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Many recent theories about the origins and nature of the Chaco Phenomenon, from a variety of perspectives, have focused on pilgrimage as a key aspect of the system. This is indeed an elegant way of addressing many of the more puzzling characteristics of the Chacoan record, particularly the presence of so many valuable imported goods in a location without any obvious resources that could have been offered in exchange. The (somewhat controversial) evidence for periodic feasting events at some of the great houses and the oddly impractical nature of the road system are other things that make a lot more sense in the context of Chaco being a pilgrimage destination.
Pilgrimage is by no means a silver bullet for explaining Chaco, however, and the theories employing it still end up in very different places on account of the other assumptions they add. While “ritual” aspects of the Chaco system tend to be invoked primarily by advocates of a more egalitarian Chaco, there is no necessary contradiction between ritual and hierarchy, and some of the pilgrimage models see elites harnessing the ceremonial authority granted them by virtue of association with a pilgrimage destination and turning it into more “secular” political and economic power.
With all this in mind, it is perhaps useful to examine a living pilgrimage tradition elsewhere in New Mexico, not too far from Chaco, to see what implications its history and characteristics might have for these theories. The story turns out to be a great deal more complicated than it appears at first glance, and I think there are many lessons that can be profitably taken from it and applied to the study of Chaco.
The tradition I speak of focuses on the small Hispanic village of Chimayo in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico and a pit of dirt there that is reputed to have miraculous healing power. It is described in a thorough and well-researched but short and very readable book by Elizabeth Kay.
The early history of Chimayo, before the coming of the Spanish, is shrouded in mystery, but the hill from which the village gets its name is considered sacred to the local Tewa-speaking pueblos, and there is some evidence that the area was inhabited from around AD 1100 to 1400. Toward the end of this prehistoric occupation there was apparently a pueblo right by the place of the healing dirt. This pueblo was apparently totally abandoned by the time of Spanish contact, but the people from the remaining pueblos continued to mix the dirt from the site with water and drink it as an elixir long after the settlement of the area by the Spanish after the reconquest of New Mexico in 1692.
There is little evidence of the Spanish paying much notice to this native tradition until the early nineteenth century. Kay suggests that the devastating smallpox epidemic of 1780 and 1781, which caused immense death and suffering among both the pueblos and the Spanish settlers, was instrumental in causing the settlers to become more interested in traditional Indian remedies such as the healing dirt of Chimayo. Northern New Mexico in those days was a poor, isolated frontier area far from the main population centers to the south and both the physical and spiritual well-being of the colonists were hampered by the lack of sufficient priests and doctors to tend to the far-flung villages. Given this persistent vulnerability, it is hardly surprising that a devastating epidemic might test the villagers’ faith in the methods of their own society and cause increased interest in the practices of their neighbors who had lived in the area much longer and knew it very well.
Be that as it may, the first evidence for the villagers’ interest in the healing dirt comes from considerably later, and involves an odd and unexpected connection to a very distant place of pilgrimage with its own holy dirt. It is not at all clear how the villagers in Chimayo learned about this other tradition or decided it was connected to their own area, but the implications of the transmission of such information over such a vast distance are intriguing.
The first direct mention of this connection comes in a letter written in 1813 by Bernardo Abeyta, a prominent citizen in the Chimayo area, to his local parish priest, who was based in the nearby village of Santa Cruz. The letter was written on a new piece of high-quality paper, an extremely scarce and valuable commodity in colonial New Mexico, and in it Abeyta asked permission to build a formal chapel to venerate Christ “in His Advocation of Esquípulas,” which the villagers had been doing for three years in a makeshift shack next to Abeyta’s house which he had built at his own expense for the purpose. The priest passed the request on to his superior, who was in charge of all the missions in New Mexico, and in 1814 the request was granted. The villagers of Chimayo soon built a church next to the shack and dedicated it to veneration of the crucifix of the Black Christ of Esquípulas which, legend has it, Abeyta had found buried at the site of the healing dirt and attempted to bring to the church in Santa Cruz, only to have it miraculously return to its original location. The church is still there and has become a major pilgrimage destination for Catholics throughout northern New Mexico.
But wait. Who or what is this “Esquípulas”? And what does he or it have to do with the healing dirt of Chimayo long known to the Tewa pueblos?
For the answer, strangely enough, we must leave nineteenth-century New Mexico for the moment and head for sixteenth-century Guatemala. In 1524, when the Spanish entered the area occupied by the Chorti Maya bent on conquest by any means, a Chorti chief (or king) named Esquípulas surrendered his people immediately to avoid a violent confrontation. Both the Spanish and the Chorti were thankful for this decision, which avoided the massive brutality seen so often in similar situations throughout what would become Latin America, and when the Spanish finally got around to displacing and resettling the Chorti about 50 years later they named the new town established for the purpose Santiago de Esquípulas. Though a new colonial establishment, the town happened to lie on the ancient trade route to the major Maya city of Copán, which as a ceremonial center attracted a fair number of pilgrims. The area around the town of Esquípulas itself had been known since precolumbian times as a pilgrimage center in its own right, famed for its sulphur springs and healing earth, which the Maya ate to cure a variety of ailments. (Sound familiar?)
The Spanish missionaries, no fools, took advantage of the reputation of the sulphur springs in 1578 by building a chapel near them and equipping it with a crucifix carved out of dark brown balsam wood. This “Black Christ” soon gained a reputation for performing the miracles previously (and to some extent still) associated with the healing dirt of Esquípulas, and the chapel became a famed destination for pilgrims throughout New Spain.
Which brings us back to Chimayo. The parallels between the two locations, with healing dirt long venerated by the local Indians becoming Christianized and accepted by Spanish colonists, are obvious and unmistakeable, but the process by which the New Mexican shrine became associated with the Guatemalan one remains quite obscure. Clearly someone from Chimayo, possibly Bernardo Abeyta himself, had either traveled to Guatemala or heard detailed accounts of the shrine at Esquípulas from someone who had seen it. Travel was quite restricted by the Spanish authorities in the colonies, but some people got around, and pilgrimage was one major way to do so. Another was trade, and the main lifeline to the outside world for the villagers of northern New Mexico was the regular caravan that would bring whatever meager goods they had to sell down to the summer trade fairs in Chihuahua.
However Bernardo Abeyta learned about the cult of Esquípulas, he learned it in detail. In his 1813 letter he spells the name correctly, which is quite remarkable given the general standards of education at the time and the long distance over which that name must have traveled. He also seems to have learned about the distinctive dark crucifix, at least enough to identify it with the similarly dark image of Christ in his own chapel, and presumably about the healing dirt which was the main similarity between the two shrines. Kay doesn’t go as far as to argue that Abeyta himself had traveled to Guatemala, but she does suggest that someone from Chimayo likely had, and I think the preponderance of evidence, circumstantial though it is, points to Abeyta as the most likely traveler. Abeyta was also a key figure in the rise of the penitente brotherhood, which seems to have developed with at least some knowledge of similar organizations elsewhere in the Hispanic world, so there is some additional evidence that he may have been unusually well-traveled for a resident of Chimayo.
Once Abeyta’s chapel was built it quickly became a focus for local pilgrims, and just as had happened in Esquípulas the crucifix of the Black Christ began to gain credit for the miracles formerly attributed to the healing dirt. The hole with the dirt in it is still there, in a little room to the side of the main structure of the chapel. This room is reputed to be the original shack built by Abeyta over the hole. Today it is lavishly decorated with offerings brought by pilgrims, mostly religious art and the canes and crutches no longer needed by the miraculously healed.
The story would be interesting and improbable enough were that the entirety of it, but it actually goes on and takes another odd twist. Bernardo Abeyta died in 1856, by which time his shrine, known as the Santuario de Chimyo, had become a major destination for pilgrims. Not long after Abeyta’s death, however, his neighbor Severiano Medina began to suffer from severe rheumatism and had a revelation in which he was told to pray to the Holy Child of Atocha. He did so, promising to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Child’s shrine if he were healed. He recovered and duly made his pilgrimage to the shrine, in the town of Plateros in the Mexican state of Zacatecas near the city of Fresnillo. When he described his experience to the priest at the shrine and requested a statue of the Holy Child he was given a papier-mâché doll, apparently of German origin, which had been bent into the Holy Child’s traditional sitting pose and dressed in pilgrim’s garb. He brought this statue back to Chimayo in February 1857. The people of the village, entranced by Medina’s story, donated land for a private chapel to the Holy Child, which was completed by the next year. It is very close to the Santuario built by Bernardo Abeyta to honor the Black Christ, and the miracles sought by pilgrims soon began to be attributed to the Holy Child. Much as traditions about the healing dirt had become blurred with those about the Black Christ, so the stories of the Holy Child, who was said to wander about the countryside at night helping people, were added to the mix. Since the Holy Child was said to wear out many pairs of shoes in night-time wandering, offerings at the chapel largely consist of pairs of baby shoes. The tradition of offering shoes continues to this day, and the chapel is now festooned with innumerable pairs.
Medina’s chapel was such a hit that it began to overshadow the Santuario, which was still privately owned by the Abeyta family. To try to compete with this new interloper, the Abeytas acquired a Holy Child of their own, but in their haste the statue they got was actually of the Holy Child of Prague, who carries a globe, rather than the Holy Child of Atocha, who carries the staff and gourd of a pilgrim. As if that weren’t enough, the Santuario’s image somehow became associated with yet another Holy Child, known as the Lost Child, who represents Jesus Christ at age twelve when he allegedly got lost in the Temple in Jerusalem. It’s not clear how the confusion arose, but the name stuck.
So what’s the story behind this Holy Child of Atocha, anyway? Well, it turns out that the Spanish town of Atocha (now best known as the location of the main train station in Madrid) does not in fact have a tradition of venerating a Holy Child, or at least it didn’t at the time the Mexican cult began. What it did have, however, was a church of the Dominican Order with a holy image of the Virgin Mary, with the Christ child on her knee, known as the Virgin of Atocha. Early Dominicans active in the initial missionary efforts in the New World apparently introduced this cult to certain parts of the Spanish colonies, including the silver-mining town of Plateros in Zacatecas. In the late eighteenth century a prominent citizen of Plateros apparently made some sort of pilgrimage to Atocha and brought back a statue of the Virgin, which was placed in the church there. The church burned at some point in the earlyy nineteenth century, and this may or may not have been the reason that the statue of the child was separated from the Virgin, dressed in pilgrim’s garb, and venerated on its own as the Holy Child of Atocha. The connection between the child and pilgrimage seems rather arbitrary, but it may relate to the ancient Aztec cult of a child god named Teopiltzintli who was a guardian of pilgrims and travelers.
As the attention of pilgrims to Chimayo became more and more focused on the Medinas’ Holy Child, the Abeytas’ Santuario began to suffer, and by the 1920s the family was becoming unable to afford to keep it up. They began selling off pieces of devotional art that had accrued over the years, which attracted the attention of the growing community of Anglo scholars and amateurs, mostly in Santa Fe, who were concerned about the preservation of New Mexico’s rich cultural heritage. They went into action to save the Santuario and managed to raise enough money to buy the property and donate it to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in 1929. The chapel thus became for the first time an official mission of the Roman Catholic Church, and so it remains. It has since recovered some of its popularity as a pilgrimage destination, though the chapel of the Holy Child, still in the hands of the Medina family, continues to be a popular destination as well. The main time for pilgrimages to Chimayo is Holy Week, when thousands make the journey on foot, but smaller numbers come throughout the year to take advantage of the strong spiritual power, whatever its direct association, adhering to the place.
So what does this all have to do with Chaco? Quite a bit. Most directly, the origin of the Chimayo pilgrimage tradition among the Tewa pueblos shows the importance of holy sites and pilgrimage within the living tradition of which Chaco was one manifestation. This is a substantial piece of evidence indicating the plausibility of models of Chaco involving pilgrimage as a substantial aspect of the Chacoan system. It also hints that the reasons for pilgrimage can be quite subtle. A pit of holy dirt is not the sort of thing that is easy to find in the archaeological record. Furthermore, the fact that there was apparently a pueblo at the site of the dirt in prehistoric times suggests that some communities may have had particularly strong roles in controlling access to pilgrimage destinations. Perhaps the residents of that pueblo, like the residents of Chaco Canyon, derived political and economic power and influence from their proximity to a place of great spiritual power. Or perhaps not; one of the key things about the prehistory of Chimayo is how little we know about it, which is good reason for humility in considering what we can determine from archaeology and ethnohistory.
On a more abstract level, too, the Chimayo example is instructive in evaluating pilgrimage models of Chaco. One of the most striking things about the history of Chimayo is its complexity. While the overall function of the place as a pilgrimage center has been quite constant, the exact nature of the devotion involved and its relationship to traditions elsewhere has shifted enormously just in the two hundred years or so for which we have written records. Could similar shifts account for some of the puzzling and rather rapid changes seen in the Chacoan archaeological record? It would be difficult to know for sure, but I think the likelihood is definitely there.
Also, the geographic scale of the influences involved is interesting, particularly in light of the recent discovery of chocolate at Chaco. While transportation and communication systems in the southwest and Mexico were somewhat more elaborate and reliable in Spanish colonial times than in prehistory, largely due to the presence of draft animals, wheeled vehicles, and writing, travel and transmission of detailed information over long distances was still quite difficult. And yet, it was done, and we see clearly here that quite detailed accounts of devotional practices in Guatemala could make their way more or less intact to northern New Mexico. It just so happens that the chocolate found in Chaco was almost certainly grown in roughly the same area and brought roughly the same distance and by a similar route. Given the important role of chocolate in Mesoamerican ritual, and the striking similarity of form between the cylinder jars used by the Maya in these rituals and the ones in which the Chaco chocolate was found, a process of information dissemination extraordinarily similar to the journey of the Black Christ from Esquípulas to Chimayo is looking remarkably likely eight hundred years before.
Ultimately, I think the most useful aspect of this comparison is the reminder that it’s important to look at things with an open mind. A cult being transported from Guatemala to New Mexico sounds unlikely in either the eleventh or the nineteenth century, and yet we know for a fact that it did happen at least once. Sometimes unlikely things do happen, and it’s important not to disregard possibilities just because they go beyond a conservative reading of the available evidence. Occam’s Razor is an important and useful principle, but it shouldn’t become an ironclad law. | <urn:uuid:cdf8e0b9-79c9-4f6e-b002-435aaf94ed4b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gamblershouse.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/whan-that-aprill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976525 | 3,834 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Evaluation of Anthropogenic Effects in Bosphorus
Mustafa Oðuzhan Çolak and Sinan Serdaroðlu
Geographic focus: Turkey / Bosphorus Strait
Date completed: 2005
The Bosphorus, the world’s narrowest strait used for international navigation, has suffered contamination from the high volume of ships passing through the strait as well as from the densely populated metropolitan area (Istanbul) that borders it on both shores. Two students from Turkey studied environmental degradation of the Bosphorus strait’s terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They mapped land use and land cover to better identify point and non-point sources of pollution. After analyzing their own maps, aerial photographs, and several charts and graphs, they concluded that rampant industrialization along the shores of the Bosphorus has contributed most to its contamination. They recommended that Istanbul city planners better manage state-owned areas.
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Out of the Void
Coombs vs. the Avalanche
In June 1992, Colby Coombs was a 25-year-old National Outdoor Leadership School instructor on vacation in the Alaska Range with his friends Ritt Kellogg and Tom Walter. The trio headed off for 17,400-foot Mount Foraker and over three days attempted to put up a new direct finish on its Pink Panther route. But as they neared their goal, a storm moved in, and the mountain let loose.
The avalanche knocked Coombs and his companions 800 feet down the side of the face. When Coombs awoke six hours later, he was dangling from his rope, suffering from two fractured vertebrae in his neck, a broken shoulder blade, and a fractured ankle. He swung over to Walter, who was hanging on a rope nearby, but his friend's face was fully masked in ice, and he was dead. A day later, Coombs found his old college roommate, Kellogg, who had also been killed.
Over the next four days, Coombs shut out all thoughts of his dead friends and laboriously picked his way down the mountain. "I just had to keep my eyes open and ignore the pain," remembers Coombs, who now runs the Alaska Mountaineering School in his hometown of Talkeetna. After reaching base camp, he still had to complete a dangerous five-mile crossing of Kahiltna Glacier, with no way to rescue himself if he fell into a crevasse. Against all odds, he made it. Today, the 37-year-old Coombs constantly emphasizes safety in his AMS courses. "I don't tell my story much, only when it comes up during teachable moments," he says. "But if you do get in trouble, anything that gets in the way of success has to be eliminated—emotion, fear, pain. It's the mental things that will impede your survival." | <urn:uuid:0faf9321-e196-4234-9c01-f95406bb9a9b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/outdoor-skills/survival/I-Will-Survive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987851 | 394 | 1.539063 | 2 |
No problem cutting the framing apart and setting the portion in question back in line with the concrete foundation.
A strong recommendation (unfortunately I did a project
without it) is to leave an inch gap between the stud framing and the concrete if you use batt insulation. The insulation should not touch the concrete. (cellulose blow in insulation is also not recommended because you can't keep it from touching the concrete and accumulating moisture and growing mold.)
In cold climates, water pipes should not be behind an insulated exterior wall or framing. They should
be inside the framing, with no insulation between them and the inside paneling or wall covering. | <urn:uuid:ef746fbb-8a96-48e0-99b8-52e3523d1c1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.diychatroom.com/f14/framing-unfinished-basement-95477/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932385 | 130 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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Muay Thai (Thai Boxing) came to Britain in the early eighties and is the ancient fighting art of Siam (now Thailand ), originated from the military use of sword and spear (Krabi- Krabong) by the Siamese armies defending their homeland during the 1600's. After many years of conflict, the borders finally settled, Siam relaxed into a peaceful but defensive lifestyle. The rulers, knowing peace is something you must be willing to fight and die to maintain, developed Muay Thai as a way to keep their soldiers sharp. Yearly contests, putting the best fighters from the military against the best their neighbouring countries could produce developed into the modern sport.
In full (real) Muay Thai all eight weapons are utilised. Two fists, two elbows, two feet and two knees (although the shins are used to kick and feet for pushing away). The only illegal striking on the body is a direct and deliberate groin attack or a strike intended to break the knee joint. British Muay Thai has modifications that involve not using the elbows and knees to the head at beginners level. The use of ‘real' full Thai rules comes later in the career of a fighter, often at international level. Muay Thai is the hardest ring sport in the world today, only superseded in the amount of contact allowed by what is now called ‘free fight' or' no holds- barred' (this is the use of both the striking skills of Muay Thai and groundwork from styles like Brazilian Ju Jitsu).
Muay Thai as a sporting aspect has proved itself time and time against many of the other styles. The greatest demonstration is modern times came at the Lumpini stadium (Bangkok) in 1974 where an entire team of kung-fu fighters from Hong Kong were all knocked out in the first round. Many modern day tournaments in the UK have had similar results with exponents (world champions) from styles like Taekwondo and Karate have been annihilated in the early rounds. This is not because the other styles don't have good street application it is just that Muay Thai is a combat sport for competitors that are used to regular full contact to all parts of the body. The training is very intense with the competitors expected to train every day and dedicate themselves entirely to it.
Today Muay Thai is the national sport of Thailand . Thousands of Muay Thai gyms can be located across the country from the capital to the farming communities. Many of the towns have a ‘boxing' arena. In the stadiums of the capital, Bangkok , it's like the ‘World Series' and ‘Super bowl' every Saturday night. The two biggest, Rajadamnern and Lumpini holds fight every night. In the UK events can be found around the country almost every weekend but with much smaller crowds and minimal publicity. Of recent years the growth of the sport has seen Muay Thai reach the national television in the UK but is still dwarfed by the presence of orthodox ‘western' boxing and of course football. In Thailand children as young as 7 years old are sent to live at the local camps. This is considered an honour for them and the family. There is no mysticism to Muay Thai in Thailand it is considered as a way of life and a good way to earn money to support the family. In the UK most of us would find the way of life to hard. Professional fighters train every day two or three times a day, in temperatures of 45 degrees!
Many countries especially Britain , Holland and the United States have found it much harder to accept the level of contact allowed in Muay Thai and have introduced many watered down styles that are not Muay Thai! Luckily there are those organisations that do allow full Muay Thai rules. Several years ago the formation of the ‘World Muay Thai Council' has ensured the survival of the history and traditions of Muay Thai. Many of the other organisations are now following suit and the introduction of full Muay Thai rules is in effect. | <urn:uuid:4df1d9b6-da84-47fa-8d16-b60a8cb0488b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.keddlesgym.co.uk/fighting_arts/muay_thai/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964085 | 830 | 2.265625 | 2 |
NAEP - Percentage of Students, by Degree of Reading Accuracy When Only Counting Meaning-Change Errors
Percentage of students, by degree of reading accuracy when only counting meaning-change errors, grade 4: 2002
- Approximately three-fourths (76 percent) of participating fourth-graders read the excerpt with four or fewer meaning-change errors. In other words, they read at least 98 percent of the words either exactly as in the printed text or with only non-meaning-change errors.
- Approximately, 17 percent read with between 5 and 10 meaning-change errors (95-97 percent accuracy).
- Approximately 7 percent of the students read with 11 or more meaning-change errors.
View average reading scale scores in relation to the achievement levels, by degree of reading accuracy.
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life, by reason of their appearance, position, assurance, and of a certain energy, half genuine, and half mere inherent predilection for short cuts. Certainly he was not idle, had written a book, travelled, was a Captain of Yeomanry, a Justice of the Peace, a good cricketer, and a constant and glib speaker. It would have been unfair to call his enthusiasm for social reform spurious. It was real enough in its way, and did certainly testify that he was not altogether lacking either in imagination or good-heartedness. But it was over and overlaid with the public-school habit—that peculiar, extraordinarily English habit, so powerful and beguiling that it becomes a second nature stronger than the first—of relating everything in the Universe to the standards and prejudices of a single class. Since practically all his intimate associates were immersed in it, he was naturally not in the least conscious of this habit; indeed there was nothing he deprecated so much in politics as the narrow and prejudiced outlook, such as he had observed in the Nonconformist, or labour politician. He would never have admitted for a moment that certain doors had been banged-to at his birth, bolted when he went to Eton, and padlocked at Cambridge. No one would have denied that there was much that was valuable in his standards—a high level of honesty, candour, sportsmanship, personal cleanliness, and self-reliance, together with a dislike of such cruelty as had been officially (so to speak) recognized as cruelty, and a sense of public service to a State run by and for the public schools; but it would have required far more originality than he possessed ever to look at Life from any other point of view than that from which he had been born and bred to watch Her. To fully understand harbinger, one must, and with unprejudiced eyes and brain, have attended one of those great cricket matches in which he had figured conspicuously as a boy, and looking down from some high impartial spot have watched the ground at lunch time covered from rope to rope and stand to stand with a marvellous swarm, all walking in precisely the same manner, with precisely the same expression on their faces, under precisely the same hats—a swarm enshrining the greatest identity of, creed and habit ever known since the world began. No, his environment had not been favourable to originality. Moreover he was naturally rapid rather than deep, and life hardly ever left him alone or left him silent. Brought into contact day and night with people to whom politics were more or less a game; run after everywhere; subjected to no form of discipline—it was a wonder that he was as serious as he was. Nor had he ever been in love, until, last year, during her first season, Barbara had, as he might have expressed it—in the case of another ’bowled him middle stump. Though so deeply smitten, he had not yet asked her to marry him—had not, as it were, had time, nor perhaps quite the courage, or conviction. When he was near her, it seemed impossible that he could go on longer without knowing his fate; when he was away from her it was almost a relief, because there were so many things to be done and said, and so little time to do or say them in. But now, during this fortnight, which, for her sake, he had devoted to Miltoun’s cause, his feeling had advanced beyond the point of comfort. | <urn:uuid:68249c27-4fad-43d2-a5d7-0f0045b2345f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/2774/76.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993567 | 724 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Historic Moments: Rotary in New Orleans
Stage at the 1976 RI Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Rotary Images
T he history of Rotary in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, can be traced back to an early visit by a Chicago Rotarian to one of the city's insurance representatives.
Charles A. Newton, then of the Rotary Club of Chicago, visited William J. Bovard, a New Orleans resident working in the insurance field. Impressed by Newton’s account of Rotary in Chicago, Bovard proposed the idea of launching a Rotary club in New Orleans to several friends. On 23 February 1910, the club’s 26 charter members met and adopted a constitution and bylaws.
Three days later, Bovard shared the good news with Newton, writing that “it is the desire and sense of this Club to become a member of the National Organization.” Newton forwarded the letter to Paul Harris, who responded, “Perhaps it will not surprise you if I inform you that New Orleans has been the one point of all others, which I have wanted to see brought into the fold.”
Harris later recounted in My Road to Rotary that he had spent time in New Orleans after graduating from the University of Iowa law school in 1891 and before settling in Chicago in 1896. He returned to the city in January 1943 and spoke to the club.
In 1976, 13,935 Rotarians from 92 countries and geographical areas journeyed to New Orleans for the 67th annual RI Convention.
On 21-25 May, New Orleans will again host the convention. Register by 15 December for early-bird pricing. Learn more about the venue and events.
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- With Mayo Clinic physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist
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Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.
Dr. Edward Laskowski is certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, including subspecialty certification in sports medicine, and is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He is co-director of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center and a professor at College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic.
He has been on the staff of Mayo Clinic since 1990 and specializes in sports medicine, fitness, strength training and stability training. He works with a multidisciplinary team of physical medicine, rehabilitation and orthopedic specialists, physical therapists, and sports psychologists.
Dr. Laskowski is an elite-level skier and an avid hiker, cyclist and climber. He approaches sports medicine from the perspective of a physician and an athlete.
In 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Laskowski to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and he has received a Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Health and Human Services for his contribution to the Council.
Dr. Laskowski was a member of the medical staff of the Olympic Polyclinic at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and has provided medical coverage for the Chicago Marathon. He serves as a consulting physician to the National Hockey League Players' Association and is a featured lecturer at the American College of Sports Medicine's Team Physician Course.
Dr. Laskowski, a Cary, Ill., native, has contributed to Mayo Clinic's CD-ROM on sports, health and fitness, a website guide to self-care, and hundreds of Mayo Clinic articles and booklets in print and online. He is a contributing editor to the "Mayo Clinic Fitness for EveryBody" book, and he has presented lectures throughout the world on health, fitness and sports medicine topics. His teaching expertise has been recognized by his election to the Teacher of the Year Hall of Fame at Mayo Clinic.
"There are many myths and misconceptions about exercise and fitness in general, and also many traditions that don't stand up to scientific scrutiny," he says. "My goal is to provide the most up-to-date and accurate information on sports medicine and fitness topics in a way that you can practically incorporate into your life."
- Tarlov cysts: A cause of low back pain?
Treatments and drugs (3)
- Disk replacement: An effective treatment for low back pain?
- Myofascial release therapy: Can it relieve back pain?
- Epidural steroid injections: Why limited dosing?
Lifestyle and home remedies (1)
- Back pain relief: Ergonomic chair or fitness ball?
Alternative medicine (3)
- Inversion therapy: Can it relieve back pain?
- Prolotherapy: Solution to low back pain?
- Acupuncture for back pain?
Inversion therapy: Can it relieve back pain?
Does inversion therapy relieve back pain? Is it safe?
from Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.
Inversion therapy doesn't provide lasting relief from back pain, and it's not safe for everyone. Inversion therapy involves hanging upside down, and the head-down position could be risky for anyone with high blood pressure, heart disease or glaucoma.
In theory, inversion therapy takes gravitational pressure off the nerve roots and disks in your spine and increases the space between vertebrae. Inversion therapy is one example of the many ways in which stretching the spine (spinal traction) has been used in an attempt to relieve back pain.
Well-designed studies evaluating spinal traction have found the technique ineffective for long-term relief. However, some people find traction temporarily helpful as part of a more comprehensive treatment program for lower back pain caused by spinal disk compression.
Your heartbeat slows and your blood pressure increases when you remain inverted for more than a couple of minutes — and the pressure within your eyeballs jumps dramatically. For these reasons, you should not try inversion therapy if you have high blood pressure, heart disease or glaucoma.Next question
Prolotherapy: Solution to low back pain?
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- Clarke J, et al. Traction for low back pain with or without sciatica. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2010;CD003010. http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews. Accessed April 28, 2011.
- Haskvitz EM, et al. Blood pressure response to inversion traction. Physical Therapy. 1986;66:1364.
- Lamarr JD, et al. Intraocular pressure response to inversion. American Journal of Optometry & Physiological Optics. 1984;61:679. | <urn:uuid:9f4be68b-fcca-42d8-b3f7-b6de976664a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/inversion-therapy/AN01614 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915516 | 1,054 | 1.523438 | 2 |
So my research has been stemmed from the very influential Wade Davis, author of Passage of Darkness (1988) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986) and an article titled: The ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie.
In 1983, Davis first advanced his hypothesis that there is an ethnopharmacological basis for the existence of zombies and tetrodotoxin (TTX) poisoning was the main ingredient in the mixture sorcerers use to zombify someone…Influenced by Dr lamarque douyon- (who uncovered clairvius narcisse,the first medically verifiable zombie)Davis has spearheaded the zombie investigation, causing much debate and inspiring many intrigued followers.
Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist, folklorist 1938-found a potion that would induce a death like state, but ingredient s were so guarded, impossible to access. But Davis did the impossible; over 4 years gained the trust of several voodoo sorcerers and uncovered the secret potion –documented in serpent and the rainbow
Ingredients: datura stramonium, velvet bean, king toad, puffer fish, hispaniolan boa, bearded fireworm, taranchula, cashew leaves, and the bones of a human child…all ingredients play an equally important role in the production of the substance….when ingested the victim slips into a stupefied state, without speech and will power and is unable to formulate thought, but can move and act. | <urn:uuid:529f8c9b-9299-443a-8374-1b7f52933ddc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.libraryreference.org/2011/05/wade-daviszombie-king.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917686 | 299 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Congratulations to all the student artists who were chosen to participate in the School District’s annual Young Artists Conference. Ninety-nine students were selected at the school level to participate in the event, which included an Art Show at the Old Courthouse Gallery and a conference at TRU. Choosing from 8 different workshops, the artists were able to experience art forms and instruction not generally available to them at the school. Workshops included silk scarf painting, glass mosaics, silverware windchimes, beetle books, muppet making, and more.
