observatory calls the Manatee Nebula, is 18,000 light years away and impossible to view with a common telescope. It took 10,000 years to assume the shape of a manatee, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services says.
There also are star fragments named after eagles, crabs, and pelicans, the agency said. Which might cause a Toledoan to ask: What about walleye? | <urn:uuid:0e1da48d-0fda-458a-922f-ae8698fde58e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.toledoblade.com/Editorials/2013/02/15/Heavenly-walleye.print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937671 | 147 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Marxist Sociology – The Family in Marxist Society
Marxist sociologists view the modern family created by bourgeois society as a great failure because its foundation is in capital and private wealth. Proletarians, however, are not tainted by the flaws in the bourgeois family and will never enter into family relations as they exist in present society. The proletariat is destined to usher in a new utopian society with a higher form of family. According to Kollontai, “The family deprives the worker of revolutionary consciousness”1 and must, therefore, be shunned.
Engels predicts the kind of family that will evolve when the proletariat revolts and creates its perfect socialist society: “With the transfer of the means of production into common ownership, the single family ceases to be the economic unit of society. Private housekeeping is transformed into a social industry. The care and education of the children becomes a public affair; society looks after all children alike, whether they are legitimate or not. This removes all the anxiety about the consequences which today is the most essential social-moral as well as economic factor that prevents a girl from giving herself completely to the man she loves. Will not that suffice to bring about the gradual growth of unconstrained sexual intercourse and with it a more tolerant public opinion in regard to a maiden’s honor and a woman’s shame?”2
Marxist Sociology – The Context of Community
In the new social order premarital and extramarital sex and adultery cease to have the same meaning because within the context of community, there is no private property and everyone belongs to everyone.
In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels argue that the idea of a “community of women” is not new, but “has existed almost from time immemorial.”3 To answer critics arguing that communism would “introduce a community of women,” Marx and Engels respond, “Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with, is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalized community of women.”4
The care of children also becomes a public affair in Marxist society. Children play an insignificant role in the family of the ultimate society since they become the entire community’s responsibility. In effect, children are disengaged from the family in socialist society so the “school becomes literally a home.”5 Alienating children from their parents ensures that children formulate their worldview according to the education provided by the Marxist state rather than according to the outdated views regarding religion and the traditional family structure held by their parents.
Rendered with permission from the book, Understanding the Times: The Collision of Today’s Competing Worldviews (Rev. 2nd ed), David Noebel, Summit Press, 2006. Compliments of John Stonestreet, David Noebel, and the Christian Worldview Ministry at Summit Ministries. All rights reserved in the original.
1 Aleksandra M. Kollontai, Communism and the Family (New York, NY: Andrade’s Bookshop, 1920), 10. Cited in H. Kent Geiger, The Family in Soviet Russia (Cambridge, UK: Harvard University Press, 1970), 51.
2 Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, 67.
3 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, 40 vols. (New York, NY: International Publishers, 1976), 6:502.
5 V. Yazykova, Socialist Life Style and the Family (Moscow, USSR: Progress Publishers, 1984), 1.
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By: Pat Brisson, Illustrated by: Laurie Caple
Mama Loves Me From Away captures the relationship between mother and child during difficult times. The beginning of the story introduces readers to the young girl and her mother's special bond. As the story progresses, Sugar, the young girl, experiences a variety of emotions after her mother is sentenced to prison. This story shows how family members can stay in touch despite the distance between them.
I think that many families can relate to the ideas in this story. If a student in your classroom has a parent serving jail time, this text would be especially helpful. Also, if children were separated from their parents due to a divorce, the idea of this story could be used to help them understand that parents still love their children from far away. This book does not go into detail about why the mother is serving time. If you read this story to students, I think that it would be important to have a discussion about jail sentences and what it means to serve a sentence.
This book does not address the five stages of social justice. The ideas in this story successfully address the first three stages. The characters in this story allow readers to learn about the culture of a family and how it functions when a parent is far away. Students might not identify with the culture represented in the story, but they will most likely be able to strengthen their intercultural competence of the culture presented in the text. Related discussions about jails and jail sentences could explore issues of social justice/forms of oppression. | <urn:uuid:47af7ada-33c8-4b12-bf11-a7f6a09ee46d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://6elementssje.blogspot.com/2012/05/mama-loves-me-from-away.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975163 | 308 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Distinguished Book Award
The Division offers this award for a book that has made a significant contribution to the field of LGBT psychology. The award is generally given to a book published within the two years prior to its nomination. The Division encourages self-nominations by authors, as well as nominations from publishers and readers. These works represent highly valuable contributions to scholarship that synthesize research and practice and advance the development of science, practice, and policy on LGBT issues in psychology.
The award goes to: Ellen Riggle and Sharon Rostosky’s book, A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being. This book starts a new conversation about the strengths and benefits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGTBQ) identities. Positive LGBTQ identities are affirmed through inspiring firsthand accounts. Focusing on how LGTBQ-identified individuals can cultivate a sense of well-being and a personal identity that allows them to flourish in all areas of life, the authors explore a variety of themes. Through personal stories from people with a variety of backgrounds and gender and sexual identities, readers will learn more about expressing gender and sexuality; creating strong and intimate relationships; exploring unique perspectives on empathy, compassion, and social justice; belonging to communities and acting as role models and mentors; and, enjoying the benefits of living an authentic life. Providing exercises in each chapter, the book offers those who identify as LGBTQ and those who support and love them, as well as those seeking to better understand them, an opportunity to explore and appreciate these identities.
The Initial Psychotherapy Interview: A Gay Man Seeks Treatment, edited by Charles Silverstein, is the recipient of the award this year. The book is published by Elsevier. The book is organized around an hour-long interview with “Scott,” a 30-year-old gay man who seeks treatment from Dr. Silverstein after the death of his much loved and admired gay older brother. While his brother’s death serves as the catalyst for Scott seeking treatment, this profound loss is only one part of the story. The transcript of Silverstein’s interview provides rich clinical data for a myriad of authors to reflect and comment on in their chapters of the book. This is an exceptional and important contribution to our practice literature.
Also of note are Charles Silverstein’s important contributions to the history of our Division, as he was one of the participants in the very first Division 44 symposium at an APA Convention. That symposium honored those pioneers who had provided the courage, leadership, and personal role models necessary for the founding of Division 44. The participants were Adrienne Smith (chair), Del Martin, Charles Silverstein, Gerald Davison, Judd Marmor, and Harold Kooden; with Stephen Morin and Evelyn Hooker as discussants—an all-star panel of our profession, if ever there was one.
When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage by M.V. Lee Badgett. In view of one of the major themes of this convention—marriage equality—it is particularly fitting that one of this year’s Distinguished Books is M. V. Lee Badgett’s When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. Badgett shows, as we know, the heavens don’t fall and heterosexual marriages don’t crumble. And, as we would expect, many gay couples benefit, sometimes in surprising ways, from the legal, social, and political rights that the institution offers. Badgett takes readers to a country where it has been legal for same sex couples to marry since 2001, the Netherlands, and she examines all sides of this issue. This includes how same sex couples decide whether to marry, the controversial nature of marriage in the gay and lesbian community, the implications of same sex marriage for heterosexual marriage as an institution, and how marriage has the potential to change fundamentally gay identity and community. Badgett collected the data and her careful cross national study of this extraordinary moment in the history of Western marriage is a unique and essential contribution to discussions about same sex equality.
Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Cycle by Abbie E. Goldberg. Abbie E. Goldberg’s book, Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle, is one of the recipients of this year’s Division 44 Distinguished Book Award. This ground-breaking book, published this year by the American Psychological Association, focuses on the family life transitions—how couples meet and decide to marry, decisions to have children, changing roles when an infant is born, their experiences and those of their children. Until now, however, nothing covered these turning points in the lives of gay men and lesbians. In this time of increasing discussion about lesbian and gay parenthood, such research is particularly useful in informing us about the normative aspects of life transitions and their relationships to the lesbian and gay community. Some of the findings are expected; others are more surprising. Integrating both qualitative and quantitative approaches, this book incorporates a range of disciplines and highlights understudied aspects of same sex parenting, such as termination of couple relationships. With practical recommendations in every chapter, this book is an indispensable resource for those who research lesbian and gay mental health and family issues as well as those who provide services to lesbian and gay parents and parents-to-be.
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire, by Lisa M. Diamond, Ph.D. This groundbreaking book was published to much acclaim, including being featured, with its eminent author, on the Oprah show. A landmark book with the potential to permanently change the landscape of sexuality studies, Sexual Fluidity is well written and theoretically driven. The book traces Dr. Diamond's ten year study of sexual development that has produced both scientific data and fascinating personal stories that help us better appreciate the lives of young women as they come to an understanding and expression of their sexual development. It offers a new paradigm, while not in contradistinction to men's sexual development, that is unique and worthy of our consideration.
The life narratives by the young women are unparalleled is in their honesty and complexity as they intertwined their sexual and romantic attractions, desires, and behaviors. Reviews note this book as ground breaking, insightful, and one of the most important books on women's sexual development in decades.
Affirmative psychotherapy with bisexual women and bisexual men, edited by Ronald C. Fox, Ph.D. An outgrowth of Dr. Fox's many years of clinical practice, education, and advocacy on behalf of bisexual men and women, his groundbreaking volume helps to further the research and practice of Psychology as it relates to this area. There is a paucity of literature on affirmative psychotherapy with this population and the contributors to Dr. Fox's volume offer an enlightened model that moves us past a polarized to a multidimensional view of the interrelatedness of all forms of sexual orientation. This compilation will assist therapists who seek to provide culturally competent services to bisexuals who are transgender, African American, in their senior years, and heterosexual spouses of bisexual men and women. Dr. Fox also devotes space in the book to chronicle the history of APA's and Division 44's own evolution of inclusiveness of sexual minorities. The wide range of topics within this book related to bisexuality will likely provide a framework for advances in practice and scientific investigation for years to come.
Out in Psychology: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Perspectives by Victoria Clarke, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Peel, Ph.D., Editors. This book is notable for its exploration of international research, theory, and practice in the field. It is only the second British edited LGBT psychology text and the first edited collection from the UK to integrate trans and queer perspectives into LGBT psychology. Out in Psychology brings together 38 established LGBT psychologists from the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia to explore a wide range of topics. The book represents a refreshing perspective on well established topics such as lesbian and gay health and LGBT youth, as well as new topics such as sports and individual differences. Out in Psychology brings innovative perspectives and an international framework, and promises to be an important addition to the literature in LGBTQ psychology.
- 2006 Same-Sex Marriage: The Legal and Psychological Evolution in America by Donald J. Cantor and Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender Variant People and Their Families by Arlene Istar Lev
- 2005 The New Gay Teenager by Ritch Savin-Williams
- 2004 Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients by Christopher R. Martell, Steven A. Safren, & Stacey E. Prince
- 2004 No More Secrets: Violence in lesbian relationships by Janice I. Ristock.
- 2003 Adrian Coyle & Celia Kitzinger (2002) Lesbian & Gay Psychology: New Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
- 2003 Kathleen Y. Ritter & Anthony I. Terndrup. (2002) Handbook of Affirmative Psychology with Lesbians and Gay Men. New York: Guilford.
- 2002 Ariel Shidlo, Michael Schroeder & Jack Drescher (Eds.) (2001). Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical, and Research Perspectives. New York: Haworth Medical.
- 2001 Ruperto M. Perez, Kurt A. DeBord and Kathleen J. Bieschke (Eds.) (2000). Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
- 1999 Caitlan Ryan and Donna Futterman. (1998). Lesbian & Gay Youth: Care & Counseling. New York: Columbia University Press.
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Bell peppers and chili peppers both are produce favorites with fan bases that are expanding every year.
Bell peppers rank as the fifth most popular vegetable, according to The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2012. And they ranked as the No. 3 item that consumers buy now that they did not buy previously.
Fresh Trends says 67% of shoppers purchased bell peppers and more than 25% purchased chilies within the past 12 months. The likelihood of a specialty pepper purchase increased 10 percentage points over the previous year. Pamela Riemenschneider
Most retailers offer green, red, yellow and orange bell peppers, but the lower-priced green variety generally is the best-seller.
Green and colored varieties both are popular at the more than 150 Tyler, Texas-based Brookshire Food Stores locations, says Keith Durham, category manager of fresh.
Green peppers are consistent sellers, but many shoppers prefer the perfect-looking colored ones that are grown in hothouses.
Brookshire sells packaged baby green and colored peppers, but those sales pale in comparison with bulk.
The chain features bell peppers on ad once or twice a month, with green ones priced at 2 for $1 compared with a regular price of 99 cents each. Colored bell peppers typically are priced at 10 for $10 on sale, compared with 3 for $4 regularly.
When they’re on ad, Durham merchandises peppers on end caps. Otherwise, they’re allotted 2 or 3 feet on a continental rack.
Durham says he often displays green and colored bell peppers together, even though they have different price points. He sometimes promotes peppers with yellow onions, cucumbers and squash.
A trend toward four-packs is growing at Angeli Foods Co., a group of three stores based in Iron River, Mich., says Gary Simonson, produce manager for one location.
The company sells bulk peppers and four-packs of colored peppers — usually two red, one yellow and one orange.
“The four-packs have really taken off,” Simonson says.
A year ago, 75% of Angeli’s pepper sales were bulk. Now they’re split about 50-50 between bulk and packaged product.
There’s less shrink with packaged peppers than with bulk, he says. They’re also easier to stack without damaging the product.
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Among the most common problems for women are those involving the reproductive system. As women with personal experience in this area, we will focus first on several female problems. This topic has been the subject of many good books; we recommend Herbal Healing for Women by Rosemary Gladstar, Herbal for the Child-Bearing Years by Susun Wees and Hygeia: a Woman's Herbal by Jeannine Parvati Baker (see bibliography).
PMS and Menstrual Cramps
The more researchers learn about hormonal substances called prostaglandins, the more obvious it becomes that they can cause PMS (premenstrual syndrome) and menstrual cramps. Certain prostaglandins called PG2 can be responsible for headaches, bowel changes, nausea, breast tenderness, joint pain and water retention, and contribute to moodiness, irritability and alcohol cravings-all common PMS symptoms. Ginger, cinnamon, cloves, thyme and garlic lower PG2 and can be eaten in foods. Relieve menstrual cramps with essential oils of chamomile, lavender, marjoram and melissa. For depression associated with PMS, nothing is better than clary sage, but you may also try neroli, jasmine and ylang-ylang. If you experience water retention, use grapefruit, carrot seed and juniper.
Any of these essential oils (except garlic) can be used as a massage or bath oil. If headache is among your PMS symptoms, try inhaling lavender, marjoram or melissa. (For best results with any PMS or menstruation remedy, begin using it a couple of days before symptoms are expected.)
For problems related to hormonal imbalance, treat the liver with carrot seed, rosemary, helichrysum and rose. To encourage menstruation, use clary sage. Most women's conditions benefit from the use of the balancing lavender, geranium and rose.
Menstrual Cramp Oil
4 drops lavender
2 drops marjoram
2 drops chamomile or clary sage*
3 drops geranium
1 drop ginger
1 ounce carrier oil (infused oil of yarrow)
Combine ingredients. Apply to abdomen, hips and lower back.
*See Materia Medica "Considerations."
Many women have experienced at least one bout of yeast infection, which is usually easy to control. Chamomile, lavender, bergamot and tea tree inhibited about 70 percent of candida growth in laboratory experiments. Although opinion varies among gynecologists as to whether common yeast infections can be transmitted between sex partners, it's safest to treat both individuals.
Douching has met with criticism in recent years because some gynecologists fear it can upset the normal vaginal balance of a healthy woman or spread infection into the uterus. If done gently, however, douching is a good way to treat vaginal infection. Be sure to suspend the bag no higher than shoulder level so that the flow of water isn't too strong.
An appropriate essential-oil blend can also be applied to the abdomen or used in a bath. Another recommendation is to soak a tampon-or better, a small, soft natural sea sponge-in water containing essential oils. Use two sponges and alternate, sterilizing sponges between use by gently boiling or soaking in vinegar with a few drops of lavender oil. (Rinse well before using.)
Tea tree or lavender are very effective for vaginal yeast. We recommend caulophyllum or yarrow oil as a carrier oil.
1 drop thyme (chemotype linalol only)
1 drop chamomile
1 drop lavender
2 drops tea tree
2 drops bergamot
1 drop geranium
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As soon as Peter Tsapatsaris parachuted into the Pacific off Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, bombs began falling like rain on the island.
The Marine corporal jumped into a foxhole. There, he saw a familiar face -- James Tsaffaras, a childhood friend from Lowell's Acre neighborhood -- already taking cover. The next one to jump into the foxhole was Tsapatsaris' best friend, James Scondras, aka "the Chief," who led the Lowell High School basketball team to a state championship in 1933.
The reunion provided just a brief reprieve, though. By Feb. 25, Tsapatsaris would find himself bleeding from bullet wounds in both legs for six hours before fellow troops rescued him. He would then hear that a mortar shell had killed Scondras.
"Jimmy died at 6:30 p.m.," Tsapatsaris repeatedly said in an interview.
Those are the grim details of the World War II that Tsapatsaris never used to talk about. But pushing 91, he now shares his stories as a lesson.
"War is hell," Tsapatsaris said. "It's an awful thing."
Tsapatsaris' 87-year-old brother, Charles, believes Memorial Day is a perfect time to remind people of that. The holiday, he said, rekindles the fond memories people have about those who served and those who made the ultimate sacrifice. And honoring the brave souls, like his brother -- who lives in Dracut and led its Memorial Day parade as grand marshal -- helps people appreciate the peace they enjoy even more.
"I feel pretty good about it," Tsapatsaris
"He is a true American hero," said his friend, Byron Zakos.
Like most World War II veterans, Tsapatsaris for years would seldom talk about his war experiences.
"It was never about them," Panagiotakos said. "It was about us."
Tsapatsaris who earned two Purple Hearts for his bravery and injuries in World War II, is a humble man. His friend, Harold Moshovetis, vice commander of the local Greek American Legion, calls him a "first-class" Marine.
The Lowell High School graduate enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943 at the age of 25 and served through the end of the war as a corporal.
His three-year tour of duty would teach him a simple truth about battlefields: "You have to be lucky in order to survive."
Tsapatsaris particularly remembers jumping into a trench in Guam when he saw grenades flying toward him. He would stay there overnight, buried from the neck down in human feces, knowing that Japanese soldiers were scouring the area for enemies to kill.
Another night, he slept on a pile of Japanese soldiers' bodies.
People must know such grisly details to understand the reality of war, Tsapatsaris said.
"That's what war is all about," he said.
Despite his Purple Hearts, Tsapatsaris never bragged about his war experience, said his cousin, George Behrakis.
In fact, his family has had a tough time trying to get stories out of him, said his brother, Charles, who fought in the invasion of the Philippines during the World War II.
Their three other brothers, George, who later served as superintendent of Lowell's public schools, Steven and the late Michael, all served in the Korean War.
To this day, Tsapatsaris, who worked for Courier Corp. for 37 years after the war, talks more about Scondras and how he was "one of the best guys you would want to get to know."
He also often thinks about Tsaffaras, who died two years ago.
Tsapatsaris still has shrapnel from war wounds is still in Tsapatsaris' kneecap. On some days, it hurts almost as much as the reminder of his war memories.
Tsapatsaris said he has always taught his son, who is a doctor at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, and his daughter, who works in the banking industry, to stay out of war. There is nothing good about it, he told them.