The students’ art was adjudicated and 14 pieces were chosen to be framed and placed in the school board office for the 2012/2013 year. Congratulations to Brooklyn Cacaci, Nick Cacaci, Erin Dombrosky, Emily Earl, Skyla Foidart, Grace Giles, Oliver Harrison, Karigan Labby, Olivia Lemke, Sydney Munden, Hannah O’Neil, Parker Reed, Roquel-Alexa Vandriel, and Alexander von Dehn. Check out their artwork at: Young Artists Blog | <urn:uuid:382702ec-294c-4ffd-b7d1-7003fa7edd97> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www3.sd73.bc.ca/general/content/young-artists-conference-2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951582 | 220 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Board Approves Plan To Rebuild Flooded Clarkdale Elementary School On New Site
Clarkdale Elementary School, destroyed by floodwaters last fall, is on its way to being rebuilt. The Board of Education has approved a plan to construct a new Clarkdale Elementary on a relocated site adjacent to Cooper Middle School, between Ewing Road and Flint Hill Road in Austell. The plan encompasses construction of a larger school with up to 53 classrooms and redistricting that will relieve overcrowding at Hollydale, Sanders and other nearby elementary schools. Before its vote, the Board included an amendment that will require Board approval of a site plan for the project before it is bid.
A massive flood destroyed the original school on Sept. 21, 2009, filling the building with water from floor to ceiling. Since that time students have been divided between two nearby schools (kindergarten through second grade at Compton Elementary and grades three through five at Austell Intermediate).
Approval of the plan follows several months of discussions and negotiations with insurance, the Federal and Georgia Emergency Management Agencies (FEMA/GEMA), as well as state and county planning authorities.
Construction of the new school is expected to take at least 18 months. Read more on the District Web site.
The good news story of SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) continues for Cobb County taxpayers. The following agenda items approved by the Board of Education are SPLOST-related and/or involve the use of SPLOST funds. In February 2010, the School Board:
• Authorized extension of Bid 08-12, Fiber Components and Installation Services to NetPlanner Systems and Graybar Electric from March 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011. Approval of the bid will allow the District's network infrastructure to continue to be refreshed. The estimated annual expenditure is $225,000.
• Approved a one-time waiver of Board Policy FEB - Selection and Employment of Architectural and Engineering Services, to allow selection of an architect for the Smyrna replacement elementary school by issuance of a Request for Propsal. The waiver will allow the District to determine the market rate for architectural services.
• Approved appointment of Chapman, Griffin, Lanier & Sussenbach of Atlanta, GA as architect for Lassiter High School theater addition/modifications, at an estimated cost of $809,960.
• Approved appointment of Cunningham, Forehand, Matthews & Moore, Architects, Inc. of Atlanta, GA as architect for the Clarkdale Elementary replacement school.
• Approved contract for demolition of North Cobb Vocational Building, awarded to Nix Fowler at a cost of $235,510.
These projects were part of the SPLOST III program approved by Cobb County voters in 2008. To view the agenda items for the projects, please click here. To view the proposal for the SPLOST III referendum approved Sept. 16, 2008, please click here. | <urn:uuid:fb8f2446-9312-4d84-b019-4bfd48cca1b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cobbk12.org/board/BoardEmail/ccboe_em_201002.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951081 | 595 | 1.640625 | 2 |
|The wind wasn't blowing and my|
hand wasn't shaking. This tree's
leaves were THAT wispy.
As soon as I became aware of the herculean effort trees undertake in simply growing, I've thought of them as large creatures deserving of our respect and care.
Certainly, as woodworkers, we revel in the color and grain patterns of boards, and marvel at the way finishes bring out the depth and luminosity of wood.
|The Enchanted Woods.|
But, let's face it: we kill trees.
Who among us, when watching the movie Avatar, didn't instinctively try to calculate the board feet when that gargantuan tree-dwelling fell to the ground?
This past weekend, while perusing the magnificent landscape at the Winterthur estate, I was awestuck with the beauty of Henry Francis Dupont's gardening mastery.
He designed his 2500 acres to appear to be natural when, in fact, he carefully organized the space so that the visual tapestry evolved throughout every season. For eight months out of the year, something is blooming at Winterthur.
Besides the colorful azaleas, there were sky-high beech and walnut, and fields of feathery ferns.
There were also some impressive trees of note.
The oldest known cherry trees in the U.S., for example, were planted here in 1918. And they're beefy guys. One is affectionately named The Arnold Schwarzenegger Tree by the caretakers because of its massive flexing "arm."
Another tree appeared to be a grove of a dozen different trees, but all the "trunks" were actually attached to the same arborvitae.
It was hard not to anthropomorphize these characters especially when one was the spitting image of Witchiepoo.
Among the trees was The Enchanted Woods, created for children. Kid-size medieval chairs with leaf carvings, an upside-down tree, and a human-size birds' nest brought out the kid in a certain blogger's middle-aged partner.
Henry Francis Dupont designed the landscape in three tiers: ground cover, bushes, and trees. Many of the trees are not native to the area, but were brought from other countries. Hence, the variety.
As woodworkers, we love variety—in grain pattern, color, texture, density. We notice things that non-woodworkers do not. How many times, when milling boards for projects, do we stop to admire these features?
I suspect we have more reverence for wood than others. We're careful not to waste it, as evidenced by all the piles of tiny offcuts we keep stashed away. And we develop a personal connection as we work with it. We're also concerned with future woodworkers and would like for them to have the same resources that we enjoy.
So I ask you, can a woodworker also be a tree hugger? Are those terms at odds with one another?
My answer is thus: | <urn:uuid:b3c8b5ba-6e92-40df-9847-003568355c3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://villagecarpenter.blogspot.com/2011/05/tree-hugging-woodworker-oxymoron.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974136 | 627 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Football (or soccer, depending on which side of the Atlantic Ocean you’re on) just got a little cooler at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar thanks to their promise of air-conditioning in their soon-to-be built stadiums.
Yes, you read that right, air-conditioning. And in an open-air stadium to boot.
But the innovations don’t stop there.
The engineering department at Qatar University, headed by Dr. Saul Abdul Ghani, recently announced the addition of an artificial cloud-like shade for the stadium.
The cloud is said to be made up of a hundred percent light carbonic materials and has four engines that run on solar power. It can also be positioned to hover anywhere over the stadium via a remote control.
Of course, upon further scrutiny, the cloud isn’t quite the fluffy, cotton-candy like floss that people have come to love, but more of a flat sphere, something more akin to an elongated UFO floating high-above the stadium.
Nevertheless, the ‘cloud’ is sure to give both players and the spectators some welcome respite from the legendary heat in Qatar, where temperatures can go as high as 120 degrees.
It is also for this reason that Prince Ali of Jordan suggested holding the 2022 World Cup in January instead of the traditional July play-off, citing January as one of the coolest months in Qatar.
Estimated costs put it at approximately $500,000 each. With nine stadiums to outfit, that amounts to a whole lot of money, but with Qatar’s seemingly endless reserves of riches, that shouldn’t be a problem.
The creators of this new innovation hope that one day their invention would be widely-used in open spaces like beaches and open car parks.
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Chipmunk-sized, though not a rodent; has palmlike, short front feet that are held over the head with palms facing outward. The mole uses its large hands to move through the soil in about the same way a person swims underwater. The head looks nearly featureless except for the flexible, piglike snout. Although the mole’s eyes are only good for telling light from dark, its senses of hearing, touch and smell are acute. The velvety fur is characteristically slate gray but often appears silvery on fleshly groomed moles and sooty black on juveniles. A cinnamon-brown staining on the chin and along the middle of the belly is common on adults. The tail is nearly naked and is highly sensitive to touch. | <urn:uuid:cbf4dbc8-7092-4839-9e19-5f966d4423dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/eastern-mole | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959742 | 157 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Culling and replacement rates are the two numbers that will impact the base cow herd. These numbers are shifted as managers determine how to fit cattle to given resources. The rates are the foundation to expanding and contracting cattle numbers.
Knowing one's culling and replacement rates and relating those numbers to industry numbers is important. The North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association keeps track of many traits for producers through the CHAPS program.
Since 1990, the typical culling rate has been 14.1 percent, while the typical replacement rate has been 17.8 percent.
For more than 20 years of the CHAPS program, producers have encountered many challenges in the beef business. If the word "optimistic" is correct, the most optimistic year resulted in replacing cattle at more than 21 percent of the herd, while more conservative times are reflected in a low replacement rate of just less than 15 percent.
Likewise, the culling rate has been at a low of just more than 10 percent and at a high of just less than 17 percent. Herds are very resilient because they contract and expand as outside forces dictate.
The replacement rate is the number of bred replacement heifers or purchased cows that are kept. The culling rate is the number of cows that are removed from the herd. For more than 20 years, only once has the culling rate exceeded the replacement rate. In other words, through good times and bad times, producers are optimistic and have replaced at a greater percentage than they have culled.
Typically, for CHAPS herds, cull cows and bulls and market heifers make up approximately 50 percent of the annual paycheck, with 30 percent from the value of the heifer calves and 20 percent from the value of the cows and bulls.
What is interesting, at least at today's market values and using the CHAPS benchmarks, is that a 100-cow herd would sell 31 heifers and 14 cows. So, how do producers respond to drought once all the male calves have been sold or moved?
The answer is in the ratio of replacement heifers and cull market cows. Do we need to keep the replacement heifers? Do we need to sell cull cows?
If we assign a value of $750 to market heifers and $1,000 to market cows and use those values to measure the impact of culling and replacement rates, we can calculate some impacts. In a typical year, a producer with 100 cows would sell
14 cows for $14,000 and 31 heifers for $23,250. This gives us a total of $37,250 in female cattle sales.
In a dry year, such as this year, producers minimize the replacement rate. | <urn:uuid:0df85445-b528-4bf4-84e1-389382596012> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/BeefTalk-Understanding-culling-and-replacement-rates-critical-172724811.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957292 | 552 | 3.09375 | 3 |
In my opinion, there are 3 key benefits from forests and trees, that is biological diversity, ecosystem/environments and last one- landscape. They are heritages and values of community and human kind. These benefits are in the meaningful for long term for humankind, that provided frequently food and nutrition, medicine, even if livelihood for local community in a long time. In fact, these were under stability and sustainability in over past centeries. But over use and over exploitation of man destroyed and losed the balance. For me, I do not agree to any private own type to forest or forest land because above mentioned heritages/values could not divide in to small pieces. Small pieces will threaten and make lose the value forest as well as prevent against to effort of society in forestation and protection. Then we should raise fund for community and government to protect and develop rest of forest of the planet in line with strengthening awareness and action of whole society. At the time, forest also should is transferred and managed by community and government. These request determination of community and government by benefit in long term.
A big question/great challenges, that are livelihood of a lot of farmers in developing countries is lived on forest. That could damage to forest. Therefore, the benefit of currently generation is conflicting to the future generation. These is question of policy makers and researchers!
Mr. NGUYEN VAN KIEN
Plant Resources Center of Vietnam
Links and resources:
International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition
FAO Forestry Department
Learning event on Agroforestry
The FSN Forum is supported by the project Coherent food security responses: incorporating right to food into global and regional food security initiatives. | <urn:uuid:ec42820c-36a3-4b2e-8afd-0dcccc6ba4b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/forum/contributions/re-forests-and-trees-provide-benefits-food-security-and-nutrition%E2%80%93-what-your--36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943487 | 350 | 2.375 | 2 |
I am sure that many of you aware that in John 1:1, in the original Greek, when the text states, "And the Word was God," there is no defitine article before the word "God" (theos) but in the same verse there is a definite article before the word "God" when it refers to God the Father. Now some Jehovah's witnesses will argue that the passage should then be translated "The Word was a god". How does a Trinitarian Christian answer this?
It is a possible translation. The sentence is grammatically ambiguous. The best way to differentiate in strictly scientific terms is to compare with the earliest translations to know what the understanding of its contemporaries was.
In the Vulgat we have:
In principio erat Verbum,
et Verbum erat apud Deum,
et Deus erat Verbum.
In the Vetus Latina we have:
1 In principio erat
uerbum et uerbum erat apud
et ds̅ erat uerbum
As poor as my Latin is, it seems to me that the Latin translations evidence that the common understanding of the sentence is that "The Word was God." I say that because in Portuguese, which is a Latin-derived language, what we have is "o Verbo era Deus" which seems close enough and would translate into English in the traditional way.
Another way to distinguish it, is to see how commentators interpreted it, as meaning (a) or (b). Let's see:
HILARY; You will say, that a word is the sound of the voice, the enunciation of a thing, the expression of a thought: this Word was in the beginning with God, because the utterance of thought is eternal, when He who thinks is eternal. But how was that in the beginning, which exists no time either before, or after, I doubt even whether in time at all? For speech is neither in existence before one speaks, nor after; in the very act of speaking it vanishes; for by the time a speech is ended, that from which it began does not exist. But even if the first sentence, in the beginning was the Word, was through your inattention lost upon you, why dispute you about the next; and the Word was with God? Did you hear it said, “In God,” so that you should understand this Word to be only the expression of hidden thoughts? Or did John say with by mistake, and was not aware of the distinction between being in, and being with, when he said, that what was in the beginning, was not in God, but with God? Hear then the nature and name of the Word; and the Word was God. No more then of the sound of the voice, of the expression of the thought. The Word here is a Substance, not a sound; a Nature, not an expression; God, not a nonentity.
HILARY; But the title is absolute, and free from the offense of an extraneous subject. To Moses it is said, I have given you for a god to Pharaoh: but is not the reason for the name added, when it is said, to Pharaoh? Moses is given for a god to Pharaoh, when he is feared, when he is entreated, when he punishes, when he heals. And it is one thing to be given for a God, another thing to be God. I remember too another application of the name in the Psalms, I have said, you are gods. But there too it is implied that the title was but bestowed; and the introduction of, I said, makes it rather the phrase of the Speaker, than the name of the thing. But when I hear the Word was God, I not only hear the Word said to be, but perceive It proved to be, God.
BASIL; Thus cutting off the cavils of blasphemers, and those who ask what the Word is, he replies, and the Word was God.
THEOPHYL. Or combine it thus: From the Word being with God, it follows plainly that there are two Persons. But these two are of one Nature; and therefore it proceeds, In the Word was God: to show that Father and Son are of One Nature, being of One Godhead.
ORIGEN; We must add too, that the Word illuminates the Prophets with Divine wisdom, in that He comes to them; but that with God He ever is, because He is God. For which reason he placed and the Word was with God, before and the Word was God.
CHRYS. Not asserting, as Plato does, one to be intelligence, the other soul; for the Divine Nature is very different from this... But you say, the Father is called God with the addition of the article, the Son without it. What say you then, when the Apostle writes, The great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; and again, Who is over all, God; and Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father; without the article? Besides, too, it were superfluous here, to affix what had been affixed just before. So that it does not follow, though the article is not affixed to the Son, that He is therefore an inferior God.
So, from translation and comments, which are interpretations after all, we know which of the senses in that ambiguous sense is the traditional one. | <urn:uuid:eb664888-1ba0-4339-96d3-2451f4d76538> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=30652.0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974895 | 1,131 | 2.5 | 2 |
Implantation bleeding means discharge from the vagina that in normal circumstances contains a small quantity of brownish or pinkish blood. Implantation bleeding is experienced by a small number of women. Implantation bleeding happens when the implantation of the fertilized eggs take place in uterus between the 6th and the 12th day after ovulation. There is nothing to worry about implantation bleeding if it is not accompanied with cramps, increase in bleeding and backache.
Periods but is experienced in the form of small spots in the underwear. If the implantation bleeding appears before the normal expected periods it is often mistaken by most people as spotting. During implantation bleeding the blood does not flow as during pregnancy test is positive and still the blood flows then it is better to consult a medical professional.
Implantation bleeding is usually experienced around a week before expected period depending on the time of ovulation. In case one does not observe spotting during this period of time there is no need to assume that pregnancy is negative. Though there are a lot of written materials in books and on the internet, in reality very few women report of implantation bleeding happening. The main reason for this happening is that most people assume that there is just spotting before periods or the amount of bleeding is so less that it goes unnoticed.
Though it is believed that implantation bleeding is experienced by everyone, doctors believe that this is not the case and is an exception and not a rule. It is not necessary to keep a keen eye on implantation bleeding as it des not happen very often and even if it happens there is nothing to be alarmed. During pregnancy implantation bleeding is very common.
There is nothing to worry about implantation bleeding as it does not harm the mother or the unborn child during pregnancy. The main symptoms of implantation bleeding are light cramp apart from bleeding. Women who do not want to conceive may at time mistake implantation bleeding for short period. If one is trying to be pregnant it is necessary to recognize the symptoms of implantation bleeding. The signs include pinkish or brownish discharge, light cramp, bloating and no “flow”. Even if one does not want to be pregnant it may so happen that the birth control measures may have failed. If this type of bleeding is experienced it is necessary to have a pregnancy test done around the time of next period. This gives an accurate result as a test just after ovulation may not give accurate results. In cases where there is an instance of mistaking an implant for period the baby is mostly born around three weeks late than estimated. | <urn:uuid:1b77e82d-a418-43cb-b3eb-b228aaf2bc6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pregnancyhut.com/implantation-bleeding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951457 | 526 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The majority of employers cut costs during the Great Recession by downsizing, laying people off, freezing salaries and other cutbacks, but the trend is starting to reverse.
According to data compiled by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies during the past five years, the past 12 months have been fairly good for businesses as employers responding to this past year’s survey responded that they hadn’t made any of the above cuts in the past year.
“Weathering the Economic Storm: Retirement Plans in the United States, 2007-2012” found that retirement benefits have remained relatively intact during the past five years, except for those offering defined benefit plans or traditional pension plans, which declined from 19 percent in 2007 to 16 percent in 2012.
The vast majority of employers who were surveyed for this report, 82 percent, said they consider retirement plans an important benefit for attracting and retaining employees. The number of employers offering a 401(k) or similar plan increased from 72 percent in 2007 to 82 percent in 2012. According to Catherine Collinson, author of the report, these statistics were attributable to small companies with 20 to 499 employees and were more likely due to the closing of smaller, unstable businesses that did not offer plans versus healthy businesses adopting new plans.
Employers offering matching contributions to their defined contribution plans dropped from 80 percent in 2007 to 70 percent in 2012, however, of the 17 percent who said they decreased or suspended their match since 2008, half had already reinstated it.
Large companies offering automatic features increased from 31 percent to 45 percent in the past five years and among them, 84 percent have adopted Qualified Default Investment Alternatives. Companies adopting the Roth feature in their 401(k) also increased from 19 percent in 2007 to 32 percent in 2012.
Worker participation rates in workplace retirement plans has held steady at 77 percent, and in 2012, annual salary deferral rates returned to their 2007 level of 7 percent after having dipped to 6 percent between 2009 and 2011.
According to the data, some workers have taken loans or hardship withdrawals from their accounts and many people who became unemployed or underemployed took early distributions from their accounts during the five-year time period, but household retirement savings increased during that time, with Echo Boomers showing the highest gains at 77 percent. GenX reported an increase of 30 percent and Baby Boomers saw an increase of 33 percent.
Despite the increases in household savings, the current levels of savings continue to be inadequate for many workers to meet their future retirement income needs.
Transamerica believes employers will continue to play a vital role in helping workers save for retirement by offering retirement plans along with education and planning tools and retirement income options. The organization recommends that employers who don’t already offer a workplace retirement plan do so and extend eligibility for the plan to all employees, including part-timers. It also recommends adding automatic enrollment and escalation features to increase participation rates and salary deferral rates.
It believes that matching contributions are important and recommends companies consider structuring their match to promote higher salary deferrals. It also recommends that companies offer pre-retirees greater assistance in planning their transition into retirement, including the need for a back-up plan if they find themselves retiring sooner than expected due to unforeseen circumstances.
For policymakers, Transamerica recommends they pursue legislative and regulatory initiatives to expand qualified retirement plan coverage for all workers, including part-time workers. This could be accomplished by implementing reforms to multiple employer plans to facilitate the opportunity for small businesses to join existing plans to achieve economies of scale similar to large employers; expanding the tax credit for employers to start plans; and providing incentives to encourage plan sponsors to cover part-time workers. | <urn:uuid:6addf8a2-103e-40a9-a76c-8ae394d99e6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.benefitspro.com/2012/11/15/salary-freezes-end-benefits-return-as-economy-impr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9706 | 752 | 1.546875 | 2 |
“We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation, and as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed."
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The Evolutionary Imperative for Business
by Dawna Jones
That business leaders are struggling with the implications of global, systemic, and structural change cannot be denied. After all, business has always had to deal with the sometimes chaotic processes of evolutionary change. During the Industrial Era, for example, the emphasis was on efficiency and a view that employees were just one more component of the production process. Progressivism, otherwise known as “scientific management,” assumed that employees were incapable of making decisions and needed to be directed or managed. Employees weren’t trusted to do the right thing, nor were they empowered to contribute. Then along came Dave Packard, cofounder of Hewlett Packard, and other foresighted humanistic leaders who saw that the responsibility of a company went beyond designing an effective economic model to recognizing, as Packard put it, that “we had important responsibilities to our employees, to our customers, to our suppliers, and to the welfare of society at large.”
Although many companies weren’t as ready to trust their employees to the degree that Hewlett Packard did, some were prepared to flip the organizational chart and slowly move toward employee empowerment while still holding on to the reins. For most, though, making that leap of faith seemed riskier than sticking to what seemed to be the tried and true. However, that option is no longer viable for companies that want to survive and thrive.
Dave Packard’s intuition served him well. He saw above and beyond the limits of thinking that were prevalent at that time. In his book The Biology of Transcendence, Joseph Chilton Pearce writes, “We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation, and as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed.” He further explains that we can intuitively sense this adaptive potential. I wonder if that desire for inspiring, engaging, fulfilling, and creative work arises naturally from deeper levels of knowing that we have unrealized potential waiting to be released.
And release it must, for we are at a pivotal point in our evolution. The accelerating degeneration of our natural systems, including climate change, diminishing biodiversity, and disruptions in our global food supply, confront us with some very complex issues to resolve. As ecological economist Herman Daly has pointed out, “The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.” A 1997 article in Nature estimated that “Through its natural resources, the earth provides $33 trillion worth of value per year to the global economy.”1 Linear styles of management are simply too archaic to effectively respond to the uncertainty and complexity we now face. As our collective consciousness rises to meet these challenges, business has yet another opportunity to apply its considerable resources toward solutions.
Paradoxically, it is nature that provides the guidance.The LAMP index, created by investment advisor and author Jay Bragdon (Profit for Life), is rigorously screened to include companies that operate with integrity (where the means align with ends), value their employees, and follow the principles of nature. These principles include interdependence, where the success of the individual depends on the success of the whole and vice versa; nonlinear networks, which feature multiple feedback loops that serve to support self-regulation; and frugality, the efficient use of energy and resources.
“Globally, fewer than 4 percent of stock exchange–listed companies operate from core values of care and compassion,” Bragdon explained to me. “Most people believe this approach to business is ‘soft.’ But when done with deep commitment and professional competence, it produces hard results. In 2009, for example, Global LAMP Index companies returned 44.56 percent, far surpassing returns on the S&P 500 (+26.46 percent) and the MSCI World Index (+28.01 percent). Over the past decade, Global LAMP Index companies returned 98.03 percent, while other benchmark companies collectively lost money.”
If such achievements confront conventional wisdom that the profit-and-loss statement is the only measure of a successful business, then we are on the right track.“Managing a company as if it were a profit-making machine imposes a linear-thinking mentality that blinds it to important relationships . . . Managing a company as if it were a living organism, which it is, creates a radically different and more beneficial set of relationships.”2
Systems thinking maps these relationships, most often as thought patterns, cycles, and feedback loops. By combining systems thinking with insights from such emerging trends as the internalization of social and environmental responsibility, open and crowd sourcing, social enterprise, increases in self-employment, and other indicators of change, a wider and more integrated map emerges that shows these interrelationships on a global scale. And in order to seize the opportunity available to work with rather than against the emerging forces of change, a higher level of consciousness is needed.
A Reckoning of Forces
Force 1: A Shift of Consciousness. Scientific analysis of the Mayan calendar tells us that we are right where we are supposed to be.The connection between the Mayan Calendar and contemporary systems thinking was presented in an award-winning paper by Slovenian professor Tadeja Jere Lazanski at the 2009 Computing Anticipatory Systems Conference. Most modern-day businesses, she explained in her paper “Ancient Maya’s Evolution of Consciousness and Contemporary Systems Thinking,” grew up during what the Mayan Calendar describes as the “seventh step” of consciousness:
“The seventh step of consciousness, from 1755 to 1999, was a consciousness of power, where there was no place for integration but analyzing, separation, creating towers of power, wars, and manipulation. This is a reason that no one would think of connection and integration, of systems thinking in its highest meaning — not one philosopher or politician.”
In other words, there was no receptivity for the kinds of connected consciousness we see appearing today. Everything was neatly sorted into black and white, with no tolerance for ambiguity or shades of gray. Duality prevailed: right-wrong, good-evil, environment-economy, green-profit. Differences of opinion were pitted against each other as opposing ideas rather than a piece of the larger picture. Power meant the ability to control or influence others rather than mastery of the self. Left brain–right brain was synonymous for practical and impractical. You took your left, linear, analytical brain to work and used your right, creative brain for family matters and hobbies. A focus on the short term was being practical; a focus on the long term was considered pointless given the expectation of volatility and uncertainty.
Those operating from this mind-set will, by force of habit, have a great deal of difficulty shifting to a more holistic, big-picture view unless they agree to boldly commit to doing so. And the pressure to do so is intensifying.
From now until the end of 2011, we are (from the Mayan perspective) in the eighth level: “a consciousness of ethics,” writes Lazanski, “where all the towers of manipulation and of negative power are collapsing. Ethics in the higher sense refers to spontaneous solutions through the application of law and power to the benefit of everyone. It shines from within and is personal, knowing the right thing to do and doing it. It is a refined consciousness. Now, the powerful people who make the laws and lead the nations and societies cannot get away with anything without being exposed; all abuses of power are becoming uncovered.” Look no further than the recent Wall Street meltdown for proof.
The ninth and next step leads “the planet to one harmonious system” of conscious cocreation. Affirming that evolutionary step is a finding published by IBM in its 2010 survey of global CEOs titled “Capitalizing on Complexity“: social networking has exponentially increased the degree of interaction customers and citizens expect of organizations. It isn’t enough just to collaborate anymore. Today, the watchword is ‘cocreate.’
Force 2: From organizations structured on Newtonian principles to those structured on quantum principles. Newtonian principles operate quite well in a simple, linear world. They rely on materialism, reductionism, and determinism — the idea that the only thing that matters is matter and that outcomes are predictable and controllable. Quantum principles, by comparison, recognize that everything is energy; everything is connected, interrelated, entangled, and uncertain. In today’s reality, where the context for day-to-day living is characterized as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), such an understanding is imperative to survival. Companies that remain attached to the hope that these underlying conditions will follow old rules face certain decline.
Force 3: From controlling behavior to focusing on performance and results. We are used to thinking up and down when it comes to hierarchical organizations, but that is not how phenomenal results are produced. Nick Zeniuk, now retired from Ford, described the shift to me in this way: “The traditional managerial system is based on the concept of control, which was a reasonable concept fifty to one hundred years ago, when managers and senior managers knew enough about the business to effectively control the business. Many of the managerial systems in our organizations are based on controlling behavior: the performance systems, the reporting systems, the reward systems, and quality control mechanisms like Six Sigma. That is no longer a valid system. The realization that we were operating under the illusion that we, as executives, could control the outcome was quite a startling discovery. What I discovered personally and what we are discovering now is that our focus needs to be redirected from control and behavior to results or performance — because when we focus on performance, we are focusing on those attributes that enable us to achieve the results we want.” In this process, trust is essential — trust in one’s own sense of inner power and trust that people will do the right thing when given a shared and worthwhile goal. Effective managers no longer control performance but support it. Higher levels of personal mastery then become a prerequisite.
Force 4: From hierarchical leadership to leadership at all levels — top-down, bottom–up, and sideways. Collective intelligence emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals, with the group having a higher level of knowledge than the individuals in it. Collective intelligence happens through networks of performance that cut horizontally across a company’s hierarchical structure. Social scientist Dennis Sandow and his client, Anne Murray-Allen, formerly of Hewlett Packard, mapped out networks of performance at HP to understand how, as complexity increased along with the growth of the inkjet cartridge division, that division performed at a consistently high level of achievement over time.
“What I have learned from working in organizations where we had truly phenomenal results day after day after day is that leadership does not come from position; it comes from a place of contribution. It can come from anywhere in the organization. It is based on who is in a position to see what no one else can see, to make the contribution that everyone can get behind and support. My experience from working in organizations for over thirty years is that it is in our nature to be motivated by two things. First, we all want to make a big contribution, not just a contribution but one that is significant. It drives us in terms of purpose. Second, we all want to belong. We are social and emotional beings. We know now from what have learned through neural and cognitive science that we are hardwired to be together and collaborate.”3
Sandow and Murray-Allen also discovered that the people involved in achieving a goal rarely showed up on the organizational chart. In fact, they discovered that most of the people working on a particular objective were from outside of HP and included customers, competitors, suppliers, and anyone else who needed to be a part of it.
Jay Bragdon calls this phenomenon “relationship equity.” “Relational equity is the foundation of financial equity,” he writes. “How companies relate to employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders matters more than most people think. Corporate leaders who understand this build cultures that inspire systems thinking and organizational learning. Those who do it well catalyze a powerful, reinforcing cycle of profit, which turns their firms into innovation hothouses.”4 Employees might describe this as taking your whole self to work, doing work that truly matters, and contributing to a hopeful future.
Tools for Transformation
To accelerate the evolution of leadership and innovation from the old model to a new one, we need to let go of a few habits.
1. Overreliance (or addiction) to linear and analytical thinking. Life does not operate on a runway; it operates as a network, a web of complex and interconnected systems.Linear-logical thinkers link one thought to another in an orderly sequence until a story or thread is constructed that makes logical sense. Analytical thinking takes a concept apart to its more manageable pieces. Both were effective in a simpler world when interrelationships could be ignored at minimal risk. In the workplace, linear thinking is heard whenever older generations depict the exceptionally creative Gen Y as “the entitlement generation” who need to “suck it up” and “pay their dues” on the same career runway they experienced. As creativity becomes the talent du jour, linear thinking can still offer support for implementing creative ideas. But seeing the value in different ways of thinking and processing information must come first. It starts by listening with the intention to understand rather than to be right.