And he wants to say the same to the younger generation.
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Proper vaccine storage and handling procedures include but are not limited to the following:
All vaccines should be stored with the caps on in their original boxes until they are needed. Light exposure may cause loss of potency in vaccines and other biologics. Therefore, these products should be protected from light exposure at all times.
Certain live vaccines must be stored in a continuously frozen state at -15°C or colder until administration. In Canada, most live vaccines are licenced as refrigerator stable products. However, if the vaccine is received frozen from the vaccine supply source, it may be stored in the freezer. Do not refreeze vaccines. Always refer to the product monograph for the most up-to-date information on storage information.
Inactivated vaccines are sensitive to both excessive heat and freezing. They should be stored in a refrigerator at +2°C to +8°C, with a desired average temperature of +5°C (mid-point that allows for ±3°C buffer). Exposure to temperatures outside this range may result in decreased vaccine potency and increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Diluent that is packaged separately from its corresponding lyophilized (freeze-dried) vaccine can be stored at room temperature or in the refrigerator. To conserve space, these diluents may also be stored in the door of the refrigerator. Use only the diluent accompanying the vaccine for reconstitution as specified by the manufacturer.
Diluent which has been frozen should not be used because of the risk of fractures in the vial that may cause contamination. Appropriate actions should be taken to isolate and dispose of the vials according to your local public health office or immunization programFootnote * recommendations.
Organization of your refrigerator and freezer must take into account convenience for staff, technical features of the refrigerators, and vaccine requirements. Figure 1 summarizes how your refrigerator should be organized.
Ideally, frozen vaccines should be stored in a separate designated freezer unit. However, for domestic refrigerators having a separate freezer compartment, frozen vaccine may be stored in the middle of the compartment away from the walls, coils, and floor. Vaccines should not be stored in the freezer door. The temperature in the door is not stable because door openings subject products in this location to frequent temperature fluctuations.
Frozen vaccines may be stored in either a manual defrost or a frost-free freezer at -15° C or colder. Vaccine products must not be stacked or placed so closely together that air circulation inside the freezer compartment is impeded.
In the refrigerator, vaccine should be stored in the middle of the compartment away from the coils, walls, floor, and cold-air vent. The temperature near the floor of the refrigerator is not stable and differs from that in the middle of the compartment. For this reason, vaccine should never be stored in the vegetable bins. Vaccines should not be stored in the refrigerator door. The temperature in the door is not stable because door openings subject products in this location to frequent temperature fluctuations. Refrigerated vaccines should always be stored far enough away from the air venting from the freezer compartment to avoid freezing.
Organization of your refrigerator and freezer must take into account convenience for staff, technical features of the refrigerators, and vaccine requirements. In the refrigerator, vaccine should be stored in the middle of the compartment away from the coils, walls, floor, and cold-air vent. In the freezer, vaccine should be stored in the middle of the compartment away from the walls, coils, and peripheral areas.
Refrigerator technology can vary, so it is not possible to make generalized statements on how to manage vaccines for all refrigerators. It is important that you "know your refrigerator." The following suggestions are summarized from the Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing,(Footnote 1)and Grassby(Footnote 2).
Most refrigerators have a temperature gradient, meaning that there is a gradual difference in temperature from one part of the refrigerator to another, for example, from top to bottom, side to side, and front to back. It is important to know each refrigerator's temperature gradients. Do not assume that the top part of the refrigerator is coldest and the bottom part is warmest. The gradients will depend on how the refrigerator is cooled and/or where the plate evaporator is located.
To determine the gradients within your refrigerator, a recording device, such as a data logger, should be placed in each position for a minimum of 24 hours, preferably with at least two other recorders simultaneously placed in other parts of the unit. Depending on the type and number of recorders available, this could take some time and is best done when there is no vaccine in the fridge but with some sort of "cold mass" to simulate a batch of vaccine (e.g. cooled water bottles). Knowing the temperature gradients will help you to place your vaccines properly within the refrigerator.
Temperatures for each location of the refrigerator can also fluctuate at any given time. For frost-free refrigerators, the defrost cycle can affect the temperature. Environmental factors may also affect the temperature, for example, the surrounding room temperature and the location of the refrigerator in reference to windows, heat sources, or air conditioning. It is also important to know what happens when there are changes in the weather, or a decrease or increase in use compared to usual daily activities.
It is important to know your refrigerator. Knowing the temperature gradients will help you to place your vaccines properly within the refrigerator. It is also important to know the factors that affect fluctuations in temperatures in the refrigerator.
Vaccine should be grouped by product, taking note to place short-dated products near the front of the group for more immediate use and with space between the vaccine and the compartment wall, and with space between each large box, block, or tray of vaccine to allow for cold air circulation around the vaccine. Adequate cold-air circulation helps each vaccine to reach a consistent temperature throughout its mass and is necessary for the storage unit to maintain a consistent temperature inside the compartment. Packing any vaccine storage unit too tightly will affect the temperature. Likewise, packing too much vaccine in one unit will affect the temperature (e.g. during peak flu season). No more than 50% of the internal volume of the refrigeration unit should be filled with vaccine(Footnote 2).
Packing any vaccine storage unit too tightly and/or packing too much vaccine in one unit will affect the temperature.
Vaccine products that have similar packaging should be stored in different locations to avoid confusion and medication errors. For example, if you have pediatric and adult versions of the same vaccine, storing them in different locations lessens the chance that someone will inadvertently choose the wrong vaccine.
Likewise, vaccines that have similar sounding names should be stored in different locations. For example, DT and Td vaccines might be easily confused, as could Hib and hepatitis B vaccines.
Like antigens of different brands are also best kept separate to avoid administration of an incorrect dose if the dosing schedule or series differs among brands of the same antigen.
The location of each specific vaccine inside the storage unit should be clearly labeled. Storing each vaccine in its own specifically labeled section of the refrigerator or freezer helps decrease the chance that someone will mistakenly select the wrong vaccine.
In addition to labeling the location of vaccines, mark each opened multidose vial with the date it was first punctured. Mark reconstituted vaccine with the date and time it was reconstituted. Dating these vials is important for two reasons.
Store punctured multidose vials in a designated, labeled container so that they are easily recognized. Remember to store these vials in their original boxes to prevent light exposure.
Diluents should be clearly labeled, whether they are stored at room temperature or in the refrigerator. Label the boxes of corresponding vaccines and diluents from the same manufacturer so that they will be used together. This avoids confusion and helps to ensure that you use only the specific diluent provided by the manufacturer for each type of lyophilized (freeze-dried) vaccine. This is particularly important if you store two or more lyophilized vaccines using different diluents.
Diluents should be clearly labeled, whether they are stored at room temperature or in the refrigerator.
Vaccine and diluent should be stored in their original packaging. Storing loose vaccine vials makes inventory management more difficult, administration errors more likely, and exposes the vaccines to light.
Trays and containers may be used to organize vaccine boxes. Each tray or container should only store vaccine of the same type. Other medications and biological products, if they must be stored in the vaccine storage unit, must not be stored on the same trays or containers as the vaccines to avoid medication errors. Clearly label trays or containers.
Trays and containers must not be stacked or placed so closely together that air circulation inside the vaccine storage unit compartment is impeded. Trays and containers should be vented to allow air circulation. Never use air-tight containers.
Never store food or beverages inside vaccine storage units. As well, whenever possible, medications and/or other biological products should not be stored with vaccines. Storing non-vaccine items results in frequent opening of the storage unit door. This results in a greater chance for temperature instability and excessive exposure to light. It may also result in spills and contamination inside the compartment. Introduction of other items also impedes airflow and introduces varying temperatures to the unit.
Never store food or beverages inside vaccine storage units.
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We owe a debt of gratitude to Rowan Williams. At least one individual in a position to be heard is bearing public witness to obvious truths ("Archbishop pours scorn on Cameron's 'big society'", News). We can see with complete clarity the deceptions of a government which preaches the "big society" and the importance of community, at the same time as it is closing post offices, libraries, community centres and concurrently withdrawing support from the poorest among us.
Meanwhile, countless billions are handed to greedy bankers to do with as they see fit. Our leaders rob the poor to pay the rich. The blatant contradiction between propaganda and action exposes a parallel-universe political class which insults the population by treating us as passive dimwits.
Our elitist and recklessly militarist government tries to fool us with a world of mirages in foreign as well as home affairs. Kidnap and torture become "extraordinary rendition"; international arms trade becomes "the defence industry"; the threat to incinerate countless millions of civilians if the particular government in power deems that our "vital interests" are at risk becomes "our minimal deterrent". Big society, big money, big business and big killing – they're all of a piece.
As a retired Liverpool community worker, I know that vulnerable children living in our most neglected housing estates would welcome the comments made by the archbishop of Canterbury when he stated that the prime minister's "big society" was designed to conceal the state's responsibility towards them. The archbishop accused past and present governments of being guilty. Is it any wonder that some children who live in these estates where anti-social and criminal behaviour is part of their daily lives find that their frustrations can result in riotous behaviour?
Who is responsible for this? Is it the parents who are unable to break the cycle of deprivation, or is it the lack of effective government programmes? Our religious leaders should not only criticise inadequate policies but remember the words of Frank Field MP that "anything we do after the age of five is just rescue work".
Be more medieval, Michael
Forget reintroducing GCEs and CSEs, Michael Gove; forget about reintroducing school certificate and matriculation ("Radical to his friends, reactionary to his enemies, Gove is now the Tory darling", In Focus). Why not go the whole hog and reintroduce medieval examination by viva only? That would severely restrict the number of possible candidates, save unnecessary expense and help stifle social mobility except for a tiny number of the deserving poor.
Professor Colin Richards
Give homeless people hope
David Cameron has revealed he is "considering scrapping most of the £1.8bn in housing benefits paid to 380,000 under-25s... forcing them to support themselves or live with their families".
For many of the young homeless guests at a shelter run at a church in Hackney, this news is disastrous. None of these young people have any hope of finding work unless they first find a roof over their head and all of them have become estranged from their families, often having suffered violence or sexual abuse. I don't suppose Cameron could even imagine what that must be like.
If Cameron's new scheme is set in place, these young people will remain on the streets. They will live without hope. That will be expensive, not only in monetary terms but in the waste of young lives. Cameron should be ashamed of himself.
Don't patronise the Cornish
Your article "Free Cornwall" (Magazine) misrepresented what Mebyon Kernow – the party for Cornwall (MK) – stands for. MK is not campaigning for independence, but greater self-government/devolution through a national assembly for Cornwall. The article was based around vague and unsubstantiated claims of "separation", was disrespectful to the Cornish language and, in what century is it acceptable to describe Cllr Dr Loveday Jenkin as "a charismatic MK pixie"? It is little wonder that here in Cornwall the article has been described as "patronising", "sarcastic", "condescending" and "prejudicial".
Cllr Dick Cole
Leader, Mebyon Kernow
Permission to land
If, as you report, "next month the Lib Dems are launching a tax working group that will develop new policies to distance themselves from their coalition partners at the next election" ("Top Tory donor linked to Carr tax scheme", News), then perhaps they should consider a land value tax, the fairest, least avoidable and most productive of all taxes. And if the Tories are really embarrassed enough by the latest revelations about their supporters' avoidance schemes, perhaps they might even consider it themselves.
Monster energy hats
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Office of Citizen
Rest in Peace,
Submitted by lmcshane on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 00:49.
You may not be familiar with Charles Chestnutt, but he was a Cleveland writer who first broke the color line with his popular novel, House Behind the Cedars.
The House Behind the Cedars tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers
The Cuyahoga County Planning Commission notes that he lived on East 73 St. in Cleveland, a solidly middle-class neighborhood at the time. Ironically, I took some pictures of East 73rd St. today. You can see the charm from this one beautiful house, which incidentally also has a great adjacent garden plot.
From the CCPC blog:
Oberlin College Professor Anne Trubek did not find what she expected when exploring East 73rd Street in Cleveland. Through the efforts of organized residents, some areas hard-hit by the foreclosure crisis remain viable neighborhoods. | <urn:uuid:ad4cfb0a-5ac4-448b-b7a6-1f99e4e307ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://realneo.us/content/charles-chestnutt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948123 | 263 | 3 | 3 |
A housing desegregation pact was just signed by one of the richest New York Counties. Racial red-lining has been banned in the US for decades, but there are work arounds, such as property values, the loss of building permits, apathy and so on. But not for this place where a court order is
compel[ing] [Westchester] to create hundreds of houses and apartments for moderate-income people in overwhelmingly white communities and aggressively market them to nonwhites in Westchester and New York City.
The agreement calls for the [Westchester] county to spend more than $50 million of its own money, in addition to other funds, to build or acquire 750 homes or apartments, 630 of which must be provided in towns and villages where black residents constitute 3 percent or less of the population and Hispanic residents make up less than 7 percent. The 120 other spaces must meet different criteria for cost and ethnic concentration.
Some cities have almost gone bankrupt arguing against desegregation. It must have been brutal for the kids going to the white schools once the cases were won! Imagine doing this in the Glebe, Rockliffe Park, Westboro, Westmount, Rosedale and so on. The Anti-Discrimination Center successfully argued this case in court. The Anti-Discrimination Center works
to prevent and remedy all forms of discrimination in housing, employment, education, and public accommodations through advocacy, litigation, education, outreach, monitoring, and research. The Center is a 501(c)(3)not-for-profit corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York.
NIMBY (not in my back yard) has been around for a long time. Mostly, it is neighbourhood members coming together to get prostitutes & crack dealers out of their communities using vigilante style tactics because the police do little. Usually the problem just moves to the neighbourhood next door and the social issue continues. In other cases NIMBY coalitions come together to stop environmentally detrimental projects from coming to their hoods. Often, but not always wealthier neighbourhoods win and poorer neighbourhoods that do not have the resources to fight and so get the unwanted projects. Again, nasty development does not disappear or is made cleaner, it just moves.
In Ottawa we see NIMBY in gentrifying neighbourhoods like mine - Chinatown, where first time home buyers realize that their house was cheap because it is beside a rooming house or public housing and so they organize to close these down or to stop the construction of new ones. NIMBYs have successfully lobbied against payphones as these were used by drug dealers. Too bad for the rest of the population such as the poor family that needs the phone! Bref, instead of dealing with the real issues, poverty, social inequality and exclusion, we construct ugly social housing or concentrate all the poor and marginalized in one small area where we cannot see them or we displace them from prime real estate.
Lebreton Flats is a classic example of this, where an entire community was expropriated in the 1960s as their neighbourhood was suddenly deemed a slum. The area remained vacant for 40 years and now high end ugly condos are being built by a sole builder - Claridge homes! A deal that sounds much like those negotiated in the Wire. Claridge even has the nerve to call it one of Ottawa’s newest urban villages! Good grief - it was one of Ottawa’s first neighbourhoods! We are still waiting for housing to show up, the bike paths to open and for a definition of affordable housing. Funny that the housing just across the street on Lorne by Nanny Goat hill, Booth Street or Primrose has become high end. It was the same kinds of housing that was on Lebreton Flats and some are considered as heritage districts. Go figure! Who gets to label a slum as a slum!
I read about great spatial location analysis of public housing strategies in the city of Montreal. The objective was to locate public housing in mixed income neighbourhoods, with access to public transit, grocery stores, schools and daycares. Then proposals were developed to build small numbers of affordable and/or subsidized units in those areas, but designed in such a way that they would blend into the neighbourhood look and feel. This reduced public housing blight and does not ghettoize the poor. In Ottawa we have hid and concentrated high numbers of really horrid looking public housing in inaccessible neighbourhoods - no library, no transit, terrible walkability, no grocery store, no trees, no parks. I am not a geographic determinist, but I am sure that these are not the best conditions for developing pride of place and for kids to thrive. Class segregation is alive and well in Ottawa. | <urn:uuid:f75b0a27-c421-4c23-99f7-efdce4a1525f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2009/08/11/housing-desegregration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9662 | 965 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Reality: In most instances, a person’s marital status, age, income, or sexual orientation do not automatically disqualify them from eligibility to adopt. You don’t need to own your own home, have children already, be young, wealthy, or a stay-at-home parent.
In 2011, 32 percent of children adopted from foster care were matched with either a single-parent household or unmarried couple. This includes adoptions by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) families. Find out more about who can foster and adopt.
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ITC experiments using
Light Reflected from Water
As Margaret Downey explains her
experimental set-up, "I have a Canon Power Shot A75 Digital camera. It
allows me to do thirty seconds of video at a time. I leave it on the highest
resolution (640 x 480 pixels). For effects, I use the function button to set
the camera to shoot in sepia (a brownish tone), tungsten (which makes it blue),
and black and white. I also do a session using just normal settings.
"The experiments are done on my stove and the setup is very
basic. The light in the stove hood is used as the light source. Then depending
on my whim, I will use a black pot filled about half way with water or a
translucent, amber colored Vision Corning Ware pot half filled with water which
I set either directly on the stove top or I suspend in the empty black pot.
(Editor: Margaret has joked that her Vision Corning Ware pot really should be
called Vision ware!)
"I hold the video camera in my right hand and wiggle my left
fingers in the water while I record the ripples. I get better results if I use
my fingers rather than using a spoon or other object to stir the water. I first
look through the viewfinder screen, to make sure I’m holding the camera at an
angle where it catches the light reflection in the water. This position is not
quite directly over it, but from above and at a slight angle. At the same time,
I respectfully request for any people or animals in spirit who would like to
show themselves, to please do so.
"Once in a while, I’ll place a crystal or a crystal ball in
the water. And sometimes I ask my hubby to shine red and blue lights in the
"After filming, I remove the compact memory card from the
camera and place it into my computer. The file is transferred into a software
program on my Mac called iMovie, which allows me to look at the video one frame
at a time. When I see something in a frame, I’m able to save that single frame
as a jpg file. And from that jpg, I crop out the image(s) I wish to keep. I
keep both the unedited full frame along with my edited/cropped version. Once in
a while, I keep the entire video, but most of the time I dump it in order to
help save hard drive space."
In one experiment, Margaret asked
for her grandparents and received this ITC picture of a bearded man she feels is
her Great Great Grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Main Sr. He was a physician and
Baptist minister who crossed in 1913. Today, he and his grandson, Lewis
(Margaret’s grandfather who crossed in 1993), help her in making connections to
Steve is a friend of Margaret’s friend, Linda, who likes to
"pop in" to Margaret’s EVP sessions to call Linda’s name. Linda had
asked her to call on him and this is the image that showed up. Linda said that
there is enough of a resemblance that she feels he was doing what he could to
show himself to her.
Margaret also has captured a picture of a face that she feels is
her Indian guide, Walking Sun, who she had asked to come through during an
experiment. Margaret had a reading from a Shaman
who told her, "Margaret’s
heart hears the drum beat of Mother Earth and her spirit finds the stairway to
Father Sky." She told Margaret that if she asked for her guide, Walking
Sun, he would come. Margaret says, "One of the Shaman’s comments in my
reading was that people with "dove medicine" can see between the
worlds and the veil between earth and the spirit world is thin for them. She
talked about being clairaudient and hearing spirit/sensing vibrations. It was
so fun to be able to tell her after the reading about EVP/ITC!"
Margaret feels that she has gotten some excellent readings from
people on the Internet and through eBay. If you are interested in more
information on this email Margaret at www.ITCdeadpeople.com.