2. The temptation to file and sort new ideas and incoming data so it feels like they have been handled.This is one of the greatest temptations and pitfalls of reacting to complexity. Clarity is achieved by seeing the system, not getting lost in the details. Everything is connected to everything else. The moment you file it, you’ve lost the link to an interrelated dynamic. Fish might be managed by one government department, forestry by another, and the environment by a third. Though administratively convenient, nature ignores such political boundaries. Further, there is a temptation to place anything outside the norm in the “woo-woo” or “New Age” file, where you'll find alternative health, quantum physics, and holistic thinking. This habitual dismissal of new concepts unnecessarily narrows options and diminishes the capacity to see the whole picture. Developing sufficient self-awareness to know when your coping strategy is “file and sort” versus “listen and absorb“ is critical.
3. Negative thinking and limiting beliefs. Uncertainty can provoke fear. Deepening the skill set and ability to regulate emotions reduces stress and opens possibilities. Limiting beliefs operate both consciously and unconsciously. The former are readily identifiable, the latter are not, so it takes a deepening of our inner skills to spot the telltale patterns and know what to keep and what to release. Upgrading personal mastery and expanding self-knowledge are inherent and imperative in such a process.
Systems thinking recognizes that we are a part of the system, not above it. Identifying attachments to old patterns of thought, belief, and habit about how the world works allows new innovations and our greater human potential to emerge.
Organizations as Living Systems
“Companies that model themselves on living systems typically practice what I call living-asset stewardship (LAS),” writes Bragdon in “Capitalism as a Human System.” “To them, profit is not so much a goal in itself as the means to a higher end of service. When such ends are condensed into a compelling vision — one that calls forth the life-affirming instincts and future hopes of employees — the firm becomes a profoundly inspirational workplace. The operating leverage in this is easy to understand. Employees who work with their hearts as well as their minds are more productive than those who simple ’do a job.”5
Project Shakti (meaning “strength” in Sanskrit) was started by Hindustan Lever, Unilever’s Indian division, in 2000. They turned to local women entrepreneurs to distribute products to their rural communities. By 2008, there were 45,000 women distributing $3 million worth of products to 100,000 villages. For Unilever, the rural Indian communities, and the women entrepreneurs, this is an “everyone wins” solution, creating a vast rural marketing network through the resources of the community. By trusting that the local community networks would do what would best serve the entire system, Unilever tapped into a deep well of motivation, creativity, and commitment. Unilever is also behind the establishment of the Marine Stewardship Council, now recognized as the good housekeeping seal of approval for sustainable fishing.
Such initiatives represent good examples of next-stage corporate evolution as well-intentioned businesses move toward a higher level of planetary stewardship. Perfection is not the goal; “self-actualization” is a process so mistakes will happen. To stay on track and overcome the temptation to lose focus, organizations must commit to continual learning and maintain allegiance to a higher purpose.
When control is replaced by trust and the joy of being in service to something larger than oneself, tacit knowledge emerges — the innate know-how unique to each person. The power of our human potential is unleashed and the community as a whole becomes healthier. The simplicity of complexity is that by making a leap of faith, trusting people to do the right thing, supporting development of an employee’s wholeness (self-actualization), and actively stewarding our relationship with nature, organizations will nurture the most powerful source of innovation — the human spirit.
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Fluent with the science behind self-actualization, Dawna Jones develops leaders who can function in any environment, helping them to clear hidden barriers to achievement while restoring entrepreneurial intuition. She knows it is the power of the human spirit that drives creativity and radical innovation and contributes big-picture thinking and deep personal insights to that process. (www.FromInsightToAction.com)
1. Robert Costanza and others, “The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital,” Nature 387, no. 6630 (1997). http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v387/n6630/abs/387253a0.html.
2. Joseph H. Bragdon, “Capitalism as a Human System: The Value of Relational Equity,” Reflections: The SoL Journal 10:1 (2009).
3. Anne Murray-Allen in interview with the author, January 2010.
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NEW YORK The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new treatment for bacterial infections made by Forest Labs, Forest said.
The drug maker announced the approval of Teflaro (ceftaroline fosamil) for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and acute bacterial skin and skin structure infection, also known as ABSSSI, caused by bacteria that include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureaus.
“Forest recognizes the enormous burden of disease associated with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and [ABSSSI], and we are extremely pleased to see that our first product in this category has obtained approval for both of these disease indications,” said Dirk Thye, president of Forest subsidiary Cerexa.
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Sts. Tarachus, Probus, and Andronicus
Martyrs of the Diocletian persecution (about 304). The "Martyrologium Hieronymian." contains the names of these three martyrs on four different days (the four days 8-11 October evidently signify no more than the date on a single day), with the topographical identification: "In Tarso Cilicie", on 27 Sept. (ed. De Rossi-Duchesne, 126), to which corresponds the expression, "In Cilicia", given on the two days of 5 April, and 8-11 October. The expression, "In Palestina", given under 13 May (ibid., 60), is either an error or refers to a special shrine of the martyrs in Palestine. There are two accounts of the glorious martyrdom of these three witnesses by blood, the first account being held by Ruinart (Acta Martyrum, ed. Ratisbon, 448 sq.) to be entirely authentic. According to these Acts, Tarachus, a native of Cladiopolis in Isauria, Probus of Side in Pamphylia, and Andronicus, who belonged to a prominent family of Ephesus, were tried and horribly tortured three times in various cities at Tarsus, and at Anazarbus of Cilicia. They were then condemned to death by wild beasts, and when the animals would not touch them in the amphitheatre they were put to death with the sword. Harnack, however, expressed doubts as to the genuineness of the account (Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, pt. II: Die Chronologie, I, 479 sq., note 5), and Delehaye (Les lxgendes hagiographiques, 135 sq.) puts the martyrdom in the class of legends of martyrs that he calls "historical romances". At the same time, however, there can be no doubt as to the actual existence of the three martyrs. Their feast is celebrated in the Latin Church on 11 October, and in the Greek Church on 12 October.
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Henry Vilas Zoo Welcomes Meerkats
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Visitors to the Henry Vilas Zoo will notice a pair of new faces this weekend. County Executive Kathleen Falk and Zoo Director Jim Hubing said today a pair of brand new Meerkats have arrived and are now on exhibit in the new Children’s Zoo. The male Meerkats named ‘Stan’ and ‘Groucho’ came to the Henry Vilas Zoo from the Louisville Zoo.
“Our free zoo is drawing record numbers of visitors,” Falk said. “These fun little Meerkats will be really popular with visitors of all ages.”
Meerkats, made famous by the character ‘Timon’ in Disney’s “The Lion King,” live in the Kalahari regions of South Africa in groups called ‘mobs’. Meerkats are persistent hunters, that burrow underground to find spiders, snails, rodents, eggs, lizards and scorpions.
At Henry Vilas, they’ll dine on a carnivore diet of mealworms, crickets and small amounts of produce, with bananas being among their favorite. Meerkats are always very active and in the wild they post ‘guards’ to keep a watch for predators like jackals, eagles and falcons.
‘Stan’ and ‘Groucho’ are the latest additions to the new Children’s Zoo that earlier this year opened a new play area and debuted an electric train that has been extremely popular.
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Kingston Green Fair
was one of the UK's oldest and best one-day environmental shows. Founded in 1987, KGF was a showcase for sustainable living with a plethora of stalls, performances, workshops, music, healing, and community groups. The whole show used only sun, wind, and pedal power... but was empowered by the 15,000 people who visited each year. I went to the very first fair, helped organise the Comedy Tent in 1989, and am honoured to have been a part of KGF Collective.
May 2007 was a rather wet month - heavy rain fell across the whole weekend leading up to and during KGF, which resulted in a £17,000 loss due to low attendance. The end of May 2008 turned out to be even wetter and KGF once again suffered losses due to low attendance. With cumulative debts of over £30,000 the Collective was forced to close the Fair after 21 years. Global awareness and action on environmental sustainability had changed immeasurably in that time.
But with the end, a new beginning... so the pioneering continues. In 2007 a collaboration was formed between the KGF Collective, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, local businesses and local venues. Paint the Town Green
updates and expands KGF's message of environmental education through celebration by hosting an annual sustainability festival involving the whole of the borough during the lead up to Love London
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Nations Around the World Adopt El Sistema Programs
As someone who grew up spending a lot of time in classical music, I’m often one of the first to proclaim its benefits to other people. When parents ask me if their child should pick up an instrument, I always tell them about not only the joy one can find in learning an instrument, but also the behavioral and educational benefits. In addition to improving a child’s academic performance (i.e. the Mozart Effect), a youth spent in classical music teaches children discipline, social skills, teamwork, and the ability to manage time, to name a few. An orchestra rehearsal, for example, builds many positive character traits in a child. They must be respectful to an authority figure, the conductor, as well as to their young colleagues; rehearsals require attentiveness over a long period of time and emphasize working with details.
Positive traits such as these can be seen in almost all children who study classical music in depth. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to classical music, and, sadly, some parents are simply unaware of the benefits it could offer their children. Particularly in underdeveloped areas, kids have little opportunity for exposure to music or the the positive traits it could teach them. But some people are trying to change that. Taking the cue from the Venezuelan social-intervention program known as El Sistema, communities around the world have been forming equivalent programs in order to foster growth in underprivileged children through immersion in classical music.
One example is Sistema Scotland, a project initiated by Richard Holloway that is trying to improve the lives of children in Raploch, a small community on the outskirts of Stirling, Scotland. The program offers 450 children between the ages of 6 and 13 the opportunity to learn an instrument, including instruction, and emphasizes participation in an orchestra, known as the Big Noise Orchestra. They rehearse three times a week, for nearly three hours. And although Sistema Scotland has only been around since 2008, it has already experienced signifiant success. A report issued by the Scottish government found the every parent of a student in the program found that their child’s confidence had improved, and %90 felt that their child was happier. Last week they were in the middle of rehearsals with Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel, preparing for a collaborative concert that would, hopefully, show the future possibilities for the children.
Since Sistema Scotland is so young, it is hard to tell if the program will have a lasting effect on the child. But with the astonishing success of the original El Sistema, it is hard not to have high hopes. Other countries are following suit as well. In Haiti, for instance, the country is trying to spur its development by building a Sistema system of its own. Opening officially last week, officials claimed that the Haitian Sistema would foster creativity and help children build confidence. The model has appeared to work in other countries, and hopefully will continue to teach and inspire children for years to come. | <urn:uuid:1cf64910-9127-4fcc-a9b7-1a373ba83467> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stringvisions.ovationpress.com/2012/06/daily-bow-el-sistema-around-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96929 | 628 | 3.171875 | 3 |
As a result of the Canterbury earthquakes, and subsequent government decisions on red-zoned land, it became clear that the demand for land for housing would change from that originally planned. The Christchurch City Council and CERA have worked to ensure there is sufficient land for housing, particularly by rezoning rural land for residential use.
The purpose of this page is to help people find out what developments are happening that will provide residential sections and how to contact developers with sections for sale.
Sections available in Christchurch
Land rezoned in the Greater Christchurch area during the last 18 months will provide sections for more than 20,000 households in coming years.
Indications from developers are that there will be up to 6600 greenfield sections released on the market during the next two years, about 3170 of which will be in Christchurch City.
The majority of these will be in the south west and Belfast areas, the two areas identified in the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy as best able to accommodate future urban growth and development.
Click here for more information about the planning and subdivision process of making sections available in Christchurch.
There are three maps available to indicate current and future land availability:
1. This map indicates sections that are available in Christchurch within developments that are for five (5) sections or more and have obtained subdivision consent from the Council. See Useful Sites links (at right) that may identify other sections available, for example, in subdivisions of less than 5 sections. Having subdivision consent does not mean that Titles are available. The subdivider may still be going through the steps necessary to have Titles made available (refer to The Subdivision Process). However, it is common for developers to enter into contracts to sell sections before Titles are available. An explanation of these terms found in the map are defined below.
2. This map indicates where future development is to occur within Christchurch and at what stage of the planning process these developments are at. These areas do not have subdivision consent and may not yet be zoned for residential development. For more information refer to Making land available for housing.
3. This map combines the two (2) maps above, indicating both where sections are available and where future development will occur in Christchurch.
Should you have issues accessing these maps, please contact the Council on firstname.lastname@example.org
Please note: the information provided on section availability within these maps has been provided by developers and real estate agents. The Christchurch City Council does not accept responsibility for any inaccuracies. The listing of a development or subdivision on this website does not imply any recommendation of them.
For more information on these subdivisions, the developer should be contacted. Please note that the data is not comprehensive and there may be other subdivisions where sections are available that the Council is not aware of. Where a subdivision has been removed from the map this may be due to up-to-date information not being provided. There may still be sections within subdivisions that have been removed from these maps.
Definitions in the maps
To assist in your understanding of the information provided within the maps, please refer to the explanations below:
Total Number of Potential Sections in Development
Explanation – This is the total number of sections that the particular development is likely to yield once the whole development of the area is complete. Large developments can take 10 – 15 years before all sections within it are fully developed, sold and built on. This total number is subject to change and is provided as a guide only.
Number of Sections with Subdivision Consent
Explanation – This is the total number of sections within the development for which the Council has granted subdivision consent. Developers (particularly of large developments) commonly subdivide only part of the whole development area at a time and apply for a separate subdivision consent for each part. It may take many years to complete a whole development area due to such factors as infrastructure availability, demand etc.
Sections Sold with Subdivision Consent
Explanation – This is the total number of sections that have been sold out of the total number of sections with subdivision consent (refer above). This information comes from the developer, or their agent, and reflects the sales they have made.
Sections for Sale with Subdivision Consent
Explanation – This is the difference between the ‘number of sections with subdivision consent’ and ‘sections sold with subdivision consent’ (refer above). This assumes that sections are available for sale as soon as they have received subdivision consent from the Council. This is commonly the time that developers make sections available for sale, but developers may choose not to do so. After receiving subdivision consent it will take time to develop the sections and get to the point where Titles are available. Additional sections may be available for sale if the person who bought the section from the developer originally decides to sell the section.
Sections with Titles
Explanation – This is the number of sections with subdivision consent which have also been issued a Title by Land and Information New Zealand (LINZ). Once a Title has been issued the section may legally have ownership transferred from the developer to the purchaser and the Council may allow the commencement of building on that section, subject to obtaining all necessary consents, such as a building consent.
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An old new scandal
Fresh claims of shady practices at a News Corp pay-TV company
TWO things remain unclear about this week's allegations about a News Corporation subsidiary: how much is new, and what, if anything, was illegal. NDS, the company in question, makes software for pay-TV systems—including for the “smart cards” that act as keys to the set-top boxes that decode TV signals. The BBC's “Panorama” programme and the Australian Financial Review published separate reports alleging that NDS paid hackers to decrypt the cards of competing firms, and then had the codes distributed on the internet. They were widely exploited, thus weakening NDS's competitors.
Such claims first surfaced over a decade ago in a series of court cases, all of which NDS has won or had dropped (one case still being tried in Sicily involves a consultant paid by NDS, but the company itself is not charged). The firm has always said that, yes, it did pay hackers to break into rivals' systems, but purely for research in its fight against piracy of its own cards. It denies doing anything improper with the results.
That is what the reports claim to establish. “Panorama” interviewed Lee Gibling, the operator of a hacker site, The House of Ill Compute, that was in NDS's pay. He alleged that NDS had sent him the codes and software for hacking the cards of a British firm, ONdigital, with instructions to distribute them as widely as possible. The programme also had e-mails appearing to implicate Ray Adams, a former police officer who ran security for NDS's British unit, in obtaining and passing on the codes, something he has consistently denied.
Meanwhile, the Review has published a trove of e-mails purporting to show plots by NDS employees to undermine not only competing smart-card firms, but also its own clients, TV companies that used NDS's technology. For example, they show employees deciding not to implement a new method one of their hired hackers had discovered for “killing” pirated cards that had been plaguing DirecTV—an NDS client in which News Corp later bought a stake—and agreeing to cover up that decision, cryptically citing “the politics of the DirecTV situation”. (NDS did deploy the kill, 15 months later.)
The e-mails, the newspaper says, come from a laptop that belonged to Mr Adams. Some have surfaced in previous court cases. The trove is said to be the same as one that EchoStar, an American broadcaster, tried to use in a lawsuit against NDS, but it could not establish that they had been obtained legally.
NDS, in which News Corp recently agreed to sell its remaining 49% stake to Cisco, maintains its innocence. Whether new investigations will result remains to be seen: there are, so far, no smoking guns.
But there is plenty of smoke, to add to that already swirling around News Corp. As well as the ongoing inquiry into phone-hacking and police bribery by its British newspaper arm, News International, the FBI is reportedly investigating phone-hacking of 9/11 victims by its journalists and bribery of officials in Russia by a former News Corp billboard company there.
Last September a group of shareholders in America launched a lawsuit against News Corp's board for dragging down the company's share price through its “rubber stamp-like acquiescence to all of [Rupert] Murdoch's desires”. It cites the phone-hacking and NDS affairs as well as cases brought against an American advertising subsidiary, which were settled out of court, and various other deals that it says lost the company money.
“Murdoch's Scandal”, a documentary by PBS's “Frontline”, which aired this week, made no fresh claims but unpicked Mr Murdoch's cosy relationship with power. And the news that his son, James, has quit his remaining posts at News International, having resigned as chairman, fuels speculation that it may be sold off. Who would buy it now is another question. | <urn:uuid:5ed2e55c-2926-4351-a4eb-abd236ebd61c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.economist.com/node/21551536?zid=292&ah=165a5788fdb0726c01b1374d8e1ea285 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98157 | 850 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Do you understand the true costs of travel payments, how to reduce your exposure to credit card fraud and surcharges or how virtual cards work?
Muhammad Ali famously once said: “Often, it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.”
Today’s travel payments landscape is complex. With rapidly changing points of sale, complicated distribution chains and legacy payment systems competing with new payment innovations, it’s about time someone clarified the options and the costs.
Cyber attacks and data breaches are on the rise, with some reports showing that restaurants, retail, and hospitality were top targets for criminals for the fourth year in a row.
The first person I ever saw using a QR code in an email signature line was Jarad Miller, around the time he was moving into his current role with United Airlines.
MasterCard Worldwide launched MasterCard PriceAssure, a program, powered by Yapta, which enables travelers to track airfare price drops and get credits.
Yapta and MasterCard plan to begin a beta in December in which MasterCard consumer and small business cardholders purchasing flights with their cards would be able to receive Yapta’s price monitoring and price assurance services. | <urn:uuid:7c8e2ab7-df61-45dd-b2d1-bc15ec360604> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tnooz.com/tag/mastercard/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962164 | 268 | 1.757813 | 2 |
How To Run Your Computer In Safe Mode
Learning about how to run your computer in safe mode is much simpler than most know. If you are needing to start your computer in safe mode, odds are your computer has crashed, and you are unable to enter windows normally. A good example of this would be if you get a blue screen that is displaying an error, running your computer in safe mode sometimes will bypass this allowing you to check your computer to figure out what the problem is. Below you will find the exact process necessary to run your computer in safe mode.
Power down your computer if it has not already been done.
- Wait 30 seconds, afterward turn your computer back on.
- Wait for the prompt to come up stating that your computer has not been shut down properly, and to select how you would like to enter windows. Currently you will want to select "run windows in safe mode". This will bypass your basic .ini files of windows, and boot using your safe mode .ini to run your computer. Please note that for older computers you will need to replace this step with the following. During your boot sequence you will see a prompt that says push F8 to run your computer in safe mode. At that time you will want to push F8, this will run your computer in safe mode. If you miss the prompt hard shutdown your computer by holding the power button, and try again.
- You should now be looking at windows with the words "Safe Mode" or "Test Mode" in each of the corners of your screen.
These are the steps on how to run your computer in safe mode. You are now able to further check your computer to fix whatever problem that may have existed like missing drivers etc. | <urn:uuid:eed18eac-de9c-47dc-acf4-05896d536b49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mademan.com/mm/how-run-your-computer-safe-mode.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950495 | 352 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The £400m housing scheme that could change Bath for ever
It has been described as the most significant development in Bath since the Georgians and those behind the £400 million Riverside housing scheme claim it could mark the beginning of a new era of prosperity for the city.
The former Stothert and Pitt engineering works closed more than 20 years ago and since then its former site – 32 acres of land alongside the River Avon – has lain empty and derelict.
However, in the past two years the industrial wasteland, between Victoria Bridge and Windsor Bridge Road, has begun what will be a very slow and steady transformation to become the place to live in Bath.
Debbie Aplin, managing director of Crest Nicholson Regeneration, which is running the scheme, said: "It will act as a catalyst for the rest of the river corridor and is part of the city's vision.
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"Bath has always been seen as a spa town, a tourist attraction, but Bath's vision going forward is to have more specialist industries here but in order to do that they need suitable housing."
Crest Nicholson has permission to build 2,281 homes and apartments on the site, as well as a primary school, shops, restaurants and its own energy centre.
The pace of building work is a pleasing sight for all those involved in the scheme, which was first discussed in 2004 but drew to an abrupt halt in 2007.
Ms Aplin said: "The credit crunch hit and it all stalled between 2008 and 09. We were looking at the site but it was a big ask to come in to do remedial work. But we kept talking and eventually in 2009 we decided now was the time to bring the scheme forward.
"We needed to redesign the scheme again but there were benefits to that. We decided in the economic climate to put more houses with back gardens and remove some of the block apartments and remove the railway embankment.
"Affordable housing was also the best way to bring cash into the site. The first 48 homes built were sold to Curo."
So far 299 homes and apartments have gone up, along with an access road, a courtyard with a children's play area, boules court and fruit trees, and an open space along the river.
Of these 299, more than 120 are affordable, which has been welcomed by Curo, Bath's largest social housing landlord. Jane Alderman, head of development at Curo, said one house alone had 277 bids from would-be tenants.
She said: "We'd had an interest for quite some time and had talked with several developers about the site.
"There's so little affordable housing in Bath, to be able to live in this development so near to the city centre has been very popular."
Despite the progress made so far the Riverside development is likely to take 15 years to complete. A new planning application is due to go to Bath and North East Somerset Council before the end of the year for the next phase of 26 large family homes. | <urn:uuid:37bfd54b-682b-4267-bb63-8ae8f23f86ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/pound-400m-housing-scheme-change-Bath/story-17212546-detail/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978059 | 749 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Those of us who teach college-level history keep up on the scholarly literature in our own areas of specialization, but we rarely have the time to read widely across the entire sweep of U.S. history. Nonetheless, we attempt to cover it all (or at least a lot of it) in our undergraduate courses. How do we get from the monographic, specialized research to the undergraduate-level "big picture"?
The "Teaching the JAH" project attempts to bridge this gap between the latest scholarly research and classroom teaching by supplying online "teaching packages" for selected JAH articles. These "teaching packages" demonstrate how the featured article might be used in teaching the U.S. history course.
Each package includes a targeted article, brief comments from the article's author, and a set of annotated primary source materials intended for classroom use. Depending on the targeted article, these source materials might include illustrations, photographs, video clips, audio clips, and excerpts from other primary historical texts. The packages also include links to other history-related Web sites that hold additional relevant materials.
The Indiana University Ameritech Fellowship Program provided the initial funding for
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Charlie Brown's heart problem
It never fails...
Lucy tells Charlie Brown she won't pull the football away, but Charlie Brown always ends up on his back, staring at the sky, saying, "Rats!"
That's what Merck is counting on with a new "miracle" cholesterol drug.
And it seems pretty clear that Merck executives don't really care if you and I and millions of others end up just like Charlie Brown, staring at the sky, muttering, "Rats!"
Five red flags
The new Merck "miracle" is so new it doesn't even have a brand name yet. So for now it goes by the generic name: anacetrapib.
Recently, Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers gave anacetrapib or placebo to more than 1,600 patients at risk of heart disease. In the anacetrapib group, LDL scores plummeted to as low as 45, while HDL scores shot up -- some higher than 100.
These are genuinely remarkable results. Unfortunately, mainstream researchers seem to be unaware (or CHOOSE to be unaware) that very low LDL can actually be harmful for some patients.
But "Low, Lower, Lowest" is their LDL mantra, so instead of restraint, there was jubilation.
"Doctors were stunned," reports the Associated Press.
"We are the most excited we have been in decades," gushed the lead researcher.
"We are trying not to be too giddy," giggled a Merck executive.
Okay. Fine. I don't know if he actually giggled, but the "giddy" quote is verbatim, and it fits the general tone of the AP piece.
Now...let's get real. Because when you look at this study, you see more red flags than when you were looking for gas in 1979.
First: Every single patient in the study was also taking a statin drug. If you have to take a statin for anacetrapib to be effective, then your treatment starts off in a dangerous hole.
Second: Anacetrapib is in the same class of drugs as Pfizer's torcetrapib. And even though torcetrapib did a great job of raising HDL, Pfizer abandoned the drug's development because of a high death rate in a clinical trial. (Just stop for one second to imagine how high a death rate would have to be for a drug company to abandon its trial.)
Third: The NEJM study does state that anacetrapib, "did not result in the adverse cardiovascular effects observed with torcetrapib." Certainly a better start. But it was a six-month study for a drug that's meant to be used indefinitely, like a statin. Anacetrapib is safe? Prove it -- with a long-term study and real data.
Fourth: The study was sponsored by Merck. No surprise there. But several researchers were closely affiliated with Merck through employment, by benefiting from stock options, as Merck board members, etc.
Fifth: The study was sponsored by...yes, the same company that put Vioxx on the market while hiding data about fatal dangers from the FDA.
Merck has already started work on a major anacetrapib study with a recruiting goal of 30,000 subjects. I wish those subjects luck. If history is any indication, I'm worried some of them might not make it out alive.
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High-resolution MRI demonstrates detailed anatomy of the axillary brachial plexus. A pilot study
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 05/11/2012
Kjelstrup T et al. – Clinical high–field 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner gives good visualization of brachial plexus in the axilla. The superior ability to detect local anaesthetics after it has been injected and the multiplanar imaging capability make MRI a useful tool in studies of the brachial plexus.Methods
- Nine volunteers and nine patients were examined in a 3.0 Tesla MR.
- The patients had two different brachial plexus blocks.
- Subsequently, they were scanned by MRI and finally tested clinically for block efficacy before operation.
- Axial images, with and without local anaesthetics injected, were viewed in a sequence loop to identify the anatomy.
- With the high-resolution MRI, the authors obtained images of good quality, and cords and all terminal nerves could be identified.
- When local anaesthetics are injected, neurovascular structures are displaced, and the vein is compressed.
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The freakiest thing about reading CIA gadget lore is that it's all real. The nerds working for the agency's Office of Technical Services were always devising and building gadgets to get people out of—or into—difficult situations. Here's a rundown of crazy stuff from the Spytech book, not necessarily stuff you'd carry all at the same time, but stuff that, to paraphrase Dr. Strangelove, would help a fella have a pretty nice weekend in Moscow. Jump for all the pictures and descriptions:
OK, so you're out there on your ops, and you want to pick up chatter from enemy radio. You don't want to look suspicious, so you pull out your pipe and pretend to pack it with tobacco. You can't actually light it, because inside this pipe-shaped countersurveillance radio is a receiver, batteries and a bunch of other stuff that won't take kindly to smoke and embers. The device's neatest attribute is its lack of earpiece. Instead, you'd bite down on the mouthpiece, and hear signal through bone conduction.
Once you've gathered your information, you can stash your film and other goodies into a dead rat. Or, if you think rats are icky, you can put your data into a brick or a rock. Here's one actual "concealment" brick with a cement cap:
Since there's always a risk of getting caught, smart guys wrote down their info on water-soluble paper, and stored it in thermoses. A thin layer of glass separated the paper from water; when the bad guys came close to apprehending the agent, he'd just drop the thermos and the glass would shatter. There'd be no sign of the paper, and the contents would then be drinkable—if you didn't mind all the broken glass.
Earlier on, guys would wrote down data in exploding notebooks, but I imagine the practice was curtailed when they drew a little too much attention, especially in phone booths, airplanes or gas stations. Note: The instructions tell you to remove the safety when you start using it, not just when you need to blow it up.
If your data-dumping apparatuses didn't get you out of trouble, you're lucky you've got an Escape & Evasion Rectal Suppository Tool Kit shoved up your ass. That's right, that tool kit is rectal, and goes up presumably far enough that the man with the rubber glove (you know the man) won't find it. Hopefully you'll be able to get to it when you need to saw, drill, ply and file your way out of a Siberian prison camp.
Escape futile? Or just having an upleasant time with the whole suppository tool kit? If you planned ahead, you got the agency to provide you with a definitive way out. Though not common, "L-Pills" containing "lethal" substances were issued from time to time, and stashed in pens. U-2 spyplane pilots carried something slightly different, a needle, hidden within another larger needle (you know, so you don't prick yourself), tipped with something nasty called "saxitoxin."
All of this CIA tech and much more like it is covered with great depth and hair-raising anecdotes in Spycraft, a new book by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton, reviewed by us, and available for pre-order at Amazon. | <urn:uuid:22be8c65-f47c-4286-b5ff-0649fd3784d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gizmodo.com/393096/cia+style-hide-and-seek-exploding-notebooks-suicide-needles-rectal-tool-kits-and-more | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960651 | 706 | 1.570313 | 2 |
- Published on Wednesday, 30 May 2012 13:51
- Written by Small Sector
Quantum Rare Earth Developments is developing North America's highest grade, large tonnage Niobium project at the 100% owned Elk Creek, Nebraska site.
Quantum aims to be the solution for America's strategic and critical Niobium needs for the domestic steel and aviation industry. Niobium is crucial in high strength steel for bridges and buildings, oil and gas pipelines, stainless steel, MRI machines, wind turbines, jet thrusters, automobiles and more. America has imported 100% of the Niobium it uses for the past 52 years. The US considers Niobium a strategic metal and is contemplating stockpiling due to the supply concentration risk and economic importance.
Elk Creek is an advanced project as Molycorp drilled 110 holes in the geological anomaly during the 1970s and 1980s. Niobium and Rare Earth prices have increased rapidly since then and in 2010 Quantum took up where Molycorp left off. In addition to the vast Niobium deposit, Quantum has identified a high-grade Rare-Earth complex 2.5 km or 1.5 miles away from the Niobium deposit. | <urn:uuid:c57ce847-a7a1-44a4-817f-350745645d0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smallsector.com/index.php/commodities/commodities-news/368-capitol-hill-report-quantum-rare-earth-qredf-ob-peter-dickietalks-about-importance-of-niobium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913569 | 247 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The evolution of Israel's attitudes toward Yasir Mr. Arafat and the Palestinian Authority takes on great meaning as the U.S. considers how it should deal with the Palestinian leader.