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In Response to Re: PEPPERONI BREAD:
Carol the difference between the two types of yeast is, active dry yeast requires a second rise and the rapid dry yeast only one.I'm guessing that is why your pizza dough recipe calls for rapid rise.If you use this recipe for pizza dough use the rapid rise yeast,that's what I'm going to do.These two types of yeast are interchangable depending on the time you have to spend.The rapid rise usually takes half the time of the active dry yeast to rise.I hope this makes sense? Thanks for asking the questions on the type of flour and yeast I totally forgot,I usually don't follow recipes,I do it without thinking about it.In other words I could be dangerous in the kitchen! lol !
Posted by gale g
Gale, Yes, it does make sense. I love to punch the dough. I like to knead the bread. I think it would
be good to relieve stress. lol lol If I was highly stressed I would use the active dry yeast! lol lol I
think you could be dangerous in the kitchen with all that punching and kneading. lol lol I really enjoy
that punching and kneading, I think I'm going to be dangerous in the kitchen too. lol lol Most of the
time when I ate pizza, I would never eat the crust. Now I just love that crust. lol lol Thanks for explaining
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Federal tax credits for energy-efficient home improvements are back.
Reinstatement of the popular credits was a little-noticed part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act, the last-minute legislation that kept America from tumbling over the “fiscal cliff” at the start of the year.
The law allows homeowners to claim tax credits of varying amounts on improvements such as insulation, energy-smart windows and highly efficient furnaces.
And there’s more good news: Congress made those credits retroactive, meaning improvements made in 2012 and 2013 will qualify.
The measure was applauded by energy-efficiency advocates.
“Obviously we think it’s a really great move to help consumers afford (improvements) and encourage them to think about making these energy-efficiency investments in their homes,” said Ronnie Kweller, a spokesperson for the Alliance to Save Energy, a Washington energy-efficiency lobby.
She noted the law also contains incentives for appliance manufacturers to produce efficient clothes washers, dishwashers and refrigerators, and for home builders to construct energy-efficient homes.
Taken together, those incentives are “all really great to help make energy efficiency play a bigger role in the economy overall and save consumers money,” she said. “It’s really a win-win all around.”
John Hartmann agreed. He’s a co-owner of Blind & Sons, a Barberton company that does heating, cooling, plumbing and electrical work.
“For consumers, this is great news,” Hartmann said in a news release. The legislation rewards consumers who bought highly efficient heating and cooling equipment in 2012 and gives others an incentive to do the same in 2013, he said.
The legislation essentially turns back the clock to 2011, when the last batch of credits was in force. It erased the old expiration date on those credits and set a new deadline of Dec. 31, 2013.
The program still has a cap of $500 in total credits. That limit goes all the way back to 2006, when the very first credits became available, Kweller said. That means if you’ve already claimed $500 in credits for energy-efficiency improvements, you’re not eligible for more.
Specifically, these are among the credits available:
• 10 percent of the cost of insulation materials and systems, not including installation.
• 10 percent of the cost of qualifying exterior doors, windows and skylights, not including installation. (Credits for windows and skylights are capped at $200.)
• 10 percent of the cost of metal and asphalt roofs specially designed to keep buildings cooler, not including installation.
• $50 for a furnace fan called a main air circulating fan.
• $150 for a natural gas, propane or oil furnace or hot water boiler with an annual fuel utilization efficiency rate (AFUE) of 95 percent or greater.
• $300 for an electric heat pump water heater with an energy factor of at least 2.0.
• $300 for a highly efficient electric heat pump.
• $300 for a highly efficient central air conditioner.
• $300 for a natural gas, propane or oil water heater with an energy factor of at least 0.82 or a thermal efficiency of at least 90 percent.
• $300 for a biomass stove.
The improvements must be made to the taxpayer’s principal residence and must be placed in service by the end of 2013.
To claim a tax credit, you’ll need to file Form 5695 along with your federal income tax return for the year the improvement is made. The credit will be subtracted from the amount of tax you owe or added to your tax refund.
Before you file, you’re required to get a manufacturer’s certification statement, a signed statement from the manufacturer certifying the product qualifies for a tax credit. You should keep it in your files, but you don’t have to submit a copy of the statement with your return.
That requirement may create a documentation challenge for consumers who made improvements in 2012. Some manufacturers provide those documents on their websites, but consumers may have to go back to the contractor or retailer who sold the item to get a manufacturer’s certification statement, Kweller said.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
The myth of the speech balloon
I trust that most of you will by now have bought your first day covers of the Royal Mail stamps featuring classic British comics? They really are excellent as is the mini-Dandy No.1 (reprinting 12 of the first issue's 28 pages) and the brief history of comics that accompanies it.
However, there is one little glitch that perpetuates a common myth of British comics. In the folder that comes with the stamps, Graham Kibble-White states "In 1937, DC Thomson launched The Dandy. This landmark title mixed rollicking adventure tales with robust comic strips that featured individual speech balloons rather than text blocks. This innovation made the stories easier to follow and prompted the launch of The Beano in 1938, as well as setting the template for future comics."
It's a mistake that James Chapman also made in his book British Comics, A Cultural History, when he wrote "While they maintained some text stories, Dandy and Beano introduced a new kind of picture strip that dispensed with text captions underneath the pictures and used speech balloons for dialogue."
It's the same myth that was in the BBC Four series Comic Britannia a few years ago. However, the fact is that in December 1937 The Dandy No.1 did not innovate speech balloons in comics, nor was it the first British comic to dispense with text under the panels. Here's a few examples to prove it...
From 1917, twenty years before Dandy No.1, the cover of Picture Fun No.428, with word balloons used in practically every panel...
From 1933, the cover of The Funny Wonder No.1,023, which not only uses speech balloons but also sound effects. (Art by Roy Wilson.)
Inside that same 1933 issue, two strips that use word balloons, dispense with the text under the panels, and even have the sort of rhyming couplets that The Dandy and other DC Thomson comics were known for.
A cover of The Sparkler from July 3rd 1937 (five months before The Dandy was launched) showing word balloons in every panel. (Art by Roy Wilson again.)
That very same week, The Butterfly featured its regular strip Perky, which although features some text it's relegated to the foot of the strip rather than appearing under each panel.
However, in the same issue, this short strip tells the story with word balloons and no text whatsoever...
So, speech balloons and textless strips had been used frequently in British comics long before The Dandy debuted. So how did this myth arise? I'm not sure, but it's one that been doing the rounds for decades and I even believed it myself at one stage. (I may have even written an article or two years ago that's guilty of the same assumption.) It seems to be an error made by some comic historians rather than originating from DC Thomson itself.
Thing is, The Dandy was innovative when it arrived but the reasons why are harder to pin down. For example The Butterfly, Funny Wonder and other comics of the time dispensed with text on some humour strips but The Dandy dispensed with text on most of them. Basically The Dandy took its inspiration from existing British comics and expanded upon it. This gave the impression that The Dandy was a more modern looking and faster paced comic. Also, the tone of The Dandy seemed brasher and not as slick as those from Amalgamated Press. It seemed to have a different attitude than its rival titles, and, yes, that new-kid-on-the-block cockiness did inspire other comics. Perhaps the myth that The Dandy introduced speech balloons to British comics just makes for a simpler soundbite... but it's still wrong.
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We all hope it won’t happen to us. We keep our typing fingers crossed. But one day, it will. Web site owners who have been doing business online for some length of time know all the trouble one hacker can cause. Once a hacker gains access to a Web site they can do a devastating amount of damage to an established business. It is for this reason that most online businesses hire a team of Web site security specialists to make sure this never happens. Whether it’s people who just accidentally entered a forbidden part of a Web site or those who hack into a system deliberately, the goal is to prevent it before it happens. Here are three steps you can take.
Use Digital Certificates
Any Web site that does business online should use digital certificates. This helps to protect sensitive data when passed using a form. This could include anything from person’s social security number, credit card information, to his or her address and contact numbers. It is important for Web site owners to be able to assure their clients that their Web site is secure. A digital certificate goes a long way towards allowing clients to trust a business is legitimate and entrust sensitive information to it.
It is, however, important to be careful when buying a digital certificate. It is vital to not obtain one that is outdated or which has been sabotaged by a hacker.
Keep Security Regularly Updated
Some of the most important security procedures include methods to make sure a Web site’s forbidden pages are inaccessible to anyone who lacks authority to view them. This includes tracking that person’s IP and recording it. This will help protect Web site owners from people trying to illegally access, download, or alter the Web site’s files. As a last resort it will also help authorities track down where an offender lives and, if necessary, whom to charge with a crime.
As criminals constantly devise new ways to circumvent modern security, security procedures are constantly being updated to ensure that the latest version includes protection against these new security threats and risks. It is the Web site owner’s duty to make sure that the security is up-to-date. This makes the correction of such problems, if they arise, easier.
A Web site owner should also regularly change the Web site’s administrator password, observing all the common sense rules regarding password creation. Although many do not take this step, simply taking precaution can help prevent a costly breach from occurring.
Monitor Online Activities
It is absolutely vital for a Web site owner to monitor all of their online activities. Many Web site owners have unwittingly caught a computer virus by downloading something or clicking on a Web URL link while browsing the Internet. These kinds of mistakes are common and can be avoided by simply taking reasonable measures to provide security for their computers.
Email from unknown people should be treated suspiciously, particularly if an attachment is included. Often these attachments have a Trojan, virus, or other malicious software packaged inside them that will burst free when the attachment is downloaded. Although most new computer security products are aware of these viruses, a brand-new virus can remain undetected until it is discovered by security professionals who then update their protective software to counter the new threat.