Until the Oslo Accords and the meeting on the White House lawn in September 1993, Israel simply refused to have any dealings with Mr. Arafat because of his rejection of Israel's right to exist and his use of terrorism. With the Oslo breakthrough, Israel's new approach was summed up by Prime Minister Rabin's reluctant handshake with Mr. Arafat. Suspicion that Mr. Arafat had not truly abandoned his former goals and methods persisted, but alongside it was the view that Mr. Arafat could be prepared to find peace with Israel, and in any case, he was the best that Israel would get to lead the Palestinians - so let's deal with him.
That view prevailed for about six years. Ups and downs in the Oslo process tended to harden or soften the picture, but essentially it remained the dominant view whether Labor or Likud was in power. Mr. Arafat was the partner with whom to make peace.
Then came Camp David and the intifada. During the year after Camp David II, more and more Israeli leaders and military and intelligence experts were moving to the view that Mr. Arafat may, after all, not be capable or willing to make a real peace with Israel. The rejection of the unprecedented offer made by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the turn to violence and terrorism, and the vicious anti-Israel and anti-Jewish campaigns being waged changed many people's understanding of the Palestinian leader.
Only up to a point, however. The point beyond which Israel seemed unwilling to go was that Israel might be better off without Mr. Arafat and should facilitate his removal from power. As bad as he now was seen to be, the uncertainty and fear about the future still precluded a leap to the next level.
Then came the weekend of suicide bombers in Jerusalem and Haifa. This terrorism was the straw that broke the camel's back; the government of Israel had had it and without necessarily saying so explicitly, was now in the mode of considering relations with the Palestinians without Mr. Arafat.
Clearly, Washington got the message. Whether or not Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said so directly to President Bush in his hastily arranged meeting in Washington, what came to be the new reality was that if Washington did not do something about Mr. Arafat -- pressure him to stop his support for terrorism -- Israel will handle the situation itself.
What followed was a perfect reflection of the idea that it is not so terrible for everyone to think that Israel can take matters into its own hands. Uncertainty of what Israel would do resulted in the remarkable consistency of U.S. criticism of Mr. Arafat and support of Israel that we have seen to this day. So powerful were the concerns of what Israel might do, that even the Europeans found, if briefly, a new willingness to criticize Mr. Arafat.
For Mr. Arafat, the equation is simple: Whom does he fear most, Hamas or Israel? Until this recent Israeli turnaround, the answer to that question clearly was Hamas. Indeed, in some ways over the years, Israel had become Mr. Arafat's protector, based on the notion that he was the best Israel would get.
Now for the first time, Mr.Arafat had to wonder whether Israel might become the greater threat. And if so, would he not have to risk greater strife with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other extremist groups by finally doing something about the terrorist infrastructure. This drama is still being played out. Whether Mr. Arafat will survive or change are still uncertainties.
What should be clear in Washington is that the Arafat of today is the greatest threat to Israel and its hopes for peace. There cannot and will not be a status quo. And Washington has to play its role in managing change. This means moving forward on a step-by-step disassociation from Mr. Arafat -- financially, politically, and diplomatically -- making clear that a total break off can be averted only by real and sustained action by Mr. Arafat against terrorism
The White House seems to be going through the same evolution in thinking about Mr. Arafat that went on Israel. This is good. Only if Mr. Arafat concludes that he will not be saved, is there any chance that he can save himself and the Palestinian people.
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Readers helped bring water to orphans in Africa
Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 5:28 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 5:28 p.m.
EDITOR'S NOTE: StarNews Community Editor Si Cantwell interviewed Ann Cosper in 2009 about her efforts to build a water system for an orphanage in Tanzania. Her parents are from Charlotte and own a home in Wilmington. Here, Cosper tells how it turned out.
Many people contributed in support, in prayer, or monetarily to the Bethsaida Girls' Secondary School and Orphanage water project, or attended one of the fundraising parties I threw in support of it. I thought you might be interested in the outcome of the project.
I visited the orphanage during the summer of 2006 while on a humanitarian trip to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, through a grant from my home church, Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte.
I and others from around the world taught English and AIDS prevention at this Roman Catholic orphanage on the outskirts of Tanzania's capital. The only water sources for the 60 or so girls were donated 8-ounce water bottles and a small pond down the hill from the orphanage's pig sty.
I was determined to raise money to fund and install a water system. I hate asking people for things, especially money, so it was a personal challenge as well as a logistical one. If I had the money to pay for it myself, I certainly would rather have done so. But my status as a law student with increasing student loan debt eliminated that possibility.
I set up a separate bank account for the orphanage project. As a law school student, my fund-raising efforts were limited, mostly reaching out to friends and family and throwing fundraising parties with refreshments supplied by me and my roommate.
Fund-raising picked up significantly when my mom told church friend and Charlotte Observer columnist, Taylor Batten, about this project. He wrote an article that ran on a Mothers' Day, and donations poured in. The checks were almost always accompanied by a personal note of encouragement, a child's drawing of children with running water, prayers, and Bible verses.
While pursuing my undergraduate News/Editorial Journalism degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I interned one summer at the Wilmington StarNews. While I studied for the bar exam in Wilmington during the summer of 2009, Star-News reporter Si Cantwell also wrote an article on this project.
When I walked into the nearest gas station to buy my requisite Diet Mountain Dew before class the next morning, the clerk pointed to the front page of a stack of StarNews newspapers and asked, “Is that you?” My picture and a blurb about the project were actually on the masthead on the front page!
After this article ran, I received additional donations from the StarNews readership and generous donations from a dear friend's Sunday School class at St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church in Wilmington.
Once I began my first job, generous new colleagues contributed to the cause. And, having a real income for the first time in my life, I was able to contribute more myself. Co-workers at my current job in Raleigh have contributed as well.
In total, approximately $17,500 was raised, sent to Bethsaida, and put towards this project. It took six years to raise that money, as I pursued my education and career, and as I dealt with various issues that arose in completing the project in Tanzania. But I have now closed the bank account I set up for fundraising.
In December, I received word from the orphanage that the water pump is installed, and the girls now have running water. The pump has been tested and everything works.
Words cannot adequately express my immense gratitude for the incredible generosity and sacrifices of more than 100 donors, and the countless prayers, interest, and support that the orphanage and I have received throughout this long process.
Ann Cosper is assistant litigation counsel for the N.C. School Boards Association. She lives in Raleigh.
The StarNews will consider articles contributed by readers. They should be 400 words or less with a good-quality photograph. Contact Community News Editor Si Cantwell at 343-2364 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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By Kim Dancy
"This September, more than 49 million students will return to public school classrooms across the country. By June, these students will have received a minimum of 160 days of instruction from nearly four million teachers. These same students will complete a gauntlet of tests, designed to measure academic proficiency in reading, math and other subjects, and their scores will influence whether teachers get bonuses or pink slips, not to mention which schools get shut down entirely. With such high stakes associated with these exams, it’s no wonder that some school officials have resorted to extreme measures to mask low or declining student performance.
"Suspicions of widespread cheating first broke in Atlanta in 2009. Since then, the phenomenon has snowballed: allegations have surfaced in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Detroit, Denver, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Houston and Memphis, just to name a few. Then there are the horror stories—the principals who forced their teachers to crawl under tables at meetings as punishment for refusing to cheat, or the purported “answer changing parties” that were held by school administrators. As sensationalist as these anecdotes may be, they’re indicative of a pervasive and daunting trend in the world of K-12 education." | <urn:uuid:2e261770-4849-4b75-ad46-aaa992ffd0ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scoop.it/t/the-4th-era/p/2701009514/you-re-only-cheating-your-students-the-critical-flaws-of-high-stakes-testing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961803 | 250 | 2.421875 | 2 |
A resume cover letter is an integral part of the job search. A professional seeking a position within a company should never submit a resume with an appropriate resume cover letter attached, that is, if they want to land the job. Companies do not just receive one, five or even ten resumes when they post an available position. They receive hundreds or even thousands depending on the current job market, the size of the company and the area in which they are located. Therefore, when they initially approach the pile of resumes on their desk, their first order of business is to weed out those who have overlooked one of the most important parts of the resume, and that is the resume cover letter. They literally toss out all of the resumes in the pile that do not have one attached. Therefore, by not sending one, you make their job a little easier.
Resume cover letter samples on this site can be utilized to develop an eye-catching cover letter, especially if this all sounds Greek to you. Basically, the job of the resume cover letter is to introduce the person behind the resume. A resume lists skills, education, experience and such but the cover letter gives the “why.” An employer can see by a resume whether the candidate is qualified for the job, but the resume cover letter gives the employer a more detailed insight into the prospective employee.
The resume cover letter tells the employer why the candidate wants the job, why they think they would be a perfect fit for the organization, a brief overview of their skills and experience that directly relates to the position for which they are applying and an insight into their professional career style. A well-written resume cover letter sells the resume by selling the professional behind it.
A resume cover letter is a virtual handshake that unfolds to present the resume. Having a strong, supportive and professional handshake is vital. First impressions are the most important. Make the first impression a prospective employer has of you a lasting one by utilizing the free sample cover letter on this site. Resume cover letter writing services are also available.
Don’t make the mistake of jotting down a few lines about yourself and your experience and putting it with your resume to send off to companies for which you wish to work. Take the time to develop a handshake via your resume cover letter that will place your resume on the top of the pile rather than in the garbage can.
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View of Leeds Polytechnic's School of Landscape Architecture, situated on the Brunswick site off Merrion Way. Leeds Polytechnic was formed in January 1970 through an amalgamation of Leeds College of Technology, Leeds College of Commerce, part of Leeds College of Art and the Yorkshire College of Education and Home Economics. It was run by the local education authority until becoming an Independant Higher Education Corporation in 1989. In 1992 it was granted University status and became Leeds Metropolitan University. The Brunswick site was demolished in 2009 and is now (2012) in the process of being developed as the new Leeds Arena.
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Last month, residents of (and visitors to) Melbourne’s Federation Square were invited to crawl through a vast network of semi-transparent tubes suspended nearly 20 feet in the air. If that sounds like a carnival ride you’d rather sit out, you won’t be comforted by the fact that the structure was made entirely of packing tape.
The installation was the latest iteration of Tape, an ongoing project by the Austrian/Croatian art collective For Use/Numen, but the first time it appeared in a public space, rather than a semi-public space like a museum courtyard. “When you go to a museum, you always expect something,” the group’s Christoph Katzler tells Co.Design. “But when you do your daily business and all of a sudden you pass by such a huge spider web with people inside, you get curious and want to go inside. Such unexpected experiences can change your day.”
The tendon-like structure spans across 52 feet between two buildings in the city’s civic center and was constructed with the help of temporary support platforms. For Use/Numen installs each tape installation in response to the specific site, without consulting computer models or drawings. “It is basically just working, working, working, because whatever you do, it will always shrink into forms that are geometrically perfect,” Katzler says.
For Use/Numen is willing to repeat Tape as long as people continue to respond enthusiastically to the piece. “The audience is reacting actually all over the world in the same very, very, positive way!” Katzler says. “It does not matter which age they are and it does not matter if they are into architecture, design, art, or into none of them. The minute they go inside, they all have fun like small kids do.” | <urn:uuid:f90da487-46d8-4326-bf57-bfd04550e47e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665287/for-usenumen-spins-a-web-of-tape-across-melbournes-civic-center | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962341 | 391 | 1.796875 | 2 |
February 27, 2013
Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course Content
Most faculty are familiar with the strategy: students are allowed to bring into the exam a card or sheet of paper that they’ve prepared beforehand and that contains information they think might help them answer exam questions. I became convinced of the strategy’s value when my husband was an undergraduate. He and his engineering study buddies convened at our place the night before an exam to decide what they should put on the 4 x 6 note card they were allowed to take into a mechanical engineering course. They spent hours in heated discussion. They thought they were just figuring out what went on the card, but in fact they were sorting out, prioritizing, organizing, and integrating the content of the course. Their discussion accomplished that way more effectively than any review session I had conducted. Of course, being engineers, they decided on what they needed and then reduced the size so that when they got it on the card they needed a magnifying glass to read it.
Just recently it came to me that preparing one of these crib sheets might be an excellent activity for an in-class review session. If students attend the review session, they get to work with other students and prepare a crib sheet which they submit at the end of the session and will be returned attached to their exam. I think this would get most students attending the session and actually doing some substantive reviewing during it. If the activity started with a time of discussion (probably in a small groups) over what to put on the card, then the session could end with the blank cards being passed out and students having 15 minutes to make their individual cards.
I’ve talked with some faculty who call these cards “cheat sheets” and won’t let students use them under any circumstances. One told me, “Anything that’s on that sheet is something the student doesn’t have to learn.” I suppose it depends on the course and kind of exam, but in general, exam situations are pretty artificial. How often in your professional life do you have a limited time window and no access to resources or expertise? There are occasions, I know, but they aren’t all that frequent. And it seems to me that in this age of technology, we need to be purposefully teaching students how to access, organize, and apply information.
What students learn when creating their crib sheets
Students respond positively to the crib sheet strategy. They don’t talk about how preparing the sheet helps them prioritize and organize content. They see the cards as stress relievers. I remember one telling me, “I go into the exam with my card and I have at least three or four important things that I know I’m not going to forget.”
Another faculty member told me that he has students attach their crib sheets to the exam when they turn it in. He frequently finds on the cards information students needed to answer a question but they didn’t or couldn’t apply it to a particular problem. This situation makes a great discussion topic for the exam debrief session. After showing some examples, it’s pretty easy to make the point that a student can memorize material, or in this case have it right there, but if he doesn’t know how to use it, the information is pretty much worthless.
I’ve also heard of faculty grading the crib sheets, although I’ve never seen examples of the criteria used to assess them. I think it might be more beneficial to have students assessing the value and usefulness of the information they decided to put on their crib sheet. They could discuss or write responses to prompts like these:
- How many questions on the exam did your crib sheet help you answer?
- Did you have information on the crib sheet that you didn’t use at all?
- How did you decide what to put on your crib sheet?
- If you had the opportunity to revise your crib sheet, what changes would you make?
- What have you learned from preparing this crib sheet that you want to remember when you make the next one?
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This year's first reported case of equine West Nile Virus has occurred in Riverside County. According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, a 15-year-old horse has died of complications from the disease. Last year's first case was reported in February, and officials expect fewer cases this year as more horse owners have had their animals vaccinated. Owners who have not had their animals vaccinated are urged to do so now.
Last week's intense heat disrupted the water plans of Southern California farmers as more water was used than planned in order to keep crops alive. There was little reported damage from the heat, but by using more water, many are concerned that there may not be enough to finish their crops in the fall. Farmers in San Diego and Riverside counties have had their water allocations cut 30 percent from last year, but cooler weather this week may help reduce water needs.
California farmers and ranchers will benefit more from the new farm bill than in previous years. It provides funding for export enhancement programs and will help develop new markets for California produce. It also provides for disaster relief, which may provide relief for farmers and ranchers whose crops were damaged by fire, frost, wind and drought this year. The bill also enables fresh fruits and vegetables to be included in school lunch programs, benefiting both farmers and students.
Hay prices have been running between $225 a ton for fair quality to over $250 a ton for supreme quality, and prices are expected to rise. Many San Joaquin Valley growers have abandoned at least part of their hay fields due to lack of water, resulting in less hay for market. They use what irrigation water they have to nurture a smaller portion of their planted acreage. Sheep and goat producers then graze their animals on the abandoned dry hay fields.Top | <urn:uuid:32abe0b5-b79b-4036-b101-11de2523cd1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cfbf.com/news/FoodAndFarmNews.cfm?FFNID=931&rec=9F53D83EC0691550F7D2507D57F4F5A2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980571 | 386 | 2.53125 | 3 |
When an angry dog is hot on your heels, your first thought is likely to get away as quickly as possible. However, over at Adventure Journal, Brendan Leonard explains that if you know you're not getting away, the best way to get a dog to back down is to first stop running, and then, if the dog is still aggressive, flip out on it and bark it down.
Brendan notes that a dog instinctively knows what to do when someone runs from it, and its actual owner has probably already tried to shout or talk calmly to discourage its behavior, so it probably won't work for you. Some dogs that give chase are more interested in the chase than the catch, and will lose interest when they catch up to you. What the dog hasn't seen, he says, is a human take the crazy up a notch and give the dog a good, incredibly loud shout:
What the dog has not seen is a human being going FREAKING CRAZY on it. Which is what you're going to do. For one second. When the dog realizes you have completely lost your shit, it will be shocked. You are unstable, possibly dangerous. And, ideally, the dog will stop chasing you.
Admittedly, this trick could stun the dog into stopping (in which case you now have an aggressive dog just standing there,) or even into running away, but it could also just as easily escalate the situation and make the dog even more aggressive. Brendan does point out that he discovered this method while carrying a water bottle he would use on aggressive dogs that would chase him while biking, and that other people he knew carried pepper spray. If you'd rather not hurt the dog, this is definitely worth a try, but it might also be a good idea to have a backup method on-hand in case it doesn't work. Photo by Sini Merikallio.
Dealing with Aggressive Dogs: Make Your Bark Worse than Your Bike | Adventure Journal
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In Transition 1.0 from Transition Towns on Vimeo.
Opposite a popular club car park in a back lane in Enmore, Sydney, a herb fence has been created from discarded or very low cost materials. This will not only provide fresh herbs for the people living in the house, but also something to think about for the many people who walk down the lane.
Michele Margolis from http://www.permacultureprinciples.com/photolog_principles_11.php?picture_id=177
NC State University provides over 40 hours of FREE video lectures on permaculture. Truly an invaluable resource for all those interested in experiencing a permaculture course. Watch the entire course online. Brand new and updated. Thoroughly recommended.
- Permaculture is the "NEW" culture. (shellpetal.wordpress.com)
- Permaculturalists Get Social: Worldwide Permaculture Network Launches (permaculturepower.wordpress.com)
- Permaculture: Going back to the land (permaculturepower.wordpress.com)
- Permaculture ethics: Why permaculture is different (energybulletin.net)
- Permaculture: the ethics of gardening (echopen.wordpress.com)
- Permaculture Guilds (permaculturepower.wordpress.com)
- Permaculture in Mayan communities: "just what I learned from my grandmother" (livingseedcompany.wordpress.com)
Here's a link to the archives, with the most recent at the top:
And here's this week's: pnu_100628.mp3
Shared Earth the Largest Community Garden on the Planet!
We wanted to confront people with the meaning and logical conclusion of the promise of endless economic growth. We used a hamster to illustrate what would happen if there were no limits to growth because they double in size each week before reaching maturity at around 6 weeks. But if a hamster grew at the same rate until its first birthday, wed be looking at a nine billion tonne hamster, which ate more than a years worth of world maize production every day. There are reasons in nature, why things dont grow indefinitely. As things are in nature, sooner or later, so they must be in the economy. As economic growth rises, we are pushing the planet ever closer to, and beyond some very real environmental limits. With every doubling in the global economy we use the equivalent in resources of all of the previous doublings combined.
Concept, script and narration: Andrew Simms
This is infact three short (about 15 minutes) documentaries! 1) Robert Hart's Forest Garden Find out loads anout what forest gardening is, and how to make your own! 2)Edible Landscapes Second is an amazing case study about Rural Permaculture in Britain, showcasing loads of amazing edible plants adn aquaculture and flowers, as well as fantastic medicinal plants. Look out for a cure for female infertility that's dropped in here! 3) Urban Permaculture This is a brilliant and inspiring documentary of permaculture techniques used effectively in an urban back garden. WIth little more than 2 hours of work a week, this couple produce about a fifth of their food intake!
Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets' research is the Northwest's native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.
If you're looking at inspiration to get your ideas going for a home you'd like to build, watch this. A home should be as much a product of your own imagination as the contents it houses. As one comment from the film states:
"In a time, with a much stronger individual consciousness; it is even more important that [the individual consciousness], is somehow reflected in the buildings, and the spaces in which we live in. It may be through art, or the way we design, or the way we build; but if we just use the materials or whatever is on the shelf, we kind of limit ourselves to that; and I think that these homes, they show that you can do so much more.
It's letting our own creativity be a part of this whole process, and that in the end, it becomes a true reflection of ourselves."
- Bill Mollison & Masanobu Fukuoka
An educational video on no-till synergistic gardening that describes the step-by-step processes developed by Emilia Hazelip to create an ecological agriculture. She became interested in Fukuoka's work in 1977 and this video shows the cultural and climatological adaptations she has developed in the course of years of research. A synergistic garden is an ecosystem that is consciously designed to allow all the dynamic life forms present in a wild soil to remain present while still growing crops (on whatever scale). It is that simple. But that's not the view commonly held in the sphere of science or in the politics of agribusiness which rule France. Emilia exclaims passionately: "The living world is not understood by the technician, and since it is not understood, it is not studied for its diversity. People always want to apply mechanical laws to it." Very practical, highly recommended
A 16 page summary of permaculture concept and principles taken from Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren.
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The full DVD is available from www.holmgren.com.au or www.permacultureprinciples.com
In This introductory video to Permaculture, Bill Mollison, the movements co-founder, takes the viewer through the history and developments of the movement. With startelingly laconic humour adn insight he deconstructs the modern agribusiness and the 'modern plague' : manicured ornamental lawns. In this video he offers an antidote, whihc is an anti-dote, which is an antidote to both our currently unsustainable practices AND our unsustainable culture. Both of these have to change, to adapt. Permanently. Here's how...
The first of Bill Mollison's Temperate Permaculture Strategies, from his Global Permaculture Strategies series.
From the YouTube Description:
Permaculture in cool climates with Bill Mollison, to find out more about Bill and his work please visit; http://www.tagari.com
- Regenerative Permaculture with Darren Doherty (permaculturesendaverde.blogspot.com)
- Permaculture - Can One Thing Really Lead To Another? (thegoodhuman.com)
- Senda Verde welcomed the first volunteers during July. (permaculturesendaverde.blogspot.com)
- Planting? Think "Permaculture" with Gaia's Garden: Second Edition (chelseagreen.com)
- Why Permaculture Design? (energybulletin.net)
- Suburban Permaculture: Neighborhood Watch as the Key to Resilient Community? (Video) (treehugger.com)
- Working Bee 29th August (socialactions.net)
- Eat Outings: August 9 (timeoutny.com)
- Sepp Holzer: A Permaculture Worldchanger (worldchanging.com)
- permaculture training course in trinidad (greenantilles.com)
David Holmgren is co-originator (with Bill Mollison) of the permaculture concept and author of the recent book, PERMACULTURE: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. He talks about the need to move beyond the lulling hope that 'green tech' breakthroughs will allow world-wide 'sustainable consumption' to the recognition that dwindling oil supplies inevitably mean a mandatory 'energy descent' for human civilization across the planet. He argues that permaculture principles provide the best guide to a peaceful societal 'powering down."
Written by Rosemary Morrow and Illustrated by Susan Girard
Download it here for free:
The future is abundant, asserts permaculture designer Larry Santoyo. His vision of living in the present provides a wonderful antidote to fear about uncertain futures. People need to rediscover that we're part of the ecosystem, and apply permaculture design principles to the many problems we face. Larry teaches sustainable permaculture design as a discovery of the world around us. He notes that trying to be self-sufficient is really anti-permaculture. Instead, we need to develop self-reliance skills. Then as we find others in our communities to interact with, everybody gets to play! http://www.earthflow.com
Permaculture and Time with Geoff Lawton. In this Machinima animated short film, meet the virtual Geoff Lawton as he takes us on a visual journey from discovering a meaningful activity to an expanded perception of time.
Created by Astral Jester Films and produced by The PermaScience Team with the real life voice of International Permaculture Guru Geoff Lawton. All set to the cyber subtropical rainforest back drop of Northern New South Wales, Australia.
Audio taken from interview with Geoff Lawton by Jill Cloutier for Sustainable World Radio www.sustainableworldradio.com
To find out more about the work of Geoff Lawton you can visit: http://www.permaculture.org.au
To find out more about the Global Permaculture Movement you can visit : http://www.permacultureplanet.com
Thaddeus discusses the basics of the Permaculture vision for transforming a consumerist society into one that encourages everyone to produce some of their own needs.
This talk explains the permaculture ethics, history, worldwide movement, and local community efforts that are taking place right now.
Sustainable agriculture is discussed on both a farm and household scale with real world examples of permaculture installations and design principles found in the Midwest.
Perennial crops, the backbone of permaculture systems are shown as energy sources for fuel production.
The brand new concept of Financial Permaculture, the bringing together of natural systems thinkers with money systems thinkers is explained along with an example of how it would apply to one Michigan county.
Tom from the Renengade Health Show explains the permaculture principles that have gone into the creation his 1/2 acre suburban garden. You can do this literally anywhere!
In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her homegrown rainwater collection and irrigation system - watering her 60+ edible crops. Meet the bees, the chickens and the worms. And catch her joy in producing so much food for so little effort.
Geoff Lawton "Tells it How It Is" and talks about the Jordan Project.
For more information about Geoff and his work you can visit www.permaculture.org.au
POST EDIT: I'm afraid this video has been marked as "Private" and I can't show it on this site, however you can still view it on YouTube. This is a recommended message from Geoff Lawton, so please, do follow this link and hear this idea:
In this audio visual capsule review, revisit the renowned "Greening the Desert" project, with recent footage from the original site and the new Jordan Valley Permaculture Project.
To find out more about "Greening the Desert" and Geoff Lawton, you can visit http://permaculture.org.au
To find out more about the Global Permaculture movement, you can visit http://www.permacultureplanet.com
And they said it couldn't be done! This is inspiring, practical work - the kind of work that should be encouraged, supported and emulated worldwide. It is the ultimate root-cause type of aid work. It's the kind of thing that makes phrases like "Solidarity Not Charity" something to consider
Chickens are your much needed partners in controlling pests such as fruit fly when your Food Forest System is being established. From Geoff Lawton's new DVD "Establishing a Food Forest - The Permaculture Way"
More info: www.ecofilms.com.au
This is one of the little extras from the DVD "Establishing a Food Forest" with Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton. Whilst Geoff was in Vietnam he discovered a 300 year old Food Forest built on 2 acres of land and still functioning well in the same family 28 generations later.
More info: www.ecofilms.com.au
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Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms.
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Soldiers with the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division aren’t deploying to Afghanistan this fall to play soccer, but that’s the analogy the brigade’s commander is using to describe how he’ll partner with local leaders once in country.
“We’re all players on a soccer team, and we’re going to move that ball forward, and that ball is security for the people of Afghanistan,†said Col. Michael Getchell, brigade commander, after a key leader engagement exercise with role players at the National Training Center, where the month of June has served as crunch time for the brigade to prepare for its near-future tour.
While the majority of the more than 5,000 Soldiers with the brigade here are refining their common Soldier tasks in preparation for a combat zone, Getchell is putting his focus on the way he’ll start building relationships with Afghan provincial leaders later this year.
“The dynamic in Afghanistan is changing,†said Getchell, a Bridgewater, Mass., native who last deployed to Afghanistan in 2002. “We’re pretty certain by the time we get there the Afghan Security Forces will really be in the lead, and so it’s a different mission. It’s about enabling them to remain in the lead, and the number one piece to that is relationships.â€
During a meeting June 11 with Afghan role players in a simulated Afghanistan province, seated between a smattering of small buildings that mirror a typical cityscape in the country, Getchell sat and talked security, safety and engineering projects – things that will take center stage in the brigade’s real-life deployment.
“When you boil it all down, it’s the same wants and desires that any American would want,†he said after the meeting, one of several planned for the rotation. “They want security; they want a better future for their kids – the same that we would want.â€
Getchell said that during his last Afghanistan deployment, the mindset was different, and face time between U.S. military leaders and the local populace was scarce in comparison with today’s mission.
“It was a very different mission back then,†he said. “We had very little engagement with the population, almost no engagement with the Afghan army, and really no engagement with police.â€
Sitting at a t-shape of tables in a tiny trailer with his brigade deputy commander, a U.S. provincial reconstruction team leader and other staff from the brigade, Getchell listened intently, scribbled down concerns addressed by the provincial leaders and reassured them of his team’s commitment to their needs.
As two small fans whirred in a desperate effort to cool down the cramped room, Getchell shared his soccer analogy. But the Afghans have their own way of looking at their partnership, even if, in this case, the bond is for training purposes.
“They call it a bundle of sticks,†Getchell said, adding that he and his team are just a few sticks in that bundle.
Sharing such analogies, stories and poems helps draw them closer, he explained.
“I’ll be able to have that more human contact and human dialogue with them,†he said, looking ahead to his plans for engagement with real Afghan leaders.
To Getchell, the role players – dressed in traditional Afghan hats and robes and speaking in their native tongue – are every bit as real and reminiscent of the country as Fort Irwin’s backdrop of High Desert mountains, extreme heat and simulated villages.
And so is the benefit the role players offer.
“They’re trying to equip us with an understanding of the people and their desires and the problems that are going on in Afghanistan,†Getchell said. “If we make cultural mistakes here, we can learn from those mistakes without really paying a penalty.â€
“It helps us to see ourselves, and then figure out how we can make the most out of these types of engagements,†said Lt. Col. Jody Miller, the brigade’s deputy commander, who sat next to Getchell during the meeting. “We’re not going to get much done by ourselves over there. It’s a joint effort for us to continue moving the ball forward.â€
Standing outside the small trailer under the inescapable rays of sun in a cloudless Fort Irwin sky, where pretend mortars are heard and troops die – in play but not in real life – Getchell made it clear that common weather and physical terrain aren’t the only reason units train at the NTC.
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Saving Pennies or Dollars is a new semi-regular series on The Simple Dollar, inspired by a great discussion on The Simple Dollar’s Facebook page concerning frugal tactics that might not really save that much money. I’m going to take some of the scenarios described by the readers there and try to break down the numbers to see if the savings is really worth the time invested.
Jeff writes in: How much money do you ACTUALLY save in time and money by making your own coffee at home? I would appreciate the assumption that the user is using non-generic, non-Folgers or Maxwell House coffee.
For some standardized data on this, I visited the website of the SCAA – the Specialty Coffee Association of America. In one of their protocol documents, I found this information, which I’ll use to analyze how a great cup of coffee is constructed at home:
The optimum ratio is 8.25 grams of coffee per 150 ml of water, as this conforms to the mid-point of the optimum balance recipes for the Golden Cup.