For the owner of a Web site, every virus and illegal access that is prevented on their personal computer represents a lot of money saved. Perhaps more than most anyone else, Web site owners get their money’s worth when buying security products. A Web site owner can lose their Web site and all their earnings from a single breach by a single hacker, even if that breach is on their home PC if that computer has been used to access restricted areas of their Web site. The peace of mind a few security software purchases can bring are more than worth the cost in dollars. Remember the old adage: penny wise and pound foolish? This can apply to managing a site in today’s increasingly fraught environment. Are you being pound foolish? | <urn:uuid:8d1b2982-f1d5-4cf9-8245-9afecd75af93> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.perfectvisualhost.com/web-design/three-keys-to-securing-your-web-site/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954357 | 803 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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I have just had to take out an established climbing rose that was twisting happily around my pergola post due to some construction works about to start. I know it is not wise to re-plant roses where one has already been planted but does this apply when you want to re-plant the rose close to its original position.
I think it does. Something to do with rival mycorrhizal organisms in the soil that develop as the rose develops and they reach an uneasy balance. If you remove the rose and weaken its root system then when you replant it the soil organisms are too strong for it.
I may not have got that quite right, but in any case it does not matter, as there is a product licenced by the RHS that you sprinkle onto the rose roots. It contains friendly mycorrhizal organisms that enable it to stand up to the soil organisms until the rose has developed its own defences. It's called Rootgrow: | <urn:uuid:731b1856-8866-4e6c-8824-87b0d6f50541> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/plants/moving-roses/2651.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971461 | 203 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC
landing on Cape Canaveral (KSC
STS-81 marked the fifth MIR mission.
Following a two day solo flight the Atlantis docked with the MIR space station
on January 15, 1997. The crews performed five days of common flight (January
15, - January 20, 1997). Jerry
as member of the 22nd MIR
Atlantis carried the SPACEHAB double module
providing additional middeck locker space for secondary experiments. During the
five days of docked operations with MIR, the crews transferred water and
supplies from one spacecraft to the other. A spacewalk by Jerry
and one by his Russian cosmonaut crewmates occurred
after the departure of Atlantis.
STS-81 was involved in the transfer of
2,710 kilograms (6,000 lb) of logistics to and from the MIR, the largest
transfer of items to date. During the docked phase, 635 kilograms (1,400 lb) of
water, 516.1 kilograms (1,138 lb) of U.S. science equipment, 1,000.7 kilograms
(2,206 lb) of Russian logistics along with 121.7 kilograms (268 lb) of
miscellaneous material was transferred to MIR. Returned to Earth aboard
Atlantis was 570.0 kilograms (1,257 lb) of U.S. science material, 404.5
kilograms (892 lb) of Russian logistics and 97.3 kilograms (215 lb) of
The STS-81 mission included several experiments
in the fields of advanced technology, Earth sciences, fundamental biology,
human life sciences, microgravity, and space sciences. It was hoped that data
would supply insight for the planning and development of the International
Space Station, Earth-based sciences of human and biological processes, and the
advancement of commercial technology.
Following the undocking the
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By Claire Davenport
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union member states are preparing to fight as a bloc alongside the United States to prevent a move by Russia and countries in Africa to impose a levy on internet traffic and make it easier to track users' activities.
The showdown over the policing and administration of the internet will take place at a meeting of the International Telecommunications Union in Dubai from December 3-14, when the ITU's 193 member countries will meet to debate new net rules.
The EU's 27 states are staunchly opposed to sweeping plans to regulate the internet, including proposals from Africa, Asia and the Middle East that governments should be able to trace the flow of Web-based traffic and introduce a tax on companies such as Google and Yahoo! if they deliver content to networks abroad.
The United States, which plays a dominant role in administering the internet via ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is firmly opposed to any new restrictions, which it fears will limit innovation and commerce.
It is backed in its stance by the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and other ITU-member countries. As well as having support from African countries, officials say Russia has backing for some of its proposals from China.
"The EU believes that there is no justification for such proposals," the European Commission, the EU's executive, said on Friday, saying it was the view of all 27 member states.
Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner responsible for internet policy, says some of the proposals being made ahead of the ITU conference risk damaging the internet's evolution as a critical piece of global commercial infrastructure and a network for the free flow of information and data.
"The European Union's firm view is that the Internet works," she said this week. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Leaked drafts of a proposal from Russia show it would like to have more say over internet traffic entering its networks, a proposal the United States has said is most troubling to them.
"Member states shall have the sovereign right to regulate... the national internet segment," Russia's proposal says.
The U.S. ambassador to the ITU, Terry Kramer, said Moscow's plans would give governments "the right to route traffic, to review content, and say that's all a completely national matter", a potentially profound limitation on speech and trade.
Any agreements which would allow governments to shepherd traffic at their will threaten U.S. business interests because most content on the internet either originates from, is stored in or routed via the United States.
With some of the world's biggest and most innovative Web-based companies, from Google to Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo!, based in the United States, the country has the most to lose.
While countries like Russia cite cyber attacks as a reason to monitor traffic, the EU see it as an excuse.
"Some countries treat this as a euphemism for controlling freedom of expression," said a commission official.
PAYING FOR CUSTOMERS?
The EU is also alarmed by proposals to make content providers pay for having their services delivered abroad.
As traditional phone revenues decline and internet access prices remain high, some countries argue that Google, Skype and Facebook ought to pay to have their traffic routed to that country, helping them fund the expansion of their networks.
A leaked proposal from Cameroon says traffic reaching a network operator would incur "full payment." Kramer said some Arab states were also favorable to the idea.
However, such proposals, known as 'sender party pays', are a potential boon to European telecoms companies, some of which announced in October that they supported such fees. Some European telecoms operators have or would like to have operations in developing countries such as Cameroon.
The German operator Deutsche Telekom tried to promote the principle by comparing it to the first postage stamp. But in practical terms, extending the way the postal service makes money to the Internet could mean that Google would pay each time someone in Cameroon read their Google-based email.
Critics say such proposals are unworkable because traffic usually crosses half a dozen networks in several countries before it lands in a person's browser.
"The idea that you trace and bill all of this is ludicrous," said James Waterworth of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, a U.S. group whose members include Facebook and Microsoft and which has an office in Brussels.
Internet activists say such fees would 'Balkanise' the internet and cause an information black out in poorer countries.
"Who would be interested in providing content, if they have to pay for doing so?" said Markus Kummer of the Internet Society, a think-tank with offices in Geneva.
"And developing countries might be shooting themselves in the foot, as reversing the economic Internet model might cut them off from accessing vital information."
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May 12, 2005
Driggs potato field yields ancient artifact
Most people know how important potato fields are to Teton Valley’s history, but recently the potato fields became involved in the valley’s prehistory as well.
Last month, Bonnie Pitblado, a University of Utah researcher, identified a rare 13,000-year-old spearhead. That spearhead came from LeeAnn Hartner of Hyrum, Utah, a Teton Valley native who found the artifact 41 years ago while working on a potato field west of Driggs.
“I was working on a potato combine, and I was a teenager working with my mother, and they had just plowed a new field for potatoes,” Hartner said. “We had seen some pioneer toys come up from the combine a couple days previous, so I was waiting to see what would come up next.
“Then I saw something shiny coming up on the belt,” she said. “I watched it come, but I couldn’t tell what it was.” Hartner got down from the combine and picked it up off the belt. “I grabbed hold of it, and it was covered with clods of dirt, so I picked the dirt off, and here was a four and a half inch spearhead.
“I had no clue,” she said. “I figured it was a few hundred years old at most.”
Hartner has held onto the spearhead for 41 years since then.
“I’ve loved it all these years, but I didn’t have a clue what I had,” said Hartner.
“I have a son who, this was kind of his beginning,” she said. “He was really interested in what I had.” In fact, her son, Andrew Straup, has worked with Dr. Pitblado for the past four years, and in that time he learned how to knap spear and arrowheads himself, using techniques similar to those ancient Americans who formed Hartner’s spearhead.
Straup waited several years before asking his mother to bring her find in for Dr. Pitblado to look at. Finally, one day he told her to bring the spearhead in, for the second annual Prehistoric Artifact Road Show that Pitblado was holding.
“When I walked in, they sent me to the table, and here’s Dr. Pitblado sitting at a round table with three or four other scientists and book writers and magazine writers,” Hartner said.
“She said, ‘What do you got?’ I took it out of the box, laid it on the table, and it was absolutely impressive to me, because I heard four people gasp when I laid it on the table.
“One man sat wringing his hands — he asked, ‘Could I touch it?’”
Dr. Pitblado said that in her years of research, she’s seen upwards of 100,000 artifacts, but before Hartner brought in her spearhead, Pitblado said, “I had yet to see anything definitely Clovis.”
Clovis is the term used to designate a particular type of spearhead that was used throughout North America around 13,000 years ago, and to describe the people who used this type of spearhead. Pitblado said this time period was at the tail end of the last ice age, which means the Clovis people were among the few humans who actually hunted mammoths, giant bison and other large Pleistocene animals.
Pitblado studies the anthropology of ancient people who lived in what is now Eastern Idaho, and although she said evidence of Clovis culture has been found throughout most of North America, so far Hartner’s artifact is the first Clovis find in the area.
Because so little is known about the ancient Americans who lived in southeast Idaho, Pitblado will be coming to Teton Valley this summer with Hartner, both to relocate the site of Hartner’s spearhead and to hold a Prehistoric Artifact Roadshow like the one where she first identified the spearhead. Pitblado said she thinks this area would have been very attractive to members of the Clovis culture, and she has a hunch they may have settled down in the area long enough to have left important archaeological evidence, but she said she needs help to find it.
“It’s kind of an unusual approach,” she said of using a roadshow to find ancient artifacts. “But it’s not an area where any work’s been done. Compared to most places, there’s so little known, we had to take a different approach, and go to the people who dig it up in their fields.”
Pitblado said she believes there may be more people like Hartner in the area, who have discovered ancient artifacts while tilling the ground, and she’s bringing her prehistoric roadshow here in hopes of identifying some of these artifacts and learning where they were found.
“Every time we do it, we have a blast,” she said. “I think that’s part of what universities should do — they should be of some benefit to the community.”
Pitblado said she’ll bring four students with her to help research where Hartner found her spearhead and to follow up on any other leads the roadshow turns up.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The art or practice of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
- n. The process especially associated with Hegel of arriving at the truth by stating a thesis, developing a contradictory antithesis, and combining and resolving them into a coherent synthesis.
- n. Hegel's critical method for the investigation of this process.
- n. The Marxian process of change through the conflict of opposing forces, whereby a given contradiction is characterized by a primary and a secondary aspect, the secondary succumbing to the primary, which is then transformed into an aspect of a new contradiction. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb.
- n. The Marxian critique of this process.
- n. A method of argument or exposition that systematically weighs contradictory facts or ideas with a view to the resolution of their real or apparent contradictions.
- n. The contradiction between two conflicting forces viewed as the determining factor in their continuing interaction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to the art of reasoning about probabilities; pertaining to scholastic disputation. Kantians sometimes use the word in the sense of pertaining to false argumentation.
- Of or pertaining to a dialect or dialects; dialectal.
- Also dialectical.
- n. [= French dialectique = Sp. dialéctica = Pg. dialectica = It. dialettica = G. Dan. Sw. dialektik, ⟨ L. dialectica, ⟨ Gr.
διαλεκτική(sc. τέχνη), the dialectic art, the art of discussion, logical debate, also the logic of probabilities, fem. of διαλεκτικός, belonging to disputation: see I.]
- n. Logic, or a branch of logic; specifically, the art of critical examination into the truth of an opinion; inductive logic applied to philosophy; the logic of probable reasoning; the art of discussion and of disputation; logic applied to rhetoric and refutation. The invention of the art of dialectic is attributed to Zeno the Eleatic, whose arguments against motion are examples of the original meaning of the Greek word. The famous dialectic of Socrates and Plato, their chief instrument of philosophical inquiry, was a conversational discussion with inductive appeals to special instances. Dialectic was limited by Aristotle to logic accommodated to the uses of the rhetorician, appealing only to general belief, but not to first principles. The Stoics, who probably introduced the term logic, divided that art into rhetoric and dialectic, the former being the art of continuous discourse, the latter that of discussion with an interlocutor. Cicero and other Latin writers, influenced by Stoic doctrine, understand by dialectic “the art of discussing well” (ars bene disserendi). It thus became the name of that branch of the trivium of the Roman schools which we call logic, and retained that meaning throughout the middle ages. Hence, in all the earlier English literature, it is the synonym of logic, differing from that word only by a more distinct suggestion of the idea of disputation. Modern logicians have frequently restricted it to the doctrines of the Topics and Sophistical Elenchi, or to the former alone. It has also been used as a synonym of syllogistic. Kant named the constructive part of his Transcendental Logic transcendental analytic, and the destructive part transcendental dialectic. For the sake of this phrase, he makes dialectic, in general, the theory of fallacies. According to Hegel, each concept in the development of thought by a primitive necessity develops its own diametrical opposite, and to this reaction of thought against itself, regarded not as final, but as subject to a subsequent reconcilement in a higher order of thought, he gave the name of dialectic.
- n. Skill in disputation. Also dialectics.
- n. Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
- n. A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
- adj. dialectical
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as dialectics.
- adj. Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.
- adj. Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.
- n. any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
- adj. of or relating to or employing dialectic
- n. a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
- From Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (dialektike, "the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering"), from διαλεκτικός (dialektikos, "competent debater"), from διαλέγομαι (dialegomai, "to participate in a dialogue"), from διά (dia, "through, across") + λέγειν (legein, "to speak"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English dialetik, from Old French dialetique, from Latin dialectica, logic, from Greek dialektikē (tekhnē), (art) of debate, feminine of dialektikos, from dialektos, speech, conversation; see dialect. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“The ancient Greeks used the term dialectic to refer to various methods of reasoning and discussion in order to discover the truth.”
“The caricature of the dialectic is a boiling-down of every historical or philosophical pattern to two concepts in conflict with each other — depending on the caricature, either one concept inevitably prevails, or the two are mashed up into a crude "synthesis.”
“The Marxist-Leninists call it dialectic materialism. say one thig to mask the fact that you mean the opposite.”
“Then this is the progress which you call dialectic?”
“e. with reality, it was natural that the term dialectic should be again extended from function to object, from thought to thing; and so, even as early as Plato, it had come to signify the whole science of reality, both as to method and as to content, thus nearly approaching what has been from a somewhat later period universally known as metaphysics.”
“To become a really great lawyer you will need to internalize the process of having a dialog with the text - call it dialectic reasoning, or an internal Socratic Dialog if you must.”
“Saying that, there is a certain dialectic (in the simple sense of the term) involved here, in terms of community norms that can be reasonably conceived and established within the context of both the law and wider moral/ethical considerations at the community level.”
“The ultimate end-point of this, on one side of the dialectic, is maieutic fiction. posted by Hal Duncan | 9: 43 PM”
“Miles uses their contrasting personalities and circumstances to forge a sort of Gallic Woodward-and-Bernstein dialectic, then pits the pair against the newly restored Bourbon monarchy and its shameful post-disaster attempts at saving face by suppressing the facts.”
“In fact, anything of consequence in Hegel works in threes, a mechanism he called the dialectic, in which the truth is a kind of cosmic alarm clock that brings the world to its senses after a period of activity followed by rest.”
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It’s a scary thing when you can’t pay your taxes. It’s one thing to miss a credit card payment, but failing to pay the federal government taxes that you owe has potentially significant consequences, including interest and penalties. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take when you can’t pay your taxes.
In fact, the IRS provides excellent guidance for those struggling to pay Uncle Sam. With tax time just around the corner, we thought it was a good time to review what you should do if you are having trouble paying your taxes.
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The very first thing to understand is that you should file your tax returns on time, even if you can’t pay the taxes. Failing to file your tax returns on time can result in additional penalties over and above what you may pay for failing to pay your taxes. If you need assistance preparing your returns, either seek out the help of a tax professional or use one of several tax software packages. But the key is to file your returns on time, even if you can’t pay all of the taxes you owe.
Pay as Much as You Can
Even if you can’t pay the entire amount, it’s best to pay as much of your tax bill as you can. Paying even a part of what you owe will reduce the amount of interest and penalties you may have to pay.
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For those who cannot pay their tax bill in full, the IRS does allow taxpayers to set up a payment plan. If you owe $25,000 or less in taxes, you can apply for a payment plan online directly with the IRS. If you owe more than $25,000, you must complete a Collection Information Statement, Form 433F (pdf).
Before you seek a payment plan, consider the following:
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IRS Offer in Compromise (OIC)
An Offer in Compromise is an agreement with the IRS to settle your tax debt for less than you owe. From the IRS website:
In most cases, the IRS will not accept an offer unless the amount offered by the taxpayer is equal to or greater than the reasonable collection potential (the RCP). The RCP is how the IRS measures the taxpayer’s ability to pay. The RCP includes the value that can be realized from the taxpayer’s assets, such as real property, automobiles, bank accounts, and other property. In addition to property, the RCP also includes anticipated future income, less certain amounts allowed for basic living expenses.
Offers in Compromise are not as easy to obtain as a payment plan. But the key here is to recognize that you have viable options when you can’t pay your taxes.
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Today marks the sesquicentennial Sullivan Ballou's farewell love letter to his wife shortly before he was killed in the Civil War. It is a great piece of history, a beautiful love letter, and the kind of family history document we all long for, all rolled into one.
A week before the battle of Bull Run, Sullivan Ballou, a Major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield. The letter was used in Ken Burns' documentary, but was edited. I think it deserves a complete reading, so here it is in full:
July the 14th, 1861 Washington D.C.
My very dear Sarah:
The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days—perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.
Our movement may be one of a few days duration and full of pleasure—and it may be one of severe conflict and death to me. Not my will, but thine O God, be done. If it is necessary that I should fall on the battlefield for my country, I am ready. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing—perfectly willing—to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt.
But, my dear wife, when I know that with my own joys I lay down nearly all of yours, and replace them in this life with cares and sorrows—when, after having eaten for long years the bitter fruit of orphanage myself, I must offer it as their only sustenance to my dear little children—is it weak or dishonorable, while the banner of my purpose floats calmly and proudly in the breeze, that my unbounded love for you, my darling wife and children, should struggle in fierce, though useless, contest with my love of country.
Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly on with all these chains to the battlefield.
The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when God willing, we might still have lived and loved together and seen our sons grow up to honorable manhood around us. I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me—perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar—that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name.
Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have often been! How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness, and struggle with all the misfortune of this world, to shield you and my children from harm. But I cannot. I must watch you from the spirit land and hover near you, while you buffet the storms with your precious little freight, and wait with sad patience till we meet to part no more.
But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the brightest day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.
Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for me, for we shall meet again.
As for my little boys, they will grow as I have done, and never know a father's love and care. Little Willie is too young to remember me long, and my blue-eyed Edgar will keep my frolics with him among the dimmest memories of his childhood. Sarah, I have unlimited confidence in your maternal care and your development of their characters. Tell my two mothers his and hers I call God's blessing upon them. O Sarah, I wait for you there! Come to me, and lead thither my children.
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Oberlin College is the most national of all liberal arts colleges. Its students consistently come from every state in the nation as well as from many foreign countries. Oberlin is unique in that it combines one of the nation's foremost liberal arts colleges with a world-famous conservatory of music. Moreover, the Oberlin Conservatory is the only one devoted entirely to the training of musicians at the undergraduate level. The presence of the two divisions on one campus encourages a broad view of areas of interest and an awareness of their connection. Students in one division often enroll in courses in the other. Enrollment averages 2,300 in the College and 500 in the Conservatory.