Let’s say we’re looking at a 16 ounce cup of coffee – what you might fill a to-go cup with from a coffee shop, for example. A 16 ounce cup of coffee is approximately 473 mL, which, using the ratio above, would require 26 grams of coffee to make it yourself. An ounce is 28.3 grams, just for measurement’s sake.
So, how much does “good” coffee cost? I asked my wife to select what she considered to be a very good coffee for the price and she chose Eight O’Clock Coffee’s original ground, which can be obtained at a rate of $0.39 per ounce.
Simply put, you’d need about $0.38 of decent ground coffee to make a good 16 ounce cup of coffee at home. There’s also the negligible cost of water and electricity (say, one cent per cup), plus the ongoing cost of filters (say, two cents per cup), plus the cost of the cup (say, one cent per drink prorated out over time), plus the startup cost of purchasing an inexpensive pot to brew the coffee with (say, another two cents per cup, prorated out over time). That’s a cost of about $0.44 for a 16 ounce standard coffee.
Now, if you add cream or other ingredients to that, you’re increasing the cost, but not significantly. For example, International Delight French Vanilla liquid creamer costs $0.08 per cup. Other options might ding you as much as a quarter per cup for flavoring, which is still leaving you below $0.70 per cup.
Depending on what exactly you order at your typical coffee chain, a 16 ounce coffee will set you back somewhere between $2 and $5. The variation here is pretty impressive, but even if you’re comparing the low end of a purchased coffee with the high end of a homemade cup, you’re still talking about a savings of a dollar per 16 ounce cup. It’s quite likely you’re saving even more than that.
What about the time? I’m not a coffee drinker, but Sarah usually sets up the coffee pot the night before. It takes her about a minute. When she gets up, she flips a switch, and then she drinks a cup a little while later, then fills her to-go cup on her way out the door, taking her maybe another minute or two. She usually cleans the pot up when she gets home from work, taking another couple of minutes.
The time invested is perhaps five minutes total per day, and she’s probably saving $2.50 or so per day, making for a pretty good hourly rate. Plus, she believes the coffee made at home tastes better.
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NY apple production drops in 2011 | News
Last year’s apple production numbers are in and New York’s production was four percent below the 2010 crop.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the end of the season surveys of apple growers and processors in New York put 2011 production at 1,220 million pounds. That number comes up shy of the 2010 crop of 1,270 million pounds.
Fresh market production of 565 million pounds, down six percent from 2010, made up 46 percent of the total. Apples for processing came to 645 million pounds, down two percent from the 2010 crop year.
Although New York’s production was down, nationally, utilized apple production for 2011 was placed at 9.31 billion pounds which is up one percent from 2010. The nation’s 2011 apple crop is valued at $2.72 billion dollars, increased 17 percent from the previous year.
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Our American freedoms were born July 4, 1776, with signing of the Declaration of Independence. This document was based on an unchanging premise: “Every human being derives his inalienable rights from the owner and operator of this universe, almighty God, who revealed himself in Jesus Christ.” This thread runs throughout our history.
Pericles built a civilization upon culture and it failed. Caesar built a civilization upon might and it failed. Our forefathers built a civilization upon God and it will survive only so long as we honor the God who is central in our history and documents.
One of many documents shows us how central God is in the history of America. Rhode Island was established in 1683 with these words: “We submit ourselves, our lives, our estates unto the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws given in his holy word.” Our forefathers founded our nation upon this belief.
The Declaration of Independence exalts faith in God and the dignity of man. God is mentioned twice in the beginning and twice toward the end. Faith in God produced this document and launched this nation on its illustrious career.
We stand as free men and women today. But will this be true of our sons and future generations? That depends in great measure upon what you and I do today. We must have a commitment to the preservation of freedom.
Love of freedom caused men to stand against tyranny in 1776. They pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to one another for the common cause. Could we find that commitment today for the perpetuation of our nation?
Tyranny was not defeated at the end of the Revolutionary War. It returns daily and must be fought continually. No generation is exempt.
We love our land, but we are not blind to her faults. Our nation was founded by individuals who believed in God, in individual freedom, in high moral values and personal responsibility. We must fight against indifference, lack of interest, self interest and put the good of all as our first concern.
Noninvolvement is the cancer that is eating away at the heart of America. We must stand in the gap when the battle rages. Each of us must see how important we are to the survival of our nation.
A nation never stands taller than when it bows its knees before its Maker. I believe this is the reason for our greatness as a nation. Unless this prevails again, our greatness is in the past and not in the future.
In our nation we find corruption, moral decay, and a steady moving from the things that made us great. The principles upon which our nation was founded are no longer our backbone. We can reverse the trend (II Chronicles 7:14).
Ronald Reagan said: “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be nation gone under.”
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Being a father to our 4-year-old son and a physician, I am so bothered with the news that the first confirmed reported death due to SWINE FLU outside Mexico specifically in Houston, Texas was a 23-MONTH-OLD TODDLER as I read it here . This is really alarming! I so hope that everyone will be on-guard not to further transmit the disease. There are reports that the virus had spread to Europe, Canada, and in the US. The following States that have laboratory-confirmed cases of swine flu : Arizona (1), California (14), Indiana (1), Kansas (2), Massachussetts (2), Michigan (2), Nevada (1), New York (51), Ohio (1), Texas (16) and 1 confirmed death.
This is according to CDC (Center for Disease Control) report dated April 29, 2009.
This has to stop before W.H.O. declares it, God forbid a pandemic.
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” -Buddha.
DOCGELO’s Medical Dose : Preventive vaccines specific against this H1N1 species of influenza virus from pigs are yet to be discovered. Why are there NO available vaccines yet for the NEW and FUTURE species of influenza ? Because all types of FLU VIRUS mutates CONTANTLY. There are two concepts behind the continuous mutations of flu viruses. These are ANTIGENIC DRIFT and ANTIGENIC SHIFT. Antigen, to begin with, is any protein component of a foreign body, in this matter, it refers to the protein part of the flu virus that enables it to become VIRULENT and PATHOGENIC. Influenza viruses undergo mutation swiftly in a matter of minutes, days, weeks and it’s so called antigenic drift. And likewise, these RNA(ribonucleic acid) viruses also mutate annually and the process is known as antigenic shift. These two types of viral mutations make the process of vaccine invention against NEW and FUTURE strains of flu difficult UNTIL such time that microbiologist and other specialist have isolated and identified the specific H or HEMAGGLUTININ, and N or NEURAMINIDASE (enzyme) which are the protein components of flu viruses present in their cell surface. Drugs that inhibit this enzyme are used to treat influenza.
Common signs & symptoms of flu are :
- Fever over 38 ‘C in adults, and often as high as 39.5 ‘C to 40.5 ‘C in children
- Chills and sweats / diaphoresis
- Dry cough
- Myalgia or muscular aches/pains, especially in your back, arms and legs
- Fatigue and weakness
- Nasal congestion
- Anorexia or loss of appetite
- Diarrhea and vomiting in children
SWINE FLU IS NOT TRANSMITTED BY EATING PORK. So it is safe to eat pork. Influenza spreads through direct contact with someone sick with it, usually airborne droplet so better cover mouth & nose while coughing or sneezing and DO PROPER HANDWASHING as it is still considered as the best universal precautionary measure.
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Charecterisation? I have been asked to write charecterisations of the novel Birdsong
I have been asked to write charecterisations about the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, does this just mean general attributes of charecters in the novel?any help appriaciated sooner the better.ThankyouBecca
Re: Charecterisation? I have been asked to write charecterisations of the novel Birdsong
Hello Becca, welcome to Using English!
Yes, it sounds as if you're supposed to write about characterisation in the novel, i.e. notes on how the characters are portrayed.
You could look at the following aspects of each character:
1. What the author says about the character directly.
2. What the character says about himself, his own past, etc.
3. What characters say about each other.
4. How the character's character (!) is revealed through his behaviour.
5. How the style of the author changes, when he talks about different characters; what images he uses, etc.
All the best,
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Potential Falmouth Shopping Center buyer balks at proposed limitations
FALMOUTH — As the Town Council considers a proposed zoning amendment that would prevent new big-box retail development in the U.S. Route 1 business corridor, the potential buyer of the Falmouth Shopping Center is urging the town to quash the rule change.
The amendment, introduced by the council's Community Development Committee on July 23, would limit the size of most new or expanded commercial properties in the corridor to a "footprint" of 30,000 square feet. Grocery stores could occupy a footprint of 60,000 square feet.
The town's Route 1 Business District, which includes the shopping center, currently has no size limit on commercial development.
But the proposed limits are "hastily and arbitrarily conceived," according to Ben Devine, a Falmouth resident and principal of Devine Capital, a partner with Philadelphia-based W.P. Realty in purchasing the shopping center. The deal is currently pending.
Devine also is a part-owner of Falmouth Plaza, the real estate company that leases space on Route 1 to the town's only big-box retailer, Walmart. Coincidentally, the store is about to begin a major expansion, which already is approved and would not be affected by the proposed amendment.
In a recent letter to councilors and town staff, Devine said the research used by the CDC in recommending the footprint cap "seems to be based on guesses at the outdated size of a few retailers that have never shown any interest in locating to Falmouth."
The zoning amendment comes after 10 years of planning and debate about how to redevelop the Route 1 corridor into a more pedestrian-friendly "village" of shops and multi-use buildings.
Earlier zoning changes considered by the CDC as part of that process allowed larger footprints. As recently as May, a CDC memo to the council proposed capping footprints of new single-tenant commercial buildings at 90,000 square feet.
With the proposal of a new, lower cap two months later, "the town is rushing to make things happen," said Devine.
But according to CDC Chairwoman Bonny Rodden, the new limit is a "reasoned decision" based on careful study.
"The CDC looked at buildings in Falmouth, we looked at construction outside of Falmouth, we looked at studies and examples in other areas. Many communities in Maine and throughout the country are doing this," she said. "We did our homework."
She said limiting development to a 30,000-square-foot footprint – slightly larger than the Staples store located across Route 1 from the shopping center – would attract businesses that are a "better fit" for Falmouth than big-box stores that often occupy upwards of 100,000 square feet.
"The goal of the zoning amendment is to make it clear, as a community, what our town looks like," she said.
Rodden said that the CDC and town council welcome Devine's input. "We want him to work with us, as the current owners have done," she said. "Together, we've shared a vision (for the shopping center), and part of that vision was a footprint limitation."
For his part, Devine said he wants a "candid dialogue with the town about what's possible. We have to work together. Our common goal is to create a vibrant retail environment."
He said there should be no fear that shopping center would become "Maine Mall North," and that his objection to the footprint limitation is not based on plans to bring in a big-box tenant. He also pledged that he and his partners will not apply to develop space for such a tenant while the zoning amendment would be tabled.
"The reality is that Falmouth is not in threat of big box retail. Years of difficulty in marketing the Falmouth Shopping Center and the surrounding retail properties is proof positive of the challenges that exist in the Route One commercial corridor," he wrote in his letter to the town council.
"Then why is he so concerned about a footprint limit?" said Rodden in response. "The town has been working on this for so long. We need to get going, and turn the concepts for the shopping center into something concrete. You have to start somewhere."
The CDC plans to hold a public discussion of the zoning amendment later this month or in September. Additional zoning changes will be presented over the winter, Rodden said.
Meanwhile, across the street, the plans to expand the Falmouth Walmart continue on track, according to Devine. They call for the store's size to increase from 92,000 square feet to 124,000, with the addition of a grocery center and a pharmacy.
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Situation: Rob Simpson, 35, has profound learning difficulties and
has always been cared for by his parents who are now both in their
seventies. In recent years the care required has become more
constant and demanding and his parents, who are becoming frailer,
have been finding it increasingly difficult to manage. However,
they are determined that, when they die, Rob will not be placed in
Rob gets 15 hours a week of home care to support that given by his
parents and has had the same two carers for six years. Rob's
parents want to explore the options available for when they
withdraw from providing care. Rob's social worker has provided, on
request, information about direct payments and sees this method as
a possibility. However, the department does not have a procedure in
place for these payments. It has been suggested that senior
managers are concerned that the introduction of direct payments
will lead to redundancies and, in any case, fears that relatives
may take advantage of vulnerable people unable to control their own
finances. The social worker has said that she has been unable to
interest anybody in finding out how to proceed with direct
payments. Rob's parents know they can help their son manage direct
payments but are worried, with no other family members close by, as
to what might happen after they have gone.
The White Paper, Valuing People - A New Strategy for
Learning Disability for the 21st Century, emphasises four key
principles: rights, independence, choice and inclusion. It also
highlights the importance of direct payments for people with
learning difficulties and has identified the need to extend
eligibility for direct payments, through legislation, as a "key
action" for improving a person's choice and control over their
Guidance accompanying Valuing People requires partnership
boards to foster development of good support services and schemes
so that people with learning difficulties and their families can
benefit from direct payments. Councils are urged to think about how
information is presented to people with learning difficulties in
order to maximise the potential for people to make informed
Rob has a right to make choices, such as where to live, with whom
and with what level of support. There is an increasing requirement
for social services and others to provide the necessary level of
help and support, and people should not be excluded because of
their learning difficulty.
I suggest that Rob's social worker contact the local partnership
board to establish what is in place and what is being done to
introduce a direct payments scheme. The social worker might also
contact his regional representative from the Valuing People support
team to find out what is happening in the area and to seek support
to prioritise direct payment schemes.
There may be several ways in which direct payments can be made to
Rob, including setting up an independent living trust. This would
address the issue of continuing support when Rob's parents are no
Crucial to any long-term support is to find out what Rob wants for
himself. Does he wish to continue with the same two carers? Did he
have any choice over their appointment? Will the opportunity for
direct payments enable him to exert some personal choices over the
type of support he will receive in the future?
Finally, Values Into Action and Mencap have produced guidance on
direct payments on their websites www.viauk.org and www.mencap.org.uk
Rob's situation may take some time to resolve so we need
to look at short-term and long-term plans. Enabling Rob to have a
voice is difficult but, without an independent advocate, I would
work with his parents and others who know him to find out what he
likes and dislikes and evaluate the options according to these
criteria. This should be a collaborative process and could happen
as part of Rob's person-centred plan.
In the short term, we could increase the support available to him
and the options for what he does during the day. In the long term,
decisions must be made about where to live and what methods of
support would best meet Rob's needs. He could remain in his
parents' house; or share with friends in a rented or owned
property; or be moved into residential care (this should be
considered until we have established that it is not in Rob's best
interests). The support for this could be organised by direct
payments or be commissioned by social services.
The government expects local authorities to offer payments to
people with learning difficulties but there are problems with Rob's
ability to exercise choice and control over his support. Different
local authorities and organisations of disabled people will
disagree on whether it is legally possible for Rob to have
However, Values Into Action has brought to light a number of
precedents and it would be possible to establish a trust to assist
Rob in employing staff. There may be legal obstacles to Rob having
a tenancy and a trust may be needed if Rob inherits his parents'
house or any capital. The Schwehrcare website (www.schwehrcare.co.uk)
could provide more information on capacity, tenancies and
Given pressure on budgets, I can imagine that it might be difficult
to obtain funding if people agreed that living alone was best for
Rob. Despite transitional housing benefit, this would almost
certainly be more expensive than other options. In the absence of
joint health funding, the package would cost more than the ceiling
for the Independent Living Fund. Rob and his family may need to
exert pressure on the local authority, perhaps through a
combination of independent advocacy, working with local or national
organisations and through their MP.
Rob's story is a typical one of people knowing their rights, but
having them denied by professionals who are more interested in
themselves, write Kathleen Franklin, Pasq Cerrone, and Colin
Rob's parents are getting older and can no longer support all
his needs. Like many of us in this situation, it is time for him to
make some plans for what will happen when they are no longer able
to support him. His parents and social worker know it's a good idea
to help Rob think about an action plan for his future. A direct
payment could be a good part of his plan so he could buy himself
more support. Sounds pretty straightforward doesn't it?
Think again. This plan will need social services to have a part.
No longer is it straightforward. Social services and professionals
are supposed to support us to live our lives in the way we want.
But this usually doesn't happen. We really think the senior
management in Rob's social services needs sorting out. They need to
be told that:
- It is a government rule that all people with learning
difficulties be told that direct payments exist and be offered
- The only criterion for a direct payment is for us to be
"willing and able to take it on". We can have support - for
example, a trust - to do this.
- Each council must have a service in place to support people
with their direct payment.
Next, they need to be told that the idea that people would lose
their jobs over direct payments is wrong. Under this scheme, a
social worker is still needed and they would be hiring support
staff. In fact, Rob could ask whether his two support workers would
be willing for him to be their boss rather than the agency.
Finally, senior managers need to be told that it will be
difficult for Rob's parents to cheat him of his direct payments
money if their son receives a payment and they support him to
manage it. Whoever supports him - whether it is his parents, a
trust or an advocate - will have to hand in a finance statement
three times a year and he will need a separate bank account. His
parents could even receive a direct payment themselves, as carers,
and use this to free up more of their time to spend with Rob.
Straightforward? It really is, if you respect our rights!
Kathleen Franklin, Pasq Cerrone, and Colin Gear are part
of Milton Keynes People First. They would like to thank advisory
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"Reflections of the 60s" Brings Exciting Decade to Life
Contact: Sherry Justus, 830-868-7128 ext 245
Stonewall, TX – Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park invites the public to return to the 1960s on Friday, April 16, when the "Reflections of the 60s" special event brings together people who experienced this turbulent decade first hand to share their stories and re-create the atmosphere of that electrifying time in U.S. history. The all-day event is free of charge and will be held on the LBJ Ranch, one mile east of Stonewall, off Ranch Road 1.
The festivities begin with a welcome by national historical park Superintendent Russ Whitlock at 9:30 a.m. Following this kickoff, Allen B. Clark, author of Wounded Soldier, Healing Warrior, will speak about his experiences as a Special Forces officer in Vietnam, as well as the aftermath of the conflict.
Next on the program is Wilhelmina Delco, former Texas State Representative for District 50, who served as the first African-American legislator for that district. Ms. Delco has continued her public service as an advocate for equality and integrity in education throughout her life.
Lunchtime includes 1960s music, classic cars and the announcement of winners of the 1960s fashion contest.
Afterwards, Tom Striegler, a former field artillery officer in Vietnam, will speak about the background of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and share memories of heroes he knew personally and describe his personal journey to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Striegler’s presentation is followed by "Lyndon B. Johnson," portrayed by Michael Stuart, who will conduct a mock 1960s press conference. This reenactment is based on the many press conferences President Johnson held in his airplane hangar on the ranch, now a visitor information and contact area.
More 1960s music is on tap later in the afternoon when Brian Jepson, representing Austin’s premiere Beatles cover band, delivers his renditions of unforgettable Fab Four favorites.
The day concludes with a movie screening of Forest Gump, starring Tom Hanks as a well-meaning, simple man who somehow amazingly comes into contact with some of the most noteworthy people of the 1960s, including Elvis Presley, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. The film will begin at 7:45 p.m. and is free of charge.
For more information about the "Reflections of the 60s," please call visit www.nps.gov/lyjoor call (830) 868-7128, ext. 244 or 231.
The LBJ Ranch is open to the public seven days a week (with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Days) from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. A free permit to drive onto the ranch is issued at LBJ State Park and Historic Site, one mile east of Stonewall off U.S. Highway 290. Tours of the Texas White House are offered from 10 am to 4:30 pm seven days a week. Tour tickets may be purchased in the airplane hangar visitor information center adjacent to the Texas White House.
For more information about Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park and some of its partners, including the Friends of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Western National Parks Association, and LBJ State Park and Historic Site, visit the following web sites:
www.nps.gov/lyjo; www.friendsoflbjnationalpark.org; www.wnpa.org; www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lyndon_b_johnson.
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The seven days of creation model how we ought to do productive work, not only the schedule of the workweek. There is no greater demonstration of creativity than Genesis 1, from which I derive a theological definition of productivity.
A productivity system is a set of tools and habits that enables you to produce something. But many use these systems to devise ornate methods of organization or excuse the purchase of expensive gadgets.
Genesis 1:1 declares that God created everything, but 1:2 indicates the earth’s condition before God began his six-day work: “without form,” “void,” “darkness,” and “waters”. Each term communicates chaos in the ancient Near Eastern context, and is brought to order and life in 1:3-2:3. The first three days of creation describe the “organization” of the world, and the second three days its “vitalization.”
The two tasks of creation
God organizes the cosmos in days 1-3 by putting the unordered darkness and water where it belongs. Darkness goes with the night, light with the day. Some waters go above, some below. The waters below go in certain places, so the dry land appears to keep them where they belong. As Grandma says, a place for everything and everything in its place.
God correspondingly vitalizes the cosmos in days 4-6. In day one he created light, so in day four he fills the sky with luminaries and gives them a purpose, to mark time. On day five he fills the upper and lower waters with living creatures – birds above, fish below. On day six the earth is filled the beasts, and, climactically, with mankind, bearing God’s image and ruling God’s world.
The pattern is organization then vitalization. Order then purpose. Form then function. This model guides us little ‘c’ creators in our work as we bring this place under God’s dominion.
How your theology of creation affects your approach to productivity
1. In light of the gospel, our productivity ought to work toward new creation. The resurrection of Jesus is God’s great statement that he is re-creating the world, and our efforts toward productivity will be a waste if they are not a means to fulfill our role in his redemptive plan, for God’s glory and our neighbor’s good.
2. Organization is half the battle. Organization by itself is inconsequential tidiness. Genesis 1 shows us that it is a means to the end of making something that wasn’t there before. You organize your sermon with exegesis and interacting with commentaries. You vitalize it by preaching it and injecting resurrection life into your people.
3. Evaluate productivity accurately. The organizing-vitalizing definition of productivity provides a standard for evaluating your work. You have to bring organization and vitalization to some idea or problem in order to be truly productive and effective. Ignoring the former leads to sloppiness. Leaving out the latter is laziness.
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Teen in braces sings tender song to "Daddy"
This week, one of the most moving interview moments on the "60 Minutes" broadcast happened when a 14-year-old in braces sang a cappella to correspondent Lesley Stahl. The tender song is called "Where Were You?" and Yolanda Howard wrote it about her father, who had suddenly appeared in his teenage daughter's life for a day. It was the first time Yolanda had met her dad, and she hadn't seen him since.
"Where Were You?" is a song we almost didn't get to hear. Over a year ago, "60 Minutes" producers went looking for a story at the "Gospel for Teens" auditions in Harlem. It wasn't until months later that Yolanda happened to mention to the producers that she'd written a song. It seemed outside the scope of their story, but once they heard her sing it, the producers say they were blown away.
Jennie Held, associate producer at "60 Minutes," got to know Yolanda throughout the year. In this "60 Minutes Overtime" video, Jennie recalls the moment when the teenager's emotional song came to light.
UPDATE: "60 Minutes" producers contacted Yolanda after the "Gospel for Teens" story aired on our broadcast. Yolanda reports that after her father heard her song, he reached out to her. They have since seen each other twice.
What do you think of Yolanda's song? Comment below.
- Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together
- Angelina Jolie: I would love to live a long life
- How Bill Gates' school launched his life's work
- Steve Jobs: Family photo album
- Bill Clinton tried to get Led Zeppelin back together
- Morley Safer's infamous 1993 art story
- The anatomy of an interview with a serial killer
- From soldier to mad scientist: Kit Parker's lab
- Jake: Hanging out with a teenage Einstein
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- Sugar and kids: The toxic truth
- Becoming human: Shin's new life
- What did Steve Jobs think of his rivals?
- Modern-day Robin Hood inspired by 60 Minutes report
- A chess prodigy explains how his mind works
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The death of Stephen marks the beginning of a great persecution of the Jerusalem Christians. Saul thinks he sees his life’s work: to destroy the Jesus-movement entirely. But the way Luke tells it he only succeeds in spreading the gospel on the tongues of scattered believers.
There’s an irony in the very word Luke uses for the persecuted people. Church he calls them—in Greek ecclesia—meaning the gathering. It is the gathered people of God who are scattered. The ones called together who spread the word by being flung apart. The gathering grows by being un-gathered.
We can read that as an irony for Saul—especially since we know the change of role and name coming up for him. But it’s also ironic for everyone involved. Though ironic doesn’t really capture the pain, the uprooting, the imprisonment. Is the Church being destroyed or being built up? Who are the heroes of the story and who are just the walk-on parts, the extras, history’s cannon fodder?
Don’t we wonder that in our own lives from time to time? Particularly at times of scattering, when the fabric is fraying, and the unknown opens ahead of us. Are we extras in someone else’s drama or is this our moment, the chance to speak our lines from the heart and move the great story on.
John has thought about that: “The will of the one who sent me is that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me and that I should raise it up on the last day”.
In his way of telling the story there are no extras, there are no loose threads or wasted lives: each of us is at the heart of the tale. As God sees it, each of us is the axle history turns upon. You and I, each one of us is the hero of a story that has God riveted.
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As consumer, commercial and industrial electronic systems become more advanced; they require more precise and reliable power sources to function at optimum levels. System integrators and designers are turning to more sophisticated power distribution units (PDUs) with customized specifications to better tackle power hurdles.
Traditionally, Bluetooth has been associated with hands-free calling and peripheral applications requiring short-range wireless connectivity. After the introduction of the Bluetooth v4.0specification in 2010, which standardized Bluetooth low energy operation, a large amount of the industry buzz has been on Bluetooth low energy applications....
Here’s a rundown of the most read, most popular, most awesome articles on the web. Take a look at what you missed the first time around or check up on an old favorite to see the conversation in the comments. Keep checking out the Lead at www.ecnmag.com and follow us on Twitter @ecnonline for our most up-to-date articles.
Is placing black boxes in automobiles really an invasion of the driver’s privacy? While I am all for the advancement of automobile safety, I wonder if placing black boxes in a cars is stepping over the privacy boundary? A recent article, “Black Boxes in Cars Raise Privacy Concerns” discussed the placement of event data recorders....
Out with the old, in with the new: Enabling the proliferation of large-area touch devices with transparent conductive materialsDecember 20, 2012 1:52 pm | by John LeMoncheck, President and CEO of Cambrios Technologies for ECN | Comments
What trends and technologies have impacted the industry in 2012 and what does that mean for 2013? The release of Windows 8 is revolutionizing the projected capacitive touch device market, increasing the already capacity constrained demand for large area touch screens.
With miniaturization often comes the challenge to produce the same amount of work as in large design, thus creating more power in a smaller envelope. Engineers should look at the different impact of dimension on motor performance criteria (efficiency, power, thermal dissipation, inertia, etc.).
Here’s a rundown of the most read, most popular, most awesome articles on the web from 2012. Take a look at what you missed the first time around or check up on an old favorite to see the conversation in the comments. Keep checking out the Lead at www.ecnmag.com and follow us on Twitter @ecnonline for our most up-to-date articles.
Better watch what you say next time you take the bus; somebody could be listening in. We’re all pretty used to the increasing amount of cameras on public transportation, and a lot can be said in their favor. They provide a safer environment for the driver when dealing with unruly passengers.
Electronics manufacturers are constantly looking for ways to improve product quality, speed time to market, and reduce production costs. To optimize manufacturing, engineers carefully consider the three major aspects of production: technology, processes, and materials.
Differential signaling is used for noise immunity in Ethernet, RS-485, CAN and USB. In ideal cases, all common-mode noise is rejected. In real-world applications, there are several design techniques and component parameters to consider in order to keep the data flowing with high confidence.
As the proud new owner of an iPhone 5, I have but one concern: Can this phone survive my clumsy self? For the past three years, I’ve been the increasingly less proud owner of a Blackberry Bold. It was slow, bulky, people mocked me for having it, and viewing a website was as much fun as going to the DMV, but, man, could that thing take a hit like Floyd Mayweather.
Stable platforms are a necessity for achieving the best performance in UAV-mounted surveillance equipment, maritime microwave receivers, vehicle-mounted infrared imaging sensors, and similar instrument systems. Yet these systems must operate through vibration and other undesirable kinds of motion.
Engineers at Agilent Technologies found a need for a digital multimeter (DMM) technicians and electricians could use in cold environments. "I went to college in Canada where temperatures often got down to below -20°C," said Boon Juan Tan, R&D manager in Agilent's Basic Instruments Division.
Sensor fusion is now integrated into most smartphones and tablets, enabling many mobile apps. But consumers want more: they want their mobile devices to be even smarter without having to learn any new interfaces themselves. This article provides an overview of a new class of sensor applications that go beyond sensor fusion....
Device miniaturization is integral to the design and development of a wide range of medical devices, including analytical test equipment, ventilators, and infusion pumps. Making devices smaller and lighter helps conserve valuable real estate in patient rooms, enabling equipment to be placed closer to the patient as well as allowing more space for medical professionals to work. | <urn:uuid:e151b138-5e4c-4544-b516-466b96e21b43> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ecnmag.com/articles?items_per_page=15&page=5&qt-recent_content=0&qt-video_of_the_day=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926598 | 999 | 1.984375 | 2 |
GPO had a new flight schedule to submit to Manned Space Flight Director Holmes by 11 April. It differed sharply in some key ways from earlier plans. The major change was that the first flight, still due in December 1963, was to be orbital, its primary objective the flight qualification of the booster. The spacecraft would serve chiefly as an instrument carrier, neither separating from the launch vehicle's second stage nor being recovered. Gemini's second flight, postponed from March to July 1964, was now what the first had been - a suborbital ballistic flight intended to prove the spacecraft could withstand high heating rates but also to qualify all launch vehicle and spacecraft systems for manned flights.
The first men to fly in Gemini now had to wait for the third mission, in October 1964, five months later than had been scheduled for the third flight and seven months past the former date for the first manned flight. The mission was not only late, it was much reduced in scope. First planned for a full day, or 18 orbits, the mission now seemed likely to be no more than three orbits, mainly for systems evaluation.45 The three-orbit limit became official in mid-June 1963. This raised the question of what to do with the package that both of the first two manned spacecraft were supposed to carry into orbit to practice the final stages of rendezvous. Three orbits hardly seemed long enough. By the beginning of July, the rendezvous evaluation pod was cut from the first manned mission.46
The pod stayed on the fourth flight and second manned mission, scheduled for seven days in orbit during January 1965, three months after the third. This longer interval between launches was planned for the rest of the program. The two months that had been allowed no longer seemed time enough to check out machines and train crews. Another change in the flight program inserted a rendezvous mission between the two longer flights, so the fifth would be a rendezvous mission and the sixth would remain in orbit 14 days. The two long missions had been back-to-back, but this left little time to absorb the lessons of one such flight before launching another. The last six missions, each about three days long, all focused on rendezvous. The final flight was scheduled for January 1967, nearly two years after the date first approved in December 1961 and more than a year later than expected after reprogramming in late 1962. The new flight plan also reflected the uncertain status of the paraglider landing system, now scheduled only from the seventh flight on. Earlier spacecraft would rely on parachutes, and the first land landing was not expected until October 1965.47
NASA Headquarters approved the new Gemini flight plan on 29 April 1963.48 The lengthened schedule and spaced-out launches eased the pressure on Project Gemini in terms of both time and money. Technical problems and money shortages were the proximate cause of the changes, but throughout 1962 the shape of Gemini had been subtly shifting. Mercury technology proved less easy to transfer to Gemini than expected, partly for technical reasons - the planned coupling of two Mercury environmental control systems to provide for a Gemini crew, for example, went by the board as engineers tried and failed to convert the concept into detail specifications49 - but mainly because the image of Gemini had altered in the eyes of its makers. "Instead of being merely a transition between Mercury and Apollo," Gilruth told his colleagues in the Management Council on 30 April, "the Gemini program now actually involves the development of an operational spacecraft."50
Holmes spelled out what this meant in a lengthy memorandum to Seamans on 3 May. By building into Gemini the most up-to-date technology, rather than merely modified Mercury equipment, "Gemini would have extensive and most useful applications in earth orbital space operations," even, ultimately, "as a resupply vehicle for future space stations," It would also produce a beneficial side effect: the new Gemini promised to be a much greater help to Apollo in such areas as systems development, preflight checkout, and mission training. None of this came cheaply, either in time or money, but Holmes argued it was worth it because "we have a much more valuable and worthwhile Gemini Program than could have been had if we had not taken advantage of our increased knowledge to develop and design the best spacecraft possible within the limits of our present technology."51
These were the arguments that NASA spokesmen used to explain the higher costs that Gemini had incurred in the past fiscal year and to defend their budget request for fiscal year 1964 to congressmen growing restive in the face of soaring NASA needs. Gemini, Holmes told the House Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight, was "much more than a big, overgrown Mercury."52 It had, said Webb, "what I would characterize as the potential for the first workhorse of the Western space world in very much the same way that the DC-3 airplane became a great workhorse of aviation for many, many purposes."53
How much of this was merely after-the-fact rationalization may be open to question, but whatever hopes NASA officials might have for using Gemini or helping Apollo depended on solving some urgent problems. Development of the new technology that was to transform Gemini was lagging. The most advanced spacecraft systems - propulsion, escape, and fuel cell - were running into trouble; the paraglider program had faltered; and, worst of all, the Titan II launch vehicle posed a question mark for manned space flight. Maybe Gemini would become a workhorse, and maybe that prospect was good reason to delay the flight program. But the many technical problems, Gemini's new acting manager admitted when interviewed by a leading trade journal, had already wrecked the old schedule.54
44 Zavasky, "Minutes of Senior Staff Meeting, March 22, 1963," p. 5; "Problems - Nov. 62 Plan," 25 March 1964, table in material compiled for "The First Gemini Executives Meeting," 27 March 1964, Tab C.
45 Zavasky, "Minutes of Senior Staff Meeting, April 12, 1963," p. 4; Quarterly Status Report No. 5, for period ending 31 May 1963, pp. 50-51, 58; Purser, "Minutes of Project Gemini Management Panel Meeting. . . , May 2, 1963," pp. 2-3.
46 MSC Weekly Activity Report for Office of the Dir., Manned Space Flight, 2-8 June 1963, p. 2; memo, Walter C. Williams to Acting Mgr., GPO, "Third Gemini flight," 6 June 1963; "Resume of Weeks Activities, [9-14 June 1963]," [GPO], p. 1; MSC Consolidated Activity Report for Office of the Dir., Manned Space Flight, 19 May - 15 June 1963, p. 72; "Abstract of Meeting on Trajectories and Orbits, July 3, 1963," 9 July 1963.
47 Purser, "Management Panel Meeting, May 2, 1963," p. 3; "DOD-NASA Ad Hoc Study Group, Air Force Participation in Gemini," with errata, Final Report, 6 May 1963; memo, Seamans and McMillan for record, "Acceptance of the Joint NASA/DOD Ad Hoc Study Group Final Report on Air Force Participation in Gemini, Dated May 6, 1963," with enclosures, "Gemini Launches Master Schedule," as of 2 May 1963, and "Gemini Experiment Payload Potential."
48 Zavasky, "Minutes of Senior Staff Meeting, April 26, 1963," p. 5; Purser, "Management Panel Meeting, May 2, 1963," pp. 2-3; Zavasky, "Minutes of Senior Staff Meeting, May 3, 1963,"p. 4.
49 1964 NASA Authorization, p. 584.
50 Memo, Bothmer to dist., 3 May 1963, with enclosure, "Minutes, OMSF Management Council, April 30, 1963," p. 6.
51 Memo, Holmes to Seamans, "Comments on the Status of the Gemini Development," 3 May 1963; Boone, "Statement Regarding the Revised Gemini Schedule," 10 May 1963.
52 1964 NASA Authorization, p. 1204.
53 U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1964: Hearings on S. 1245, 88th Cong., 1st sess., 1963, p. 775.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2012
GTM RESEARCH RESERVE RECEIVES ST. JOHNS COUNTY SCHOOLS BUSINESS PARTNER AWARD
~School district awards highest honor for work with high school students~
Students measure the slope of the beach to track seasonal changes in its shape and elevation at the GTM Research Reserve.
BEACH – The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National
Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM NERR) received
the highest honor for businesses from the St. Johns County School District at the annual Career Academy
Awards on May 17. The Outstanding Business Partner of the Year Award was given in
recognition of GTM NERR’s participation with two high school career
academies: the Academy of Environmental
and Urban Planning and the Academy of Coastal and Water Resources.
GTM Research Reserve team’s work with the Career Academies exemplifies the
reserve’s hands-on approach to science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) education”, said GTM NERR Director Dr. Mike Shirley. “Students in the Career Academy programs receive on-the-job exposure to science
careers at the Research Reserve. Our staff and volunteers and the Friends of the GTM Reserve truly appreciate this recognition by our local community."
Academies emphasize work-based learning opportunities for students and tie
classroom activities to internships with local businesses. Academies are small,
personalized learning communities within a high school that selects a subset of
students. Students enter the program of study through a voluntary process; they
must apply and be accepted with parental knowledge.
Krepp, Career Specialist at St Johns Technical High School, complimented Dr. Shirley
on his vision as an educational opportunity for the students.
for allowing for some of this learning to take place in your backyard," she said. "We
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Exfoliating Colorism: Contestations, Comedy, and Critique in India's Transnational Media Field
Feminist cultural studies scholars have documented the beauty industry’s transnational cultural production of smooth, perfect skin that has “amnesia,” the capacity to erase the passage of time and the onslaught of nature and the ability to defy the contaminating encroachments of ethnic, racial, biological, and cultural affiliations. But, what about those exfoliating skin stories of dissent and critique that aim to reform the abject conditions of the desi dark-skinned body? What do we know about the grainy texture of abrasive skin stories that seek to peel away local and global layers of colorism and racism? Resistance to colorism in India and among global desi communities originates from the actions and critiques of ordinary individuals, activist organizations, artists, and celebrities andfrom voices and representations in mainstream popular culture, online citizen spaces, and journalism. The media instruments deployed in these articulations of resistance span the sometimes anonymous parodies and spoofs of skin-lightening commercials posted in cyberspace to women’s orchestrated consciousness-raising media campaigns in Chennai, India, and well-known journalist Barkha Dutt’s public affairs talk show “We the People” in which she moderated a debate on racism and colorism in a 2008 episode, opening with the provocative question, “Is India a country of closet racists?” This presentation explores the empirical and political contours of the growing chorus of resistance against colorism and beauty norms in India, and it evaluates the possibilities and limits of these forms of dissent.
Radhika Parameswaran is Professor in the School of Journalism and adjunct faculty in the Cultural Studies and India Studies programs at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research and teaching interests focus on feminist cultural studies, South Asia, globalization and postcolonial theory, and qualitative research methods. Her publications include a Wiley-Blackwell edited encyclopedic volume on global audience studies, two monographs, over 20 articles in leading journals in media and communication studies, and nine book chapters. She is the recipient of three outstanding teaching awards from the School of Journalism | <urn:uuid:d9e1f22c-8656-420b-a0f5-3710644c25ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lsa.umich.edu/themesemester/events/exfoliatingcolorismcontestationscomedyandcritiqueinindiastransnationalmediafieldfri22feb2013_ci | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904143 | 450 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Updated 03/01/2012 03:42 PM
White Firefighters Denied Access To Study Session, Group Claims
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A group of white New York City Fire Department candidates claim they're being discriminated against by black firefighters after they say they were turned away from a test-prep session in Queens earlier this week.
The Vulcan Society, a fraternal order of black firefighters, has organized test training sessions for those looking to join the department.
However, the group is accused of turning away white candidates Wednesday night in Rochdale Village.
The latest controversy stems from an independent effort to fix what a federal judge called a shameful blight of discrimination in the FDNY and its hiring practices.
The Vulcan Society says three nights in a row, non-black FDNY applicants attended their test-prep sessions, but they ran out of material Wednesday night and turned away everyone they had not invited.
White firefighter candidates who attended a study session in Brooklyn Thursday night, though, say they experienced no problems.
"They got us all in and took care of us inside. They took us through the study course and they answered all the questions we had," said one firefighter candidate.
"This material is Vulcan Society material. We paid for it we administer it," said John Coombs of the Vulcan Society.
A class scheduled for Thursday night at the Queens was canceled - a decision the Vulcan Society says was made by the school because of what uninvited firefighters did Wednesday night.
"They were being obstructionists. Firefighters on the jobs were trying to take seats from other individuals who wanted an opportunity for tutoring," said Coombs.
"It's almost like reverse racism the way thing are going on here," countered one FDNY candidate.
Black and Latino firefighters make up just nine percent of the department despite making up more than half of the city's population.
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On January 9-11, members and supporters of the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) traveled from 18 different cities to the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, FL for the International Conference on White Solidarity with Black Power, the annual conference of the APSC.
Comrades from San Diego and Oakland, CA; Athens and Columbus, OH; Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL; New York City, NY; Providence, RI; Philadelphia, PA; Boston, MA; and Miami, Palm Harbor, Brandon, and Sarasota, FL engaged in three days of rigorous discussion and political education meant to deepen white people's understanding of our key role in the revolutionary struggle for African liberation.
The conference served as APSC’s annual national Plenary, which is mandated by the documents coming out of the African People’s Socialist Party USA (APSP USA) Fifth Congress held last July in Washington, DC. The Party emerged from that historic event as the most acknowledged leading force of the African Liberation Movement. And the Fifth Congress resolved that APSC must be built to meet the demands of the African Revolution in this period of the Final Offensive Against Imperialism.
“The African Revolution is evolution, because it will bring humanity to a higher level,” said APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess in her opening remarks. Hess characterized US imperialism as a dying force, incapable of being reformed, because it owes its existence to slavery and genocide.
Chairwoman Hess explained the significance of this principled relationship: “When left to our own devices, we [North Americans] will always come up in our own interest. Organizing in material solidarity under the leadership of the APSP overturns the economic basis of our opportunism.”
Chairman Omali Yeshitela led a three-hour workshop on "A World Without Borders," in which he explained the controversial issue of "nation-building" by colonized peoples as a necessary pre-requisite for successful anti-imperialist struggle.
Chairman Omali brilliantly showed how the European or white nation was forged at the expense of the African nation and that it will be the emergence of the movement to unite and liberate Africa and African people everywhere that will bring about the destruction of the European nation.
As the Chairman stated, “The European nation was born as a bourgeois nation, a capitalist nation, through exploitation and the expropriation of value from everybody else.
Therefore, the fundamental task of the African revolutionary is the liberation and consolidation of the African nation, which will not be born as a bourgeois nation, but will be born in contention with the imperialist bourgeois nation and born as a workers' or proletarian nation."
Reading aloud from the Political Report to the Fifth Congress, the Chairman explained the concept of a world without borders: “African people have to resist the imperialist bourgeoisie as a people. Our assumption of consolidated nationhood will function to destroy the bourgeois nation. Thus, the rise of revolutionary worker nation-states destroy the material basis for the existence of nations and borders that function to distinguish and separate one people from another.”
The Chairman noted the national unity of African people everywhere in music, style, culture, dress and ability to understand each other regardless of the language imposed on them.
Diop Olugbala, President of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), spoke on the history of the African People's Socialist Party from its origins in the Black Revolution of the 1960s.
Ironiff Ifoma, Director of Economic Development and Finance for the APSP-USA, gave a presentation called “Creating an African Internationalist Economy,” on the current period of tremendous growth for her department and the need to “build contending power to bring the masses into the embrace of the Party” by recreating the culture of self-reliance in the African community.
Chairwoman Hess presented on the history of ideological development within APSC as its leadership struggled against opportunism and subjectivism before temporarily disbanding in 1981.
When APSC reformed, with Hess as its chairperson, the political line of African Internationalism had been consolidated around the question of reparations from the white community as a revolutionary and principled stance.
“Reparations is our revolutionary work,” said Hess.
President Diop Olugbala discussed his recent work in Philadelphia where he and other InPDUM forces have been leading a campaign to organize African youth into the Junta of Militant Organizations (JOMO), the African youth resistance wing of InPDUM.
On the third day of the conference, APSC elected the new National Central Committee (NCC). NCC members include:
- Penny Hess, National Chairperson
- Alison Hoehne, National Secretary General
- Kitty Reilly, National Director of Reparations and Economic Development
- Lisa Watson, National Director of Agitation and Propaganda
- Maureen Wagener, National Director of Uhuru Foods
- Stephanie Midler, National Director of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and Southeast Regional Representative
- Joel Hamburger, National Representative of Uhuru Furniture
- Wendy Snyder, West Regional Representative
- Harris Daniels, Northeast Regional Representative
The conference gained several new members, raised resources for the work of the APSP and passed many resolutions, including resolutions to build a movement to stop the US war against the African community and defend the right of African people resist, to build the Uhuru Solidarity Movement nationally among North Americans and to transform Uhuru Foods into an even stronger institution of reparations and material solidarity to the African Liberation Movement. | <urn:uuid:40aaa1ad-df43-4cfa-ab91-4394b6b0b677> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://uhurusolidarity.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9376 | 1,147 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Johan Thein; Anna Wallin , pp. 118. TKS/Fysisk planering, 2004.
The master thesis "The revival of Greater No 2 - a residential area in Kimberley, Southafrica" is focused on upgrading of streets and public open spaces in a part of the township Galeshewe. The project is performed as a Minor Field Study, supported by SIDA. The area, Greater No 2, is located in the city of Kimberley in the central parts of Southafrica. The city started to develop during the diamondmining rush in the late 19th century. Greater No 2 is today a dense area (7 500 inhabitants living on 52ha)which lack public open spaces and green elements.
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Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
Bacteria cause most of these finger infections. The exception to this is the herpetic whitlow, which is caused by a virus. How the infection starts and is found in a particular location is what makes each specific type of infection unique. Usually some form of trauma is the initial event. This may be a
animal bite, or puncture wound.
Paronychia: The offending bacteria are usually staphylococcal and
streptococcal organisms. Rarely, a fungus causes this infection, which usually begins as a hangnail. Often a person will attempt to bite off the piece of nail that is at the corner. This results in an open wound that allows the bacteria found on the skin and the bacteria found in the mouth to infect the wound. The infection can then spread to the surrounding tissue next to the nail and cuticle.
Felon: This bacterial infection of the finger pad, caused by the same organisms that cause paronychia, is usually the result of a puncture wound. The wound allows the introduction of bacteria deep into the fingertip pad. Because the fingertip has multiple compartments, the infection is contained in this area.
Herpetic whitlow: The offending viral organism is the herpes simplex virus type I or II. This is the same virus that causes
genital herpes infections. People in certain occupations are more at risk for this infection. These include dentists, hygienists, physicians, nurses, or any other person who may have contact with saliva or body fluids that contain the virus. People with oral or genital herpes may also infect their own fingers.
Cellulitis: The most common causes of this bacterial infection are staphylococcal and
streptococcal organisms. This infection is usually the result of an open wound that allows the bacteria to infect the local skin and tissue. The infection can also spread to the hand and fingers by
blood flow carrying the organisms.
Infectious flexor tenosynovitis: This bacterial infection is usually the result of penetrating trauma that introduces bacteria into the deep structures and tendon sheaths, which allows the spread along the tendon and associated sheath.
Deep space infection: This bacterial infection is usually the result of a puncture wound or deep cut that introduces the bacteria to the deep tissue. The collar button abscess is associated with the web space between the fingers. The deep structures of the hand create many potential compartments for this infection to invade.
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Mother finches control gender outcome
Female parrot finches can adjust the sex of their unborn children in response to the environment where they live, according to Australian research.
The study, published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B, finds that mothers exert far more control than fathers do over whether or not the couple has a son or daughter. The goal is to improve the child's survival.
"It seems likely that when there are large and predictable costs associated with producing and/or rearing either sons or daughters in a given environment, females should bias offspring sex ratios to produce the sex that will perform best in the given environment," says co-author Sarah Pryke.
"Altering offspring sex ratios in response to the quality of the local environment is likely to be highly advantageous to any species, as it should allow mothers to best match the phenotype of their offspring to the prevailing condition, and thus maximize their own fitness," adds Pryke, a researcher at the Australian National University's Research School of Biology.
Prior studies on birds, reptiles and mammals - including humans - has long suggested that this was the case, but scientists were unclear on what factors triggered the son or daughter outcome. Some researchers, for example, speculated that the overall body condition and health of the mother affected the outcome of her child's sex.
Putting it to the test
To help eliminate that possibility, Pryke and colleague Lee Rollins studied the blue-faced parrot finch (Erythrura trichroa), whose body condition appears largely insensitive to changes in nutritional quality.
The researchers randomly assigned 56 of the female birds either a high-quality or low-quality diet. The former contained 20 per cent protein, with egg, wheat germ, a seed mixture and more, while the latter contained only 8 per cent protein.
After 12 weeks on the diet, the birds were weighed and underwent blood tests to measure various aspects of their health. Based on these tests, all of the females were in comparably good and equivalent shape both before and after the three-month study period.
However, mother birds fed the lower quality diet produced far more sons than daughters.
Sons less vulnerable
"In this case, it is adaptive for mothers to produce more sons when conditions are poor because sons are much less vulnerable to nutritional stress than daughters," says Pryke.
"For example, sons reared on poor quality diets grew faster, were healthier, fledged earlier and were much more likely to survive than daughters. Indeed, more than 51.5 per cent of daughters reared on low quality diets died before reaching parental independence compared to only 7.3 per cent of sons."
It is unclear whether or not human mothers would produce more sons or daughters when environmental conditions are poor. That will probably remain a mystery for quite a while, since, as Pryke says, "researchers can't do experimental manipulations, like in the current study" on humans.
The sex of an individual is also at least partially determined by genes, giving dads some level of indirect control over the sex outcome of their progeny.
Hormones a factor?
Yet another mystery concerns how mothers -- throughout the animal kingdom -- adjust the sex of their unborn offspring. Pryke says it's possible that hormones are involved.
Earlier research suggests that circulating levels of a potent stress hormone, corticosterone, in the female before conception or egg laying is a dominant factor.
Tim Fawcett, a research fellow at the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences, has studied how maternal control over the sex ratio of offspring impacts female selection of mates.
"When mothers choose the sex of their offspring, sexual selection collapses and male courtship displays disappear," says Fawcett. "This is because females no longer find the displays attractive."
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Many Americans, myself included, want our government to stop supporting
Israel because Israel oppresses Palestinians. The root of the Israel/Palestine
conflict is that Israel carries out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in order
to ensure that the great majority of the population inside Israel remains
Jewish. The biggest grievance of Palestinians against Israel is that it does
not allow Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and villages inside of
what is now Israel. They demand the right of return as a basic human right.
Many people who oppose Israel's oppression of Palestinians, however, do not emphasize the right of return demand; some avoid mentioning it altogether. Instead, they focus on the demand that Israel end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. How come?
Their reasoning goes like this. Yes, the best solution would be for Palestinians to win the right of return with compensation from Israel for the property that was stolen from them by Zionists, and with the right to live as the equals of Jews under the law in all of Palestine. But this is a demand that is impossible to win. Israel would never allow it because it would mean the end of the Jewish state. The American political elite would never support it because they are committed to defending the security of Israel as a Jewish state. We must be realistic. The best that can be hoped for is to persuade American politicians to at least put pressure on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. This is a realistic goal, because it doesn't challenge the idea of a Jewish state, and it is what American politicians (and other world leaders) already claim to support. It won't address the fundamental grievance of Palestinians, but it will at least end the terrible oppression of them in the occupied territories. It is a realistic strategy. If we start demanding the right of return and, in doing so, challenge the rightness of the Jewish state idea itself, we will lose whatever influence we might otherwise have among the people with the real power to change things. Demanding the right of return is an unrealistic strategy.
But is it really? As Dr. Phil would say, "How is your 'realistic' strategy working for you?" Few would deny that it has accomplished nothing. The Occupation shows no sign of ending, and the oppression is only getting worse, as the recent slaughter of people in Gaza highlights. Even if Israel officially ended its occupation of the West Bank it would continue to oppress Palestinians there just as it oppresses Palestinians in Gaza, which it purports not to be occupying now. The "practical" strategy is based on a false assumption--that American and Israeli leaders want a peaceful resolution of the conflict and can be nudged and persuaded to make it happen. All of the evidence indicates, on the contrary, that they want to keep the conflict going indefinitely.
There is a reason why they do. The conflict strengthens both the Israeli and the American ruling elites' control over their own people--always the top concern of any ruling elite. Israel's ruling class of billionaires and generals and politicians needs the conflict to continue in order to ensure that the Israeli public remains so frightened of "Arabs" that they will obey their rulers who claim to be protecting them. The American ruling class of billionaires likewise uses the "War on Terror" to control Americans, and this requires that Americans stay frightened of "Arab terrorists." The Israel/Palestine conflict provides the American mass media the film footage it needs to keep American TV sets filled with images of what the media say are "anti-Semitic hate-driven Arab terrorists."
This is why the truly practical strategy is a revolutionary one: forget trying to persuade the politicians to do the right thing and focus instead on building a revolutionary movement among ordinary people. Building such a movement means talking to people about lots of things besides the Israel/Palestine conflict, but when we do talk about that conflict--which we very much need to do--the approach should be to focus precisely on the fundamental injustice at its root, which is Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and refusal to let them return to their homes and villages inside Israel and live as the equals of Jews before the law. Unlike politicians beholden to the rich, ordinary people care very much about what is right and what is wrong. When they learn that the conflict in Israel/Palestine is actually between those who value equality versus those who value inequality, they rapidly take the side of equality and oppose Zionism.
When it comes to persuading ordinary people that Israel is wrong, focusing on the occupation, rather than the ethnic cleansing and the wrongness of the Jewish state idea, is a loser. When one only talks about the occupation, the pro-Israel side wins the argument by replying this way: "Israel hates oppressing Palestinians but it has no choice. It needs to maintain the occupation in order to make the Jewish state secure. Otherwise Palestinians who deny Israel has a right to exist would be able to mount an attack on Israel from the West Bank. You don't deny that Israel, the Jewish state, has a right to exist, do you?"
What is at stake here are not "long range" versus "short range" goals. Focusing on the occupation to be persuasive with politicians loses in both the short run and the long run. Relying on ordinary people by explaining the root of the conflict, and building a movement that aims, frankly, to overthrow the anti-democratic rule of the American plutocracy, wins in both the short and the long run. In the long run it makes it possible to actually win what we want--a more equal and democratic world based on justice and concern for one another. In the short run it maximizes the pressure on the ruling elite because what they fear more than anything else is a revolution. This is not to say that the elite will necessarily respond by oppressing people less; they might increase the level of repression instead. The only thing that the revolutionary approach can guarantee in the short run is the satisfaction of knowing that one is doing the only thing that has any realistic chance of ever solving the problem. The non-revolutionary approach cannot even accomplish that. | <urn:uuid:3b4a3b32-d2ac-400d-9998-f9f0eedcca0e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/old/War/Right%20of%20Return.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962535 | 1,241 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Long in the planning stages, Gary Barnett and his Extell Development Co. have finally let loose images of Riverside Center, their planned 3.3 million-square-foot mostly residential complex at the base of the West Side development once known as Trump City. The Department of City Planning put on its Web site today an environmental review document for the project, a draft scope, which outlined the specifics of what Extell wants to put on the site, currently a series of parking lots.
The plan calls for five buildings, designed by Pritzker-winning Christian de Portzamparc, each a skinny tower that would run east-west on the two-block superblock [more details from a prior community presentation here].
In all, the complex would have 2.75 million square feet of residential, 209,000 square feet of retail, and 239,000 square feet of hotel space, along with a few other uses.
The plan will ultimately need approval of the City Council and City Planning Commission, and there certainly is some strong resistance so far among West Side residents and elected officials. Extell is reopening a development agreement from the 1990s crafted after a multi-year battle between the site owner at the time, Donald Trump, and a set of civic groups and elected officials.
Mr. Barnett says the zoning, which was intended for a 150-story NBC world headquarters tower, is no longer relevant, and thus he wants to change it to residential. However, he also wants to increase the amount of density he can build on the site by about 700,000 square feet, an ambitious request that will likely be strongly contested.
In any event, the scoping document is an early first step in the public approval process. A hearing on the document is slated for Jan. 8. The formal seven-month approval process typically begins several months after that.
More images from the scope:
The view from the Hudson
Looking from overhead:
Looking from Jersey
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Posted on | February 6, 2013 |
As low temperatures drop to the upper 30s and lower 40s in the mid-county area Wednesday, Feb. 6, you may still have a fire in your fireplace. However, a burn ban is in effect in the Riverside area.
Read more about the South Coast Air Quality Management District pollution-fighting ban in effect Wednesday, Feb. 6, and possibly extending into Thursday, Feb. 7, in The Press-Enterprise environment blog here.
There is a link to the AQMD map, updated daily, which you may want to bookmark for future reference. The air pollution-fighting agency calls our area the Hemet-San Jacinto Valley.
The rules do not apply to the San Jacinto Mountains communities, including Idyllwild.
From the AQMD website:
As part of the Healthy Hearths™ initiative, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) is asking residents to participate in its “Check Before You Burn” program to help improve wintertime air quality by not burning wood in their fireplaces when unhealthful air quality is forecast. Under the program, AQMD will issue mandatory no-burn alerts from November 1 through the end of February for specific areas where fine particulates are forecast to reach unhealthful levels. The program is applicable to all of Orange County and to the non-desert portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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Create your own laundry detergent and fabric softener that will be just as effective as the commercial ones but a lot cheaper.
One of the best way to save money is start using “alternative” cleaning products. Actually the so called alternative cleaning products are simply cleaners made by you in the comfort of your home instead in a lab by a scientist. You can replace almost any commercial cleaner with its homemade alternative. Even the laundry detergents and fabric softeners can be replaced with their homemade alternatives. Here are 2 recipes that with which you create your own homemade laundry detergent or fabric softener.
To create a homemade laundry detergent you would require the following products: borax, washing soda and one bar laundering soap, that is it, you won’t need anything else. Now to create your own laundry detergent you should first grate the soap, then mix the pieces of soap with 1 cup borax and 1 cup washing soda. When you’ve mixed the ingredients together you should stir the mixture long enough until you receive a powder like substance. Then just store your homemade laundry detergent in a sealed box. Cleaners Charlton recommend to use somewhere between 30 and 60 ounces with each load of laundry depending on how dirty it is or how much clothes have to be laundered.
And if you think that creating your own laundry detergent is an easy task, then you will be surprised how much easier is to create your own homemade fabric softener. The ingredients that you are going to need to create homemade fabric softener are vinegar and essential oil. Mix half a litre of vinegar with 20-30 drops essential oil and store the mixture into an empty bottle with a cap. The choice of essential oil is entirely up to you. Use the homemade fabric softener by adding 1 cup of it to every washing cycle. Also follow the advice of cleaners Clapton to shake up the bottle everytime before using the softener to mix up the ingredients well.
Like any other commercial cleaning products the laundry detergents and fabric softeners have their homemade alternative. Not only that but in order to create your own homemade laundry detergent or fabric softener you just have to mix some cheap and easy to find products like vinegar, borax, washing soda, essential oils and washing soap.
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According to Tortillas.com
- The word "tortilla" comes from the Spanish word "torta" which means round cake.
- According to Mayan legend, tortillas were invented by a peasant for his hungry king in ancient times. The first tortillas, which date approximately 10,000 years before Christ, were made of native corn with dried kernel.
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Internship Guide for Undergraduates
Employers rank internship experience as one of the most valued qualifications in the college graduates that they hire into entry-level careers. In fact, interns are the largest source of college hires by employers who offer company-sponsored internship programs.
Did you know that you can earn units for your internship experience? This is a great way to gain practical experience AND earn credit toward your degree.
Plan ahead for your Academic Business Internship! Visit the Eberhardt Career Management Center to receive and review an Internship Packet and the Academic Guidelines for Business Internships with an undergraduate career consultant.
Local employers and organizations are seeking business interns year-round. For the most current internship opportunities check the lastest postings on Tiger Jobs.
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In India, Snake Charmers Are Losing Their Sway
Snake charmers used to be a fixture at Indian markets and festivals, beguiling crowds with their ability to control some of the world's most venomous reptiles.
But one of India's iconic folk arts is fading away — and animal rights activists say it can't happen soon enough. They say it's an art based on cruelty.
These days, it's not easy to find a snake charmer, even on Nag Panchami, the yearly religious festival in honor of the king cobra, which fell on Aug. 4 this year.
It took a full day of searching in New Delhi to find Buddhanath, a thin man with a long, white beard who was sitting cross-legged on the pavement behind a round, flat container that looked a bit like a tortilla basket.
Buddhanath wore a loosely wrapped orange turban and a sweet, joyous expression as he tapped the basket.
"I have a king cobra," Buddhanath said. "He is Lord Shiva's cobra, and we worship him."
The blue-skinned Hindu god is usually portrayed wearing a king cobra around his neck.
The charmer flipped the lid off the basket, and the cobra popped up like a jack-in-the-box, scanning around with its hood fully extended.
It fixed its gaze on the tip of Buddhanath's gourd flute. The cobra's black scales glistened as it swayed, following the movement of the flute's tip.