The College of Arts and Sciences awards the B.A. degree and offers strong programs in all areas of the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences; the Conservatory of Music awards the B.Mus. degree in performance, composition, music history, music education, historical performance, electronic and computer music, and jazz studies. A five-year, double-degree program leading to both the B.A. and B.Mus. is offered, and selected programs in both divisions award master's degrees.
Founded in 1833, Oberlin was the nation's first coeducational college and an early leader in the education of blacks. By the turn of the century, one-third of the nation's black graduates of predominately white colleges had graduated from Oberlin. In addition, more Oberlin graduates earn Ph.D.s than do graduates of any other undergraduate institution.
Oberlin's size is a distinct asset -- it is large enough to offer some 900 courses, yet small enough for students to make contributions to the community. Students are encouraged to take responsibility for their program of study and to spend at least one semester off campus. Winter Term allows further time for individual projects. Concerts and theatrical productions abound, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum is recognized as one of the nation's finest college museums. | <urn:uuid:7ee3cb15-939a-48a5-84cd-e0435ad42ea5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.northcoast.org/member/oberlin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961469 | 401 | 2.109375 | 2 |
chriswade From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2012, 75 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 months 4 days ago) and read 3062 times:
Can someone help me please. What is the best way to go about shooting props on a really sunny day? i obviously want a low shutter speed so it doesnt make the props look like they have stopped but obviously with the low shutter speed a lot of light is able to get through and its making my pictures look really bright especially if the plane is white which most are. how can i get around this?
If not, it would do you well to read up a bit and practice. I don't mean to be abrupt, but learning yourself through practice and experimentation is a much better way to go than just having someone tell you settings to use.
"Two and a Half Men" was filmed in front of a live ostrich.
teopilot From Italy, joined Jul 2010, 528 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (6 months 4 days ago) and read 3062 times:
It depends on what you want to achieve, I think...
As far as I am concerned, I'd say that it is a "trial by error" procedure: you have to try different settings and pick the best one or the one that fits best for you.
For me, the best setting is the one that gives me "safety" but that gives me the blurry on the props (generally, it is not a "total blur").
With more light hitting the sensor, you will have to close the diaphragm in order to compensate: you can both do it manually in full manual mode or leave to the camera this duty by selecting time priority mode.
However, always bear in mind that slower shutter speeds may end up into blurry images... so, steady hand!
Finally, I always start from this settings and then I adjust:
- 1/160 or slower for helicopters
- 1/250 or slower for props
Generally, on a bright sunny clear day... no wider than f/8
IL76 From Netherlands, joined Jan 2004, 2235 posts, RR: 51 Reply 3, posted (6 months 4 days ago) and read 3062 times:
*...waiting for a 'certain' AN26 picture to pop up...*
On a sunny day, just stick to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_16
You'll have to do the math yourself depending how low you want to go in shutter speed. Going lower than 1/100s might get a bit troublesome when your cam doesn't have ISO50. You can consider using an ND or polarizer filter to keep apertures in a reasonable range. (not too small, not too large)
ckw From UK - England, joined Aug 2010, 530 posts, RR: 18 Reply 4, posted (6 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 3026 times:
ND filter is probably the best way to go. While it may be possible to stop your lens down to f22 or f32, this is not recommended because
a) most lenses are not designed to perform at their best fully shutdown and
b) there is an effect known as 'diffraction' which can cause some deterioration of image quality beyond a certain aperture (also depends on the resolution of the sensor). While unlikely to be noticeable at f11 - f16, by f22 you will start to see the effects.
A polarizer will work to cut the light but they are more expensive and also may have unwanted effects depending on the angle of the light. An ND filter won't change the look of the image in any way.
Note that prop speeds vary considerably, and will generally be turning much slower on approach than on takeoff. As a general rule, big props = slower rotation speed = slower shutter speed to get decent blur. For example with a microlight with a rotax engine, you'll get decent prop blur at 1/250th - at the other extreme, trying to get good prop blur on the Airbus A400M is quite challenging - I think I was shooting at around 1/30th, perhaps less, before I was happy.
dendrobatid From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2004, 1605 posts, RR: 64 Reply 5, posted (6 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 3014 times:
There is another point that is not often considered, particularly on aircraft in flight.
At low shutter speeds the movement of the aircraft is significant during the exposure resulting in blur even ignoring the very high risk of camera shake at low shutter speeds.
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The population of a colony of mosquitoes obeys the law of uninhibited growth. If there are 1000 mosquitoes initially and there are 1800 after 1 day, what is the size of the colony after three days? How long is it until there are 10000 mosquitoes?
where is the population after time , is the initial population, and is the rate of growth.
you are told
you are also told . you can use that to find . then you can fill in the unknowns in the formula above, except for and of course.
you can then answer the other questions.
the size of the population after 3 days is given by .
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Some posts in another thread told me there are some vodka drinkers here. I would like to invite vodka drinkers (okay, anybody) to react/respond to the following:
Vodka is grain neutral spirits (GNS) and water. The water is added to reduce the 190+ proof GNS to between 100 and 80 proof for bottling. That is the legal definition of vodka. Vodka, by law, has no "distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color." The only reason two different vodkas taste different is because different sources were used for the water used to dilute it after distillation. Therefore, the only difference between the contents of a $10 bottle of vodka and a $50 bottle of vodka is that different water has been used to dilute the GNS. | <urn:uuid:cd9b239b-9c41-4144-a025-20c8c32a93f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?2608-Attention-Vodka-Drinkers&p=26706&viewfull=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968976 | 164 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The inception of the Urban Biofilter was provoked by an extreme lack of air, water, and soil remediation efforts taking place in the West Oakland area. Although it is not constrained to West Oakland, much of the work happening right now is through collaboration with the Oakland Ports.
“The Urban Biofilter purifies waste to improve quality of life in inner-cities. A micro-industrial forestry project grown with waste water on brownfields, the Urban Biofilter bioremediates water, soil and air while shielding residents from industry and transportation routes and beautifying neighborhoods. By valuing ecosystem services the project enables a green economy that serves environmental justice.”
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President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan presented a joint front against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad even as Obama shies away from deeper U.S. involvement in the conflict, such as sending weapons to the rebels.
It’s clear the Barack Obama administration needs to answer for failing to secure the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died in a September terrorist attack. Yet the accountability debate is getting in the way of the more important discussion the Benghazi attack should provoke.
Somalia’s government said al-Qaeda’s announcement that the al-Shabaab militia had officially joined the organization will destabilize the war-torn nation even further while increasing security risks in the region.
At least 21 people were killed and 79 wounded when a bomb exploded outside a Coptic Christian church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in the deadliest terrorist attack in Egypt since at least 2006.
Almost 10 years ago, when 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, Osama bin Laden set a snare for the U.S. His death on Sunday may not resolve all of the security challenges for the U.S., but it does offer a way out of the trap that is Afghanistan. | <urn:uuid:e9637ac4-952d-46e3-899e-7785ab51fef6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://topics.bloomberg.com/ayman-al--zawahiri/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961401 | 252 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Teaching professionals to take stock with the
Cambridge ESOL Teacher Portfolio
Clare Mitchell Crow, Project Manager, Projects Office, Customer Services
Clare Harrison, Subject Officer, Assessment & Operations Group
What counts most in teaching, experience or qualifications? Increasingly, with the changing demands and opportunities in the profession, what really matters is what teachers do with their knowledge, qualifications and experience, their time in the classroom; to what extent they reflect on professional development, pay attention to the ups and downs of everyday experience and make plans to change their approach.
Cambridge ESOL has developed a new service to provide teachers with the basic tools to help and encourage them to take stock of their careers. The Cambridge ESOL Teacher Portfolio is a web based tool that offers teachers a secure personal space to consolidate and document their teaching career. The benefits of this service are that it offers teachers undertaking or teaching our exams a means to record their qualifications, professional development, reflections on their teaching and work experience.
The introduction of the Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) in 2005 was the catalyst for this development. TKT aims to increase teachers' confidence and enhance their job prospects by focusing on the core teaching knowledge needed by teachers of primary, secondary or adult learners, anywhere in the world. Offering an electronic tool in which candidates are able to document and reflect on their teaching practice, while not forming part of the assessment for TKT, was seen as an ideal supporting feature. Initially the Portfolio has been made available to any teachers who have taken, or are taking, one of the Cambridge ESOL Teaching Awards or exams. During the development phase, however, it became apparent that all teachers could benefit from the use of the service, and the aim is to make the Portfolio more generally available.
Electronic portfolios are currently used on an international scale in a wide variety of educational and vocational contexts. Electronic portfolios may be defined as a collection of authentic and diverse digital artefacts, including demonstrations, resources, reflections and accomplishments that represent an individual’s learning and work over time.
For a practising or prospective teacher, a portfolio offers a means of storing, organising and sharing materials and information related to their teaching in a way which encourages reflection and professional development. A teacher portfolio can be used to store material a teacher and their learners produce. This could include:
Feedback the teacher has been given on their teaching after lesson observations or a record of training courses attended can also form part of a teacher portfolio, as well as official documentation, such as certificates, references and employment records.
- the teacher’s statement of their teaching philosophy;
- a description of their teaching responsibilities and context;
- class profiles;
- lesson materials;
- lesson plans;
- examples of learners’ work;
- learners’ feedback;
- self-reflections on their teaching and/or
- a list of personal goals for improving teaching and enhancing skills.
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Ceglo got its name after a Roman brickworks. It was located in the field below the village - the place is today on the Italian side of the border. The hamlet is given its character by a renovated castle composed of two units. Once a property of the Codelli family from Mossa, it is now a private property. The first, central unit comprises a palace, a chapel and belonging buildings, while the second, lower unit is a farm. | <urn:uuid:eda1ceed-7de1-4cc3-8eeb-c832b5c9cd3a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slovenia.info/en/-ctg-kraji/Ceglo.htm?_ctg_kraji=4889&lng=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963292 | 116 | 1.523438 | 2 |