The snake looked to be about four feet long, coiled in the basket, with a small, almost jewel-like head and glittering black eyes above the out-stretched hood.
For a couple of minutes, the man and the snake seemed connected in a very ancient, intricate dance — but the snake can't hear a thing.
"Snakes don't have ears; most people don't know that," said Kartick Satyanarayan, a co-founder of the animal rescue group Wildlife SOS.
"But snake charmers use the pipe, so what the snake sees is simply something which is menacing, above him, which is swaying, so the snake's attention is focused just on the swaying object and moves along with that," he said. "So it appears to people that the snake is actually dancing to the tune of his pipe."
Satyanarayan said the illusion of the poisonous snake tamed and charmed by music is often based on very cruel practices.
In order to prevent the snake from biting, snake charmers sometimes break off the animal's fangs or sew its mouth shut. As a result, the snake can't eat and slowly starves to death.
Buddhanath said he has done nothing of the kind. He said the snake has merely been tamed, and won't bite.
He also said that he was about to release this snake back into the wild.
A 1972 Indian law forbids anyone from keeping a snake, but it hasn't been enforced much in the case of snake charmers until recently.
The Indian government has tried to accomodate snake charmers and their existing snake, while trying to keep them from capturing more snakes.
The government has implanted identification chips under the skin of some snakes that were already in captivity. This allows the government to scan the animals and confiscate any that are newly captured and have no chips.
Satyanarayan also said his group is trying to rehabilitate snake charmers by turning them into snake rescuers. Instead of performing at festivals, the snake charmers can be called in to remove venomous snakes from city and suburban gardens and return them to the wild.
"So today instead of catching the snake, exploiting it, killing it, they actually help us protect snakes," Satyanarayan added.
And, he said, it's not just the law that's working against the snake charmers as performers, it's India's evolving culture as well.
As India becomes a more middle-class country, people are now more attuned to television shows and video games than they are to street performers.
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People with a prolonged very-low-calorie intake, less than1,000 calories a day, may be placing themselves at risk for disorder known asrefeeding syndrome. Refeeding syndromeoccurs when reintroducing calories too quickly causing an imbalance in fluids andelectrolytes. This imbalance can befatal.
Refeeding syndrome is most commonly seen is people withanorexia nervosa, chronic alcoholism, cancer, uncontrolled diabetes and peoplewho have not been eating well for several days. Dieters, even the obese, following very-low-calorie diets or fasting arealso at risk. Tubefeeders are also atrisk for refeeding syndrome.
When people restrict caloric intake their body goes into starvationmode. Their metabolism slows down andthey begin to use stored nutrients to supply energy. During the first 24 hours of a very lowcalorie intake the body uses the energy it has stored in the liver andmuscles. After three days of prolongedstarvation, the body begins to use other sources of stored energy. The body also begins to adapt to starvation,altering the way it metabolizes nutrients. When food is reintroduced too quickly after starvation, the body cannothandle the surge in nutrients and can cause difficulty breathing, seizures,heart problems, paralysis, insulin resistance and mental instability.
Prolonged starvation causes potassium, magnesium, thiaminand phosphorus stores to decrease. Thesenutrients play an important role in nutrient metabolism and normal bodyfunction. The body cannot handle theextra calories and nutrients during the refeeding process without adequatestores of these nutrients leading to physiological problems mentioned above.
Refeeding syndrome is preventable. First it is important to recognize when youor someone you know is at risk for refeeding. Anyone with poor food and fluid intake for more than three days is atrisk, and the longer a person has had a poor intake the greater the risk. Once risk has been determined, food andfluids need to be reintroduced slowly. Feeding too quickly, even fluids, can be dangerous. If you are concerned about refeeding, talk toyour doctor or dietitian.
The best way to re-nourish a body after a period ofstarvation is to eat small meals frequently. People on tubefeeding should also be fed small amounts at a time withvery gradual increases. It usually takesseveral days until the person at risk for refeeding is eating 100 percent ofcalorie needs. It is important toclosely monitor blood levels of potassium, magnesium and phosphorus during thisperiod. | <urn:uuid:8b849c29-c786-4f96-bbfd-2e40d159d42e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drinkyourmeals.com/NewsArticle.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930285 | 530 | 3.1875 | 3 |
The primary difference is that Microsoft try to align everything to whole pixels vertically and sub-pixels horizontally.
Apple just scale the font naturally – sometimes it fits into whole pixels other times it doesn’t.
This means Windows looks sharper at the expense of not actually being a very accurate representation of the text. The Mac with it’s design/DTP background is a much more accurate representation and scales more naturally than Windows which consequently jumps around a lot vertically.
The two thing to note here arising from this “pixel-grid is king” approach are
- Windows does not scale fonts linearly as the rough line points out
- Windows scales the height and width but not the weight of the font
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THINK, COMMUNICATE, EVALUATE, APPRECIATE
Last November, in the midst of the political news cycle, an event transpired in Kenrick Hall that received no media attention but will have lasting significance nonetheless: the faculty of the School of Arts voted for change. No, we didn’t decide to lend our support to those torchbearers of novelty, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Our ambitions were far more radical, to be sure. Rather, after much deliberation and introspection, we approved, as a body, a revision of the School’s mission statement.
(Are those gasps of astonishment I hear?)
Perhaps you were unaware that we had one. If so, don’t feel too bad—you probably had other things to think about. Still, we believe you ought to know that we’ve been thinking about it, and more concretely, that we’ve been endeavoring to articulate the values and goals shared in common by the six academic departments comprising the School of Arts. This was no easy task. The School’s programs in the behavioral sciences, humanities, visual and performing arts, and education are methodologically diverse, to say the least. Considering that a good mission statement will unite an institution’s activities through a common set of ideals, it is little wonder that the previous mission for the School was two paragraphs in length. As such, it was long enough to capture accurately each department’s goals and values, but as we came to agree, it was also too long to provide effective guidance that could unify our activities.
Let me be clear that we are indebted to the vision and expression of our predecessors. Even more so, we are inspired by the charism of the Christian Brothers whose educational mission very much informs our work in and out of the classroom. We hope and believe that much of the meaning of the old mission has been retained in the new. As such, we hope that our new statement will sustain the traditions and collegiality that have defined the School of Arts for so long and will have a lasting impact in how we adapt and execute our academic programs in the dynamic landscape of the Twenty-First Century. Thus, in November, the faculty approved the following:
“The mission of the School of Arts at Christian Brothers University is to advance the Lasallian synthesis of knowledge and service by teaching students to think, to communicate, to evaluate and to appreciate.”
In the coming issues of the newsletter, we will reflect on these core values of the School of Arts, showcasing the variety of ways they appear in the achievements of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff. We are eager to share with you our stories of academic success, community engagement, and discoveries of the richness of our community and world. These are the ideals shared by our community, and we hope that you will support us in embracing them.
Paul Haught, Dean
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Right click to harvest your crops in FarmVille
On Facebook, the online farming game FarmVille has millions planting, rotating crops, and raising livestock without the cleanup or the smell.
Even while calling Chicago home, Laura Hawkins Grimes is a country bumpkin. Her scenic rural spread has three dairy farms, two ponds and a log cabin, all skirted by a white picket fence as scarecrows stand sentry over her blackberries.Skip to next paragraph
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And the best part is the 40-year-old sex therapist never has to leave her computer to tend to it all.
She's one of tens of millions of occupants of FarmVille, a near-utopian, wildly popular online fantasy game where folks rush to another neighbor's aid, ribbons readily come as rewards, plants don't get diseased, and there's never a calamitous frost, flood, or drought.
Since its launch last summer, the cartoonish simulation game has become a Facebook phenomenon, luring in everyone from urbanites like Grimes to actual farmers while gently nudging people to think more about where their food comes from.
"It's kind of what you don't see every day," Ms. Grimes says of FarmVille by Zynga, a San Francisco-based developer of games widely played at online hangouts such as Facebook. "I have to say, living in Chicago, what appeals to me about FarmVille is it's not urban."
FarmVille — with more than 72 million monthly users worldwide, the most talked-about application in Facebook status updates — heads a growing stable of simulated agriculture that also includes SlashKey's Farm Town on Facebook and PlayMesh's recently launched iFarm for the iPhone.
Purposely simplistic, FarmVille lets players build and trick out their farms, starting with a tiny parcel they till and seed with a range of crops including berries, eggplant, wheat, soybeans, artichokes, and pumpkins. Players can add pigs, cows, and chickens and accouterments such as barns, chicken coops, windmills, and greenhouses.
As is the case on real farmland, attentiveness in FarmVille is vital. Players who diligently tend to their crops see their farms flourish and their bank balances balloon. Those late with their harvests may see their crops — and their investment — shrivel and die.
Neighbors get rewarded with points and gold for scaring away pests, fertilizing, or feeding chickens on another player's spread.
"One thing we feel we got right is it has extremely broad appeal," says Bill Mooney, Zynga's vice president and general manager. "Everybody likes farming, whether you're a gardener, whether you grew up on a farm or your grandparents did. It's literally something everyone can relate with."
And with FarmVille, "there's an appeal that's just cute, with the amazing ways people take the farms and develop them out as their own."
In the end, he hopes, "people will see this as a fun little escape."
Grimes sure has. The transplanted Oklahoman who detests video games and has no farm background razzed her FarmVille-loving friends before her sister successfully prodded her to join.
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The following link to an interactive helps you find contact details of organisations that provide training on the concept of non-violence:
Map of non-violence resource sites in Britain
Resources for Teachers and pupils
Scottish CND education packs
The following resources were produced by the Scottish Centre for Non-Violence. This project has closed and the resources are provided here.
Myths and Misconceptions
NV Tactics and Goals
Decisions and Concensus
Roles, Safety and Afinity Groups
I could do that if...
Introduction to Non-Violence Trainer's Notes & Agenda
Trainer's Consideration & Checklist
Personal Power and Non-Violence Training
Bumper Bonus Non-Violence Bibliography
Participants Agenda/Day Plan
Who Am I, Flower Exercise
Quick Decisions and Scenarios
Peace through Education is one of the ways in which UNESCO identified a culture of peace could be promoted.
Higher Education Level
As yet there is no centre for Peace Studies in Scotland, however there are a handful of academic departments in Britain that offer courses in Peace and conflict studies, the most well known is the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University.
What is Peace Studies?
Peace Studies is a fairly broad discipline encompassing a number of themes including conflict resolution, international politics, arms control, environmental issues, development studies, human rights and ethical issues. It is widely believed in the field that military means is not in many cases, the best way to solve intra and inter-state conflicts. Research in this field continues in order to come up with and promote more peaceful methods of resolving disputes that do not have the same disastrous side effects of warfare.
If you would like more background information on Peace Studies, refer to the following texts:
A Study of War, Quincy Wright
Choose Peace, Johan Galtung
Conflict, resolution and prevention, John Burton and John Weir.
Making Peace, Adam Curle
Scotland does not have a statutory National Curriculum at present, and so details of the curriculum vary between individual schools and local authority areas. Curriculum guidelines are given at Executive level and these are available through Learning and Teaching Scotland's (LTS) Online Service. Citizenship, educating schoolchildren about their rights and responsibilities, forms part of the National Curriculum in England and guidance is available from LTS regarding teaching Citizenship in Scotland.
Oban War and Peace Museum,
Display of wartime and peacetime photographs, uniforms and memorabilia, etc.; several other features of interest relating to Oban area and beyond; models of:- Sunderlands, Catalinas, Halifaxes and other Aircraft; Ships ; Tanks. Successful exhibition established by volunteers in 1995 to commemorate 50th Anniversaries of VE; VJ Days. Extended to show items relating to other periods of interest and to various services and activities.
Open daily except Sundays from 10.00-12.00hrs;14.00-16.00hrs;and during the holiday season;19.00-21.00hrs.
Free admission, open all year.Peace Camp Exhibition,
Glasgow Museum of Transport
1 Bunhouse Road
Glasgow G3 8DP
Phone: 0141 287 2720
Open all year
This exhibition includes a caravan used by peace activists at Faslane peace camp and a four-minute archive explaining why the camp was set up.
Come Clean: The WMD Awareness Programme is dedicated to providing trustworthy and up to date information on Weapons of Mass Destruction worldwide.
The N-Base Information Service has a 10,000 record database of newspaper articles and publishes weekly e-mail briefings on the UK nuclear industry, reprocessing and plutonium production at Sellafield and Dounreay, nuclear transports, waste, pollution and other environment and health issues. Books, dvds, etc on peace education
Conflict Resolution Network Publications about peace and games, activities and videos for use with children.
Living Values Books: The Living Values Activities curriculum is written for educators and others working with children who are concerned about an increasingly violent world and a lack of respect for others. Twelve values are explored: Peace, Respect, Cooperation, Freedom, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Love, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance, and Unity. Books are for ages 3 -7, 8- 14 and for young adults.
Living Values is an educational program in partnership with educators around the world. This programme is supported by UNESCO, sponsored by the Spanish Committee of UNICEF and the Brahma Kumaris and in consultation with the Education Cluster of UNICEF, New York. LVEP is part of the global movement for a culture of peace in the framework of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World.
Development Education Centre (South Yorkshire): Education for world change. Publications to buy online.Classroom Resources - downloads and packs
UNICEF: Provides a wide range of resources and activities that you can download and use with a minimum of preparation in the classroom. Nearly all activities have been tried and tested by teachers. All resources and activities are available for photocopying.
There is a separate PDF on Peace Activities.
Learn peace - a Peace Pledge Union Project: The value that underpins this site is the belief that non-violence is better than violence; that building a culture of peace should be a priority and a part of this process is both to question and to challenge our easy acquiescence in a culture of violence. This is an excellent web site full of information and ideas.
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU): UK sight with information on peace issues. Articles about aspects of conflict and peace, including people, history, environment, responsibility and action for peace are available for purchase in the 'Study and Teaching Resources' section.
Teach Kids Peace: There is a good 'Teach Peace' section that includes material/stories for under 12's and over 12's.
Peace Education: The "Resources" section has a few useful points on the how to go about talking with kids about non-violence in the right way and how not to scare them.
Children for Peace: An educational peace charity which aims to inspire and enable people to lead more peaceful lives by helping them understand the nature and causes of conflict. Has some useful ideas.
Conflict Resolution Information Source - Has loads of links and resources/articles for peace education.
The Peace Education Foundation (PEF) is a non-profit educational organization established in 1980. The PEF's mission is to educate children and adults in the dynamics of conflict and to promote peacemaking skills in homes, schools and communities throughout the world. They have a curriculum but you have to buy it
although samples can be seen online.
Amnesty International UK Teaching Resources: Resources for teachers centred around human rights and citizenship.
Oxfam teaching resources: Peace and conflict resources and activities for schools, includes lesson plans. Uses information relevant to Scottish curriculum as well as that of England and Wales. Excellent resource site.
United Nations Scholars Workstation: A collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament and peacekeeping. Based at Yale University Library in the US.
The International Development Education Association of Scotland (IDEAS) is a network of over 40 organisations and individuals involved in Development Education and Education for Global Citizenship across Scotland. Each centre has an extensive library of resources which explore global awareness, citizenship, justice and equality, human rights, the environment, sustainable development, gender awareness, race issues, aid, trade, debt, water, food, farming, peace and cooperation along with materials on many countries in the developing world. Materials include a wide selection of teaching packs, videos, games, CD-ROMs, magazines, posters, books and photographs and are designed to support the Scottish curriculum and on-going adult, youth and community work.
The Peace Museum, Bradford: Teacher's packs and workshop ideas. Free downloads.
The Woodcraft Folk is an educational movement for children and young people, which aims to develop self confidence and activity in society, with the aim of building a world based on equality, friendship, peace and co-operation. Free downloads.
United Nations Cyber Schoolbus - Peace Education, Curriculum and Theory, including lesson plans.
The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of individuals and organizations dedicated to sowing the seeds for the abolition of war through advocacy and training in peace education. Resources and tools
Below are details from a workshop at the
Scotland's for Peace Forum which took place on 17th September 2005.
A printer friendly
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The U.N. Children's Fund says it needs more than $263 million for emergency funding in West and Central Africa this year.
UNICEF's emergency funding needs for West and Central Africa have increased this year because of flooding, higher food prices, and outbreaks of disease including cholera, measles, yellow fever, and meningitis. There are also increased humanitarian needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad where UNICEF says it is taking urgent action to protect children from the worst forms of violence and abuse.
Grant Leaity, UNICEF's regional advisory for emergencies in West and Central Africa, says Congo's problems are made worse by Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army.
"There are a number of what we would say are early-warning signals or alerts which are again coming up in the eastern Kivu. There is also the situation with the LRA in the northeast. There is a conflict once again in the Equatorial Province, and that has caused a level of internal displacement to nearly 100,000 people. There are 110,000 refugees in the Republic of Congo and around 20,000 refugees now in Central African Republic," he said.
Leaity says Chad is facing both below-average harvests and the potential insecurity of the government asking the United Nations not to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping force in the eastern border region with Sudan.
"In Chad we have a combination. It is one of the Sahel countries, so first and foremost we are concerned about the food security and the nutrition situation. There is also the discussion of the end of the mandate of the peacekeeping forces, MINURCAT, and that could have a lot of implications," he said.
In Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Leaity says ensuring access to water and sanitation, health care, nutrition, and education is complicated by conflict.
"Countries which have an armed-conflict situation have a particular difficulty in terms of delivering humanitarian aid, because as a consequence of the conflict the basic infrastructure and services are no longer really functional," he said. "At the same time if you then have a flood, an epidemic or any other form of environmentally-driven crisis, the capacity to react in terms of all of the local structures is very low."
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1. We will start and end meeting on time, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
2. Please come to meetings prepared. Please review packets and e-mails sent to you prior to the meeting. These will include the agenda and materials for the upcoming meeting.
3. A summary of key points will be made at the end of each meeting.
4. Members shall be committed to the work of the committee with consistency in attendance and participation.
1. Respect confidentiality of individual’s ideas. Meeting notes will summarize discussions without identifying specific remarks to participants; the same is expected of committee members outside the meeting.
2. Please focus on the person who has the floor, as designated by one of the co-chairs. Please no sidebar discussions.
3. Listen fully before reacting to another committee member’s comments. Keep in mind that everyone has different levels of experience on these topics and different experience in public speaking.
4. Be respectful of all ideas and questions.
5. Presume positive intent.
6. Everyone is encouraged to participate.
7. No such thing as a dumb idea or comment.
8. Try to be clear when the group is brainstorming ideas vs. evaluating ideas.
9. Lay down all personal interests and keep the interests of all students first.
1. Respect other committee members’ confidentiality.
2. The two chair people will be responsible for “official” committee communications to the public and press.
3. The committee will provide members with common language in which to respond to public questions.
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This was syndicated on BlogHer on April 11, 2011 as "Athletic Barbies and Real Women in Sports." Check it out HERE and see some more great images!
A few weeks ago I wrote about shrinking and pinking. What's that? It's how a many athletic clothing and gear manufacturers make products for women-- they simply shrink down the men's versions and dye them pink. I believe that being athletically strong and wearing pink (or purple or red or silver... or blue or orange or green for that matter) don't have to be mutually exclusive. In other words, the pinking of women's sports can be okay sometimes, but pinking and shrinking (whether that shrinking is in terms of attention, media coverage, or the size of those pink clothes) isn't a good combination.
As I was reading the latest ESPN The Magazine I came across the following spread, which got me thinking about shrinking and pinking again.
What really struck me was the attire of the Coach Barbies. The ten athlete Barbies are wearing outfits that, though not very fashionable, aren't so far off from what a real-life participant might wear (skintight racecar driver suit aside). However, the two Coach outfits are pretty absurd. Gymnastics Coach Barbie is wearing teeny-tiny shorts (with what looks to be a purse and ballet flats) and Soccer Coach Barbie is wearing a mini-mini skirt. I wonder why Mattel decided to portray Women's World Cup Soccer Player Barbie in fairly accurate soccer clothes, but didn't follow through with the coach nine years later? The 2008 mini-Barbie soccer player is also wearing a skirt, and playing with a pink/white ball, not the standard black/white one depicted in 1999.
I actually have never owned a Barbie doll; as I child I preferred American Girl dolls and real-life heroes. This week I discovered two Crimson athletes who certainly qualify as role models. Harvard freshmen Mariah Pewarski and Morgan Powell play two, yes TWO, varsity sports-- field hockey and lacrosse. Neither girl is ever out of season as they balance school work, social lives, and practices and games. Who needs pink Barbies when you have Crimson role models like that?
We certainly saw a lot of other impressive female scholar-athletes this week, as the NCAA basketball tournament concluded. No pinking or shrinking here as the maroon of Texas A&M defeated the green of Notre Dame-- and the viewership for both the title game and the entire tournament grew.
In other non-shrinking news this week, women's ski jumping gains Olympic status at last. Rachel Maddow did a great bit on this, and lady parts: click here to check it out. I for one hope to see heroic Lindsey Van (no, not Lindsey Vonn) win gold in 2014. Though, I'm not sure she should opt for Downhill Skier Barbie's 1975 duds, are you? | <urn:uuid:ca4a8ed2-9392-4850-b075-029fc80b5a3e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hilaryleveyfriedman.blogspot.com/2011_04_03_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972454 | 606 | 1.945313 | 2 |
HP 'routinely' uses email tracking
Web bug uncovered under Congressional spotlight
Congressional hearings have revealed how HP made controversial use of email tracking technology in an attempt to identify the source of a board-level mole.
The mishandled investigation, during which private investigators acting on behalf of HP obtained the phone records and journalists under false pretences, involved an attempt to trick News.com reporter Dawn Kawamoto into fingering her source at HP using electronic trickery.
Kawamoto was leaked false information (purported HP documents) earlier this year in an email from a fictitious disgruntled executive, called Jacob. The documents were sent through an email proxy service called ReadNotify, which uses a variety of techniques to trace and record the IP addresses of any computer on which the file is opened. HP hoped that Kawamoto would forward the documents to her source, ultimately identified as HP director George Keyworth, for verification, thereby fingering him as the mole. In the event, the ruse failed to work.
HP chief executive Mark Hurd conceded he partly authorised the scheme. Hurd told a congressional hearing that he approved the content of the bogus information that would be leaked, if not the email tracer element of the scheme.
"I definitely knew about the content of the email," Hurd said, Computer Business Review reports. "At the time I agreed of content of email, it was appropriate to find the leak. With benefit of hindsight I wouldn't do it again.
"I agree there's a difference between legal and ethical," he added.
Use of the controversial email tracker approach by HP was far from isolated, it later emerged.
Fred Adler, HP's head of information technology security, testified that HP had used the technique dozens of times in the course of previous investigations into employees and others to tackle "issues such as theft, and assisting law enforcement", Dow Jones Marketwatch reports.
Adler added that use of the technique was still authorised, News.com (which explains how the ReadNotify service work in some depth) adds. ® | <urn:uuid:74fb841a-261d-41b9-b3f5-3d84d9bdbaa3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/hp_email_tracking_uncovered/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961939 | 422 | 1.546875 | 2 |
In this blog entry I would like to describe our deployment strategies we use at the different stages of our development process. The stages are the following:
- local development
- staging (+ QA)
- production (+ QA)
For local development everyone is welcome to use his preferred way, but most of us bet on Virtualenv. Especially given the fact that we maintain a large number of different projects, it makes our lives a lot easier to have a separate environment for each of those. We also have to make sure that we align with the production environment, which is in some cases still Python 2.5-based, but we’re currently in transition to 2.6.
If a feature or bugfix is ready to be QA’d, we deploy the application to an Amazon EC2 instance. Our team mate, Łukasz Czyżykowski, wrote a collection of extensions to Fabric, that provides a few useful functions (e.g. using private PPAs very easily). With a few dozens of lines of simple Python code, we can deploy the whole application to a running EC2 instance. We also use EC2 to QA all the features and bugfixes targeted at a release together before deploying to staging, so that if there is an issue, we can re-deploy very quickly (during the next two stages, QA is mainly about testing regressions).
The staging and production environments are identical from the deployment process perspective. We simply create a binary Debian package from our application: Launchpad’s PPA feature makes the build process a breeze. The main reason we decided to go with Debian packages is that we can also specify system level dependencies, not only Python packages (and of course there’s some dogfooding involved since the company supports Ubuntu). This also requires that all of the team members have packaging skills, so we had several training sessions, and a two-day online sprint where we packaged lazr.restful and all of its dependencies which were not available in Ubuntu 8.04 (around 30 packages, half of them backports, half of them new packages – thanks to our hard-working team members, these are available for Ubuntu 10.04 as well).
For configuration we don’t use Django’s built-in settings mechanism, but a custom solution that will be open sourced in the near future (one more reason to keep an eye on our blog). It consists of two components: schemaconfig is responsible for parsing the config files (which are INI-style, but have some extra features, like layering, typing, and support for data structures like lists and dictionaries – basically we looked around for solutions, and stole a little bit from everywhere to put together one that fits us most), and there’s django-settings which is a glue between schemaconfig and Django’s settings (so in the end we still use django.conf.settings). One of the biggest problems we had with our previous setup that it was very prone to human error, and that caused us unexpected deployment issues between staging and production. This is solved by the layering and the non-Python style of the config files, so they are easily manageable by both us and IS (our operations team).
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Under free-market conditions—what insurance pros call experience rating—the typical 18-year-old costs one-sixth what it costs to insure the typical 64-year-old.Before moving on to the core alleged problem, let's note a couple of sleights of hand at the outset:
But Obamacare, in a sop to the AARP, requires that insurers only charge three times as much to their costliest beneficiaries what they charge to their least-costly ones. As the illustration below shows, this increases the cost of insurance for the young by 75 percent, while offering only a modest 13 percent subsidy to older Americans.
1) Roy is comparing the two extremes of the least- and most-expensive age groups (18-24 and 45-64). A more appropriate comparison would be either 21 year-old and a 55 year-old -- or, since adults up to age 26 can now be insured under their parents' plans (and 3 million have taken that option) -- a 30 year-old and a 55 year-old.
2) 75 percent vs. 13 percent sounds ridiculous. But Roy's own chart alleges that what's actually being traded is a $600 hike in the base cost of a plan for the youngest insured for a $600 reduction in the plan for the oldest insured.
Moving on to main point: Roy acknowledges that the increase in base cost for younger insurers will be offset for all but the wealthiest by the subsidies by which the Affordable Care Act makes coverage affordable: no one will pay more than 8 percent of their income for coverage, and many will pay just 2 or 3 percent -- or nothing, under expanded Medicaid eligibility. But he regards the smoothing in retail pricing as wasteful:
Optimists on the left shrug their shoulders and say it’s just fine for younger people to pay more so that older people pay less. But many young people will rightly look at this provision as a raw deal. If you go to the doctor once or twice a year, but are forced to pay $8,000 for your health insurance, why bother? And if young people drop out of the insurance market, older Americans will face higher—not lower—premiums than they would have under an experience-rated system.A few points in response:
What makes this doubly bad, in terms of policy, is that Obamacare spends trillions of dollars subsidizing the cost of insurance for the uninsured. And most people who are uninsured are young. In other words, Obamacare will more than double the cost of health insurance for many young people, and then the law will turn around and spend taxpayer dollars to subsidize the purchase of this newly costly insurance. Only in Washington does this make any sense.
1. The number of adults under age 35 who are neither insured by their parents nor by their employers yet wealthy enough to be ineligible for ACA subsidies must be quite small.
2. If community rating does make it more expensive to subsidize insurance for younger adults who are not insured by their employers, it correspondingly makes it less expensive to subsidize insurance for older adults.
3. The ACA will enable young adults with preexisting conditions to buy affordable coverage; as of now, they can't.
4. The ACA bans the extremely limited or in fact illusory coverage that many young people were forced to buy before its coverage rules were enacted.
5. The young...age. They will eventually stand to benefit from any relative subsidy that the ACA grants older insureds. Risk-sharing based on age as well as hleath and other factors is essential to any system providing adequate coverage to all.
Roy's underlying premise, again, is that the ACA is forcing hordes of young people to buy expensive coverage they don't need. In the legal challenge to the ACA, that premise was effectively rebutted in an amicus brief submitted by a coalition of 20 youth groups that called itself the Young Invincibles. This brief busted several myths about coverage for young adults in the U.S. In May, I summarized the facts this brief brought to bear, and they are all germane to Roy's claims:
Young adults are disproportionately uninsured.
In 2010, young adults made up 26% of the population under the age of 65, but account for 45% of that population's uninsured (p. 4)...Only 53% of young adults, ages 19 to 29, have access to employer-sponsored insurance, compared to 76% of adults over the age of 30 (p. 9)...The average annual premium of an individual plan offered to a healthy 27-year old is $1,723...the average young adult with no access to employer-sponsored insurance earns $14,746 per year, making individual plans effectively unattainable (p. 12)..About 19.8 million of the over 70 million young adults between 18 and 34 are uninsured (p. 13)...Millions more remain underinsured, enrolling in barebones coverage that leaves them without access to everyday care (p. 14).Young adults want health insurance.
When health insurance is affordable and available, young adults enroll at rates similar to older Americans...just 5% actually choose to go uninsured...Instead, the vast majority of young people say they lack insurance because of a lack of affordable options or because they have a pre-existing condition (p. 5). ..when young adults ages 19 to 29 are offered affordable health insurance through employers, 7% enroll, compared to 84% over age thirty (p. 15).Current behavior proves that the young want health insurance
The uninsured rate is just 14% for young adults living over 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL), but rises to 46% for young adults making less than200% of the FPL...healthy, higher-income young adults are ore likely to have insurance than lower income, often less healthy young adults, completely dispelling unfounded assumptions to the contrary.. .Making coverage available creates economic freedom
In 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services estimated that 3.4 million 19 to 25 year-olds were currently uninsured, and had parents who had insurance with the possibility of family coverage...[vastly exceeding expectations,] 2.5 million young adults enrolled on their parents plan in 2011 [when the ACA made that possible] - -a take-up rate of nearly 75% in one year (pp 17-18).
Creating affordable individual insurance will also provide young adults, often looking to go back to school, change jobs, make an interstate move, or generally built their careers and their families, with the financial flexibility ad variety of options to switch from the coverage they might currently have (p. 7).The ACA makes coverage affordable
The Act's tax for failing to maintain minimum coverage will not be assessed against anyone whose family is below the poverty line...Nor will it be assessed against anyone who cannot purchase coverage for less than 8% of his or her income..Also, the ACA provides subsidies...for anyone whose family income is less than 400% of the poverty line; approximately two-thirds of young adults will qualify for subsidies or Medicaid....everyone required to purchase insurance will be able to afford to do so (pp. 7-8).The young need health insurance, physically...
Young adults have chronic illnesses, catastrophic accidents, unpredictable health crises, and need preventive care....Approximately 15% of young adults live with a chronic health condition such as asthma, diabetes, or cancer...Moreover, almost 16% of young adults ages 18 to 24 have what is classified as a "preexisting condition," and without the ACA are often excluded from the current market altogether (pp. 18-19)...Nearly one-third of uninsured young adults reported their health worsening because they did not access health care soon enough, and almost half of uninsured young adults with a chronic healthy condition reported their condition worsened when they avoided medical treatment due to cost. (p. 25)....and economically
[Young adults'] low incomes lead to serious financial troubles when forced to pay out of pocket. This financial difficulty limits career and educational flexibility for those saddled with expenses or stuck in a less productive job in order to maintain existing coverage (p. 19)...Of those uninsured young adults who sought medical attention, 60% reported difficulty paying for their treatment, compared to just 27% of insured young adults (p. 23)...about half of uninsured young adults incur medical costs...For those young adults with medical debt, the mean debt level is $13,303--higher than any other age group, and credit card debt is 70% higher for those with medical debt -- again, a much higher difference than for any other age (pp. 24-25).Does the coverage mandate, however, exceed the needs of most young people? Justice Roberts seemed to think so:
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Well, but it's critical how you define the market. If I understand the law, the policies that you're requiring people to purchase involve -- must contain provision for maternity and newborn care, pediatric services, and substance use treatment. It seems to me that you cannot say that everybody is going to need substance use treatment -substance use treatment or pediatric services, and yet that is part of what you require them to purchase (oral argument, pp 31-32).Cf. the Young Invincibles brief:
...young adults need a range of care, from the sudden accidents and unexpected illnesses, to the routine preventive care. Rates of motor vehicle accidents, sexually transmitted diseases, and substance abuse peak in young adulthood...almost half of pregnancies are unplanned, and three-quarters of unplanned pregnancies are from women under the age of 30...Before the Affordable Care Act, only six percent of women purchased coverage through individual insurance markets. These plans have traditionally been able to deny coverage to individuals with a "preexisting condition" such as a pregnancy. Furthermore, plans sold on the individual market often do not cover many important services for women, such as maternity care (pp. 19-21).Virtually all reputable healthcare economists and scholars regard community rating as essential to any national health insurance system operating through private markets. Portraying community rating as a sop to old people or wasteful government spending is smoke and mirrors. | <urn:uuid:b2664218-93c5-4b84-b7a7-ab4dcfc3923d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2012/11/does-affordable-care-act-soak-young.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965238 | 2,093 | 1.984375 | 2 |
If you come out to visit our farm, be sure to visit our laying hens. Customers at farmers market will often ask us “are your chickens really free range?” I always tell them the same thing: Come out and see for yourself!
Our girls are raised on pasture year round, sunshine, rain or snow. We have been raising chickens on pasture for over twenty years, and we feel certain that the happiest chickens lay the best eggs. Like all the animals on our farm, the hens are given 24/7 access to fresh air, sunshine and clean pasture. How do we do this with birds? We run long, easily movable ‘poultry nets’ all across our pastures, giving the chickens fresh alleys of pasture that keeps them safe from the predators on our farm. Keep in mind, at Smith Meadows, we have a deep seated respect for the balance of nature… that includes our wild neighbors, the foxes and chicken hawks. ‘Respect’, however, doesn’t mean letting them eat our chickens! So, we’re always trying to strike a compromise of best free ranging practices, balanced with basic common sense.
(see our Blog and Video about our free-range chickens HERE)
When you visit, notice how the pasture is given time to rest and recover. After the chickens are done with a swath of grass, we move the nets, allowing the soil time to assimilate the fertilizer they have just spread, and rebound from the grazing. Do chickens really graze? Absolutely! You’ll be able to see where the chickens gobbled down the pasture, and the positive response that the land is showing from their presence.
In our opinion, nothing is quite as enjoyable as seeing several hundred chickens walking around on pasture, scratching, searching for bugs, and grazing the grass. By giving our layers fresh pasture and sunshine each day, all of that goodness gets carried along right into the fresh eggs that they lay. Crack one open, and see the sunshine for yourself! | <urn:uuid:4718a434-7473-40fc-a6df-5c61a9ade362> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smithmeadows.com/farm-products/grass-fed-laying-hens-chickens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94824 | 419 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Whitney Sander, principal architect of Sander Architects, has developed new concepts for the development of residential projects that are both ecological and economical. He labeled his concept the ‘Hybrid House’ since it would be partially prefabricated and then customized to suit the requirements of individual clients.
Residence for a Briard is a 3,800sf house that is the first example of Hybrid House, the invention of Sander Architects, LLC. Its structural frames and exterior walls and roof are all prefabricated off-site by warehouse manufacturers and shipped to the site in pieces on one flat-bed truck. The entire shell cost $22,000.
All photographs as: © Claudio Santini Photography
The pieces are then bolted together like an erector within a three weeks time span. Once the shell is complete, the interior walls, systems and finishes are completed using the traditional construction methods. The resulting Hybrid House is therefore custom designed for the client, the site, and local codes, but at a fraction of standard construction cost.
The warehouse frames have a relatively large scale, which leads to a spacious interior space. Residence for a Briard has 28’ ceilings in the great room.
Designed for the President-Emeritus of the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles, which promotes excellence in modern architecture in the greater Los Angeles area, this house needed to be of great design quality.
The dominant southern facade, for example, which evolved during many hours of discussions of the arts and painting. It derives its inspiration from a painting of a violin by Braque ("Aria of Bach,' 1913). Quite appropriate since the client is also a music critic. He requested for the house to be fit occasional events where string quartets would come and play for a small audience. The house includes a great room surrounded by a suspended balcony. The long side of this balcony is a shallow stairway with long treads that are wide enough for two chairs side-by-side facing the performance area below. Beyond that potential performance stage is a flat, large landing where additional chairs can be placed. The handrails for both these areas are transparent glass, with grasses laminated into the glass below eye level.
The home makes extensive use of ecological/sustainable materials, systems and strategies, making the house a green residence. Here are some of the simple, yet efficient strategies that were adopted:
- Site location: Proximity to public transportation + all basic amenities within walking distance
- Site orientation maximizes passive heating and cooling
- Extensive glazing maximizes natural day lighting
- Multi-cell acrylic panels (with high R-value) for glazing reduces heat loss/gain
- Super-insulated building minimizes energy requirements to heat/cool.
- Recycled steel framing reduces overall building cost / reduces amount of steel
- Grey water system for landscape irrigation.
- Low-water / xeriscape landscaping and plants
- Bamboo flooring
- Sustainable kitchen / bathroom cabinetry
- Stained concrete floors: original concrete slab (fewer materials used)
- On-demand water heater
- Radiant heat connected to on-demand hot water heater
- Recycled steel framing
- Recycled denim insulation
- Eco-resin panels
- Low-flush toilets
- Linoleum flooring and wall covering in bathrooms
- Low VOC paint
- Energy star appliances
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Global warming causes most people to feel quite uncomfortable, whether indoors or outdoors. Good thing there are different types of air conditioning units to choose from. These units relieve the discomfort brought about by the hot summer climate, making people feel more relaxed whenever they are inside their rooms and offices. There are three types of air conditioning systems. The first one is the window air conditioning system which is typically installed in small areas or rooms. This type of cooling system is portable and it is best for single rooms such as college dormitory unit or a studio type apartment. All its components are contained in a single unit, and this basically includes the condenser, cooling coil, expansion valve, compressor and evaporator.
The second type is called the packaged air conditioner system which is best for a larger office space or multiple rooms. It is not portable and its components may either be available in a single unit or divided up. The third type is the split air conditioner system which is also not portable since it is made up of two components comprising of an indoor and an outdoor unit. The indoor unit includes the evaporator cooling coil and the cooling fan itself, while the outdoor component holds the condenser, expansion valve and the compressor.
This cooling system is best used for either single or two rooms. The last one is the central air conditioner system. This is the cooling system used for buildings and houses. It is capable of generating the right amount of cool temperature within the entire building or house. All these types of cooling systems need to be properly installed and maintained in order to work properly. This necessitates the service of a reliable HVAC technician or contractor who will expertly handle air conditioning service you need for your unit. | <urn:uuid:55dc1cde-30c2-4595-b9a3-0b292c35b206> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.birminghamstc.org/types-of-air-conditioning-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952408 | 345 | 2.34375 | 2 |
In an item yesterday, I highlighted a 2002 column by Michelle Malkin that raised alarms about the presence of Iraqi nationals in America, warning readers, "How many of Saddam Hussein's sleeper terrorists are waiting dormant in the United States to retaliate against us when the War on Iraq begins?" Describing the column as "what needless, xenophobic panic looks like," I argued that it's useful to revisit fear-mongering from that era now that we know the answer was "zero."
The response was as you might expect: a lot of angry Michelle Malkin fans attacked me on Twitter, joined by writers from Breitbart.com, where my work is well known. One of those writers, John Sexton, pointed out in an ostensible "gotcha" that circa 2005 (when I was assigned full time to blogging the immigration debate for a California newspaper), I argued that President George W. Bush ought to make increased border security part of his immigration reform efforts. "Islamic terror groups know that security along our southern border is weak and have developed plans for smuggling terrorists into the U.S. across it," I wrote. "If a future terrorist attack is tied to operatives who sneaked across the Mexican border, Bush's legacy will suffer irreparable harm due to his stunning inaction on an obvious and preventable homeland-security weakness."
The most objectionable part of Malkin's column and her subsequent "In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror," is her singling out ethnic minorities at precisely moment when they were most vulnerable to having their civil liberties abrogated. Most people understand why prudence demanded that writers avoid maximally incendiary rhetoric about Iraqis on the eve of the Iraq War. Given that at the height of post-9/11 hysteria, Malkin wrote a book-length apologia for the internment of Japanese Americans -- the worst possible time -- it seems more than fair to tag her, of all people, with that criticism. Since the younger version of me opposed racial profiling, quoting my bygone work doesn't illustrate the point as well.
In fairness to folks who still defend such thinking, they weren't ever disproved as definitively as the more specific worry that Iraqi sleeper cells would launch terror attacks upon a U.S. invasion. The decade after 9/11 saw substantial changes and improvements to border security. Counterfactuals about what would've happened without them are necessarily speculative. I don't think anyone, Malkin included, should feel ashamed for merely advocating beefed up border security as a counterterrorism measure. But I wish I had toned down my past warnings. We were safer than I thought. If I could repeat those years, I'd drop the immigration beat entirely and write about the subjects I cover now: executive-power excesses, civil-liberties abuses, killing innocents.
Nor is it just my journalism that I'd change.
I was in college when 9/11 happened, and my writing focused on Rancho Cucamonga, California when the Iraq War began, so I don't have a contemporaneous record of my opinions like a lot of bloggers do. Foggy as my memory is, however, I'm certain that I felt needless xenophobic panic worrying over the next attack by suicide bombers I just knew would come. I don't want to exaggerate, as if I was walking around afraid of my shadow. I flew regularly. I applied to graduate school in New York City. But I felt anxious in the weeks after 9/11, while studying abroad in Sevilla as Osama bin Laden talked about reclaiming Andalusia; I played underinformed devil's advocate in conversations about Iraq, trying to figure out whether I thought Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the United States; like a lot of Americans, I wildly overestimated the frequency with which future plots would occur, in part due to living under a color-coded terror-warning system and leaders who hyped many threats, but also because of errors in reasoning for which I alone bear responsibility and that I didn't even appreciate back then. I am sure that, despite my best efforts to guard against it, xenophobia crept into some of what little I wrote, precisely because I feared a foreign culture that seemed strange, scary and unfamiliar.
A decade later, all my irrational post-9/11 reactions remain unnerving to me.
There was always a world of difference between my thinking and In Defense of Internment, even before I started informing myself about the War on Terrorism and Iraq enough to write about them for publication. But the extremity of some policies being advocated caused me to underestimate the degree to which I failed to perceive or speak up against other truly heinous happenings. For example, I opposed the Patriot Act, torture, and internment, but didn't really think or worry much about the radical precedent the Bush Administration attempted to set with its treatment of Jose Padilla. And in the wake of the Danish cartoon incident, which I still regard as important because of its free-speech implications, I think I overestimated the danger that the Danes faced from unassimilated immigrants intent on advancing Islamist supremacy inside that country. As best I can tell, the worst fears of Bruce Bawer haven't come to pass, thank goodness.
John Sexton of Breitbart writes that if I want to "play gotcha," I should probably pick an issue where I didn't "enthusiastically agree" with Malkin. I think that elides substantial differences in our arguments and approach, but if personal bias is causing me to underestimate our similarities, readers should respond by attaching appropriate scorn to my former and Malkin's current positions -- the point isn't playing gotcha, it's grokking that, in varying degrees, lots of Americans, myself included, reacted to the September 11 terrorist attacks in ways that skewed our judgment, clouded our ability to assess risk, and dissuaded us from dissent when it was most needed. Few went so far as to focus their professional life on decreasing the stigma against mass internment, like Malkin, who is a vital example precisely because we now see that neither the WWII internment she defended nor the racial profiling she advocates were necessary to keep us safe. But many of us, myself included, could have done more as citizens to speak up against the collective madness in our culture, joining the prescient dissenters who've been proved right. If something else I've written in the past embodies a wrongheaded War on Terrorism pathology -- if it serves as a particularly good example of dangerously mistaken thinking -- by all means, people of the web, cite it for everyone's benefit even if you aren't without wartime regrets.
It's reflection on my bygone failures along with dismay at reckless Bush and Obama policies that motivates a large part of my writing on civil liberties. As I look back at my earliest work, cringing at some of it, as all writers do, there are moments of which I feel proud, where I can see myself avoiding the worst of the post-9/11 madness, and taking care to write with awareness of past wartime excesses that hurt innocents. But the fact that I was complicit in some pathologies and failed to speak up enough against others, despite earnest attempts to be to fair-minded, has underscored for me the importance of the institutional safeguards America has built. It is precisely because none of us can be trusted with ad-hoc judgments amid frightening events that we have checks and balances in our Constitution, a Bill of Rights, laws against torture, limits on what our covert spy agency is supposed to undertake, protections for whistleblowers, procedural safeguards in the criminal-justice system, and a historically warranted stigma against rhetoric that singles out racial or ethnic minorities during war hysteria.
Little wonder that a drone program rife with xenophobia continues today.
It is true, as every War on Terror hawk will tell you, that another major terrorist attack could happen tomorrow, and that we must remain vigilant against the threat. They're right. It could happen. It's reasonable to take costly efforts in an attempt to stop it from happening. It is also the case that the Bill of Rights is more important than preventing a terrorist attack, even from the narrow perspective of long term safety; that it is wrong to take innocent lives because you think it results in marginal safety gains; and that living in a republic requires courage of its citizens.
Emotionally, they're taken in by their own figurative language.
But the thing is, when people are sending angry tweets, you're actually just sitting at your desk, or on your living-room sofa. I was writing at a coffee shop that looks out at the ocean. Some pelicans were flying by. A four-year-old was playing in the plants. It didn't feel like a fight. In one of the dozen windows I had open, Ace of Spades, anonymous blogger, was claiming, erroneously, that I have a "deranged obsession with Palin's fake-preganacy fat suits and secret passageways at hospitals." [Note: Ace of Spades says this particular Tweet was directed at Andrew Sullivan. That wasn't clear to me, but I apologize for the error -- it was *just* the stream of misleading innuendo and the actually factually inaccurate Tweet noted below.] Dave Weigel, who knows as well as anyone that this line of attack is false, and thus couldn't really "get to me," tweeted that "watching
It's so melodramatic.
There's also a strangeness to some of the arguments these folks choose. Michelle Malkin taunted me on Twitter, saying I sent her email in 2006 asking her to link my work. I'll take her word for it. I aggressively sent my work out in those days to anyone who I thought might link, and I'd email Malkin stories today if I thought she'd bite. Her audience could use a radically different perspective. The thing is that her taunt ultimately relies on there being a stigma against her. The blow only lands insofar as I or others believe not only that she's toxic, but that she's so toxic I wouldn't even want to be caught writing her. Say that I felt that zing. Congratulations? It's the same when the Breitbart folks claim that, long ago, I applied to work at their site. Like so much of what they publish, it isn't so. But the insult succeeds only if the audience believes that it's so embarrassing to have applied there that no one would want to admit it.
I've written about how "turnabout is fairplay" is the core ethos of the Breitbart sites. Everything unravels if the writers let themselves notice that most don't have a theory of journalism as depraved as theirs, and that public discourse does not operate in the way you'd expect from extrapolating fight metaphors. But I'm realizing something else about this corner of movement conservatism. Its writers and hangers-on are very adept at trying to exploit, as a weakness, the fact that most of their targets hold themselves to higher standards than the ones to which they themselves adhere.** This is most poignantly illustrated by what happened after some random person on Twitter directed racist rhetoric at Malkin, and I quickly Tweeted that people shouldn't do that.
Here is Malkin's response:
Yes, that's Michelle Malkin of all people positing that people are responsible for the ugliness of their allies on Twitter, as if I should be the one who feels ashamed by that metric -- something that could only be true if I let myself be shamed much more easily than she. Beware of that trick, allies.
*Another Ace of Spades Tweet: "In a two week period,
**Tellingly, what angers them more than anything is when someone says, implicitly or explicitly, "Yes, I am more ethical than you," a statement that is true for the vast majority of working journalists, but that most are reticent to voice, because they aren't perfect and it makes them a target. Humility is generally good, as is the certain knowledge that we're all flawed, and that there's always some peers, from whom we can learn, doing it much better than we are. But it is dangerous to behave as if sites and people that constantly publish falsehoods without correcting them and use the most vile insults in place of argument are somehow no worse than anyone. | <urn:uuid:c0e3c1ac-9d2c-4d3d-b7c8-49c3f7133e67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/a-coda-on-the-xenophobic-panic-of-the-aughts/274271/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976451 | 2,541 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Dantrolene can cause severe liver damage. Do not use dantrolene for conditions other than those recommended by your doctor. Do not take more than the recommended amount prescribed by your doctor. Do not take dantrolene if you have active liver disease. If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately: yellowing of the skin or eyes, dark urine, black tarry stools, or severe nausea and vomiting.
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Dantrolene, a muscle relaxant, is used to treat spasticity or muscle spasms associated with spinal cord injuries, stroke, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other conditions.
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Crystal Skulls inspired the Orbs in DS9?
I was watching an episode of "Ancient Aliens" and they had a segment on the Crystal SKulls. Apparently Crystal skulls are ancient artifacts that have surfaced in different parts of the world, they are sculptured quartz in the form of a human skull. They are rumored to have been of extraterrestrial origin, and to contain some power when brought together, just like the Orbs in DS9, making me think Michael Pillar who wrote the pilot episode to DS9, might have been inspired by them when coming up with the story for the pilot episode of DS9. Of course, I have no proof he did know about them or were inspired by them when coming up with the concept of the Orbs! | <urn:uuid:9cb4d624-a429-43bf-bf0b-f91a3fb5739b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.startrekmovie.com/forums/showthread.php?p=315965&mode=threaded | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98539 | 154 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, THE BERLIN WALLS STILL THERE :
East & West Germany Struggle
To Become A Unified Nation
by Volker Kluepfel
WHEN EAST and West Germany were unified in October 1990, Chancellor Helmut Kohl promised the people that the situation would improve for everyone. Now, eight years later, it seems his promise has not been kept: although billions of Marks (a German Mark is currently worth about 50 cents) have been invested in East Germany every year, its economic growth has not developed as fast as many experts claimed it would, and people are getting impatient. Worse, the solidarity among East and West Germans is declining. The images of people dancing together on the Berlin Wall seem to be forgotten. More than a few East Germans long for their old communist system, when practically everyone had a safe job. They feel like they are the losers in the unification process. On the other hand, many West Germans are tired of carrying the financial burden of the unification. As a consequence, the Berlin Wall has been rebuilt--not in reality, but in the minds of the people. To help the East get on its feet, a special tax was created called the additional solidarity charge. The plan was to abolish this tax after only a few years, but it still exists, amounting to 7.5% of total salary. Both East and West Germans have to pay this tax, but without unification it wouldnt exist. East Germanys economy was shattered after more than 40 years of communist mismanagement. To understand why there were once two separate economic and political systems in Germany, a brief look at history is required. After World War II, Germany was split in two parts. One was controlled by the western Allies: France, Great Britain and the United States. The other one was governed by the former Soviet Union. The beginning of the cold war led to the foundation of two different countries, the west-oriented Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, known as West Germany) and the east-oriented German Democratic Republic (GDR, known as East Germany). While West Germany became part of the United Nations and the European Community and quickly developed economic wealth, East Germany was forced to adopt the planned economy of the USSR, and their production was dictated by political preferences, not by the demands of the people. Infrastructure and industry did not reach the same level in the East as it did in the West. Large parts of East German housing were either neglected over the years or built with contaminated materials, or both. After unification, East Germany had to be brought into alignment with West German standards. Though this expensive process is not yet completed, many significant things have already been accomplished. All East German state-run companies have been transformed into private firms, the railroad system has been renewed, and new highways have been built. The West German social security system--including health care, day care, and retirement, among other benefits--has been extended to East Germany. Previously, benefits had been quite different. East Germans were dissatisfied seeing the amount of their pensions decline, but the levels have gradually been raised. The West Germans were likewise dissatisfied, because they had to help pay for those pensions. They had to take over this responsibility as part of the unification costs, because the defunct East German state used to pay for pensions. In West Germany working people (except for civil servants) and their employers share pension expenses; these amount to 20.3% of salaries. Another example of the difficulties of unification is education. Although universities in East Germany are probably as good as those in the West, most students try to find a place at a university in the West. Some students would rather wait a year for a place in a West German university than have to attend one in East Germany. German students typically finish their university studies comparatively late (around the age of 25), so nobody really cares about one year more or less. A grave problem strongly related to unification is the rise of extreme right nationalist parties, especially in East Germany. These parties especially appeal to young people because they promise to provide jobs in a time of unemployment--18% in East Germany, 9% in West Germany. In election campaigns, these extreme right parties accuse foreigners of taking away jobs that they feel should be reserved for Germans. People believe such rhetoric because they want to believe it. They are tired of being told that solving their problems will take a long time. They want changes right away. German social scientists explain the rise of such nationalist parties in two ways. First, they point out that nationalism always existed in the East, but was suppressed. After unification it could break free. Second, East Germans do not feel properly represented by the ruling parties. There is only one East German party that survived the unification process: the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)--the same party that governed the GDR, only with another name. Leadership of all relevant parties has been taken over by the West. There have been attempts to found East German parties but they have not been very successful. This might also be a reason for the large number of non-voters in the East; the people feel alienated. Another big difference between East and West is religion. Under the communist system, religious movements were mostly suppressed in East Germany. Some religious activity was tolerated, but the practice of religious could not be characterized as free. There was no religious instruction in schools either. Religious groups, interestingly, were one of the main forces behind the movement to liberate East Germany from the communist system. In West Germany, by contrast, virtually everyone is either Roman Catholic or Protestant. Kids receive religious instruction at school, and the state even collects taxes--up to 3% of salaries--in behalf of the churches, a fact that must seem strange to Americans. Because practically all West German standards now prevail, many East German women find they are now living in a country where emancipation is not as advanced as it was previously. These points show how difficult it may be to re-unite two countries with the same roots but 45 years of different history. The key to a better understanding between both parts of the country lies in economics. As long as some people in the West earn more money than their counterparts in the East for doing the same work, and as long as West Germans feel as if they are paying more than their fair share for the unification, resentment will continue to build, and the feeling of one national identity will not emerge properly. Evidence of discontent can be found in the little day-to-day things, as in jokes where East Germans are characterized as stupid and lazy while West Germans are seen as rich and arrogant. There is probably only one area where the unification has not caused any problems: sports. If there is a good swimmer or a good basketball player on a team, nobody mentions whether he comes from East or West Germany. If the German soccer team wins the World Cup in France this summer, for a short time Germany will truly be one unified nation.
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The American Occupational Therapy Association is a national professional society established in 1917 to represent the interests and concerns of occupational therapy practitioners, and to improve the quality of occupational therapy services. Occupational therapy is a vital health care service whose practitioners help to restore and sustain the highest quality of productive life to persons recovering from illnesses or injuries, or coping with developmental disabilities or changes resulting from the aging process. Current AOTA membership numbers approximately 42,000, including occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and occupational therapy students. Members reside in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 65 foreign countries. AOTA's major programs and activities are directed toward assuring the quality of occupational services; improving consumer access to healthcare services, and promoting the professional development of members.
Publications of the AOTA include titles on professional development, practice, and curricular materials. Serial publications: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, bimonthly; OT Practice, semimonthly.
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Your search for UTERUS in Midwives returned 6 articles
ARTICLES ABOUT MIDWIVES
An article in The Lancet suggests that pulling on the umbilical cord, or controlled cord traction, does not significantly reduce blood loss in women and may in fact endanger them.March 13, 2012, Tuesday
An article in The Lancet suggests that pulling on the umbilical cord, or controlled cord traction, does not significantly reduce blood loss in women and may in fact endanger them.March 12, 2012, Monday
A small, underfunded hospital in Arizona, with about 500 births a year, is outperforming richer institutions when it comes to keeping Caesarean rates down.March 07, 2010, Sunday
It’s time for a campaign against maternal mortality.September 24, 2006, Sunday
The trip from Love Njoku's gritty neighborhood in the northern Bronx to the college library takes 45 minutes on an average day, ample time to ruminate as the subway cars rattle along elevated tracks, then swoop deep underground in the South Bronx. Seven months pregnant and with a growing sense of dread, Mrs. Njoku made the trip each day for a week in 1992, slowly climbing the 75 steps to street level at the stop near Hostos Community College.March 06, 1995, Monday
Midwives joke that theirs is the second oldest profession, and most of the world's babies are still de livered by midwives. In the United States, however, in the early part of this century, the medical establishment forced midwives who were then largely old-fashioned, untrained "grannies" out of the childbirth business.November 23, 1975, Sunday
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Boston.com has a very powerful selection of more than 30 photographs on its ‘Big Picture’ feature that show the devastation caused by floods in Tennessee. The series of images convey the destruction and loss clearer than most articles or videos could. Take time to look through them if you can.
Some Irish users could complain about the time it takes to load these large images. But bear in mind most people in the US have faster connections. (Must return to examine how slow connections could be holding back certain forms of storytelling in Ireland).
The New York Times featured a great infographic showing the inter-linking of European debt. To explain this in written form would have been taxing for the reader but this, quite simple, graphic tells the story so well.
Third example comes from The Guardian’s web coverage of the elections. It has a nice feature where it’s asking voters to tweet when they have voted and tag their tweet with their postcode so that it can be represented on a map to illustrate voter turnout. Good interactive way to tell the story even though it’s limited to Twitter users. (When I checked it out it didn’t seem to include Northern Ireland) | <urn:uuid:f584dbf0-e098-4ec4-bded-ec9aa99c10ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blathnaidhealy.com/tag/infographics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945827 | 244 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Bee Balm or Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- This is part of Pollinators
- When to observe: Year-round
- What to observe: Bee count
It tends to self-seed. It has a long summer bloom period, i.e., from July until September. It is tolerant of drought and poor soils. It can be used as a border and/or to provide contrast in an herb garden.
The Wild Bergamot or Bee Balm plant is lavender or pink in color. It will grow in height from 2-4 ft.; the spread will be 2-3 ft. The flowers are tubular and two-lipped. They rest at the apex of square stems. The flower head is bedded upon a flamboyant, leafy bract, and the shade of that bract is pink. The leaves are grayish-green in color, up to 4 inches long, oblong in shape, and toothed.
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My compliments on trying to base your discussion on relevant documents and on keeping your discussion friendly.
You were correct saying that deacons cannot administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick and correct again in relying on the 1983 Code of Canon Law for that position, but you cited the wrong text in this particular debate. You cited an English translation of the Code, instead of citing the official Latin text. Although citing the English version of the Code is a practical necessity and in most cases causes no difficulties, in this particular discussion it tripped you up.
The English translation of this canon is not wrong (approved translations are rarely "wrong") but in this case it does fail to convey an important nuance contained in the Latin. When canon law wants to refer to a man constituted in any grade of holy orders, whether that man is a deacon, priest, or bishop, it uses the generic Latin term clericus, or cleric. When canon law wishes to describe specifically one who is a deacon only, it uses the narrower term deaconus. Similarly, when canon law specifically identifies a priest, i.e., a man constituted in the second grade of holy orders and not purely a deacon nor also a bishop, it uses the univocal term presbyter. Finally, when canon law refers to a man enjoying the fullness of holy orders, that is, a bishop, it uses the specific term episcopus.
One place Latin has an edge over English is that when canon law wishes to refer to a man constituted in either the second or third grade of holy orders, what in English we would call a "priest" or a "bishop," Latin use the single and unique term sacerdos. By longstanding convention (both the British and the American Code translations read this way), the Latin word sacerdos, while meaning priest or bishop, is always translated in English as simply "priest."
Now you can now answer your own question and your friend's argument: The Latin text of canon 1003, doesn't use the term presbyter, which would have advanced your friend's argument by excluding bishops. Instead it uses the term sacerdos, which means priests or bishops. Thus, according to canon law, priest or bishops--but not deacons--can validly administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick. | <urn:uuid:a0a28687-fbb0-4330-896f-ef69f41d1bb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/who-can-validly-anoint-the-sick | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936832 | 476 | 1.960938 | 2 |
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Written by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 03 January 2011
At a bilateral summit in London on November 2 last year, Britain and France embarked on what their leaders described as a "new chapter" in defence co-operation. British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a series of ambitious joint initiatives, including the shared use of aircraft carriers, collaborative research for their nuclear deterrents and the creation of a joint expeditionary force.
Both countries – and Britain in particular – are keen to find savings at a time of fiscal austerity. The summit was a welcome step towards rationalising European defence spending. At a time of significant public spending cuts, similar efforts will be required from other European countries in order to stall the deterioration of Europe’s military capabilities.Yet it is unclear whether other governments will follow suit. | <urn:uuid:2c0e1941-5a39-4f0a-9104-06a94298be9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cer.org.uk/in-the-press/save-and-secure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936188 | 171 | 2.015625 | 2 |